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AKA wrote:
or when Phil tried to make out that using 2 characters in Double Dragon 2 was really hard to do
The only entry in the history of that movie is Bisqwit's initial description, I don't see how Phil "made it out".
EDIT: Same goes for Arkanoid, adelikat never edited it, it was Arc who changed "Morimoto's" to "adelikat's".
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Finland is a backwater hickville in some respects. The Finnish primary education system is great but when it comes to higher education, it's all fucked up. Nurses have higher pay than people with doctorates or master's degrees. I don't know what the situation is elsewhere but here about 30-40% of people with doctorates work at jobs that only require a master's at most, i.e. the work does not correspond to their high level of education. The ones doing research normally get paid a bit over 2000 euros a month, when the pay of an average nurse is over 2800 euros a month (with the new 22-28% raise they just got yesterday by threatening the municipalities with mass resignations). An elementary school teacher with a master's gets paid about 2200 or so a month. So yeah, we're morons.
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Enhasa wrote:
Also I love how tmont is being ignored because his postcount is too low. It's a great feeling, my 2nd favorite part of this site. ;)
What makes you think he's being ignored? Maybe adelikat and Carboard just haven't seen his post yet. They are the ones his comment was directed to, and they are the only ones who can answer.
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Individual levels can easily be pasted together without causing desyncs, I just don't feel like redoing half of level 5. I have an idea that would make everything very simple, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.
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Yeah, using the bee on the final boss was extremely slow, the beam is very powerful. As a side note, I have been told that there is a major improvement in level 5. I don't know what to do with it yet, but I don't like the idea of having yet another easily improvable version of this game published...
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There was also a no-damage Super Metroid run, which was horribly useless and boring. A no-damage ALTTP would probably fall under the same category for me.
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So why exactly is my attitude shitty? I didn't think I even had an "attitude" in my post. It was simple criticism towards your movie. Perhaps I should have included a disclaimer to my post so that you would understand that I was merely expressing my opinion or maybe I should have started every sentence with "I think" or "in my opinion". I'll just quickly repeat my points so that you'll all understand what I was trying to say:
I THINK that the glitching in the end was a very weird move. There was only one person in this thread (in addition to JXQ and adelikat) who expressed that it was a positive thing. Something like 10-13 (estimation) people gave a negative comment about it. IN MY OPINION your entire movie was pretty much ruined because of that weird move i.e. I THOUGHT that it was a bad/dumb move.
IN MY OPINION this RCR movie was not entertaining, because I VIEW IT AS slow-paced fooling around without clear goals and I have a hard time figuring out (from just watching the movie) whether the movie achieves what it tries to do. I LIKE the style of Chamale's movie more.
TO ME the things done in the movie did not look superhuman. Yes, the jumps over the big chasms were very cool and they indeed did look like they would be very hard to do, even superhuman, but they didn't make up for the rest of the movie. Chamale's run, on the other hand, does look like there's a robot behind the pad going through the game as fast as possible.
Hope that clears things up.
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Okay, I have one question: why the HELL did you guys include the glitching? Is there anyone who thought it was entertaining? You completely ruined the last fight. Due to the glitching alone I find this movie unpublishable. Although, even without the glitching I would have given this a solid no for obsoleting the previous run. Chamale's run is a lot more entertaining in its effectiveness. Kicking major ass is entertaining for me in this game; watching the main characters beat each other up is not. I also agree with the point that this movie doesn't look very superhuman. It might be superhuman as adelikat points out but it doesn't look like it, which is what counts.
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I'm very happy you decided to not use the skip-trick. I don't care about the arbitrary number (i.e. completion time) at the movie page, I want to see an entertaining movie with cool boss battles. I'm very much looking forward to a new CT run, go for it!
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Warp wrote:
If someone says "for now do this" and later "ok, that's enough, the purpose has been fulfilled, so you don't have to do it anymore" does that mean that the first command was somehow invalid? Does that mean that the first command was flawed? No, it just means that the first command was temporary, until the symbolical last fulfillment of that command happened.
If God had said "do this for 100 years and then stop", then nobody would complain. But if God says "do this" and then 100 years later he says "ok, now stop doing it", atheists immediately want to see some kind of inexistent contradiction there.
Wow, now you're really reading selectively. You seem to have completely missed my whole point, which was that if the OT is God's direct words and the NT is not, how can you trust the NT over the OT?
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Well I certainly am no expert in this area so I won't bother trying to address most of the stuff said, I'm sure you all know your stuff. But as for the New Testament "obsoleting" stuff from the Old Testament: isn't the Old Testament supposed to be God's direct words and thus more holy than the New Testament? If so, how can something in the New Testament override something from the Old Testament? Or don't Christians believe that the OT is God's words, is it just the Jews?
As for this point
Warp wrote:
atheists...only read what they want to read (those parts which seem to contradict current customs).
Isn't that pretty obvious? The whole point is to point out those contradictions. If giants really had existed, why would I want to criticize the Bible for saying that they did? Believers, on the other hand, can't read only certain parts and not care about the rest without crapping on the whole thing.
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People only read what they want to hear.
Yeah, this annoys me a lot too. If the Bible is the word of God and must be obeyded, why don't I see slaughtered goats at churches etc.? If you're going to say that the Bible is the absolute truth, you should then really obey it entirely, not just the fun and shiny parts. If God knew that society would develop beyond slaughtering animals and wanted the salughtering to stop when human socities evolved, don't you think he would have mentioned it in the Bible? So, my point is: if it's God's will, why don't people slaughter animals anymore? Isn't that sinning and doesn't that warrant a place in damnation? What makes some aspects of the Bible ignorable and others not?
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Tub wrote:
There's a part right at the beginning of the bible strongly suggesting that god utterly failed to look into the future when he forgot to draw a fence around an apple tree.
In addition to that, it's pretty weird how the Bible says that at one point, God was disappointed in humans when he saw that their hearts were filled with evil and decided to destroy everyone with a huge flood. You'd think he could avoid stuff like that..
Actually I've been reading the Bible (like the devil, I guess you could say) for the first time now and I think it's inredible how many people take it as absolute truth, even though there is stuff about humans living to be over 900 years old, giants walking the earth etc. Also, the amount of animals slaughtered is amazing. For everything they do they have to kill a sacrifical lamb, goat, ox or all of the above and splash their blood on altars and themselves. Some of the laws that God sets in the beginning are also pretty weird. Like that if someone catches a burglar in the night and kills him, he doesn't get punished, but if the burglar is killed after the sun has risen, the one who kills the burglar must be stoned to death.
It's amazing how folklore and random stuff written thousands of years ago has been preserved to this day so that people still believe in them. As a human phenomenon it's very exceptional. I guess most people still need something to cling to to make their daily life not suck ass. No offence meant to anyone, just my opinion.
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Why is this so hard to understand? Let's say I can see the future. I see that my wife gives birth to a son, who chooses to go into medicine. Are you really saying that is then predetermined by me, just because I can see into the future? Does it mean that the choice my son makes when he decides to get into medicine is not his own, just because I have known how he will choose? He would still have made that choice, even if I hadn't been able to see the future. Me knowing what will happen has not forced his decision.
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nfq wrote:
Nobody has free will because when God created the universe he already knew everything that would happen.
I don't see how that makes sense. Even if God knew what we would do, it doesn't mean we don't have free will. It just means he knew from the start what we would end up choosing i.e. how we would use our free will.
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!!!!?
Incredible find! Although I'd love to see a run abusing this, I hope there's still room on the site for a 'real' playthrough with all the necessary bosses whacked. But anyway, for a run aiming purely for time, this is awesome!
