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Wow, you're STILL doing this? That's awesome. This has got to be the longest TAS project ever. Your first post about it is dated 02-13-05, so that's about 2 years and 8 months?
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I can't believe what I'm reading. You are willing to spend an incredible amount of energy on making a mountain of this molehill. Well, it's your energy.
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I don't believe for a second that homosexuality is entirely caused (for the lack of a better word) by the environment. My sister is gay and looking back at our childhood it's very obvious that she has been a very stereotypical lesbian for a very long time. I have home videos of her saying at the age of 6 that she will never ever have kids and that her dream is to become a truck driver (I am dead serious). She refused to wear the dresses our parents bought her and always insisted on keeping her hair short.
If the environment decides who becomes a homosexual, why are there homosexual children in ALL kinds of families? You would expect that the deciding factor would be something in the parents, be it an overprotecting mother, an absent father or something like that. Why is there no pattern to who is a homosexual and who is not? Is it just some random factor which decides who becomes a homosexual?
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Warp wrote:
This site is about tool-assisted speedruns. Has always been, from day 1. Completing games as fast as possible. Entertainment yes, preferably, even if sacrificing a few frames increases considerably entertainment, but the main goal is to still complete the game as fast as possible (even if some restrictions are put in the goals for entertainment purposes).
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moozooh wrote:
Because having its status "upped" like that serves no useful purpose. Keep in mind that making a note in the published movie description would have been perfectly possible without having to "half-publish" this movie; we don't have to have a special permission for altering the description to include that kind of information, anyway.
Even if it serves no useful purpose, it still doesn't explain why it's a negative thing. Are you saying you'd be happier if the status of Cpadolf's submission was changed to cancelled or rejected instead of published but nothing else changed?
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nfq wrote:
How does the word "preference" imply that sexuality is chosen? If you prefer apples instead of oranges, how is that a choice? Taste can't be chosen.
So if a preference is not a choice and it's not in your biology, what is it? Is it the environment that makes you like apples instead of oranges? If so, are you implying that if everyone lived in the same environment under the same circumstances, we would all have identical preferences?
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Why is it useless? If the movie is not published at all because of the "too many movie entries of one game" rule, who does it serve? If it's a good movie and is otherwise worthy of publication, why is "half-publishing" it a negative thing? I do agree that there should probably be some note on the front page/published movies list about it.
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Twelvepack wrote:
I really, seriously doubt that something like that can be 100% born in. It seems to be a preferance, just like any other.
Homosexuality has been found in many animals, from sea lions to cockroaches. Does this mean that a cockroach has somewhere along the way decided to like male cockroaches instead of female cockroaches?
EDIT: Actually, looking at your post in more detail, there seems to be a contradiction: You say homosexuality is a preference, but then you say that it's not 100% born in. If homosexuality is just a preference, it has to be 0% born in.
IIRC a study has been made about homosexuality among identical twins, and it concluded that if the other twin was homosexual, there was something like a 50% chance that the other twin was homosexual as well. This would imply that the effect of genes (or whatever, I don't know anything about biology) and the effect of the environment is 50-50.
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I have never played a skateboarding game in my life but wouldn't a run aiming for score consist of one trick being done over and over again? Or does variety give you more points?
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I watched Genisto's run right after watching this one and I have to say that this is a vast improvement over Genisto's movie. How someone can prefer Genisto's movie over this one, I have absolutely no idea. I'm glad the goals of this movie are consistent and that you don't use the laser at all, good job! I feel, however, that this movie should not get the star that Genisto's movie has. In my opinion the star has been outdated for a long time and should be given to a movie that has more variety from beginning to end and is less repetitive.
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How about publishing it as .smv only, with only a mention and a link in the current movie's description? That used to be done a lot more, is there any reason why it's not done anymore?
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Dear mr_roberts_z,
That made absolutely zero sense. No Finnish person would be able to interpret that correctly. My best guess is that you're asking "Since you're an expert, is my Finnish horrible?". An even baffling thing is why you are asking that from Fabian, who is Swedish. Most Swedish people don't know a word of Finnish.
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Okay, I finally thought of something I want to ask you. You are evidently intelligent (what with the Mensa test and all) and interested in many things. Still your education is only limited to the second degree. Your CV says you have studied for 1 year in a third degree school, EVTEK. What made you quit? Have you never desired to learn more about something or is self-learning the only way you can learn? Are you not intrigued by the idea of being taught things by people who are the best in their field? This baffles me, because for me, studying in a university is the best thing that ever happened to me.
