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What are you even on about?
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
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Nice improvement bestie!
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
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If there's a problem with a timing method, the judge should be able to pick up on it and overrule it. Anything done in bad faith is also obviously unacceptable.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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NxCy wrote:
For other games, can't the TASers just figure out what timing method makes the most sense (probably standard TAS timing in 99% of cases anyway)?
That's more or less why the feature was added. We want to empower TASers to figure out these things and make these choices for themselves.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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If two modes have no gameplay differences relevant to a TAS, there is no point in two separate publications.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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HappyLee wrote:
Noxxa wrote:
Do you have LeKukie's financial records or something?
I assume he can make about 25 USD in a normal livestream, and maybe 250 USD in a world record livestream. And the gofundme page shows already $8,228 donation, more than enough to fix his roof plenty of times.
He got the RTA community on his back, so I'm not worried about him. We each face difficulties in our lives. Like I said, life in China can be harder. We each need to deal with our own problems. We don't need to make it TASVideos problem just because he submitted 1 TAS and 4 forum posts.
I'll repeat.
Memory wrote:
Why'd you bring up the fundraiser at all? This doesn't have to be a zero sum game where if somebody from the rta community gets support, the tasing community cannot get any. If you're going through a crisis, bring it up so people can support you through it.
If you're going through rough shit, just let people know. You don't have to keep others from getting monetary support just because you haven't.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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I do agree that a lot of people should learn to respect TASers' independence more, but that is the one and only point I agree with you on.
If the issue is that the SMB community references the no left + right TAS as "the TAS", that's really not our problem in the slightest. That seems like an issue you would need to take up with the SMB community, not with us.
I'm going to say that the AI rules do apply here and to ask you to not bring those images into this.
Why'd you bring up the fundraiser at all? This doesn't have to be a zero sum game where if somebody from the rta community gets support, the tasing community cannot get any. If you're going through a crisis, bring it up so people can support you through it.
I believe granting authors choice is one of the best parts of tasvideos so I don't see allowing alternate forms of timing as a problem. We've always allowed ingame timers anyway so why not?
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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Well, apparently that site he made has went back on its decision to not import coauthored runs without the consent of coauthors and added them back despite the lack of consent.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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This post is extremely unnecessary and unhelpful.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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We have banned eien86 indefinitely. Full reasoning is provided below, but in short, he has consistently straddled the line between acceptable and banworthy for far too long. The final straw was his recent attempt to covertly create a website that copies TASVideos content en-masse, with dubious consent from authors.
Defending RWhiteGoose
On September 8th 2025 in the TASVideos Discord somebody linked an RWhiteGoose video, and immediately after, somebody brought up the fact that RWhiteGoose is a white supremacist and a transphobe. The following day, eien brought up having watched a different RWhiteGoose video and was told about the problems with the creator. eien brushed off the concerns stating that he just followed Goose for the speedrunning content and didn't care about anything outside of that. This then escalated into a user stating that they do not want eien to ever judge any of their runs.
Senior staff reached out to eien in private and seemingly had a productive discussion with him, so we did not pursue it further at that time.
We explicitly do not want to support creators that have hateful behaviors because frequently communities centered around these creators will harass minorities, and we do not want to enable that.
Defending people who support ICE
During Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis a discussion had started amongst staff regarding whether it was acceptable to share the "No ICE in Minnesota" itch.io fundraiser bundle in the server. Initial response from moderators and senior staff was that it was entirely acceptable and that anyone using it to stir up pro-ICE sentiment would likely be banned considering the atrocities that ICE was committing against innocent people.
However, eien then responded as shown below. eien mischaracterized what was being said, describing it as banning someone solely because they have a differing opinion, without any regard to what the opinion may be or the implications it would have for other people.
This whole incident, accompanied by his past history, triggered his demotion from staff. Complete disregard for the pain, suffering, and anguish of innocent people is not an acceptable quality for staff members in this community.
toolassisted.run
On August 16th, 2026, staff were made aware that eien had been DMing TASVideos community members through Discord about his new tas archival site that appears to be heavily coded by LLM. We quickly put out a statement on this site listing several issues with it. While the issue regarding tases being posted to the site without the consent of their coauthors was fixed by having all tases with coauthors removed, there are still other problems that led us to decision to ban eien86 from the site.
For one, a good number of the "community principles" are laser targeted at appealing to those unsatisfied with TASVideos moderation.
These principles encourage banned individuals to interact with the tas community through a different avenue, completely undermining the decision to ban them in the first place. These users were harmful to the health of the community in some fashion.
Additionally, the method of inviting users, sending a link through Discord DM to TASVideos members without the knowledge or consent of staff as a whole, and the method of requesting one's runs to be imported through placing a token on one's user page both skirt around the AI Policy which would prevent direct linking to any AI generated sites. However, as the AI Policy states: "Any attempt to exploit or circumvent these rules will be taken as bad faith, and will be moderated accordingly."
Closing
While there are other smaller incidents where eien has consistently demonstrated to be a problem, we are omitting them from this statement to be timely.
We do not intend to nor have any plans to moderate any users for joining his site.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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I made an alternative sort of mockup proposal to Samsara's: mine is viewable here. Would like some thoughts.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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g0goTBC brought up [4022] A2600 Pitfall II: Lost Caverns "maximum score" by Lobsterzelda in 09:25.745 for Stars and I really like that suggestion because we don't have any Atari2600 stars and that was a rather important period in gaming history. It's a popular game for the time period, and there's some noticeable techniques. The ratings aren't the greatest but that's not a total deal breaker to me. Additional thoughts?
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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feos wrote:
To everyone: Note that changing publications forces an update on youtube, and we have a quota (don't remember how big), so it's good to not do it too often.
According to dev chat it's high enough to where we don't need to worry about it too much for manual edits.
Noxxa wrote:
Question: does score make sense to display as a metric if there's a clearly defined maximum? To me, those always felt more akin to 100% runs, where you follow a predefined goal but otherwise just aim for speed all the way.
IMO no for that exact reason. You're not going to be beating that metric by score so at most it should just be part of the branch label.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
Going through most of these but I'm going to have to get back to you on tekken 3 with two runs with the same ingame time but different tas time. Forgot about that scenario.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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I'd like to announce that I am opening a Discord server for Transgender and Nonbinary TASers called the Trans/NB Assisted Superplayers! This is a place for trans and nonbinary tasers to interact and support each other. We also would like to host events and such as well! This is not a space restricted to TASVideos members by any means, so any trans/nb TASers are free to join! To access it simply fill out the application form. Social media updates can be found on our Bluesky: @tnbas.bsky.social.
Plans are already underway to collaborate with Really Really Long A Thon and Frame Fatales for a marathon event taking place August 28th through September 1st 2026 where trans and nonbinary TASers are encouraged to submit! More information can be found in the discord.
For those who might be worried, no I am not leaving TASVideos or anything, nor should this impact my duties in any way. I simply want to do more for TASing at large and give back to the trans and nonbinary individuals who contribute so much to our communities.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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Dimon12321 wrote:
LLM processions is basically electricity consumption. Why don't you boycott Jaffar-Plus? It's a brute-forcer. It consumes electricity, like LLM datacenters, and you'll burn Gigawatts of electricity before actually achieving something useful in your TASes.
I actually am a little curious on the resource consumption of jaffar now. Admittedly the difference is that the scale is so different compared to running massive data centers, but I'm still curious.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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Plagiarism is unacceptable even if it's through a machine.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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ok I know what I said about not wanting too many Zelda stars but [6307] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time "Triforce% ACE Showcase" by Sauraen, dwangoAC & Savestate in 53:05.300 was such a different TAS that I felt was important to Star and got a good amount of support on the discord as well.
Additionally, I replaced the star of [2473] DOS Jetpack by slamo in 32:22.550 with [6473] DOS Alone in the Dark by tigrou in 05:51.220. The latter is flashier, a more well known game and is a horror game which we don't have many stars of to begin with (I think just Resident Evil 4). I am far from opposed to giving Jetpack a star back at some point, but for most of its history, it was hard to separate it from how it was kinda pushed as a star largely by an admin and had some rather minimal support otherwise. If it gets support in the future I'd be happy to revisit it.
In the meantime though, I'd like to talk Touhou. Touhou is mega popular, is of a genre that is frankly underexplored on tasvideos, and has some rather impressive gameplay. In particular, I'd like to focus on the shmups (not to knock touhou 1 but it's probably not what people expect of touhou). The scoring system of the shmups has some really interesting stuff going on in it, namely the Graze mechanic where you get extra points for getting close to enemy projectiles, resulting in gameplay where you get close to the bullets.
I know a lot of people here generally seem to prefer speed based TASes or playarounds, but I know the STG score scene is fairly prominent outside of our sphere and I would like to appeal outwards, not just inwards.
The publications I would like to discuss:
[4738] PC98 Touhou Kaikidan ~ Mystic Square "maximum score" by KirbyComment in 35:15.167: Is a PC98 TAS, we don't have many of those, let alone any Starred. It's also a decently recent TAS, so it's unlikely to be particularly dated. It also has some decent ratings (Average 8.46) Downside is that the PC98 games are a little less popular than the windows entries and graze bonus is capped.
[3635] PC Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom "Extra Stage, maximum score" by kopiapoa in 27:54.217: Is a Windows Touhou, so it's a bit more popular. Has some absolutely ridiculous gameplay, where the screen gets flooded with projectiles, and the graze bonus is uncapped so there's a huge possible optimization potential. Unfortunately, the ratings are a little lower than I'd like: 6.74 average. It's also a bit old so I wouldn't be shocked if it was improved elsewhere.
I'd like people's thoughts on this.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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I just starred [6756] 3DS The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds by p4nc4k3 in 1:12:35.000. I felt it was best to have a second 3DS Star in addition to Garfield Kart and A Link Between Worlds got the most support.
As such, I'm not suuuuuuuuuuuuper into the idea of adding another Zelda Star (TMC) right away. Definitely will need to watch that movie at some point however!
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
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Got some more support in discord so I starred it.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
Senior staff reached out to eien in private and seemingly had a productive discussion with him, so we did not pursue it further at that time.
We explicitly do not want to support creators that have hateful behaviors because frequently communities centered around these creators will harass minorities, and we do not want to enable that.
Defending people who support ICE
During Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis a discussion had started amongst staff regarding whether it was acceptable to share the "No ICE in Minnesota" itch.io fundraiser bundle in the server. Initial response from moderators and senior staff was that it was entirely acceptable and that anyone using it to stir up pro-ICE sentiment would likely be banned considering the atrocities that ICE was committing against innocent people.
However, eien then responded as shown below. eien mischaracterized what was being said, describing it as banning someone solely because they have a differing opinion, without any regard to what the opinion may be or the implications it would have for other people.
This whole incident, accompanied by his past history, triggered his demotion from staff. Complete disregard for the pain, suffering, and anguish of innocent people is not an acceptable quality for staff members in this community.
toolassisted.run
On August 16th, 2026, staff were made aware that eien had been DMing TASVideos community members through Discord about his new tas archival site that appears to be heavily coded by LLM. We quickly put out a statement on this site listing several issues with it. While the issue regarding tases being posted to the site without the consent of their coauthors was fixed by having all tases with coauthors removed, there are still other problems that led us to decision to ban eien86 from the site.
For one, a good number of the "community principles" are laser targeted at appealing to those unsatisfied with TASVideos moderation.
These principles encourage banned individuals to interact with the tas community through a different avenue, completely undermining the decision to ban them in the first place. These users were harmful to the health of the community in some fashion.
Additionally, the method of inviting users, sending a link through Discord DM to TASVideos members without the knowledge or consent of staff as a whole, and the method of requesting one's runs to be imported through placing a token on one's user page both skirt around the AI Policy which would prevent direct linking to any AI generated sites. However, as the AI Policy states: "Any attempt to exploit or circumvent these rules will be taken as bad faith, and will be moderated accordingly."
Closing
While there are other smaller incidents where eien has consistently demonstrated to be a problem, we are omitting them from this statement to be timely.
We do not intend to nor have any plans to moderate any users for joining his site.