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Dacicus wrote:
How will this affect the encoding workflow?
Deliciously so.
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Patashu wrote:
A 11 year delayed rejection? What happened here?
The submission was edited, which triggered a delayed TASVideos Grue reaction (who did not exist yet at the original time of rejection).
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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feos wrote:
Publishing a run that's already been properly obsoleted by a new submission, and claiming "that's the current Contra TAS record", doesn't feel perfectly right either.
Not only does it not feel right, it's a blatant violation of the requirement that publications must beat existing records. If the site publishes a movie knowing that a faster movie already exists (and is on the submission queue), it's violating its own rule.
It's unfortunate whenever this happens to an already-accepted submission, but this is not the first time it has happened. No movie is confirmed for publication until it has reached the movie publication list. Accepted movies can still be rejected in light of new evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Take note of this movie rule in particular:
Movie Rules wrote:
The movie must be good
In particular:
A speed-oriented movie must beat all existing records
If your movie is going to beat something, be sure it beats it.
If your tool-assisted movie is not faster than the non-tool-assisted world record for the same game, aiming for the same goals, your movie will be rejected.
Do your research to avoid this. Look for the existing unassisted speedrun records. Look for previous TAS movies in the submission queue or on the forums.
Check places such as YouTube or NicoVideo for speedruns, tool-assisted or otherwise.
Failure to beat existing movies will result in rejection.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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XTREMAL93 wrote:
Mothrayas, sent more than 60 same game topics to merge
Thank you, I will process them when I have time for it.
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Warp wrote:
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AngerFist wrote:
In my opinion, an apology is not enough. He should be stripped from his duties.
Why are you using the singular when it is plural?
People are talking about this, not about this (which seems to be what you constantly go back to).
Is it any wonder that we discuss re-encode flooding in a thread that's titled "Re-encode flooding"?
If people have issue with another subject, they should post in that topic instead, not here.
Warp wrote:
I don't think anybody cares that the TVC lost a few subscribers at one point in the past. That's not the thing people are upset about.
As staff this is a very relevant issue to us - and the root cause, extensively discussed in this topic, is relevant to many users as well. If you are not interested in this topic, then please don't post in this one.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Thank you adelikat, that covers everything I was looking for.
I hope this whole issue can be put to rest now, and that we can all move forward from this positively.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
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Spikestuff wrote:
Sorry, I can't write a decent apology for the life of me but I'll at least try to.
I want to apologize on the TVC Incident. It was inappropriate.
I'm sorry to the other site members. It was petty and it got our of hand.
I'm sorry to HappyLee & Mars608 for undermining your TAS with this stunt.
Thank you.
I would still like to see a statement from senior staff, as I mentioned before.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Spikestuff wrote:
The album is backwards as a note.
These comments came from last week and it was basically going through the breakdown of what occurred.
A blacked out comment it says "There's another reason Lee hates me." before showing TVC with Lee's TAS being shadowed.
In leaving that comment out it probably comes out as bragging for the TVC side.
My position on HappyLee's TAS was well known and the attitude he was presenting during the entire time. The TVC subscribers is basically learning the fact people weren't like/used to a GDQ upload style on TVC.
Thank you for confirming the statement that you deliberately shoved down dozens of re-encodes at once on TASVideoChannel for the explicit purpose of hurting HappyLee's movie views. And considering how recent these messages actually are, to this date it appears you still did/do not even consider it to be wrongdoing.
I have no words for how disgraceful this behavior is for a staff member.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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feos wrote:
There wasn't agreement among staff that all those events were planned out and executed by Spike, and I can't make demotion decisions if there's such disagreement.
In this case, I would like an explanation - in light of current evidence, not just from the past - from the staff member(s) in question that apparently prevented you from making such a decision.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Memory wrote:
A user has provided me with screenshots of a conversation with spikestuff in a private message on discord in which he essentially bragged about intentionally flooding TASVideos Channel with re-encodes after Super Mario Bros. was published: https://imgur.com/a/fHTf4XM
The user wishes to remain anonymous and was very hesitant to provide me with these screenshots to begin with, but I absolutely believe their validity.
EDIT: Obviously this provides no evidence that spikestuff was behind the YT comments but it pretty clearly proves that the re-encodes were done specifically in response to Super Mario Bros.
I've been presented with most of the evidence provided in the top post by BrunoVisnadi. While it contains a lot of compelling material, there's little in there that's truly conclusive so it's hard to make a definite statement on it.
This, however, looks like a pretty definite admission to abuse of the publication/staff role to not only single out an user's movie, but even go as far as to sabotage one of the main TASVideos publication outlets just in order to do so.
I would really like to see an explanation from Spikestuff for these comments, and an explanation from the senior publisher(s) in charge of his staff position why he is still allowed a staff role in light of this.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
Video games rated adult-only,orunrated adult video games with strong sexual content and/or extreme violence to AO-rating standards, are not allowed in any circumstance.
--> Thought it means that strong sexual content and/or extreme violence is not allowed in any circumstance.
If a game is unrated (does not have an ESRB rating) but would be considered AO if it were, it is not allowed. Not every adult game is rated by the ESRB (due to not being released in the U.S., or being from a time before the ESRB was formed, etc.), so for these games we as site staff draw a line on what's considered adult-only or not (the intent being to be as consistent as possible with actual ESRB ratings for comparable games).
MESHUGGAH wrote:
For games with uncensored adult-only versions and censored versions that are rated less than AO,a movie of either version is allowed as long as no uncensored-only content is accessed or visible.
--> So it's allowed to use an uncensored adult-only version as long as there's no extra sexual or extreme violence content? What?
I'm not sure what's unclear about it. You can, for example, run the original PS2 version of San Andreas, despite the fact that it's rated AO, as long as Hot Coffee content is not accessed in any way. The same principle goes for all other games that have censored M-rated game versions and uncensored AO-rated game versions. Any content that's exclusive to the AO version would not be allowed.
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It is legitimate, if unusual, to nominate an obsolete TAS. There are a few general potential reasons, like a notable difference in entertainment, or the unobsolete movie being ineligible due to some other reason (different system, Vault, etc.)
In this case, it's quite clear that some people disagree with some of the entertainment choices in the current TAS, and hence prefer the other one even if that one is actually slightly slower. That is a possible and valid reason to like a movie more, and hence, to nominate a movie. After all, it's impossible to please everyone in entertainment.
Now, both movies were nominated, and yours got more than twice the amount of votes the other movie did, and you only barely lost the award outright to an unrelated movie. Clearly this shows that there is more preference to your movie than to the previous one.
At this point, I'm not sure what you still want to achieve by posting about controversy here. The movie has been published half a year ago in Stars, the award votes have been cast with your movie well in favor of the other one, and...there really is nothing else left to gain here.
So, I will reiterate what GoddessMaria quoted, and say to let it go and move on. There is nothing left to gain at this point, and no need for even more controversy after everything that has already happened so far.
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
2 -> Still don't know because of contradictions.
1st sentence: [...] are not allowed in any circumstance."No!"
2nd sentence: uncensored and censored versions [...], either version is allowed as long as no uncensored-only content is accessed or visible."Okay."
3rd sentence: "For example, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is allowed as long as no Hot Coffee content is seen in it.Not allowed!
If it's rated as AO, it's not allowed.
If it's rated as something less than AO, it is allowed.
If a game has different ratings based on specific content in the game, if the movie accesses content that's rated AO it's not allowed. If it does not access AO-rated content, it is allowed.
I don't see any contradiction.
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It is time to vote for your favorite movie of 2018 to win the prestigious TAS of the Year award!
Registered members can place their votes for any or all of the 12 candidates here.
Voting will close on January 21st 2019, 23:59 UTC.
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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We've concluded that [3793] DOS King's Quest: Quest for the Crown by DrD2k9 in 00:18.30 was excluded by mistake in judging Speedy TAS nomination entries. As such, it has now been added to the poll. As a consequence, the poll has been reset.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
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<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
I'd like to point out that the point of requiring nominations to be justified is precisely to weed out nominations that were added in previous years but were not actually considered proper candidates (as Nach pointed out last year). So, the fact that these sort of movies were nominated in previous years does not mean anything. And as Nach pointed out, CD-Man is a different case.
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Nominations are in for our annual TAS and TASer awards!
During this week, registered members can now vote for their favorite TASes and TASers of the past year here.
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
EDIT: Adding Dragonfire (mentioned on the following post). I admit I hasn't watched the run until now.
Did you guys just forget about the nomination rules entirely?
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<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Maru did some very impressive Mario work late into the year. gifvex and TiKevin83 also did good in breaking classic Pokémon games as usual. Lastly, Woops venturing into the 3D world with some quality Tomb Raider TASes.
These four are my picks.
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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This looks like it will be a very interesting matchup between the classic DOS side (represented by slamo) and the new Linux side (represented by keylie). Curious to see where it'll go.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
