If SMB3 in 2 seconds style TASes get to be a problem, we can make them their own category, similar to how ACE and non-ACE are split, though the definition may get a bit tricky:
1) They're defined by having subframe input - but so is every TAS that subframe resets to corrupt savefiles, as well as a ton of DOS speedruns (and possibly speedruns on other platforms with keyboards - MSX, C64, Windows, Linux, etc).
2) They're defined by hitting inputs faster than a human can - but so is every run that has 20Hz or faster mashing or that executes a 4 player payload extremely fast.
3) Maybe you could define them by the effect they have on memory (making a frame last longer than a frame so the console gets confused)? If this effect doesn't happen in normal gameplay outside of esoteric glitches, we can generalize, categorize TASes and form a new category this way.
Regardless, I don't think this TAS is a threat to the site or speedrunning in general, especially since everyone should be in agreement that this new kind of TAS is not, in general, more interesting than previously existing TASes.
Yes. But depending on the game and your OS, it may or may not work. For maximum compatibilty, run Hourglass in 32 bit Windows XP. If you still can't get it to work, you can ask for help here, but not all games will work.
It's worth noting that Kickstarter 'budgets' are not accurate, and distort the perception of what the actual gamer thinks it costs to make a game.
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Why are you reading shitaku?
I’m sure a good portion of the budget went into making the game multilingual and multiplatform, which was a terrible idea and a waste of money and effort. Let’s not forget people saying it doesn’t look like a 4mil$ game have been comparing it to other kickstarted games that got much less.
I’ve seen it being speedrun by that really popular Mega Man speedrunner whose name I forget oh right Caleb and the game seemed fine for the most part but nothing exceptional. Load/crashing problems really shouldn’t be there though.
There's a lot of widespread criticism on the game. Over the years its reputation already had been soiled because of the various delays, and the release hasn't gone over much better judging from reviews and the way the rest of the internet talks about it now.
Personally, I got my backer keys yesterday, played the game for a moment yesterday evening, and really enjoyed it so far.
The controls and gameplay are tight and fast, it has fairly challenging platforming action, and you get to blow up robots and take their weapons. That's basically what I want from a game like this.
I couldn't care less about the trailer, graphics, plot, cutscenes, voice acting, or whatever else people were complaining about. I wasn't bothered about the delays either, as I never was in a rush to play the game (and I got to play a demo of it at Gamescom last year anyway).
I don't regret choosing to back it back in 2013.
It isn't a bad game but definitely doesn't look like it costed 4 million dollars.
Well, isn't the 52GO run in japanese only faster because of the language change?
If it's better optimized period, then go ahead and submit it. Otherwise not much point...
It would be a great shame if this run were unable to be published here.
The problem is its category, 'game end glitch', is the same as the category the 31:29 run would be published as. I'm not sure how to work around this. (Except maybe by having an 'arbitrary code execution demonstration' style category, that doesn't have to be the fastest any%? Don't think there's precedent for it but this would be a good place to start.)
On the other hand, it is faster than the published 'game end glitch' run. Is there a precedent for a known not fastest run to be accepted (if the actual fastest run is not being submitted and might not ever be)?
Very excellently abused. The last fight is rather mind blowing. Did you use a bot to brute force random inputs until it worked?
Thanks! For the last fight, I look at the outcome of all 256 possible RNG values of the first enemy attack. Then I tried to shift the best outcomes in time so that Locke's attack happens at the right time. Sometimes it didn't work as the outcomes were highly instable. Usually, it depends on what was done before the enemy attack. Also, shifting by one frame at the beginning can shift Locke's attack by several frames, so you don't have a frame-precise control. After hours of not getting it, I shifted Locke's shield and weapon to get a new set of available frames, and I got it eventually.
Ok, makes sense that there are only 256 possibilities available at a time (given the way RNG in FF works). Thanks!
Another way to do GIM in the Deku Tree on N64 is to do double GIM (do it with nuts, then with seeds). This requires getting the Slingshot first ofc. Apparently this isn't common knowledge, I was talking with nathanisbored and he brought it up.
Sure. Well, the wikipedia article for it is pretty good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_United_States#Explaining_the_gender_pay_gap
It notes that women are both less likely to negotiate for pay rises AND more likely to be penalized if they do, that the wage gap doesn't disappear if you control for education level, and that if you control for things like hours worked/years experience/marital status and so on, the wage gap STILL doesn't disappear. Studies like this support the wage gap being a real thing, and not just an artifact of how we measure it.
Besides management of companies (which tend to be male dominated) institutionally or unconsciously discriminating against women, another problem that might lead to the wage gap existing is the 'Leaky STEM pipeline', where at all levels of education and training women are discouraged from continuing via a variety of factors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_STEM_fields#Leaky_pipeline
When a resume is submitted for a job application, if the resume is otherwise identical but the name is male, they are more likely to be accepted and offered a higher starting salary
The reason for that is because of all these laws which make it risky to hire women. You have all these anti-discrimination laws which make it risky to employ women. On the basis she may try to sue you in the event she gets fired or doesn't get promoted. On top of that you have these paternity laws to deal with. This is why a business owner will always favour employing a man over a women. Unless that women is so much better that she's worth the risk.
1) How would you explain http://www.themarysue.com/female-novelist-male-nom-de-plume/ ? This isn't a matter of employment, it's literally 'agents don't think chicks can write books'.
2) I assume you're referring to laws in the US specifically. How about countries besides the US? Do the same laws and legal problems exist? If they don't, does the same problem (of equally qualified women being less likely to be hired than men) exist?
The problem is that just 'seeking equality of opportunity' is not going to bring it about. So many aspects of society and culture and institutions are biased against women, against people of colour, against transgender people, etc. either explicitly or via an aggregation of unconscious biases.
For example:
When men and women are in a group together, men tend to talk 70% of the time but think they are talking just as much as women. In addition, when a women is perceived to be 'overly talkative' via this metric, perception of their competence drops ( http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2015-10-in-mixed-gender-groups-can-you-guess-who-talks-the-most/ , links many sources)
When a woman submits her cover letter and opening pages of a novel to agents, she found that if she used a male pen name instead of her real name, agents were 8x as likely to be interested ( http://www.themarysue.com/female-novelist-male-nom-de-plume/ )
When a resume is submitted for a job application, if the resume is otherwise identical but the name is male, they are more likely to be accepted and offered a higher starting salary ( http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full.pdf )
Congressional groups, CEOs, managers, and many other groups are disproportionately white males.
(I don't know if this is true for women vs men or not, but) black people are far more likely to be sentenced and given harsher sentences for identical crimes as white people, especially for things like drug possession.
(This is not an exhaustive list by any means!)
For reasons like this, just seeking equality of opportunity will not cause true equality. This is why it is important to identify as a feminist not as an egalitarian, which makes it sound like you think not contributing to the problem will cause it to eventually sort itself out.
Until such time as these institutional and unconscious biases no longer exist, we have to have systems that counterbalance them and explicitly favour the minority group, due to the additional obstacles that stand in their way to achieve the same outcome as the non-minority group.
And as I've hinted at, it's not exclusive to women vs men - it's people of color vs white people, transgender people vs cisgender people, homosexual/bisexual/asexual people vs heterosexual people and so on, all in different sectors, to different extents and for different reasons.
BTW, John Oliver (of Last Week Tonight) has a great video on the wage gap here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsB1e-1BB4Y
It should also be noted that there is a wage gap for black people vs white people, a wage gap for black women, etc. Again, it is not exclusive to women vs men.
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andypanther wrote:
Do you really want reduce all differences between men and women to something purely biological? Don't you think society has an influence? When people tell me "almost all great inventions were done by men", I ask them if women really ever got the same chance to make those inventions. Because I don't think that's the case.
Is it possible that, on average, men and women have different interests and different psychology? It may have a biological reason behind it.
Men are, on average, more stoic, more propense to taking risks, more competitive, and more aggressive. This is not a cultural thing, but a biological one. Innate instincts and hormones, and probably has an evolutionary cause behind it.
Women were also discouraged to become educated and even if they did get accomplishments, they were downplayed by their male peers, erased and taken credit for by men. So no, it's not just because men and women are physically different, it's because men forged the culture and the rules. Good examples at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/
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Warp wrote:
In most countries men are more likely to commit suicide than women. The vast majority of people aren't even aware of this statistic, nor care about it even if they are. AFAIK no social movement or funding is done to find the cause and try to fix it.
That's just a natural difference between being a man and being a woman. Men generally have a little harder lives, which is why men commit more suicides, but this "hardness" of life is also what makes men hard/men. That's also why the IQ of men varies more than it does between women, because of hardships and risks that men have to take. Women have more balanced lives, and men have more imbalanced lives, but that imbalance is the reason why almost all great inventions for example were done by men.
This is actually really interesting! Men and women have suicidal thoughts at the same rate, but men are more likely to actually commit suicide successfully. Part of the reason why is because men and women choose different methods to try and commit suicide - men prefer hanging, carbon monoxide poisoning and firearms, women prefer drug overdose. As a result, men are more successful on average.
In addition, which gender commits suicide the most seems to have cultural roots. In China it's actually women who commit suicide more.
So it's definitely not as cut and dry as 'men are more suicidal and imbalanced'. I'm not sure what it actually means.
You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide
It is now possible to skip Tower of the Gods by causing it to fail to load, by segmenting the actor memory in such a way that no contiguous segment is 500kb. In-depth explanation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDHvmmkd3-Y
