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feos wrote:
It was suggested, that Vault game-based criterion is lowered, Moons entertainment criterion is raised, and a middle tier is added, a to-be-defined tier. It'd be the primary one to send accepted runs to, to allow some automation when deciding what tier to put a run to, deciding between Vault, Middle and Moons depending on rating: http://tasvideos.org/Adelikat/FourTierSystemRules.html
Adelikat, myself, Moth and some other people were in favor of that system. Then adelikat seemed to lost interest.
That's the first I've heard of it. If a new system was worked out and the admins are in favor, why hasn't it been mentioned on the forums until now? Do I need to join the IRC channel to join in on discussions like that?
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This is just a bunch of completely normal games of Jenga. One person goes, then the next person just knocks over the tower and asks to play something different.
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xnamkcor wrote:
Probably something to do with "polite" questions accusing him of profiting off a TAS run and suspicious actions by a person in power. I cannot condone how he handled it, but his anger is not completely unfounded.
It's a completely valid question to ask given some recent events and the nature of publicly hosting someone else's run on a generally monetized channel, and it was brought up as polite as he could have possibly done so. His intentions were good. Lay off.
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The lag is hard to understand at times. The best way I can describe it is "controlled chaos". I've only found one way to consistently lag the game (sprite overload). The rest seems to be more or less random depending on when the previous Field was completed. The same actions may cause lag in some places and not cause it in other places, and there's no way of knowing how the lag will be affected by any given improvement until we start resyncing the following stages. Occasionally I was able to knock out a frame or two of lag by altering our strategies slightly, but those frames would usually return in later stages.
To be more clear: Lag is generally consistent between stages, but upon improving a previous stage, lag frames may be added or removed from all of the following stages even if they use the exact same strategy. Usually it's a frame or two here and there, but in some cases we've had to account for 5 extra frames of lag in some stages or 15 less frames of lag in other stages. If we'd completed Field 7 even a frame faster or slower, we might have a lot less or a lot more lag in the tadpole fight even with the exact same movements all throughout.
Hopefully that's a good enough technical explanation.
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sonicpacker wrote:
Nahoc caused a problem because of his personal issues with me. Mothrayas solved the problem. I deleted only what I said towards Nahoc, because as I said, there's no more problem. Obviously had it been someone other than Nahoc, I would've handled it differently. But his reply was out of spite and thinking he had power over something I wanted changed. I'm not okay with that but it's fixed now. Lastly, I don't need to call you a troll, you openly admitted it. Congrats on referencing totally irrelevant threads and your subjective view on them lol. Can we stick to SM74 and the publication? We were on the right track until your book.
Thank you for disregarding everything I said and calling me a troll. I was looking forward to it and you did not disappoint one bit. It's amazing how gullible you are, by the way. I thought my sarcasm when calling myself a troll back then was pretty blatant, but I suppose you're just looking for an easy excuse to ignore everything I say because I don't agree with you and never will.
There's nothing more to say about the run. The run's been published and the change you wanted has already been made, you have no reason to stay here and continue your arguments. It's funny, though, that you completely disregarded the words of a long-time publisher on the site purely because you regarded it as a personal attack and not as a simple mistake. I would have taken Nahoc at his word had I not known this obscure publication-related rule, and I'm sure anyone else would have done the same until the rule was clarified.
What you're doing is the equivalent of a grade schooler punching a kid in the face right in front of a teacher, and then running up to the teacher crying about the kid they punched being mean to them. It's an honest-to-God wonder that you haven't been banned yet, given how disruptive and unruly you act in nearly every post you make.
EDIT: There was another paragraph here, but the issue was cleared up.
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I think my presence in this thread is long overdue.
sonicpacker wrote:
I'm sick of being discriminated against on this site for NO GOOD REASON. Over and OVER.
I'm gonna level with you here, Jerry. Can I call you Jerry? Because I feel like you've put me through something over the past few months.
There's no "discrimination" here, there's only a person who completely refuses to accept that they're the one instigating all this "discrimination" in the first place. I'd like you to sit down and just think about all the shit you've started since that little "discussion" about monetization you had with mindnomad. And yes, I said the shit that you started.
You seem to think that someone being hostile towards you is what starts all these arguments, since you clearly don't think your initial hostility is what's doing it. You completely lack the "common courtesy" that you just hypocritically accused dekutony of not having, and even your posting in this thread alone proves that handily. I find that first post hilarious, personally:
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homerfunky has trouble with English and asked me to post about the publication link again.
homerfunky wrote:
I would like if this movie is published that the movie link goes to the main upload
That's aside from the fact that the TVC encode is inferior to mine. Mine has the crop that viewers prefer (taking up the whole player), the FPS isn't choppy in random places throughout, and 1440p is superior to 1080. 60 FPS is also useless for this game (especially with choppy frames...). It also looks like my raw encode was either better or the "official" one is overcompressed.
To people that hate me: Please don't make this about me, Nintendo has this upload claimed because of the Dire, Dire Docks music, and homerfunky himself wants this change.
Let me break this down. You probably thought you had good intentions going into this, since this was a request that was made clear earlier in the thread. But could you have brought it up with any more of a God complex? You literally spent a paragraph saying "I DID THIS BETTER YOU FUCKING FRAUDS" and followed it up with "Don't make this about me". Technically no one had to make it about you: You did it yourself.
What could you have said to make it a little more palatable? How about something like this?
homerfunky has trouble with English and asked me to post about the publication link again. He said earlier in the thread that he wanted the site to link to my YouTube encode:
homerfunky wrote:
I would like if this movie is published that the movie link goes to the main upload
That's it. That's all your post needed to be. No implications that the site is lazy or that the encoders suck or that people hate you for "no good reason". The error would have been corrected and everyone would be going along their merry way.
But nope, you had to slide in and boast about how superior your encode is for a good paragraph, then have the audacity to challenge people to not make any of their next posts about you. Shockingly, people complied! It's as if no one actively holds a grudge against you until you start acting up like a spoiled brat or something!
How coincidental, then, that you ended up doing that. Take your response to Nahoc: He merely said a simple, matter-of-fact statement with an apology. That's some serious restraint when talking to someone like you! And yet, you still take it as a personal attack when it was probably just an honest mistake. He said nothing directly or even indirectly attacking you, and your brilliant reaction was to bitch about how people hate you and follow it up with "FUCK you, you're disgusting".
What if someone else said the exact same thing? Would you still take it as a personal attack? Or are you entirely convinced that a small group of people on these forums are out to get you in literally every post they make? What if Nahoc or mindnomad or even me paid you an honest compliment? How would you react to that? Would it be with the same amount of vitriol lacing the rest of your responses to us?
You probably wouldn't have even gotten uppity at dekutony had he not rightfully called you an asshole for the way you responded to him, since I don't think he's wronged you in the past. You've got serious balls to accuse him of not having common courtesy after your recent posting in this thread, by the way. Is it common courtesy to attack people who are just making statements? Is it common courtesy to actively and malicious rage in your responses? Is it common courtesy to imply that you're doing things so much better than everyone else when that has literally nothing to do with the request you're being asked to help with?
Case in point, Bullfrog, you're not exactly keeping a good reputation in the slightest. People don't just "forget" all the attacks you've thrown their way without any provocation, and the only time anyone ever brings that up is when you've already launched into some spiel about how everyone hates you and how everyone's fucking terrible and disgusting or whatever. Clearing your posts doesn't mean they never happened. You can't just make all these angry posts and then expect people to forgive you at the drop of a hat when you can't even forgive people who aren't attacking you in the first place.
Let me just put it bluntly: If you stop acting like a whiny little asshole, maybe people will start liking you again. People don't like you because you're not like-able, plain and simple. No one will think you're a spoiled, stuck-up little shit if you don't act like one. You need to learn that your actions have consequences, and if you don't take responsibility for your actions, this is going to keep happening.
If you refuse to accept even the slightest bit of blame, then just leave like you promised. You've made it abundantly clear that you hate this place and that you think everyone here hates you, so maybe you'd be happier if you stuck to sites where people haven't yet seen the dark side you display here so prominently.
I look forward to you disregarding everything I say and calling me a troll again.
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tom_mai78101 wrote:
Are you not supposed to use both the keyboard and mouse altogether to get more productivity out? I have this impression from FCEUX, where you can use both the keyboard for input recording and the mouse for editing while frame advancing in the TAS Editor.
I suppose it's personal preference, but I've never used keyboard input in either TAS Editor or TAStudio. Everything you need can be controlled with the mouse, and I personally find it easier to do so.
Just to bring the conversation back to potential bugs in 1.9.4: In TAStudio, pressing the next frame button during playback doesn't pause playback like it did in prior versions. Is this an intentional change?
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tom_mai78101 wrote:
[*]Hold any input down. I use "Down" key here.
[*]Frame advance a few frames while holding down the input key. There should be a line of inputs in TAStudio.
Um, you know you can just draw the input straight into the piano roll using your mouse, right? That's kinda what TAStudio is for. If you're going to keep using keyboard input for everything, there's really no benefit to using TAStudio.
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I think in this case it (water)falls under "crediting every idea ever given to you would be overkill". I'd rather not set a co-authorship precedent that leads to every future submission looking like an April Fool's joke.
EDIT: I forgot to mention the reason why we stayed on the SFC version instead of switching over to the DS port. The enemy collection range appears to be larger in the DS version, which means that a few of the strategies we use wouldn't work due to being unable to cast the line while you're collecting an enemy. I'll be editing this into the submission text.
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You mean WebNations posted a full encode of TAS Flappy Bird Maximum Score "9999" in 5 hours 19 minutes by TehSeven? That's great news! I was hoping to watch all of TAS Flappy Bird Maximum Score "9999" in 5 hours 19 minutes by TehSeven, and now whenever I want to find TAS Flappy Bird Maximum Score "9999" in 5 hours 19 minutes by TehSeven, I'll know just where to look. Thank you, WebNations, for your prompt uploading of TAS Flappy Bird Maximum Score "9999" in 5 hours 19 minutes by TehSeven!
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Dooty wrote:
Oh, I keep herring that the bass fights look faster. Is it reel that they are scripted?
Anyway, if you plan to improve another run like this, please let minnow.
Let me school you on the bass fights, though I don't want to get too deep into it. The exit doors open at the same time as in the current-ly published run, we just get to them faster.
I was thinking about diving into another run, though at the risk of sounding shallow I'd like to take a bit of a break while the submission backlog clears up and everything starts flowing again nicely. I was considering streaming parts of my next TAS, but I don't think my laptop has the specs for it, so I'd be up the river without a paddle if I tried.
Thanks for all the positive feedback so far! It's nice to see this submission causing a wave of excitement. Even though we had a few setbacks, everything went swimmingly all throughout, and I'm glad to see that everyone lakes the run so far.
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You're limited for a reason. Having someone else submit your runs defeats the purpose of your current rank and it just sounds like you're exploiting the system without bothering to think about why you might be limited in the first place.
Allow me to be blunt: No one's going to submit your awful, low quality, unfunny joke run for you. You yourself lost the privilege to submit your runs to the site, and now you have to earn that privilege back by showing that you can actually make a quality run.
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