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TAS of 2014, anyone?
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Yes. But you see, those were not made by me? lol.
You're in the wrong saying that this and anything else you make deserves TAS of 2014 more than anything else. I'm sure this will be a great run because THC98 worked on it and his Sonic Adventure runs were awesome, but this isn't "drumming up hype". It's just self-aggrandizing.
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Just watch what you say.
I meant exactly what I said. No other word explains what I was meaning better than what I said.
So you meant to say she was a preteen girl you were sexually attracted to, or is there some sort of language barrier thing I'm missing here? "Loli" may mean something more innocent in your part of the world, but that doesn't mean it's innocent everywhere. If that's the case, and that's really the only word you can use for some reason, at least explain the word choice in the post so that people don't misunderstand. That's what I meant by watching what you say.
I'm going to ignore that other comment.
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Ah, yes, a drive to rate more movies would be excellent. I'll try to join in, myself.
EDIT: My movie ratings are hidden so it wouldn't make sense for me to list the ones I've rated.
Honestly, my main New Year's Resolution is to try to get over all the personal issues that have been plaguing me over the past year and "turning me into a right creep", as Zeupar once put it. 2015 will be the start of a newer, nicer Samsara, which is perfect timing now that I've probably sullied my reputation completely!
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Just... don't be creepy, dude. Don't refer to young girls as lolis, don't give people permission to "fap at" your TASes, maybe cut down a bit on the Amy Rose obsession...
It was the word choice that threw the topic off, not the fact that you posted. The same thing happens to me all the time. I have a hell of a lot of trouble not coming off as a cynical asshole (see my last post for example) and I tend to start way more arguments because of it.
I don't think anyone here holds grudges or thinks any badly of anyone else (well, most of the time), most of the weird thoughts are contained to single threads and everywhere else it's mostly fine. Just watch what you say.
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Nobody's making a scene about it, Flygon merely brought a legitimate concern to your attention.
Sure, if calling everyone "fools" and saying he's providing a "superior" product (implying the current site encoders are all idiots) is "merely [bringing] a legitimate concern to [our] attention."
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Carl Sagan wrote:
Honestly I've been bored with the ACE stuff since about the 2nd time it was done. The concept is a neat curiosity and probably interesting from a programming perspective, but these have almost nothing to do with playing, or TASing, video games.
If these runs get much more "improved" every game's any% will be turning on the console and the game ending. Certainly this is cool to be able to do, but it isn't very interesting to watch beyond the first, as every game eventually looks the same. You're playing the SNES not playing the game.
Pretty much my thoughts exactly. I guess it's impressive that it can be done in a lot of games, but at the same time my expectations are never shattered. Every ACE run just gets up to a certain point, does some seemingly arbitrary movements, then everything goes to hell for a split second before the ending screen plays. Maybe I'm just completely jaded at this point, I don't know.
That point about playing the SNES and not playing the game makes a lot of sense, since the real effort in the run lies in figuring out how to get to a point where you can execute arbitrary code and then figuring out how to immediately run the ending once you get to that point. I wouldn't call that playing the game so much as reprogramming the game.
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I respect your opinion, but that's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life.
EDIT: This thread really needs to be locked before this discussion gets further out of control.
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We could have a nice, logical discussion about this, in which we calmly and rationally discuss my viewpoints and why they might be strange or hypocritical, or we could continue just calling me wrong and whiny and throw civility out the window altogether.
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Samsara says that anyone who isn't currently dying of aids, thirst, hunger and being shot has no right to complain, because their problems aren't significant at the moment. He then goes on to complain.
That's not what I said at all, but okay, sure, whatever you say!
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We really, really need to watch walls fly by in glorious 60fps, our watching of walls fly by is absolutely ruined otherwise. We're just missing so much in the way of walls flying by! All the encoders are fools if we can't watch every goddamn pixel of every wall fly by!!!
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I'll make more of an attempt to be civil, though I still think the anger is in some way justified given what's been said and done in these threads.
Don't look too hard into my analogies. I say up front that they're bad for a reason. The point of it was to show that problems can be addressed as long as we know which ones to prioritize, not to directly compare white men to abandoned buildings. The only problem I have with MRAs is their conduct and the fact that they really think the "discrimination" they go through is a more valid concern than anything else.
In my mind, all the awful shit that still happens to women all over the world needs to be the first thing we take care of. Literally five minutes of Googling will show you that there's still a huge problem in the way women are treated. Once we start taking steps to fix that, then and only then do I think we should start taking steps to fix the issues that the MRAs are seeing.
This whole "neo-feminism" and "MRA misogyny" argument is pretty much based on both sides completely misunderstanding the other from what I can tell: The most outspoken members of both sides are the psychopaths who ruin the reputation for everyone else, and those outspoken members have a skewed perception of things in the first place. For one thing, the so-called "neo-feminists" see nothing but shit like Red Pill and start to think all men are pigs, and rightfully so, while the really hardcore MRA assholes perceive women as having an easier life because all they're seeing are women who exploit the kindness of men.
Or, in short, both parties have really shitty people, and you only ever hear about the really shitty people, so your perception of said party gets skewed.
Look: I am, biologically, a white male myself. I do think there's been a recent shift in how white men have been treated and for a while it did legitimately upset me that I was suddenly hated for simply being born a white male. But I realized that, honestly, the fact that my first instinctive reaction was to think that I'm being discriminated against just sickens me, looking back on it. Yeah, there's some unfair discrimination happening to me and other white men, but how much of it is "deserved" as opposed to senseless and random? We "deserve" it more than any other group does, and that's why we need to be the ones to take the first steps to bridge the huge divide between feminism and men's rights activism.
And before I get shit for it, I don't actually mean white men "deserve" to be hated. Just that some of the things we've done as a race/gender combination are morally questionable at best and... well, the KKK at worst, so we're kinda bringing some justified hate onto ourselves. You have to admit that, at least.
I just want to stop seeing MRAs completely throw away the valid issues that women face. I would be far more willing to listen to an MRA that at least accepted that women face a fucking boatload of problems that need to be fixed sooner rather than later. We can talk about the fact that an entire religion treats women as inferior to men for a while, then we can discuss the fact that men can be wrongfully accused of rape or abused by their wives without anyone taking notice... Okay, admittedly I don't know much about what MRAs are fighting for, but I think that's saying something in and of itself: If it's brought up by a rational person, I'll listen. Otherwise, as it's been literally every time I've been exposed to an MRA, I won't care, since why bother with anyone who's narcissistic enough to demand that their group deserves more rights for no good reason?
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Dyshonest, xnamkcor, sonicpacker, Nach, anyone who posts in the MLP thread, gamerretro2, saomoore94, kusoman, MegYesDKNo... There are so many quality contributors to this site, I can't choose just one!!!!
EDIT: How could I forget TAG himself!?!?
EDIT2: Or itsPersonnal and the rest of the Metroid Prime thread!?!?!?!?!?
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This is one of the reasons why I can't take neo-feminism seriously. This whole dogma that men can't complain about inequality where it's men who are in the losing part. And the reason they can't complain about it is because men are "privileged".
Feminists (especially feminist women) however can bring those things up without problems (and when they do, they are all like "see? We do care about men's problems too!") In other words, when a feminist brings up those problems, it's all about seeking equality and it's a good thing, but when a non-feminist man brings up the exact same problems, he's just a whining MRA hiding his misogyny behind such arguments.
"Privilege" is just a meaningless buzzword used by neo-feminists to attack their critics.
You must be loved over at Red Pill. What the fuck are you talking about? You're right on one point at least: Non-feminist men are whining and misogynistic MRAs when they bring up their problems like they're significant at the moment.
Look: I'm not saying white guys don't have problems. I'm saying there are bigger problems to worry about before we can tackle those problems. Bad analogy time: A schoolhouse filled with children and an abandoned building go up in flames at the same time, and for whatever reason you can only put out one at a time. Which one are you concerned about first? The schoolhouse, right? Lives are at stake, of course you want to prioritize that before putting out the other fire.
They're both problems that should eventually be solved, but if you're intent on getting people to focus on the smaller, insignificant problem while the larger, life-threatening problem is still going on, then of course people are going to think you're a complete shitheel.
I just don't get how you MRA shills can honestly truly believe that the shit you think you're going through is significant compared to the rest of what's happening in the world at the moment. That's why I think you're privileged: Because you can look at white guys getting away with killing black kids and still spew out "We're being discriminated against!"
Tell you what: I'll support your bullshit charade movement once we solve all the more important problems.
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Nach wrote:
How about on first instance of harassment based on gender, we're terminating the offending user in question?
So are you terminating Aqfaq for this little bullshit charade that I find personally offensive, or is this another "facetious" remark that I'm misinterpreting?
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Svimmer wrote:
Samsara: You seem to know the game (CAoS) well. If you have some time later could you help me by finding specific instances of each kind of trick within the TASes?
That shouldn't be too hard. I could probably just go through the encodes and provide timestamps, or would something else be preferable?
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Nach wrote:
Aqfaq is doing an admirable job acting as the battered woman
You call that admirable? Do you also admire the Men's Rights Movement?
EDIT: Or old Vaudeville blackface performers, for that matter? It's the same sort of highly offensive "Look at me, the privileged white male, pretending to be part of a group that has actual problems and difficulties in modern society!" so I'm sure you'd find that just as admirable.
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Boy howdy, I love it when I wander into gender-based discussions and actually get legitimately offended over people pretending to be girls!
Tell me when you shitheels are done being smartasses and pretending to be women "for fun" so I can come back and not have to worry about relapsing back into the years of gender dysphoria I've been suffering through while casually browsing the threads on a fucking video game forum for playing video games fast.
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