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I'm a little confused on what the mass un-rejection has to do with this particular movie, as it wasn't even published in the first place.
Also, the mass un-rejection happened in late 2012, a year before he signed up to the forums.
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Again, asking other people for help in the game's thread will raise your chances of succeeding. Even though most of the TASes here are by a single author, pretty much every single one is a community effort. The most important part of making a good TAS is research: If you go in without any research or help, you'll most likely come up with something sub-optimal.
If you have new glitches, that's definitely an improvement if you find a good use for them in the run. Test them out everywhere you can and you're bound to save time.
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You can't encode HD directly on Gens or any other emulator. You need to resize the raw video to HD dimensions, which involves either using a good video editor or learning AviSynth code.
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These pages on the site are pretty good areas to look for improvable games. The first link (Longest Non-Obsoleted) is your best bet. Look for a game you enjoy (or think looks interesting) and go from there. Things have changed so much over 10 years of these runs being published, so you're guaranteed to improve one if you look for new tricks and use all the shiny new resources.
Make sure to revive the game's thread on the forums if you take this route, as having people comment and help is highly beneficial.
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Triple post update time.
I finally got around to testing Stage 6 manipulation and it's dreadful. It doesn't change every frame. It doesn't change at all, really. The only time I've gotten the pattern to change is by delaying the final hit on Jennifer by far more time than I've saved over my test run, and that only gives me one single new spawn pattern. It has to be an actual delay on the final hit, too: I tried pausing the game and waiting there for 20 seconds and I still got the same awful pattern. The spawn pattern in my test run was nearly perfect, there's no way I'd be able to make up for 2-3 seconds of lost time by getting a different pattern. It has to be a good pattern I can get within three seconds, and I can't do that.
I don't know if there's another way to change the pattern, though I have a couple ideas that I'll try out soon. If they fail, though, I'm declaring this dead in the water. I'll probably still clean up Stage 7 in my test run and submit that, and probably whine about this problem in the submission text for longer than I actually explain what I'm doing. If I go that route, it should be on the workbench on Halloween, because zombies and blood and horror or whatever.
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I was on an action RPG kick five and a half years ago and stumbled across a nice little movement trick in Terranigma, which made me stop lurking and start actually TASing and posting.God, my early posts were awful....Okay, my current posts are awful too.
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biosolids wrote:
I was using fceux to record longplays but for some reason even when i record uncompressed videos to youtube, they allways appears to be bad quality, it looks so much better when i play..i tryed most of the codecs that i could find to,,, it seems like youtube dont like 240p videos or something
That's not the emulator's fault. That's YouTube's fault. It absolutely destroys 240p video when it re-encodes/compresses/whatever the hell it does. The same compression problem would happen with BizHawk if you got it to work. If all you want is YouTube video quality, you can keep using FCEUX, you just have to manually resize the video to HD. AviSynth's PointResize function does this beautifully for NES games.
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I hope again, that this is my last post in this topic.
I absolutely agree.
Talking about borderline cases isn't off-topic, by the way, especially when the borderline is between the Vault and Moons. And I'm going to stop right there before I start another sentence in this thread with "The proposed new system".
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I've always assumed that there are more people than one thinks in any given group just because some people keep their association with that group secret. I think that, occasionally, people of a certain gender don't want to admit they're involved in hobbies "associated" with the other gender due to the rejection they could face from their peers.
That's just a thought, though.
NON-EDIT: Maybe not "rejection", per se, but they're afraid they'll be looked down on.
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Scepheo wrote:
I stand by my point. Your pre-edit post mentioned a lack of empathy, and though reworded, I'd still like to rebuke that by pointing out that I've submitted one such borderline case. Read the thread. Read my response to the decision that it'll be rejected (pre-vault times). See, no need to be annoyed about it. It's perfectly possible to just accept that your run isn't considered entertaining (enough) by a majority and move on.
...Your point is "suck it up and move on". I really don't know why you're focusing on this so much. Maybe I should edit that "lack of empathy" statement back in. Imagine if a judge just rejected a submission saying "Wow, this is shit. Make a run that's actually good next time." How do you think that would go over? Badly, right?
That's pretty much how people treat Vault right now: A repository of runs that are uninteresting and shit. Seriously, look through Vaulted submission threads and count how many people connect uninteresting/boring to the Vault, or make negatively-charged statements like "send this piece of shit game to the Vault". Your experience in that situation doesn't completely apply for a couple reasons: One, it was generally well-received in the thread but ultimately rejected for being too much like the realtime speedrun. Two, it was pre-Vault, and thus there were no posts to the effect of "Wow, this is really boring, publish to Vault".
At least you tried to sympathize, but it does come off as snobbish when your run was treated a lot better.
Let's talk about motives a bit. We should be making TASes for ourselves, because we enjoy doing so, and maybe a little bit for the people who really want to see the run. That's the authors motive. This has nothing to do with TASVideos.
You've got it backwards. The author's motive should ultimately be to make a run that everyone will enjoy. The part about making it for themselves should only apply to game choice and because they enjoy doing it. If you're going to just make runs for yourself, why even bother submitting them to the site? Surely you'd be fine with just having it there in your Movies folder if that's your mindset going into it.
If I was just making runs for myself, I wouldn't give a damn about trying to be entertaining or adding in little extra things that people would like and I certainly wouldn't attempt to submit them to a site where a lot of people will end up watching what I created. I don't think anyone wants to be told that the thing they put a lot of effort into is ultimately boring and going to end up ignored.
TASVideos' motive, however, is to provide a collection of TASes that are deemed interesting. In order to best present these TASes to it's intended audience (which, again, is not the authors of said TASes), it divides them into "interesting because entertaining" and "interesting because fast". This has nothing to do with the authors.
Yes, but the current system is being treated as "Interesting because entertaining" and "Avoid these pieces of shit". The new system would be exactly the way you described, down to a T.
This thread is about discussing the policy as maintained on TASVideos, not about how to handle the ego's of authors. From that standpoint, the only argument that I've seen in this thread, against the current vault situation, is that, when looking for a fastest run of a game, it might not be in the default list of games.
And, due to how the Vault is treated, people won't WANT to take the steps to include Vault runs in the default list of games. If people just idly look through runs to find new, interesting things to watch, then of course they're not going to include Vault. The mere fact that Vault runs don't show up by default is telling enough to those people that the runs aren't worth showcasing.
If you're looking for a specific game, then you can do that no matter how the tiering system is.
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Polls give stupid statistics, posts give smart statistics (and can be helpful).
... You are kidding, right? In a thread that suggests only to post when voting a specific option? With such an overwhelming majority?
Yes, the overwhelming majority of 15 "keep it the same" to 19 "change it in some way", on a site where people vote "Yes" on runs over insignificant things like who created the run or that it's an improvement. Keep in mind that the poll was reset due in part to people mis-reading my intentions (which was my fault) and that, really, only a small handful of people who support the current Vault have actually defended their decision. I can't speak for the other Yes voters in this thread, but the way I see it, they don't actually care about the topic enough to back up their vote and would be fine with a change.
I respect that you're standing by your topic and attempting to provide arguments for it, but really it just doesn't make any sense to me. If the proposed changes are implemented, can't you just accept what happens and move on? If you can't, doesn't that kind of make you a hypocrite?
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ALAKTORN wrote:
Samsara, I don’t see what your problem is with having the option to choose to display a gender. You said if females were to use it then they would be treated differently… but that’s the whole reason why you could choose [blank] so that it would be no different from now. Also, the one who requested the feature in the first place (Sonia) is a girl, so I don’t understand you trying to protect females when they never asked for your protection.
Look back at my first posts in the thread, then come back and tell me I have a problem with having the option.
Other posts in the thread are expressing my opinion much better than I did: If gender comes up in conversation, it should be acknowledged and then promptly pushed to the background in favor of talking about something relevant. If someone wants to wear their gender on their sleeve, then let them do it. If someone doesn't, for fear of a gaggle of lonely men asking for topless pictures and cybersex, then that's why the blank option is there.
My problem is that shit can get blown out of proportion when gender is revealed in general. Absolutely none of my comments have been directed at the site itself, it's all a general scope of what happens on the internet. Again, if anything I've said has been taken out of context, I apologize for being awful at choosing my words carefully.
...And I'm not speaking out of protection. I'm speaking out of sympathy. I don't expect or want anything in return for what I'm saying.
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Scepheo wrote:
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The flaws that do pop up, however, are almost always the same.
Yes: people being overly butthurt about their run going to the vault.
The main problem is the consistent issue with borderline cases.. The issue with borderline cases is consistent enough of a problem that site staff are actually addressing it and coming up with ways to take care of it. As for the issue you brought up, even reading through this very thread will give you enough evidence that it's a legitimate issue, and another consistent one.
Again: Issues not appearing often doesn't mean the system is working just fine. If all the issues were completely unrelated and situational, then it wouldn't be as much of a problem. The fact that all the issues that arise are consistent and related is why the system needs to be re-examined like this.
Not everyone is affected by every problem, but every problem should be fixed.
EDIT: Reworded everything.
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Warp wrote:
That's not the point. The point is that Samsara made some accusations about unequal treatment and how those threads "are the perfect answer to why there aren't more female TASers". I don't think the insinuation was that the reason is that people repeat lame internet memes.
Samsara takes gender issues seriously, and so do I. Don't think such accusations should be thrown lightly, because they are pretty serious. "It's pretty lame humor" does not warrant throwing such accusations.
It happens often enough and everywhere enough that it turns from just "lame humor" into what I consider to be a serious issue. The internet has this weird obsession with completely discrediting females: Girls who reveal their gender on other sites are usually met with "lol nope you're just pretending to be a girl", some people go as far as to call any girl who reveals her gender an attention whore (which was brought up by synnchan/Sonia in the grue'd thread), there are all these really terrifying instances of men going way too far with it if you look in the right places. This place just so happens to be relatively free of all that horrid misogyny and I'd like to see it kept that way.
I apologize if what I said was taken as an accusation towards anyone on the site or in the community, though I still stand by my comment that the "lame humor" is quite discouraging for women who may want to address and be proud of their gender. My point was that there are probably a lot more girls here, but general male behavior keeps them silent about who they are.
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Previously in this thread I wrote about how I always assume by default that anonymous people on the internet are male. Would you accuse me of "unequal treatment" for writing that?
Everyone does that. It's just an assumption, it's not like you're disagreeing with them if they state their real gender. I think it's partially an issue of how people perceive what is written and partially an issue of the internet itself being generally male-focused, with gaming culture in particular being especially male-focused.
There was an offhand statement in one of those threads about a user being perceived as female because of their effeminate manner of speaking on the forums, and that got me thinking... That might be the main reason why people assume people are one gender or the other. It's happened to me on multiple occasions that whenever I'm expressing my happiness, or just generally typing excitedly and showing emotion, I'm generally referred to as female. When I'm more reserved and passive (or angry), I'm generally referred to as male. For the most part, all the posts on the forums are passive and "emotionless", thus the general assumption that everyone here is male.
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Samsara wrote:
Clearly, Vault tier and gender are related and it's impossible for me to have different opinions regarding both. My inability to accept something I perceive to be broken and negative means it is impossible for me to accept that certain people may be certain genders. It is a burden I must carry with me for the rest of my life.
Take pity on me, as it is shameful that I have two differing opinions on two different topics. The pain I suffer through on a daily basis is enough, I do not need more on top of that. Woe is me, for I battled gender dysphoria for years of my life and thus I have strong opinions about gender equality, and simultaneously I am cursed to be unable to accept a minor part of a fucking website.
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Clearly, Vault tier and gender are related and it's impossible for me to have different opinions regarding both. My inability to accept something I perceive to be broken and negative means it is impossible for me to accept that certain people may be certain genders. It is a burden I must carry with me for the rest of my life.
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