Some ideas about improvements:
try to get a short sword like Cutall or Cinquedia, you can open barriers from the back side by using these swords' special skill.
synthesis a more powerful weapon from Yoko after beat Puppet Master, by the way, you can kill Yeti at this time.
enter boss room by Succubus and short sword glitch without magical seal. not sure how much time can be saved, just a suggestion
Frankly, I think the succubus glitch doesn't belong in a run like this. Leave it for the heavy glitch runs or play-arounds. I guess the same could apply to the short sword open barriers from the wrong side glitch, but that's not quite as bad in my books. This is one of those runs that just works better w/ few to no glitches.
The stats/equipment stuff was nice. I'm not sure why, but when the video runs full screen, the info grid that covers the small lower DS screen shifts left from where it's expected to be. (I also hope that it will be be in the final encode, in English, for the encode on site.)
The run itself is fucking amazing. Yes vote for publication and for getting a star, moon, sun, and anything else that should be given to it.
I was just thinking that the show wouldn't easily pass the inverted Bechdel Test.
Edit: Speaking of which, when you think about it, MLP's universe seems to be quite matriarchal in nature. The vast majority of important positions, from positions in the government to just running a business, are mostly occupied by females, while most males are usually delegated to servitude (as royal guards, carriage horses and, such as in Spike's case, assistants) with very few exceptions.
Mugg, I don't know where you are. But I will find you. And I will make you uncancel this awesomeness. Unless you promise to have even more awesomeness.
...that doesn't sound as cool as the Taken line. Darn.
Some observations I made about this election...
1. Republicans should have walked this election, there was about 2-3 credible nominees (I would have gone with Ron Paul). Romney was an awful, awful candidate. Worse than John Kerry in 2004. He got nominated purely because he had the deepest pockets. He flip flopped on so many issues, I had no idea where he stood.
Absolutely agreed. I don't have a problem with a person who changes their stance (such as Obama on gay marriage) but a person who's constantly changing is not getting educated on the issue. That's a true flip-flopper.
2. UK elections are often criticized for being too negative (although in recent years they're becoming less so), but the US ones take it to a whole new level. Literally 90%+ ads are negative, often based on half-truths and outright lies about their opponents. Crucially, like last time Obama was able to out blitz his opponent.
Agreed again. I'm thankful I don't have cable anymore so I didn't have to listen to 95% of that drivel. State your views, what you'll do if elected, and then get the hell out of the way. That's how it should be done.
3. Way too much money spent on campaigning and a lot of it was evidently wasted by both sides. The amount spent could run the BBC for a year.
Or could have helped victims from Hurricane Sandy. I mean, I understand there's a lot of cost with campaigning but if it takes that much to win, how will #4 be fixed?
4. There seems to be enough disillusionment with both parties that a 3rd one is needed. However, it would most likely take 30-40 years before the party leader could realistically become president.
It will take a complete overhaul of the media, honestly. All that they focus on it seems is the big R and D. How many of the other candidates running for president did you hear about this year? Probably Rosanne Barr and that was about it. The last time they got MAJOR coverage was probably Ross Perot. This is not a case of Fox News or CNN or other similar stations being bad, but everybody as all media as a whole. However with the growing advent of things like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook (and other technology to come), maybe this will be fixed in the next decade or so. Then again, probably not.
5. The style of campaigning by both sides is outdated. All I see is Nuremburg style rallies where a canditate will fire out propaganda unchalleged, and ads. There is debates, but they're very narrowly focused. Since the nominee's know what questions to expect. Its very easy to have a perfectly prepared answer, attack and rebuff.
The problem I see with fixing debates is that we know what issues are important by the hundreds of polls run all the time or by looking at the news to see what's going on. Debates are definitely outdated, but I honestly have no idea how to fix it. Maybe more focus on town hall style meetings where the general public is asking questions and not the moderator (whose job is basically to tell the speaker how much time they have and to cut them off or what not)?
And as for the voting system, there's been a lot of debate on that and stories of mistakes, family buying stations, editing software on stations, etc. There has to be a way to fix it and possibly even allow online voting. While encryption isn't 100% foolproof and hacking can occur, there has to be a way to prevent easy tampering of votes. Look up the report "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine" and be shocked at how easy it is for stuff like that to be tampered with. It's really shocking (this type of polling station is used in places like Ohio). I've been thinking about stuff like that more partially from the late news stories that came out and partially because I'm having to deal with encryption in my own software that I'm programming right now.
Speaking of multiplayer, would a coop run be able to produce any noticible time saving? I forget if you could actually clear multiple shards separately
I'm not sure the emulator for GBA tases supports it though.
Yes vote for improvement on existing run.
there is the 4player marathon run on the sda and by the hilarously awesome result
the game tendency to lag when the kirbys splits might kill all the saved time...
Yeah, the marathon run was fun indeed. :)
As for whether it could save time or not? Possibly. Our real time run for 4P was about 28 minutes compared to a 1P run of about 40 (even with massive lag and several deaths and other screw-ups, like The Wiz fight). This really leads me to believe that a TAS 4P run would be faster than a TAS 1P run. We just need an emulator that can do it.
I noticed we added a Movies by Tier tab. While there is a description link (Movies by by publication Tier) I think some basic info about the tier should be added to the top of each tier page. Right now users can very easily be dumped into them with no idea what the tiers mean.
Basically the big concern for those that don't wanna read the article is that a company that is making new electronic polling booths for several states (including Ohio) is being directly funded by Mitt Romney and his family. To me this seems to be a MAJOR conflict of interest. Can we trust these to not be rigged? Will they be truly 100% fair? Or is this an attempt to compromise the integrity of the election? It's hard to say, but regardless of party, if this is the case, it should be investigated.
I think that's going to the conspiracy theory realm.
Politicians are often stupid, but not that stupid. Imagine if Romney were to really pull the strings to have the booths rigged, and it was later discovered. Nixon's Watergate scandal would be nothing compared to that. It would not only be a political suicide, it would be the end of his life. I don't think even Romney would be that stupid (no matter what you think of him.)
I would hope not. But I wouldn't put it past any politician, democrat or republican to lie, cheat, and steal to win. I mean, there's so many other problems with the election, why not add this to it?
Something interesting is coming to light: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/20/romney-family-investment-ties-to-voting-machine-company-that-could-decide-the-election-causes-concern/
Basically the big concern for those that don't wanna read the article is that a company that is making new electronic polling booths for several states (including Ohio) is being directly funded by Mitt Romney and his family. To me this seems to be a MAJOR conflict of interest. Can we trust these to not be rigged? Will they be truly 100% fair? Or is this an attempt to compromise the integrity of the election? It's hard to say, but regardless of party, if this is the case, it should be investigated.
I love Pearls Before Swine normally, but damn these were funny. :)