Hey Nach... you're not thinking bad things of me, are you...? Please tell me you're not... ;w;
Depends what you mean by bad things.
If you mean do I think I will kidnap you and place you in my torture basement, then probably not.
If you mean do I think your posts entertain me, then definitely yes.
...you're not being serious on this, are you? Can't tell if it's sarcasm or not.
I understand your difficulty, I imagine that post of mine made your sarcasm detector's needle snap right off with tremendous force.
Well... I barely know about anything regarding Edgar Allan Poe's works (even if most people may know about them), so I didn't really get the reference... ;///;
Sorry 'bout that!
EDIT: ...ugh, I said Edgar Allan Poe while it was actually Nathan Poe. Well, this comes to show how little I know about this stuff. I'm feeling just so embarrassed right now I want to cry... T-T
Hey Nach... you're not thinking bad things of me, are you...? Please tell me you're not... ;w;
I find humans to contains a lot more complex emotions than can be summarized by a small list of some moods. Further, as expressive as language is, language alone is deficient in its ability to truly capture how a person feels. As advanced as our languages are today, they cannot express everything. We also have a popular saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words", and all the more so a moving picture, and full audio, and everything you get from real human contact.
As diverse as emoticons may be, they pale in comparison to the many varied states of body language.
Fair enough. Lemme rephrase my previous statement to express my thoughts more precisely. I wasn't thinking enough while typing it:
Gamer Maiden Sonia wrote:
There is also a fair number of them to convey different emotions you may want to represent. The amount of eastern emoticons is especially much larger than the western one, and a major reason they exist is so that real time chat (which is not the same as forum posting) can be made more exciting.
Either way, I won't dwell into this any further because this topic isn't about emoticons anyway. It will deviate from the main subject.
MESHUGGAH wrote:
ALAKTORN wrote:
None of you have even brought up a single point of why giving the CHOICE of showing your gender would be a bad thing, while people who have experienced the bad of not doing it have spoke out.
My internet experience tells that if someone says she is a girl, she will regret it because of guys spamming her to get a date/picture/sex/fb/twitter/telephone/address/credit card last 4 numbers or seduce/threaten/rape her.
Maybe in this order.
Sadly, this kind of thing have happened to me a few times (yes, including rape threats). But I always ignore/block those kind of guys because I don't need them in my life. I don't know them, they don't do my chores, they don't pay my bills, so I don't have a single reason to give them importance. They're as important to me as the trash I dispose from my home regularly.
Although:
ALAKTORN wrote:
@MESHUGGAH: a girl was the one to request the feature in the first place, and another girl agreed with her in this same topic I believe. They don’t need your protection. Also, that concern is the whole reason why [Blank] should be an option, and the default option.
Exactly. I'm pretty sure I'll be safe here, at least. Which explains the request.
I also think text based communications lacks too much that real human contact has: tone of voice, pauses in speech, facial expressions, body language, and more, that such communication is devoid of real human emotion, there's no real point in trying to put effort into trying to convey what can't be conveyed properly in such a format. Therefore, any post by someone sane which contains a lot of emotion probably has some alternate agenda towards manipulating the conversation in some fashion, or studying the other posters.
I heavily disagree with this. Yes, text based communication may be different and devoid of many features from real life communication, but it's not like you can't represent your current mood and emotions online. Emoticons exists for this very reason. The segment below explains things very well:
wikipedia wrote:
An emoticon (/ɨˈmoʊtɨkɒn/) (short for emotion icon) is a metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expression which in the absence of body language and prosody serves to draw a receiver's attention to the tenor or temper of a sender's nominal verbal communication, changing and improving its interpretation. It expresses — usually by means of punctuation marks (though it can include numbers and letters) — a person's feelings or mood. Emoticons are usually sideways to the text. As social media has become widespread, emoticons have played a significant role in communication through technology. They offer another range of "tone" and feeling through texting that portrays specific emotions through facial gestures while in the midst of cyber communication.
There are also plenty of them to convey any kind of emotion you want to represent. The diversity of eastern emoticons is especially much larger than the western one, and a major reason they exist is so that real time chat (which is not the same as forum posting) can be made more exciting. I chat in real time on a daily basis so I'm talking from experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
To make real time chat further exciting, there's even the possibility to interpret actions as well. The way you do this varies from person to person, but I usually put my actions in asterisks so the person on the other end will be able to tell it's an action. For example: "*Sonia huggles her warmly*" would be an example of a simple action, but it's possible to do far more complex stuff depending on your creativity.
Not only that, but there's also internet roleplay games and the like. I think this image (taken from wikipedia) would suffice to express how it works:
My point is that text communication can in fact be made very interesting as long as you use your imagination and don't restrict yourself.
(which was brought up by synnchan/Sonia in the grue'd thread)
Well... synnchan is just the old nickname, so I'd like to be referred as Sonia from now on (which is my actual name btw).
off topic: Your Kyouko avatar is super cute ♥Samsara wrote:
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.
The only reason I don't display my emotions/cheerfulness/sweetness on this site is because this is not the appropriate place to do so. As it was mentioned, this is mostly a place to talk about speedruns and the like.
But it's not like I'm always passive/unemotional. For example: I'm VERY different on Skype conversations with people that are close to me, where I display my emotional side constantly and give them a completely different kind of treatment. But if I do it here, it'd certainly go off-topic and people would probably think I'm an idiot. It'd simply feel out-of-place.
But yes, you're right. Acting unemotional DOES make people think you're a guy. That's one of the major reasons the others frequently make such assumptions.
Why do I assume that? It's strange, when I think about it.
Because statistics? Certain subjects (in this case, TASing) tend to get a lot more attention from one gender than from the other (in this case, men). It's like playing the lotto: sure you might win, but it's reasonable to assume you don't.
I do know there are at least 4 women on this site: GoddessMaria, Ji-Chan (I know both of them very well so I know what I'm saying), RachelB and myself.
But... I have to agree we're still the minority.
An option where the user can enter a rotation angle and length, and it generates an icon somewhere between and that changes color (rotation=hue, saturation=length) accordingly?
What should the options be?
1) Male
2) Female (no really!)
3) Other
1) Male
2) Female
3) Other
4) Androgyne
8) Bigender
5) Boi
6) Cisgender
7) Transman
8) Transwoman
9) Drag Queen
10) Newhalf
11) Polygender
12) Agender
No, I'm just jokin' lol. I guess only the first three options would be enough.
You guys. :P
But yeah, it's kinda normal for gender confusions to happen. Thankfully, there's always a way to sort everything out. ｡◕‿◕｡
ALAKTORN wrote:
Maybe something good could come out of the whole ordeal if we add gender to the profile options like many other forums have?
Well... as many of you may know, yesterday there was an argument between me and some members about gender confusion, and I have to admit I sounded really mad without necessity while I could simply correct them politely.
The main problem is with my personality. I happen to have a quite short temper plus impulsiveness which gets me in trouble sometimes. I do admit that I should do something about this issue and try to control my impulses more in order to prevent the occurrence of more unpleasant cases like this.
So, I'd like to truly apologize towards the community for the storm I caused. If I offended anyone, then I want to say I'm sorry for that as well.
I think that's it. I just want to clean the bad image and make sure nobody will think negatively of me now. I hope everyone will accept my sincere apologizes. (Sorry if this ended up really short, but I'm just not the best at this kind of thing...)
And of course, making a shit storm about all this instead of simply asking for referring you as a she don't make you an AW ? please, tell me you're not serious :(
So, defending my gender is now being an attention whore? Tell me you're not being serious.
mtvf1 wrote:
synnchan wrote:
Yeah, of course. Because only men can use the internet. Women should only cook, do the dishes, do the ironing... and things like that. Aren't I right? You sexist.
Hey! Relax it, I think we should stop talking about this. Just talk about game and tas.
I remember someone has been blocked by FractalFusion, because of the sexualgender discrimination.
It would be great if those people were to stop posting so I'd not have to waste my time replying to them any further. Can someone please block this topic? And now that all of you know, I only hope I'll never run into this issue here again.
synnchan: how would I know? If you don't want people to assume wrong, add to your signature a hint about it.
And what do you want me to put on my sign? something like "I AM FEMALE" ?
That would make me look like an attention whore, and I don't want this. The best thing to do would be having a feature that displays your gender below your avatar. Some forums allow this.
Bisqwit wrote:
There's a well-known saying that in the Internet, men are men, women are men, and children are police officers...
Yeah, of course. Because only men can use the internet. Women should only cook, do the dishes, do the ironing... and things like that. Aren't I right? You sexist.
I'M NOT A HE. It really gets on my nerves when people refer to me like that.
When you don't know someone's gender, call the person "they" instead. Do not assume that everyone who makes TASes in the world is a guy.
lol, I can't believe it. My Daimakaimura inputs-playthrough synced perfectly! I tried everything I could to make it sync on fba-rr but could never succeed. It only gave me headaches.
Seems like mame-rr isn't that bad. But I was wondering if read+write actually works properly. I tried it with Daimakaimura but the emulator didn't allow me to resume control of the movie. Does it really work?
Mame Re-Recording could in theory but it's VERY out of date.
Do you have any idea on how to do it?
And I don't mind if it's out of date. I just want to TAS a few games there that aren't available on fba-rr. Since I won't really upload to tasvideos.org, all I need is an encode only.
I managed to put a test .mng to play, and seems like mame-rr doesn't cut the "unwanted" frames from the encode. It shows EVERYTHING on the encode including when and where you loaded the states.
Is there not a way to make it toss out the unwanted frames? Or maybe do it on a different version of mame?
I already finished reading the readme and pretty much the only thing they say is that this is an experimental version, use it with caution, blah blah, but they're not saying what we're supposed to do with the .mng file the emulator dumps.
How can I turn it into .avi? Also, I'm pretty sure .mng contains no sound, and I can't figure out how to dump the game's .wav with this emulator. Ugh, it's so confusing...
EDIT
Okay, so... I just read this:
mame-rr docs wrote:
-mngwrite <filename>
Writes each video frame to the given <filename> in MNG format,
producing an animation of the game session. Note that -mngwrite only
writes video frames; it does not save any audio data. Use -wavwrite
for that, and reassemble the audio/video using offline tools. The
default is NULL (no recording).
-aviwrite <filename>
Stream video and sound data to the given <filename> in AVI format,
producing an animation of the game session complete with sound. The
default is NULL (no recording).
-wavwrite <filename>
Writes the final mixer output to the given <filename> in WAV format,
producing an audio recording of the game session. The default is
NULL (no recording).
They're not explaining how to activate mngwrite/aviwrite/wavwrite at all. They're just saying they're there, but not what I should do to make them run. I looked into the .exe's user interface and could not find any assigned keys to activate those commands.
EDIT 2.0
You know what would make my life much easier? If I could access this program on UI mode. Everything feels FAR more organized this way. Most mame versions can enable this, and I'm pretty sure mame-rr can as well. But I just can't figure out how to access UI there.
All right then. I'm assuming this version in fact does what I asked. I'll grab it and test.
EDIT: How can I .avi dump with mame-rr? I can't find this option there.
The moment you load a state, the recording of everything you did after that is tossed and you "continue" where you saved the state.
I'm sorry for bumping this old thread, but I only understood how this process works now. (A friend made things clear to me)
I could not understand before because I NEVER found any emulator that "tosses" everything you did after loading a state. All emulators I used so far shows when you loaded states in the .avi file.
I wanna ask something: is there any version of MAME that "tosses" the stuff? If not, then what emulators are like that?
My point is that text communication can in fact be made very interesting as long as you use your imagination and don't restrict yourself.and
that changes color (rotation=hue, saturation=length) accordingly?
