I looked at my friend and said "you tell her". He didn't deny. Which is basically a "yes, sure" and certainly was understood that way.
No alcohol was involved, neither of the three persons mentioned drink, so that's one excuse less.
My concern isn't telling her "sorry, what we said was stupid, we were not prepared to give a honest reply.". My concern is what to tell her so she'll actually understand and believe that I'm not trying to sweet-talk my way out.
Dear Fabian,
we were out with friends yesterday, when somehow in the middle of a non-serious conversation that involved badmouthing men we ended up stating that men would only be nice to women when they want sex. So this one girl turns to one of my friends and me and asks: "Hey, wait, is that the reason you two are being nice to me?"
Well, being in a fun and badmouthing mood, we totally screwed up the answer.
She tried not to let on, but I know she didn't like the answer at all, she rarely laughed the rest of the evening.
To be honest, she is hot, but having her just as a friend has so far been more rewarding than my entire last relationship, and currently I don't see any reason for further advancements (which would fail anyway). Sex is definetly not my goal, nor something that passes my mind when seeing her.
Now, how do I best explain that to her without sounding like a total bootlicker that's just saying nice things to get her into bed? And without saying something she'll understand as being called unattractive? Is there even a believable way for a guy to say "I consider you attractive, yet I don't want sex with you"?
Should I just let it go and try to avoid that topic in the future?
greetings,
a guy that hopes that neither his friends nor his ex-girlfriend read the tasvideos forums.
I was wondering what made my nick appear in your thanks-list.. I had been following the run, but since I'm mostly useless on MM I didn't remember ever posting in that thread. So I began searching, and found 3 posts that were made over a year ago, shortly before you even started your run.
That still doesn't answer why I'm in that list, but it made me realize: holy cow, it's been a year. 172385 rerecords, you've spent more than 24 hours just waiting for the emulator to load or save!
waiting for an avi so I can vote, although I'm sure it'll be a yes :)
yeah, and if NES Metroid has 4, then we'll also need 4 publications for JAWS, right?
providing arguments why these concepts are different enough to warrant a separate publication (or why they aren't) would be more constructive than pointing at NES Metroid each time.
Dear Bisqwit,
Sure, an open-source BIOS could allow you to fix annoying bugs, which is of some practical value. IMHO not worth the effort though, just kick the vendor in the butt. Same you'd do if your audio card was broken.
In case of features implemented to harm / control the customer (like your MS-example, or TPM): that'll be implemented in hardware, where it's mostly tamper-proof. No open BIOS can help you there.
Bisqwit wrote:
That's true though. In fact I thought about it; open source hardware, before you even posted that. It's probably the next item on FSF's list :)
..which in turn is worthless, because changing and recompiling isn't feasible. So is comparing the actual hardware to the 'source'. They could give you a nice clean source and an IC full of malware, how'd you notice?
But you could check the source for errors, you say? But isn't that the company's job? Why should I have to do that?
Wouldn't requirements for clear interface specifications (to allow integration/driver programming) and more liability on spec violations solve the problem without requiring sources that'd only help product fakers anyway?
If the "requires battery AND power supply for upgrade"-feature had been documented, wouldn't you prefer avoiding the product altogether instead of having to spend time and/or money reprogramming the bios?
Wouldn't reading about the feature in a documentation be easier than browsing tons of source code to make an informed product choice?
Re:phpBB3. I'm using an RC on a private 7-user-board and so far I like it. Can't comment on stability, server load and security, but there are some useful features in there. IMHO worth taking a look, but of course that can wait until after the actual release :)
Ⓖ I like to be independent. In computer things, if someone has the power to one-sidedly decide that something which they offer me now they don't want to offer anymore, I find it unfair. With proprietary software, such things are always a possibility: Proprietary software puts your computer under the whim of the software manufacturer without giving you a chance to influence. I do find that unethical. However, there is no practical possibility to avoid that with BIOS today, so I must accept it, with a protest.
Dear Bisqwit,
how could they decide to stop offering you anything based on a closed source bios? there are no forced upgrades, so what'll work now will in theory work forever, or at least until material breakdown.
Unless of course they added an expiration timer or something, but they could easily hardwire the thing. How will the open source bios protect you from that?
How can open source software protect you from a network interface card that's abusing DMA capabilities to sniff your RAM and send suspicious information directly over the network? Actually listening to the outgoing packets should allow the NIC to detect your IP/gateway/DNS, so it's a feasible attack.
What I'm getting at: you're completely under the whim of the hardware manufacturers anyway, and nothing can change that. Unless an explicitly stated feature stops working within the guarantee period you can't do much but replace the part and avoid the company in question. You can neither recompile your hardware nor re-print the die.
Now since you'll have to trust your motherboard vendor to deliver a working product anyway, why don't you trust him to give you a working bios as well?
I can completely understand the issues about hardware specifications, i.e. having the possibility to use the operating system/software you want and still be able to aquire or write drivers. Or to change drivers to better suit your needs.
I just don't see the point outside of the operating system's domain, i.e. open sourcing BIOS or Firmware. Your thoughts?
Also, since phpBB was mentioned: have you taken a look at phpBB3 yet? It's probably infeasible to upgrade the heavily modified tasvideos forum, but are there any features in phpBB3 you'd like to have here?
Also, it is socially impolite to ignore response directly written just for you, so you are inclined to read it. But when something is written for the masses, there's nothing that binds you to it; you can ignore it without consequences.
I once saw a guide being linked and ignored. Then someone else copy/pasted the guide and it was read and understood. You just might have nailed the reason.
Also, no hurry. I don't mean to rush you, just being curious. :)
Dear Fabian,
of course I'm curious. Did you manage to form an opinion about me or would I get the same "who the fuck are you?"-reply the last couple of guys got?
What helps you fall asleep at night? Just going to bed, closing your eyes and dropping off, or is there something different?
(I've tried music, audio books, watching movies / speedruns / tases.. anything to occupy my brain, to keep it from carrying on grinding everyday's problems. Maybe you've got a different approach?)
greetings,
Tub
That's funny. Bisqwit's nick was explained in the nickname thread. Bisqwit's opinion about regular speedruns was explained already, ironically it was over at m2k2 (though it seems to have changed a bit). There are Desktop Screenshots of his window manager somewhere on offtopic. The history of tas'ing and nesvideos/tasvideos has already been explained as well.
Dear Bisqwit,
does knowing all that make me a stalker? ;)
on that subject: why does my brain remember details about posts that are months or even years old, but regularly forget my parents' birthdays? Do you know anyone else with that.. problem?
I noticed that most humans dislike using the search function. They also dislike reading existing guides/articles, but have no trouble reading it if it's written (or maybe even copy/pasted) into their threads. Do you have any explanations for that?
and how's that movie structure reworking coming along?
sincerely,
Tub
Dear kwinse,
the forum can impossibly remember each and every page visit from every user. Please think about the poor, overworked database servers. The behaviour you describe is the closest approximation to the desired functionality that can be implemented with reasonable resources.
If you're really that fed up about it, then it's probably a good idea to click "mark all posts as read" each time you leave the forums.
sincerely,
an impostor.
Wow. I am actually surprised.* Your analysis is very good.
Dear Bisqwit,
I often wondered: is that a character trait of yours or just a mask you put on when being administrator? Since you agree with the analysis it seems to be the former..
Were you always like that or is it learned behaviour from administrator and/or work experience?
Yours sincerely,
User #1316
Fabian wrote:
I'm not sure if you're 0% serious or 5% serious but if you are slightly serious, thank you very much.
Dear Fabian,
sorry to disappoint you, my question was mostly aimed to keep the thread going, because I knew you'd manage to get an interesting answer out of it. It was also an ironic stab at your question suggestions in your first post.
My opinion about you is mostly positive (except when you're engaging the futile act of trying to bring a point across with one line posts), but the word "awesome" isn't in there.
I currently lack any interesting questions so I'll spare you the boring ones.
Yours sincerely,
Tub
The trouble is that it will require very tedious energy management, but should be possible.
You'll leave ridley with 399 energy.
-72 shinespark
-48 shortcut through the lava
-65 second shinespark
-40 damage boost
-2 lava
-50 damage boost
-59 diagonal shinespark in maridia
-127 pre-draygon shinespark
-110 draygon-kill
-123 shinespark after draygon.
-69 last shinespark in maridia
29 energy left after the emergency stop.
so you'll have to get 395 energy along the way. You got 180 after botwoon and 215 after draygon.
you'll need more ammo to clean maridia: 4 Super missiles for botwoon, and either some ammo or more health for a longer charge against draygon. Since you waste all rockets on ridley, you'll have to get those additional ammo refills between ridley and draygon, so you can't just manipulate more health drops. You'll have less.
Let's say you manage to avoid touching the two enemies in lower norfair, saving 90 energy. You can probably shave off a bit of energy on some shinesparks here and there. You'll still need >120 energy and at least 4 additional super missiles between ridley and draygon. Where do you intend to get them without wasting too much time?
I kinda hoped for a wild guess, but anyway. I've read your previous posts before postings, so I know your reasons.
You're right about the offtopic being less fun than it was. Thank you for trying to make it better.
I strongly disagree about the other forums though. We never had civilized discussions to begin with, so I doubt that's gotten worse. Most of the uncivilizedness came from personal conflicts and stupid pride - with some of those who often acted up posting less frequently, I actually think it has improved. What's also gotten better is that there are less superfluous posts of people attempting to be funny, keeping the information/post-ratio higher. Something I value in work-threads, especially when trying to dig information out of a 100-page OoT thread which contains 50% spam.
No, seriously, I enjoy this forum more than I did a year or two ago.
so here's another question to keep your post cou... ehm, the thread going:
Dear Fabian,
why can't we all be as awesome as you are?
Sincerely, Tub
Polls show that most of us are against the stupid plans of our lunatic interior minister.
He's been confined to a wheelchair since 1990, after a failed assassination attempt. He's been growing more and more paranoid since then, and nowadays he's trying to bend our constitution for ridiculous laws meant to bring safety against terrorism. The trojan.. sorry, "remote forensic software" isn't even the worst. He suggested target killing on terrorism suspicion!
That guy is mentally ill and completely unfit for his duties. Unfortunately, he has enough political friends to stay in office, and the media doesn't seem to care too much either.
Tonski,
there's already an unoptimized run with savestate-abuse on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morJwJyrd24
it'll show the SJ sequence break and maybe other tiny things that can help you.
it's very unlikely that you'll see four different Super Metroid runs (or 4 movies of any other game) on the movie listing at the same time. Most games are allowed only two.
I enjoyed watching it, so I'll have to vote yes. I'm not sure it should obsolete hero's run though.
You saved 87.5 ingame seconds while adding 112 seconds of door transition crap, including the pretty ugly luck manipulation screen after phantoon. Not sure I like that.
If you had reached 23.xx that would be an easy choice, but 24.xx could have been achieved with less boring realtime sacrifices - hero's 25:32 (?) minus 22 seconds torizo skip is already close to that goal.
so what do those movies have to offer to the average viewer for entertainment?
novelity value of hero's realtime route (compared to regular playthroughs or regular speedruns):
- WS early
- lower norfair before Maridia
- skipping the plasma beam
- using short charge and emergency stop in unexpected situations
- heavy ammo and item restrictions
novelity value of this ingame time route:
- WS early, 1 round phantoon
- Torizo skip
- Plasma vs. Kraid
- skipping the spazer
- faster ridley and MB battles (samus looked bored during MB's second phase)
- a completion time of 24 minutes
(did I miss something?)
If this was implemented it'd be an option to publish both alongside each other. Right now I consider hero's run to be more entertaining and thus I don't think it should be obsoleted.
combine an uninspired game with limited movement options and you'll inevitable get a boring movie. Nothing you can do about that.
The game didn't change much, there was few variety and it had some long waiting times - starting right at the intro. It had virtually nothing unexpected. A goofy boss every couple of minutes couldn't keep me interested. Altogether less than a minute of interesting scenes in a 15 minute movie - even OoT had a better ratio! *takes cover* :p
Good job on trying to make the movie interesting, but for me it just didn't do. Voting no: bad game choice.
