I don't know the answer your question per se, you should take into account that in most cases it's just not possible to edit a previous segment of a movie without causing desyncing of the later parts. There are exceptions to this, but they are relatively rare. Things like random number generators usually depend heavily on what has been done before (such as timing and key presses; changing even one key press or changing the timing of something even by one frame can heavily affect subsequent random numbers). There are also many things other than the RNG that can be affected (such as when enemies are spawn and which actions they take).
As said, there are semi-rare circumstances where changing a previous segment of a movie does not affect what comes later, but don't be surprised if that's not the case.
A piece of music being good (by whatever standard you want to use) is in no way a prerequisite for being able to enjoy it.
Brandon wrote:
If I lived through the 60's and 70's, perhaps you'd have a point.
You are experiencing "second-hand nostalgia filtering". You are not hearing the crappy 60's/70's songs because nobody remembers them and hence they are not popular and commonly found. People only play/distribute the good ones. This gives the false impression that the majority of the music of that time was good.
you can find a lot of seemingly unpopular groups from the 60s, and from my experience, they are still on average much better than the ones today that will hopefully fade away in time.
I think that much of this feeling ("music in the 60's/70's was in average better than today") has a lot to do with nostalgia filtering. I'm pretty sure there was as much crappy music back then as there is now, it's just that nobody remembers those, and they only remember the good ones, which gives the false impression that the average quality of music was higher back then.
Codec packs contains lots and lots and lots of codecs, and they usually interfere with one another.
You don't just download a random codec pack (or two) from a random website and install it. You download a codec pack with a good reputation. AFAIK the k-lite codec pack is both comprehensive and trustworthy, so there shouldn't be much problem in using it. (Of course there are other similar codec packs.)
The advantage of using a codec pack is that you don't have to hunt individual codecs every time you encounter a video file with some exotic formats.
I guess Dylan is kind of exceptional in that way. I'm a big fan of his but I have no idea which albums were so highly ranked. He's different from many of his peers in that he survived the 60s and the 70s to begin with, but also because he successfully made a comeback with a different, more genuine style rather than just a rehash of what made him famous in the past. Few artists can do that.
It's true that few artists/bands of the 70's have survived for this long in the literal sense (iow. compared to how many artists/bands were created overall in the 70's). However, it's not such a rare phenomenon.
Examples of bands created in the 70's or earlier, generally considered good (several top chart albums and singles), and still going strong include Eagles (1971), U2 (1976), Deep Purple (1968), The Rolling Stones (1962), UB40 (1978), Black Sabbath (1969), and several others.
Actually, that's not so different from what DarkKobold said I think, Warp. I mean do you know what the #1 ranked song was in 1977? Or the #2? Or ask yourself the same question for any year in the 70s.
Top 100 songs tend to be forgettable, while those who consistently make good music, such as Bob Dylan or Frank Zappa or you name it, are remembered long after their music is released. Even though those musicians don't crack the top 100 that often.
Of course many top-1 songs will be forgotten soon afterwards, and it may even be that the majority (meaning over 50%) of them are such. However, that doesn't mean there aren't lots of counter-examples to this as well. For example Bob Dylan seems to have three albums published in the 70's that got to the #1 in the US charts (in 74, 75 and 76). Now, I'm not such a music enthusiast as to know if those specific albums/songs are still remembered today, but knowing the popularity of Dylan I'd say they are probably at least well-known.
And this was not just a trend in the 70's. The latest US chart #1 album by Dylan seems to be from as recent as 2009.
It is just that, in the long run, the crap that is at the top of the billboard Top 100 will be forgotten, whereas, the future will only hold on to the music that has actual value.
I don't think that's always true. Elvis and The Beatles are good counter-examples. There are many others as well (such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix...)
Until Flash 9, video files could be found in /tmp, where the flash plugin stored them. Flash 10 deletes its temporary files after opening, so they can't be found in the filesystem. Here's how to get them anyway:
You could also try the DownloadHelper add-on for Firefox, which helps automatizing that process quite a lot. (I haven't tested if it works on nicovideo, but it works for a bunch of other video sharing sites.)
How about, instead of hitting a (yet to be implemented) "mark as screenshot" key, you just hit the "screenshot" key and submit the screenshot together with your movie later?
It would still be useful if the frame number was also included. This is something that could be embedded in the metadata of the image file (iirc at least png supports free metadata). Lua can't probably be used for this, though.
I don't know enough about lua scripting in the emulators, but I'm wondering if something like this could be implemented in lua without having to modify the emulators themselves. The script could save the frame numbers with some special keyword in the metadata/comments of the keypress file.
I might be completely off here, but it sounds like you are simply missing the proper codec (rather than it being caused by the media player itself).
Have you installed any codec pack? Last time I had to deal with them in Windows (although it was quite many years ago) the k-lite codec pack was quite comprehensive (and included media player classic as well).
I uploaded the videos to youtube and put them on this page. I also updated the first post of this thread.
Btw, did you really beat the current best SMB startup time while just doing a tutorial on it? That's all sorts of awesome. (Yes, I know the exact time of pressing start doesn't matter in the end, but it still was funny.)
Btw, it's very interesting to see the reason behind those little jumps in the SMB TAS and other tricks, and that they are not just for the fun of it, but they actually matter in terms of speed.
That's so autotune-heavy that I'm starting to understand why people hate it (autotune-heavy music, that is). Ok, there's an extremely small chance that it's not (it's sometimes hard to say), but I wouldn't bet on that.
In the same way that fashion magazines refuse to publish any unretouched photographs, pop music producers seem to refuse to publish anything that hasn't been autotuned to "perfection"...
In my opinion, this is a true art form somehow, and I really cheer the enthusiasm for this.
Writing directly in asm is indeed a dying artform (and has been for a long time). Nowadays it's needed mostly when developing compilers (rather obviously) and for certain very primitive embedded systems (although even that's a dying artform, as most embedded systems, even very simple ones, tend to have at least a C cross-compiler or similar). Very small amounts of it is needed when developing the kernel of an OS and some of its components (because there are certain things that cannot be done directly with a higher-level programming language).
The most amazing asm projects are probably the 4k demo compos. I haven't followed the demoscene for a long time, so I don't know how strong this category is nowadays, but I'm assuming it's still going on in one form or another. (There are some more obscure compos for even smaller demos, such as a 256-byte compo or the like. Pretty much forces you to use asm.)
Or are you simply not wanting to concede me that point because of the "impromptu gang mentality" I described?
Concede what point? Do you want debate points? Here, you go, you win this debate, I lose. Now will you listen to me, please?
If you want me to listen, sarcasm is not the best tool for that.
The only thing I wanted was for someone to agree that the whole "question talking" or whatever claims are ridiculous, and expecting me to know that he doesn't like that kind of writing is quite unfair. For someone to demonstrate that I'm wrong and there's no gang mentality going on here.
DarkKobold wrote:
Warp wrote:
Communication is a two-way street. Agreement cannot be reached if you expect it to be completely unilateral.
Agreement to what? We aren't signing a peace accord, this isn't a debate club. You wanted to know (or at least you said you wanted to know) why there seems to constantly be a gang mentality against you. This isn't the first time you've expressed the thought of gang mentality.
There are 2 possibilities here:
1. We have secret meetings, where we nominated, and voted for you to be the forum whipping boy.
2. You don't understand the nuances of communication that others take for granted, and thus, everyone independently comes to the same conclusion, and tries to explain to you what they see wrong.
Which do you honestly believe?
You are just pulling out a straw man. There's no need for "secret meetings" for people to gang up impromptu against someone. It happens on the spot. One person makes an accusation, others join up when they see it. Especially if this has happened several times before. it's enough for people to remember past events. No concrete organization is needed.
What I do not like about this situation is that, for whatever reason, there seem to be some unwritten rules of communication that are imposed only on me, nobody else. You can call me paranoid, but that's just a fact. The post length issue is the prime example. Granted, I have not read every single post at the tasvideos forum, but from the thousands and thousands I have, I don't remember a single one where someone objected to the length of someone's post, other than mine. Why is this so? What's different?
What it looks to me like is that the post length is irrelevant. It's just some odd pet peeve of yours and a few others who have jumped on the bandwagon, which is nice to always throw alongside other accusations. A bit like shotgun argumentation: The more objections, the better.
How about I object to your (plural) behavior for a change? More precisely, about this thing called common courtesy. You see, when someone seemingly acts like a jerkass but then explains that he didn't mean it like that, it's common courtesy to assume that he is being honest. Not believing him is the same as accusing him of being a liar. (Maybe he is indeed lying to try to get himself out of the pinch. However, the polite thing to do is to assume honesty by default. If he happens to be honest, but you keep implicitly assuming he is a liar, you are more of a jerkass than he.)
While assuming that it's the other party who is responsible for misunderstanding is a valid defense, it can only go so far. And after it goes as far as it can take you there's a lot more to do, like trying to see if what you've said could look dickish, and reformulating it unless the original form was intended. Stuff like that often tends to be an eye-opening experience, which is surely lost on you if you're simply not sensitive enough to actually perceive the problematic aspects and thus the difference.
I understand how my first couple of posts to this thread can be seen as aggressive and denigrating of the MenuetOS project. However, I honestly did not mean it to be like that, and I think I expressed that later very clearly. While it doesn't really surprise me anymore that explaining one's true intentions afterwards is seldom taken seriously, I still have to wonder why it's not enough. Instead, people go on and on about my style of writing and whatnot, descending to outright name calling, which is completely uncalled for.
I do have to disagree with Lex's claims, though. Either he is just yanking my chain for the fun of it, making stuff up on the spot, or he is being overly sensitive (or maybe both). Things like writing questions and answering them is a style of writing, and I have never seen anybody considering it offensive and insulting anywhere. Such a claim is just incomprehensible and ridiculous.
As for the post length, talking as somebody who has written many screen-long posts on several forums, there are also nuances to see. For one, if you're making a point and not just fencing with words, verbosity is needed only if it actually produces new information, or the other party has problems understanding it when the message is brief. At the same time keeping it brief and to the point usually makes it easier to comprehend.
In this particular case I don't think the length of the post was unwarranted considering all the stuff I wanted to say. It was an info-dump, but I don't think it contained much redundant information. Some people don't like reading info-dumps, but in that case they can just skip it. It won't bother me.
What is happening with this is that since some people have complained about it in the past, they and others will then complain about it again and again alongside other complaints whenever my post exceeds some arbitrary length, even in situations where the length of the post is completely irrelevant to the issue. In other words, it's just a pet peeve. Yanking my chain just for the sake of it. (I'm sure these people would find even this post "overly long".)
Also keep in mind that some aspects of verbal behavior don't suit different people equally, depending on various factors.
People should also understand that not everybody can know what they personally find "obnoxious" that usually aren't, and put unfair expectations on people.
Social cues exist, even on message boards. Now, I'm not diagnosing you with autism. However, that quote seems to encompass the numerous debates surrounding you.
Are you seriously saying that I should have known in advance that a forum member would get offended by the use of the expression "as I described earlier" or by what he calls "question talking"? I have never seen anywhere, in any context, those things being considered "obnoxious" or offensive. Have you?
Or are you simply not wanting to concede me that point because of the "impromptu gang mentality" I described?
Communication is a two-way street. Agreement cannot be reached if you expect it to be completely unilateral.
The music in this game is awesome. Reminds me of 8-bit demos. I would be tempted to vote yes just because of that even if the run was otherwise uninteresting. Fortunately that's not the case, so I can vote yes in good conscience.
I often joke about feeling old, but it's events like this that make me sad. It feels that it's not fair when people die young. It also makes me think about my own mortality.
