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Dwedit wrote:
P.JBoy wrote:
The times would be wrong anyway due to lag (even the slightest lag), so it really doesn't matter
um... what? It's not like lag is emulated incorrectly on the NES.
If I'm not completely mistaken, not all NES emulators emulate lag frames with 100% accuracy (IOW. the real NES might behave differently with regard to lag frames in the same situation).
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Bisqwit wrote:
I agree with FSF's definition of free software
Do you mean "I think these are good principles" or "I agree that the term 'free software' should mean this"? Because those are two different things. Personally I disagree defining the term "free software" like that. It's confusing and it's in disagreement with the common spoken language meaning of the word "free". For example, if you can use a software without having to pay money and without restrictions, I consider it "free" even if the source code is not available. The "free as free speech, not as in free beer" thing is just wordplaying. It doesn't remove the fact that using the word "free" in this context is confusing. Why couldn't they have chosen a more unambiguous term instead of hijacking a word which is in common usage for many other things than their limited, narrow definition? "Open source software", while not absolutely perfect as a term, is still much better than "free software".
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Xkeeper wrote:
I hate ... I also hate
Yes, we have seen that side of your personality quite a lot... ;) By the way, it would be nice if the movie/avi file name somehow unambiguously made it clear which other movie/avi (if any) it obsoletes. Just putting the category/goals in the name is not always enough because there are cases where a movie obsoletes another with different categories/goals. It would be nice if it would be possible to see from the file name which movie is the latest, yet still keeping, unambiguously, the possibility of having different categories for each game. Of course this is made even more difficult by the fact that in a few cases a movie might obsolete more than one older movie of the same game... I don't know how this could be done, but I just wanted to throw the idea.
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"True freedom" might not always be the desired and fair thing one wants. For example, if I spend 3 years developing a piece of software and want people to enjoy it for free, I might not be happy if then some company takes my software, changes some logos and credits, and starts selling it for considerable amounts of money. "True freedom" grants them the right to do so, but that's not necessarily what I want nor what I find to be fair. The word "copyright" has become a swearword, but in some cases it's not a bad thing. It ensures that nobody can take advantage of your hard work without your permission (well, legally that is). Saying "you are free to use this, but remember, this is still copyrighted and you can't eg. change the copyright because that's illegal in most countries and by international laws" is not always a dumb thing to do. I happen to agree that the concept of "free software = licensed" is bad, but probably not for the same reason as you. I don't see licenses as a bad thing. I see licenses as a good thing which help you, by legal means, to protect your hard work from exploitation. What I oppose is using the word "free" for some strict, artificial meaning it really doesn't have (ie. as GPL defines it). To me, if I can use a software without having to pay money, it's "free", even if GPL disagrees with that definition.
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creaothceann wrote:
mencoder's documentation was a bit too difficult to read for my liking. :/
One thing I like about mencoder is that it supports as input basically anything mplayer does. This not only means that it's a handy "ripping" software (you can "save" anything mplayer can play into an avi, eg. a DVD or an online video stream) but you can also convert video from any source without the need for intermediate formats in your HD (which is handy eg. if you want to convert a video from a DVD). OTOH, it's such a "linux hacker" tool that it indeed is not the easiest to use nor has the best of documentations.
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IronSlayer wrote:
Psycho Complains before the Charlotte city government
Damn those helicopter pilots, scaring people.
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IronSlayer wrote:
This is one of those runs in which the enjoyment depends on how much one has played the original game.
I think that's true for most runs, especially rpgs.
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RT-55J wrote:
imho, the poll should have included the second place entries from each system.
That's what I suggested in another thread. It didn't get too much support, for some reason.
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There are a few bittorrent clients (IIRC BitComet was at one point one of them) which either intentionally or unintentionally (due to some bug) lie to the tracker and somehow succeed, at least partially, in circumventing the bittorrent logic which tries to avoid anyone abusing the system. Unfortunately I don't remember the details, but it's one common reason for some trackers to completely ban some clients. AFAIK the problem with BitComet was a bug which has been long ago fixed.
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I think there's a difference between saying "a H.264 codec" and "the H.264 codec". For example x264 is an example of the former and the latter doesn't exist.
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Bisqwit wrote:
Warp wrote:
Nitpicking: H.264 is not a codec, it's a video format. A codec is a piece of software which encodes/decodes some format. An example of a codec which supports the H.264 format is x264.
I'm all the way towards calling those as "codecs" even though the proper term is video compression method.
Yes, that would be more precise. It probably is indeed so that H.264 doesn't specify the specific *format* in which to write the video data (ie. headers, word endianess, interleaving block sizes...) to a file, only an algorithm about how to compress raw video to a compressed form. H.264 is thus a video compression method/algorithm, eg. AVI is a multimedia container *format*, and eg. x264 is a codec (ie. a piece of software which supports encoding and decoding certain type of video data, in this case H.264-encoded data).
moozooh wrote:
Several Wikipedia pages related to video compression periodically refer to H.264 as a codec
Wikipedia is not always right in the small details. "Codec" might sometimes be used interchangeably with "video compression algorithm", but that doesn't mean it's a technically correct usage. A codec is a piece of software.
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I have to agree: If a trick can be done without losing time, it makes absolutely no sense to waste that time, especially not in a 45-minute run. (In a 5-minute run it might be ok, and even there it should serve a purpose instead of just wasting time for the sake of wasting time). If you are going for entertainment, don't bore your viewers with a 45-minute video. The game is not *that* varied.
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Nitpicking: H.264 is not a codec, it's a video format. A codec is a piece of software which encodes/decodes some format. An example of a codec which supports the H.264 format is x264.
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Mechuyael wrote:
Wouldn't it be better to decide on what the game is and how it works before picking a platform/language/etc'?
I don't understand the relation between those two things. Choice of game type has basically nothing to do with choice of platform (more than that we are talking about desktop computers), and vice-versa. Both things can be discussed independently and they do not affect each other. Thus I don't understand why it would be "better" to discuss one before the other.
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upthorn wrote:
The real shame is that people on youtube keep posting a comedy sketch as though it were a serious talk show.
This is nothing new nor rare. If you follow snopes.com, you'll see that there are *tons* of cases where people (often deliberately) post photos, videos or whatever which are either fake or completely unrelated, and invent a fallacious backstory for it. (In a few cases it's actually quite sad since the *true* backstrory is sometimes much more interesting than the invented one.)
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Kuwaga wrote:
I know how hard it is to make games. The main problem that prevents me from doing it myself is that I have no clue how to properly handle graphics/sound.
The common way to do that is to use an existing library, such as for example http://www.libsdl.org/
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The original Doom didn't support jumping...
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upthorn wrote:
And what about intelligent folks who can read just fine, but don't understand English?
There's a higher probability for someone to understand written English than spoken English. The image content can be the same.
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Abuse would be very hard to catch. And SDA already exists, no need to repeat their work, IMO.
Post subject: A better voting system idea
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Voting system idea: The problem with being able to vote for only one entry is that it results in an unbalanced result. IMO it's a rather harsh way of voting. If it were possible to submit a list of favorites (ie. most favorite, second most favorite, etc) this could create a much more balanced voting system. Even having just a list of two votes would be much better than having just one. Basically you would vote for "this is my favorite entry" and "this is my second favorite entry". In practice it means "if my favorite entry does not win, then from the rest I would prefer this entry to win". Counting the votes would be as simple as giving 2 points to the most favorite and 1 point to the second most favorite. The entry which gets most points wins. This way voters can possibly affect the result even if their favorite entry doesn't win. If there were more than two votes, how to give them points is a matter of discussion, but one possibility is to give each more favorite entry twice the points as the previous one. So, for example, if the list of votes is 4 entries, the fourth most favorite entry would get 1 point, the third most favorite 2 points, the second most favorite 4 points and the most favorite 8 points. The downside of this is, of course, that someone would have to actually implement this voting system.
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If these people can't read text, then maybe it's just better they don't make TASes.
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Randil wrote:
I searched for "amazing voice" on Youtube, and I found this video. I believe it's from some song contest in Russia. Anyway, if you don't feel like listening to the whole song, fast forward to 1:05 and you'll understand why it's an "amazing voice"...
A couple of examples of the other end of the spectrum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSa5SMANDzU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFbjtmubBFQ Can't get much lower than that.
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"We don't support nor endorse SMS tases. That's because NES rulez 0k! and kickz SMSs ass!"
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I can't make a recommendation of it because I haven't read it, but I have for long time been wanting to read Asimov's The End of Eternity. The little I have heard about it has been promising.
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S@G wrote:
somone has uploadet this run without telling that its TAS, and saying that its 5 minutes He cutted the beginning.
*Sigh* Why do people keep doing this?