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hanzou wrote:
Warp wrote:
unnecessary jumping
Jumping is faster than walking.
I see. It just doesn't look so.
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The incessant unnecessary jumping is rather annoying. I suggest that if you (or anyone else) ever make an improved version you should reduce the unnecessary jumping.
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'Quake done Quick with a vengeance' is completely mandatory for any speedrun fan. It blows your mind the first time you watch it. The speedrun of Half-Life is cool too. Doom and Doom2 have cool speedruns, even though there are so many versions with differing quality that it might be a bit hard to find the great ones.
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The idea in itself is cool, but it's way too hard to control the fighters in any rational way. It's way too chaotic. It gets boring pretty fast because of that.
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The case of Rygar was similar to this: The european version was used in famtasia, which only emulates with ntsc settings. However, once this was noticed, the *true* time (ie. the time which the run would be if it had been run in pal mode) was given to the movie, not the actual time of the video (iow 20% was added to this actual time). Later Rygar runs were then made in pal mode so actual and true time were the same. I don't understand why this cannot be done with super turrican too. OTOH, scratch that, since bisqwit is telling me that super turrican is different from rygar in that it detects the pal/ntsc settings all by itself and runs equally fast in both. I'm posting this anyways, to make things clear... :P
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Truncated wrote:
I thought it had more to do with the reason we don't allow other hacked games: they are not authentic and haven't been officially released.
I believe that the original reason to ban hacked/modified games is that using them may raise the suspicion that if they have been modified in one way, how can people be sure it has not been modified in other ways too, eg. in ways that allow making impossible stunts. IOW suspicion of hack-cheats may arise.
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Is it really bad that very casual visitors who might have seen a couple of tases might get apalled by the captchas and not register to the forums? People who usually write here are dedicated fans/viewers/creators and they surely will try to register.
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I can't even begin to grasp how it is a stupid concept.
Post subject: World's finest
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I suppose you have watched Snatch too?
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, budget $125 millions, worldwide gross $974 millions. Seems that millions of people disagree with you.
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Even if you sacrifice some seconds (overall) to entertainment, at least try to make it look that you aren't, that it's actually something which aims for speed. Nothing bothers the viewer more (well, of course I can't speak for *everyone*, but I'm sure that it applies to many) than a speedrun (tas or regular) where there are clearly unneeded pauses or detours. For example dancing around just for the fun of it but without any concrete goal (other than to show off) is not a very good idea. A machinima video should be a completely different category.
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My mind is way too dirty. For some reason "cool spot" made me thing of something obscene (well, at least from some point of view; some would think of it as beauty).
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
Holy smokes, 5 Batmans!!
I think that the grammatically correct form would be "Batmen".
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
Now, I forget, does that saying mean that the absence of news is a good sign, or does it mean that there is no news that is good?
Yes.
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I have not followed this thread, but a run of Zelda OoT would be rather interesting to see. Reading 700+ posts is rather appalling, though, so could someone post a summary of what is happening with this run?
Post subject: Re: YPN = dame.
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Bisqwit wrote:
In other news, I have not yet heard from Google regarding my latest query I sent in Juny 8th.
As the saying goes, no news is good news... :P
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trazz wrote:
(I also think that, in an ideal world, cheese would not have high fat and high cholesterol
Off topic: There's actually serious evidence that the whole "cholesterol is bad" is the biggest myth of the 20th century: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/cholesterol_myth_1.html So you probably can rest easy on the cholesterol part. Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful about your fat consumption... :P
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Foda raised an IMO good point in IRC. For a not-very-obvious reason his Rolling Thunder video has got an average perfection rating of 5.4. It would be interesting to know why it was voted so low in that category. (I would say that voting 5 in perfection means "it can be improved"; however, can it?) What I fear is that, regardless of the guidelines given in the voting page, some cross-contamination of categories has happened. In other words, since people didn't find the video very entertaining, they also voted low on the perfection. This is not very objective.
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Did you read anything else in my post than that one sentence?
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Perhaps the search results could be sorted by relevancy. For example, if the search string matches published movies, show those first (perhaps sorted by rating?). The next most interesting results would be, I think, pages which contain the search thing (such as the trick pages of some games), and lastly not-yet-published submissions. For example, if someone writes "super mario" in the search field, it's most probable that he is searching for smb movies. However, the four first results are about tricks in different super mario games. I'm sure there may be even more extreme examples of this. So I suggest to sort the search results to show first published movies, then pages (excluding submissions) and then submissions.
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Many sites do have a direct search box in their front page. For example: http://senseis.xmp.net/ http://snopes.com/
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The context, the context... :P
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Yeah. Ad blindness in effect. Perhaps the "more search options..." link could be changed to this new page (and perhaps change a bit that link text) and then in the search page put a link to the movie search page... That actually sounds complicated, and perhaps it is. (Perhaps the search page could include a "platform" dropdown menu or something? I don't know. Is the moviesearch page useful anylonger?) (Edit: Oh, the link from search to moviesearch is already there. Didn't notice. Scratch that part of my text. :P )
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I think that the front page could use a direct link. Now I only found a link from MovieSearch, and it was rather hard to see because it was at the very end of the page.