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erokky wrote:
Japan disappointing as usual. Cheered for them in 2006, 2010, and now in 2014. Let down every time.
Sportsmanship is more important than victory.
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Bisqwit wrote:
Sports is kind of modern day idolatry... Which makes sense, considering where the origins of sports phenomenon is (Greek, Hellenism).
I'm really tempted to make some sarcastic comment on the fact that you have criticized me in the past for being insensitive towards other people...
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PikachuMan wrote:
Also, I wonder if someone would make a ponyfied hack of Zelda II. I mean, there are ponyfied hacks of SMB2, ALttP, FF6, SML2 and Megaman3, there should be no doubt about it.
It seems that in every single one of them the ponies walk upright, like humans (with the possible exception of ALttP which, deducing from quick googling, is nothing more than just the playable character sprite replaced with a Derpy sprite). Those modders do not understand MLP at all. They do not walk upright. They do not behave like humans. When will we see an actually good MLP game or mod? (That one fighting game might be quite good, but not the kind of game I'm looking for.)
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Guga wrote:
Sounds like an excuse to do mini-modding...
Actually... what exactly is wrong with mini-modding? I don't really get it. (To be frank, it just sounds like something petty moderators would complain about because they feel like lowly regular users are stepping on their toes, but I don't think anybody here is like that.) I'd say complaining about it is probably in the same stupidity level as complaining about necroposting (which is also something that makes no sense).
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I still wish people made 2-game runs. Why? Because (IMO) they are the most entertaining to watch (because they are the multi-game runs that are the easiest to follow).
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Well, I suppose if you want to get results, you need to leave the "n" out of "equestrian."
What would you call something from Equestria?
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ForgoneMoose wrote:
What's callous is to allow the fools and sinners of the great speedgaming society to run around unchecked, blissfully unaware of their impertinence and foolishness. It is our duty to bring them in line through whatever means necessary, and I am simply the only one man enough to use the force needed to do so.
This is a hobby. People do it because they like it, and they find it entertaining and rewarding. For many it's a labor of love. It's doing it for the art, rather than for profit. People pour their time and work on these runs. People pour their souls on these runs. People share their work because they themselves enjoy it, and would like others to enjoy it as well. While criticism is to be expected, mockery is undeserved.
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ForgoneMoose wrote:
Warp wrote:
ForgoneMoose wrote:
Your entertainment is not the goal here.
So what is? And why would anyone want to see it?
How many times do I have to write it? The goal is to deliver justice directly unto the hands of the sinners of the speedrunning world. This was made clear several times in the first post.
I don't understand. If it's not done for entertainment, it's callous. So what's the reason to do it?
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ForgoneMoose wrote:
Your entertainment is not the goal here.
So what is? And why would anyone want to see it?
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I saw the term somewhere and was curious to see what kind of results a google image search would give.
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If I make a google image search for "equestrian clothing", why do I expect to see MLP-related pictures?
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Does not color a dinosaur, thus voting no.
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Patashu wrote:
Kind of like saying 'Why deliberately emulate lag that was caused by the limited processing power of the original console, and not the intentions of the developers?'
It's not the same thing at all. NTSC artifacts have no effect on the timing of the run. The only thing they do is decrease visual quality for no purpose. (And the vast majority of games were not designed around those artifacts, so there is no reason to subject the games to them.)
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Why would you want to deliberately introduce defects into the video that were originally caused by limited display hardware? (Other than, maybe, nostalgia.) I do understand that the graphics of a few games were actually designed with the NTSC artifacts in mind (I believe Castlevania 2 is an example), but still...
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Eszik wrote:
Is 70 stars BLJless really arbitary? It just takes the fastest "intended route" and avoids a game-breaking glitch, it's not really arbitrary.
"Intended route" still isn't considered a valid goal for a TAS, even though it has been suggested for years. (Personally I would be all for it being made a legit goal.)
Post subject: Re: Theory: Could ANY game have a playaround TAS?
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YushiroGowa wrote:
1st of all: WE NEED MORE PLAYAROUNDS! They're very fun to watch.
They are a can of worms. What makes one playaround of a game better than another? How do you decide what obsoletes what? Or do we publish all playarounds that are submitted, ending up with hundreds of videos per game?
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PikachuMan wrote:
Warp wrote:
Why?
Just see for yourself.
That didn't really answer my question. Anyway, censoring and banning episodes of My Little Pony seems really crazy. MLP doesn't sound like a show that would be deemed worthy of censorship. Especially when we are talking about an American-produced cartoon which main target demographic is little girls. I think there's something wrong in those people's heads.
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PikachuMan wrote:
The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 never aired in Italy. This led to the removal of the mention of cider in the Italian dub of Bats! It's due to the fact that cider is considered an alcoholic beverage (this is not the case in the U.S., just look it up in Wikipedia)
Clearly it was way too difficult to dub it as something else (like "apple juice" or something). Much easier to just ban the entire episode.
The Turkish dub of The Best Night Ever removed the part where Rarity sings about finding the royal pony of her dreams. And they either changed or removed the instances of interspecies relationships (e.g. Spike has a crush on Rarity).
Why?
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So, we have the infinite series sum(n=1 → ∞) 1/ns. This is defined only when the real part of s is greater than 1. Apparently a partial analytical continuation of that function can be written as: (1-21-s)-1 sum(n=1 → ∞) -1n+1/ns (This is the Dirichlet eta function divided by the factor (1-21-s).) This new function is (apparently) defined for all values of s with a real part greater than zero, and equal to the first function for all values of s with a real part greater than 1. Could someone help me with a concept proof of this (unless it's extremely complicated)?
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If you only listen to the sound without watching the video, it sounds like something else...
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RGamma wrote:
What are some of the conspiracy theories they believe in?
The movement started with the movie "Zeitgeist: The Movie", which is just full of silly conspiracy theories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist_movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist:_The_Movie
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What an unusual projection. I don't remember seeing it in any other game.
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nfq wrote:
I think society and the world should be governed using the scientific method, instead of people's opinions and money
That sentiment feels completely hollow knowing that you don't really care about science at all. You are a believer-in-everything (there's probably not a single conspiracy theory or hoax that you won't believe). Just to accentuate the contradiction between what you said there and what you really believe, you didn't leave anything up to doubt:
(see The Zeitgeist Movement or Venus Project for more information about that).
Friendly advise: If you want to be taken seriously, don't refer to a lunatic conspiracy theory movement.
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Now I have a more difficult problem. In order to access the "Nature preserve" location, you need to have a "seen" status for all the 297 pokemon in the Unova pokedex. Problem is, there are four pokemon that do not appear in any form in the game (Vullaby, Buneary and, in my case, Oshawott and Samurott.) The only way to get a "seen" status for the entire pokedex is to trade those four pokemon. Vullaby and Buneary don't appear in White 1 either, so it cannot be used for the trade even if I had another device. This seems to be an impasse.
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marzojr wrote:
So without gravity, he would just get his normal time dilation for speed. Which is expected: acceleration does not directly affect proper time in SR, it only indirectly affects it because it affects velocity; but in circular motion with constant speed, the velocity only changes direction.
That's strange. Since he's in constant acceleration, I would have thought that his frame of reference is constantly changing (even in SR), which would cause an effect similar to what happens eg. with the so-called twin paradox (which is also based on changing frames of reference due to acceleration).