In recent times, I have been getting drawn more and more into philosophy, experiencing the pros and cons associated with going the extra mile and seriously diving in this field of knowledge (maybe the only one, in a way?).
For starters, I would like to share a few insights that I think are important when one wants to explore philosophy:
I feel that openness is a key concept (in both its philosophical and its psychological variants): This site's general atmosphere is a paradigm of the former, which I suspect is what ultimately drove me to post this topic. Regarding the psychological variant, I think it's important to try to be open to new ideas, especially those misaligned with one's own ideas, making an active effort to avoid our many natural biases in the process of internally asessing them (this is in general not easy at all and a daily fight). It's important to try to be honest with oneself and others, as I feel that such an approach to life enhances individuals to completely accept themselves, which in turn retroaliments their openness to new ideas. I suspect that openly sharing with people that love you the internal battles that you struggle with on a daily basis catalyzes the processes of both forgiving and fully accepting yourself.
It's interesting to reflect upon the idea that the very nature of language might preclude the existence of truth. Can truth, if it exists at all, be only reached through either logic or introspection?
We could use this topic to share and discuss interesting philosophical ideas. I will include them in the following list:
- Authenticity
- Dream argument
- Eristic
- Eternal return
- Descartes' Evil demon
- Microcosm-macrocosm analogy
- Ship of Theseus
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This is a healthy slice of humble pie in the form of a TAS by a newcomer. Good job!
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I think it's important to take into account that many people don't do drugs because they feel sad or want to be socially accepted, but to experiment with the higher consciousness level and the resulting extra awareness they believe they can gain through some of them.
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I'm surprised that Aglar is not listed as a co-author, seeing how they did one act.
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I know what happened here: Warp hallucinated his exchange with EZ and andy as being a flame war, so pirate decided to grant him his wish. Anyway, pirate's logic suggests that Trump is better than ponies, which is objectively wrong.
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It has finally come! And so have I. Also, I like how the final time for this run and the run of Super Metroid 100% are within 30 secods of each other.
Special thanks to ZX497 for discovering the glitch that made this new route possible. I think using a screenshot from the part between 25:11 and 25:14 for the publication would be cool.
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What a ride. Thanks for both making such a nice run and your amazing submission notes, especially the story part.
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Superb run! Thanks for destroying my childhood yet again.
These are my favorite screenshots:
Have you considered working on the sequel?
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You're completely ignoring the fact that one of the users in question is regularly aggressive, abrasive, and toxic, and that this incident is such an inappropriate use of his position that it can't be considered in isolation.
And fmp, you may not have noticed, but the thread's topic (now after the split) is (in my view) different and separate from what you are talking about in this quote, rendering your response as offtopic (with respect to this specific thread), and if you want to talk about this other aspect, find a better suited place to do so, I guess. And I wouldn't find it unlikely that you haven't read up on the news much within this thread either, alongside Angerfist, so I suggest to please do that in this case, if you want to help the situation here with further posts rather than harm it.
I am talking about Spike’s admitted attempt to sabotage the viewership of the SMB TAS (whether successful or not). As such it is completely on topic. His general behavior is relevant to this thread because his gross toxicity in the SMB thread goes hand-in-hand with his motive to flood the TVC YouTube with reencodes. As I said previously: you cannot treat this as an isolated incident. Publishers already seem to be fine with their new rules on content density, but that doesn’t change the fact that this incident was an act of abuse. That this relates so strongly to the other thread is just evidence that there’s a serious problem.
Thank you for hitting the nail on the head. That general toxiticy you describe prompted me to start skipping most of his posts years ago. The staff might be doing something similar, because I just can't believe that continued behavior is tolerated. I am honestly dumbfounded. But yeah, it's much smarter to play the "offtopic" card and to hold onto sematics than to address the actual serious issue so many users seem to agree about. Thousands of toxic posts in a steady flow along the years have probably damaged the site way more than losing a bunch of random subscribers on YouTube. Sadly, it looks like you can be a complete dick on TASVideos and get away with it as long as you are productive and useful for the site.
Also, Nach, these haven't worked for you here so far. :P
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Nice run. Surprisingly smooth for this game.
Memory wrote:
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~2 frame improvement on you in 1-1, you could easily have saved time on the elevator section by moving to the right sooner. I haven't made it through the end of the level with this improvement so there might be something later on in the level that prevents you from maintaining this improvement. However, this sort of sloppiness is not what I want to be seeing in submissions.
Well, that's a 2-frame "improvement" on a 5724-frame section and it's not even confirmed. Fizztastic registered only this year and we could say they are kinda new to TASing, yet terms like sloppiness and lazy are thrown around based on a negligible improvement that might be lost later on in the stage. Aren't we being a bit too elitist here? I don't think that's positive for the site.
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That was hilarious, especially the last two fights. I think shortest input is a way more sensible goal for this game than focusing on in-game time, so good call and great execution! :D
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If anyone throws a trace logger at this to figure out exactly what's going on, I would be very interested to see exactly what convoluted series of events leads to this byte shift. Yes vote.
Maybe ruadath? I wonder if they would be denied co-autorship again were they to improve this run with new ideas.
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So should we expect a sub-4:00 submission for the game next time around from this? :P
More like a sub-1:30. Actually, I am quite surprised that minor death warp was posted but not this total control exploit which is in the same channel.
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Well, this world cup was a blast! I will tune in again in four years for sure. There were many exciting matches, surprises and goals (only two short of the record set four years ago). I don't think anything that happened this world cup matches the unforgettable 1-7, though. And even looking at past world cups, maybe the closest to it is Zidane's amazing headbutt more than a decade ago, as it was a perfect metaphor of what the world thinks about Italy's "football". Now, several professional Italian riders seem to be applying the same questionable principles to motorcycle racing...
I really wanted Croatia to win, but this is football, and the team that plays a better match doesn't always come victorious, which is part of its appeal. For me, faking is the most harmful thing to football nowadays, and the moment I saw Griezmann pulling a Neymar and getting away with it, I was very sad. I thought Brazil's elimination would have prevented that kind of shameless stunt to be performed at the final. In any case, seeing the likes of Modrić and Mbappé do their magic at a world cup final was beautiful, and the VAR will gradually deter players from feigning.
It's also nice that Europe has dominated international football for well over a decade now, something that no continent had managed before.
Amaraticando wrote:
That was so sad to witness, and such a display of unfair play...
mz wrote:
Croatia played the worst possible match they could play. They made all the same mistakes Argentina did, except they could have prevented them this time if they had watched that match first.
France was an awful team (almost as bad as Spain in 2010), but they're the champions and that's what everyone will ever care about. In a few weeks, no one will remember that Brazil was the best team or what a bunch of nice people the Japanese were.
This is how you win a cup when you're not Germany or Brazil.
That's a pretty poor attempt at trolling. You should learn from your compatriot pirate_sephiroth. And if you really mean any of that, please tell me how you managed to jump to a different quantum timeline.
By the way, who voted for Spain in the poll? Because I sure didn't, jajaja.
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This game is awesome. And this excellent TAS does the game justice so far. I have a question, WarHippy: Who of the original four-member team is still contributing to the project? If feels like you are the only one working on it right now.
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Judging from some of the posts explaining their no votes with some of the most absurd comments I have ever seen on this site, presented in what appears to be an honest reaction to your video
Considering the many comments you have read during your almost 15 years here, this is a highly bold claim, so you need to back it up with extraordinary proof if you want to be taken seriously. Since you decided to leave that part out, could you at least specify which posts are you referring to and what makes them so absurd?
I don't need to back it up, as the reader can judge for themselves if it's true or not.
No, readers can't judge it for themselves because they can't read your mind. They don't know which of the many absurd posts in this forum you remember, so they can't compare them to know if those posts you mentioned are actually within "the most absurd [you] have ever seen on this site" or you are simply being unnecessarily hyperbolic, which has been my point all along.
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As it stands, your run is sitting at 81% positive response. That's nothing to be upset about; its a fantastic positive response (and in my opinion not low enough for a judge to consider dropping the run to a lower tier than the current publication). You're only complaining because it's not MORE positive and closer to what some of your previous runs have attained. While it makes sense to base one's expectations on what previous submissions have attained, those results on previous runs don't guarantee ANYTHING about a current/future submission.
The bolded section is what I'm going to refer to as "mindreading".
Your post as a whole shows that you're not taking into account the psychology of what is going on (not that you should be expected to, few people are students of psychology). However, in general, you shouldn't jump to conclusions, and your mindreading is probably at least partially based on a lack of empathy with what HappyLee is feeling.
Your implication that he is jumping to conclusions is "mindreading" and jumping to conclusions in itself.
Nice try.
Telling somebody what they're thinking is "mindreading". He showed he was mind reading by saying "You're only complaining because". When you find an obvious cognitive dysfunction, you can point it out clearly, that's not "mindreading" at this point, he himself admitted it.
So you proved that you are right, at least taking into account the literal content of his post. Now I wonder if what you think he meant by that quoted line goes in line with your public interpretation of it.
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Since you're not suggesting any official improvements, your posts are basically just counter-productive whines.
I am very happy by the recent revelations that my posts have many readers. I didn't know I was so influencial. I find it nice that in such a short time span I've read that my posts are well articulated and now that they are counterproductive whines. Such feedback is what every respectable person dreams of. Thank you.
I am going to assume that the first two sentences are serious, just for the sake of exhaustivity. You didn't need any "recent revelations" to know that your posts have many readers. This forum is relatively popular, so that's true for most posters. From that follows that having many readers in this forum doesn't make you particularly influential. If those lines aren't serious, you need to work on the quality of your mockery.
Since you brought up my compliment about the articulation in your posts, I would like to remind you that I said that to contrast it with my perceived lack of quality of one of your recent posts. Unfortunately, it has become a trend now. Good articulation and whining are not mutually exclusive, anyway. Conversely, they can very often go hand in hand.
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This is the key to this whole issue. I look from the perspective of a person who wants to resolve these problems officially. Because of that I always try to find pros and cons to any idea, on the long run. If something is inapplicable, it should be figured out in discussion. If something isn't fine-tuned to the point common staff agreement, then it won't work and it won't become a policy. Staff agreement implies user agreement as well, but is not limited to it. If you are not ready to properly discuss your own ideas, don't expect us to do the mental leg work for you.
Really? To me it looks like you're just JAQing off so that you can make me look incompetent and at the same time avoid doing your job.
I find it quite ironic that you call feos out on JAQing off when you have been consistently using in this very topic a few of the questionable arguing tactics documented in that website.
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Judging from some of the posts explaining their no votes with some of the most absurd comments I have ever seen on this site, presented in what appears to be an honest reaction to your video
Considering the many comments you have read during your almost 15 years here, this is a highly bold claim, so you need to back it up with extraordinary proof if you want to be taken seriously. Since you decided to leave that part out, could you at least specify which posts are you referring to and what makes them so absurd?
Nach wrote:
DrD2k9 wrote:
As it stands, your run is sitting at 81% positive response. That's nothing to be upset about; its a fantastic positive response (and in my opinion not low enough for a judge to consider dropping the run to a lower tier than the current publication). You're only complaining because it's not MORE positive and closer to what some of your previous runs have attained. While it makes sense to base one's expectations on what previous submissions have attained, those results on previous runs don't guarantee ANYTHING about a current/future submission.
The bolded section is what I'm going to refer to as "mindreading".
Your post as a whole shows that you're not taking into account the psychology of what is going on (not that you should be expected to, few people are students of psychology). However, in general, you shouldn't jump to conclusions, and your mindreading is probably at least partially based on a lack of empathy with what HappyLee is feeling.
Your implication that he is jumping to conclusions is "mindreading" and jumping to conclusions in itself. In general, you shouldn't jump to conlcusions. Your mindreading is probably at least partially based on a lack of empathy with what DrD2k9 is feeling, making you assume that he jumped to conclusions instead of reaching them rationally from his observations.
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Essentially, if you spend months making a run and explaining how everything does, you should be open to people bashing it without knowing anything useful.
But if you just spend 20 minutes watching a movie, then you are free to write and vote whatever you want for any reason, because it is not acceptable to say that their criticism is dumb. Youtube users that scream "Cheats!" at every TAS should find this policy very nice!
I am surprised to see you use this approach to articulate your arguments. I don't think irony is the most clear or elegant way to get your point accross. Then again, my impression is that in recent times your posts have become notably bitterer than they used to be, so it might be related to that. I honestly just hope that your recent exposure to Europe hasn't had anything to do with that. :(
That said, I am again quite surprised that that's your conclusion after reading that thread, as many of the people criticizing HappyLee's style in it were constructive, provided perfectly valid points to back up their opinions and even went out of their way to try and tone their replies down to prevent HappyLee from feeling unhappy. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful because the latter turned out to be impossible.
The only possible explanation that I can think of for this is that the replies that weren't so civil stood out for you, so you focused on them and ended up forgetting about all the proper criticism I mentioned above. That's why your usage of terms like "bashing" seems hyperbolic to me, or, in other words, inaccurate to describe what really happened.
because it is not acceptable to say that their criticism is dumb
I don't think anybody sane in that topic suggested that. Level-headed people were mostly complaining because they didn't think HappyLee's arguments to counter their criticism were sound, not because of his addressing of their criticism per se.
The impression I get from your posts is that you think that the author isn't even partially accountable for the way the topic went down, which is as if I claimed that all the no votes had to do with the run itself. Both are quite evidently not the case.
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The problem here is that some people are not voting on the run at all, they're voting on what they liked or disliked about what you had to say regarding SMB and TASing in the past couple of weeks.
How is that the problem when you are the judge and are aware of that, which means that it will have no impact in your decision? I think the real problem here is that criticism properly backed up wasn't accepted by one author, so people started to complain about it, derailing the topic as a result.
Submission polls have been quite successful for years at their goal of gauging people's interest for runs, especially in recent times, with the many submissions that get less than three posters giving feedback. I can't believe that a single author's refusal to accept a minority of no votes properly explained led to the questioning of submission polls as a whole, which are factually useful and a necessary feature.
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That's a highly nontrivial achievement and I did not see anyone dispute that.
This should not be interpreted as belittling the run (and despite your statement, it was MrWint who actually assumed it was).
To sum up, what this looks like to me is: someone submits a TAS using cool and interesting techniques to a known game. People get overhyped because of "OMG BOTS", then an experience TASer comes and points out the simulation was incomplete, and then a group of people, after the hype dies out, start nitpicking and cast some very dubious "No" votes.
I love your posts because they are well articulated in general and usually include interesting points and arguments. That's why I am dumbfounded after reading the quotes above. It's like you read a different topic from the one I linked...
In any case, discussing that properly here is probably not worth our time, especially considering that Nach is about to "come up with a solution" for this topic, which might imply messing with its integrity and locking some replies away.
HappyLee wrote:
Many people justify the voting results without a satisfying answer to my question.
I guess you missed Alyosha's post:
Alyosha wrote:
HappyLee wrote:
So we end up with a polarizing submission of a run that shouldn't be controversial at all. Many people claimed that the vote result (once and for a long time less than 80% "yes" votes) makes sense because it's "subjective". My question is, what changed?
I think at least part of the answer to your question here is that you under-estimate how much TASVideos itself changes over time. I briefly looked at profiles of the people who posted in your SMBJ2 run, and about half of them haven't even logged in since this run was posted. Several have not even logged in in 2018. I would be quite surprised if there was >50% commonality in voters between this one and your 2012 run. Even between this one and SMBJ2 I would be surprised if the commonality was more then 85%. Newer people I would expect less likely to find SMB highly entertaining, just due to having not grown up with it (it's 30+ yrs old after all.)
By the way, I don't think it's really relevant, but since some people seem to care so much about votes, let me clarify that I haven't voted for either submission.
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Okay, I will bite and talk to the wall again.
HappyLee wrote:
Cons: We can criticize this run for whatever reasons I feel like, but you can't even suggest our opinion is false or biased or stupid, since feelings (or anything subjective) can't be wrong. If you raise counterarguments with facts, it's called "shutting down the freedom to express" somehow.
Many people have expressed here and in MrWint's submission topic that they prefer pure optimization to playarounds during the "downtime" resulting from frame rules, even if the final frame count is the same. That approach is more entertaining for them. Which are these facts you mention that prove that their opinion is "false or biased or stupid"? Because that claim is so bold and presumptuous that I hope you have some undeniable facts to back it up.
Speaking of facts, MrWint's run's average entertainment rating is currently 7.9 (and that's including your and Mars' very low ratings) compared to the 8.4 of your 2012 run. Don't you think that a measly difference of 0.5 is not enough to repeatedly claim that your approach to TASing this category is undoubtedly superior?
HappyLee wrote:
DrD2k9 said I'm "egocentric", Zeupar said I'm "arrogance", EZGames69 said "I shouldn't have made it controversial", and you accused me for "starting this sequence of events". So basically many people are blaming me (and me alone) for this drama
Indeed, because you are the one to blame. Instead of interpreting the many posts by different people calling you out as "people is mobbing me for no reason", it would be wiser to read them as "maybe I am at fault if several people share these feelings about me. How can I improve so this doesn't happen again, especially in real life, where the consequences can be much worse than in a random internet forum?".
while all I did was defending my work
For a good example of how to defend one's work in a respectful manner, something that you seem to be quite bad at, check MrWint's posts here.
By the way, I have seen you using the language barrier as an excuse for your behavior, but that won't fly. When you consistently belittle MrWint's run and hard work and use terms like "laughable", "stupid", etc, you mean it.
In the end, being bothered by a few no votes and a bunch of people disagreeing with your entertainment choices doesn't make any sense, especially when we all know that Nach will accept this run with no shortage of compliments and TASVideos will move on.
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You missed the point yet again. But, as several have raised it in this very topic and you still seem to not get it, I give up. At this point, all I can think of is recommending you to read this topic again in its entirety, paying special attention to the posts by the likes of Kung Knut, thecoreyburton, Memory, Scepheo, EZGames, etc, and your answers to them. Feel free to ignore Spike's, though, as his points, like most of the time, are invalidated by his inherent rudeness.
I admire MrWint for staying silent during this whole process, though. He could have said so many things, but still has been able to restrain himself from responding to unwarranted attacks to his work and to stay out of this whole debacle. Massive kudos!
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ITT, how to ruin your reputation in a matter of days via pure arrogance. It's great to be passionate about what you do, and the more people like that the better, but when that passion blocks your ability to ponder viewpoints and feelings differing from yours, then you have a problem.
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Have you considered working on the sequel?