This TAS surprised me, I didn't expect this to be such a good game for an entertaining TAS. I guess you you can never judge a movie game based on the quality of the movie, I should have learned this from Star Wars Racer.
Yes vote!
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Do you really want reduce all differences between men and women to something purely biological? Don't you think society has an influence? When people tell me "almost all great inventions were done by men", I ask them if women really ever got the same chance to make those inventions. Because I don't think that's the case.
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I don't have to justify anything. I enjoy TASing and speedrunning, that all I need to know. Isn't it great to have something this accessible that makes you happy? A lot of people have to resort to things like drugs to get any enjoyment out of their lives.
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Men and women have different strengths, it's not just that women are weaker and therefore useless. You mentioned firefighters, would you only want that job to be done by men? Women can be just as useful in any job, they have their own strengths that should be used effectively, just like you said.
Interestingly enough, men are arguably discriminated more on a legal basis (military service, parental leave), aside from countries like Saudi Arabia. Women have the problem that their equal rights are not enforced enough.
I know why many aspects of feminism are criticized and rightfully so, I could give you many examples of things I disagree with. But there are way too many different approaches to feminism to just oppose it as a whole. And not all critics argue in a civilized manner with actual arguments, there are many people on the internet, as well as the real world, that are nothing but misogynists or trolls. As usual, those are the loudest.
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Well. if you want to reduce the topic of military service to purely combat, I can somewhat agree with you. But at least in my country, where the army is getting reduced more and more to save costs, it's being discussed to change the whole concept of military service into more of a vaguely defined "service to society". The general opinion in Switzerland is clearly in favor of keeping an army and a mandatory military service (I disagree in both things), so it's not unlikely for something like this to become reality. And the more you take away the aspect of actual combat training, the harder it becomes to justify it being only required for men. Hell, even now we have "Zivildiesnt" and "Zivilschutz" as alternatives, for those who are either unfit or unwilling to join the army. Those have nothing to do with combat, yet they are still just as mandatory if you don't join the army.
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I'm sort of fascinated by the concept of ending input early, just letting the game beat itself. If there actually is no more imput required to reach the end, why not?
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I agree with you on this. I don't have a problem with considering myself a feminist and still acknowledge discrimination against men. A good example of this is the fact that in most countries, only men are required to serve in the military. I find this unacceptable in a modern society, it should either be mandatory for anyone or no one. Everyone is well aware that this is obvious discrimination, yet it's still ignored around the world, it's just that one thing that "doesn't count".
At the same time, we shouldn't ignore discrimination against women, even in the rich, western countries. No, feminism hasn't become "obsolete" yet, there's still more than enough reasons to keep fighting for equality. Just the fact alone that feminism is still met with that much hate in our society, proves this.
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I can't point at a specific example or personal experience, it's just something that can be seen in worldwide statistics. To this day, a part of the wage gap can still not be explained by anything else than discrimination (numbers vary on how large that part is). I trust those statistics because they aren't just coming from obviously biased sources. At least in my country, it's the official statistics of the government that proof this discrimination, and I doubt they would just make those numbers up, considering that they aren't exactly enthusiastic about regulations.
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Oh god, how I hate these constant attacks on gaming, as if our community alone was responsible for the existence of all bad things. It's especially frustrating since I do support things like feminism or LGBT rights, but obviously only when it makes sense, when there actually is a problem.
Specific games that are clearly aimed towards a young male audience are the wrong target. By that logic, I could just as well be offended by a romantic comedy from Hollywood, because it's only showing me white, heterosexual, cisgender people that never have to deal with realistic problems like domestic violence or forced marriage. It's just ridiculous.
Again, how about real problems? Women are still getting paid less, that's a problem! But wait, you can't solve this problem with a shitstorm on a specific Twitter profile or by making enough whiny posts on Tumblr. That sucks, so let's just go after that evil developer who dares to make the male character the default option in the character creation screen!
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I can agree that games got less diverse, while the ways to make as much money as possible from a single title became more and more creative. It is true that ever since Sony entered the console market and made video games "cool", games became less and less diverse. All games need to have a dark, "mature" setting, preferably with lots of guns. It doesn't even have to be an FPS, even fantasy games need to be dark and violent, just look at the success of Dark Souls. While I do think said game is truly great, I'm still almost certain that it wouldn't have sold as well if it had a lighter setting, closer to something like World of Warcraft. It feels like the industry has found that optimal formula to make the easiest money, after all the things they tried in previous generations. Sure, a mainstream publisher could also produce and sell stuff like 3D platformers, but why should they? The commercial potential of such a title wouldn't even come close to the potential of "Multiplayer Focused FPS 529".
And yes, even Nintendo is guilty of this! They also found their easiest formula to sell as many games as possible with the least effort. Why aren't they making true 3D Marios anymore? Because they learned that 2D Marios will sell just as well while having much lower production costs. It's really that simple. So if you ever complained that every Paper Mario game became more trivial than the last one or that they won't bring back franchises like Mother/Earthbound or Metroid, there is your answer: Costs and benefits. The most efficient way to make money is to release dozens of simple Mario games. Ambition is inefficient.
But all that pessimism really only applies to the few big publishers. There is an alternative, thanks to all the indie developers out there. Sure, not all indie games are good, but you will find enough greatness among them to never have a reason to "give up gaming" or anything like that.
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If you consider a TAS to be suboptimal, I find that a very good reason to not submit. With a game this popular, it would surely be possible to get a TAS published even if it isn't very optimized. While a suboptimal publication can motivate people to make a better TAS, we should still aim for the goal of perfection.
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The idea, that you can never use the same input someone else already used, doesn't work anyway. If a part of a game is optimized to the frame and you can't make it look different without wasting time, what would you do? Inserting useless input for lagframes just so it can technically be different?
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So there's an interesting scenario in this game. At the very beginning of the run, you can click "New Game" to start playing the game from the training mission. It lasts for about 2 minutes so it's a pretty short level. All real-time runs start from selecting "New Game". However, if you select "Mission select", you can start from the Dam level, skipping the training mission entirely. So my question to you guys on TASvideo is should the TAS skip the training mission or not?
The published Nightfire TAS skipped Paris Prelude. Can this be compared to that?
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To go back to the topic of timed sports games:
Imagine if someone manages to make an optimal speed TAS of a Madden game, using complex AI, lag and luck manipulation, a clearly superhuman and very technical TAS. Why should such a run not deserve publication, while any simple platformer is acceptable?
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That's really interesting. I guess this trick isn't understood as well as people thought. But knowing the history of this game, I'm sure the community will learn more about this ^^
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I think the reason GIM crashes on N64 is that there are some graphical effects the N64 can't handle in that situation. Apparently, they found a way to lock the camera in a specific way to prevent these effects from loading.
I'm just quoting what I heard from ZFG in a stream...
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I'm finally at Totally Scrooged, after TASing Mission Control a second time to save 68 frames over my first attempt. The next two remotes and tokens might take a while to optimize, but I'm sure the RTA runners can help me with that.
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This game looks way too hard to be enjoyable in real time. But as a TAS, it was short enough to not get boring and even had some good music, I vote yes.
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This game needs a new TAS! That's why Tigame and me were testing all kinds of things over the last few days. We found that an optimal TAS will use the same route RTA does:
- Get the first remote and bonus coin in Mission Control
- Enter Totally Scrooged
- Get the elf remote and the snowboard coin
- Get the Santa remote and the house coin
- Go to Clueless in Seattle
- Get the maze remote
- Get the blood cooler remote
- Get the coin outside the level and head to Holy Moses
- Dupe coins up to 30
- Savewarp back to Mission Control and clip into Funky Town
- Get the last coin
- Wrong Warp to Rez-Raker and beat the game
We estimate a TAS to be around 12 minutes long. I already tested all the small things like menuing and settings, so we're ready to go!
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Great stuff, I hope all this research will pay off!
The only thing I'm worried about, is if all of the varialess Magmoor stuff will also work with accurate loading.
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I just switched to the newest Bizhawk, which required me to get a new prereq file as well. There are two things I noticed:
1. On the "Release history" page on TASVideos, the prereq link is outdated. On the main page of the emulator, it directly starts the download of the newest version.
2. I know that you can't include BIOS files. But could you at least create the firmware folder automatically, just so it's a bit easier to get started? Every small thing like this can prevent one of those question threads being created here by first time users.
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