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dwangoAC, I think what keylie is saying is that we wish that you cover those personal needs first, you deserve to be safe after all you've done for us all and after all you're going through.
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ALAKTORN wrote:
It’s not half interested and tired, it’s the fact they only care about the work Spikestuff puts in. He’s untouchable because of all the work he does, and I seriously doubt anything will happen to him even if his behaviour doesn’t change in the future.
Said the guy whose permaban was lifted out of pity?
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Edit: @feos below: not sure what you took issue with to spark that reply but I’d rather not derail the topic. I only said what I said because it seems pretty obvious to me and I basically do the same thing as the manager of another website’s staff so I know how it goes.
You missed the point that the ban was eventually lifted. Now I'll quote myself from IRC:
so to add to Nach's point and to make it more obvious: this witchhunt should make us pay more attention to our attitudes, both involved and uninvolved. acting poorly should be stopped in light of all this. no one wants it to repeat. not just because of bans and demotions. but because IMPROVING upon ourselves would be much better.
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c-square wrote:
1) Currently published TASses and all obsoletion attempts of those TASses are granted an exemption
I'm sure no one intended these rules to suddenly invalidate any existing publications, but I think it would be good to be explicit about it. But furthermore, in order to be able do a fair comparison, any future runs attempting to obsolete a published TAS must be done at the same CPU settings as the published TAS, regardless of whether or not it adheres to the new rules.
Obsoleting a published movie
Site rules still apply even if the published movie breaks them. We make mistakes sometimes, but that doesn't provide a green light for you to break the rules.
c-square wrote:
2) I feel as though I must be misunderstanding the following rule:
In-game settings and environment parameters that have arbitrary nature and don't belong to point 1 should be left at default values. Deviations from those are disallowed from Vault.
For example, if the game allows to set arbitrary speed factor (even limited to some range), picking arbitrary values can only belong to side branches, not to fastest completion (and%) or full completion (100%).
There are many games with in-game speed settings, allowing the player to adjust the speed of gameplay. Often times, setting these to the highest speed increases the difficulty of the game, and so acts both as way to make a faster speedrun and at the same time results in a more impressive accomplishment. Examples from my own runs include the Sierra games, Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon and, of course, the CD Man game. All of these would have suffered in both entertainment and quality if they were forced to keep to the default in-game speed settings.
I don't see why PC games should have a special rule forbidding the use of in-game options that affect gameplay that other platforms don't have to follow.
Why are you skipping the part that addresses explicit in-game options directly?
In-game settings and environment parameters that are explicitly supported as modes are allowed.
This means there are limited non-arbitrary options the game was designed to work with, for example a few speed variants. Explicit support can be proven by in-game options, official PC spec recommendations, release notes, source code logic and comments, etc. Burden of proof is on the TAS author here. If this information is completely unavailable for a given game, use the environment specs that were common and popular in this game's era.
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Finally, because refactoring in JPC-rr is such a pain, it would be good to provide authors with an official list of accepted CPUDivider settings for each year, so TASsers can refer to it and know that they're safe to choose that setting before starting. It would also help judges to know if submissions meet the guidelines. I'd be very happy to submit a list for review and official adoption.
This would help a lot, but being released the year when some CPU was available doesn't automatically mean it was supported. But for cases when no info about explicit support is known at all, this will help.
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dwangoAC wrote:
I agree with the feedback in this thread and as a result I'm done doing GDQ events if we are not prepared for them.From here on out, all GDQ content must be in a state ready to show to an audience before submissions open. Period.
This is a very wise decision, I love it.
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I can say, however, that TASVideos forums has clearly not been a place where people have stepped up to help. Dacicus did post in the thread but it really seems like most of TASVideos just sort of ignored this event. Heck, it's clear there's fatigue on the financial side too as I'm still $2,325 short of my funding goals (I haven't added up all expenses to find out exact numbers but my estimate wasn't far off). The point is, TASVideos just isn't as excited at working on this. Compare the activity in the earlier events - we're at the 5 year mark now and interest has waned.
One of the aspects of the earlier events is that they were new to us, so a lot of people were interested in what they are and what happens, so they were excited about being a part of it. Another aspect is how creative we can be as a crowd when it doesn't require too much technicality. Brain Age was a brilliant example of both: it was a novel concept, especially for a speedrunning marathon, and all you have to do is just grabbing a specific pen and drawing funny stuff.
Then there's also a matter of how critically help is needed in people's opinion. It's kinda hard to keep constantly telling people that something cool won't even happen without lots of help, but that seems to be the only way to convince the crowd that their help is needed. Maybe there should be a bullet list with all the tasks, sorted by priority and by how solid the current situation is, so everyone could take a 2-second glance and instantly know what is needed and what they can contribute to? With people involved/assigned/expected, updating the list as someone joins or quits.
Rockman minus infinity "co-op"
Movie done Nach
Script written adelikat
Need one more commentator Aktan
REHEARSAL NOT STARTED!!! Masterjun
Portal "IRL Masterjun%"
Commentator fully ready ThunderAxe31
Movie done up to ACE Dacicus
PAYLOAD NOT DONE!!! HALP Masterjun
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Since everyone hates to click links where such a list/table can be hosted in all its glory and formatted easily, I do believe it'd be best to host it right in the thread. Formatting it in the thread is a nightmare, but maybe someone would agree to write a forum table generator? That'd be useful for endless future.
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But it is a suboptimal character. I received a movie where the first Bunny fight is 400 frames shorter than yours.
For games like this (boring unlicensed fighting games), a movie using a suboptimal character can't be accepted, because it has a goal that contradicts Wiki: FastestCompletion rules.
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Why do you hit the wall here?
You seem to be avoiding damage there, but you still take a lot of it in that room, was it the best place for a trade-off?
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Why do you put "Uses a suboptimal character" in the movie tags?
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I think the cooldown for publishing is 3-4 hours. For pushing reencodes, I don't know if anyone wanted it to be shorter.
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About YT comments. If someone is as knowledgeable and passionate as those people (?) are, why not register here and actually influence our decisions? They limit their passion to the place where none of us would care about it.
Mothrayas wrote:
I would really like to see an explanation from Spikestuff for these comments, and an explanation from the senior publisher(s) in charge of his staff position why he is still allowed a staff role in light of this.
There wasn't agreement among staff that all those events were planned out and executed by Spike, and I can't make demotion decisions if there's such disagreement.
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well the answer is "In-game settings and environment parameters that have arbitrary nature and don't belong to point 1 should be left at default values", my question is still: why these numbers? what's based off?
This is described in details in the post I linked there. Also this rule means in-game numbers, not numbers in emulators.
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Grogir wrote:
(I can submit the bug later in git if needed)
Yes.
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The proper solution would be to remember them all, and restoring defaults on request. But I didn't feel it was necessary. Edit the internal ones to experiment, use custom to remember the final command. Making them not editable will make experimenting way more complicated.
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We don't require adding other people as authors, if you had to use their input just because it's the fastest. There's no automatic authorship for optimal strategies. Only if you copy a huge part of their movie and add a bit of your input here and there, then it might require co-authorship. Or if you copied their artistic choices. But if there's no other way to make it faster, this fastest input can be reused freely.
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Ни в чем. Прост прикол.
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It could technically obsolete the 1p run since it's now faster, but the play kinda different so I'm not sure. Will take a really close look.
Also somehow I get the game hash mismatch when I install everything following the annotations.
Lossless dump if anyone wants (ffv1): https://yadi.sk/d/WYYgggg4OhVnLQ
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You're right. What res are you setting btw?
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Is ppu cycle printed in the trace log or shown in any other way?
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Maybe vsync wasn't an explicit user option, but it was clearly an option for a game developer. I've had a talk with Ilari back in the day about DOS games.
<feos> the fact that they go that high is more of a bug than a feature I guess?
<Ilari> Yes, the lack of vsync (or ridiculous vsync speed) in any realtime game is a bug..
<feos> but is it optional for them at least, or they completely fail to limit themselves in any sensible/useful/playable way?
<Ilari> There are games that completely fail to limit themselves, and the effective framerate goes to infinity as CPU speed goes to infinity. Then there are games that fail to sensibly limit themselves, and altough the effective framerate saturates at some point, that saturation point is unplayably fast.
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22:24:19 <Masterjun> ah yes
22:24:20 <Masterjun> windows 10
22:24:31 <Masterjun> there again to ruin my day
22:25:10 <MemoryTAS> hi
22:25:46 <Masterjun> I'm trying to open a thing in the settings and there is literally an error
22:26:20 <MemoryTAS> As opposed to a figurative error?
22:26:55 <Masterjun> nah when I say "literally" it's actually implied that I mean "figuratively literally"
22:27:00 <Masterjun> such as when I'm saying "I'm literally dying"
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Good point. I tried to formulate the rule I linked so that it talks about general things, not even just gameplay speed. In JPCRR, environment configuration is limited to CPU speed, so it was natural to only account for gameplay speed as the main factor. Now that we have clear rules on PC environments, the JPCRR rules do indeed need some rewording to match. Maybe they are obsolete altogether.
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Yes, I think as long as gameplay doesn't speed up or slow down, we should allow faster CPU emulation, and when gameplay does speed up or slow down regardless of the emulated CPU speed, we should require the rule I linked to be followed. Which means, try to provide proofs that the game was supposed to run on whatever you're emulating or simulating. And if your movie abuses unintended environment, it can't be any% or 100%.
With this in mind, the timelines of CPUs and games don't have to match exactly, but it's expected that intended environment is used. If that means reducing the CPU speed in JPCRR, it must be reduced.
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For games like this (boring unlicensed fighting games), a movie using a suboptimal character can't be accepted, because it has a goal that contradicts Wiki: FastestCompletion rules.
You seem to be avoiding damage there, but you still take a lot of it in that room, was it the best place for a trade-off?