If you're referring to my post, I'm talking about all the information we put into the video stream. Only necessary stuff should be there, the rest is way better served as external text.
Warp wrote:
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There are two things I'm against in general.
The first is having links in the video. The thing with hyperlinks is that you're meant to click on them, not type them in. Most people use Google to type "tasvideos donkey kong 2 102%" because complete words you don't have to recite are faster to type in than sequences like "http://" and "3578S.html" that are meant to be understood by computers, not people. This saves time and isn't annoying, so surrounding useful information by noise makes it harder to digest. "The homepage of this movie is TASVideos.org" is quite enough for any non-braindead person to find what TASVideos is.
The second is hardcoding any information that is not completely necessary into the video stream. What in my opinion classifies as completely necessary, in decreasing order of importance:
1) that it is a TAS*;
2) what game is it;
3) what is the goal and the end time;
4) who is the author;
5) where to get more stuff like this;
6) who to go to if the video itself has problems.
All the rest should either be in soft form or moved to the text accompanying the video. Forcing that huge mass of text in particular is pointless because it conveys very little useful information aside from what is completely necessary, yet makes digesting this information a work. Assuming that anybody except the true enthusiasts likes doing more work than what is completely necessary, or assuming that anybody is as great an enthusiast as yourself, are symptoms of acute brain linuxitis. When you make something as simple as digesting textual information a work by laying it over moving video, forcing somebody to rewind to "frame 0" and pause, the only thought that I expect from somebody who hasn't been prepared for this is "fuck that".
* — Rerecord count is completely unnecessary, especially since people who don't know much about TASes don't even know what a rerecord is, but it serves as an additional flag of tool-assistance and thus it's likely not a good idea to drop it from mandatory subtitles. Stuff like the amount of frames, though, is completely pointless because only the authors of the movie would be able to put that number into perspective.
Warp wrote:
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The fact that the underlying game image makes it much harder to read, and that the viewer is supposed to pause the TAS (and thus stop watching anyway), renders it pointless to cram all of that text into the video stream. It can be read on the video description page, or publication page at TASVideos.
Warp wrote:
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I find that somewhat less than completely unreadable.
What's the benefit in trying to stuff as much information on the screen as possible, all at the same time, overlaying the game image? Who wants to read all of that instead of watching?
Warp wrote:
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nanogyth, "0-star" is the correct usage in this case. In the article you've linked it's used the same way: "a five-pound note", "a three-year-old child".
Warp wrote:
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If a man wants to know how sexism affects women, I suggest he asks his sister, or a girl friend, about her experiences. Most women have a lot of stories to tell.
So I have shown this thread and the IRC quotes accompanying it to several women I know who can read English, including a girl I had intimate relationship with, a couple gamer girls I know, and my mother. None of them saw anything inherently misogynistic in the concept of friend zone; moreover, all of them were familiar with the experience firsthand. None of them who played games thought male gamers were driving them out of the hobby by any means; rather, the opposite took place—boy gamers that were their friends or romantic interests invited them to play some, although in these cases boys didn't make a significant difference.
All of women I asked, however, expressed dissatisfaction with feminists' behavior here in this thread, calling it unnecessary and purposefully rowdy, as well as hypocritical. One of them said (verbatim), "the only thing worse than a feminist is a male feminist". My mom had even more to say: "even if the idea of rape culture will go away at some point, it will be substituted by a similarly inflated concept, as drama queens and people with inferiority complex who instigate stupid events like SlutWalks will continue seeing "rape" everywhere, including completely harmless things, and victimize themselves. Like bulimics, they are simply insatiable; they enjoy wallowing in the attention and hysteria that helps them find a blame target for mishaps they can't take personal responsibility for." This opinion was very illuminative to me.
It appears, dear feminists, that not every woman agrees with your position. You might want to think what exactly you're representing.
Can we still expect that you address this or this post, or at the very least apologize to the community for your unnecessarily aggressive and juvenile behavior? Or is it very mature to start a drama and run away as soon as the rhetoric pool dries up?
Warp wrote:
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Depends if skipping them is even more boring than fighting them (some of the fights have decent entertainment potential). Also, which bosses would be skipped this way?
Warp wrote:
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Please tell me what about this you have a problem with
Yes, several problems actually.
1. Nobody here, at least up to the point where you first chimed in, seriously insisted the entitlement thing was clever or right, or that it makes sense to complain about it. Nobody were demonizing women, either.
2. What we, or at least I, have been discussing is how not to get one's sexual advancements thwarted by one's own incompetence. This applies to men and women equally, in fact. There are girls who get friendzoned just as well because they're too shy and indecisive, and make no mistake, they're frustrated about it just as well.
3. I don't know what you consider sex to be, but for me, it's a part of a fulfilling, intimate, responsible relationship in the first place. It is not an end goal, but an important sign of mutual trust and affection. There are women—and I have known several of them personally—who are manipulative to an extent where they attempt using men enamored by them, pretending to invest as much in such relationship as their partner, and demanding affection they are not ready to show themselves—and yes, that is most easily illustrated by lack of sex. This is not friendship I'm talking about—not even close—but it is a part of the "friend zone" problem, and this part is not misogynistic in the least: some women just happen to be shameless, for various reasons. And the topic of the discussion in such case is how to recognize such patterns of behavior and avoid them, not how all womenz r evul. The world is not black and white, there are many facets to every problem, and you can't say it's always only one side who is always at fault. That kind of attitude denies the other side's agency, or any other kind of involvement, in making things how they are.
Does that answer your question, and does that change anything for you?
Warp wrote:
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Again, maybe the reason women don't go for you is because you creep them out with such a cavalier attitude?
But this thread was started because the whole phenomenon of friend zone is about women not going for men because of certain attitudes and other mistakes of the latter... at which point you started claiming that such a standpoint denies their agency. Man, I don't have enough faces to palm. When you said you wouldn't post again you should have followed your word.
Warp wrote:
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While this movie movie is faster, it is being rejected. Style matters, and in that category it fails to the published movie.
1) The left+right "gliding" is used too much. It seems it saves time in one spot. It should be used there only.
2) More variety after the boss fights would be nice
3) Use the U version (even though it syncs on either).
I hope you take the time to make these changes as this could be a 10/10 movie for me.
The current published movie has some of the most entertaining stylistics seen in a (relatively) simple game. It has been decided that 16 frames of improvement were not worth throwing this entertainment out of the window.
I believe nowadays NG2 can be beaten even faster, though; ask Scumtron if unsure.
Warp wrote:
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To a great deal of the community, the issue of women's rights is more of a joke than a serious discussion. I'm not saying that to be mean, I'm saying that because I think it's true, particularly after this discussion.
What great deal? Less than a dozen people who bothered to argue with you on the subject is a great deal now?
Note that all of them—I repeat, all of them—actually agree with the concept of equal rights, equal pay and so on. I haven't seen anybody on the entire site denying any women their rights, and I can well see why they're poking fun at your righteous outbursts: because you're assuming the worst (which I expect to be far from the truth) and getting up in arms about it without any kind of proof. Have you made great advancements in your mission by fighting the windmills?
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It's not so strange that someone would get angry about that.
Yeah, I bet Upthorn witnessed how some of us did something bad to a woman, so he insulted the whole community and stormed off. Or not? What exactly did he see? For instance, he would never see me do that kind of thing because I just don't do it. What would be my fault then? Should I or anybody else here be at fault in the first place?
Behavior like that is why the modern Western culture is so damn uptight. Being an average decent person is not enough anymore; you're always being under suspicion. Can't joke about anything—being not completely serious on any touchy (read: every one of them) issue is a crime. One can be considered dangerous and put under arrest if one just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. (Happened to my friend who just happens to love children, being like a big kid himself. They've held him in a police office because he happened to be taking photos of some random kids on a playground and smiling. Way to fucking go, society.) Men become afraid of intimacy because they're exposing themselves to legal abuse—if a girl says you raped her you will never prove otherwise. Even if you aren't put in jail, you'll never see the end of it from your peers, colleagues, and random people who will hate you on principle. Every personal thing that goes wrong but could be sorted out on personal level is used as a vessel to promote some agenda or dish out some legal punishment. People become afraid of each other and shut off. There is just no place for positive emotions to breed in such hostile environment because everything is seen as abusive and people are being given more power than can handle (and, to be fair, truly deserve). This goes about everybody, not women in particular.
Please understand that when you're saying that a lot of rapes go unreported, it's often because the victims don't want this pity train, this mass hysteria ignited by people like you surrounding them. They want to go back to their normal life at all costs, without all of this stupid unwanted attention. The militant attitude, the generalizations, using your own assumptions as the basis for your claims—all of it has to go. It's not a way to solve problems, has never been.
Warp wrote:
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But that was somehow construed as an attack on the male gender by me.
I don't want to bring in the gender debate, what I'm particularly unhappy with is your and Upthorn's attack on the community. Somehow the entirety of TASVideos is at fault. "This community sucks", "this community is the worst". The fuck? What did all the other people ever do to you or any women?
If you want to blame somebody in your crusade, fine, that's your call. But don't blame people who aren't even taking part in your fights. You're doing a hell of a disservice to whatever idea you're promoting.
And assuming things about people you don't know isn't any better. If I don't subscribe to your particular ideology, it doesn't mean I have to be forcefully stuffed into a false dichotomy, thankyouverymuch.
Warp wrote:
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Warp, unfortunately Dada is already past that step. I've posted the juiciest excerpts in the IRC quote thread just so he doesn't forget or deny them later.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry
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Dada, on topic of equality.
<dada__> I really don't give a damn about a bunch of idiot, puerile people like Swordless and rog have to say about feminism
<dada__> bunch of frustrated boys
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<dada__> see, here we go. this is proof that TASVideos is a bunch of puerile boys who have no concept of what feminism is about because they can't look past the walls of their basement.
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<dada__> which serves to prove my point that TASVideos is mostly just a bunch of stupid, juvenile men.
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<dada__> everything is about sex to Swordless. typical.
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<dada__> Johannes`: I don't even know what cultural marxism means. I know what marxism means, and I know what feminism is, but I'm pretty sure you're just spouting random things now that are used to defame feminism (by associating it, somehow, with marxism)
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<dada__> another bottom line: Swordless is a huge misogynist and a deeply flawed individual.
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<Enterim> dada, no one is going to be convinced when you attack people
<dada__> I don't particularly care. I mean every word of it. none of this is swear words, these are factual statements.
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<dada__> moozooh: I do genuinely believe a great deal of the internet is comprised of stupid, frustrated males.
<moozooh> dada__: well you're being sexist then, congratulations
<dada__> moozooh: oh boy, looks like a male got his feelings hurt
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<dada__> I don't ignore men's rights, actually. neither does feminism.
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<dada__> Johannes`: it's not hypocritical. the point all along was that there's a society-wide bias against women. my saying "stupid males" doesn't mean I'm somehow in support of a society-wide bias against men.
<dada__> that's just one statement by one person, it doesn't even compare. <--- ???
<moozooh> dada__: so if i refer to stupid females, would that be alright with you?
<dada__> moozooh: are you a woman?
<moozooh> why do i need to be a woman for that?
<dada__> there's a difference between a male saying "stupid males", and a male saying "stupid females".
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<dada__> see, here we are--finally, a serious argument. and it's not about feminism, it's about men being angry that I made the comment that there are a stupid men on tasvideos.
<dada__> we're capable of it, it seems
<moozooh> lol
<dada__> just only when certain topics are concerned.
<Swordless> Please stop calling me a stupid man, it isn't true cause I'm really smart
<dada__> you people are incapable of getting angry about something except when your own rights are concerned
<moozooh> your horse is so high i'm afraid you're about to suffocate in the stratosphere
<dada__> oh boy
<dada__> yeah, it's all me
<moozooh> indeed, and you're not getting better
<dada__> what you want is for me to say "I'm wrong about everything, and I'm a hypocrite", and you're not gonna be satisfied until I do
<dada__> moozooh
<dada__> so forget it, you're not seriously discussing anything
<moozooh> no, i want you to stop assuming things
<moozooh> it's very easy
<Kyman> "you people" you're arguing about equal rights to us, and then treating us people as a lower intelligence group, i don't care if you didn't say it, you're implying it
<dada__> and you don't care about women's rights, you only care about people immediately having to grovel and apologize when even the most marginally offensive thing is said about a group that you belong to, moozooh
<moozooh> you're assuming things again
<dada__> moozooh: based on the fact you didn't get serious about this until when I had to grovel and apologize to you
<moozooh> i don't give a shit about your apologies, i just don't like hypocrites
<dada__> and I don't like people who are incapable of caring about things that pertain to groups that they belong to, but get hysterical when even a *marginally* offensive thing is said that even potentially applies to them
<dada__> *to group that they don't belong to
Warp wrote:
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I would like to implore everyone to be more aware of how your actions and attitudes might make women feel uncomfortable or unworthy and try to avoid these actions.
I put in conscious effort to be more aware of how my actions and attitudes might make anybody feel uncomfortable or unworthy, and try to avoid these actions. I understand if it doesn't make me as worthy a human being in your or Dada's book, but that's how I believe in equality. Not singling some people out and ignoring the rest.
Warp wrote:
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Enterim, what is the oppression you're talking about? Could you point me to some examples? Cause I sure as hell didn't see woman oppression to be institutionalized or approved in any way during my lifetime. Am I living in the wrong country?
Warp wrote:
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Weaker than their drive to keep themselves hydrated? Well, that's... a pretty interesting juxtaposition. I bet their breathing drive is also quite high. My defecating drive is immense if I mix cucumbers with milk, etc.
It feels like apples and oranges. Different people have different priorities in different situations and mental conditions; it's not a fixed thing by any means, so studies like this prove very little at best.
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Why do you think we live in a "puritan society"?
A good deal of Western cultures, especially American as I see it, are very uptight about sexual relationships, body image, and physical contact in general. To the point where being a healthy 18+ y.o. white male puts you into a very unfavorable position as you have all the social burden and none of the benefits the others enjoy. Happen to be looking or being around children you don't know? Well, you might be a molester. Ogling a girl who dresses like an auction item? You're harassing her because she doesn't want you in particular to be looking at her. That kind of thing. You're still here, Chamale? That's what your beloved feminists have given us: a nonsensical set of double standards where males are legally put at females' mercy at pretty much every opportunity. Equality my ass.
Johannes wrote:
fschmidt has a theory of this
And it is a good theory. But as with most evolutionary bases, it is obsolete in our day when we have more social freedom than ever before, and enough technological advancements to control our childbirth with little to no inconvenience.
Warp wrote:
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