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Posted: 8/30/2015 8:34 AM
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When you charge a conductor, to a very good approximation the charge is uniformly distributed throughout the volume. It's the lowest-energy configuration (because clumping charges together raises the potential energy associated with their mutual electrostatic repulsion) and, because it's a conductor, there's nothing to stop the charges moving about freely to find the lowest-energy state.
Posted: 8/21/2015 3:03 PM
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Can we stick Malleoz's TTYD run in here, at least until the new version he's working on is published?
Posted: 8/19/2015 2:25 AM
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Warp wrote:
(Although that's not a new idea. The movie Next is essentially exactly that, sans the fourth-wall breaking. The movie Funny Games also has hints of that, including fourth-wall breaking. I recommend both.)
More famously, Groundhog Day is basically the continual reloading of savestates (albeit with the limitation that you can never actually save a state when you are happy with it).
Posted: 8/14/2015 9:26 AM
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Agreed with everything TehBerral said.
Posted: 8/14/2015 12:16 AM
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So basically what you are saying is that you deliberately submitted a run for what you thought was an unpublishable category, and it turned out to be published anyway? I agree that there is no need for a separate warpless category at this point, for the reasons you outlined.
Posted: 8/8/2015 3:28 PM
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arandomgameTASer wrote:
[2653] GB Pokémon: Red Version "Gotta Catch 'Em All!" by MrWint in 1:54:56.62 is an excellent example of how glitchy gen 1 Pokemon games are.
It's a fantastic run, but not (for me) star-worthy because it's somewhat repetitive, using the same glitches over and over again to farm otherwise unobtainable Pokemon. The pi run is short and sweet, and also demonstrates Pokemon's brokenness pretty well.
Posted: 8/4/2015 10:55 PM
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I agree with Tompa that, in future, we don't have to go for crazy total control stuff every time, but at least have new TASes to show. The problem is there's no guarantee when a TAS will be completed (you never know what's going to hold you up for weeks while you search for that extra frame you're sure you can squeeze out if you just jig the subpixels around a bit), so you can't really assign a TASer to make such-and-such a run to be unveiled at GDQ.
Posted: 8/4/2015 7:24 PM
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Yeah, these first three TAS blocks were like the Godfather trilogy: the first two were incredible, whereas the third, while still great, couldn't live up to those heights. To be honest, even if we had shown some custom-made ACE run for this event, it wouldn't have been as impressive as the first time, because it's something people have already seen before. The problem is that the showcase has to do something more impressive every year just to get the same amount of mind-blowery. That even the Megaman TAS (which in my opinion is still the greatest TAS ever made) got a relatively lukewarm response makes me doubt that we'll ever be able to reach that level of hype again.
Posted: 8/4/2015 3:53 PM
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Save the frames! I feel like, at this point in the game's tool-assisted evolution, real time is a better measure than in-game time. Lag reduction seems like the most significant thing where there might still be room for further optimisation.
Posted: 8/4/2015 3:36 PM
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Oh also, I'm not sure whether it's faster to buy the Potion than pick up the tree Potion in Viridian, but it's definitely faster to pick up the Potion in front of the Bug Catcher than to pick the tree Potion. Another small route change: could you underflow Pokeballs instead of Potions? That, combined with manipulating critical hits from Missingno could get you into redbar faster and hence end the fight sooner.
Posted: 8/4/2015 3:22 PM
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Well, Pokemon Red/Blue categories are a real clusterfuck to be honest. Someone was bound to make this TAS eventually. Even at the time MrWint made his previous TAS, he knew of this route... so honestly I have no idea why he did it his way. To complicate matters, this movie was a relatively rare example of a double-obsoletion: it obsoleted primorial#soup's super-old run with the Safari Zone version of the Walk Through Walls glitch, (the previous "no warps" run) and MrWint's TAS that used the Transform glitch (the "warped" run), as it was faster than both. This movie would obsolete MrWint's Transform glitch TAS (as a faster "warped" version) but not primorial#soup's run (different categories because this is "warped"), and it's questionable whether or not it would obsolete MrWint's "Brock Through Walls and then beat the elite four" TAS depending on whether or not you want different categories or whether at this point they are too similar to warrant it. As I understand it, this now means we have a situation where obsoletion is no longer transitive (ie A can obsolete B and B can obsolete C, but that does not mean A obsoletes C). I feel like this is not a good thing.
Posted: 8/3/2015 5:24 PM
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Most of my favourites have been mentioned already, though one I'd like to add is Sonic Boom. I knew the game was broken, but damn... and I really respected that an actual Sonic Boom developer donated during the run thanking the runner that he could get something worthwhile out of their shit game.
Posted: 7/22/2015 10:46 PM
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I love you Malleoz! Also I really commend the audio commentary, I wish more runs had these.
Posted: 7/6/2015 5:08 PM
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Zarmakuizz wrote:
I saw some funny videos "Luigi wins by doing nothing" from Mario Party and would love such a TAS.
Except that such runs would be indistinguishable from human play... so what's the point in doing them with TAS?
Posted: 5/18/2015 9:55 AM
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Radiant wrote:
I'm not really seeing the point of this. It seems to me that any technically interesting run already qualifies to be in Moon tier.
Well strictly the Moon Tier is for runs with high entertainment value. It is possible for a run to have low entertainment but be a significant technical achievement, and to be non-vaultable. (BoboTheKing's run where he maxes the score in the Beetlemania minigame of Super Mario RPG being one example off the top of my head.)
Posted: 5/15/2015 8:26 AM
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Yay, I can't wait for BoboTheKing's Beetlemania to be rejudged and accepted :p As far as I am concerned the only reason to have a tier for such runs is for reasons of preservation. But as things like the Pokemon Plays Twitch video are already available elsewhere, I don't see the need to have a special tier in tasvideos for them.
Posted: 4/1/2015 5:56 PM
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I was reminded of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6PxRwgjzZw
Posted: 3/31/2015 9:10 AM
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So this was accepted for moons... why has it moved to the vault so quickly?
Posted: 3/30/2015 5:25 PM
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As brilliant a run as it is, I think Super Scribblenauts is too long to be appropriate. There are multi-hour runs at A/SGDQ, but I kind of see the TAS block as a time when you have to show off as many different things as possible, rather than just one run. If you wanted to show a "funny" TAS then Brain Age might surprise the audience a little. I'd suggest the Pokemon Yellow dancing pi's as well but obviously it's already been done, with a more impressive payload to boot.
Posted: 2/15/2015 1:35 AM
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Warp wrote:
I was reading the list of Nobel laureates in physics, and I noticed that the vast majority of those prizes are for particle/quantum physics and electromagnetism, and only a very small minority of them are for other subjects such as astrophysics. (Even Einstein got his Nobel prize for particle physics rather than his most famous work.) I wonder why that is.
Particle physics is the most fundamental area of physics; electronics has the most practical application. This is why these areas tend to get given the nod. Einstein got given a prize for explaining the photoelectric effect because general relativity was still not universally accepted at the time, and had little experimental data to back it up. The wording of the award is "services to theoretical physics", which may well have meant the committee thought GE was worth acknowledgement but did not want to condone a theory with no experimental evidence.
Posted: 2/6/2015 6:54 PM
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Jigwally: How much faster is this than your real-time records? I imagine not very much.
Posted: 2/6/2015 6:39 PM
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Can't watch this without an encode, but this sounds publishable to me. It's not like, say, football/soccer, which is a fixed-length game, so winning as quickly as possible is non-trivial.
Posted: 1/28/2015 5:24 PM
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I can start complaining that I never win awards because this site discriminates against people who haven't submitted any TASes :p
Posted: 1/24/2015 10:50 PM
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I hate the word "gamer" - chiefly because it encourages an "us and them" mentality which can put off newcomers to gaming and blinker those who already play them. Oddly enough, no other group of hobbyists seems to take such aggressive possession of their hobby. You would never see a bookworm or an amateur chef or a wife swapper telling other people that they couldn't share their hobby with them, or that they didn't deserve to because they were a "filthy casual". Anyway, TASers are gamers because they all play, or have played, video games conventionally too. How else do you get into TASing?
Posted: 1/18/2015 6:38 PM
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Accept for publication, but condemn to the depths of the Vault. The only argument I can see for not publishing is that this plays on easy difficulty - but the rules do state that in the case of a movie that skips to the end you don't have to select the hardest difficulty. Whether you consider this skipping to the end is debatable, though - you technically never actually play any Scrabble.
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