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Post subject: Re: TEM's Random Mini-Papers!
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Congratulations to Krysimys for finally starting up some conversation!
Kyrsimys wrote:
theenglishman wrote:
Some of the most-viewed videos on YouTube consist of bails, falls and slapstick of people trying impossible stunts. We laugh at them to make ourselves feel more secure.
How did you come to this conclusion?
A quick search on YouTube under "funny stunts" shows that of the top 20 results, at least half of them have over 3,000 views. One even has over 750,000 views.
Kyrsimys wrote:
I wouldn't say that the reason I laugh at Jackass-stunts is that it makes me feel more secure. I just enjoy watching people hurt themselves.
Have you ever thought, "Wow, those people are stupid! I wouldn't do something like that..." Jackass movies are a form of escapism. The intent is to use themselves as objects for laughter so we can ignore anything stupid that we do and focus on them instead. My next paper should be up tomorrow. It will be on a more serious topic, however...
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Post subject: TEM's Random Mini-Papers!
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I've decided that, to further probe intellectual discussion on this thread, every now and then I'll post my opinion on something in recent or nearly-recent news, stupid concepts or anything in general. Please feel free to add your own thoughts to what I write, or even go against me. So, here's the first in my series: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We ♥ Stupidity “This game is shit. Not even regular shit. Putrid, roughed-up road kill diarrhea shit. I’d rather slurp diarrhea up a rhinoceros’ anus-hole.” Thus sayeth James Rolfe, a director for the Internet online community CineMassacre, as his alias, the Angry Nintendo Nerd. The Nerd’s videos, ripping into old (and bad) games on old video game consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, Sega Master System and Sega Genesis, Rolfe pokes fun at game reviewers who take their reviews too seriously, using excessive profanity and references to feces for deliberately cheap laughs, all the while downing pint after pint of Rolling Rock beer. The point is that his stuff is so stupid it’s hilarious. His videos inspired the work of several other online reviewers on YouTube, such as Armake21, UnderCoverFilmer and the Grumpy Gamer Bitch. In a recent interview with Blogcritics.org, Rolfe admitted, “When I first created the ‘Angry Nintendo Nerd’ [now known as the AVGN] in 2004, it was just an in-joke for my friends. I had no idea that so many other people would find it so amusing. These are targeted at mature gamers, people my age who grew up in the time of NES & SNES, but I guess everyone's interested in the past. Somehow, it just spread like wildfire. I abandoned most of my other film projects for the meantime, to try and keep up with the nerd videos, since people wanted more of it.” Rolfe should know why his kinds of videos are in such high demand. Deliberately stupid humour is hot. From the AVGN to modern radio commercials, media outlets are constantly using deliberately dumb and cheap laughs to reach their audiences. For some reason, humans love stupidity in one form or another. For example, popular films like Jackass show stupid people doing stupid things. Some of the most-viewed videos on YouTube consist of bails, falls and slapstick of people trying impossible stunts. We laugh at them to make ourselves feel more secure. However, there are limits to the level of stupidity which stupid ads can achieve. A recent ad by Sony promoting the PlayStation Portable shows a white teenager trying to rap, entitled “All I Want for Christmas is a PSP.” The ad, along with a painfully obvious fake blog (the now-removed http://www.alliwantforxmasisapsp.com/blog/default.aspx), resulted in an uproar of protest against Sony, whose reputation had already taken a hit from several untruthful promises they made about the PlayStation 3. People like the AVGN use themselves as deliberate self-deprecation magnets. We love poking fun at other people. Their pain and suffering is oddly amusing. It’s a sick side of our nature, but it’s existent nonetheless. Thanks to people like Rolfe, we can indulge in our own sickest amusement at their expense. Thanks for the laughs.
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I have a movie named after me! (partially at least...)
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Upon closer investigation, there are "qubit"s (which are not me) at Zimbra, Gearbox Forums (technically he's QuBit), TweakTown...the list goes on. See what I mean?
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Post subject: The Unofficial Doppelganger Topic!
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How many others share your username? As theenglishman, I have quite a few - not counting all the times I signed on to separate forums. As qubit, it's hard to judge. As my YouTube profile name (pwnedTAS), I have none :(.
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Used to have 25 gigs of files from this site. But i deleted them all and now I'm watching one at a time and then deleting them.
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mwl wrote:
AKA wrote:
Whats happended? No updated for quite a while.
Not to stalk him or anything, but according to his Myspace profile, he seems to have had a kid recently. That would explain why he's been so busy.
That would do it. Just as a hypothetical: if Guano were to pull out on paternity leave, would anyone continue the run while he's gone? If so, who?
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Nice. I'd love to see what opportunities these glitches can provide. Oh, and it's also possible to pass through walls without getting hit.
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Titus Kwok wrote:
most of the PoP games have been pretty buggy, making for some interesting runs. The GC version of this had a bug that ruined my savegame >:(
Well, the GameCube version was programmed by one person. There you go. Anyway, important discovery: the very edge of spiked platforms don't register damage, so any puzzles that involve switches which turn them round can be skipped.
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Post subject: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (WIP watchers requested)
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I don't plan to do a run on this, but I will help anyone who wants to with sequence breaking and the like. In the meantime, check out this amazing guide on the GBA port. Luckily for us TASers, it seems this port was not given the polish gameplay-wise that its console parent was!
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An insane orgy of shooting, boosting, barrel rolls and really primitive 3D graphics. Yes vote and 8.5/10
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I meant that rail games are generally poor choices for TASing (especially when you can't control speed). Sorry for not making that clear.
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Rail games = suxxors. Period.
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What? Frame advance in Gens? Where?
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Redoing from BT2 because of lipucd's new discoveries and some optimization quips and lag reduction. :( I really want this to get published and thus need it at the highest quality possible. EDIT: Shaved more than half a second off BT2! I won't be posting as many WIPs as frequently as before because of homework and such.
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Man, this game has some SERIOUS draw-distance issues (and seam issues as well, like seeing the gaps in the water, or is that just the plugin? DeHackEd?) Anyway, excellent run, and voting yes. It seemed a tiny bit unoptimized, but it was entertaining nonetheless. And I totally agree with you, this is a mediocre port of the excellent PSX version. I rented this game for a week (for my now-broken PSX *sniff*) and liked it a lot. Very funny and witty. And those pop culture references...too many...pop culture references...*brain explodes*
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Yeah, just realized that, probably because the animation movement causes more lag than the animation of the veggies bopping their heads. For now though, I'm going to submit the run as it is (after I finish Four Seasonings). I'll work on an improved run while that one's being judged.
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A new WIP, brought to you by the Sleep and Alertness Clinic!
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I'm going to be in a sleep lab from this Friday-Sunday afternoon, so I'll continue working on the run but won't be connected to the web. btw, out of curiosity, what exactly does the emoticon @w@;;; stand for?
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Okay, I officially HATE the last fucking level of this zone. Anyway, here's a WIP completing all of Bumblyburg Tower, including a butchered boss run. I don't HOW the hell I'm supposed to line up the timing on this crap...
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I want a thousand words' compensation!
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My biggest concern is going to be manipulating the physics of the Breakout boss. That is going to be really tricky...
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