If you have a published run that you would prefer an alternate metric for, or if you know of a published run that has requested such in the past, post it here and we'll change it as soon as we're able to.
This seems clear-cut, so I updated this metric. We should probably standardize whether commas are used as a separator for the numbers, as opposed to thin space, full stop, etc. in some countries our viewers might live in. Is there any one right answer?
This seems clear-cut, so I updated this metric. We should probably standardize whether commas are used as a separator for the numbers, as opposed to thin space, full stop, etc. in some countries our viewers might live in. Is there any one right answer?
Yes. For score, commas are best. It avoids confusion with screen readers. People will likely be more confused with a period when reading the score. For time, the way we've been doing it is best. While it may seem like the best idea to use the format shown in game, screen reading programs only read the time correctly with a decimal point at the end: 2:16.73 is read as "2 16 point 7 3". This avoids confusion because I can tell where the minutes and seconds are separated. My screen reader reads 2'16"73 as "2 16 73", no real separation between the seconds and the decimal value.
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This seems clear-cut, so I updated this metric. We should probably standardize whether commas are used as a separator for the numbers, as opposed to thin space, full stop, etc. in some countries our viewers might live in. Is there any one right answer?
Yes. For score, commas are best. It avoids confusion with screen readers. People will likely be more confused with a period when reading the score. For time, the way we've been doing it is best. While it may seem like the best idea to use the format shown in game, screen reading programs only read the time correctly with a decimal point at the end: 2:16.73 is read as "2 16 point 7 3". This avoids confusion because I can tell where the minutes and seconds are separated. My screen reader reads 2'16"73 as "2 16 73", no real separation between the seconds and the decimal value.
This sounds sensible to me, thanks for the feedback!
Updated both existing Celeste publications after asking the Celeste TASing community directly.
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All Doom publications are aimed for IGT.
I wish them all to be updated for IGT, but if I'm restricted to my publications, then I have updated them here.
TASing is like making a film: only the best takes are shown in the premier.
https://xkcd.com/3246/
All Doom publications are aimed for IGT.
I wish them all to be updated for IGT, but if I'm restricted to my publications, then I have updated them here.
Done, including the obsoleted ones.
To everyone: Note that changing publications forces an update on youtube, and we have a quota (don't remember how big), so it's good to not do it too often. Turns out it's high enough.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Question: does score make sense to display as a metric if there's a clearly defined maximum? To me, those always felt more akin to 100% runs, where you follow a predefined goal but otherwise just aim for speed all the way.
If yes, then [3386] PSX TOCA Touring Car Championship "max points" by Noxxa in 10:30:25.84 has a maximum score of 384 (there are 24 races, you get 16 points max per race, 1 for winning qualifying and 15 for winning the race, with no penalty deductions, so max score is 24×16 = 384).
And #10615: Noxxa's DOS Aro "100%" in 19:45.038 gets the maximum score total of 4730 points, as that's simply what all the collectable points items in the game add up to.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
Going through most of these but I'm going to have to get back to you on tekken 3 with two runs with the same ingame time but different tas time. Forgot about that scenario.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
To everyone: Note that changing publications forces an update on youtube, and we have a quota (don't remember how big), so it's good to not do it too often.
According to dev chat it's high enough to where we don't need to worry about it too much for manual edits.
Noxxa wrote:
Question: does score make sense to display as a metric if there's a clearly defined maximum? To me, those always felt more akin to 100% runs, where you follow a predefined goal but otherwise just aim for speed all the way.
IMO no for that exact reason. You're not going to be beating that metric by score so at most it should just be part of the branch label.
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i mean this in the most positive way possible
[3:56 PM]Thursday, July 23, 2026 3:56 PM Samsara: i feel like a lot of your interaction with tasvideos is finding excuses to watch TASes
