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I don't see nothing wrong with this. It's his site, he can do whatever he wants with the name.
Oh, sure, giving *one* example (on a fixed-speed scroller game) surely is enough to prove me wrong, yeah. It doesn't matter that several hundreds of movies have been obsoleted by faster entries and many submissions have even been rejected because of not being fast enough. "Hey, there's this *one* entry which was not obsoleted by a faster entry, thus we don't aim for speed." Sure.
There's nothing contradictory in having different types of runs: A run of the type "as fast as possible, whatever it takes to do it" and runs which have some constraints or additional goals to them for entertainment value (but still are as fast as possible to achieve those goals).
Can you give some examples where speed greatly reduces the entertainment factor?
And what is it that you want? Supermario fooling around, the objective being... what? Who dances the funniest?
Superhuman speed is exactly what makes these movies awesome, and achieving extreme tool-assisted speed requires in most games a huge amount of work and dedication. Anyone can easily make a movie where the character fools around and does "funny" things, but not everyone can beat the best (tool-assisted) completion time for the game.
Ah, please don't tell me you are jealous. You would want to make videos yourself but you aren't able to beat people's times?
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
What seems to be irritating is the fact that the name change was decided by veteran users, because they think they don't need to ask the permission of anyone, because they're here for a long time and they are friends with the admin.
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even though the primary objective around here is speed
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Then, puzzle games like Monopoly. They are a challenge to TAS but completely uninteresting to watch. "Wait, did he… oh, wait… and that's all? Oh…"
They're fast and extremely brutal demonstrations of luck manipulation.
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Which section(s) would you change, and how?
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Like I said before, I believe that entertainment is indeed the ultimate goal, but that speed is simply the only real way to achieve it.
So you're saying that, if someone found a way to glitch SMB3 to go straight from startup to endgame sequence, it should obsolete the current run?
The problem with your argument is that 'TAS' means that all movies are focused entirely on speed.
However, this site is not all speed inclusive, and so to accept 'TAS' as a term for these movies would call for the instant rejection of all non-fastest movies.
Also, for the record, there have been a lot of movies that have been rejected despite being faster. IIRC, Atlantis No Nazo can be beaten by one frame, as many have shown, and yet we haven't accepted it because it adds nothing to the entertainment value of the run.
As soon as one faster movie is rejected due to being less entertaining, it sets a precedent that refutes the term 'TAS'.
By your classification the 100% Quake speedrun is not a speedrun.
If entertainment was the main goal, then an AnN movie which was *slower* than the current one, but more "entertaining", could perfectly obsolete the current one. However, I don't see that ever happening. Why? Because speed is, after all, the main issue.
Don't be silly. There's nothing in the term "TAS" that would exclude putting constraints on a specific run. Even though a constraint is put in a run to make it more entertaining, its main goal is still speed and it's still done tool-assisted, hence it's a TAS. By your classification the 100% Quake speedrun is not a speedrun.
SMB runs have been obsoleted by runs which are only a few frames faster even though the new ones do not add *anything* to the run (besides those few frames of extra speed).
It's not a question of "is it more entertaining?" but a question of "is this game so popular that it's ok to screw up the original runner by allowing someone else to obsolete his movie by 1 frame?" Surely if someone posted an AnN run which was 2000 frames faster it would obsolete the current one regardless of whether it's more "entertaining" or not. If entertainment was the main goal, then an AnN movie which was *slower* than the current one, but more "entertaining", could perfectly obsolete the current one. However, I don't see that ever happening. Why? Because speed is, after all, the main issue.
No, a couple of exceptions do not make the rule false. They are just exceptions.
The Rygar -movie- has been granted a special exception: It's *not* necessary to provide input for the final ending screen to change (it requires a button to be pressed) even though the rules say that in all submitted movies all the necessary input has to be included in order to get to the ending of the game. Does this exception make that rule false? Of course not. It's just one exception.
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
It's not a question of "is it more entertaining?" but a question of "is this game so popular that it's ok to screw up the original runner by allowing someone else to obsolete his movie by 1 frame?"
NESvideos looks better
sounds better
and IS BETTER.
Besides that, everyone was used to it.
What seems to be irritating
A mere POLL could solve this problem.
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