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I have always wanted to ask you this question for a very long time. But I have often refrained from asking it because its in my opinion a ugly reminder/question that any admin would not like to think of. Especially when you are running a good community as TASVideos. My question is: How much longer will you run this site? Provided Im assuming your future goals correctly, I bet there will be a time when you will loose interest running this site. If/when that times comes, to whom will you put in charge of TASVideos? If you ask me, I can think of a few "rational and trustworthy" people who could possibly take over. Note that I hope you plan to run the site for as long as you can (until death do us apart ey? ^_^). Because despite the past, I think you are the greatest admin I've ever met.
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
Dear Bisqwit,
What is the history of your interest in Go? How did you come to it and what are your opinions on it? Are you interested in any other traditonal (ie, tabletop) games?
Let's see, my story of Go.
When I was about 15 years old, I found a Go program a friend of mine had written in QBasic. I knew nothing about the game, but the writer of the program explained me that it's about surrounding the opponent's stones. I couldn't beat the bot, and later I thought to myself that it is not even possible to win it. In retrospect, I think it was just atari-go.
Fastforward 7 years, autumn 2002, I found Hikaru no Go, a Japanese animation tv series (anime) about the Game of Go. And I shared it with friends. And together with those friends, we played some games at KGS (Kiseido Go Server) and a few in IGS (Internet Go Server) and learned a bit about the game. Half a year later, in 2003, we formed a club, Ketun Ko, with some subtle help from some more experienced local Go players.
I stopped playing at KGS at that point -- playing on a real board with an opponent whom I can talk with and relax was so much nicer.
Two years later, Ketun Ko lost its club place, and it disbanded in the process. At that point, the latest rank I had acquired was 14 kyū.
I still didn't play in KGS, only occasionally logging in to watch dan-level games. Every once in a while, I played on real board with a friend, who had been ranked 21 kyū at Ketun Ko but who takes 3 to 4 handicap from me to play evenly.
Two years later, March 2007 I registered again at KGS, as I noticed that my account had expired at some point due to inactivity. I still only used it for observing dan-level games though.
My biggest reason for not playing at KGS was that I couldn't stand the pressure of people who know me observing my games. So in May, I created an alternative account in order to play games completely anonymous. I played some games and got a 16k KGS rank. It seemed about right to me, considering that it has been a long time since I got 14k rank in Finland...
Later in May, I happened that I talked a lot about Go at #nesvideos and some people from there got interested about Go. So I prepared teaching them at KGS, by playing a random game against a beginner at time.
Later when I played one of them, another IRC friend who started around the same time as I did, paulipupu, happened to be observing. He had a solid 11k rank at KGS. He persuaded me into playing him.
I was sceptical, I thought I'm going to need at least 3 handicap stones in order to have an equal game. So we played a 19x19H3 game. To my utter surprise, I dominated him. So we played another, this time without handicap. To my ever bigger surprise, I beat him again. I was baffled, "wasn't I supposed to be 16k"?
So I set out to play series of games with random opponents in order to get a proper rank. It then so happened to be that it's around 11k.
After that, I was satisfied with the rank and I'm back in occasional teaching of newbies.
Now I haven't played again for a month or two, though. Where would I get the motivation to continue? Probably from teaching someone again. Whom?
I don't have a goal in Go. Some people want to become 1-dans before a set time. I know for certain that I could become better if I chose to want so, but I don't. I am a very lazy person, and I do not enjoy expending time and effort in studying j?sekis and stuff. I want to learn by absorbing & ingesting, like children do, not by memorizing like schools teach.
When I played (western) chess ~15 years ago, I always lost my games by time. I spent all my time calculating the game forward. For me, chess is all about calculating. I do not want to do that in Go. Yes, you can calculate a lot in Go, but I don't want to do that. I am glad that Go can be played also without calculating.
My style of Go, currently, is that I rarely start a fight. I aim to win with good shapes, good fuseki, and properly timed tenuki, even if it means occasional sacrificing stuff. For me, Go is mostly controlled by the region of brain that considers "art" -- "this looks good", "this does not look right". I like it that way, and I want to develop that to the maximum. That way I don't need to think, I just can be play with intuition.
But I know where my weaknesses currently are. Because I spent 2 years playing only a single opponent, I have grown both the habit of overplays and lack of ambition. And I don't know how to attack, even if I wanted to. Whenever I try, I always end up with weaknesses in position that make me lose. Among other weaknesses :)
I love Go for many reasons. There is no other tabletop game I enjoy like it.
I have always wanted to ask you this question for a very long time. But I have often refrained from asking it because its in my opinion a ugly reminder/question that any admin would not like to think of. Especially when you are running a good community as TASVideos. My question is: How much longer will you run this site? Provided Im assuming your future goals correctly, I bet there will be a time when you will loose interest running this site. If/when that times comes, to whom will you put in charge of TASVideos? If you ask me, I can think of a few "rational and trustworthy" people who could possibly take over. Note that I hope you plan to run the site for as long as you can (until death do us apart ey? ^_^). Because despite the past, I think you are the greatest admin I've ever met.
Thank you for the kind words.
I plan to run it for at least two years more.
In future, it may happen that I transfer the site to a remote, dedicated location that is a maintained server. Such a server could have multiple admins. Currently the TASvideos server happens to also be the LAN server of my home, and it contains sensitive stuff I don't want to give people access to.
However, if things happen that I must give it up completely, I'm not sure whom I would put in charge of it. Highness and DeHackEd come as candidates to my mind, but neither of them with complete certainty, and I'm not sure on their willingness either.
I would also love to see some "legacy" of this site, i.e. other sites that have been spawned, possibly branched, from this site. TASvideos becoming redundant & obsolete would not necessarily be a bad thing either. Phil has been talking about creating some movie site that offers something our site doesn't, and I'm eager to hear of his progress. For an example.
In any case, I want to keep current content available as long as possible.
Thanks very much for taking the time to answer ^^ I've always been told great things about Go. I was raised as a traditional gamer so I've played quite a wide variety of games but I never learned Go, and it always seemed to be very hard to get from "I know the rules" to "I know how to play" so I never really bothered to attend Go clubs or try to learn with friends. Maybe with that inspiration I'll try the local Go club.
someone is out there who will like you. take off your mask so they can find you faster.
I support the new Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun.
On the Itchy and Scratchy CD-ROM, is there a way to get out of the dungeon without using the wizard key?
I have no idea.
xebra wrote:
Bisqwit, any thought to allowing embedding of flash video players?
We don't currently have any capacity to offer streaming video. Such possibility requires a rather large server capacity and bandwidth behind.
Externalizing the content to Youtube or Google Videos is something I'm not comfortable with, because it puts the content on the whim of that large company which can shut us off at any time completely onesidedly. I also consider it as stealing of resources.
Doesn't it bother you that you have to spend so much time answering all these questions, time which you could use to do something more productive and/or interesting?
Doesn't it bother you that you have to spend so much time answering all these questions, time which you could use to do something more productive and/or interesting?
No. I'm not very productive, and I find these interesting.
I don't think that a person who does not believe in "afterlife" will experience a soothing afterlife at all.
What is so special about believing? Wouldn't it be more important how you lived your life, and what choices you made?
Will people from a different religion, such as Judaism or Islam, have a soothing afterlife? And what about Deists? What about children who die young, or people who never came in contact with ideas about afterlife?
Bisqwit wrote:
the most profound being when I realized that I have a soul and that what it is
When does the soul attach itself to a body?
Is there a difference between the soul of a male and a female?
Do animals have a soul?
Do you believe in alien life? Do they have souls?
Does it bother you that you have to answer all these semi-taunting questions about your faith?
I know what taunting is, but to be sure, I looked it up:
taunt·ed, taunt·ing, taunts
To reproach in a mocking, insulting, or contemptuous manner.
I'm honestly not sure in what way you think the questions asked are taunting...
I don't think that a person who does not believe in "afterlife" will experience a soothing afterlife at all.
①What is so special about believing? Wouldn't it be more important how you lived your life, and what choices you made?
②Will people from a different religion, such as Judaism or Islam, have a soothing afterlife? And what about Deists? ③What about children who die young, or ④people who never came in contact with ideas about afterlife?
I added numbers to address your points individually. In answering these questions, I'm paraphrasing http://jjmarkka.net/ because these are really FAQs.
① This question can be rewritten as "can one earn the salvation (getting to Heaven) with good deeds?" and the answer is "no".
Why not?
Suppose that your work day is eight hours long. If you leave today after six hours, can you make up for it by working eight hours tomorrow? Nope; you are already obligated to work for eight hours that day. Working eight hours tomorrow will only fulfill the requirements of that particular day.
The same applies with God. If I make sin tomorrow, can I make up for it by living "good" tomorrow? Nope. You are already expected to live "good" every day. It is the minimal expectation by God. Living "good" is not some bonus you can use to pay for your sins in front of God.
Living good and doing good deeds cannot earn the salvation, because God already expects us to do both. In fact, he expects perfectly good life from us. "I'm a good person" usually means "I haven't broken any important laws or at least I haven't been caught."
We've indebted to God a sinless and perfect life from the first to the last breath. Nobody can live better than that, so one cannot earn anything from doing more than what God asks for.
This explains why the price of even one sin is death: we don't have the currency to pay us free. We don't live a single day without an error, and even if we did, we would still have only done our duty.
Every person should help others sincerely and unselfishly. Every day we don't do that, it is one more day to the burden of sin.
Also, every "good deed" we do for the purpose of earning salvation, is done with wrong motives in God's eyes, and definitely does not earn bonus points for the doer. Attempts to earn the salvation are mockery of the sacrifice made by God.
This sacrifice is Jesus. He suffered the penalty that would have belonged to us. When Jack accepts the salvation and "puts on Jesus" in the baptism through the faith, God deems the just penalty as dealt with. He counts Jesus's perfect and sinless life for the good of Jack. When Jack comes to the front of God, he won't have a single sin on his account. Instead, he has 33 years of sinless and only "good" life – the years Jesus lived on earth.
Everything we are and possess, belongs to God. He owns it legally. The only thing from our own are our grue sins. Those don't come from God.
② No. According to Bible, Jesus is the "way, truth and life", and nobody comes to God except thru him.
③ I do not know the answer to this question. However, it is my understanding that until the child is old enough to make consciously a choice that they know is not good, they are pure and eligible to get to heaven. Perhaps when they die, Jesus will ask them "Hi, I'm Jesus, the son of God who created the world. Do you believe that?". :)
④ I do not know the answer to this question. However, it is my understanding that God judges justly :)
Baxter wrote:
⑤When does the soul attach itself to a body?
⑥Is there a difference between the soul of a male and a female?
⑦Do animals have a soul?
⑧Do you believe in alien life? Do they have souls?
⑤ I don't know.
⑥ No. I couldn't find the location in Bible that tells this, but I seem to remember something mentioning that in Heaven, there is no difference between a man and a woman.
⑦ Some people believe they do. They do not have a spirit, though. (According to Bible, there are actually three components: body, soul, spirit. Animals don't have spirit, angels don't have body. Humans have all three.)
⑧ I believe that that the distances of space are so large that the question is largely irrelevant to us. If there is alien life, it is so distant to us that is causally quite disconnected from us and cannot influence either way. So you might say I'm agnostic with regards to alien life and/or their souls. God may or may not have plans in some other distant part of the universe.
Warp wrote:
Does it bother you that you have to answer all these semi-taunting questions about your faith?
A rather broad question.
I think there are things that people would label paranormal, and I think there are also nuts who imagine things.
Guybrush wrote:
When super/quatum computers become available and are used for TASing, would that be the end of TASVideos? Would most forum topics, WIPs, and players instantly become worthless? Assuming that the computers would handle all types of TASes, would there even be a point in having a poll or deciding whether it would be worth it to publish?
Not an optimist, eh?
Anyway, moar questions:
1. How long do you plan to keep remaining active in this thread? It seems like kind of a hastle to answer all of these questions.
2. Did you come up with the idea of NESVids having an IRC channel? If not, who did (there's probably a thread in the General forum talking about it from years ago, but I couldn't find it)?
3. Where/how did you learn English?
4. Did you get into (or have any interest at all in) Japanese before NESVideos was founded?
5. When you founded the site, did you anticipate the eventual TASing of N64 games?
6. Why phpBB? (not that I'm complaining ;)
7. Are my questions basically the stupidest?
I know what taunting is, but to be sure, I looked it up:
taunt·ed, taunt·ing, taunts
To reproach in a mocking, insulting, or contemptuous manner.
I'm honestly not sure in what way you think the questions asked are taunting...
I used it with the meaning "to drive or incite, to provoke", and the "semi" part was meant to mean like "half-seriously", "tongue in cheek".
Perhaps "taunting" is not the exact word for that, but it was what I meant.
How do you estimate the probability that the makers of the game, which were tased actually saw their game broken (considering youtube) or noticed your site? (excluding hacks)
Though unlikely, has there even been any interaction between them and tasvideos?
I couldn't find the location in Bible that tells this, but I seem to remember something mentioning that in Heaven, there is no difference between a man and a woman.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female – for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 3:29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.
Also
Luke 20:34 So Jesus said to them, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 20:35 But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 20:36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.
(and that second passage has parallels in Matthew and Mark)
So both Paul and the author of Mark agree with that view, and probably some passages I don't have memorised.
Mmmmh, I kind of want to answer those religious questions but this is Bisqwit's thread. Oh well.
someone is out there who will like you. take off your mask so they can find you faster.
I support the new Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun.
1. How long do you plan to keep remaining active in this thread? It seems like kind of a hastle to answer all of these questions.
2. Did you come up with the idea of NESVids having an IRC channel? If not, who did (there's probably a thread in the General forum talking about it from years ago, but I couldn't find it)?
3. Where/how did you learn English?
4. Did you get into (or have any interest at all in) Japanese before NESVideos was founded?
5. When you founded the site, did you anticipate the eventual TASing of N64 games?
6. Why phpBB? (not that I'm complaining ;)
7. Are my questions basically the stupidest?
1) Dunno.
2) No, I wasn't the person who came up with it. Maybe it was Nach? I'm only 80% certain it was him.
3) It is taught here at all levels of school, starting from the elementary school. Also I have learned it from programming manuals and from Internet.
4) Yes, a few years before that.
5) Nope, I didn't. I didn't even anticipate SNES. But I'm happy those are a reality now.
6) Because it was the one forum software that I was confident that I can set up, and I was familiar with its features.
7) Not at all. Though I'm not comparing.
How do you estimate the probability that the makers of the game, which were tased actually saw their game broken (considering youtube) or noticed your site? (excluding hacks)
Though unlikely, has there even been any interaction between them and tasvideos?
It is difficult to estimate. I would say very low, but Finalfighter has informed me that Shinryuu's Rockman 2 TAS is the most popular video on a Japanese video site, Nikonikovideos. Many of our TASed games are programmed by Japanese people.
Also, people who program games are often game enthusiasists themselves, so one would expect them to hear the news.
Still, there has been approximately no interaction between the game developers and us (barring one exception).
Bisqwit:
What do you believe is better. Coke or Pepsi? and why?
My preference lies in Pepsi Max.
I cannot drink much of Coca Cola; it's excessive sugar content makes my mouth feel icky rather quickly. Coca Cola Light has a very artificial taste. I don't like it. Coca Cola Zero fixed that issue a bit, but I still don't like it.
Normal Pepsi is very much similar to Pepsi Max -- I have more than once accidentally drunk it in place of Pepsi Max without immediately noticing a difference, but consciously I know the difference and prefer Max.
Pepsi Max Cappuccino is interesting. I like its taste. However, in the long run the cappuccino aroma starts tasting bitter, so I don't usually drink it more than one bottle. (I'm talking about 1.5 liter bottles.)
Pepsi Max Blue was interesting, but not a candidate for prolonged consumption.
What's your favorite programming language to write code in?
Academically my favourite programming language is Javascript. It has most of the features I like in a programming language. Before that, it used to be Ruby. I learned a bit of Python after learning Ruby, but it didn't beat Ruby.
However, for practical programs, I use either PHP or C++. It is PHP usually when I deal with do-once-throw-away situations; C++ otherwise.
