(Not to be confused with TASes as art.)
SUN TASU SAID:
The art of TAS is of vital importance to the run.
It is a matter of frames and fun, a road either to publication or to rejection.
It is a matter of frames and fun, a road either to publication or to rejection.
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If and when circumstances are favourable (and when they are very much not), one should modify one's plans.
If and when circumstances are favourable (and when they are very much not), one should modify one's plans.
All timesaves are based on exploitation.
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Attack the game where it is unprepared; appear where you are not expected.
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Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat—ever much more from no calculation at all!
It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to finish or give up.
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Attack the game where it is unprepared; appear where you are not expected.
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Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat—ever much more from no calculation at all!
It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to finish or give up.
SUN TASU SAID:
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Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the game’s progression without fighting.
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Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the game’s progression without fighting.
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Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
- He will win who knows when to grind and when not to grind.
- He will win who knows how to excel at both complex and simple challenges.
- He will win whose run is imbued with the same "soul" throughout all its segments.
- He will win who, prepared himself, advances RNG to guarantee the best future.
- He will win who takes his time and is not concerned with deadlines.
Victory lies in the knowledge of these five points.
Hence the saying: If you know the game and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred rerecords. If you know yourself but not the game, for every frame gained you will also suffer poor RNG. If you know neither the game nor yourself, you will succumb to every framerule.
Hence the saying: If you know the game and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred rerecords. If you know yourself but not the game, for every frame gained you will also suffer poor RNG. If you know neither the game nor yourself, you will succumb to every framerule.