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Posted: 6/10/2016 4:25 PM

Post subject: Re: I need some life advice...

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Ready Steady Yeti wrote:

My dad has known about my interest in the TAS/speedrun community for pretty much all the time I have been. He pretty much hates the community, he thinks it's a big joke basically, a huge waste of time and that "pretty much the entire world would not even care if the TASVideos community was shut down for some reason."

BTW, has he seen this? http://tasvideos.org/GamesDoneQuick.html Link to video Standing avations: Link to video As for the community... Being seriously involved into TASing concerns tons of different spheres of knowledge and skill, so it's a perfect means of personal evolution (also resulting in making more people happy with what we do).

Ready Steady Yeti wrote:

1.) How can you justify TASing? Why is it okay for me to be TASing if it makes me happy? What good things are it really getting me? What's your philosophy behind that?

Here's a post incredibly overhyped by myself at the time when I was writing it, but I asked myself that exact question for so many times until the moment I came up with that post, that it might help a newbie understand our motivation behind TASing. See even some old school heroes have found time to post there. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11977 Also, http://tasvideos.org/NewcomerCorner.html cover it a bit.

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Posted: 6/10/2016 3:36 PM

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The music fits superplay so perfectly in this game.

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Posted: 6/10/2016 1:09 PM
(Edited: 6/11/2016 8:34 AM)

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I made some important changes to autosave. Please test the new interim (in the OP) extensively while I'm doing other stuff. https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/commit/559eacf95a03c6a66528c976aa1fa4a723700b99

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Posted: 6/10/2016 5:15 AM

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Vault only allows any% (fastest by any cost) and 100% (full commpletion), which one of these was the previous run?

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Posted: 6/10/2016 5:07 AM

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Samsara wrote:

Ending input early is a bit of a mixed bag, I like it when it happens but I wouldn't consider it an actual gameplay improvement, so I'm a bit torn on this submission.

This is actually quite clear: http://tasvideos.org/JudgeGuidelines.html#InputLength

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Posted: 6/9/2016 3:29 PM

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ALAKTORN wrote:

Removing the music saves lag frames in literally every game that exists on the planet. It’s probably something that would get lame really quickly if people started abusing it.

They won't if it isn't consider an optimality factor. Same as ending input early. Neither is more optimal, the author can choose.

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.

Posted: 6/9/2016 10:11 AM
(Edited: 6/21/2016 2:46 PM)

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VirtualBoy movies now require special encode steps. 0. Get the filters: - https://sourceforge.net/projects/feos-tas/files/Anaglyph.dll/download - put to avisynth plugins folder - http://www.pantarheon.org/AviSynth3DToolbox/ - zip or installer 1. Get the latest VBjin build: https://sourceforge.net/projects/feos-tas/files/VBjin_r103.7z/download 2. Record AVI for left and right screens separately: View -> Video Display -> Left/Right Only. Save them as R.avi and L.avi. 3. For downloadables, use the following code instead of regular AVISource:

Language: avisynth
left  = Greyscale(AVISource("L.avi")).Levels(0, 1, 171, 0, 255)
right = Greyscale(AVISource("R.avi")).Levels(0, 1, 171, 0, 255)
Anaglyph(left, right, "grey")
AudioDub(left)

4. For YouTube HD, you'll need to have 2 planes to use the yt3d filter, each with subtitles and logo. If you're not using bitmap font for subtitles (that allows them to look nice when upscaled), you'll have to encode both planes to HD first, then apply the yt3d, greyscale and levels to both of them on the second pass. Otherwise, make 2 encodes in SD and then use them for the second pass (make sure to disable logo and subs this time). The first pass requires a lossless codec. The second pass would be this:

Language: avisynth
left  = Greyscale(AVISource("1.avi")).Levels(0, 1, 171, 0, 255)
right = Greyscale(AVISource("2.avi")).Levels(0, 1, 171, 0, 255)
yt3d(left, right)
AudioDub(left)

5. YT stream also needs this tag: yt3d:enable=true Note: you might want to change the subtitles color to $009D9D9D, so it matches the color scheme provided by the Levels() function. ~~EDIT: Thanks creaothceann.~~ Nope, it breaks the automation. Which can be seen here btw http://pastebin.com/5UpWkBm4

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Posted: 6/9/2016 9:38 AM

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While music would really be better, and it shouldn't be a factor of optimality in such cases, I don't think it gets any close to "sickening camera angles, seizure inducing activity" in how badly it affects entertainment. I'd leave such decisions to the author, while generally preferring having music in such cases.

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.

Posted: 6/8/2016 9:46 PM

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If you're not interested, it's okay.

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Posted: 6/8/2016 9:17 PM

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За неделю добил то, на что времени год не хватало. Такие дела.

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Posted: 6/8/2016 8:24 PM

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I'm trying to say that sometimes things are just interesting to know. For people involved in this thread that link might be interesting to know. It doesn't always have to be an argument about everything? Or it then entirely stops making any sense?

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Posted: 6/8/2016 8:13 PM

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nfq, have you tried it on mupen+ itself?

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Posted: 6/8/2016 8:08 PM

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Anything regarding science is random here? Are you completely sure about that?

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Posted: 6/8/2016 7:47 PM

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Все что выше сделано. Поправлю накопившиеся в тастудии баги и продолжу наконец гаргулиев. Так как я теперь свободен, надо будет побольше времени им уделить в этот раз.

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Posted: 6/8/2016 7:41 PM

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GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO

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Posted: 6/8/2016 6:57 PM

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I literally just posted a link, what's there not to understand, lol?

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Posted: 6/8/2016 6:08 PM

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Right, it's just not worth it now. And even gamemaker can let people make awesome games if you are talented (Mystik Belle).

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Posted: 6/8/2016 11:03 AM

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It also appears to be mentioned here: http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/PSX.html

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Posted: 6/8/2016 10:23 AM

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Just leaving it here: http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970

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Posted: 6/7/2016 10:05 PM

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http://tasvideos.org/5124S.html

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Posted: 6/7/2016 5:35 PM

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Remind me if "Aims for perfect score" is really "fastest by any cost" in this case? Also ^

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Posted: 6/6/2016 9:09 AM

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All tricks are known among people who play it online, someone just needs to document them.

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Posted: 6/6/2016 6:22 AM

Post subject: Re: Help

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trynan wrote:

I guess I might not even need to be using the encoding package in the first place though, I think I'm looking too deep into this.

Yep. http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/CustomEncoding.html

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Posted: 6/4/2016 7:07 PM

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What's wrong with a vocal one?

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Posted: 6/4/2016 8:13 AM

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There's a brilliant lecture (in Russian) about how deeper things that were considered outright spiritual in past by lots of people (scientists, philosophers, etc) in fact base entirely on how the brain operates. http://tvkultura.ru/video/show/brand_id/20898/episode_id/156199/video_id/156199 The main idea is that memory and education are abilities of a brain, and we can affect both by manipulating the neurons. On the other side, feelings are basically the hormones. You know the story. Does it all mean, there's nothing besides that? I don't think so. Such an idea even looks impossible to prove, because it would again be attempting to explain the whole with a part. And it doesn't look possible to prove something doesn't exist: it can only be presumed to be non-existent as long as there's no proof it exists. My point is, does the above disappoint? Does the above mean everything is worthless, since we're just occasional stones floating in space? Not to me. Pointless is degradation, and any idea that leads to it. Once progress is considered the main factor, it all starts making sense again, unless one doesn't actually consider it so important. And we end up discussing attitudes...

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