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Posted: 11/1/2012 4:41 PM
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Starring superb runs can inspire TASers if a star would add score for a run (double it?)
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Posted: 11/1/2012 3:40 PM
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Looking at the pictures I can say that the actual GOAL doesn't necessarily lead to a star or a moon. The most esoteric of all sane goals for SM - Reverse Boss Order - provides the MOST IMPOSSIBLE result of all gameplay SM goals (the Glitched goal is another matter). And many people think a star shall be moved to SM RBO. Also, technical merit of the run is not the same as how speed-oriented it is. It's about how much EFFORT was put into it in ALL tech aspects, pace is mostly an entertainment vaule. Good Playarounds aren't just hard to invent entertainment-wise, they are also tough to implement technically. Needless to say a Playaround, belonging to Superplay tier according to your pics, may be perfectly star-worthy. I'm surprised so many people keep refering to Speedrun/Superplay devision which is the most esoteric idea to apply to TASVideos I can think of. PS: will read more carefully now.
EDIT: I've read the ideas. You guys seem to forget what stars actually are intended to mean: Wiki: StarmanGuidelines Thread #12998: Request for Starmen Showing THEMOSTAWESOMEWOWSUPERB!!!11 (Stars) runs we show the face of TASing. Setting Moons we hint users what to watch after they got the idea, the movies that are still impressive overall. Regular movies are pretty solid, but have some snags that destroy the impression the good sides of a game create. Vault - movies just for the sake of appearance. Demo - esoteric goals, notable achievements still not blowing entertainment-wise, probably Glitched btranches. My system is all about the overall look and the merit the movie showcases the TAS art. Say, how much is a movie star-worthy, with several gradations of the answer. EDIT 2: The guidelines say we must choose only one game from a franchise if all of them are rather similar and perfected. But what tier to put the other candidates from the same franchise? Moons? Then we would still have Moons filled with Sonics and Marios. EDIT 3: To solve the above problem we need to IGNORE ratings of the other franchise mates of a starred run. Mooning them is still abusive for me. It's only possible if those runs feature different TAS aspects, one being more impressive than the other - then they may have a star and a moon within a franchise per platform. Or if the runs are really of different types. And if the neighbour game run isn't that unique, it must remain in Regular tier, even though having 8+ ratings. Also suggestion: Starring superb runs can inspire TASers if a star would add score for a run (double it?)
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: 10/31/2012 7:07 PM
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Okay, some gamebreaking runs deserve starts, some deserve moons, some deserve oblivion. Also, remember, I was suggesting having a thread for forced moves between tiers if the audience requests.
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Posted: 10/31/2012 6:48 PM
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Well, for me neither of RPGs is interesting at all, but that's just me. Also,you linked only one "Glitched" run. If all Glitched runs go to Demo, I see no problem in their main branches going to Vault.
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: 10/31/2012 6:36 PM
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We already discussed Demo/Vault borderline.
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Posted: 10/31/2012 4:21 PM
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A gamebreaking run CAN NOT go to vault because it is still awesome, a moon-worthy for me. It's also a solid tech achievement. So yes, maybe gamebreaking runs must go to Demo instead of moons.
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: 10/31/2012 3:07 PM
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My mom would submit hundreds of tases for atari once I teach her to lunch emulator.
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: 10/31/2012 2:11 PM
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I'm strictly against separating in speedrun/superplay fashion. Because that means the GOAL would lead to a tier, which is weird. Only HOW AWESOME is the movie oerall must matter. Be it a glitched run, a 100% run, or any%. Boring result = welcome to vault. Ratings can help us decide whether it is a vault movie. Stars and moons are at all manually assigned if I got it right. Demos are the only thing that may be judged by goal (perverted goals, almost rule breakers that are still entertaining, etc). And the rest runs should remain regular.
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: 10/31/2012 3:45 AM
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You guys are freaking INSANE EDIT: Your second player gets #$F5 to his high Z byte, he dies and spawns 3 balls, which fill 3 object slots, allowing to proceed to slot 12 faster, where object 81/82 must be created. How to run into game over / game end routine by wish is still unknown.
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: 10/30/2012 6:58 PM
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Let's leave Glitched runs on their own, their ENTERTAINMENT value is still very high. But after all... why not? :P
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: 10/30/2012 5:10 PM
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May I have my PS3 emulator as well? EDIT: Found it!!! http://bit.ly/Sao25b
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: 10/30/2012 4:08 PM
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Shameless raw dump.
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Posted: 10/30/2012 3:25 PM
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Well, it must be notable by something. But personally I don't see a problemwith minigames and stuff. The point was to place deadly boring but still very notable runs to a better place than drowning them in vault.
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: 10/30/2012 3:21 PM
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Did I forget to mention it's for Demo tier? Anything arbitrary may potentially go there, we just need to set the border between this and rejection.
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: 10/30/2012 3:15 PM
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This too.
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: 10/30/2012 3:02 PM
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I think the tier (at least for vault) must be decided by a judge as he accepts the movie. And the future placing must depend on rating: whether it is a vault movie or a regular one (moons/stars are still assigned by trained monkeys starmen). So we seem to need a rating borderline to consider movies vault worthy (6.0?). Also, for each tier we may have a thread for complaints and suggestions, moving the run here or there if the audience disagrees with the current placing. That is: at the moment of publication, place the run to a certain tier, then allow it to navigate on its own, then if people ask, sticky it to some tier. And I have some suggestion on how to improve the validity of ratings, as in, true weighting. Entertainment: for anyone above lurker or newbie, must be waighted as 1.0. Anyone can have a good taste on entertainment, net depending on anything at all. We just need to make sure it's not a troll. But making 5 posts isn't enough to be considered non-abusive, so I suggest weight newbies' votes as 0.5 or so. Probably, 0.3 for lurkers, 0.6 for newbies and 1.0 for the rest. Technical: we need to be sure you understand the aspects of tasing to weight the ratings you give well. Let's take the average rating as a factor (both entertainment and technical rating the rater himself has) - but that's for tasers! And for non-tasers we can choose something different as a factor. I keep suggesting rating posts themselves (+/-). For forum members it might also be a rank factor. We shall invent something to keep the average post rating of a person within 0.0-1.0 to match the factor the tasers would have. For example, mklip's posts are so helpful his rating would be extremely solid. Actually, rating the posts would help us to make sure the person is sane. Probably, tasers may have 1.0 + average reting. I dunno. You say how you feel about improving the weighting system.
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: 10/30/2012 2:58 PM
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I meant Concept demos like the runs ENTIRELY done by bots, lol. EDIT: I think the tier (at least for vault) must be decided by a judge as he accepts the movie. And the future placing must depend on rating: whether it is a vault movie or a regular one (moons/stars are still assigned by trained monkeys starmen). So we seem to need a rating borderline to consider movies vault worthy (6.0?). Also, for each tier we may have a thread for complaints and suggestions, moving the run here or there if the audience disagrees with the current placing. That is: at the moment of publication, place the run to a certain tier, then allow it to navigate on its own, then if people ask, sticky it to some tier.
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: 10/30/2012 2:31 PM
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sack_bot wrote:
I think there should be 4 tires
  • Showcase (stars)
  • Noteworthy (moons)
  • Standard (regular tases)
  • Valt (boring tases)
My thoughts, with some wording fixes. Add a Demo tier for runs done by bots, hacks, multitases and such stuff. Note that tier must be decided by how awesome/boring is the run, not by what categry it belongs to. Categorization is a whole different thing. I suggest having several systems of distplaying our movies.
  • Navigation by game name, showing all runs for a game anyway
  • Navigation by platform considering 3 displaying options:
    • Tiers
    • Listing default categories for every game, with links to all categories (AKA game name page).
    • Current view, all categories for all games
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: 10/30/2012 1:56 PM
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Encoding Guide, speaking of encoding and muxing, is a few yearts old and has nothing to do with my package. Synthax highlighter is at all THE LEAST necessary thing, and it also has nothing to do with encoding package. Dedupping plugin IS included in my pack, and works perfectly as long as you provide logo and video. Replacing the audio track with something of another source than the original dump has nothing to do with TASVideos official encodes needs. Please ignore all you read in the Encoding Guide about encoding and muxing (dumping and creating a logo is still helpful). Try using all default settings of the package at first. Trim the video at frame ~2000 or so to make sure all 4 encodes process well. Placing AVI in a root folder of the package (...\TASEncodingPackage) is right. Logo resolution may be any. If you succeed to get correct encodes the default way, we may help adjusting the thing to your own needs. IRC is a good place to ask too.
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: 10/30/2012 4:07 AM
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If a vault movie gets the same rating the non-vault one has, placing the former in vault must be revised.
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: 10/29/2012 1:40 PM
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Probably he meant using cmd directly XD
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: 10/28/2012 11:49 AM
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Obvious 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.
Posted: 10/28/2012 11:43 AM
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Spikestuff wrote:
Thanks for creating an encode with camhack.
I'm not. There are a couple of places when you can't see Knickles for a few seconds, but I doubt camhack is needed here. By all I meant all publication encodes.
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: 10/28/2012 8:55 AM
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Does it need a camhack encode? I thought no. Encoding all anyway. How does he pass floors while falling? Too high velocity?
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: 10/28/2012 7:17 AM
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J is spelled like H in Latin America.
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.
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