Original Title: What is wrong with the site management? Where are my awards? Why am I not credited when others are? Honestly what is going on? Why is everything so slow?
Is this a joke?
One year ago, there was a TASer of the Decade 201X award poll, and the top 3 winners were meant to get an award. I was one of the winners but to this day I have not received any kind of icon.
?
Huh? What's going on here? One year ago?And still nothing? I'm sure this must be some kind of mistake. But it's a big one. And it's growing. Hey just for reference, I also won an Exotic TAS award this year, and again, still no icon.
It gets worse. It's not like everyone simultaneously forgot about it. No, changes are being discussed, and then nothing happens. This site about superhuman speed is balanced out in the supersloth management. It should reject itself as it's slower than its RTA counterpart.
What kind of treatment is this? I can't show off my awards like this!
Spawning a new branch of Super Mario World runs in 2012, I brought down the fastest time by 7:21 minutes. Then in 2013 I completely changed strategies and improved myself by 56 seconds, and in 2014 I saved 57 seconds with yet another strategy change.
And then, in 2015 someone else optimized the same strategy by 10 frames and in 2019 another 8 frames.
And those frames were enough to overshadow my credit:
Last time I checked Mas[...] was not my username. I'm not planning to change it. But I see, so those are the more important authors. It's even easier to see the hierarchy when I'm completely gone:
Who makes the decision which of the authors deserve to be mentioned fully?
Which of them deserve to be mentioned partly?
And which authors are less important and can be omitted in the title?
I want my award too, how am I supposed to show off the fact that I won TASer of 2020 while also submitting Bebe’s kids for SNES?
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't
12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!"
Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet
MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish
[Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person
MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol
Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
Okay, but imagine if the people are shown in the description, and maybe 1000 people work on a single TAS and it has to be cut with [...] at the end even in the description.
I would want to see that.
Let's make something like this come true for April Fools 2030. Replace the repeats with actual usernames that don't repeat once. (In the image there are 550ish names listed, and reaches 4950 characters)
Edited by feos: I decided to shrink the image a bit.
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Posts: 2823
Location: Northern California
Yeah and what happened to Taco Fridays, and why was it never Taco Tuesdays? The alliteration is right there! And we've never done anything on Tuesdays, so why did it have to be Friday? How does that make any sense whatsoever? We really could've just done Taco Tuesdays! Someone needs to come and explain this to me, I've been a member of this site for 15 12 years and I have never once in my life been able to come up with even a SHADOW of a reason for that decision!
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Now infrequently posting on BlueskywarmCabin wrote:
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
With regards to the hypothetical 1000 author TAS, it's worth noting that a meme TAS with 1000 authors wouldn't actually get published, so it wouldn't be a real issue. Regardless, if it did happen, then a pastebin could be created with the authors' names, and the link to the pastebin could be in the description for the video on TASVideos youtube channel.
Why wouldn't it actually get published? Assuming it's a serious TAS, of course.
Because it probably either wouldn't be a serious TAS or wouldn't get made.
More realistically, there aren't enough TASers who make TASes for a particular system and are good at TASing for a publication to include 1000 authors. If that ever happened, it would likely occur in 200 years, as a result of a submission for a popular game being obsoleted by new movies by a frame (or handful of frames) occurring over many submissions. In other words, for the next 200 years, you probably won't see that happen (unless, as a social experiment, a TASer gave credit to a large group of people for a section of a TAS that they worked on, with other people providing suggestions for improvements and different inputs the TASer could use).
Joined: 11/13/2006
Posts: 2823
Location: Northern California
Masterjun wrote:
Is this a joke?
[...]
Yes, it definitely is.
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Now infrequently posting on BlueskywarmCabin wrote:
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
Joined: 11/13/2006
Posts: 2823
Location: Northern California
I mean, Christ on a bike, you could've gone with Taco Thursdays, even! It doesn't have the same kick as the hard T sound from Taco Tuesdays, but you still get the alliteration at least! I've spent months struggling with the logic behind this decision, I've had so much to do lately and it's hard to focus on any of it because I am still absolutely dumbfounded at Taco Fridays. Look, I love tacos, who doesn't? Apart from contrarians, sinners, and those who actively rebelled against God and fell out of His good grace, of course. I can't just sit here and let us continue to get away with Taco Fridays, though. I would have rather taco'd and lost at this point. It's ridiculous. Disgusting, honestly.
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Now infrequently posting on BlueskywarmCabin wrote:
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
There was a response!
<feoss> Nach: are the decade awards icons ever going to appear in their usual places?
<feoss> http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22550
<Nach> feoss: As I mentioned yes. As I also mentioned, the award system has zero understanding of a per decade award, so the system we need a complete overhaul just for this
Warning: Might glitch to creditsI will finish this ACE soon as possible
(or will I?)
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Huh? What's going on here? One year ago? And still nothing? I'm sure this must be some kind of mistake. But it's a big one. And it's growing. Hey just for reference, I also won an Exotic TAS award this year, and again, still no icon.
It gets worse. It's not like everyone simultaneously forgot about it. No, changes are being discussed, and then nothing happens. This site about superhuman speed is balanced out in the supersloth management. It should reject itself as it's slower than its RTA counterpart.
What kind of treatment is this? I can't show off my awards like this!
Spawning a new branch of Super Mario World runs in 2012, I brought down the fastest time by 7:21 minutes. Then in 2013 I completely changed strategies and improved myself by 56 seconds, and in 2014 I saved 57 seconds with yet another strategy change.
And then, in 2015 someone else optimized the same strategy by 10 frames and in 2019 another 8 frames.
And those frames were enough to overshadow my credit:
Last time I checked Mas[...] was not my username. I'm not planning to change it. But I see, so those are the more important authors. It's even easier to see the hierarchy when I'm completely gone:
Let's make something like this come true for April Fools 2030. Replace the repeats with actual usernames that don't repeat once. (In the image there are 550ish names listed, and reaches 4950 characters)
Edited by feos: I decided to shrink the image a bit.
