This topic is for the purpose of discussing #7236: Samsara's SNES Family Feud "playaround" in 07:36.73

Wasn't that funny but it has some mild moments. The humor isnt really that deep or well thought out, kinda just feels like its just trying to be humor for the sake of being humor.

To be honest, while I liked the initial WIP that was posted on Discord the other week, I found this a bit underwhelming. I liked the idea where the answers tried to tell a story over the course of the run, but the major downside is that it takes up a lot of answers for just trying to set up the story, and therefore spends a lot of time not actually making jokes or being funny. Unlike the rapid-fire comedy of the published TAS, a lot of the run (especially early on) is just kind of trudging through lines that kind of set up a narrative but lack any sort of satisfying payoff. Also, a lot of times when the text was delayed for one reason or another, it just felt annoying how slow the answers were entered. It makes some sense in "context", but ultimately it's just padding which makes the excitement wear (even more) thin. I'm honestly not really sure where it ended up being so much different between the initial WIP and this submission. But I don't think this is the giant-killer of comedy that it needs to be, in order to have a shot at publication. No vote.

om, nom, nom... 'twas dry

I also preferred the WIP for the most part. There's probably some references I missed so I wanna wait for the submission comments. Couple of thoughts though:

• This TAS clearly has to be viewed as a sequel to the existing TAS, because of the references to it
• There are also references to the TASVideos site redesign

Both these make me wonder how well the TAS would age on the site, if it were published to obsolete the existing movie. Edit: Oops, I'm too late. Hope to see another attempt at this though :D

There will be a third version, don't worry. Admittedly, this run was a lot more frustrating to make than my original test run, but through the course of making it I learned a lot more about the game and how it operates, so a V3 should not only be easier to make, but funnier and better paced. If V3 ends up going south too, then I'll just resync the published run to BizHawk as a """V4""". Ideally I'd be working with Heisanevilgenius directly for things like replacing the single offensive word, but regardless of what happens with """V4""", it'll be solely under his name and presented simply as modernizing a poorly emulated TAS to something much more accurate.