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Posted: 6/5/2006 11:05 PM

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Then they pay for their mistake by having to encode it all over again.

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Posted: 6/5/2006 11:00 PM

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No, because encoders don't press the pause key when encoding. Anyone watching the smv of the publication would probably put two and two together eventually, and they would unpause it to get the desired effect.

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Posted: 6/5/2006 10:51 PM

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The latter. It's been discussed. Also, even if you somehow commandered the game after the thermal is released, you couldn't die fast enough to negate the end sequence.

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Posted: 6/5/2006 10:46 PM

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Ash Williams wrote:

Ok I put in a request to update the video. The new version is the same but it ends right when the last boss is killed. I guess I just have to wait and see what happens.

Did you take a page out of Phil and Genisto's book and kill the last boss with a grenade? That way, you can end the movie even ealier!

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Posted: 6/5/2006 9:27 PM

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I don't think 'good luck' will fix a constant desynch problem.

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Posted: 6/5/2006 1:42 AM

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While it seems well played, this game just doesn't seem like it would make for an entertaining run. Maybe if you did a 100% melon run, but not as a simple 'eat everything and that is it' kind of run. *shrug* I'll watch any submissions for this, but I doubt I'll find them very entertaining.

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Posted: 6/5/2006 1:12 AM

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Sin City was terrible, and National Treasure is equally reprehensible. Go with Leon/The Professional. Probably Natalie Portman's best work.

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Posted: 6/4/2006 9:23 AM

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Voting meh. Seemed pretty fast, and some things seemed like they were done faster than they were in the published movie, but the whole pacifist idea isn't really impressive.

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Posted: 6/3/2006 11:52 PM

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I think that "lurker" is a pretty spot on term, actually. They lurk on the site, but they don't do anything other than observe from a figurative distance. Like FractalFusion said: If they didn't want to be lurkers, they would stop lurking on the forums and get a bit in to the discussions.

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Posted: 6/3/2006 7:05 AM

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Well, would someone be able to mainain enough momentum to even make it up such a large slope? Would this momentum work on the loops? I fear that someone would have to crawl all the way up the slide from the bottom, which is terrifying at best. Also, they would have to find a way to initiate a crawl after jumping over the final cube bridge, which isn't so bad. Still, that's like 1-2 minutes of pure crawling.

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Posted: 6/3/2006 6:29 AM

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How long would it take to go all the way up the slide like that? Also, does that reset the slide star, or just the race star?

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Posted: 6/3/2006 2:13 AM

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I'm digging the name. Excellent work, Truncated. Also, even though I had nothing to do with any of this, you're welcome.

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Posted: 6/3/2006 1:46 AM

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samurai goroh wrote:

There's a bug on the 2nd level of The Revenge of Metanight, when you're swiming & the screen is auto-scrolling, you can get out of the screen if you climb fast enought & go to the right.

I did this in my submission, but it has been obsoleted.

samurai goroh wrote:

Also, if you have the Fire ability, you can get on fire, which is kind of funny.

Being set on fire slows you down considerably. I don't see why you would do this unless you were getting Suplex (?) on the Fire Planet in Milkyway Wishes.

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Posted: 6/2/2006 10:37 PM

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Warp wrote:

Saying "these videos do not aim for speed" is wrong. The general rule is that they do. A few exceptions do not change this.

The current argument is not "these videos do not aim for speed." Currently, the debate is as follows: "These movies aim mainly to be entertaining. The easiest way to be entertaining is to do things super fast. Any focus on speed is a subsidiary to the focus on entertainment as a whole. To call the movies on this site 'speedruns' is misleading. This is further proven by the fact that a portion of the hosted movies do not focus on speed." versus "The main focus of these movies is speed. The main criteria that we use to accept submissions is how fast they are, not how entertaining they are. To call the movies on this site anything but 'speedruns' is misleading. This is further proven by the fact that the majority of the movies hosted on this site keep speed as a primary focus, and the exceptions to this rule are an unimportant minority." Or something like that. This is where we decide whether

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Posted: 6/2/2006 10:15 PM

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Then why not toss in perfect minigame playing while youre at it? The samurai game and Megaton Punch would only add something near 2-3 minutes, and it would be mildly entertaining.

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Posted: 6/2/2006 10:14 PM

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Warp wrote:

By the way, is it explained somewhere what a lurker is? (I don't really know exactly what it is.)

Someone who has 0 posts on the forums, or has no site/forum account at all. As soon as someone makes 1 post, they are no longer a lurker. There is a page somewhere in the wiki here that categorizes everyone based on their forum status, and there are quite a few lurkers, although I assume that many of them are long gone by now.

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Posted: 6/2/2006 10:12 PM

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Warp wrote:

One exception does not make the rule false.

I thought one exception automatically disproves a theory, or something along those lines.

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Posted: 6/2/2006 10:11 PM

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Bag of Magic Food wrote:

Why not a Kirby Super Star 100% everything?

You mean access the two hidden levels in Dyna Blade, get 100% collection in Great Cave Offensive, all abilities in Milkyway Wishes, and... what, collect maximized food in Gourmet Race? I'm all for the all items/all abilities idea, but to access Milkyway Wishes, you need to beat more than just Dyna Blade and GCO. I would watch any Kirby Superstar submission, but 100% on everything seems like overkill.

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Posted: 6/2/2006 10:08 PM

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Bag of Magic Food wrote:

Wow... Um... People really are obsessed about this site's silly little features. And I see we're still discriminating against lurkers.

It's simply to keep people from registering 50 accounts and raising their ratings up. Also, there is a fair chance that a lurker doesn't have the proper insight to rate how optimal some movies are/haven't seen enough movies to get a feel for what is average.

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Posted: 6/2/2006 6:20 PM

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Maybe if you shrunk those pictures down. A lot. And maybe if you picked a better looking girl.

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