Well, the only time that would make the page "heavy" is if one decides to watch all the videos. The embeds themselves are relatively light until you push the play button and begin streaming a video. It's also easy to unload the weight of several videos streaming (or even completely loaded) on a page: refresh.
Yeah, you're right. So, I'll just let these YT modules on the page.
alden wrote:
Agreed.
Moreover, I will maybe try my hand at encoding these delights next month. Hopefully, most of them are short enough to be uploading in a single part on YouTube or Dailymotion.
Note that I'm not really good at writing description, so don't rely on me to add movies to the Gruefood Delight page ;)
Daw, my baby's all grown up! *sniff*
Critical five wrote:
Note that I'm not really good at writing description, so don't rely on me to add movies to the Gruefood Delight page ;)
If you (or someone) takes the onerous task of linking to movies/screenshots/youtubes for new movies, I will be happy to add smarmy descriptions :D
Thanks again guys!
But after this change was done, I saw this post, which stated that too many YouTube module should be avoided on a page (sigh, I should have thought about it before).
Currently it's possible to stop the embedded YouTube player from downloading via the context menu, which is a nice addition and lessens the problem. (Of course it's not completely obvious to everybody that this is possible, as it doesn't appear in the main interface.)
I've added many movies to the page:
Kyman's SNES Clue in 00:26.92
Samhain-Grim's SNES Virtual Bart in 19:06.58
FractalFusion's NES The Chessmaster in 00:07.12
turtle's GBA Screw Breaker - Goushin Dorirurero in 1:54:27.92
MUGG's GB Crayon Shin-Chan 4 in 07:10.83
true's NES Somari in 24:14.09
MUGG's GB Super Mario Land "walkathon" in 15:00.23
NameSpoofer's SNES Super Metroid "glitchless low%, Speedbooster" in 44:18.62
alden's Genesis Desert Bus in 41:17:15:06
adelikat's N64 Elmo's Letter Adventure "Playaround" in 01:12.4
... and encoded quite a lot too. Only a few remains.
I've thought of adding these two submissions:
* #2704: Felipe's Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 "Without SpinDash" in 22:29.52
* #2759: wwmarx's Genesis Golden Axe III "any" in 15:55.05
So, do you think they should be added too?
Besides, don't hesitate to tell if some movies should be removed from the list (or remove them by yourself).
Oh, by the way, you're still welcome to write your "smarmy descriptions", alden ;)
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Somari was rejected more for optimization purposes, not just game choice/that it was a hack.
Though, I guess it's opinionated as to precisely why it was rejected.
I should probably get around to optimizing it at some point.
It was rejected because I was a smartass / liar and people used that as basis for the run (my point was made and proven, thanks) and I didn't make the end level time periods shorter where it wouldn't lose time otherwise. I've seen more popular games get away with more.
I might take a look at it some time in the future if you don't, Flygon, though I probably won't submit it if I do. There is something I did overlook and didn't notice until submitting that run that might save significant time.
So, I was thinking about it...
What is the downside to "publishing" these movies, but keeping them segregated from the main population? (separate but equal lol)
-Some site coding. I'm not terribly familiar with how everything works on the backend, but I would imagine you could do something like make a new category, "Gruefood Delight," and have normal movie pages exclude this category, and have the GD page include all of them. Feel free to shoot me down on this :P
-Increased strain on the bittorrent tracker, I guess. Maybe it could be streaming/input file only?
-More encoder's time. Seems to me there are battles to encode things these days, judging from the silly comments I've seen in submission threads lately.
The main benefit would be that Critical five or whoever wouldn't have to manually maintain the page any more. Also it would look nicer. Also the authors could feel like they were published, without offending anyone with having the runs show up on normal pages.
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I think we really really need something like this. MUGG has been pushing for a way for runs that have arbitrary goal choice to be included in the site, and I think this is definitely a way to do this. For example, with HappyLee's SMB low% run, we already have enough runs for SMB, but the run itself is still of a high standard. I really think that we need a place to show some of the runs that didn't make the cut for whatever reason, while still maintaining reasonable entertainment value.
Btw, the current gruefood delight page is quite heavy to load because of all the archive.org flash players being loaded. Also, unlike the youtube player, the archive.org player has no option to stop downloading, which means that if you start watching one movie but decide to go to another one midway, your bandwidth will get clogged (at least if you have a puny 1Mbit connection like I do) and the only way to fix it is to reload the page (or to to the previous page and back).
It would be better if the player was loaded only on demand, if that would be possible. The problem of not being able to stop the stream downloading is unsolvable, though (because it's up to archive.org and not us).
Btw, the current gruefood delight page is quite heavy to load because of all the archive.org flash players being loaded.
I agree. Help fix it by convincing the powers that be to publish these movies
(or i guess we could not embed the videos and just link to them but ignore that option ok?)
Btw, the current gruefood delight page is quite heavy to load because of all the archive.org flash players being loaded.
I agree. Help fix it by convincing the powers that be to publish these movies
Don't many of the videos have a youtube version? Perhaps it would be preferable to embed those instead (and possibly give a link to the other sites as text).
(or i guess we could not embed the videos and just link to them but ignore that option ok?)
The published movie description pages load the player only on demand. I think it would be possible to do that with the gruefood delight list as well, although it might require someone adding the support. (But as said, this would still not solve the issue of not being able to stop the stream download...)
While it is true that you can't stop downloading an archive.org stream, you can always cheat and drag the marker to the end, so it will download a few mere seconds and stop there.
Added Risato's suggestion of SMB "minimum buttons pressed" with a link to SMB3 minimum presses in the description, and links to encodes for all movies.
If anyone has more suggestions for movies that should be added, feel free to post them here!
