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[Death Metalist]

This run is so fucking good.

 

[Zojirushi]

Dat German counting lol

 

[GeoNeo]

Damn want some egg rolls now.

 

[dh4niel]

2 players 1 controller for Super Mario bros. The lost levels is awesome!

 

[SmackAttack]

This is wonderful.

 

[jblank83]

I loved that.

Great run, great commentary.

 

[Spinosaurus]

Holy shit run of the event right there

 

[GitarooMan]

Holy shit run of the event right there

Definitely. This was amazing to watch.

 

[p3n]

Unheard of!

 

[GeoNeo]

Great run fun commentary.

 

[ckohler]

That was fantastic. Great presentation of humor and skill.

Time for the TAS block!

 

[halfbeast]

hipster alert!

 

[Bananakin]

So which one has won in all the previous GDQs, save or kill the animals? Does anyone have the tally?

 

[Jhoan]

The entire Mario block was amazing. Really great stuff all around.

 

[Spirited]

TAS is hit or miss but everything after that should be hits before the event ends, god I'll not get any sleep tonight.

 

[robotrock]

Is this Dark Souls runner being interviewed right now the same guy who ran Arkham City?

 

[dreams]

Is this Dark Souls runner being interviewed right now the same guy who ran Arkham City?

Yeah, he is

 

[SmackAttack]

TASBot next. So excite.

 

[atomic moth]

Just tuned in for the day....

Does that guy have an old timey camera from the turn of the previous century?

If so, is that what is happening with the kids these days? To each their own but I can't help but ask why.

 

[Coonce]

Just tuned in for the day....

Does that guy have an old timey camera from the turn of the previous century?

If so, is that what is happening with the kids these days? To each their own but I can't help but ask why.

it's.. "hip"

 

[Poltergust]

I just took a look at The Yetee shirts they're offering this time around.

Holy crap, I want so many of these. Usually I get like two, but I see six that I really want lol.

 

[atomic moth]

I just can't imagine the image quality on that is up to snuff. And if it doesn't have the image quality of a 1900's era camera then why use it over a newer, different film camera?

 

[dreams]

Just tuned in for the day....

Does that guy have an old timey camera from the turn of the previous century?

If so, is that what is happening with the kids these days? To each their own but I can't help but ask why.

There's only one reason why someone would have that kind of stupid camera there and ALSO conveniently sit directly in front of the stream camera

 

[Starwolf_UK]

150Hz controllers and they're Xbox controllers? Makes the NES Classic sound like a hackjob

edit: Filtered inputs? It gets better...I think I'll just stop here and say watch the TASbot block.

 

[Coonce]

if only the camera was a little more zoomed in on the TASbot so I can see the inputs on the controller

 

[Zojirushi]

Goddamn this is nerdy af in the best way possible.

 

[sqwarlock]

God I love TASBot runs.

 

[Grakl]

it's.. "hip"

Lol u said hip

 

[Death Metalist]

if only the camera was a little more zoomed in on the TASbot so I can see the inputs on the controller

.

 

[SJRB]

I'll never understand this TASbot stuff. Very excited for the Dark Souls 3 run though.

 

[blue_phazon]

Can someone explain what this TASbot thing is? I thought it was a programmed robot playing the games, but there seems to be some human element to it where the ship in gradius was spelling letters with the ship

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Can someone explain what this TASbot thing is? I thought it was a programmed robot playing the games, but there seems to be some human element to it where the ship in gradius was spelling letters with the ship

A Person chose the inputs, like if it was animated, then played back.

 

[Aaronrules380]

Can someone explain what this TASbot thing is? I thought it was a programmed robot playing the games, but there seems to be some human element to it where the ship in gradius was spelling letters with the ship

it is programmed to move like that. It's basically where they program movements and such frame by frame until everything is perfect

 

[Ginger Hail]

Can someone explain what this TASbot thing is? I thought it was a programmed robot playing the games, but there seems to be some human element to it where the ship in gradius was spelling letters with the ship

It basically plays back pre-recorded inputs from runs that were perfected on emulators to the point it does tricks humanly impossible to do.

 

[blue_phazon]

A Person chose the inputs, like if it was animated, then played back.

it is programmed to move like that. It's basically where they program movements and such frame by frame until everything is perfect

Ah I see thanks

 

[Aaronrules380]

One thing I am curious about is how TAS runs deal with rng in games where that's a factor

 

[Zojirushi]

One thing I am curious about is how TAS runs deal with rng in games where that's a factor

Maybe they got a bunch of "if...then...else" logic in there?

 

[Chainsawkitten]

One thing I am curious about is how TAS runs deal with rng in games where that's a factor

There is no such thing as random in computers. RNG is just things that seems random to a regular human being (usually, it's based on the system time). But if you can control everything, you can control the "random" values, too.

 

[LucidMomentum]

THERE IT IS

Y'ALL AIN'T SEEN SHIT YET BOIS

 

[Vanishing Avatar]

One thing I am curious about is how TAS runs deal with rng in games where that's a factor

Modern consoles tend to use the internal clock as a seed to the random number generator. Older consoles don't have that, so they'll use more predictable seed and the random numbers will be the same every time.

 

[Spirited]

YO WHAT

 

[jediyoshi]

demoscene done fast

 

[KarmaCow]

One thing I am curious about is how TAS runs deal with rng in games where that's a factor

There's no such thing as completely random with a computer. It's deterministic so if you can manipulate the starting seed for the RNG through things like simply starting at the same exact time or removing the battery, you can know exactly what will happen afterwards.

 

[Envelope]

NotLikeThis

i still don't understand how this super mario programming with tas works

 

[LucidMomentum]

ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL.

 

[SargerusBR]

Never understood why people like those TAS runs so much

 

[OdinDemonZero]

u wot m8

 

[GeoNeo]

TMR is MVP.

 

[Zojirushi]

This is basically how I imagine Skynet taking over.

 

[jediyoshi]

god please color that dino