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- Comment on There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down 8 months ago:
Ahoyoo was known to be a good player, particularly with bombs (his other level, bombs5, is the same kind of tricks).
In 2017, there was no emulator capable of running SMM1 properly, and there was no controller for it to TAS with. So in order to TAS the level, he would have had to build an Arduino, learn to code, detect somehow when the level starts, send inputs to the USB port, enter the right inputs, and try and work out timings which are actually very difficult even in old systems, and very time consuming.
The best players currently are making progress on the level with around 20 hours of practice. Ahoyoo likely had hundreds of hours on this level alone (as the creator even, just to make the level), and it’s said he spent thousands of hours playing the game obsessively. Spending more time to TAS would have been counter productive. If not impossible without an emulator (for reasons that are very technical TAS’ing a modern system is close to impossible without a camera and some AI).
Now there is a theory that he could have cheated the video (with editing) and cheated the submission process, but the cheats for submission were not widely known at the time (2017) and Ahoyoo wasn’t known as an editor. So he would have needed help etc etc. That leave traces on forums that people likely would have found by now.
Being a good player and obsessed at the game as he was, it’s more likely that he beat it fair and square, the way people are getting closer every day to beat it. So with all the evidence we know that accusation doesn’t hold.
- Comment on There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down 8 months ago:
That video is rumored to be a tas. The only proof of TAS we have is salty egos. It would have also been as hard to TAS on the WiiU at the time than to just practice the level.
Also the creator has another bomb based level where he shows off his skills. It’s technically easier but uses the same tricks as this one.
There’s no serious reasons to believe he didn’t clear it correctly.
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 11 months ago:
Meh. Not everything need to be deep. It’s a video games. Nobody is asking what the DOOM character backstory is. He’s there to shoot some hellspawns and that’s fun.
There’s a place for both, really.
- Comment on Mentally Deranged Behaviour 11 months ago:
Why limit it to an integer number of dimensions?
- Comment on This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read. 11 months ago:
His trolling what?
- Comment on we need better hobbies 11 months ago:
I just want to be able to use the full Unicode space for my variable names. That way no variable will ever need to be more than one character. The dream.
- Comment on gatekeeping 11 months ago:
Oh you like math? Name all the sets of sets that don’t include themselves.
- Comment on Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma Doesn't Really Care About the Series' Chronology 11 months ago:
There’ll always be extremes to communities. Just remember they’re not the average.
- Comment on Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma Doesn't Really Care About the Series' Chronology 11 months ago:
Yeah I don’t think fans ever thought it was important or even a bad thing.
We’re just having fun trying to make it fit. But it’s for fun, not like we truly believe there really is a timeline that makes any sense.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 1 year ago:
I don’t know if you read the right wiki, but in the history section the first paragraph is:
The Julian day number is based on the Julian Period proposed by Joseph Scaliger, a classical scholar, in 1583 (one year after the Gregorian calendar reform) as it is the product of three calendar cycles used with the Julian calendar:
28 (solar cycle) × 19 (lunar cycle) × 15 (indiction cycle) = 7980 years
Its epoch occurs when all three cycles (if they are continued backward far enough) were in their first year together. Years of the Julian Period are counted from this year, 4713 BC, as year 1, which was chosen to be before any historical record.[28]
It was either that, or earlier, or in the future. That’s the only year that kinda makes sense (solar = lunar = induction = 0). It looks odd but once you know you know, you know?
- Comment on Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever 1 year ago:
Here: www.boxofficemojo.com/franchise/fr541495045/?sort… (ignore re-release).
The Dark World is higher than Thor, probably because it was very anticipated. The MCU was a behemoth for a long time.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 1 year ago:
So I got confused and had to read Wikipedia for this. Day 0 is Jan 1, 4713 BC. I feel this causes more confusion if it isn’t mentioned.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Shelves John Cena's 'Coyote vs. Acme', Despite Having Finished Filming 1 year ago:
The real tragedy is the careers those films could have helped. Actors and staff don’t get a tax break for that do they.
The government should get the rights and make those movies freely available. Want a tax break? Don’t vault it, put it in public domain.
- Comment on Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever 1 year ago:
The other one was The Incredible Hulk (2008) for those looking for that answer.
- Comment on Avatar: The Last Airbender | Official Teaser | Netflix 1 year ago:
It will be very good and cancelled after two seasons.
- Comment on Roman numerals, man... so close! 1 year ago:
- That’s not “IV”, Obelix, that’s four.
- Comment on Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games 1 year ago:
Unironically, no. They really thought Fortnite was going to be the new Minecraft and compete with Netflix/Disney for time and attention.
- Comment on Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN 1 year ago:
Wait until you learn what the price was 30 years ago. Hint: it’s the same price.
- Comment on How can i know whether a website is a part of the fediverse? 1 year ago:
Satan accepts all LGBT+ in hell, equally.
- Comment on Unity ...It Just Keeps Get Worse 1 year ago:
They still shouldn’t do it in the Office. They should do it at home, like all others puppies-in-wood-chippers people I know. Boundaries, Karen!
- Comment on Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks? 1 year ago:
Goodbye dream of knowing how many times my car can charge my phone.
- Comment on The amount of spam texts I get from Republican campaigns 1 year ago:
Looks more like someone signed him up as a prank. There’s not much you can do.
OP, are you signed up to the federal do not call registry? That might help. www.donotcall.gov
The only other thing I do is either block any text from people not in your contact list and/or use a paid service like RoboKiller.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 9 September 1 year ago:
Oh? What is it?
