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I always loved the og db music since I watched it my first year of college (like 7 years ago).

When I watched dbz online, it was the English dub with the japanese/original soundtrack. Listening to Faulconer is so weird knowing that's what Americans grew up with. I like the more innocent and lighthearted tone of the og music, and I like that it's not constantly playing. The scenes that are quiet in the og just feel like they should be quiet, but the Faulconer soundtrack plays over it.

I also love the genkidama theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPBoESjzhZ4

It felt like the perfect song as representing the finality of the kid buu fight. It is a very well-made composition that I feel it's a shame that kids didn't get to hear it (although many seem to love the Faulconer replacement for this theme, so I guess that's good).

It also works better going from Dragon Ball to DBZ. DB OG soundtrack to DBZ Faulconer feels like a weird transition.

I like them.

I'll have to check out the trailer. Shame about the bad compression for the original one, though. Really does make it look like one of those test animations for movies.

Eternal Sonata.

Kitt posted...

Give it 20 years and you'll have people who were kids in 2015 calling critics dumb for hating Pan too.

Movies that are in the 40's-60's on rotten tomatoes that kids loved are almost always going to be forgiven over time, where the now-grown-up kids call the past critics out-of-touch.

I bet the Mario movie will be considered one of the best animated films of the decade when kids who watched it (and enjoyed it as kids do) grow up and are confused that the movie was considered a "59%" rotten movie back in the day.

Ngl, I think the modeling/shading is a big step-back.

It looks like a mix of Shrek 1 modeling and TV animated-CGI toddler show modeling.

They were trying to be experimental, but it just looks pretty mediocre from an animation standpoint in my opinion. Beyond the story, the characters, and the songs, the true Walt Disney standpoint is the artistry of animation going all the way back to Snow White and the old toons. The trailer didn't really feel like a testament to Disney as an animation-studio. Maybe the final film will work better than how I'm seeing it right now.

As for the plot, I mean, I feel people have been overly-harsh nowadays, criticizing Disney in ways they don't care about typically.

This is the type of speedrunner we all wish we could be.

I'm sorry guys. I'm a zoomer, and my attention span is fried :(

Can we stop with this whole "mods are okay with xyz" every time they don't take down a post.

I think 99.99% of the time, they are not okay with it, and being free volunteers means they don't always get to stuff as quickly as we might like.

All of Ruth's good she had done was more than wiped out from not stepping down due to ego.

This isn't me being fictitious, it's how I truly feel. Trump getting 3 justices is exactly why so many republicans voted for him back in 2016 before the total brainwashing as even those who hated him realized they would have eternal victories because of it. It's going to be a while before we have another chance to fix the Supreme Court.

I would rather have all my accounts hacked and lose my identify and my money than ever have to do another 2FA.

While obviously not because it's not a real thing, MrBeast would legitimately be the closest figure I could think of in modern-day society that would fit many of the characteristics the anti-christ would probably have.

The things about x or y politician being the anti-christ is always funny because the anti-christ will never have tens of millions of people hating him, and plus, I don't actually think the masses are even supposed to be able to suspect who he is. For one thing, no one is supposed to know when the end-times are coming, and believing that you know who he is would go against the book of revelations.

Of course, MrBeast would probably be disqualified under that too, but still.

At the end of the day, the anti-christ is supposed to be a highly charismatic man, that the masses love, but secretly guiding the people of the world away from Christ.

Wind Waker Link

They'd be more powerful because Bulma wouldn't hold them back. They also wouldn't have Vegeta's LOSER genes in them.

Ngl, Michael Scott made The Office.

If he's not on it, might as well call it something else because you are just going to get constant comparisons where it falls short.

Some innate ancient instinct is driving me to survive.

Kick is a platform designed around drawing in streamers that have no moral issues with advertising gambling to minors.

It plays lip service to not seem bad, but kick is rotten to its core.

Nade_Duck posted...

so that's what that does

wuss

I'm not a wuss. Stop calling me a wuss!

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Go to post 1, and you'll see the option.

Isn't Shantae pretty fan-servicey? People always say it's a top-tier franchise, though.

It's why some things are better left to their own spheres. If the argument is that he has to take his helmet off to make a successful TV show around him, I'd rather there not be a TV show than ruin the artistic vision of the Halo creators.

Derwood posted...

Counterpoint: we should study why people are sexually attracted to video games and cartoons

They look like humans and sound like humans.

No thanks.

Shrek posted...

anyone who does that is a loser

use it how it's intended or don't use it at all

Don't call me a loser please :(

Like, maybe you said something with a little too much venom in it or you said something you know people are going to want to fight you for saying?

I do it all the time, and I think it's made my life on this site better. Get to have my mic drop moment and then not have to worry about being bullied for it afterwards. B)

This is such a dumb argument that people only say to start stuff and we all know it.

Easy modes don't ruin games if the difficulty is not a piece of the artistic expression the developers are trying to create. Dark Souls has crafted its world and design around this difficulty, and for you to tell them they have to accommodate their art to your crybaby preferences is egotistical, and it's no wonder they don't want to cater to such a lame demographic. You give a little, and they are definitely going to start crying about more things.

Halo doesn't care, and doesn't see difficulty as a core piece of its artistic representation, and thus gives the player the choice to play through the game how they see fit.

It's no wonder easy-mode elitists are always the ones crying, though. They probably think walking to the toilet to take a piss is too hard-mode for them too and need to use their juice boxes to pee in, instead.

It also disrespected the creators vision for the ending of ff7.

asdf8562 posted...

Not enough variables to change what 99% of the polls claimed which was a slam dunk for Hillary.

This propaganda of trying to repeat 2016 rhetoric that Democrats don't have to take 2024 seriously is repeating 2016 all over again. The threat of Trump 2024 should be taken seriously.

The polls were actually pretty accurate in 2016 on a nation-wide scale. 2016 taught the DNC to take certain states more seriously. Not to mention, people really didn't know what type of politician Trump would be until after he was elected. 2018, 2020, and 2022, all years based around Trump were not incredibly successful years for the Republicans as Trump's favorability has only gotten worse to the general American since 2016.

Trump's campaign is also going to have to juggle around his legal woes as well which can't help.

2016 was a fluke. Trump can't run on the idea of what he might be like anymore, we know what he is, and every time he comes to the table, he has been rebuked since.

asdf8562 posted...

2016 Trump wasn't suppose to win, and we see how that went.

2020, was too close for comfort due to like 4 battleground states.

Everyone who genuinely cares about Trump not winning 2024 should be taking 2024 and the possibility of him winning, seriously.

2016 had so many variables that are no longer the case.

Trump is not winning. Trump is barely staying even with Biden and that's before the general public, who have long since pushed Trump out of their mind for the most part in the last few years, are reminded of who he is.

2022 was a failure for Republicans, in what should have been a red wave, because of Trump. Offline, most people think Trumplicans are kinda off-putting and weird.

My hands cramp hard just by writing for like a minute, and it is so mind-boggling slow compared to my typing speed.

All I can do is type even though studies say handwriting is better for retention.

DarkFists posted...

He'll be immortalized through his walkthroughs, I'm sure

What walkthroughs have SBAllen done?

mfw I see it's just the 100th alt account of someone following me -.-

I'm rooting for Fandom to go down in flames.

I used to donate to wikipedia all the time, but I'm not donating to wikipedia if it means helping the fandom owner.

As long as fandom sells us to someone else, and doesn't just close us down.

Neat. Almost a decade.

While Summoning Salt or Karl Jobst might make a vid on this at some point, here's a vid from simply, who's actually a 120-star runner explaining this new discovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2hzYmL2AkQ&t=1s

It basically is what I have in the 1st post, but if you prefer to hear rather than read, as well as get a little bit more elaboration on certain parts of what I was describing, this is the vid for you.

Suigi got it 11 times in a row. Other runners have been able to do it in a consistent fashion (not to that level), and people are now doing runs with the intention of doing carpetless if they make it to RR.

Carpetless isn't enough of a time save to make it where runners can casually do no resets, but it is enough to at least make a run that had an unfortunate big mistake or two still worth continuing. It should make the number of runs to Rainbow Ride go substantially up over the next bit of time.

I would have to say, as of today, the runner that most likely could be the first to realistically world record with carpetless would be simply as he seems to be one of the more consistent runners at it right now. Cheese is a little iffy (but I heard he did it during a Tippy segment, so it's not something that would surprise me), and I don't really know how puncay's been doing. Saw he was learning it, but don't know if he's nailed it yet. Liam, strangely, doesn't really feel like he's made significant progress. Like he's okay at it, and has gotten it 4x in a row, but I'm not really seeing him practice the whole star-savestateless like other runners... Watch him prove me wrong tonight, though, lmao.

Wait, they are removing dinoland? I love dinoland, this sucks!

Edit: I won't forget you my beautiful t-rex. :'(

It's hard to really get mad when 90% of the people that complain end up buying the game anyways. What's the point when no one has a backbone nowadays.

haloiscoolisbak posted...

Yeah it does explain it well. 16 star was the long time any%, a new strat was found to really break the game and have zero star runs, but the 16 star category had such history and it's less daunting for new players so it has been kept around as a separate category

Is the 0 or 120 star run the Cadillac of SM64 speed running? Or do they have equal prestige

Super Mario 64 is one of the few games I can think of where it's version of any% is so overlooked compared to its other categories.

https://www.speedrun.com/sm64?h=1_Star-N64&x=7kjpp4k3-e8m7em86.9qj7z0oq

0-star is less prestigious than 16, 70, and 120 star by a mile. I can't tell if there's more respect for the 1-star record considering its more optimal, but we can just say 1 and 0 are equal. If you look at the link above, you will see 0 is the least-run category. 120-star is the one people care about the most, just because its seen as the ultimate challenge of the game (the jump from 70 to 120 in terms of strats you need to learn is insane), but more so for its history. This was the category sig mained, cheese/puncay/simply mained, Liam mained, etc. 120-star makes runners more popular... and those runners becoming popular makes 120-star more prestigious.

haloiscoolisbak posted...

Complete layman with speedrunning, but what are the factors that seperate the categories with SM64 speed runs and how many are there?

I get 120 is like the completionist run with 100%

Is 70 the earliest you can beat the game not using glitches and 16 the earliest with glitches?

So when it comes to speedrunning, there will only ever be two categories that aren't arbitrary, that being any% and 100% (and 100% actually does have some arbitrariness at times, but it usually has a clear, defined goal most can agree on).

For Super Mario 64, 100% is represented by the 120 star category as you mentioned, but any% is actually 0 star. The problem with 0-star is it requires not only a very hard-trick called sblj, but it requires a very specific version of this sblj that can perform Dire Dire Docks skip (normally, you need to get the star on the sub for the DDD portal to push back, thereby letting you do the 2nd Bowser stage). Since most people attempting 0-star fail DDD Skip, there is another category called 1-star in which you do everything 0-star does, but then you also get the sub star I mentioned. In a way, 0/1 star both represent any%, with 1-star being a slightly slower version of any%.

16-star is actually SM64's most popular-to-run category, and what this category represents is any% where sblj is banned. As such, there's no way to skip the 30-star door until you have access to Mips, the rabbit, which you need 15-stars to spawn. Once he's spawned, you can use him to clip through the 30-star door early, and proceed on with the rest of the game just like you would with 1-star (get the sub, do 2nd bowser, do blj's to skip 50 star door and endless stairs, beat final Bowser). The reason this is a main-board category is just because it's an accessible version of any% that allows anyone to get into the game's speedrun. It was originally any% before sblj was discovered, so it was a historical category in that regard, and usually in many speed games, when a trick is found that would completely obsolete a route, they will create a separate category for it in order for people to still compete for times with that route.

70-star is any% where any blj's are banned. That means you can't do the lobby blj to skip the 8-star door, sblj to skip the 30-star door, or the normal blj's to skip the 50-star-door as well as the endless stairs. Additionally, mips clip is banned, therefore requiring runners to get the normal amount of stars to beat the game and each of its sections. It's not a glitchless run as you can still perform glitches within stages to get stars, but you still can't do blj's, and is the closest to a "pure" run of 64 you are going to get.

120-star, by the way, has no restrictions. It's just getting all 120-stars and beating the game as fast as possible. Technically, if you wanted, you could do the 0-star route and do the last stages first and it would be a valid run. Wouldn't be faster, but it's not against the rules.

That's what makes up the 0/1/16/70/120 star categories for 64. If you want my opinion, I personally feel 0/1 star should be renamed any% and combined as I don't think 1-star is really needed. I also think 31-star runs should be a category that bans sblj and mips clip, but not blj's entirely, but that's just my opinion there, haha!

Edit: Hope that wasn't confusing. As you can see, 0/1/16/70/120 are the main board categories, aka, the most prestigious records to get in the game. There's a bunch of other speedruns which you can find in the category extensions page of Super Mario 64's speedrun.com section, but those aren't typically seen as "highly" as the 5 I mentioned. Still, they represent fun breaks from the typical speedruns for those who just want to have some fun with the game in a new way!

Anyone who thinks glitches are cheating or that glitchless runs are the only valid runs obviously has no appreciation for speedrunning, so I don't know why they even bother coming into these topics.

KainWind posted...

Wasn't that just a handful of years ago?

I'm pretty sure that happened in 2016. Could be wrong, though.

Edit: Looks like it was 2017?

Sorry for posting yet again, but someone literally created a database for just carpetless?

https://computablee.github.io/Carpetless-Dictionary-Search/

Once the floodgates open, the waters really pour out.

On the topic of goats, I feel like recency bias and the fact that old runners are naturally going to be slower makes it a hard subject. I also feel competitive speedruns are not valued enough in these discussions as certain runners just bring it to every single one of these events whether they have wr or are not even top 5.

For instance, puncay is consistently getting top 3 in competitions since the beginning of SM64 competitions, and even if it's been a while since he's had the 120-star world record, that is something worth recognizing as a ridiculous achievement, and is why I think he's a top 3 runner of all time.

On the other hand, I notice while weegee is able to climb leaderboards quickly and has insane potential, he struggles in competitions as he is unable to take that speedrunner perfectionist mindset off. If it's not WR pace, he is more likely than not, unable to get himself to finish the run, which means he's either having a really awesome placement, or is not even top 10.

Cheese has had a very, very long time as the WR holder, and no matter how sexy other runners sobs and strats are, cheese just continues to find a way to keep up and clutch out WR's on the big stage. Not only that, but cheese also was very successful at 70 star when he ran that.

120 star is the most prestigious world record to have, but when it comes to a runner like Liam, the fact that he's never really shown up to anything but 120 makes it hard to say he's the best of the best despite the fact that I think he's still currently the best 120-star runner at the moment. That's where suigi (and weegee of course) shines for the fact that he just keeps showing up everyone no matter the category (and suigi has usually dominated the 16-star competitions he is a part of, so he's both great at pacers and competitions).

I haven't even brought up the plethora of japanese runners such as xiah and kanno who we need to consider in the discussion of best players of all time. Parsee was doing literally bomb carpetless in runs, lmao.

Nah. As programmers, they lack a few things. As world builders, though, I think they have to be among the best of the best.

Delirious_Beard posted...

the possible end of liam's thirsty bit makes this the most impactful strat discovery

Don't remind me

*Cough cough cough*. Wait, am I live?

Starks posted...

Wait, 100c is being ripped from carpet stage?

I thought they were linked out of necessity.

Nah, 100c was only with carpet since both are slow stars, but at the very least, they had synergy with the fact that the carpet naturally finishes up giving you the remaining coins you need, and it's not like you are losing any more time doing coins with the carpet considering its an autoscroller.

Now that carpetless is a thing, you could instead opt to get the cannon star in RR with 100c as the bob-omb to open up the cannon naturally flows into the ship where the cannon is anyways along with any necessary coins there. As I mentioned, the best part is at that point, you could skip doing lakitu bounce for the cannon star, and thus, only need to do it 1 time for the floating ship star rather than 2 times as it is now. So, yep, you are adding carpetless which is a lot harder, but you at least get the benefit of less lakitu skips.

Edit: To settle down a bit, it's likely good runs that are pb'able or wr'able without carpetless will result in the runner opting to do the classic 100c with carpet route, so it might be a while before you truly see what I'm saying in actual runs.

KainWind posted...

I haven't been paying close attention to SM64 lately but I'll try to see when there's a new WR with carpetless. I'm honestly excited. I hope one of the OG runners can hit it at least once before Suigi sweeps in. No offense to him but I assume he will get it and keep it at some point based on all the other runs of his I've seen. Haven't seen him try 120 though. I'm a fan of simply so I hope he gets a good one even if it isn't WR.

As a word of caution, it could still be a very long time before we see a WR with it. As of now, it's still far from easy, and arguably will result in many more dead runs than not. Now, I hear you can actually get it 2nd try (as in die the 1st time) and still save a little bit of time, but I don't know how concrete that is.

Luckily for you, other runners still have a lot of time before Suigi is capable of doing destruction. While Suigi knows 70 star, the jump from 70 star to 120 is enormous as 100c stars truly are a behemoth to learn, along with the other slow, long stars. He's been doing practice of each stage, and so far, he's only at LLL, so quite a ways to go before he probably will feel ready to even start runs. Being as young as he is, his motivations can change real quickly, and he might burn out, which is a frequent thing for young runners that specialized in shorter categories like 16-star trying to go to 120-star. Weegee's success in 16-star and 120-star is kinda an anomaly in a way.

Simply is definitely capable still, but admittedly, I do feel like he's slowly falling more and more behind other top runners, in terms of potential. He has a really, really good run once in a while, but I feel like ever since March of 2021 when the game kinda beat him down mentally, he's never quite been the same in terms of the grind, which is fair. He's also focused on other things outside of speedrunning, so kinda makes it hard to keep up with the people grinding for 8-12 hours a day. I love Simply, though, so I hope he proves me wrong. I'm interested in Liam, as he arguably was 136 capable before carpetless, and has killed so many world record potential runs over the last few years. The dude honestly should have WR, but it's obvious the jitters destroy him in RR and Bowser throws more than anyone at his level.

Regardless, we might see a whiplash of world records in the near-future, even if it does take a few months (before Suigi comes in that is).

Starks posted...

I don't think 100 coin changes that much beyond the idea that you're doing it carpetless. And even then, the carpetless doesn't occur until the literal point where you get that 100th coin.

A 100c with carpetless was actually discussed today, and it supposedly saves 3 seconds over cannon + 100c. Only problem is I hear shy guy rng is more necessary in the carpetless route. Additionally, if 3 seconds is true, I feel many runners would take the advantage of needing to do one less lakitu bounce in the run over that tiny bit of timesave.