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KainWind posted...

Okay but what's the new 100 coin strat?

I haven't seen it, but I think it involves the cannon star. I could see it looking pretty similar to current 100 pre-carpet, but I could be wrong.

Starks posted...

Simply has the whole setup dialed in now.

Yeah, he's even doing some pretty cool movement on the way to the carpetless window area.

Liam is doing pretty alright with it too. Weegee did the old set-up yesterday, but Moist just dropped a new 10k challenge that has him too occupied to deal with this new set-up, which considering how well he was doing the harder version, I'm sure he would be destroying this one. Suigi, as I showed, I think has the best mastery over it right now, but he's actually a prodigy, and if his motivation doesn't go down, has a real shot at literally having every world record all at the same time which is just crazy to think about.

Doe posted...

SimpleFlips doing the carpet star with the green demon chasing him really impressed me

It involved the utmost most advanced game knowledge about how 1-ups work in order to pull that off! Of course, I now wonder if this strat would have trivialized that, lmao. Just lure the 1-up far away, get to the window and pull off the trick.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Ive got 0 issues at all with using tools to discover tricks and practice for eventually pulling it off live in a toolless run

Of course, neither do I. The point is, the first set-up would have involved an input display which would tell you your stick angles during a run. The community was already feeling anxious about the discussion that would have revolved around it.

https://twitter.com/GreenSuigi/status/1704009920335458412

Example of one of the best runners (GreenSuigi has 4 of the 5 main board category World Records, 0/1/16/70) getting this trick twice in a row, from star select. It's really showing viability. Getting it twice in a row doesn't mean the trick is solved, but the fact that is something runners can do means it's more than possible.

Of course, doing in a run when you feel jittery and full of adrenaline will throw many more curveballs than doing it casually will do.

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Sounds like purists need to learn the new tricks, or get left behind. No bones about it, that's just how it goes sometimes.

I don't think there is anything wrong with feeling outside tools to make tricks easier is a little against the spirit of human speedrunning. It's actually one of 64's strongest points. Other communities, by allowing "speed" to be the ruler of what the rules are end up ripping apart their games, and are beholden to whatever ends up being the fastest version. 64 has a strong community because it still values Super Mario 64 itself, over what speed fanatics think it needs to be.

Carpetless

For the unaware, there is a star called "The Big House in the Sky" in which you have to ride a carpet through the level where it will take you to a big house that... is in the sky, and is the only way to get to the top of the building where the power star to this level is located.

For speedrunning, this represents a major autoscroller, meaning there is nothing we can do to make this go by faster, other than getting to the autoscroller initiation faster.

Now, SM64 is a pretty old game, and many strats have been discovered for years, including a trick named carpetless. As the name suggests, this strat involves a method of getting on top of the big house in the sky to get the star without the carpet, saving massive time. For many years, it was thought this trick was only possible by using exploits to basically, from what I understand, take a bob-omb through a warp that takes you to the house, and using the pushback properties to propel yourself towards the top. This trick was deemed humanly impossible, aka, TAS-only... that is until legendary runner Xiah, performed carpetless non-TAS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjcD0qzkgcw

Fast-forward a few years and a new set-up, yet again, TAS only was discovered, utilizing glitchy wallkicks along the building to wallkick up to the top:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yZHeSB6arI&t=2s

It should be noted that this year has seen many grind out the bob-omb version of carpetless, to the point that not only was it being done in Rainbow Ride IL's (a speedrun of just finishing RR as fast as possible) but as of a week or two ago, a runner named Parsee through down the gauntlet by announcing they would start doing this trick in runs that were good, but not WR possible (without carpetless that is). This was monumental as many streamers would historically ban the discussion of this trick due to it's status as a "meme trick that would never become viable." This caused much fear as the idea of a solid WR being set with carpetless meant that anyone who would want WR would have to learn this trick as well. To make matters worse, Rainbow Ride has conventionally been the final stage one does in a 120-star run before doing the final Bowser stage, and while theories of early Rainbow Ride routes have been conceptualized, none really seemed worse the timeloss to go out of your way to do.

That is, until a literal day ago when a new set-up for the 2nd "TAS-only" strat I mentioned was discovered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b18D4YPcJU&t=1s

This was an actual set-up that seemed doable, despite being extremely hard. There was only one problem though: it required a ton of perfect positioning, and even worse, a reliance on perfect control stick angles, which only seemed possible through the use of external input displays that showed stick angles. While other communities may just accept this, the Super Mario 64 speedrunning community has been historically very purist: original hardware and no modifications to the controls of the games. Many runners were sickened by this trick and the idea of Mario 64 turning into a lotto-system, some even threatening to quit, but luckily, an even better set-up was found today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbPAJ_OrT28

While not exactly easy, this finally has made carpetless into a trick that is faster than the og bomb set-up, and much, much easier. So easy in fact, that nearly every runner has started learning it with the idea that this could be in their backpocket. Oh, did I forget to say the timesave? We are talking about a 40-50 second timesave. For a speedgame as optimized as 64 where every second counts, this is like a nuke being dropped. The community goes crazy over 2-3 second timesaves, but this, this has been the holy grail of Super Mario 64 120 star speedrunning.

Will runners immediately start using it on good runs? Most likely not, but the fact that every runner is learning it, some runners have already started using it, and that it's seemingly viable in runs means carpetless isn't a meme or a possibility anymore, it's an inevitability. Time will tell if losing an easy autoscroller in favor of the de facto hardest trick in the run (and perhaps hardest trick that is RTA in Super Mario 64 speedruns) will hurt the run or help it, but the future is now. And who knows, this is still the early days of the new set-up. An even better set-up could be found, even tomorrow. We might one day trivialize the trick, slaying what was once the behemoth known as carpetless.

tl;dr tbh.

Red Lobster has a phenomenal all-you-can-eat. Especially with the dragon shrimp, which is way too good. It literally is cheaper to get the all-you-can-eat and order two different shrimps from there, even if that is all you eat, than ordering the pick-two.

From what I understand, pasta is cooked. It's lasagna that is microwaved.

I'm ready to slop up that pasta.

I have a faint idea about the ending as I decided to spoil myself. Show seems interesting, and I have been craving media that plays in unique ways.

Only issue I have is I feel it's going to feel rush or the ending will feel unearned. Like, it flips a switch in order to justify the main character's point of view in 100% totality.

What do you say? Am I doing myself a disservice to not watch the show?

Nah, it's alright. There are many other sitcoms that have done worse.

Tbh, it just seems like YouTube hate industry clickbait.

We all know it's rough graphically, but you were playing it on the Switch for the portability anyways.

I triple-dog dare you. Just say it three times, unbroken.

I bet KFC is still bigger worldwide because of countries like Japan.

This thread sucks. Mario & Luigi was 10x the series Paper Mario ended up being.

spikethedevil posted...

At least its not sexist like Super Princess Peach was.

Ah yes, the game that was so sexist that the only person that could control their emotions was... *checks notes* Princess Peach.

Swordfighter Peach has the best ability for us to appreciate her peaches.

pedro45 posted...

You had me except for books. Books seem to be the media that still puts out a lot of original work and ideas.
There are hardcovers and reprints and what not, but that's far from re-releasing directors cuts, masters editions, etc.
Comics suffer from rehashes all the time though with the occasional good original idea.

Books aren't really as good of an example compared to the others because text doesn't really get outdated nearly as quickly as movies and games will. Sometimes, a book will re-release with a more modern translation, though, just so people can understand it more.

Movies and games have visuals/audio that will eventually become quickly outdated, and touching it up with HD/nowadays 4k will help make old media still keep up.

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I think Nintendo has long since held Birdo as a cisgender woman.

AceMos posted...

ppl wanting to deny vivian is trans is giving be bridgett flashbacks

I'm not denying. I'm just wondering if Nintendo will try denying it or if they will clean up their original dialogue to not be as transphobic.

AceMos posted...

vivian is trans and the heros do refer to her as female

its only her sisters that call her male

I'm pretty sure Goombella and the Japanese description of Vivian also says she's a "male." Goombella calls her one of the sisters by the end, but it takes a bit of time and from what I understand, it's still her being shaky about it too.

In America, her sisters don't call her male; they call her ugly instead.

Priere posted...

Im thinking it will be a 1:1 translation on the GCN version in this respect.

Maybe; to be honest, I don't know how much flak they would get in Japan for doing it, or if Japan won't overall care too much. The English translation is pretty safe, though, so nothing really has to be changed with that one anyways.

This vendetta against remasters/remakes is so stupid. Every other media does the same thing. Books will have new versions with cleaner text, movies and tv shows will have 4k touch-ups, music will get modern-day remasters. It's so these pieces can be reintroduced to an audience that may otherwise pass up on them. There's nothing wrong with polishing up games so they can be enjoyed by audiences that don't want to pay over $100 bucks to play it on a 20+-year-old console that they most likely don't have.

mario2000 posted...

I doubt it, mainly because I'm not sure if Nintendo wants to include transphobic bullying in one of their games.

Well, that's what I mean. It would be one thing if the bad guys were the transphobes (not that a company like Nintendo would even want to involve themselves in such matters), but even the original Japanese narration and Goombella weren't exactly making the most positive remarks towards Vivian, stating her as a man.

So I'm just wondering if Nintendo is going to scrub that, and say she's a cisgender woman, or if they will rewrite as her being trans but remove the transphobic comments.

As you probably all know, Vivian, in the Japanese translation of TTYD, is... complicated. Back then, the game frequently would say she was a man "who thought she was a girl" but would still call her a man. In Japan's eyes, she is a male, although nowadays that would be heavily controversial.

In America, she is always firmly stated to be a woman, no hints of her being a transwoman, but also nothing saying she couldn't be. America just removed all traces of that.

From what I hear, the Italian version makes it clear she is a transwoman, and as such, she is a woman.

I don't really expect America to change this up, but I do think the Japanese translation of the game might feel compelled to rewrite the dialogue (I hear Nintendo is one of the more LGBT-friendly companies in Japan to work for as well) considering the subject matter. I'm just curious if they will try to scrub any traces and make it more in line with the English translation.

I'm really excited for it. While I'm sure Mario and Bowser will have some sort of cameo at the very least, it's quite interesting how it's been all Peach. So far, Wario is the only one to have spinoffs completely separate from Mario's general universe.

Dreepapult posted...

Is it a remake? Remaster?

It's a straight-up remake. While the game has aged well and it probably could have just gotten a 1080p remaster as a little refresher, it's pretty obvious it's updated models and lighting.

That direct was awesome!

Really excited for literally anything that was Mario in that direct. Also ready to do some F-Zero 99!

I finally will get to play my favorite Paper Mario. That Peach game has me excited too!

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I don't see what's going to take 40 minutes tbh.

Especially with what I heard about the DK game; doesn't exactly scream big thing.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Wonder how many of the 19 million people working for the US government this will win him votes from

Many that will think "Ha, he'll fire all those worthless co-workers of mine... but surely not me, I'm not one of the ones he's talking about!"

The fact is, she's popular because society needed someone to fill that role. It's just random luck.

The guy is not even a hack. He's just a babys first edgelord.

I heard there is actually a lot that goes into the world-building of the Thomas the Tank Engine universe. It is a lot deeper than just random children's stuff, which is quite amusing.

DementedDurian posted...

No, it was an original work that was highly panned by critics but like an artist's death the author's trial saw an increase in sales by those who were morbidly curious about the case.

Ah, gotcha.

DementedDurian posted...

This heavily reminds me of Amok, a 2003 book made by a Polish murderer that was letter-to-letter of a murder the author had commited.

Look it up on Wikipedia, it's very weird and wild.

is that the book that the game that was heavily speedran was based on?

Us allowing the glorification of treasonous snakes from the Confederacy was a mistake.

As a reminder, Vince is going to sit as the executive chairman on the board for Endeavor.

ReturnOfFa posted...

Such claims require evidence. It's in your head. It's from your imagination no matter how beneficial or 'like us'.

We already know the brain is capable of creating multiple personalities, which is the basis for DiD. Tulpamancy itself is a long-standing practice going all the way back to the ancient ways of Buddhist monks. Unfortunately, the funding for Tulpamancy is limited, and the subjects for such studies have widespread bias. We know multiple personalities can exist within the same brain, so now the question isn't if it's possible but if a person can "self-induce" a new independent consciousness without an illness. If you don't believe that is possible, there is not really anything that can be done to prove the existence of a Tulpa considering the nature of such beings.

ReturnOfFa posted...

from what I can see from the definition, it seems like it fits the bill unless you just want to be arrogant

Tulpa's are headmates, and are far from imaginary. They are not constructs of your own consciousness, but separate individuals that share your brain with you. While they share similarities to imaginary friends, they are more like us, just without a body in the physical world. They are a tier below us in how "real" they are, but they are not fake like an imaginary friend is.

Nah, if people don't want to dedicate the time, so be it, but that's on them. Plenty of games that take a little bit of time to really get started, but they need those precious moments beforehand to build the game up in a way that if they just went crazy at the start, it wouldn't really have the impact that it would have otherwise.

If a game needs set up, then I will patiently wait for the game to be ready to touch my soul in a way that my soul yearns to feel.

MightBeOverSoon posted...

with your imaginary friend or whatever you call it?

Tulpas aren't imaginary friends.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking of it being the adult entertainment site.

I have a few theories, but I don't have the appropriate degrees to feel like there is any substance to them.

Alteres posted...

Well, at least you described what the difference was this time.

Still seems like it would be a mental illness if properly classified.

Probably is actually possible, I did something roughly similar one time I took too many tabs.

Was messing with my thought processes and managed to get two concurrent senses of self that were generating ideas independently and that I could still consciously track.

Freaked me out, and I figured that couldnt lead anywhere except a chemically fueled mental break so I shut that shit down fast.

Idk, the fact that it's host-forced, is generally not resulting in negative consequences from just the practice itself (with obvious social stigmas not counting as that is a negative as a result of society rather than the actual action), and that tulpas generally do go away if the host chooses to abandon them makes it not really something I think would be classified as a mental illness.

chelsea___wtf posted...

good luck with your tulpa! why did you name her mags?

It's based on the visual image I used for her.