United States@Dare Not sure if any of those criteria work well. There's a few people who have huge run counts, only forum posters (who already know popular forum posters) will care about who has the most posts, and most donations says little about the donator's quality as a runner. What @ActuallyElite is suggesting is forum-specific, but we already have a most posts list anyway.
Creating an artificial barrier of "popularity" will only gatekeep and isn't worth the cost. If you want to recognize runners you enjoy, just talk about them.
@Hunterj1234 Optifine is banned for 1.15+ runs, Mr. "greatest speedrunner".
sorry I had to
This is something determined on a game-by-game basis, but since the way you're playing isn't "official", there's cases to be made for both retiming—countering platform differences—and not retiming—recognizing that the advantage of taking things slower should be countered. Keep in mind the first option is some additional work for the moderators.
I think for the common user Discord will remain the popular option for the time being, which is the most important factor. Forcing new community members to jump through too many hoops is discouraging, and though not everyone starts with a Discord account, Discord is becoming a major platform with reams of content. For many (myself included) technical neglect as Discord has shown is discouraging (if they're even aware of it), but not an active threat. Moving now would be premature and fail due to the issues of reluctance you mentioned, though it isn't bad to plan for the worst.
I don't see updated bots being essential to many (or any) communities, but feel free to correct me.
A good starting place would be this site's forums, as anyone speedrunning will already have an account.
Still a post up from the previous bot, by the way.
Question: Rick Astley's promise was made in 1987, almost 22 years before the release of Up. Though Astley never specified a date limit to his promise, isn't it reasonable to assume that Astley was not considering the creation of a film that had implications on his promise, thus meaning his promise does not cover Up and suggesting an update to reflect Up's implication on his promise?
Looking at Wave Race 64's leaderboard rules, as you've stated they've banned unofficial (third-party) emulators from the board. Because of this, you cannot submit a run using Project64 v1.7; what you might have read elsewhere likely doesn't reflect Wave Race 64. Official emulators are the ones used in virtual console rereleases, in this case Wii / Wii U Virtual Console, and thus have a sense of legitimacy despite potential emulation inaccuracies (though they're often in a separate subcategory if this is the case).
Each leaderboard has its own policy on emulation, usually determined by how accurately emulators play the game. It's likely that the Wave Race 64 community has decided to ban emulators due to emulation inaccuracy, though you could always ask community members in their Discord server.
The most common and flexible way to record one's computer screen and/or programs is OBS Studio. There's plenty of tutorials for it on YouTube.
With all due respect @Saradoc I'm not sure the wiki article you linked is proving your point. Of the two definitions of the term you linked, one is unrelated to the attack helicopter meme and the other is referencing and making fun of it. It should be simple enough to tell whether a person putting that in a custom profile box is referencing the meme genuinely or ironically by looking at their conduct, and taking according action.
Gonna agree with @RetroPacman that this thread has gone on long enough; we've established many of us like the idea of a custom status/pronoun box and we don't need tensions any higher.
The easiest game to begin with is the one you're already most familiar with, as that will save you time relearning movement. If you're looking for easy games, you could try flash games, though a game's difficulty does not match how optimized leaderboard times are. This also depends on your end goal—do you just want something you can wrap up quickly and be proud, or do you want to see your time fall significantly?
Found a helpful Reddit thread with much the same conclusion—while one can't directly use we/us/ours in place of other terms because of grammar, it's more of an indication of using plural pronouns (they/them or even y'all), which has to be specified further. Clearly, using "we/us" to describe which pronouns to use is raising more questions than it's answering...
The only real possibility of signifying all this is custom pronoun entry, which covers these (important!) edge cases.
@WorriesTripod68 Reading the game rules (View rules -> Game Rules), this would only be allowed if you're playing on console. If you're playing on PC, you would have to set up the game's autosplitter (code that works with LiveSplit to start and stop timing for you), which isn't too much work.
You'd best look at the Category Rules to see timing start and end for your run category, or just watch any run with video.
@baptistactivist A palindrome is when the characters of a word or phrase are mirrored, e.g.; abcdcba, 23455432, red rob order.
