Baltimore, MD, USAI basically never use this site anymore, so let me know if you want to be a moderator so that I'm not making people wait for months on end for their runs to be verified
Under Water Palace Act 2, SB55 has two separate runs on the leaderboard because one was submitted on his behalf under a different name
sure why not
pink floyd yes genesis king crimson radiohead santana blood sweat and tears chicago david bowie the beatles swans herbie hancock weather report and maybe billy joel now
I don't think it's a glitch, and it doesn't look like it's faster because it skips the boost you get from the glider.
You can delete the video after your run gets accepted, there's no rule against it afaik
@KrakenTheJaken roms work the same across all emulators for a console, if that's what you're asking
I think this should get locked, there's nothing else meaningful that could possibly come out of this thread
If someone does a legit run, it belongs on a leaderboard. There's no getting around that. I thought this was enforced on srcom, you'd think that the largest speedrunning site would give half a damn about leaderboard integrity. Apparently I was wrong.
This is really not that hard to understand. If the admins of what is effectively the official website of speedrunning prefer politics over leaderboard integrity that says a big deal about what speedrunning really is.
I think it would be useful to have some way of enabling notifications for the main forums. Because of how large they are you could maybe select specific threads to get notifications on or something. It would make it easier to have a discussion there
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Yes, Ohrami advocated for child porn.
But the idea that someone should be banned just for being known to have that position (on a different website, no less) is nothing short of ridiculous. As zewing said, "You can be the biggest scumbag in the world, but if your runs are legitimate then they earn a spot on a leaderboard." Leaderboards are statistical and should never be influenced by politics. If you complete a run, you deserve the spot on the leaderboard, because that's what they're for. It isn't anyone's place to impose their morals on how they feel others should think by controlling who gets what place on the leaderboard. This should be obvious to anyone.
Not to get too political, but the idea that we should punish someone for their beliefs is generally dangerous, and although this is on a somewhat small scale, it's a horrible thing to set a precedent for. Should we all be careful of what unpopular positions we advocate in fear that someone will find out and have us ostracized from the community? Obviously not. I don't agree with Ohrami's position myself, but I can sympathize with his situation and I certainly wouldn't want to punish him simply for disagreeing with me. So it can easily be seen that the act of removing him for his political beliefs is pretty not good.
Oh, and while we're at it, let's falsely accuse this guy of being a RAPIST AND CHILD ABUSER. That should go over great on his end. The fuck
Some say that Ohrami's mere existence as a speedrunner threatens the reputation of speedrunning as a whole. This boils down to an advocation of committing an immoral act (banning him cause politic) in order to achieve the " goal" of giving speedrunning a good name in the eyes of the kinds of people who will look down entirely upon a community because one member advocates child porn. To me, there's a large imbalance in morality. Not to mention that the precedent set by this decision would negatively impact the speedrun community for who knows how long.
I don't think that's the motivation for this though, that would make a little too much sense. Goose would like as well to censor anyone who believes Ohrami shouldn't be banned, and I think that shows us his moral compass quite nicely.
TL;DR, Banning him cause politic is immoral because speedrunning isn't speedpolitics, banning him cause reputation is immoral because anything gained by in terms of speedrunning reputation by the ban is outweighed by the immoral act of banning him, and Goose is even more of a child than I am, which says a lot.
In response to an earlier post that got deleted today because of the update:
If the mods are ostracizing Ohrami and ignoring his runs because of a political opinion he had, that's an issue, and there's really not much getting around that. I had a couple paragraphs typed up but now that the discussion is erased it makes no sense to post that.
it's a lot easier to record with an emulator for one thing
I see some world ils start from a new game and others use a completed file, so which should be used
