Texas, USA.kr is just the ccTLD for South Korea, same as ".us" and ".uk" is for United States and Britain / United Kingdom / England / whatever you call yourself these days.
It is about the vaguest question I've ever heard, but if I may, I believe what Drakodan might have meant was something more along the lines of "why do your posts usually involve drama of some kind?"
The level is always the same in that game, right? Try changing how you approach practicing. Instead of trusting your reactions, focus on the timing of your inputs. The idea is to make the timing muscle memory so you don't get overwhelmed when you hit that area. When you practice the difficult parts of those levels, consciously focus on exactly how long you hold the jump or forward button, then modify it until it is consistently what you expect. If you do it right, you shouldn't even have to look at the screen to get it right; your muscle memory will remember to hold this button for a beat and a half, then hit this combo, and you don't even have to think about it. If you practice it enough (correctly), you can make the most difficult parts the easiest.
Did you make a Twilight reference in your first post or...
Nevermind. So, yeah, the longer practice sessions is the biggest thing. You have to think about it like training for any other marathon; you can't just walk on and expect to do well. One of the challenges of speedrunning is not taking that time to sit there and think about your next move; you always have to know what the next two or three moves are at any given point and your backup strategy if that fails. It's the challenge that most people who don't do this don't understand- that we have to know everything about everything so we can be prepared for anything without skipping a beat.
Along the same line, it helps to have a set of notes or something you can glance at so you don't forget anything. For these marathon runs, it's pretty easy to forget little details that can ruin the whole thing. A couple of weeks ago, I killed an HM64 photos run because I forgot to get a certain amount of money by a certain date. It wasn't hard to do; I just forgot to do it, but that's all it takes.
I think every game has that ¤one¤ thing (usually more). I've been running Harvest Moon 64 recently, and it's those random typhoons that can occur on any day during summer to sweep everything away.
More broadly, as far as I'm aware, random numbers are always a pain. I know some people love that kind of stuff, but I like to calculate and execute, and randomness makes it much more difficult.
EDIT: Wait, hang on... if your nerves get on your nerves, isn't that an endless cycle?
I hate to be that guy, but did you try turning it off and back on again? The computer and the monitors both. That's not a joke; I feel like the problem is with that the computer ¤expects¤ versus what actually ¤is¤.
EDIT: Can you tell me what the make and model of the splitter as well as the computer you're connecting it to? Also... why do you need a monitor just for streaming? If you use two monitors from one VGA port, the display will be half quality on both because you're taking the same amount of output and splitting it in two.
If people continue to throw in their own opinion, this will continue to be muddled. This is not about ethics or what any single person "feels" is right; the final authority will be what the written law states, which will likely be different for different regions. In the UK, for instance, it ¤was¤ illegal to burn music CDs until about June 2014, when Parliament passed a law to make copying music that you own legal under certain conditions.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111112700
Similarly, the US has a Copyright Act that defines what is considered "fair use" and what isn't. In the age of social media, it was necessary to create these laws, because everyone is sharing everything and everyone seems to have a different opinion of what is legal and what isn't. Courts still examine these on a case-by-case basis, because it ¤can¤ get complicated, but in the US, Supreme Court has upheld that "the enquiry focuses on whether the new work merely supersedes the objects of the original creation, or whether and to what extent it is ‘transformative,’ altering the original with new expression, meaning, or message. The more transformative the new work, the less will be the significance of other factors, like commercialism, that may weigh against a finding of fair use."
Case summary is here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1292.ZS.html
To keep this from getting overly complicated, it is essential to differentiate between fact and opinion. That's not to say that you aren't welcome to your own opinions, but if you aren't sure, don't claim that your particular view on the ethics is the law.
EDIT: ROM hacks would fall under parody, like other comment and criticism, and may claim fair use, though it may also depend on how much the new work alters from the original creation.
Heck yeah! I was hoping I wouldn't be the only one. I think there's a lot of room for improvement on that run, and from what I've found, the biggest problem is actually staying focused for 10 hours (as the same 10 second music clip repeats every time you enter a new area) and properly timed bathroom breaks. I've done the run in segments, but I haven't done them all at once yet.
I've been playing around with the black space, and I've found a few other things worth mentioning. The first is that only the door exists; not the entire building. If you know about where the door is, you can approach it from any angle and get the same result. Additionally, there are several of them, and they change locations during the winter season. During the winter only, I've only found the door past the left end and slightly down, but nowhere else. There is also an unlimited supply of wood down there, but considering the dog race medal rewards and the fact that you can only hold 8 in the rucksack, I really can't see a way to use it.
The invisible wall is the second key factor. Whenever you attend a festival, it puts an invisible barrier around the farm so the greenhouse is no longer accessible unless you reset. Festival ¤days¤ are irrelevant, but if you actually ¤attend¤ the festival, the wall pops up and I can't make it go away. Unless you find a way around that, which festivals you plan to attend and whether or not it is worth sacrificing the reset time will factor in to routing.
Is there somewhere we can aggregate notes? I've done a lot of these cost / time analysis(es?) so you won't have to make the same mistakes I made... blargh lost hours...
I don't think it's a legal grey area at all. The subject has been challenged enough that it is fairly well defined by now. Ripping an iso from a game you own is legal if it is for personal use; it is the distributing that is illegal. Not to be confused with downloading a copy of something you own a hard copy of, which is still a form of piracy. If you're using torrents, it means you're seeding, so even if you only actively download, you are still uploading to other people who are downloading elsewhere.
The reason it isn't usually pursued by rights holders is that the cost of damages is generally too low to sue on an individual basis. It's much easier to track uploads and honeypots, which is why they usually get targeted for this kind of thing. Even so, it takes a long time for courts to process the IP lookups and what not, and it really doesn't seem like it's worth the effort. It's like if your food is being swarmed by flies, but you can only swat one at a time. It's really annoying, but it's not worth the effort to try to stop it.
The laws are definitely different for different countries (as you might expect). The Netherlands made a big deal about making downloading illegal- it used to just be uploading- but I don't think they really actually enforce it.
That works both ways. If you'd like other people to run your games, you should run other people's games. Find a more popular one that is similar and join the community there. If the game is similar enough, the runners there will likely also be into this one if you market it as an extra challenge rather than a plead for other people's time with nothing in return. You just have to market it correctly; like the Tom Sawyer painting the fence deal.
I've posted about this before, so I'd like to explain why this topic doesn't sit well with me. Story time!
About fifteen years ago- during the golden era of music-pirating headed by Napster, Limewire, Kazaa, etc.- a friend of mine was actually one of the targets of a lawsuit for obtaining music illegally (downloading a pirated copy via apps / websites / etc). One Saturday, the police showed up at his house with a warrant and a list of data files sent to the IP address of his home computer. They searched his computer and permanently deleted anything that had a "watermark" from these pirating apps and made it clear that although he wasn't stuffing a cd into his pants and running out of the store, that what he was doing was undeniably larceny and that they would press charges if they caught him ever doing it again.
This is a real thing that actually happened, and I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to do something similar. We were still teenagers doing normal teenager things, mind you, and it's slightly terrifying when the police pay any sort of attention to you. Looking back, I'm sure it was more of a scare tactic thing aimed at a few of the most dedicated offenders, but to this day, he won't even download music legally, preferring to buy hard copies and keeping digital copies of the receipts.
My point is, downloading a ROM of software that is still licensed (not abandoned / freeware / open source / etc.) from a distributor that is not the holder of the license is illegal, even if it doesn't "feel" illegal or if you can explain to yourself why it is ethically okay or even if you know other people who are doing it, it is still illegal, and the copyright holders ¤can¤ press charges. You are not invisible, and as a software / web developer, I can guarantee you that unless you are in this field as well and know what you're doing, you ¤can¤ be tracked. The people in charge of developing this stuff are smarter and more clever than you are. They know how you think. They're the kind of people who make their password "¤¤¤¤¤" so even if someone cracks the encryption, they won't think they got it. I deal with people occasionally who think they are hiding because they are "deleting" stuff or using "incognito mode", and it's like playing hide and seek with a 3-year-old who hides under the bed, but keeps his feet sticking out. Even if you delete the comment, it is still recoverable. I'm not sure what kind of database they use here, but odds are it is one that uses version control, so nothing is ever permanently deleted. Maybe the updated db has a new version, but the old one is always there if anyone ever wanted to go back and look at it.
I don't mean to be the bad guy here, but that is a life lesson you don't want to learn the hard way. I used the racecar analogy to try to show you how reckless it is to publicly admit that what you own was stolen. Maybe you can't download a racecar, but you obtained these two things in a similar manner. The only difference is that you can tell yourself excuses to justify it, so you don't feel so bad about it.
To put this question into perspective:
If you stole a professional racer's car, then showed up with it on race day, would that be acceptable or would you not be allowed to compete? Would it matter if you had the fastest time if your means to achieve it was illegal?
Good to hear- I think I read somewhere that it is "frowned upon", but I'm not sure why it would be. If it's part of the game, it's part of the game.
Are there any rules against using this? Betting glitch and dog glitch aside, most of this game's glitches are useless, but this one is potentially useful. It doesn't make sense for the marriage runs, but for the photos run, it means corn / cabbage can persist beyond summer / spring, which means less trips to Ann / Maria.
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