United StatesI'm not against being removed. I did a lot of verifications when there were a lot of runs, but it seemed like every time I would log on there would be no runs to verify.
Yeah, I'm only on the mod team because of the src styling. Also, I do check the discord regularly (even if I don't post) and I still delete messages and intervene sometimes when I feel I should.
Recently I've been on summer break and I've been heavily focusing on my business and doing marketing for that. Not trying to make an excuse for my absence, rather just explaining it. If the community wants to remove me, I 100% support that. I even had an exchange with Bald at the beginning of the summer in which I told him that I felt as though I wasn't very useful to the community. I gave him the option to remove me, but he told me that there was no point. I'm more of a discord mod I guess, I am less comfortable taking a say in leaderboard decisions because, as was stated in this post, I don't run the game seriously anymore. This isn't because I'm disinterested in running the game, it's because I simply don't have the time to invest in becoming as skilled as some of the other runners in this game.
Also, I can't be a very effective moderator if nobody ever pings/pm's mods when there are issues. Luckily, people do regularly pm me about Celeste moderation, so I've found that I'm not too ridiculously inactive. In general discord I may be, but in the moderation channels and audit log I don't believe I am.
My original response was: "I see why you think I cheated, I honestly saw this coming and was surprised the runs were even accepted. Remove them if you want."
This was seen as MORE suspicious than defending myself. I see this situation as a lose-lose. Offering one such way to cheat which would produce the side effects of my run is not a valid argument. It's like knowing the answer to a math problem before solving it, and then saying "yeah the process makes sense because the answer is X". You're rationalizing the result, not the problem. Since I cannot offer any more evidence than the videos themselves, you can remove them.
It is 100% possible to cheat in this game while preserving the sound, and if I really wanted to have a cheated WR run in a barely run game, I could have made a cheat run look far more legitimate than my actual runs. I'm sorry that my runs have caused confusion, but like I said, I am willing to offer information I know about the game to aid you guys in beating my times.
Other than this, I cannot defend myself any further.
I'd also like to add that your argument hinges on three assumptions:
A: That I cheated in your specific method. B: That you cannot cheat and preserve audio. C: That I'm bad at cheating and submitted a 480p mess of video as the "best I could do".
All of that, on top of the original assumption that I did cheat. I guess I forgot that nobody has ever TAS'd a run with audio before.
You can remove them, I'm not great at the game, and the times should be fairly easy to beat. I've put quite a bit of time into this game, and I see where you're coming from. Since I'm not in the position to further verify my runs and I'm not into playing this game anymore (I got carpal tunnel syndrome briefly because of this game), you can remove them.
I want to be clear that I have not, and never have, cheated in any way.
I hope you guys don't think bad of me for this move, I don't really care enough about competing in the game to actually handle this in any other way. I'm not really sure what to do other than remove them. In fact, I'll just remove them myself seeing the amount of confusion that they've caused.
(BTW, I really did order pizza, which was the reason I had been doing practice runs anyways)
@Leo-Games
Thank you very much. I will be working on the autosplitter using this information.
The memory is likely not an issue. The timer ticks up inconsistently. Since the timer is stored in a 4 byte integer, the chances of anyone ever overflowing it are zero. I'm sure, with a LOT of time on your hands, you could do it and complete a level in 0.00s, but memory is 100% not the issue with the timer. It's an issue with the engine.
@Leo-Games
Hi, I was already working on the autosplitter/load remover before, and I have decided to continue working on it with TTChilly.
I am using a software called Cheat Engine, which allows me to scan the memory used by the game for different values. I am assuming, based on my previous knowledge of programming and game development, that you use either a number or a string to represent the level ID. The placement value of the player after leaving would not work, as all we need to do is find if the player is in the overworld or not. Do you know any variables that are only set to a certain value WHILE inside of the overworld? This could be a level ID, or really anything else.
A list of level ID values would be nice. That way, I could go to each level, put the value into cheat engine, and then by the end I'd have the memory address and I could find a pointer for
Hi admins! I'd really like my name changed to one of these two (depending on whats possible and whats not).
CVivian CViviλn
If the lambda isn't possible, no problem! Option one is also good.
Thanks!
