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Figured I'd toss out that I've started a new race thread, which is where my new races will go! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3725770
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Don't know which thread is the official/current one, so I'll just post this in both! Let's Race Spyro: Year of the Dragon!  Ballistic Clipboard, Bebuva, Manic X, RJWaters2, Robust Laser, and SuccinctAndPunchy It's been nearly two years since the genius trainwreck Spyro 2: Ripto's Race so we brought nearly the whole cast back to wreck the sequel!      
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Jul 22, 2015 17:36
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As an addition to the Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon video released above, I'm also posting a Spyro the Dragon race I was in a number of weeks back. I don't have any cool GIFS though XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEJ5OrAIpM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd3Tzl32ecI If possible can this be added to the Let's Race youtube playlist? My upload speed was terrible at the time of production so it's in 4 parts, this is part 1 and 2, where the real race is happening. Part 3 and 4 do see more people finish, but it may be annoying to clog up the playlist with 4 videos.
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Jul 23, 2015 07:38
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So is it just me, or do people consider their primary goal in these races to make Punchy as angry as possible? If so, please continue.
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Jul 23, 2015 10:33
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RJWaters2 posted:Don't know which thread is the official/current one, so I'll just post this in both! I was hoping that this one was a loop, and then it was. 
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Jul 23, 2015 16:11
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Donkey Kong Country 2 Full Game Race (yep!) - Group A - Catsworth, FutureFriend, Psychedelic Eyeball, Ragny, Tie Tuesday and thevoiceofdog
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Jul 28, 2015 23:09
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Smite posted:Donkey Kong Country 2 Full Game Race (yep!) - Group A - Catsworth, FutureFriend, Psychedelic Eyeball, Ragny, Tie Tuesday and thevoiceofdog Are there any spaces left for future groups?
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Jul 29, 2015 17:39
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Manic X posted:Are there any spaces left for future groups? Got a few people left but not enough for another group yet.
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Jul 29, 2015 19:19
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I've never done a race before...but I wouldn't mind giving it a try sometime, especially for DKC2, which I know I can beat (eventually...)
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Jul 29, 2015 22:22
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Smite posted:Got a few people left but not enough for another group yet. Depending on race time I'd be interested. We still using the old race chat on Skype or is there a new one?
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Jul 29, 2015 23:58
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Actually, I might make mention of it here, but I was thinking of doing some race streams, for those who don't wish to set up audacity and risk technical issues from getting the races published. Is anyone down for something like this?
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Jul 30, 2015 02:11
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I probably won't have any time to race stream, but can I get a pearler if I donate $10?
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Jul 30, 2015 02:12
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jivjov posted:I've never done a race before...but I wouldn't mind giving it a try sometime, especially for DKC2, which I know I can beat (eventually...) contact me on skype. joesmite Seraphroy posted:Depending on race time I'd be interested. We still using the old race chat on Skype or is there a new one? Old chat is still workable for my purposes. I'm trying to organize a streamed race every weekend or every other weekend so they'll crop up a lot. Donkey Kong Country 2 (full game race), Group B - Combat Lobster, Dr. Mutagen, Festivore, Smite, Valliac
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Jul 30, 2015 23:31
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Smite posted:
I'd love to participate or watch these. Be sure to post in the stream thread when you're doing them.
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Aug 1, 2015 17:00
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Racing Super Mario Bros. 2 - FutureFriend, Madithen, Psychedelic Eyeball, Smite, UZworm
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Aug 6, 2015 09:26
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 Bubsy - Drastic Actions, Festivore, Psychedelic Eyeball, Smite
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Aug 9, 2015 14:28
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SirSamVimes posted:So is it just me, or do people consider their primary goal in these races to make Punchy as angry as possible? If so, please continue. please stop encouraging them
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Aug 9, 2015 14:49
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Smite posted:
This game is awful and I am glad you are playing it.
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Here's two: Batman (NES) - 13FridayGirl, Catsworth (eventually), Psychedelic Eyeball, Smite, thevoiceofdog Star Fox Score Attack - Catsworth, Combat Lobster, FrozenTreasure, KillerEmcee, Smite
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Sep 2, 2015 07:50
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 Have some not-sonic races! Freedom Planet, Group 1 - Catsworth, Psychedelic Eyeball, Smite, Tie Tuesday Freedom Planet, Group 2 - Combat Lobster, DrMutagen, Festivore, LoloDePuzlo Freedom Planet, Group 3 (The Drunks) - FutureFriend, KillerEmcee, RoneZoner, Uzworm
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Sep 25, 2015 18:39
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It finally happened, we raced Croc Legend of the Gobbos, with all of its terrible camera handling and stiff controls, And we did better than we thought! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U03sIvsIO7M If this could be added to the playlist that'd be great! Soon to come - RAYMAN
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Some friends got together and decided to race a video game! Super Mario Bros. Race - No Warps allowed. Starring: IGgy IGsen Succinct and Punchy Rath (Dragonatrix) Will (Ultigonio) Midnightlight (needs to "apply" for his SA membership) Witness unpopular opinions, mediocre gameplay, some dudes having fun and actually some competition. Who would have thought? Amazing!
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Have another Freedom Planet Race to go with your Freedom Planet Races Freedom Planet: Team Tryhard!(Sort of): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LThQgnZBfSI Featuring: Ballistic Clipboard, Combat Lobster, Manic X, SuccinctAndPunchy, and Ultigonio. Warning: we are not responsible for any seizures that may occur. Manic X fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Oct 13, 2015 |
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Oct 13, 2015 08:41
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Sup, I hate to be the only guy to post races at this current moment in time, but I like to keep G00N Racing Alive. A bunch of us raced Aladdin Sega Genesis a few months back. It's a shame that this race is not the best in terms of quality - just bad luck that the 4th racer didn't send their audio after a few months of waiting so I had to just use a universal OBS Audio. Let's Race Aladdin Sega Genesis - ft. Manic X, SuccinctAndPunchy, Ultigonio, and the voice of: Pat? Cody? Whatever. Here's to hoping that one day this chat will be prosperous once more!
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Nov 29, 2015 23:39
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This might be a dumb question but... is this thread the originator of the phrase "taking damage to save time"? Or was the title itself a reference to something? I keep hearing it in my favorite LPs, but I am not up on my nerd-culture cross-pollination trends. 
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Dec 1, 2015 18:47
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Ghost of Starman posted:This might be a dumb question but... is this thread the originator of the phrase "taking damage to save time"? Or was the title itself a reference to something? I keep hearing it in my favorite LPs, but I am not up on my nerd-culture cross-pollination trends. It's a qualifier used to describe some speed runs. I guess it's to assure the audience that the player is intentionally taking the damage and it wasn't just a fuckup in their run.
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Dec 1, 2015 18:53
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It's a phrase that has previously shown up in speedruns, especially tool-assisted ones. TASVideos in particular has a number of ways to categorize all the wacky stuff that happens on that site, and "takes damage to save time" is explicitly one of them.
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Dec 1, 2015 18:55
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Ghost of Starman posted:This might be a dumb question but... is this thread the originator of the phrase "taking damage to save time"? No, it's just a speedrunning concept because taking damage is often faster than not taking damage. That's seriously about the extent of it.
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Ghost of Starman posted:This might be a dumb question but... is this thread the originator of the phrase "taking damage to save time"? Or was the title itself a reference to something? I keep hearing it in my favorite LPs, but I am not up on my nerd-culture cross-pollination trends. It came from the TAS community, where it's a category of movies -- TASes would be tagged with "Takes damage to save time". Speedrunners picked it up, and then people started saying it as a joke when messing up and being bad at video games.
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Amusingly, TASVideos has dropped that phrase in favor of foregoes time-saving damage because it's expected that ordinarily, runs would take damage to save time wherever applicable.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Amusingly, TASVideos has dropped that phrase in favor of foregoes time-saving damage because it's expected that ordinarily, runs would take damage to save time wherever applicable. The circle is complete. Back in the day, and I do mean 2003/2004, when TASes were in their infancy, there was a focus on avoiding any and all damage to give the appearance of perfect play. What little community existed at the time was somewhat split between a pure focus on speed vs sacrificing some speed if it means taking no damage. There was a general feeling that taking damage was unnecessary, given proper luck manipulation and perfect timing - sort of like how, along the same lines, submitted runs were expected to be on the hardest available difficulty unless there was a compelling reason for doing otherwise. Eventually, victory was claimed in regards to speed mostly being the key factor in runs, but by then the site had tags to indicate, to those who cared, which runs took no damage and which ones took damage to save time, and taking damage to save time became so ubiquitous as to become the expected norm.
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Perfect plays are cool and all, but stuff like damage boosting in Castlevania to avoid climbing stairs or skip an entire room is arguably more impressive than going through normally and not getting hit so I'm happy the speed half of the debate won out there.
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ChaosArgate posted:Perfect plays are cool and all, but stuff like damage boosting in Castlevania to avoid climbing stairs or skip an entire room is arguably more impressive than going through normally and not getting hit so I'm happy the speed half of the debate won out there. Really the only downsides to damage-taking are a) when the game gives you too much health so you can just walk through literally every obstacle rather than actually have to deal with it (in which case a "perfect play" run would probably be more interesting), and b) that loving beeping sound when you're low on health. Otherwise, health just becomes another resource that you have to carefully manage and only spend when it'll give you the greatest return.
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ChaosArgate posted:Perfect plays are cool and all, but stuff like damage boosting in Castlevania to avoid climbing stairs or skip an entire room is arguably more impressive than going through normally and not getting hit so I'm happy the speed half of the debate won out there. Turns out that with the way the internet works, you can actually record and upload both! And the world won't collapse! And so we have both categories of speedruns. I really like the gimmick runs, but after the first time, the trick can get old, so I'm glad I can also watch someone do perfect play as well.
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Any of you racy fellows played Super House of Dead Ninjas? It's fast, unforgiving, semi-procedurally generated and allows you to zoom through it like a loving, well, ninja. It would seem a pretty cool race game.
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I've played it before though I haven't played it in a while.
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This is the last race I will be posting this year, and it is the final Freedom Planet race I intend to ever edit; my software seems to dislike Freedom Planet... Let's Freedom Planet - Team Try-Harder - ft. Combat Lobster, Dr. Mutagen, Manic X, Robust Laser, Snorunt Pyro, and SuccinctAndPunchy. Apologies in advance for the ocassional green square that flickers over Punchy's/Lobster's screen when finishing a level; Sony Vegas neglected to show this in the preview window when I was editing this race together and only seems to appear after the video has been rendered.
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Manic X posted:Let's Freedom Planet - Team Try-Harder - ft. Combat Lobster, Dr. Mutagen, Manic X, Robust Laser, Snorunt Pyro, and SuccinctAndPunchy. the race where due to a series of miscommunications and silliness roughly three quarters of the people in it were already in a different race of the game. Sweet.
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yes, only Robust Laser and Snorunt Pyro have not raced it before, and to be fair to Comabt Lobster, he only raced 30 minutes of the other race he did of this. So it is pretty much 50% new racers, and 50% racers filling in for other racers who in the end were unable to do it.
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Is there going to be any races this year? I'd be down for pretty much anything if so, especially Afterbirth now that it's a thing.
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