Recent content by Analogy

Soap operas have always been shot at TV frame rates because their production schedules and turnaround requirements dictated the use of video cameras and equipment rather than film. Interestingly, some soap operas switched over to 24 fps video when the technology became available and viewers...

I was just left wondering "why the fuck do they have lightsabers?" Seriously, why do all these fan films feel the need to transpose the light saber into jarringly non-Star-Warsian settings? And why do all these fan films inevitably focus on one of the most superficial aspects of Star Wars? It...

There are speed runs which do that, but they are a separate category. Quake Done Quick is a "segmented" speed run, in which you attempt to record the best time for each individual level. The run in this video is further differentiated by being a "100%" run, in which the runners must kill every...

*facepalm* IT DOES NORMALLY LET YOU CARRY OVER HP AND AMMO FROM PREVIOUS LEVELS. Have you even played Quake? Or ANY first person shooter? The reason the tool is necessary here is twofold: a) Each level of the speed run can be run by a different person at different times (i.e. the run of...

You guys need to learn to read. The hacking tools used here were not for "cheating" or for doing anything that you couldn't do yourself if you were sitting down simply plying the game. In fact, the tools were used to make the overall speed run MORE like a single sit-down session at the game...

You need to read up on your gaming history, especially when it comes to the phenomenon of Ascended Glitches [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AscendedGlitch]. When Quake first came out, it was obvious that the developers intended the player to be limited to a certain walking speed...

Yes, it would be. But that is not the game that is being speedrun here! The game that is being speedrun here is a game with all sorts of glitches that allow a sufficiently creative and skillful player to sequence break the game. These glitches are part of the game, you can't arbitrarily disallow...

EDIT: Double post

I've been on the internet for 17 years. I've never seen any reasonable human being consider anything like what I posted as being even remotely close to being a bannable personal attack, or even a personal attack at all. If pointing out the hypocrisy of an internet forum poster (person A) who...

Developer intent is completely irrelevant here, and I'll explain why. If video games are art, then part of the way we interpret them is through the way we play them and by exploring the entire game space that is offered to us, intentional or otherwise. Since when has the interpretation of any...

In the same way that you can call stepping into the blue portal on one end of the room and out of the orange portal on the other end of the room "going to the other end of the room." The point of a speed run is to reach the end of the game, and the more of the middle of the game you can cut out...

So all of you folks who somehow think that this "doesn't count" and that he's "cheating" because he "skipped all the puzzles"... I suppose you think that this guy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qywZJR483IE] is "cheating" because he "skipped all the puzzles." No? Then where do you draw the...

Same reason anybody perfects any other impractical skill. Why do people run marathons? Why do people learn to juggle? Why do people make art? There's a sense of accomplishment in setting a goal and achieving or exceeding it.

If you hate glitch abuse, then you're perfectly free to not abuse glitches yourself. The people who are trying to find the quickest possible way to complete the game are going to continue using them to try and set new records regardless of your opinion. Speed running is about getting to the...

Do you have any server IPs I could check out? That sounds pretty cool. Also, the new Beta client looks pretty appealing since everybody has access to all the weapons... The downside being having to play with more experimental gameplay features.