Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by bitwize on Sunday August 05, 2018 @08:15PM
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> Stuff like a special way that they can jump perfectly on some slopes to build up hilariously high speed values then using that to launch across the map all in a fraction of a second.
"...But before that, we have to talk about alternate universes."
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by saagarjha on Sunday August 05, 2018 @08:30PM
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Context, for those not aware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A. This specific quote is at around 10:35.
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by ruytlm on Sunday August 05, 2018 @10:31PM
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On a related note of Youtube videos about Mario games that I never thought I'd watch the full duration of but that turned out to be strangely fascinating, here is the World Record History of Super Mario Sunshine any%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudZMniib08
People will basically write a program to do the speedruns for them with literal microsecond precision. My favorite are watching super Mario 64 TAS runs.
Stuff like a special way that they can jump perfectly on some slopes to build up hilariously high speed values then using that to launch across the map all in a fraction of a second.
There is also a Pokemon run where the guy built a way to input arbritrary code during a first generation Pokemon (red or blue) run, and used it to program in the opening to the next generation of the games among other things things.