it's a balancing act, gdq doesn't stop to explain what a backwards long jump is each and every timeāin this instance, the first level shown was a 0 a-press level, and they only started explaining what 0.5a presses was when it came up in the level, which isn't the best
but there isn't a lot of time to front load explanations, and there's often something else going on too
and again, it isn't "went viral once" / "one video"
@tef@iximeow it took them until 8 minutes and 30 seconds into the run (plus pre run intro time) to say the phrase "no A presses".
it would have been a three sentence explanation at the start. they just didn't explain at all.
@tef oh no I love a good deep dive, that's exactly my jam
but like... "here's our TAS! it does a thing very slowly and we aren't going to explain the point or the rules" is not a very good fit for a GDQ audience
@gsuberland on one hand they've left the post up, after a hasty tweet followup saying "we have just only seen the hate crimes" and on the other hand they've left the post up, etc
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it's a balancing act, gdq doesn't stop to explain what a backwards long jump is each and every timeāin this instance, the first level shown was a 0 a-press level, and they only started explaining what 0.5a presses was when it came up in the level, which isn't the best
but there isn't a lot of time to front load explanations, and there's often something else going on too
and again, it isn't "went viral once" / "one video"
@tef @iximeow it took them until 8 minutes and 30 seconds into the run (plus pre run intro time) to say the phrase "no A presses".
it would have been a three sentence explanation at the start. they just didn't explain at all.
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@gsuberland i doubt you care, but for posterity, here's some context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
@tef oh no I love a good deep dive, that's exactly my jam
but like... "here's our TAS! it does a thing very slowly and we aren't going to explain the point or the rules" is not a very good fit for a GDQ audience
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@gsuberland it's almost a bit of a meme in the speedrun community, fwiw
@tef that would be fine if it didn't result in a really dull TAS segment due to lack of context
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@gsuberland on one hand they've left the post up, after a hasty tweet followup saying "we have just only seen the hate crimes" and on the other hand they've left the post up, etc
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