7th Day Electric Special! 2020 Shmups Year in review!
Added 2020-12-20 11:18:52 +0000 UTC
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"one of those Twin Galaxies people getting into multi-generational blood feuds over Circus Charlie" Got a chuckle out of me there
Thomas Well
2021-01-24 21:52:46 +0000 UTCYes Exactly my dude!!! You get it :-) None of his behavior is in line with his supposed accomplishments. I spent a year and a half playing ddp to get my 2 all and streamed every attempt live and saved the video to make it clear that the run was completed legitimately. Why would someone spend at the very least thousands of hours completing all these world records (and at an impressive pace) and never make his skills clear. If perikles was legit he would have been a Jaimers tier player at the least and Jaimers has on many many many occasions proved his skills beyond a shadow of a doubt, so why couldn't perikles do the same over the course of months. It makes absolutely no sense if he were legit.
The Electric Underground
2020-12-28 22:14:31 +0000 UTCI read the Perikles thing. It was so frustrating seeing the people who were like "I'm an adult, who cares about video games?" On the one hand, I get that there's a level of stupid you can go to with this stuff and you end up as one of those Twin Galaxies people getting into multi-generational blood feuds over Circus Charlie or something. But these aren't minor accomplishments. If someone has a Psikyo 2-all, that probably took them hundreds of hours and quite possibly a couple of years to finally achieve. It's not ‘being an adult’ to denigrate that, or to trivialize scoring, which is the core driver of the genre as a whole. And the thing is, it wasn’t like he was just submitting a couple of Gradius scores or something. He had 80 submissions, and was essentially squatting on records for all sorts of unclaimed games. Imagine if one of those games was your thing in life, like you grew up loving Sylvalion because it was all the convenience store in your small town had for a while. And now as an adult you’ve finally got some disposable income, bought a PCB and you’re going to tackle it, make it your achievement in gaming because of that connection. Except for all the time & money you put into it you’ll spend it all behind a guy who played for a single afternoon with save states at 1/2 speed. Equally frustrating were the “Who knows what happened? Give him a chance!” people. Like I’m sorry, you need to have the deductive skills of a grape not to be able to figure out that something is obviously up when this guy known for lengthy and meticulously detailed forum posts is suddenly unable to produce any records of anything anywhere. And then the dead giveaway, the “Yeah, I play these games that cost hundreds of dollars on the secondary market on a high end CRT with a $300 line doubler and a $200 arcade stick, but I can’t give you any videos because they’re all on a wooden computer that only runs Windows ’75.” And of course the classic “I’m too busy with life stuff right now.” Yeah, how could you possibly squeeze in a 15 minute shmup run some time over the course of three months? Like you said, it wouldn’t have to match the run, just demonstrating that he could get through the game legitimately would be enough unless the score was way, way off. But instead, he said “just go ahead and delete it all, I don’t care.” Except then he wrote a couple of essay-length meltdown posts which 100% took longer than just sitting down & playing a game would have, so he obviously did care. And a lot.
Philip Mason
2020-12-24 07:31:50 +0000 UTCYeah I feel exactly the same way, it is extremely disrespectful to other players and the genres themselves. The fact that there is basically nothing to be done about what world of longplays does is very aggravating like you say (great word choice ha). Maybe if my channel grows I'll do another slam piece on them or something ha.
The Electric Underground
2020-12-21 20:13:41 +0000 UTCI'm glad to hear it! I'm excited to get them finished and put out, holy crap xmas is only a few days away now.
The Electric Underground
2020-12-21 20:11:36 +0000 UTCYeah for sure! Be careful because I just might take you up on that offer to help with running slam 4 ha! :-D
The Electric Underground
2020-12-21 20:11:04 +0000 UTCthanks for the shoutout, that was super awesome to hear! i've really been enjoying doing what i can to contribute to the genre and it's been cool that folks have been taking a liking to me. <3 by the way, if you ever need any help with videos or want to record some stuff some time, feel free to hit me up any time. i'd also love to help more on the organizational side of slam4 (i actually have a bit of experience with running online events like that; ran two of my own a long time ago for indie games :) ). looking forward to see what 2021 has to offer for TEU! STG never die!
natasha dawn charlene excelsia
2020-12-21 16:59:24 +0000 UTCCan't wait for all these videos you're teasing :D
Thomas Well
2020-12-21 13:11:10 +0000 UTCThe cheated runs really gets me aggravated. When learning a new game I'll pull up a bunch of runs of all skill levels so that I can see various approaches and try to figure out how I want to go about it and I don't know how many times I get halfway through a run where I'm thinking, "man this guy is a dodging machine," only to see some egregious or lazily left in evidence that it's a cheated run. There's an Einhander no death run(lol) run on youtube with over 100K!!!! views where the guy is obviously playing with invincibility on and cuts out all score screens. In all these kind of videos they go on in the comments about how hard they worked on the run etc, but if you dig deep into their comments to see all the downvoted messages calling them out. Beyond the morality of cheating these kind of runs really send the wrong message to new players. This might be the one video a new player see where the dude is glitching through bullets with no route and mistake it for skill, letting them think this is how these games are played. Really annoying, but I think you went over all this in your WoL video.
Chinopolis
2020-12-21 02:38:59 +0000 UTC
