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Old 02-16-2017, 03:10 PM   #10
dabomb2223
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Default Re: Gaming nerdery question/challenge

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Originally Posted by SKG_Scintill View Post
TAS
This one can be so frustrating to explain to somebody.

'It stands for Tool-Assisted Speedrun'
'Oh so a computer plays the game for you?'
'No I played the game one frame at a time and the computer plays it back.'
'Oh so you cheated?'
'In a sense yeah, but I didn't add anything to the game that wasn't already there so everything that I did could theoretically be done by someone in real time.'
'Why didn't you do it in real time then?'

That's about when I get too frustrated to keep explaining it to them and I link the SM64 0 Star TAS.
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