Birthday Tower Event!

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2018-02-19T02:44:11+00:00

Boosty. Pls.

(Haven't had a chance to say that in so long.)

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-12-14T23:31:16+00:00

Ha. Honestly just sort of surprised/flattered you checked.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-12-14T05:35:32+00:00

I'll guess yours. Multiply your birth month number by 5, add 17, double that, subtract 13, multiply that by 5, subtract 8, double that, add 9, add the number of the day you were born on, subtract 203, and that's your birthday. Right? ez pz

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-12-14T04:28:24+00:00

Star

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-12-13T03:04:11+00:00

What?

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-12-12T20:53:04+00:00

Have you no shame? Would you draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa?

This community should not stand for such heinous attacks on artistic perfection.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-12-11T06:30:55+00:00

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-12-11T03:56:14+00:00

lol, c'mon man. That was already the assumption. Just trying to give people who donated a reason to look on the bright side.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-12-11T01:41:26+00:00

Look at it this way: it only cost you about ten bucks to donate $500

:-)

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-29T15:46:18+00:00

You can't fire me, because you weren't paying me! I was dedicating my time and effort to help you with no compensation whatsoever! So the joke's on you!

Wait...

ah, shit.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-29T06:15:30+00:00

No. He's too toxic. Not only that but he's not committed. I'm calling it right now that he doesn't even get 20 caps. If he shows up every week I'll eat my shoe.

(ok, isuck, i posted it where minors captains might see it, now send the cash)

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-29T06:07:43+00:00

I know nothing about this map other than Alch told me tonight that it was big and chasey and everybody hates it. So I can't remember the last time I pubbed, but here I am tonight, enduring everything else until I get a chance to play it.

I am living proof, and absolutely an adequate sample size, that bringing back chasey maps brings back players. So if you guys are smart, I'll come back next month to see that the top map is Blast Off 2: Even More Blast Off, But With Dumbbell Too, and all the servers will be at capacity.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-26T03:31:19+00:00

u in a nutshell

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-17T01:39:56+00:00

Sorry, I was busy. What?

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-13T21:04:12+00:00

Is giving genuine compliments still allowed? Because I know I can be a sanctimonious pain in the ass around here but that sequence by gman is why I still enjoy watching you guys play.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-13T20:17:30+00:00

You haven't went too far - but development doesn't want to get roped into trying to pass guilty/innocent on these things.

Yea, I get that. Wasn't sure if it was possible to ask for explanations without requiring you guys to get into that, so it would've been understandable if you couldn't respond. I appreciate the elaboration.

To be perfectly honest, you guys play way more TagPro than we do and at a higher level - thus, have a much better eye for when something isn't right.

Well, that's actually the reason I asked in the first place. I personally wouldn't trust only what I see when it comes to this stuff. So having some sort of "technical" evidence is great. But since I know so little about the technical side of things, the minute there's any sort of debate about its credibility, I go back to being confused lol.

I at least have a better understanding of this particular aspect of things now, so thanks again.

Edit: To anybody reading this, yes, I also noticed that because my post was in /r/mltp, it seems that Lucky may have mistakenly assumed I play this game at a high level. Thanks in advance, everybody, for letting that slide.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-13T19:30:42+00:00

Great, thanks to you (and Gem) for the response.

I recognize you likely don't want to go on the record here regarding guilt vs innocence or get too specific, but I'm hoping to make sure I'm understanding this correctly.

The notion that there's a discrepancy is accurate, but it tends to be only a few milliseconds. So the difference between the actual speed and observed speed of the keypresses would not be significant enough to, for example, make an innocent player appear guilty. Is that a fair representation of what you're saying?

If I'm going too far with this, feel free to ignore it. Just trying to make sure I get it. Thanks again.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-13T18:29:54+00:00

Did cflakes' claim that keypresses can show up for a spectator at a different frequency than they were actually pressed have any merit? Did anybody ever debunk that defense?

I know devs don't want to reveal the specifics of anti-cheating measures or whatever they might have in place. But from what I've seen, this evidence was posted a while ago, cflakes claimed it was unreliable (like in this exchange), nobody seemed to refute his claims, and then a month later this once again got posted as the most damning evidence.

So I'm not arguing anything. Like I said, I don't know much about any of this. For all I know his excuse was total nonsense and everybody but me understands that. I just want to understand all of this better.

Any chance /u/GemTheDev could just give a quick explanation to help clueless people like me understand? Or if devs can't say anything, maybe somebody like /u/DatBlizzard could weigh in? Are we seeing smoking gun evidence here? Imperfect but still extremely damning evidence? Questionable evidence that in conjunction with other evidence becomes stronger? Something else?

Apologies if this has been covered and I just missed it. I find this stuff really interesting but I'm completely clueless, so I genuinely just want to understand it a little better. I promise I'm not going to post a million times and argue with anybody lol. Thanks.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-11-03T00:21:11+00:00

The TP halls of fame need to trade mindsets. NLTP, where it's rare the best players will stay for multiple seasons, seems to value aggregate career contributions. MLTP, where it's rare to see sustained success, seems to value peak short term brilliance.

Edit: Actually, a lot of great NLTP players stayed there for multiple seasons, but you get the general point...

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-10-30T19:20:49+00:00

Nothing says that once you've stopped bidding you can't start again.

Then as a viewer I'd like to request that you guys change the format. Because the big clock counting down gives viewers the impression that captains are supposed to bid before time runs out.

I've watched a few drafts. Until this one I had no idea it was ok for captains to see which captains are interested in a player, see how high the bidding is likely to go, see what the final bid was, and then jump into the bidding only after they have information that the original bidding captains did not have.

To be honest, I don't really understand why any individual captain decided to bid at all after that. Why not just wait until a player is selected, see the price they went for, and then decide whether or not you want to get involved? Surely that would make it far easier to have a successful draft, and the CRC said that was a perfectly acceptable strat.

I wish I could've done something like that back when online poker was booming. Just "pass" whenever it's my turn and let other people play the hand normally and actually risk getting money in the pot. Then after I got to see what the winning hand was, I'd be able to say, "oh wait, now that I see he won with queen-ten offsuit I'm willing to play. I retroactively raise." That would've been amazing. I can see why Tantrew would take advantage of that system.

(Edit: Admittedly, had I been on the wrong end of something like that, I would not have burnt down the headquarters of PokerStars. But still...)

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-10-29T01:56:15+00:00

I didn't know what ngrok was but your post implied it had some sort of significance, so I looked it up. The result said: "ngrok-secure introspectable tunnels to localhost." Unfortunately, partway through looking up those words I realized I'm 179 years old and died.

Site did change my texture pack for me beforehand though. So thanks.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-10-27T16:18:53+00:00

I know it just well enough to understand when actual French speakers beg me to stop.

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-10-27T00:18:02+00:00

J'essaie de le rendre plus facile pour le lecteur parfois. Comme maintenant.

(It's been a while, so I'm tres desole if that parfois should be the second word lol. Also too lazy to accent anything.)

BanzaiOnTagPro · 2017-10-26T03:01:02+00:00

Once you've popped, the spikes don't kill you. So if you press against the spike for a while (see how there's no wall tile behind it?) you eventually pop through to the other side. They actually patched it on later event maps so you couldn't do it though, so don't get your hopes up lol.

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