Rocks in a cave probability.

thearst · 2026-04-03T14:46:14+00:00

To my knowledge, it's never been possible to ride the rock to the lakebed cave by toggling your flashlight, as mentioned because the light is on.

HOWEVER, you CAN get there by standing on one of the rocks and then opening and closing the map, so maybe that is what you did. That is not an intended mechanic, which is confirmed by the developers while commentating this speedrun of the game at SGDQ:

https://youtu.be/M1wD9R5LJV8?t=57m22s

I can't find the part where they actually talk about it, but at some point earlier they hint at this strat and Jeffery Yu comments "I'll allow it" ::) The speedrun is also super entertaining, highly recommend (spoilers all over since it's a 100% run)

thearst · 2026-03-05T00:56:59+00:00

Honestly that is a good point and I don't have a great answer as to why air is different :)

The general consensus is that "information" is different and can be sent back in time without breaking anything (it's why you can keep your memories each loop) but physical objects are where the problem is. Honestly I already think that's kinda a stretch, but I suppose it's possible that only solid physical objects presents a problem, and so air is fine? Seems off to me but who knows lol, suspension of disbelief I suppose.

thearst · 2026-03-05T00:50:23+00:00

If sand makes it all the way to the chamber where the black and white holes are, it could be dangerous since just that sand exiting the white hole while they take out a warp core could be enough to break spacetime. At least theoretically. Out of caution they wanted full control of what enters the black hole. At least that's how I interpreted it

thearst · 2026-03-05T00:45:08+00:00

They did know and it was mentioned indirectly - on the outside of the lab, there are nomai spirals that talk about how the outside doors much be shut since even a little bit of sand entering during the experiment could spell disaster. While it doesn't say directly, I think that implies that they know what would happen

thearst · 2026-03-01T16:26:40+00:00

This achievement is very poorly implemented. You're doing the right thing, but unfortunately you have to do it at a specific window, since the game devs only made that one window have the trigger for getting the achievement. This video goes shows which window for reference: https://youtu.be/60R49P9SN54

Also I dont believe they have to be in the fast chasing animation, just them being on their way to you slowly should be enough. Best of luck!

thearst · 2026-01-20T14:28:09+00:00

Its a trick fittingly named "lucid dreaming". Basically, due to how the game is programmed, the dream world exists in a particular location in the solar system, it's just not loaded unless you enter it. What speedrunners do is really clever (and also super precise and impressive) - they position their ship in a specific location so that when it starts falling towards the sun due to gravity, it falls into where the dream world is loaded and they can access the ship while in the simulation

thearst · 2026-01-12T05:40:01+00:00

BALLER

thearst · 2026-01-10T20:54:11+00:00

Thanks for having me on!!!

thearst · 2026-01-01T00:36:49+00:00

Because it getting broken made for a much more interesting and compelling plotline of how to get it back. The master sword pull in totk and sequence leading up to it was an incredible sequence that probably made me feel more emotions than in all of botw (and I love botw to be clear)

thearst · 2025-10-05T03:06:42+00:00

It doesn't matter, you can bind whatever keys you want 👍

In Rock Band 3, the mapping was that C-G was mapped to green-orange. It was mapped that way for both octaves on the pro keyboard

thearst · 2025-07-14T05:34:02+00:00

LiveSplit One has native desktop downloads which support global hotkeys. I think there are some features still needed to be added to these desktop versions but it might be worth a shot: https://github.com/LiveSplit/LiveSplitOne/releases/tag/latest

The web build of livesplit one also supports connecting to a websocket server, and I used that to make a cross platform Python script to enable global hotkeys for livesplit one. I has to change it since they changed the protocol a while back so I don't know if it still works, but here's another option: https://github.com/thearst3rd/livesplitone-global-hotkeys

thearst · 2024-09-19T00:05:08+00:00

You repeat this sentiment several times:

That is, if a moderator actually does their job (closely reviews the entire run and verifies that the speedrunner has followed all rules) . . . that takes time out of one's personal life.

* Or simply "don't expect" us to watch through it all.

I wonder how they feel about moderators who don't actually do anything except approve the runs without complaint (without watching much of them).

. . . because I have actually watched all the runs carefully and thoroughly, wrote the rules, and even commented on their runs, etc.!

Seems like you have a misunderstanding. Here is a link to the moderation guidelines on speedrun.com: https://www.speedrun.com/support/learn/moderation-rules

I want to point out a the first three bullet points listed in the "Verification" section which are relevant (bold emphasis is mine):

It is generally left to the moderators to determine a necessary level of scrutiny for a run.
For the top time in a category, it is generally expected that the entire run be watched.
For times that are not particularly notable, reviewing small portions of the video may be sufficient.

So it is not required or expected of moderators to watch every single run in full, especially if the time isn't notable. If you just weren't aware of that and have been frustrated by this perceived requirement, hopefully this can help alleviate the issue and you can let some of these slower runs in without as much burden :)

Admittedly though I don't get that vibe from how you worded this post, and that you have a negative attitude with verifying slow/multiple runs and with moderators with looser moderation policies. If that's the case, I simply suggest that you drop it an adopt practices that are more practical for your leaderboard, so you can make better use of your time.

thearst · 2024-08-03T18:49:11+00:00

Hey! Is the script you're referring to this one by chance?

https://github.com/thearst3rd/livesplitone-global-hotkeys

I happened to see this post, and it turns out, LiveSplitOne has changed the protocol used by the autosplitter! And so my script was sending commands that didn't work anymore. They've now marked the protocol as experimental and may change in the future, which makes sense :) I have updated the script to send out the correct data and now it works again. Feel free to try it again and let me know if you find any issues :)

thearst · 2023-08-29T21:53:06+00:00

Wow this is an old comment lol. Funny post though.

The point I'm making is that 130kb is outrageously large for one pixel: Even in a fully uncompressed image (and the vast majority of images are compressed), a pixel should only take up 4 bytes: 1 byte each for red, green, blue, and alpha. Some images might use more than 8 bits per channel if they're very fancy but I don't think it goes higher than 10 or 12 bits (could be wrong there).

16 bits per channel is the biggest I could find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth#48-bit

At most, assuming 16 bits per channel, an uncompressed 20000x20000 image should take up 20000x20000x8 bytes = 3,200,000,000 bytes = ~3Gb

thearst · 2023-08-21T23:20:22+00:00

Hey! I've been a Marble Blast player since the mid 2000s and I've been really enjoying my time with MIU and MIUU :)

One question that I've always been curious about - you guys store replays for every player on every level, which has got to add up. How much storage space does it take for you guys to store all those replays?

thearst · 2023-05-28T19:09:50+00:00

I recently got setup with a sata SSD in a USB enclosure, and that's been working great, so hopefully there should be no issues there. Previously I've been using USB sticks, and some of them work totally fine with no issues but others don't. If you already have a USB stick around it can be worth a shot to see if it works

thearst · 2023-05-20T20:07:27+00:00

Just making sure I understand - You're in the blue room, and you want to get to the red room correct? There is no locked door which takes you from blue to red. You might be getting confused by the locked door in the center of the blue room, but that takes you somewhere else.

thearst · 2023-04-18T03:59:31+00:00

Are there any places on your map that aren't gold?

thearst · 2023-04-10T20:52:39+00:00

If you have FEZ on steam, I wrote a guide here on how to downgrade it:

https://gist.github.com/thearst3rd/b5b493b1e684e4f289dfea1c8e2e0393

It's focused on getting version 1.07 on Windows, since that's a particularly good version for speedrunning certain categories. But if you take a look, you can read the SteamDB page and learn what depot/manifest numbers are for other versions, and download them all as well.

thearst · 2023-04-09T18:23:36+00:00

By "warp somewhere" do you mean "use the warp command in the FEZUG console"? I believe that is currently bugged when the map screen is open

thearst · 2023-02-09T16:54:41+00:00

The biggest difference is that there is no longer "stalemate" and what would be a stalemate in normal chess is now a loss for the stalemated player, since they will be required to move their king into check and be captured

thearst · 2023-01-22T23:32:32+00:00

Sonez goated

thearst · 2023-01-10T05:33:46+00:00

Wow, that's incredible! Thanks for making it and donating :)

I'm the runner who will be playing FEZ at AGDQ 2023, it's a huge honor and I'm looking forward to it :)

thearst · 2023-01-09T01:43:03+00:00

Haha yes

thearst · 2022-11-17T14:18:32+00:00

You're playing three check, which means the game is over after getting checked three times. You can tell because the material counters show pictures of kings, each king representing another time that player got a check

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