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Gaming and Grazing / Re: Hearthstone: A Digital-Only CCG based on World of Warcraft
« on: May 02, 2014, 11:54:49 am »
Hearthstone is the worst parts of MtG shoved together without the depth or potential for creativity. If you're in the mood for a great card game look up Android Netrunner
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News and Updates / Re: Sonic's future goes BOOM and site shenanigans
« on: February 11, 2014, 08:42:40 pm »This trick is so simple that nobody needs to explain. You only need to watch and learn.
But how would somebody know that without playing the game and learning the trick? If this site wants to remain a Mecca for Sonic competition, it needs more than a list of times, a scarcely-used forum, and woefully inadequate guides. Speaking as someone who's new to the site, this place seemed a lot more awesome in years prior based on forum posts. People were engaged as a community and came up with fun challenges like beating SA2B levels without using A. I just want to see this site do something, anything besides TSC race nights and leaderboard disputes. It's hard to attract and retain members when almost nothing happens around here
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News and Updates / Re: Sonic's future goes BOOM and site shenanigans
« on: February 10, 2014, 04:39:46 pm »
I’m relatively new to speedrunning Sonic games, and while I don’t speak for the Sonic Generations community as a whole, let alone the entire Sonic speedrunning community, I’d like to share some of my thoughts and experiences and provide a few suggestions to keep TSC alive and active.
Sonic Generations lends itself to a divided community. There are at least a dozen different categories to run for ILs. Despite this diversity, there’s not a strong community for the game. For a game that has only 15 or so active Modern runners, we almost never talk to each other. Outside of random conversations on Twitter and YouTube comments, I have almost no interactions with other runners, and I would say I’m one of the more community-oriented runners because I stream the game so often and engage with people who come into my chat, stream monsters and runners alike. The way the community is set up, it is much harder to collaborate with and learn from other runners because we don’t have an easy way to interact. As hard as it is for people who somewhat know of each other to discuss our game, it’s even harder for new players to enter the community because of the degree to which we’ve internalized our strategies. Learning the game is much harder than it needs to be. Given the amount of research required to even learn one level in Generations, it’s no shock that so few people pick up the game. In fact, several prominent runners have retired in recent months (KAKIPI, Millernus, Craig), taking their knowledge with them.
TSC is in the middle of a similar situation. We have all these extremely talented runners who don’t leave much documentation of the game outside of times and videos. If TSC is to thrive, there needs to be an easier way for new runners to learn the game. The current setup for the forums is to ask a question about the game and wait for an answer. I’d be much easier for new runners if there was some sort of community wiki for ways to learn Sonic games, various tricks, level routes, boss strategies, etc. If nothing else, creating such a wiki would allow current runners to collaborate, interact, and pool their knowledge.
Sonic Generations lends itself to a divided community. There are at least a dozen different categories to run for ILs. Despite this diversity, there’s not a strong community for the game. For a game that has only 15 or so active Modern runners, we almost never talk to each other. Outside of random conversations on Twitter and YouTube comments, I have almost no interactions with other runners, and I would say I’m one of the more community-oriented runners because I stream the game so often and engage with people who come into my chat, stream monsters and runners alike. The way the community is set up, it is much harder to collaborate with and learn from other runners because we don’t have an easy way to interact. As hard as it is for people who somewhat know of each other to discuss our game, it’s even harder for new players to enter the community because of the degree to which we’ve internalized our strategies. Learning the game is much harder than it needs to be. Given the amount of research required to even learn one level in Generations, it’s no shock that so few people pick up the game. In fact, several prominent runners have retired in recent months (KAKIPI, Millernus, Craig), taking their knowledge with them.
TSC is in the middle of a similar situation. We have all these extremely talented runners who don’t leave much documentation of the game outside of times and videos. If TSC is to thrive, there needs to be an easier way for new runners to learn the game. The current setup for the forums is to ask a question about the game and wait for an answer. I’d be much easier for new runners if there was some sort of community wiki for ways to learn Sonic games, various tricks, level routes, boss strategies, etc. If nothing else, creating such a wiki would allow current runners to collaborate, interact, and pool their knowledge.
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TSC Race Night / Re: Games to race 2014 discussion
« on: January 06, 2014, 03:27:21 pm »
Can we do a race of just the Modern stages from Sonic Generations? There are far more Modern only runners than people who play both
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News and Updates / Re: TSC Twitch Team!
« on: December 20, 2013, 11:43:38 am »
http://www.twitch.tv/pvtcb
Sonic Generations IL runs all of the day
Sonic Generations IL runs all of the day
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