"The internal timer starts when you start the program's executable." If you are running with ScummVM is this when you open the game?

@@PensiveGoatRuns If you're running it with ScummVM, it's when you click on "Start" from the main menu.

What about opening the program, and using TAS timing, from first input. So you wait long enough to get an early skip, and then you use the second time the timer gets to rollover to skip MORE audio?

@@ICountFrom0 i dont think theres any 2 unskippable dialogues that are 18 minutes and 12 seconds apart. with the wr being 25 minutes 47 seconds long, and a tas definitely being shorter, you'd need to use it in the first 6 minutes for it to happen twice during a run. and if you spend more time waiting for it to hit the 18 12 mark than the dialogue would have taken to actually listen to, then you've lost time. and with the biggest cutscene being 17:48 into the run, theres no room to squeeze another before or after, so you'd have to be using 2 other cutscenes that add up to be longer

@@ICountFrom0 If the unskippable dialogs lined up that way, yes, you could. (Keep in mind, MOST of the dialog in the game is skippable. It's just these few parts that aren't.) For example, if there were long unskippable dialogs at 3 minutes and then at 21 minutes, then sure, you could do that. But there's nothing like that, unfortunately.

lmao

What's so special about 18:13

@@thewhitefalcon8539 watch the video...

Yeah, if he got to 18:12, he might have to deal with cannon shots.

@@thewhitefalcon8539 wow.. Do people still click on a video they intend to watch and comment first!?

lol

Gotta listen to the man.

Thank you for helping with it! I love talking about our littler corner of the world.

Nice job admiraljay! awesome run, nice record.

I don't mind RNG in Sierra games, but I still don't understand why they had to make the RNG rules so convoluted in this game in particular. Maybe it was growing pains? By the time they got to King's Quest 7, they "gave up" and it's all 50 / 50 dice rolls.

@@OneShortEye A lot of games have it so the RNG isn't always just 50/50s and the other early Sierra games had similar variant RNGs. But for KQ5, it's just so weird in a lot of spots that I can only assume it was partially due to being their first game using the new engine and maybe part of it might be how Roberta Williams can sometimes be weird when it comes to game design.

@@OneShortEye maybe because KQ5 was using a new engine

For sure. Even being gone for a day can mean missing big things if a Discord is really active. Digging into history and doing what I do can be challenging. For instance, the Speedy Adventures discord (bless 'em) has one channel for everything LucasArts. So if I want to find info on say, just Monkey Island 2, I also have to dig around MI1, MI3, DoTT, etc.

if only there was some sort of way to publish text content online in such a way that it could get indexed by a sort of search service

+1

Holding the B button or alternating A and B makes Pokéballs more likely to catch Pokémon.

@@GigaBoost Not entirely wrong. Every frame, the raw state of the buttons is added to the random number generator's seed. With the right timing you *can* in fact make or break a catch. This is also why tool-assisted Pokémon runners "dance" in the grass and battle menus.

@@Kawa-oneechan you can't positively affect rng in any consistent matter outside of TA though

Paw's great! As far as I know KQV was the only game he speedran, and even then, for only a brief amount of time (relatively speaking).

@@OneShortEye Yeah Paw is such a legend - he pioneered adventure game Let's Playing! and his let's play of KGV was funny as hell. I remember his music series called "Full Circle" so I see your Easter Egg there! :D

i love his stuff! He's what got me into let's plays. I miss his content :(

His LP is why I have Cedric's line about the pOOOIIsonous snake stuck in my head forever. That and "Life-giving water...nectar of the gods!"

Ah, I probably should put this in the pinned comment. Sierra fixed that bug shortly after release and it doesn't happen in any other game that I'm aware of.

You're too kind. :)

Thanks for the kind words! Keeping track of everything is a problem. And even now, it's difficult having to sift through all the Discord comments to find what you're looking for. What we gain in convenience we lose in discoverability.

This would be solved if there was a bot in the server that posted every message somewhere easy to see

Hmm, interesting. To be clear, most of the dialog in the game is skippable. There are just these few parts that aren't. As for the dialog that IS skippable, I've never had a problem with dismissing it instantly.

That's incredibly kind of you!

Longbow is a great game, one of Sierra's best.

I saw this video in my feed and went "I BET MDB watched and commented on this!" Glad to see I was right. Thanks to you and this game, I will always remember "Life-giving water! Nectar of the gods!"

@@Trooth "Look out! It's a pOOOISSSonous snake!"

Those are extremely kind words. Thank you.

@@OneShortEye Yeah, very similar for me. While i've played some kings quest it's only been recently and I'm not great at them. Your content has continually impressed me. Every video is superb. And you are great at taking me through a very complicated and technical narrative while keeping it exciting. I don't even have any other interest in speed running. I would say I was even slightly prejudice towards speed running before watching your videos. Anyway, I just want to second that you have extremely good instincts for how to tell a story and I always look forward to your videos. I wonder if you have any other topics, maybe even outside of gaming, that you might want to talk about. I understand this is your passion, so this might be what you really want to talk about. But yeah, you are just so good at breaking things down I would be interested in anything you wanted to make a video on.

Lmk of you find any decent skips to sub faster

now do TAS

What was your time? WR or PB?

@@Hiihtopipa It turned out I was using machine assisted tools for my run and was DQed.

Just got a sub 1.0. Idk if you can top that but I'll be waiting

Oh yeah, it's such a weird game design choice in hindsight. What I remember reading was something along the lines of, if players finished the games too quickly, they felt they weren't getting their money's worth. So adding dead ends was a way of extending play time. Looking at it now, I don't mind DEATHS, but I think unwinnable scenarios that aren't even communicated as such is objectively bad game design.

@@OneShortEye Roberta Williams was also heavily inspired by Colossal Cave Adventure, which had its own share of moments like this. I remember watching a video where they dug up and interview where Roberta talked about spending months or years trying to figure out the game and finish it. This seems to be one of the reasons for a lot of the weird design decisions in especially earlier Sierra titles, that Roberta wanted that experience recreated for others.

The shock and disgust when this happened to me in KQ1 as my first pre 90s game...... I'll never be the same

Thanks for the kinds words! Believe me, I'm always desperate to get them out.

Those are extremely kind words. Thank you!

@@OneShortEye I have to correct you on this one: Those are extremely deserved words. Thank you!

Thank you so much for the kind words! Glad you're enjoying. :)

Happy New Year!

Thanks for the kind words! I can't promise you'll be able to quit your job, but the King's Quest speedrunning discord is here: discord.com/invite/kAPTPTR

So much has been happening with QFG recently, I'm definitely planning on doing a video on 2EGA and 4. But I'm waiting for activity to simmer down a little bit. And I'm actually in the middle of a Monkey Island 2 video. Excited for that one. The challenge is that there's SO much history it's difficult to pare it down.

@@OneShortEye Excellent, very exciting!

Thanks for your awesome comment!

Thanks, Doc!

I swear I wasn't pressing a thing.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Happy you liked it!

Happy New Year!

When David runs KQ5 at marathons, he does a bit where he repeatedly says, "Now we pick up the [x]. It's the most important item in the game, can't win without it." For like, every single item.

@@OneShortEyeSierra loved that shit but I think the single worst example is Valdo & Marie (obscure quasi-educational UbiSoft adventure game) where carrying a certain item into the last area guarantees the worst ending. You have to just not pick that item up - multiple hours of gameplay earlier.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Happy New Year!

Glad you liked it! And yes, I agree, though to be fair, it's often times difficult to understand what's happening in a p&c speedrun without context.

@@OneShortEye thats why its great to have your vids. You give the needed context :)

The RNG seed is based on your computer's time when the program starts. No one's really tried to see if they can set up a process to get a consistent seed, but it looks impractical. Add to that, the game calls the random function all over the place, like how long a cow waits before moving outside of town, for instance. So you'd have to play perfectly to make it worth it in the end game.

Those are extremely kind words, thank you!

Thank you!