First of all, a press can be infinity long or instant. It doesn't matter how long a press is, once you've pressed you've finished the action of pressing. What you're doing after a press is called HOLDING. You are no longer pressing, you are holding. So off the bat, theres no such thing as a "half press" or a "quarter press" or any other break up of a press. In order to prove this point, imagine a soft rubber ball between your hands. If you press your hands together even slightly then you've pressed the ball. You didn't 1/10th press the ball because you didn't squash the ball into a pancake. Futhermore, the UNPRESSING can not be considered part of a press. It simply doesn't make sense to include the undoing of an action as a fundamental part of that action. Therefore, any press is one complete press. What is possible is a "Partially completed jump action" However a HALF "partially completed jump action" in mario64 is also impossible. Let's discuss that for a second.
A "completed jump action" Consists of three parts. While you are pressing the button mario will rise till he reaches his maximum height, or you release the button. If you do not release the button before mario begins to fall he enters a rare/quasi-state in which the game still allows you to do other actions as if mario was in the air, even after he touches the ground. Finally, there is the final stage of release, where mario returns to normal and is no longer able to do air-only moves while walking on the ground. These three phases correspond to three stages of pressing the a-button.
I know this is just shitposting but "half A press" is just terminology for using one press across two stages
Austin Powell
>PART 1 A post is a post. You can't say it's only half.
Isaac Nelson
Well """"""Henry"""""", I'd like to explain to you what a half-A press is, but first, we need to talk about parallel universes.
Josiah Richardson
PRESSING>HOLDING>RELEASING. Pressing is complete as soon as you are holding. That's 1/3rd. However Holding is completed BEFORE you got to releasing. That is because if you hold for even a fraction of a second you have completed the holding section, and reach 2/3rds. At best you can say that it's a 1/3rds completed jump action. Since when you enter the stage theres only 1/3rd of the jump action remaining to be completed. Now we have to discuss something I brought up in a previous paragraph. Can you really include "undoing an action" as a fraction of the action. Is an anti action really part of the action at all? Is "Releasing" really a portion of the action at all. If it isn't then you contend that any half-a-press run, is actually a 0 a press run, and if it is, then you're an illogical man child who knows nothing about math and needs to go back to school to understand words and math.
In order to highlight how silly the debate is. Consider the following. If mario was standing in a level with a free floating star at the very start of the level, and you walked up to the star and pressed and held A, and didn't release the A button at all then you would have completed a 1/3rd a press run because you "never reached the second phase of an a press."
They're three parts so you're wrong already.
Josiah Nguyen
pressing is the same action as holding, you're just determining the length of the action.
Blake Campbell
>If mario was standing in a level with a free floating star at the very start of the level, and you walked up to the star and pressed and held A, and didn't release the A button at all then you would have completed a 1/3rd a press run
You know... actually this kind of does make this all seem stupid.
Hudson Diaz
『AH YOU ARE MOTHER FUCKER ? 』
Dominic Cooper
Exactly, every press inherently requires holding, even if it's only instantaneous.
Connor Jenkins
It IS stupid! It's bizarre hair-splitting for the most autistic action outside of being able to recite 9000 digits of pi or count matchsticks.
No wonder trannies are so into speedrunning and competitive broke brain games.
Bentley Parker
he isn't wrong because there is no currently-known function to the act of releasing the button, only pressing and holding matter, therefore the holding part is half of the action that actually matters
If pressing is the same action as holding (it isn't but lets pretend) UNPRESSING still isn't part of an PRESS. The suggestion it is boggles the mind.
This is factually objectively untrue. Consider the following. Put your hands in front of you. Press your hand out in front of you. You've pressed the air, but the air can't be held even for a fraction of a second. The air continues to move till it's slowed down by other air molecules. It is never held in place.
Holding is an indefinitely action, you can't "half hold" something You can't partially hold something. You are holding, and therefore the action of holding is completed. Therefore you can't count it as a "to be completed action" and if you could, it still wouldn't be a half press it'd be a 1/4th a-press run since you're half done with holding which is half of an a press.
Christopher Fisher
Pressing and holding are two different things. You are forgetting that the video's name (0.5x A Presses) only makes sense in the context of a larger low a-press run, this is something he makes clear. If the level were done in isolation, then yeah, it would require one whole a-press. But since it is a continuation from another level and he has presumably been holding A down this whole time, he is ONLY making use of the "holding" function, and he never uses the press function in that level.
Lincoln Nguyen
What would you call pressure sensitive actions? Or games like Tekken where the release of a button acts as a press?
Michael Collins
>This is factually objectively untrue. Consider the following. Put your hands in front of you. Press your hand out in front of you. You've pressed the air, but the air can't be held even for a fraction of a second. The air continues to move till it's slowed down by other air molecules. It is never held in place.
objectively you are fucking mental
Noah Thompson
0.5x A presses is just a way of signifying that the route used for a particular star involved having the A button held before entering a stage.
The whole spiel about the "parts of an A press" is a recursive explanation to justify the decimal. There's no such thing as half an A press.
Oliver Davis
Times A was pressed and released: 1 Levels this press was used in: 2 A presses per level: 1/2
Parker Ortiz
then why even call it half press?
Chase Parker
I rewatched this video a few days ago after two years and while he does actually explain what he means by a half A press, he should have just fucking clarified that it's a term that he uses for this specific scenario and not something that is commonly the case among all games. Also a shame that because of shitty meme fags like OP pannen will never make a commented video ever again.
Gavin Evans
Because he's using half of the function of the button press, which has 3 parts, but we've established that only 2 of its parts actually matter. Plus, he's the expert who came up with everything first so he gets to set the terminology.
Wyatt Nguyen
If you contextualize it that way then you have to contextualize the entire game and include all a press up to that point in the game.
If holding is a dividable action, if you can partially hold something. Then you are at least partially done with holding when you enter the level, and it's at best a 1/4th a press.
IF holding isn't a dividable action, then you've already completed it and it's a no a press run.
Grayson Collins
It's easier than saying "0x A presses (but while already holding the button)"
Tyler Nelson
a release is not part of a press though
he used a full press in level 1 and a release in level 2
He isn't partially holding, holding is the only thing that's being counted. Holding is not being divided at all, it's just pressing and holding that are divided from one another. You are fucking dense, you keep trying to pretend that the length of time it's held actually matters when it clearly does not, you're also pulling nonsensical fractions out your ass. basically has it right, it's about the easiest way for him to say what he's trying to say.
Noah Bennett
"easy" isn't correct. He was wrong. He created a "new type of run" that only he could complete based on a set of arbitrary and disingenuous rules that he is the sole arbiter of.
Hunter Nguyen
Okay, that still doesn't detract from a half a-press existing and it being exactly what he defined it as. Now you're trying to change the subject. >disingenous bullshit
Brody Morgan
IMO the "Henry" (normal person) sees it as literally pressing the button so there no such things while the autist breaks the movement of the A press into several parts so a half press is plausible in their definition. I have to side with Henry because this half press is a reach
It doesn't exist because either holding is one complete action, and it's already done before you enter the level. Or its dividable and you've already completed a portion of it before you enter the level, and since its half of an a press it's a LESS than half an a press run by default.
Jordan Bell
ITT people with learning disabilities
Aaron Rivera
Fuck off henry you insufferable faggot
Josiah Nguyen
This. It literally means "count his run as 0 jumps in a full run, and 1 jumps if you are only considering this level"
Juan Ross
That's stupid if we contextualize levels before hand then we should also count all the a-presses in the run up till that point.
Dominic Walker
What matters is that calling the level complete-able in 1 A press, 0 A presses, or HALF an A press all have different implications. 1 press implies that he used the pressing function in the level, meaning he could have jumped or whatever, and then also the holding function, because there's no way to press the button without holding it for some fraction of time in spite of the fact that he may or may not have actually USED the holding function. 0 presses implies that he did not touch the A button at all, neither pressing nor holding. 0.5 presses means he only used the holding function, which is not quite the same as either 1 or 0. You can argue semantics all you want but for his purposes he defined it in an easily-comprehensible and quick-to-say way.
Fuck off loser. If you failed to understand at least learn to shut the fuck up when you finally get a concise explanation.
If you still don't understand it then you are literally a retard. Kill yourself you absolute waste of human space. Even a bunch of raping mudslime indians are more valuable that the waste of time your existence is jesus christ.
Ethan Moore
ngl u kinda bumblasted me my dude.
Robert Hernandez
>be wrong >GET ANGRY >REEEEEE KILL SELF!!!!!!
Jason Taylor
>be wrong >start greentexting and strawmanning in all caps I think we're done here.
Yes, thats exactly what you are doing man, I'm just want you to have a little of introspection.
Connor Anderson
That's called a single segment run, user, aka the whole thing. That would include every press. There are no instances of this that include any decimals because the 0.5x notation only exists when talking about stars individually. All stars that require at least 0.5x presses would be done after a point in the run where at least 1 A press is required, and that one press is held through the rest of those others.
Funny enough, there aren't many 0.5x presses left in the route for a full run. Most of them have been optimized and there's a strategy that doesn't even require the button to have been held.
Ethan Hill
This kind of thread really makes me think we really need those FEMA camps. I'd fucking fund even more chemtrails if that keeps people from OP for shitting Sup Forums with such a fart of a post. I'd gladly breath a bag full of mindcontrol gas if that puts OP one step closer to the execution wall.
Joseph Cooper
you sound mature
Brandon Jones
Why'd the champ stop making videos? I liked seeing him travel dimensions and create Goomba concentration camps in the sky.
Caleb Wright
shoutouts to simpleflips
Landon Cruz
Holy shit dud you actually made something useful. Oh wait, you didn't unless you think your input has shed some ligh on everyones opinion about my post. You think you found a decisive clue that will make every one go "OH FUCK let me cancel my patreon subscription to FEMA". You really think your post is of any use? To anyone? Are you so proud of your analytic analysis skills that you had to hurry up and make that post. Man I don't think we need the government to kill you since you will probably do it yourself in the next "shot your self in the head with a sawed off shotgun" youtube challenge.
Xavier Sanders
He didnt, but he doesnt upload to the main channel often. This is one of the more recent ones: youtube.com/watch?v=lT3SnMMLY0w
Jack Gray
I read in a comment he wrote that basically implied he had gone through some shit at the time and working on the commentated video was a way for him to take his mind off of it. The work completely consumed him for days, it was all he ever thought about. Now he simply can't put forth that sort of effort on a new video so he has been hesitant to try, I think.
Asher Peterson
Unironically "Henry" is right, the game registers two different A inputs, it's two A presses.
"Half-A Press" I a shorthand for a more complicated button state for the sake of categorizing stars and how many button presses it takes to obtain them.
Yes, it's a confusing term that doesn't accurately describe what's going on. However I would also like to propose the possibility that you may have autism if this actually bothers you.
There's a community of autists like him that all agree on the terminology and that's all that matters.
Chase Anderson
I want to believe this is not OP samefagging, but since he didn't post a part 2, I have my doubts.
Julian Price
>If you contextualize it that way then you have to contextualize the entire game and include all a press up to that point in the game.
But that's actually how it works you dumbass goober. A presses are ultimately rounded up, but in the context of his chain of star acquisition he can use a single a press in the process of obtaining multiple stars, and thus counts them by halves in the context of an independent star.
