community resource iconoclasts
github issue
i will open a github issue titled attribution, bitch, with this body:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jw0DFjlTwcP5gyQLaHVbb6Tf5xpOLE4l
me when i kill someone and then steal his work
why is this on a third party website lol. i can’t even pr in links to the documentation you stole from or correct the errors you added to it
review
it’s important to keep this review fairly minimal in order to not get too heated. for example, i noticed while i was looking over what’s happened that there was a team task tournament in dec 2024 that i would’ve wanted to play in but was excluded from by virtue of being abused out of the community. this kind of thing is so deep in trauma for me that i can’t even watch the videos, and just have to get my head down and die in order to escape the feeling of betrayal, of having that many people discard me. i see my “friend” doge told me it’d be fun to do team tasks with me in 2021 not even inviting me to his team for this event. i mentioned this feeling as well when observing jpep being hosted by the community twitch channel despite being such an unfathomably malicious and overt abuser. who targeted me. i see him now participating in this while i am gone. it’s this feeling of being penned in by endlessly escalating trauma, which repeats on a cycle. each time an abuser of mine rears his head. having my innards crushed. i went to bed soon after looking at this and woke up out of a dream in a full-on panic attack, might’ve even screamed irl before waking, i’m not sure. the most important thing for me is to become forever completely unaware that this is happening, by any means necessary
with apologies for the same reason if i got something wrong below owing to not being able to look at this too closely without destabilising my mood and taking myself off-track from my last acts planning
version differences
anyway, that github issue i posted is to do with this version differences notion doc, where i notice zeldocto poisoned my -8.27 calculation for fade differences with a false statement that it depends on a-press timing. this seems like an error in reasoning caused by stupidity, since i can’t see how it’d otherwise have happened given the documentation i published about static timings. there are several other errors, some inherited from older docs and some novel ones, but it’s besides the point
he has quoted documentation that i made, like this jp vs pal estimate table, verbatim with no attribution. the text estimate specifically required techniques to produce that are beyond his capabilities to replicate, and he simply quotes it with no citation. compare this to atmpas’s famed sm64 version spreadsheet – ”Do NOT post screenshots of the spreadsheet in order to avoid outdated information being spread.”. load timing is a similar issue, being the thing with the most uncertainty and therefore need to be cited, yet no link to any of the work me and despin (or anyone else) did to time loads
we’re kind of stating the obvious that non-trivial work should be attributed. zeldocto happily does this with noki doki’s name being mentioned in a section title in this same doc, simply for compiling a list of version differences, so it seems to be a malicious thing. this is more visible in the following example:
akane resources
the front page of the sms wiki currently links a resources doc that’s managed by one person, outside of the bounds of wiki consensus, and it’s not only attributed, but the person’s twitch channel is advertised. this is where we’re getting into the culture war typical of the saulnier doctrine, which zeldocto is reiterating
the two obvious things wrong here are the nepotism, that zeldocto is redirecting documentation outside the realm of consensus and onto a Favourite Person, and secondly, advertising his “friend” in the context of communal documentation. this isn’t something that should ever be done, because one doesn’t know what sits behind the façade of an online entity, but beyond that, he could not have picked a worse one to advertise than akane. this entity has a long rep sheet for fake identities (fake country, fake gender, fake voice), transphobic trolling (especially under the kohiru name on a now-deleted twitter account, but also with the female ai voice) and interacting with abusers on social media to encourage their presence (particularly guy2308)
akane’s advice is terrible as well. the equipment being recommended is like, high-end cables, high-end wii2hdmi (buying commodity ones is more than enuff for speedrunning) and… a gv-usb2 LMAO. i heard akane switched to a (usb2) live gamer mini, which costs about 7× more and is inferior quality to a commodity usb3 capture card. but the worst part of this is referring to this and a crt as a default recommendation, when a crt at 60Hz is pretty dangerous for eyesight above all. a secondary problem is that gv-usb2 is ancient and unobtainable (it’s going for £75 rn), and ironically much more detrimental to visual quality than any of the commodity components
do we think akane can name the current recommended commodity capture card? me neither
there’s more to be said about these blunders but it’s besides the point as well. much more relevant and concerning is akane’s tutorial advice, which lists for example leannehef’s gbs tutorial, which is made by a variety streamer whose benchmark for tutorial quality is people said it helped them, and is missing two essential points that every beginner needs to know, namely centre-from-right and no-clip. akane even spots the first of these and patches the tutorial, rather than just sending a better tutorial (every tutorial i know of is better than this one). the recommendation for beginner pinna 6 is 2-stu, despite my having recorded a strat demo for the objectively best and even generally recommended method
analysis and restitution
before we think more about this, we must remember that usually in speedrunning, work and achievements are routinely acknowledged. attribution is a fundamental cultural tenet underpinning the free spread of strats and documentation
i find it interesting how zeldocto and kokaner deftly dodge acknowledging my tutorials in the way they set up their resource guides and wiki. my in-depth tutorials are pretty bad for attention-deficited learners, but pretty good for attentive ones, and this has been noted in reviews posted in the sms discord. i rewatched my bianco 6s lecture and it’s an excellent tutorial (tho not all of them are up to this standard). if their opinion is that the detail makes them unsuitable, then the choices they offer instead are very bewildering and undermine this, since i don’t think you can say an hour-long tutorial that covers eyg best practices is worse than telling a beginner to do an unsuitable strat (2-stu). i think the preference for leannehef gbs might just be simping, having observed the tone with which inkstar commented on the video on youtube. i think female streamers with thousands of followers are top-of-the-social-tree for these people. zeldocto, for comparison, also recommends leannehef gbs, but recommends my pinna 6 – with attribution! (he attributed everyone else on that page so it would’ve been a little too conspicuous to sideline me there). another example of something obviously valuable that they choose to ignore is the exact honey skip setup
with zeldocto behaving the same as saulnier in most regards these days, ever since he stopped pretending to be working for my benefit as he had pretended to in dec 2023, and kokaner making a neo-toburrist claim about not consenting to have speedrun data hosted outside “official” sources, there’s a fairly clear trend of ongoing iconoclasm being done in service of continuing to try to purge my existence from the community they control, having (in the case of zeldocto) conspired to abuse me out of it and bully me to death with an endless slew of libel and defending my abusers, most notably jpep. zeldocto also claimed to be planning to ban saulnier for what he did to me and then didn’t, but i cover these topics much better in Unforgiven and death notes so will give it a rest here lol. saulnier’s primary motivation was best articulated by peaches johnson – a need to show me that “[they] don’t need [me]” – and zeldocto is just picking up where saul left off. unfortunately for him, the amount of stolen work (this being the third time he’s done this, following failed attempts to weedle my retiming documentation out of despin and to use my leaderboard point-calculating code for his rta strats sheet, having been expressly forbidden in both cases) shows he does, rather, need me a lot
this is ultimately the work of immature addicts / virtual entities let loose on the internet, and the vulnerable egos that result, so it shouldn’t be a massive struggle to just take back control over the documentation and give my work the credit and prominence it deserves. in a world where merit is decided by quality, rather than clout cultural revolutions or whatever this is. and that’s the thing i need your help with
and ofc, if you want a carefully-researched sms setup guide, my website has one