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To your first part, I'm genuinely actually confused what the point of their video was, because they correctly proved the answer to the coupon collector problem without ever once mentioning that's what it's called. Using Pokemon as an analogy and simplifying out the non-uniform chances makes perfect sense for an educational video but why does the conclusion never loop back and mention what the problem they solved is usually known as? I really like Numberphile's content and that aspect made it feel like an excuse to slap a popular IP's name on the video in a way that wouldn't have otherwise been necessary if they just looped back to state the colloquial name of the problem they proved. To the 2nd part, I actually was most prompted to follow through with doing this response because my wife noticed the Numberphile video and thought it would be a great idea to react to it. The original title "Numberphile is WRONG" is too far toward clickbait than I really want so I've updated it to be more rhetorical. Ultimately my goal with this channel is to try to communicate speedrun and TAS concepts and document/archive TAS records, and ultimately their answer is correct under their assumptions but there's additional interesting answers with more complete information about the games to be had from the history of Catch'em All Manipless speedrunners DSUMing encounters and Catch'em All Manipped runners performing manips. I don't expect these videos to get wide viewership regardless of how I title them, I've been getting consistently 50-100 views per video for years and don't have any grand idea about changing that, but I'd rather be a little clickbaity and obtuse if it means 10 or 20 more people learning about intricacies of Gen 1.

@TiKevin83 >why does the conclusion never loop back and mention what the problem they solved is usually known as? I'm not sure. I think defining the coupon collector's problem an additional time would come off as redundant, I agree it should have been mentioned though. The point of the video? I mean, it was like any other numberphile video. Ask a question, give some context or practical examples, then go on to answer the question through math. Also Tom had the Pokemon plushies, he's probably a fan, and like if I were him brainstorming the video, I would have chosen Pokemon too lol Do see this video just comes off as like, off topic though? If Tom said something like "in gen 1, all Pokemon in Mt. Moon are equally likely to be encountered" then yeah I'd completely get this video. But he didn't. About two years ago when I was learning the yellow classic route, I wanted to better understand how DSUM worked (I understood that it was a value in memory, but I was curious how it changed frame-by-frame, how it interacted with soft resets, how exactly the value was used when encounters were determined, etc.). Some parts of this video would have been immensely helpful at the time. But I would've hated having to skip through the parts where you were reacting to a video that had almost no relevance to what I was trying to learn. Does that make sense?

@@minnowsr yes that makes sense - I could see value in doing a "Pokemon RNG in 2024 update" videos that just no nonsense explain the state of understanding of encounter/catch/battle RNG either lumping related gens in 1 video or splitting them out

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Anything RPG that has item menuing can become similarly complicated to route. Malleo has done similar work on item routing in paper mario and we do some similar stuff in Pokemon when doing RNG manip

That is crazy, I don't know if that was the idea but it could have been!

Rage is a move which gains more power as the user is hit. It would take more turns / more HP lost if Rage was not abused. Pidgeotto also will only choose Gust (100% accuracy) over Tackle as it is more powerful.

@@CasualPokePlayer thank you!

Hi! I'm actually not very familiar with the pro battling/training scene, we do this TAS stuff mostly on the older games

ah yeah I think I left desktop recording on and it doubled the game audio

@TiKevin83 oooh, that makes sense! Streaming and audio xP

I'm guessing it needs the official Nintendo gc to usb adapter, the driver dolphin built for it is probably specific to it

It only saves less than 0.1 seconds which you would then almost definitely have to wait for later to get the right metronome RNG anyway

In this run I'm playing on an emulator on a PC to make it easier to load the romhack :)

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If the controller works on a gamecube I'm not sure why one joystick wouldn't be working. It may be detecting something else as a controller and requiring additional tuning of button mapping

Controller adapter a.co/d/9m9vRfE USB C to USB A adapter a.co/d/bGA334y

You're right they seem a bit off! I'll try to figure out where that's coming from

yeah wasn't intending to show the emulation quality too much just that you can even do this with the original controller hardware, but the audio and video is crazy good too

Zapdos, while quite good, is a bit out of the way and has a hard time against opposing Rock/Grounds (there being three in the E4 alone).

yes but it only affects certain places like map transitions so you'd lose more time forcing it by running in and out of buildings :)