Hey, I'm the sleepy sage. I'm no one special, just a guy way past his PR2 Prime who does game development and pixel art and is a nut for constructing gaming computers.

Anyway I guess I gotta post a thread here to prove I'm not Evil Aliens.

This site looks just like when I last saw it in 2015. Thats awesome.

Be careful with the poll because whatever answer you choose first, can hurt you in the long run.

It's 6pm on a Monday evening when you come home from work as a Software Engineer (making six figures) working from 8am to 6pm. All of a sudden, you notice that a MASSIVE tree (from your backyard) has crushed half of your house. You then see a large, 6 foot 5 man, rush to his black corvette with a chainsaw and a dark hoodie drive away in a hurry.

Unfortunately, the neighbors didn't see him, nor did they hear the damage because they just got home from work, too. You call your homeowners insurance company, ALLSTATE, to have them send a homeowners insurance adjuster to take a look at the damage. After they learn that you, nor anyone else has proof of the damage, they leave and go about their business. But, not before telling you that you need some medical help, and that they can't cover the damage because you have zero proof as to what happened. In other words, they think you're crazy for telling them that you saw someone that may not have been there in the first place.

Then they also tell you that the tree looks like it was rotting away anyways (even though it was healthy) and was prone to fall at some point. It seems like nobody is on your side, even though ALLSTATE always makes that BS claim, right? Everyone thinks you're crazy for claiming that you saw a man with a chainsaw, but can't prove anything.

• Your PR2 username:
  
• What category you're participating in (single time or section time):
  
• What level or section are you submitting for:
  
• What time did you get:
  
• Timestamp of when your playthrough of the level occurred (for those going for section times):
  
• Link to video recording / livestream of your playthrough:
  

• If you get the best time for any of the 2 sections, you will be rewarded with the elusive Artifact Hat! You can also exchange this reward for 34 million EXP if you already have the Artifact Hat or would rather have the EXP.
  (Note: You can give this reward to a different account if you'd like!)
  
  There will be a potential total of 2 Artifact Hats being rewarded in this competition, or a potential 68 million EXP for getting the best time in just sections alone!
  
  

        What the Artifact Hat looks like:

        

• If you submit a section playthrough, you will be rewarded with 2,500,000 EXP! This can stack, meaning if you submit a playthrough of both sections, you can earn a total of 5 million EXP!
  (Note: This can only be rewarded once, and you can only earn this reward by submitting playthroughs via this thread or Discord. Simply making a video playthrough of them and then not submitting it here will not earn you the EXP reward.)
  
  
• If you get the best time on any individual level, you will be rewarded with 1,000,000 EXP! This can stack, meaning you can win this reward multiple times, so you can potentially win up to a total of 67 million EXP!!!
  (Note: You can give this reward to a different account for each individual win, meaning if you get the best time in multiple levels, you can give 1,000,000 EXP to several different accounts of your choice.)
  
  
• If you manage to get the best time in both sections, there could maybe be an additional reward for anyone insane enough to get the best time in both sections. Guess we will see.
  

• You must submit your times using the format listed in the How It Works section of this post.
  
  
• All playthroughs of each level must be played in the Tournament Server. Submitting a time that takes place in any other server will result in a disqualification.
  
  
• For each submission you'd like to make, please make a new post in this thread detailing what your submission is.
  
  
• Any edits to video recordings mid-way through its playthrough will result in that submission being disqualified.
  
  
• Glitches are allowed.
  
  
• No cowboy hats allowed in Single Playthroughs unless the level has a 100% chance of Super Flying Cowboy mode. If you get Super Flying Cowboy mode activated while in a Section Playthrough on a level that has less than a 100% of it activating, restart the race and the time it took to load into the first attempt won't count.
  
  
• Altering your own winning submission (if you've won one of the weeks) so that you get a clearly better time than other users will result in a disqualification.
  
  
• In the off chance that a level becomes unplayable, whether through the winning submission becoming unpublished or things are done to the level to prevent a finish, a new level will be cycled in to help the contest continue. Previous section times will remain intact.
  
  
• For single playthroughs, the time that appears in-game at the end of the level is the time that you must submit.
  
  
• For section playthroughs, the time between each level are included with your time.
  
  
• For section playthroughs, if you want a time you achieved on an individual level from your section playthrough submitted , you must make a separate post with what individual time you'd like to submit along with the time stamp in the video recording where it takes place.
  
  
• Times must be submitted by January 15th, 2023 at 12 AM CT.
  

• dying to ask a question related to Level of the Week: Holiday Dash!
  
  
• interested in making suggestions or giving feedback for Level of the Week: Holiday Dash! in case this event comes back at any point
  
  

• interested in judging for Level of the Week (there are complications to this if you're chosen as a judge, which will be discussed)
  
  
• interested in submitting a Level of the Week banner that can be used for the Level of the Week thread.
  
  
• interested in making suggestions for the actual Level of the Week contest (related to the thread not levels)
  
  
• interested in suggesting or talking about anything else
  

Posting this here in hopes that someone here has more information:

The process of drawing some forms of text rotation in Flash Player seem to cause intense lag on some modern processors, despite being perfectly fine on something older. So far all testing has been on Windows.

The problem seems to occur on processors with 16 or more logical processors (though this is not confirmed)

There has been some work over on PR3 to determine who it happens to, and thus a possible cause.
So far, we know the following:

  It happens in several games
    This bug happens in both PR2 and PR3 from my testing. It also seems to happen in Learn to Fly 2, especially in the shop.

  It is hardware dependent
    The problem has been confirmed to occur on Ryzen 2000 and 5000 series processors. It also occurs on Intel 12th gen processors, and there has been a report of it happening on an i9-9900K.

  It is specific to certain forms of text
    I don't know what's different about player text and art layer text, but on both PR2 and PR3, the lag only occurs with player nametag text.

  It is fixed by setting Flash Player to run on only one logical processor
    This is a terrible solution, but it does work. Unfortunately, this can cause lag in other places, at least in PR3. Works great for LTF2 though, it made it playable for me.

  It is fixed by using Adobe Scout to profile the bug
    The bug does not happen when using a debug version of flash player and profiling it with Adobe Scout. The lag immediately returns when profiling ends.

  Lag is independent of resolution and quality.
    It just happens. Changing the quality of resolution seems to have no effect on the problem at all.

  CPU usage is lower than expected.
    Despite lagging, the reported CPU usage from something like Task Manager suggests that Flash Player uses less CPU while the lag is happening.

  Hardware acceleration has nothing to do with it.
    The bug seems to happen regardless of whether hardware acceleration is enabled or not. The problem also seems to occur without regard for GPU vendor.


No specific cause of this problem is currently known.

The quickest way to test this problem that I know of is to play Learn to Fly 2 in flash player and get to the shop. If the rotation of the menu on the right causes intense lag, this problem probably affects you.

  
Below is a list of processors the problem is reported to occur on. OS is also shown if known. If a specific processor isn't known, then the processor series is listed.

  AMD Ryzen 2700X, Windows 10
  AMD Ryzen 5700X, Windows 10
  AMD Ryzen 5900X
  Intel i7-12650H, Windows 11
  Intel 12th Gen CPU
  Intel i9-9900K

Below is a list of processors the problem is reported to not occur on. OS is shown if known

  AMD A4-5300 APU, Windows 7
  Intel i5-8400T, Windows 10
  Intel i5-4200U
  AMD Ryzen 5 5600H, Windows 11


More tests would be greatly appreciated.

I've always found so unpleasant to the eye how total GP don't match the actual GP the guild has:

• If a user leaves or gets kicked out of a guild, the points that user earned for that guild should be removed.
  

• When there's 0 users left in a guild, remove the guild ownership and set it available for the public again.
  

On the level editor, I remember there was a block limit, as in, at a certain point you couldn't place anything because you were limited to a certain number of blocks, although I'll admit it was a large number, but I wanted to make huge levels.

I'm Doomed Runner, maybe someone remembers me? If not that's okay, but this game (PR2) was my childhood. I spent countless hours making levels and stuff. I'm 26 years old now lol.

I was the first to discover a lot of mine glitches, and people were always telling me my levels were too hard lol.

I think the reason I stayed away for such a long time is because the last time I was making a level, I hit the block limit, became sad, and sorta moved on, but PR2 stayed in my heart, and I think if there is still a community for the game, I'll be part of it, too much nostalgia and good memories to stay away lol. (and right now good memories are good to think about, my life hasn't exactly been good).

It's been a long time since new obtainable epic upgrades were added to the game. So I thought of adding some more that are still unavailable.
I chose the next levels since the level and the epic upgrade are related and lastly a level that is more difficult than the usual levels (similar to The Legend by nedy)

New Epic Upgrades:

Taco Set: Salad by makie98 (5880537)
Elephant Set: The ZOO by Stunt (6511562)
Jigg Hat: Platform Perfect by fleirdo (1559206)

P.D: I'd also like to point out that 2 of these level creators have been publishing awesome levels for the past year, so it'd be nice to see a level of them have their own special prize for all the creativity and effort that they've put in this year.

https://discord.murucraft.xyz