Careercow Narcissa Wright / Cosmo Wright - Former speedrunner tumbling down

Suicide when?

  • When he runs out of money.

    Votes: 2,399 58.4%

  • Never.

    Votes: 826 20.1%

  • >2 years

    Votes: 883 21.5%
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Rokko said:
I have absolutely no insight in speedrunning/gaming culture. Did he really set a world record? Is it an "important" record?
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World records are relatively common in the speedrunning world, at least for relatively new games like Breath of the Wild since new routes are still being worked out and discovered, a world record this soon after a games release, whilst still an achievement is by no means set in stone. To be fair, cosmo is/was pretty good at speedrunning so it's still an accomplishment.

I can't speak for the "importance" of the record since the importance/significance of certain runs are based largely on how popular they become and how much technical skill is needed, only time will tell if breath of the wild will be a relevant speedrunning game a year or more down the line - even in "important" games like Ocarina of Time (an earlier Zelda game) or Super Mario 64 there are still run variations that nobody really gives much of a fuck about.
 
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Rokko said:
I have absolutely no insight in speedrunning/gaming culture. Did he really set a world record? Is it an "important" record?
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Short answer - No.

Long answer - It's a good record and a good time, but in a mode most people don't run and who's differences people don't seem to fully understand. Looking at http://www.speedrun.com/botw#All_Main_Quests we can see there are ~20 people running normal mode and only one other person running master mode. His time is pretty good (would be 3rd in normal mode) but without anyone really know what the differences are in terms of speedrunning who can really say.

Normally "Master Mode" makes the game harder (more enemies, more health, regen, scarcity of items, ect) but there could be parts in there that potentially make it faster for speedrunning so it isn't exactly apples to apples. He did blow away the one leader board entry for the category though, so make of that what you will.
 
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Generally with Zelda games there are a few main categories people care about (any%, all dungeons, 100%) and then endless amounts of other categories most people don't bother with. I don't know BOTW at all but it doesn't sound like he's playing in the most competitive category, and I'm pretty sure that's intentional. With a game this new, it's likely the world record could be broken in days, weeks, or months depending on how popular the category is.
 
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Super Collie said:
He doesn't submit runs to speedrun.com for some reason.
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Cosmo doesn't post to speedrun.com because he's (surprise) an insane person. He also directly helped and financed speedrun.com starting out - last time he was asked about it he was quoted as saying.

"speedrun.com doesn't- it's a fucking bad site for breath of the wild, it's fucking bad for this game, it can't fucking differentiate things very well, it's fucking awful, it's fucking terrible, it's a terrible fucking site for this game, it's the new fucking cyberscore, it's not a fucking fit platform for the kind of fucking art that I want to fucking create, it's not enough, it will never be enough and I'm sorry and the entire fucking site was my fucking idea in the first place and it just like is still not even good enough because I became so fucking woke dude I'm fucking like insane knowledge and wisdom from playing speedrunning so many fucking years and pouring so much of my life into it, so fuck that website, cause it will never be enough for me, it will never fucking be good enough."
 
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Tanner Glass said:
Cosmo doesn't post to speedrun.com because he's (surprise) an insane person. He also directly helped and financed speedrun.com starting out - last time he was asked about it he was quoted as saying.

"speedrun.com doesn't- it's a fucking bad site for breath of the wild, it's fucking bad for this game, it can't fucking differentiate things very well, it's fucking awful, it's fucking terrible, it's a terrible fucking site for this game, it's the new fucking cyberscore, it's not a fucking fit platform for the kind of fucking art that I want to fucking create, it's not enough, it will never be enough and I'm sorry and the entire fucking site was my fucking idea in the first place and it just like is still not even good enough because I became so fucking woke dude I'm fucking like insane knowledge and wisdom from playing speedrunning so many fucking years and pouring so much of my life into it, so fuck that website, cause it will never be enough for me, it will never fucking be good enough."
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The video where he says this.

 
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Tanner Glass said:
Cosmo doesn't post to speedrun.com because he's (surprise) an insane person. He also directly helped and financed speedrun.com starting out - last time he was asked about it he was quoted as saying.

"speedrun.com doesn't- it's a fucking bad site for breath of the wild, it's fucking bad for this game, it can't fucking differentiate things very well, it's fucking awful, it's fucking terrible, it's a terrible fucking site for this game, it's the new fucking cyberscore, it's not a fucking fit platform for the kind of fucking art that I want to fucking create, it's not enough, it will never be enough and I'm sorry and the entire fucking site was my fucking idea in the first place and it just like is still not even good enough because I became so fucking woke dude I'm fucking like insane knowledge and wisdom from playing speedrunning so many fucking years and pouring so much of my life into it, so fuck that website, cause it will never be enough for me, it will never fucking be good enough."
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Translation: Speedrunning communities don't worship people for getting WRs in non-competitive categories so I hate them. Methinks he'll have a sudden change of heart when he gets a WR in a more popular category or Master Mode AMQ becomes popular itself and he wants the recognition.
 
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https://twitter.com/narcissawright/status/887685631521898497

http://archive.is/VUXsA


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Is it fake? Smells shitposting but who knows...
 
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