Careercow Narcissa Wright / Cosmo Wright - Former speedrunner tumbling down

[Xolanite]

Narci rocking the #2 WR on the new OOT any%. Comeback in the making?

Any% more like carpal tunnel%

 

[Y2K Baby]

Narci rocking the #2 WR on the new OOT any%. Comeback in the making?

You go, goy.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Don't worry guys once Narcissa gets that WR, she will be rocking in her new mansion fully transitioned and will have that appearance on Colbert so she can tell her story while showing napping boomers her run... oh wait nobody gives a fuck about speedrunning a buggy 20 year old game.

 

[Okubo Naoya]

So, say he gets the record and then someone takes it from him like last time. What happens then? He starts taking T, hits the gym and changes his name to something extra manly like Maximus or Quincy?

He becomes Cosmo again and does all this stuff, but this time he also changes his surname to Imai and becomes an actually cool guy.

 

[deodorant]

Once Cosmo reclaims his any% WR, ZFG will play the song of time and send him back to before he transitioned, allowing him to execute the new glitches early therefore securing his fame forever.

Then he will finally be able to seal his Nintendo 64 back inside of the temple of troon and live happily ever after.

 

[LullerDerbyRollin]

Once Cosmo reclaims his any% WR, ZFG will play the song of time and send him back to before he transitioned, allowing him to execute the new glitches early therefore securing his fame forever.

Then he will finally be able to seal his Nintendo 64 back inside of the temple of troon and live happily ever after.

You just gave me the thought of Narci taking the N64 and beating it with a sledgehammer on live stream. Thank you!

 

[ComedyEnjoyer]

Hey good on him, maybe getting off his ass and actually doing something other than moping like a fucking soy goblin will be his first steps back toward some semblance of functionality and sanity.

 

[HollaGemini]

This should be interesting. This is the "out of my fucking mind" guy right?
I legitimately thought this dude was dead. Just looked it up, it was his friend that committed suicide.

 

[Elru]

I don’t think there is anything he can do at this point to regain his previous popularity. Even if he were to reappear as Cosmo tomorrow people aren’t going to just forget the tranny years. He’d probably do okay, but the glory days are gone.. and not just for him.

I have to imagine speedrunning as a whole is in decline. The most popular games were always old titles, and now we’re past the ten year mark of them being broken down. That new OoT thing is good example of what this leads to - less actual game being played. Outside of the speedrun autismos that novelty of “guy just beat oot in x minutes” is over with.

 

[John McAfee]

Congrats on the redemption arc, Cosmo.

 

[Quintex96]

So, say he gets the record and then someone takes it from him like last time. What happens then? He starts taking T, hits the gym and changes his name to something extra manly like Maximus or Quincy?

Awakened Cosmo

 

[A Detachable Penis]

Do people really even care about that category now that it’s so broken? I kind of get their excitement back when that wrong warp shit was new and you went from the first to last dungeon, but this is just picking up rocks and suddenly credits.

Like, does anyone even know or care who has those “glitch to the credits“ records in say.. link to the past or pokemon? I doubt many.

Eh, new TASs of SM64s zero star kept coming out even after the time got real low. Essentially, people will pull the time down again with the arbitrary code execution and then dispurse into more entertaining categories once more.

 

[Sissy]

She can shave 30 sec off no problem. She has the tech.

 

[DimensionalMergeEnthusias]

If she can pull off the WR this would be quite the redemption story.

 

[Mike Hunt]

Did they get to play the game beforehand? If I remember right it wasn't released yet and was basically a mystery final game for the finale. What kills me is if that really chewed him up deep inside, under these conditions no one was expecting him to do much or even perfect on top of that he had a 15 second disadvantage where John Numbers was able to just somehow do everything almost perfect. Even in the previous rounds he was at least decent. If this was truly a turning point beyond memes, it is very pitiful.

Doesn't matter if they played the games beforehand or not. As far as I know, the level Cosmo and Numbers ran in SMM1 pretty much relied on mechanics that were already in place in previous Mario games, so it's really just adapting to the newly-created level and execution that's key. The level even had soft checkpoints, so to speak, so it's not like any misstep forces both runners to play the level all over again. It's just an absolute choke job on Cosmo's part, to be honest.

 

[Shugo]

If she can pull off the WR this would be quite the redemption story.

He not only has to pull it off, he has to pull it off and be ahead of most people for a long enough time to be remembered. Whenever a new route/strat gets discovered, people are racing to get the WR and many people "get" the WR for it to be beaten a few days or weeks later. Several people have "got" the world record since the new ACE was found, no one remembers the guy who got WR and lost it in a few days.

 

[FuckedUp]

I sometimes watch speedrun videos when bored, but spending literal years playing the same 90s game over and over again to get the best place on an internet leaderboard is pretty sad no matter how you look at it.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

What I'm wondering is it really that impressive to beat a game super fast with glitches? Seems like it'd be more impressive to win through skill but idk; watched some FF7 world record thing and didn't find it impressive they just warped all over because of buggy code and bailed.

A cursory glance of this person reminds me of Adam Sandler's character in Pixels, hanging onto some video game achievement like a lifes work.

 

[Bender]

What I'm wondering is it really that impressive to beat a game super fast with glitches? Seems like it'd be more impressive to win through skill but idk; watched some FF7 world record thing and didn't find it impressive they just warped all over because of buggy code and bailed.

A cursory glance of this person reminds me of Adam Sandler's character in Pixels, hanging onto some video game achievement like a lifes work.

Try watching the recent Portal any% glitchless WR , there's no warping or out-of-bounds, just fucking fast portal placements and a couple of minor abuses of game mechanics.

 

[Ceci]

What I'm wondering is it really that impressive to beat a game super fast with glitches? Seems like it'd be more impressive to win through skill but idk; watched some FF7 world record thing and didn't find it impressive they just warped all over because of buggy code and bailed.

A cursory glance of this person reminds me of Adam Sandler's character in Pixels, hanging onto some video game achievement like a lifes work.

From my understanding a lot of speedruns that rely on glitches rely on being able to make hyper-accurate inputs into the controller, to the point where runners might spend days and days on end trying to learn how to press the buttons correctly to activate the glitch, there are guys who have tried over 26k times just to activate glitches for records. So being able to do glitches does take some skill and dedication, and there are definitely people who find it interesting. Still, seems like a whole lot of effort for a meaningless accomplishment imo.