Careercow Narcissa Wright / Cosmo Wright - Former speedrunner tumbling down

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What did someone say a couple of pages ago? Cosmo tried to get on the leader boards before all the serious people tried the new tricks?
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He's already tumbling down.

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Oh no! Almost out of top 10 ):
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kebab4you said:
What did someone say a couple of pages ago? Cosmo tried to get on the leader boards before all the serious people tried the new tricks?
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He's already tumbling down.
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It was me. Sad.

I went and looked it up, this glitch is barely two weeks old - 1.15.20 is the first entry of it on speedrun.com. Cosmo looks like he tried to get in on the "easy top10" list as of 1.21.20, a measly 5 days later. He started (of the new glitchers) 8th place out of 8 of them.

Fast forward to today, and he's now 4th out of 12 of them.

The previous top 10 (the guys that really competed once the dust settled)
Torje - has not put up a new time yet.
jordanstone - has not put up a new time yet.
RichardSage - has not put up a new time yet.
skater82297 - has not put up a new time yet.
baker_zsr - put up a new time and immediately beat Cosmo, taking 3rd.
doktor_m - has not put up a new time yet.
mozurkz - put up a new time and immediately beat Cosmo, taking 2nd.
SmashMac - has not put up a new time yet.
Aliens - has not put up a new time yet.
JDH - put up a new time, but did not beat Cosmo, taking 9th.

Of all the previous Top 10 - only 3 learned the glitch and posted a new time. Two of them beat Cosmo in a flash, one didn't, and there's at least 7 more to go. Before the "new" glitch, Cosmo's time put him in 29th, meaning there are realistically 28 people that can beat him once they learn the new glitch and that doesn't include the new people coming to the category.

EDIT - Slight correction, it was "baker_zsr" who put up a time, not "skater82297". Corrected.
 
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Times have been updated, Cosmo has been pushed to 5th - the slide continues. He sits 5th out of 13 of the "new glitchers" so far.

I'm not sure about the various intracies of the new glitch, but Cosmo's 5th place time (12m 20s) from 5 days ago is now a full 2 minutes, 4 seconds behind the first place time.
(10m, 16s), which seems like a pretty big gap unless some new tech was found - as both 10m times were posted today.
 
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Tanner Glass said:
I'm not sure about the various intracies of the new glitch, but Cosmo's 5th place time (12m 20s) from 5 days ago is now a full 2 minutes, 4 seconds behind the first place time.
(10m, 16s), which seems like a pretty big gap unless some new tech was found - as both 10m times were posted today.
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There's a new route that triggers the arbitrary code execution without using Saria's ocarina, saving the time it took to pick that item up.
 
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Any% hasn't really been popular among normalfags since Cosmo was still Cosmo, even with GDQ making speedrunning more visible than ever. It had a certain novelty to it when wrong warping to beat OoT in under 20 minutes was still this crazy thing, but at this point, it's just a small group of NEETs performing a glitch to open up a console in game and typing in a cheat by moving items to specific pixels. The only sort of popular speedruns when GDQ isn't going on are the super technical ones and the meme% runs.
 
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Markorian said:
Any% hasn't really been popular among normalfags since Cosmo was still Cosmo, even with GDQ making speedrunning more visible than ever. It had a certain novelty to it when wrong warping to beat OoT in under 20 minutes was still this crazy thing, but at this point, it's just a small group of NEETs performing a glitch to open up a console in game and typing in a cheat by moving items to specific pixels. The only sort of popular speedruns when GDQ isn't going on are the super technical ones and the meme% runs.
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The American Dad Intro% run is the peak of speedrunning and you cannot tell me otherwise.
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The handsome tard said:
Can I mention I personally always thought that Speedruns were kind of stupid ? I mean that in a personal way, I just never saw the point to finish a game as quickly as possible besides it being a childish bragging right. I suppose my issue with it is that when speedrunners act like they are doing something more than they actually are, for example, when someone acts in social media with an ego because they finished LoZ Ocarina of Time faster than others, dude, you just fucking played a game, you arent doing anything actually important for society.

If you enjoy watching/doing speedruns, thats great, more power to you, I just personally never saw the point but dont fucking act like you are God's Gift just because you finished a game while dummies cheer you on for some reason.
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It's kind of like being good at chess, in that you're showing off a skill that not everyone else has.

It doesn't matter how important or dumb, as long as someone can do something someone else can't, t here will be people who take pride in it.
 
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Cosmo doesn't care people are beating his time.

He did not try to beat the WR with a really good time using that new glitch to get back into speedrunning or anything similar.

I've said this a few pages back but those twitter posts were all just a cynical 'statement' by him to show how arbitrary speedrunning is in itself and as a concept.

I want to spell it out in simpler terms because too many people still don't really get him.

He realized down the line that none of this shit really matters to him after his ego inflated to infinite size with his 18:10. He has an aggressively narcissistic personality. After he fell from the top he did his best to make sure people understand that the hobby of speedrunning and the categories and compartmentalization the members of the community are so fond of mean absolutely nothing. He failed, therefore others work (no matter how senseless and timewasting/this is a biased statement, if you enjoy this more power to you/) should also be meaningless.

He did one single run with the new trick to show that yes, he could still compete, he 'beat Zelda'. But what he is actually saying is that none of this matters. He seems especially peefed about the fact that the new trick isn't as 'hard' as what he needed to do back with 18:10 as well.

EDIT: Before anybody tells me 'he did more runs' Yes, I know, he's fucking around with the new strat because in the end he's still cosmo and still fascinated with the game, speedrunning, coding and so forth. But no more than that. He's not going to competitevly grind zelda 24/7
 
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Hey, sorry to jump in. I am not a gamer in today's world sadly (my gamer days ended when it cost more than 25 cents to play a game at the arcade!), so be gentle with me.

When I was just entering my teen years, I got the Atari 2600 for Xmas. That was huge thing back in my day as it was the birth of the home video console era. Intellivision and others I no longer recall. After getting the RF connector attached to the two screws on back of the TV (LOL!) it was a magical time being able to play all the games I was spending many quarters on at home.

So, Missile Command was always a favorite of mine at the arcade and that was one of the cartridges I got as a gift. After being able to play it for hours on end at home, I became quite good at it. Basically once I got to 6x levels, you could always save 1 city every time to keep going and basically never have the game end.

One night, after playing for hours without having the game end, after finishing yet another 6X level, the next level said 0X! And I remember the colours were one never on any previous screen. I didn't know what what was going on, but completed the 2 0X levels. Then, next screen back to 1X. Of course being about 13 in early 1980s, had no true understanding of what the hell happened and continued on playing until I finally got bored or went to bed. It remained a vivid memory for me, and one day in more recent years, I googled it to see if there was any info about it. And sure enough, I found out about the 256 multiplier that reset the game and gave you a load of extra cities in reserve to boot!

Being an old fuck, thought I'd share that given some (many) of you may not have known or heard about that "glitch" from the very early days of home videogaming and it kind of is related to the theme of the more recent posts about this glitch thing.

But to stay relevant to this freak, I watched that video where the guy explained the 5 minute run he did and how exactly would someone figure out this type of what appears to be quite complex coding "hack"? He was talking about having to put things in very specific locations in order to make this all happen. I mean mine was just constantly playing til game reset. This seems like it would be kind of hard to just stumble across. If any modern gamers want to explain to a grandpa gamer I'd love to get an understanding of how/why these types of coding glitches are sought out or discovered.
 
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