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Thank you so much for putting it in terms my overcaffinated brain was incapable of doing.
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Those star count examples directly equate to well defined and major points in Super Mario 64 and as such are accepted in the speedrunning community as "valid" categories that runners compete in. Technically, if you wanted to, you could do an "84 star" star run and end up having the de facto world record because it's a category that doesn't exist and is something you made up just to claim that you had a record.
Another way to put this too is - most people will do these type of categories that don't matter(Consider Ocarina of Time Child Dungeons or Ocarina of Time Any% No IM/WW) simply because they can't do anything else. They don't have the skill to be competitive in a better category, nor the ability to do the tricks that the legitimate categories require.
In my opinion, it's an incredibly casual way to speedrun. Which is fine! Except Narcissa believes they are a g o d at speedrunning and the ultimate, bestest, queen of it all. Clearly, not true.
Exactly what category is Narcissa running on botw? There's already 9 different ones on speedrun.com
Okay, so on speedruns.com, that was the "extended" version of the "All Main Quests" category that yeah, only had one entry, that Narcissa seems to have beaten... only to have someone else beat her world record already based on the link provided. I'd wager that her run isn't optimized as all hell, and that the moment a serious autist decides to give this a try, that record would get obliterated even harder. But from what I can tell, BOTW isn't a popular game to run on account of it's length. According to speedruns.com, even splatoon 2, a game that's primarily known for it's multiplayer content, has more active runners.All Main Quests/Master Mode/No Amiibo/Switch. And here's the only leaderboard for this particular category, plus the arbitrary ruleset.
I think it's not really that bad to run a game like splatoon because the singleplayer content is shorter and allows more improvement early on, while longer runs need more work to get close to perfectionOkay, so on speedruns.com, that was the "extended" version of the "All Main Quests" category that yeah, only had one entry, that Narcissa seems to have beaten... only to have someone else beat her world record already based on the link provided. I'd wager that her run isn't optimized as all hell, and that the moment a serious autist decides to give this a try, that record would get obliterated even harder. But from what I can tell, BOTW isn't a popular game to run on account of it's length. According to speedruns.com, even splatoon 2, a game that's primarily known for it's multiplayer content, has more active runners.
BotW is only 40 min. long at the base completion percent. That's not long.
Honestly listening to him on his streams, even though he is still trantastic, he sounds and talks much, much more like his Cosmo-self than he did before. He has all but completely dropped his "fem"-voice aside from a slight lisp at the end of sentences, is much more lively in his conversing as opposed to just... sitting there in his filth. Maybe he isn't taking his meds as much or the phase is starting to die. I know itsas fuck to suggest it, but maybe Cosmo is starting to have an inkling of self-awareness return to him and the seed has been planted that maybe going full troon because of a break-up wasn't exactly worth it.
she invented her own category
It's exactly when it comes to terms of creating a new category come into question, because if he was making anew category to be competitive with people at-- He would've made such clear. But no, instantly claiming WR and not allowing or making rule sets clear, doesn't exactly tell for good waters. It's the same reason I have a record in a game, however-- I leave the rule sets in the video, and encourage people to challenge the time, etc. Which a couple people have.Another way to put this too is - most people will do these type of categories that don't matter(Consider Ocarina of Time Child Dungeons or Ocarina of Time Any% No IM/WW) simply because they can't do anything else. They don't have the skill to be competitive in a better category, nor the ability to do the tricks that the legitimate categories require.
In my opinion, it's an incredibly casual way to speedrun. Which is fine! Except Narcissa believes they are a g o d at speedrunning and the ultimate, bestest, queen of it all. Clearly, not true.
So basically Cosmo did a favor to the ZSR community: they still largely keep their same domain name (really http://zelda.speedruns.com is beyond boss) and they're merging their leaderboards with the wider speedruns.com, which apparently was an issue for a while now. All of that without losing anything server-side (since Cosmo had no access to that) and just having to find a new domain!
Thanks Cosmo! It's fitting that your very last inch of involvement with the community was a huge failure (from your point of view) and ended up benefiting everyone else involved instead, without as much as 24 hours of downtime or anything of value being lost! Good job!!
Not at all, thanks for the pingback![]()