Careercow Narcissa Wright / Cosmo Wright - Former speedrunner tumbling down

[Lucas Silva #4903141]

Someone did a Narcissa video yesterday and it's already gotten more dislikes than Null's stream lmaooo

Speaking of narcissa videos, here's one that's unlisted for some reason

I No Longer Respect Narcissa Wright

I wanted to make this video explaining why I no longer respect Narcissa Wright (formerly known as Cosmo). Narcissa is a former Twitch livestreamer, speedrunn...

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It's a pretty direct response to shit she said. May have been posted earlier in the thread, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't unlisted back then. EDIT: Just checked the comments and he explained why it's unlisted.

Considering you're commenting on it, it obviously isn't privated lmao. I put it on unlisted so if people wanted to see it, it's still here with a direct link. But it served its purpose already and I never wanted to ruin Narcissa's reputation or anything, it was just criticism of her actions, and informing people about her manipulation. So it's not really worth keeping public anymore

 

[gREEEEEEEEEr]

The John Numbers thing was part meme, and part true in the sense that Cosmo lost a gaming event that tens (and most likely hundreds of thousands) of people were watching.

And not only lost the event, but lost it incredibly bad, like "watching Dean Takahashi play Cuphead" bad.

 

[Wake me up]

And not only lost the event, but lost it incredibly bad, like "watching Dean Takahashi play Cuphead" bad.

I never asked this because it's pretty late to ask something like it but are there are theories on why he performed so bad in that event? He did well enough to be in the finals and stress never factored in for him when doing top-tier speedrun streams.

I mean he lost so-fucking-bad. How come? Did he have a drug habit back then and maybe a flashback kicked in right then?

 

[RJ MacReady]

I never asked this because it's pretty late to ask something like it but are there are theories on why he performed so bad in that event? He did well enough to be in the finals and stress never factored in for him when doing top-tier speedrun streams.

I mean he lost so-fucking-bad. How come? Did he have a drug habit back then and maybe a flashback kicked in right then?

He actually did fine up until the modern Mario platforming, which was the last phase of the last event. From what I recall, he wasn't familiar with it at all and his nerves got to him. That's the tragedy of it: He was so close.

 

[Raging Capybara]

I never asked this because it's pretty late to ask something like it but are there are theories on why he performed so bad in that event? He did well enough to be in the finals and stress never factored in for him when doing top-tier speedrun streams.

I mean he lost so-fucking-bad. How come? Did he have a drug habit back then and maybe a flashback kicked in right then?

He didn't know how to wall jump in Mario games, probably because he had never played the "New Super Mario Bros" series in his life.

For Cosmo, games existed only until 2003, after he became a young adult nothing has grabbed his attention anymore. He only cares about Smash and Zelda nowadays for the nostalgia factor.

He is the biggest example of "Peter Pan syndrome" that you can get.

 

[break these cuffs]

I never asked this because it's pretty late to ask something like it but are there are theories on why he performed so bad in that event? He did well enough to be in the finals and stress never factored in for him when doing top-tier speedrun streams.

I mean he lost so-fucking-bad. How come? Did he have a drug habit back then and maybe a flashback kicked in right then?

Did he have a drug habit back then and maybe a flashback kicked in right then?

I'm not a speedrunning autismo, but I believe people in thread have mentioned he did recreational use or abuse pills and weed before losing his shit.

 

[CIA Nigger]

I never asked this because it's pretty late to ask something like it but are there are theories on why he performed so bad in that event? He did well enough to be in the finals and stress never factored in for him when doing top-tier speedrun streams.

I mean he lost so-fucking-bad. How come? Did he have a drug habit back then and maybe a flashback kicked in right then?

Besides the stress and drug use, something else that could factor into this is the fact that speedrunning is about memorization and familiarity with a game. Case in point, this video where somebody donated money to "casual streamers" for them to pull off speedrunning tricks. This video's noteworthy because it pretty much proves that speedrunning is about memorizing and practicing tricks to play through a game faster.

Cosmo was being made to play an unfamiliar game with an unfamiliar level (one made just for the tournament). He couldn't memorize the level beforehand so he had to have some knowledge of the game mechanics. Thing is, I googled and the only time Cosmo speedran a Mario platformer I could find at least was Mario 64. If he had known some more Mario mechanics (especially with NSMB) he might have done better.

 

[Luigi]

Besides the stress and drug use, something else that could factor into this is the fact that speedrunning is about memorization and familiarity with a game. Case in point, this video where somebody donated money to "casual streamers" for them to pull off speedrunning tricks. This video's noteworthy because it pretty much proves that speedrunning is about memorizing and practicing tricks to play through a game faster.

Cosmo was being made to play an unfamiliar game with an unfamiliar level (one made just for the tournament). He couldn't memorize the level beforehand so he had to have some knowledge of the game mechanics. Thing is, I googled and the only time Cosmo speedran a Mario platformer I could find at least was Mario 64. If he had known some more Mario mechanics (especially with NSMB) he might have done better.

But it's a game for kids, how hard could it be to learn how to walljump?
?
I've watched that video a few times and I still can't believe it. But then again I played Megaman X as a kid and if you can't walljump you don't leave the first level.

 

[vertexwindi]

The walljump in Mario games is spectacularly easy to pull off. If my 6 year old nephew can do it, I don't see why Cosmo couldn't.

 

[Wake me up]

The walljumping trick seems to make the most sense because it explains why he took half a dozen hours to get past the first screen - and from there thhe nerves (shame most likely) probably kicked in and it was all over. What doesn't make any sense (besides "autism") is why Cosmo wouldn't learn all basic tricks of the game he was supposed to be playing live competitively...

 

[RJ MacReady]

The walljumping trick seems to make the most sense because it explains why he took half a dozen hours to get past the first screen - and from there thhe nerves (shame most likely) probably kicked in and it was all over. What doesn't make any sense (besides "autism") is why Cosmo wouldn't learn all basic tricks of the game he was supposed to be playing live competitively...

IIRC the games were a surprise, and the Mario segment was run in Super Mario Maker which wasn't released at the time.

 

[Wake me up]

IIRC the games were a surprise, and the Mario segment was run in Super Mario Maker which wasn't released at the time.

Regardless, the fact Numbers did OK while Cosmo struggled very hard to the point of it being really embarrassing to watch goes to show there was a major oversight somewhere in his training/preparation. Also someone commented on one of the replies that it was "surprise levels" but that is a frequent competition style for speedrunning events, especially for Mario games, so I think it's more due to Cosmo's big blindspots in terms of skill than him not knowing something like this might come up.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Regardless, the fact Numbers did OK while Cosmo struggled very hard to the point of it being really embarrassing to watch goes to show there was a major oversight somewhere in his training/preparation. Also someone commented on one of the replies that it was "surprise levels" but that is a frequent competition style for speedrunning events, especially for Mario games, so I think it's more due to Cosmo's big blindspots in terms of skill than him not knowing something like this might come up.

He sucked at the game and his nerves got to him. There's nothing more to it than that. I think people just had the impression that any of the contestants would be natural gods because they're general Nintendo fans (the implied idea behind the NWC) and Cosmo in particular because he had a special reputation for being "skilled" and assumed somewhere, somehow, it would transfer to that kind of Mario gameplay.

I think doubt it was more of an epiphany to the viewers watching than it was to Cosmo. He obviously knew what was happening and that made it worse.

 

[AbyssStarer]

In his defense Cosmo only played Mario 64 to display that just watching a speedrunner all the time doesn't give you the skill.
However; it's pretty damn obvious what to do in Mario (64 even has walljumping iirc,) AND he should have had the brains to figure out how Mario plays when he was invited to the event. In some interview or another, the girl speedrunner that was there, bananas, said she bought Splatoon and played Zelda 1 in anticipation of the event. Cosmo probably thought he'd be fine and win the whole thing because he was the god gaymur who killed OoT any%.

 

[break these cuffs]

In his defense Cosmo only played Mario 64 to display that just watching a speedrunner all the time doesn't give you the skill.

Well then that's more of his narc tendencies showing because the video @CIA Nigger posted showed regular Joes learning frame perfect tricks in a couple hours on the promise of a few shekels. Granted this isn't the full blown autism of speedrunning a game for hundreds of hours to get a record or anything, but free climbing El Cap it is not.

 

[AbyssStarer]

Well then that's more of his narc tendencies showing because the video @CIA Nigger posted showed regular Joes learning frame perfect tricks in a couple hours on the promise of a few shekels. Granted this isn't the full blown autism of speedrunning a game for hundreds of hours to get a record or anything, but free climbing El Cap it is not.

Cosmo didnt practice any of the tricks, he just went in and played the game through. Practicing for hours is how everybody learns to speedrun.

 

[Luigi]

You don't need practice to walljump in that mario game.

In the original for the NES sure, not the game where the mechanic is intended and designed for kids.

 

[Jack Awful]

IIRC the games were a surprise, and the Mario segment was run in Super Mario Maker which wasn't released at the time.

It's like that movie "The Wizard", but if the climactic final showdown ended with the autistic hero losing and then a sequel came out where he became a drug addicted tranny.

 

[Grog]

For Cosmo, games existed only until 2003, after he became a young adult nothing has grabbed his attention anymore. He only cares about Smash and Zelda nowadays for the nostalgia factor.

That's not true, he plays Splatoon 2.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

That's not true, he plays Splatoon 2.

Only to keep him occupied until Smash came out and because Splatoon offered the option to mindlessly grind for hours on end. The moment Smash came out he dropped Splatoon like a hot potatoe and even quickly removed the channel on his discord, though just for a few days.