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💼 CareercowSHiFT / @shiftposting - Angriest speedrunner on earth. 20,000 hours spent playing one SpongeBob game. Frequently rages until his voice gets blown out.
Is it morally unrighteous to hope for an unretirement announcement because I enjoy watching a grown man scream in pure hatred at a SpongeBob video game?
Is it morally unrighteous to hope for an unretirement announcement because I enjoy watching a grown man scream in pure hatred at a SpongeBob video game?
I thought e-sports was gayest shit since they all considered themselves on the same level as 'athletes' but at least they win money and have some tournaments where their skills are acknowledged.
Speedrunning seemingly took this retardation to extreme with people spending four-five digits worth of hours into sweating for a world-record that can be dismantled as soon as someone finds a way that if you gorilla mash your inputs at different place than everyone did for dozens of thousands of hours it creates a new record - definition of competition of five minute of fame (the raped Australian albino comes to mind here).
It's funny if its done for a shitpost - a game nobody ever played, or a challenge like doing Desert Bus for charity... but doing this for the time you could have been working actual job or honing worthwhile skills its invalidated as soon as other sweat-drenched nerd beats you. Congrats on getting CTS, the ultimate reward I guess.
Are you saying being the #1 speedrunner of “102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue,” for over a decade, won’t earn me the respect of my peers and an everlasting legacy?
If it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill, he could have mastered 2 genuinely useful skills with the time he dedicated to a children's game from 2003. Instead, his only accolade is going to be usurped when someone inevitably finds a gay optimization which shaves off 5 minutes. Speedrunning is retarded.
Even doing literally nothing with those hours would’ve had a better return as he wouldn’t currently be filled to the brim with cortisol and his hands wouldn’t be permanently fucked up.
SHiFT, after 10 years of speedrunning BFBB, has retired from WR grinding. This comes after StarSpeedruns, the current 2nd place runner, has closed the gap between himself and Shift to just 25s.
If he switches to Goldeneye N64, He's going to legit die of stress lol.
But as a crack addict I highly doubt he's letting it go. 10 years of lifespan wasted on beating a score only a specific community cares about and that's it. Besides the revenue and so on... there's nothing of true value he earned from that time wasted.
Back in the day he was considering branching out to Super Mario Sunshine and I believe Spiderman 2. Dunno how that holds up now, but possibilities, I suppose.
I've been following Shift for quite a while and I'm happy to see him retire even for a month (we'll see if he holds out that long.) The amount of hours of practice he was putting in the silly Spongebob game was insane where often it would be 6hrs of him practicing and 3hrs of actual speedruns which obviously impacted his mental quite a lot which is kinda understandable as he lives in his own self-made Hell. God knows how many actual useful life skills or hobbies he could have learned instead if he would have put in these hours practicing these.
Either he'll get back to speedrunning this game for that 39m time or maybe transition to different game and repeat the same Sisyphean process as I'm not sure what else he can (or wants to) do.
I didn't see this posted yet but it's a post from his discord that he added as a comment to his recent video on youtube.
Announcement from my server, reposted here:Hey everyone, here's the vod from last night if you missed my announcement. I've decided for many reasons, the final being that I know any% will continue improving without my physical grind ongoing, that I'm retiring from competitive speedruns of Battle for Bikini Bottom.For ten long years I've pushed the run down by 26 consecutive minutes with the help of countless others on the R&D side of the community. But I feel now that in order to fulfill my destined role as the event/project organizer of the community, unifier and hype man of everything Sponge, and to finish on my own terms at a crucial time before any further physical injury, this is for the best.I now have plenty of time and mental clarity to assure you all the definitive August celebration we deserve. Once the festivities conclude, I will immediately begin creating the ultimate documentary for everything BfBB from the creation of SpongeBob SquarePants, to my retirement as a competitor. The follow-up to the original documentaries you've all been waiting for. Alongside this, I will put together a team of our best to create a community fix for BfBB Rehydrated, which I believe to be the necessary step forward in reviving and cementing our place as the greatest speedrun community of all time.If all goes well, I will apply all I've learned to reviving in-person events for the grassroots speedrunning community. By the people, for the people. With boots on the ground for an entire decade and my ear to the hardest working runners of all time, I assure you I and I alone am the man to lead the charge for a second speedrun golden age. But I cannot do it with the current bandwidth I am allotted - this major life change is necessary to fulfill these promises. We are only getting older, and the window to take action is closing. I'm looking forward to hitting the ground running, continuing to dedicate my life to the community I love. Now better than ever, knowing for the first time ever, that my beloved game will carry on in my wake. It's bfbb forever bros.Tonight around 7-8ish we're gonna play the Dutchman and some other Stuff based on what you guys want! This 1.5-month period will be the pregame before the culmination of our hard work - the 10-year celebration. I'm going to see you all there regularly until then - TIME TO HYPE IT UP!!!! Thank you for letting me live out the dreams of my twenties. Here's to beyond. Faster together, movie forever.
TLDR
He is retiring from competitive speed running with BFBB
going to work on the final part to his documentary series that encapsulates the lore of BFBB from its creation to his retirement and milestones of speedrun strats.
Looking to fund and get with people he knows to make a patch for BFBB rehydrated to improve on some things and help bring life to the community.
Wants to bring back grassroots speedrunning by reviving in-person events and strike a second golden age of speedrunning.
I only have a passing knowledge of this guy but any time I've ventured onto the shithole Twitch for "research purposes" this guy was always there & always streaming the same game to 150 people. I'm surprised he's quitting, it would be kinda inspiring if it didn't involve speedrunning a children's game for a little recognition on some wiki page.
EDIT: checked his Twitch outta curiosity, he's currently streaming a different Spongebob game from 25 years ago
I only have a passing knowledge of this guy but any time I've ventured onto the shithole Twitch for "research purposes" this guy was always there & always streaming the same game to 150 people. I'm surprised he's quitting, it would be kinda inspiring if it didn't involve speedrunning a children's game for a little recognition on some wiki page.
