💼 Careercow SHiFT / @shiftposting - Angriest speedrunner on earth. 20,000 hours spent playing one SpongeBob game. Frequently rages until his voice gets blown out.

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Archive of speedrun autism. Seriously it's nothing special.

I am not sure I fully understand the trick, but basically if you remove the PS2 memory card while grabbing a spatula it messes with something in the game. The game remembers your spatula count but will leave the spatula in the world to grab again once you quit the game and reload. Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights and SpongeBob Movie game have a very similar trick, according to Shift. All 3 games were made by the same devs using the same core engine with tweaks.

Now Shift hasn't sperged about this discovery yet, he might but I don't think he will ultimately. They'll just make it a different category on the website and he'll continue playing on Xbox with a thousand 1 frame tricks.
 
Night Terrorist said:
Tuned in again and he actually seems to be in a (relatively speaking) good mood. Talking a lot, interacting with chat, explaining strats, even laughing a few times. How refreshing!
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He only was because he's not fully invested in it yet he has no intention of focusing on it full time and is clearly passing it off to the runners that are
 
niggernomicon said:
Thoughts on the new trick? I think it makes total sense to just ban it - it is hardware manipulation, simple as. A new category doesn't even make sense because the run is just so stupid.
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I agree it's hardware manipulation and similar the ketchup disc strategy that came up a few years ago so shouldn't be allowed.

As for shift, I just watched him do a playthrough.

He hates it so much, he's already raging at the fact that he can't do the 1 trick that's left in the run after spending 10 minutes messing around with his console. I just see the light leaving his eyes that 9 years has come to this.
 
I think him streaming so much the other day (22 hours?) and bitching about the category is due to him being genuinely afraid of losing the record to some random shitter. That's why he has also been saying the backwards compatible ps3 means that load times need to be removed from runs. If some random community member had a backwards compatible ps3 and a few days of free time, the record would be their's. Nobody would care because the category is retarded but it would be a huge blow to SHiFT's OCD/ego.

Edit: new wr 35 something (can't check it rn)
 
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Man and I just came to say how refreshing it was to see him have some fun with the new joke category.... Aaaaaand the fun's already been ran out of it. Damn that was quick. It really is too bad that he can't parlay his gamer rage into something comedic that people love to watch like Proofessure or LunarJump. But it's probably been a long time since it was just gamer rage. These just reek of neurosis and self hatred. If GladJonas still did rage compilations SHiFT could be front and center. Then seethe more about it, because he already bans clippers.
 


I'm sure glad nobody is going to take this trash SLOP category serious and the streamer is just doing it to have some fun!
 
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This Christmas season I would like to say thank you to Shift, I actually tried the spongebob game and liked it, reminded me of the N64 platformers like mario 64 and banjo-kazooi
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MERRY CHRISTMAS SHIFT

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I've developed a sort of admiration for Shift. His transformation over the past decade is a real work of contemporary art, a human living project that can only exist in his exact cross-section of time and space, not unlike BossmanJack.

Shift's latest job development dictates that he must severely abridge the game by exploiting a mechanism completely alien to the game itself. This crippled run, which he rightly calls unserious slop, was intended to be a momentary reprieve from the "proper" category, but has now become the necessary means by which he can preserve his life's claim, which is beating SpongeBob really quickly. 17 minutes of the run were buried under a prison forever and he wasn't even glad. His enthusiasm for the game is no longer anywhere to be found. But he has to stay on top. It's all there is. Shakespeare or Virgil may have wept, or at least done a double-take, at the degree of sheer jealousy that Shift holds for his record and his seeming unwillingness to move on to literally anything else. One must wonder how many times he's heard Squidward shrieking into his ears. (It's approximately 86,000.)

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My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me. (Jeremiah 8:18, ESV)

People who make their livings in video games are always in a tenuous place unless they ascend to an emeritus of some kind like PewDiePie or Markiplier, which Shift has clearly failed to do. In the case of speedrunners, they are deeply beholden to arbitrary incidents created by unsuspecting developers 20 years ago, to say nothing about the inevitable cabal of comically authoritarian Discord gatekeepers, though in this case Shift owns the scene himself. It reflects poorly on Shift's state of affairs, however, that he is the ultimate SpongeBob speedrun jannie, and the consequences are obvious. Despite streaming for six hours nightly over ten years, he has an active rotation of only 400(?!) subscribers, after shedding 40% just last month. His inability to interface with his viewers using even the most basic decency is costing him dearly, as any prospective first-time chatter or even a veteran question-asker is unceremoniously ignored, insulted, or unintelligibly groaned at with Shift's signature monochromatic croak. His chat becomes deader than ever, nailed-through sponges are increasingly absent from the backdrop of his dark room, and his viewership dips down to the double-digits; the people who remain are awaiting some lousy mistake he's already made a thousand times turning him as a plum on camera for all to enjoy anew as he hurls expletives into the void, and it's only a matter of minutes.

But all that remains is to keep going. It reminds me of that guy who flew into a viral rant for having to select a personal pronoun in Starfield, only to click through the menu and keep playing anyway, because that's his life now.

Splyying! The old clothesline move!! Will SpongeBob be able to neutralize the giant robot's brain?!

Fight on, brave soldier. I'll be watching.
 

SHiFT crushes 2 world records in one night, possibly the first time this has ever happened, saving 7 seconds from just 11 days ago, stacking major bodies lately.
somebody stop this man hes on a killing spree,
really makes me wonder what his new goal is with the run, sub 40 was one of his milestones just a few months ago, now were so far beyond that.
 
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