Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

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brutal poodle said:
Tranny bussy maybe.
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I think he's right. Some of the arcade-era dudes made a lot of actual IRL money from their prestige when those things were relatively niche. Now that it's a big deal, being the literal best player at a game people have actually heard of (Super Mario Bros, or whatever) can get you real clout at a convention if you leverage it properly (say, coming to give a panel on the game). And conventions are sweaty, nasty sexpits where BPD chicks will fuck anyone with clout.
 
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Kuchipatchi said:
Probably a weird question but how mainstream is speedrunning right now?
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I don't think it's mainstream at all despite how many views speedrun videos might get on youtube.

Let's look at gaming more generally. I would say speedrunning in general is less mainstream than fighting game competitions, online game team tournaments like league of legends, and mmorpgs (world of warcraft, final fantasy 14) and other online games like call of duty and fortnite.

Maybe certain speedruns get mainstream publicity like Tetris matches and high scores, and super mario 1 speedruns but they're popular because they're popular normie games, not because they're speedruns.

One problem with some game speedruns is that they're very technical and normies don't get stuff like rng or iframes or frame perfect etc. Lots of behind the scenes stuff is going on and you can only appreciate it if you're a hardcore fan which most people are not.

Compare this with street fighter 5 tournaments. Sure there's lots of technical stuff behind the scenes but the basics are easily understandable just by watching. Eg this guy lost because he had faster reactions than the other guy. That guy lost because his HP went to 0 first. That guy probably won because he had more super meters/resources so he could take more risks. My point is even if you've never played street fighter 5, it's easier to get into it as a watcher compared to your average speedrun where all you see is shit happening, apparently fast shit.

Another thing is who talks about speed runs in real life? You know world of warcraft is mainstream when south park dedicates an episode to it. You know fortnite is mainstream when Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah cringily does the fortnite dance.

Speedruns are about as common and relevant in real life as the trannies that play them: not much. Wake me up when John Oliver does a segment on why speedrunning is progressive and antifacist or whatever.

One last thing argument against speed running becoming mainstream. Have you seen who actually speedruns? If you thought sonicfox and glty (or however you spell it, that street fighter tranny who was banned by capcom for sexual harassment imagine my shock) was hard to look at, speedrunners are even worse.
 
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40 Year Old Boomer said:
Vanilla speed runs are so boring. Randomizers are usually fun to watch, and even better to play.
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I personally find randomizers uninteresting because of, ironically, the randomness. I prefer speedruns that have a set goal and the way to the goal is filled with challenges everyone knows and expects. Therefore, everyone is focused on the speed of the run. The shining example is the Super Metroid 4 way races from old AGDQ. Everyone's on the same path, fighting the same bosses, but it's the little differences and the specific risk taking to make up for lost time that make each of the speedrunners unique.

Also imagine being so autistic and shut in that after spending 1000 hours playing a single game and getting bored of it, you play a randomized version of it for another 1000 hours.
 
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FarCentrist said:
I personally find randomizers uninteresting because of, ironically, the randomness. I prefer speedruns that have a set goal and the way to the goal is filled with challenges everyone knows and expects. Therefore, everyone is focused on the speed of the run. The shining example is the Super Metroid 4 way races from old AGDQ. Everyone's on the same path, fighting the same bosses, but it's the little differences and the specific risk taking to make up for lost time that make each of the speedrunners unique.
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Whatever floats your boat, but I like watching people having to adapt on the fly, having to deal with less than ideal situations (like a LOZ dungeon that managed to roll up "oops, all wizzrobes"), and new techniques and strategies that aren't possible or practical in a vanilla run.
FarCentrist said:
Also imagine being so autistic and shut in that after spending 1000 hours playing a single game and getting bored of it, you play a randomized version of it for another 1000 hours.
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I think you just perfectly described the MMORPG genre.
 
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FarCentrist said:
I personally find randomizers uninteresting because of, ironically, the randomness. I prefer speedruns that have a set goal and the way to the goal is filled with challenges everyone knows and expects. Therefore, everyone is focused on the speed of the run. The shining example is the Super Metroid 4 way races from old AGDQ. Everyone's on the same path, fighting the same bosses, but it's the little differences and the specific risk taking to make up for lost time that make each of the speedrunners unique.

Also imagine being so autistic and shut in that after spending 1000 hours playing a single game and getting bored of it, you play a randomized version of it for another 1000 hours.
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With the randomized versions, there's the matter of knowing the game better than usual, with entering areas that might usually be ignored or coming up with routes on the fly to optimize a unique run, as was just mentioned. Randomizers also tend to bring old glitches back into relevance when they become necessary for progress or even have them used in ways they weren't previously used. From a technical point of view, randomizers are good at reviving the analysis that dies out when speedruns stagnate.
 
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I didn't know in which thread to comment in, since there are at least two of them, but nevermind anyway.
So...fucking hell man, "Frost fatales" event is up and IT"S ALL FUCKING TRANNIES. Like I'm not even joking, 3/4 of "woman speedrunning community" are trannies and not even the passable type.
Fuck GDQ for promoting these disgusting abominations that all they did was getting addicted to porn and some videya. Fuck that shit...honestly just looking at some of these speedrunners makes me wanna puke broo... . . . . . . . . .
 
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mickjag said:
I didn't know in which thread to comment in, since there are at least two of them, but nevermind anyway.
So...fucking hell man, "Frost fatales" event is up and IT"S ALL FUCKING TRANNIES. Like I'm not even joking, 3/4 of "woman speedrunning community" are trannies and not even the passable type.
Fuck GDQ for promoting these disgusting abominations that all they did was getting addicted to porn and some videya. Fuck that shit...honestly just looking at some of these speedrunners makes me wanna puke broo... . . . . . . . . .
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Trying to promote women in your gaming space that is predominantly men? What better way to showcase them than with a bunch of men in wigs that wish they were women.
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If AGDQ actually wanted to promote women in speedrunning, they'd get some chads to speedrun. Promote Chads in speedrunning, and the women will come.

Witness the female thirst of Henry Caville doing something mundane like building a pc. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCs-N1Eh2Z5/

Instead we get trannies. Imagine you're a female gamer. Would you feel encouraged to join AGDQ knowing that there's a bunch of men wearing dresses waiting for you?
 
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FarCentrist said:
Instead we get trannies. Imagine you're a female gamer. Would you feel encouraged to join AGDQ knowing that there's a bunch of men wearing dresses waiting for you?
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I would be DIScouraged to engage with speedrunners, especially they lump my existence in with perverts' fetishes.
I'm staying away from speedrunning content on YT (I still watch Jobst though) because of all the dudes in the community mocking females with their womanface.
 
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Up until 2 months ago I was the MegaMan Legends Any% Easy PC record holder, but I just found out that I lost that record by a huge margin. (Pretty much halved my time.) I have dyspraxia so I already know that my hands can't keep up with the run that beat mine, so I can't challenge the person, but that record meant a lot to me since it was the only thing I've ever achieved in my 29 years of being alive. I'm really depressed and discouraged to learn that I was beaten so easily and by such a large margin, and that I've lost the only thing that had any meaning to me. It was honestly the only thing I could be proud of because I worked so hard and despite my hands not wanting to cooperate I got a decent time. How should I deal with this?
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