Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

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FarCentrist said:
The troons and autism would be too much for me to handle to attend physically.

Judging from the agdq marathons over the years, there's lot less excitement and unpredictability and spontaneity and a lot of this can be blamed on the event being corporatized and the meddling of the troons making event goers stick to the script instead talking whatever. It's how we got the gem that was chibi/aquana.

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And somehow Trihax or whatever his name was (its been awhile) was able to not freak out. Oh what a time to be alive.
 
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Dumpster dived waifu said:
Big community guy, tons of world first clears, was well enough known that accusations that he was cheating were merely "looked" into and nobody actually scrutinized him because of how popular and skilled he was.
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I really don't get these people who are able to get famous in such a niche as this yet never actually get proficient at the subject matter.
 
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I really don't get these people who are able to get famous in such a niche as this yet never actually get proficient at the subject matter.
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It also tends to be that many high profile cheaters don't do it out of a lack of skill, rather that they're already good at the task and feel as though they "deserve" a bit of an extra boost when they can't quite make the goal.
 
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Though I have never done any speed-running myself, nor have I ever watched any streams I am really fascinated by speed-running channels like Summoning Salt that show the high points without having to sit through hours of resets. However, one thing has stuck out to me... every single time I hear a runner reffered to as 'she' I look it up and in 100% of cases they are always a troon. That got me to thinking how in watching lots of speed-running content covering many diverse games I have never seen an actual woman discussed in world record level play. So, I am just curious... are there any top level runners who are actually female? I think it'd make a good video topic for someone to actually cover... and I can't be the only one to think of it, but my suspicion is doing so what get the creator flak for being 'transphobic'.
 
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Professor G. Raff said:
Though I have never done any speed-running myself, nor have I ever watched any streams I am really fascinated by speed-running channels like Summoning Salt that show the high points without having to sit through hours of resets. However, one thing has stuck out to me... every single time I hear a runner reffered to as 'she' I look it up and in 100% of cases they are always a troon. That got me to thinking how in watching lots of speed-running content covering many diverse games I have never seen an actual woman discussed in world record level play. So, I am just curious... are there any top level runners who are actually female? I think it'd make a good video topic for someone to actually cover... and I can't be the only one to think of it, but my suspicion is doing so what get the creator flak for being 'transphobic'.
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I think the problem is that a lot of biological females don't need to get good at the games to get a consistent stream of viewers and cash flow for obvious simp-related reasons. In order to make a video about biological females being good at speedrunning you'd also have to turn around and make a video about transgendered speedrunners, and you'd probably still end up getting enough flak from the trans community to make you kill yourself. Speedrunners seem to like to make people speedrun life (RIP Apollo Legend)

It's been nearly 10 years since I've been a stream monster and FlyingFox is the only female I remember that was dominant. She's fairly good at a few sonic games and has ran at a few marathons: https://www.speedrun.com/user/flyingfox

One other I'd mention became a v-tuber and it makes me uncomfortable to watch now. Beuchiism isn't particularly good at any game, but does a "sprashfecta" each year (all original Spyro/Crash trilogy games 100% or equivalent) and she seems to consistently finish and do OK on them. https://www.speedrun.com/user/Beuchiism

The only other person I can remember who seemed good at games was EssentiaFour, but I think she got GDQ spots because she is a female https://www.speedrun.com/user/EssentiaFour

I'm sure I'm missing someone... anybody else know?
 
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Professor G. Raff said:
However, one thing has stuck out to me... every single time I hear a runner reffered to as 'she' I look it up and in 100% of cases they are always a troon.
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That's exactly what I've noticed too. It becomes really distracting because you know they're actually guys with a womanhood fetish. If the commentators just used 'they', it might slip under the radar a bit.

I remember one time when SummoningSalt was talking about the Mario Kart Wii ultra shortcuts being done and addressed the runner as "she" but the name sounded familiar so I went back a few videos and the runner was addressed as a guy.

"Yep, I knew it." I said to myself.

It's like with the video about the dude who beat Ocarina of Time in the SSBB demo. I saw that he had long hair and knew he must be trans or something and I looked at his overlay and saw "They/them". Ever since then, if I saw pronouns on a video, I'd leave right away.
 
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Kuchipatchi said:
That's exactly what I've noticed too. It becomes really distracting because you know they're actually guys with a womanhood fetish. If the commentators just used 'they', it might slip under the radar a bit.

I remember one time when SummoningSalt was talking about the Mario Kart Wii ultra shortcuts being done and addressed the runner as "she" but the name sounded familiar so I went back a few videos and the runner was addressed as a guy.

"Yep, I knew it." I said to myself.

It's like with the video about the dude who beat Ocarina of Time in the SSBB demo. I saw that he had long hair and knew he must be trans or something and I looked at his overlay and saw "They/them". Ever since then, if I saw pronouns on a video, I'd leave right away.
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Bro, those are literally the two videos I had in mind, haha. Watching the SSBB demo one is what is what motivated me to write the post in the first place. The Mario Kart Wii one was the first time I looked up a runner referred to as she to find it was a tranny.

glad to know my experience is not unique in that regard.
 
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Professor G. Raff said:
Bro, those are literally the two videos I had in mind, haha. Watching the SSBB demo one is what is what motivated me to write the post in the first place. The Mario Kart Wii one was the first time I looked up a runner referred to as she to find it was a tranny.

glad to know my experience is not unique in that regard.
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I had this video on in the background while working, the dude says "She" so I did a little background check and low and behold...
Yeah, a tranny. ALWAYS a tranny.

Edit: I find it funny when these speedrun videos have inspirational music playing over montages, trying to make it look triumphant but all they're doing is playing a kid's game.
 
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5318008 said:
I think the problem is that a lot of biological females don't need to get good at the games to get a consistent stream of viewers and cash flow for obvious simp-related reasons.
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To use manosphere parlance, biological females don't need to be good at anything. They just need to be.

Women have inherent value.
Men only have value they create or work for.
Troons have negative value.
 
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Probably a weird question but how mainstream is speedrunning right now?

Channels like Karl Jobst, EZscape and Summoning Salt have made it easy to learn about a game's record process and GDQ and such make a big deal out of speedrunning but other than that, what else is there?

Games are too competitive or technical for the average player to engage in or takes too much time to learn essential techniques. Speedrun livestreams are boring as hell but you MIGHT witness a new record happen.

What kind of prestige do you get for holding a world record for even a couple days? "I have the world record in Super Mario Bros, care to come in bed with me?"

It still seems like a niche thing to me but I wonder what you guys think.
 
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Kuchipatchi said:
Probably a weird question but how mainstream is speedrunning right now?
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Go ask anyone in your family or friends who is at most a casual gamer if they know anything about it. I suspect some will be familiar with the concept but even they probably wouldn’t be able to name any notable speedrunners or events in the space. It’s all pretty niche.
 
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