Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

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A Witty Name said:
No ordinary act of autism either, he was so autistic that he was able to identify a 1/20th of a second delay on a load screen and catch Mario moving downwards for 1/30th of a second in a failed attempt to do a one frame trick, all in real time as it happened live, in order to catch Chibi cheating.
If there was ever such a thing as super autism, that was it.
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IMO that specific instance wasn't that terrible - he wasn't watching the trick, he was watching Chibi's lack of any visible reaction towards nailing what's supposed to be an insanely difficult trick on the first try. There was no surprise, no shock.. nothing. He just smelt a rat when it happened and turned out to be right.

The digging through the video frame-by-frame to prove it was pretty :autism: though.
 
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Xerxes IX said:
This of course, is because he's mad that they're seem to have success at making money, while the ebegging troon routine is bringing him no favors.
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Say what you want about Cosmo, either that he was a dork with a stupid obsession or an enthusiast with strong motivation. His "Narcissa" personality has completely erased any redeeming qualities Cosmo might have once had.

Actually, no. Let's do a thought exercise. Pretend that all you know about Cosmo is his Narcissa persona. Is there a single, objectively good quality about him? And I mean objectively good, not things like "it's fun to laugh at him" or "he hasn't murdered anybody yet." Something even your elderly grandma would hear and think "that sounds like a nice person." Because I've got nothing.
 
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Cosmo is a gender-neutral username and giving it up after all that Nintendo World Championship fame was a truly exceptional move. But then again I am sure that you all have beaten that into the dust already.
 
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Wq has a video up on Billy Mitchel too, but he obviously rambles off on Krystal etc. on it. Shine on you very, very crazy diamond.

 
I'm glad this thread exists. Speedrunning community has so many lolcows. Kryssstal is one of them, and he has a bunch of orbiters who are lolcows as well. I first noticed Kryssstal in multiple stream chatrooms when I started watching speedrun streams in 2010, and A Link to the Past was one of the few streams I watched periodically but I never participated in the community. Kryssstal always gave me a wrong impression. Most of the people I watched actually grinded out their practice runs and got close enough to World Record times, but this person comes out of nowhere and sets a WR time and everyone is nuthugging the shit out of him. Nobody's ever really seen or spoken to this person. Rarely streams his "gameplay." Very odd.

I saw a thread on 8chan /cow/ one day (for some reason I can't find it or it got deleted), and someone had mentioned Metting (https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Metting) and there was a picture of Kryssstal there. It's not there anymore, but fear not, guys! I'm going to save the day and link this picture:

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If you guys dig really hard, you can find a treasure trove of chatlogs and archived 4chan's /srg/ threads discussing about what a fucking lunatic this Kryssstal character is. This person goes through tons of username changes so that you guys won't be able to find him easily. Kryssstal is prone to deleting all traces of himself off the internet, even his aliases.

I apologize if I don't have something good to contribute to this thread other than mentioning what a fucking psychotic Kryssstal is, and to post his photo here.

[Edit:] Kryssstal is known for logging chats from hundreds of IRC channels or Twitch channels using a botnet (I think one of the bot names was the_forkies (on Twitch)). Because guess why? To protect his faked Zelda run and his "legacy" by running a smear campaign against you.
 
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The European Speedrunner Assembly's 2018 winter marathon started a few hours ago. In brief terms, the ESA is basically Europe's equivalent to the US' Games Done Quick.

You can tune in here: https://www.twitch.tv/esamarathon

Full schedule here: https://esamarathon.com/schedule
(Schedule automatically adjusts to your local time zone.)

They've got a pretty okay selection of games for the five days that this marathon is scheduled to last. (ESA's winter marathon is their short one and their "main" marathon happens in the summer, essentially the opposite of how GDQ does their events.) I flipped through the schedule and I didn't see any names that called out to me as red flags so that's always a plus. ESA is one of the marathons that routinely seems to have their shit together, so I doubt we're going to see anything even remotely close to the drama and shitshow that has been the previous 2 GDQ events. ESAWinter2018 is benefiting Save the Children.

If you're fed up with the antics, "diversity hires", and virtue signalling of Games Done Quick, this is where you need to be.
 
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Super Collie said:
The European Speedrunner Assembly's 2018 winter marathon started a few hours ago. In brief terms, the ESA is basically Europe's equivalent to the US' Games Done Quick.

You can tune in here: https://www.twitch.tv/esamarathon

Full schedule here: https://esamarathon.com/schedule
(Schedule automatically adjusts to your local time zone.)

They've got a pretty okay selection of games for the five days that this marathon is scheduled to last. (ESA's winter marathon is their short one and their "main" marathon happens in the summer, essentially the opposite of how GDQ does their events.) I flipped through the schedule and I didn't see any names that called out to me as red flags so that's always a plus. ESA is one of the marathons that routinely seems to have their shit together, so I doubt we're going to see anything even remotely close to the drama and shitshow that has been the previous 2 GDQ events. ESAWinter2018 is benefiting Save the Children.

If you're fed up with the antics, "diversity hires", and virtue signalling of Games Done Quick, this is where you need to be.
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Within 2 hours of the event, they'd already had more real women on camera than AGDQ did for its entire duration.
 
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For those of you following the European Speedrunner Assembly, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (aka "that awful Zelda game on the CD-i") will be streamed in about three hours from now (10:15 pm Eastern time). As always you can check the schedule to see the time adjusted to your time zone.

Figured I'd give you guys a heads up since it's one of those classic "legendary bad" games. :lol:
 
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South Park: The Fractured But Whole is being run at ESA right now and the chat has been openly bashing Protomagicalgirl for nearly the entire duration of the run, namely when there were unattractive women or transgendered characters on screen, or any reference to "cis" (early in the game). I haven't watched any of the ESA stream today, just South Park, so I don't know if bashing PMG has been a recurring gag or if the chat is just playing off of the politically incorrect humor of the current game. They've also been making jokes at the expense of Games Done Quick in regards to South Park's content. Currently, a technical problem has accidentally killed the game audio and the chat started saying the game is "now GDQ-friendly" along with other similar remarks.

I really don't think the community is going to take too kindly to PMG intruding at this event, both because of who she is and what she represents in the community, but also because this is a European event.

Rumor has it according to ESA's stream chat that PMG is attempting to hook onto this event in the summer as a commentator/host and not as an actual runner. Considering that ESA has been anchored by natal women this whole event, this just marks another point in "women" chasing them out in the name of "inclusiveness".
 
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Super Collie said:
South Park: The Fractured But Whole is being run at ESA right now and the chat has been openly bashing Protomagicalgirl for nearly the entire duration of the run, namely when there were unattractive women or transgendered characters on screen, or any reference to "cis" (early in the game). I haven't watched any of the ESA stream today, just South Park, so I don't know if bashing PMG has been a recurring gag or if the chat is just playing off of the politically incorrect humor of the current game. They've also been making jokes at the expense of Games Done Quick in regards to South Park's content. Currently, a technical problem has accidentally killed the game audio and the chat started saying the game is "now GDQ-friendly" along with other similar remarks.

I really don't think the community is going to take too kindly to PMG intruding at this event, both because of who she is and what she represents in the community, but also because this is a European event.

Rumor has it according to ESA's stream chat that PMG is attempting to hook onto this event in the summer as a commentator/host and not as an actual runner. Considering that ESA has been anchored by natal women this whole event, this just marks another point in "women" chasing them out in the name of "inclusiveness".
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is there any more info about this?
 
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carltondanks said:
is there any more info about this?
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Not that I am aware of, it was mostly just hearsay and shitposting in the ESA Twitch chat. People were being auto-moderated for saying profanities and slurs that trigger the automatic chat filter, but by and large mods were not manually banning people for making jokes at the expense of Protomagicalgirl/Games Done Quick during the South Park run. Most of the messages I was seeing were in regards to how the nature of the game's content was reflective of the current state of GDQ. An example is how the runner was mashing through menus really fast when "building" his character, so he ended up making a "cisgender straight male". Chat started blowing up with "triggered" emotes and saying "BANNED FROM GDQ" and whatnot.

Since chat was already on the subject of GDQ some people also started talking about specific people within GDQ, namely Protomagicalgirl, and the fact that she is making plans to either attend or potentially even participate at ESA's summer marathon this year. Naturally, virtually no one was pleased with this. People were openly talking about how toxic of a person she is.

I didn't take any screenshots because chat was moving pretty fast and it was all just casual shitposting anyways. It didn't seem like the type of content that needed preservation or anything.
 
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