I don't get it either but it's legitimately fricking poison. I have a friend that spends real money on v-tuber merch, CDs etc and will forgo spending time with people irl to watch his v-tuber stream.
The one of mischief makers blew my mind because I had no idea about the glitches and just seeing how you fast you could get through the game was pretty cool I guess.
I think they're entertaining enough, they add more of an athleticism to gaming, if that makes sense, and their community is there if you're into it. I watch summoning salt videos on the regular, and if there's one channel to get you into the culture of it, it's that one.
I like his videos, but they can be a bit tiring to sit through because they all have the same structure and music. My favorite parts are when he describes the glitches and how they were discovered. Talking about each person who improved the time by 1 second isn't that interesting
>Talking about each person who improved the time by 1 second isn't that interesting
That's the human element you autist, people care about other people it's why his videos are so popular
It's not like you get any sort of connection to the people who have the records. Lots of times the people are just listed by their username and maybe a profile picture or an epik reaction from their stream. It makes sense to spend time talking about people who dominate the game for long stretches of time, but listing every improvement is tedious.
I might be autistic in that sense because when I listen to true crime podcasts I wish they would stop talking about the victim and their family and spend all the time discussing the facts of the case and the methodical collection of evidence
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>I wish they would stop talking about the victim and their family
That's to make you care about the victims, once the viewer starts caring about them they'll watch the whole episode because they are invested in seeing justice done for someone they care about albeit the care being temporary. Simple shit here mister no empathy
3 years ago
Anonymous
Just sounds like he's not a woman.
3 years ago
Anonymous
Women are inherently more empathetic it's also why they're so fricking evil they understand emotions better but it also makes them more emotional instead of logical because their understanding of life is based on emotion
3 years ago
Anonymous
Based. Joe Kenda's show was the best on ID for that exact reason. Just the fricking facts, and none of their neighbor's cousin's dog's input on how they feel + using actors to make the killer look as horrible as possible and the victim as a beautiful individual who didnt do nuffin to frame a narrative. They might as well play an ominously sharp violin when the killer shows up to let the audience know they should be upset.
Oh wait they fricking do.
Kenda's show was the only thing worth watching on all of ID because it was just him telling a fricking story from his own perspective as the detective.
Speedruns are great, as they present a way for games to be competitive, when arcade game scores lost all meaning.
Instead of PVP as a means of competition, speed running can be done with single player games, and is just a new way to enjoy games. It's great because it goes across games, but there's better ways to try games, like Nuzlocke challenges, or Mods
Not really, I think it's good background for something else though like if you do live funny haha commentary.
I think TAS videos are far more interesting, showing just how far each games individual engines can go when strained. + They're weirdly relaxing to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZMvMtZCWU
I used to speedrun for fun because I didn't have a lot of games but I liked playing the ones I had over and over to see how fast I could beat them. The people that take it so serious where they quit and start breaking shit because they lost a quarter of a second because the care about records; that's really moronic.
Depends on the game. When it's something like this then yeah it's awesome, when it's just lots of wall glitches or skipping past levels/areas then it's kind of shit.
Not to mention the freaks who speedrun turnbased games like pokemon
Turnbased RPGs can be fun to watch for the routing and seeing how precise the boss fights are with your lower levels. Pokemon however tends to be a bit of a train wreck as every goddamn thing is RNG based to the point where getting your damn starter is a crap shoot until later gens, and even those are just abusing RNG manipulations to get perfect IVs/ nature/ abilites.
Personally I think someone should make a speedrun mod for these games to remove the rng aspect and make the games purely about the routing and strategy like you said.
That would be a godsend for both the runners and the people watching, doubly so at an event like GDQ, where its basically required to have like four different carts of the damn game to account for RNG failures.
i understand where you're coming from as some games have oobs that are so easy to pull off and little to no checkpoint system meaning you can skip everything (Doom 2016 and Eternal) but even those can be skillful for what they are, especially at the highest levels. You have to be mindful of the goal: beat the game as fast as possible through any means. It isn't a test or competition of skill in the games intended mechanics.
It's a shame that Apollo killed himself and rwhitegoose stopped making speedrunning drama videos. I liked their content more than the stuff Karl Jobber puts out.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: speedrunning is something that gets significantly less impressive the more you know about it. The first time you see someone blaze through your favorite game using methods you've never even dreamed of it's like watching a god. Then you start looking into it and you realize the absurd amount of hours it takes do something even remotely record-worthy, and the fact that these people dedicate nearly all of their lives to this meaningless cause, and the insane drama surrounding it, giving themselves carpal tunnel and complaining about cutscenes that have frame-perfect pixel skips or whatever, and all of that intrigue washes away and is replaced by a sort of wretched pity.
So agree with this. The sheer amount of cheating and drama that comes from trying be just 0.1 sec faster gets sad.
I got turned off once I saw glitches being abused. Out of bounds, weird set of actions done to skip 95% of the game, flat out cheating. Not really interesting when you arent showcasing actual mastery of the game.
>The sheer amount of cheating and drama that comes from trying be just 0.1 sec faster gets sad.
there isn't a lot of cheating or drama it's just people only care about that the cheating or drama. Which gets more clicks OMG CHEATER EXPOSED or Hey guys check out my PB I am not rank 69 on the board. Face it despite cheating being such an microscopic percent of speedrunning it dominates the content. If you think cheating or drama is happening at such a large amount then you aren't actually seeing speedruns
Lampshading, like you are doing, of the cheating and drama is pretty common. Speedrunners spend just as much time trying to cover their ass cause that record means everything to them.
"I like that jump"
>"I like that jump"
was by a social moron who wasn't a major member of the scene in which he was cheating in. For fricks sake all you remember are the fricking memes and not the boring meat and potatoes of daily speedrunning communities. The drama and cheating aren't common only the attention. Look I hate to use this example because frick politics but how many people do you think cops killed in America last year? I bet you guessed a really big number based on how much attention is put on it. In 2020 only 1021 people were killed in a nation of 330 million It's the same with speedrunning the drama isn't common but the publicity is extreme
I like the video of the guy who got a record for goldeneye and was saying speed running is stupid and that all speed runners are pathetic (himself included)
I agree with this post but no hit runs are particularly interesting to me. Breaking the game to shave a millisecond off the time is stupid but I quite enjoy seeing someone play a difficult game and not get hit. Watching hollow knight no hit runs are great, especially the path of pain sections. Those don't really take an insane amount of autistic dedication like some games do. A lot of people are just really fricking good and master the games mechanics and are able to memorize all the enemy's moves. I find that really cool. But the speed running community is like the smash community in that its filled with trannies, losers, and other mentally ill folks with too much time on their hands.
There are cool Speedrun and then there is just the pure autism runs like that one dude who spent like 5 years running the same golden eye level only to shave off a second
I don't juggle, I'd love to learn. But I mean people good at juggling are absurdly impressive compared to fricking "bro i exploited this Nintendo 64 game now i have the fastest time in a fake genre"
They should at least spend the time speedrunning doing it in a game that'll reward them for it, like fighting games or STGs
>fighting games >rewarding speed
going for raw speed is not rewarded at all and is not fun as it boils down to finding one exploit that the AI wont handle and using that exclusively
it doesn't foster actual skill since repeating the same strategies leaves you in a horrible state to fight an actual human, and strategies that work on humans with reaction time dont work on AI that react to everything on the first frame and just flip a coin on whether or not to act on it
I don't know about being impressed, but I do find them fascinating. Especially for a game I know quite well. The glitchless ones are nice to see, to see how they optimize them, but I love the videos with the glitches. As another anon had posted, Summoning Salt has a number of good videos about it. Enjoy his content, even if it's repetitive. To show the glitch, to explain it in detail and how it was discovered is interesting.
Depends on the game, namely the ratio of skill involved versus routing. This isn't genre-specific, Quake runs need no explanation why they're good while Goldeneye is a fricking joke, 99% of it is knowing when to stare at the floor to avoid framerate loss and where to look to so autoaim does what you want it to.
I can't watch speedruns anymore after what happened to poor Cosmo. A lot of people like to joke and meme about it but it just made me sad. Seemed like a nice guy before he went nuts
I was there for when Cosmo had his college graduation stream. I forget what he was studying but he was an incredibly chill dude, he had a bright future ahead of himself, and was one of the pioneers of speedrunning so he could have done a lot more with that. But then he got sucked into troondom and that shit is legitimately a cult, it fricks with you on so many levels.
Yes. ESPECIALLY ones where glitches and major skips play a part. Not just because it makes random homosexuals on Ganker mad (though seeing the morons in this thread, I am reminded that it helps), but because discovering and learning to properly use those glitches requires a dedication beyond what it takes just to learn the "intended" mechanics really well.
Remember that one GDQ run of left 4 dead?
The one where they played on easy.
And played like complete dogshit, constantly getting slowed down by fodder.
Where the only 'speedy' part of the speedrun was playing an unpatched version for skip exploits.
And they exploited jesus spots during holdouts. On fricking EASY.
Good times.
Depends on the game, sometimes it's interesting to see what speedrunners do differently in your favorite vidya or it could be entertaining for how ridiculous they can be. Other times they can be very mundane, and as points out, easy mode runs where the difficulty is specifically chosen for the sake of going faster at all is lame as shit, especially if it just turns into a faceroll. NG+ runs can be way worse, though.
Yeah, of course. Imagine watching stuff like that webm or the Sonic Adventure 2 speedrun last GDQ done by a human being and not TAS and not being impressed.
Yes, it's interesting to find players exploiting unknown glitches to pull them ahead of the game, fun to watch. But I'm not the speedrunning person myself though.
Spending 3 years or more to just finish game faster than me as kid is honestly hard to be impressed. You could do so much better at something meaningful in life with this time.
I really don't see the point of them at all. It seems like you're taking something designed for fun and just ruining it by speeding though it and ignoring the majority of the content, and for what exactly? No matter what you do in a videogame it's not an impressive life achievement.
if you're speed running a video game, especially one made for kids, then you have to seriously reevaluate your life.
I mean that wholeheartedly. Did you ever as a kid visualize your future self being a shut-in, hiding from the challenges and rewards of the real world? It is ok to say yes to this question.
>if you're speed running a video game, especially one made for kids
All video games are made for children, so I don't know why you had to repeat yourself there.
This, all self respecting adults only ever go to work, get married and sleep after working on their car and drinking whiskey. Anything else is for degenerate effeminate "men", now hail odin as I post on pol for 120 hours a day like a REAL man
I mean sure but in the end it's just a lot of work for little reward. Sure I enjoy challenging video games and it feels good to beat them but speedrunning takes hours of monotonously practicing the same thing over and over. I just hope the payoff is worth ut to them
They do. They're kinda like technical showcases of the games featured. The gameplay is usually impressive too. My favourite speedruns are the ones which have both mechanics abuse and skilled movement, like HL2 ones.
I like speedrunning videos but will never speedrun
Speedrunning is more of a "teen hobby" than anything else , that intrigues you when you're adolescent , but you will move on to other things once you're mature
If you're over the age of 25 and still doing speedruns you're treating it as a "lifestyle" instead of a hobby, and that's extremely dangerous mentally
Do you ever realize that most speedrunners now look like they're 3 inches away from taking the gun out of their pocket and ending it all?
Speedruns are only impressive if they stay within the bounds of what the game developer intended rather than being about who can luck into the cheesiest way to avoid playing the game.
They once did, especially when the runners weren't fricking autismos and actually provided interesting and entertaining commentary. Now it's just a bunch of over-reacting trannies who use it as a soap box for whatever trannie problems they forced upon themselves.
Not in the slightest bit. Unless it's supposed to be a speed run type gameplay. Like timed missions or something. But just blasting through platformer games like Mario is pure autistic weird shit.
I used to think its impressive but now I realize its pathetic. They should use their precious time better and the ones making a living from it should figure out they will have no marketable skills in a decade.
Do hobbies really need any other justification than personal satisfaction? I don't really see how spending lot of time on speedrunning is any different from spending lot of time on chess for example, which as a skill is very specialized as well.
It used to. I even partook in such activities. Popularizing it was a grave mistake.
Sure.
Is that supposed to be impressive?
What's so special about women playing games?
My wife is so talented!
That is a pathetic "speed run". I could do better than this shit when I was like 9 years old when mario 64 came out.
Yay, she did it 😀
>she
ywnbaw
How can people watch v-tubers? The avatar or whatever they call it looks like its having a stroke 90% of the time.
I don't get it either but it's legitimately fricking poison. I have a friend that spends real money on v-tuber merch, CDs etc and will forgo spending time with people irl to watch his v-tuber stream.
That fricking sucks, I get watching moe anime or SoL and stuff like that, but that is legitimate cancer.
Yeah, you're probably right.
its mostly socially stunted underages
If it's a game I like then sure. I just don't like very many games
The one of mischief makers blew my mind because I had no idea about the glitches and just seeing how you fast you could get through the game was pretty cool I guess.
I think they're entertaining enough, they add more of an athleticism to gaming, if that makes sense, and their community is there if you're into it. I watch summoning salt videos on the regular, and if there's one channel to get you into the culture of it, it's that one.
I like his videos, but they can be a bit tiring to sit through because they all have the same structure and music. My favorite parts are when he describes the glitches and how they were discovered. Talking about each person who improved the time by 1 second isn't that interesting
>Talking about each person who improved the time by 1 second isn't that interesting
That's the human element you autist, people care about other people it's why his videos are so popular
It's not like you get any sort of connection to the people who have the records. Lots of times the people are just listed by their username and maybe a profile picture or an epik reaction from their stream. It makes sense to spend time talking about people who dominate the game for long stretches of time, but listing every improvement is tedious.
>but listing every improvement is tedious.
It builds upon the scale and shows just how dominant those dominant players were
Fair enough. I just find it kindof boring after watching all of his videos.
I might be autistic in that sense because when I listen to true crime podcasts I wish they would stop talking about the victim and their family and spend all the time discussing the facts of the case and the methodical collection of evidence
>I wish they would stop talking about the victim and their family
That's to make you care about the victims, once the viewer starts caring about them they'll watch the whole episode because they are invested in seeing justice done for someone they care about albeit the care being temporary. Simple shit here mister no empathy
Just sounds like he's not a woman.
Women are inherently more empathetic it's also why they're so fricking evil they understand emotions better but it also makes them more emotional instead of logical because their understanding of life is based on emotion
Based. Joe Kenda's show was the best on ID for that exact reason. Just the fricking facts, and none of their neighbor's cousin's dog's input on how they feel + using actors to make the killer look as horrible as possible and the victim as a beautiful individual who didnt do nuffin to frame a narrative. They might as well play an ominously sharp violin when the killer shows up to let the audience know they should be upset.
Oh wait they fricking do.
Kenda's show was the only thing worth watching on all of ID because it was just him telling a fricking story from his own perspective as the detective.
>It's not like you get any sort of connection to the people who have the records
That's where you're wrong mr autist. Learn empathy
Always my go-to channel when I’m hungover in bed. Those videos are comfy as frick
Speedruns are great, as they present a way for games to be competitive, when arcade game scores lost all meaning.
Instead of PVP as a means of competition, speed running can be done with single player games, and is just a new way to enjoy games. It's great because it goes across games, but there's better ways to try games, like Nuzlocke challenges, or Mods
The end result yeah, the autistic obsession and depravity that often comes from it, no.
Not really, I think it's good background for something else though like if you do live funny haha commentary.
I think TAS videos are far more interesting, showing just how far each games individual engines can go when strained. + They're weirdly relaxing to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZMvMtZCWU
I used to speedrun for fun because I didn't have a lot of games but I liked playing the ones I had over and over to see how fast I could beat them. The people that take it so serious where they quit and start breaking shit because they lost a quarter of a second because the care about records; that's really moronic.
Depends on the game really. It can be both entertaining and teach you a thing or two about a game you may not have known.
I think the amount of time runners invest in practicing is pretty unhealthy, but the end results are definitely impressive.
i thss paracusias SSL all stars speedrun?
Depends on the game. When it's something like this then yeah it's awesome, when it's just lots of wall glitches or skipping past levels/areas then it's kind of shit.
Not to mention the freaks who speedrun turnbased games like pokemon
Turnbased RPGs can be fun to watch for the routing and seeing how precise the boss fights are with your lower levels. Pokemon however tends to be a bit of a train wreck as every goddamn thing is RNG based to the point where getting your damn starter is a crap shoot until later gens, and even those are just abusing RNG manipulations to get perfect IVs/ nature/ abilites.
Personally I think someone should make a speedrun mod for these games to remove the rng aspect and make the games purely about the routing and strategy like you said.
That would be a godsend for both the runners and the people watching, doubly so at an event like GDQ, where its basically required to have like four different carts of the damn game to account for RNG failures.
i understand where you're coming from as some games have oobs that are so easy to pull off and little to no checkpoint system meaning you can skip everything (Doom 2016 and Eternal) but even those can be skillful for what they are, especially at the highest levels. You have to be mindful of the goal: beat the game as fast as possible through any means. It isn't a test or competition of skill in the games intended mechanics.
no but whoever created these images impresses me though, also post more of these!!!!!!!!
the frickwad that starts all his videos with "you absolute legends" irritates me to no end
It's a shame that Apollo killed himself and rwhitegoose stopped making speedrunning drama videos. I liked their content more than the stuff Karl Jobber puts out.
goose only stopped because he was a fricking moron
What made him stop? The Discord leak incident?
Trannies replaying games for 23 hours per day is not impressive in a good way.
No. But I enjoy learning about the glitches and why they are possible.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: speedrunning is something that gets significantly less impressive the more you know about it. The first time you see someone blaze through your favorite game using methods you've never even dreamed of it's like watching a god. Then you start looking into it and you realize the absurd amount of hours it takes do something even remotely record-worthy, and the fact that these people dedicate nearly all of their lives to this meaningless cause, and the insane drama surrounding it, giving themselves carpal tunnel and complaining about cutscenes that have frame-perfect pixel skips or whatever, and all of that intrigue washes away and is replaced by a sort of wretched pity.
So agree with this. The sheer amount of cheating and drama that comes from trying be just 0.1 sec faster gets sad.
I got turned off once I saw glitches being abused. Out of bounds, weird set of actions done to skip 95% of the game, flat out cheating. Not really interesting when you arent showcasing actual mastery of the game.
>The sheer amount of cheating and drama that comes from trying be just 0.1 sec faster gets sad.
there isn't a lot of cheating or drama it's just people only care about that the cheating or drama. Which gets more clicks OMG CHEATER EXPOSED or Hey guys check out my PB I am not rank 69 on the board. Face it despite cheating being such an microscopic percent of speedrunning it dominates the content. If you think cheating or drama is happening at such a large amount then you aren't actually seeing speedruns
Lampshading, like you are doing, of the cheating and drama is pretty common. Speedrunners spend just as much time trying to cover their ass cause that record means everything to them.
"I like that jump"
>"I like that jump"
was by a social moron who wasn't a major member of the scene in which he was cheating in. For fricks sake all you remember are the fricking memes and not the boring meat and potatoes of daily speedrunning communities. The drama and cheating aren't common only the attention. Look I hate to use this example because frick politics but how many people do you think cops killed in America last year? I bet you guessed a really big number based on how much attention is put on it. In 2020 only 1021 people were killed in a nation of 330 million It's the same with speedrunning the drama isn't common but the publicity is extreme
I like the video of the guy who got a record for goldeneye and was saying speed running is stupid and that all speed runners are pathetic (himself included)
I agree with this post but no hit runs are particularly interesting to me. Breaking the game to shave a millisecond off the time is stupid but I quite enjoy seeing someone play a difficult game and not get hit. Watching hollow knight no hit runs are great, especially the path of pain sections. Those don't really take an insane amount of autistic dedication like some games do. A lot of people are just really fricking good and master the games mechanics and are able to memorize all the enemy's moves. I find that really cool. But the speed running community is like the smash community in that its filled with trannies, losers, and other mentally ill folks with too much time on their hands.
based
There are cool Speedrun and then there is just the pure autism runs like that one dude who spent like 5 years running the same golden eye level only to shave off a second
This
Its impressive but I find it incredibly boring to watch.
It's as impressive as juggling.
Don't insult based jugglers by comparing them to these frickheads
>t. seething juggler
I don't juggle, I'd love to learn. But I mean people good at juggling are absurdly impressive compared to fricking "bro i exploited this Nintendo 64 game now i have the fastest time in a fake genre"
They should at least spend the time speedrunning doing it in a game that'll reward them for it, like fighting games or STGs
How is it different? It's just a niche skill that people find somewhat impressive, but not much more than that.
>fighting games
>rewarding speed
going for raw speed is not rewarded at all and is not fun as it boils down to finding one exploit that the AI wont handle and using that exclusively
it doesn't foster actual skill since repeating the same strategies leaves you in a horrible state to fight an actual human, and strategies that work on humans with reaction time dont work on AI that react to everything on the first frame and just flip a coin on whether or not to act on it
>AI
>fighting games
Yep, Ganker as moronic as ever
a computer playing a game is AI
>Ganker literally doesn't know what a fighting game is
Mashing buttons against an AI is not a fighting game
Fricking Kek
The carpetless Xiah7s run on rainbow ride was TAS tier legit.
i speedrun my ejaculation when i jerk off
I don't know about being impressed, but I do find them fascinating. Especially for a game I know quite well. The glitchless ones are nice to see, to see how they optimize them, but I love the videos with the glitches. As another anon had posted, Summoning Salt has a number of good videos about it. Enjoy his content, even if it's repetitive. To show the glitch, to explain it in detail and how it was discovered is interesting.
Lol
Bitches don't know 'bout my half-A press
How did this literal autist make the most informative, entertaining, and downright charming video about game physics on youtube?
>After all, I do build up speed for 12 hours
>But to answer that, we need to talk about parallel universes
Every fricking time, Kek
Depends on the game, namely the ratio of skill involved versus routing. This isn't genre-specific, Quake runs need no explanation why they're good while Goldeneye is a fricking joke, 99% of it is knowing when to stare at the floor to avoid framerate loss and where to look to so autoaim does what you want it to.
only if they take skill and arent just out of bounds skips everywhere.
sometimes out of bounds skips can be skillful, even if they're not as visually impressive
Cheating by abusing glitches isn't impressive but it can be amusing.
no cause anyone can be come good at it if they spent the time to
The glitchless, non TAS stuff that doesn't require 7000 resets until you get perfect RNG? Yeah, sure.
The autistic troony shit that doesn't even vaguely resemble playing the game? No, not at all.
So you don't like speedrunning.
I can't watch speedruns anymore after what happened to poor Cosmo. A lot of people like to joke and meme about it but it just made me sad. Seemed like a nice guy before he went nuts
I was there for when Cosmo had his college graduation stream. I forget what he was studying but he was an incredibly chill dude, he had a bright future ahead of himself, and was one of the pioneers of speedrunning so he could have done a lot more with that. But then he got sucked into troondom and that shit is legitimately a cult, it fricks with you on so many levels.
Speedruns impress me. Speedrunners don't.
TAS's/superplays have always been more entertaining to me, especially the ones thay just frick around. bonus points to games that are just busted
never really played these is there a reason he's turning into other characters?
Shang Tsung can transform into other characters. As to why he does it in this since it's TAS it's just for fun.
Yes. ESPECIALLY ones where glitches and major skips play a part. Not just because it makes random homosexuals on Ganker mad (though seeing the morons in this thread, I am reminded that it helps), but because discovering and learning to properly use those glitches requires a dedication beyond what it takes just to learn the "intended" mechanics really well.
Typical excuses for cheaters. Just not good enough to play it properly.
> glitch is harder than regular gameplay
what now moron
Remember that one GDQ run of left 4 dead?
The one where they played on easy.
And played like complete dogshit, constantly getting slowed down by fodder.
Where the only 'speedy' part of the speedrun was playing an unpatched version for skip exploits.
And they exploited jesus spots during holdouts. On fricking EASY.
Good times.
>Remember that one GDQ run of left 4 dead?
No? All I remember was the awesome L4D2 one with awesome grenade boosts
Depends on the game, sometimes it's interesting to see what speedrunners do differently in your favorite vidya or it could be entertaining for how ridiculous they can be. Other times they can be very mundane, and as points out, easy mode runs where the difficulty is specifically chosen for the sake of going faster at all is lame as shit, especially if it just turns into a faceroll. NG+ runs can be way worse, though.
Was Apollo's death actually confirmed?
>Was Apollo's death actually confirmed?
Yeah, police entered his home and found him dead via suicide.
>people not liking glitches in speedruns
Lmao
Without glitches speedruns are boring
Yeah, of course. Imagine watching stuff like that webm or the Sonic Adventure 2 speedrun last GDQ done by a human being and not TAS and not being impressed.
Yes, it's interesting to find players exploiting unknown glitches to pull them ahead of the game, fun to watch. But I'm not the speedrunning person myself though.
Spending 3 years or more to just finish game faster than me as kid is honestly hard to be impressed. You could do so much better at something meaningful in life with this time.
Dropping thousands or even tens of thousands of hours into a single game like Ocarina of Time or Super Mario 64 is impressive but not in a good way
I really don't see the point of them at all. It seems like you're taking something designed for fun and just ruining it by speeding though it and ignoring the majority of the content, and for what exactly? No matter what you do in a videogame it's not an impressive life achievement.
if you're speed running a video game, especially one made for kids, then you have to seriously reevaluate your life.
I mean that wholeheartedly. Did you ever as a kid visualize your future self being a shut-in, hiding from the challenges and rewards of the real world? It is ok to say yes to this question.
it's a hobby. calm down.
Did you answer yes to the question? It is ok to say yes
yes
have fun b***hbreasts, doesn't matter the game as long as it hurts no one other than your shit opinions of course
>if you're speed running a video game, especially one made for kids
All video games are made for children, so I don't know why you had to repeat yourself there.
>this meme again
It's getting stale and was never true in the first place
What meme? I'm being serious. What self respecting adult even touches video games?
This, all self respecting adults only ever go to work, get married and sleep after working on their car and drinking whiskey. Anything else is for degenerate effeminate "men", now hail odin as I post on pol for 120 hours a day like a REAL man
I'm no /misc/tard, I'm just simply stating the truth. If you play video games past the age of 12, there is something seriously wrong with you.
Here's your last (You), this bait is terrible
>everything I don't like is bait!
Nothing impresses me
t.
you're a few years behind on /misc/ memes. That guy is a complete deepstate puppet. He just didn't like Obama
the most degenerate act man has ever come up with
Sometimes
I mean sure but in the end it's just a lot of work for little reward. Sure I enjoy challenging video games and it feels good to beat them but speedrunning takes hours of monotonously practicing the same thing over and over. I just hope the payoff is worth ut to them
>impress
why the frick would I be impressed?
They can be mechanically interesting though.
They do. They're kinda like technical showcases of the games featured. The gameplay is usually impressive too. My favourite speedruns are the ones which have both mechanics abuse and skilled movement, like HL2 ones.
Not anymore, it turns out 90% of speedruns were made using cheats and shit.
I've never seen a 1:13 and never fricking will
Not really but I enjoy engine jank and basically everything by https://youtube.com/channel/UC4nJnJ-HO5vVbGlJ14rf5yg
only if they don't skip half the fricking game with glitches
Some but not all.
>Thought they were trying to align themselves to get the star in the box
>It was the red coins
Holy shit
I like speedrunning videos but will never speedrun
Speedrunning is more of a "teen hobby" than anything else , that intrigues you when you're adolescent , but you will move on to other things once you're mature
If you're over the age of 25 and still doing speedruns you're treating it as a "lifestyle" instead of a hobby, and that's extremely dangerous mentally
Do you ever realize that most speedrunners now look like they're 3 inches away from taking the gun out of their pocket and ending it all?
Speedruns are only impressive if they stay within the bounds of what the game developer intended rather than being about who can luck into the cheesiest way to avoid playing the game.
No, and the TAS ones are just annoying to watch.
They once did, especially when the runners weren't fricking autismos and actually provided interesting and entertaining commentary. Now it's just a bunch of over-reacting trannies who use it as a soap box for whatever trannie problems they forced upon themselves.
>Umm.. could you stop?
I don't think even the trannies could condense cringe into such a concentrated form.
actual speedruns, yes. muh exploit shit, no.
Not in the slightest bit. Unless it's supposed to be a speed run type gameplay. Like timed missions or something. But just blasting through platformer games like Mario is pure autistic weird shit.
I used to think its impressive but now I realize its pathetic. They should use their precious time better and the ones making a living from it should figure out they will have no marketable skills in a decade.
ZFG will still be making money speedrunning OOT in a decade
his hands will fall apart in another few years and his audience will grow too old to care
Do hobbies really need any other justification than personal satisfaction? I don't really see how spending lot of time on speedrunning is any different from spending lot of time on chess for example, which as a skill is very specialized as well.
No. I am more impressed by no-commentary playthroughs that show all dialogue/cutscene options. The true skill-based rarity among vidya.
It really depends on the game and run.
So if Kamille is with AEUG why is he now working with Bask