Speed Running

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AHCaokqhg

this is pretty cool. it is a history of figuring out the fastest way through 4-2 in Super Mario Bros. this is the famous underground level that has the warp pipe that zips the player to 8-1. there is a glitch where you can trigger the warp vine and then go down the pipe to skip the animation, jumping through various bricks along the way to offset Mario & the camera enough to trigger the glitch. the person to discover the final technique used for the fastest completion of 4-2 was someone named xx_420_blazit_xx.

i wonder if there's any crossover between these guys and the extreme couponing people

Oh hey there's a European Speedrunner Assembly marathon going on right now https://www.twitch.tv/esamarathon

was coming in to post that 4-2 mini-doc. it really is fascinating, just how much time and effort is spent breaking down the inner workings of Super Mario Bros. just to shave a third of a second off a world record time

decisive intervention of xx_420_blazit_xx was great to see

https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/25/17050500/super-mario-bros-speedrun-minus-world-kosmic

KM Celeste is on right now on AGDQ

on it, thanks!

i don't speed run, but i do speed reply

I love how he's dressed like he's about to do the Tour De France

i didn't realize that in the third stage the order that you choose to clean up the hotel affects how the remaining pathways play out! that's really neat, and especially impressive because it must have taken a good amount of extra work to implement and few people will even realize it's there.

xp lol yeah he's in full pro videogame gear

jeez, this guy is pretty good at celeste

so he's doing all the a-sides and b-sides...also the c-sides?

Some guy just did a super fast Hollow Knight run, too.

the sphincter muscles of these speedrunners must be incredibly developed

speed pooping - they probably can propel it from the stomach to the toilet nearly instantaneously

I actually don't know anything about this game, really! But yeah this guy is the best there is at Celeste.

And speed pooping is not about power... it's about control.

i appreciated the shout out for the amazing music in the chapter 4 b-side. i raved about it in the celeste thread, too. of course, a big part of the reason i love it is that it sounds amazing on a loop, developing in pleasing directions and repeating in a way that makes it difficult to determine where the loop restarts, which is really important when you hear it a million times while trying to beat a difficult level. whereas...i don't think the song even completed a single cycle during this speed run.

And speed pooping is not about power... it's about control.

well yeah, i mean if you're a control specialist. but some people, it's all about the power, the ability to generate intense squeezing bursts

it makes me happy that you're willing to engage with me on this, evan! lol

Always down to shoot the shit

in intense squeezing bursts of course

sometime i want to watch a version of this includes all the strawberries (even if its' just the regular chapters, or just the b-sides). the flow of the game when the person doesn't make many mistakes is so good, and the process of grabbing the strawberries just makes it even more mesmerizing imo

153,000 watching

that chapter 7 ending with the crowd counting down was kind of amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewTKpAclms

lol

ha

https://youtu.be/b3rw1aQQeBw

FIRST EVER Super Mario Odyssey Speedrun in UNDER 1 HOUR! (1P World Record on March 23rd / 2019)

nice, i've seen a few SMO runs, def more fun to watch that game than play it. skimmed through a little, lol @ ndc miniboss 'fuck fuck that sucked that was dogshit fuccckkkk' *loses 0.4 seconds*

Watching this guy play Dr. Mario is very relaxing...

https://www.twitch.tv/acmlm

here to shill for this kickstarter, hope some of you nerds can help put this project over the top and give the world the Narcissa Wright documentary she deserves and the world isn't good enough to deserve

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/977822609/break-the-game-the-documentary

I tuned in to AGDQ just in time to see the first-ever Terraria marathon run by erstwhile twitch streamer TVGBadger and omg is he having a terrible time. technical difficulties out the wazoo & he's already busted his estimated time. I wonder if they're going to have to give him the boot. This is literally the worst speed run I've ever seen

they totally had to kick him off the stage after the server bugged out for the umpteenth time. I feel so sorry for the dude

never mind he's being made into memes for positivity now

https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/terraria-speedrunner-badger-doesnt-finish-his-agdq-run-still-raises-30000/

Ha yeah heard about it but I got the impression it was entertaining and positive somehow?

my wife saw and thought it was pretty cool

badger is relentlessly positive and entertaining as a streamer. I’m glad to see it worked out in his favor

I couldn’t have hoped for a better Mario Maker 2 relay race!

Thanks for the tip, this is good clean fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fXE2E49NWg

Damn, another SMB world record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wR8x5b_ExM

100000 bit donation Pog

had this bookmarked for months, finally watched that relay race, A+!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1tVD7UEqw&feature=youtu.be

When Arcus eventually grows a moustache and starts wearing the cowboy hat I was like "OHHH THAT GUY!!"

I'll always be fascinated by him, wondering if anyone in his life was concerned when the sudden cowboy transformation wasn't just a phase, and criticizing him for not getting a job then realizing he makes decent enough money playing frickin NES in his house all week as if it were a 9-5 (Look I don't know how much he makes but streamers with that ~500 regular viewer count can apparently afford rent and food from what I hear. We'd all probably be a bit surprised by how much they actually make? I don't know. It's not something they talk about!).

i kinda like that guy, thanks for introducing me to him

Couldn't sleep so I watch this 60 minute one on Mike Tyson's Punch-Out also made by SummoningSalt. Great stuff too, with... a teeny bit of a twist ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBR9ypSOTGQ

Ok I'm finding this Ninja Gaiden video much more engrossing than expected.

It helps that I used to play this game all the time, I would get to the last boss (or just before) but never quite finished it. And also that the speed run doesn't involve any stupid glitches or zips, just familiar aspects of the game that I remember using just to get through.

Ha yeah "Oh cool we get to see how he gets pas- [zzzzzip!] ...whelp"