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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 3 February 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
i wonder if there's any crossover between these guys and the extreme couponing people
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 3 February 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
Oh hey there's a European Speedrunner Assembly marathon going on right now https://www.twitch.tv/esamarathon
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
decisive intervention of xx_420_blazit_xx was great to see
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 25 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/25/17050500/super-mario-bros-speedrun-minus-world-kosmic
― Nhex, Sunday, 25 February 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
KM Celeste is on right now on AGDQ
― Evan, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
on it, thanks!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
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
― Evan, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
xp lol yeah he's in full pro videogame gear
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
jeez, this guy is pretty good at celeste
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
the sphincter muscles of these speedrunners must be incredibly developed
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
speed pooping - they probably can propel it from the stomach to the toilet nearly instantaneously
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:25 (five years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:33 (five years ago) link
it makes me happy that you're willing to engage with me on this, evan! lol
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
Always down to shoot the shit
in intense squeezing bursts of course
― Evan, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link
153,000 watching
that chapter 7 ending with the crowd counting down was kind of amazing
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewTKpAclms
― shoulda zagged (esby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
lol
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
ha
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/b3rw1aQQeBw
FIRST EVER Super Mario Odyssey Speedrun in UNDER 1 HOUR! (1P World Record on March 23rd / 2019)
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 24 March 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
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*
― shoulda zagged (esby), Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
Watching this guy play Dr. Mario is very relaxing...
https://www.twitch.tv/acmlm
― Evan, Saturday, 3 August 2019 04:08 (five years ago) link
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
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 20 September 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:29 (four years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:37 (four years ago) link
never mind he's being made into memes for positivity now
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/terraria-speedrunner-badger-doesnt-finish-his-agdq-run-still-raises-30000/
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 9 January 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
Ha yeah heard about it but I got the impression it was entertaining and positive somehow?
― Evan, Thursday, 9 January 2020 01:04 (four years ago) link
my wife saw and thought it was pretty cool
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 January 2020 01:53 (four years ago) link
badger is relentlessly positive and entertaining as a streamer. I’m glad to see it worked out in his favor
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 9 January 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
I couldn’t have hoped for a better Mario Maker 2 relay race!
― brain dead operatus (FlopsyDuck), Sunday, 12 January 2020 02:41 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the tip, this is good clean fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fXE2E49NWg
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
Damn, another SMB world record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wR8x5b_ExM
― jmm, Saturday, 18 January 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
100000 bit donation Pog
― lumen (esby), Saturday, 18 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
had this bookmarked for months, finally watched that relay race, A+!
― Nhex, Monday, 30 March 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1tVD7UEqw&feature=youtu.be
― Nhex, Saturday, 16 May 2020 06:19 (four years ago) link
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!).
― Evan, Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
i kinda like that guy, thanks for introducing me to him
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 16 May 2020 22:00 (four years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 08:44 (four years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
Ha yeah "Oh cool we get to see how he gets pas- [zzzzzip!] ...whelp"
― Evan, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link