#21

was thinking imagine if they had spent that time learning something worthwhile instead

then i was thinking well, what is actually worthwhile? everything is pretty pointless when it comes down to it… so knock yourselves out

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#22

You say that, but then they have these yearly speedrunning events where they raise like over a million dollars for cancer charities so…

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#23

Should be using that time to actually cure cancer instead. Fuckin’ nerds.

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#24

really like it when the developers get shown glitches they never even knew existed

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#25

some dude eats bat soup and a year later I beat D*** S*** 3 in 2h45

#26

That music :relieved:

What’s he doing here? Is it a glitch or just farming?

Also, considering his name is Circlemaster, guy sounds bored as fuck.

#27

I haven’t even really played video games for years, but I do find some of these quite interesting. There’s the ones that are a test of skill / ridiculous patience and persistence, but also Tool Assisted Speedruns (or TAS), which are more like puzzles where a community tries to figure out the fastest possible ways of doing things, and then program a computer tool to run through them. Kind of like trying to find the Robo-Platonic ideal of a playthrough.

This one is all 120 stars in Mario 64, completed in two hours, and it is pretty amazing viewing, especially if you’ve played the game yourself. Just completely rinsing the game, turning it inside out.

#28

The video, I believe, is just the last hour and he’d been doing it for ages. Literally grinding and grinding in the first area

I’d love to see the rest of the game from that point tbh

#29

so many heinously anticlimactic showdowns :smiley:

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#30

i like when people said a particle from space made mario jump really high

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#31

I used to be ridiculously good at the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure game on the Game Boy, reckon I could have speedrun (ran?) through it. Warioland too, I found a way of getting the most gold coins to max out his prize at the end. Purely the product of boredom and car trips with a handful of games though, these guys have no excuse at all.

#32

Oh my god

He says he has pumped 525 hrs into that over 2 years

:grinning:
And then starts talking about doing another challenge

Bonkers

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#33

If you locked him in a room for that long and forced him to do that then the UN would be getting involved.

JUSTICE FOR CIRCLEMASTER!

#34

I also like how he says he won’t commentate on the game because that’s boring, but instead will read out the comments, which are… oh right.

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#35

There’s a bit where he starts slagging off another guy who tries to do the challenge and then gave up on it. Calls him out as a coward! :grinning:

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#36

And a bit where someone gives him a tip on turning around quicker to speed up the between fight bits and he’s like ‘would have been helpful to know that 2 years ago’ :grinning:

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#37

I might have first read about it via DiS but apparently in the Goldeneye speed running community, it’s been discovered that it’s faster if you spend as much time as possible running while looking at the floor - this way, the game has to render and process stuff less often so moves several frame quicker, shaving seconds off level times.

The best part is, this was discovered accidentally by someone new to speed running, who misinterpreted a guide that said “at this point, put your nose to the grindstone and keep running”.

It caused a lot of people to quit the community because apparently it sucked so much fun out of it.

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#38

This guys voice is a bit “in 1989, no one died” but it’s a great video

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#39

laughs in DOTA 2

(the community there reckons the the first 1000 hours of gameplay are “the tutorial”)

#40

Music is from Ori and the Blind Forest, fits the game a bit better than the video.