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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 199 points 1 year ago

I wake up every day grateful that Iโ€™m not into speedrunning.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 122 points 1 year ago

I wk โˆ† evryday gr8tful tht im no in2 spdrning

Beat you. Git gud grub

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago
[-] Cano@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago

The greek keyboard speedrun strat. The delta looks like an "up" arrow so he can shave off 0.02 seconds and he doesn't need to write the whole word

[-] webadict@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Honestly, that strat went out the window once we got the ^. No need to waste time using the Greek keyboard exploit, expecially since the top runner was found to be using macros to emulate anyway.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

^ needs 2 keypresses, shift+6. You might as well just type "up." Also note that the speedrunner here used a capital i, also an excess keypress, except for the fact that you're allowed to be holding a key down before you start. Just a bit of showing off, I guess.

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[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah as it happens I'm not very good at this thing

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[-] rosymind@leminal.space 19 points 1 year ago

I wyk ^ ery day g8fl tht im nt n2 spd rnnin

Nah, I win

[-] Hobo@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

The funniest thing about this comment to me is it probably took like four times as long to type out as the original.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Iๆ›‡g

I used a wrong warp in the cloud level to trigger the ending credits from the second letter.

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[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

Iโ€™m not that familiar with the speedrun community, but no way they do much checking for any runs that arenโ€™t reasonably in contention for a top spot right?

Lol I'm sure that's how it works. There's just no way otherwise.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

They often don't even properly check TOP runs

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I can't remember which game it was but one of them said they checked the splits and looked at either the harder parts of runs or where they runner shaved time the most. Makes sense to my slow ass that looks at mostly mario64 streamers and can barely BLJ

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[-] Hrvatskii@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

I used to be a speedrun verifier for Portal a while ago and in general we'll reject anything that looks like very little effort was put in it. For Portal this would be runs somewhere above the hour mark, but obviously this varies for other speedrun communities which I can't speak for. For actual runs though it's common to watch them on 5x speed or faster as it's still relatively easy to catch someone breaking the rules at that speed. It also drastically speeds up the time it takes a run to get verified for such a popular game with a limited amount of volunteer verifiers.

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[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I'm going to cheat to get the worst time ever recorded

[-] DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

My God, this guy has taken longer to beat the game than the amount of time it's been available. How is that possible?

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Some of the more competitive games don't even demand that you submit a video of your run if you aren't in contention for the top 10. Some games you can just "claim" a time and you'll be added to the leaderboard.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Depends on the game/community I think. Thereโ€™s probably common tells for different games - eg if itโ€™s obvious someone picked a good seed for Minecraft. Probably donโ€™t have to watch the whole video, just skip to a few critical points.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago

Depending on the game that could be decently fast

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

For Factorio, its blazingly fast but also insanely slow.

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[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

100% Breath of the Wild run takes like 20 hours

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So damn much Yahaha!

[-] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

You got the top run to my heart, dad Picard Maneuver.

Thank you, Vincent. I'm very proud of you.

Stop treating him like a child he's clearly an adult.

[-] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

they watched thousands of multi hour videos? that is lunacy ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] amio@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

If you take the meme at face value, sure. I'm sure they have to validate some runs, I'm also pretty sure they don't extend that policy to 2500 spots down the list.

... but weirder things have happened.

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Most runs in general do not get scrutinized unless something about the submission is suspicious in itself. The community is very tight knit and there is nothing to gain from being on the leaderboard but clout.

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[-] Hupf@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

That's got to be the worst speedrunner I've ever seen.

But you have seen him.

[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
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[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 10 points 1 year ago

what if you spam them with 182 16 hour speedruns

[-] floridaman 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

then you've lost 2912 hours of your life

edit: hours

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That dumbass with paper plate mask ruined it for everyone.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Being a moderate already is sad, being a speedrun mod is even more sad

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

And what do you do for fun?

[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago

Hey buddy, let people have hobbies. There's nothing wrong with someone wanting to get really good at beating a game they like as fast as possible.

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