I wake up every day grateful that I’m not into speedrunning.
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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I wk ∆ evryday gr8tful tht im no in2 spdrning
Beat you. Git gud grub
I weak delta?
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
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.
^ 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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Yeah as it happens I'm not very good at this thing
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I wyk ^ ery day g8fl tht im nt n2 spd rnnin
Nah, I win
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The funniest thing about this comment to me is it probably took like four times as long to type out as the original.
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I used a wrong warp in the cloud level to trigger the ending credits from the second letter.
I wk evday gr8ful I no in2 spdrning. Boom even faster
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I’m not that familiar with the speedrun community, but no way they do much checking for any runs that aren’t reasonably in contention for a top spot right?
Lol I'm sure that's how it works. There's just no way otherwise.
They often don't even properly check TOP runs
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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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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I'm going to cheat to get the worst time ever recorded
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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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.
Depends on the game/community I think. There’s probably common tells for different games - eg if it’s obvious someone picked a good seed for Minecraft. Probably don’t have to watch the whole video, just skip to a few critical points.
Depending on the game that could be decently fast
Forty-thirth
MA, I CAME IN THIRTH
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.
they watched thousands of multi hour videos? that is lunacy 😂
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.
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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That's got to be the worst speedrunner I've ever seen.
But you have seen him.
what if you spam them with 182 16 hour speedruns
then you've lost 2912 hours of your life
edit: hours
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