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As I sometimes do, I've been speedrunning Bionic Commando (2009) recently and even streaming it sometimes. I've improved my personal best multiple times multiple times in the last month and just now I got my first sub-hour run with 59:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQ8yHNs9A
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bc2k9 ftw
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Peewi posted:As I sometimes do, I've been speedrunning Bionic Commando (2009) recently and even streaming it sometimes. Nice work, that's a long run and < 20 seconds away from the WR. 
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May 12, 2021 00:40
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Oh sick; cutting the hour mark is a nice place to be
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May 12, 2021 20:35
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MURPHAGATOR! posted:Oh sick; cutting the hour mark is a nice place to be Now if only I could actually explain what I've been doing different other than "I guess I did the swinging better than before" and "I didn't die in one of the levels where it'll cost a minute". I did actually move my game install to an SSD recently after having experienced some randomly long load times. Today I measured the load times in a recent run and an old run and the SSD seemed to shorten the load times by around 25 seconds across the whole run.
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May 12, 2021 21:32
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Anyone know what the deal with the youtube speedrunner horheristo is? He has a ton of videos for different action games with no hit/speedruns which is cool, but apparently he's a huge jackass who has cheated and has an onlyfans full of stolen art? Is he like, an infamous figure or something?
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May 13, 2021 05:48
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Acerbatus posted:Anyone know what the deal with the youtube speedrunner horheristo is? I don't know much past them being a huge rear end in a top hat with incredibly toxic views on gaming and achievements. One of the first people banned from the Celeste discord.
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Acerbatus posted:Anyone know what the deal with the youtube speedrunner horheristo is? If you watched the Fireborn video on him, that's pretty much all you need to know. If you didn't, the tl;dr is that he is good at games but also chases what he pretends are world records by making up categories no one else runs and also claiming that no one else is actually doing a fair speedrun of games because he's the only one who doesn't practice and can still do well at games. The example in the video of him notably pissing off a community about a big debacle with the Nuclear Throne community where Nuclear Throne community said that they don't mind people posting runs as alts and taking up multiple slots on the leaderboards to some extent, but just to let the mods know who your alts are if you're going to do that so it's easier on the mods for verification. Horheristo of course decides to make a lot of alts, flood the leaderboards, and refuse to admit that any of the alts are his, while calling everyone else a bunch of jealous babies for questioning him on it. And yes, he claims that every other speedrunner is a tryhard with no actual skill because they spend time practicing a game, and he's actually the best speedrunner because he only speedruns games he doesn't practice. In fact, he very obviously has alt Steam accounts where he buys games multiple times so that he can rack up a lot of hours practicing a game, and then buys the game on his main account so he can show off how few hours he spent practicing the game. And he has definitely posted videos with splices/cheats on or whatever, because of course this guy has. Also yes he made an OnlyFans and makes a lot of money posting playthroughs of porn games on it because Youtube started shutting down his revenue stream for posting "censored" videos of porn games, which in a sense is selling stolen art. I mean, calling it stolen art is loose because it's as much stolen art as any longplay, but it does sound more dramatic when you call it that.
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May 13, 2021 09:34
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What a bizarre concept. It's like thinking a 4th grade band is better than the London Symphony, because the symphony members have "cheated" with their decades of practice.
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May 13, 2021 10:47
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it's like thinking that you personally are the best musician in the history of the world despite being in fourth grade and only playing once a month when you go to your friend's house who has a guitar
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May 13, 2021 11:05
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My race was mercy killed last night after I was instakilled (via crowd control) like 4 times in tourian.
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May 13, 2021 13:11
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I'm up in about an hour with Morrowind for the marathon benefitting No Child Hungry. https://www.twitch.tv/speedgaming
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There's some weird notion that people have that you're only good at something if you don't work at it, which is absolutely bizarre. Like you don't study art or writing or engineering or whatever and if you're do you're just stealing ideas. It seems incredibly immature and yet somehow there are people who make it to 30+ and still hold these ideals and its just baffling. Even stupider in the case where the person is doing the work and then actively denying that they are.
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May 13, 2021 22:23
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A lot of people think you have to be 100% original never seen before and if you're not you're a failure then they double down on that idiocy and say they independently came up with <whatever> when you ask them to cite their sources.
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May 13, 2021 22:47
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Musical_Daredevil posted:I'm up in about an hour with Morrowind for the marathon benefitting No Child Hungry. Run seemed neat, though I can't really claim to have understood it.
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May 13, 2021 23:43
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https://twitch.tv/zfg1 175 guay hover started
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May 14, 2021 01:23
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Potsticker posted:There's some weird notion that people have that you're only good at something if you don't work at it, which is absolutely bizarre. Like you don't study art or writing or engineering or whatever and if you're do you're just stealing ideas. It seems incredibly immature and yet somehow there are people who make it to 30+ and still hold these ideals and its just baffling. Even stupider in the case where the person is doing the work and then actively denying that they are. It's an idea that often gets handed down to kids at school I think. You're told that you're smart because you like reading, maths, whatever and of course when you're like 12 or 15 or whatever years old you don't really realise that all the reading you do for enjoyment or the years you've spent actually paying attention in maths class is the same thing as "practice", so you get this idea that youre just naturally smart because you sure as hell don't have to try hard at school. And of course the idea of being "naturally" talented or smart feeds perfectly into a young teenager's self-image, and goes hand in hand with the kind of aggressive apathy that you need to regard school with in order to survive it. Anyway the result is this distorted notion that only "natural" ability is praiseworthy and that trying hard to be good at something is for losers.
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bike tory posted:It's an idea that often gets handed down to kids at school I think. You're told that you're smart because you like reading, maths, whatever and of course when you're like 12 or 15 or whatever years old you don't really realise that all the reading you do for enjoyment or the years you've spent actually paying attention in maths class is the same thing as "practice", so you get this idea that youre just naturally smart because you sure as hell don't have to try hard at school. And of course the idea of being "naturally" talented or smart feeds perfectly into a young teenager's self-image, and goes hand in hand with the kind of aggressive apathy that you need to regard school with in order to survive it. That is pretty insightful. Thanks.
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Musical_Daredevil posted:I'm up in about an hour with Morrowind for the marathon benefitting No Child Hungry. The charity marathon will be on for a few days more, so be sure to check it out! http://speedgaming.org/nokidhungry/
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Potsticker posted:There's some weird notion that people have that you're only good at something if you don't work at it, which is absolutely bizarre. Like you don't study art or writing or engineering or whatever and if you're do you're just stealing ideas. It seems incredibly immature and yet somehow there are people who make it to 30+ and still hold these ideals and its just baffling. Even stupider in the case where the person is doing the work and then actively denying that they are.
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May 14, 2021 11:01
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Potsticker posted:That is pretty insightful. Thanks. The key phrase (often brought up in the education world) is "fixed mindset vs. growth mindset". It's talked about a lot with mathematics, but it's endemic across subjects, including video games. I used to think I'd never be able to beat megaman/contra-style games because I'd tried some hard ones a tiny bit, failed, and gave up. I imagine a lot of people think they could never speedrun games when they just need to do some scaffolded practice. dirby fucked around with this message at 11:41 on May 14, 2021 |
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May 14, 2021 11:35
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dirby posted:I imagine a lot of people think they could never speedrun games when they just need to do some scaffolded practice. for a long time the scene of sharing video game accomplishments was dominated by people driven by ego who spread the idea that what they were doing was something special only they could when in reality just about anyone who has the motivation to put in the work to practice and grind out attempts at something can achieve so many things. Thankfully the culture is shifting, and more people at the top are spreading that message that anyone can do it.
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Speedrunning is way more accessible than it's made out to be. You get like 3 or 4 runs in to most games and you're like 95% of the way there.
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May 14, 2021 11:53
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SeXReX posted:for a long time the scene of sharing video game accomplishments was dominated by people driven by ego who spread the idea that what they were doing was something special only they could when in reality just about anyone who has the motivation to put in the work to practice and grind out attempts at something can achieve so many things. Thankfully the culture is shifting, and more people at the top are spreading that message that anyone can do it. This is especially funny since when i think of that era of people being titans, i think of like early early speedrunning like todd rogers and billy mitchell, ya know, people who cheated
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I think the default response to someone having wr in a game is "this guy is a gaming god." No, he's just the only guy who wanted to dedicate 20 hours to routing and practicing a barbie game. Some people do put in the thousands of hours to get really hyper good at a game, but that's only part of what it can be. To me, a lot of speedrunning is figuring out what you can do in the game to go fast and getting a run you feel you're satisfied with and moving on (until the itch drags you back in).
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Three of my good friends will be participating in a multi-game co-op randomizer run after the Ninban/MKI crowd control race on the SpeedGaming channel. They'll be playing LTTPR, and a group of three people will be playing Factorio. They're using software developed by Berserker to allow you to play completely different games randomized co-operatively, called Archipelago. The three LTTP players can find Factorio techs, the Factorio players can research LTTP items, etc. Should be a good time! https://twitch.tv/speedgaming Frida Call Me fucked around with this message at 01:05 on May 15, 2021 |
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i have my doubts about horehisto or however you spell that even being as good at games as he likes to portray because he's had past incidents of obviously cheated/spliced play whenever he posts footage of speciality genres like shmups or rhythm games where attempts to dubiously fudge your playing become a shitton more obvious to people with the discerning eye Like, I specifically recall he posted a highest difficulty no miss of Jamestown, a thing absolutely nobody had done before at the time and him not being well known for exceptional shmup play and his video was full of obvious TAS-tier type movement. It's since been deleted because too many people called bullshit on it. he's a full fraud imo. i have an opinion on this topic because I've bumped into his rear end on multiple occasion and he's both an rear end in a top hat and an rear end in a top hat who can't walk the walk in a live environment
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Frida Call Me posted:Three of my good friends will be participating in a multi-game co-op randomizer run after the Rywek/SlimKirby crowd control race on the SpeedGaming channel. They'll be playing LTTPR, and a group of three people will be playing Factorio. They're using software developed by Berserker to allow you to play completely different games randomized co-operatively, called Archipelago. The three LTTP players can find Factorio techs, the Factorio players can research LTTP items, etc.
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Frida Call Me posted:Three of my good friends will be participating in a multi-game co-op randomizer run after the Ninban/MKI crowd control race on the SpeedGaming channel. They'll be playing LTTPR, and a group of three people will be playing Factorio. They're using software developed by Berserker to allow you to play completely different games randomized co-operatively, called Archipelago. The three LTTP players can find Factorio techs, the Factorio players can research LTTP items, etc. What the loving poo poo
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Renegret posted:What the loving poo poo We're 90 minutes in and I'm loving this, can't wait to see more games added to Archipelago.
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Frida Call Me posted:We're 90 minutes in and I'm loving this, can't wait to see more games added to Archipelago. I'll catch the VOD when it's done because I don't have time right now but anything Factorio is Extremely My poo poo
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Renegret posted:I'll catch the VOD when it's done because I don't have time right now but anything Factorio is Extremely My poo poo https://twitch.tv/videos/1022977996?t=1541s The Factorio+LTTP co-op multiworld randomizer demo starts here
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May 15, 2021 06:24
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Are there any solo multi-game randomisers yet? Like with seamless transitions between games via certain locations? I'm sure I remember seeing something like that being played a couple of years ago, like ALttP + Metroid, but it may have just been a fever dream.
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bike tory posted:Are there any solo multi-game randomisers yet? Like with seamless transitions between games via certain locations? I'm sure I remember seeing something like that being played a couple of years ago, like ALttP + Metroid, but it may have just been a fever dream. Yeah m3z3 is the most popular one of those but if you scroll to the bottom of this list you can see some of the other crossovers that exist. https://www.debigare.com/randomizers/
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bike tory posted:Are there any solo multi-game randomisers yet? Like with seamless transitions between games via certain locations? I'm sure I remember seeing something like that being played a couple of years ago, like ALttP + Metroid, but it may have just been a fever dream.
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LTTP + Super Metroid was relatively easily to do because of some luck in how those games are laid out. As it happens, one of the games only uses the lower half of memory addresses, and the other only uses the upper half. So really all they had to do to make this work is smush the ROMs together, add some code so you can pick up items from one game in the other, make portals between the two games, and then add the standard randomizer stuff. I think it's unlikely things happen to fit in so neatly for any other pair of games so it would be a lot trickier to build.
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Minish cap rando is pretty good. I want a zero mission/MC crossover.
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Multi-game randomizers would be difficult to do as standard ROMs playable on actual consoles, but via emulation or the like they'd probably be pretty simple. The main problem is that you'd also need an emulator that could handle scripting and making the Lua scripts + hooks to support it. And then everyone would be stuck using some emulator when most people seem to prefer using actual consoles and flash carts.Carbon dioxide posted:As it happens, one of the games only uses the lower half of memory addresses, and the other only uses the upper half. So really all they had to do to make this work is smush the ROMs together, add some code so you can pick up items from one game in the other, make portals between the two games, and then add the standard randomizer stuff. You can do similar things with NES ROMs via the various multi-cart mappers. Some multicarts support the most common normal mappers (MMC3, etc) but you'd still have to find a place to save the persistent data and handle switching games.
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Summer Games Done Quick schedule is here: https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule
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70 Star SM64...blindfold, for 2 hours? 
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