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SpectacuLars posted:Cosmo is streaming 24 hours of OoT right now. Well on his way on breaking the new WR of 2:42:31 by some japanese dude. Cosmo is an absolute beast. Hope he gets the record early and has 24 hours to mess around + improve on the run.
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furry drum circle posted:So this has been a pretty good day in speedrun news: And then ZFG got a 2:37:18 on the Japanese version, making it inarguably faster than Cosmo's new record. Competition is really heating up for this record.
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Sep 18, 2011 04:19
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Cosmo just got another MST record: 2:34:19.86. Says he's probably gonna submit this one because he doesn't feel like he can do better.
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Kyrosiris posted:Ditto. This is gonna be great. http://www.twitch.tv/siglemic Right now! Sig's gonna be going 12 hours of attempts at the 120 star WR for 7 days starting today. Watch for some cool SM64 play.
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Dec 16, 2011 19:58
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SpectacuLars posted:If I understood people correctly, he also did a 24 hour practice run yesterday. Yeah Sig is basically insane. I'm glad he beat his VC-U time on N64-J though, he definitely has this record at some point during the next week.
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fleshweasel posted:Ask your doctor about Autism related: http://www.twitch.tv/siglemic Siglemic decided he's gonna practice/speedrun/play SM64 for 24 hours starting right now.
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AnacondaHL posted:He's explained that he loves having his chat free (in addition to the ad revenue). He's bitched out mods before for banning too much. It was Trihex's stream that had "Me and my girlfriend Siglemic" I believe.
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Feb 5, 2012 07:37
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:7k viewers. wow That would be trolling.
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Feb 5, 2012 09:16
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They just basically tied in the most scripted looking Bowser in the Sky showdown. How about that.
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CVagts posted:One of the biggest stream problems I've seen with some of the speedrunners, notably ZFG, cosmo, and Sig, is that they went from no viewers to a lot of viewers in little time at all, so they didn't settle in with enough moderators to monitor the chat. So there's like 400 viewers in ZFG's chat with like six mods, so there are trolls and spammers that get through easily. Siglemic used to have a ton of mods but he settled on having fewer because he was sick of getting messages from people asking to be unbanned. Also because he likes the trolling for the most part.
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Feb 25, 2012 04:32
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Liku posted:And he likes the money all of those viewers bring.
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Feb 25, 2012 05:21
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Liku posted:Because the trolls that can't chat won't stick around to watch if they can't flood the chatbox. And I think Sig even said it himself he keeps the trolls around for the additional revenue.
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Feb 25, 2012 05:27
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Silento posted:Wow, I can't believe he beat the WR with so many deaths. I wonder how long it will be until someone else manages to get 1:45, Sig will probably manage to get it in a day or two. As far as I know no one else is really running 120 as actively as Sig is right now, at least yet. e: and by anyone, I mean Nero and Honey. Brett824 fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Aug 6, 2012 |
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Aug 6, 2012 01:53
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Sig's chat is the best I have no clue what people always complain about.
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Aug 8, 2012 02:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8NcVmDKk6s A Japanese speedrunning great has retired. I'd be more upset if so many things about that video didn't make me laugh so hard.
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Aug 13, 2012 19:47
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https://www.facebook.com/events/244249092362653/quote:*Kings of Poverty: A SpeedRunsLive x Team Sp00ky Production!* Anyone post about this yet? seems pretty cool and I'll definitely be tuning in.
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flatluigi posted:So what did you get banned for? Probably for saying anything that ssssssssskinner took any sort of offense to or didn't like in any way.
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Jan 22, 2013 21:52
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BlueArmyMan posted:That bit where they say Sig and Cosmo are not employed...I thought Cosmo did graphic design work? Did that change? AFAIK that was always a freelance thing.
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Color Printer posted:As someone who knows BoI inside and out, I honestly can't see the appeal of speedrunning it. Unless you're just going fast for fun it basically amounts to "Did I start next to the secret room with We Need To Go Deeper? No? Restart." That's pretty wrong though it's actually spawning near a secret room with Epic Fetus that's important for speedrunning. We Need To Go Deeper seems almost entirely useless for speedrunning, in fact.
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Werster seems like a generally pretty terrible and unenjoyable person playing possibly the most boring and unimpressive thing to speedrun. At least Siglemic is a consummate professional at one of the most difficult games to speedrun and Cosmo is a Generally Likeable Dude.
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GTA speedrunning has really messed with me because I've been watching it so much I went back and tried playing the games and driving is a shitload harder than the really good people make it look. Really gave me more appreciation for already impressive runs.
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May 30, 2013 06:02
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http://www.twitch.tv/kryssstal Krystal is streaming LTTP. It's sort of a big deal because she's The Best and Never Streams.
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http://www.twitch.tv/retrorockstars/b/282040013 This got brought up + linked in Cosmo's chat. Has to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. The good old days.
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getitoffgetitoff posted:Cosmo has weird opinions sometimes. Apparently he also disagrees with the (Megadrive) Sonic community for using in game time, which is just incomprehensible to me. Well to be fair his reasoning is pretty alright. Things like pause buffering and a few different glitches cause the gamer timer to be not be representative, making the formula for a timed Sonic run something like ingame time + pause frames + etc etc. Contextually, Cosmo comes from a background with a lot of racing so of course he's going to prefer RTA timing. IIRC, before Miles had a really good Monkey Ball run, he beat Cosmo's run in terms of the in-game timer, but in real time it was quite a bit slower because it had a bunch of deaths. It honestly makes the most sense for direct, active competition to just go from power on until the end of the game and it sucks that Sonic has wacky time bonuses that mess with that.
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It was mentioned earlier, but Joshimuz' ESA run for GTA: San Andreas was fantastic. Other than being a WR, it was also just has some great detail and explanation. It's honestly not very indicative of his normal streams which I don't particularly love.
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I laughed out loud at my computer desk at someone in the chat saying "This is the slowest speedrun ever" while Cosmo sat there freaking out in tears over the donation.
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24 hours of Zelda making the initial list is only offensive to me because a ton of great stuff has been rejected because of reasons like "This doesn't offer anything new over the run of it at last AGDQ", "Not enough donation incentives", and "I'm not sure if it has an audience". You could make the case that every game on that last is distinctly out of those categories, but some of the "staples" of the marathon seem so done to death.
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CVagts posted:I sincerely doubt all of those Zelda games will get in. They probably just want to send them all past the first cut and then decide which one(s) to keep. I understand that, that's why I'm more upset about things that would be awesome and I think would be successful not even making the first cut.
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Honestly, Trihex is still THE YI "personality" despite him being pretty behind at this point. Especially with him being ostensibly committed to grinding at this point, I can't imagine not giving him the run. Maybe the #yoshi community has a problem with it or something, but I can't even imagine that's the case.
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Aug 18, 2013 05:28
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Sir Tonk posted:
It's a roughly 2.5 to 3 minute advantage.
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Aug 19, 2013 21:58
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To be fair, 100% runs take at least 3-4 minutes longer.
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habanero walrus posted:We were just talking about him one page ago. Pydoyks could always shell out the 99 dollars to get an iQue on ebay.
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Jeffrey posted:It isn't unlicensed, Nintendo worked on it. It is an official product in China. I wonder if SM64 for it is faster than the VC version. The iQue version of SM64 is the Shindou version, which is very bad.
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Keyboard Kid posted:But it shouldn't be if it's on iQue, right? It lags on N64 but iQue (at least for OoT) has less gameplay lag but takes longer to load. [Shindou (vibration) is the rumble pak version of the game, rereleased in Japan.] Text isn't a particularly huge deal in SM64, and the load times are the real killer in the version differences between VC and N64. Also, BLJ is patched which isn't a massive deal but is a relevant change (see: HMC 100 coins).
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Keyboard Kid posted:Sure, but N64 lags. A lot. The Shindou version lags a lot more than normal N64 in certain stages. Wouldn't iQue be faster for 70? Once again, the loading times are a way bigger deal because of the amount of lag reduction you can do. You lose about a second per star on loading times alone, and loading times on iQue seem like standard N64 loading times.
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Keyboard Kid posted:I never mentioned VC. You said Shindou version is "very bad", but what would make it worse than N64 if there's no lag? That's the only issue with the Shindou version to my knowledge. BLJ is removed, load times are longer (even on VC, which is why N64-J 1.0 is considered the competitive version) and a couple other minor (aesthetic mostly) changes
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UraniumAnchor posted:There's a huge thread about them over on the SDA forums: http://kotaku.com/this-guy-beat-ocarina-of-time-in-less-than-twenty-minut-1189078311 Surprised this hasn't been linked yet. It's pretty... interesting? It's cool to see speedrunning get more mainstream exposure but there are some objectionable things about the article. The comments are downright hilarious though.
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Crotch Bat posted:What a baby. How surprised can anyone be that in an ultra-competitive setting that some will do what they can to try to maximize their potential to succeed. Brett824 fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Aug 25, 2013 |
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Crotch Bat posted:The whole argument is drat close to Twin Galaxies territory anyways where everyone makes up these arbitrary rules to suit their own needs and woe be to those who break them. If Sig had an ounce of conviction about everything he'd have kept the tweets up and they could have maybe had some reasonable form of discourse on the subject instead of him pouncing into douche mode then deleting them because he can't take the heat he puts out and instead just leaves these vague passive-aggressive tweets that just reek of desperation and angst. nerve posted:Why does it bother Siglemic so much that somebody is running the game on a system He Doesn't Approve Of? He doesn't care about people playing it on VC, it's just the stupid "WR!!!!" hype. "joke community. skill and optimization takes a backseat to ~*~world records~*~* and twitch popularity." sums it up perfectly. Brett824 fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Aug 25, 2013 |
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