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ESA winter marathon is up and live for a week. Schedule here: https://esamarathon.com/schedule/
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Yeah, Retrothon is awesome, as is RGLtv in general. I see the schedule has a 3h30 DOScathlon race on the Saturday, looking forward to that one. 
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Apr 19, 2023 08:47
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And here I am, still stuck at the orange table...
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Apr 27, 2023 09:36
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F-Zero X - it's no GX, but it still feels awesome to watch SNOLF - a pretty insane romhack take on Sonic The Elder Scrolls Anthology - from Arena sewers to killing Alduin in under 2h Gauntlet - coop is easily more annoying than helpful in og Gauntlet, curious to see how the run works Touhou 14.3 - bullet hell is always impressive Trine Enchanted Edition - I can't begin to imagine how the physics get broken to clear this under 25 minutes VVVVVV - love the game and it never gets old to watch people who perfected it Super Mario Maker 2 - mario maker races are always a great show, it's great to see the live adaptation to unknown levels Zelda BOTW - category is "Any% blindfolded", that speaks for itself
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May 26, 2023 23:09
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BoldFace posted:ESA Summer has kicked off. On Monday there's a Duolingo speedrun. I have seen a lot of alternative stuff but that's the first time I see that one.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:34
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Catch the vod of Megaman 3 if you always wanted to see a demonstration of the technique known as teeth mashing. And yes, that's exactly what you think it is.
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Jul 23, 2023 20:39
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PSA: ESA has a Meegah Mem 2 run going in an hour or so. If you have never seen it, it's... something...
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Jul 28, 2023 14:12
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New series: "IGN accountant reacts to speedrunners asking for fair compensation".
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Aug 28, 2023 15:02
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Also Shmuptember on rgltv just started: https://horaro.org/shmup/schedule https://twitch.tv/retrogaminglivetv
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Sep 22, 2023 21:25
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"Shadowboxing" is a hilariously brilliant name tbh.
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Nov 2, 2023 11:16
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Carbon dioxide posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU And here I thought I was good at Tetris back when I started beating 9-5 for fun on the gameboy... The competitive Tetris scene is just unreal.
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Jan 2, 2024 23:18
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a tea tree posted:I have: a run in AGDQ 2024 at ~11am Eastern time on Monday (30XX, a Mega Man X & Zero inspired roguelite.) Looking forward to it. That'll be 4pm here, plus whatever drift has built up, so convenient timing. I also still haven't managed to beat 30XX a single time...
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Jan 4, 2024 09:19
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MagusofStars posted:I've never heard of this game but that sounds like a really interesting concept. It's good! Plus levels are procgenned from a set of pre-made chunks, and there's a chunk editor, so you can enable community chunks in your runs.
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Jan 5, 2024 10:56
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Hungry Squirrel posted:I also lurked here for literally years before signing up Posted on the Speedrunning thread. 
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Jan 10, 2024 15:17
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ZeusCannon posted:Are there any runs that people are really looking forward to? Shovel Knight - Specter of Torment vs Plague of Shadows 100%. Were there two runners listed, I'd assume one runs Specter, the other one runs Plague, and it's a first to 100% race, but there's only one runner listed (MooMooAkai) so it's probably just one or the other based on a bid war. In that case, hope it goes to Plague with the bomb based movement. Wish my boy King Knight was in the running, but King 100% probably takes a while longer due to Joustus. Gyromite - Game B - Dog Assistance looks fun if it's a trained doggo pressing buttons to control the pillars.  Starfield any% I'm looking forward to, because Bethesda always has some insane exploitable bugs. Morrowind's Icarian Flight, Oblivion's skooma abuse, Skyrim's horse tilting... So curious to see what people have found in Starfield so far.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:48
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On new schedule, the current run counts as "completed" with regards to the "show completed runs" button, which feels a bit off. Removing completed runs is convenient, but I'd rather the currently running one to be at the top.
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Jan 14, 2024 21:09
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Latest cheating drama with a blindfolded Alatreon fight in Monster Hunter which gets even funnier with an army of followers brigading Asmongold to promote their 'Queen', thus ensuring the run got some attention from actual blind runners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugT5eLpuwMo Karl Jobst is a big tease with that one though since this is only the first part, with the finale 5 days from now.
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Feb 24, 2024 11:40
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Rubellavator posted:taking a page from ArfJason and not watching that Oh, thought he was just a reformed former twat, there's no reformed part?
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Feb 24, 2024 12:55
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:he spent years and years in rwhitegoose's discord while goose said things like 'we need a solution to the jewish question'. karl also bitched about not being allowed to use the n word. Ugh, fair enough, I only knew the latter part. pmcTRILOGY posted:speedrun twitter also had some discourse the past week about drama youtubers making cheating videos generally being a scourge on speedrunning (especially as it appears on youtube) So that's an interesting bit, because character aside, that's something I thought of watching the video and Asmongold's involvement, with his related videos automatically linked on the side by youtube as suggestions. The guy is basically not involved, but still making an absolute mint just by existing, it's quite impressive. The runner fans brigaded him, so he made a reaction video. Cheating allegations came in, he made a reaction to cheating video. Runner did another run to debunk, he made another video. Basically he's a third party and gets a monetised video out every time one side of the argument says something. Streaming was a mistake. 
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Feb 24, 2024 15:44
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I just found the latest one (Monster Hunter) funny because of how low effort it is (you can see through the blindfold when the runner shows it beforehand...) and the whole self-feeding twitch/youtube loop that it generated. That's something HBomberGuy touched upon when discussing plagiarism and I found it interesting to see an example of it happening in real-time. Some of those are interesting technically, not really in the cheater-exposed way, but in the how it was done and how it was proven. Trackmania was really good in that regards.
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Feb 28, 2024 13:07
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Dark Souls 2 marathon on https://twitch.tv/soulsspeedruns to celebrate the (best) game's 10 year anniversary. Schedule at https://oengus.io/marathon/ds2bday/schedule. Very specific since it's a single (and magnificent) game, but it's neat to have all those categories being run back to back. Including a, uh, intringuing "stairless" category? As in avoiding all staircases? 
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Mar 15, 2024 22:27
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Bit of an underwhelming finish, but it's still a success in the end. And the conclusion even is kind of wholesome compared to the more usual speedrun drama.
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Mar 22, 2024 22:49
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Best outcome in the end: creator owned up, but stage still beaten.
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Apr 6, 2024 07:21
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In that whole story, I saw Bombs5 mentioned multiple times but never actually looked it up. Did that now and wow, that first (and only?) human clear is insane. From my dumb outsider view, it looks a lot harder and more improbable than TTH  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh2F5ngZTIo
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Apr 6, 2024 15:31
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Is it a regular run or one of those tutorials you're encouraged to follow step by step at home? My wife didn't care much for the Strider tutorial last time round but...
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May 10, 2024 10:00
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*remembers trying to find documentation for the typesetting software 'LaTeX' back in the days of the Altavista search engine, in the computer lab room where everyone else can see your screen*
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May 10, 2024 19:18
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Weird, I watched a long video on NEStris speedrunning a while ago and I'd have sworn it was him, but I guess it was someone else. It's a pretty wild run at any rate, for a game which at first glance looks like it doesn't have an end.
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May 14, 2024 08:27
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Found the Tetris video stuff I had seen in January on the NEStris killscreen (thank you Youtube history). Only 16 minutes, so easier to slot in as an appetiser for the 2h one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU I presume things have moved on since.
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May 14, 2024 11:41
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