This man deserves an apology for speaking the truth.
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I've never understood the allure of speedrunning, so maybe he's on to something because I've also never understood the allure of left wing policy.
That's a big reason why I like TAS, but find real time speedruns insufferable. In general the TASer will know exactly how and why the bug works, and can explain it. A real time speed runner generally doesn't know anything but how to do it and what it should look like if it works.
The resulting video is a concisely edited efficient package, and the supplemental videos are often in depth explorations of program behavior.
For a real time runner, the resulting record may be enjoyable, but in many cases the rest of the footage can best be described as watching a NEET fail to do something in a video game, while living a degenerate lifestyle spending hours being an antisocial recluse and eating shitty unhealthy food while spending hours and hours in front of a screen and slowly turn into either a thin pasty white vampiric creature or a butterball.
I think there may be a problem in a decade or so when social and economic shifts along with aging and health force these people out into the sunlight after they can't sponge any more off their parents and they don't have the conditioning to function well enough to get a real job.
If ever there was a class of people that would happily be made into pod people. Speedrunners are it.
And then you have something like Myst, where, once you play through without getting a bad ending, you find that you can finish the game, legitimately, within a couple of minutes of starting a new game. :P
its appeals to autists who can do the same thing over and over again, and its a way to feel "accomplished" without taking any risks
only the ones who can end up able to beat the records announce themselves, very proclaim in advance how they are going to go for records beforehand
As someone with ass burgers i would never speedrun the process sounds incredibly boring doing the same shit over and over but i like watching it unless a tranny or some woke retard is playing
is the rape of videogames.
and some are into that.
If you play a racing game the game doesn't really have an upper bound in terms of skill or performance: you can always drive a faster lap. For many other games that isn't necessarily the case. For example my favorite game is Hitman: Blood Money, and once you beat all the levels with Silent Assassin rating on Professional difficulty you have maxed out the game as far as it is concerned. If you have already done that many times, doing so again ceases to be a challenge or source of accomplishment.
Speedrunning is one way (but not the only one by any means) to make a bounded game an unbounded one.
As someone who casually speedruns a couple Metroidvanias, the allure is in mastery. For me at least, it's the mastery and intimate knowledge of a game I love. Imo, there's no point to speedrunning unless it's a game you love and are going to replay anyways as it requires the ability to essentially play through the game in your sleep.