Not to dump on the speedrunning community, but you need to have a certain level of autism in order to be a member. You just do. You devote your live to shaving tiny amounts of time off playing a game in a very specific way over and over and over. It just doesn't sound fun. I don't care how much I love playing games, I just couldn't do that to a game I enjoyed, or it would kill it for me. I'd stop playing and start gaming the game. At that point it's more work that game. And for what? You get your name on a website as the fastest time, until someone beats it. So it's no wonder that it attracts societal outcasts.