Speedrunning can be interesting from a watching standpoint, simply to see peak efficiency and how to accomplish tasks in manners you'd never consider playing normally. (Which is why glitchless is the only real category, fight me homos)
Its unfortunate that in order to watch that, you need to be exposed to speedrunners themselves who are usually awful all around.
The kind of people who can obsessively play a game over and over again, multiple times a day, for months on end, are not going to be the most mentally sound people.
I'll never understand speedrunning and furthermore why these degenerates seem to flock to it.
Let me watch nerds exploit bugs to get to the end of games faster. Will the excitement never end?
Autism
Many speed runners are autistic Many troons are autistic
That’s the link.
Speedrunning can be interesting from a watching standpoint, simply to see peak efficiency and how to accomplish tasks in manners you'd never consider playing normally. (Which is why glitchless is the only real category, fight me homos)
Its unfortunate that in order to watch that, you need to be exposed to speedrunners themselves who are usually awful all around.
The kind of people who can obsessively play a game over and over again, multiple times a day, for months on end, are not going to be the most mentally sound people.