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Bunch of pretentious drivel
Frenchie ... critic
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Bunch of pretentious drivel
Frenchie ... critic
Speedruns are about skipping everything and getting to the finish line as quickly as possible. Meh. Not fun.
Speed running is very dumb. Primarily because it is not what is advertised.
A person hearing of speed running for the first time would be led to believe that it is skillfully playing a game to beat the game in the shortest amount of time. But that is not what it is.
It is people skillfully using bugs and glitches to break the game in ways that are clearly neither intended by the game developers nor within the realm of gameplay.
Or just use a hack and hope no one ever finds out.You can't seriously attempt a speedrun until you played the game to exhaustion
schruThere's this Frenchie Catholic cultural critic/tech critic/art critic/phenomenologist Paul Virilio who wrote fair bit about impact of speed on society. To simplify it to the extreme, speed as a value unto itself abolishes all values, flattens difference, devalues time and space. It's inimical to content, to quality. He'd write of the stuff like the lived experience of driving car across vast distances, how it destroys your bodily conception of space, ultimately turns the heterogenous spaces you travel thru into homogenous flatness. Now think about the phenomenon of "fly-over' states in teh Murrica, and the perception by the coastal urban denizens of those spaces and their inhabitants, for the more extreme version of it.
It ties to the rationalist drive for efficiency for efficiency's sake, it's own homogenizing effects and inherent imperialism, obviously. The means become the end, become the absolute.
Ironically you'd have to be very experienced with the game in order to disguise it properly. That Minecraft runner with the bee skin that was caught a while ago for example would ignore routes that were less than optimal, even though he couldn't know since it was supposed to be a RNG seed.Or just use a hack and hope no one ever finds out.You can't seriously attempt a speedrun until you played the game to exhaustion
"The fastest way to speed run this game is to save, quit, and modify the location id in the save file. I've overclocked my system to get the best boot and load time..."Speed running is very dumb. Primarily because it is not what is advertised.
A person hearing of speed running for the first time would be led to believe that it is skillfully playing a game to beat the game in the shortest amount of time. But that is not what it is.
It is people skillfully using bugs and glitches to break the game in ways that are clearly neither intended by the game developers nor within the realm of gameplay.
And that is just not interesting, is dumb, and is not what a person expects when they hear of speed running.
Now, when people first started speed running this was a constant debate. As most people involved understood instinctively that the goal was to skillfully play the game to beat it in the shortest amount of time and utilizing bugs and glitches were not a part of this. But the endless debate over which individual actions were considered glitches or bugs and which were legitimate gameplay (as many can be edge cases and debatable) wore the community down. They eventually gave up trying to adhere to the original idea and adopted the stance that anything goes as far as bugs and glitches.
Much to the detriment of speed running.
Historically speaking, this is the most commonly used tactic.Or just use a hack and hope no one ever finds out.You can't seriously attempt a speedrun until you played the game to exhaustion
Correct, but truth isn't determined by popular opinion either. A fixation on glitches is a local maximum in terms of the speedrunning audience. Watching someone explain bugs and exploits can be interesting, but it doesn't overlap with masterful play very much. As others have said, calling it speedrunning instead of quality assurance is false advertising.Caring about what a random person might think of a term at first glance is how we ended up with "Halo is a RPG because you play the role of Master Chief". People who are not invested in something should not be determining anything about it.
Only a small subset of the sports viewership wants to watch training camp. The speedrun community needs to embrace head-to-head competition that showcases masterful play to increase its appeal.
If you're a speedrunner in the equivalent of the NFL finals and it's 3rd down with 10 yards to go, the optimal play is to... push the reset button on your N64.Only a small subset of the sports viewership wants to watch training camp. The speedrun community needs to embrace head-to-head competition that showcases masterful play to increase its appeal.
I find watching Age of Empires matches much more interesting to watch than any solo speedrun for that reason.
Only a small subset of the sports viewership wants to watch training camp. The speedrun community needs to embrace head-to-head competition that showcases masterful play to increase its appeal.
If you don't think this is true of speedrunning, then you must not be aware that ala Jurassic Park, nature found a way via hormones and dilation stations.Only a small subset of the sports viewership wants to watch training camp. The speedrun community needs to embrace head-to-head competition that showcases masterful play to increase its appeal.
The point of any competition is to get laid. Speedrunning is out. Hard.
you must not be aware that ala Jurassic Park, nature found a way via hormones and dilation stations.
That being said, can someone explain to me what's the appeal of Instagram as it exists today?