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fleshweasel posted:He looked like a normal guy at AGDQ which was refreshing considering the regular fare at a speed run marathon. Peaches and Cosmo stayed at my apartment for part of the Washington DC marathon (this is my only claim to speedrun fame) and they are both very chill normal dudes. I've been on the edges of the professional DDR and Smash communities for a long time, and the speedrunners I've met are Fonzie next to those guys. Got to see almost all of the 5:27:59 live, it was an excellent watch. So glad he didn't reset after the DRC BK skip.
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2012 12:49 |
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| # ¿ May 18, 2013 09:20 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Where the gently caress does Cosmo live? He runs at the weirdest hours. He starts a run at midnight EST and then continues for the next 20 hours. Earlier he was talking half-seriously about the merits of orange juice in staying awake for insane stretches of time.
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| # ¿ Jun 28, 2012 18:21 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Cosmo just made a really dumb mistake in the Wind Temple that very much might cost him the run. He's on tilt really hard from several small mistakes, and is now making lots more (missing the air jet jump just now). Dude needs to get his act together and he'll still have a chance.
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| # ¿ Jul 2, 2012 16:38 |
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UraniumAnchor posted:Though I'm curious what's wrong with the JW player other than it being tied to Flash? If it's the player I think it is (the embedded player here?), it's just very inflexible. No pop-out, no size changes except for 1x or fullscreen (unless I'm missing something), very difficult to find specific times on very long movies. YouTube's player is amazingly robust, and I'd always rather watch stuff there. I was watching this evening's Cosmo run out of the corner of my eye, muted, and wondered what made the Forest Water expire so early. Good (well, bad) to know.
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| # ¿ Jul 3, 2012 01:34 |
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He just messed up the first step of the Earth Temple "Muggskip" (which he also screwed up in the previous record), so he's down to -4:55. 5:25:00 is still on the table as long as he doesn't mess up Forest Water or something similarly huge.
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| # ¿ Jul 9, 2012 16:11 |
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He pulled off the new Ghost Ship chart pots skip developed by my old roommate Kirkq and saved himself a good 30-40 seconds  edit: Holy poo poo, he (pretty much) nailed the Puppet Ganon fight; -3:20 at the penultimate split. Can he beat Ganon while losing fewer than 21 seconds? edit 2: 
pksage fucked around with this message at Jul 9, 2012 around 18:07 |
| # ¿ Jul 9, 2012 16:49 |
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From what I know of the current "research", there aren't too many promising leads on big time-saving skips. The TAS miiiiiiight get the mythical Barrier Skip, where you go directly to Ganon's tower the first time you go to Hyrule, but even that might require getting the Hookshot first. The devs set up Hyrule in such a gently caress-you way that it's likely impossible to do any kind of barrier skip outside of TAS. I'm trying to think of skips that could cut half an hour off the run. A big ol' skip in Wind Temple or Earth Temple would be the biggest help. If we assume the hard requirements for Hyrule 2 are "get all the pearls, Hyrule 1, power up the Master Sword, get all of the Triforce pieces"...that's a hell of a lot of time with very few tremendous skips. And honestly, anything that skips more than a dungeon's worth of content -- like Wrong Warp / etc. does to Ocarina of Time -- kind of ruins the speed game, IMO. Watching Cosmo is a pleasure because there's just SO MUCH he has to do correctly.
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| # ¿ Jul 9, 2012 18:50 |
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QuantaStarFire posted:He's also two minutes ahead of his record already, and that's with gently caress-ups. Before anyone asks, because ugh the twitch chat is so bad: The JP version has much faster text, but the Cabana deed skip is much harder to pull off because the Hookshot controls are different. It's unlikely that Cosmo will switch to the JP version for record attempts. And this current race is just to Hyrule 1 (the first Master Sword), not the whole game, though I could see Cosmo keeping it going after the sword if he gets intrigued by the JP version differences.
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| # ¿ Jul 11, 2012 17:50 |
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Volt Catfish posted:Pretty much the only real bad thing that could happen now is a bad Puppet Ganon, right? Why'd you saaaaay iiiiiit  But yeah he should be fine.
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| # ¿ Jul 13, 2012 01:29 |
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5:20 will be a painful road, I think. Now that he's so low, he needs to get first try Southern Fairy or Outset on the cyclone every time, or the run is pretty much shot right there. He can make up some more time on the Cabana, too, but...it's the Cabana skip. I think he should go for JP, personally.
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| # ¿ Jul 13, 2012 02:28 |
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Samura1man just did Cabana skip (the actual hookshot/bomb door clip) on his very first try. I peed a little.
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| # ¿ Jul 13, 2012 15:38 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:What is with Cosmo and orange juice? I think it's reached meme/in-joke status, but he's just a nerd who really likes orange juice. I would love it if he unironically got sponsored by, say, Tropicana.
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| # ¿ Jul 15, 2012 19:24 |
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Zombie hovering in Wind Waker requires such an insanely high button-press rate to get you anywhere. My arms hurt.
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| # ¿ Jul 16, 2012 00:57 |
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Wow, the Japanese version of Wind Waker is so much faster. I didn't catch most of this run, so I don't know what kind of mistakes he may have made on earlier sections, but even with the extra chart time and a bad Puppet Ganon fight he's gonna be well below 5:30. I think sub-5:20 will be easy with the proper route, and he might even be looking at 5:15 someday. edit: Before anyone asks, it's because the text scrolls so much faster.
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| # ¿ Jul 17, 2012 12:41 |
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Nooooo Wind Waker runs are so much more entertaining I guess I'm just biased against Wrong Warp; MST should be pretty fun.
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| # ¿ Jul 25, 2012 16:23 |
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Volt Catfish posted:I cannot loving believe Cosmo is still streaming. He's been at it, what...15 hours now?  ORANGE JUICE! But no, seriously, it can't be healthy to have that kind of sleep schedule. 
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| # ¿ Jul 25, 2012 16:37 |
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Kirkq just finished his Bomberman runs, and is about to do Die Hard (NES) as filler before Cosmo does Commander Keen and Wind Waker. GOOD TV, FOLKS.
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| # ¿ Jul 29, 2012 21:47 |
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That was the first Bingo I've actually watched, was pretty cool! It's an interesting experience to watch Cosmo get schooled at stuff (I don't normally keep up with OoT). How much time are runners given to plan their route after the card is revealed? I missed the start.
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| # ¿ Aug 5, 2012 03:36 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:He says he's going to go for 1:44 I saw ~16.4k at the end. edit: Maybe it was 14.6k? 
pksage fucked around with this message at Aug 6, 2012 around 00:19 |
| # ¿ Aug 6, 2012 00:02 |
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Kennel posted:World of Goo TAS is some crazy poo poo What trick/glitch enables him to break off a small section of normal (black/green) goo and fly it up to the pipes? (Without balloons.) He does this in a ton of levels, but it goes by so fast that you can't tell what's happening, and he doesn't mention it in the submitter comments.
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| # ¿ Aug 7, 2012 13:30 |
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Alpha3KV posted:A new RTA record has been set for Super Mario World. Thanks for this link! I don't follow the SMW TASes and didn't know about that glitch, but it's super cool. Might have to try it myself. 
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| # ¿ Aug 14, 2012 13:17 |
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I will be sad if Barrier Skip never happens, simply because of how tantalizing it is. It's like the developers foresaw TASes happening and started rubbing their hands together with Grinchface.
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| # ¿ Aug 24, 2012 19:05 |
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Also, even Cosmo is having lots of trouble with WW Dive Storage, because it's two frame-perfect triggers in quick succession (doing the WW Dive itself and then hitting the tiny Storage window). It's basically a TAS-level thing that Cosmo is trying to do because he's Cosmo.
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| # ¿ Sep 5, 2012 14:30 |
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Sounds like Cosmo might be calling it a day for Wind Waker again pending "dry storage" having more reliable applications. He's been messing around with it and hasn't found any ways to abuse it for large enough time savings that don't require massive retries and luck.
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| # ¿ Sep 6, 2012 02:52 |
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Am I the only one who thought of Beedle after seeing Cosmo's hair? "Ohhhhh!" "THANK you!" "Byeeee~!"
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| # ¿ Sep 18, 2012 14:57 |
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Edoraz posted:That's a thing alright. He stayed over at my apartment for AGDQ last year. He's a little quiet, but not mega sperglord awkward like some people I met while attending SSBM tournaments. Peaches_, however, is super charismatic and nice and and 
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| # ¿ Sep 18, 2012 16:01 |
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Wow, that race. 23 seconds' difference over a 5 hour run, with them exactly synced following trials skip. Good TV, right there.
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| # ¿ Sep 23, 2012 00:47 |
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:Cosmo is -4:27 on his splits from his 4:57:04 Wind Waker any%J run and just beat the Wind Temple. If he maintains that pace, he'll beat Demon9's WR time by a little under two minutes. He also has like 2500 people watching him right at this moment, which is pretty wild. http://www.twitch.tv/cosmowright Sorry, should have known better, I've watched Cosmo for long enough to know about split weirdness. pksage fucked around with this message at Sep 29, 2012 around 00:19 |
| # ¿ Sep 29, 2012 00:16 |
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Long before I knew anything about organized speedrunning, there were the various challenge FAQs on GameFAQs. I tried to do a 15% Super Metroid run and  Nothing but respect for difficult low% runs.
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2012 22:45 |
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Oh man who do I root for I want to support kirkq but you're totally gonna win
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| # ¿ Oct 18, 2012 11:43 |
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Apparently there's a Super Mario Sunshine "do these tasks" thing, kind of like the SM64 one just mentioned...but for TASing? Kirkq shared this excellent entry with me, and I needed to share it with you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEmyYEb1Nr4
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2012 13:41 |
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Oh nooooo DBX accidentally failing to use the Life Pot from the pause screen while starting the final form of the final boss of Cave Story and dying
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| # ¿ Nov 4, 2012 04:58 |
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For both of you that give a poo poo about Quest 64, kirkq is doing some late-night WR attempts: http://www.twitch.tv/kirkq
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| # ¿ Nov 8, 2012 05:21 |
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fleshweasel posted:I don't at all but I'm putting it on to have some background noise for the work I'm supposed to be doing.. But this game has it all! HP grinding! Running around in circles! Dying repeatedly to the first boss in Hail Marys to the RNG! Good times, I tell you.
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| # ¿ Nov 8, 2012 05:30 |
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Huge +1 for USD$5.00 being the minimum comment-on-air donation. Just sell it like NPR does (for example) -- "Donating $5 or more gets your comment read on air! Limit X characters/words/microfortnights."
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| # ¿ Nov 29, 2012 13:38 |
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Just overheard on Sig's stream:Siglemic posted:Do I shower? I shower maybe once a week. Sometimes I skip a week, because I rarely go outside, and showers aren't needed. 
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2012 00:38 |
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Made these as AGDQ prizes. Now you can spam Twitch chat in real life! Might try a few more iterations of different palettes, it's really hard to convert stuff with lots of colors to beads.
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2012 03:51 |
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Aww, Cosmo was 30 seconds ahead AFTER the new "superswim gauntlet" (ending on Windfall), but then he failed the storage for bombs where the screen goes white twice in a row. Was such a fun run to watch, too. edit: Wind Waker edit 2: Duh, it's "password skip" and not "that one bombs storage thing". pksage fucked around with this message at Dec 4, 2012 around 17:49 |
| # ¿ Dec 4, 2012 17:31 |
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So if a block lists a ton of prizes, are people entering to win ALL of those prizes, or is each prize "package" within a given block given away separately? I think a more robust explanation of how donating for prizes works, with lots of specifics, would get more people to donate. I assume it's a random lottery, for instance, but are all donations treated equally? Why not make it so that $5 = 1 ticket, i.e. $5 is one entry and $100 is 20 entries?
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2012 18:32 |
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| # ¿ May 18, 2013 09:20 |
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:iateyourpie just put together a good run of Paper Mario with the new skips. He's in the endgame, and he cut 13 minutes off his Star Rod split, meaning the new WR is gonna be a 3:40:XX. And he got his mom to type FrankerZ into the chat and say "BoneMom, do you even FrankerZ?" out loud. My wife was watching the end of the stream with me and said "I think I'm getting dumber by watching this."
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