New Speedrun Thread - I have gained the critical extra second by refusing to have fun

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E-Tap: Jan 4, 2004

RoadCrewWorker posted:

I kind of prefer the psychological "marathon luck" stage-fright explanation.

I think it's more the "marathon luck" than gambler's fallacy if I understand both right, with a serving of Murphy's Law as well. If I can offer a slightly clearer background, it stems from a long-running joke on PJ's stream dating back to I think when PJ and Mecha were practicing TMNT3 on NES for Summer Games Done Quick. As mentioned before, they would get suspicious if a run was going seemingly well, through either getting good enemy patterns or behavior, landing difficult tricks and what not. So much so, that if a random enemy showed up that either through erratic behaviour starts costing them time or lives they would brand it the debt collector of the run, enacting karmic revenge for how well they thought things were going.

After a while, at certain stages they'd ask themselves which enemy they thought would show up to be the debt collector of a run. One particular time they asked themselves that, a huge train whistle is heard from mecharichter's skype and they joked about that being the signal that the debt collector of the run has arrived. From then on, every time a train whistle was heard it was heralded as a grim omen of whatever run they were on, even if it was during one of their "casual" Worms matches. One thing leads to another and as these sorts of things go someone makes a funny image to accompany it, and a household name is born.

That said, now the debt collector is usually a scapegoat for anything going wrong, while PJ clarifies that things have to go right to begin with for the debt collector to get involved.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2013 06:54

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 17:20

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heeheex2 posted:

You guys shouldn't just say "get over it" and etc when it's a really lovely thing to do. Tickets are ~$220, she said tickets would cost >$350 each and >$1000 for a week at the hotel. Lying to get donations to go to a charity marathon is a pretty terrible thing to do. She lives in an extremely nice home with a husband to help pay for costs, she only wants donations so she doesn't have to pay for it out of her own pocket, which, surprise, almost all the people who are actually running games are doing.

It appears most of the criticism in this thread of where the money for this is going is laid on the assumption of it all going to Ssskinner and a couple others which seems to not be in accordance with what the faq for this event states:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1070pVgPdZF4WKYLtYEQNN4Vllih4DHMMjAO_mRt7p_o/view

I had a whole thing here but I'll leave it at stating the funds won't only be going to two people. If it's so troubling to think it's not helping someone go to do a run, this is also held to help Klaige get to AGDQ to run Bloodlines. And has also been mentioned in the faq, any surplus will go to the AGDQ charity as well, which is the standard procedure for these sorts of things now.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2013 08:31

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furry drum circle posted:

This is drama totally independent of that event. ~things~

Oh, well then. I feel a bit silly since I thought everyone was talking about the Chicagothon thing, but more relieved to be wrong here, and yeah that's kinda sketchy. With that aside,

Slate Action posted:

That run paid off, and Werster has slashed his Pokemon Fire Red Round 2 WR by 12 minutes (And he's still unsatisfied with that record).

While I only caught the first elite four of this run, there has to be a pretty crazy amount of hoping opponents use less time consuming attacks for it to go much further it would seem with how well things went.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2013 09:27

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Murphagator is starting to regularly speedrun Metal Wolf Chaos if you missed the madness from the Chicagothon event. Most of the charm is in the voice acting and cutscenes, but it's a good run to watch especially if you like Armored Core style games.

http://www.twitch.tv/murphagator For default layout.

http://multitwitch.tv/MURPHAGATOR For minimalist stream window and chat layout.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2013 01:53

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So feasel has a "Fantasy Final Fantasy" league going for his Final Fantasy NES runs, where you can bet what monsters cause the most trouble in a particular run, as if his streams weren't already entertaining enough.

http://www.twitch.tv/feasel / http://multitwitch.tv/feasel

http://www.feasel.org/fff/

# ¿ Oct 22, 2013 18:38

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Cannot Find Server posted:

Sessh, IAteYourPie and Countdown69 have been doing a SMRPG low-level race all day and it's one of the best things I've ever watched.

For anyone that missed it I'd like to emphasize here the "all day" portion of this quote as it's no exaggeration. The race conditions dictate that Mario cannot go above level 3. Normally this would be impossible from the forced boss encounters of course, but there's an item in the game that forces a "Lucky!" chance after the battle where you can either double your coins or exp at the risk of not gaining any of either. You could only play for coins or exp, not both, and it's randomly determined which will be at stake only at the end of the battle, so you have to beat a boss to even see what you can play for.

That said, if the game tries to give you the bonus chance for coins, you reset. If you activated the lucky bonus and either got normal exp or double, you reset. Barring funky statistical properties I don't feel like computing, this basically means for every one of your boss fights, you have a 1 out of 6 chance to actually progress past a boss you've already fought. :stare:

# ¿ Nov 1, 2013 09:15

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I missed the stream since I was working when he streamed it but catching up on it now, for anyone else missed it I feel I should link Sinister's recap of his Punch-Out record. It's a really good watch where he goes into extensive detail on what makes the fights work, how to speedrun just about each fight, where things could've gone wrong, etc. For a game that's basically been broken down bit by bit into a science, it's anything but boring to watch.

http://www.twitch.tv/sinisterwon/b/477949865?t=6m

I do have to say, after starting to watch his Punch-Out runs recently, I'm really gonna miss the King Hippo lucky number guess. :smith:

# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 06:22

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Cannot Find Server posted:

Think for a second about the amount of tricks that have been discovered as 'TAS-only' that people figure out how to do anyway, though.

Well, if you've seen either Romscout or Mecharichter spend literal hours trying to grind one heart refresh drop for either low% or pacifist runs, for this to require two back to back specific drops, it's not hard to declare such a drop dependent strategy as functionally impossible.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2013 10:37

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heeheex2 posted:

This is the lovely thing about having only 1 good streaming website, they can do whatever they want and there's pretty much nothing anyone can do about it except wait for hashd to un-die or hitbox to be not a scam :/

What's interesting is that twitter thread mentioning Horror putzing about in Werster's chat throwing around globally banned words and making conversation that could easily provoke jokes like the one Duke was banned for.

On the lighter side, feasel's aiming to stream Final Fantasy 1 NES for most of the week. If you haven't watched the runs before or think it might be a boring game to watch, following along with his "Fantasy Final Fantasy" where donators to the stream try to predict what the most dangerous and least dangerous monsters of each attempt will be is more entertaining and fun than it sounds.

http://www.twitch.tv/feasel

http://feasel.org/fff/

# ¿ Nov 20, 2013 07:18

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argondamn posted:

I will never look at that stupid cat twitch-face the same way again.

Hey, here's an idea. How about everyone that takes issue with this development focus on the event of an admin revenge banning someone's account for a joke instead of making GBS threads this thread up by reposting absolutely irrelevant "commissioned art". Please don't link poo poo like that here no matter how deep this rabbit hole goes. It's bad enough it's getting plastered all over peaches's chat at the moment.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2013 09:44

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Studio posted:

Edit: I loving love the jokes people make during these events though. Twitter is fantastic.

In peaches's channel as well, there was a cutscene of someone with a bad grip on language screaming "NOTHING YOU!" to mean she didn't have anything nice to say, chat responds appropriately with chants of "NOTHING HORROR!" Even in the most dire crises, the internet does try to retain it's sense of humor.

Crotch Bat posted:

By the way if you guys weren't watching peaches run TOTD:Overkill you missed a hilarious few hours with the chat and especially that final boss fight.

I'm bizarrely glad the end scenes were disturbing enough to yank the reigns from chat's impending revolution. And peaches typing out stream chat to the game to shoot the final boss with was a new level of meta I was quite glad I stayed up to experience. :allears:

# ¿ Nov 20, 2013 10:42

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Zamujasa posted:

Apparently the phrase "Remove Horror" is, itself, harassment, as is any phrase merely alluding to it.

Well, one thing is public opinion of this whole debacle has gone so out of whack that it is harassment at this point and openly so if you've seen all the negative stream titles on SRL today. All stemming from a situation that could've been resolved with one simple private message to a higher up admin willing to listen to reason, using Programmax as an example here that such a thing is possible since I guess he was trying to get in touch with werster about it. Instead, it gets blown up on twitter, reddit, SRL, here, and god knows where else to the public relations catastrophe it is now before any twitch staff even know what's happening or how to handle it. Even if for sake of argument we can make a case for Horror being a mad-with-power-loose-cannon administrator, it's not like Horror's the only one involved with this shitstorm brewing as large as it has. Let's not forget all the other admins popping into streams making the problem worse just demanding title edits without really explaining why for a while ending up with a lot of people unaware of the context. And of course the most glaring example being the official twitch support twitter account almost bragging about banning channels for it's "block party". It's not too far of a stretch to think admins or staff besides Horror took part in some of it, but I admittedly don't know enough of the backstage details on this to make that kind of call.

I did think peaches's stream title was a funny way of poking at it though for Typing of the Dead: Overkill before this all blew up though and was taken down rather unfairly, and the delayed closure makes me think it's the result of one (or maybe another) vindictive admin starting his shift much later and taking things waaay too far. I don't think it's too far a stretch for peaches's channel to be reopened if werster's is any indication as well.

absolutely anything posted:

Ahahahaha holy poo poo this is the best one
http://imgur.com/a/5SISd

Absolutely agreeing with this though, I got quite a laugh out of that one.

That said, I'm ready to let this sort itself out now and thankfully feasel's getting ready to stream more Fantasy Final Fantasy.

http://www.twitch.tv/feasel

http://feasel.org/fff/

# ¿ Nov 21, 2013 03:11

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pumpinglemma posted:

You realise horror is the lead admin, right? There is no higher up admin. Otherwise things probably wouldn't have blown up nearly so badly.

To be honest, I don't, and that being the case strike what I mentioned about repealing either of those bans. It seems like that would make the "REMOVE HORROR" chants a bit silly since him being the lead admin implies there's no other agency above him to do the removing. I seem to recall though that one of the pngs for the synopsis a few pages back had a separate admin outright state in a chat that "I'm Horror's boss, and he's not getting removed." Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to take sides on this or defend anything the staff has done today, just stating that for as unfair as any of the first bans have been, that it might make sense they're just as likely to be revoked if given the chance.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2013 03:33

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People really came through to get the best party member names for Feasel's Final Fantasy run.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2013 11:55

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CrashCat posted:

An extension to add even more lovely emotes? Yep, still just an "easter egg". Holy gently caress. I shouldn't be surprised at this point but the obsession with lovely emotes is just magnitudes more gigantic every time I look.

This is why it's funnier for me to disregard the custom emote shtick and just think there's several thousand grammatically illiterate teenagers around the internet saying "LilZ!" to each other in a horribly mistaken attempt at congratulations.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2013 22:30

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VgameT posted:

Kryssstal's streaming random goofy ALttP categories for her birthday. Currently: low% no damage/OoB/S&Q. It is as tense as it sounds! http://www.twitch.tv/kryssstal

She's on the third loving dark world temple on this no damage run. What the gently caress. :psyduck:

Edit: Ok, scratch that, past third temple. Also apparently 4 and a half minutes ahead of the last run she's done of this.

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# ¿ Dec 8, 2013 05:54

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heeheex2 posted:

Yea that was loving insane, my heart couldn't take ice palace.

Then it couldn't take Turtle Rock. That loving dash through the laser room. Then Ganon's Tower. gently caress, this run is like DVD worthy.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2013 06:47

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Soul Glo posted:

Any chance of that speedrun hitting Youtube (so I can watch it on my tv)?

Watching Jadin's run from SGDQ, and it's silly seeing him take so much damage and the commenter talking about how hard it is while knowing what Kryssstal pulled off

While it's a rare occurance that speedruns done on Twitch get uploaded to Youtube, this link should take you roughly to where the run begins, 53:45 into the archived stream:

http://www.twitch.tv/kryssstal/b/485782116?t=54m

It is a shame it doesn't play chat along with it, that was quite the experience for a 20+ year old game everyone thought they knew everything (or mostly everything) about. It might be a bit of a demanding category, but I do hope for all the 1200 people that got to see it end that it gets mentioned on TSSB tomorrow, there's probably at least a good 5 minutes of highlight clips in that run. Just about every tricky room and boss looks like the part of the old TSSB intro where Link spin attacks twice on the Ice Palace boss Kohldstare and it dies in 5 seconds. Then it hits you again that it's a low% no-damage run. :suspense:

# ¿ Dec 8, 2013 09:10

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heeheex2 posted:

he's freaking the gently caress out http://www.twitch.tv/calebhart42

Haha, that might be a mild way to put it, but this is cool to watch.

This link should start where his run begins on the archived broadcast for anyone that wants to go back and watch it: http://www.twitch.tv/calebhart42/b/488530036?t=12030s

Edit - Caleb's going to restream it right now. :getin:

E-Tap fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Dec 19, 2013

# ¿ Dec 19, 2013 07:52

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timp posted:

The most amazing part about it is that there were a few minor flubs in it, especially the first 4-5 stages. I'd say a 35:50 is possible, but I don't see it getting any lower than that without a crazy new strat coming along.

That's probably as likely as the Symphony of the Night meal ticket drop turning into a toadstool drop in the first 6 minutes of the game to maybe get somewhere a couple seconds faster. There's a couple slip-ups, sure, but his run had such ridiculous luck where he knows he's not gonna beat it until there's new strats. First try iceless, no dives from Storm Eagle, not getting hit in any Sigma stage to keep hadoken, landing a hadoken against Sting Chameleon refight, there's a lot of hurdles you have to jump over just to get a competitive run going even if you do everything perfectly.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2013 23:39

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So uh... did he just get the 23rd best time on that stage blindfolded?! :psyduck:

# ¿ Dec 26, 2013 22:47

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Oh poo poo, Battletoads & Double Dragon NES is back on the AGDQ 2014 schedule, according to mecharichter. This is the best news. :allears:

# ¿ Jan 2, 2014 04:52

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Thanks Internet posted:

Listen to PJ work this out on romscout's stream the other night was hilarious.

Yeah I dunno exactly why, but new strats wouldn't have been my first guess as to what would get it in, but I can't think anyone would hate to see it again except the two running it.

And it's not even limited to Rom's stream, their entire Battletoads & Double Dragon strategy discussions tonight and several nights before has been quite a loving thing to watch unfold. From the outside, if you just heard them talking about what they aim to do, you probably wouldn't even think they're talking about a game at times. "I wanna do the floor glitch before we do super saiyan linda"

Edit: and he just finished the Flammie perler prize, looks pretty loving amazing.

https://twitter.com/mecharichter/status/418624129059676161

E-Tap fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Jan 2, 2014

# ¿ Jan 2, 2014 06:43

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If you missed earlier Zallard's breakdown of his AGDQ run, he made a highlight of it on his channel. Among other things it demonstrates the crazy luck he got, how very quickly fights could go very poorly, and the importance of recognizing when you've accidentally gotten a frame-perfect counter.

http://www.twitch.tv/zallard1/c/3561116

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 11:57

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primelaw posted:

So I decided to look up CGN's youtube account.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CrazyGameNerd?feature=watch

His entire archive of videos is just

Yep, his TAS of chapter 2 story mode is pretty wild and makes the Blue Falcon live up to it's namesake. Also great is the incidental record on Cosmo Terminal with Blue loving Falcon dethroning some time set by a japanese player using Fat Shark (probably one of the fastest non-custom in the game) by going completely apeshit on shift boosts the whole way.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 10:03

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jerkstoresup posted:

Very nice. Coop TAS are my favorite because it looks like two people playing in perfect sync and less like a robot playing.

This moment in the Streets of Rage 3 Coop TAS is what made me start seeking them out more.

It's a few years old, but if you haven't seen it already, the Legend of the Mystical Ninja TAS is amazing for this, and takes every opportunity during downtime to make the silliest poses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXHrNqDZhg

# ¿ Feb 13, 2014 10:53

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Alteisen posted:

Wow Joe destroyed his old PB and took the CV4 record, great for him, he seemed like he was getting discouraged.

Absolutely! He has his run timed at 32:56, and the link for those interested (which should be a lot)

http://www.twitch.tv/joedamillio/c/3773509

I can't say I would blame him for being down about it, it looked like for a while Hanage would just solidly chip down his record while Joe works hard to beat it but has some unfortunate problem in either stages 3, 4, or 6, or really just about any stage now can end a good run with how competitive this has been lately.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2014 22:10

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car dance posted:

No, he didn't. The story that people toss around is not accurate and also is stupid so I don't know why people always bring it up. He did however cry on camera and scream at his mom. People at marathons have done much worse and haven't been banned so I'm not 100% sure why people call for his head every time he's brought up.

Because people on the internet are incessantly whiny fucks that just can't let poo poo go even considering it's been 2 whole years since he's attended a marathon event to my memory. I'm willing to give Romscout and anyone else managing it benefit of the doubt that if they think JMan's commentary could be a problem, they'll talk it out amongst each other before the marathon starts.

And yeah, "JMan always cries at the end" is a funny running gag and all, but that alone is a pretty loving petty reason to keep someone from running a game they can do well.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2014 22:41

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pksage posted:

I know nothing about DK64, but apparently this run nailed a new glitch and is on an insane pace:

http://www.twitch.tv/ringrush

I'm trying to process what's going on here in the archived video here http://www.twitch.tv/ringrush/c/3901761?t=07m30s and I have no idea. Apparently sitting on the menu idling for a minute or two is part of a process that I guess has been known for a while that lets you go on to get every moves on every character and poo poo. Just... what in the gently caress. :psyduck:

I have to admire it's consistency to join the club of being yet another N64 Rare game where staring at the ground to reduce lag is a recommended strategy.

Edit: I love that now the K. Rool fight and cutscenes are essentially half of the run.

E-Tap fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Mar 17, 2014

# ¿ Mar 17, 2014 09:19

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SeXReX posted:

I hope pie does another stupid long blind single sitting lets play stream. He might not be the best speedruner, and says a lot of really dumb stuff sometimes, but when he knuckles down for 16+ hours to not have fun playing a game something about it all just keeps me coming back.

I was hooked from the Super Mario RPG absolute low level run where you have to use the lucky egg on every boss, and reset if you don't get the 1 out of 3 no exp bonus :allears:

. God help him if someone talks him into doing that for the Demon Rush.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2014 06:49

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BloodWulfe posted:

SGDQ 2014 Schedule is up

This game list is pretty packed. Metal Storm, Clash at Demonhead, Shatterhand race in the NES block. Blasto with PJ on couch commentary, Castlevania 64, Noitu Love 2, tons of games I wouldn't expect to see at a marathon but definitely will be looking forward to seeing.

Weapon bid war for Super Ghouls and Ghosts should be... interesting. :stare:

# ¿ Apr 18, 2014 09:04

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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:

MetaSigma is either rusty or just nervous because he seems to be loving up his Secret of Evermore run something fierce at the moment.

Yeah as much as I've seen him speedrun the game normally I'm not sure what motivated the "100% all bosses" as a possible donation incentive submission to run, I didn't even know that was a thing that anyone ran. Sure it's the only category you can see some bosses on, like Salabog, but that doesn't seem terribly compelling for a marathon environment if you ask me.

Mostly I'm just bothered that the run has to do so much that you can't skip the banquet :colbert:

, easily the most mindfuck moment for people that remember playing the game way back when. Not to mention having to kill the first 4 raptors for money for alchemy ingredients and armor, where the normal any% route dies there as soon as it enters the raptor room (and later dies on Thraxx usually thanks to hard ball luck giving bad damage rolls). It certainly wasn't helped by having to reset the first time already 4 minutes in because trading deathblows with a raptor didn't give him the money and armor reward. I'm pretty sure the problems the run's having are not so much rust as it is not having practiced this category to pull off in a marathon for some reaseon

I do enjoy the person handling the onscreen graphic having some fun with it though.
Game: Secret of Evermore (what's a few % between friends)

# ¿ May 4, 2014 14:26

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I dunno, blind Hydlide might be a run killer if you don't already know how to get the fairies and items and stuff. Progression in that game made NO drat sense.

# ¿ May 29, 2014 07:45

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Heavy_D posted:

Given that Feasel and Legacy of The Wizard came up on the previous page, I came across a fun coincidence today - Feasel is the current SDA recordholder for LOTW! http://speeddemosarchive.com/LegacyOfTheWizard.html

It's under 30 mins, so while it might be a slog to do blind, it's pretty fair for someone who knows their way around...

If you think that's a dramatic difference, you should check the speedrun for A Boy and his Blob on NES, the game that TMR is on his 4th hour of playing.

God help that man when he has to face down other Feasel games like Hydlide and Deadly Towers. :suspense:

# ¿ Jun 4, 2014 06:12

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ToastyPotato posted:

The diets and lack of exercise most gamers have is probably more likely to contribute to that than staying up alone would.

And doing both, which is quite possibly true for several of the future patients discussed here, probably substantially raises that rate which is most likely why people here are concerned enough to talk about it!

# ¿ Jun 5, 2014 23:29

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Looks like Feasel's taken up another NES rpg to speedrun, this time it's Destiny of an Emperor. Looks like a pretty fun run to watch, pretty interesting that the speed tactic is to actually take the time to get good equipment to make all-out or autobattle more efficient than manual command, and the tactics skill mechanics are pretty intriguing as well. I was hooked when he recruited Lu Bu first try by just giving him a "gemsword".

http://www.twitch.tv/feasel

# ¿ Jul 3, 2014 09:19

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flatluigi posted:

I don't know why people want him to be banned from the community for it.

flatluigi posted:

It's lovely drama that should've stayed between the people involved and has nothing to do with speedrunning.

I think you answered your own question, if you switch around the order of those two lines. I really miss the good old days back when the only drama this thread wouldn't shut up about was JMan crying at a marathon, which he's definitely not been the only one to do so.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 08:17

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Selane posted:

By far my most watched stream these days is ThatsFairZack streaming Ancient Cave runs in Lufia 2. It never gets old because it's different each time and if he resets it's usually not because of bad splits but because he got brutally killed somehow so it's always entertaining.

I was honestly thinking of recommending Lufia 2 Ancient Cave any% as well, it's likely my favorite RPG speedrun category there is. I did hesitate at first with how much general RPG speedruns seem to make so many here turn up their nose and walk away, but seeing someone else recommend them has me seconding the motion. They always get so tense near the end not just with the monsters that can wipe your party in one turn, but being in a position of having to find more items and risking more enemy encounters or spending extra time getting around them.

They're probably more suited as something to watch as background ambience instead of something that's going to require 100% attention to watch. Most of the run is collecting chests and avoiding enemies, but the fun is from seeing how each run unfolds, whether it being the cave being generous with items, or punishing earlier fortunes by making the player cross enemy-filled rooms like Dragoncon 2013.

If watching runs like Mystic Quest and Final Fantasy 5 Four Job Fiesta are your kind of thing, you'll likely enjoy Ancient Cave any% runs just as well. eLmaGus also streams those runs from time to time, he holds the record for the category as well at 1:02:47 with the archive of that run here if you're wondering what goes into a run like this: http://www.twitch.tv/elmagus/c/4469483. Alternately, if you're wondering just how bad things can get, Thatsfairzack covers that as well: http://www.twitch.tv/thatsfairzack/c/5072118

E-Tap fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Oct 11, 2014

# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 07:01

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CVagts posted:

(nah but I enjoy watching AC runs for some reason, there are a lot of runners right now and it's random every time)

Part of it is probably hoping to see someone attend Dragoncon 2014, but since Ancient Cave is quite the hot topic nowadays, this seems to be a good time to mention there is a scheduled run of it by Ancient Cave pioneer himself ThatsFairZack in the upcoming Deuce-con 2014 event taking place on October 16-19 that will be hosted on Deuceler's stream here: http://www.twitch.tv/deuceler

Deuce-con 2014 info and event discussion on SDA: https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/deucecon_october_1619th_2.html

Deuce-con 2014 schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14vi_DeA151SCpMai9PpT1eL3BSbb0sUbKvZa-g-Hp1U/edit#gid=0

Something to note, Deuce-con is not a fundraising event and will not be taking donations, the event is planned as just a good excuse to have people that like to play games fast gather to play games fast together.

And if you're willing to slap science in the face and prove you're not bound by sensory overload you should also at the same time watch the upcoming and slightly overlapping Chicagothon event that will be hosted on Klaige's stream http://www.twitch.tv/klaige that will take place through October 17-19.

Chicagothon info and goal can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LeyJIvADxbWmLsZMjF_qGaN9h56-dm_Mm8SRvDk_bK4

Chicagothon schedule can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bHzuaVuoM9Tczl2sny8W64hSH1FnxS-Kads70P0joAI/edit#gid=0

# ¿ Oct 12, 2014 09:56

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 17:20

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Maybe, but I don't really give enough of a gently caress about that to not look forward to the Battletoads & Double Dragon run on that schedule.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2014 12:33

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