• @BigBlackCockroach
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    198 months ago

    they watched thousands of multi hour videos? that is lunacy 😂

    • amio
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      178 months ago

      If you take the meme at face value, sure. I’m sure they have to validate some runs, I’m also pretty sure they don’t extend that policy to 2500 spots down the list.

      but weirder things have happened.

      • @Moneo
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        98 months ago

        Most runs in general do not get scrutinized unless something about the submission is suspicious in itself. The community is very tight knit and there is nothing to gain from being on the leaderboard but clout.

    • credit crazy
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      48 months ago

      If I recall correctly there are games like final fantasy where the world record is still 2 hours long

      • voxel
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        8 months ago

        there are a lot of games that take over 24+hours to complete

          • @[email protected]
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            8 months ago

            Lul

            Yeah…

            I don’t even remember anything about that game but the twist.

            I’m not sure why a 100% would take that long though.

            Edit: Oh, right, the cards would evolve after a certain time, and one of them takes two weeks.

            So the speed run is really just “how long does it take to get this one card.”

            • @[email protected]
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              58 months ago

              Pretty much yeah, the runner still has to plan his two weeks pretty much to the minute and a whole lot of time save comes from optimizing menu navigation as time to evolve cars doesn’t pass on the menus.

        • credit crazy
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          38 months ago

          Man I honestly don’t get why anyone would try speedruning a game that takes 24+ hours to complete even if you skip half of the game

        • Ser Salty
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          Hugo One has a novelty run of San Andreas (novelty meaning it’s modded, e.g. Chaos Mod, Randomizer, and non-competitive because it’s not an actual category) that’s almost 70 hours long