• SSTF
    2035·
    1 year ago

    I wake up every day grateful that I’m not into speedrunning.

    • drolex@sopuli.xyz
      1234·
      1 year ago

      I wk ∆ evryday gr8tful tht im no in2 spdrning

      Beat you. Git gud grub

        • Cano@lemm.ee
          51·
          1 year ago

          The greek keyboard speedrun strat. The delta looks like an “up” arrow so he can shave off 0.02 seconds and he doesn’t need to write the whole word

          • webadict
            25·
            1 year ago

            Honestly, that strat went out the window once we got the ^. No need to waste time using the Greek keyboard exploit, expecially since the top runner was found to be using macros to emulate anyway.

            • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
              9·
              1 year ago

              ^ needs 2 keypresses, shift+6. You might as well just type “up.” Also note that the speedrunner here used a capital i, also an excess keypress, except for the fact that you’re allowed to be holding a key down before you start. Just a bit of showing off, I guess.

              • mcmoor@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
                5·
                1 year ago

                But if you hold shift since the start you can practically type ^ in 1 press, or in this case 1.5 press would be more appropriate

                • Daft_ish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  No, unless you’re using the 5 finger style it’s proven a non-dominant stroke is negligible since 6 is in the C1 vector and shift is in in the A4 vector.

      • LazaroFilmEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago
        wakeup(){
  while(day){
    if(!speedrunning){
      me = grateful;
    }
   }
sleep(86400);
}
  • darthelmet
    811·
    1 year ago

    I’m not that familiar with the speedrun community, but no way they do much checking for any runs that aren’t reasonably in contention for a top spot right?

        • baldingpudenda
          16·
          1 year ago

          I can’t remember which game it was but one of them said they checked the splits and looked at either the harder parts of runs or where they runner shaved time the most. Makes sense to my slow ass that looks at mostly mario64 streamers and can barely BLJ

          • Dkarma
            1·
            1 year ago

            Now I wanna see the SW that compares the 2 runs and shows where one got faster so you can zoom in there…

    • Hrvatskii@lemm.ee
      40·
      1 year ago

      I used to be a speedrun verifier for Portal a while ago and in general we’ll reject anything that looks like very little effort was put in it. For Portal this would be runs somewhere above the hour mark, but obviously this varies for other speedrun communities which I can’t speak for. For actual runs though it’s common to watch them on 5x speed or faster as it’s still relatively easy to catch someone breaking the rules at that speed. It also drastically speeds up the time it takes a run to get verified for such a popular game with a limited amount of volunteer verifiers.

      • A_Very_Big_Fan
        5·
        1 year ago

        I was the first person to do a 25x Inbounds run and I felt bad that someone had to verify it. It took like 6 hours with multiple instances, though, I doubt they actually kept track of the whole thing lol

      • DaCookeyMonsta
        161·
        1 year ago

        My God, this guy has taken longer to beat the game than the amount of time it’s been available. How is that possible?

      • SSTF
        1·
        1 year ago

        Fallout 2, 13 year in-game run, any %.

    • dangblingus
      21·
      1 year ago

      Some of the more competitive games don’t even demand that you submit a video of your run if you aren’t in contention for the top 10. Some games you can just “claim” a time and you’ll be added to the leaderboard.

    • andros_rex
      8·
      1 year ago

      Depends on the game/community I think. There’s probably common tells for different games - eg if it’s obvious someone picked a good seed for Minecraft. Probably don’t have to watch the whole video, just skip to a few critical points.

    • Agent641
      16·
      1 year ago

      For Factorio, its blazingly fast but also insanely slow.

        • Forester@yiffit.net
          32·
          1 year ago

          You’re better off with space engineers at least you can get off planet once you build a large enough factory

          • Maalus
            2·
            1 year ago

            They literally added space exploration to Factorio. Also, space engineers isn’t a factory building game, it’s a ship building game. Also, Empyrion is better than Space Engineers. Also, Avorion is better than both of those.

    • amio@kbin.social
      17·
      1 year 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
        9·
        1 year 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
      4·
      1 year ago

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