Honestly didn't know much about quake speedrunning before this channel. It's been very interesting learning the intricacies of it.

What you do here on this channel is important, it is called art, and thank you so much for it.

There's a difference between "self-indulgent" and "earned glory". You absolutely deserve to make a video like this when you establish a world record. Well done, dude, and congrats.

Cheers dude. It's funny, well into our adult years, seems like most of us wouldn't recommend spending time on video games like we used to. Every once in a while though, we get a reunion, a record, or simply a great playthrough that takes us back, if only for a little bit. I liked hearing this story about how you got yours.

You definately left your mark in Quake speedrunning. Glad you gave it a shot. ❤

Great to see you back with another great video! It kinda surprised me to hear that people challenged your qualification on doing a channel such as this. Your track record and knowledge of the game is clear enough for people to see, if they want to... Either way, congrats on your new record!

Wow, I like your videos a lot, but knowing your history just added up a lot to the history. Keep us entertained, my friend!

Thank you for the new video and sharing a bit of your history! You did it in a very humble way, and I think your fans are all happy to see content like this, despite you saying you never really wanted to talk about yourself. Keep up the great work!

One of my favourite channels. I feel very lucky that something so perfectly tailored to my interests exists.

Guys!!! The master is back with another video!!!

I love your slomos, especially with multiple runs on screen at once. It really demonstrates the improvements visually.

We want more. Master story teller. So chilled. Congrats dude from a fellow oldy.

This video was especially good. It's rare to find anything as well explained as this

I stop everything when you upload a vid, my man! Looking forward to this one

Beautiful run! Glad to see one of the OG legends still has it in him to compete at the highest level!

Wow what a great video and congrats for an excellent and well deserved record 😎 this was also a great personal nostalgy trip to the days of my quake speedrunning. Haven’t done a speedrun myself for 20 years and this map was one of my favorites. Glad to be featured in the video. Huge respect and keep up the great work! Perhaps I will try speedrunning myself one day again too…? Lets see 😉

>"ok here's the most self-indulgent video I've ever made" >spends half the video talking about the shoulders he stood on >spends the second half of the video saying "I think I did alright" Blessed lad. Was fun to watch another old guy see if he's still got it :)

An absolute vibe of a channel.

Speedruners are different kind of breed god damn you people are amazing, the dedication is always something insanely inspiring

Man, I so enjoy these videos.

This is my third rewatch of this video. I really really love the core message of this video so much i think we all get caught chasing goals in life and how much we value our time but theres something so potent about leaving your mark on something you loved and moving on with your life and that still holding a place in the history of it and being happy for those that come after. It makes me appreciate the process of it all, its not about being the best so to say and more about being apart of something and sharing your passions with others. I can't put into words how much i appreciate this channel and this video

Absolutely love your videos, thanks for telling your own story and giving us a bit of your own story with this marvellous game!

This is now my favorite Quake video, period. The editing and stylistic direction is just top tier. The storytelling is amazing as well. Both style and substance. Not to mention, you get to brag about yourself.

I wish there were a Quake mod review channel that looked at ancient mods with your same style and smooth voice. Relaxing, engaging... if you made a mod review channel I'd be all over that.

It's nice to have the record explained by the owner himself! Thanks for sharing all this insight!

Your channel singlehanded got me playing quake Thank you for the videos!

wow! that kill at the end is crazy! I love the recam, looks great!

dont ever think for a second that your own experience with the game isnt as valid as someone else's just because you arent as good, especially when you've held a record for _19 years._ it's something ive said on a few other speedrun history-related videos before, but it's always a really hype moment in a video on speedrunning history when the person talking in the video mentions *their own* accomplishments in said history that they are passionately talking about

Love the Podcast Style narration explanation with the history of the speed-runs. Would watch more, beyond just Quake!

Criminally undervalued channel

Don’t feel nervous about featuring your own runs, holding the record for decades more than qualifies you and it’s an interesting map to explain

Love your channel, and congrats on your new record!

Man, I never doubted your qualifications, with your ability to analyze, describe and explain the speedruns. Now this is epic, not only you know about it, you practice(d) it and you even hold a record yourself. Hats off!

congratulations! First speedrun video I saw was QDQ Movie 16:35 I don't know which year I saw it firstly, but yes this time still in my mind many years till today and it absolutely blowed my mind. When I saw it first time, it was absolutely insane. I've never been so good for this times. Get quite close at "easy" on some maps, but nightmare? Never :) great to see new records. Quake 1 is best game I ever played. First game which is fully 3D (except only 4 same sprits in last level of 4th episode). Amazing game which still so many years on my disk. Sometimes I install it and play from beginning to end, but "at quite normal speed" :D . Your videos take me back to my young years (I'll be 42 in few days). Thank you for take my old memories back in every video from you. Great to see that Quake scene still live

"Self-indulgent" he says, and then proceeds to give an eminently-listenable yet technically-excellent summary of his run and the history behind it. I'm no speedrunner, never really have been (I'm a completionist, my gaming instincts are wired in the exact opposite direction), but I can respect the skill, execution, and technical knowledge on display here.

i like your video style with the psychedelic guitar interludes and slow storytelling. one of the best of the summoning salt inspired speedrun channels

to be totally honest, I never heard of qake before like one week later when i just put the fraze, watched one video about quake history and your video showed, I oppened it and i can say that your vids are great, i learned many things from them about quake which i never thought is so damn interesting, te music, the scenes and amount of informations which you easily put in my head is awesome, thank you for being here and making this content

So I got about a 100+ hours of quake in so far and randomly thought I'd check out some speedruns, my jaw remains dropped. Wow.

Another great video, absolutely adore this series. Those serene guitar chords of the intro/outro echo the glow of satisfaction that come with having poured your heart into a run that'll truly stand the test of time. Anyone who has ever speedrun anything can relate to that feeling, and it's hard to communicate that feeling and all the history behind it, but you nailed it as always.

Something so immensely, viscerally satisfying about how smooth this game is to this day makes watching these videos as an outsider to the genre a treat every time. Always will have a great deal of respect for it.

Wow. I've been following this channel for a while, but I had absolutely no idea that you are Connor. That's wild. Absolute legend! All this talk about power bunny hopping makes me think a video on the history of bunnies would be interesting to do as well. I never could quite get the mechanics down even in the old days but now I guess it's even more technical.

It took me weeks just to finish Quake at all, on a SEGA Saturn in 1997. I like the chilled out delivery in your videos; it's pretty relaxing :) .

Was interesting learning more about your speedrunning history! Keep up the good work, Connor!

Man... the intro music is SO good! Glad to see a new video uploaded!!!

Congrats on the niiiiiice run, and thank you for another great video! I always look forward to these when they pop up :)

I don't Speedrun, but I love quake and simply enjoy your content. Please keep it up. :)

Congrats on the run. Really impressive!

Great stuff as always. I like the personal approach to this one

Congrats! Awesome run, video, and channel!

Great job on the video and the run, was a great watch!

Amazing! Been following the channel for a while, (been a fan of Quake since 1996 but never really looked into speedrunning that much until relatively recently), so it's super fascinating to see your personal history with it. I found a lot of your videos really show the emotional aspects of speedrunning too, which is a huge deal. Also as a student and a musician, the "boring" stuff amused me a lot XD Brilliant video and awesome playing, a record well deserved 💖

Nice run and record! Congrats!

Your videos and your skills are amazing! Thanks for all the details shared.

Thats fantastic! Congrats, you definitely still got it. Keep em comming! ;-)

whoa it's like christmass! congratulations and thank you for supporting awesome speedrunnners community ! ::)

amazing run and amazing video woww, you're one of my absolute favourite channels on here makes me wanna get back into rta runs ahahaha

love your videos man. thanks for making my year by uploading on this channel. btw you killed it with that flick to kill 3 scrags and then into a quad boost.

You are a mad man, I really love this record. Nice video bro!

Underatted channel! I'm so happy youtube recomend me one of your videos few months ago! Since then I watch every new video on release. Congrats for the record and many thanks for the great content!

Love the content ❤ great videos

Congratulations on record! It was interesting to hear about your history in quake Speedruns. Absolutely love your content!❤

Awesome! Thank you for this content and also for sharing your life experiences with us.

beautiful video as always. well done

GG! And thank you for the great explanations! Absolutely fascinating!

Beautiful video, congrats on breaking and maitaining your record.

Congrats on a great run /Martin

Hella atmospheric video, well done!

This is amazing man! Great content, great editing, great narrating. And congratulations on both keeping and retaking the record. Stay awesome man.

Interesting story. Also explains why the music you've picked is so good.

I always love to see more quake videos in my feed

Love these videos

What a badass run. Love this channel

Nice to see you have it still in you. Must have felt very nice. And thanks for the background, it really adds a lot to your channel. I have never played quake but I'm fascinated by Speedruns, the precision, the engine quirks, the frame perfect timing. I really like to see it and you present it in a very chill and informative way. Much appreciated, keep up the good work.

Fantastic video! Thanks for your time and effort into making it. The music fits perfectly as well. Congrats on the run! Grt, Quake player since 1996

Congrats love the content and skills

this is so relaxing. good choice of music and the tone of the voice.

sick run legend love your channel

Always nice to see new quake speedrun video.

Congrats man, really good job.

Super cool, congratulations!

I love your videos so much! Thanks!

Awesome video as always.

When I watch a video of yours I think to myself: yes

This was amazing dude, you're pretty rad!

Legendary man, absolutely legendary. The kids now aways are crazy with movements even over here in cod. I went to the world championships for Halo CE back in 2003 played halo 2/3 at MLGs til 2007 and I'm coming back to show I csn still hang by getting this very nuclear achievemt 20 yrs later lol trying to prove I can still hang with some old school style. Ur challenge to beat your old time is epic. This is prlly my favorite video of yours and I love the breakdown on still but ya this was personally epic this one.

thank you for sharing yourself, i was hoping to see something like this someday!

really good video, you are helping the quake speedrunning community a lot!

god i love the quad damage sound effect

That was wonderful. Awesome shit bud!

Beautiful run, man. Your down to earth attitude and good videos are really inspiring.

As always, thank you for these awesome and informatives videos!

Love you dude) you make Quake 1 community a little bit special) keep it up❤

another great video, seriously underrated channel, you should have 100x as many subs

Beautiful run. You've nine inch nailed it. Nice that you're back, even if for a moment. It's great to know that the old games like Quake and specific hobbies like speedrunning is alive and well. I miss my days in the first Unreal Tournament. So much fun, frags, frantic fights and friendships.

thank you very much, I really enjoy watching your videos :)

Thanks for this amazing video, incredible run, and the sincerity and striking emotional depth you bring to all the entries in this series. Also, at the moment I’m watching this the video is 4 hours old with 1,337 views. Nice.

I love that you're always telling your stories in such a calm voice, really relaxing despite the content being such split second accuracy requiring.

My knowledge never went too far past the odd QDQ vid so it's been a real treat to get some understanding of the specifics. Great work on the new WR/PB

Love this video! Fantastic way to show credentials, even though your videos are good enough that you shouldn’t need to have any skeptics!

youre awesome and its definitely not bragging if you can back it up 😜. i love the breakdowns