Ah yes, gamification.

Yes

Horrifyingly fitting Dimentio pfp. The only thing missing is the laugh

Katamari anyone?

he could also be sponsored by G-fuel

The musician life style is just pratice, pratice, pratice, go insane, and go to sleep everyday. We are making fun off speed running. It's the same life style for a serious musician who puts in the effort to become good at instrument. That's the cycle for at least 10 years, but I tried Doom speedrunning, and I don't know how people do it until they get a WR.

There is a way Summoningsalt has with his videos that is the pinnical of speed run reviewers, like jcs is for criminal psychology and sociology, or devs react for highlighting thr differences between the programmer designer and the runner.

Summoning salt is the OG when it comes to soeedrunning videos, he's like the tony stark of the MCU

@@masterdon187 Marvel reference, banned.

SummoningSalt is also the gold standard for Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!

Inb4 Mario 64 runners start sticking a peice of Uranium in the console.

​@@fatcthulhu4904speedrunners carefully aiming a particle accelerator at the exact physical location the 3rd bit in the y position byte:

It was most likely just a crooked cartridge.

@@Chrischi3TutorialLPs pannenkoek is the ultimate chad of autism

@@jacqli69 that's not how computers work. Cartridges don't just flip random bits in the computer's memory.

Any French philosophy post-Rousseau is essentially a magazine. You rube.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a mans heart

@slater666 /woosh

Gamer Gunk is the best trick for gamer dudes and dudettes.

What the actual f^%k? ಠ_ಠ

@@robertlupa8273 Yep, that was my reaction too.

it wasnt just believed, damaging the disk at certain spots would make music load more slowly and as a result it made lag clips significantly more consistent. the reason they stopped was because they changed the rules to allow using homebrew to store the game on the hard drive to help preserve the remaining game disks, and all runners switched to that because it also resulted in faster loading times

God that gave me a good laugh.

Actually... why the hell does sisyphus actually does it? Like, he's in hell already, he could just say "fuck it" and give up, maybe he'd get punished but that would add a bit of variety to the torture. So like, is there a canonical reason why he does it anyway instead of going on a strike or something?

@@Laezar1it’s hell

@@Laezar1 A. The Furies are so much worse. Even the monotony of the boulder is preferable to being a creative outlet for the nightmare torture demons*. B. It's a parable and "canon" isn't really such a big deal for it. It's an illustration of a moral lesson and a conceptual idea. The idea of literal canonicism is a fairly modern one. *The Furies aren't demons in the Christian sense but you get the idea.

@@BloodyAltima Yeah I know it's a parable, but like if you look at a myth like tantalus the punishment is something they have no control over. Sisyphus however feel like he could just give a middle finger to the punishment so I find interesting that it isn't even considered as an option in the myth (as far as I'm aware).

@@Laezar1 maybe he thinks he can actually do it? I don't know if that's part of the "official" myth but in the version I heard, following happened: After tricking the gods of death twice, some god decided to give him a fitting punishment and thus created the boulder task. "carry this boulder up this hill and you are free" Sisyphus was happy to have such a easy task as punishment and imagined himself to be free soon. Of course he would have to realize eventually that his task is impossible but in a Greek myth it is easily imaginable that his mind was corrupted. Another idea I had is that just nothing surrounds him so, just darkness and silence, no punishment (->he has nothing better to do). Also excuse bad englisch please

This or becoming rank 1 (best player) in any field. Climbing that mountain, watching the others slowly reach you and having to weather the storm until someone inevitably pushes you down the mountain. Then you have to climb the mountain once again.

Speedrunners aren't being forced, they can take breaks, and playing video games is not equivalent to torturously rolling a rock up a hill. They aren't really analogous

@@a2rhombus2well, the story of Sisyphus isn’t real, and Speed running is real. They really aren’t analogous.

Life itself is a real life analogy of the story of Sisyphus

One must imagine Sisyphus happy tho

I really have to respect anyone who has all the Achievements/Trophies in Spelunky HD and Spelunky 2. I have played Spelunky 2 several times a day since it was released at Steam and I still have not reached Sunken City. With Spelunky HD I have reached Hell maybe 5 times but I have never killed Yama. Both are surprisingly difficult games. I have 631 hours in Spelunky HD and 356 hours in Spelunky 2 and I still suck at both.

Ayyy, fellow spelunky enjoyer! Love to see it

Do you put those accomplishments in your Tinder profile?

4 minutes is really impressive! I can barely do sub-4 and ngl I probably can't even do sub-6 now

I think he's being blessed

@@MrStanFungi for me to be here I would have to agree

Indeed.

Blessing received

Got me here

This was very nice, thank you :)

I think it’s just interesting to see how far gamers can push the boundaries yet knowing we have lives and couldn’t imagine putting in so many hours to one certain thing so it’s fun to see it through someone else

Godspeed my dude.

I think it's fun to either discover ways to break the game, or just watch people who've mastered the game flawlessly glide through a level. But all the speedrun jargon makes me groan.

Well, that certainly deflates a lot of mystique around that story.

@@Nyjietha I've heard many people mention the bit flip, they're the first to say otherwise. I'd take this with a grain of salt

Well i choose not to believe your theory... because the alternate is a million times better and neither one is proven to be true :]

Veritasium has a video on how cosmic rays can flip bits and uses the SM64 upward as an example. Not saying it's right or wrong but cosmic rays can and do mess with computers. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8eKkrWE2ZavgGw.html

@@timeSlidrGaming You guys are still choosing to ignore Occam's Razor. A cosmic ray is an astronomically unlikely event and has never been recorded to happen any other time. A cartridge tilt is known to cause issues in SM64 games and is magnitudes more likely to be the cause of something like this.

true

He's LOOSE!

@@zxylo786 Nothing could possibly bring "real" rewards or consequence. The richest man and the poorest man both end up as worm food in the end. Even if humanity persists for a billion billion years, at some point something is going to wipe us out, whether heat death or big crunch or our own stupidity. That's what nihilism/absurdism is; the realization that nothing matters. What you do with that information is up to you.

@@zxylo786 I'm going to answer the second paragraph first, since I think the answer is less interesting: I don't base my ideology on anything any particular person says, I looked up words for what I am and learned that nihilism is the name for it. My beliefs are based on the reality I observe; the universe seems to be meaningless based on all of my perceptions of it, so until evidence to the contrary appears that's what I'll believe. But now for the more interesting part. What makes those short term rewards you mentioned "real"? I swear I'm not trying to be contrary, I genuinely don't understand why people put their instinctual desires on a pedestal and act like they "matter" somehow. I am a mass of atoms, a computer made of meat. I am programmed to like certain things and dislike certain things, but that programming is based on the iterative process of natural selection; on whether the behaviors that those likes produce are useful for reproduction, not whether they are "real." Why should I pretend my existence has more value than, say, a random insect's, or a piece of art, or a stone at the bottom of the ocean? I value myself subjectively based on my instinct to self-preserve, but that instinct isn't any "realer" than any other reason. There's no truth value to it; I can say "I exist," that's demonstrable. "I matter" is merely a statement of opinion. I hope that we can have a real friendly discussion about this, since I find this sort of thing interesting. I don't think either of us are going to convince the other (saying you find nihilism stupid doesn't make me confident, but I can definitely admit that I find non-nihilism stupid as well, heh heh), but I hope the back-and-forth can at least be entertaining to read.

​@@Grass-Moss he sits inside and argues on KZfaq comments. Nothing he does has any meaning, he's lashing out rn lmao

absurdism is an excuse for the weak to shirk off the responsibility and moral accountability that they know they have. something they tell themselves for comfort so they can do whatever they please as their own soul rots away

@@shawcrow5780 "Morality is an excuse for the weak to ignore the terrifying pointlessness of their own existence." So how easy it is to turn something around? If you want to convince someone of something, try having an actual argument.

Most runners do not know much on their own, its generational community knowledge and pillars of people who know the advanced workings to pull apart and share, most runners only know so much because others told them about Why doing X and Y magically causes you to skip half the game, rather than figuring it out from scratch

You should try speedrunning shorter games, instead. I'd highly recommend it

When I got to that point in the video, Waltz No. 2 was the only option. It's such an underrated classic

also your twilight zone mario sound joke cracked me up

This was the comment I was waiting for Lmao, thank you

Exactly what Ludi said!

Glad to see it was noticed!

Hades watch for rolling rocks in 0.5 A presses%

@@brandonporter8509 But first we need to talk about paralle universes

Yeah, I'd say it's pretty swell man :)