>Watch a speedrun on Twitch
>It's some guy clearly still living with his parents
>Spend 8 hours a day grinding the same game
>Each run takes over an hour, if he messes up just once he has to restart the entire thing
>Can see him nearly bursting with frustration every time
What is the appeal of this shit?
Speedrunning is fucking retarded
Its a manufactured skill. People who suck shit at competitive games take on speedrunning.
Autism
Speed running is fun
>>320953073
No idea, and yet /v/ talks about popular speedrunners all the time
You ended up watching his stream though.
>>320953073
I have no idea, and /v/ talks about them like they are some sort of celebrities. I don't get it.
>>320953462
>/v/ talks about stupid shit all the time
ftfy
>Look at how fast I can beat this game!
When I was growing up, and still to this day, everyone I know used the idea of being able to beat video games exceptionally fast as an insult. I don't really disagree with them, it's a little depressing to see.
>>320953073
you're not supposed to watch him practice, only watch the small bits of runs where actually interesting stuff happens
I can understand if they were being paid to do this, but these people often do it for free. So much time wasted for a meaningless achievement, one that they will lose when a new exploit... I mean 'strat' is found.
Is this the speedrun thread?
The greatness of AGDQ start Jan 3'rd.
Please bring your croquet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56N17d4WnM
not every speedrunner is autistic, just 99% of them
>>320953843
already new what it was before opening
>speedrunner frustrated to the point where he is resetting every 5 minutes
>"maybe speedrunning isn't for you. You clearly aren't enjoying it"
>>320953073
Playing games fast and effectively isn't bad, the problem is when they start trying to beat world world records that don't last more than a month and shit. I like watching speedruns and try to incorporate some of their tricks into my routes sometimes, but copying a run 1:1 and trying to beat it under a faster time just seems incredibly boring to me.
>>320953843
I love self-aware people like that. I'd watch this guy play.
>>320953298
This.
Artificial skills.
>>320954173
yeah baby come on
>>320954173
Everyone loves rwhitegoose, I think it's his sexy manly voice.
>Speedrunner runs a heavily RNG based game like Pokemon
>gets mad when random shit happens
I don't understand this mind set.
>>320954368
Those games should be TASed.
Why don't TASers stream?
>>320954501
because playing games with frame advance and reloading a saves state every 10 seconds is boring as shit?
>>320953073
I only care if it's a racing game and there's glitches to exploit
>>320953073
I don't really understand the appeal of streamers in general
Do you really feel like they're your friend? Especially some big guys with thousands of viewers. Chat is a meme fest, who can make the most attention grabbing comment Kappa, streamers generally don't care and their streams are filled with donation bars everywhere
Why not watch some let's play channel? At least they don't make 5 hour videos every single day
>>320953073
Watching speedruns is worth it for moments like this. http://youtu.be/MqLKJ808J4o
>>320954760
Speedruns don't get a 1/5th of the viewer rate as let's plays
Man you guys are fucking retarded. Please actually attempt a speedrun before you run your stupid mouths talking about how other people spend their time.
>>320954838
>>320954760
yes, they usually think its his friend and the random fags in twitch chat are his buddies
people don't go to twitch to watch someone play videogames, they go to watch the dude do something (or girl)
>>320954760
Some are really funny. Not going to name anyone, but there's this guy who posts 10 minute videos of Second Life trolling on youtube, really hilarious videos, yet he hasn't uploaded any for months.
He streams games and it's hilarious. It's like his Second Life videos except hours long, just nonstop keks and lels. The only thing I don't like is when someone donates money to him and it shows an annoying gif on the screen with sounds and shit. I don't even read the chats.
>>320954981
>>320953073
It's like trying to draw a perfectly straight line or a perfect circle without any tools. It's frustrating, very frustrating, but the pleasure comes in witnessing the dedication come to fruition when you finally nail that perfect run. The end product. You're chasing a goal and to see the goal actually happen is worth all of the failures because, you go into something knowing that every route, tactic, or move is high risk-high reward. Most things less than 50% likely to succeed in any one run. So to finally execute a run where everything went exactly to plan, exactly how you imagined it, but it NOT being an imagination: it's fucking fantastic, especially when it comes to team-based games and you and your bros are all training together to get tactics down-pat.
I loved speedrunning when I had the time. Nowadays I don't have the freedom to burn 5 hours just practicing/failing runs for the next time a record attempt fails and turns into 5 hours more of practice/failing runs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEtvqWoq2x4
>0:43
Sonic tat man.
Anyone else got any funny, underrated donations from videos? Not the usual thing posted like crying lady and stivity bobo, but other ones as well.
>>320953073
>Spend 8 hours a day grinding the same game
>Each run takes over an hour, if he messes up just once he has to restart the entire thing
>Can see him nearly bursting with frustration every time
Pretty much sums up any sport or intensive activity. What do you think basketball players do in practice? How do you think runners train for races? How do students study for exams?
Not that I'm defending speedrunning, especially the autistic community. But if we're honest, if there were actual money/awards associated with it it wouldn't seem nearly as odd of an activity.
>>320955413
Sport makes you fit
Studying makes you smart
Videogames make you fat and stupid
>>320953073
>he argues with his mom at one point
>>320953298
Are you retarded. All skill is manufactured
>>320955198
But that's not a speedrun.
>>320955312
>spend months drawing circles
>draw the perfect circle
>yay XD congraduladions! ur nr 1
>forget about it 10 seconds later because who gives a shit
>someone else comes along and finds a way of making an even better circle than you
Amazing
>>320955641
Nice reading comprehension
>I don't really understand the appeal of streamers in general
>streamers in general
>>320953073
And YOU are watching HIM. On Twitch. For hours on end. I'll let that sink in for a minute.
>>320955312
There's no such thing as a perfect circle friend o
>>320955504
>Sport makes you fit
Depends on the sport; there are quite a few that do more harm than good at the highest level. Many professional athletes end up having debilitating health problems later in life.
>Studying makes you smart
Not necessarily, especially if what you're studying is useless trivia.
Speedrunning used to be what people did after they beat a game, then they beat it on the highest difficulty (for games that actually have really hard modes), then they found other ways to play it just because they liked it so much. Like Doom. Doom on Nightmare was naturally conducive to speed running because it was awesome, it was goddamn hard, and one way you fought through the high difficulty level was to plan a route and do things quickly because enemies respawned. You didn't give up because you got stuck for a couple seconds and had to retry for the WR or whatever, you motored through because you didn't want to die.
Now people speedrun just to say they're the fastest. The games usually aren't that hard at max difficulty, and speedrunning techniques either involve optimized corridor running or glitching through shit. It's retarded, and speedrunners are generally autistic retards.
>>320955754
Welp, I thought you were quoting OP for some reason.
Only people who talk bad about speedrunning I have noticed, have never once in their life attempted a speedrun. Once you actually start speedrunning it is addicting.
Making fun of speedrunners is like trying to make fun of someone trying to play "casually" like you guys.
>speedrunning is a waste of time
>streaming is a waste of time
>watching streams is a waste of time
>video games are a waste of time
>posting on /v/ is a waste of time
>breathing is a waste of time
just stop guys
>>320955930
I admit I don't have the skill to pull off those frame perfect tricks, if that's what you want to hear. Doesn't make speedrunning any less pointless.
>>320956054
>speedrunning is a waste of time
True.
>streaming is a waste of time
True.
>watching streams is a waste of time
True.
>video games are a waste of time
False.
>posting on /v/ is a waste of time
True.
>breathing is a waste of time
False.
Luke, did I ever tell you about the time I watched someone speedrun? He was the best speedrunner on Twitch, but his hands were a little dirty after resetting everytime he fucked up.
He smelled terrible and miserable human bean.
>>320955930
>>320954981
I don't need to try out heroin to know it's bad for me.
>>320956084
how is you bitching about speedrunners on /v/ not pointless? life is filled with pointless activities, and people aren't better or worse for participating in something that ultimately has no purpose
>>320956084
Playing games at all is just as pointless
kek y'all niqqaz y_ af tbhwu
Medievil doe
>>320956214
Shitty analogy
>>320956224
Oh, but watching degenerates rage like this guy >>320954838 never gets old, though.
Some speedrunners are fun to listen too. I don't mean shouting idiots, I mean the streamers that tell some stories etc, so it's basically a podcast with some game running on the background.
I usually just minimize the stream and listen only to the audio doing something else at the same time.
>>320954368
I want to fuck her so bad.
Replace Speedrun with playing games and it's the exact same arguement.
>>320956503
And it's equally true for boring streambait like CS:GO, ASSFAGGOTS, Overwatch and WoW.
One of the points you guys have said is "once a new trick is found your work is outdated"
This is false because almost all speedrunners are happy when new tricks are found. No speedrunner is like "damn this new trick means I have to redo my run" or anything like that. Again only you people who only see things in terms of money think this is bad.
>>320956690
No one besides AGDQ is making money off speedruns.
>>320953843
Destroyed
>speedrunners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WilkndNIIfI
>>320957057
caleb is the king of ragequits
>>320956690
>No speedrunner is like "damn this new trick means I have to redo my run"
I mean, some are, and it has nothing to do with money. Your point about money doesn't even fucking make sense, a new trick for someone that makes money on Twitch would mean the stream gets more interesting again granting them more opportunities to make money.
Sometimes people are just bored with grinding after months and settle on a time, then something big gets found but they just don't want to bother any more.
>>320955680
You do know there are international circle drawing competitions, right?
Anyway, enough people care. If it takes 8 people to form a team, then all I need is 16 people in the world (myself included) to enjoy doing the same thing to provide enough motivation. Ergo, it's all about competition. My guild vs their guild. Our tactics vs their tactics. Our builds vs their builds.NA vs. Euro. We had a long-standing competitive rivalry for a good couple years where we were always trying to best each other, and that provided hundreds of hours more fun than any other run-of-the-mill in-game activity that was intended/put there by the developers.
It also taught a lot about the game which was transferable into casual runs which benefited everybody as we all got rich way faster. It used to be that a casual run took 1h30-2h with a high chance of failure. Two teams competing to break that run down to sub-20m allowed so many new tactics, builds, and improvisations to be incorporated into casual runs as to drive those times down to 32-35min with 95%+ success rate.
It's great knowing a game inside and out by knowledge you could often only reasonably obtain by pushing something to its limits to know what those limits are.
Also it gave your guild name weight and prestige, because people knew you were #1/#2 at the hardest area in the game.
BTW Caleb (the guy who ragequits) is one of the coolest and most chill speedrunner out there
>>320953073
Speedruns are nice to get a bit insight view in teh codings of video games, especially N64 speedruns. Glitchless are just boring, nothing to see, just someone do something perfectly.
Some glitches can even be pretty hard.
>>320955625
I think he could have worded it better but he's right.
In competitive gaming if you can master the strategies available, make minimal mistakes and consistently win, you can be considered a skillful player. Those qualities occur naturally and can be applied to sports, chess anything.
Speedrunning involves speed obviously, and consistency and composure play a part but because you are technically playing against the game, it takes on contrived criteria, like no-glitch, 100% and can often become about who finds what out and when. There's a lacking human aspect to speedrunning that makes it less relatable, most people watching haven't done those glitches and have no frame of reference.
Also a big defining feature is that if a run goes wrong, reset start again. That doesn't work in a tournament. You can't just wipe away your fuck ups.
>>320957401
yeah right
>>320957460
qualities occur natural within a scene/game not always to the individual*
>>320957401
He's a tool and a faggot. Worst streamer you could ever watch. Trihex-tier, even.
>>320957724
>trihex
>speedrunner
well memed
>>320955504
>Sport makes you fit
Tell that to Charles Barkley.
Losing the Nintendo World Championships really fucked him up mentally.
>>320955385
There was one point, I think in Vulajin's Transistor run from AGDQ 2015, where there was a loud blast of static and shortly after they got a donation from someone whose friend had "just recently died from ear cancer" or something like that. I can't find it but here's the full run https://youtu.be/goZOrkmi2fY
Vulajin runs tend to be pretty funny.
>>320956129
life is a waste of time friend
especially if its yours :^)
>>320958240
Is that a real girl?
the one on the left ofcourse you pervertsI actually mean the one on the right
>tfw GDQ is too big and will never be fun again
>>320953073
>>Can see him nearly bursting with frustration every time
This. Everytime I watch a speedrun the guy is getting upset because things aren't going 100% well.
It's so odd seeing people spend so much time on something that they're seemingly not enjoying at all.
>>320954501
Because it is just one guy spending a week putting together a bot that can run the game perfectly and then he just loads it up and lets the game run
>>320958831
I was going to say yes but I'm doubting it
I mean her hair isn't complete shit and she knows how to use her face properly
ehhh
yes
I'll go with yes
>>320953073
>I watched a guy practice speedrunning for 8 hours
who's more retarded, OP?
>>320959270
the fun of anything competitive is not competing, but winning
anyone who did as much as t-ball could tell you this
>>320953073
>Twitch
>people stream shiny Pokémon hunts
>various involving soft resets
>thousands of people watch this
W H Y
>purposely lose a duel with your old student
>turn into a pile of clothes
How? Why? Why didn't Qui Gonn?
Lucas is a hack.
>>320953073
>watching a speed run
The only thing more autistic than speed running, watching someone else do it
>>320961129
Because he knew at that moment he would be way more useful as a Force Ghost than alive.
>>320954760
I stream because I'm lazy uploading content to my channel.
Since I like recording myself playing vidya since I'm a kid, I do so streaming, no cam, no mic, no editing, just no commentary longplay of vidya.
>>320958831
No he was a guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHmKDmWZUR8
Speed running fucks you up senpai
>>320961207
No, dumbass.
I'm saying why did he literally turn into clothes whereas the only other Jedi shown as ghosts have physical bodies?
Qui-Gonn, Yoda and Vader all are shown dead. Obi/Ben turns into laundry.
Why is Lucas an inconsistent hack?
>>320953073
>Watch an MMO on Twitch
>It's some guy clearly still living with his parents
>Spend 8 hours a day grinding the same game
>Can see him bored out of his mind the entire time
What is the appeal of this shit?
MMOs are fucking retardedThis is what you sound like
>>320962201
That's also correct.
>>320962045
Ben is the true force master and was able to turn his entire body into the force at the moment of death.
>>320953843
fucking Brendan, just fuck his shit up senpai
>>320957057
Doesn't this guy do steroids or something?
>>320953073
>watch a speedrunner on YouTube
>it's a delusional twink trying to be artsy about his autistic habit and mental instability
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EHA1qxsLH-0
Check out the comments
>>320962471
Nah m8, Yoda is canonical better.
Good thing Disney hit the series with a defibrillator because TFA is better than the entire prequel trilogy and the half of ROTJ that isn't the Jabba's palace scenes.
AND HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND
>>320953073
>>It's some guy clearly still living with his parents
you jelly or what?
why is it important to your point?
>>320962654
What the fuck is he even talking about.
>>320962654
>all the teeth are arbitrary
>>320962569
Yeah. He's a poindexter that tries to cover it up with roids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDHw35pWZvs
>>320962654
JUST
>>320962876
why would someone be jealous of that?
did that strike a nerve for you?
>>320962654
And people used to give me shit when I said it was a warning sign that he painted his nails
>Narcissa
>>320962654
what a gay
>>320954838
Was that WR or just PB?
>>320953843
rekt'd
>>320953843
Jesus christ, this will never ever get old, i laugh my ass off every goddamn time, not even being edgy you know.
I know it's depressing but i don't know man the way he talks is just hilarious.
>people thinking speedrunning is cool is the biggest goddamn meme on the planet
That's a big reason why I pretty much only watch tool-assisted speedruns, OP. You get the video game beaten quickly without the sperging.
>>320963461
It was extremely obvious because of that, as well as the extremely gay look he always had in photos. Anyone who didn't see it coming was too busy wading through a river in Egypt.
>>320963661
I don't know what type of run he was doing, but any% WR is like 17m40s or something like that
>>320953745
Pretty dumb logic senpai. It doesn't really matter how fast you beat something.
>>320963750
>>people thinking speedrunning is cool is the biggest goddamn meme on the planet
i almost died on that part
jesus fucking christ
>>320957401
Caleb is like my e-older brother.
>>320962654
>Narcissa
Well at least he picked an appropriate name.
>>320954501
Who is MagicScrumpy?
>>320954605
>>320960354
I don't know about y'all, but watching a Melee TAS in composition is pretty cool
>>320963795
And he and his fans were so defensive about it too, you would get shit for noticing or asking about the painted nails, even though he literally had a hand camera to 'show his inputs'. You weren't supposed to so anything, apparently
>>320964567
>MagicScrumpy
Didn't know about that channel, cool stuff.
>>320954760
I'll usually put a stream on as background noise for when I'm playing a game. I don't usually go in just to watch though. Sometimes I stream shit like VtMB because my friends like to watch
>>320962654
what the fuck
>>320962045
Yoda does vanish you mongoloid
https://genvideos.org/watch?v=Star_Wars_Episode_VI_-_Return_of_the_Jedi_198#video=DFy-BHnx-QFJlZqqsUm6sw4jzmG2LG6L0yUOvja-S-E
45 minute mark
>>320953073
Seriously, I've seen some games that can be completed in less than an hour optimally. Why would you ever want to speed run something longer? It's torture.
The autists are startled easily but soon they'll be back, and in greater numbers.
>>320954838
>that screaming strat really used up a lot of his time
That's it. That's the only time I've ever laughed out loud at a fucking youtube comment.
>>320965472
REEEE REE REE REE REEEEEEE
>>320953073
to me speedrunning is like those assholes who upload basketball trickshots on youtube. They try the same trick shot over a hundred times and film every attempt and when they finally get it in by pure chance upload that one to youtube.
SPEEDRUNNING?
