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KainWind posted...

I haven't been paying close attention to SM64 lately but I'll try to see when there's a new WR with carpetless. I'm honestly excited. I hope one of the OG runners can hit it at least once before Suigi sweeps in. No offense to him but I assume he will get it and keep it at some point based on all the other runs of his I've seen. Haven't seen him try 120 though. I'm a fan of simply so I hope he gets a good one even if it isn't WR.

As a word of caution, it could still be a very long time before we see a WR with it. As of now, it's still far from easy, and arguably will result in many more dead runs than not. Now, I hear you can actually get it 2nd try (as in die the 1st time) and still save a little bit of time, but I don't know how concrete that is.

Luckily for you, other runners still have a lot of time before Suigi is capable of doing destruction. While Suigi knows 70 star, the jump from 70 star to 120 is enormous as 100c stars truly are a behemoth to learn, along with the other slow, long stars. He's been doing practice of each stage, and so far, he's only at LLL, so quite a ways to go before he probably will feel ready to even start runs. Being as young as he is, his motivations can change real quickly, and he might burn out, which is a frequent thing for young runners that specialized in shorter categories like 16-star trying to go to 120-star. Weegee's success in 16-star and 120-star is kinda an anomaly in a way.

Simply is definitely capable still, but admittedly, I do feel like he's slowly falling more and more behind other top runners, in terms of potential. He has a really, really good run once in a while, but I feel like ever since March of 2021 when the game kinda beat him down mentally, he's never quite been the same in terms of the grind, which is fair. He's also focused on other things outside of speedrunning, so kinda makes it hard to keep up with the people grinding for 8-12 hours a day. I love Simply, though, so I hope he proves me wrong. I'm interested in Liam, as he arguably was 136 capable before carpetless, and has killed so many world record potential runs over the last few years. The dude honestly should have WR, but it's obvious the jitters destroy him in RR and Bowser throws more than anyone at his level.

Regardless, we might see a whiplash of world records in the near-future, even if it does take a few months (before Suigi comes in that is).

Starks posted...

I don't think 100 coin changes that much beyond the idea that you're doing it carpetless. And even then, the carpetless doesn't occur until the literal point where you get that 100th coin.

A 100c with carpetless was actually discussed today, and it supposedly saves 3 seconds over cannon + 100c. Only problem is I hear shy guy rng is more necessary in the carpetless route. Additionally, if 3 seconds is true, I feel many runners would take the advantage of needing to do one less lakitu bounce in the run over that tiny bit of timesave.