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GrimCyclone posted...

No official contest run will ever allow such inventive glitching unless it is explicitly allowed.

There really aren't official contest speed runs, and if there were going to be, odds are any major speed run-applicable glitches would be patched out in preparation for it. That's a fairly meaningless point to try making in more broadly discussing glitches in speed runs.

hypnox posted...

Personally, I think a speed run of a game is to play it as the creators intended.

There's a very easy argument to make that the vast majority of speed runs aren't playing as the creators intended, glitches or otherwise. Even a non-glitch run entails skipping absolutely everything that can be skipped, which is hardly consistent with the vision of the people that put it in there to be enjoyed. Now, there's also an argument to be made that the creators' intent is for players to have fun with the game, which means skipping everything is still consistent with that intent, but then that position means using glitches to skip even more stuff is also consistent and we're back to square one.

Really, the distinction exists because glitch hunting and execution is often a very different sort of mindset and play style from playing within the normal restraints of the game. Some people enjoy that different play style, and some don't, so you get different competition classes so there's something for both camps of players. That's all there really is to it. No need to start invoking any sort of ideals of purism or creators' intents or anything that would turn this into anything more than two people who like playing games two different ways.
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