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Grand Kirby posted...

So I heard that one of the easiest ways to tell if someone is faking vision loss is to flash money in front of them. No matter how well they practice ignoring other telltale signs of seeing things, it's extremely difficult for human beings to ignore noticing money just because of how ingrained it is for us to recognize its importance.

I feel the same thing happened in that video when he saw a 1up in Bowser in the Sky. He immediately twitched and made a move for it, realized what he had done, and then ignored it and pretend he didn't see it. Like with money, extra lives are just something we're sort of trained to seek out and are difficult to pretend to not notice.

Speedrunners of SM64 absolutely do train themselves out of seeing the 1-ups, given that they are completely worthless to pick up even in a casual run, and extra worthless and a waste of time in a speedrun. I wouldn't be surprised if some SM64 runners didn't know all the locations of 1-ups in BitS because they're just that useless. You skip them and you don't even think about it.

Of course, the one time you MIGHT be interested in seeking them out is when you know you only have one life left and you don't want to do the trick to get into BitS again. This really shows just how non-serious of a runner this guy is though. 1) If he's this good, then getting back into BitS is no big deal. 2) If he's this good, he shouldn't be dying this frequently. 3) Of course, he's seeing through his blindfold anyway... and yet he's STILL died this much.