Current Events > The goal of a speedrun is to promote radical leftist, borderline Communist ideal

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https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1449360767619411978?s=21







Dude galaxy brained so hard his logic circuit collapsed into a black hole

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LMFAO

Like ignoring the rest (which is so utterly moronic it's not even worth trying to engage), who the fuck actually thinks a speedrun is easy? People doing those spend a ridiculous amount of time practicing.

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Anymore speedrunning is all about abusing the fuck out of glitches & exploits, which is not at all the same as when it was about maxing out your skill on a game. Neither is particularly appealing to me though.

Is that an actual person who regularly posts relatively normal things or just a troll account?

pfh1001 posted...

which is not at all the same as when it was about maxing out your skill on a game.

depends on the game and, of course, the specific category being runned
there's still stuff for purists like you

This reads like a shitpost


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Damnit, now I'm a radical leftist and borderline communist because I've done some speed runs.

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Saying the left lacks work ethic makes no sense

"Lazy" people on both sides, and leftists have every reason why not to work and what not. I don't even know how the right justifies it, tbh.

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I'm more of a 100 percent no damage run person myself

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Saying the left lacks work ethic makes no sense

"Lazy" people on both sides, and leftists have every reason why not to work and what not. I don't even know how the right justifies it, tbh.

They love any stereotype they can use to demonize their boogeyman "The Left" and it doesn't have be to true or make sense in the slightest.

They're especially fixated on anything that they can use to attack masculinity with, for example cuck, being effeminate, jobless, physically weak, emotional etc. Slightly off topic, but it's really interesting to me that this is the focal point of insults for the ignorant alt-right and those adjacent.

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What I don't understand about the speedrun community is the correlation between trans gamers and speed runs.

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pfh1001 posted...

Anymore speedrunning is all about abusing the fuck out of glitches & exploits, which is not at all the same as when it was about maxing out your skill on a game. Neither is particularly appealing to me though.

Say you have never actually speedran without actually saying you haven't speedran.

As a speedrunner myself, (got a 1:03 in Super Mario Odyssey and a WR in another game (albeit it's only got 5 on the leaderboard so nothing too big)), speedrunning very often increases your skill in nearly every game you play. A guy who learns to speedrun will be much better at a game than someone who doesn't (especially in platformers). A lot of challenges that were hard casually are extremely easy, and fyi, SMO doesn't have many glitches or exploits in the first place.

Also, the speedrunning community has plenty of alt-right people in the community as well as progressives. Speedrunning is the most niche of niche in the competitive gaming community, far below MOBA's, FPS, and fighting game communities, so it's only natural that it draws people that are more on the "outside" of human cliques anyways. Speedrunning isn't really something a normal person finds themself doing because it's rarely something you can actively enjoy with someone else (sure you can race, but it's not like fighting games where you can play with your friend). It takes months and years of dedication to ever become good at it, and your reward isn't really that big in return if you don't WR (and even if you WR, if the game is dead, no one will care anyways). Lastly, despite how we perceive it on twitch, the average person looks at speedrunning as a large waste of time, so even if you compare it to the likes of olympic sprint categories, it doesn't have the prestige those give. No one called Usain Bolt a loser for being fast irl, but even the most popular of speedrunners are called horrible names and told they wasted their lives (despite pulling in big money) with every YT video they post.

With all those factors in mind, it's just a hobby that doesn't mesh with a standard lifestyle. In a world of fighting games where a win is a win and a loss is a loss, and not placing first in tournaments still earns you prestige, speedrunning is the opposite. A win is a PB and a loss is a dead run. Guess how many dead runs a speedrunner gets before they pb? I'll tell you, I've gone months without pb'ing, yet playing the same game and the same category during that entire time.

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wackyteen posted...

Do you watch speedruns?

No but I watch Karl Jobst talk about them sometimes

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Cokewave posted...

What I don't understand about the speedrun community is the correlation between trans gamers and speed runs.

If you are pushed away by large amounts of society, I think it's only natural for you to find a hobby that isn't reliant on interacting with others that much. Speedrunning is a hobby for those pushed from society, those who are introverted, those who are lonely.

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tfw going for WR Any% Marxist revolution, but the CIA ruins the run in the last segment

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That's a joke. There's no way that's not a joke

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Smackems posted...

That's a joke. There's no way that's not a joke

It definitely is.

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lol
What an idiot.

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I don't think this man understands the meaning of any word larger then 4 letters.

Let alone that speedrunning usually involves doing vastly more work overall(less per run but far more overall) with more knowledge and skill/practice needed.

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pfh1001 posted...

Anymore speedrunning is all about abusing the fuck out of glitches & exploits, which is not at all the same as when it was about maxing out your skill on a game. Neither is particularly appealing to me though.

There are very, very few speedruns where you aren't abusing exploits on some level, and it has always been the case.

There are, of course, multiple categories to account for new discoveries causing paradigm shifts.

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_Angel_ posted...

They love any stereotype they can use to demonize their boogeyman "The Left" and it doesn't have be to true or make sense in the slightest.

They're especially fixated on anything that they can use to attack masculinity with, for example cuck, being effeminate, jobless, physically weak, emotional etc. Slightly off topic, but it's really interesting to me that this is the focal point of insults for the ignorant alt-right and those adjacent.

I feel like a lot of those pointed labels apply to me

Sometimes I also think I'm not sophisticated enough to be a progressive

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Poe's Law

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You heard em, all you speed runners have to be leftists now. See you at the next ANTIFA meeting.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/TurboJehtt/status/1449499315970314242?s=20

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This is hilarious

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This is like some conservative version of Anita Sarkeesian.

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"Petersonian"? Oh lawd I don't want a future where that term exists

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https://twitter.com/TurboJehtt/status/1449499315970314242

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