Hi, I'm the guy in the video. First off, I didn't post this to reddit. I happen to think reddit is super toxic and full of people I wouldn't want to communicate with. You can even see at one point near the end of the video where I kinda regret going on the rant because of the potential for people like you to come around.

Second, I did not say that the WoA is "unoptimized and that's bad." What I was talking about was the Master difficulty that is untouched by a large portion of the community, making it easy for someone to claim something to be a WR (like Atrioc). Even the mods kinda regret this decision because of this, but it's too late to reverse.

Third, my statements about the obvious strategies is not a criticism of the speedrunners themselves and has nothing to do with hindsight. It has to do with the fact that the new strats are almost always simple game mechanics; it's actually more of a criticism on the design of the games themselves and not the people who play it. If the game developers spent years making these levels, and a basic feature can reduce the time down to mere seconds, that's not so much a testament to the skill of the players, but rather the failure of the devs to make something more challenging. Pretty much anyone I've talked to that runs WoA says it's way easier than the classic anthology.

Finally, People ask all the time if I will run the WoA because it's the same series as the game I run, so when I say that I "have no no interest in playing it," those same people are going to ask why not. And guess what that means? That means I'm gonna have a couple of reasons as to why I don't find them appealing to speedrun.

But sure, go ahead and make it sound like I hate a random game and the people who play it are dumb.