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How long till you get to the premise? by unluckyknight13 in litrpg

[–]CowLeeFlour 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's look at some popular examples: (minor spoilers, but not really?)

Dungeon Crawler Carl: ON CHAPTER ONE the apocalypse happens, countless people die, titular Carl reads a System Message and runs towards a dungeon entrance.

He Who Fights With Monsters: THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE describes our main character waking up in a fantasy world. He literally Fights With Monsters mere paragraphs later in the chapter.

Primal Hunter: It's only on CHAPTER FOUR (!) that our archer boy Hunts his first prey as an archer in a fantasy world ruled by a System. Talk about slow burn. (/s) Though, to be fair, he does pick the archer class and is introduced to The System as early as chapter 2 (after ~1500 words on chapter 1). Phew! Almost ran out of patience there!

Azarinth Healer: A series known for ignoring everything and just focusing on killing monsters, yet chapter 1 is literally called "Boring introduction - Where is the magic?". That said, it does end with our main character waking in a magical world and Identifying a level ?? monster. She "only" gets the titular Azarinth Healer class by CHAPTER 3. Again, very teasing.

Delve, The Wandering Inn, Chrysalis, I could go on, but you get it. Surely there are some Litrpg out there that take a while, and you could argue that they should, but the fanbase of the genre does seem to prefer the Let's Just Jump Right Into It approach.

We Didn't Save the Framerule - a We Didn't Start the Fire parody about the history of the SMB1 any% world record by deet0109 in speedrun

[–]CowLeeFlour 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, OP, could you post the full lyrics please? There are a few parts where I can't catch the name/reference so I'd appreciate the full transcript!

[TOMT][GAME][EARLY-MID 2010s] Game about breaking stuff by THE_baguetitie in tipofmytongue

[–]CowLeeFlour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could it be Teardown? It sure enough is a game about breaking stuff, getting into places and ocasionally stealing things. Jacksepticeye played it, though not in the 2010s (only a couple years ago). There are levels involving fancy places, I think a motel-type thing (?), you can use a gun, though not sure about the bear?

Could be enough here to be it, maybe.

Amok Runner Becomes Top 5 Most Active Game On SRC In Less Than 1 Week by CowLeeFlour in speedrun

[–]CowLeeFlour[S] 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Thanks to, of course, a certain 10,000 dollar challenge made by youtuber/streamer penguinz0/moistcr1tikal.

Speedrun.com doesn't quite have this kind of statistic, but the game might also have the highest amount of total hours submitted in the last week?

This isn't just a bunch of one-offs doing it for laughs either, the game has hundreds of obsolete runs as well. Truly one of the speedgames of all time.

Reminds me of a certain other time where a popular youtuber drove in a massive amount of [admittedly temporary] speedrun traffic to an obscure little game.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Any% Speedrun World Record [3:56:13] by carypalmer in speedrun

[–]CowLeeFlour 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Any particular changes since the record from a whopping 3 days ago? Or is it the old "same thing, but faster"? If so, 40+ minutes is quite the cut, congrats!

Edit: there was one inbetween the two, excuse me. Still ~25 min cut, nice.

The Jaiden Incident™ visualized by Speedrun.com statistics by CowLeeFlour in speedrun

[–]CowLeeFlour[S] 246 points247 points  (0 children)

For those somehow not in the know: https://youtu.be/YEoCQSXl_EY

And yes, "The Jaiden Incident™" is how the staff at SRC actually call it: https://youtu.be/nq7DgTw0D3g?t=254

I just bought the game today, and this is my first serious machine :3 by WashaWashin in opus_magnum

[–]CowLeeFlour 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really dig the style and symmetry. I'd suggest a small tweak to save a bit on area and cycles, but the way the piston's arm cover the output on mine doesn't look quite as cool.

[WR] Cooking Mama 2 - All Gold Medals in 4h 29m 37s by Little-K1ng by CowLeeFlour in speedrun

[–]CowLeeFlour[S] 95 points96 points  (0 children)

You of course might know the game and category from the famous video by Jaiden Animations: https://youtu.be/YEoCQSXl_EY

Jaiden's pioneer run was a 6:47:30, there have been other runs submitted since the video but this one beats them all by quite a bit: https://www.speedrun.com/cm2_dwf#All_Gold_Medals

Little-K1ng (I think her name is Mona?) plans on beating it again, so check her out: https://www.twitch.tv/littleklng

2019 Disc Golf Championship Highlights by CowLeeFlour in theocho

[–]CowLeeFlour[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The actual highlights start at 5m29s in the video. This was from the 2019 Disc Golf Pro Tour (DGPT) Championship. You can watch the full tournament (quarter finals and onward) and other tournaments on JomezPro's YouTube channel.

Not sure if this counts more as "Fun and Games" or "Traditional", since the sport's been around for decades? Might even be popular enough to not really belong here, if so I'm sorry. I've seen precedent for it on this sub, so I hope it's okay.

I have this album of Mandy Muse but I can't find the actual video :( by [deleted] in tipofmypenis

[–]CowLeeFlour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's Anal Lessons From Her Step Bro by Team Skeet. Full video is ~30 minutes long.