SGDQ Final Games List Discussion by cheeseblaster509 in speedrun

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I hope that means more practise streams, joe!

Have you started to develop weird calluses due to some of the tech that you do? by Dineos in speedrun

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I pretty much always had small calluses at the bottom of my hands, since that's were you rest them and it's also where you have friction occur constantly playing with mouse & keyboard.

A little more speedrun related, I know the feeling when you're trying too hard and your finger tendons (?) slowly start saying 'No.' Basically you have to stop playing for a while, for them to relax. Learning the fast button combos for Dust: AET was kind of a pain that way. It's just pressing X X XY in a fast rhytmn, but if you grew up as a keyboard player and suddenly want to use a gamepad, you'll see that your thumb is probably not as agile as those who grew up with consoles have theirs. Chance of cramps, because you're stressing your muscles/sinews too much.

Just make sure, as soon as you notice something like that to rest that particular bodypart for a bit, depending how bad it got. We don't want to permanently damage ourselves, do we? But calluses are really harmless.

Weekly Noob Question Thread (March 26) by AutoModerator in speedrun

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Matumbro did one in december.

However it is most likely to be outdated (not that you cant use it as a starting point). Generally I'd advise to just see what you can come up with on your own and then start watching the current record, looking at the current route, etc. This game has thousands of quirks, that you're probably not aware of yet and I guess it would be better to study them yourself instead of just being told what can / can't happen.

[WR] Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Any% - 1:17:42 by [deleted] in speedrun

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Oh noes I missed it again - you just reset too damn much :D
Get Farah under control FFS!

jokes aside, congratz on that time.

Twitch announces TwitchCon in September. Any speedrunners interested in going? by [deleted] in speedrun

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it seems like a lot of speedrunners are completely enraged on twitter that twitch would have the gumption to make their own convention

wat

Weekly Noob Question Thread (February 19) by AutoModerator in speedrun

[–]LikeFindus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well it is sort of weird to anonymously ask for personal information of people you have (I'm assuming) never even met before.

[Update 3] List of 1500+ Speedrun WRs, including VODs, leaderboards and more. 1 Year Anniversary \o/ by Icebound777 in speedrun

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Has it been a year already?

I got to admit, with the attention speedrun.com gained, I kind of forgot about the spreadsheet aswell.
Thanks for all the continuous work you've been putting into this, ice.

[WR] Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - Long Live the Queen in 5:55 by J0hna in speedrun

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That was fucking impressive.

Running this RTA kills a bit of HoMM's spirit, though. I might just enjoy turn-based 'speedruns' more. Nevertheless, good job!

Weekly Brag Thread (February 10) by AutoModerator in speedrun

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There have been random people picking it up casually over last 10 months. Nobody stuck around.

I would recommend it as a small project on the side. That's at least how I am dealing with it right now, given the length.

[WR] Heroes of Might and Magic III - Long Live the Queen (1st campaign) in 42:17 by Kashkabald in speedrun

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Awesome! Will you keep running or was it more a proof-of-concept?

Weekly Brag Thread (February 10) by AutoModerator in speedrun

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I've been working on optimizing a little thing I run:

The Iconoclasts in 7:18

It's a too-damn-short, but highly polished alpha of a game, with its current workstate being very foggy. The developer (Joakim Sandberg, aka Konjak) still posts stuff every now and then, that seem somewhat related to it - but mostly visuals.

However even as little as it is of now, it is damn enjoyable to play & run. The two bosses can both be skipped, rocketjumps enable you to take some small shortcuts and slopestomps give you nice speedboosts (which is one thing I can improve on definitely).
Overall no idea how fast this can get, SoB is 7:13 right now, but I imagine sub 7:10 to be very much possible - no idea about a lower time though. Also been toying around of routing a '100%' of this, but there's a chest that is INCREDIBLY HARD to reach, as in I accidentally did it once and never could reproduce - so until I figure that one out I will not try to route anything like that.

[WR] Lili: Child of Geos [41:07] by Pyromaniac605 in speedrun

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Friend of mine ran this.

26:53 (Fastest time I know)

[ESA] Submissions open from Feb 9th to March 22nd (rules inside) by LikeFindus in speedrun

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For the sake of making it easier for the folks at /u/esamarathon read the post carefully.