I hate speedrunning, it's retarded, I hope these events die out. Speedrunning is only concerned with going fast, which makes no sense. It's the least interesting aspect of a vidya. Unironically the saying applies, that the real adventure was the journey itself, not the end point. Being good at Speedrunning a video game is like being good at playing a sport that only you know the rules of. It's a lot like "Calvinball" in the Calvin & Hobbes comic, where Calvin, disenfranchised with real sports, invents an imaginary game where the rules can never be the same the next time you play it. Speedrunners endlessly practice the same "routes" to the point where running the game is merely a matter of mechanistically repeating a pattern of inputs, there's actually no thinking or strategizing involved, which makes it utterly braindead. I have so much more respect for a person who picks up a game they've never tried and just dives in. It's unnerving to me how these people see an awesome and inspiring thing like videogames, and reduced it to "who can be done with it the fastest", instead of actually enjoying the deep nuances of the games, and what's worse is the people who actually enjoy watching these people stream their mundane and repetitive chores, as if there's anything you could possibly get out of watching such a spectacle. It's no wonder speedrunning has rapidly dwindled in popularity in recent years.