>>714047849>He's a cheater because he used to speedrun GoldenEye, and every GoldenEye speedrunner is a cheater for some reason. He's annoying because he made exposing people his internet claim-to-fame and makes YouTube slop for big bux.>>714048670yeah this.
The difference between an arcade speedrunner like Mitch and a console speedrunner like Jobst is the complexity of the games. In Donkey Kong, it's all about going to the pub, getting wasted with friends, and seeing how far you can get in a 4 hour session of Donkey Kong. That's a social activity, you could do that for years and never burn out.
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark Speedrunning is about sitting alone, in a dark basement, spending literal days awake trying to run the same level over and over again to sub .0005 seconds off so the rounding function inside of the console decides you got the next nearest second, never knowing your actual progress because the game doesn't let you know how many tenths of a second you saved. And if any of the 30+ guards in a level decide to jump left instead of right, you're restarting the whole thing and doing it all over again.
Now, look at that and tell me that isn't absolute hell. That's not something I would wish on my worst enemy, and I'm shocked every single Goldeneye speedrunner is still alive and hasn't roped after getting one WR and realizing they wasted the best years of their life mashing buttons in the vain hope an RNG (usually based on some arbitrary value like the time, so certain times of day will fuck them over more often) in a hunk of plastic doesn't fuck them over for the 10,000th time that day.