Thread 724678738

What killed the speedrun trend from a few years ago? A few years ago it was everywhere, but now you don't really hear about it anymore.

>>724678738 (OP)
is this a "the troons killed themselves" kinda joke or something?

>>724678738 (OP)
Trannies + GDQ going full sanitized money mode (and also trannies)

To be fair you cant expect more than a 59% retention rate

>>724678797
Jesus, dude. Not everything is a tranny dog whistle

>>724678738 (OP)
the answer is lack of variety and competition. not troons
Watching people compete to shave off .3 or even try some crazy skip that could fuck up their run was the appeal of it.

>>724678738 (OP)
The fuck are you talking about? These days there are multi-hour long speedrun documentaries with hundreds of thousands, even millions of views. There is still a lot of interest in speedrunning.

GDQ by becoming more and more money driven and, thus, incentivized to be as sanitized as possible.

Real talk: the speedrunning itself was never what people liked. The draw of events like this was an extension of Let's Play popularity. People just wanted to see a fun group of people enjoying games together and play them in a relatively "locked in" amount of time, unlike youtubers and streamers who blunder around for hours and end up quitting before the end.

Getting world records for time was never the huge draw, even if it was often the goal of the people playing the games.

>>724678917
a lot of the older popular games seem to have hit their natural "end" with ace and credits warps, too.

>>724678738 (OP)
Obviously it was the tranny incursion. Once the autists move on from the trannyism it might come back, then it'll be just the regular run of the mill pedophiles again.

>few years ago
the mid 2010s were 10 years ago man...

>>724678953
Those are infinitely more interesting than listening to autists blather from the couch behind a guy playing a modified Tony Hawk executable

HRT

>>724678738 (OP)
>What killed the speedrun trend from a few years ago?
Owen Wilson.

>>724678738 (OP)
Trannies

>>724678797
First post. Obvious punchline joke.

>>724678738 (OP)
At PAX 2025, Suicide Prevention was outside the LGBTQ and Speedrunning areas. I'm not even kidding.

The biggest one was the death of SRL and rise of the speedrun website.
This just so happens to coincide with the rise of discord, though I think the way speedrun is handled is a bigger issue.
SRL died because cosmo neglected it, stopped paying webhosting fees for it, and then started making arbitrary rules about who to allow on it, so people stopped bothering, speedrunners got big outside of it and shit all over it, SDA too, because SDA was turning into a fucking disaster zone of infighting after jewyama retired and left coolfatty in charge of GDQ, he also started trying to say he "owned" SDA, which caused issues for mike.

The zelda and SM64 guys setting up speedrun really was just the final blow though, everything was well organized and prettied up, and now instead of IRCs or public posting all the tech is now hidden behind random channels on a billion different discords.

>>724678738 (OP)
Speedruns are more popular now than ever. The only reason you don't hear about it is because you use /v/, in actuality its quite mainstream.

>>724684142
I'd disagree with that. The numbers from each GDQ is more cooled down since covid ended, there's so much non-speedrunning content (tetris? lmao) that it's become muddled and the event is also a hotbed of degen shit (don't need to mention the cuck thing that happened) that has pulled a lot of people away from it.

I think people conflate speedrunning with the individual speedrunners. Speedrunners have gotten big, huge even. But MOST of them, when they get big, stop speedrunning because it's not really good for watching. cirno was literally from /srg/ on /vg/, he still gets 500 viewers he just doesn't speedrun anymore because nobody wants to fucking watch that autism anymore.
The big names moved on after being blackballed by GDQ.

>>724683737
Wow

>>724678887
Trannies and speedrunning isn't a dog whistle, it's a fucking fog horn.

>>724678738 (OP)
speedrunning relied on autistic maniacs to sustain its population
these autistic maniacs shifted to ranked pvp slop or shitposting on social media

>>724678738 (OP)
All the inclusivity made it so most people feel excluded

>>724678738 (OP)
Truth is, not every game makes for an interesting speedrun. In fact very few do, and they're all from fifth gen and below. Your megamans, mario 64s, and so on. Majority of all the walking sim movie games released in the last 20 years just aren't that engaging to spectate.

>>724678917
I'm a big fan of beat the record events.
>>724678738 (OP)
I believe the reason is simply the fact that it requires a lot of knowledge to enjoy. As a viewer most people don't stick to a single game for too long, but then getting into another one can be overwhelming. Its not like watching sports where most rules are simple to understand even to women and you can enjoy with no knowledge. And there are million of games. Even mods of games get speedruns, or mods of mods.

>>724685310
>lambda legal
the charity fraud has reached critical mass

>>724678738 (OP)
I don't know about you but Mario 1 any% is at peak hype right now. TAS tie is around the corner.

>>724678738 (OP)
New games aren't fun to speedrun.

>>724684331
>big names moved on
>posts a namefag i've never heard of in 8 years of browsing
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>724685771
/v/ is so anti-zoomer they don't give a shit about their achievements in their own boomer games. 2nd rebirth in NES Tetris? Zero posts about it. Two Mario 1 WRs from the same person in the same day? Nothing.

>>724686165
First one is on an unofficial ROM hack that I swear removes lag (I used to play NES Tetris for score, 650,000 is my record).
Second was because he plays on keyboard and the constant chatting about it on YouTube.

>>724686450
>unfounded suspicion
>harder to play on than controller
seething manchild alert

>>724686450
>650,000
You can't even play into 19, much less roll so why should I listen to you lmao.
>keyboard
Don't see why this is an issue. Of course this is probably coming from someone who thought Twin Galaxies in the 90s had legitimate verification practices.

>>724686843
millennial manbabies cannot comprehend that official nes controllers aren't made anymore and never mention how niftski already did a 4:54 at an in-person tournament on original hardware

>>724678738 (OP)
Trannies and the authoritarian stranglehold on free expression and thought they fight tooth and nail to obtain. Trannies literally purge anyone who isn't a tranny or tranny worshipper from communities. Then all you have left is a community of aggressively controlling, disgusting sexual deviants, which (shocker) is repulsive to the vast majority of people.

"""Caitlyn""" Jenner never should have happened, and his consequences have been a disaster for western civilization.

Inb4
>"What's 2+2? And not 4, I want an actual answer!!!"

>>724687260
>niftski already did a 4:54 at an in-person tournament on original hardware
Yes and that also got zero attention here. Millennials are just jealous they have no relevance in their childhood games anymore. They even made DAS competitions for NES Tetris so oldfags can stand a chance and they still get beaten by teenagers.

>>724686593
>>724686843
Retards, it's easier on keyboard.
>can't play into 19, much less roll
I achieved it by starting on 18 like all pros do and got to IIRC Level 26. It's not easy and the fact they have DAS with hypertapping and rolling makes it unfair, they should be different categories all together.

>>724687374
what is the point of this guy's twitter post? is he just posting stupid things to farm engagement?

>>724687572
>it's easier on keyboard
>source: my dick

>>724687572
>Keyboard offers no advantage, and it is actually debatably worse for speedrunning this game.
I'll trust him, who has thousands of hours of playing the game over you, instead.

I don't see the fun in speedruns, most of the time the players utilize bugs and glitches to skip large portions of the entire game, in some cases even the entire game itself. What's the fun in watching that?

Challenge runs are much more interesting and better at showcasing the player's skill and mastery of the game.

>>724687597
>implying
That's gay of you.
>>724687692
You can keep coping with the fact of reality. His own play proves it too, as he hasn't tied the score on controller.

>>724687765
The reality is he prefers playing on a more difficult controller and you're jealous as fuck.

>>724687765
>source: my brown ass

>>724678972
This. GDQ killed it, it made speedrunning mainstream but in time they also made it a corporate moneygrab with no soul and no fun.

>>724687572
>they have DAS with hypertapping and rolling makes it unfair
link the leaderboard you're looking at

Meta and efficency is the enemy of fun, and speedrunning is all about those things, it was bit fun when it was niche, ramshackle and whimsy; but like with anything that becomes popular and that people start taking super seriously, the fun gets sucked out quickly. See also e-sports, proffessional sports, chess etc

>>724678738 (OP)
the first wave of speedrunners are old now, they can't do their runs anymore, second wave culture let everybody and their mother (man in dress) in

>>724687765
>Niftski intentionally grinds for TAS tie on keyboard to make 40 year old manchild controller purists seethe
Would be based af

Why does /v/ constantly make this retarded claim that speedrunners are all trannies? Go look at any active game's leaderboard and you'd immediately be proven wrong.

>>724679148
Which fucking sucks because speedrunning is exponentially more entertaining to watch when you "know the run" to an extent. Having it turn into a spectacle with celebrities and gimmicks over top defeats the purpose.

>>724688007
I fail to see how they play single-player games affects your own experience. It's not an MMO we're talking about. Are you just mad what you thought was good gameplay to your 2 friends in the 80s was actually dogshit after watching a speedrun?

When's the next not-GDQ event that we'll have threads for?

>>724688007
you sound like one of those stardew valley autists where the casualfags get pissed at challenge players or perfectionist speedrunners for playing the game "wrong"
nigga there's no right way to play fucking video games. the hardest truthnuke for /v/ autists to accept is people have fun in different ways

>>724688467
Doesn't look like there's anything good in November. Well there's mini-RTA events but they don't get threads. December is all ReallyReallyLongAThon and /v/ hates that one. But I am very glad you asked this question because they put up the final schedule...

>>724687826
>implying

>>724678738 (OP)
A lot of the troons that speed run killed themselves or something.

>>724688683
>source: i played smb1 for 10 minutes when i was 7 years old

>>724688745
>implying

>>724678797
I thought i was clever for thinking "it killed itself" but i guess im just a fucking loser like you

>>724687590
It's to show the hypocrisy of the media outlets and Twitter retards calling Stellar Blade a gooner game, while praising a bunch of games that have explicit sex scenes in them as high art.

>>724689321
i don't even know where to begin
first of all this retard asked grok when he could have just googled it to find the actual correct count of sex scenes. for example, the first god of war did not have 2-3 sex scenes
the "sex scenes" in many of these games are simple "takes off clothes then fade to black" scenes. they are also not the main focus of the game
on the other hand stellar blade is very clearly a gooner game. to be clear i'm saying it's bad or writing it off because of that. but this guy is either being a disingenuous faggot or he's just plain retarded

>>724683924
Did someone kill themselves prior???

>>724678738 (OP)
because everyone realized how gay speedrunning truly is.

>>724690593
>i'm saying it's bad or writing it off because of that
meant to say "i'm NOT saying it's bad or writing off because of that"

>>724678738 (OP)
CAN YOU STOP