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Be honest, what vids would you rather see from me this month?

1 month ago | [YT] | 134

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I generally believe that Stealing Stars in Mario Party is a bad strategy. They are way overpriced from Boo, and don't add new stars to the overall economy of the game pool.

Toad's stars only cost 20 coins and are additive to the game, while Boo only removes 50 coins from circulation., whilst the overall star-count remains the same.

There are of course, exceptions to this, particularly in the late game, when stealing stars provides a two-star swing from an opponent. But generally, stealing stars for 50 coins from Boo is harmful to the overall economy of a Mario Party game. I feel this doesn't get discussed often enough.

What are your thoughts? #MondayMorningMeditations

1 month ago | [YT] | 210

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Who would be your bandleader?

1 month ago | [YT] | 62

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I have created this TWINE (007: The World is Not Enough) Iceberg meme, and have edited a video detailing all the entries, which I should be posting tomorrow evening. It is about 40 minutes long of amazing TWINE lore!! Did any of you guys ever play this game?

2 months ago | [YT] | 285

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I've never seen anyone discuss this before, but the unspoken origins of speedrunning have always been deeply tied to the middle class of the American Midwest, Canada (most of whose population is near the American Midwest), and to some extent, the Nordic European countries.

Speedrunning was never intended to be a glorious act. It was a way for bored, middle class Midwesterners to sink time, through crisp autumns that got way too cold quickly, and dreary winters that feel like they'd never end.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has seen images like those below, curated by "Twitter / X" accounts like those of MythoAmerica and thesummerof2007. While they are intended to evoke some feeling of nostalgia and daily life in the North American continent, they speak to me on a level of reminding me the origins of organized speedrunning.

Virtually every person I encountered through speedrunning in the late 90's and 2000's lived in a neighborhood like those seen below.

I remember it hitting me, sometime around the dawn of Twitch, in 2011-12, now completely thrust into the era of social media. At the time, there were no speedrunners from New York or Los Angeles, for example... cities we now colloquially view as inhabited by "Coastal Elites". There were speedrunners from Minneapolis, Chicago, Toronto and Winnipeg; wintery, Midwestern cities. As well as Stockholm or Helsinki, spiritually similar cities across the ocean. And of course, there were legendary speedrunners from middle sized towns through Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and the likes. But speedrunning was not seen as something "cool" or "trendy", like something done by citizens of New York, New Orleans, Miami or Los Angeles. I vividly remember thinking somewhere around 2007, "why are there no GoldenEye speedrunners from NYC or LA?" I realize now, it's because speedrunning was something mostly done by middle class Midwesterners well-off enough to own video game consoles and spend hundreds of hours gaming, but not those with quite enough connections to launch into white collar careers and higher education. Generally speaking, of course. Perhaps speedrunning was not "the most degenerate act man has ever come up with", but it was not something really done by those educated at Harvard or Stanford, for example.

Twitch, livestreaming, YouTube content and all that, certainly changed everything. Speedrunning left its niches of midwestern towns and the general "Great Lakes Megalopolis". It expanded on both sides of the class spectrum; with technology more accessible to those less well-off, and with super-rich high-production-value millionaire streamers dabbling in the activity themselves, if not earning large money from content made from the act itself. I don't write this post to lament this fact. It's changed, and with change, came great opportunity and evolution. Many world records and strategies would not have been seen without speedrunning's growth. But I just wanted to acknowledge the roots and origins of those early days of the act of speedrunning.

Anyways, I don't know where I'm going with all this. It's been a topic on my mind for a long time. I don't know if I could ever expand it into a video essay, nor if I could make it very interesting. But as I sit here, safe and warm, with 40cm (15 inches) of snow falling down on top of me, somewhere in the vast expanse of the Great Lakes Megalopolis, I finally felt like sitting down and posting my thoughts on this topic.

I've been having a bit of "creator's block", and just wanted to write something. It felt good doing so. Sometimes that's all you need. I hope this was interesting to at least a couple of you. I'd love to hear any thoughts or memories.

Goose

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2 months ago | [YT] | 559

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I will be keeping an annual tradition alive with a GoldenEye Speedrunning "Year in Review" for 2024, premiering tonight at 10pm EST / 7pm PST on the ‪@SpeedLore‬ channel. It's a bit unconventional since there were only two Untied WRs set in 2024, but I hope you will join in chat, to ponder the past, present and future of GoldenEye Speedrunning.

Also, I'm hoping to relaunch the @SpeedLore series in some shape or form in 2025, so subscribe to the channel if you're not already! Also, that's where I posted most SpeedLore episodes since 2019, if you somehow missed them. There's always one or two of you.

2 months ago | [YT] | 105

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When do you think Dam Agent 0:51 will happen (on Nintendo 64)?

4 months ago | [YT] | 106

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Which of these snow levels are you dreaming about on a snowy night like tonight?

4 months ago | [YT] | 90

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Which place has a more negative emotional aura?

5 months ago | [YT] | 91

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So, pretty much everyone knows that in Ocarina of Time, you can steal the Fishing Pond Owner's hat as an adult. Fewer know that the hat functions similar to the sinking lure, but falls off after only a few casts.

So here's my CHALLENGE IDEA which I believe has never been done before, at least, I've never seen a video of it...

Can anyone catch the Hyrule Loach with the Pond Owner's Hat on the line? So you would see Link standing there holding the Hyrule Loach and the hat on the same line?

This would truly make me smile to see after a quarter-century of this game's existence...

It would be super hard and require a lot of planning, but maybe with the Nintendo Switch's savestate function, it would be a lot easier.

(if someone manages to do it, please send it to me on X or email). (Also, new Fireside video when this post is about two hours old).

6 months ago | [YT] | 433