ThirstyHyena

Yesterday I was gonna speedrun Max Payne 3 NYM Hardcore any% after almost an year without an attempt while before that I used to run it regularly for 5-6 years. And then I pressed enter + esc and future data wasn't working, I try again 20 times, it's just not working. Thankfully gunlinux was in chat and he tested straight away on his PC and it wasn't working for him either.
So, Rockstar has patched FD aka the teleportation strat that saves about 80 seconds in total. So, I'm gonna either have to pirate the game, collect golden gun parts again and then run nym hc any% while blacking out my gamertag so people don't know it's pirated or just try to beat my nym hc glitchless% wr that's more difficult for me to beat. I don't pirate anything, I'm going for nym hc glitchless%.

5 days ago | [YT] | 85

ThirstyHyena

Which AI voice TTS character skin should I use for getting the only Max Payne 3 speedrun WR I'm still capable of getting, NYM HC any%? We've had Niko Bellic, Tony Montana and Sam Lake (James McCaffrey voicelines from MP 1, 2, Control and Alan Wake 2 if you're wondering how I did that) become protagonists of Max Payne 3 so far.

If you haven't seen the WR's I've done so far you can find them if you open my channel and look under the "Non Walkthrough Videos" playlist.

1 week ago | [YT] | 75

ThirstyHyena

Before RDR 2 I'm still in a GTA SA mood. The modder added in some AI TTS dialogues in the gta sa hard difficulty mod and that gave me an idea. Time to put my writing to test. I'm going to do a walkthrough of the base game again, with graphics mods. But, instead of speeding up or cutting driving parts without dialogue I'm going to put AI TTS character dialogues in as well as some lines from the actual voice actors other projects! I'll add in subtitles as well of course. I'll do my best to come up with some extra character dialogues in the style that Rockstar would write them.

2 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 97

ThirstyHyena

Now in Las Venturas, not streaming anymore, my aim hasn't been on point because I'm testing out a new mousepad, still giving it a few more days to see if I can get used to it, but probably gonna stick to my old one.
Next I will finally do a PC walkthrough of RDR2! Then after that, as I said, just sticking to older games with outdated graphics, so I'm more amazed when first playing GTA 6!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 137

ThirstyHyena

Some of my favorite moments of recognition from this channel:

1. Franklin and Lamar's voice actors reacting to my gameplay.
2. Getting my first GTA V timelapse featured on Rockstar Newswire.
3. Summit1G watching 2 of my Max Payne 3 speedrun guides and inserting my former WR as a comparison on livesplit.
4. Other reaction videos that have used my gameplay.
5. Chatting with Willzyyy, GTAmissions and GTASeriesVideos whose GTA SA walkthroughs I watched when I was just starting. Actually I posted the first mission of my GTA SA walkthrough in Oct 2009, 3 months before GSV posted theirs, but they uploaded their walkthrough in 1 month, I was just finished in late 2010 on my old channel. Up to flying school it was in 360p, and after that in 720p.
6. TheProfessional watching my stream for 40 mins or so and saying he's been a sub for a while.
7. Being featured on a popular Gamers Are Awesome compilation.
8. Unknown GTA speedrunner and old member of my discord server telling me I should've named myself ThirstyLion and not Hyena, then I said true, I just didn't know anything about hyenas when I named myself that, or the negative connotations it had. I didn't know what to name myself so I turned on NatGeo and said I'll name myself whatever is on it and it was a hyena drinking.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 76

ThirstyHyena

Well, I guessed it. Another year to go because GTA 6 is releasing on May 26th 2026! Just like back in 2012 (back when I had 20 subs on this channel) on gtaforums when I was one of the few people thinking V was gonna get delayed as far as late 2023.
I know other GTA superfans like myself are mostly disappointed, but I'm not.
1. I want the game to be as polished as possible.
2. My health hasn't been the best and recently I've started being more physically active and eating healthier, so I'm slowly getting better. Another year is plenty of time to get in great shape for GTA 6 content creation!

1 month ago | [YT] | 105

ThirstyHyena

What do you think when is GTA 6 coming out?

1 month ago | [YT] | 57

ThirstyHyena

Is it ok if I do a few missions with PS2 graphics on (SkyGFX) in the GTA SA The Challenge walkthrough?

2 months ago | [YT] | 45

ThirstyHyena

I was gonna continue editing part 5 of chaos randomizer now which is the part where I set the best batch of effects that I kept until the end of the run mostly and turned my gain down so my mic quality sounds better and leveled mine and Liam's voices. Which I should've done from the get go, but halfway through the run isn't too bad. I also made flying cars last shorter, so there was some good stunt jumps in the 2nd half of the run that's yet to be unveiled, and some good aim too in some missions that I played with my old gaming chair, but more than half of the run I played with my other chair which made my aim bad. As far as you know my aim has always been consistent, the only reason it's worse now in some parts is that. Just felt the need to clarify.
But, I'm gonna start up GTA SA with hard difficulty mod now instead, don't feel like editing rn. Not streaming this either like I hadn't the chaos randomizer run. I know that I get 3-4x more views per stream, but #1 I get more anxious when streaming, when I just record I am able to relax more and play better and #2 isn't it better to watch a supercut with boring parts edited out? This is gonna be no commentary now, but I'll make the same kinda supercut for this like I'm doing for chaos randomizer.

4 months ago | [YT] | 79

ThirstyHyena

Which thumbnail is better?

7 months ago | [YT] | 61