The Hotplate and Paper Mario videos were a lot of fun to make, it's really cool to see someone's reaction to the stories I've put together.

Also Orcarina.

Watching a whole event just for a guy to jump over a fence and then the all powerfull wizard getting beat up by farmers is really funny

Number 1: putting pickle relish on your fingers to maximize “glizziness” for the marketing skip, invented by Glizztopher “Atrioc” Brandon.

Being a fan of atrioc is like being a fan of the 4 speed running strategies

You could tell speedrunners blowing up their console mid run would save a second and suddenly we’d lose a lot of consoles

One of the biggest brain speedrun tricks I remember was during a SimCity run at gdq. The runner wanted to actually run a different game, but the organizers wouldn't let him or something, so he did SimCity instead. There's a point in the SimCity run where you just plain wait for the game to complete, so he did his original game during that entire wait.

Quite a sly, dare I say sneaky joke about the Dream ruby, big A.

Imagine mastering a tactical reload for Ocarina of Time to be the best at not playing Paper Mario

I noticed that none of them had clown suits on. A huge time save in all of those runs 🤡

I think gathering all the speedrunners together for a cancer curing speedrun, it would be interesting to see how fast it could be done

This is a certified glizzy "atrioc" hands classic

Quick guess for the Goldeneye one: The developers probably had some sort of failsafe against the chip/controller being damaged or whatever short circuit was happening as a result of it. It probably paused the in game physic/time until the problem was resolved. However, in most game engines, there are two clocks. The one that takes the physics of the world into account (FixedUpdate in Unity) and the one that runs every frame no matter what (the Update in Unity). So probably the objective was wrongfully coded on the "every frame" clock.
I have been told by a speedrunning friend that this kind of exploit of tick vs physics is attempted in a lot of games to try to mess up the game and do crazy glitches, but it's still crazy that the setup for this one is to press down on the exposed chip of a second controller lmao

Note: this explanation is a simplification of the concept, it doesn't exactly work as described in my comment, but the principle is there.

This is a certified Brandon "Grind Hustle" Ewing classic

The golden eye skip is easy to execute with a uniform result but is an added expense and inconvenience so imo it kind of just artificially takes time off a Speedrun

Thank god this dropped, was getting tired of that "Practice and hone down your abilities in pursuit of perfection" bs

@Atrioc For the Goldeneye thing I think someone probably raged after realizing he would've gotten a new record if it wasn't for the waiting time, threw his plugged in controller, broke it, hit that exact spot and noticed it somehow skipped and then just reverse engineered from there

Alot of these setups are found via reverse engineering not just trial and error. They are widely reversed / documented generally using some form of code execution. Still very insane but these games have been scoured through line by line by many people

14:34 that happened to somebody, a guy named darkviper au spent like 2 full years developing strategies and runs to beat gta 5 without taking damage and recently some guy swooped in and got the first no damage run

I've seen a TAS run where they use the game itself to write new code into the game to create functioning networking software for a console that does not natively have the ability to connect to the internet to download a custom operating system for the console, after which they proceed to use all of that to load and play an emulator for an entirely different game from an entirely different console, then proceed to just sorta run a glitch exhibition spanning a few different games.

some GDQ exhibitions are just plain insane in the best way.

0:53 peak gaming moment