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[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 80 points 10 months ago

I’m not that familiar with the speedrun community, but no way they do much checking for any runs that aren’t reasonably in contention for a top spot right?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 46 points 10 months ago

Lol I'm sure that's how it works. There's just no way otherwise.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

They often don't even properly check TOP runs

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I can't remember which game it was but one of them said they checked the splits and looked at either the harder parts of runs or where they runner shaved time the most. Makes sense to my slow ass that looks at mostly mario64 streamers and can barely BLJ

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Now I wanna see the SW that compares the 2 runs and shows where one got faster so you can zoom in there....

[-] Hrvatskii@lemm.ee 40 points 10 months ago

I used to be a speedrun verifier for Portal a while ago and in general we'll reject anything that looks like very little effort was put in it. For Portal this would be runs somewhere above the hour mark, but obviously this varies for other speedrun communities which I can't speak for. For actual runs though it's common to watch them on 5x speed or faster as it's still relatively easy to catch someone breaking the rules at that speed. It also drastically speeds up the time it takes a run to get verified for such a popular game with a limited amount of volunteer verifiers.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I was the first person to do a 25x Inbounds run and I felt bad that someone had to verify it. It took like 6 hours with multiple instances, though, I doubt they actually kept track of the whole thing lol

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

I'm going to cheat to get the worst time ever recorded

[-] DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

My God, this guy has taken longer to beat the game than the amount of time it's been available. How is that possible?

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Time Skip, he divided by 0

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Fallout 2, 13 year in-game run, any %.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Some of the more competitive games don't even demand that you submit a video of your run if you aren't in contention for the top 10. Some games you can just "claim" a time and you'll be added to the leaderboard.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Depends on the game/community I think. There’s probably common tells for different games - eg if it’s obvious someone picked a good seed for Minecraft. Probably don’t have to watch the whole video, just skip to a few critical points.

this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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