#speedrun tech

[piracyismymiddlename]

Sling Shot

[tomkatonline]

Stop messing up my FUCKING GAME SHOW!!!

[vynnyal]

This is likely the hardest I've laughed in rain world yet. Basically, you can glitch a spear into a quantum state using a dead bat body, allowing stabbed enemies to follow you through tunnels. So I tried bringing a leviathan to Moon. And the game really, really didn't like that

[thejolteonmastertj]

@limoki (@ ing you b/c I couldn’t add another video to your post via reblog & even the gif I tried to make is crunchy asf)

I haven’t managed to do it twice in a row, but it’s possible in the over-world if you lock-on to it!

(Video description: Using a telekinesis-like ability In Echoes Of Wisdom to take the trampoline I just bounced off of with me to hop on again while midair. End of description.)

(Timing it is a nightmare! I think you have to click the button like just before you hit the trampoline, b/c there’s a slight delay for Tri to latch onto things, even when you’re right on top of it!)

[dragonairice]

can you draw mitch and five hanging out? Bc I feel like they'd get closer as friends in the future! You don't have to!!! I just saw you draw glitch techs so was just wondering if you could!!

Absolutely!!

They're talking about speedrun strats <3

[lizzy-frizzle]

Me, "So, me and mama are thinking of getting you a game called portal!" My daughter, unprompted, "oh! that's the game where you shoot the orange portal, and go through it, after shooting a blue portal, and come through the blue one! But! sometimes! You only have the orange portal, and you get stuck in the wall and teleport." Me, "Ah! you've seen the speedrun explained portal video, didn't you?"

[moonlights-shadow-warrior]

Me: Hey these things are causing issues and getting in the way of my everyday life. Do you know what's wrong?

Every medical professional @ me when my body does the Thing™️:

[characteroulette]

It is Momo talks about game mechanics time ft. Psychonauts 2

I find it fascinating that Double Fine's decision to cap the Levitation bubble inadvertantly points to Raz having less bouyant happy thoughts after the events of the first game. Their decision to have a tighter but easier to replenish aggression / ammo for Psi-Blasts, too, points to a change in Raz's psyche. Raz has less bouyant happy thoughts to lift him up, but can't hold onto as much aggression as before. His dad doesn't actually want to kill him. He's entering an adult world that still sees him as a child. Food for thought.

Also funny is they capped Levitation and yet it's still broken as shit. Raz became a master at surfing the Levitation ball we stan a speedrun king

[selfiesforalgernon]

So humiliating, I was gonna play UFO 50 all night, while optimizing a route for Night Manor, I got a deathless run and took notes, then spent... THE REST OF THE NIGHT writing this route which I then posted on the subreddit 😓 so I might as well post it here too lol UFO 50 is so amazing even fucking TALKING about it can eat up your time like nothing, now it's almost 2 AM

Beware spoilers for Night Manor, the horror game in UFO 50:

Night Manor route optimization (for fun)

What a good game first of all, so IMO Night Manor is a very easy cherry and they should've made the cherry a deathless run.. that being said after I cherried it I noticed a lot of bait in the game vs what you need to at least kill the guy (after killing him make all the noise you want, play the piano, listen to the jukebox, flush the toilets and watch tv the world is yours) here's some things I found when I rebooted and messed around till I got a deathless run, for any who maybe want to go deathless but have trouble (infodump incoming):

Aside from the initial trigger in the kitchen (you have to do this, you can't sneak past and you can only do some of bed and bathroom before this) I counted 3 mandatory noise triggers you need to do to get to the point where you can erase him, unfortunately he may still find you, idk if it's just rng or there's something that says "get the player after x minutes" with some good luck and quick play you only need to worry about the noise triggers

These are: crowbar on cabinet to get egg, music box to get 3d glasses (highly important don't forget this little item it gives you directions for the maze), and crowbar on mirror in second bathroom (very tense area, very quick solution if you know what you're doing)

Avoid clock, piano, jukebox, all tvs and toilets, anything that could creak just to be safe, garage door and car, in fact outside of the items you get there, garage is all bait, 2 noise triggers and for what? A bad ending that's unrelated to the rest of the game

Now a tip on the baddie himself, I recommend you hide at least twice, more if you get bad rng and he won't leave you alone, but I found out if you attack him with a weapon like knife or basic hook, then immediately leave the area, he immediately de-aggros, you get a message and can go right back to the room you were in and he's gone, this works at least twice but if you keep doing this eventually he swats it away and instakills you (that's why you should throw in a hide or two at the beginning the earlier the better so you can reset if you get unlucky) in the cramped bathroom this is very useful, and to give you a better chance because of needing the right inventory item you can run to another room first, get the right inventory screen for say, knife, wait for him to pop up, stab, then run. Also try to make sure you don't run into a room with a hiding spot as this will trigger the hiding instead of an instant de-aggro.

Now, your goal is going to be loaded crossbow% lol meaning you need crossbow, bolt, and because bolt is in the hedgemaze sadly, all 4 gems and directions (idk if you can manually go through the maze if you know the way, I find it easier and faster to just tank the music box aggro for the glasses) I recommend (if you won't get confused and forget to go back and comb through rooms) leaving all items alone that don't help with these conditions, it helps with inventory management, keeping an eye on your knife at all times for a quick stick and run (e.g shovel just gets car keys, leave it) you still need shed it's very useful, the first time you go to garage too it's also useful grab all items (duct tape, oil can, gas can, crowbar, flashlight) (if you don't know where batteries are it's bedroom near entrance, I was thorough writing this but in general it assumes you've played before)

Ruby is basically free, gas and matches in fireplace gas is in garage matches right on mantle

Emerald also pretty free but you need shed so hook (room near start) duct tape (garage) and pool cue (upstairs lounge room with beaten looking door) to grab corpse in pool, that gives copper key which unlocks shed, I BELIEVE sack in shed gives bronze key which you need for crossbow in attic, iirc hacksaw is greenhouse box so grab shears and chop up the greenhouse box (I could be mixing up bronze key and hacksaw but either way you should have both), stab sack in shed with knife, grab shears and if you were bold enough to already smash the cabinet in dining room with the crowbar for egg (one noise trigger done), the vice is there to crack it, popping it shouldn't be a noise trigger I checked, and that gives gold key which is massive, it unlocks master bedroom from the lounge room where you found pool cue, you need it for 2 gems so yes at some point, you are gonna have to smash and grab in the dining room with the crowbar, you can do this very early on so you might as well try to hide this one out.. FINALLY hacksaw gets the ring off the mummy hand in bathroom which is used outside of house on fountain statue to give emerald

Topaz and diamond are where you're ringing the dinner bell left and right, topaz is in body bag so that's hacksaw and balcony, which is accessed through master bedroom, unlocked by gold key from egg, see? Still easier than diamond

Diamond is in safe behind painting in master bedroom HOWEVER you need safe code, which is in the secret-looking bathroom connected to the master bedroom, a door goes from bedroom to office, a gold book on bookshelf in office opens the way to the bathroom from there.. Now a couple words here, it's cramped and frankly pretty tense, this is the pivotal moment of a deathless run, if you hid a couple times first and haven't stabbed him too much, before anything, hit the bottom arrow to unlock the bathroom door to the hallway, then what I like to do is smash the window, he spawns, don't try to read code just gtfo, then you have a brief moment in the next room, make sure knife is on your inventory screen, he'll pop up again, don't miss lol grab it and stab him then run again, to any room.. if he didn't bat it away you should be in the clear, you can go back to bathroom and read the code then enter it in master bedroom on the safe behind painting for diamond

Now directions, I usually do this pretty early but playroom I think has doll in rightmost corner, stab with knife, gives music box key, go to kid's room, use on music box, get ready for him to pop up, either stab or hide, do the opposite of whatever you did for the egg cabinet just so you're not spamming him with attacks lol, remember it's very easy to stab if you run to another room first to buy time to find your knife, then wait then stab then run again to clear him.. either way music box gives glasses, use on scribbles on wall (one of the kid's rooms I always mix them up)

If you still haven't grabbed crossbow go to attic (upstairs to the right, looks like stairs) use bronze key on chest for crossbow (it should be in sack in shed you cut it open with knife let me know if I mixed that up)

So, with gems, directions and crossbow, get your ass to the lion statues outside, order is obvious but left to right: emerald, ruby, topaz, diamond, enter gate, use directions in hedge maze, takes you to the statue with crossbow bolt, grab and load into crossbow, keep it on your inventory screen, ring the dinner bell (use a tv, toilet, etc hell you can even play the jukebox for him) he shows up, pop him with the crossbow, personally that's when I went and grabbed coins from couch and played the song, sit back relax, play out the rest of the game, content in the fact that the rest of it is free, just splash that ugly lil bro in the basement with fungicide whenever you're ready to finish the run

*A fun fact, though I recommend hiding early, you can totally grab the hook before triggering the guy, and use the hook to stab him then run outside, that's how I learned about the insta-clear

(Now for self-deprecation, I know I'm not the first or only one who figured this route out, I just haven't seen any posts on it, and this is what I really love doing with these types of games, so let the kid have it ok? How'd I do?)

[skeletalheartattack]

"BLJ" actually stands for Biden Long Jump <isnt sure if youre aware of mario 64 speedrunning technique backwards long jump

and if joe biden was put into half life 2 he'd do an "ABH", as in: Accelerated Biden Hop

[day-mark]

dreams takes on speedrunning are so interesting, specifically being against glitches cause so many speedruns for other games rely explicitly on glitches to get fast times

[unofskylanderspages]

Did you know? Trigger Happy's Golden Yamato Blast can destroy cracked rocks in Molekin Mine, Rotten Robbies, and deals more damage than any other attack from a green base Skylander. However, it is incredibly slow to charge.

[imflyingfish]

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[dentpx]

watching the wonder direct. why is that flower talking to me.

[lovevalley45]

the saddest thing abt batwoman n legends never having a proper crossover with just the two of them is that. i don’t know if they acknowledge gotham is in new jersey in the show however dropping nate heywood in gotham with nick zano’s ambient jersey energy would be so funny

[prettyboychainsaw]

Oof, seeing how fast I can get through the first game on Insane and I've only just gotten to Nap Time with Father Martin at 14 minutes in exactly.

That kind of hurts.

I see why speedrunners get so invested.