holy shit that fucking tweet at 15:30, "nothing was risked and nothing was gained", my dude this is a fucking video game, NOTHING IS RISKED BY DEFINITION OF IT BEING A FUCKING GAME
shit like this makes the various "you die in the game you die in real life" movie/anime plots seems not even that out there, gamers would ABSOLUTELY sign up in droves for a game like that just so they can brag about how badass and hardcore they are, "you casual gamers don't even face the risk of actually dying, lol scrub"
Daily reminder the "They targeted g!mers. G!mers." copypasta was a completely serious R!ddit post from /r/KIA. G!mers have always celebrated mediocrity while disguising it as something arduous. No surprise then that the blob of mediocrity that is R!ddit is filled them with. The easiest way to tell they don't actually want a difficult experience is the fact that they dickride so-called "hard games" when everyone knows that every game becomes hard when you try to speedrun it. Yet these chumps are almost never part of a speedrunning community, but instead act like obnoxious gatekeepers policing people over what games to play. No, beating Dark Souls isn't some arduous experience on par with running a marathon. If you're going to be an obnoxious shithead, at least find something that's actually worth bragging about.
one of the replies to that tweet was
which is just such a profoundly stupid take, and so thoroughly ignorant of the amount of skill and in-depth game knowledge speedrunning actually involves. Even a mediocre speedrunner's probably going to have a far deeper understanding of the game's mechanics and all the little quirks of its engine than any one of these dipshits, since you pretty much need to in order to actually be able to do the various skips and tricks necessary. Just... truly amazing :galaxy-brain: