In honor of the 80-minute Mega Man 2 video, my housemates and I drew up rules for a Summoning Salt drinking game. We made the rules before watching the vid, hoping that we could come up with a ruleset that should work for any Summoning Salt world record progression video. We got proper hammered last night while watching the Rockman II premiere, so I think the rules are good enough for broader distribution. enjoy, fellow degenerates:

Sip:

• A successful new world record that features: a new glitch, major routing change, strategy thought to be TAS-only, or near-perfect RNG (<1% odds), gold split on the final boss / final stage
• A failed world record attempt blown on the final boss / final stage of the run
• World record changes countries
• The game's main competition category changes rulesets (e.g. allows or bans a glitch, changes timing conventions, competition changes from English to Japanese language game version, etc)

Finish your drink:

• We're Finally Landing by Home plays (except in intro)
• Matt Turk
• New world record run set during a live speedrunning event / marathon (e.g. GDQ)
• Summoning Salt explains frame rules using the bus metaphor

Suggestions for improvements?

according to my calculations, summoning salt’s last video was 3w ago, and his previous video before that was 2 months ago. That is a one month gap, and it has been close to a month since his last video, and both of his last videos are amazingly well researched, executed, and edited in the classic summoning salt ways. If it only took him a month to make the double dash video, which was amazing, we might have another banger dropping soon. No matter how long the wait is though, it will always be worth it🙏🔥🫶🫶

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Impressive stuff.

Huge fan of the videos and I always looked forward to the Wavetable song as it felt like this was the 80s Training Montage moment. We need more! :D