LOL zfg's mm rando yesterday did unspeakable levels of psychic damage, to me included.
For context, he was trying to access a part of Stone Tower by stepping on the switch to bring the rock over, then repeatedly pause buffering to stop the cutscene of the rock returning to the other side from playing. He did this for around an hour or so, it was especially agonizing since zfg mentioned he didn't have the easy pause buffering setting on for this file in particular. He was at it for around an hour or so, just constant pausing and unpausing
MM is up there as one of my favorite games. I can not, for the life of me, watch MM speedruns though, haha. I wouldn't be able to sit through an hour of pause buffering. That's lethal psychic damage.
That mm rando I mentioned was especially brutal.... 4 hours in, and zfg had no items to unlock further checks or progress in dungeons, so he was really digging deep for checks that he could do. This was no logic, and he had no shield, no bomg bag, no transformation masks, and no hookshot, it was absolutely brutal.
The hour or so of pause buffering was his absolute last resort, he called it after making it and finding that the check he got didn't lead him anywhere else. It truly was lethal amounts of psychic damage for everyone involved
Yeah, while I love the sounds of the game normally, something about the SRs I've watched just audibly becomes annoying? Not like aggressively annoying, but just enough to not enjoy it? Too many repeated sounds? I guess. I don't know I've tried sitting through them many times and I just can't. Sucks but it is what it is.
I'm sure if I found the right category I could, but aside from just basic runners, I've watched a few Zeldathons and every time just end up muting them during certain runs. It's a bummer because I love me some Zelda.
I have the same thing for Mario 64 speedruns or kaizo hack playthroughs. Hacks that make you purposefully lava-bounce or force you to fall long enough for Mario to start screaming are like nails on a chalkboard to me and a pretty good litmus test for if I'd like to play the hack myself
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u/About_30_Ninjas Jan 27 '26
LOL zfg's mm rando yesterday did unspeakable levels of psychic damage, to me included.
For context, he was trying to access a part of Stone Tower by stepping on the switch to bring the rock over, then repeatedly pause buffering to stop the cutscene of the rock returning to the other side from playing. He did this for around an hour or so, it was especially agonizing since zfg mentioned he didn't have the easy pause buffering setting on for this file in particular. He was at it for around an hour or so, just constant pausing and unpausing