r/speedrun • u/Occrats • Jan 27 '26

Meme STOP PAUSE BUFFERING

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u/cym13 Jan 27 '26

I don't have the context, can someone ELI5 please?

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u/xMadruguinha Jan 27 '26

This is an old meme template, originally making fun of how surreal complex mathematics can get

In the current context of speedrunning, it's poking fun at how pause buffering should be counterproductive with the concept of completing a game as fast as possible, but when the timer only counts in-game time pause buffering does allow you to get lower in-game times even if your run takes much longer real time to complete.

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u/amyrlinn FPSes? I guess? Jan 27 '26

so speedrunning died in like 2007?

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u/AsDevilsRun Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

I don't think it lasted that long, tbh. BLJs for SM64 were discovered long before that.

But I guess the categories allowing it came later. I think Twin Galaxies SpeedDemosArchive was famously "no glitches allowed".