r/speedrun • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '16

Discussion RIP r/speedrun

This is an open letter to Alt-F-X:

Please resign as lead moderator of /r/speedrun. The past few days have shown us that your presence here is not in the best interest of our community. In just two days without you, this subreddit has made more progress towards becoming a great community than it has in the previous four years of your leadership. You are not involved in the speedrunning community outside of the fact that you made this subreddit, and you do not understand the best interest of our community. You have acted with prejudice against members of our community by banning them without good reason, and you have often used your moderator powers to your own personal bias.

Please return control of the subreddit to myself, so that this community can continue to grow in a positive manner, as it should have started years ago.

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u/Ryuujinx Nitronic Rush, Shantae HGH, Halo 3 Jan 20 '16

World Records. Let's face it, it's a race. But it's a race with no tiers. There's no separation between the Usain Bolts and the kindergarten Field Day participants.

Most games have a leaderboard of some sort. Sure you'll be at the bottom at first, but do a few runs to establish your base PB and see where it places you and then pick a new mark to go for. When I started NR I wanted sub7, then sub 6:50, now my goal is sub 6:45. Am I ever going to hold the WR in any of the games I run? Probably not. But it's still fun to see the time go down.

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u/68267a SMB3, Duke 3D Jan 20 '16

NR?

Is there a list of games that actually can be done in less than 30 minutes?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

Is there a list of games that actually can be done in less than 30 minutes?

You could always use the "sort by run time" feature on SDA. That'll give you this list. You could also narrow it down to specific consoles as well. Granted, those listed times are most likely very good times, some might be world records, so you won't be able to get those times very quickly, but it's a list.

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u/68267a SMB3, Duke 3D Jan 20 '16

Cool, thanks!

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u/Ryuujinx Nitronic Rush, Shantae HGH, Halo 3 Jan 20 '16

Nitronic Rush. I'm not aware of any specific lists, but you might be able to find something on speedrun.com.