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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #137790 on: September 10, 2018, 11:51:32 am »

As for phasing through a wall, depending on the game's rendering and overall speed, it could be a lag-clip. A very popular way of getting through walls for N64 games. It's typically reading your location as through the wall based on speed and framerate, and missing your collision check.

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« Reply #137791 on: September 10, 2018, 11:58:38 am »

So, apparently the world record Any% speedrun for Salt and Sanctuary, a game I spent over 30 hours on during my first playthrough, is clocked in at... A little under 4 and a half minutes.

I mean, I know it's Any%, but... Fucking hell.
How's that even possible? Just walking to the first boss takes like half of that time.
Long-jumping covers most of your horizontal movement needs. After that we have bell cancelling out of fatal drops, one instance of apparently just phasing through a wall into a different area, using the ferryman WAY ahead of time and then through even more bell-drops getting plopped into the middle of the Pitchwoods a few moments after killing the Queen of Smiles.

Then he ran over, irritated a spindlebeast, kited it a couple screens to the right (apparently you can outrun the fuckers when you're naked?), and then used the bell while getting impaled. Somehow this respawns you directly into the ending cutscene.


A game based entirely around killing things, and he kills a grand total of 1 or 2 things during the whole run.

Sounds like massive glitch exploitation, which those Any% speedruns are anyway.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #137792 on: September 10, 2018, 12:11:27 pm »

As a speedrun purist I only accept as valid speedsruns that plays through the entire game as it was intended to be played.
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« Reply #137793 on: September 10, 2018, 12:15:58 pm »

While I (hopefuly) know scriver is being sarcastic, I've actually seen people complain that using glitches or tools to speedrun is not true speedrunning despite there being categories to deal with this exact problem.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #137794 on: September 10, 2018, 12:19:12 pm »

So, apparently the world record Any% speedrun for Salt and Sanctuary, a game I spent over 30 hours on during my first playthrough, is clocked in at... A little under 4 and a half minutes.

I mean, I know it's Any%, but... Fucking hell.
How's that even possible? Just walking to the first boss takes like half of that time.
Long-jumping covers most of your horizontal movement needs. After that we have bell cancelling out of fatal drops, one instance of apparently just phasing through a wall into a different area, using the ferryman WAY ahead of time and then through even more bell-drops getting plopped into the middle of the Pitchwoods a few moments after killing the Queen of Smiles.

Then he ran over, irritated a spindlebeast, kited it a couple screens to the right (apparently you can outrun the fuckers when you're naked?), and then used the bell while getting impaled. Somehow this respawns you directly into the ending cutscene.


A game based entirely around killing things, and he kills a grand total of 1 or 2 things during the whole run.

Sounds like massive glitch exploitation, which those Any% speedruns are anyway.

Least the Salt and Sanctuary run actually involves playing the game, and it's not like Pokemon red/blue/yellow where all you need to do is start the game, open your inventory, fiddle around with it in a very specific way and you wrong warp directly to the end credits.

Or SNES Link to the Past where the player just clips through the wall and dimensionally travels to the last boss and beats him with a bug net.

Or Super Mario World, where you go to the first stage, fuck around with the enemies a little bit, and then re-program the game into a functioning version of Pong.

TAS's are just the best.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #137795 on: September 10, 2018, 12:24:00 pm »

Apparently hurricane Florence is coming to give my town a hug this week.
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« Reply #137796 on: September 10, 2018, 12:26:32 pm »

Apparently hurricane Florence is coming to give my town a hug this week.

Take care, she sounds like a mean lady ;v
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« Reply #137797 on: September 10, 2018, 12:48:48 pm »

Apparently hurricane Florence is coming to give my town a hug this week.
Did you raid the local grocer for bottled water and bread?
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« Reply #137798 on: September 10, 2018, 12:51:14 pm »

Apparently hurricane Florence is coming to give my town a hug this week.
Did you raid the local grocer for bottled water and bread?

Well I'm doing that in about 2 hours. Also I'm less interested in bread and more in baby foods.
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« Reply #137799 on: September 10, 2018, 02:20:39 pm »

Apparently hurricane Florence is coming to give my town a hug this week.

Take care, she sounds like a mean lady ;v
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« Reply #137800 on: September 10, 2018, 02:31:20 pm »

Apparently hurricane Florence is coming to give my town a hug this week.

Take care, she sounds like a mean lady ;v
Florence NightinGale-Force Winds.

Honestly I'm less concerned about winds, even though they are reportedly very high winds, and more about flooding. I'm in Richmond and the local river likes to flood halfway into the city even if there isn't a hurricane.
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« Reply #137801 on: September 10, 2018, 06:16:18 pm »

My stomach is making noises comparable to crabsquids from Subnautica.
Keep an eye out in the event that you unleash a bright green, spherical fart that temporarily disables all electronic devices in your proximity.

Or, as it is more likely, check to make sure your stomach doesn't just randomly flip sideways and phase directly through a solid wall.


...honestly, the scariest things in that game are the expressly unintentional ones.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #137802 on: September 10, 2018, 06:18:50 pm »

My stomach is making noises comparable to crabsquids from Subnautica.
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« Reply #137803 on: September 10, 2018, 06:33:51 pm »

My stomach is making noises comparable to crabsquids from Subnautica.
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