Freaking a bit, thinking about the quality stuff I'll inevitably miss live. Their automatic YouTube upload is apparently broken right now, but it sure will be fixed. Super Mario 3D World Any% is currrently on, quite a relaxed run from what I'm seeing.

The science behind messing with the games is super interesting, I love it when related commentary is well done.

Doesn't mean all charities are corrupt though. But hey, one can still watch without donating anyways.

Thanks for mentioning these, I'll use the thread as a reminder for watching archived runs later. One I missed and need to treat myself too is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I haven't seen a zero bosses run of that before.

Ouch. Particularly bad since I know you are dying to work on the itch.io release of Croc...

Cheers, love the recommendations. Hyper Light Drifter I am interesting in for example, that's happening on Friday. And during the pre-show I heard Enviro-Bear 2000 mentioned (Thursday), never heard of that game. Part of the GDQ fun for me is discovering new titles.

good grief...the only games I see myself playing this fast is russian roulettte or video poker

Texas Hold'Em works:
https://www.speedrun.com/thp

you do know I was being sarcastic right? as in start with 10K in 3 min have 0, and russian roulette, well that's self explanitory

Heh... Diablo in 35 minutes...

smartass. Takes me that long to get started.

The Dragon Warrior run was awesome, especially if you're curious about how RNG manipulation works. (The introduction of RNG manipulation brought the time down by nearly 5 hours, to the point where a 40 minute estimate is quite generous.)

Command?

What is RNG manipulation?
I know RNG is random number generation but what is it's manipulation?

It's where the player takes advantage of the fact that the RNG isn't technically random, and can therefore be manipulated to get the results that the player wants. For example, a certain spell might almost never work on a certain enemy; RNG manipulation allows the spell to work consistently. Another example, though not applicable to the original Dragon Warrior, is getting rare drops. There's also things like critical hits and misses, which can also be manipulated in many games.

There was a run of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones the other day that also used heavy RNG manipulation.

(By the way, I'm pretty sure you mean "its", not "it's", in your post.)

Edit: If you would like to try your own hand at RNG manipulation, I would recommend Akalabeth, which you can get at:
https://www.gog.com/game/akalabeth_world_of_doom
The RNG seed is controlled by the player (it's the lucky number you enter at the start of the game), and the RNG only advances when you perform an action, so it shouldn't be too hard to map it out and use the magic amulet to get high stats early in the game.

too bad you haven't figured out a marketable way to RNG manipulate LOOT BOXES, think how rich you would be....

I've always been facinated with RNG manipulation and it doesn't have to be rediculously complicated. For example, if the runners do a reset before a run that's a good example of simple RNG manipulation.

For those who want a more in-depth explanation of RNG manipulation the TAS pages are pretty good.

http://tasvideos.org/LuckManipulation.html
http://tasvideos.org/AdvancedLuckManipulation.html

Also, nice find dtgreene! I had no idea anyone was running Ankalabeth (aka Ultima 0). The current time is pretty damn low already though (32 seconds).

https://www.speedrun.com/akalabeth

So self explanitory, of the 200 Best Games for Windows (the definitive guide to Russian games) who would even attempt to dispute #52. Casino Pack's version of roulette as the seminal Russian translation! #191. Windows Casino and #51. Casino Expert don't even compare! Who would even think of running anything else! ;-P

Dude, that's insane.

I remember playing around with Akalabeth seeds to get the best results, but this is something else.

umm, Russian roulette as I was thinking involves a pistol and one bullet....

Im pretty sure he knew and was being sarcastic.