rujasu

Likes old games and speedruns!

Non-binary, genderfluid, happily married. Retro gaming enthusiast. I speedrun a few games that you probably played once, enjoyed, and then totally forgot about. Staff for Power Up With Pride and volunteer for several other charity speedrunning events. Alys is pronounced like Alice, Rujasu is pronounced rue-JAH-sue.


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If you've ever been an actor, there's a good chance you've had dreams where you were due to go on stage and couldn't remember any of your lines. It's so common that Christopher Durang wrote a one-act play about it, called The Actor's Nightmare. As someone who did high school and college theatre, it's a dream I've had many times.

Last night, I had The Speedrunner's Nightmare. I was doing a GDQ Hotfix show, and about 10 minutes into my run, everything started going terrifyingly wrong. The game was glitching out in ways I couldn't even comprehend. I was going through areas I couldn't remember ever playing before. At one point, I spaced out to the point of getting up from my computer before remembering I was in the middle of my run and hurrying back. Somehow nobody seemed to notice or care that I had just stopped running for a minute. And then my computer started to just literally fall apart. There was a point in my run where I had to press the F8 key (and no, I have never actually run a game where I'd press the F8 key) but the F8 key had fallen off the keyboard and I couldn't continue. It was all so horribly embarassing that I knew my speedrunning career was over at that moment.

...so anyway, tune in to GDQ tomorrow at 7:00 PM EST, if you'd like to see what is apparently going to be the humiliating end of my speedrunning career! And if you've ever had an acting and/or speedrunning nightmare of your own, I'd love to hear about it!


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