speedrunner, twitch streamer. bi + enby. the only ever jp speedrunner with a cohost account. en-jp game translator!
日米ハーフ、基本英語・ホロウナイト等RTA走者兼Twitch配信者・中性・cohost唯一の日本人RTA走者・英⇔和ゲーム翻訳者
one of the main leaderboard mods, waifu, is getting really fighty in replies about this too. it's... so bad! really really gross gatekeeping and elitism happening here that's going to dissuade new runners from trying out a speedgame.
anyways i don't post on twitter anymore but i didn't see anyone talking about this on cohost so i wanted to share it here.
WOW I hadn't seen Waifu doubling down like that. So disappointing. This is so short-sighted and exclusionary of them, honestly.
as someone who's done some help for a japanese "speedrun learning" group where they did re4 for 3 months, seeing this is pretty disappointing, especially since it basically just ostracizes that entire group that was participating, at least back when they were starting off
this is just speed demos archive rules repeating itself, can't believe i'd see rejected: not good enough again
"learning proper strats and routes is the whole point of a speedrunning board" stop having fun! video games were not meant to be fun!
like, wow, if you don't want to verify runs, just accept screenshot proof and pinky promises above the cutoff time?
this is terrible. even though they apparently took back their rule, it shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Was he a mod? I thought I checked yesterday and didn't see him on the mod list, but today he's banned from SRC for 4 months, which I imagine takes away mod status anyway.
I'm normally all for each game community coming up with their own rules and what is and isn't allowed, like turbo or mouse wheels or emulators, because usually the individual community knows and discusses what is best for the run itself. And even though sometimes it can look bad from the outside, it can also be good within the specific context of a single game, category, or playstyle, where people applying it to their game of choice is a totally awful idea. And with a lot of leeway, a generous time limit can be useful and keep ridiculous, trolly, or maliciously long runs from taking up verification time of busy boards. However in this case, a hard limit of ~20% slower than the fastest time on a board with less than 20 runs in relevant categories that are under 2 hours, this has no bearing on the game itself, nor the controls, nor the quality of people running. This only gatekeeps and turns people away, some of whom were already a part of that community and are now having their runs retroactively turned away. This only benefits their moderator team so they don't have to watch runs that aren't competitive and can instantly reject. It does not erase those longer runs, it just discourages the people who run them. There are better solutions to whatever problem this is trying to solve, and creates more harm than good. It will not encourage more people to get faster or use certain tricks or glitches, by making the leaderboard a reward for meeting a standard. It will only keep people away.
