tried out messing with the resolution and 800x600 seems to have sped up things like snake explosions. the weird part is, it seems like once you've switched the resolution to a lower one, the speed improvement is consistent for higher resolutions. unclear why this is happening - might be that changes display resolution refreshes something, so things speed up?
edit: turns out my monitor accidentally got switched up to a 144 Hz refresh rate. gonna talk with the other mods about this, but pretty sure this is just a strict "better hardware equals better speedrun" situation so we'll probably need to make a rule about how high the refresh rate is allowed to go. feel free to comment on this if you have an opinion