#bismuth speedruns

[arcsin27]

Same

#arcsins random videos #bismuth speedruns #reaction images #mario #super mario #super mario 64 #a button challenge #bismuth youtube

[lil-ms-dipst]

goodnight collin pikmin gaming community

#pikmin 4 #pikmin collin #collin #dipstickdraws #doodle #the video is Minecraft in 20 seconds explained in 20 minutes #by Bismuth #very nice video #I imagine collin might like TAS or speedrun explanations as it's practically perfection and is like the one thing that usually things don't #go wrong or anything #tis one of my comfort videos to go to sleep to

[cosmignon]

if youve ever watched a clip from GDQ/AGDQ and been like "how the fuck did they do that" I definitely think bismuth, summoning salt, and pannenkoek2012 are great channels to go to as introductory looks into the speedrunning and challenge gaming communities... I get the impression they're some of the more well known names of the "explaining game mechanics" channels out there but it's definitely for a reason

and also, if you know other good channels for stuff like this do leave a suggestion in the replies... I can always go for some more good food

#era of sara #if you remember pannenkoek from the rolling rocks vid that went viral #check out his channel! or bismuth's huge video abt the A Button Challenge (ABC) community!! #its not just a silly viral meme theres a lot of genuine heart and knowledge at display here

[boom-fanfic-a-latta]

I love watching videos talking about random speedrunning things Like, LowestPercent and LunaticJ and Bismuth and those kinds of channels I'm rewatching the Twilight Princess Low% video on Lowest Percent for like the 20th time

[goombasa]

Youtube Recommendation: Summoning Salt

Time for something quick and simple, I think. I might be sprinkling posts like this throughout the year here and there, just using this as an excuse to talk about another creator that I really like.

So, any speedrunners in the audience?

Speedrunners both terrify and intrigue me. Even when watching a middle-of-the-road run, or an old run that is vastly outdated by modern techniques, I am always stunned and mystified by the amount of skill, planning, and tenacity that goes into making them work, the hours and hours put into playing the same game over and over again, stripping it down to its absolute bare essentials and looking for breaks in the chain, openings in the plate, which can be exploited as much as possible.

And as much as I love hearing the technical side of all these things, what I love most is learning about the journey that a game takes to become a heavily played speed game.

If you've had any sort of interest in speed running a game, or the practice or people in general, chances are good you've come across videos made by a Youtuber named Summoning Salt. Summoning Salt's videos revolve entirely around speed running, which makes sense considering Salt himself is a very accomplished speedrunner, holding 1st place in six different categories for Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! on the NES. This intimate knowledge on the ins and outs on the process of speed running, and his own experience, lends his videos an important touch of professional knowledge.

His output primarily consists of videos covering the history of the speed running community and record for a particular game, and he doesn't just cover the big games either. While yes, he has touched on games like Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Super Mario 64, and the Mario Kart series, but he's also covered games you really wouldn't expect to HAVE a speed running community, like Wii Sports or the Lego Star Wars saga. He's also done videos spotlighting the careers and attempts to beat the records of prominent speedrunners, like Abney317 in Mario Kart 64 or Jimmypoopins in Ninja Gaiden 2, or videos concerning very specific categories within a community. He's done videos on blindfolded Punch-out and Super Mario 64, as well as a video on the Wii Sports Golf game specifically, for example.

And these videos are like potato chips. I can't watch just one, despite the rather impressive length of them. His older videos usually range between fifteen minutes and a half hour, but his recent videos range anywhere from between forty-five minutes to upwards of two hours as he goes into massive detail on the history of a game, going through every discovery for glitches and techniques, and probably most importantly, highlighting every player that helped to push the game forward or challenge the community's status quo, no matter how small of a role they might have played in the grand scheme of things. No detail is too small if it means talking about some interesting aspect of the game.

His videos are also incredibly easy to understand as well, which lends them well to those who aren't really into speedrunning or might be new to the community. he does use language and terms that are intrinsic to speedrunning, but he generally does a good job of explaining what those terms mean in a way that is very accessible. I compare that to videos from mother speedrunning focused channels that are really into the technical side of things, like Bismuth. Bismuth is another great speedrunning channel, but focuses more on explaining, in great detail, the technical aspects of how certain tricks and glitches work. To give you an idea of their breadth of knowledge, their biggest project is an exhaustive 5+ hour long documentary explaining all of the history and technical aspects behind the A-button challenge, where people try to beat Super Mario 64 using as few A-button presses as possible. It's a really interesting watch, at least to me, but due to the technical nature of their videos, Bismuth's stuff is a bit more niche. Summoning Salt's videos are much more simple, and he uses languages and explanations that are pretty easy to understand, often not bothering to go in depth into the technical aspects of what makes certain tricks work beyond what is necessary to understand the idea behind it, or just skip over the technical details entirely if it would slow down the video, which is focused more on the human element of speed running, the drama and high emotion of trying to reach, and keep, a record.

Even if you're an outsider looking in, I would highly recommend checking out Summoning Salt's channel, just for the entertainment value alone. Ultimately, the videos are stories about the people behind the records, who made the community what it became, rather than focusing on the game itself, and I think that's what makes it so fascinating to watch. Here are a few recommended vids that I personally enjoy:

Recommending Videos:

The History of Blindfolded Super Mario 64: At the time of my writing this, this is actually the most recent video on Salt's channel. Not the first ‘blindfolded’ video he's done, but I feel like this one better exemplifies the absolute struggles of playing a well known game without the use of sight AND doing it quickly.

The History of Wii Sports World Records: An excellent example of just how Summoning Salt can take something that, conceptually, shouldn't be that interesting or epic, and through just telling you about the people and just how it started to gain popularity, he gets you to care about something as silly sounding as the world record for marathoning all the games in Wii Sports as fast as possible.

The Quest to Beat Matt Turk: This was the video that got me into Summoning Salt's channel, a story about how a dead speedrun community was given new life as a series of runners came together with the collective goal of trying to beat the individual times of the runner who held the world record in every single fight in Punch Out.

The History of Super Mario Bros 3 100% World Records: This is a good blueprint for how most of Salt's videos tend to play out, and it's for a game that is incredibly well known. This is a quintessential Summoning Salt video and will probably give you a really good idea as to whether or not you'd enjoy his content.

#Youtube #Summoning Salt #Speedruns #History of Speedruns #Some of this stuff is just damn impressive

[jdididydog]

In the club asking the dj to play Donkey Kong 64 any% Tool-assisted Speedrun Explained by Bismuth

[answrs]

(edit to put the actual request above the cut) anyway!!! someone rec me video essays or something to keep my mind off this idfc.

always a fan of things like speedrun retrospectives/explanations -that ARE NOT bismuth (if I ever hear that horrible gd-fucking-forsaken ringtone-ass "ambient music uwu" again i am punching the nearest human being in the throat). tomatoanus is a fun channel (shush it he's honestly one of the best speedrun explained I've watched), and the guy that did the red ball videos too. I know about yesterworld and obviously hbomberguy is king, hell I'll take decent list videos at this point. no podcasts though bc I need captions/the full script to even remotely understand what's going on and 99% of them don't do that. :\

[grazer-razor]

that moment when bismuth's SM64 tas speedrun, nes zelda speedrun, perfect SMB1 speedrun, perfect SM64 speedrun, SMB3 speedrun, SMW speedrun, and DK64 speedrun videos have no epilepsy warnings,

but his 20 second minecraft speedrun video has a warning

the funniest part is that he said the flashing lights in that video weren't extreme when they were more extreme than most of the flashing lights in the above listed videos(which i know they have, especially the 64 tas video)

[deciphered-narrator]

i want to write a sci-fi book where space travel operates on video game logic, if you build up enough speed in one place you'll move a huge distance in a single frame and clip through anything that's in your way

#if you've never watched the super mario 64 tas speedrun explained by bismuth on youtube #its very fun. i had to watch it twice to understand it #explaining it as 'moving through parallel universes' is a little misleading but i cant think of a better way to visualize it #my writing #writeblr

[shachihata]

ive been like slowly and steadily consuming mario video essays and occasionally adding my favorites to the “mario video essay recommendation” post im putting together but like . it is so fucking embarrassing for me to listen to one i think is really good and be like “oh shit hold on lemme go edit that tumblr draft” and then i go to link the video and i realize that its a mario speedrunning video and that the last 5 youtube links on there have been mario speedrunning videos and i .

#ciphertexts #you people wouldnt get it. you people wouldnt fucking get it. #maybe if you watched bismuth's full explanation of the sm64 tas you would get it but you guys dont fucking get it. #IT IS NKT ALL SPEEDRUNNING CONTEBT ON THERE I HAVE BEEN SOOOOOO SO PICKY WITH WHAT I PUT ON THERE #B/C TRUST ME IF I WASNT. IT WOULD JUST BE LIKE 23 TECHNICAL DETAILED SPEEDRUN EXPLANATIONS AND FUCKING NOTHING ELSE.

[endorphinmachine]

lost media youtubers talking about an unreleased episode of spongebob vs bismuth talking about video game speedruns

[holdharmonysacred]

man the new round of steven universe discourse is whack. like did we forget the actual problems SU had????? because SU’s definitely had some Problems going on - its Not White characters tended to get not nearly as much focus as the White ones (and Bismuth got done super dirty), that one hardcore lapidot shipper got to run a few too many episodes even though Peridot is in theory meant to be the show’s aro/ace rep, the show in general tended to be really goddamn weird about Rose and her redemption arc, and the ending threw out all of the show’s themes of overthrowing tyrannical oppressors in favor of speedrunning the Diamonds’ redemption arcs solely because they’re Steven’s blood relatives - but fucking. like. ruby and sapphire aren’t one of those problems!!!!!!!! ruby and sapphire aren’t one of those problems!!!!!!!!!!! ruby and sapphire are fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They literally got married onscreen!!!!!!!!!! It’s absurd to pit them against later queer kids shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it’s not like there’s no issues with the queer rep in the series, there’s some very real complaints to be had like the metaphors with fusion being a little muddled or Peridot’s aro/aceness being regularly undermined by everything else, but like. Ruby and Sapphire are not one of those issues at all.

[dogcopter]

steven, connie, stevonnie speedrun rewatch list:

bubble buddies

lion 2: the movie

an indirect kiss

mirror gem/ocean gem

fusion cuisine

alone together

winter forecast

open book

full disclosure

love letters

sworn to the sword

we need to talk

nightmare hospital

steven’s birthday

beach city drift

gem hunt

crack the whip

buddy’s book

mindful education

the new crystal gems

storm in the room

doug out

are you my dad?

i am my mom

dewey wins

gemcation

kevin party

lars of the stars

jungle moon

reunited

together alone

escapism

change your mind

the movie if you want

bismuth casual

together forever

growing pains

everything’s fine

i am my monster

the future

#su future su spoilers su finale #steven universe future #steven universe future spoilers #rewatch list

[jkottke]

Reprogramming a Game By Playing It: an Unbelievable Super Mario Bros 3 Speedrun

After a fellow named Zikubi beat the speedrun record for Super Mario Bros 3 by about 8 minutes with a time of just over three minutes, speedrun analyst Bismuth made the video above to explain how he did it...by changing the game with the gameplay itself.

The first couple minutes go exactly as you'd expect, but the speedrun takes a weird turn when, instead of using the second warp whistle to go to level 8, he uses it to go to level 7. And once in level 7, Mario races around randomly, letting opportunity slip away like a blindfolded birthday boy unwittingly steering himself away from the piñata. It's only later, during the explanation of how he got from level 7 to the final screen so quickly, that you realize Mario's panicky idiot behavior is actually the player actively reprogramming the game to open up a wormhole to the ending. Watch the whole explanation -- it's a really fascinating little hack.

See also Bismuth's explanation of a Super Mario Bros world record speedrun, which includes a short argument by me about why video game speedrun breakdowns are interesting to watch even if you don't play video games.

In the video analysis of this speedrun, if you forget the video game part of it and all the negative connotations you might have about that, you get to see the collective effort of thousands of people over more than three decades who have studied a thing right down to the bare metal so that one person, standing on the shoulders of giants in a near-perfect performance, can do something no one has ever done before. Progress and understanding by groups of people happens exactly like this in manufacturing, art, science, engineering, design, social science, literature, and every other collective human endeavor...it's what humans do. But since playing sports and video games is such a universal experience and you get to see it all happening right on the screen in front of you, it's perhaps easier to grok SMB speedrun innovations more quickly than, say, how assembly line manufacturing has improved since 2000, recent innovations in art, how we got from the flip phone to iPhone X in only 10 years, or how CRISPR happened.

(via @craigmod)

[goldenslowpoke]

Not time for the liveblog yet. So instead of watching Steven Universe, I’m watching Bismuth.

The youtuber who does Tool Assisted Speedrun expanations.

#I like this funny coincidence

[transienturl]

I don’t know how to format this thought, but the youtuber Bismuth (who makes videos explaining speedruns) made some videos talking about their behind the scenes and it’s extremely notable how long they spend on custom making the simple-seeming-at-first-glance animations. This makes me think of myself, as I tend to spend exorbitant amounts of time on small graphics for GW2 explanation posts and the like. In both cases it’s clear that a lot of work goes into making you not notice how much work it took.

In their recent Q&A, they also mention some of their other (many) interests, and answer casual questions in great detail and with large amounts of organizational work (making a tier list when they can’t decide on their favorite of their videos). My impression of their life is that they think a great deal and in extreme depth about the things they experience, and enjoy putting a large amount of work into communicating what they know to an audience in a clear and understandable manner. This reminds me of jan Misali, who I just linked to last week. I get a similar feeling when I watch both of their channels. jan Misali mentions in their bio that they are autistic.

If a person reminds me of myself, and that person reminds me of another person, and that other person is on the autism spectrum, then the obvious things to consider are:

a) am I on the autism spectrum b) am I like either of these people c) do other people sometimes feel about me the way I feel about these youtube channels and their creators, and d) regardless of the answers to the previous, would I be a youtuber who meticulously explains something-or-other in another life where I could stick to a difficult task for more than about 6 hours?

I think I got the order of a lot of the points in this post wrong in order to make the flow of logic most naturally follow from itself, which is the kind of thing I think about when writing these kinds of things down, which I think may be a point at least somewhat in favor of some of these questions.

I don’t know any of the answers, but I know that I really want d) to be true, because taking a complex system, fitting a framework to it, understanding it, and constructing that framework unambiguously in someone else’s mind so they understand it as well is basically the thing I would most like to be able to do.