#the tos community basically all retiring doesnt help because it's less fun with no competition

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honestly i think romhacking is taking over the part of my brain that was interested in speedruns. i liked running ToS because it was a way to re-experience a game i love, and i also really liked glitch hunting as a method of... reverse-engineering/problem solving? but like. romhacking lets me do both of those things and also has a fun creative side to it, like i am making a derivative fanwork of sorts. idk i’m really really enjoying it

this isn’t a “i quit speedrunning forever” post but it is a “i have found a new way to interact with games i love a lot that feels even more meaningful to me right now”. like.. i COULD kill my wrists running ToS more, or i could like maybe eventually try to make a mod where you get a Heimdall scene on Kratos’s route. u kno? idk just musing

#speedrunning was very important to me for a couple years #but now it feels less so for probably a lot of different reasons #wrist injury is only part of it #hating twitch is also only part of it #the tos community basically all retiring doesnt help because it's less fun with no competition #but most of all it's like the things i got out of it i have found a new hobby that speaks to those things even more #glitch hunting for runs only has payoff if it is productive #but diving into a rom means you can do stupid shit for no reason other than the shits and giggles #idk #anyway im having a lot of fun right now and thats what matters #the future? who knows