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dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Do such efforts bring value to gaming or are they more of an academic exercise?

Neither? Speedrunning is entirely nihilistic. It rejects the rules of society to the point of rejecting the rules of games themselves in favor of meaningless tantric repetition. It’s the eternal pointless chase for a meaning that was never there and never will.

I find it fun and dreadful at the same time, as a concept, I would never do it myself in a million years.

In short, it’s an artistic performance.

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Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
i don’t get the nihilism angle. it seems to be all about selffulfilment and pushing oneself to see what one is capable of. simmiliar to triathlets, race car drivers or climbers.

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- dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Making your own valorial framework is a close cousin to accepting there is no inherent one.
  
  This is true for many things (all things?), but I think we can agree that as pointless or challenging being fast driving a car still welcomes the intended use of the car, is surrounded by a broadly shared and accepted economical advantage.
  
  Esports would be the equivalent, pushing to be the best at a game, the way it’s meant to be played.
  
  Speedrun is getting into a racing car and mastering with an iron will getting in and out as fast as possible.
  
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Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I can’t fully articulate the reasons why, but I dislike the entire speed-running culture. I’ve always been someone who sinks as deeply as I possibly can into the environments that games provide, placing a lot of value on carefully crafted details, flora, object clutter and ambience.

Speed-running is essentially the exact opposite of this, and it takes what was intended to be an enjoyable escape and gamifies it beyond recognition. It becomes a sweaty, disgusting mess of button mashing, sprinting, wall-glitching, exploitation, and a bastardization of mechanics. I definitely get why some people find this interesting, but I just can’t find the off-switch for how much I hate watching it. It’s in a similar ballpark as extreme min-maxing in modern MMOs, where people get so addicted to arbitrarily raising numbers by the smallest margin that the game itself just evaporates into the background.

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