improved the old rugrats hard mode time

2025 speedrunning write up. Didn't speedrun a ton this year but still did some nice work. Looking forward to next year! docs.google.com/document/d/1... too long; give me a pic:

Went sicko mode this month with speedruns. I streamed every day in December and started using a mic + webcam on the 5th. It was a fun experiment. Gonna take some time off to reset the burnout, but looking forward to next year. This year was rough, hopeful the next one will be better.

certified professional marbler

another annual TMNT 3 christmas run in the books. pretty nice time too. I love this game. merry christmas everyone.

New PAL WR wowee Kinda in speedrun limbo so I'm making questionable choices. Will probably get a 37 in this because I'm a dummy. I think 36 is possible but I won't subject myself to that level of torment.

There it is, the end. Might be my final time in this version of the game. Had a slim chance to get 30:0x going into Factory. 2nd time I've ever left that stage at 19:3x. Maybe one day I'll get the itch to return for those 6 final seconds. For now, this will do. Insane time.

first marbs sesh was nice

Shredder is a deviant. Scorpions kinda sucked too but we're inching closer.

9:58.8

little by little (10:03)

Shoutout to nerves

Did some low reset runs last night and finished this decent run with double golds, knocking 2 seconds off my sum of bests. Practiced stages afterward and shaved another 4 seconds off. I knew I was 10:2x capable but it's nice that I now have 6 seconds of leeway instead of having to match golds.

Found a Shako earlier today

New TMNT 2 WR! Had an insane-o pace but had a sloppy final 2, which were my best stages last PB. I want to get a 30:1x then might be done with US version forever. 8 more seconds.

a good night of turts

derusting, seeing how I feel about it. this had a chance to PB up to the shogun fight but I borked it. perfect scorpions for nothing.

If you want to watch a mortal man struggle in vainia against an immortal sleepy boi, check out burst's 5 hour epic covering every inch of Castlevania. Top-notch stuff.

Sonic Heroes fucking sucks

tested out streaming dolphin and it was pretty terrible performance wise but I did get this crazy fake item box throw

The unbridled chaos of Double Dash

mack ball

new speedrun maybe?

Finished my millionth playthrough of Red last night. Primeape kinda sucks but he's got a champion's heart. Slowbro is so busted in this game; Amnesia decimates everything. shitter has been crushed.

Got a new Spaceship 1 gold by 2.2 seconds. Flubbed the boss fight and lost 1-1.5 seconds. Insanely fast stage (7.4 faster than PB). This went on to nearly get a 7:0x Spaceship, which would have been PB by about 10 seconds, but Super Shredder ruined it. youtu.be/EGPf6jrL-nU

blew a 26 second lead but got a PB with Donnie

34:09!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

might get this framed

Really loving speedrunning lately. Having fun pushing NG2 but also starting to get the itch for a new project. Might improve an old time, might learn something new. I'll likely do some Little Samson runs soonish since I learned the whole game, but I'm not feeling it as a major project.

Got a fat NG2 PB. Then somebody asked me to do a TMNT 3 Don run, which I haven't done runs of in 3 years, and I PB'd in that too. Pretty killer night.

messing with Little Samson

oh yeah

one more

My old PB was 3 days away from turning 4. This run was bad but it's nice to finish one.

Haven't bought steam games to ignore in a while. My birthday is soon so I gave myself a $20 limit. Bought 9 games: Blasphemous Curse Crackers Gato Roboto Geometry Wars GRIS Furi Hylics Prodigal Steel Assault

Got a 118 in the first level of TMNT 3 for the first time. Also a gold by almost 2 seconds. This is the only level that I knew could be faster by an in-game increment. All of my ILs are now maxed out to the best of my knowledge other than the last level, which can always be improved.

Going to basically just start this today instead. Done streaming this game since I get sick of it after 30-60 minutes and don't have anything else to run right now. Need to be able to watch other streams or listen to stuff when I play this these days otherwise it's just miserable.

Going to grind TMNT 2 until June 13th. Giving myself a cut off because it's become very unfun. Extremely frustrating game to optimize. I meant this to be my final grind of the US version but I guess it depends on what time I end up with. Either way, going to shelf it for a long time after the 13th.

#4, might need to stop posting about these soon

Deathless #3 Died to Rahzar (lol) before this run so no 3peat. 38:39.

Got my second deathless clear for marathon prep. This attempt was the next after the first clear from last week, so these attempts were back to back clears - pretty nasty. Had a few looks at TMNT 2 PB before this as well.

Got a random hankering for the monke. Never recorded a 34 stage 2 during my grind. This is 2 in-game seconds faster than my PB but it's rough due to how fast you need to do the last corner clip.

Got a .4 PB in TMNT 2. Also got a deathless TMNT 3 run to final stage. Also also hit 300 followers. I don't pay attention to metrics much but that's a pretty cool milestone for having a low interaction stream + big hiatuses all the time. Appreciate the support lately.

Finished up my first playthrough of Mega Man X4 with both characters. Fantastic game. Looks and plays awesome. Great music. Story is dumb but the terrible dub makes for a fun watch. In the same tier as X and X2.

Died to Super Shredder 🙃 Avoiding early game deaths at least.

Submitted TMNT 3 Deathless for Dave's marathon next month. Managed to get a run to Krang. I died by getting hit by the legs as they were about to rejoin. Could probably save a few minutes off this by being more aggressive in some spots where safety didn't help much.

I got a taste

best pace ever out of skateboarding

best pace ever out of highway