No idea what happened with my comparison, but five minute timesave over PB! Absolutely huge timesave, WR is not far away

Turns out that it's possible to complete some missions so fast you bypass the objective checks. Given this is not the first time, I'm gonna re-write some logic instead of adding three more exceptions lol

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition Auto Splitter is finally uploaded and available for wider use :) Happy that it is finally all done, it took quite some work and a lot of help from a friend to wrap my head around some logic. Now to find another project...

I tried this for myself, and holy moly this was hard. Coming from Trauma Center on the Wii, this requires a new level of precision.

Grinding C-1 in CE:ROM to get 2nd was not easy. There was certainly a few moments where I felt like I was fighting to get my inputs down and had to be very, very precise when it didn't feel necessary. Though I didn't feel this as much when just playing the op more casually

Finally cleared the rest of the CE:ROM demo, and it definitely got more interesting gameplay wise! Really happy to see different kinds of operation other than "yank this tumour out" with different art. Definitely have some feedback from a speedrun perspective to help smooth out some things 👀

A couple more episodes into the demo, and I some how managed to snipe 1st on 1-3. Not sure how to feel about pausing to be able to identify the puzzle solution without losing time, but it is what it is. Been enjoying trying to optimise in CE:ROM so far. Making some notes on feedback 👀

The dev of Cutting Edge: Roots of Mutation, @wizbirdgames.com, dropped me a demo key and I'm already on the grind. No idea how Sub 20s was achieved (figured out with the help of friends that it is the legendary Surefire Tactics). Classic 1-1 being surprisingly hard to optimise.

Runs learned: Around 25 Best Place: 1st (My Summer Car, Various Trauma Center categories) Worst Place: 155th (Portal Glitchless) Longest run: Trauma Team Easy (~4hr) Shortest run: Portal Glitchless (17m35s) Most fun: Trauma Center: New Blood Coop (hard to pick!) Least fun: LoZ: TP Master Sword

Pushed my Sleeping Dogs run down by 15 minutes! Really happy with this improvement, a few tricks still to learn and overall better gameplay, but I think I will let it rest (pun intended) for now.

Discovered there's an EnhancedSC patch for Splinter Cell (the first one) with an extra difficulty that's even harder and a Permadeath mode. So I think I'll give it a shot on stream 👀

Would love to try Linux, but given how much speedrunning I do and seeing that LiveSplit hasn't been developed for it, looks like I'll have to hold off. Wondering what'll come in the run up to Win10 end of support

Seeing Clair Obscur and how incredible beautiful it is makes me think of how the likes of, say, Final Fantasy X would look if remade with today's technology. I know it was already remastered for PS3, but the graphical technology has leaped so far it's not comparable.

I'm realising that I haven't been streaming, especially IL attempts, much recently. Would like to get back to it, but I haven't had the will to grind out a category. If more ILs come up I want to beat/improve, I'll try and stream it again. Typically I grind them for like 15-30 minutes per IL.

New Sleeping Dogs any% PB! Sub 4, yay! Did this with a race with some friends, was a lot of fun. Timeloss on random spots as usual. Probably will let this sit for now, don't want to grind this too much

As usual, @lordmau5.com being insanely GOATed, fixed up the enhanced TTS script for Firebot. Genuinely a chad, no idea how this guy does it. And with that, basically everything is setup for alerts going forward :) No more getting deafened by subs and honks and sound alerts at the same time

Another Sleeping Dogs run! Really fun, I might do another run or two in the future. I don't want to grind it too hard and lose the fun though. Funny 4:20!

Been *really* enjoying Sleeping Dogs as a speedrun. Might do it for BSG Annual 👀 Lots of fun without needing to remember 500 things, really enjoyable. Might do a run before the next race with friends.

(credit to @rieke.lt) My icon for when talking during the Sleeping Dogs race lol

Monke-noises

Did a Sleeping Dogs Any% race with friends, and was a lot of fun! I can see myself doing this again some-time soon. Time is comparing to Riek's previous race time he set two years ago.

Neat idea for speedruns. Anytime you gold a split, OBS replay buffer captures the last X minutes (probably the longest split length to cover that) and save that with the split name. No idea how you'd achieve that, somekind of hook in LiveSplit to check for golds, and to then send the command to OBS?

Need to do some work to overhaul how the alerts display on stream. But I think it'll have to wait until after BSG Plus. Leaving tomorrow 👀 Really looking forward to seeing friends again, and lots of nonsense for runs will happen. And hotel breakfast

Something tells me I really ought to stream more. @lordmau5.com then donated an additional 5 after the hype train ended. Truly, what the hell. Absolutely incredible <3

Got my second hat drop ever in the many years I've been playing TF2. Incredible lol

While I don't actively use the Trauma Center subreddit, I can't help but laugh that the two posts I made (one about the new TC Wiki on Miraheze, and the other about TAS Videos) were both removed by the mods, with no reason given. I don't think they like the fact I have beef with the Fandom wiki lol

I miss playing TF2 with friends... Makes me realise that playing games like that (CoD, CS, Valorant) are fun when I play with somebody. Soooo many clips on my old harddrive Perhaps time for me to lock back into practicing speedruns instead

Just spent the last hour getting my OSSC firmware updated only to realise that my model/board revision doesn't support 1.00 and greater firmware versions lol. Unless I perform a little hardware mod (cable + remove a resistor), I'll have to stay on fw v0.90. Here I was hoping for 480p Line3x D:

Who knew that waking at 5am and working for the first time (in retail) in 7 months would be so exhausting. Good lord I'm tired...

I was determined to push through Chapter 9 in Celeste before the end of the year. And I managed to do it... Bittersweet really.

Ossan is safe... for now. New PB for Second Opinion - Normal. Savato 2 was really rough. Sub 18 seems possible?(!)

Currently contemplating rolling back to Win10. Although it's only been a few days I'm not quite happy with it. All the things I do like aren't because it's Win11 and instead because of PowerToys. Who knows, in just under a year I'll be forced back. Still yet to decide if I just suffer with it...

Made the change over to Win11 and I'm not convinced so far. Mostly been a lot of small things that can be tweaked with either registry changes and such so it isn't much different from Win10 but not fun to spend my afternoon doing. Also using this as an opportunity to start using PowerToys.

Ossan, the current New Blood WR holder was giving Second Opinion another shot yesterday, and good god my time is in danger. The sutures are insanely fast. I think I pick up the scalpel again before he beats my time

Just re-finished Celeste, didn't take long but it's no surprise when I've retained a lot of muscle memory from when I played around with custom maps. Spent time going through the story, grabbing some strawberries, and I'm glad I did. Just as good as I remember it being when I first played it :)

New WR for My Summer Car - Pass the inspection! Took a lot longer than I'd hoped, but I got there. I think I'll let it sit for a while before I improve it.