Absolutely crazy stuff happening to the Any% Ridley fight right now. The WR run had a fight that was 63-64 seconds long. (time is 54.54)

A little less than 10 years ago I randomly posted a video about Dark Souls 3 on my YT and went to bed. When I woke up it had gone viral, which would lead to a few months of DS3 content creation before I made a fatal mistake on my channel that I wouldn’t recover from 😆

My Hot Chip Reverse Boss Order run is on YouTube now, members only until tomorrow morning, after which it will be public for everyone. :) What an amazing week it has been with my friends. I can't express enough how incredible it was to host something specifically focused on the love.

HOT CHIP REVERSE BOSS ORDER ON DECK

BACK TO THE BASEMENT DAY 3 HAS STARTED. TODAY IS THE DAY I HAVE TO EAT A HOT CHIP AND THEN PERFORM REVERSE BOSS ORDER (it's gonna be bad lol) Live on my Twitch and YouTube! Shoutouts to Dr4gonBlitz for his amazing video breakdown of RBO he worked with me on awhile ago <3

THE KOSMIC (WITH A K!?!) IS LIVE IN MY BASEMENT RIGHT NOW!!! twitch.tv/shinyzeni

BACK TO THE BASEMENT IS LIVE ON MY TWITCH, YOUTUBE, and ZOASTY TWITCH!!

BACK TO THE BASEMENT STARTS TODAY!!! I have unfortunately dropped the ball on preparation in just about every sense, but all that really means is that this thing is gonna be very casual. Stream will likely start this afternoon. Schedule: pastebin.com/GnTgvsZX

When I reconnected with Super Metroid speedrunning in 2014 one of the first streams I ever watched (at all) was @zoasterino.bsky.social . What started as a curiosity into what watching a speedrunner stream would be like quickly turned into a comfort space for me. Life was hard at the time.

Some of you may remember that when I did Zenithon last winter one of the incentives was to do Single Norfair Reverse Boss Order after eating one of the One Chip Challenge hot chips. I plan to do that as part of my "Back to the Basement" event that is happening in two weeks.

Finally clutched out GT Classic World Record. This took way longer than it should have. My PB 3 weeks ago was 3 frames slower than Zoast's previous run, and I had I think 10 or so paces that could have WR since then, but I just kept throwing at the end of the run. Finally.

After 8 years I've experienced a lot of high highs and low lows in the speedruns world. Today adds to the list I suppose. This run fell apart right at the end, after getting a bad Phantoon pattern, some mean turrets, a small but costly mistake at MB, and some steam. +3f to WR. I'll get it. Maybe.

It’s been a really interesting year of self discovery for me. Feeling like I’m finally “myself” again after so many years, and yet being so different from who I was before my extended mental crisis and what I’m pretty sure was autistic burnout. I wonder what comes up next.

It’s interesting how much a healthier mental state changes perspective when dealing with things sometimes. The solutions to the problem don’t usually change much but the potential impact of it feels different. Not even easier necessarily, just different.

Missed WR by a couple seconds, made probably 3-4 seconds worth of mistakes in the last few minutes haha Getting there!

As of this month I have officially been a Twitch Partner for 5 years. I don't remember the exact date, but today is my 5 year anniversary stream. In classic Zeni fashion, I forgot all about it and didn't plan anything special, so I'll just be doing GTC Speedruns and stuff lol

Getting closer, pretty bad endgame in this one

Still working on GT Classic category "casually" -- it's going fairly well, I just haven't had a ton of time to sink into it due to various IRL things etc. Zoast got WR in this category a few days ago though which is -26 compared to this run

I've been casually working on GT Classic the past couple weeks. IRL stuff has been really busy, but I finally got an awful PB today LOL

I know this is very short notice, I have just kept forgetting to announce it which is completely my bad. Our friend from the Super Metroid Community - GoldenChorizoCode - Passed away some time ago. Today, I am hosting a memorial stream for him on my channel.

4/4 Super Metroid NMG World Records. I never saw myself here. Ever.

4/4 NMG WORLD RECORDS LET'S GOOOO!!! Oats, thank you for your encouragement and believing in me all these years. And thank you for your friendship <3 @zoasterino.bsky.social , thank you for your endless inspiration and encouragement, I think you have believed in me more than most over the years.

Got some scammy drops etc so couldn't quite clutch it out, but another PB tonight.

I've been working on Low% Ice since I took the Any% World Record back in the end of January, and as of today I am officially within striking distance of World Record in Low% Ice as well! I got a fat PB this morning, and then a crazy pacer tonight as well. Stay tuned?

Can’t believe we have to live in a world run (and constantly destroyed) by the internet, but we don’t even get to have cool digital best friends with themed super powers who fight each other like in Megaman Battle Network

Thanks for 7777 subscribers on YouTube!

Can’t stress this enough

I just ADHD-procrastination cleaned my keyboard for the first time in way too long+even longer AMA

My SVS from Arthrimus ( arthrimus.com/support/scal... ) was delivered last week, but was unfortunately missing some pieces so I couldn’t finish setting it up. I emailed asking about the missing pieces, and they sent out replacements the next day! Those arrived today 🎉

I had a whole week (more even) of daily uploads related to the new WR but they are finally done. Been working on Low Ice when I have had time the past week. Thought I would have started real runs by now, but not quite. Hopefully soon!

Awwww mannnn one of oats YouTube commenters called me bizarre. 😭😭😭😭😭 😆

Okay so like… I’ve always known Any% was the most popular category in Super Metroid. But damn the response to the World Record has been IMMENSE. I went live today doing practice and had 150 viewers in the first 20 mins or so, and it STAYED that way. I don’t know if that’s ever happened before.

AND @zoasterino.bsky.social GOT THE 26 IGT RUN WHAT IS THIS!?!!?

Here's the YouTube upload youtu.be/sGgzxe-MZWw

there are no words. seriously. I can't even. is this a dream?

WHAT JUST HAPPENED WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Definitely in a bit of a rough patch this week. Things with my family (siblings/parents) have been hard, runs have been bad or not happening at all, work is stressing me out, the list goes on. It’s all very normal “first world problems” type stuff, but damn it my brain hurts 😔

I had a pretty crazy pace earlier tonight. I've only ever had one pace that good previously, hard to come by. Entering Ridley I was roughly -15 compared to my PB (give or take a couple seconds), but unfortunately he gave me a bad pattern, -6 after the fight. The run died, but...

I am very lucky to have such a supportive wife. I do try very hard to give people grace through their mistakes and allow them space to grow and redeem themselves-largely because I myself have grown in ways I never expected, and am sad and embarrassed about mistakes from the past. I love you sassy

Would be nice if I could run SM properly on low sleep and/or when I have mental burdens. Unfortunately I can’t. So this weekend might not be very productive tbh. Gonna try anyway!

If you wanna be consistent .. you gotta be consistent! Thanks for the recap @therun.gg !

2 40:56 runs back to back today, both had really strong promising paces, but one thing or another went wrong in mid-game. The 2nd one was especially impressive considering the mistakes LOL Good things ahead!

Amazing stream today Gonna try to make 2025 a good one

I'm gonna be on Twitch FRONT PAGE TODAY!!! let's go! Any% Speedrun stuff from now until noon-ish my time and then I'm gonna be doing some other funny stuff. <3

Bye 2024 I won’t miss you

Final stream of the weekend is up!! This happened earlier lmao The run was basically dead already before that screenshot, but the main point is CRAZY PACE holy moly

Half a second from third place lol Nice power bombs split bro

I GOT ACCEPTED FOR TWITCH FRONT PAGE ON JANUARY 1ST LETS GOOOO

This is me laughing after dying to Draygon on -10 pace (that's late game and *very* good pace) -- somebody in chat said something like "how can you be laughing, I would be so frustrated" and I took some time to unpack that a bit on stream... A few years ago, I probably would have lost my shit, tbh