The Legend of Speedrunners
02/28/21 • 38 min
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Speedrunners are gamers that want to beat a game as fast as possible, but it isn’t just about speed. It’s about love. It’s about obsession... over all the ins and outs of a game, down to the very programming.
Alex Cardinale
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Speedrunners are gamers that want to beat a game as fast as possible, but it isn’t just about speed. It’s about love. It’s about obsession... over all the ins and outs of a game, down to the very programming.
Alex Cardinale
Weldon Green
https://twitter.com/mindgamesweldon?lang=en
Eric Zimmerman
DannyB
https://www.youtube.com/c/dannyb21892
https://twitter.com/dannyb21892
Chaos Drifter
https://www.twitch.tv/chaosdrifter
BeefChief
https://www.twitch.tv/beefchief33
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Prodigy - The Legend of Speedrunners
Transcript
Hey. Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. In nineteen fifty three, an expedition set off to conquer it. It's a four hundred people two months to get two people to the top for fifteen minutes. Someone climbed it in sixteen hours. In two thousand four, someone did it an eight. To me, just getting to the top would be the accomplishment of a lifetime, but there's no way I would ever try. It sounds miserable, but not everyone feels that way
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