Pro Speedrunner reacts to "Obvious Cheater Fakes Blindfolded Super Mario 64 Speedrun" 

I deleted the video of me reacting to his apology as i thought it was too unnecessary to give more attention to the matter and was unfair to the person

All you blindfolded speedrunners have just been doing it wrong. This mega genius figured out it's so much easier if you can just see

I want a category where people run blindfolded while a friend stands next to them and yells at them where to go

You all misunderstand this wasnt a Blindfold speedrun for him. We as the audience were meant to wear the blindfold.

Viewer: “I’ll literally pay you 50$ to do the move that you were consistently and easily doing this whole run” Cheater: “...no”

Thank you so much, I'm seriously honored. More videos and streams to come in the future

If no one called him out he would have never admitted this was a 'joke'

In the video, some dude named VicariousTim said in the chat 'Imagine being [blindfolded] and changing the cameras so you can see' that shit was funny

I've been casually playing this game off and on since it came out. For funsies, I just now started up a new game blindfolded with the goal of just entering the first level, to see how good 20 years of muscle memory really is for even just a simple task. Didn't even make it inside the castle.

Fake runs boil my blood. Then they always say "it was a joke," after people get pissed.

he didn't fake it, he was using echolocation

I died laughing at 19:51 when he said “imagine doing a blindfolded speed run and hearing DADING DADING DADING”

Fuck it, I’m just gonna post a video titled “BLINDFOLDED MARIO 64 SPEEDRUN?!”, and it’s just me blatantly watching someone else’s speedrun with a blanket on my head. Like, not even playing, so that the video title is still technically accurate.

I love the long pause after the $50 challenge you can see him panicking thinking "fuck how can I lie out of this" and all he comes up with is no.

Fun fact: Humans rely on their sense of sight 80% higher than any other sense we have. So yeah. Unless you've done this an assload, with tons of special setups, you're gonna fail spectacularly.

If this was just "muscle memory" then why pretend like you're "using" auditory cues? lol

My favorite part was 17:26 when Cheese is about to stop the video to say something but then looses track because he hears the cheater make a muscle memory comment.

I love the implication he creates that he knows every button input and seems to have “memorized” every step Mario takes but gets to the submarine and is like “oh am I at the submarine?” Like.. really? You can find the chain chomp pole in BBB blind by just running right at it like you can see it, but when you get to the submarine suddenly you don’t know what you’re doing anymore? Like the blatant inconsistency omg

Wait until you see my legit 120 star speedrun, blindfolded, hands tied behind back, in a different room, and asleep.

These people should be marked permanently on their twitch accounts as "verified cheater" ....I hate that people can do this without consequence and gain money and views by dishonoring a whole community. I''m not even part of the speed running community but I feel bad for the people who put in hard work to have to put up with this.

Densest things in the universe: 4: Osmium 3: Black holes 2:Neutron stars 1: The people in that runner's chat who actually think he was blindfolded during the run.

His excuse when he was called out was that it was a joke run, yeah sure it was buddy

If someone spouts "It's just a prank/joke/troll!" when they're backed into a corner, it means they're out of ammo and they're desperately trying to deflect.

I love how the guy took almost a whole minute to think of an excuse for the 'pillow on his face' request. And the best he could come up with was "what would be holding the pillow to my face?" lol

This guy appearing out of nowhere in the community and suddenly being able to do things no other person has done while blindfolded, when he himself has said he hasn't practiced, is the equivalent of someone coming off the streets and being an NBA caliber basketball player despite the fact that he's blind

He *actually* went the Schrödinger's comedian route and decided after the fact that it was a Joke™

"That was literally just muscle memory" Cheese: o.O "Shut the fuck up"

I love that Nobori has a mask -- another mask over that and then a hat pulled over his head HAHA -- that's awesome! I was half expecting him to pull his face off to show he had another mask over another mask over his real face... and then hold up a jar with his own eyeballs in it. That kid is legit.

I loved the "apology" which was pretty much "of course it was fake, I'm just having fun~ it's YOUR fault if you got fooled"

''that was literally just muscle memory'' it fucking hurts man

The saddest part is he's actually taken the time to learn speedrunning tricks & strats. He would've been fine just working on his basic 16 star run.

No pizza, no coke, no fake heart monitor? Is he even trying to look legit?

30:36 "is that you charlie brown" is my favorite peanuts film

Love how Simply is labeled as “Some Dude”😂

He didn't even ate pizza...

The best thing for him to have done is just genuinely apologize for his actions and promise to never do this again but of course this isn’t how he handled it

19:47 - Message: *Charliebrown64 has joined the chat.* Alert Noise: *DING DING DING DING DING DING!*

I love his reaction to being called out. It's an extremely long and awkward pause where he desperately tries to think of a way to get 50 bucks is unable to, then desperately tries to not out himself as a cheater and comes up with the genius idea of saying no in a way that it sounds like he is just realising he has the ability to say no.

One of the things I love in life is when a cheater gets caught red handed. One of the other things I love is the excuses that come afterwards.

THE DUDE IS LITERALLY MOVING HIS HEAD AS HE'S STARING AT HIS SCREEN LMAO then he turns his head away and looks at chat during loadscreens like holy shit dude at least pretend like you're not staring directly at your monitor whilst you're pretending to be blind ahaha

That facial expression at 17:30 when your brain registered the words he had just spoken was Gold man

It makes sense that there's a lot of cheating - there is an inflation of people doing speedrunning in general, so naturally you're also going to come across more bad apples. If anything, it's a good thing that people are able to catch these cheaters because the alternative scenario is that they're never caught and idiots like this go under the radar and have illegitimate times on the leaderboards

The best part of this video is how excited Cheese gets over the impossibility of the run and shouts "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTT?!?"

24:25 I was already laughing hysterically from the _Throw the Bowser!_ , then I saw they guy raising his hands *(LOOK MA! NO HANDS!)* I had to pause to laugh it off because I couldn't even keep my eyes open. Man! Cheese Speedrunning, how could I not subscribe?? 😂🤣🤣🤣 Awesome!

What baffles me is how this dude didnt think for a second that doing a fake run on one of the most analyzed and intense speed games of all time WOULDNT get called out

"He's just built different"

This was great lol "If I could punch my monitor and hit him, *I WOULD DO IT."* lmao

yeah 100% cheating man

the bowser throw explanation had me rolling, because when i played this for the first time when i was around 8 or 9 i learned that Mario's spin speed is not the same as how fast you are spinning the stick they very rarely match up lol

I wouldn’t call this cheating. Because that would be an insult to actual cheaters

Guy: *plays normaly because he is obviously seeing* Also him when he remembered he has to act blindfolded: "That was literally just muscle memory" Cheese: "Shut the f*** up!" I don't think I have ever laughed harder🤣

10:54 For anyone having trouble hearing the difference, listen to the sounds before the pause happens, the pitches are different in the wooshes, how people figured this out I dont know

Perfect, I gave him a follow. This guy revolutionized SM64 speedrunning blindfolded. I can see that he is simulating the entire game in his head. Including the RNG by counting the number of frames since the game has been on. And memorizing every input on every single frame since the game started. If he had the timing skills of Cheese, and superhuman fast hands, then he would be a human TAS.

The “runner” looks like if Nathaniel Bandy and Simply had a cheating baby

17:47 "Thank you for the gift sub, babe! I want to punch this guy in the face so hard." Twitch in a nutshell

charliebrown64: I left his name out of the video. His chat: *JAMES JAMES JAMES JAMES*

That guy sounds as genuine when he says "yes ! Got it!" As me when I pretend I'm doing my tasks in among us when infact I'm the impostor lmao

Funny how he still needs his glasses when his “blindfolded” lol

I remember calling out the "it was all a joke" excuse when this happened. Of course he said that... along with 16 more stereotypical cliches.

I would never cheat in a game, I find simply talking about your pepperoni pizza dinner in-game is enough.

Upside: This scandal is getting me to watch some actual blindfolded runs.

People: *calls a out fake speedrunner* "Runner": iT wAs A JoKE Edit: "I may have robbed my viewers into giving me money,but I swear I was just joking!I 100% put the money on *cHarItY* !!!!!!!!!

"That was literally all just muscle memory" Muscle memory, bah! By that logic, I should be able to go through Dark Souls blindfolded as I've been playing for 4 years myself. But no, as usual that's not how this works. Yes it's a small bit of muscle memory but it's mostly audio and memorising the maps, not to mention a shit ton of skill. It takes a lot of practice and concentration. You cannot beat Dark Souls blindfolded aside from bosses. LLL, Fire Sea, Bowser throws, the sub in DDD and the 1UPs are the biggest reveal of him cheating. This is just simply, *_P A T H E T I C._*

Cheese, man... I always thought you were the best of the best, at least until I saw this guy. You've got some catching up to do. Maybe if you practise reallly hard, one day you'll be as good as him 😂 Also, why can I only like these videos once? We need a "super like" button around here.

I watched one speed runner doing a run on Bloodborne blindfolded. He plays the game a lot and really loves it and that was his first time trying it. It took him over 2 hours to kill the first optional boss where normally he can beat the game in a bit over an hour. Blindfold is hard and normally cannot be done in some games because of the lack of audio cues.

His muscle memory is so good, it also translates to visual sensory stimulation.

17:26 love how cheese took a sec to process what the dude just said

This guy is the personification of every kid in elementary school vastly over-exaggerating their Mario skills.

I love how his chat was already calling him out during the run

The misdirection of asking him to do a complex way of "blindfolding" for 50 bucks was fucking GOLD. You shouldn't have to think about it if you know you can't see, but you can tell this dude is straight thinking of a way to break it.

I just watched this video on charliebrowns channel and now again here. After watching it the first time i thought a major red flag was pretending it was only his third(!) try. Now i noticed another detail. It's his third try and he has a time of 40+ minutes. He then pretends he already did it faster with 33 minutes, which would be second place worldwide as charliebrown stated. So, this guy is so good that he already got the second best time worldwide in such a hard category at first or second try? 😅

How can you not tell that he’s just using a see through blindfold and that it’s not prerecorded? The way he reacts irl to exact movements is impossible if he was actually blindfolded in front of a prerecorded run

19:51 should be an actual alert sound!

I love the part at the end where people are challenging him, you can tell that he never even considered that would happen.

nice reaction , i literally felt the same when i was watching it (despite not being a speedrunner coz overall as a gamer , cheating just doesn't sit well with me) and i won't apologize to anyone for having that reaction thanks to both you and charliebrown64 for this.

25:25 this is my personal favorite part of this legendary run, when we goes on to explain that he is timing his Bowser throws based on, and no he was not kidding, where his fucking “thumb is on the controller”… and then after realizing how fucking stupid THAT sounded, he goes on to try to fix it by spouting off some garbage fake technical mumbo-jumbo, followed by the ingenious statement, “if the bomb is where I think it is… and I’m looking at it…then…um…” like my guy, wtf are you saying rn??? Not to mention the awkward pause followed by the guy who offered $50 for the guy to do the run while turned completely around 😂😭💀👍 and Cheese calling him a 2-head had me fucking dying 😂😭

this dude is the kid in school that lied about everything

I was hoping you'd react to this. Just as a casual player of the game, it offends me.

"yo was that run legit?" 27:53

i love how he was answering twitch chat while blindfolded. literally showing he can see through the blindfold OR he could see at certain angles. his chat is hella dumb

Why would I put a pillow on my face or turn away from the screen with a blanket on my head? It'll stop me from being able to see what's happening on screen.

5:51 dude does 2 full circles, avoiding the chain chomp, and perfectly guessing where the pole was 'twice'. I cant believe anyone bought this

You can literally see through the blindfold at 25:33

24:48 he's gonna kill bowser by making dizzy LOL

" I'm just pissed off because his better then me bro " lol xd

"this cheating mexican guy that karl made a video on" "Mexican dream?" "Who faked a smb run" "Oh it's the pizza cola guy"

Not that we need anymore evidence but he event shouts “yes!” At 14:20 before he even gets the star and hears the victory jingle! Lol

“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.” - Sophocles, Ancient Greek playwright (496 BC - 406 BC)

Even as someone who has never played the game, I know that you can't base that Bowser throw off of your thumb's positioning because that would be entirely dependent on where your camera is facing.

You can see his head moving around, like he's shifting his eyes and looking around the screen as he plays.

"Blindfolded speedrun" *still moving ingame camera around normally even though he cant see* Big think

"I just want to mess around with community, it was a joke" Basic Apologize video made by him

The so called "intentional mistakes" be like: Hey look Im cheating

it's like making a minecraft video "I beat minecraft without taking any damage" and just straight up going to creative mode mid-game

Love your videos cheese!!! Started watching you after seeing you in a top 10 video and have been a fan since. I don’t get to watch your streams as much as I would like but keep up the good work and keep fighting the good fight of honest legit speed running!

Cheese's face just before the cheater said "no" to the 50$ challenge was incredible

Imagine if he had his glasses over his blindfold

If I was a streamer I would do a "blindfolded" speedrun using pantyhose so people can obviously see me looking and just do a regular speedrun in response to this, just to make fun of him

Your reaction videos are fuel for my day, cheese. Knowing how much REAL time and effort you've put into SM64 makes these videos that much better! Don't stop doing reactions!

No speedrunner stops at the last action of the game before winning and sits there and chats for 30 seconds with a viewer for no reason.