I just love how that dude at 3:28 just casually shows word file with his “14th century Europe” history essay. Maybe, he is not a good speedrunner but at least he does his homework
Also you can immediately know that someone is russian if they have pirated games I've never seen someone from the English-speaking part of the world to pirate a game, but russians seem to pirate everything they touch
@@1kkoto Well, yeah… Pirating games is a big thing in Russia. Mainly because 1) lots of people simply don’t have enough money to buy games (especially when prices are not adapted for Russian market) and 2) Government doesn’t really give a shit about pirating, there’s nothing that can really stop pirates from downloading things illegally. Sometimes, people pirate certain game to play a bit and decide whether or not they want to spend real money on it. However, I think that mentality has its impact on the problem too. A lot of people just don’t see pirating as a problem :^/
The kid with the slideshow honestly impressed me. How the hell do you play a game that goes .03 frames per second? He somehow managed to navigate even without being able to see literally anything he was doing at any given time
It might also just be a disconnect between his computer and recording software. There have been plenty of times I'd stream on Twitch, and my frames were fine. But Twitch was getting half to a third of the frames without me realizing.
note, that this is assuming it wasn't a recording issue as someone who used to play minecraft on a laptop with like 10 fps, I can say that like 10 is the absolutely minimum playability for games, but like that kid HAS MAJOR SKILL to play a game with that low fps
"Yeah man, I'm a speedrunner. What's my rig look like? Oh man, it's high end. I got a 1000MHz 1 core Celeron. I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds fast."
aw man i feel so bad for the black screen guy. you can tell from his message that he tried his hardest and a recording error denied him any credit for his work.
there actually is a thing called a slowrun. you know what's harder than finishing an entire game under 5 minutes? spending 72 consecutive hours on one game.
I recently heard about lowest% speedrun in Zelda twilight princess. A wr (not sure if it still is wr) run was almost 24 hours with about 17 hours staring at link trying to grab a ruby.
Baten Kaitos 100% has ridiculously long speedruns. As of August 2019 or so, the world record was *341 hours, 20 minutes, and 3 seconds.* There's a required item that takes *two weeks to evolve*
That pirate person has a lot of russian files (not really surprising, pirating in Russia has absolutely no consequences lol) - a lot of them are school/university projects, there is a Pirates of the Caribbean OST, and there is even a progress/attendance report pdf. All of these, combined with torrenting a game, made me so nostalgic for my childhood?? Kid, whoever you are, you are a blessing, keep doing what you're doing and godspeed
That's literally what my pc looks like too. Completely unorganized files that have both college projects and pirated games from all sorts of sources. And anything else i want to save. Just whatever. Total mess
3:25 HELP the person who submitted this is probably like??? 11-12 years old?? (since they have a file called "the history of XIV century" and in Russia its studied in 6th grade)
@@tadpolegaming4510 - what about the industrial revolution? My American history class had a couple units focused on the early 20th century and what not.
@@deibos8546 in America, the 16th century is usually taught around high school as a part of most Modern World History classes, which usually start at the Renaissance
the amount of people who are competent enough to speedrun a game and submit but not enough to realize links in the file explorer aren't accessible is astounding to me
Maybe this is a thing children do in school. I'm guessing they have one of those software things that lets their school laptops be accessed by a teacher, so maybe those teachers will ask for the file path to find the file they want easier. Maybe these kids literally put the file path in there because they think anyone can access it
Look, he occupies the lowest rank on the leaderboard so nobody else has to feel bad. Even if the best you can do is 9 minutes, you can still submit it and think "I'm at least twice as fast as that guy!"
ironically, the kid with the video that was going 0.3 frames per second, was definitely a legit run, it was just impossible to tell. the kid might have had a stable fps when playing, so it mightve been an issue with his recording software. watching his timer pause when the frames pause it absolutely matched up 100% legit best speedrun cant wait to see that kid at the top of the leaderboard one day
hell yeah one of my favorite youtubers uploaded again 11:33 says “Important, i’m not a professional speedrunner and this is my first speedrun, don’t judge strictly”
That would not actually paste the link though, not on windows at least. You can try it. I am actually kinda impressed how they did this so consistently. At my first job we'd actually do post links to a shared drive for crash dumps and stuff in the issue tracker and I had to use the secret "Shift+Rightclick" combination to copy the file name.
This video reminds me of something that simultaneously makes sense but kinda blows my mind, which is that current young kids have NO idea what files are. No idea what a hard drive is. They're all super computer-savvy because of how technological their lives are, but because of how everything is app or social media based, they don't know how it actually works. It's pretty adorable lmfao
it's annoying when you're trying to get them to do something slightly involved though. tech companies have done a very good job conditioning people to stay within their approved ecosystems
If making the longest speedrun isn't rule breaking, then now I know what I'm going to do with my life secretly for the entirety of 2022. Of course not going to make 5-10 hour long ones, because I wouldn't even last that long.
As someone who wants to have a career in IT, I'd like to believe there is some way I can avoid dealing with customers entirely, even though I know there definetly is not. So I atleast hope I can talk to them behind a screen exclusively, so I can cry it out while I try to talk some sense into them.
@@michaelam9738 so I work in IT for a school district and the stupidest thing I've had to deal with is someone saying their monitors weren't displaying anything. We go to look at it and it's a desk with a docking station for a laptop. Trying to be used by a teacher who does not have a laptop.
I have no knowledge of speedrunning, nor am I an aspiring speedrunner, but something about you is so damn funny and charismatic that I've watched six videos in a row now.
That disclaimer at 11:28 translates somewhat as "Important! I'm not a professional spedrunner and this is my first speedrun! Don't judge me too harsh!". Btw that guys system with a pirated copy on is also in russian. I just find it kinda funny: you can't let your guard down cuz there always be russians waiting to strike while you're not looking x)
11:11 funniest part about this is it's in their downloads folder, which means unless they thought that the downloads folder was a way of sending things, they actually downloaded the video from somewhere before submitting it
Reminds me of working on public beta testing forms, we'd get some people who I was genuinely surprised they could have known enough about computers to even try video games
Its surprising but also it sounds like it's potentially helpful to have some people doing beta testing who dont know what theyre doing, in case they somehow manage to find game-breaking shit youd never think of as a normal player or dev
@@Crow0567 reminds me of how a fish managed to discover a glitch in Pokemon Silver/Gold (I believe it was those?) By putting random inputs as it swam over "buttons" that would actively press buttons in game. The channel is Mutekimaru iirc???? They just stream their fish playing Pokemon games for hours on end
Honestly the one sent in by your roommate makes me really happy, because I and a bunch of other people I know don't speedrun because "that's only for the highest level players". Your roommate is like "ok but y tho? I can play the game too, and I can challenge myself if no one else." and for some reason that just really fills me with hope. Anyone can speedrun :)
I think those file directory links happen when you try and drag a file (such as from your desktop) into a text box. They thought they were dragging and dropping their files but instead it just put a directory link.
i know what was happening with the kid with the slideshow, i know because i use to have the problem myself, on my old laptop whenever i tried to record the game would run fine but when rewatching it, it would turn into a slideshow, i think this happens because there is a lack of resources to do both and i assume the game take piority.
11:40 the warning on the screen says "IMPORTANT! I am not a professional speed runner. Do not judge strictly!" They just want people to go easy on them.
I will always respect people who play through a whole game while only seeing 2 frames a second. I have been there with games like Minecraft years ago on my family’s shared laptop and it’s so painful but man, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t make some fond memories on painful slow computers.
For the first speedrun submission, I do kinda wonder how well a blind speedrun would work. I imagine some professional speedruns could probably adapt and predict a game they've had no prior knowledge of if it feels similar to another game.
The kids linking their hard drive files reminds me of the time my college friend sent me a link to their Amazon Shopping cart… it was simply the Amazon shopping cart link, so it sent me to my cart. She didn’t understand and even said “the link sends me to my cart tho!” and “why can’t you see it?” Lmao.
I feel like getting the slowest time on a speed run leaderboard is an amazing idea. Just find the average time to complete and then try and outclass and take your time doing it to be legal, but wayyyyyyy too slow
The Russian text before the speedrun says: "IMPORTANT! I am not a professional speedrunner, and this is my first sppedrun. Don't be harsh when rating!" Last part is not a direct translation but I did what I could.
I remember this one time I submitted a run of Portal, and I looked back and realized the demo (that is what idTech and goldsrc/source use as an alternative for video files which works by making instructions that can be played back in the game.) stopped recording some way in after i died. Anyways, somehow the run was accepted.
Your roommate did a beautiful thing, submitted the worst possible time meaning no one will ever be worse than him letting everyone who submits a verifiable run know they will never be the worst any% runner of it.
For anyone who is wondering, the text at 11:28 reads: "Important! I am not a professional speedrunner, and this is is my first speed run! Don't judge to strictly!"
6:05 hey! I finally found someone whos computer is worse than my laptop when I tell you my laptop is bad its bad and surprisingly that was worse congratulation dude :D (My laptop isn't old it's just the components XD)
The 1 day of this game being obscure was pretty cool, I watched manlybadasshero play it and I thought "Wow this looks pretty cool, i wanna see where this goes" And then the internet did what the internet does and fucking ruined it in less than a week, just like they did with Bendy and the Ink Machine, early fnaf, fucking everything
11:32 I’ve been learning Russian so I believe that this says “IMPORTANT! I am not a professional speedrunner, and this is my first speedrun! Do not judge strictly!” Tell me if I got anything wrong
7:40 What they more likely did is drag the video file in their browser, which opens the video in your browser, and that path is the path in the url bar.
Already been subscribed to Spiff for almost a year. Time has absolutely flown by me. This was the first Spiff vid I ever watched. Congrats, Spiff, for how far you've come, and how far you will continue to go.
When you have multiple people making the exact same mistake (like submitting their local file address rather than a link to YT) it's generally a sign of a problem that's easily solved by making your form/process clearer for future users. Clearer instructions = less rejections = fewer mod headaches! 👍 In this case, I'd bet that the submitters are more familiar with online forms that ask you to upload a document directly (ie. where you locate the file on your local drive & hit 'upload') rather than uploading the file to a separate site like YT & then providing the link to that site. It would be an easy mistake to make if you're not regularly dealing with video files.
I have to give props to your roommate, submitting a sub 20min run when everyone else can get below 8 is admirable. Honestly I would do that as just a joke, because I am not talented enough to get those fast times.
7:28 you can throw your files into any browser and they will work fine, displaying the file address inside the web address bar. obviously it's not a URL, but something that these people are probably doing.
Two things to take away from that last speedrun: 1. He _did_ set out to beat the game in under 20 minutes and succeeded, for what that's worth. 2. He apparently has a Barbie world record. Don't know what game, but that's still pretty cool nonetheless. Is it the NES Barbie where her hair looks like fried chicken?
