[oceliker]

It wouldn't be a SMB speedrun video if it didn't have the bus analogy.

Jokes aside, Summoning Salt is a great Youtube channel, and it makes me feel emotionally invested in speedruns of games I've never heard of before. Great storytelling. Not to mention that speedruns (and the glitches people find to get world record times) are pretty interesting from a computer science standpoint.

[bcrescimanno]

Came here to add comments about Summoning Salt as well. I don't follow speedruns at all; but, I really love his work and I absolutely echo the sentiment that he will get you emotionally invested in his content.

As an interesting aside, not only does he make great documentary style videos about Speed running, he also happens to be the current (as of June 2021) world record holder for Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!

https://www.speedrun.com/user/Summoningsalt

[kllrnohj]

His video on Mike Tyson punch-out progression was fantastic. It was such a shock when he super casually starts talking about his own contributions to the record like it was anyone else's.

[Lucasoato]

Yeah, I've never been in the speedrun community but that guy puts so much passion in his videos that you feel like you belong in it.

It's incredible, you're completely engaged from the beginning to the end of the video.

I don't wanna give you spoilers, but really check his video about Super Mario sunshine speedrunning.

[Pulcinella]

I do wonder if the “check for win condition after every X number of frames” is for performance reasons.

Since I believe it’s every 21 frames that means you could perform 20 other functions dispersed across the 20 other frames, but if the system doesn’t need to do anything in that time then I don’t know why you wouldn’t just check every frame.

[tantalor]

Nobody knows.

There’s no clear cut answer for this; some say it was intended to be every 20 frames, and there was an off-by-one error in implementation.

https://ggn00b.com/for-noobs/frame-rule-mario-explained/

[seventytwo]

I found it to be very similar to science at large - the idea that there’s a community nibbling away at the edges of the unoknown, working in collaboration (and some competition) to maximize something.

[fourseventy]

I was just thinking the same thing today!

[Agentlien]

Summoning Salt and pannenkoek2012 really helped me understand and appreciate speedrunnning.

I don't follow the speedrunning scene, but I always get really excited when Summoning Salt releases a new video.

[Afforess]

Speedrunning is the only sport that I am excited about.

[jordigh]

Speedrunning is software QA as a spectator sport. It's no wonder we like it. :)

[gremloni]

Same here, except it was fleeting. Too repetitive for me.