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by charcircuit 23 hours ago
>a core tenet of speedrunning is preserving old games, not destroying them.

That is not a core tenant of speed running. Software preservation is completely separate from speed running.
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account42 16 hours ago
It's not entirely unrelated in that speed runs help preserve a community around the game.
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charcircuit 15 hours ago
A very different community both in kind and demographics. It introduces a new community to the game rather than preserving what once existed.
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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 23 hours ago
This comment made me think of pencil sharpening speedruns in the context of "preservation". Had a good chuckle. Quite a different mindset: the point is to sharpen a pencil (or 10) as fast as possible.

https://www.speedrun.com/pencil?h=In_Real_Life-Drillless-10_...

(Not to mention hardware preservation is separate from software preservation and hardware preservation is rarely referring to pencils.)

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