From my knowledge, YouTube only allows up to 10 hours of recordings to be posted inside of a single video, but some of the Misc categories (All unlocks, though, I think can be done easily under 10 hours) seem to require more time than 10 hours, so how would one go about showing proof of these types of runs? Would it be allowed to have a multiple video on youtube 'proof'?

Is one allowed to pause the timer, and then come back after for instance a day has transpired? And if not, how would anyone even know, given that the recordings are segmented?

Normally this isn't allowed for most speedruns because it opens to the door to cheaters, for instance, if you do allow the above, it'd be very easy to just reset the speedrun timer back to what you paused it on, and try again, essentially segmenting as much as you want, but it also seems to be unavoidable for these categories.

I'm mostly just curious, the categories seem like a gauntlet to go for, not even really considering attempting them, but is part of the misc. nature of them, that they can't be completed? (At least, with video proof showed in a continuous segment)

I agree with your point, in so far as the theoretical perfect speedrun goes I would bet the odds of finding such types of decks is at most 50%, maybe even 70% with absolute perfect play. But I would not be aiming for perfection until we/someone gets the time down much further. At least for myself, I am constantly realizing mistakes and improving, so I think for now we should be looking towards just getting a completion for 15 deck that has no failures in it, and fast play.

Although for 7 deck, now that the time is almost below an hour, I do believe it is approaching the realm of being unbeatable simply through skill, and so R keying seems reasonable. I was mostly responding to you because at the time of posting, your run was an hour 20, which through skill alone, should be beaten, without any r keying necessary.

I definitely didn't articulate my thoughts quite as concisely as I should have. I was trying to make the point that for an average completion, R keying doesn't actually save much time, I think at least. But in terms of trying to find absurdly fast luck, knowing that you're gambling to hit something very rare, I agree with you that R keying is the strategy you would want to employ.

So you are right, especially if we are trying to find a 1/1000 or 1/10,000 type of run.

I think a fun category could be 'all stakes' , where you play a single deck from White Stake through Gold stake.

Or it could be, play ANY deck, but beat every stake, so you could for instance play Plasma for stakes White->Purple, but erratic for the last 2, or something like that. Either way, seems like a cool category idea, to me at least.

Money management is important to clearing random runs, and that's all a great explanation of how to do it and why its so important. But, if you really want to go fast, opening every tarot pack you meet takes up too much time. I only really consider these types of things if I'm desperate to complete because I'm finding nothing to go off of. Its only on these types of unlucky runs that I would consider playing the game hyper-efficiently like you're describing, but it is important to know these things as a fallback.

That is to say, I would consider this solid fundamental play, but you should know when this is needed and when its not. I would consider spam-opening tarot packs very desperate play.

As for holding the R key, it should not be necessary to hold the R key unless you have already had strong luck that you just want to secure a victory in the later half of a run. I would not touch the R key unless you come into ante 2 with literally nothing, or you are on the last deck or two of a series. My winrate on almost any deck when going slow is definitely above 90% for white chip, so R keying is heavily unadvisable, in general, I would even say, though I did do it in my most recent 7 deck run on the last deck, to lock in my decent rng. Considering the 10% failures, it is probably overall-time efficient slightly, so you are not completely wrong I would say on that point, but it is very easy to just re-run the entire thing again to not hit that 10%. Also for the strong decks the failure rate should be practically 0.

This game isn't PC-only, and typically games that are PC non-exclusives are played in the console category. And games that are in the console category very rarely allow non-default controllers. The only time i can think of a console game allowing such a think are physical modifications (as in, the only mods are physical carvings made to the controller).

I fully know what you mean. It is kind of stupid that you have to spaming 2 buttons at the same time to for the WSE. I'd recommend waiting for the no WSE category than cheating (which is what that would be... easy 100% efficient Weapon Switching).

The problem is WSE cuts the time in more than half...

I would consider it a major glitch.

Doubling the max dps + enabling the other skips that do exist (for instance: bepi the clown skip)

Can we please get a glitchless/ no weapon switching (glitch, not no weapon switching at all) category?

The normal categories all use weapon switching, which is fine, but i feel there should be a different category than one where you skip 99% of the hard parts of the game. (not to belittle weapons witching, it has it's own value)