Yeah, just luck. Most of the time I have the focus pill as well.

Full game is actually quite fun to run - wouldn't be surprised if there are more players incoming.

Haven't seen anyone really doing it in the demo runs submitted, so FYI:

You can get pretty insane speeds by sliding, cancelling the slide with a jump, land sliding and repeat. You really only slide for a few milliseconds, so this looks like continuous jumping while the speed constantly increases. For the entire game this is a crucial difference. Of course try to avoid time-slowing buffs like focus or the retro video tape thingy.

Yes, not linked yet, but we use the old DD1 discord: https://discord.gg/4RGfj4j4NV

"after just about 48 hours there's no one bothering to even check if there is runs to review"

and you know that how? there are a ton of runs in queue for review submitted before your run.

"After this little "callout" i conviniently got my 1st community guidelines STRIKE on my youtube channel for a video over 5 years old for "hate speech" in which i can now not upload any runs let alone videos at all for a week"

which is related to this speedrunning community how exactly?

"All I wanted was a damn answer as to why the leaderboards look like they do"

I just looked through the hundreds of members on the discord where you usually get an answer within minutes - by a runner or a mod - and couldn't find yours. Did you even bother to ask where literally all of us are?