Hello, after a little bit of running this game (no video) I was thinking, we should start the run from Whisper (skip intro.)
I believe we should do this because the only thing intro does is make people with faster computers have an edge over others (Computer speed is the ONLY factor in saving/losing time here!)
So, I propose the run starts as soon as the game appears in Whisper.
Now, you may be wondering "If we do that, what about old times," well, I came up with a solution for that.
Every current time will simply have the time Intro + the load took subtracted from their time. I can also offer to change everyone's time if a moderator reading this doesn't want to.
Hopefully you take this idea into consideration.

Or we can just get load removal already, sourcesplit will be fine if someone alters it

Besides, the intro is actually faster with (or without, can't quite remember) the narrator on, which means it's possible to get a different prologue time

Yes, but everyone who runs this game should be aware that narrator off is slower, therefore just not use it.
It's things like these that have a slight chance of losing time, but you never should. Such as Portal 1's vault skip. You could lose time, but you definitely shouldn't.
Also, this is pointless wait time. Just because you can have a different time due to a minority of people unaware of narrator off is slower, doesn't mean that every other runner should have to wait two minutes before a run.
This also avoids losing time from a very silly reason.

I'll consider having future runs start at whisper.

I dissagree because if we find a skip somehow its useless. This happened with hl1 runs you can do the tram ride faster but its not timed so its useless.

Runs will stay with intro as the start, as it is a part of the game and cannot be skipped in a normal playthrough following the rules presented here on speedrun.com

Think about in the same sense as vault save in portal. You can gain no advantage in those 147 seconds, and if you completely mess up, you have to sit through the cut scene again. And now that we have in game time, we can make sure that the timer starts exactly when the whisper map loads, thus making it easier to do more runs, and more accurate.

Yes, what we can do is similar to vault skip, perhaps not right when whisper loads, but three seconds before whisper loads and add the time it takes to complete it (2:24 iirc)