Hey I really wanna get into speedrunning this game and wanted to join the discord server but every link I find in here or elsewhere in the internet is an outdated discord link.

Also I wanted to ask something: When trying to practice that screen transition skip thing and reaching the screen where the sword is (after "shifting" the sword to the screen left of the actual sword screen) I realized every time that I get hit by the sea urchin I automatically collect the sword without the need to run to the sword and touch it and I wanted to ask why this is not used in the speedrun

The Discord link here looks to still work, maybe you're already in the server if you're not joining it?

As for routing stuff like that, I'm not familiar enough with LA to answer, but someone on the Discord server would probably know about it.