Theory:

1. Be in slow-mo as you enter the trigger area
2. Aim as close as you can to the palm tree
3. Land somewhere on the sidewalk near the fountain Let's see if we can get it???

Classic % typically means you have to drive everywhere and can't abuse any sort of warps like taxis, save reloading, death warps, etc

RTA means start to finish. Communities can do whatever they want if something is obnoxiously long but unless you reclassify the timing to TA (time attack, meaning only unpaused game time progresses the counter) then you're not timing correctly.

Games where almost the entire differentiation at the highest level is just RNG. So most RPGs that don't involve a lot of menuing or have quick out of battle movement. RPGs can be pretty fun to route though.

Almost no one is going to download your vod audio and analyze the waveforms. As long as your run looks legit and you're not posting a top 5-10 level time in a game with over 25 people on the board for your first run it will be ok.

There's a field for submitting with loads times and without loads times. You're free to submit just the with loads times but you'll have to manually time out the loads to get the without loads time.

Preface: You shouldn't dissuade yourself from taking more time off the game until your hands improve their condition. Also, I've not found any sort of gloves helpful whatsoever.

Workload Modification: I have issues with hand pain (some carpal mostly sore hands/fingers). I play a 1 hour game and modified my key setup to decrease my workload. If you consider changing your controller here's something that you may wish to consider

A SSBM player is currently leading the development of a more ergonomic controller that you may want to consider. I believe it will be able to function as a controller for speedruns as a great improvement for many games, not just melee. I believe it should be released for production in the upcoming months?

There are many, many, many ways of modifying the workload of artistic creation. If you contact me over Discord I'd be glad to try to offer more help with creating ergonomic assistance scripts for you and showing you how to make them. If you haven't already, I recommend getting a mechanical keyboard, I prefer brown switches. You may also want to consider an ergonomic trackball mouse for nongaming activities.

Stretching: I hate trying to use the stretches mentioned earlier in the video. It's so difficult to actually do them until you memorize them and he has so many different videos you feel like you need an hour to do them all. Here's a video you can actually follow along with -

Pain Reduction: I cannot yet personally vouch for effectiveness of heat lamp therapy but I strongly believe it is a game changer for hand health. When my hands hurt, I like to run them under fairly warm nearing hot water. This only heats up the top layer of your hands. Heat from these lamps penetrates through your hand into your muscles, greatly increasing blood flow as well as alleviating pain in many studies. I am currently awaiting mine in the mail. https://www.amazon.com/Woods-0165-Brooder-Guard-Reflector/dp/B001BM5YZW/ref=pd_ybh_a_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JRJKV9K09HYSSWAADCCR https://www.organicolivia.com/2016/12/why-at-home-infrared-light-therapy-is-a-cheap-easy-way-to-change-your-life/ You can dive further into the rabbit hole if you wish, I think this is something anyone with hand pain should be using, daily.

At least a second or so save if done optimally. Not super hard but your hovers need to be on point. If a faster way to get to the last platform was discovered it would save a lot more time as the hover is somewhat slow.

Here is a glitch that I think should be put into its own category. I don't have a way of replicating the glitch at this time, but I think it would be a game breaking change to the current categories. If a way is discovered to replicate it then a ng+IS and a ng-IS category should be created (IS for infinite shot)

tl;dr potentially replicable glitch would remove most skill from FPS/TPS portions of the game in ng and ng+ so it should be a different category.

Found out a fast stealth cycle is possible. Is difficult and rng dependent but if you get fast animations can save ~5s

I'd really like to figure out a fast way to do this climb. There's some debris you can jump off of which is quicker but it's semi consistent. If performed optimally I think it could save between 5-8s

Execution isn't optimal but pathing is the general idea of optimal. Possible improvements to the 2nd strat are mentioned in the description.

Found what I think is a better approach to the 2nd newsroom area. This approach can probably also be applied to NG but just throw a grenade at the top area instead of the lower area off the jump and then shoot the gunners far off and teleport-shoot the remaining ones near the door.

I have a bug where I get a doubleshot no matter what input I bind to shoot. Does anyone know how to fix it? I can't seem to find any answers on how to fix the issue. Am using the latest original steam version on win7 can provide more technical details if needed.

Will be posting more optimizations when I am certain on consistency. This pathing is slightly faster but could save more time if you found a faster way of scaling to the higher pipes behind the railing more quickly. This may actually save more along the lines of 5s since I've only timed the pathing as being about 1-2s faster. One thing to look out for when doing the climb is to try to hug the left edge of the walls and then center yourself when you go behind the wall for the last chain of walljumps, otherwise you will bonk on the bottom of the pipes.

What are some stretches that you guys do to help prevent rsi/arthritis/carpal etc.? My hands and fingers have been hurting recently and sometimes I have to take a day off which sucks.

Tool assisted means the inputs themselves were performed by a programs function. Peripheral tools such as chairs, clothes, monitors, etc. don't perform any input to the game.

Improvement is a lifestyle. Dedicate yourself to being better than the person you were yesterday in very defined ways in your mind. Nail down procedures, errors, and define mental processes for yourself that have worked for you, and be completely open to reevaluating every aspect about yourself. Talk to fewer people, think more about how optimal you are being for the goals you are pursuing, evaluate the goals themselves, and always move forward.

Godspeed

I don't think that it's companies more so than certain games when we talk about trends in games themselves.

When you say influential what sort of metrics are you considering to determine that? You can judge companies by the amount of $ they've earned or you could judge them by # of games, trends they've influenced etc. I think that the best metric is how they affected game development and game design trends.

Nintendo, Atari, Valve, Microsoft, Sony, Blizzard have all had the most widespread influence in gaming, and I think the reasons are quite obvious behind all of them. One thing to note is I only put Blizzard on this list due to WoW, not Overwatch - Overwatch has had very little influence on the FPS genre as a whole. WoW began an era of oversaturation in the MMO market because of the developers that tried to follow its success but never managed to replicate well.

As far as the 3 you're debating: Mojang/Minecraft spawned a lot of copy cats but its influence on an entire genre is negligible (having a bunch of games attempting to copycat a game isn't something I'd call a genre), Bioware has had many good games but none that have been influential in defining, creating, or altering a genre, and Riot Games simply manages to dominate a genre without influencing many trends in the genre.

Don't want to flood the forum with threads and I don't know if the interface allows it, but I submitted Deadpool and a trick which is integral to running any% isn't working on my pc now, apparently, so I would like to clarify that I'd be running the NG+ version, which has marginal differences, and that my estimate would be a bit shorter potentially.

EDIT: The crash in question is triggered by me using game or window capture (but monitor capture apparently works). So I may still be able to run any% on NG. Regardless, I can run NG+ as the timeframe is marginally different if need be once the deadline approaches. I am trying to get someone in the OBS web boards to help me out.