Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

[Pee Wee Herman]

SHIFT, the Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom runner, is one of the angriest idiots on planet earth. There's an entire section on his runner wiki page for his outbursts and an entire twitter page clipping them.

5000+ hours playing a children's game and he gets banned from all live GDQ appearances for saying the f@g word.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

SHIFT, the Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom runner, is one of the angriest idiots on planet earth. There's an entire section on his runner wiki page for his outbursts and an entire twitter page clipping them.
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5000+ hours playing a children's game and he gets banned from all live GDQ appearances for saying the f@g word.

Those are all pretty mild. He's definitely autistic for wasting a year of his life playing a Spongebob game, but so are the people who compiled that list acting like a grown man saying "fuck" is some kind of notable chimp out.

 

[MysticMisty]

SHIFT, the Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom runner, is one of the angriest idiots on planet earth. There's an entire section on his runner wiki page for his outbursts and an entire twitter page clipping them.
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5000+ hours playing a children's game and he gets banned from all live GDQ appearances for saying the f@g word.

Why does it matter if someone he yelled at has epilepsy, it has absolutely nothing to do with that.

 

[419]

(If this isn't the right thread for this despite the nature of the game in question then let me know.)

There has been some uproar recently among members of the community for TrackMania, a racing game series which some might be aware focuses very heavily on "time attack" style racing and hence has quite a few parallels with general speedrunning. One high-profile TM player in particular, going by riolu (FKA acceleracer_01 / AccelTM), has been caught cheating, alongside a good number of other fellow players.

The investigation that resulted in riolu being outed was being carried out across the span of a few months and started out only focusing on a few other individuals. It only got into the public eye just over a week ago when riolu himself did a stream on Twitch where he showed various direct messages between himself and fellow TM content creator Wirtual, who was one of the people responsible for the investigation.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1025956905

Spoiler: split archive

The stream was mostly over-defensive and even vitriolic in some parts, with a few examples of this including his refusal to share his replays folder to demonstrate his innocence, feigning a bullshit "i was probably hacked lol" in response to one or two specific leaderboard entries, repeated use of the word "fucktard" and even his girlfriend running her mouth near the end of the stream to tug at the chat's heartstrings. Still, a lot of people were quick to side with riolu initially, both as he was streaming and for a couple of days afterwards. Many people were quick to jump at Wirtual as a result for the next day or two over him teasing the results of his investigation alongside some tweets which were perceived as taunts towards a long-time friend, leading people to think that it was simply a case of Wirtual letting fame get to his head and severing ties with collaborators under the guise of justice.

Later, a report (1, 2) was finally published outlining the results of the investigation, accompanied by the video below, and the results weren't pretty.

The Biggest Cheating Scandal in Trackmania History

After months of investigating, we now present the results of the Trackmania TMX Cheating Investigation. Read the full report here: https://donadigo.github.io...

www.youtube.com

As it turned out, riolu had in fact cheated several hundreds of his leaderboard entries for multiple games in the series across the span of almost a decade up until some time last year. These most egregiously may have included a number of replay times for TrackMania Turbo which were set in order to be added to the actual game by the developer Nadeo as extra-high-skill "Super Trackmaster" times.

As an example, take this replay of the track A11-Race in TrackMania Nations Forever, showing clearly jittery rapid inputs associated with playing the game in slow-motion with something like Cheat Engine.

Since his stream on the matter, riolu had not streamed any gameplay himself for a couple of days, instead only hosting a few other players' streams on his channel. Since the release of the report and Wirtual's video, riolu has gone dead silent on all sites and media. Many of the people who sided with him originally have now lost plenty of trust in him, not only for the fact that he had cheated for so long but also for his reaction and refusal so far to issue an apology, in contrast to other players being targeted (Techno, Lanz, Oguzzz et al) who had in fact owned up privately before publication. riolu has also since been dropped from the esports organisation Nordavind, for which he played TM competitively, with said organisation going as far as dropping their TM division entirely as a result.

https://archive.ph/XdUEV

What a way to go.

 

[MooseGump]

I want to add onto the Riolu situation that the whole investigation started when Techno's girlfriend saw him play Trackmania in slow motion, from there that's when more speedrunners were caught including the above speedrunner

 

[Least Concern]

A decade of cheating at video games. Man, I hope the decade of… Money? Clout? Pussy? Well, for whatever reason, I hope it was worth it, because how could you ever take a person like that seriously, in video games or anything else?

 

[419]

Money? Clout? Pussy?

who would win
>well-earning full-time TM streaming and gameplay career
>admiration and respect from competitive players and wider community
>girlfriend willing to run her mouth aimlessly to back you up
vs
>a text parser
>an input overlay

 

[Fetish Roulette]

Money? Clout? Pussy?

More than likely none of the above.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Pussy?

Spedrunning? Pussy? Maybe if they troon out

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

You could have become an actual race car driver in that time nigga lmfao.

 

[Toolbox]

You could have become an actual race car driver in that time nigga lmfao.

And of all the games to speedrun, why trackmania? It's a game where you can build your own tracks instead of wasting your time racing the same ones over and over.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Fuck yeah Wirt, go get'em. Actually I was watching Wirtual stream last week and riolu had just posted a new world record titled fuckuwirtual.avi or some equivalent. I guess we got to see who got fucked in the end though. Anyways, Wirt was grinding against riolu's WR and doing okay at it too, though I didn't seem him break the record. Trackmania is super unoptimized for an IL game though, I could see easy time saves early in the run that Wirt was pulling off only to then fail at one of the two skips and then have to restart. That really shouldn't be the case for IL runs.

 

[BLEACHED.COM]

This is actually quite satisfying to watch unfold, not going to lie. The smugness of riolu going silent and the hoard of dicksuckers in his chat getting BTFO, very good content.

 

[419]

TrackMania situation still ongoing with more people coming forward to admit to cheating. This time, a long-time player known as trabadia has self-reported seemingly by his own volition for using macros in his A01-Race WR, alongside a couple of other United tracks.

Response from Spammiej/Spam:

https://archive.ph/Fz5dz

I come to you today to explain some things. You know that there is a huge effort made on TMNF/TMUF to ensure the legitimacy of the records on the official maps from Nadeo. And although I was not quoted, I have my part of responsibility. And you see where I'm going with this message : the real human record of A01 is not 23.83. Most of the cheats on TM are meant to slow down the time. I wasn't interested in that. On the other hand, I found a real interest in the macros allowing to keep one or several angles. The speed drift could be automated (kinda, because the macro doesn't synchronize well with TM so it always gave different results). Hence this message.

What was the use of it?
The macro allowed me to be regu 480 speed (±1) at CP-2. And to say that sounds even more stupid because it was something I’m able to do. The cheat didn't allow me to do better qualitatively, but it allowed me to be more consistent. Kinda because I was very inconsistent for the downhill : 15.63 CP-1 ≈1/300 runs or so. A very good turn: ≈1/4. The 480 SD : ≈1/20 or so. Then the climb: ≈2/3. No bug on landing ≈5/6. That’s some crazy WR probabilities. But that's the rules I failed to respect. (Stats from April 2020).

But why ?
Those who follow me a bit know, I've never been so obsessed in my life. A01 owned me. The ≈1000h i spent on it isn’t a lie. I feel stupid to say those things, but A01 was all I could think about. I had dreams and nightmares about A01. I won't detail, but for several months I left a very large part of my personal life for A01. It sounds silly but I was blocked. I was absolutely stuck. I told myself that if I did a time that I could be satisfied with, everything would be better. But what is a satisfying time ? .85 ? .84 ? .83 ? None of that ; I guess if I had done 23.80 I would have just stopped being disappointed. I didn't want to cheat anyone, lie to anyone, or disappoint anyone ; I was trapped into some stupid idea of perfection. You can’t imagine how deeply sorry i am.

Do I regret it ?
Of course I regret what I did, bringing me here. But I was so helpless that it was that or...? Lack of self-discipline or real obsession, you choose, but I was absolutely unable to stop. My sanity took too much. I regretted it from the start but kept going, stuck. If there was a TAS on trackmania, I would have been a TASer rather than a player : I’ve almost never played TM with the goal of being first. The idea (and for those who know me a bit I think it's quite obvious) is to reach a semblance of perfection : a limit. But as you can imagine, limits are humanly impossible to reach. And on 99% of the maps I can say to myself "ok it's good, it's pretty good, we're happy", but A01 literally broke my brain and it was unimaginable to have this state of mind. I think psychologically the most important thing to grasp is that there is a clear and brutal separation between a "perfection drive" (call it as you want), and guilt ; I was leaning towards one, sometimes the other. Alternating obsession for TM, and panic attacks.

And without a macro ?
Believe it or not my record without macro is 23.84, done 4 months later : https://twitter.com/trabadiaTM/status/1321957564695957509?s=20. Very happy, and very ashamed at the same time, I alt+F4’ed. I'm repeating myself, but I'm really trying to describe here the mental state I was in. I didn't want to think that maybe I should keep a wr legit just in case. The denial has been building for several months now. I didn't even liked playing A01 again but I was too tempted, by I don't know what. The 25th of May i deleted my 23.83 autosave and I quickly redo 23.86 to prove to myself that I technically worth something. Clarification #1: on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL1Jw11mJag ≈1/3 of the replays are with macro. The best time without macro is 23.85. Clarification #2: yes, I often use the circle deathzone technique (move the joystick up rather than back to the right). Like here : https://youtu.be/FqGMrPkbSVQ?t=16. The time is not great but it shows exactly how I s4d with this technique.

Narcissism ?
The question is legitimate. Despite of all that was produced around A01, and all this "hype" I don't think I did it by narcissism. The goal was not to glorify myself or anything. All the hype made me very uncomfortable, despite what I was trying to convey. I had to fake hype while i was actually desperate. To put in perspective this edit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOnCEUG20H4 has been made at these time. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that all the videos and content I created around A01 reinforced my denial to make the guilt less present.

Did I cheat on other maps ?
And that's where I was stupid : yes, few Island and one Rally. Which is even dumber. These was a selfish side that I discovered and hated, i quickly reconsidered a lot of things, I talked a lot about it to psychologist & psychiatrist : I tried to get the upper hand and I managed to calm everything down recently. But what is done is done and i can’t be more sorry for what happened. And to be completely transparent, I uploaded a replay on TMX in 2011 made with TMUnlimiter on a puzzle map. Important clarification: in any case you see cheated "precision" replays. Everything you have seen regarding precision is 100% legit.

Why am I only admitting this now ?
I couldn’t !! You must agree that’s quite unspeakable. Several times I wanted to talk to donadigo about it, and even when he asked me how I did SD on A01, I couldn't. The current drama has put a lot of things into question and allowed me to get to this point.

In no way this a pity message : I'm trying to be as clear as possible. I now have no interest in lying anymore. I don't care about my legitimacy as a player, I never felt like a GREAT player. But rather an obsessed gamer who was burning up the game to achieve his goals of pseudo-perfection. Where I really feel guilty is with those who trusted me, and I think directly of Rollin and Drarker. We used to play A01 together and nothing is fair. Then I think of donadigo. And as crazy as it sounds, I enjoyed "working" with him on the few investigations he shared with me. We talked a lot and I think I consider him as a friend, despite all the irony behind that. Thought to Schmaniol, Rotaker & Phil. I’m not asking to be forgiven, but to be comprehend.

I've been working on this for a year and just writing it down is a huge relief. But there will be a gap : you will be highly disappointed while I feel appeased. I hope we can find a balance. And I especially hope that it's never too late to admit you cheated in a video game.

Since this post, trabadia has deactivated presumably all his social media accounts — at least his Twitter is gone — and set all his YouTube videos to be private. I had not found out about his case until after the fact, hence no other archives. Respect to him on the one hand for coming forward about it, but on the other hand obsessing this badly over the first track in a racing game is at least somewhat pathetic for sure.

Still no response from riolu after almost two weeks.

 

[SpumbleSplabloo]

TrackMania situation still ongoing with more people coming forward to admit to cheating. This time, a long-time player known as trabadia has self-reported seemingly by his own volition for using macros in his A01-Race WR, alongside a couple of other United tracks.

Response from Spammiej/Spam:
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https://archive.ph/Fz5dz

Since this post, trabadia has deactivated presumably all his social media accounts — at least his Twitter is gone — and set all his YouTube videos to be private. I had not found out about his case until after the fact, hence no other archives. Respect to him on the one hand for coming forward about it, but on the other hand obsessing this badly over the first track in a racing game is at least somewhat pathetic for sure.

Still no response from riolu after almost two weeks.

I can respect him coming out before he got caught, but the timing really makes this feel like he's just trying to get ahead of it so that he gets control of the narrative instead of any potential investigators.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I can respect him coming out before he got caught, but the timing really makes this feel like he's just trying to get ahead of it so that he gets control of the narrative instead of any potential investigators.

He might even have been privately contacted by Wirt and friends. Thats what they did with riolu (who was dumb enough to think he could just get away with denying it and saying Wirtual was a bully) and they said they contacted a bunch of other cheaters and gotten them to confess, with riolu being the only one to continue denying.

 

[Hmmpf!]

Dream has finally admits to cheating. And theres more apparently.

What a crazy fucking ride. Below are basically two types of people.

Reddit Thread.
Dreams Twitter.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Dream has finally admits to cheating. And theres more apparently.

What a crazy fucking ride. Below are basically two types of people.

Reddit Thread.
Dreams Twitter.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Dream has finally admits to cheating. And theres more apparently.

What a crazy fucking ride. Below are basically two types of people.

Reddit Thread.
Dreams Twitter.

So, reading his (deliberately?) poorly written post, someone modified his game without telling him? I smell some pretty fibery bullshit there.

 

[Bananadana]

So, reading his (deliberately?) poorly written post, someone modified his game without telling him? I smell some pretty fibery bullshit there.

Not only that, but he also went on a months long journey pledging his innocence, going so far as to attack the accusers and "hire" some random professor to explain the accusations to him because he is so bad at math that "this is extremely unlikely" is too hard for him to understand.
Also, those exact mods were custom made for him and used for some videos before, manipulated spawn rates included.
And yet, having out of this world spawns during a run allegedly raises no flags for him, even after being publicly called out.
And it still took him forever to go "whoopsy, i guess y'all were right all along, but my feelings still make me the victim".
What a guy. You gotta love the kind of person that tries to avoid taking the responsibility for their fuck-ups like its going to kill them.

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I feel like this is something important to talk about, I’ve been very withheld for a while about it all and just decided it’d probably be best to just let it out so I can feel relaxed a little more I guess. This will be a very long read i’m sure, I’m writing this in my bath at 4am on my phone so forgive any mistakes or confusing bits.

Back in October/November of 2020, I for the first time since when 1.16 had just released I decided to try and speedrun 1.16 some to get a decent time. My goal was to get a time faster than 25 minutes, which was a good time and fairly obtainable at the time for me without spending months speedrunning. We had or were just about to switch manhunt to 1.16 and I wanted to get practice for that, and then speedrun for a better 1.15 time, because my record on 1.15 had been beaten.

After running for about a week, I got a 19 minute time (that arguably could have been lower, ironically enough due to bad luck). I started running 1.15 directly after, and a few day’s later there were some suspicions involving my streamed runs on 1.16. At this point, I was cooperative but upset and confused that I was being questioned. I provided all the information that I could, and assumed that everything was fine. As chatter grew, I was confused and the numbers didn’t look to be in my favor.

At this point I reached out to the only mojang developer that I had contact with, and talked for an hour or so about what was going on. I told him the details and was asking if there’s potential for a bug or glitch, and he told me that no there isn’t, but said some things about how banning for luck seems far fetched and that they should improve their system.

I felt a little reassured, but also angry that I was potentially being dragged for absolutely nothing. It wasn’t a huge thing yet, but it still lingered in my mind and I couldn’t really think about anything other than it.

As time went on and many weeks passed, I grew more and more frustrated, convinced that I was being targeted due to the fact that I was a Youtuber and a couple of the mods (self admitted) didn’t like me at all and didn’t have many kind words to say. I was an asshole and lashed out publicly, saying the investigation was a farce and expressing how pissed I was that I was being targeted and that it was taking so long, as the mods kept giving me deadlines and then missing them.

This was terribly stupid of me to do. I was scared and stressed and said and did shitty things. I regret it a lot and really wish that I had been able to keep my calm.

Later that month, the speedrun team released a video and a document detailing why my 1.16 runs couldn’t have been legitimate based on math and statistics. I admittedly don’t know shit about math and statistics, I didn’t go to college and I hated math my whole life. At this point I felt complete fear, as I felt like I had been publicly smeared in a way that I have no clue how to respond to. I didn’t understand the math and I didn’t understand why I had been left in the dark for so long only to have a video dropped randomly on me right before MCC. At this point and before, I had multiple speedrun moderators messaging me scary things about how it was a shit show and no one could agree on things just before the release, that they were clearly biased against me and so on. In retrospect, this may have been out of fear and wanting to be on the good side of a really big youtuber, or maybe they were being truthful or a little bit of both. All I know is that it scared me a lot. feeling like everything you built might come tumbling down and there’s nothing you can do about it is really stressful.

Again, I lashed out. I tweeted about the mods being clout chasers, and said a lot of really dicky things. I was pissed, I was scared, and I was being an idiot.

shortly after that, someone gave me the idea to hire a professional statistician because I know nothing about math. This calmed me down a lot and brought me back to a much healthier mindset. I googled and I ended up finding two professors and I emailed them both about the situation asking for assistance. Only one of them was available to help.

I was looking for help and I told them that I didn’t cheat, and that I just needed a second opinion on the math. Eventually the professor came back with a conclusion that the mods numbers were off by a significant significant margin, and that’s it’s possible although extremely unlikely. Again, not completely understanding math but knowing that my experts opinion seemed to be that the mods were off, I felt vindicated and relieved. I made a video about it, and expressed the professors views. people hounded me for it saying that the Astro physicist was fake, but the mods confirmed it was legit. I just wanted a (mostly) unbiased parties opinion.

The mods came back with a response, correcting the professor and saying that he was off and providing reasons for why. Again, I don’t understand complicated math so I sent it directly to the professor asking for his thoughts. Later on, he came back admitting there were mistakes in his original assessment, although he still believed theirs was off. In his rebuttal though, he came to the conclusion that it’s improbable that I didn’t cheat. I felt like the right thing to do was post his findings, even though he hadn’t asked me to yet, I did. I tweeted them out and replied saying that I agree that it seems more likely than not that I cheated. I didn’t say anything more than that.

Funnily enough, he actually emailed me a day or two later saying I need to post his findings, or he will (semi-threatening, but not in a mean way), and I responded that I already had before he even asked.

At this point I was lost, and I was fairly confused about the whole thing. Wondering what the other options were and exploring the possibilities. as much as I was confident that I didn’t cheat, I had never explored the option that I possibly did. due to the way I reacted to the mods and perceived everything going on I was convinced that they were out to get me. I tunnel visioned and was paranoid and didn’t think straight. I had plenty of valid reasons to believe that they weren’t impartial, and had the mod team and I been completely friendly from the beginning I believe it never would have gotten to the point that it did.

After considering this, I ended up finding out that I HAD actually been using a disallowed modification during ~6 of my live streams on Twitch. At the time we were just starting to record videos on 1.16 and we had just hired a developer to help with coding mods for videos because me and George had no experience with mods only plugins. One of the mods that they were working on was an overall recording mod, that I have used in every video (with updates and improvements) since around the speedrun controversy. You may notice it in my videos due to f3 being small or particles being reduced, or recently on my streams things like the background being custom or a “Dreams servers” option and plenty of other features and improvements.

In our challenge videos, before 1.16 we always increased the enderman spawn rates and pearl drop rates out of convenience and we’ve mentioned that openly before. It makes the videos better because we don’t spend hours looking for pearls or spend so much time farming blaze rods (a totally RNG thing, mostly pearls). When 1.16 came out, it was more complicated to increase piglin trades then it is to do enderman pearl drops. A server side plugin was made for our videos that slightly increases the rates. Around this time is when the first versions of the recording mod was being made, although it was more of a chat mod at this point.

I had considered at the time that this potentially could have been a problem, but brushed it off because 1. Server side and client side are completely different and as far as I was aware nothing had been done client side. 2. as far as I knew it was just basically a chat mod so far and 3. I was 99% sure that I didn’t even have the recording mod on. Which was backed up by the fabric api logs saying that only the fabric api was loaded (although I found out later it only lists things that explicitly ask to be listed which I had no idea) this was mentioned in my response video.

I ended up thinking that it’s basically the only explanation after the professor came back with what he did. I talked with the developer and ended up finding out that when working on the mod stuff he had added the same improvements from our challenge servers to the client side mod so that they would work in single player for videos like the shock collar video or other “single player” mod videos. This was only in an early rendition of the mod and was removed because the developer realized that those type of videos can just be done on a PC hosted server. This actually included a couple other things that weren’t mentioned at all during the controversy much as far as I’m aware. Ender eyes had a low chance of breaking when thrown, and enderman dropped pearls at a much higher percentage (I don’t think I killed many enderman so this wasnt noticeable, similar to the eyes).

When I realized this, I felt an extreme sense of guilt and I took down my response video not believing in what I said in the video at all anymore. This was a couple months ago at this point I believe. When the drama first started I cared more about defending myself and being right, then about figuring out what was actually going on and I shot myself in the foot by doing it.

I felt really terrible for the mods because I dragged them through the mud even though they were mostly right. I still feel as though the mod team was extremely unprofessional when dealing with it, but they’re a group of volunteers just trying to do their job and in their eyes I was some cheating sob youtuber who didn’t care at all. Maybe in their position I would have treated me the same. I was an asshole back to them which didn’t help at all either.

I reflected a lot about the entire thing and had a lot of regret about just the first few days after the runs. What if they had asked for my mods sooner, what if I had realized sooner, what if I hadn’t had a history with a couple of the mods maybe I wouldn’t have jumped straight to them being out to get me. Further past that what if I could have controlled my emotions and not blown the whole thing out of proportion. I can’t live by what if’s though so I was just left with what I had. I debated live streaming or making a video about it, but the drama had basically already passed and I was worried about rekindling the fire when I had already gone through basically a couple months straight of absolutely being shit on by anyone that didn’t think of me favorably, and the mods had gone through weeks of torture Im sure too.

I figured it’s out of the way, and it would be a story I would tell in a few years when no one really cared. I told a couple people and just felt like the community had been through enough drama and that it was pointless. I didn’t want to be the center of controversy for the hundredth time.

it was shitty and an unfortunate situation where I felt like I couldn’t defend myself anymore in good faith without feeling bad but I also didn’t have any intention of cheating.

Since the speedrun controversy there’s been some animosity between me and the mods, and I feel like the relationship only got worse. They declined my donations from the controversy video, got into drama a couple times with me/my community on Twitter since(don’t want to go into specifics), and a month or so ago added me to a chat questioning me about my previous 1.15 runs from around a year ago. They saw a suspicious black box that they thought meant a splice, but it turned out to be a youtube setting on their end that they realized, and they had some other random questions as well. This was resolved fairly maturely I believe and I haven’t talked to them since.

Yesterday around MCC the mods made the decision to remove my old runs due to suspicions and the fact that my 1.16 run was invalid, which is something that is done with most people who submit any invalid runs at all. I’m sure there’s reasonable suspicions about most runs, especially offline ones from back when they were allowed, so couple that with a 1.16 run being actually invalid and it’s a completely reasonable assumption. You can’t give someone the benefit of doubt on lag or frame skips or potential cuts or anything unless they’ve earned it, and in this case I haven’t at all. So I don’t want to see any hate towards the mods or any drama involving the fact that they were marked invalid due to my 1.16 run. I think it’s dumb that it’s been done 11 months later, but it’s understandable and if anything, I deserve it, and it puts an end to any potential drama. (at this point what could they do, double ban me? /j)

I’m not really sure what Im expecting out of all of this, but I just felt like I had a huge weight on my shoulder and I want to get it off. I think the whole situation was extremely shitty overall for everyone involved and I wish that I could go back and do things differently because it was some of the worst weeks of my life and still impacts me every day. I’m sorry to anyone that I let down or disappointed. I always strive to be the best person that I can be and that whole debacle wasn’t the best that I can be or anywhere near it. I hope this brings some closure to anyone who needed it, and I really want to move forward with positive vibes like I’ve been trying my best to promote as much as I can.

When I got into speed running I was doing it every day for months, and you can see the skill improvement even just over a few months of tryharding. It was so much fun and I got a few snarky records that I shouldn’t have got in the first place (my first world record I chopped down trees for 10 minutes, I still find that hilarious how unoptimized the category was). I came in at the right time and met some absolutely incredible people who are some of the best Minecraft players on the planet. I am no where near the best speedrunner and I never have been, I was in the right place at the right time and was able to have a lot of fun because of that.

I hope that this gives insight into my mindset a little bit, but if not I’m not sure what will. I’m sure I’ll talk about it more just for clarity sake, but I want to avoid causing more drama. please don’t send any hate to the mod team or anyone involved in the situation, I don’t want any more drama at all, you’re no supporter of mine if you do.

dream