I think 106% has been viewed as category where you do all, finishing a run is more about proving you've beaten all levels and collected all bandages instead of seeing the number 106% in the end. I think the old example of allowing people with bugged 7-19x to get "pass" on the level if they reached almost the end of it is a proof of this. With replay copying you'd prob end up not playing any of the warpzones that are longer than some copyable ones. Soul of 106% would be lost with any replay use imo.

Just to be sure, you use replays gathered from the run in action right? If so, I can't imagine there to be any reason to ban any replay abuse in the true any% (<5min) category. I'm not deep enough into scene or the possibilities of replay abuse to have educated opinion on what it'd do for the other middle length categories. But I'll stick with hoping 106% would always stay clean of any copying.

Yeah ofc the starting point differs from game to game a lot and makes no real difference, not worth it to make drama over it. But yeah good if pausing is gone! \o

5. Start timer on first click in game and ends upon ending act V.
6. If you're taking a brief pause, record the pause. Stop timer when game is paused and resume timer before continuing.

I'd like to comment on these rules. They're quite inconsistent with general speedrun rules. Timer should be started either when you press start game or when you get control of the character. It doesn't make any real difference so I wouldn't make big noise about it. Already I see WR runner started at start game and apparently time was re-timed due to differences. Just saying he had it done more sensibly, odd to have it changed to this. Oh well.

Pausing during runs is such a no-no though. Pausing makes the run segmented, I'm sure you want to be considered real time runner. Makes no sense if WR run can just pause the game, take a good night sleep and come finish run on the morning. This really should be changed. "Mom called to eat" isn't really a working explanation on speedrunning. If you want to argue this, please do not get into "brief means x amount of minutes". It makes no difference if break is 5 seconds or hours. Timer is holy and cannot be paused under any circumstances if interest is to keep it a real time run.

I see some runs already have used this "right". I'd suggest to just ban pausing now and not allow it on upcoming entries.

And yes I sound really harsh about the subject, but it just has to be. It's popular game after all, and people will end up running it in the future too - game will never completely die off. Arbitrary rules on game like this is really bad idea.