I like watching speedruns and am fascinated by the process and the skills involved. What puts me off speedrunning as a hobby though is the long hours of grind and run attempts. I'd only want to run stuff if I would get enjoyment out of it, I wouldn't want runs to become a chore. I like to vary what I play and though I get hooked on some games for a long time, I try not to.

Here's some thoughts about how I could get involved and maybe you guys have suggestions of your own.

Sonic 2 - One of my favourite games ever, I've come back to it over and over since playing it as a kid. Runs don't look that long if you get good at it

Outer Worlds - Coming out soon, I know I am gonna be playing it a ton, Figure I wouldn't run it, but I could help find glitches, optimizations, routes etc - How do I get into this?

Random bad games - Awful block at GDQ is always great fun, and often the games are short to run, I figure this is one option for me to get into running. Anyone got any suggestions I could play with active communities.

Recruit me for a game (as runner or glitch hunter) - I have xbox one/360 snes mini, switch, android phone and a bad PC (so no games that require a high end PC please).

Glitch hunting appeals to me, I have applied for jobs as a game tester, maybe glitch hunting could help me, or at least be practice.

As a runner and glitch hunter for Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I can say that the 16bit Sonics still have some untapped potential for glitch hunting. There are a number of tools that we use (which have a lot of crossover with the TASes), to aid you as well.

Feel free to pop into the Sonic Speedrunning discord (invite links are on the left hand side of any of the main-line Sonic game pages) as that's where most of us hang out (including a couple of the TASers) to discuss glitches and strats.