Sorry if this doesn't belong here, I can't find a forum specifically for Stardew Valley.
Long story not short: Been a fan of GDQ marathons for a couple of years but never really thought I could do speedrunning myself. However somehow I got the idiotic idea to try my hand at streaming and running Stardew Valley, that bastion of Speedrunning with rich history and contested records everywhere.
I decided to go for the ultra-prestigious mines level 50 category to start with. On my first stream I beat the world record by a minute and a half! But then disaster struck! Somehow I hadn't saved the setting for twitch to archive my streams. I thought I had, so I hadn't set OBS to locally record my streams as I thought it would be redundant. Well, lessons learned!
RNG is an incredibly annoying factor in this category so I barely managed to register a completion since then. Today I decided to change the strat up a bit. I didn't stream as I was just intending to mess around and take some benchmarks but I recorded the runs anyway, just in case. On run number two, the stars aligned. The strat worked and RNGesus was heavily on my side which lead to me smashing the world record by around three and a half minutes! Really wish I'd been recording my streaming set up as I just about broke stuff in my excitement!
I've submitted the run and now the wait for a mod to show up and review it begins. In the meantime, you can enjoy this incredibly exciting run of this extremely interesting category. (And if you haven't figured already, this category is probably not very fun for anyone to watch, but do it anyway)
I have no idea if there's any sort of embedding options here? Edit: never mind, auto-embedding ftw!
At the left side in the menu of the game is the forum section. (y)
I noticed that late last night, I had just been looking down the main menu of the forums. Not overly intuitive but I got there in the end ;) Thanks for the heads up anyway