Urban Legends of Speedrunning
7 years ago
United States

I know that there are several urban legends about gaming in general. For example, Luigi in SM64. But are there similar urban legends in speedrunning?

United States

That people have world records without any proof.

PeterAfro, BnH247 and 12 others like this
England

(I'm aware that evidence of this time exists elsewhere, I just fundamentally disagree with it remaining on the leaderboards without verifiable proof that any person can see)

Aureus_Lunae and Dendris like this
Antarctica

That Any% is dead

PeterAfro, Crockey and 2 others like this
Richmond, VA, USA

There's this one urban legend that there was a gamer named Hardcore Kripp who decended unto the D3 community like an angel from the heavens. They say his soul now resides somewhere deep within the annals of Hearthstone.

MasterLeoBlue likes this
United States

one round land turtle in ff3

MasterLeoBlue likes this
Lower Saxony, Germany

Well, his legacy remains to this day. Many leaderboards are still horrendously messed up, especially games with smaller communities.

TheGreatToddman likes this
Valhalla

Can anyone tell me about hocinehocine? I didn't start looking at the general forums for this site until about 2 months ago but I do know that name

European Union

afaik he did run the games he submitted, but he did add a metric shitton of games. (no one else ran the games he submitted, tho)

also add that he insulted our beloved admins.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
European Union

yeah but he went out to spam these insults onto their social media, etc. which is def. not okay to do. idc if someone doesn't like some of the admins, but just outright insulting them is a reason to be banned, imo.

anyway, let's not go too far off-topic^^

Here's another urban legend: People will check that they're on https & clear their cache and cookies before asking on the discord why they can't login.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
French Southern Territories

SaveGlitch is OoB.

England

any% is dead

Antarctica

If only I had said that days ago Kappa

HowDenKing likes this
Cambridgeshire, England

SpeedDemosArchive is a site for world records.

PeterAfro, Osmosis_Jones and 3 others like this
England

any% is dead again

Timmiluvs likes this
Valhalla

There seems to be an urban legend going around that Timmiluvs said any% is dead first