I've recently acquired some audio footage of Rareware's office during the production of this game. I've managed to listen to some valuable conversations between an anonymous employee (which I shall name SJ) and his boss regarding this game.
"Employee SJ, make sure you cannot clip through walls in water stages and Low-G labyrinth, because we want the players to play through the entire stage!" "Got it bro! Leave it to me"
"Employee SJ, make sure to edit the K. Rool scream in such a way that the player won't get mentally scarred and feel bad after he's being electrocuted." "Too easy bro"
"Employee SJ, make sure that Belcha can only eat beetles when they're thrown in his mouth" "No problem bro! That's not even a challenge"
"Employee SJ, make sure that you cannot start select out of a level until you've faded out of it at least once" "Yeah sure bro. I'll get it done!"
I don't know who this SJ person is, but they did an amazing job!
This is not easy for me to say but I cannot stay silent any more. This community is TOXIC! This needs to stop now or no one will want to run this game anymore!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!111!!1~1!1!1!!!!!!!1!!!!!!~!1111
In these forums I constantly get bullied with terms like "I would really prefer if you would be quiet", "you're a mod", "BANEMPTYSPUNOKOKAOS2020", "I will burn your ashes" and "ngl this is getting old lol". On top of that the WR holder screams at me all the time and it's making me really insecure and I am not afraid to admit I often cry myself to sleep.
The toxic people even come to my chat when I'm streaming this and they ask me if I need a license to be this bad and one even threatened to sneak up on me like ligma in the night which shocked me to my core!!!!!!!!
On top of that my favorite runner Joe_, who has been a really positive influence on this community, retired. Now I'm left with a bunch of toxic people who run this game and some who don't even run this game and THIS. NEEDS. TO. STOP! THESE FORUMS ARE TO BE USED TO DISCUSS STRATEGIES AND QUESTIONS ABOOT THIS GAME (I'm typing in caps for emptysis btw :) ) AND FOR NOTHING ELSE!!1!!!11111!!@!!11!!21@!!!1
That truly brought a tear to my eye. I remember watching you all those years back and thinking "wow, I wish I could run this game as well as Joe_". It's a shame, but I understand your frustration about the frame perfect tricks like emptys PunOko Kaos. I heard rumors your next speed endeavor will be Untitled Frog Game. I wish you all the best with that and maybe someday we will meet again!
Attention everyone. I want to propose we ban a trick from the run. It's called emptys PunOko Kaos, and the more you practice it the worse you get at the trick! That goes against the spirit of speedrunning.
Moderators! Please add this as a rule. It keeps me up at night and I even die * cry * die* right now thinking about emptys PunOko Kaos because it's so STUPID. Who even invented that STUPID trick?
BANEMPTYSPUNOKOKAOS2020!!!
I think we should rename this category to "Get Bear Coins and then beat W1 and W2, then open Krematoa, go to Krematoa, visit Boomer and beat the levels of Krematoa as well as K. Rool in Knautilus" because Aqua cannot be a percentage. I think the name I suggested will be much clearer.
It has come to my attention that a certain mod, and I won't name Emptysys's name, has been deleting topics against our will. This is clearly an abuse of power and I hope the Tonkotsu police will take this seriously and remove the person responsible for this from the mod team, because this is UNACCEPTABLE!
