Hi, I'm CosmykTheDolfyn.  I speedrun random crap.  Been doing it for about two years.   Right now that includes:
Hot Wheels Turbo Racing (any% N64, which I routed myself)
Trackmania Wii (puzzle and platform modes single segment)
Mario Tennis (It's a joke run, k?)
Shadow Dancer: Secret of Shinobi
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine/Kirby's Avalanche (same game, different skins.  Hardest difficulty, gunning for sub 10 minutes, PB sits right at 11 minutes and consistently under 20 minutes)
Kirby's Dream Land

Learning: Donkey Kong 1994 (Game Boy Game)
Want to learn Wild Arms, was routing out the GBC port of Daikatana, but I burnt myself out on it.

I stick to older stuff mostly.  I try to have fun with it all.  I have to rely heavily on muscle memory as I play, as I was in accident as a child that me without feeling in portions of my right hand (including my thumb and first finger).  This makes it very hard to play controllers I'm not familiar with (thus re-enforcing the sticking with old games).

Hello, I am one of several people working on organizing an in person marathon June 11-12 called Buckeye Speed Bash in Columbus Ohio.  I know runners are spread out over many places these days, and I already created a thread about it on SDA and posted about it in the speedrun sub-reddit.
However, I wanted to know if it would be possible to create a thread for it on the forum here and list it under the "Marathons" section of the forums to try to spread the word.  Thank you.

Vitals Info:
What: Buckeye Speed Bash 2016
When: June 11-12th, 2016
Where: The Holiday Inn OSU Campus: http://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/us/en/columbus/cmhol/hoteldetail/directions
Who: Whoever wants to come!
Why: To have a good time speedrunning!
Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vfTJFvyfWiW97wkyEfYYYalucq7Nv485Il9Z2PeDxzA/viewform

Hello!  I am happy and proud to announce that a collection of us Ohio speedrunners have decided to make an Ohio speedrun meetup happen!

As of currently, this marathon has not been set up to raise money for any charities.  Our main focus currently is growing the wonderful Ohio speedrunning scene (and inviting people from outside Ohio to attend if they wish).  Also, it will be a great opportunity to meet other speedrunners from all over the state, as we have already had confirmations of attendees coming from every corner of the Buckeye state.

While there has been talk of Ohio meet ups in the past, it usually fell dead in the water secondary to where in the state it should be held: Columbus or Cleveland areas.  However, we researched both areas and found that our potential locations to rent were much more reasonable in Columbus.  As a result, the choice was made to host it in Columbus.  We also chose the dates of June 11-12 to not interfere with RPGLB, NASA, SGDQ, Midwest Speedfest and graduation dates of some of our runners who will be attending.

If you wish to attend and/or run a game, please fill out this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vfTJFvyfWiW97wkyEfYYYalucq7Nv485Il9Z2PeDxzA/viewform
Note that this event is primarily to have a good time.  We want to include at least one run from every person who submits and is able to attend.  Even if you don't have a run and wish to attend, fill out the form above anyways!  Just leave the information about runs blank.  Note that submissions are live, and will probably remain so for 6 weeks.

Please note there will be a small fee to attend, as the space we're renting out is not free.  This is just so that the burden doesn't fall entirely on one person's shoulders.  However, we believe it to be about $10 per person, which I feel is very reasonable.  We'll add info on this when we see how many people actually attend.

Thank you for reading this!  If you have any questions, feel free to contact myself (You can Skype me at CosmykTheDolfyn, email me at charliebrohard@yahoo.com, or send me a PM on SDAto CosmykTheDolfyn, or my twitch at CosmykTheDolfyn.  I'll respond as quick as I can) or Genocidal (you can send him a PM on SDA).  We hope to see you soon at Buckeye Speed Bash!

I made a fairly long pastebin on turbo in speedrunning (something already acceptable in the JRTA community).  However, I was wanting to just try to start a little discussion over what is mostly a hypothetical situation: if a runner uses turbo to complete speedruns due to having a disability.  Please note that I wrote this from assuming that any runner is simply running games for their own personal enjoyment, not for WR attempts.  This is also opposed to a runner cheating by using Turbo despite having no physical limitations.  Anyway, here's the full pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/GxcU6A7D
You can make just as many valid arguments against what I say in this pastebin, in all honesty.  However, even though I may not be exactly the greatest speedrunner ever, I will always enjoy speedrunning greatly despite my own hand problems.  I hope that no one in this community will ever bully anyone due to using turbo or other setups to deal with a physical limitation, because it can be hard enough to keep a positive outlook with speedrunning when you do have such obstacles holding you back.

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