A long term solution I think is the most important aspect here.

Some kind of decentralised hosting service is what would have to be done surely. Just straight up hosting stuff on this site poses exactly the same issues as hosting stuff on any other website does. Problem is there is so much data required to be stored, whatever this would look like would have to be scaled back as much as possible, and with a focus on sustainability and resiliency. Perhaps with strict rules on what format the videos are uploaded in, like requiring whatever the latest and greatest video codec is of the time (so AV1 for right now for example). On demand would have to be off the cards for sure, just keep the raw video files. Maybe just a central source for hosting, maintaining and perhaps primary seeding of torrents? Perhaps maybe splitting it per-community just as the leaderboards are here, to make it more manageable and user run.

ILs would be good, however I'm really busy both work wise and personal life wise at the moment so don't wanna undertake it (both adding and moderating). Unless Kuru wants to do something about it we'd need a new mod for the board. I'm open to just stepping down myself since I'm not exactly active on this website or with Blur at all.

Damn GG, I'm surprised my old runs were still WR in some of these

"wwwwooaaaaaaaahhhh"

Awesome, glad you're enjoying it.

I've retimed all of Benny's old runs now, should all be good. I also timed the first few runs of yours but you listed the same time I retimed it as so I just trusted your timing after that.

Also changed the rules for Any% and added the missing levels to the level leaderboard.

Oh hey didn't see this until you submitted some runs, sorry.

It's been like 5 years since I last thought about this tiny game I made, so thanks for reminding me about it lol

I'll get to fixing all the times and adding the proper categories when I get some free time, I'm honestly surprised anyone even cares :P

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In Any% we skip it, thankfully. But for other categories the fastest thing would be to mute it in the recording software (OBS for example), but you could also mute the sound volume in game too (but that requires pausing so is slow)

Do I have to add this to TBoGT now? D:

If any runs get completed in anything I can add a category for it yeah. For ILs what do you have in mind? The levels in the campaign or just hotlaps of tracks?

If you skip the cutscene too fast the bike doesn't spawn (neither does the Greenwood). I wait until I can see Kendl and then skip, not sure if that is the fastest reference though.

I actually have a question since I just noticed it. On your website you sell(?) access to an API for all of your websites, but SRC's API is already free and open source-ish. Is this due to change, or are you just selling the easy to access all in one API? A lot of community resources rely on this API. I'm not familiar enough with your other sites to find a definite answer to if those also have individual free APIs or not.

Thanks for everything Pac, I hope this turns out for the best.

"Concerns about starting with maxed out gear"? Isn't that the point of NG+ or did you have something else in mind?

Like others have said, you need to teleport out of the car and get into the Cafe quickly, then wait a few seconds before skipping the date cutscene.

Here's an example of me doing it with Omega explaining it (timestamped):

I'd like to publicly apologise for showing my task manager and starting another dumb SA speedrunning thing.

It was only supposed to be so I didn't accidentally leave Cheat Engine open myself; it shouldn't be a rule, it's not an effective solution and previous runs with exactly the same possibility for cheating didn't have them.

I'll stop doing it so hopefully this doesn't continue. I fully expect "Josh is cheating :O" comments for the next month but it'll be worth it.

Yes this makes perfect sense. So much so that it was already the main discussion since the glitch was discovered :P

New category will get added soon.

It isn't inferior no, and it would probably be the best platform to play on because of bluetooth controllers yeah, I just don't own one :D

I used to run on a PSTV for those reasons, but it turned out it was actually slower, both in loading times and frame rate.

For a first try attempt I think it was pretty great, only the issues mentioned are issues I could think of, and they all stem from it being the first one. I look forward a lot to the next one :D