I don't know if this matters either, but, another thing, I have a 1080p 144hz refresh rate monitor and was playing it at that fps. I keep Steam's fps counter active and it displayed 144fps on the top corner of my screen throughout the entire playthrough. So add that to the variables surrounding how this happened

I played through and beat the game for the first time today, casually. After beating the game, I decided to watch Captain_Ezekiel's WR run. I enjoy watching speedruns of a game that I just beat. Anyways, I noticed something that was different from my playthrough.

After I obtained the red and blue keycards and entered the little room with the TV and chair. When I sat down and watched the TV, the TV instantly exploded and I was back on my feet. I could hear Lucas talking through the broken TV, but there was no picture on the screen and the glass on the TV was shattered (completely busted). I was free to leave the room right away, but I stayed to hear him out since I was still just enjoying my first playthrough of the game. I don't think I did anything special, I just interacted with the chair normally when I entered the room. When I watched Captain_Ezekiel's run, I saw that he had to sit through entire Lucas' TV presentation and it was the first time I saw Lucas' TV presentation.

I played on PC(Steam) with the DX12 update that just came out yesterday. Also, this might have something to do with the skip. I run Linux Mint on my computer, I used Steam Play "Proton." Just the default proton setting as of typing this, I didn't use any special proton compatibility settings. Aside from just this, the game ran completely perfect with no glitches at all.

Just thought I'd share, maybe something you guys could investigate and use as a time save.

Just noticed that my 1st place spot got taken by another orange car run, that was expected. I didn't spend a whole lot of time making that run, I just stole the 1st place spot with a strat that I formed as a little kid, I enjoyed the short-lived 1st moment I had in the spotlight.

It's funny. Growing up you think that you're the best in the world and then reality proves that you weren't as great as you thought you were, but for once in my life little 9year old me had the world record strategy that many of you neglected to figure out on your own.

Congrats to Blasco for being the current Saturn Mode Beginner course champion, but the time can be lowered even further with the orange car! 9year old-me would get several 16-something second laps. There is lots of room for improvement!