Singaporeuh.... no, I'm no bot, I'm just really curious and sometimes making stories for context gets the better of me... 😅 you know things like internet rabbit holes and internet icebergs explained, like on reddit... I show people where I got my ideas because sometimes, people are lazy to even google stuff, and also sometimes people on the internet say I'm inventing things...
Iceberg charts on reddit are some of the places I frequent for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Upulie-Handalage/publication/357163863/figure/fig2/AS:1102614494232578@1639895189553/Internet-illustrated-in-an-iceberg-Source-Extracted-from-11_Q640.jpg
I enjoy watching some other speedrunners do their thing, but sometimes I wonder, when I watch their fingers fly across the keyboard in the runs that have keyboard cams for anti-cheat, that there’s something that can really hamper a speedrun. Just like how athletes need to warm up before a sport, I realized that cold can be the enemy too. And sometimes, there are no options, let’s say hypothetically it’s in winter, and then your heater broke, but maybe you’re in a competition or tournament, what are the alternatives then?
I think that, like poor scrat here from the movie Ice age, forever chasing after his nut. The cold, then, is what stops us speedrunners from achieving the goal, or getting the acorn in Scrat’s case.
Just like how the poor squirrel is always encased in ice, or dunked in freezing water. The freezing feeling due to the weather, or maybe a freezing air conditioner that your roommate at the dorm or office workmates that absolutely refuse to bring the temps down, and you just have to live with it because they argue that the weather is blazing hot outside…
In any case, shivering hands and fingers, is a problem, whether you’re working or playing, either on a keyboard or with a gamepad.
I’ve looked at various things online on how to keep hands warm while gaming and there are cool gizmos for that that humans have invented, ranging from the cheapest and practical, like fingerless gloves to keep “most of your hand” warm (what about the tips of your fingers?), to some things that just amaze me that they exist.
Some of my research: Reddit discussion from r/GirlGamers on how to keep hands warm, for relevance Old discussion from r/LeagueOfLegends, on how to keep your hand warm, besides just sitting on them
Things like heated mouse pads, which somehow sound reasonable to me, to things that are cool looking but strange, like a heater that’s directed at your hands, basically like an oven toaster, shown below
Keyboard hand-heater uses infrared to keep your fingers toasty
There are also things like USB powered hand warmers, which are also more on the fancy side of things you could try out if you want, some people actually use and like those ones.
Also, there’s something like “Gaming” Rechargeable hand warmers, by the lighter company zippo, which also functions as a power bank, but I don’t know if I’d want one considering the price of those things. Maybe only fanboys/gals would like to buy these… not me though. 😂
https://www.zippo.com/pages/zippo-gaming
I didn’t know these things existed before I started looking these up on the internet honestly. 😅
So people of speedrun.com, does anyone use anything more fancier than fingerless gloves? Or do you guys have something like a portable desktop heater?
I’ve even seen some people claim (maybe as a joke) that their PC is so powerful it functions as a heater as well. 🤣🔥
Now I think I also remember this GIF of Anna from the movie Frozen…
Sometimes I feel like this while trying to play dark souls… then I die. 😂
Nice game, I sort of think Minecraft at this point is sort of a genre now, because of all the spinoffs ever since it was born, (sort of like Lego bricks too) I got curious and dug this up from internet searching: Complete list of Minecraft clones! - Minecraft
this was from a Reddit post 11 years ago, when Minecraft was still fresh a lot of devs hopped on to the trend, it's mind-boggling.
Also, there's this video by the tekkit realm which was fun to watch, when he got a clone of Minecraft going...
@YUMmy_Bacon5 probably a new thread would be nice as it's quite confusing sometimes, unless you have mastered the art of formatting, it's wild. 😅
wow, this was a very interesting yet slightly confusing story shenanigans going down here on SR.C 😅
Is this thing still up? I'm not sure I quite get how this works... 🤔💭
Heya there, goodluck on the runs you are planning, may you find good fortune. 😉🏆 even get a world record someday. 😁
@DewOnTheGrass thanks for the link. 😁 Relevant comic
Doesn't look active, although I just found this place while looking up games I've played to speedrun 😉
aw that sucks a bit I guess.... 😯
@Kkntucara that is indeed the question, but maybe it should be a brand new category,
fastest run to X amount of Iron chests filled, and then kill the dragon using full Iron set, then the final blow must be dropping an anvil on it.
now that's an epically long one. 😂
@SuperSane yeah it is, I check the mod list above and it's there. 😉
wait, this is great to know that this is legal, caves are truly annoying to deal with. 😅
wait, Time travel? now I'm confused... what's this about? 😵
