Is speed-running inherently autistic?

There's literally nothing more autistic in the world.

I honestly kinda wish I was autistic enough to speedrun, but I'm just not. Most of the games I like have massive skip glitches which just take most of the fun out for me. Even no glitch runs have a bit too much tech for me to bother with.

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>it's another episode of "gaymers compare themselves to actual sportsmen"

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Casually speedrunning is not, but when you spend 10 000 hours playing the same level over and over to beat one record, then it's autistic.

its kinda cool but definitely for autists. Gulp skip in Spyro is still one of the coolest things in the world to me, but Touval (the man who discovered it and numerous other Spyro glitches for speedrunning) definitely has high grade autism

>comparing athletes training to some sweaty autist sitting in a basement replaying the same Sonic 2 stage trying to shave 1.4 seconds off his record time

both is equally austistc, buddy
no one fucking cares if you hold the world record in jumping the furthest or Super Mario

This. If you decide to fire up Super Mario World and see how quickly you can beat the game, that's one thing. Spending a year trying to chip fractions of a second off your run is well beyond normal.

I've kinda thought about trying to speedrun Simpsons Hit & Run
There aren't really any major glitches the runs are only about 90 minutes long but I honestly think it would ruin the game for me. i really enjoy replaying it every few years but doing that every single day would not feel special anymore after a while

pushing the levels of human achievement vs muh bing bing wahoos.

Yes
>if I play this typically 40 hour game for 10000 hours, I can get through it in 20 minutes, which saves so much time!

at what point does it become autistic? 100 hours? 1000 hours?

I think the thing about speedruns is that they peak pretty early. Like watching someone clear a 6 hour game in an hour is interesting. Watching someone do it again two minutes faster isn't. At that point they're just doing it for the sake of doing it.

The fact that you can't discern that for yourself is proof you're too far gone. There's no defined limit; you just know.

Aren't any video game based communities like this? Majority of "gamers" autistic by default lol

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Yes, you know what the definition of insanity is?

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Depends.

If the rapidity of your speedrun relies on a few techinques somewhat inherrent to the game that can be used during normal gameplay, then no.

If your speedrun relies on massive memorization, inputting frame perfect inputs over and over again, constant out of bounds wandering, luck based grinding, then yes.

Also when a game has a very solid world record that takes a miracle to beat (think goldeneye, sm64...) then yes it's autistic to give yourself 10.000 tries to try and improve on it.

I think I can name quite a few things more autistic.

>normal people don't do the same thing over and over and over again
>what is playing a sport
>what is training a skill
>what is studying for school
>what is going to work every day
>what is binging on TV and Netflix

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Depends on the game honestly. If its a racing game or something that encourages players to go as fast as possible certainly. If its a game that doesn't really encourage it its pretty autistic.

When it moves from a fun lark to something you actively practice toward and consumes your life.

Instead normal people do the same thing over and over to earn imaginary numbers.