It was a clean run, I swear.

I wake up every day grateful that I’m not into speedrunning.

I wk ∆ evryday gr8tful tht im no in2 spdrning
Beat you. Git gud grub
- I weak delta?
- I wyk ^ ery day g8fl tht im nt n2 spd rnnin
  Nah, I win
- I wk evday gr8ful I no in2 spdrning. Boom even faster
- EU WAEUBG UP EFR TKAEU TKPWRAEUT/TPUL THA EU APL TPHOT TPHAO SPAOED RUPB/-G/TP-PL
- wakeup(){ while(day){ if(!speedrunning){ me = grateful; } } sleep(86400); }
The feeling is mutual

I’m not that familiar with the speedrun community, but no way they do much checking for any runs that aren’t reasonably in contention for a top spot right?

Lol I'm sure that's how it works. There's just no way otherwise.
- They often don't even properly check TOP runs
I used to be a speedrun verifier for Portal a while ago and in general we'll reject anything that looks like very little effort was put in it. For Portal this would be runs somewhere above the hour mark, but obviously this varies for other speedrun communities which I can't speak for. For actual runs though it's common to watch them on 5x speed or faster as it's still relatively easy to catch someone breaking the rules at that speed. It also drastically speeds up the time it takes a run to get verified for such a popular game with a limited amount of volunteer verifiers.
- I was the first person to do a 25x Inbounds run and I felt bad that someone had to verify it. It took like 6 hours with multiple instances, though, I doubt they actually kept track of the whole thing lol
I'm going to cheat to get the worst time ever recorded
- My God, this guy has taken longer to beat the game than the amount of time it's been available. How is that possible?
- Fallout 2, 13 year in-game run, any %.
Some of the more competitive games don't even demand that you submit a video of your run if you aren't in contention for the top 10. Some games you can just "claim" a time and you'll be added to the leaderboard.
Depends on the game/community I think. There’s probably common tells for different games - eg if it’s obvious someone picked a good seed for Minecraft. Probably don’t have to watch the whole video, just skip to a few critical points.

Depending on the game that could be decently fast

For Factorio, its blazingly fast but also insanely slow.
- Now I'm curious
100% Breath of the Wild run takes like 20 hours
- So damn much Yahaha!

Forty-thirth

MA, I CAME IN THIRTH

You got the top run to my heart, dad Picard Maneuver.

Thank you, Vincent. I'm very proud of you.
- Stop treating him like a child he's clearly an adult.

they watched thousands of multi hour videos? that is lunacy 😂

If you take the meme at face value, sure. I'm sure they have to validate some runs, I'm also pretty sure they don't extend that policy to 2500 spots down the list.
... but weirder things have happened.
- Most runs in general do not get scrutinized unless something about the submission is suspicious in itself. The community is very tight knit and there is nothing to gain from being on the leaderboard but clout.
If I recall correctly there are games like final fantasy where the world record is still 2 hours long
- there are a lot of games that take over 24+hours to complete
No.....this is SPARTA!
- No, this is Patrick

That's got to be the worst speedrunner I've ever seen.

But you have seen him.

2543th

firth, secoth, thirth

That dumbass with paper plate mask ruined it for everyone.

what if you spam them with 182 16 hour speedruns

then you've lost 2912 hours of your life
edit: hours
- you did the math

Being a moderate already is sad, being a speedrun mod is even more sad

And what do you do for fun?
- crime
Hey buddy, let people have hobbies. There's nothing wrong with someone wanting to get really good at beating a game they like as fast as possible.
- People can do whatever they want. Some things people do is sad. This is one of those things.