[at this point in the conversation, people are talking about GGFan's memoir (mainly of the early 2000s competitive pokemon)
Sceptross01/12/2017
The part I enjoyed  the most was reading your take on the start of Pokemon Speedrunning
GGFan01/12/2017
over 10,000 downloads.
yeah, i played a major role in that.
Sceptross01/12/2017
I already knew you were the first Pokemon speedrunner
Eseque01/12/2017
I see
I’ll read that
When I get home
Sceptross01/12/2017
THat's not exactly an unknown fact
GGFan01/12/2017
really?  wow
Sceptross01/12/2017
Well I knew it
Eseque01/12/2017
I also did
Sceptross01/12/2017
See?
GGFan01/12/2017
i truly am a legend.
so, drud, how does it feel to be wrong yet again?
i clearly never lie.
Eseque01/12/2017
Drud is joking/being sarcastic
A good portion
Of the time
Sceptross01/12/2017
I read it on the pokemon speedrunning community forums I believe
There was a topic with someone asking about the start of it
It's amaizng how things were so optimized after that
GGFan01/12/2017
i beat blue in 3:07
these days, that's a painfully slow time
Sceptross01/12/2017
Yup
My record is 1:51 in game time :stuck_out_tongue:
GGFan01/12/2017
isn't the WR, like, 1:42 now?
Sceptross01/12/2017
Nope, it's more
ToadNorton01/12/2017
You ran RBY right?
Eseque01/12/2017
What’s the any% record
GGFan01/12/2017
blue to be specific.
Eseque01/12/2017
For yellow?
Sceptross01/12/2017
@Eseque That category is a meme category
GGFan01/12/2017
back then my strat was to choose squirtle and catch zapdos.
Eseque01/12/2017
Ik it’s a meme category
Sceptross01/12/2017
Because you can literally do it in less than a minute
Eseque01/12/2017
But what is it
GGFan01/12/2017
nowadays, people catch nidoran m
nidoran m is god tier for ingame
Sceptross01/12/2017
It's 0:00, by Werster, I believe
Yup @GGFan
Eseque01/12/2017
I mean in real time
They use real time nowadays
Not in-game
Sceptross01/12/2017
You just made a slight mistake in your memoir btw @GGFan
When you wrote it, they were not the times of Werster anymore
For me, Exarion is the best RBY runner ever
GGFan01/12/2017
i think he held the record in 2016, though
right?
Sceptross01/12/2017
Nope, Exarion was already the holder at that time
GGFan01/12/2017
i thought it was werster.  oh well.
ToadNorton01/12/2017
yeah the main categories now is either any% glitchless, or any% no save corruption
Eseque01/12/2017
Ik
Sceptross01/12/2017
any% NSC is a meme category too
Eseque01/12/2017
But I want to know the record for any%
Because it’s not on the speed running website
Sceptross01/12/2017
Or was, before RNG manip
GGFan01/12/2017
i guess it is amazing  that i'm still banned from smogon when you consider how primitive everything was back then.
Eseque01/12/2017
Any% NSC is not a meme category
Sceptross01/12/2017
Now i don't know
Eseque01/12/2017
It’s on the website
GGFan01/12/2017
what's more remarkable, though?
ToadNorton01/12/2017
1:48:49 for any% glitchless
Eseque01/12/2017
So I consider it to not be a meme
Sceptross01/12/2017
@Eseque It was a meme between spedrunners
because it was heavily RNG based
GGFan01/12/2017
A) my longevity B) still being banned from smogon
Sceptross01/12/2017
And when I say heavily
Eseque01/12/2017
You can just manipulate
The rng
Sceptross01/12/2017
I say RNG matters 99.6% of the time
Eseque01/12/2017
, no?
Sceptross01/12/2017
Well now you can
But back then you couldn't
I remember I was gonna do like the 6th time on NSC
GGFan01/12/2017
i think it's interesting how long i've outlasted everybody.  nobody in, say, 2005 would have ever imagined that i would be the iron man of competitive pokemon.
Sceptross01/12/2017
Had nothing execution-wise left to do
Eseque01/12/2017
RBA
Is a cool category
Sceptross01/12/2017
And the game randomly freezes on the hall of fame
I raged
I think that's why I tend to keep cool more than most people about RNG
Eseque01/12/2017
I keep cool so far
ToadNorton01/12/2017
we choose to put our fate in the hands of rng
Sceptross01/12/2017
When you lose runs that you were doing for almost 2 hours
And you can live with that
Bad RNG doesn't sound so bad
Eseque01/12/2017
Like losing a run that takes 5 mins to hax
feels less bad
GGFan01/12/2017
i haven't speed run pokemon since i got the 3:07
ToadNorton01/12/2017
If you can't stand rng in pokemon then don't play it
GGFan01/12/2017
i used to speed run mother 3
Eseque01/12/2017
Than losing one you’ve been spending hours and hours on