"Derust" runs

Have had to take a couple weeks off from the Any% grind for a few reasons. I think the break has been good. Did a very casual derust run tonight that finished as a mid 41. Planning/hoping to hit the grind hard this weekend, but we will see.

Right now I'm "only" putting up around 1 sub-41 per week (weekend), but honestly.... that's pretty damn good. This run was a very strong start, with a bad mistake in LN that cascaded, and then atrocious RNG pretty much constantly after Ridley.

Things are still moving.

Speedrunning doesn't really work like this, but if you take all that time and subtract it from the total run time you get a 40:19 :)

I mentioned last night that things seem like they're on the up and up and honestly this run makes me feel like we are so SO back. Fingers crossed.

At a glance this run doesn't look that special, but in reality I think this is the best executed run I've ever done for Any% up until I flubbed Baby Skip. It has a Slow Phantoon (+10ish to WR), a wonky 3X Ridley (+13 to potential timesave), and then yes, a flubbed Baby Skip (+28)

Life this year has been extremely heavy, and the grind has had to take a big step back because of it. Fortunately, things really seem to be on the up and up, and it turns out when I'm feeling better I can also play much better LOL

This run was extremely casual and that is great!

had a best pace ever and a Bombs gold for the first time in over 2 years on Monday. So I guess I'm still improving slowly, even though this month has been awful IRL. :) wish I felt better overall, oh well

So I guess maybe hopefully I’m on the up and up. Hang in there everyone.

Life has been extremely heavy lately. This week was one of the worst of my life, tbh. But I’m not gonna trauma dump here. SM is impossible to play well when I’m mentally compromised, but today I managed to pull a run that I was actually impressed with, despite the final time.

first run of the day lol

I’m gonna do this thing at the end of stream today. I’m starting WR attempts now so if I had to guess I’ll start the watch back stuff in probably 3-5 hours depending on how runs are going and how I’m feeling etc

[WORLD RECORD] Super Metroid - Any% Speedrun in 40:22 YouTube video by ShinyZeni

youtu.be/sGgzxe-MZWw?si… hard to believe it’s been a whole year honestly. And it was a crazy one…

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the 40:22 Any% WR. I’m going to do *something* for that on stream today, but I’m not sure what yet or what time. Sorry I always announce this stuff last minute.

lol I lost like 20 seconds in Worst Room In The Game in this run

and from Gravity to the end time, is only like +5 seconds. That's actually crazy that it's less than the amount of time we lost *just on Ridley*

Excellent execution this run. Phantoon lost us something like 12-15 seconds in RNG (the rest of the timeloss at Gravity was probably moat and other little movement things), and Ridley gave us an unfavorable pattern that lost 7 seconds compared to WR (we can save 9)

awful RNG in this run. also the second screen LOL

5 streams with sub-41s in a row

Worst sub-41 I've run so far by far lol

The Any% grind is going so well for me right now. It’s hit that spot where I can see the ebbs and flows and honestly do feel like I just need to “patiently continue” from here. I only had the one good run today, had another decent-ish pace that fell apart at/after Ridley, but that’s just how it is.

First run of the day, plenty of slop :)

3 paces tonight. Clutched this one out. It only had 7 supers entering Ridley, some other jank, and ended up needing a refill in Tourian (left metroids 1 super short). Lookin good.

Another contender for best executed run since record -- lost 10 seconds to Phantoon RNG, a few more to drops RNG, and 6ish seconds to Mother Brain RNG. Speedrunning doesn't really work like this, but if all that RNG was the same as the WR, this would've been another 2x. Hype.

Super Metroid - A NEW LOW% ??? 13% Ice-Pb Showcase feat. Kingofthehill476 YouTube video by ShinyZeni

youtu.be/MvZpPVLqDAw

Kingofthehill476 pulled off a new low% (13%!) run of Super Metroid a few weeks ago. Today I had the pleasure of buying him lunch and doing a collaboration stream where he explained his setup to make it possible and discussed some other things about the run! It’s up on yt now ⬇️

Both these runs had some pretty "bad" stuff. Not awful, but definitely not WR type RNG, etc. Great times considering that.

Sometimes in speedrunning you just get mega trolled all day. That was yesterday. Playing bad. When I played good the game was stupid. The rest of the time, my controller was broken LOL. Today I decided to reset my mindset and re-approach it. Practiced for like 5 hours. Worth.

Some sloppy mistakes in Maridia and then more bad RNG from Draygon and MB. Definitely showing lots of potential here.

Really sick run considering the things that didn't go well. Had really low energy leaving Phantoon (had to farm and lost a few seconds), 4th best pace at Gravity. Ridley gave me a 2x pattern (2nd worst) and we lost about 20s compared to an optimal fight there. Bad drops too.

okay? this is dumb lol