Tag Archives: speedrunning

I mentioned a while back that I got into speedrunning, and this will be a check-in with that journey. In addition, I share some thoughts both about how to get into speedrunning and engage in it in a healthy manner, as well as the ways in which narratives around speedrunning can create toxic behavior.

Speedrunning a game may be fun, but it can also cause a lot of stress. And knowing what to do about that stress is important. In this brief essay I’ll share a story of my own recent burnout with speedrunning, the cause, and how I addressed the problem.

Since I’ve been learning to speedrun, I wanted to share a bit of my own personal journey in that learning process. In this post I’ll be describing some of my choices, my initial struggles, and my initial successes.

One of the weirdest and yet most fascinating method of approaching video games is speedrunning: attempting to complete a game in the fastest way possible. In this essay I’ll be taking a brief look at what makes speedrunning so fascinating, and the role of community in making speedrunning possible.