Yeah, far as I know they don’t save their vods, so it’s sadly a thing where you just have to get lucky on timing.

I don’t have a good radio-like, but I really like listening to Club Mogra’s streams on twitch. They play all sorts of anime, vocaloid, jpop. Timezone may be problematic depending on where you live.

Whenever a sentence needs some indicator of humor or sarcasm, I reach for :p

People were also fast with the uno one. Saw this one earlier and wondered how it got done so fast too. Description says they helped Sawtone with the original, and had early access.

It’s just how things get over time, people will take out something others may consider fun, to instead boost performance. Really an inevitable optimization, as something like this could have been done by human testing and external logging, instead of an external tool to simulate attempts.

In regards specifically to Trackmania, the best solution to my mind is to split the leaderboard between analogue inputs and keyboard. I know that’s basically letting the program win, but it exists now, and unless they introduce random physics or performance, the door can’t really be shut.

In terms of speed running, this has also been done in other games, such as TAS runs or the AI they used in SMP64 to find new strats. I don’t really seeing it going away, even if it makes runs less bespoke and more like generic IKEA furniture.