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I love RWhiteGoose and the GoldenEye speedrun community generally. There's a core group of 50 or so people who've spent literally man-decades optimizing that g
by songshu 8y ago
I love RWhiteGoose and the GoldenEye speedrun community generally. There's a core group of 50 or so people who've spent literally man-decades optimizing that game. If you haven't seen his "speedlore" series on YouTube I recommend it, he goes through the history of optimizations of a particular level. There are many parallels with the experience of optimizing software systems and the cycle of breakthrough and consolidation we go through there.
- trey-jones 8y agoI am not a speedrunner and I don't really follow any speedrunning community, but this takes me back to 1998 doing the Facility in time for the Invincibility cheat. If I still remember it 20 years later, I must have done it a few times.
- songshu 8y agoYes Goldeneye made amateur speedrunners of most people who played, as you had to get times to get cheats. You'd be amazed to see the fastest runs on Facility now. One particularly amazing thing is that the time for the invincibility cheat is now possible not only on 00 Agent mode (where in fact it's considered easy), but on so-called "Dark LTK" mode, where one injury kills Bond and all enemies have max stats.