He was the public figure for TASBot and TASVideos for a while (see https://tas.bot/wiki/Main_Page https://tas.bot/wiki/Main_Page). TASBot is really a beautiful

He was the public figure for TASBot and TASVideos for a while (see https://tas.bot/wiki/Main_Page https://tas.bot/wiki/Main_Page). TASBot is really a beautiful idea to help visualize what tool assisted speedruns are doing via the controller button lights in TASBot's hands. I think DwangoAC and TASBot represented the TAS community at multiple events, not just GDQ. Tool assisted speedruns are remarkable to me because creating the authoring tools is hacking in the classic sense. And then there's the sheer insanity of exploiting broken game logic to gain arbitrary code execution solely via controller inputs. The most elaborate demonstration of this that I know of was given at AGDQ 2017, eventually injecting a video player into Zelda on SNES and streaming the video through the controller port: https://youtu.be/7CgXvIuZR40?si=KR5hAv-iJHjWv8vL&t=1076 https://youtu.be/7CgXvIuZR40?si=KR5hAv-iJHjWv8vL&t=1076 Ars Technica went into a little more detail about that feat: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/how-a-robot-got-super-mario-64-and-portal-running-on-an-snes/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/how-a-robot-got-super...