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They are script kiddies ;)

• jmcgough 2y ago
  Kind of, but even an average runner can experience a bug or refine a strategy through repeat practice, which they often share with the community through streamed runs or discords. You tend to have certain people who are more interested in glitch finding and spend most of their focus on that over actually running the game. Then you have TAS runners (often overlap with glitch hunters) who make TAS-only runs to determine what the absolute limit is in a game. Finally, you have the remaining 95% of the community, runners grinding the game over and over. Strategies from TAS often are repurposed by speedrunners, perhaps most famously in Mario 1 any%, where several strats used by top runners were once considered infeasible for humans.
  • lotrjohn 2y ago
    I knew that TAS meant “a computer” but for those, like me, who forgot/ didn’t know, TAS stands for “tool-assisted speedrun”.
    • jmcgough 2y ago
      Correct. TAS usually means to use a tool that lets them painstakingly play the game on a frame-by-frame basis (usually 1/60th of a second), each frame making the theoretically optimal input.
      • eru 2y ago
        Yes, and even for TAS you usually have a division of labour between people who find the exploits and people who create the TAS itself.