Yep, that's what my original comment was about, in the last year there's been a huge wave, it seems like a lag time of 10-15 years or so!
In addition to the stuff I mentioned before (pointer setting and lookup, momentum abuse, etc), there's also collision edge abuse, generally checkpointing stuff is the big thing stopping a lot of exploits so how checkpoints work are really important to understand (and as a result, are very well-mapped out and are common community knowledge for a lot of these games).
There's also been this beautiful altrustic wave of colabbed TAS (tool-assisted speedruns) in the last few months where the best speedrunners all have different sections of racing tracks or whatever that they're good at, and they pass the recording back and forth until they build a run that sets a new world record or whatever.
Both of these are highly worth watching, it's a very good genre of entertainment and somehow (???) due to a fellow person named SummoningSalt has become almost a rite of passage that if you set an important world record, that you make a mini 30-60 minute documentary about it. One person was humble enough to make an entire 40 minute long documentary about their own world record (ill put the category title down below, it's something else), but only referred to everyone in the third person and was very professional, so you wouldn't know unless you saw the name, channel description, or the youtube comments.
Here's two that are very much worth the time and to me are endlessly fascinating:
In addition to the stuff I mentioned before (pointer setting and lookup, momentum abuse, etc), there's also collision edge abuse, generally checkpointing stuff is the big thing stopping a lot of exploits so how checkpoints work are really important to understand (and as a result, are very well-mapped out and are common community knowledge for a lot of these games).
There's also been this beautiful altrustic wave of colabbed TAS (tool-assisted speedruns) in the last few months where the best speedrunners all have different sections of racing tracks or whatever that they're good at, and they pass the recording back and forth until they build a run that sets a new world record or whatever.
Both of these are highly worth watching, it's a very good genre of entertainment and somehow (???) due to a fellow person named SummoningSalt has become almost a rite of passage that if you set an important world record, that you make a mini 30-60 minute documentary about it. One person was humble enough to make an entire 40 minute long documentary about their own world record (ill put the category title down below, it's something else), but only referred to everyone in the third person and was very professional, so you wouldn't know unless you saw the name, channel description, or the youtube comments.
Here's two that are very much worth the time and to me are endlessly fascinating:
Collaboration TAS (so freaking cool): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaCYxNyJzzQ
Autodocumentarian "Blue Yourself" world record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4isHLuAko
Both are well worth the watch over a good bowl of cereal, ice cream, and/or both.