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“I know a lot of’the game is dead' posts are satire”, Kally writes onPastebin.

“The game isn’t dead, and it won’t be for a long time.”

Super Mario 64

For a game that came out in 1996, the speedrunning community for it is still active.

It is irrelevant how far away the pros are.

People play basketball for fun.

Super Mario 64

People play tennis for fun.

People play football for fun."

If I got bored and quit, then that’s fine.

Super Mario 64

I chipped away at my times, found I loved the hobby, and kept playing."

Sounds like a healthy way to pursue speedrunning.

They’ve seen success as a streamer with the game, too.

Mario odyssey screenshot showing mario standing with sentient forks

I highly doubt that people will decline to pick this game up because WR is so hard to beat.

It’s been that way forever, and people still picked it up."

The Super Mario Bros NES box

Donkey Kong

Hollow Knight

A screenshot from Super Mario Odyssey showing Mario throwing Cappy in New Donk City.

A sprite sheet for Hollow Knight Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Once Upon a Puppet key art

Super Mario RPG Remake

Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed

Deadpool

Gabriel Luna as Tommy in The Last of Us

Oblivion Remastered "Sir Vancealot"

Skyblivion

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Jonah Hauer-King as Conrad in Doctor Who: ‘Lucky Day’.