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A Life Well Wasted

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A Life Well Wasted

Robert Ashley

Video Games, Leisure

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Robert Ashley finds out what it takes to speedrun games in a blindfold, visits a museum in Moscow dedicated to Soviet-era arcade machines, and talks to a group of friends about a childhood summer spent dreaming up a game of their own.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When I talk to new people, I always start from kind of this point first.

0:05.0

I play video games on a high level and what I specialize on is trying to beat the game as fast as possible.

0:12.5

So I start a new game and then I try to get to the ending of the game like as fast as possible.

0:18.2

That's already when the first questions come like, why?

0:22.1

Why do you do that?

0:23.5

When I then announced yes, but I also do it without looking.

0:27.2

Most people are like, okay, I don't understand anymore.

0:30.8

I am Babzir and I play games as fast as possible without looking at the screen.

0:37.5

You know how much I've been introducing you all to things that you've never seen before.

0:41.8

Well, now I get to introduce you all to something that the runner isn't even going to get to see it all.

0:48.0

Isn't even going to get to see it all.

0:50.4

Isn't even going to get to see it all.

0:52.7

It's super Mario 64 70 stars blind folded, but he is ready.

0:58.1

Let's go over to the run.

1:09.1

I always like to reference what the running sport does because it's basically exactly that.

1:14.5

If you have a hundred meter track, then you run that and you get 20 seconds or something and based on nature,

1:21.0

you want to kind of improve your time and yourself and you practice for that.

1:24.7

You train for that and you get lower times.

1:27.0

You get like 19 seconds, for example, 18 seconds.

1:29.7

And that's exactly what I do, but with games and with a blindfold on.

1:34.9

I don't go into these games blindfolded and then find out what to do.

1:39.8

It's like a very close to scientific process, how to go from A to B.

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