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jmcgough on March 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they j...

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 on March 3, 2025 [–]

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.

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