Speedrunners have an emotional attachment to video games from childhood. It’s why the most competitive categories are classic games like Mario. They take something you and I are familiar with and play it to such a degree it becomes a new experience.
You can’t look at the meta skills around speedrunning and expect them to transfer with a similar drive or interest.
What it probably indicates is that a large number of talented youth never had an outlet for their skills which rewarded them. So their most meaningful experiences became video games instead of say, electrical engineering or teaching math.
You can’t look at the meta skills around speedrunning and expect them to transfer with a similar drive or interest.
What it probably indicates is that a large number of talented youth never had an outlet for their skills which rewarded them. So their most meaningful experiences became video games instead of say, electrical engineering or teaching math.