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If you have been being attentive to the Kugane Tower speedrunning race in Final Fantasy 14—and never, say, watching soccer or touching grass or one thing—you would possibly’ve seen Pint, a recognized streamer, try to overcome the world document again in 2023. The video in query was impeccably edited, very humorous, effectively value a watch, and principally instantly scuppered by the prior document holder, Em0_oticon, in lower than 48 hours as they achieved a brand new world document.
It appeared, nevertheless, that Pint wasn’t to be deterred—as seen within the video above, Pint refined his methods based mostly on his competitors, and succeeded at claiming the world document once more, beating not simply Em0_oticon’s document, however that of a 3rd occasion—Azura Stargazer, who smashed Em0_oticon’s new WR earlier than Pint had even thought to take a second go.
This new time of 38.31 seconds was lower than a second sooner than Em0_oticon’s—however as any speedrunner would possibly inform you, while you get to the higher echelons, shearing off even a fraction of a second turns into a vicious climb. Only, being a streamer, Pint would possibly’ve wished to—you recognize—make one other video about it earlier than posting it on-line, for foolish issues like ‘paying hire’ and ‘justifying the numerous months it took to get so far’.
Thing is, Stargazer is definitely a Pint fan—and so his pre-emptive hints and bragging motivated them to crush the document, which they did, on this 37.716s run. They’d even managed to be fairly magnanimous about it, revealing that he’d been not sure “if I ought to add since Pint hasn’t posted his,” including that he wished to “give him an opportunity to combat again if his finest is not as much as par.”
While this units the stage for an additional heroic triumph, uh, Stargazer continued to interrupt the digital sound barrier. First knocking it all the way down to 36.400 seconds, after which 35.650 seconds, after which—in an offhanded remark to Emo_0ticon—said that they’d “damaged the 35 second barrier”. You can see that searing video under.
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At which level, after seeing a separate run the place Stargazer additionally managed to land precisely on a sadistically-placed lamppost on the road under with pinpoint precision (required for a sightseeing log, by the best way, Pint did what any cheap individual would. He gave up.
That’s to not say this is not a victory for the streamer, although—in his personal phrases, the rationale he climbed within the first place was to spice up “the competitors it fostered, the tales it made”. Sometimes you have simply received to go the baton on to the stargazing savants of this world—which, in a recreation whose prolonged story has quite a bit to say on gifting the world to future generations, appears very applicable.
