Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
by Ekaros on Saturday February 15, 2025 @07:50PM
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Which is fully valid video genre. But not a valid record. Spliced runs as videos show casing best what a specific scene can do is great tool to promote scene. But those should never be presented as records.
Well apart from not being completable run...
Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
by duskwuff on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:36PM
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At that point, that isn't even a "run" anymore, spliced or otherwise - it's just a gameplay compilation video. Which is fine, like you said, but only as long as you don't call it something it's not.
It's worse than that - it's a bunch of separate video clips spliced together to give the appearance that it's a playthrough of the entire game, but which couldn't actually play out that way in a single game. Not just because the RNG doesn't match up, but also because the character is gaining items and levels between the splices which they never actually earned through gameplay.