<story><title>Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIJNT7dCmE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceliker</author><text>It wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a SMB speedrun video if it didn&amp;#x27;t have the bus analogy.&lt;p&gt;Jokes aside, Summoning Salt is a great Youtube channel, and it makes me feel emotionally invested in speedruns of games I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of before. Great storytelling. Not to mention that speedruns (and the glitches people find to get world record times) are pretty interesting from a computer science standpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrescimanno</author><text>Came here to add comments about Summoning Salt as well. I don&amp;#x27;t follow speedruns at all; but, I really love his work and I absolutely echo the sentiment that he will get you emotionally invested in his content.&lt;p&gt;As an interesting aside, not only does he make great documentary style videos about Speed running, he also happens to be the current (as of June 2021) world record holder for Mike Tyson&amp;#x27;s Punch-Out!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.speedrun.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;Summoningsalt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.speedrun.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;Summoningsalt&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIJNT7dCmE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceliker</author><text>It wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a SMB speedrun video if it didn&amp;#x27;t have the bus analogy.&lt;p&gt;Jokes aside, Summoning Salt is a great Youtube channel, and it makes me feel emotionally invested in speedruns of games I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of before. Great storytelling. Not to mention that speedruns (and the glitches people find to get world record times) are pretty interesting from a computer science standpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seventytwo</author><text>I found it to be very similar to science at large - the idea that there’s a community nibbling away at the edges of the unoknown, working in collaboration (and some competition) to maximize something.</text></comment>