this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2025
26 points (93.3% liked)

Games

39686 readers
2021 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
fxomt
[email protected]
[email protected]
26
Tool-Assisted Speedrunning the Boring Parts of Animal Crossing (GCN) (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This is the plot of Click

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Is the "tool assist" not buying it in the first place? ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How do you speed run a game that has no end? ๐Ÿคจ

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gonna assume this is a legitimate question - usually those types of games will have certain in-game milestones that the community either seems equivalent to an ending or are significant enough to have their own category. Minecraft example: https://youtu.be/HiLy0ppgqpU

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's a legit question ๐Ÿ˜…

Minecraft is at least easier to imagine, since it does have bosses. With Animal Crossing is it just paying off all loans and getting the statue? And is time manipulation allowed?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I found the speedrun page, looks like it's mostly paying off debts or collecting special items https://www.speedrun.com/acnh

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

For this specific HN post, speedrunning is a bit of a misnomer. He used similar tooling to effectively add support for a physical keyboard and additionally a bunch of keyboard shortcuts that are capable of inputting custom text, songs, and fabric patterns.

There's a YouTube video where the author showcases this. It's pretty short and a really interesting watch: https://youtu.be/Yw8Alf_lolA