Happy Saturday! We're still on the WR Grind for Super Metroid Any% today and tomorrow. It's been an extremely productive week, and I've already put in over 60 hours ^-^; In terms of probability the chances that I pull this through today or tomorrow are slim, but I'm seeing it through!

we're back on the WR Grind tonight and this was our first run! 2 round (fast/fast) Phantoon, I had to reset the WRITG room, and some other weird jank stuff. We're getting there! Come on in!

This might be the best run I've ever executed, most of the time lost was due to bad/slow RNG (luck). I made a big mistake during Ridley that lost 8 seconds compared to how the fight should have gone. Pretty crazy! I will likely be doing more World Record attempts tonight. It's really heating up!

I had some crazy good runs on stream today. Still pushing hard for this week, promising things happening! I'd give context on these but I'm super tired after 10 hours of stream so suffice to say both of these were some of the best I've ever played easily. More to come!

My life has a lot of turbulence right now that has made it very difficult to stream or commit to speedrun stuff with any regularity at all this year. It feels really bad, honestly, but I’m doing my best to push through. I have work off this week which is helping a lot, and I’m on the grind.

Had a really silly run today. This thing had awful RNG from start to finish. Every step of the way the game was like "nah, F you" but I still pulled this time. :) very promising. Even better news: I'm off work this week and my plan is to grind grind grind.

The grind has slowed down due to required priority shifts IRL recently. Sorry for the lack of updates lately, both on the shortform videos and Any% progress in general. Managed to pull this run today, it had a bad room reset in the middle of the run among other problems. Solid!

Took a week off to hang out with friends who came to visit. Last Monday I did a run for GDQ Hotfix and didn't touch the game after that until practice yesterday. Sometimes breaks are good. This run had some really bad stuff, and ended up with a really great time!

Ever wondered why humans don't go for more x-factors in Any% Speedruns of Super Metroid, even though the TAS does? Maybe a niche question, but Celabeat made an excellent video breaking it down, and I want to do my part to share it for education, and also to help them out! Link 👇

I guess it's worth mentioning here I've been exploring short form content recently. I would be posting the videos here, but bluesky has an extremely low limit to how large a video can be so it's not viable whatsoever. Here's a playlist on my YT for all the content I've been putting up, though!

Another crazy day in Any%, got a WR Gravity Pace (previous best was 12:58), and then this 40:51 was my 2nd best pace ever (maybe 2nd best ever ever?) to G4, but we got scammed on drops (had to refill). Hopefully the grind continues moving in a good direction! Also got a 40:59 at the end of stream.

Runs were *insane* today. I'll just focus on THIS one and post the others in a comment. When I got back on the Any% grind the number one comment was along the lines of "why? your record is perfect. how can it be improved? are you crazy? do you hate yourself?" This run is why.

I had two crazy good runs today. The first one has probably the best late game I’ve ever played? The second would be WR contender without the time lost between Phantoon and Ridley fights. Pretty gnarly. That second run is also the best run I’ve done in 2 months, which feels good.

A big part of why I do what I do is because periodically I will receive comments or messages like this. Thank you ❤️‍🩹 I really needed this today.

"Derust" runs

Have had to take a couple weeks off from the Any% grind for a few reasons. I think the break has been good. Did a very casual derust run tonight that finished as a mid 41. Planning/hoping to hit the grind hard this weekend, but we will see.

Right now I'm "only" putting up around 1 sub-41 per week (weekend), but honestly.... that's pretty damn good. This run was a very strong start, with a bad mistake in LN that cascaded, and then atrocious RNG pretty much constantly after Ridley. Things are still moving.

At a glance this run doesn't look that special, but in reality I think this is the best executed run I've ever done for Any% up until I flubbed Baby Skip. It has a Slow Phantoon (+10ish to WR), a wonky 3X Ridley (+13 to potential timesave), and then yes, a flubbed Baby Skip (+28)

Life this year has been extremely heavy, and the grind has had to take a big step back because of it. Fortunately, things really seem to be on the up and up, and it turns out when I'm feeling better I can also play much better LOL This run was extremely casual and that is great!

had a best pace ever and a Bombs gold for the first time in over 2 years on Monday. So I guess I'm still improving slowly, even though this month has been awful IRL. :) wish I felt better overall, oh well

Life has been extremely heavy lately. This week was one of the worst of my life, tbh. But I’m not gonna trauma dump here. SM is impossible to play well when I’m mentally compromised, but today I managed to pull a run that I was actually impressed with, despite the final time.

I’m gonna do this thing at the end of stream today. I’m starting WR attempts now so if I had to guess I’ll start the watch back stuff in probably 3-5 hours depending on how runs are going and how I’m feeling etc

Zeni@shinyzeni.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the 40:22 Any% WR. I’m going to do *something* for that on stream today, but I’m not sure what yet or what time. Sorry I always announce this stuff last minute.

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the 40:22 Any% WR. I’m going to do *something* for that on stream today, but I’m not sure what yet or what time. Sorry I always announce this stuff last minute.

lol I lost like 20 seconds in Worst Room In The Game in this run

Excellent execution this run. Phantoon lost us something like 12-15 seconds in RNG (the rest of the timeloss at Gravity was probably moat and other little movement things), and Ridley gave us an unfavorable pattern that lost 7 seconds compared to WR (we can save 9)

awful RNG in this run. also the second screen LOL

5 streams with sub-41s in a row

Worst sub-41 I've run so far by far lol

The Any% grind is going so well for me right now. It’s hit that spot where I can see the ebbs and flows and honestly do feel like I just need to “patiently continue” from here. I only had the one good run today, had another decent-ish pace that fell apart at/after Ridley, but that’s just how it is.

First run of the day, plenty of slop :)