The best speedrun I ever saw

It is here:

http://speeddemosarchive.com/GrandTheftAutoSA.html

CannibalK9’s GTA: San Andreas speedrun. Such obsessive care for detail it makes me slightly ashamed of my own speedrunning efforts. Not to mention the audio commentary is useful. One thing that tempts me to do a long speedrun of some game some day is that I’d have an excuse to do an own audio commentary! Ah, a man can dream.

Anyway, an inspiring watch, and very clever all over with unexpected routes and vehicle choices. With long segments and many strokes of luck you’ll be left scratching your head wondering just how does the author manage to get his dice land so perfectly.

Yes, this is Ristikiehtova’s home page

Apparently this thing has to be put up for show to get that certification from Jamendo.

Saw Serpenthia at Scream yesterday…

They were the best of the bunch. Very tight playing, and overall just a compelling performance. Damriel sounds better live than he sounds on their demos, this was a positive surprise as well.

If there was something bad about the evening, it was the volume. Serpenthia is complex enough music to really suffer if distortion starts suffocating the melody lines (and more).

They mentioned that they had a total of three new members on the stage. If I had to guess, I would say that they were the drummer, synth player and bassist… (I’d have to ask Ilja to be totally sure)

If they happen to go live somewhere nearby again, I’ll almost certainly go. It was worth it, IMO. (well, there was no entrance fee either to Scream, so the price wasn’t very big in the first place.)