What are your highlights from the Summer Games Done Quick speedrun marathon?

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I love video games, but I’m not always good at them. That’s why I get a real kick out of watching people more skilled than me turning games inside out and making it look effortless. I have a particular admiration for speedrunners, the virtual virtuosos who specialize in finishing games as quickly as possible, sometimes under deliberately grueling conditions. This past week, then, has been heaven for me. Summer Games Done Quick, the weeklong embarrassment of live speedrunning riches, started on Sunday. I’ve been watching it every chance I get and will continue to until the marathon ends tomorrow night.
SGDQ and its wintertime counterpart, Awesome Games Done Quick, are annual gauntlets where skilled players perform feats of video game supremacy not for glory but for charity. For this marathon, the runners are raising money for Doctors Without Borders and have already brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you haven’t checked it out yet—the event is streaming on Twitch and you can find the donation page right here—I highly recommend it, if only for the charity aspect. But if you have even a passing interest in superhuman levels of video game play, there will probably be something here of interest for you.
Just after midnight on Monday, I watched the horror block, which included runs of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil 4, and Silent Hill 2. Successfully speedrunning these games requires an intimate familiarity and a lot of luck. All three have random elements that can bloat an otherwise good runtime—certain padlocks have randomized solutions that need to be memorized and tried one at a time, and some rooms can have different layouts that are impossible to predict. The Resident Evil 3 run, performed by a runner known as Carcinogen, had a nail-biting moment in the Police Station area, where there is a 50/50 chance of finding either a powerful grenade launcher or a less-useful revolver. Carcinogen was audibly excited to luck into getting the weapon he wanted, and the crowd was so relieved, it burst into applause.