Summoning Salt Tetris Q&A

A Q&A about my recent Tetris video, as well as my channel as a whole, future plans, etc. This was a lot of fun, hoping to do more!

[@snailed__]

Yo salt i don’t know what you did diffrent with this one, but i think this is one of the best videos you’ve ever made. Even though it’s pretty lengthy, it feels very short and snappy. Love it. Keep it up king

[@gengraded]

It's really cool if you get the opportunity to catch Salt on Twitch. I popped in once and he was sorting old coins looking for rare ones. It was cool to see a hobby so outside the norm that I could relate to.

[@RubiksRonaldo]

I definitely know what he did differently, he showed clips of in person and online competitions, and just when you thought the video couldn't get any crazier an even crazier glitch/technique was introduced into the mix

[@sehtuk3953]

I think the rotating cast, personal stories and tech advancements were just some of the strongest told on the channel. Like I feel like three of the storylines were strong enough to be their own video.

[@g_way]

"Yo salt" lol

[@TheMikeyb86]

Thanks for acknowledging Jonas Neubauer's passing and why you didn't mention it in the video. It wasn't a video about CTWC, it's a history about Tetris records.

[@vinzo0913]

Just saying, you're one of the only youtubers that I cheer at when I see the video reaches longer than an hour. You release free movie level documentaries on topics that I hold close to my heart, thank you salt ❤

[@Greenfrom3]

For real. Easily and I mean easily the best KZbinr.

[@RubiksRonaldo]

I could definitely see summoning salt making a "Quest to Beat Jonas Neubauer" in the distant future, it'd definitely be an absolutely fabulous video

[@gridly.todd.h]

That's the angle for the CTWC video. Good call! Sidenote, mention the DrMC, too!

[@RubiksRonaldo]

@@gridly.todd.h yes, DrMc would also be a very interesting video to watch

[@plhbuschannel]

don't think salt would do ctwc

[@RubiksRonaldo]

@@plhbuschannel he did say he would like to branch out from speedrunning, so you never know

[@3SZ]

@@plhbuschannel1:26 he says that he’s probably going to make a video on CTWC in the next few years

[@RockPaperShiv]

Hi SummoningSalt, my family sits down and watches these together. And thr Turkathlon I hope returns. I appreciate the work you do.

[@theomnivert]

Damn, you're really transparent about your metrics and thoughts about future videos. Felt like you were really a person shrouded in mystery before this

[@revolug]

1:06:06 thank you for not making a big deal out of ages, as someone who's had firsthand experience with that. about a year ago when i was 17 i got a world record in a game that a streamer who was orders of magnitude more popular than me was running. when he played it at a live event he mentioned how a 17 year old was ahead of him and was a little mean about it; the crowd booed when he said my age lol. it really becomes all people fixate on, people in his chat would talk about me like i was a little kid

[@veggiedragon1000]

That sucks, honestly young people getting into speedrunning is extremely impressive to me, not something to mock.

[@thegreathadoken6808]

TO be fair, the amount of prejudice going around against older people is pretty despicable, not that it makes what they and their viewers did acceptable. Ultimately, if you're good enough, you're old enough, and if you're good enough, you're young enough.

[@vladtheinhaler9744]

The Tetris video was amazing! Although i like pretty much all your videos, the tetris one felt kinda different. I really liked how the multiple storylines were interwoven, to give an accurate impression of how crazy the history of this game truly is.

[@durin6358]

Tetris is definitely one of those games everyone and I mean everyone has had the chance to at least play once in their life. And you can immediately understand the connection between the game becoming more difficult as the levels increase too the increased skill needed to continue. Most of us probably gave up at some point. So to see these new players just blowing everyone mind and pushing the game farther then its limits will find most people in astonishment. You would think 'It's Tetris' how interesting could this be? And your expectations are completely blown out of the water. This has all the hallmarks of great story telling and your video captured it perfectly. And the funny thing is, it's not over yet.

[@JMalaby89]

On the topic of branching outside of strictly speedrunning to gaming records in general, I would absolutely be a fan of that if you chose to do that! I will admit though, I'm having a hard time thinking of good games to tackle next in that regard. But with how fantastic this Tetris video was, I'm certain whatever you produce next will be great :D

[@joshua.snyder]

"Obvious reasons" = Billy Mitchell the con man.

[@88porpoise]

*the lawsuit happy con-man

[@ZetaPyro]

Veritas did an incredible 4-hour documentary about Billy Mitchell about 6 months ago. Definitely a risky move given Billy's lawsuit predilections, but I'm glad that they made it.

[@nickbrown638]

When Billy runs out of money, we will see a dk video for sure.

[@Overninja1203]

Tetris was honestly one of the best videos you put out there. My personnal favorites are Mario kart related ones and especially the Abney and MR saga ones. That 31/32 hype was insane. Thanks also for making us discover all those incredible songs going with the vids.

[@iwouldprefernotto4381]

I loved this one because it’s less about a “time” and more a succession of different records. More like this please!

[@Nightcaat]

My honest reaction to the salt being summoned: 🧊

[@thegreathadoken6808]

That was an entertaining little production, the Tetris thing. Feature length, very nice. You could make a watchable storyline out of a soiled diaper I'm sure. It's not just because it was about Tetris. Hey, make a video about the race to the top of the diaper industry and prove me right. EDIT: Jonas died? No I think telling the people who knew nothing about Tetris that the guy who started it all had died would have been something to consider. Put a couple of sentences at the end before the credits, black background, no audio, "In memory of Jonas Neubauer, who started it all".

[@aresmn1845]

I have never expected tetris to be this deep. How the game continuely evolved for 4 decades and there are still more progress to be made and realising this was mind blowing for me. Thank you SummoningSalt

[@inthefade]

I definitely want someone to make a record history of OoT and just go hard and make it as long as it needs to be. I understand why Salt wouldn't want to take it on though.

[@DesTr069]

You could take any of the main categories and make a several-hour documentary on it, easily, lmao. OoT speedrunning is so rich and storied

[@gengraded]

The quest to beat The Godfather Dictator. Bummed I missed the live. I have been wondering how long it would be before a video dropped that I liked more than Lego Star Wars and this was it. Your ideas and ability to run with them is inspiring.

[@titowrestling]

I’d love to see Ocarina of Time speedrun history, Ganon% in particular.

[@prince__sidon3590]

There's also a lot to say about MST!

[@darkruler388]

Would love to see a remake of the Super Metroid video! I feel like A LOT has happened to that game over the years since you posted your video.

[@Chaotic3x1]

Video was amazing! I loved seeing all the contemporary stuff; I remember watching all the CTWC's live and watching Jonas be so dominate there. My favorite will always be "BOOM! Tetris for Jeff!" I still have my shirt with that on it lol (saw it on one of the announcers at that tourny and I had to get one). So sad to hear of Jonas' passing, rest in peace. Have you ever thought about doing anything on Goldeneye 007 on N64, either as a whole or certain levels/players?

[@GameBoy-ep7de]

Two things that I thought of that would be interesting, was the a button challenge for SM64, the first real time run was completed somewhat recently with no a presses, and the Ocarina of Time Triforce % TAS that was done at GDQ, since that just feels like it would have a ton of history and interesting stuff. Edit: Made it to the point where you mentioned why you wouldn't do an Ocarina of Time video, but Triforce % would probably still be possible since it was a single project, and you could talk to the people who made it more easily than researching about the world record progression. Its history would be shorter and less vast than the world record history, while still being very interesting and easier to research. It's also not the first time you've made a video about the history of something adjacent to speedrunning instead of world record progression. The GDQ video was Ocarina of Time TAS by dwangoAC, TASBot, Savestate, Sauraen in 53:05 - Summer Games Done Quick 2022.

[@blueboybob]

SummoningMalt where you discuss malted milkshakes

[@thecreatorgd4410]

i didn’t know I liked Tetris till that vid came out lol

[@wilms2328]

Loved this insight in your channel! Great vid

[@somniad]

for whatever reason if you're not paying attention, at a distance the mario 3 thumbnail just seems like there's a wavy cutoff for the top of the screen which feels very appropriate considering the stageplay theme of mario 3. so it worked out incidentally due to a perceptual illusion, I think

[@dihydrogen]

yeah. he mentioned in his videos tier list that the wavy cutoff is because he pasted the smb3 image into photoshop, screenshotted the image, and used the screenshot as the thumbnail, without having deselected the smb3 image

[@somniad]

@@dihydrogen yeah that's what I meant by incidentally, if I didn't know that then what sort of perceptual illusion would I be talking about?

[@knee_bone]

1:14:47 “and I remember being” [THAT song kicks in]

[@Biyzor]

James Bond Goldeneye N64 could be a big hitter

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Quest to Beat the A Button Challenge. Obviously this was really thoroughly covered by Bismuth with Panakoak (spelled wrong) going into more depth. But they were all about the game play. You could do it going into the people behind the quest and their contributions. And then how the TAS challenge of each level evolved until very recently, someone completed a human 70 star world run without pressing A.

[@Evercade_Effect]

Thanks for the insight, as I really enjoyed this video. Please do more of these.

[@justafellagaming]

Definitely really looking forward to SM64 120 star being redone, as that’s one of my personal games that got me interested in speedrunning. The Tetris video was great.

[@natebot08]

I’m wondering where the timeline graph thing went cause that was great

[@Martmists]

Oh man, a CTWC video after last weekend's performance would be incredible.

[@Error-de6kd]

Any plans to make a video on modern tetris? or will the focus always be classic

[@Yoshistar95]

Covering the history of past champs in MK64 would be interesting to watch, especially since Michael Jongerius was a massive outlier in the earlier days of the game with holding the crown, I feel like it deserves more exposure at this point now. As for kaizo, SM74EE definitely deserves some coverage, there has been crazy developments over the past years, the hack itself is over a decade old by now, so there's no doubt there's some interesting amount of history about the 157 star category, I still remember when sub 4 hours was unthinkable, but here we are at sub 3:30 :) And one last idea from me, maybe it could work if you covered the history of shortcut/strat discoveries, how it came to be and how it was optimised, no doubt the community would be of great help on that topic :) (totally not related to MK64 :P)

[@therickeffect]

I was shocked that Blue Scuti is 13....he looks 8. I must be old enough where the young people look like fetuses

[@jonathanshuman5859]

I think that if you wanted to redo one, the portal run has changed a lot. It probably falls into the same category as the zelda stuff with it being a game you don't know as well. But the history has changed a lot since when you made the video, the run looks completely different and there's been a lot of glitches

[@gausssto570]

I'd love to see an update/redo on Zelda 1.

[@MagXZaru]

4 Part M64 Series LESSSSGOOOOOOO

[@Zamanog]

if you did ocarina of time, it would be your biggest video youve ever made

[@vilanokaizo]

A vid on the hardest mario maker levels whould be a good video i think

[@FloydMaxwell]

Suggestion: don't listen to your viewer comments

[@amandak.4246]

ironic lol

[@Supahcheese]

I think Doom would fit your channel without a doubt

[@kwuite1738]

Quest to beat the viper in age of empires 2 might be a very good fit while branching out He's been dominant for over a decade in competitive play

[@zmanjace1364]

Since the stream seemed to be alot of video request ideas, how about something slightly different. Like the history of speed running events like GDQ or something. Probably not a great plan but it's something else.

[@windowsmoke]

I missed this stream, if you see this, would you ever consider doing a portal 2 video? There is so much krzy history and it could make a cool video imo

[@gridly.todd.h]

Castlevania, Metroid, Contra, and MM2 are the ones I've rewatched the most. I skew older, so NES era interests me the most. Halo 2 and Lego Star Wars won't get a rewatch from me.

[@jakebaker1051]

Summoning Salt talking normally 😮

[@Nebenio9824]

Summoning alt actually ✋🤓

[@rub_y]

And salt! Great Tetris video

[@gengraded]

I thought of one. At what point did you realize your channel was a success and in what ways did your measurements of success change as the channel grew?

[@superdupernaut4]

36:29 and an idea for a video was born

[@belunos7345]

My guy, please do not remake any videos. I haven't looked at comments, I have no idea if this is a controversy, but I have found perfection in all the videos, even the ones you claim to be ashamed of. I've watched Mike Tyson, in some capacity, like 37 times. If you do replace them, then place the originals on an alternate channel. Your biggest fans will appreciate it.

[@AgentActive]

Of all the speed run videos I’ve watched, my favorite is Lego Star Wars cause I actually played that game a lot as a kid.

[@Tonjit41]

you could try a video on the speedrun progression of a new game from release to about a month or something. could be a new series idk like endless content

[@drudge5268]

Regarding Doom speedrunning record history, I agree it would be a great game for a future Summoning Salt video. Karl Jobst has done a few videos in the past that were really interesting and really whet my whistle for non-Jobst coverage of Doom and other FPS speedrunning in general. In my opinion, Quake speedruns are a lot more interesting than Doom due to fact that you can jump. The movement tech in Quake is off the charts cool to watch. There is a huge active scene and records going back 20+ years just being broken in the 2020s as well. For anyone interested, Quake Speedruns Explained does a great job of covering some of the newest records. Another great FPS record history to cover would be Half Life, where even in 2024 we've seen new records for the full game run by Muty and Kananga. Goldeneye is another example. Please don't take the Halo video as a sign that there isn't interest within your community for FPS content. There are countless FPS games with a long and storied history that I would love to see covered.

[@andrashorvath2149]

Hello summoning salt! There are very interesting stories on denying sub categories like nnb (no next box) noro (no rotate) floor (no clears) etc. If you want to make a video on these topics it would be a banger. There are a couple on one or two of them but at this point they are all outdated and it is involving 1 point increases AI making to learn from it and completly new strategies after 30! years.

[@triskai]

as the second or third best noro player ever, idk that there's enough of a storyline there to make a summoning salt type video about it lol. I mean maybe. but zoltan has just been so dominant and has pushed the category so far beyond where second place is at that even though the development of new strats from ai gameplay was a cool phase, I don't know that there's much compelling drama to be had in tracking the lines wr?

[@andrashorvath2149]

Absolutely incorrect. I asked for all denying sub categories not just one of them.

[@dogwatchingnoro4791]

Well, all the "denying sub categories" is like 4 or 5 categories maybe 6 iirc. So it is definitely long enough. And you can put every speedrun category as denying (300k speedrun and 100 lines speedrun). I really don't know but let salt decide if it worth a shot. His tetris video got 1.5 million in 3 days. I think another tetris related video would do similar and this is one of his best.

[@gergelykovacs379]

Would be POG

[@intrepid1160]

I would love to see a video on OoT any%. I think it would be one of your best performing videos, but if it takes 6 months like you said, then yeah, I guess it wouldn’t be worth the investment.

[@Daemonite]

Is crystalis of any note? I loved that game as a kid so I admit it's a niche compared to others but as an action rpg it's got lots of goofy stuff you can do to conclude the game in an hour and change.

[@piosenki001]

35:00 make the hotarubi video, if it's 5 hours long - i'll still probably watch it 3 or 4 times in its entirety. also, if we must wait a year, then a year we will wait

[@kroniskparanoia]

Do you think you're going to do anymore videos on pokemon?

[@onTOPtheROCK]

what about a video on street fighter

[@metalslug3fan]

In memory of Jonas

[@Epicness18]

CTWC video would be amazing

[@will1]

I don’t like multiple part videos, if I see someone upload them I refuse to watch until all of the parts are out so I can watch them all at once (I did that with bismuth’s a button series)

[@dannycarey5244]

I have a question. How many backflips could you pull off in a row?

[@bltvd]

Where is the Summoning Carol Alt channel?

[@geyarewhy9770]

I would love a 4 hour Video🎉

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

When was this done? I missed the stream

[@kefkapalazzo1]

I really liked the halo video

[@josephchillemi7523]

How about more classic pokemon games? I thought you would do gold and silver at some point since pokemon videos always get a ton of views.

[@SirioResteghini]

SummoningVolt⚡

[@TheGreekSneak]

❤

[@Tomica0009]

If you are ever going to remake an old video, I vote for Super Mario Bros. It was the first non-Mike Tyson video you did that arguably brought your content to broader gaming community. And it was the first one I watched. And the Any% category has kinda reached the point of certainty, so it would be a sort of a "Definitive" video.

[@jaketoysandgames6574]

I would wait like 10 years until the game is maxed

[@matheuscabral9618]

I think he should wait, niftski could get a wr any day he wants

[@yellowdicesam]

dang I missed this stream lmao

[@megamanzero29]

Who else looped during the stream?

[@DOC_951]

People talking about smb1. Omg no. We have had so much content on that speed run like there is literally no reason to ever do it again. It’s been done… a thousand times.

[@AgentActive]

hope you do a halo ce video

[@seansebring4816]

Why did he change the tone of the intro song. It's not the same sound as it was in the past. That drop was iconic in the intro and it was changed

[@FrancisJohnsonLeShmiggy]

he had issues with bs copyright claims that would demonetize the video so he had to delay it and edit the video once again to basically replace the intro music with different home music

[@Scenery-1976]

Whats going on... Benguin?

[@goodoldfashioned]

bro you gotta do Celeste

[@Ezerael]

Mirror's edge!

[@yazi0]

great

[@Cyclone001c]

The tetris was great, but you need to do the Super Mario Maker quest to complete all levels before the servers shut down.

[@alexr3912]

it would be a good video, but somebody else has done that topic in his exact style so it would be pretty difficult to make it fresh and interesting

[@Cyclone001c]

@@alexr3912 It's not video game history until Summoning Salt makes a video on it.

[@GLUBSCHI]

@@alexr3912one of the issues of being summoningsalt, his style has become so popular that for a lot of speedruns someone from the community has already made a video in his style. Suffering from success

[@bedewebster5302]

Do a video on Geometry Dash top 1s

[@j4yfly]

Bruh are u serious.... tetris is gonna get the boost definitely

[@Yoshistar95]

Summoning Slat, new alt confirmed? ;)

[@SudsyDiamond]

He has had this alt for years

[@stowtertv]

i think that’s me

[@allo5668]

Dexcom ❤️‍🩹

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

There are other KZbinrs who do speed running history in categories you don't know as well, but they don't do them as well as you do. They may be interested in collaborating. Talk to One Short Eye, for example. May be interesting. His videos have gotten a lot better, but still not as good as yours.

[@cactu]

you really screwed up not putting a RIP jonas at the very end of the video for 3 seconds. you way overthought that one.

[@moosery]

salty

[@KnobleSloth]

Ocarina

[@napkinx4341]

i understand you need money but hearing you avoid topics bc it’s like too much work compared to the money you can make from multiples is still kinda disappointing

[@sheepdog_81]

1:30:14 cv4 @jay_cee