The Biggest Breakthrough in Minecraft Speedrunning History | One Shot SSG World Record Analysis

One Shot is a crazy new strategy in Minecraft speedrunning that allows the player to kill the ender dragon with just one arrow shot. This has led to by far the fastest runs in Minecraft speedrunning history. Since oneshot was discovered, there have been 5 new SSG world records, bringing the record from 1:47 to 1:04. In this video, I break down the history of the oneshot strategy, as well as those world records. Please like and subscribe if you enjoy!
Check out the world record runners here:
Hanabi: / @hanabiyaki
Nsla: / @nsla_
R0hkx: / @r0hkx
Raddles: / @raddles
Aturtle: / @aturtleturtle
Check out others who developed the oneshot strategy:
Curcuit: / @curcuit
Curcuit's second channel: / @curcuitstore
Crafterdark: / @crafterdark
Keima: / @keimajirou
Other footage in the video from:
MagneticMaybe: / @magneticmaybe
Zidouri: / @zidouri_
AntVenom: / @antvenom
EmpireKills702: / @empirekills702
Poisonous Skely: / @poisonousskely
Crookst: / @crookst
Bluebird819gaming: / @bluebird819gaming2
NiceTwice: / @nicetwice
Infume: / @infume995
Doog: / @doog1
Rayoh: / @rayohruns
Illumina: / @illuminahd
Video Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
3:36 - Discovery of oneshot & early routes
7:58 - Mechanics of oneshot
10:43 - Keima’s oneshot
12:59 - Curcuit develops strategies
17:53 - Curcuit’s push for a record
22:09 - Oneshot SSG world records
26:23 - Credits + Outro
Music used (in order):
Pulsar Glitch - Orbit
Foewi - Close
HOME - Release
KING PALM - Radio Waves
Faster Than Light - Lanius (Explore)
Night Raptor - Recollections
EVA - Shitsubo Shiba
Foewi - Archipelago Urbanaxia
HOME - If I’m Wrong
HOME - Breakfast
Pulsar Glitch - Galactic
Pulsar Glitch - Always
EVA - The Man from LOX
HOME - Pyxis
Outro prod. NickHitt Beats: • [FREE] Drake Type Beat...
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This is not the story of a Minecraft player who possibly cheated to get a faked Minecraft speedrun world record, and not the story of their friend who also did not cheat to get a faked Minecraft speedrun world record. Fake Minecraft speedruns are insane, almost as insane as this description! If you want to see a fake cheated Minecraft 1.16 world record speedrun, this is not the video for you!
Written by: / twtchazles
Edited by: / twtchazles & / twtamtrakandrew
#minecraft #speedrun #oneshot

[@aarav6947]

We went from actual fights, to calculated explosions, to a literal arrow to beat the dragon It’s ridiculous how optimized this game has become

[@bridgetkennedy3271]

Min-Maxing at its finest

[@jessicadragonare7993]

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist2 Matthew 6:1-34.

[@ammenace2068]

@@jessicadragonare7993bro really countered him 💀

[@renewalacumen1770]

​@@jessicadragonare7993 Dayum!

[@ShiroCh_ID]

lets not forget IanXoFour's Dragon trap for Casual Players wanting a hassle free dragon fights

[@IkaroJesse]

It's so interresting that we still discover these types of things exist in minecraft after soo many years

[@goofballin69]

kinda like how super mario bros has been around for so long and people find new tricks like lightning 4-2 "195 likes and 1 reply? Let me fix that" -🤓

[@Dimitri_gdr]

​@@goofballin69SMB1 isn't a good example I think since L4-2 has been discovered 10+ years ago A good example would be NSMBWii with the new above the castle strat that saves 10 seconds in the any% category

[@aphztic]

@@goofballin69 195 likes and 1 reply? Let me fix that

[@IdentifiantE.S]

The game is legendary ! 😮

[@gamesbond0078]

minecraft physics are like irl physics infite

[@altanchan2681]

On a category where 0.1 second of time save is monuental, I cannot believe they made a one shot strategy which saved 30+ second!

[@Garde538]

Epic stuff

[@attripy]

Now for RSG

[@nathanshivnen8545]

Wow that’s so crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bluedoggo483]

monumental*

[@shyampadmanabhan4171]

It is absolutely insane that after around a decade of fighting this same ender dragon, players have discovered a Death Star weak point in it

[@SephTunes]

Also it's very similar to the death of Smaug in the Hobbit. Perfect arrow through the small weak point from a random lucky guy shooting a bow

[@jonsnow3300]

so true lol, it's almost too perfect@@SephTunes

[@cubed.public]

I hope this get more respect to Curcuit and Tas runs in general, while people focus on the speedrunners the science behind the run is crazy important

[@saskia6148]

In my opinion doing the science behind the run is as/if not more impressive than the run itself!

[@ianmoore5502]

Our scientists are too busy working in the TASfields to lurk in general

[@Kalaphant]

Yeah, Like in SMB1. If TASing didn't exist, we might not have ever found FPG or 1-2G(And if someone did it by accident, they probably wouldn't think to much about it). And without people diving deep into the game, we wouldn't have run viable setups for tricks like Fast 4-2 fr/l4-2, PL8-1, TAS 8-2, you get the point

[@Kalaphant]

Related@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist2

[@blackpepper2610]

no

[@nitram.9621]

it is by definition not a glitch. The result is not intended by the devs (oneshotting the dragon), but all the mechanics are working as intended. Just like a minecraft iron farm is not a glitch nor a bug, just thoughtful application of the iron golem spawn mechanic.

[@werdwerdus]

usually would be called an "exploit" then, i think

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Trueness

[@josiahdsmith5641]

Well I think the real question is: “is player velocity building up server-side but not applying to the player until they are damaged an intended mechanic?”

[@user-wv1in4pz2w]

​@@josiahdsmith5641it probably is not, but you can't ban it from glitchless because that would mean any run where you get any knockback from the dragon would be disqualified.

[@jonathangaming7510]

Intended mechanic being used in an unintended way=exploit Unintended mechanic being used in an unintended way=glitch

[@0LLI1770]

Massive shoutout to Circuit Keima, Crafterdark, and everyone who made this crazy fever dream a crazy reality

[@Peepo_Toes]

What an incredible person Curcuit is. Giving away this tech to the community she put so much work in because she didn't want to delay progress on the run because she wouldn't be able to make attempts for a period of time.

[@NiallHosking]

Perfectly community-minded of her, yet she was still able to add more. Amazing!

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Absolute class act, honestly. I love it when cool people have cool attitudes.

[@mvp4617]

Real girl or trans?

[@sara8913]

@@mvp4617wtf

[@amandiamonteiro7878]

@@mvp4617how is that relevant

[@ZitMaGaming]

Keima’s 1 in a million oneshot is what stopped me from getting one last ssgp wr

[@aether1370]

skill issue

[@georgerice6488]

100% skill, no luck involved

[@Nooticus]

And the 1 minute barrier was just broken! Insane. Literally 10 solid years of work by thousands of people went into doing this

[@matejnovosad9152]

When you put it like this it makes ke sad that these hours were not spent doing something useful

[@meowmrre]

@@matejnovosad9152 more then you'll ever do

[@ZeMeatMuncher]

​@@matejnovosad9152That was useful, though. Useful to every SSG speed runner from now on. Your perception of uselessness doesn't apply to everyone.

[@Brocolli_Pizza]

@@matejnovosad9152that’s like saying athletes are useless because they don’t contribute anything to society. Sure running the fastest 100m sprint isn’t useful, but it sure is cool seeing the lengths people go to defy what was thought impossible.

[@PepperKatt]

@@matejnovosad9152you should do some introspection and self reflection

[@tgrcode]

Wow, something that makes sense but to see it executed to lead to actual timesave is something else

[@jglaab]

"it scares me because it borders on feasible" is such a raw line

[@LoonyMC]

EPIC video! Story amazingly well told, but also what a moment in history!

[@ItzMiku3939]

ONG LOONY NO WAY

[@LoonyMC]

@@Weeber2000_1 Minecraft boy at heart by now ^^

[@GuffGuffGuffy]

[@David-vx4bj]

And now this video was outdated because Curcuit found out a new way to speed up the fight and we got a sub-1 from Hanabi. The last month was just crazy

[@Respectable_Username]

Huge props to Curcuit for that amazing methodical exploration! That just bloody amazing, especially as it sounds like she was mostly making the findings solo! ❤

[@jane5886]

Don't get me started on that cheeky :3 after one shotting the dragon 😭

[@xxsimonsxx7907]

Massive respect to Curcuit, she could have not posted the best route, and just waited until she could be the first to get the run, but she sacrificed that chance for the better of the community. Given how prevalent inflated egos are in the speedrunning world, her actions are incredibly humbling

[@awesomeleozejia8098]

this is what happens when you let a TASer cook

[@dumbinfp7951]

"Except, Keima doesn't have the force. As far as we know." This was way too funny

[@enjoyerer]

as someone who was following this since people were still theorizing if this was possible, this was amazing to see unfold into something that will maybe never happen again on this scale, thanks to everyone who was a part of this for making this possible

[@RichConnerGMN]

your pfp should be the part of slaughterhouse that has the secret hitbox snowman

[@maksiksq]

I like how we went from extreme precision to astronomical luck

[@thunderblaze9997]

Extreme precision AND astronomical luck!

[@detroityeet7048]

It's so funny that the mouth on the Omegalul emote has been made bigger so many times that you can send what's basically just a circle with an outline (5:14) and everyone knows what it means

[@1e1001]

oh is that what that is

[@TonjiruRTA]

it is what it is

[@RaysWorks]

You can also get this server momentum by the player standing on ghost blocks such as when placing scaffolding and shooting downwards. We showed how it could be used to one shot most things after 1.14. Though it was a few hits to kill the dragon. Not sure why the speed running community only started using server momentum recently. Maybe they thought it was a glitch.

[@D---3]

F

[@owfi]

The goat goated before they goated.

[@arcosarson]

I would assume they saw the ghost block and classified it as a glitch and never gave the idea any more thought. Still interesting to see a mechanic in the game be taken so far though

[@quantumastrologer5599]

@@owfi fact

[@TheNamesFathom]

the community missed a chance to do the funniest thing ever and call it the “G-spot”

[@Howzieky]

Lmao I'm not in that community, haven't seen the discord server, etc. but I guarantee you at least one person argued for it

[@Jenny-it9iz]

@@ChickenJoe-tq6xd Lmao wow 😭

[@raddles]

one shotting the one dragon with my love 😢❤

[@quito0567]

lol

[@Lucilezs]

one shooting the one dragon with my love 😏

[@red5250]

Most wholesome comment

[@VorizonBeatsKids]

In the exploiting community the arrow speed bug has been known for a while at this point. There have been multiple mods that simulate incredibly fast player movements in order to achieve the arrow velocity high enough to one shot a player. Im surprised an interpretation of it has been found in speedruning

[@nadeen3157]

Maybe the exploit and speedrun communities should talk more often XD

[@thunderblaze9997]

There have also been redstone machines that use this method, by charging the arrow with velocity from TNT dupers, people have used this mechanic to one shot Withers and Wardens!

[@calvindang7291]

People knew about arrow velocity plenty; the problem was the difficulty of getting said high velocity.

[@thefreewayoctopus]

Considering the category is set seed glitchless, I’m curious how far this will go on whether it counts as a glitch or not, since it’s obviously not intended to be able to oneshot the dragon.

[@nitram.9621]

it is by definition not a glitch. The result is not intended by the devs (oneshotting the dragon), but all the mechanics are working as intended. Just like a minecraft iron farm is not a glitch nor a bug, just thoughtful application of the iron golem spawn mechanic.

[@maximus3294]

intention doesn't matter since the mechanic is an intrinsic part of the game

[@thefreewayoctopus]

makes sense

[@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme]

as long as the mechanics worked as intented by the devs it doesn't matter

[@AbstractVen0m]

Glitches don’t have to be intended, “glitches” can be used as long as it isn’t used to interfere with the games code, such as duplication

[@_yet_8457]

The SSG community is crazy ngl

[@MonKeyGuy131]

Speedrunners finding groundbreaking discoveries in old games is my favorite niche

[@RichConnerGMN]

please don't call minecraft an old game like, you're not wrong, but it hurts

[@coffeebreak7668]

@@RichConnerGMNMinecraft's almost a teenager if you want it so sound worse

[@somebody9232]

If there's some method that allows you to pull the one shot off with a like 20% chance, then surely we'll have to see this in rsg This could change everything Sub 7 might be possible this year

[@BlueCyann]

You'd also have to optimize it for 1.16 somehow, since nobody's playing 1.12 for fastest RSG world record no matter how fast the end fight is. It'd be very cool if it turns out to be possible and also be faster than what already exists for the version. But I can't see a world where it converts a 7:45 into a sub 7. 7:30 maybe. Remember that less than half of the savings on the SSG WR vs the 1.16 route is from the end fight. Most of the time save is from being able to make use of 1.12's spawn displacement in a full run. The seed had been used before to enter end within seconds, as shown in the video, but before one-shot there was no way to kill the dragon once you were there.

[@Criticalmcsr]

It isn’t possible in 1.16

[@joethebro]

the 1.16 dragon behaves differently, so it wouldn’t be possible. maybe as a faster zero-cycle method, but definitely not worth it to risk it on record pace

[@SaneManPOP]

bro thinks he's summoning salt

[@6thpuppet]

Though I will not lie this is probably inspired by SummoningSalt, speed-running has a very deep history that ranges over a decade, therefor, videos discussing that history have existed for a long time. SummoningSalt was not the first to do these types of videos, just one of the more popular & concisely put. To compare every video essayist that covers speedruns is redundant.

[@GuIIible]

SSG was always new records by margins of fractions of seconds, basically just mechanically optimized reruns of similar seeds, a time margin of this much is insane to think about

[@graceisabella]

and then a day after this, hanabi broke the one minute barrier. absolutely insane developments in this category, so exciting!

[@iversiafanatic]

Thanks for making this love letter to math. This analysis is crazy. BTW, if you want a studying quantum physician to analyze any math more in depth for you for any future projects, my inbox is open, lol. The math here is super cool and circuits graphing skills are OFF THE CHARTS.

[@NightBlazr_]

Btw, it's 'physicist', not 'physician'. A physician is a health professional who practices medicine.

[@finalben7]

Genuine documentary quality, great work and thanks for bringing us all up to speed!

[@Vilucentes]

the discovery of this new one shot strat actually gave me goosebumps... props to Curcuit for making this strat actual possile wow think what will the future records will be like :0

[@nightilis]

from experience i can say that oneshot is brutal to grind and it is totally worth it to do so

[@garbagedataraccoon]

Hanabi broke the 1 minute barrier!!

[@domca26_]

this was a really well researched video

[@MooFoxGD]

SUB 1 IS DONE BY HANABI LETS GOOO

[@jojomtms]

Been watching your videos since you covered korbanoes's 14:56 and your channel has only gotten better ever since. I consider this video to be the culmination of time, effort and experience put in your youtube content, it's so well written and documented, editing also definitely deserves recognition. It was overall a joy to watch and I can't wait to see your future stuff.

[@ilikepigeonz3219]

Dude, I'm out of the community for a few months and this shit happens? I remember not too long ago going crazy when Magnetic beat the record by less than a second. Insane, so glad I clicked on this video.

[@rhydalic9540]

This is incredible! I'm so glad I saw this video, thanks for putting it together, as well as the comprehensive explanation in layman's terms : ) It's really well done!

[@kacperwoch4368]

This reminds me of the strat from BotW speedruning where you kill the first Blight with one arrow.

[@iambadatgqmes]

true

[@xgp1579]

The real "take aim" advancement

[@user-zl1vf4me1p]

ain't no way someone researched and studied a thesis-amount of data on the dragon's patterns and mechanics to one shot it mad respect

[@RichConnerGMN]

i've been friends with curcuit for a while, and trust me, this is very much a her thing to do

[@MoonlarkSpirits]

Props to her

[@logan-vq3dm]

the sheer amount of work and dedication circuit put into it alone deserves the world record

[@NootNoot76]

This is just such a wonderfully made video, everything done on your and the speedrunners ends was just done for the love of the craft and I respect and appreciate it so much

[@jusey1]

It's only a matter of time until this gets into random seed speedruns... Removing the requirement of a village entirely as well as removing the time to grab all the beds is going to be a huge boost of speed in randoms too, once people start pulling it off...

[@bobdagranny7431]

Great explanation, I watched Hanabi's run when it came out and that one shot kill boggled my mind lol

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Now this is the sort of rad speedrunning content I wanna see! Special shoutout Curcuit absolutely bossing the theory, showing her skill in practice and then sharing the homework to people who have the time to optimise it. Absolute class act, and congratulations to all the runners who put in the hours and worked up the skill and made good on that potential!

[@petersmythe6462]

Oh no someone found a way to make the dragon hit an arrow at relativistic speeds didn't they.

[@celty228]

“Two days later” “40 hours in that timespan” Rattles and the others are fucking insane

[@overlyconducktive]

This stuff is crazy, and always makes me wonder what would happen if I had gotten into speed running at a young age. My and my friends were playing Minecraft as dumb little kids and never understood how we damaged the dragon for half its health in a single shot. we chopped it up to a glitch, or an intended feature as we didn't understand any mechanics, but watching this video explains everything.

[@MrDirt]

Man, I love these SummoningSalt type of videos. Keep up the good stuff man. 😉👍

[@sporeman2334]

i'm in absolute shock that something like this happened, just after watching a video on a (formerly) new 1.16 ssg seed taking like a second off the wr. truly incredible. thank you curcuit for making this possible, i'm always very fascinated with tech-y math weirdos

[@tildejustin]

i got 160+ damage w/ no setup 1.9- 1.12 ssgp after keima's run, i think that's second-most no setup damage (excluding keima's other attempts heh) edit: it was on 18 july 2023

[@ZeMeatMuncher]

Vid or it's cap

[@tildejustin]

@@ZeMeatMuncher I have a screenshot in ssgcord, unrecorded tho :(

[@dylancope]

And now Hanabi already shattered the minute barrier

[@trystinmccann2510]

you are SO GOOD at telling stories!!! I love all ur videos, keep it up :)

[@chicagosyz]

Doctor: you have 1 minute before dying **speedruns Minecraft**

[@sepiar7682]

Following Circuit through all of this for the past few months has been crazy, I loved this video so much!

[@toblexson5020]

Can't believe that the speedrun community is almost at the point of breaking the minute barrier.

[@korok2619]

i love how freaking hype this is, this is all too cool

[@aieousavren]

Amazing video, amazing presentation, and honestly love the music ^^

[@BedwarsBrine]

⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️ Hanabi just hit 56 SECONDS! its just crazy, SSG is under a Minute now.

[@RedConcretePowder]

This Video Was EPIC

[@alexithymia6288]

I've been playing again for the last few days, but these speedrunners are playing an entirely different game. Also fun to think about things like having the End portal full already is a 1-in-1T chance lol.

[@HanabiYaki]

Had to take the wr back again in style 🥱

[@thesoftone]

GGs Hanabi!!

[@TheNamesFathom]

it’s a great time to be a speedrun analysis channel!

[@frostbvrn]

Nothing has made me want to attempt running SSG at all. I just didn't like how optimized everything was if i wanted to get a good time. This kiiiiinda makes me want to do SSG now

[@Octagonal_Squid]

and now, 2 days later, we are at sub 1 minute

[@CosyOlivia]

such a great vid!

[@montagetm]

Honestly, ive just waited for something to happen in minecraft so you would make another banger video.

[@Uranium215]

If this could be applied to RSG too, it could be crazy

[@jan_Masewin]

What a phenomenal level and brilliant quality of research on Curcuit's part to make this happen!

[@RichConnerGMN]

toki

[@jan_Masewin]

@@RichConnerGMN toki aaa msa e ni: mi ken lukin e jan sona pi toki pona lon ni :)

[@RichConnerGMN]

​​@@jan_Masewina, lon. taso jan pi toki pona li lon mute. kulupu pi tawa wawa musi la ona li lon

[@maybemay1403]

This whole time I thought you were making a video about speedruns of the GAME Oneshot... I did think that's a bit of an odd choice for you. Good to see it's still Minecraft, goin strong.

[@AuXDubstep]

Great video man. This is like summoning salt quality now

[@Waspeil]

God damn this is well made.

[@StarClay666]

Crazy seeing this become a reality after all this time since CD started talking about it.

[@lenkagamine751]

I had been noticing in some Minecraft manhunts the runner or hunter’s e pearl would get launched in a seemingly random way. This is probably the reason thats been happening. Nice vid btw.

[@yankmyass]

I used to watch Keima's steams, crazy that he was the one who managed to shoot the one in a million shot

[@smileymcgee6584]

This video is a masterpiece.

[@piersonm5574]

This is definitely one of the runs of all time

[@711LeveN_Z]

What a beautiful video this is so amazing I’m grateful you made this video I’m not a speedrunner but this hooked me

[@semibreve]

I had no idea that Circuit was involved with this!! Insane that she was the one who cracked the one-shot, been following their TAS videos for years

[@daewe]

Not gonna lie this is probably the fastest way to kill the ender dragon

[@irrelevantgaymer6195]

@@orang9134you can still do it, however it is considered a glitch. This strategy is still used in glitches runs.

[@daewe]

@@orang9134 Technically that counts, but you don't kill the dragon, you just prevent it from spawning so I dont think it counts as killing the dragon.

[@northatlanticcommonwealth1188]

/kill

[@daewe]

@@northatlanticcommonwealth1188 …in survival. lmao

[@MrBelles104]

@@daewe survival with cheats enabled

[@KapookLynn]

One shoting the dragon with an arrow is nothing new in minecraft, but using the dragon itself to accelerate the arrow is mind blowing. Prop to everyone involved and thanks you TWT for showing us this. I haven't watched MCSR for a long while thr fact that it's still thriving is insane

[@stragulus]

"One shoting the dragon with an arrow is nothing new in minecraft" - how was it done before?

[@KapookLynn]

@@stragulus using large amounts of TNT to accelerate the arrow

[@geekerandy8773]

@@stragulusto the point where groups like SciCraft have created near-automatic dragon killing machines.

[@Lemson]

@@geekerandy8773 Scicraft didnt do it at all AFAIK. It's just a member of the SciCraft server who did it. Important distinction.

[@getignorer]

makes sense that the arrow speed mechanic would eventually be used for speedrunning since its the same principle used for ender dragon farms

[@paula.treides]

incredible strategy and incredible runs, congratulations to all the people who made it possible

[@lukelcs8934]

Curcuit is just amazing!

[@RichConnerGMN]

agreed -*curcuit-

[@lukelcs8934]

@@RichConnerGMN Thankyou lol, I corrected it

[@fonta.1057]

I don't know if I really like this strat even if it saves much time. It really feels like we returned to the gravel seed times and wr's were games of chance. Now it's going to be much more difficult and frustrating to beat a wr or any pb because of the 2.5% to 5% chances of hitting the one arrow

[@secretrecovery922]

This version of the game is notoriously easier too

[@naterardin8053]

Yeah but SSG is such a short run that 2.5% isn't really that bad. There's hour long speed runs with a mandatory 2% chance move near the end in some communities.

[@user-li5lx3vi8o]

this is some min a press type stuff , great video

[@wooloobutbrave9151]

I love how aturtle put nico from oneshot on the screen while doing oneshot runs

[@mee091000]

Imagine being Dream and cheating to get two minutes. When he could have just one shot the dragon and won in under a minute lmfao

[@yurrrrrrrskyzzzzzz1988]

So glad raddled has that subway surfers gameplay, I was about to click off the video until I saw it

[@raddles]

i gotchu

[@seja098]

"When your the writer of a math question that is is 100 pages long, that could be shorten to 1 sentence"...

[@AntechamberAE]

I love content like this. It satiates something subconsciously

[@deko6462]

AND NOW WE HAVE A SUB 1 MIN WTF

[@hockypockies]

the niko route is real

[@m4rt_]

17:46 I have seen more unlikely stuff in speedruns. Though it wasn't in Minecraft. It's the SM64 TTC Upwarp, there is still an unclaimed 8 year old bounty for $1000 that is looking for someone to find out how to reproduce the glitch. The most likely explanation of how it happened that I've heard is that a cosmic ray randomly hit the player's computer and flipped one of the bits that indicated Mario's height position. There is a good video on this by Veritasium called "The Universe is Hostile to Computers". (There are also other good videos on the topic)

[@fall2zero]

jesus that last streamer was pure unadulterated cancer to witness, the change in texts on the achievements, the 2 seperate avatars of her doing a single thing, the subway surfers playing, it all gave me brain rot