When a Cheater Goes to AGDQ

At Awesome Games Done Quick 2011, Halo Combat Evolved was set to be showcased by speedrunner Cody Miller. The run had quickly gone bad as it turned out Cody was not as good of a runner as they had believed. A few years after the run, it would be revealed that Cody had cheated almost all of his notable runs

[@noBody-ue6cs]

“I don’t know where I’m going” in a speed run is like a surgeon opening you up and going “ew what is that stuff it’s gross”.

[@scruffybones321]

"what the hell is that?" - Dr Nick as Homer is about to pass out from anesthesia

[@Grim_Bud]

@@scruffybones321 Ewww blood?!

[@lunaticberserker5869]

@@Grim_Bud Jesus, is that what a liver looks like? Wait, that's a kidney!

[@Zorgot.]

if surgeon simulator was irl

[@smashingpumpkin1986]

😂

[@JohnSmith-lz2ob]

This is exactly the kind of situation I find myself in in my nightmares.

[@anglepsycho]

I mean, do you cheat and act like you don't?

[@NorthernNorthdude91749]

@@anglepsycho Everyone has cheated at something. Even you.

[@jenfreygrimm9169]

Bro same and i gotta take a step back and be like “wait I wouldnt get in to that position in the first place”

[@uwusgrufus]

@@NorthernNorthdude91749 even your mom cheated

[@crangesmcbasketball1828]

​@@NorthernNorthdude91749 I used to look at people's shoes during thumbs up seven up

[@MidnightSt]

Faking speedruns offline is one thing. But imagine being dumb enough to think you can fake a speedrun live.

[@thepowerlies]

like even if he was getting called out for speedruns being fake, it's still a dumb idea to embarrass yourself more like this

[@cboyslim5490]

@@thepowerlies right it doesn't make any sense. this hurts so bad i can't watch lol

[@ocoolwow]

@@cboyslim5490 it was probably a case of he never legitimately speedran, thought it was easy and that his cheating barely even did anything, then thoroughly embarrassed himself when reality smacked him in the face.

[@keystrix3704]

A cheater going live or not is a very "caught between a rock and a hard place" moment. Showing up live would show your lack of skill. Not showing up would make you suspicious.

[@ari_california8873]

@@keystrix3704 yeah you can just fake your own death and die a legend instead of being known as a fraud

[@besteverseenbesteverseen5606]

Cody turned it from “Games Done Quick” to “Games Done” to “Games”.

[@domlalonde7111]

😂😂😂

[@Duhbyo47]

This is a supremely underrated comment 😂

[@lovitasoraya]

Fr!! 😂😂😂

[@zafiredragoon5192]

And then he turned it into " "

[@Stepatee]

😆🤣

[@sacthequeen4295]

Dude went to AGDQ and did a blind Let's Play LMAO

[@broshutup1453]

This comment really made me laugh so hard Hahahahhaha

[@luichinplaystation610]

New category

[@manboy4720]

"so i've heard this halo game is pretty good."

[@yeeoof1995]

amazing

[@casedistorted]

Man, GDQ’s were so much more relaxed back then lol

[@shoewaver281]

“i gotta do this slow” we got our first ever slow runner

[@DonaldBulley]

i can do slow run.is there a record i can beat? also who is the #1 slow runner i can watch for tips?

[@DonaldBulley]

@@CallMeQkef lol i can beat that i think.first i must be a corpse & some one would need to get the controller in my hand thou.

[@mjverostek1278]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGPRg4pprLChjLs and kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5rSg62Va9eon9E

[@tonicipirani7659]

GDS Games Done Slow

[@globbyn1487]

was looking for this comment

[@HexJK]

Fastest run in the 10% Legendary, 50% heroic, 40% normal speedrun category.

[@Utonian21]

LMAO

[@OrloxPhoenix]

First one also 😂

[@blugetsbusy4508]

💀💀💀

[@Sypaka]

"Complete Game Any% Anytime"-Category

[@traeg5752]

Bro I haven’t seen the whole vid but whaaaa?😂😂 He switches to Normal as well??😂😂😂

[@omegacygnus]

Incredible strat, changing the difficulty to Heroic in a Legendary speedrun. Runners will be practicing that one for months.

[@katier9725]

And then to Normal. Must be the first speedrun ever to play across 3 different difficulties.

[@polopicasso]

😭😭😭

[@Backfisch5927]

and then claim it's actually harder on the lower difficulty

[@elvickRULES]

⁠@@katier9725he has the “multi difficulty speed run world record!” On lock. (If he finishes idk yet im not done with the video lol)

[@PoopyDickFarts]

The most impressive part was switching to normal & dying. A lot.

[@draculactica]

Oh god this is like the friend everyone had as a kid who pretended to be a god level gamer but could mysteriously never do it while anyone was within 50 miles of them

[@Megaritz]

Yeah and that kid was named "Cody" a lot of the time

[@shushshush7137]

I had a friend who said he has all the best gear in a online game. We asked him to log in and prove it and he pretended to have forgoten his pasword. We told him to do the "forgot your password" procedure and he said that he deleted his account and left lol.

[@ToeFungusASMR]

That one video of Todd Rogers playing Dragster still gives me second-hand embarrassment.

[@TheFatestPat]

I think there were two of them, Billy and Todd.

[@robertonawhim]

or the ultra mysterious one that can only perform when he has an audience

[@TurquoiseDress02]

This went from a speedrun to "casually beating the game as intended by developers" real quick

[@ExternusArmy]

Dude it was hardly even that. He was struggling on Normal difficulty. This is not a difficult Halo campaign and the game is intended to be played on Heroic.

[@neezduts69420]

Speedrun to first playthrough*

[@RagnarokB]

Halo Combat Evolved: Blind Playthrough %

[@strafer8764]

@@ExternusArmythis game is so easy on normal too. It’s only challenging on legendary

[@LegendKingY2j]

@@strafer8764 legendary/heroic is literally the same sheit in terms of difficulty in Halo 1, only things that should kill you in both difficulties if you are unaware are explosions and there are a lot in the game, the difficulty change is only different in Halo 2 as that unbalanced game have many enemies with rifles that can 1 shoot you in legendary not even by head shooting you, and maybe in Halo Reach since that game decided to add some of those shield bois in some parts if you play in legendary

[@opo3628]

The fact that Cody had actually agreed to play live and demonstrate his "skills", when he should've known full-well that he'd just end up outing himself as a cheater in the most humiliating way possible, is simply mind-blowing. He was ultimately done-in by his own ego.

[@nicoliony]

@@yurigagarine6998 yeah that's exactly why this has a million views. Lmaooo

[@sanfordrussell8549]

​@@yurigagarine6998 ignorance at its finest lmao

[@Baroqueds]

@@yurigagarine6998 Sponsored by Cody Miller

[@bethdeva]

i think its one of those situations where a person deludes so many people, they start to buy into their own lie. he got away with it for so long he figured hed get away with it again, no matter how ludicrous it may seem to us.

[@masterdon187]

​@@yurigagarine6998 this has to be the dumbest comment of the day. The guy literally humiliated himself in public for hours AND it's recorded for all to see. if playing a session is all your getting out of it should just stayed home

[@markymark443]

“You need to stand in the corner for 10 minutes because this person said he will donate $1000 if you don’t die for 10 minutes” What a savage 💀💀💀

[@davidf2244]

So. Humiliating. He should have done it. Only way to save face.

[@ancel4452]

And then he IMMEDIATELY died 😭

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Gamer done dirty.

[@stevejones5075]

lmao

[@atomdecay]

​@@ancel4452"Starting... NOW" 😂

[@Ruthlesss86]

Once he switched difficulty to heroic he wasn't speed running anymore... he was just playing halo

[@IIOver9000]

badly the man cant even shoot ._.

[@citizenstranger]

he wasnt playing halo, he was playing gudby

[@jimeganeze1805]

You could argue that from the moment the game started it was just a timed playthrough sprinkled with glitch attempts

[@IIARROWS]

And then he switched to normal too! I wonder why they didn't just dropped the run, they could have saved the animals 4 times with the time they wasted. I would have dropped the run after the 2 hour estimate and go on.

[@BrainDamageComedy]

*badly

[@TheGeoshark]

"Undoing 15 minutes of work and 2 minutes of progress" is one of the rawest lines I've ever heard.

[@CocoWash.]

🕳️🐍

[@MarbRedFred]

Time stamp please I can’t seem to catch it

[@TheGeoshark]

@@MarbRedFred it's at about 3:20

[@MarbRedFred]

@@TheGeoshark thanks buddy

[@josepha3805]

Cody Miller rules

[@wachimol]

I'm pretty sure they all knew this guy was a fraud shortly after it started, but they served his punishment by making him sit there and finish the game and continue to make an ass of himself.

[@赴大家惡化不得好死時]

They're gamers, too scared to say anything and then go home and abuse their gerbil

[@seavs1]

@@赴大家惡化不得好死時 hahah right on

[@rezhaadriantanuharja3389]

That is brilliant. If they had stopped him, he could have come up with some excuses e.g. he was fooling around in the earlier part of the runs and was about to get serious but they stopped him etc.. By allowing him to continue, he had nowhere to hide

[@ice7223]

@@赴大家惡化不得好死時 bruh what? That doesn't even make sense lol

[@thechugg4372]

If it was 2022 sure, 2010 was a very different time, tons of cheaters from that time just were not found lmao.

[@DNOTE831]

I love the idea of showing up to a speedrunning event and just playing the game as intended

[@bajorekjon]

I think it would be cool if expert speedrunners played a game they weren't completely familiar with, like a top Halo runner playing Super Mario 64 or something.

[@RootVegetabIe]

​@@bajorekjonThat's just watching somebody play a game for the first time. There's countless videos of that out there.

[@TylerChamb]

Why didn't the guy just pretend to be sick or something and not go to the event? Why would he willingly do this? Is it like those fake martial artists that succeed in deluding themselves to such an extent that they actually start to believe their fakery is real and willingly fight actual UFC fighters to demonstrate their magic kung fu, only to be immediately put in a coma and completely humiliated?

[@andleepfarooqui7874]

@@RootVegetabIe give them a level and try to get them to optimize it for 30 minutes and show the before/after version + the IL record.

[@lowhp_comic]

😂 they just sit down all cozy and think about their avatar designs while the audience stares in amazement 😂

[@pachicore]

"Someone will donate $1000 if you dont die for 10 minutes" *dies immediately*

[@anequallygoodchannel.2761]

"Starting now."

[@muhammadthefabulous]

@@anequallygoodchannel.2761 just kidding. Let me lower the difficulty and then we can start

[@Diet_Bleach]

Time stamp

[@yOGlo]

So just stand in tha corner n don't die for 10 mins 🤣

[@croppedcrit8812]

@@Diet_Bleach 12:40

[@nivek5352]

This man actually showed up that day and thought to himself "I am going to get away with this"

[@saints3824]

XD

[@jakerockznoodles]

He maybe thought he'd be good enough that he could at least make the excuse that he was having an off day. Even very talented people can have off days in an environment totally divorced from the cozy home space that most people will game in without having people in the room with them. Not being as good as your best runs in this setting isn't so suspicious. But this guy was several levels below what you'd expect even in that scenario!

[@nivek5352]

Looking back at this comment still has me rollin' xD

[@charliehofmann3524]

Technically he did.

[@One.Zero.One101]

The moment when you have to decide "Do I continue on with the lie?" or just make an excuse and escape the embarrassing situation. He chose the former. 😅

[@8stormy5]

Man pranked an audience into just watching him play Halo for 4 hours and 17 minutes

[@neezduts69420]

Did this interrupt the schedule?

[@berthenson9946]

@@neezduts69420I think one of them mentioned it was the last run so there was probably no one after him

[@EldenRingplayer407]

This guy gives off Mr. Satan from DBZ vibes, since Mr. Satan pranked nearly the entire *Earth* into thinking he defeated Cell, except he’s like the version of Mr. Satan that lost the world martial arts championship to Android 18 🤣🤣

[@PhenomenalTeach11]

He conned alot of people out of 4hrs of their time.

[@flar7137]

Should have taken 3 more minutes

[@Andreas_Mann]

Cody is the kind of guy to take a shortcut and still arrive late

[@RobertPayne556]

Cody got his directions from the Domino's pizza app.

[@choosetolivefree]

Like the Donner party?

[@Sypaka]

Cody is the kind of guy buying a bus ticket, which expired 2 hours ago.

[@DeHustlendeMoruk]

😂😂

[@lowhp_comic]

It's that Rayman 3 level: "The Longest Shortcut"

[@ImNotSoLegit]

This man showed up and turned the whole event into 'Awesome Games Done At A Below Average Level'

[@Horsethe666]

I've seen the suggestion that the Olympics have a "regular guy" in every competition just to show how dominating even the worst Olympic athlete is. That "regular guy" is Cody P.

[@Biggssyyy]

"Awesome Games Done"

[@ImNotJoshPotter]

@@Biggssyyy kek

[@joshuaspector8182]

Awesome games done eventually

[@Weedmate420]

​@@Horsethe666 imagine if the olympics selection were random lmao.. you just receive a letter home and you HAVE to go for it to represent your country.

[@COBsomeone22697]

This feels like someone who watched a speedrun, and then attempted it themselves, but instead of trying at home on their computer first, tried on stage at GDQ

[@elyastoohey6621]

It's funny because you can beat the first mission just from the knowledge of watching others play it. But from then on the tricks get much more difficult.

[@ghostface5559]

it looks like they had a fan of halo speedrunning try his luck live.

[@spiritbx1337]

"Eh, I bet could do that, that doesn't look that hard."

[@tastynoobr3685]

wdym it look like his first time playing HALO... LMFAO

[@calmingvoice8646]

That has to be it. Otherwise, what was the plan?

[@alainbcdefghijk]

Imagine sitting there. Minutes on end. Waiting to comment or explain some of the neat tricks the runners use in the game. Only to watch a guy play the game casually and keep getting lost and dying over and over again.

[@antimewpropaganda9503]

Nowadays we call that Twitch streamers

[@Breakbeat.]

Then he says, "I haven't practiced this game in like 2 years, this is tough".

[@TSBJunkie]

@@Breakbeat. Makes sense. When you're going to perform something in front of a group of people no matter what it is, the key thing to remember is DON'T practice.

[@molhemalaa1252]

@@antimewpropaganda9503 At least twitch streamers are casual players, 99% of them don't claim to be god-like world record holders

[@ibbyplayz9076]

@@Breakbeat. I've never actually speedran anything, but doesn't it stand to reason that if he beat a no death run on the hardest difficulty, then he's probably played the game around a billion times? Like... who cares about two years? That should be muscle memory by now

[@conversionstudy3128]

I like how the 3 guys in the back are so bored they start going over their dnd characters

[@algernonsblackwoods5859]

Imagine being excited to go to GDQ and being super into Halo. You sit down to see something awesome and watch a guy play Halo as good as your grandmother.

[@groundedgameplayx]

My grandmother was actually waaay better than this. She got me into Halo. No joke.

[@algernonsblackwoods5859]

@@groundedgameplayx That's one hella cool Grandma!!

[@Muttbunky]

@@groundedgameplayx dawwg, grans are the best. My Granny made my parents buy my first Sega Genesis. Nana always got our backs

[@PsiChaos2701]

@@groundedgameplayx Now I've got the image in my head of a Granny smacktalking in the XBL chat in Halo 2 and teabagging everyone

[@knightofjustice5475]

That sounds like kino. I'd love being on the sidelines watching cringe history in the making.

[@NickMC512]

Real speedrunners know their particular game so well that getting lost in a level is just as alarming as someone getting lost inside their own apartment.

[@bobjoe3492]

Especially something like Halo 2 legendary diff

[@gordonfreeman5872]

so true

[@toidIllorTAmI]

I've seen speed runners glitch into a blackout room and navigated that to skip an entire level but this guy doesn't know which left to take in a hallway? Just huge red flags.

[@Rhoasckm]

I don't know if I'd say that, it REALLY depends on the game. I think that can definitely applies with Halo, but with a game like Final Fantasy 7 you skip so much that a pure speedrunner wouldn't know where to go in a casual playthrough

[@limitless_j]

@@Rhoasckm you do know speedrunners play games casually too right? They dont just pick up a new game and look up all the speedrun strats before playing. A pure speedrunner understands their game better than any casual player, especially since they have to play for hundreds of hours just to learn one strat for a single part of a route. If someone whos supposedly played a game thousands of times, done research on the game, attempted to exploit every crevice and piece of coding, gets more lost than someone whos casually played once, that is EXTREMELY alarming.

[@chastermief839]

3:20 "After 25 minutes, Cody decides to lower the difficulty to Heroic. This means he'll have to restart the mission, erasing 15 minutes of work... and 2 minutes of progress" LMAO

[@luuduonghy659]

He finish the game with the time of 4 hours 17 minutes. Compare with his submit time was 3 hours 17 minutes, meaning he finish a hour slower compare to 3 hours 17 minutes run His 3 hours 17 minutes results was later to be remove from the leaderboard because some believe that he sliced these gameplay to make everyone think he is good, but in reality wasn’t(He reduce the level of difficulty twice from legendary to heroics, later to normal)

[@josephmother2659]

@@luuduonghy659 lmao how can someone submit a skill-less speed run

[@luuduonghy659]

@@josephmother2659 Yeah, i don‘t know why he did and sadly he wasn’t the only cheater who cheat while submit to AGDQ

[@noname-ve7wo]

​@@josephmother2659ummm I think it's alright

[@tacticalpossum7090]

The early question is especially funny because it was a test; the Keyes Bump is one of the easiest and arguably the most necessary skip. Whoever asked it was just toying with him.

[@TimmyMcGowan]

I was wondering if people were just making shit up to see if he’d act like it was a thing he knew about

[@Cherokeechuck9]

​@@TimmyMcGowanif this was 2023 they'd be asking for bofa skip

[@bryankochar7615]

I do key bumps all the time and it helps me go fast 😮

[@Isaac_Noob]

​@@Cherokeechuck9 bofa Deez nuts?!

[@roan9914]

The modern Keyes bump wasn’t known back then, it was a lot more difficult and involved something else entirely I don’t remember what but people didn’t know how to force a flood into a reviver then

[@exe_]

This is such a bizarre scenario, most cheaters are actually good, they're just not the best. This is actually the worst cheater I've seen in a while.

[@otter1942]

most cheaters are terrible because they dont actually know how to play the game. thats why they cheat.

[@Grigorii-j7z]

@@otter1942 That's incorrect. Splicers usually are pretty good speedruners. And they know the game very well, that's how they able to make a fake videos and 99.9% viewers wouldn't notice.

[@blazichaos7181]

@@Grigorii-j7z Yeah, generally the excuse is that a bunch of shit happens and they got tired of retrying it, indeed many cases the spreedrunner is ACTUALLY someone who can do it legit, but they simply got impateint and took the scummy and quick way to victory (like tha one hitless speedruner from hollow knight that for the love of god I cant remember the name of).

[@fnxych3penicillin350]

@Socucius Ergalla probably for the exposure

[@yewtewbstew547]

@@blazichaos7181 Yeah if you watch Karl Jobst a lot of the cases he covers are exactly like that. Many of the biggest cheaters are speedrunners who at or near the top of the leaderboard. In the one he did recently about the fake charity stream, that guy literally already held the #1 spot and he still cheated _on a live charity stream_ just to beat his own time lol. People just get too obsessed with the competition.

[@SoSheolH]

the guy sitting next to him definitely knows because he just starts explaining in detail how to do skips, and then being like "that's what you're gonna do, right?"

[@haleighokay]

it was actually really nice of him. he seemed like a cool guy.

[@tgunzz3790]

Is that Carci next to him? No right?

[@jaymxu]

​@@tgunzz3790Heck no lol

[@adsadam1]

@@haleighokay People like him are the most humble by far. Not only did he not make fun of him, he's trying to help solve his embarrassment

[@toidIllorTAmI]

@@adsadam1 should have embarrassed him so that clown wouldn't be invited back to fake another speed run.

[@djtoxicdhg]

Cody Miller is just one of those dudes that's just built different not only did we get to see him play on the hardest difficulty but we also got to see him play on virtually every other difficulty after that truly truly a speed run for the ages I'm just shocked that we didn't get to sea recruit difficulty.

[@Blucario90]

😂

[@MynameisTMP-]

“Sea”

[@krusher181]

This comment is good

[@SplashDamageSupport]

arguably the greatest comment ever made

[@OGYouTubeEnjoyer]

Pretty sure he was just a fan and a member of the community and wanted to be apart of the experience after seeing AGDQ 2010 and SGDQ 2011.

[@mikemoreno1810]

I’d say “I’m going to the rest room “ and go freaking home.

[@georgejackson4426]

That running gag they had on the Simpsons. The person would say I have to go to the bathroom... then you hear a window being opened a car door slamming shut then the vehicle speeding away. 😂😂😂

[@richardwallis9374]

Bonus points if you do the Dr Zoidberg “whoop whoop whoop whoop” as you run out and across the street.

[@lamarpray5324]

And as I’m getting up , order my uber and plan my getaway 😂

[@t0mbst0neyt]

Hearing a speedrunner suddenly declare that he doesn't know the route through the level has the same energy as the pilot coming over the intercom and going "does anyone know how to fly this thing?"

[@IfindAnimeHot]

I would think he’s joking especially since he knows where the intercom buttonis.

[@EGarrett01]

I literally just watched a video on a plane flight where the roof got ripped off (Aloha Airlines 243) but nearly everyone survived, and they didn't know if the pilots were alive (they were), and the stewardess was crawling down the aisles asking people "do you know how to fly a plane?" Geez.

[@abcdefghilihgfedcba]

As a speedrunner, I’ve literally commentated a run where the runner forgot the route and have done so myself a few times as well. It’s not that weird. A full game speedrun has A LOT of things you have to remember, sometimes in the heat of the moment you just take a wrong turn.

[@-TheUnkownUser]

“Does anyone knows what V1 means?”

[@iancormier7550]

​@abcdefghilihgfedcba this doesn't happen at his claimed level to anyone ever. In multicat players, maybe a wrong turn for 10 seconds, and it's back to normal. This guy looked like someone spending about a month on a game while only playing a couple days a week.

[@steel5897]

I get massive anxiety taking performance exams I know I studied and trained for and will most likely pass with flying colors. This guy knew he was a fraud and still showed up to a live event in front of thousands of viewers to, with 100% certainty, embarrass himself. I'm honestly impressed at the balls.

[@wutsit2yuhhuh246]

I like ur cat

[@LilC1deep]

i think it's hubris

[@SilentTopHats]

Arrogance can be encouraging and blinding

[@GameFuMaster]

balls, or lack of brain cells?

[@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uz]

Yeah, I do have that friend who always is like "damm Im gonna suck" and always has top grades (I know its genuine, since he doesnt brag or anything). Then there's the one who brags a lot before the exam or something, then barely passes it, or barely doesnt pass it

[@dave___]

This feels like watching a guy who's watched a couple of speedruns, knows the strats and what they entail and is about to try his first ever attempt at speedrunning the game.

[@mushroomanjcc1954]

I wish, he hardly even tried using any strats. I could at least learn how to do a grenade jump within a few attempts

[@ARCHIVED9610]

felt this but i did it with hollow knight! streamed it to some friends. we all had a good laugh and i can actually do a few skips!

[@ArDeeMee]

@@ARCHIVED9610 That feeling is the best! „Omg, I tried it and it actually WORKED!!“ =)

[@ARCHIVED9610]

@@ArDeeMee heyy congrats!

[@Tailstraw_xD]

He's not even moderately good at playing Halo 1's campaign normally. He switches to heroic and then dies more often than a Halo enthusiast would, let alone a record holding pro speedrunner

[@Burnabyboy]

The fact that this was hours long and no one stopped it is insane. One of the hardest things I've ever had to watch.

[@frozenfresh6406]

Longer stream more donations maybe?

[@bajorekjon]

Most speedrunners are too nice to confront someone like that. Especially during a live stream, it would have made it even more awkward.

[@bajorekjon]

@Wicker_ all the speedrunners I've met online and irl are pretty chill people. Maybe a bit socially awkward but still nice

[@radiocaster2k]

It was also the last game being played that day, so they probably didn't care as much since it wasn't throwing anything off schedule.

[@ledark2512]

​@@heckfok what are you on about? Introverts, sure. But autistic?

[@jsu9575m]

If he kept the difficulty on legendary, he'd still be playing

[@asdfhklljfztvvw3686]

He became a legend nonetheless

[@Steve-up4jq]

​@@asdfhklljfztvvw3686Yup. A legendary fool

[@CrookedEyeSniper]

He knew his skills were mediocre at best. But he actually went in with a strategy. He planned on starting the game, and then hoping an asteroid would strike the planet at that exact moment, causing mass extinction of the human race, making his ruse moot.

[@Lolkillah5]

Love how the audience is explaining all the strats ,that he's not using and he just sits there and struggles to get through the game haha

[@OhNoJoshEdits]

Can you imagine sitting next to someone and slowly realizing they’re a fraud lol

[@ELGUAPOIV]

Imagine sitting next to a speedrunner period. The body odor must be intense.

[@OhNoJoshEdits]

@@ELGUAPOIV valid point.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

@@ELGUAPOIV And yet they still somehow have more friends than you. Crazy

[@x2bannedyoutubeaccount408]

@@imveryangryitsnotbuttertake a shower

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

@@x2bannedyoutubeaccount408 Sure I'll get right on that. How's the family btw? Talk to them recently?

[@noahdimarco818]

Him laughing and looking around expecting everyone else to laugh but instead all looking so unimpressed was gold

[@yOGlo]

Lol fr tho

[@jocelynmanuel1524]

Time stamp? Hehehe

[@alexrod9271]

I think it’s 15:45

[@spiritofrei922]

stella real

[@StellasMostLoyalSoldier]

I'm replying to this solely because of Stella Hoshii. You jave a good taste in VA-11 Hall-A customers. Cheers lol.

[@dezmounts978]

At what point did the guys watching him play realized that they where not watching a speed run of halo, they where watching a guy literally play halo, like if you where at your cousins house watching him play this game, it’s mind boggling that this actually happened.

[@Will_Parker]

You can see that half the guys leave about halfway thru and then towards the end they all come back because they've realized they're watching history being made lol

[@smnksorc6663]

-goes to speesrunning event -just plays the game casually -refuses to elaborate

[@LotteBlueJays]

Old GDQ events were wild. The cringe compilations just catch the really silly stuff like that time the runner had to tell the commentary guy to shut up and leave but there's plenty of other stuff like runs failing, massive over/underestimations of time, melt downs, "bonus time" like those Mario Party streams that were just hours of Neglaria verbally abusing Spike Vegeta. Shit was crazy in between very very very long stretches of being kinda boring messes.

[@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uz]

​@@LotteBlueJays "I would prefer if you kept quiet"

[@Bollibompa]

​@@LotteBlueJays Yes, old AGDQ was not what people with weird nostalgia think it was. It is so much better now. Runners are more charismatic, donations aren't constantly read on top of commentary and it's overall more entertaining.

[@keystrix3704]

The absolute patience of those people with him. I wonder how many were quietly furious towards the end.

[@mercster]

Yeah you can tell these guys were seething right. Calm down junior, it's a fucking video game.

[@rprince418]

@@mercster You calm down, junior. He's just making a comment.

[@sirrealism7300]

@@rprince418 nah hes right, its just a game. Feeling any other emotion besides morbid curiosity and a need to mock to the wimps that do this is a praytell way to know you have low testosterone.

[@CalebWood555]

@@rprince418 Woah junior, don’t pull out a nine.

[@thecasualcrow880]

@@mercster It's not about it being a video game, it's about wasting peoples time. They also missed out on a $1000 donation just because he literally couldn't survive longer than 10 minutes. I have a hard time believing you watched the whole video if this is how you respond.

[@OneBadBadger]

"Could I just finish later?" is the most "I splice my runs" shit the dude could have possibly had said lmao

[@puppykitty6100]

I thought the exact same thing. brutal.

[@hoodedman6579]

That reminds me of this run Werster once did that I think was a bonus run or something that was basically a severely glitched run of one of the old Pokemon games (I want to say it was a Gen 2 game) where the run eventually relied on getting lucky with a very disobedient Pokemon over and over and over again and eventually it was just mercy killed, but Werster also basically said that he wanted to take it and try and finish it on his own time. I really wish I remembered the specifics better, it was a rather odd situation; maybe it was a glitch showcase?

[@vallangaard]

Watching the people disappear from the chairs behind him is like watching a "Confidence in Cody" meter slowly deplete.

[@Skyverb]

They left to grab popcorn to continue watching XD

[@yuki97kira]

I wouldve left the first ten minutes.. The boring silence.. Nothingness to contribute.. I could improve myself better by watching paint dry

[@Thebdippy]

When the "I could beat that game way faster when I was a kid" crowd finally gets to show off their skills

[@chiffydragon]

I had this thought trying to replay Battletoads, ngl

[@gh0rochi363]

In all fairness done games in better at as an adult and some I was better at as a kid when I played it tons.

[@yOGlo]

💯💪

[@rig2037]

Me playing Blinx the Timesweeper at 23 yrs old. For some reason that game was the shit when I was like 10

[@TheSMR1969]

Many people were better as kids, not everyone has the time in adulthood to play video games constantly

[@BrandonWestfall]

The most astonishing thing about this "speed run" is that he accepted the time slot at all. He knew he was a cheater and still took it.

[@Lurdiak]

"I thought I was special"

[@jessekohler6000]

For real! LOL Could have made any number of excuses to sit out, give his seat to another while possibly looking like a really nice guy, and he still would have been able to be there... But this guy said nah "I'm the smartest guy in this room and Halo, Shmmaalloooo, you press the buttons and do the thing, I get it, I got this, I'm that guy chief!", that's a level of brazen stupidity powered by an ego that's only fit for presidency of this great nation we call the United States! Ngl, at this point I'd vote for him... LOL

[@ilovecatz6]

yoo i thought your avatar seemed familiar! glad to see you around

[@BrandonWestfall]

@@ilovecatz6 lol, funny how that works out.

[@richcast66]

I think he was coerced by his community because they already had their suspicion about his cheating. He was being called out using an invitation to represent halo speed run at this event

[@TheGreatMoonFrog]

This is like watching a real life Seinfeld episode where George pretends to be a speedrunner but ultimately gets caught out in the most humiliating way possible.

[@BlueDragonscale]

"I'm a marine Biologist"

[@blightedgrounds]

"They screwed me again!"

[@blightedgrounds]

This was supposed to be the summer of George

[@berkutmig8319]

He had highest Frogger Score, though.

[@calvin-]

​@@blightedgrounds😂😂

[@Serafiniert]

Man, loved the AGDC run. Awesome Games Done Casually has such a chill environment.

[@lxnarr]

Games Done Casually lmfao

[@laurilehtiaho9618]

Awful Gaming Done Casually?

[@GirlPlus]

Honestly, a smaller charity event called "Awesome Games Done Casually" where they have notable speedrunners come in and play games they haven't ran sounds kinda fun. Like they don't know which games they are running until morning of and give them like a couple of hours to try to learn as much tech as possible would be kinda goofy.

[@davebob4973]

@@GirlPlus i think there might be something like that

[@GirlPlus]

@@davebob4973 word? That's rad!

[@Jervalin]

Cody Miller was who inspired me to actually do a real halo 2 legendary deathless run to prove it is actually possible.

[@MLWJ1993]

It seems possible, but doing it in an event while also employing speedrun tactics (usually somewhat precise tricks) on the highest difficulty. Sounds like a recipe for disaster unless you've been doing it for 1000's of hours 😐 Mad respect for anyone that CAN actually do so & stay within estimate time.

[@calamorta]

​@@MLWJ1993 Summoning Salt did a video on this game (if I'm not wrong) and not even current WRs get 0 deaths. It's such a tough game runners just accept deaths are part of the time

[@kristiankoski3908]

If Cody was bald I think he could do it also!

[@kruks]

​@@calamorta - The video was Halo 2, not the original game.

[@tacticalpossum7090]

​@@MLWJ1993you're talking to the man who did a Halo 2 deathless LASO speedrun, and is the only person who has done so.

[@Vince__]

I think my favorite part of this video is how it feels like a JCS Criminal Psychology video. Minimalistic yet effective presentation, high yet underlying tension, and anticipation of the bad guy getting caught. Shame he doesn’t get caught until much after this GDQ.

[@jacobpeters5458]

JCS voice: "The other gamers are friendly, but suddenly turn up the pressure."

[@0FFICERPROBLEM]

Pretty sure he was caught by everyone watching this at the time lol

[@voodude8986]

Yooo, this is so true lmao

[@solzenstein]

thats a pretty good catch

[@the-quiver]

@@0FFICERPROBLEM no, he got called to do another one at a later time

[@Pumpkinking64]

"At least I'm not nervous anymore" made me laugh so hard. Had to say it 3 times. Almost every line he says is absolutely hilarious

[@mountaincola6581]

Here’s the time stamp for anyone looking for this part 5:20

[@rizizum]

To be fair its cause the guy next to him couldn't hear it

[@Pumpkinking64]

@rizizum I know but knowing the context makes it completely facetious

[@mcgfn]

@@rizizumyes...exactly. the guy next to him could not hear him because he said "at least im not nervous anymore" as quiet as possible 3 times in a row

[@THEDeathWizard87]

He was so not nervous he had to say it 3 times

[@sheltongolden4394]

Four hours is a loooong time to sit there and watch someone failing.

[@bpwnz360]

bro your parents did it for 18 years i kid. i'm sorry

[@MrUnstoppableHeart]

@@bpwnz360 damm dawg wtf

[@tournesol-e7q]

@@bpwnz360 that was good lmfao

[@trubblegum5787]

@@MrUnstoppableHeart he kid. he sorry

[@A_Random_Ghost]

@@bpwnz360 oof

[@theJoachimMurat]

He just wanted everyone to watch him play Halo like the *good old days*

[@EmperorZ19]

After hearing so many stories of cheaters being caught using in-depth game knowledge and analysis, and the cheaters are usually still extremely skilled even without cheats, it's pretty amazing to see someone try to get away with THIS level of incompetence.

[@dylancarter8990]

@@jaceh4942top players are often cheating??? 😭😭😭

[@CorbinCorrupted]

They didnt clap FOR him at the end, they clapped because it was FINALLY over 😂

[@BadWallaby]

Someone offered to donate $1,000 for him to STOP playing 🤣🤣🤣

[@trippen4391]

Lmfao no way 😭

[@BadWallaby]

@@trippen4391 cant remember the exact time code but over half way through someone sayss "ill donate $1k if he doesnt die for 10 min" and the dude reading the donos Reads it and says "so basically you need to stop playing and stand in the corner for 10 min" LMFAO

[@Broockle]

it's at 12:43 😉

[@BadWallaby]

@@Broockle thank you! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@DonRoyalX]

@@BadWallaby OMFG 😂

[@shadowedfate151]

This guy makes the dude who ate pizza, drank soda, and had a heart rate monitor on while he "speed ran" mario 1 Look good

[@ravenID429]

Cody made the fatal error of forgetting his pizza and soda lol

[@Qflame3]

The issue wasn't that he had a heart rate monitor on, many legitimate speedrunners do this. The issue is that it was a fake heart monitor display as well as a fake run, IIRC it used footage from real speedrunners and the TAS.

[@Cloverlee19]

​@@Qflame3good to know

[@mitios7]

Who was that guy? I forgor

[@unsaltedskies]

@@mitios7 Badabun.

[@malingvideos9789]

imagine saying "we got to take this slow" in a speedrun.

[@noahlovotti7722]

Well to be fair if it's a lower risk slightly slower play/route that makes it safer for live runs, that's ok. You sometimes have to cut corners. This guy on the otherhand has no idea what he's doing.

[@ahall9839]

@@noahlovotti7722 God damn this is the most aw tis tick comment section. I'm not surprised though, just gotta say it.

[@noahlovotti7722]

@@ahall9839 what the fuck did I say wrong lol

[@StinkyBuster]

​@ahall9839 you actually didn't "just gotta say it". Prick.

[@Limonada_RC]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@emsouemsou]

This is the equivalent of showing up to a downhill skiing competition, wiping out on the first turn, and deciding to take your skis off and just run down the mountain, tripping and falling because you've never run in ski boots for an extended period of time, and when you show up at the finish line two hours behind schedule telling the spectators "You should watch this video of me winning a ski race, I look good there"

[@Slick_Tails]

"I'm dropping down to Heroic." *Keeps dying constantly* "Okay, I'll drop down to Normal." *Still keeps dying* I felt such an immense level of cringe watching this, and the video is only 20 minutes long. I cannot imagine watching this live, much less sitting in the room with the guy. "I'm gonna take this slow," says the person who is there specifically to demonstrate how to play games quickly. "I'm totally lost," says the person who is purported to know all the intricate ins and outs of a game.

[@samplexample]

Indeed. I’m not a ‘speedrunner’ but I’ve beaten the entire trilogy on Legendary, each under 3 hours. I feel like I could have put on a better show than this guy, but it would still be embarrassing. These people are hardcore nerds; they knows tricks and complex glitches, have skill. Simply playing the game well and efficiently isn’t what these people are looking for.

[@EgotisticalSlug]

I don't get how he was even able to get to that point. I haven't finished the video yet so apologies if it was explained but even if he was splicing his runs, surely he had to know the speedrun strats, even if he wasn't able to actually perform them back to back? Was he not splicing footage of himself playing?

[@Right_Said_Brett]

That and him saying "okay, I'll take the hard way" after failing multiple times to execute the shortcut. If the shortcut is so "easy", then why can't you execute it, you lying little toad?

[@miscosoop]

right! lol the kid chuckling next to him as he is dying over and over again had me geekin!

[@charlescannon2469]

@@EgotisticalSlug Actually it's not that surprisinging. I used to do runs of Spyro 2, I still remember summer forest really well and bits of autumn plains, but the rest of the game slips my mind due to time passing and not doing as much practice on later levels. A few additional situations come to mind. If he only did a few runs of a level and got a good time and just kept those runs for years, replayed sections of levels instead of whole levels (He knows checkpoints 4, 5, 7 and 9 really well but only did the first three a few times and never tried them again), and he replayed glitches for hours at a time and just spliced the successes into a single run he would never learn enemy spawns and routes for failing a trick as he could retry bridge fall for six hours and never have to deal with the time loss of not learning to do it well as he only needs to get it once for it to count. I'd imagine it's similar to playing a mario game with flying powerup and when you take damage you reset and try again. But when you get in front of the crowd it's not like you can just run to world 1 every time you take damage so you try to beat the levels normally, trying to find a flying power up to get back on track. But since the last time you played a level without flying was back in '03 you're screwed.

[@evsrax9556]

This is like JCS inspired speedrun analysis i love this

[@AbsZero]

The original title and thumbnail of the video were actually the JCS "What pretending to be crazy looks like", though I had changed it a little while back before this blew up since it wasn't getting too many views

[@Kolbiathan]

@@AbsZero Amazing

[@krusher181]

@@AbsZero what pretending to be sane looks like

[@michaelhaydenbell]

@@krusher181 Lol!!!!

[@evsrax9556]

@@wariogotdeleted i didnt say he did, you also didnt read his comment back to me at the top

[@jacobbrown4916]

i’ll never forget me and my neighbors halo reach speed run attempt, i think we finished the whole campaign in about 3 months

[@ActualBottleman]

Hey man, a finished game is a finished game.

[@illumililium]

"we gotta take this slow" -your neighbor

[@twotruckslyrics]

lmfao me but with hollow knight

[@lukiluk8026]

​@@twotruckslyrics I've got 111 hours or so and I'm still stuck on pantheon 4. Granted, I did quit the game twice (once to visit extended family in Poland and another to play another indie game) so it's just a little excusable

[@domd1689]

This guy is probably the reason why AGDQ ask runners to submit preview of their runs before being invited :D

[@magillagorilla57]

ADGQ definitely created some new rules that were directly influenced by this run

[@k-berry8771]

After this GDQ it was agreed that runs that are a significant amount of time over estimate and still have a lot of game left will be mercy killed It is called "The Cody Miller Rule"

[@centurionpan3400]

@@k-berry8771what does “a lot of game left” mean? I can only think of unseen footage but I assume any speed run missing footage wouldn’t be trusted

[@selfdestructivecat4922]

@centurionpan3400 on GDQ, runners are given an estimate for about how long they have for their segment in order to stay on schedule. They’re allowed to go over estimate a little bit, but if they’re over estimate when they’ve got a lot of the game left to play (ex. They’ve completed only 11 out of 16 big levels) then they stop the run early to stay on schedule. Hope this helps!

[@centurionpan3400]

@@selfdestructivecat4922 makes sense, thanks for the info

[@morganrusnai4579]

I love the donation guy talking to a donator. "No.. Codys the only one playing halo. No one else is taing the controller" At least someone was like.. okay can we have someone else do this?

[@Owlsdontsleepatnight]

When he ran past the elite with the sword at 9:02 I held my breath, because I knew it was going to catch up with him and kill him.

[@Walamonga1313]

The face the guy makes after pretending to laugh lmao

[@NGRevenant]

yup that guy will chase you non stop until you kill him

[@thefoogler4027]

all he had to do was back up and it would have been an insta kill lol

[@Spunkster]

Good God! Imagine being in that room. Gritting your teeth the whole time knowing that 5 to 10 mins into the run this guy is a liar, fraud and a complete joke. I don't know whether to say he was brave or foolish for willing to actually attempt this live...

[@Sharkmane25]

Gots to see it through to the end my boy 🤝

[@ORLY911]

Im not even a speedrunner or hardcore player and ive beaten og halo levels faster than this guy on legendary.

[@DonRoyalX]

If they weren’t weak willed weebs they would’ve called him out and said yo wtf is up with u bro? I wouldn’t be able to handle the tension it would break me. I’d have to say something

[@ghostface5559]

@@DonRoyalX I think his feats previously made him credible.

[@gothicMCRgirl]

I guess they didn’t want to make a scene, but if that was the case, someone could’ve silently headed over to the people in charge and said something. Better than just silently watching it happen 😬

[@buffalochild100]

Things you never want to hear from your: Doctor - "oooh what's that?" Cop - "I'm scared" Firefighter - "Wow that's hot" Speedrunner - "I don't know that route"

[@ThePsh07]

Oh man… the secondhand embarrassment is too real. The awkwardness in that room can be felt across time. 😣

[@lum26akua28]

I barely got through this video alive....

[@Notyels]

I had to come to the comments and read while watching it’s tough

[@vashdesperado1232]

Jesus wept

[@vladikgajat9280]

Thank you for manifesting my pain into words.

[@Pileven]

Really I thought people where more “whatever” about it

[@0002pA]

Blind Let's Plays are my favourite speedruns.

[@inky3]

This is like a nightmare where you're getting beaten up but can't fight back because your arms are made of jello

[@jaymxu]

Only that nightmares are spontaneous and you can'r help it, this guy had a choice 😂

[@youdonegoofed]

@@benjigeez"gaming culture"

[@samainord]

Damn that's one hell of a nightmare

[@jaymxu]

@@benjigeez LOL YESSSS

[@jaymxu]

@@youdonegoofed lmao

[@bipbapboop1140]

As someone who struggles a lot with secondhand embarrassment, this video is nearly impossible to watch

[@Formalec]

Yeah this is hard to watch. Needed a small break after like the 10th halo death. 😄 Can't believe he agrees to try any tricks and going back to legendary for level at all at that stage. What a challange watching the full run must be.

[@ledark2512]

Same. I won't watch the video because I literally can't deal with awkward and embarrassing moments

[@Mr__Jack]

To be fair, it’s not like this guy got embarrassed for doing absolutely nothing. He’d been responsible for cheating runs and thought it would be a good idea to try to do something he had to cheat to do in person. It would be like making a compilation of you making full court shots in basketball (while conveniently leaving out the thousands of failed shots) and then going to play against an NBA player expecting to do well. What did he think was going to happen? His embarrassment could’ve been easily avoided by simply not running the game at GDQ.

[@johnnysingtree]

what do you mean you struggle with it? like it makes it difficult for you to complete basic daily tasks? are you wallowing alone in dark rooms dwelling on it?

[@thevvitch7585]

I'm hiding in the comments and I'm not even a minute in

[@dragonexpert8323]

I"m surprised they didn't force him to stop playing by the time he was 30 minutes over estimate. Today's events are extremely tight on timing.

[@mikec5400]

he was like 2 hours off actually

[@kinslayer202]

The earlier AGDQs weren't as highly produced and scheduled. As you can see from the video it was much more just a bunch of video game nerds (I say this with the utmost love). Speedrunning was itself a newer and less developed thing, so running over time was more common, though not to the degree that this guy ran over

[@firstmiseryy3115]

@@mikec5400 they was just saying ending the run early after he was 30 minutes past 2 hours

[@LordSadCat]

gotta make that dough to donate like 2% of it.

[@SecondChance-zip]

AGDQ wasn't anal until Trans Movement started. Now everyone matters but no one is more important than time slots or donations.

[@mhc706]

“I forgot how to do level 2” is a pretty big red flag too

[@crystalwater505]

Lmao.

[@ultimapower6950]

Well in all fairness there are hard level 2’s

[@Dhips.]

The balls on this man to do it live. Also side note I miss how cozy GDQ was pre '14.

[@MrBroken030]

As cozy as mommas basement XD

[@DonRoyalX]

It’s unfathomable It’s legitimately making me cringe so hard

[@Slop_Dogg]

cozy = stinky

[@Caydiem]

@@Slop_Dogg It's stinky either way but this one is just cozy on top of stinky.

[@nfamus540]

Looks like a low budget pron set, well actually the staging area for the talent in a gay pron.

[@banj1595]

It’s crazy how he could have just… not gone to the event

[@kaiservenom270]

Him saying he hasn't practiced in 2 years is like a doctor about to operate you say, "by the way, I haven't renewed my licence in 5 years."

[@johnnyblack3676]

Because speedrunning a stupid video game is completely on par with like open heart surgery and stuff. It's exactly the same.

[@wolfrayet0042]

@@johnnyblack3676 at least you tried to understand.

[@johnnyblack3676]

@@wolfrayet0042 no I completely get it. Like I would get just as scared if my heart surgeon said I dunno wtf I’m doing as I would an aspie saying the same thing cuz he’s lost in video game.

[@johnnyblack3676]

@Become upset. it’s a stupid analogy. That’s my point. Compare it to something that makes sense at least.

[@Nightwishmaster]

@@johnnyblack3676 OP compared one ridiculous scenario about being totally unprepared to accomplish a live task to another ridiculous scenario of being totally unprepared to accomplish a live task. Both are equally nonsensical so how does that not make sense? Everyone else seemed to understand it just fine.

[@HylianPike]

Damn never played halo. But this guy makes this game look like one of the hardest games ever made

[@Spritzkrieg]

On any other Halo game, Legendary difficulty actually feels that way in the moment. I have nightmares about sniper jackals But this game, the first one, has a balanced and well-loved honest difficulty

[@YellowSnow]

@@Spritzkrieg If I remember correctly, Halo 2 had the hardest leg. difficult, next to Reach. Unsure though.

[@Spritzkrieg]

@@YellowSnow 110% right about Halo 2

[@rawman44]

@@YellowSnow Yeah, it was 2. I remember hearing that it was because 2 was a bit rushed in development, so they just kinda cranked stuff up for legendary without fully testing and balancing

[@Tailstraw_xD]

Halo 1 is legit the easiest Legendary difficulty in the whole series

[@baiwatch1]

Imagine being with him in that room, at the 3hr mark, realizing that he's a fraud, and sitting there awkwardly while he finishes his playthrough.

[@shinji391]

If you follow Halo speedrunning enough to show up at a speedrunning convention, then it should have taken everyone involved 3 minutes to call him out on his bullshit. Not 3 hours. Taking three hours to call him out on his bullshit tells me cheaters win.

[@diggermeddler1169]

He wasn't exposed after this for years

[@z00k6]

……and then clapping to congratulate him.

[@ultimapower6950]

@@z00k6 I would slow clap

[@yuki97kira]

They wouldve noticed under 10 minutes when he keeps dying

[@holdenew]

This is one of the hardest videos to watch that I've ever seen. Just so baffling that he would set himself up for this much humiliation in front of hundreds of people, I've never gotten a worse case of 2nd hand embarrassment

[@spiderraccoon7869]

the fact that he gets lost so easily is such an easy tell, I guarantee as hard as speedrunners go on their games, they know the game they're playing too well to get lost.

[@ArDeeMee]

Especially the ones doing glitch runs. They run on literally the only line of pixels allowing for this strategy, because even a tiny misstep is insta-death. It’s amazing to watch!

[@shioyoutube9041]

I have limited speed running experience and I do think you’re right, but I could see someone doing it by accident. I’ve occasionally made mistakes like that while grinding pbs. You’d have to be really unlucky to do it on stage.

[@bobjoe3492]

​@shioyoutube9041 man looks like he's playing for one of the first times at parts lmao

[@Keex11]

At AGDQ 2014, coolkid did a Quake 1 run, fell down a ledge and was pretty confused how to get back to the exit ;-) Difference is, his was a great run. If you are interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2O7p5hpi6x6g9E

[@ftb282]

I'm not even a speed runner and I remember every hallway in halo CE from the hours I spent playing as a kid lmao, this guy is insane

[@fourarmz8397]

This could be used to torture prisoners of war. Imagine being on the couch for this run

[@McDoinky]

Imagine watching this video with no context

[@lostpicasso260]

As someone who doesn't play a lot of video games, this is so brutal to watch. It reminds of me of that scene in The Sandlot where Smalls couldn't even catch or throw the ball.

[@yOGlo]

Lol fr tho

[@jacobpeters5458]

I got a real life story that'll cringe you guys out. I'm 13. Mom tells some friend of hers I was good at tennis (I played a little when i was 9). I couldn't even return a ball. I liked the dude's daughter but suddenly she had a bf xD

[@dvnmnd5020]

Boomer moment

[@bombabombom3603]

YA KILLIN' ME, MILLS!

[@IToastMySocks]

​@@dvnmnd5020Doomer moment.

[@somegal-89]

How did he expect this to go? He'd just suddenly become a master speedrunner?

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Just perform each of those spliced segments after each other.

[@That_One_Xatu]

This is like a true crime interrogation breakdown, but with a speedrun cheater.

[@durtypan]

I get the same 2nd hand tension watching both

[@alexvg7342]

Is the deathless halo 2 run in the room with us right now?

[@Daftanemone]

I love your slight voice crack when you say “very reputable twin galaxies”. Hysterical how much of a joke they were revealed to be

[@TheRealZyconis]

Sometimes when you fake something long enough, especially online where it's harder to get caught, you start believing your own bullshit. That's the only thing I can think of to explain how someone could fake a bunch of speedruns and then try to get away with it at an event primarily watched and supported by speedrunners.

[@kayjay7585]

14:09 oh man, I can feel how that guy was so uncomfortable that the runner was failing all over, that he needed to ease the tension by offering this ridiculous explanation that speed running can make you a worse gamer XD

[@cid7505]

That was some intense cringe :D As someone who doesn't know the Halo speedrun, I would have loved it if you would have added some clips to show what the tricks he fails or opts not to go for look like

[@AbsZero]

That would have been a good idea thank you for the suggestion! If I do another video similar to this I will definitely do that. If you are interested in seeing an actual Halo CE speedrun, you can watch Chronos's run from the past GDQ here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aISQipWVnruKsMk This is on anniversary edition so you'll get to see the out of bounds on Pillar of Autumn, TnR, and The Maw, along with other tricks not featured in this run

[@DubYuhGChoppa]

@@AbsZero man I wish someone replied but I wanna see it regardless

[@misterbxiv]

I came to post about how cringe this is but I see im not alone. This guy is terrible

[@MACMETALFACE]

I am for that I could only make it a fee minutes into this video but if someone does if and tags me im there brother! Well not literally lol I am in Japan now but ah nvm yawl know what i mean hehe

[@DonRoyalX]

Intense cringe doesn’t even come close to the black-hole inducing levels of utter 2nd hand embarrassment this inflicts upon the mortal soul

[@FoNgThOnG]

Dude had balls to show up to a speed run event in person, knowing full well that he cheated.

[@Urglerbob]

Yeah seriously

[@actremix]

Or a smooth brain

[@tacymist1587]

When your balls got more wrinkles than your brain.

[@kayqueelson1761]

Don't confuse courage with stupidity.

[@ItsDatCajunStuff]

It must take some next level narcissism to know you don't run a game legitimately and still think you can get away with that in a live setting and no one will notice.

[@krusher181]

Delusion is the word you’re looking for.

[@MonsieurBig]

Everyone noticed, no one spoke up

[@Nightwishmaster]

@@MonsieurBig The guy next to him was clearly looking around at everyone else later in the video with a "WTF" expression, then leaves and suddenly reappears with a bunch of random guys who he clearly brought in to see what was happening.

[@Submersed24]

I actually think doing a speed run on a game that you cheated on live in front of everyone is just as stressful as being a murderer being interviewed by a really smart investigator

[@BigOlSmellyFlashlight]

humorously, this video is edited just like one of those true crime interrogation analysis videos but with less analysis

[@tookiwolfpaint5142]

It's like being the bad guy in the last ten minutes of Columbo.

[@dmz7696]

I love how they decided to bring him back the year after just for the content 😂

[@chiyo-chanholocaust8143]

Oh god, this is absolutely golden. I would love to see an actual Speedrunner react to this

[@bryanwoods3373]

Imagine how much they'd have to edit down. And the first thing they'd riff on is how he took twice as long as he should have based in the original video length.

[@itxi]

Only golden on legendary

[@internets6501]

He’s lucky this happened before AGDQ got super big

[@yaboyfrresh]

You telling me these losers got big

[@yaboyfrresh]

So they have more nerds watching others playing games

[@MckayNein]

​@yaboyfrresh these "losers" raise millions and millions of dollars every year for charity. What exactly do you do?

[@adrashmadra7149]

​@MckayNein nerds being nerds, who cares about their accomplisments? It just a bunch of nerds, that's all

[@yaboyfrresh]

@@adrashmadra7149 he is one of them ... He the type to say if a chick prostitutes to give her kids a better life she is doing well she still a prostitute bruh

[@chef5749]

Thank you for condensing the 4:17:00 worth of garbage into a 20 minute master piece shitting on him. 10/10 content

[@Zorgot.]

Bruh I've been getting second hand embarrassment watching this, I can not imagine trying to speed run and failing constantly in front of people especially when you're supposed to be good at it

[@procow2274]

Keep in mind estimated time of run is generally longer than the run is supposed to take in order to give the people running things leeway in case something goes wrong. That means that 22 minutes at the end there is actually more than implied

[@louiewag9343]

Imagine forgetting where you're going in an AGDQ speedrun

[@AdrianDX]

“That has never happened before”

[@Treblaine]

... for 2 years.

[@TtotheG]

You forgot the part at the end where he stands up off the couch, seemingly pleased with himself and looks around for affirmation. Not a single person in the room looks him in the eye. He stutters out a quip to deafening silence, then shuffles awkwardly out of the room while everyone eyes follow to make sure he's finally gone. The atmosphere is so thick with contempt you can cut it with a knife. No idea why he ever chose to do this live when he clearly didn't even run through the game beforehand, let alone practice it.