I Tried Speedrunning Your Worst Ideas

Super Mario Odyssey but everyone is dead. Every NPC and enemy is gone. If a story moon would require a boss fight, the moon is already there. There’s no music, it’e JUST you and Cappy. Eery…

Chess% is a great video/stream content idea for creators in general. It should be done more often.

CJ: I'm changing to Chinese right now, I'm getting serious Fir: Oh my gosh, I should too also Fir: changes to Japanese

I loved writing those sphinx questions so much

The chess part was really cool. The only change I think would be good is not resetting Odyssey for every new chess game so you don't just do the first few kingdoms every time.

I think it's very funny that Fir notes that he doesn't want to be too loud because of his neighbors and not long after plays very rambunctious chess with CJ.

chess% was genuinely hype, that was so fun to watch

I think for Chess% multimoons should only count for one chess move, otherwise whoever beats madame brood first has a guaranteed win if they move their e-pawn after getting the first story moon. (Qh5, Qxf7, Qxe8 or Bb5, Bxd7, Bxe8 both capture the king on the fourth move, and there's no single move the opponent can play for their first story moon that can stop both)

ya'll should do a best of 3 chess tournament with a bunch of speedrunners to see who is the best Mario chess speedrunner

Cacti% you have to destroy all 131 overworld cacti in Sand Kingdom

Sphinx% was so evil, there were so many unnecessary roadblocks added in and I love it

Amethyst moving the answers on sphinx was hilarious

The Chess% idea has some real legs to it. I'd love to see that turned into a bracketed tournament or something. Maybe have each round start in a different kingdom?

Pay2Win% would actually be an interesting category if you had multiple runners. Walking everywhere is boring, but if you walk everywhere, then the person who does only one shortcut jump gets the lead, which incentivizes you to do 2, then them 3, and so on until the logical conclusion is you try to do the normal speedrun as close as possible, but have to either make detours to pick up coins, or get a lot more economical with your movement. I wish you hadn't dismissed it as quickly as you seem to, it would be a really good one for you to invite another runner to join you, since you'd be wondering the entire time how much they are using normal movement mechanics vs conserving coins, and where they are making detours to pick them up. I do think it requires a careful balance of costs, maybe scaling with how many moons you have collected either in whole or per world, to encourage really thinking about your route and what stars you want to spend the precious early coins in each level on. Alternatively, just making each moon require an increasing number of coins to collect would also be a good interpretation of the category, it still allows full movement while requiring different pathing of the run. Plus, it's technically canon to the Mario franchise - see any Mario Party game.

Now I’m wondering if Amy can mod Among Us into SMO. Just redo that 8 player any% route that’s on CJ’s channel, but 2 players can kill anyone with a single cap throw, and they play on a 100% file, so they have to fake collecting moons.

Cacti%: Count all cacti in Sand Kingdom except for sub areas 😂

superbowl% speedrun getting the football costume. while in the football costume you must 1- capture and defeat a chargin chuck 2- kick a football in metro kingdom 3- get both moons in the ruined kingdom moon pipe

Chess% was pretty cool and I kinda want to see it again. I think it'd also be pretty hype if instead of restarting the run every time you lose you simply continue from where both players are, which could make Sand Kingdom kinda hectic lol

I think coin% would have been interesting as a race where your need to go faster than your opponent counteracts the incentive to walk everywhere.

yoo the Any Austin shoutout is wild Austin's series about being a pencil-pushing bureaucrat in video game towns taking the work census is one of my fav things of all time, actually entertaining with how stoic and mundane it feels.