Interview with a speedrainer Josephhtobinjr. “I have been updated for more than 7 years”

Hello apricot! Today I interviewed the cool Russian speeder Joseph. I will leave links to his twich and YouTube in the comments. Pleasant reading!

1. Why did you start alarm?

Because this is a very exciting activity, and I realized it right away, as I learned about the existence of such a phenomenon as speed -it. At that time I had a lot of free time and a rather powerful computer, so there was no reason not to try myself in this matter. In general, it is sometimes useful to try something new, and I had many different hobbies, though they almost always bored me quickly, so I think it is more interesting why this did not happen to the speedlers, but more on that later.

2. Why did the first speeding game LEGO Batman 2?

I like Lego Games since childhood, but at some point I thought that they were too light, especially with repeated passage, and began to come up with some challenge to himself, so that it was more interesting: passing without deaths (or without receiving damage at all), with the collection of all coins at a level and t.D. In April 2014, I found out about Twitch and began to actively watch the streams on the speedlers. Although I saw the speedlers before, it was my acquaintance with the tweet that finally pushed me as soon as possible to start action. I needed a game that I know well and I remember that I could immediately pass it without bangs, and it so happened that shortly before that I re -reviewed Lego Batman 2. Everything successfully coincided: the game was still fresh in memory, and Speudran became a great way to add difficulties for it.

3. Recently, the author of SG began to train in the Ducktales 2 speedrane using your guide, whether you are glad?

Of course, because the guide gamblingsitesnotongamstop.co.uk/ was made for this so that people use it when studying the game, and the more people find something useful for themselves in it, the stronger I understand that it was not for nothing that I spent so much time to create it. For two weeks I did not start streams at all, working on Gaid every day, during this time it was possible to set a couple of world records) I would like to wish good luck to Gleb, I hope I will see his wounds soon and I can glad that I contributed to him.

4. What do you think why you haven’t left the speedlers yet?

Because I did not find for myself a more suitable hobby, and because I still have a lot of plans, and new. At the end of 2014, I practically threw the speedlers, the next 3 and a half years only a couple of times launched a stream, and besides technical reasons (refusing a video card on a laptop, which was no longer possible to injure the LEGO game), there was a lack of motivation, because there were few people who were interesting then, no one came to streams, and no one had to share their successes with their successes. But finally throwing speedlens I never thought, and even at that time periodically trained Ducktales or a counter on an emulator for PSP. And when in the spring of 2018 he still decided to launch a stream to improve the old PB in Ducktales 2, he was surprised when he saw in the chat of the Russian-speaking viewer (it was a Neural89 familiar to you). It turned out that I missed the moment when the whole community of Russian retro-spirainers appeared, before that I knew only one (outside_lutz), and thought that no one else was interested in all the CIS. Then I realized that I had to continue, I chose the next game Chip ‘N Dale 2, and unexpectedly for myself I took WR in it in 3 days, and it seemed that this was the greatest achievement in my life. How after this you can quit everything?

5. I know that many consider you a good early man, but you think so?

It is difficult to evaluate your own skill. There are several games that I can definitely say that I have achieved good results in them: Battle City, Tengen Tetris, Ducktales 2, world records speak for itself. But I also see my weaknesses, and in many other games everything is not as good as I would like. Previously, when I took up some kind of game, I set my task to be above the middle in the Leaderboard, and I did it, so probably my skill above average. In any case, if someone calls me a good speedrainer, I will not mind)

6. What is your way to make money at the moment?

Last year, I actively worked to update the computer and buy equipment for streams, and now I have everything I need. Thanks to the support of the audience, the income from the channel is enough for life, otherwise I would have to combine streams with work, and this was not very good for me.

7. Did Hitless wounds think?

If in interesting games on the speedrandom there is such a category, I will definitely take care.

8. The arrival of a new generation like me in the speedlers, this is normal?

It’s great! But this is not surprising, because now the speedlers are gaining more and more popularity, and among people of different ages. I myself began to sprinkle at the age of 18, but I think that if I had been born 10 years later, I could also start 12 years old. Some note that in childhood they played better than in adulthood, and as a rule, there is usually more free time in childhood. Now I sometimes regret that I missed a lot of time that I could spend on the speedlers, because the more you have to achieve, the more you have time to achieve, and I see no reason to miss the opportunity to start as early as possible so that for the age of 20 it is already a successful speeding with extensive experience and an impressive profile on a speedranscom.

9. How do you feel about interviews and attention from the outside?

There is little attention to me, and I give an interview for the first time. I have mainly grinds and endless resets on streams, this is a very specific content on which it is difficult to gain a large audience, so I am glad to every viewer. Moreover, I still remember how I launched streams in 2014 and did not even hope that at least someone would come to them, but with an increase in attention to speed, the audience has naturally grows in individual wounds, so it is no less important for me that as many people as possible begin to be interested in speeds in general. I think every streamer to one degree or another is striving for attention, because when you put efforts in your content, I would like people who are ready to evaluate it.