And there are the experimentalists, such as Myers, who test the theories in game after callus-creating game. There are the theorists, such as Milling, who study the math of what’s possible. Speedrunning is a collaborative and cumulative endeavor, academic and scientific in its ideals and division of labor. He’s a glitch hunter, combing the minutiae of games’ code and memory for tiny edges and passing the details on to his speedrunning friends. Milling - known online as sockfolder - is central to the Mario speedrunning community. Really, this is all Chris Milling’s fault. Witness the very shape of human progress.
In this 31-year-old video game, there is a full-on, high-speed assault on Bowser’s castle under way right now.
It is entirely possible that, soon after you read this article, someone will go just a little bit faster, and topple the Mario record again.
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