sometimes people are good at video games

[ttto]

this is extremely funny.

background: amsa is a competitive melee player who only plays yoshi, who for years was considered a mid-tier character, but amsa likes yoshi! his name is aMSaRedYoshi! and got so good at playing yoshi he's one of maybe 5 people who consistently wins major tournaments. he's also the only yoshi player in the top 90 ranked. (aside: people love him for this. people also love that he's good at the game)

also, in melee, there are these little Break-The-Targets minigames for each character. because there's a timer and because melee's such a popular game, the speedruns for BTTs are super competitive. plenty of people specialize in speedrunning BTTs.

this video is amsa saying "wow my technical skill is getting better. should i try for the BTT record?" then he watches the current record video, watches his past attempts, watches the TAS* record and goes "oh i could do some of that" and then breaks the record. one of his chat asks, amsa what margin did you break the record by, and amsa answers "one frame"

just-- god, what astonishing skill. he's not even a specialist at this he's simply very good at the game.


*TAS meaning tool-assisted, made by playing the game one frame at a time using techniques impossible for a human