Penguinz0 on the Insane Human Limit of Mario Speedruns

Summoning Salt dropped another one of his god-tier documentaries, this time on the Super Mario Bros speedrun, and it genuinely fries your brain. You think you're decent at Mario until you see these guys fighting tooth and nail over single frames. The entire video is a deep dive into the absolute madness of a community trying to achieve a theoretically perfect run, squeezing out every last millisecond of potential. It's a level of optimization that feels like it should only be possible for a TAS-bot, but these are actual humans performing these miracles. The glitches they've uncovered over the years are legitimately insane. The flagpole glitch is a classic example of this unhinged dedication—hitting the block with pixel-perfect precision just to phase through the bottom of the pole and save less than half a second. Who even finds this stuff? You have to be a different breed of human to even think to try that, let alone master it. This whole documentary just showcases one absurd, frame-perfect trick after another, and the evolution of the run is wild. The reaction from penguinz0 is basically just pure awe at the dedication. This is what it looks like when people push a game to its absolute human limit. It's not just a game anymore; it's a masterpiece of precision, obsession, and years of collective effort. Every single input is calculated to perfection. After watching what these speedrunning gods can do, you realize how deep the rabbit hole goes for a game from 1985. Honestly, this whole saga covered by Summoning Salt is one of the most compelling things on the internet, and this moistcr1tikal clip captures why it's so damn cool.