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3 June 2025

I'd like to volunteer a bounty of US$100 for anyone who can figure out a reliable way to consistently reproduce a timesaving sound glitch that has happened in two of my Super Scribblenauts speedruns. A clip of one of these runs is attached; see also youtu.be/Ho7tx20zq6I?... #scribblenauts thread ↓

therun.ggLeaderboards and speedrun.com’s new terms of servicespeedrun.com replaced its terms of use on 1 October 2026 and dropped the Creative Commons licence. What changed, why it matters for runners and community tools, and what you can do.

Looks like SR.C has decided on a middle ground, which seems to be wonderful news (at least as far as they've explained it in their brief; I didn't read the terms myself). Not much else to say.

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

therun.gg/blog/leaderb... I guess this shouldn't be surprising in light of elo io's subtle attempts to brand as "Speedrun", implying that they own and have rights to the concept and activity of speedrunning I don't even know what to do about this, since it's hard to just jump ship somewhere else

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I was going to go on another routing rabbit hole for the first Bomberman DS game, but after doing preliminary research I got stuck because it's hard to say definitively what will work best in each stage. Instead I just did a run and felt it out. World record by 2 minutes, PB by 10.

chargedgarlic.netBomberman 2 (DS): Any% in 1:35:21run by SoapAgent on 2026/10/12

This Bomberman 2 phase has lasted since early to mid-August, and the actual grinding started as soon as I got back from my trip in mid-September, with an attempt session on nearly every day off from work. Today, I finally got the deathless run I was aiming for! 📼▶️ chargedgarlic.net/video.php?id...

I was not aware of their previous attempt to remove the CC license in 2021. Very interesting history, and it does give hope that with some backlash they might undo it again. But we've all known that they are for-profit first and foremost, and corporations are never happy about changing their tune

Now that the time of day is editable after the fact, the Super Scribblenauts Any% WR History is more accurate 🥳 Previously one of my runs wasn't included in this list because Aero changed the date on one of their PBs and it defaulted to midnight UTC, pushing it back to the previous day in US time.

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

I often (mentally) complain about how elo io likes to change random design elements on SR.C, and this new submission page almost looks like another example, but I'm glad that you can finally set the time of day yourself. this is something I've wanted for a while (although tbf I never sent feedback)

Haven't decided what I'm going to submit to AGDQ27 yet but I think reusing Streets of Rogue co-op, Wario Land II, and Scribblenauts are all good. I'm also considering SoR singleplayer (Any% SSA is pretty easy to finish runs with even if they suck) but I don't want to detract from co-op's odds...

15 Sept

SoR: I got a PB that was 8 seconds off WR. I don't like how much more impactful some RNG details are in this category (some mission types are way worse for the pacifist char and you want to not roll them). We'll see if I get there 💣: I've gotten 3 WRs in a row, and have a final goal to work towards

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

I've been on a road trip for the past 10 days. Bringing a DS was a wonderful decision, as a chud gamer who can't drive In 2 days, I shall: - Take back the Streets of Rogue WR that I lost right before leaving - Recast my Bomberman 2 speedrun notes, then stream attempts for WR (I've been practicing!)

13 Sept

13 Sept

formerly it was confusing because the time and date would use UTC, but if you adjusted it then it would strip the time and default to midnight UTC, meaning it could technically be off by a day depending on your timezone. but now it begs the question of "do you put the start time or the end time?"

12 Sept

25 Aug

It took a couple months, but I managed to get all of Streets of Rogue's single player records! I don't expect these to stay here forever, and it's not like I came up with any new strats, but I think I've made a mark by just pushing the game further. Now I can focus on other things for a bit?

chargedgarlic.netStreets of Rogue: Any% Normal (Seedless) in 6:15 IGTrun by SoapAgent on 2026/08/17

18 Aug

wow… I actually got the world record in the main category, by 20 seconds! this is the first run I've ever completed as Werewolf in this category, since it's so hard to get runs past the first 3 zones (or even the first 3 levels). I still have 2 more WRs to get… 📼▶️ chargedgarlic.net/video.php?id...

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21 Aug

I could say "nah this is good enough", already having 2nd in the final category, but I can't let my 2nd place be a minute slower lol WR gets a god seed which is now used in 4 seeded categories; bad news for me, as I have to hope to randomly roll another seed that's just as good and play it better

24 Aug

I got sidetracked because somebody decided to beat two of my pacifist runs, one by a large margin. I only now managed to take both of them back, after a couple days. my total is back at 23/24 wouldn't be surprised if that somebody keeps distracting me… I hope I can just keep 24 WRs for a while lol

chargedgarlic.netStreets of Rogue: Any% Normal (Seedless) in 6:15 IGTrun by SoapAgent on 2026/08/17

18 Aug

21 Aug

got the WR in the second main category. this one took longer than the previous run because you want good level layouts, more so than a run with the optimal traits because you can't teleport to far away places. still managed to cut almost 20 seconds from FWR again 1 resetting grind left, surely!

11 Aug

+4 WRs. These were easy I guess; just had to learn the seed that the previous WR holder used for all 4 of the (pretty similar) runs. What remains are 2 more up in the air categories, which I need to find a good seed for, and 5 more difficult and potentially mind-numbing random seed categories.

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

my Streets of Rogue conquest is peaking... the really hard and reset-heavy categories are basically all that remain (not counting pacifist seeded). it's annoying to run when you're not getting what you need, or if you are, something terrible may happen at any moment (level layouts/missions/death)

14 Aug

3 more submitted... two were free WRs but I tried to do them justice once I found that good seed that I was looking for. the other one is only 7 seconds from WR, and didn't get unheard of good luck, so I'll probably try to beat it next time I play. then...? the demotivation can no longer be avoided.

15 Aug

I got Mutator% 4:57 vs FWR 5:16 (the strats weren't that different, just a bit more fine tuned, sort of like all the singleplayer WRs I have in this game). honestly the blank category below it (Mutator% SSA Seedless) is probably not going to be hard, since I already beat that by 1s with this run lol

12 Aug

Big tech is so gross

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg

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11 Aug

chargedgarlic.netStreets of Rogue: Any% Custom (Seedless) in 3:50 IGTrun by SoapAgent on 2026/07/14

31 July

guy who had the WR beat it about 2 weeks later, so I beat it about 2 days later (just got another lucky seed lawl)

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

While playing a different category for fun (this game has a lot of them), I got another WR. This category is Any% Custom, where you play with a character built using the character creator (without making the character "overpowered" by the game's standards) 📼▶️ chargedgarlic.net/video.php?id...

31 July

I've been uhhhh playing a lot of this game recently (around 67 hours, according to Steam and if you subtract a lil bit of afk and a lil bit of an unrelated game). just been putting them on YT unlisted because it's a lot of run spam and YT is too convenient when I don't want to blast my socials

chargedgarlic.netStreets of Rogue: Any% Custom (Seedless) in 3:50 IGTrun by SoapAgent on 2026/07/14

15 July

chargedgarlic.netStreets of Rogue: Cardio% SSA (Seedless) in 6:21 IGTrun by SoapAgent on 2026/07/04

5 July

Wasn't expecting a WR at all, but while playing Any% SSA I got a lucky seed for Cardio SSA (Cardio means you can't get 2 traits that make teleporting easier, and SSA means you use a unlockable and more OP character variant), beating the current WR by 32 seconds! 📼▶️ chargedgarlic.net/video.php?id...

2 July

Rhythm Heaven Groove is cool. I played through the first 6 remixes and got all medals along the way. Might stream the journey through postgame/all perfects when I have time, although it's a genre that demands focus and I imagine that the people who are interested in the game are probably playing it

2 July

It's interesting that they ditched the per-minigame scores and went back to the old flow system. It's kind of nice because I fell off Bits and Bops diamond perfects (keep in mind they hadn't added the indicator yet), and stopped at 96 flow in RH Megamix. Micro perfection gets exhausting after a bit

29 June

welp that's RTA world record! This run had some quite decent luck, and even with some misplays I managed to close it out. unfortunately you won't see this on SR.C unless you manually sort by RTA (once it's verified) since the IGT is slower than my PB 📼▶️ chargedgarlic.net/video.php?id...

got myself a CheatBox just for fun and because it was cheap (on discount for $18 before shipping). unfortunately that seems to come at a cost, since the mechanical switches have a chance to retrigger when you release the key, which is detrimental for quick menuing and gaming. debounce doesn't fix it

okay apparently it's actually an issue with the "keyboard mode", which I was using to more easily remap the additional buttons. that doesn't really make sense but I guess I can use controller mode and try to make it so I can still use those extra buttons. guess I should un-buy those switches

now that I have the thing I don't want to just return it, and customer support isn't looking likely (there's a half-Chinese discord ostensibly for two of their cheatboxes but this isn't one). It's a cool device with decent customization so I'm buying different switches and investing harder lawl

17 June

Okay that's a pretty satisfying way to drive by a category. 1:06 is definitely possible with a bit more grinding, but I'm good to retire early given the lack of active competition. Just a few medium timelosses in this run, but overall pretty good :3 📼▶️ chargedgarlic.net/video.php?id...

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

This run was just like 3 major mistakes away from being WR and 1:08. It's a PB by ~1m40s so that's definitely a good improvement already; clearly, practicing the levels I play less often pays off.

11 June

This run was just like 3 major mistakes away from being WR and 1:08. It's a PB by ~1m40s so that's definitely a good improvement already; clearly, practicing the levels I play less often pays off.

24 May

I totally fell off WL2 100%. It's been a bit over a week so I can't be terribly rusty, but honestly I already got my goal of WR and I'm fine quitting a bit short of the full potential. If someone beats it then of course I'll try again. Maybe All Levels is next? I need to get a PB that isn't chopped

4 June

Just ran the game for the first time in 3 weeks, getting a 1:14 in All Levels (PB is 1:11). I remade my splits for a different route with fewer level select inputs, which means that I can't compare against my PB or Moizt's WR, but I like this route better. WR attempts soon after some practice?

24 May

24 May

100% Glitched may sound like a natural follow up, but I would want to do it justice. WR has a lot of potential with getting more treasures OoB, and finding a faster coin farm for midgame. This research would probably be a bigger undertaking than I did for Glitchless. Idk if I'd do that anytime soon

14 May

I got the world record! It mostly came down to not getting any punishing picture panel games (compared to my previous PB), although I still did make some mistakes. This run was pretty good, but I still want to see if I can get 2:34 or at least 2:35. video: chargedgarlic.net/video.php?id...

14 May

@werster.bsky.social gg

5 May

Forgot to post earlier but I am closer to WR now! Early game splits will be a bit tougher to run against since I grinded for coins for like 4 fewer minutes, but there's a couple timelosses later that I'd love to even out. Going away for a week starting Wed so let's hope rust doesn't settle in 😸

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

at the end of March I did a lot of route testing and timing for WL2 100% (to know which coins to get, since they're used for required minigames), and now that K-STAR is over I can devote time to attempts. My first completed run is 2nd place, but it's pretty bad and WR is ~13 minutes away

2 May

1 May

Unlucky

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

Final submission roster: Wario Land II Main Story Glitchless race with SK Streets of Rogue Any% Co-op with 3 others Scribblenauts Any% No Repeat and All Levels Wario Land 3 Any%, Any% NMS and Glitchless

1 May

I'll try again in 6 months I guess. Maybe same stuff maybe not

29 Apr

Post-relay runback. Biggest issue here was losing cutter in 6-6. Run was okay otherwise; getting a 44 would still be nice. This doesn't even move me up on the leaderboard (it's a tie lawl) 📼▶️ chargedgarlic.net/video.php?id...

3 Apr

Lawl I guess I'm deleting my defunct GitHub pages website. Hope that doesn't cause any broken links

its me, im kris@imkrisyim.com

new github update automatically enables scraping your code for copilot 😍☺️ change it under settings > copilot > features > privacy

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

Okay actually I'm submitting Wario Land 3 as well (all 3 Any% categories). Unfortunately I don't have great videos for Unrestricted or Glitchless but oh well, might post commentate if I have time. Derusting WL3 may prove difficult, regardless of category, but it would still be cool to run I think 🤔

1 Apr

I considered doing more post commentary for the two categories I tacked on with just a PB video (with very little on stream talking), but I didn't actually make time for that. It's probably alright, they at least have NMS to watch. This is something I can still fix for the next event later if I want

I also have submitted Scribblenauts (Any% No Repeat Levels, and All Levels), since sources are telling me that more games is more chances to get in, and it won't hurt chances of my priority submissions getting in if they weren't meant to be.

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social

Submitted for SGDQ26: Wario Land II Main Story Glitchless (race with swordsmankirby) and Streets of Rogue Any% Co-op (with CMOJoker, RifeXD and enbyzee, same group and submission as last time). We'll see how it goes. Probably won't submit anything else this time but I have a week to change my mind

Soap@soapagent.bsky.social