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Now about some more 'niche' things I tend to and software I use for it: Speedrunning and acting as a moderator/verifier for several games on speedrun.com.

To retime runs to the frame I use Shotcut. To download the runs from people's YouTube channels I use YouTube Downloader. Both are available for Linux & work perfectly well.

I also tried out speedrunning on Ubuntu. I managed to install OBS and recorded several sessions without issue. Then I used OpenShot to cut the footage. I also tried out Krita to create a thumbnail. Everything worked fine, it didn't take too long to get used to the last two even though I'm used to Movavi and Photoshop. I didn't actually use the thumbnail I made in Krita because it looks so much less refined than my Photoshop thumbnails! 😂 But it works. And everything's free.

Recorded and cut on Linux: youtu.be/0MPeQ-WPOfU?si=-CBDZo

Enjoy the makeshift thumbnail I didn't end up uploading. 🤣 (Now that I'm looking at it again it's not even that bad.)

Summer Games Done Quick has officially begun! The first game - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Genesis - just started!

Summer Games Done Quick is an annual speedrunning marathon bringing you amazing games around the clock for 6 1/2 days (18:30 Sunday - ~05:30 Sunday CEST) while raising money for Doctors Without Borders.

Watch it live on twitch.tv/gamesdonequick or gamesdonequick.com ; or catch up on past runs on their YouTube channel!

Check the schedule if there's a game you like and give it a watch. There's great commentary so even if you generally don't enjoy speedruns it might still be interesting to you.

TwitchGamesDoneQuick - TwitchSummer Games Done Quick 2025 - Benefiting Doctors Without Borders - Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Welcome to the final day of PUWP 2025! We have just passed $4000 raised for truecolorsunited.org/ - thanks everyone so much for your generosity! We have a stacked lineup for the final day, so be sure to take a look at the schedule!

WATCH: twitch.tv/powerupwithpride
Schedule: schedule.powerupwithpride.org/
Donations/Incentives: tiltify.com/+power-up-with-pri

True Colors UnitedHome - True Colors United

folks, I do not at all regret to report that the speedrunners are at it again. a good, reasonably technical but not inaccessible recap of the latest Mario-related nonsense youtube.com/watch?v=WdadpHLAfdA

(note, because this is confusing for people not deep in the fandom: Super Mario Bros Lost Levels is a separate game cartridge that uses the same graphics and engine as Super Mario Bros 1. It was sold in Japan as SMB2, while the west got a Mario-themed reskin of a completely different, less nightmarishly difficult platformer as SMB2. It was then released in the west a few years later as part of a master collection under the name Lost Levels.)