My Insane Pace

11: Pac – Speedrun.com

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Pac, the chill AF founder of Speedrun.com stops in this week to talk about speedrunning, creating the site, and traveling the world.

Check out his stuff:

Pac -> Twitch | Twitter | Youtube

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  • Shoutouts to David Wise for composing the track that Pac requested as his outro. Check it out here.

    • Download link here -> http://traffic.libsyn.com/myinsanepace/MIP11.mp3

     

    Show Notes

     

    1:40 – How did you get into speedrunning?

    • Shoutouts to TAS videos on Youtube
    • Shoutouts to SilentSlayers
    • Shoutouts to Siglemic
    • Shoutouts to Mario 1 (Pac’s best run)

      • 3:30 – What gave you the idea to start speedrun.com?

      • Shoutouts to The Guinness Book of World Records
      • Shoutouts to RWhiteGoose (former guest on the show)
      • Shoutouts to The Elite
      • Shoutouts to SRL (Trihex’s first forum post. TWELVE years ago)

        • 7:00 – Did you make the site yourself?

        • Shoutouts to Domain Parking

          • 9:20 – Why did you think the domain name was worth 3.5 large?

          • Shoutouts to Korean Porn (google it yourself)
          • Shoutouts to Kirkq
          • Shoutouts to Linater? (can’t find Mr. Linator :(. Let me know if you have something @ALTInsiderFY)
          • Shoutouts to Teaching English in Japan (my former job as well as Pac’s)

            • 14:25 – Is speedrun.com your full time job now?

            • Shoutouts to ESA
            • Shoutouts to acmlm and his forum (first version went down, this is second version)

              • 18:40 – What do you think about Oceanside?

              • Shoutouts to the Oceanside (and former guest Apollo Legend)

                • 20:37 – Still room for growth in Speedrunning?

                • Shoutouts to Summoning Salt (former guest)
                • Shoutouts to TrevPerson
                • Shoutouts to Averagetrey

                  • 22:50 – Ending Speech +

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