Soooooo Sorry :(

Can't make myself write fanfic rn! Darb just improved it again! So no episode this week, sorry! Too Excited!

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Tomorrow's Episode of "darbian: A Fanfic" will discuss his current Mario record, favorite sports team, and celebrity dates (or not)! 

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Speedrunning Fanfiction: darbian!

 
DARBIAN~THE BEGINNINGS (https://go.twitch.tv/darbian {Super Mario Bros Speedrunner} fanfic pt. 1)                                                     

The anxious young boy had been a gamer all of his life, but until now, he hadn’t felt like he was any good. He’d always played RPG and platformer games, and having a special fondness for the Super Mario series, he would always amaze his friends in Nintendo games. A 90s kid and a nerd through and through, Brad was not very good at socializing. He was an introvert, and after he got a degree in software engineering from Virginia Tech, he decided to settle down and get a steady job in his native state of Virginia.

One day, Brad was browsing the internet and he saw something about an event, known as AGDQ (Awesome Games Done Quick). It was a speedrunning marathon for charity, and Brad began to watch. He was amazed at the skill of the players, and he decided he wanted to get into speedrunning himself. He entered a contest with a number of games listed, and he decided to learn a childhood favorite: the all-levels or “warpless” category of the original Super Mario Bros. He started streaming on Twitch, but he was very shy and only did races. He began to get better at the game, but he was still insecure. He decided to take a break from Mario for a while. He started speedrunning bad games like California Raisins, and Wally Bear and the NO! Gang. His stream began to grow, and he was finally making real friends who had similar interests!

Sometime later, Brad was feeling especially tired and anxious. He had had a long day at work, and he went home and looked in his refrigerator. He was very thirsty and he didn’t want any coffee. He found some local chocolate milk in the refrigerator and poured himself a glass. As he drank, he had a strange feeling. He began to feel stronger, more energized. He started up his game of Super Mario Bros and decided to learn the Any% (fastest possible completion) category of the game.

As he kept playing, he began to get better and better. Eventually, after consuming a lot of chocolate milk, Brad, or darbian as he was now known was able to get two 4:57s in the same week! This was insanely good for a young boy! It was close to the world record, which was held by blubbler, and it had beat andrewg’s obsolete 4:58 times.

Ah, andrewg. He was a hero to darbian, and considered “the Mario god” by many speedrunners. He had been unrivaled for many years. He beat the game legitimately, without using any cheat codes (or chocolate milk). For that matter, he was so good, that he could juggle with his hands while playing Mario with his feet! (True story!) His superpower was extremely good hand-eye coordination. His kryptonite: anxiety and mood swings. One day he would be confident, and the next day he would be discouraged. But he pushed through without the sugar.

Darbian continued lowering his time, and in October of 2015, he broke the Super Mario Bros record with a time of 4:57.627. He was able to defy the odds, with a little help from andrewg and chocolate milk. This was the first of many achievements by darbian, the new superhero who fights internet trolls by having amazing legitimate runs, and fights world depression by entertaining the masses! With help from his chocolate milk he is able to do anything! Just don’t get him Chinese food—it makes him sick!

[I hope you all enjoyed it! Most of it was real, and a few parts were made up! I hope to release a new episode every Friday-ish. Anyway, this laid the ground for future episodes. I hope that in the future I can dive into his more recent accomplishments, his ongoing endeavors, his relationships (nonexistent) and even his facial hair status (too beardy)! Enjoy!]

My letter to GDQ

For those of you who don’t know. Games Done Quick is a biannual speedrunning event. I have had issues with some of their desciaions for a while, abs I think the event is getting too big (which is great, cuz it’s all for charity!) but I had some suggestions. Here goes: