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What are the chances you would be able to do the Uncharted 2 any% record? I know it’s old, but the guy Erims on UA-cam has a phenomenal video with commentary that would be awesome for you to cover!
hey everyone! first, i just want to say thanks to tomatoanus for getting us involved in this video - it was super fun to work with him on and he was *very* accomodating of all our little nitpicks. now with that out of the way, here's a little bit more background on the technical side of this run. almost every explanation in this video is entirely accurate. there were a few white lies we had to put in places to make it easier to explain (e.g. some of the FCPS explanation is a bit hand-wavey) but there's nothing really any more than that. that said, a lot of the details are obviously elided. there are tricks in this run that it'd take several hours to explain in full (which of course isn't feasible for a video like this) - and bear in mind that any% is one of the conceptually *simpler* categories! the only trick in this run which isn't currently well-understood by us technically-minded folk is actually the very first one: vault skip. we vaguely understand the conditions for getting it, and runners are pretty good at it nowadays, but the technical details behind the skip still aren't entirely clear. a few of us (in particular UncraftedName) are working on tearing apart the game code based on what we do know to figure out the details, but it's a pretty weird one. if you're interested in keeping up with the run, or have any questions about it, join the portal speedrunning discord at discord.gg/gQ285vS! if you have questions on the technical details of certain tricks or anything, please do ask in the #reverse-engineering channel - it's honestly quite rewarding to explain the hell that is this game to other people, so don't be scared to ask us about it. (be warned you might get about 3 times more info than you expect) thanks again to tomatoanus for making this video! i hope y'all found it interesting :D
Do you know why he went with a segmented run as opposed to the wr run? Did tomato or can’t even want to do that? Wr run isn’t full of mistakes or anything
@@the1barbarian781 I don't know, you'd have to ask them, I'm guessing: a) to avoid some mistakes in wr (I don't remember off the top of my head but there might be some errors which would confuse a first time viewer) b) the only video of the run has facecam, and demo playback is kinda bad (I suspect it's mainly this one)
@@bluelemon243 superwarps are a new form of FCPS abuse discovered after that video came out. The basic idea is as follows. Imagine you have save glitch, and don't have collision with a wall. That means you're able to stand inside it. Then, move your portal onto the outside of that wall, a bit below you. This makes it so that you suddenly _do_ have collision with the wall you're standing inside. Because you're stuck and in a portal environment, FCPS is triggered by VPhysicsShadowUpdate, trying to free you from the wall. The indecisive push vector is the difference between your bbox origins. Initially, your bboxes are perfectly synced, meaning this vector is 0, so you don't move, and FCPS fails - that means it teleports you 10% of the distance to your save glitch portal, which is below you. Now, like the FCPS video talks about, only your qphys (red) box teleports, while your vphys (yellow) one stays where it is for a bit; this means when FCPS is next run, the indecisive push vector is upwards, so FCPS pushes you on top of the wall. Do this a couple of times to scale the different parts of the wall, and you have the 10 superwarp, taking you from floor level to the top of the whole map!
I absolutely love that he spends about 30 minutes explaining mechanics and then when the run starts he has to include notes still about what specific things are called or why it's called Under Elevator 3. And he still included his positive message. Love this guy
Why are you writing like you're replying to a post he'll never see on another website about this video? You're replying to his video, on his channel. Write to him like you're talking to him like everyone else does and have done forever. What you're doing now is like you and tomatoanus is standing in a room with other people, all facing him and you're talking to the other people like he's not there and can't hear you. It's so weird how you managed to be so disrespectful with such a positive comment. I really don't understand how you've failed to understand something this simple.
You did a great job explaining the glitches and I felt like I would understand whats happening. Then the speed run starts for real and holy shit it felt like you were narrating in a foreign language while we're on an acid trip. Mad respect to speedrunners for doing this, it always feels like magic. And thank you for your great narration and videos, I always look forward to them.
Bro you don’t need to explain the length of your videos to nobody! Thank god they are longer than the run! I watch because I love your content and presentation. I can’t and will probably never speedrun anything nor do I want to, but I find it interesting and your explanations give me insight to a world I’ll never be a part of! Don’t worry about those comments, those are just common folks… you know… idiots! 😊 Do you bro!
I rather have a 45 minute video explain how something was done in detail to understand. Than a 5 minute video with tons of rushed information, misinformation and just oversimplified "and they did black magic" type of explanations.
I would love if anyone who bitches about having the explanation before the run remakes this video only explaining things during the run. You know, since they are obviously able to do it because they are complaining that tomato should.
My man gave an extraordinary explanation of one of the most complicated speedruns in history, and had time to give words of encouragement while explaining the run. Absolute Giga Chad
5 minute speed run, 35 minutes to explain, this gonna be good. edit: I feel called out, not going to complain about a longer video. Look forward to all the tech.
My foot in my mouth is an idiom. It means to say or do something that you should not have. I feel like this need clarification, I do not want any part of op in and or around my mouth. 😂😂
Suggestion: Next time you have to front load a video with all the glitch explanations, put a list of them on screen and check them off just like you do with the sections of the run. That would help people keep track of were they are in the intro segment, and give us a head start learning the glitch names and acronyms.
@thereseachwisp Yeah, that would be super helpful! And if he did that, it should be fairly easy to add segments to the video with the names of each technique so we can jump back to re-watch one of them. I found myself wanting to do that after he showed the actual run. Great video though overall 😄
@@littlebuchI don’t think so… I thought I remembered him mentioning it in passing while explaining something else, but it was pretty quick, and I can’t find it. Either way, I didn’t really understand what it allowed, whereas the rest of the explanations were super clear.
I just wanna say I always appreciate your mental health breaks during your videos, the one in this video almost had me crying and I’d like to lovingly thank you for putting those kind words out in a world where hate is the normal.
its such a rare and brave choice, but i very much appreciate that he includes these breaks. i really needed to hear the one in this video. its so so special.
I cannot wrap my head around people who assume an explanation of a speedrun would be the exact length of said speedrun. Love the videos my man, length is never an issue:D
they can be broken down into (1) literal children, (2) mental children, and (3) people dim enough to think they were the first to think of it as a joke
Technically the explanation of the speedrun was the entire length of it, it was just the glossary of terms that needed defining beforehand that took the time. And good luck trying to understand without that lmao.
@laxxboy20 …Why engage in this faux-pedantry? Much of the point of this series is including the glitches as part of the explanation. It takes longer than the speedrun, as the video states outright.
Man the tech in this run just went straight over my head and I felt like I could not keep up in the slightest with needing to process so much stuff at once, yet I think I still got most of it... Also you're absolutely right there is a tomorrow, thanks for reminding me, I needed that
Both Portal Games, and Half-Life 2 have some of the coolest speedruns I've seen. Excited to finish this video. I'd love to see you tackle Half-Life 2 any% runs.. I used to run it myself, and still remember the hay-day of the Gocnak era.
Just taking a moment to appreciate this channel for the best and clearest explanations to some of the most broken speedruns you can find online. As someone who absolutely adores technical explanations to glitches in video games and seeing how absolutely broken Portal speedruns were but never understanding how, seeing tomatoanus taking his time to talk with a bunch of top speedrunners and routers to collect all the strats and glitches and bundle it up in one video gives for the best content on UA-cam imo It doesn't matter how fast you speak, how dense or long the video is, cause you are damn right I'll be rewatching this video from start to finish several times whenever it pops up in my recommended.
Also its really nice to always have a mention of mental health and just a moment to recognize that, at first the genuine emotion made me feel weird but thats just cause its hard to actually admit that things CAN get better
i know i'm a year late, but i really needed that talk at the end. i had a pretty bad day and that lifted me up a lot. thank you, random youtuber i just discovered!
I'm involved in most major Source engine runs (Half-Life, Portal, and Titanfall [yes, Titanfall counts]), and the sheer fact that you're able to explain complex tech in an approachable way is insane. Been enjoying your work for a long time, keep it up.
This was mind melting, this could easily have been an hour long video if you explained even slightly slower or went into some of the tech even deeper, crazy how complicated this speedrun is
Wow. I really needed to hear that message near the end of the video. Thank you. I was just lead on by someone, and I'm hurting fairly badly, I had a lot of feelings for this person, and had just found out about an hour ago that nothings going to continue forward. Your video is really good and worth the sub alone, but that message sealed the deal for me. Thank you again.
When I first started watching your vids, I felt a little sceptical about the "no feeling is final" part. I didn't think it did anything, although I still thought you were good for trying it. Today I broke down and cried at that part. Now that I'm going through tough times, I finally understand how these words can help someone. Thank you
Thank you for this. When I first watched a Portal speedrun, I had no idea what was going on. Also thank you for always including the encouraging message in all your videos. A lot of the time I forget before watching the video that you always put them in, and there's been at least one time for me when it played at just the right time that it was needed, and really helped remind me to get back in control of my mental state.
This guy is amazing, fuckin love him. His videos are formal yet still funny because he puts in jokes and stuff, he's just given me pretty good life advice and he's explained the ins and outs of Portal oob%. You just got a new subscriber mate
I don't know if you actually read your comments, but I just wanna say that I absolutely adore your commitment to including your "no feeling is final" sentiment into every video. I came to your channel far past the point in my life when I would have needed that the most, but whenever I here that message, it always comes at a point that is jarring enough that it can genuinely strike an emotional chord with me, but casual enough that it seamlessly flows back into the video. It's kind of bizarre as well, because your channel almost looks kind of memey and random from a cursory glance, but there's so much positivity and thoughtfulness that shines through your work. Sometimes it comes in apparent ways, and sometimes its in details subtle enough that I can't even explain it.
i really appreciate that you always make sure there's some section of the run where you've already explained everything so there's nothing interesting to bring up, and you take a chunk to just like. talk about mental health? i don't think i am struggling in that regard? but every time i hear one of those sections it just... brings a smile to my face. i love that.
i kept waiting for the sentimental part where you give us kind words of encouragement. I began to lose hope until you said, "I hope you have an above average day." I instantly felt relief, even though the video had ended already. Thank you for everything that you do. The jokes, the tech, the feels. It's all so important, and I'm grateful that there is content like yours and people like you in the world.
tomato your motivational messages are always really nice but this one hit harder than normal. I've really been going through it recently so I really appreciate those words of reassurance, thanks man.
The times you talk and end with “no feeling is final,” I wanted to say thank you, every time you put these in videos it makes me tear up and at times cry. It means a lot to me and just to hear it is helpful
You know, each and every one of these videos you make the more i love gaming, the devs definitely meant for save loading, out of bounds portals, and backwards acceleration to then beat their game in 5 minutes, and your description of it all is the best part. Keep making great content and please make more of these.
Lucky for us Mr Anus doesn't require breathing while talking resulting in a much smoother listening experience during his videos We call it the "no breath speedrun narration"
Hey tomatoanus, love your videos! Just want to say that I happened to be watching one of your videos the other day when I was having a pretty rough time, nothing for anyone to be too worried about but still it was a pretty low week. Anyways, your regular mental health interlude kicked in and honestly it was really nice to hear. Can't say that it completely 180'd my mood and improved my week, but it gave me a small lift when I needed it and I really appreciated that. Thanks for always putting those segments in your videos. They do make a difference.
Please do more portal run explanations, I absolutely adore the portal series and your videos are amazing. I'd watch hours of you explaining every single category of both games if it was available
This is the first video of yours I've saw, and I must say, I love the format. The preliminary explanation got into all the technical details that I find very interesting in speedruns, and were a great setup for the actual run explanation. I never thought somebody would be able to explain a Portal OOB run on the go, but you absolutely did it.
your videos are some of my favorite things to watch not only on youtube but period and having this to watch after i jus made my favorite food is amazing thanks for making these and taking the time to have them be so high quality. ive been watching since your GDQ fallout all games run, it was amazing i always love the message you put in every video about mental health im sure it helps a lot of people i know it has helped me a few times thanks
The explanations for all the glitches used in this run went in through one ear and out through the other for me. I am not smart enough to understand Source spaghetti.
OMG. I've watched portal speedruns had had literally no friggin' idea what they were doing (like WTF did you just shoot at and WHY did it actually work?!). The saveglitch portal explanation puts it all in perspective, though!
Finally I was able to (almost) understand the speedruns. Also, the narration of the speedrun was on another level even including a positive speech. I mean, the explanations themselves were borderline understandable for me (if I was to try the techniques myself along it would probably be easier) but then the speedrun kicked in with narration at FULL SPEED and my brain just froze. But thanks to this I had at least some idea of what was going on
What the heck. The run starts at 25:34! XD There was such a dense amount of complex portal science to explain. Incredible job to everyone that worked on this to even grasp the possibility of remembering all that!
My life is actually going kind of okay right now, but there have been times when it wasn't. I was watching your videos at some of those times too. Your "No feeling is final" messages are very nice to hear on both sides of it.
Imagine coming into a tomato video and being like "bro why is this video so long? He must be milking it for run time!" Nah you do you man. Love your breakdowns.
30:35 Actually love that you put these messages in your videos. Love your content, but putting those types of messages in will be the reason I'll always be a fan. Thanks.
Yeah you definitely made the right call with the script, my brain just stopped working at some point when I realized you've been abreviating for the past two minutes. 😅😅 great vid mate, keep em coming! Love from Finland.
yo this commentary is some of the best explanations for the portal 1 glitches ive ever seen these glitches are seriously complex and hard to understand but the save glitch explanation in particular is an incredibly intuitive way to explain it well done!
it's been a little while since I've watched one of your videos and forgot about the no feeling is final part. I needed that recently. thank you for making these videos, you're a legend
The explanations for all the tech were so good that I felt I could actually follow this run really well in realtime and understand a good amount of the moves that were being done. Half an hour ago I knew nothing about Portal speed tech! Great video as per.
This has to be one of the most technical breakdowns by far. Very impressive that people were able to decipher all of this stuff and that you all were able to make it fairly easy to understand.
Dear god, people out here studying this game's speedrunning tech like it's a legitimate field of study _for fun_ while I can barely summon the energy to finish most games I play.
just two days ago i was watching other Portal and Portal 2 videos and i ended up replaying both games. such a masterpiece series. and now we have a video on Portal speedrun by tomatoanus himself. great job, thank you
Amazing video, I always loved watching portal speedruns as it's a flashy display of glitches but it's the first time I actually get a detailed explanation of them. And it still goes too fast in game to actually understand what's going on, but that's on me !
I think this is the first of your speedrun commentaries I've watched that literally gave me a headache trying to wrap my head around it. Kudos to Can't Even, because I can't...even...errr...
13:53 i LOVE this! i had to pause, read & think for a few seconds before it dawned on me "they had to stop the physics engine from doing it's thing in 1 location, and re-do the math oh my god how the HELL do you even achieve that?!?! JEEZ"
Love how this video was made, im 100% ok with more tomato, I love falling asleep to your gdq fallout run just love how calming it is for me, and love your messages every video
You do such a great job presenting explanations of speedruns. Very thorough and ensuring to actually get a proper explanation from those who know. And upi dp a very commendable job citing your sources too. Great job as always!
Always great quality from tomatoanus. Love the Bully and Baba is You background music as well. These two games have some great ambient/background music.
As someone who's spent the last decade accepting that Portal speedruns will just be incomprehensible to me, I was really excited and incredulous to see this vid pop up in my subscription feed. And I was really into it and following all the excellent explanations for the first 25 minutes; then the actual run started and I was instantly lost and confused again. But in a good way. Kudos for your rapid-fire acronym delivery and somehow conforming a script to the absolute wizardry on display.
After seeing so many Portal speedruns, which was one of the games that got me into watching speedruns, I finally understand it! Thank you for the awesome video as always!
Even as someone who did portal speedruns a few years back the run portion was still hard to keep up with at times lmao. It's incredible how far this game has come
Never saw this video before and it just got recommended to me and I must say that I absolutely love how there is a 35 minutes video explaining a 5 minutes speedrun.
I would LOVE to watch portal developers reacting to this video. I am so impressed by the sheer amount of game knowledge that the running community has gathered on this game. It's so cool!
Even WITH the 25 minute long explanation of the speedrun strats, the actual run is an absolute god-damn whirlwind with Acronyms flying left and right. I love it!
imagine what GLaDOS (GLAdOS? GLADoS?) would be thinking while this is happening. like imagine checking up on your faithful test subject only to find her flipping in and out of reality at will
I like the structure of this video. Most of it is pretty much explaining the rules. Then you're suddenly thrown into the deep end and expected to keep up.
Honestly the part of the video where you commentate the speedrun is so technically dense and full of strategy, I personally think it's amazing you managed to condense a college course of tech into 30 minutes
Your explanation is really awesome. Even though Portal 1 glitches can be quite complex to explain I understood how everything you explained before the speedrun works. During the speedrun you turned my brain into potato mush though. And I loved it. I really appreciate the positive messages in your videos. Mental health is such an important topic and its so unbelievably good to hear something like this.
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Do amongus speed run pls
@@complimentbot7015 Amongus pregnancy speedrun please
Bro really went out and explained for 5min why his video is 35min instead of 5min
You should see if you can get a conversation with the guys who run airboat %. EZScape showed it briefly and it's a good meme.
What are the chances you would be able to do the Uncharted 2 any% record? I know it’s old, but the guy Erims on UA-cam has a phenomenal video with commentary that would be awesome for you to cover!
you know it's gonna be good when the video is 7 times longer than the actual speedrun
Honestly yes, same.
my first thought clicking on this
You're spot on, and it was. Best shit I've seen, and I said as much. The run was epic.
@Boco Corwin Yo, fresh new copypasta just dropped.
Worst thing is it could probably be waaaay longer as well!
hey everyone! first, i just want to say thanks to tomatoanus for getting us involved in this video - it was super fun to work with him on and he was *very* accomodating of all our little nitpicks. now with that out of the way, here's a little bit more background on the technical side of this run.
almost every explanation in this video is entirely accurate. there were a few white lies we had to put in places to make it easier to explain (e.g. some of the FCPS explanation is a bit hand-wavey) but there's nothing really any more than that.
that said, a lot of the details are obviously elided. there are tricks in this run that it'd take several hours to explain in full (which of course isn't feasible for a video like this) - and bear in mind that any% is one of the conceptually *simpler* categories!
the only trick in this run which isn't currently well-understood by us technically-minded folk is actually the very first one: vault skip. we vaguely understand the conditions for getting it, and runners are pretty good at it nowadays, but the technical details behind the skip still aren't entirely clear. a few of us (in particular UncraftedName) are working on tearing apart the game code based on what we do know to figure out the details, but it's a pretty weird one.
if you're interested in keeping up with the run, or have any questions about it, join the portal speedrunning discord at discord.gg/gQ285vS! if you have questions on the technical details of certain tricks or anything, please do ask in the #reverse-engineering channel - it's honestly quite rewarding to explain the hell that is this game to other people, so don't be scared to ask us about it. (be warned you might get about 3 times more info than you expect)
thanks again to tomatoanus for making this video! i hope y'all found it interesting :D
Do you know why he went with a segmented run as opposed to the wr run? Did tomato or can’t even want to do that? Wr run isn’t full of mistakes or anything
@@the1barbarian781 I don't know, you'd have to ask them, I'm guessing:
a) to avoid some mistakes in wr (I don't remember off the top of my head but there might be some errors which would confuse a first time viewer)
b) the only video of the run has facecam, and demo playback is kinda bad (I suspect it's mainly this one)
@@mlugg5499 it was to get a higher quality video with less mistakes and without face cam and such
Can you try explain in more details what happened in chamber 10 ? (I watch the 2 houre long video on fcps)
@@bluelemon243 superwarps are a new form of FCPS abuse discovered after that video came out. The basic idea is as follows.
Imagine you have save glitch, and don't have collision with a wall. That means you're able to stand inside it. Then, move your portal onto the outside of that wall, a bit below you. This makes it so that you suddenly _do_ have collision with the wall you're standing inside. Because you're stuck and in a portal environment, FCPS is triggered by VPhysicsShadowUpdate, trying to free you from the wall. The indecisive push vector is the difference between your bbox origins. Initially, your bboxes are perfectly synced, meaning this vector is 0, so you don't move, and FCPS fails - that means it teleports you 10% of the distance to your save glitch portal, which is below you. Now, like the FCPS video talks about, only your qphys (red) box teleports, while your vphys (yellow) one stays where it is for a bit; this means when FCPS is next run, the indecisive push vector is upwards, so FCPS pushes you on top of the wall. Do this a couple of times to scale the different parts of the wall, and you have the 10 superwarp, taking you from floor level to the top of the whole map!
It's nice to know that the speed running community for Portal is... *Still Alive.*
Yes, I used roughly the exact same comment as the one I made for Mirror's Edge. I find that hilarious.
what's wild is i actually remember that comment
@@tomatoanus Of course you did, because you're awesome!
@@trygveplaustrum4634 No you're awesome!
@@Leftbehind47 no you’re awesome
I absolutely love that he spends about 30 minutes explaining mechanics and then when the run starts he has to include notes still about what specific things are called or why it's called Under Elevator 3. And he still included his positive message. Love this guy
The videos are so fucking satisfying for someone who likes speedruns but can't really participate outside of learning about them like this.
Why are you writing like you're replying to a post he'll never see on another website about this video? You're replying to his video, on his channel. Write to him like you're talking to him like everyone else does and have done forever. What you're doing now is like you and tomatoanus is standing in a room with other people, all facing him and you're talking to the other people like he's not there and can't hear you.
It's so weird how you managed to be so disrespectful with such a positive comment. I really don't understand how you've failed to understand something this simple.
@@randallbrush7433 Marcus Lindgren seems like a loser with some pretty based opinions.
@@MuscarV2 chill dude
@@MuscarV2 Worlds most insane youtube commenter has entered the chat
You did a great job explaining the glitches and I felt like I would understand whats happening. Then the speed run starts for real and holy shit it felt like you were narrating in a foreign language while we're on an acid trip. Mad respect to speedrunners for doing this, it always feels like magic. And thank you for your great narration and videos, I always look forward to them.
Exactly. His examples were easy enough to follow, but I gave up trying to understand the actual run.
Bro you don’t need to explain the length of your videos to nobody! Thank god they are longer than the run! I watch because I love your content and presentation. I can’t and will probably never speedrun anything nor do I want to, but I find it interesting and your explanations give me insight to a world I’ll never be a part of! Don’t worry about those comments, those are just common folks… you know… idiots! 😊 Do you bro!
Top tier blazing saddles reference. 10/10
I rather have a 45 minute video explain how something was done in detail to understand.
Than a 5 minute video with tons of rushed information, misinformation and just oversimplified "and they did black magic" type of explanations.
@@l9m241 exactly! if I was here only for the speedrun, I’d watch the damn 5 minute speedrun video. I’m here to learn how the speedrun skips work.
top tier quality
I would love if anyone who bitches about having the explanation before the run remakes this video only explaining things during the run. You know, since they are obviously able to do it because they are complaining that tomato should.
My man gave an extraordinary explanation of one of the most complicated speedruns in history, and had time to give words of encouragement while explaining the run. Absolute Giga Chad
I for one, appreciate it taking 7 times as long to explain a speedrun that's only 5 minutes. Thank you for the great video!
5 minute speed run, 35 minutes to explain, this gonna be good. edit: I feel called out, not going to complain about a longer video. Look forward to all the tech.
I saw your comment before the edit lmao, you're not being called out, you were just as excited as most of us
You need to add “inmymouth” to the end of your name man. 😂😂
@@joeisawesomeo 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨📸📸📸📸📸
My foot in my mouth is an idiom. It means to say or do something that you should not have. I feel like this need clarification, I do not want any part of op in and or around my mouth. 😂😂
@@joeisawesomeo that's just what you want OP to believe 😂
Suggestion: Next time you have to front load a video with all the glitch explanations, put a list of them on screen and check them off just like you do with the sections of the run. That would help people keep track of were they are in the intro segment, and give us a head start learning the glitch names and acronyms.
Did he ever explain save glitch preserve? I have no idea why he is doing it.
@thereseachwisp Yeah, that would be super helpful! And if he did that, it should be fairly easy to add segments to the video with the names of each technique so we can jump back to re-watch one of them. I found myself wanting to do that after he showed the actual run. Great video though overall 😄
@@littlebuchI don’t think so… I thought I remembered him mentioning it in passing while explaining something else, but it was pretty quick, and I can’t find it. Either way, I didn’t really understand what it allowed, whereas the rest of the explanations were super clear.
I just wanna say I always appreciate your mental health breaks during your videos, the one in this video almost had me crying and I’d like to lovingly thank you for putting those kind words out in a world where hate is the normal.
I teared up. It felt really good to hear it.
Honestly took me completely by surprise. It meant a lot, definitely subscribing now.
its such a rare and brave choice, but i very much appreciate that he includes these breaks. i really needed to hear the one in this video. its so so special.
Hate isn't the normal. People are just softer and focus on it nowadays instead of just ignoring it.
Yeah that elevated the run for me, I did not know this was his style. Highly commendable.
I cannot wrap my head around people who assume an explanation of a speedrun would be the exact length of said speedrun. Love the videos my man, length is never an issue:D
they can be broken down into
(1) literal children,
(2) mental children, and
(3) people dim enough to think they were the first to think of it as a joke
Technically the explanation of the speedrun was the entire length of it, it was just the glossary of terms that needed defining beforehand that took the time. And good luck trying to understand without that lmao.
@laxxboy20 …Why engage in this faux-pedantry? Much of the point of this series is including the glitches as part of the explanation. It takes longer than the speedrun, as the video states outright.
Man the tech in this run just went straight over my head and I felt like I could not keep up in the slightest with needing to process so much stuff at once, yet I think I still got most of it...
Also you're absolutely right there is a tomorrow, thanks for reminding me, I needed that
Hope you're doing alright, stranger. I'll keep you in my prayers.
Both Portal Games, and Half-Life 2 have some of the coolest speedruns I've seen. Excited to finish this video.
I'd love to see you tackle Half-Life 2 any% runs.. I used to run it myself, and still remember the hay-day of the Gocnak era.
my young brain does not understand… what is Gocnak?
Just taking a moment to appreciate this channel for the best and clearest explanations to some of the most broken speedruns you can find online.
As someone who absolutely adores technical explanations to glitches in video games and seeing how absolutely broken Portal speedruns were but never understanding how, seeing tomatoanus taking his time to talk with a bunch of top speedrunners and routers to collect all the strats and glitches and bundle it up in one video gives for the best content on UA-cam imo
It doesn't matter how fast you speak, how dense or long the video is, cause you are damn right I'll be rewatching this video from start to finish several times whenever it pops up in my recommended.
Watching the FCPS function work is wild. Love the perspective it gives on how fast our PCs are doing math to provide us the games we love.
Also its really nice to always have a mention of mental health and just a moment to recognize that, at first the genuine emotion made me feel weird but thats just cause its hard to actually admit that things CAN get better
i know i'm a year late, but i really needed that talk at the end. i had a pretty bad day and that lifted me up a lot. thank you, random youtuber i just discovered!
I'm involved in most major Source engine runs (Half-Life, Portal, and Titanfall [yes, Titanfall counts]), and the sheer fact that you're able to explain complex tech in an approachable way is insane.
Been enjoying your work for a long time, keep it up.
This was mind melting, this could easily have been an hour long video if you explained even slightly slower or went into some of the tech even deeper, crazy how complicated this speedrun is
I love how he has this inspirational-heartwarming message in the middle of canteven casually breaking the laws of physics
Wow. I really needed to hear that message near the end of the video. Thank you. I was just lead on by someone, and I'm hurting fairly badly, I had a lot of feelings for this person, and had just found out about an hour ago that nothings going to continue forward. Your video is really good and worth the sub alone, but that message sealed the deal for me. Thank you again.
When I first started watching your vids, I felt a little sceptical about the "no feeling is final" part. I didn't think it did anything, although I still thought you were good for trying it.
Today I broke down and cried at that part. Now that I'm going through tough times, I finally understand how these words can help someone.
Thank you
I hope life is treating you better these days
Thank you for this. When I first watched a Portal speedrun, I had no idea what was going on.
Also thank you for always including the encouraging message in all your videos. A lot of the time I forget before watching the video that you always put them in, and there's been at least one time for me when it played at just the right time that it was needed, and really helped remind me to get back in control of my mental state.
This guy is amazing, fuckin love him. His videos are formal yet still funny because he puts in jokes and stuff, he's just given me pretty good life advice and he's explained the ins and outs of Portal oob%. You just got a new subscriber mate
I don't know if you actually read your comments, but I just wanna say that I absolutely adore your commitment to including your "no feeling is final" sentiment into every video. I came to your channel far past the point in my life when I would have needed that the most, but whenever I here that message, it always comes at a point that is jarring enough that it can genuinely strike an emotional chord with me, but casual enough that it seamlessly flows back into the video. It's kind of bizarre as well, because your channel almost looks kind of memey and random from a cursory glance, but there's so much positivity and thoughtfulness that shines through your work. Sometimes it comes in apparent ways, and sometimes its in details subtle enough that I can't even explain it.
i really appreciate that you always make sure there's some section of the run where you've already explained everything so there's nothing interesting to bring up, and you take a chunk to just like. talk about mental health? i don't think i am struggling in that regard? but every time i hear one of those sections it just... brings a smile to my face. i love that.
i kept waiting for the sentimental part where you give us kind words of encouragement. I began to lose hope until you said, "I hope you have an above average day." I instantly felt relief, even though the video had ended already.
Thank you for everything that you do. The jokes, the tech, the feels. It's all so important, and I'm grateful that there is content like yours and people like you in the world.
tomato your motivational messages are always really nice but this one hit harder than normal. I've really been going through it recently so I really appreciate those words of reassurance, thanks man.
The times you talk and end with “no feeling is final,” I wanted to say thank you, every time you put these in videos it makes me tear up and at times cry. It means a lot to me and just to hear it is helpful
You know, each and every one of these videos you make the more i love gaming, the devs definitely meant for save loading, out of bounds portals, and backwards acceleration to then beat their game in 5 minutes, and your description of it all is the best part. Keep making great content and please make more of these.
Lucky for us Mr Anus doesn't require breathing while talking resulting in a much smoother listening experience during his videos
We call it the "no breath speedrun narration"
“no breath speedrun narration”
narration NoBreath% run!?
Hey tomatoanus, love your videos!
Just want to say that I happened to be watching one of your videos the other day when I was having a pretty rough time, nothing for anyone to be too worried about but still it was a pretty low week. Anyways, your regular mental health interlude kicked in and honestly it was really nice to hear. Can't say that it completely 180'd my mood and improved my week, but it gave me a small lift when I needed it and I really appreciated that.
Thanks for always putting those segments in your videos. They do make a difference.
Yeah its realy nice to allways hear it.
little things like that give me the boost to continue my day! glad someone else got the same experience
Notes (important parts):
3:48 abh/afh
6:07 saveload+fcps
13:35 saveglitch
20:08 seamshots
22:15 portal hole
23:27 vww+pqr
you left out the depression speech at 30:30 and when it ends and continues with the run at 31:01
Please do more portal run explanations, I absolutely adore the portal series and your videos are amazing. I'd watch hours of you explaining every single category of both games if it was available
Thank you for your kind words, they help
Just what I needed right now, a tomatoangus (the 'g' is silent) video of one of my favorite games of all time.
I’m going to travel back in time and show this video to a caveman.
Good work on the commentary for the actual speed run. Fast but easy to understand
Shoutout to the legendary person who cut out all the filler in the video with SponsorBlock.
This is definitely the most intense 30 minute video on the Internet
To any video length complainers that see this:
I hope the other side of your pillow is always warm and your socks are always wet.
Thanks for your videos. Also, the world needs more people like you.
This is the first video of yours I've saw, and I must say, I love the format. The preliminary explanation got into all the technical details that I find very interesting in speedruns, and were a great setup for the actual run explanation. I never thought somebody would be able to explain a Portal OOB run on the go, but you absolutely did it.
As a gamedev, it's so interesting seeing weird solutions to quite common problems in programming.
I love the technical explanation, and that visualization work is great.
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here, huge success. 👌🎂
your videos are some of my favorite things to watch not only on youtube but period and having this to watch after i jus made my favorite food is amazing thanks for making these and taking the time to have them be so high quality. ive been watching since your GDQ fallout all games run, it was amazing
i always love the message you put in every video about mental health im sure it helps a lot of people i know it has helped me a few times
thanks
The explanations for all the glitches used in this run went in through one ear and out through the other for me. I am not smart enough to understand Source spaghetti.
That was insane from start to finish, holy shit Tomato. Portal speedruns being the Dark Souls of speedruns is the only way I can describe it.
OMG. I've watched portal speedruns had had literally no friggin' idea what they were doing (like WTF did you just shoot at and WHY did it actually work?!). The saveglitch portal explanation puts it all in perspective, though!
Agreed! This is the first time I’ve truly grasped what was happening in a Portal speed run.
Finally I was able to (almost) understand the speedruns.
Also, the narration of the speedrun was on another level even including a positive speech.
I mean, the explanations themselves were borderline understandable for me (if I was to try the techniques myself along it would probably be easier) but then the speedrun kicked in with narration at FULL SPEED and my brain just froze.
But thanks to this I had at least some idea of what was going on
What the heck. The run starts at 25:34! XD
There was such a dense amount of complex portal science to explain.
Incredible job to everyone that worked on this to even grasp the possibility of remembering all that!
My life is actually going kind of okay right now, but there have been times when it wasn't. I was watching your videos at some of those times too. Your "No feeling is final" messages are very nice to hear on both sides of it.
Imagine coming into a tomato video and being like "bro why is this video so long? He must be milking it for run time!"
Nah you do you man. Love your breakdowns.
That cake/companion cube flex was very satisfying. Super cool that there's an actual room within the level that the cinematic cuts to!
30:35
Actually love that you put these messages in your videos.
Love your content, but putting those types of messages in will be the reason I'll always be a fan. Thanks.
Yeah you definitely made the right call with the script, my brain just stopped working at some point when I realized you've been abreviating for the past two minutes. 😅😅 great vid mate, keep em coming! Love from Finland.
Hyvaa paivaa suomalainen
Fun fact: the radio music is both my alarm and my ringtone, so I got a little jolt of urgency when I heard it, lmao
Me after tomatoanus' excellent breakdown: understanding this speedrun is going to be cake!
The speedrun: No.
Also the cake is a lie.
This is an official cease and desist from Aperture Science Legal Department. The cake is not a lie
yo this commentary is some of the best explanations for the portal 1 glitches ive ever seen
these glitches are seriously complex and hard to understand but the save glitch explanation in particular is an incredibly intuitive way to explain it
well done!
it's been a little while since I've watched one of your videos and forgot about the no feeling is final part. I needed that recently. thank you for making these videos, you're a legend
The explanations for all the tech were so good that I felt I could actually follow this run really well in realtime and understand a good amount of the moves that were being done. Half an hour ago I knew nothing about Portal speed tech! Great video as per.
You know, i was having a bad day but hearing his “no feeling is final” message was surprisingly comforting and made me feel better. Thanks man
Using portals the way they're designed twists my brain into knots. Watching the ghost shoot portals made something snap.
This has to be one of the most technical breakdowns by far. Very impressive that people were able to decipher all of this stuff and that you all were able to make it fairly easy to understand.
Really appreciate the message about mental health, hearing something like that over and over means a lot to me, and a lot of other people I'm sure
Dear god, people out here studying this game's speedrunning tech like it's a legitimate field of study _for fun_ while I can barely summon the energy to finish most games I play.
just two days ago i was watching other Portal and Portal 2 videos and i ended up replaying both games. such a masterpiece series. and now we have a video on Portal speedrun by tomatoanus himself. great job, thank you
Thanks for the encouraging message near the end… my dog just died, and I really needed that
Amazing video, I always loved watching portal speedruns as it's a flashy display of glitches but it's the first time I actually get a detailed explanation of them. And it still goes too fast in game to actually understand what's going on, but that's on me !
I think this is the first of your speedrun commentaries I've watched that literally gave me a headache trying to wrap my head around it. Kudos to Can't Even, because I can't...even...errr...
13:53 i LOVE this!
i had to pause, read & think for a few seconds before it dawned on me
"they had to stop the physics engine from doing it's thing in 1 location, and re-do the math oh my god how the HELL do you even achieve that?!?! JEEZ"
Love how this video was made, im 100% ok with more tomato, I love falling asleep to your gdq fallout run just love how calming it is for me, and love your messages every video
You do such a great job presenting explanations of speedruns. Very thorough and ensuring to actually get a proper explanation from those who know. And upi dp a very commendable job citing your sources too. Great job as always!
Always great quality from tomatoanus. Love the Bully and Baba is You background music as well. These two games have some great ambient/background music.
As someone who's spent the last decade accepting that Portal speedruns will just be incomprehensible to me, I was really excited and incredulous to see this vid pop up in my subscription feed. And I was really into it and following all the excellent explanations for the first 25 minutes; then the actual run started and I was instantly lost and confused again. But in a good way. Kudos for your rapid-fire acronym delivery and somehow conforming a script to the absolute wizardry on display.
35 minutes to explain a 5 min run?
Damnit, I was hoping it would take an hour.
Love your videos, man. Keep up the amazing work!
After seeing so many Portal speedruns, which was one of the games that got me into watching speedruns, I finally understand it!
Thank you for the awesome video as always!
Even as someone who did portal speedruns a few years back the run portion was still hard to keep up with at times lmao. It's incredible how far this game has come
That muffled as you mention "pressing his mouth against the glass" at 26:20 was super subtle but also hilarious.
In depth analysis of the entire run goes straight out the window when all that chaos starts, damn.
Never saw this video before and it just got recommended to me and I must say that I absolutely love how there is a 35 minutes video explaining a 5 minutes speedrun.
I'm from Wisconsin and I love Minnesota and Chicago guy. I actually watch your ads and your jokes actually hit.
Came in for the speedrun strats, came out with the knowledge of how astral projection works. lol
I would LOVE to watch portal developers reacting to this video. I am so impressed by the sheer amount of game knowledge that the running community has gathered on this game. It's so cool!
they should do a 4 minute run. that would likely be quicker
-burger40
Dude ur random emotional speeches bring a tear to my eye literally every time it’s what I need to hear
That was amazing, thanks for the video! I loved seeing all explanations really showing what was happening, especially the bounded box stuff.
Bruh these runners do be crafty with it. Loved the showcase & the rundown great vid ! 🙏
Even WITH the 25 minute long explanation of the speedrun strats, the actual run is an absolute god-damn whirlwind with Acronyms flying left and right.
I love it!
Y'know, that one last bit while I was doing 3D modelling caught me off-guard.
Thank you, you made my week a bit brighter.
For those who were wondering, the grass patch that TomatoAnus was showcasing ABH and AFH is located Out of Bounds in Escape 02
I love the Bully music in the background.
imagine what GLaDOS (GLAdOS? GLADoS?) would be thinking while this is happening. like imagine checking up on your faithful test subject only to find her flipping in and out of reality at will
I like the structure of this video. Most of it is pretty much explaining the rules. Then you're suddenly thrown into the deep end and expected to keep up.
Honestly the part of the video where you commentate the speedrun is so technically dense and full of strategy, I personally think it's amazing you managed to condense a college course of tech into 30 minutes
Fuck the haters man, I love the in depth analysis, make your next video 3 hours I’ll watch every goddamned second.
Your explanation is really awesome. Even though Portal 1 glitches can be quite complex to explain I understood how everything you explained before the speedrun works. During the speedrun you turned my brain into potato mush though. And I loved it.
I really appreciate the positive messages in your videos. Mental health is such an important topic and its so unbelievably good to hear something like this.
I love how two of the best portal speedrunners pfp's are just a solid color, CantEven being red and Msushi being purple