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Casey Rourke
SPEEDRUN & TAS CORRESPONDENT — STARESBACK.GG
Casey writes about speedrunning, tool-assisted runs, and the strange engineering of going fast in old games. Background: 12 years in the SDA/SRC community, a podium finish at a real-life-no-prize NES Tetris invitational, and an unhealthy familiarity with frame-by-frame video tools. The role here is to translate routing, RNG manipulation and TAS technique into something a normal reader can follow without losing the actual nerd content.
On the record
- Twelve years in the speedrunning community (SDA, Speedrun.com)
- Verified runs across NES, SNES, and Game Boy categories
- Maintains a private archive of TAS .bk2/.fm2/.bkm input files
- Has explained pause-buffering to journalists. Will do it again.
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POSTS — EDITED & FACT-CHECKED
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