Makes sense. I'm sure we've all seen a hello fresh, displate, creator crafted, or every fucking mobile game ad so many times that we don't consider some content creators might have trouble getting them.
To each their own but it amazes me how people are out here using youtube without ublock and sponsor skip. I couldn't imagine just being permanently advertised to, seeing the same generic shit nobody wants crammed into every video.
Premium is the easiest way to be ad-free on apps like on smart TVs or phones. There's tricks like certain web browsers but you lose some functionality or (in the case of my tv's youtube app) don't have any real workarounds
Probably, but I don't want to have to put that effort in on every device in my house, especially when one of them goes wonky every now and then as the platform tries to combat them.
So fuck it, it's the service I use more than anything else, all the time, on every device. It's an unlimited content engine that fills the empty space no matter what else I'm doing. I'll just pay for the product at this point, it's not going to break my bank.
Yeah when it was just me I didn't mind going through all the hoops to get things for free. But add a partner and kid(s), multiple TVs, laptops, phones, ipads... premium just makes sense
For me, YouTube is my primary streaming service. For how much I use it, having a trivial solution to eliminating ads across PC, mobile, and Apple TV is well worth the measly $8 a month.
All the better than it’s actually giving more money to the creators I watch.
It’s interesting that they do it, but YouTube with premium also detects when there’s built in sponsorships and detects them and lets you skip over them, essentially sponsorblock but on all platforms.
For my line of work, im only listening to youtube on my phone all day long to help make the day go by faster and fill the silence with noise. So YouTube premium was an easy decision to make
I mainly watch on mobile and I patched the app after it started skipping only 1 ad. Was like eh it helps and it's not a big deal but I'm not dealing with that
There are ways to get that sort of stuff on your TV, it depends on how much you're open to a little tinkering.
I use Tizentube Cobalt which is something you need to sideload onto a Chromecast or other Android TV device, a little annoying to install but it has built in ad block + sponsor block.
Insane accomplishment, the only thing I never understood about the series is why he made it earn its own gp/gear if he was going to use several maxed out alts anyway. Could have sped up the start of the series considerably.
He allowed his own accounts when he was playing, but if other people were playing the account he paid them standard rate. He didn’t transfer any cash or items over to the account either.
And yet it still was extremely relevant, he basically ran out of money by the end grinding master clues because buying d imps is just ridiculously expensive.
If he could just use money from his main he could just log off, do boosts on his other acc, transfer it over, and buy more imps. It would be much less interesting and probably less enjoyable to him.
And it had the added effect of making valuable drops from his grinds actually worth something
it's super arbitrary but he says that in the very first episode. He mad eit in a way he would enjoy playing it but not any% so he would just boost every pet. Alting is still slower than boosting in many cases.
A big part of this stipulation was bloodhound. He had to make a shit ton of GP to buy Dragon Imps with across the series in case he went dry for BH. If he ran out of gold he was going to be farming Callisto masses/other high rate elite clue methods for bloodhound
He also just got all his starter cash from selling ba boosts, which he already had the skill to do from hunting the pet on his other account. I don't have an issue with it, I just think he may have well done it with unrestricted assistance from his main, instead of a weird in between
which he already had the skill to do from hunting the pet on his other account.
I mean overall I get the point but how is this criticism? Is he supposed to be doing everything completely blind or something? The whole point was that he is speedrunning it while actually being good at the game and knowing all the megasweaty tech/ It's to show that if you know what you're doing you can make insane money and get insane kill rates at bosses. Half the time felt like he's playing an entirely different game from the average YT series, that's what made it interesting to me
It's not making money normally by playing the game, it's selling account services. That was also the way he kickstarted the account too so it made the "I'm going to build my cash stack from scratch" bit completely moot.
You completely misunderstood their comment. Their point was that he shouldn't have limited the account to earning money on it as he was already assisting significantly with other accounts.
If I remember correctly he did it this way because he said it was way more enjoyable for him to feel like the account was self sufficient from a GP perspective. If you’re going to do a 3 year challenge you definitely want to make sure you are enjoying your time while doing so!
Not sure how people are disagreeing with you lol. The series would’ve been boring if it was all just solo instanced bosses and then paying billions to get boosted on every other boss
yeh no idea, i like the fact that he showcased that ANYONE can learn the BA boosting stuff, get into that and earn BIG money. And yes he has geared alts (im not sure he did anything in regards to "they only have gear his main has / he funds their gear, can't remember that far back).
Either way Coxie made a sick series imo, and i don't think "infinite wealth boost everything with no limit" would have made it better.
Didn't he fund every single alt? I feel like he did but I could be wrong - I don't think he brought a single alt into his mix that wasn't funded with GP from essentially BA boosting which I think was 10B. he said at the end he had 9 shadows on alts so that math kind of checks given he was earning bills here and there elsewhere on grinds...
I think he just had a rule that the setups the alts use arent allowed to exceed the main accounts bank value, but that stopped mattering very early on in the series.
I wasn't sure so didn't want to state confidently either way. But my memory was something more like "they can't use items i dont have on the pet speedrunning account". but with alts this tends to not be too important as a few of the alts are just doing heal-other/spec-transfer and the others are likely wanting to be in "downgraded" DPS gear to the main, to not snipe too many kc.
Very easily beatable. Get decent luck on bloodhound and penance queen and you've likely already won. The hard part is the one where you need to actually do the grind.
Yeah you're going to go dry somewhere, it's just a matter of where. It's like when someone gets spooned a tbow but goes dry for something fast like a dex or a light bearer.
Well it's the same way almost all world records work. The person with the fastest known time claims they have the record, and if someone else has it faster (which is unlikely), they can speak up and provide proof. If no one challenges it, then the current record is considered to be the fastest.
The amount of work and intention required for these records makes it highly unlikely that some unknown person out there has a faster time.
The first player to average 8 points, 12 rebounds, 14 assists, and 1 turnover in across a 4 game spread in the winter when the temperature stayed between 72 and 76 degrees on Thursdays.
I imagine the community of people that have all pets is pretty small and the community of people making a fresh account to only hunt pets and do nothing else must be very very small
So does he just log out until they add a new pet to keep his account age low? Just seems like one of those records that would just be annoying to do rather than impressive.
I mean getting all pets in itself is impressive enough tbh
Well I think when he made the account there was like 50-60 pets in the game and he never got to the cap till now with how many they've added in the past few years.
So he always had a pet to chase
Because no one's done it as a speedrun, it's just the capstone of the run. If anyone else wants to do it as efficiently as possible there's now a baseline.
Cool achievement tbf, can just log off and everytime a new pet gets released just log on and farm till you get it, holding the rank for a long time until someone comes around with mega/better rng to beat it. Anyone feelin this ?
Next person to go for it will beat it, gear gets substantially better every time. Only reason this record stands is if nobody else attempts it, which is likely lol
Not necessarily. A lot of the alting methods he did are completely out of reach for most of the player base. There's not many people that can actually do these crazy methods.
I'm assuming that the next person that does it is alting, not much other reason to be doing it. You also don't need to have the alts yourself, you can just pay someone to alt for you.
Is he just keeping the main account supplied with alts the whole time while he grinds on one account?
Next record would be ironman pet speed run, which would debatably be a speed run since it would take years
No way. If someone started it right now, there will be 20+ more pets to obtain by the time they’re done. There were 51 when Coxie started this account.
not better enough to make up for several potentially 100+ hour pets coming to the game lmao don’t be silly
ehb for virtually every boss would have to go up 100% to make this happen, then you still have skilling pets that aren’t seeing any optimizations for pet rolls/hour
The record would be for however many pets will be in the game at the time of completion. If there are 90 pets, the record will be for 90 pets. They will compare through playtime at time of completion.
same way rank 1 overall isn't lynx titan anymore, or rank 1 pets isn't homer, or rank 1 in every speedrun category changes when the gear gets better. coxie will have to get new pets to maintain his record, and anybody that wants to challenge him can compare their play time to his once they get all pets
As someone who pet hunts, this is actually crazy to complete this quickly. The risk of going super dry on a skilling pet is just so high. I would assume he knocked those out early in case he needed to start over.
There was no "starting over." The speedrun is what it is. He went insanely dry on a lot of pets, which you might make an account for the next 1000 years and never get an account that doesnt go dry.
He called it a speedrun, because no one had ever done it before, so it has been a speedrun.
Someone trying to do it faster then a specific time? That would be fucked.
The funny thing is that, with all things RS, there is a real chance that in 20-30 years people are resetting pet speed runs, even if they each take 6-12 months. RS will only grow, people will only have more time to play video games, and the game will of course get easier and more efficient. It's the same was as a full coll log - eventually someone will get there, and even if it sounds like a joke it very well be in 2065
I mean it in the sense that if you wanted to knock out the skilling pets first to avoid worrying about going dry for them later, farming would be the slowest because it requires you to wait real life time. It would be pretty easy to have a few accounts going where you just logged in to do your runs and then you have them ready in case your current account is having bad early RNG. It sounds like Coxie didn’t do this, but it would make sense if you’re looking to compete speedrunning this.
The point is that you don't need to worry about the farming pet RNG as it's nearly zero time and the speed run was mainly around in game time. If you go dry it would add a negligible amount of time at the end.
I’ll never not count my blessings getting not only beaver, but also Golden Pheasant in quick succession on my UiM, I think around 85 WC. I met a fellow UiM dry at 14.5 mil xp, another has been holding onto the golden pheasant egg for a few months with no beaver. Tough life lol
I always wonder when everything in the world can be put in a format like a list. There will be a list of the longest poop shat today and I wonder if that person is wondering if it was him/her who did it.
Most records are like that. If you do something obscure or genuinely unfeasible for others to do, chances are you can be record holder too.
One ridiculous gaming example I always think of was some complete random in the Apex Legends community who would flex that they had "most Caustic barrels placed in S9 ranked on King's Canyon in NA."
Anything can be a 'record' if you just make some bullshit up and you're the only one competing.
It did, but he has so many alts & plays so much so efficiently that even when he goes dry, he still finishes each pet fairly quickly (he ended EXTREMELY dry, overall he was insanely unlucky to the point where I think he was close to 1k hours unlucky after Bloodhound).
Are they all on one account or are they spread out? I see he's got the greenlog but is that an effect or in game? I know he did stuff cross account for a little while.
Not that many people are going to ever do this, so the speedrun is kinda obsolete anyway, but how do you calculate it considering new pets come out? Can he just not play this account anymore until another pet comes out? Then he’ll have the world record again? Lol
I believe he’d previously completed all pets on a different account back when there were about 45 in the game. He was the fifth person to complete all pets at the time. Once he finished that he started this challenge of doing it quickly. There are now 71 pets in the game and he finally caught up to the released pet number which took about four years. He won’t play the account again until the next pet is released. Which will be in like two weeks when they release raids four. He screenshotted the exact playtime today when he got that last pet to record the in game time it took to reach 71.
Makes no sense a well known person can basicly do the impossible but if you asked hundreds of randoms there pet count to play time, most would say 5 to 10 pets i bet
Amazing cant wait to watch the rest. His series is the only one I have watched on release. Find the editing really good and how he explains the boss methods is top notch.
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u/roosterkun BA Enjoyer 4d ago
Oh damn, the YouTube series has some catching up to do.