Well, throughout my time playing this game, I achieved many WRs and came up with many new strategies/glitches; many of which have been long since forgotten. I also created many early TAS runs which I hope helped pave the way for today's (much better) TASers. I quit playing altogether several years ago and made peace with this game... except for one nagging issue. I noticed Niyake's WR of 19.300 on this track was almost 5 years old... almost 1800 days old at the time this video was made. That's ridiculous. With my potential on this track, how could I let Niyake get away with that? So, I decided to finally sit down and grind it out. I didn't post any of my PR progress, like usual, except for telling Brett. Because let's face it, everyone needs a venting outlet in this game. I like to just come out of nowhere and surprise people. Many weeks ago, I hit a PR of 19.317 - 0.017 off the WR. After hitting that time, I failed MANY WRs runs, often on the final turn. It was extremely discouraging and I VERY nearly gave up. This track is deceptively simple and is so technical. I don't want to get into the details but getting good laps with good transitions is brutal. This run in particular had amazing lap transitions and pretty good driving. Lap splits were: 8.728, 5.844, 4.687. Anyway, this run is definitely my swan song. I don't really care if Niyake comes out of retirement to beat me. So yeah, thanks everyone for the many great memories. Alex PS: "@WUT" (Washed-Up Trash) tag was inspired by Sword/NMeade, who I first saw using it some months (maybe even years?) ago.

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