Super Mario RPG - Best of 2023 Showcase- GDQ Hotfix Speedruns

Not that it matters, but since Spike was theorizing and Church was very quick to accept it around the 01:55:10 mark, I can say with some confidence that "Belome" (Which thanks to Japanese being a phonetic language we know is pronounced like it rhymes with Jerome) isn't a play on words in English at all, but mostly un-localized Japanese that they just used as-is. ベロ～ム (Belo-mu, Its name as it appears in Japanese) almost certainly comes from ベロ (Bero/Belo), a colloquial term for the tongue derived, in theory, from the onomatopoeia "belo belo", which means to lick enthusiastically, which Belome also uses in its speech in Japanese. In Japanese, extending the last vowel of a word figuratively "lengthens" it, and when it's written using the ～, instead of the ー (A point the remake even specifically calls attention to in Belome's entry), the "waviness" emphasizes it even more. I love how you can play around with the written language in Japanese like this. There may be more to it, I'm not going off of an official source speaking about its name, but the creature has a massive tongue which is kind of central to its identity, so my assumption is they just added a "mu" to the end, to make it sound more like a name, and called it a day.

Discord notifications in YouTube videos ALWAYS get me.

Duffed it means during your swing your club hit the ground. Often leaving a divot or hole in the ground.

Spikevegeta is very entertaining. I have to say thanks for this. Most seedrunners, though really really good at what they do, are just boring to watch because they don't say anything or they talk at such a high technical level, it's difficult to understand. Spike is just fun.

Spikevegeta is the maaaaaan! Love watching this dude speedrun, so entertaining

damn the amount of times this man was flame walled was wild lmfao

2:49 -- "how many times can a human press a button?" -- out of context, this summarizes the entire history of video games, speedrunning, industrial revolution, etc. XD 58:46 -- SpikeVegeta's all-time favorite GDQ donation comment, which reminded me of Spike reading this comment at SGDQ 2015: https://youtu.be/kC5iiH7sY5Q?si=xSs2ZpIt7Z1rL6Ae&t=3081

1:14:10 - Not sure where Spike got this idea? Peach has kissed Mario in the SNES versions of SMB1 and Lost Levels, SM64, and most NSMB games.

51:30 GDQ marathon is now just one long episode of Mercy Kill

My super jump record is like 19 or something... i just cant hit the supers, i wish there was like a way to expand the frame window

honestly a spaghetti dinner with a commentary of saving 3 text boxes in mario rpg sounds p good to me

51:00 ish Spike, that's literally the hotfix show Mercy Kill.

Im pissed smithy doesn't do that magic box transformation with the acid trip attack lol

The biggest thing I was happy about was the adjustment to missables

To spike: that minecart section was nasty

Wait, Mac is just a dude on a pogo stick?

Finishing smithy on a 69 chain Nice!

Mario 64 has a kiss from Peach at the end of the game.

Yay spike

Ain’t gonna beat him. Just ain’t gonna happen!!