Culture & Deep Dives
Glitchless and Goalless: What Speedrunners Accidentally Reveal About the Human Search for Meaning
Speedrunners shave milliseconds off games designed to take dozens of hours — and somehow, it's one of the most philosophically fascinating things happening in gaming right now. But is chasing the perfect run a form of ancient eudaimonia, or have we just found a new way to optimize ourselves into emptiness? Let's talk about it.