also math is fucked up

this is why statistics is bullshit

Dream?

honestly it's all kind of fascinating while also being disappointing

yeah he's a bigtime minecraft guy

does minecraft speedruns

there's been this whole drama for a few months because apparently he cheated on one of his recent speedruns and since he has a fanbase of like 15 million it's just like, exploded beyond the relatively niche minecraft speedrunning community

for awhile it was unclear whether he had actually cheated or not and he put out this wholeass response video with his own math, but actual mathematicians ripped it to shreds

so now it's basically 100% confirmed that he cheated

i'm not all that familiar with the world of speedrunning and suchall so this reminds me of that guy who cheated his donkey kong high score and then lied about it for decades

Ahhh.

These peope always get caught, I don't know why they do it

oh get rekt dream

the only reason i know is because i follow the dream smp, i don't follow dream specifically

but yeah they ran like

many trillions of simulations of minecraft and not a single one came even close to dream's numbers

yeah basically he was like "I did this no cheats" and everyone else was like "this is literally a 1 in 1000trillion chance"

y e p

The Biggest Cheating Scandal In Speedrunning History this is a really good succinct summary

the whole thing has been kinda fascinating just from like. understanding video games, coding, random number generators, the math involved

F

the common argument i see is that "why would dream cheat for a fifth place speedrun" but this video points out that he would have placed first if yet another random number hadn't happened against him

this is so much

why do this with 15 million followers tho like. someone's gonna fuckin catch you

because he has an army of fans, many of them kids, who will basically die for him