I’ve been around video games pretty much my whole life. Right after high school (2004–2007), my friend’s house had this open door policy. Everyone coming and going, six CRTs in the basement, every retro console you could think of, and constant dumb challenges we made up. I beat Contra without dying, and I held our group’s Super Mario Bros any% house record. Extremely serious business at the time but it's what lead me to speedrunning.
Around 2005 my friend Kaz showed me early Super Metroid glitches, and that’s when I got interested in running it. I watched Smokey, Red Scarlet, and Hotarubi, Probably on SDA. I don’t really remember anymore. I even learned the old any% route from Smokey’s GameFAQs guide.
Over time I got deeper into speedrunning and eventually held world records in:
In 2007 I built my first PC and started streaming StarCraft II and Super Metroid on Ustream and Justin.tv, the latter becoming Twitch if you don’t know. Later MSDS and Kassius dragged me into SRL and the Super Metroid IRC, which is where I met most of the speedrunning friends I still have today.
I also ended up on the GDQ stage a few times:
I’m a 40 year old variety streamer who just plays whatever. BF6, Silksong suffering, retro stuff, or anything else that seems fun. I’m not trying to be anything special. I just play games, react like an idiot when things go wrong, and hang out with whoever shows up.
A great man once told me, “just be the idiot.” Garrison said it… sometime? 2012? 2015? No clue. But I took it to heart. Without explaining the whole thing… he meant it in a good way. So here I am. Being the idiot.
Oh, and by the way... I’m not a furry. The name is like “Christopher,” just with Jack.