I got my Wii hooked up to my Super Station Command Center (desk) and started playing Super Mario Sunshine. I spent a few days watching a Tool-Assisted Speedrun of Sunshine a week or so ago, and a world record speedrun of Mario 64 (recently set this week). Now that I’m actually playing the game, I feel like a fool.

I can’t help but want to do all the cool things done in the videos, but I’m not skilled enough. Then, I feel dumb when I just try to do things the slow and easy way and still die. I actually learned a lot of techniques when watching the speedruns, but I still feel a bit awkward when trying to do anything near an advanced level of play. 

Maybe I should just stick to watching speedruns of games I’m not planning to play soon. That way I won’t feel so stupid for messing up things that take hours and hours of practice to perfect. Oh well, maybe not.