Do such efforts bring value to gaming or are they more of an academic exercise?
Neither? Speedrunning is entirely nihilistic. It rejects the rules of society to the point of rejecting the rules of games themselves in favor of meaningless tantric repetition. It's the eternal pointless chase for a meaning that was never there and never will.
I find it fun and dreadful at the same time, as a concept, I would never do it myself in a million years.
In short, it's an artistic performance.
It's natural therefore it has no negative effects.
My brother in Christ, you can say sex pretty much everywhere, but only on the internet you have the privilege of spelling it "secs" and witness people that think you did it for anything other than comedic effect.
The mom should be Firefox and the kids the plugins.
You tell your best friend what you need and they will either understand or take a different path in life.
It's quite simple really.
Seeing this in the wild my first thought would be that he lost some kind of bet or has been challenged into wearing this in a crowded place.
Memes came and go and this picture is still somehow relevant. How old is it? I wouldn't be surprised if it was 10+ years!
Feel free to fund an entirely new party or even a new constitution, in the meantime you just need to take 2 hours off your massive, world changing project and vote for Kamala Harris.
Making more than 10x the money of your least paid employee.
I always assumed they use some kind of tool to convert code into blocks. I refuse to believe somebody handbuilt anything bigger than a calculator in minecraft.
Why would you need a researcher for that? This is not some ancient history or something...
I bring good and a bad news.