Originally posted by RAWRmonger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eelfcFaKEZ0

He is generally inefective at killing the bosses and scoring, but on the stone-like, it looks like he is defacto hit many times. (you can use ",." to move frames back/forward while the video is paused.

I know YT isn't the brightest of userbase, but everyone is praising him.

I gotta agree that an entire channel about many different games having no damage runs make me wondering how they can do that.

I hadn't noticed he did these vids in general.

I just checked his RSG video, and he also is cheating on that one.
In the Ikaruga video, he also supposedly "gets hit" in bosses previous to the Stonelike.

Astonishingly, the vids have a high Like/Dislike ratio, and view count, with peaople commenting in awe, and memeing without noticing these impossible dodges (many of which are dead-center hits in the hitbox).

All the while actual pros go by less noticed. SMH.

I'm probably giving this too much attention, but this "shadowserg" and "cheater" come up elsewhere already:
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=69052&start=30

On the bright side... glad to know System11 is still kicking!

I used to be subscribed to this guy until I noticed that I simply didn't care that much about "no damage" or "all boss compilations" from youtubers.

Especially when some are spoiling the game merely a few days after the release (or even before the western release) which made me upset since they showed in my recommendations. I didn't even ask to get spoiled.

Originally posted by RAWRmonger:

I'm probably giving this too much attention, but this "shadowserg" and "cheater" come up elsewhere already:
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=69052&start=30

On the bright side... glad to know System11 is still kicking!

The problem is that cheating is less frowned upon when it's not any official thing (like an esport even or speedrunning) than a random channel making "all bosses no damage".

Especially when they could've used savestates to redo the boss all the time they needed until they had the best take (which is less impressive than a pure no hit run of a full game) and because emulators can record + slow down the game so they could have superhuman reflexes.

PS: Also sadly there can be people getting false claimed to be cheaters to stain their reputation online because even if someone's innocented the human mind mechanism still works in a way that you can still have suspicions about any future actions from someone (yes it's a real psychological mechanism: just telling someone something as mundane as "careful when talking to them, they're a bit crazy" can make the person act differently even if it's an obvious lie and people believe more easily when you speak ill about someone than if you say positive things about someone, it's weird I know).