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:
The proposal somehow even got mentioned on The Late Late Show, where they made a pretty bad joke about it. And yes, we are still together. I have seen all your dumb “marriage/Divorce speedrun” jokes.
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.
Diablo II: Resurrected got a Steam release, which means it has achievements now. I’d like to stream it and maybe make a video series about getting all of them.
I already have all the Steam achievements for Final Fantasy VII’s 2013 release, but they re-released it again in 2026 with a new set of achievements. That seems like a pretty good excuse to play the game again.
I know, I know. Cheevos are kind of lame. But I genuinely enjoy 100%'ing games I really like.