About Jackafur

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, and it's what led me into speedrunning.

How I Got Into 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:

Early Streaming

In 2007 I built my first PC and started streaming a little StarCraft and Super Metroid on Ustream and Justin.tv, the latter becoming Twitch if you don’t know. StarCraft II came later, when it came out in 2010. 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.

Games Done Quick

The crowd at AGDQ 2014 watching the Super Metroid 4-way race
AGDQ 2014, during the Super Metroid 4-way race. Photo: Games Done Quick

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.

Now

I’m a 40 year old variety streamer who just plays whatever’s fun that week. Hardcore Diablo, Silksong (beat it on Steel Soul), retro stuff, whatever. No real theme. I just play games, yell at the screen when it goes wrong, and hang out with whoever’s around.

Garrison told me once to “just be the idiot.” No idea when, 2012? 2015? No clue. Long story, but he meant it as a good thing. So that’s what I do. I’m the idiot.

Oh, and by the way... I’m not a furry. The name is like “Christopher,” just with Jack.

Real talk: I’m not really streaming right now. Same thing that always happens, I get busy and it falls off. This time it’s my job, which has turned into a total nightmare I don’t want to get into here. I’ll tell you all about it after I quit. I’ll be back eventually. I always come back.

WoW Forever

I’m planning on playing WoW Forever, mostly for PvP. I’ve always been Horde and I still like Horde more, but some of the new Alliance racials look really good, and I’m so tired of leveling in the Barrens. Nothing’s set in stone yet, we’ll see.

Speaking of which, I made a dumb addon for the beta called QuietHUD. I’m trying to save my OLEDs, and I also just don’t like a ton of stuff on the screen at all times. It fades your UI out when you’re not doing anything, and nothing gets hidden unless you turn it on. It’s on CurseForge, and the source is on my GitHub if you want to poke around or yell at me about a bug.

Future Projects

I started going for every Diablo II: Resurrected achievement and kept a diary of it. That’s on hold for now. My character died, the season ended, and WoW Forever is next for me.

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.

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