8a1a) Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit
8a1b) A fascinating look into community problem solving.
A player community spread across the internet has a puzzle to solve. At first only the best compete. But it ignites imagination among others. As a result, more efficient and quicker solutions are teased out. By both designing and using digital tracking tools, they find where they need to improve physical coordination to solve the human limit. In the end, the player community reduces nearly every movement to maximum efficiency, approaching the once impossible human limit. Given the evolution from definition to efficient action, we can assume there will be more to tell.
This is more than just a speed-run solution. It is humans doing what they’ve always done best. Using technological apparatuses to work together to solve problems. While this particular story is focused on speed-running Super Mario Bros, this player community shows us at our best–the best of the human community in the miniature and specific.
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