Introducing my kids to speedruns has been interesting. They have such strong innate intuitions around fairness that exploiting bugs feels like unfair cheating and kills the run for them.
Fortunately I explained the existence of glitchless runs :)
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what if you showed them bugs that are hilarious
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check out this pokemon yellow glitched speedrun whose time is, i shit you not, 0:00:
pokemon yellow is so poorly programmed that messing with your items allows you to arbitrarily modify its memory. the speedrunner is simply setting his location to the end of the game, as one does
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