[jknoepfler]

And they are oh-so-contentious. If anyone wants to go down a fascinating rabbit hole, the recent conversation/debate around whether Bomb Torizo skip (a very difficult, borderline-human-impossible trick) should be allowed in Super Metroid runs was actually fascinating and ended up getting into deep research about inconsistencies between hardware polling rates vis-a-vis what runners could reasonable/humanely expect from one another... that's a thin gloss from a non-expert, but it's a great concrete example to work from.

(The debate was sparked by a runner proving that the trick was humanly possible, raising the spectre of someone actually pulling it off in a world record run, which would force all subsequent world record would-bes to replicate a trick that would kill 99.99% of runs, execution of which depending on the vagaries of how different controllers poll inputs in addition to nearly inhuman levels of sustained, frame-perfect inputs).