Game:

Destiny (2014)

Duration: 1:00:03

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TABLE OF CONTENTS IN DESCRIPTION.

*Intro*
00:10 -- What is a "Macro"?
01:39 -- Aren't you a hypocrite for suggesting I don't use a macro?

**Segment discussing the development of my strategy**
03:18 -- My strategic starting point.
03:46 -- Why agility buffs didn't work.
04:50 -- Exploration of the class movement abilities.
06:54 -- Where process of elimination led me.

**Segment On My Reasoning For Why Shadestep Cannot Work.
08:44 -- Why getting the pieces in 3 movements each seems necessary.
10:12 -- Play-by-play of two current theoretically perfect non-blink outcomes. (**possibly the most important section for naysayers**)
14:00 -- Why saving time through known means is an unreasonable expectation.
17:50 -- The "obvious" reason a strategy without blink can't work.

**Segment On Why I Think Non-Blink Strategies Have Been Given Unrealistic Credit**
21:06 -- Pretty much the segment title.

**Segment On Why Blink Isn't Humanly Possible to Achieve Consistently**
26:16 -- Why comparing frame perfect destiny movements to other games isn't fair.
30:28 -- Why expecting a human player to achieve consistency with blink is fair.
32:38 -- Why blinking parts has a vertical learning curve / offers no practice without huge barriers.
35:19 -- Summary of the above topics.

**Segment On Why, Despite Being Humanly Possible to Achieve --Inconsistently--, It's Clearly Not Worth Fighting That Inconsistency**
35:57 -- Blink window (20 milliseconds) compared with other frame perfect movements.
39:47 -- Chances of making blink a successful method without high consistency.
41:29 -- Time investment a purist run would take me with my level of proficiency.
43:44 -- Summary of the above topics.

**Segment On Why I Chose To Use A Macro**
44:28 -- Why I considered it justifiable for me personally.
46:28 -- How I will respect the emergence of a non tool-assisted WORKING strategy (**probably 2nd most important section**)
47:38 -- Why I didn't disclose the macro when I started attempting (Sorry fans. It was absolutely not to deceive you guys).
49:14 -- Why me getting "world first Solo Siege" is **not proof I am better in any way,** and why I don't feel in the wrong for macroing.
50:22 -- Me being overdramatic because I'm a garbage can.
51:17 -- Touching on why I don't think using macros makes me a "cheater."

**Final Thoughts**
52:07 -- **Summary of all major points in this video**
53:33 -- Section dedicated to stroking my ego (this is a joke, please don't kill me).
54:16 -- Why I do not think calling what I did "cheating" is true or fair.
57:06 -- "One very, very last thing."

The most important stuff to draw from this video is this: I believe solo siege engine will never be done without a macro. My confidence in that belief was high enough for me to move forward with using one. The instant I made that decision, the entire concept of this challenge being a fair competition was thrown out the window. I didn't let my competitors know that (by disclosing it publicly), because I do not think they would have done the same for me. I realize that approach was unintentionally deceptive towards my fans and friends, but given that I couldn't have done anything differently (except not stream), all I can do is apologize for that and hope you'll agree that it really was not the worst thing in the world for me to do. Comparing this to something like using a macro in a one-off challenge to using steroids to boost my performance in a Tour De France (like the condemned Lance Armstrong) holds some truth, but because I admitted to using a macro right after completing the challenge, **it's more like if I used steroids to win the Tour De France and then immediately afterwards disqualified my own self.** I think that point is worth pondering for those who are still convinced I'm a cheat and a fraud over this one challenge.

Hopefully, this challenge does not bring along the onset of people jumping to use macros to give themselves an unfair advantage within the context of challenges that truly DO NOT require a macro, because that would be cheating at the expense of others in that case. I don't think that's what happened here (though again, I await the functional non-macro'd strategy to prove me wrong). I also don't think it's very likely we will see more challenges that would be greatly facilitated by the use of a macro, but honestly, if one does arise, I'm not sure that we could expect someone who did use one to own up to it (not that that wasn't true before I did this, though).

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