3148: 100% All Achievements
| 100% All Achievements |
 Title text: I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade. |
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Text: I finished all the gen-ed back in 2010, and I'm up to the 400-level courses in most departments. But now one of my advisors is saying I "can't have more than 20 majors" and "need to graduate next year." It's outrageous!
Caption: My university is making it really hard to finish a 100% all achievements speedrun.
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... Bruh I wanted to see the explanation but there wasn't one lol TheTrainsKid (talk) 03:36, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
- I was going to make it, but by the time i finished, it said it couldn't be published - someone had made a better one while i was making it. who'd've thought. --2.50.0.22 05:32, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
Could someone explain what “gen-ed” is? 2A02:586:D41D:9400:409C:F47E:C1DD:24B2 07:09, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
- I guess it stands for "general education"? --194.57.216.9 09:14, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
Isn't this what grad school is for? Gorcq (talk) 11:41, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
Background? I do wonder if the idea for this came from Roger Zelazny's book "Doorways in the Sand"? Jmbryant (talk) 11:56, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
Someone should explain what "gen-ed" and 400 mean to non-US readers. --85.159.196.174 14:23, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
- "Gen-ed" is general education. It probably refers to classes that satisfy the "core requirements" that everyone graduating from the institution must pass, regardless of major. Typically these will include English composition (basically, how to write a paper), some first- and maybe second-year humanities classes, some first- and maybe second-year science or engineering classes, and some first- and maybe second-year math. These days, many US students graduate high school with college credit for some of these classes through dual-enrollment classes, Advanced Placement classes (and the required test), or similar programs (it's not unheard of to start university as a "third year student" - or "Junior" in US education lingo). "400" means 4th-year classes (individual classes will be numbered 401, 402, etc.), which are typically only available to students majoring in that topic or a related topic. Fun fact: In some graduate schools, students are allowed to take a limited number of "400" classes to meet their graduate degree requirements. 64.201.132.210 19:02, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
- From a UK perspective, in this course scheme are we talking about "college" (Further Education, next level up from Secondary, variously known as Tertiary or "6th Form" in some cases) rather than "university" (Higher Education)?
- University 'academic careers', UKwise, are probably somewhat flexible (gap/sandwich years, leave of absence for personal reasons, etc), but I don't know of anyone who just 'kept reattending' to add more things. (I, myself, changed department, mid-way, but it was in context of which sub-part of the university was the primary focus of my already established multidiscaplinary Combined Science degree, and didn't change the effective year-group or classes I attended.) Also, I don't think we had "Underwater Basket-Weaving 101"-type optional/compulsary parallel prerequesit courses as 'minors', just automatically scheduled in sub-subject intro lectures for (e.g.) the specific applied-physics types of maths that the physics course used, to drag us up from the A-Level/HND/whatever proficiency that we'd previously gained to qualify us for our offered university place.
- College (Tertiary/6th Form/etc, optional followup to the compulsary Secondary-level education) was basically two years of whatever schedule you were willing and able to pack together from the offered courses... possibly could extend to three years (I had that option with a subject not taught at Secondary level... one-year of the Secondary course, then do the two-year Tertiary-level one starting in the second year of my other Tertiary-level subjects, but I abbreviated it) if it needed to be. Together with those completely resitting failed subjects, and those (mostly adult-education) signing up for a 'post-education education' as much as their time of life (and funding) allowed, no doubt there'd be opportunity to be nigh on an 'eternal student'. But you don't "Graduate" that level of education, in the UK. You might pass a course or two (or more, I personally had five separate qualifications on the go at the same time, though just the three 'main' ones) but it's not 'packaged' like undergrad university attendance.
- At least it wasn't for me. Maybe things have changed. They're apparently having end-of-year Proms all across the various school-year cohorts, these days, as an imported concept from the US. The most I ever had (not that I'm complaining, though I was never a good dancer) was the Christmas Disco. After the last School Assembly of the year (attendance awards and sporting triumphs may be noted and feted, but all prior to any actual exam results known) were a few days of "getting ready for Summer" with possibly a very much relaxed tailed-off 'curriculum' and being allowed to bring in board games on the last day of the school year (for those not bunking off entirely). Then... see you September! (Or not, if moving on to the "next school" or maybe that first proper full-time job as an adult.) 82.132.184.204 02:06, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
- American here who went to college (university) in the US who has raised kids in the UK and just sent the last one off to university. We don't narrow down our studies in the States like in the UK. In most places (there are exceptions) all the way through to the end of high school (12th grade/year 13) we're still taking Math, English, some sort of History/Geography, and some science classes. Maybe even P.E. Then when you go to university, you don't necessarily have to declare a major. In the UK, you have already spent the last two years just focused on 3-4 subjects for A-levels (or B-tech?), (everyone across the country takes the same exams at the exact same time) and when you leave for uni it might be just one subject. I was shocked when I found out that my husband's degree in Math(s) meant that he only took classes related to that! Because we don't narrow things down, and because we don't have the same level of standardization in testing as the UK, the US approach of general studies fits with our overall education model. It does take most people 4 years to complete a degree as opposed to the UK's 3, but our GenEd courses at university aren't the equivalelent of UK college (which you can start at 16) or A-levels. 2A0A:EF40:125:E901:9860:5F0C:6834:B46F 11:35, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
I think "speedrun University" can also implies someone trying to finish university ahead time interval (4 years, usually). I know people who have enough AP credits and do enough over-loading and summer classes trying to finish university within 2 years (the minimum time required to get a degree for most university). On the other hand, I believe this comic hint the people trying to complete all major's requirement inside the University to get "100% achievement". Most of university do not allow anything above double-count (count one class for more then 2 major requirements). If the people in comic have complete more then 20 major requirement within 15 years, that translate to the people have take enough class to complete at least 10 major's class/graduation requirements under the no triple count rule. in average, complete 1 major per 1.5 years, which in some sense, is amazing, also count as "speed-run". --(Someone recently been bitten by University's major tracking sheets) 130.215.10.247 14:41, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
The MP4 format can contain a video of up to 2^32 time units. The normal timebase is 90,000 ticks per second, resulting in 13.25 hours. But if you used a timebase of 1 tick per second, you could record 136 years in one video. The MKV format can support virtually unlimited duration. Of course, the title text here is talking about the video uploader's limitations, not the video container format. 170.85.73.15 15:02, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
I went for the Bachelors of Science and % run. Didn't do too badly. 2600:6C48:6D7F:DBD0:B921:39F0:E1FB:A74D 19:49, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
This feels like a continuation of 1052. REwhite (talk) 21:46, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
- Heh, he realized there wasn't any one good major out there, so he tried to get them all instead? New headcannon right there. Willintendo (talk) 21:27, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
- I can't tell if the reference to 1401 there is intentional or not.
StapleFreeBatteries (talk) 04:38, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
The "eternal student" was a thing when I went to college ("uni" for our UK friends) because tuition was nominal at most state affiliated universities. The optimal path if your parents weren't giving your money was to get a job as a Resident Advisor in one of the dormitories where most first year students lived as that would cover your room and board. Most school have responded to this by instituting some sort of cap on the number of courses and years you could take before they would force you to graduate. The dedicated eternal student would then apply to graduate school. 2600:1700:b39:3010:70ea:4d8d:1888:b6b8 (talk) 18:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I second Jmbryant's suggestion that this could be inspired by Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny. The comic immediately made me think of the central character.2601:600:837F:B130:D9D9:FE08:EC42:5A55 03:11, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
Is it true that, as asserted, most students finish the gen-ed courses in their first year or even first term? In my B.Sc. program, first-year students were expected to take 3 full-year credits of sciences, 2 half-credits in math (1 per term), and 1 full-year arts credit. A second credit of arts was required to complete the degree requirements, but that was generally taken in a later year. I did things a bit differently: 2 full credits in math in my first year along with the 3 science credits, and I did my arts requirements in my 3rd and 4th years. BunsenH (talk) 14:37, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah, that claim was way off, at least for US universities. I edited it to be more accurate.
StapleFreeBatteries (talk) 15:39, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
Maybe this is a nitpick, but I don't like how this explanation conflates 100% speedruns and getting all achievements. What "100%" means varies from game to game, but it's generally unrelated to external "achievement" trackers. It's quite common for achievements to be awarded for things the community considers irrelevant to finishing the game, such as failing under particularly silly circumstances or winning the game while deliberately avoiding certain mechanics; there might even be achievements which are incompatible and must be achieved in separate runs! "100%" != "all achievements," usually. GreatWyrmGold (talk) 12:27, 25 October 2025 (UTC)
- I wouldn’t call that a nitpick at all. In fact, I think it’s a good point that a 100% run and an all achievements run would likely be very different for a university. While you could say that completion of a university only necessitates academic achievements, there’s definitely a lot more that you COULD do at a university. Clubs, sports, events, etc. That optional content wouldn’t be optional if the speedrun was truly all-achievements. I’ve added a paragraph about the implications of a speedrun that requires EVERYTHING possible to achieve at the university. KelOfTheStars! (talk) 19:51, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
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