{"id":131135,"date":"2023-01-11T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-143489"},"modified":"2023-01-11T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:00:00","slug":"random-youtuber-speedruns-touching-grass-in-every-mario-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/11\/random-youtuber-speedruns-touching-grass-in-every-mario-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe451884cca02\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe451884cca02\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"vTRsbuo0Gs4\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Touch grass&#8221; has become the rallying cry for angry people on the internet, and it&#8217;s most often levelled at gamers. It&#8217;s shorthand for &#8220;go outside&#8221;, or simply &#8220;oh my god the thing you&#8217;re complaining about is SO TERMINALLY ONLINE that you really should go and do something that isn&#8217;t sitting at your computer yelling at strangers on the internet&#8221;. It&#8217;s sort of like saying &#8220;calm down&#8221;, but much more evocative: We really all should go outside more, shouldn&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>YouTuber and Twitch streamer j0rts, who appears to be some kind of duck, spends most of his videos doing strange and &#8220;mostly pointless things&#8221;, as he himself puts it. This includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cpEofWg5eiQ\">playing Mario Kart with only his eyes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HcgLdg_eJcU\">beating Super Mario 64 at 400% speed<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oiVzpc6VHhw\">trying to complete the Great Deku Tree dungeon without ever turning left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Random: YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game) 2\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/887eb4cfc2b35\/random-youtuber-speedruns-touching-grass-in-every-mario-game-2.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjQzIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"243\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/887eb4cfc2b35\/random-youtuber-speedruns-touching-grass-in-every-mario-game-2.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Random: YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game) 2\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Random: YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game) 3\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c6d1b173daba\/random-youtuber-speedruns-touching-grass-in-every-mario-game-3.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjQzIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"243\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c6d1b173daba\/random-youtuber-speedruns-touching-grass-in-every-mario-game-3.445x243.jpg\" alt=\"Random: YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game) 3\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vTRsbuo0Gs4\">j0rts<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>J0rts&#8217; latest project is the gamer&#8217;s dream: Touching grass as fast as possible in every single Mario game. Most games take mere seconds, although it takes almost <em>two minutes<\/em> to find the first grass in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/super_mario_bros\">Super Mario Bros.<\/a>, and over <em>three and a half<\/em> minutes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_world_2_yoshis_island\">Yoshi&#8217;s Island<\/a>. The longest by far is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/super_mario_sunshine\">Super Mario Sunshine<\/a>, which takes a ludicrous 7 minutes, mostly because it&#8217;s all cutscenes.<\/p>\n<p>J0rts set up some ground rules (hahaha, ground rules) for the grass-touching \u2014 it has to be active, i.e. it can&#8217;t be during a cutscene, and it has to be green, and on the ground, so bushes don&#8217;t count, and neither does the black grass at the start of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably wondering which game is the fastest to get that grass touched, aren&#8217;t you? Surprisingly, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/super_mario_land_2_6_golden_coins\">Super Mario Land 2<\/a>, with just 6.34 seconds of non-grass-related activities before Mario gets his mitts on that green stuff.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Random: YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game) 3\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c6d1b173daba\/random-youtuber-speedruns-touching-grass-in-every-mario-game-3.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTgxIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"581\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c6d1b173daba\/random-youtuber-speedruns-touching-grass-in-every-mario-game-3.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Random: YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game) 3\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Wow. Inspirational \u2014 <em class=\"credit\">Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vTRsbuo0Gs4\">j0rts<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, now you know. If you get told to touch grass, just boot up Super Mario Land 2, and you&#8217;ll have fistfuls of turf in no time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube &#8220;Touch grass&#8221; has become the rallying cry for angry people on the internet, and it&#8217;s most often levelled at gamers. 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