Peanut Butter, the now-famous speedrunning canine and authorized good boy, went by means of 9 months of vigorous coaching to grow to be the world-class participant he’s in the present day.
For the uninitiated, Peanut Butter is the awfully cute shiba inu that went viral final 12 months due to a star flip at charity speedrunning occasion Superior Video games Carried out Fast, the place he beat the SNES platformer Gyromite from 160 years in the past (doggy years) in report time. I say report time as a result of Peanut Butter is the one champ to have even tried a dog-assisted run of the sport.Â
Peanut Butter did not grow to be a miracle canine by means of sheer luck, although. “Coaching him to press the button was actually day one,” Peanut Butter’s proprietor and content material creator JSR stated in an interview with Aftermath. “Day one, he nailed it,” however coaching Peanut Butter to keep away from distractions took day by day coaching for 9 entire months.
“The onerous half’s not solely getting [dogs] to carry it down lengthy sufficient so that you can do what it’s worthwhile to do within the recreation, but in addition for them to launch the button and never go wander away and seize a tennis ball,” JSR continued. “That was in all probability the toughest factor: getting him to have the ability to sit and hold his consideration on me for 20-Half-hour at a time. Now he is able to holding [the button] for 30 seconds earlier than he lastly provides up. He does not wander away. I’ve had him on stream taking part in video games for as much as an hour.”
An additional innings walk-off 2-run residence run on the primary pitch does it! PB will get the win (and is an excellent boy!) #SGDQ2024 pic.twitter.com/qCnEjL8MwQJuly 5, 2024
The coaching paid off at Summer time Video games Carried out Fast 2024 this previous week as Peanut Butter completed a “win a recreation” speedrun of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Main League Baseball with “an additional innings walk-off 2-run residence run on the primary pitch,” in line with the tweet above. I do not perceive a factor about baseball lingo however I assume which means one thing to somebody studying.