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- "... but first, we need to talk about parallel universes."
- — Pannekoek
- — Pannekoek
Scott Buchannan, better known as 'Pannekoek2012, is an American YouTube personality best known for (ab)using the physics engine of Super Mario 64 in ever so many creative ways.
Bio[edit | edit source]
There is a moment in the life of each genuine genius in which he or she has to make a profound choice: Do you use your above-average IQ to unravel the mysteries of quantum physics, abstract mathematics, and perhaps the meaning of life? Or do you try to complete Super Mario 64 with the absolute minimum of A-presses, complete with the esoteric understanding of the game's mechanics that makes string theory look like a simple concept?
Pannekoek chose the latter option.
Where regular speedrunners and trickrunners simply make use of various bugs and glitches they randomly discovered (or, more likely, snatched up from someone else), Pannekoek's quest to finish Super Mario 64 with zero A-presses has given him such a profound understanding of the game's engine that he can use the seemingly random falling of in-game dust to predict both RNG outcomes and real-life events.
His second outstanding quality is his (however unwitting) skill as an entertainer. Pannekoek's vids usually garner in hundreds of thousands of viewers, whose understanding of whatever he is talking about usually ends five seconds after the start of the show. That Pannekoek has not yet become a religious prophet or at least philosopher in his own right says a lot about the unwashed masses.
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Pannekoek fought in 8chanmania XXXIX, where he had a prime-time match against Mr. Bones. It was a match of the ages, but while Pannekoek got dangerously close to dissembling the top-hatted skeleton with the very Assembly code it was made from, Mr. Bones eventually managed to land a successful pinfall. Pannekoek hence became yet another soul of the damned forever stuck on Mr. Bone's ride.
In the tag team-themed 8chanmania LIII, Pannekoek joined up with Scuttlebug (who presumably had used his game-breaking skills to get him out of the eternal ride). Their aspirations, however, proved futile; when the two were immediately cast into the abyss by H.P. Lovecraft and Maya Tesch.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Pannekoek is Dutch for 'pancake'.
- Pannekoek also shares his name with the Dutch comrade-astronomer Antonie Pannekoek.
