Early on in our relationship, my boyfriend and I learned how to speedrun Super Mario 64. Like many games of that era, hardware limitations bred emptiness. Big, empty low poly spaces half rendered and oddly textured. We learned the 16 star speedrun: clipping through walls and jumping out of bounds when we needed to in order to get to our goal. That emptiness compounded with physical acts that are impossible in the vanilla game changed space and time and transformed…