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Making your own valorial framework is a close cousin to accepting there is no inherent one.
This is true for many things (all things?), but I think we can agree that as pointless or challenging being fast driving a car, it still welcomes the intended use of the car, is surrounded by a broadly shared and accepted economical advantage.
Esports would be the equivalent, pushing to be the best at a game, the way it's meant to be played.
Speedrun is getting into a racing car and mastering with an iron will getting in and out as fast as possible.
That's absurdism rather nihilism, isn't it? "One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
That's how Nietzsche answers those that blame him for bringing forward relativism, and I don't think speedrunning is absurd, just egregiously arbitrary.