I don't have a good radio-like, but I really like listening to Club Mogra's streams on twitch. They play all sorts of anime, vocaloid, jpop. Timezone may be problematic depending on where you live.
People were also fast with the uno one. Saw this one earlier and wondered how it got done so fast too. Description says they helped Sawtone with the original, and had early access.
Cool writeup, I had not thought about using her that way! Only thing is it feels like anything and everything can be OP as soon as Melee Influence gets involved :p
That's sadly a bit how it is. Analogue media is big in Japan, and it's probably hard to justify shipping stuff without a CD or LP. It'll be on streaming eventually, maybe iTunes or the like, but otherwise you'll have to CD or merch or something.
It's just how things get over time, people will take out something others may consider fun, to instead boost performance. Really an inevitable optimization, as something like this could have been done by human testing and external logging, instead of an external tool to simulate attempts.
In regards specifically to Trackmania, the best solution to my mind is to split the leaderboard between analogue inputs and keyboard. I know that's basically letting the program win, but it exists now, and unless they introduce random physics or performance, the door can't really be shut.
In terms of speed running, this has also been done in other games, such as TAS runs or the AI they used in SMP64 to find new strats. I don't really seeing it going away, even if it makes runs less bespoke and more like generic IKEA furniture.
It's all usenet, yeah. I forgot you can use the above programs with torrents too :p