Why can't I ever just get lucky?
I have died over 13k times in this segment, and that's just the main file. In total, it's probably 3 times that if you include all the deaths in my savestate practice file. I don't how long it's been. I finally got past the really hard jump at the bottom that you have to do twice, and I died on the easy version of the jump you have to do next. To be fair, it's not a trivial jump, with my success rate probably being a little under half and half, but seriously, what the hell. I've pretty much mastered shooting the save, so I'd be done now if I succeeded there.
If you're wondering, I was listening to Den's Locus stream in the background.