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flatluigi posted:The most fun run so far this marathon was battleblock theater and that was in primetime, dude. Also where the hell did you get the idea that there are rules against fun this year? It's been going around. Supposedly (I'm not at the marathon) the first rule of the stream room this year is "No detracting from the runner’s presence. This includes signs, costumes, stuffed animals, grandstanding or any form of taking attention from the runner without the runner and event staff’s consent. The runner must inform us of any of these things that they approve of prior to the run. It also includes being generally distracting by talking or having your phone on, any really anything else that may arise that takes focus away from the run." Which could be taken as NO GOOFING AROUND, EVER, but I'm pretty sure you have to be reading it that way to begin with to get that idea.
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HGH posted:How'd Binding of Isaac get in again? If it's a seeded run, I can see it being a legit, if slightly boring, speedrun. If it's the original game, it will probably end with the runner storming out of the room again.
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I'm having a hard time believing this is an NES game.
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Chocolate Donuts posted:It's been going around. Supposedly (I'm not at the marathon) the first rule of the stream room this year is "No detracting from the runner’s presence. This includes signs, costumes, stuffed animals, grandstanding or any form of taking attention from the runner without the runner and event staff’s consent. The runner must inform us of any of these things that they approve of prior to the run. It also includes being generally distracting by talking or having your phone on, any really anything else that may arise that takes focus away from the run." You'd think people so happy to talk about drama wouldn't realize why that rule got set in place given poo poo that's happened in the past like that dude who invited himself onto the couch to promote his own stream without the runner wanting him there I mean I figure if you want to mess around you can, like, ask the runner and the staff
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flatluigi posted:The most fun run so far this marathon was battleblock theater and that was in primetime, dude. Also where the hell did you get the idea that there are rules against fun this year? Rules of AGDQ 2015 posted:"No detracting from the runner’s presence. This includes signs, costumes, stuffed animals, grandstanding or any form of taking attention from the runner without the runner and event staff’s consent. The runner must inform us of any of these things that they approve of prior to the run. It also includes being generally distracting by talking or having your phone on, any really anything else that may arise that takes focus away from the run." And a few others for good measure. But that one is literally rule one for the stream room and, sadly, is probably the reason why we are only having actual interaction at 5 in the morning: because no one is watching to make sure those rules are enforced. And that's not cool at all, no matter how you slice it.  EDIT: God damnit, Comcast, why do you have to interrupt midpost. But yeah, that's the exact quote that was listed before this post got sent out, with a lot more to add in, if you're curious as to why some things are and aren't happening, I suppose. Who knows, maybe they are going to say "screw this" and be like they were: happy and enjoying themselves. It seems like everything leading up here was a drain on all parties involved. Faust IX fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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You should go back and watch Battleblock dude before you embarass yourself more
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I want to say, screw everyone who says that there are runs at ridiculous hours and yet is in the american timezone. This scheulde is even worse if you're in Europe Although a lot better than last year, but BBT started at 3:15 AM here, Uncharted was at 6AM, and the whole Megaman block starts at 4:30AM. Good thing there are recordings, or else I'd be poo poo out of luck when it comes to watching a lot of the really good speedruns here. Not complaining about the scheulde itself, stuff like this is INEVITABLE when making something that runs 24h a day for a week.
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kater posted:I'm having a hard time believing this is an NES game. I think it came out in like '93 or something.
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I mean if you somehow didn't like battleblock theatre, sonic heroes and dark forces II were also fantastically great, fun speedruns at a decent hour for americans -- and there's a bunch more great runs scheduled later today too. Somehow coming to the conclusion that the marathon banned fun because you have to ask the runner before loving around during their run is a really bizarre thing to do.Kikas posted:I want to say, screw everyone who says that there are runs at ridiculous hours and yet is in the american timezone. This scheulde is even worse if you're in Europe There will be good runs at all hours of the day, this is what happens when it's a 24/7 stream! GDQ marathons, ruining sleep schedules for years.
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...I didn't say any of that. I just posted a quote. It is amusing that the NES block of games that seem to be really, really fun for the entire room is at 5 in the morning, however. My condolences to the European and Australian viewers, which must suck even worse. Also, god drat, that was an amazing "audio cue" there. Sorry for waking you up, UA! In the end, at we're all having fun, right?
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I thought if one player got game over in BattleToads both players did? "Yellow and Green? That's red." 
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The last run I saw was Blood. Anything decent in between that and Battletoads? EDIT: Decent means either "good and entertaining" or "entertainingly bad".
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Headbutting that icecube in the air was some next level poo poo
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Yeah, I didn't know they're going to be able to do something like that, with the 2nd player game over-ing. It's going to be interesting, since I don't think I've seen a warpless run of this game. I feel so bad for whoever is going to try and fix the audio in post after this, because wow, the mic feedback is pretty intense this time around. Can you even fix that sort of thing simply, or is it going to be a painstaking challenge to actually normalize the sound? 
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:The last run I saw was Blood. Anything decent in between that and Battletoads? Battleblock Theater was fantastic, imo, if a bit long for some people's tastes. Perspective, They Bleed Pixels, Shantae, and Within a Deep Forest were all solid, as was Little Samson just before this run. Descent was good, I'd say. Avoid Marisa World unless you hate yourself, and then you're pretty much caught up.
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They never explained the skip in that stage they didn't use!
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Chocolate Donuts posted:Battleblock Theater was fantastic, imo, if a bit long for some people's tastes. Perspective, They Bleed Pixels, Shantae, and Within a Deep Forest were all solid, as was Little Samson just before this run. Descent was good, I'd say. Avoid Marisa World unless you hate yourself, and then you're pretty much caught up. That's nice to hear, more good runs than I actually was expecting. Thanks!
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TMR literally being carried through this
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This is one of the most impressive co-op runs that comes to memory.
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Wow. That's some impressive out of bounds, especially landing that and triggering the next stage. Somewhere, one of the developers of this game is giggling like a madman and has no idea why.
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That was a highly entertaining co-op run.
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Faust IX posted:Somewhere, one of the developers of this game is giggling like a madman and has no idea why.
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Blockhouse posted:This NES is possessed
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Darkwing's controller hated the extension cords. It's a dogbone, so maybe that had something to do with it. Plugging it in directly made it work.
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I will never get tired of Mr Gimmick runs. They're always awesome.
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I don't know what amused me more. The goons triggered the Battle Block Theater run or the goons triggered by New Super Marisa Land run.
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Mr Gimmick is a cute game and I wish that there was somehow a good revival of it.
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Holy poo poo, I had no idea Blaster Master was broken this hard. Still one of my favourite games.
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Anatharon posted:Whoever the host is really sounds like she has a sore throat. The flu is going around out there, from what I've heard.
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I am definitely not promoting the theory that fun has been banned, because I'm not there to authoritatively assert what has or hasn't been done and what is or isn't working right, but a lot of good runs that I think probably should have been interesting seemed to suffer terribly from the audio issues this time around. The obnoxious sounds of mics cutting on and off infrequently, the often completely-silent stream, and the general lack of a crowd mic (or, for that matter, a crowd cam, or, for that matter, any reasonable audience at all) really seem to detract from the atmosphere, on top of what was fairly quiet audio to begin with. I guess I'll tune in again and see if they've fixed the issues, but the complete and utter lack of energy (or intelligible audio) just about murdered most of the Sonic block outside of Heroes for me, and I'm a loving SA2 apologist for Christ's sake. The real concern is that if they lose the atmosphere of energy (the hype, if you will), because of the generally very quiet, low-key stream, they're not going to attract as much viewership or as many donors. Maybe I've just missed some of the really good runs; TASBot stuff was good as always, as was Heroes, but the F-Zero and Sonic blocks overall were just draining. E: Monkey Ball was pretty good too, on reflection, but Monkey Ball is pretty much always fantastic. E2: Although if half the people there are experiencing The Ick on top of jetlag that would help to explain why so many people looked like they were falling asleep in the middle of the day and/or weren't talking much. Shady Amish Terror fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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