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heehee
Sep 5, 2012

haha wow i cant believe how lucky we got to win :D
Something about spamming a text to speech saying friend of the family and posting a imgur link to furry porn

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Shadow Ninja 64
May 21, 2007

"I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."


heeheex2 posted:

It's not like yashi is running the thon. I'd hate for my conduct in a stupid memefest shitshow marathon wouldn't make people not want to have me run in other marathons.Obviously he did a really loving stupid thing, but it's not hard for them to just say "hey, this was stupid, don't do anything stupid for your run".

Your brand of stupid is fun and zany, his brand of stupid is sad and gets channels banned and as far as I've ever seen he hasn't shown any regret or signs of learning from those experiences (although tbh I don't stalk him on twitter or anything to have the chance to see such potential for change).

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo
Using his own language, I'll say the ninja deserved it, please get rekt.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes

heeheex2 posted:

Something about spamming a text to speech saying friend of the family and posting a imgur link to furry porn

Definitely someone you want at your charity marathon, apparently!

Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

Yeah maybe don't bring the guy who got another marathon banned from twitch with his "jokes".

UraniumAnchor
May 21, 2006

Not a walrus.

Alteisen posted:

UA threatens to stab a guy in the neck, he's still in, guy makes a distasteful joke, BANNED.

Didn't seem to bother you much when you were visiting my stream all year. :v:

That photoshop was merely the cherry on top of a sundae of very poor decisions, not all of which I'm at liberty to discuss.

heehee
Sep 5, 2012

haha wow i cant believe how lucky we got to win :D
Yea it makes a lot more sense if it's not just the picture. AGDQ 2014 was a wild time just sayin

SuccinctAndPunchy
Mar 29, 2013

People are supposed to get hurt by things. It's fucked up to not. It's not good for you.

flatluigi posted:

Definitely someone you want at your charity marathon, apparently!

Ok, but like bear in mind he is apparently banned from even attending the event flat out. Like forget even getting the chance to do something idiotic while on cam, he can't even show up. Thing is though I would totally believe there's more to why he can't go he seems really prone to doing loving stupid things unapologetically.

also freedom planet got instantly rejected with no explanation presented and that's just I don't know because the particular run of that game that got submitted is loving ridiculous, none of my games are getting the love its all very heartbreaking

eSporks
Jun 10, 2011


I liked the part where he nailed the frame perfect letting go of right for 2 frames trick.

HiipFire
Sep 1, 2013

JENNY DEATH LIVES
when are we gonna start banning anyone who has ever said friend of the family on stream

HiipFire
Sep 1, 2013

JENNY DEATH LIVES
accidental doublepost

Dr. Dos
Aug 5, 2005

YAAAAAAAY!
god willing

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

also freedom planet got instantly rejected with no explanation presented and that's just I don't know because the particular run of that game that got submitted is loving ridiculous, none of my games are getting the love its all very heartbreaking

Jesus poo poo I hate this event more and more every year.

Crotch Bat
Dec 6, 2003

Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.
On one hand you want to see them not take themselves so seriously that they ban all fun but the other part of this is that as this stuff raises more money and becomes more public they have a duty to the organizations they raise money for to prevent some weird kid from pulling a stunt that goes viral and makes everyone involved look really bad. Every 6 months seems to ratchet the odds up and we just seem about due for someone to make some rant at 4AM on Thursday when everyone is half-asleep and nobody cuts his mic for 45 seconds.

At this point it basically behooves potential runners to stop doing poo poo for dank meme lulz in public if they want to get a run in because they're apparently vetting people pretty hard now.

GNU Order
Feb 28, 2011

That's a paddlin'

My roundabout esports run made the first round of cuts :shobon:

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

I personally don't mind GDQ getting more 'formal'/professional because as funny as it is to watch a grown rear end man say incredibly insensitive poo poo in front of more than 100 thousand live viewers on a charity event it detracts from what they are trying to do in a negative way. There's a lot of awkward nerds there but that's not an excuse for acting like a completely unadjusted rear end in a top hat who has no idea what sort of effect his actions have on others.

CrashCat
Jan 10, 2003

another shit post


Honestly the number of people who want to attend has evidently been growing so much that any excuse they can use to thin that out more is helpful. They still don't seem to have that much bigger of a core of trusted volunteers and it was already murderously difficult to keep together when it was much smaller. So some people find out the hard way that they are stupid kids but it can't be helped.

Icept
Jul 11, 2001
They should add another event during the year and split up people so you can have the usual recluses playing 6hr JRPGs and have the chill dudes cut loose and get drunk without worrying about hurting some manchild's feelings.

CrashCat
Jan 10, 2003

another shit post


Well, there are a ton of online marathons that are more loose, something almost every month though a lot of them I don't find out about until they're mostly over. I could use a better method than 'look in my chat log to see if anyone said something lately'.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Icept posted:

They should add another event during the year and split up people so you can have the usual recluses playing 6hr JRPGs and have the chill dudes cut loose and get drunk without worrying about hurting some manchild's feelings.

Personally I'm in favor of them just saying "gently caress IT EACH EVENT IS TWO WEEKS LONG NOW!"

goldjas
Feb 22, 2009

I HATE ALL FORMS OF FUN AND ENTERTAINMENT. I HATE BEAUTY. I AM GOLDJAS.

Icept posted:

They should add another event during the year and split up people so you can have the usual recluses playing 6hr JRPGs and have the chill dudes cut loose and get drunk without worrying about hurting some manchild's feelings.

There are a lot of smaller events now where this stuff kind of happens (Dueceler's marathon for example), it's just not at the GDQs anymore.

Gwyrgyn Blood
Dec 17, 2002

goldjas posted:

It'd be cool if we had an actual Ys game at one of these events, although the problem with them is that you can't turn cutscenes off (as far as I know) which is a huge shame because besides that fact a few of them are pretty good speed games.

It's not like there aren't tons of other games run every year that have unskippable cutscenes. I think it's probably more a problem of the games generally being about a 2 hour long speedrun of a series almost nobody has ever heard of, which seems like a tough sell. I haven't looked at the submissions list though so I don't know if anyone even submitted to run any of them.

SuccinctAndPunchy
Mar 29, 2013

People are supposed to get hurt by things. It's fucked up to not. It's not good for you.

Dizz posted:

Jesus poo poo I hate this event more and more every year.

Yeah gently caress it, since it's not happening, here's the run anyway in full. The guy is an absolute loving savant at the character and has like what, 600 hours on the game according to Steam? Dude basically routed the character and found all their speedtech along with a shitload of glitches from the ground up and the result looks ridiculous. It's an extremely technical and as I can attest to, really loving hard run. also the dude runs on Hard for no reason I can discern over than showboating how good he is. It's a real shame it got rejected over what I assume is just "it was ran at SGDQ this year already" because Milla is a completely different kind of run.

I mean, I'm somewhat sympathetic since the sheer loving quantity games that gets submitted that have be filtered through means there's absolutely no way they could provide a detailed explanation of why or why not a game got chosen, it's just not logistically feasible but absolutely nothing at all and the ensuing total slaughter on round 1 results in an uncomfortable ambiguity where it's not clear if people just did things wrong with their submission, if the game is no good, if the game was ran at a recent marathon already and it's kinda just a "maybe try again next year" thing (this what I assume SH 1-2 and Freedom Planet got denied for but I don't have any actual way of knowing that) or if it's just getting the short end of the "too many games not enough time" straw. I'd love to assume the latter two most of the time because I'm kinda just positive about this sort of thing, but it's pretty clearly not the case a lot of the time.

I mean, you can apparently go bugging people on Twitter for an answer but that's kind of a weird dynamic for a few reasons, nevermind the fact the answers I've seen read like getting a form e-mail. I don't really have much of a reason to be butthurt about any of this since I didn't submit since there is absolutely no way in hell I would be able to afford the cost of going but it's still weird seeing this all sort of unfold around you.

GNU Order posted:

My roundabout esports run made the first round of cuts :shobon:

This may seem disingenuous after having whinged myself inside out a paragraph up about the submission process, but seriously, good poo poo dude. Roundabout's one of those games I tried running for a bit and was kind of thrown by how hard it was so I've got an amount of appreciation for that game.

show us some real electronic sports

CrashCat posted:

Well, there are a ton of online marathons that are more loose, something almost every month though a lot of them I don't find out about until they're mostly over. I could use a better method than 'look in my chat log to see if anyone said something lately'.

r/speedrun keeps a fairly decent list of upcoming marathons and its about the only thing that place is useful for

1-800-DOCTORB
Nov 6, 2009

Nintendo Kid posted:

Personally I'm in favor of them just saying "gently caress IT EACH EVENT IS TWO WEEKS LONG NOW!"

But then only run Baten Kaitos 100%.

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

What is the overlap of banned from gdq speedrunners and speedrunners with real jobs?

MVP
Nov 1, 2012

by Lowtax

flatluigi posted:

People like to forget that the primary goal of the marathon is to raise money for charity and entertainment value, though very important, is still secondary

It's a shame the Prevent Cancer Foundation isn't focused on finding a cure for cancer. Instead they'll tell you to wear sunscreen and exercise while you suck in toxic pollution going from your hometown to the convention for 7 days and you still pay premium for health care lol

dpbjinc posted:

I think someone should do an actual speedrunnable Touhou game like Shoot the Bullet sometime instead of garbage fan games. Touhou gets a lot of bad rap due to its fandom, but the actual real games aren't bad.

they should pick shoot em ups that don't cater to pedophiles. find artists who can draw beyond deformed fish-eyed midgets

ToastyPotato posted:

Sucks for Big Jon. He just got a WR on golf and then hours later is rejected because the game is "too repetitive". It's a 10 minute run for crying out loud, and it isn't like Jon is some kind of awful runner. According to him he had the biggest growth in followers of any runner last GDQ and second biggest the GDQ before that. So it isn't like people hated him or something. Saying a game is repetitive when it is an NES game that runs under 15 minutes is really bad, especially since other fairly dull games than run way longer than that will inevitably make it. There are boring parts of Zelda runs that last longer than 15 minutes.

I can understand Price is Right being rejected though, but only for potential legal reasons.

uhh there's nothing boring about someone swagging by swagging swag controller during two and a half hours of Yoshi's Island swag by swag hentai sponsored swag streamer clutch swag .

SeXReX
Jan 9, 2009

I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet


:emptyquote:

MVP posted:

It's a shame the Prevent Cancer Foundation isn't focused on finding a cure for cancer. Instead they'll tell you to wear sunscreen and exercise while you suck in toxic pollution going from your hometown to the convention for 7 days and you still pay premium for health care lol

they'll only tell you this if you live in the USA, everyone else is on their own.

Dancer
May 23, 2011
I'm looking for a GDQ run for a game I totally forgot the name of. It was a 2.5D shooter, which had the quirk that the player character moved *crazy fast*. I think it had some cyberpunk theme, and there was a virtual reality bit. The game was also buggy and bad. Any ideas?

Sage Grimm
Feb 18, 2013

Let's go explorin' little dude!
Tekwar. AdamAK ran it for AGDQ 2015.

SuccinctAndPunchy
Mar 29, 2013

People are supposed to get hurt by things. It's fucked up to not. It's not good for you.

MVP posted:

It's a shame the Prevent Cancer Foundation isn't focused on finding a cure for cancer. Instead they'll tell you to wear sunscreen and exercise while you suck in toxic pollution going from your hometown to the convention for 7 days and you still pay premium for health care lol


they should pick shoot em ups that don't cater to pedophiles. find artists who can draw beyond deformed fish-eyed midgets


uhh there's nothing boring about someone swagging by swagging swag controller during two and a half hours of Yoshi's Island swag by swag hentai sponsored swag streamer clutch swag .

you are such a terrible loving poster

Rubellavator
Aug 16, 2007

So is this it? Is this the year we finally turn on the GDQs?

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



Hot Rope Guy

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

you are such a terrible loving poster

And yet everything they posted was right

CrashCat
Jan 10, 2003

another shit post


argondamn posted:

So is this it? Is this the year we finally turn on the GDQs?
much like the Call of Duty boycott, everyone will watch it regardless of what they say

Mr Phillby
Apr 8, 2009

~TRAVIS~
While I'd prefer AGDQ supported MSF over the Prevent Cancer Foundation, early detection of cancer is pretty important for the cures we have now and will save a lot more lives than research in the short term.

Cool Matty
Jan 8, 2006
Usuyami no Sekai

Mr Phillby posted:

While I'd prefer AGDQ supported MSF over the Prevent Cancer Foundation, early detection of cancer is pretty important for the cures we have now and will save a lot more lives than research in the short term.

It should be noted that we're planning on a public discussion of a different AGDQ charity after this AGDQ2016 (probably about a month after). Obviously a lot of people wanted us to change, but we have contracts and arrangements made several months in advance, and we weren't looking to make major changes while Mike has been out of commission. I can't say we definitely won't go back to PCF in the future, but we're definitely going to discuss it and listen to the community's opinions, as we did a long time ago.

SeXReX
Jan 9, 2009

I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet


:emptyquote:

argondamn posted:

So is this it? Is this the year we finally turn on the GDQs?

This is just a taste of the really stupid stuff people say about these events every time submissions come up.

Everyone watches/goes anyway

The real kicker is people talk about how great other events would be around this time but then when actual other live events happen no one wants to go because no one is going.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes

Icept posted:

They should add another event during the year and split up people so you can have the usual recluses playing 6hr JRPGs and have the chill dudes cut loose and get drunk without worrying about hurting some manchild's feelings.

God I really hope this post was made completely sincerely because lmao

CrashCat
Jan 10, 2003

another shit post


SeXReX posted:

The real kicker is people talk about how great other events would be around this time but then when actual other live events happen no one wants to go because no one is going.
And why would anyone go to the other events? The big draws already go to the GDQs and their budget of time and money is already spent by that.

Fogie
Mar 1, 2003

There are a small handful of non-GDQ events, both irl and online, that manage to scrape by under the baleful glare of the secret speedrunning cabal, just keep it low-key before Uyama finds out
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/board/community_marathons_and_meetups.html

SGL's calendar is another good resource for upcoming events
http://speedgaming.tv/calendar/

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Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

SuccinctAndPunchy posted:

Yeah gently caress it, since it's not happening, here's the run anyway in full. The guy is an absolute loving savant at the character and has like what, 600 hours on the game according to Steam? Dude basically routed the character and found all their speedtech along with a shitload of glitches from the ground up and the result looks ridiculous.

This run looks amazing.

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