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I'm gonna take this time to pull a JMan. SGDQ is awesome. The community is totally supportive and I appreciate it a lot. I got word that Samantha was going downhill fast on Monday, and immediately after I got off the phone with her father Dwango called asking if I had my FDS. I asked UA if I could ship it, said goodbye to the guy I randomly met the first day and hung out with, hugged halfcoordinated outside the stream room, and jetted. Being able to contribute to the event was a welcome distraction, it made me feel like I was really doing good outside of Samantha's situation. It gave me a sense of purpose and worth. I'm very glad I was allowed to do that. When I got to see Samantha on Tuesday she wasn't doing well. Hospice said she probably wouldn't see the weekend. She disproved them, she's still around, but there's still no guarantee she'll ever leave the hospital she's at. I'll finally get to see her again this weekend and I'll be sure to show her some choice moments. Friday I got word that my father was in the hospital at the end of his life. My brothers came in from around the country and sat with him for three days. There's very little to do in a hospital room waiting for someone to pass, so we watched SGDQ on my phone. No sound, as there were other people around and we wanted to disturb him as little as possible, but it was fun trying to explain how broken gen 1 pokemon is and what the players were doing while not having commentary, or trying to explain how TASbot works and THAT'S MY FDS. It's been 8 years since we've been in the same spot, and it was a bit strange to be watching on a phone next to our dying father, but it gave us a bonding time and now they're totally into it. He passed Monday morning. Special thanks to Studio for allowing me to hug him, UA for that and convincing Matty to let me ship my FDS, Matty for organizing this whole thing and still taking a moment to express his sympathies, halfcoordinated for letting an awkward guy hug him crying before running out (and just doing what he does, seriously), and Kerfuffle for organizing that Yetee drop and donating those shirts. The week of SGDQ was pretty lovely from a real life perspective, but it certainly softened the blows. It gave me something to look forward to, something to work towards, inspired a young girl I care about very much, and gave something to bond with my brothers over while we sat vigil with our dad. Thanks guys. Oyster fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Oyster posted:Thanks guys.
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# ? Jul 13, 2016 19:38 |
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Oyster, you've added an extra dimension to these marathons that I never thought I'd associate with GDQs. Thanks for opening up at a such a personal level, and you, Sam, Sam's family, and your brothers are always welcome at a GDQ. I owe you a bigger hug next time I see you.
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Oyster posted:I'm gonna take this time to pull a JMan. you're a good person
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Thank you, Oyster and hopefully a bit better times for you in the future. half's Momodora run was probably one of the highlights of any GDQ I've seen for me, and even moreso with knowing about Samantha.
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# ? Jul 13, 2016 20:27 |
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I'm out of the loop, who's Samantha?
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# ? Jul 13, 2016 20:39 |
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Momodora was a really good run Thanks, half, for your contribution
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Aurora posted:I'm out of the loop, who's Samantha? Tl;dr sick girl gets inspired to play video games by halfcoordinated, gets chance to meet him at sgdq, falls further ill and is no longer able to For the long version SeXReX fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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SeXReX posted:Tl;dr sick girl gets inspired to play video games by halfcoordinated, gets chance to meet him at sgdq, falls further ill and is no longer able to Ahh, will do, thanks!
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SeXReX posted:Tl;dr sick girl gets inspired to play video games by halfcoordinated, gets chance to meet him at sgdq, falls further ill and is no longer able to Jesus, I wasn't aware of that. I know you're probably sick of people posting this kind of poo poo at/about you at this point but you're a good dude and I wish you and your family the best, Oyster.
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I'm an hour into Jak and Daxter and
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 01:38 |
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Regy Rusty posted:I'm an hour into Jak and Daxter and I'm almost up to an hour too and the couch crew commentary has been hysterical, at least to me. Are there others like this? Be it from this year or previous ones?
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Regy Rusty posted:I'm an hour into Jak and Daxter and Speaking of, Black Knight 2000 is pretty baller if you haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTgj90iB7M&t=73s. ♫YOU GOT THE POWER♫ NO WAY ♫YOU'RE READY FOR BATTLE♫ GIVE ME YOUR MONEY ♫THE BLACK KNIGHT♫ HA HA HA HA
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 01:44 |
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Do you guys promise that Bonesaw doesn't die by the end of this I'm not sure he's breathing
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you have so much to see yet
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 01:49 |
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They still haven't uploaded the Tetris block to the GDQ channel. Is there a list of timestamp links to the Twitch archives somewhere? Edit: Nevermind, their YouTube channel just sucks at showing everything. It's all up on the VOD link on the SGDQ site. WhiteHowler fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jul 14, 2016 |
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I got to Owen Wilson This is a masterpiece
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Regy Rusty posted:I got to Owen Wilson Wow! That's a great run!
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Node posted:I'm almost up to an hour too and the couch crew commentary has been hysterical, at least to me. Are there others like this? Be it from this year or previous ones? Pepsi Man is hilarious for the game and a bit of commentary. Aladdin has a fair bit of amusing commentary and a special surprise part of the way through.
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Regy Rusty posted:I got to Owen Wilson I also just finished watching this. What a riot. I wish I still had time to watch Graveyard Shift runs live. These types are runs are my best memories of gdqs. Wow!
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Dezinus posted:I also just finished watching this. What a riot. I'm actually kinda glad I saved it. I heard all the praise and decided to keep it for when I needed something really funny to cheer me up. Today that fit the bill and it really worked. "Let's take 2 seconds to think about Bryan Cranston" "Done"
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Mikedawson posted:Wow! That's a great run! Whoever sent in that Jeb Bush donation should get a medal, man. (And then Bonesaw should get a second medal for sitting there completely stonefaced while the rest of the room cackles.)
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Vermain posted:Whoever sent in that Jeb Bush donation should get a medal, man. Depending on the audio tech runners weren't always being fed the host's mic in their headsets so it's possible he couldn't hear it
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 04:00 |
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Some rumor post said Bonesaw was in trouble with GDQ over that whole thing and I hope that's not the case. Well the Air Canada thing was a bit not cool, but the rest was amazing.
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 06:57 |
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GDQ staff literally hugged him after his run was over lol, he's fine.
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 07:58 |
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I heard staff was so mad they got the pm of Canada on the phone and had him deported to Japan
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 09:38 |
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I can't believe they loving executed Bonesaw on live state run television.
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 12:59 |
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Free Bonesaw
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Bonesaw posted a short journal afterwards, and basically said he doesn't know if he's blacklisted or not. He was supposed to get a talk from the staff later, but it never came! I guess we'll find out in 6 months or something.
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 16:26 |
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is adam ak still boycotting *GDQ for...whatever the hell reason he was boycotting it? I don't remember. reason i asked is because I missed him. His Amnesia run whichever year was a blast
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 16:29 |
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I believe he and Joshimuz are still boycotting GDQ events, yes.
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 16:37 |
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People boycotting GDQ is such a wtf to me
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 16:43 |
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why would Bonesaw even get blacklisted, does Owen Wilson secretly run AGDQ or something
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 16:53 |
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will no one stand up to the forces of Big Anime
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# ? Jul 14, 2016 17:10 |
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Have you ever seen Mike Uyama and Owen Wilson together at the same time? Didn't think so
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"They're not let's plays!!!!!" -someone on the gdq forums, probably
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dragon enthusiast posted:Have you ever seen Mike Uyama and Owen Wilson together at the same time? Didn't think so you joke but we're still not actually sure that Mike and Justin Wong are two different people.
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Cubey posted:I believe he and Joshimuz are still boycotting GDQ events, yes. Why
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SeXReX posted:you joke but we're still not actually sure that Mike and Justin Wong are two different people.
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I'm watching the speedrun for The Witness right now and it's blowin my mind. I know it's all just memorizing the puzzle patterns but he does it so fast and some at a distance where he can't even see the lines edit: I say "just" but I could never memorize all this edit: Oh gently caress these puzzles inside the mountain. I never would've finished the game if I had kept playing anyway Macaluso fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jul 14, 2016 |
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