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Hungry Squirrel posted:I have finally been able to sort and catalog my GDQ event shirt collection. I want to show it off, obviously, but I’m also looking to complete the set.. I miss buying GDQ shirts. I haven't bought one since they upped the postal fees to "astronomical" across the pond. Some years ago you could get a shirt with 4€ or so shipping fees. I have quite a few from previous years, think the last one I got was a mint green Ufouria shirt with Shades on it (AGDQ 2020). TeaJay fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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i need new glover shirts from 2018 or whenever that was. maybe i can find someone on aliexpress
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Jan 2, 2024 20:45
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Hungry Squirrel posted:
I'm pretty sure the first shirts were from 2012.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:47
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Dr. Stab posted:I'm pretty sure the first shirts were from 2012. I tried to find the Yetee's promotional images from each year (that show all the shirts) but older ones are hard to find and blurry. I think they may all be available on FaceBook or Twitter, but I had no luck searching. Having a reference image lets me figure out if a poorly-labeled item I see for sale is relevant to me or not. Which is to say, I wouldn't know a 2012 merch item if it bit me in the rear end, and that's disappointing.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:52
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Hungry Squirrel posted:I tried to find the Yetee's promotional images from each year (that show all the shirts) but older ones are hard to find and blurry. I think they may all be available on FaceBook or Twitter, but I had no luck searching. Having a reference image lets me figure out if a poorly-labeled item I see for sale is relevant to me or not. would having this help? it's my first shirt and the fact that it's called "serious time 2" leads me to believe there was at least a 1. 
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Jan 2, 2024 20:59
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Oooh. It does, actually; that has the style of the "ensemble" shirts, but in context it's pretty clearly the event shirt, and the year is only on the sleeve instead of within the image. So the image styling has definitely evolved, which tells me that I shouldn't sleep on something that has the Yetee-ish look about it, even if it's not obviously GDQ-related.
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Jan 2, 2024 21:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU This is completely insane.
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Jan 2, 2024 22:58
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Carbon dioxide posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU And here I thought I was good at Tetris back when I started beating 9-5 for fun on the gameboy... The competitive Tetris scene is just unreal.
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Jan 2, 2024 23:18
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the nes tetris scene seems like it's made up exclusively of kids too young to drive and middle-aged dudes with nothing in between and that's cool. like for years you'd just see old dudes in the tetris championships and then all of a sudden it's nothing but progressively younger kids with bizarre techniques dominating
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Jan 2, 2024 23:28
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i don't understand what people see in NES tetris over modern tetris but i'm happy for them
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Jan 2, 2024 23:41
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Dr. Stab posted:would having this help? it's my first shirt and the fact that it's called "serious time 2" leads me to believe there was at least a 1. There indeed was - this is the first Serious Time shirt:  And here's the third one since I saw it nearby in the bin I keep my old GDQ/RPGLB shirts that don't fit in:   I forget if the difference between attendee and not for these was the label on the sleeve/back, if they were even available to the public or if it was only people who went.
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Jan 3, 2024 01:18
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There were indeed non-attendee versions of those sold on the yetee during the event. Source: just checked the sda forum. Also, since everything was done via the sda forum, I can tell you there were exactly 55 agdq 2012 attendee shirts distributed.
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Jan 3, 2024 01:32
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Rubellavator posted:the nes tetris scene seems like it's made up exclusively of kids too young to drive and middle-aged dudes with nothing in between and that's cool. like for years you'd just see old dudes in the tetris championships and then all of a sudden it's nothing but progressively younger kids with bizarre techniques dominating some of that's come up because optimal play on the classic nes tetris involves a very particular playing style because of the game's high drop speed and abysmal move speed. the new kids are in because the new method of doing it fucks up your hands and they have yet to succumb, so i hear. repiv posted:i don't understand what people see in NES tetris over modern tetris but i'm happy for them if i had to guess, ease of access and universality. nes tetris is nes tetris no matter when or where you play it, and it's easy to acquire. every modern version of tetris is more or less completely different from one another. it also has an actual kill screen whereas other tetris variants typically have infinite spin / move reset
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Jan 3, 2024 01:59
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Zamujasa posted:some of that's come up because optimal play on the classic nes tetris involves a very particular playing style because of the game's high drop speed and abysmal move speed. the new kids are in because the new method of doing it fucks up your hands and they have yet to succumb, so i hear. Rolling should be less hard on your hands than hypertapping, as I understand it. You can use four fingers from one hand for your movement inputs, and they don't have to press the same place, because you've turned the entire back of the gamepad into a "button".
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Jan 3, 2024 02:08
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nes tetris is basically "can you tap the button 20 times a second just to move the piece where you want it before it falls too far", which is not going to do good things to your hands
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Jan 3, 2024 02:12
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Jabor posted:nes tetris is basically "can you tap the button 20 times a second just to move the piece where you want it before it falls too far", which is not going to do good things to your hands with rolling it's "can you tap each of your fingers 5 times per second" which is much less strenuous than tapping one finger 20 times per second
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Jan 3, 2024 02:19
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Jabor posted:nes tetris is basically "can you tap the button 20 times a second just to move the piece where you want it before it falls too far", which is not going to do good things to your hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE The above video goes into the history of input methods for NES Tetris, and how rolling works. Take a look at around 3:20 to skip to the rolling segment. It really doesn't look at all bad to me; it's a similar intensity as playing any other videogame.
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Jan 3, 2024 02:20
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Can't be as bad as that one rowing minigame from Mario Party.
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Jan 3, 2024 02:25
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hypertapping is really what hosed people up with nes tetris, rolling is much easier on the hands.
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Jan 3, 2024 02:27
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that'd do it, the last major development i had heard of was hypertapping. rolling looks similar to something i remember doing as a kid, just much faster. the video of the worn-out controller, too, drat. nostalgia blast for the classic rectangle.
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Dr. Stab posted:There were indeed non-attendee versions of those sold on the yetee during the event. Source: just checked the sda forum. Also, since everything was done via the sda forum, I can tell you there were exactly 55 agdq 2012 attendee shirts distributed. What is this forum, and would I be able to join or at least quietly lurk?
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Jan 3, 2024 02:57
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Hungry Squirrel posted:What is this forum, and would I be able to join or at least quietly lurk? Speed demos archive. Still around, still has forums.
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repiv posted:i don't understand what people see in NES tetris over modern tetris but i'm happy for them as somebody who plays a ton of modern tetris it's fun to go back to the boomer style now and then because without things like long next queues and 7-bag randomizing you really do have to approach how you play the game differently. the stuff you need to think about changes a lot. it's fun! honestly, classic tetris and modern tetris should be treated like two entirely different games.
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Here's my SGDQ2014 shirt from the Humble Bundle I wore it for about 7 years before it started to fall apart lmao, then started wearing it to the gym (which... accelerated the decomposition)
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Jan 3, 2024 05:01
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i wore my glover shirt for like a year even though it immediately shrunk to XXXXXXS after being washed a single time
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Heya, speed-goons! Been a long time since I posted, uh... anywhere on the forums. Let's catch up later, go out for a drink - that sort of thing (if you're up for it.) But first, a proposition: You have: Charitable donations; witty comments I have: a run in AGDQ 2024 at ~11am Eastern time on Monday (30XX, a Mega Man X & Zero inspired roguelite.) Would there be interest in having a goon hashtag for donations to increase your chances of having donation comments read during my run?
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a tea tree posted:I have: a run in AGDQ 2024 at ~11am Eastern time on Monday (30XX, a Mega Man X & Zero inspired roguelite.) Looking forward to it. That'll be 4pm here, plus whatever drift has built up, so convenient timing. I also still haven't managed to beat 30XX a single time...
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Sounds like it'll be early evening/late afternoon over here so looking forward to watching it!
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FishMcCool posted:Looking forward to it. That'll be 4pm here, plus whatever drift has built up, so convenient timing. I also still haven't managed to beat 30XX a single time... This reminded me that I don't think I've mentioned the new feature I put into the tracker that we're trying out this time. We now have the ability to anchor runs to a particular start time, and in order to maintain that start time it will adjust the "setup time" of the prior run. If it's ever in a situation where it can't do that, whatever you're about to try and do will fail loudly. Currently we have blocks called The Checkpoint that range between 30-60 minutes(ish) that are nothing -but- setup time, which will give us a very concrete picture of how much time we have to work with in a given day. The idea is that if we're ever so far behind that The Checkpoint shrinks to nothing, it's time to start rearranging and/or dropping stuff. Or if the Checkpoint gets too big, it's time to slot in a bonus run. It's a very experimental feature but will hopefully allow us to stay closer to the real schedule. Looking forward to seeing how it plays out in practice. JHobz already has planned content for The Checkpoint, but how much of it we see will depend on how much time we end up having left over by the time we reach it. Alternate use: FF events have the "sleep" blocks and the first run of the day will be anchored so that the length of the sleep block will auto-adjust. UraniumAnchor fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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a tea tree posted:I have: a run in AGDQ 2024 at ~11am Eastern time on Monday (30XX, a Mega Man X & Zero inspired roguelite.)
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UraniumAnchor posted:
Oh hell yeah. I imagined there was probably something in the back pocket in case there was some time available in a day, but not necessarily enough for a backup run - good to know that seems to be accurate. Looking forward it (and potentially being up on the host desk for whatever silliness happens on Wednesday!)
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MagusofStars posted:I've never heard of this game but that sounds like a really interesting concept. It does. Thanks for posting, my interest in watching that run just shot way up.
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a tea tree posted:Oh hell yeah. I imagined there was probably something in the back pocket in case there was some time available in a day, but not necessarily enough for a backup run - good to know that seems to be accurate. Looking forward it (and potentially being up on the host desk for whatever silliness happens on Wednesday!) Yep, interview team has a ton of awesome stuff planned for those setup blocks. We're also fully aware that we may lose some of that time and prepared accordingly. Hope y'all like what we've got.
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30XX is a cool sequel to a cool game. If you like Mega Man X/Z games, or just run&shoot games in general, check it out. Good luck with the run, a tea tree!
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fool of sound posted:Speed demos archive. Still around, still has forums. I looked around in there and it's clearly a long-time, well-established community. I felt like I was peeping in windows. I'll poke around for the merch / swag information but I genuinely felt like reading the posts was invading privacy somehow. So, thank you! But also, I'mm'a just stop by real quick and then dip.
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Hungry Squirrel posted:I looked around in there and it's clearly a long-time, well-established community. I felt like I was peeping in windows. I'll poke around for the merch / swag information but I genuinely felt like reading the posts was invading privacy somehow. So, thank you! But also, I'mm'a just stop by real quick and then dip.  it's a forum, op
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Studio posted:
Fair.
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Studio posted:
You're a forum.
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MagusofStars posted:I've never heard of this game but that sounds like a really interesting concept. It's good! Plus levels are procgenned from a set of pre-made chunks, and there's a chunk editor, so you can enable community chunks in your runs.
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