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Zurai posted:I don't mind modded character art so long as it's tasteful (ie, the Asterrion mod for the RE run was fine) Wait, that wasn’t just the normal Romantic alternate costume?
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Zurai posted:I don't mind modded character art so long as it's tasteful (ie, the Asterrion mod for the RE run was fine), but oh my God the sound replacements for the Diablo run were loving awful. Yeah the diablo mods made it 100% unwatchable for me
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Snake Maze posted:Any true Poster has already long since had their fill of “heckin pupperino good doggo” style posting. The gyromite speedrun was the “Rickroll at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade” of dog-related activities. I am pro-dog and take no pleasure in reporting this. I liked the general idea of it and the idea of a dog helping out with a speedrun is really neat. The only problem I had with it was that the actual game was a really slow autoscroller that was 30 minutes long.
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Snake Maze posted:Any true Poster has already long since had their fill of “heckin pupperino good doggo” style posting. The gyromite speedrun was the “Rickroll at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade” of dog-related activities. I am pro-dog and take no pleasure in reporting this. I agree with the first sentiment but you lose me after that. I'm tired of "Baby-voiced dog admiration as a substitute for a personality," but Peanut Butter was cute and it was a well-executed gimmick that didn't wear out its welcome. Most importantly, it spiked the donation total by raising around $25,000 on a weekday afternoon when donations are usually pretty flat.  (White line is AGDQ 24, purple and maroon are is SGDQ/AGDQ 23) Chucat posted:I liked the general idea of it and the idea of a dog helping out with a speedrun is really neat. The only problem I had with it was that the actual game was a really slow autoscroller that was 30 minutes long. I choose to read it as a quiet indictment of how stupid the ROB concept was.
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Chucat posted:I liked the general idea of it and the idea of a dog helping out with a speedrun is really neat. The only problem I had with it was that the actual game was a really slow autoscroller that was 30 minutes long. I mean it's a little unfair to expect him to play dark souls surely
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JethroMcB posted:I agree with the first sentiment but you lose me after that. I'm tired of "Baby-voiced dog admiration as a substitute for a personality," but Peanut Butter was cute and it was a well-executed gimmick that didn't wear out its welcome. Most importantly, it spiked the donation total by raising around $25,000 on a weekday afternoon when donations are usually pretty flat. the dog thing lasted too long to me, maybe like 10 minutes would have worked, but i can be crotchety about gimmicks. and even at the time the rob concept was awful since i think only like, 2? games were ever made for it
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woke kaczynski posted:I mean it's a little unfair to expect him to play dark souls surely SGDQ, make it happen Mr Butter
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Yeah I guess the dog run was okay. Wake me up when it's a cat doing the run. But for real, that run was crazy impressive. Watched it with my dog, who barely understands sit and shake.
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I wholly support the PB run for all the reasons stated above. I just hope it doesn't get done again at the next marathon. It was fun as a gimmick but would lose it's novelty / interest / luster if done again. Now, doing it for a Hotfix, I think would be a great way to show off the skill and bring in attention. They (used to) do a partnership with the Monterey Aquarium; if they made it into a week of assorted animal charity runs and added it there, that could work. Monterey Aquarium, ASPCA, whatever other animal charities there are, I don't keep track.
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The RE4 costume was a stock choice. I thought the meme jacket for the RE2 run was stupid but it didn't detract from the run, but the stupid sound replacement made the Diablo run unwatchable.
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Hungry Squirrel posted:I wholly support the PB run for all the reasons stated above. I just hope it doesn't get done again at the next marathon. It was fun as a gimmick but would lose it's novelty / interest / luster if done again. I do wonder, though, since its getting a ton of attention, how many people are now going to submit dog% runs.
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:I do wonder, though, since its getting a ton of attention, how many people are now going to submit dog% runs. Some people are surely gonna try, but getting a dog to both do the commands and hold attention on you that long is genuinely really hard so I’m not expecting a flood of submissions. Now if someone gets their frog to do it or whatever then let’s go
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Parrot plays the vocal parts of Rock Band, on hard.
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Pigeon% Where a person trains a bunch of pigeons to play a smw kaizo
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That dog didn't even no hit all of the Souls games in a row. Get good scrub.
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AlphaKeny1 posted:yeah i would gladly watch a stupid gimmick run for these events that's fun as gently caress compared with 'is this ninja gaiden run the most optimal but its 0.2sec short of wr' - as much as I like what Summoning Salt does with this videos a lot of it comes down to endlessly grinding with perfect execution hoping for the right RNG, only to have the record obliterated by someone reverse engineering parts of the game .... you NEED a few pages of explanation to show what's going on. On the opposite end, those Kaizo Mario Maker relay races are what I consider the essence of GDQ. Everyone knows Mario, but this time it's levels no one has seen before, so they're playing blind, and Kaizo Mario requires a very high level of play. There are two teams, so there's live completion - and many are celebrities in the community, so you have people to cheer for. goblin week posted:ok now AGDQ is done I can bravely come out and say it: the dog run was a stupid gimmick and is no different from the Can You Pet The Dog twitter account  
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i appreciate that the dog run exists and it was cool that it happened but i didnt watch it live and watching the vod i did end up skipping like half of it because it was just the same thing for 30 minutes
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I was popping off for the dog but even I think it was a bit long, mostly cos the ‘shiba is gonna get bored’ tension was rising. That said I’d rather watch the dog for an hour than someone precisely but uneventfully play another meatboy-like or shmup the yeti fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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goblin week posted:ok now AGDQ is done I can bravely come out and say it: the dog run was a stupid gimmick and is no different from the Can You Pet The Dog twitter account Yes, how dare they devalue you extremely serious sport of... playing video games fast.
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If you aren't enjoying a run it's ok to go do something else for a while
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Speaking of gimmicks did this gdq have any music games? Did they decide that genre needed a break
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site posted:Speaking of gimmicks did this gdq have any music games? Did they decide that genre needed a break mario 64
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Okay fair but I meant the ddr blocks where you watch the runners die on camera
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site posted:Okay fair but I meant the ddr blocks where you watch the runners die on camera I feel like most of those go to SGDQ. Like some kind of twisted summer music festival
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They didn't and I'm penning a stern letter to Mr. GDQ about it as we speak They're playing Groove Coaster at Frost Fatales though 
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What 110% isn't "mathematical nonsense". Percentages can easily go over 100%. For someone so pedantic, Mike sure is pretty dumb. E: site posted:Okay fair but I meant the ddr blocks where you watch the runners die on camera No, you are right to discount it. After all, playing Mario 64 on a MIDI drum kit is a stupid gimmick and no different from the Duck on Pond twitter account. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:
they were clarifying what they were specifically asking about not trying to poo poo on the mario 64 run, shut up dude
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??? They’re making fun of the people downplaying the dog run
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id much rather watch someone show me fast they can play a game than some stupid gimmick like using bongos to play armored core
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AlphaKeny1 posted:id much rather watch someone show me fast they can play a game than some stupid gimmick like using bongos to play armored core counterpoint, playing lots of games fast is pretty boring to watch no matter how impressive
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In ~140 runs that happen over a week for AGDQ and SGDQ, I posit that there's time enough to have both.
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AlphaKeny1 posted:id much rather watch someone show me fast they can play a game than some stupid gimmick like using bongos to play armored core I like both  GDQ is fun!
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It's been very well established that the GDQ, the ostensible speedrun marathon, is also open to impressive displays of skill even if they're not necessarily about Going Fast and has been I think since that one live run of Clone Hero a few years back absolutely brought the house down; it's also why we see shmup runs and other rhythm games and blindfold incentives. I personally really enjoy them for the variety because what's impressive at it's core for any of these runs is the talent, effort, and practice being demonstrated by the runner and it turns out that can be expressed by playing a game really fast or by slaying the gently caress out in some obscure japanese rhythm game or working really hard with your best friend doggo for a year or theory crafting on the fly one hour into the last run of a marathon to save a run other people would probably abandon as stone dead. It's all great, I love it all. If you do not like that breadth of content there's still a few hundred runs for you to enjoy, everyone is welcome and has something to like in GDQ, that's the magic
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also the drum guy was still doing speed run tricks, on the drum kit, so like. yeah.
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Man, this GDQ really did go well if we're arguing about a 30 minute dog showcase.
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Jose Valasquez posted:If you aren't enjoying a run it's ok to go do something else for a while
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Jose Valasquez posted:If you aren't enjoying a run it's ok to go do something else for a while How dare GDQ not cater to me at all times!? I demand serious speedrunning to be done at all times! None of this "orb" or "hype" or "doge" stuff, only serious speedrunning!
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Meiteron posted:It's been very well established that the GDQ, the ostensible speedrun marathon, is also open to impressive displays of skill even if they're not necessarily about Going Fast and has been I think since that one live run of Clone Hero a few years back absolutely brought the house down; it's also why we see shmup runs and other rhythm games and blindfold incentives. I think the Tetris TGM runs are kinda where that started. The idea of speedrunning that game was pretty much invented for the sole purpose of getting a run in at GDQ.
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