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As soon as they got sound, our Finnish representative said how he f*cked up.
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Jul 23, 2016 17:16
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It'll be a tough job to follow the SGDQ Jedi Academy run, which was one of the highlights of the whole event. e: The technical side seems pretty amateurish also following SGDQ. The game audio is completely drowning the runner. e2: Looks like they found a good balance TeaJay fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Jul 23, 2016 |
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Jul 23, 2016 18:57
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mangler103 posted:Is there a live crowd at all? Why are there random people milling about in the background? This is all quite confusing. Apparently there are, but the camera placement is unfortunate. The random people distracting from the run in the background is annoying, though. https://twitter.com/MolluskMoth/status/756926116670169088 TeaJay fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jul 23, 2016 |
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Jul 23, 2016 19:59
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Yeah, the runs themselves have been solid so far, but there's a lot of little things distracting me, like the camera placement or constant audio issues. I've only watched ESA the year before, but I seem to recall 2015 being pretty free from technical difficulties. And there was this Irish (?) guy announcing the event who had a lovely, deep, bass voice. (come to think of it, where is the announcing this year? Or the donations?) e: Boy, it's not a very good start for the event. https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/4u9jy2/shame_on_you_esa_shame_on_you/ TeaJay fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jul 23, 2016 |
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Jul 23, 2016 20:16
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Like I said, I remember last year being pretty solid all around. Maybe the venue poses new challenges, but it's been definitely a bit disappointing so far on the tech side. Hopefully it'll get better as the event goes on.
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Jul 23, 2016 20:36
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I wish they had a schedule that would automatically update the later start times like the GDQ one does. I _think_ these are still original times but there's no way Metal Gear MSX is starting in 7 minutes.
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Jul 24, 2016 07:22
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Well, compared to last night, the sound balance is better, the camera angle is good and the commentary is nice. Maybe they will get on the ball with the announcing soon, too.
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Jul 24, 2016 07:28
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Studio posted:Ooo, who's matching donations? USAID, I believe. quote:To celebrate the 5-year anniversary of ESA, for a limited time, your donation during ESA 2016 will be amplified 10X thanks to matching grants from the US government to support maternal, newborn and child survival programs in Bangladesh and Myanmar.*
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Jul 24, 2016 08:33
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SpikeVegeta can be my secret santa anyday. Looks like he won't actually run anything, but announcing works too. e: Still bothers me to see random people just doing something other than actually watching the run in the background. If you're not interested at least get off the camera. (are there any screens for the audience yet?) TeaJay fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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Jul 24, 2016 11:01
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I tune back in and all of a sudden it's SpikeVegeta and Pac's comedy hour. "Hey Naegleria, you have a joke?" From what I heard from one interview, they had a lot of trouble with tech (as seen) and they didn't get all the equipment they were expecting so they had to make do with what they had, or something. It's getting better, though. TeaJay fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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Jul 24, 2016 14:25
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mangler103 posted:Looks like they have a monitor set up for viewing as well. Good to see things are improving. Oh yeah, you can see now behind the runners. Good stuff.
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Jul 24, 2016 14:31
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Cool Matty posted:We did this at SGDQ2014 actually, and it was critically important to making that event go smoother. It doesn't need to be a few hours of downtime if you plan your steps prior. But honestly from what I've heard it's way more than just setup issues going on (lots of bad and missing hardware), which no amount of setup is going to fix. It's a rough situation, and being a weekend does not help anything. I'm pretty sad that the tech side is ruining so much here since I was really looking forward to ESA. I don't know what you could do in a situation like this, coldly drop some runs off the schedule? If there's no guarantee the tech is gonna hold any better. The announcers have done a great job so far holding the thing together and the runs themselves have been good, and I can only imagine what kind of bustling is going on between the scenes on the tech side.
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Jul 25, 2016 07:54
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This Lucky dime caper run is probably the best I've seen so far, the runners have great banter going on.
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Jul 25, 2016 11:16
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I was just now able to do a donation via G2A pay and PayPal. The interface is pretty messy, though, with limited space on the donations and the stream itself taking a huge part of the screen.
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Jul 25, 2016 11:44
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Today has been a lot more solid tech-wise. Some awkward/funny moments with announcers trying to fill dead air, but that should be alright with Eonwe.
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Jul 25, 2016 18:10
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I wish there would be more finns at xGDQ's. The problem is though that no one else gets any booze if we're around
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Jul 25, 2016 21:31
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I know, and there's a lot of people whose great-something-grandparents were immigrants from Finland in Minnesota. That's where we ended up when we went to immigrate America. If it's gonna be next summer in Minnesota as well, I'll have to take it into serious consideration. I've always wanted to go to a GDQ live.
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Jul 25, 2016 21:45
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Tune in now to see a ventriloquist runner playing Lands of Lore 3.
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Jul 26, 2016 07:59
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This Lands of Lore run is probably the funniest so far of the event. Great combination of a bad game and a great runner & commentary. Even better with his amazing skills to talk without moving his mouth. I haven't got time to see any VOD's, but from what I've seen, the Duck Tales 2 run and Donald: Lucky dime caper race were very good.
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Jul 26, 2016 08:29
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mangler103 posted:I guess it depends on where you are in the world. It's around 10am for me. Last year (when ESA had two streams going on at the same time though) they had a similar, really long run of Final Fantasy IX which was really entertaining. Two guys played and one guy was on commentary. But I have no such nostalgia for FF XII so I'll probably do something else for tonight.
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Jul 26, 2016 16:34
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Add Nintendo Nightmare on your watch list if you haven't seen it. I'm not sure if it's so much actually a "game" than a state of mind, but there's dev commentaryquote:- Why did you make this game? And great fun all around.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:29
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Got my donation read, so I'm happy. #hugsforhenneko
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Jul 27, 2016 18:56
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:Meanwhile I play good games in frustrating ways and end up resenting everyone and everything to do with it. Too bad your run is in the middle of the night, but I'll be sure to watch the VOD and Chucat posted:Hosting was fun, shame I have to do it again. You did good
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Jul 27, 2016 22:43
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Guy sits and plays Final Fantasy XII for 7 hours straight. Guy takes a break 16 minutes into Timesplitters 2. Granted, I only started watching when it just happened, so I'll have to see the VOD on what actually went down. e: Then apparently they censored him in the interview by showing the hall cam instead of interview cam. (but if I got it correct he said him leaving was a joke since it was an auto-scroller.) TeaJay fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Jul 28, 2016 |
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Jul 28, 2016 07:42
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Chucat posted:It was a joke since otherwise he'd have sat there for 2 minutes doing nothing. Yeah, I know, I know. Someone said in the chat that they have GIVEN THE SIGNAL for screen transition but it just failed to change. At least you had a good view on the whole thing. It was a very entertaining run, to be sure.
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Jul 28, 2016 08:29
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Tetris Grandmaster is always awesome despite I've seen it a couple of GDQ's already. I envy those who see this for the first time now.
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Nice to hear you were happy Punchy, gonna watch the VOD now. e: I'm always impressed by anyone who can actually give meaningful commentary during an involving game like this. TeaJay fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Jul 29, 2016 |
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From what I saw ESA this year, they were plagued by technical diffficulties and the whole event had a more "home-made" feel to it than compared to GDQ, both good and bad ways. It should be easier to arrange next year if they continue in the same arena. e: It took me a little while to understand what is going on in the routing competition but it's definitely a fun concept. TeaJay fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jul 30, 2016 |
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