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BEST KONG
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Donkey Kong 76 6.13%
Diddie Kong 75 6.05%
Dixie Kong 84 6.77%
Lankey Kong 129 10.40%
Funky Kong 189 15.24%
Mario 198 15.97%
Tiny Kony 65 5.24%
Candy Kong 61 4.92%
Chunky Kong 89 7.18%
Cranky Kong 125 10.08%
Wrinkley Kong (R.I.P.) :qq: 149 12.02%
Total: 719 votes
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SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

I am donating because my Germany has died from animal.

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SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Doorknob Slobber posted:

fingers crossed for some goooood drama

I mean there's always some drama invented. I think we'll be fine.


DizzyBum posted:

OOOHHH BANANA

OOOHHH BANANA

OOOHHH BANANA

OOOHHH BANANA

OOOHHH BANANA

All the runners are saying that Super Metroid isn't on the backup / bonus list. But who knows maybe it's some super secret "surprise we're doing the thing we always do" thing. Who knows.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Random Stranger posted:

What? Then how are we supposed to fill pages explaining to people what Twitch bits are and then discussing how stupid they are?!

We'll just explain Sam and Tolki to anyone who asks again. about once every 5 pages.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

I, too, agree that it's nice to discuss speed runs and things without being subjected to sexism every time someone isn't male.

Also :justpost:

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Pakled posted:

The big BOTW runners tried to dictate that no one would submit a BOTW run to last SGDQ because the game had just come out so they wanted to have some time to develop and polish the run before it got the big stage exposure of GDQ. A lesser known runner submitted a BOTW run anyway and it got accepted and the other runners got pissy about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamesdonequick/comments/63wi8x/to_sgdq_staff_regarding_zelda_botw

Also Orcastraw is a translady, which I'm sure didn't figure at all into reddit's dislike.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Speaking of, has anyone put out a goonwatch schedule yet? Punchy has a run and UA is on a couch?

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

Just thinking back to stuff like Bonesaw's hilarious run of Jak 2 (or was it 1? It's been awhile) that seemed to be a huge fan favorite because of how insanely jetlagged he was. Everyone was laughing and having a good time and then he got banned for a year (I think?) for it.


If you use GDQ as a platform to disparage another companies services after repeatedly being told to stop through the headset, yeah you're probably going to be asked not to submit runs for a year.

Same applies to like, telling people to stand in front of a shuttle.

Also nobody ever has fun on the couch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSkrK0-EIVY

SoftNum fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jan 6, 2018

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

Like for real that was harmless goofing around while doing a really funny run that brought in a ton of money or are we rewriting it as a bad unfunny run that everyone didn't like. (I'll check out the run you linked when I have a bit more time. I recall hearing that it was one of the good ones and never got around to it)

Yeah I'm not trying to claim that people didn't find it entertaining FWIW.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Dias posted:

imagine if the MAGA shitlords see how popular that poo poo was and tried to replicate it with their amazing sense of humor?

There's this thing called the North American Speedrunners AssociationAssembly. It is almost exactly what you said. It's worth a cringe watch. (if they ever manage to organize it again.)

SoftNum fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Jan 6, 2018

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

OK it's bothering me. Is that his tonker at the bottom?

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

beep by grandpa posted:

Mods, please ban everyone who voted Funky Kong.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

JethroMcB posted:

Yetee Guest Designer Georgia O'Keeffe


Oh dear lord I'm glad I'm not the only one. Between this and the finger I was getting worried.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

IDK if my favorite is Andy & Ribbedkilla & Pat or if it's SimCity / Maniac Mansion.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

beep by grandpa posted:

trying to get Livestreamer to work again on day 1


Livestreamer hasn't been updated in a while. Streamlink is where it's at now.

https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink



If anyone else doesn't know, streamlink is a way to watch twitch in the video player of your choice instead of the lovely browser plugin. Bonuses include: no chat.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

beep by grandpa posted:

livestreamer worked first try, woot

since livestreamer just works from my config last summer what are the perks with switching to stream link? I like to watch things through Media Player Classic becauseI'm an old piece of poo poo who still uses winamp and saves 320kbps MP3s and violent fetish porn locally still.

There's probably none. IIRC livestreamer can't get the stream link from the base URL anymore, so it just gives up and dies but if you have it all worked out there's probably no reason to switch.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

It's been brought up a few times but is still great.

That time romscout's blindfolded run of sotn was sidetracked cause the controller stopped working.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

I Greyhound posted:

So what are the advantages of Streamlink whatever? I'm an old man and installing things is hard with the configuarations and the clernifications, so I'm probably just going to watch on Twitch unless someone convinces me to do effort.

It gets around twitch ads
You can use your own media player so:
It creates a nice border less window in the corner of your screen
It takes way fewer resources to run vs. the bloated twitch thing
It doesn't load the chat applet

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

beep by grandpa posted:

ah I just have a little batch file I wrote that I just click and open and it does the rest :c00l:

beep, confirmed tasser

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

beep by grandpa posted:

was it sgdq17 that had all the audio issues?

It's probably an AGDQ. They get Power Up to do the SGDQs and they are top notch. (Power Up can't do AGDQ cause of schedule)

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

jimmydalad posted:

I tried to get livestreamer to work, then I realized I had no idea how to program anything and am confused by everything. Help would be appreciated cause Twitch chats tend to be toxic cesspools of no fun.

I would start here:

https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui/wiki/Installation


tyblazitar posted:

you could just watch it on Twitch with the chat turned off, that's what i do

Knowing it's there bothers me. :( I'm a goon.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Random Stranger posted:

As I understand chat during a twitch stream, we're supposed to constantly spam pictures of a dog, right?



oh man they've got a little gamer buddy! GOOD DOG!

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

As much as I like Spike and PMG and such, the talky non speedrunny bits are my least favorite part.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

KKKLIP ART posted:

Dragon quest run sounds rad and excited about LTTP randomized run. Are they going keycanity or just regular?

It's Open "glitchless" afaik.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

OK the side to side movement is NOT helping my hangover.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

is it skipping for anyone else?

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Holy poo poo Big Jon is the host for Super Mario Galaxy.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

a rye. goddamn the puns.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

I Greyhound posted:

This boss looks like something out of Space Channel 5

bread rye bread rye chew chew chew!

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

The glow effect on the font is obnoxious cause who wants' to actually read words amirite?

Otherwise I like it. It does things well.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

also like legit the moe quotes make me mad so trap sprung I guess?

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Tones is awesome. He was the Splatoon 1 runner too.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

The Lobster posted:

I learned about counting in binary when I was in elementary school and I'm constantly surprised when others didn't.

People learned a lot of things in school that they forgot.

For instance, most people did actually learn to do taxes in school; it's just you were 12 or whatever and it didn't seem important at the time.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Is this the first time the host has gotten to speak?

e: It's possible to turn off twitch chat altogether.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

abraxas posted:

I figured out whats bugging me on this break overlay.. they don't put the estimates for the up next or on deck runs on there. They should imho.

:same:

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Have they said how much faster italian is? because it can't be that much faster.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

wait we have to watch this poo poo over and over again?

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

the MC in this looks stupid while she's flying.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

why is this now and prinny contra is at 1am

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

Is there no moral choice in this anymore?

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SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

dude her walk cycle is even bad. I didn't mind the first infamous but geez this is just awful. Also did they explain the whole quitting and coming back to the same place? Is it like deathwarping?

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