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Suspicious posted:I remember having a very low opinion of TG in the past because they didn't publish runs submitted by tape and had a bunch of silly arbitrary rules like no mockball in super metroid. Is this still the case? Dunno if it is still true, but they famously banned using the crouching stab attack in OoT because it was bugged and did the damage of your last attack. No setup, thats just how it works. Then there are other weird rulings theyve done more recently. Someone beat PJs Battletoads and Double Dragon run by leeching the final boss, which is against the rules for TG, by rationalizing that PJ had to have done it. They accepted it. PJ produced the video proving he didnt leech, and not only didnt remove the new run, but refused to outline what acceptable levels of leeching would be when you can leech indefinitely. Theyve also allowed a whole lot of really, really crazy people to remain on their site for years without consequence, and are still obsessed with protecting Todd for some reason. So, yes.
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So obviously Im a bit biased here but still gonna post thoughts. Ultimately, speedrunning is about getting good at something you like doing. The timer isnt really anything other than a convenient measuring tool. If you play games you like and just set goals incrementally, you can have a ton of fun with it. As far as an hour being too long, I find an hour to be a pretty convenient length as someone who works filltime. Its short enough that it doesnt tank my entire evening after work, but long enough to discourage just resetting the moment anything goes wrong since Ive got a limited window anyways. The story is definitely bad but sometimes dunking on a terrible story can be part of the fun too. Kaubocks posted:
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Kaubocks posted:this is actually a really interesting perspective i hadn't considered. thanks! Im not really aware of any resources except maybe my very dated notes on SDA. A vast majority of the game is just learning to move intuitively and then figuring out the best way to use your resources, so just playing through is a great way to make progress for a while.
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Kaubocks posted:sorry murphagator but i think i settled on bloodstained curse of the moon as my first speedgame. i do hope to one day represent the dozen-large bionic commando fan club even if i put up a poor showing in 2009! Dont apologize for playing games you like.
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Jul 7, 2018 16:33
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Watching this thread overthink GDQ staffs processes is always hilarious to me.
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Oct 1, 2018 23:57
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Matts post about lack of trust shows a pretty fundimental lack of understanding about what his position is, or why people dont trust stuff from a company. Disapointing he still hasnt learned that after all these years.
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Nov 28, 2018 23:28
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Peewi posted:Bionic Commando is not a popular speedgame, but for fun I made a video showing some speedrun tricks. Hey nice job; I'd always meant to put something together like this but I am the supreme lazy on creating resources. I think I actually know what happened with the mohole at the end; after you hit it with a death from above it locks out the death from above action until the mohole burrows underground to prevent you from doing a second one after the initial hit. I don't know why they did it that way instead of a timer or something, but hey 2k9. Glad people liked the GDQ run; its a rough game to commentate during but it was overall a good time.
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SeXReX posted:Actually based on the number of people I know who use youtube search to try and find a world record because they don't know what speedrun.com is Wow they do a search? The number of runners Ive come across playing a game Ive run for "WR" without bothering to do so much as a single google search is staggering.
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Its funny, since getting some personal stuff sorted out this year I was starting to feel bad about having quit as gdq staff a few years back, then this whole thing happened and all my regrets vanished again.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Same, but there's also a point at which where if you've spoken up a number of times and seen literally nothing come of it, you're going to say "alright, this isn't going to be redeemable with the current organizers" and go volunteer for PUWP instead Im not going to go into details, but a bit of this and a bit of being involved was becoming a detriment to my mental health for various reasons. Edit: doubling down on making fun of someone for a physical disability is a pretty poo poo thing to do. Theres plenty of stuff to talk about here without irrelevant childish poo poo like that.
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Naegleria being banned rumor probably started because we was banned from the SDA forums just at the tail end of when that was relevant for GDQ stuff.
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Nov 23, 2019 18:15
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Peewi posted:It's not a new record or anything, but I got another PB in that game I play.
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Jan 18, 2020 21:17
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Purposefully ignoring peoples lovely behavior just because it didnt happen directly in this specific social circle is actively supporting their lovely behavior. If people were digging up idiotic things he said in high school it might be different, but saying "hey you are a racist but dont specifically do those racist things when around me, a white male" allows them to infiltrate groups and make them inaccessible to the groups they are hateful against. Creating a space thats safe for both the wolves and the sheep is actually only creating a space thats safe for the wolves.
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Strongly disagree. The classic mega man games offer a different experience to the later games, and have strengths that the older games dont. Dont confuse your personal preferences with a game being "obviously inferior". For me personally, the zero series actually sucks for a number of reasons (#1 being that the limited screen space is counter to the pace the games), but I still can recognize their appeal to others.
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Jun 29, 2020 14:25
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Ultima66 posted:I feel like this shows that GDQ as a whole is just very lazy/uninterested in doing proper attribution when it's not someone the people making the decisions are very familiar with. While thats a problem, theres also the fact that a lot of gdq is run by volunteers vs actual staff, and therefore are uncomfortable with making decisions. This happening during the stream probably means the actual staff was paying attention to something else at the time it was said. They strongly rely on the player submitted information during the game submission process.
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A few years back a person made a cheated zelda 1 run specifically to cheat in the most blatant ways possible without just having a video cut, and enough people still thought it was real that he decided to take it down. He did stuff like put items in his inventory he didnt have, went into a dungeon door and ended up in a different dungeon, and flat out skiped getting one of the triforce pieces, and it still wasnt enough. While the hardcore community catches on fast, the average joe youtube browser doesnt know nor care.
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Feb 11, 2021 17:17
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Oh sick; cutting the hour mark is a nice place to be
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May 12, 2021 20:35
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Magnetic North posted:Looks like he was on for Juneteenth? For the record, I dunno who BigJon is. Theres plenty of speedrunners who have moved on to successful lives, you just dont hear about it because the internet spreads drama like wildfire while boring success stories kinda sputter out.
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Jul 27, 2021 14:56
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bike tory posted:is the default assumption here that speedrunning does not amount to a successful life? Its certainly the assumption of the statement I responded to.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:19
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Aurora posted:also it would be insane to submit dread while new stuff and routing isn't done You say that as though a bunch of people dont just presumptively jam a new game into the submission field for attention every year.
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My guess would be the Harry Potter situation made them sit and take a harder look at some previous titles they were wanting to exclude rather than an indication that something specific happened with any one of those games.
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