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Summer Games Done Quick 2022 is over! A big thank you to everyone who helped in raising over three million dollars for Doctors Without Borders! It's time for Summer Games Done Quick 2022! And yes, it's finally back to being in person. After two years and four online main GDQs, this one is happening in person, of course with an extensive COVID-19 policy to ensure everybody's safety in the event space. It comes to you from June 26th to July 3rd, and as usual in summer, it's benefiting Doctors Without Borders. ==================== As usual, the best place to start is by reading the schedule. It'll helpfully adjust to your time zone. Due to setup and stuff, expect minor variances, so make sure to be on time. The places to watch are also as usual the GDQ website, and the GDQ Twitch page. When you watch through a browser, the website is generally recommended. But instead of using a browser, you can use your media player of choice, by running Streamlink and Streamlink Twitch GUI. They're quite easy to get running. Just make sure you're using the latest version of both since Twitch loves changing things to make them not work smoothly. You're still going to miss stuff, but that can be remedied as all the runs will be posted to the GDQ Youtube channel so you can watch them at your leisure. After the marathon, a good place to find them is GDQ VODs, a very nice website run by fellow goon Steve Holt!. And you will of course also want to talk to people about the runs you're watching, so here's some places for you to do so: Direct link | Quakenet Webchat GDQ Discord ==================== And now, a short history lesson for you. Blatantly copy-pasted and mildly updated from the AGDQ 2022 thread, but I was the one who wrote that, so it's fine. Games Done Quick started in 2010 with the first marathon, Classic Games Done Quick, hosted from Mike Uyama's mother's basement. Since then, it has grown immensely and hosts not only two big Games Done Quick marathons annually, but also other shorter marathons like Frame Fatales, one-offs like a Corona Relief Done Quick back in April 2020, and lots of other speedrunning content happening every week on their Twitch channel. The two main GDQ events are currently the largest global fundraising events for the charities they benefit. AGDQ 2014 was the first time any GDQ event broke one million dollars in donations for a single event, and SGDQ 2019 was the first to break three million. The current lifetime total of donations to GDQ events is just shy of thirty-eight million dollars. All of the money raised during Summer Games Done Quick goes directly to Doctors Without Borders. No cut is taken by any of the staff or participants, all attendees pay for their own travel and living expenses. It is true that some organizers get paid for it, but not through any cut of the donations—the truth is simply that putting on GDQ is more of less a full-time job for many of the core staff, so some of them are employed by the charity to make sure the marathon can even happen. The staff always try to make sure that the quality of the stream is as good as it can be. Mistakes can always happen with all the tech involved. Delays are not unlikely to occur. Please be patient when this happens, it's definitely even more frustrating for the runners and staff than it is for you as a viewer! ==================== And all that money I mentioned does, of course, come from donations. If you wanna add to that total, you do so on the Summer Games Done Quick 2022 donation page, which you find on the GDQ tracker page. You can leave a comment with your donation, and find what prizes and incentives your money can help out with. If your comment is really good, you might get it read on air, but there's so many donations that it's not something you can really count on. I mentioned incentives, which are things you can "bid" on to make various things happen in some of the runs. Like naming a character, or playing some extra challenge, or even add more games to the schedule. There's a bid index page where you can find them all. I also mentioned prizes, which are things you can win! Obviously enough. If you donate at least a certain amount, you will be entered into a raffle, and if you're lucky, you'll win something cool. The buy-in for most of the prizes are $5, with a few higher ones. There's also a grand prize from Heroic Replicas, where the buy-in is $150 cumulative, meaning that if you donate a total of $150 across the event you'll be in the drawing for it. All prizes can be found on the prize index. Some examples: John Metroid  John Eldenring  John Finalfantasy  John Contra  John Nintendoentertainmentsystem  John Zeldathewindwaker  John Tetris  John Pokémonscarletandviolet  John Ratchetandclank  John Kirby  Aside from the prizes, you can get yourself some items in other ways as well, while you still help the charity. The two main ones are the shirts you can get from The Yetee, and various odds and ends from Fangamer. A portion of the sale from each item on either store will go directly to Doctors Without Borders. ==================== As usual, a FAQ: Q: What runs should I watch? A: This question has no answer. Read the schedule. Find games that you're interested in, or that you think will be interesting. Thread should hopefully have some recommendations over the course of the marathon. Silly Games block is normally great though. Q: Will ____ be featured? A: Check the schedule. If they're not listed as a runner or commentator, it doesn't really matter if they're there or not. There's been some, let's say, controversial runners/commentators in the past—it's for the best if we don't bring that up. Q: Why isn't ____ on the schedule? A: Because there's simply not enough room for it. GDQ has grown so much that it's not even remotely possible to let everyone who wants to attend have a game on the schedule anymore. There's going to be hundreds of people there, and while not all of them are runners, many games and people have had to be cut from the schedule to fit it into a weeklong marathon. Q: What's this about GDQ banning fun? A: Just a silly misconception. There's no fun police, and certainly no rules in place that state everything has to be super serious and clinical. A rule that is in place is that people on camera who aren't the runner shouldn't be taking focus or attention away from the run or the runner(s). When you're an event the size of GDQ, allowing people to do whatever they want on camera just isn't possible. Q: Where is this happening? A: Bloomington, Minnesota. ==================== So that's everything you need to know! But as usual, please remember why we're all here. To watch cool speedruns for a good cause, so please, don't use this thread to bring in drama, be it about GDQ in general or specific staff or runners. This thread exists to discuss the runs happening at this marathon, so more than anything, please be respectful towards everyone that is in any way involved with the event. The organizers, the runners, the commentator, the announcers, even just the watchers. We're all here for a good time. If you do have questions about things relating to the marathon, feel free to ask away. There's several goons actively involved with GDQ, and even severaler that are active when it comes to speedrunning in general. So there's absolutely someone who can answer your questions, either in this very thread, in some of the chat channels mentioned above, or in our speedrunning thread, where we always welcome new fans. So let's enjoy another marathon together! ==================== Past marathon threads AGDQ 2012 | AGDQ 2013 | SGDQ 2013 | AGDQ 2014 | SGDQ 2014 | ESA 2014 | AGDQ 2015 | ESA 2015 | SGDQ 2015 | AGDQ 2016 | SGDQ 2016 | ESA 2016 | AGDQ 2017 (Chat) | SGDQ 2017 (Chat) | ESA 2017 | HRDQ | AGDQ 2018 (Chat) | SGDQ 2018 (Chat) | ESA 2018 (Chat) | GDQx 2018 (Chat) | AGDQ 2019 (Chat) | ESAW 2019 | SGDQ 2019 | ESA 2019 | GDQx 2019 | AGDQ 2020 | ESAW 2020 & FF 2020 | CRDQ | SGDQ 2020 | AGDQ 2021 | SGDQ 2021 | AGDQ 2022 KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jul 3, 2022 |
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Mierenneuker posted:I'd say the entire rhythm block was a bit lengthy for me, but it's definitely worth watching bits of it at least. mandatory lesbian posted:kaizo super metroid was incredibly precise gameplay by one of the most technically precise players of sm currently. Very enjoyable KariOhki posted:Shadow of the Colossus: good runner energy, creative way to do a category that's been shown off a couple times already Deformed Church posted:As for recommendations, I didn't catch as much as I'd wanted to live, but I'm going to throw one in for Doom Eternal just because the gameplay execution is absolutely incredible. IcePhoenix posted:Gonna throw Yakuza LAD and Halo Infinite on the game recommendation pile once more to make sure it's after the request post Chucat posted:From what I managed to watch: KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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TeaJay posted:Yetee has a couple shirts I like (Tunic and Phasmophobia at least) but unfortunately nowadays you have to pay so much postal fees and taxes I haven't been able to get 'em ever since Covid started. If by some stroke of luck any fellow finnish viewers want to share costs, gimme a shout here or on Discord. And I start my summer job tomorrow so I'll have a lot to catch up on afterwards. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Jun 26, 2022 |
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Hello, friends! I hope you've enjoyed the thread. I haven't had the time to! I started my summer job on Monday this week, so the grand total of runs that fell in the intersection of things I wanted to watch and was actually able to watch, if I count generously, was 11˝ (had to bow out of Kaizo Super Metroid halfway through to sleep). At least I'll have a long post-marathon catchup list. Haven't had great GDQ timing this year—AGDQ 2022 fell during one of the two most intense work weeks of the year at my regular job. But on the note of post-marathon cathup lists! Working of course also means I won't have a big amount of time to sift through recommendations, so here's what I'm going to do. Any list of recommendations that gets posted after this post (because I absolutely do not have the time to go through the thread for them), and before the end of next week, I will put into the second post of the thread, completely unedited. I will then try to find some time to present it in a more elegant fashion. So that, at the very least, there's something. Also in the end I could just not resist and had to order the The Ninja Warriors Again shirt from The Yetee even if the shipping + taxes get dumb these days. It just spoke to me too much.
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Flesnolk posted:Will we use this thread for things like Flame Fatales and general between-marathon GDQ content? And this thread should probably be unstickied soon.
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I used to think it was "Bomb-omb" back in the day.
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Okay can we not spoil who won races when the thread is squarely into post-marathon catchup mode? I hadn't watched the Blaster Master race yet. I still probably will, but now I'm less excited about it.
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