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Schedule: https://oengus.io/marathon/bsg2023/schedule
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Benelux Speedrunner Gathering
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/esamarathon
Schedule: https://oengus.io/marathon/bsg2023/schedule
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LESBIAN ANIMAL POWAAAAAAA
how does hitman blood money have so many missions
Pay money, get good game equivalent to money spent.
I remember the no arms homie speedrunning pokemon last year kek
seems like an alright dude
Oops, restart.
Choking
Jesus Christ, that gradually went to shit so badly it was almost comical.
And he still managed to pull it off.
>when he threw the syringe at the wall
I was hoping for full meltdown
now it's just a slower run instead of a complete Avalanche of comedy
He's 45??
No, he's 47
I thought it was 47.
>Pokémon: Blood Money
I like these lads.
where are blue shirt guys arms?
They didn't enjoy Ninja, so they had to go.
I would rather Messenger than Ninja, is that enough to save my life?
Kino run.
Just saw him pat the runner on the back
Is it me or is BSG actually good this year?
It's surprisingly watchable, I remember the last BSG I tried watching a few years ago sucked.
Yeah, I enjoyed the runs I've seen for what they were, and I actually regret missing parts of it for RTA. This should be good background noise for work tomorrow.
And SMT5 will unironically be good to sleep to, by the time the strategies get old I'll be ready for bed
Still under estimate though, good run.
How is he 16 minutes under estimate even after all the fails
>finishes run
>shittalks the games community
What a chad
>they'll join your stream and start helping
I took that as
>these annoying c**ts will come backseat you even when you're fricking around
That's it for me tonight, gonna tune back in for the Ape Escape 3 race tomorrow.
relay*
homie you blind
?
?? Whatever it is, I'm watching it. There's only two runners so how is it a relay, I don't know. Guess I'll find out.
Omg which moron put smt in
captcha:TNDH8K
It's 7am local time.
12:30
moron
Either way, 6 hours of sit is ass
Wow, this ESL monkey is grumpy. Settle down ok?
>is... is that a typo?!?!
>MUST BE ESL!!
kys
6 hours of this trash see you in 6 hours then
SIX HOURS? Holy SHIT I can finally do my store run
Wait, that guy has no arms and no legs.
How does he even play games? But most importantly, how does he wipes himself?
RIP thread
No shot it's surviving SMT
It's in Gods hands now
why are you guys shitting on SMT?
Anons just don't wanna watch JRPG runs. To each their own.
its a shit game and horrible to watch, and it lasts 6 hours
it's a bad game
SMT V specifically
look who's back
Is Yato commenting a 6 hour SMT run? Frick.
>yato 6 hour commentary
we won. we fricking won
>6 hours
The God you so cravenly revere is dead
He's gotta be enjoying these extended vacations
>Yato here to keep the runner company
yato looks done already
SMTV looks stylistically schizophrenic.
Explain? Its visual style IMO is its best strength
Not if you crave a dynamic plot and not if you need a good dungeon/accept an open world as a substitute. If you love everything else about SMT then you will not regret a full playthrough
>Not if you crave a dynamic plot and not if you need a good dungeon
what else is there?
>Demon designs
>All the writing that isn't about the plot (the demon lords and the negotiation dialogue are great
>Open world is engaging when it's not schizophrenic from different directors
>Soundtrack
>Team composition, different builds
>Battles
>Boss fights
It's easy for me to forget too, since what's missing is so glaring, but SMT got a lot right. A lot less than its fans will remember and a lot more than its critics will admit
Interesting perspective. I never noticed it, but I'll keep an eye on it this run and see if I agree
I guess I'll check it out, the demons, ost and general mechanics are probably enough to hook me
Do. If someone's crazy enough to run it again at another marathon, lemme know how you got on. I'm not sure why myself but I remember the game quite fondly. And this run is surprisingly enjoyable so far IMO
The UI doesn't really fit with the overworld which doesn't fit with the enemy designs which don't fit the particle effects. It doesn't look "bad" just less than the sum of its parts. The yellow dodecahedrons scattered around the map look like outright shit though.
the feet look good though so who cares
>SMT V
the game is just gathering dust on my shelf, is it worth playing?
Maybe if I submit a run I could get Yato to be my couch in the middle of the day when no one else is around and then we can go play a fighting game after.
We're all going to esa winter 24 so you better follow through
Can we make sure that The German doesn't hang out with us then?
I enjoyed the germans antics during his FF2 run, what happened?
Yato feels like the type of guy where you can go up to him, having never met him before, and you ask him to couch for your run and he just goes "yeah okay"
2 speedrun marathon generals up at once, there's no way one of these isn't going to get pruned. and it'll probably be this one instead of the one full of troony addicts ogling at trannies
>it'll probably be this one
It hurts, bsg has actual runs happening even as we speak
There's been no pruning all week, what's with the sudden doomposting? moron. What's going to happen is that this falls off page 10.
FF had one pruned today homosexual
shut the frick up if you don't know what you're talking about
That FF thread was pruned because it was 4 hours before it started, idiot.
>there's been no pruning
>thst one doesn't count
you're a fricking moron
Yeah, if you make a thread 4 hours before the event starts, it'll get deleted. Better luck next time bozo.
Well this thread won't get pruned because its during the event not 4 hours before it starts.
I've always felt like the ESA/Euro portion has more doomposting than the GDQ section itself, especially outside of GDQ
I don't know what snapped in people recently regarding these events. We were fine for years but now all of a sudden no one can let go.
The stream lost 200 viewers so far
Once the furshit goes away on FF I'm hopping
I imagine I'm not alone
Have fun anon.
I don't know what you're trying to get across to me here
>Yanks
It's the UK night shift, it's 1AM in most of europe and this guy's set up for the long haul.
Euro event, its bedtime
>Though my original plan got foiled by another motherfricker that also applied for the same action-packed trip to Denmark
Did you apply to an exchange program or something?
Yeah, but someone else got it, and it was a free option, so no I have to wageslave for a while to actually do the deed.
>denmark
avoid, also avoid finland.
They can't be worse than living as a neet in the 3rd world... right?
What is it about Yato that makes him so cool and endearing? I just look at him and think "Damn, you're weird but cool"
he zesty
this seems so half baked it's almost funny.
Step 1
>job
Step2
>I'll just get into college then get accepted to an exchange
Step3
>Near WR time in game worth a marathon
Step4
>get accepted to ESA
It was worth an attempt. You could also just skip steps 3 and 4 and just go.
what country are you in where you think step 2 is something you do on a whim
all of them
college is a scam these days
>wagie money
>not already in school
I'm guessing they have shit test scores if they came up with this plan.
In the US you're either getting into a Community College where you pay by the class and no exchange, or you're getting into outrageous student loans and the job hardly matters anyway to the plans
My local university sends people to Europe so often it's almost as if they wanted to get rid of them.
Going there isn't a real problem. The problem is getting accepted into ESA while you're there. If you don't and your time overseas is over by then, you're out of luck.
It's a really moronic way to try to get into a marathon, but a damn impressive one if anyone manages to pull it off.
you don't have to be in europe to get accepted to ESA tard-kun
No shit, Sherlock. But being in person boosts your chances of getting in.
You can also just go there without running anything, so there's that.
You don't have to be living in europe to get accepted for in-person runs either you fricking mong
You have to be in-person at the event of you wanna do an in-person run, don't you?
What are you even trying to argue?
To get ACCEPTED, you ESL tard. We have these wonderful inventions called AIRPLANES.
Okay? We're you even following the initial conversation or are you just here to shitpost?
What the frick are you even talking about dude? Why the frick would you need to be in Europe to submit a run? Just submit the run then go over, why are you so fixated on being in Europe?
Just read the posts before hitting the send button next time, you moron.
Whatever moron. good luck on that moronic plan of yours.
I'm not even the guy with that moronic plan, but I'm guilty of thinking I was talking to a single moron all this time.
I was the one saying you only need to go there without needing to run anything if you're already in Europe. If anything, I'm actually on your side, you moron.
Then why would you jump into an argument and try to justify the plan? Bullshit, I don't believe you.
I'm telling the guy that's scheming that moronic plan to just go there without submitting a run because the whole plan is moronic in every way, shape and form, you moron.
>The problem is getting accepted into ESA while you're there. If you don't and your time overseas is over by then, you're out of luck.
>But being in person boosts your chances of getting in.
>You have to be in-person at the event of you wanna do an in-person run, don't you?
If you are totally not plan-man then you are just as equally moronic as him.
Just submit a run and buy a plane ticket for the event, I again ask what the frick are you talking about or trying to prove?
>It's a really moronic way to try to get into a marathon, but a damn impressive one if anyone manages to pull it off
I was talking about the moronicness of the whole plan and how unlikely to happen it was, if that moron really wanted to magically have everything happen the way it was pointed out.
I don't know why you went for my throat instead of just calling the plan moronic like everyone else, so I'll assume you had a bad day and I'll cut you some slack, you moron.
>>The problem is getting accepted into ESA while you're there. If you don't and your time overseas is over by then, you're out of luck.
I don't even care if you aren't him, which you are. Explain to me what this is even supposed to mean.
this seems so half baked it's almost funny.
Step 1
>job
Step2
>I'll just get into college then get accepted to an exchange
Step3
>Near WR time in game worth a marathon
Step4
>get accepted to ESA
Going by this post, the plan is (allegedly) the guy going through all these moronic hoops just to be in Europe at the same time ESA is doing a marathon. If the moron can't get a run accepted while they're still in Europe, then the plan's over.
Was that really so difficult to grasp, you moron? The whole plan is moronic and everyone talking about it is moronic, including me for wasting my time arguing with your moronic (and apparently schizophrenic) ass in behalf of another moron that might or might not even be more than bait to pin us onto this moronic argument from the start.
I hope we're done here.
If that really is the case then you are just as moronic jumping in and trying to play devil's advocate on an anonymous imageboard in the middle of an argument without specifying the argument is moronic in the first place.
You're a moron, I'm a moron, plan-man is a moron, we're all morons here. Let's all get in one big moron circle and have a big moronic kumbaya sing along.
>You're a moron, I'm a moron, plan-man is a moron, we're all morons here
Alright, I can concede under these terms.
Anyway, let's see how's the run goin-
>still 4 more hours to go
Jesus fricking hell...
Buddy I embraced it years ago
>Going there isn't a real problem. The problem is getting accepted into ESA while you're there. If you don't and your time overseas is over by then, you're out of luck.
WHY DO YOU NEED TO BE IN EUROPE TO BE ACCEPTED? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? JUST GET A PASSPORT AND A FRICKING PLANE TICKET YOU ABSOLUTE FRICKING DUNCE, JUST SCHEDULE AHEAD OF TIME. WHY DO YOU NEED TO BE A FRICKING FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT TO BE IN EUROPE DURING ESA?
nvm get that education
your moron ass certainly fricking needs it KEK
I'll say this as simply as possible for your dumb ass
I'm going to assume you know what an airplane is, because it's important to this whole concept
YOU CAN LIVE IN TEXAS
YOU CAN SPEEDRUN A GAME FAST
YOU CAN APPLY TO ESA IN-PERSON
THEY SAY OKAY
this is where the airplane comes in
YOU CAN FLY TO SWEDEN
YOU CAN RUN YOUR GAME IN-PERSON
here's the tricky one
YOU CAN FLY BACK TO TEXAS
YOU STILL LIVE IN TEXAS
So I have to move to Texas before getting a job then okay.
okay good, you got it
I feel like it's a troll post or someone is seriously deluded.
What are your event snacks?
for me, its crab legs
This is such a weird plan. If you have a job in the first place, why would you not just save up money for a trip AFTER you speedrun a game for half a year and get a decent record and get accepted? Why are you going to college and then the exchange program before even trying to run a game? This whole thing is moronic.
I don't think anyone would ever do all this convoluted shit just to appear at an obscure speedrunning marathon. But then again, if this pushes someone to start changing their life, might as well leave it be, unless they get into debt to do all this shit.
tfw these threads are now causing neets to wanna get jobs
there's an overabundance of chromosomes in this thread
Your moronic ass plan and you defending it got a chuckle out of me, good job ESLtard.
Looks like everyone's enjoying the SMTV run.
>enjoyable runner
>yato commentary
we're home
It's a boring as frick run but I like hearing yato in the background while I play games and I liked the trainwreck of
>OH SHIT WE'VE PLAYED 90 MINUTES WITHOUT THE VOICES INCENTIVE
He's right, I remember the old days before worldwide releases... It took Europe what, an entire extra year to get Persona 4 Arena? Dark times for them
>EEdun
I'm not going to travel to Sweden for a week in hopes that they accept my run the week that I'm there.
Doubt they would accept the week of too.
Like it's been said before, you can just submit the run and see if you get accepted. And if you don't, you just pay to enter the venue and enjoy the runs like everyone else.
Don't get into any kind of debt to do this, and good luck.
Jesus christ, read the thread or frick off
speedruns
speedcuties...
what an ugly b***h
BRUSH YO TEEF
BRUSH YO TEEF
BROTH YOUR GODDAMN TEEF
Harro
You think because you are watching a different speedrun event that you can escape me?
No
You have two choices: Pray game or die.
Sank you
Sorry buddy, next time you should invest that money into some QA testing instead of shilling at a niche speedrunning event.
Is this game just a big ass open map with demons roaming around, or is there any dungeons we just haven't seen yet?
There's 2 dungeons in SMTV. And they're not very big. No blind damage tiles and pitfalls for you.
Wew. Even the phone game had those. What a downgrade.
This is why we're being hard-carried by yato right now
Yato looks like the realization of this being a mistake is setting it.
I wonder if he's gonna tap out or if he's gonna stay up for the whole run.
Placing my bets on him tapping out in the next hour.
tfw no 24 hour yato run just playing random shlock
Is that Aspect Raidou?
I was thinking the same thing lol
Man, those police capes are Ganker as frick.
Is that Raidou
>Elon made Tweetdeck a fricking premium option
Why is this stupid israelite so intent on ruining it? I had so many searches being monitored. Now I have to search for RTA art manually unless there's another way.
An RSS feed on Nitter? Only following accounts like that dunno if it can track tags too. Can't even check now because Twitter broke Nitter again.
It seems like Nitter can follow custom searches, I'll try that when it's back up. Thanks anon.
I think he killed vxtwitter embeds too
Need to go to bed soon if I'm gonna wake up for that Ape Escape 3 race relay run whatever. Sorry Yato, I failed you...
Yato starting to lose it
He could not give less of a shit about the game, he's just there out of the goodness of his heart.
Yato will couch anything if you ask him
gay
>6 hours and 20 minutes
I'm not gonna lie, I'm struggling.
>anon tries to watch RTA
>anon tries to watch PACE
FTFY
>you win the respect of the gorillas
nice gta:sa reskin
brutal
888888888
>miss tarzan
frick
>pokepark next
>warioware
alright cool
>cyberpunk
how's biz going
You're a cool guy, V. Don't get in your car tomorrow.
Getting into ESA is not the hardest thing if you have something worth showing. Look at HabKeineName
When you put it that way, getting on stream 2 seems pretty achievable.
Staravia is a precious birbie
14 hours of rupee staring was the perfect sleep segment and they put a bunch of anime plushies on the cam too so you had something to look at. It seems like any event besides GDQ gives you an actual chance to submit a wild or out there run and let you have some fun
>adults who like/play pokemon
just why
You don't actually care about this.
just enough to read about 1 reply to my post (yours) but further replies will not be read and/or consideredgt2x2
i didn't even care enough to see that i typed the captcha in my post
Yes you did care or else you wouldn't reply to yourself, samegay
I hacked your Ganker gold account using it anyway say goodbye to your (You) total
who are you talking to? actually don't reply, i don't care
NOOOOOOOOO MY (YOU)S
here you go big guy, cause I like ya a lot
now don't take that too serious/spoiler]
>spend the day watching the GDQ troons
>hang out in comfy night time BSG thread till I fall asleep and repeat
simple as
>he missed hitman: blood money
NGMI
Its the best of both worlds, a GDQ-esque thread with all the GDQ shitposting with FF and a comfy slow thread with BSG
>don't reply, i don't care
>cares enough to reply
Weird concession there, but I'll accept it nonetheless. Back to watching BSG
>they have pronouns specified
frick this gay earth
People were asking this on the FF thread so I'll just reply here.
Other marathons to keep an eye on until Winter:
>Final Fantasy Relay, one week after the end of Fatales, one weekend of the best FF runners racing against each other but it's still FF. Pre-show next Sunday to reveal the members of each team
>The mysterious Playstation Nation Marathon, details should be out eventually
>UKSG Blue, another ESA-mini marathon, one weekend late September
>RRLAT, one month long, starts in November and finishes around Christmas, features 10+ hours runs that don't get shown anywhere else, they did TP Low% last year
For other small, upcoming marathons check Oengus.
>>The mysterious Playstation Nation Marathon, details should be out eventually
https://horaro.org/psnmarathon/psnschedule
here bro
also spyro runners are disgusting
We had such an interesting thread and day, but now it's capped off with Warp-Spamming FE. Truly, life is ups and down
Much appreciated. I'm starting a new job in late September so it'd be great to have that to relax to in the weekend. Thank god ESA was there to save my sanity during some of its worst, I hated that old spot so much.
this penguin shit is like that crap mario party minigame
Just got here from the flame fatales thread why is there a straight male on screen with no mask or vtuber avatar
9 more hours until frame fatales is back!
>6 hours to ape race
I don't think I'll be awake sadly
Did they play Plum's game?
it was never her game
game?
Plum?
Lads, he's not very good at the game
i don't watch pronoun events and neither should you.
No event is safe from it anymore, anon.
true
even nasa started the pronoun bullshit and is raising money for troony children
This ESA Summer was baffling to me since before that, I'd lost all hope that speedrunners could be reliable people. It's an autistic mix, I tell you that
I don't watch events at all
I toss them on as background noise to stem the silence and feeling of loneliness while posting in the thread
been hearing that damn pikachu noise for over 1.5 hours now
Good morning from the Ape 3 runner! Happy a thread is going on now.
I'm on tech shift so I'll be around for a bit
tell the runner not to hurt any more bird-type pokemon
Wear a plain shirt and write “cum in plum” on it during the run for the boys
>wear a "Cum in e-girl character" shirt
Cmon man that's too much
>plumgays are desperate and embarrassing
this isn't news
Do I look like I'm satanic?
Bout 82 bucks a night per room. The rooms here are named after cities. Amsterdam, London, Paris, Manhatten (in that spelling).
Esa has the same with regionally named rooms.
>The rooms here are named after cities
Sounds cool. Hotel ain't too expensive, is whatever city it is being held at nice? Are people at the venue nice? Always wanted to go to a speedrunning event but I think I am too socially moronic to go to such as place.
Hotel staff is nice, people at the event here are nice and welcoming too, if you let them.
The hotel itself is somewhat remote with only a Mcd next to it, but when I'm going into town, I'm taking as many people as I need for shopping sake.
Enougj places to order from tho!
the döner was pretty good
Maybe I'll go one day. I take it the BSG event is cheaper than the ESA one, but also smaller too?
Well you're Dutch anyways, so at least you don't have flight costs and such right?
How much are hotel prices to stay at BSG? Find it weird seeing London landmark pictures in a Dutch hotel when I am actually unironically from London.
>another runner on Ganker threads
I wish I didn't have to move so far away from everything, I pretty much can only go to ESA from now on. I hope you're enjoying yourself over there, talked with the SMT runner and he said he was having a blast.
Can you tell us why humble lil' Benelux bros can state on the UI which streamer the audio is playing from, but ESA still can't?
>become friends with rayquaza
kino
this game is boring I want warioware
I'm enjoying it a lot
>runner got a PB
That's a pretty darn good marathon Messenger run
>that ball segment
it's over
holy shit the upset
races are only good when unscripted upsets like that happen
yeah overall I enjoyed this race, warioware is fun as frick
>ZM romhack showcase relay
I can't stay up any more than I already have. I hope it gets a VOD enjoy the runs
This marathon look comfy. How the frick did i miss all these threads?
I don't think there were many threads for like the first 2 days until RTA in japan was over.
Only reason I knew about it was moving to BSG threads pretty much right after ESA last year.
Normally BSG is so-so but I'm baffled by how watchable this year is. Today's been good too and has a lot going for it. Honestly the only dud looks to be Fire Emblem later on because I know that'll be just Warp spamming on loop
I think it's the heavy ESA backing this year. They've probably let them borrow some equipment and I honestly think they've shafted some runs that were rejected there onto this show.
Well I'm digging it. We're due a modest outro event after ESA to let go of the speedrunning season with.
There's nothing after this between now and Winter, is there?
We've had almost constant marathon threads since SGDQ, someone will find something.
UKSG in September. It's a Joshimuz and Englishben event so it will probably be shown on the ESA channel too.
It's our secret stream. Surprised there's a thread at all. People were just discussing it in the RTAIJ and FF threads. I once checked for "BSG" and got no results and decided maybe it was best that way.
The current game being run feels like a typical marathon. But I don't know if they enforce really anything -- one of the people I saw running the game was just talking to himself like not trying to key the audience in at all.
Slow threads so they're not constantly on page 1, also its been a secondary focus this year as it's ran through two major events:
>RTA Japan which just finished
>Frame Fatales which is now on
It's sadly taken a back seat.
>took a peek at an FF thread before today
>just as frickign awful as I thoght it would be
>tfw the fastest and most active threads out of all these small events (AUS, RPGLB, RTA, FF and this) is Frame Fricking Fatales
Ganker really does just care about one thing when it comes to these vents after all.
It's why despite ESA being generally higher quality than GDQ, the GDQ threads are far more popular because people just love to whine about troons.
I will never understand living your life in a way where you actively seek out things that upset you.
I noticed it a lot on day 1 of ESA too
>"ANY TROONS YET?"
>"WHERE ARE THE TRANNIES?"
>"IS THIS PERSON A troony?"
>"THERE'S NO TROONS WHERE ARE THE TROONS?"
>"THE PERSON COMING UP HAS GIRL IN THEIR NAME, IS IT A TROON?"
>"IS THE LADY DOING THE PRIZE SEGMENTS A TROON OR REAL GIRL???"
And then it suddenly stopped by day 2 as if they lost interest and stopped watching
Because Ganker almost never makes threads for BSG, and when they do, they usually die within 20 posts.
soul
i'm beyond drunk watching this marathon
Legendary, i hope you're on east coast in the US
I wanna know if you're US or EU now because those are very different circumstances
Xoneris might be the most socially autistic runner able to describe a run in public - but this relay is a real good idea and the ROMs seem great
Xoneris is a massive homosexual and the reason the last BSG was unwatchable.
He had like, 6 runs, and the first 5 all went over estimate
slurp
Ape Escape soon.
Im up soon
Were you at ESA Summer? I didn't notice you anywhere
>google alzheimers
>all the links are purple
How was everything since SMTV? Went to sleep.
The time has come and so have I
Spike>all the other Ape Escape characters
lmfao no fricking way this fat homosexual is the guy posting here
it's too fricking fitting
post body
>defending a fat homosexual attention poster
KEK
>y...you post yourself online then!!
NO!
does mom know you're not in school right now
yours sure does b***h homie, ask her about me
He's popped in before.
the dude on the right?
he's unironically somewhat handsome.
I think he's cute he has a nice face and the chubbyness gives him cute chubby cheeks
I think you'll find every speed runner at these events know about this place.
the webm stopped just before the guy in the front row was about to kiss his shark gf
he posted his dick it's bigger than EnglishBen's
Including THE German
>wake up
>remember that Ape Escape is dead
>/ourguy/ running ape escape 3
What a day
Have to be careful not to accidentally post a forbidden Sayaka pic.
>see thread before sleep
>go sleep
>go to work
>finish work
>eat food
>our Riekelt boy is running Ape Escape 3
>thread still alive
Nice.
Its doing better than Aus and RPGLB at least
"speedrun"
How fast can you beat Ape Escape 3, anon?
Why hasn't some indie shitdev made an Ape Escape ripoff yet?
oh nonononono tonybros
Tony's blaming the controller... Tonybros, not looking good.
where is the chart
Say an Ape Escape 4 came out, what should the theme be? We've had what, time travel, world and movies?
It would no doubt be the Internet or videogames. Sony would probably make you go into various Sony games and catch monkeys with Kratos or some shit.
I'm glad I woke up early, if I had let my alarm do its job I would have missed the first 40 minutes because BSG is ahead of schedule.
mwaaaahaa the french
Did Riekelt give this place shoutouts or what? I just came back
Literally just scroll up dipshit.
Ape Escape featuring Riek in the supporting role of a lifetime.
Fun fact, the Euro favors heads more in a coin flip.
This motherfricker plays Ape Escape with a Madcatz controller.
No wonder he's messing up, he's playing with some Chinese bootleg shit.
Plays* can't handle a legitimate controller kek.
This thread and event is comfy it reminds me of early ESA
Who are the runners that have showed up in the threads so far?
>EnglishBen
>Riekelt
>HabKeineName
Anyone else?
the Blue Dragon runner from RPGLB
oh, okay
Daspharaoh did after her Colosseum run.
That one was pretty funny
>Everyone shits all over her Colosseum run
>Z and F spam
>She turns up in the thread
>Everyone starts kissing her ass "Oh yeah it wasn't the BEST run and could have have some improvements, but you still ran really well! Well done!"
Didn't watch that run, but if I remember correctly the problem was the other racer was a really obnoxious troony. Not the first time one person ruined an potential great run
That happens with every runner.
I watched that run for like five minutes and the troony she was racing would not shut the frick up. If it was just her running solo, anons would have voted it a B at worst and creamed themselves about how comfy it was or whatever.
I liked the run, but it was a 4 hour long Jrpg run and you already know what people in here think about those. And in top of that it was a race, so you already knew how low the score would be right from the start.
What really killed the mood for what I would consider a comfy run was the other guy running alongside her.
He had that weird main protagonist syndrome and always tried to make everything revolving around him.
It was pretty satisfying to watch him get rekt, then he trying to simp for the girl and the girl starting to simp for the WR holder instead. And then refusing to hug the guy and instead going for the weirdest handshake was the cherry on top.
It was also pokemon, which for some reason is cursed to almost never have good runs during a marathon. There is always one runner ruining the run, so it never gets comfy. The strategies most of the time are also always really boring, since it is just get the strongest mon and keep using that singular mon. So not only do the jrpg haters rate it low, the fans of rpg runs also don't get what they are looking for and thus also rate it low. Only Werster getting fricked by RNG can get high rating with pokemon
With a Pokemon run you have like a 5% chance of it being good, which isn't high odds. You're mostly either gonna get:
>3 - 4 hour borefest
>Keizaron over estimate run
>Randomizers (boring, they always "coincidentally" get the best TMs and mons at the start)
>A 3 - 4 hour Keizaron over estimate randomizer borefest (most likely)
He was talking about the DasPharaoh Pokemon run from ESA not the GDQ Cuckening.
Frick me, you're right. This game was run in 2 different marathons and both of them were cursed with one person being obnoxious as hell. Being a Pokémon fan must be a nightmare.
>Being a Pokémon fan must be a nightmare.
Wait until you hear about the video games we get!
I feel like Pokemon must be similar to me and Final Fantasy. When you get an actual good runner (See: FF9 at ESA summer this year) its absolutely gold, but they're rarely a good runner and because they're so long the runs end up VERY boring. And its not like there isn't good runners for Pokemon/FF its just the event orgnaizers keep choosing the absolute worst people for them.
Might as well use this chance to vent a bit about what happened
>submit Colo to Summer on the same year Eva submits GoD, she gets in
>whatever, I can do comms for them, it'll be fun anyway
>run is plagued by fish jokes, they praise my commentary though
>can't submit for Winter, Summer runs along again
>Submit Colo again, this time Starter Bidwar as I'm feeling more confident
>Eva and Juan submit a race of the exact same category and didn't tell me anything about it
>Feel left out, don't say anything
>It's also my first time on the scheduling team
>Eventually we have to choose the Pokémon runs, I'll be very honest they were all garbage except TTS on White 2, we just don't have good Pokémon runners submitting to ESA, if I had Werster I'd accept that in a heartbeat
>The team ask me about the Colo, I am honest with them. I'm on the same level as Eva, but the race with Juan would not work because he's a very good router but can't actually run the game to save his life
>The team suggests me and Eva race instead, ask the three of them and they agree, settle on Umbreon vs Croc to make the routes as even as possible
>Bummed out but at least I'll be in control of the "fish" so those jokes shouldn't happen as much
>Learn Croc from scratch, feeling good on the day of the race
>get manip, fall behind because of it
>whatever, expected
>then the emulator starts spazzing out
>then I die to Cail
>then the RNG continues to test my patience
>and all the time the three of them are all focused on Eva's run because she's in the lead
>the biggest draw of the race was being able to compare the two routes and I just couldn't find an opening to speak
>Eva throws hardcore though so 3/3 races won on ESA
Needless to say, I am not submitting the GameCubes Pokémon games, probably in any other marathon setting again. I might do All Battle CDs, but that's something I can handle on my own or bully my husband to help out with
Whenever I see a Pokemon run at an event that isn't a randomizer it seems to be a race. Are people submitting them as races or is it a meet in the middle sort of thing when too many people submit the same thing?
Most of the time runs are taken as they are submitted, its usually runners themselves who ask to be joined as a race and not the other way around.
>she
360Chrism's run was alright too for a randomizer, until he got Mewtwo or whatever early on and steamrolled the rest.
The issue with Pokemon runs is this: At some point they get a TM or an item or Pokemon that they need, and from that point on the game becomes trivial and they start steamrolling. There's no tension or excitement because they know they're not gonna fail and we know they're not gonna fail. However, Pokemon runs are long runs, so sometimes there'll be an entire 1 - 2 hours after they get to that overpowered point before the run ends.
The reason why people like Werster are considered good runners and their runs are always memorable is because they don't go the safe route, they don't pick up that OP TM or HM or Pokemon because they know the rest of the run won't be exciting. They take the risks, the potential run ender risks, because Pokemon runs aren't exciting to watch otherwise, unless you're a huge Pokemon game fan and we can assume on an event like a GDQ or ESA, where its a variety of different people watching, that they're not huge Pokemon game fans. It's why at AUS, despite Werster's run being an overestimate mercy kill, his run was still considered the best one of the entire event, and it was the highest viewed. Because he made the run exciting by taking risks, those risks just didn't pay off.
But for whatever reason all the really good Pokemon runners don't submit for speedrun events, no idea why, so what we're left with are the middling runners who are more concerned about PBs that they choose all the safe strats, which is not entertaining to watch.
Also Pokemon randomizers are poison, GDQ don't get that but I hope ESA will. Watching someone "coincidentally" get an OP Pokemon or move in the first 10 minutes, then they can steamroll the rest of the game for 2 hours isnt fun to watch.
>But for whatever reason all the really good Pokemon runners don't submit for speedrun events, no idea why, so what we're left with are the middling runners who are more concerned about PBs that they choose all the safe strats, which is not entertaining to watch.
don't they have their own marathon? PSR. wonder if they're still doing that
>Do the riskiest strats possible
>Brick the run 2 hours into a 4 and a half hour run at a marathon
Great plan.
>Keep getting bad RNG
>Go so overestimate you frick up the entire event's schedule and they have to cancel Bloodstained.
This is why Randomizers are cancer, they're a lose/lose
what are you gonna do about that?
>now have 30 minutes to find some people to frick around for 2 hours
would unironically be a good watch
You're comparing a randomizer to a vanilla run, which isn't inherently fair.
The risks on the randomizer are playing the rando itself, you can tailor it to your hearts content in order to make yourself (and your audience) suffer as much as possible, but randos also have the inevitable "I solved the puzzle therefore I can go freely now" problem, it just so happened very early in Chrism's run, I was on the audience and don't think it was staged, but that's impossible to prove either way. Randos are hard to balance for entertainment, difficulty and estimate into account, and that is the reason why we took very few this time .
Good runners who take risks do submit to GDQ like Swift and Eddaket, they are cursed with the worst possible couch and atmosphere though.
I can't promise what ESA will or won't accept for the next event but I can promise to fight for Werster to be accepted, I just think it's unlikely he'll ever submit since he's from down under and disillusioned with the general marathon scene outside of ASM afaik
I think its because in my opinion, randomizers are mostly a lose/lose situation. To be fair its not just Pokemon, I have this opinion on any randomizer but it just feels like in order to get a good randomizer run it has to be challenging enough to be exciting but not too exciting but because it is by nature entirely random you can't guarante that, in fact more often than not, it won't be that. Instead most randomizers I find are either super easy because they get what they need early on and just breeze through it (e.g. Chrism's run) or are too challenging to the point they can't beat it and it goes super over estimate (See Keizaron's SGDQ 2022 run)
They're definitely too much of a risk to put on IMO, because the reward of an entertaining run is too unlikely and the risks are too likely (run being too easy and its boring or it goes very under estimate, or the run goes over estimate etc.) unless its like an amazing runner or an amazing couch.
I think what would catch my interests in terms of Pokemon runs is if someone did a Nuzlocke
>Nuzlock
Kaizo Nuzlocks are all the rage now but they are way too risky to thrown in a marathon setting unless you are willing to bite the bullet and walk out when your main does die
I'd make a $20% run out of it or something and just have it if its game over you restart since its just a $20% and those tend to be set times
Not a single person would be able to carry a multi-hour $20% Ironmon run unless it was someone like Caleb.
Speaking as a viewer I hate when a runner won't let a commentator get a word in, so I imagine it feels even worse being that commentator who can't get a word in. I honestly like Pokémon runs when things are explained and it doesn't feel like I got pulled into some random Discord with a million and one inside jokes, but unfortunately it only takes one person to drag something down. I've liked your commentary every time I've been around for it so from my perspective all you can do is keep at it and hope the schedulers don't hand you a shit sandwich in the future.
This also reminded me of an off-topic pet peeve but I gotta say it while I remember it: Speedrunners, please, if someone if commentating on your run and they go out of their way to elaborately explain something please don't just say 'Yeah so anyways...' and brush them off. You don't have to go full GDQ and pat them on the head like a puppy but give them something back, even if it's just a 'That's a good point.' I've seen quite a few commentators give up after they realise they don't need to be there and I always feel bad for them.
Thank you, anon
Oh I never saw the ESA run was it the same runner from that one awkward GDQ run with the girl and the guy?
No, Pharaoh is an ESA regular and does the scheduling for them. She's been popping into the threads since the drawgay that designed the shirts drew her.
I missed the runner showing up somehow yet I was there to Z that run. Ganker playing kiss-ass for attention is nothing new but that's pathetic, the run was shit. Pokemon runs are 99% shit.
>Being a Pokémon fan must be a nightmare.
Just wife the mons and the women that's about all you can do as a modern pokefan
I remember one guy from GDQ got wind of the thread and had a breakdown on Twitter because his run was voted low.
QRD kek
>taking ratings seriously
That's as funny as that one third worlder who gets really mad about charts for whatever reason and spams Z ratings. He wasn't doing it when Brossentia complained but still.
Doesn't really seem all that bad?
Am I crazy or does this just seem like someone reflecting upon shitposting as if it was valid criticism and taking it fairly well? I don't really see this as a meltdown.
Yeah, it's not really a meltdown, but someone recognizing the run was a sham because they didn't explain shit to what was happening on screen and it was just 4 people playing on discord without any other context. Not even the people at GDQ knew what was going on, so I'm sure he's reflecting on that, rather than whatever shitposting happened in here during the run.
https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/text/brossentia
what's up with the Here Comes Niko! shilling? did i miss something?
It's a run on the schedule, some incentive wasn't listening.
brainstorm Ape Escape 4 scenarios.
It'd be something about the internet.
>monkey versions of memes
>various types of streamer monkeys like vidya, IRL, podcasts etc
>the five bosses have thier own shit, like the girl monkey is now a vtuber and the fatty records mukbang shit
>specter making not-tweets after every stage you can read
>get knocked over and the monkey dabs before fleeing
>Sayaka becomes a Vtuber idol
MONKEY GACHA
Stop posting those pics, I'm trying to not relapse
man let it go. enjoy the runs
Can I emulate Ape Escape with an Xbone controller?
Xbox controller doesn't have a screen or any graphical processing unit...
Not as funny when there's no text to speech.
What did he mention was fan translated, one of the PSP side games?
>spamming pedo shit
have a nice day
Ninja transformation is the best transformation and I'm happy the speedrun agrees
our boy
I wonder if he's the runners boyfriend.
>You can see his fart machine.
Heh.
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Tony the chokemeister.
You now remember the Ape Escape anime (and manga too).
man the ape escape games look fun I really need to play them already
>ragging on tony for constantly missing the tricks and monkeys
Riek is going to take this motherfricker out back and Old Yeller his ass at this rate.
Must be a bit frustrating to resist the urge to just grab the controller and do it yourself.
Here's an undub patch if anyone wants it. He's also made other undub patches like Mischief Makers, etc.
https://archive.org/details/ape_escape_3_undub_patch
So I guess BSG is essentially ESA-lite now? With FF and RPGLB being our GDQ-lites? Gives me a lot of stream 2 vibes.
It's at least way better then GDQ's troony fatales event they do.
>Loan ad
>Car ad
>Job ad
I will not join society, you can't make me no matter the amount of money you put into these.
>he sees ads
The rest of us were watching the gang learn that Euros are probably weighted in favor of heads. Sorry Riekelt, at least we got to see Tony fumble around which was amusing.
As opposed to GDQ and ESA I've only been getting them after the runs so I just mute them and go take a piss or something, I don't care enough to get a twich specific blocker.
Thank you for your service in watching ads so the rest of us don't have to.
Just use ublock on PC or use Xtra for android devices
I don't know what mystical black magic version of ublock all of you are apparently running but I sure as shit don't have it.
How long have you been a NEET, bro?
I'm currently nearing the end of my 1 year break.
Just passed my "1 year break" phase after working for 4 years and now I'm on my "I'll start looking for a job tomorrow" phase.
What kinda job are you "looking" for?
Kinda depends, what's your field?
>Kinda depends, what's your field?
don't have one. i've just been looking for a regular ass so that i could have any sort of income. i only mentioned those months because the last time i got hired was late august 2022 but i got laid-off a month later.
>I'm currently nearing the end of my 1 year break
wtf same. i guess they're only hiring during august/september when school starts back up
Since Riekelt browses the threads: Are we team short hair Riekelt or longer hair?
wtf Riekelt had cancer and beat it, what a lucky dude.
Good run, Riekelt. I'd forgotten between now and last Winter how good Ape Escape was
Thanks bro!
Run was fun, really wanted to play more than like 30%. But I don't mind, Tony is new to marathons and I practically have been with bsg since it started.
Thanks for the fun thread. I did come over as a bit too criticizing too much, but oh well.
Glad I caught another one of your Ape Escape runs.
>I did come over as a bit too criticizing too much, but oh well.
It didn't come off like a "frick this dumbass" sort of thing, everyone clearly took it in stride and was having fun.
Take care bro. Would you care/mind to grab some food/drink with other anon/anons if you go to next Winter ESA? I'm not sure if my stupid run will be chosen for event, but I will try again getting to volunteer. Been posting hamstergirl in the past, until jannies started time bombing me for using her pics.
>rixels
ETA till GDQ is back up and live?
Check their schedule, dumbass.
aboot 50 mins
bet
Is this the famous ninja game that asian was threatening my life over?
No, this is the, uh, other ninja game that came out earlier, but there's also another ninja game that came out recently too. So many damn ninja!
What ever happened to it? Did everyone just choose to die, or...?
>Entering an optional room that only gives cosmetical changes in a non marathon speedrun
Huh?
Did anyone play this game here? I did, but there's barely any discussion of this one. I think it was quite good and the OST was nice too. Sadly can't play it, cause i played when i got 2 weeks of free gamepass with an xbox pad
I haven't been in the mood for another Ninja Gaiden clone so I haven't played it yet.
Does every micro-region have their own event now ? What's the date for the west karelian speedrunning gathering?
>What's the date for the west karelian speedrunning gathering?
You could be the one to start it, anon! Make an Oengus post saying that submissions are open.
or just open horaro to check marathon schedules.
https://horaro.org/-/calendar/2023/08
BSG isn't even listed?
https://oengus.io/
I love BSG because I can go and sit in the audience if I wanted to
That other ninja game Moonrider came out too, but that's by a dev I know and like so I bought that.
Sitting and thinking about it there really are a fricking shit ton of indie 2D ninja action platformers out there.
I hope he comes back one day...
be careful - I said the same thing about the german ff runner, and then he did
Latenight stream 2's are interesting.
Summer's interesting night was definitely rupee staring.
>Anyone in attendance is not allowed to have full masks and or body suits. Your identity must be easily discerned and your face visible. Self advertisement such as holding up social media information, business cards, or other self serving objects is not allowed on camera. Signs and or artwork as long as they are marathon appropriate are acceptable, however blocking the camera with these objects, or yourself, is not. In general, the audience camera is not a "YOU" camera, treat it as such.
How did the furries do it?
I mean, if someone reports a man in a full fursuit stealing their wallet you can't really mistake them for someone else.
GDQ CONTINUES. JOIN IN AT YOUR LEISURE:
Nah, gonna stay here, with comfy bros.
I checked in briefly, I don't like a single thing about either the thread or the event
>setup block
>Hollow Knight race
>Fire Emblem
Sounds like break time until Silent Hill after this run.
I really like BSG. It's like a mini version of ESA before it became big. Which makes sense since ESA is like quarter Dutch.
Its definitely got ESA 2018 vibes for me. Or stream 2 ESA vibes.
>Contra Rebirth
?? Surprise game?
are they ever going to fix the audio?
>it's gonna be a kraut
Not nice.
High test marathon.
Linka looks like his favorite pastime is curbstomping minorities.
didn't know this contra game existed, for a good reason I guess since it looks mediocre
How to revive Contra franchise?
tactics
Were those brown things doing the Snake scream when they died?
anyone got the VOD for ZM romhack relay
its there on esamarathon
>This saves like 2-3 minutes so I'm not wasting time
>Goes and does it in like 20 seconds after failing for a full minute
Pride before the fall.
>NO NO NO NOT YET
this is really gay
you wish you could be that gay
Oh look, it's they!
yeah nah I'm going to take a nap
Silent Hill kino next.
>Silksong never ever
Can't wait to see the tower of saws. Oh wait that's a bonus area isn't it? Damn.
BSG got that old old GDQ feeling
I'd say more old ESA feeling
BSG will never be anything but Battlestar Galactica for me.
The original '70s one, that is.
>nu-fire emblem
disgusting
Are old FE games better speedruns?
I've only watched one, and it was just some person putting the characters on the map and spamming skip.
Farewell, background girl
>tfw the Frame Fatales thread is more active
Is Ganker really that obsessed?
Yes, I will never be able to understand why.
Burgers are active and they will claim they don't understand what BSG people are saying. Not to mention FF run now, which filters people.
>Burgers are active and they will claim they don't understand what BSG people are saying
You just want to complain about Americans for no reason, don't you?
kek, is this what "rent free" looks like?
Fire Emblem runs suck, but yes. Even chartjanny has the brainrot.
>they will claim they don't understand what BSG people are saying
I haven't really seen this
not a troony lover so idk what people are saying in ff threads now but you used to get a bunch of people in gdq threads saying esa is shit because they can't understand what anyone is saying.
so you just made shit up, got it KEK
ESA threads like 5 years ago had people moaning how they are unable to understand some European commentators/readers. Only thing that was made up, was your intelligence.
homie you claimednl thisnl thread is slow because of something some people might have said 5 years ago about a different marathon
you are fricking moronic
hey calm down ok?
can you not use language like that? thanks
u mad
No idea what you wrote bruh.
hate watching is a thing and being able to shitpost while doing it definitely has an appeal for people
yeah I don't get it, Unlike RTA BSG is actually entertaining and comfy but It has had a lot of long ass runs
Yes.
But I said before, it just means most of the morons who shit up threads are there and not here.
Watching mentally ill people shit themselves is entertaining, still watching BSG when something good is on like Ape Escape
Be happy we have comfy thread now, since most r-ads are in other one.
doin' him an F
What a trainwreck...
Imagine being bad at strategy games.
>take a peek at the screen
>calendar
>go vidya for as bit
>take a peek at the screen
>it's the calendar again
>play more vidya
>take a peek at the screen
>calendar one again
Do I just have bad timing is this the entire run?
Bad timing, he's been fumbling with encounters
sometimes stream freezes so you need to reload it
Nah, I can see it's not frozen, I just had bad timing.