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Anon...
Just realized it ended.
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Was it at least shit and not worth watching?
Actually it was the best one in the last few years and the threads here were spectacular
Kek
>make 3 OPs
>no reaction to OP images
>get called a moron for not being able to read autistic graphs
God I hate temporary generals. GDQ started to suck in 2014 and SDA gave them the boot a year later.
Frick these threads. Speedrunning will always be a waste of time.
>make shit threads
>get treated as the homosexual moron you are
maybe like
dont make shit threads
But Anon, ALL of the threads are shit.
I thought the numbers to the right were out of a 100% and that the dots were well I don't fricking know.
I think its dumb to rate the events based on samegayging responses of a Z-S ratio, pretty shit way because the polls could easily be rigged and Z is not an actual grade.
actual moron
get filtered
It's a wisdom of the crowd and nobody actually bothers to rig them because there is no gain.
Showing individual votes also shows the distribution so rigging with votes isn't very effective.
The chart anon could rig them however he wants to, but it's not like these lists are gospel.
Lists before someone bothered to do this were much worse
I legitimately don't get the trouble you are having with this graph thing man. The info being shown is the run title, the individual votes, and the average of those votes. The graph is ordered by popularity. This really seems as simple as can be.
it's probably that anon who made fake tier lists in past gdq threads until chart anon came along.
There were some good runs but overall it was meh and shitfest.
They fricked up schedule and removed 2 runs (at least one of the runners removed himself from schedule).
Pretty much, yeah. You can check the chart for what was worth watching, but do know that the MGR DLC run will probably be taken down for being a splice.
>being a splice.
Wait what
What happend during the run?
Runner confessed that he didn't acually run it live.
Oh that's what the tweet meant? Seems like I was very very sleep deprived
No. Runs were boring and sterilized with runners having no real personality and not even much cringe. We couldn't even have fun threads because jannies were banning everyone left and right. You can tell how bad the event was this year because after past GDQs we would have at least some anons trying to keep threads alive because they missed the discussion or start speed running threads but this is the only thing that even comes up
I never watched these speedrun things but that's a cool image, Sonatine was a great movie
kek
Anyone have a copy of the rating chart?
This. I wanna see how Saturday did
Still an absolute moronic way to graph something.
Also frick Minecraft Black folk for botting the polls.
>NOOOOOOOO I CANT INTERPRET DATA
filtered midwit
I publish regularly in scientific journals and I think that graph format is really nice.
Literally what's wrong with it?
Doing the lords work gentlemen.
What the frick happened to Portal 2, that's one of the few runs I wanted to watch.
Glad KQV and GTAVC did well.
it was a prerecorded tas run
the frick?
DiaPer again is the Anny% Glitched one I imagine? I mean I know that they forced the incentive and might have "ruined" SM64 to make it but it doesn't deserve to be lower than 3.5hs any% simply because it's a harmless 16 minutes meme.
If it's not worth watching, it's not worth watching. Doesn't matter if it's 3 hours or 15 minutes
No "cringe-kino" tier?
Check the legend. There was only 1 run
Sunshine
Mario Sunshine was the closest we got, and even that wasn't all that cringey overall. The runner choked badly and almost had a panic attack, but he eventually recovered and it ended up being a pretty standard SMS speedrun.
even after the runner recovered that troony kept berating him the entire rest of the run
Both of these were good because of the couch.
The troony mentally concedingly assaulting the SMS runner for 2 hours after he fricked up and almost cried.
MGR couch was hilarious and actually having fun like it was 2015. The runner spoke before and after the run and still had more personality than most other runners combined.
Mario Sunshine
what does foid mean?
foid = biohole that made the run terrible
girl = biohole that made the run great
Thanks for this. Anyone got the previous years ones, or a link for where I can find them?
>all best games are La Creatividad ones
wtf I thought he was a meme dev.
huh mgs2 did end up doing really well despite the people complaining about turbo controllers
somebody pill me on what made the Metal Gear Solid 2 run good
What a fricking disaster
>The highest rated run was prerecorded
kek
Metal Gear Rising was live. What are you talking about?
The DLC bonus run was prerecorded and edited to look like WR, the runner admitted in Discord after he was called out by another runner and apologized to GDQ.
I wish I knew what the hell his plan was.
To try to get more people interested in running the game by showing it off at it's absolute maximum level
His NG+ Run was great though and he already did a good job of that, so it just sucks he didn't have enough confidence in his own abilities to run the DLC and keep the excitement going
>the Blade Wolf run is NOT a World Record, but a CBKTWPVVETFTRCBTSCOTSGAHBVAABSMOSSRCTACMOSGSL (Currently best known time with publicly viewable video evidence that follows the rules created by the speedrun community of the specific game and has been verified and approved by select members of said speed running community that are considered moderators of said game speedrun leaderboard). again, do NOT call it a WR
/srg/ meme, or at least a meme that was popular on /srg/ before its demise. man seriosuly faked a wr live as a 5D shitpost or... something...
He played a pre-recorded segmented run of the DLC while trying to pass it off as live in either some sort of 5D chess play about the state of speedrunning or just a bad decision while in a schizophrenic haze
We have our top scientists working around the clock to try and figure out what the frick he meant by it
I think he meant to show how easy it is to cheat a speedrun and pass it off as legit, and how dumb it is to take speedrunning seriously as a result? Russians are known for not making any sense
There's a kind of almost inherent Russian sentiment of seeing just how far you can get away with something you're not supposed to be doing.
A Russian friend of mine basically described it as it being a game where in this case it's seen as GDQ's fault for not verifying it.
The coming clean bit is either 5D chess or a rare case of actually feeling guilty.
It had to have been something about the nature of speedrunning and personal growth if it isn't just a case of occam's razor taking into account the manifesto at the end. It's almost like the /srg/ meme really resonated with him and he wanted to say something profound but ended up doing it in the most incomprehensible and backwards way to the point it ruined his reputation. Unless that was exactly what he was going for, but who the frick knows what he really meant by it, I don't even know if he thought it all through.
This chart is completely useless, the whole event was terrible and every single run is inflated by GDQ and twitter autismos
what does that even mean
Tourists giving good grades to terrible runs. As in actual tourists, not 2016 shitters
>GRRRR EVERYTHING IS INFLATED DESPITE THERE BEING LESS RUNS WITH GOOD RECEPTION
classic reddit rhetoric
>Only 4-5 good runs
>chart implies theres 38 good runs
hey alright, now hush. This is the worst GDQ to date and the chart is obviously manipulated by externals.
implies
>vgh... why am i interpreting the raw data as something i hate...
classic reddit rhetoric
i dont think it was the worst gdq to date
What happened with Portal 2?
It was a video of a TAS because of "too much rng even for TAS to be viable"
I'm watching he Metal Gear Rising one now and man this runner is the shit
>Kaizo Super Metroid not rated higher
You fricking people, I swear.
bro i told you to share your anti-women twitch extension
I don't even know what a Twitch extension is.
I'll be honest, it was boring. Super Metroid with none of the charm, and kaizo with none of the fast-paced gameplay. It was technically impressive, but far too long for what it was.
clunky game, shit to watch
It was boring, a tedious and not particularly well designed game that people can't appreciate because the skill floor is too high.
Best runs tend to be for games with accessible skill floors but really high skill ceilings.
I feel I would be doing anon a disservice if I didn't link the peak run that is Elex
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1311645650
nice timestamp, moron
Why would it need a timestamp? The run starts at the start of the vod.
What made some of the worst runs as reviled as they were?
>Emerald
Some cheating randomizer
Overestimated time which fricked schedule
>FNAF
Some bullshit run where streamer played with maximum brightness and without sounds (?). Barely commented anything.
>Portal 2
Some recorded video.
Ganker seething at trans people, by the look of it
And they can keep seething too. Free (you)s.
(You) will never be a woman.
Only 4 trans people in the first column. It's not their fault they are not entertaining.
Diamond/Pearl remake again
>Incentive was about 175K/200K
>A day later they decided to introduce it again, starting at 0
>Some runs (most notably superhot VR and bloodstained) were cut due to time restrictions yet they added it.
I liked the Emerald run
The runs good in the trainwreck sense.
You can see the run devolve over time and how cheating gets more prevalent and coping starts to get lethal
revive /srg/ you fricking morons if you love talking about speedrunning so much
bruh
See you next ESA or AGDQ. Also do you think she will be bigger next time?
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
>remember what they took from you
>Also do you think she will be bigger next time?
God I hope so. Those thighs are going to be insane in another 50 pounds.
None. Too many trannies and censorship. That is not what I support
>no more bonus streams feat. werster
WHERE MY /ESA/ Black folk @@@@@@
Doesn't really look much better tho.
>good games in babby mode
>a lot of overlap
>a lot of 1hr+ "speedruns"
The only thing I am curious about is EU4 BBB and it's at 2AM in me c**t.
>2:30 long "secret finale" which is definitely going to be a speedrun
>good games in babby mode
This is the actual fricking worst. Imagine going to an event to showcase a game you've spent thousands of hours practising only to play it on fricking easy mode.
>Imagine going to an event to showcase a game you've spent thousands of hours practising only to play it on fricking easy mode
ITS A SPEEDRHUN!!! WE HAVE TO DO IT IN THE FASTEST POSSIBLE WAY!!!
I-ignore all the FPS chads that run their games on the hardest difficulty....
>ITS A SPEEDRHUN!!! WE HAVE TO DO IT IN THE FASTEST POSSIBLE WAY!!!
They don't realize that it's 10x more impressive when every enemy literally oneshots them.
But the Kaizo Metroid sucked
That's because it was fanmade not developer made
Cause Kaizo is fanfiction garbage
Kaizo is only a good watch with tas
Is there a TAS of Kaizo Super Metroid, especially the original one? On TasVideos the only kaizo metroid one was rejected because it wasn't entertaining. Lol.
I kept tuning in and tuning out after 5 minutes because whatever was on was shit. Wasn't until the Windwaker run that I actually left it on and even then I just had it in the background while doing other stuff
GDQ is a massive fraud organization and should be shut down and its owner executed.
so report them to the irs
Don't worry, RealRawNews reports that "Military Convicts and Executes Mike Uyama" and "U.S. Military Destroys Child Grooming Tunnels Under DoubleTree Hilton, Minnesota". Patriots in control!
Thank god these trannies had it coming for a long time. NEVER miss with a god fearing American patriot
I remember when I was 10yo I arrived at a birthday party JUST when it was about to end
They let me play in a ball pit for a few minutes out of pity
I quit at 2.1m anticipating the shit show that was about to happen? So, how was it bros?
did they hit 3 million? i quit about 30 min into elden ring
They got to like 2.9mil at the end of Elden Ring. Then they literally waited for 15 minutes for the remaining 100k to miraculously come in and get the any% incentive.
wow what a miracle! happy hanukkah everyone
Kungfu took 5 dicks at once including Prize Goblin's as an incentive to get to $3 million.
It was really quite something to see.
Wonderful, i always knew she had it in her.
OH N-
Wow, no recovery from those covid-era events.
What about donation totals? Do they corroborate the view count?
Lel no. New record (inflation included) with half the average viewership. ~~*Anonynous Donator*~~ had a really good 2021 it seems.
it was laundered money
Nope it's a money laundering business and like all companies they have to keep posting record breaking revenue if they want more money to keep coming in
>do you have proof?
>IT JUST IS OK
>pretty much in a recession with highest inflation since the 70s
>viewers dropped
>event and runs sucked
>but everyone donated more this year?
>IT JUST IS OK
>event and runs sucked
this is somewhat subjective because normie social media i checked apparently did like it
Normalgays like whatever they're told to, this is nothing new
Literally slap charity on anything and they won't stop praising it
There is evidence that Hunter Biden donated the last 100k to reach 3 mil from his laptop
do you think a corporation is gonna leave concrete evidence of their schemes? the proof is all over the place to anyone who isnt a moron
>THE PROOF IS SO OBVIOUS OK
so do something about it then
>do something about
why
anon they'd have to be one of the best money laundering operations in history to do for this long, while live streaming all of it twice a year.
God damn liberal sjw trannies who love to suck off ~~*corporations*~~ are never going to see the real truth, patriot
Based schizo showing the fricks living in the real world that what's real in his mind is real for him.
Run the script the drunk posted last night and prove it, then, if you're so great.
normies stopped pretending they cared now that they can travel again
>somehow the donation record was broken
Jews use their charities to not only rip off goyim, but also to launder cash
Is there a translated schedule of RTA in Japan? I don't want to spend an hour identyfing the games.
It's shit.
it was bad but weirdly i have some hope for agdq next year if they look at the schedule and rethink incentives
Enough things went wrong so they might have to actually reconsider some things.
>have some hope for agdq next year
As long as Keiz fricks off with his 4 hour Pokemon runs.
keizaron fricking off alone wouldn't fix the schedule. i'm not sure what it was but this gdq had like no exciting runs or games somehow. i can't really explain it because on paper the final 2 days did have solid games
It's a level of care that's lacking from the staff for the event. We can sense it subliminally.
They also haven't ran a in person event in over two years, so their organization is even more shit then usual. I committed in chat during a run about the set up times and got timed out even expressing hope that it'll get better. GDQ mods are worse then jannies.
Yeah I'm not sure it's all that fixable. It feels like some of the "passion" so to speak is well and truly gone now, but I think the covid era killed it, it's just extra noticeable now.
It was noticeable before the covid era too. There's a kind of magic to the 2014 and earlier GDQs that just isn't there afterwards.
I blame Knittler.
I think 2013 was the peak but it was also inevitable it was going to go downhill from there, it just wasn't possible to keep the event like that, even if it didn't go corporate after 2014.
2013 was essentially a culmination of the GDQ's before it, speedrunning streams getting bigger and many people who build communities on their channels also attending, less strict policing obviously but maybe most importantly speedrunning itself was more fresh to the audience. A lot of the runs back then were honestly really shit but the tricks and concepts in games were very novel and new which made almost all games interesting to watch (in combination with more fun interactions with the couch etc) and runs like Cosmo's where he explained everything just immediately became really famous. Seeing storage glitch in Wind Waker for the first time was interesting, seeing Link swim while the camera is zoomed in for the 10th time is not, 2013 also had people like Siglemic and other big runners attend still which drew in a lot of people because he and other had big streaming presence.
Maybe it's just me but while I do think GDQ went to shit for many reasons I also don't think the 2013 and earlier "magic" was sustainable whatsoever. Excuse the reddit spacing I'm super tired.
yeah i dont think the real good old days were ever gonna last but even corporate-GDQ wasnt THIS bad. like gdq's 2015 till 2018 and maybe even 2019 were honestly pretty good still all things considered.
The first few superswims were cool, but yeah it got dull quick.
The more corporate GDQs got the worse they got. They were still watchable, don't get me wrong, but more and more of the magic dissapeared. Popular bidwars was redone EVERY event, even if the games they were relevant for weren't being ran. Like Kill/Save the animals.
Incentives as a whole are bad for the events yeah. But I do really think that it would have gone down in quality consistently even if it wasn't so corporate, speedrunning just isn't as interesting anymore.
I think you're correct.
so will gdq die?
It seems to be declining. The donation farming was also very shameful this time around.
Well you'd assume not. You'd think that even if they only pull in 1 million per event instead of 3 it'd still be worth doing, but these events often seemingly disappear entirely once interest and visibly starts going down instead of just downscaling. That said while there's less interest there's always gonna be a lot of people who have only watched 1-3 GDQ's before and to those it will stay interesting and they might be more inclined to donate which could be enough to keep it alive if the staff wants it to keep alive.
Realistically I think they need to do some of these things to maintain their numbers or stop them from falling too hard:
>Actually advertise the event.
This is kind of cynical and as corporate as it can get but GDQ barely even puts the word out so normies don't know it's going on half the time. Twitch is much more mature as a platform compared to earlier GDQ's so people won't just tune in because ti's the biggest stream on currently.
>Fix incentives
No one is gonna donate for impossible incentives anymore, audience has been catching on it's pointless. Remove some of the bonus games and just schedule hem normally, make incentives smaller and more reachable and again advertise one big incentive for the very end or something.
>Schedule much better
This year was a mess not only because of Keizaron and co going over estimate but it was also just structured really weirdly, runs were all over the place in the week. Also stop declining shit like Puwexils runs etc, a lot of your audience are old boomers who have watched for a long time, don't completely neglect them to chase zoomer audiences with new games that don't work as speedruns.
Did they decline Puwexil and why? I just assumed he didn't apply with a run for whatever reason.
He has been submitting runs and has been getting declined consistently yes. I hope he can get RPG Limit Break of the ground again now that COVID isn't a concern.
https://gamesdonequick.com/submission/filter/decline
Honestly Keizaron wasn't the only problem, he only gone over by 15 minutes, but multiple games exceeded their set up times by 15-20 minutes as well. He didn't help but he wasn't the sole cause of problems.
https://twitter.com/GhostKumo/status/1543403106368491520 This guy is right (not sure if he's a troony or something just saw it pop up). Bonus games are a cancerous concept and need to go.
>he only gone over by 15 minutes
after they already added 30 minutes to the estimate yes
I was unaware of that actually, thanks Anon. That would make him a major part of the problem. Still not the only, but I remember when GDQ would mercy kill things going 15 over. We need those times back, or just ban these untalented frick wits. I want to see top 10 speedrunners, not top 100.
>I want to see top 10 speedrunners, not top 100.
they need to a: sign up and b: not choke on dicks. the super mario sunshine runner is without a doubt the best at his game and we all know how that went
I'd like to see you perform well in front of 100k people while a troony berates you. Granted I don't think any of us would willingly speedrun with a troony anywhere near us to begin with.
Valid point. Some games the top ten is literally seconds difference between first and tenth place but others its way longer.
Actual placement doesn't matter. They should have a competitive time and not be some random shitter that's 10minutes behind WR.
>but I remember when GDQ would mercy kill things going 15 over.
I'm still mad about that fat "german" queer killing a run for going 5 minutes over estimate
I genuinely feel bad for Keizaron even though he's a dumbass that repeatedly does it to himself, he doesn't deserve to be the scapegoat for everything wrong with GDQ
shut up keizaron, nobody likes your 4 hour pokemon runs you do every other week at hotfix, let alone two of them in one event. self centered prick.
Agreed. He is but one problem of many.
Eh, he signed up for the hate when he sold out.
Keizaron is an insufferable, egotistical homosexual. His twitter is full of passive aggressive shit. I'll cut him some slack because he genuinely seems upset at the "DO THE JYNX CRY" donations nowadays, but he's still a gay for milking it for so many years.
to be h i do not like his contributions to gdq but it just bums me out to see someone get so thoroughly dogpiled lol. he's the new proto, basically.
Pretty sure he was the one responsible for the brought back with a reset progress pokemon incentive, which is why he was nowhere to be seen during it.
He's the poster boy for nepotism at GDQ.
It's one thing for him to keep giving himself 3 hour long prime time runs of games he sucks at, but the straw that broke the camel's back for me is how much of a homosexual he is not just on social media but literally on the stream itself. He spent most of the DiaPer run complaining about people making fun of him for blatantly giving himself long runs and using a cheated seed for the Emerald run. He's a major wanker
that Emerald "run" was cheated in so many ways even before you count them ignoring their own rules an hour in.
No actual runner would take running shit seriously, even as a randomizer it was just utterly fricked.
Somehow all the randos sucked. Maybe it's the format.
I think it's less randomizers being shit and more of them taking a bunch of other arbitrary shit on top of it
Emerald would be better if they:
>didn't even bother with sticking to their rules
>wasn't some onionlad every-level-is-a-random-evolution
>wasn't a "co-op" run
>wasn't a pre-vetted seed
Ocarina of Time would be better if they
>didn't make it a "co-op" and a race
>didn't make it dungeonsanity
>wasn't a pre-vetted seed
the combination of all this shit made it hot garbage, it would've went better if they didn't go overboard with it for a meme category no one really cares about
I just wish they focused on other randomizers, every Pokemon randomizer ends up being the same no matter the generation, they've milked Super Metroid and Link to the Past and Ocarina/Majora's Mask randomizers.
I'd like them to at least go for the Zelda 2 randomizer, but I don't remember the last time they even ran normal Zelda 2, if at all
Yeah it was immediately obvious to anybody who'd played the game how unnaturally lucky they were getting
Oops we got Spore as a TM when we just happened to have given ourselves the ability to use any TM on any pokemon, it would be a shame if we didn't use that.
>get Flamethrower a level before they got a Pokemon with the sunny weather ability
>still lose to the same gym leader over and over
tl;dr, some examples of cheating (other than the replies to you)?
In terms of the romhack, ignoring the iffy odds stuff:
using HMs out of battle without the gym badges needed to use them
using any TM on any pokemon regardless of if it should work or not (something they abuse throughout the run to cheese the entire thing)
pulling numerous master balls out of their asses
having the rom edited to entirely skip the team magma/aqua stuff
I'm sure I'm forgetting something but those are the most memorable ones.
>Wow look at that, out of every TM would could have found in this totally random seed, we got the only 100% accurate sleep move in the entire game during the generation where sleep was a borderline broken mechanic
>How about that, our totally random starter had a perfect coverage movepool and every trainer we face has a conveniently shit team!
>We are only going to have one pokemon this whole run, except extras for HMs, except to use as a revive staller, and except when we are about to lose the battle and our main is KO'd
>and every trainer we face has a conveniently shit team!
But Roxanne wrecked their anus. You'd think if you're fixing your run you wouldn't get shown up by the first gym leader.
Sometimes randomizers aren't as hard as they can be. That's the random part.
golbat was also a hard wall the entire run
>he doesn't deserve to be the scapegoat for everything wrong with GDQ
not for everything wrong, but he encapsulates a good portion of what went wrong
>nepotism runs
>discord call runs
>as skillless as possible not-a-speedrun runs
>over estimate runs (that doesn't get mercy killed)
>runs that end up being hijacked to shill other runs
>persistent reddit anti-humor (caterknees xDDD)
>bringing in the most milquetoast type of speedgame for donation milking
because of him there will never be even a hope for a pokemon run to be adequate at best, much less runs leading up to one
Also part of the b***hiest couch of the marathon.
He thinks he's smart doing the "oh chat you can't donate in time so you shouldn't bother" thing, even when the incentive fails to get met.
Also on the neoptism thing, no other runners had a second "chance" for their incentive with a guaranteed success, only his fricking buttbuddies. Even the Elden Ring shit later was from stalling, not rebooting a dead incentive.
>oh chat you can't donate in time so you shouldn't bother
Even though it's an act, it still brings the mood down because he leans so hard into it
>uses his pull to get shitty 4 hour pokemon runs on the schedule
>uses his pull to keep shitty pokemon runs from getting mercy-killed
>refuses to eat crow and let the jokes run their course when he is deservedly called out for constantly failed to stay under estimate
Sure, it's not all his fault, but he actively makes things worse and shows no remorse.
It'll more likley morph into something else than outright die.
Yeah, the passion seems to be gone and it has gotten to corpo.
I will never forget being a student at university and watching comfy vidya speedruns and the couch felt like you were watching it with some bros.
I think a large part of it is that GDQ kind of grew in parallel with Twitch, it is no coincidence a lot of GDQ staff or older people with a bigger presence there are either close to Twitch or outright work there now. Streaming itself was better when GDQ was better, now Twitch has turned to shit and GDQ is kind of behind without clear direction.
I just hope for Pokemon Scarlet/Violet any% glitched (Est. 00:09:00) to be a thing.
Just ban keizaron
there schedule fixed
Use the 6 gorillion they get from _donations_ to hire more tech crew.
>hire
Aren't the current ones volunteers?
If that was the case they wouldnt have to pay tax, which they do.
Yes, unless they happen to be a part of the old boy cabal then Mike gives them a nice little payday. Everyone else literally does it* for free
*make Mike a 6 figure paycheck during an event that he himself doesn't even show up to
If they hired a competent tech crew they could keep the same runs, even over estimate, and they'd be fine. Have stuff set up better beforehand and they could switch to the next game a lot faster. Shave off a minute or two each run and they're good.
>have two setups next to each other, one is the 'active' run, the other is decently away so as to be off-cam
>get all the tech issues for the next run all sorted out and have it ready to go before the previous run is even finished
so hard.
Anything worth watching?
Saw the sunshine runner’s couch troony show no mercy and the ocarina of time cringe-kino
I imagine the Emerald run, which was also cringekino as frick, might be watchable as a VOD at 1.75x
>e3 dead
>gdq dead
>esa on its way out
bros what's going to happen to us
gdq will be here for another 3 years at the very least i think.
Take the RTA in Japan pill.
>implying any of us knows japanese
Better, I can focus on the games and I don't have to mute every 50 seconds for donations because the Nips don't even read donations out loud.
Susan is doing a run at RTA in Japan this year. If he can do it, anyone can.
So hot
The event is better but the runs are dogshit
>3:30hs Zelda TPHD
>3 Pokemon Spinoffs (the games are better but the speeduns suck).
>Mario in like 4 flavors
>8 hours of Tales
>finale is SFC DQ3
And that's from a quick skim
>GeoGuessr on Sunday
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>RTA
i have my pasta ready
ティーダのチンポ気持ちよすぎでしょ
was the mgr:r guy using the one hit kill cheat katana?
that's kinda lame
i dont think so because he used the sundowner scissors on some bosses
well yeah
Fox Blade doesn't work on bosses
No, he just spliced his WR extra run.
is there a schedule for ESA yet?
https://esamarathon.com/schedule/
>two streams so that multi hour games don't kill the pace
Fantastic
I wish that page showed estimates and had the 2 lists side by side hours wise so I could actually easily see which is the better stream.
It's a TAS, I believe it. If they could make a GBC play Still Alive, Redditbob, and program tetris on the fly in a console verified run I can believe making a N64 play in cart assets and display a bit of chat.
No shit its a tas, it fricking said so. He asked if the showcase was fake, not what method they used to make it. Are you ESL or just half asleep or what
And I said I see no reason to believe it's fake based on a similar thing already made on a console a million times weaker.
Are you ESL or just half asleep or what.
Dumb esl.
holy shit you are fricking stupid
Why?
How do you even speedrun Stanley Parable?
get all endings
You skip talking and walk tight corners
walking sim
>geoguessr is run #5
LETS FRICKING GOOOOOOO
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
who wants to bet it will be run a second time again like last event
I don't make guesses on guaranteed losses.
Geomemer is gonna weasle its way again towards the end.
TWO streams?
ESA! ESA! ESA!
who that
Will we get more gaykino?
>SGDQ got so behind schedule it hasn't even started yet
FRICK
Going back to GDQ2013 levels of good is impossible and was never possible but I wonder if they could at least get back to like 2015-2016 levels.
>I wonder if they could at least get back to like 2015-2016 levels.
Only if they stop being a money laundering front.
>IT JUST IS OK
christ you Americans are stupid
obsessed
post some GDQkino
WebM related never gets old.
>the next time they ran this game they purposely cut the camera during this scene just in case that phrase came up again
Fricking hilarious I'll tell you what
i've jerked off to webms of this girl before. maybe its the low quality but she looked so fricking hot
do women like this know the entire venue wants to frick them
god
goddamn
obviously. that's why they're there in the first place.
i mean i agree but this girl was the one time i felt she was actually hot and not just hot because everyone else was ugly. she could go anywhere else with more attractive dudes and they would still all want to frick her so why settle for the bottom of the barrel for attention
Chad's attention is passing and ephemeral, he'll be slobbering over the next girl the second he looks away from you.
A nerd will keep his attention on you for literal years as if it's a stamp on their life.
maybe she just feels really powerful knowing half of those guys probably rubbed on out to her
That's why they go, at least until some creepy autist starts sniffing their seat and they never go again
he is radiating sigma male energy
What GDQ was this again?
>no kills the animals save the animals
Ya blew it
he just picked up a knocked over soda bottle
this webm cut off the lower part where you could see it
I like how decisive he is in this
He gets his bottle, is about to take a sip, sees the girl stood up and just instantly switches into sniffing mode
do you have his murder caught on film?
Look how dirty those socks are.
Was the Elden Ring run good?
I went to sleep before it
the oot beta showcase was mostly fake right? i'm having a hard time believing any of that was real
The exploding rupee was real.
The butterfly item was real.
The Kokiri sprite was real.
The rest was fanfiction.
The entire team behind it being sued to oblivion by Nintendo hasn't happened yet but it will happen
The unicorn fountain and Great Fairy were also real objects.
Oh yeah I forgot about those.
>try google to find pic to reply with
>first result is a "fact check" of the story
what the frick man
ESA will be fun
let's give em the ol eurodab
what the fricking gdq is this
ESA
EuroAutism is so cute
>ESA will be fun
Susan is banned from ESA IIRC, that's probably what he's griping about here.
Apparently he tried to get the nugget dude banned by saying he was assaulted by him.
His whole feud with the nugget man, and nuggets in general, is what finally got him banned. ESA just couldn't handle having to babysit him anymore. It's surprising that GDQ still has him around, but maybe it's because they're draconian enough to fully shield him from nuggets and nugget related things.
>they're draconian enough to fully shield him from nuggets and nugget related things.
That is precisely why. He thought they did this because they liked him and wanted them in their inner circle, but has found out that isn't the case.
I'm looking forward to the Prince of Persia run later this weak, it's got a community dub that should be funny.
how was the mario odyssey run?
Me on the right.
>green and purple
Thanks QDG
The doctor without borders will apply your daily dose now.
I was getting so annoyed everytime I saw that person in the background.
Also that Corvimae coucher.
>tripgay enters the thread.webm
oh no.. oh how embarassing
>mention of esa
>no mention cum-guzzling girl
someone post the vid
noooooooooo it's over let me be free
did the zelda run cause any scenes?
I'm surprised how little people talk about it. Absolutely blew me away what they could do
You think they will switch charities now that the causes seem unimportant in the face of today's issues?
They made 3 mil but we all know institutions chipped in to prevent an embarrassing headline
>joshimuz and friends SA randomizer run is using a new randomizer with lots of new effects
Looking forward to it.
What do you think Sumichu’s next “adventure” is?
The chinaman is leaving gdq?
the korean or chinese girl we have a panty shot of is yeah
Frick, she was hot. Why would you leave such a cushy comfy do-nothing job?
Obviously found something more profitable. Probably NFT related.
I always assumed that she made like upwards of 100k a year for what's essentially a few weeks of work per year. If she found something better then god bless.
On second thought I'd take a pay cut to never see a troon irl.
To get a better cushy comfy do-nothing job?
>two times a year
>one week each
>have to be around smelly nerds
>have to be around smelly trans nerds
I doubt whatever pay GDQ takes from "operating costs" is worth it.
When does the bonus stream start?
Whenever Peaches goes online
Looking forward to ESA soon with GDQ just ending
?t=3700
me listening to mario tunes
lol GDQ is the top post on the Games subreddit, and the top comment says
>GDQ should be embarrassed of how they've handled incentives and schedule delay this marathon. Incentive amounts were plainly unreasonable this year when so many needed Yetee or Twitch's divine intervention to be met, and the constant calls for donations unfairly took focus away from the runs that preceded them. Setup and stalling time driving the schedule so far behind that they had to ask people to withdraw their runs is already ridiculous, but it's adding insult to injury to bring back an unmet incentive in the end instead of one of the runs that was withdrawn. Blatantly stalling between the Elden Ring runs to artificially hit the 3 million target was even more absurd -- and then they apparently didn't set up the next run during that time? A run of the same game? Not only did it make an awful viewer experience that felt like the final run was being held hostage (anyone else notice how abruptly donations fell off after 3 million?), but if I were one of the runners who withdrew their runs, I would feel cheated out of an opportunity everyone in the speedrunning scene looks forward to. I know it's for charity, so it doesn't really fit to call it "greed", but I felt it was still extremely unprofessional and disrespectful towards their viewers and community.
lol you know if the brainless redditors have caught on to how shithouse these events are then GDQ has royally fricked up
>nb4 go back
thats not the top comment, its this:
>I loved this hybrid setup. It was really the best of what I loved about both formats of GDQ. The online GDQs enabled skilled runners that couldn't travel to GDQ show off their stuff. The live GDQ had the crowd's energy, and this year they did an excellent job of directing the crowd's energy in a way that didn't get horrifyingly obnoxious (remember Orb?)
>That said, holy shit I hated how desperate the hosts seemed to meet incentives this round. There were a lot of runs that the hosts were being incredibly distracting during technical parts I really wanted the couch or runner to talk about to keep donation rates up. I hated it.
>SGDQ was great this year, but the hosts did not contribute to that many times. I hope AGDQ adjusts things next year. A solvable problem
>I understand that this event is a donation event first and a speedrun event second but this year it felt like it was a donation event first.... second... and speedrunning was third. It's OK if the line doesn't keep going up. Your charity event can raise less money than it did last year. That's OK!
>I understand that this event is a donation event first and a speedrun event second
That's the entire fricking problem with GDQ
Yeah but it won't ever change, that is what GDQ is, and it honestly always has been.
It's depressing that this is accepted now. One of the reasons why GDQ was great was because it was a celebration of the speedrunning community first and a charity event second. When they stalled for $3 million with the camera pointed at the crowd counting down the remaining thousands of dollars, it was probably the most alienated I've felt from what GDQ has become since 2017.
I want the whole "probably autistic nerds sitting on a basement playing videogames for the hell of it" vibe of old GDQs back. Stalling for donos is cancerous shit.
The Super Mario 64 run was insufferable to watch at the end, because everyone was more focused on getting money for the shitty ass Pokemon run. I will give Simply the benefit of the doubt only because his expression of sheer, utter despair while everything was going on, but he did miss a throw on the last Bowser fight, suspiciously giving enough time for the incentive to be met.
I remember how ghetto first GDQs were "Oh hey, someone donated $5 with a joke, lemme read that" while they were joking around at the couch.
Exactly, it was just comfy stuff while watching vidya. Now it's sterilised corporate shit.
That's why I am giving him the benefit of the doubt, like I said. He was surprisingly quiet and barely reacted to any of le epic donation maymays.
You might want to check out grandpoobear's mini pre-GDQ thing from this year. He rented out a bar and every time I checked in it was basically just friends hanging out on a couch speedrunning.
>Simply
Was clearly just being a professional and trying not to shoot himself in the head listening to the host and commentator. One missed Bowser throw isn't much time.
Yeah it was annoying when he finished the run and all you could really hear was "POKKKEEEMOOOONNN!"
Sucks even more cause the run for the most part was pretty solid.
>Stalling for donos is cancerous shit.
its cancerous shit done once, i can remember them doing it 3 different times in this event. absolutely no soul in the event
not like it matters, the donation game is for companies that want to tax evade.
>I understand that this event is a donation event first and a speedrun event
This mindset is why GDQ will never get any better, because the staff and the normalgays think the money comes first. It is a speedrunning event that happens to collect money to donate, but these absolute morons think that the runs are some bonus thing and should come second to however much money the staff thinks it should be making. Without the runs, there would be no donations, so why is the main event and the reason anyone is bothering with it treated as some side thing? The staff now screwing over the runners by cutting their games off the block in loo of making room for their pointless interviews and bonus incentives is proof enough of how little they care about anything other then lining their own pockets with dough.
>>SGDQ was great this year, but the hosts did not contribute to that many times
The guy screaming all troughout the 120 Star SM64 run completely ruined what wouldhave been a solid entertaining run.
Game & Shout is the most obnoxious host, it's like he gets off on edging to donation milestones and blowing out his vocal chords when they're reached.
It's nice to see people waking up to some of the obvious problems with the way the marathon is formatted.
You have to go back
Is he right?
lol what a homosexual, why does he care? thought he was retiring from speedrunning
>get raped by a fat hulking beast
>"uh, it's your fault, you're in control of when it rapes you, as has always been the case..."
Im dropping my vote from his run, frick that homosexual
used to like his runs. then i saw him white knighting for fictional women and crying on twitter than he needs a break because hes having mental breakdowns. also mask in profile picture.
>150h of speedruns
I went ahead and summed up every setup time displayed in the schedule, without accounting for seconds
I'll let you guys do the math on the proportion of Runs:Shilling
>dog face no space
holy based
>37 hours of setup
>unironically a day and a half
No, counted the length of every speedrun done and ended being around 118 hours.
Stats throw about 75% speedrun time and 25% setup.
i like this guy's runs but his takes are notoriously bad
wait for esa. pick up a nice, relaxing hobby. spend time with your cat.
Wait a matte, so i can get into GDQ by playing pokemon?
Yes, you can get into gdq if you're friends with keizaron.
sure, just gotta suck some troony wiener
We've gone from speedrunning to raise money for charity to the charity completely taking over and raising money to showcase speedruns lol.
?t=21
Did this woman
>A. get kicked out of the GDQ in question?
>B. get banned from future GDQs?
>C. get put in charge of future GDQs?
D. used like a Fluttershy daki
5guys1knittler
She became staff. Everyone but tourists knows this already.
seriously, bring back /srg/
its time for a new doggy
it'd be 80% troony talk now
yeah? and?
there's already all of Ganker for that
>tfw you were an srg oldboi
>when they moved onto discord no one gave you an invite
>they've all completely forgotten about me save for maybe 1 or 2 people
N
Speedrunning just isn't the same as it used to be bro.
free my homie pvtcb
was control a good run? i like the guy's titanfall 2 run years ago
"WE HAVE A $5000 DONATION FROM ANONYMOUS WITHOUT COMMENT, THANK YOU ANONYMOUS!"
No money laundering here
what should i do in place of watching this bros? my cat is dying and this was slightly comforting even when the runs were bad.
rocket league spring major
this should do for a large part of the day, thanks
Hopefully he does. Not that you asked, but I don't actually have him right now. He's getting treatment for a shot at life but his condition is grim (he looks good though). I'm just stressed he's going to die without me there.
hope your cat lives long enough for ESA?
curious to see how they'll handle incentives next year. somewhat surprised staff even acknowledged issues
I don't believe that fat c**t for a second.
i do because they have to change something or next year will be rough
They won't. They got away with it this time with three million in hand, they'll do it again. Sure you have the cattle mooing at them in anger now, but those same stupid fricks will be counting the days til ADGQ to throw their money at the event again and wonder why things never change.
Sent and CoolMatty are going to be the last bastion of normalcy in GDQ.
qrd?
tl;dr coolmatty is an SDA / GDQ OG and probably the one of the biggest factors behind what the event is today, for better or worse. at least, he's always the one defending GDQ's decisions on SDA (when the feedback threads existed) and reddit and twitter more recently.
i don't say this with any malice, but he hasn't made a positive impression with any of his responses over the years. it's always "we're listening" or "we're ready to have a conversation" and then nothing changes. he's a company man.
srg was never really noteworthy anyways tbqh
What was the problem with Ocarina of Time "Coop" run?
>spike's Tropical Freeze run was impressive for both commentary and the technical
>get another run with your wife
>both play like absolute dogshit
>pre-vetted seed
>the worst aspects of co-op where the only aspect of co-op is sharing item knowledge
>the worst aspects of a race
>"muh arby's" lets play-tier commentary
>throws to let his goblin wife win
>let your friends and family participate in official event
I fricking hate such things, but GDQ has been doing it for a while now. Nothing new and they can go f themselves.
it was a basic settings vetted seed randomizer run by two non OoT runners who didn't use any tricks or fast movement tech outside of backwalking
Speedrun.com still lets kids upload their epic roblox runs? what's the point? its not even a real speedrun
clown world
SRC is a fricking embarrassment don't even get me started. You look at "most active" and more than half of the games are meme games and fricking roblox maps
Roblox has 308 separate leaderboards because SRC just accepts fricking anything.
>presumably the one of the best players in the world at a game
>game overs
I get that there’s nerves and whatnot, but how the frick does this happen lmao
He got too wienery, unironically.
There will be more godless nights.
If y'all care about the donation readers being bad so much please for the love of god sign up to be donation readers next time. They can't take people who don't sign up.
>why dont you sign up for a position where you need some nepotism and an ounce of clout for
gee I don't know
Donation readers are picked by an open committee, it's literally the only role in GDQ protected from nepotism to some degree.
Yes there's a lot of repeats from event to event, but that's because they know how to nail the audition because obviously prior experience gives you a lot of insight into what to say.
Listen all I'm saying is if you're willing to try and help GDQ be less cringe, put yourself out there next time. They have more latitude in how they act on camera than people think.
You do realize they're obligated to act like morons, right? They're either narcissists who love their own voice (guess fricking who) or have to always be energetic to keep the audience's attention
>have to pay to go there
>vaxmax
>mask
>all to help some event be less cringe
It's not a coincidence that the donation readers seemed more manic and mildly cultish to GDQ on the whole this event, they had to sacrifice more than a lot of people were willing to. They had to be a little nuts.
i would, but i'm not the type of person who can read the trash donation comments without audibly cringing. also gdq refuses to come (back to) the west coast.
coffee break
I fell asleep before Elden Ring, was it any good or worth watching? Has anybody got the final chart?
read the god damn thread
If no one answered you the second time, it's pretty telling what people actually think about it
as in, they don't think about it at all.
kaizo runs suck
showcases mostly suck
ACE sucks
Is ESA not doing a preshow run this year?
Not explicitly
It starts at the usual time the preshow starts but without a giant JRPG to eat up the entire portion
this shit is so gay and you're gay for liking it
just got back from work, is it still on? i thought they were extending the marathon if they hit more donations (which i know they did because of 'anonymous')
isnt it meant to go for a week minimum? it was just starting this time last week... i bought a fricking six-pack man...
>And now's a good time for donations.
>The Yetee sends us a breathtaking TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
Scripted as frick.
>"Yetee here! We just wanted to show how much we want Scuba-Steve-420 to play Blades of Steel glichless showcase with a twety thousand dollar donation! Plz remember to buy our shirts"
im looking forward to seeing the progression of the transgender individuals!
Where is final chart?
gone forever in a tragic fire
The last thread brought up some good points about money laundering. Is GDQ run as a 501c charity? Some of the larger donations would also looks like a good way to pay the staff while avoiding things like FICA. You'd think raising ~$6M per year on a non-profit would attract a polite audit once in a while.
GDQ is not a charity. Everything they get goes straight to Doctors without Borders or PCF. Those actual charities then turn around and give GDQ a cut so GDQ doesn't have to list their finances
Last time I checked, GDQ is registered as an LLC in... Virginia? I don't know if that precludes them being a 501c.
I think it's pretty suspect that they intentionally withhold "donations" from their sponsors in order to milk donation incentives as much as possible. They have $100,000+ set aside to meeting incentives, which is why you'll suddenly see an incentive that looks like it won't be met jump 10-40k at the last minute.
I remember an interview once where someone (maybe Mike, but I really don't remember) said they were naive when they transitioned from guys-in-a-garage to actual organization, so they went with a LLC instead. They're paying taxes, so the fact that there's not been an audit is all it takes to prove they're doing things on the level (at least as far as American charity organizations go in the first place).
>We're almost there, just $103,000 left until we stop holding the final run hostage!
>tunic
>have main dev on call for whole run
>constantly interrupted by chair troony whole game
>runner isn't even good at game, fails movement tech constantly and has to load safety saves
wish it was better, the game itself is fantastic and the speedrun strat is neat
anyone have a list of the worst runs?
i love watching shitty runners cope with their dog shit runs and shit couch
The Emerald rando run is pretty much the definition of that, it took them an hour to take out the first gym then started to outright ignore the rules they put on the run so they could actually finish in a reasonable time, problem being they still went over estimate and led to a domino effect that threw the entire schedule of to the point where they needed to shitcan multiple runs and started a massive controversy.
ive been watching random runs from the past few years and I feel like people that run the Final Fantasy games have way more charisma than most of these speedrunning weirdos, despite the fact that most of the FF runs are so long. is FF just a chad series?
Depends on the runner, I mean this FF runner manages to be a functional human being as well as being rather silly.
You're not mistaken. Most classic JRPG runners are mature white guys, the type of people you'd expect to have families. All the worst elements are attracted to modern JRPGs like Undertale and Omori.
What the FRICK do I do now that GDQ is over?
Wait about three weeks and watch ESA.
watch GDQ https://myrtv.github.io/#agdq2013
comfy af
do you promise esa is gonna be as fun as gdq?
Depends on your taste in stuff and what you got out of GDQ, ESA tends to run more PC games, generally has less asshats.
It also has some genuinely entertaining runners who don't really show up to GDQ like Metako and Heinki.
>what you got out of GDQ,
Honestly I watch gdqs for the cringekino moments
Good speedruns take a backseat
ESA is for watching speedruns, GDQ is for cringekino
The overwhelming amount of Eastern Euro and Scandinavian autism during ESA, for me at least, is a suitable alternative
amazing
*crack*
even though this gdq was the worst by far I still enjoyed watching it with Ganker including the shit runs
What is wrong with dumptruck's leg?
>kffc reacting to my dick.webm
Is that Sumichu? Easy on the sashimi...
thick asians are peak women dude
tactical whiteboard
lymphedema[, likely due to removed lymph nodes, likely due to a locally spread cancer
>watching SGDQ
>commentator uses female pronouns for a runner
>google "runner name trans"
>yup
every time
I wonder if trans outnumber biological women at GDQ.
Why did Sunshine got so high score, when the run was mostly a fail...
Because some anons think a minute or two or "cringe kino" makes an entire run SSSS+++, even if a run was 3 hours long but had 1 minute of cringe or a big choke they'll pretend it was worth watching.
I'm glad some anons kept telling people to "watch the part about 40 minutes in" or posted a link to the timestamped VOD vs telling them to watch it all.
I only caught one run in its entirety and that was the Mario Sunshine one. What was the best one (You) watched?
why do people keep saying they were glad to have the crowds energy back for the event? the crowd seemed pretty dead every time i watched. they were just a clap-on-command machine.
>GDQ donation generator
>circlejerk
>most was staged
>literally a "Clap on Command" machine
The OOT beta content stream is super cool, almost makes up for everything else.
I thought GDQ was supposed to start today...
have to pay attention and be quicker anon
Oh frick did I miss the Weezer concert???
>Wake up day after GDQ
>Search the catalog for "GDQ"
>"Nothing Found"
>Stare at the catalog for a couple minutes before deciding to just jack off or something
I hate those post-GDQ blues
Same, but it's not really the blues I get from it being over so much as it's the blues I get from having to return to work after a fun week of shitposting
GDQs haven't been great for years and these threads are the only reason I bother to watch
So which run was your favorite anons? For me it would be Happy's Humble Burger Farm.
For me it was the pokemon run
Probably Jedi Knight 2 just because it was ran really well.
I'm torn between that, the Hulk Hogan CDI game, and CovertMuffin's run
Probably MGR just for the fun couch and schizo rant at the end, but honestly for just a solid speedrun I loved Spike's DKTF run
Sounds lame
I'd love if AGDQ came around and several of these buttholes were given the boot and just never showed up again.
i'm scrolling through speedrun twitter and both oldbois and the new crop of runners with pronouns, flags, etc. in their profiles are actively voicing their displeasure with the event
cool matty is basically everywhere defending that last stretch to 3 mil where they decided to fill the time with the audience standing around screaming about donations instead of, you know, a speedrun
There was KZ_Frew basically pulling the "shut up it worked and it was for charity so you can't complain about anything".
I saw a lot of crap along the lines of people saying the runs don't matter at GDQ and they only attend it to watch the donation tracker go up.
i've never seen kz frew have a good take, but yeah i saw that tweet. it's kind of nuts to me that there are actually people like that, though. they think that gdq stalling for incentives / holding runs hostage is "hype"
They think the ends justify the means, which basically means there's no low that GDQ can't go down to that they won't defend.
SGDQ hasn't been a good look for GDQ, treating runners like shit and pulling crap like that, which is pissing off runners, is going to cause them more issues down the line.
They absolutely had to get that minimum of 3 million though, not hitting that is worse than getting nothing for the charity.
i seriously do not recognize 90% of the staff i see in pictures anymore. spike, kffc, jhobbz, and sent are the only people actively acting as a face for the event that i recognize as older volunteers. people like feasel, darkman, blechy, etc. have disappeared over the years.
it does not sound outlandish to me that a lot of the new staff might seriously see gdq as a charity event first and a speedrun event second.
I get the impression there's been a lot of elbowing people out who have standards.
That Asian chick on the other hand has apparently gone one to skip off the top of a much bigger pile of money.
coolmatty is a dude who acts like he has creative control of the event, but really doesn't. It can't be a good feeling for the guy.
examples? im not really seeing much outright displeasure with the event, more that some stuff didnt work out. i still havent really seen any examples of people thinking the quality of the runs was low
authorblues is a pretty by-the-book speedrunner who's been in a lot of gdqs and he's calling out how weird the last donation stretch was. i saw a lot of old ass runners in the likes on his tweets when i checked.
The "every run is shit" is mostly a problem for people here who have watched the marathon for years. Realisticaly the quality of runs isn't something they can do much about, it's either good or not but most normies don't give a shit and just like watching Mario go fast and maybe a couple other games from their childhood.
Part of the problem is a lot of the runners who were good just don't show up to GDQ because of this and it's just spiraling down.
Like you just don't see people like TMR there anymore.
he goes if he can though, he was at the shitty online sgdq
Fuuuuuck that's so far away
sauce of that and more, I know it's Reddit but a lot of people have a lot of good points about how scummy it's all been.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/vqcnae/summer_games_done_quick_2022_has_ended_with_a/ieobjuq/
It's been a while since I've seen someone calling them what they are, which is "clique". Their event literally is a joke.
When is ESA?
saturday july 23rd
>Single handedly tanks GDQs reputation with everyone from speedrunning old guard to xir/xhim zoomers and complete normalgays through a cascading butterfly effect directly caused by his yearly over-estimate Pokemon run
>The chad Keiz vs. the virgin Spike
>single handedly
He is the staff member in charge of scheduling IIRC and wouldn't you know, the run that he is involved with every year somehow got approved for the event yet again right during prime time
Keiz and everyone else (Spike, Kungfu, Jhobz) are just Partners of GDQ
They're not actually on Staff that handles that kind of stuff
For reference I'm pretty sure he submitted 3 other runs that all got declined, only his Pokemon one was accepted, probably because they always manage to bring in a lot of money and viewers
They seriously need to stop including clique "runs" like Yu-Gi-Oh: Forbidden Memories, randomizers, and especially co-op randomizers. Things that are exclusively played by washed-up speedrunners, content farmers, or both.
They're long, boring, and completely fricking incomprehensible to a broader audience no matter how many motherfrickers you have explaining how finding iron boots in Jabu-Jabu's colon is POGGERS, GOD SEED ALERT.
Randomizers can be decent but most of the ones you see are being run in the worst way possible where it's just not a speedrun and usually you don't see any kind of skillful playing the game.
Isn't he "retired" from speedrunning too? Him running games at GDQ is pure vanity
If the staff being loud part is true that's absolutely disgusting.
>guys, let me run Pokemon again
>dude, your last 3 runs were over estimate and even you stopped during Yugi
>this time will be different
>it will be different
>different
So are people actually complaining about the event? People who matter I mean, not Ganker shitposters. It definitely felt worse this year despite some really good runs.
Yeah, but not the extent Ganker shitposters think. People noticed the delays and scheduling issues (the runs that got cut, the reintroduced Pokemon run) and the overambitious incentives and donation begging that made the whole event less "wholesome".
What most normals are NOT complaining about is run quality though, I did a lot to looking around and people enjoyed a lot of the runs that did very poorly here, the OoT stuff in particular was very popular with the general audience to name one example.
this is my experience too. the incentives were too much, scheduling was shit but no real complaints about the games ran. the stuff we naturally hate is popular with normies
the way the incentives are designed is just fricking disingenuous. this is how every single incentive goes
>hold bonus run hostage for like 100k+
>incentive struggles to get to 75% despite relentless shilling, ruining runs that come immediately before it
>suddenly multiple thousand dollar donations come in from money earmarked by yetee / twitch / etc. for the explicit purpose of finishing off incentives
they're just trying to milk people as much as possible
The end of the Mario 64 run was painful, dude set a decent time and all he got was the announcer loudly celebrating that they'd succeeded in forcing a failed incentive to succeed this time.
This will never change. If your games are in the final stretch it's gonna have an announcer yelling for donations, that's just how it works and they're not gonna change it. They need to have less of that for random incentives mid marathon.
i've started to enjoy watching people get banned in chat for the most innocuous shit more than most of the runs
it was also cringe that the commentator kept saying shit like
>WOW! THIS IS A NEW GAMES DONE QUICK RECORD!
>OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN THIS TRICK IN A MARATHON
like seriously dude, come the frick on. just let the man work.
Most normal viewers just clap when they see Nintendo games or cute chat, they don't care if the runner is a heckin obnoxious b***h who wasn't even in the top 10 runners.
>they don't care if the runner is a heckin obnoxious b***h who wasn't even in the top 10 runners.
I think only a very small percentage of viewers is able to judge if a speedrun is high quality or not, I for sure wouldn't be able to do that. Take any regular game which maybe is not SMB and show the average viewer a run which is +10% of the world record and tell him it is the world record, he'll probably believe it, and so would I. So people will judge runs more by entertainment value of the runner than the actual speedrun skill.
And if you never saw GDQ before 2016 or so you'll think that the runs are still as entertaining as ever, because you haven't been expecting anything else than what was displayed.
Yeah GDQ's had a fricking drought of games where you can tell it's being played fast and skillfully even if you don't know the game yourself.
Like the JK2 run, that you could tell he was good at it, but a lot of the runs just looked like people playing normally.
randomizers are the absolute worst for this shit. feels like being a blind man led by the arm, having your handler tell you about everything you literally cannot see.
Yeah, the whole "canned two runs due to scheduling issues but still sat around stalling for a quarter of the event on top of bringing back a failed incentive at the very end" debacle has spilled over to even twitter and reddit, especially compounded by the half hour sumichu "farewell" immediately followed by them stalling for 10 more minutes to make 3 mil THEN STILL NOT HAVING THE FINAL RUN FRICKING SET UP BY THE TIME THE INCENTIVE WAS MET
When even the people that only acknowledge speedrunning during GDQ are getting uppity about it, you know someone screwed the pooch hard
Yes. Some runners who didn't have runs in the marathon (and therefore don't have a stake in sucking up to GDQ) are calling out a couple aspects of the marathon, but mostly the sheer fricking thirst for donations and the whole debacle with two runs being canceled and not brought back to fill time while they blatantly stalled for 3 million.
The worst thing is that maybe you could set the setup time for Superhot VR would have been difficult even though the run was a 15 min etimate.
The run for Bloodstained had the exact same estimate for pokeymans and was a PC run, there's no reason why that would take less to set up than a Switch game.
It does, however, make sense when you factor in that the pokemon runners were friends with a suspiciously absent Keizaron,
Some things need to change but the donation yelling just isn't gonna away man.
there was one run where someone was basically yelling over the run for the first 15 minutes and clearly got told to tone it the frick down. can't remember which one.
The Super Metroid one?
oh it was metroid dread. i was jerked back to the screen because i thought they hit some incredibly hard trick first try but it was just a donation milestone lmao
None of the runs with Char Bunny hosting, that's for fricking sure
Definitely not the norm. The final stretch just brings in too much money and GDQ is a fundraiser first and speedrunning event second, sadly.
my run is in three weeks
It's Runescape right?
Looking forward to it
>page 8
bros...
its the end.
Right back to
>WHAT GAMES LET YOU [off-topic]?
>Coom thread
>Twitter screencap
>/misc/ thread
>incite rage by cutting off my bai-
>OH NO NO [topic]BROS WE GOT TOO wienerY
As awful as GDQ is now, these threads are are a safe haven from the rest of this absolute cesspool of a board, even if they themselves go to shit more often than not
Tears in rain, until ESA
Was tech much worse this year too or is it just me? I'm trying to watch the vods and there's a bunch of weird repeating/skipping sections. It's never been this bad.
their times between runs were actually the shortest they've ever been, but their issues DURING runs were worse than usual
What could save GDQ?
nothing
wrest creative control of game choice from the clique
From most people's perspective GDQ doesn't need saving, it's us who are in the wrong. So it's not about how GDQ can be saved, it's what we should be doing instead.
you can't save gdq, it's too far gone. the only hope is that enough good runners flee the sinking ship and make their own marathon with blackjack and hookers.
Isn't that what NASA was supposed to be except it sucked ass?
>good runners
nasa was amazing for hanging out, though
Also the Oceanside Speedrun Marathon
Do Not Research
Just closing it.
Did they redesign TASBot just so they could sell shirts without ROB on them?
yep, and so DwangoAC could claim all the design bux for himself
Finally tally, how many times did you cum during the SGDQ threads over the week?
i have a masturbation problem so a lot.
jerk off for me, that'll fix it
not that many speedrunners are gonna skip out on gdq when it still gives you the most eyes by far
yeah it's a totally healthy mutually beneficial relationship only compensating people who have to spend potentially 1k+ to go to the event with the promise of maybe getting some followers
the vast majority of runners don't get a lot of exposure honestly
ban pokemon """"""""""""""speedruns""""""""""""""""""
Bring in far too much money.