Speedrun Event General - AGDQ Up! - Exceptional people play games really fast

Lou Wrong said:
Its a big deal because the money raised is how these events are measured. If their decisions started having a negative effect on the funds raised (and it unofficially did last winter, growth dead in the water etc.) then they'd probably feel pressure internally to change things up. The audience of these events, if they aren't tuning in for single runs, are the people who talk in Twitch chats and they make up the five and ten dollar donations that make the charity aspect of the event interesting. And from the point of view of the runners, many of whom are here to raise their channels' profiles as a business thing, whether people are allowed to talk in chat is a big deal.
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I'm fairly sure what my mech-riding friend here is getting at is that it being a shitshow of epic proportions with troons all over the place is more entertaining than it actually being good. But please correct me if I'm wrong, @D.Va
 
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Lou Wrong said:
Its a big deal because the money raised is how these events are measured. If their decisions started having a negative effect on the funds raised (and it unofficially did last winter, growth dead in the water etc.) then they'd probably feel pressure internally to change things up. The audience of these events, if they aren't tuning in for single runs, are the people who talk in Twitch chats and they make up the five and ten dollar donations that make the charity aspect of the event interesting. And from the point of view of the runners, many of whom are here to raise their channels' profiles as a business thing, whether people are allowed to talk in chat is a big deal.
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Absolutely. Once these events reach a certain size they go corporate. Numbers not being met means heads will roll.
 
For what its worth, something seems to have knocked out half of the internet (including shit like twitter for me) and Proto just mentioned that its caused donations to slow to a crawl for them. This might really screw them as Friday is typically the second biggest donation day.
 
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I'm watching a video of the game "Amy" and to my surprise Dan Ollson/FoldablHuman is running it and good lord how can someone come off as a pretentious blowhard while playing a shitty game? No one wants to know the lore behind the joke name you gave a type of enemy(the name is "steve" btw).

edit: is that a fucking script he's reading from (the ipad on his lap)?
 
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D.Va said:
I really don't understand why people obsess over donation totals as if the event is going to be cancelled forever if they don't surpass a previous record. Why is this such a big deal? Also the surge of last-minute donations is not a fucking mystery; a lot of donations are made just for a chance at a prize so the last few hours is an "oh shit, I should probably donate before it's over" and then you have the final huge donation chunks made by the sponsors.

I think a lot of people just regurgitate talking points without knowing what they are actually talking about, like that one exceptional /v/ anon I saw complaining about how MSF only helps people in America. I'm not wishing for GDQ to shut down or change how it operates. If you are actually getting butthurt over a tranny illuminati boogeyman instead of laughing at what it brings on stage, you don't belong on this forum.



It's almost incredible that this is being used as an excuse to not donate. The people/companies making $1,000 anonymous donations are not the same spergs who sit in an unmoderated twitch chat posting the same emote every five seconds, and if the prospect of doing this sounds exciting to you, I don't think you would have donated even if you hadn't a single complaint. At least a sub-only mode boosts the signal-to-noise ratio so people can actually use it to chat instead of just contributing to a stream of unreadable garbage, while giving GDQ another revenue source. Generally I have a lowered opinion of anyone who spends a large amount of time in Twitch chats, especially if spamming an emote is the pinnacle of comedy for you, but I digress.

If you're not going to donate to charity I'd hope for a better excuse than the moderation of a fucking chat room or your opinion on tranny idpol. I used to give $50 per event, but I stopped donating because PCF isn't going to help me or anyone I know as I'm not an American citizen, and MSF took my trust for granted and I'm not supporting a charity that transports economic migrants instead of what they were supposed to be doing, which is providing medical aid to people in war zones.
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I agree with the last part of your post regarding MSF transporting economic migrants into countries who already have enough problems of their own, but I can't quite get on the same level as you with the rest.

Games Done Quick was the first major charity-type event that capitalized on "who's the best at video games" and it used to be a really neat event to watch. That's not really the case anymore. Yeah, "tranny idpol" has a certain degree of blame in that regard but that's just one aspect of many that has turned people off of GDQ. It's just one of the easiest ones to highlight because most rational people can universally agree that the people in front of the camera at this event are not representative of legitimate transgender issues and at best are borderline offensive caricatures. A lot of the jokes/memes are in poor taste (which is to be expected) but I've also seen a decent bit of genuine conversation over the matter this week.

I'm sure there are shallow people who are not subbing/donating simply because of the sub-only chat mode. Even though it's a sea of chaos, there's a certain community aspect to being able to spam PogChamp and FrankerZ with everyone when exciting stuff happens. Additionally, the same applies to using emotes that represent more negative aspects. That's why they are there. That's why "ha HAA" and "ResidentSleeper" are global emotes on Twitch. People saying genuinely offensive and derogatory things can mostly be controlled with a properly configured AutoMod setup on Twitch, everyone's got one. GDQ is intentionally trying to portray a very specific narrative and basically do not want ANY dissent whatsoever... in a marathon that lasts upwards of 170 hours. That's insane. Also, when you have as many viewers as GDQ you can't expect the chat to be used for actual conversation, that's why people break off into their own Discord/IRC rooms and stuff.

What I highlighted is just two smaller points of a bigger picture. Individually they are petty reasons to turn your nose up at the event, but when you place them into context it makes more sense. GDQ is the premiere event for speedrunning at the moment, and to a lot of fans of the hobby they are not using their position benevolently. I don't want to GDQ to shut down for good, I just wish a different and less questionable organization could successfully encroach on GDQ's market share.

But yeah, it is admittedly fun to rubberneck every once in a while and check out the fools on stream. I've checked into this thread and the other speedrun-related ones more times this week than I have the official GDQ stream. :lol:
 
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Super Collie said:
They're probably going to break last year's record. The final day of the marathon, especially the last few hours, is basically just non-stop donations. Even with PMG flashing her nuts and all the baritone-voiced troons putting all the normies off they're going to probably break $2 million this year.

That said, I do hope I'm wrong.
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I hate being correct.
 
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D.Va said:
I didn't have the privilege of watching it but apparently the Super Mario Odyssey run was plagued with scripted commentary read off of a 62-page presentation published before the run ended

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This is such a stupid thing to get upset about. Most of the runs have at the very least partial scripts, especially RPG runs, because its usually a bad idea to go on stage for several hours without any idea of what you're going to talk about.
 
Agent Scud said:
Pretty much the same trend as last AGDQs.

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Less traffic/awareness, more donations, more money.
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There are two ways this is going down. The more likely and obvious way is a smaller group of people who are just being bigger pay pigs. The second and admittedly more tinfoil way is that they are having people they know donate more to make it seem like they are doing better then they are. I admit that is conspiratorial, and unlikely. That said it would not be unheard of for charities or organizations to do such a thing to get eyes on themselves and act everythingisfine.png.

Make of that what you will.
 
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