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

[Super Collie]

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.

I think the reason why GDQ is seeing a conflicting charge of growth versus money raised is because two different audiences are interacting with this event at the same time and they are unknowingly replacing each other.

For a while now GDQ has been losing its appeal and reputation within the wider speedrunning community. There are still runners who support GDQ (obviously) but that number is dwindling especially with the number of notable streamers. Some are still heartily involved and invested in the event, but others are kinda wishy-washy on it and are only involved due to a perceived obligation and if they can get out of participating they will and just pretend "oh darn, sorry guys work/life happened I can't make it" and quietly disappear. General fans of speedrunning and gaming have also become disenchanted with GDQ and are tuning out, hence the lower average view count, lower interactions, lower everything.

At the same time though GDQ has been gaining traction with normal people who don't know anything about "speedrunning" or video games in general. They just see this as a charity telethon where people show up and play games to raise money and they don't really "get" the event itself. They see "#SGDQ2018" trending on social media or somewhere like that and check it out for 15 minutes, think "wow it's neat these gamers are doing this, hey I know who 'Mario' is" and toss some money their way. These people don't know what "Twitch" is or any of that which is why they don't engage with the event in that manner. They also aren't that invested in the video games themselves (for whatever reason) so they don't really watch much of the event, which doesn't contribute to the average viewership. These are people who probably have "real lives" to attend to and can't afford to just put the stream on all day.

So one's replacing the other, and because GDQ has been excessively sanitizing itself it's appealing to "normies" now and not people who are really all that into gaming. They're losing that footing but it doesn't matter because someone else is already stepping up. No idea how long that will last though, because casual supporters are just that: casual. Not permanent. Alienating their core supporters is probably going to hurt them in the long run, but we won't see that for a while.

 

[whatever I feel like]

30 minutes until SGDQ ends. We're getting into scripted donation territory to reach 2m. I hate to sound pessimistic, but this is easily the worst GDQ in recent memory.

I thought it was better than last AGDQ to be honest. The trannies were reigned in, there were some decent races and I thought they had some good runners and commenters.

 

[Dick Pooman]

I thought it was better than last AGDQ to be honest. The trannies were reigned in, there were some decent races and I thought they had some good runners and commenters.

You're definitely right about that. The Mario Maker race was fantastic, the casters were pretty good, and they kept the degenerates in check. I get that SGDQ is the lesser of the two in quality, I just found myself more apathetic about the whole thing as a whole. Even more so than the last AGDQ where they changed everything.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Sorry for asking, but were there any fun events worth watching? I'm not hip to the scene I just saw someone playing Amy pop in my recommendations, a game that I've been curious about but it's too terrible to buy and play.

 

[ZehnBoat]

ESA uploaded a video on youtube
basically speedrunning shitposting
i laughed

 

[ZehnBoat]

okay sorry for double post but i think this should be on it's own post in case someone wants to quote it
there is another marathon coming soon.. literally learned of this a few moments ago

https://www.twitch.tv/shotsfiredmarathon
Shots Fired: Annihilation will be a marathon from the 9th to the 15th

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kZRZb-HRmEOeOY0lRhEmRODdDt6_huPVUc745X3MBJ8/edit#gid=0
here's a google doc of submitted runs (accepted in green, rejected in red)

since i've never heard of them before, i don't know if they are any good
so i'll be watching and posting thoughts on it's quality

also here's their twitter just in case
https://twitter.com/shotsfiredlive?lang=en

EDIT: HOLD UP
THIS IS THE 9th BUT THE MARATHON ISN'T STARTING TODAY

the twitter said it was the 9th and unfortunately it isn't true
it starts on the 10th

check the schedule for when it'll start in your timezone

the third game is fucking daikatana, you know this shit will be quality

 

[ZehnBoat]

so i said i would talk about my thoughts about this (this being shots fired), and since protomagicalgirl is on, i'll do it now, i'm not watching PMG

this is very basic, and i like it. no large audience yelling HYPE, no greetings from germany, the chat isn't sub only and spamming shitty memes. hell there's no face cam.
it's pretty much what i want, people doing speedruns while talking about the game.
this isn't for everyone though, and i know a lot of people will get bored because there's not a lot of pizazz, no TASBOT (which IS bad), no custom stuff. but if you just want to watch speedruns (especially of some games you've never heard of), i recommend it, and i will keep an eye out for more from shots fired in the future.

 

[D.Va]

ESA begins in a few hours, starting with DS3. https://esamarathon.com/schedule

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

It's been off to a good start so far. I don't care much for DS3 so I didn't follow the race that closely (had a few minor technical problems and apparently one of the runners failed a skip so he had to fight a boss that would normally glitch out normally, then died three times in the process and had to load a save file which sounds pretty funny) but the God of War (2005) run that's still going has really solid commentary and good atmosphere.

 

[D.Va]

What was relieving to know was that Proto isn't around to ruin the thing. He was originally on the schedule for a bunch of Megaman shit but he decided to not go in the end

Also based Joshimuz back at it again. I hope he joins the DnD game on the Friday

 

[D.Va]

 

[Super Collie]

I've been watching ESA off and on this week and I'm really enjoying it. They have two streams running, the other one on the Twitch account "esamarathon2". They've divided the two streams so that the main one shows more popular games and the secondary one focuses on lesser known games, longer runs, and meme games. It's a really great setup since it gives you a choice of what to watch. It also let ESA include many more games in their schedule without inflating the length of the event.

The "Awful Games" relay race was hilarious, props to the tech crew who kept that on track.

 

[D.Va]

They're doing Dungeons and Dragons this evening

It was hilarious last time since they were bringing total amateurs to the table and I hope it is as good this time

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

The Mario 64 relay that's going on right now is already a hilarious, very recommended if you want to see some people who may or may not have practiced for their section flailing around while the actual runners sitting next to them desperately try to steer them around.

 

[knightlautrec]

Dark Souls 3 is starting soon and I'm fairly excited. I'm not sure how a versus is gonna be. Are they competing to see who can finish an all boss run fastest?

 

[D.Va]

Well the DnD game kinda sucked. There was a cunt at the table being "that guy" the entire time. Bet you can guess which one it was:

The fat bald Swede would not stop arguing with and interrupting the DM, ackshually-ing his way out of every situation. Even at the end he wouldn't stop whining about not getting to roll a saving throw (he was about to get one, but he kept talking over the DM). Total prick.

The DM was also barely understandable because she had a thick Swedish accent.

Overall dry. Was better when there were brits at the table.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Well the DnD game kinda sucked. There was a cunt at the table being "that guy" the entire time. Bet you can guess which one it was:

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The fat bald Swede would not stop arguing with and interrupting the DM, ackshually-ing his way out of every situation. Even at the end he wouldn't stop whining about not getting to roll a saving throw (he was about to get one, but he kept talking over the DM). Total prick.

The DM was also barely understandable because she had a thick Swedish accent.

Overall dry. Was better when there were brits at the table.

Only small highlight (at least from the part I watched) was Firepaw U WOT M8ing That Guy.

Webm also features the only trans person I could spot during the marathon in the background. You just look at that hairline and you instantly know, but they were also wearing a trans flag cape during the Mario 64 relay to make it a tiny bit more obvious.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Sometime over the past few months, the AGDQ 2019 schedule got posted.

https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

Better then the last few, with less indie trash, but still no Super Metroid race.

 

[dunbrine47]

Huh, GTA Vice City during the day. I thought they usually put that at late night.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I thought it was usually a morning run? The time is so low these days that its not even really a "long" game anymore. No worse than some of the Zeldas.