Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

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Massively Strong Greed said:
So why exactly does speedrunning attract so many troons and or they/thems? I get that speedrunning is inherently autistic and that there's probably a link between autism and gender dysphoria, but why do the LGBTs significantly outweigh the straights?
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They don't.

What you're seeing is Ts and They/Thems being thrust into the spotlight at the "main" speedrunning events (of which there is really 2 - both done by the same company). That company (GDQ) has been shifting towards "progressive" programming for a while now.

When you're talking about a lot of LGBT+ issues and speedrunning - you're talking about autism. For GDQ - it's very easy to find LGBT (specifically T) runners as long as you're willing to go down the leaderboards a bit. For example - there was a bit of drama in years past about Breath of the Wild going to GDQ centered around a tranny trying to stealth submit a run. At the time, they were the ~15th best runner but still got to (poorly) run it at GDQ - currently they're 30th; struggling to try and beat times that people posted months and years ago.

Basically, for every speedrun game, if you go to the top50 runners - one of them will be a tranny. They will basically never be in the top 10 though.
 
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I was actually rewatching an old SMW run from SGDQ 2013 and I'm legitimately taken aback by how different GDQ was back then. Seriously, this run's in a well-lit room instead of the large, dim auditorium GDQs tend to be hosted in nowadays, a much smaller audience, a runner actually engaging with the audience, and on top of that, the audience actually got hype whenever the runner pulls off a difficult strategy for something completely optional. What the fuck happened between SGDQ 2013 and AGDQ 2014 to cause GDQ as a whole to turn into this cringy event?

Nowadays I don't even bother checking out GDQ unless it's a runner I'm familiar with like Distortion2, Ahady, or CatalystZ... or if there's more terminally exceptional drama going down. RPG Limit Break and ESA seem to be doing marginally better than GDQ these days in that regard.
 
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welcometotherock said:
I was actually rewatching an old SMW run from SGDQ 2013 and I'm legitimately taken aback by how different GDQ was back then. Seriously, this run's in a well-lit room instead of the large, dim auditorium GDQs tend to be hosted in nowadays, a much smaller audience, a runner actually engaging with the audience, and on top of that, the audience actually got hype whenever the runner pulls off a difficult strategy for something completely optional. What the fuck happened between SGDQ 2013 and AGDQ 2014 to cause GDQ as a whole to turn into this cringy event?

Nowadays I don't even bother checking out GDQ unless it's a runner I'm familiar with like Distortion2, Ahady, or CatalystZ... or if there's more terminally exceptional drama going down. RPG Limit Break and ESA seem to be doing marginally better than GDQ these days in that regard.
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It was turned over from its original owner to the PCF and a set of extremely woke, extremely incompetent moderators while the owner cut a sick paycheck.
 
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Some more dumb Apollo drama.

"Of course, I'm obscuring their names." *immediately shows guy's real name on the Paypal link*
lol

Basically, Apollo champions mainscript03, some rando editor guy (in a quickly deleted tweet, sorry) who said he got hired by DarkviperAU (GTA Speedrunner) to edit clips for $1 a piece. Showed Apollo alleged proof he didn't get paid fully for his work (Paypal history), DarkviperAU says he didn't pay because the guy did a shit/incomplete job and gets annoyed at Apollo sticking his nose into this.

DarkviperAU also has a history of calling out Apollo, so this might be why Apollo was so eager to jump on this. And of course ad-revenue, since the drama video Apollo totally didn't want to make is monetized and he even censored one of the clips to ensure that. I used to take this guy's side if only because the people he attacked were usually bigger scumbags than him, but this is a pretty poor showing.

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tl;dr:

Holding out for the next crowdfunded lolsuit attempt!

ETA: Another one!

ETA2: Another one!

ETA3: Apollo cancelled himself
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Apollo Legend on Twitter: "https://t.co/PAkIa78Wf8" / Twitter

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FFS can't Apollo stick to making speedrunning content like the top tens? Those were pretty good, not this clout/drama chasing horse shit.
 
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cockle said:
FFS can't Apollo stick to making speedrunning content like the top tens? Those were pretty good, not this clout/drama chasing horse shit.
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The lure of Internet Bloodsports is like a flame and YouTubers are moths.
 
Anyone has an old version of this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10QsJRMX2zvq-R-h5v_05BbDy1FiNPJB0DaQKQPynaj4/edit ?
It used to have supposedly "racist" and "homophobic" and with AdamAK and his https://twitter.com/AdamKuczynski/status/1280400006915264513 bright fuckin' idea, I am curious to see how much wildly speedrunning community has managed to already overshoot it and if they already banned people who at any point posted anything edgy. Also curious if it's going to be a typical once sided judgement where if you say "White Lives Matter" you get bullied out and cancelled, but if you say "White Lives Don't Matter" everyone claims you are right and they deny to add you to any list for being racist or so.

Either way, I am seriously considering leaving speedrunning, if it turns out that saying "bleh" to a picture of to gays kissing is enough to get you cancelled.

cockle said:
FFS can't Apollo stick to making speedrunning content like the top tens? Those were pretty good, not this clout/drama chasing horse shit.
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Considering speedrunning community is so autistic they rage about him using short clips from speedruns in those - apparently even if he wanted to, he couldn't.
 
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I don't know how many spergs and speedcows you guys have talked about, but Summoning Salt is pretty cool.

He is an excellent speedrunning historian with good taste in music. And last I've checked of him, he's not involved in any petty drama. Hopefully, he'll be one of the few to remain passionate and on the money with his content.

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Is it weird that I'm not really buying a lot of these stories lately? Some of these might be true ok, but this obviously coordinated "Oh my, all 12 of us all happened to get "abused" just long enough ago to be hard to prove and we all, completely independent of one another, decided we'd finally say something after metoo got yeeted by blm. That's totally unrelated tho" Just screams homosexual enterprise to me.

It's strange how the last few years of believe wamen has actually made me believe women less. It makes me feel weird that I cant take people at their word about something so serious because of the actions of a bunch of lunatics.
 
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Funny, when people brought claims that sexual assaults actually happens at GDQ few years back, they were labelled as liars trying to destroy good name of GDQs... but now we do purges not only because of it, but I heard talks about purging people for their political views as well.

I had learned any sex outside of marriage was adultery, I had learned it wasn't rape unless you said no or put up a fight.
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Sigh... if this is a pattern, maybe we should raise the legal age level to 21 years, then - if people at 18 or 19 years old still can't take responsibility, so that this just doesn't happen.

I'd write more, but I don't want to deny a possible victim of rape their claim. Although that story is at least a bit inconsistent.
 
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SidTheInsane said:
Sigh... if this is a pattern, maybe we should raise the legal age level to 21 years, then - if people at 18 or 19 years old still can't take responsibility, so that this just doesn't happen.
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Yeah, I'm not sure what the fuck happened here. I came up during the riot grrl era and as such, I know a lot of badass women who I'd consider extremely strong people. 30 something years later though, I'm supposed to ignore everything I know about women and treat them as if the preceding decades made them all fucking retarded or something? I don't understand how these people grew up, when I was 17-19 years old we were out partying and having premarital sex just fine and oddly enough I don't know a single dude from that era who was even hinted to have gone too far or assaulted anyone.

Of all the shit that bothers me about the BRAVE NEW WORLD, this infantilization of everyone who's not enthusiastically a part of the narrative is disturbing, and the fact that people are willfully jumping on that train and saying "Yeah, I'm just too stupid for anything really" for perceived power on social media is insidiously twisted.
 
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Shaka Brah said:
Wait is she dredging the SamAndTolki drama back up again claiming she was raped and that she didn't fuck around behind his back? Because the story when it happened was waaaay different I thought.
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Nah, the story's still pretty much the same. She'd never been drunk before, she was under the drinking age, they gave her drinks, Sam left, she drank enough that she started vomiting, she had sex with Stiv. All that's the same. As far as the sex itself, we've obviously only heard what Stiv said. Well, there was Waffle's version, where she got drunk and turned into a sex-crazed whore that banged like 20 dudes, but that was so obviously fan-fiction tier deflection that I don't think anyone ever really believed it.
 
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Nah, the story's still pretty much the same. She'd never been drunk before, she was under the drinking age, they gave her drinks, Sam left, she drank enough that she started vomiting, she had sex with Stiv. All that's the same. As far as the sex itself, we've obviously only heard what Stiv said. Well, there was Waffle's version, where she got drunk and turned into a sex-crazed whore that banged like 20 dudes, but that was so obviously fan-fiction tier deflection that I don't think anyone ever really believed it.
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I'm not gonna say she wasn't given booze and then molested when she couldn't consent for those two nights, but she said the sex happened after she went to bed, woke up and went to give him a handjob, when she had sobered up.

Maybe I'm just ignorant, I'm willing to listen to Kiwi Ladies' points of view here.
 
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