Careercow Adam White / Chibi / Chibinekodemyx / Aquana / ShinyAquana - Cringeworthy Speedrunner Extraordinaire, Online Predator, Sexual Deviant, Banned from magnet therapy, Has been to Japan and never shuts up about it, made an ass of himself on national Japanese television

[Oliver Onions]

I vividly remember watching it live way back when and even then it was painful as it was hilarious. It was a slow burn but you could tell Chibi felt like the odd one out immediately and sure enough everyone on /srg/ was totally aware that this dude was shitting up the stream. I forget if this was during a retro games block or what but I remember tuning in specifically because I wanted to watch old video game speedruns and though it was gonna be a comfy morning, little did I know I was tuning in for one of the funniest memes from that GDQ. I remember making a shitty macro image that emphasized the despair in Chibi's face when he was told to shut the fuck up but alas, it is lost to time.

I remember watching live back in the day there used to be another turbo-sped called Blueglass(?) who would backseat commentate seemingly every run and act just like Chibi --even arguing with the actual runners when they corrected him-- but even he was more likeable than Chibi during this run (I think because Blueglass was actually legit retarded.)

I wonder whatever happened to that dude because he just stopped appearing at GDQs; I hope he's doing okay and not like the perennial fuck-up that is Adam.

 

[Skullomania]

I wonder whatever happened to that dude because he just stopped appearing at GDQs; I hope he's doing okay and not like the perennial fuck-up that is Adam.

As far as I can tell he either doesn't show up anymore but still supports GDQ or he does go but the venue is so fucking big that despite his little moment of internet fame he's not as informative or skilled to be near the front end of the runs which is probably for the best but honestly, that's what killed the vibe of GDQ for me over time. Those runs from 2013-2015 were some of my favorites but by the tail end it was just getting too big. The comfortable niche group feeling it once had, even before 2013,was lost by the time the streams were making insane amounts of money and viewership. I remember when Bonus Streams were done with because imagine how much of a pain in the ass it would be to moderate something that's not even apart of the main schedule? I also assume this was tied into the Werster saying "Fucking Niggers" on live stream but I can't confirm if that was the main reason, but I can't NOT bring up such a classic moment:

based werster

youtu.be

But I digress, GDQ brings in its share of cringe people but you'll never see another Crash 2 moment, you'll never see another Tomba 2 moment, you'll never have another knitting girl incident, all the fun is taken away from GDQ but I guess all good things come to an end.

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

> Some guy donates money for Chibi to do jumping jacks, he smiles, "This'll make them laugh", he thinks.
> Chibi is so physically inept he cant even do jumping jacks right, barely lifts his arms above his shoulders
> Mustache guy barely acknowledges it

Mustache guy must have been feeling really good about Chibi blocking him off the camera and making a noise exactly at the moment he was explaining to the audience the speedrunning method to be used.

@FanaticDreamer
GDQ question: the event started as a meetup-with-benefits between videogame geeks, but once the charity money floodgate burst it balooned into ridiculous proportions, with "professional" staff, announcers and all that jazz. I've seen too many humble, but resourceful startups getting bought out and "improved" by investors the moment it started to bring profit. If you don't mind and have any closed-door experience with GDQ, how sinister is the money handling of it? How much money actually goes to charity instead of lining up the management's pockets? Are those charities not some kind of dummy fronts?
Oats (the speedrunner) claims it's all honest, but he might be showing only the bright side of the moon.

 

[Bango Bongo in the Congo]

> "The character design of this game kinda reminds me of Adventure Island" "...Alright"

I laugh my ass off at this part almost as much as "I'd really prefer if you'd be quiet." That's not even a subtle way of basically saying "shut the fuck up" yet he just keeps going.

 

[FanaticDreamer]

can you give us more detail about this chibi crisis hotline you operated?

It was something I dealt with far more than I should have. It was like groundhog day. Chibi would message me with something he was planning on doing / saying. I would point out that it probably wasn't a good idea for X, Y, or Z. Chibi would say that he understood. Chibi would do it anyway. 1-2 hours later I'd get frantic phone calls / messages from him telling me he's fucked up again and made his life worse. I'd point out that he should have not done it. He'd talk about wanting to "go away" or end it all. I'd try and talk him down. Rinse and repeat.

@FanaticDreamer What did Chibi have to say about CavemanDCj i know somewhere he mentioned he tried to talk to him and Caveman told him to fuck off.

Yeah, he tried to approach Caveman at one GDQ I forget which. Caveman pretty much wasn't having it. TBH, I feel like Caveman is salty because Chibi stole the spotlight from him during the Tomba2 run. Now listen, I get that Chibi was a friggen mess during this run but personally I feel like the Tomba2 incident is like...much much lower on the level of bad things Chibi has done. In fact, I feel like if it wasn't for Chibi nobody would talk about that Tomba2 run and it would have joined the legions of unmemorable runs in GDQ history. I always though him and Caveman were stupid for not marketing it. They should have had T-shirts made or whatever. It was a huge missed opportunity on both their parts.

I remember watching live back in the day there used to be another turbo-sped called Blueglass(?) who would backseat commentate seemingly every run and act just like Chibi --even arguing with the actual runners when they corrected him-- but even he was more likeable than Chibi during this run (I think because Blueglass was actually legit retarded.)

I wonder whatever happened to that dude because he just stopped appearing at GDQs; I hope he's doing okay and not like the perennial fuck-up that is Adam.

I actually have a funny Blueglass story. Pretty much everyone knows him because he would literally stay in the marathon room like 24/7. Barely leaving to just bathroom or eat something. But one GDQ my friend and I were walking through a hall. I didn't have my phone on me so I asked my friend what time it was. Blueglass happened to be right behind us. He held out his watch and said higher volume than necessary: "IT'S 11:23" and repeated it several times then ran past us laughing like the Joker. We still quote it to this day, lol.

But I digress, GDQ brings in its share of cringe people but you'll never see another Crash 2 moment, you'll never see another Tomba 2 moment, you'll never have another knitting girl incident, all the fun is taken away from GDQ but I guess all good things come to an end.

Definitely. GDQ is dead and has been dead for a long time now. Fun fact: it's knitting girl's fault. She became a ranking member of staff and killed all the fun.

Mustache guy must have been feeling really good about Chibi blocking him off the camera and making a noise exactly at the moment he was explaining to the audience the speedrunning method to be used.

@FanaticDreamer
GDQ question: the event started as a meetup-with-benefits between videogame geeks, but once the charity money floodgate burst it balooned into ridiculous proportions, with "professional" staff, announcers and all that jazz. I've seen too many humble, but resourceful startups getting bought out and "improved" by investors the moment it started to bring profit. If you don't mind and have any closed-door experience with GDQ, how sinister is the money handling of it? How much money actually goes to charity instead of lining up the management's pockets? Are those charities not some kind of dummy fronts?
Oats (the speedrunner) claims it's all honest, but he might be showing only the bright side of the moon.

I can't speak on the money side or anything like that, but I will say that GDQ has drastically changed so much from what it originally was. My first GDQ was AGDQ 2015 and that one was probably the last one where the staff were somewhat lenient. The staff who came into power are essentially those nerds who were picked on in high school but then in college get friends and become bullies - if that makes sense? Like it's a group of misfits who have power for the first time in their lives and they have gone crazy with it. They've banned people for the tiniest infractions but their friends get away with murder, they highlight who they like who kiss their asses, etc. It's quite sad what GDQ has become.

 

[vorechicken]

Definitely. GDQ is dead and has been dead for a long time now. Fun fact: it's knitting girl's fault. She became a ranking member of staff and killed all the fun

Knitting girl was Muffins all along?! That makes a lot of sense. Not sure how I never made the connection.

It's sad. GDQ has been shit for a long time, but when people used to ask me for good alternatives I used to easily be able to tell them "ESA, ASM, NASA, UKSM", etc. But now all those alternatives have to toe the line as much as GDQ does. Because they're held to the same insane purity standard that GDQ follows.

Speedrunning had always been a niche hobby, I'd never used to expect outsiders to care or want to, and I didn't want them to. Once again, inclusivity has ruined something. A small minority of people who wish to impose their wider views on a small community of freaks who want to play games fast have ruined something. Chibi was one of those freaks, and it truly bothers me that aside from all his retarded antics he's joined in on the moral grandstanding because it looks good for him optically. I don't care if he's so shit at the games he plays that he has to cheat at them because at least he's still here to just have fun playing games fast. But no, he has to play moral arbiter for speedrunners at large, just like all these other wet blankets who don't give a shit about the last 20 years of our hobby.

 

[MooseGump]

Definitely. GDQ is dead and has been dead for a long time now. Fun fact: it's knitting girl's fault. She became a ranking member of staff and killed all the fun.

That makes so much sense now considering how hard the quality of the event nosedived in one go

 

[Oliver Onions]

He held out his watch and said higher volume than necessary: "IT'S 11:23" and repeated it several times then ran past us laughing like the Joker. We still quote it to this day, lol.

See, now THAT'S the kind of innocuous, wholesome spergery that made GDQ great.

God I miss those days before it got all sanitised and hyper-sensitive; last one I tuned into had all the atmosphere of a protestant wake.

 

[winterfag]

Even though the whole thing was incited by Chibi, I always associated Caveman as being the only face of the whole meme. If Chibi didn't have more public incidents of internet drama over and over, he would've been completely interchangeable with any other autist that can't read the room and makes awkward jokes. The whole "I'd really appreciate it if you'd be quiet" bit is funny, and I share it even to normie friends, but Caveman's mustache and delivery of that line would've been the only thing I remembered. Sure it's definitely the most attention Chibi's ever received at that point, but if he didn't keep being such a spaz I feel like people would just be quoting the line to Caveman himself and they wouldn't think much of Chibi's involement there

 

[AlmightyMagichan]

In fact, I feel like if it wasn't for Chibi nobody would talk about that Tomba2 run and it would have joined the legions of unmemorable runs in GDQ history. I always though him and Caveman were stupid for not marketing it.

We spend plenty of time giving Chibi crap, but Caveman wasn't exactly a saint during that whole incident. You are absolutely right, no one would know that run ever existed if it hadn't been for Chibi getting on his nerves. Chibi was the only one trying to make some kind of conversation. No matter what he said Caveman would immediately shut him down. What exactly did Caveman want, to have one of the most boring and forgettable runs in history?

 

[deeman]

We spend plenty of time giving Chibi crap, but Caveman wasn't exactly a saint during that whole incident. You are absolutely right, no one would know that run ever existed if it hadn't been for Chibi getting on his nerves. Chibi was the only one trying to make some kind of conversation. No matter what he said Caveman would immediately shut him down. What exactly did Caveman want, to have one of the most boring and forgettable runs in history?

I see where you are coming from, but i don't agree, he started out being nice and all that but after Chibi been hogging the microphone and just rambling stupid shit that doesn't make sense you can tell Caveman is getting more and more annoyed, we all have our limits. He tried to be nice but who can stand the mental destruction of the A(utism)-bomb?

 

[Sweetheart]

The funniest thing about the whole Caveman accident is that it happened only 20 minutes into the run which is like 90 minutes long. I sometimes wish Caveman would have endured it a bit longer because the run was actually hilarious because of Chibi and how they interacted with each other. After he told him to shut up it was just really boring.

 

[Mr Sister]

I'm a bit surprised no one is ribbing you at all for being in such close contact with him for so long. You have to be a bit exceptional yourself imo, at the very least extremely naive. That said I appreciate all the new content itt

also this IS a fun fact hahaha. Love your blueglass story too

Fun fact: it's knitting girl's fault. She became a ranking member of staff and killed all the fun.

edit: You guys are really saying being chibi's best friend and receiving and sending thousands of messages from and to him is something normal? Something you or anyone you know in your life would do? You need the patience of a saint or to be partially autistic yourself. He even considered living with him, most people can tell from a glance that that would be hell. Frantic has to be a bit special himself. Sure he came around to his senses, but that took a long fucking time

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

No matter what he said Caveman would immediately shut him down.

Who wouldn't though?

 

[big ups liquid richard]

Knitting girl, that's the one that told the Zelda cosplayer to stop speedrunning so she could cry, right?

I'm glad this thread has gotten some new life breathed into it. Chibi is one of my favorite lowcows but its hard to follow him lately.

 

[Koji Kabuto]

Knitting girl, that's the one that told the Zelda cosplayer to stop speedrunning so she could cry, right?

I'm glad this thread has gotten some new life breathed into it. Chibi is one of my favorite lowcows but its hard to follow him lately.

Yeah, the guy in the Link cosplay talked about it afterwards here

r/cringe - Comment by u/Runnerguy2489 on ”Crying girl asks speedrunner to stop playing so she can cry about her dead grandmother”

2,403 votes and 403 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

I don't know where I read it, but she was already involved with GDQ in some capacity at this point, but the fact that her sad story became cringe and viral is the reason she wanted to be completely behind the scenes afterwards.

 

[Mr. Idiot]

It was something I dealt with far more than I should have. It was like groundhog day. Chibi would message me with something he was planning on doing / saying. I would point out that it probably wasn't a good idea for X, Y, or Z. Chibi would say that he understood. Chibi would do it anyway. 1-2 hours later I'd get frantic phone calls / messages from him telling me he's fucked up again and made his life worse. I'd point out that he should have not done it. He'd talk about wanting to "go away" or end it all. I'd try and talk him down. Rinse and repeat.

That's all too similar to how Null described his tard wrangling-experiences with Chris and how repetitive and mentally draining that shit was too.

'I tell Chris doing this is a terrible idea and explain to him rationally why.'
>Chris claims he understands
>A while later Chris does said retarded thing anyway.
'I ask Chris why the hell he did it despite knowing full well the consequences.'
''Because my heart tells me to.''

There's no fucking reasoning with these retards, any advice just goes in one ear and out of the other.

 

[Skullomania]

Yeah, the guy in the Link cosplay talked about it afterwards here

r/cringe - Comment by u/Runnerguy2489 on ”Crying girl asks speedrunner to stop playing so she can cry about her dead grandmother”

2,403 votes and 403 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

I don't know where I read it, but she was already involved with GDQ in some capacity at this point, but the fact that her sad story became cringe and viral is the reason she wanted to be completely behind the scenes afterwards.

So cringe even Bam Margera had to jump in and give his two cents. What the fuck?

 

[Revolved]

Knitting girl, that's the one that told the Zelda cosplayer to stop speedrunning so she could cry, right?

I'm glad this thread has gotten some new life breathed into it. Chibi is one of my favorite lowcows but its hard to follow him lately.

Yeah, that was her. Told him to stop the run so she could announce that she's probably going get cancer one day because she's genetically predisposed. It was fucking hilarious for a few reasons.

EDIT: Oops, appears I'm late. Oh well, it's kind of sad/funny that we can point to the exact moment GDQ began it's descent.

 

[Skullomania]

it's kind of sad/funny that we can point to the exact moment GDQ began it's descent.

I'd argue every year after 2013 because that's when they slowly started to become more concious of how to manage the streams and started to progressively be more strict and ban big names. There were still some great moments but 2013 felt the most raw in terms of a small team of people managing a group of unfiltered autists. It would slowly go down hill from there, but that's my opinion, I'm sure others can chime in when it really started to go to shit.