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

[Super Collie]

Shame on you for falling for an edit made by a /v/ user

The fucked up thing is that it's such a good imitation of the type of dumbass who would shell out $1,700 for attention. It seems believable because people have used past GDQ's as a platform to do some really embarrassing and dumb shit.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

What are the chances that the guys on the right will troon out too? The indian dude might be save because it's only white male autistic degenerates who jump on the trans train en masse.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Rate me whatever you need to but can somebody please explain this whole dilation station business?

 

[Memeneeto]

Rate me whatever you need to but can somebody please explain this whole dilation station business?

Think of those old timey telephone stations with the partitions, then replace the telephone with a glass dildo you shove up your inverted penis to keep the wound you call a vagina from closing up.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Think of those old timey telephone stations with the partitions, then replace the telephone with a glass dildo you shove up your inverted penis to keep the wound you call a vagina from closing up.

That much I got, the part that I disturbingly can't figure out is whether these people actually have one.

 

[Memeneeto]

That much I got, the part that I disturbingly can't figure out is whether these people actually have one.

Oh, I thought it was just a meme cause of all the trannies and I can't find anything "official" to say they actually have one lol

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Oh, I thought it was just a meme cause of all the trannies and I can't find anything "official" to say they actually have one lol

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out as well. I THINK it's just a meme, but given the singularity of tranny autism that is the speedrunning community...

Well, Poe's Law and all that.

 

[Super Collie]

It's a meme, there is no "Dilation Station". It's literally just an in-browser source edit of the event's rules page.

Don't be ridiculous. (Both because come on that's obviously a joke, and also because none of these troons have had the chop.)

 

[Elhaym]

 

[cruderudedude]

I'm sorry
I'm so so sorry

 

[Super Collie]

If you draw a straight line from the gaze of the dude on the left he's staring right at Proto's chest.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

I'm sorry
I'm so so sorry
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Here's another one that went 404 on 4chan's /v/.

And a unedited one. You've been warned.

Spoiler

 

[PlasticOwls]

GDQ 2017 made around 2.2 million, almost twice that made during GDQ 2016.

GDQ 2018 as of right now is barely making a million, with only two days till its over. That says a lot about how successful things are.

Wish Games Done Quick dropped the PC friendly attitude and the overtly pro tranny sthick. The runners are blander than flaccid wonder bread, and management is questionable at best. Not even the cute announcer lady can make it work this time.

 

[Super Collie]

GDQ 2017 made around 2.2 million, almost twice that made during GDQ 2016.

GDQ 2018 as of right now is barely making a million, with only two days till its over. That says a lot about how successful things are.

Wish Games Done Quick dropped the PC friendly attitude and the overtly pro tranny sthick. The runners are blander than flaccid wonder bread, and management is questionable at best. Not even the cute announcer lady can make it work this time.

It's important to only compare AGDQ to AGDQ and SGDQ to SGDQ. Summer Games Done Quick is the "B-list" marathon that's always in the shadows of the bigger event each year. The $2.2 million event you're talking about is AGDQ. Summer Games Done Quick has consistently raised more money with each following year though, despite the seemingly overwhelmingly negative response to the direction that the event has taken in recent marathons.

Last time around people were saying "this GDQ event is going to earn way less and that'll really be a wake up call for the organizers" but it turns out that AGDQ 2018 barely squeaked by the 2017 figure even with all the drama, complaints, dropping of Super Metroid, banning of "transphobic" emotes, and the introduction of sub-only chat mode. The same hypotheticals were posed six months ago too, "there's only 2 days left there's no way it'll surpass last year". And it still did. Because on the last day that's when sponsors like The Yetee and Fangamer open the floodgates and drop everything they have left for the event. It's also when people turn into lemmings and follow each other as they dump out their wallets just for the sake of seeing how high they can get the total number to go. The viewers who only donate once during the marathon generally wait until the last day to do so.

We're less than 48 hours away from the end of the event and SGDQ has yet to break $1,000,000. That said, $2.2 million isn't the benchmark here. The actual number to beat is only just shy of $1.8 million from SGDQ 2017. Right now they're sitting at approximately $900,000. 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.

 

[PrincessHomura]

The thing is that both AGDQ and SGDQ have been consistently tracking worse if you look at the overall donations, but then get a sudden surge of donations in the last ~12 hours. A lot of people are saying it's fake donations, though that obviously cannot be proven. It's pretty suspicious that it always starts to spike at the end every time they're CLEARLY tracking below last year, but it could also just be a coincidence. I get why people are skeptical, though.

 

[D.Va]

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 retarded /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.

the introduction of sub-only chat mode

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.

 

[Lurker]

I updated the thread OP since it kind of outlived the original intention and we might as well keep it around for future events such as the ESA marathon that starts next month.

Spoiler

proto is going to be there

regarding the spoiler specifically:

come the fuck ON. WHY. WHY do people think that inviting that obnoxious fucking troon is going to bring in donations. the ESA at least let people have fun.

welp, guess that ain't gonna happen anymore.

 

[D.Va]

lol

 

[PrincessHomura]

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.

At the risk of verging off-topic, I donated to MSF for over 10 years and it was heartbreaking to see how they'd openly lied about what they were actually doing. I obviously don't give money anymore, but it saddens me that I did for so long...

 

[whatever I feel like]

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.

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.