Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

[Mesosalpinx]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/217614881

29:05:00

They have a lady from the charity doing damage control and answering questions. A lot of the answers to some very pertinent questions such as "what do international donations go towards to help other countries" are complete non-answers or redirect the question in general.

That was right after they hit $1 million, and Mike Uyama came out just to say that isn't good enough. Donate another million. It doesn't look great when PCF calls their largest funding source "Mike Yama" from "AGD" either.

 

[FP 208]

That was right after they hit $1 million, and Mike Uyama came out just to say that isn't good enough. Donate another million. It doesn't look great when PCF calls their largest funding source "Mike Yama" from "AGD" either.

great clip way to insult your fanbase that donated a million dollars to you while being cringey as fuck

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Just imagine what a real charity could do with all that money.

 

[RJ MacReady]

That was right after they hit $1 million, and Mike Uyama came out just to say that isn't good enough. Donate another million. It doesn't look great when PCF calls their largest funding source "Mike Yama" from "AGD" either.

This is because AGDQ 2017 raised $2.2 million and they're not anywhere close to that with one day and then some left in the marathon. I don't know if The Yetee have contributed their share yet, but it's usually like $200,000. That leaves a lot even with Twitch subs thrown in.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

This is because AGDQ 2017 raised $2.2 million and they're not anywhere close to that with one day and then some left in the marathon. I don't know if The Yetee have contributed their share yet, but it's usually like $200,000. That leaves a lot even with Twitch subs thrown in.

Last year they weren't over a million at this point and almost doubled their total during the last three runs when all the money from other sources and huge anonymous donations from who knows where rolled in.

 

[PLB]

im not sure about this year but theyetee usually donate several 10k chunks as the event goes on, i havent watched enough to see if they are still doing that this year and i dont know how much is usually added at the end. Also i think you underestimate how much money is put on the save/kill animals bid war it was $794.000 sure some of that money would be donated anyway but that bid war can get pretty intense, Undertale with its rabid fan base got $400,000 over like 5 different categories. checking the bid tracker nothing seems to be any where near that high/contested. There may be a bunch of anonymous donations that come out of nowhere and totally arent them just buffing up the tracker by donating money to themselves but i dont think even then they will come close to last years AGDQ.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

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Just imagine what a real charity could do with all that money.

"Checkyourm8"

Oy cheeki bugga let me get'em cope ye nuts

 

[whatever I feel like]

Yetee already donated once today. Keep in mind a lot of their bigger donations in past runs were towards things like keeping the kill/save the animals bid war close so they are mainly just donating to nothing this year. Biggest thing I can remember this year was the MGS who to kill thing, but that was over a day or two ago. Even disregarding all that, I think the donations will go up this year. Its hard to stop success, even if it is at the expense of fun.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

im not sure about this year but theyetee usually donate several 10k chunks as the event goes on, i havent watched enough to see if they are still doing that this year and i dont know how much is usually added at the end. Also i think you underestimate how much money is put on the save/kill animals bid war it was $794.000 sure some of that money would be donated anyway but that bid war can get pretty intense, Undertale with its rabid fan base got $400,000 over like 5 different categories. checking the bid tracker nothing seems to be any where near that high/contested. There may be a bunch of anonymous donations that come out of nowhere and totally arent them just buffing up the tracker by donating money to themselves but i dont think even then they will come close to last years AGDQ.

True. I'm not saying that they're guaranteed to surpass last year's total, just that the number on stream can be a bit deceptive and that they're not as behind as it might seem on first glance.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Maybe people finally realized that most of The Yetee's merchandise is garbage and they can no longer afford to donate?

 

[Manah]

I wonder what happened to the suggestion they talked about a few years back of switching to MSF for AGDQ, and not just SGDQ. MSF isn't perfect and I'm sure someone in this thread can explain how they're literally the Hitler of charities, but I think it's generally a good cause.

 

[Plissken]

Dude.. To think that a concept from the 90s such as speedrunning could turn into such a circle jerk of dumbfuckery (Speed running started with Doom or Quake IIRC, but I'm probably horribly wrong; maybe Unreal or something.) It blows my mind how stupid these communities can become; how do you even MANAGE that? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, considering the topic (Say what you want, but some parts of gaming communities have become toxic as all hell; MMOs anyone?)

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Yep. This is what the public face of speedrunning used to look like.

http://quake.speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/

A simpler time with the proper amount of rocketjumping.

 

[Plissken]

Yep. This is what the public face of speedrunning used to look like.

http://quake.speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/

A simpler time with the proper amount of rocketjumps.

I remember the slow moving elevator would drive people insane.

 

[Junx]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/217614881

29:05:00

They have a lady from the charity doing damage control and answering questions. A lot of the answers to some very pertinent questions such as "what do international donations go towards to help other countries" are complete non-answers or redirect the question in general.

And that is why I only donate at SGDQ for MSF.

I'm not American and read up on the prevent cancer foundation and although they do some international work, they still are an American foundation focusing their work on American mainland and, well , where an inordinate amount of money tends to go to self promotion (guess that's why the tranny train is such a good fit for them ...) and wages of foundation heads (read ForgottenAcct's post for details).

 

[Alex's Waifu]

None of you are funny. If you want to prevent cancer go stand in front of the shuttle running by the hotel on the hour."

Reminder both gdq charities are shit.

Pcf - simply a money making scheme. Gets away with it by printing awareness fliers. And that's all they do. Gdq is their main source of income. They are interchangeable.

Msf/dwb - biggest expense is shipping migrants into Europe

This is why I've never donated. Extremely sad to see this money being given to lying thieves when it can be used for so much more. (Education, poverty, hunger)

Spoiler

Sorry but cancer "awareness" and "research" has been going on for how many years? Raising how much money? Continuing with the same practices for the past how many decades? Yet the percentage of people who suffer and die from it raises every year. For f**ing real?

It's all a scheme. Might as well just take that money and burn it just to keep it out of their greedy paws.

Real treatment for cancer is outlawed in America for many reason$.

To see them now and how they act and behave and treat there own runners with such loath and strictness makes me fucking mad.
This used to be a fun event for raising money, now its just a shit show where no one can be themselves and the people running can ban you out of any notion under the sun

Dude.. To think that a concept from the 90s such as speedrunning could turn into such a circle jerk of dumbfuckery (Speed running started with Doom or Quake IIRC, but I'm probably horribly wrong; maybe Unreal or something.) It blows my mind how stupid these communities can become; how do you even MANAGE that? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, considering the topic (Say what you want, but some parts of gaming communities have become toxic as all hell; MMOs anyone?)

Well, what do you expect from people who sit in tiny rooms and smell their own farts all day?

Got around to read the rules of GDQ

https://gamesdonequick.com/rules

Harassment Policy
Games Done Quick events have a ZERO TOLERANCE policy in regards to harassment of all kinds, including but not limited to:

• Bathroom Policing. Which I guess is telling who can use what bathroom, rule just for the troons

If I see a thing walk into the women's bathroom and whip out a penis, I'm going into the men's and shitting in the urinals.

 

[ForgottenAcct]

Sorry but cancer "awareness" and "research" has been going on for how many years? Raising how much money? Continuing with the same practices for the past how many decades? Yet the percentage of people who suffer and die from it raises every year. For f**ing real?

It's all a scheme. Might as well just take that money and burn it just to keep it out of their greedy paws.

Real treatment for cancer is outlawed in America for many reason$.

Don't go full /pol/. Cancer research has progressed but an increasing number of people also take on cancer-risking lifestyles. Boomers are also getting older, which increases prevalence for cancer. PCF is just a shitty charity that is essentially scamming everyone that donates to GDQ. ALSAC handled 1 billion dollars and still spent 540 million dollars directly funding St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The CEO of ALSAC received around $645,000 in compensation. Why the CEO of CPF, who handles at most less than 1/100th the money of ALSAC, thinks she deserves half their CEO's salary -- to the point that they earn half as much as they entire charity spends on its advertised cause -- shows PCF doesn't need to exist as an organization and could much more effectively just have viewers donate to ALSAC and put the charlatans at PCF out of a job.

 

[ZehnBoat]

Don't go full /pol/. Cancer research has progressed but an increasing number of people also take on cancer-risking lifestyles. Boomers are also getting older, which increases prevalence for cancer. PCF is just a shitty charity that is essentially scamming everyone that donates to GDQ. ALSAC handled 1 billion dollars and still spent 540 million dollars directly funding St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The CEO of ALSAC received around $645,000 in compensation. Why the CEO of CPF, who handles at most less than 1/100th the money of ALSAC, thinks she deserves half their CEO's salary -- to the point that they earn half as much as they entire charity spends on its advertised cause -- shows PCF doesn't need to exist as an organization and could much more effectively just have viewers donate to ALSAC and put the charlatans at PCF out of a job.

we haven't gotten rid of the common cold
IT MUST BE A SCAM

 

[ForgottenAcct]

we haven't gotten rid of the common cold
IT MUST BE A SCAM

I don't know if you were agreeing with me in saying the post I quoted is wrong or you thought I was agreeing with that post. ALSAC is a cancer research charity that outperforms PCF in every conceivable way and might as well replace it as the target charity in GDQ. I was saying that cancer research isn't a scam, but PCF is (kind of), and you shouldn't look at PCF's scummy behavior and think that's universal for any organization claiming to fight cancer.

 

[ZehnBoat]

I don't know if you were agreeing with me in saying the post I quoted is wrong or you thought I was agreeing with that post. ALSAC is a cancer research charity that outperforms PCF in every conceivable way and might as well replace it as the target charity in GDQ. I was saying that cancer research isn't a scam, but PCF is (kind of), and you shouldn't look at PCF's scummy behavior and think that's universal for any organization claiming to fight cancer.

i was more like poking at alex's waifu.. forgot why exactly i quoted you and not them