Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

Zencob said:
PMG was on call on the ESA schedule reveal stream and has multiple games in the schedule including TGM with troon friend and some other guy, in case anyone was hoping they would just flat out reject him or something.
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He's not being very culturally sensitive. It's Europe, so I'd expect GDQ except with an influx of Muslim runners instead of troon ones.
 
For those that want to see the (currently in rough format) ESA schedule, here's the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xSwutDK_t-DLTOqcJbyHZ_tE9d4x2IpU15CyKNV4oUk/edit#gid=0

If you click inside the spreadsheet and search for "proto" you'll pull up all his runs. For those that don't want to check, I'll save you the trouble.
ProtoMagicalTroon is running a race against Jokaah on Mega Man 5, participating in an exhibition on Tetris: The Grandmaster with TC_Qlex and MxKai3, and is running Mega Man 8 on his own.

Grats to ESA for caving to that trooned-out pressure! Although this shit will be *GOOD* in chat. Can't wait. Even if ESA takes the GDQ approach and turns it into sub-only, it'll still be good shit to call out that they're free to ridicule the GDQ in runs but then act exactly like them, making them their own special breed of hypocrite.

Just editing to add in that PMTroon is gonna be the laughing stock of Tetris and it will be delicious.
 
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GraniteRode said:
Even if ESA takes the GDQ approach and turns it into sub-only, it'll still be good shit to call out that they're free to ridicule the GDQ in runs but then act exactly like them, making them their own special breed of hypocrite.
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They won't. ESA doesn't get enough subs to sustain an active sub-only chat. It's also not necessary because even during peak viewership, it's small enough to manually moderate.

Though I wonder how much they'll actually give a shit. EU bants tend to be way more vicious than NA. It's no great secret that a lot of the internet's most poisonous shitposters are actually europlebs, and tards like Proto attract mockery from everywhere. Like, the Japanese GDQ chat was making fun of him.
 
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The last TGM expo protomagicaltroon participated in was by far the worst one, so I expect his showing at ESA to be even worse. Might be good for a laugh though as PMG is not that good and I recall them getting absolutely destroyed by the actual talented TGM players last time.
 
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Was that the AGDQ one? Because trannies aside, I thought that was pretty good.

Oh yeah, and also setting aside the thirty minutes we spent waiting for them to figure out how to plug in all the cabinets....
 
By the way RPG Limit Break has been going on again this week. I don't think anything interesting will happen because the community is pretty chill and drama-averse (attention whores are going to try to leech off of the main SR community, not a niche of a niche that has an average run length of 5 hours), but I thought I should mention it. Haven't been actually watching any of it because this year's schedule is extremely weak, sadly.
 
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Intelligent Calcium said:
By the way RPG Limit Break has been going on again this week. I don't think anything interesting will happen because the community is pretty chill and drama-averse (attention whores are going to try to leech off of the main SR community, not a niche of a niche that has an average run length of 5 hours), but I thought I should mention it. Haven't been actually watching any of it because this year's schedule is extremely weak, sadly.
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I've been background noising it for the last few days. It is pretty hit or miss in terms of quality. With longer RPG's, it really depends on the runner/their couch having a good personality to keep the game going. I only caught part of it, but the ff8 run seemed pretty fun because it felt like a bunch of friends riffing on the game between explaining things.
 
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There's a little bit of chatter about NASA on the /r/speedrun community on Reddit. Surprisingly all of the people crying foul and calling the people bigoted and trans/homophobic are being downvoted pretty heavily. -- https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/8or1d9/nasa_2018_is_now_live_first_up_is_super_metroid/

OstrichK (who posted in that thread) has a pretty amusing and short Reddit history. He's made three posts in his account's lifetime. Two of them are GamerGhazi-tier sperging about people with anime avatars and "transphobes" and the third is, well, this:

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I've only caught a couple of runs so far, and it is usually in the later hours for them, but it has been pretty bad so far. On the plus side, no SJW politics. But, the runs themselves are lackluster and the commentary is at best average and at worst cringe inducing. Well, sometimes the cringe turns into so bad it's good. It feels like a bunch of kids hanging out while occasionally talking about a game, and making lots of inside jokes and references only they seem to understand. They're all clearly having a good time, but there was no reason to broadcast it, especially since they aren't raising money for anything. On the plus side, the event is small enough where the chat is manageable, and there's been some pretty good jokes at GDQ's expense. And hey, if you think the concept of Canada existing and using different currency than the US is the absolute height of comedy, you'll enjoy the late night commentary.

*Quick edit* Oh yeah, and there's been some Rick and Morty references, so who knows, maybe my IQ just wasn't high enough to appreciate the stream. I do feel a little bad being so critical of some of the commentators because a lot of them genuinely seem like they are currently in or just out of high school, but that excuse can only go so far.
 
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Probably right about the age group, at least based on what I've been able to catch so far. There's a different feel between the two but I've laughed more with the handful of NASA runs I've seen than the last two years of GDQ. The Madworld commentator skits they had going last night were kinda corny but it felt like they had the right feel and gave it a good effort, a much better act than a PMG interview.
 
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I caught the tail end of the commentator skit, and points for creativity for sure, but it felt like a lot of the jokes boiled down to "lol, I'm saying fuck a lot." I don't know if they were running through the whole run or just the specific part I tuned in for, but even the segment I saw made it clear the bit had gone on for too long. If it was running for the whole entire run, which I think was close to 2 hours, that must have been abysmal. It should also be something that is used alongside actual commentary. Again, all the parts I saw had nothing but the riffing commentary and no explanation about the run itself, which seems like a not so great idea for your speedrunning marathon which is solely there to promote speedruns. I mean, you're not wrong about it being better than a PMG interview, but at least they don't air his interviews over an actual run and not just as an inbetween setup thing.

I have caught a few of the runs during the prime hours and it seems a little better, but I'm also getting the impression this is a very small crew. And again, more power to them for being able to organize something like that. I'm sure if I was able to do something like that when I was their age I would have been all over that. And it seems like they're all having fun so kudos to them. It just seems like they're more focused on entertaining themselves versus entertaining a stream. It's one of those situations where just because you're hanging out with your friends having a good time it doesn't mean people outside of your friend circle are going to care in the slightest what you're doing. If they had more established streamers, maybe something like that could work, but as far as I know this is meant to be an opportunity for these guys to get a platform and raise interest for future events, which they are failing to do.
 
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Cable 7 said:
Here's some fun news. Tranny speedrunner and MAGA hat sperg Cyberdeamon531 has been up to some shit on 8ch.
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He's going nuclear on /cow/ as well.
May also have posted his ass on 8/tv/, but that's unconfirmed.
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I guess "cringe" in 2018 is no longer a compliment.

I do love the misinterpretation where he's the "winner," though. You can act as dumb as you want on most boards, but I'd struggle to think of a single website anywhere that would appreciate you making dozens of individuals posts just to say "cringe" over and over. At that point, it wouldn't even be amusing to keep you around since it's just obnoxious.

This is equivalent to saying you "trolled" your neighbor by letting him bash your kneecaps in because now the bat he used is bloody and he has to wash it off.
 
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