Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

LucasSomething said:
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The dead silence and barely audible applause at the end is what really makes this special.

According to the description of this clip, apparently AGDQ banned the "haHAA" emote from their chat, too. In case you don't know, the emote is a picture of a giant face giving an awkward, forced smile and it's exclusively used for painfully unfunny moments on stream. Hmm, I can't possibly imagine why they'd ban it.
 
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_01 said:
The dead silence and barely audible applause at the end is what really makes this special.

According to the description of this clip, apparently AGDQ banned the "haHAA" emote from their chat, too. In case you don't know, the emote is a picture of a giant face giving an awkward, forced smile and it's exclusively used for painfully unfunny moments on stream. Hmm, I can't possibly imagine why they'd ban it.
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Yeah that was nixed as long ago as AGDQ 2018, possibly even SGDQ 2017. People kept using it for the exact context you mentioned.

Also is there any additional context to that "minnows" clip, or is that really it? Is it supposed to make sense as a lead-in to a game with fish or something? Because by itself it's not funny or amusing and feels sorta tryhard-y and on the level of a video by a high school student. Something where it's only funny to the person who made it. GDQ rakes in enough cash that they could definitely afford to hire either a professional writer, a competent improvisational actor, or both.
 
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Except it happened during primetime because of course it did.

I feel like this entire event could be massively improved by keeping it one-camera and never cutting from the couch cam for any reason. Just have people do glitch exhibitions or run TASes or runners playing Smash/pinball or whatever to fill the downtime and let all the announcers be present in voice only unless they need to get up and hold an incentive in front of the camera for a few seconds.
 
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LucasSomething said:
On first sight i thought it's necklace was a :autism:


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Wasn't GDQ supposed to be family friendly? If a (real) woman dressed like that on stream she would be removed ASAP.
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I love how ProtoMagicalGirl is just the posterboy for GDQ now. There's something so wonderfully fitting about it all.

What did he even do to deserve sitting in and creeping out each guest for every pre-show interview, anyway?
 
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What did he even do to deserve sitting in and creeping out each guest for every pre-show interview, anyway?
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He's been a GDQ regular since the earlier days of the event (before he became a tranny). I think it was just inevitable they'd give him a shot as a host, but I also think they only kept him on after his first event because they were concerned about the optics of surrendering to the evil gamergate incel nazis or whatever. Any rational event manager would've decided he had his chance and proved more trouble than he's worth.
 
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Super Collie said:
Makes me curious, are all the runs like this? And by "this" I mean "the commentary has to be scripted -- and approved -- ahead of time by GDQ so that there's no risk of saying something potentially 'offensive' off the cuff"?

Because wow, that's lame.
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From what I've read this is something the commentators prepared for themselves due to stage fright and not a script from the higher-ups. Trihex posted the slides himself, so it's not like this was a leak or anything. Of course, who can tell if a staffer did a "quick glance over" to make some "suggestions", but it does seem like it was just genuine over-preparation leading to stilted commentary. He eleborates more on it in these tweets.
 
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