Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

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ono said:
I knew this was inevitable after they started putting up pronouns for the announcers on certain GDQ hotfix streams. I can't recall now what game it was but there were two commentators, both sounded like cis women, that had she/her pronouns next to their handles. I believe I may have screenshotted it, if I find those screenshots I'll update this.
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They started doing it around the beginning of August, and it's been on pretty much everything since then. You should find it on basically any video on their YouTube from then onward.

In fairness, as someone who has a voice that could be described as "gender-indeterminate", I can at least see a practical value in using them on Hotfixes, since nobody's on camera.
 
I can't imagine said:
They started doing it around the beginning of August, and it's been on pretty much everything since then. You should find it on basically any video on their YouTube from then onward.

In fairness, as someone who has a voice that could be described as "gender-indeterminate", I can at least see a practical value in using them on Hotfixes, since nobody's on camera.
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Gender isn't that important.
 
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Apollo Legend (who gives me weird vibes but neither here nor there) has a new video up today that makes a solid case about not just cheating for a GDQ submission but organizational corruption.

It's interesting he soft-pedals the corruption angle, probably doesn't want to go up against Mike Uyama's Trans Machine, but it sounds like 'if you're buddies with the org, then you're in, who cares'. Could've done without the 'omg winter is coming' sob story from the jilted runner though.
 
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Lou Wrong said:
The "sob story" is the only part that actually matters. Conner is a cheat and should be Mitchelled.
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To be sure, I agree, this is fucking awful. I just don't think we needed it on top of the facts of the case, as well as the obvious stealing the spotlight from real runners.
 
Broadwing said:
Apollo Legend (who gives me weird vibes but neither here nor there) has a new video up today that makes a solid case about not just cheating for a GDQ submission but organizational corruption.

It's interesting he soft-pedals the corruption angle, probably doesn't want to go up against Mike Uyama's Trans Machine, but it sounds like 'if you're buddies with the org, then you're in, who cares'. Could've done without the 'omg winter is coming' sob story from the jilted runner though.
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I think he downplayed the corruption angle because of his reputation. He's pretty well known to dislike the actions of GDQ, so if he'd made it a significant part of the video, people would just say he was being dramatic to continue his crusade against GDQ or something.

Meanwhile, GDQ apparently set the video for Conner's run to private.
 
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I can't imagine said:
Meanwhile, GDQ apparently set the video for Conner's run to private.
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SGDQ 2019 Restream: Clustertruck (noAbility%) von ConnorAce

SGDQ 2019 Restream: Clustertruck (noAbility%) von ConnorAce ---- Germenchrestream war der offizielle deutsche Restream vom Summer Games Done Quick 2019. Twit...
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Restreams are still available. He missed the estimate by a minute. Considering that the estimate was his personal best, its not a bad performance overall.
 
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Stab You in the Back said:
www.youtube.com

SGDQ 2019 Restream: Clustertruck (noAbility%) von ConnorAce

SGDQ 2019 Restream: Clustertruck (noAbility%) von ConnorAce ---- Germenchrestream war der offizielle deutsche Restream vom Summer Games Done Quick 2019. Twit...
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com

Restreams are still available. He missed the estimate by a minute. Considering that the estimate was his personal best, its not a bad performance overall.
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Well, at the time he was saying that his PB was a few minutes better than that, since he was claiming WR. So his run at GDQ was actually several minutes off his "personal best". Either way, though, it wasn't a completely unreasonable estimate; perhaps a bit ambitious, but a minute off isn't the worst. It's a far cry from, say, Cody Miller's Halo run.
 
I can't imagine said:
I think he downplayed the corruption angle because of his reputation. He's pretty well known to dislike the actions of GDQ, so if he'd made it a significant part of the video, people would just say he was being dramatic to continue his crusade against GDQ or something.

Meanwhile, GDQ apparently set the video for Conner's run to private.
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I think you're right. I was just watching one of my favorite runners and he and the chat were 100% focused on Apollo being a 'clickbait video maker who isn't even a speedrunner' rather than, well, Connor fucking cheating.

Also I think it's funny-ironic that the run was for the noAbility% run just for the name.
 
I can't imagine said:
I'll admit the name makes it confusing, but Amyrlinn is a guy. Like, I don't even think they're trans, their handle is just Amy for some reason.

Edit: Imaginary Inkorporated ran NiGHTS at GDQx, and at least seemed to be biologically female.
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Maybe the name stands for "Amyr Linn" rather than "Amy R. Linn"; I have removed that entry.
 
Leonard Helplessness said:
Is there a particular part of that 2-hour video that's relevant?
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He complained about Air Canada until the GDQ twitter apologized. The Air Canada twitter didnt seem to know what's going on. Everyone assumed he was banned for having fun, at the time.
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