Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

[Dumpster dived waifu]

I'm kind of stunned with how level headed his response was, considering what he's known for.

 

[D.Va]

Alex, who is unemployed post-GDQ firing and is spending all day on Twitter replying to himself with music videos and all night at BLM marches, is smugly burning bridges with potential employers during a period of mass unemployment:

http://archive.is/jYIG8

Still under the impression he can single-handedly take down the trillion-dollar business he uses to ship his Soylent, Alex continues to harass the poor people running the social media accounts of various companies, this time adding Games Done Quick, the mayor of Chicago and Elon Musk into the fray:


Bonus: Alex is still on a really high horse about his invention, which really just boils down to overlaying a web page on OBS, and he'll forever be smug about it, even though he gets no more than one Twitter like on his incoherent ramblings and is haemorrhaging more and more followers every day.

http://archive.is/wip/oZ00M

 

[whatever I feel like]

Is that the prize goblin?

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Jesus christ, the screaming into the void is fucking depressing me. Just do something else with your life. This is clearly doing fuck all to help anybody and is hurting hurting future chances at employment. I've got to say, if his CV came across my desk and I searched his social media accounts, I'd trash the CV instantly. Nobody wants to hire a walking pr nightmare.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Still under the impression he can single-handedly take down the trillion-dollar business he uses to ship his Soylent, Alex continues to harass the poor people running the social media accounts of various companies, this time adding Games Done Quick, the mayor of Chicago and Elon Musk into the fray:

I like that he admits that he was fired for not doing his job.

 

[Least Concern]

I'm imagining that behind that mask is a tube coming out of his nostrils, around the side of his face, down the back of his shirt, and straight into his own anus.

I wouldn't mind working for a company like Yum. It maybe wouldn't be bleeding-edge work but it'd be stable as hell. KFC ain't going anywhere.

 

[Shaka Brah]

I'm imagining that behind that mask is a tube coming out of his nostrils, around the side of his face, down the back of his shirt, and straight into his own anus.

I wouldn't mind working for a company like Yum. It maybe wouldn't be bleeding-edge work but it'd be stable as hell. KFC ain't going anywhere.

The ad seems to be for a pretty awful grunt programming job. But it's better than living in a flophouse sucking black dick for free.

 

[Davys Grey]

The ad seems to be for a pretty awful grunt programming job. But it's better than living in a flophouse sucking black dick for free.

130k to do grunt work sounds pretty decent to me.

 

[Shaka Brah]

130k to do grunt work sounds pretty decent to me.

He has to move to downtown Chicago though. It's a good paycheck, but if he was reasonable in declining it and had any career prospects at all it might make sense.

 

[D.Va]

He has to move to downtown Chicago though. It's a good paycheck, but if he was reasonable in declining it and had any career prospects at all it might make sense.

he already does (nb: "Lange" is his old username from his TF2 days)

 

[Peep Plops]

Y'all y'all y'allety y'all. Fucking stop with this shit you lily-white pansy faggots, stop larping as good ol' boys from the deep south you costal commie cocksuckers. I'll take my mati's now, thanks.

 

[D.Va]

Continuing Alex discussion in a prospering grounds thread because I think he's worth documenting and I didn't want to spam up this thread because he doesn't really have anything to do with GDQ or speedrunning anymore aside from harassing the organisers.

 

[Least Concern]

Went to Twitch and found this on the front page carousel.

I came.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

he already does (nb: "Lange" is his old username from his TF2 days)

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Waaaait this fag is the Tip of the Hats Lange? That's depressing.

 

[Lolcow Imperium]

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Remember Alex? He was responsible for doing the overlays on GDQ. It appears he has quit and has spent the last month or so declining into insanity.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z30Oxg3fr9w

He just @ed various companies he used to work for, including Valve, Blizzard, Twitch and VICE, claiming he is starting a union within each company:
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http://archive.md/gWmsD

Alex has quite a reputable online history. Besides his contributions to a steadily deteriorating speedrun event, he is notable as a former TF2 pro and a coordinator for a charity stream. At some point this year he kinda just switched gears and now makes hundreds of tweets a day on whatever Portland is doing. The volume of tweets is just too much, on top of his vlogs, but maybe someone knows what happened here.

>freedom fighter, abolitionist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist
lol you play competitive tf2

 

[0 0]

I tried watching AGDQ/SGDQ again recently, namely just a few games I thought would be interesting to see.

The thing is, as time went on, the events became more and more sterile, as we all know. You obviously don't see any off-color jokes, but people seem to avoid trying to make any attempts at humor that isn't squeaky clean, assuming they aren't just bland and flat to begin with. On top of this, there's no stupid drama or (amusingly) bad runners, either. Yeah, you occasionally get some funny looking guy who resembles a cross between a clown and a gorilla, or you get a person who sounds like they snort helium daily, but there's nothing on par with interrupting a run to cry about knitting. In that regard, the dumbest yet amusing thing about these last few events is just the pronoun subtitles each runner has, and even that isn't very funny since nobody goes all in on a goofy or ridiculous pronoun.

Now, the thing is, that's still watchable as background noise. Or it would be, but it goes below just bland. For multiple years in a row now, it's gotten annoying. The donation messages have always been somewhat obnoxious when they aren't tedious, but every event now has to have a funny word that the audience and donation messages have to say, because humor means something only gets funnier the more you repeat it to them. I'm aware I shouldn't expect anything better, since what else would a horde of nerds in a giant auditorium do, but they only started doing this recently.

I try watching speedruns from about three years ago, and everyone decides to yell "wahhh" in the audience to the point that a commentator told them to shut up (which was genuinely the highlight of the whole event). I try watching speedruns from about two years ago, and everyone decided the funny word that year was "orb," and so they'd yell it whenever anything spherical was on screen. If there wasn't anything like that, they'd just latch on to the closest thing and call it an "orb," like the crescent-shaped collectables in Mario. I try watching speedruns from just one year ago, and because that goose game was coming out, everyone started screaming "honk," which was infinitely worse since now they didn't even need an object on-screen to prompt them to yell it.

And so, instead of being just dull, it's irritating. I can stomach the flavorless gray paste of a bland commentary, but not when the stray hairs and lost bandages of obnoxious audience participation and annoying donation messages are mixed in. It's just unwatchable, and I'm noticing more people are starting to share that sentiment with me. In that regard, I may check out the most recent event where it's just the runners sitting at home streaming, because I can at least ignore when the text chat decides to be annoying. And, as a bonus, the silent atmosphere really adds to the wonderful awkwardness of a bad commentator trying to pander to a completely silent audience.

 

[The Fatriarchy]

It's worse when, as I think was previously stated in the thread, "orb" was hijacked from a Super Mario World tradition, for something that typically only happens once outside of romhacks. It lost all meaning.

 

[Agent Wet]

So EZscape has made a video on his second channel about what has been going on with Apollo legend
He also made a tweet longer for a more personal take
Twitlonger
Twitlonger Archive
I will properly archive these later just in case

 

[BLEACHED.COM]

Any of you saw/heard about this tard? He faked a blindfolded SM64 run but the nigger didn't even try to make it look legit. His last stream on Twitch was 3 weeks ago but he seems to stream on Facebook now (?).

https://youtu.be/Hdzo0IXtrtI

His Speedrun.com profile.

 

[Least Concern]

Any of you saw/heard about this tard? He faked a blindfolded SM64 run but the nigger didn't even try to make it look legit. His last stream on Twitch was 3 weeks ago but he seems to stream on Facebook now (?).

https://youtu.be/Hdzo0IXtrtI

His Speedrun.com profile.

Why would you cheat at a speedrun of a 25-year-old game? It's not money since almost nobody gets paid for speedrunning. If it's fame, perhaps he should consider that almost nobody cares about your video game achievements. What's the point? I legitimately want to pick this guy's brain and ask what he thought he had to gain by this.