Popping in to say that Summer Games Done Quick 2025 apparently started on Sunday and literally no one here gives a shit because all of us forgot about it and nobody here has even chimed in to post funny pictures of the trannies that I am 100% certain have already done their runs after being accepted into the marathon for being genderniggers (and the 32nd best runner at whatever game they're doing).
Honestly i think even within the speedrun community itself it's started to not be the all-important mecca it once was. Part of that I think is because every good game and run that you could show off has already been showed off. The only both game and runner that's been around since the beginnings of this whole thing that I recognize is oatsngoats still kicking it with Super Metroid. Beyond that it's a fuckton of new quirky autsimo games that honestly don't make that much sense as speedruns. Balatro is in there on the second-to-last day, and that's basically an RNG simulator, not like there is cool tricks to show off. Plants vs Zombies is also there at 1AM, which yeah, it's a haha quirky game on the up, but is it honestly REALLY a good speedrun?
Doesn't help that most of these people couldn't properly fill dead air if their lives depended on it, I bet you. Half of the runs at least are just gonna be the most awkward people on Planet Earth stumbling just to occasionally say a sentence as they hyperfocus on their game. Them and their couches of commentary bros could at least bother to explain what their new games are that probably have never been at a GDQ before to new watchers, show off the few exploits they do have even if it's not technically the fastest way (it's a marathon being Twitch-streamed, you're presenting to tens of thousands of people, not on the WR grind), but that would require effort and people with actual charisma. GDQ does not have many of those kinds of people. Could probably count them on one hand.
Even when they have the more traditional classic games it's not the people at the top of the leaderboards anymore. The 120 star run in SM64, you'd think that'd be run by Suigi, the best in the game right now, or if not him, maybe Weegee, Cheese, Puncayshun, etc etc. But no! It's someone I'd never heard of by the name of "beeve", who is 15th, two minutes behind the WR. And a 32 year old genderspecial, but I think you could have guessed that without me telling you.
ESA is a much more professional organization in regards to speedrun events, a good chunk of the quackery doesn't make it there, and it's the actual top runners 90% of the time. Would much rather patiently wait for that and see if anything interests me than watch this bi-annual dumpster fire.
