Speedrunning Thread (Take 2) - GOTTA GO FAST

[Super Collie]

100% of Narcissa's contributions to speedrunning were made back when she was still Cosmo. That includes major records, tricks, and skips such as the "Cosmo Hop" in Ocarina of Time.

Can't blame someone focusing on a purely historical aspect of a game's speedrun. No one gives a shit when someone doesn't use Terrence Trent D'Arby's new name when talking about his music for example, lmao.

 

[Nigger Rick]

I am always beside myself when it comes to GDQ events these days. It's no secret that I am a fan of speedrunning and I've been watching Games Done Quick since literally the very first marathon, but I am so displeased with what it has become. I feel like a dick for thinking this way, since it's a charity event, but I have just been waiting for a GDQ event to earn less than its predecessor to hopefully signal the end of this event and to allow a proper successor to eventually take its place.

I'm on the same boat. There was an SGDQ maybe a couple of years ago that was in trouble of not surpassing the previous year's AGDQ. So right before the last run they added a donation incentive for a Super Mario 64 race just so they would surpass last year's donations.

Oh, found it. I was SGDQ 2016
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/77097504?t=13h15m17s

 

[Fistbeard_McThunderaxe]

I'm still curious how much money Games Done Quick gets out of this. People are getting paid somehow.

 

[VoreDoggy]

I'm on the same boat. There was an SGDQ maybe a couple of years ago that was in trouble of not surpassing the previous year's AGDQ. So right before the last run they added a donation incentive for a Super Mario 64 race just so they would surpass last year's donations.

Oh, found it. I was SGDQ 2016
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/77097504?t=13h15m17s

Last GDQ barely hit 1mil, and only broke their record from sub chat. It's coming soon.

 

[Fuck you jewish cunt]

How delusional do you have to be to think that SGDQ is "anti trans?"

 

[whatever I feel like]

Enough to cut your dick off, apparently.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

SGDQ just started and someone called Narcissa Cosmo. I have a good feeling about this one.

I, too, am offended that someone would smear Cosmo's name by associating him with Narcissa. Let the dead rest in peace.

 

[Disrespected Pronouns]

I'm still curious how much money Games Done Quick gets out of this. People are getting paid somehow.

However much it is, it's enough that the organizers get very very defensive whenever anyone questions them about it.

It's known that on top of having the expenses paid for an unknown number of people there's also an "organization fee" that Mike Uyama collects, but for some reason this super benevolent paragon of charity and progressiveness never seems to be in the mood to be transparent...

 

[0 0]

How delusional do you have to be to think that SGDQ is "anti trans?"

You give them an inch, they take a mile and still say they're being oppressed.

 

[CIA Nigger]

The dilation memes might be fake but "no fun allowed" isn't. A speedrunner got a staff warning for making a joke that made GDQ staff mad, and this was recorded on stream, while others said it's possibly a scripted over the top joke.
https://clips.twitch.tv/FlaccidHonorableConsolePipeHype

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

The dilation memes might be fake but "no fun allowed" isn't. A speedrunner got a staff warning for making a joke that made GDQ staff mad, and this was recorded on stream, while others said it's possibly a scripted over the top joke.
https://clips.twitch.tv/FlaccidHonorableConsolePipeHype

Extreme jokes are meant to be so over the top they're obvious parody.

This is literally something the admins would do.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

@LucasSomething looks like that screencap on the Cosmo reactions is in Jim's new video, don't know if you made that or not. Nothing in the video that hasn't been covered here on the farms already though.

 

[D.Va]

while others said it's possibly a scripted over the top joke.

The world cup is on right now and he was given a yellow card

I know GDQ staff have a reputation at this point but good grief of course this was the case

 

[Slamerella]

The dilation memes might be fake but "no fun allowed" isn't. A speedrunner got a staff warning for making a joke that made GDQ staff mad, and this was recorded on stream, while others said it's possibly a scripted over the top joke.
https://clips.twitch.tv/FlaccidHonorableConsolePipeHype

Wow, what an asshole. Even if this was scripted, imagine if this was someone doing a hard as fuck trick that requires timing and precision like Wrong Warping.

 

[theggguy]

This all pisses me off even more knowing why it's happening. One of the guys that speedrunners and viewers have placed a lot of blame on for the frequent bans is Matt Merkle (aka CoolMatty). He's the Director of Operations for the company. Thing is, he was also the webhost and admin for a modding community for the game Jedi Knight which I used to be in. He was given ownership and control of the site(s) after the original creator left.

He and his other moderator friends were known to ban other users so frequently and for such inane reasons that they even created a thread of their "conscription list," containing every user they banned, who banned them, for how long, and why. Sometimes the mods even ended up banning each other. And these guys were definitely the liberal SJW-types, banning or reprimanding users who had more conservative leanings.

Several years ago, one of the older members of the community hacked their website out of spite (as he did on other occasions in the past, since they basically told him to piss off when he tried to reach out to them about getting back into playing the game). He ended up finding an email from CoolMatty detailing about how he was dealing with gender identity issues and seeing a friend to help him with it. Sadly, I didn't keep a copy of it, but the guy did post it verbatim on the public Discord server all of the old members moved to. That's what makes this tricky, since it's technically hearsay, but he did in fact find an email with that info, alongside a massive list of all the users they banned over the years.

The thing that blew my mind is that longtime JK fans know about him and his issues in Jedi Knight, GDQ fans know about him and his issues at GDQ, but none of them found the connection except for me. I think it's pretty safe to say that a lot of GDQ's recent over-representation of trans streamers can be laid at the feet of CoolMatty and his apparent need to validate his own personal problems. He's already made an infamous name for himself within both communities, but this just blows the lid off of it all in my opinion.

 

[Secret Asshole]

That's why you don't let trans trenders have anything because these screeching mental patients don't have anything else going for them except thejr gender issues.

I uses to watch SGDQ a lot, but then all the jokes dried up, everyone seemed so fucking tense and watching every word thry said and it was obviously akward as fuck. They'd do monotone shit about mechanics with long stints of dead air. That's pretty much when I went 'fuck this'. This was before or during the infusion of terrible tranny speed runners.

 

[kobebyarlant]

Dilation Station 13 is a black site where they indefinitely hold runners who broke the rules by making jokes.

 

[spigot the bear]

Whats up with all these germans? Every GDQ there's a shitton of germans . Hello from germany. My trans mom actually died from stage 4 pancreatic cancer, kick cancers butt. My donation goes to the runners choice, save those animals!

 

[Super Collie]

Whats up with all these germans? Every GDQ there's a shitton of germans . Hello from germany. My trans mom actually died from stage 4 pancreatic cancer, kick cancers butt. My donation goes to the runners choice, save those animals!

"Greetings from Germany" became a GDQ meme a couple years ago because of how seemingly frequent it used to crop up. I'm guessing people are peppering it into their donation messages mostly as a joke. Most of them probably are not from Germany.

 

[0 0]

That's why you don't let trans trenders have anything because these screeching mental patients don't have anything else going for them except thejr gender issues.

I uses to watch SGDQ a lot, but then all the jokes dried up, everyone seemed so fucking tense and watching every word thry said and it was obviously akward as fuck. They'd do monotone shit about mechanics with long stints of dead air. That's pretty much when I went 'fuck this'. This was before or during the infusion of terrible tranny speed runners.

Yep, yep, yep. That's why, as a community leader, you don't listen to them...or "shouldn't" listen to them, more precisely. These people who complain about "inclusivity" aren't active participants. They're people looking to complain, and will find anything and everything worth complaining over. When you give in to their demands, you don't create an inclusive or thriving community, because now you've alienated your original audience while the people you've subjected yourself to will move on to the find the next thing to complain about. That's how they found you in the first place, they were just walking away from the last thing they decided to ruin. And now you don't even have your old community at your side. People never learn.