Why is SGDQ so Boring?
They've taken all of the personality & soul out of the event. It literally feels like watching a CHEO Telethon now. None of the old fan favorites are around, every runner is a literal who, Crowd looks like they're about to fall asleep at all times, No interesting people allowed on the mic, No jokes, No fun allowed.
And the donation comments are so repetitive and annoying. This event is going to die out within a year or two, if it keeps on this track.
The games this year sucked ass.
Only good one was Jedi Academy rest are shit that nobody knows about
I never understood the appeal of speedrunning but thats just me
>>344067126
they are trying to make it family friendly and have taken out all the good games in favor of a select few that they can maximize profi- i mean charity donations by making endless incentives.
>>344067391
Gotta kill/save those animals, anon!
I don't keep up with this aside from shitposting on /v/, was the Evil Pigs guy back again this year?
It's made like a million dollars in donation and gets like a hundred thousand people watching it every time since 2012.
Then the organizers realized they can use that platform to sell stuff.
As soon as that happens every jagged little edge of something's personality starts getting planed away until you have nothing but a perfectly smooth and boring sphere of an event intended to offend as few people as possible.
>>344067391
Greetings from Germany! Thanks to everyone who makes this event possible, been watching since 2015 and I'm having a blast! Also, Kill those animals! We need to save the frames here, people!
Americans love money more than anything. Jokes are censored and runners kept on a tight leash.
>People use to joke about how one day SGDQ would be policed and told what they can/cannot say or do
>Mfw these past two years
I honestly wonder if each runner is given a piece of paper with key notes on how to be bland and boring. Its like they're not allowed to have any fun.
I'm not watching it because I'm not a loser and I want to actually play video games
has anything cringy happened yet?
>>344067126
It's more popular than ever actually
>>344068130
on top of that I'm sure the runners are also scared because they don't want to be banned for saying something bad by accident or blacklisted from participating again, so they act as boring and bland as possible.
>>344067312
even if youre not into speedrunning, it's cool to see your childhood favourites played fully within an hour
>>344068248
Just your post anon
>>344068262
You know what else was popular?Hitler.SGDQ is literallyHitler.
>>344068586
>anti-cringe movement
Oh fuck off what do you want me to call a bunch of spergs acting like spergs on camera?
I'm waiting for the 3rd block. Lots of great games there.
>>344068130
>>344068438
Can you blame them? Retards would destroy their reputation for even slightly stepping out of line. Most of these autists have nothing but their small efame.
>>344067126
This must be your first sgdq
NASA and ESA are superior marathons, only normalfags care about GDQ's
We have a $10 donation from L Christian, he says "Greetings from Germany. Great SMB3 run so far, love watching my childhood memories get destroyed. Gonna have to change my sleeping patterns for the MM10 run!
Also, don't forget to save the animals!"
Times infinity
>>344069647
Why are there so many germans watching?
Are are they like vapers and vegans where you have to tell everyone.
"Hi, I vape"
"Hi, I'm vegan"
"Hi, I'm german"
>>344069647
Wow that was spot on
Firs time poster here
I don't usually post in these threads, and have never really done anything with myself, but here's $5 of my NEET-bucks I didn't earn, so I can feel like I actually contributed to something.Oh well. At least this cause is a good one, even if whatshisfuck scrapes off his salary vs that Cancer Charity gaff
>>344069846
It's a meme
>>344069846
It's a meme. "Greetings from Germany" happened a few times and then everyone started doing it as a joke.
Now, the GDQ staff Won't read any donations that say "Greetings from Germany" talk about no fun allowed.
>>344070063
>>344070063
Whats going on with your post anon
le save the animals xd
I knew a brothers friend uncle sister aunts cousin best friend Co worker son uncle aunt who had cancer so have $500 and save the animals xd
>>344067656
I literally dont even know what that is about but it is annoying me for the second year now.
I used to think anons were bullshitting about the police-ing of what they can say on stream and stuff but yesterday during the Ratchet & Clank run the announcer started saying "We have a $100 donation here fro- uh oh never mind... We have a $20 dollar donation..." and just ignored the first one.
100 dollars is a pretty impressive amount regardless, how fucking offensive could it have been to not have even finished the donation read-out?
I can see the lack of fun though, I remember a Super Monkey Ball run from a few years back and honestly got me curious about speedrunning but holy fuck these days it feels like such a soulless event.
I vividly remember GDQ being fun to watch until SGDQ 2015. What happened?
I thought i'd be having it on in the background all week but it's so fucking boring the only runs i watched were Demon's Souls and Link Between Worlds.
>>344068010
I'm annoyed as fuck by the Germany thing. I swear 80% of the donations say this. Is this a meme, or is it really mostly germans donating?
it's so boring holy shit
i watched the dustforce run yesterday and there was so much dead air
>>344071021
They're giving all their money to charity as they're getting raped by sandniggers, what do you think?
so what are some good runs from previous GDQ's to watch
last night I watched the Battletoads and Double Dragon run that PJ and mecharichter did, it was great
>Demon's Crest run
>DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE
>DUDE
>C'mon dude
>Dude!
>We gotta stop saying dude
>OH DUDE
>Forget I'm gonna embrace it
One of those isolated groups of normalfags that pick a random game and infiltrate the event
Good thing Caveman's Battle Angel Run was good this year
What's that thing on the right of the chouch?
>>344067305
>cut to audience
>dozen people or so all looking disinterested on their phones or sleeping
i know the big games will fill it up, but 90% of the time I tune in its just some obscure game that no one really cares for
>>344071379
>he didn't like Demon's DUDE
>>344070640
it became more impersonal in 2015. It didn't feel like a get together anymore, it felt like a standard event and that took the casual atmosphere out of it.
Half way though the week and not even $500,000 yet.
Those doctors are going to be disappointed.
>dude it's cool who cares that AGDQ is this corporate sterile shit now, it was always the main event and is simply too big now, SGDQ will be nice and cozy and underground again :^)
I fell for this meme
>>344071317
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1YzliVN29U
Most comfy speed run.
makes you feel sad how "big" this whole shit has become in a way.
>>344071317
Trihex Yoshi's island run from 2014.
The pulseman run from I think AGDQ 2015
Wario land runs are good
>>344067126
Its been slowly declining the last two years every event has just gotten duller and more "no fun allowed". It got too corporate and too big for its own good.
that mighty gun volt run was a disaster, and the Ty pacifist run where he killed most the enemies he saw was awful.
>>344067126
ONE WORD
money money money money money moneyyyy
my fuck just stop this shit
>>344072118
I missed the might gun volt run what happened there?
WHERE ARE THE VIDEO GAMES
>Check stream
>Dude singing on guitar
>Close stream
My whole SGDQ has been close to that this year.
>>344072257
Eh, he's good enough. Pretty fun and chill break from all the speedruns
>>344072297
Botches. He did to bosses a good bit. The run was bad enough that they really shouldn't have allowed it.
>>344072390
Did people actually donate for that shit.
>>344072552
I'll have to go back and watch that and the Ty run, heard somewhere else that was probably the worst run so far.
>>344072567
I don't know, every time I tune in it's either a bad run or some stunt like this or dead air so I haven't been informed like I normally am, but probably.
Selective memory. You don't remember the boring runs from others year, because surprise, they were fucking boring. Everyone expects maximum hype for every run 24/7 for the whole event when there's always been only a handful of really fun moments.
I remember last year during metroid prime nobody would stop bitching about the autist on the couch that wouldn't shutup for the whole run. Nobody remembered that same autist shitting up the same run during the "good" years.
>>344072567
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAROOOS
>>344072328
You have to wait for all the donation comments that are all exactly the same.
>>344071925
>pic
A sad sight to see when compared to current AGDQ. Look at those smiles, the genuine interest in their hobby. Now it is no longer about the games and having fun, but following a strict formula and earning money.
>THAT BLUE HAIRED SKANK THAT WAS ON TWO (2) FUCKING COUCHES
>SHE BROKE INTO SONG AT ONE POINT
KB V BKLGBKVKVJMCCFKNVNG{POIJHGFGHJK
>>344072827
>implying I remember any run of the last couple of years
>>344067656
I've watched agdq since summer 2013 and not much has changed
only negative turns are the sellout box on the screen and lack of bonus stream
much has improved, like hosts reading the donations at appriopiate times, better couch policies and better audio (this so much,)
/V/ doesn't enjoy the GDQs because they either got bored or they just legitimately don't want to enjoy the games - most of the threads is filled with complaining about how every game is boring. I personally have the stream open whenever i'm at the computer and I've enjoyed the majority of them
and /V/ has expectations so high it's unbelievable
>YSG disappearing more each SGDQ
>Words/emotes getting timed out on twitch chat
>No swearing allowed or possible ban from going again
>SJW precautions enforced so no fun allowed
>No real returning runners (TriHex, RWhiteGoose, Big JON)
>indieshits take up most of the games played at the end of each day
JUST
>>344067656
This meme needed to die like a year ago.
It's a part of why the event has gotten so repetetive and predictable.
>>344070640
Demon's Souls was literally the worst run this year.
>>344073535
How can it be that bad?
I havent seen a des speedrun but technically it sounds it could be neat as fuck.
Unless he was out of bounds for most of the game or something.
They need to do a much better job vetting these runs. They are letting a lot of people who can't perform take up time over people who can.
>>344073659
dude died a whole bunch of times, in general seemed rusty and unprepared.
what does the kill/save the animals shit even mean?
like is there some origin or something lol
>>344067126
>Why is SGDQ so Boring?
Simple. They've sterilised it.
See, they need more money. So they need to appeal to more people. So they need the normie crowd.
All those Touhou dolls and cosplaying and stuff? Gives a bad image to normies. Turns them off, they turn off, no donations.
So they gutted that stuff. Made it as generic as they can possibly make it for a wider appeal. So now twitters and facebook accounts and whatnot can advertise it, new people can tune it and not see all that stuff and potentially donate.
The irony? It's mostly all our fault.
All the constant complaints of "cringe".
Man, those dolls are cringey.
Man, that cosplay is cringey.
Man, these guys sitting together and singing is cringey.
So they responded to it, by removing the cringe.
No more dolls. No more cosplay. No more audience on screen. Focus on the runner and the game. Nothing else.
Turns out that "cringe" is what made it fun.
And sure, there's still cringe here and there, but it's either from awkwardness or, in the case of some dumbasses like those dudes who ran Crash Bandicoot, they get banned.
So now it's plain. It might be boring, but it's safe.
Isn't this what you wanted?
>>344072827
This nigga understands.
>>344073754
Too bad, atleast I can look forward to seeing a good run of it because it does soound good.
>>344067126
Because the only good "run" isn't a speedrun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ouT85htCI&feature=youtu.be&t=21m56s
i tuned in for a second and it was just some guy grinding exp in castlevania dawn of sorrow with a rocket launcher (which you only get after you finished the game on another file)
i really dont understand why agdq is so popular
>>344073767
In super metroid there's a point where they can save some animals or let them die. Letting them die is faster.
So they made a joke about donating to have them either save or kill the animals during the run and it snowballed into this joke we here a thousand times every gdq.
>ywn come home to a comfy oddler stream ever again
just why the fuck live bros?
>>344071925
>there's barely any women in that pic
HMM I WONDER WHY
>>344073793
>sanitisation
The word
>>344072827
While you are right, theres definitely a stifling atmosphere going on there thats literally choking the fun out of the people.
When you succesfully make your participants be afraid of making jokes you've completely fucking failed at entertaining your viewers.
I just like the speedrunning for the cringe and drama. Anything substantial yet or has it all been mild?
>>344073767
The amount of people on /v/ that haven't seen GDQ or know anything about super metroid continues to astound me. Like 50 times a fucking a day this gets asked.
>>344073338
>say ANELE in twitch chat because there was a suicide guy in the game
>get perma banned
o-ok nice didn't even say anything racist just the EMOTE that is from fucking twitch itself
>>344073793
Nobody ever complained about cringe back when things were good. Nowadays if you post a webm of that toufool sunshine run everyone will shout CRINGE because HOW DARE COUCH DO SOMETHING but at the time it was universally well-received, even on /v/.
It really is just the size/money. Don't forget the size - more people wanted to attend and more people wanted to do runs, the old "Essentia's basement" format doesn't scale.
the games suck why don't they play dark souls 3?
>>344074317
>Nobody ever complained about cringe back when things were good.
We both know that's not true, anon.
>>344074130
I've seen GDQ and I don't know.
Why is this so astounding?
/v/ supposedly hates watching others play vidya - and this is most definitely that
/v/ also only plays the newest trash today so again, why are you astounded?
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/4rknpx/worst_sgdq_of_all_time/
please upvote me
>>344073338
What a fucking mess.
>>344074528
>I've seen gdq
>but somehow missed the one game they run every single event nearing the finale that always draws the most viewers
>>344074515
I don't remember it being a thing until Tomba 2. Nobody even called cringe at the video where stiv showed up at cosmo's room drunk, got kicked out by Adrian and sat down on the floor next to a potted plant and cried.
>>344074732
>https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/4rknpx/worst_sgdq_of_all_time/
Not him, but GDQ events are days and days of content. I watch them every year and I barely ever watch the metroid runs cause I don't care about metroid.
Acting like everybody who watches GDQ watches ALL of GDQ is stupid.
>>344074732
>that always draws the most viewers
objectively false, the view peak for GDQs is Mario Maker, SM didn't even come close.
sauce: http://irc.alligatr.co.uk/agdq16/
>>344067821
He was banned from the whole speedrunning community for cheating in a speedrun and trying to pass it off as a legitimate run.
you're getting older and most of you are realizing you don't have the free time to watch speedruns for hours, and even if you do, you just feel like you're wasting time
t. someone who used to sit for hours and watch Michelle Siglemic play the first 2 minutes of Mario 64 over and over in 2011
>>344074996
>banned from the whole speedrunning community
that sound autistic as fuck, but anyway it isn't true. They just won't accept TTYD times from him for the leaderboards anymore. He still plays it, and he was one of the first people to get Palace Skip RTA
>>344071808
AGDQ 2015 was decent. SGDQ 2015 is when it really went down the shitter.
>>344074732
>most viewers
So I assume its prime time in the US which means I'm either sleeping or waking up to go to work?
Gee anon I wonder how the fuck I could've skipped such a thing.
Not everyone watching is a welfare neet in murrica anon.
>>344068438
>SHIT!
>>344075209
AGDQ was okay, but it wasn't as good as either event in 2014. SGDQ 15 was defenitely worse than AGDQ 15, and then AGDQ 16 was worse than that.
>>344074732
>watching every game through every day every year
Anon I just watch the runs for the few games I have interest in after they're uploaded to YouTube
>>344067126
>Why is SGDQ so Boring?
Because you watch it twice a year and the games rarely change. You're simply getting tired of seeing the same thing over and over.
It's time to move on.
Never watched a speed run in my life but i clicked on the mario sunshine one and Bouncyboy guy doing the run seemed pretty cool so i watched the whole thing, he was doing a good job narrating what he was doing and had a level of charisma that the other runners seem to lack.
>>344074953
You don't have to watch all of it. But somehow consistently watching GDQ and still wondering what kill/save the animals when they go on about it constantly every event every year is pretty unlikely. You'd think you'd watch the fucking run if you were that curious, it's on the weekends usually, no excuse.
>>344074970
SMM was a new run and the were hyping the fuck out of it. I suppose I have to satiate your autism and specify that on average super metroid draws some of the highest amount of viewers.
>>344073706
Well how can they if they basically have an SJW agenda "no fun allowed" tier policing?
People like tryhex and big john are not allowed.
Best run so far
>Dude's Crest
>Cloudbuilt or something (cool run runner was ok)
>halfcoord's (sorry for having a heart you shits)
i only liked dustforce because of the game itself
can't think of anything else
>he just now realizes this
AGDQ and SGDQ have been this way since 2013.
It's also why I stopped watching them and never donated a dime because Twitch gets their hands on it anyway.
the money is coming in slow this summer
if donations keep this small on track until the end they may come in under 700k and with a weak humblebundl under 3k sold
>>344067126
>why is watching other people play games boring?
Oh gee I don't fucking know
>>344076370
yeah, money's slow this GDQ compared to the last one. And at the last one, money was slow compared to the one before that. Maybe they'll make it comfy and fun to watch again and all the normalfags will go away
>>344074045
women suck out the fun
>>344076370
There's a huge influx towards the end of the event every time dummy, this is about average. They still more than likely won't surpass last gdq though.
>>344068578
but they're not running halo 3?
>Hey guys!
>Keep shilling out more money so we can play ULTIMATE DOOM!
>YEAH?
>wait 8 fucking hours through indieshit so I can see the neat SH3/RE2 run
>it's some annoying faggot who won't stop saying his stupid fucking catchphrase
>well whatever maybe the RE2 run will be better
>IT'S THE SAME ANNOYING FAGGOT BUT THIS TIME HE HAS A COUCHFULL OF PEOPLE THAT SUCK HIS DICK AND ENCOURAGE HIM BEING AN INSUFFERABLE CUNT
I'm still mad
>>344076268
When was
>I would really prefer it if you would be quiet
That was the last one I enjoyed.
>>344073338
at least the donates take huge hit
>>344076370
>the money is coming in slow this summer
It's about standard right now.
GDQs always get the biggest surge of money in the last few days.
>>344075869
Out of all the times they mention kill/save the animals they maybe mention what it's related to once every couple dozen or so times.
Again, you are assuming that everybody who watches this event watches it in high volume or its entirety.
>>344076856
>endure the primetime indie block from hell
>I do it for Ty
>the runner is autismo
>>344076913
stats don't lie lad. They're ~50k behind where they were at agdq15 right now
Hopefully they'll never invite the Stepmania autists again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZdJ4dReF4A
>Twitch now takes 30% of any donations
Yeah, not surprised people don't want to donate to that.
>>344067126
It's quite interesting watching the how GDQ has progressed
The moment we saw the increase of woman was the moment you should've realized it was over. It happens to nearly everything and women are just flags to let you know
>Why is SGDQ so Boring?
Because speedrunning is autistic and it is not actually fun.
The fun in GDQ and the speedrunning in general are the crazy, unsocial, madmen who are committing these acts and the drama that ensues when they fuck up at something. Like all drama on the internet, laughing at autistic manchildren who think their "profession" is something worthy of praise and that they're doing something for society, is very fun entertainment. You have Cosmo who has always been an unstable lolcow until he finally snapped and became Narcissa. You have Siglemic who shits in diapers and left in shame when the drama caught fire. You have people like Chibi who can't keep their mouth shut and keeps giving out cringe-worthy information or does the most absurd actions. You have people like the "can you stop" girl. And not to mention Goose who managed to give the biggest self-awareness truth-bomb to the community in one blow creating drama that no man has done in the scene yet.
These people are nothing but drama. That's where the entertainment lies. Not in their "sport" of finding the most obscure glitches, but in their social awkwardness.
>des run
>the dude is hyping up some other guy like a god
>check that dude's vods
>"fuck"
>"i hate this game"
oh so the fastest guy couldn't come because he wasn't family friendly
nice speedrunning marathon you fucking twats
KILL/SAVE ANIMALS REFERS TO END OF SUPER METROID WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE TO DO SO
>>344076860
If you can only remember a single moment from a gdq, you never really enjoyed it in the first place.
Also, that gdq was just as shit as this one is.
>>344070338
Since Super Metroid seems like it was built for speed runners, they end all games done quick marathons with it. At the end of the game, you're given a choice if you want to to go out of your way to save some animals or not. They made it a thing for the viewers to decide what's more important, saving their lives or shaving a few seconds extra off the run.
>>344077227
i think we're getting more drama out of you than all of SGDQ so far.
Man why is SGDQ so boring?
The best thing about SGDQ were when runners brought their wives.
>>344077202
This image hits very close to home...
I've bounced from a lot of different hobbies and games and now I work making my own.
>>344077202
There really is no way out of this cycle is there?
I'll never be able to go autistic enough about anything to be able live through the later stages of the cancer...
>>344067656
do you think they lose out on potential animal related sponsors for the event due to that?
>>344077202
>people STILL don't believe in this cycle
what the fuck is it gonna take for you to wake up
>>344077202
>this happened to 4chan as a whole when the fappening/gamergate took over the boards
this image will never stop being 100% accurate.
>>344077202
Aw man, our EDH group
>Just the core circle, good
>Just the core circle plus one or two of one guys other buddies
>Just the core circle plus those other buddies plus a girl all of them want to bang
>Just the core circle plus those other buddies plus the girl they all want to bang plus her boyfriend
>None of them play the game for the game and they all protect her in the game cause they want to bang her
>Core circle leaves and winds up not playing EDH anymore because of this
>>344067656
They always fuck their run up anyway, so why not save the animals? Has anyone even found any new tech in Super Metroid in the past 3 years that speeds up the run?
>>344067126
Never watched any of this shit and only know it exists because of the cuck shitposting over that dudes girlfriend. What is the history of this shit, how long had it been a thing and why do people care?
>>344077972
It happened long before either of those
>>344077202
>Two of the losers stay and become normal
This is accidentally a message of hope. Funny that whoever made it clearly failed to realize this and is so clueless.
>>344077972
>>344078050
This place has always been shit, you've just both seen something that pushed it over the line for you and "ruined it".
>>344078081
The two that stay weren't part of the hobby's core fans. It's spelled out for you. Clearly.
>>344077227
maybe for normies like you, I'm really on the same level with these autists
The first two years you watch is pretty fun
Then, at least for me, its like "well i already saw this game last year and the year before, and the other games I really don't give a flying fuck about, and there's a 99% chance the guy playing and the people behind him are no-fun as fuck, so why watch at all?"
I'll just watch whatever turns out to be fun and interesting on youtube in a couple days when its over. And I've noticed thats like a maximum of 5 runs
>>344078081
>wanting to be "normal"
the only people who think this is good are normies
>>344067126
Because the mods censor the shit out of chat.
No more memes.
Just pure kiddy shit
Was it really that bad?
>>344077009
And show it on the ticker and the donation screen and you have the idiots asking about it in the thread round the clock. I thought they had it in the schedule too, but I guess not this year because holy shit you should know it by now.
I'm not assuming you have to watch the whole thing, you're assuming super metroid isnt really that big a deal, when it's THE speedrun game and they run it every single event at consistent times and don't go 10 minutes without a donation toward the bid war for it.
Women
>filling up with new games just for the sake of having new games
>scrubs playing ironically bad games that they suck at (they removed the awful block specifically for this)
>donation incentives and bid wars for memes and sing-a-longs
>family friendly bullshit
>indie shit
>scheduling is awful, though this was always true (indieshit gets prime time but races are scheduled for fucking 8am?)
>>344078081
Green was just the normie friend that was just outnumbered into doing the hobby the large groups way
>>344078232
But that's what I said
>>344077315
>If you can only remember a single moment from a gdq, you never really enjoyed it in the first place.
*tips fedora*
>>344078240
Yeah, they were people who joined up and were almost convinced to join the weirdos. That applies to most people. Some people are beyond redemption and will just wallow in their resentment.
>>344078426
No, you implied that there was a moment before that "ruined 4chan".
>>344078370
>genuinely giving a fuck about moderation in twitch chat
>a twitch chat of 90-110K simultaneous viewers
>>344078391
Again, you are still assuming way more involvement in this than is reasonable.
And yeah, you did totally slam them for not having watched the metroid runs before like that was unheard of.
>What you don't watch the entire event?
>What you don't read the whole schecule?
>What you don't follow all the threads?
I don't think there's any hope of convincing you to step out of yourself to understand this.
>>344078232
newfag invasion of 2007 was the tipping point into shitposting
>>344067126
What I've come to notice is that every year it passes there are less and less funny gifs being made. Probably has to do with the crowd not always being on cam and the stream room being heavily policedand the interesting people stopped showing up.
I want someone to make a Video Game Challenge Marathon. Things like Tetris TGM, blindfold races and 2p1c are all far more interesting than boring not-even-PB "speed" runs are.
>>344077202
>the green and brown dudes drop the cards and start smoking/drinking
this image was made by somebody who's childhood friends gradually grew up and left them behind while they stagnated, this is always the telltale sign
>>344077202
This is essentially everything a man has ever done.
SGDQ was only novel when speedrunning was novel, but it isn't anymore. Seeing somebody glitch through half of OoT for the first time was cool, but nobody cares about seeing Pokemon and Zelda runs for the 10th year in a row, and lesser known games won't draw a crowd. Speedrunning itself is dead. About 5 people watched NASA, and then they forgot to check if their hotel had internet.
>>344077202
core group needs to be hard as balls, this usually ends up people not into the game leave and can kill the group anyways but at least you ruin the fun of normies
>>344077586
You can never escape it, but a community can survive it with strict, traditional values. In other words, the majority NEEDS to be elitist assholes.
>>344078820
>it's a speed run event
>Final Fantasy starts playing
>>344078880
Not the guy who posted that and I've seen this play out in adult circles repeatedly. Every time there's a focused group around a hobby or game and the group expands quickly this happens. That's what it's about, community growth progressing from dedicated majority to dedicated minority.
>>344078926
also the good ol runners are not coming back
>>344078006
The tech is all found as far as anyone knows, but the route still changes.
>>344078943
That's not even worth it. Those communities become rotting miserable places and always devolve in to people sitting around bitching that new people don't want to get in to it.
>>344078947
>4 hour long FFVI speedrun
Who allowed this?
>>344078820
This reminds me of that time someone tried to speedrun OoT while his controller was slathered in honey.
I'd pay to see that again.
>>344078006
I remember them fiddling with some memory corruption about a year ago, they figured out how to beat the game way faster but for some reason those idiots don't consider it any%.
>>344078926
SGDQ was at it's peak when Cosmo wasn't a transniggervestite and everyone was doing weeb meme shit on camera.
People keep saying that the runners are being restricted in what they can say and banter about.
But is there any actual proof of this? Has any runner actually come out and said "SGDQ admin told me not to trigger anyone during the run of my game" or anything to that affect?
Maybe...speedrunner autistics just aren't the most charismatic people who make things entertaining?
>>344077202
I haven't watched much of the event this year but from what I've seen there's a larger increase in women attendance despite them not speeding running. I believe I've only seen a female speedrun once every other time they've been on the couch or doing god knows what
How do invites for this go? Is it just whoever can come goes?
>>344079019
Sometimes hobbies should die and people should move on.
So what happened to all these good ol speedrunners you guys keep talking about?
>>344078820
>>344079183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bbFt3bjOB0
>>344079229
It pretty much turned into irredeemable cancer the moment the 2hu plushies were banned from being on camera, didn't it
>>344079259
Can you name one modern instance of a hobby that should have died?
I miss 2hus
>>344071201
underrated post
>Golden Age: 2010-2012
>The Age of Stillness: 2013-2014
>The Age of Decline and the Hero Becomes a Tranny: 2015-present
>>344079289
They don't run as SGDQ or AGDQ anymore. They show up and sometimes talk but they don't run. A lot of them were ruled too crude for the gdq management because of swearing and such and they don't want them to stream.
Biggest problem is the blocks, I don't want to see a bunch of shitty NES/SNES action platformers, or all the Super Mario 64 ripoffs all in a row. Split that up and that'll help. Have your big name games during prime time, but otherwise just make it more random. Also, why the fuck is everyone on 1 station? Have 2 so that you can be setting up one while the other is in use, no more huge gaps between games while people struggle to unplug controllers. Still only stream 1 thing at a time, just switch back and forth between the setups.
Other big problem is that a lot of the runners just don't have any charisma. I get it, they're there to play the games cause that's what they're good at. At least get some interesting people on the couch. Some of the runs, even if the games themselves are good, are just terrible because either no one talks and it's weird, or the people talking are just super awkward and people try to just laugh it off. Look at Dota tournaments, whoever runs those was smart enough to get people in who play off the awkwardness, or who are professional enough to power through it.
>>344079145
Definitely has its own flaws, the elite always dwindles down in hobbies over time, with no new blood coming in and getting there themselves that'll also fail.
>>344079248
people just get silent banned from running any games
like they'll get denied from running despite pulling viewers or money
iirc bigjon is an example
>>344079350
Not the whole hobby dying, but people's interest. It's natural. Most people don't have a single hobby they stick to forever. People should move on once it's time.
>>344079538
worse, the elitist run hobbies I've found actively discourage new people.
I remember the guilty gear community way back purposely treating newcomers as non-people until they left, then bitching endlessly that new people don't stick around.
>>344079475
why the staff of every event has to became so nihilistic jews?
>>344079248
People got banned from last AGDQ left and right for being poor representatives.
This is no different than anything else.
Oldschool MMA was fucking amazing. You literally had guys from every discipline in there doing crazy shit. There was no uniform restrictions, so some guys fought in boxing shorts, other guys had full on karate gi's and shit.
Then it got popular.
Then we started seeing restrictions.
Normalized uniforms.
Then the rules started coming in.
No elbows. No other blows.
No differnet with AGDQ. Popularity basically toned it down so everyone could enjoy it.
You'll never hear someone say nigger on the stream again.
>>344079372
>be male
>carry around a fucking doll
weebs are gay as fuck holy shit
>>344079640
But is there actual proof of this other than /v/ meming?
I don't doubt that it is a possibility, I'd just like some tangible proof.
>>344079661
This is very different from what you said before.
Also, there's nothing about this that says its people's only hobby. That's a reach.
>watching
>say "autism" in chat
>get banned
WELP
>>344079506
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMzYidSmRFg
This was always my favorite speedrun. Crazy how different AGDQ is now. And honestly Cosmo was amazing at the commentating.
It just feels weird to make a massive, highly organized event for something like speedrunning videogames. Doesn't strike me as something so formal.
>>344079248
just go find the rules theyve pushed out
break any one and youre pretty much never going to be on the screen again
get someone especially mad and they'll kick you out of the building
there was this one guy last year, forgot his name
anyone remember?
>>344079790
Fuck you and your shifting goalposts. I'm done with this conversation and consider you to have conceded your point.
>>344079475
>A lot of them were ruled too crude for the gdq management because of swearing and such and they don't want them to stream.
>>344079506
Well a lot of it isn't so much that the runners don't have charisma but that they don't have charisma when talking exclusively about the game. When they stream they don't spend the whole time talking extensively about how all the tricks theyre doing work, they're talking about random shit and going on tangents.
Theres definitely a feeling of everyone having to talk very carefully and spend a lot of time thinking about exactly what to say because nobody wants to slip up and accidentally say fuck or something and get perma banned from the speedrunning community.
>>344079910
>watching
>type in an emote and nothing else
>permabanned
>>344076781
I can't find the Bonus Run anywhere on the schedule? When are they supposed to be playing Doom?
>>344079786
https://twitter.com/PvtCinnamonbun/status/683487694136176640
https://twitter.com/PvtCinnamonbun/status/683488216985505792
I can't find the bigjon tweets but basically he's been denied for a while despite increasing viewers and donations during his blocks for some shit
most speedrunners stay quiet because they're autistic and only care about the "event". The only people they outright ban are ultra autistic people like that one dude who kept making suicide jokes
>>344067126
Because once you've seen a speedrun the next year is basically the same. I watched in 2013 for the first time, and was amazed. 2014 was literally the same thing, and I was much less interested
>>344079929
The quality of the speedrunning community is directly proportional to Cosmo's mental stability
>>344079929
Her name is Narcissa. Show some respect.
>>344078676
>why you saying you have to watch the whole event
>I'm not saying you have to
>why you saying that though
I don't know why you're being so stubborn either. Also reading the schedule is hard? One page? You wouldn't be even slightly interested in knowing what's coming up?
The question is asked almost EVERY thread.
The bid war is brought up EVERY few minutes
The game is run and hyped up EVERY event.
I don't know how it's possible to not know what it's about if someone's genuinely been watching for how ever many years the event has been running unless you tune in for like half of one run. There's no shame in being new, but don't pretend. I found out what it was my first GDQ because information is plastered everywhere.
>>344080074
I think those who only post emotes should get permabanned and possibly assassinated. The chat is impossible because of that pointless constant emote spam. Even memes would be better.
>>344079506
If they had any fucking sense they'd have 1 console setup at a time on a switch box, then the runners just bring their controller and game and plug it in.
The setup times are fucking ridiculous.
>>344080007
the guy with the trump hat?
>>344080019
>Fuck you and your shifting goalposts
Where did I shift goalpoasts?
Hell, why did you get so angry because of what I posted? Holy shit. All I did was ask you to provide an example for what you posted, you then completely shifted to a different statement.
>>344080296
you are actually autistic anon
some people have different experiences than yours
and if we see that a majority of people ask what is killing the animals we can assume that most people do not share the same experience as you
>>344080116
this
if you're seriously entertained watching the same runs played mostly the same way over each year, that's probably a genuine indication of autism.
>>344077175
source on that?
>>344079679
I think thats part of it though.
A long shitty screening process.
What is the best run in GDQ history?
>>344077258
what game?
>>344080487
no definetly before that, i think it 2 agdq's ago
but please, tell me more about the trump hat guy
It's literally been the same boring ass thing every year. Just like these threads appear and are always the same everytime SGDQ pops up.
I mean there's nothing wrong with it, I have lots of fun complaining about shit too.
>>344080605
It was posted earlier and I don't have it anymore, but it was brought up by Notch over why he isn't donating this year. Apparently, Twitch changed it so you can't do donations via twitch through paypal anymore, you have to buy a twitch currency and then donate via that, and twitch gets a 30% cut of that when it comes through to streamers.
>>344080735
last year some guy put on a trump hat as a joke and got permabanned
He was running Hotline Miami iirc
>>344080775
rofl
>>344080653
Dime's Plutonia run probably. He's doing it again on Thursday.
>>344080621
It doesn't screen anyone through, it just kills the hobby slowly.
>>344074045
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfKQUEPcgi8
Yes, Indeed, I wonder why.
>>344080848
>>344080893
Well if you stick around without hugbox shittery you can ascend to being an elitist asshole yourself.
In fact that is what happens naturally, just look at /v/.
Ofcourse no game or hobby survives on this....
>>344080848
based
was the run good?
HOYP!!! :D
>>344080490
I said bye. If you do not refrain from harassing me, I will log this incident.
>>344081050
It was pretty good
>>344081050
better than most shit but still mediocre
>>344080714
DeS
Demon's Souls
>>344080775
Donations are being taken through PayPal on the gdq site and paid directly to MSF's account though. Why doesnt /v/ try to verify the most basic of information.
>>344079145
>>344079679
It's really not that bad. Every group dies eventually. The question is whether you want it to end slow and gracefully, or watch it degenerate into bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3e4cKRxCdw
To me this was the peak of AGDQ. Lot of people in a room but it feels fun instead of formal. Also, the guy commentating (can't even see him, which is kind of a plus too) has a really great voice.
>>344081126
I want to kill myself every time I hear it. GDQ wasn't terrible years ago, but it's intolerable cancer now, I can't bear to watch it anymore.
>>344080490
He realized he lost and tried to save face
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/4rknpx/worst_sgdq_of_all_time/
please upvote me
>>344081126
I can't believe nobody has made a compilation of this
the last time I watched AGQD there was an announcer that just kept reading donations that said HYPE in them and he keep trying to get the crowd to say hype
good usage of the word cringe there
>>344081461
How about you fuck off insted
>>344081461
kill yourself
>>344081461
you missed the point entirely you fucking retard
who cares about the donation amount its about the quality of the event
this sterile event will probably still make more money than the old events simply because it has more viewers
>>344081374
Please see >>344081141
Thank you.
>>344081223
2013 was the best year for sure.
When is the Doom bonus run?
>>344069846
Puerto Ricans actually do that meme in real life. Possibly theost self obsessed fags ive ever come in contact with
>>344081223
Can you stop?
>>344077040
SGDQ always gets less than agdq so no surprise there
>>344079392
AGDQ 2014 was the best GDQ
>>344079731
That shit sounds like Baki the Grappler.
