She is insane at MM2/Mario Kaizo. I watch her semiregularly. Her and Panga on the same team feels a bit like cheating, but I know they're all really good at Mario.
(In case you didn't know, PangeaPanga is the one who made the Super Dram World rom hacks, which are incredibly difficult)
They have had to work really hard for these incentives this year
I can't decide if they did all the shenanigans in the past to meet some of them (i.e., because they were met easily) or because maybe some of them were a tad ambitious this time.
I think AGDQ tends to do better because it's just off the heels of xmas gifts/tax refunds/end of year bonuses, but its definitely clear by now that 3 million is their floor going forward.
Here's the full list of incentives from this marathon. They made pretty much all of them. The ones they missed were mostly for obscure games that were running in the middle of the night. The biggest missed one is for watching the laughing cutscene from FFX, but that's something anyone can just look up on YouTube.
I feel like there weren't any real moments that drive donations this time around. Or maybe I missed them and didn't hear about them.
Stuff like the Trine run from a few years ago.
Anyway this marathon solidified that I really prefer the online only showcase. It felt like Runners were more comfortable in their own spaces and commentary was better.
Here's the full list of incentives from this marathon. They made pretty much all of them. The ones they missed were mostly for obscure games that were running in the middle of the night. The biggest missed one is for watching the laughing cutscene from FFX, but that's something anyone can just look up on YouTube.
They missed the diamond and pearl any % run on Friday, did it again on Saturday.
They also massively missed the sound voltex showcase, twitch came in and airdropped like 40 grand at the last second, so I count that one as a miss.
a lot of the incentives have seemed overly ambitious over the years, sounds like they just went even more overboard this year despite the overall success of the show
kind of wish they would tone it down so they didn't have to do crazy pushes so often. like having a few that are big "let's pull together and make a strong push" moments to drive up the donation count I get, but it shouldn't feel like they're all like that
The Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance run has been pulled from youtube, due to the runner admitting part of the run (the Blade Wolf DLC (that was a paid incentive)) was spliced and pre-recorded (after a lot of suspicion from people in the community, after noticing no keyboard sounds and a change in audio):
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
I never liked the idea of locking bonus games behind incentives, especially something as involving as playing Sound Voltex on an actual cabinet, the fact that someone was willing to do that should be enough.
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BaidolI will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered Userregular
edited July 2022
Finding people willing to run for a GDQ isn't hard and people who can run cabinet-based games have them because they want them, not because of GDQ. As someone who has processed donations for two events now, incentives really do bring in donations. There are times in US daylight time zones where I could have taken a nap during the middle of a run and woken up to only a handful of donations because incentive reminders were not made while I was asleep.
Anyway, I volunteered on-site this SGDQ doing donation processing. Did a lot of things, wore a mask almost perpetually for eleven days around other volunteers also perpetually wearing masks, had a good time, and tested negative today: 10/10 would volunteer again.
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I'm hoping to run Double Switch before someone beats me to it, hopefully so it gets a better showing than Night Trap did.
(The runner didn't show any of the story, just focused on a perfect game, which is easily the most boring way to play it.)
Finding people willing to run for a GDQ isn't hard and people who can run cabinet-based games have them because they want them, not because of GDQ. As someone who has processed donations for two events now, incentives really do bring in donations. There are times in US daylight time zones where I could have taken a nap during the middle of a run and woken up to only a handful of donations because incentive reminders were not made while I was asleep.
Anyway, I volunteered on-site this SGDQ doing donation processing. Did a lot of things, wore a mask almost perpetually for eleven days around other volunteers also perpetually wearing masks, had a good time, and tested negative today: 10/10 would volunteer again.
SGDQ was N95 mandatory for everyone, wasn't it? You can also see the distanced seating for audience. They took it seriously, and it's a welcome contrast to other events...
Yeah in the context of having a massive in-person event, which I still think was a bad idea, the mask discipline at least was better than basically anywhere else that I've observed since covid.
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BaidolI will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered Userregular
All masks had to be KN95/N95/KF94. Four masks were provided at Check-in to everyone courtesy of MSF. Masks were required in event spaces (stream room, practice rooms, arcade). What I was really happy about was volunteer mask discipline outside of the event spaces.
One of the Twitch streamers I watch commented that Twitter seemed oddly subdued in terms of chud attacks on GDQ this year until he realized that they'd pivoted entirely from decrying GDQ's acceptance of trans people to the event's mask discipline. So if you measure your virtues by the hatred of your enemies, their masking policy was on point.
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
Didn't a couple runners have to clear runs off the schedule too because set up got thrown off and the show was running over?
Afaik they volunteered their runs to be cut to try and get the schedule back on track. I did want to watch the bloodstained run but I assume anyone who did such will have a pass to run at the next gdq as thanks, because otherwise the schedule would have just been absolutely giga fucked instead of mostly fucked
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BaidolI will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered Userregular
"Volunteer" might be a strong way of wording that. I expect they were asked. That in itself is already not ideal, but then when enough time was made up to potentially re-add one of those runs, the decision was made to give the Pokemon bonus incentive that was not met a second shot rather than one of the two cut runs. Its clear from public statements that decision stung at least one of the runners.
I'd like to make a longer statement on this, maybe tomorrow, but I'll fill in the following while I'm awake.
Yes, the ultimate goal is to maximize the money for the charity. To that, we accomplished our goal.
However, this is not a situation I want to ever repeat. We're going to have a very long discussion about how we tackle large incentives, and how to protect runners more from schedule drift.
The runners that were cut are given a raincheck, so if they submit it again in the next year their run will be accepted. I will personally be evaluation how else we can make it up to them.
We chose the runs we did based on the fact that the runners did already have runs in this marathon. It doesn't make it okay, but it makes it less painful. Super hot VR wasn't viable for a reinsert at the end, as the setup had already been torn down. And after discussion with the Bloodstained runner, they decided they'd rather wait for a future event at that point. It still hurt them however, and I absolutely recognize that. Our staff has apologized directly to them.
I'm sorry we put the runners in this position, and I hope the community knows that I'm serious when I say we will do everything we can to make this better for the future.
The Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance run has been pulled from youtube, due to the runner admitting part of the run (the Blade Wolf DLC (that was a paid incentive)) was spliced and pre-recorded (after a lot of suspicion from people in the community, after noticing no keyboard sounds and a change in audio):
Just FYI this guy doubled down on the douchery in statements to Kotaku:
This is a taunt,” Mekarazium told Kotaku. “[A] taunt to every single person that watches speedrunning events and haven’t asked yourself some questions.” He criticized content makers for profiting off the work of speedrunners in exchange for free publicity, and GDC for putting its “brand needs” ahead of the community’s “passion,” saying the event will “take a massive hit to their image” for removing “one of the highly-rated runs that was well-received by everyone.”
“People will focus on the fact ‘omg he cheated,’ and not on the sheer amount of preparations done to ensure [the] run will go well, and the segmented run will go unnoticed.”
What a bizarre hill to choose to die on, truly. He signed up for the slot. Somebody else gladly would have taken that time, or he could have ceded it to help them realign the schedule. There were any number of options to be taken other than "cheat". He even knew what he was doing was wrong!
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Handsome CostanzaAsk me about 8bitdoRIP Iwata-sanRegistered Userregular
edited July 2022
I'm not even sure what he's trying to say there, that speedrunners should be getting paid? For a charity marathon? People didn't donate 3 million specifically because they wanted to see you perform your funky ass speedrun (which you didn't even do for the DLC), bro. The fact that he views GDQ as some sort of transactional thing that he's supposed to receive publicity for (and doesn't think it's enough to boot) tells me everything I need to know about this clown. I guess that explains why he advertised those two random ass CD's.
It just all sounds like something a small child would say in a misguided attempt at being profound.
The streamers I follow that go to GDQ do it for 2 reasons: to hang out with their friends and members of their community, and to earn money for charity. Every single streamer going to GDQ is losing money. They always have, even back when GDQ was just held in some random dude's basement. If some dickbrain looks at it as a transaction with a quantifiable ROI he is, at the very least, an extremely uncharitable person and likely has no interest in either of the reasons I outlined above. It's just so weird to draw that conclusion.
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She is insane at MM2/Mario Kaizo. I watch her semiregularly. Her and Panga on the same team feels a bit like cheating, but I know they're all really good at Mario.
(In case you didn't know, PangeaPanga is the one who made the Super Dram World rom hacks, which are incredibly difficult)
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A little bummed I couldn't catch the Elden Ring runs, but that's what the YouTube channel is for!
I can't decide if they did all the shenanigans in the past to meet some of them (i.e., because they were met easily) or because maybe some of them were a tad ambitious this time.
https://irc.alligatr.co.uk/agdq-comparison-uplot/
Stuff like the Trine run from a few years ago.
Anyway this marathon solidified that I really prefer the online only showcase. It felt like Runners were more comfortable in their own spaces and commentary was better.
They missed the diamond and pearl any % run on Friday, did it again on Saturday.
They also massively missed the sound voltex showcase, twitch came in and airdropped like 40 grand at the last second, so I count that one as a miss.
kind of wish they would tone it down so they didn't have to do crazy pushes so often. like having a few that are big "let's pull together and make a strong push" moments to drive up the donation count I get, but it shouldn't feel like they're all like that
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Anyway, I volunteered on-site this SGDQ doing donation processing. Did a lot of things, wore a mask almost perpetually for eleven days around other volunteers also perpetually wearing masks, had a good time, and tested negative today: 10/10 would volunteer again.
(The runner didn't show any of the story, just focused on a perfect game, which is easily the most boring way to play it.)
I honestly love to hear it, good job GDQ
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Afaik they volunteered their runs to be cut to try and get the schedule back on track. I did want to watch the bloodstained run but I assume anyone who did such will have a pass to run at the next gdq as thanks, because otherwise the schedule would have just been absolutely giga fucked instead of mostly fucked
I just looked into it a bit during the marathon when I couldn’t find bloodstained on the schedule anymore, def my fault for not getting all the info
Just FYI this guy doubled down on the douchery in statements to Kotaku:
link.
Fuck him and the dumbass horse he rode in on.
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It just all sounds like something a small child would say in a misguided attempt at being profound.
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