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DoctorWhat posted:"sure this Super Metroid speedrunner doesn't know how to mockball, but 99.999999% of humanity doesn't know what a mockball is, so does it really matter?" yeah what the hell, the whole point of the speedruns is to show off the cool tricks and exploits you can do to beat the game quickly when a guy mentions them constantly and either fails to do them or says he won't be doing them, like not even once to show off what you can do to really break a game, that's just doubly disappointing.
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Oh my god isn't that mustache dude the guy who ran tomba last time and that one annoying guy was on the couch? That poo poo was MAGICAL
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Honestly I'm kinda amazed that the speed runners don't choke more often. I imagine they're not often on a stage in front of a couple hundred people and broadcast to a hundred thousand more. As someone who only watches speed runs during GDQ, this guy was doing good commentary, he sounded like he wanted to be there, and the game is interesting enough to watch. I liked it!
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Brother Entropy posted:i'm sorry everyone, the sonic generations run is canceled because the runner doesn't know how to do this one technique 99% of you have never heard of This point is pretty dumb, because a lot of the fun of these is seeing a trick you never knew was even in the game.
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Oh poo poo FZero is on deck. 
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Oh my god isn't that mustache dude the guy who ran tomba last time and that one annoying guy was on the couch? That poo poo was MAGICAL It is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hILPBT6QjOE
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DoctorWhat posted:"sure this Super Metroid speedrunner doesn't know how to mockball, but 99.999999% of humanity doesn't know what a mockball is, so does it really matter?" if that speedrunner is still the best guy who actually applied for the slot then yeah it doesn't really matter
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Chomposaur posted:Honestly I'm kinda amazed that the speed runners don't choke more often. I imagine they're not often on a stage in front of a couple hundred people and broadcast to a hundred thousand more. Yeah, marathon runs are notorious for having 'marathon luck' and things that nobody's ever seen before happen alongside the nerves of being on stream just making it harder to perform tricks, people expecting perfect play and new WRs are expecting the wrong thing
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Mockball isn't an IL strat. Admittedly I don't know how many of the things you were referencing earlier are risky IL strats and which are more RTA safe, but I get the impression you wouldn't have been happy with anything except the craziest strategies and would've just gotten mad when he didn't get them first try every time. In short I think you're a crazy dude and should go take some deep breaths before you drown in your needless anger.
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The early FPS block is unique this year in that there's no Doom at AGDQ at all apparently, so we're getting some neat stuff like Blood and Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight. Blood is a cool game but I don't know anything about the speedrun; Jedi Knight on the other hand has a really cool speedrun, playing on hard difficulty speeds up the platform speeds and force speed just makes you move stupid fast instead of slowing down time like later star wars games. There's a lot of fun tricks that can be appreciated even if this is your first time hearing of the game.
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Jan 5, 2015 17:49
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DoctorWhat posted:I was asleep for that one. I'll catch the VOD.
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Chomposaur posted:Honestly I'm kinda amazed that the speed runners don't choke more often. I imagine they're not often on a stage in front of a couple hundred people and broadcast to a hundred thousand more. Seriously, a lot of tricks in a lot of games are really finicky to pull off. In a personal setting if you were going for a PB/record, if you flubbed a trick once or twice you'd just scrub the entire run, but you have to keep going at GDQ for obvious reasons. You only get one chance on stream and if the route includes a lot of one-out-of-ten tricks, then you can guarantee there's going to be time lost to mistakes. The guy made it under estimate and it's not like Generations is boring to watch (unlike Tomb Raider, imo) so all the bitching isn't super warranted.
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Ohmygodsquad posted:Anything weird and terrible coming up this year like Zoo Race? Awful games done quick block looks really good, get excited
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:Mockball isn't an IL strat. Admittedly I don't know how many of the things you were referencing earlier are risky IL strats and which are more RTA safe, but I get the impression you wouldn't have been happy with anything except the craziest strategies and would've just gotten mad when he didn't get them first try every time. In short I think you're a crazy dude and should go take some deep breaths before you drown in your needless anger. M-speed is basically the modern-stage equivalent of those crazy spin-dash jumps Classic Sonic , except while it's harder to execute it's also higher-reward and not really all that risky in-and-of itself.
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Jan 5, 2015 17:51
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I always look forward to Werster's runs because of his great commentary. Who is going to be playing?
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Geight posted:Blood is a cool game but I don't know anything about the speedrun
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Jan 5, 2015 17:52
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Soooniiic Heerroooeesss
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Ohmygodsquad posted:Anything weird and terrible coming up this year like Zoo Race? Friend do I have good news for you 
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The Kins posted:Cubeface has been practicing it on Twitch, it has some fun tricks. You will believe an undead vampiric cowboy can fly. Blood is a Build Engine game, right? Does it get as completely twisted around as Duke 3D does? e: The fact that Darkspinessonic and Werster is on the couch means this run will probably be pretty good despite Sonic Heroes being a really dumb and bad game.
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Jan 5, 2015 17:53
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1 min in and this is already better commentary than all of generations
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Jan 5, 2015 17:54
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Oooh, I love this guy's voice.  I'm actually going to go check out his channel later because of it, he seems like an entertaining runner.
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Does Jon St. John do Big in this game?
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Oh this should be pretty good, I was going to skip Heroes but darkss knows his poo poo.
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RyokoTK posted:Blood is a Build Engine game, right? Does it get as completely twisted around as Duke 3D does?
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homphgomph posted:Does Jon St. John do Big in this game? Big the Cat is gonna rip off your head and poo poo down your neeeeck.
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Brother Entropy posted:HERE WE GO here we go!
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Oh, hell. I forgot how annoying the voices in this game were. 
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BIG THE CAT CAN FLY.
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This run loving owns.
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Beekeeping and You posted:Oooh, I love this guy's voice.
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Blockhouse posted:Friend do I have good news for you yeah anyone who misses this run may as well have not even heard of the event
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The Kins posted:Cubeface has been practicing it on Twitch, it has some fun tricks. You will believe an undead vampiric cowboy can fly. Does it include setting himself or others on fire?
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Heran Bago posted:Are the couch guys not given mics to commentate? I think they do but the runner seems to be fine just talking non-stop.
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Heran Bago posted:Are the couch guys not given mics to commentate? I think they are but DSS just talks a lot, and I think it's sort of expected that the couch gives deference to the runner.
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Geight posted:Blood is a cool game but I don't know anything about the speedrun; I've never watched a Blood speed run but it's a build game and that means it'll be hilariously broken.
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Yeah, the couch people are mainly there if the runner doesn't want to/isn't comfortable commentating while playing
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RyokoTK posted:I think they are but DSS just talks a lot, and I think it's sort of expected that the couch gives deference to the runner. flatluigi posted:Yeah, the couch people are mainly there if the runner doesn't want to/isn't comfortable commentating while playing
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