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KennyMan666
May 27, 2010

The Saga

AGDQ 2018 is over! A big thank you to everyone who in any way participated in getting over 2.2 million dollars raised for the Prevent Cancer Foundation!



Come one, come all, it's time for the traditional start-of-the-year speedrunning marathon!

And by that, I mean that it's time for Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, taking place from January 7th to 14th! For those new to GDQ, it's an annual speedrunning marathon for charity, featuring runners from speedrunning communities across the world and the web: Speed Demos Archive (SDA), Speedrun.com, SpeedRunsLive and TASVideos, all working together for the worthy cause of collecting money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

You may notice that we have two AGDQ 2018 threads going - it was something that was first done (somewhat unintentionally) for AGDQ 2017, and happened again for SGDQ 2017, and it was a pretty good idea to actually have two threads, so now we do it on purpose. The other thread, for this event made by beep by grandpa, is meant for more fast-paced live-reaction chatting, and this one intended to tend more towards slightly more indepth discussion about the event, the runs, and all that surround it. A thread that doesn't have 539 new posts to get through just because you went to the bathroom.

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First things first - the ever-important schedule will automatically adjust to your timezone if you have Javascript enabled for the GDQ site, so you can always know what time the runs you want to watch are supposed to start - of course, the times will change somewhat as the marathon progresses due to many runs finishing under estimate, but there are measures that will try to ensure that runs start when they're supposed to. Do expect minor shifts, though. The schedule is also available on Horaro (also time zone-adjusted).

You'll be able to watch the marathon at the GDQ main site, which when the marathon starts will have the stream and an embedded chat and all of that jazz. As it's streamed on Twitch, you can use the GDQ Twitch channel to watch as well, but the main site is usually preferable if you're going to watch through a browser.

But! You can also watch the marathon in your media player of choice, instead of Firefox or Chrome or what-have-you. For that, you want a little program called Streamlink. If you've been using Livestreamer, you want to switch to Streamlink - it's literally a better Livestreamer, being a more developed fork of it under a different name. As with Livestreamer, there is also a Streamlink Twitch GUI to go with it - might need a bit of easy configuration. If you're having issues, ask either here or in any of the goon chats. We'll be happy to try to help you. I personally prefer to use it with mpv, but most anything that'll play video should work with it.

If you miss a run you really wanted to watch, don't fret - it might not be as exciting as watching it live, but recording of all runs will go up eventually on the GDQ Youtube channel. The excellent website GDQ VODs, run by fellow goon Steve Holt!, usually also tries to keep up with timestamped links to Twitch VODs during the marathon, and should that also fail you, there tends to be a thread for the same purpose on Reddit. To minimize the risk of people recording the stream and uploading monetized videos of the AGDQ runs on Youtube during the marathon, GDQ staff will make an effort to get at least temporary versions up on the Youtube channel during the marathon, so that should be the first place to check.

And what would a live marathon be without watching it together with others? The GDQ experience is usually heightened much by reacting to things together, so hop into one of the chats available. Stay away from Twitch chat, though. It tends to be quite toxic, and under very heavy load - has a decent chance of getting flipped to slow and/or subscribers only mode. Your two options for chatting should instead be IRC and Discord.

GDQ IRC: #sdamarathon at irc.quakenet.org
Direct link | Quakenet Webchat
GDQ Discord

Goon IRC: #speedruns at irc.synirc.net
Direct link | synirc Webchat
Goon speedrunning Discord

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If you want to score some cool GDQ swag, look no further! GDQ traditionally partners with a couple of web stores during the event for a collection of GDQ merch, available throughout the event. A percentage of the profit from these will be donated to the charity during the event. You can find shirts and some other trinkets over at The Yetee, and a variety of things can be gotten from Fangamer.

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So you've gotten this far, and now you might be asking yourself: "But what does AGDQ do?"

We will be happy to answer that question for you! Games Done Quick got started in 2010 with Classic Games Done Quick, a modest event that literally happened in Mike Uyama's basement collecting money for CARE. The following year, the first Awesome Games Done Quick was held, already then for the benefit of the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Since then, GDQ has grown a lot, and now hosts two huge speedrunning charity events anually - Awesome Games Done Quick in January, benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation, and Summer Games Done Quick in July-August, benefiting Doctors Without Borders. Currently, GDQ is the largest fundraising event globally for both charities. In 2014, AGDQ became the first GDQ event to break one million dollars in donations for a single event, and since the first marathon, GDQ events have to date raised a total of over twelve million dollars for charity, including some one-off causes through online marathons such as Japan Relief Done Quick in 2011 and Harvey Relief Done Quick in 2017.

100% of the money collected during Awesome Games Done Quick goes directly to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. There is no cut taken by any of the staff or participants, all attendees pay for their own travel and living expenses. You might hear people saying that they do get some of the money - the truth is that AGDQ has become such a large event that putting it on is essentially a full-time job for many of the closest involved, so the Prevent Cancer Foundation employs the core staff to make sure that AGDQ can happen as it does.

The event keeps growing every year, and more and more work is always being put into improving the quality of the stream - but mistakes always happen, and with the sheer amount of tech involved, expecting everything to work 100% flawlessly over the course of a week-long 24/7 live-streamed event is just not realistic. The tech staff are, after all, only human, and we haven't finished the research on cloning UraniumAnchor yet. And PJ is physically present, so, y'know.

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Of course, now you feel like you want to contribute to this cause as well. So how does that work, you ask? Just be patient, and I'll tell you all about it!

Once upon a time there was a donation widget called ChipIn, which AGDQ used up until it exploded badly during AGDQ 2013. Resident coder SMK stepped in and wrote an entirely new, standalone donation system, which (with addition development since) is still used to this day (ChipIn closed down shortly after AGDQ 2013 - go figure).

To donate, simply go to the Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 donation page. Here, you'll be able to make your donation and leave a comment with it, as well as see what prizes you'll be eligible for by donating at the time (more on that soon). If you make a good enough comment, it might get read out by a host on stream - during the early marathons, all comments (barring those that were rejected for other reasons) were read out, but these days there are so many donations that it's a total impossibility. Thus, there's a filtering system for comments in place - any donation of less than a dollar will be automatically filtered out, and anything containing insulting language or memes or other kind of spam will most certainly be manually filtered out in the screening process. To maximize your success in having your comment read out, don't make it too long, be creative and/or funny, have it be especially relevant to the current run/runner, or a personal story relating to the cause (yes, this means there'll be many donation comments talking about cancer - it's a charity event for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, so what did you expect?). There'll also be a scrolling ticker for some donation comments that weren't read out on the main page.

So, anyway - I mentioned prizes. If the good of your heart isn't enough to want to drop some money, there are two other reasons to do so - raffle prizes and donation incentives.

To start with the latter, when you make your donation, you can have your money go towards one of the many donation incentives or bid wars that are available for several different games. These range from simply naming characters in games with, well, nameable characters, to playing different modes or extra stages/challenges in certain games, to in a few cases even choosing which game will be played or to make another game appear on the schedule. All these bids and incentives can be found - where else? - on the tracker.

And then there's the raffle prizes! Just as with the incentives, the tracker of course also has a prize index where you can see a list of them all. How it works is that there's a minimum bid for all prizes, and a period during which the prize is available - if you make a donation of at least the minimum amount specified during that period, you will be entered into the raffle for winning the prize, to be drawn after the event is over. Most prizes have a buy-in of five dollars, and the donation page will tell you what prizes you can make yourself eligible for and how much you need to donate for them. The things you can win include some choice stuff, such as...

A speedrunning cross stitch.


Symphony of the Night Shadow Box perler.


Retrowave Samus portrait.


Toaster dog plushie.


Acrylic Final Fantasy 6 painting.


Donkey Kong Country soundtrack - on vinyl, no less.


Watercolour A Link to the Past painting.


And... orb?


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I'm sure there's more questions you might have - so here's some of the more common ones!

Q: What runs should I watch?
A: There's... not any single good answer to this question. Read the schedule, and find games that you're interested in, or that you think will be interesting. Awful Games Done Quick is usually a solid watch, and we're going to try to keep a running list of recommendations as the marathon progresses.

Q: Will ____ be there this year?
A: Check the schedule. If they're not listed as a runner or commentator, it doesn't really matter if they're there or not. There's been some, let's say, controversial runners/commentators in the past - it's for the best if we don't bring that up.

Q: Why isn't ____ on the schedule?
A: Because there's simply not enough room for it. AGDQ has grown so much that it's not even remotely possible to let everyone who wants to attend have a game on the schedule anymore. There's going to be hundreds of people there, and while not all of them are runners, many games and people have had to be cut from the schedule to fit it into a weeklong marathon.

Q: Yeah, but why isn't Super Metroid on the schedule?
A: So, okay, as a GDQ first, Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 does not include a run of Super Metroid. This means no donation war for killing or saving the animals. The reason for no Super Metroid run is simple - there weren't any good submissions for it. No game gets a free pass just because it's always been in. Not even Super Metroid.

Q: What's this about GDQ banning fun?
A: Just a silly misconception. There's no fun police, and certainly no rules in place that state everything has to be super serious and clinical. A rule that is in place is that people on camera who aren't the runner shouldn't be taking focus or attention away from the run or the runner(s). When you're an event the size of GDQ, allowing people to do whatever they want on camera just isn't possible.

Q: Where is this happening?
A: AGDQ 2018, like AGDQ 2017 before it, takes place in the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport Hotel in Herndon, Virginia.

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As a final word, do remember what's important and why we're here - the speedruns and the speedrun chat. Please don't take this as an opportunity to bring up drama, especially not drama from GDQs past. Of course, this is a thread for AGDQ 2018, so talking about things that happen at AGDQ 2018 is perfectly fine - just don't let minor incidents be blown up into major shitstorms that they really aren't. Be very wary about unverified pastebins, Reddit claims, and Twitter storms. Above all, be respectful towards the runners, commentators, and all the GDQ stuff that puts in so much time and effort to put on this event for you - it may be for charity, but it's also for the viewers. Without an audience, there wouldn't be any AGDQ to enjoy.

Should you still have any questions, about the event, the organization, or something else relating to Games Done Quick - simply ask! There are a couple of goons that are directly involved with the event, some part of the staff, a few more simply attending as runners or general audience, and many other goons that are to various degrees involved with the speedrunning community in general. So there's a lot of us here who would be happy to answer any questions you might have, either in the thread or in the aforementioned goon chats, and do also remember that we have a general speedrunning thread to check out (yes, the information in the OP of that one is outdated at the moment - stay tuned for updates).

So let us all have a good marathon together!

KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Jan 14, 2018

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KennyMan666
May 27, 2010

The Saga

Recommended runs (recommendations from various goons)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by Wall of Spain - A marvelous trainwreck with funny tricks and glitches.
Gunner's Heaven by CavemanDCJ - A chill run of a wonky run'n'gun.
Contra co-op by TheMexicanRunner and angrylanks - How much in sync can two runners be?
Magical Pop'n by Sent - Cute game that was worth the watch.
Disney's Aladdin by Le Hulk - Great movements, featuring singing: the EU edition.
Wario's Woods by peteyboo - A run with cool technobabble that was super interesting.
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest race by V0oid and waffle42 - Simply a very good race.
Donkey Kong Country Reverse Boss Order by V0oid - Utterly loving mental.
Mega Man X race by ColonelFatso, Tokyo90 and Walrus_Prime - The runners actually take different paths for once!
Metal Gear Solid by plywood - Just a really well done run, start to finish.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater by Jaguar King - The run is a mix of unbelievable execution and "I've never seen that before" failures, so YMMV on this one.
Burnout Paradise by espumbrajolt - The fuckup that spawned a donation spree meme.
El Matador by DrTChops - Spinning and sliding. Physics and walls optional.
Rayman by Glackum - Great commentary even if you don't like Rayman.
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance by VB__ - Really cool run with an insane bonus any% at the end.
Super Mario 3D World by peteyboo - Just a good time.
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard by Carcinogen - Entertaining and experienced runner, and there are some great moments in the run.
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis race by Bawkbasoup and wusscakerace - Just seems like a good run.
Silent Hill by SuccinctAndPunchy - Punchy's guide on how to open doors.
Batman: The Video Game race by dxtr and EndySWE - A very close and very exciting race by two great runners.
Battletoads Arcade by PJ - PJ breaks something once again, and it's absolutely glorious.
Battletoads by TheMexicanRunner - TMR pulls through as usual, including a bonus blindfolded Turbo Tunnel run at the end.
Dragon Warrior by NESCardinality - A human TASbot destroys a game.
Strider Live Tutorial Showcase by jimmypoopins and darkman78 - If you want to see someone being taught how to speedrun a game live.
Seriously just all of AwfulGDQ by a lot of runners - People seem to have especially liked Arabian Nights, but just watch it all. Starts with Superman 64 and ends with Deadly Towers. With a little bit of an encore with Princess Rescue later in the marathon.
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy by CovertMuffin - Jedi-like speed and precision from an extremely enthusiastic runner.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition race by Vulajin, sigma, Terra and Hydra - Perhaps the best race of the marathon with some extreme movement going on.
Cat Quest by SNeaky - Meow?
Densha de D: Lightning Stage by Konasumi - Multi-track drifting, probably.
Super Monkey Ball by TASBot - Just watch this.
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! & Super Punch-Out!! by zallard1 - It's a guy speedrunning 2 games at the same time. Enough said, really.
Diablo by Funkmastermp - Run for fun with good commentary.
Dark Souls 3 by SayviTV - Rough start, but picks up and is very smooth. With some blindfolded action too.
Bloodborne by heyZeusHeresToast - Embrace the banter.
Super Dram World 2 by grandpoobear - Very good run of one of those SMW hacks. Make sure to stick around for the TAS demonstration after the actual run too.

Fanart and poo poo

by Pants Donkey

KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Jan 15, 2018

DebonaireD
May 7, 2007

Ultima 6 on Thursday morning - my ship has come in boys!

timp
Sep 19, 2007

Everything is in my control
Lipstick Apathy
PSA to get hype for aLttP Randomizer race, essentially a prime time event for this AGDQ. I’ve been working on compiling a glossary of all the lingo they use during the races which some may find helpful while watching. http://randoguide.com/glossary

Ganson
Jul 13, 2007
I know where the electrical tape is!

timp posted:

PSA to get hype for aLttP Randomizer race, essentially a prime time event for this AGDQ. I’ve been working on compiling a glossary of all the lingo they use during the races which some may find helpful while watching. http://randoguide.com/glossary

They got pretty good commentators for it, though I'm a bigger fan of doctorbobtastic. It'll be awkward if they hit the softlock bug heh.

I wouldn't be surprised if Super Metroid ended up being a donation goal in one of the open blocks. I'm not upset to not have to hear save/kill animals constantly.

Ganson fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jan 5, 2018

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

LTTP randomizer ftw

timp
Sep 19, 2007

Everything is in my control
Lipstick Apathy

Ganson posted:

They got pretty good commentators for it, though I'm a bigger fan of doctorbobtastic. It'll be awkward if they hit the softlock bug heh.

I wouldn't be surprised if Super Metroid ended up being a donation goal in one of the open blocks. I'm not upset to hot have to hear save/kill animals constantly.

The soft lock thing is nothing to worry about since it can be circumvented by a bomb jump (iirc?) that both Andy and Christos are more than capable of pulling off.

And yeah, to your second point, I expect to hear lots of save/kill the animals donations regardless of the fact that there’s no SM race, just like you always hear a bunch of anti cancer donations during SGDQ.

TeaJay
Oct 9, 2012


Let's-a-go

And even though it was mentioned in the OP, I cannot stress enough how easy Streamlink Twitch GUI makes watching Twitch streams on VLC.

TeaJay fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jan 5, 2018

axeil
Feb 14, 2006
I am excited to see The Games Done Quick with y'all

Inepta Lacerta
Nov 20, 2012

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Really quite silly indeed.

Always a feelgood highlight of the year for me, and after 2017 I think everyone might need a bit of a pick-(me-)up.

Also, good op.

suuma
Apr 2, 2009
e: nevermind

Soup du Jour
Sep 8, 2011

I always knew I'd die with a headache.

Very excited for this! Not a lot grabbing me on day 1, but that's why it's a week long.

Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
finally no super metroid

I Greyhound
Apr 22, 2008

MusicKrew Dawn Patrol
Set your calendar for Thursday morning for the Awful block with:
Arabian Nights
Enviro-Bear 2000
Dog's Life
Animorphs: Shattered Reality

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Will this be the serious or chat thread?

E: serious, as I've found out

iospace fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jan 5, 2018

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes
Hey so I've done one of these for the last few gdqs for personal use so I can keep track of what runs I have and haven't watched, so here's agdq18 in a spreadsheet if you want to do the same

file -> make a copy to get a version that you can add your own notes to

iospace posted:

Will this be the serious or chat thread?

Serious thread, chat will go up closer to the event + will be linked in here when it does

Jibo
May 22, 2007

Bear Witness
College Slice
I long for FF5's return to GDQ. :qq:

That said this seems like the best GDQ lineup yet, IMO.

Little Nemo and Bart vs the Space Mutants dominated my childhood and I've actually never gotten around to seeing them be speedrun (speedran?).

E: Does anyone know what console the Aladdin run is on? SNES Aladdin or bust.

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

Jibo posted:

E: Does anyone know what console the Aladdin run is on? SNES Aladdin or bust.

Ah...so I'm not alone...another Smart Poster.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

I'm curious to see how the lack of Super Metroid, namely the bid war, will affect the numbers.

Makes me seem doubtful we'll crack $2mil again this year.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

Pants Donkey posted:

I'm curious to see how the lack of Super Metroid, namely the bid war, will affect the numbers.

Makes me seem doubtful we'll crack $2mil again this year.

I'm kind of thinking that save/kill the animals isn't really a big draw in and of itself, that it's just what people bid towards when they don't have any particular other thing they care about cause it's the big GDQ meme. I think for the most part, people who would otherwise donate to save/kill the animals will just find something else to bid towards.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Pants Donkey posted:

I'm curious to see how the lack of Super Metroid, namely the bid war, will affect the numbers.

Makes me seem doubtful we'll crack $2mil again this year.

I don't think 2 mil will happen either, mostly because that feels lofty even without Super Metroid, but 1.5mil should be doable. The thing about the incentives is it's likely that the people who donated just for save/kill is a small amount compared to people who were going to donate anyway and save/kill was what they chose to do.

Nep-Nep
May 15, 2004

Just one more thing!
At SGDQ they ran Super Metroid on the day before the last as opposed to the penultimate run slot. I think maybe they were testing the waters to see how that would impact donations and they decided they could chance not doing it now.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Well, also the fact that they couldn't do any races besides 100% since Phantoon was the Grim Reaper of runs.

Jibo
May 22, 2007

Bear Witness
College Slice

Pants Donkey posted:

Well, also the fact that they couldn't do any races besides 100% since Phantoon was the Grim Reaper of runs.

I thought Phantoon was the reason they did races, in order to increase the odds of a runner making it to the end.

TeaJay
Oct 9, 2012


beep by grandpa posted:

Ah...so I'm not alone...another Smart Poster.

I've been asking Studio and other GDQ people to mark the game platform in the schedule for a couple events already now, but it doesn't seem to be a priority thing.

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

The thing I would like the most on the main site would be if on both mobile/desktop versions there was a different colored gradient for runs that haven't happened yet, runs that are finished and the run in progress. It gets to be a major pain in the fuckin rear end to scroll down and try to find where the next few runs are when we get later in the week :/

deathbagel
Jun 10, 2008

It feels so strange not having a Super Metroid run. Change frightens me!

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
those prizes look awful.

TeaJay
Oct 9, 2012


I Greyhound posted:

Set your calendar for Thursday morning for the Awful block with:
Arabian Nights
Enviro-Bear 2000
Dog's Life
Animorphs: Shattered Reality

Arabian Nights is scheduled for 7.30 AM local time, so hoping a change or two to push it back just slightly for my morning coffee

I work some evenings night shift next week so can't be around live as much as I'd like to, but I will hold up the fort for team EU morning/afternoons in the chat thread when I can. Looking forward to it once again.

Kaubocks
Apr 13, 2011

the only worthwhile super metroid races are the ones where multiple people die

that one race where the guy in last ended up winning because everyone else ate poo poo is still one of the greatest GDQ moments

axeil
Feb 14, 2006

Pakled posted:

I'm kind of thinking that save/kill the animals isn't really a big draw in and of itself, that it's just what people bid towards when they don't have any particular other thing they care about cause it's the big GDQ meme. I think for the most part, people who would otherwise donate to save/kill the animals will just find something else to bid towards.

I always give to run incentives because I don't want to see any incentives not be met.

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!

Kaubocks posted:

the only worthwhile super metroid races are the ones where multiple people die

that one race where the guy in last ended up winning because everyone else ate poo poo is still one of the greatest GDQ moments

i still want to know what they'd have done had all the runners died before the kill/save choice

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


Are they bothering with Twitch bit incentives this time around?

iPodschun
Dec 29, 2004

Sherlock House
http://irc.alligatr.co.uk/agdq17/ has viewer & donation totals from AGDQ last year and I assume http://irc.alligatr.co.uk/agdq18/ (404 right now) will have the stats for this year once the marathon starts.

Pants Donkey posted:

I'm curious to see how the lack of Super Metroid, namely the bid war, will affect the numbers.
There are two setup blocks on the last day that could be pretty good places for Super Metroid to be put in. I don't know if any Super Metroid runners are planning to be at AGDQ but zoast has been grinding any% NMG lately...

zallard's MTPO + SPO run will be up as a donation incentive and I'm ready to donate for that if needed.

KariOhki
Apr 22, 2008

quote:

Games Done Quick got started in 2010 with Classic Games Done Quick, a modest event that literally happened in Mike Uyama's basement. Already at that time, they were collecting money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

Actually CGDQ raised money for CARE - PCF wasn’t the charity until AGDQ2011.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to being there again and seeing friends while watching games get done quick. Looking forward to awful block of course, but Prinny 2 and Wario’s Woods are high on my list too.

KennyMan666
May 27, 2010

The Saga

^ Fixed

DizzyBum posted:

Are they bothering with Twitch bit incentives this time around?
There's probably no reason to not have them, but hopefully they learned their lesson from last time to not ramp up the thresholds that quickly. Last time there was a massive jump to 5 million bits and that just didn't work. People would probably be more likely to pitch in bits if they saw that the next goal was always kinda within reach, so they should do, like, steps of 500k at most.

KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jan 5, 2018

Kaubocks
Apr 13, 2011

they should carry over the 5 million incentive from last event and pick up where we left off

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

I'm so happy there's no super metroid this year

Slickdrac
Oct 5, 2007

Not allowed to have nice things

KennyMan666 posted:

^ Fixed

There's probably no reason to not have them, but hopefully they learned their lesson from last time to not ramp up the thresholds that quickly. Last time there was a massive jump to 5 million bits and that just didn't work. People would probably be more likely to pitch in bits if they saw that the next goal was always kinda within reach, so they should do, like, steps of 500k at most.

They should also not do it because even with the crappy 10% matching Twitch was doing, it was still giving about 25+% of bit cost directly to Twitch.

Also, if anyone wants a donation amount graph tracker, looks like this will be active again http://gdqstat.us/?series=1

Slickdrac fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jan 5, 2018

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But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug

I Greyhound posted:

Set your calendar for Thursday morning for the Awful block with:
Arabian Nights
Enviro-Bear 2000
Dog's Life
Animorphs: Shattered Reality

This kicks rear end

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