AGDQ 2015: Save the animals, kill the cancer, taunt the engine

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Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

"I would really prefer if you'd be quiet."

I want to see blind MTPO and hear some painfully awkward poo poo happen in front of 50,000 people, it's just the best. :3:

# ¿ Jan 3, 2015 02:50

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 16:58

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Anatharon posted:

What's that in reference to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H50nqenYMDM

Watch it all the way through.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2015 21:29

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Layout is far better this year but gotta agree with the guy above, the popping is kinda bad, hope they fix that in the future.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 18:29

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

So can someone tell these retards that coughing even for a joke is really bad when they do it directly into the loving mic.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 18:31

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

HUMAN FISH posted:

So far (lmao two games in) the commentators have been excellent. That's what I really want in these marathons. Either the runner should be constantly explaining what he's doing or have quality commentators.

Speaking of which, who's the short guy who did a lot of commentary last year and was on the highlight videos? He's pretty great, is he in anything this year?

Yeah, a display of WR/PB would be pretty cool.

Do you mean the actual little person(as opposed to just a generic description of someone that's shorter than average)? If so then that's Blechy and he'll be doing some commentary and a co-op play of Goof Troop.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 20:58

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

I really, really like the small audience setting and the forcing of a rotation so the same people can't just camp out the chairs.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 21:01

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

You guys should have seen earlier marathons before they learned to filter better, it was literally hours of non-stop depressing stories of inordinate length about people dying from cancer. There were novels written and they read everything.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 00:45

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

They really need to boot this game from future marathons, it's ridiculously boring.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 00:56

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

That MK run looked like he didn't practice at all.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 02:36

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Jibo posted:

So was that awful MK Wii run freezing up and making horrible grating sounds every now and then or is my video card getting ready to take a poo poo again?

Stream was lagging really bad but I dunno about any sounds, was fine on my end. Just dropped frames entirely every 5s and made a bad run even worse.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 02:37

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Natalya Fartz posted:

11st place. The most shameful of places.

Well I can still maybe finish 1st if I'm lucky

*finishes 11th*

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 02:40

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

dj_de posted:

PROTIP: Knit girl is the person in charge of creating the current NO FUN ALLOWED rules of AGDQ15 after her unfair treatment in that video!

seriously? yeesh.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 03:55

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Is there anything good to watch between now and early morning tomorrow(like Crazy Taxi)?

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 04:05

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Everdraed posted:

loving fantastic.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 04:10

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Crain posted:

Oh drat, Ray from Achievement Hunter is in the background.

He's actually a big speedrun fan and has probably turned a lot of people onto it in the last year or so due to his Twitter.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 06:20

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

goldjas posted:

Some of the earlier kind of crappy runs like the Cart Racers could have honestly been saved by having couch commentators that were equally as good as these. Commentary is so important in these marathons and some people just seem to be bad at it even with like 4 people on the couch.

This is understandable but it's a 160+ hour event with a multitude of games over a lot of platforms some of which have tiny runner communities anyway so you're just not going to get excellent commentary every game every day for the whole event.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 06:28

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Did they tell the reader to just interrupt whenever to read donations? It's really annoying.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 06:38

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Who is doing the filtering here, who gives a gently caress about the backwards alphabet? The reader is awful.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 06:41

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Poultron posted:

He's not really interrupting anything though dude,

He has multiple times broken in when they were trying to say something.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 06:43

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Minrad posted:

Luckily it seems to be the overwhelming opinion that this year's AGDQ really bites compared to previous ones, so maybe if they come in under past donation totals they'll re-think how they handle everything next year.

What the gently caress are you talking about?

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 22:19

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

zomg blueglass banned for rape cancel all future marathons worst thing ever.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 22:22

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Crain posted:

Hey guys, this is fun. Remember that? Fun?

I guess not...

this is the worst agdq ever :c00l:

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 03:39

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

I haven't watched a raocow video in years but I absolutely loved his stuff. Does he still do them?

# ¿ Jan 7, 2015 05:20

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

HoneyBoy posted:

He can beat up a lot of the posters in this thread.

muscles = fight

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 09:54

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Man, their estimate this year is getting murdered. Is it the insane setup times they've been doing or what? Seems like almost everything played comes in under estimate with some way under but every time you refresh the schedule they've lost another hour.

Guess there's still plenty of the week to pick it up but this seems way slower than recent years.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 09:56

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Varicelli posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzYjvK9yrio

awesome.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 10:03

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Ohon, MVP of AGDQ 2015

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 19:43

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Lloyd Van Buren posted:

Big John

Meh, commentary is overrated. Ohon has dominated multiple games against some of their respective top runners.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 19:49

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Holy gently caress, 3 games and they finish 1 second apart. Amazing.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 20:13

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

AdamAK is super chill and does awesome commentary while owning VC.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 10:03

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Does Poxnor still do stuff within the marathons like donating thousands of dollars and I've just been missing them these past few or is he off doing something else?

# ¿ Jan 11, 2015 08:18

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Agent355 posted:

Blueglass is basically awkwardness and uncomfortbaleness personified and I can't enjoy anything he appears in. I can't imagine I'm the only one either.

it's his laugh for me. it's high-pitched, cuts through loving anything and he has no awareness of its volume. if he had a normal laugh he could be on the screen 24/7 but that laugh is all-time bad and he does it every 10 seconds when something wacky happens in a run.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2015 09:57

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Spelling Mitsake posted:

It would probably help to just end in the evening instead of forcing one more all-nighter. Or was that the plan and they got way behind schedule?

I'm pretty sure they're 4-5 hours behind schedule, give or take. This is the first GDQ in a couple that they've gone over. They started out going horrendously over time in the early ones when they were still learning and polishing up how they run it but the recent SGDQ and AGDQ before this I think went well under time(or I think would have but they propped it up with extra unannounced runs to fill the time).

This one's just had problems and it's just one of those things. SGDQ will probably be fine and they'll continue to learn.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2015 10:06

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

Tetris would have been an amazing closer but there's a lot more to it than just what is fun to watch.

What you need is a super popular game, a super popular runner and a super popular category but those are difficult stars to align.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2015 10:33

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 16:58

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

I gotta clock out, can't fight it anymore and I need some sack time before football tomorrow.

Hope I don't miss a lot of awesome early bonus stream.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2015 10:40

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