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Games Done Quick Express 2018 is over! Thanks to everyone who helped out in raising over $137,000 for charity! Impromptu thread because this kind of crept up on everyone so I had to speedrun making the thread which is why I'm just copying anything important directly from my SGDQ thread but anyway  Yes, even though it's not January or summer, it's Games Done Quick time! This time, it's a short event bearing the name Games Done Quick Express 2018, lasting only from Friday to Sunday, coming to you live from TwitchCon in San Jose! Starting on October 26th and ending on October 28th, it's a bite-sized version of the marathons you all know and love. Turns out there's actually a chat thread too. Who would have thought? ============= The schedule (that automatically adjusts to your timezone if you have Javascript enabled for the GDQ site) is your holy scripture for the event, letting you know when the runs you want to watch are supposed to start. Now, 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. The schedule is also available on Horaro (also time zone-adjusted). You can watch the marathon at the GDQ main site, which when the marathon starts will have the stream, embedded chat, stuff like that. It's streamed on Twitch, so 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 thing 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 worry. While it might be more fun to watch live, recordings of all runs will go up eventually on the GDQ Youtube channel. The exquisite website GDQ VODs, which is hosted 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. 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 | Goon GDQ Discord ============= Obligatory history section: Games Done Quick got started in 2010 with Classic Games Done Quick, a modest event that literally happened in Mike Uyama's basement, which raised money for CARE. In the time since, GDQ has grown a lot, and now hosts not one, but two huge speedrunning charity events annually - Awesome Games Done Quick in January, benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation, and Summer Games Done Quick in July-August, benefiting Doctors Without Borders. Right now, 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 sixteen 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. While anything you donate during AGDQ and SGDQ goes immediately to the charities, this is not the case for GDQ Express. As explained by the GDQx website: quote:What charity(s) will this be benefiting? ============= But of course you want to donate anyway. To do that, you head on over to the Games Done Quick Express 2018 donation page. Here, you'll be able to make your donation and leave a comment with it. If your comment is good enough, it might get read out by a host on stream! Now, I know some of you think you know what's coming next: Prizes? Well... there are supposed to be prizes. They're just not listed in the tracker yet. So you won't get any example list of them here, so check it out later. There's also donation bids and incentives to be had - ranging from picking the name of a character, to what game is going to be played. You can find 'em all in the tracker! ============= You might still have some questions, so here's the good ol' FAQ. A shortened version, at least. 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. 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. Especially not at a three-day event. And/or nobody submitted it. Q: So... Super Metroid? A: On Sunday. In the form of the A Link to the Past/Super Metroid Crossover Randomizer. Expect chaos. 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: GDQx 2018 happens at TwitchCon in San Jose. ============= So there we go. Even though it's just going to be a short event this time, let's enjoy it together all the same. And remember to stay comfy! ============= Past marathon threads: AGDQ 2012 | AGDQ 2013 | SGDQ 2013 | AGDQ 2014 | SGDQ 2014 | ESA 2014 | AGDQ 2015 | ESA 2015 | SGDQ 2015 | AGDQ 2016 | SGDQ 2016 | ESA 2016 | AGDQ 2017 (Chat) | SGDQ 2017 (Chat) | ESA 2017 | HRDQ | AGDQ 2018 (Chat) | SGDQ 2018 (Chat) | ESA 2018 (Chat) ============= Since I forgot to reserve the first post this is where recommendations will go KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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Cory in the Blouse posted:Just make this one the serious thread since it was posted first Edit: To specify, whenever I post a marathon thread with an informative OP, the intention is for it to be a serious/effortposting thread. I wasn't sure we needed two threads for this event, but it'll be fine. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Oct 25, 2018 |
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TeaJay posted:Sooo, as I have not been paying much attention, has there been any must-see VODs?
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