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Kuros posted:How dare GDQ not cater to me at all times!? I demand serious speedrunning to be done at all times! None of this "orb" or "hype" or "doge" stuff, only serious speedrunning! I could brutally own you right now if I felt like it (quote your post but replace “GDQ” with “forums posting”, “serious speedrunning” with “opinions I agree with”, etc). Fortunately for you I’m feeling merciful.
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Meiteron posted:It's been very well established that the GDQ, the ostensible speedrun marathon, is also open to impressive displays of skill even if they're not necessarily about Going Fast and has been I think since that one live run of Clone Hero a few years back absolutely brought the house down; it's also why we see shmup runs and other rhythm games and blindfold incentives.
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Jan 22, 2024 22:04
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if someone didn't like a run its also ok to just post... OK... and not argue with them for 200 posts b/c you arent gonna change their mind. its ok to post an opinion. we had 100 posts from that dude who was not watching the speedruns we can have a few posts about how the dog run wasn't the most impressive thing in the universe.
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Rubellavator posted:I think the Tetris TGM runs are kinda where that started. The idea of speedrunning that game was pretty much invented for the sole purpose of getting a run in at GDQ. I thought that TGM was more of a gaming thing that was big in Japan on its own and KevinDDR was basically just introducing it to a western audience.
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If you thought Arkanoid was incredibly impressive (it was) go to speedrun.com and look at the WR, I literally have no idea how you manipulate it to give you the pink 'skip' pill so often but it's apparently an entire game full of pixel perfect manipulation that falls apart if you miss even one of them, you can't pick the run back up. Some are dependent on enemy position when the screen is still black as well. The guy crushes the game with no glitches in 12m 17s, everything has to go completely perfect on every single stage. https://www.speedrun.com/arkanoid/runs/y95dv2ez And I think the game isn't beatable on an NES controller so that probably explains why so much of it seems insane (it still was)
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Jan 22, 2024 22:27
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I'm about positive I beat Arkanoid w/ a regular NES controller when I was a kid, but I wasn't trying to speedrun it of course.
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pumpinglemma posted:This is all my exact view. I’d actually like to see GDQ put even more time into high-skill non-speedrun play, things like 1cc runs of shmups get very little space relative to how deep the talent pool is and how impressive they can be. Yeah, score attack stuff is the biggest thing I’d like to see more of. It’s strange to me how little overlap there seems to be with speedrunning communities, considering how similar the methodologies and goals are.
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Jan 22, 2024 22:52
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the star fox 64 run they had was a pretty cool example of score attack overlapping with speedrunning, obviously a lot of games aren't designed in a way to make this feasible but it was cool to see it
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someone awful. posted:the star fox 64 run they had was a pretty cool example of score attack overlapping with speedrunning, obviously a lot of games aren't designed in a way to make this feasible but it was cool to see it Yeah, I really enjoyed that run but star fox 64 is one of my favorite games so I'm very biased
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Jan 22, 2024 23:05
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TheMopeSquad posted:I thought that TGM was more of a gaming thing that was big in Japan on its own and KevinDDR was basically just introducing it to a western audience. That's part of it, but my point is that nobody really speedruns TGM.
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So I know there are more mini-marathon streams throughout the year between the GDQs, what's the next one of those?
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Frost Fatales in first week of march I think. But there are tons of marathons that aren’t under the GDQ umbrella throughout the year
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:So I know there are more mini-marathon streams throughout the year between the GDQs, what's the next one of those? Frost Fatales is coming up in March! The Fatales events are great, it’s a comfier vibe than the mainline events, highly recommended.
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Jan 23, 2024 02:07
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GDQ is also hosting the Unapologetically Black and Fast showcase weekend February 17 & 18
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Snake Maze posted:Yeah, score attack stuff is the biggest thing I’d like to see more of. It’s strange to me how little overlap there seems to be with speedrunning communities, considering how similar the methodologies and goals are. The infamous Donkey Kong world record is a kind of score attack - but yeah GDQ has very little to do with arcade anything, which seems to be the purview of Twin Galaxies. Is Kusogrande a GDQ event like Frame Fatales or just an unofficial side thing that Brossentia puts on? Being a connoisseur of Bad Games beyond the usual NES LJN releases is ... a skill of sorts.
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Coffee Jones posted:Is Kusogrande a GDQ event like Frame Fatales or just an unofficial side thing that Brossentia puts on? Being a connoisseur of Bad Games beyond the usual NES LJN releases is ... a skill of sorts.
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UBAF is apparently going through the 19th as well this year. Kusogrande is just a thing Brosentia started and helps organize. And Smight's Arcade Pit is on the Hotfix every other Thursday IIRC. (how has there not been a Junkey Ball run for Awful Block)
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While it's not GDQ I enjoy Grandpoobear speedrun sessions. Those have nothing to do we charity, however.
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is there like a master speedrun marathon calendar out there somewhere
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I recommend the Big Bad Game-a-thon if you like that sorts of jam and Retrothon is probably my favourite event after GDQ.
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TeaJay posted:I recommend the Big Bad Game-a-thon if you like that sorts of jam and Retrothon is probably my favourite event after GDQ. There's also RPG Limit Break on May 19th for people who like the long RPG runs.
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it'd be really cool if people made sure to post when speedrunning events were happening over in the year-round speedrunning thread b/c i know for sure I always constantly am missing things happening
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Autisanal Cheese posted:is there like a master speedrun marathon calendar out there somewhere
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woke kaczynski posted:I mean it's a little unfair to expect him to play dark souls surely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcdHLVWTa4 a bunny can do it 
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goblin week posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcdHLVWTa4 It is hard to get excited about something that is no different from the @BunnyTimezone account on Mastodon. E: just joshing, this is very cute and cool. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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goblin week posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcdHLVWTa4 This is not on pace for the leaderboard
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I'm not gonna watch any of it.
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Rubellavator posted:That's part of it, but my point is that nobody really speedruns TGM. the list of people who have competed for the record in TGM 1 at a particular arcade in Japan is twice as long as the speedrun.com leaderboards for a third of the games in any given GDQ
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This is seriously the only place I could think to ask but is there an SA thread for people affected by cancer? Google gives me nothing.
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Edmund Sparkler posted:This is seriously the only place I could think to ask but is there an SA thread for people affected by cancer? Google gives me nothing. The Goon Doctor subforum would probably have one, if I had to guess. Sorry for whatever you're going through.
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I had renal cancer myself in 2014. I feel like I lucked out because I only got sick once, they found I was stage 2 and took out the offending organ. Good thing I had a spare. F cancer.
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someone awful. posted:The Goon Doctor subforum would probably have one, if I had to guess. Sorry for whatever you're going through. Thank you, my partner was diagnosed. It got caught really early so it's hopefully nothing bigger.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:So I know there are more mini-marathon streams throughout the year between the GDQs, what's the next one of those? ESA has their winter marathon the week of 17 feb
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ilmucche posted:ESA has their winter marathon the week of 17 feb esa is run by transphobes who try and 'both sides' nazis and the people that call out nazis. gently caress 'em.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:esa is run by transphobes who try and 'both sides' nazis and the people that call out nazis. gently caress 'em.
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I'm usually pretty exhausted for speedruns after GDQ, but ESA winter has a few things I want to see - OpenTaiko which I assume is a drum showcase, Alan Wake 2 ... and a 65 player original Sonic trilogy relay. I assume it will go like the Mario 64 relay they had some previous year. Also, going through the GDQ backlog, I again recommend this Typing of the Dead run if you haven't seen it, some great tech and funny word combos with impeccable keyboardmanship from peaches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2UOCwcSsBY Here's the Twitch timestamped link if you want to see the chat take on his challenge. https://twitch.tv/videos/2032403661?t=56997s TeaJay fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:esa is run by transphobes who try and 'both sides' nazis and the people that call out nazis. gently caress 'em.
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Yeah, it's really a shame what happened to ESA. The early ones were so much fun! A speedrun marathon in my country so it's not super expensive to attend! A marathon that I literally came up with the name for! But after the Punchy thing, it's dead to me, and some of the poo poo they've pulled since has not made things better. They need to get their heads out of their arses and start issuing some apologies and fully commit to indefinitely banning chuds.
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is there a TLDR on what esa did/does, because this is the first i've heard (i dont pay too close attention to esa)
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