Funny how one of the most recent events had a guy (DrunkWario, Dead Rising speedrunner) ousted for grooming and it only got more circulation due to his affiliation with GeePM, who was attempting to cancel Vinesauce at the time.
I'm honestly surprised that Factorio hasn't been purged from the schedule after the lead dev's recent crimes against the woke orthodoxy.
Regardless, the run is already tainted since the description reveals that a predefined seed will be used instead of being randomized with standard settings. I bet it won't even have enemy biters because the runner can't cope with them.
In all seriousness i blame twitter transvestites and youtube "documentary" channels glamorizing the speedrun genre instead of addressing it head on as a bunch of autists who can't let a computer game go. "oooh so dramatic is the quest for perfection and being frame perfect *que epic tense music* but suddenly a challenger appears *ooo woow its just like rocky III* this boxing match of who will be remembered for their first sub 12 minute run on "some random contemporary shovelware game made for profit by corporations in the moment 35 years ago"
At least MineCon is just a bunch of kids, these grown ass men take it way too far
Its very simple, it used to be a show ran by a handful of autists in a couch, speedrunning games live in someone's living room for charity, and then the troons and executives came in to suck all the fun out of it and make it as corporate friendly as they could, really sad many such cases
In all seriousness i blame twitter transvestites and youtube "documentary" channels glamorizing the speedrun genre instead of addressing it head on as a bunch of autists who can't let a computer game go. "oooh so dramatic is the quest for perfection and being frame perfect *que epic tense music* but suddenly a challenger appears *ooo woow its just like rocky III* this boxing match of who will be remembered for their first sub 12 minute run on "some random contemporary shovelware game made for profit by corporations in the moment 35 years ago"
At least MineCon is just a bunch of kids, these grown ass men take it way too far
The issue for GDQ is that it started making a fucking shit ton of money. Enough money where people could start seriously grifting and taking on big corporate sponsors. Once that happens, those people who were previously "a bunch of autists on a couch" who are now making $120k/year for doing 2 shows a year are going to do whatever they can to make sure the money keeps flowing.
Trannies in GDQ is just the easy way for free "progressive" points and lets them do "women's only" events.
Who the fuck is excited for this garbage? It has been thoroughly sanitized and taken over by disgusting fucking troons. Who gives a shit? All the funny people left and now its just charisma void autists and trannies who can't play games
I used to like agdq when it had relatively normal socially ackward but endearing runners.
Now the narcissistic troons have taken over and because of the potential money involved all fun has been sanitized for the sake of the "wider general audience"
The only thing in the new agdq that was also in the olde agdq is the cringe and that's the only thing worth staying for.
GDQ pre-clown world: "We made a complex set of scripts and hardware hacks to control an unmodded DS running Brain Age, and we're gonna ace Calculations x100 but by drawing pictures and making jokes"
GDQ during clown world: "We scared away every single person with any talent, so here are a bunch of really gross dudes in wigs running through whatever they could scrape off the bottom of the barrel"
Like what the hell even is any of this garbage?
Who the hell wants to watch any of that, let alone with the worst people in the planet playing while they keep begging for money? GDQ is dead.
GDQ pre-clown world: "We made a complex set of scripts and hardware hacks to control an unmodded DS running Brain Age, and we're gonna ace Calculations x100 but by drawing pictures and making jokes"
GDQ during clown world: "We scared away every single person with any talent, so here are a bunch of really gross dudes in wigs running through whatever they could scrape off the bottom of the barrel"
Zelda CDI could be fun to watch, but only if it had a good runner and wasn't an HOUR LONG.
I swear, everytime GDQ looks somewhat interesting to me, I look to the timestamp and immediately lose interest, they always include runs that are either too long, or about games nobody gives a shit about. Give us something funny like a 20 minute Zelda CDI run or something, or go with the big hitters like Mario World, who cares about "Wheels!" or "I am Fish"?
I'm honestly surprised that Factorio hasn't been purged from the schedule after the lead dev's recent crimes against the woke orthodoxy.
Regardless, the run is already tainted since the description reveals that a predefined seed will be used instead of being randomized with standard settings. I bet it won't even have enemy biters because the runner can't cope with them.
Pre-seeding and having those settings totally defeats the point of Factorio. Factorio is one of my favorite games to play during downtime because you can accomplish something meaningful, even if it's only 1% of the effort you need to complete a greater task. Because of this, I understand Factorio can take time, especially when you don't spoil the map. As a result, I'm fine with accelerating it for the purposes of a show because otherwise we might be sitting all day watching the same run. However, this is just overkill. There's no challenge in this. It is like being handed everything you need to succeed and experiencing surprise at being able to do the thing. I wouldn't even do this on a test map even though my friends and I have done things like turn off biters and increased node spawns because we just want to build things.
Seeing this this reminds me of a run I saw I think last year. Some most likely troon was playing a modified version of Sonic 1, but it had the powerups from Sonic 2 and you could use Tails as your partner. When the rules were explained, I had a feeling this was going to be a really boring run, but I didn't realize how quickly I would lose interest. The second level had a very conveniently placed fire immunity powerup near the start of the lava section. This made the level entirely pointless and turned it into an exercise of getting through it as fast as possible without touching spikes or getting smashed. With Tails as a partner, the "speedrunner" demonstrated you could just fly over multiple levels by going to the top of the level because the game wasn't designed with such an impossible height in mind. Who could have thunk? It was the most eyerollingly cringe run I've ever seen. Of course, they get a world record on this thing and spend 10 minutes bawwing about how happy they are. For whatever reason, this run is totally acceptable because it's a port of Sonic 1 to mobile devices and it had these modifications built in as if that's any kind of justification for what might as well have been a cheat menu. It seems like runs like this are becoming more common and I barely watch VODs of the games I'm interested in anymore.
Honest to god question: What is the point if there is no challenge to the run? They constantly butcher these games and cheat, then try to use the guise of "accessibility" to excuse the fact that a hard game is meant to be challenging? I don't care to watch someone fish eye through a game they are using a cheat menu for. I want to see the games I grew up with absolutely destroyed by funny tricks that you can do in your copy of the game at home. Enabling cheats on a technicality or using a pre-determined seed that is borderline cheating for a survival game speedrun is boring as fuck to watch. One of the most entertaining speedruns I saw was ByteMe's run of Doom 2016 and it made me really sad how poorly he made the other speedrunners look. I don't think he has been scheduled since and it really disappointed me how stale the Doom: Eternal speedrun was by some other speedrunner.
GDQ pre-clown world: "We made a complex set of scripts and hardware hacks to control an unmodded DS running Brain Age, and we're gonna ace Calculations x100 but by drawing pictures and making jokes"
GDQ during clown world: "We scared away every single person with any talent, so here are a bunch of really gross dudes in wigs running through whatever they could scrape off the bottom of the barrel"
Jazzpunk isn't totally awful. It's just a random small indie title that is kinda a bit weird. It is so weird I am not sure if I can recommend it or not. Tomb Raider: Anniversary also isn't totally bad, either. It just never really fixed the problems the original had with its clunky design. The rest of the stuff on this list, totally don't care. Never heard of any of it. It all sounds like indie trashware. Honestly, I'm confused as to why GDQ even bothers with games no one has heard of. Maybe if they would quit running off actual speedrunners like TomatoAnus over stupid things like his name, they wouldn't have to block in so much filler... just a thought.
Off-topic from my post: but I want to powerlevel sperg for a minute about how much I hate GDQ's fake inclusivity-
It makes me MATI to see GDQ sing sonnets about how much they care about inclusivity. Yet, the people they claim as being true and honest "women" are ALWAYS MTFs. Always. There is already a huge problem of gaming being a male-dominated space, but GDQ having only men LARPing as women is really frustrating for me. I want to see women kicking ass at video games too. I'm so exhausted of these people actually being a man trying to check off as many boxes for Oppression BINGO as possible to get maximum pity points. I seriously have a hard time believing that no women want to do speedrunning or go on stage and represent women in gaming. Why the fuck are there no women in GDQ? Women aren't super common in video gaming. By my experience, I find at least 1 in every 5 or 10 men. I have a much harder time finding wild MTFs and they are so easy to find because they never shut up about how they're trans or they have that tell-tale falsetto voice.
I genuinely have a hard time believing that the only """women""" that GDQ can find are troons. I don't feel represented at all when I see a man pretending to be a woman. I guess that is why it makes me so mad. I don't hate trans people. I don't care if they want to just live their life doing their thing. It just frustrates me how much over-representation they force themselves to have.
They're never going back to the couch. They're as woke as they come, and the woke doctrine states that in-person gatherings that are not protests or parades for Black Lives Matter or LGBTQ+ pride will kill us all.
Please no, without in-person GDQ, how will I get my fix of watching retards sniff chairs in the background because they don't know the camera is on them.
AGDQ 2014 was probably one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had on the internet. I even slept around the schedule to make sure I caught anything I thought I might enjoy. Back when it was just a bunch of nerdy gamers doing something incredibly niche. It was just a chill event, it felt like you were just hanging out. Right before the bucks really started rolling in and right before the big corporate sponsors started getting their grubby hands in on the autism and having sway.
Such a shame what it's turned into. At least we have cringe comps to look forward to though.
The issue for GDQ is that it started making a fucking shit ton of money. Enough money where people could start seriously grifting and taking on big corporate sponsors. Once that happens, those people who were previously "a bunch of autists on a couch" who are now making $120k/year for doing 2 shows a year are going to do whatever they can to make sure the money keeps flowing.
Trannies in GDQ is just the easy way for free "progressive" points and lets them do "women's only" events.
Zelda CDI could be fun to watch, but only if it had a good runner and wasn't an HOUR LONG.
I swear, everytime GDQ looks somewhat interesting to me, I look to the timestamp and immediately lose interest, they always include runs that are either too long, or about games nobody gives a shit about. Give us something funny like a 20 minute Zelda CDI run or something, or go with the big hitters like Mario World, who cares about "Wheels!" or "I am Fish"?
The last time in recent memory I was able to watch a video about video games that was an hour long was ymfah's gimmick run of Skyrim when he completed a game without ever walking with that character. Of course, the troon brigade probably hates him anyway because he's 1) Slavic, and 2) actually entertaining.
I'll admit, I'd like to see Nightfire get run through because the guns are goofy and the janky animations are funny, but on the 4th of July? I'd rather be shooting off fireworks.
The last time anything fun happened at GDQ was in 2017 where the Toy Story run was just a bunch of drunk bros on the couch having fun. Also the run was really good and a fine length to keep interest.
In all seriousness i blame twitter transvestites and youtube "documentary" channels glamorizing the speedrun genre instead of addressing it head on as a bunch of autists who can't let a computer game go. "oooh so dramatic is the quest for perfection and being frame perfect *que epic tense music* but suddenly a challenger appears *ooo woow its just like rocky III* this boxing match of who will be remembered for their first sub 12 minute run on "some random contemporary shovelware game made for profit by corporations in the moment 35 years ago"
glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this. I blame Karl Jobst as in one of his videos, it might be about the Mario 64 WR during a live event, he said that he hopes speedrunning will get more mainstream attention and get covered bigger events. No one with a life wants to watch a depressed womxn play a game 1000s of times just to shave off a few milliseconds.
Its very simple, it used to be a show ran by a handful of autists in a couch, speedrunning games live in someone's living room for charity, and then the troons and executives came in to suck all the fun out of it and make it as corporate friendly as they could, really sad many such cases
This is the kind of thing that ruined competitive gaming (muh e-sports). It used to be people who liked a game and set up events to play. Now with the money and sponsors involved, it's become sanitized. With game companies trying to cater to it, games become uninteresting, with weird mechanics or silly stuff being thrown out. The best competitive games were always competitive by accident and not made with "e-sports" in mind. Despite the amount of shit Smash's competitive scene gets, it's the biggest grassroots competitive scene, and it's the only one that still exists that I can recall.
GDQ pre-clown world: "We made a complex set of scripts and hardware hacks to control an unmodded DS running Brain Age, and we're gonna ace Calculations x100 but by drawing pictures and making jokes"
GDQ during clown world: "We scared away every single person with any talent, so here are a bunch of really gross dudes in wigs running through whatever they could scrape off the bottom of the barrel"
Jesus, what a load of bottom of the barrel crap. Has it always been like this? I guess you need some filler here and there but that entire schedule is hot garbage. I want to watch someone good destroying Resident Evil 3 or something, not some tranny in a wig playing indie shovelware.
