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Bruno Powroznik said:
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You can clearly see he's having the biggest boner of his life based on his grimace alone. Imagine forcing thousands to see your disgusting belly while wearing a cropped, there're very few things in the world that can give a tranny a bigger rush of adrenaline than that.

I have no doubt he wanked the biggest fap of his life in the bathroom after his run. The guy is going to relive this moment forever in his next dilations. NOT A FETISH.

In other news, 47k watching right now Tape to Tape, a game I've never heard about. Probably a troon without the skills necessary to run a famous game.
 
Raging Capybara said:
In other news, 47k watching right now Tape to Tape, a game I've never heard about. Probably a troon without the skills necessary to run a famous game.
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Funny you bring that up. I noticed as the years went by and GDQ deteriorated that they slowly started removing games that pretty much everyone is familiar with. The year they quietly removed Super Metroid from the schedule and ended the "save vs. kill the animals" bidding war was when I noticed the trend because that bid war alone would always raise tens of thousands of dollars every year because it was a tradition, yet they were willing to cut it from the schedule? It's never been featured again in the years since. I think when GDQ started pandering more toward troons this also came with the caveat that these talentless deviants just aren't skilled at the games people know. Super Mario Bros, Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda and so on the people who have the fasted times in these games -- the people who are the best at them -- aren't troons and the troons who do run these games have piss poor times that aren't worthy of being showcased on a platform such as GDQ so they had to start filling the schedule with shit nobody's ever heard of because these low-hanging fruits are where the trannies all wound up congregating.
 
HedgehogBoysVEVO said:
Funny you bring that up. I noticed as the years went by and GDQ deteriorated that they slowly started removing games that pretty much everyone is familiar with. The year they quietly removed Super Metroid from the schedule and ended the "save vs. kill the animals" bidding war was when I noticed the trend because that bid war alone would always raise tens of thousands of dollars every year because it was a tradition, yet they were willing to cut it from the schedule?
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I forget if it was 3 or 4 years ago, but I noticed that they had an entire five day event and I didn't recognize a single game that was played there.
 
It's not very hard to be a super talented speedrunner when you're the only one speedrunning games literally nobody else has ever heard of.

I think there was an analysis video on how AGDQ started falling apart that pointed this out.
 
HedgehogBoysVEVO said:
Funny you bring that up. I noticed as the years went by and GDQ deteriorated that they slowly started removing games that pretty much everyone is familiar with. The year they quietly removed Super Metroid from the schedule and ended the "save vs. kill the animals" bidding war was when I noticed the trend because that bid war alone would always raise tens of thousands of dollars every year because it was a tradition, yet they were willing to cut it from the schedule? It's never been featured again in the years since. I think when GDQ started pandering more toward troons this also came with the caveat that these talentless deviants just aren't skilled at the games people know. Super Mario Bros, Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda and so on the people who have the fasted times in these games -- the people who are the best at them -- aren't troons and the troons who do run these games have piss poor times that aren't worthy of being showcased on a platform such as GDQ so they had to start filling the schedule with shit nobody's ever heard of because these low-hanging fruits are where the trannies all wound up congregating.
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While I absolutely think trannies infest everything and crybully everyone else out until there's nothing left of value, I can't even blame this one on trannies because Cosmo and Sig had some of the most entertaining runs in the history of the event. Even back when the tranny psyop was just getting off the ground GDQ was already bending knee to the wokemob to the point that good runners just didn't want to be involved anymore.

But yeah, another thing I noticed was that in the event that a big name speedgame gets played, it's never any% or whatever equivalent main category anymore. It's always some dumb fringe category, because they just don't have the talent.

GDQ died in the basement.
 
Gravemind said:
It's not very hard to be a super talented speedrunner when you're the only one speedrunning games literally nobody else has ever heard of.

I think there was an analysis video on how AGDQ started falling apart that pointed this out.
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Hey the protomagicalgirl strategy. Be the only runner for some shitty obscure games and an absolute nobody at everything else.
 
On paper, I don't mind more obscure games being run. You can't just repeat the same run year after year, especially when a lot of games have more or less been solved or there's only been minor advancements in the run. But I think there are some ways to mix things up, things like races/relays or changing the category.

Buuuut....
Gravemind said:
It's not very hard to be a super talented speedrunner when you're the only one speedrunning games literally nobody else has ever heard of.
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You need to balance it out with this. Again, I don't think every game that's run needs to be super popular, but if there's literally nobody else running the game, it's worth taking into consideration. IMO, dedicate a block (or maybe even several blocks) for shorter, obscure games. You don't have to bury it completely, but it's not going to be a primetime thing either. Call it the Showcase block or something.

The bigger issue is how lifeless a lot of runs are, and part of this is from new, inexperienced runners who are running obscure games, but it's a greater part of the GDQ no fun allowed commentary or picking people with zero charisma based solely on their pronouns.
 
GDQ just isn't a place that real runners care about and it shows. Shitty games, shitty runs, shitty couches, and so on.

The real problem is that people can find better speedrun content much easier than waiting for GDQ. If you want to watch a shitty speedrun, there's shitty speedruns all over Twitch/Youtube 24/7.
 
Tanner Glass said:
GDQ just isn't a place that real runners care about and it shows.
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Because anyone with half a brain knows that involving themselves with GDQ means they are going to be perpetually surrounded by the worst people you can imagine and on top of that they'll be walking on eggshells the entire time they are there. Why bother? Why take the risk? Everyone's jumping ship to ESA now because for now at least the ESA organizers aren't choking on girldick.
 
Cyber Bowling said:
On paper, I don't mind more obscure games being run. You can't just repeat the same run year after year, especially when a lot of games have more or less been solved or there's only been minor advancements in the run. But I think there are some ways to mix things up, things like races/relays or changing the category.

Buuuut....

You need to balance it out with this. Again, I don't think every game that's run needs to be super popular, but if there's literally nobody else running the game, it's worth taking into consideration. IMO, dedicate a block (or maybe even several blocks) for shorter, obscure games. You don't have to bury it completely, but it's not going to be a primetime thing either. Call it the Showcase block or something.

The bigger issue is how lifeless a lot of runs are, and part of this is from new, inexperienced runners who are running obscure games, but it's a greater part of the GDQ no fun allowed commentary or picking people with zero charisma based solely on their pronouns.
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That's just symptomatic of the bigger problem: The fact that they've pushed out most of the runners of the top, actually interesting to watch speedgames with their troonery nonsense, thus leaving the event having to settle for a bunch of nobody troons and drones who will ONLY fill the schedule with obscure games that nobody else cares about.

But hey, they made their deathbed through bending the knee, nepotism, and a whole lot of taking advantage of a bunch of socially inept autists who probably just wanted to meet other socially inept autists and hopefully make something "more" of themselves by being able to demonstrate their singular skills at what was once a high viewership, high income event. Now they get to lie in it and continue slowly wasting away like they've been doing since COVID. Being forced to move to an online format and stop the live events is what really crippled GDQ in a way that they still haven't been able to recover from.
Tanner Glass said:
GDQ just isn't a place that real runners care about and it shows. Shitty games, shitty runs, shitty couches, and so on.

The real problem is that people can find better speedrun content much easier than waiting for GDQ. If you want to watch a shitty speedrun, there's shitty speedruns all over Twitch/Youtube 24/7.
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And this is partially why, too. Everyone who got pushed out or was starting to have their reservations about GDQ (probably as early as NASA's premiere and ESA's growing popularity) realized that they could just foster an audience on their own, without having to rely on GDQ exposure.
 
I glanced through this years schedule and there are actually a lot more games that I recognize compared to the past three or four years. Even got a Super Metroid run, albeit as a TASbot run. No idea who any of the players are, and I really don't want to have to listen to the incessant crowd noise/donation readings, so I don't know that I'll really be watching any of this, definitely not live.
 
HedgehogBoysVEVO said:
Because anyone with half a brain knows that involving themselves with GDQ means they are going to be perpetually surrounded by the worst people you can imagine and on top of that they'll be walking on eggshells the entire time they are there. Why bother? Why take the risk? Everyone's jumping ship to ESA now because for now at least the ESA organizers aren't choking on girldick.
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Not to mention that GDQ makes you pay your own way. You pay for your own hotel and travel, which for some runners can be hundreds of dollars.

GDQ hasn't made any speedrunners famous and the people that did get some level of fame from it (protomagicgirl, Chibineko) was entirely negative. No one with a brain wants to be in the cringe compilation.
 
GDQ is no longer interesting. They removed all the closeup camera placements of the crowd. You're not seeing golden moments like this again and the only reasons to jump into a gdq thread on /v/


 
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I was goofing around on Twitch tonight and something jogged my memory that's GDQ-related. A few years back GDQ had a raffle prize that was this big handmade Kazooie plush. I know a guy who's a little obsessed with the character and he really wanted that plush. You had to donate to GDQ for it though and there was no guarantee that you'd win of course. He lamented over wanting the Kazooie for pretty much the duration of marathon and he never donated. I don't remember what the minimum donation was.

As it turns out this crafty motherfucker figured out a way to make sure he'd get the plush. He tracked down the artist who made the prize for GDQ and commissioned a second one from them. I don't remember how much it was but it was at least a few hundred dollars. Dude was fucking thrilled that he figured out the cheat strat.

I did some googling and I believe I found the original post from the artist on Tumblr. Apparently this was for SGDQ 2017.

Here's the plush Kazooie:
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SlipNHonkMach2 said:
You're not seeing golden moments like this again and the only reasons to jump into a gdq thread on /v/
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The /v/ GDQ threads are being hammered by some butthurt tranny jannies that lurk the thread giving site wide bans for offtopic or "trolling outside of /b/" for the most milquetoast posts. Copped a 3 day for saying that the troons dress like grandmas
 
Hector Hamsteak said:
The /v/ GDQ threads are being hammered by some butthurt tranny jannies that lurk the thread giving site wide bans for offtopic or "trolling outside of /b/" for the most milquetoast posts. Copped a 3 day for saying that the troons dress like grandmas
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No wonder why so many /v/ rapefugees flock here.
 
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