EPTSpeedrunning Thread - Page 138
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Starecat
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tyr
France1686 Posts
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GTR
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BreakfastBurrito
United States893 Posts
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Geisterkarle
Germany3257 Posts
But I also question the reasoning behind bringing MAGA hats to this event in the first place! Why would you do that? Elections are over, you don't have to rub it into peoples eyes what you voted for! Get over it! Oh well, I already cringed during the Zelda run, when the runner was called out for "assuming gender" of the monsters. Seriously? Link(the runner) is throwing bombs, hacking with a sword, shooting arrows, ... at the enemy, but using the false pronoun is wrong? | ||
Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On January 09 2017 16:37 Geisterkarle wrote: Well, they have domestic authority, so they can ban whoever they want. So legal actions are stupid. If they are liked afterwards is something else... But I also question the reasoning behind bringing MAGA hats to this event in the first place! Why would you do that? Elections are over, you don't have to rub it into peoples eyes what you voted for! Get over it! Oh well, I already cringed during the Zelda run, when the runner was called out for "assuming gender" of the monsters. Seriously? Link(the runner) is throwing bombs, hacking with a sword, shooting arrows, ... at the enemy, but using the false pronoun is wrong? These guys are well known shit stirrers - they were given final warnings upon entering the venue. The assuming genders thing was just a joke though. | ||
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disformation
Germany8352 Posts
On January 09 2017 05:33 Geisterkarle wrote: I'm ok with charity events with some gaming around it (I really enjoyed Desert Bus for Hope, if someone caught that too!). But yeah, this flair is gone... romscout tweeted some really cool pictures from CGDQ! Oh those memories...  Reminds me of the first GDQ I watched. Think it was basically in some guys living room on a big couch. Think that was one of the lsat ones before it became like popular and thing with venues etc.. I have work this week so I wont be able to catch much. I kinda liked both the OOT and the BL2 run though. couldnt care less for drama. | ||
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Geisterkarle
Germany3257 Posts
On January 09 2017 19:34 disformation wrote: I kinda liked both the OOT and the BL2 run though. couldnt care less for drama. I was kinda surprised how much fun it was watching the BL2 run! Never had this game on my rader for real... And seems the races were nice; but in the night... have to catch the VODs! | ||
TheNewEra
Germany3128 Posts
On January 09 2017 09:46 tyr wrote: Bunch of people got banned for no actual reason other than GDQ staff not liking them, basically. https://twitter.com/PvtCinnamonbun You know. I don't like the direction GDQ is going at all. I'm the first to express my disappointment with them. But these guys deserved to be banned. These guys were already on zero tolerance policy beforehand and warned because of all their shitstiring and then they decided to ignore the rules just to stir some more shit up. Hating GDQ for THIS is just dumb. | ||
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KingDime
Canada750 Posts
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TheEmulator
28103 Posts
On January 09 2017 17:32 Plexa wrote: These guys are well known shit stirrers - they were given final warnings upon entering the venue. The assuming genders thing was just a joke though. I'm sure some SJW somewhere was mad that they made a joke about assuming genders though  | ||
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pellejohnson
United States1931 Posts
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Yurie
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On January 10 2017 12:08 pellejohnson wrote: GDQ is shit and has been for a long time They produce (mostly) good entertainment and collect a bit of money for charity. Seems to be good to me. If there is drama behind it or whatever doesn't matter to me as a viewer. Biggest improvement they could do is having two sets so the downtime isn't as long as it is currently, one playing and one setting up while that is happening. | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
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Yurie
12175 Posts
On January 10 2017 16:29 FFW_Rude wrote: What's the date this year ? From two days ago until 5 days from now. Currently running. http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/gamesdonequick http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/general/517832-event-awesome-games-done-quick-2017-jan-8-15 | ||
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Duka08
3391 Posts
Note that this isn't a bad thing. Folks who say it's "gone to shit" are being very opinionated. The event clearly still has a huge audience and they still do a great thing by raising tons of money. But it shouldn't be that surprising that people who got interested or invested in it 5+ years ago don't like it now. Not really unusual for events or communities that grow over time. This all neglecting any sort of drama or whatnot that was mentioned earlier. Whole different topic I know nothing about. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46549 Posts
On January 10 2017 12:08 pellejohnson wrote: GDQ is shit and has been for a long time Third (Fourth?) straight year of AGDQs easily hitting over a million dollars for charity! Also had hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers, and surely millions in total. Minor drama is going to be unavoidable but clearly it didn't make the charity marathon any less popular | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46549 Posts
And with $1.3M already and about 8-10 hours left, should get $1.5M+... might be the highest total out of all the GDQs? Either way, this marathon has already been a huge success for speedrunning and for cancer research | ||
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46549 Posts
And we've set a new WR! | ||
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