On January 18 2017 01:55 Logo wrote: I'm surprised that they don't have an audio solution worked out for the runners; give the runners the option of noise canceling headphones that only feed in the necessary audio and let the crowd cheer as much as they want.
Agreed. Seems weird that 'too loud audience' has to be discouraged.
On January 17 2017 19:11 rotta wrote: Did they really ban Linkus or what? :D
Nope, as far as I know, there were only 2 bans: 1) the hat incident - part of the couch of Ape Escape 2 was warned for wearing MAGA hats on stream - PvtCb, who was also on the couch, was banned, even though he never wore a hat; he was warned that a "zero tolerance"-policy applied to him beforehand. Allegedly because of shittalking GDQ a lot in the past, and he made some bad twitter posts last year (quoted a mass murderer when saying not to go to AGDQ), but GDQ never gave an official reason. They first accused him of wearing one of the hats, which wasn't true, but then was kicked out anyway for what seems to be a cover of hard-to-check reasons. If the GDQ staff wants you out, you'll probably be out in no time. (Because of association, Cyberdemon531 was also banned)
2) wahluigi One of the couch sitters during the 4-way Metroid Prime race told a whole crowd of WAAAH-memers to go kill themselves, after the runners had asked them multiple times to stop being so annoying. Also in this case, the person who got banned, had critized GDQ many times before... but I doubt that a clean slate would've made any difference when someone tells a whole crowd to kill themselves in front of 250k viewers.
It was interesting that the article didn't cover the Super Metroid race outburst, especially since that felt like one of the most palpably awkward ones.
It was interesting that the article didn't cover the Super Metroid race outburst, especially since that felt like one of the most palpably awkward ones.
The omission is odd, but the Super Metroid one seems much less controversial though; it is about as clear cut as possible that you can't use cancer as an insult (combined with telling people they should die) during a cancer prevention fundraiser.
It was interesting that the article didn't cover the Super Metroid race outburst, especially since that felt like one of the most palpably awkward ones.
The omission is odd, but the Super Metroid one seems much less controversial though; it is about as clear cut as possible that you can't use cancer as an insult (combined with telling people they should die) during a cancer prevention fundraiser.
That's a good point. It doesn't really take a discussion to know that shit's not okay.
On January 18 2017 01:55 Logo wrote: I'm surprised that they don't have an audio solution worked out for the runners; give the runners the option of noise canceling headphones that only feed in the necessary audio and let the crowd cheer as much as they want.
As I was watching the whole thing live, and listening to the idiots in the crowd both intentionally and unintentionally being disruptive of the runners of such a tense and difficult speedrun, I just kept shaking make head at GDQ staff for not just moving them into another room, an isolation booth, or using better headphones, something, anything.. I understand they may not have that level of organization (somebody mentioned they weren't using PowerUp this time either?) yet and nobody could have expected the douchers in the audience, but still. It's one of the least forgiving runs on the docket (remember how last time 3/4 runners tapped out, 2 of them being heavy favorites, and only the current underdog at the time, Behemoth, completed it at all?) so I still feel staff showed a lack of foresight. It is a tradition and intended to be celebratory in a sense, so maybe it's just not thought about. And again, nobody could have expected morons in the audience to be intentionally trolling.
I don't remember the outburst supposedly telling them to kill themselves, for whatever reason. I do remember somebody on the mike telling them they weren't funny (true), to get out and go support PCF by waiting for the shuttles lol. Perhaps I have to watch it again, if they left the audio in on the VOD. Even so, I'm not a bleeding heart offended by a lack of political correctness and those obnoxious dumbasses in the audience (the unfunny "WAH" bs which is annoying unless the casters are coaching it from donations, yet they were intentionally screaming it BECAUSE it was disruptive and I'm sure they'd been asked to stop already, and the dude camera mugging and yelling like a moron during the run/the run before with the Save the Animals shirt) deserved to be called out for their rudeness; shit like that can start fist-fights and then where would the stream be?. It set a bad tone for whole rest of the run as the couch (sorry don't remember his name) kept calling for quiet for good reason, but his frustration was pretty apparent and it felt oppressive. Thanks again, asshats in the audience. At least we still got a a full completion for the roster, which may say something about their ability to concentrate despite adversity if anything.
Also, what's this controversy about Linkus? Edit: + Show Spoiler +
Read the Kotaku article (or clickbait, as it's commonly known). Yeah, "controversy" because he used Cosmo's handle, the one that all the notoriety is attached to... I'm glad social media has no hold over my life, cause some of this shit people complain about is downright ridiculous and inflammatory. And as always, it's somebody else doing the complaining rather than any party involved.
On January 21 2017 04:38 Ghost151 wrote: I don't remember the outburst supposedly telling them to kill themselves, for whatever reason. I do remember somebody on the mike telling them they weren't funny (true), to get out and go support PCF by waiting for the shuttles lol.
You remember this wrong, then.
He said they weren't funny and if want to cure cancer they could do it by standing in front of the hotel shuttle.
The announcer or staff should've told the audience to stop the WAHs, and the couch guy should've said "shut up" in a way that didn't involve telling the audience to kill themselves.
Also, what's this controversy about Linkus? Edit: + Show Spoiler +
Read the Kotaku article (or clickbait, as it's commonly known). Yeah, "controversy" because he used Cosmo's handle, the one that all the notoriety is attached to... I'm glad social media has no hold over my life, cause some of this shit people complain about is downright ridiculous and inflammatory. And as always, it's somebody else doing the complaining rather than any party involved.
Cosmo isn't a handle, though, it's a name. Some people don't bother using pseudonyms for their online presence.
Still dumb because it was the nickname given to the trick when it was found, and really nothing else.
It was interesting that the article didn't cover the Super Metroid race outburst, especially since that felt like one of the most palpably awkward ones.
The omission is odd, but the Super Metroid one seems much less controversial though; it is about as clear cut as possible that you can't use cancer as an insult (combined with telling people they should die) during a cancer prevention fundraiser.
So 2 people who have a history of getting in trouble got in trouble again, and another guy accepts his temp ban on submissions without issue but Reddit needs to pitchfork something for some reason just to fabricate drama. That's obnoxious.
"The perception from viewers varies, but some prefer vigorous moderation of runner conduct, especially given the nature of recent incidents. For example, two AGDQ runs drew criticism for comments that some viewers deemed transphobic. In one incident, a couch commentator on benstephens56’s Ocarina of Time 3D run feigned indignation when benstephens56 referred to a boss as “she.” The comment drew ire on Twitter, because dealing with faulty gender assumptions plague the day-to-day life of trans people."
That was probably the dumbest reaction of the event. You could argue that comparing a Zelda boss to a transgender person is actually transphobic. Getting outraged at everything just belittles the actual times it's waranted.
So it's been a week or so and I was watching through the vods of some of the games that looked interesting to me. It appears to have gone unnoticed by the majority but did any of you see that the speedrunner who played Hitman Blood Money cheated? Lol. On his last mission, he failed to kill the target with some mines, pretended he did, and exited the level using a cheat engine. He even makes a face grimace when he knows he messed up with the mines that you can see in the video on YouTube.
On January 26 2017 07:25 Epishade wrote: So it's been a week or so and I was watching through the vods of some of the games that looked interesting to me. It appears to have gone unnoticed by the majority but did any of you see that the speedrunner who played Hitman Blood Money cheated? Lol. On his last mission, he failed to kill the target with some mines, pretended he did, and exited the level using a cheat engine. He even makes a face grimace when he knows he messed up with the mines that you can see in the video on YouTube.
Any other runs I should watch in my downtime?
I believe the mistake would've taken too long to fix, and they would've run way over schedule, cause I think the way the Professional rating (or whatever it's called) works is that he would've had to restart the whole game just to fix that one little mistake.
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