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[Bollocks]

man, the donation messages really kill the excitement for me.
90% of them are about people who died to cancer, mom, dad, wife, it's depressing
even more so if they read it out in batches

 

[Azure Dream]

Duke Nukem Terminator says "THANK YOU"

Looks like he got some really good tricks off quickly, surprised he wasn't more excited about the time.

Also, how the hell don't they have donation comments to read? How about going back and reading a few they skipped previously? I know when I donated last year a few times, they never read mine off.

 

[8BitsAtATime]

That was another really good run.

 

[toddhunter]

man, the donation messages really kill the excitement for me.
90% of them are about people who died to cancer, mom, dad, wife, it's depressing
even more so if they read it out in batches

I did a donation message like that

To me it is not so much about the depressing side. I'm going through a family member with cancer at the moment and it is tough. But watching this lets me know I'm not alone.

It helps.

Anyway, time to watch Rare's most recent good game!

 

[SmartWaffles]

Wait, Rare made this????

 

[IceMarker]

This year's AGDQ seems less hype than the past years... then again we're just getting into day 3.

 

[Bollocks]

I did a donation message like that

To me it is not so much about the depressing side. I'm going through a family member with cancer at the moment and it is tough. But watching this lets me know I'm not alone.

It helps.

Anyway, time to watch Rare's most recent good game!

Yeah I know, no reason to not do such messages if it helps you.
Just for me personally it totally takes me out of the speedrun and makes me do a reality check. While we all just play games to have a good time.

 

[Platy]

Good to know that the BattleBlock Theatre and They Bleed Pixels runs were amazing =D
Will watch later ... danm you timezones and work ! >=O


And ... wtf is this snake game ?
It is so surreal it is kinda scary

 

[YianGaruga]

This year's AGDQ seems less hype than the past years... then again we're just getting into day 3.

More money from sponsors, more rules, more "professionalism".

For some reason I feel the donation messages clash especially hard with what is going on on the stream this year. The games are often interrupted by the announcer and sometimes sad messages are interrupted by bursts of laughter or exclamations of the runners and commentators. It often feels awkward. The runners are just there to have fun and entertain an audience and the messages are primarily about people dying. It just doesn't feel right and both aspects fall short.

 

[8BitsAtATime]

I'm loving the announcer. She's doing a great job with asking questions.

 

[JBourne]

And ... wtf is this snake game ?
It is so surreal it is kinda scary

Snake Rattle 'n' Roll.

 

[Escalario]

And ... wtf is this snake game ?
It is so surreal it is kinda scary

Best RARE game. DKC has nothing on it.

 

[Myggen]

More money from sponsors, more rules, more "professionalism".

For some reason I feel the donation messages clash especially hard with what is going on on the stream this year. The games are often interrupted by the announcer and sometimes sad messages are interrupted by bursts of laughter or exclamations of the runners and commentators. It often feels awkward. The runners are just there to have fun and entertain an audience and the messages are primarily about people dying. It just doesn't feel right and both aspects fall short.

It's always like that, and some people are always complaining about it. I haven't noticed it being "worse" than previous years.

 

[toddhunter]

The runners are just there to have fun and entertain an audience

It is a charity event you know?

I think it is as good as than ever this year and the more professionalism and less "speedrun drama" we have, the better off everybody will be. When there is a good person on the microphone everything still clicks. If anything the problem, as usual, is when there is not.

 

[Mr. Enigma]

This year's AGDQ seems less hype than the past years... then again we're just getting into day 3.

Yep. I just said this to someone else privately. There is no electricity there like years before. It all just comes off as so dull now.

 

[Vexxan]

Watching the Battleblock Theater VOD at the moment and damn it's so fucking good. Never heard of this game before but the great commentary and having the devs on Skype is making it really good to watch.

 

[JBourne]

Things will get more relaxed after the official marathon ends and they just start running random stuff.

 

[DeSo]

Things will get more relaxed after the official marathon ends and they just start running random stuff.

I didn't think they were doing that this year.

 

[Grinchy]

Twitch chat mostly sucks but can be funny during a good run, and i'll never not Kappa// for a good one.

I was pretty shocked when they pushed the twitch chat through the SNES controller port and people in chat weren't saying racist/sexist/shitty things.

 

[theSlacker]

The estimate on Little Samson was more then 2x the time he used.

 

[JBourne]

I didn't think they were doing that this year.

Bummer if true. Any confirmation anywhere?

 

[DeSo]

Bummer if true. Any confirmation anywhere?

Nah I'm not sure, just thought I heard it from a streamer before the event. Could be wrong.

 

[NobleGreenBeast]

Here we go again. Good luck to TMR and JC on the coop run.

 

[tci]

I'm loving the announcer. She's do a great job with asking questions.

Yes, she's great. Seems interested in the runs herself. Hope she stays on for a while

 

[ldcommando]

that´s one mean game

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

the hype is real in this run

 

[DeSo]

Yeah loving this.

 

[JBourne]

Just watching this game stresses me out.

 

[demidar]

Battletoads is more masochistic than I gave it credit for.

 

[Insane Dead]

This BattleToads run is pretty intense haha

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

 

[Bumhat]

This is some serious shit! Really enjoying it. I kinda wish they did more 'more than one person' runs whether that be co-op or races (but please, no more DKR!).

 

[BasicMath]

That Battletoads run was pretty good. The two runners were perfectly in sync at times. It kinda fell apart towards the end but the last stage saved it.

Nah I'm not sure, just thought I heard it from a streamer before the event. Could be wrong.

Event/Hotel Reservation dates actually mention the bonus stream days. I believe it ends on the 13th, so that's 2 days for bonus stream?

 

[Nanashrew]

Woo! I haven't missed Gimmick! yet!

 

[JBourne]

BARF!

 

[LeonSPBR]

BARF!

I'm history dude!

 

[PKrockin]

"My evil power is gone!"

wtf are you talking about slick? did we hit you too hard?

 

[Nanashrew]

Yay Gimmick!

 

[Aeana]

I've been waiting for this Gimmick run. It's always so fun to watch.

 

[CassSept]

Huh, I just realized I can simply boot up twitch on my Wii U GamePad and watch it from there while I do other stuff on my PC. Next level AGDQ'ing!

 

[theSlacker]

Yay, Gimmick!

 

[demidar]

Gimmick is always so impressive.

 

[theSlacker]

Gimmick is always so impressive.

What's really impressive is that bomb jump he just made.

 

[thesaucetastic]

Shoving the boss off the ledge, loool

This game is pretty cute.

Spoiler

So is the runner ///

 

[Nanashrew]

Great run!

 

[Aeana]

He makes it all look so easy. Even the regular star shots are way harder than they look.

 

[theSlacker]

It's sad when the runs you wait all day to see are also some of the shortest of the day. That and Within a Deep Forest were the two I didn't want to miss today.

 

[Recall]

Gimmick! Is the game the average joe thinks it looks easy as they have no context how challenging of a game it really is. The star jumps are a thing of beauty.

 

[PandaPedinte]

That Gimmick run was impressive, I didn't know the game before watching but the star shots don't look like something easy to pull, especially throwing the star at the right time and angle.

 

[theSlacker]

Unscheduled Blaster Master. Cool.