Ginger Hail
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I always love the silly shit they pull off at the end of TAS Block.
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 | January 8th - January 15th | Speedrunning for Charity
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and some of the speedruns have been dry and long as hell, please.
I think the problem is that if you're not aware of the limitations and what is involved to workaround them, it's just watching a shitty video of a speedrun. Knowing that to get it running required two NESes for audio, a SNES for video and 250k inputs/second makes it all the more impressive.
The people involved wanted to do SMM, they were denied by GDQ staff. It was at the last two GDQ, could've easily become another mainstay of the events. It's like an all-stars speedrunning event. Oh well. Not sure why some people gotta defend everything the GDQ organizers do.
I was sad about Blood Money being at 4AM. :/
jediyoshi
Member
The event has been running for >120+ hours but the TAS block's time is suddenly golden hour.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
That's a sick jacket
SolidSnakeUS
Member
So... anyone else going to donate? LOL.
StopMakingSense
Member
Also, TAS block is a huge money maker, donation-wise. The Gradius run was a 40k incentive.
(and there was a bidding war for the videos, which was why the portal video was in there)
It's gonna be worth it though lol
Starwolf_UK
Member
Can international donors even participate? I think shipping would end up costing hundreds of dollars.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
So close to 1.2 million.
Wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a lot over 1.5 million before the end at this point, still like 8 hours left.
Hmm, I think you can but I don't know.
Wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a lot over 1.5 million before the end at this point, still like 8 hours left.
Hmm, I think you can but I don't know.
JHoNNy1OoO
Member
Just today I was wondering why there was no Maker this year. Seems like an absolute no brainier. Disappointing to hear it was denied.
Hamster Plugin
Member
I find it really scammy that the donation page says I'm eligible for the prize, but if you open the terms and conditions it says this:
It's hidden in the sweepstakes rules and they're not mentioning it on stream at all. I'm sure there's lots of uneligible $125's going in right now.
It's hidden in the sweepstakes rules and they're not mentioning it on stream at all. I'm sure there's lots of uneligible $125's going in right now.
KojiKnight
Member
You can't run the same game every gdq. It'll be back many multiple times over the next few years.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
DS3 is not all bosses? :/
SJRB
Gold Member
Yeah that's pretty neat.
I kinda wish more devs would support AGDQ this way, but I guess when it gets too much it undermines the independent nature of AGDQ.
Almost 30k in the past 5 minutes, probably mostly just from people trying to that Namco bundle.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
It's pretty amazing xD
That's a... weird list.
Like, why is Sweden of all places in there?
I kind of wish they had the same rule with Super Metroid and mixed it up a little.
I know it's a tradition at this point but that run is pretty stale at this point.
Yeah, they've been doing like 100k every 90 minutes since SMG2. And we still have the biggest run ahead with Super Metroid, a pretty big and long run with Wind Waker and a massive wild card with Undertale. It seems like the Dark Souls incentive is doing its thing too.
Well now they know what to do to rack up the cash in next GDQs: find a crazy sponsor to donate hundreds of bucks of merch.
Well there it is. That sucks. A bit scummy they didn't make that known on stream.
Well there it is. That sucks. A bit scummy they didn't make that known on stream.
Strange list. Why only so few countries?
Aaronrules380
Member
I mean on the one hand I get what you're saying. On the other hand you probably wouldn't win regardless and the point is to raise money for charity so anybody only donating on the off chance of winning the raffle is kind of questionable to me
oh that's pretty bad :/
I'm elligable but it's pretty sad that only half a dozen countries are.
Minimum to enter raffle of massive Bandai Namco bundle.
Namco is giving out a bunch of anime
I'm guessing gambling laws.
Bl@de
Member
Isn't it a raffle? So only one guy will win and not everyone.
yikes, that could suck if people didn't see that.
atomic moth
Member
Is there a donation incentive to make sure no commentator calls the Super Nintendo a "snes?"
StrawberryJam
Member
"Hey guys, long time donater, first time donater. It gives me great joy to save to a great cause. Greetings from donation. PS: donate the cancer, donate the frames."
What the hell. Very scummy not making it known on stream.
Hamster Plugin
Member
It's hidden inside a wall of text of sweepstakes rules. People are not going to see that.
They could easily have the donation page geolocate my IP as I'm in Finland, so they wouldn't display the prizes. But it doesn't, and it's advertising that $125 prize package to me even though I have no chance of winning it in an uneligible country.
I'm really wondering how many $125 donations are going in without them knowing they have a zero percent chance of winning it.