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Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 is starting
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Kaachan
Member
Just turned the stream on and this is what I’m greeted with in the chat…
So this is event is about video games or just a bunch of mentally ill people? #selfcare
Closer
Member
It's a charity event.
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RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
I speedran the fuck away from that show.
SaiyanRaoh
Member
Okay, I need to know, why are there so many "confused" people on this show. It's jarring seeing a dude with a deeper voice than I or putting on his best baby voice being described as a SHE. Man, who do you think you're fooling? I'm pretty close to no-ping the fuck out of this. No matter how much nerd you think you have in you, watch a show like this.
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SaiyanRaoh
Member
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MrTroubleMaker
Member
ESA is better and do charities as well.
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Kaachan
Member
Yikes. That’s too bad because it’s unbearable to watch
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
It's actually quite worrying how many young men in America are so unable to cope with being young men in America, that they develop such strong mental health issues around gender and identity.
The direct correlation between social awkward young men who speed run video games, and transgenderism, is made extremely stark when you look at just how many of the people who take part in GDQ are trans.
In the future, there's going to be a lot of examination over how poorly mental health has been handled in America that this is the outcome. I know there's a temptation to laugh at dudes dressed in skirts, pretending to be female (and how that is supported by all those around them) but I actually feel a great deal of sympathy for them, and don't particularly find any of it all that funny. It's disturbing and sad, and something needs to be done about it.
The direct correlation between social awkward young men who speed run video games, and transgenderism, is made extremely stark when you look at just how many of the people who take part in GDQ are trans.
In the future, there's going to be a lot of examination over how poorly mental health has been handled in America that this is the outcome. I know there's a temptation to laugh at dudes dressed in skirts, pretending to be female (and how that is supported by all those around them) but I actually feel a great deal of sympathy for them, and don't particularly find any of it all that funny. It's disturbing and sad, and something needs to be done about it.
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SJRB
Gold Member
Glitch run, probably.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
SJRB
Gold Member
You tell me
I'm more puzzled by the "they/he" on the couch. How does that even work?
mitch1971
Member
Lets play 'spot Andre the giant'That's these folks right?
ssringo
Member
Depends on the game and the runner. Some, like my favorite speedrunner Oatsngoats (primarily runs Super Metroid and is absent from this event), can absolutely talk about whatever and still beat the game faster than 99.9% of the people watching. Others need to focus more and won't talk as much. Regardless, a lot of runs will have a person or three sitting on the "couch" to provide additional commentary and/or entertainment during the run since it can be daunting to perform well at an event and be entertaining to everyone watching. The runs themselves are more about doing the game fast and showing off tricks to entertain people but not necessarily trying to set records.
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There's some interesting looking runs coming down the line like Elden Ring vs Sekiro, Resident Evil 4 and Baldur's Gate 3 but I'll have to catch them on the VoD.
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LordCBH
Member
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
The Mega Man 3 run was very sloppy. I imagine Cyghfer watching it and facepalming all the way through.
McGILLAZ
Member
Yep - I remember when they first were starting out in tiny classroom environments and it was fun as hell to watch the runs. I have basically tuned it out for the last couple years because of how progressive it's become. Bummer.
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
Whatever happened to Caveman?
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I’m going to MAGFest this week and I’ll be wearing a mask the whole time, not because I’m afraid of getting sick, but because I’m getting over RSV and I’m not an asshole.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
And that's totally fine.
MacReady13
Member
Completely disinterested in watching this crap just to find out what pronouns these sensitive fuckers have. Plenty of other shit I can waste my time doing other than watching these overly sensitive muppets laugh at shit “jokes” being as woke as fuck.
DarkStream
Member
zenspider
Member
The pronouns was like… I don’t know how much is opt-in and how much is peer pressure so I just ignored it.. they do that shit at the Apple Store ffs. I quit on these “folx” when they moved their event because Florida was “literally” killing trans people.
It’s a shame because I think speedrunning is really cool and innovative. #savetheanimals
It’s a shame because I think speedrunning is really cool and innovative. #savetheanimals
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gaming_again
Member
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
So AGDQ 2024...no moustache? But seriously, did he stop speed running? At minimum, he chose interesting games which no one else much careful for on PS1 (this goes beyond his infamous 2014 Tomba 2 run).
Hrk69
Gold Member
Summer Games Done Quick 2024 is here
Luckily for us the guy currently on the couch has a pronouns page.
Luckily for us the guy currently on the couch has a pronouns page.
Roman Empire
Member
AGDQ and all the other editions of the show became insufferable to watch with how much woke it became across the years. Well, at least, there is ESA to watch but it's not the same thing.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Kinda just waiting at this point for them to swap charities to a transgender one, and watch the whole thing swirl down the shitter faster than you can say gender recognition act.
MacReady13
Member
It's why I don't watch it. Then I noticed recently the European one now shows the speed runners pronouns as well so I have stopped watching that as well. Not too sure why the gaming industry has turned into this insufferable bullshit pandering crap, but here we are.
Dthomp
Member
Have enjoyed a few runs the first couple days, problem is that for every couch that is just 3-4 gamers who can actually talk to an audience and entertain gets paired with a host with nonsense pronouns that wants to spend the whole run shrieking Trans Rights every donation. Wish there was an audio option to mute the hosts (Why doesn't this company hire hosts, their in house woke people are awful hosts). I usually skip Sonic block, because usually it's 270 pounds of dude stuffed into a girl cosplay outfit, but all runners today were actual normal dudes (Think a few I've seen on ESA).
Side note, I didn't think the prizes team could get any worse then Sent...but this Corvimae or whatever that is is beyond awful to listen to. 90% of the GDQ staff are sorry to say really unattractive people to look and listen to. I can't think of any other company that does fundraising for charity where all the hosts are slobs in sweatpants.
Side note, I didn't think the prizes team could get any worse then Sent...but this Corvimae or whatever that is is beyond awful to listen to. 90% of the GDQ staff are sorry to say really unattractive people to look and listen to. I can't think of any other company that does fundraising for charity where all the hosts are slobs in sweatpants.
SaiyanRaoh
Member
I'm watching some dude that's clearly a fucking male playing Pepper Grinder. His pronouns are....."it".
I just can't, man. What is this correlation between speed running and mental illness in America? Serious question. This shit is at least muted a bit with the ESA events.
EDIT: Well, listening and watching him as he plays this game, I guess I can see why. Dude is completely drained of testoserone. While not a she, It would be wrong to call him a 'he" either.
I just can't, man. What is this correlation between speed running and mental illness in America? Serious question. This shit is at least muted a bit with the ESA events.
EDIT: Well, listening and watching him as he plays this game, I guess I can see why. Dude is completely drained of testoserone. While not a she, It would be wrong to call him a 'he" either.
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Trilobit
Member
Just turned the stream on and this is what I’m greeted with in the chat…
Why does the style sound suspiciously similar to
DeafTourette
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
To have the time to speed run games you kind of have to be a shut-in type, with low self esteem and a poor social life. That tends to lead to mental health issues that don’t get dealt with properly due to America’s terrible health system. So instead people like that get sucked into ideologies that are online, which is their only real social outlet.
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DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
ssringo
Member
Looked through the schedule and like usual there's only a couple runs I'm interested in. Grand Poo World 3 because Poo and Barb on the couch and are fantastic commentators and Poo has some good fun speedrun events. The other is the 4 way Super Metroid race between Oatsngoats (any% WR holder), ShinyZeni (100% WR holder), ARC (top contender in both categories) and Imyt (any% contender). I'm hoping that one turns into a fun nailbiter.
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Hrk69
Gold Member
SaiyanRaoh
Member
Lol, who the fuck does he think he's fooling?? Unfortunately, no one they allow to stay in their lives will tell them; "No, you aren't fooling ANYONE. Anyone else seeing you at face value sees what can be reduced being to a man in a wig."No worries. I got you.
TheDuskwalker
Member
They used to have 100-200k average viewership at there peak a few years ago. Regardless if view botting or legit views, 30k at late night and 50k during the day really shows how bad the event has become.
Dthomp
Member
I'm surprised that Doctors without Borders and Prevent Cancer Foundation haven't had a discussion with them about the amount of people and potential $$$ they push away with their identity politics crap. I mean if they could go 24 hours without screaming Trans Rights I would bet word would spread amongst online communities and viewership would go up within 24 hours. Not to mention, the games they don't allow because TRANSPHOBIC, Hogwarts was what the best selling game of last year? and isn't allowed to be run? WTF? Meanwhile we damn sure will get Celeste mods year after year after year. While they do raise a good amount of money, I would like to think a better run event run more professionally could bring in significantly more then they do and that makes me upset
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Vod list so you dont have to watch the other crap...