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[OniBarubary]

The issue doesn't magically disappear by ignoring it.

That is not even remotely what I'm suggesting.

Ignoring Twitch Chat doesn't mean you aren't aware of it's existence and want it to change. It means you don't need to reconfirm things you already know while still wanting it to change.

Reading Twitch chat doesn't do anything productive, that's the point. You get angry, which you already were or know about it, and it doesn't create some grand impetus where you weren't going to do anything to try and change it and are now going to contact Twitch mods or write an article or anything you weren't already doing before.

You post about how they're shit and literally nothing fucking happens.

So just hate them and want them to change and work towards it without doing the useless thing of reading it to make yourself angry at a situation you already knew about.

 

[Blizzard]

I see The Witness made the incentive thing, but it's no wonder it's in the middle of the night. Aren't they just going to skip

Spoiler

to the ending

? There will be practically no gameplay which is probably why it's predicted 5 minutes long.

For anyone who hasn't played the game, I'd actually recommend not watching those 5 minutes. The game is really carefully designed, and the ending they'll show will ruin a surprise that's rewarding to unlock on your own.

 

[KarmaCow]

I see The Witness made the incentive thing, but it's no wonder it's in the middle of the night. Aren't they just going to skip

Spoiler

to the ending

? There will be practically no gameplay which is probably why it's predicted 5 minutes long.

For anyone who hasn't played the game, I'd actually recommend not watching those 5 minutes. The game is really carefully designed, and the ending they'll show will ruin a surprise that's rewarding to unlock on your own.

The estimate is 25min so it's probably not what you're thinking. Still, it's kinda dumb to watch the speedrun if you want to play the game fresh because it's robbing yourself of the entire appeal of the game.

Also unrelated to SGDQ but is GAF taking forever to load today for anyone else? It just seems to be GAF which is weird.

 

[User 85168]

this is a great run.

 

[MaximumSpider]

I thought I was halfway through Fallout 4 but nope. It keeps going.

 

[Death Metalist]

Fantastic run.

 

[Inumbris]

Great run. That chair clip in the Institute seems crazy easy. I wonder what causes it?

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

clipping through walls got nothing on teleportation between different saves, good god.

 

[Mechanized]

Hey has that short dude been on yet? He's the best.

 

[Stuart444]

I'm looking forward to when the ES games -> FO4 are up on VoD. Was looking forward to them but couldn't stay awake .

 

[neshcom]

clipping through walls got nothing on teleportation between different saves, good god.

This blew my mind. I kept thinking he'd be losing progress, but it kept working.

This Mark of the Ninja run is pretty cool. Dudes have got this thing on lock and they're being really informative.

 

[ScribbleD]

Mark of the Ninja really is fantastic, and so is this run. Also, I didn't catch the first few minutes. It sounds like he's donating $20 for every time he gets detected?

 

[Blizzard]

The estimate is 25min so it's probably not what you're thinking. Still, it's kinda dumb to watch the speedrun if you want to play the game fresh because it's robbing yourself of the entire appeal of the game.

I could have sworn it said 5:00 a while ago. My bad!

 

[liliththepale]

I could have sworn it said 5:00 a while ago. My bad!

That's the setup estimate, so maybe you looked over there instead?

 

[neshcom]

Mark of the Ninja really is fantastic, and so is this run. Also, I didn't catch the first few minutes. It sounds like he's donating $20 for every time he gets detected?

Yeah, he's got a donation amount set up for detections, kills, and anything else that would invalidate his run. Missed how much, but $20 sounds right.

 

[Mr. Enigma]

Markus "Notch" Persson, who always makes huge donations to GDQ events, is refusing to donate during SGDQ 2016 to protest Twitch's new "bits" system. He implies he was planning to donate $30,000. Seems a bit misguided in my opinion.

https://twitter.com/notch/status/750992494469545985

 

[KarmaCow]

Markus "Notch" Persson, who always makes huge donations to GDQ events, is refusing to donate during SGDQ 2016 to protest Twitch's new "bits" system. He implies he was planning to donate $30,000. Seems a bit misguided in my opinion.

https://twitter.com/notch/status/750992494469545985

What's his problem with bits? In any case, it seems dumb since it's not like twitch itself is getting a cut and it's going to charity.

 

[tiltnkirby]

"Notch"

Haha. Oh Notch, you so crazy.

 

[Alrus]

Notch is a very sad individual. Reading his twitter is painful.

 

[Blizzard]

I suspect he's a very depressed individual these days, not that it excuses anything.

 

[Death Metalist]

Mark of the Ninja run was good. Looking forward to NecroDancer.

 

[SZips]

I mean the dude is free to donate or not as he sees fit, but making a production out of how you were totally going to give all this money to charity but won't because you're protesting Twitch or whatever is :rolleyes worthy.

He's nothing more than an ignorant, pandering, attention seeker.

Back to important matters: Looking forward to this Necrodancer run!

Also unrelated to SGDQ but is GAF taking forever to load today for anyone else? It just seems to be GAF which is weird.

It's been very slow the past few days.

 

[64bitbros]

Can someone explain to me what this 'save the animals/kill the animals' is all about? I don't get it. Loved the Mark of the Ninja run, man those skills.

 

[Saikyo]

Can someone explain to me what this 'save the animals/kill the animals' is all about? I don't get it. Loved the Mark of the Ninja run, man those skills.

Super Metroid incentive, killing the animals makes for a slightly faster run...

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Can someone explain to me what this 'save the animals/kill the animals' is all about?

Towards the end of Super Metroid, in the escape sequence, you have the option of opening a door so that animals can escape or leaving them to perish in the destruction of the planet. It's traditional in GDQs to have Super Metroid be the penultimate run and to have people donate to decide what the runner does.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Can someone explain to me what this 'save the animals/kill the animals' is all about? I don't get it. Loved the Mark of the Ninja run, man those skills.

At the end of Super Metroid you can do a thing that take s a few seconds to save the animals in one room before the place blows up.

If somehow one of the racers is at a WR pace, they could ignore the donation incentive. (Save the animals takes a little bit of time)

 

[64bitbros]

Triple explanation!! Hehehe you guys making sure i get it

Thanks!

 

[SJRB]

Markus "Notch" Persson, who always makes huge donations to GDQ events, is refusing to donate during SGDQ 2016 to protest Twitch's new "bits" system. He implies he was planning to donate $30,000. Seems a bit misguided in my opinion.

https://twitter.com/notch/status/750992494469545985

...the bits system is garbage, but I'm not sure how "punishing" SGDQ will help since they have nothing to do with any of that.

Notch, don't be a jerk.

 

[liliththepale]

Wow, save/kill is super close right now. 46478 v 46235

...the bits system is garbage, but I'm not sure how "punishing" SGDQ will help since they have nothing to do with any of that.

Notch, don't be a jerk.

Same as any protest really. If it starts a conversation or gets more people involved in the conversation then it's productive. Although admittedly protests always come at a cost.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Wow, save/kill is super close right now. 46478 v 46235

It's always super close.

 

[PensOwl]

Is Shaddex really well known? It seems like he's running a good amount of games that are all pretty different from each other

 

[Raybunny]

...the bits system is garbage, but I'm not sure how "punishing" SGDQ will help since they have nothing to do with any of that.

Notch, don't be a jerk.

Taking into consideration his past tweets, I would not give him attention ( not that I ever did) anymore.

Got a beef with a company? Lets derail and use a charity to make it relevant.

I will donate unlike him. 30k... of old franc cents ? 46 euros

edit:words

 

[liliththepale]

Sorry Danny, the best soundtrack won

It's always super close.

Oh, I've never paid attention I guess.


Speaking of paying attention or lack thereof, I just realized Jonathan Blow blocked me on Twitter several months ago. lol (he was lamenting being involved in game development rather than an actually important field like artificial intelligence, so I said "this is why people think you're pretentious"). Kind of sours me on watching the Witness run, but whatever.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

get rekt people who have watched 10000 hours of necro and got tired of it. Original rocks.

 

[Blizzard]

At the end of Super Metroid you can do a thing that take s a few seconds to save the animals in one room before the place blows up.

If somehow one of the racers is at a WR pace, they could ignore the donation incentive. (Save the animals takes a little bit of time)

I don't remember one of the runners ever being at WR paces, but it'd be funny to see one of the runners ignore the donation incentive and save the animals instead -- given that guy earlier already ignored the pacifist donation incentive and killed a bunch of stuff instead.

Speaking of paying attention or lack thereof, I just realized Jonathan Blow blocked me on Twitter several months ago. lol (he was lamenting being involved in game development rather than an actually important field like artificial intelligence, so I said "this is why people think you're pretentious"). Kind of sours me on watching the Witness run, but whatever.

I think The Witness is WELL worth playing for how incredibly thoughtful the design is, even though Blow might come off as obnoxious.

 

[LucidMomentum]

I think The Witness is WELL worth playing for how incredibly detailed the design is, even though Blow might come off as obnoxious.

The Witness is a masterclass in environment design, puzzle design, and teaching gameplay mechanics via logical progression.

If Blow blocked me on Twitter, I'd still play it. But I don't use Twitter because I feel very few messages can be decently expressed in such a limited format.

 

[liliththepale]

I think The Witness is WELL worth playing for how incredibly thoughtful the design is, even though Blow might come off as obnoxious.

lol I've finished the game three times already. It's a fantastic game. That's why Blow complaining about being a dev upset me at the time. But whatever. Gotta separate the art from the artist

 

[Death Metalist]

That was great. The Witness is next!

 

[PensOwl]

As someone who has never played The Witness, this long distance puzzle solving looks insane

 

[Death Metalist]

Snipe puzzling lol.

 

[ScribbleD]

Puzzle sniping. That's a new one.

 

[Death Metalist]

Holy shit.

 

[Froli]

....How?!?

 

[Death Metalist]

I've never played this game, so I gotta ask:

Where do the solutions to these puzzles come from? Like, if you're playing the game casually, how do you figure out the correct patterns?

Just curious.

It's hard to explain because each area starts with a set of panels that explain the mechanics of that specific area. Of course, things get complicated quickly. It's the type of game that teaches you without telling you anything, you just sort of get it and learn.

 

[Stoze]

Baha that sneaky tease

 

[LucidMomentum]

I've never played this game, so I gotta ask:

Where do the solutions to these puzzles come from? Like, if you're playing the game casually, how do you figure out the correct patterns?

Just curious.

It varies from puzzle to puzzle. But, situational cues, puzzle logic that gets explained to you by completing some of the earlier puzzles, geographical elements, etc.

You should play it though

 

[Blizzard]

The mechanic learning is a big part of the design. You learn the very early mechanics because you encounter the puzzles and they're simple, but each new area adds more symbols that you have to puzzle out.

 

[Death Metalist]

That was really damn good.

 

[Stoze]

Nice run and shoutout to Stephen's Sausage Roll, it's been a great year for puzzle games.

 

[CassSept]

What's the deal with Jak and Daxter run? I don't know whether or not to watch it and I've heard veeery conflicting opinions.