Thread 715395830

>GDQ over

What are some of the best runs to watch? Who's got the chart?

the horror block was generally enjoyable

>>715395830 (OP)
https://git.ecker.tech/mrq/vee-speedrun-ratings/src/branch/master/archive/2025/SGDQ2025/images

I miss when GDQ was a bunch of autistic 4chan users in a cramped conference room.

>>715396032
Based. Thsnkst

>>715396032
ip grabber do not click

>>715396279
monitoring the situation

ASM is gonna be good, right?

Just watched the Mario maker 2 race. Betty good. One of them is leagues above the other runners. Just one shots the first level.

>>715396032
lol no one liked the last four runs. Haven't watched them yet so I'm interested in seeing why everyone hated them. As soon as I watched the Sayonara Mario I knew /v/ would be crying about it lmao.

>>715396032
>images that smell

>>715396683
Looking through the vods now and I can't believe that Limy cunt got ANOTHER run in. Every time I turned on he seemed to be on the couch or running

>>715396032
>Rose and Camellia
QRD?

>>715396032
>super metroid still the king

>>715397601
Don't they usually end with it?

>>715396032
Is this statistically the worst GDQ ever? How much did it raise?

What's next in Mr. Touchtastic's career? Seems like he successfully diverted all allegations.

>>715398248
They haven't ended with it in years because they thought it was overplayed.
Anyways, who is ready for a Celeste run for the 14th event in a row?!

>>715398361
It was never clear to me whether the allegations from ESA were even real

You all will be here tomorrow for the thread where we watch ASM together, right? Surely it will bring enough traffic just like GDQ and ESA where we can hang out and have a good time together, right?

Right...?

>>715398950
I'll do my part. I'm disappointed that the guy who with Skyward Sword last time isn't there this year. Really fun run.

is it still a boring trannyfest?

is this the secret gdq thread?

>>715398950
That shit is NOT surviving the 10 hour FFX run on the second day

>>715399249
OP wishes he was as funny as this dude

>>715397468
Tranny game. Runner and couch were all men dressed like women, game had 0 tech in it. Don't know why it's rated so highly.

any actually funny runs or is it all too safe/cucked dogshit

There was a GDQ? It's already over?

>>715399792
trans rights TRANS RIGHTS TRANS RIGHTS

>>715399792
Depends, do you find watching aspies shout "trans rights" over and over again fun?

>Let's run the brand new chapters of the most anticipated indie release in recent memory as our finale
Who thought that was a bright idea?

>>715396082
The fact that most of that room trooned out makes me wonder how many people here have over the years. I would say maybe 30% or more of the userbase.

This year was even more nepo than usual. They forced some black guy on us that train wrecked his way through quake. He then said on another run "I don't play FPS." This was within the first few runs of the marathon that also had KungFu playing fucking beat sabre.

>>715400213
ROYAL RAINBOW

>>715400015
>of the most anticipated indie release
They played Silksong? I thought they just played some shitty undertale clone

>>715396082
it still is
they just dress like women now

Trans rights!!!!!

The one silverlining to Rubiehag and Brutal Mutt getting nepomoted is not having to hear them during a run

>>715400746
How many views did they lose?
Was it big or small number of viewership

>>715399249
that screenshot is from here

>>715400746
>GDQ is so back, that's why I'm barely brought on to do anything except dangle keys for the few oldfags that's still around to placate them
Hm...

>>715400860
Stream hovered 40-45K on average.

It was overwhelmingly trans positive and awful

>>715399792
TRANS PEOPLE NEED MORE RIGHTS

>Games done queer

Why is no one talking about this

>>715401091
because even the cringe feels artificial

>>715400091
Statistically 4.8% have

>>715400091
>>715400427
Man, there's really nothing as satanic as trannydom.
It's painfully engineered. It widely disproportionately affects the lonely, the autistic, the sexual freak (or any combination of all three) and yet you're not allowed to point out the obvious.

>>715400746
Sucking up in hopes he gets invited back.
>Let me play le wacky romhacks

>>715396032
The split on RCT is great

>>715396032
>All that red at the end
Let me guess...

TWANZ WITEZ!!!!

>>715400746
>from a viewership standpoint, GDQ is so back
>lowest viewership of all time, going back a decade
To really put this in perspective, here's the concurrent viewer data from AGDQ 2013, which was the first mainstream GDQ marathon. The marathon peaked at approximately 57,000 viewers, only 10,000 below SGDQ 2025's peak of 67,000, and averaged about 30,000 concurrent viewers to SGDQ 2025's 40,000. It's fucking astounding how hard GDQ has fallen off. It wouldn't surprise me if SGDQ 2013 outperformed 2025 in terms of viewers, and AGDQ 2014 undeniably did.
>where did you get this
This is old data directly from Uyama.

>Never played Deltarune
>Wow 3 hours that must be in depth
>Literally a minute in "Transrights"
NIGGER YOU HAVE THE SAME FUCKING RIGHTS AS THE REST OF US SHUT THE FUCK UP

>skate horse
>Runner wears a horse mask that muffles his voice
Based?

>>715396032
can you share the mean and median charts?

>>715400905
>didn't hit a new record
Damn, did the YETEE money dry up or?

>>715400905
>abysmal viewcount
>somehow raking in millions still
Blatant money laundering

>>715398320
It stopped just below 2.5 million. So regardless of the shit viewership was like the second highest ever

Trannies and tranny adjacent members of 4channel /v/ - Video Games that watched GDQ, is the "Trans Rights" spam as condescending and pander-y to you as it seems to everyone else?

>>715404026
Their designs this year have been abysmal

>>715404242
You mean 12th

>>715402374
You don't understand. As long as it's illegal for trannies to groom children without punishment, then trans people might as well have no rights at all!

Do you guys seriously enjoy watching ugly as fuck trannies in a padded room try to speedrun games?

>>715400905
>games done quick events were more popular in 2015 (when the internet was way smaller) than they are in 2025 (when the internet is huge)

that's somewhat grim and sombering...

>>715404834
I think streams were also just more approachable to watch them even when the internet was smaller. The Twitch experience is fucking dogshit now. The amount of ads you get is absolutely mental. I have adblock that works (thank god) but I imagine most regular viewers dropped off if they aren't subbed to the channel which why would you anyway when most people only watch it for ~2 weeks every year.

>>715404735
No, that's why I tapped out 6 days ago and came back just now to see if it got any better.

>>715404735
>itoddler
>unable to read
Pottery

GDQ was at least watchable even when it was no fun allowed in the late 2010s. After the pandemic it just became an insane cult that was all about relentless minute-by-minute sociopolitical affirmation, reformatting the event into the staff performing a variety show, being as intrusive to runners and viewers as possible, running memes and donation comments trends into the ground, and the 80% of viewers who left were just wrong and unwelcome. I follow a couple dozen streamers I found through GDQ's peripheral (some non-speedrunners like Maximilian_Dood also used to make big donations) and I don't remember the last time one even attended besides Oats. It's clearly dead to them and they just keep quiet about it instead of rocking the boat.

>>715396032
I'm pretty sure your script fucked up on Deltarune. The first rate post of two was Susie porn and it feels like a bunch of votes got lost. We needed to go lower.
Thanks for your work either way, chartbro.

>>715405462
I wonder how many of them are still running
Dist and Bawk are both just streamers now

>>715402657
Hey, don't bully Poo. He's actually pretty good at games and pretty hilarious in his own Youtube vids and streams.
Your posts aren't bad, but the posters here are instantly vilified by anything Twitter related, and so that makes you stand out in these threads. The pfp change was a good idea.

>>715404236
it's an obvious money laundering thing but not for that reason, the remaining viewers are just the whales who donate every year

I was disappointed I was doing a drinking game that every time Trans Palestine rights was shouted i would drink. I didn't get to drink enough.

>>715405789
Poo just seems like a normie to me. Which is fine. Thanks for the insights. My posts go down much better with the ESA crowd. Guess I'll stick to bullying argick

>>715396032
>That one dipshit who got mad when I said Mario 64 is definitely the last good run of the night

>>715398750
They ended with it 6 months ago tho

>>715400746
I hate this faggot more than the trannies.

I didnt watch it and I stopped following them a long time ago.

Each time I turned it on I was greeted by non stop obese transsexual men non stop trying to put on the worst girl voice I could ever hear while sporting the worst 5 o'clock shadow ever.

So I have no interest in watching anymore, but its nice to see my friends do their runs via vods though.

>>715406843
>Map randomizer race

>>715406132
jews own MSF and trannies in general.
They would never let the goy mention palestine during the event.

>>715395830 (OP)
>What are some of the best runs to watch?
Go back in time 11 years and watch any of those instead

>>715400860
It was literally the lowest viewed GDQ since 2013 (a time when people didn't even know what it was yet) lol

>>715406995
Based poo hater

>>715400746
Go back to playing hard, old NES games instead of being a fag for GDQ, Poo.

>>715407909
What's my retort bros?

>>715408008
>from a viewership standpoint
>actually viewers don't matter
Is he retarded?

how did you watch any of this with so many trannies running around

>>715396032
This years score
>145 runs
>23 troons
>15.8% overall
SGDQ 2024 was 8%
SGDQ 2023 was 9%
Troons are currently 0.1% of the population so GDQ overrepresented them by 15800%

>>715408008
Just point out the contradiction. First it's "from a viewership standpoint GDQ is so back", but the actual trend doesn't matter? Make it make sense.

>>715396032
The fuck happened at the end?

I am a transsexual.

>>715396032
is nothing tagged as trainwreck or did i just miss it?

>>715408008
You shouldn't engage in debate on twitter
Double down on calling the event a gay retard tranny hugbox and move on

>>715396082
>Hey guys. TRANS RIGHTS! *crowd cheers* It's time for the next run. TRANS RIGHTS! *crowd cheers* Up next, TRANS RIGHTS *crowd cheers*, we have jimmantha playing obscure, TRANS RIGHTS *crowd cheers*, game no one has heard of outside the few autistic faggots that speed run it. TRANS RIGHTS! *crowd cheers* So sit down and get settled TRANS RIGHTS *crowd cheers over the announcer* in for the next game which TRANS RIGHTS *crowd cheers* has a goal time of 45 minutes TRANS RIGHTS *crowd cheers* My name is transy and my pronouns are TRANS and RIGHTS *crowd cheers* so hang out for a second while we take a dilation break and we'll be right back. Did I mention TRANS RIGHTS!? *crowd goes wild*

I fucking despise this shit. It's absolutely insufferable at this point. And the crowds are getting smaller and smaller and the trannys are almost 90% of attendees and runners.

>>715408008
>spread lies about viewership being so back
>"no, you retard. it's the lowest recorded viewership in GDQ history."
>"w-why do you care so much about viewership?"
And then hit 'em with the ol' "Cope" whatever reply comes after

>>715408490
>Monkey Ball
Neporun by the guy who did the Quake run (who is also on the selection committee teehee) shoehorned in with barely any warning. He was absolute garbage at it.
>Mario Shart
It was literally just the runner driving in a straight line for an hour and a half. No tech, just driving and rewinding whenever he was about to get hit by a blue shell
>Deltarune 1+2
Glorified let's play where despite skipping all the dialogue the runner and peanut gallery were screaming in jokes and spoilers with a heaping, HEAPING does of incentive shilling.
"DUDE THEY SAID THE UNDERTALERUNE THING HAHAHAHA LAUGH BECAUSE REFERENCE HAHAHAHAHAHAHA PRONOUNS AND TRANS RIGHTS BY THE BTW"
>Deltarune 3+4
Previously mentioned shill incentive, same shit as the last. I fucked off after a half hour.

>>715396676
This was a good year for races. The Mario Maker 2 race and Super Metroid race were both really good.

>>715408008
>>715408264
>>715408467
I admit that Poo phrased it poorly in his first post, but I'm 99% sure by "from a viewership standpoint" he meant "the experience for a viewer" and not "the quantity of viewers", so if you double down on the viewership total then you're really just pushing a data point unrelated to the original post.

i stopped watching when they started putting pronouns on screen in 2020. funny to see retards with low standards squirming more and more every year that the event they keep enabling keeps getting worse. gee i wonder why.

The only good run I saw was the Metroid Race. The event is fucked, no good runners even want to go anymore. There is too much downtime for how mediocre the runs are. They need to implement a rotating stage like bands do or something. While one run is going set up the next one on the back and then rotate. Stop reading so many donations and just put a donation ticker at the bottom of the stream. No more runs that are longer than 2-3 hours. No TAS bullshit unless there is a human interaction with it. Only one music game "showcase" per event not fucking 3+.

>>715407262
>It doesn't count unless I say so
Every time

>>715396032
>1 woman
>3 foids
>21 trannies
The fucking state

>>715396082
>Mike and Werster were happy siblings, doing speedruns together
We didn't know how good we had it

>>715396032
What caused the roller coaster tycoon split?

>>715408885
the "viewer experience" was trannies shouting TRANS RIGHTS every 5 seconds and constant money begging

>>715408885
>by "from a viewership standpoint" he meant "the experience for a viewer"
That's clearly what he meant but the point about viewership numbers still stands, if it's such a good viewer experience why was the viewership rock bottom? If it's so enjoyable why were skits, concerts, "showcases", etc. bleeding viewers? Even normal runs were losing viewers.

>>715409063
>Only one music game "showcase" per event not fucking 3+.
What I don't understand is why they always have 3+ music games but rarely ever have showcases for other genres. The only shmup/stg I can remember ever seeing at a GDQ event was a single Touhou game. I'd rather see more of those than yet another Japanese arcade music game. We see an RTS game like once every 4 GDQ events, if that.

>>715409606
Take it to Twitter if you want to argue that. I'm just pointing out that Poo and Anon are arguing past each other on unrelated points.

>>715408885
>w-we're so back (based on my completely subjective and arbitrary criteria)
Oh, so we're back to feelings again.

>>715409784
>What I don't understand is why they always have 3+ music games
Because people really enjoyed the change of pace the first time they did it and it brought in a shitload of donations.
So naturally they triple down on it repeatedly until they run the concept into the ground which is the GDQ way.

>>715400905
>50% acked
I voted for this

>>715395830 (OP)
I legit haven't watched this in over a decade when they started banning people if they weren't in the right cliques or ever said a wrong thing at any point in their online history. I'm honestly curious who the fuck still watches this and what appeal can possibly still remain?

>>715398361
>>715398786
during his run he thanked everyone for staying with him during his allegations. that being said, rubie is a confirmed coal burner so this isn't even an issue for her.

>>715409484
They named every coast Trans Rights

>>715409468
I'm pretty sure Werster hated him even at this point

>>715408008
I'm a 2010 user since Peacefuljay streams on Justin.tv. Seeing shit you like get big viewership for being awesome has always been exhilarating. Seeing shit you used to like down in the dumps because it's aggressively resistant to constructive criticism is a bummer. Those numbers are an excellent reliable metric that something has gone wrong, when it went wrong, and how damaging that wrongness is. GDQ's trajectory is no different than washed up streamers like MANvsGAME, and more recently heyZeusHeresToast and SHiFT. Views are down because the content took a nosedive (if not becoming outright hostile to the audience) and what was left of the community contracted around a cult of yes-men. It's a death spiral that only gets worse as it's forgotten every passing day by an aging audience.

It's a complete waste of time arguing with people who are going to be so obtuse about GDQ's downfall. They'd still think it was great if it was just Sent doing puppet shows from a leftover Ouya booth in a parking lot. That's their business I guess, they can have it. You're far from alone in thinking a core insular clique of a few dozen people at most destroyed something greater than themselves that was the collective effort of hundreds of thousands of runners and viewers who didn't have much say in the matter, and I don't blame you for saying your peace, but mostly everyone has moved on at this point and you'll never convince the in-crowd they made any mistakes. They're flying too high off their circlejerks and nights out at Applebee's with internet friends to care.

I'm actually shocked that people still watch this shit.

>>715395830 (OP)
any good tas runs

>>715396032
>1 woman
>3 foids
What's the difference?

>>715411024
BF%

>>715410186
literally only watch it to shitpost on here

>>715407234
they've stopped trying to do a voice for the most part.

I went to sleep, did they not do they crowd vs mike fight?
That actually seemed like a fun idea.

>>715411170
So there was one female non-obese runner?

>>715399249
>emptyhero is still screenshotting his on posts this many years later
jesus

>>715402374
God, this is one of the many reasons I stopped watching GDQ years ago, vomit-inducing behavior, I refuse to be part of this mental illness celebration.

>>715408008
>squidwardbutitsfun.jpg

Why did the threads turn into utter fucking shit in the last day? Comfy threads all week until the final day man that really soured this shit
Hope ASM is better

This is making me realize I should have just taken the gdq channel permaban from around 2017-18 instead of appealing (last year put in a sob story 'tism appeal and it worked lmao).
Last GDQ I've truly enjoyed and actually kept up all week was something in 2016 or so.

>>715408008
gaslight him into thinking you are a reasonable person by saying "My bad thought you meant that the viewership NUMBERS were up but you meant experience. I don't agree but I guess that's subjective."

>>715402374
is the person using it as their pronoun doing it to piss trannies?

>>715402374
>using it as your pronoun
these people are so far gone

>>715412140
You should see the "fae"s.

>>715412247
maybe after enough decades of brainwashing i could accept using she/her for a 200 pound hairy masculine-looking thing. if i am forced to use "fae", just shoot me.

>>715400315
>undertale clone
that's like calling halo 2 a halo clone.

>>715408819
>MarioShart
Its quite suspect no one called them out on comments, or they are going out of their way to shut them down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDTswaVrKZ8

>>715408520
The whole event was a trainwreck
This was the worst GDQ to ever happen

>>715400091
Oldfag culture is proto troon culture. It's not surprising.

>>715414067
Old goons are proto-troons (hence the name troon), oldfags are an evolutionary offshoot.

i haven't watched gdq in years, i wanted to see if it was really as bad as you guys were saying, and it is.
trans rights, trans rights, trans rights lets go, i hope you're excited for trans rights, trans rights. all in the span of like a single minute.

>>715400746
Who the fuck names himself grandpoobear

>>715402374
Just look at that fucking face, I bet "it" felt so brave for that.

>>715402374
Every time i ask a tranny what trans rights are they say something like "the right to not to be subjected to [thing that is already highly illegal to do to literally anyone]" or they unironically think my taxes should pay for their HRT and cosmetic feminization surgeries, that's a big trans right to a lot of them

has anyone gone to one of those gay parades and asked what rights the trans people want and recorded it yet?
i feel like that would be a funny idea.

>>715413627
They probably are. Even random runs with half the views have comments. They must be deleting

>>715411228
It does sound like it would have been fun, but they were still some almost $70k off at the end of the run, and, for once, didn't sit and stall, even though it was the end of the event.

>>715414781
Yeah it's seriously unwatchable. They just won't stop repeating all these slogans and catchphrases over and over again in their constant attempts to build fake hype. You'd have to be completely brainwashed to enjoy watching that shit.

>>715400746
This is genius from GrandPooBear's POV.
>GrandPooBear runs his own speedrunning events
>the events are much more laid-back and allow cursing, drinking, etc.
>pushes GDQ to continue on a downward spiral
>his events get more viewers as people look for alternatives

>>715396032
>BODE cunny
let me guess there was no cunny and it was trans.

Put them in the oven.

>>715408008
Does anyone actually take GrandPooBear seriously? He cried like a faggot after beating Breath of The Wild.

>>715396032
Don't forget, we've been giving ratings to a redditor this entire time.

Any funny clips of fucks up happening on stream?

esa was better
asm will be better
dogwater will be better
america ruined speedrunninng

>>715417101
We knew this for years, you faggots just refused to listen.

>>715396082
>Mike and wester
Legends... Too bad... You know... At least wester is still keeping on

>>715406760
>My posts go down much better with the ESA crowd.
Nope you're still generally considered a massive faggot. Fuck off

Waiting for aussie shitpost marathon while watching retrolongplay - 24/7 tas stuff

even lefties are getting tranny fatigue

is the tranny social contagion a psyop to ruin autistic teens, or is it something indiscriminate that just happened to be more contagious in these autistic teen spaces?

>>715396082
I watched Cosmos '13 OoT run after this year and it was so much better than anything we had this year I find it hard to believe it's thew same kind of event.

Why doesn't 4chan start their own GDQ, reset the twisted game and make it fun again?

>>715421838
organizing big events costs a lot, and companies won't sponsor events like that without black/tranny propaganda

>>715399249
Do these people not understand that videogames is a largely male interest? Hyper-competitive videogames is an "overwhelmingly" male interest?
Why are they....doing this? Aren't they trying to be a woman? Do they not see the contradiction here?

It's like, bro, you're just a man in a dress

>>715421919
>cost a lot
Literally just the hiring of a large conference room
>companies
>sponsors
We won't have that fucking faggotry, it'd be run by 4chan using the ethos of real 4chan, independence and anti-corporation

>>715421919
>it costs a lot to get a conference room at a hotel for 3 days, set up some PCs abd play vydia
I don't think it does if the runners pay for their own acommodations.

>>715400905
>sgdq17
>220K views 1,7M donations
>sgdq26
>67K views, 2,4M donations
really makes you think

>>715415192
the art of political sloganism is that you make a slogan that's on the surface extremely agreeable but vaguely alludes to "what you really mean" which is completely different. This is nothing unique to the "trans rights" catchphrase.

>>715422232
>>715421975
start setting up the event then

>>715422398
There is no way in hell I'd use my name for an event made by 4chan and intended for the 4chan audience.

My other idea was to somehow nuke the FGC then start it again, a clean, actually grassroots, no corporations, no sponsors, no faggotry FGC, but that will be a lot harder

It was over for me when they changed the name of awful block to silly block

>>715413313
Do you think anyone here plays videogames?

>>715422437
>use my name
pussy. you also can just be, oh I don't know, ANONYMOUS

>>715422479
dumb retard

>>715399742
man I never considered it this way

>>715399742
This image always chokes someone up.

Jesus fucking christ saucy you've been here as long as I have

>>715408008
Oh yeah nothing is more fun than screaming Trans rights once a minute.

>>715396032
>super metroid is the highest rated
Between this and super metroid impossible this dude is the glue holding this shitty ship together.
he looks like a completely different person in every picture I see

>>715395830 (OP)
Anything is better than this mentally ill American cult meeting. Why even have a dedicated tranny event when the main events are nothing but trans rights spam every 5 minutes? This is the weirdest shit I've ever watched, why can't you people be normal ffs. There's some Aussie event soon I think, it'll hopefully be a lot more same like the European ones

>>715422551
>Hello, Mr. hotelguy. I'd like to use your facilities for a certain event. No, I won't tell my name, it is secret.

It's still unreal to me that people here watch this garbage. I haven't watched it since like 2016.

Only marathon event I watch these days is RTA.

>>715422902
My name is Mr Snrub and I come from some place far away

>>715422479
They didn't. Awful block is at AGDQ, Silly block is at SGDQ.

This whole event is fucking cancer. I think the whole concept of "speedrunning" is retarded too.

>>715399249
Oh thank the lord that I had to sleep when it was one. I saw the rating and could somewhat guess what the issue was, but not that it was 4 times as bad.

>>715400746
I'm not alone that this guy gives off some serious white trash/wigger vibes right? He hides it well enough but I can see him behind closed doors slinging slurs like no tomorrow.

>>715422996
I was more thinking about a name like Guy Icognito

>I will be out of town with no internet access for AusRuns and Dogwater
FUCK

>>715404735
It's the anger that unites us.

>>715396032
Can someone define trainwreck, overestimate, ad, nonrun and neporun for me as a non watcher?

>>715396032
>like two third of the * run are deep red and the best are still orange

>>715404242
It's just inflation and inertia

>>715424452
inflation you say?

>>715424256
>trainwreck
A run so bad it's entertaining
>overestimate
Every runner provides an estimate for the maximum amount of time their run should take and the event's schedule is built around them. Runs can go over their estimate because the runner sucks or they put it too low.
>ad
People involved in the production of a game running it themselves, or bigger companies like Sega paying for runs to be at the event
>nonrun and neporun
Runs that aren't actually speedruns, and runs done by members of GDQ staff when a more skilled runner could have played the game instead. The best example this GDQ is Quake, where the runner couldn't even bunnyhop

>>715424509
>couldn't even bunnyhop
But even I can and I'm the most beginner FPS player on the planet
what the FUG

>>715424551
It was some fucked up version of Quake nobody in the speedrun community plays too. The run encapsulates everything wrong with modern GDQ

>>715424509
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the runner couldn't even bunnyhop

>>715396032
Was there really only one tranny?

/v/ loves trannies btw
>>715411353

Stopped watching this whole event and every other one after the tranny invasion happened years ago

>>715425342
>the tranny invasion
LMAO
There was no "invasion". Oldfags just trooned out

I dunno you guys, I can't speak strongly enough against speedrunning. I think the entire concept itself is stupid. Why do you even care about beating a game "as fast as possible"? What is the point of that? Inevitably it's just a grindfest where you resent 1 million times until you get lucky. Like...ok? You wasted a bunch of time to do something totally meaningless, congratulations?

What is even the purpose here? No seriously

>>715425656
It's for people too low skill for real games like stylish action or even a garbage competitive genre like fighting games

>>715395830 (OP)
Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights

>>715424509
>Quake
Okay what the FUCK is this? It's understandable that they're using the Nightdive remaster because they're doing the Q64 port but they keep going on about it being on the source engine (????).
The runner seems to know how to bhop but doesn't know the routes and keeps smacking into walls and enemies and falling into pits.

Quake, my favourite source engine game

>>715425632
Yep and it all just happened at the same time for no reason

>>715425686
I think, genuinely, it's some kind of weird autism.

Anyway, they probably think it's displaying skill, or intelligence, or something? But an intelligent person is not doing this. An intelligent person is someone who masters a new game, quickly. A skillful person is someone who can react to new situations, efficiently. Like a chess player, or a basketball player.

But a speedrunner mindlessly grinds and resets, going through a series of proscribed, memorized actions, to the point they can't even play the game normally. Like if you changed one of the levels, they would be totally at a loss.

So they aren't intelligent. They are skillful....at that specific run.....but at other games in that genre, or games generally? Sure a bit, but not that much.
Like, what are they even doing? It's so bizarre man, a lot of these are fucking children's games. They're nintendo games with nonverbal "bing bing wahoo" characters.

What gets me is that they break the game, glitch it etc etc then act surprised when the game acts strangely

>>715425818
Deep cut

Man I can't find it anymore, but there was this video about how BROKEN the Nintendo Online version of Ocarina was, and turns out it was "broken" because he couldn't do a ton of speedtranny bullshit lmao

>>715424509
>Blue Prince not listed as an ad despite half of the people on stage being QA testers for the game

>all those putrid axe wounds and weeks old unwashed dick cheese in 1 room
Imagine the smell

>>715424509
>Quake, where the runner couldn't even bunnyhop
Now I will have to watch the "run".

>>715420208
No.

purity level -- playing videogames as a kid
degen level -- playing videogames as a teen
lostboy level -- playing videogames over 20
absolute abomination level -- speedrunning a videogame
tranny level -- speedrunning a children's game

don't look behind the curtain of your life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjo452GpSI

I'll never get why speed running trannies in particular care so little about actually passing. In every other trans community it's something they actively work towards.

>>715399990
Is this a meme, or do they really? Surely not?

>>715426364
>degen level -- playing videogames as a teen
you are out of your fucking harebrained mind retardo. or you have yet to grow any facial hair.
of all the fucking shit me and my fellows got up to as teens, vidya were the fucking closest to sainthood there ever was.

>>715423118
Yeah plus he smokes cigs in secret.

>>715408008

OP back. Had a snooze.
Thanks for all the advice. I think I'll go with "not engaging in twitter arguments."
Hopefully that just lets him sit and seethe. He's got to be angling for another run at GDQ with all this posturing.

The mario maker race was better without his presence and we're all collectively sick of kaizo runs.

first GDQ where I didn't watch more than 10 minutes
it's been way too stuck in routine for years now

>>715421838
We'd be just as obnoxious. We just need chill dudes with somewhat lax rules on on screen presentation and strict rules on what qualifies as an acceptable run. I swear, everytime I tuned it, it felt like I was watching a let's play.

>>715424791
/v/ defended Harutomo, of course they do

>>715426460
Stuck in a hugbox of other people who don't care about passing. And the cycle perpetuates itself

>>715427553
>somewhat lax rules on on screen presentation
fuck that noise, no rules aside from law breaking shit.
runner wants to yap about tranny rights? go the fuck for it. just dont censor audience / chat / donos, and obviously dont have trannies and faggots for hosts.

>>715421806
For me it's bonesaw's 2016 Jak run that was two hours of such absolute kino that the management had to give him a stern warning that revealed that GDQ was already becoming gay and lame.

>>715426538
watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7TFF6Rb8gQ

>>715401081
It is not enough that trannies get more rights. Normal people must have their rights taken away.

>>715427781
It really highlighted how terminally online and detached from reality the crew had gotten.

>>715396032
What's a neporun? Is that like when there was that girl streamer who came on to 'run' Super Metroid and she didn't even get past Kraid?

>>715427782
Half of me wonders if they were so over the top with the trans shit here to parody what the event has become. And yes. I'm full of copium

>>715402374
Deltarune's just a weird game to speedrun anyway. I didn't watch it, but is there anything interesting about it at all? I guess if there's some quick kills on bosses that might be something, but everything in between does not seem like it would gain from seeing someone go through it fast.

>>715428260
The opening few hours and closing few are known as the absolute prime time when most people are watching.

Day 1 we had staffer Kung Fu doing a beat sabre showcase and the aforementioned Quake train wreck, also by a staff member.

The last few hours said quake runner was back with a super monkey ball let's play

>>715426431
mario if eh liminal

>>715422289
To be fair. 1.7m with inflation is 2.3m.

Not watched in years. is it still just endless donations of
>Long time viewer, first timer doner. My granpa died of cancer, love what you do
Liked it much better when it was just a couple getting read out instead of filling every second no one is talking with them.

>>715429248
And 220k with deflation is about 67k. Thanks anon, you really made sense here.

>the music in this game is so good
What's more likely? Every run in the marathon has amazing music or you've ran the same game for 5000 hours and have just forgot what other music sounds like?

>>715429605
I'm not a speedrunner but I've played mega man games gazillion times and can still appreciate the music in them and other games.

>>715428430
I watched the Deltarune run, and well, there's some cute little quirks or tricks here and there, but otherwise it's just mashing text through cutscenes and showing off how fights can be cleared in the least amount of time.
I find Final Fantasy speedruns more interesting, because then you at least need to consider things like exp routing or something.

>>715426431
what absolute dogshit content, i managed to stomach about 5 minutes of the idiot's rambling.

>>715426431
Are these actual children?

>>715395830 (OP)
I'm not watching trannies done in quick

>>715430409
how did you know the porno i was watching

>>715425774
Source engine is a fork of quake engine.

>>715431047
*Allegedly

>>715427782
Why does literally every comment sound like a bot

>>715431192
>they're quotes from le game!
Yes very funny

>>715414846
it’s a really stupid name yeah

>>715414846
what else would a furry name themselves? Yes, this guy was in anthrocon and the like before.

>>715431047
Not really. GoldSrc is based on id Tech 2 and mostly Quake stuff. Source a mostly ground up engine built for HL2, with only some code taken from Quake like collision checking and the BSP format.
Saying that the KEX engine is based on Source is like saying that the Infinity Engine is based on the Divinity Engine because somebody made a Baldur's Gate 1 remake campaign for BG3.

How much longer for ASM to start?

>>715432219
Tomorrow.

What year was it that GDQ banned fumos again?

>>715432428
Wait what?

>>715432462
Mike Uyama notoriously hated fumos and got a lot of the GDQ staff to publicly insult the people who brought them.

>>715408582
They're autistic. They won't change until there is no other choice. Maybe not even then.

>>715432428
They're not banned.

>>715432565
>>715432425
Many thanks!
Since it had some people enjoying it last year, I will add that the Final Fantasy Relay will start on August 1 9am EDT. First game will be FF I.

>>715400015
The same morons who thought a running a couple bosses of Shadow of the Erdtree made sense. Shocker, when you start with whatever weaposn you want you can run towards things and kill them.
Total waste of time just to capitalize on a name people recognize.
https://youtu.be/fhY7L1y4HgU?t=36

>>715404242
Livestreams, especially "charity" ones, are money laundering operations. Interns "donate" the money and peer-pressure terminally socially isolated, propagandized and (develop)mentally stunted debtcattle into chipping in too, to make up for any cut taken by the host platform. It is completely irrelevant how many third-party debtcattle actually watch this speedtrooner festival.
>>715401332
>What's Sacculina Carcini?
Troonship, faggotry and other sexual and mental disorders are symptoms of parasitosis (helminths, protozoa, fungi, ...).
>https://youtube.com/watch?v=rQdfBfqHnLs

I turned it off really quick. The constant bombardment with "trans rights" was annoying.

>>715404529
I don't watch the event anymore because it's lost its novelty for me and I don't have the time anymore. I do think they overplay that stuff a little bit. While I don't mind most of the trans rights stuff, it feels like nowadays they're using the speedrunning as merely a vehicle for the charity and these sorts of messaging, rather than it being an event to bring speedrunners together with the fundraising as a feel-good bonus.

>>715432575
Replace the word "dolls" with "kids" and you get modern GDQ. Fucking ironicic, innit.

>>715433405
>vehicle for the charity
Money laundering, yes.
>and these sorts of messaging
No. The messaging is part of the laundering.
>1) By spamming [current thing] they become (para)socially untouchablem
>2) By purposefullly creating an obnoxious environment, they avoid attracting real client who may scrutinize their buisness models.
It's much like overpriced restaurants in backalleys: they make it virtually impossible for real clients to order food, so that no one notices that they don't even have a kitchen. They exist on paper, as do their clients.

>>715396032
can i get the esa version please?

Are they still shilling that cancer charity or have they finally moved on to a trans charity?

>>715433520
For further irony, Professorbroman actually cheated on his wife with a tranny (both pictured here)

>>715398950
where do I watch

The whole TRANS RIIIIIGHTS debacle at SGDQ 2025 has become so sad yet so hilarious to me. Do they not realize that in spamming those words so much that they lose all meaning and actually work against them? You're not doing something good, you're not making a very good case for yourselves, nobody normal is going to like you or take you seriously when you're all mentally ill freaks screaming TRANS RIIIIIGHTS at the top of your lungs. What's more, saying that has become like the new HOOOOOOYPEEEEE. Host reads out a comment, comment says "and this is for epic trans rights! xd" and then the runner says "TRANS RIIIIIIIGHTS" and then the crowd chimes in and screams "TRANS RIIIIIIIIIIIGHTS" and it's like a fucking parody lmao

>>715434732
>Trans Rights.

>>715402374
Joaquin Phoenix Joker looking motherfucker

>>715404735
Reminder

i don't remember gays ever being this obnoxious about their rights and issues the way trannies have been

>>715400905
I have nothing against PCF but imagine if all that AGDQ money went to cancer research instead, that's many many PhDs fully paid for

>>715432219
11 hours

>>715395830 (OP)
Who was the speedrunner that said nigger out loud at GDQ?

>>715400091
>I want to be the little girl
Was an old 4chan meme, along with Bridget and linetrap. All of current tranny culture is about sexual fetishes that 4chan had, groomed vulnerable edgy teens with, and then spread to the greater internet to find more children to molest. Every time you seen a tranny online now, it is a 4channers sexual fetish, that’s all.

>>715404735
In the first thread this was asked and multiple people were saying, "I am just here for the freak show I'm from kiwifarms etc. etc.".
Same thing happens with ESA. Every other thread someone asks, "Any trannies yet? Is this a tranny?" when it's just a normal run most of the time.
>>715435386
Werster.

>>715434732
>that part during mario maker race where the audience chanted "trans rights, trans rights!"

Anybody got the ESA chart?

>>715435756
In the same repo:
>>715396032

>>715400746
I agree with him that for an event like GDQ its more important to have fun than to focus on saving every single frame like an autist. But lol. GDQ hasnt been fun for years. I even miss the trainwreck years of proto at this point. Its so corporate and boring now. And I'm sure he knows this too because he runs his own speedrun events that allow much more fun than fucking nu gdq.

>>715435917
>its more important to have fun than to focus on saving every single frame like an autist
I guess it depends on your definition of fun. For me the fun part was always listening to some autist who has spent 1000+ hours redoing the same shit explain why he's doing what he's doing as he attempts to shave off seconds from his speedrun time. It's pretty clear that speedrunning events just aren't for me anymore though as I think what's "fun" for most people is akin to more of a lets play format where you attempt to get entertaining personalities and make it more of a relaxed playthrough of something. I understand it but it's one of the reasons why I tuned out a lot more than I have in previous years because it feels like it's becoming less of a speedrunning event and more of a video game entertainment variety show.

>>715396032
Okay, I used to watch GDQ religiously back in the early 2010s. If I only were to watch 4 runs from this year's GDQ, which ones should I watch, /v/?

>>715436059
I guess by being fun, I was more thinking like 2013-2014 GDQ when it was just a bunch of autists awkwardly hanging out and having fun with each other while playing games fast and explaining them. I don't think having incredibly fake personalities yelling cringey dated memes and making the normies clap like seals is fun.

>>715436129
Rose and Camellia
Super Metroid
SMB3
RE7

>>715436129
>Super Metroid race
It was genuinely really close with good commentary, not hilarious or anything just a really good speedrun
>Rose and Camellia
Funny run with good commentary, just a good time all around. Had a very much old GDQ vibe

That's it. You could check out some of the other higher rated runs but I genuinely can't think of 4 that are must watches. Most of the higher rated runs were primarily just because they were right after some dogshit tranny spam or because it was later in the day so the host wasn't god awfully annoying to try and hype up the crowd

>>715434853
I don't think this was a good image to post in this context

>only runner I consistently like is back
>instead of being solo like he usually is there's some obnoxious troon behind him trying way too hard to be funny
Somehow out of everything this was the worst part of this gdq for me

>>715398950
When I say Australia you say Sorry

>>715432565
add the final fantasy relay to the list

>>715436703
You do that. It's a free country.

>>715435834
could you please just post the image? my mom got me this new laptop and she said I am not allowed to click weird links anymore, because this bricked my last laptop :(

I don't know how this shit still has any viewership when they started bringing retarded politics into it.
Especially since that's the same time reading donations superseded the games.

It's the equivalent of attending a fucking skinhead rally and watching them scream white rights. I don't want to watch either I want to watch video games but you just get some retard interrupting it to read about how jewish doctors killed someones grandma. What a waste of an event, time and money.

>>715427782
i watched this live, but i clicked anyway.
skip to any point in the video and hear it within a minute

>>715437359
Nope.

>>715437410
Human rights aren't politics, and trans rights are human rights.

>>715432565
shitty because RTA SUCKS

>>715437459
That's great, maybe take that to a rally not related to video games.

Trans rights apart, speedrunning in general has just become really uninteresting
maybe it's a case of people just having more tool to find exploits and strats or something I don't really know, I'm sure part of it is a byproducts of speedrunning becoming a "community" over time and not as much just dudes that really like this one specific game they're really good at

For most of the runs, it doesn't even feel like the runner are particularly skilled or anything, feels like they're just following a memorized script that they memorized
At least to me it was a lot more interesting back then when guys like werster and cosmo were running and it was mesmerizing just watching these dudes know a game so deeply and adapt on the fly, it doesn't feel like anyone running at gdq is anywhere near that level, if they are it doesn't feel like it anyway

>>715437502
It's an event for charity to raise awareness for trans injustices though.

>>715437459
What you consider a human right is literally politics. For example if you consider having a home is a human right the government should provide you a home. Which is a political opinion.

Hope this helps!

>>715437537
>it doesn't feel like anyone running at gdq is anywhere near that level
Because it isn't. They either banned or shunned away all the great runners; or they didn't have any interest in the event to begin with. It's all d-listers now.

>>715432565
hey hey please add games done queer to the schedule we love trans rights here

>>715437574
Unfortunately it looks like they didn't cure the cancer infesting the event.

>>715437537
Because intelligent well spoken runners who were knowledgeable about their respective games were replaced with driviling retarded yes men shouting trans rights then fucking up a simple trick 90 times.

>>715417101
>someone cropping an old chart means its chartfag
you have more bigger things to finger him for like being the ick on eck faggot thats ruining the site and youre fixating on a redditor pretending to be him

>>715404735
I only watch runs from games I enjoy if there are no trans people on the couch /playing and skip past every donation segment. Simple as

>>715438057
>Ruining the site
There's a billion alternatives to his, but it is a shame the better posters get punished while the worst spammers ban evade up to 300 times a day. And hey better than any alternative site anyway

>>715437537
>For most of the runs, it doesn't even feel like the runner are particularly skilled or anything, feels like they're just following a memorized script that they memorized
that's how a lot of speedrunners are now. They learn the run for a game but don't have much knowledge of the game outside of it. I've even heard of people speedrunning games that they've never played casually. That kind of attitude it what's wrong with speedrunning. They aren't running a game because they love the game, they're just speedrunning to be a speedrunner.

>>715396032
put the actual names next time, no one cares that you don't like Halo and that you're a fag

>>715437537
>feels like they're just following a memorized script that they memorized
Worse, it feels like now we just get runners literally inventing categories where they are the only holder of a record and then running it. I understand not wanting to fill all the slots with the same 10 games everyone speedruns like metroid and mario but I fucking hate these segments where it's clearly an ad for a game that just came out and literally the only people on the leaderboard are the people running the game on the stream

>>715421806
>>715427781
My favorite is the Chrono Cross '16 run with evilash and spikevegeta

I posted a reply to the grandpoobear

>>715410890
>Manvsgame
>Heyzeusherestoast
>Shift
All three of these channels were based, some of the comfiest content on Twitch before they entered their own separate downward spirals.

>>715433520
Damn that girl must have been a flippy hat sexual as well.
She just wanted to rub that had on her pussy live on stream and distract everyone from TRANS ROOIIGHTTTSS
What a fucking monster.

I started watching the SpeedGaming channel per recommendation of some anon and it's interesting how the dynamic is completely different from GDQ

>Commentary is 100% focused on the game at all times
>No facecams, no gimmicks outside of run categories
>Doesn't try to appeal to normies; if you don't understand what's going on you'll be lost

The only thing that sucks is that it has basically no production value and mostly sticks to the same small handful of games.

>>715395830 (OP)
The pacman run was bonkers, the runner was cracked as shit and the dude on the couch was way too based for gdq

>>715437537
The sad truth is that core speedrunning without any meme shit tacked on is dying out and fewer people are doing RTA in legacy categories with every passing year.

The old guard has gotten tired and chose to pursue things like randomizers, races, kaizo hacks and various other challenges that have little to do with the base game experience. Even the concept of a speedrun marathon has been perverted by this stuff, as evident by modern GDQ's game lineup.

At the same time, young people are joining the speedrunning community just to end up running ILs and playing games that barely anyone else does, because they're afraid of long-term commitment. You also have to factor in that to this group, they like watching content about speedruns more than partaking in the actual thing. I'm somewhat guilty of this because I've seen thousands of speedruns but have only uploaded two of my own, both of which are in dead games.

Speaking more broadly about the perceived lack of skill... It's true. Speedrunners are overwhelmingly worse than they used to be, and I think this can mainly be chalked up to everyone stretching themselves thin instead of sticking to just one category in one game.

>>715441649
Reminder it's Feasel who runs the SpeedGaming channels.

>>715395830 (OP)
who cares

is this the ASM waiting room?

>>715443872
Might as well be. Won't be another 8 hours

>>715443971
What's their twitch channel?

>>715444337
https://www.twitch.tv/ausspeedruns
https://www.ausspeedruns.com/

>>715442461
Feasel is a cool guy, met him a couple times at ESA

>>715444510
He's always seemed pretty alright.

>>715444454
>first run is Spyro
It's like ESA never ended

>>715444454
>THUG and THPS with a live band
Oh shit

>>715442461
Good for him if he managed to escape the GDQ circles. Not sure if he was on the paid staff list, but he always seemed like he didn't care at all for the whole show aspect of later GDQs. His interviews were pretty rough, but his commentary was always pretty nice.

>>715445007
That's just the kind of fellow Feasel is, he's far more calm and reserved than most other people at GDQ