The Speedrunning Thread

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if i ever have free time again i might try streaming warsow race.

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agdq just started

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ye boi

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PvtCinnamonbun ban drama lets go

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Heard about this, I didn't watch the very beginning of AGDQ though so, lol.

Still though, banning someone after the first couple hours of the marathon. Pretty smooth, AGDQ, pretty smooth indeed.

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Someone got banned already? Geez.

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What exactly happened anyway?

Was he actually wearing the MAGA hat? And is there actually a rule against it?

I don't see why they couldn't just have asked him to remove the hat and warned him about it if he was compliant.

Didn't see it happen though and haven't looked for a VOD.

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Everything I've read and experienced in the past seems to indicate "making sense" is emphatically not something the GDQ staff is known for.

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If you're worried about political statements at a charity event (which seems very reasonable), what worse way is there to go about it rather than simply asking politely for it to be removed (at which point banning for non compliance would make sense to everyone)?

Banning him attracts not only so much attention to the matter AND also gives republicans a reason to believe AGDQ staff were themselves making a political statement. Now they have to ban everyone that brings anything politically charged into the event, which seems very excessive, otherwise they won't appear to be impartial.

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See you're still stuck on that "making sense" part.

A better explanation is that they're historically prone to over-reacting to the slightest thing and blowing tiny issues out of proportion while looking the other way for other things, often with little rhyme or reason.
Swearing once = banned for 2 years. Wearing a pig suit and molesting the guy next to you every time you're on camera? No problem!

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From what's being told by mouth about that issue.

Apparently the person in question has been warned in previous AGDQ's for misconduct.

But that's word of mouth, anyways. Is it true? Fuck if I know, but if it is, at least there's SOME sense of "sense" in their actions.

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PvtCb has had run-ins with the GDQ staff in the past for saying some shady things on twitter (joking about a mass shooting -> https://twitter.com/PvtCinnamonbun/s...74980061147136)

The reason he was banned from this marathon still does not make sense. Cyberdemon531 (a friend of PvtCb who was also banned) doesn't have the best reputation in the speedrunning community, but it's for reasons that should be completely unrelated to the marathon. Both PvtCb and Cyberdemon were put on a zero-tolerance watchlist for "death threats on twitter" as they entered the marathon, just as they were last year. This sort of makes sense for PvtCb, but Cyberdemon has never made any such threats. It's clear they are just hopping on the bandwagon in hating Cyberdemon and any of his associates.

PvtCb said he was banned initially for wearing the MAGA hat on stream, but there was proof in the VOD that he did not ever put the hat on his head, it was actually Cyberdemon531. Cyberdemon recorded the conversation they had with staff when PvtCb's badge was confiscated, and PvtCb uploaded the video to his youtube channel and made a pastebin on it -> http://pastebin.com/9fSeDsXu

After the video and the pastebin went viral, PvtCb said staff made up different reasons for his ban just to keep him out. (Damaged PCs in the PC room, unplugging cables, things he claims he didn't do). Cyberdemon was later banned from the marathon for the MAGA hat. http://pastebin.com/52y1dkSa

Nothing else particularly major has happened yet, other than Cyberdemon getting told "Fuck you" in an elevator by someone, being pointed at across the hotel restaurant, and someone leaving a note outside his hotel room door saying something along the lines of "you deserved it".

I've known both PvtCb and Cyberdemon for over a year, and I personally don't think they deserve this kind of treatment. But it's better to wait until more details come out before making any assumptions.

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skies of arcadia has a legit any% speedrun document
the best right now is 13 hours and I think I'm gonna try speedrunning it

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Yo I speedrun Final Fantasy X Any% for PC. Looking to get some runs of : Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages Any%, Mega Man Zero 3 Any%, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga All Bosses% on stream after I disable the region lock on my gamecube.

twitch.tv/crystals1n

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third time's the charm