>41 days until we pretend to care about speedrunning again

>>377600478
The full Zangyou playthrough of Kero Blaster is going to be neat.

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Remember that while waiting, NASA is starting tomorrow.

https://nasamarathon.com/schedule/

>>377600478

I'm looking forward to whatever is most likely to be a trainwreck.

So probably RKSF.

>AGDQ is glorified moneylaundering
>SGDQ supports human traffickers who ship thousands of refugees to Italy, aide ISIS and let american women get raped to death

Woo-hoo!

>>377600717
Don't forget the cuck orgy

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>>377600697
can't wait for like 20 MAGA hats on screen at once while someone is getting comfy convering himself with the american flag again

>>377600697
RPG Limit Break just happened too and it was actually pretty good this year.

>>377600697
Didn't the last NASA end with them taking shots out of dragon dildos and having a literal shit-flinging contest in the hotel lobby?

>>377600697

It'll still be a disaster like last year.

>>377601064
u fkn wat m8

>>377601364
at least, surely won't end up running on hotel wifi this time

GDQ is done. The core of the community has all moved on to NASA and RPGLB. Both events have the magic and charm that GDQ did 5 years ago when it started. RPGLB donates to a fucking autism charity, too, you spergs should be all over that.

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>>377601673
>jrpg speedruns

>>377601902
>he doesn't speedrun games that literally take 7 days to complete

fukin casul

>>377601902
I love watching those while.. I play other games

don't need to look at the screen as much to follow what's going on

games completed in a fast way
games finished swiftly
games executed in a hurry
games ended rapid
games concluded briefly

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>>377600993
The whole reason I even watched RPGLB was for Xenoblade, which was a complete and utter letdown. If you're speedrunning the game, aren't you supposed to be really fucking good at it, know how everything works and all that shit? They spent literally like an hour grinding gogols so they could be 4 levels above the final boss, what a load of ass. No impressive gameplay, no strategizing, just cheesing and grinding.

>>377602145
Did it ever occur to you that the point of a speedrun is to complete the game as fast as possible?

>>377601902
The Shining Force and FF9 runs were good for background noise

>>377600478
I just look forward to AGDQ and SGDQ because it means I'll have constant background noise for a whole week. I love listening to people talk and I'm not really picky with what it's about.

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>Miles, one of the few runners i could stomach watching since he didn't like memes or any of the twitch culture decied to become a "trans"

Why, why the fuck man...
i thought you were a cool dude.

>>377602309
something something speedrunning is a mental illness

cue that Goldeneye speedrun training video

>>377602218
My point is, I'm fairly sure you could complete the game at least 45 minutes faster by getting through the battles with pure skill and setup, instead of wasting an hour grinding. And this was after Mechonis Core too, because they were already high-level before from getting to an end-game area and skipping from level 9 to 43.

>>377602392
I wonder who would be more correct: you, who has clearly never speedrun the game or the people who autistically play the game for 6 hours a day and have spent likely hundreds of hours trying to find the fastest route through the game.

>>377601364
It won't be as bad as ESA which was 20% uptime and 80% offline in a huge gymnasium that was way more space than they needed

>>377601673
>anyone caring about nasa
haaa

>>377602108
I do that too I'm disappointed Cirno hasn't signed up for rpglb or nasa...

>>377602390
I don't know.

Miles really seemed like someone who hated all the shit behind the speedrunning/twitch culture.

I remember reading his chat rules and it was pretty clear he was against all the cancer that the speedrunning communit is.

I still have hope that all this is just a ruse hes doing to piss of trannies and SJWs, i hope.

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>>377602512
>implying i don't autistically play xenoblade 6 hours a day
Then maybe I will try speedrunning just to prove that you don't need to grind. After all, even Cosmo admitted that he knew jack shit about anything in Ocarina of Time or Wind Waker that wasn't part of his route.

>>377602309
wasn't he hanging around some black guy and dressed in a pink costume of some sort at AGDQ?

I just remember he came out looking like regular Miles but he just totally wasn't interested in that run

Am I the only one who watches this for the sheer raw shock of how much money people are willing to donate for some of the dumbest "achievements" I've ever heard of?

>dead silence for 45 seconds straight
>"uhh now might be a good time to go over some donations if you have an-"
>"WE DO! ALRIGHT, 'MEGA_PICKLES93' HAS A $200 DONATION!!!
>"SAYING 'I JUST LOVE THE GENIE COSTUME IN MICKEY'S MAGICAL QUEST AND I DON'T KNOW THE VALUE OF MONEY!'

Like I get that it's for a good cause ultimately, but it's just so god damn jarring to hear how much these people are willing to donate

>>377602754
Source?

What the fuck happened to him man...

>>377602825
I mean people can do whatever they want with their money but it is pretty amazing. I've never donated, subbed, or given a cent to anyone or anything on twitch and I've been watching/listening to shit for years now.

>>377602825

What about all the anonymous 1000 dollar donations?

>>377603085
I love that those always happen towards the end of the stream when they realize that they made a lot less money than last year.
It couldn't be more obvious fake.

>>377603085
At least some of those have to be fake, right? Maybe I'm just jaded and cynical, but it just sounds so preposterous that SO many people not only A) have that kind of cash to donate to charity B) also have an interest in video game speed runs and C) wish to remain anonymous for "reasons".

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>>377602825
>Like I get that it's for a good cause ultimately

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>>377600478

>>377603557
Doesn't it go to fund cancer research or something?

>>377603216
>We've got $10,000 from The Yeti!!!
>Two days later
>We've got $50,000 from The Yeti!!!

When will the laundering stop?

>>377600478
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6hPJpxzm4&t=6s

>>377603748
>he doesn't know

>>377603748
You'd have to look on their site to know for sure but I remember that someone read it and it said only like 5-10% of it actually goes to the cause they're for. The rest goes into "management fees". Unfortunately this is how most """"charities"""" work.

>>377602309
He's a tranny too? Pics?

>>377603748
Yes, but people here seem to think all they do is "money laundering" even though that's not what money laundering is at all.

Only a small number of the money they get is for management fees, their expenses are available online. I don't understand why there's so much misinformation about the charity here and why people are so hellbent on believing they're scam artists or something, but it wouldn't be /v/ without conspiracy theories.

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>>377600478
How many mentally ill runners do we have this year?

>>377603815

Come to think of it for how much money the Yetee allegedly makes I've never seen anyone wear one of their shirts...

>>377600478

Are they still running Tetris Grandmaster into the ground?

>>377603815
Do you know what money laundering is? PCF don't rob banks.

>>377604013

How many runners are running?

>>377603902
There are no pics, just tweets.

He named himself Claris Robyn

>>377604023
Most people don't wear video game shirts outside. You can say the same thing for fucking Gucci, too.

>>377601673
>RPGLB
Was it uploaded to youtube, or is there a vod list somewhere?

>>377604221
just use the video section on their twitch

>>377603817

>The crux of his argument is "THEY'RE TRYING TO BE PROFESSIONAL REEEEEEEEEE"
>Doesn't account for the other 30% of revenue of the PCF because it's still on-the-level expenses that don't raise intrigue like compensating volunteers for their service

AGDQ management has an inflated sense of importance, but you faggots just get mad about any old thing.

>>377603898
>>377604006
Wouldn't that be really easy to track? That's a "conspiracy theory" you could crack in an afternoon

>>377604358
>"THEY'RE TRYING TO BE PROFESSIONAL REEEEEEEEEE"
This is a big deal, GDQ is simply less and less fun and more monotone

>>377604531
Yes, and again, people keep saying that they're shady and don't show their expenses but they do exactly that and what they do is pretty normal for a charity.

I enjoy watching speedruns but I'm nowhere near autistic enough to do them

I'm not really following AGDQ/SGDQ, but videos keep popping up in my youtube recommendations.

I haven't seen any recommendations from this winter, though.
Has anything gone wrong? Was there any trouble?

>>377603748
No it doesn't, it goes into cancer prevention campaigns like the famous one that get posted on here a lot that just shows two naked dudes touching their balls and the tile is "besties check their testies" or something.
People always donate with the believe that their money actually goes into cancer research but they never actually point out that that's simply not true.

>>377601364
I heard they actually checked the hotel beforehand this time.

>>377604969
They do fund cancer research. Jesus Christ. It's just not the focus of the charity.

Preventing cancer is ten times easier than curing it. Do you really not know that? Do you know how many more men would be alive if they caught their testicular cancer early through the help of posters like the ones you mentioned?

There is no proof that they don't fund cancer research. It says it on their website and their wikipedia page, and although that's not 100% trustworthy, I implore you to find something that says otherwise with substantial evidence.

>>377602513
Wasn't that only for the first couple of days? I watched it from about halfway through and it wasn't that bad.

I think they're going to that gym again this year but doing the dual stream again.

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>>377604969
Listen, I don't have a dog in this hunt one way or the other, but on the one hand what the charity is saying sounds fairly straightforward, and what you're suggesting sounds outlandish and hard to believe. I don't really care either way, but I'm gonna go with Occam's razor on this one. Call me if you run out of tin foil.

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>>377605246
>>377605379
...what?
Go look at fucking anything and it always says that the money goes towards cancer prevention which doesn't have anything to do with cancer research.
If they would fund the latter, they would point that out don't you think?

>>377600478
Wonder if the mods will be utter fags again and try to move it to /vg/

Could really tell how recently they started browsing /v/ that week

>>377602309
>His AGDQ Prime run was his last appearance as "Miles"
So is he going to show up to SGDQ as yet another tranny? This event is fucking swarming in these cunts.

>>377604969
>>377605246
http://preventcancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Financial-Statement-June-30-2016-2015-Prevent-Cancer-Foundation.pdf

Here's their financial statements for last year, on Page 6 it says "Research" under Expenses. Again, not totally trustworthy, but it's more evidence that they are doing it.

>>377605461
What? I literally just said they point it out. On their website and on their wikipedia page. It even says it on the financial statements, which I seriously doubt are fraudulent.

>>377604881
It was the most boring event thus far. I'm not too optimistic about the summer event.

>>377602825
More like
>Going to need some quiet time for this part
>WE GOT A $50 DONATION!

>>377605761
My favourite one was the huge donation during a sob story.

>We have totally not a laundering donation of ten thousand dollars
>..and my grandad died
>*clap*

>check out RPGLB because of this thread
>actually interesting runs with good commentary

Shame they are all 3-9 hours long

>>377605761
I really wish they didn't allow women to host, or have these insufferable dudebro types thinking they're the star of the show.

Like this guy. Fuck him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCILuq9IzP0

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You ARE donating to her patreon, right /v/?

>>377605974
>these insufferable dudebro types
You mean tards like Golden?
Imagine they had actual men at these events, just to see you guys frothing

>>377604881
lets see...
>Ape Escape 2
>pvtcb and cyberdemon brought MAGA hats for everyone to wear
>everyone pitched a fit since there's no political talk stated in the rules
>banned from AGDQ, recorded the conversation with one of the moderators, then apparently went to kotaku to tell his story and possibly got the stream taken down for a bit with ddos
>Jaguar King was a dick to staff because he's bad during the MGS2 run
>claimed he couldn't hear the guards and that's why he kept dying
on a side note: Silent Hill 4 was fun and there was an actual girl on the couch who actually knew what she was talking about. Great run imo very comfy.
>apparently someone's autistic son wandered on stage and ran Hyper Princess Pitch just acted weird HERE COMES MY FAVORITE PART EXPLOSIONS!
>KevinDDR beat by a tranny in Card Captor Sakura Tetris even though he regularly runs GM Tetris
>Smash player turned the game music off so there was barely any sound and it was just awkward
>BubblesDelFuego's game crashed during Darksouls 3 while trying to glitch through an area halfway into the run

About all I remember. I think someone said something during the OoT 3DS run, but not sure. You can always just look at Twitter for drama.

The PvtCb and Cyberdemon thing was the biggest though https://pastebin.com/9fSeDsXu http://kotaku.com/as-games-done-quick-gets-bigger-so-do-its-controversie-1791393815

>>377600697

>marathon starts on a monday and ends on a friday
>literally no weekend stream
>couldn't even put it off a week so it would start on memorial day

it's like they don't even want people to watch. this piece of shit is dead in the water before it even starts

>>377606190
>>377604881
also the Undertale run was good from what I've heard

>>377606190
Didn't someone say Cosmo instead of Narcissa, or something? That might have been the OoT 3DS guy.

>>377606383
I think that was the Wind Waker runner

>>377604881
>>377606190

you forgot the best one, lad

>super metroid race
>have some tards commentating while the runners focus
>its pretty boring commentary
>biggest crowd of the event is in the room at the time
>they're getting restless
>one guy yells "Waaaah" like waluigi
>gets some laughs
>him and a few other people keep doing it, always gets some laughs
>one of the runners is clearly really bothered by this, one of the commentators turns around to see if they can tell who is doing this shit
>it goes on for awhile, run remains boring
>guy in front row asks one of the commentators for his mic/headset, which the retard gives up for some reason
>he says something to the effect of "if you think that shit is funny, go outside the hotel and throw yourself in front of a bus"
>commentator says "uh... please don't?"
>dead silent
>guy who made comment is forcefully removed
>kind of awkward the rest of the run/marathon

IMO that guy was a fucking hero. gdq staff jumped on him quick but they should have jumped on the annoying fucks in the crowd instead of letting that shit go on and on, especially when the runners/commentators were getting agitated by it

>>377606101
I wanna donate my splits into Cosmo's chinese cheatbox

>>377607118
>>he says something to the effect of "if you think that shit is funny, go outside the hotel and throw yourself in front of a bus"
It was "If you guys really want to prevent cancer, then jump in front of the shuttle bus that's running outside the hotel"

>>377607118
I forgot about that, god that's up there with the guy who kept talking about killing himself during the Crash 2 run

>>377604651
I think the only shady part about the whole thing is that iirc they say several times on stream that every cent donated goes to charity, i understand anyone can go and do the research but it still seems like lying to me.

>>377602309
Literally every speed runner is mentally ill. No sane person plays the same game thousands of times.

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>I'm sarcastic and have a dry, deadpan sense of humor. I'm sophisticated. I only speedrun so I can get a GDQ slot and be in the spotlight of 100,000+ viewers for ~90 minutes. Follow me on twitch and throw me enough donations that I can stop speedrunning and become a variety streamer.

can someone good at maths tell me if this will conflict with e3

>>377607383
Oh yeah, that's definitely a lie. It's just PR at the end of the day, but they're not monsters.

>>377607423
No

Not even NASA does, which is weird, because it's at the worst possible time otherwise

>>377607421
who

>>377607221
kek that was kinda witty

>>377607616
everyone that still attends gdq's

>>377607616
Who isn't

>>377606190
The OOT 3D thing was some guy saying "did you just assume it's gender" while he was fighting one of the bosses and someone called the boss a she. And then there was a bunch of butthurt on twitter and tumblr over it.

>>377607221

kek you're right, that's even better

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>>377600478
GDQ is too big now it has become shit, i prefer Euro Speed Assembly adn RPG Limit Break over it because they're smaller and more comfy

80% of runs are completely fine and yet you spastics complain about the few shitty ones
because you don't give a shit about speedruns, only about drama

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>>377600697

>Ban all the good runners
>Ban fun
>Bring in loads of trannies and females

hmmmmm

>>377600717

Which charities would /v/ prefer GDQ to work with? EFF seems alright unless there's something I don't know.

>>377609006
>make more money every year

Clearly your cis kin is not needed anymore

>>377609038
Autism awareness

>inb4 the same boring runs that happen every year
>muh mario 64
>muh mario rpg

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>>377609250

This year we get an 8-hour speedrun of FF7.

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I'll probably watch a few but I still liked it more when it was just a handful of autistic dudes sitting in someone's mom's basement.

who are the new speedrunning stars?
seems like the community hasn't replaced siglemic, cosmo, trihex, and the other big ones.

>>377609412
>8-hour speedrun of FF7

How? What's the trick?

>>377609006
>and females
there were more trans women that actual women amongst the runners in the last 2 marathins

>we

>>377609861
Nothing

7 and 9 are the most boring FF runs with zero skips, tricks or interedting strategies
They are coincidentally the most popular runs

>>377609696
Bullshit.
I bet you only get into speedruns when the GDQ coms around.
Go visit SRL once in a while. Or even reddit. You'd know.
Not /srg/ though. /srg/ is a drama-seeking echochamber where no one actually cares about speedrunning

>>377610054
Does anyone even go to /srg/ anymore? I know you're in this thread NASA swampers, have you abandoned your roots?

>>377601364
What happened last year?

>>377610053
So it's really 8 hours mostly consisting of grinding?
Who the fuck watches that?

>>377610260
I think no one checked the internet at the hotel they were staying at and they couldn't stream for awhile

>>377600478

Hopefully they promote more LGBTQ+ support!

>>377609038
some animal saving stuff. people can take care of themselves ffs

>>377600717
This.

Fuck cancer """"""awareness"""""
Fuck Terrorist Smugglers Without Morals

>>377600478
>He watches for the actual games

>Not the drama.

>>377610303
It's comfy, you fucking nazi

>>377600478

ya rabi ribi should be a great run OP

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>>377609861
non-yuffie warp run

I honestly think I can beat 8 hours. I may attempt it.

>>377600717
I found out about that recently too, shouldn't NATO be pissed that a "charity" is doing that? they have proof and everything.

>if you want to cure cancer please stand infront of the shuttle outside the hotel on the hour, thanks

>>377611120
>tfw I did that but only because I preferred Tifa and Aerith
I never used Yuffie, though.

>>377601064
no if I recall that was the one that ended with several hours of yugioh RNG where they managed to win just before the hotel cut the power

>>377604209
>You can say the same thing for fucking Gucci, too.
maybe you should spend some time in ginza, peasant

>>377609861
I think they're specifically not doing the trick that actually makes it a fast game (only using disc 1)

>>377611120
They are all in on it

>NASA is workday only

Fuck you Naeg

>>377613123
Just watch it at work

>>377600478
BotW 100% run, including all 900 korok seeds

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>>377613123
>tfw NEET and will play video games all day long everyday while watching NASA

They should probably have 2 stages at gdq. One for long winded RPG's and weird shit, and the main stage for everything else. Time it so there is not 15 minutes of downtime after every fucking run where everyone leaves, and just cut to the other stage.

>>377600478
>pretend to care about speedrunning
niqqa I'm always there because of memes, I never pretended to care about shit

>>377609072

The power of last minute bulk 1000 dollar anonymous donations surely is staggering.

I am going to NASA

Who should I poison?

>>377603085
They're fake donations made by PCF themselves, it's similar to when you see a tip jar somewhere that's packed with 1s, it's just to make everyone think everyone else is on board and donating so why not you too.

>>377604586
B-but they get HOYP!

>>377613917
steal all the MAGA hats and run

>>377609879
>marathins
check your fucking privilege thin scum
triggered as fuck

>>377606345
It was technically impressive, tons of one frame tricks, but it was boring as sin to actually watch.

>>377604221
They have a youtube channel, they also do commentated marathons of rpg series throughout the year, like a FF marathon, tales marathon, star ocean marathon, triACE etc

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>Any good runs to look forward to?

Only the aftermath

>>377604531
>Wouldn't that be really easy to track? That's a "conspiracy theory" you could crack in an afternoon

There's nothing wrong with appropriating the funds to operation costs. Kony 2012 is a perfect example of this.

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>>377609412
>people complain about a 4 hour Kingdom Hearts run
>but not about an 8 hour FF7 run

I hate Twitter, Tumblr, & Twitch Chat

>>377614480
Is it Final Mix or cutscene%?

>>377613347
i want to fuck that girl she looks comfy as fuck

>>377614806
>Final Mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeTS71-khFk

>>377614806
Kingdom Hearts? It hasn't been cutscene% since the original KH1 on PS2 where you couldn't skip

you can skip pretty much every cutscene in the later games (still a few in kh1 you can't skip) and the record has been reduced to about 3 hours now since PS4 has next to no load times

I'm a little late to BTFO that blatant PCF shill, but watch this if you want to educate yourself. PCF is a fucking scam, anyone who takes the time to look at their financial reports can see it. They also work directly with GDQ and oversee the hiring of staff for the event. Half of the money that's donated comes from PCF themselves to increase revenue because of tax code loopholes.

youtube.com/watch?v=bG6hPJpxzm4

Doctors without Borders is a whole other shady mess entirely.

>>377610176
/srg/ elderboi here. No. It's a rotted husk of its former self, a wasteland where no camraderie or discussion is possible.

/srg/ continues to exist in us, but on Twitch, Twitter, and at marathons. See NASA.

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>>377604063
While the money was never dirty to begin with per se, filtering their own money into the donation pool, just to make their numbers look greater, is a kind of laundering.
AGDQ doesn't want money, they want donated money. A way to "clean" regular money into donated money is to filter it through the stream's donation pool.
also PCF is an evil organization that gives a portion of the donations to the heads of GDQ

>>377615856
/vg/ itself is a rotting husk

we need to just merge /v/ and /vg/ again

>I'm legitimately the only one on /v/ and /vg/ who actually enjoys watching speedruns and explanations of what they're doing
Why the fuck do I keep coming to this board? It's somehow managed to go even further downhill.

>>377600567
Oh shit really? Gotta watch out for that then, love that game

>>377616047
> we need to just merge /v/ and /vg/ again
Hasn't that already happened?

/v/ has de-facto generals that simply must not be called generals.

>>377615379
You posted a video that's already been posted and later disproved by another "PCF shill". I posted their fucking financial statements (auditted, might I add) and they are transparent as fuck. It's obvious what they're spending their donation money and it's not as bad as whatever conspiracy theory you come up with.

>>377615948
How the fuck are PCF evil? You do realize that all charities pay their employees, right? Are you stupid?

I hate having to have this argument every time I go to a GDQ thread. There's something horrifically autistic about me feeling the need to argue with you guys all the time about something that doesn't affect me because I don't even donate to GDQs, so I'll stop. You can keep being wrong.

>>377615948
just to be devils advocate if you look at their financial statements they really aren't that shady at all. Its just...you really shouldn't donate to any charity with "Foundation" in its name

I know people get on them about the posters and shit but that's what they do, they're not it to actually help find a cure like most people believe, they're just spreading awareness about the disease. The posters may be dumb but I still remember that "be my bestie check my testies" one clearly and that's really what they're after.

At least they're not like Susan G Koleman Foundation
>trademarked Pink and Race for the Cure
>keep other breast cancer charities tied up in court until they run out of money and shut down

Inb4 someone calls me a shill

>>377616321
Nah, senpai. I love watching RPGLB runs. I can't stand GDQ anymore because it's all trannies wanting attention and no fun allowed and most of the runs are of greenlight indie trash from steam where they're the only person who runs it so they can claim a wr and be famous on SDA.

Limit Break has the actual magic and charm that made GDQ great at first. I recently watched their Valkyria Chronicles run from a couple years ago, and I wanted to reach through the screen and give the runner a hug and ruffle his hair. He was a fat autist, but he had an adorable lisp and a huge grin on his face like he was actually enjoying his run and was just there to share one of his favorite games with everyone. He had great commentary and a good couch behind him chiming in with even more. They were allowed to crack jokes and have fun and be informal.

Got a little off topic but the point is, I like watching speedruns for the commentary, I just can't stand GDQ anymore, it's a fucking dumpster fire at this point.

>>377616571
Financial statements being audited just means they're accounting systems aren't fucked up, has nothing to do with the quality of the income or expenses at its core.

It would be reasonable to call any cash outflows to things like gdq program expenses since they are part of the fund raising activity.

>>377616706
I agree. I'm the guy that's been defending them this entire time and I would never donate to them. I honestly don't care. I don't need to give money to charity to feel good about myself, and I also realize that there are shitty charities out there. It's just that PCF are one of the better ones and get a bunch of flak by people in these threads for shit they either didn't do or weren't supposed to do in the first place.

>>377616321
I like watching runs and explanations though

Long as they're under an hour

>>377616941
I know, I'm just saying that they're so confident in all this shit they're putting up online that I just don't believe they're doing anything fraudulent. Maybe I'm too trusting, but PCF do seem like they're trying hard not to confuse anyone as to what they actually do.

>>377616925
Got it. I tend to just watch the VoDs, myself - if I actually want to watch live runs, there's better channels. Plus, I can skip over "and now we wait half a minute because fuck this game"

>>377615856
Just as I thought, abandoned it myself years ago. See you at some marathon, enjoy NASA.

>>377616571
I've seen their financial statements. Less than half of the donations actually go to what the charity claims to be for. They also have a direct hand in running GDQ now. They've completely taken it over and turned it into a business. I don't care if you shill for them, just don't get butthurt when you don't fool anyone and get called out on it. No one who is running a fucking charity needs to be paid a quarter million a year. PCF was a fucking scam to begin with, and they recently started money laundering on top of it. Fuck them. Fuck them for being a scam and fuck them for ruining something that used to be great just to line their pockets more.

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>>377616943
Exactly. I don't even give to charities even though I usually work with them. Alot of the women in my family (my mother, her sister, and their mother) all had some form of cancer and survived so I mostly target certain doctors and donate to them directly.

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remember when GDQs had NTR drama and not tranny drama?

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>>377600478
>speedrunners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H50nqenYMDM

>>377617094
Limit Break has a youtube channel they upload everything to. They also do mini marathons throughout the year of rpg series like FF, Tales, DQ, etc.

>>377602606
Cirno wouldn't associate himself with the level of autism contained in those events.
Cirno's autism is pure and made of memes.

>>377617375
>Less than half of the donations actually go to what the charity claims to be for.
And what is that, exactly?

You say they're a scam, but never say what they actually do as part of a scam. You also say they're money laundering yet don't say how they're doing it.

Don't get butthurt when you don't back up your arguments and I get bored "arguing" with you. I don't want to respond but you're spouting so much bullshit with no evidence that it's honestly pretty astounding.

>>377617387
>claims to not be a shill while posting infographics from PCF themselves

You're not fooling anyone, anon.

>>377617773
God forbid someone backs up their arguments.

>>377610303
retard doesn't know what he is talking about, FF7 has tons of tricks and next to no grinding

the most notable tricks are the poison trick used to take out materia keeper and the midgar skip that basically skips the entire penultimate dungeon in the game and fucks the music for the rest of the game.

Also FF7 has a hilarious gate keeper boss like 4 hours into the run that can just kill it unceremoniously, you know, because of that no grinding thing

but yeah its still an rpg run that clocks in at almost 8 hours, but this guy is just talking out of his ass

>>377617773
Do you really think PCF would shill on /v/ of all places? If I were them I'd sent plants to people that are running's channels and have them hype up donating during the run so it can get into SGDQ 2018 as well.

Its sad I think that way but still that's just marketing. Honestly though PCF are in the bottom 30% of charity spending and that's because alot of the money goes towards paying all their staff and only about 20% of the million dollars they make from AGDQ goes to a good cause.

Purely subjective if they're actually suspicious. There's evidence to suggest they are, and evidence that says otherwise.

>>377617737
Cancer prevention and research. Less than half of their donations go to that. Unless they're lying on their financial reports. Or they think making posters counts as cancer prevention.

The money laundering is fucking obvious. Don't even try to deny it. Every year since they took over GDQ there's been these fucking shady ass anonymous thousand dollar donations every 15 minutes during the last day of the event. It's also proven fact they donate at least some money to GDQ. Why the fuck is a charity donating money to their own fundraiser? Why are you so vehemently defending them if you're not a paid shill? Someone in your family die of cancer? If so that sucks anon but there are a half dozen other charities that are in the same field that are much better. It's also much better to donate directly to hospitals and doctors, not charities. Charities are an unnecessary middle man just their to line their pockets most of the time.

>>377617991
Yeah, man, like how Hillary told people to go to her website where her fact checkers were hard at work finding out the truth. Are you really that fucking dense?

>2013 reports
>President gets 278k
>Other higher up employees also get over 100k
Livin' the dream in this "non-profit" organization. That being said, I will admit that they are transparent. Pretty much all of the GDQ donations go straight into employee pockets, but hey. Mike gets paid, you get to see dumb posters, and a small percentage of total operating profits goes to research. I think what annoys people the most is that people donate with all these messages like "Let's kill cancer" when their donations aren't doing anything of the sort. They can't even read "PREVENT" and think they're donating for a cure.

>>377611308
yuffie is probably the most OP character in FF7 outside of cloud himself

doom of the living is pretty much the second best limit in the game next to omnislash, and with her conformer you can have her doing full damage with morph and insta farming stat increasing sources

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>>377616571
>How the fuck are PCF evil? You do realize that all charities pay their employees, right? Are you stupid?
Because, like I previously stated, this charity is operating in a cyclical fashion to generate money and just because this is not illegal, doesn't mean it's right either.
But here is how PCF has generally worked throughout the years. A young charity event normally picks a single charity to give all of their earnings to, as a show of goodwill unto the world. The charity (PCF) will then acknowledge the event and return some of that money to the event so that it can happen again. But like any good Ponzi scheme, the greater the money earned, the greater the money returned. This leads to AGDQ heads and PCF heads making a ridiculous amount of "maintenance" money and if you'll look at their financial statements, you'll see the heads of PCF make a very pretty penny for their fight against cancer.

If you're still not convinced that this organization is a scam, let me also remind you that the GDQ events themselves don't do a very good job of informing its donors about where the money goes. PCF, like any good Kars4Kids-type operation, is awfully ambiguous as to what they do. Any organization that "spreads awareness" about a disease so common a toddler could identify it, tends to not really care about the actual discovery for a cure or the helping of those suffering from from the disease. As a result, people get the impression that their money is actually going to cancer victims and the discovery of groundbreaking technology. You see donations all the time that say "let's kick cancer's ass" and "I'm donating so that no one has to suffer from cancer the way my father did." Notice how GDQ never corrects these people, but instead will briefly mention how PCF does so much for the prevention of cancer............ and spreads awareness.

The point is, these are legal business schemes. Feel-good events that operate under the veil of goodwill through ambiguity.

>>377618235
SGDQ is a different event with different staff and a different charity. SGDQ actually donates to a far far worse charity, but the evidence is a little more scarce and the dots are harder to connect.

>>377618293
They're called the Prevent Cancer Foundation, not the Prevent Cancer (oh and we also research it guys we promise) Foundation. And yes, making posters count as cancer prevention. How do they not? How else are they supposed to tell people how to check for tumours? Seriously, making flashy and weird adverts for their cause like the "touch your best mate's balls" one is the best thing they could do since something that bizarre sticks with you.

Again, you have no proof for them "laundering". Can you not accept a coincidence for once in your fucking life? Do you have to be jaded all the fucking time? There's no proof for it, and yet you accept it like it's the truth.

I'm only defending them as much as I am because people here are stupid and attack them as much as possible and make claims they have no evidence for. I've never said what they're doing is good, or that there's no better alternative, nothing like that. I'm just saying that it's not a scam if they tell you it's one.

If they pay their employees with donation money, then fine, as long as they say so.

>>377618691
I'm not reading your fucking novel, but one sentence stuck out to me so I'll address it. PCF are definitely NOT ambiguous. If their financial statements are online and show them in a negative light (giving so much money to their workers in a "non-profit" organization), then they are not ambiguous. They are called the fucking Prevent Cancer Foundation for a reason. To prevent cancer. Not research it.

>>377602309
Remember that runner that called out his tranny girlfriend during a Fallout 3 run or whatever?

Goddamn that was painful to watch.

>>377618964
Well if you're not going to read the counter-arguments, no one has any reason to read yours.

I am kind of looking forward to the what I assume is a non glitched ff7 run. It's always nice to learn of new ways to break the game even though I already know of a shit ton of ways.

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>>377618754
redpill me on MSF, I was under the impression that everyone preferred it to PCF

>>377619080
I'm not responding to the same posts over and over again. I've said before that I don't want to argue any more but I keep doing it because I'm autistic. I've had this same exact argument 50 times before.

>>377618964
>I'm not reading your fucking novel
>PCF are definitely NOT ambiguous
It's almost like I define how their ambiguity works, yet you ignore it. Shill harder, anon.

>>377604881
Not really any sort of "drama" highlight but I really enjoyed the FF1 run and was not expecting to. It came on after a run I was interested in and it just played as background noise but it sucked me in. It was in the middle of the night and I didn't have work the next day so I just made up some tea and whisky and got lost in the runners' insane knowledge of the game.

>>377616925
>I love watching RPGLB runs
They are much """comfier"""

>Time for donations
>We don't have any
>O-okay ;_;

>>377619232
That's not how ambiguity works. If a charity states everything it spends its money on, then it's not ambiguous. It it says what it does to fulfill its goal as a charity, then it's not ambiguous. Holy shit, if a charity dedicated to preventing cancer says what it does to do so and the amount of money it spends on doing so, then it's not fucking ambiguous.

If it tells people where their donated money is going, then it's not fucking ambiguous. I don't care what definition you have for the word, it's clearly different from mine.

>>377600478
why do these threads still get fucking brought up year after year?
this trash has literally not been good in a long ass time. no, it's not a meme when people state this, it's a fact. the cringe shit is one of the only reasons to watch it and that's non existent now.

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>>377617387
>Donate directly to doctors
What? Why?

>>377619469
Okay, you're either a paid shill or autistic if you can't understand how this system works after I explained it with my "novel."
Just go look up the charity Kars4Kids and tell me if that one is ambiguous or not. I mean, after all, they don't hide where their money goes, therefore they must not be ambiguous, according to your logic.

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>>377619151
>MSF

>>377619151
I'm guessing what they're talking about is how MSF will help terrorists or whatever. This is a gray area. As someone with a bit of experience on the topic I'll give you my take on it. When you sign up for the medical field, you gotta leave your sense of justice behind. I'm a paramedic, so I help criminals all the time. I go to the federal jail at least once a week. Murderers, rapists, etc. It's not my right to decide who gets medical care or not. Once you get it in your head who deserves what, things get really fucked up. In this regard, I respect the MSF doctors for helping everyone without bias. That's the true medical way. On the other hand, I recognize that helping these dangerous people can lead to more people getting killed and hurt, which then puts more load onto MSF themselves.

So it all depends on how you view it I suppose. I don't think there's a right or wrong answer to it.

I wonder how many people will be banned, is not like there are many speedrunners

>>377619717
What do you want me to say? Google "define ambiguous" if you need more information. Charities rely on money. If they say where their money is coming and going, they're not ambiguous. If they say what their purpose as a charity is, they're not ambiguous.

>>377619151
Recently there's been a lot of shit coming to light, everything ranging from being a cover to sneak political prisoners across borders, plant terrorist sleeper cells, human trafficking, etc.

A lot of it is conjecture, but they're just as shady as PCF, and if the conspiracy theories are true, what they're possibly doing is way worse than PCF scamming retards out of their money.

>>377602309
>be tranny
>get more attention
>more attention = more money

>>377603617
very clever, making everyone believe you were reaching for your bottle with water when in reality you wanted to sniff her farts

>>377619151
http://abcnews.go.com/International/doctors-borders-refused-american-isis-hostage-kayla-mueller/story?id=41601887

Also requesting the webm of the satellite map of all the refugee ships. One of them was MSF

>>377619972
You sound like the kind of guy who uses purposely ambiguous phrases, in order to get someone to rush in and sign a contract. Then when they find out what's actually on the contract, you tell them that it wasn't ambiguous because all of what you said was "technically" true and it was all on the contract to begin with.
You're the kind of guy people hate, anon.

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>>377602309
Ugly fat guy becomes fat ugly chick.

wow.

>>377620341
What are you talking about? Seriously, I have no idea what the fuck you're saying. Do you want PCF to show everyone watching AGDQ their financial statements? What are you saying?

PCF don't do that. It's not their fault people assume they're all about cancer research since their fucking name IS THE PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION.

What don't you understand?

>>377619262
They've grown a lot since they started 2 years ago. They're actually about to end their marathon for this year, I haven't watched it live but they upload the pieces to youtube throughout the day. I think they're gonna hit 100k this year, pretty big growth from where they started. They don't donate to a fucking cancer prevention scam like GDQ, either, so hopefully they won't just turn into another dumpster fire like GDQ did.

>>377620503
Shame they are about long ass RPGs, I'll never bother watching them live

>>377600478
Nope, not since they decided to not let Distortion2 do the Dark Souls 3 run (the guy has the WR).

>>377619698
shut the fuck up.
if you watched for the runs you'd know they're pretty great.
there was one marathon I think agdq 2016, where no fun was allowed but then it went back to normal

>>377620807
i did watch the runs.
they're trash. you must have the mind of an infant to find that shit entertaining.

>>377620597
Yeah the runs are long, but it's better than GDQ's lineup being 75% greenlight indie trash that no one has ever heard of and the person running it isn't even a fucking speedrunner they just picked a random ass game that no one plays so they could upload the only run to SDA and have a world record so they could go be internet famous at the marathon. And then there's the one or two games that were made specifically for speedrunning so there's no glitches or strats or anything it's just a short first person platformer with some movement mechanics, which completely kills the whole fucking point and original idea of a speed run in the first place.

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>>377620491
It's called doing something in good faith, anon.
You seem to have this cavalier, buyer beware attitude about you. The Prevent Cancer Foundation could literally mean ANYTHING. They could "prevent" it by providing sunscreen to the poor. They could "prevent" it by telling people not to eat microwavable food. They could "prevent" it by coming up with a super-vaccine that neutralizes cancer growth. Their name could mean anything and to the regular Joe, it does.

I don't get why you're giving an unreasonable amount of leniency to an organization that misappropriates funds to all things that do not, in any meaningful way, help the prevention of cancer.
I'm starting to think you're more of an autist than a shill, at this point.

>>377621042

Wasn't there a shitty indie pixel platformer in the last AGDQ that had literally ten players. Ever.

>>377620335
Pretty sure that was covered by a Danish news crew.

>>377621276
Probably. I haven't watched GDQ since 2014, I just look at the playlist on youtube after it's all uploaded and watch a run or two depending on which game it is. Most of what I see is some indie shit I've never heard of.

>>377620985
They're not any worse that the previous ones. You probably don't enjoy speedrunning in general.

>>377621276
Yeah. Not just runners, 10 people owned it on Steam

What a joke

>>377623904
>>377621276
how do you remember that part but not the fact that the runner was the developer of the game

>>377624189

Well then that just raises the question who's dick did he suck to get to advertise his game in GDQ?

>>377619151
People are mad that "doctors without borders" act as doctors without regards to borders.

>>377626757
Really makes you think

>>377625130
You just submit your run and it either gets accepted or not Spikevegeta usually compiles a list for us in google docs then we judge on categories like time, how much money it can draw, and if the run is actually entertaining

also helps to know someone who judges whether or not a run should be accepted

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>>377627894
>us

>>377628068
my subtle way of telling the thread I used to be a staff member for AGDQ so I can tell you about the inner workings of putting the marathon together

>>377628171
Guess nobody cares

>>377627894
>>377628171
Why won't they allow a Rabi-Ribi run?

>>377629814

It's too weeb and Japanese. It'll scare off normies.

>>377630038
Okay, but why allow Touhou fangames then?

>>377630038
What if they made a mod to give Ribbon a better outfit?

There is one other character with art even worse than Ribbon, but 1) they'd never meet that character in a speedrun and 2) the art only shows up on the hardest difficulty.