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Awesome Games Done Quick 2015: Speedrunning For Charity - January 4th - 10th
- Thread starter TUSR
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Belkofag
Or are you talking about runs from past events? Those should be on the SpeedDemosArchiveSDA channel.
First page has VOD for all of the runs.
Make sure to play this at the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yoSM9G00b0 Turns it from a great run to a godlike one.
Shit, I missed this run somehow. This is one of my all-time favorites; he is making some of these tricks look soooo much easier than they really are. The physics and momentum in DF2 are hard to get a handle on when you're going max speed. Awesome run.
World of Illusion and Within a Deep Forest
Don't forget Umehara Kawase! 5 minute game but Blechy's commentary was hilarious.
Its pretty boring compared to Dark Souls 1 because of the lack of sequence breaking. I hope Elajjaz can make it to one to do all bosses DS 2.
Also interesting how From actually managed to nerf magic enough to make melee weapons the optimal strat. I'm pretty sure top times in 1 and Demon are still magic based.
bloodyroarxx
Member
2 hours
twothunder
Member
Watched the glitch show fron OOT but could not stay up for the 100% run and final.
Hate missing stuff like this.
Hate missing stuff like this.
Senselessb
Banned
So this is interesting light of things:
http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/2r98kv/agdq_are_only_22_of_agdq_donations_actually/
Hopefully they do change charities next year. Not going into details, but this marathon exploited my money earlier this week, and Paypal is working on refunding hundreds of dollars back to me.
Its not to late to get your money refunded, or to open a dispute with paypal, or your credit card if something similar happened to you.
I love the event, but theres more to the donations than we realize.
http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/2r98kv/agdq_are_only_22_of_agdq_donations_actually/
Hopefully they do change charities next year. Not going into details, but this marathon exploited my money earlier this week, and Paypal is working on refunding hundreds of dollars back to me.
Its not to late to get your money refunded, or to open a dispute with paypal, or your credit card if something similar happened to you.
I love the event, but theres more to the donations than we realize.
I ended up just watching it again even when I didn't mean to. It's one of those short but highly entertaining runs.
One in the Eastern US, and one in the Western US, both near major airline hubs to make travel as easy as possible. Those are among the best possible locations.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Considering the dude was using the screen name michaeljewyama, it seems obvious it's just some troll attempting to spread FUD.
TheSlySoul
Member
Interesting, I think 76% of the donation being for the cause is totally fair IMO.
You have to research it since some of them are only 50%.
Also as the other poster said, there is much more than just research to prevent cancer. So to say only 22% is ignorant.
The first reply should also be read. Not everything goes directly to research, that would be silly. Its not a perfect charity, but its also not the devil. Charity numbers threads bring out the worst in people.
Senselessb
Banned
Ya we were discussing this above. While I'll agree creating awareness is important, the fact that a company spends a third of the millions they make on posters is insane. Also considering both the marathon and pcf label themselves not for profit, yet the workers make so much pocket money, its such a scam in my opinion. As pointed out before, its not to late to reject your payments with your credit card company
Many people have little understanding and/or desire to understand the logistics of what it takes to make something happen. Those people say dumb things all the time.
If you dont pay your workers, you dont have people to work. Non-profits pay their employees all the time.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Ignore.
Necromanti
Member
Right. Their aim is to get people to prevent cancer through promoting check ups, which is honestly something that could have a more immediate, tangible difference in helping saving people's lives. There's also an incredible stigma against people getting paid decent salaries while working for charities, but people don't understand that that only helps their efficacy rather than having a huge turnover with a large number of uninvested volunteers.
People seem to be confused about what the goals of PCF are. You even hear it in a lot of donation comments that people seem to think they're looking for a cure for cancer, but that's not what they're actually about. It's about prevention and early detection to increase survival rates.
He was also in the Lawnmower and Goof Troop races.
not sure you know i was being sarcastic and actually making fun of you.
Every person in every charity needs money so they can have a life to continue what they are doing. PCF CEO making 200k is whatever, some make more, some make less. If you're angry because you didn't know the PCF was about raising awareness which they state every time when they talk about what the PCF does I don't know what to say. They do fund research, and they do help people prevent cancer because they find out at an earlier stage when it is treatable. Not sure what the fuss is.
Read up on what Not for Profit is. The National Football League is considered a non profit organization...
Senselessb
Banned
I know they say that everytime, and as I said awareness and prevention is important. The article itself addresses what they don't tell us. And based on my recent experience, the GDQ staff plays dirty (not saying all do)
Red Arremer
Member
I have seen this pop up all over the place, and yet nobody has ever given me an explanation as to what they actually "play dirty" in.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
People think that they got tricked into donating to a bunk charity because less than 100% of the proceeds are going to research to find the mythological cure for cancer and they can't be bothered to do a little research into how charities are run and the charity itself, or, at the very least pay attention during the couple of minutes every hour they usually spend explaining the charity on the stream, and they're blaming the people running GDQ/PCF for it.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Tracker ended at >$1.1M, but they said there were issues with the tracker and they're probably over $1.5M.
Small.. FF7 was 3 hours even with the big skip.
So only if there's any similar skip in an SMT game somewhere.
Red Arremer
Member
Most SMT game speedruns are very very long, and especially bigger marathons like the GDQs don't like running extremely long runs, and usually only pick RPGs that are shorter.
However, there's more specialized marathons such as Crystals 4 Life (I think it's running under a different name this year though) that specifically run RPGs, so it's more likely to see longer games ran in those.
That said, I don't think SMT is very popular even among RPG speedrunners, specifically because the runs are absurdly long. I know that romscout has dabbled in some SMT runs before, and all of them are like 8+ hours.
We had a normal FF7 speed run before and was around 8 hours or so. I know Romscout runs SMT, but I don't think he'd ever add it in.
Simply Sarah
Member
I think part of this feeling, which I actually share to a degree although I think "play dirty" is going too far, is that at this point AGDQ isn't really "speedrunners get together and raise money for charity they pick" but is rather much closer to "PCF holds a charity event and invites speedrunners to participate". I'll admit I did not donate at all this year because of increasing discomfort over the last year plus.
To start with, in regards to the "play dirty" sentiment, the fact that Mr. Uyama is directly contracted by PCF is somewhat concerning. Basically, PCF isn't the charity AGDQ donates to because it's determined to be the best, it's the charity AGDQ donates to because it is in Mike's best financial interest at this time (I am mostly working under the assumption that other "speedrun community" people under contract are mostly a case of compensation from whichever charity is being used for the amount of time and effort they put in). Note that this situation with Mike isn't by itself wrong, but it certainly is a sort of conflict of interest. I'm certainly not saying he or anyone else should have to do this for free, though. And I'm also not accusing anyone of being dishonest in any of this, since the situation was transparently out there if people took the time to look.
Second and more generally, while I don't see PCF as a bad charity I also don't feel it is the best one and it is entirely accurate and fair to say that they're less efficient with their funds, i.e. having greater overhead not going towards actual goals, than some other charities. Again, they certainly aren't awful about it, but the percentage on available reporting is still lower than I'd like.
Red Arremer
Member
Okay, I can understand not agreeing with the charity that is picked (for whatever reason), or with the whole aspect of PCF being heavily involved in the organization of AGDQ (to the point of the main organizer of the event being contracted by them).
But neither the PCF nor Uyama have ever lied about it, or withholding any information in regards to that, so I don't see it as that much of a problem. So, as you say, saying that they are 'playing dirty' goes way too far.
I mean, it's not like PCF 'bought' Uyama and enlisted him to do AGDQ for them. From what I understand, PCF contracted Uyama after several successful events. And I don't see that really as a problem, either. He's the representative and main organizer of an event that, every year, brings them hundreds of thousands of dollars. I would contract somebody like that as well if I was in the PCF's shoes.
And there's nothing wrong with that. If you don't agree with what the charity is doing then you don't have to donate. But people calling it a scam are taking it to another level just because they're ignorant with how things work.
There' still SGDQ and they're doing MSF still so there's that.
There' still SGDQ and they're doing MSF still so there's that.
MetalGuardian
Banned
Where the bonus stream at? And do they have a schedule up for it yet? I'm particularly interested in seeing the glitched Melee run