cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/21500969
This year was honestly one of the better years. Lots of great runs all around. You can find the VODs here: https://www.youtube.com/@gamesdonequick/videos
I haven’t seen many runs yet, but my personal highlights were Peanut Butter the Dog speedrunning Gyromite and Elden Ring finished in 18 minutes.
What other great runs were there I might’ve missed?
This was one of the best GDQs in recent memory. So glad that they’re back in person because that energy from the crowd was sorely missed.
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Don’t look too deep into it because there was a bit of a scandal around it when people realized the salaries involved…
Also, the foundation AGDQ is associated with is crap, SGDQ is much better on that front.
Yeah, don’t look past the veneer of the Prevent Cancer Foundation (and GDQ’s founders are pretty cozy with them). Sure they’re saints compared to The Completionist (& co.), but they mostly just do education/outreach which, while important, is completely US based and no doubt doubles as soliciting/fundraising, and don’t really fund research nearly as much as you would probably guess (their 2022 financial statements indicate 4.6m spent on education, 800k spent on outreach, 1.44m on fundraising and only 1.1m on research). If you’re outside the US you’re unlikely to ever be impacted by their work. Their salaries are also way higher than DWB USA.
They went and became a non-profit and are disclosing their financials now?
GDQ is still a for-profit company, it just actually donates the money raised to the partner charity.
Their donation links go straight to the charity, PayPal clearly tells you who you’re sending money to
My husband and I watched a bunch of it this year and there was some great stuff on it. Was really impressed by the doom run and the BL2 coop run was easily our favorite with a ton of crazy tricks that made us want to do a new playthrough. The TAS run of super metroid was really cool too. My husband really liked the ocotpath travelr 2 run and I liked the super Mario 2 run.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/@gamesdonequick/videos
Peanut Butter the Dog speedrunning Gyromite
Elden Ring finished in 18 minutes
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Lot’s of fantastic runs and runners this year!
