Board 8 > AGDQ starts soon (feat. DOWOLF)

(+) Yeah! (+)

Oh cool, they have Claude's VA calling in and offering commentary too.

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Question for Dowolf, why was it so important to track enemy HP so precisely in your run? It seemed like you weren't really in danger of losing any of those fights. Maybe I missed an explanation during the run?

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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Question for Dowolf, why was it so important to track enemy HP so precisely in your run? It seemed like you weren't really in danger of losing any of those fights. Maybe I missed an explanation during the run?

IIRC, dowolf explained at at <=25% HP enemies could run (a feature not offered to the player lol) while dowolf's spells had a wide damage range of say, 10-25. So the general strategy was to whittle an enemy down to as close to the run threshold was without crossing it, then cast the spell and hope the RNG rolled high enough to kill them from there. If it didn't (and i feel like it never did in the actual run lol) you had to hope you could kill them with the chip damage before they fled.

Since the objective was getting EXP enemies running is very bad.

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Claude's VA yelling, "You Scooby-Doo'd her!" is my favorite moment

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Watched MGS3 and Cadence and they were tite. What are some other good ones?

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2 players 1 controller blindfolded punch out

That thing that happened in Bioshock is one of the best AGDQ single moments.

I don't even want to say more. You know it when you see it.

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It wasn't the same thing they did last time Bioshock was in, was it?
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They named their character in XY "RunnrsChoice"

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Yeah, I forget what run it was, but I think that got kicked off with a donation about how everyone donates to runners choice but it never wins, so they donated to name it that.

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kevwaffles posted...

It wasn't the same thing they did last time Bioshock was in, was it?

Also, the answer to this question is basically yes with a slight difference. (They faked a Windows 10 update last time.)
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Every year I complain about tasbot

But this year tasbot somehow went over estimate

Ban it

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I'm pretty sure they always just round the estimate. That's nothing new.
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Now we come to the part of our AGDQ where I repeat myself and ask "is there anyone that actually likes watching TASbot live like this?"

The answer, of course, is there has to be and it always raises a lot of money. But I just don't get it.

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It's made even worse by the repeated

"Can you do this in RTA?"
"No."
"Can you do thiiiis in RTA?"

We get it.

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Man, you guys sure like to bitch every year about a segment you could just take a dinner break during.
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Yeah but can you bitch about our bitching in RTA?

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I AM taking a dinner break and still bitching, thank you very much.

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To me, the appeal of the TAS block is that you spend all week watching people play video games as fast as humanly possible. Then you take the restrictions off and see what kind of wacky shit can happen when you play games as fast as inhumanly possible. It's fun and funny because it's so far removed from what you expect to see when you watch video games.

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StealThisSheen posted...

Yeah but can you bitch about our bitching in RTA?

Yes, but by giving control to TASBot I can bitch while sliding backwards at full speed to the toilet to save time since I don't have to turn around.
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kevwaffles posted...

Yes, but by giving control to TASBot I can bitch while sliding backwards at full speed to the toilet to save time since I don't have to turn around.

Touch.

Just as long as you don't insult Bulbasaur like these losers.

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I wouldn't dare!
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ok dinner break done

glad that segment that was probably bad is over

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Mario Maker TAS was announced as a bonus game. I don't recall if they said Mario Maker 1 or 2.
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Brace yourselves for Pausa.

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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Mario Maker TAS was announced as a bonus game. I don't recall if they said Mario Maker 1 or 2.

SMM2 showcase including a tool assist demo or something like that. They made very sure not to say TAS or speedrun in that, but including seemed to be a keyword there.

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I don't recall the exact wording anymore. A Super Mario Maker 2 Relay Race is already on the schedule and the bonus section is only 10 minutes long so I think only the TAS part is behind the donation goal.
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I felt like tasbot block was fine.

or at least it was relatively short compared to previous years.

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The Mega Man X4 Zero 100% run was godlike

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lol this SMW hack

2 players with control of Mario switching every 30 frames.

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That was a fun run. Wish it was longer than just the 11 Exits category.
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Yeah, the runners' banter was so great I was wishing it was longer.

First time I'm going to see a Dark Souls run. After having played it for the first time about 6 months ago I'm interested to see what it looks like.

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xp1337 posted...

Yeah, the runners' banter was so great I was wishing it was longer.

First time I'm going to see a Dark Souls run. After having played it for the first time about 6 months ago I'm interested to see what it looks like.

It's a whole lot of sprinting past stuff!

I love the From games but the speedruns are generally kind of boring. Some good skips but other than that a whole lot of nothing for most of them.

edit - that said I haven't seen a Dark Souls one in a few years so many there's some new cool tech that really breaks the game. But most of the time it's an occasional clip through stuff to get past artificial walls and then more sprinting

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such satisfaction seeing bell gargoyles get that wrecked

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honestly this couch guy is fantastic and really making this run so good

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The commentary on Dark Souls is really good. Just point-by-point informative, right on time every time. I love that style of commentary.

That was a cool run. I wouldn't have ever thought the route went through the DLC!

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Paratroopa1 posted...

The commentary on Dark Souls is really good. Just point-by-point informative, right on time every time. I love that style of commentary.

Yeah when he said that he even practiced with the runner on the timing for explaining a certain glitch I was like "oh no wonder"

commentary practicing is great

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Dark Souls was fun to watch as I only played it for the first time this year so this was my first exposure to a speed run of it.

Wind Waker was the best run I watched so far this GDQ though. I missed a lot of good stuff I wanted to see during the day though

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It's crazy to hear the marathon is actually AHEAD on time. Like it's going to end at like 1:30 AM tonight? Usually it's like 3 at the earliest.

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It seems to end early a lot when the final run isn't a long RPG.
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Crowd Control has raised over a million bits in 11 minutes

that's $10k on top of whatever donations have come in

nice

Reg posted...

Crowd Control has raised over a million bits in 11 minutes

that's $10k on top of whatever donations have come in

nice

They've had the bit exchange open since last night, so I assume it'd include all of that.

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Through the Fire and the Flames was sweet

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this abortion of a run will almost come in under estimate

god bless patty making it watchable

and the donation comments for being pretty decent from what I heard (Though I had to miss like an hour and a half in the middle)

The combat in Sekiro: Clang Clang Clang doesn't look very fun.

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As someone who somehow missed almost the whole thing, what's worth watching

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2 Million, nice!

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Super Mario Maker 2 is starting very soon. I'm rooting for PangaeaPanga to win here. He is a legendary Super Mario Maker 2 player known for making some of the hardest levels in the game.
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Vertical pipes are mean.
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