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arkarian

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arkarian: 2016-02-14 11:18:04 pm

2016-02-14 11:13:46 pm

red chamber dream

hehe yeah gotta be one of my favorite things on the internet

ryu

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ryu: 2016-02-15 07:22:39 am

2016-02-15 07:19:53 am

I just took a closer look at the gdq feedback thread. wow @ a staff member threating to murder and lol @ that guy who felt the need to make an offtopic post advocating furry tolerance.

There was something I else I found amusing but I already forgot what it was about. It's not that bad. DJ already mentioned the part of everyone becoming sick.

tomatobob

2016-02-15 07:29:07 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

I like it when furries act like a persecuted minority when people laugh at the silly costumes.

Like, people have actual problems you dopes who cares.

Serris

2016-02-15 08:17:11 am

The GDQs have long since become their own thing and their existence has done SDA no favors, dare I say, contributed to its decline. The Solitary Basement Dwelling Experience™ (churning out runs only 1% of which will see the light of day) that defined early SDA and the popularity contest that is Twitch streaming attract wildly different types of people. From what I can gather, SDA is now pretty much split between GDQ drama and the old members still doing their thing with less participation (considering that many GDQers don't actually run anything so the site is just bloated with noisemakers). It's sad to see the site that helped rekindle my interest in gaming over ten years ago go down the drain, but there's pretty much no reason to go there anymore, even if I would have liked it to stay the main speedrunning hub instead of discussion being scattered across a million wikis and Twitch chats I have no interest in seeking out.

Poision Envy

2016-02-15 08:23:48 am

Club 27 Goals

Sounds to me like they just need to enforce some rules about only talking about seed running in its designated threads, and weeding out the shitflinging.

Poision Envy

2016-02-15 08:24:32 am

Club 27 Goals

Quote from tomatobob:

I like it when furries act like a persecuted minority when people laugh at the silly costumes.

Like, people have actual problems you dopes who cares.

I'm pretty sure severe autism is a real problem, even if it is mostly made up

Poision Envy

2016-02-15 08:24:52 am

Club 27 Goals

And, you know, administered by the government via vaccines for children

ryu

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ryu: 2016-02-15 08:40:32 am

ryu: 2016-02-15 08:40:23 am

2016-02-15 08:28:52 am

Quote from Serris:

but there's pretty much no reason to go there anymore.

SDA just didn't manage to go with the times I guess. Or they were always too used to being a rather obscure community to bother adjusting to the streaming fad. Beyond the forum integration of streaming that is.

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And, you know, administered by the government via vaccines for children

It's the lead poisoning, PE. Lead poisoning........

Serris

2016-02-15 08:42:27 am

Well, the video side of SDA is pointless now, but they should ideally still be the place to go for discussion. Instead it fragmented into these tiny subcommunities that the Twitch system fosters and I don't see how SDA could have done anything about it if GDQ being so huge didn't do it. Even before GDQ stopped even mentioning SDA it never seemed to actually do anything for the community, it just made thousands of passive viewers visit the forums to contribute nothing at all. As a hobby that takes loads of actual and objectively pointless effort, speedrunning is always going to be niche, but even if they had focused on having GDQ as a tiny community hangout instead of this mainstream charity event, Twitch was always going to be there.

ryu

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ryu: 2016-02-15 08:51:23 am

2016-02-15 08:51:08 am

I've never really been very involved with SDA. Just used to check forum for new developments a few times and checked the main page for new runs (s.t. I also haven't done in years now). From a quick gloss-over, the planning forums seem be active still. Which all SDA is good for now that everyone can look for videos on youtube or watch live streams on twitch.

Poision Envy

2016-02-15 09:00:15 am

Club 27 Goals

Quote from Serris:

Well, the video side of SDA is pointless now, but they should ideally still be the place to go for discussion. Instead it fragmented into these tiny subcommunities that the Twitch system fosters and I don't see how SDA could have done anything about it if GDQ being so huge didn't do it. Even before GDQ stopped even mentioning SDA it never seemed to actually do anything for the community, it just made thousands of passive viewers visit the forums to contribute nothing at all. As a hobby that takes loads of actual and objectively pointless effort, speedrunning is always going to be niche, but even if they had focused on having GDQ as a tiny community hangout instead of this mainstream charity event, Twitch was always going to be there.

I just don't see what any of what you said is bad for speed running, if that's what you're saying. When you say SDAs decline do you mean their forum, or speed run contribution? Or the fact that people don't send them videos?

I just don't really get how any of this has hurt speedrunning.

[quote="Serris"]Well, the video side of SDA is pointless now, but they should ideally still be the place to go for discussion. Instead it fragmented into these tiny subcommunities that the Twitch system fosters and I don't see how SDA could have done anything about it if GDQ being so huge didn't do it. Even before GDQ stopped even mentioning SDA it never seemed to actually do anything for the community, it just made thousands of passive viewers visit the forums to contribute nothing at all. As a hobby that takes loads of actual and objectively pointless effort, speedrunning is always going to be niche, but even if they had focused on having GDQ as a tiny community hangout instead of this mainstream charity event, Twitch was always going to be there.[/quote]
I just don't see what any of what you said is bad for speed running, if that's what you're saying. When you say SDAs decline do you mean their forum, or speed run contribution? Or the fact that people don't send them videos?

I just don't really get how any of this has hurt speedrunning.

Serris

2016-02-15 09:06:46 am

I mean SDA's relevance as the main hub for discussion. The video side being pointless isn't a bad thing and I don't know where you get this "hurt speedrunning" thing from.

ryu

2016-02-15 09:27:41 am

Wow they're considering to go with another charity for next year'S AGDQ. They have some related to mental health on their list.

I hope that happens. Would make for interesting donation comments.

DJGrenola

2016-02-15 10:33:14 am

funnily enough I've been doing casual runs again recently

DJGrenola

2016-02-15 10:35:15 am

wanted to know what a ballpark time for Citadel on the BBC Micro would be (~52 minutes apparently)

DJGrenola

2016-02-15 10:37:17 am

should be doable in 50 I would think

ryu

2016-02-15 11:41:39 am

What games are you running?

There's a thread on sda where they talk about the site's decline. Radix mentioned how multiple people worked on a new site but they all stopped mid development. That reminded me. Didn't you work on something lije that too foer a time?

DJGrenola

2016-02-15 11:56:27 am

old game called Citadel from about 1984, super obscure, you'd need to be British and over 35 to have played it

yeah I did put together a database and demonstration web interface for a new SDA and I migrated a lot of the data from the old HTML pages as well. I posted the database and my PHP files on the forum but nobody bothered continuing development on them, they decided to try to start again from scratch and try to solve all the problems I'd already solved all over again.

I can sort of understand it because I did tell SDA to get fucked after the secret world drama, so that may have contributed to why nobody wanted to use my work lol

it was their loss though because I put a ton of work into that

ryu

2016-02-15 12:31:03 pm

Radix mentioned they have a DB upw here they put new runs into. Maybe that's your work they're using there.

But man, I just realized how damn beyond archaic the website is rotfl

I didn't realize Citadel was the rame you were running earlier, sorry. The expression ballpark somehow really confused me

ryu

2016-02-15 12:32:19 pm

I also didn't know what a BBC micro is. But considering you said it's a game already people from the UK now... don't tell me it was a handheld game console developed by media company BBC rotfl

ryu

2016-02-15 12:34:42 pm

No matches for 'Citadel' on gamefaqs... woah

ryu

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ryu: 2016-02-15 12:35:37 pm

2016-02-15 12:35:14 pm

You weren't kidding when you said ~~only british people of certain ager would know about the game!!~~ it's supper obscure!

arkarian

2016-02-15 12:35:49 pm

red chamber dream

well, it is called the "bbc" micro ;)

ryu

2016-02-15 12:37:23 pm

You guys watch too much James Bond

DJGrenola

2016-02-15 12:42:24 pm

so the BBC Micro was the result of a 1980s computer education scheme by the BBC. It was a home computer for education purposes, not a game console. It was manufactured by Acorn, who went on to become ARM and design CPUs. But there were games released for it