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Starting tomorrow at 1PM (ET), Summer Games Done Quick 2015 will officially kick off. This annual event is once again going to showcase some of your favorite (and not so favorite) games over the course of seven days where some of the best speedrunners in the world will be showcased.This rapid fire sequence of games will raise money for Doctors Without Borders.
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), is an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization that helps people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from health care.
The entire event will be streamed live for you to enjoy (and donate) on Twitch (embedded video already set up below). The full event schedule can be found at the Games Done Quick website. If you would like to donate at any point, simply head on over to the dedicated donation page where all donations will go towards Doctors Without Borders. You can also buy some SGDQ 2015 merchandise from Something Artistic where $2 from every decal sold during SGDQ 2015 will be donated towards Doctors Without Borders.
Again, this all begins on July 26 at 1PM (ET) with Trihex running Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Other games include (but are not limited to): Crash Bandicoot 2, Resident Evil 3 and 4, Silent Hill 2, Shenmue 2, Tetris: The Grand Master 3, Bastion, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Halo 3, Wave Race 64, Banjo-Tooie, Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Batman: Arkham Origins, Super Metroid, and Chrono Trigger just to name a very few of the many games you can see.
Background on what happened during his Crash 2 run:
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If you need some sort of a visual to see this mess for yourself, watch this. The video should start at 43:22. Watch from there until the end. I'd say watch before that too but it does not get any better, not by a long shot.
Trying to find out if his personal channel was banned solely for what he said on the GDQ channel.
Edit: Some think it may have been banned from some sort of an automated system on Twitch. IE: A bunch of trolls watching decided to report his channel and voila, it's banned until he can get in contact with Twitch. This is assuming such a system is in place there in the first place.
With that said, everything else becomes awkward and uncomfortable as the runner didn't fully realize GDQ events are family friendly and require a more public persona, and the audience doesn't consist of your closest friends. He was too used to streaming with people who know him. Being on GDQ isn't just about censoring your profanity (heck even his usage of "crap" was a bit excessive though understandable in-context to when he used it). Some of us understand his comments on suicide were about the game and the way you speedrun it, and his emphasis was meant to say "you asked for it," but not everybody heard it that way. It was very uncomfortable seeing how he talks about killing himself over and over when I'm sure he didn't realize he repeated it that often. A better way of talking about that would be "I will intentionally lose a life here, because I need to blablabla, so don't worry it's all part of the plan" which is how I usually hear it from other runners (well they say strat, but I sound like a poser when I say it).
The spitting on mic, I'm letting that one slide. I don't see the big deal in Reddit criticizing him on that. He didn't mean to, and he apologized (bit too much emphasis, but whatever, I'd probably act the same way in his place). The comments under his breath did show he had difficulty in controlling his frustration with the game, but again I would give some leniency on that due to habits from streaming to people who know him, and he did make an attempt to control himself. The jokes he made were definitely not appropriate for GDQ, and it got difficult for him when he noticed the audience didn't laugh with the majority of his comments, which were meant to be jokes.
And finally, when the audience applauded at more or less his expense, the runner's sarcasm burned a quote into our minds that will be associated to him for a very long time. While it's unfortunate that the audience applauded at a time that seemed unsupportive of him (more of mistiming than intentional), his comment was meant to be a sarcastic joke but... Again, he's at GDQ where not everybody knows him. Even his friends had to talk to him about how anybody can misinterpret that by asking him to calm down (even though they know he's fine).
Sigh, all in all it was just unfortunate that the runner and the audience came to a massive misunderstanding due to habits from streaming to a different audience, and the lack of adjustment to a more public persona. Very unfortunate. And now he's being punished by Twitch for currently rumored reasons. GDQ also flips between the username and the Twitch name periodically, so I used his username (different spelling from Twitch apparently, though it could be a typo on GDQ's end) and I tried looking up his Twitter. IF what I found is his Twitter (might not be), then his account got suspended there as well.
Added later: I almost forgot to mention this, but there is one comment the runner made as a joke, that I feel should ONLY be said to personal friends privately and nowhere else. This joke is incredibly offensive and I don't understand how he can say that on ANY stream, including his own. This is something you can only say to people who really know you will never mean it and can not be heard by anybody else in the area. I mean, say it at a job, and you might as well ask to be blacklisted from the entire industry, and be forced to look for a new career. I don't need to say what it was. Reddit points it out and you can hear him say it on-stream. And no, I don't find that joke to be funny, and I never will. I'm not asking for an apology nor a retraction. I'm asking for him to learn his lesson on what is appropriate to what communities.