This Donation Spree is fucking magical
Like damn!
Posted Jan 13, 2019, 4:08 AM UTC
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Twitch chat is popping off. That caused at least a 100k bump in less than 10 minutes.
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I'm doing my part!
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130k at least.
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Every AGDQ needs a moment like this. I thought it was going to go with a whimper but everyone got whipped into shape. I wasn't going to donate and even I got suckered in. Great moment!
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Anyone else think SMO might be a candidate for being the final game in the future? I love Super Metroid but man the SMO run really felt so definitive.
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It definitely plays perfectly into that "finale" feeling.
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I would be in favor of it. It hits that perfect time of 2-3 hours long. Anything less feels like it goes by too quickly for a finale and I know others tend to dislike the long 5+ RPG runs to close.
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Also Bayleef felt like the perfect speedrunner. Talented, witty & funny, cool, knew how to play the audience/twitch chat. The last few moments before they hit 2 million, he kept provoking twitch chat, made some remarks on how twitch is not gonna beat him and gave everything this final boss anime feel. It helped everyone give this feeling of unity and it was just incredibly ass clenching and entertaining.
Plus the "THANK YOU" at the end gave me frisson.
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Same dude, same!
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Happens every year
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Needed it, and badly.
But the work's not done yet.
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If there is ever a GDQ documentary this moment will be shown.
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I'm so proud I got in on this donation train. It was definitely worth it.
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I've had Amazon Prime for years, meaning I've had Twitch Prime as long as it's existed, and even though I know it's free money towards the people I watch wasted I've just never bothered spending my free sub (and I've felt a bit bad about it too).
Until that donation train that is. Good way to break my streak and get in on the action to help out!
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See, I used it yesterday during the TASBot block when they said "twitch chat gets to vote on what we do in Scribblenauts." If you didn't see it live, the amount of people who subbed in the next minute was absolutely unreal. And then it was a TON of fun being part of voting for that.
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987 did what you did
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It's absolute bonkers right now! I haven't seen this kind of rush before. Everything is super hype, runner is great, coach is great, commentator is working it, crowd is enjoying it!
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#ANIME IS REAL
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Honestly, the music paired with the donation train was incredible to witness. Glad I and my donation got to be part of that live.
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I know it's a speedrun but I was hoping he'd run over to the boombox in Mushroom Kingdom to play the JP version, lol
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This is the craziest thing I've seen. Almost 100k in about 10 minutes.
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150k in 17 minutes, hell of a $5 train!
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That was nuts!
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Holy crap, that was beautiful.
What a great (almost) ending to this GDQ.
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Right before punchy mentioned it, I mentioned in the discord that chat donation trains never work without announcer support, then the announcer mentioned it, then the train happened. So I'm gonna claim to myself that I helped kick it off :-P
But seriously - chat always tries to get these donation trains but they try it every 10 minutes and it never works, cause they try to do it too many times. These trains need to be a rare thing, and they only work when the announcers and runners and everyone show that they support it. That's when these things reach critical mass, like they did with FF6, and like they did today. But it needs to have the right mix of circumstances and GDQ can't abuse it, cause if they call for them too often, they'll end up not working. So I hope GDQ staff think about how to facilitate the execution of these donation trains. Basically, have a good circumstance/goal to meet (a record goal, or an incentive that needs to be met), have support of twitch chat so its organic enough, do it during a hype run on the last day, and only do one of them per marathon. It seems to work as long as all these factors are together.
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Amazing.
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you need to be more specific in your post for those of us who weren't watching live.
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This was amazing and so much fun being in it.
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It's a money laundering front
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NO! THE CROWD IS HAVING FUN! I CANT HEAR THE GAME BECAUSE THE CROWD IS RUDE! AHHH! HOW DARE THEY HAVE FUN!
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Makes you think its almost fake the numbers going up without stopping, then hit 2 Million and stops all of sudden.
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Because everyone was specifically getting on the donation train to push toward 2 million, and didn't feel as much need to donate after it was hit? Not hard to understand.
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Except the counter was behind on donations, so people would have no way of knowing when to stop donating. The counter should've overshot it by significantly larger amounts.
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It did overshoot, by like $17,000. That’s a lot of $5 donations.
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It it didn't stop...
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When you donate you can see an up to date tracker for the incentive. When I donated, it was 198K. When that reached 200K, boom.
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Perfect timing, with the urgency of the run ending (for the incentive) and being close enough to $2m to get everyone hyped and keep going.