Game history librarian who's constantly poking stuff to see what happens.
I try very hard not to engage in the take economy, but I saw someone on another platform say that GDQ is bad because speedrunning is a hobby of the aristocracy.
My brother in christ do you know how many speedrunners are underemployed trans people in their 20s
people just be out here saying words like they don't already have a long and storied history of their meaning tbh!!
Unfortunately that somehow tracks, given how many people seem to think that way about queer people in general.
Yeah, 100%
It's very much "these people do things in their spare time that I don't do, therefore they must be crazy". At least this is more understandable--i'm assuming this take is coming from someone who believes the speedrunners are out there doing all the usual stuff AND speedrunning on top of that, which you would indeed need aristocratic levels of wealth to do. (You'd have to hire people to do a bunch of stuff for you.)
No, they're just weird and counterculture.
(That's good, as far as i'm concerned, and it's not like this is the first counterculture movement to exist... but...)
tell me you've never watched a GDQ without telling me you've never watched a GDQ
ah yes, playing the same game your parents bought for you fifteen years ago over and over instead of buying a new game, the true sign of the aristocracy
reminds me of when someone said i was being elitist for saying people should use obs instead of shadowplay as if u cant search tutorials on how to use it
there's a certain Kind of guy who's entire perception of leftist philosophy is new ways to tell people their interests are Morally Wrong
holy shit that take is so nuclear it's a wonder it didn't start the mutually assured destruction chain reaction
I know it's 2024 but words still mean something goddamn it!!
I do have thoughts about how GDQ as a company profits from unpaid labor, but that's a broader issue with fundraising in general.
Speedrunning is about buying one used video game and playing it for seven to twenty years. It is the gaming equivalent of creating sturdy workwear out of vintage clothes.
why do the takes lately always seem to accuse completely random things of being either bourgeois, #fromlebadcountry, or pedophillic? i mean the second kind of take is really useful for rooting out horrible racists but man, all of the takes are like this.
