ESA 2016 thread

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speedruns and shit

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What went wrong?

This is literally like a comedy show at this point

Europe

>ESA used to be the closest thing to old GDQs
>Fuck it let's just hold it in a stadium for who knows what fucking reason

This this apparently has a budget of $10, is it fun like the GDQ of old? I haven't watched anything but I've seen a few threads and most people are acting like it's painful

This makes GDQ looks amazing, fucking hell.

>good runners
>good runs
>chill atmosphere
>cute announcer girls
>a few minor technical issues

why is Sup Forums so judgmental? is it because they never go to any events themselves?

Because they held it in a stadium instead of a comfy room

There were some fun runs during the day, even if they were marred by really bad tech problems. Apparently when it gets late, people just completely shut down rather than get more silly like they do at GDQs.

>a few
>minor

u wot

>minor technical issues
People are going to blow out their eardrums because ads are too loud while the runs are too quiet.

runners shirt is fucking stupid.

THIS IS BORDERLINE EXPERIMENTAL

Like most clothes, it would probably look a lot better on someone with a bigger chest or someone it fit properly on. Even an undershirt would help. Thanks, gay fashion sense.

How old is Bonesaw? he seriously looks like a 9 year old

>a few
>minor
u 'avin a giggle over there m8?

>>a few minor technical issues
>literally screamer-tier ear-rape after every single run

21 now

he was 18 at SGDQ 13

Is this event antifun too

>tfw he is way younger than me but living in japan and banging cute japanese girls

this makes me feel so damn old
>tfw i'm 5 years older than my favorite strimmer

What's the ideal speedrun time for a game?

20 minutes is the sweet spot, I think

no, the runners swear all the time and there's people just lounging on the background

Jesus christ, he's as old as me and he's fucking living in Japan and doing cool shit. What am I even doing.

It's fun-allowed, but people showed up with critically low amounts of fun inside.

the opposite, but European runners have no charisma so it cancels it out

You can swear, but there's no fumos. No word on if they're banned or not.

He's in school in Japan doing who knows what. I think he wants to teach english over there or something.

Wait is this going on right now? I feel like passing out to something and if this is on twitch I'll give it a watch.

Depends heavily on the game and the tricks. Deus Ex is about an hour long but it's entertaining as fuck the whole way through.

Good

>you'll never become fluent in another language and make a living teaching your first language to sexy foreign teenage girls

Six hours is only tolerable if it's in the late hours of the night when everyone should be sleeping, otherwise if you're more than two hours it's not a fucking speedrun anymore.

Yeah, but it's not sleep-friendly. At the end of every game, they run an ad that is infinitely louder than everything else.

45 minutes is just about perfect. Anywhere from 20 minutes to 90 minutes is good.

A few games like Crypt of the NecroDancer are really entertaining to watch and break that. But it's in favor of shorter. The WR for the fastest category is like 2 minutes 45 seconds and most WR categories are 4 minutes.

Since every move can kill you in NecroDancer its entertaining and action-y with no downtime. But its also real fuckin short.

If it comforts you, this is as good as his life will get.

You still could, user. Though props to Bonesaw. Asian languages are probably one of the hardest ones out there to pick up.

oh well, I'll give it a watch and shut it off if I can't sleep well.

Still better than my life.

I've heard rumors english teachers aren't well liked over there actually. Not sure if they're true or not, but several japs in Sup Forums have said american english teachers are considered very low class in their culture.
>9th grade lit teacher
>after that year he was going to teach english in Japan
>he comes back a few years later to visit
>has a wife and kids and is generally happy

bastard...

That seems pretty hyperbolic. Like, yeah the Japs are xenophobic, but I don't know why they'd be against English teachers in particular. That one chick who does a webcomic about teaching small kids Japanese usually seems like she's having a good time.

its probably because most of the people who sign up to be english teachers are ultra neckbeards.

>was supposed to help with the french restream
>look at the state of ESA
>look at the viewers

not worth the effort, abandon ship

Someone got a donation read for $1? Did I hear it wrong?

Wow the french giving up the fight.

I wonder if spike regrets going.
I wonder if twitch even sent Sinister

i mean why not. donate now goy and have your message read.

why regret? He's in Europe and going to have some fun.

I think Spike just needed an excuse to go out of the country and sight see. That's the vibe that his tweets gave off.

How's it going, French-bro? You doing okay with all the terrorist shit?

It really depends on the game and not the length.

Super technical games that rely on a lot of skill are interesting no matter how long they are. Fallout 3 is only like 45 minutes but it's terrible to watch, most of it is just running.

Zelda OoT is a great run to watch but that glitchless cat that got attention at GDQ was really, really boring. They effectively removed everything that made speedrunning it interesting. It's a 3 hour lets play. I think it's great they got it down so fast but it's also not interesting to watch.

So even the same game can change based on the category. Keeping with Zelda, the reverse boss order category is much slower but it's also really, really fucking cool to watch and the first half is very impressive.

So yeah I've repeated the same point a few times here I"m tired. But that's it. The length doesn't matter as much as how interesting the category is and how technical and skill based it is.

I speak basic arabic and some maghrebi as well so I get by

there's a heavy arab population around me

This. he said it's his first time in europe, who the fuck wouldn't want to go. Probably chatting up qt euro speedfus and generally having a good time.

For watching a specific game?
Not real limit in my opinion.
Those crazy long 100% RPG runs are great fodder for putting on another screen and paying a tiny bit of attention to it.

For a marathon?
1~2 hours max I'd say.

>speaks 4 languages

I do envy you Europeans on that. You get exposed to a lot of different languages and tend to pick them up a lot more than us.

I tell everyone trying to learn a language the same thing: anyone will tell you the hardest language to learn is english if it is not your first language. If you can learn english you can learn anything.

what drugs are you on?

4chanand that's the hardest drug of them all

you are all emotionless automatons

I know that English is a really awful hodge-podge of rules and exceptions to the rules and figures of speech and shit like that, but is it really harder than Japanese? I took some Spanish as as kid, and that's got a lot of similarities to French, and my brother and sister majored in Latin so I picked up a lot of shit from them, but even still I feel hella' uneducated.

The thing is, English only has 26 letters and yeah someone might butcher grammar or prose but you can generally tell what someone with poor or semi-broken english are saying. While someone speaking some other language in a broken fashion can be incomprehensible and speaking broken Japanese could be saying something entirely different than you think you're trying to say.

japanese is structurally very simple and has only 2 irregular verbs

english has 52 letters, and many of them have multiple sounds

To be fair, speaking and writing are fundamentally different in most, if not all, languages.

effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty

this guy has the most stereotpyical german voice i've ever heard lel

This is almost entirely what I expected. Eastern Bloc countries are all pretty distanced from the more English derivatives and Asian is even further than that. Arabic being as tough as Japanese did surprise me though.

if you remove the writing portion, mandarin is structurally simple and would be super easy

French Spanish and Italian are sort of, to use your word, a hodge-podge of each other. Not entirely sure about Jap, never tried it. I would guess it might be a little difficult to learn since there's no R sound in their language.

You should learn Spanish, having a foreign language under your belt is pretty damn valuable and most employers see Spanish as a major plus these days.

English is difficult because you people have so many words that mean different things: their and there, overlook and oversee, plane plain, things like that are hard to differentiate if you're not a native speaker. One thing I had trouble with was the word "awesome". How does that word even exist.

I feel like not even most japs remember the, what was it, 3200? forms of Kanji or letters in Kanji or whatever.

Part of the problem with English is that it takes a lot of words from other places and we have a bunch of words that really all mean the same thing. The only difference between them is that some are less common and you only use them if you're a writer or trying to look smart. But, to my knowledge, it could be like that elsewhere. I know German has a bunch of crazy words.

MUUUUTE YOUR STREEEEAAAMS

>English is difficult because you people have so many words that mean different things: their and there, overlook and oversee, plane plain, things like that are hard to differentiate if you're not a native speaker. One thing I had trouble with was the word "awesome". How does that word even exist.
I'm italian and tbqh English is easy, and has mostly stric rules.
I tried to learn French and even tho' has many similarities with Italian is way harder, with them fucktons of rules and sub rules and what not

Of all the words to take issue with

Awesome is just something that leaves you in awe. Do you also have problems with words like fearsome and loathsome?

>we need our own language
>lets just speak one of the germanic languages and-
>NO TAKE ALL THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND EVERY OTHER LANGUAGE AND FORM IT INTO ONE SO WE CAN BE UNIQUE

Why cant you just say fear and loathe? what does adding "some" to the end do for the word?

HeyGuys

>Why cant you just say fear and loathe? what does adding "some" to the end do for the word?
they have two different meaning
you can't say "it's fear", you have to say "it's fearsome"
like saying "live" and "alive"

Spanish native speaker here

English is fucking easy dude, spanish has this fucking bullshit thing called accents (á, é, í, ó, ú) that make a lot of words sound different that what they are supposed to be.

fearsome means it inspires fear. loathsome means it inspires disgust

To be fair, it does represent the original American idea of being a melting pot of different cultures. The ultra-nationalistic thing we've had on and off for the past hundred years is partially because of the world wars and a fear of losing our solidarity.

As for the second part, it's just because that's how the rules work. Fear is a noun and fearsome is an adjective. They both mean the same thing, but you have to change them up to make the idea flow. Not sure why it's like that, but it is.

>Almost 3 days
>Finally Suzie is on screen
>These nerds don't let her talk at all
Fuck this.

That's my point. You can take a word add a few more letters onto it and it becomes a completely different word.

I tried Spanish for a while, but there's so many words you have to change to make a sentence. Then I learned you don't really have to say to a spanish speaker "nosotros bailamos" for it to make sense and my respect for Spanish professors was tarnished.

>Why cant you just say fear and loathe? what does adding "some" to the end do for the word?
Let me be your English teacher and give you some simple examples.

>"My enemy is fearsome."
vs
>"My enemy is fear."
Or...
"That man is loathesome."
vs
"That man is loathe."

In the first instance we seem to be stating that he is fear itself. In the second it just doesn't work.

F- see me after class.

>learning Mandarin

awkward..

It's a completely different word only in how you "use" it. It still means essentially the same thing. The only kind of people that would be criticized for word choice in that degree would be someone like the President who has his speeches crafted for him by people who major in English.

what the fuck is this game

Classic shovelware. The kind of thing you'd see in just a CD case in a shelf at Walmart.

It's why we love the melting pot of friendship that is America. And hate it at the same

Still that's exactly why English is incredibly hard to learn. You add a few letters onto the end of a word and suddenly it becomes a completely different word with a new meaning and is a new grammar type going from noun to adjective.
>The French say realisation what should we do for English?
>...lets be original and change the S to a Z
>realization
>perfect, now it's our own

Why do people feel the need to stir up drama? Unless she/he's like "yeah the tech issues are bad" then what the fuck?

deetz

What happened with the dark souls 3 run

He did the run. That's it

but I need vod

Nah dude, find that yourself. I'm drunk and mobile posting because my life is in pieces. Find your own mediocre DS3 run.

because there aren't any beautiful traps, please congratulate them.

what's wrong, user

can I make you feel better

huh

...

You can make me feel better by giving these idiots mics that aren't made of fucking static.

yes, that's a girl

uh huh yeah those are indeed legs

Friendly reminder that AdamAK took a bath with her and other guy at ESA 2013.