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Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 |OT| Toss A Coin To Your Speedrunner
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Except it's not, at least not to me.
I've been reading both his english and spanish tweets, and if anything he seems thoroughly syncretic as far as political views go, and he sounds disillusioned in general. While reprehensible (or at least, that's how I see it), the "everything sucks" attitude is not something I would run to get the pitchforks for.
As far as I got to read, the only reference to right wing politics is about Vox (a shitty right wing party in Spain)'s economic politics... which are not inherently conservative, and you can indeed consider their economic policies viable without being their supporter. I don't know if he endorses their frankly backwards politics about migrants and foreign relations, and neither do you.
He seems to have a strong dislike for "feminazis", whatever he means by that. I'd argue this is the most controversial aspect of his twitter, especially without clarification.
Though he does reference a feminist manifesto in a tweet, prasing it for not treating women like endangered and defenseless beings, but empowering them without necessarily tying them to a specific political party. But that's as far as I got to read, so... If I had to guess, given AGDQ's great track record for dealing with these issues, I'd say he probably clarified his position with the organizers. He's probably clean.
So, can we please, please, for once, avoid the witchhunt/the "fuck XXXX" posts without having the whole story? How is this kind of trigger-happy hate allowed here?
No, bigotry isn't meaningless.
Yeah what could that even be I have no idea really. We will never know.
I forgot about that and yep, that could be it. I know an active event will stop them from spawning, though I'm not sure if the probe will do it if it's still passive.
What a crazy run. I've never watched Badger before but I can't imagine anyone could have handled things better. Was still fun to watch.
You do know even the best-intentioned initiatives have extremist fringes that completely disown the founding principles they should adhere to, right?
I don't really enjoy long runs in general cause I struggle to tune into the whole thing but this FF8 run has been fantastic. A silver lining when im off work sick!
Nobody is under the obligation to give the benefit of the doubt to someone who who has looked at women's rights issues and determined hating feminazis is the play here most worth highlighting.
feminazi = feminists + nazi, used by conservatives sexists to say the feminists are like nazis and are intolerant and destroying society
He's done nothing to earn the benefit of my doubt when he's proudly repping "feminazi" in his Twitter bio. That alone makes him suspect as hell, and I'd rather not see him in a charity event until he clarifies what he means.
Furthermore, I'll also say that I side-eye anyone who jumps to defend someone who goes on about "feminazis" in their Twitter bios.
...I don't really think there's anything vague or unknown about a person's beliefs when they use the term "feminazi"
I'm sorry, I was just trying to move past the topic because I have no intention of reading his twitter and am just going to enjoy what I can of the runs for the content on them, of which I have enjoyed last year's FF9 run and am enjoying this years FF8 run.
Welcome to Final Fantasy 8!
User Banned (1 month): Defending bigotry
Honestly, I've seen it used far more to critique men and women who do NOT believe feminism's battle is that of equality. Bear in mind discourse IS different in Europe, compared to the States. The same words may have different meaning and weight than what you're used to.
I wasn't singling you out by any means. I believe your stance is the most appropriate given the circumstances.
I have faith in GDQ, they wouldn't have put a mysoginistic asshole on that chair. Apparently some controversy/tweets about his bio date back to october last year, so GDQ had all the time in the world to get clarification.
He retweets strictly anti-women accounts. It's not that far down on the timeline. Stop giving benefit of the doubt here.
I can't wait for this run to be over so people can start talking about the runs and the event again and not one shitty runner.
unfortunately the shitty runner is currently the active face of the event. Watching AGDQ right now be like
Lesson for GDQ would be: don't invite shitty people to run if you don't want attention taken away from the runs themselves.
It would be fine if some idiots didn't die on this hill here
I know; why can't people keep politics out of video games and speedrunning video games, right?
Deep into the Terraria run. Badger's energy and vibe is incredible. I'm not too into this game, but I gave this guy a follow and will check out his stream. Like the run isn't going too well, but he keeps it so positive, and the crowd is so into it.
Absolutely love it.
Can't wait.
As a UK resident, I've never heard it being used in this context. It's categorically always been to disavow feminism and further the ludicrous notion that feminists are some kind of authoritarian thought police.
The runner is just a bad person with bad beliefs, there's no way around it.
The Genesis block should be good.
And to be clear for the thread (not necessarily you), we love Badger, and his positive energy during the Terraria run was great.
It's the Final Fantasy VIII run that's tainted by Luzbelheim, whom we could honestly do without on this charity stream.
User Banned (Permanent): Transphobic and misogynist trolling
Dude just want's to go by the correct pronouns. I respect that even though no one refers to anyone in third person on Twitter anyway, so having those there serves no purpose.
I've missed parts of the last few hours and all of the first few hours. Were there any major mess ups or is it higher because of incentive add ins? Did see the elixir mess up but that didn't seem to add too much time.
Disappointed that this FFVIII runner managed to make it into the event, hopefully GDQ will address this soon. Didn't read about it until the very end of the run but it has definitely left a bitter taste at the end of what was an enjoyable run.
Anyway, Genesis block time. Interesting lineup on it sway.
Anyway, Genesis block time. Interesting lineup on it sway.
