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[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 84 points 2 months ago

Remember when GDQ was about speedrunning games?

Shows a photo of someone speedrunning a game at GDQ.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

Speedrunning seems to be the only niche of Hardcore Gaming where it seems most people are pretty cool.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "speedrunning"

[–] LisaTrevor@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

alternative sexual archetypes (fastest mario)

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A sport that requires you to be a shutin to be good has a high population of people that are fringe and often shut themselves away from society? Shocker!

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago

Why is this trans person playing Hades, a series notorious for its lack of LGBT representation?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't watched gdq since like what 2013-2014 and even back then it was trans and autistic people.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nice to see one of my favorite Civ youtubers is chill.

When I was closing the link I was like "wait was Potato the one who tweeted that?" But he's on the QT

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"I've become so radicalised against fascism in the last few days I'm a queer interdimensional feminist black nationalist communist and I'm considering the phrase "Lenin did nothing wrong"" - https://x.com/PotatoMcWhiskey/status/2010129709149872544

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Potato MW go on Hexbear

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

lol my vibes radar stays spot on, also lenin was a paragon of a person no one should be ashamed of praising him in public. I like making the analogy with the dark knight movies where batman (stalin) gets all the bad rep to absolve harvey (lenin) fall of grace, except lenin never went bad like harvey.

[–] unaware@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

would Burgerlanders get it though if there's no burgers in the analogy?

[–] goferking0 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah I was worried cause they have such great civ videos

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

i watch every year, at least having it on in the background for noise and yeah, its always been a bunch of queer people. its great

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

That Cerebrus doll is very cute

[–] decaptcha@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

I love our militantly queer speedrunning comrades. The only good gamers.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Where can I get the massive Hades Cerberus plush?

[–] decaptcha@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

I think it was one of a kind.

[–] Ishmael@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I introduced my partner to AGDQ last week and she commented on how nice it was they had people's pronouns on screen. Decided not to comment about how GDQ has pretty much always been neuro-atypical and trans folk long as I can remember

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tectone’s dad was a prolific grapist in the US military. Quite an accomplishment given his coworkers.

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

please do not use "grape" like that. this isn't tiktok. its annoying, does a disservice to reality, and doesnt do anything except get around filters and CW's.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Just write r***ist, it's much less distasteful