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Watch people break video games for charity! Time for AGDQ! [1]

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Date: 2025-01-05

I forget to put up a notice here for this every time it comes around. But not this time!

Speed running video games is an activity you might not know about if you aren’t a video game fan. But it’s a thing. A growing thing. Not just playing a game, but trying to beat it as fast as possible, and often utterly breaking them in the process. Doing stuff the devs never intended and often didn't know was possible. Other times it’s just displays of pure skill, blowing your mind with tricks you never even thought to try.

Right now it’s time for Awesome Games Done Quick, a speed running marathon of dozens and dozens of different titles with just as many different runners. Each year around this time*, AGDQ takes place, and raises money for charity. This year it’s the Prevent Cancer Foundation. I highly recommend checking it out! (Note: I am NOT associated with GDQ or Prevent Cancer Foundation. I just love this event.)

Donations can enter you to win various prizes. Donations can also go to incentives, some of which are competing. One of the most common ones is to either kill or save the animals at the end of a Super Metroid run. So if you hear people donating to “kill the animals,” it’s about that, not real animals. ;)

Other “incentives” could be to change the nature or goal of a run. For instance, an Any% run of a game just means beating it without getting any side objectives. But there may be an incentive to donate to in order to change that to a 100% run, where all side quest / objectives / levels must also be completed. There’s other kinds of runs, too, but it’s going to vary depending on the game.

It’s not just good games being run, either. Sure, you have the greatness of Sonic and Mario games being featured. But there’s also slop like Superman 64, which was notoriously awful. Some mad people speed run that game. For some reason. Heaven save those poor souls. (Actually, some really bad games have proven to be... well, I hesitate to say good, but… they have a unique charm when speed running them.)

AGDQ is running through the whole week, so swing by and tune in!

-JA

*AGDQ takes places around this time every year, but there’s also a summer event that takes place in June / July called SGDQ, Summer Games Done Quick. It’s the same kind of event, just in summer, naturally!

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