About to go live! twitch.tv/rrlathon

STILL MAD ABOUT THE FASCIST OCCUPATION UP SOON WITH SHANTAE AND THE PIRATE'S CURSE AND POKEMON TCG @thesoundman.bsky.social // @pinecone606.bsky.social // @toronite.bsky.social

THE ICE BREAKER SCHEDULE IS OUT oengus.io/marathon/ice... Join us on Friday, Jan. 30th starting at 11:00am ET for a weekend full of the best speedruns we could find in support of Minnesota against ICE!

hey folks, long time no chat! This Saturday, Jan 31st at just before noon central time, @toronite.bsky.social and I will be racing a Pokemon TCG speedrun for the ICE Breakers marathon, a charity fundraiser supporting efforts to resist fascism in Minnesota / the US at large. oengus.io/marathon/ice...

After literally six months of occasional attempts offline, I finally completed the dumbest Balatro challenge run, the Only Flush Five Challenge (as seen in that BelenosBear VOD). My VOD is on the channel for now, will edit into a video soon

hit 9 on an Ouija card and found Cloud 9 and Vagrant right after, an extremely fun way to play the Balatro

missed the deadline to sign up to volunteer at or play in AGDQ :( life is kind of busy so I may skip attending this year anyway, but still wish I had set aside the time to at least try for it

I've made the terrible mistake of trying to go for an all flush five Balatro run like that YouTuber. A day of rerolls and still haven't gotten out of ante 2

oh we're doing this again

the main thing I have taken from this GDQ is that I need to design my own homebrew scotto clone

I know many have done better but to me this is Popping Off

met a bunch of SA2 runners while waiting for poker and thus I have been infected with the itch to become an emerald hunter

I've really gotta stream more. It's so much fun to play games and talk, I don't do either enough. I just have so much to do near me! If I lived in the burbs I would be a prolific streamer haha

going to the host panel today made me actually think it is maybe a thing I could do! I will have to try auditioning next round, maybe look for some smaller events to try out on first

up to some mischief

@altabiscuit.bsky.social and I got top 4 in Crokinole doubles and lost our semifinal 4-5 with a tie game in the 9th end to force a 10th. Put this on stream next year @gamesdonequick.com. I know a hit when I see one!

we about to fuck up this SGDQ Crokinole doubles tournament #GooseGang #UntitledGooseGang #sgdq

I dunno why I thought playing Stepmania before the ~mile walk back to the apartment I'm staying at was a good combo

it's SGDQ time so time to activate this account from hibernation again ayy

streaming balatro for now for some reason www.twitch.tv/pinecone606

once a speedgame has sufficiently random elements and tactical divergence from run to run it effectively becomes a roguelike. these are some of the most fun speedgames to play imo, even if the ceiling is inherently lower

Streaming a PTCG race right now with AJ and toro! www.twitch.tv/raagentreg

I read a skeet on here about some cozy, possibly witchy game about manually sorting books in a magic library or something, does anyone remember what that game is? I can't find it

So it's been like a year and a half, is Cities Skylines 2 worth getting yet or should I just boot Cities Skylines 1

Act 1 Astrolabe rewards... really can't do much better than this haha. Maybe Recycle could have been like a Consume or something?

has anyone dealt with like a kind of brain fog / headache like feeling from playing certain games, particularly while streaming? It seems to only happen with me and PTCG but it's really ruining my chances at grinding this game. Big part of why I've been streaming more Spire lately.

Did a PTCG Speedrun in a bar last night lol

Which relic do you take at the end of Act 1 with the Watcher?

some casual slay the spire playthroughs tonight: twitch.tv/pinecone606

I wanna get out of my head so I'm gonna stream Spire for as long as I feel like playing Spire. All my house chores can wait haha. As usual, twitch.tv/pinecone606

I think it might have helped a little but I still get the weird headache / mental fatigue after 90 minutes of PTCG running. Basically enough for one real attempt a day. I've really gotta get on top of this somehow, I'm not sure what else I can do about it. Maybe lower light? Less background noise?

Friends of GDQ, I want you to know that trans & non-binary people will ALWAYS be welcome & supported by GDQ. I am keeping a close eye on what the Federal gov't's next moves will be, and if we need to fight, we will. We will support any efforts to protect your right to bodily autonomy. Full stop.

I ironed out the streaming tech gremlins, I think, so I will go ahead and run PTCG at the top of the hour! I'd like to at the bare minimum stream weekly, and until I start learning a new speedgame it's gonna be PTCG when speedrunning or Spire when casual playing.

Well that's anticlimactic - my emulator won't detect controllers. An hour of fighting with it later, I have a headache now. great. i guess let's limp into slay the spire streaming only

Gimme like 5 minutes but I'll be streaming shortly as promised! At least one full PTCG speedrun, and then either I will do more of that or switch to good ol' Slay The Spire, as usual. Trying to keep a once-a-week streaming pace up (or more often!). twitch.tv/pinecone606

airports need little nap pods you can rent out. I would pay such an unreasonable amount for one sometimes

Gonna try to stream at least once a week as long as I can manage, though my schedule may be erratic as I fall into a new routine. This week, let's stream Tuesday! PTCG speedrunning at first. if (after a full attempt) I get tired of that and wanna keep going I'll pivot to my casual Slay The Spire

The feedback the PTCG community got from our submissions is basically that our game can't be chosen for a mainline GDQ event because it is impossible to follow / watch. Which, like, is very fair - now we are trying to work on tools to help visualize the run in real time, similar to rando trackers.

hotel check out is at noon and my flight is at like 8 so I guess I'm gonna hang out at the airport for like six hours

GDQ rules and I'm so glad to be here. I'd really like to get a game up on the stage someday, even if the game I've been most devoted to might not ever be chosen. I'll find some other way.

what if they forcefemmed Zelda #agdq2025

i love you queer people playing punk music and video games at the same time this is what it's about for real

crazy taxi's soundtrack being a DMCA minefield leading to a GDQ run *with live backing band* could be one of the only good things the modern music copyright system has ever done frankly

legit the Crazy Taxi run might have topped the energy from the live Peanutbutter run last summer

holy shit

Crazy Taxi Charity Concert is so goddamn powerful

Oh my god they opened the pit at #AGDQ2025

crazy taxi run was so sick. truly awesome to watch live. but my lord you CANNOT trust a room of gamers to clap on beat.

preview of frost fatales: