My feelings on The Demon Rush
DO's
-Do plug PCF. They're a great charity and they're always going out of their way to support us. We should return the favor. They'll even be giving us a cheat sheet we can read in case if we don't know what to say...
...FLICKY!
-Do plug SDA and SRL. Because speedrunning is fun. You can also plug the twitch team pages. I hope you guys don't need a cheat sheet for SDA and SRL. D:
-Do plug the people who made and provided prizes, especially if one of them is a prize for the current game. These people sacrificed time and money to make and/or provide prizes.
-Do go over upcoming donation incentives. People like knowing what they can donate for, especially if it's coming in the next couple of hours!
-Do mention and show the prizes. The prizes are awesome and people need to see why are they are awesome.
-Do respect serious time. If a runner needs to concentrate, then let them do so.
-Do a roll call every once in a while. People do like to know who we are. But remember, keep it to just names and only have the runner and commentators roll call if there's more than 5 people on stream.
-Do keep in mind that file and character names need to fall within pg-13 guidelines. If you want to know what the border is, we allowed the name "Wang" for Yang during FF4 at AGDQ 2011.
-Do take the time to read touching personal donation comments.
-Do talk about trivia related to the game.
-Do be informative. Informative commentary is one of the most popular commentary styles during the marathon. A good example is Lee during Yoshi's Island last AGDQ. Both people watching live and the stream chat enjoyed all of the information he was dropping.
-Do take time to explain jargon within the speedrunning community. We all might know what a sequence break or frame is, but thousands of viewers won't know.
-Do hype people up about upcoming games, donation incentives, or anything marathon-related. People like being excited about something and marathon-related events are the best way to excite them.
DON'Ts
-Don't swear all the time. It's not very professional and breaks the PG-13 aspect. You can swear occasionally (once every 30 minutes or so), but not once every 30 seconds.
-Don't diss the charity, other charities, or other speedrunning or marathon groups. This should go without saying.
-The same thing goes for other members of the community. If you have beef with someone, then discuss it with them face-to-face off-stream.
-Don't emphasize or hype donation incentives that are far away when others are close by. The upcoming incentives are higher priority! I'm not saying you can't mention incentives that are far away, but I wouldn't go over a full list of Final Fantasy IX names when Batman: Arkham City is the next game and people need to know what incentives have been met for Arkham City.
-Don't let people call serious time every 5 minutes. While serious time should be respected, it's only respectable if someone uses it sparingly.
-Don't let a roll call last over a minute. That time can be better spent commentating on the game or reading donations.
-Don't respond to trolls, you're just feeding them.
-Don't read a donation comment if it's less than a dollar. These should be filtered out, but in case if one slips through don't read it. In fact, during high donation time we might need to filter out anything that's less than 5 dollars.
-Don't read a donation comment if all it has are twitch faces and/or hashtags. We will have a ton of donation comments and we need to prioritize the comments we read. If someone donates for a file or character name to be named after a twitch face or hashtag, then that's okay to read.
-Don't hog the couch. The couch is for the runner(s) and the couch commentator(s), and just a hunch, but I don't think anyone can be a runner or couch commentator for every run.
-On that note, don't hype by yelling out twitch face emoticons. That sort of hype doesn't really help hype up the gameplay or the marathon itself.
-Don't read a donation comment if it is insulting someone. I've facepalmed a couple of times because people have read donation comments insulting someone on-site.
-Don't interrupt the runner if he or she is explaining something. The runner gets first priority for commentary. Also, please don't mention off-topic commentary unless if the runner specifically wants to go off-topic or it's a casual run.
-Don't burn yourself out reading donations! Be sure to take a break every couple of hours. We should have plenty of people around for donation reading this marathon, and we should take advantage of it.
-When you aren't reading donations, please don't be a backseat driver. Everyone has their own style, and they generally all work out. Flicky and Breakdown are both very different commentators, but they're also both very effective.
-If you break the above rules too often or if you disrupt the commentary too much, then Romscout, Puwexil, Breakdown, or I will pull you from the commentary.
-Just remember, have fun! One of the reasons why the marathons are so great is because we're having fun.
I'm aware a lot of people love the twitch faces and hashtags and might think some of my rules are merely there to prevent some established memes, so let me explain my reasoning.
1. This is primarily a charity marathon, and I'd rather promote PCF, SDA, and SRL over memes.
2. I have no problem with memes that originated from random and creative moments that occur during marathons. There are several memes that have originated during -GDQ events but they generally pertained to something related to gameplay, runners, or other marathon specific content.
-Do plug PCF. They're a great charity and they're always going out of their way to support us. We should return the favor. They'll even be giving us a cheat sheet we can read in case if we don't know what to say...
...FLICKY!
-Do plug SDA and SRL. Because speedrunning is fun. You can also plug the twitch team pages. I hope you guys don't need a cheat sheet for SDA and SRL. D:
-Do plug the people who made and provided prizes, especially if one of them is a prize for the current game. These people sacrificed time and money to make and/or provide prizes.
-Do go over upcoming donation incentives. People like knowing what they can donate for, especially if it's coming in the next couple of hours!
-Do mention and show the prizes. The prizes are awesome and people need to see why are they are awesome.
-Do respect serious time. If a runner needs to concentrate, then let them do so.
-Do a roll call every once in a while. People do like to know who we are. But remember, keep it to just names and only have the runner and commentators roll call if there's more than 5 people on stream.
-Do keep in mind that file and character names need to fall within pg-13 guidelines. If you want to know what the border is, we allowed the name "Wang" for Yang during FF4 at AGDQ 2011.
-Do take the time to read touching personal donation comments.
-Do talk about trivia related to the game.
-Do be informative. Informative commentary is one of the most popular commentary styles during the marathon. A good example is Lee during Yoshi's Island last AGDQ. Both people watching live and the stream chat enjoyed all of the information he was dropping.
-Do take time to explain jargon within the speedrunning community. We all might know what a sequence break or frame is, but thousands of viewers won't know.
-Do hype people up about upcoming games, donation incentives, or anything marathon-related. People like being excited about something and marathon-related events are the best way to excite them.
DON'Ts
-Don't swear all the time. It's not very professional and breaks the PG-13 aspect. You can swear occasionally (once every 30 minutes or so), but not once every 30 seconds.
-Don't diss the charity, other charities, or other speedrunning or marathon groups. This should go without saying.
-The same thing goes for other members of the community. If you have beef with someone, then discuss it with them face-to-face off-stream.
-Don't emphasize or hype donation incentives that are far away when others are close by. The upcoming incentives are higher priority! I'm not saying you can't mention incentives that are far away, but I wouldn't go over a full list of Final Fantasy IX names when Batman: Arkham City is the next game and people need to know what incentives have been met for Arkham City.
-Don't let people call serious time every 5 minutes. While serious time should be respected, it's only respectable if someone uses it sparingly.
-Don't let a roll call last over a minute. That time can be better spent commentating on the game or reading donations.
-Don't respond to trolls, you're just feeding them.
-Don't read a donation comment if it's less than a dollar. These should be filtered out, but in case if one slips through don't read it. In fact, during high donation time we might need to filter out anything that's less than 5 dollars.
-Don't read a donation comment if all it has are twitch faces and/or hashtags. We will have a ton of donation comments and we need to prioritize the comments we read. If someone donates for a file or character name to be named after a twitch face or hashtag, then that's okay to read.
-Don't hog the couch. The couch is for the runner(s) and the couch commentator(s), and just a hunch, but I don't think anyone can be a runner or couch commentator for every run.
-On that note, don't hype by yelling out twitch face emoticons. That sort of hype doesn't really help hype up the gameplay or the marathon itself.
-Don't read a donation comment if it is insulting someone. I've facepalmed a couple of times because people have read donation comments insulting someone on-site.
-Don't interrupt the runner if he or she is explaining something. The runner gets first priority for commentary. Also, please don't mention off-topic commentary unless if the runner specifically wants to go off-topic or it's a casual run.
-Don't burn yourself out reading donations! Be sure to take a break every couple of hours. We should have plenty of people around for donation reading this marathon, and we should take advantage of it.
-When you aren't reading donations, please don't be a backseat driver. Everyone has their own style, and they generally all work out. Flicky and Breakdown are both very different commentators, but they're also both very effective.
-If you break the above rules too often or if you disrupt the commentary too much, then Romscout, Puwexil, Breakdown, or I will pull you from the commentary.
-Just remember, have fun! One of the reasons why the marathons are so great is because we're having fun.
I'm aware a lot of people love the twitch faces and hashtags and might think some of my rules are merely there to prevent some established memes, so let me explain my reasoning.
1. This is primarily a charity marathon, and I'd rather promote PCF, SDA, and SRL over memes.
2. I have no problem with memes that originated from random and creative moments that occur during marathons. There are several memes that have originated during -GDQ events but they generally pertained to something related to gameplay, runners, or other marathon specific content.
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