Crystals For Life 2014

Raelcun

2013-10-15 07:52:53 pm

We require more minerals

Re-instate Poxnor!

Admins are literally Hitler. (Godwin's law had to happen sometime)

rinimt

2013-10-15 07:54:15 pm

Kupo!

Just cut everyone, the marathon can run itself, right?

Poxnor

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Poxnor: 2013-10-15 08:01:44 pm

2013-10-15 07:57:24 pm

Moo! Flap! Hug!

Everyone except puwexil is cut. He's now running every game and isn't allowed to sleep for five days.

(And yes, I'm intentionally being silly here -- this thread, and especially I, needed a good reminder that everyone is just trying to put on a fun event. Thank you, everyone Smiley

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Poxnor

2013-10-15 08:05:47 pm

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Haha, laptop battery died, so I didn't get around to PMing the Round Two reviewers those seven questions (posting from phone). If you volunteered to be a Round Two reviewer, give them some thought and feel free to PM me your replies.

LOL, another Poxnor-fail Smiley

garik16

2013-10-15 08:39:34 pm

Quote from Poxnor:

Everyone except puwexil is cut. He's now running every game and isn't allowed to sleep for five days.

(And yes, I'm intentionally being silly here -- this thread, and especially I, needed a good reminder that everyone is just trying to put on a fun event. Thank you, everyone Smiley

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You're giving Puwexil the graveyard shift AGAIN?! You bastard!

Poxnor

2013-10-15 09:21:43 pm

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Quote from garik16:

You're giving Puwexil the graveyard shift AGAIN?! You bastard!

Yes. Graveyard shift, meaning that he'll be dead by the end of the marathon, given our current plan.

garik16

2013-10-15 09:22:21 pm

Quote from Poxnor:

Quote from garik16:

You're giving Puwexil the graveyard shift AGAIN?! You bastard!

Yes. Graveyard shift, meaning that he'll be dead by the end of the marathon, given our current plan.

You just know he'll be playing a few 7 hour games despite being undead, right?

AlecK47

2013-10-15 11:18:57 pm

I'm going to go ahead and recommend that Morrowind just be considered for emergency time filler at this point - as in if the marathon gets way ahead of schedule (like Goldeneye was at SGDQ), as opposed to being added before the marathon starts. It won't take me much effort at all to learn it, so I can easily have it ready regardless.

Also, if Puwexil is going to be a zombie, shouldn't he be running Parasite Eve instead? Wink

Potato Handle

2013-10-15 11:23:45 pm

Plays games quickly. Eventually.

Yeah seconded, Morrowind would be a perfect time-filler for a PC block. Bring it in as a donation incentive if we get too far ahead, it's just an amazing few minutes of wtf to glue people's eyes back to the screen.

FFgamer86

2013-10-16 02:37:40 am

SDA Speedruns: 1

Im just glad Puwexil is getting all the jokes at him because he ran ~23 hours of game last year, instead of Nitrodon and myself who ran I believe was 16 and 15 hours respectively last year. Not sure how many hours Nitrodon had in FF12.

MetaSigma

2013-10-16 05:22:22 am

Evermore Extrodinare ᕦ(° Д°)ᕤ

Or you could go to the tried and true old school FF I think it was 2 (JP) and watch me teach Poxnor how to hold Start and he can teach me to count to 5 all over again Cheesy

Alko

2013-10-16 06:52:29 am

Caution: This user contains Kana ^_^

FF Legends, either 1 or 3.

On that note, cut everything and add Grindfest Fantasy 3 DS!
Or on second thoughts, cut every game, and let's go killing ourselves at curling for charity! The ice is crystalline, right?

Tohmane

2013-10-16 11:04:44 am

Execute.

c'mon people, get with the times. The entire marathon should be 24/7 playing a new character from scratch in FF14 ARR

Raelcun

2013-10-16 12:37:28 pm

We require more minerals

Hey, I did level a monk to 50 in about 5 days or so.

FFgamer86

2013-10-16 01:49:40 pm

SDA Speedruns: 1

Quote from Alko:

FF Legends, either 1 or 3.

On that note, cut everything and add Grindfest Fantasy 3 DS!
Or on second thoughts, cut every game, and let's go killing ourselves at curling for charity! The ice is crystalline, right?

No its not called killing ourselves, Its called watch Puwexil take out all the rocks and the speedrunners by himself so he's the only one left.

RedArremer

2013-10-16 02:45:19 pm

Whole marathon is gonna be Puwexil grinding WoW confirmed.

Keypaladin

2013-10-16 03:30:38 pm

The Wayward Wanderer

No, Poxnor needs to upgrade the FF8 card bot to play all of FF8 100%.

FFgamer86

2013-10-16 03:59:59 pm

SDA Speedruns: 1

Quote from Keypaladin:

No, Poxnor needs to upgrade the FF8 card bot to play all of FF8 100%.

Done

RedArremer

2013-10-16 04:54:52 pm

Oh don't even joke about that. I'd donate good money for that.

puwexil

2013-10-16 05:15:56 pm

Professional Second Banana

Quote from RedArremer:

Whole marathon is gonna be Puwexil grinding WoW confirmed.

No thanks - already got my heart set on FF3 DS (maxing out job skills on all characters, of course).

Vulajin

2013-10-16 05:31:11 pm

How about I just do the entire marathon grinding out Pokédex completion in Pokémon Y? Wink

Poxnor

2013-10-16 07:22:38 pm

Moo! Flap! Hug!

Heh, oh you people Smiley

One issue that has come up in Round Two has been a lack of clarity on my part, to the Round Two reviewers, regarding whether or not we should be considering cutting any games that are -- in general -- poor choices for any marathon. In the interest of transparency, I have added an eighth question to the list for the Round Two reviewers. Here is what I'm asking.

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I have said from day one that I would make a serious effort to give each person who wanted to run an appropriate game (i.e., an RPG) a run. I hadn't thought that the number of people submitting games would explode so much this year relative to last year. Had fewer people applied (as per my expectation), then individuals would have had multiple games. Had more people applied (who knows, maybe next year?), then there would have been more cuts, and some people getting no game.

Assuming C4L continues to grow, then in future years, I will want to give as many people as possible one game instead of giving one person multiple games at the expense of another person getting anything at all. This is strictly a philosophical difference between the way I'm organizing C4L and, for example, the way the GDQs are organized. This is in no way, shape, or form a dig against the wildly successful and awesome GDQs, but merely an explanation of a difference in philosophy. My goal is for C4L to serve as a community-building element for the RPG speedrunning community that can be as broad as possible, even if that means a slight reduction in the fundraising potential of the event.

In short, my promise to make a serious effort to give each person who wanted to run something at least one game to run naturally, and by complete coincidence based only on the number of people who applied and the games suggested, produced this one-person-one-game scenario.

Now, that said, I recognize that my promise to try to give everyone who wants to run an RPG something to run might not always be tenable. Perhaps the game someone suggested is simply a terrible game for a marathon (repetitive, completely uninteresting, or lacking in any meaningful donation incentives for its length). Perhaps the runner is a variable that is worrisome. Perhaps there are other considerations that I have not even thought of.

Given that marathon reality, as it were, can come into conflict with my personal organizational philosophy, I am extending Question 8 to the Round Two reviewers. However, I am asking that they use it judiciously and with humility, and bear in mind that C4L is a potential venue for a wider range of RPGs than could be seen at many other marathons.

8) Are there any games currently on the games list that are simply untenable for an RPG marathon for reasons potentially beyond just not being an RPG? Please provide as thorough an explanation as possible for each.

I will use the answers to Question 1 and Question 8 to "tweak" the games list and finalize it shortly.

Heh, oh you people :)

One issue that has come up in Round Two has been a lack of clarity on my part, to the Round Two reviewers, regarding whether or not we should be considering cutting any games that are -- in general -- poor choices for any marathon.  In the interest of transparency, I have added an eighth question to the list for the Round Two reviewers.  Here is what I'm asking.

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I have said from day one that I would make a serious effort to give each person who wanted to run an appropriate game (i.e., an RPG) a run.  I hadn't thought that the number of people submitting games would explode so much this year relative to last year.  Had fewer people applied (as per my expectation), then individuals would have had multiple games.  Had more people applied (who knows, maybe next year?), then there would have been more cuts, and some people getting no game.

Assuming C4L continues to grow, then in future years, I will want to give as many people as possible one game instead of giving one person multiple games at the expense of another person getting anything at all.  This is strictly a philosophical difference between the way I'm organizing C4L and, for example, the way the GDQs are organized.  This is in no way, shape, or form a dig against the wildly successful and awesome GDQs, but merely an explanation of a difference in philosophy.  My goal is for C4L to serve as a community-building element for the RPG speedrunning community that can be as broad as possible, even if that means a slight reduction in the fundraising potential of the event.

In short, my promise to make a serious effort to give each person who wanted to run something at least one game to run naturally, and by complete coincidence based only on the number of people who applied and the games suggested, produced this one-person-one-game scenario.

Now, that said, I recognize that my promise to try to give everyone who wants to run an RPG something to run might not always be tenable.  Perhaps the game someone suggested is simply a terrible game for a marathon (repetitive, completely uninteresting, or lacking in any meaningful donation incentives for its length).  Perhaps the runner is a variable that is worrisome.  Perhaps there are other considerations that I have not even thought of.

Given that marathon reality, as it were, can come into conflict with my personal organizational philosophy, I am extending Question 8 to the Round Two reviewers.  However, I am asking that they use it judiciously and with humility, and bear in mind that C4L is a potential venue for a wider range of RPGs than could be seen at many other marathons.

8) Are there any games currently on the games list that are simply untenable for an RPG marathon for reasons potentially beyond just not being an RPG?  Please provide as thorough an explanation as possible for each.

I will use the answers to Question 1 and Question 8 to "tweak" the games list and finalize it shortly.

Alko

2013-10-18 05:41:29 am

Caution: This user contains Kana ^_^

Question to the Poxtator: When exactly will the internal part of Round 2 finish, and around when can we expect the results of Round 2? (Dates; times are not required as they'll be when I'm sleeping anyways Wink

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Poxnor

2013-10-18 03:45:51 pm

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Round Two will end whenever I get the thoughtful replies of my reviewers Smiley

I don't expect it will take long, though.

magicfreak500

2013-10-20 08:42:17 am

i do admit one thing this is so nerve reckoning. i hope all of us get a good chace but also want to go cause this is one of those things i truly believe in. hope all miss consumption gets cleared for the few of us.