GDQ Newsletter officially launched
23d 35m ago by retrolemmy.com/u/Die4Ever in speedrun@sh.itjust.worksWe've officially launched the GDQ Newsletter 🎉
Sign-up below to stay in the know about upcoming events, deadlines, volunteering opportunities and everything else we're doing!!
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or gamesdonequick@bird.makeup but this mirror has a delay
Reminder that SGDQ is July 5th to 11th, and AGDQ 2027 is January 3rd to 9th
Also you can do RSS off their Bluesky, but it gets a lot of posts
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sucjrnduu3iytwhtt36g2d54/rss
I'll believe the usefulness of this when I see it. With their ever widening glut of non-GDQ content, I find it harder and harder to keep up with A/S-GDQ proper.
I suspect this is just another attempt by them to try and prop up the non-"main event" stuff they keep trying to do, rather than an actual useful tool.
Massive complaining tangent:
Am I the only one who's interest has waned significantly since they started growing past AGDQ and SGDQ?
When they started, there wasn't a lot of speed running content available that was particularly accessible outside of each game's specific speed running community, but nowadays every speed runner has their own twitch and YouTube channel. So then GDQ served as an easier source for high quality speed runs with somewhat reliable quality of commentary.
Now that they have all these regular ongoing events weekly and monthly, it no longer feels like "an event" or the higher quality than just browsing YouTube like it used to be. It just feels like another gaming group channel growing ever more bloated, combined with this weird space where for some of their more casual "recurring events" it's also kind of just a group of friends fucking about but with less chemistry due to the corporate/group overhead? Plus there were at least a few years with drama that ages ago that also soured my opinion of them.
I agree with you, but this newsletter signup has extremely straightforward checkboxes for what you want

But yes I think they overdo it. And they spam Twitch notifications and social media so much that people tune them out. This newsletter should help that problem.