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Remember when GDQ was about speedrunning games?
Shows a photo of someone speedrunning a game at GDQ.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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Speedrunning seems to be the only niche of Hardcore Gaming where it seems most people are pretty cool.
I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "speedrunning"
alternative sexual archetypes (fastest mario)
A sport that requires you to be a shutin to be good has a high population of people that are fringe and often shut themselves away from society? Shocker!
Why is this trans person playing Hades, a series notorious for its lack of LGBT representation?
I haven't watched gdq since like what 2013-2014 and even back then it was trans and autistic people.
Nice to see one of my favorite Civ youtubers is chill.
When I was closing the link I was like "wait was Potato the one who tweeted that?" But he's on the QT
"I've become so radicalised against fascism in the last few days I'm a queer interdimensional feminist black nationalist communist and I'm considering the phrase "Lenin did nothing wrong"" - https://x.com/PotatoMcWhiskey/status/2010129709149872544
Potato MW go on Hexbear
lol my vibes radar stays spot on, also lenin was a paragon of a person no one should be ashamed of praising him in public. I like making the analogy with the dark knight movies where batman (stalin) gets all the bad rep to absolve harvey (lenin) fall of grace, except lenin never went bad like harvey.
would Burgerlanders get it though if there's no burgers in the analogy?
Yeah I was worried cause they have such great civ videos
i watch every year, at least having it on in the background for noise and yeah, its always been a bunch of queer people. its great
That Cerebrus doll is very cute
I love our militantly queer speedrunning comrades. The only good gamers.
Where can I get the massive Hades Cerberus plush?
I think it was one of a kind.
I introduced my partner to AGDQ last week and she commented on how nice it was they had people's pronouns on screen. Decided not to comment about how GDQ has pretty much always been neuro-atypical and trans folk long as I can remember