Yes Chef!
The final total amounted to $2,239,919, with some final final donations still trickling in when the organiser’s postedtheir wrap up post yesterday. As they highlight, that brings GDQ’s total charitable donations to over $46 million since they started 13 years ago.
It’s a charming, dare I say it, wholesome endeavour. Watching streams in full might require an interest in the nuts and bolts of speedrunning, but I still enjoy dropping by to see people talk in very calm voices while they manically hop through walls and contort themselves through the smallest, esoteric gaps in game worlds we’d normally regard as rigid and immutable.
Then there are treats like Adef’s chef-laden Ratatouille speedrun, who conjures up his own separate world and ruthlessly commits to the bit. Here’sa cute photoof his supporters.
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Other highlights include Chronos_R’s epic yetsomehow only 2 hour runof the entire Elder Scrolls series from Arena toSkyrim, and this pixel/frame perfectPeggleDeluxe shot from Britsha.
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Their joy is infectious.
