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AGDQ19 was solid. My other favorite was SGDQ18. I had a tie for best roommate, had my own bed. Per GDQ tradition, something bad happens to me. I usually lose something important; instead this time I got food poisoning from the food at the airport before being on my way. Day 0 I had a trash can next to me to throw up the whole time. Day 1 I could get up and move around a bit. Day 2 and 3 I could get out, but still had to make it to the bathroom like, all the time. Then I was an idiot and got one of the PCF water bottles and threw the paper out without reading it. I guess the inside of the bottle is lined with some chemical? So that day my throat burned. Not like a sore throat, but like a chemical burn for most of the day.

I usually force myself to try to get a lot done at GDQs, like learn a game, route a game, or make myself do runs. I had more fun just kind of dicking around. Infinitemystery and I did a (semi-)blind race of Sunshine any% and it was a blast. It was 12 hours of the day(night) and we plan on doing that most days of the upcoming SGDQ. I didn't get to try out much of the food in the area too much, but that's alright. I hung out with crak_atak a lot and we ended up getting a recorded Neo Contra co-op WR in the practice room. That was damn fun.

I don't have really any thing I wish I had done. I could've watched more runs from the stream, played some NES and SNES games. That's about it. I also, kind of want to go out of my way and introduce myself to randos next time.

Shout outs to:
muncha, tenmachi, and bobby for putting a sick boi up for day 0. They are the true MVPs.
infinitemystery for being the nicest person at the event and the comeback. we will do more sloth runs on stream and sgdq, guaranteed.
crak_atak, lyn, and flameberger for being our silly crew of dumb. apparently I'm crak_atak's long lost brother.
seckwrecks for being pringle daddy. your insanity and obsession with pringles and obscure video games only makes me appreciate you.
halfcoordinated for being on the receiving end of the best 1-armed and 2-armed hugs. I wish I sat down and talked to you like at SGDQ, friend.
flaj and lizzy; and blackbadger for being true GDQ friends. we def need to get something organized IRL, whether it be a joint speedrun effort (and GDQ submission) or something. I think I can fly out to either one of you.
slurpeeninja for being slurpeeninja.
starwin for being a chill guy I felt like I should have hung out with more.
drswellman for giving me all the dry-humps and purekaos for not reeling him in.
kahnster for being a down-to-earth person.
drfatbody for being that cool dude I would always run into.
teh_anno, lylat, and cmm for being crazy non-drunk/drunk memers.
linkums and npc for being super cool nerds who like good games. I need recommendations for bad games that are hilarious to run!
NME for organizing the legit NES block.
lrock for being himself and supporting my rapport for being a good roommate.
garbitheglitcheress for hanging out with me.
gliitchless for being there for a hug, sorry we didn't hang out more!
lastsincommitted and marie for always being in the practice room to hang out with.
skybilz for having time to say hi and hug!
mr. cab for showing me an awesome game to run.
madmegax381 for being the true roommate. getting our own beds was potentially one of the best decisions to getting a good sleep and warding off sickness. he was always there for me and others.

those that I did speak to even briefly: tonesbalones, swordsmanskirby, magicfreak, mr_shasta, mable, jaxler, grygor, cantaloupeme, authorblues, tinahacks, sicky, skavenger.

IRL + the return to stream.
I didn't get the work schedule I was expecting. I'm in negotiation with a different schedule with my boss, but this may be a better stream schedule at dark o'clock hours pacific time. I haven't really streamed consistently in about 1 year or more. The big stream comeback is scheduled shortly after my house is finished being built and it's supposedly going to be done in late February. With my current work schedule I can start stream around 5-7PM pacific time 4 nights a week. The original idea was to start stream 3am pacific time 5-6 nights a week. So we'll see as it gets closer.