#AGDQ2025 introducing me to more amazing music right up to the very end, with this amazing FamilyJules cover of "Grandma" from NieR Replicant. It's an emotional track even before you stick in the "last day of GDQ vibes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ptCiaW8yk

$2,400,000 raised so far, and the classic hype game Super Metroid is coming up next. Could this #AGDQ break $3M? It's a steep climb for an hour, but not unthinkable, especially with the accelerating rate of donations

Mentally preparing for the emotional crash that comes with the end of the marathon

that last between-run segment. actual tears going down my face. #GamesDoneQuick #AGDQ

GDQ loses its Prize Wizard, but gains Sent, Master of Programming!

Very touching send-off for the GOAT

I had no idea that in Master Quest, Jabu Jabu's belly has cows as switches?!

Per chat: "Master Quest is just a first-party ROM hack"

It is *wild* that it took 3 hours for ZFG to find the bow or hookshot (he found the bow) on this seed. He was very close to checking the Spoiler Log in the interests of time

I don't think it's common that randomizers take a particularly math-y solution to the problem of reachability, I think it's usually a brute-force solution since game graphs are small enough (i.e. O(100) nodes).

For instance, here's where location validation happens in the OoT randomizer, it's "just" going through each entrance and checking them one by one

https://github.com/OoTRandomizer/OoT-Randomizer/blob/5a604ebda43fc0d56e813503666bc0d61bea5185/EntranceShuffle.py#L921-L1038

In particular, graph networks and the reachability problem are the bread-and-butter of almost every game randomizer

An entire game can be represented as a graph where nodes represent game states (in particular the player's inventory and game-progression events like important cutscenes or triggers), and edges are transitions between those states (i.e. getting an item, hitting a trigger).

The simplest form of randomizer will "just" shuffle nodes around, but this can pretty easily create situations where a state is unreachable: if item X is behind a challenge that requires item X, then item X cannot be retrieved (with the exception of glitches) and is considered "out of logic" in the jargon of randomizer communities.

So most randomizers also solve the reachability problem: can all (required) nodes be accessed given a particular shuffle of the game?

By the way, the current run's randomizer is *not* solving the reachability problem, that's what "no logic" means. But this specific run had its seed vetted: we know for sure that ZFG can complete the run, but not which items (if any) will be impossible to retrieve.

Pidgeonhole principle mentioned!

The rise of randomizers in speedrun communities is cool: a lot of people are learning about discrete mathematics because of these!

"This is our first cow of the run. Cows are randomized"

$2,000,000 raised by #AGDQ for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, with hours to go on the marathon!

Race to see if the marathon hits $2M or 2:00:00 on the run first.

Including this sick Beastie Boys rhyme donation performed by the dual hosts
https://clips.twitch.tv/create/OriginalSmoothPidgeonDeIlluminati-k3Ppkt-51UiCFNHN

The character model bid war raised more almost $40k for the Prevent Cancer Foundation!

Miku was ahead for a lot of the competition, but the Dampe crowd pulled ahead in the end by just over $1000

Fierce bid war going on for the Ocarina of Time character model, primarily between Dampe and Hatsune Miku

(I'm on team Miku)

#AGDQ also hit the $1.8M point during the end of the speedrun and the band's last song, which carried on to finish past the end of the run.

A marathon highlight for sure.

If you missed it(!) and wanna get the flavor, I clipped one of the guitar solos: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick/clip/CrepuscularIcyPieLeeroyJenkins-dzmcpVshvYUdMTDV

"Does anybody in the crowd know how to parallel park?"

The band's energy is electric, Metallama is a crowdwork champ