I didn't wake up at 9:30 in the morning despite being awake until the sun came up. Nope, I woke up at noon. This whole "changing my body clock" thing isn't working very well.
I must say, I was happy to find that there was a Qdoba and a Subway nearby because having only burger places around (Wendy's, McDonalds, etc.) would have gotten old fast. Even better though, today Qdoba catered lunch for SGDQ! Burrito is love. Burrito is life.
Somehow I managed to post improved times on almost every stage of Battle Clash as well as get a faster single-segment time that's below 14 minutes. If I work up the nerve and find out how to do it, maybe I could try getting this on the bonus stream after the main marathon.
I also decided to start running Zombie Panic in Wonderland because... because. I haven't gotten much planning done on it yet, but I did manage to figure out some ways to drop my time from a little over 40 minutes to a little over 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, I was still nervous as hell about the Ninjabread Man run. I've played shows in a band and as a solo act before and done the YouTube thing for a while, but the audience for that was nothing like what the GDQ streams get. I practiced until the game locked up trying to do the level skip and took that as a sign to stop.
Being on the couch for MadWorld did help calm my nerves a little bit, and for that I really owe LazerLong for letting me on it. I was trying to keep track of the amount of swears in the game as part of the MadWorld Swear Jar, mostly relying on my knowledge of the game's music to count those so I could focus on the in-game commentary and goons. In the end, over 250 swears were counted. I hope that guy who said he'd match the swear jar has deep pockets!
For the Ninjabread Man run most people lost the fight against time and had to go to sleep. Laz offered to stick around since he'd seen me practicing earlier and knew a bit about what I was trying to do. Cool guy, even letting me use his Wii cables to make setup go faster. Mike Uyama was also there, which made me even more nervous. If the texts I got afterward from my friends were right, the twitch chat was on me for the fingerless gloves I was wearing. To that all I can say is 'Twitch chat will be twitch chat.' Well, that and 'My hands are really fucking cold, especially when the AC is cranked up to 11.'
The actual run went surprisingly well. I missed the tutorial skip a few times and had to use the safe (read: slower) method of doing it, but the rest went rather well and I wound up with a time around 4 minutes 43 seconds, well under my "everything went wrong" estimate of 20:00. Thanks again to everyone who donated for the one-handed incentive and the GDQ crew for deciding to take a chance on a rookie like me.
Also, I looked up the comments from the guys at RiverCityGamers who donated. I swear, you likely won't see me streaming this game for a long, long time. I have other terrible games to beat as fast as possible. :D
I stayed around for a couple more runs before my eyes were burning from being awake too long. I did manage to catch Graviton destroying the first Bubsy game, though. That takes me back to when I had the game as a kid, dying in nearly every conceivable way.
