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INTEREST: Trans Allies Team Up to Raise US$300,000 on Donkey Kong 64 Charity Stream

I really dont like the idea of a Congress person being there. That creates a statement that says this is to selfishly further a political agenda vs healthily supporting trans people.

I’ve never had an account before, so forgive me if my posting technique is wrong, but I saw some worrying things in this thread so felt a need to ask for some explanation. The topic isn’t clearly related to anime, but articles tangentially related pop up every now and then so it’s not a big deal. However, I’m not surw I understand the behaviour of the mods here, calling legitimate criticisms or theories “weasly” and supposedly deleting people’s comments that I doubt were unrelated to the thread.
It’s important to act professionally and without bias when running a website, otherwise you might end up censoring opinions that differ from your own.

Hold on, let me check off "something something political agenda" and "this technically isn't about anime and that's definitely the real reason I don't want to hear about it" on my Internet Backlash Bingo card...

Happened to find the stream right when "AOC" came on, so that was a bit of a surreal experience. Someone posted part of that call-in on Twitter. Still can't quite comprehend how this blew up so quickly; this spontaneous stream from one guy (who wasn't remotely a big name in gaming) and a couple of friends earned about 14% as much as GDQ a couple weeks ago (a well-established bi-yearly event that runs for about a week and has an enormous cast-and-crew team). I guess people should marathon unpopular N64 games more often.

Serious question: What does this have to do with anime? Why am I seeing this?

On a sour note, I think I have to agree with others in this thread, I'm struggling to see why this is being reported on ANN.

The topic isn’t clearly related to anime,

I’m not surw I understand the behaviour of the mods here, calling legitimate criticisms or theories “weasly

DK 64 is one of those games that was critically lambasted at the time (for having an excessive amount of collecting) but still sold like crazy. Yet these days I feel like a lot of people have warmed up to the game again, not just in spite of, but because of the huge number of things to collect. And that made it the perfect choice for this stream, since finishing the game isn't that hard, but getting 100% requires a ton of time and effort.