Congrats again to all the winners and nominees! Y'all done me proud. :')

Good to talk about the Desktop Dungeons guy's speech, but you actually forgot his category in your summary :

Excellence In Design:
Desktop Dungeons <- winner
Faraway
Minecraft
Nidhogg
Super Crate Box

the mega64 and d2d videos were kind of embarassing, and the host's jokes were mostly not funny, but the edmund & tommy appearing behind andy thing was great, the highlight of the show easily

Anthony was a great host

Wow, you have absolutely NO sense of humor.

Hahaha, wow, thanks. I must've deleted it one of the three thousand times I reformatted this. Serves me for posting on no sleep. Fix'd!

Aw.. No nudity or “FUCK YEAH” acceptance speeches this year. ): Although it was hilarious when Minecraft won, everyone got pissy at Notch because he “didn't expect to win anything”.

Andy Schatz needs to come back to host. Tim Schafer is a waaay more entertaining MC than whoever did the indie show this year.

How did Bit.Trip Runner win the “Excellence In Visual Art” award?

Don't get me wrong, it's a fun game… but it's not particularly impressive on any level.
The hand-drawn graphics of Bastion look far more deserving. Pixel, too, surely deserved something.

Mega64 was fun two years ago, less so last year, and this year it just felt old. I thought Anthony's jokes were good enough though (but when you don't hear the laughter, it makes it sound really really awkward)

Desktop Dungeons Excellence In Design ?
What.The.Fuck.

In the end I'm not quite sure how I should feel about minecraft winning the grand prize.

Now the only difference between the IGF and the GDCA is that the GDCA has better jokes.

yeah let's complain how even mainstream developers agree that indies kick their asses. Obviously this is a horrible thing. Obviously IGF judges should decide who to nominate only after talking it through with the GDCA judges.

Wow, you have absolutely NO sense of humor.

Its pretty funny how the context of the videos shown affected how theyre perceived.
The three videos shown being in the context of an award show, we expect to hear an audience reaction to the jokes in them (even if we dont usually expect that in mega64 videos). And so the lack of an audience reaction made them seem really terrible and unfunny. Even worse; the jokes in them poking fun at indies themselves who make up most of the audience, the lack of reaction made the jokes seem MEAN instead of tongue in cheek, as if no one was laughing because everyone was offended (worse it even makes it seem like that was intended!)
While I am sure the audience was cracking up the whole time.

who cares what games won this joke competition

This year had a strange feeling of blurring of lines between the 2 awards ceremonies. Probably proving that we are all just making games. The criteria lies in a strange grey area. Where not just a company but a specific game can transition from one ceremony (Super Meat Boy) to another… even inside of a year! (Minecraft). It made me think about game development in terms of people, creatives, and CEO's rather than Companies. So Jon Blow, not Number none. Etc… Who ever has the true control is independent in whatever is being done. In many cases everybody has atleast a tiny bit of control. In most accepted-as-indie games there are just a few. right? Sorry, i forgot, no real criteria. lol