Let's Players originating from Something Awful - ft. VoidBurger, General Ironicus, Bob Kamoc

[BlueSpark]

lol at VoidSperger moaning about censorship when she openly despises that people are allowed non-leftist opinions.

I've no idea what the removed video was but I'm guessing some leftist trash calling right-wing people Nazis that got flagged.

 

[TheImportantFart]

I've no idea what the removed video was but I'm guessing some leftist trash calling right-wing people Nazis that got flagged.

That video was made by Contra Points, who's part of the anti-anti-SJW sphere along with hbomberguy, Shaun and Jen and Garrett (Jabba the Cuck). Basically, it's just the usual left-wing argument of "free speech isn't free" dressed up in slightly new clothing. The overwhelming takeaway from the video is: "Do you want to defend women and minorities or do you want to defend racists and misogynists?" again ignoring the fact that racist and misogynist are terms that are applied to literally anyone who expresses ideas that are slightly right wing. I also think it's funny the video got taken down as people in Contra's sphere have been pushing for exactly this kind of censorship, but only when it's against the "right" people.

I agree that Dave Rubin should have more people from the left on his show, but the reason he doesn't is the same reason Cassie Jaye didn't interview too many feminists for The Red Pill. These people don't want to talk to someone from the other side. That said, I do hope he has Contra on the show because Contra's shown that he (she, it?) is willing to talk to people from the other side (see his discussions with Blaire White and Roaming Millennial).

 

[BlueSpark]

it's just the usual left-wing argument of "free speech isn't free"

Then I'm glad they got a taste of their own medicine.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

"Do you want to defend women and minorities or do you want to defend racists and misogynists?" again ignoring the fact that racist and misogynist are terms that are applied to literally anyone who expresses ideas that are slightly right wing.

I think that's "begging the question" isn't it? They never want to provide any reasoning behind who they accuse of these terrible labels, they just expect you to accept it.

Then I'm glad they got a taste of their own medicine.

Not like they'll learn much from it.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

That video was made by Contra Points, who's part of the anti-anti-SJW sphere along with hbomberguy, Shaun and Jen and Garrett (Jabba the Cuck). Basically, it's just the usual left-wing argument of "free speech isn't free" dressed up in slightly new clothing. The overwhelming takeaway from the video is: "Do you want to defend women and minorities or do you want to defend racists and misogynists?" again ignoring the fact that racist and misogynist are terms that are applied to literally anyone who expresses ideas that are slightly right wing. I also think it's funny the video got taken down as people in Contra's sphere have been pushing for exactly this kind of censorship, but only when it's against the "right" people.

I agree that Dave Rubin should have more people from the left on his show, but the reason he doesn't is the same reason Cassie Jaye didn't interview too many feminists for The Red Pill. These people don't want to talk to someone from the other side. That said, I do hope he has Contra on the show because Contra's shown that he (she, it?) is willing to talk to people from the other side (see his discussions with Blaire White and Roaming Millennial).

Is contrapoints some kind of tranny or just some idiot genderqueer? I've never heard of it until now.

Unfortunately for the anti-anti-SJW crowd, the ACLU agrees that free speech is absolute. Those racists and misogynists can say what they want and I'll stand up for their right to say it too.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Is contrapoints some kind of tranny or just some idiot genderqueer?

Genderqueer. The worst part is, he's considered one of the more rational people from the anti-anti-SJW sphere.

 

[BlueSpark]

So did their LP offsite die yet? Or did it actually find success even?

The section of the forum for let's plays is sort of active, it seems to get a new post every hour or so on average going by the site stats. Particularly "active" threads seem to get about a hundred replies over their lifetime (most seem to only get around 40).

The rest of the site is pretty dead.

The forum, for anyone that's forgotten the name (like I did, I had to search back through this thread to find it):
https://www.lp.zone

 

[PLB]

it still seems to have the problem that most lp's seem to be cross posted from SA, so unless they start to get people from outside SA to post there then there will be very little reason to post there a few months down the line, they basically have to build up a large enough producer base that is just larger than the SA equivalent. For example even Jenner came back to post on the SA LP board after a month or two.

Spoiler

Jenner was a random poster who acted overly dramatic about the doxing of SA users when lowtax tried to wrestle control of his forums back and tried to martyr herself so kiwis said she was a troll/plant and lowtax banned her. Basically the lp zone seems to pander to her tastes and besides void, psyche, kamoc she probably had the most reason to stay away

 

[A Random]

So @proteus4994 I have a general retsupurae question.

It's pretty obvious there's no drama behind you not showing up after a while, but what about the start? Was it a beef&beetus show that you wanted in, or slowbeef called you one night claiming he had a great idea?

 

[proteus4994]

So @proteus4994 I have a general retsupurae question.

It's pretty obvious there's no drama behind you not showing up after a while, but what about the start? Was it a beef&beetus show that you wanted in, or slowbeef called you one night claiming he had a great idea?

It was closer to the latter, but it was also sort of an evolution to shit that was going on anyway.

So two things used to go on in the LP forum's early days (this was before slowbeef was moderator):

1) Slowbeef would get drunk and call a bunch of people on Skype, and they'd sit around and bullshit and make fun of LP Forum people (or each other) for hours.
2) People would make bad SA LPs, like clownbirth's Peggle debacle or Super Metroid Redesign, but redeem it by getting co-commentators to shit all over them for comedic value.

At some point these two things sorta combined into what would eventually be Retsupurae. At the beginning, it wasn't so much "The Slowbeef and Diabetus Show" so much as it was slowbeef poking people on Skype and seeing who wanted to shit on some bad Youtube LPs. As someone who normally shit all over bad SA LPs, I said yes because why not. And so started Retsupurae.

Edit: In fact, the whole making fun of Youtube LPs may have actually originated during those group Skype calls (informally, as in "hey everyone, check this garbage video out", and then people would make fun of it). I can't remember for sure though.

Edit 2: Also, I don't want to imply those "group Skype calls" were some sort of SA LP circlejerk. I want to clearly state, for the record, without any question, that they were absolutely a SA LP circlejerk. 100%.

 

[CrayolaFuckinModelMagic]

Come to think of it @proteus4994 , has anyone ever asked you if you have a particular favorite Retsuprae that you were involved with?

 

[RJ MacReady]

I wonder how many of the LP Zone idiots who self-banned to spite Lowtax regretted it and bought new accounts. It must kick in eventually that you humiliated yourself to save Voidburger and got nothing for it.

 

[proteus4994]

Come to think of it @proteus4994 , has anyone ever asked you if you have a particular favorite Retsuprae that you were involved with?

Not technically a Retsupurae, but probably that god awful Christian Flash game trilogy me and slowbeef did. Trapped, I think it was? I had a lot of fun with that, it was a hilariously bad game.

As far as actual RPs go, I can barely remember most of them. Crap answer, I know, I probably could have given you a better answer a few years ago.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Not technically a Retsupurae, but probably that god awful Christian Flash game trilogy me and slowbeef did. Trapped, I think it was? I had a lot of fun with that, it was a hilariously bad game.

As far as actual RPs go, I can barely remember most of them. Crap answer, I know, I probably could have given you a better answer a few years ago.

Trapped is a classic RP (RF?) I'd recommend for anybody.

Reminds me: Do you ever rewatch any of the RPs you were in? Do you find it weird/embarrassing to hear yourself saying shit from years ago that you don't remember?

 

[proteus4994]

Trapped is a classic RP (RF?) I'd recommend for anybody.

Reminds me: Do you ever rewatch any of the RPs you were in? Do you find it weird/embarrassing to hear yourself saying shit from years ago that you don't remember?

Hahaha, if I did, I'd probably remember things.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Hahaha, if I did, I'd probably remember things.

I actually ask because regretting one's words in old videos seems to be trendy with SA LPers being that we're now far out enough to look back and social justice demands self-flagellation. I know Voidburger is broken up over an ancient RP where she makes gay jokes and Chip considered going back and putting trigger warnings on his riff of another flash series because he called one of the poorly drawn animes a faggot.

 

[proteus4994]

If you mean is there anything I regret as far as being overly offensive? No, not at all. It's always kinda weird listening to yourself, but not because of anything I said, just in general.

The only thing I regret is any joke that didn't land. And some of the BillyMC stuff but I mentioned that before I think.

 

[CrayolaFuckinModelMagic]

Not technically a Retsupurae, but probably that god awful Christian Flash game trilogy me and slowbeef did. Trapped, I think it was? I had a lot of fun with that, it was a hilariously bad game.

As far as actual RPs go, I can barely remember most of them. Crap answer, I know, I probably could have given you a better answer a few years ago.

Actually a pretty good answer, as Trapped was probably my favorite Retsuprae in general, followed closely by Wario Ware Inc. and Monster In My Pocket, which I believe you were also in on. Given how it seems Retsupurae is seemingly steering towards more "advertiser friendly" content, I'll always miss the old days of not giving a shit over who got upset because their terrible LP was getting ripped apart.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

and Chip considered going back and putting trigger warnings on his riff of another flash series because he called one of the poorly drawn animes a faggot.

What's wrong with "faggot"? I thought hating on cis gay men was in-vogue in SocJus circles these days because they're too privileged.

 

[Meowthkip]

I don't have anything hugely interesting to post regarding VoidBurger. I'm just making a record of the fact that SJW VoidBurger thinks that an 11-year old boy seeing a gory picture depicting his father having been beheaded (and thinking he really had been) is hilarious to her because he's the son of a politician she doesn't like:
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The news story, for anyone not aware:

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This is someone that gets upset over people using ableist language.

I don't care for Donald Trump one bit, I think he's a conman and a fraud, but Barron's artwork is fucking incredible and fuck Voidburger for not realizing his absolute brilliance.

Spoiler: The kid knows what he likes, and it's anime tiddies and dangerous animals.