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

[Kurtis Trent]

To be honest, if Silent Hill wasn't Silent Hill, I could easily see Bob and VB criticizing it just as harshly.

The Medium has problematic things to say about mental illness and child molestation?

Spoiler: Spoilers for a 20 yr old game

Silent Hill 2 is all about a man who killed his terminally ill wife; one possible interpretation of this, which the game itself raises, is that he was just a selfish POS who bumped her off so he would be free of taking care of her and could go get some puss.
SH2 also features Angela, a lifelong victim of abuse and rape from her own family. She fights an enemy literally called Abstract Daddy, in a fleshy-walled room with big pistons thrusting in and out all around you. She later chooses suicide rather than trying to seek help, and gives you an item that causes you to follow suit if you look at it too much.

Not to mention Dahlia's abuse of Alessa in SH1, or the fact that SH3 is basically one big metaphor for a teenage girl being forced to undergo an unwanted pregnancy.

I feel that, if any of those were released today and weren't made under the SH brand, they would be reviled as misogynistic and people would bay for the devs' blood.

Precisely. Imagine if something like Rule of Rose was released today? Or Drakengard, a game that does have a pedophile who's not only sympathetic but arguably the sanest character.

 

[Petronella]

Precisely. Imagine if something like Rule of Rose was released today? Or Drakengard, a game that does have a pedophile who's not only sympathetic but arguably the sanest character.

Rule of Rose would probably get slammed for "bad LGBT representation" for some of the girls having crushes on other girls but also being bullies. Or they'd insist some of the girls were trans.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

don't wanna bring up anymore of the medium spergs but just to point out how absurd void's accusations are.
She actually thinks the game referenced Ninja

 

[Scarthew]

doesnt one of the bad endings of haunting ground/demento end with the protagonist being force impregnated?

 

[ProfDongs]

Anyone know what happened to Schildkrote? I imagine he is just done with internet stuff but it seemed like he was still active until livestreaming started becoming more common (around the time of Ustream and Mogulus). The clusterfuck videos of everyone reading awful fanfics and stories were always my favorite.

 

[Scarthew]

I read through most of this thread now and some questions that nobody had answers for

Accountingnightmare
After her dmc4 no damage lp she got completely burned out and started streaming, nobody watches these. As for if shes crazy her main online friend and moderator for all her stuff (discord, twitch, etc.) is a tranny and shes banned people for having an opinion opposing a black person's while being white. Specifically saying the tired line of "your opinion means less cause hes black" So she's absolutely crazy (these discord logs were cleaned up when this happened so sorry to say I dont have any screenshots, also she does facecam for her streams now and it cant be doing her any favors.

Ritcheyz
Too lazy to finish any lps, tries to stream occasionally when hes not complaining about being depressed and totally crazy:

He seems to want brownie points from his fellow crazies by claiming to be trans but also doesn't have any commitment to the belief beyond that. I'm pretty sure he's just gay, You could hear him playing with a vibrator on stream once while really drunk.

Not much else to be said about these since they both just post endless links to their stream with zero engagement while occasionally retweeting commie nonsense. As with most of these people though I stopped following right around 2016 when they got crazy.

 

[The Fatriarchy]

Well, let's be fair. SJW circles teach people to hate men. It's no wonder most of these absolute idiots think they aren't comfortable as men.

 

[proteus4994]

Wasn’t accountingnightmare the Australian girl? I liked her LPs.

 

[The Grognard]

Well, let's be fair. SJW circles teach people to hate men. It's no wonder most of these absolute idiots think they aren't comfortable as men.

It shouldn't be a surprise that impressionable people who are lured into this culture end up trooning out simply for an advantage in oppression olympics.

 

[Scarthew]

I'm also surprised to see nobody brought up chips love of pizza which he has attributed multiple times to having "the taste sensibility of a child" and so it was basically all he ate. the manlet joke writes itself.

Here's the only video reference to it I can think of off hand just a joke but you obviously it was well engrained into their videos at this point, wish I had one of the times when he said it.

 

[Soyicidal Tendencies]

Things used to be so much simpler

 

[Tonberry]

Most of the early Webcam Wards still hold up surprisingly well today, that one about the Irate Gamer's weird Ghost Hunters rip-off is still one of my favorite things to ever come out of SA. But looking back on them now it's pretty funny how worried the guys were about the quality of their jokes back then, imagine thinking you need to tightly follow a script to make fun of Chris.

 

[BlueSpark]

CNN knows better than a neurologist, mom! (read from bottom-to-top):

Still reeeeing about Cinema Sins with some peak projection:

VoidSperger thinks breadtubers read books:

Slowbeef has made a Youtube playlist of his archived twitch streams with Diabetus:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-DNICST8ZbySUg0gP2jzgqK2AFvSqKHG

 

[100% VIRGIN M00TY]

What are the vibes people are getting from their streams? Are you getting that grove back, feeling those positive vibes like it's 2007, are you ready for fun stuff and do you think they are ready for fun stuff too?

I forgot that Beef and Diabeetus were streaming. Started watching the first one today, it's odd seeing their faces in the video, especially old Beetus.

 

[Scarthew]

Does anyone here still watch them? I saw them play through resident evil 5 for like the third time and still not know how to play as if it was a completely new game.

 

[Livecorpse]

Does anyone here still watch them? I saw them play through resident evil 5 for like the third time and still not know how to play as if it was a completely new game.

I got a great laugh out of their Together BnB streams from like a month ago. As mediocre as they are at video games, they can still be pretty funny sometimes.

 

[Tonberry]

I would replace Mediocre with downright bad, at least when it comes to Resident Evil for some reason. Which is really bizzarre because RE5 and RE6 aren't difficult games at all, except for arguably some frustrating parts in 6, and those are games they've both beaten before a couple of times.

That pet peeve aside, yeah, their streams are pretty alright. Betus is still pretty funny even when he has to play while talking, and even Beef gets a few good moments here and there. They still play pretty well off eachother, and Betus doesn't sound like he's being held at gunpoint or anything. It's not a perfect replacement for RP, but it's a decent way to fill the void that channel left in my heart.

 

[crestfallen]

The Together BnB stream was essentially RP content. It wouldn't have been inappropriate for Slowbeef to upload it to the channel.

 

[BlueSpark]

 

[Tonberry]

Our favorite gamer girl has been picked up by a website I've never heard of, and apparently we're all devastated.