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

[whatever I feel like]

I feel like early SA LPs actually had very high standards in regards to the commentary too. You had to know and explain the game you were running, which itself had to be at least a year or so old. There was no DSP style low effort bullshit allowed. Especially for screenshot LPs. Those things were labors of love, I couldn't imagine someone making one these days.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

How did/does SA feel about blind LPs? I've watched a number that I thought still turned out pretty entertaining, but I don't know if any of those LPers were affiliated with SA. Except for pokecapn and kungfujesus, they're goons right? Their sonic 06 and FFXIII-2 blind LPs were pretty good.

 

[RJ MacReady]

How did/does SA feel about blind LPs? I've watched a number that I thought still turned out pretty entertaining, but I don't know if any of those LPers were affiliated with SA. Except for pokecapn and kungfujesus, they're goons right? Their sonic 06 and FFXIII-2 blind LPs were pretty good.

Pokecapn, KFJ, Medibot, Kaz and most of their guest stars were all goons, yeah. Their Four Swords Adventures LP is pretty great, too.

 

[proteus4994]

How did/does SA feel about blind LPs?

My Daikatana LP was blind (half-blind, technically). Really nobody cares as long as the end result is fun to watch.

Generally the rule of thumb was "avoid blind LPs until you're sure you know how to make an LP and be entertaining" (in other words, do a couple of "normal" LPs before you think about doing a blind LP), which is more practical advice than anything else. If you're fucking up the basic technical aspects of your LP, doing a blind run is only going to make shit worse.

 

[Aquinas]

I am of the mind that Trainwrecks are always fun to watch.

 

[BlueChan]

VoidBurger treats the death of Roger Ailes with all the respect you'd expect:

1. I honestly think it's incredibly poor form to celebrate the death someone who wasn't a murderer/rapist/otherwise a major asshole, and
2. Yes, she really did retweet fucking RationalWiki.

Meanwhile, David John-Bores seems unable to let go of GamerGate (and trips over Godwin's law in the process):

 

[Stress Sigh]

The major flaw in this logic is EVERYONE is a nazi to these people.

Like I'm tempting to start an enclave of all the "nazis" including all the gay and jewish ones where we can all hate on non-"nazis".

 

[Meowthkip]

VoidBurger treats the death of Roger Ailes with all the respect you'd expect:
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1. I honestly think it's incredibly poor form to celebrate the death someone who wasn't a murderer/rapist/otherwise a major asshole, and
2. Yes, she really did retweet fucking RationalWiki.

Meanwhile, David John-Bores seems unable to let go of GamerGate (and trips over Godwin's law in the process):
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What was Voidburger's reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden? If she was one of those liberals that was telling people not to celebrate his death because it'd be barbaric, she can go fuck herself.

I didn't like Roger Ailes either but some consistency would be nice.

 

[AnOminous]

What was Voidburger's reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden? If she was one of those liberals that was telling people not to celebrate his death because it'd be barbaric, she can go fuck herself.

I didn't like Roger Ailes either but some consistency would be nice.

I celebrated Osama's death, too, as he was a bigger piece of shit than Roger Ailes, a little turd by comparison.

 

[Stress Sigh]

"Terrorist dindu nuffin but a man with different opinions and belief than me? He must be Satan!"

 

[Pointless Pedant]

VoidBurger treats the death of Roger Ailes with all the respect you'd expect:
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1. I honestly think it's incredibly poor form to celebrate the death someone who wasn't a murderer/rapist/otherwise a major asshole, and
2. Yes, she really did retweet fucking RationalWiki.

Meanwhile, David John-Bores seems unable to let go of GamerGate (and trips over Godwin's law in the process):
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I'm sure everyone who participated in the Indian massacres is happy to know that the ire of progressives is now drawn elsewhere.

 

[CrayolaFuckinModelMagic]

So.....make the game less fun to watch and play than it already is? Well I guess I don't need bits that much.....

 

[RJ MacReady]

So.....make the game less fun to watch and play than it already is? Well I guess I don't need bits that much.....

I like the idea, actually. It's an adaptation of the tricks streamers have been doing with their donation alerts for a long time, especially ones who play horror games. A clever example are DayZ streamers (a game with a lot of downtime) who rig their alerts to play a random gunshot sound from the game and they have no way of knowing if it's real until they check their Streamlabs, so their viewers will strategically time their donations to fuck with them. I won't fault slowbeef for at least trying to be creative with his stream.

 

[OwO What's This?]

I'm kind of glad the pokecapn crew all kind of just scattered to the wind because I can remember their content fondly

 

[BlueSpark]

There's a thread on Something Awful where people mock Lowtax and his let's play efforts as well as discussing some of the let's players mentioned in this thread, I linked screenshots at the end of this post in the Kiwi Farms SA thread (click the purple arrow):

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[Alec Benson Leary]

I'm kind of glad the pokecapn crew all kind of just scattered to the wind because I can remember their content fondly

I'm willing to bet those guys are rat-race fuckers who have real jobs to occupy their time.

 

[Stress Sigh]

I'm willing to bet those guys are rat-race fuckers who have real jobs to occupy their time.

Possibly worse than dogs.

 

[CrayolaFuckinModelMagic]

I like the idea, actually. It's an adaptation of the tricks streamers have been doing with their donation alerts for a long time, especially ones who play horror games. A clever example are DayZ streamers (a game with a lot of downtime) who rig their alerts to play a random gunshot sound from the game and they have no way of knowing if it's real until they check their Streamlabs, so their viewers will strategically time their donations to fuck with them. I won't fault slowbeef for at least trying to be creative with his stream.

It's an okay idea, though Alien Isolation is definitely not the game I'd recommend having people fuck around with you while playing on nightmare difficulty.

 

[ChevroletBlackboard]

Does anyone know what DarkId's deal is, or is just another run of the mill goon?

 

[chocolatesaltyballs]

Does anyone know what DarkId's deal is, or is just another run of the mill goon?

I used to think that DarkId was pretty okay, but I get the feeling he's just more stealthy about his goony opinions. It hasn't permeated everything he says like with Voidburger, but he has taken a couple of easy jabs at GG in his Nier: Automata LP, which is super autistic to me, because nobody except lolcows care about GG anymore. And that's coming from a guy who watches people play games on the internet.

Here's his most recent one, which is doubly funny because as far as I know, nobody knew this had happened until well after it was too late to protest anyway: