RPs sucked as soon as they went longer than 10 minutes. I've been pretty open about this, I think I even said it to slowbeef once. Youtube's old video limit was a blessing in disguise, because it forced you to take no longer than 10 minutes to get to the fucking point. There's nothing so bad about a video that it needs more than 10 minutes worth of discussion.
There's very few people in this world I could spend 2 hours talking about. Maybe Donald Trump and Chris Avellone (for wholely different reasons).
Well, if you look at all their Kickstarter videos posted in the last few months, very few go past 10-15 minutes. Heck most are sub 10 minutes. Even their one actual game RP, Psychic Detective, was on the shorter side, around 15 to 21 minutes mostly.
But the thing is, these videos are on the Retsupurae channel. Whereas slowbeef's shitty longform videos, streams and so on, all go on his own channel. Like you've said multiple times, solo slowbeef is just not very good, probably because of a lack of restrictions and no one to play off of. But RP videos have a script, a point, and limited content that you have to immediately riff off of, which kept them short.
Also, I tend to notice the audience for Retsupurae and solo videos don't overlap so much. That crazy rant by PE up there would probably be met with actual resistance in the Retsupurae channel comments (as seen with DaveO), but would get a dicksucking and dogpiling of any dissent on slowbeef's channel.
That conversation was shut down by Mr. Fedule, who didn't like that topic I guess.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...rid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=238#post470068694
"Oh my god did I fucking stutter?
Reminder that both current LP mods, Fedule and Geop, are VB's close personal friends and "coworkers" at NoGoblin. It doesn't actually matter if it's on topic, Fedule won't allow discussion of his friend the cow. And we've seen how much of a coolaid drinker he is, right up to locking down the LP Discord and referring to fucking Crash Override Network for "harassment". People getting scammed by Quinn in real time is hilarious.
Although looking at the post you quoted... I see someone dared to actively disparage Quinn and Sarkeesian and didn't get probated or banned. Although they did get dogpiled:
SA Jackass said:
Sarkeesian took an opportunity to discuss problems with the portrayal of women in video games and it made babies shit their diapers.
Quinn was the victim of a smear campaign by a jealous ex-boyfriend.
How do you manage to interpret reality so far backwards you make the abuser the victim?