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

[BlueChan]

Certainly didn't expect any of that.


On a lighter note, Void's apparently feeling better:

EDIT: Looks like she also blanked her Imgur account very recently.

 

[BuckBumble]

That does remind me, she made an entirely separate account just for Imgur shitposting/"documenting". Not archived though, and it seems gone as well, although maybe you can salvage some stuff from the old URL?
https://twitter.com/imgur_PNG

 

[BlueChan]

That does remind me, she made an entirely separate account just for Imgur shitposting/"documenting". Not archived though, and it seems gone as well, although maybe you can salvage some stuff from the old URL?
https://twitter.com/imgur_PNG

Googling the account name gave some partial archives; some mildly interesting stuff, but nothing we haven't heard already.

Also, she's streaming again. She forwent uploading the last stream's VODs to YouTube and instead made them available on Hitbox itself.

 

[RJ MacReady]

What is it with these idiots and Hitbox? That site bombed so hard that it's getting bought out and crumpled into some other shitty streaming service just to keep it afloat. The only reason anyone used it is because they were too boring and unfunny to make it on Twitch so they accepted Hitbox's desperate offer of vast privileges to anyone willing to stream there.

You'd expect anyone into streaming as a job would seek constant growth on a better service rather than stagnation in a dead-end hole, but I guess that just makes it emblematic of Voidburger's existence.

 

[BlueChan]

What is it with these idiots and Hitbox? That site bombed so hard that it's getting bought out and crumpled into some other shitty streaming service just to keep it afloat. The only reason anyone used it is because they were too boring and unfunny to make it on Twitch so they accepted Hitbox's desperate offer of vast privileges to anyone willing to stream there.

You'd expect anyone into streaming as a job would seek constant growth on a better service rather than stagnation in a dead-end hole, but I guess that just makes it emblematic of Voidburger's existence.

This got mentioned a while back; her premium partnership (which requires her to exclusively stream there for its duration) is almost up, and she's looking to get back into Twitch.

 

[Yaoi Zowie]

Certainly didn't expect any of that.


On a lighter note, Void's apparently feeling better:
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EDIT: Looks like she also blanked her Imgur account very recently.

Yo, I appreciate the work you do but maybe cool it with the liveblogging a bit aside from actually funny shit. If I wanted to know whether Void had the sniffles I'd follow her Twitter. Just IMO, people can tell me off for backseat modding if they'd like.

 

[BlueChan]

Yo, I appreciate the work you do but maybe cool it with the liveblogging a bit aside from actually funny shit. If I wanted to know whether Void had the sniffles I'd follow her Twitter.

I definitely get where you're coming from, but part of the reason I'm doing this is because her Twitter's protected. If it weren't I probably wouldn't have given it much mention.

That said, I'll keep it in mind when I post next.

 

[PLB]

The reason a lot of the SA lpers Started streaming on hitbox was because it didnt have the 40 second delay twitch had, seeming as most of them were trying to deliver content to an already existing audience basically as a fun side thing they would do occasionally that was at least the reason in 2013/14 but that was back when people were only just starting to get into the making money from lps thing and i have no reason why void is still there when issues with twitch were sorted out.

Edit: As a personal thing i actually enjoyed voids nightmare before christmas: oogies revenge LP(which also had Robert as a guest commentator) but im not willing to go back and try to rewatch it, im happier to live in ignorance in this case, the Lp also had some help from more talented people like kc Green who made the banner and alex rosetti who made some music

https://soundcloud.com/https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Falbatrosssoup%2Fnice-work-bone-daddy

Also im not sure but i think void has been trying to learn japanese for longer than the past few months she traveled to japan at least once about 6 or so months before she moved in with chip and was speaking some japanese then so she might be trying to expand what she knows or just learning to read japanese.

I will probably dump some of the more cringey aspects of six feats under(ironicus's RPG podcast thing) tomorrow.

 

[RJ MacReady]

I definitely get where you're coming from, but part of the reason I'm doing this is because her Twitter's protected. If it weren't I probably wouldn't have given it much mention.

That said, I'll keep it in mind when I post next.

You get salt out of idiots like Voidburger by laughing at their stupidity and criticising them when they say dumb shit, not by obsessing over trivial Twitter bullshit and validating their victim complex.

 

[BlueChan]

You get salt out of idiots like Voidburger by laughing at their stupidity and criticising them when they say dumb shit, not by obsessing over trivial Twitter bullshit and validating their victim complex.

That is very true. Apologies.

...but of course, as soon as this comes up, a flood of people on Twitter start congratulating her for something.

(This is just a small portion of the responses; pretty much all of them are like this.)
I'm guessing she's doing something for a game, given the middle tweet.

EDIT 2: Turns out it was Void asking others to post vague "congratulations!" for an "experiment".

EDIT: Gonna put some more shit under a spoiler.

Spoiler: Outdated speculation (& some more caps)

So, part of me was suspecting it was related to the Farms in some fashion, but it seemed unreasonable.

Until:

But it could be a lot of things, honestly. The few replies that give any context don't cohesively hint at anything (though, again, the above comment is suspicious).

...And then there's the slight possibility that this is a joke where everyone responds in a seemingly happy fashion when the actual tweet is meaningless. It seems far-off, but I've seen a couple people start up chains of replies where they seem offended, but the original tweet is some dumb picture accompanied by "reply to this and act like you're offended, lol".

I'm not gonna lie - these sorts of replies make me incredibly curious. (, I know.)

And finally, another crossover:

 

[Meowthkip]

More Voidburger stuff. I found some interesting things.

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Education: The Maryland Institute College of Art 2006 – 2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Blogspot (Art): http://jessicaobrienart.blogspot.com/ (http://archive.is/bZm0q) (Most of the artwork and links are dead)
Blogspot (Bio): http://jessicaobrienbio.blogspot.com/ (http://archive.is/uj4kV)
BrandYourself: http://jessica-obrien.brandyourself.com/ (http://archive.is/GHSdt)
Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/Jessica-OBrien (http://archive.is/6MpuO)
Google+: https://plus.google.com/102843728003533469228 (http://archive.is/bReKE)
LinkedIn (dead): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jessica-o-brien/49/50a/8b0
Personal Website (dead): http://jessica-obrien.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20130703030111/http://jessica-obrien.com)

Example of artwork:

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http://projectable.tumblr.com/post/37835109637/jessica-obrien-httpjessica-obriencom-did-it (http://archive.is/rcqQH)
http://dchote.tumblr.com/post/35220227622/i-had-these-2-avatars-commissioned-by-jessica (http://archive.is/1oRaC)

Google Cached Facebook page: https://webcache.googleusercontent....10208286302499983:0+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I found this interesting. She was connected to Ryan Lanza (Adam Lanza's brother). Her name came up a bunch when the media erroneously reported Ryan Lanza as the Sandy Hook shooter. She had responded to Ryan's denial of being the shooter on Facebook.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...iginal_reports_of_newtown_school_shooter.html (http://archive.is/ajSVF)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...e43c82-4637-11e2-9648-a2c323a991d6_story.html (http://archive.is/nxWxl)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...Adam-Lanza-a-fiercely-intelligent-killer.html (http://archive.is/NLeVB)

These conspiracy theorists found her now-deactivated Facebook and her now-dead website. However, she was not Ryan's girlfriend, like they believe (her then-boyfriend was the other roommate).
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2118334/pg1 (http://archive.is/k9TrB)

Initially, I wondered if all this was about a different Jessica O'Brien, but a WhitePages search confirms that she did indeed live with Ryan Lanza (her then-boyfriend wasn't Matthew Strait if anyone was curious).

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https://premium.whitepages.com/resu...k_button_params_all&wp_source=address_results (http://archive.is/GjQJP)

Oh dang, she went to MICA? I'm right near there. I know quite a few people that are students or graduates.

Interesting...

 

[BlueSpark]

these sorts of replies make me incredibly curious.

Odds are good that the original tweet was something like "everyone reply to this like it's something really interesting to troll my evil harassers that are blocked from seeing my tweets!"

 

[BlueChan]

Odds are good that the original tweet was something like "everyone reply to this like it's something really interesting to troll my evil harassers that are blocked from seeing my tweets!"

I wouldn't be too surprised.

Spoiler: Seriously these replies are cryptic

EDIT: That said, keep in mind a massive amount of people responded with congratulations, which leads me to believe that this is more likely a legitimate thing.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Seems to me like it's a reaction to something she said on stream. Just match the time of the tweets to the VOD.

 

[BB 876]

Out of the 8k follows she has no one is hiding out in there anymore? I'm going to guess she's not letting anyone new in.

After all those congrats do you think she got big girl job or got a massive donation or something?

 

[BlueChan]

Seems to me like it's a reaction to something she said on stream. Just match the time of the tweets to the VOD.

This started after she was done streaming (I believe), and all the responses appear to be in reply to a tweet. (Mobile Twitter indicates this by displaying a gap where the protected tweet should be for a split second while everything loads.)

Also, for some odd reason she had two VODs from March 12th up on Hitbox, but took them down today. (I backed up both of them on YouTube out of curiosity of whether she mentioned us or not, but they appear to be shorter than Hitbox's previews initially said. Either a glitch or the program I used fucked up. Oh well.)

EDIT: It was due to technical issues.

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Out of the 8k follows she has no one is hiding out in there anymore? I'm going to guess she's not letting anyone new in.

After all those congrats do you think she got big girl job or got a massive donation or something?

I'm not sure where @DONGS.EXE went off to, now that I think about it...

Also, after finding this tweet:

The most likely occurrence is that she managed to land an editing job. (It fits with all the "I knew you could do it!" comments beforehand, at least.)
EDIT: I was totally wrong.

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This guy's tweet was referring to the above technical issues she mentioned.

Finally, one-half of an exchange that is rather illuminating:

1. Void's fans tend to flagellate themselves whenever they displace Jessica the God-Empress, it seems
2. She actually deleted the broken image in question... but not the several under the patron rewards section. Lol
3. Void seems to be suspicious of non-traditional image sites - something that she's held for a while, given this old ask.fm question:

4. Most strikingly, she appears to be forcing her followers to not give away anything out of fear that the dang dirty Kiwis will discover it (if this guy's butchering of "Illegitimi non carborundum"/"Don't let the bastards grind you down" is anything to judge from).

EDIT: Also, regarding this post:

Blogspot (Art): http://jessicaobrienart.blogspot.com/ (http://archive.is/bZm0q) (Most of the artwork and links are dead)
Blogspot (Bio): http://jessicaobrienbio.blogspot.com/ (http://archive.is/uj4kV)
BrandYourself: http://jessica-obrien.brandyourself.com/ (http://archive.is/GHSdt)
Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/Jessica-OBrien (http://archive.is/6MpuO)
Google+: https://plus.google.com/102843728003533469228 (http://archive.is/bReKE)
LinkedIn (dead): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jessica-o-brien/49/50a/8b0
Personal Website (dead): http://jessica-obrien.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20130703030111/http://jessica-obrien.com)

Every one of those links have been deleted (if they weren't deleted before). Seems she wants to cover her tracks, apparently unaware of/denying/not caring about the archives.

 

[Cyber Bowling]

Out of the 8k follows she has no one is hiding out in there anymore? I'm going to guess she's not letting anyone new in.

After all those congrats do you think she got big girl job or got a massive donation or something?

Oh hey, I'm apparently still able to view her posts. The "congrats" one was her fucking with us. The editing thing was about fixing an audio sync issue for a stream.

There wasn't really anything else of interest, but I honestly didn't go that far back. She was apparently legitimately sick, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was just a lazy excuse to skimp out on streaming again or something.

*Quick edit*

Looked back to the post where she talked about going private, didn't see anything of note/cow worthy.

 

[BlueChan]

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Somehow I'm not surprised.

 

[Cyber Bowling]

Honestly, I find it pretty funny that her grand plan was to make us think something positive happened in her life instead of, you know, going out and actually doing something positive for real. Like, what is she thinking right now? "Ha, jokes on them, they thought I could actually find a job!"

 

[BlueChan]

Honestly, I find it pretty funny that her grand plan was to make us think something positive happened in her life instead of, you know, going out and doing something positive. Like, what is she thinking right now? "Ha, jokes on them, they thought I could actually find a job!"

I can only assume it's something like this: