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

[Aquinas]

So whats going on with that LP forum?

 

[Terror Rism]

So whats going on with that LP forum?

Spoiler

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[CrayolaFuckinModelMagic]

Who cares? They're Something Awful goons who play games for money, they're pretty much lolcows by default.

That very much is true, but they were entertaining largely because of their disdain for the sell outs. Like what many here are echoing, it's less the fact that they're making money (we all have to survive somehow, sure) and more that they're throwing their lot in with a Minecraft clone. This is why people were under the assumption that it might be a hoax, along with that bizarre attempt at humor on Slowbeef's part including his child. It's self-aware in the worst possible way.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

That very much is true, but they were entertaining largely because of their disdain for the sell outs

Exactly, it's just the naked hypocrisy that's so funny. Knocking the sell-outs was the right thing to do because selling out makes you a tool, man... at least, it was the right thing to do when taking that stance looked safe because no one saw any real possibility of money there anyway. Now that it looks like selling out has a leg to stand on, the pigs have scented the truffles and boom, instant amnesia of their previously prided position.

I also think it's worth considering that most of these LPers are within a certain age range: a lot of the big names like Chip, Voidburger, Runbutton, etc. started doing all of this when they were in high school, and continued on through their time at university(which is also not adulthood). So that's four, five, six or so years during which they can dink around making videos because they don't have bills to pay yet, and being passive rather than active about their "careers" is still acceptable because you don't have to fight to climb the corporate ladder, you just have to get a passing grade in your class, and accomplishing the next stage of life is just a matter of waiting to graduate. Well, now those people are in their mid 20's to early 30's, and I think it's started to weigh on their shoulders that no one is going to hand them another promotion or graduation or even a paycheck just because they sit at a school desk and don't fuck up too much; couple that with possessing a virtually blank resume as you hit your fourth decade on earth for people like Voidburger and suddenly the winds change direction real fast. For all the talk hippies and ideologues give about the evils of capitalism, we clearly see that money makes their worlds go 'round and they know it.

In other words, just another example of what we already see too often: It's easy for coddled college kids to "take a stand" because they're living on free money and don't risk their own position on anything anyway. But they never learned what consequences feel like so the instant they see evidence that they're no longer guaranteed comfort and shelter for nothing, signaling the moral choice goes out the window because I've got bills to pay, man.

 

[AnOminous]

Exactly, it's just the naked hypocrisy that's so funny. Knocking the sell-outs was the right thing to do because selling out makes you a tool, man... at least, it was the right thing to do when taking that stance looked safe because no one saw any real possibility of money there anyway. Now that it looks like selling out has a leg to stand on, the pigs have scented the truffles and boom, instant amnesia of their previously prided position.

I don't get the ethical issue here at all. If you're doing something you like doing and for whatever reason people are also willing to give you money to do it, why not? What's wrong with that? If you douche it up with incessant begging and are a dick about it, that's a different issue.

 

[Aquinas]

Its just hipster goon mentality.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I don't get the ethical issue here at all. If you're doing something you like doing and for whatever reason people are also willing to give you money to do it, why not? What's wrong with that? If you douche it up with incessant begging and are a dick about it, that's a different issue.

For them, it's only wrong when someone they don't like does it. Much like racist/sexist attitudes.

 

[BlueSpark]

Master of satire, Slowbeef, puts out another video on recent events that is funny and not at all cringey and ironic:

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Exactly, it's just the naked hypocrisy that's so funny. Knocking the sell-outs was the right thing to do because selling out makes you a tool, man... at least, it was the right thing to do when taking that stance looked safe because no one saw any real possibility of money there anyway. Now that it looks like selling out has a leg to stand on, the pigs have scented the truffles and boom, instant amnesia of their previously prided position.

I also think it's worth considering that most of these LPers are within a certain age range: a lot of the big names like Chip, Voidburger, Runbutton, etc. started doing all of this when they were in high school, and continued on through their time at university(which is also not adulthood). So that's four, five, six or so years during which they can dink around making videos because they don't have bills to pay yet, and being passive rather than active about their "careers" is still acceptable because you don't have to fight to climb the corporate ladder, you just have to get a passing grade in your class, and accomplishing the next stage of life is just a matter of waiting to graduate. Well, now those people are in their mid 20's to early 30's, and I think it's started to weigh on their shoulders that no one is going to hand them another promotion or graduation or even a paycheck just because they sit at a school desk and don't fuck up too much; couple that with possessing a virtually blank resume as you hit your fourth decade on earth for people like Voidburger and suddenly the winds change direction real fast. For all the talk hippies and ideologues give about the evils of capitalism, we clearly see that money makes their worlds go 'round and they know it.

In other words, just another example of what we already see too often: It's easy for coddled college kids to "take a stand" because they're living on free money and don't risk their own position on anything anyway. But they never learned what consequences feel like so the instant they see evidence that they're no longer guaranteed comfort and shelter for nothing, signaling the moral choice goes out the window because I've got bills to pay, man.

You could still make a moral stand on playing games if you worked a real job as well and didn't rely on it for income, but I guess that doesn't occur to them.

 

[CrayolaFuckinModelMagic]

Master of satire, Slowbeef, puts out another video on recent events that is funny and not at all cringey and ironic:

See, I get what he's attempting to do with these videos. But it just doesn't work when he epitomizes the very thing he's trying to parody.

Now, I like Slowbeef, and I agree with the consensus that he isn't a cow. But I'm not so sure why he considers this odd new direction a good idea. Fans are going to drop off, current critics are going to feel vindicated - I just don't get what this is supposed to be from his standpoint.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

You could still make a moral stand on playing games if you worked a real job as well and didn't rely on it for income, but I guess that doesn't occur to them.

Watching LPers, and Maddox, and a bunch of others has taught me that there may be some big damn value to not relying on your art for a paycheck. Desperation makes monsters of the noblest ideologues.

 

[BlueSpark]

VoidBurger, who openly talks about wanting a military coup to violently remove Trump from power and who also supports Communism, virtue-signals her compassion by retweeting some blue tick retard:

VoidBurger, a mentally unstable, unemployed, unemployable reeetard, gives other morons advice on how to medicate their mental health issues using anti-allergy medication:

TieTuesday is another LP retard originating from SA, for anyone struggling to keep up them.

Also, I don't know anything about depression or medicine, but a Google search tells me that "Hydroxyzine" is reported as causing depression.
But who am I to question Doctor VoidBurger and Surgeon General TieTuesday. They seem like responsible enough people that you should take medical advice from them, just look at how well their lives are going.

 

[BlueChan]

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I like how this helps discredit her earlier claim that a good portion of the new pre-existing conditions were specific to women, and not curtailed from a much longer, more general list for the sake of Twitter's character limit and/or narrative-pushing.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Being cut off from whatever brain-boiling drug cocktail she's on would do Voidburger more good than bad. Most millennial shits like her overmedicated as fuck and won't admit this low-key enthusiasm for pill popping because of ideological pearl-clutching surrounding mental illness. They can call me back about Trumpcare "literally killing them" when they have leukemia or MS and not some bullshit anxiety disorder their GP leveraged to make commissions from a pharmaceutical company.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Anxiety and depression are very real things.

It's just... the avoidant way people like Voidburger want to deal with it is not.

She might need medication and she might not. I just wish people who admit they need help would stop assuming the worst about everyone not on their side.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Anxiety and depression are very real things.

It's just... the avoidant way people like Voidburger want to deal with it is not.

She might need medication and she might not. I just wish people who admit they need help would stop assuming the worst about everyone not on their side.

I think you missed my point, which is that Voidburger, etc. are very obviously hooked on powerful drugs for shit they don't clear the medical bar for. That's all too common. Anxiety is a recurring favourite of mine because they use it as a euphemism for social retardation or normal everyday stress and not for the life crippling disorder it actually is. My firsthand experiences with diagnosed anxiety disorder sufferers were sobering and disturbing - they couldn't step out their front door without imploding in panic. But American doctors tend to medicate anyone for any reason.

I also found the context here especially amusing and ironic. They rave about Trump being the death of them while gleefully benefiting from the US healthcare system's self-destructive relationship with prescription drugs.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Anxiety is a recurring favourite of mine because they use it as a euphemism for social exceptionalism or normal everyday stress and not for the life crippling disorder it actually is.

I get this, and agree with it completely. It wasn't my intention to impugn you, and I know these kind of people abuse a good system. I just think sometimes there's a grey area where people who need help with one thing get deluded to thinking their disorder should allot them carte blanche on any inconvenience.

It's definitely their own responsibility.

 

[RJ MacReady]

I get this, and agree with it completely. It wasn't my intention to impugn you, and I know these kind of people abuse a good system. I just think sometimes there's a grey area where people who need help with one thing get deluded to thinking their disorder should allot them carte blanche on any inconvenience.

It's definitely their own responsibility.

Mental illness has been integrated into progressive identity, and like any piece of identity politics ends up being used as a tool to save face and advance an appeal to authority. IOW, it's much easier to get attention and retweets and shield yourself from criticism when you can claim to be a personal victim of your ideological nemesis, hence someone on anti-anxiety meds claiming Trump is going to end their life. This fetishisation of the mentally ill is actually a more recent trend, so I've often wondered if straight white progressives just wanted an easier method of assuming a marginalised identity (and the consummate rhetorical benefits that brings) without being LGBT.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Desperation makes lolcows of the noblest ideologues.

Fixed.

 

[BuckBumble]

See, I get what he's attempting to do with these videos. But it just doesn't work when he epitomizes the very thing he's trying to parody.

Now, I like Slowbeef, and I agree with the consensus that he isn't a cow. But I'm not so sure why he considers this odd new direction a good idea. Fans are going to drop off, current critics are going to feel vindicated - I just don't get what this is supposed to be from his standpoint.

He doesn't care about that, his new Twitter and Twitch friends give him money! Why would he need all those old, stupid non-moneygiving people to be his fans?

Also lol at using his children so blatantly to shill. And yet I get the feeling no one idiots are gonna jump and accuse him of being a pedophile/abuser while censoring his name to slowbe*f.