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

[UCHUBomb]

I recall in their LP of Metal Gear 2, Ironicus quipped that the boss fight between Snake and Gray Fox was like watching two retards fight. That's probably what he was referring to.

EDIT: Here it is, from part 4 of their side LP of MG2, which I think they did during MGS3 if I'm not mistaken. Ironicus drops the retard slur at 4:40 :

 

[BlueSpark]

I'm not entirely sure if that was a joke

It almost certainly wasn't, Ironicus is a far-left lunatic.

 

[OwO What's This?]

I recall in their LP of Metal Gear 2, Ironicus quipped that the boss fight between Snake and Gray Fox was like watching two exceptional individuals fight. That's probably what he was referring to.

EDIT: Here it is, from part 4 of their side LP of MG2, which I think they did during MGS3 if I'm not mistaken. Ironicus drops the exceptional individual slur at 4:40 :

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[Soyicidal Tendencies]

It's cute but there's what's odd to me is that they said they wish they could edit their MGS3 playthrough because it had a large amount of "ableist" jokes. I remember watching said playthrough a while back and for the life of me I simply cannot remember any of those jokes, nor what context would spur them. All I can recall is that they had a running theme of making Snake act like a caveman, which I doubt would offend any cavemen who decided to break out of some permafrost to watch a Youtube let's play. The only other context I can think of is when Snake's eye gets shot, maybe they may have made a joke or two, but I don't remember anything of that sort.

The best explanation I can imagine is that perhaps Voidburger complained at Chip to take down that entire playthrough because she interpreted caveman Snake as being mentally disabled, and that was Chip's compromise. Otherwise there's something I'm missing.

They probably threw around a couple "retarded"s here and there because everyone did at the time, but I'm surprised he calls out specifically the MGS3 LP as the one to edit when VoidBurger straight up drops a "nigga" in the first 20 seconds of a MGS1 video. In fact, why stop at just editing that one out? Just edit out all her commentary so it becomes a watchable LP like the other MGS ones.

 

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They probably threw around a couple "exceptional"s here and there because everyone did at the time, but I'm surprised he calls out specifically the MGS3 LP as the one to edit when VoidBurger straight up drops a "nigga" in the first 20 seconds of a MGS1 video. In fact, why stop at just editing that one out? Just edit out all her commentary so it becomes a watchable LP like the other MGS ones.

While we're talking about it, Voidburger does drag down the MGS1 videos a lot. The audio quality on the commentary is bad and Voidburger in particular has really scratchy audio that spikes easily because of the pitch of her voice, although Chip also peaks now and then because his voice is rather nasal. But the biggest reason the MGS1 videos are so bland is because Voidburger's commentary is very dry and flat, and the two have no chemistry together, at least in terms of doing voice-overs that are entertaining to a viewer.

To be fair, though, the MGS2 playthrough is also dry and flat. But that's because the game itself drones on and on with unending cutscenes and expositional dialogue. It has multiple high points, though, just because of how absurd the cutscenes are; things like the game's setting blowing up, Chip editing the name that appears on the dog tags, celebrating a random soldiers birthday, and so on. But I can't think of a single memorable thing from the MGS1 playthrough.

 

[Whelp_Bai]

I used to watch voidburger every so often. I remember on one lp with Chip she casually mentioned how her dad thought he was gay when they first met. Why the fuck would bring that up to the entire internet? Does she get off humiliating him or what?

 

[Death of a Waifu]

Hi, I debated making this post for awhile but I'd like to chime in, since I came across this while lurking the farms. I understand I'm being an attention whore and this ultimately may not even be necessary, but I wanted to express my gratitude for the thread.

I'm the inactive TripleWipe45 mentioned in the OP. I can provide proof if need be. I'll keep this short and succinct: I realized I was a batshit crazy SJW alienating everyone, that what was said about me was 1) generally true, and 2) was my own fault, so I ditched my crazy SJW friends, stopped the polyamory bullshit, deleted my social media accounts, made new friends, and I am currently in therapy. I don't give a shit about the people I used to obsessively call out. I keep to myself, generally.

This thread and what was mentioned in it was very helpful for collecting my memories on events pertaining to me (although some specific details were wrong, it doesn't ultimately matter). So I guess this is a thank you for cataloging what I did and putting it at the beginning of the thread. It wasn't okay, and I definitely deserved to be given a "holy shit" tagline. It has helped with my therapy.

Even though no one cares about him anymore, just in case anyone was curious about the old drama, here's a tidbit regarding DJB: I previously blamed him entirely for my actions of hunting down people to "correct" their behavior, but it was a mixture of pressure from him, and the high I got from feeding into my psychotic, delusional beliefs that I was the ultimate SJW. I am diagnosed autistic (got them papers and everything), so I am ridiculously gullible and thought Tumblr was gospel on how to treat others (combined with my lack of social skills from staying inside and doing nothing productive with my life because I could get away with it).

DJB was a weirdo in that he would show me his dick without my consent and would coerce me into cybersex, but it definitely wasn't uwu internet rape. He was just horny creep and fed into my delusions, and it created a slurry of crazy that was too much even for the other SA people. I ultimately wanted acceptance and belonging, and I couldn't see that all the drama and everything happening to me was my own fault.

I plan on continuing to lurk the farms and keep to myself, but when I feel grateful for something, I struggle to shut up. That's all I've got. Thanks again, and keep doing your thing.

 

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Hi, I debated making this post for awhile but I'd like to chime in, since I came across this while lurking the farms. I understand I'm being an attention whore and this ultimately may not even be necessary, but I wanted to express my gratitude for the thread.

I'm the inactive TripleWipe45 mentioned in the OP. I can provide proof if need be. I'll keep this short and succinct: I realized I was a batshit crazy SJW alienating everyone, that what was said about me was 1) generally true, and 2) was my own fault, so I ditched my crazy SJW friends, stopped the polyamory bullshit, deleted my social media accounts, made new friends, and I am currently in therapy. I don't give a shit about the people I used to obsessively call out. I keep to myself, generally.

This thread and what was mentioned in it was very helpful for collecting my memories on events pertaining to me (although some specific details were wrong, it doesn't ultimately matter). So I guess this is a thank you for cataloging what I did and putting it at the beginning of the thread. It wasn't okay, and I definitely deserved to be given a "holy shit" tagline. It has helped with my therapy.

Even though no one cares about him anymore, just in case anyone was curious about the old drama, here's a tidbit regarding DJB: I previously blamed him entirely for my actions of hunting down people to "correct" their behavior, but it was a mixture of pressure from him, and the high I got from feeding into my psychotic, delusional beliefs that I was the ultimate SJW. I am diagnosed autistic (got them papers and everything), so I am ridiculously gullible and thought Tumblr was gospel on how to treat others (combined with my lack of social skills from staying inside and doing nothing productive with my life because I could get away with it).

DJB was a weirdo in that he would show me his dick without my consent and would coerce me into cybersex, but it definitely wasn't uwu internet rape. He was just horny creep and fed into my delusions, and it created a slurry of crazy that was too much even for the other SA people. I ultimately wanted acceptance and belonging, and I couldn't see that all the drama and everything happening to me was my own fault.

I plan on continuing to lurk the farms and keep to myself, but when I feel grateful for something, I struggle to shut up. That's all I've got. Thanks again, and keep doing your thing.

It would be good if you can just verify yourself. Easiest way is to make a quick tweet on your Twitter, archiving it here, posting the link, then deleting the original tweet if you don't want to draw attention to yourself.

 

[Death of a Waifu]

It would be good if you can just verify yourself. Easiest way is to make a quick tweet on your Twitter, archiving it here, posting the link, then deleting the original tweet if you don't want to draw attention to yourself.

Unfortunately I don't have access to any accounts at the moment, but I'll try to see if I can crack them open to verify myself.

Edit: I had my Youtube channel at the very least, so I posted a comment there.

 

[Mooty Mooty Mooty]

Are there any good LPers anymore? Any LP forums other than SA? You can count the amount of SA lpers that aren't SJWs on one hand.

 

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Are there any good LPers anymore? Any LP forums other than SA? You can count the amount of SA lpers that aren't SJWs on one hand.

Anybody who's good at doing live LPs are just streamers now (obviously), and anybody who does good edited LPs have actually taken off as somewhat notable Youtubers or have rebranded as a "walkthrough" channel. As far as I'm aware, at least.

 

[Mooty Mooty Mooty]

Anybody who's good at doing live LPs are just streamers now (obviously), and anybody who does good edited LPs have actually taken off as somewhat notable Youtubers or have rebranded as a "walkthrough" channel. As far as I'm aware, at least.

And now you have what are almost edited LPs that cut out the fat, whatever want to call them, like Civvie 11's videos. The one thing that seems to be missing is the highly informative LPs/walkthroughs. There were a fair few on SA a decade ago.

 

[Rotollo]

Are there any good LPers anymore? Any LP forums other than SA? You can count the amount of SA lpers that aren't SJWs on one hand.

The only good one I think who still does lets plays is Chuggaconroy and that's mostly because his style of humor and editing wouldn't work in a non long term series format, everything else is as _01 said.

 

[Manah]

Anybody who's good at doing live LPs are just streamers now (obviously), and anybody who does good edited LPs have actually taken off as somewhat notable Youtubers or have rebranded as a "walkthrough" channel. As far as I'm aware, at least.

I think Chip Cheezum is still fine when he does stuff. What I saw of his Metal Gear Solid 5 LP was good at least.

 

[Poop A Loop]

Super great friend still does good informative LPs. I've been searching for more LP'ers like him because his style is more low-key and informative rather than high energy.

 

[ProfDongs]

Super great friend still does good informative LPs. I've been searching for more LP'ers like him because his style is more low-key and informative rather than high energy.

SGF is the only SA LPer that I'll watch anymore as he is the only one that hasn't gone visibly insane in his videos or try to completely alienate his audience by talking about not video games. Usually when he plays a game you get to actually see everything in the game, and he's not terrible at playing games either so it's not an unfunny slog.

 

[0 0]

Oh, and isn't there a new LP forum which is its own website that branched off from SA? I believe Chip Cheezum used it.

Then again, I also recall it requiring you put trigger warnings in the OPs according to somebody here.

 

[Tonberry]

Niggurath / Iconoclast187 is also great at doing low-energy, informative LPs that are perfect to listen to while you're doing something else. And like SGF, he often covers obscure horror games you're not likely to find anywhere else.

A couple of weeks ago I ended up stumbling upon CarcinogenSDA's channel, and he seems pretty good at scratching that itch, too. The games he picks are usually more popular, and he alternates between speedruns and perfect / no damage 100% runs.

 

[Mooty Mooty Mooty]

Niggurath / Iconoclast187 is also great at doing low-energy, informative LPs that are perfect to listen to while you're doing something else. And like SGF, he often covers obscure horror games you're not likely to find anywhere else.

A couple of weeks ago I ended up stumbling upon CarcinogenSDA's channel, and he seems pretty good at scratching that itch, too. The games he picks are usually more popular, and he alternates between speedruns and perfect / no damage 100% runs.

I enjoy Niggurath / Iconoclast187 as well, I recall he would often get comments from other SAers that were pissed off because someone more interesting than him should of LPed the game instead of him and that his stuff was very vanilla.

I started watching CarcinogenSDA's RE7 run and it is very entertaining, there is something great about seeing someone master a game and breeze through areas you struggled with.

One thing that boggles my mind when I check out the SA LP forums is how big screen shot LPs are still. I loath them. They work okay for the odd game where nothing is lost in translation like Zork 1-3 (techically just a text LP but the only games I could think of). Even something like Rogue or Dwarf fortress I find hard to follow if it is LPed via screenshot. And you miss out on the games music, sound effects, animations, etc. The only people they benefit are self insert fanfic writers.

 

[BlueSpark]

Oh, and isn't there a new LP forum which is its own website that branched off from SA? I believe Chip Cheezum used it.

Then again, I also recall it requiring you put trigger warnings in the OPs according to somebody here.

It's called the LP Zone. There's still a small number of posters active there:

Let's Play Zone

Let's Play creation/appreciation station.

www.lp.zone