Weird to see Beef and Betus doing something together again.
I hate to see commies erasing history, how much internet content from the 2000's is going to be destroyed in the next decade, all the old LPs and more gone, like tears in rain.
It's not
just due to sacrifices on the altar of flavor-of-the-month purity that we've lost some of the classic content; rather, in most cases it's just plain old internet rot. In just the official LP Archive alone, how many old series have had content fade into the mists of memory due to only being posted on blip or viddler or some other dead gay video website?
I know for a damn fact Let's Break Pokemon Blue had all of its video links on viddler before it went belly-up, and those were informative and intriguing by sheer dint of showcasing just how much of a flaming plate of spaghetti that game was. The Freelance Astronaut's
entire site is fucking
gone outside of the Wayback Machine, and since their shit was all over the place, a good half of their content was on now-defunct video hosts, and a significant chunk of what wasn't is either buried somewhere in a forgotten corner of Dailymotion, or was once on - and has since been nuked off of - Youtube.
Screenshot LPs are somewhat better off, being hosted on the archive itself, but Tindeck is fucking dead, rendering quick access to game soundtracks from screenshot LPs broken, alongside any extra content that was made by the player and/or thread, for better or worse.
Of course, none of this is even touching the fact that the quality of the archive's more recent entries, much like the quality of those creating them, has long since passed its zenith. And this is just on the "official" LP Archive, mind you - not counting things like SS LPs that had been made on places like Livejournal (I read a nice one on the indie game
Iji several forevers ago), or ones made for specific fora; succession games for older 4X titles, or exposés about smaller indie games that were a pain in several asses to run on then-modern machines. I've followed links to try and see some of that for myself, only to find posts chock full of broken Photobucket links that probably expired several years ago.
So much of that is merely a casualty of the transient nature of the internet, and it's more depressing than I like to admit.