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Neo_Crimson posted:When I found this thread, I was astonished there were threads about YT Lpers at all much less the ones I really liked. Back then the hard rule was "there was nothing of value to be found outside SA's hallowed gates, absolutely none". Haha what's really funny about my own post about this is I forgot I literally discovered SBFP through Woolie and Pat appearing on the retsupurae podcast back in like...2014? I remember having it on driving home from visiting family out of state and thinking "wow I should check them out, these guys are funny and sound legit passionate about games" in a way I had never, ever heard before 
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It sucks that retsupurae just became kind of infeasible after a while thanks to the rise of internet detective shitheads. After a while slowbeef and diabeetus started doing as much as they could to obscure the actual youtuber's identity and people still kept on finding them and harassing them, which put a huge damper on the desire to keep making them if I remember right.
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May 11, 2021 17:08
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I think it was inevitable that something like Retsupurae would result in harassment. That said, some of their best stuff came after they stopped mocking Let's Plays and started focusing on making fun of games instead so I'm not too torn up about them stopping.
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May 11, 2021 17:33
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The long play stuff was always the best part of Retsupurae, hands down.
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May 11, 2021 17:36
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the two best things slowbeef ever did were the justin bailey super metroid mod with rotating guests, and the 1CC run of Alien Soldier he did live for a very impressed Woolie, which had one of the most hype endings to the run imaginable. Def recommend tracking down the latter if you've never seen it!
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May 11, 2021 17:43
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beep by grandpa posted:Haha what's really funny about my own post about this is I forgot I literally discovered SBFP through Woolie and Pat appearing on the retsupurae podcast back in like...2014? I remember having it on driving home from visiting family out of state and thinking "wow I should check them out, these guys are funny and sound legit passionate about games" in a way I had never, ever heard before That was how I discovered them, too. Retsutalk was a really good podcast in general. I'd love if Beef could go on Superbeast.
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May 11, 2021 17:55
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I remember the episode Pat was on and was talking about DSP, and it was the smartest and most eloquent he ever sounded, before and since.
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May 11, 2021 17:57
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Neo_Crimson posted:I remember the episode Pat was on and was talking about DSP, and it was the smartest and most eloquent he ever sound sounded, before and since. You just reminded me of how horrifyingly alien and professional Pat sounds on his episodes of Did You Know Gaming 
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May 11, 2021 18:03
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May 11, 2021 18:36
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As funny as it is, that statement's pretty true. Almost everything else was hitting the ground hard for a while, while every MK was still selling and somehow selling more each time.
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The best part of Retsupurae was always the ElectricalBeast videos beep by grandpa posted:You just reminded me of how horrifyingly alien and professional Pat sounds on his episodes of Did You Know Gaming Pat did a DYKG???
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May 11, 2021 19:05
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Bonaventure posted:a big ingredient in what made SBFP good was their enthusiasm and engagement with the games. i gave oneyplays a shot since at least they have the energy; i found them not very funny but more than anything what bothered me is, like, they barely seemed to acknowledge a game was being played and then only for one of them to be like "dude... what the gently caress are you playing? what the gently caress is ... this...?" it felt like they were forcing a lot of humor just to stop themselves from being bored, never mind the audience. psychicpebbles is the real star of oneyplays and he shines regardless of environment, which yeah kinda makes the game take a backseat to whatever deranged thing he's going on about at any given time The recent reunion series Chris did with Julian and dingdong has been great and has that older LP feel, Bart's Nightmare and YIIK especially, so those come highly recommended if you ever want to give them another go. That said I totally understand why folks don't like them.
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MorningMoon posted:The best part of Retsupurae was always the ElectricalBeast videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-IQ_1Ws7n4 Hearing pat speak in his professional voice is scarier than silent hill.
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Yardbomb posted:As funny as it is, that statement's pretty true. Almost everything else was hitting the ground hard for a while, while every MK was still selling and somehow selling more each time. this was the same era where tekken was on television in korea and toushinsai was a ppv event that's right, people paid money to watch high level hokuto no ken in arenas in other words: Mortal Kombat kept fighting games alive if and only if you are looking at the US, Canada and Western Europe.
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Zinkraptor posted:I think it was inevitable that something like Retsupurae would result in harassment. That said, some of their best stuff came after they stopped mocking Let's Plays and started focusing on making fun of games instead so I'm not too torn up about them stopping. The best retsupraes were when the person was odd but endearing. Like "the jolteon??? of lets plays" or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdDRkQLOds MorningMoon posted:The best part of Retsupurae was always the ElectricalBeast videos oh lol someone beat me to the first part.
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May 11, 2021 19:28
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it's super hosed up to me that electrical beast no longer lives in england he got married and moved to washington
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Smoking Crow posted:it's super hosed up to me that electrical beast no longer lives in england england is wherever electricalbeast is
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My favorite Retsupurae videos were generally the ones where they picked on mean or disingenuous people, or had a positive vibe (like Electrical Beast or Cornshaq). This was probably my favorite mean-spirited one because the entertainment is derived from the guy being the worst kind of trend-hopper at the time: D A I L Y * V L O G S
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Other than a few standouts like ElectricalBeast and Musclebomber2021, Retsupurae always felt overly mean-spirited to me. I never really could get into them.  EDIT: Oh, Gaming in the Clinton Years was amazing, can't forget about that.
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Smoking Crow posted:this was the same era where tekken was on television in korea and toushinsai was a ppv event I mean to a part it was mainly in the framing of like "In the time of home release getting more" where ports were coming out screwed up in some way semi-regularly, while asia's always gonna be the anomaly in fighting game stuff a lot of the time thanks to still having such a healthy arcade culture and stuff, while virtually everywhere else has seen their arcades and community centers choked out entirely except for like, the rare mall arcades still scraping by and the big community supported known name ones.
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oh god i'm turning into dust. part of the electricalbeast saga was that he lost all his mario 64 save data... then years later he managed to finally finish his let's play as a huge surprise. that was almost eleven years ago gently caress.
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Sir Ron Lionheart was a wholesome treasure to find back then, even if he did turn out to be a vampire.
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Smoking Crow posted:it's super hosed up to me that electrical beast no longer lives in england I’d say ‘lucky’ for escaping but he went to richer UK only with no healthcare and more religion A land of contrasts
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People willingly moving to the US without being a millionaire or something beforehand always boggles my mind, gently caress this place man, don't come here.
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Yardbomb posted:People willingly moving to the US without being a millionaire or something beforehand always boggles my mind, gently caress this place man, don't come here.
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May 12, 2021 16:48
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And then you take one bad spill and are bankrupt forever.
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looollll Woolie got to one of the bits where DE calls you out if you're being a coward centrist and got really butt hurt i don't know why i expected better
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Yardbomb posted:People willingly moving to the US without being a millionaire or something beforehand always boggles my mind, gently caress this place man, don't come here. Still better and easier to get to than a lot of other first-world countries. Source: immigrant family
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Better is an extreme citation needed but easier sure I guess lol
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To clarify, better in this case means against third-world countries and easier means against Europe, Canada, or Australia etc.
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I left America for a living wage in China
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Regarde Aduck posted:I’d say ‘lucky’ for escaping but he went to richer UK only with no healthcare and more religion electrical beast fell in love with a woman from the us and now lives in a big house next to a nature park he's doing better than all of us
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Smoking Crow posted:electrical beast fell in love with a woman from the us and now lives in a big house next to a nature park Something about this is warming the gently caress outta my heart
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Roach Warehouse posted:RE:8's release has really highlighted that I've not discovered anyone who fills the same viewing niche for me that the old best friends channel did. Former forums superstar Supergreatfriend.
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while i heartily endorse SGF, there's not a lot of banter to be had in his streams since he does things exclusively solo
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I've been kinda lacking a good regular LP experience also lately.. like I still watch pat sometimes, woolie a bit (but i usually wait until he's done with something because sometimes he just takes loving forever), a guy called CohhCarnage (streamer, great guy but sometimes a bit too much chat interaction / distraction).. also watch the GameGrumps a good bit but their entertainment is 90% banter 10% game - works best when they do 2p stuff like wheel of fortune or mario party SGF is great if a bit dry sometimes and he plays a lot of real wierd poo poo I'm not interested in. Chip Cheezum's another good old forum guy but he works a regular job so its like 1 vid a week, still hasn't finished his FF7 remake playthrough
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a cartoon duck posted:while i heartily endorse SGF, there's not a lot of banter to be had in his streams since he does things exclusively solo His fan base is also incredibly insufferable so looking in chat might cause your eyes to roll out of your head. (This has nothing to do with anything SGF's great I just don't like how he seems to attract people who are terminally afflicted with Cinemasins brain and seem incapable of actually engaging with anything.)
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it feels like it's getting a little harder to find people who did that short episodes stye SBFP did because it's not really feasible to make money unless you're the game grumps apparently. Long videos or just streaming seem to be much bigger hits. I really enjoy Continue? who have been around forever. They mostly do single episodes of a game where they laugh and shoot the poo poo over it, though they do have some series where they complete things together as well. I also really like Supermega but they seem like they're winding down as far as lping things goes and branching out into doing other stuff. Both of those are really bantery and fun. For solo people it gets tougher because streaming really seems to be the preferred format for it. People like Vinny and Joel from Vinesauce are both really funny but they're bound by long vods and occasional chat interaction (granted both have way less downtime in their streams than someone like Pat or Woolie and are way better at keeping stuff engaging). John Wolfe/HarshlyCritical is pretty good if you like horror games but he's a little more analytical than bantery. JOSEPH SAMOAN fucked around with this message at 01:24 on May 13, 2021 |
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