What happened to Retsupurae? -

[eternal dog mongler]

The funny thing is I didn't really like them making fun of LPs that much, I mostly got into them when they started doing wrongpuraes and stupid flash games. Then they transitioned to doing wrongpuraes of old PC games like King's Quest and I started having mixed feelings, since a lot of the games they were covering were actually good.

The Earnest Evans one is genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen.

Riffing on longplays takes a lot of work though if you want to pull it off well. I imagine they just got tired of it.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Yeah, didn't they try to cancel him (Slowbeef) for saying retard (I think it was retard but it might have been something else like faggot) in one of his videos from 10 years ago and he had to publicly apologize? Would it even be fun anymore if they were just constantly self-policing themselves in case they said a bad no-no naughty word? And what would they even make? They can't make fun of Let's Players anymore because it would be "rude" or "cyberbullying" or whatever.
ChipCheezum privated all his old videos recently too. I'd say if there's anything you really like that's up on the Restupurae channel, maybe download it now, just in case that goes the same way one day.

Reminder that it was this video that got the ball rolling on This Is How You DON'T Play and shined a spotlight on Phil.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Reminder that it was this video that got the ball rolling on This Is How You DON'T Play and shined a spotlight on Phil.

Always a fun video to rewatch. It hurts to seehow DPS hasn't improved after all these years.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Early Retsupurae was an obsession of mine because I hated letsplays at the time for the quality control reasons so it was fun to see someone take the piss out of that shit.

Golden era was honestly around 2011-2013/2014 for me with some classic rongupraes.

 

[Enig]

To this day retsuprae is the closest I have to snes9x. The closest I have to watching actual LPs without being driven to boredom. The insane snes9x. The insane shit they dug snes9x. Insane shit they dug up is like a time capsule snes9x. The shit they dug up is like a pure time capsule of that magic snes9x. That magical time from 2007 to 2009 where any dipshit that knew how to run an emulator and had a spare rock band usb mic could try for fame snes9x. Weirdest snes9x. Snes9x. Weirdest thing is their vids might end up being the only archive of those snes9x. The only archive of those LPs online in the end.

Snes9x.

 

[CR4E]

Man I miss when Chip/Ironicus RPs and Retsupurae were both uploading regularly. Fuck culture wars for making it uncool to make fun of people online. We should be living in a golden age of RPs with all the talentless fucks on twitch.

Also special shout out to voidburger for ruining Chip.

 

[Moths]

Dont forget these guys had excellent content making fun of shitty kickstarters like that one faggot that was making a hyper realistic simcity clone who obsessed about bike paths

 

[Megaroad 2012]

voidburger

If I could name a tumor, it'd be voidburger.

How's her Tom Hulett Silent Hill defense force video series coming along by the way? I remember one retsupurae podcast with her on it with her yammering that she'd rather be in a world full of shitty SH games than the series to have ended on a high note if that gives you an insight into your consooooooomerism mindset.

 

[CR4E]

If I could name a tumor, it'd be voidburger.

How's her Tom Hulett Silent Hill defense force video series coming along by the way? I remember one retsupurae podcast with her on it with her yammering that she'd rather be in a world full of shitty SH games than the series to have ended on a high note if that gives you an insight into your consooooooomerism mindset.

You couldn't pay me to watch a voidburger video so I have no idea. She wasn't bad when she'd guest in RP/C&I RP videos because she'd focus on being funny instead of being progressive.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Remember that series when Retsupurae watched a shitty review series about 90's video games while impersonating Bill Clinton?

 

[Goyaanisqatsi]

Remember when that series when Retsupurae watched a shitty review series about 90's video games while impersonating Bill Clinton?

Gaming in the Clinton Years.

What a nostalgic treasure that is. Some out of touch guy that's not actually playing the games reviewing them and the discordant intro theme.

They don't make them like they used to, that's for sure.

 

[Enig]

Gaming in the Clinton Years.

What a nostalgic treasure that is. Some out of touch guy that's not actually playing the games reviewing them and the discordant intro theme.

They don't make them like they used to, that's for sure.

Funniest thing is how close they were the entire time to realizing they were just TV show clips made by the same people that made said TV show. Too distracted by George being a cosmos brain to connect all the dots it seems.

 

[Etrian Autistry]

I feel Slowbeef started self-censoring around the time he had his daughter, which in a sense I can understand because he might have wanted to set a better example for his kid by cooling off his online conduct, but I think he wound up going way too far up the trolls remorse pipeline, plus if his daughter ever searches him up she'll just find his most popular videos from the golden age anyways. The content has just steadily gone down in quality, with the last good series being the kickstarter review series, but Diabeetus completely carried that series on his back. Its sad to see Slowbeef being a husk of his former self.

Are there any of the old guard from back then who aren't husks, and still make good content? Or are we stuck with the old gold of yesteryear?

 

[Smug Chuckler]

I think the last funny thing is when they brought lowtax to their podcast where he made an ass out of himself and a lot of people thought he wasn't serious.

 

[GhostButt]

Didn't slowbeef and dsp have a feud over who invented let's plays first? Pretty sure that's where I first heard of phil.

Man this thread is full of great memories, what a fun era.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Didn't slowbeef and dsp have a feud over who invented let's plays first? Pretty sure that's where I first heard of phil.

Man this thread is full of great memories, what a fun era.

SA acted like LPs were their thing even though they had been around before slowbeef coined the term.

Also I remember them butting heads with Pewdiepie and the first red flags of them becoming PC were shown back in 2012.

oh god that title didn't age well considering the state of SA's LP community now.

Also they did take a shit on Nostalgia Critic's shitty AVGN spoof LP.

 

[GhostButt]

Also I remember them butting heads with Pewdiepie and the first red flags of them becoming PC were shown back in 2012.

This video is one of my favorites, I love how it aged, it is more 2 EDGY 4 U than pewdie ever was, god damn these kids just what else could you call them but GOONS.
Isn't there a thread on here on cursed SA meet up photos, I vaguely remember such a thing, maybe a twtter chain or hashtag, eitherway this video needs to be attached to that thread so it can be with it's other cringe brethren.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Also they did take a shit on Nostalgia Critic's shitty AVGN spoof LP.

Beef and Diabeetus felt bad about that one. Slowbeef said they felt like hired assassins to go after Doug's horrible video. I'm under the impression they personally apologized to Doug which, they really shouldn't have. His Bart's Nightmare video was horrible. So horrible it warranted a follow up response video where he acknowledges how bad it was. If anything, Doug should have been mocked more for his terrible videos and he may have course corrected and never create Demo Reel or go in the direction of adding terrible sketches to Nostalgia Critic videos.

 

[FriendlyPrimarina]

This is only tangentially related to RP but I always smile at the fact that Rifle Gaming (from "When you're here, you're family") is still around. His channel is doing decently and he has a family. Guess he did follow his dreams:

 

[skykiii]

To this day retsuprae is the closest I have to snes9x. The closest I have to watching actual LPs without being driven to boredom. The insane snes9x. The insane shit they dug snes9x. Insane shit they dug up is like a time capsule snes9x. The shit they dug up is like a pure time capsule of that magic snes9x. That magical time from 2007 to 2009 where any dipshit that knew how to run an emulator and had a spare rock band usb mic could try for fame snes9x. Weirdest snes9x. Snes9x. Weirdest thing is their vids might end up being the only archive of those snes9x. The only archive of those LPs online in the end.

Snes9x.

You are the best poster ever snes9x.

For the curious, it appears you can download a lot of Retsupurae from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/RetsupuraeVideos The "Torrent" option though seems to be just one zip file and some xmls, rather than the actual videos, but the zip seems to have individual videos. Probably better that way as Internet Archive torrents almost never have seeders in my experience. Fortunately I already have a large amount of retsupurae on an external HD (including a lot of the ones people here have directly referenced, like Bike Path City and the Nostalgia Critic one).

Just last night I was re-watching the video "Great Video Game Idea!" (That's from the Gaming in the Clinton Years series... its the one where the dude suggests making a game about Lara Croft having breast cancer). Even though I'd seen this one before it somehow was still so funny it gave me hiccups.

Damn, it feels like there really was a golden age of internet content. As much as we might make fun of people like Doug, Spoony, AVGN and even slowbeef now, there was a time when they genuinely lit up our lives (or at least my life). Now the internet sucks, everything is too serious, in large part thanks to the woke crowd, not to mention copyright cracking down on everything. It's like, you basically can't do anything fun anymore.

The only youtuber from the old days I still like is Markiplier, though I only like him when he's with his friends--there was a time I liked watching him play horror games but I got bored of that (Markiplier himself is still fun, its just I can't stand how predictable and cliche the horror game genre has become).