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

[Scarthew]

"Something that people don't realize is that video editing requires editing video."

Thanks void. Also we've proven time and time again that ugly people can take advantage of not showing their face to give the audience the impression they're attractive.

 

[Ghostse]

(Horses are beautiful and pure-souled animals btw, I would never seriously compare the beauty of a horse to rancid filth like VoidBurger in any regard besides her looking closer to an animal than a human)

Voidburger is Sauron's attempt at making a horse.

 

[Tacgnol]

Why would someone starve a horse and put it in a public bathroom.

Finns are some sick fucks.

 

[Tetsuya Nomura]

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On the bright side, Chip and Void are a total looksmatch. Soyboy manlet and tall ogre woman. Both awful people. Balance.
Also it's so fucking sad to remember the funny Chip who did the Peace Walker LP with SnarkCookie and know that he ended up going down this dark path.
Someone definitely put a curse on the SA goons.

 

[Cyber Bowling]

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(Horses are beautiful and pure-souled animals btw, I would never seriously compare the beauty of a horse to rancid filth like VoidBurger in any regard besides her looking closer to an animal than a human)

That's why you play the game yourself. Record yourself playing, timestamp the parts you know you'll want to use for your video. You probably won't get them all and will still have to do some digging every now and then, but it should be easier to dig through your recent playthrough versus scouring to get the clips you need.

Unless you're just talking cutscenes in which case I'd argue that's easier than ever because pretty much every game has multiple playlists that are just "story of X game," many of which are literally each cutscene as a separate video so you don't even have to scroll through a 3 hour long video to get the one you're looking for. Again, it doesn't completely eliminate the need to search, but it definitely cuts down a significant amount of time.

But, hey, I'll actually agree with VB for once, she's right that her videos are better off when she doesn't physically appear in them and I'll gladly encourage her to keep taking whatever steps are necessary to avoid showing herself on camera.

 

[Pargon]

That's why you play the game yourself. Record yourself playing, timestamp the parts you know you'll want to use for your video. You probably won't get them all and will still have to do some digging every now and then, but it should be easier to dig through your recent playthrough versus scouring to get the clips you need.

Unless you're just talking cutscenes in which case I'd argue that's easier than ever because pretty much every game has multiple playlists that are just "story of X game," many of which are literally each cutscene as a separate video so you don't even have to scroll through a 3 hour long video to get the one you're looking for. Again, it doesn't completely eliminate the need to search, but it definitely cuts down a significant amount of time.

But, hey, I'll actually agree with VB for once, she's right that her videos are better off when she doesn't physically appear in them and I'll gladly encourage her to keep taking whatever steps are necessary to avoid showing herself on camera.

Also, great job contextualizing all your work as “lol I just vibe and slap whatever footage together and just say what I think”

Super smart, especially when your one professional position doing that amounts to the totality of your experience

If I was looking at her CV she’d be several times more likely to be hired to clean toilets, she has far more professional rigor in that field

EDIT: Also, in the single universe where she did a video essay on a game only I ever posted footage of, I own all of her eggs in perpetuity. I fertilize them and shoot them into space to test effects of weightlessness on infant onryō

 

[The Fatriarchy]

At the end of the day, Let's plays were just "that time when you were a kid playing a video game with your friend/brother/whatever but now it's a stranger or two on a video call".

Huh? That's not Let's Play. Neither of those are. Screenshot LPs, and his "invention" of video LPs, are narrations and commentary of games in a format meant to entertain. Which is a standard I fucking hate because before that, the standard was raw gameplay footage and that's what I wanted to see. But I guess it's still better than the faggots who were substituting their own music over the audio of the games.

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(Horses are beautiful and pure-souled animals btw, I would never seriously compare the beauty of a horse to rancid filth like VoidBurger in any regard besides her looking closer to an animal than a human)

Sure thing, Ethel.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Huh? That's not Let's Play. Neither of those are. Screenshot LPs, and his "invention" of video LPs, are narrations and commentary of games in a format meant to entertain. Which is a standard I fucking hate because before that, the standard was raw gameplay footage and that's what I wanted to see. But I guess it's still better than the faggots who were substituting their own music over the audio of the games.

Quite literally it's just trying to emulate the banter of playing with someone in the same room with you.

The poster on SA (who should be credited as the actual inspiration for LPs) specifically said they had missed the feeling of sitting around with a friend and chatting while playing a game with friend which is what Slowbeef replied to and recorded himself rambling over and why the format generally expanded to be two people talking (like Game Grumps, Best Friends Play, Markiplier and Friends, and so on.

Yeah it fairly quickly evolved into something different, turning into pure AIDS instantly, but, that's where the idea comes from.