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| - Retsupurae is a team of Something Awful members (Diabetus and slowbeef) from an unknown location in America who ridicule let's players and reviewers. Their name is Engrish phonetic pronunciation for 'Let's Play', as clarified by their lesser known previous name, "Retsupray". they have ridiculed BigAl2k6, Rijno, HCBailly and DarknessTheCurse to name a few. Their style is similar to that of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- If there's one place on the internet where Sturgeon's Law is in full effect, it's YouTube: In an age where just about anyone can create content and post it for others to see, the YouTube community can serve as a prime example of quantity over quality. This naturally extends to the Let's Play community as well, with new videos posted left and right filled with asinine commentary or played on release date, MacGyver-like technical solutions such as filming a TV screen on a camcorder, barely edited material with minutes upon minutes of Filler, and worst of all, barely any quality control to sort out the good videos from the bad ones. One should take it as a rite of passage to view at least one video game walkthrough narrated by a squeaky-voiced white college student who imagines himself to be
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| - If there's one place on the internet where Sturgeon's Law is in full effect, it's YouTube: In an age where just about anyone can create content and post it for others to see, the YouTube community can serve as a prime example of quantity over quality. This naturally extends to the Let's Play community as well, with new videos posted left and right filled with asinine commentary or played on release date, MacGyver-like technical solutions such as filming a TV screen on a camcorder, barely edited material with minutes upon minutes of Filler, and worst of all, barely any quality control to sort out the good videos from the bad ones. One should take it as a rite of passage to view at least one video game walkthrough narrated by a squeaky-voiced white college student who imagines himself to be the next Bob Saget, and may the Lord help you if they try and sing along to the game's background music. This is where Retsupurae comes in: an experiment hosted by Something Awful regulars Michael "Slowbeef" Sawyer and "Diabetus" (with recurring guest appearances by Proteus, Dave_o, and Psychedelic Eyeball, among others) where the two find the worst of the YouTube community (usually Let's Plays, but sometimes extending to webcam videos, game reviews, and television shows) and then mock the living shit out of them, though they do tend to mock LPers that are just sorta weird. As such, Retsupurae has become widely appreciated for putting terrible Let's Players back in their place, though some haters still persist -- mostly the very same Let's Players mocked by them in their videos, or said Let's Players' fans. They have also expanded their range to include Flash submissions to Newgrounds (also known as 'Retsufrash') and amateur videos, as well as longplays (a.k.a. 'Wrongpuraes'), riffing on the game itself rather than the person playing it. This dates back to the pre-Retsu days, when slowbeef would commentate on the ridiculous plot or some such of a game a fellow LP'er played (i.e. Psychedelic Eyeball's LP of Prince of Persia 2). Their videos can be found on YouTube as well as Viddler, and the team also has an offshoot feature on the Something Awful front page named Webcam Ward. At the end of Tower of Horrible Voices while joking about the future of Retsupurae the following was said: The crew has made a number of said Livestreams, many of which can be found here. The first was left unrecorded since it was merely meant to be a test, but a fan has recovered said test Livestream and uploaded it to Youtube. Aside from Slowbeef and Diabetus' videos, many others have tried their hand at Retsupurae in light of their success, especially other Something Awful regulars such as Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus, whose videos can be found on the former's YouTube channel. There's also a fair amount of overlap between accounts, and it's not uncommon to see slowbeef guest-commentate on Chip's channel, for instance. There's also several smaller Retsupuraers that have sprung up, such as LesBeardly, foreverpandering, LargeMentalBlock, and The Strawhat NO.
- Retsupurae is a team of Something Awful members (Diabetus and slowbeef) from an unknown location in America who ridicule let's players and reviewers. Their name is Engrish phonetic pronunciation for 'Let's Play', as clarified by their lesser known previous name, "Retsupray". they have ridiculed BigAl2k6, Rijno, HCBailly and DarknessTheCurse to name a few. Their style is similar to that of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Their arguably most well known and popular videos are the ones where they make fun of "Gaming in the Clinton Years" videos. Other popular videos include the mockery of ElectricalBeast (the most British person ever), musclebomber2021 (or is it muscle"bummer"?) and Billy MC's Let's Play of Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels. The latter has been refered to countless times in later videos, and Retsupurae said themselves "For the record, BillyMC, out of all the fucking LPers we've made fun of, I like you the best, but you're still fucking awful." On the 8th of May, Retsupurae did the unthinkable: they riffed on one of Chris "Irate Fucktard Gamer" Bores, a person who is infamously picky about any form of criticism, no matter how legit. The video they riffed on was not one of Chris' reviews, but rather his other show, called Haunted Investigators. The video got removed from Youtube just hours after it was uploaded, but the video can be viewed on Viddler.com. Viddler, unlike Youtube, is not completely retarded when it comes to copyright and fair use, so Retsupurae's videos are uploaded there without much worry of copyright breach. They had been suspended due to TOS violations sometime in May 2009, and were forced to re-upload their videos on a back-up account named "Retsuplay." However, videos like-- for example-- Playtennis14 shows us the way! were not re-uploaded due to fears the "Retsuplay" account would get suspended also. Fortunately, the original "Retsupurae" account was reinstated on July 11th.
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