History LetsPlay / Slowbeef

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' (up through ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3'' (ongoing), with Rosella_500)

** During his LetsPlay of ''[[VideoGame/{{Shinobi}} Revenge of Shinobi]]'' for the Hard Games Thread on Website/SomethingAwful, whenever he came across something particularly lawyer baiting, Slowbeef would claim to have an email from Sega's lawyer claiming that said something is not what it appears to be ripping off, such as the picture of Joe Musashi on the title screen not being Creator/SonnyChiba from Kage No Gundan or the flamethrower guys not being Franchise/{{Rambo}} (even if they had the license, he's bald in later versions), and the Round 4 boss not being either Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger or the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] even if he's a robot and turns green. Played with in two letters which apologizes for a poor representation of the state of Detroit, and another which asks people not to LetsPlay ''VideoGame/ShiningForce''. Averted when he fights Web-Bat, the boss of Round 6, where said letter claims it IS Franchise/SpiderMan (Since Sega had the license to make Spidey games at the time.) but the guy he turns into is certainly not Franchise/{{Batman}} (And later revisions changed him to Manga/{{Devilman}} anyway.) and the dinosaur boss of Round 7 IS Franchise/{{Godzilla}} ("Fuck it, it IS Godzilla.")

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound''

* TheScrappy: [[invoked]] Contrary to the game's own themes, slowbeef hates [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Jeff]], part of it because [[NotBadassEnoughForFans he's not as cool as the other characters]] and partly because of his [[ButtMonkey bad performance]].

* TheScrappy: [[invoked]] Contrary to the game's own themes, slowbeef hates [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Jeff]], part of it because [[WhatMeasureIsANonBadass he's not as cool as the other characters]] and partly because of his [[ButtMonkey bad performance]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Snatcher}}'' (screenshot, later redone with video)

* HypocrisyNod: In 2008, Slowbeef and Diabetus posted a WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} video mocking [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-jFZbbXJU a Youtube LP]] of VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}, commenting on what a terrible idea it was to LP Snatcher in video form. One year later, the duo [[http://lparchive.org/Snatcher-%28Video%29/ made their own video LP of the game]], and one of the very first things they comment on is the apparent hypocrisy.

** During his LetsPlay of ''[[VideoGame/{{Shinobi}} Revenge of Shinobi]]'' for the Hard Games Thread on Website/SomethingAwful, whenever he came across something particularly lawyer baiting, Slowbeef would claim to have an email from Sega's lawyer claiming that said something is not what it appears to be ripping off, such as the picture of Joe Musashi on the title screen not being Creator/SonnyChiba from Kage No Gundan or the flamethrower guys not being Franchise/{{Rambo}} (even if they had the license, he's bald in later versions), and the Round 4 boss not being either Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger or The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk even if he's a robot and turns green. Played with in two letters which apologizes for a poor representation of the state of Detroit, and another which asks people not to LetsPlay ''VideoGame/ShiningForce''. Averted when he fights Web-Bat, the boss of Round 6, where said letter claims it IS Franchise/SpiderMan (Since Sega had the license to make Spidey games at the time.) but the guy he turns into is certainly not Franchise/{{Batman}} (And later revisions changed him to Manga/{{Devilman}} anyway.) and the dinosaur boss of Round 7 IS Franchise/{{Godzilla}} ("Fuck it, it IS Godzilla.")

In 2007, Website/SomethingAwful user ''slowbeef'', real name Michael Sawyer, posted a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA1kIBwGhrk video]] of him playing ''VideoGame/TheImmortal'' with commentary over it and called it LetsPlay. Numerous adapted this term for this kind of video.[[note]]Despite often being credited as the ur-father of the entire Let's Play phenomenon , slowbeef himself downplays this role and notes that he at the most just made the term popular. Filming gameplay with commentary dates back to the VHS era. ''Screenshot'' [=LPs=] on the Let's Play Archive have dated back to at least a year before he started out.[[/note]] In 2008, he along with fellow Something Awful user Diabetus created WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}, a Website/YouTube account in which the two [[{{MST}} make fun of the worst LPs out there,]] for which he has gained an even bigger following than his Let's Plays, which he still continues to do. Retsupurae also spawned a spinoff called ''Webcam Ward'', in which the same principle is applied to non-gaming Website/YouTube videos.

* AffectionateNickname: Slowbeef gives the Xenomorph in ''Alien Isolation'' the name "Steve."

'''slowbeef:''' What?! Wait a--wait a minute, what? W... what? What--but why--why would... ugh. That's the--that's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard!

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Slowbeef always refers to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] as "Marry-o." Despite [=BklynBruzer's=] best-laid plans.
** Diabetus gets in on the act in the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' LP by insisting that "treasure" is pronounced "traysure."

* ''VideoGame/{{Policenauts}}'' (screenshot and then later streamed with Diabetus)

* ''VideoGame/DarkSeed and Dark Seed II'' (screenshot, later riffed on as WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}})

In 2007, Website/SomethingAwful user ''slowbeef'', whose real name is Michael Sawyer, posted a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA1kIBwGhrk video]] of him playing ''VideoGame/TheImmortal'' with commentary over it and called it LetsPlay. Numerous adapted this term for this kind of video.[[note]]Despite often being credited as the ur-father of the entire Let's Play phenomenon , slowbeef himself downplays this role and notes that he at the most just made the term popular. Filming gameplay with commentary dates back to the VHS era. ''Screenshot'' [=LPs=] on the Let's Play Archive have dated back to at least a year before he started out.[[/note]] In 2008, he along with fellow Something Awful user Diabetus created WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}, a Website/YouTube account in which the two [[{{MST}} make fun of the worst LPs out there,]] for which he has gained an even bigger following than his Let's Plays, which he still continues to do. Retsupurae also spawned a spinoff called ''Webcam Ward'', in which the same principle is applied to non-gaming Website/YouTube videos.

* ''VideoGame/{{Golgo 13}}'' (screenshot)

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' (not an official-style LP)

* OffscreenInertia: [[{{Inuniverse}} Slowbeef and Diabetus use]], as a RunningJoke, the idea that Ridley is still falling down the hole in which Samus fought him. Over a month later, when Samus fights Ridley again near the end of the game, they immediately conclude that Ridley ''just'' stopped falling, and the arena where she fights him just happens to be the end of the very, very long chute that Ridley's been falling down the entire game.

-->'''slowbeef:''' Did you ever see TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles? The cartoon? Do you remember mutagen? That's Phazon.

** During the VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}} LP he did with Diabetus, the two liked to shout "SNATCHER" every time it appeared on screen, since the game capitalized every important key word.

* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''

* ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' (part of reading for Visual Novel Book Club podcast)

** He also seems to be quite fond of philosophy. He brings up a small instance of Voltaire in Diabetus' ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' LP. He also countered the frustratingly terrible [=LPing=] of one Quadraxis14 by reading "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill.

** While facing [[MightyGlacier Thardus]] (who's made up of rocks), Diabetus makes several rock/stone-based puns. slowbeef attempts to follow his lead... with varying results. Although slowbeef subverts one joke by going out of his way to *not* say "gneiss".

** While facing [[MightyGlacier Thardus]] (who's made up of rocks), Diabetus makes several rock/stone-based puns.
--->'''Diabetus:''' That wasn't very ''granite'' of you... no, lavaish... oh, wait, what was it?

* {{Adorkable}}:
** [=ShiddyKat's=] complete and endearing ignorance towards video games in general in slowbeef's Wifestream series could be seen as this.
** Blister and his corny jokes during the Metroid Prime series for sure.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Slowbeef always refers to [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] as "Marry-o." Despite [=BklynBruzer's=] best-laid plans.

** During his LetsPlay of ''[[VideoGame/{{Shinobi}} Revenge of Shinobi]]'' for the Hard Games Thread on Website/SomethingAwful, whenever he came across something particularly lawyer baiting, Slowbeef would claim to have an email from Sega's lawyer claiming that said something is not what it appears to be ripping off, such as the picture of Joe Musashi on the title screen not being Creator/SonnyChiba from Kage No Gundan or the flamethrower guys not being Franchise/{{Rambo}} (even if they had the license, he's bald in later versions), and the Round 4 boss not being either Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger or The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk even if he's a robot and turns green. Played with in two letters which apologizes for a poor representation of the state of Detroit, and another which asks people not to LetsPlay ''VideoGame/ShiningForce''. Averted when he fights Web-Bat, the boss of Round 6, where said letter claims it IS SpiderMan (Since Sega had the license to make Spidey games at the time.) but the guy he turns into is certainly not Franchise/{{Batman}} (And later revisions changed him to Manga/{{Devilman}} anyway.) and the dinosaur boss of Round 7 IS Franchise/{{Godzilla}} ("Fuck it, it IS Godzilla.")

* ''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}''

* ''Videogame/{{Psychonauts}}''
* ''Videogame/CrimzonClover''
* ''Videogame/PokemonFireRed'' Nuzlocke Run
* ''Videogame/DemonsSouls''

* ''Videogame/{{Undertale}}'' Genocide run
* ''Videogame/AlienIsolation''
* ''Videogame/HeavyRain'' (with his wife Shiddy Kat)

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: Slowbeef always refers to [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] as "Marry-o." Despite [=BklynBruzer's=] best-laid plans.

-->'''slowbeef:''' ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny DID HE JUST LAND ON ME!?]]''

* {{Adorkable}}: [=ShiddyKat's=] complete and endearing ignorance towards video games in general in slowbeef's Wifestream series could be seen as this.

* {{Angrish}}: Not as angry as the usual examples, but the beef's first encounter with kinetic orb cannons in ''Echoes'' completely destroys his ability to speak coherently; you can tell that the illogical nature of the device has hit a BerserkButton.
-->'''Vicas:''' Remember how there were those one-meter tunnels that you didn't understand?\\
''[[DontExplainTheJoke (The tunnels in question are just big enough for Samus' ball form to travel through, a strange design choice considering that Samus seems to be the only living being capable of going through such things.)]]''\\

'''Vicas:''' This makes even less sense.\\
''(Samus enters ball mode and enters the kinetic orb cannon, which fires her to a man-made target against the opposite cliff wall, granting her access to an otherwise-unreachable ledge.)''\\

--> Come-just di-ugh-'''HATE YOU! SO MUCH CHYKKA! HATE THIS GAME!'''

* AuthorPhobia: slowbeef does ''not'' like bugs. This espcially tends to come up in his Dark Souls LPs.

* BigYes: After finally beating [[ThatOneBoss the Dark Aurora Unit.]]

* BrickJoke: During a dull moment from ''Metroid Prime: Echoes'' video, Diabetus notes that he's playing ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''. A few videos later, slowbeef [[FakeOutOpening opened a video playing that game]].
-->'''slowbeef''': [[SarcasmMode You know what? I just realized,]] this isn't ''Metroid Prime: Echoes'' after all. You know how you can tell the difference? '''''[[TakeThat THIS IS FUCKING FUN!]]'''''

-->(playing ''Dungeon World'') "I've got this big serrated sword, is the thing."\\
(watching ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'') "To make up for Eike's lack of spatial awareness, he needs time travel, is the thing."\\
(watching ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d7xIz8dHfo&t=3m0s Phantasmagoria]]'') "It's a kevlar spine, is the thing, they had them back then."

-->'''slowbeef''': ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny DID HE JUST LAND ON ME!?]]''

-->'''slowbeef:''' Die! DIE! ''*The Beast grabs him and bites off his character's head*'' What? WHAT?! FUCK! DAMN IT! FUCKING DAMN IT!

-->'''slowbeef''': ''(Faces camera towards the remnants of the destroyed dynamo)'' [[KickTheDog GAZE UPON IT, MR. SUNABOUZU!]]\\
'''Toffile''': Oh, no! You bastard!!\\
'''Vicas''': How could you?!

* DespairEventHorizon: slowbeef nearly crosses this in [[ThatOneLevel Torvus Bog]], culminating in a priceless fight with Chykka. He gets better once he gets to Sanctuary.

-->'''Slowbeef''': [Dane is] basically like the Adam of Corruption, I suppose.\\
'''Baldurk''': That bad?\\
'''Vicas''': He's less intrusive.\\
'''Slowbeef''': Oh, yeah, much less. This is like the second time I've seen him the whole game.\\
'''Baldurk''': So he's not really like Adam at all then.\\
'''Slowbeef''': (Laughing) Yeah, actually you're right.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: [[invoked]] From ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'', Galactic Federation Marine Corps specialist M. Angseth, communications officer, Samus fangirl and late-to-the-party victim. Slowbeef holds her in high regard and continues to reference her many videos later.
-->'''slowbeef''': ''(After failing to convince Diabetus that the Space Jump and the High Jump were distinct from each other)'' ...Angseth would've understood.\\
'''Diabetus''': Fuck Angseth.\\
'''slowbeef''': '''Angseth is the best! YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!'''

* EpicFail: While playing ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', slowbeef fights the [[DualBoss Bell Gargoyles]] several times with an un-upgraded halberd, and manages to nearly kill them several times. He upgrades it, goes back to challenge them again, and promptly gets destroyed by the first one.

-->'''slowbeef''': Man, this underwater doesn't mess me up anymore. I can get right back to that crashed frigate and... '''oh''', I bet that's where I'm supposed to go now.\\
''(NGDBSS bursts out laughing)''\\
'''Ironicus''': These are my favorite moments of the LP.\\
'''slowbeef''': These moments of revelation.\\
'''Ironicus''': ''Eureka''!

--> '''Slowbeef:''' Fuck you, Creator/HideoKojima. That is all that's left. That is all that is god damn left. I went through a god damn mirror maze to fight a ''robot in a panda suit''. That's my life... that's... you... I'm broken, I'm broken. Good night.

* HiddenDepths: Judging from [[http://bd.baldurk.org/1944#title this video]], as well as his work on creating an unofficial translation patch of Policenauts, Slowbeef is quite skilled in the Japanese language, skilled enough even to know the distinctions between accents.

* HurricaneOfPuns: While facing [[MightyGlacier Thardus]] (who's made up of rocks), Diabetus makes several rock/stone-based puns.
** StealthPun: "That wasn't very ''granite'' of you... no, lavaish... oh, wait, what was it?" Odds are he deliberately avoided saying "gneiss".
*** "Aqua reaper that's what people call me. Why?" said during the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' LP is a reference to a line from [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2 Margaret Moonlight's Theme]].
* HypercompetentSidekick: The ''Metroid Prime'' videos tend to feature guest commentators who know far more about where slowbeef needs to go than he does. Particularly Vicas. This is lampshaded a few times.
-->'''Slowbeef:''' How much do I have to give you to just play this game for me?

-->''(The main character walks into a church-like building with pews inside that has already been classified in-story as a church)''\\
'''Gillian Seed''': What's this...?\\
'''[=CherryDoom=]''': "Looks like a church!"\\
'''Diabetus''': "What is this--A CHURCH?!"

* {{Mentors}}: Guest commentators [[SpiritAdvisor Vicas]] and [[SinkOrSwimMentor Toffile]] act as this for newcomer to the Metroid Prime series Slowbeef during his run through the Prime trilogy. [[TheObiWannabe Diabetus]] dabbles in this during ''Corruption''.

--> '''Slowbeef:''' The things you discover with 9 energy.

* OhCrap: His reaction to finding a scan in ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'' that said he had to find ''ten keys'' to enter the final area (one of which was already found for him, at least).
--> '''slowbeef''': Energy, dark Aether, entry is... key - ''TEN KEYS?!!''

-->'''AI: [-WARNING. HOSTILE WEAPONS DETECTED. PLEASE STAND DOWN.-]'''\\

-->'''Random Hajile''': Have you considered the possibility that you're a [[Film/{{Scanners}} Scanner]]? Not my style, either way. I'll stick to Snatchers.

-->"[slowbeef] has been doing Let's Plays since 2005, despite being incredibly unsuccessful at them. He is a self-described video game humorist and is officially way too old to being doing that."

* SirSwearsALot: Proteus.

* SnubByOmission: At the end of each LP, slowbeef thanks everyone who guested or did something notable in the forum during the LP. Except Diabetus.

--> '''slowbeef''': The whole game could have taken place in Sanctuary and I would have said it was the greatest thing in the whole world.

---> '''Diabetus:''' "Is this like VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}} when you think Snake is the main character and after the first level it turns out to be a stripper?"

--> '''Diabetus:''' Do you feel like checking out the vast depths of Elysia? That came out really bad.

--> '''slowbeef:''' There's too much animation and not enough screwing. I know what I said.

-->'''Diabetus:''' ''(skeptically)'' Well I can't tell from what I'm seeing, because I'm only seeing a cleaver, you're not showing me the spear.
-->'''slowbeef:''' ''(distracted)'' Bloodtinge gemstone...
-->'''Diabetus:''' Show me that spear.
-->'''slowbeef:''' ''I'll show you my''- wait, uhhh (clears throat).

-->Hello, this is Yoshio Sakomoto! It’s not easy writing stories for Metroid considering my functional illiteracy. Honestly, I don’t really like Samus, and I don’t want you to like her either. I hate her and feel threatened by her. I will ruin this franchise. I’m just coming out and telling you. Fuck Metroid and fuck you.

-->'''Slowbeef (as Samus)''': I mean that in a way that makes me want to scratch my nipples with missile tips.

--> '''slowbeef:''' Well I think what's gonna happen in ''Dead To Rights: Retribution 2''; Jack will be killing all these people [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption but on a horse]] with [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy gravity wells around]].\\

* YourHeadAsplode: Every LP he's done has featured either a head actually exploding, getting blown off, or at the very least a head shot. His screenshot LP of the DatingSim ''Sprung'' had a photoshopped explosion with the reason that [[OncePerEpisode "every slowbeef LP has a head explosion."]]