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{{quote|''"When it comes to [[Let's Play]], you can find just about every color of the rainbow if you know where to look. You got your funny Let's Plays, your informative Let's Plays, and your narrative Let's Plays that make up all the colors found in Skittles. Unfortunately, if you look in the wrong places, you can find the shit-browns and vomit-greens of camcorder Let's Plays, self-proclaimed game reviewer Let's Plays, and singalong Let's Plays. ... If quality Let's Plays are what you're looking for, you're in the wrong place, because today... '''[[Title Drop|Retsupurae]]!'''"''
|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}qWeJN5P7skA ResearchIndicates]'''}}
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.
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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 [http://www.youtube.com/user/retsupurae YouTube] as well as [https://web.archive.org/web/20120119031028/http://www.viddler.com/explore/retsu
{{quote|'''Slowbeef''': ''"I'll just say the word Livestream and leave it at that."''}}
The crew has made a number of said Livestreams, many of which can be found [http://www.livestream.com/retsupurae here]{{Dead link}}. The first was left unrecorded since it was merely meant to be a test, but a fan has [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|recovered said test Livestream]] and [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCE2A909BB8FD7CA0&feature=plcp 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]] [http://www.youtube.com/user/ChipCheezumSA 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 [http://www.youtube.com/user/LesBeardly LesBeardly], [http://www.youtube.com/user/foreverpandering foreverpandering], [http://www.youtube.com/user/LargeMentalBlock LargeMentalBlock], and [[TheStrawhatNO!]].
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'''slowbeef:''' ''[[Oh Crap|Aww, shit!]] *commentary proceeds to derail entirely*'' }}
== Slowbeef and Diabetus ==
* [[Alliteration]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzDFCOjr734 Metroid Machinima Makes Me Maddeningly Miserable]
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** In Super Bummerman 2, musclebomber2021 pronounces 'throw' as 'fow', 'bomb' as 'bub', 'enemy' as 'amy', and numerous others. The Retsupurae duo have a field day with him.
{{quote|'''Slowbeef:''' ''Fow'' his ''bums''? At his ''amies''?!}}
** Slowbeef catches himself on almost mispronouncing [[H. R. Giger]]'s name (''"gee-ger"'') as 'geiger' in the ''[[Darkseed]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102055502/http://blip.tv/slowbeef/real-estate-headaches-5568062 wrongpurae], which Diabetus is quick to comment on:
{{quote|'''Diabetus:''' I've checked his volume of work, his ''Giger counter''...}}
** He does so a few more times in the ''DarkSeed 2'' wrongpurae, though he again corrects himself every time, this time without any jokes from Diabetus. He also refers to Mario a few times throughout it, sometimes as "Mary-O" and sometimes normally.
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'''slowbeef:''' ''[astounded]'' Shit.<br />
'''Diabetus:''' Sorry. }}
** Also, in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120128212745/http://www.viddler.com/explore/retsu/videos/12
{{quote|"With the amount of dignity lost, I don't see how this could possibly get any.."'' ''[[[Record Needle Scratch]]]'' ''"[[Dancing Theme|...worse]][[Haruhi Suzumiya|?]]"}}
** In Let's Point at Super Metroid: "I propose this video cannot get worse from this moment. Seriously." [[It Got Worse]].
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* [[Your Head Asplode]]: This recurring trope of [[Slowbeef|slowbeef's LPs]] has finally made its presence in Retsupurae in the form of the Dark World counterpart of Mike Dawson's mother, serving as ([[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]]) the ''Dark Seed 2'' longplay's only [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]] [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]].
== Chip and Ironicus ==
* [[Adorkable]]: Chip.
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