/VP/ PLAYS THREAD ARCHIVE

Update - 1/27/2025:
Apparently arch.b4k.co is kill. It's over (edit as of 1/28/25: apparently some fag was upset at some stuff archived on it and got archb4k's registrar to shut it down)
edit as of 2/11/25: ctrl + f replaced all instances of arch.b4k.co with arch.b4k.dev so the links should be alive now; feel free to surf the archive and laugh/cry/rage at posts you find that aged particularly well/terribly

it's over in every field

Sure there hasn't been anything worth adding to this archive thread directory for over a year, but it's still a shame that all the threads archived here are gone for now.

At least the spirits of these threads will live on in some projects I have in the works; which are also gonna integrate some ideas, concepts, original content, etc. that were made in the threads. Sure, anyone who isn't a super oldfag won't realize them without being specifically told "hey this is specifically referencing one of my LPs", but they'll still be neat even if you weren't around for them.
Because there's not much to do in the meantime with this, I'll just leave this page mostly the same until I can get to working on those projects i've been planning.

Project A (codenamed Manidae) will be a more original pokemon fangame with its own original plot, characters, region, etc. (and I mean actually original, not just a literal reskin of the official games or a copypaste of another work's story but with pokemon) while Project B will be that long awaited /vp/ plays rejuvenation mod that was planned in one way or another since basically the dawn of my imageboard LPs; which will start once v14 FINALLY releases and I can actually bring those ideas sparked 3 years ago to life.

Sure, the actually /vp/ related content will be minor in comparison to all the other changes I'll need to do to make the game enjoyable on its own merits (fixing balancing, redoing the story, etc) but I'll still insert in /vpp/ inspired content whenever possible.

But aside from shilling for my plans to make actually good fangames (either from scratch or by fixing rejuv) and the occasional random essay about autists on an imageboard playing Pokemon fangames, until I get to find an alternate external archive that covers /vp/ from early 2022-late 2023 and isn't dead like arch.b4k.co, this page is basically meaningless due to link rot. It kinda feels like a (thankfully far less volatile) repeat of the end of the original /vp/ plays era lasting from the start to the end of the reborn multi-LP a time back when /vp/ plays was more of a community-determined story that everyone partook in, rather than just a bunch of disconnected quasi-speedruns of random fangames, with the general as a whole having pretty much jack shit to do with the original /board/ plays format.

But hey, if you're still interested in a tripfag's attempt to fix Rejuvenation, or if you're interested in that other fangame project me and drawbro are working on (basically imagine a rebornlike but it actually builds upon the autism trilogy's strengths instead of exacerbating their issues; or in other words, an actually good fangame) then feel free to join my 'cord server and hang out.
https://discord.gg/rX4DpG2w6h

Otherwise, there's really not much reason to be here. Fuck, thinking about this stuff makes me feel old despite starting this general at 17 (soon to be 20)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Rejuvenation V13
Pokemon Wack
Pokemon Empire e8
Pokemon Wack (doubles mode mono-steel)
Pokemon Xenoverse
Pokemon Opal
Pokemon Violet
Rejuvenation V13 (ground monotype)
Pokemon Wack (attempt3)
Pokemon Wack (dreepy solorun)
Pokemon Wack (woot solorun)
Rejuvenation: Kaizoshit Edition
Reborn Multi-LP

Foreword

Well, there was a foreword here, but it was mostly just referencing the changes from a pastebin that barely any lurkers have lurked enough to remember (before it was abandoned and basically just left there in old threads that still used it). The main reasons I chose to use this site instead of pastebin were:

interface looked cooler
no censorship so I can make subtitles use whatever funny words I want them to
access to fancy formatting
and most importantly, the ability to add a table of contents to alleviate scrolling

Anyways, welcome to the /vp/ plays thread archive, containing pretty much every noteworthy LP done on this board (excluding totally irredeemable games and LPs that died due to boredom or drama). LPs are listed in chronological order; threads are numbered and labeled in the order they take place in.

If anything seems out of order, then sorry about that, it's just that sometimes I go back to a game in the middle of a LP for some reason or another (usually burning out from one game or hitting a roadblock that kills momentum), or if I put a run on hiatus to do something else.

If you come across a link to a thread that isn't in the archive, then there's a few possible explanations for that:
1: The thread in question got raided by underageb&s, schizos, something I'm not mentioning as to not tempt fate, manchildren who get angry when someone is sick of their shit, or any combination of those. I won't hide threads for having just a few of these such shitposts but if it seriously gets in the way of thread readability than I'll probably pull them if there isn't a good reason to keep them.
2: The link was to a thread for a LP that was dropped quickly due to the game either being bland and not interesting enough, or it was unplayably broken.
3: The link was to a LP that got purged from the original pastebin during that DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING spree after the initial desolation shitfest. Might overlap with threads removed due to reason 2, if it's not detergent/desolation/whatever the fuck.
4: The thread didn't really have any notable content in it. Usually these were threads that were mostly just stalling for writefag, or threads that didn't get bumped for long enough for me to continue, such as if it was during leak/trailer season.
If it's not linked here, then it probably still exists on some 4chan archive that covers /vp/, but by looking for it on your own, you agree that you accept the risk of running into particularly bad threads (see missing thread explanation 1) or dead-end LPs.
Likewise, if a thread doesn't have a "new thread" link at the bottom, then it likely died because it wasn't bumped in time for me to make a new thread.

LP summaries are color coded - green for completed, blue for ongoing (lmao), yellow for on hiatus, and red for softlocked/dropped.

If for you want to contact me, join either or both of these chatrooms. (first one uses your mega.nz account, and second is just a discord server; to enter the discord server, just have an IQ above 5 and you'll likely get in)
https://mega.nz/chat/1ZtT3CIA#eFDiNoRiELFvxCy1epGLxQ
https://discord.gg/ZtVmVWNPu

If you want to access the archive of pretty much any original content made related to the LPs that's of decent quality or higher; then use this link for the mega folder.
https://mega.nz/folder/YR9mUALL#z6LqTPdLLSfCvC_XylDKXg

See anything missing, or want to add something to it? Use this link, it's a one way file uploading link that doesn't require an account.
https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q

Due to exceptionally shitty mobile app UI design, you know, the type that lets you irreversably permanently brick important links because you accidentally selected an option that doesn't have a confirmation popup (specifically, the "create link" option), the existing file request is permanently gone.

Just to make sure people realize this and use the new, not as fucked link, I'll make this absolutely clear with all caps

DO NOT USE THE FILE UPLOAD LINK IN THE THREADS, IT IS BROKEN. USE THE NEW ONE INSTEAD: https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q
DO NOT USE THE FILE UPLOAD LINK IN THE THREADS, IT IS BROKEN. USE THE NEW ONE INSTEAD: https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q
DO NOT USE THE FILE UPLOAD LINK IN THE THREADS, IT IS BROKEN. USE THE NEW ONE INSTEAD: https://mega.nz/filerequest/qtNsS-vtn6Q
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Foreword
Rejuvenation V13
Pokemon Wack
Pokemon Empire e8
Pokemon Wack (doubles mode mono-steel)
Pokemon Xenoverse
Pokemon Opal
Pokemon Violet
Rejuvenation V13 (ground monotype)
Pokemon Wack (attempt3)
Pokemon Wack (dreepy solorun)
Pokemon Wack (woot solorun)
Rejuvenation: Kaizoshit Edition
Reborn Multi-LP

Rejuvenation V13

Status: Completed

The LP that started it all. Probably the definition of Early Installment Weirdness - I feel like this had a bit too many forced memes, inconsistencies, disregarded GETs, tripfag drama, questionable decisions, cheese, ragequits, etc. for my liking, but maybe it's just because I was a still-underage shitposter who could still lurk just a bit more, but hey basically no one knew until I mentioned it in this document. Mostly sparked by discussions in the Reborn threads in late april 2022 about its spiritual successor, and then people making original content involving the game sparked my interest in playing the game for /vp/. Fittingly, the last LP I partook in on /vp/ was also Rejuvenation (v13.5), which also had its own share of drama/bullshit - if you want my thoughts on that mess go to the bottom of this page.

In hindsight, I do find it kinda funny how these threads have somewhat mirrored Rejuvenation's development - starting as a shitty knockoff of Reborn, with a bunch of things that seemed like good ideas at the time but later became cringeworthy in hindsight, with the threads gradually becoming their own thing after enough time; before a period of nothing happening involving Rejuvenation before the update that basically killed /vp/ plays; but unlike the nu-threads, Rejuvenation is likely salvageable with enough effort. Or if you're more cynical, then it could be that you think these threads were always shit and that the later threads are either shittier or less shitty in comparison, depending on era.

Also probably the longest LP I've done, at 63+ threads. Some notable moments include:

The trips GET involving injecting any uber (I chose rayquaza) which ended up as mostly flamebait when it wasn't jobbing, likely being the reason I didn't use it much (hey, at least it got a cameo in Exile parts 22 and 34)
An accidental tripcode reveal (which is why the first few threads have a different tripcode)
Chuckshrew and its track record of ignoring GETs out of some combination of favoritism and deliberately pissing off that fucking leaf
That one time I had the wrong tab open and accidentally posted in a /vm/ roblox thread
Jihadbirds
That one ragequit during chapter 11's fixed team mirror match, which caused me to take a break by realizing that randomized encounters are not good for LP formats
Very bad teambuilding and movesets (fucking double edge rock climb aggron, wtf was I thinking)

oh and uh, cringe warning. both from the game itself and some of the shenanigans i thought were funny at the time but were retarded in hindsight. whether or not it's cringier than v13.5 is uncertain.

Pokemon Wack

Status: Softlocked (tripped anticheat somehow, oops)

The second fangame played in my history of /vp/ lets plays, and also the one with the most content.
Or at least, content I'd get to experience if it wasn't for several factors, one of them being that this first playthrough was a blind one (excluding the wiki's pokedex), leading me to miss a bunch of things. Another problem lied from the format I was doing with viewer participation - with such a huge fakemon dex, listing every one every time I wanted to make a new team made asking for a new party a chore, on top of it taking an annoyingly long time because lurkers can't make up their mind.
As it turns out, maybe having a ridiculous amount of new pokemon being accessible each progression milestone is probably not the greatest thing for an imageboard LP - a problem that would kill the second Wack LP.

I also softlocked myself sometime after the fourth gym, by injecting master balls to re-catch legendaries after I fucked up by forgetting to save, since the previous game, Rejuvenation, got me way too used to just being able to press a hotkey and save after doing basically anything. A lack of quicksave ended up killing a few LPs before they started.
I wouldn't notice that I was softlocked until the eighth gym, where several trainers straight up didn't have teams and forced me to add them via debug mode, but because Wack's internal pokemon list is fucked six ways to sunday, doing so would crash the game. While I could just debug my way past those trainers, I got hard locked at Victory Road, where I had to go through mandatory plot-important battles to get past, which didn't have teams because I tripped the anticheat, which I didn't know about until I asked a friend notable in the Wack community about the problem.
Whoops.

The Wack playthrough started during the later parts of Rejuvenation, where I needed something to play as filler while waiting for people with lower standards than me to do the bullshit puzzles/fights on my behalf. After the first rejuvenation discussion thread, the playthrough started getting its own full threads. I'll note the partial Wack threads with brackets - the first two will have some overlap with the Rejuvenation V13 LP, and the last bracketed thread will have overlap with the Opal LP. I've also skipped the threads that only have a dozen or so Wack screenshots as they're generally not important enough to list here

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/50867100/ [1] let's not turn the randomizer back on
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/50915516/ [2] an heroic legendary (mostly rejuv cutscenes, however)
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/50980141/ 3 a proper wack thread + KANTOOOOOOOO
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51019949/ 4 KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51110504/ 5 basically just the zombie gym
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51202102/ 6 can't wait for this to bite me in the ass 9 threads later
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51207986/ 7 the start of dragon spam, and some "drawfaggotry"
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51247032/ 8 drakloak time (also, PSA: don't turn on insanity mode mid-playthrough)
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51275465/ 9 seg hall o/
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51315932/ 10 even more dragon spam
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51332348/ 11 1337 hax0ring
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51360830/ 12 lollercaust + confusing extreme lag for softlocking
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52254402/ [14] magic gym, and dragon pulse spamming
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52259578/ 15 victory road broke

Pokemon Empire e8

Status: Completed

The third major LP done in 2022, and the first one to star a second tripfag, after the tauros incident. I'll save some time and just let the game's developers describe it themselves.
still shorter than some cutscenes
It's basically a reborn clone, but with some of the edge being replaced with pretentiousness, and a lot of it, at the expense of gameplay and enjoyability.

we're neither woke nor do we bow to the mob

and yet we're still not allowed to have onscreen handholding with the player character's childhood friend. literally 1984
Also includes the cutscene that combined the writer's barely disguised fetish, extreme cutscene stupidity, and shitty rewards for completing a terribly executed slog - the three things I hate the most in fangames - to cause me to ragequit, which caused an incident that lead to an anon taking up a tripcode and continuing after I burned out. It's technically a dragon monotype if you include pangolins, kaijus, and assorted reptiles as "dragons".

Like the Wack threads, this playthrough also had some overlap with other LPs; in this case, the latter 2 threads overlapped with Pokemon Opal, albiet the short scrapped playthrough I did before I burnt out because the game didn't get good until like 12 hours in or whatever.

also if you didn't see the disclaimer next to the second empire playthrough, you really should not play this shit

if you're retarded enough to ignore the many warnings on this page not to play this, then you honestly deserve the suffering

Pokemon Wack (doubles mode mono-steel)

Status: shit doesn't work

This was a thing that happened. After about 2 threads of fucking around with random games the thread sent me to see if they'd last more than 2 threads or if they'd just get thrown into the reject pile due to any combination of being really boring (solar light & lunar dark, infinity), being so broken it wouldn't launch twice (soulstones), or just being frustrating due to a lack of quicksave (infinity), I decided to go back to Pokemon Wack to try again in a new playthrough. There would be two gimmicks.

Doubles mode would be on, turning basically every non-wild encounter into a doubles battle

I'd restrict myself to only using steel type pokemon.

This could have been interesting if it wasn't for the fact that Wack's doubles mode is extremely incomplete, and it's possible to softlock at the third gym just by walking past an invisible trainer without a team.
This LP is mostly here just for completeness's sake, and maybe because it has the very, very beginning of the xenoverse playthrough, although it's nothing before the player is actually allowed to save

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51548975/ 1 let's try this again
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/51577291/ 2 nevermind, softlocked.

Pokemon Xenoverse

Status: Softlocked due to being underleveled past a point of no return on a blind playthrough

The fourth major LP, Xenoverse was a step away from the usual format. Instead of playing games infamous for shitty writing (rejuvenation/empire) or games known for adding a shit ton of content (wack), this game instead was pretty much an attempt to replicate the official games' formula in basically every meaningful way, except for a few minor details that ended up fucking over the playthrough, and my ability to enjoy the game. In chronological order, these were:

the lack of speedup, despite it being standard in literally every self respecting fangame
a non-toggleable EXP share, which would either lead to potentially trivializing all difficulty because of overleveling unless you regularly rotate your team, or being unable to switch in new team members without hours of grinding just so they can catch up
did I say grinding because not only is there no speedup, but there's also no repeatable trainers, and no meaningful way of getting exp from wild encounters without having to rely on the audino clone, because everything is at least 5 levels below the level you're supposed to be at, minimum. after the water gym, I'm pretty sure wild encounters were at least 10 levels behind the curve, which basically locked my team as shulong/sharpedo-x/that electric salmon fakemon/aggron/scovile/electric regional bird, the team an anon grinded to level 42 on right before the water gym to prevent
Xenoverse pokemon (the game's main gimmick) generally had meh designs, and the only one I got to use before reaching the point of no catchup
also holy shit the dex was shit. most of the designs were underwhelming, and most official pokemon were only obtainable at least one badge after the fights you'd badly need them for. cough aron cough
the story wasn't worth going through bland gameplay for. plot TL;DR: you are the son of a guy researching some phenomenon called the xenoverse, a parallel diminension notable for being a shithole because that's where the main evil legendary resided after he was defeated by the main good legendary and the 3 starter pokemons' OP final forms. also your father is actually silver from JOHTOOOOOOO, and that he's the leader of the evil team (or maybe the second in command, no one gives a shit) and those cliche reveals basically killed my interest in continuing.
it probably says a lot about how bland the story is if writefag's first interest when making writefaggotry centered around this game is to completely make a new story from near-scratch (see: exile series)
also, there's a point of no return at the climax. if you didn't grind to have an entire party at level 60 or so just to be safe, and you don't frequently make backup saves, your save might be bricked.

I MIGHT replay this but only if I'm bribed enough to do so. Considering becoming a wagie would be a more productive and entertaining use of my time than this shit, and assuming the game takes 60 hours to complete accounting for time spent uploading screenshots, that would be about $720 in bribes required, at $12 per hour.

Not included in the archive is the thread immediately before when I'm playing random copied and pasted shit the lurkers sent me, and the thread after that which got raided by a schizo all because some retard mentioned that one of the characters looked like that schizo's waifu.

Pokemon Opal

Status: Completed

The fifth major LP, notable for bird spam instead of dragon spam. For the sake of completeness, the first few threads before I burnt out from boredom are included, but for all intents and purposes, this playthrough was done by Wagiedos after he finished empire chapter who the fuck knows who the fuck cares, who then disappeared after this LP.

also, looking through the archive, it seems like the lurkers and tripfags were considerably hornier than usual.

Pokemon Violet

Status: missing namefag (deader than /vp/ plays now)

Probably the first LP of a first party Pokemon game in recent memory, this was a short playthrough that ended about 3 threads in because the namefag running this playthrough disappeared after 3 threads.
Because the official games are generally considered too easy, the namefag doing this playthrough set a few self imposed challenges, notably:

Only 1 move per pokemon at a time
Only 1 pokemon caught per badge/badge equivalent (gym badges, titans felled, or star bases cleared)
/vp/ gets to choose what pokemon he uses, which lead to the piarty being some combination of fletchinder, quaquaval, gogoat, ceruledge, dachsbun, wugtrio, drakloak, and maybe something else idk

GETs were handled a bit differently in this playthrough, with dubs being the standard for choices, but it probably wouldn't matter much tbdesu
also mostly here for completeness's sake

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52133754/ 1 who needs tripcodes or pokemon with more than one move?
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52154492/ 2 jan's curse
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52392835/ 3 and there goes the namefag

Rejuvenation V13 (ground monotype)

Status: abandoned due to being a previous version that's not save transfer compatible

it's basically just the rejuvenation playthrough, but with a restriction where I'm only allowed to use ground types (and then that kinda got thrown out the window with a natural shiny tangela), a new drawfag which actually has the courtesy to let me know if he's going to disappear for a while, and more screenshots from cutscenes.
Went on hiatus after I got bored during the very slow sixth chapter and decided to replay Wack, then when I returned so I could see if writefags would make anything for my birthday, I did a little bit of it before getting stuck due to forgotten information, and by the time I finally realized that I should maybe check the island's oricorio meadow to continue progress, procrastination got in the way.

v13.5 doesn't support transferring saves during the terajuma island arc (and most stuff before the last few chapters) so this playthrough was functionally permadead even before the fact that I didn't transfer my old saves to my new PC

Pokemon Wack (attempt3)

Status: on hiatus (burnt out trying to obey rule 5)

another wack playthrough, this time with far less debug mode shenanigans to try and not trip the softlocking anticheat
on hold because I burnt myself out trying to catch fucking everything in a game with hundreds of available pokemon before each badge

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/52999426/ 1 wack harder
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53010615/ 2 the good battles
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53026243/ 3 birds are very important
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53034145/ 4 it's over, again.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53065704/ 5 ez gym
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53085873/ 6 it's still over

Pokemon Wack (dreepy solorun)

Status: it's over (got stuck on rubber gym, burnt out, by the time I became stubborn enough to return to wack I realized the spreadsheet row used for fight level tracking was wiped)

This is self explanatory, I just felt like doing a solorun with the mascot of the first Wack playthrough, Dragapult
to a lesser extent, this is also for filling out someone's solorun info spreadsheet from the wackcord, which I am not linking because I don't think posting that invite on a shithole board like /vp/ would be a good idea
also, due to a clerical mistake, the spreadsheet row I was using to keep track of levels fights were beaten at got wiped. oops.

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53347839/ 1 now it's time for the good battle
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53356135/ 2 dude, where's my writefag?
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53375847/ 3 got bored/filtered, it's over

Pokemon Wack (woot solorun)

Status: on hiatus (i should probably try to get a longer attention span)

don't you love stubbornness
this is another solorun of Pokemon Wack but with woot, but with at least 425% more legendaries murdered

https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53705156/ 1 woot wednesday
https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/53737743/ 2 total legendary death
at this point it's basically just offscreen stuff at this point
currently stuck on jeeve stobs (6th gym) because of level cap issues & enemy coverage shenanigans (on a no guard user so evasion hax isn't possible)
if anyone thinks they can salvage this, check the mega folder's wack save backup sub-folder

Rejuvenation: Kaizoshit Edition

Status: Completed (ev&doe no one cares anymore)

This was supposed to be a LP of Rejuvenation's first published version, but that didn't last long enough to get past the title screen because the game crashed on launch, with or without debug mode. Instead, someone posted a download link for what's basically a kaizo hack of Rejuvenation v13. I guess it kept us occupied long enough for a writefag to show up and for v13.5 to release (which was a huge fucking letdown). Good thing it stopped being my problem after a few threads.
Oh, and the modder disabled tailwind (for the player only) which is LITERALLY 1984, alongside a vast assortment of other bullshit like adding pulse3 for certain opposing pokemon only (gives them all their abilities at once), blatantly illegal EVs, cancerous lack of item availability while opponents freely get high tier items, etc. while freely giving high tier pokemon, pseudo-legendaries, legendaries, mythicals, etc. to opposing teams, while sabotaging player access to items or actually usable pokemon.

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Reborn Multi-LP

Status: Completed

It's a reborn LP, except we had like a shit ton of tripfags playing all at once with monotype/dualtype restrictions and fighting eachother after agreed upon points of progression. Or at least we used to have those fights, before we learnt the hard way that Reborn's online servers are fucking garbage.
Pretty much the only multi-LP that wasn't known for filler content or major incidents. Probably started the downfall of the general due to the obvious problems associated with multiple people tripfagging at once.

Eulogy/retrospective/analysis of why I left/plans for the future.

or: Musk yaps about a dead general for at least Ϫ paragraphs

(Wall of text warning, but if you give a fuck about these types of games then you're probably not deterred by them anyways)

And then after like a month and a half of filler threads, all hell broke loose with Rejuvenation v13.5. I think there's some kind of phobia for what happened but whatever it is, it clearly doesn't count as a phobia anymore because the problem described in the phobia was actually real and something to be justifiably worried about.

In hindsight, I guess the true /vp/ plays format (single person playing 1 game, with a bunch of lurkers following his playthrough and choosing what mons to use; pretty much the same as conventional "/board/ plays X" threads) died as the multiplayer reborn LP happened. The 'Set Sail' incident was pretty much me deciding that shit isn't salvageable and that it's time to run. Said decision was also influenced by /vp/ becoming an increasingly shitty board in general; maintaining 100+ filters for shit I don't care about, fetish threads, and glorified ecchi threads was annoying especially with site updates and occasionally having to clear my cache because some /vp/edophile uploaded something illegal.

Another reason why I decided to just quit doing LP threads on /vp/ was because they were going way too fast for me to keep up with, both when partaking in them as a player and maintaining the archive; it's very easy to get caught behind if you're not no-lifing the game (especially if people are trying to speedrun). Just doing something as summarizing what happens in the thread in a single sentence subtitle becomes easier said than done.

And that's just with a single game being played, with one major story route. The nu-/vp/ plays threads don't even attempt to all focus on playing the same game or trying to keep pace at all, and it's pretty much impossible to organize them with any consistency when you no longer have threads dedicated to individual games or playthroughs, resulting in threads becoming a jumbled mess of people with different active days/hours playing different games at different paces going down differing story routes under different self imposed restrictions and posting habits, it eventually becomes impossible to archive anything in a way that can be followed or at least vaguely understood. Some /vp/ shitposters compared the single tripfag LPs to glorified twitch streams, but now a more appropriate comparison for that argument would be clicking a bunch of random streamers and watching them in multiple windows, all with the audio on.

Of course, shitposters on /vp/ are just part and parcel of using a barely moderated board. Any raids that happened against my threads were easily turned into stalemates with the secret weapon of just waiting things out and making another thread, and dealing with schizos was still pretty damn manageable (due to relatively low numbers and them not trying to actively take over the threads); but with the original format being pretty much gone, and thus the opportunity for an actually entertaining LP, I had little reason to persevere through all that shit and I started looking for a perfect opportunity to get the fuck out of dodge; and that's when the world's shittiest bait was posted; in the form of someone berating me for getting filtered by an "easy" fight (even though it really isn't due to the very skewed field and dualtype restrictions giving me zero options besides trying to abuse RNG and AI in a game with AI input reading), at which point I decided I'd have an excuse to get out of the multi-LP as my only other options were cheating openly (and getting berated for it) or getting permafiltered (and continue to get berated). Damned if I do, damned if I don't. Another reason I decided to GTFO was because regardless of whether I continued playing in the thread, I'd get spoiled constantly by people speedrunning shit, despite me explictly saying not to speedrun the game.

If you want some advice from me, just know that you're never too young to say "I'm too old for this shit".

Some anon in that thread mentioned how /vp/ plays started with Rejuvenation and ended with Rejuvenation (paraphrased), and he was right. (edit as of 8/2/24: apparently that same thing was mentioned in the rejuvenation v13 ground monotype's starting thread made by an anon on my behalf, 11 months before it'd be said again) I guess I could have avoided the death of /vp/ plays if I handled things differently (like maybe re-railing things back to the old format when something playable for a full LP came out) but there's not much point bitching about what could have been if there's no opportunity to change it. Especially since it's 10 months after that happened (as of September 2024). Maybe in an alternate timeline (where everything isn't fucked), v13.5 could have actually rejuvenated /vp/ plays (fire essay writing skills, I know) and ushered in a new golden age.

If I were to list any lasting positive things that directly came out of this whole journey, I guess it helped stave off boredom during summer/fall/winter 2022, and I made a few friends from /vp/ that are in active contact with me. I also got a pretty in depth refresher of what to do and what not to do when it comes to game design/writing, and I actually have the plans, ambition, knowledge, and resources to finally start that project to mod Rejuvenation into an actually good game, ever since the initial ideas posted in the 2022 golden days. Only thing stopping that from happening is waiting another 48248 years for a patreon money launderer to hurry up and release v14 so there's finally everything needed to start salvaging Rejuv; but trust me, it'll be well worth the wait.

Yeah, that game still lives rent free in my head; kinda hard not to after a several month long playthrough of it with a pretty large peanut gallery and writefags expanding on whatever ideas pop up during the thread. Fortunately, like 9 months of thinking about ways to turn it from what would otherwise be trash into a genuinely good game has pretty much drowned out most of the existential dread caused by the doomed path the game is officially taking; and to be honest I feel a lot of the negative feelings I associate with that update had to do with the then-recent Set Sail incident. Some of the shit was still vomit inducingly bad due to being a crime against game design, writing, and proper development practices, but at least the last time that mess made me physically ill was a few months ago, which is a step up from being miserable for most of november. Just gotta hope it's not totally fucked up next update.

With that eulogy/retrospective/rant fueled by hindsight bias/wall of text out of the way, if you still give a shit about the original spirit of /vp/ plays, or are intrigued by anything I hinted at working on, or if you just want get in touch with me to chat or ask questions (and I will answer them), or if you want to let me know that someone actually read that wall of text then feel free to join the following server which I'm linking again for good measure: https://discord.gg/ZtVmVWNPu (join and you get immunity from losing The Game for 1 month)

Just don't spam or do other annoying shit; while I'm not expecting everyone to bury the hatchet just because I asked nicely, I'd still appreciate it if you at least show some respectability.

Sure, this huge wall of text isn't going to convince everyone one way or the other; those who supported me either are already in contact with me or just stopped interacting with /vp/ altogether (can't blame them), and I'm pretty sure this isn't going to change the minds of anyone who was (or still is) rabidly against me, before or after the incident. This whole section is mostly for the curious, or for those who don't have a strong opinion on the matter (either due to not caring, being too new to remember the incident firsthand, or getting over it), those who support me but feel like I mishandled the situation (no shit even I feel I made mistakes) and those who weren't necessarily with me during the incident but can still be reasoned with, or for people who fall into the first group (people who agree with me) that just want a detailed explanation of what went down from my side of the story. But regardless of where you consider yourself on the spectrum, it'd be worthwhile to at least stop by and hang out or get some questions answered.

Also if it wasn't obvious I'm not gonna even attempt to try and start doing LPs on /vp/ again because even if I somehow could get active threads going that aren't FUBAR on arrival, the stare of /vp/ is fucking godawful and no diplomacy or promises of a truce or just pretending to be a totally unrelated person is going to make me want to touch that gate to hell (edit: at least for 2+ months); and all the other vidya boards are either a bit too too slow for a LP of something (vm, vrpg, vst), way too fast (v, vg), or just not about the types of games I tend to play (vmg, vr). Trying to do anything on altchans is out of the question, because with altchans your options are either dead sites, altchans with 2 digit posts per hour across all boards, or soyjak.party/4chan. The only vaguely feasible non-imageboard platforms I can think of for the style of real-time, viewer interaction-based screenshot playthroughs old /vp/ plays was known for would be Discord (if you use a community server's forum feature and invite enough people to have a meaningful audience) and traditional forums, if I can find any with decent enough activity and tolerance for shenanigans.. Of course the former would require me to pull a fully populated peanut gallery out of my ass, and the latter would be a hassle with how conventional forms seem to be a dying form of communication.

TL;DR: There were a lot of varied issues that caused the whole incident, some preventable, some ignorable/mitigable, and some that could have just been avoided if I thought things through, or at least was more willing to use the power I had as the tripfag running the general before it was too late. Also if /vp/ was less shit I probably would have stayed for longer but lmao good luck convincing me to stay on this board long-term

Set Sail, ؜ Musk sand

For anyone who cares, I'll be tracking how often this still gets viewed, updated each time I come back to this page. Probably gonna be very gradual because there's not too much reason for people to frequently check this unless they wanna read /vp/ autism, but at least one person will care enough to notice it and eventually tell me that no one cares
September 19, 2024: 3197
September 20, 2024: 3222
September 21, 2024: 3230
September 22, 2024: 3236
October 2, 2024: 3243
October 4, 2024: 3247
October 8, 2024: 3252
October 11, 2024: 3256
October 19, 2024: 3264
November 6, 2024: 3291
November 17, 2024: 3303
December 21, 2024: 3345
January 23, 2025: 3359
January 27, 2025: 3364
February 11, 2025: 3379

Additionally, if anyone is wondering about the whole "set sail" thing, I chose that phrase for the "fuck this shit I'm out" moment to reference some gmod zs server that shutdown in 2018; hell, I was kinda tempted to put a copypaste of its shutdown page in the rentry during the temporary rentry replacement "phase" of the incident just for shits and giggles, but alas, I was blinded by rage and wasted an opportunity to do something funny.

Edit as of 2025: aw fuck that page changed but because I feel like it I'll just link a rentry mirror of what that page used to say here: https://rentry.org/set-sail

also something about the Ship of Theseus paradox too I guess