6-2: Freezeezy Peak!
Channel: Rooreelooo
Date: 2022-09-06

Original video upload date: Aug 22, 2008

🎵 2022 commentary 🎵

there was a thing on the SA LP subforum for a while. a little storm in a teacup. basically there was a big skype chat in which many of the LPers hung out and bullshitted. i guess it was a precursor to a discord server (these videos predate discord by like 7 years lmao). but it wasn’t like an official one, it was just one started by some people who invited their friends. a lot of LPers were kinda close knit so it ended up scooping up a handful of people, myself included, and it was nice to chat and hang out there. i liked it! i was in a different timezone to everyone else (and i was cripplingly shy) so i didn't actually talk in it very much, but it was a cool spot to hang out nonetheless. it had a name - the ‘secret walrus club’. i’m talking about this here because it was named after the line that the walrus says in this update (or next one? it's in one of these freezeezy vids), so it was kinda a BK reference. 

anyway, the reason i’m mentioning this is because it ended up causing actual forums drama lmao. people every so often would mention that they had discussed things in the secret walrus club, and maybe some people were all playful about it like ‘hush hush don't mention it! it's a secret!’ in public for laughs. but other people on the forums started to notice that it was a thing - that there was apparently some secret club that only SOME LPers were involved in and not others. and you started getting people being like ‘how do i join the club?’, ‘what IS this club’, ‘why are decisions being made privately in the club when they should be made publicly?’ and ‘why am i not allowed in the club :[‘. 

this is quite historically funny, because it reflects the way that online socialising has changed. nowadays nobody would bat an eyelid if they found out some friends were in a discord server, or that it had a weird meme name. but back then nobody really knew what it was, so they started assuming it was a shadowy cabal of LP illuminati pulling the strings in the background. that such a thing would exist (and that i of all people would have a chair at that table lmao) is honestly hilarious and worth remembering.

🎵 Links & Information 🎵

This video was originally created as part of my Let’s Play of the Banjo-Kazooie series, a project that I worked on while at the SomethingAwful Forums LP Subforum in the years 2008-2010. It was originally posted to a number of video hosts such as Viddler, DailyMotion, GameVee, blip.tv. Most of those hosts are long dead now, yet I still want it to be hosted somewhere accessible for archival purposes. Hence the loooooong-delayed re-upload to YouTube. 

The original Banjo-Kazooie LP ran from 14th August 2008 to 14th September 2008, lasting 31 days total and consisting of 33 videos. 
🧩Banjo-Kazooie Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZp_VDhCXPFEJsI0cxANgusL
🧩Banjo-Tooie Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZpG0tvDCAdf3pZcNWGnErf3
🧩Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZr1wc1SwnROcIWE1nDUhIGI

Original thread links
🧩BK/BT: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2930941 
🧩BT:N&B: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3188254 
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