I have a terrible magpie-esque archiving habit, if I find anything vaguely interesting online and I have even the barest inkling that it might vanish, I will download it there and then.
AND TODAY I WAS VINDICATED
BROTORO'S KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM LETS PLAY HAS VANISHED
(Okay it hasn’t completely vanished. A single copy remains online in the KSP forums, but those are ancient, hard to read, and don’t show up in search results so they’re basically impossible to find unless you already know they’re there.)
Brotoro’s KSP letsplays are some of the most ridiculous long-term RP text-and-images-ye-olden-times-SomethingAwful-letsplay stuff you’ve ever seen. One continuous KSP save file running from before KSP even had wings right up until it entered beta, they changed the physics code and rendered his entire save unusable.
If you like KSP, read this. It's an EXTENSIVE letsplay all conducted within a single save over YEARS. There’s a link at the end of this post where you can read it.
Lots of really fun and interesting RP'ing and self-imposed challenge. He did a lot of clever flying and maneuvering and moving big chunks of hardware around in interesting ways, but more importantly, he did a lot of surface level exploration.
You don’t get a lot of KSP letsplays that are about, e.g. driving around the entirety of Duna! But this guy made one!
It's also just really fun RP stuff, if you want to see someone put a load of effort into doing an interesting RP Letsplay, this is for you. Every single kerbal in the crew gets a consistent character and personality and there's fun jokes and generally good storytelling connecting the things that happen to an overall narrative. It’s not ground-breaking emotional storytelling but it’s good!
I recursively wget'd this whole thing a couple years ago because I remember reading this story for AGES in high school. Waiting on updates. The internet archive doesn't have a good copy of this and the forum copy doesn't show up in search results. It has been tortuga'd
Maybe whoever is hosting that server just forgot to pay their fees and it'll be online again soon, but maybe not and that's why I do this. Because I knew that someday I would be right.
I archived that one youtube channel that's full of tapes of old filk music and I archived the ScienceMadness books and I archived A Softer World and I think I still have my 2013 scrape of Gunnerkrigg Court somewhere because I know that some day those too might vanish.
If the phrases "simultaneously manouvering six nuclear tugs into a series of aerobrakes" or "extensive lord of the rings jokes while exploring a moon" appeal to you, then you’re in luck, because I saved this and I am now rehosting it on my personal site. You can view it here.
If you want to get right to the Good Stuff, I recommend you start with Long Term Laythe, it’s really good. You can go back and read everything but it’s a LOT of lets play. There’s also a download link on the homepage if you want to download a copy of my archive.
