OpTic Podcast - Formal Leaks Crimsix’s LAN Tricks 😂 | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 217

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

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I see the straight riffin roster, like walk in the lobby. In their jerseys? No, but like in their affliction teas, you know, and their Ed Hardy teas. Yeah. Walk in the lobby. All four of them have a Dr. Pepper Girl with them with them, and they look insane. Yeah. And I'm just sitting there with my bag just like watching this.

And I'm just like, what the fuck? What is the school seven and a bar? I'm just like, what the fuck? And like they're all hammered and shit? Like, just getting an elevator and just disappeared. I was like those guys are legendary. What the hell? Those guys are awesome.

This was crazy. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Optic Podcast. Episode 217 brought to you by Hymns and Factor. We will talk about those at a different time. Join today by Bound and Formal. Hey guys. Going on, everyone.

Yes. But Hector's not here today. Hector, we're actually shooting content on Monday today. and Hector is sick. I can't believe it because Hector, this is like his time right now. The podcast is Hector's time.

And he's not here today. So he's got to be feeling pretty shitty. Yeah, so on the day when I was here screaming, I was here screaming on like Wednesday, I think. Or Tuesday maybe? Tuesday. I don't know.

Sometime recently. And he came in and was talking to me. And I was like, he sounds sick. And he was like, no, dude, I'm good. And now he's sick. That's not what he said. Yeah, he did. He came in and he was like, I'm going to stand back here.

I'm sick. That was the first thing he said, remember? Oh, is it? Yeah. I'm making this up? I think you're bringing it up, yeah. All right, well, feel better, Hector. Yo, bounce fucking, fucking, she's got that sharp memory.

But, yeah, I thought I was getting sick like three days ago, but then it, like, went away the next day. But I have really bad allergies. So, like, sometimes I'll just wake up and have, like, flu symptoms, and then just feel fine the next day. Like dry throat. It's like the weirdest shit. Yeah, like in the back of your nose, you know, when you start getting that, like...

Congested, but it's, like, dry and, like, weird. And your brain just feels weird, like you're starting to get sick. I had that three days ago, but luckily, I didn't get it. But let's talk about you, boys, obviously first. You guys have started off the HCS season this past Sunday. You guys got second, I know. Yeah, this one was okay, though, because since we started playing together, we haven't really gone over anything as a team, like, not even, like,

how we want to play the game. We literally just spawned in and just ran around and just like we're winning. So we were like, fuck it, let's just keep doing it. But then yesterday when we lost,

like we lost in ways that we knew it was just like on us. So we actually went back and looked at something like the film for the first time. So I think it's going to be a good thing. Yeah, I was always curious because obviously

I've never played Halo competitively, but how like intricate is it compared to Cod? Because Cod, you're watching Vod, you're going over shit, looking at the mini map. Halo you don't have a mini map. Like how different is it trying to like adjust what you guys are doing and shit?

I mean we're literally just spawning in, just playing straight up like fuck you. Like this is like talent. Yeah? Like we're not, we haven't went over a callout. We don't even have like the same callouts. Like H5 splice? Pretty much. They're just not even scriming. I mean, we haven't went over literally a single thing.

I mean, there's calls that you will say meant that I don't even know. Like on my fire, you keep saying sneaky. I don't know what the fuck that is. I'm just like. Is that the drop down? No, it's not. It's not. Yeah, I thought it was cement.

But you're like sneaky. And then like I'm on death cam. I'm like, it's sneaky. Like, you don't even knows what it is. You guys don't even know comms and you're getting second? Okay, that's, that's pretty. Well, we got first. Yeah, whoa.

The first weekend. Don't just say we're getting second. Okay, yeah, I don't know why. Emphasize the seconds are. Yeah, what the hell? And we reset the finals. We just, honestly, I'm kind of, I'm kind of, like a little losers. Like, you know what I mean?

It's good a good one, like goes in. We had you guys up on the side screen. We were watching. We were pulling for you guys. We were, it was like, I was sitting there watching. It was the last match of the day for Cod. it was Atlanta versus Boston and I was like

can phase just 3-0 so we can lock into the Halo boys our whole chat was just like just watch Halo but yeah I mean we're not just going to cut the CDL stream off because that's like our main thing but yeah the team is like

obviously you guys have so much talent on the team has that been like has it been hard to kind of mesh that together or has it become like natural at this point already I mean I feel like it was like natural when we started playing together the first day like I feel like it's so pretty natural now

I mean I think yesterday was probably the first time where like like you said were there's not really them kind of like just shitty on us and assuring us we're just losing just because they were actually playing structured and we're just literally trying to out talent them we're trying to run at them and just kill them yeah so I mean

I think yesterday was a good a good way to lose because like there were like a few issues that I would notice during scrims but I wouldn't really say anything because we're just like dominating the scrims so I was like if it recurs again or like if it happens in attorney then I'll like kind of bring it up but like you're like you

Yeah, like certain, just certain, like, little niche, like, situations in game types. I noticed we're happening multiple times, so we talked about it yesterday, and we're going to talk about it again. But I think it's a good thing to find they actually want to go over stuff. Yeah, and you guys have already diagnosed the problem, which is half the battle. It's like, we fucked up on this. But when's your guys first event? We have the K-San event, the same in the month. It's not like an official event.

Oh, yeah, that's after our major. Yeah. That's the weekend after our major. Yeah, it's the same thing you guys did with Cod. Yeah, I'm hyped to watch that. Do you guys hype for that? It's a 50K prizeball. 50K?

Yeah. So what is it like? It's 30K first or 50K top? I think it's 50K total. So what's it like 30 for first? Probably. Yeah, probably. Yeah, that's nice.

And you guys don't have to travel? Yeah. The Cod guys had the fly to L.A. Yeah, fuck that. They played it at the same venue that the, like, founding fathers land was at, which was dope, by the way. Yeah, the venue actually looks. That was sick. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. But I'm excited to watch you guys, man. Unfortunately, all your

your first two majors fall on CDL weekends. So I don't really know what I'm going to do about that. Yeah, isn't one literally combined? Like a... Yeah, Dream hack. Yeah, Dream hack. That would be crazy, to be honest. That's your second event, right? Yeah. So, and then after that, we get to watch some Halo. So I'm excited. We're going to be watching anyway, but I'm excited to see what you guys can do, man. I got a lot of, I got a lot of faith in this team. This team is disgusting. Not that I didn't have faith in our last team, but... I get it. When you throw four, when you throw you four out there, I mean, holy shit.

It's a pleasure to watch. Thank you. But now we got to talk about... Yeah, just do it. Just rip it. The God team. Well, we don't have to talk about them just yet. We have our major coming up. March 20th through the 23rd.

Wait, what? That's soon. Yeah, it's this next weekend. They play two more matches. obviously they're 0 and 5 right now they play two more matches they play thieves on Friday which fuck they play thieves in their next match

they play thieves Friday who do they play after that L-A-G which L-A-G is like wait they could go into that match being 0 and 18 I'm about to give us some crazy G-JU

why are you manifesting it I'm not but I'm saying like that's insane like they're going to randomly have like a lose-lose like both teams are already in Luzer racket, like, but still that match is going to be, like, so important. That sucks. Yeah, it's so important for the mental.

If they, LAT, though, then, like, that'd be awesome, right? See, that's the thing. I've been going into every match, like, optimistic. I'm like, is today going to be the day where the switch is just flipped and they're back, and then it just hasn't been flipped. But obviously, we got the ring ceremony. So I know the community right now is kind of, like, making a huge joke about it, which I mean, I get it.

They're playing like ass. It's not, you know, a question mark to anybody at this point. They are playing. They're not playing well. But you still got to show respect for the ring ceremony. I mean, this team won chance. Yeah, give them a round of applause, damn it. Like, that's what I'm saying they're going to get booed and shit.

I'm like, the fuck? Like, they're not going to get booed. I mean, I feel so bad for them because, like, they literally won champs. And now they're in a crazy slump and the community. is just railing them. But I get it at the same time because, you know, it went on his whole, like,

crazy villain arc where he was like, you motherfuckers aren't playing for the win. I know. And all that. And now this is happening. So, I mean, it was just ammo. It was just so much ammo. What's that quote where it's like,

the only thing people love more than a hero to watch a hero fall, die trying. So fucked up. But it's like, it's so true. Like, they just won chance. They get their tipping. All the optic, like haters and all people that hate seeing them succeed were just fucking molding.

And now they've just fucking unleashed. Just fucking Arthur Fis. Like, fuck, they get it. Now they're just unleashing hell on the Reddits and the Twitters. It was the drums. Fuck. Like, they've just been waiting to get this moment. And it's just, I do feel for him, man.

It sucks. Where's this I've been at? The Allen Events Center. Have you ever been there? Is it the one they put champ to? Yeah, it's in Allen. It's like, uh, We've been there a bunch of times now, but it's where the indoor soccer team played.

Is it where the champs was at? Yeah, it's the same place where champs is at. Oh, no. They're going to be powered up. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So it's a home event. It's like... They're powered up.

They're like, they're going to the ring on? They're pulling up to the ring on. I don't know if they're playing with the ring on. I'm playing with the ring on. They might as well. Controllers, you have that big ass ring. They're like... They need that ring on.

Just get some power. Put the fuck the ring on. Just show it. Before every series, just look up at it. For every series, just look up at it. Yeah, just stand up and stretch and show them and then start playing. I honestly think, like, when I'm watching the matches, like, I don't know how you feel, Seth. Like, when I watch them play...

Oh, I feel a whole lot of things, and not a lot of them are good. But, like, at the very start of the series, I'm, like, hopeful. I'm like, maybe they just, like, did something this week, and, like, it comes down to, like, that map one hard point. And then, like, once they lose the hard point, you get that feeling of, like, oh, fuck, dude. Like, are they... Is it, like, this going to happen again? And then it does. And then you're like, well, especially the way, because I watched the one that they played against Miami, which was, by the way, one of the most brain dead hard points I've ever seen.

It was the worst hard point. I think I've watched like throughout the whole year. I was just watching it just like, I haven't played this card in like a little bit, but I was like, did it change or are they all just running around right now? Like this looks brain dead. Miami was also just running around. Both teams were just being just like brain dead. Yeah. But then I watched that and then like, I mean, dude, yeah, their search is like, I'm like.

I don't know. I don't know what exactly I watch in search. I don't know what their issues in search. I mean, like, there's like so many that I don't even know, like, when I'm watching, I'm just like, I don't even know how I would fix this if I was like Damon or like. They're just full on. They're just full on in their heads. Yeah, they're just, yeah.

They're full on in their heads. I just feel bad for them. It honestly sucks. But, I mean, it is the ring ceremony again. It's going to be, it's going to be a cool thing to see. Obviously, with their, with their placings and, or with their past match. it's just been super tough. But, Bam, how much do you watch Cod?

Do you watch it a lot or not really? Yeah, I do watch a good amount. I mean, I'm cool with some of the Cod pros. Okay. Neptune, I think he's on the search. Nep, yep, yep. He's, me and him, when he played Halo, he's always been my boy. He's always been my boys.

So I've always watched Cod. I'm pretty cool. I used to be pretty cool to be pretty cool to hint. I don't know. I mean, I think it's crazy they can't at least win a map. I don't know. Like, it is Cod. You know what I play Cod a little bit.

I know, like, it's not too hard. like an S&D at least, it's kind of like a slayer and Halo. Like, I think it's kind of mungling that someone's just not taking over and it's like getting at least more, you know what I mean? Just have like a God timing map. That's what I'm saying. You know, I mean, just go up like 3-0 because you're just like getting crazy timings. You're like 8 and 2, 8 and 1.

Yeah. You get three kills first round. You're like, okay, now I'm playing loose. Yeah, I don't give a fuck. You're throwing frags. They're getting kills every time. Like, it's just like one of those maps and it just doesn't, I don't know. I don't know what their problem is, but.

But like you guys were saying, hopefully they power up. Hopefully they just get a fucking crazy land. I mean, they will, they will be better on land. Like, no question about it. Get them out of that room they keep losing in. Get them in a new environment. Get them out of that room, dude. Get him out of that room.

That room is, fucking. That room is haunted, bro. Like, I walk past that room and I just see, like, I just feel like there's been some shit that's going down in that room. I'm like, it's just like an evil aura just, like, dripping from the ceiling. There's a dark cloud over that room. There is. And it's oozing out.

I have to close our halo door because it's so close. I'm like, don't go in here. Like, holy shit. This is fucking. Keep that shit on the other side of the hall. Yeah, this fucking. But yeah, it's tough to watch. It's really tough to watch.

The community's just been going in. I mean, rightfully so. It's just been, it has been very, very tough to watch. But our event's still going to be lit. I mean, I don't know. I keep seeing people say they're going to sell tickets and they're not going to come to the event. That's crazy. You know, I think most people are trolling.

There's probably some people that are honestly maybe doing that. But, dude, our event is still going to be amazing. I mean, it's at the same venue as champs. It's a great venue. That venue's sick. Yeah, the venue's great. So I'm just hoping for a big bounce back, man. We also got the limited green jerseys if you guys want to come out reping.

If you guys would come out reping the boys? Yes. And we got the new spring merch release on March 20th. Day one of the major, there's a new merch drop. Nice. I know. You know, I get it. It's people just want to see them do well.

And right now it's just, not that's not happening so i think people i think so many people just want to see them just do but i think so many people want to see them go what are they o and 15 they want to see them go oh and 21 so bad they'll be the falcons like people want to well yeah but i meant worse than o and 15 is it is it yeah all right well they want to see whatever it is go map winless in this because the minor they got the minor they got three oed out of the minor they're o'n 15 in the stage in the minor they beat falcons then got three oed so they're technically oh and 18 and their past six series.

That's okay. I mean, like... I mean, I don't want to like... Yeah, I'm not trying to like... Yeah, I mean... I'm not saying that... I just hate that so many people just want to see them just keep losing.

Like, if they beat LAT, like, people are going to be like so weird about it. I mean, like, no one's expecting them to beat LAT, but I just want them to win the map one at least. Like, if they just win the map one, that could spark something. They rise to the occasion. Might not win the series, but just like,

just win the map one, like, because right now they're just like, God, I couldn't even imagine what that's... feels like loading in, dude, like going into the control and you're down O2 again. And you're just like, God damn it. And it's vault. And we haven't won around in vault. It's just, yeah,

have you guys ever, like, slumped like this in your, and your guys' professional careers, or? I mean, I just got second like seven times in a row. Okay, that's not. Yeah, it's pretty different. I'm just playing me. It is different. It is playing me every time. And I was with you for like that makes sense. It makes sense. It makes sense. Dude. You just play me every time.

Dude. I'm like, that sucks, but I mean, he's playing me guys. Like, come on. I'm let that rock because we're teaming now. You're beast. You're beast. But I mean, like, we were playing for me and you, Seth, we didn't really have, like, a slump like that. Our slumps were, like, fourth or, like, six. Yeah, I mean, we did get a top six team,

but we were, like, chalked at that point. I feel like no one's really ever had a slump like this. You know what I mean? The slump's pretty generational. Like, it seemed like as talented as they are, you know what I mean? It's so weird, bro. It is weird. It is really no sense.

It's so weird. It is very weird. But, again, you know, I got faith in the team. They won champs together. They had a bad major four last year. It wasn't this bad, obviously, but I mean, they could, they could turn it around. A lot of people are calling for heads and shit. It's just, it's insane, brother.

I cannot fucking imagine. Dude, I can't imagine. I would, I wouldn't get on my phone. Like, I wouldn't, if I were them, I would take, like, two days off, do what you got to do, re-center your chi and your energies, and then come back. I know people are probably going to. be like take days off no they need to keep fucking playing now people don't really understand

how it is but like I mean there's no way any of them are looking at their phone like going on Twitter Shotsie Street last night I was like this guy has the biggest goones no I just meant like I was about to gift him 20 just for turning on so he doesn't give a fuck like going on like the Reddit for example like

unless you have a humiliation kink there's no way that any of those players are going on the Reddit and reading people up to say like there's no way not watching it not watching the flank not watching Yeah. You know, just completely disconnect, try to reset or try to get the mind right,

because right now I feel like it's just a mental thing, dude. I mean, it definitely is a big mental thing. Yeah. Because they're not bad players. I feel like they're so deep into the loss. Like losing, they should just lose the rest of the line and just go to Lenevin and just play like however they want. You know what I mean?

Like, fuck it, they have nothing to lose type shit. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, they definitely have nothing to lose at this point. They really have nothing to lose. Like even the last two home line matches, they really have nothing to lose. They really have nothing to lose.

It can't get worse. So. Yeah. going to be in losers regardless. Just fuck it, dude. Just fuck it. Like, if I'm, if I'm them, I'm playing the event, I'm just playing any type of way.

I'm just challenging fucking everything. I don't give a fuck. Just playing loose. I don't give a fog, bro. Playing loose on the map. But yeah, we got our event coming up. I mean, again, hopefully they make a run. It's going to be a fun event regardless.

I mean, it's the second major. It's our major. The event team always does a great job, throwing the events and stuff. So I'm excited, man. I'm excited to get back there. obviously do the watch party in the venue. We didn't go to the first event.

So I'm pretty pumped just to be at an event again. Oh, yeah, you guys didn't go. It was in Spain. It was in Madrid, yeah. Dude, that's crazy. I feel like this is the first major coming up. Yeah? Like, because I just totally forgot they played a major in Spain, like randomly.

Yeah, right? It was just like kind of like a weird time warp. Yeah, it was. But the matches were starting at like 9 a.m. here. Yeah. To kick off the season, it was just like, yeah, it was. Weird. Yeah, it was, but I mean, it was still the first event. Yeah.

Phase won that shit. You can't. Yeah, they won the game seven, like round 11. That was lit. That was pretty crazy. That shit was crazy. That was lit. That shit was crazy. But yeah, hope to see some of you guys there. It's going to be a fun time. And hopefully the boys can bounce back. Again, we're kind of beating a dead horse at this point. Everybody knows they're getting shit on. So hopefully they can bounce back in a big way.

They got that. They got that. They got that shit. But five year anniversary today of Warzone launching. I don't know, war zone's been in a... Five years ago? Twitter's down? Oh, that's fine. Oh, what the hell? Yeah, we don't need...

We don't need it. But yeah, have you ever played war zone bound? Yeah, I actually played it a lot when W.W. 2019 came out, I think. Like playing Vernansk original? Yeah, when it first came out, I played it a good amount. Are you fucking hacking? No.

Should I've been? Probably. I don't know. You might have been hacking. I think he was hacking. I mean, everybody else is doing it. It seems like the cool thing to do now. You kind of had to, so.

I mean, I should have. I guess. I mean, it's pretty good when it came out. I don't know. I don't know why. I think Cold War came out. I just, certainly. I think I got tired of it.

I don't know. I just got old after some time. Just started to stop playing it completely. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I'm excited for dance coming out at the start of next month. Obviously, you're probably not going to play that shit at all, right? I mean, I might touch it.

You might touch it? Yeah. Like, for a day or two. I mean, if the hacking's still bad. I've won Blackout back where I used to watch him when Blackout. That's so legendary. He was on DMO. He was blacked out.

He was blacked out. But yeah, I mean, if the hacking is still bad, there's no way I touch the game. Because it's just like. Was hacking bad at Warzone? Fuck, yeah. He's hacking at Warzone. Bro, there's probably people that are celebrating their five-year. Not ranked war zone?

How are you getting dope off that? That's insane. That is so sick. There's probably people out there that I've been hacking nonstop for five years on this, on Warzone. If people were hacking in Blackout? You think so? Fuck yeah. Oh, no.

It was on PS4. Oh, yeah, that's right, fuck. But yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited for Verdance to come out. I mean, Warzone, dude, last podcast we were like, can Warzone just go away so multiplayer just rises back to the top? Back to Pick 10, old cod, no slide canceling? I'll take a better out.

I mean, fucking Halo could use one. It'll be perfect. I'll take it. I'll trade you guys. A VR? Yeah, I'll trade you. What the fuck? The hell was that?

Well, you guys just got a search and deploy, right? Or seek and deploy? Yeah, bro. bro. I want to hear your opinion because we got Matt's opinion last week on it what do you think about that?

It's just like I mean how was even gonna work with Halo you know what I mean? Yeah I was thinking about it I was telling the Halo team I was like it'd be like

if they encounter strike they put like a Halo game mode and they're like yo simple go fucking learn Halo you know what I mean like I feel like it's like

it's like a whole different game inside of the game like why am I playing Search and Halo makes no sense it's like a love baby between search and Valorin right

yeah I mean I don't even know but it's gonna be like it's halo like how's it even going to work for him just jumping off the map or double-knating myself. Like, what the fuck am I going to do? Just give up.

Don't even like, give me like, you got this. Like, no, I fucking don't, bro. Don't even let them kill you and come over and bag your shit. I'm just praying for strokes. Like, somebody, please have a stroke, please. Somebody black the fuck out. Give me a chow. But yeah, war zone.

We'll see how it is. I saw them tweet yesterday. They literally tweeted, or somebody tweeted that they're... Ooh, what's this? Wait, what is Verdant? Is Verdant's the... Wait, they dropped the trailer. Oh, yeah, let's run this.

Yeah, rip it. Okay, I'm checked already Okay, this is trolley dude What the fuck is? Dude, they're putting more effort Into the fucking trailers in the game This trailer is fucking like 4K

4K quality So dude But yeah, they're playing into that nostalgia factor It's unforgettable Play free That's so fucking scary Play free That is so fucking scary

Boot up your $10 Hacks Play free Yeah, that was scary little exit there. But not, they just, they tweeted out that that,

that, one of like the Intel accounts tweeted out that Activision's like looking for people to try to reverse engineer the, or something,

the terminal system to, they're like, they're just pulling for anybody they can get. Like, help us. The kernel system. Like,

what the fuck is that? Like, we don't know. Any coders out there that could, well, I thought caught to announce the anti-sheet. Elposs.

They did. They did. It was supposed to come out a, I thought Rakeachersh was supposed to be fine. They were... When I first came out...

Ricochet. I'm like... It bounces back. Comes back ten times. Was that what they were trying to sell? It was like if the hacker was hacking, he would get shot at, like when he would shoot someone? Yeah, because that's what they were doing. Oh, my God.

They would like make the hackers have no damage in Shay. Remember that? You would just shoot people if you were hacking. You hack on yourself. You're shooting yourself, idiot. You're hitting yourself. And those hackers just fucking laugh in the face of ricochet. Oh, yeah.

Now they are. They are caching. What is ricochet? It's like the anti-cheat. It's the name of the anti-chete. But hopefully they can fix it up before Verdan's comes out. Yeah. I'm not really hopeful for that, honestly.

I'm so hopeful for that, but yeah. Warzone's coming back, man. War zones come back in a big way. Yeah, what the f-you-seen that one point? Yeah, who's making these bullet points? Was this you? What? These are getting weird towards the end.

I'm not going to say it all that. Getting weird towards the end. Did you guys watch the Sidman charity soccer game? I did not. I saw clips of it. You didn't? You didn't? It was pretty hype.

It was on like pretty early in the morning because it was, I'm pretty sure it was in, uh... I was probably asleep. Where was it? It was in the UK, right? Yeah. But they raised six million pounds. That's not dollars. That's six million pounds.

Holy fuck. Oh, so... Dude, that is insanity. Yeah, that's nuts. Now, I saw a clip in the head like a packed-off stadium for a fucking... There were like 90,000 people there. That's insane. That's crazy.

They can fill a stadium like that. It looked insane. I mean, like, when you put that many giant, like, people in a fucking stadium like that, like... But, like, it's not even for, like, actual, like, soccer pros, you know, like, professionals, you know what I mean? Like, I saw speed score a goal, and it looks like he's, like, he's playing for, like, Barcelona. I mean, it looks legit. Like, if I were to look at this at first glance, I was like, oh, yeah, that's just a game. Yeah, right?

This looks like an actual professional soccer match. It looks, yeah, that's insane. But, yeah, I watched a little bit of it. I started streaming, like... Towards the tail end of it, I was eating my breakfast watching it. But yeah, this shit's dope, man. You put all those YouTubers in there. I mean, it's just, dude, it's so crazy to think about, like, how far content and everything has come since, like, I mean, we first started out.

Like, this shit is crazy to me, that this is, like, this is nuts. It's crazy. When did you start, like, game inbound? I started gaming in, like, 2008, 9-ish. Okay, so you. I was a cod kid, originally. Oh, really? Yeah, I got into, I didn't know that.

My first cod was cod three. Oh, wow. So you're like, you might have been playing cod before me. And I feel like I started pretty early. Like, I started Cod 4. I can literally remember playing the Cod 3 beta, like on my Xbox 360. Oh, shit. They had like vehicles and shit, tanks.

And then. I don't play that too. I remember playing Cod 4, World War. And then I went to the MW2, Midnight Release. It was so fucking legendary. Wait, how old are you? 25. I was 9.

Oh, my gosh. So you've been gaming since. I've never been doing a midnight release. You've been in midnight release? Hell yeah. Well, you've never been to a midnight cheese. I never been to get Zinnie started on the midnight release. You never beat me again.

He loves that shit. I don't know. Here he comes. A special guest mid-podcast. Let's talk midnight release. I'm the Zitster. What's up, kid? I never did that.

What's up, boys? You guys all did that? Oh, yeah, dude, the midnight releases are like... I mean, I... They're so legendary. I remember those is like some of the best gaming times. Ever, yeah. Bro, I remember when's the fucking a maddenmore

and just so I could get dope. Like just waiting in line and shut? Yeah. I don't know. That's like, fuck it, bro. I'll go. Fuck it.

Like, I don't even do. Do you watch football? I do, yeah. Who's your team? Cahawks. Okay, the dirty birds. Lost D.K.

Lost D.K. Nah, fuck it. But yeah, those midnight releases, man. I didn't know you were gaming for that long. Just a long line of people that are just fucking so hype to play God tonight. Just a long line. Everyone's there.

Oh, man. You're with your boys. I had like all of my friends from high school would go. I always say, too. I've been, bro. How you never been? I don't know. I really don't know how I never went to one. No, that's literally exactly what they look like.

That's kind of criminal. That is very criminal. Everyone's like chattering. Like, dude, I'm going to be so good. I'm going to be... I went to the Hale 4 one, and I remember some guy brought his truck to the front of the line, and he hooked up TVs to the back of it, and he was doing 1V1s. On Halo 3.

What the fuck? I was like, I was 12 years old just shitting on grown-ass men. And I got Halo 4. I was like, this is the worst game I've ever played. You fucking suck! And they're called you a squeaker? Yeah, exactly. I used to get called a squeaker all the time, bro, playing Halo and shit.

Yeah, I used to play, like, Halo 2, Halo 3. I was kind of nice. Never played them. No? No, I didn't play back in the day, no. Yeah, I was kind of nice at Halo 3. Going to get the game was, like, so much more dope than, like, downloading the game. So much dope.

Like, you know what I did to get the games now? Like, going to get the disc. Or, like, there were sometimes when my dad would, like, bring me home the disc from work or whatever, and just seeing the disc and then putting the, it was, like, a whole thing, just pure dopamine and bliss. Dude, do you remember getting Christmas gifts and you wouldn't know it's a fucking Xbox game? Yeah. Because the way it was wrapped and you just see like fucking 10 of them. They're like, don't open that first.

Yeah, and there's so many games and this is Assassin's Creed years of war. He's going to open the Xbox first. Fucking Christ. I don't believe you didn't go to one, man. That's, uh... I don't know what I didn't be me. I don't know what I didn't be me. I don't know.

I don't remember. But yeah, it was a different time, man. It was a different fucking time. I used to smell, I used to smell that, that what is it called? Just the plastic wrap and the case? The case just had a smell to it. You'd open up Halo. Is it like a new car smell?

Dude, seriously. Get the 48-hour trial. But yeah, I mean, shouts out sideman, man. What they do is awesome. That charity match raising $6 million. That's fucking nuts. You guys see Sketch's save?

Sketch was there? I thought he couldn't see, bro. Getsch was a goalie, and he got a huge save on Minimiter. That's his, am I saying that right? Yeah. That sounds right. Minimiter.

and Tigo's nuts he won like player of the match Big save by sketch I'm talking about the one where it was like the free kick but yeah look at him like he's a natural out there How many uh... How many viewers were there on the live stream?

Oh wow Look at him, he looks so professional out there Wait, it went to penalties? You know how silly I'd look in that goal formal? Yeah You know fucking silly I'd look? You wouldn't be saving shit? I mean I feel like right there you're just dive in a certain way and praying for the best. He chooses that way and thank God it came to him.

There's no way that was like an actual calculated. 2.5 million. Yeah, that's nuts, man. Well, they sell out Wembley Stadium, right? Isn't that 90,000 people? That's what I saw on Twitter. But they sell out 90,000. It's such a cool thing.

They literally bring out every mega influencer. Yeah, that's crazy. Like, you know, internet celebrity, and they're all in it. Yeah, that shit was sick, man. Talk to Sidemen. Ladies and gentlemen, pardon the interruption. It is me, Big Optic Hex. Where did I come from?

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topics. Now we've got Kanye text, Joe Rogan. Did you just like refresh your for you page and just post the first three things that you saw? Wait, hold on, wait, what's that bottom one? That's important. Amaranth revealed that Twitch CEO Dan Clansy admitted that the platform shadow banned her for a year.

No wonder my viewers had been low. You've been shadow banned. You've been fucking shadowed. I figured it out. Do you ever get comments like that where it'll be like, I didn't get your notie and shit like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, I hate when I get those. I'm like, what the fuck?

They're not getting the nody? Yeah. Well, I did see that there was another plane crash in a residential area, I think in Pennsylvania again. Dude, we got it. What is going on? They're just falling out of the sky. I don't know. There's so many plane crash videos.

I am so scared to fly right now. I might drive to Seattle is here. Their first two helivots are in Dallas. That's good. Yeah, let's take a road trip. Let's take a road trip. I'm not even trolling. I don't think you need to be scared like that.

I think these are like. I'm like this is not a commercial plane. This is like somebody going out. I don't care about this video. I'm caring about all of the videos I've seen this year. What the fuck? I don't want to watch this. Yeah, I don't want to watch this either.

This is really scary. I can't believe you put this as a bullet. Well, no. That plane that flipped in Toronto and like the passengers are walking off. That's a flight. That's a flight that you guys could have taken to Toronto. Yeah, that one was wonderful. And the flight attendants are like, please put the phones away.

It's like, what? And they all put each 30K. It's like, what? I will get 30 million from this occurrence. 30,000. for that. I'm never getting, I'm never stepping on a plane again. Ever, ever.

You wouldn't? Fuck now. If that happened to you, you wouldn't get on another? If my plane flipped upside down while I was landing? What are the chances it happens again? Wouldn't they live, though? It's crazy that your reaction like this when you're scared of everything. That's not true.

That's not true. You should not want to go out to movies. You're like, I'm not going to the theater. Okay. It was like, wait, why? You're like... I've been to plenty of movies over... Two this year?

Two movies. Two movies of the past, like, calendar year I've been to two. It's like when the guy from the bench warmers finally goes out in the sun. Yeah, bro. He starts just slowly getting used. I'm going at like 9 p.m. So it's like, I'm going at like 10 a.m. So there's nobody else in the theater.

It's just me and is. And you're just like, I've been to two. And there's both that. I went to Wicked with her family. Dude. That shit was fire. Bro. No,

there's too many players. He's really. No, not really anymore. Wait, what's what are you scared of? Just like because of the shooting. Oh, okay.

But now I'm like, I'm pretty sure. I'm scared of the movie itself. Wasn't it the Dark Night scene or the Batman scene? Wasn't there a... I could have swore it was from that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a shooting during the Batman.

Yeah, it was a shooting during the movie. Oh, that was a real-life shooting. At the release. Oh, I thought it was a movie scene. No, no, no. That was like after-release. I don't know. That's crazy.

Yeah, no. That shit is scary, actually, though. Yeah, it's horrifying. Dude, I mean, yeah. I mean, that's kind of fucked the thing of the moment, I feel like, you know what I mean? Yeah, it is fucked. Oh, he's anti-mole. There's nothing.

Dude, what? I've gone to, I've gone to the mall plenty of times. Sorry. Because I, you know, you know I shop. You know I shop. Yeah, I don't shop for shit. The thing with the plane crashes is like,

so if I tweet right now, like, I'm scared to fly, there's like a plethora of people that's like, dude, it's the safest form of transportation statistically. And I'm like, yeah, but if it starts going down, I know it's done. Like, there is no, like car crash, like there's different types of car crashes. There's extreme.

Like, there's fender bender. Plane going down is always extreme. Like, there is no slight plane crash in my head. No, for sure. You're watching plane disasters, though, where like the plane will just fucking fall out of the sky. That stuff doesn't really like happen. Brother, I watched a helicopter in D.C.

Go right into a commercial. That was a freak. Airplane. Freak occurrence. Okay, but that, like, what I'm saying. saying is in my head that could happen to me like that's where you know what I mean yeah but you can't stop living life man no I know I'm at the point now where I mean you can't you can't still flying like I'm still flying but just know like when we take off that thought's in my head even more so now it

used to be there where it's like you're are you ever on a plane and you can like feel it in your feet when the plane like dips a little bit and goes up I'm like your heart jumps for a sec you're like what the fuck was that now I'm like that's that's really happening more often yeah I hate the that's like cars are so much or are way worse blah blah blah like fucking planes planes you have this statistic whatever because like you got like how many more cars out there with like just random idiots driving them whereas it's just like two pilots flying this fucking thing like it's so it's such a different like comparison and then on top of that it's like fucking i saw a sad that said like there's been oh wait no no the other thing too was that i've always always always

I also seen posts, if you make a plane crash post or like said, I'm scared to fly, there'd be another section of people that are saying this is just the government conditioning you to like be afraid of this thing now. I've seen a lot of that. Oh yeah, 100%. Where they're saying like, like, this is just that next thing. They're trying to scare you with, blah, blah, blah. And I'm just like, dude, I just don't know what the fuck is going on.

If I'm not afraid to fly, because you know how I used to be. I used to be like, I used to be tweaking about flying, like every single time. now I'm like I don't it doesn't really scare me you probably get hammered you're like you're like the guy that gets hammered for a fight yeah depends on what time it's at if it's in the morning well you had probably not in the morning right night time flights I pretty much always have a drink yeah I mean that's fine I'm getting drunk on a plane I so remember one time we flew to um Paris I was in the I was next to Damon and like it was one of those overnight flights where like you wake up randomly and everything's all dark you don't mean yeah Yeah. Like, and there's a couple of reading lights on. That's him. He's full brightness. But Damon's next to me.

And he's just, he's got all these little, like, bottles of alcohol. He's got, like, ten bottles of, like, those little things. And he's just hammered playing some video game on the back of the seat. And I'm just like, what the fuck? And he's just, like, not responding to me. Just staring at his monitor playing him, like, black and white. That's such a day. That's such a demon thing.

Damon's a gamer, though. Damon's like a... Oh, he is, dude. I mean, we're gamers, but, like, Damon is, like, a gamer. He's playing. Path of Exile to like 4 a.m. playing Rust. Has like some little friend group that's... Has random old school RuneScape Sim.

Yeah, he's got like a little friend group specifically playing Rust at 4 a.m. Dude. I want to be a fly on the wall on those calls. Dude. But I miss having those type of friends. Like those pub only friends? I never had those. Really? Back in like Call Duty 4 World That War, obviously forever ago, I had friends that were just like online friends.

So you're going home from school. You join the party. and these guys, there was no contact outside of that, but every day it was the same people. And I always think, like, I hope those guys were doing well. Like, that's such, that's such like a cool building block to look back on, like, where it all started gaming-wise, just that level of, like, interaction, just meeting random friends online.

Now we all know each other where it's like if you're playing with him or, like, it's all, now it's all connected, like, in real life too. Back then it was just pure gaming bliss. Wait, Bound, how did you like, how did you start? Like, what's your, like, what's your, your like come out like go pro story like my first event or what do you like how did you start like were you playing

GBs were you just like what were you what did you play to like break out in the scene? Like 1v1 stuff like that like Ninja I used to watch Ninja do 1V1s yeah I remember that on reach yeah on reach pretty much when Halo 5 came out I mean I started watching it I remember the original optic dynasty

not not you'd the hot team but the Halo 1 like snakebite in them watching them play how it was inspired maniac and Flamescored I used to watch them too They're so bad Yeah I mean I thought I thought Maniac was funny as hell

I don't know I just got Halo 5 pretty much Me Neptune Is that like when you like discovered it or Yeah that's when like When did you discover like like games Because I remember like vividly Like gaming or like e-sports

E-sports I don't even remember I think OG Halo like MLG Yeah Like Gandhi you know Gandhi you used to have a YouTube channel And it was just like super like informative about like MLG and shit like that

He's a legend. Dude, absolute legend, bro. He replied to your tweet or he replied to an optic tweet the other day.

I was like, damn, bro. I wish you guessed me. This is my favorite pro because I just love this shit talk. But yeah, I think his YouTube channel

I used to watch him on the first guy. Like Gandhi was your favorite pro? Yeah. Yeah, that goes hard. He's a really cool guy. Yeah. Dude, that guy was awesome.

He's a fucking legend. I used to walk in like the hotel lobby and I, Gandhi used to cast Call Duty for a little bit so I'll see like Scott Gandhi and Maven and maybe telling me like not like older person's stories. I'm like,

15 or 16 so I don't have like that type of life experience and they're telling me stories about like crazy shit I'm like oh my god it's so cool it's such a viby little duo it was a viby duo that's exactly what I got I loved him because I remember he told the story about T squared when he beat T squared and you handed him toilet paper and it's like it's shit on that's next level that's insane that's pretty crazy yeah it's pretty much him honestly yeah because he would like he would do uh interviews with like old pros like Walshid and shit this is so cool yeah he's like 2011 or some shit that's like when I remember like watching like the old MLG days the Dr. Pepper the Dr. Pepper girls I was like dude these guys are rock stars I was like I want to I want to be like that yeah yeah yeah dude I remember

I remember my second like event that I was like pro like in Columbus 2011 Sunday night I have like a flight that to get like at 2 a.m. to go home or like at 4 a.m so I'm like leaving the hotel 2 a.m. But everyone's Sunday night you know how it is right so like everyone's fucked up. I have my shit packed I got school the next day so I'm like about to fly back and I see the straight riffin roster like walk in the lobby in their jerseys no but like

in their affliction teas you know and their ed hardy teas yeah walk in the lobby all four of them have a doctor pepper girl yeah they're like fucking rock stars and they look insane

yeah and I'm just sitting there with my bag just like watching this and I'm just like what the fuck you got you go to school seven and a minute I'm just like what the fuck and like they're all hammered and shit like just getting an elevator

and just disappear. I was like, those guys are legendary. Like, what the hell? Those guys are awesome. This was crazy. And then I just like flew back home. Probably thought about it the whole flight. Yeah, T-squared, legit, neighbor,

Elamite, like just rock stars, dude. That's a roster. That's a cool roster. That's like when I started watching a shit, like back then. And yeah, I just wanted to be like that. I just wanted to be like that. Yeah.

That shit was crazy. But what else do we got? Well, you said Neptune you came up with? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Dude, he's frying right now. He's running the league right. He's going crazy.

Do you still talk to him all the time? I mean, I literally met him when I was 14 and he was 12, like just randomly on Halo. Like, I used to just one v1 him and just shit on. Wait, really? So that's like your day one duo? Oh, shit. That's his boy. And now I remember when he, when Halo died off in 2018, like on the scene, we're

waiting for the next game and he's like talking to switching to Cod. I was like, bro, you're not going pro in Cod. What are you talking about? I remember I think it was, uh, what Cod was that? out of it. It was before Black Ops 4. 2018 was B-O-4 because 2019 was World War II. War II. Yeah, that one. I remember he was like grinding that like $1 or

some shit. He's like, bro, get on and play. I'm like, bro, this shit is garbage. Like I got on there? Because it was the Jetpack ones. And then that one was like, bro. The shit's so boring. Spawning into Ardennes. Yeah. It's just gray. Yeah. And then Black Ops 4 came out and we fucked with heavy because it was kind of like Halo with a stem shot and shit.

Yeah. And then MW. 2019 came out. Day one. We were so excited. Like the night before we were like, all right, we just grind this and go fucking pro. We get on. We got a $1 on, um, pro, same of the map. Stores with an R. Ramaza?

Ramaza. What is that the B-bomb site? That's like, uh, you know what I'm talking about? In the construction site? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we got a $1 2 v2 on that. And he fucking goose and I don't know the game. Because the fucking doors, we remember-

He-goosed? Yes. He goose is like, but fuck this game, bro. I'm going back to V-O-4. I was like, yeah, fuck it too, bro. I'm not playing this shit either. Because I remember we were laying prone, like, because the sound horn, there was no ninja, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you had to pop it. We literally were just laying prone to go to the bomb sites. And the doors and stuff, I'm like, bro, this is so true. Oh, yeah, that was really bad. You had to wait for your ninja to make a play. Yeah, that was from Beal 4 to that. Like, I thought, like, Codd was amazing. Like, bro, bro, Bial 4 is so fucking good.

And then next year came out, that shit came out. I don't know if you guys like that game, that game is fucking horrible. Game was horrid. It was so bad. We just had such a vibey team. We made it fun. We had such a vibe team. We had triple scrim in that game, bro.

We're playing three scrimmed. We're playing three scrim. I'm starting at fucking 9 a.m. Cali time. I'm literally getting, I'm waking up at like 8.30, like, I'm clocking into work. You're waking up and all you hear is the fall guys intro. Wee! Dude, dude, we would play fall guys and shit. That, that I load up and I'm playing phase at like 9 a.m. And they're running us and, like, we're just like laughing about it. I was like, we're not getting any better. You know what I think about sometimes? Like, seeing your team back then used to be a vibe. Like, when you didn't live with your team and like scrim every day together, you guys would all scrimmed online. So like when you guys met up at the event for an event, they were just so much.

dope. You guys were just so actually excited to play. That looks like normal. Now it's like, okay, this team's here 24-7. They travel together. It's kind of like there is no excitement. Like, you know what I'm saying? They're excited to go play, but you don't get that like, like, when you like fly to the airport. You go to one hotel room and you want a vibe for a sec and like, you get food. You're so much going down to like hang out. You're like watching God in person together and shit and you're like pointing at the mini map. Like it's different. It is different. Yeah. How close knit is the Halo community? Like after an event's over like do you guys all go to like a spot and everybody hangs out honestly it's probably like like the way that

caught events were um like hale events are like really close net like everything about a halo event kind of feels the way old emilg events do which is one of the main reasons that i like playing it i mean it's so rare i like old emoji like if if the events in halo then i play felt the way that cot events felt when i retired i would not be playing it though like they don't feel fun at all but like like you're sitting there, you're going to your media day on Wednesday, right? Caudevent. And the media guys are so vibe. They're so vibe too.

If you're in winters, I guess you play once on Thursday. And then, but like you're playing once a day. You're going there. You're getting your like three hours early. You're getting your like scrim in. And then you play your one match. And then you just go back to the hotel. Like, I don't know.

It just doesn't have the same feel. Like, Halo, you go there, you go there Thursday. You do your media, whatever Friday. You got three matches every Friday. Pool play. Like you're playing three different teams. You get to play three times. Saturday.

You're playing three more times Sunday. You're like, you know what I'm saying? It's just like, it's like how MLG events were. Shit disgust me. It's crazy how the CDL is set up. I also took the Halo guys refuse to retire. Like, I take those guys who'd be playing until they're 40. Those same guys are at that same bar.

Every single event. Dude, lethal. He was never going down. Those guys will never say goodbye. Dude, me and lethal APG, like, dude, me and lethal were MM kids together in Halo 3. Like, we, we came up together, like, got our names known. And all we did would just match pros, shit on them and teabag them the whole time.

And we were just this like duo that didn't care about winning. We both go plus 40, narrow's flag. And just like tie zero, zero. Just play the whole time. Any pro we match just shit on them, shit talk them. Send him a friend of quest. They declined it. Shit talk them.

That was our sim. It was like crazy. Wait, did you say on college they play on Thursday? You just play on Thursday? Yeah, Thursday. So if you're in winners. You win, you don't play again until Saturday. Yeah.

If you're playing on a Thursday. I can try on a fucking Thursday. It's actually. If you win Thursday, you don't play till Saturday. You don't even play Friday. That is fucking crazy. I'm not trying on Thursday. Bro.

And then you're supposed to try it. It's like Thursday. And then you lock the fuck in for your one match and then you go back and you're like, wow, I just scam. I'm so checked right now. It's almost nicer starting in losers because then you start Friday and then you're playing like, you're at least getting two matches a day. But what are you doing on that Friday if you're winning on Thursday? You're just like, but you're like half-asshing the scrimming because you're like watching the match. Well, no, you're not even screaming.

You're like warming up. And you're already. Because you won your first match and you're just like, I mean, yeah, we'll warm these kids up, I guess. These guys are probably going to lose this round. And then it's like the scrims aren't even that good because the team that you're going to scrim will be like, yo, you can we play this certain hard point map three times in a row? And it's like, that's fucking boring. Just play hot the end of hard point back to back to back to back so they get reps for it.

You beat them and they're like, yo, can we run that back? Yeah. They're about to play it in their match. Can we run that back? You beat them again. Yo, one more time. And then mid mid third time, like they're like we got to go. They're calling us up and just end the game.

Yeah, Claire. Claire knocks on the door. It's time to go. Nice scrimms. You guys want to go get food or something? Like, I don't know. It's just weird. I agree, though. See, that's the cool thing about Halo is like, even doing the watch party for Halo, like, it's just, it's cool to see you guys play multiple times a day. Yeah, no, it's really nice as a player. Like, going to a venue at 11 a.m. and knowing you're going to be there to, like, 6, 7 p.m., like, regardless of what happens. And, like, you're going to get to play a lot. Like, and you're going to have downtime, but it's not that long. It's like an hour. You play a match and you're off a match. You play a match and you're off a match. So like there's a lot of just like playing on land

It's just like why we started you know like that there are some teams now that go to the event Play one match and they go home they lose. Dude people food like drid and just fucking and just flew back like you used to have a guaranteed what four matches or three matches like no matter what no matter if you were And then and then you'd get placed where you get placed if you place in the pool you're gone You placed third you're in losers bracket like you just got to actually play the game back then I think even if you got four kids wasn't there when there was five teams in a pool.

Yeah. And like even if you got fifth, you'd start top 24. And then like if you got fourth, you start top 16 and so on and so on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd go up like basically one like round. Top 24, top 20 maybe. Bro, I feel like playing with a pole play is fucking insane. Like, I feel like when I get to an event like Friday, like I'm kind of taking it easy,

you know what I mean? Yeah, like, if a pool play like, bro, you got to be on your peas and Q. That's what I'm saying. Like, I don't know. It's so nice to like get in those matches. Yeah, like get the rhythm. Yeah. If you were to play at an event.

They're like studying on Australians. You're like, no. You know those like winners round one matches after you play the AM team in pools on Saturday? Like you're warm. Yeah, you're warm. Yeah, you're warm. But imagine playing that match like randomly. On Thursday.

Dude, on Thursday? And it's just one match a day. And they're like, you lose that. You guys are to play again tomorrow, but like you're done for today. I think, that's insane that's so checky. Like, you play on a Thursday, but like you could theoretically win on Sunday. You know what I mean? That's like half a week.

Like that went by the minute. Yeah. That's like, but it's like, what, 12 teams? It's like how many, wait, how many rounds are going to win to win to win a card tournament? If you start winners round one If you start winners one Winners one, winners two Is winners three

Winners three is finals yeah Winners three is finals yeah Winners three is finals You have four matches to win the whole tournament You can win four and win That's fucking that's crazy dude Four over four days too One thing that I hate about cottage

Just the no fucking winner's advantage Like true advantage What is the what is the winner's advantage What is the winner's advantage? You just get a veto advantage That's it That's so fucking trolley I feel like I don't even

What's? Yeah you just get a veto advantage The best of nine and then you get a veto advantage. I thought it's best of seven. Best of nine finals now. They played game nine round 11? I thought they played game seven nine nine.

Is it best of seven? Yeah, it's best of seven. Oh, it was best to seven. It was best to nine now it's best of seven. I don't know. I feel like I don't even look as an advantage. Does that just mean? Like, I don't know.

Oh, no, because you're also playing the losers team. If you come from winners, you waited. So they won losers. They won losers finals. They don't move. And then you play them. That's what I'm saying. You're going in cold from winers.

Switch sides. Yeah. Get them. Get him up. We love that. We love that trick. Because we were always in winners. We were always in winners.

And we'd watch the losers match and we've watched like fucking hook just like rip apart some like team and losers back get back. I want his box. And we're like, nah, no, no, no, no, no. They got to get the fuck up. And we're also taking 30 minutes to one. You remember was it Crim that asked for a completely new PC or no? It was.

Crim had all the tricks. Wait, no. Not that you're like admitting this. That makes fucking sense. Yeah. I mean, why I'm going to let you sit down where you're in flow and we're going to sit down and be next? Like, what? There's so much fucking stuff.

You just have to get up. You're already in flow with the same. You just want to take a piss break. You came back and there's just different names in the lobby, but you're still in the same flow. Like, I'm not to get ran. It's good to know. That's good to know that you're admitting this. It's good to know. I mean, I've just been around. I've been in so many fucking finals.

I know how to, I know how to do it. I never said that a couple times on you. I'm like, bro, this is so fucking milky. What are we doing? I'm like, oh, I'm smoking a cigarette. I'm like, oh, you're smoking a cigarette? Like, I see you and APG you going to smoke a cigarette? winners and I'm like the fuck just happened I'll be our back

this is crazy make him sit down please like you don't even where's the fuck is he going bro come on if us four played a cod event or a halo event which one will we place better at? HALO because we'd probably be able to just like will you guys through some of the shittier teams yeah definitely yeah because we're not willing them through anybody but Vegas. I feel like you need a scrimed cod like I'm just outtelling and halo you know what I mean yeah we might be able to just

like throw you the oddball you just get the oddball and just hold it like we just protect you kind of at halo yeah i mean i'd be decent i could also probably play hale i don't know if you played halo before yeah i mean i'm on i can i got onyx in five hours i could shoot decent but i have no game let's let's try to get tiff for that i watch that stream i watch that stream okay you watch that stream i watched the whole thing i sat there and i analyzed everything you were doing in your shit yeah from your second unranked game i watched it all but no uh cod is like you got to play cod yeah you got to fucking play cod yeah like you don't know the spawns you look fucking and also it's 12 teams like are we are

playing falcons losers round one i fucking hope so maybe we give him a run and it's so fast pace it's like it's like a w on the ground now like black op six like yeah it's nonstop if you don't know timings and spawns you're just going to get destroyed yeah yeah definitely halo because search like we're getting railed in cod right now there's no way yeah that was a weird question you just sprung on us. Was that a, oh, it was a, oh, I didn't spring it. Yeah, never mind. What is, what is the Drusky thing, man? I actually, I saw this thing last night in the theater while I was having a glass

of wine. This is fucking. I mean, he was accused of. Yeah, this is kind of a weird topic to discuss. You probably shouldn't have put this on here. It's very irresponsible and weird of you to put this on here, but. Yeah, I'm not sure if we should touch on this. Yeah, I think we should just go back to the call thing.

say about this. How about we just talk about the cod team instead of these like four you page like fucking like you know what I'm saying though like you refresh your timeline right now you see those three things in the first scroll. Brain rot immediately. Yeah brain rot dude I was scrolling and I was like

dude what the fuck is this? And then I was on like I was on like a last night Is this isn't home right now. She gets back today but I was just watching 80s movies and they were so vibey. Like what? Fuck what was it called? Fast times at Ridgemont High. Oh, I've seen that.

Is it with the... No, that's not... I don't know. I didn't know any of the actors, really. It was good? It was not my thing. Yeah, it was solid. But it's just like, it's like a dazed and confused.

Yeah, that's it. And then I watched Valley Girl with Nicholas Cage. Haven't seen that. That was... They were both so good. They were, like, transport you back to that time period. Yeah, see, I love that. It was so vibe-y.

All the music was like old rock. 80s music is vibe as fuck. They're all dressed like 80s. They were like, you know, it's like days and confused. Like a high school. like they're all just vibe in type of movie. But yeah, I was just watching 80s movies last night. Loving that shit.

I was listening to a podcast recently about like dopamine and stuff. And it's like now it's like some TV and movies you watch are like boring to where you want to go on your phone. He was like, dude, back then that wasn't a thing. If you went to the movie theater, if you're watching a movie, the whole thing is dopamine. The lead up, the buildup. At no point are you thinking about anything other than the movie. Now it's like if there's like a slow buildup in a movie, you just want to check your phone. Like get an instant dopamine hit.

Or a show like, dude, like that last severance episode, have you guys been watching Severance? Yeah, but I haven't seen the last episode. You haven't seen it? No, but I did see like bad things about it. It was just like a complete filler episode. Yeah, that's why I'm waiting to watch a plot a little. I did.

I'm waiting for the next episode to come out so I can watch them back to back. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I don't want to watch a straight fill episode. Yeah, it was a pretty filly one. And I was like... Severance is really fucking good though. Yeah.

I think Severance, like the episode three this season or four was like, like one of the best, I don't remember which episode it was. It was one of the earlier ones. Was it the one that were they were in the woods? Yeah. You fuck with that one? Yeah. I thought that was like the best episode of TV I've seen in a long time where I was like, damn, that was a really good episode of TV. I've never seen better like visual like, it's like eye candy and it's like just the premise of the show and like the plot. It's like they give you enough information for you to form a theory but never enough for you to actually figure out what's fully going on. Yeah and you're just like never right. So you anticipate and

anticipate and you watch theory videos and podcasts. It's truly, I think, like the coolest TV show since like Game of Thrones. Now, you know what you need to watch? It's a real pain. Have you seen that yet? It's with Kieran Culkin, Roman from Succession and Jesse Eisenberg, the guy from the social network. And they're like cousins and they go on a trip to like go to their grandma's house who passed. And they like, dude, it was one of the best movies I've watched in a long time. It was so fucking good. Yeah. It's like an hour and a half. What's it called? A real pain. It's on Hulu.

So fucking good. Oh, I didn't want to end. Is that where they fly to Poland? Yeah, they fly to Poland and they go to like a Jewish tour and they like go through like their families like. Is it a comedy? Yeah, kind of. It's like a comedy slash like drama. But dude, I was, I didn't want it to end. That was pretty good. It was actually really good. You saw it? Yeah, watch it. Dude, it was like, there's just like, there's just like, shableness.

Shots. You know, like, when a movie, it just, like, gives you a dope-back shot, and there's, like, just music in the background and shit. Yeah, I love that shit. There's so much of it, and it was, it was, it was so good. It was a little weird, though, it was like the fucking feet shit. Remember that? It was a little weird. I was like, what the fuck?

But, like, it's Keering Cold. Yeah. It's going to be a little weird. I love that guy. And Eisenberg. The new Daredevil just came out, and, uh, only two episodes, but it's kind of like, I'm not sure if you guys watch, like the original Marvel Netflix shows. I did. incredible like Daredevil the Punisher

so Disney Plus just did Daredevil Born again and the first two episodes have been great so far it's like tweet about it is good Yeah it's good it's it's kind of like the old school show like it's not Disney-Disfied Is what I would have to watch the old one to get into it You have to know Daredevil lore like you don't know daredevil lore I don't know any Daredevil I think he's just like a blind superhero

That has like power right? He's like a bat I think he is blind right yeah he's like sewn orange yet I would watch it only because it's that good He's fucking blind I would watch it because it's generally that good of a show Derrick and the Punisher, yeah. He's like, nasty, though. Like, where are you? I'm like, I'm over here.

Yeah, I don't know. He's, he's actually, I remember the Daredevil movie? Or was it Elektra? Probably. Was it? The Elektra? There was, the Elektra movie was about the girl, yeah? It was like his girlfriend, right?

Or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like, yeah, that was. But now that's good. But you guys are TV and movies now? Oh, yeah, we watch so much. I feel like they aren't, like,

focused on making, like, those crazy movies anymore. Like, you have Christopher Nolan who, who, like, comes out with a big movie. but now it's all like TV like Ben Stiller is doing severance because now it's like okay yo we could make eight to ten hours of a movie essentially

and either drop it all in once or give them the slow burn so now I feel like we're getting so many insanely good TV shows and I maybe I'm not into movies like that but I feel like you're getting like a once in a blue moon great movie like what was the last funny movie that came out

like the last super bad oh they can't make those anymore pay me off is that why because of like the cancel stuff is that why the last one that I like really really fucked with like a comedy like that was don't look up.

I thought that was pretty funny. That was so random. They should drop that shit randomly. Yeah, I like that movie a lot. I don't know. It was like a comedy, it was like a comedy like drama because they're like kind of tweaking because the world. The last one I remember is 21 Jump Street. Yeah, okay. I like was genuinely like

I think I think it's probably the last one too. You ever seen Slumdog Millionaire? No. You guys ever seen Slumdog Millionaire? Yeah. I heard that's like Wendley who wants to be a millionaire. Yeah, watched that shit. Watch this tonight. Yeah, that was sure won like hello award. That's a feel good movie. Yeah? But, you know, what's your guys schedule like?

Like, when do you guys scrim? Like, when? Oh, weird transition. Well, I'm just curious because, like, we play a... Well, I'm just thinking, like, when do you even watch it? Because I feel like I'm always watching you at, like, night. Like I said, we haven't watched anything yet. We went over theater last night for...

No, I'm saying, like, I always see you playing, like, ranked and shit at night. Yeah, I'll say it again. We haven't watched anything yet. He's asking when you watch TV. Oh, you mean, like, shows. Yeah, like, like, you have... I think you were saying theater. Yeah, I was saying like,

like Vaude and shit. No, I don't give a fuck. Oh, I'm like, when do you have time to like watch you? Oh, I go to bed at like 4 a.m.

Oh, Jesus. Okay. Because we scream at like 3 p.m. So you're still on that like, the night out. The night or schedule. I can't do that.

I mean, I do, I can't lie. I love watching like a show or a movie just like at nighttime. Like just like lights off. Yeah. It's dark outside.

It's cold outside. But I was just curious like when, when you fucking, you're still on that 4 a.m. shit. I mean, not every night. Like, I'll fall asleep at midnight sometimes. It just depends. Like, like tonight, today, because the content started 10 a.m. I had turning yesterday. Like, I'm going to fall asleep probably like when I get back for a little bit. I'm fucking tired right now, yeah.

A little power nap? I'm so tired today. Well, since you're so sleepy, let's end the podcast. Sorry, guys. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. Huge shouts out the bound, his first optic pod. This is your first one, right? Yeah, yeah, first one. Fuck yeah, dude.

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