OpTic Podcast - OpTic VALORANT & RACE TO PRESTIGE ARE BACK? | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 182

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

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There's a lot of things that are going on right now that's like so many things up in the air that like deciding which targets to shoot at is going to be like what's going to have the biggest impact. You know, obviously I want to bring back Opticraft this year at some point maybe during the offseason. I haven't played Minecraft. I know that you guys just did a run, but I haven't played Minecraft. Like I don't know all the materials that aren't there now. Dude, you know what I'm saying?

We've got to play. We got to play in the off season. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 100. 182 of the optic podcast live from the Hecks Quarterman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Big hitch. We have Karma and of course the Pamski. Hello.

Last time he was here, he was not an optic. He was in- I was a solo. Where were you? What do you call that? Homeless. Yeah, dude, sitting on a fence. I was sitting on a fence. You were literally sitting on a fence when I called you.

I was on a walk and shit. Oh, that walk. Oh, I was on a walk. Yeah, no, I was on like a therapy walk or something like that. I need to just get out of the peak the aftermath of COVID you just got to get out of the grass literally yeah I get that I showed him the view and all that it was a good ass view it's a good as view yeah I called you out of nowhere and I said Pam's time to come home yeah dude that was a great fucking call for me that's good

it's good to hear Matt you might want to close that door because they're filming that and it's super quiet on that side and back on the back in the HQ is my first first pod back here. Do we get the first pod? Like a first official? No, there's one more before us. One more before us. Okay. But that's a good one then. I mean, it's crazy how like nothing, they didn't change much. I thought, I thought there were plans of like people moving in here and stuff. Yeah. I mean, the people that were supposed to take over the space didn't. And, and then I got the call because he knew, because we have been in contact with him. And we did check out other spaces like for the past year. And on the last podcast last week, I was telling people how,

everybody was so surprised that it came out of nowhere they were going back to the headquarters and that and you know I had said goodbye to this place and that was it but nah there's uh we we get another shot at it I'm excited about it and not just from from a distance to the house standpoint like a 10 to 15 minute drive is like awesome right like it's in comparison to the 30 in traffic although I'm not a bad like I don't give a shit if there's music on there's a podcast on like I'll waste time like no problem driving but you know having the ability to If you want to go take a poop

I could go to the I could go to anywhere You can hit the throne There's just plenty of places Nick's gonna be back to having his shit battles Have you ever heard of those? Yeah Nick has shit battles here Oh I got him You got him here?

No I got him here What do you mean you got him here? Once it hits 5 p.m. and you're like I got a bathroom don't even go Don't even go there's like a line out there I'll be there 430 430's good It's like 5 on the dot

There's like four people Carmall, you gotta be happy. Now you're again, 10 or 15 minute drive. That was great. I mean, we're actually liking going down there. It was just nice, like it was a different environment. And I think we kind of missed out on that when we were here last time. So I don't know, I think we'll probably come down here a lot more often, especially

even in the off season, which starts pretty soon. So we got champs coming up. And then we got the Saudi event. Are we going to that? to Saudi yeah if if we're invited then yes of course we're going so then we got those too I am curious though look at this my ego was about to fucking open its fucking mouth you go keep keep and then it's offseason time so yeah you know I mean for me the the the offseason stuff is just like it's the same as every other

day for me you know what I'm saying I don't get to play video games more I don't get to stream more I don't get to vlog more it's just I mean same old same oh Offseason is just kind of like sometimes can be like I mean it's weird because sometimes it's exciting because everybody's doing more people can do stuff together. Yeah. But then sometimes it's just stale man. It's just like well we're playing next to find it like you know what I mean like I love their off season because like you get to see because I mean when formal was in Cod like you would see him hop on war zone and just like kind of go rogue on like other games like even yeah you know what I mean like all of them kind of just become more. I don't know they're just. everyone every every it seems like every single pro just wants to like venture out of their you know and like play more together and just like you can see them carefree yeah you know what i mean like and i enjoy

seeing that personally like yeah no it's it's fun i i mean it's it's always been the time where i you know try to get the cod player or at least the cod community play some other games yeah throw some tournaments and stuff yeah yeah yeah so it's always it's always fun yeah again uh it's uh it's uh It's part of the yearly cycle that we go through in order for this. And I mean, you can already tell that the viewership's becoming a little bit more and more stale as the year tapers off. Called through a viewership, Halo viewership, like everything. And I don't know that if there's an actual change for it that can do. You can elongate the season and sort of have it coincide with with like a minimal gap.

Maybe a two, I don't know, how much time would you want to want to have off? like if you're a player like how much time do you need off in the off season? I don't know. I feel like I feel like you don't want it to be too long like back then I would I would have loved a long offseason

low key so I could like play other shit but I don't know I mean what is it like three or four months now? Yeah the off season comes out October the off season before IW was three weeks

It was like two and a half weeks. It was like two and a half weeks. It was like chance happened in Blackups 3 and then the game released the game released like three weeks later two weeks two and a half weeks later and now it's like four months like it's crazy the difference and it's only getting like more and more every year I've I haven't watched the preview or the the the trailer I mean I've seen what you guys have posted and stuff like that but I haven't sat down to do like the watch party reveal or any of that just because I'm like all I'm going to do is get angry at the fact that I'm don't have a chance to play this game whenever it comes out the way that I want to. And then obviously with everything that we have going on with the with the fucking move, but also like what are we doing the race of prestige? Are we not doing the race of prestige?

Like there's a lot of things that are going on right now that's like so many things up in the air that are like deciding which targets to shoot at is going to be like what's going to have the biggest impact. You know, obviously I want to bring back Opticraft this year at some point maybe during the offseason. And then I haven't played Minecraft. I know that you guys just did a run, but I haven't played Minecraft. Like I don't know all the materials that aren't there now. Like I, you know what I'm saying? We got to, we got to play. We got to play in the off season.

And Holly was telling me she was talking to you about like doing Minecraft. Yeah, yeah. She's been playing like she's done so much now. Like it's, I mean, it's a game and this is what Holly was saying. It's like it's a game that like you always get an itch for like once a year. Yeah, 100%. Once a year you just want to go out and mine some damn blocks.

And like, dude, when we've got viewers, it's more magical than it was before. Oh, now? Yeah. Dude, the more they add to Minecraft, some people like hate it. You know, some people are like, oh, I miss the old days. I'm not like that because I came in late regardless. Yeah. And so, Doug, there's like, I mean, there's, there's so many damn things you can do now.

Like, there's so many things. Yeah. So. And I'm still waiting for the, uh, there's another and then. What's the other one? The either? The end. No, no, no.

The end. What's the end? where like the you fight the dragon when I can fight like a warden like you're probably you don't even know what the warden is he's like crazy did we ever get that far when we played hell no no I've never

been the dragon in the game on a solo game ever you me or at least you Seth Nade yeah and people and adjacent need to need to do a server yeah because people would watch that shit do the warden with like full Netherite, like best gear, like two taps.

See, I still don't have that. Oh, really? So you never done like bed farming in the, what do you call the below area? Nether, yeah. No, like it's like when I did play recently, not recently anytime like in the last seven months, but I did play that one time that we were all on and we. Nick was grinding. I'm pretty sure I saw him down.

The caves are not open and the diamonds are not exposed. Oh, you haven't even seen the new caves. Oh, yeah. They're huge. The new caves are like, dude, they're insane. Don't ruin it for me. Yeah. Yeah. It's like they're like the best.

Yeah. It's like the best change I've ever seen to a video game. Really? It's so, it literally took the game being like, you know, it's always been such a good game. Yeah. But now it makes it. Now it makes it like. Makes sense and shit?

Dude, it makes it like 50 times. Okay. Okay. And there's so much crazy stuff you can do that's like automated. Like we've had like, because we'll play with friends and like viewers and dude, they'll set up like whole stores where like you bring all the villagers and you can have like automated farms it gets you like everything you can they did this crazy thing where you dig like golems into the ground and they like spawn golems and drop them through lava and and dude it farms you iron

like there's like there's like crazy farms for like everything it's it's insane like when you get people who i could talk about my hoe fucking plant my seeds i mean you could do that and you and you can also like have a whole long village that like does it all for you it's insane dude But you need like some like crazy people are not making your shit. Dude, you have like villagers. You have them set up at like these bookshel. Dude, dude, they just have them trapped and they just like, do you pay them? Minecraft YouTubers are like the smartest.

Crazy. They're like the smartest gamers ever. Like there's there's like this level and then you can like push it like up here. It's wild. Have you ever watched like Hermitcraft? Do you know what that is? No. Dude, it's like it's like server and they're all like family friendly and they're like, you know, kid friendly.

Yeah. Yeah. But the shit that they do is unbelievable. I'm telling you, the coolest thing I've seen and like maybe it wasn't that insane, but my viewers, they, I don't know, it was like two or three of them. They made a, uh, what's the portal with the purple blocks? The nether. The nether.

Okay. So they made like a statue with like a sword handle going into the ground. Yeah. So like it's got like the, the hilt, I guess of it. Like it was like tall. Like, and it looked like the top of a sword going into the ground. The portal was in the middle. Yeah.

Then you go through to the netherite and the bottom is the whole rest of the sword. Dude, it looked, it looked insane. I can't describe it. Can you, can you look up, you've got internet, right? Can you look up, uh, tango base Hermitcraft? Tango, Tango, T-A-N-G-O. T-A-N-G-O. T-A-N-G-O.

T-A-N-G-O and T-O-Base was the name. Uh, keep, keep scrolling down. Oh my God. That way. To the left. Look at that. Is that Maleficent? Malepheicent?

He built. What's the name of it? Man, no. Oh, shit. I mean, I don't know. Maybe, yeah, scroll. Hit the arrow to the right. That.

So that. Oh, shit. He built that all in survival. So that's not creative. In survival. In survival. He got all that shit, built it all himself.

And then the crazy thing is in the middle. I can't even explain it. People that know are going to be like, there's no way to explain what's in the middle of that. There's literally no way. The creativity from people in that. And like I said, those were my viewers that did that. And it took them like a few weeks.

And I was like in awe. And that's just like some unknown person. Yeah. Like it's wild the limits you can go in that game. The no limits. Especially in survival. Like not it's not like we're doing creative. And we're not duping like how like I built here and it builds it over here.

It's like full survival. I wonder at what point are they going to add the, the, I think it was called the Aether, which is like the heaven. I don't think they're ever going to add it. And you're just living in the clouds and shit. Because like the a ether was going to be a thing. I think it was like rumor it was going to be a thing, but then they did the end. Yeah.

And so like I guess there's no real way to to, um, there's no real way to develop a map up there that you'd be able to explore the same way that you explore that. Unless I mean, actually you can. I think they need to update the end. Yeah. Updating the end is like the next thing because like it's just, I mean, how many times you've seen the dragon? fight. I've probably seen the dragon fight.

I don't know if you always good, but last I'm hollers playing, you can like respawn it now. I don't know if you're always good. You can respawn it. There you go there, get the Elytra. Yeah. There needs to be like something. Well, now you have warden, but like still the end, I feel like, yeah, you could, you could do so much with it.

I think I'm going to, I think, listen, if if there's a chance for me to do something, I think that I would do a lonely island again in this day and age and see if I could do it that, which obviously, you know, it's definitely possible. But that's how I would want to start the that that this next thing because I have been having an inch when I heard you and Nick and they were going to be fucking playing That sure was fun and then Nick last week Nick said that uh they's like he's like yeah Blake didn't want to be there fucking balleran had just come out and all he wanted to do is fucking Yeah, Blake was being such a bitch It's such a bitch but like there the other the other we at towards the end like once we actually went to go fight because the the whole thing is we were going to see how long it took us to beat the dragon yeah doing one stream. So like towards the end it's like starting one stream you went from the beginning to the

end yeah. How long that take eight hours six uh five hours four and a half or four hours 45 minutes I think people do it in like an hour. Dude I think the record's like 24 minutes. Okay it's like insane. It is insane how fat I think even exuC did it in like 45 minutes or something. Jesus he did it really good it was like him racing against fours in or oh yeah we used to Alexis and I used to watch it and Tifu even did that speed runs. Tifu was nuts. Tifu was like really good. Dude,

for a while I was going to try it. I was like hooked. I've never, I think speed running, there's a element to it that I think is awesome, but like I don't know if I have the patience for it.

Oh yeah, dude. Like speed runners, like when you mess up, how do you keep composure? Yeah, I don't know. You know what I mean?

Like you just know you messed up that one jump. I'm thinking like Mario and all that too. Yeah. Like I'm just thinking speed run. Speed run. Just in general. Dude, there's this guy.

I think his name's Gunner Maniac. He speed runs Pokemon games. And so like, didn't you have a guy? Do a speed run? Did you have a guy? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's, uh, yeah, Hayes.

But he's not like a speed runner. But this guy that I'm talking about is like a speed runner. He goes every day, just get my charmander and go. You know what I mean? Like every day, a hundred times a day. And like he gets to a point and where he's like, well, I have to hit this. It has, or if I get critically hit, then it's all over. And if he does, he just wasted an hour.

and a half of a run that like would have been and then he just like all right guys well here we go again reset again like I can't even imagine dude I can't even imagine just being okay with that hour chalked art restarted again well no PBE I guess let's hope I don't run into Pokemon getting from in this grass exactly the next place randomly hit one little pixel dude it's crazy now summit I think for a few months was trying to do the halo one like halo two maybe yeah and it was he day just gave up. It was kind of crazy. It's like impossible. It was crazy too is like for a while he was doing Max Payne three maybe he actually got the world record like twice. Summit. Oh yeah. Oh shit it was crazy. I oh that's another game I almost like was like I'm gonna try this because it looked fun right it was Max Payne um summit streams are some of streams are fun because you can just like I can smoke read and watch him because he's just no but it's cool because I don't even think you really I don't think you realized it when he beat the world record like it was wild Really?

Oh, yeah, it was nuts. I like to watch the Summit play Sea of Thieves. What is, if you were living in L.A., like what would be, or O.K.C., like what would be like the one game that you would want to play? Like, all you have to do. Minecraft. Not even streaming. All you got to do is like take a bong rip out of some, like a super stuff, Bowlsky.

Minecraft? Minecraft's got to be the best high game ever. Really? Yeah. I'd play Russ. Dude, last. I'll tell you. I don't think.

Yeah. Oh yeah. Last time I played, listen, I'll tell you what, last time I played Minecraft, seriously or for a long time, I don't think that I was smoking as much as, I don't think that I was even smoking. Dude, honestly, or story games. Dude.

Like, not like, like, Zelda? Like, like, God of War. I've never played that. You would love God of War. Wait, why? It's in it all predetermined. What do you mean? Yeah, but like, it's linear.

Yeah. You don't like linear games? I don't think so. The last God of War I played was hard as fuck. I don't know which one it was. Played on hard though? I think I did. I didn't finish it.

It was insane. Yeah, I was playing it on easy. I was like, fuck. Dude, there is something. There is something in here that this allows me from enjoying something like that. Because I wish I could like, it's like a, you're playing a movie in the movie. Yeah. And in the story.

Like cod campaigns or like? Crossing the Rhine was the last time I did. that's called it too so you never played the cod for campaign no what what the fuck that's insane you've never been on like wetwork during that campaign like that campaign mission and no dude the cod for campaign my brother my brother play like gillies in the mist and all that shit he was like yo you got to fuck him and i like i cannot think i'm seriously like i don't like it i don't know what it is call for campaign the monorfer two campaign real dude monifer two you're going through Washington DC the white house is on fire and you're going

through it and shit like that shit is crazy yeah like you're on a plane like kind of making your way up it yeah yeah I don't know I think until fucking VR AR like comes to a place to where like it's not a foreign thing that then maybe then like my brain will be like oh shit this is interesting like I'm actually yeah I think you do have to turn your brain off like in certain ways to really get in a campaign I can't plan I'm in Especially if it's cod, like, because we all play campaigns. We all play God like a key heavy.

Really? Exactly. I'm going to say I want to play against a human. I was just telling him though, like I just got Eldon Ring. I'd never played it when it came out. But like I beat Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3. Yeah. And I just never played Eldon Ring, but it's been so popping lately. And my friends have been telling me you have to play, you have to play it. So at some point I'm going to play that.

Oh, you haven't started yet? Last time I got an itch to play a game like that was the Harry Potter one. Yeah. They just came out last year, right? Yeah, that shit looked fun. I'm like, did you play it? No, no, I didn't have time. Is Harry Potter not your thing or it is your thing?

I mean, it is. It's not my favorite world, but it's, it's, it's fun. I watch Blake play it. Blake, Blake are kind of grinding it. It's got some depth to it. Yeah, that was like my problem. I got that. It was cool, but I played it for like two days.

I don't know. It's just I can't like stay locked into it. That's a long game though. It probably is. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like that's like that's like that's an.

like an MMO. Yeah. That is an MMO. I think before, right, there was a weird time where I like stopped doing video, I stopped doing like vision and before TST started,

it was like a three month gap. And during that time, I was just grinding single player games. Like I beat, I beat both, I beat both Bioshocks. Damn. I'd be Bioshock,

Bioshock, uh, Infinite, Portal, Portal 2. Whoa. And, uh, Detroit and Firewatch.

Like I was, I was just grinding through show or through games. Those games were fucking awesome. Yeah. Like I mean, I loved Bioshock when it came out. Dude, Bioshock.

Visually back then, it looked insane. Well, Bioshock infinite was like one of the, dude, the end of it was like one of the best fucking stories. So then somebody was like, you've got to start Witcher 3.

It's the best game ever made. And like people, people that love story games, they tell you that Witcher 3 is like the best game ever. What? No, it's insane. You played it?

I played it like way, back. I don't think I beat it, but like, it was somebody just recommended that I watched the show on Netflix with Henry Cavill. Yeah, yeah. The show's pretty crazy, but you I liked it. A lot of people didn't. A lot of people don't like it. Yeah. Better off playing the game first or watch the show. You got to play the game dude. Because I played the game. I played the game and I played it on stream and I streamed for like four hours. I was having a fucking fun time. I was like, dude, this is awesome. And I was like, I was like, how much longer do you think I get have to go? And they were like, they were like, they were like, They're like, you're like 5% done with the tutorial.

Oh, my 10. And I was like, what? They were like, yeah, the story is like 95 hours. And I was like, and I stopped playing it right there. What about Red Dead redemption? See, bro. Red, I've never played Red Dead. No, I played all the Red Dead.

But I've never played, I've never even played a GTA. So I, there's like a whole, there's like a whole aspect of gaming that I've never played GTA either. Yeah. I've never played GTA either. I was at my grandparents house when I was like eight just like walking into the strip club by people's heads. Bro, the last time...

That's why I wasn't allowed to... No, I couldn't play. I gave it a shot, like, maybe for like two hours in the most recent games, like, when it was 3D, but the last time I played Grand Theft Auto was like that top level... The top one. Yeah, I played the top one. Wait, that was like... That was like 2.

That was like GTA 1. It was before... PlayStation 2. Before Grand The Dvada 3. Yeah. PlayStation 1, I remember... Bro, it was like literally like maybe right out high school when I did that. Those games were so ahead of their time, dude.

Yeah, there you go right here. Oh, so GTA2 was... Yo, is this, I do think, like right now, my, my brain is like, yo, you will like this one, this driving around. There's, you know, because you're driving and shit. You could cruise like through the city and go do shit. Like the RTP shit, like, has me a little bit intrigued for it. But I do want to play the, the campaign and, you know, have a run on that.

Yeah. I mean, definitely wait till the new one. JTA6, yeah. I'd love to play GTA6 because it would, I mean, I mean, I think. everyone under the sun's gonna play it yeah dude when that game comes out no one else is playing anything no dude we should like RP heavy on that it's gonna get crazy I say I I play the RP like a decent amount I was playing with like jangang mr. k and summon summon summon and all them and dude it's crazy well do you have a care people tell me that you got to have a character with a

backstory yeah what was your character and your back i'm just not a good r p or that's why I never really stuck around with that I was just bobby you're just bobby yeah bobby swag Bobby Lee's Bobby they always call me a they'd be like hey oh that's that's a call duty Bobby who's that Bobby like do you have one every once in a while I character no no no no I haven't gotten a group of friends to like do it yet Blake George and I were going to be farmers and we were going to live out in the farm and then come in into the city I thought about being like a hit man like I was trying to like conceptualize like you know a character I was like maybe

he'll be a hitman who like is like half good at his job and sometimes he misses and then you just come back to me and I just like, did you get him? It's crazy. Nah, he moved a little bit. So, you know, maybe next time or something like that. Yeah. I actually wish like, see the RP part is like, I don't know. It's really like not for me.

It's why I never really stick into it. But like streaming wise, it was like one of the best things I've done outside of cod. Like people love it. But I'm just like not like, dude, the people that RP in those servers are so good at what they do and they're like you don't have to be on their level but it just almost feels like wrong being there when like they're that good yeah like it when there's someone in full yeah like you feel like you just yeah to have like the voice changer they got like maybe the cap on like a bus driver oh it they're always crazy man it's yeah it's fun we even playing rainbow six

dog i heard i was watching the the podcast that they did and like i just can't see myself playing You would not hate that game. It's weird because I won't play that game. If Damon can't play it, no one can play it. Yeah, that's not that game. Did you guys hear that there was a 71-year-old Miss America winner recently? 71. The crazy part is, look what she looks like.

Oh, yeah, bring it up, man. Let me see. That's her. Now, let me ask you, is this all natural? Hell no Natural I thought like I was thinking

71 I don't know Maybe Marisa Tejo There's no way Miss Texas USA Let me No offense

I mean How old is JLo Can you fucking scroll down Matt Is there more pictures Or is that it I mean she ain't 60 Yeah right

I don't look Let's see more pictures Matt I want to And now Is this one of those things where let's move on

you know what I'm saying just just no congratulations yeah yeah yeah yeah that is fucking crazy though yeah it's funny because Joey already showed me that picture

he said how old do you think this lady is and I said 37 he said no and then somebody else was like I think she's like 42 yeah he was like she's seven way off way off

71. 71. That is crazy. Now is that somebody that takes care of their body or is that genetics? Probably both. Probably both. It definitely takes care of themselves. Yeah. You have to. That might be J-Lo when she's 70. You never know. Yeah. J-Laylor.

50 something. Something high-yx 50. Yeah. Jenny from the block. Dude. She's the one in enough, right? The TV shit or the movie? Yeah. What is she?

Yeah, that's your thing. When I was a kid, I was like eight watching it, like, oh my God, woman. Woman. A woman, wow. A real woman. Is there, are you guys watching House of the Dragon? I haven't seen the most latest, the latest ones. Yeah, it's nice.

It's so good. Is it? It's so good. People in the future are going to have the best time watching House of the Dragon as if they keep it on the timeline. If they watch House of the Dragon full into Game of Thrones Like it's gonna be one of the best movies Then they're gonna have four seasons of House of Dragons

Seven seasons of Game of Thrones Then they'll have 11 good seasons In a row to binge And they have like two spin-offs coming out I think Yeah I heard the John Snow one got canceled down there That's what I heard too That's a shame John Snow one got canceled

You wanna know something fucking crazy Is they they wrote and shot a pilot For a for a Game of Thrones spin-off about like it's called Blood Moon it was about the first the first men so like the the first like white walkers and like the tree people and it cost them 33 million dollars for a pilot for the pilot episode and it got can't dude so there's a vault out there somewhere where the the first the pilot episode of Game of Thrones is in there that no one's seen it was all completely different cast and they they rewrote it so that's in there and then the blood move i mean you got to think

how many pilot episodes HBO has that have never seen the light of day they're just like run that back again dude oh my god imagine they did that whatnot stream oh yeah they auction that would be how much how do you think that would sell for for like a private i mean it would probably sell for millions that what you're doing the other day i would want to flip that 33 months i'm saying instagram thing with you Seth and whatnot? He didn't know, no, it was a it's a whatnot. Whatnott's like an auction place. Yeah.

And it was usually started out with just collectibles, any collectibles, cards mostly. This is how I got introduced to it by by Rob Turkle. Shout out to him because since then I haven't been playing video games because I've been just so focused on doing art that I can't choose gaming over something that I fucking like just, my brain just loves doing. Right. But it's, it's been, it's been super, super good. I think this year I'm going to do a bunch of collabs with different people. I'm hoping to do one with, with him on some, we got some ideas. But I think, I think what I like the most about whatnot is that the person that's receiving it becomes part of the show.

And it takes, it takes the middleman sort of away from it. So you want this chapstick, here you go, right? Like, it literally has that relationship with, with it. And I don't know, man. It's just like outside of cool. Yeah, it seems like you're having a good time. It's a fun thing to do. I did the, when we did the cards that Atlas and I made,

I was like breaking open boxes for the whatnot streams. Yeah. And dude, they were so much fun. Yeah. Like the chat gets so high because then you, I'm like, somebody will buy it. And they're like, oh my God, there was like $75 pack of cards. I'm like, dude, I hope you get something good. I hope you don't get a Roger.

And then I'm just like, oh, my God, a formal, let's go. Oh, it's a Roger. And people would be like, no. It was so much fun. Card openings are so fun, dude. Yeah. When you put, was it you that made the cards? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, like, Atlas. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but those, those are like really cool. I really wanted like all of our cards and like, you know, I wanted to sleeve them, put it in a, put them in a binder. You already know people were like. I started buying like the CDL ones. So like I have like, because you can grade PSA takes the CDL cards. Now?

Yeah, they do. Oh shit. my original ones? Well, not my, but like the ones that I have original, like, from 2016, 2015, like the first ones that they made that weren't. I don't know. No, the game, the game, feel ones. They won't take the game field ones. Why? They'll only take the game, because they only, you have to like apply to be able to grade your cards with PSA, I think, or PSA, like, oh, if you own the car. That makes no sense because, yeah, because my, uh, Matt, can you bring up the, uh, the, uh, the most valuable oldest card there.

exist. Like I don't think that that was either top supper deck or or no, there's some things that they'll just great. They have to take this. They have to take those are like the first. Oh, maybe they will. Maybe they will. I don't know. I don't know. I just I know they wouldn't. I mean, it's not going to argue because I have a bunch of them and shit. But to be fair, it's not going to fucking sell them. I saw one if I don't have doubles of them. There's on eBay right now there's a, uh, Mickey Mantle card for $12 million dollars to Mickey Mantle. It's only a 9.5. It's only only only. Oh, no, no, no. What is SGC? great.

9.5 is great. I'm just saying. It's crazy that it's an SGC. It's not even a PSA. It sucks when you get into this stuff because you're just like, oh, 10, gem mint. Like, oh, dude. I think some of the most of it's like,

but it's like, dude, some of these baseball cards are like fours and they're like worth. Yeah, like that's a two. That's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a four or. That's a, uh, uh, a Honus Wagner, sweet corporal like the, it's literally not a tops, not an upper deck, not a nothing and it's worth that.

Yeah, it was also made in 1909. Yeah, well, the distance, no, nine's coming. Yeah, our 1909's coming. I get, literally in it. See that one's fucking say. Babe Ruth one, Pokemon Illustrator. Wait, what is, wait, why is that an illustrator? What's a, that's the only number, that's the only Gemment 10 Pokemon illustrator in the world.

That's why it's worth so much. Five point five point two. Who owns it? Logan Paul. No. Uh, I forget who owns it. Lebron. Lebron.

Oh, it is. Oh, it is. And in the possession of Logan Paul. It is looking. Yes. Go down. Let me see this LeBron one. The auto, LeBron, James.

Wait, go. Holy shit. What? Wait, what is this? Rookie patch. Yeah, his rookie patch. Oh, yeah. It must be a one of one.

It's part of his jersey. One of one jersey. Go up. Go up, man. Let me see the Jordan one. There's no Jordan one. Above that? No way.

He's got a more valuable car than Jordan. You're fucking kids. What do you mean, you fucking kids? I didn't make the shit. I'm in my time. 20s. I didn't make the shit. I didn't make the shit.

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You can get a little extra protection up to $50 in overdraft coverage. Damn, that's money. That's cash app. Yeah. That's just funny. Dude, right now on eBay, I think there's a guy who has a PSA 10. Whenever I predicted that collab with CDL, they did an Optic Chicago T2P card. So it's formal and stuff.

It's the only PSA. It's the only PSA 10 and it's on sale. It's been on sale on eBay for buy it now for 10 grand. Damn. 10 grand. And I was like, damn. I told Matt that. And he was like, what?

And I was like, yeah, it's on sale right now for 10 grand. And I was like, by the way, can I borrow you and Seth for like five hours? Next week? When you were opening like the optic packs, right? Yeah. You know how like on YouTube like you'll see people who open packs like the they know the order of which like the rare one is. Yeah. Is there like orders?

Yeah. So like the fourth one like you turn it around. You put you one, two, three, four put it in front. Oh, so maybe the last one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So Alice and her name's TIG, she, they packed, they packaged them all themselves. Oh wow. So they, we bought the packaging. We bought all the cards and we bought the bubble wraps that they, we mailed them out in. And so they packed them all. And so she had the rare at the back on all of them. So I just ripped it open and then did it. And then there might have been like an autograph card at the end.

Fuck. It was pretty fun. Y'all, I like that. That's a really good idea. Yeah. Yeah. We might do it again. But this time it would be a little bit different.

But yeah, that would be, I mean, it was fun. It was a really fun, fun project. Yeah, dude, that stuff is, that steps forever. What do you, what do you guys do on the, like, what do you do on the off season? He's about to dive fucking face first into Rust again? No, not Rust. What would you, what would you pick? I don't know.

I don't know right now. I don't think you're going to. I mean, the first time I'm going to play is probably Eldon Ring. Okay. Yeah. I think console Val's got some legs to it. I've been hearing a lot about that too. I heard it's good.

It's really good. It's like surprisingly good. Because the only other, I mean, I think I don't really love tactical shooters. I don't like, actually I don't like playing them at all. But I,

you know, it feels good to play them on mouse and keyboard. And I think I played like Counter strike on Xbox 360 back in the day. Same. I did that too. And it was fucking horrible. It was terrible.

It was a guy that liked that. Yeah, Dietreats liked it. The only guy. That's why I tried it. I was like, oh, we play like tens with like the God people.

When did that come out? 2014, yeah. No, no, no. Earlier, like 20, I think it was earlier,

like, 2010, 11. I remember getting egged on by like Logan. It was definitely like Pred and he was like, you can't fucking do this. I'm like,

fuck you, I can't. It was like blackups one. Because I was like playing with kill on them. Really? It was at least blackups one. So it was, 2011, 2012.

It was bad. It was not good at all. But this shit. So that's the only time I've ever seen someone try a tactical shooter on mouse and keyboard or on controller. I heard a lot of good things about this because they actually built it from like the ground up. Yeah. They built it from scratch. It looks like there.

There's like elements of the game that aren't on the mouse and keyboard game. We should do a video on that. Dude, I think. Optic plays console valve. And I think. So I think ranked comes out like next week. Like they're already putting ranked out. And I think they're going to have a console league.

A whole console league. Really? There's no way they don't. There's no. There's too much money on the table. I think they are. If they do, they'll never mix them though.

No, they'll never mix them. They'll never, well, they'll have them at the same arena. Yeah, because they had no reason to make it. Like they might do something.

No. Was it free? It's free. But they're going to make a gazillion dollars. That's all the skins. Yeah, dude. They're gonna make a gazillion. Night markets on console, like all of them.

Think about how many people that have an Xbox or a PlayStation. And never played Channysh. Never played Counterstrike or never played Val. Now Vow is free. It's the same thing that happened with Fortnite. H-1 Z-1 had been out. PubG had been out and all these console kids just have to watch. And then Fortnite comes out and it's free.

And now, and now you have, yeah, now you get to just play Fortnite. And I'm just like, dude. That's going to be insane. I think, I think, I think, I think there's going to be so many people. Dude, you were on that Fortnite grind before anybody else. I play Fortnite because of you because I saw the snipes. A lot of people did. Yeah.

I was like, Jesus, Chris, you put, you may have put that shit on. Definitely for me. There's, I don't think that there's, like, there are going to be tens of games that have the same impact that, that, that Fortnite did. Just who knows when they come out, right? It's just, is that. But I do believe that there is going to, to have. that level of impact.

It's funny because I don't know, I don't know if there'll ever be a game that just like comes out and that and has the level because Fortnite just came like no one was waiting for Fortnite. No. People are waiting for GTA. People are going to wait for the next. They're going to. They're going to.

You think so? A hundred percent. I mean, I guess. Fortnite was like a game for a long time before that. Yeah. But it's like a like a lifetime game. Like do you think like Minecraft? You mean?

Like 25 years from now like four night. I think Fortnite and Minecraft are the only two games in that. Like their category. And they still do so much with it. I don't know. There's something new every day. It's an eternal game. Yeah, no, it is.

But I'm saying in their own, in a category of their own. But they can't, I'm going to, sorry to interrupt. No, but don't you think, like,

there's no way that they get to like, Call of Duty, Black Ops 130. You know what I'm saying? It's got, that's the thing is, it's six. Blackop's six.

We're on Blackop six. Yeah, but what call of duty are we on? like 23. It's been every year since 2005, 2005. 2003. Yeah.

They give us two car games. Right, Matt. As you're looking that up. Infinite Warfare. Oh, yeah. Huh? I was looking about that. Wasn't there?

The first call of duty. What was online before? Big red one was. Single player. Single player. There was one before Cod 2 though. Call of duty. Call of duty.

Oh, just call of duty. Yeah. It was just a, it was just a campaign game, right? on place on yeah 2003 so 2003 2013 2013 that's 20 years 21 years yeah you just probably look up how many Call Duty games are well it's 21 yeah 21 that's

fucking crazy dude it's insane 22 if you count caught online wouldn't there five come I'm called 32 come out Cod Mobile there's so many 2004 right 2005 October 25th 2005 wow I been at it since then. That is crazy.

We have won. We have lost. We have lost. We have lost. We have lost. That's only one I never played like a lot. Yeah. Never played it at all or you never played it? No, I played it but like years later. Dude, it started at all, dude. I mean, think about the like the montages came, the Caldry montages started there. Uh, and then it, it, it fucking pro mod started there. Dude. Oh my. PC. PC 5E5 started there. There's just there's so much there's so much history in call of duty that is just gonna if no one if no one captures it soon in the next five six years It's just gonna be lost you know I've been like wanting to try pro mod for so long love to play I follow some guy I follow a guy who like plays like scrims in tournaments still climaxed I don't I still plays it's a it's a European guy like Swedish

Is he like Swedish or so yeah he plays I following him on Twitter and like he's he's still plays all the time. They're always playing. My brother, Climax Zoo. Yeah. He, uh, he, uh, caught for a prom. Yeah. Yeah, they still, they still play.

They still scrimmed. They still have lands. And it's insane. I love to try it at least, you know what I mean? Pretty sure you can. Like, I think he has like a link that like you can just. No, the servers are so live. You can for sure.

What I wish that was still around was like call duty for remastered. That shit, I would still be playing that shit on a daily fucking basis, man. That show is good because you could use the sniper ruffer. You could use the fucking. an AK-74 you. I didn't like it at all. Oh man, so good. You didn't like it either? She killed so fast in that game. You died in a mile. It was 74-

you. No, that's why you have to be good. That's not. You get three tathed by AK-47. Bro, I could, I could, you could in remastered pre-fire blue with an M-16 and Womber somewhere. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was hell. That was only hardcore. You play a rag remastered. You're doing the pre-fire. It's all the bullets.

It's so funny. Like, you play those old games. It is different. Like, because you play, we played the IW4X right on NW2. That's what it's like when the connections, right? You play 360. You're just like, oh, okay. What's going on? Yeah, like, okay, I can actually shoot you differently now.

But like on that, like I could, like this is a body. I could shoot right here. Yeah. The hit reg is insane. Hit rig was insane on that game. Yeah, we were playing those games with like 10 download. Yeah. 10 upload right.

Not a clue. But I do love the maps. And I love how I love how the maps play. That's why I want to try. Pro mod on it. Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah, that's him.

Climax, too. That's my brother right there. This is probably the guy you're talking about. Probably. I said, I always see him post clips like random. This gamer tag, man. This is a different back then. H2 fucking gay.

This is a 224. What's on the name of this map? What's on him in this map? Quickly, quickly. Oh yeah. These are the guys. Is this rundown? No, that's not backlut.

Fuck. Run down. My brother. My brother used to call it Little Puerto Rico. Showdown? No. Mark. Mark.

run down no it's run down is the one in this game oh yeah you're right it's a fucking district district dude I won't let us down I won't let us down with that yeah but the best game best straight right there strike dude at one bounce mm another one that's you that's cool like that's cool as hell man and they they all play so they all play so dope too like they don't like their style to it They don't play style. They don't sit in corners like that you'll you'll get like a two a two piece of I love this fucking mat.

Backloss. Look how do you just glide through the mat like this cause movement kid. What? Oh dude. Games clips of them like pre-firing through smokes and walls. Useful strafes dude. Dude no the thing is like the thing is if you were if you were playing this on a regular basis back when it was out like

I never like besides D treats and maybe like two other guys I never saw somebody hit the strafe jump and on the back of strike to look over that wall That's like all PC shit. Oh yeah you can't do that shit What straight he was where I don't think you can you can't do that on console He he was on a on strike where on strike where on strike when you spawn on all on defense over the middle wall. Yeah No I'm pretty wait oh you could do it you could do it. Oh yeah if you hop on the bomb right? Yeah, you can hop on the bomb do it. Yeah, yeah but I could not do it for the life of me. Yeah, that shit's hard. I think I know it's what you're talking about.

It's like the wall you look up. If you look up Stevie 9 Lives is the first clip. It's the first clip. It's the first clip. It's the first clip. Yeah, but like you'd go to the left if you're running towards like the far left building and there's like this wall. They all jump on it in Promot.

And it lets you look right down the middle of the street. That one, right? Yeah. Yeah. What a beautiful game. It's like a, what a beautiful game. In my head, in my head, every single time that I think about, these days, I'm like somebody and it's gonna have to.

The thing is like, it can't be us to make that documentary because we are subjects in that documentary. I can make that documentary because I am a subject in the history of this thing. So I can't be, I can't be the one that does it otherwise, you know. Imagine that. Imagine ProMod became a thing and was popping in like the last like eight years. Dude. Like what it could have been.

Whenever IW. I get my like rival like. like it could have rivaled the counterstrike everything yeah i didn't want to say it but like that was kind of my thought yeah because that's like that's a big task but yeah i mean there's a world where it could isn't counter strike counterstrike counterstrike's a half-life mod right yeah yeah i mean cod four pro mod could have turned into something like a different game you know which is why call 34 during that era was like the only time

where I felt that like all the competitive PC players that played that professionally and Call Duty players that played that professionally were sort of like having their own little universes happen. But the conversion of that on YouTube is what really made it pop like beyond anything else. Mazurini obviously everything that he put out during those days, Katha, everything that he put out during those days. Obviously with like Predator doing all the shit that he was the date Tajes, like nobody was fucking doing that shit.

obviously phase doing the team type well we I was doing the team you know I'm saying like the competitive sniping shit like literally was born during those days and from there just like a spawn of creators just happened that went on to play Minecraft like seen Anderson but he started in Call of Duty then you have think of every single fucking YouTube

creator from gaming like they all came from that fucking yeah dude like I cinema think about that like ProMod like Katha and Maserini like Catalyst 1, 2, and 3, like, I was linking all the editors. I'm like, yo, this is like, I was linking them to Maserini and Katha video. I'm like, yo, this is what this is. It has to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, this is what, like, this is what it's going to be. Like, it has to be perceived something like this. Play with Soul, play with Soul is like the best, to this day is the best montage ever made. Yeah, bro. Like. So good. It's, dude, it's unbelievable. It's in.

It's, in the clips that they were making in there. Like, he has. another dope one called Gravity. Mazurini did. Did you ever see that? It's got that. Yeah, I saw that one. The dope-ass song.

And like serial killers. Blake and George loved serial killers, but I mean, Play with Soul is just, the, I want to dream, like how it started. Yeah. No, it also had to do a lot with, with the music.

The scoring, the scoring of those montages had a lot to do with how excellent those montages were. I wonder how many views that has. Can you look up Play With Soul montage? I want to see how many. views that you know what I also guarantee you that that play with souls montage those songs that they used like nobody really was using those songs

oh no it's the euro club songs 18,000 views 13 years ago that has that's not it no because they hit a million within the first three days everybody was sharing this shit right there 3.9 go up right there 3.9 that shit had a million in three days and and look that's remove it from there Matt and look at the time remove yeah look at the time it look at that it used to be no it used to be Oh, 1337.

Yeah, it used to be leaked. Yeah. Yeah, but look up Stevie 9 Lives. Yes. Steve. Stevie 9 Lives is the one that fucking wrecked the world. And it was maybe because I think Maserini may have edited. I don't fucking know.

15 years ago. See, that one has less views. Yeah. But I also think that was re-uploaded. I don't think that's the original war. This is a montage for the very well professional known. I mean, 15 years ago. Oh yeah, this is, yeah.

That has to be the one. Because it used to come from a, uh, tech nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I thought. Tech Nine. Like some sort of, Tech9 studios or shit. Yeah. I mean, that's.

Stevy. One life. Climaxu. Uh, the PG one, the PJ, PJ was fucking super sick. Button bashers. Serial killers. All of them fucking bang. Button basters for me was probably like one of the, the better ones.

But nothing will ever be. That's why I like, in people try to. replicate this people there because because what it is is competitive like the thing with like phases montages and like are like optics montages console montages like they were console montages but it was just like sniper lobbies or like snow whoa whoa not optics or there's just like public these guys came along public matches kill the fucking game fuck that shit up real good until we came along and fucking made millions of millions of views you fuck that shit up real good but like there I used to watch a a little clan

on console called Violent Reality. They tried to like replicate what like ProMod was and that shit was fun. Everyone tried to replicate what Promod was. That shit was fun. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That like this documentary needs to fucking happen. And if somebody doesn't do it, I'm gonna fucking do it. What do I saw I did it around the bar with Bruce and Bruce said that because he was doing

competitive like the hardcore the headquarters shit. The sniper sniper sniper whatever they're called. And he said that. No, it's a competitor. Comped at Comps diving yeah and he said that the best amers he's ever played against were in those lobbies Yeah, he was like he's like if they if they did what I did they'd all be in the in the league to think about it Of course that you could play competitive we've fucking tried He is a G G G G GCS champion I am I did do it at the only point of my life

So is he is also yeah I mean you were a guy David's also a G G G G GCS champion yeah he is he didn't even care about the trophy though G G G G he's like that one's mine the the release tournament or the kickoff tournament. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that show's for yeah I think I will regret not being a part of more like call-a-duty events that that come out just because of me not having the time to play but I know like I'm like I should have been a part I should have been a part of that should have been oh I've got got your team for next year you'll yeah let me guess you'll play next year yeah all right because I have to split you and your boys up yeah you have to I have to I have to I've been to have fun I have to split you and your boys out. You got to play against them?

No, no, I'd rather play with them if they, like, I'm not worried about these. Hodge, the one that doesn't give a fuck about winning, so he'll use a thumbs up. If you ask Hodge, he'll say the same shit about Hacks. Honestly, I want to play, but he just smoked meat all the time. That's not your fucking true. That's what I said, I've got to split you guys up.

Aside from like some people not showing up, like I think this year was probably the most balanced. And I think I think probably everybody had fun. I think That was the most over I mean obviously the only thing was the subs and I've already got a fix for it as I'm saying that was like the only thing that like got weird But I think and at least compared to previous years it was by far the best you also have to fucking You also have to tell them to make a commitment to finish it out

Yeah, you have you think you're not committed to doing this then don't do it because you're gonna ruin the entire fucking show And also I think I'm talking I think this year I'm gonna talk with all of the coaches and have a one day A week where no one's grim because that was the issue. There are so many different kickoff tournaments that we are allowed to do on so many like Activision, it's all Activision's marketing budget. So like I'm doing one this time

and Tommy's doing one the other time and then Ultra is doing one. And meanwhile like the league starts so soon now that the guys, everyone's screaming already. So like you kind of have to figure out a day where no one's screaming so that people can play. That's what I'm saying. That was the biggest, that was a,

tough issue this year. But I think this year if I do, if I do it all at night. So if I split up, instead of doing one tournament from 3 p.m. to midnight, I do one tournament over the course of like three days and it's all at night so that everyone's able to play. Like there's, there's, I've been thinking about it. It's these, these stupid fucking shackles that the players got put under when this thing fucking became a thing, like them not being able to play with each other so that they wouldn't take away from the interest of.

of the actual tournament, like literal people who have... When you had to think about all that too when you're doing it. Yeah, all the time. Dude, people who have never touched the fucking game made that decision. You know what I'm saying? That's why I came up with the wheel, which Tommy fucking stole. I want you to, I want everybody to fucking know that. Zoom in.

Tommy stole my idea. Wait, what was the wheel? Where you put subduos and AR duos. Yeah. And then you spin a wheel on who teams up. What teams? Oh, that's good. So like the first year I did it, major maniac and I forgot who he was with was like were two ARs.

And they spun the wheel and they synced up with Simp and Abizi. So it was like the old phase roster got to play with each other. And that year, what was it? Crem and Clay were on Dallas Empire. And I spun the wheel and they teamed with. scump and who was Seth with oh Dylan I think yeah yeah and I was and people were like oh yo they're back together like it was it was such a fun it was such a fun event yeah and then Tommy or maybe it was Ben Jain to seem I bet she was Ben

stole my fucking I fuck you Ben but no I'm I'm glad that I'm glad that that's but but I it's been a dream of mine forever to throw frackup five fry cup yeah fracket cup five what's stopping you from doing that not owned by fucking anyone. Yeah, but the, the players can't play together. So.

It, it, it, what is it? You can't have three people. Yeah, you can't have three people on the same team.

Dude. So weird. Literally burn fucking money. But the thing is, is I will say, I had talked to Activision last year and said, hey, can we do Friday Cup 5?

Like, there's already playing all these kickoff tournaments. If we, if we build, if we make the kickoff tournaments worth something, then people, more people will play it. And they're like, watch.

They're like, well, we can't do it because they can't play together. And I'm like, they're going to play together. Like every year, everyone's playing kickoffs and they're all playing together. Not only that, but they're also streaming it. Yeah, exactly. And by now. What is the difference if they're doing it on game battles or if, you know, we do it together. Rest and peace, game battles.

Yeah, all right. Damn. RIP. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Uh, thank you so much for tuning in, ladies and, gentlemen, we should be back to the regularly scheduled program next week.

Everybody's back from the wedding, so it'll be super fun to get back to normalcy, I think. I think we have a little bit of a downtime. I haven't traveled as much as I have this year than, dude, I've been to Europe three times this year. I've been to Tokyo. I've been to Mexico twice. Ladies and gentlemen, that's going to do for this episode. Thank you so much for tuning in if you guys enjoyed it. Do leave a like before you leave.

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