OpTic Podcast - OpTic WARZONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 25

Episode Date: May 19, 2021

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You should have never tried it? No, we should have dropped you. And then we would have nasty. Yes, probably. Or I shouldn't have agreed to drop them. Did I? Did I drop them? Remember, didn't we?

No, didn't we? I agree with him? I was pretty good. Didn't it? We should have dropped you and you say, yeah, probably? Like, what kind of mindset is? He knows. What kind of mindset is that?

Welcome, welcome, welcome. So we're 25 of the Optic Podcast. Your usual guest's host is the man. Nick Maniac Kirshner wearing the dope-ass huntsman love it. What's up with the haircut? We have Sethi

and of course legendary It's raining outside, man. But you're inside. I've been outside all day. It doesn't look bad. You've been outside all day. Yes, I got my shots.

I went to the diner. About to go to the groomer. I got shit to do, man. You should go to the groomer. Don't take buzz. Go get a buzz. Yeah, they need to shave my taint. That's the whole.

That's how you start. He's off the rails. He is off the rails. Anyway, thank you for tuning in. Once you leave a like on the video right now, just know that this episode is going to be fire as usual. So go ahead and leave a like now. There's a whole bunch of stuff that we need to talk about and discuss,

starting with GTA 6 being announced. Nick, you're a big, big GTA player. I dabbled into, what was it, GTA 5 role play a little bit. Have you done role play? I mean, in GTA? No. I don't want to hear your purpose. I have dressed up as furry animals.

You never done role play on it? I'm off the rails today, buddy. I can tell, bud. I'm off the rails. It's been a long day already. What times do you get up? It's 1 o'clock right now. 9.30.

Oh, you got up at 9.30? 930. All right, so you have had a long day. But I will say this. I came into the studio. Well, in terms of how shitty the day has been. I'm wearing sandals. There's puddles outside.

My socks are wet. I've been waiting for 30 minutes. I won't hear that as a complaint. This dude was walking around in sandals in Chicago in the middle of winter. Was. Right off the poor idea. Yeah. And we walked like three miles to up.

Why did we walk so far? Because Big timer said it was one block away. Big timer did say it was one block away. That shit was whack. Dude, that was like a mile away. Bro, the fact that he's like... More than a mile. Oh, yeah.

It wasn't even open. It wasn't even open. We ended up Ubering. We did Uber to Garibaldi's. No, he didn't. I don't do. That's a cap. Where were you going to?

Where were y'all walking to? We went to that. The only pizza place opened in Chicago. Jordan? No, it was not ass. That shit was good. It was good. It was good, but I was just so hungry.

They had a crunchy, crunchy crust at the bottom. What kind of pizza was it? No, it was, no, it was a square Chicago? No, it was. It was ass. It was really good. It was fucking ass. What did you walk from the scuff house to somewhere?

Dude, it was just the fact that was so underwhelming because we walked for like an hour in negative weather. Dude, I had sandals on. And it was snowing out. Oh, my God, those. And I was like, can we call an Uber? And everyone was like, no, let's walk. For the record, I wanted to call an Uber.

Obviously, I'm not going to walk. One, it's the night. I know what Chicago's like. Wait, is that when we were there for the tickets? Yeah. That's what that was out? Yeah, so we did it an activation. Shout out to everybody that came out to that.

That was one of the best thing, the best meetups we've ever done ever. And it was the golf thing? No, we did. The more you itch, the bigger it gets. No, that's not true. No. Dude, can your body get used to those shots? You swell up like a fucking...

You're choking. Do you look like a... Got stung by a bean. That's what you came up with? Bart balloon? I was just watching you. Like, come on. Anyway, so it was...

We were selling tickets for our homestand. Obviously, it was right before COVID. But it was one of the best ones. The only thing that sucked is was freezing cold. A lot of you waited outside for about two hours in negative degree. Well, it was like 2,500 people showed up. luckily we're able to sell out our event which was super dope appreciate the support hopefully we can get back to normalcy

and then the event didn't even happen one year it's been what's crazy is that we saw like sounded deranged right there one year it's been so great you know what I think it is I think he misses streaming he doesn't have this this uh nowhere to put his energy no one nowhere to put his energy I have no outlet

besides his I'm sorry what's that mean I feel for what do you mean what did you mean that she's the only one that I control that's what I thought you meant that's what I thought you meant

you got buzz I can't troll it have you have a conversation have you considered exercising no where did that come from no I haven't

anyway back back to back to GTA 6 have you ever played it no Not even, I play GTA like two. GTA two. Just GTA one.

That game was fun. I played GTA. Close that door, please. I played the one with the... Vice City. The last one I played is with the one with the three characters where you can choose their storylines. It was like Trevor. I think, isn't that five?

It might be the most recent. Yeah, I think so. San Andreas? San Andreas. Those five? That was five, right? Last time I played any was in PlayStation. All you had was the top view down.

Yeah, the, like, what, 2D? Yeah, it was super 2D. Wait, GTA 5's been up for eight years. Yeah, that is crazy. What's crazy about that is that, like, GTA to this day is way up there on the list of most watched video games on YouTube. It goes, Minecraft, Fortnite, GTA. Sometimes it's GTA about Fortnite, but Minecraft still reigns supreme because it is the best game that has ever been created. The fact that you guys are playing wow and not trying to beat it from a lonely island is mind-boggling.

with me. Why we're not trying to beat Minecraft Lonely Island? Yeah. I should got... No. Minecraft was really fun for a while. I remember staying in there until like 4 a.m. one day.

And it was like, wow, I actually enjoy a game. Yeah. And then... Kind of go... Well, everybody... Like, diamonds are so exciting to get. And then you play the game for a few weeks, and you're like, uh, these aren't that cool.

Lonely Island is where you spawn in on an island. And not the people... I'm on a boat. Yeah. That's the one. That's the one. And then you spun in with two cows and chickens. You don't know that song?

And then you have to, you can't get off. You have to beat the game from that island. You can't go explore into other islands. You have to build everything from that island. Wait, is that the T-Pain song? Wack. Yes. Okay, I did it.

It's not whack, Seth. Wack. Anyway, so there was a, there was a, there was a post from a rock star employee. I was bad at crap. So there was a post from a, from a rock star employee that had, like, like weird, it was like weird bullet points. And essentially what it says is advice to management. Gamers aren't happy with us lately.

Time work. And it's spread out on different bullet points, right? So bullet point number one is advice to management. Bullet point number two is gamers aren't happy with us lately. Bullet point number three is time working needs cutting. Time working needs cutting. I don't even. So essentially what people were doing looking at it?

They're like, what the fuck does that mean? But if you look at every single first letter. GTA 6 Las Vegas Wait a second Oh my God It's right Las no

GTA 6 LSV CLC What is this from? From a post Rockstar post Rockstar posted this Yeah Gmer's on a CLC

Me GTA 6 L Los Santos Vice City LC LC It could be like the next one

What Santos Vice City Anyway The way that they made the announcement It's kind of cool because now they have people talking about it on podcast as to how to decode this sort of message. If you guys know in the comment section, if you guys want to leave a comment down below what you think it means, I'd appreciate it because one, I want to know. And I don't want to go and do the research myself.

So if I could just go read through the comments and see where it is. I need a new single player game to play, man. Minecraft. Wait, you love World of Warcraft. Why don't you just play that? It's not a single player game. You need a good group of people to actually do the end game content. and we don't have a group of people that are good.

Yeah, it's just us three. He's not included in this. Okay, so it's just you too. Yeah. I mean, we have people we play with, but... Wait, why don't you play with Maniac? He's not geared. What's that means?

Notice he didn't say I'm not good. I'm just not geared. What's that mean? Which means I haven't grinded the game enough. To really to get gear, you just have to grind the game. And I haven't grounded in it. And then once you had a certain point, You can't get better gear unless you do like the mythic raid and you need 20 people to do that.

20 people to do a mythic raid? And they have to all be good. Is that where Leroy Jenkins comes from? Is that that sort of thing? No, that's in the Halls of Valhalla. Blackwing layer, I think. Where he runs into the. Just as cool.

Where he runs into the little dragons, the dragonkins. Yeah. I was actually watching that yesterday. Good video. That's a good video. Yeah, you know, let's get off, off gaming topics. Have you watched any shows lately that you can recommend? Because I just, the reason I've rewatched Breaking Bad.

The reason I'm saying that is because like Natechad finally listened to me. And I started watching Ted Lassow. We did, but we started watching it last night. It's fire. It's fire, right? What's it about? Is it some fucking, no, tell him.

It's about a coach, a football coach. Don't go tell them. Okay, so it's about. It's kind of hard to like tell you the plot. Yeah. It's kind of just like an ongoing, like, It's the best fuel. Is it like a new age of this generation?

Or is it fucking Game of Thrones? I hate Game of Thrones. No, they mention Twitter and a bunch of stuff. I'm going to go tweet. Why do you hate Game of Thrones? But like I don't like Mid-Eval movies. So you don't like Gladiator?

You don't like that Braveheart? Patriot. The Patriot? I don't really know any of those. I just stay away from them. Time on. Wait, was Gladiator, are you not entertained?

Yeah. I like that. one. That's about the only one. Russell Crow. You've never seen the Patriot? What about Braveheart? Nope. Mel Gibson again?

I don't know. I've heard of Braveheart, but. Bro, you got to watch that, dude. Braveheart, like, I grew up. Yeah, you do. That's what I'm saying. The 90s is so much better.

Because they, they'd release like fire shit back then. They don't have movies like that nowadays. They don't. Like what? Braveheart? Just like classics. Like, like, like media or a peer,

what are they called? Like those sort of like like fast and furious. Yeah. The serpent? Oh, I know you're talking about. There's a little. On Netflix.

It was incredible. Did you finish that? Yeah. Safe on Netflix was really good. Behind her eyes was really good, but I don't know if you are. I started. That's kind of old. Platform's also pretty good.

That's a movie. These are TV shows. Platform is interesting. I haven't seen it. The platform was a fantastic film. Christmas holiday, like weird classic thing. It's kind of a classic. Check it out.

Platform? Is that on Netflix? Yeah, Netflix. With the platform going up and down? With the food? Yeah. What? Okay, now I'm intrigued.

There was another one that we watched. Another show that we watched, though, that was really good. I can't remember what it was. But a lot of good shows. I started watching behind her eyes. I'm intrigued. But when you said I'm watching Ted Laugh. Oh, yeah.

Shadow and Bone, I think is what it's called. Is that the mythical stuff? Yeah, right? Yeah, the one with the fold is what it's called. I don't know. It's based on a book. That was really good. Yeah.

Only one season. Yeah, have you watched? Handmaid's Tale? You've only watched movies, right? Yeah, recently, yeah. Past couple years. I haven't really been getting invested into shows, bro. We watch hell of shows.

I get, I'll watch the first, like, three, four episodes of a show, but then I'll just. Yeah, I don't like committing. And then everyone always be like, oh, you got to wait until season two. It starts, like, I ain't going through 12 episodes. Like, I don't want to watch 12 episodes. Just like, get me into the, do you read spark notes of shows? It's an option. That's a song.

much better. You're welcome. I recommend Ted Lassow just because it's the best I swear, I swear, and I mean it's the best feel good show you're ever going to watch. Another one that I recommend to everyone is Afterlife with Ricky Jervais. That one's so good.

It's funny. It's sad. Is that when his wife passes away? Yeah. He's bound down. That shit is funny. He's found it down? Huh? You've seen that? He's spouted down? Yeah. Penny Rogers?

Yes. Hey, yo, April. Hey, yo, April. It's like, oh, I recognize your sense. Do you recognize my essence? You've never seen it? You've never seen it? No, I got you, though.

Wait, so you've never seen it. No, I've heard it be fun and down. Okay, I'm going to show you one episode right after this, one episode. And I bet you're going to watch the rest of it. It gets, it's wild, wild. Yeah, so those are the only ones. I'm glad that you started watching Ted Lasso, though. Like, Nate Chott finished it.

the one day. What's it about? We're almost done with it already. It's super, it's such a short show. There's only like 10 episodes and there are 30 minutes each. But it's super short.

But it's good or bad? It's good. It's good. It's really good. It's good. Really good. It's going to win all the awards. It's going to win all of the awards for 2020. It's the best show from 2020.

That good. That good. The best show from 2020, you can't even, you can't even. I don't know. Okay. There was, you haven't watched it.

So how can you compare? Is it, what's Ted Liso about? a football coach from the Americas that goes trains a fucking premier league team there was some show that came out last year that the new season's supposed to come out this year it's about like this guy who's like a murderer

and like this guy who's like a murderer and yes I thought you were making a joke I was like yeah yes you that show is fucking good wait really you have to

You should watch that show. You know what? You know what I haven't seen either? The boys and you've been telling me. Dude, you have to watch the boys, bro. So you watch the boys, right, Seth? It was fire, right? It was fire, right?

Isn't the new season of you supposed to come out? Yeah, I don't know. That shit's good. You're saying to watch the boys. I'll watch the boys if you watch Ted Lassow. I'm going to watch Ted Lassow. All right, cool. I'm watching the boys starting to tomorrow.

I don't know when. You's also really good. You is good as fuck. I watched you season one in one night. Or like one night Season two and one night You were late to what Huh

He was late to what? To the guy and you Just a crazy Wait I'm late to him You were late To the show Is he What does he play that role

In other shit What the fuck are you two talking about? I don't know I don't know I'm gonna rain it I'm gonna rein it back in Yeah Real like

I'm gonna reel it from the Mainchat gives up Twitch No I'm gonna reel it back in good segue yeah yeah sorry I'm just you know making sure

I got I guess it just you know like what are we gonna do I meant to mention at the beginning of the show that this podcast

is brought to you by Express VPN and we'll tell you a little bit more about that and just a short period of time as you mentioned Nate Chad gave up

his Twitch I don't know why we need to have that discussion like I it's not because it's on the paper no I know

but I'm just I don't know why it's on the fucking paper. Some of the shit that I see sometimes is like face is like face owners will sell all their shares as a collective. Ninja says

that he made $5 million in one month from his Fortnite creator code. That's crazy. That is nuts. I believe it. I watched the clip. Are we just skipping three points? Yeah. What are we talking about? How much have you made from your creator code on Call of Duty? Like three million? Yeah.

Somewhere around that. Give a take. Give or take a few million. Give or take a few three million dollars. That's insane. That's insane. $5 million in a month for one single source of... Wait, in a...

In a month. In one month. I was saying, damn, five mil off your creator code. That's pretty good. No, in a one month. Yeah, so you can imagine, like, what other month? So that means for...

That means for a thousand subs. At the same time, I had 300,000 subs at the same time he had an Adidas partnership. And he played with Drake like a week before? Played with Drake. Jesus. I don't know if... I don't know when or how soon this is, because I also saw... saw something where Jess was saying that he made, she made him like $5 million in one week

just in deals. Like obviously not all at once. Obviously the deal needs to happen in order for that to do that. But that's insane. Look, I love the Blevins household. That's a power couple. That's a super power couple. Yeah.

They're doing good things. Look, there's nothing more powerful than a good team. You know what I'm saying? A good team. No offense to the single man in this area. I just randomly locked eyes with you and then you made it weird. God damn. Anyway, so congrats to them.

I hope they keep on killing it. What I do want to talk about that's important there is the World Series of Warzone, as it's already been announced, and I'm hoping that the production team here doesn't make this go live before that announcement goes live. Yeah, that'd be super fucked. They'd be super fucked, and I'm not paying for it. Fireball offense. No, I don't know.

I don't think it could fire. I didn't, I said finable. Oh, finable. I thought you said fireable. I'm like, damn, this guy is ruthless. Nah, fireless. That's fireball. So World Series of Warzone, what it is?

This is a tournament with $300,000 on the line in which is a trios. Now, I don't know if it's a kill race where you're going into public lobbies and sort of being at the whims of whether or not anti-cheat is happening. But I've seen... Wait, so two pros... Did you see that shit? Yeah, with courage? The Argentina stuff? No.

Like, apparently some of the players in these war zone tournaments are buying a VPN and the VPN makes it say that they're in Argentina. so they're matching just a bunch of shitty players that live in like Argentina. Yeah. So they're getting the easiest lobbies ever. Oh, wow. Are some kids manipulating skill base? No fucking shit.

Why are they so bad? Well, they're probably... What if you tried to go somewhere? Like, I'm just going to go to, like, I don't know, Argentina and they're just shitting on you? Like, they're just fucking nasty as fuck. You never knew. Like, I want to know, like, imagine the Koreans, right?

The Chinese, like, how good are... I want to know how good they are. Because they take everything seriously. That's something that I always had... about that that side of the world's culture where everything that they do from start to finish is about being the best them they could be at whatever the fuck we need to learn they're just playing on n-a-ping like 200 they're like unhealthy with that shit bro no they don't it doesn't ping you bad oh really no they're unhealthy with that yeah bro i watched like i watched like um i watched like legal

legends documentaries about like the teams in their team houses bro they live in like i don't want to say like i don't know it's just like really extreme yeah is it like what you hear about with like of playing, gymnastics teams, then you sleep for four hours, then you're back on for 16 hours. Like, dude, they play absurd amounts of hours.

It's going to be private lobbies, apparently. So it's going to be, it's going to be good. The one thing that I will tell you about private lobbies is that everybody that's in there is going to be sweating

and everybody that's in there is skillful. Because if you think about it, everybody has a lot, has the ability to put in two pro players and somebody who isn't a pro. So it's two pro players and a non-pro.

Yeah. So where does this leave all the war zone players then? They're in it too. It's captains. But each team has to have two pro players. Yeah. So that leaves a lot of people I feel getting excluded that play warzone, like the streamers. Yep.

If there's two pros per team and it's only trios. There's a hundred and fifty people per lobby, dude. Oh, that's a lot of team. That's like 50. That covers all the good ones. That covers everyone. Plus like 20 people that don't really like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I think it's going to be. So what's the format? How's that work? is it kills survival? Who knows? Who knows? More to be... That's the problem, though.

It's so hard to get a perfect, like, system. Yeah. Because you could say, like, it's Paul Thorougham in a custom game lobby. Then you just have everyone in houses getting cracked in the windows. Like, that's still not that fun to watch. You're like, okay, the zone's coming in,

so they all got to move, all right? Okay, well, that sucks. Yeah, they were trapped. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Or it's like, oh, go to a bot lobby. Sorry, now you have all these different things, like the cheating, the fucking VPNs,

the fucking... Yeah, well, at least with fear, at least the way that this is done, this is the best approach or the best solution to not round into cheaters. Because there is zero chance that anybody with any significant following

would ever be dumb and fucking enough to do the cheats that they do. I don't know. It could happen. It could happen, but imagine how dumb you would have to be to have like something good going for you that is scalable but you're choosing to take a shortcut

just for whatever sake that Yeah, I don't even know. I doubt it. I, for one, am super amped about what this new sort of iteration of war zone looks like because I do want to see the best of the best. Is it going to be campy? Maybe. Are the things that you can do to make it non-campy?

Sure. But I think that this part of the hiccup there? It just depends what the format looks like. If it's based off kills, people probably won't camp as much. But if it's based off of placing, then... That'd be kind of cool. What if it was strictly kills? It is strictly.

Placing means nothing. Yeah. That would be sick. That would be fucking sick. That's what they got to do. People would be like, no, that's stupid. Make it to worry. Doesn't matter if you win.

Doesn't matter if you get first. Yeah. You ever get the most kills in the lobby. Placing has to have something. Nah, none. None. None. You're talking like this.

If there's none, if there's none, then no one's camping. Everyone's going off on their own and just trying to kill everyone. Yeah. No one's going off on their own. Some one's going off on their own. Fiffle? That kid's going off on his own. Against pro players?

That kid's gross. Yeah. Yes. Against teams of three pros, no one's going off by themselves. He can't go off by himself. I've watched him. Against him. A lobby of pros.

Yeah. He'd make us look stupid. If he's on top of a building at least. He's not. He's on the road. Nobody's going to row. Get a lobby of three pros per team. Three really good players per team.

Yeah, yeah. No one's going row. They're just going to make it to where it's the place you can matter at all. You can hit with one ston your dead. Yeah, but you go to the, to the gulog and come back. And we're battle hard. All pros are using the. stuns. I'm using my stunts. I'm throwing too. I'm not taking a straight gunfighting

against anyone. I'm stunning him. You're not seeing me once. You're seeing three flashes coming the door and then like two people slag your dogs like you're getting stunned twice semtex twice and then I'll push you. And you see Seth with the riot shield just fucking like the riot shield. I'm just over him. That might be a play. You know, keep that on a mounted on them. Keep that on the push. Yo, caught that. I'm kidding. I'm not I'm not. I don't mount him. Yeah. I had to make that clear. I hate when I accidentally mount. I just wish I was I was a better player. If I could have one wish, would be to, like, be good at Call of Duty.

Really? Yeah. I would. There's been playing her crazy game. I know, but I love. Yeah, I love Call of Duty, man. I'd rather be good at something that I love them. If you could be good at one other game, what would it be right now?

He is. Counterstrike. One other games are there? Like, what are the popping games? I mean, League, Fortnite. Valer. Valer. League, probably.

League? Yeah, that's what I would pick. Probably league. Yeah? What role? mid I'd be sick imagine imagine being faker bro the replayability he's like I've run shit you know what I'm saying he's walking in there

replayability on league like you're always playing a different game so it's hard to get stale like call dude gets stale after like two or three hours like playing pubs yeah war zone doesn't get stale but like pubs get stale yeah I don't think pubs will get stale like lead legends like you play three games it's already three hours dude like grinding that game is so much just easier mentally than cod so easy it's always different always different it's always different it's always different

And you never feel like like, you never pay attention that's the same map. You know what I'm saying? You're just like, it's another game. You're not like, I keep playing the same map over and over and over. It's like you don't even think about that because the game's so fucking good. Well, I mean, it's kind of, we wouldn't know about how their grind is. But I feel like it's easier than. Well, he's easier to grind.

He just had fucking 14 hours. What's easier to grind a game like that than Cod? Because Cod, like you're playing pubs. Like there's no real incentive. They have a good rank play too. They have a great rank. Here's a cookie. Imagine that that's not what Faker was meant to be.

Like, faker's really. good at League of Legends, but he is like the best at something else. That's valid. Just imagine. He's never going to try it. And he's never going to try it. That's the fucking wildest shit ever that every human has to be okay with. Maybe that was me. The wildest shit, bro, is watching that kid back in like five,

six years ago, watching him lane against someone, bro. Like, you appreciate how good he is at the game. Like, you're like, this guy's like a masterclass. Like, he's just outplaying the fuck out of this apparently next best. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Making him look dumb. Like, no one could beat that guy. Yeah, I wish I understood a League of Legends.

They're 2B-Wing them, and he just killing them both. I wonder what it is. Like what, say in the other mid-laner's eyes, like, what makes Faker so annoying? They probably go into it nervous as fuck regardless. They're like, it's faker, bro. I'm not going to kill this guy. Dude, he's got Superstar fact for sure. It's a faker.

Like, have you ever experienced him? That name was just like. I don't know what he looks like. But I know what his name looks like. You're a superstar? No. I'm playing against a superstar, and I'm scared. Yeah, exactly.

Dude, his nickname was like the unkillable demon king. What the fuck? I swear to God. It's pretty long for a nickname. I know, the castors were gas- Imagine. Is there like an acronym for that? Like the unkillable demon king.

Like the crowd's like, he's uncurable. He's a demon. U-K. He's my king. What is it? Uncliable D. U-K. D.

What are you guys deciphering? It's a fucking puzzle. There's no way you're saying the unkillable demon king every time. I'm saying that three times fast. I can't imagine. You got first blood in the world. You just see my fucking message fly by.

He says, Unkillable demon king. All caps. You see formal? He's in a little checkmark. And all you see is like Sephy. Saddie. No.

Fine. Imagine, right? Like his, no, right. But yeah, private lobbies would be dope. Yeah.

Fuck. Okay, we're back on that. Okay. Yeah, it would be pretty cool. Wow. Well,

we get, we get, we get, like, lost in the sauce. That's the beauty. That's the beauty of podcast, man, forever and always that,

that, having conversations, instead of, like, doing a podcast, we'll always like, everybody can have a topical podcast where it's like, we're only going to talk about

fucking aliens today. Or we can have conversations that we would have just the same way that we have them on the couch or when we're at dinner. Those are the things that people want to see. Like they want to see them jumping. We want to see us jumping around. Yeah, they don't want to hear about. What do you think you if, what game would you be wanted to be good at? Sorry.

Probably league. League would be nice. Nick was pretty good at league. I was pretty good at league. Nick was playing league when like first came out. Wait, I remember, dude, I remember being at the land network. I was team with Nick in 2011 and he was playing league on a lap. and like when it was in like beta

and Nick was playing like Ash and I was like what is this and he was just like I don't know I remember that it's so fucking weird I was hell of early on a laptop playing with like a fucking you were at the land network I'm trying to see you fucking find your face

I can't I've seen Nick in here you put up the receipts I wasn't there okay wait what are those Land Network How do you have those Joe Fies wrong to you Yeah hell yeah why because that's like easiest read in my life. Dude, Halo is like such a, such a big staple in

Esports from the beginning. Yeah. So if I have a relic like that, the Land Network house is like the Playboy Bunny House to like life. Yeah. Well, no. Well, you know what I'm saying. I saw what you were saying. You know what I'm saying? Nothing about down there. No. You know what I mean? Like so yeah. There's only two teams. As an e-sports collector. That's like one of the my favorite things that I have. That's pretty cool. Let me see that after. Let me see that after. No. Okay, never mind. Show me later, Hector.

Seth, what would you play if you weren't playing? What would you want to be good at? CS or early, probably. Have you played Valeran at all? Yeah, I'm kind of good. Have you played it? No. Dude, I wish that there was like a battalion in 1944.

What happened to that game? It died. How? It's so good, right? It exploded. I went to go download and there was no download. I was like, what the fuck? Where'd the game go?

That game was actually a lot of fun. Oh, my God. So good. We were nasty at it for a little bit. It looked super fun. You know what's crazy is that I got so comfortable and I was playing it. And then I'll play with like him or somebody that's way better. And I would just be like, God damn it.

I just wish I was better at video games. We got to like the highest rank. Yeah. We were playing like the highest rank kids and we were still like keeping up or shitting on. Yeah. I wish I was, I had better hand eye coordination when you came to that. I just don't have it. But I wish.

Yeah. So I do. There's a lot of things that I, you would probably wish that you were better at me. Call of Duty. I would want to be better. What was your best year of Cod? 2007, Caudley 4. Oh my God.

Call Dutty 4? He was still bad. I was not. Which Cod was that? Was it just Cod? Wait, did you know of Hex in 2007? Yeah, of course. If you were in College Dutty, you knew who the fuck I was.

I didn't know the fuck he was. Yeah, okay. Who was more known in 2007 on Cod? Oh, shit. Nobody. Me. No. Optics been around since 2006.

It is. How big were you guys in 2007? In 2007, what was 2007? I had no idea who you were. Like 14,000 subs. I'm optimistic. Did you know who sculpt was? Yeah, I was one of them.

No, you weren't. I was like, I was like eight. Yeah. Wait. Wait, no, how old was I? 2007, I was... You were like 10. 10?

10 or 11? Bro, there's no way you were, you were probably like 12. You were probably like 13. In 8th grade, I was like 13. You're 25? In 2007. You were like 12.

12 or 11. Damn. Damn. Happy birthday. Yeah, in 2007, I was like 16. Oh, shit. Let's just say this. Dude, I turned 26 in a month.

That's fun. I'm going to tell you what. Let's just say that I knew what fame was before I knew what your name was. No, you didn't. 14,000 subs? When did that montage hit a mill? Your first. Whatever one, whenever I click on the optic channel.

Mono for two? I don't know. When the Mono for 2? It has like, what, 8 mil? I probably discovered, like, you guys when I first started going to Lance. You're welcome? What was your first event? Dallas and I won that shit

What? First ever event I went to? 2008. The Prodigy Kid That was your first event Isn't it wild brother He had like red hair before Like that's not red hair

That's not red hair. That's not red hair It's also not summer yet It gets lighter in the summer Yeah That's what I'm saying like that's not What are you talking about out of there Racetrack?

Race tracks I feel you You didn't got it You should have called him Hot Wheels Hot Wheels You should have called them Once we get into the sun

Holy Hot Wheels We change Your hair gets lighter too? It does, right? Yeah. I get one red, one red hair on my beard. Do you keep it? Huh?

Do you keep it? Yeah, of course I keep it. I'm proud of that. Oh, yeah. Canelo Alvarez, man. Oh, yeah. World champion. Yeah, I don't know, but you did have, like, extremely red hair back in the day.

It's not summer yet. It gets red? It gets like lighter. It gets like orange, like bright orange. Our skin gets red and our hair gets, well, red. Redder? Redder. That's pretty cool.

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Oh, really? Yeah, Yeah, it was fun. Did you win it? Well, it went with Nick. Did you guys, like, sleep in a hotel? No, you slept there.

You slept there. Everyone slept there, yeah. It was kind of like part of it. Shit was fun. It was fun. It was really fun. It's like everyone's sitting in, like, sleeping here and like random little corners and shit.

Yeah. Everyone watching a movie or some shit. That's so dope. Like watching fucking, this is the end. Everyone just laughing. Wait, who is our team? Me, you. lays Ryan?

Should never tried to drop them. You should have never tried. No, we should have dropped you and then we would have nasty. Probably. Or I shouldn't have agreed to drop them.

Did I? Did I drop them? Remember, didn't we? No, didn't. I agree with him? I was pretty good. Didn't it? We should have dropped you

and you say, yeah, probably? Like, what kind of mind? He knows. What kind of mindset is that? Because I know it's not true. I played well. Didn't we... He played good enough and he was funny.

Didn't we try to drop Rynob and Blitz? That's all it matters. Wait, no, we tried to drop Ryanube and Blaze for like T.J and APG. And then, like, lethal and APG, and then our teammates found out and then lethal and APG joined them. And we're just like... Yeah, what the fuck! And that's when you left me, I think, for like, Destin, Dezoxic and High. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, bro. We picked a reliable in Destin. Then me and And then me and Deson left you two shitters and went one Why? Because you sucked I feel like after that Wait, did these have prizes?

That's funny Josepo? So Osepo's just You got someone that got him? Just crying laughing And you're crying laughing Wait, that is what happened We tried to drop two teammates and pick up two people and then our teammates we were going to drop

just left and teamed with them and we were just like, wait, this was this supposed to happen? All right. Alonzo? And then they shit on us the next event. They three out us so hard. He's like one of the first Halo coaches

I met, FireSpin? All right, so for the last segment, I want to touch a little bit on the event that just happened. Obviously, we came in fourth place, lost on a round 11 again. I know. But look, look, it is,

I was very, I was very happy at the performance. obviously like I always know that we have it I know that we're not playing on land I'm not making a excuse I'm giving you fucking reasons okay crowd but I did you guys just feel better like what happened because you guys obviously

like performed way better than you had in the last couple weeks we literally just needed confidence again like we knew we know we know we're good it's just we go into a match with no confidence and then the result would speak for itself and then we would lose even more confidence and then we just needed we needed one good day

of God and I think that the day against Dallas and Florida was that day. I think, now I feel confident, like, against any team and any series again. Yeah, that's good. I don't give a fuck who we play. Yeah, that's good. Because I know we can beat them.

You know, it's a very telling story when you're doing the team picks. The fuck is that face. What, what's from? Face. Don't say that because remember. Oh, that's right. They're nasty. Every team is so good.

Remember? Good karma and karma. Good karma. Yeah, good karma. Everyone's really good. Should we just pick karma back up? For who? Anybody but me pretty much.

Yeah, I don't know. Just for the record, the right answer in that should have been like, for me. That way you're not saying that your teammates, you know what I'm saying? No, I want to play with them. Let me be clear. Well, you are going to play with him in the World Series of Warzone. That's going to be lit.

Okay. All right, but what we were saying is that it's a very telling story when you're doing the team picks. And Optic is always the first one that gets picked to go on the other side. That's a very telling thing. Like even throughout the weekend, like people were like sort of. There was a hum in the air, right? It was a buzz in the air.

The energy was there where everybody was like, okay, the boys are lining up. They're about to start, you know, playing at the optimal performance. And look, Toronto is nasty, nasty. And we took them to a run. We didn't lose the way that we lost last week. Yeah, 100%. We beat ourselves that series. Yeah.

What do you think went wrong? I fucked up on Raid Control. We should have won that map. How did you fuck up? I left bedroom and didn't tell someone to pick it up. And we would have been up 2-0 if we would have won that defense. We fucked up a lot of things, but I don't really care. We fucked up a lot of things.

We can't change it. Can't change it. But our hard point looked really good. Yeah. Does it hurt? Yeah, but it doesn't matter. It's in the past. Exactly.

Lion King, you're welcome. It's all leading up to champs and we have Lane coming back, so I think that we're on a good headspace as a lot of it. team right now. No, I agree. Definitely because we were not in a good headspace for like that three week stretch. We were all like kind of losing full. Do you think that that came from that? We were losing full. Do you think that that came from that week at, or not week, but that like, that imaginable, unimaginable three piece that killed us? Do you think that's where it started or was it before that? What? He's talking about Lamar's three piece. Lamar's three pieces. That then,

that's not what started. What started? What started was us losing three series in a row. What started? It started was that just trolling in practice. That's what started. Yeah. That set up. up the loss and then we were like damn okay whatever the most another one and we were like you guys are trying now we're like all right and then we like still trolled and then we're like okay now we're in a really straight spot everyone's talking shit on us let's go hard yeah and then we're like all right and then we're in loser bracket yeah and it's just like okay I guess we'll make the best of this thank god we did well because we would have lost like gee ooh I don't want to think about it all I've thought about it you know the thing is like what do you do right like if if

if if you're in my position or your position is like what do you do in situations Do you wait until the season to expire before you start looking at a possible change? Because me, I'm not that guy. I like to keep my teams and work. You just wait for my text and then we move from that. You don't know when it's time. And whoever's, you see that smile? Whoever's added in the group text, they're staying on the team.

There's one odd man out. Okay? So if you don't get the text, you know, you text and you're like, you don't rush it. You know, imagine. You know, imagine says like, you know, Troy, what time are scrimms is tomorrow? And Troy's like, it's 4.30 for the boys. But you're free. You're good to go.

Whatever you want. Yeah, right. It's so whack. I literally fucking fried. You did. You better put some respect on my fucking name. I'm just choking, man. I'm just choking.

Just fucking respect him. Top three SD Katie. Hey, you're. Yo, dashy coming back. Obviously, like, that, I think that was like a major key. He's fine. Because, you know, obviously we know that he's obviously got the talent is just how we get him to deploy those abilities.

Like you were saying it perfect. He's like, I'll watch your back. you're just going do you like that that's what I like to see obviously dude get away you need to get a brittalopad

like one of those the green part of the sponge that oh that would actually sound the fuck out of an inch right I would just imagine that that would help or a POMX rock

he's definitely doing it tonight look at him he's fucking serious yeah all right we don't really have we don't really have we don't really have

have anything else Yeah, look, I know that you have to go. Any closer comments over there, Nick? What would have happened if we lost to L.A.G? Nothing. The answer is nothing. Oh, my God. And with that.

He just sitting there, just like waiting and waiting and waiting. It's bothering. He was like, what was he thinking about? What do you mean you thought about the loss? He's like, bro, you are a psychopath. Yo, you know how, you know what is wrong with you? Bro, you know how I knew that he was doing that because he did that smile that he does when he's like, is he being serious?

I was like, do you thank God we beat L-A-G because I actually started frying again. If we would have lost them, I just would have been in the same cycle. Yeah.

He's getting fucking pummeled. Yeah. I'd have been in the same cycle, but thank God. Yeah, no, we did good, man. I'm happy for you guys. I'm glad that you guys are finding yourselves. I'm not, again,

I'm not one to make changes because of losses. I think, you know, if there's a chemistry issue, that's like a different story, but losing, that can be turned around.

That's one thing. It's kind of surprising. Our vines are fucking great no matter what We got over here by Lamar We were like just laughing the next day Yeah And it's not a matter of not caring about it

Right It's a matter of having the mental fortitude To say it's in the past Let's focus on the future It's not that they don't care It's just we just know like We're not dropping anyone Can we just fucking go hard

Like it's just get practice going You know what I'm saying Yeah because the talent's there It's just the fine tuning That we have to do So say maniac Mani can be close in comments You got anything coming up

Anything that's pop enough Life advice maybe Let me guess I'm streaming every morning Like 10 amm to a shot TV session BTH Maniac, and that's all I have going for me. No?

Anyone else? You're good looking. You're tall. You're athletic. You bring joy to a lot of people. I'm up-and-coming boxing pro. Oh, shit. How's that going?

It's a slow process. You've got to scratch on and you must be kicking people's asses. It is fucking hard, though. What part are? Like, you realize how much you can't fight. Yeah. If shit was to hit the fan and you had to fight someone who could actually fight? Wait, are you sparring?

That's why when people are, huh? Are you sparring with people? No. It's just like boxing drills. Do you ever get to spar with someone? I don't know when I start sparring with people. Here, just go tomorrow and talk shit to someone. We'll start sparring with someone.

Probably not any time. If you buy a pair of gloves, I'll spar with you. Oh, shit. Well, I have my pair. Okay. Oh, shit. I'll give you some. I want that to be an optic video.

I'll give you some practice. Oh, shit. I won't swing. I'll just let you try. I'll just play defense the whole time. That works for me. Until he hits you a little too hard and you're like, I thought we were just playing. And then you just, then you start.

I get hit. I get hit. Like just reactions like, blah, oh shit, you're passed out. My bad. Ooh,

he's going to knock you. I got a dip. All right. Thank you so much for tuning in, everybody. I have to take my dog to a grooming appointment.

That's right here is announcing that. Just a plot. Just so they know. No, they know, yeah. He's got to go groom

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