OpTic Podcast - Scump Goes NUCLEAR Against Nadeshot & BurntPeanut | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 276

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

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You want to ADK against Dive? You want to get Dift? Stay away from bottom line against double-lift. Just go play top-in-top. I don't know how good his support is, though. I don't think it's going to matter, Seth. No, it will. It will.

100%. Do it, do it, do it. Do it, do it. 100%. He's going to go, why. You should be encouraging him do it. If his support's not that good, because I think Fusley's gold and she's our support. Listen, I don't get for fuck who the sports are.

If you run double-f, bottom line, I'll tip the fuck out of it. Yeah, do it so that we can tip it. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to welcome you to episode number 276 of the Optit podcast. This episode, today's episode, is brought to you by BetterHelp Invincible versus AT&T and Price Picks. More about them later on in the podcast. How is the move, formal? Good. All done.

All done? Yeah, no stress anymore. Did you hire anyone or? Yeah, the same guys. Oh, cool, cool. Dude, moving is the worst. Yeah, but it's also the best when you're laid yourself. Well, yeah, when you're...

You did? I mean, yeah, I moved some stuff. Did you? That sucked. Like all the little shit? That sucked. Like your setup and stuff? Yeah.

Yeah, it was like five trips. And nobody touching your setup. You didn't call, like, maniac to help you? He works muscles. He would have thrown the vlog in. Oh, yeah. I love doing it. Throwing the vlog?

Formal move today. Yeah. When you're vlogging. Everything's content. Yeah. They want to see it. Getting out to the world. You know who's been vlogging like a semi-daily?

Him. Who, maniac? No, him. Who's him? Oh, Casey? Casey nice dad. Really? He's back.

He's back. I might be getting inspired. I might be back for fuck's sake. So get ready to go fishing and shit and camping. Camping? No, no, no. Wait, why? I just.

You camp here? I just can't do the camping. Here? Yeah. We're like where? You leave your 10 open just enough? I was going to say. You see little legs?

Fripp it open. Like just as something comes in? Oh. Not some snakes. Yeah, I can't do bugs, bro. I just can't. I know people might call me a loser for that. I don't like bugs.

I can't. I don't like bugs, Craig. It's not even like I don't like them. Like they mess with you? They scare the spiders, bro. Why? You know you're way bigger than them. Doesn't matter.

What can they do? I used to be afraid of spiders. They can look menacing and bite. They can look menacing and maybe bite. Chat, I don't know what I surrounded myself with. Luckily, I had the Gugans for so many years. No, but you know, you go fishing. That's pretty outdoorsy.

Yeah, I mean, fishing's fine. Dude, fuck camping in the U.S. Why? Canada, obviously. Yeah, of course. Canada, you only have to worry about like bears. Think about that. Would you rather? Snake will kill you the spider, will kill you the scorpion.

BAM. Yeah, the bear will eat you. If it's black, fight back. That's like three to one. Brown. If it's brown. Flush it down. No, if it's brown, lay on the ground. If it's black fight back, if it's, what's the other one? If it's white or bad? If it's white, good night, something like that?

Polar bears? Yeah, polar bears. Yeah, puller. Yeah. You know how tall they are? Those things are spiteful, bro. Like eight feet tall? No, tall.

10, 12 feet tall. They kill for sport. Yeah. That's so fucked. Yeah. Like, yeah, you're dead. This is fun for me. It wasn't for you, buddy.

Just getting clawed. Yeah. I don't know. I've always been an outdoorsy person, so camping is cool. I guarantee you that if you follow the appropriate steps, the steps that I follow, because I, too, would hate to be woken up by, you know, something just, like, sort of crawling on you? You know what I'm saying?

Or maybe you're sleeping and you're like, well, that's not my dick. And there's like, oh, shit's fucking anaconda down there. Hope there's not a dick on your face. Definitely. Definitely not. If you follow the steps where you like you zip, Pomage, don't go camping with him.

He fucks up. Bro, this guy left his entire door opened up like for hours. And then like when he, it was time for him to go to bed. He flashes a light in there. There's like three spiders. Yeah.

And there was thousands of spiders around us. Obviously. You're in the woods. No, but you can see them. That's the thing. If you flash a light, like you can see all their eyes. The twinkle on their eyes.

And sometimes you'll see like a really big eyeball. And you're like, well, there's four of them. But man. Yeah, no, I'm good. Yeah, just, but if you follow the steps, there's nothing. And I mean, there is nothing like sitting around a campfire either drinking some whiskey. See, that's fun. Drisking a brusky, smoking a jizzay, doing shrooms, Iowa.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But you don't need any of that. Just a campfire stories, man. Yeah, no, see, that's fun. I can do that. And the fire, I think, keeps away bugs. So that's cool. That too, yeah, dude.

Like, there's nothing like, there's nothing like staring at a fire at a campsite. just chilling. Just losing yourself in it, man. We used to throw like big bonfires back in high school. Yeah. On the boonies. On the boons. Like a week.

Yeah. It's like when you leave Hutchins now. That's my... It's like you leave Hutchins. We're out the bonfire all day, but you're full and want to go to sleep. You did a fish in Canada? Did you go fishing in Canada? Yeah.

Go camping and like cook the fish. Yeah. I've been ice fishing. Like where you just like, you drill a hole? Yeah. Really? Yeah. You got like huts? Yeah.

That's not scary. It's called shanties. You hear like a crack. I don't go on ice anymore. The crackle. I don't go on ice. Listen, if it's two inches, a human being can go on it. If it's four inches, you can be on it with a, what do you call the mopeds or the four-wheelers.

If it's six and above, you can put a pickup truck. If it's 12 and above, you can put a semi-truck on there. Riley, bring up the ice thickness safety. Ice thickness safety. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I've been on the ice, dude. I was like 10, almost like, died. If you try.

It was bad. Wait, you almost like, you crack through? No, we were on a snowmobile on Lake Ontario. And some asshole, like, I don't know, like 50 feet out into the lake. Yeah. Like, fucking plowed a big circle, like a skate rink. Yeah. But there was big ass like.

Yeah, for ramps or. Well, like, just where the plow pushes snow out and we're going fast as fun. You didn't notice it and you took flight. You couldn't see it. And you took flight. I haven't. been on the, I don't think I've been on ice ever since. 100% safe. No, of course

not. Is that person have, is this the thing you've seen? Is that person on fucking raid in the pool? Do they have a gun? Wait, what? Where are you talking about? That person's on raid. Oh yeah, he's got his gun out? He's edgliching? The hell is his pick? Yeah, look, there you have it. I mean, five inches thickness is pretty safe. Ate to 12, total 15, uh, big pickup trucks. Obviously, you have to have like all your spikes ready. Everything's ready around

your neck. Safety precautions should always be taken. But yeah, do people have go ice fishing and they, and like, they misjudge how deep it is, and they end up just fucking up. No, no, no, no. You don't think it's ever happened? No, they're, of course, of course. But that's when... Just die in their little tent? Yeah, I mean, of course, but that's when you don't have access to a fucking cell phone or

access to a brain cell that says, hey, let's... So 40 years ago. Yeah. They were probably ice fishers. Yeah. Dude, when I was a kid, for four million years. Danger wasn't a thing when I was a kid. Me? What the hell was that mean? Pretty quick when you drill a hole in. You got out on, like, the ice or some shit. Like, you don't think about that. You're just a kid having fun. It's ice skate.

Yeah. With no ice skates. No day. Yeah. Yeah. I've been very, I've always been a bit of a thrill seeker myself. My thrills come from Pentacill. That's my. That's, that's cool. That's that's cool. He's hearing that shit a lot. Who me?

Yeah. Yeah. No, it's like, I'll be playing sometimes and she'll be like, oh no, because they'll be like, She hears it through the laptop. Yeah. The enemy is godlike. He's like, no. I'm like, don't talk to her. She knows?

Yeah, she does. Well, luckily, not luckily. Skillfully, we have secured the number one seed for the major three this weekend. I don't give a fuck. I want to see what happens at that tournament. That's the only thing I care about. I'll stand by it. Having a seed going into a tournament is always overrated.

Because you never know. Like, you can get first seed and like one of the other good teams could just fuck up during online and they mess your pool up. Yeah? It's like, yeah, it's great. We got first seed, but like, it doesn't really do anything, right? Yeah, like, what's that? Like, pool C? You probably get like, what, Vito

advantage, which is nice, but... Yeah, that's it. But our pool is actually not too bad. Our pool's not too bad. Excuse me. Pool, pool... Do what you say? Do you say? Well, I don't know. What I said? I don't even know. Is it bottom right pool? What? My pool? I'm like,

what the fuck? Like, made Steve's same pool just because mates. That's crazy. NP7. That pool's actually a little weird. Yeah. Snoopy and the bridge pool. It's a much harder pool. Boston's the worst team in the pool. Surely they both just play each other. Wait, you think notorious with Baines, mate, is... Yeah. I actually want to see them play Boston.

Like, obviously, like thieves are probably going to win that. But I'd like to see them play Boston because the argument is always like, can the top amateur teams compete with like... It's never the top pro. teams because people kind of write that off. It's always like, can they compete with the lower tiered pro teams to midpack? 100%. So I'm excited to see those.

Great. Yeah. Snoopy versus old team. Yeah, no, that is great. There's like so much like intertwined fate here. Like there's like Kipps versus the huntsman. And then you got, uh, oh my God. You got Snoopy, Snoopy versus Breach, which is like his revenge. You got fucking Exxon versus the Rocky sports, like the other Saudi team. Yeah. Yeah.

There's so much like weird matchups here, yeah. I didn't think about that. Fun to watch. Really fun to watch. And C-9's just probably getting it. Do you guys think any of the amateur teams come out? I think P-7 could.

Well, I mean. Huntsman for sure. The thing is like. They probably have to say and maybe come out. Like get out of the pool. I know. Like, I don't know if they actually get out. Wait.

To get out of the pool. I feel like Rock could come out. Falkins against Falcons. But they'd have to beat them. They'd have to beat them twice, though, is the thing. That's the hard part. I don't know. I think they'd have to beat out.

They have to beat Falcons twice, probably. Or Falcons have to beat down. Bro, no, because Rock. Well, yeah, but if they were to come out of the group. That's not a bad point, because one team is really good on land, the other one does struggle online. And actually, C-9 has a question mark, too. Because what if they're just land gods?

They haven't played yet, right? I can't say they're not. That's right. I really can't say they're not. That's right. They suck online. They do suck on mine. But what if they're just land-imals?

What if they're land-a-lambles? What if they're land-able? What if the Ocas weird name is just like a land-god. I don't know. We'll see. I believe. I believe. I believe.

I'll gladly welcome any and all offsets that are not happening in our side. But did you know that the challengers, so if they lose in pool play, they drop down into the challengers tournament, top 16 in winners bracket? It's kind of nice. It's kind of nice. They get to play a lot. What do you guys think about that, though? Too much. I mean, I kind of like it.

I think they changed something with it, though, because like wasn't everyone getting fucked in town? Well, no, there were going to be teams that would make it to... And they might... Single a limb. They, like, changed it, though. They might drop into losers. I don't know if they drop into winners. That would be better.

That will be better. No, I think they're dropping to winners. It's winners. But the rule before was that losers five, it would have just replaced a team. Yeah, like, four teams would just been replaced. Like, randomly, you guys, yeah, you guys just have to go back to the hotel. Why is in his face? Yeah, you're out of the tournament.

Sorry, yes. But I don't know how I feel about it, because it's like, if you're going to throw the pro a M, the amateur is like, they made the pro bracket. So I don't know if they should get another chance. You want to treat them like pros. Like they're in the, if you want to be considered a pro, then. Yeah. I just feel like getting a second chance in a second tournament. I mean, obviously they love it.

But I just don't really know how I feel about that rule. No, they should be fucking heartbroken. Not like, yeah, at least we got this. There should be no at least we got this. You know? Period. They could lose like four times. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

And they're going to be dropping into the challenge. I'm going to keep playing worse and worse teams. Bro, they're going to be dropping into the challengers bracket after playing fucking thieves. Who's Brandon? Faze. They're going to be like, who we playing? That's Dashy. So Dashie says, no, I'm kidding.

Brandon from Face it says, hey, all, thanks for expressing your concern. After discussing this with Activision, we will be making the change to play out an additional losers round to create two buckets of four definitive winners. Huh? Buckets. Yeah, two buckets of four definitive winners and four definitive losers. Any losers from that round will be considered to move up Should any pro-am teams make it through the GSL? Great changes, Kerry

What does GSM mean? It's the like pool play Like win too before he lose to Yeah What's a bucket? They pride just like a fucking Like a little Two separate groups

Bingo Two separate groups You guys are playing P7 Between round five and round six They just have a little wrecked 7, P7, P7. You guys are playing the Huntsman. They just played

Coy. Yeah. Okay. All right, cool. Yeah, let's not get into reading. Yeah, you're gonna... Dude, I literally saw that and I just had a flashback before my weekend.

I fucking fuck the reading. Yeah. But it'll be fun. I'm excited. It's my first event of the year going, so I'm pretty hype. Finally get to feel like that event atmosphere. Fuck yeah, dude.

Because it's like kind of weird going through the whole season and there's only there's only been two events but not having been to either of them yet it's kind of like it's just weird because all I've seen is online from online so it'd be cool to actually have boots on the ground and

god I wish we would have went to the fucking Anaheim ones or Birmingham ones that look cool I mean obviously like obviously knowing what we know now that it's a good thing that we stayed back but or that I stayed back anyway the Huntsman qualified of Pro Am placed in pool B versus Toronto Coy first round as Matt mentioned, that's going to be Kipps playing his old squadron.

They better not lose. The huntsman got a chance. They're good at search. 100%. That boy, swoot. Being good at search is your best friend when you're an amateur team coming into a group like this. Like, steal one respawn, win both searches, you know, get like a weird low win like that. Because it's going to be tough against some of the top teams to win respawns.

They got a pretty tough group. The Huntsman? Yeah. They got Koi, Miami. And the other one doesn't matter. Because you're probably going to have to beat Miami twice. Yeah. Or whoever wins that, Koi twice.

Hey, listen, this is what they want, right? Like, you don't, like, yeah, you get to play against pros. And that's, you're supposed to get your ass beat. If you're, if you're not supposed to be in the pros and you're supposed to be in challenges. But challenges have an opportunity to really display themselves against pro teams, which is ultimately what you want to do because there's never going to be an opportunity, unfortunately, where a team can actually just full team go to the league just like that. right they're going to be handpicking uh challengers players hey you have a real chance too because

some of these pro teams like they're going to come in maybe a little overzealous they're going to be like oh we're playing fucking amateurs okay that should be easy you could catch them slipping a little bit that too it's definitely part of it's them off their game and it's like the amateur teams have nothing to lose in these situations everyone expects them to lose against pretty much every single pro team so they can just play free bro yeah they don't really have to worry too much lose. Nothing to lose. A scary, scary opponent. Yeah, they're going to

be just banging shit. Pro's going to be like, what the, why is he here? Like, it's around 11 and he's in our spawn? This guy doesn't give a shit. Then they spawned him versus Miami. They ain't going to be thinking of that. Yeah. Who, Miami? I think that's probably like the worst team for them have to

play. Like they're going to... What the fuck is going on? They're not moved. They're watching everything. What is this? Is this a little beating phase? This is last year's EWC? EWC. Yeah, this was crazy in Mamba.

Fucking loved it. It's going to be in phase. Loved it. They beat him in two hard points. Mac went crazy. Yeah. The thing about this particular match is like you sort of wanted to cheer for the underdog, you know, like on every scenario.

For sure. Yeah. In every scenario. Was Mac on the team when they would always beat Faze? I don't know. Was that them that would be Faze? You tell me. I don't know.

I just think Max really good. They didn't watch that game. he was busy coaching dude no not that one that was the embassy game oh mdw2 that game took me out bro that game was awful

it was fun because you're with friends but aside from that well that's good I think obviously like we we've had some pretty insane run up until this point

obviously with the addition of swoot everything's sort of starting to fall into play is the ability for John to do what John does is like it's just a pleasure to see John's been playing really well Has anyone in Pro Am ever made it out? Yeah

Like at WC Not EWC or not EWC No Not EWC Because Grace Mamba came from there But like the proams Yeah I can't remember who made that Riley saying that

Scrapping whoever else made it out of the Challenger's team Because like in Vanguard I didn't watch that game really so Who the ProM? They beat L-AG but yeah usually they don't make it out no so we'll see opportunity for

and we get to watch we got two teams out there it's gonna be fucking lit bro so lit so that's the thing though it's like if huntsmen are playing while there's another good match playing

we're gonna watch the hunchman obviously yeah was this pick taken like at one time yeah really yeah yeah and that white wall over there they crammed them there and do something.

But yeah, it's going to be a fun event, man. I can't wait. How many tickets have been sold? Do we know? Is this post? Sold out. Sold out? Yeah. Well, it's... Dreamhack. Yeah, it's a gaming expo. What other games are there there? It's probably like CS. Warzone? Yes. Yeah.

Really? Well, yeah, I mean, I just don't... Go off his case, Riley. I don't really think I ever get a definitive answer. Halo's going to be there? Yes. Yes. Yes. The Creator Hub So it's Halo

Indy Playground Quest activities Quest activities Dream Studio, wait Where are we gonna be sitting? Oh yeah Is that a sour punch booth right there Where?

It's the Navy Right there Oh it is sour punch That's what you're saying Oh yeah there's a sour Dude if you need to Is that a fucking Lamborghini booth? Where?

To the right of it It looks like one No Oh it's not No it's not No he's not Whoa what is all this like hostility between you two Yeah, he's kind of on my ear.

Can they hear Riley in the podcast? Where? Well, we can't see it, Riley. Oh, yeah, it is. It says automobile and Lamborghini. You got to understand. These are pretty small for me, man. Yeah, Riley.

They have a Lamborghini booth there? You might as well buy one while you're there. I'll get one if you get one. I mean, holy shit, I didn't know the target market. I didn't know the gamers were bawling like that. They all are. They got a fucking Lamborghini booth at Dreamhack? What if the Lamborghini?

I'm going to tell you one thing. If I show up to this Lamborghini booths, and they have Lamborghini racing sim setups. You're in there? We gotta have to buy Kram one. He's already got one. Well, he'll have two. Have two.

That guy's state of the yard, bro. He's got a real one. He's actually racing on a track. The collab? What's the co-labs? Like, people show up and they just like collab? Just fucking go collab, dude. Just collab.

Just go collab. I'm sure anybody want to co-lab? Show up there, open to collab. Look at him. Halo's sad little corner they cut forward. Whoa, whoa, whoa, be nice, be nice, be nice. I mean, it's just fucked up. Halo's...

They're right next to Hollow Live. That's not sad. Next to Hollow Live and the bathroom. So there's going to be a lot of traffic. I miss it. CDL watch parties. CDLGA sitting. Wait, we're far as fuck away.

Oh, that's pretty cool, actually. That's, I don't mind it. Where would we be? Oh. Okay, fuck, okay, cool. Damn, so we're far from the stage. That's pretty cool. What'd you want to be?

Yeah, I would... I like being, like, offset to the side, like, where the booths are. Like, in the middle. Oh, then it's, like, behind you kind of? Yeah. It'll probably be behind us, too. The whole thing, the whole crowd's over behind us. You could see the crowd reaction.

That's huge. That should be good, right? Yeah, no, that's fair. And you could see feature stage. If shit pops off there. There's probably going to be a tarp, right? I'd assume there's going to be, like, a big barrier in between us. I don't think there's anything.

No. I don't think it's it's... buying throw shit I mean, cool. I hope it's like that. I hope. Because a majority of the matches are there. It's three stages.

I thought that's going to me. I hope somebody comes up and hugs me on. What the hantavirus? No, no, no, no, no, no. Fispone.

You know, it's crazy. I was just asked about the hanta virus. And it's like, at what point, Peterman was saying, at what point are people going to say, you know what,

let's stop going into bat caves. You know what I'm saying? Because this is like, who are you? Who are you? He's a pet detective? Trying to get that guanoo? They're trying to get some cure for something.

White devil, white devil? Dude, they already fucked it up, bro. They let the people on the ship come back to the mainland. Like, I'm sorry. We're talking about the black plague here. Keep them on the ship. I mean, dude, but it's like 40% mortality rate. Why the fuck did they come back to land?

I said someone, send them on a rocket to the space. Well, listen. Yeah. Yeah, but what did they come back in that virus mutated? Because something in space made it mutate. I don't know. Don't let them come back. And it comes back alive.

and it comes back with hands it's even worse but yeah but like it's always been around like Hansa virus fucking Fox Molder was talking about it on fucking X-Files fucking 30 years ago wait really?

Yeah I didn't know that yeah and so was Bill Gates Bill Gates is like watch until Hansa gets here he said respectfully Bill Gates please I know you watch the podcast How about he fucking has my iPhone not start freaking out after a year

Yeah, let's see if the Microsoft founder can help you with an Apple founder fucking phone. The hansom virus, look at that. But I feel like this is all like fear. There's so much like fear. Mungering? Yeah, bro. Like, I can't, I reach it on the internet and I just randomly tweeted that. At 12.30 a.m. exactly.

Look that Twitter. I am soothsayer. What is his picture? Yeah, no, no, no, go up, go up, go up, go up. What is his like picture? Up, way up, yeah, right there. So. It's so wise.

The Star of Venus. He is wise. Turn piece up. Oh, this guy's woke as shit. This guy looks woke as shit. Reads the future. Look at his head of Horace. The eye of Horace protecting light and reasoned.

They read the future. Yo, soothsayer, if you're watching this, we're not making fun of you, man. We're just reading stuff for the podcast. He reads the future. So do I. Yeah. Wait, did you see Paris is like, Paris is locked down right now completely?

Or not Paris, but France. Mm-hmm. What? They're saying like, no. Well, I don't know if it's because of the Hansa virus, but they're like on full lockdown. I would assume. Bring it up, really?

Well, do you know for what? Is it? Politica. France enforces. Hold on. Yeah, they're like locked down. Strict measures after citizen tests positive. Oh my God, for Hansa virus already.

They said, keep that shit out of here. They said, will you keep the shit out of here? But yeah, they got their first, their first positive case. They just said, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. 42 days in isolation. Which is smart. Yes, of course. What have we learned?

It's smart. Why has all this shit happen everywhere we have to go? There's always just something. I mean, bro, we barely made it on. I meant to not go anywhere. He said, oh, I mean, hey, listen. I mean, we barely made it out of London on my birthday when it actually, like, the lockdown was fucking put on. Really?

Yeah, that day that we left, February 9th, look it up. February 9th, we left to come back. because it was my birthday. We won, we won on stage, we got off, ate pizza, woke up,

came back, everything locked down. No one's going anywhere no more. Oh yeah. Immediately barely made it back. It's spread by infected rats. Mm-hmm.

So don't drink out of a canned. Can we just chill and touching the rats? Can we just not do that? Yeah, but I think the reason it's all big is like this, they like mutated in like this like strain. It can be like transferred like through like that. Yeah,

but I bet you it was human, human altered strain. Yeah. I don't know what's real and what's not. Like, I saw TikToks this morning saying it's very hard to contract it. Like, you have to like basically kiss someone. Yeah. Like to get it. A rat.

Or drink their pee. Yeah, it's not like, it's not like corona or whatever. That is true. I don't know what's true. So I don't know if that's even real. Like it was like, relax. And I was like, okay, I'm relaxed. I don't know if it's real. I don't know how it spreads.

I don't even know what the fuck it is, dude. It's not coming from rats. I don't either. But the key points is that hanta viruses are a family of viruses which can cause serious illnesses and death disparate is usually limited to people who have close contact with the ill person. Close contact. That could be me.

I'm the illist. That could be me talking to you right now. And I'm the illist. The thing I read, you don't know for like five weeks if you go. Yeah. That's a scary part. That's a scary part. It's like rabies.

You like get the flu at first and like headaches and shit. Then you start thumbing. Four to ten days after the initial face of the illness, the lay symptoms of HPS appear. These symptoms include coughing and shortness of breath. Damn, I had that last weekend. patients might experience tightness in the chest as lungs filled with fluid nice nice that sounds fun yeah great great yeah 38% of the people who develop respiratory symptoms may die from the disease

that's why I coat the inside of my lungs with the THC same that's fucking absurd yeah yeah all the good stuff and cigarettes that is method hate watch is complete his record survives oh yeah who was it that deceives Joe deceives Oh man 1 1 kill away By 0.01

1 or 2 kills He had the number One Dude we were We were loving it Because that last match It was Toronto versus cloud 9 And whoa it's one of the worst

Yeah At least we had something fun going on And Joe did start heating up Dude we were like Yo he's got it He was like plus 19 on SCAR We're like sorry he's in he's got it And then pulled it up

He lost by 01 Damn Because watching that scar I don't know if you guys watched it it was like the worst hard point I've watched two teams play all year it looked like a late night eights when everyone wants to get off

and it's like last map but like Encourage was playing for like 500 you know what I mean He's like just keep going Keep going They're the only two trying Yeah like what the fuck They're both kill hoaring

Nobody was getting on hill Yeah that was pretty insane HBO almost like the time almost ran out Yeah on screpy It was creepy It should don't happen in this game Yeah it was pretty weird brother.

He was. What was showing this for? And courage went for like 6K damage. It was absurd. Go back up. Joe had like 5,500 or so. Yeah, that shit. 49.

Bro, Kipps had 31 assists in this. Kips had almost 6K. He went negative. He's such a bad. He's such a bad asses. And the HP had 6K damage with 31 assists. It was fun to watch though. It was just a bang out.

Damn. Encourage was fighting though. Yeah, Encourage was fighting. I took up. Fighting hard. Yeah. Well, you think,

how long do you think that record lasts? Which record? I'm surprised it hasn't been by like Cell, to be honest, like one of these stages, you know?

It's gonna get, I don't have like a 1.7 randomly in like a stage. It'd have to get broken in like one of these stages, like a five match stage. And you play like five kidders. Yeah,

you get like an easy schedule. Yeah. Do you guys have any? A 2.0 to start and then drop like 1.3s the rest of the way, something like that. Do you guys have any individual stats?

up there that are like up there like that that are like undefeated or unbeaten? Oh, just the champs, Katie record. Yeah. That's it. No big deal. No big deal. No big deal.

Just that one. That's crazy. P7 lives to Bush in the most tragic way possible. I mean, obviously like we all understand latency and we all know that the reality that one person experiences in Dallas who's closer to the server than the person experiences in Alaska is different. Oh, yeah. Wait.

I think I saw this. He diffuses it at like 7.8, but it doesn't give it to him. Am I tripping her? Did the bomb explode like extra big right there? Big? It was like a pack of punched explosion. Riley, go back to when he picks it up. He like shot his body.

Oh my God. Like, am I tripping? Usually they just explode. Yeah. Like look at the explosion. You see like a black cloud. Yeah, look at the explosion. There's like magma on the ground.

He picks it up like a... Yeah, it was like yellow. Yeah, at 7.6, there's already a chunk missing from the circle. Yeah. Yeah, so he gets it in time, but he doesn't get it. Yes. So fucked. That should never, ever, ever be a thing.

Let me see the explosion. Dude, look at them. They know it's dead. They know it's done. Oh my God. It's gigantic. Why is it so big? And there's like magma on the ground.

What's that magma on the ground? They can't even believe it. What is that? What? What happened? Fucking melted him. He had eight seconds. Yeah.

He had eight seconds. What happened? What just happened? That's crazy. That should never happen in Cod, ever. Did he let go? I mean, how? I ain't never seen that.

What I will say, you might as well make the diffuse fucking... No, it doesn't matter. It's still milliseconds. What I'll say is that, fuck you, man, that's what happens. No. I hope that it never happens to us. Based on the clip you provided to us, we've noticed that anything in-game diffuse message

appeared with 7.8 seconds in the timer. With that, we consider that is due to latency with the server that the counter must have been lower than it was shown and will consider the results the last round valid and will be maintained. 459,000 views May 10th. So obviously he copy and paste it with the refs said. Yeah.

The evidence provided at the time frame where this happened so small, and I mean, yeah, it's true. Like a leah outroed. I mean, what do you? I don't even know what you can do. Have a good night. I know what you can do.

That guy did not give me a fuck. Sorry about that. Have a good night. I mean, I don't know if he didn't give a fuck or not. I just think that, like, what can he do? Yeah, there's nothing to do. Everyone's doing their job, man. But yeah, that's bullshit.

All right, here's the beans breakdown, though. It's actually quite telling. So what's happened here is, yeah, we've taken 45 seconds to clear out of you. But eventually we've done it, okay? Eric, shit on, oh, my, one-shot small. One-tall. Here comes a frog. Flying in it.

9.2. Have a look at the fucking clock. 9.2. Let's hold on, hold on. Let's fucking hold on here, folks. Let me get a point. Oh, he's getting into it. He's running.

Knife out. The heart's going faster. 7.9. Oh. Yeah. Picks it up. 7-8, maybe 7-9. Depends.

I'm thinking, yes. Yes. Hi, boys. We're four-stack banging A. Next round, listen. Fogg, you come with me. We're going to hit this out. We're going right.

I'm a sniper out. If I stop your outer frog, you guys save your net. Very funny. I love the curtain behind them. We're four banging a next round. Oh, man, that's brutal. That's brutal. I mean, to be fair, they wore up like 5.3.

So it's a big difference between 5.4, bro. 5.4 is where your nuts start to shrivel a little bit. You're like, ah, 5-4, we lose this, it's round 11. Oh, nobody wants to see that. 5-4 is always the round. That's always the, like, nut shribbler. And now we have our price picks segments where Scump, formal, and I, only us three. Damon has stepped away for obvious reasons.

We're going to pick. Give me more on the first one, and that's it. That's my pick. Yeah? Yeah. Quick and easy? Dude. 172-5, easy.

Okay. What does that mean? like, what's the math on that? 60 kills each on a little bit under? Yeah. But then you gotta think like they could like

kind of rail that team so it might like end a little quick. Yeah, more. I'd go less on that just because I feel like it's gonna be quick. Yeah, but it's,

it's like, let them pick. No, yeah, no. Won't less look like a, like some hater shit? More,

keep it there, right? No, not if you give the reason, why you think it's less. Like, we're just gonna slam those fuckers. Yeah. It's gonna be like 110 kills. And that doesn't have mace in it. No mace?

There's also no mason. Oh shit. No perk 30? All right, give me Series KD, Raleigh. Let's see here. What do we got? Keep scrolling. I'm trying to see all the lines.

Give me, hmm. Keeps going to go back up. Go back up to Ravens. Give me. They're playing G2. Scroll up more to G2. Give me Caesar Skies more than a .95.

He's been frying. Wait, give me, wait, what the hell? He realized. Is it my pick? Go down to the bottom. Give me Dante. More.

He's back on land. More, yeah. Mm-hmm. We got one more pick? Oh, we can do three. I'm good. I think we each get one leg. Yeah, it's fine.

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Let me see, man. It better not be no checky shit. I wonder how it feels to get 13-1 by a kid in cars. Go-down rally. Oh, Lord. Fucking McQueen's fading. Who is that? He's got Lightning McQueen and Mater.

Who's the guy? The guy on the left? On the right. I was like a sneak one on the left. I was like, why is he? Why is he dapping? So what? Falcons lost to this guy?

He must have lost to this guy. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's checkout, but who gives a fuck? He's a gamer. Yeah. You were crappy. If anything, that's more intimidating. I'm like, yo, this kid does not leave his room.

That guy's a freak. Is that what you were all the time? This guy is a problem. That guy plays a lurk role for sure. Hour diff for sure going on. That guy's grinding. But yeah, I mean, I wore pajamas. It comforts everything.

Who gives a shit? It's gaming. I agree. There's no way that this was 21 years ago. What can it possibly be, and I better not feel old. The original... Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

This actually does feel like 21 years ago. Yeah. I feel like it was old when I first watched it. Yeah. Okay. This guy's a Chad, though, for sure. Leroy. You can tell he's like a fucking 6% body fat fucking

Alright let's do this Playing a paladin or warrior or some shit You know he's squatting He doesn't in there and just like an axe Doesn't care Bro his manna was like all the way up You think there's still pals for life? No

They all say pals for life They're like their clan They probably slowly faded They lost their gamer connections They'll have kids So we don't have to fight a whole bunch of ones No their kids are probably playing That's five.

I wonder what's up with four. I wonder what four skin's doing nowadays. What are you doing? I didn't even show the clip. Yeah, you missed the best part. No. What's? No.

That's forward. It says four skin right there, too. It's getting invested. Oh, four can. It's actually funny that there was this much like. All right, let's do this. What do you think of dual? Can you give me a number crunch real quick?

Uh, yeah. It's on like Ventrilo. Repeating, of course. Just breaking down stats. their number crunching their odds we usually do all right guys let's do with it

oh my god he just ran in oh my god he just ran in oh gee stick it clean let's go let's go let's go do you think this was stage yes I only only only

only because of like the last part right there where they're like all right can you give me can you run the numbers for me again That has to be staged. And then he's like, oh my God, he just went in.

And then they all fucking wait around. I don't want to believe that. I don't want to believe that either. Let's not go down there. Don't kill that for me. Yeah, no, take away the magic. 21 years. Fucking, it's been magic for me.

But we did have the AT&T analogy to recap. Ah. Seth came in. You did everything you could, man. Heartbreak. In the end. Yeah. No, people are like.

Just to work there. Yeah. I tip this. This whole... I nuke Tyler won again. That den HP that I watched was something. Oh my God. With the nukes against Tyler every year.

Yeah, back to back ears. And I kept shooting his body. Dude, Tyler's the man. D'Nplaza, he killed you and was running away typing. Yeah, yeah. We were doing our vetoes before we played our third place match. He's like, oh, man, this your main game. Should have won this one.

Don't tilt now. Don't tell. And then we did that. Tyler's a man. I can't wait to play league. Leagues this Thursday. Wait, you see him crash out on his team.

It was so funny on Raid Search. No. He's like, how do you got to do on this? Sorry, go ahead. He's like running away with a knife and like someone knifes him.

And like, he was like, he said something and his team was laughing at him. He's like, why the fuck you guys laughing? You guys were fucking dead watching me. Oh, I didn't see that.

He was like, that's your top frag by the way. He's like, I don't know why he's, Why the fuck you laugh at me? They wouldn't even laugh at him. That was hilarious. Yeah, I mean, people are like, they're kind of on my teammates and shit, but it's like,

bro, I tried to explain. I'm like, they don't play Cod. The last time any of my teammates have played Cod, it's probably been years. That shit's probably so overwhelming. Yeah, like, I'm playing with Ludd. He doesn't touch Cod. Squeaks. You have a fucking, you would formal on the fucking thing?

I'm surprised they're like level 20. I mean, they at least tried the game. Yeah, same. Yeah. Yeah, I mean. Gotta give it to them. Yeah, no. I didn't really, I didn't expect us.

Like, I knew coming into Cod, I was going to have to go absolutely absurd to win it. Stupid fucking a piece of shit game, you want to fuck on. Fucking you guys laughing at. You're fucking all bottom fracking or me. You're sad. You're right. You're right. They're right.

Damn, you just set that call up quick. Yeah. They're like, oh, yeah. Biao's fight I would expect the guy that has a fucking calling card to fucking drop 87 on the randos though Well yeah

I mean Oh yeah Oh shit Nate won that shit Nate double lift Peanut Hutch MF Not my hutch Ivan

Ivan Ivan NT Seth Yeah thanks That's right Seth NT I mean look at that I actually thought you were gonna 1V5

Air Coot is Aircoots 3.5 kind of let us down. Thought I was gonna be five? I almost did, bro. Last year you did. I almost did.

No, last year, last year I had like Summit and double lift. Like, they, they knew, like, how to play Cod. My team,

and it's nothing against my team. I could care less again. I'm not sliding them in the, at all. This was, because this was one of a million? But they just didn't play Cod. That was pretty nuts.

Like, they weren't, like, getting on Hill. And I was like, guys, can, can you guys?

Oh my God, wait, who is in the back of the head? Stabbed them with that. Yeah, this was round 11 against Nation's team. I had 30. I had 30. Round 11. I just got blood. And then this happened.

But yeah. Like, I was saying, like, block the back. And then Squeaks was like, can you explain what you mean when you say block the back? And I'm like, okay, yeah. Just run to the hell. Yeah. To be fair, I don't know what the fuck you mean. Oh, this clip was good.

Block the back? Like spawns? Yeah. This clip was good. See? When Nate was tweaking? Oh yeah, I thought I trolled Because I like

I called my wraps And he slide cancels me And then if he hopped it, he had it I know That's what I was thinking too I was like if he actually just hopped He was good Because I thought the wraps

Were gonna come so much quicker They took like They took a minute Dude Brandon was loving this He was loving Oh god That's good man Why do you come so tart right there

You had to see me. Yeah, I had to. We had an MSNC. He used to everyone. It's crazy. I swear this meta is dog shit. Why? Bro, this gun is broken.

It's good that the gun like feels good. The game or the gun is broken. The gun like, dude. Everyone's just three pieces. Yeah. Yeah, everyone was using the Voyak. I wanted to use the MPC. But dude, when the Voyak was like the gun in it.

That thing is crazy. Bro. That gun is nuts. Yeah. What the fuck you... I just get a three piece? Still no break. Oh, damn.

Brother, I was fighting. Getting so turned from the hill. Look at me. I'm fighting out there. You're looking safe. Another three piece. You look insane. Look at his fucking mouth.

If you guys get those kills, try to play that time. I'm just in war. Oh, that, all that. Oh, that's going to be spotted on my side. Yeah, like, we're using UAVs. Like, it definitely wasn't as buttoned up as last year for, like, the rules and stuff. That's okay. Because the only rule was, like, we're playing CDL variant.

And I thought CDL variant, when you enabled it in the rules, it would just not allow all of the other stuff. But it didn't do anything. Like, you could use UAVs. Not a surprise. Active camo, sentry guns. Like, it was basically cot XP. Yeah. Uh-huh.

I feel like if it wasn't like that we would have actually probably won no bullshit oh one of you want to get us adapt do you hear him like he saw him shoulder or something bang but dude I love the Anilator Cup

it's so fun like just playing with other streamers that I would normally never play with like Lily Fusley Ludd like I just wouldn't they usually play like completely different games than us well that's what I'm saying how do you think you're gonna do are they all league gamers so you're playing league uh it's on that's tonight it's on Thursday

today the podcast comes out so tonight our team in league so look at the other teams I think what's the third game uh 2XCO it's a fighting game oh shut you guys don't have like a double left or a two one for league do you well I mean they got you

don't put me you're supposed to be the double lift don't put me in that that bracket but if that's going crazy what do you play in jungle? We have to talk about it, but I'm either going to jungle or 80 carry because Ludd's main role is jungle, but my best role is jungle.

You should jungle. But I'm a good 80 carry too. Yeah, but like, I feel like jungle is most impactful. One and double it. Well, I think they're both playing mid because mid's like they can rotate.

Like 80 carry right now, it's like good, but it's not the best role, especially for something like this. I mean, you got to carry out of the middle. Yeah, jungle is probably the best carry potential. for sure. But Ludd's a good jungle. He's like

a Platt jungle, so I don't want to take him off of this shit. If I strictly juggled, I actually think I'd be like high plat. Like, I rarely lose when I jungle. What do the guys you're playing? Like, Challenger? Double-F is a pro. Yeah, Dumblip. You want to ADK against Doublelift?

You want to get Dift? Stay away from bottom lane against Sublift. Just go play Top. I don't know how good a support is, though. And support is very involved. I don't think it's going to matter, Seth. No, it will. It will. 100%. Do it, do it, do it. 100%. He's gonna do it.

Why, you should be encouraging him, do it. If his support's not that good, because I think Fusley's gold and she's our support. Listen, I don't give her fuck with the sports are. If you run double-lift, bottom line, I'll tip the fuck out of it. Yeah, do it so that we can tip it. I'm not gonna say anything.

I don't think. You might need a warm-up versus T-1 real quick. I feel like a pro-80 carry. I mean, I know he's not current pro, but he was like a good pro too. It's a fucking double-lift. Yeah, he was a gross, bro. Like, yeah, you probably won't even.

I could literally just, Stay in lane, freeze the wave, and then just be calling for Ludd the whole game. Like, yo, just come gang. I feel like if he wanted, I feel like you couldn't hit him with an auto attack. Like, just off spacing alone. That's faded. Wait, but he's just going to, he's going to, like, just disrespect, like, try to kill you. But who comes out of Draven?

But that's not how it works. But who comes out of Draven. He's going to do it. Spinning up axes. And he plays Draven, yeah, he's the biggest lane bully there is. Or you could play. You might play Tyler 1. He might come down on Draven.

He's playing mid. He's playing mid? Yeah. He might play mid-draven. I probably go mid-graven. He definitely would go hard. Dude, I want to play him. I want to play them.

Like, it's fun. You want to see if you could do it. It's a lose-lose for them. It's like, if I end up doing good, it's like, holy shit. Here's a more positive outlook on this, okay? Everybody join me on this chat. He does well against double left. He does well against Tyler T1.

He's definitely flying to Korea to play that 1V-1 against him. He Who will not be named Maybe if he's ever in the States I don't know if I'm flying to Korea for that Bro, come on, I'll go with you. Korean barbecue. Fucking, what else do you need? We have to go.

Why not? Why? Why? It's a long flight, brother. And? It's a long flight. So what? Just to get ran.

Just a long flight to get your ad. No, but you get to experience the Korean culture in Seoul. Just come back, humiliated with Hentavirus. Again, talking to a gamer, brother. Yeah. God. God.

God. I do like food. Do you know how many games of league you play? Three games? It's round robin. You play one game, so it's three. You play each team, and then it's just best of one, so it's four total games. I can't wait to watch that.

It's going to be fun. Thursday night. I'm looking forward to it. This is my most look forward to a game. Then what's the fourth one? Counter strike. Oh, shut. Oh, so you're good. Got MVP in that last year.

Nate's been grinding that, though. Nate has been grinding, but. And so is peanut. So lose, lose, lose. So lose, lose again. If I dip him, it's like, holy shit, how are you getting dipped? Oh, shit, set this. Him.

That's where I thought if you won cod, you actually could have won. Now, it might be five. No, our team's good at, yeah, might be fine. Our team's pretty good at the fighting game. What if he's just button mash? You can't. But double F and T1, like, grind the fighting game at the time. It's like, hey, scub, just look for the, just look for the building with his face.

I said we're right here. Just look up in the sky and look for Faker. Yo, Yo, reply. Oh, there he is. You reply with 57-57 Main Street or just across the street from the fucking Toyota Center? Nah, bro, it's got to be a nice neutral ground.

Can't be home field either way. Meet him in the middle of the ocean. Something like island. Island, yeah. Fuck it. Fiji. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm a gamer.

I don't like traveling. Fiji, then me and Faker drink pineapple drinks. He definitely ain't drinking. On the beach. We chop it up. What do you think? Like, what do you think? They probably drink a juice bottle.

What do you think he does for like, I've never seen, one, a match of his two. Wait, really? Even if I watched a match, I wouldn't know what the fuck is going on for me to be like, dang. He never even watched like a world's final? Mm-mm. Wow, okay, that's favorite. You might have watched like the intros. Like the, the, of course.

I watched the dragon fly around the, yeah, that's good pretty bad. Yeah, of course. But. What's that Imagine Dragon song? What's the, like, their anthem for league? Dragon. I don't know. I can't remember it.

Oh, like, crown is heavy as a car. crown that one? Make me a believer. Maybe that? No, that's not it. Believer. That's the intro for Arcane though. That's Liv's favorite anime.

Arcane? Really? She knows Ball. It's not an anime. I don't know what it is. It's animated. It's animated. I consider it anime.

Yeah, but I don't know if it's like very anime, like the fighting scenes and stuff. It's like that type of thing. I've been watching Attack on Titan, Matt Have you watched that? Have you watched that? Yeah, I've been watching Attack on Titan.

How far are you? Hello what? 10 episodes. What's that? The anime? Levi? Levi Ackerman? Yeah.

I don't think, maybe briefly, but he's not like a main character yet. Is that like Aaron Yeager? Yeah. Erin Yeager. It's like Aaron, the blonde girl. Because that's how KK would say.

He'd be like, Edin Yeager Yeah And then who's the other one? Macasa Yeah Micasa And then who's the blonde

Is it a guy or girl? I think it's a dude It is a dude? Yeah I think so But yeah I'm like at that Whoa Are you guys fucking

AOT Fucking spoilers? You haven't seen it by now I mean You have to watch it Well Liv's got me On a list of like Once to watch

But yeah If you just want to stay connected with the tournament by checking out AT&T and Elliott Cup. The link will be in the description for more details on the teams, giveaways and games. The link is in the description of course. We wish the scumper jumper good luck. I hope that he goes bottom

lane or whatever the fuck and I was just going to say like I think you could do it dude. Just fucking step up. Don't you want to know how good you would be? Oh, I'm going to go hard. Yeah, yeah. Like I'm going to... But you should DM him and say... The prize pool for AT&T

like it's it's pretty fat you want to go hard because there's it's i think it's 25k per person if you win the team like challenge uh and then it's i think 25k for mvp if you get MVP across all four stages oh huh yeah yeah yeah yeah dude it was hilarious because matt's team was still playing the finals match and they already were deemming me in discord they still had another map to play, they were like, get ready to do the call. Your M.S.B. Like, they didn't even... No matter what happens to search.

I had a 3.5, bro. Like... Jackie Boy, got engaged, man. Congratulations to the Don Lups, man. Absolutely. Jackie man. To the entire family, of course. It's awesome to see all the boys fun in their... That's cool. I see you, Jackie.

Finding their life, you know? Yeah. There it is. How's we're scrolling through the comments? They're like, how much money does this motherfucker have? This is his house. This is a violinist. You see this shit? Yeah.

They were like, holy shit. Two bottles of Moe, I think. The family. Where are they? His house, dude. One of his house. Jesus. Yeah, congrats to Jack.

Congrats to both of them. Congrats to both of them for sure. Found love, man. Rare. That's cool for Jack, man. Yeah. Very happy for Jackie Boy. You know, Jackie, he goes above and beyond.

Above and beyond. Great setup. Probably had a great day. Dude, I bet you he planned the whole thing. I can see that. No. Do you think he hired a wedding planner? Or an engagement planner?

Are there engagement planners? I've come to the conclusion that I think that as cool as it is to do things on your own, it's also cool to hire people to do it for it. Have a little help. You know? Yeah. Did we take this for granted? Part one, two, and three, ladies and gentlemen.

Here we go. What? What? What? What? Riley, is this? What is this? Riley?

Wait, is this your picture? Is this your picture, Riley? I never played wrestling games growing up. Really? I did on 64. And 64? I played all of them. But yeah, that era, yeah, we definitely took it for granted.

This area. Netflix party? No, I never did this. I didn't do this, but I miss like the Peggle, the Castle Crashers era. Oh, Castle Crashers. Yeah, that era was... That was fuck.

During Xbox 360, I was playing fucking Call Duty 4. I don't think we took it for granted. But once you're done with the day, you know, and you've finished like your, you know, nightly masturbation, you get on Castle Crashers with the boys and jail. I was already living with Jude when I started playing, so... You're going to... Blockbuster, bro, I hear? Yeah. Blockbuster always smelled so good when you fucking...

Yeah, why? All the, like, plastic of the games and shit, you were just so excited. Yeah, it was like a fucking pheromone burst. Lost, bro. Lost season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Whoa, that's crazy. Yeah. I can't wait to go get some games.

Remember when things were 99 cents? Yeah. I remember what Netflix was like a little red box? Yes, outside the CVS or some shit. Yeah. That was crazy. And then they try to sell, Netflix try to sell themselves to blockbuster for $50 million. Damn.

You ever rank games and just... What's it work now? Netflix's market cap is around... I don't think I did that now. billion? No, it's probably like a hundred billion. I definitely turn them in late. Netflix market cap. What, the games?

Yeah, the games. Yeah. Tournament late? Yeah. Oh, yeah, everyone did. Everybody gets Netflix's market cap. Don't ever go back to the store. Wouldn't you like take the 48-hour trial out of like the left of it?

Oh, they did have some. Remember that? Oh, they did. There was the thing you do. You go get that games and you get that one month or three-month or something. They used to be this guy named. I was doing that. I did that all the time.

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even know you could do that. One months were like sought after. Yeah. Bro, there's this one guy who used to steal His name was, I don't know if he stole him But he had a bunch of him

And he told me that he stole I'm not gonna say his name now But he was an old optic member And he would change his name Non-Fucking stop Because he'd just add unlimited points Which of course made him super Oh the Microsoft points

Yeah you can add me for 1600 Microsofts 4,000 Oh shit Or thousand Top shelf I paid that to Sony Front request

The only time I paid someone was to rank up my Call Duty 4 well like camos and shit nah just level 10 but yeah I don't think we took it for granted I fucking

I think those memories will cherish forever yeah I did that era correctly I think yeah GBs late nights 300 300

fucking galling think about that hell you could have bought 374 billion worth a company for 50 million dollars or maybe they would have

ran the company to the ground or maybe they would have never try it would never turn it would have to go around They would have said, no more digital. We're sticking with this.

This is hard copy. America's pastime, not baseball. Chill chaos announced his retirement from content creation. I want to tell you, dude, chill chaos. What a legend man. I've been around for such a long time. Remember him for, yeah, they're looking at him. I'm not sure.

This month will be the last month of streaming and content creation. And how much of a, oh, God, no, don't. how much of an impact that's had on my life and how Anthony and chill chaos are pretty much inseparable. But I think it's time to kind of figure out what happens after chilled chaos as I continue to grow as a person and find other hobbies and past yesterday. Well, congratulations to him on an extreme. extraordinary career. Yeah. What's he going to do next, though?

That's the thing. Live. Live, man. Get out of life. Get out of life. Fucking, live smaller. I fantasize about that now,

Scump at 46. Living smaller? Yeah, just like, just selling everything, going to the mountains. There you go. You know? Become self-sufficient.

Just growing crops and shit. Crops of all sorts of things. Yeah, crops. Of all sorts of things. You know what I'm saying? Lettuce. He loves his veggies. I like to burn them.

All right, Reddit Red. Reddit Read. This is a new segment where we steal other people's segments. Today we are stealing a segment by Smosh Bit, which is a Reddit read. From our patient gamers, what one-of-a-kind gaming experiences or moments do you fear you will never get to experience again? release of like a very sought after game. Very good. That's a very good call. That's a good answer. The Halo

Gears, Cod. Game battle matches. Game battle matches. That's a good one. I would say I'm not here the easy answer to say like winning but like, do you guys remember like that's not pretty good? That first like MLG event you went to?

Like that when you first walked in the door you like open the doors and like you walk through, you saw the Dr. Pepper booth. Yes. Like that feeling. Yeah. And you're like holy shit, it's actually like this. December 10th, right, Hilton Anatole, right down the street. I think that feeling, I don't think I'll have an experience again. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good one. Oh, no, you guys just stole everything. Yeah, good luck, Damon. What you got? Dude, I don't know. Every gaming experience before, like, a BR was made. B.R. is killed gaming. I don't know.

It just, everything used to be so fun. There's a throwback. Now, like, I don't know. Is that a little drawstring? Micro transactions What is that? What is that? Is that a bag?

I don't think It's like a straw bag. A little drawstring bag. Remember those? Everyone were wearing those. Bro, my brother will go in and I have pictures. He would grab at least at a minimum

50 hot pockets, 40 fucking root beers or Dr. Peppers. Bubble goods. Fucking. Bro, he would lay it across like,

you know those gamer pictures? It was like, look at what I got my hall for today. Yeah. That was my brother. Yeah. Bro, but hot pockets. Where's my brother?

Hot pockets. stand. Hot pockets. I do actually think I think the midnight release thing. I think that was so fun. So fun. You don't have to go. I would never have to go to school the next day. I would get out of it every time. Be like mom, come on. All right. Here's one from Summoners.

Todd Ford just came out. I'm not going to school. Yeah. Well, I got beat. I got straight A's though. So I had a little. Yeah, not me. That's what I'm saying. I got straight up. So I would never be able to just. Say nerd. What is the most game changing advice? This is from Summner School. What is the most game-changing advice you have ever gotten or that you can give?

Something that completely changed how you play a game or games in general that still helps you today. We'll let the dynasty answer that first before. I don't know if I ever really got like a specific piece of advice that was... I feel like you just kind of learn as you go. It's like a new broat this shit. A new broat this. Yeah. What?

Wait, what? A new broed this? A new broed this? A new person. Sorry summer school Summere's school What game changing advice have you ever gotten? He's trying to get that advice for himself

So he can teach it at his Summiter's school Wait, do we know these guys? No Right Riley? I don't know I feel like becoming like really good at a game It's kind of just trial and air And making sure that when you make airs

You just hone in on Like just don't suck Yeah I mean yeah Get good How about that? Get good Dude I don't know

I Dude teaching people games or like advice, I don't know. It's so hard to like, like, our brains are so hardwyer. I can't help you if you suck. Yeah. Like, we just know what to do. That's really bad way to look at, but I mean, that's how I'm still.

I know. I feel like quality over quantity is very good. Like, just because, like, I feel like people out there think, like, if I just play 10 hours a day, I'm going to get good. Yeah. But if you're just doing 10 hours bullshit, like, you know, just across all games. That's good, yeah. That's actually very good.

If I do 10 hours of steroids while I get big. I think if you did 10 hours of steroids You'd fucking be a balloon Then your heart would blow up From Ask gamers When did you discover the R3L3 buttons on PS2 Wait wait wait back to the last one What is your flash on

Flash on D or F On CS? No League Oh on league Oh it is Mine was D.

No, I never tell you to like, I don't know the default one. Mine's the closer one to my bill. So D. I do D as well. Yeah. And then I usually have Smiter like barrier on F. Ignite. I just keep an eye on my man on the entire time and just wait to see if there's me.

Dude, you've never played league. I played Aram once with Paul Megna. It's not even called Aram. Aram. Aram? A ram. Whatever the fuck. I just saw it on text.

So when did you do this? Discover the R3L3 buttons on PS2. Dude, when I opened up, when I put it in my fucking hands. Yeah, right when I got it, I was fucking... Some people tell stories of being prompted to press R3 in game and having no idea. Oh, like, dude, I don't know. I definitely remember that being a thing. Like pushing down on the game San R3.

Like R3 to lock on. Yeah. Like, what the fuck's R3? Never mind. You don't... Someone probably did struggle with that. Someone probably freaked. No, I never... Like, R3's run, right?

I just like pressing the button so much. So like I just knew. I think R3, I think to lock on in like Eldon Ring. R3, you're running with R3? What's R3. Mealy. Which will start? What's L3?

What's L3? Yeah, melee. The fucking left stick. The left thumbstick. The left thumbstakes to run. Yeah. That's L3. R3 is to stab.

Yeah. Is he trolling? No, no, no. It's to stab. He definitely just said R3 was run. Oh yeah. I think he was backwards. Yeah.

Whatever this is my left one. Yeah. Oh, three's run. He's old. Yeah, maybe you're old. I won't say nothing. Is it 45? 46.

It's going to be 50 very soon. That's being nice. What are these last ones? Facts you may not know from Reddit also. Ask Gamer says WASD wasn't a standard movement keyboard layout until Quake. Even then it was just suggested optional movement layout. It became popular after someone won John CarMax Ferrari at the first QuayCon. That's pretty cool.

I mean, it's kind of related, but not really. I was, dude, I was watching the CS event. I don't know, which there's like two going on right now. But one of the players on Aurora, I think, is the team. This kid's playing lefty. He's aiming lefty, right? Which is rare to see at all in mouse and key. I don't see it often.

What are the keys? It was weird because his fucking right is still playing WASD. So his hands are like close as fuck. So he's like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. So I was. What the fuck? Those keyboards is closest shit.

He's like lefty like this, but WASD is still on the left side. So he's like, I mean, you're just like this. I don't know how I can find a scene. Like lefty fucking mouse and key I was my tweaking or was this guy playing left? I haven't seen that How do you left click if you left? That's what I'm saying.

It might have been the first I've ever seen. Yeah like ever. Do they left click? Maybe he's shooting with right click. That's what I'm thinking. Do you think they swap? It's like inverted? Yeah, I don't know.

It's kind of check me the fuck out. Yeah, no, I can't remember when I've seen someone play a mouse and key game Lefty. Yeah. Quake is so hard. Do you ever play quake? I played it like once. Will you just fly around one top?

Until you like play like someone good, bro. That game's fucked. You good over the? there? Damn. I'm good. Yeah, the montage of that game like insanely turned.

Oh, man. They have like nine guns and they're just rotating through them. Ask gamers also says mirrors are extremely difficult to pull off and we're near impossible in older games. So because of this,

when you have an old game like Duke Nukem 3D, the mirrors in the game are actually windows into an identical but reverse room as the one that you are in standing with a second NPC Duke. That's trippiest thought. It's just a peek into another reality. Yeah.

I understand. It's like the upside. down. They didn't do a mirror. They just put like another window and you just look at another character. Well like it's not you. It's like a mirror you see in another character. Yeah like a mirror. They're like you see through the mirror and it's another room.

But it looks like a mirror. So any movement that you do here happens on that room but that room you're not shooting anything otherwise the echo would do. It's a pretty genius fix for not knowing how to do the mirror stuff. Yeah. But that's cool. That's cool. Duke Newcomb fucking. And lastly

from Ask gamers, mini games during loading screens are illegal because in the 1980s a company copyrighted of the concept and then did nothing with it except sue people who tried to do it. So someone just has that patent? Yeah. And there's like anyone that tries that shit we're coming. Yeah.

That's insane. Wait, I feel like I've played a mini game. Everyone. Like anything during a loading screen you can't do. No. Now today. Well, you can't say like I feel like I've played firing ranges in a mini game, right? No, it's not. Not what I'm thinking of maybe? It's practice.

But I'm sure that falls are, it's a mini game inside the game. If you made it have a bolzada game, then it's like, no, it's a mini game. Whatever it is. Yeah, if there's like a time trial or some shit. Whatever is, copyright law and also fucking anything else that protects

that has to be revisited because the games from the 1980s cannot possibly the same. The multiplayer didn't exist back then, right? So that's one. Two, fucking being able to play in, I mean, land centers in 1980s, I don't think, obviously, but

yeah, like that needs to, that law needs to revisit it. Yeah, that's pretty crazy, actually. But like Game and said, I don't even know, like, loading screens are so quick now. I don't even know how you'd play a game. You probably wouldn't. Yeah. I mean, how are you going to play a game when you're doom scrolling in your team matches anyway?

Yeah. Law needs to be revisited. Ladies and gentlemen, that is going to do it for this episode of the Optake podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you guys have any comments, questions, or concerns, please leave them down below. We'll see you guys next week. Goodbye. See you later, guys.

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