OpTic Podcast - The Best & Worst Team OpTic Has Ever Had | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 216

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

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And you kind of like progress that way, but it becomes redundant because once you get like the best gear, then it's like, what do you do? This is not my lane at all. Dude, I'm just a fucking gamer, man. No, I hear it, man. That's what I said it. You can't even hold your lanes and cod. You get your snacks. You can't hold your lends and cut.

Don't talk about lanes. Get your snack. Nick Cable. Whatever you guys got to do, man. You can take personal shots for that. That was terrible. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Optic Podcast, episode 260. seen brought to you by BetterHelp

and we'll tell you a bit about Better Help later on on the podcast. We have my man Champion HCS Open winner with a crazy-ass killtacular Mr. Matthew Formal Piper doing what he does fucking best.

We caught like the last three maps because we were doing the Codwatch party for the minor we turned it on for like literally 40 minutes and that was it. We watched like the very end of the turn. So that's like a I guess like the minor kind of Yeah

No because there's one like every weekend Oh But this was like the first like The first HCS event of the year basically Oh there's one every weekend Yeah for the next Oh you guys gonna play all of them Yeah every one of them

Okay Yeah So these are all like All these Yeah they're like two K's And then like how we do in these Is our seed for Arlington I was in the middle of the mountains

Getting a tan and catching hogs So I didn't get to watch it Was it dominant? I wouldn't say it was dominant up until Shopify because they've won like every off-season tourney. They've won like six tourneys in a row. Basically like these versions of tourneys, like same format, but it was before everyone had their teams kind of like set in stone.

But they've been playing these tournaments together since like December. So they've been like people have been saying they're the best team and shit. So a lot of people wanted us to play against them. Who's on that team? It's Royal Too Frosty and then these two like new kids last shot. on the cycle. Damn. Not new kids, but they- Last shot, that's a fire name. Yeah, they're young. What's the name? Last shot? Last shot? In cycle. Yeah, they're like

two of the, I don't know, prospects of, you know, this year. Two young shooters? Yeah, they're like 20. So like they're, they're, they're pretty hyped up, so, and they've been like shitting on everyone on Instagram, so we haven't screened them, so everyone was kind of excited for the match, but we beat them 3-2 and then beat them 3-2 again. So I mean, it was a fuck, yeah. I wish I would have you guys played it out of here? They all did. My PC's kind of, I've been talking to page about it, but we'll fix it. Hell yeah.

Wait, is there S&D yet? No. Oh. Yeah, what, wait, wait. Is that, that's going to be played? I don't know. Apparently we're playing it. We're playing at the Case Online. I don't know if we're playing it like in actual matches. Like, because it's like, it's the same thing as the Cod case on land. So I don't know if we're like actually playing the mode in a best of five or if we're playing it as like a show match type deal. But yeah, I'm a little nervous for that game. I can't lie.

Why? You're going to have the sniper. You're going to fucking dominate. I mean, like, imagine, like, imagine playing Caudes and D, but everyone has three plates. Like, that's kind of what it's like in Halo. And they automatically recharge. Yeah. After.

It's not. The TTC is hard, dude. That's interesting. How do you clutch? That was our biggest thing is how the fuck do you clutch? If you're in a 1V2, even a 1v2. How do you, like, hop it? How do you hop it?

They're just going to shoulder you over and you. Yeah, you can't. Like, that's why I think it's going to struggle, but. Yeah. I mean, they seem pretty excited about it, but we'll see. Are they trying to, like, implement it into the rotation? Yeah, oh, yeah. Like, they're pushing for it?

Yeah, they are. So what would it replace? Would it just be, like, an objective game mode? Or would it take over Game 5 Slayers? Because that would be whack. I don't know. Like, if it takes over Game 5 Slayer, like, they try to add, like, a Game 5 search, I feel like that would, like, kind of fuck up the flow of Halo.

Yeah, I don't. They need to, like, have it, like, one game, like, maybe, like, a map three. Because it's, like, a mixture of S&D plus, like, Valorant. This is like a you can buy guns and shit And buy equipment and shit So it's weird man We'll see But when you buy guns

It's not like shit that's like OS Like you can't buy like sniper I don't know I think you can I think you can buy like rockets Off the rip You could also You could also buy back into the round

If you die For a lot of money Someone has the brute hammer Round 2 With OS You're just like They had a crazy piss around You're just grappling

Yeah like it's insane I don't know man It'll be weird It'll be really fucking weird I don't think it's going to play good, but we'll see. Yeah, I don't think it's going to work either. I mean, that was our main concern. We were like, how the fuck are people going to, like, win numbers down scenarios?

You'd have to have, like, a sniper, and then hopefully you hit a crazy shot. It would just have to be an unbelievable scam. It would have no scope, and then five the other guy or some shit. There's no scope, both of them. It'd be hard as fuck, dude. How do you even injure diffuse? You can't. You can't really.

I mean. Actually, because you have three plates, I think that you'd be at a. I don't know if you can, like, half this. You can just always stick it. It'd be better if you could like half it you don't mean yeah like diffuse a little bit or like no you can't How long is it diffuse? I mean I don't know I mean I feel like at this point it can't be long in that one game mode it was long dude Like no it has to be wrong.

Yeah, isn't what the game what's called my blasts? Yeah but it would have to be long because of the three place scenario No but the longer it is the more impossible it is the clutch because it's like you can't like The only way you clutch is if you see the other team completely scams like There's no other way, dude. Especially against, like, the top teams. Yeah, dude, there's, like, no way. Yeah.

Like, a 2V1 in Halo is insane, dude. If, like, you know it's one guy, you just run at him. Yeah, he has no chance, dude. Especially two pros, like. Yeah, dude, there's, like, no way. I don't know. If you've died and around and you've got enough credits, you'll be given the opportunity to buy back.

And buy back, like, but you come back with, like, just. Like the NJ halos, get eliminated, boom, 50 bucks back in. Buyback the best of a better chance in the finals. No, no way. but do you buy them back yeah I don't know and apparently it costs a shit ton so like he just waste all your money and then you know if you don't close and you're I don't know I have no idea what if your boys like what if your boys like oh and 10 he's like buy me back but you have enough

for snipe you know you know you're like bro my loki like my loki miscollects fuck I'm gonna you're cutting in you're cutting in what what you say bro no half like everyone go left nice good job hold on I'll get back to you fix your mic all right this one right fix his mic 34, we can win this, we can win this. I got snipe. So you don't think it's a viable thing as a stance right now. There has to be a lot of thought put into it. Yeah, not in my head.

I don't know, man. It's, and it's also not what Halo is, right? It's not, dude. It's just not Halo. And we've experienced a bunch of times where evolution doesn't necessarily mean betterment of the sport. Yeah. Right, so.

I feel like it doesn't belong in Halo. And I was saying that, I see, I don't want to be the guy that, like, reigns on the parade because obviously it's a cool mode. People love it from Call of Duty, but at the same time, I mean, all these issues that we're bringing up, it's like... Yeah, I mean, it just doesn't feel like... It's not a game with that for that game. It's not a Halo mode. I just don't know like the name either.

It's called like, like, seek and deploy. Like, instead of search and destroy. Like, I was like, are you guys serious? That's kind of troly. Seek and deploy. Seek and deploy. Seek and deploy. Yeah, it's literally SND.

They try to seek deploy. I don't know. That's search. There was another, hey, chatch EBT. Can you come up with... several words that mean to look for, but starts with the letter S, and then do the same thing for destroy. Scavenges.

But it has to rhyme with destroyers with deploy. I don't know. This is the first time I'm hearing about it. Yeah. It's, yeah. I don't know. I personally, I will reign on the parade because I have, again, we've seen instances in which the evolution or the addition of something isn't necessarily what's best.

for the e-sport. I think it is cool, though. I just don't think it belongs in competitive. I think there's so many things that have to work for it to be a good game one. In my opinion, you cannot be able to hear the diffuser of the plant because if somebody hears it, you just get aaped, like, you know what I mean?

Or two guys that's safe. Like, how are you going to clutch your fan? It won't be too. Like, to be able to like a least ninja defuse or make it work is if they got out of those exosuits and they were just running around without the power outside. Yeah, no shield. That's what I was thinking.

I mean, yeah, that's what I was saying too. Like they had a game mode like that. Now that I've said it, everybody was thinking about it. Yeah. So they had a game mode like this in Halo 5 called Breakout where like it was a round base like, I remember if you had full shields or like a little less shields, but you like you wouldn't get your health back in the round, which was like a little better. But what if? What if you start out with your suit and maybe you end with it, but maybe you don't? And the more you get shot, the less power you get, but you retain that same amount of.

Get naked? Yeah. So you're underline. It's like rust. You spawn in You just naked Shucking Master Chief's Cox on the screen You get to pick your underwear

And then you can do like some safari shit I don't know I mean we'll see it's It's it's I'm not I don't have my hopes for it It's not a halo mode but I think they need to also be able to make it Like kind of like Valerie Like have to buy your shields I mean like the biggest the biggest grab I really have

Is just that they don't test this with us Like I know that Tashi who's like the lead whatever He was saying like he has some pros that are Testing it blah blah blah but like there's a big difference of like retired halo pros that work at 3 4 3 or whatever they're called now and then people that are actively playing the game yeah and pro players like if you had us in you know phase or fucking s s sg like run this game

mode and test it before they announce like it's going in and you guys are going to play it like are you saying they're fucking washed yeah those i mean like it's obviously they were players but like dude come on like bunch of uncles it's just are you calling them plumber I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Shout out Tashi, by the way. It's the same thing with Assault. Asloca added recently, and it's just like a shit show. Like, they just forced it on us and put it in our series, and, like, it's there. And the game mode plays horribly.

Dude, when we were watching, it was Map 3 against Shopify, dude. Yeah, it was horrible. They had, though, like, they had you guys in a dirty spawn draft, but it looked like they had to get, like, three waves to even plant the bomb. Dude, they had to just turn around and no scope us 10 times. Yeah, they were hitting some crazy noscoes. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's. It's like, dude, we had to replay the map. We played 30 minutes of it because it was so...

Yeah, the map was 30 minutes long. Was it so even? It was so, not even even. It's just, I mean, like, it was even, but it was like, it's so stalematey. Like, you should not have to kill a team. So you sabotage. We literally started watching, like, the minor ended for Cod. We started watching halfway through the map.

There was already like 15 minutes played. We sat there and watched another 15 minutes. Yeah, it's bad, bro. And the whole community is, like, just saying it's so bad, take it out, blah, blah, but, like, they're not responsive like that. They're not saying, like, okay, yeah, it's, it's, that we need to take it out for now yeah well I don't think they can but but also I mean they have to as halo obviously halo is not where it should be right so they have to try something to

innovate and get no I agree I do agree with that and like I was kind of stoked about the idea of a soul because it's a game that's been played in past halos but right now it's not working on the map so it's intended for and it's it needs to be tweaked a little bit and I think they should tweak it but we'll see what's that map called that you guys were playing it on fortress Portress? It's a new map, Albaugra. Albaugra?

It's the same vibe. I've got double doors. I got you. NW2 fucking... The tack, you're just three-bulleting them coming out of a singular door. Zinney said he liked that map.

I said, yeah, because you were top doubles. He didn't move. He didn't move. He didn't move. You heard it from Bursie. Zinnie wasn't moving. He was camping. Poor Zinn.

I promise you. He was a turn. Don't let him fall. Don't tell you otherwise. Zin's a dairy camper. I've seen him shoot and you can tell he was a pro. Yeah, you can tell he was no left stick either. And then you can only...

That's cool. Well, man, congrats. I was happy to see that one of my teams was doing good. Yeah. What the hell? What happened? Nothing. I'm just going to pretend.

Oh, dude. This is one of the new maps, too. Oh, my God. Yeah, this was some dirt, man. This looks like lot fire. Oh, my God. If I would have killed that kind of. That's all right, them.

Oh. Hey. Kill Tech. It's a kill tech, but I know by your standards, you're thinking like, wow. Wait, wait, wait, wait, no. Look at how cool he's playing. If I headshot this guy? Wait, that's a headshot.

Inside. Oh, Boston? Is that not a headshot? See, I missed this shot. Listen, if we were on the ranking show, I'd give this a solid 10 out of 10. Yeah, 10-10 would fuck. Like, that's not a headshot, but like the first, the shot on Frosty was that shot. Am I blasted?

Yeah, no, that was some bullshit. Like, right here. Oh, my God. Like, give him this. That wasn't a shot. That was not a hot shot. Oh my god wait so it's different if you hit all your I mean headshots I guess I mean it just it was a kill tech but it could have looked a lot cooler is ha

I mean I guess if I was hitting a shot like if you were a fucking machine I'm just got a kill tech and you got traded by the first guy you killed the third guy you kill the third guy it's because this map like you only spawned back here basically like on left side or right side or back flag and like one you're fucking gross gosh that that one that shot right there was insane well obviously when you popped that was good but that shot was crazy That's going to nice hobbers They're either spawning left or right Yeah I want you to make sense I want you to play it again

Do you see that spawn on a Do you see that spawn P3 Against I think it was thieves versus To or no thieves versus Vancouver In the final Yeah which one on the backdoor It wasn't that crazy But when we watched it

Oh no Volt Yeah on Volt the P3 Or P4 sorry Yeah that was like I mean I'm not gonna lie Who was it a Was it thieves that scammed? Yeah yeah yeah

Dan like was block and pool It looked crazy But it was it was definitely crazy but I was like holy fuck they look you business as usual huh huh like you're you have no reaction to the fucking this is game one of finals so it's like this is game one of grand finals so I was like you were you're so locked in that you couldn't even fucking be like god I feel like this shit on this episode makes you that like he got a kill tack and he's like what the fuck are they spawning so like you don't even know what they're at yeah this shit right here boom pooh-ho

yeah your girl's my wish i wish i had your skill any of your skills half of your skills you're poor mush enough in the match That deep too is big Thank you Matt Listen man you got the fishing skills You were just on a trip Yeah I want to talk about this Valky race Sinna and Imaru

This shit was crazy Yeah This guy was tweaking Let me hear Again I saw choppy-ass footage of this What essentially happened So we threw it So basically

I mean I wasn't watching the full thing Where are they? Are they in the United States? There's Santa Monica Pier I appreciate Okay okay But apparently this guy was following him around is like just just IRL stream sniper which is already like which is already kind of weird to me that's already passed like it's already weird it's already weird it's already weird what you guys do tonight I don't know you guys

want to do the IRL people apparently he's a stalker and he went up to one of them this guy right here yeah yeah so okay what's the camera guy why is then why's in the camera on the guy Put on to give him attention, maybe? No, fuck that. Like, he's... Is he just, like, still following? No, but at the end of the clip, he says, I'll kill you right now. He said that?

Yeah, that's what he says, like, in the clip. Uh... This is scary, dude. Yeah, that's horrifying. That point... That point, that gets a weird fuck. I mean, he's already weird fuck that, but, like... This guy needs to be behind bars.

Yeah, I don't know what prompted him to say that, or if they, like, said no to something. I don't know exactly what happened. No, yeah, there was another video where he's asking for what he's asking for of their numbers and they say no and this is like a shortly after yeah Matt turn it up and yeah right here I'll kill you right now yeah I'll kill you right now and then where did he go and he chases one of them because two of them get off screen I'm sorry I guess Valkyrie's off off street right there on the right yeah one of them like he like asked for one of their numbers and then they said like no what the

fuck did he think I know I don't know this is insane Like, talk about... Like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy? She's kind of, like, embarrassed for him right there? So there's... Who's that guy in the blue? Security guard. Fuck off.

Wait, he's standing in front of the security? This guy don't get on fuck. Because of freak, dude. Yeah, it's really scary, to be honest. Dude, I... Yeah, really scary. I mean, you don't know if he's got a weapon on. You don't know what that guy's thinking.

You don't know what that guy's a freak, dude. No, I mean... Fuck that, dude. Yeah, I feel bad for him, man. That's horrifying. IRL stream sniper is insane. I mean, that happens all the time, though. Like all those IRL.

I mean, look at ice show speed. Yeah. Yeah. Argentina and Buenos Aires and shit. Yeah, but that's different. World traveler that man. Yeah, yeah. I feel like that's different though because he like, doesn't he like say, you know, we're doing a, does he not plan his meetups?

Like, you know, we're going to do something here. So he's probably already has like security ahead of time. This is different. This is just like people streaming and like hanging out. Yeah, like they're at the pier. They're just going out thinking they're having a good time. And I came back to a bunch of shit. Yeah, this was crazy.

This is pretty wild. But I'm pretty sure they all are okay and probably not, probably a little shaking up mentally. We are all okay, have been with the police. We decided that we are done with the marathon and we need time to process, exclamation point. Thank you for all the love and support this past week. We had so much fun and hope you all enjoyed. I mean, that's very cool. I mean, I saw something else this night.

I don't know. Do you guys saw it, but it said that Amaranth was held at gunpoint? Yeah, and then there's a. There's a video. Matt, run that. I guess I came back to a bunch of things. There's a video. There's a video where she's getting chased back into her house by like three guys.

Three guys? Three guys. One of them has a gun that you can clearly see. And then she goes into the house and you hear three gunshots. She said that she shot three gunshots. And as they're leaving, one of them says that he got shot. What the fuck? Yeah, yeah, this one.

What the fuck is going on? They wanted her like phone for crypto. Yeah, yeah. You have to listen pretty close. So they wanted her phone and her to log in on their coinbase or some chute. Wait, who's that? Who's, was that her? Wait, who is who?

The shooter? Wait, where's the girl? She just ran inside first and grabbed a gun. Okay, so she's like, lewd down here. Replay it from the beginning, but don't play it just, show me like when they're approaching the door. She's like luring them here where she has guns apparently. Okay, so she is. That's her, the first person.

That's her. She's saying like, my phone's in here. I'll give you the crypto in here. And she went for the gun? Yeah, she goes for a gun. Wow. I kind of tip that. Yeah, I tip that too.

That's kind of scary, dude. That's pretty scary. That's a pretty insane decision. But like, oh my God. They're like, fuck that. Yeah. I mean, what's weird about it is that they didn't return fire. Maybe they were bluffing as a poker player.

I mean, fuck, man. I mean, it's, you got it. Holy fuck. Don't want to sound like a, like, an antiquated dude but man especially as a as a woman you have to have to have to have to have to have all your protections in line and luckily she did quick thinking too it's in here and she's running they're running after her that's she in cali man huh is this all in cali ban i don't know i have no idea where she lives uh three gunmen he screams i got shot i got shot after i'm not supposed

to post the scene itself nor the chate nor the casing which are now evidence? The chasing? Or they beat me before, oh my God, wait, wait, wait, they beat me before this video.

I think she's talking about the bullet casings. Me, the pummeling felt like I would never end. I would never be protected my head by putting my arms up. Like I learned to do

boxing. Blah was streaming down my, fuck, dude. Yeah, no, it's, what the fuck is going on, man? That's back to back, like.

It was like the same night of thing, dude. Pretty nuts. Is this all in Cali, by the way because Cali's off Limus. We have to G8 it. Damn.

Wait, so how do they break the door in? Oh, she probably like ran into a room, locked herself in there. They kept shooting my bedroom door. Imagine that you're in your room. Somebody's fucking shooting your fucking bedroom door. That is fucking scary, man. Yeah, that's a really scary situation.

I got on. Yeah, what the fuck's going on? We can rob that gunpoint. This was the invasion. What team? I believe I shot one They wanted the crypto That's what they were yelling

They pulled me out of bed What? That's crazy You get pulled out of bed That's pretty insane Wait wait wait I believe So that she got woken up to it But where was she If she got woken up

Then they took her outside And then they changed her I don't know what her property looks like I don't know She probably has a compound She probably has multiple houses I don't know It looks like a gate to her front

To her entrance right That looks like a gate Gates, so she's in a nice-ass-cree? Yeah, I mean, yeah. She's got paper? I think. I mean, yeah. That would have seen.

Well, fucking... Maybe she'd, like, do it a little too much. Maybe she's just... I don't know. Maybe on stream she was, like, open about, like, her fucking... How much bread she was making about crypto? I don't know. So many people were like, yeah, weak fucking just docks her shit.

What would happen? Yeah, people were saying they wanted to get, like, her ledger, which, like, her external her external device where you hold your crypto on so like I don't know I didn't really look

into it too much but yeah this was this back to back just insane incidents both with female streamers too it's just crazy

can't believe it fuck is going on yeah I mean you shouldn't have to like have security like you should just be able to live your thing but unfortunately

there's a lot of weird fox fucking insels out there Don't know how to talk to the ladies Don't know how to make them smile Got to keep Good thing she had a weapon What the fuck did that dude think?

I'm gonna approach them on some fucking weird shit And I'm gonna get their number And then I'm gonna take them on a date And then we're gonna have babies Like where the fuck is your logic there I'm gonna hit up all three He thinks he's in He wants the chat to be like

W. Riz like they're just like some insane things Going wrong in that guy's brain And then like once he didn't get what he wanted Or like once it didn't turn out the way he planned Like he probably just He was so embarrassed Because you had the stream open probably Looking at the chat

He's the chat He just knows it's like Then it's just like Then now he's crashing out Okay fine She gives you the number Give him a fake number Okay no fine

She gives you the number Then what? Yeah I don't know Then you give him a fake number Then what you call her And it doesn't bring And then he's even more mad He tries to come to your house

It's like Yeah this is insane world we live in What the fuck It's not a line that I think they did the right thing By just like I don't know. I was just like,

but literally shutting it down. Yeah, for sure. Oh, here we go. What? The next topic, LAT,

when CDL minor. Yeah. Those guys are mid. Honestly, they're just lucky that we didn't play. They didn't play us, you know? That's just the way I look at it.

Look, I think we can only make levity of the situation because it's, is it fair to say? And I don't know, I don't know how to I'm trying to be cordial here

you know obviously our conversation soft flying you know they're different but in front of the fans I don't want them to think that I treat you guys a certain way yeah yeah but what the fuck man it's like it's got to be it's got to be the

the champ's curse right I mean because after you guys won we went for another seven years yeah thing is it's like but I was on the team for like maybe the Actually, I was on the two years after, but the next year, I don't know why they didn't go back to back. I don't know what their excuse was.

There was a lot of things wrong. World War II season? Yeah, there was a lot of things going on during that season. That was external in that talent. I feel like there's a lot of things going on this year. Yeah, I think we still would have ran you guys, I think. We were still getting like, we're not picking up Zinney. Wait, we were still getting like third and chip.

Yeah. Yeah, we were, did you know that year we placed every place and you could get but first? We got second, third, four, top six, top eight, top 12, top six, top 12, top six, top six, That was our World War II year. Wow. Wait, we played that many tournaments? No, we didn't play that many tournaments. I swear to God we did.

Did we? We did. You guys got second up playoffs. Which third was Dallas? We got third at Dallas, the first event. And we got fourth at Birmingham, I was I? I didn't even think we played that many tournaments. I thought it was like two tournaments and that was it.

No, dude. I played like. There was more than. No, because remember, 2017, we won in 2018, 2018, 2019 were really good years. You're really good years. Because that's when investment. has just started to start popping up everywhere from all the VC. And then in 2020, that's when the-19 is when the league launched.

So we won 2017. 18 got really good because money started coming in. 2019 is when Activision bought out everyone so that they could be the only ones that ran tournaments. And then the league was created. Payload for a ring? Payload for a ring. Could I have had two. We could have had two.

See that? Yeah, now I'm in that waiver. I'm like, could add two. Before I was like, could have one. Now I was like, could add two. You get it. All right. So, you know, all jokes aside, this is a serious matter.

As much as I try to be understanding and all that, like there is, there is some level of accountability. And obviously, like, again, I want everybody to know that I'm not out there catching my personal best bass and a whole bunch of eights and nines. You know what I'm saying? I'm not out there just getting a tan. because and looking tall, dark, and handsome. I'm not out there just enjoying life. I do, I do obviously care very, very much about the state of the team. You were keeping up out there?

I was trying to. There was no reception from 6 a.m. to 12 and from 2 to 6. There was no reception. Wait. Why those specific times? Because you're back at the lodge. Ah. Yeah.

Once you get on the lake. So the lodge, you don't have Wi-Fi? No. You had to walk down to the. to the main area. What the fuck? No Wi-Fi. That's okay.

You only need Wi-Fi for what? Like Friday? You go out Friday? Yeah. Yeah, we all the play. Yeah, we're on Thursday. Saturday. Yeah, they were in Saturday.

They were in Saturday. Yeah, they played Saturday. No, I knew we're playing. I made a quick series. Never mind. I texted Joey. I tip that child Top Hall, though. Round 11,

Bursie Square, top all? Because I was like... I know, but I could tell you're forcing it, though. Because, like, I was watching it. I had no bag, like, you know what? I got to force them. Because if I get that kill. And it was awesome too

Our whole year's different Imagine Everything's We're good We're back We win the tournament It's a sim effect Right like he gets that fucking

One B4 And then all of a sudden magic Happened But not for us All it was was the 1V1 verse I think it was Jamie Fucking Jamie Fucking Jamie

You got it Jamie So what's up Give me a run down What am I missing Like we have Listen there's no excuses Honestly Like we all got to play better

But I still believe in the team I don't know if it's the delusion In me I don't know if it's just The ring Yeah Maybe it's just that.

One of the ring delusion. At least my spirit, I swear to God, like, I'll never freaking just like either like give in. Yeah, 100% what? Because like at the end of the day, I just know like, I mean, you know your squad's good. Yeah, exactly. And I know that they're good. It just like takes, I think for us, it's just one thing is just going to spark everything. And then we're just going to get back on track and it's just going to be like a, I don't know.

I feel like a situation like this where we're playing this bad. Like, it doesn't look good at all on anybody. And it's just, as soon as we start playing it, I feel like it's just going to bring us all closer together. At least that's what I hope. That's what I'm hoping for. That's a good thought. I mean, the good thing is it's still early in the year, too. It's like, it's unfortunate timing because obviously it's our major coming up.

Hopefully you guys make winners. You guys can still make winners. Yeah, because I don't make winners. Which a lot of people are like, there's no way they make winners. I'm like, there still is a chance. Yeah, like the matches haven't been going well. But I think if you guys, what is it three? Is it three match?

If you win three, will you guys get anything? The thing is our map count is obviously pretty dog shit. Yeah. But if we went three, there's a chance. It just depends on whoever is like the bubble team that's going to make it with us. So if they also win three, then it just depends if we play them. If we're head-to-head, if there's a three-way tie, then that goes to map count. But if we went four, we're auto through.

Yeah. That's why I like it. So if you went out, you could still make it. Obviously, the community is saying that's not going to happen because of how the matches have been looking. I can only imagine what, like, oh, my God, how is your trap in? Oh, my God. I streamed one night. I was like, that's all I have to say is, oh, my God.

The product left from their shit is actually comedy. Anybody, anybody, anybody's reaction, even if there's no reaction against clip. No reaction is a clip. Dude, yeah. The few times that I've been on the watch party and I see Seths chat when you guys lose is fucking crazy. Dude, it just makes me sad. I'm like, yeah, we just got fucking, we just got beat.

And then it's just literally like 10 minutes of just straight fucking. It's the meanest shit I've ever seen. Which I understand. The meanest? The meanest. It's just going in all directions. Yeah. But I get it because I want to watch party.

I want to see the team. Bro, that's what I said. Like, what the fuck? That's what I said. I'm like, I'm out here fishing. I wasn't out there shooting. We were in the trenches over here. Yeah, I can't do.

That was war zone. I texted and I said, uh, I said, well, we had a conversation. And obviously it seemed, you know, like this. I texted Kenny. I texted you, texted everybody. Karma gave me his fucking rounddown. And one of the last things I said to Shotsie before I went to go catch my personal best nine pound bass.

I said, well, you can't go down anymore. You're 12th. Only up from here. Yeah. It actually only is only a We're gonna I swear Oh my God, this is this is a part of the script It's part of the script I like it man

Because at the end of the day I can only stand It better not let us win another ring That's all I gotta say No no we're gonna But at the end of the day like I do have to take Into account that Zinny's sitting there ready to go

At any moment You know what I'm saying? He says how much longer Are you gonna let this talent sit On this fucking couch before you do something I'm scared because the years go on similar to their World War II year and then they picked up Zinny. So like, oh.

Yeah, maybe don't do that. Are we going to tweak? I mean, dude. No, maybe don't do it. Listen, let's, let's, let's actually definitely don't do that. This might be, this might be. Don't do that. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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This is good guess. I don't know. You can't get any more. You can't get any worse. Let me finish. But now. But you have a ring. But now.

Let me finish. We're, we're, you guys are the worst team that Opticus ever had, but now you have the opportunity. Just he just keeps going. Well, because I keep getting interrupted. Sorry, sorry. So, one, you're the worst team

that Opticus ever had. But two, you still have the opportunity to be the best Call-Duty team that Optic has ever had. Okay? That's still in the future. Okay, okay. Including Dynasty at that point.

There's a chance. There's a chance, bro. There's a chance, bro. Holy shitty-enny. You guys can win 20 more tournaments and you can be the best. Optic Khan team. That's all you gotta do.

You just have to stay together for four years. You gotta sit together for nine years. You gotta win 20 times. You guys are good though. You guys are good, bro. But as of now, you're fucking dark shit. You guys are horrible.

Listen, I'm not, I'm not saying it. The stats are saying. I mean, I can't even hate. Like, it's just like, I'm not oblivious in the situation. We don't, we don't got one. We got one map that's not Vegas. I mean, we love the Vegas guys. Those, those Falcons points.

Yeah, I mean, they go. You guys didn't even get points. We get points. We just got a, honestly, we just got a. Just got a tiny little slender. That was just a weird pressure series where we had to win. It was the weirdest series ever played. We got nothing from it, but if we lost, we lost everything.

We had nothing to gain, but everything to lose. If they win, it's like, holy shit, finally. If they lose, it's like, oh my God. They lost to the Falcons. I swear to God, I want to cut my trip short, so I have a conversation with you guys in person. Holy fuck. Dude, if you guys lost the Falcons.

You guys are the worst. He's the worst thing I've ever seen Fuck in the league I've ever seen The good thing is Is that the It's major What's major one I mean

When is this ours right Yeah end of this month You don't even know what our major is awesome Dude I just got back from no internet It's in two weeks It starts on the 20th Right They start off one and three

Everybody was right These guys are Bad a Bing better moon They should have made a change When they had a chance EWC was just a little band date You know what I mean And everybody was calling for their heads

And then out of nowhere They went land and everybody's like, best team in the game of the being, you know what? I'm sick of this shit, bro. I'm sick of this shit. I can't wait when it's our turn at this point. Bro, there's nothing that makes me, and I mean this, it doesn't get me mad.

I'm not annoyed, but there's nothing more funny than when some of the fans are like, you got to make a change. And I think to myself, I'm like, what the fuck do you know about adversity? You know what I'm saying? I'm a Bears fan. Do you know when the last time it was

that the Bears won a fucking championship? I don't even want to know. Secondly, secondly, you got to talk to him, Hanks. You got to get in there and talk to what the fuck am I going to tell them that they don't already know? You are the GM. No, you're the GM. But I need everybody to know that as much

as much as we're fucking laughing and making levity of the situation, ain't no one here happy about where we're at. So for me to pile on to something that they, think about it, you're, You're as a player, you're already worried about what the fuck is going on in here. And then on top of that, you want some GM or some fucking figurehead out there like me to go in there and give you more pressure on top of a situation that has all the pressure in the world. What the fuck?

I'm not piling on. I'm part of that. I'm part of this team. I'm not going to go in there and fucking make it worse for them. They know what the fuck they got to do. And none of you nor me are going to be able to tell them anything because we don't have those thumbs. hand-eye coordination. The good thing is is that you can laugh about it because if you like couldn't come here and laugh about it and you were like actually pissed, that would be like

that would be very bad because then there's like there's no hope. It's like oh my God, they're actually fucking pissed about it. I mean, obviously they're pissed about it. Of course. Yeah, it's good that you can joke about it a little bit. Yeah. As soon as our, I don't know, the way I look it is like as soon as our belief like slash spirit of the team just goes out the window, then we're cooked. At least I could get on every day and I know that everyone's given 100% effort. Nobody's just looking at the situation like the A don't give a fuck or B like they're just demoral eyes so it's just what do they call the what do they call that on Ted Lasso when uh what's his name when the soccer player wasn't like kicking the ball right because he killed the dog

yips yeah you got you guys have this is just the case of the yips yeah it may not it may not necessarily be from a shooting standpoint but maybe a situational awareness standpoint yeah and don't listen to me I don't know shit about shit when it comes to that level of would you guys say you're in that robotic cod mindset right now yeah yeah words overthinking everything on it I feel like we're playing our best when we're just all four obviously playing really confident But it's just we're not second-guessing any of the decisions are making playing free and loose Everyone's second-guessing sure I know I feel like we're just in a situation where we're losing so we're just over

Analyzing a little bit we're just looking at situations like oh we shouldn't have done this we shouldn't done that but I don't even remember us doing that last You guys aren't even looking at any positives from the matches like you can't you guys why aren't like and then I know Even this right here we need to do this more because this this is this work it's like dude this is a troll this is a troll this and then it's like oh watch a clip and it's like We got 40 seconds from the shaman blasted. It's like, why do we do this? I'm like, we might have to do it more. This is the only thing I work. We're just in that situation where we're just,

well, like, everybody cares though, which is why everybody is just like obviously giving input and trying their best, but everyone's trying to find a solution, which obviously makes it hard. Too many chefs? Too many cooks in the kitchen? But it's been going better as of late, just to, you know, I don't want to just say that.

No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. Nobody here would think that you're appeasing anyone by saying the shit that you're saying. Yeah, because I feel like I'm pretty honest. about the situation. Honestly, if it was going bad, I probably just won't say anything. That's just more my type. I'm not going to just like come on and speak about it. But if it is going good, like, or at least a step in the right direction in terms of just,

A, accountability, because everybody knows that we're not, nobody's perfect. Nobody's just like selling the team. It's just like a team, like effort thing. So it's just, it's all part of the script. Part of the, part of the journey. We went major two, man, though. You wouldn't major two. Oh, man.

Oh, man. Oh, yo, don't let us have a major two. I promise you. If they were major two, we're going to win major three. It's our major. You're coming in fucking. Yeah, we don't got to fly nowhere. We're supposed to lose.

We're the worst team. Don't play the worst team. Don't let us get on. Don't let us get one. That actually might be the meme now. Don't let us get one. I'm telling you, that's all it takes, man. It's, it's, oh, fuck.

Also, could it be call duty timing, right? Like, there has to be some situations in there. No, no, no. Is that for no? Call duty timing. That's like. Maybe a one-off. Like, oh, shit, we just trolled that around 11.

I'd be like, yeah, yeah. It's getting the worst timing, dude. Getting the worst timing. Every series. Every series you get in the worst time. Every hard point rotation, we're just getting fucking horrible time. It's so unlucky. So I just got back yesterday, so I haven't, I'm going to go back and watch the matches.

Not just as I can experience the pain myself. But I do. Again, I have, I obviously have full confidence in this team. If behind the scenes I saw a little bit of faltering or a little bit of doubt, then obviously I would be a little bit more concerned, but, you know, until I hear from karma or one of the players or J.P. or somebody saying, it's, this is what's up. Then obviously, like, I'll make the, I'll have the proper conversations where I need to, but man, this GM has y'all back.

No, it sounded like a whole lot of, I'm not the GM in that whole statement. sounded like I'm going to hit up the players Damon JP my name was not mentioned at all until the end or he needed a little comedic relief No no at the end of the day Of course the GM's got her There's no GM

There's no GM there's no Dude I can't believe people think I'll make it called There's no GM here The players have always I mean From the beginning of time optic The players have always had to say In every single instance

Of the fucking game You guys didn't play with anyone you guys didn't want to. Any team change that you guys wanted to enact, we made happen. GM work was done, but it was like no GM. Like, it's managed by the players, it's managed by the coach. And in fact, sometimes the players have a little bit more pool than the coach. You know?

I'm in, yeah. But anyway. I just dropped my whole roster. Like, people think I'm crazy motherfucker because I'm the only one that's getting on optics. I don't know what he's talking about. Yeah. Yeah. What?

Yeah, I didn't do anything. The GM hit, you know. Look at which GM. All right. So again. But congrats to the thieves. They look good. Yeah, man.

Fuck who. Who cares? They're mad, brough. Scraps. So fucking bad. Mid player. All this shit.

I texted Matt. When I landed on, like, good game. And that's it. You should text him though. We're one and oh, I guess. Are you ever coming from back from the bathroom or something

walking down the hallway? Yeah. And like their door opens and you see all them lined up. Do you get chafed for that? I've seen them one by one. Like I've seen everybody but Paco, I've seen Dan. I've seen Dan like twice.

I've seen Envoy, like, twice, and I've seen Ernie once. He was taking a shit. Like, he was on the way to take a shit. That's crazy. That's tricky, actually. I saw him, like, multiple times throughout the weekend.

Yeah. That's tricky. And then when we were in a water, what's this thing? Water shortage. No, those are the worst here. Time out. What?

We were in, like, this is like a month and a half ago. Like, they're in the winter. There was no water here? No water at the fucking studio. Matt. And then this is when Kyle was still on the team. And then I'm like,

yo, we need waters. We need waters, right? And then apparently the word got out in the facility that was like hunting for waters. It was like we were scavenging. And then out of nowhere, I looked behind me, Paco. And then Dan just handing us some waters from their place. I'm like, get the fuck out of here. He's like, bro, I'm telling you.

They're saying you're tweaking, bro. Is that why you were drinking hyniquins bin match? No. Did you see that clip? Oh, yeah. It's talking a hyniquette. It's Mount Valley, dude. That shit was so funny.

They were like, why the fuck is Bruce drinking mid-series? He's fucking tweaking. He's fucking seen their tweet. Just taking a swing. That's how bad it is. We can't... I came across the sellers clip. Yeah.

And I didn't know it was him. And I just thought like... It was like some random person that came up to pull up to you in the car. And you're like the fucking light screen. I'm like light screen. You're fucking sitting there. The guy's behind him tweaking, bro. Like I felt bad.

And then I'm like, all right, let's go. But then I saw the camera on someone. He flexed the car a little bit. What is this? Cod player counts. Cod player count hits record low on Steam. Well, let's talk about... Oh, no, no, go up, go up.

Before that, yeah, Verdance got delayed. Why? What's that? So, Verdance was supposed to come out, I believe, the week before this, but it got delayed until April 3rd, because Verdance is dropping with the start of season 3. Obviously, everyone's super pumped about that, including myself. Are the cheaters still bad? Yeah. Yeah, they're still bad. They're still bad, for sure.

Do you think that's why they delayed it? No, I think they're just making some polish. So they just don't give a fuck about the cheaters. I don't think they know what to do personally. I think if they knew what to do, there would have already been a solution. No. No. What do you mean?

No. Everything, everything, every solution has a price and they can afford any of those solutions. It's not that they can't afford or they haven't found something. They know what it is. They just don't want to pay it. They just, they, you know, they got to do what they got to do for it. What they got to do is pay it. They got to pay that shit.

They are not because I don't think, I don't know, I mean, obviously that level of complexity of their finances, obviously is a fucking massive, massive company. But when your player count is down because of a problem, you would think that you would fix the problem so that your player account can go up and you can fucking make that, that cash, right? but they're saying let's like because our player count is low we have to protect the chips that are coming in and therefore we can't go and gamble on a solution that could be this or that see i i think cheaters definitely have a big part of the player count being down but also it was like kind of like a flurry of things was like the game cheaters were going running crazy they dropped ranked early so everyone already got their ranked fix and then the cheaters like really surged in and then marvel rivals dropped it's like there's like a perfect storm of a bunch of things going wrong right now for the for the player count to be as low as it is and then you look at like other esports now valerine esports are starting to ramp up again counterstrike esports is starting to ramp up

again so it's like on top of the game not being in a good spot all these other games are doing you know a good job and have just been doing a good job so it's like people are finally getting fed up with it and they're they're starting to finally pull away also people are like the maps aren't good in this game, which I kind of agree with. I feel like the maps in this game are like one of the weakest attributes of the game itself, like the gunplay's fun and everything, but the maps are just not great.

So I feel like it's just a flurry of things, but yeah, they got to figure. The cheaters should be like, that's like, should be the easiest thing to fix for them. Should be number one. That should be number one. If you can't get on the game and have a genuine fair experience, then that already taints, that's the

tip of the iceberg. My issue, with all of that is that like they they like call duty has a duty to its customers you know how many people I mean if you took a poll how many people are actually playing campaign anymore right like people are

paying the $69 bucks or however the fuck it cost to play multiplayer so as part of that service all the servers and all of the lag and all the experience all the cheats and all everything that that that's that you're paying for is in this bubble

right and as a customer that pays for a service imagine going to a restaurant you're going to pay your thing but the waiter's rude or the forks are dirty or the cubs have like the little lip fucking coffee drips on them like those are the things that you pay not to have and when you as a as a customer are paying you're paying for that service to have the player experience the fair experience the entertainment that you're paying for i mean some people pay more for for better internet so they can have a better playing experience while you're in there. So you're investing money not only to get into the fucking into the, into the plane field, but outside things.

You're buying your headsets to be better. You're buying your, uh, your, your, your, your VPNs. You're buying like all this other shit to make your experience that much better, but this one very particular thing. VPNs. Oh, you know, the fucking, isn't that what they buy? The, the, the, the wars and guys? Fuck yeah.

Okay. So, so you're doing, you're going out of your, I saw a lot of them promoting it the other day. I was like, oh, so we just don't give a fuck any forward. Yeah, we're just bringing up until they. We're just getting that. I knew they were doing it the whole time in those kill races. Now they're fucking promoted.

Okay. Well, to understand that, I knew it. To understand the psychology behind that, you have to go all the way down to the beginning of time. In the beginning of time, when when YouTubers started making money, ask Jericho, ask Goldie, ask all of these guys, how much shit talk their fans used to give them for making money for playing video games. Like in the beginning of time, people used to get mad at content creators because they made money. And they said, this is fucked up. You're making money up for this thing and all this other shit.

You should be doing it for fun. And now it's YouTube money. Now it's Twitch money and everything's all good. If kids playing in the kids, I'm talking about like teenagers and below, they're coming up in a gaming environment where VPN is a necessity or something that they heard makes them better at the game. It's not a necessity. It's not a necessity. It's whatever it whether it's a loophole.

Whatever it is, it's normalcy. It becomes normal and therefore they're going to grow. up thinking to say, oh yeah, I use a VPN because I want to blah, blah, blah, blah. And then VPN companies are going to start sponsoring these people and it's going to be normal. You know what I'm saying? Because that's the way that it's going to be. So all the new players that are coming up as casuals, they're going to see a VPN as like an option to have a better player experience. And it's going to be so popular and it's going to be so normal that it's not going to be shone upon or nobody's going to be having an issue against it the way that we have an issue against it because we grew up in this very specific point in time.

Okay. You're welcome. Just fix the game, man. Fix the game. Just get the cheaters y'all. I don't think the delaying is because of the cheaters. I think the delay is because they just are polishing the map a little bit more. Because the map's got to come out.

It's got to come out. Like almost identical. As close to perfect as it can because this is like at this point, this is their last hurrah until the next call of duty comes out, obviously. But this is their chance to like at least. give their game some juice until the next cognitive. I'm kind of hoping it's like maybe this is the war zone hater and me, but I just hope it honestly falls flat

on its face and we never have to hear about warzoning dude yeah, well it's funny you say that because Matt has the modern warfare 4 leaks out and I saw yesterday in the leaks that it said if for dance flops yeah right here war zone may not be supported if Ferdance does not do well. Don't cheat your fucking dick

off then. Every cheer listen to this I'm running into the group multiplayer back on top. It's like the purge We just turned into the purge No more gunsmith Pick 10 Wait wait wait wait wait wait

This is my first time seeing this Warzone may not be supported If her dance does not do well Hell yeah Well one Sorry sorry Aiden and Mutex Yeah figure something out man

They'll be fine They'll be fine They'll be fine Yeah yeah yeah But I find this so hard To believe from a business standpoint Like it's Maybe it's not been doing well

I mean, fuck, that's so surprising to fucking here. Not releasing an old gen. Wait, my brother got to get a PC then. Not releasing an old gen. Oh, wait, that's PS4 and Xbox 1. So that's maybe PS5 still? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll still release new gen. What would still release on a new gen?

The game. Because like, PS4 and Xbox 1 is just cooked after this year. Not releasing an old gen, PS4 or Xbox 4. Yeah, they're just saying, like, because they just aren't releasing on the old gens anymore. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I was so fucking lost there. Yeah, and then obviously. It's 2015 for Xbox One thing

Yeah, if you're still on that, you're tweaking I just won't give it up In development on Next Generation Xbox Dev kits, UI may be more traditional Like older games, no more Hulu That's a fucking win Wait, what is, no more what? UI is like the main menu,

UI Okay, that's a W okay I'm assuming it means like the in-game UI, the player HUD which is all that shit It's still so hard to like invite someone to your game Yeah

Like it's so like annoying to pull up that menu in the top right like everything in the top right It's just so mixy it's getting it's getting it's getting worse and worse every year What's happening it's like you got to put in the cheat code to invite someone it's like hit R3 go over three times Yeah up up up down but he's got to add you left by request he doesn't get it like sure let me some I can't find you in my player list let's try to add each other restart our games maybe we both appear oh I'm appearing off line And then you just appear on my list and it worked and then you're in my game but it's not you it's not you it's imposter or something. It's fucking weird. Like it's just fucking, oh, dude. Yeah, I'm assuming

that means like the, I call it Hulu because it's just all like blocks like Hulu. It's like, you go to Hulu and it's like show, show, show. You go to Kod, it's like, player, player, player, playlist, playlist. Going back, going back to the point that I made earlier, evolution, when I'm talking about Halo, evolution of, of the game, the way

that it was on the user interface. I remember obviously Xbox 360, one of the best fucking user interfaces that has ever fucking been created. And then they try turning the Xbox into a home entertainment center in which you can access Netflix, Hulu, and all this other shit. So they made it more that way. Again, this is the same same experience that we're going through right now. Like it, it never really works out the way they fucking want to in the end. But the thing that kind of confuses me is that it says war zone may not be

supported. What does that mean? Yeah. Like how, they're going to shut down the war zone department, period? Well, the thing is, they had, they have to be working on war zone right now. Because right now, yeah, it's like, so what are they just going to? throw it in the bin if for dance does bad they're just going to develop next year's war zone and then just say fuck it if for dance flops and just throw it away that's just stop it halfway through.

Let's say rumor so like it could just be propaganda. Yeah. Okay. So four night happens. Okay, no, no let's go back even more. Usually these rumors become true. Like especially from Charlie Intel, most of the time I feel like that. That's scary when you point like that. I feel like usually

they're true, especially when it comes from like Charlie Intel or one of the credible like call video accounts. Pretty credible actually. Yeah. So I don't know. We'll see. Okay. So you have you have, you have, uh, battle, uh, what's up?

H11Z one, like the first, H1Z1, the first. H1Z one, battle royale. And then you had the one with the pan, PubG. And then Fortnite fucking takes off. Battle Royale is on the fucking come up. Activision does or CalDuty does what they have to do, which is sort of evolved with the times and bring their own battle royale experience. to this thing.

So I don't, this is why I find this hard to believe that they would step away from Battle Royale. I think Battle Royal help hype is this kind of gone down. Yeah, definitely has. I think it's just gone down. I feel like gaming in general, the hype is just kind of gone down.

I don't know, at least from like. COVID. No, yeah, definitely from COVID. But just in terms of like, when you go on Twitch, it's like,

it's all IRL and like that stuff now. It's not like, like obviously there's still some huge gaming creators like Tim, you know, Summit, jinxie, all those guys, but, like, I feel like, in general, games just aren't as popping as they were. Maybe I'm just tripping, but...

I mean, apparently that Monster Wild's game is pretty big right now. Monster Hunter, yeah. I'm saying, like, multiplayer. It's got, like, more... What's this... More users than Eldon Ring, which is kind of nuts. Everything else.

Yeah, so, like, it's tripling the second highest game, which is a new release. I wonder what just chatting numbers would look like if there was no React channels. It's like nobody was reacting to other shit. Yeah. Like if it was just their content. Like if they actually like go outside.

Well, no, just like even if they're just sitting at their shit, just talking in chat. Like, I don't know. I wonder what that would look like. Yeah, just chatting is like... I think a lot of the clips I see are, is someone reacting to someone else's shit. Yeah, and it's just like, yeah, wait a second. That was the ultimate finesse. It's almost like having your rebroad as a stream.

Monster Hunter Wilde? Yeah. It's like bigger than the Eldon Ring was, apparently in terms of like peak. It's got like 1.3 peak. players, like a million players. I've played Monster Hunter on my... I've never ever seen this. Did you try it?

Do you try that game? The new one now. Yeah, I downloaded it, but I haven't tried yet. I've only played it on the Switch, though. Oh, it was on the Switch? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I played it on the Switch. Wait, have you ever played it? No, I've never played it before.

The game is fun, but I don't know if they've, like, made updates to it, but the version that I played, I think it was the last game. Monster Hunter, I can't remember what it was exactly called, but you basically just go out, farm like big-ass monsters, and then make, like, improvements to your gear using, like, their scales, feathers, like spikes, whatever it is. What I watched.

And you kind of, like, progress that way, but it becomes redundant because once you get, like, the best gear, then it's, like, what do you do? Right. This is not my lane at all. Dude, I'm just a fucking gamer, man. No, I hear it, man.

That's what I said it. I'm just a gamer. You can't even hold your lanes and cod. You get your snacks. You can't hold lanes again. Don't talk about lanes. Get your little picnic cable. Whatever you guys got to get, man.

You can take personal shots for that. That was cool. insanely weird if you were to choke that halo fucking turning whatever they just open I would have fucking you should take you personal because you're fucking you have your little gears and your little gadgets

well you when is the first like major halo land ours Arlington it's April right April 19th I think that's our birthday we have the case the case on

well April 20th then it's the case on the case on it's the end of March technically where we have the four best teams supplying each other on land. So that'll be like, hey. Yeah, we're probably going to watch party that.

Is it a single day tournament, the KSan land? I think so. Yeah. We'll probably watch party that. We're set out of? I think it's out of the complexity offices. And next to the star. Oh, that's nice.

You don't even have to go anywhere? Yeah. The first three events are I'm going to go anywhere. Hold on. Let me look at the CDL schedule. It might come to a point. If you go to Micosina. Oh my God, you got to go to Mikosina.

Let me know when you go out. Oh, yeah. Get the Poblano. Let me take the team out. They're here now, right? Yeah. Let's go to catch. Yeah.

Okay. Get some sushi. It's another guarantee. It's a, it's insane. It is insane. So good. Yeah. It might be top two restaurants in Dallas that I've been to at least.

I can't remember. I'm saying top two because like, just in case of my memory, because like, there's a lot of food that I've had. Miko Sina's really good too. Miko Sina's God. Yeah. Yeah. Well, becauseina is wanting and then there's fucking catch. Yeah.

It's like another tier. Yeah. It's a complete two tiers above that. It's fucking. I'm not even. Immediately. The best. Everything I had a catch, I'm not even joking, was minimum a nine.

Minimum out of a 10. A minimum. Okay. I'm sorry. It's Godlike. It's got passionate about it. I don't know why. You got real passionate about it.

Matt, why do you have Texas fishing trip as one of the topics for the time? I just look at the Cod schedule. We might watch party maybe the first, the first Halo major. We'll see. We'll see. Because you guys play phase on Sunday. of the major. Oh, you definitely can't that.

Well, yeah, we'll watch their match. Do you guys play phase? Or they play phase? Do you guys play phase? We're going to watch that one. My boss is? Wait, which major? It's in like April.

Don't even worry about it. You got to play phase in your birthday, I think is what he's saying. Really? Happy birthday, Brandon. Here's a win, I guess, phase. Cursallium-snaking you again. Yes, man, I went to to the mountains of Sinolaola.

next year we're going somewhere else that is a 9.02 pound bass beating my previous record acquired four years to go 8.4 so the first day that we got there within the first 15 minutes

I caught a 7 and 8 a 9 and an 8 in 15 minutes damn I fucking slimmed uh 15 minutes give it like half an hour so you're so you're so hype just immediately off the rip you're getting crazy.

I wanted to go back home. I'm like, all right. Trip's over. If I would have got a double digit, I would have definitely just been fucking relaxing the road. I would have been guiding the guys. What's the weather like here? I can't tell by your fit.

So it's really, really hot. The reason, so this is on the, later on in the day, on the first day, I always don't wear anything. I don't wear sunglasses. I don't wear any protective gear. What I want is for the sun to tell my eyes, to tell my brain how much melanin to release in this bronze, beautiful skin to protect me from the sun.

And then for the rest of the time, I do put on head to toe fucking cover. You gotta be ninjaed out. Damn. That's a, yeah. Dude, they look massive. Damn. That's the third, that's the third bass that I caught there.

Those are very big. Can you eat those? No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. That's the fourth. Yeah. That was a seven. That was a six.

I think Bass like the perfect that was a different six that was a different it's not look at my hand it's it's a it's a you did the fisher trick no no no no it's just he had it on on the point five the the the fish eye yeah his on fish eye fish eye for the fish eye look at pumping my hand looks as you bro yeah look at like that thing looks like a monster it looks like you're actually picking up a shark I'm not even joking yeah if you look at it if you yeah if you look at it vertically but look at my look at my right on the on the right holding his mouth yeah how big my knuckles look. I knocked the

fuck up. And then one more Matt, let's see it. Right there. That's my man, Narland. That's a fire pick. Yeah, that one looks big. Narlane's the man, bro. Best guide ever. And then bro, all different fish. You guys fish different lakes or the same one every year? Bro, this lake is massive.

Are you guys alone on this lake? Huh? Are you guys alone? No, there was like, there's like three lodges, but that's my squad from left to right. What were y'all getting into? Were you all, where they inactive the boys? We went to Mexico City and like two of them went out to like a like a bar on the street or some shit. I was in bed

by 8. You got so many connections, bro. Huh? You got so many connections. Like imagine I post a picture and it's just me with 10 dudes you've never seen before. And I'm going to send some fishing trip in Mexico. Yeah. You'd be like, what the fuck? Bro, so this is half of what I take when I do my camp fest. So these are only the fishermen on my high school friends. Left to right, we got our high school point card, Mr. Carlos

Delphine. Two-time ACL left and right knee tore. Jesus Christ. We got two time. I thought he'd better to hit like two-time Two-time last shield champion. Nah, he wasn't. He was a nasty.

Knees are fucked. Yeah, yeah. He was a really good point card. He tore his ACL on his left and a year later on the baseball mound, he tore his, a year later, exactly to the day, tore his right one. Oh.

Holy shit. They were like, you were not playing sports. Yeah. It was like, stop fucking joy. It takes a year to recover from that. And then we have my friends. I have my friend, the doctor, who's an actual physician, my man Sharif, then we got my boy Opie, Danny, Eric, freshest student high school. I got a lot of my style pointed from him. We got a man Germain, me, Jimmy, Mikey, and Kenny.

Keeney with all the fecese. Chris Aldane, fucking professional bass fisherman, the fucking man. Anyway. Wait, which one? On the comments. Damn. Anyway. What's it like fishing?

Is it just like? Please take, please, please, please. Please, please. I swear, we should go as a team. I feel like it could just be therapeutic. That could be what you guys need. We gotta just go out there on the water and just understand that, you know what? And it's not that bad.

You got to be in tune with me. You catch a fish, you're like. The only thing. This is how we play picks. It's just, bro, just be patient. It'll come. You know what I mean? The kill will come to you.

What I'm saying? If we might be, I'm not even, the only, the only concern is that you are playing with a fucking sharp metal hook. That's not a good. And you're putting your thumb. I can feel shot. Inside a fucking wild animal's mouth. So your thumb is like pretty important? Yeah, it was called bass thumb.

You know, it's, it just gets a little rough. Okay, we can't have that actually. I could see a viral clip of shotsy like tearing off his own thumb. How does it feel? How's the feel? He's like, bro. You can't play with this? Whoa, the fish still lost my thumb.

I threw in the water. She has my thumb. No, no, it doesn't chop it off. I don't know. Not that strong. But anyway, how does it feel? Yeah, it's not that bad. It's just like, I don't even know.

Sandpaper? Yeah, it's like sandpaper with little like grooves on. it it's not bad yourself some mils ain't that right it's not bad yeah you gotta rip rip some lips catch some absolute milfs out there some pregnant mothers where did the story just get in the fishing trip just go because no the bigger the the bigger bass are females because they're pregnant that's why they weigh so much so when you catch like a 10-pounder that that that mama's been basted she's got babies she's got babies in there but obviously catch and release you throw them back in speaking of torn ACL did you

She has all the babies that repopulates the lake. Yes. Then you catch the babies. Then you get yes. Whoa, catch the babies. What the fuck? It's like you found the beacon.

What do you mean? The mother has the babies and then you let them develop for a couple years. Then you go out and fish for the babies. Then you found the beacon. The spawn beacon. Yeah. Release them. Yes.

Release the babies? What? No. I don't know where the story went. What are you talking about? We're talking about fish. So am I? But the connotations are some of the undertone.

They brought them else. He brought it up. Yeah, they're called Mills. I threw it in the pot. That's what they're called. They're called that. They're called donkeys. Let's stick with milfs.

I like mills. Fuck the donkeys. I asked Hector, I said, you catch any milfs? This Kyrie shoot was pretty dumb, though. I caught them all. Took a selfie with him and let him go. Jude was showing me the Kyrie torn ACL shit. Did you see the slowball of it?

Yeah, it was so sad. Naves are fucked. He did some Kobe shit where he shot on like one leg to both the free throws. Well, the reason he did that, he had to shoot those. To stay in the game if you want to throw it. In order for him to be able to come back if it was nothing serious. But everybody, I mean, I knew the second when he hyper extended his, is. Yeah, you're not coming back.

Yeah, it looked bad. Which is sad thing. Wait, can I see the, I didn't see the actual injury clip. Just go to that Twitter. Does it look like? Does it look bad? His knee just like hyper extended. It didn't even move. Like his knee, his knee did this, but the other way.

Ay. Yeah, it was pretty bad. And that, and it just ripped it? Oh my god that looks so bad. There's a different angle where it shows it from the front. Yeah yeah I think it's like from oh yeah that looks bad Pause it pause it right there or move it slowly I think the repo yeah there we go there look right yeah his left like right there

He looks like that alien from contact oh that sucks too Look at that now you know why I was like obviously he's not coming back in the game even if it wasn't as bad as like a torn ACL even if it's just like a strain but like it's just the fact that he shot the fete though so it gave me the vibe that is this is his last game ever this is like I want to shoot these last two before I go maybe maybe kind of like like Kobe maybe I mean it wasn't his last game when he tours Achilles but he kind of was like I'm gonna shoot it's like the last game that I'm basically Kobe before I'm like yeah I'm like I mean this is this is what happened to to what would have been the greatest point cards who have ever touched the game of to ever ever touch the basketball mr. Derek Rose yeah D Rose all that was so sad yeah he was like the youngest

MVP ever he was so listen I don't want to be too superstitious I'm just gonna be a little stishes, okay? When the Mavs did what they did to Luca, yeah, that's pretty cold. It created a fucking, a goat-cursed scenario. Yeah, it's taking them out. Yeah, well, think about it.

They traded him for AD. AD gets fucked. AD, immediately. He gets fucked. I went to that game. I was at the game when he got fucked. He was torching. I'm not going to live.

The fans were gone crazy. They're like, we got AD now. Boys, okay, okay, okay. We'll end it on this, okay? Think about this. Luca. I got this clip. Oh.

Look, go back, Matt, and you can see, like, the, his quad give out. Look, look at his squad muscles. Ready? Gone. Oh. And then all of it. I wonder how much, like, I wonder how much this comes into play because he's also fasting for Ramadan.

It just started, like. Maybe some, but you can drink water, right? Nah. You can't drink water. Oh, my God. You can drink water or eat. So then obviously, and the game is pretty late. It's at the worst time for, like, an app.

Right, as soon as you start playing, that's when the sun is gonna start going down, but you're playing already at this point. And you haven't eaten anything for- That's crazy. Like at least- About- Or drinking anything for-term. Yeah, that's crazy.

Let's talk about curses and end it on this, okay? The Mavs completely fucked Luca on this thing. Because of that, the person that they traded for gets injured. Their point guard, All-Star, gets a torn ACL. Hector steps to that same line and misses every single free throw line. All right.

That was actually bullshit. Thanks guys. Fire podcast. Thanks for watching, guys. Thanks, guys. See you later. Peace.