The Yard - Ep. 265 - The Aftermath of The Marathon

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

This week, the boys talk about the aftermath of the CS2 marathon, the ups & downs, and whether they'd do it again! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and then I only open posts that I get linked. And then, so it turns into a weird mishmash of things I've like, or the occasional person I've actually followed at some point, but I only follow like 80 accounts and most of them are friends.

So it's like skiing videos because I follow the skiing YouTuber Steep Steep, Steep. And then he's Steepstead, of course. What else would he be named? Oh, it's his name, of course. He's steep steep. And I got, I started to get a lot of China stuff

around when we went to China. And a lot of, like, a lot of white guys that live in China or have lived in China for a long time and, like, do different shit. And recently, when I opened up Instagram on my computer to check my DMs, there's a short there or a real

it's a real and it's that challenge that's been going around where he shows you a photo of the guy he just talked to and like asks if the guy he's talking to now if that person's gay or straight

and the person always says gay gay like no matter what they say gay yeah but the challenge is all in Chinese this time it's like a guy that's so funny

Guy who isn't, guy who isn't Asian interviewing Chinese people, influence Chinese, doing the same exact challenge. Gay or straight? Gay or straight? And they all say gay. Tad the jungle around sure gay, yes? Something about watching this and watching the whole thing unfold in Chinese, but them all still say gay without fail is so fucking funny to me.

Wait, how do you say gay in Chinese? Dude, it's, it's, you're not going to believe it. gay. No way. The whole sentence would be like, I'm just gonna say one of the sentences of that Wama Shupongya gay. Like he just did.

It's like when in Twitch chat, when you do a bunch of like Arabic or something and then you just put White House and then you put Charlie Kirk and the only English words you can read. Is it more homophobic to not even have a fucking word for it? I don't know. Well, it might just be a loan word.

What is that? What's a loan word? When you loan a word. alone, no. I meant loan, like, L-O-N-E. No, like cliche, loan word. We, we're still on loan for that with the French. We've been, we have, but we have an exchange. It makes you think, it's a bartering thing. That like China didn't know what being, they didn't have a word for being gay until like we started saying it. Well, I think it's, it's, it's because there was no need. It's just love. We pointed out that that's gay now. Actually, it's different. That's not love. That's gay love.

And it's different. But sometimes. And don't call it. like marriage. Okay. Sometimes it's slang. Because I remember, do you guys know who Dogan is? He's like the Japanese.

He's the white guy Japanese YouTuber speaks Japanese really well. He speaks really well. Is he like the poster boy the white guy speaks fluent Mandarin at the restaurant guy?

No. Who's that? He's not Shaima. Xiaama. Chama. Shama. Dogan is a white guy from Washington State

who speaks Japanese so well that he like trains pitch accent for people who want to become native speakers. Yeah. Whoa.

And he'll be like, hon toni, not hononi. Like that level of minutia. Yeah. And he has a video where he's reviewing other YouTubers

and one of these people is Joey, the anime man from Trash Taste. And I remember, this one always sticks out in my mind because he reviews Joey and he's like,

Joey, you're too good. Joey's half Japanese. He just speaks it because he speaks fluently. And he's like, Joey's Japanese is too good

because, he speaks perfectly. He doesn't use enough loan words to sound really Japanese. He uses the actual old Japanese word for things. Like in the 1700s when the samurai invented the word

gay. Yeah, and he's like, they're out at war. And Dogen's like, the kids are speaking English now, man. They just toss it in there. And I think gay has to be like that, you know? It's like 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. Not a single person. Surely there's...

No. No, it worked. It was always one man, one woman. Confucius was close. They always say that. He was close. No, he was just, he was shy. He was shy, straight man.

He was a shy, wise man, and we all followed his teachings. Did they have Chinese word for Floyd? Probably. Probably. It's probably still for. They're like, dude, the Chinese, like, Gen Zee, they're like, America's bumping right now. They got some crazy words. Dude, I didn't live in America.

I would just be so jealous of all the cool words that we make. Yeah. We also take a lot of words. Yeah. Tsunami. Cresson. Yeah. And that's how it's actually pronounced.

Now, tsunami, tsunami. Johnny, tsunami. Are we a hurricane? I think we're hurricane. No, of course they're different, but it's not a loan word. But I'm saying that's not a loan word, correct.

Did we make hurricane? We made a hurricane. Do we own a hurricane? We made a hurricane, but we stole chandelier. Tandalea. That's... Hamburger. Maybe.

Hamburger is... German, right? Us. Really? Kill yourself. I'm gonna give it to us. It's us? I'm gonna give it to us.

You're just giving it? Wait, we... Kindergarten. I think you could eventually take a loan word and then it's yours. You know what I mean? Like, if you own something long enough

for the original owner to die. The bank repossesses eventually. Yeah. That's the way it works with real possessions in general. Where's Bussie from? That's Eric Redwood. Hmm.

Who is Korean, I think? That's from Korea. Bussie's Korean. Boussan Bucon Buconos This makes so much sense If I can speak on foids for a moment

If you could If you please We're Speak to it We're fresh off the marathon Yes These guys are beat Yeah I'm beat

I'm not beat No Getting talking about Guy who's yawning In the intro Archie can cut back To the Because it's on camera

Please don't do the Black and Y GTA wasted Yon Do it! We did the GTA Marathon Plus two Plus two.

Plus two. I can't believe it's plus two, bro. Elo every 50 hours. Yeah, plus two. And, and we played one game without you two. Two.

Yeah, two games. Two games without you two. My body was, that, it's funny because I'm usually the guy who's like down for one more. Like,

I never say no. I mean, sometimes I say no. But like, I'm usually, even if the guys are like, we got to do it. But my body reaches,

like, degenerative limit that night, which has never happened to me before. Yeah. I was looking at the screen like Like I got drunk and fucking I guess a video game but also in real life The fourth day was where I really hit the wall

Yeah I look we all hit the wall at some point I hit it day five I hit it the last day I was hopped up I've been off nicotine for so long I was on like a crazy amount of fucking zins and red bowls It was gross It was so bad My body was like shaking at one point like I was a puppet on strings

and I had no active mind but we played our one game and I had said going into the challenge I was like against solo queuing because like solo queuing is like scary and I don't want to communicate and I hate talking other people because I don't know if they'll be nice

or mean or whatever but we played a game with a guy named Diddy Floyd yeah and my first reaction is this guy's gonna suck sure because his name's Diddy Floyd Two Diddy Ford too Diddy Ford too

Oh my God Diddy Foys probably take it It sucks to not be the first first one to the idea. Which is exactly what we asked him. Yeah. And so we're talking to Diddy Ford too. Turns out his last name's Diddy.

Tough. Which. Actually better in the context of he didn't make that name because P. Diddy and then Void. Okay. Now what about Floyd? Didn't ask about it.

I was assuming it was a family name as well. There's so many moments from that part of the stream that Ludwig is going to get caught for later. He was like, dude, I need Diddy right now. Dude, he's like, Diddy, I love you. Because he fragged out. He didn't like talking. Yeah, didn't say much, but had a mic.

He had a mic very rarely used it. And when he talked, he was mostly normal. But if I had gone against him, I would have thought nothing but hate towards him. I would have felt. He was just a scout demon. He's one of those players that buys scout and just get three picks a round.

I would have thought this guy's cheating. Of course, his name's Diddy Ford. He talks shit in all chat. I was like, this guy's what's wrong with the community. But then when I spoke to him, I was like, oh, this is not scary. This is a boy. Well, I mean, you're basing this idea of like, oh, maybe Solicue's not that bad off of one gentle Diddy Foids.

Yes. I did this for, I think, 17 days, 18 days, and it was not fun. It was, it wasn't fun to do. Did you ever break through the Diddyfoids with the anime profile pictures that just spam slurs? There's a, what do you ever speak to them? Of course, bro. You have to say one going ramp. That's the problem with the counterstrike.

Like, one is always going ramp and the guy said the N word and you still have to talk to him. And even if he said the N word, the guy's going ramp. He's going ramp. And I hate that he said it. I don't want to know or speak to that guy, but I'm locked. We can't even, if nobody leaves the game, we can't even FF. I'm here. I'm here with you and a guy's going ramp.

But there, yeah, there are a lot of people that were like, there were, I put it in the video I put up. Like, there are a lot of people that were really funny and they were not dicks. I even, I sat down and I interviewed a guy after and he like stole the chat's heart. I asked him his five favorite things and every one of them was this banger because he had this like Reddit voice. He would, he was like,

there's one on B and I was across the map on A on Dust 2 and you just hear a gunshot, he's like, not anymore. And I'm like, okay, well. I did that. You guys said that was aura loss. It was and it was for this guy too. But then he was just like, ah, cry about it. Like you feel like that.

And I'm like, I want to interview this guy and I did. And he was wonderful. There are humans that play the game. But do you think the larger percentage is the evils? I don't think it's a larger percentage. Well, more than most games, I think. But the game doesn't have filters that stop these people from communicating with you

in that way. Because if it's league, their account just goes down. And it's a pain in the ass. And I do think more racist people play Counterstrike. I just think it's a stat. And shitty people in general. I think, dare I say,

if we could, I think it's better than a rainbow 6? Oh, I don't know about Ramba. I'll go up on the... Oh, I've never even seen more than 60 seconds of that game, my lifetime. I don't think I've seen a Rainbow 6 clip that doesn't have Jinksie's head in the bottom. Looking up. I would stand up on the podium and say Counter-Strike is probably

less racist than Rainbow 6th. Really? Yes. Okay. And I am making this judgment, I'm making this judgment based off of the actions I vaguely know in their pro se. Really? Yes. I don't, I know nothing of the Pro Scene, all I know of Rainbow 6 is that probably most of Jenks these years watch it. Console games are...

Console games are a different beast, though. That's what I'm saying. Like war zone players? Yeah. That's crazy. I don't think they're as bad as cod players. Because I don't think the game allows them. Excuse me, yeah.

I don't think cod players as bad as Counterstrike players. Like, I think when people are like, you couldn't handle fucking call the duty lobby pussy. It's like just play CS2 live now. I actually think it's the same. I think any... The filters aren't there, right? Any difference here is marginal.

The difference between Cod and Counterstrike, which this was not always the difference, but the difference now is that you can talk to the other team. Yeah. And it's like a natural, I hate, like hatred thing. But in Counterstrike, you're only were talking in voice to your own team. You can still do that in Cod, right? That's what I'm saying.

In Cod, you can talk with voice to the other guys. Because you used to be able to do that counterstrike. Yeah, during, I think it was between half time and then end the post game. Why did they take it away? They added it back to face it games. Yeah. Just recently. Yeah, yeah, just like three weeks ago.

I mean, so hype. Yeah, yeah. She said never should take that away. Dude, I've been watching Counter Strike videos because I know fuck all about it. I've never watched like a comp. The only thing I ever knew about it was you're about to make the play of your career shot.

Really? That's all you ever knew. Take your time. Take your time, son. That is simple and donk. That's probably it. What about Kenny S, bro? We interviewed Kenney S.

I interviewed a bunch of these people. I don't know Kenny S because of his counterstress. Prouis. I know him because I met him and he's French. I still say for this day from that interview, I have no clue. No clue. I still think of Ken sitting next to Kenny S

and asking him what Kenny, he's doing his Ken thing. What game do you think you're best at? And then Kenny, no beats skipped. He's like, probably FIFA. Fresh people are great at FIFA. Or Pess. It's actually a very humbling answer

because he's like, it's not Counterstrike. I'm a pro, but I'm not the best. And he can say that. What is a Cebu? Remember in the interview? Oh, yeah, yeah. Breasts. Seboo.

They're breasts. No, no, sorry. They're balls. They're balls. I don't know why I thought was pressed. They're balls. I'm pretty sure. Sebul.

Yeah, but you do this. You go. Sebul. Yeah, because they're big heavy balls. Dude, what a classic clip. Look at you and your little waiter outfit. I look you look the same. same, no?

You do. The grand sin. Too gross. I mean, so much good. But the question is...

Dude, you're funny, bro. Look at us. Look at us. Wow. One great video. Jack and Co.

Back in the day. That was in the upstairs bedroom to the left. But now I'm appreciating Kenny S because I've been watching clips.

Of Counterstrike. Yeah, like I watched like all the graffiti. I didn't know about the graffiti. thing? The fallen, was it a Colts era? I forget. Just the idea that on maps where you see graffiti, that is

because there was a cool play that happened there. Yeah. And there's like, not that many. There's like eight. Yeah. The main is Mirage, two on Mirage now. The Magics one. I found about the pixel boost. Which pixel boost? The pixel boost on Trains? Overpass?

Overpass. Overpass? Yes. Were they like mini, they totem pole up? Yeah, where they make a 133 cut. This is crazy. Yeah. This dude, there's a lot of, I CS has some of my favorite e-sports history of like any game. I stayed up until 3am watching it because there was a tournament.

Were you watching? The Saudis. Oh, yeah. I was watching the Saudis play. Well, the Saudi tournament, the East Sports World Cup. The sponsors for that are so funny. Flush a sheet?

It's just a city. It's a lot. Oh, Neo? Isn't it Neom or something? There's like one, it's like Kittia City. Like for the ESports World Cup, it was like the CS2 finals today, this morning. And then the sponsors are just like Saudi Arabia.

It's literally Saudi Ramco. I know. Slime DM to me and he's just, I've been watching the broadcast and the casters keep saying the Saudi, the Aramco power ranking. Yes, for a street fighter. And I was like, this is insane because this is something me and slime. I am like 99% sure we have said this to each other years ago. We invented this joke when Aiden was like working at BTS and then it became reality

eight years later. Also, every fucking CS2 caster, it's on site. I don't understand what the fuck's going on with the sports coat and sneakers combo. Yeah. I think the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life. It's the epicenter of all of this. It's so ugly.

It's hideous. Well, it looks like a pathetic prom guy. Really? It looks like you're fucking, I'm 37, but I look 17 and I'm going to prom in this movie. I'm a model. It's gamers getting money.

It's gamers in cars getting money. I think honestly, it's, it's, it's not wanting to have a backpack, but wanting to go to, to the after party. You know?

Like, I got to have the shoes for the after party and I can take the jacket off. I never thought about that. Because a backpack, I think I don't care about wearing a backpack but I think for some people, maybe in this room, it's like a humiliating thing

to have to carry around. For me, it's just a liability. Like, at some point, I'll take it off and then I have to remember I took it off. Well, you have like a tote bag. Do you not forget the tote bag? I only have a tote bag if I'm like

bringing an important thing somewhere. Like, oh, I have a, I have a GameCube. That's true. Me and Aden, we're backpack guys. I'm a backpack guy. We're backpack guys. Of course you look fucking ugly.

My girlfriend is straight up told me it's an egg and I'm like, yeah, I'm a backpack guy. You're locking it in. Yeah. Hey, if you want to leave, doors over there. That's my backpack. I'm not getting rid of that. You're kind of a backpack guy like a Boston bomber. Like you, your hat and backpack combo because you wear tech backpack packs are concerning on CCTV cams.

Yes, yeah. You look like you just killed a CCT bomber. Do I have the book I'm reading for Lemonade Stand or the gun I'm shooting a healthcare CEO? It's hard to say, but we're interviewing him, so anything could happen. Dude, okay, it's maybe not Lemonade Stand, but a concept podcast where you bring on, like, rich people like Mark Anderson and shit, and then, uh, at the end. Dude, that'd be, more than one episode. You would try. Yeah, yeah, you pre-recorded.

And then they slowly drop out. Oh my God, it'd be so good. Only Joe Rogan can truly do this at the moment. Oh, wait, it's you turning on Twitter again. No. It's so funny. Hey, guys. Yeah, dude, I was, so it was, we are finishing up from yesterday.

Yesterday was the last day of marathon. Just crazy. And we did two D&Ds. It's been busy. We're getting fucking bent over and turned out. But the, it was like at the end of the day yesterday, I think most of you guys were gone. And I'm like looking for the underwear that you

bought me and I'm looking for it and Dan's like packing shit up and and it felt like summer was over. Yep. It was the end of summer camp. It felt like I was going back to school next month. You are. I wanted to go back to school. Look, I wanted to go back to school too, but I also am going to miss it because this is the last time we're ever going to sleep. Why do you fucking saying that? Why do you say that? We could just sleep together. You keep saying this last time we're ever going to do this. I know what if you just want to do another marathon. We just do it again. Love a sidebar. It hurts.

Yep. I think he's a little hurt that you might not ever sleep with him again. And the thing is, it's possible we sleep together again. Of course. But it's unlikely we all sleep together.

This sidebar better not be pissing me off. Whatever they're saying there might not be pissed me off. I think it's fine. Bears. Bears. I can't even hear it.

Spider-Man brand new day. Great movie came to mind. Spider-Man oversight. Sidebar over. It could happen again. It could happen again. could happen again. Yeah, so why do you keep saying never? Because it's unlikely and I like to grapple with that. I like to fight in the ring of maybe it's the last time. You know, you know what made

me sad at the end of the CS marathon? I did feel like shit. I was, I was like so excited to sleep in my own bed. But I was like, we may never do this again. Like the CS marathon part. We maybe we will, maybe whatever. But I was like, I hope we do it again someday. It was really fun. But I also was like, if we are going to do it again, low key I should play less counterstrike. Kind of the same way that beatoff works. Like, if I, if, because making beats was fun.

And I'd like to do that more. But if I do it more, I kind of can't show up to the beat off. You're smurfing. I'm smurfing now. So it's like, okay, I won't learn how to make beats

so that I can only do it every time we do the beat off. But with Counterstrike, if we continue to play Counterstrike and rank up, that challenge becomes like increasingly more impossible. The other side of this is me and Ludwig

get way better. Or you two play the shit at a counterstrike. Yeah. But then the challenge kind of doesn't exist in a weird way. Buddy, I give you a month. What? I give you a month, buddy.

And what, a month? Don't let him talk you that way by the. Before I leapfrog you. What are you talking? I believe you can do that. He's 16.6 right now? Yeah,

you can do that. I plummeted his rank. I think you could do that a month. 16K, I think is doable. Yeah. Oh, and you mean by the number. Oh, yeah, yeah, by the skill. Like, no, no, he could grind me out and fucking,

I won't even try to test that. Okay. Give him more. I think you could pass 16K a month. I just, You can't play. You can get there too. No, I wouldn't play.

Please don't. Please don't. I won't. I'll. Find something else to do. Dude, I'm not gonna fucking lie. These chubby shorts are so comfortable. I know.

I don't think that's how you're supposed to. Oh my God. You know what you hate when you use conditioner and it like gets, it's like too much softness in your hair. I know how that feels. Because it's like, oh man, I get too much conditioner in my hair right now. Well, are those the trunks? What are you talking about? Are you wearing the trunks on your head?

No, you're talking about the chubby trunks? Yeah, I'm wearing them under the blanket. But I can see, but I can see them. Oh my God. I say, I hate, you know what I also hate? Dry shampoo. Okay. Who makes that?

Well, they look really lightweight and comfortable, but I don't think you're supposed to wear them there. I'm wearing these here. You realize that? Like, I'm wearing chubbies on my... Okay. This is not my hair. Yeah.

I'm wearing the chubbies on my head. And I can... Oh! Oh my God. Dude, I didn't, I thought it was your hair. And I can also tell you that they are as comfortable on my genitals as they are on the genitals of my mind, which is my head, my skull. I thought, yeah, well, Juppies has casual shorts too, if that matters to you. I'm wearing them right now.

And they're very, and they're very, honestly, they look like I could wear them kind of anywhere, but they feel as comfortable as like something I could sleep in. That's cool. I could wear this anywhere if I wanted. You shouldn't. They fit like you've had them for ages from the first. wear. I'm not going to lie. That's actually, that part is actually true. That was my first thought putting

them on. Yeah, yeah, Nick, whatever. Do they have fun designs? Yeah, look up. There's a fun design in the room with us. Hammerhead sharks. And they have soft, flexible, and incredibly quick drying fabric. And I can't believe I've definitely throw these on

as daily drivers. Nick, I can't believe I fooled you. You thought. You fooled me. No man, you thought something had happened. My appearance changed. I fooled you. You fooled me. And for a limited time,

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You're a disgusting cow. Yeah, I fell for it. Hell for you. How, because I thought it was hair. How humiliating. That's so humiliate.

I'm so embarrassed. This happens all the time. time. Thank you, Chubbies. Are you, okay, so are you going to cap this off? Because what I found interesting is I asked you all if you had a deeper love or hatred for Counterstrike at the end of it. And everybody said they liked the game more. Yeah, I do. I think, I mean, the frustrating part, the biggest frustrating part of the marathon, which I talked about was like the ELO spread made our opponents some, most of the time, too strong for me to handle. And I felt like I wasn't accurate, I wasn't even grappling and engaging with the game. I was just getting my mouth,

filled with poop from a butt. Yeah. And that kind of sucked because like you guys are interacting but me and Josh and Ludwig were just kind of felt like it weren't and it wasn't the game of Counterstrike unfortunately. It was a different part of it.

And that sucked. That was the worst part of it. Everything else was fun, playing, whatever. Also, playing with, streaming with a delay is such a it's terrible. Yeah. I hate it. It's like you're not even streaming. Well, it's funny because

like I'm, I guess, conventionally the streamer here, right? Like I streamed most consistently. I didn't fucking read chat more than three times. Like, I didn't mind the delay at all. You just let it rock? I shouldn't give a shit. Dude, it made, it made streaming fun for me.

Because I hate streaming. Yeah. And I just feel so I'm so bad at it. But with the delay, I was like, oh, I couldn't feasibly reply to anyone. I don't have to. Yeah. I just didn't read chat. Yeah.

I saw someone I knew. I fucking love reading chat. I love it. He loves me. He had my chat open. I would be in, this is real. This did happen. Don't get defensive.

we'd be in game and I would see slime band and then someone's name in your chat in my chat that's skill don't ever say that you don't have mechanics

I will say this I have flicks I have ever seen that the clip of like what it looks like to watch faker play league on his actual monitor people made that exact

comment it was so funny Altab click up well you know I was play street fighter in between our breaks and stuff and I was playing Street Fighter

but the cue would pop so I'm like I'm not going to not cue with these guys. So I'd have to tab out of the game, hit Q, and go back to the match. I did it during Street Fighter. A guy's coming down on me from a jump. I perfect Perry and kill him.

Clip of the tournament. It wasn't even in Cs. That's incredible. It was so sick. He must have been playing some dog shit Street Fighter, no? What do you mean? I was playing really bad. Yeah, just like necessarily

to like be able to swap and then go and you get a game and you have to pop while it's happening. It's not that slow. I think I have like four seconds of non-action and maybe I was getting comboed. It was just one okey situation. It worked. But, yeah, otherwise it was like, man, I could do that for a while.

Okay. So end of this year. Yes. Because I didn't realize this until I read a Reddit comment. You did this with Leak. You did the Mega Marathon with Connor. Yes. Moved basically no Elo.

100R. But then later that same year, you made the push for Platt. Yes. And you did it. Yes. So is Ludwig's solo C. yes two week going to happen. Well, I never did like a solo week for league.

I just played a lot. He just played it and played it. I just went to bet. It was called league week. Was it enough? No, League week was the one with Connor. That was the marathon,

if you will, in this analogy. Yeah. And then I played a lot of league at the end of the year to hit Platt, but I didn't have a league week at the end of the year. Do you remember when Connor,

was that, was that the week with Connor? Yeah. When Offren stuff was happening? Uh, I don't think he was... Because Connor was also there, weirdly enough. That was for streamer awards.

Okay. Yeah, that was... That week, bro, he was just playing a shitload of Lee on and off stream. Yeah, like, Tim would just stream his off stream games with like a five-minute delay, and it was like riveting because... But there was no Ludwig there.

There was no mic. There was no camera. It was just watching him do something way far away. And watching his Amumu Bandage just clear miss of two guys. Dude, you can't even talk shit. I fucking carried our... Well, Josh, carry the normal.

But I played amazing. You played good. I loved the league. Dude, the league was tilting the fuck out of me because, like, Ludwig, it was literally the HR meme. Ludwig would old, everyone would be like,

God damn, Ludwig, fucking awesome. Two seconds before that happened, I would vex old in and kill two and then fear everyone into him and everyone would, like, no one even saw it happen. Yeah. And I was just like...

And I'm like this, like, do you don't see that? Got three? Yeah. It's like, nah. Yeah, you were doing all right, I'm pretty good. Yeah, not bad.

I had the highest CS of the game, too. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely saw you hitting the minions. I'll smackin the asses That's good Got it Got so I don't even have the helper on

But I do think that There is always space for something like this Like maybe if we all If we get a little better A Counterstrike We try the marathon again But with newfound powers And all the things we've learned

You know what I think I had this idea Towards the end of the marathon We do it again at some point But day five Is on stage Dude that's crazy Imagine how fucking

fun it would be with a crowd of people watching you play Premiere and you go up against like a cheater and you got to take out T-shirt cannons to like pass time and stuff. That's such a good idea. Dude, it would be so fun. That would be the first time anyone watched online premiere games on a stage.

You pulled up your phone like you got gaslit and you're about to dispute it. I did get gaslit. I did get gasol. What is it? It was called that. It was called that because it was later in the year, Offbrand is like financially collapsing. We're figuring out that Muggle moves is all this financial rot.

Yes. And Offbrand is figuring out that it has no money. The production company. And we're in this dire time where like me, the off brand leads, we're meeting every day,

figuring out how to handle it. It's this huge transition point. And it was, Ludwig was in the middle of league week. We called it League Week. With Connor? No, it was the one. It was by yourself.

You were doing what was called League Week. And I remember it was called that because every time I went into an off-brand meeting that you couldn't go to and I had to represent you. Everybody was like, I was like, ah, I'm not sure. And then somebody was like, ah, right, League Week. I remember this vaguely as well. Can you look up Ludwig League Week? This is starting to come together. We just called it League Week again. It was another League Week, but at the worst time ever. And it was a marathon? Yes, you were playing League every day. Solo? But it wasn't like, was it like, I was playing League every day, like not ending stream? You were playing League every

day from 11 a.m. until 2 a.m. So I just had two league weeks. You had a setup here. It was, I think it was on New Year's night, New Year's Eve. And it was like, it was nighttime. So I think there was like a party to go to or something. And you're playing a league game. And I was like, how's this going for you? And you were fighting Baron. I still remember this. And you said, this is the worst fucking decision I've ever made in my life to go for this goal. You were so mad. And it wasn't, no one was else around to hear that. and I'm like, damn, must be on a Wall Street.

But that's what I want to know. It's like, is that going to be, is the dark dubbin going to be grinding CS2? What is dark about somebody grinding for achieving a goal that they have? You just turn into dark dubbing. Why is there an AI over you? League Week 2! No, but League Week 2.

Why does AI know this? Oh, it's because it's crawling from Reddit. But it's wrong for both. Because League Week 1 was with Connor and League Week 2 was with Connor. But I guess there was a League Week 1.5. Dude, I'm telling you, bro, Sam Alderman comes on the podcast, you ask him all these interesting,

awesome questions about AI, and then he never leaves the building. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, you put a name to the analogy now. Is it enough? Like, do you care that much about this goal? I think, I think this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to be playing Counterstrike, probably even tonight. I'm going to play with Pookie tonight. Oh, sure. He's a great teacher, bro. And then, and then I'm going to start watching some videos because I'm going on a trip.

But is the next time I get to play Counterstike with Earth Warrior when it's a challenge? No, we can play. I will do it with you any day. Actually. Any day. Because you told me one day you wouldn't. In the other game with the same mechanics.

Yeah, he told me one day I'd never sleep with him again. He says shit like this that hurts us. He does say it. But sometimes the world changes and we are marvel at the beauty. And today's that day. Well, but the galsy. No, I think I'm going to play.

I'm going to add it a little bit to the schedule. Today, maybe day here, day there. And then I'll probably. probably start a, like, a more serious push a little later this year. Dude, we got to change your sense and you skyrocket. I don't think that's right. It is. Please, bro.

It is. To what? To what? So you're right now, you're 400. 800. You said 400 on the... 800. Oh, you're 800.

I'm 800. Oh, that's different then. Never mind. You can put out sense. Am I saying it? You told him 400. No, no. He said 400.

I said 800. He said 400. Oh, you didn't say it. You didn't correct him. Nah. that's smart. You let them yap and you keep them just let them yeah

you keep them thinking and I sat there and I go you're higher than me when you want to start fucking jacking off on there I'll jack off with you because we can grow together and I think that's a much more

interesting environment to play in games that when you're trying to get better at a game usually in fighting games you like you want to play someone who's a little better than you and a little worse than you in that range

because a little better you start applying things that you've learned and a little worse, you know, you get it, right? Yeah, a little worse, you can, like, refine the things you already know, you know.

But if it's outside of those brackets, you're playing someone so much better than you, you're not interacting with the game, and on the bottom end of that, you're like practicing different stuff because you're passing time. Yeah, you can just be, you can be worse, you can make worse decisions and still profit.

And get rewarded, which is dangerous. I think there is an effect, though, if you, like, when you take the game seriously, like, if you're against people who are better than you, but they're not smurfing, which I think is, like, an important distinction. then there is someone on the other team that isn't better than you.

Because that's why you're in the lobby. You know, assuming no smirfs. Sure. Because it's like, okay, you've got the guy who's 20K, but you also have the guy who's six-gay. Well, someone's got to be the worst. Someone's got to be the literal worst, but there's someone who is in that range

of slightly better or slightly worse in your lobby, assuming no smurfing. So a lot of the game, you're probably like learning passive things. You're learning how do I throw the right flash for my teammate? How do I get all the flashes down so I can be the guy who throws it

so like aiding can entry or how can I like learn to have, better map awareness so I know when this happens here it probably means that happened there and then when you, I think there's an effect where when you do this where you go back to your normal Elo and you play in those games and you feel like Thanos. Yeah, you crush. Because you're just like

I've been, I just, I'm Rockley, I took the weights off. Yes, yeah. That is an effect for sure. That's what I felt like what would happen if you know about Rockley. That analogy alone and the clips on like shorts and nothing else. I don't even know what Rockley looks like. I was going to say. But everybody knows that analogy. I don't know. I've seen the clips where he takes them off and it's like, and he drops them. And then everybody, and then it pants to every character just

like, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. Do you know who he was fighting? Naruto? No, no. No, the guy. Dostukee? No, no, no. I know that he still loses. Kind of closer in a weird way. Rockley still loses, yes. Is it red hair shanks?

It is a red-haired guy. Is that Rockley? That is, no, that is Rockley's teacher, Guy Sense. Who's that cat? That's one. of the sand ninja. Is that Rockley? That's Rockley.

And they're like, who cares? Who cares about the little weights? Who cares about the little weights? They're just falling like paper. Oh. That's cool. That's who he's fighting.

That's Garra. This Garra's got to be the profile picture of so many racist guys on Counterstrike. Oh my God. No, it's more these days, Kidoa. Because Garra's too old, older reference for most kids who are racist.

It's going to be Kiloa from Hunter Hunter. I hate that. That's the Valerant. going dark, do not hit me up. Going dark. D&D on Skype. Or you click, dude, I clicked into so many profiles to check for cheating during our thing

where I would click in and then the entire profile was like jiggly anime girl. Yep. And I was just like, I feel like I've been double owned where I'm not only thinking this guy's cheating but now I put that on my stream.

There was one guy that, I think it was in our very last game of the day. He's saying, oh, you guys are in L.A., shit whole place, city, bad traffic, shitty shit. His tag was wholesome gamer with a heart. I was Hulsing Gamer, and then at the end of it, he's like, yeah, good luck living in L.A. And when you want to leave, you won't be able to.

Oh, he also said, come fight me in A. Z. Twink. I look at his profile, and he said, like, 6-290-pound white American living in Arizona. And then it was, like, details about his truck that he said he fully paid off. And so as my final act of martyrdom, I went on his profile and said, one day you were going to kill yourself in a field and nobody is going to care. And that capped off the CS2 marathon. That was the end of the marathon? Yeah. I will say that that'd be hard to do in Arizona.

Yeah, he'll find it. Not a lot of fields. Not a field. It's just so great. Like, those are the kind of people because Steam, you know, you're going to have a Steam profile. Like, you kind of get a glimpse into those people. Like, League doesn't have that.

It's funny to have a profile at all. I don't think I have one. Like curated in a way that there's information. Yeah. My name says, like, New Hampshire. Oh, does it? I guess that's like default location when you started or something. Mine says Heroes of New Earth Champion, 99.

99. Game wasn't out. Yeah, that guy lives in Scottsdale for sure. Sometimes you hit a really clean, cleanly designed Steam profile, and you're like, damn, that's kind of cool. Like, they really like, they figured out all the item showcase boxes and it looks pretty clean. And then it's just like, but I'm never, ever, ever going to do that myself. It's people, I think people make Facebook profile. Who like don't have IRL gaming friends.

Not that a knock on them or anything. Just like, if most of your gaming friends are just guys that you met online, I think you're really in your Steam profile. The clean Steam profile setup is like a bunch of people you love playing games within the Friends list. And then one funny line under a funny profile picture and a list of history of funny names. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just the clean set up.

That's as clean as a kid's. I think the only profile I checked was the old guy. Oh, yeah. That was awesome. Oh, you know. That one old gamer. You know what fucking sexual tension I've noticed on Counterstrike? Oh, yeah.

is how, okay. Aiden, he used to be Piggy 2. Uh-huh. Why is that? Because there was Piggy 1. Yeah.

That was Nick Engling. Nick Engling changed his name from Piggy 1 on Steam. And Aiden had Piggy 2 for quite a long time after that, okay? Dude. And when I look over at that, I think, well,

Nick Engling's not really playing Counterstrike anymore. Maybe that's just the end of the Piggy relationship that Aiden's just kind of clinging on too desperately. I look at Nick Engling's monitor today. He's playing Counterstrike.

He told me at the beginning of the marathon because we fixed he says because we fix the networking at the office that he's back after abandoning and Aiden changed his name from Piggy 2 this tournament or this

marathon back to authentic beverage. To an older name that one he's already used It's funny to go back It could have been Moonsand number one buyer It could have been Venmo Mouse broke Will Venmo for Fick I remember these names

because they stick around for a while I will be Earth Warrior for maybe a month Earth Warrior. I love Earth Warrior, man. It was so easy. I love how we just all called you it for the rest of the event. It was the most fun thing to say

after any round. Earth Warrior! You can't cry authentic oat beverages cleanly. No. My name was tough to say. I was saying it quite a lot. I was saying it's an authentic oat beverage. Okay.

okay me me and Josh were hashing this out after the marathon was over I saw you guys having a therapy session yes because I made Josh scared it's your therapist session it's your therapy session but your therapist was telling you to fucking go along and you never did so now it's time I want

it's the opposite of the compliment circle I want one actionable piece of feedback as a leader circle actionable actionable actionable piece of feedback it sounds like you want to critique Bukaki because you want us all to do you critique Bukaki but it has to be

actionable. It can't be your voice sounds that way. Well, you could change it. Yeah, we can get you on some shit. Oh, we have pills and instruments. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Change a couple of mic settings. We get you sounded in bassy like James.

I'm getting you. I apologize to Josh because he was, I remember the moment. Yes. You only got to bring it, I already know. Yeah. I already know because I saw and I looked at his face because that was my job this marathon. It was the Vi-Bringer. Yeah.

And I had to bring it. And that was the one time I was like, I don't know if I can bring him back. Well, when I said, what the fuck was that, Josh? No, when after the game he went and he was sitting in that blue chair right there by himself. And I walked in because I knew he was in here

and I went, I went, how you doing, kiddo? And I went, just need a minute. And I went, all right. He said he wasn't having fun being a lemming. A lemming. Yeah, well, Ms. Josh talked about this as well. We were the worst players on the team, unfortunately besides like Ludwig

weirdly had these moments. I think because he he bought shotgun and played positionally and me and Josh didn't want to do that. To be fair to Josh, he wasn't. Josh was the third best player on the team. Oh right, right. But I got third most MVP's. And it felt, also it's like the spotlight is just less on Josh for these moments because, you know, he's not

Ludwig. And so, but we talked about it and I was explaining to him like he just explained to him like, he just playing like, I mean, it made me feel like shit and all this stuff. And I'm like, my journey through this is like, I've had too many arguments in Discord with friends about tax shooters. I'm too old. I'm not doing this anymore. Like, you remember, bro. We literally had to have Bobby Siege, like, moderate our conversations and have, like,

have a feelings circle where I remember one time we all got done talking to each other about how he felt. And Bobby said, okay, a lot of really powerful things were said tonight. I remember him saying. Do you remember the great our lineup scale debate? Oh, my God. You know why I remembered it? Yeah. Because Ludwig asked me during the marathon. He was like, he was like, is it like cheating to like put, uh, like have like the lineups just show on the map like while you're playing? And I literally like went back in time for a moment.

I was like, yeah. The line of the lineup argument. Is the frame data in the fighting game displayed on the move cheating? I don't know. This is the lights debate of our private friendship. Yeah. Like it was a real like we all really disagreed on this as a, as like, yeah. There was a great divide in the in the homey court.

What? Whether or not. Correct me if I'm wrong. Whether or not lineups are considered part of the skill of learning Counterstrike or something that is like shouldn't be considered the skill

and it's just something you should be able to like what you were saying. Like a monkey could just learn a lineup. Overlay it like on this on... When you boot in there's an overlay that says throw it here. I think there's an important backdrop

to this debate in hindsight which is that we're all morons. Like everybody is like Gold Nova at best. Yeah. In CS I pete gold Nova 3. In hindsight, everybody was being dumb. It's like, it... But at the time, it was like, there was a riff drinking too side.

Just drinking juice fucking swilling it around. Literally the best counterstike... What a year do you think it is? The best Counterstrike player we knew was Davey. Davy, yeah. It was like a modern day, like, I don't know. At the time. Nefer was like DMG at the time.

So we did have hierarchy. Like a 16, 17K player. There were like guys who were kind of allowed to tell us. Like, I remember we got in a bit. argument and Nieper messaged he tweeted at the war owl and I was like I'm like bro why did you tweet at the war owl

and he's actually had a good point he's like he's probably the person most likely to respond to me because he's like a CS YouTuber not like a pro or whatever but so yeah these conversations and the arguments have happened and I have gone through too many of these and I fortunately have spent enough time around you guys

two things have happened in my life over the past fucking like six years one I've accepted the ego death that I'm not as good at games as you guys right now. And maybe I could be one day, maybe I won't be, but that doesn't matter. And also that you guys, I started out better at games and then you guys got better, which can hurt the ego. You have this feeling that's like, well, I started out better. And then what?

He like went past me. And I used to like hate that. I don't care anymore. I do not care. And I spend enough time around you guys. I also trust what you're saying. So when you're yelling at me about some bullshit, I'm like, guess I was wrong. I don't care.

But Josh isn't, he doesn't spend enough time around us to feel that trust. And also no one likes getting yelled at. And also no one likes feeling like they're not impacting the game. I think an important extra distinction for Josh is that he is normally the one better than everyone else. He's better that he has top 10 in one of the hardest games in the world. Yeah, the game we all love the most. Yeah. He is a skill level we will never be.

Yes. And I think. And never got close to. When he's probably anything. And if you put him into a game where, It is you alone versus someone else alone He has traditionally been able to

Like show that like I can be better than you with that So I think to be put into a system It doesn't function that way And not succeed immediately I think is also probably hard Like to just I know what it feels like to be shit At a new game. It's like I felt playing league

Like I was playing league And I was seeing the rank iron God And I was just like I've never been this bad at league A game You'd be like Dude it's it's the fucking hell

I can't get out It's so unlucky low heato it was in a way it was crazy that both of us were one game away from getting gold and then it took us like a month to get gold it's crazy that it happened to both of us no it's crazy that I think it was game game 30 or 34 or something like that

I was won away yeah I didn't get it until game 300 yeah it can happen to you that is fucked up so so I was explaining this to Josh and this concept of like I'm very fortunate to have all have all this growth that has been really hard and really annoying, but also that I've spent enough time where it's like,

he's like, yeah, Aiden made me feel bad. And that's one moment. Also, I think our crash outs weren't even that bad. We're pretty good communicating. They were very fair. And I was like,

he said, Aiden may me feel bad. And I said, Aiden could never make me feel that way. But not in that way. I said, I don't have the emotional faculty to wound you. If we were in,

if we were in emotional battle, I simply am not capable of it. But there was a moment. Remember, it was A ramp. And me and Aiden, I said, you cannot yell at me for that, because he's like, I'm first out.

It's my biggest pet peeve. I'm first out and I was the one that was behind everyone. Why is that? And I said, can I yell at me about that? There was a Molly. We broke down the Vod because I didn't feel like it was fair. Turns out I made a mistake. I went up on Flower Pot.

That was where I shouldn't have even been. And I was like, you know what? All good. And it made sense. And these are the kind of like things I'm doing now, but it took so long to destroy this ego of me. I think I'm in the same boat. I think I have no ego.

Please go on Don't you go in Counterstrike In any game Okay You know I understand where I sit Right And I'm quite confident on those facts No man

No man You're bullshit How the fuck do he get to say And no one freaks the fuck out And I say Everything he said I felt was from the heart It was thoughtful and it's real Because they know the old

You were in the discord Back in the day bro I never was once in the design These calls were like They were like friendship I would spend the next two days feeling like shit that I yelled at my friend. Dude,

I wouldn't be able to handle those calls. I think I'd fucking... Well, some people were silent and they just sat there and then they would listen. But other people engaged. They went to battle. We gotta discuss a problem, dude. Right now?

I mean, they're gone. We can discuss whatever we want. Well, he's gone in particular because if you watch the premium episode, you know Josh's on the episode and have you seen how he eats? Josh? Yeah.

Yeah. Dude, it's disgusting. It's like, it's like if he could have an IV bag of hot chicken, He would just do that. But instead he has to eat it. I watched him Uber Eats from Lowe's for lunch, dude. Wood again?

He got wood and he was eating like a two by four. Yeah. Yeah, he started doing this. He thought it was hot chicken. Yeah. He pours hot sauce on it and it seems fine. Okay, we should solve this. We should solve it and I have an idea.

It's starting to hurt his body. I think we should just get him a hunger subscription. Because I think that would work because it's high quality and nutritious food, which is way better than a two by four. over 1,000 grocery items, which he wants options, right? I think that's why he likes the phone. Yeah, the phone gives him everything.

Because sometimes he gets QuickCrete as well, and he'll just eat that like cereal. Yeah, he'll eat it like cereal. Okay, I have an idea. We get the hungry root box. Okay. With the marker, we rewrite hot hungry root. We write hot hungry root.

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smoothie, sweets, salad kits, ready to eat meals, supplements, everything a growing boy actually needs. They would have kids snacks if it is someone like, Josh would love a little car with a snack in it. Like Parisian ham with a Swiss baguette or the scallop savić. You can even feed them vegan super chorizo tacos and be like, yep, it's chicken. It's chicken, bro. You can't sell the difference.

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I do it at the courts. You think I'm not doing it in the Discord? called? It is true. When it came to, when it came to shooters and stuff, I was a real dude totally guy. Like, I don't need to do this with you. Dude, totally, you're right. Like, whatever. Yeah, but that's also engaging. It is. It's jabbing because it's just like, because I'm, it's me saying I know I'm right. And I think you're dumb, but I don't want to talk to you about it. And I'm like, yeah, dude, totally, you're right. Which if you're in a certain, if you're a certain personality, that's the worst thing you want to hear. Of course. Because you're like, no, no, no, I need to prove something and the guys like, yeah, you're right.

You're like, no, no, no, you come back. Already proved it. Got me. Got me by the boss. A lot of my last confessional, it was about what you are saying right now, Lutemich. What? It was me psychoanalyzing you as a gamer.

Yeah. Because I feel there was a shift in Ludwig the gamer around when you became a massive streamer. Where I always historically have viewed you as someone who is in like the waiting room of being really good at a game. like you could just be really good at a game if you really wanted to. Because you've always shown to be really good at learning.

Like I've always said Ludwig's really good at getting to the B level of any game really fast. Yeah. But that changed. But not because you couldn't still do it, but because you don't care to do it anymore. You know, I think you prefer to be guy who's bad at games and then defy those expectations with a goal

than you care to be the best you could be at a game. well I think I think the journey of getting to above average is much more fun than the journey of getting to good true potential yeah because that like then it's like what the fuck are we doing here like going from like I don't know like 18K to 22k CS2 is like infinitely more boring to me

than going from like 8K to 18K which is probably like similar time in but is it more boring this is the nakey jakey video the journey the journey of I call it the journey of getting okay at something. Yes. And that's, I think that's a huge of journey. Correct me if I'm wrong.

His journey is more the journey of not going from 18 to 20, of going from zero to 20. But also like zero. Like being someone who is new and bad at something to being what other people consider good at something. He also doesn't want to end his journey, right? Like that's just the story he told because that's where he. For the video.

Yes. But his goal in the video was that. But he's still in the journey. Yeah, but it's not going to be another video. Sure, sure. but like I'm usually will give up on the game. Like I did this. I've done it with League.

Okay. To plot and I did with Minecraft to gold and I'll do it with CS2 to 16K but that I don't find the same joy in going farther. You have to love the game a lot to keep playing it. Like I, it's funny to compare it. Please don't laugh.

I stopped playing Bellatro and then I just started playing again. I like the game enough to be like, well, I guess I'll just go for the new challenge. And if if you are just, magnetized to a game, you will naturally start getting bigger goals. But if the goal itself is the experience, then it's like, you don't want to have to chew through a game you don't really like playing. And that's what Solo QCS did feel like. I think it's also not realistic for your life. Like, it's not realistic for you to grind the 20K.

It's also much worse for my job. That's what I mean. Yeah, it's much more boring. That's what I mean is that like you, that would, the amount of time in you would need, you would need to play off stream. But the old you, the old you is super capable of. that. Like more than the average person. Yeah, I think you're, like, I actually think you're better at getting good at games than I am. I think you get to the B level of games faster than Aden does. Yeah. Or at least Prime Ludwig does. The only thing I'm okay at is like, gritting my teeth through the... You'll grind. You'll play the fuck out of the game. I was on the, on my CS video, someone replied and they're like, I'm so, it feels so awesome to be like,

double the rank of a guy on YouTube or something. And I'm like, yeah, bro, I bet when you hit your 20K, you try to send it to your friends and they low key were like, okay, cool. And it's very fortunate to like hit, for myself,

hit a middling piss rank and have it be celebrated and interesting because the alternative is like playing these games alone for the most part a lot. And then when you hit your goal, you better be happy internally

about it because otherwise you post on your ex with 65 followers and have them are bots and no one cares. And then you lose it because they get rid of it. Yeah, and then they have to fight to me to get it back again. And then maybe you buy more skins and you're part of this fucked up machine of a hobby.

Well, skin make it feel a little better. That extracts wealth from you. The skin made me feel better that day. We'd like end the game, probably lost it. I'd be sitting there. I look over it Ludwig and I'm like oh, we're booting up. All right, let's get next game then. All right, cool, just let me know. He's like, yeah, in the next game, like, cool, man, cool man.

Bro got two new knives. He could use it. Bro got two new knives. No, mine's for you. I know, but you got a temp. I got to use one. Yeah, temperate. To my loan word.

Every single time slime opened his nomad and cut his finger and went, I fucking cut my finger. I was trying to say it really convincing. I literally believed it every time. Me too. I was like so concerned because like a fourth time I heard I was like, how is he doing it? It was one of the only things he said earnestly that was not also said angrily. the entire week.

Yeah, I'd be like, I'd be like, fuck, there's two outside. Or no, it would happen while I was alive. It was mostly at a spawn. And it'd be like, okay, I'm gonna drop a, cut my fucking finger. Every time. I believed it literally every single time.

Yeah. Every time I would just shake my head. It took me so long to get to the point where I realized you were talking about the night. I only found out after you showed me the animation. Yeah, it's cool. I was watching the, the comedy compilations day two highlights

I don't know if you guys have seen that one yet I've seen the second one but there's a clip in here where I'm singing Josh's MVP song Think I need a dopamine hit But I said I like sex if it is with a guy

And lovely just goes It was giving me a little Like a little Silent head thing And it killed me watching it There's so many funny moments That were completely missed Just by like not being able to watch

everyone's faces. Yeah. Dude, I, the mic was so shit. I think the stream product I kind of cared about, but then I had to not care about it anymore because like, but I rewatch some of it it. It's like, it's like worse than a Tyler one mic. Which is unfortunate. It's like, it's for gaming. It's not for

fucking, you know, streaming or whatever. I had the opposite. It's a great gaming headset. I like the way that it works when I'm gaming with it. The noise canesley was perfect. I'm not, I will give my unbiased review. I'm not. I mean, obviously it's worse than a sure. Oh no, not of my experience using it. My experience watching the clips with it on, I was like, everything's funnier. Oh, you think so?

I was genuinely, because I've always been like, oh, the people who like stream with like the table Ronaldo or the Tyler one headsets and like cope. You're coping that this makes you interesting. I'm now sold that it actually is funnier. Okay. Yeah, I mean, there is a charm to it. Because I would just hear my voice through Ludwig's perspective and I'm saying something really stupid and I was like the fact that it sounds bad.

It sounds like someone in the game. game is saying it. Yeah, sure. I think that texture is what makes it funnier. I, and I was thinking on the way here, I was like, what if they made a fucking crazy headset that had like this condenser quality mic in it? Yeah. That would change the planet. Imagine that it's still the same size and it holds. Yes. It would have to be. We don't know how microphones work. Do not pretend you know how a condenser mic works. They could probably make it this small. I feel like you could repackage it so it would be like a helmet. Like a beer helmet? Yeah. parts all happening back here.

Dude, I don't know. The engine's in the back. Because I think microphones are an interesting case where you can't offload the size to some processing part. Like, the size of the mic is how the sound comes in. You know in like sci-fi films

where they have like a huge like casing or like helmet on that has like tubes coming out the back? And it's like that but it's the XLR cable going back. The bane mass. I'm like, Dr. Creditor.

I also was frustrated at like I couldn't. I have this problem in these tax shooters which has always been the case because it's funny it was happening in Ballarat when I played that which is forever ago like looking at my screen and listening and talking is too hard

and I don't but I want to do it so bad and then I end up doing all of them kind of poorly. All ghost com I will not listen to something and I'll not hit something this trifecta of horseshit and then you get what I was in the tournament or in the land

I was just kind of a guy who was like a bot I describe myself as a vision bot that would give you information, and sometimes he would kill the guy like a drone, but most of the time he wouldn't. And I was like, I guess that's me. You were another case of though, I think you would benefit from a sensitivity change too.

I love my sense, though. It's too high. It's because you love flicking around. It's too high because you're too shaky, so you're prone to overflick. Because you have such a natural movement of your hands that the higher your sense goes, the more variance there is of little movements.

So I think it's why you like the scout so much. because it's kind of like Falcon Stomp. It's like, I either hit it or I don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's not a mystery of a spray of like, was that me? Was that the game? Was that the gun? Was that the scene?

Was that the, like, on elevation? Flick is just like, whoops. Yeah. You know, I coin flip and I lot. You love that in games. You love to boil things down to, or, yeah, boil things down to like their simplest forms, and it's just this or that.

And then be okay with either result. It's funny because a scout is funny because it's like, it's even more like an op is like, Like, it feels worse because you have a better gun than them. A scout, you have a worse gun than them. But you have the power to still be better. If you hit the little grape. You hit the grape, they die.

The grape pops. Yeah. If you find the clitoris, your enemy died, a terrorist dies. They come themselves. They come to that. Yeah, I got a lot to figure out. So, wait, your question was, actionable feedback.

That's what I asked for, I asked Josh. Because I think I did go into this with some intentionality. of I'm the edge IGL so and I'm playing with a stack of people that you know has very different skill levels and abilities to approach the game like there's only so much improvement we can do over the course of this week right so things need to be realistic I I try

I really I really tried I think to not be the crash outer I think you did a really good job I do too I'm not even fucking I want to preface I think you did a really good job so I'm asking as an as an IGL who will continue to IGL yep I'm asking for how can I be a better leader I would say it would be what you do out of game, not in game. Yeah. I think in game, 10 out of 10 no notes.

Right. Because I think you're doing everything you can while also actively playing. Yeah. I think after a game is done, you can take the time to be like, we're not snap queuing. Right. I need to explain to all of you what you need to be doing on site in, you know, ancient CT. Okay. You know, and then go through one by one.

Okay. Which is, which is also like a big ask too, because that's like ultimately, but like, I think what happens is you do that during the games. Hmm. Or at least you call out when people aren't doing what they should be doing. And so I think people are finding out by doing errors and then getting like, you know, corrected to the right spot than being told this is the right spot. Yeah. I think, let me fucking say.

for one, which is unfortunate. I said, I was always the guy who's like, no, let's not smash. Let's not smash. Let's learn something first. Yeah. And the smash, the smash call went through. We're smash guys. Of course I'm going to Q. Josh said smash. You said smash.

You said smash. He did not say smash, but he didn't have the constitution. He was like, let me lie down. He needed a mo. Yeah, he would go take some scrolls. He would go to laptop. Get the news, read the slack. And I can't buy him for I do think there was not an effort in this environment to sit and teach us certain things to do

because I spent day five, I was having so much trouble on ancient and I woke up early. I was just fucking around on ancient and I learned all the B smokes on ancient and I learned all the utility. I was wondering when you learned that. Because you came into that day, he was like, I can throw the smokes on ancient. Yeah. There was never. I did also hear that and I was like, funny this got brought up day five.

There was never a nice day one. Yeah, well, there was also never a direction to be like, someone needs to learn these smokes. Sure. They're really easy. Let's do that. And I was wondering why. Right.

Because I also, to be fair, I didn't want to eat my vegetables either. I think I actually came in with that expectation too of like, this is a short amount of time. And there's only so much we can like realistically learn about the game. And also, I think for, like in your case, I got the vibe that you don't really like want to be over. with things about improvement because you don't expect to play a lot after this. And I don't,

I don't mean that as an insult. I mean, like, it's, we're, we're making the best with, like, the tools we have in front of us.

And we're going to improve marginally over the course of this event. But, like, trying to do walkthroughs of each map and, like, like, me trying to teach, like,

how defaulting works or trying to teach, like, a bunch of utile across a bunch of sites when it's, there's a one in six chance we're going to be on that map. It's more like, I figured that was like against the spirit of the marathon and being live, like in my head. And maybe I should have done it more. I do think that learning simple utility setups went a long way.

But I had to do that myself. Yeah. Which is fine. I just, I thought that I honestly thought more of the marathon would be that. Like which squeaks was there that day and I pulled up a map of A-site. I said, tell me how to play mini flex. Mm-hmm. And he did.

And I liked that a lot. Not that we didn't do that. but I was like, I just thought there would be more of that instead of Smashing Q. But let me be clear. Yeah. Smashing Q feels really good. I, I'm happy with the result of the marathon. Yeah, because it's hilarious.

Yes, exactly. It's plus two is so funny. It's funnier than plus one. Yeah. And it's funnier than plus three. I thought about that. I literally thought about the exact thing. I don't know how.

I said to myself, is plus three funnier? I'm like, no, it's not. Plus two is the best possible number. Because it's plural, but the least amount of plural. Yes, that's exactly why. It's also funnier than plus 1,000. Yeah. Or plus 2,000.

By a shit ton. And, and like, you know, I think if we do all the shit where we get, like, because the result would have

been different if we had done that, but I don't think it would have been crazy to it. I don't think if we were like four games away, there was a world where we potentially played a little more.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well, let's just see if we can do it before midnight. There was a little gas in the tank on the last time.

My, okay, so my actual moral criticism is when you do express frustration, your tone just got to have to be different. It's a tone thing. Okay. Everything else pretty much fine.

Again, I wasn't, I never minded being yelled at except for that ramp thing and then we proved it later while we were calm. Yeah. Which I'm like, I'm actually,

I'm learning here. But Nick is actually really good at this, I think, when he says, this isn't working, we need to try this instead of, you guys need to be out with me.

That doesn't, that's like not, you have to say it differently. Sure. And that's pretty much it. That's it. I think it's hard to hide frustration. I think that's a tough ask.

It's not about hiding it. It's more about expressing it in a more constructive way while also still being frustrated because we're all frustrated. Or an actionable way, like an immediately actionable way where it's like,

you know, you say something that can be not what you did wrong, but what despite what you did or didn't do wrong now, what you can do next round that will potentially work better. Also, dude, after rounds is like you don't have time to do anything else,

but talk about this new round. and we had chat and we had talking about mistakes. Yeah. I think we rattled that off pretty good later on in the marathon, but a lot of time was spent in those 15 seconds being like, no, I did that because I thought this. It's a tight 15. And it's really hard.

It's hard for everybody. So that's at everybody food. Okay. These are, these are good. These are good. I'm becoming a better, I will become a better leader. I'll be a better for.

You were a leader, bro. You lit the fucking pack, bro. Some, some, the truly master. magical game was when J-Squod, a group of Oregon melee players, snipped us. And the vibes were at some of their lowest because people were angry. I really didn't like one guy on that team. Everyone else I didn't know. I didn't really care. But that was like it was the guy you called a pedophile. And then we were we were down by a lot. It was nine three to half. Yeah. And we carved back a win.

And that was that was my favorite. That was my favorite one. Because it was like we overcame. the odds. And then I got to go in the Discord after and say GGs. Oh my God. Clean GGs. I kind of like the idea of getting sniped by people that we know. Yeah, yeah. Like, because AZ Squad was trying to snipe us and shit. And I'm like, like, if I see Yusuf load into that game, I'm like, it's time to kill this person. Dude, it was funny to get like the guy in the chair phone call from yingling on day one. He's like, he's like, I need you to know. I need you to know. I'm looking at Discord. And there are four different calls of people trying to snipe you guys right now.

And I was like, name names. And he's like, I won't do it. Just know that they're out there. Yingling is such a half narc, bro. He just wants to stir the pot. He's a gross goss. He's a goss. Yes.

To his heart. He loves just stirring shit up. Nasty, nasty man. To see what the fumes smell like. So do you think, do you, because I did think about like, okay, I don't want to, oh, God, I don't want to play more video games right now. And, but would we do this again with a different game?

Or would we, is it this the annual CS marathon? No, I don't think it's the annual CS marathon. Why not? Because I don't think CS2 is something that's going to be a part of my life in that way that I'd be keen in devoting that amount of hours. I want to play these. This is awesome. Please.

The idea I told Aiden in the middle of it was like Aiden, these gaming setups here in the kitchen we just leave them and we do some we do some yard stacks and that's something that we post to like the yard stack. It's like us stacking some game together once a week

and the fifth player is a guest we get squeaks involved That kitchen is just a mess bro. We play rainbow succeed Our fifth's a racist pro player I think but I think like five stack land I mean that's always on the table

but like I don't know I don't think it'll be CS2 or at least not exclusively CS2 Yeah, I mean It could be like the Godgamer Gauntlet I've always wanted to do that Godgamer 5 set gondlet Oh my god

We don't get snipe like crate bro It would be impossible How many of the games? So doable though I don't think they all have to be five set games Yeah it'd be hard to find the list of games Because It's a lot yeah

Can you imagine Like the four of us playing Dota It was You can do Valo CS2 league you could do Dota. You could do Overwatch, right? You could create yeah, you can do Overwatch. You can create rules too

though that are like, we all cue fall guys and one of us has to win the lobby. Yeah. Part of it's like some of the games sometimes are one view, like Street Fighter and it's like we have to choose a champion every rotation. Yeah, it's like someone's turn. And it'd be like, you know, you guys would have your accounts.

It'd be fair games. Then it's aided's turn. We just get Bob's like him. I would be... I race my horse like. I race my horse against Nick, he's horrible. Bro, I was my first day ever. Wasn't it at 5.3? Huh?

But it was 5.3? I know, bro, but you just couldn't fucking do the goddamn inputs. This is it? I'm not good at video games. I wanted you to wake up D.P. And you just couldn't fucking hit it. I would tell Nick, I'd be like,

do a quarter circle forward kick. And then Ken would do Dragon Lash. And I'd say it because I just liked Dragon Lash. Dragon Lash while he was doing it. I would tell him things that I just wanted Ken to say. I get why horse spedders kill themselves. because I'm fucking watching my horse just cripple walk down this track

cursing under my breath. It's crazy, you say something so hurtful. You know we're gonna spend all week together, right? Well, you were also trying to tell him what to do with Rio. You don't have any input. We're gonna sleep together this week. I know Wake up DP.

I've committed to getting better at Counterstrike. I know I'm really good already. You're already... I know everyone agrees that I'm probably the star player. You said really good? Probably really good. Probably like a 30K. Elo, but I want to take the next level.

Okay. So I bought 10 Leadify accounts all at once. You bought 10? Because the more data, the better, right? Yeah. So I'll get 10 of them. Okay.

And they'll evaluate my data all differently. And then I can learn from the data. Okay. But what happens when you like maybe stop playing Counterstrike and you just have like, how are you going to remember that you have 10 lead to five accounts? Well, I don't think about that. I'll just not use them anymore. Why don't you just quickly right now, just download,

Rocket Money as well. That way later when you definitely are going to forget that you did this, it'll just remind you that you have them. No, I'll probably play a CounterStrike every day for 10 years. It wouldn't track historically. Rocket Money, by the way, is a personal finance app that fines and cancels your soon-to-be

unwanted subscriptions. Monitorers your spending and helps lower your bills so that you can grow your savings, which you definitely need to do. I'm frankly and I'm not, this is not a fucking bit on this ad right now. I'm insulted. Why? I'm insulted that you would say that I wouldn't play Counterstrike every single day for 10 years for the next 10 years of my life and use these 10 leadify accounts.

It's not that I don't necessarily believe that. It's just that you recently you spent your entire life savings on raise unsweetened sauce. Dude, why do you bring this up? It's so annoying. Because I think you have good reasons to see all your subscriptions in one place and potentially have a place to cancel them without having to do the work yourself. It's just raised because it's not sweet anymore. Isn't that interesting? Right, but you could get alerts, right? If the bills increase in price, and then Rocket Money will just handle canceling it for you. Look, I know you're trying to work. Look, let me tell you this.

How will we make a bet? When I'm 46 years old, if I haven't played Counterstrike every single day and I haven't eaten raised barbecue sauce every single day of my life, you can kill me. Okay. You can kill me the moment that I faltered. Well, I'll see you in three years. Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals. Faster.

Try for $0 at Rocket Money. money.com slash the yard. That's rocket money.com slash the yard. We are going to sleep together this week. Me and I'm going to a trip. Yeah, what is this? I'm going to Germany's sponsor week. Sponsor week. What's sponsor? Like league week. It's like league week, but I instead

have a sponsor every single day and I make a crazy amount of money and I pay for my wedding. Oh, dude. Okay. In a week. Can you get a clown for me? Can I get a clown for you? I want a clown at the wedding. I want you to pay you. Oh, I don't think so. Why not? It's probably

clownless wedding. I'm a groomsman. Do I not get a clown? No. It's not because not every groomsman would get a clown. If Christian the best man wanted a clown, does he get the clown? No. Really? Yes. What kind of wedding is this? Not really a wedding. It's something else. It's something else. More of a union.

Okay. The rules of the wedding are seem to be broken. They call it a civil, yes, civil union. But yeah, we're going to Germany. We're going to, I don't even know why the fuck it is there. I'll be honest. Are you just going because you want to go? I'm going because I want to go. A little bit.

No, somebody needs to go. Like, this would have been Kelby, if not me. Oh, right. And I need to go to, like, I needed to go to Europe

this weekend anyway. I'm going to a bachelor party in Poland. That's it. You've already done this. Haven't you already gone to a bachelor party in Poland? No, no. This is the one.

Aiden does a lot of travel slop. Yeah. Where he likes to combine a trip with another trip to make the value of leaving a high. higher and more reasonable.

Speaking of which, now that we all have, now that we all love Counter Shrike, perhaps. Oh, I know what you're going with this. To go to the major in Singapore? Perhaps you would like to join a trip to Singapore. Is that Singapore where you're not allowed to have drugs to cut your fucking head off? That is correct. That is correct.

They won't cut your head off though. And you could and you could come with me, Brandon Ewing, in Sea Dog VA and enjoy the California. Why is Connor going? Interesting. That he's going. It is. You sound jealous. I don't know, like, he's out of it.

You sound jealous. You sound furious. I don't know. You sound furious. Yeah. Maybe he's like, you know, Wendy. You didn't see that interest in the trip before. So then you put your phone down.

Fucking scroll Twitter. Oh, he's live. Let me ask him a question real quick. Let me just ask what he's, why he's going. So I'm just suggesting in the vein of travel stop. Why is he, why is he fucking going? That would be awesome. Because he thinks Singapore is awesome.

And he wants to go. How'd you ask him? How did it even happen? We talked to him about it at the after party. Why are you talking to him? He's going to flake on you. He's not going to go. I know.

Do what you make him feel? I know. He's not going to go. You see him upset that he might go. Hey, girl, it doesn't look good on you. Do you not like that I? Excuse me. He's my friend too.

He's my friend too. Yos do this. When is it? It's in December. It's like the second week of December. Okay. was so quick. It's so quick.

It was so hurtful. What do you have to do? What do you have to do? I'm sorry. You were right. That was rude. Ask me again. Second week of December 8th.

I think we're leaving. I think you be after the big event that you might be worried about it. I hate that face, dude. Yeah, we are us. Nobody wants to go. The W is for ours.

Nobody wants to fucking go. I want to go. I said it would be awesome. So you want to go. Yeah, it would be awesome. It could be very interesting. Wait, just put me on hold. I got to think about that.

Did they do direct flights? Yeah. Oh. Better. I wouldn't have to take the walk to Poland if we could go to Poland together at some point too. He wants to walk. He want to go to Krak out? I want to be there and say, I took the walk. I'm just a travel hater, bro. What are you talking about? I don't like traveling.

I thought you liked traveling. Did that change? I don't like traveling because it ruins my schedule. You're rich guy vibes. I'm a schedule, bro. Yeah. Bucks up the schedule of my fucking life and everything gets all fucked up and I get tired. Does a five-day fucking gaming marathon not fuck up your life too? You genuinely do it.

I'm fine. That's crazy because it, that, this is the same, it was like the same thing as traveling in a way. It was. It did all the,

dude, I left, and I'm like, I'm not gonna be around for a while. Yeah. This might sound crazy. If I sleep for six hours

in my bed or like in a place I'm comfortable with, it hits harder than six hours on the road. Because traveling tires you out wears your body out. Yeah,

what is that? I don't disagree. Why does travel wear us out? The blood. The blood doesn't like traveling. You're eating different foods. You're walking. lot. Usually you're standing around.

I don't just be time zone stuff, right? Time zone shit. There's some real science to jet lag. I don't know how fucks you. Blood. Blood isn't meant to move as far as we move it. And in Eastern winds, hit your skin harder. Oh. Oh, I know that. I know that for sure. You ever hear that about the winds? No, no, I've heard that. I've heard that. I say that about, didn't you feel it in Shanghai. Yeah. The Eastern wind.

It was the Eastern wind. It was the Eastern wind. Something I still say to myself, mostly when playing Slate the Spire from the China trip is it's a tincture it's a tincture. It's a tincture. It's one of my favorite things to come out of that joke. Bro, when you brought me a little box and I couldn't stop laughing because I thought of it at first before I said it and I was like,

this is the tiger's tree. It's the tiger's tree and? The tigers have a taste. And it was massage oil. And we didn't know. I tasted it. I tasted it. It wasn't good. It was so bad.

The tiger's tree was not meant for him. In a consumption. Tigers. Do you guys still have your monkeys? I lost my monkey in the bag. Which means he lost my monkey. Yeah. I told you this on the pod.

You're not forgetting no-flying that I lost it. I'm going to round this out in the worst way possible is mine wasn't in his bag and I also lost mine. And I was looking for it when I got home. I don't know where it was.

I'm so sad that I lost the monkey. I thought it was so cute. It's a loan word? Yeah. You're kidding. They just go... Monkey Chinese. They just go...

Tasha monkey. It's whole. It's whole. What's the accent look like? What's the accent look like? It's H, uh, accent, O, you. Okay, but what's the accent look like? It's a Chinese zodiac.

Why would it be a loanword, you fucking idiot? I was lying to you. Oh. It was just so wrong. They have monkeys. Okay, what is it? Hall... I can't see the accent.

It's, I see it. H? Accent. Yeah, but he's asking what the accent looks like. There's a lot of different accents. Oh, there it is. Oh Ho

We have We've been cursed by Whole We're all cursed by Ho Fucking fucking fucking you guys Dude fucking fuck you guys What for all three of you don't have my mind I lost my riverboat tour's shirt

I didn't lose mine And to be fair He lost a lot in that's my whole bag He lost his clothes A fake Rolex footage Fake Rolex There's two of them right It was honestly

It was in kind of incredible moment of walking through the airport. Like we're just, it's such a massive airport. And our walk is so long to get to our gate with all the things we have to go through. And then the whole time, we're both pulling roller bags. And then just at some point in the terminal, Slam stops, looks around. We both realize he doesn't have his bag. And it's just been lost at some point in this 20 minute journey. Also, bro, shut up. Retrieve me any gift I've given you pre-2020. Genuinely, it would take me minutes at home.

Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Where is the canteen I gave you? The silver canteen. Yeah, right, bro. I don't even remember this shit. What is you talking about? You don't find it.

That was expensive, too. That's why I don't give gifts, guys. What the fuck's a canteen? Oh, the flash. Yeah, I have that. Sorry. You have that. Yeah, yeah, 100%.

A hundred percent? I, that's right next. Yeah, yeah, I know. I literally am in my, up, mine palace entered, opening door, found it. It's next to my, uh-oh, watch collection. Yeah, collection of watches. No, I realized I lost the monkey because I went to put it on my, my shelf I had in my kitchen.

I just couldn't find the monkey. That's right, bro. It's all. One couldn't see what couldn't hear, one couldn't speak. And we lost them all. And none could hold on to something. None could hold on to what they loved. It was such a nice gift.

Nick, what can I get of you that you got? I know where the Meyer Party for is. You do? Yeah, the pink one. Wow They gave you shit You gave you shit about it for years Why? And I have it

Because I keep it on the floor So I have a dent in it From stepping on it in your room Yes sir I added a couple more That's just flat now Where's cuties Where's cuties PSA 10

Dr. Mario for the Super Nintendo It's not PSA 10 It's just boxed And it's down It's at the bottom Of our bookshelf on the right Good Wow

Well done Clean man Hey I believe you I got a fucking palace up here bro Yeah I believe you bro Maybe should start getting you gifts again.

Yeah, please, dude. I love receiving shit. Where's the, uh, cool camera that Nick got you for Christmas from the Super Mario camera? Oh, I, I literally unboxed it last week. I had a, uh, cardboard box in my stream room. Dumb bullshit I don't care about. And that's what is labeled. And what, what do you know?

There it is. Miss put. It's in there. I like that. I saw it. He's different now. And I find my computer in there, did you? I'm, no, I didn't.

And I know you've been looking for it. It broke my fucking heart. My childhood computer was in like the move. Lost it. It was in the great move and you lost it. But I found a new fucking Mac and it's so nice. You found a new Mac? You found a new one?

Yeah, it's an old. It's like a vintage but I've been using it. But you found it? Yeah, I just found it. Like about 09? You don't know. I think this is. I just used it.

I just click clack. In a weird way, like in the sea of like freak qualities you have, you're, you're, you're, casual treatment of whatever laptop you have at any given time is so, it's like the furthest away from me. Because mine is like my life. Oh yeah. And, and, but you like, you toss them around and just leave them in locations like napkins. Well, you know what laptop I have? I have two laptops. I have the fucking big ass alienware one that I bring on trips when I need a stream. Yeah. And then I have my travel laptop or which slime gave me like six years ago. Yeah, I bought it. Well, it was a company

laptop. It was a MacBook Air and it's gold. And I said, it's rose gold. And I was like, I'm not going to use this anymore. Here you go. And you still use it. I still use it, yeah. That's actually super value. Not as napkinny as I thought. He's treated that laptop, nice. It's crazy value. I've had it for years. One of the most, like, I hoard stuff pretty bad. And I think one of

the funniest examples is that computer, my first computer as a kid. And it's an iMac, like one of the IMAs that has the computer in the monitor. And I, when I was like, I don't I don't know. How old was I in 2009? Like, fucking 10 or some shit. I was 19. It would be like 14, right?

No. I was 19, so you were 13. I was in high school yet. 12? 12. 12? Okay. So I went to Radio Shack and I bought like a like a fingerprint USB 2.0 to log into the computer. I thought it was so cool. It's like a new thing. And I set it up so that to like get into my computer, you had to like swipe your finger on it to like get into my computer.

When I rebooted the computer when we lived there, I was like, oh my God, I'm going to reboot my I haven't turned all my childhood computer in so long. It was like, scan your fingerprint. And I was like, oh, I'm so dumb. And then I was like, I still have it. And I dug into my stuff and I had the fingerprint scanner.

And did it still work? And it still worked. That's crazy. And I got into the computer. And I luckily, before losing it, put all my shit on a drive. Does your fingerprint ever change? No, I think it's why we do that.

but like it's got to change a bit no dude my friend in high school he was like yo my brother he and I think he was lying he said my brother got a big hot steel ball and burned his fingerprints off so you could commit

poor cry scratching the serial number off your body yes and I thought about so much and I'm like dude what maybe I should do that if I want to commit crimes I need to do something like it's crazy the idea of a fingerprint

like they're small yeah they're really small and it's not something I would think like is inherently different person to person. I got to assume there's a lot of overlap. Who's the first person to figure this shit out? I know. Must have been genius. Zippercke. Can you look up to fingerprint change?

It must have been Einstein. To fingerprint change? Can fingerprints change during a lifetime? Can you cut off the skin fucking get rid of your fingerprint? Your fingertips become less elastic and ridges get thicker. This doesn't change your fingerprint but it's hard to scan or take a print

from it. Uh... And fingerprints form? Three months before being born. Wow. Mine's aura. My thumbprint is aura. I'm not kidding. It's like a perfect swirl. Mine are all fucked up because I kind of nervously

bite at my fingers. They kind of got rid of fingerprints though. They fell off. The only time I've done it in recent history was going to China. Oh, where they also take your eye scan and they need your blood. They take a lot. Yeah. Yeah. They take the fingerprints. They need it. They, and they deserve it.

They need it. The amount of government programs Aiden has signed up for at the airport, they probably have They have a stick. They can just build one in a week. They're gonna make an aid in box. Yeah, yeah. I checked yes. Canadian division, okay, sure.

I signed up for like Chinese clear while I was there, you know? Just for fucking fun. Just get, fuck it. That means at a university right now, there's a guy teaching who looks just like you. Yeah. They just made him and they deployed him at a school.

They made him in a lab. And I checked the box for it. I don't know what to say. You know it's weird? Connor has global entry. Yeah How's that work? Why is that weird?

I think he's not American Oh, you don't need to be American for it anymore Maybe Commonwealth That's crazy Or some shit No, it used to be

You used to be American God damn Americans Could global entry Yeah Canadians could global entry Yeah Now they've tacked a few countries Oh so it's like

There's a limited list Of countries That can get global entry It's like fucking UK Australia Zippur Inglos sphere There is Wales In Commonwealth

I need to put this Wales is in the commonwealth Yeah it is Is the UK Is it's a American Is the UK part of the... America's not part of the Commonwealth? Yeah, we are part of the Commonwealth.

Does the Commonwealth mean the nations connected to Britain outside of it or does it include Britain? Dude, Commonwealth is like North America. Oh, I was wrong. The Commonwealth is like... I thought it was something else. Commonwealth is like Australia, New Zealand, Canada,

South Bath? The US is not into it, but Canada is. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought whatever Canada is, we are also that. Our war was to fucking get out of the Commonwealth. Yeah.

That's the Revolutionary War. There's a Quebecwa. And that's why they got the queen on the bill over there. Yeah. We still got the queen on that bitch. How is Wales not a part of the Commonwealth, though? Can we be fucking serious? I think, I think.

It said no. I didn't see it. I think it's because the Commonwealth is the countries outside of Britain that had those connections to it. Because the UK is the UK. Yeah. The UK is the UK and the Commonwealth is the Commonwealth. Members under the UK. Okay, okay.

So it can't be a part of the Commonwealth. inherently, yes. Makes sense. Nothing common about this wealth. And then I throw up. You're gonna keep playing. That's what I want to know. I'm literally playing tonight.

But when the only cookies, not around. I'm literally going to play with you. You mean it? And we're guess. And I'm gonna hit 16 fucking, what's the cue rules for it? Oh, it's like, you can queue together. It's 10.

It's like 10. Yeah, it's like 10,000. Yeah, we can even queue. What do you mean we can even queue? We could. It's possible. for us to queue. I know, but there was a tone there, right? I heard that. You heard the tone. It's, you didn't mean like, oh, even the sport, even you can even cue with me, kiddo.

And then he gives me a nuggie. Even our accounts could queue together. Will it happen? That's how wide it is. You know? That's how big of a gap. Even guys like me, guys like you. Bulls like me can get into a cue together and we can play the game together, a bull and his cucks. Boles like me can hang out with cucks like you. It's actually pretty normal. I gushed about you in my fucking confessional, bro. You gush? What'd you gush? I said you were most improved.

Dude, I did fucking improve, and I know that. And I know that to be fact. If you put the confines of the beginning and end of the event, I believe he's the most improved. Josh is in like the scheme of starting counterstrike recently. The grand, that's what my last confessional was like a large chunk of it was about Josh. I was like,

Josh had these moments where he struggled. But when you think about how good he is for hours played, the amount, like he started like four months ago. Yeah. And he is 500 hours, four or five months ago has 500 hours. And it's his first shooter. His first shooter. But it's crazy.

He has more hours than me in four months. Holy shit. Because I'm at 480 hours. What if I'm not fucking with you, bro. And I know the answer is just going to be no. But what if we did this and we got a fifth person that was our skill level and we did this with league? Bro, it'd be amazing. It would be so amazing.

I would have so much fun. It would be the most fun. I think the most of God. I'm honest to God the issue is. No, because it has to be flex. The issue is ranked flex kind of sucks. Yeah,

but leeksmerfs are so prevalent. Yeah. You, Valve makes it so much harder. You need to put a huge cookie in the mousetrap for me. It needs to be gigantic.

Your thrash is generation. This is not a big enough cookie. What if we eat your pussy out every night? Isn't it hanging out with your friends and getting your pussy damn A on fucking television? not enough for you? I'm gonna do the alphabet and the numbers. I'm gonna do the fucking symbols.

I'm doing Mandarin, man. I don't even know what it means. I'm doing an ampersstand. Hashtag. You guys really want this. Wow. I'm gonna send me colon on it. What if what it?

It's, it's I don't, you know when you play a game and you have that little itch that is like, this is fun. Yeah. This is good. I don't feel that when I play league. My God, League is so fun. You're gonna feel when I get to the letter J. I'm in fucking midlane and I'm like, I can look bot and I can look bot and I'm like, yeah, do it.

I go bot and I fucking old team we get to and I go back. I'm just like, life is good. We're playing Lee, I flashed over Dragon Wall, I hit a max distance cue and then I fucking triple man old. Like, Josh goes, what I need from you guys,

what I need from you guys for something like this to be possible. Yeah, this was my real request that I put in my confessional. we, because of the nature of the marathon, there is no reason that we play until 3 a.m. There's no reason. If we go to bed at a regular time and start playing at a regular time in the morning,

I will do it again. This is a classic, close your ears. This is a classic. Aiden ignores the vibes part of something where it's like, we play to 3 am because it's kind of a vibe that we're obsolete and we're so fucked up and we wake up kind of fucked up. And we're like, that was, we're not going to be able to do this much longer.

You know what I'm saying, bro? I know what you're saying, but Nick, you also are the demon. What do you mean the demon? Oh, G-H-A, a demon. One more time. Yes. Yeah. You'll go one more.

And if people keep saying yes, it'll be 8 a.m. You can come back. You can come back, Aiden. But I think it's a reasonable request. His request? Yeah, of course it's reasonable. I would say we're not doing this with Leak. We're not doing this with Counter-Strake.

What? We'll never do it again with Counter-Strake. I can never do it again. I love me. We'll never ever do anything again, ever. How do you sound? Can I say honest to God, the meanest fucking thing that happened

throughout the marathon wasn't anything you said. It was something you. What about me do? It was the thing, bro. It was what you did. What do I do? It's fucking bedtime.

Oh my God. And Aiden sleeps like head to foot. So we're also with our heads on this. side and then Aiden's the only one flipped so his feet's where our heads are and his heads where our feet are and then slime just pulls out the most stinky gross long nasty which is a choice monster far choice to make it stinky which he chose to make stinky and it's bedtime bro like it's 3.30 in the morning like it's fucking bedtime bro and he just lets it rip and it's so bad we all have to leave the fucking room it's in Aiden's damn face makes me feel bad it was so late

It was so late. I was cried. And we have to walk out. We have to walk out into the fucking lights argument. Yeah, it was a room clearer. That's like crazy, bro. That was crazy. Do you guys understand?

Do you have to be a room clearer is like highest ELO possible? Like, when people... No one else is playing the game. I don't know what to tell you. You still play an artifact telling us how high ranks you are. Like, fuck off, bro. We don't play the fucking game. It was a good game, bro.

It was a good ass game. Also, talking is, speaking of high Ilo, and I'll put my nuts on the table to say this, Ludwig is a high Elo orderer in a delivery capacity. Yep. With sushi? With every, the whole weekend. The whole fucking week, I had to fucking pick places to eat. The decisions you made were very high EO.

Yeah, I have to, I have to come on you. Even when you had to make decisions when someone couldn't, you would order something for them, which is kind of the hardest part. Yes. But you picked where to get it from. I ordered for the group. I got fucking treat. I got you got you smoothies. I was like a smoothie who fucking hits it. I got you boba. I was going to be big today.

I was such a smite. The bubble was so clean. And then, and then I, as a low Ela order, I made a call. I said, give me whatever Aiden got and I'll be happy with it. Aiden, no sugar, milk tea with boba. Perfect order. No ice? Thank you. Was it? No ice. No ice. Very interesting. I wouldn't. It's the, so clean.

If I got that, I would have been like, so sad. Yeah, because you love it. I love, I ask for extra ice. Ice take up too much space. Nick likes a crazy amount of ice. Extra ice mean last sip as cold as first sip. Yeah, but it's watered down. Aiden likes the efficiency of maximum beverage and you like the experience.

The experience. The experience. And low shuggy. No shuggy was so clean. Yeah, dude, I appreciate that, bro. Because I is the fuck. Bro, when I ordered three pizzas and there was literally one slaggy, I was so, it was like, it was like just optimal.

And the pizza was good. It was like different pizza. I never had that. I had a little moment with the pizza where I was like, there's only like three slices of pep left and there's like a whole mush. And I look at them and I noticed slime hasn't eaten yet. And I'm like, I want pep back. I want pep. But slime's going to want mush. But I'll eat these. But I ate two of the three just in case. But I felt pretty confident. And then seconds later, slime walks up and kind of this. looks at all opens the mush and I found what I wanted

and you found what he wanted he starts eating the mush and I was like I smiled I'm like enjoy it man I was you understand me unearthing the mush was like pulp fiction I was like

gold or whatever it is high yellow eater high yellow eater for sure you know that all right guys and on that note let's get the fuck out of here

we're gonna go to the patron I think we're gonna have Josh on tomorrow these guys won't be on I'm gonna be fucking gone. I'll sleep a thousand years.

You'll be there. I'll be there. Oh, that's right. I'll be in Germany in the sex episode, which you guys can tune into in the ultra-secret premium, which is only available

if you're part of the premium. Yeah, it's going to be basically scat porn. See you next week. I'm going to like your sniz. Ew. You, man.