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I hope I get to meet Matt before I go back to non-existence 🥲

31:28 no more words needed

My Bucket List: See Chipzel Live, See Blue Man Group Live, See Shirobon Live.

I really like this. I play video games but I hate score counters, time limits, rankings, ratings, and competitive multiplayer. I don't care about winning, I just want to have fun, and I guess I was born without whatever makes competitiveness fun. Sports, board games, none of them appeal when it's about winning instead of about having a good time. And I understand that those are synonymous for some people but they are completely unrelated for me

41:11 I sense a future Sam shirt

Прикольно. Видали и лучше;) сильно девочка старается))) дайте мне джойстик)))

44:39 They just didn't answer this question because anyone will buy a narrative-focused game where your choices don't matter at all and you'll get one final only because those devs were lazy😂😂

This unplugged is so beautiful

It's sad these girls actually were excited over such a shitty game. Your main character was a pice of shit. How the hell do you make a game where people are actually rooting for the bad guys. Which seem to be not that bad.

Nintendo, Mattel, Hudson Soft, Type-Moon, Level-5, VAP, Chuokoron-sha, Yomiuri Shimbun, Nippon TV, and Toei Company presents the history of Nintendo in Eastern Europe since 1994 onwards explained by German Catholic Imagawa Ujizane.

He seems genuine to me, this man.

I love this human being. The world is better with people like Matthew Mercer in it.

Wow

nahhh this franchise is over💀💀💀

MatPat really theoried all over the crowd

absolutely cracked up at the entire 'it happens in final fantasy too' section, especially cause I was watching while in a normal raid in ffxiv having played ffxiv for a long ass time, I can confirm: it does it is a bit mitigated ingame by some pretty on top of it moderation, but as anyone who knows why there's jokes about the burger king crown can tell you, it doesn't quash all of it and then theres the out of game stuff. yeesh.

Omar needs to happen in CR canon.

its so funny how much souls players scrubquote.

The generative AI response was really good. It's way more diplomatic than what I would say which is "They like it because it helps them lie."

I really resonated with that Toontown rant

I'm a (mostly retired) veteran of DS1 pvp. Learning tech was very much encouraged, including all exploits to easily kill bosses. This is because the object of the game is *obviously* to master manipulating the engine in order to beat a human opponent in pvp. There are two more good reasons why hard-swapping became popular: 1: It *hides your loadout from the opponent*. Sure, you could off-hand that great club, but you will be fat-rolling and your opponent will know why. 2: The most powerful tech in DS1 is arguably the weapon moveset swap, and this requires a hard-swap (during a roll) to set up. The way all these different tech branch off each other and reconnect to create new strategies is every bit as good as if it was intentional.

17:09 me lobbing fire bombs at the Capra Demon over the fog gate in DS1's Undead Burg

Regarding RPers and 'hardcore players' coming together, there a meme/idea in the FFXIV community that the most hardcore players of the game aren't the endgame raiders, but rather the people heavily invested in fashion and home decoration, because, if you want access to everything, you need to be an endgame raider and also involve yourself in a dozen other systems vying for your time.

That final pull back from the camera is grand. Thank you for it camera person.

This essay hits home with me as a Destiny/Destiny 2 player. Most classes get locked into certain roles in high-end content. That role may vary based on the raid/nightfall, but Titans have an interesting outcome where the most recent raid really negates the viability of the three subclasses that usually have the most useful supers. The classic dps move (thundercrash) fails because it requires boss contact and that's fatal. The other big dps option requires a continuous ground path, but the dps phase is on a floating disk. And the big support/buff option of the ward of dawn bubble takes up a lot of space, and warlocks have a better option for that anyway. So they (bungie) created a situation where the only real dps phase viability for Titans is to just run a bunch the meta guns.

The idio-culture question hits hard for me having gone for insane during the last 2 phases of classic lich king

45:00 oh hey that's me! Camera missed out on my ralsei cosplay smh "Why it's Rude to Suck at Warcraft" was a big help in shifting how I handled my own struggle with frustration in games, especially team-based competitive ones like Dota. Managing that level of salt has always been difficult for me even outside of gaming, and that video sort of deconstructing where those frustrations were coming from played a big part in my growth. I'm proud of where I am now with that.

I'm sorry, is the "git gud" crowd bitching about people beating them in a game? Sounds like a skill issue? Mad cause bad? Like, can you not just... Chase the healer? And hit them while they're casting their spell?

That's why I don't think Starcraft 2 is a strategy game. Its just problem solving; timing and occasionally positioning and micro, which might as well make it a shooter.

When he was discussing the malleability of the ideogroups I was thinking “Man I’d kill to hear what he’d think of Logimen in Foxhole”, and then the next guy snatched the thought straight out of my brain, wild

I have an anecdote aligned exactly with the last question. I made a spreadsheet for the Slayer skill for my ironman: the Ironman gamemode requires me to collect everything myself, so maximizing the amount of herbs and gold I get from killing thousands of monsters over the course of the skill is of high interest. When someone asks in the clan chat "hey, I got assigned Trolls, what do you guys think: skip task or do it", the response is usually "eh, it's a chill task, why not" or "prob a skip tbh". My response is "If you use Ice Barrage (aoe) and two alts to aggro them on two different servers, you can tag them all on one server, kill them, and hop to the other one while they respawn. If you do this, it's a pretty mediocre task that you might skip. If you don't, it's much much worse and you should definitely skip unless you're almost out. Trolls are solidly the best of the bad tasks at only a few thousand herb xp per task." There are people in my clan (who from my perspective have probably never skipped a slayer task in their life) who say "that's basically cheating!" and... honestly? From one perspective, using two alts for a gamemode where You Stand Alone is TOTALLY cheating (the game actually penalizes an ironman's slayer xp by half if they have alts help but it's still worth it because you can finish the task faster and go back to good tasks). On the other hand, there are so many game environments like wilderness bosses where using alts and world hopping is absolutely mandatory no matter what account you're playing.

The tension of free play and instrumental play seems related to Goodhart's law, but I can't quite put it into words

Incredibly hilarious to see all the comments on that WoW video about "this doesn't happen in FFXIV" because the whole way we do dungeons in that game is ritualized. The tank pulls every single trash mob that's required to get to the next boss, and then the DPS players burn them down using all their strongest attacks (with long cooldowns) before the tank and healer get overwhelmed and die. You will get talked about (directly calling it out doesn't usually happen but you will be the subject of a lot of discussions your party members have with friends) if you don't grab everything as a tank unless you're in one of the few dungeons in which doing that is quite difficult (Mt. Gulg comes to mind and even there you will attempt it at least once unless the healer forbids it).

I had no idea Lisa came up with the Bozo's lore. WOW!!! What a deranged woman~! I love her!

Mike Pondsmith rizz is truly next level. This man could talk the panties off a mannequin.

The next best thing to the Dan Olsen AI video is probably Jimmy McGee's "The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core"

In FFXIV there are abilties that deal guarunteed critical hits, and mid way through Endwalker these were changed to have extra damage when under an effect that boosts crit rate. This was entirely because Warriors, who rely on guarunteed crits for their burst damage, were being excluded from parse groups because their presence would hurt the raid damage of Dragoons and Scholars. The developers changed how a mechanic works because of community toxicity.

The aside on elden ring is so fucking true. I can't help but see this in a lot of online games. "Monster hunter now" has a lot of forumites who will just straight up leave your lobby if you carry the bone gunlance because it's known for being a weapon only bad players use, which consequently means that those players are better off picking a weaker weapon that will possibly make them lose an encounter because it's easier to find lobbies that won't passive aggressively leave the hunt after it's started. It's rude to play bone gunlance A really funny other example I could think of was when I submitted a schematic I made of a piece of code in the game mindustry where I had 3 processors calculating a different part of a visual demo, and people in the comment section was telling me that this is not how it's supposed to work. Because apparently there was a schematics community and a defacto rule there was to always use the highest processor available so your schematics always run as fast as possible. My distributed multi core system was mocked for being bad, when looking back at it with an IT tradeschool degree under my belt I was actually making a microservice system that was very scaleable, easier to build and more modular.

Dan is/was aware of Foxhole

making crappy games* in that case

Moby finally embraces spare ribs.

Ah, I see that Dan ended with the same phrase that I use to conclude all my favorite interactions.

38:00 Foxhole Logistics Strike mentioned.

love the slow zoom out at the end, very cinematic

I've watched Dan's video multiple times (many of them but I mean this one) and yeah sure I'll watch it again here.

She's incredible, may you add her name and links to the description please?

warcraft players when someone wants to have fun (NOT ALLOWED)

Honestly I think that flaunting achievements is something inherently fundamental to human nature. Even games that are ostensibly non-combative, like Animal Crossing, still see people find a way to compete in other ways (I have rarer flowers than you, I have more money than you, etc.). Granted in those games it’s a much smaller minority than something like, say, WoW or LoL where joint teamwork is vital to some types of content, but it’s still there and speaks to the fact that even in an environment that actively inspires cooperation and lacks any consequences for not being “competitive” this type of behavior still arises. It reminds me a lot of bullying in Japanese schools. In places like America kids may be picked on for their clothing style or hair color, etc. but even in Japan where almost all of that is controlled for, students find reasons to pick on and ostracize people for increasingly inane reasons, such as eye color, height, way of speaking, etc. up to and including just arbitrarily picking someone out. It really makes you lose faith in humanity…

He should speak publicly more often

Awesome lmao, great references