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Yep, I can relate to that. When I cast pro games, that's what shocks me! I can arrive at the same decisions they do, but I would take 30 mins to think about that, they do it in seconds.

Thanks for the kind compliment! Tournaments need a certain level of notoriety to be included in liquipedia. In this case, this is a tournament without a prize pool, so it is not displayed there. I’ve added a link to the Google sheet with the tournament brackets to the video description.

Thanks, it was a pleasure working with you Xardas!

Thanks for the sub and the support, as a streamer that's all I can ask for!

Thank you, covering Red Bull Wololo: El Reinado is being a huge pleasure, there's so many amazing sets! Let's all keep enjoying AOE2!

I blame my work!😅

At least you can always enjoy the VOD! Hope you like it!

Thank you for enjoying our casting, and congratulations on your victory once again, you performed great and are a worthy TCC winner! That last game was a 10\10, of course we missed something, that was pure insanity!!! GG to you and everyone, and hope you keep enjoying AOE2 for a long time.

Thanks, Zirzon! It was very fun to do something different for this stream, and demystify a lot of the lore of my bookshelf. On my end, I got to ramble on about things I love for 3 hours, so it was a blast!

@TheNandoAOE that's the best type of rambling!

Thanks for the tip! My monitor is a bit "oversized", and I need to remember that so that the videos come out looking better. This is excellent feedback to have! Thanks for the subscription and support, and I'll keep doing my best as an AOE caster!

Yes, I'm a huge Hololive fan, and have quite a bit of merch on my bookshelf!

GG, well played! Great set you've showed us, and congratulations once again on becoming the champion of the Knights bracket! I'm looking forward to seeing your journey in AOE2 👊

@@TheNandoAOE ty :)

Thank you so much! Yeah, at my level, playing against RBase is intimidating and an honor, so I was very happy with game 1. I've chatted with Xardas (the tournament organizer) quite a bit and this is exactly what we want, content creators promote events, and the events give us content! It's a pure win-win scenario.

Thanks, and it was also very nice to play it!

Thanks 👍, I went all out on this one!

That's true, thanks for your comment and contribution! Tolkien’s work was game-changing, but one should not consider Tolkien’s work the entirety of the fantasy genre at the time! Expectations play a huge role in appreciating a work. I love the Wheel of Time series, but maybe I would have dropped it after the first book if I did not know that the series is so appreciated and loved. I do believe there are a lot of hidden gems out there whose mainstream success is just hidden behind some important name finding and promoting the work. All works have strengths and flaws, and sometimes the flaws are just overpowering and make the work not worth it, while in others, powering through some initial faults pays out big later on.

​@@TheNandoAOEI really appreciate your reply! Since my sister also loves Tolkien I don't say I'm a hater to be confrontational and annoy people 😅 I respect people loving his work just personally don't so... Oh well! As for hidden gems, I saw someone comment once that fantasy writing was often mixed up in other genre magazines and the likes with pulp fiction and sci fi stuff in earlier periods of western genre fiction. I get the impression that's very true and may have gotten rid of some of those hidden gems from the past. Interestingly, I get the impression that Japan also has a very strong sort of scene for fiction like that. A seinen manga magazine called comics alive for example publishes Tappei's short stories a lot for some shop exclusive issues, smaller side stories which aren't essential to the larger story end up sold like that or in some of the novels he's written for the special bluray box sets(one example being a novel about Elsa's backstory in Gusteko which was sold together with season 2 DVDs called Apocalypse girls). There's also a manga I like called nurarihyon no mago whose light novels I was reading about on Wikipedia and found one of them references an influential light novel called Teito Monogatari in its title. Which is a source of lots of onmyouji tropes and particular ways of depicting some Japanese folklore such as oni(the species which Rem and Ram are, calling them demons or ogres is localisation but not exactly true), the figure of Abe no Seimei, or the sort of mystical aspects of why Kyoto was built in the shape it was. And that also began its publishing as a magazine special before being published as a series of ten light novels. I think the differences in publishing industries are responsible for a LOT in how we find those hidden gems, plus there's the popularity of multimedia projects and how loosely popular authors sometimes reference other works with a wink and nod, despite it being too close to plagiarism in other countries(I don't think it's respected in Japan either but since they're considered popular authors and not literary works you know they get away with it).

​@@siginotmylastname3969 My position in this channel is and always will be: everyone is free to have any opinion, as long as they are respectful about it. I will never judge anyone for disliking Tolkien, Tappei Nagatsuki, Brandon Sanderson, ... whoever it is! I do think one think that helps a lot of artists (musical, writing, drawing, …) grow is the publication environment. When I look at western media, especially on a genre that some elites consider “inferior” as fantasy, there are only two points to your career: small author that no one knows, huge famous mainstream author, it feels like there’s no step between. In Japan, there’s so many resources, both in terms of people, printing, different publishing media that people consume, … that careers feel more like climbing a ramp. You take gradual steps, you grow bigger and bigger, you expand your skills, and then your talent blooms. In western publication, instead of climbing a ramp, you are climbing a wall, you either get over it and make it a full-time occupation, or you get completely crushed right from the get-go. Of course, every case is a case, this is an insanely huge over generalization, and I'm speaking from impressions I have rather than personal experience, so I admit my take here could be completely wrong. But I think one of the reasons why all Japanese art has grown so much in recent times is that the society and publication industries are structured in ways that incentivize more artist to explore their own arts, and a lot of the systems are in place that reward the effort of those who deserve it.

Yes! It is quite common in my oldest Age of Empires Streams, for example: ruclips.net/video/Cr08enOqByk/видео.html

Thanks for the feedback! I agree, at lower ELO you can make a lot of mistakes that never get punished, like having all army together, but as I climb the ladder, those mistakes get more and more punished, which I appreciate in order to grow out of them! I also do agree that getting raided once or twice in a place is normal and common, but if you have a constant weakness, you need to adress it and make the game easier on yourself. You played great that game with the early laming and the pressure! I'm usually more tilt-proof, but I had played 3 Teuton tower rushes the day before, and I was more salty that game, so sorry about my salt in game. Let's both keep doing our best, and I hope to keep running into you at higher and higher ELOs! 👊

@@TheNandoAOE woah, hang on mate. I'm not your opponent. Just a random guy on here. I couldn't stomach playing like that!

@@userx2488 Oh, I completely misread! I read "I'm the Goth lamer" instead of "In the Goth lamer" 🤣

Muito obrigado pelo excelente comentário! É extremamente recompensante ver o meu estilo de jogo a ser apreciado. É um dos meus objetivos na minha jornada com Age of Empires, mostrar como sendo calmo, simples e positivo consigo chegar longe! Agora com o Verão vai ser difícil, mas no futuro estou a contar lançar muito mais gameplay!

@@TheNandoAOE Está fazendo um ótimo trabalho! Keep it up e obrigado! =)

I had an absolute blast this week, and I'm glad the viewers and co-casters were also able to share in it! Let's all do our best to keep the AoE2 community being great and positive!