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Brian David Gilbert tried to fix his quarantine lethargy with stamina boosting techniques from Death Stranding, Monster Hunter, and Dark Souls, and it went as well as you'd expect.
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🚫"I am out of shape": negative, lame, lacks excitement
✅"My build is trash": exciting, powerful, easily fixed by respecing
Re-wording negative (but realistic) statements to be *actionable* is a tried and true therapy technique, and video games have given us a much broader vocabulary to do it with!
i read this as i heard it and laughed aloud
Laundry chair, my greatest weakness
shape machine broke
@@Matt_the_pirate Rolled a Nat 1 on doing laundry
In summary, things that *actually* helped:
* going outside
* having a structured thing to do
* coffee in the morning
Don't forget talking to friends!
@@reddest-x i actually wrote this before the video's conclusion, and laughed when I realised, yeah, that was the point Brian was making! Such a good video.
Coffee also leads to a crash later on, but if it's routine the effects (both positive and negative) are diminished due to physiological habituation/anticipation
I've also heard butter in coffee is a good way to get an energy boost and keep it longer? Haven't tried it myself yet but apparently it tastes really good and creamy and works really well.
@@reddest-x that's just cos ur adding fat and fat is a slow release of energy. U might as well make sure ur breakfast has some fat and u can get it from unsaturated sources whichll (for most diets) be healthier and release energy slower but if u like the taste of butter in your coffee specifically you might as well do it. But like overall most diets are fine so something like that doesn't matter too much the important thing is you eat something in the morning and try to get enough protein and vitamins and whatever other nutrients people are commonly deficient in in your diet and stuff
Breaking news: Local man tries to creatively kill himself to avoid laundry
"Sources say he only ate steak and drank energy drinks for a whole day while wearing cardboard accessories covered in tinfoil."
ANYTHING to avoid doing the laundry amiright
I would also do anything to avoid folding laundry. It sits in my clothes basket clean for almost a week before I force myself to get it dine.
"increasing my stamina by decreasing my health"
that's called cocaine, Brian
Or meth.
@@MrSumphoraor cocaine and meth
Or PEDs
“Something physically detrimental that increases my stamina.” Meth. That’s meth.
Or a slightly less severe tradeoff, Adderall. Lots of Adderall.
Yes I see the irony of my profile pic being a sloth.
That made me laugh x.x
Like using shampoo with sulfates, Brian would never do that
I'm on adhd meds and I can tell ya, dexamphetamine is also a bitch
MiruyaChan that’s adderall
When he said “trade life for stamina”... for 1 full second, I thought BDG was gonna do some crack cocaine.
That would do it, lol
I thought he was gonna kill somebody and consume their body for nutrients. Yours is better.
TeaReesa26 oh goodness
isn't "trade life for stamina" basically going on a run? lmao
Imagine xDDD
A scale of 'hotboxed sloth' to 'sugar rushing child at a laser tag party' has to be the best, most accurate energy scale ever made.
This is the best
Holy crap I forgot how funny that line is.
Theres something so viscerally funny to me about a guy having well done steak and monster energy for breakfast
you'll think my entire diet is hilarious then
Monster Energy and Monster Hunter Energy
I have never been more convinced someone was somewhere other than where they actually were with a greenscreen than the start of this video.
I was like "they're not.. letting him back into the studio are they...." anD THEN
Yeah, I guess he doesn’t really look all that grounded in reality in the studio either
No matter where he's recording, a rip in space-time is formed, allowing him to shape reality to his will.
I had a minute where I was convinced he was greenscreening back into his apartment for a bit
I actually thought "oh I guess he's back at the office"
"I haven't found a way to trade stamina for life"
Meth. It's called meth.
quality comment right here
Or coke!
What does heroin do for your stamina?
@@jackgeist3803 trades stamina for health but can suddenly deplete all your health
@John Adams TIL that coke and meth are different drugs
The way you felt after the energy drinks were basically potion toxicity from any game where potion toxicity exists
There’s a reason why terraria has potions cooldowns
Brian saying “I’m not interested get that shit outta here” to the Krebs cycle is such a f*cking mood.
Me during the entirety of biology
no because my final is tomorrow 🥲
As a biochem student I could not agree more
@dbrooke3629 😊⁹😅and you will not sure how how
“I’m usually pretty high energy”
*THERE’S REDBULL IN THIS MUG*
HIYA-
I Love Continuity.
This comment has now reached over 1000 likes. thank you for the internet validation, everyone. My sense of self worth is now riding on this comment and I can see no way that will ever go wrong.
THEN EITHER SONIC IS A GOD OR COULD KILL GOD AND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE-
going ham on the graphics has enabled the existence of a paper-free unraveled
But the cardboard
@@mgpalpha the cardboard brings back memories of a week in revue...
....scrundler.....
"All according to keikaku"
- Mother Nature, probably
Its his new brand from the brand cucoon
finally
Its actually so refreshing and validating that a successful grown man with a job like this still struggles with executive dysfunction
my favorite part of this is the part where he says he wants waffle fries and asks if anyone delivers them, then a couple seconds later shows a clip of him eating a waffle fry
Now THAT'S continuity in storytelling
NO FILMING
I think Brian’s ever-increasing amount of shadow clones is really adding to the production quality of this show.
A great call-back to his polygon audition in my opinion
@@BarbarianGod oh god I just remembered
Reminds me of the channel WheezyWaiter and all his clones, haha
Alternative title: "Brian destroys his body for our entertainment"
He's destroyed his mind and spirit already, the only thing left was to obliterate his physical vessel
That's hot
If I can't destroy that body, I'm glad I at least get to watch him do it.
And also SCIENCE!
AKA most livestreams Brian has done for Polygon (E3 live streams, Gill & Gilbert...)
Exercise is basically black magic.
It hurts at first, and will exhaust your spirit, but the more you do it, the more powerful you become
I hate how much I agree
@@meatvortexgaming7134 dude same
And if you are reckless, you can seriously hurt yourself
The way exercise is commonly presented and approached makes it unpleasant but when we can pick activities that are engaging and enjoyable for us, do what's accessible to us and work our way up in comfortable intensity, it's a whole different thing!
Some things I've benefited from myself are:
- Physically active pastimes that are also social (with friends or local groups) and pleasant (like walks, nature, dance, yoga, LARP, volunteering).
- Avoiding exercise that's just Exercise™ or has reps.
- Googling exercise/fitness for chronic fatigue/chronic pain/seniors (may seem extreme or silly for someone who doesn't have these problems but these communities just have great resources and great understanding of the human mind and body).
- Hybrid Calisthenics who does great short vids outlining accessible ways to work out and increase intensity only as appropriate.
so it's basically the fourth technique
"Perhaps I COULD trade my health for more stamina..."
Me: Brian. Brian where are you going with this?
"By doing every. technique. at once."
Me: BRIAN NO.
I'm just glad he didn't do coke, now that'd be a real direct health-to-stamina trade
At least he didn't use a shampoo with sulfates.
i like this video because 75% of it is just bdg telling us how his day was
Lol same
Nah... it was about 90% tbh
Hiring BDG was the smartest thing that Polygon's ever done.
Honestly after his application they'd have been extremely silly not to take him on.
Subscribed to polygon due to his Halo video
I don't really watch anything else on Polygon.
Brian Gilbert should just do his show on his own channel. Get the full profit from the effort he puts in.
@@WeMakeVideosCA I doubt he could, you know, contracts and stuff
the only thing
"Steak is made from raw meat in Monster Hunter. And also the real world."
Fun fact!
There was a day during this cuarentine when i was feeling really depressed, and i felt like my sanity was going down. I rememberd that in don't starve, your sanity increases by picking flowers and/or using a flower crown, so i ended up grabing and putting one of those plastic flower crowns in my head to feel better.
And i actually felt better!! And i looked cute tho. So 8/10, because it's a slow process, but worth it.
just eat large amounts of jerky while wearing a top hat, works even better
@@An_Entire_Lime To be fair, if I did that on a bad day, I'm almost certain that I'd feel better.
cuarentine
@@timeklivickis cuarentine
@@wexlerstudios8742 cuarentine
jenna’s resigned and defeated ‘yeah, brian. i guess so’ is amazing
i love jenna so much 😭
Her face says /everything/ in that moment
She became all of our reactions to 2020 (and I guess 2021 now) personified.
My favorite part! 14:30
I'm sure it was a bit, but it was very funny regardless!
Maybe the true stamina-boosting techniques where the friends we made along the way
A lesson well learned.
UnluckyClover que the more you know graphic
So I just ate 5 well done steaks for nothing?!?
Checks out. There are plenty of games where allies can apply buffs to you - sometimes maybe even stamina-boosting buffs.
He should make some sort of romcom
I think the real reason this didn't really work out for Brian is there one thing that he can't change about his build that doomed him from the beginning. Brian, you can't put more points into your stamina when you ever already maxed out your Charisma
I love how the laundry chair is a universal thing
Do y’all not have hampers?!
@@Kokoasz The point of the laundry chair is to carry clothes that are overall still wearable, but you'd have to take a look at and maybe smell if they're fresh enough to go back into the closet or if they should rather be washed.
bdg is a millenial living in NYC, there is no way he doesn't know at least 3 practicing witches who could provide an enchantment for a cloranthy ring.
FACTS
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
Now I kinda expect the ring to unexpectedly return as a throwaway joke from time to time, getting more powerful, but never explained.
He’s not wrong lmao
he's practising social distancing he can't go see them
Never have I felt more represented than by “laundry chair”
I've had bigger laundry chairs...
Most people wouldn't even know there was a chair here at some point...
@@MagnaKay a lot of people don't even use a chair...
It migrates and mutates, but it's existence is static. I just can't ok?
I have a laundry floor. Because the only chair I have is the chair for my desk and I use that a lot.
Genuinely, as someone who has to deal with chronic fatigue and chronic pain, the advice at the end is 100% correct. Just figuring out your limits and knowing when to rest is half the battle.
I really do love how these later Unraveleds became allegories for burn out, or the importance of socializing
Alternative title, Brian destroys his health to teach us a valuable lesson.
*coughcough...brianwithan i ..cough..*
@@inkterp5322 here ya go
I feel like that would be an appropriate title for a LOT of unravelled episodes
I have never felt more represented than when he showed us his laundry-chair.
💯
i dont even do laundry (im but a small boye,not capable to do the endless pain of life yet truly) and even i feel bad
stom yed boi if you dont, if youre old enough to type out a comment, youre old enough to learn how to do your own laundry and then do it, its good to start doing things like that for yourself from a young age, itll teach you how to be more self sufficient and responsible for yourself. cant tell you how many friends of mine struggled with figuring out how to take care of themselves when they started living on their own.
I feel personally attacked
coletk calm down
I do the monster energy technique on the occasions I run out of adhd meds, wouldn't recommend combining the two however. Unless you plan on fighting God that day
I have a wack professor that sure acts like he's God. So I may consider following your technique combined since our circumstances are similar
I have adhd but when I take my meds I find I cant multitask at all
i chugged an iced coffee and a monster one after another one day i regretted it immediately after but i felt like i could wound god
@@justindorthewonderwizard645 multi tasking is bad for you it overstimulates and hurts your attention span. Do one thing at a time in shorter intervals for maximum effect
i once took my meds and drank a monster at abt 2 am bc i actually had the desire to work and i was so productive for like 3 hours and then i went into the sleep deprived emergency mode where you stop feeling tired bc youre so tired but since i was still on my meds it felt like i was going through life like a tposed garys mod model just gliding along the floor
I love that BDG disregarded the RDR2 method of expending stamina to gain stamina, and at the end of the day, all of his increases were based on that exact technique (walking, meetings, crafting). Another important life lesson learned from Arthur Morgan.
TB however, was not an important life lessoned learned for Arthur.
@@PauaPYeah it was. The lesson was "Don't get TB"
I feel like there’s more between Brian and Laundry Chair than he showed us.
their love is forbidden...
Maybe it’s where his jorts lie
like perhaps, tenderness?
no, not love. It's where he trapped KEVIN PUNT.
If you look hard enough, the souls of a thousand botched jorts stare out at him, silently pleading for release from their chair based hellscape
i just graduated with my bachelors degree in psychology and by god im gonna use it!!
the reason the mask seemed to work at first is that humans thrive on novelty and variety. this was a new thing! it made you feel better. in quarantine, variety is hard to come by, so make it yourself! wear a stupid hat! eat dessert first! wear your wedding dress for a zoom meeting! whatever you want! creating variety WILL help your mental health!
Erin Peterson so this is why shaving off my eyebrows made me more powerful.
you know what? you've got a good idea!
*I SHALL CRAFT A CIVILISATION OUT OF SHARPIE PENS!*
yeah that's exactly what i was thinking, i dont have a psychology degree but im glad someone who does agrees, although i imagine there could be some correlation to wearing certain clothes that you associate with stamina also giving you more stamina in a placebo effect, like maybe wearing your workout clothes makes you have more stamina then wearing normal clothes and doing the same workout. But definitely in the case of the mask and shield it was more about the variety/novelty/silliness of it all, and also I think there was an element of challenge introduced by wearing the costume pieces in trying to do tasks while still wearing them, which i think is motivating under the right circumstances
this is why impulsively buying things even though i usually never do is helping me feel better
Petition for Brian to wear a wedding dress to either the next unraveled or the next overboard
In each trial, he gained energy while talking to someone or preparing for the next day (doing something). Socializing and staying active DOES replenish your energy! So Red Dead was right lol
Also known as: Brian David Gilbert realizes the importance of between-subject trials
Laundry Chair is everyone's final boss right now
Right now mine is “laundry makeup table and stool”.
Weak. Laundry entire floor of my apartment was my final boss that i couldn't beat all last fall while having no energy or motivation.
I’ve been starting to take my laundry pile with me to the bathroom before I take a shower because the laundry room is directly adjacent
This will work as long as I keep showering
I defeated laundry bed last week because my girlfriend said no cuddles until it was done
Worked like a charm
No, it's a final qualifying work
Just want to point out that “well-done steak” in Monster Hunter is actually a long standing mistranslation- the Japanese is supposedly more like “cooked good steak” meaning “a steak that is tasty and cooked perfectly” and not specifically “well done”, meaning the opposite of rare. They kept the “well done” naming in the English versions from the first one forward despite it technically being wrong. Who knows why! Anyway, my point is: you could’ve just made steaks to your own preference the whole time, instead of making grey beef slabs
Don't know if it makes it any better, but I imagine he would've gotten tired of them eventually anyway. I think he should've eaten normally alongside them, since they were special prep consumables.
This comment has been hijacked by the grey beef slab gang. >:)
"Done well" as opposed to "well done"
its more close to nuance as "crispy steak"
"well cooked steak"
When he laid out his plan, my first thought was "am I going to see a man die in this video?"
There's an odd feeling of kinship when BDG mentions laundry chair and you look over and at your own laundry chair, as if checking to see if it's gone anywhere.
It's still there. Sitting. Waiting.
Im watching this video to avoid doing laundry chair... This video is to short and I don't have a gallon of monster or a ton of well done stakes
“The first steak of the day” is a phrase that does a *ton* of work in this video.
As does "Hello, I am Hot-Wet Man." I'd like to meet him, grrrr
"I'm sorry, you're telling me that in order to have more energy, I have to use up all the little energy I have?" You've done it. You've accurately captured my experience with depression.
Give me a high five and a hug. High five first, we really need to be coordinated for this to work
i hate that this is a b i g mood
ikr
No kidding. that's what I was thinking. I've been sitting at a 2 most days.
There was a old Thai guy that trained my coach he used to say that when you use your energy the universe gives more back that’s why you get stronger when training hard if you don’t use all your energy the universe isnt giving more cuz you still has it. sorry for the bad english
The catastrophic crash from combining all the methods was basically an overflow glitch.
"Like using a shampoo with sulphates" same bro, I shudder at the thought too, and your killing the hair game 👌
That green screen was so convincing I got a little dizzy when he did the reveal
It's the same energy as his POLYGON DOT COM VIDEO PRODUCER application. He's good at this.
The most illogical thing about this is that anyone can ever take care of laundry chair
Once it is on the chair it is now the chairs responsibility.
It’s respawn rate makes it impossible to defeat
you can “take care of it”... if replacing laundry chair with laundry life is taking care of it
You can!... But then it becomes laundry bed. And then a few hours after that its laundry chair part 2 electric boogaloo... A most vicious cycle (sad accordeon music as everything turns black and white).
Hahaha, foolish mortals, me and my 5 person family had a laundry pool table for 13 YEARS...
BDG: "I don't have a lot of energy since the pandemic started"
also BDG: *clearly put a lot of time, effort, and energy into scripting, shooting, and editing a video*
Do you know what a job is?
"There's a reason energy drinks aren't chewable"
Thanks, I hate it. Now I can't stop thinking about chewable monster energy
- only filmed in Brian's apartment
- heavy use of green screen and graphics
- artistic interludes (laundry chair)
- chaotic energy to the max
This video usually would've been uploaded to BDGs channel
By God you're right
His background choice evokes his building-your-brand video
@@ashahrenhoerster don't you mean, your hu-brand-ity? Hi, I'm Hugh Brandity.
Only BDG would destroy his body for four days to essentially realize spoon theory is a thing
Thank you very much for this comment.
~A Spoonie who felt Called Out by this video
me, literally meee
This should be the top-rated comment
thank you for saying what all the spoonies in chat were thinking
I’ve been waiting to find this comment since this video came out
I can't be the only person who has been affected so much by BDG that I expected him to say "luckily, I do have one little piece of magic I can use! It's called: a bowl."
I once stayed up all night working on homework, fueled only by a single can of coca cola energy, so I can't even imagine drinking three monsters. I literally had to take single sips at a time because it would make my body vibrate.
Y'all making me realize how much of a stim junkie I am. I need 3 Bangs to feel anything. Nearly a full gram of caffeine.
I powered through an afternoon session of exam studying for uni on 4 half litre cans of cheap energy drink once but to be fair that was the followed by the evening that made me rethink my caffeine routine and I've calmed down quite a bit since and had periods of drinking almost no caffeine when not too busy for uni.
You can certainly build up quite a tolerance to it if you keep relying on caffeine, but from experience it's better you don't, really.
I’m with you. Half of a 5 hour energy gives me the shakes and keeps me awake for 12 hours
One of the main reasons I wish I never did hard drugs is so I could actually notice the subtle changes from caffeine or kratom or whatever else. I should probably just get off my butt and move around a little..
Maybe the real stamina technique is the friends we made along the way.
No that was the Sims vid
GiantFriends
i'm so glad this was the 2nd top comment bc it was the 1st thing that came to mind with how he phrased things at the end lmao
we must consume them
Dammit someone already said it
"Turns out that doing every single stamina boosting technique at once fills your bar so full that the bar explodes"
That's called a stack overflow error
Finally my degree comes in handy
he traded all his hearts for stamina realizing too late that he needs those to live.
(actually im pretty sure thatd be an integer overflow error since a stack overflow is caused by an excessive number of nested function calls or other stack operations while an integer overflow is caused by an excessively large value being truncated and overflowing to zero or into the negati
@@Cello2WC Dude it's like 2 AM and I'm stressing over the election so I'm just gonna assume you're right on this one
@@Cute___E not gonna lie this was the most 2020 thing i've read
I have chronic fatigue and I watch this video on days when I'm feeling down about it, just for the last minute. it's ok to rest and pace yourself. it's ok to not be able to do as much as you want to. thanks brian.
Fun fact, you don’t have to worry about your stamina if you’re literally fucking dead!
My mans hair is DENSE. Usually if someone is in using a green screen you can still see some green through their hair, but his hair is a wall of dead cells.
a wall of dead cells
I love a scientifically accurate comment
It's because he would never use a shampoo with sulfates
+
Rachel Tingley Fuck Sulfates
Brian: I fear no man, but that thing...
*Laundry chair*
Brian: it scares me.
"i cant figure out how i would gain more stamina by doing something detrimental" brian,,, thats what working out is,,,,
The way exercise is commonly presented and approached makes it seem like that but when we can pick activities that are engaging and enjoyable for us, do what's accessible to us and work our way up in comfortable intensity, it's a whole different thing!
Some things I've benefited from myself are:
- Physically active pastimes that are also social (with friends or local groups) and pleasant (like walks, nature, dance, yoga, LARP, volunteering).
- Avoiding exercise that's just Exercise™ or has reps.
- Googling exercise/fitness for chronic fatigue/chronic pain/seniors (may seem extreme or silly for someone who doesn't have these problems but these communities just have great resources and great understanding of the human mind and body).
- Hybrid Calisthenics who does great short vids outlining accessible ways to work out and increase intensity only as appropriate!
Nah it’s coke
BDG slowly re-discovers Spoon Theory, the theory that every chronically ill person relies on to function
Gang gang
Just soak the steak in monster energy drink as a marinade.
Nah, just blend it all together. Like skyrim, more of the same effect is better, right?
Gordon Ramsay would like to have a word with you.
@@ryandoyle3413 this reminds me of that video of a guy blending Doritos and Mountain Dew while laughing maniacally
Because of the nature of monster energy, you would end up with a steak that is broken down slightly, as the acidic nature of monster will break down proteins. Similar to pineapple, which works well as something that tenderizes and imparts flavor, but only in small doses
@@thiccboybillybob6388 Yeah that's what I expected. I suspect if you're not careful the monsternade will ruin the texture of that steak, but the premise is totally possible.
This episode is just a ever growing series of *oh no*
OH YEAH!! **Koolaide Man lumbers lathargically through the front door**
Isn't that just this show
I have chronic fatigue syndrome and i discovered it gets way worse after a big meal. When you are already running low on energy, having your body put what little it has into your digestive system makes it so so so much worse. If you look at his graph you can see that he also had a low point after lunch which means that even healthy people (or mostly healthy people chugging liquid hype for a challenge) get this after lunch lull
Fun fact: the first time I was watching this I was trying to study for an AP test and it made me realize how sick I felt lmao, like I was super hot and had a big headache. So thanks Brian lmao
BDG: *actual insanity*
Also BDG: *teaches valuable life lessons such as making sure to take breaks and refilling your motivational battery*
I came here looking to be entertained and now I'm gonna go for a WALK with my DOG
everyone yesterday: "omg what is he saying?" "is he saying stop me?" "is this a call for help?" "we need to find out!"
bdg: [walks in] stamina
I thought he was saying "summer" lol
I thought it was Pastrami
Seth P
to be fair “Stam’na” looks a lot like two syllables as far as I know
I’m not an expert though so like what the hell am I talking about
Wait what happened yesterday?
i guessed hearts champion sfdfghjhgf
Watching the monster energy part at 2x energy was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
Watching him down four steaks and a full canteen of Monster Energy made me sick by proxy!
Brian: *freaks out about hair sulfates.*
Also Brian: *drinks three Monsters in one day.*
five seconds in and brian has called stamina "mysterious green juice"
I do wonder what that thing beside Link is when he runs...
pickle
@@thatoneguy9582 Rick
@@cerealos3773he turned himself into a pickle,
funniest stuff I've ever seen.
" would never use a shampoo with sulphates" bdg KNOWS his hair looks amazing
And yet over the course of this video it kept getting worse :(
Of course he does, he's not blind!
uh, we all know that
@@slithra227 Because you're not praising his hair enough!
I find that the weather/seasons affect my stamina directly, which is apparently also true to Monster Hunter. During the summer, I had no problem waking up early almost daily and going out often. (The fact that kayaking is one of my favorite physical activities also had a huge impact.) But now that it's winter, getting out of bed, never mind whatever other chores/errands I must do are comparatively a struggle.
SAME!!! it's so daunting to get up when it's still dark! In summer, waking up at 6 am isnt a burden but a pleasure because I can see the sun coming through the blinds 💛💛💛
eyy seasonal affective squad, assemble! I get vitamin d deprived no matter how much sun I get, but it gets WAY worse in winter. To the point that I found out I had this severe deprivation when I fully passed out one February 😭 it took me so long to actually start taking the supplements tho because it hit that "thing you take to help you remember to take things" spot so I forgot all the time lmao
I feel that! We love seasonal depression :(
Brian put all of his skill points into charisma and intelligence
BDG really said “exercise works but it SUCKs” and my god he is so right
Well, with that attitude anything isn't possible.
There're things you find easy to do but others hate doing. And vice versa. Start small and build good habits. I recommend squats while brushing your teeth.
NiteCyper Throw something on the TV and just do shit, whatever you feel like doing, having something in the background always helps.
It sounds like Red Dead Redemption's stamina improvement technique was correct. By taking a walk, you had more energy.
You fool, you absolute buffoon, you garbage hole, you-you lump of a man. Red Dead's logic is backwards and DUMB. You expect me to exert myself?
Get out of here with your LOGIC and FAXTS
Well no, RDR's technique was to increase his max stamina, while taking a walk just restored BDG's existing stamina
@@jedimasterpickle3 but what if BDG's max stamina was capped at around 5 or 6, and taking a walk increased the cap, thus allowing for stamina boosts to work?
@@jedimasterpickle3 it's a hybrid effect. In the short term he's regening stamina, but in the long term he's increasing it if he does it a lot.
Brian could've just had the shield on his back. In the first dark souls game(not sure if it applies to the other two), if you have the Grass Crest shield on your back while you're two handing your main weapon, the stamina regen still applies.
Except the weight of the shield actually outweighs the increased stamina regeneration, so you end up with less stamina regeneration than if you just never equipped the shield
@@Twincruiser90 That's only true if the shield is the deciding factor in crossing a specific weight threshold. If you were already past it or it doesn't push you over, the shield is all bonus.
@@BLKCLVR It's not that simple. There's not specific weight thresholds, it's entirely dependent on your current and max equip load. You'd need a stamina calculator to actually determine it accurately.
I love that the Polygon staff always seems to just be putting up with BDG.
In this video, Brian drinks the amount of caffeine that I drank during finals week that almost sent me to the hospital.
Not from caffeine overdose, but from the eventual crash that came later, which led to me nearly breaking my neck while attempting to, essentially, skateboard while half-comatose.
I was about to ask why you attempted to skateboard while half-comatose but then I remembered that's just the human condition
@@deffdefying4803 I was late for class and needed a fast way there
Wonshuan truly, the grind never stops
in the nicest way, that is. a you problem
@@downhill2k013 is a*
"I reject my humanity Jenna!"
"yeah, Brian. I guess so"
Nice
Jojo if he was emotionally numb
*slow, dramatic sono chi no sadame starts, then fizzles out*
I’ve seen this before, but I just watched it again while I’m having a hard time (physically and emotionally) with a bad chronic illness flare, and the end made me cry a little and feel seen/like I know what to do even if it’s hard. Help comes from strange places? Thanks bdg, this was insane and somehow really means a lot to me
For stamina I actually recommend a 50% 50% split of overly peppered poultry balanced with greens rather than steak.
Also peanuts and chocolate for the serotonin balance to take the edge off of any and all downswings. Unless you're allergic, obviously, because hospitals are depressing, and that just takes away all your energy.
And also takes away your money
i love how all of these videos are just becoming brian trying to solve his own problems and realising he was going about it in entirely the wrong way and then learning valuable life lessons
I liked the The Sims video where he didn't learn anything
@@MateusSFigueiredo hes still alive though
Imagine looking into a window and seeing a guy with a tinfoil mask and shield cooking steaks.
Quarantine is just like that
Not to mention he then poured 3 different flavors of monster into a liter container like some kind of witch's cauldron
It’s just a normal day in New Jersey.
@@afineegg1040 That's just college
When Brian said, "laundry chair," I slowly looked behind me toward my own laundry chair. The chair I've been neglecting for two weeks. The chair I've been picking clothes off as I need them. BDG really knows how to hit his points home.
9:30 this is how you get a heart attack
After all these years of BDG mentally ruining himself, he has finally physically destroyed himself.
My man gonna look like sim Brian after this build
I think that's probably one of the best lessons that has ever come out of an Unraveled.
I am a sick man, but I can't help but feel like all my days are more wasted than useful. Big thing is just managing your expectations of yourself. I am not a superhero. Neither are you. Do what you can, and if you can do a little more than you did yesterday? Then go for it, and be proud that you've grown.
"And a 10 being the energy of a 6-year-old at a laser tag party who just finished his first can of Mello Yello." I cracked up at that one.
Brian saying that he cant find a way to harm himself to gain energy implies that he would if he found a way
and he did
@@Zadamanim who wouldn't
he could always stuff himself full with amphetamines?
@@MrBobogoa or better yet, crack.
Meth
BDG missed the obvious: the equivalent to the Horned man statue is clearly meth. You trade life force for stamina. 🤷🏼♀️
ooooohhhhhh you're RIGHT!
no. its a trade whit a demon
Well I see your point, but I'm kinda glad we didn't witness Brian methed out! 😂😂
@@feelinglostinthepeople no we did, we always do
@@feelinglostinthepeople Don't we always, though? 😆
this is actually really solid advice for coping w/ depression thanks bdg
9:02 Brian NO
The graphics really amp up the fact that Brian is an 80s dad who got thrown 3 decades into the future and was given internet.
You mean 4 decades, right?
@@1dkreally You just reminded me that it's not 2010 and now I have to lie on the floor for the next hour.
Oh gods same.
Seeing closed captions available from the second of posting makes me so happy!!! Thank you for looking out for our HoH friends.
Yes!!! I have auditory processing issues and captions help so much.
same! i also have auditory processing problems and while captions usually aren't necessary for me, they're still extremely helpful! Accessibility Good
Every Unraveled has such accurate (and usually hilarious) captions too, it's a real treat.
90% of the hard "c" sounds in the Mortal Kuddling episode were naturally replaced with "k"s, naturally xD
I always watch stuff with subtitles/captions but usually on RUclips they're so bad (auto captions) like not even close to whats being said sometimes. I'd actually like to write captions but haven't been able to find a job doing it.
"Getting good at dark-"
Darts
IT'S TIME TO GET GOOD AT THE DARTS
@@BamfIamone IVE ALWAYS WANTED TO BUT NEVER WANTED TO TRY HARD
I love how in every unraveled video he always has character development