From what I remember off the top of my head skullduggery is like underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; trickery. which definitely seems like something hed be doing,
Brennan completely ignoring the bit on multiple occasions is like a dog owner ignoring their dog so as not to reinforce a bad behavior and it's absolutely sending me
Zac making the conscious decision early on that "okay, on today's Wrap Up episode, I'm going to do a bit where I pretend to know minutia about the random topics we bring up" is S+ tier level of comedic genius.
If I remember correctly, Minutia was borrowed into English in the 18th century from the Latin plural noun minutiae, meaning "trifles" or "details," and derived from the singular noun minutia, meaning "smallness." In English, minutia is most often used in the plural as either minutiae (pronounced \muh-NOO-shee-ee) or, on occasion, as simply minutia. The Latin minutia, incidentally, comes from minutus, an adjective meaning "small" that was created from the verb minuere, meaning "to lessen." A familiar descendant of minutus is minute.
@@MarcMan- Wow, thanks for sharing your bit of knowledge with us! I was just about to Google the meaning of the word minutia, but I'm glad someone with more knowledge came along to help me on my endless path of learning!
@@MarcMan- if you think about it, relying on your own memory is so risky and unpredictable - looking things up truly is the only way to remember correctly
@@amberlee7343 not pronounced whatsoever at any point in time, it was stupidly added later to reflect etymology (hundreds of years before English took it from French, there was a b)
You can really see Zac thinking. You can tell because his eyes look to his left and he's accessing his long-term memory. The hand to the chin is another sign of accessing his deep memories to bring them to the fore.
I think the funniest thing about this is that Ally did ask what skulduggery meant, but literally no one asked what angora or metatextual meant, so Zac unilaterally defining them out loud really just proves the exact opposite point: that he was the one person who didn't know what they were and so looked them up for himself. Incredible bit
it's even better bc he's in a room of other writers but all of them use words he doesnt know, so hes literally just googling the meanings of words instead of questions. like he's the only one who needs this info but he's the one teaching everyone else
It's so tragic how Zac never truly recovered from that car crash. Now he can only connect half of his brain fully to the other when turning his head at least 30 degrees to the left.
Middle English is, like, Geoffry Chaucer's writing. Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English. Early Modern English is new enough that we can still understand it today through context clues, similar spelling, and syntax. Middle English is so different that works written in it have to be translated by experts in order for us to understand it today. And then Old English is like trying to read something written by aliens. Regardless, the English language, as a whole, is a facisnating, beautiful, mongrel, bastard of a mess. I love it.
@@_Moe 🤓 nah jk I’m an English major and I’m appreciative of your distinction but “Emily’s grasp of Shakespearean Early Modern English” just doesn’t have the same ring to it lmao
@@StylistFia127 in the back of Zac's room, you can kinda see a "Zac's Stream". That's a blanket a viewer gave to him! He used to stream on Twitch. I'm not sure if there's a video of him first mentioning it tbh, but some of his streams are archived on his RUclips channel (: (if u like animal crossing, i reccommend you watch the ones where he visits either Emily Axford's or Vic Mchael's islands.)
This is basically the same as a running joke I have with my friends where someone will ask something and I'll say "Uhhh hold on let me consult my *memory*" and then loudly google the question and give them the answer as if I knew all along.
Zac Oyama knows everything, oh yeah He pretty much knows everything He tells me stuff, and then I tell you that stuff I tell you all the stuff Zac Oyama told me
Ah that word. I think I heard it pronounced as skulduggery [Skuldudgery damn auto correct] once in my formative years and have been pronouncing it like that every since.
It's from "Adventuring Party", the talkback show of an actual-play D&D series "Dimension 20". Some episodes are free on RUclips, the rest are on their streaming platform Dropout (which is very cheap and imo very much worth the money)
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He truly is the greatest wizard of our time
"This is hell.."
After all... what is a wizard without their book...
Gorgug really is the wizard of all time
Said any person watching this from 50 years ago
Everyone has the place they look when they're thinking..for Zac it's his second screen with Google pulled up
haha, I too understood the joke!
I love how you can see the white light from google on his face
the knowledge is illuminating zac's face and it's definitely not light from a screen
True, the Light of the knowledge simply pours out of him.
He Is Speaking To God
the spark of life was in his eyes which is why he had to close them to stop it from leaking out
😂
wow zac pretending he knew all that was some real skullduggery wasn't it
The greatest skulduggery that Zac ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't know these things implicitly
I haven't seen skullduggery like this since 1939
*looks at second screen*
Yes.
From what I remember off the top of my head skullduggery is like underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; trickery. which definitely seems like something hed be doing,
Pretending?
Brennan completely ignoring the bit on multiple occasions is like a dog owner ignoring their dog so as not to reinforce a bad behavior and it's absolutely sending me
Zac making the conscious decision early on that "okay, on today's Wrap Up episode, I'm going to do a bit where I pretend to know minutia about the random topics we bring up" is S+ tier level of comedic genius.
If I remember correctly, Minutia was borrowed into English in the 18th century from the Latin plural noun minutiae, meaning "trifles" or "details," and derived from the singular noun minutia, meaning "smallness." In English, minutia is most often used in the plural as either minutiae (pronounced \muh-NOO-shee-ee) or, on occasion, as simply minutia. The Latin minutia, incidentally, comes from minutus, an adjective meaning "small" that was created from the verb minuere, meaning "to lessen." A familiar descendant of minutus is minute.
@@MarcMan- Wow, thanks for sharing your bit of knowledge with us! I was just about to Google the meaning of the word minutia, but I'm glad someone with more knowledge came along to help me on my endless path of learning!
@@MarcMan- if you think about it, relying on your own memory is so risky and unpredictable - looking things up truly is the only way to remember correctly
Zac really puts the b in subtle
I’m uncertain what this means
@@gamingimpossibl the b is subtly there (not really pronounced)
@@amberlee7343 not pronounced whatsoever at any point in time, it was stupidly added later to reflect etymology (hundreds of years before English took it from French, there was a b)
I also pronounce it subble
@@GoPieman well then you pronounce it wrong
You can really see Zac thinking. You can tell because his eyes look to his left and he's accessing his long-term memory. The hand to the chin is another sign of accessing his deep memories to bring them to the fore.
I think the funniest thing about this is that Ally did ask what skulduggery meant, but literally no one asked what angora or metatextual meant, so Zac unilaterally defining them out loud really just proves the exact opposite point: that he was the one person who didn't know what they were and so looked them up for himself. Incredible bit
Every slow zoom had me cackling with laughter. Great job.
Thank you so much!
You've heard of "Yes, and" in improv... but I'm loving Murphs "Crazy how..."
I genuinely laughed out loud every time the camera slowly zoomed in on Zac. I knew it was coming, and it got me anyway.
Haha, I'm glad you liked it!
zacs face when he’s sitting on a bit is my favorite
the slow zooms to Zac overlaid with a Google search is just **chef's kiss**
amazing how much knowledge zac can aquire just by looking to his left
Best part is that what he's doing is skullduggery
zac is literally me when someone asks me something and i google the answer and i become an expert in the topic
He is most definitely not literally you
@@grug_g IDK man I think Zach would know who he is
I've never seen them and Zac in the same room
It’s not just that he’s intelligent. He’s also confident and well spoken.
It’s almost like he doesn’t even pay attention to criticism.
God I cant get over this, never seen this comp before and this is 100% me when anyone every questions facts we can google
it's even better bc he's in a room of other writers but all of them use words he doesnt know, so hes literally just googling the meanings of words instead of questions. like he's the only one who needs this info but he's the one teaching everyone else
imagine the camera pans to his second monitor, and he's just been playing minesweeper whole time
He was looking over at his vast bookshelf to remind himself of all the topics he contains infinite knowledge on
Emily seems like she'd play the Romeo and Juliet nurse in high school
Perfect casting honestly
My thoughts exactly.
"ohhh so hocus pocus was first."
*looks at the screen to confirm this information*
"yah. 🙂"
the mix of the others laughing at the bit while trying to play along makes it look like they're all giving him heart-eyes and i find that adorable
my favourite part is how once he’s done googling they’ve already moved on from the word
2wpm typing speed
actually, **looks to my left** the term skulduggery is an alteration of the Scots 'skuldudrie', which meant adultery/fornication.
"Um actually... 🤓 "
No point for you! GET IN THE COMMENTS
It's so tragic how Zac never truly recovered from that car crash.
Now he can only connect half of his brain fully to the other when turning his head at least 30 degrees to the left.
Gorgug 🥰
him shutting his eyes like a child was so adorable
I'm sorry to have to asks this but are you my dad?
@@Travenspear8 wait. are you mine?
@@sourwitch2340 I... I think I might be
The greatest wizard of our generation
I love how they played along
First rule of improv comedy: play along.
Brian took a while to get there but he figured it out
He'd make a perfect librarian
This comment make me so happy for some reason
The zoom into his square gets me every time
"Y'know, I thiiiiiiink it was something like... (Reads an entire Wikipedia page)"
it's a well known fact that we turn to look towards our immediate left when recalling facts
the 7 minutes later killed me
What a silly little guy
A rascal even
engaging in a bit of skullduggery, mayhaps?
watching him pick up on the certain phrases, make that decision and the slow zoom on him as he goes to type it up 😂😂
he's thinking!
Meanwhile I know the word from reading Skuldugery Pleasant
Hello fellow Skulduggery fan! Fun to run into another fan in the wild
LETS GOOOOOO YESSS
I still haven't read the last two books because I wanna reread the first thirteen first. :(
I searched for this comment
I haven't read them in so long, I defo wanna re read them but ik it will take forever 😭
It’s a VERY close call between Zac and Brennan but I don’t think I can love anything or anyone more than Zac
this is truly the best bit ever & your editing makes it even better
Thank you for the compliment!
the way he looks at the camera at 1:22 is incredibly funny to me
Zac is having his Spencer Reid moment
It's so funny that his second monitor is so far to the side, that you can immediately tell when he's looking something up
Security: What's your name?
Zach: *googling noises*
The h makes this so much better
Everyone’s commenting about Zac but I’m just impressed by Emily’s grasp of Middle English
Middle English is, like, Geoffry Chaucer's writing. Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English.
Early Modern English is new enough that we can still understand it today through context clues, similar spelling, and syntax. Middle English is so different that works written in it have to be translated by experts in order for us to understand it today. And then Old English is like trying to read something written by aliens.
Regardless, the English language, as a whole, is a facisnating, beautiful, mongrel, bastard of a mess. I love it.
@@_Moe 🤓
nah jk I’m an English major and I’m appreciative of your distinction but “Emily’s grasp of Shakespearean Early Modern English” just doesn’t have the same ring to it lmao
@@declanblair2954 what about calling it shakespeake?
When he smiled to himself knowing what he was going to do lol
Master of knowledge.
the editing makes this
Thank you!
Zac’s already hilarious but Siobhan holding up the bit makes it even better 😂
Still wild to me someone handmade Zac a blanket that says "zacs stream"
Awe, on what video?
@@StylistFia127 in the back of Zac's room, you can kinda see a "Zac's Stream". That's a blanket a viewer gave to him! He used to stream on Twitch. I'm not sure if there's a video of him first mentioning it tbh, but some of his streams are archived on his RUclips channel (:
(if u like animal crossing, i reccommend you watch the ones where he visits either Emily Axford's or Vic Mchael's islands.)
@@jhubeJELLO Awe that's so cute!!!!😍 Okay, I will watch those. THX!! ☺
This is basically the same as a running joke I have with my friends where someone will ask something and I'll say "Uhhh hold on let me consult my *memory*" and then loudly google the question and give them the answer as if I knew all along.
This is incredible
Hey its rylee g what makes the videos
@@dominicritchie2979 eyy
this is incredible thank you for your service
Zac Oyama knows everything, oh yeah
He pretty much knows everything
He tells me stuff, and then I tell you that stuff
I tell you all the stuff Zac Oyama told me
Izzy movie database is a fabulous joke
Izzy Mova Database*
He is my exact sense of humor
wow how does he do it, hes just got so much knowledge in his head.
when your character has access to wikipedia and the keen mind feat
Zac is pretty awesome.
That last check to see if 1993 was earlier than 1996 killed me
Obsessed with our dearest Rick Perry just sitting for this whole comp
Oyama the Allknowing
oml the editing 😭😭😭👌💕
hes so funny im crying
I love how supportive Siobhan is of Zac throughout this
What's crazy is he knows all that off his dome and I'd definitely give Zac Oyama dome.
Siobhan looks so comfy
The funny thing is, I knew what skulduggery means, mostly because of the book series skulduggery pleasant, where its the main characters name lol
Skulduggery, one of my favourite words.
i love that you can see him waiting for the perfect comedic moment
I’m in love with him I think
The main reason I know facts is because I Google people on their bullshit. Every once in a while I learn something new.
1:22 not the clown honk 😂
Such a good recurring bit 😂
He's so cute
I love Zac :3
Zac would be a Mentat in Dune
I was just thinking of skullduggery pleasant
Ah that word. I think I heard it pronounced as
skulduggery [Skuldudgery damn auto correct] once in my formative years and have been pronouncing it like that every since.
A dug is also Scots for dog so the nurse in R&J only really gets weirder
this is just what happens in disco elysium when you have high encyclopedia
I wish they cast all of these guys on The Walking Dead
Zac immediately going to look up “meta textual” had me dying
The Crown of Candy aftershows really had a great vibe. And I loved Ally with all their tangents and references. Big Business for the win!!
Ally uses they/them
@@yumehophype5005 Thank you
seems like they don't know Skulduggery Pleasant...
Skullduggery....Pleasant??
i know what skullduggery means because of poptropica
he has a surprisingly good memory 🤔
His Google-Fu is strong
He's just like me fr fr
“Jumpy did you know…”
This was unreasonably hilarious to me! Especially the "I don't know" at 4:15 🤣🤣 What's this from?
It's from "Adventuring Party", the talkback show of an actual-play D&D series "Dimension 20". Some episodes are free on RUclips, the rest are on their streaming platform Dropout (which is very cheap and imo very much worth the money)
ZAC HAS A WHIP!
Lou’s hair yo
something abt this zoom setup feels like brennon and ally are TAs and zac is that one student in class that keeps arguing with them
What's that massive sword behind Lou? It looks big enough to hold up the ceiling.
It's just perspective, it's even bigger up close
How is so fucking funny all the time
Hilarious XD
why does rick perry look like a tired damon albarn in some shots