Combat Vet Reacts to A Mann's Guide to the Big Earner (Soundsmith)

[@fun_police8011]

Speaking of audio, Soundsmith has a lot of experience in the audio side of production (hence his username). I’m glad you noticed that since he really enjoys that kind of stuff. Check out his behind the scenes for this video if you want more of that plus some funny clips.

[@Ozionian]

Man, sometimes I forget Soundsmith is a genuinely talented musician.

[@PurpleHeartE54]

At least Beluga took a page from that. He uses constant streams of sound to keep the viewer from looking away.

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

@@PurpleHeartE54 the discord dude? His content suck.

[@PurpleHeartE54]

@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 You might not like them, but with his consistent once every two day uploads and continuous growth that he predicted, he is amazing in his own right.

[@settingsun5582]

I believe that he had or has an old channel which was entirely focused on sound.

[@what_d1245]

MGE is a community gamemode found on plenty of servers where you can do a series of duels with someone to test or improve your combat skills

[@mrpozio3875]

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[@roby4504]

@ShroomTube I don't know man, I tried a lot of servers and I had a blast. They didn't laugh at me for being bad at the game, they didn't leave me because I was stupid etc. In fact, what I like about TF2 is that no matter how much of a tryhard, competitive player, cheater you are, you still die.

[@TheBowlingBallOfTruth]

The zoom by Tim Allen is a reference to another video by soundsmith called spy weapon stereotypes where when he did the big earner, Tim Allen had to do with it.

[@ComedicLetter]

Tim Allen the Caveman Cartel Boss

[@PleasentDddd]

I’m pretty sure it a reference to the movie “Zoom” starring Tim Allen.

[@ComedicLetter]

@@PleasentDddd the “zoom like Tim Allen” line was a callback to the big earner stereotype from “weapon stereotypes 10, spy weapons” wherein the film is related to the big earner stereotype.

[@ComedicLetter]

@@PleasentDddd unless you already knew that and were making a funny, in which case I am incredibly thick in the dome.

[@PleasentDddd]

@@ComedicLetter I am equally as confused about my statement as you are.

[@RazanaArcclaw]

"Till there was zero bugs" on a moment making a reference to a famous bug in mario 64.

[@chrismclean4789]

The funniest thing is that tf2 tells us every other class's names, but spy's name is never revealed.

[@Unknown_bnuy]

Also pyro

[@sun-dwich6292]

Whats meds and heavys name

[@Unknown_bnuy]

@@sun-dwich6292 in the comics, medic has been called ludwig and heavy mikhail

[@sun-dwich6292]

@@Unknown_bnuy forgot it thanks

[@JLL_29]

plot twist: spy's name is *DAT CHRIS MCLEAN IS A SPAH!*

[@Klockorino]

13:20 For a bit of insight from a viewer, that's on the nose. While it is interesting to see an expert in a field explain why something was done accurately in a game/movie/show, it is also interesting to see an expert react to and break down something ridiculous that descends from the field. Like, it's fun to watch a fighter pilot react to the absurdity of Project Wingman, or a certain keeper of firearms and artillery for the royal armory museum react to weird video game guns, like TF2.

[@carlsjolund2379]

Poor Jonathan, the TF2 video was hard for him but the one about COD vanguard absolutely broke the man. (Tag: mind break)

[@Klockorino]

@@carlsjolund2379 I felt bad when the Garand appeared

[@carlsjolund2379]

@@Klockorino yeah that one hurts to look at

[@CorvusCorone68]

@@carlsjolund2379 case in point, the shotgun with the drum mag at the end of the barrel, nowhere near where the shells actually load

[@carlsjolund2379]

@@CorvusCorone68 yea, the panic attack is a fugly looking gun. Still looks better than the combat shotgun from fallout 3 tho (similar design but with worse modelling)

[@wakawoozy7049]

20:58 The reference of "Zoom like Tim Allen" is a reference to a "TF2 Stereotypes" series that Soundsmith made, where he discusses about the different stereotypes in hats, misc cosmetics and weapons for all classes in their respective videos. For specifics, it's calling to a clip in the Spy Weapon Stereotypes involving a stereotype for the Big Earner.

[@CesarARodriguez]

I thought it was because tim allen interpreted a character named Zoom on a bad hero movie?

[@maxwellmegagamer8535]

For context, one of soundsmiths friends (I think it’s KJ) was talking about having a dream where he broke a kids toy, and then had to go into a drug compound to get another toy. The leader of the compound was Tim Allen. Quote from the video itself, “Tim Allen was a fucking Neanderthal drug dealer who spoke in grunts”

[@engineergaming3830]

Imagine a speedrunner spy going around BLJing everywhere killing everyone

[@evangonzalez7732]

"Goddamn speedrunner spy! Fuckin kickem!"

[@theletterE.HDMI1]

"so long gay pyro"

[@Medi2036]

4:35 "If bread in French is pain, THEN I OWN A FUCKING BAKERY"

[@NumberTwo.]

indeed

[@jakestan1185]

The fact that your name is medic main makes it better

[@TheRealLenin]

I'm a spain but remove the "n".

[@universal69]

@@TheRealLenin That engineer is a spy

[@tomerheuberger5778]

Wait, so that means you sell pain? So you're a dentist?

[@somehowviable7696]

The Tim Allen joke is from the spy weapon stereotype soundsmith made and one of his friends had a big earner called zoomed by Tim Allen after having a dream about them

[@Hamantha]

Soundsmith, like his name says, is an incredible sound worker. Just to clarify that statement about the studio

[@anonanon3232]

Ah, the big earner, my weapon of choice. Speedspy is a very fun playstyle if you're not afraid of dying.

[@NickIvanRowan]

I Die every 2 minutes. So I dont Care About that

[@joshuaseagondollar2495]

So basically if you play a lot of Souls games.

[@pogspy8152]

@@NickIvanRowan i can relate to that

[@NickIvanRowan]

@@pogspy8152 I mean as a spy. As a scout I Die less

[@pyromania8333]

I die every second at spy so yeah the 25 health penalty for me is nothing, and the speed buff is SOO FUN to use, so yeah is my go to knife too.

[@cinnamoncat8950]

The reason people want to see things other than you just breaking down military things is because you give a new perspective on so many things and even give advice and knowledge on a lot of real life topics, not to mention the fact that your reactions to things are often really fun.

[@Nifghfgjyuk]

Soundsmith is an audio engineer, he intentionally adds a muffled effect to the audio to create immersion in the environment. He's not actually bantering with his editor in a recording studio.

[@Ozionian]

Man, it's been really nice seeing someone with actual real life experience look over this kinda stuff. I gotta ask.- Do you think you properly enjoy TF2 and the content? Or has it been more a matter of it being somewhat popular? although, looking at the sidebar, the tf2 videos are somewhat average, save for a handful. Also, I'm sorry if this seems rude. The TF2 content area has a long history of trapping people into TF2 content, and whenever I see someone get into TF2 content, I personally genuinely worry about content creators not enjoying TF2 and the info around it. Regardless, it's been really nice seeing your videos! You're one of the only two reaction youtubers I've ever enjoyed, and frankly you're the higher quality of the two by a fairly large amount, with the info provided being a really interesting outlier among the usual lazy reaction content. Hell, sometimes I find myself rewatching the portions where you just give info, because it's genuinely interesting to just hear you talk about things in so much detail so casually.

[@14deadratsinatrenchcoat]

Soundsmith is a Master at sound design. The idea behind manns guide is two complete idiots running a show with a high budget. Those are Soundsmith’s words, not mine.

[@weathermangohanssj4]

20:59 Tim Allen was the lead in a Movie called Zoom, about a retired speedster called Zoom.

[@diamondswiss8026]

Zoom by Tim Allen was a joke that Soundsmith made in his Weapon Stereotypes: Spy video. (One of his friends renamed their Big Earner to “Hey do you know zoom by Tim Allen”)

[@boa_firebrand]

"Oh no I got Zoom by Tim Allened!"

[@BonusQwack]

0:36 MGE is what a tf2 training server is called and people will 1v1 on it

[@sosozeus2410]

Tf2 is 14 years old .. and this game is still alive !

[@TheRealLenin]

It'll never die, it's already dead, thanks *Valve*

[@finisterre2415]

I've got 300 hours in SFM, compared to others i'm a complete newbie. but with a few tutorials and pain. it isn't that hard, just very long and grueling.

[@TheRealLenin]

Cool

[@SargentGunnery]

Glad you ussed the word pain.

[@jalontf2]

Can't emphasize your statement enough about the old fun gaming days. We would play D&D (2nd edition of course) for hours during sleepovers and then play Goldeneye on N64 until we passed out from too much pizza.

[@ieuanhunt552]

Resident Evil 4 was my entire childhood. Those classic pizza party gaming marathons.

[@panakidyt4510]

That sounds fucking awesome dude

[@BLACKFLAME4941]

This one was actually the first time i watched the soundsmith video. Was sitting in my subbox for some days now.. doesnt matter was good watching it with you.

[@bracoeth]

the reason that the studio audio sounds so real is because soundsmith is a really talented audio engineer

[@kirti3839]

Definitely more Mann's guide videos. I love them all.

[@X-Rei]

20:57 "zoom like tim allen" is an inside joke from a slightly older video , one of the meatloafs i think (nvm it was the spy weapon stereotypes)

[@Techhunter_Talon]

5:08 Perfect pause right there. XD

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

So fun fact all of the Mann’s guides video thumbnails are tf2 recreations of classical paintings

[@ChristopherLeeProductions]

glad you enjoyed the christolee commercial!

[@FinnaOof]

Funny that you mention 3D movie maker. There's this one KZbinr/ streamer called Vargskelethor Joel (or just Vinesauce Joel) that made a whole over 20 minute film on 3d movie maker with custom models and it's just hilarious. He found 3D movie maker from doing one of his windows shareware streams. The film itself is called the Blue Shell Incident

[@LittleDanny9899]

For me a big part of why i Like watching you just comes down to you being a pretty chill dude you respect the creators (partialy) respect timing and the information you put in is usualy quite nicely packaged easy to understand basicaly on a level as if i am talking to somebody that knows what he is talking about but other then that is just some friend or the like and not just repetetive or hyped up etc

[@andreethier816]

Not sure if it's mentioned but Zoom is actually a reference to a Tim Allen movie about a Flash-like superhero called Zoom

[@sleeplesspodcast9924]

Paul: “My average viewer is like… 18” Me, 18 in 4 days: hahaha is me

[@nathanfivecoate5848]

Happy belated 18th birthday, fellow adult on the internet

[@Munnstery]

The big earner, the only spy weapon I don't have, and also the one I want the most

[@PearoIGuess]

Hm, scrap.tf

[@OrigionalCigarette]

I'd love to see some Dr.Lalve reactions, especially the guides, imagine this, but its TTS and low quality of animations which makes it fun.

[@master_ace]

13:20 I would say that that's because after a certain amount of time you accumulate a following that's there for your personality and not necessarily for your expertise, and this is generally speaking not just you or your channel but reaction channels in general

[@syweb2]

8:35 The Rat Movie (made by Jerma) was made in that! 8:50 It's available for free on Steam, so in the sense of literally accessing it, yeah. There is also an official series of tutorials covering the basics on the TF2 KZbin channel.

[@WackoList0]

I love this guy because his commentary almost always has nothing to do with what he's watching and usually forces me to learn something. Education Channel in disguise.

[@DrTrayCreeper]

The zoom like tim allen was an inside joke from his spy weapon stereotypes video

[@TomahawkGaming-uh9ny]

That's the thing about Spy, you hate getting stabbed by him, then you try playing him and realize how hard he is.

[@walnut6684]

At least it isn't sniper, the only way you don't die to them is hope they miss. At least you have a chance to counter spies

[@themegagamer6086]

21:01 that's a reference to highly underrated superhero movie zoom that stars Tim Allen as zoom a retired superhero hired by goverment particularly the military to train a team of young superheroes. It has Tim Allen (obviously) , Courtney coxs, Chevy Chase, and bunch others actor not to mention smash mouth is on the soundtrack like 3 times.

[@MaidofRage420]

Trust me, as someone who plays Heavy a lot in TF2 you basically draw everyone's aggro which can be good for your team making a push but at the same time...y'know everyone has their crosshairs on you.

[@metaKnightSpamer777]

I am morbidly curious what Your Reaction to 'model citizen' by 'dead sound' would be like;

[@scorpd77]

Sfm is a NIGHTMARE. Like nightmare nightmare. I'm positive you could learn, but it's so hard

[@SableUnderscore]

Soundsmith is well, a sound smith, like a blacksmith but with sound.

[@kiracaroso]

Source Film Maker is hell to work with.

[@chaoscontroller316]

I completely forgot about your hatred towards Engineers until you brought up that you haven't learned him yet.

[@jimdadude9200]

It's actually nice hearing that you like reviewing this stuff and aren't doing it because it gets views, also listening to you explain tactical stuff after watching a spy die is really nice and I enjoy it.

[@themaxterz0169]

When you started speaking about 3d movie maker I remembered Joel's "Blue Shell Incident" movie, you should watch it if you like silly improvised humor. No tactical stuff tho.

[@froozigiusz]

You should check out "Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45", this game, or more of a mod, is very realistic and game mechanics are very demanding with it's war tactics.

[@paulpolito2001]

“Nuthin’ personal, kid.”, they said. “Suuuurre…”, said I.

[@16BitGamerCat]

The "Zoom like Tim Allen" bit is an in-joke from Soundsmith's Stereotypes series. KJ named his Big Earner "Have You Heard of Zoom by Tim Allen?".

[@posidonentertainmentcompan8490]

He has an addition video explaining some of the background stuff and extra clips. It's good

[@zlaggaming68]

There is a extra commentary video that sound smith made about this video so if you want to watch it I’d highly recommend it

[@mrpresident8546]

Zoom by tim allen is an inside joke referring to a dream one of his friends had. Basically a bunch of random stuff happened involving tim allen

[@padrepiokenobi8608]

19:48 am I the only one noticing how perfectly aligned are the Machina shot with the wall behind him?

[@adachi8902]

Garry's Mod sounds like it could be great for you in making movies. There are TF2 workshop items so it can be all TF2

[@TremorWatt]

"there were no patches, so Nintendo just had to polish these games until there was zero bugs, and man they did it" No they didn't. Are you kidding me?

[@macgyver42563]

2:05 You could say that Spies are your...... Achilles Heel? Get it?

[@ChromiumDome411]

There is a part 2 to this video in which he mentions the behind the scenes so if you want to watch that, that would be cool.

[@VoxFromVoxtech]

My favorite part of this video is him saying “this medic… doesn’t want back time good decision

[@gallantblade1825]

The thing about butterknives is kinda funny. The Ambassador revolver crits an enemy if it headshots. It actually puts them in the range of a melee hit, so you can headshot them, poke them, then run off with the speed boost.

[@darka53741]

on sfm is on steam but the problem is that you need a good computor

[@pelinalwhitestrake3367]

Wait, you didn't realize the cars reference in intro?

[@zanelexo2846]

The Tim Allen joke is an inside joke from his Weapon stereotypes series

[@aurel724]

Have a nice veterans day tomorrow!

[@Games4Life7712]

2:05 Have you tried... TURNING AROUND?!

[@MuteGabagool]

He was desguised as an enemy pyro, that might be the reason for the heavy turning around

[@enricofiala6688]

YES HE FINNALY REACTS TO A GUIDE yaaay

[@erdnussbier4260]

Weapon Stereotypes by SoundSmith next ?

[@arbiter6859]

Oh you wanna play engineer? Watch Uncle Dane

[@OatsBK]

24:00 your shirt in the background lines up with the handel of the gun in the vid

[@deadknight1402]

The Tim Allen joke was a reference to a superhero movie Tim Allen was in called Zoom, where he plays Zoom... He uses his finger as a blender.

[@ItsMadLadSir]

“If bread in French is pain, then I own a f-king bakery”

[@quickkennedy3226]

MGE is a 1v1 gamemode where you fight other players on various maps.

[@wynnefox]

Remember: Tim Allen was a drug dealer when he was younger and was arrested for selling speed.

[@Springy05]

SFM is free in the software section of the library at steam. But I warn you: It uses a 2010 version of tf2 and it is REALLY buggy sometimes, especially with lights

[@initialgd9113]

MGE means My Gaming Edge it is a custom game mode where tf2 players can choose their matchup going againts their opponents on a selected map for a 1v1 situation, selecting different class while the 1v1 is active will give your opponent 1 points, the first to reach 20 points wins the round, there are about 20 corners in a single map one of them being cp_badlands middle cp_proccess middle and cp_snakewater there is also custom gamemode in the map, you are forced to use soldier and use the rocket jump mechanical to grab the intelligence and put it on your hoop, kinda like basketball, rockets do no damage but deals knockback

[@r3io4mf]

and there is also airshot MGE

[@TimothyDexter247]

Zoom like Tim Allen is a reference to Tim Allen's movie Zoom and a video that Soudsmith made of the "Weapon Stereotypes" series on Spy

[@svenkrisenberg6684]

21:06 Tim Allen was in a movie called zoom, it was very low budget

[@MythicBeanProductions]

My parents own an N64 that still works and I grew up playing ocarina of time, banjo kazooie, Mario 64, and a few others and I agree that my fellow gen z missed out on some good stuff

[@CommandingVanguard]

Meanwhile, hearing that speech of old games, here I am, a 2001 kid and grew up with a Snes, NES and N64

[@InfernoTune727]

The zoom by tim allan thing is a inside joke by clockwork smurf (the demo in the sfm segments) and soundsmith

[@loukasdreemingtun6543]

MGE is essentially a player made plug in allowing 1v1 fights to improve with aim on custom servers.

[@ghostwriter5685]

Hope you do a reaction on his latest Mann’s Guide. Edit: TF2 started as a hobby for Soundsmith as he was going to college for and his passion is being a sound engineer, hence his name. He’s literally a sound smith. Which is why his audibles have almost always been on point. His big suggestion for newer people to get a good isolation for voice overs is to record under a heavy blanket.

[@obolisk0430]

I actually think your tactical breakdown stuff is your best content.

[@King_GrimlockVR]

The Joke about Tim Allen and zoom is that he was in a terrible old superhero movie called zoom. The main character his main ability was being able to move fast hence the name zoom

[@Pancakepot]

He made 2 other manns guide which were also great but this one is definitely a new high

[@rob98000]

So on the topic of what people don't know they want, there's a saying "we want a faster horse" this was because people didn't realize that cars were the better transportation until they came out.

[@Luicarlossoto]

Even if SFM looks "accesible" it's acually a NIGHTMARE, the most basic thing you can do is make posters and poses for the characters, i honestly respect everyone who can make animated projects

[@carnoraptorsquad6614]

All the folder names are little bits they wanted to talk about In the script but just didn't mention due to the format of tge script.

[@fink_rat]

So a bit of background on Mann's Guide, this series, in it's universe, is run by character versions of SoundSmith and Clockwerk Smurf, where they're show runners with no real idea how to run it. In the Beggar's video, the two characters ended up arguing about the weapon, with character SoundSmith complaining about the Beggar's and Clockwerk wanting SoundSmith to talk about it (the irl SoundSmith loves the overloading mechanic and all the movement about it, only dislikes the rng)

[@jr9529]

"zoom like Tim Allen?" Seems someone hasn't seen a ... rather bad Tim Allen movie called "zoom"

[@daniellestandridge3568]

If you have trouble with spy just turn around every now and then and listen for decloke sounds

[@CoriandertheIridescent]

Funny story on TF2 servers going weird, Me and my friend were on CTF Well, and we were both playing Engineer and managed to turn our entire team into Engineers and trapped the enemy team in their own base. Just one of many shenanigans me and my friends get up to.

[@KingOfLeeYT]

Oh frick, you reacted to mann's guide. Did not check out this earlier, only saw wrath2501 reaction

[@warioexpert]

Happy Veterans day Bro

[@entropy-cat]

Yeah. Takes a bit of learning but I believe you can get the hang of filmmaker with a few tutorials.

[@anormalmonkey9702]

Thıs man goes on a rampage about something thats not even where the context started and laugsh lıke a gnome... AND I LOVE IT

[@YugiDmega]

If you do decide to do sfm I suggest watching the behind the scenes of how it feels to play engineer so you can see some of what could wrong. Otherwise, it's a fun program