Lewis does a million flips, for real (not imaginary) | GTA 5

[@nikerboker1995]

I feel like I'm getting a snapshot of a discussion in a retirement home

[@thecrimsonraven9446]

The aging millennial look.

[@MrCrunchytime]

And suddenly it makes perfect sense why young people don't like hanging around the elderly. What's even worse is the stark contrast between the world today and the world 20 years ago. Feels like we jumped 100 years in that span.

[@liallen9380]

I'd book a room in that retirement home. Seems like a flash crowd, if they got cute nurses or doctors I'M IN! That or a nice bread pudding.

[@bryalogicalgaming5817]

In the future, KZbin will just be you-breathing-tube

[@cassu6]

@@MrCrunchytime I don’t know. I’ve always loved to hear stories of old people from when they were young.

[@Skybreaker1337]

Ben's grenade kill didn't get enough credit. He threw it in front, it bounced back, almost killing him, but instead killing Rhytian behind him. This was the MLGest grenade he has ever done.

[@WoolyBlubber]

Did it bounce off the car in front of him?? Like thats all I can think of otherwise how did it go backwards!! Ben really hittin us with trickshots

[@dizuko_]

I literally come to comment this, he bounced it off the car in front!!

[@upriiserii5895]

Ben is referring to what is now called "The Barrel of Doom' in Sonic 3 The trick was to move the joystick up and down to make the barrel build momentum up and down However the game never explained this and the game developers expected you to figure it out based mental feedback you'd get from pressing buttons However many people never figured it out and gave up. Yuji Naka and Takashi Iizuka apologized for the barrel many years later.

[@Shadowreaper5]

Bump so that hopefully Ben sees this

[@fenixphlame]

Yeah. This thing was infamous I was only able to beat it by finding every single chaos emerald before that point. And jumping up and down like Ben said. Then using Super Sonic's mid-air directional double jump to pop under it

[@alamega]

That barrel was the worst thing in my child hood gaming life since the sonic 2 drowning theme

[@frenchbassguy]

haha I got Sonic Mania and STILL got stuck there! Thanks for the tip!

[@upriiserii5895]

For once my Sonic knowledge has paid off!

[@user-co2ps4yo7k]

hope lewis was able to remember those text messages

[@LinkedToReality]

The reason Japanese RPGs and such usually have blood type in the character descriptions is because of Japanese Blood Type Personality Theory. They attribute certain personality types to different blood types, and want people reading the info to get an idea of how the characters would/will behave.

[@frenchbassguy]

Yes, it's the equivalent to telling the audience a character's star sign. And just as legit...

[@lonesavior]

@@frenchbassguy I've seen star signs on character profiles as well. Its extra weird because, in my experience, they seem to have been added as an afterthought and have no bearing on actually writing the character.

[@allenellisdewitt]

@@lonesavior I wonder if it's an attempt my localizers to give the same feeling as the blood type thing?

[@serenity8839]

@@lonesavior I mean to be fair, 90% of them can be read as saying almost the same thing in different ways an orders so it never really matters.

[@argentandroid5732]

I have to admit that the idea that my personality would be entirely determined by the types of proteins in my blood seems absolutely horrifying.

[@JynxyLynx]

@12:24 why was lewis googling "remember text messages" XD

[@Pratalax]

Going back to ringtones, I want Bouphe saying "high definition ballsack" to be mine.

[@TheDreadedScotsman]

It was perfectly timed to throw Rythian off his train of thought 😂

[@kristianlangager996]

I wonder when they'll let Nilesy know that he can tilt up/down in the air with (default) Left-Ctrl and Left-Shift respectively.

[@nilesy]

WHAT??

[@kristianlangager996]

@@nilesy That response does not fill me with confidence. My condolences.

[@janw685]

@@nilesy And if hold down the hand brake button (space bar by default) while in the air, you can even rotate left and right in mid-air instead of banking left and right.

[@kane2742]

I'm pretty sure some of the others still haven't learned that.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

Ben's the only one who's figured that out. After 10 years, Lewis still doesn't know you can control the vehicles in the air. Just like they can never figure out that "boost" is always the same as "honk", "jump" is the same as the handbrake, and on cars that have boost, jump, and guns, shoot is on the "scope aim" button for some reason. But then, looking up the controls for games is something no one in the yogscast ever do

[@dudekazoo]

For those interested: Ben is conflating the hd-dvd thing with the betamax vs vhs struggle. VHS purportedly won out over its competitor because pornography was more widely available on that format.

[@enisra_bowman]

and is still false! 🙄

[@SaintPhoenixx]

Woah that was a truly unimaginable number of flips, I cannot believe it. You have to admire Lewis' dedication to making great content, he is so willing to do funny things instead of being a miserable bugger, he'll do anything for the content.

[@MrKoala234]

Zylus pin-wheeling into the horizon killed me! XD

[@lunarazure9969]

I miss those old gaming manuals. So many good memories buying a new game and reading through those booklets on the car ride home. I'm still convinced they were a better way of handling tutorials than the modern stuff. Since you'd spend the car ride home pouring over that manual, by the time you get home and play the game you've already memorized the controls and been introduced to most of the mechanics. Then you get a nice refresher with the actual in game tutorial. Meanwhile, modern tutorials just hit you with a wave of text boxes and expect you to remember it all an hour later when that one random mechanic finally shows up again.

[@Eventide215]

The worrying thing here is you can't remember something an hour later.. I've never had the problem of forgetting mechanics unless it's been weeks since I played, and even then it's easy enough to go in and figure it out. Games almost always have some kind of codex or something in it where you can pop up those tutorials again. The issue isn't needing manuals back it's that gamers expect their hand to be held through everything now. You may not realize it, but that's quite literally what you said based on the fact you can forget a mechanic moments after it's told to you. Most modern tutorials are handled extremely well, but players have changed to be far more stupid than before. A lot of times the people who complain about in-game tutorials are the ones skipping them or just skimming through them because they feel like they somehow know everything about the game because they're a "gamer" and have played similar games. Like what I see happening especially with remakes or sequels.. where people go "Well I played the original (or previous) game so I know how this works." Which that very rarely applies where the new one is like the exact same controls and mechanics.

[@ScottyDnB]

I have great memories of reading the manual on the bus ride home after buying a new game as a young teen, the sense of excitement and anticipation can't be matched by in game tutorials.

[@PWMaarten]

TBF, the Phillips head screw driver genuinely is a genius invention. It works way better then a flat head.

[@ethan-loves]

Yeah, and it's actually designed to prevent screws from snapping from over-tightening. The Phillips screwdriver will disengage from the screw if you try to apply too much torque

[@SaintPhoenixx]

"You know the inventor of the Philips head screwdriver? His hair parted in four different ways." - Rich Hall

[@vjmuzik]

@@ethan-loves hasn’t helped me, just makes it easier to strip out if you ask me. I much prefer torx screws to anything else, it doesn’t require effort to unscrew or screw a tight fitting screw.

[@allstarwoo4]

That depends on who you ask yes it's purposely designed to cam out with too much force. The problem it's so common it's used in cases where the force needed to turn a fastener exceeds the head. On top of it's prone to striping out. Flats heads can have a secret benefit of only needing some thing flat. Some monitors use a flat head screw so you can use a coin to tighten the monitor stand.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

@@allstarwoo4 that's what PoziDriv was invented for - to let you put more force into the screw while still being Phillips compatible. And proper quality screws don't strip easily. But most screws that still use Phillips heads are made from chinesium garbage

[@thedoctormedic3320]

Today I realized that the Yogs have been doing the "Subway Surfer's TikTok videos" for ages, their GTA content is essentially a podcast that we listen to while watching GTA.

[@weezact7]

I like that when Ben flew off the wall ride at the very end, he ALMOST landed back on the start and salvaged it.

[@Robotose]

Lewis and Laura sitting in a tree, playing gta and having a pee, first comes cars, second comes prox bombs, third comes Zylus lapping Nilsey in a showboat fashion

[@drafezard7315]

Who's Laura?

[@IamayMizono]

Fan fact, like how people here in America believe horoscopes Japan believes blood types help determine personality, this is why in some games the manual tells you character's blood types.

[@smokenova]

Even Japanese vtubers have their boood type lister on their wiki pages.

[@XgoodbyeX]

Also just like America most people know its not true

[@dudekazoo]

​@@XgoodbyeX I mean this regarding both places: Do they tho?

[@XgoodbyeX]

@@dudekazoo it's like religion its just false information or like americas history

[@christopherfox6655]

Oh my gosh Ben I got stuck there too in Circus land and never ever figured it out. That moment you described it unlocked some deep forgotten pain in my psyche. I spent hours and eventually gave up and never finished the game!

[@Aura-Of-Syrinx]

Also about Phillip's head screwdriver: It's not only a cross shape, but the design of the screwdriver makes it self torqueing! The idea was that once it started skipping it was at the proper torque for wood, to prevent over tightening and breaking pieces

[@ringosis]

Vinyl is measurably worse quality than CD. It has notably worse signal to noise ratio...this means more hiss, less of the actual recording. Any vinyl enthusiast make claiming vinyl is higher quality is a hipster...not an audiophile. There are reasons certain vinyl releases are better than their CD counterpart, but it has to do with mastering...not audio quality.

[@Adam-ll5hu]

I listen to vinyl on the hand crank record player from 1915 because I grabbed it out of the back of my fathers truck before he went to the dump. I just think its neat

[@anthonyschlessman1848]

part of the issue is vinyl is uncompressed whereas cd is limited in its bitrate so people just assume that means its a step backwards in tech, it doesn't help mass produced poorly mastered CDs where everywhere which reinforce that myth

[@ihatethesehandles]

​@@anthonyschlessman1848 CD is uncompressed, back in the day they probably wouldn't have been able to actually play back compressed audio. But it's digital, not analogue, and some people falsely believe that consumer grade analogue media can achieve higher quality than digital because it's a 'continuous' signal rather than samples, but physics and math disagree!

[@SolstaceWinters]

Big props to Rhythian for calling out Breath of Fire this episode. Big fan of the series, best thing Capcom ever spooted out, seriously. Needs more love as it has currently died the mobile-game death of so many a series. If you are reading this and interested, Rhythian (but be wary of heavy spoilers for the series): The timeline is intentionally ambiguous, but in BoF2 you are decidedly NOT the Ryu (not the other Capcom Ryu, this one's a dragon and not a martial artist) from Breath of Fire 1. It's been at least 5 generations (500-ish years, maybe many more?). It has also been theorized that BoF2's Ryu and Nina got together and had kids after the events of the game (based on some stuff said near the end of the game), both weakening the Winged Clan's royal bloodline but managing to keep the Dragon Clan from dying out, resulting in the BoF2's Wing Clan being unable to turn into birds. So Breath of Fire 1 and Breath of Fire 2 are directly after one another. Breath of Fire 3 is harder to place, as in this game, the world lives in relative peace with all it needs to survive, but technology is severely limited, and there's not a ton of "world" to explore, as the livable parts of the world is surrounded by a very untamable ocean. It is found throughout the game that the world is the way it is due to the Goddess from the first game, Myria (she was called "Tyr" in the SNES version, but BoF2 calls her Myria, and she is referred to as such thereafter. The original JP text uses the same name each time, indicating that we just got some classic old-school mistranslation at the time.) In this game, it is clear she has either had a mood swing, or changed her worldview and become more motherly. She is less about sewing destruction compared to the first game and more about keeping the world ALIVE, as it is on the brink of destruction from those using her wish-granting powers for their own good. So either she's genuinely worried about the world's safety, or she's worried that with no one to worship and use her powers, she'll be forgotten and bored (as she is shown to be selfish and apathetic in the first game). As such, she's rigged the whole world to see her (from afar) as a benevolent goddess of plenty (rather than a goddess of desire)... then blamed the state of the outer world and how "the world was almost brought to destruction" because of the Dragon Clan, and convinced people to nearly wipe them out. With that said it is honestly hard to say whether this belongs before or AFTER BoF1/2. Given that there is a mural of BoF1 in the one town of surviving Dragon Clan members (as few as there are in this game), I'm inclined that this takes place MANY MANY MANY years after BoF1/2. Breath of Fire 4 is the hardest game in the series to place in the timeline. It has a heavy chinese aesthetic, different from the traditional japanese/medieval fantasy RPG feel of the others, but it also feels very "untamed" and "primal". Most populated places in this game are incredibly rural, hamlets and the like. There's only a handful of BIG trade hubs. This is also where the game introduces the concept of "a dragon". Many "things" in this game are called "a dragon", from a gooey worm to a tree to rock golem to Ryu... to even Deis the snake lady (I love her, you may remember her as Bleu from BoF1 if you got far enough)! Anything that is summoned into this world is considered an "Endless" being, a god, and therefore... a dragon. And this game explores that concept HEAVILY! A lot of folks theorize that this game is the start of the world, the beginning. There are warring empires and such, but there's no sign of the goddess Myria, Deis is present but no Myria (perhaps she hasn't been summoned yet?), as well as the concept of what a dragon is. So theoretically, the timeline is looking like BoF 4/1/2/3 Lastly (because I don't consider the abomination that is "Breath of Fire 6", as if a trash moneygrab mobile game that I can't even play deserves a numbered title), there's Breath of Fire 5: Dragon Quarter. This one is also rather strange. A complete departure and a lot of the reason people weaned off of BoF, and the series hasn't seen a game since the PS2. BoF5 wholly takes place underground, in a very tech-heavy world, where people are surviving in poor air with low and bad food having never seen this mythical thing called "the sky". Ryu in this game is only doing what he does because he meets a girl named "Nina" who was *created* as a sort of air purifier and he wants to help her breathe better. The game is relatively short, with loads of replayability. I think this game is actually a lot of fun and while it feels disjointed from the rest, I think it serves as a cool insight into one thing: What happened when people destroyed the world (as I mentioned during the BoF3 paragraph). At the end of this game, you get to "the sky" which is just a giant hatch that lets you go outside. Everyone has been telling you that "there's nothing out there, just death and ruin. Stay in here where it is at least safe from the nothing and 'whatever' that is out there....". You go out there and it is beautiful with clean air and green grass and everything! This all leads me to conclude that BoF5 takes place between Breath of Fire 2 and 3. Something happened between when 2 happens and people destroy the world seeking power, resulting in the complete ruin of the world, at some point the Goddess Myria fixes things up for people to live in and people come out of their shelter, and it just so happens that the first people to do so... were a Ryu and a Nina, the very same people to put her in her place in the first game many centuries ago. With all that said, I think the BoF timeline looks like: 4/1/2/5/3 And now that I have exhausted my mind trying to remember what I can about each BoF title, I hope it was at least somewhat interesting to read by the way... I'm going to go back to experiencing Tears of the Kingdom again! Thanks for coming to my Chaos Chat!

[@fbnssfatboy]

I feel the need to intervene in the blu-ray conversation. Blu Ray refers to the literal laser ray they use to write/read the discs. Blue light has a smaller wavelength than red light, so Blu ray can fit more information on the same amount of space when writing the disc. Quality is basically determined by the amount of information available. And now i must return to my lurk hole

[@StrangelyIronic]

LaserDisc used analog video, so they weren't really like dvd's at all in that aspect. That's one of the formats I collect just for the sake of collecting (the boxes/sleeves make for great wall art). The only real downside practically speaking for the time was run time was a short. You had to flip and swap disc multiple times for feature length films. Some players had the auto flip, but I generally go for the highest quality and simplest piece of equipment to make repairs easier in the long run since I'll be doing everything. The idea of the porn industry deciding a format wasn't really true, but that was the story for VHS vs Betamax. Beta won in a way, it was used for video production, while VHS was the format that won out for home/consumer use. A lot of factors played into it, not all being positives for VHS. Quality was worse, but runtime was longer, so you could fit films on one tape. VHS had already really won the home format war before media distribution got popular. Originally you have "video cassette recorders" and that was their primary use, to record television, not really to buy media on the format.

[@Stomaia87]

Rythian's been hanging around Kirsty and Briony too much...

[@allenellisdewitt]

1) CDs have better quality, it's measurable. 2) I still often buy them, unless the digital copy has a FLAC option.

[@Ryaninja]

I had a minidisc player, and I never got over having to put the track names, character by character for the album Bat Out Of Hell by Meatloaf. Honestly the track names were basically essays and it took so long to put them all in. Life is a lemon (and I want my money back) pretty much sums up how I felt programming in the track names. Screw you, Meatloaf, I'll never get that time back!

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

Man I miss video game manuals. Truely a lost art

[@thesteelrodent1796]

Aye. Some games will still give you a properly illustrated PDF, but sadly even that has become rare

[@Eventide215]

I used to love getting the collector's editions of strategy guides for games like Final Fantasy. The last one I got was for FFXIII-2. They were just so beautifully done and not useless. I hate games that now just go "You can get our artbook!" ..that has no use to me. I don't really care to just see your concept art and nothing else. The Final Fantasy guides have concept art, illustrations, etc all mixed in with the information. They're also done in such a nice way that they're still useful today for figuring things out faster than looking it up. If I go to play Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, it's actually easier to use the strategy guide if I have a question for something because when you look it up you have to sift through lies, opinions, conjecture, etc.

[@toeman89]

Ben, you just had to press up and down on the D pad when standing on the spinning thing to get more and more momentum to get it higher and higher 😁

[@Shyl1ght]

That spot is pretty infamous because there was no other spot in the game that required you to do anything like it, so a lot of people got stuck there.

[@Deemosorence117]

These races have basically become a pod cast but while watching video games haha

[@Wyattporter]

Nilesy is so hilarious in these videos, he’s such a good presence

[@ethan-loves]

It's rare that a video's title actually elevates the joke, nicely done :)

[@crusatyr1452]

I love your pfp

[@ethan-loves]

@@crusatyr1452 Aww shucks, thanks! Snaildeer loves you, too ^_^

[@ethan-loves]

@@crusatyr1452 P.S. I am thoroughly intimidated by your pfp lol

[@crusatyr1452]

@@ethan-loves Lol I put it together in Google Drawing XD

[@dayto7559]

good on lewis not giving into peer pressure

[@Stovaa]

Ive never been more in love with someone than when Bouphe talked about her Frank Zappa minidiscs. And then Ben pointed out the output limitations on the xbox n i was torn.

[@adolftittler8140]

Intro so good they almost did it twice. Balance restored, therapy sessions over

[@peshwarinaan2279]

I no longer feel lost and weird

[@Barbarossa0521]

I loved the age of the manual. SimAnt and Starsiege/Tribes manuals were the best of all time. While I miss them, it is a worthy sacrifice for the age of Steam.

[@KuroroSama42]

2:12 Well he just dug his hole. Vinyl is definitely NOT better quality. It *might* be better sound (that's very subjective), but the quality is definitely lower. It brings other benefits to the sound, which can be appealing.

[@yognitram671]

"Vinyl deez nuts" -Rythian

[@Sorfinali]

Nilesy constanly hitting his nose on the ground like PULL UP MF PULL UP

[@thomasstevens4735]

I still buy dvds, blu ray and cds. I like to have the physical item rather than having to rely on a streaming site which could possibly remove it or not work due to many technical problems out of my control.

[@InuzukaMao]

Ben talking about the Sonic 3 circus level awoke a traumatizing memory.

[@Satherian]

Music's back, boyos

[@Neskus]

Rythian: "Who still buys blurays?" Well considering most anime only gets released on blurays, me.

[@dlemming888]

When Lewis turns on his own I regularly wonder why no one takes him out

[@fadadapple]

He’s the boss

[@lumbajackthumbs7755]

20:39 zylus does

[@bizzarojerry]

YES BEN!!! That fucking clown barrel in Sonic 3 was the bane of my existence back in the 90's. Apparently all you have to do is use Up and Down on the D-Pad to move the barrel while you're on it, but everyone was too damn busy timing jumps to notice.

[@pigmiwarriorgaming1315]

I moved onto MP3s many years ago but I've never felt as in control of my music and audio recording as I did with my minidisc. Way better than CDs, which are somehow still going.

[@baht8580]

There are two types of 90s kids, ones who got stuck on the circus barrels in Sonic 3 and those who never played Sonic 3.

[@TheItachikiller]

blood type is used a lot like astrology signs or meyer's briggs in japan, with certain personalities corresponding to blood types

[@SOENJAY]

"Vinyl deez nuts" -Rythian 2023 XD

[@bryceh6268]

Also, I've never had laser disc, but I believe the laser disc came first, but CD immediately took it over due to it being compact. I love collecting physical media for games and movies

[@matheusGMN]

It was so adorable Bouphe just "can we go back to CDs plsss" :3

[@JamieAubrey]

Ben messed up the wall ride and almost landed back at the starting point

[@highvoltage7797]

Vinyl is huge Lewis and was around for much longer as a popular medium.

[@anthonyschlessman1848]

it's not huge, its very niche now, it's easy to think something is extremely popular these days because the internet makes everything easier to share

[@Storm7777]

Best physical movie releases are the Criterion Collection. So many extra features.

[@J4ckielope]

There's forgotten magic in old DVDs. The first few seasons of King of the Hill have fun little animations before the menus on each disc

[@Wearyman]

I'm old enough that the whole HD-DVD vs Blueray thing gave me such flashbacks to other format wars and I just said "F-this" and skipped straight to digital piracy until streaming became a thing.

[@Pistolsatsean]

If your car were air tight and you drove it into a lake, you would just suffocate.

[@Bardic_Knowledge]

So much Orphaned Etymology. CDs are called such because it stood for Compact Disc, because they were so much smaller than Laser Discs, which were called such because they used light instead of a physical stylus to read the grooves in the disc.

[@groundcontrolto]

Citation needed on that one I think. Sources point to it being a reference to "compact cassette".

[@flightlesschicken7769]

2:15 Contrary to what Nilesy may think there is absolutely no way vinyl is better quality that a good CD. If you have a vinyl that sounds better than a CD, you’re just listening to a shite CD. CDs can hold lossless audio with a dynamic range vinyls wish they could have. The difference is a lot of CDs have low quality audio on them, but you just need to get a good CD. Vinyls do not even compare, there is a reason they were replaced

[@RubelliteFae]

Rawrlaur? Hmmm? Wonder if it has anything to do with Worship by Chasing Rats

[@MeAMoose]

Blu-Ray bitrate is much much higher than what you can get from streaming. Your average Blu-Ray movie is north of 60~ GBs or more, whereas streaming (with lossy compression) isn't likely to use more than a couple Gigabytes worth of bandwidth. Furthermore, you can always rip the Blu-Ray to a hard drive and run something like Plex or Jellyfin.

[@gossamer999]

The reason I would buy (and sometimes still do) blu-rays of movies or shows I like is because I own it. A streaming company can't suddenly decide I can't watch a movie anymore for whatever evil or greedy reason. I have the blu-ray, I have the player, I can watch it.

[@frenchbassguy]

DUDE BEN I HAVE BEEN STUCK IN THAT SAME SPOT IN SONIC MY ENTIRE LIFE

[@willmiles7978]

I thought it was a weird reversal of the trend: porn started off backing HDDVD, people expected that format would then become the standard, I think the Playstation influence among other things helped Blu-Ray actually overtake and porn had to switch.

[@capulcinka]

teh convo at the start felt a lot like visiting your Heard-of-hearing granny who misheards half of the stuff you say :D

[@DezzieYT]

I buy DVDs and BluRays of my favourite anime and movies. Streaming is great, but you never know when something you love will no longer be available.

[@Aura-Of-Syrinx]

I loved the PSP, it was a gamechanger in the handheld world! UMDs were meh, but Sony loves them their laser discs

[@davidwalter9162]

Oh, man, I'm right with Ben on that Sonic 3 bit. Never called a help line about that barrel in Carnival Night Zone myself, but that was always a roadblock until I finally got onto the internet and looked it up. (Didn't help that Carnival Night Zone was a fairly long level, so you're usually pushing like at least the 7-8 minute mark out of your maximum of 10 minutes.) Turns out you can move the barrel by hitting up and down while you're standing on it. Which is pretty much _only_ used for that _one_ barrel in the entire Zone, and never comes up again ever anywhere else in the game. The only other thing that's close is the pulleys in Mushroom Hill Zone, but at least those are fairly intuitive.

[@PSHGamer]

lol zylus ended up doing less than lewis' half flip

[@7thlittleleopard7]

Zylus with the Breath of Fire II rep! I hear you, bro

[@luapslev5826]

Don't eat before this episode!

[@anononomous]

Philips didn't do the screwdriver, that Phillips with two "l"s (unrelated).

[@Lord_Edox]

I just updated a 5th gen iPod to have a 512 gig hard drive and a new battery and using RockBox firmware. Best music player.

[@DoubleAE]

Hey Ben, you just push up and down for the Sonic 3 Barrel

[@nrgzrbny]

Mini Disc never really took off in the USA except for mobile DJs. HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray: Ultimately it came down to WalMart and adult movie industry - both opted for Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. Same thing happened with Betamax vs VHS. Adult movies opted for VHS which killed off Betamax almost immediately. Kinda the demise of LaserDisc as well aside from it being expensive and clunky.

[@daphnetilling6034]

I miss boxed games, they used to come with maps and all sorts

[@kane2742]

Heroes of Might and Magic III came with a huge novel-length manual with stats for every creature, information about town upgrades, heroes, etc. It was awesome.

[@Mr_anderson111]

I miss manuals in games and the books in dvds, same with behind the scenes, blooper reels and deleted scenes

[@CamronJK]

HD-DVD was much more expensive to manufacture, IIRC. Big reason the Blu-ray caught on.

[@gormster]

Someone needs to send everyone in this video over to Technology Connections

[@XNinjaMushroomX]

Man, I really wish the Minecraft days.

[@BraindeadPsychosis]

And the difference etween DVD and Blu-Ray is the lazer light thats used to encode yhe information. blu-ray uses a blue lazer as its a barrower beem and can write deeper onto the disc as opposed to red lazers uses for regular CDs

[@JamieAubrey]

Lewis going rouge on his own team

[@orangeofwilliam6900]

I’m so happy to see Nilesy on the main channel! I hope we see more of him! 😌

[@Nathan-pl2cf]

The editing's been feeling rushed lately. Last time there was no intro music and weird pause, now we're getting shown Lewis tabbed out

[@zoraksilver]

Rythian on fire this episode

[@waveymattdavey]

HUGE HITS 1996 That's a memory

[@groundcontrolto]

The lack of porn on Betamax is often given as a reason for its demise, but Betamax generally had less content available. Guess who just watched a Technology Connections video?

[@PoschSpice30]

How have you guys forgotten the greatest music device ever invented? the Hit Clips

[@fezzverbal]

The first album I ever bought was In the mix 96!

[@colonelturmeric558]

Rate my number two: electric poogaloo

[@TheMixCurator]

08:58 - Ben almost gets it right. It was why the inferior VHS won over Betamax because VHS' were much cheaper to manufacture. This, I believe was in the late 70s/early 80s. Right, I'll go and get my walking stick (I'm younger than Simon BTW before I get called Grandpa)

[@evanmatthews2159]

VHS won because it held more video and more players were available. The quality was basically the same.

[@gameclips5734]

nilesy playing on keyboard and not knowing how to air control was painful

[@Scampcam]

The reason Japanese games have bloodtype is because they have some belief that it helps define you as a personality. Like how star signs define a saggitarius.

[@shadyfragger5749]

Ben: I was stuck on Sonic 3. Me: It was the barrel in the theme park wasn't it? Ben: There was a spinning barrel.... Me: Called it. That moment of confusion really stuck with me when I had that sonic game collection for the PS2 years back. No amount of jumping seemed to get the height I needed to open the way. It wasn't until years later, when me my sister saw a robot chicken-esque skit collection on youtube that the wisdom of the gods presented itself to us: up and down. I was so astounded I had to play the game again to verify it. And I was elated when it worked. I didn't need to use the debug menu to access the rest of the game anymore! Idk where I'm going with this. It's just nice to see that this very nostalgic moment of my childhood was a universal, timeless benchmark of suffering.

[@Snoopydoop]

Yes please.

[@g3cd]

Dear Rhythian: the difference between Blu Ray and Netflix is that a) the film belongs to you and won't "disappear in your country" from one week to another, forcing you to use a VPN to watch it in another country b) you get a lot of films that just aren't available via Netflix (or Amazon or Apple if you're stupid enough to subscribe to multiple services) c) no ads and d) you don't pay a monthly fee for the rest of your life to watch what you like. If you pay 16.99 per month for the next 50 years - that's over TEN THOUSAND bucks. I pay a fraction for that for the Blue Rays and DVDs that I really love. So who still buys Blu Ray? SMART people 😜

[@IcepersonYT]

I feel like services like Netflix only have a ton of value if you use them a lot. If you watch a movie like everyday, it would be more cost effective to not physically buy movies. Also as someone who doesn't rewatch movies(or really watches movies in general), buying a movie physically would be a huge waste for me(but I feel the same way about streaming services).

[@gehyashgigzwerg]

I was surprised about ben's troubles with sonic 3 barrel. But then again, as a Russian i am a bit closer to the asians than Ben (at least geographically). To me it is as intuitive as washing being good for your health.

[@heyojayo8642]

Nilesy needs some "air control" 🤪✌️

[@Cosmic_Tortoise]

12:15 Who is this Laura person and how many people have contacted her on Steam now that her username is presented by Lewis alt-tabbing?

[@nicksteele9436]

Why have we not had more Nilesy sooner? I love this guy.

[@Triairius]

My parents bought a PS3 back when it was cheaper than standalone BluRay players, actually.