Dan challenged me to an Isaac race...

[@litapd311]

NL: I didn't say you couldn't beat me NL when Dan suggested he could beat him: LMAO

[@frankfilmic]

Obviously Dan is gonna win as he knows the top 10 tips to speedrun Isaac.

[@ashark8968]

Seems like nl watched that video… resin.

[@asdfnewguy7029]

Cereal

[@timu1960]

how can i come up with such good jokes like theese, realtime in conversations?

[@Matt_From_2006_Game_Wii_Sports]

@@timu1960 You gotta put more points into your social skills. Another great way is to attain the comedian perk.

[@alex-zd5gr]

@@timu1960 just always have a few bits in you're pocket for if you don't feel like you're being enough of a presence.

[@Burningfiretaco]

Watching NL going to bed: broke Watching NL at the gym: woke Putting NL on the gym tv, unflinchingly unashamed of the social consequences: bespoke

[@anything.everything...]

Homeboy blasted NL in the stall of my college dorm bathroom and I couldn't acknowledge it

[@KipomoVideos]

The Netherlands aren’t THAT good

[@Whatsuppbuddies]

I figured gym brothers loved protein and all that. What’s wrong with a little egg to fill everyone up?

[@elijahsinclair7219]

@@Whatsuppbuddies LMAO

[@jayg9283]

David Chong hit him with the “Ayo why tf does it smell like eggs in here”

[@Daenym]

A race. NL: Picks the wrong item Dan: Dies Comedy gold.

[@TheDarksideofSnow]

NL forgetting he has birthright and picking the wrong item gives me life

[@itsLowi]

it went well first and then horribly wrong right after xd

[@Talking_Ed]

He does it so many times and everytime he suffers ahahaha I love it

[@jackl8025]

"fruit strip chick-o-stick on the floor room" "ooooh, planetarium!" "yeah"

[@NicolaeHolley]

NL's ability to translate Danglish is frankly awe-inspiring.

[@hunterhall5747]

Yeah how the hell does a chic o stick look like a planetarium I literally have seen both these things before

[@reticentsins]

This just goes to show that every friend group has someone with their own language and someone who has to figure everything out for everyone else.

[@Madhatter1781]

@@reticentsins It's the Boomhauer/Hank relationship

[@okuchen727]

Dan will never challenge Egg to an Isaac race... Cereal

[@ricetotherescue]

I actually read the book OJ wrote. I can sum it up as this: "I didn't do it and am completely innocent and I can't believe people would believe those things about me. But also here is a confession and detailed description of me doing the exact thing I am denying doing. No, I am not self aware."

[@jayg9283]

One he gets off innocent he can’t be tried for the same crime again. Actually a 140IQ level play to make money

[@Kolyats]

@@jayg9283 he got done in civil court though and had to pay a lot of money to their families.

[@jayg9283]

Al Bond So the optimal financial choice would’ve been to do in the entire family, huh

[@ricetotherescue]

@@jayg9283 I would imagine the optimal financial choice would have been to not murder anyone and continue being a super rich retired athlete making extra money by doing Hertz commercials lol

[@jayg9283]

Rice where’s the fun in that?

[@Ceviche4K]

"there's a philosopher on tiktok" Dan is so ahead of everyone else in the game rn

[@thelarchmage]

Loved NL's silent reaction to taking Fate's Reward

[@KipomoVideos]

“Ok Zilly of course” I love NL’s reaction to Dan’s seed pronunciation

[@neil_breen42]

If anyone can fire those photon torpedos into the exhaust port of the Death Star...well, it's probably not Dan, but the pog flow can't be stopped either way.

[@Xacreasel]

Um, actually its proton torpedos not photon. Photon torpedos are the ones from star trek

[@westonmcelwee4437]

@@Xacreasel ram a proton torpedo up your ass

[@cassiecottrell444]

If this doesn't become a regular thing I'm gonna lose my mind.

[@IWkris]

How are you doing

[@Metaknightkirby2]

More races with Dan please, this was really fun to watch! Some sort of side by side view of both screens at once might also be nice, if that's not too much editing work. 👀

[@johnc1752]

Does it involve editing? Then it's too much editing OmegaLUL

[@MegaJotie]

I will never recuperate from how smug NL looked in the thumbnail. 7/5 well done.

[@Random_Fanguy]

You take a shot at the champ you best not miss.

[@Eclipse8502]

He doing the Lex Luther signature look of superiority

[@ahhhhyes]

Pro tip: Don't try combining the words smug and egg it dont work.

[@dylanb2990]

@@ahhhhyes smugg

[@ninjack11]

4:04 Dan 110% said "Zed" not zilly

[@Rolling2Much]

😂😂

[@Joshua-io9xg]

NL you should check out the British quiz show "Pointless" - it's essentially the opposite of family feud where they have to guess what things people in a survey might NOT have said for questions. An example question could be a film or TV show and having to name actors in it, but to win you need to find the most obscure ones.

[@litapd311]

so you're still trying to guess the category, but you want the most obscure answers instead of the most popular answers? sounds cool!

[@quilverr613]

@@litapd311 Exactly this, the best answer is a "pointless" answer (as in scored no points) which would be a correct answer that literally nobody on the survey said

[@tbolland1991]

the only bad thing is that the 'final' part of the show is very often anti-climactic.

[@DracoTSD]

Oh man, I did not know I needed this but I do. I'd love to see NL's take on Pointless.

[@keirontravis]

i'm here in the UK, and pointless is a pretty good show

[@WallJumpGaming]

Tries to pick up 20/20... Takes fates reward. Wouldn't be a Northernlion run without this type of stuff

[@libralovecraft]

I do this thing with a buddy we've called "Mirror Race", we throw out a random seed and stay on mic; then wherever there are multiple items we each flip a coin. Whoever calls it gets to pick their item and whoever misses the call MUST take the opposite item. It's made for some pretty fun victories where I get brimstone and they get garbage. Annnnd some fun losses where they get Book of Revelations and I get The Bible. I feel like you and Dan would have a looot of fun with it, since it's literally just trolling the other person. (Especially fun when the one who gets the crap items still wins.)

[@daxsama]

Throwback to Tboi flash mirror matches with Bisnap

[@deathlycosa]

Listening to Dan playing Isaac without the visuals might be actually be more POG

[@reticentsins]

My immediate thought with this video is that during co-op Dan didn't know you had to stop shooting at Cod Worm so I was just waiting to see if he'd get stuck in a room for a minute wondering why he couldn't kill it.

[@madelynn7585]

At around 5:30 when u were talking about 3 vs 1 with trivia, that reminded me of the time when all like 17 of my classmates tried to beat literally just one of my classmates at an online game about history and in the end the 1 child won with like more than 2x our collective score. It was definitely smth to say the least

[@nikolay4101-s7r]

Isaac races? I either haven't noticed or there hasn't been one of these in quite a while. Please do more

[@NicolaeHolley]

Can I just say, I appreciate Ryan's faces in the thumbnails. It's easy to dismiss the concept of making a thumbnail face as the stereotypical :O that a lot of KZbinrs do, but NL's faces are 1) not grossly exaggerated, and 2) convey nuances of emotion specific to the video he's putting up. It's not just "POGGY, NEW GAME" or "OMG, ISAAC RACE", you get some mystery and anticipation when you see the face he made for a given thumbnail.

[@angrbxtha]

NL picking up guppy's eye and still extinguishing all fires and opening all chests gives me life.

[@ClockworkEngineer]

Can't explain how much I love NL+Dan content. It's entertainment gold.

[@eltee704]

Fact: "the beast" in the chase was my school maths teacher

[@jakeleearmy200]

“The dark destroyer” lives a couple of streets down from me. Small world.

[@eltee704]

@@jakeleearmy200 the beast married his cousin as well. 😂

[@krytenfivetwothreep2485]

@@eltee704 *Second cousin aka his actual cousins child

[@squmbulousmcbumbulous8251]

Did you ever fight him and the four horsemen of the apocalypse in hell?

[@omyyer]

"Uhh Z is zero" incredible.

[@emilyatheris9635]

35:39 maybe the hardest ive ever laughed

[@Sephiko]

When you're competitive, the dodge master comes online.

[@vitusberg8625]

I love reading the comments on these Isaac videos, because the banter do be so unreal that you'll get a Star wars reference comment next to a book analysis of the oj Simpson biography

[@Stealwing33]

I feel like the eddy room play would be 100% above board, cuz you'd still have to beat the dark room after that right? Like if the race is "First to touch the trophy wins" then doing it quick but hard should be allowed IMO. Dying puts you giga behind and its normally a death sentence I think.

[@flumsenumse]

considering that the eddy rooms give you a good chance of getting 1 to 2 angel items while playing them (up to four with filigree feather) it's not that hard to beat the lamb if you get the 50% chance of 7 spirit hearts before the last angel. especially now that the four chests in the dark room are devil deals.

[@Stealwing33]

@@flumsenumse yea but this is Dan we're talkin about. I think thats fair play IMO

[@flynnwalker6595]

@@Stealwing33 If Dan's allowed then NL would be though, and I fully believe that NL could beat the dark room with just like a second floor eddy room.

[@colinpaton3304]

“PR Cleanup 101” got me good

[@beanie7965]

Yes! Haha! Issac races are a treat and I always appreciate the collaborations.

[@jackkendall6420]

Absolutely pogged at the idea NL watches the chase lmao

[@prawtism]

Just for statistics, would like to see if Dan could get one win in 100

[@penghuinkirby]

You come at the king, you best not miss.

[@Eagle-Fly]

5:25 the chase is a running television show in my country

[@voidphoenix2991]

12:47 Now That made me angry

[@HighSaltLevels]

This video made me miss "Check the Wire"

[@curiouslockpicker8971]

That was so pog! Would love to see more. You and Dan have awesome chemistry.

[@Triga8bit]

People asking why NL never uses mods clearly weren't here for flash Binding of Northernlion days smh.

[@Breadward_MacGluten]

I was not there during those times, so I have literally no idea what you are talking about. Can you please elaborate because you have now made me curious lol

[@Triga8bit]

@@Breadward_MacGluten Back in Flash Isaac there was a lot less content (7 characters, really only one endgame path, etc.) and a lot less quality of life, so he installed mods to spice things up. He would play with Spidermod occasionally (referenced by the item in Rebirth), item pool modification mods, and, my personal favorite, the NL face mod. Elucidater created a mod that just replaced Isaac's face with NL's KZbin avatar, and NL used it for around 100 episodes. You can see it in action by appending /watch?v=IJTdlJlqPyo to a KZbin link. He still occasionally dabbles in mods with overhauls like Antibirth or Fiend Folio, but for the most part he's left cosmetic and gameplay mods back in Flash-era.

[@Breadward_MacGluten]

@@Triga8bit ahh I see, thank you! Personally I believe the balance of the vanilla game is not as like "sacred" as nl makes it seem like, so having mods, especially those which also have huge teams behind them unlike what he said, simply adds a new spin to the balance instead of butchering it in some way. I mean, we are talking about the same game where the shop, one of the most important parts of the game, got like a day one patch after repentance simply because people didnt like how bad the shops became. If the balance is that thought over, THAT mustve done some beef to it lmao

[@jebuzjaime]

God, flash Isaac was just a wasteland. How the fuck did we put up with the fps, the quality lmao. His challenge runs like smb superfan were so dumb I loved them. Still love spidermod.

[@jebuzjaime]

@@Breadward_MacGluten NL for the most part isn't against mods about balancing as much as it is that finding those good mods with thought takes sifting and time. Same way he's not against mods that add content, but not all are made equal and it adds a wrench in the mix. Compatibility and crashing. Setup, patches, and people requesting other things when given an inch. It's better when something is reliable and works, always has been the mindset he displays. It's why he was against Jedi Academy since it needed modding and so many other things for quite a while. This value for his time just goes up more now that he's a father. This really shows.with his age too because he would have to setup cheat engine in flash Isaac to do some challenge runs with unique things. Like giving him an item on entering a room and things like that. Dude values his time enough that he kept using x-split until it broke since he already had his routine and habits, even though obs was clearly better as told by his colleagues.

[@uncleflansy5621]

10/10 Chutes and Ladders callback there from Dan.

[@Kryptnyt]

Dan gheesling is a very cool human being (or strange alien) for challenging the immovable mountain

[@danielvan12]

Did Dan just call salt...sodium? Just sodium??

[@JRando]

Yep….kinda embarrassing tbh

[@Splintorious]

NL just discovered the British tv staple that is the chase

[@benwyness148]

Its on tv alot here in New zealand as well

[@Mazerwolf]

Eye of the occult with cricket’s body seems pretty dang strong

[@josh8901]

Isaac races? That's so 2013 and I love it

[@attackedbysnakes3640]

34:03 NL experienced physical pain at that misplay

[@mathiass1967]

I think Dan won, he made it to the starting screen first. LOL

[@vk2877]

Very brave of you to challange THE Isac Speedrun youtuber.

[@mariosonicfan2010]

NL: "But then one person is like, 'hey wouldn't it be cool if there was an item that was like brimstone, but better?'" _[laughs in revelation]_

[@Jeyfizzle]

Please do more races! Especially with Dan trying to convince you he's way ahead!

[@ikop5829]

NL calls the proton torpedoes "photon" torpedoes. Fake fan confirmed can't believe it.

[@qwertyious]

I guess he has seen some Star Trek, perhaps. They’ve got photon torpedoes there.

[@redcom25]

Jerma made the literal exact observation about the planetarium looking like Fruit Stripe that Dan did, and my mind is boggled because I 100% do not see the comparison. Maybe I’m wrong

[@KingBee7]

Can’t believe I’m hearing them talk about The Chase 😭 it’s a British tv show and over here it’s on every day of the week but Saturday, ITS NOT THAT GOOD

[@meat_rainbow]

Great episode, great banter, great big ol Pog in this house

[@rajburtonpatel6702]

NL doing a womb challenge room in a race for Dad’s Lost Coin will never not be funny.

[@AswagMouse]

A return to the classic formula

[@hiddeluchtenbelt6440]

Dan was looking for the word 'mnemonic'

[@StrangeC330]

Him reading the seed has me in tears

[@e-kseries7091]

Dan: The curse room took you to the devil deal NL:Oh did it? Dan:Yeah now I have brimstone NL:WHAT!?

[@eptothefrep]

Oh lord my gourd

[@hamytheturtle]

I love watching NL try to justify going to the dark room because he took the DMG UP, realizes his mistake, then tries to hide it by saying the dark room is harder.

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

It has objectively tougher enemies my guy.

[@imptwins]

I didn't say you couldn't win, I just laughed very loudly in your face, c'mon don't misrepresent me.

[@AsterSea]

The title has the most hostile ellipsis I've ever seen.

[@TheFantasticGreyFox]

You beat me…STRAIGHT UP

[@mayaburchett1090]

Please more!! I miss these

[@KDoodleNoodle99]

Maybe we will see some more stuff like this again now that Dan is finally free from Malenia

[@rickivanlear]

Just look on you face in the picture was enough to get me to watch and ended how I figured it would.

[@Doobs110]

1:45 um actually Luke shoots a proton torpedo into the exhaust port of the Death Star; photon torpedos are from Star Trek 😎

[@luma345]

i appreciate the Phoenix Suns nod Daniel 👍

[@GigaChadMob]

NaCl is sodium chloride, also known as salt.

[@laperers.]

I mean just table salt. There are other kinds of salts

[@GigaChadMob]

@@laperers. this is true

[@niveous5392]

How NL feels about modded Isaac is how I feel about modding most games. Unless it’s meticulously balanced towards the vanilla game, or like an overhaul

[@zackfake1253]

The fates reward play

[@nativechatter999]

Dan - pog Isaac - pog race - pog

[@NewfiCheese]

Can we get a pog? Good luck NL!

[@ThePillent]

happy midsommer everyone! :D

[@godhandking]

A slice of Uranus............excuse me?

[@crispybb1953]

isaac race with mathas vibe

[@duncancollins442]

1:10 yeah but hes a what??????, repeat from time stamp and youll hear it lol.

[@Gotenks070]

Old eggman refuses to use anything that modifies games. Gets angry if anyone asks him why. More at 11.

[@wardcraft9106]

Chico-stick is a peanut butter candy

[@FallenSnakashi]

Don’t challenge Dan to a speedrun in tainted Cain.

[@litapd311]

what are the eddy rooms? sacrifice rooms?

[@irresponsibledad]

Yes, but I have no idea what disaster of Danglish led to the name

[@EDoyl]

A guy who really likes indie games basically exclusively but doesn't like mods because they're usually made by one person

[@PhantoRoyce]

Is Beat the Freeze the same thing as Race the Fridge where they have you race a big fat guy who’s waaaaaay faster than he looks

[@tommymitchell1798]

Don’t talk to me about Isaac speed runs

[@eptothefrep]

9 lives blast bombs kekw

[@Letsgoandgetit]

I want to see that orange world map photo

[@andrewlee9108]

lmao the ben simmons bit

[@SparklerScented]

Starts at 4:53

[@MannFace51]

4:50 to skip to run

[@mggthebest]

From how Dan phrased it in the beginning, doesn't that mean NL challenged Dan to an Isaac race by suggesting it?

[@reinkdesigns]

so the timer in magic, its not for people who dont know the rules, its for people who play blue...

[@dragonfire14x]

I hate playing against Magic the Gathering slow players. Now Don't get me wrong if you are new to the game I completely understand, and feel free to ask questions to me or the judge/store owner if you need to. When I say I hate slow players I mean the people that make a strategy of intentionally slow playing to time out the game. We have this chick at my LGS who is infamous for doing it, and since she is friends with one of the owners they do nothing about it. Game one if she is feeling confidant she plays mostly normal, but if she wins game 1 get ready for the most obvious fake slow playing of your life. She will sit there and read the same card for 5 minutes straight, or look at her hand with 0 mana open, no activatable abilities, and in main phase 2 and just sit there saying she's thinking.

[@TeriyakiTakeout]

I like this content

[@als_pals]

Anyone care to explain what room is the Eddie room?

[@user-zz3sn8ky7z]

Most of the time sacrifice room, but it can mean secret/super secret room as well, because Dan. Both are from Dan's co-op game with Edmund McMillen, where Dan got Godhead from sac. room and Edmund said that you should always look for both secret rooms.

[@Luna.Starlight.Eclipse]

Cereal never will Isaac Northernlion