The Bilbo Baggins Meme | EFAP Highlight

[@M0ndi]

“Do not cite the Deep Meme to me, Tonald. I was there when it was written.” - Bilbo Bigideas Baggins

[@HectorLopez0217]

Just because it’s bad doesn’t mean it’s bad

[@Doomlovesearth2]

@@HectorLopez0217 The wheels of a working economy need to keep turning.

[@mmmbopgangsta7329]

I will never tire of reading other people's made up Bilbo names. Lmao, I read Bigideas as big-ah-dee-ass and not Big Ideas, lmaooooo

[@ViolentMessiah666]

Careful wolf, digging this deep in the Efap mines could awaken a floombus

[@JM-hj3sm]

Been watching EFAP since Joker came out and never got the lore on this meme. Thank you for this succor, Wolf.

[@vileluca]

Last time I thanked Wolf for his succor I got banned from his Discord.

[@ThePenAndTheRose]

This comment 👆

[@amandahuginkys7878]

Been watching sense The Last Jedi and was totally lost on this lore as well.

[@HectorLopez0217]

“I feel thin like Twitted over too much Tipples.”- Boogie 2988ad.

[@KainaX122]

F*cking… *_TIPPLES!!_*

[@karolo320]

BRO I OINKED LIKE A PIG

[@anixprophet1966]

Boogie Baggins

[@woodwyrm]

lmao

[@vileluca]

This is basically The Book of Genesis for Efap. (not to be confused with Jared Genesis)

[@CheeseOfMasters]

Jared is the main character of the book of Genesis.

[@Ron_Jambo_]

​@@CheeseOfMastersThe main villain* It hasn't been cool to glaze Jared since he openly admitted to being a pdf file years ago.

[@Ron_Jambo_]

​@@CheeseOfMastersHe's a self-admitted pdf file.

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

"This is Aarrgably my Only Joy." - Bilbonius Bagginius III

[@IzemWestan-k1g]

it deserves 1.2 BBBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIOOOOOOOOOOONNNN likes.

[@JiJ1511]

Bilbo Baggins memes... Now that's a joy in life I haven't heard in a long time...

[@KainaX122]

Bilbo Baggins is the only thing that brings Boogie joy in life 😂

[@amandahuginkys7878]

A glorious meme within a meme; the time cometh; as the Spiders have Foretold

[@clintbeastwood5116]

"Happy New Year, Wolf! Thanks for providing us with quality memes!" - Bilbo Baggins

[@mr.moonthegoon4178]

Yknow, some older beat em up games did have "quest arrows". After a fight a little arrow would pop up and tell you to keep going right

[@KingBuilder525]

To be fair, it did save a couple seconds by telling you there were no more enemies in this segment

[@evildarkass5]

No, old games were hard because they were simple and short so the developers made them hard so you didn't breeze through them.

[@Digsidian]

I'd argue they were hard because they were well made. The go to example is Castlevania 1 vs Castlevania 2. 1 can be blown through if you're good at it, but 2 was made into a grindfest on purpose to slow you down.

[@ScooterDoge]

Blaster master wasn’t very short.

[@defeqel6537]

true to an extent, but FF games were never difficult, just expansive and the good difficult games were still fair and had consistent enough performance that expecting the player to learn to play was still reasonable

[@badman5852]

Rentals were a big part of it as well. They didn't want anyone to be able to finish in a few days.

[@realmofloredor]

1:10:08 for those who want the quote.

[@Rusty84CV]

Or just watch the video and support a channel

[@andrewvanorden2336]

​@@Rusty84CV they talk like pirates for 2 hours. If thats something you enjoy then good on you but to me its cringe, gay, and not funny at all.

[@The_Punisher]

​@@Rusty84CV I mean it's possible to hear the quote then to go back to the beginning

[@The_Punisher]

​@@andrewvanorden2336This video isn't even 2 hours dude

[@Necrow_Productions]

@@andrewvanorden2336 Yeah, but Tonald likes pirates.

[@NATESUCKSATGAMING]

I feel like his argument is basically back in the day bad games were charming. When you're a kid you play most of your games with your friends so the bad ones don't seem so bad. There are plenty of objective measurements to show that the gaming industry is likely repeating its 1980s game crash despite the high numbers.

[@CheeseOfMasters]

Well there are still many successes, seems like the thing has become too big to fail by now. I mean will the industry care if Ubisoft goes down under? Or if Micro$oft buys up another worn out studio, forcing them to churn out slop after slop (barring Id Software who somehow got lumped in with Bethesda). Especially since China is flooding the market in every genre with arguably ever increasing quality while niche games still hold out strong (and come out strong like Lethal Company or Warhammer Space Marine 2).

[@Crow12619]

​@@CheeseOfMastersI don't think it will crash in the same sense as in 1984, but I do believe it will contract and be reorganized. China will likely have a larger influence within the AAA sphere, while indie games will continue their ascent. The real crash will be with western AAA publishers like Microsoft, Ubisoft, and EA.

[@AlinaAniretake]

©Bilbo Baggins

[@dognut81]

"End all bees." -Bilbolf Baggler

[@TheOppl]

1.5-hour-long videos being ‘highlights’ is the only thing that brings Boogie2988 joy in life.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Bilbo2988

[@beginnersmessiah]

That's an average size highlight for an average person - Billy Boogiens

[@countD8852]

Chris Stuckmann's book about movies you need to see before you die and Jay's book of movies he hasn't seen are the same book, but somehow Jay's has more detailed info on why he hasn't watched them (and why Jay's a bad person)

[@Ron_Jambo_]

Come on, he's not a bad person, just larping as a woman for some reason but so far he didn't hurt anyone.

[@Fra_Sausageball]

Tell MauLer I'm incredibly disappointed he didn't mention Kent Brockmann when the "argably" moment came up. One of my favorite lines from the Simpsons is when Kent says "The power plant strike: argle-bargle or foofaraw?"

[@NATESUCKSATGAMING]

"Non-direct gameplay flow" is the marketing version of. We took a mechanic from DND and other similar games and used it in our game 30 years later but wanna pretend its new and innovative. RPG = accomplish goal by playing a role you make up for yourself.

[@austinkious3940]

Wolf, one Boogie highlight I would love is towards the end of EFAP 258. When Keemstar goes off on Boogie through voice message and gets him to record a degrading apology video.

[@Pink.andahalf]

He probably already did that one, he put basically every second of Boogie on this channel as clips.

[@austinkious3940]

@Pink.andahalf I don't think he does. Most of the Boogie highlights are from #294/5. I have been looking for that clip for a while as I thought it would have been made a highlight. But I can't find it on this channel. He does have some from that EFAP (258), but not that moment. I just found it the other day by going back and listening to 258.

[@SniperSX]

Busy bee Winter... Wtf? Bees are sleeping in the winter Tonald.

[@GGHF]

I finally know where this damn meme comes from lol

[@TheKeskisormi]

I recommend the official EFAP site (Google it). There's section with meme origins

[@jamborabbit]

the orginal bilbo stream was what got me to start watching Wolf and Mauler, it may only be fragments of memory now but it was genuinly one of the funniest things ive listened to

[@bennygerow]

"be all, end all"

[@NATESUCKSATGAMING]

Old games didnt really need in game tutorials. Old games had bigger manuals. 2d pixled games have instructions that are simple enough to type out. Instructions in 3D space are generally more efficiently displayed in 3D space. Back then hardware was a factor in limiting all sorts of games whereas these days game design is so streamlined that devs can spend resources creating tutorials rooms without sacraficing elsewhere. An 8-bit game can only count to 256. So the tutorial would be in a manual to not use game recources/memory. And memory was expensive, you couldnt just add another kilobyte of storage.

[@professormallard4348]

I know it's not possible, but it would be funny to have highlighted lore for some old old memes like "leave me be" and "lu gism" and "aim striggly". Pre-FAP memes that have contributed to the culture of it. Also, a highlight of the manager of EFAP, Jay our beloved, and the executive producer of EFAP, James Moore our savior.

[@reginaldwooster235]

"Pacman is a complicated game" - Bilbo Baggins

[@CooperDooper38]

34:02 Mauler predicted the dumb name for Mechanics in The Acolyte.

[@Gioven740]

Hi Wolf! Happy new year!

[@MetulManiac]

Instead of end all be all he should have said make or break or perhaps come high or hell water. Dude getting his idioms mixed.

[@dytyzerpud]

watching efap argubly is the only thing that brings me joy

[@bainrex7]

this is arrrrrg'ably a good supercut

[@AscendantStoic]

1:21:35 I'll let you know mister, I do live in the Middle East, and I have seen all these movies except 2 of them (I remember everyone went to the cinemas to watch LotR, that was quite the experience), so that dude Jay is just weird .. maybe he hates good movies or something XD

[@sirquaffler542]

Agreed. Out of that list LotR is the one I consider absolutely mandatory viewing for anybody attempting objective film critique. If they can't be bothered to sit through it even once (not even that they have to like it for whatever reason, just seeing it once), then I simply cannot trust their taste in films.

[@Ron_Jambo_]

He is weirder than you know and wouldn't even be allowed in most Middle Eastern countries lmfao

[@Ron_Jambo_]

​@@sirquaffler542It has been crystal clear that Jay's opinions on movies should not be taken seriously since his first appearance... Remember his Black Panther video ?

[@nonutnovemberman]

“Deceptigamers, Rise UP!” - Bilbotron

[@gogetters6639]

@18:00 No, if anything games today hold the player's hand too god damn much. You're looking for loot or doing anything instead of the puzzle or going to a specific place? The player character or some NPC is going to nag you EVERY 10 SECONDS with hints or just tell you what to do. The original Pokemon games were perfectly fine, you were told about about type advantage through a prompt or by playing if you skipped it and really only had 1 way to go up until you mid game or so when it opens up a bit and by then you knew exactly what you where doing. Now, in the Eevee games, the game won't even let you do the first damn gym unless you have a specific Pokemon type even if you had another type that works just as well or if not better. In the Scarlet and Violet games before you can do a specific gym you have to find 10 Sunfloras in a town but half or more of them spawns directly in front of you out in the open not even remotely hidden. Either don't waste my time on a pre-gym minigame if you're just going to give them to me or actually hide them.

[@Ron_Jambo_]

Easy fix , don't play God of War or ANY games who used DSP as an exemple of how gamers are. They do not respect you as a person at Santa Monica

[@evildarkass5]

They keep saying tone loc, but I don't see the black guy from Ace Ventura anywhere.

[@ScooterDoge]

Blaster master was hard, and very cool. No saves. Had to go in one play through. It’s was “metroidvania” before the genre really existed.

[@The_child-catcher]

Rags doing the pirate voice is one of the most annoying things I've ever heard.

[@ryankeith2712]

On a new year, the Bilbo Lore is revealed

[@josephsk8737]

Flashback to when they reviewed tonald videos they didnt like, before he started doing cooking videos that everyone loves

[@SpardasTechReviews]

Ah tonald loke. Praise be the cosmic chicken

[@JamesDavis-vm9gw]

Festers quest. Man does that bring up memories

[@TechnicallyChris]

There's no way this isn't an AI script. Sounds like he threw in a prompt like, "write me an analytical script comparing old games to new games. Use really descriptive words." 😆

[@emerald4splash]

dang it, the meme lore is all good, but now I realise how much I miss weekend warrior... where did you go, my dude...

[@cookiecreep9204]

Indeed they are just different... For instance, they were made by passionate people back then, who gave a shit about quality and how fun it is. They may have not known how to design them, but modern ones don't have that excuse with so many examples, and we see so many garbage titles that focus on The Message instead...

[@sithisarcanis]

Arrrgably!!!

[@Zepher0987]

Rags was completely off with calling Final Fantasy cluttered. That is literally the best they could display all the necessary information.

[@ViktorBezK]

Anyone know what happened to wolf?

[@joesmutz9287]

You're watching him Not joking, he left the Internet for a while, and came back to run this channel

[@vileluca]

Wolf had to go on a journey to discover where the Cosmic Chicken laid it's eggs. He's back now though.

[@ViktorBezK]

@@joesmutz9287 ah dam I wasn't cought up with the lore, thx for imforming me.

[@marcthomas5949]

Like asuras wrath his rage is no more And he has freed himself from the culture war Now he's the guy making these efap highlights and sometimes stream a game here

[@ChadKakashi]

1:02:40 so this was the origin? Good old Balboa Baggin’s. 1:10:00 looool 1:20:00 LOOOL WOLF. Also those are good movies (most of them anyway).

[@devincole7732]

Watching these guys criticize NES TMNT…. They don’t know man… they don’t know. Those controls were rough.

[@christopherkelley1664]

The water level, man.

[@AlinaAniretake]

Btw, Wolf, have you asked Jay recently, if she watched those movies?))

[@amandahuginkys7878]

I really love EFAP, but damn, do I miss Wolf's rants. So vicious and passionate. If your reading this Wolf, we miss you.

[@ClassicPopble]

It's not the same as him being on efap, but he does stream on this channel if you didn't know

[@tanrata8658]

2:36 wtf is with the Scanners ear blaster man?

[@kylesimmons9457]

I’ve been here since Day 1, and it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten the lore for this joke. P.S. Wolf, please reupload your videos on Alpha and Omega. It’s my birthday.

[@Tree_-wp5zn]

Happy birthday.

[@ThePenAndTheRose]

Nice to see Weekend Warrior. Doesn’t seem to come around as much anymore

[@PoopaChallupa]

End all, be all.. All or nothing.. A completed game or nothing at all.

[@Killer_Tortoise]

Are Lemings or Tower Defense passive or active games?

[@Killer_Tortoise]

T4 is the best. It gave us the Christian Bale meme...

[@rosskwolfe]

6:25 - Yes, it is "Be all, end all".

[@HectorLopez0217]

I’ve heard it both ways

[@rosskwolfe]

@HectorLopez0217 Thanks, Shawn.

[@bloodlinefilms]

@@rosskwolfeyou know thats right.

[@noelzy7839]

Arguably !!! XD 22:00

[@ZeSgtSchultz]

You guys still havent watched Pirates of the Caribbean on EFAP

[@ryanwood6754]

Bit of a nitpic but the busy bee winter is just him wording it too fast. I think he was trying to just say its a busy winter and busy bee is an old british saying because your as busy as a bee. Unless efap already knew this and were just mocking him making me look like a fucking tard then ok lol

[@snapslav]

Around 50 minutes they get hung up on what he means by "simplicity". I can EASILY think of what he means, having gamed in the old days like what he's referring. If you bought Wasteland 2 Director's Cut at one point, it came bundled with the original version and the 1980s original Wasteland 1... but a little updated. A few years ago they released an even newer Wasteland Remastered. The original game has a clunky interface that uses hotkeys to navigate, and due its age, the UI is almost entirely text with a few images. The updated version has streamlining and added audio, because we're not running games on Apple II's and Commodore 64's. The Remastered version has even more streamlining and added graphics where they didn't exist in either the original or older updated versions of the game. The newer versions have more and more Quality of Life features that simply didn't exist back in the 80s and early 90s. Playing the older games without these "simplicities" (as he dubbed them) made for very tedious gaming. Like old DOS prompts vs newer Windows buttons and drop down menus, you needed to know a series of commands to meticulously input the get the outputs you wanted. But we all just knew these inputs by heart because it was what you HAD to do, so we memorized them out of such frequent repetition. Modern conveniences gave us macros, pop ups, context inputs, delayed commands, and TONS of automation, making the EXPERIENCE of playing games much mire simple. However, it goes without saying, the actual programming involved to provide these QOL features is anything but. As usual, this whole misunderstanding comes down to a poor choice of words, and EFAP getting hung up on the most basic, literal interpretation of those words. This is one of the reasons I stopped watching EFAP on the regular... they ere on the side against charitability too much for my tastes. It really wasn't hard to figure out what Tone was saying, and many other videos had this issue as well. He's still got plenty to criticize, but beyond a poor choice of words, they really blew this one out of proportion.

[@slaapt]

A lot of the EFAP reply videos have this issue. I like the discussion, and there are a lot of interesting viewpoints that come from the discussions, but the point they're arguing is often one of "I can imagine an exception to this general statement so it is a silly statement." Just look at the Final Fantasy GUI debate. Yes, 70% of that screen is GUI. But they were dealing with a lot of technical limitations. Such as only having 256x240 pixels, meaning they literally have less than 3% of the pixels to work with compared to a 1920x1080 game, and only having a few buttons. Not being able to dedicate a button to opening a menu means you need a menu selection option. Then that text needs to be readable. The GUI looks that way because of the technology it is running on. But if we look at what the GUI is actually showing you... Character name, HP, targeted enemy. That's very little information compared to the HUD in even Dark Souls, which was out for quite some yers before EFAP 21. Let alone Elden Ring if we're going to go more modern. A game with a GUI about which other game designers complained that it wasn't providing players enough information. But yeah, I watch EFAP for the points that get brought up. Not so much the opinions of the crew. Although I must admit they have gotten better at it.

[@snapslav]

@slaapt I suppose I'm out of the loop at how much better they have gotten. I mostly check out the videos on subjects I GOTTA hear. FOLA (I refuse to call that show "Fallout") was one of them. Arcane s2 was another, albeit for opposite reasons. Even when I agree with their assessments (Dark Souls 2, FOLA, etc), it impresses me how much they MISS as to why they're bang on the money. Thank God other users gave Mauler the context as to why FOLA was 100% non-canonical to _Fallout_ and he put that in his video. But without that, he'd have presented a strong case for why it's terrible, yet missed SO MUCH reason as to why. That was basically their EFAP coverage of the same subject: good points, but they were all, each and every one of them, absolutely oblivious as to the gargantuan depth of the iceberg they were glimpsing.

[@Mayor_N]

Good god the commentary at the beginning of this is so irritating

[@foobloo101]

What the heck is the point thus guy was making

[@Tree_-wp5zn]

Exactly ^v^

[@angrynapolean3820]

Bilbo Baggins reminds me of Karl Marx

[@CheeseOfMasters]

He's clearly communist coded.

[@jackthehat1093]

Nah Terminator 2 is awesome but not better than the first. Terminator 2 is inherently flawed because it was established in the first movie that only 1 Terminator could be sent. Even if sending a second one was possible, the decision to send it when John is a teenager instead of when he was a child or before he was born doesn't make sense. Sending the T-1000 to back up the T-800 in taking out Sarah would obviously be more efficient. Or just send an army of T-1000s and don't even use the outdated T-800.

[@bloodlinefilms]

if i remember right the t1000 was an experimental prototype so likely the only one if not one of only very few. and at the time of the sending of the first terminator to 1984 the t800 was a new model. so i think the implication is that the war went on and some time later skynet sent another assassin when it had the resources to do so. clearly skynet and the machines werent eradicated if they continued developing additional terminators to the extent that a relatively new advancement had become obsolete.

[@vileluca]

1:20:05 uhhhhhhhhhhh

[@protalghulnist4126]

1:04:10

[@jimno13]

Be all and end all of things !!! 😅lmao

[@jasonbuster5503]

Dude, you had one funny pirate joke at the beginning. You don't need to keep milking it and doing it literally the entire video. It got annoying after the first 5 minutes. Everyone else was annoyed too, but they didn't want to say it.

[@D00dman]

The pirate joke was awful………..to me.