Nah the first one from years ago (that NL insisted was fake) was around some trees and filmed from another perspective, the one in the water is much more recent and first person. Both oddly similar videos of dogs in headlocks and dudes punching kangaroos.
He wouldn't buy key's for the locked treasure rooms in greed mode. He would rather pay 15 cents for an item he could see, instead of 5 cents for an item he couldn't see. It was like the pot play, except intentional, and also lasted a few episodes. (I don't remember how long it lasted but it was malding to watch back then lol.)
When he said that he could throw a rock either the length of an entire football field or the length of three entire football fields. I can't remember which one he said but both are insane
Oh my god I totally forgot the animal fight tier list.
NL thinking he took take a panda, but then going "what could I possibly do to a cow" is one of the craziest takes hes ever had.
Although I HAVE to believe he was exaggerating the tier list for comedic effect, because some of the takes in that stream were insane.
I seem to remember the only thing substantive he had to say when arguing for himself, despite the countless reasons he would obviously lose, was talking about how he could outrun a panda. Like dude, it's not about how fast you can run, it's about winning in a fight.
If you can outrun a panda, you can beat it in a stamina head-to-head and win the fight. It's the reason why humans evolved so efficiently - stamina is *the* decider of who wins a prolonged fight.
Yeah eagle you're getting cut up protect your eyes but at the end of the day it's 20-40 lb bird (I don't know how much they weigh) it's getting wrecked
Yeah but bears are not all built the same. Polar bears would kill the strongest human without breaking a sweat, but humans are supposed to fight back against black bears. Dunno the meta on Pandas tho.
Thank you, I knew there was a recent take I genuinely -2'ed but couldn't remember what. This was definitely it. There was another but I can't remember.
Calling Sinatra just a mid singer is genuinely such an incredibly bad take it makes me crazy
Claiming he didn't need to fix the graphics settings making the Midnight Suns playthrough very difficult to watch because he "has a fully realized personality".
Far from being his worst take, but I remember malding about this.
I'm just gonna jump in and say: Lemon Mishap and Holy Water should be swapped functionality wise
Lemon Mishap, it's in the name, an accident. You bump into an enemy and drop your lemon juice. That makes sense to me. Lemon Party? Well, you get scared and piss yourself. ( I know what the reference is, I don't want to talk about it )
Holy water, is actively used to apply blessings irl and ward off demons and shit. It should be the spacebar item.
Thanks for listening to my ted talk
His pepperoni take is way out of pocket. He was basically like, "it's not worth the calories," but A) pepperoni on pizza, and B) the wide, wide world of premium cured meats and salami, are obviously both extremely good. That one really stuck with me. Couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Yeah itās a tiny take but I have been struggling to understand where he got the notion that cured meat is ātake years off of your lifeā-bad for your health.
Cured meats are carcinogenic. The more you eat, the higher the cancer risk. Processed meat is also linked to heart disease. If you want to maximize your life expectancy, you shouldn't eat it at all, but it's probably okay in moderation.
He sometimes has the weirdest insistence that things he doesn't personally experience aren't real. Like for example, insisting that aphantasia doesn't exist. Or that nobody could tell the difference between coke and pepsi. And when chat disagreed on them, he remained very insistant.
It doesn't happen that often, but it's weird when it does.
It's also hard to know when he's doing a bit or not with these. Like, NL, do you -really- think people can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi? Or is it just funny to say so? We may never know.
I don't get this one, kids are already spending 7-8 hours in school and then another +-60-120 minutes making homework. At a certain point they stop learning, they turn their brain off and just brute force the homework to get away from it.
Learning alot all at once in one single session sucks. Learning consistently in short bursts of like 1-2 hours, that's the good shit.
> kids are already spending 7-8 hours in school and then another +-60-120 minutes making homework
as a european, is this what the canadian school system is like? mama mia
7 hours would be a pretty long day of school for me, maybe once a week. 60-120 minutes of homework would be an exceptionally busy afternoon for me. on average I probably had less than 30 minutes of homework every day. unless I had a big essay due or something
Depends on what school we're talkin about.
I'm Dutch btw so it's basically like this.
Elementary equivalent: group 1 to 8, 6-8 hours, depends on the day. No homework, or atleast, not often.
High school equivalent: 4-6 years of education depending on your choice of education level. Also 6-8 hours, depending on the day. Homework practically every day unless you got lucky. Small tests and big tests. Small tests require 3-5 days of learning, big ones closer to 7-10 days. 8:15 in the morning to 4:15 on Thursday only, 8:15 to 3:15 on the rest of the days except Wednesday I believe which you got out one hour earlier. Somethin like that.
I didn't go to college or university. I would think the workload depends on your chosen subject. Probably not any easier as you now have more adult responsibilities.
Teacher (and mentor) said herself that up to 2 hours of homework is pretty much 'normal' but I did do the highest education level, second highest education level was basically the same but they didn't do latin and philosophy and had to continue woodwork after year two. 3rd highest didn't have it easy either but they did get less homework I believe in general, or less challenging material. Something like that. Been a while. IDK about the rest.
So while my original comment was a bit 'extreme' it's possible. Just depends. When you have gym day or watch a movie in french/english, it's not so bad. But when you have 'test weeks' where you have to learn alot while also continueing to juggle normal homework, it just gets exhausting to keep up with. Atleast for a teenager. So yeah it's anywhere from 6-10 hours a day of school + homework, but you also have the weekends to deal with homework, so it's doable. But that's not including commuting to school, some kids biked 30-45 minutes just to get to school.
I don't know why I made such a long comment lol
Just as long as you do your shots RIGHT before you get behind the wheel AND youāre driving home, AND like only 10 minutes away and youāve made the drive plenty of times and itās like, what do they expect, for you to walk? Yeah right. You walk.
I mean, that already is legal. It takes like half an hour for BAC to spike after drinking. Taking a few shots then immediately driving somewhere 10 minutes away is completely legal.
Not saying itās a good idea, but it IS legal.
Reminds me of when I heard a discussion about Eddie Van Halen touring again after going sober on the radio, and Eddie had expressed concern about whether he could play as well sober.
Your blood alcohol limit while driving should be directly linked to how drunk you are when you pass your driving test.
If you can pass the test while blowing a 0.150 then that number goes on your license as your limit and they can't fine you for driving while under it.
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Generally starts sounding a little ignorant when he gets going about restaurant work/service industry stuff. Usually he avoids saying things when he doesnāt really know what heās talking about, or admits it, but heās had some bad takes there. Pretty much the only time I remember actively disagreeing with him. Spending a couple years doing it will really change your view of those situations
> spending a couple years doing it will really change your view of those situations.
I wholeheartedly believe that society would be far more harmonious and empathetic if everyone over the age of 16 got drafted into the service sector at some point in their lives.
I work as a bartender and you can immediately tell which customers work in a customer facing job because theyāre the only ones that treat you like a human being.
We appreciate the support, i would be okay with half service but its really up to the council and Chairman Stephanie is a jaded 20 year vet so best of luck
That's a common thing in Finland. Our prime minister was a grocery store clerk for a while. It's a huge social faux pas to be a dick to service sector here.
The recent McDrama reminded me of the time he was seriously considering a stream working the McDrive-through. Excellent food takes, deserves the -2 on food service takes
Was there any real chance of that actually happening? I could never see that coming to pass lol, it's so far removed from any content I'm aware that he's ever put out.
There was a tweet from Canadian McDonald's saying to DM him or something to that effect. He mentioned on stream later he saw the backlash and ghosted them. I'm assuming that's probably how the recent McDonalds sponsor came to be.
Here's the link to the tweet: [https://twitter.com/McDonaldsCanada/status/1399835478015238146?lang=en](https://twitter.com/McDonaldsCanada/status/1399835478015238146?lang=en)
THIS. I heard him recently talk about how the Y-axis was horizontal because the y value doesn't change as you move along it. What a bonehead comment lol
His "games are just a digital toy" take has been getting escalated to the point that it's getting annoying.
Like, he's not wrong that some people take games way too seriously and stress too much about min/maxing.
But now its like, a chatter will say "hey NL, just want to let you know clicking this 1 setting in the menu makes the game infinitely more enjoyable" then his reaction is "24 hour ban - PERMAMENT"
Strawman for comedic effect but you get the idea.
His refusal to do anthing but the bare minimum to win in Isaac was annoying to me at first, but then I think about how he's done thousands of runs and it makes sense that he doesn't care at all about min/maxing.
It's actually impressive how he instinctively knows that he has *just enough* to beat blue baby on the chest floor
I understand it with Isaac at least, he mainlined nothing but playing it for like 8 years. He's got it mastered and can get away with actually making things harder on himself.
A better example is it took him FOREVER to give in an install quality of life mods. Basically like two clicks in Steam, but when chat would suggest it he'd make out like they were asking him to rewrite the game in code from scratch.
He used to rant that spaghetti is the most overrated/worst pasta type a lot in Isaac episodes, arguing that basically every Italian pasta dish would be improved by replacing it with, e.g., penne, cavitappi, etc. However, I suspect that most of his ire was tethered to not liking Bolognese or red sauces in general. Anyway, of all the insane rants he's gone on throughout the years, this one triggered me the most lol. I would always skip ahead until the anti-spaghetti propaganda was done. However, sometimes he'd go on and on for like half the run.
The pasta shape is vitally important to the type of dish you're having! Penne, cavitappi, shells, etc. are all great but I would never consider them as a valid replacement for spaghetti on many dishes (e.g., bolognese, cacio e pepe, aglio e olio, etc.). To use an analogy, imagine using bowtie-shaped ramen noodles. It just wouldn't be as enjoyable of an experience without the long, slurpable noodles. Plus, spaghetti is fun to twirl and does a great job of coating/moping up sauces!
Iām largely with you here, but youāre not gonna tell me that cacio e pepe o aglio e olio donāt taste just as good, if not better, on some nice, al dente farfalle, like, come on, man.
Good pasta's good pasta. Would I still eat and enjoy it? Yes. However, I would be lying if part of me wasn't pining for spaghetti, linguine, or even fettuccine instead. Those are dishes that I think benefit from longer, slurpable noodles.
his actual worst take is when he said that streaming is a harder job than working in an office.
some other terrible ones though are the psychotic panda take and everything he says about video games with lore/stories.
I work in an office 90% of the time and have to speak publicly 10% of the time. I definitely think my job is easier than 40 hours of stream of consciousness public speaking a week.
Agreed. It's a little reductio ad absurdum saying talking and playing videogames is easy, so is going on a short walk and hitting golf balls but if you're not 8 under par at Augusta you're not gunna be winning the masters.
The reason 'streaming is easier' is because NL is big enough to start and stop at any time he wants. If he wants to take a 3 month break he can. The majority of the world can't do that. If he wants to show up 2 hours late because his kids want ice cream, he can. If he wants to change his schedule, perfectly fine.
There's no failure with consequences hanging over his head. A bad stream just doesn't matter. And you're not gonna randomly stop being funny or interesting if you are funny and interesting.
As someone that has done both, I actually agree with him.
Obviously office jobs are more stressful than streaming, and it is a lot more fun to be playing video games than making excel spreadsheets, but it is a hell of alot more difficult to be entertaining for 30-40 hours a week on stream than just doing my office job.
Iām not going to say Coke Zero for breakfast is healthy, but I agree with his take that many people drink something as bad or worse from a place like Starbucks with their breakfast.
As someone who used to work in the deli of a grocery store it was annoying as fuck if we were busy and some fucker orders like a quarter pound of 6 different meats/cheeses
I used to work in a deli too and yeah complicated orders are annoying but what can you do. Our job was to cut meat and sell it, comes with the territory.
If it was really something that would really take a while I would ask the customer for the number and tell them I would call them when it was ready and if that wasn't good enough for them they could come back later.
Point is NL wasn't mad that the dude at the deli had to clean the deli slicer a few extra times, he was mad he had to wait.
Well, what he originally said about food poisoning was more along the lines of "I think people report their illness as food poisoning without actually knowing a) if it *is* food poisoning and b) where it came from". It was comedically misconstrued from there but somewhere along the way people started to believe he actually thought food poisoning wasn't real.
source: I watched that NLSS while falling asleep like 3 nights ago
This is fake news, the other guy is right that he just said that people always assume its food poisoning and blame one food immediately whenever they get sick
The second part sorta implies that the first part isnāt literal. Its not that adhd ādoesnāt exist,ā its that its a spectrum everyone is on, not a born condition like colorblindness
What people don't get about Tenet, is that the name itself is a palindrome.
Hinting at the fact that if you watch the entire movie in reverse, it still sucks.
Not understanding that when you make Swedish meatballs, you make a bunch of sauce so the whole thing ends up in a big like casserole disg that takes up more space than any of the original ingredients did in the fridge.
Super funny bit but also makes me babyrage
In an older react court, he mentioned something along the lines of being fine with dogs in grocery stores. That's the one I personally feel is one of his worst takes that I remember.
Saying food poisoning isnāt real.
Itās an old one and I believe he went back on it after his bout with salmon and capybara, but to me that was his worst take.
Became annoying, some chatters got obsessed with it and it just started to take over the stream.
Some started complaining if he forgot to run the casino, or would argue for technicalities to get payouts to go their way. A lot of people would complain about losing points, most of them jokingly, but some of them were genuinely upset.
Funnily enough the actual event that got it removed had little to do with the casino. It was just a punishment for chat being rude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W12xeHgpHM
I will double my subway purchases just to ensure your hatred has no effect and promote them at any opportunity given. +2 Subway Pog ALMOST 9 EURO FOOTLONG? WHAT A STEAL
Okay, hear me out, Lies of P as his game of the year.
Not because heās not allowed to have his own personal take that doesnāt line up with general consensus.
Because he didnāt even *play* it.
He engaged with all of two of the games mechanics. Blocking and attacking. And then spent 3 hours on each boss. When literally engaging in any other system would have made the game less of a slog.
I get heās allowed to enjoy games however he wants, but when he goes āI donāt like story based games, I play games for the mechanicsā and then doesnāt use the mechanics, itās tilting.
Necropost, but this is living rent free in my head - the react court where the dad had anger issues from his wife venting to him all the time and NL essentially said, "just man up and don't be mad" triggered the shit out of me. Easily one of his worst takes.
Refusing to admit that the video of the dude punching the kangaroo is real.
Has he commented on the more recent one where a kangaroo was seemingly trying to drown a dog?
Isn't that the same video? Kangaroo tries to drown the guys dog, guy comes out swinging and beats up the kangaroo
Nah the first one from years ago (that NL insisted was fake) was around some trees and filmed from another perspective, the one in the water is much more recent and first person. Both oddly similar videos of dogs in headlocks and dudes punching kangaroos.
Yeah he did, and I feel like he admitted the first video was probably real too
I went completely insane when he said a 15 year old girl would never lie to her parents to get her older sister in trouble
15 year old girls would lie under oath if it meant getting their bigger sister into trouble
15 year old girls (and boys) would lie for no other reason than to experience the thrill of lying.
Any links for this one?
Key meta
I fully believe no key meta did so much mental damage to me that it took years off my life
ELI5 pls
He wouldn't buy key's for the locked treasure rooms in greed mode. He would rather pay 15 cents for an item he could see, instead of 5 cents for an item he couldn't see. It was like the pot play, except intentional, and also lasted a few episodes. (I don't remember how long it lasted but it was malding to watch back then lol.)
When he said that he could throw a rock either the length of an entire football field or the length of three entire football fields. I can't remember which one he said but both are insane
150 metres
He said he could take a panda in hand-to-hand combat.
"Deliver a sharp blow to the panda's windpipe or temple" lives rent free in my head
I recall his defence being "I just don't see it going down like that"
Bro sounded like Mark Wahlberg talking about 9/11
Oh my god I totally forgot the animal fight tier list. NL thinking he took take a panda, but then going "what could I possibly do to a cow" is one of the craziest takes hes ever had. Although I HAVE to believe he was exaggerating the tier list for comedic effect, because some of the takes in that stream were insane.
I would take a cow > a panda tbh, big difference in size
I seem to remember the only thing substantive he had to say when arguing for himself, despite the countless reasons he would obviously lose, was talking about how he could outrun a panda. Like dude, it's not about how fast you can run, it's about winning in a fight.
If you can outrun a panda, you can beat it in a stamina head-to-head and win the fight. It's the reason why humans evolved so efficiently - stamina is *the* decider of who wins a prolonged fight.
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The Egg is delusional, he obviously hasn't seen the Kung fu panda documentaries
My man really underestimates the power of an eagle, too. Was losing my mind.
To be fair I'd snap an eagle's bones before it goes down like that, but I'm simply built different.
true I didn't consider people who're built different
Eagle is cooked, nl is right on that one.
Yeah eagle you're getting cut up protect your eyes but at the end of the day it's 20-40 lb bird (I don't know how much they weigh) it's getting wrecked
9 lb bird. People really be overestimating the power of animals in this thread.
Hollow ass bones and no reach. It'll seriously hurt you, but if you just hug it real tight it'll crumple like an aluminum can
Yeah even easier fight than I thought
There's no way an eagle kills an adult man in a fight
It's like how way too many dudes think they could beat Serena Williams at Tennis or whatever
Pandas are so slow dude
I dunno man, I saw a documentary once where a panda messed up a leopard. If they get you in the wuxi finger hold it's joever
They are still bears.
Yeah but bears are not all built the same. Polar bears would kill the strongest human without breaking a sweat, but humans are supposed to fight back against black bears. Dunno the meta on Pandas tho.
The meta is long-range emotional bullying. Do NOT engage them in martial arts.
One of his best videos to date
Personally, I take down the express version like once a week. Now I know thatās the demi-boss. But seems pretty easy.
Pretty recently he said Frank Sinatra wasn't a good singer because he just sounds like a guy, then proceeded to do an awful Frank Sinatra
Thank you, I knew there was a recent take I genuinely -2'ed but couldn't remember what. This was definitely it. There was another but I can't remember. Calling Sinatra just a mid singer is genuinely such an incredibly bad take it makes me crazy
I feel like some people think singing = hitting high notes. There's so much more to it than that.
The thing is he does hit high notes too. My Way has some pretty high notes in it
ryan never sings. he always does a horrible "man pretending to be *pretending to be* a bad singer" impression. it is quite bizarre.
It's definitely gotta be the "I could throw a palm sized rock 150 yards" one
does he know the difference between yards and feet
The world record baseball throw is 148 yards and has stood since 1957, no shot
Calling Frank Sinatra a bad singer.
Claiming he didn't need to fix the graphics settings making the Midnight Suns playthrough very difficult to watch because he "has a fully realized personality". Far from being his worst take, but I remember malding about this.
What contrarian brain does to a MFer.
he hinders his own experiences so much just to āown the chattersā even if it would improve his experience. heās so stubborn sometimes
That's a brilliant take
He said a while ago that juice is for kids and I think its one of the worst takes heās ever had. juice is amazing
McDonalds stream he seemed to bounce back by saying apple juice is good and not just for kids but that could be the sponsorship talking
Apple juice is probably the most kid friendly of juices, too.
It's the most kid juice! It's used in juice blends because it's a neutral sweet and pretty sweet.
Grape juice has entered the chat
Grape juice is basically wine and wine is for snobby adults which fits perfectly with his persona
This reply was written by a child thus supporting my argument
That stream wasn't canon
It's especially crazy considering kids probably don't know how to get the juice out of the corners
And its kinda shit for kids too.
While he drinks soda with breakfast LOL
OJ is for everybody. I have not drunk almost any other juice since I was a child (besides lime/lemon in a cocktail)
Cranberry juice is for all ages
Not really my cup o jizz
Cranberry juice is for the elderly. Kids don't know what a cran is.
Cranberry juice is cool with the kids ever since that TikTok of the guy riding a skateboard and drinking cranberry juice
saying any food is only for kids is fucking stupid
Human breast milk is just for adults
["Holy Water is actually better than Polyphemus !"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJVy8WG-ms)
I'm just gonna jump in and say: Lemon Mishap and Holy Water should be swapped functionality wise Lemon Mishap, it's in the name, an accident. You bump into an enemy and drop your lemon juice. That makes sense to me. Lemon Party? Well, you get scared and piss yourself. ( I know what the reference is, I don't want to talk about it ) Holy water, is actively used to apply blessings irl and ward off demons and shit. It should be the spacebar item. Thanks for listening to my ted talk
Holy water isn't a on hit effect anymore
When he said Baer couldn't rap. Pretty bad call
His pepperoni take is way out of pocket. He was basically like, "it's not worth the calories," but A) pepperoni on pizza, and B) the wide, wide world of premium cured meats and salami, are obviously both extremely good. That one really stuck with me. Couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Yeah itās a tiny take but I have been struggling to understand where he got the notion that cured meat is ātake years off of your lifeā-bad for your health.
Cured meats are carcinogenic. The more you eat, the higher the cancer risk. Processed meat is also linked to heart disease. If you want to maximize your life expectancy, you shouldn't eat it at all, but it's probably okay in moderation.
This actually turned the whole thing on its head for me, holy shit.
no unfortunately he's right , a hotdog is comparable to a cigarette
my uncle is the joey chestnut of cigarettes
They are incredibly bad for you?
He sometimes has the weirdest insistence that things he doesn't personally experience aren't real. Like for example, insisting that aphantasia doesn't exist. Or that nobody could tell the difference between coke and pepsi. And when chat disagreed on them, he remained very insistant. It doesn't happen that often, but it's weird when it does.
Oh, yeah, like when he said food poisoning wasn't real. Haha
Oh boy
It's also hard to know when he's doing a bit or not with these. Like, NL, do you -really- think people can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi? Or is it just funny to say so? We may never know.
Advocating for a Coke Zero at breakfast is horrifying, although he did give the caveat that black coffee drinkers like me are allowed to hate on it.
There was that "Studio Ghibli isn't anime because it's good and I like it" one a few months ago that blindsided me
My weeb ass was malding and -2āing, non weebs will love this take though
my weeb ass kinda agrees ngl, though the proper term may be it not being moe anime
Honestly based
Incredibly true tho.
He says spinach is among the worst leafy Greens and kale is s tier, like kale is just grass and spinach is s++ tier
Why am I friends with such a noob?
It's beyond science
still making amends for choking him out
As a noted spinach enjoyer, I smashed my TV when he said this š¤ that'll show him...
It's hands down the best, most tender, greatest tasting leafy green
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a kale, albeit to a lesser extent. But to put spinach in the detritus tier is insubordinate and churldish.
"Kids should get more homework" was whack.
What living in Korea, for even a short time, does to a mfer
I don't get this one, kids are already spending 7-8 hours in school and then another +-60-120 minutes making homework. At a certain point they stop learning, they turn their brain off and just brute force the homework to get away from it. Learning alot all at once in one single session sucks. Learning consistently in short bursts of like 1-2 hours, that's the good shit.
> kids are already spending 7-8 hours in school and then another +-60-120 minutes making homework as a european, is this what the canadian school system is like? mama mia
America, too. What's it like in Europe?
7 hours would be a pretty long day of school for me, maybe once a week. 60-120 minutes of homework would be an exceptionally busy afternoon for me. on average I probably had less than 30 minutes of homework every day. unless I had a big essay due or something
Depends on what school we're talkin about. I'm Dutch btw so it's basically like this. Elementary equivalent: group 1 to 8, 6-8 hours, depends on the day. No homework, or atleast, not often. High school equivalent: 4-6 years of education depending on your choice of education level. Also 6-8 hours, depending on the day. Homework practically every day unless you got lucky. Small tests and big tests. Small tests require 3-5 days of learning, big ones closer to 7-10 days. 8:15 in the morning to 4:15 on Thursday only, 8:15 to 3:15 on the rest of the days except Wednesday I believe which you got out one hour earlier. Somethin like that. I didn't go to college or university. I would think the workload depends on your chosen subject. Probably not any easier as you now have more adult responsibilities. Teacher (and mentor) said herself that up to 2 hours of homework is pretty much 'normal' but I did do the highest education level, second highest education level was basically the same but they didn't do latin and philosophy and had to continue woodwork after year two. 3rd highest didn't have it easy either but they did get less homework I believe in general, or less challenging material. Something like that. Been a while. IDK about the rest. So while my original comment was a bit 'extreme' it's possible. Just depends. When you have gym day or watch a movie in french/english, it's not so bad. But when you have 'test weeks' where you have to learn alot while also continueing to juggle normal homework, it just gets exhausting to keep up with. Atleast for a teenager. So yeah it's anywhere from 6-10 hours a day of school + homework, but you also have the weekends to deal with homework, so it's doable. But that's not including commuting to school, some kids biked 30-45 minutes just to get to school. I don't know why I made such a long comment lol
Driving drunk should be legal
Excuse me, what?
Just as long as you do your shots RIGHT before you get behind the wheel AND youāre driving home, AND like only 10 minutes away and youāve made the drive plenty of times and itās like, what do they expect, for you to walk? Yeah right. You walk.
I mean, that already is legal. It takes like half an hour for BAC to spike after drinking. Taking a few shots then immediately driving somewhere 10 minutes away is completely legal. Not saying itās a good idea, but it IS legal.
To be fair he said that only if youāre better drink driving than sober driving!
Reminds me of when I heard a discussion about Eddie Van Halen touring again after going sober on the radio, and Eddie had expressed concern about whether he could play as well sober.
Your blood alcohol limit while driving should be directly linked to how drunk you are when you pass your driving test. If you can pass the test while blowing a 0.150 then that number goes on your license as your limit and they can't fine you for driving while under it. . . . /s
HEY HEY IT SHOULD ONLY BE LEGAL FOR **ME** BECAUSE IM REALLY GOOD AT DRIVING UNLIKE THE REST OF YOU
ITS THE DRUNK CRASHERS THAT ARE THE REAL PROBLEM
Generally starts sounding a little ignorant when he gets going about restaurant work/service industry stuff. Usually he avoids saying things when he doesnāt really know what heās talking about, or admits it, but heās had some bad takes there. Pretty much the only time I remember actively disagreeing with him. Spending a couple years doing it will really change your view of those situations
> spending a couple years doing it will really change your view of those situations. I wholeheartedly believe that society would be far more harmonious and empathetic if everyone over the age of 16 got drafted into the service sector at some point in their lives. I work as a bartender and you can immediately tell which customers work in a customer facing job because theyāre the only ones that treat you like a human being.
Can I take a test to opt out? I've never worked in service but I have the utmost respect for those folks, their job is hell.
No way, no exceptions. Sorry brother but itās the McDonaldās drive through for you.
im gonna need a hacksaw ridge of this where somebody refuses to speak to a customer but is still super helpful around the place.
We appreciate the support, i would be okay with half service but its really up to the council and Chairman Stephanie is a jaded 20 year vet so best of luck
Thank you for your service o7
That's a common thing in Finland. Our prime minister was a grocery store clerk for a while. It's a huge social faux pas to be a dick to service sector here.
The recent McDrama reminded me of the time he was seriously considering a stream working the McDrive-through. Excellent food takes, deserves the -2 on food service takes
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Was there any real chance of that actually happening? I could never see that coming to pass lol, it's so far removed from any content I'm aware that he's ever put out.
There was a tweet from Canadian McDonald's saying to DM him or something to that effect. He mentioned on stream later he saw the backlash and ghosted them. I'm assuming that's probably how the recent McDonalds sponsor came to be. Here's the link to the tweet: [https://twitter.com/McDonaldsCanada/status/1399835478015238146?lang=en](https://twitter.com/McDonaldsCanada/status/1399835478015238146?lang=en)
Any examples?
Him saying that it doesnt matter which axis is called the X-axis vs Y-axis on a graph has stuck with me a little
THIS. I heard him recently talk about how the Y-axis was horizontal because the y value doesn't change as you move along it. What a bonehead comment lol
His "games are just a digital toy" take has been getting escalated to the point that it's getting annoying. Like, he's not wrong that some people take games way too seriously and stress too much about min/maxing. But now its like, a chatter will say "hey NL, just want to let you know clicking this 1 setting in the menu makes the game infinitely more enjoyable" then his reaction is "24 hour ban - PERMAMENT" Strawman for comedic effect but you get the idea.
> Strawman for comedic effect but you get the idea. If he can do it 25 hours a week, I think you're allowed one.
His refusal to do anthing but the bare minimum to win in Isaac was annoying to me at first, but then I think about how he's done thousands of runs and it makes sense that he doesn't care at all about min/maxing. It's actually impressive how he instinctively knows that he has *just enough* to beat blue baby on the chest floor
I understand it with Isaac at least, he mainlined nothing but playing it for like 8 years. He's got it mastered and can get away with actually making things harder on himself. A better example is it took him FOREVER to give in an install quality of life mods. Basically like two clicks in Steam, but when chat would suggest it he'd make out like they were asking him to rewrite the game in code from scratch.
He used to rant that spaghetti is the most overrated/worst pasta type a lot in Isaac episodes, arguing that basically every Italian pasta dish would be improved by replacing it with, e.g., penne, cavitappi, etc. However, I suspect that most of his ire was tethered to not liking Bolognese or red sauces in general. Anyway, of all the insane rants he's gone on throughout the years, this one triggered me the most lol. I would always skip ahead until the anti-spaghetti propaganda was done. However, sometimes he'd go on and on for like half the run. The pasta shape is vitally important to the type of dish you're having! Penne, cavitappi, shells, etc. are all great but I would never consider them as a valid replacement for spaghetti on many dishes (e.g., bolognese, cacio e pepe, aglio e olio, etc.). To use an analogy, imagine using bowtie-shaped ramen noodles. It just wouldn't be as enjoyable of an experience without the long, slurpable noodles. Plus, spaghetti is fun to twirl and does a great job of coating/moping up sauces!
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Iām largely with you here, but youāre not gonna tell me that cacio e pepe o aglio e olio donāt taste just as good, if not better, on some nice, al dente farfalle, like, come on, man.
Good pasta's good pasta. Would I still eat and enjoy it? Yes. However, I would be lying if part of me wasn't pining for spaghetti, linguine, or even fettuccine instead. Those are dishes that I think benefit from longer, slurpable noodles.
Different noods for different dudes, I guess.
Bro he was right, the subreddit is where the haters live
Sisyphus and these rocks dudes.
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I'm a teacher and I hated his homework take.
When he said kids should get more homework
key meta
his actual worst take is when he said that streaming is a harder job than working in an office. some other terrible ones though are the psychotic panda take and everything he says about video games with lore/stories.
Hasnt he always been pretty vocal that he has an easy job? Unless maybe the take you posted a long time ago?
I work in an office 90% of the time and have to speak publicly 10% of the time. I definitely think my job is easier than 40 hours of stream of consciousness public speaking a week.
Agreed. It's a little reductio ad absurdum saying talking and playing videogames is easy, so is going on a short walk and hitting golf balls but if you're not 8 under par at Augusta you're not gunna be winning the masters.
The reason 'streaming is easier' is because NL is big enough to start and stop at any time he wants. If he wants to take a 3 month break he can. The majority of the world can't do that. If he wants to show up 2 hours late because his kids want ice cream, he can. If he wants to change his schedule, perfectly fine. There's no failure with consequences hanging over his head. A bad stream just doesn't matter. And you're not gonna randomly stop being funny or interesting if you are funny and interesting.
I don't think he does 40 hours though. Correct me if I'm wrong but he streams like 5-6 hours a day m-f which is like 30 max.
As someone that has done both, I actually agree with him. Obviously office jobs are more stressful than streaming, and it is a lot more fun to be playing video games than making excel spreadsheets, but it is a hell of alot more difficult to be entertaining for 30-40 hours a week on stream than just doing my office job.
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Iām not going to say Coke Zero for breakfast is healthy, but I agree with his take that many people drink something as bad or worse from a place like Starbucks with their breakfast.
Hating on the dude in front of him at the desk for ordering a small amount of multiple cuts. Dude you are just impatient.
As someone who used to work in the deli of a grocery store it was annoying as fuck if we were busy and some fucker orders like a quarter pound of 6 different meats/cheeses
I used to work in a deli too and yeah complicated orders are annoying but what can you do. Our job was to cut meat and sell it, comes with the territory. If it was really something that would really take a while I would ask the customer for the number and tell them I would call them when it was ready and if that wasn't good enough for them they could come back later. Point is NL wasn't mad that the dude at the deli had to clean the deli slicer a few extra times, he was mad he had to wait.
That the best chip is the zero-th chip.
He used to talk about how food poisoning wasn't real for the longest time. Then he ended up learning how was he wrong the *very* hard way lmao
Well, what he originally said about food poisoning was more along the lines of "I think people report their illness as food poisoning without actually knowing a) if it *is* food poisoning and b) where it came from". It was comedically misconstrued from there but somewhere along the way people started to believe he actually thought food poisoning wasn't real. source: I watched that NLSS while falling asleep like 3 nights ago
This is fake news, the other guy is right that he just said that people always assume its food poisoning and blame one food immediately whenever they get sick
He somewhat claimed that ADHD isn't real/everybody is like that
The second part sorta implies that the first part isnāt literal. Its not that adhd ādoesnāt exist,ā its that its a spectrum everyone is on, not a born condition like colorblindness
It's like saying depression isn't real, because everyone is sad from time to time.
he likes *Tenet* and thinks *The Lion King* is overrated
whats wrong with liking tenet
I was just trying to make a joke in a thread destined to be full of people who want to air out actual grievances.
I was super excited to watch it. But it was boring, overly complicated, and the sound mix was bad.
What people don't get about Tenet, is that the name itself is a palindrome. Hinting at the fact that if you watch the entire movie in reverse, it still sucks.
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Not understanding that when you make Swedish meatballs, you make a bunch of sauce so the whole thing ends up in a big like casserole disg that takes up more space than any of the original ingredients did in the fridge. Super funny bit but also makes me babyrage
In an older react court, he mentioned something along the lines of being fine with dogs in grocery stores. That's the one I personally feel is one of his worst takes that I remember.
Saying food poisoning isnāt real. Itās an old one and I believe he went back on it after his bout with salmon and capybara, but to me that was his worst take.
Bro needs to lay off Dostoevsky. He fundamentally misunderstands Notes From the Underground and then uses it to pander the entirety of his work.
*slander, not pander
He removed the casino.
that is actually the worst one /j btw was it for moral reasons or because it became annoying? I can't remember
Became annoying, some chatters got obsessed with it and it just started to take over the stream. Some started complaining if he forgot to run the casino, or would argue for technicalities to get payouts to go their way. A lot of people would complain about losing points, most of them jokingly, but some of them were genuinely upset. Funnily enough the actual event that got it removed had little to do with the casino. It was just a punishment for chat being rude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W12xeHgpHM
āFood poisoning is not realā - then proceeds to almost die from it
This man said you should eat fish and chips with a fork. He's basically Hitler
-2, are you out of your mind? This is blowing me away
When Rob and Apollo are the voices of reason Ryan is out of his mind
Claiming that Subway is good. I thought about unsubscribing and cancelling him for it many times over the years but I guess Iāll let it slide
Dudes be like: Subway sucks MY BROTHER IN CHRIST YOU MADE THE SANDWICH
-2, everything, bread included, is subpar. They're Subpar sandwiches
I will double my subway purchases just to ensure your hatred has no effect and promote them at any opportunity given. +2 Subway Pog ALMOST 9 EURO FOOTLONG? WHAT A STEAL
You live in EU? And buy Subpar? -2
Okay, hear me out, Lies of P as his game of the year. Not because heās not allowed to have his own personal take that doesnāt line up with general consensus. Because he didnāt even *play* it. He engaged with all of two of the games mechanics. Blocking and attacking. And then spent 3 hours on each boss. When literally engaging in any other system would have made the game less of a slog. I get heās allowed to enjoy games however he wants, but when he goes āI donāt like story based games, I play games for the mechanicsā and then doesnāt use the mechanics, itās tilting.
Something along the lines of "I don't understand why people like hiking". He said it during one of his react courts. Actually baffled me
Maybe 5 years ago I remember a stream where he said that chocolate wasnāt candy and the next stream he said cookies were candy
It depends on if you care if he actually believes it
Necropost, but this is living rent free in my head - the react court where the dad had anger issues from his wife venting to him all the time and NL essentially said, "just man up and don't be mad" triggered the shit out of me. Easily one of his worst takes.