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Aetio Arc Returns - Nomega isn't around, so I gotta do it #ad
Recorded: April 7, 2025 Duration: 2:49:23Space Recording
Short Summary
Shrapnel, an on-chain FPS game, faces a financial crisis with a reported burn rate of $86.9 million and a failed funding round, raising concerns about its future. Despite a peak revenue of $21.7 million, the studio's lack of financial planning and declining player engagement signal a troubling trend in the crypto gaming industry.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Oh, thanks.
No, I keep...
I was talking to myself, just trying to make sure stuff's working.
I keep turning off the mic when I'm recording just the game audio off stream,
and then I forget to turn it
on so thank you but shits working I just need to get my multi-stream working
which I'm having an issue so hold on all the streams are up and running which is good
here we go got my thing here okay so now I think my chat my multi chat will Multi-chat will hopefully be working now on my end. Let me see.
Test.
Test.
Hmm.
Okay, the kick one didn't show up yet.
What about YouTube?
What about YouTube? What about YouTube?
Almost done testing here.
Test.
Okay, YouTube showed up.
I don't see Kik showing up.
Yeah, thank you, Metapod.
I see you there as well.
Slam that like button while you're in there.
I don't see my Kik chat, which is probably the least important one.
If it's gonna... YouTube is more important.
There's actually people who might click on it and be like,
Oh, Flux is live. Haven't seen him in a while. That's more important.
Okay, I think everything's working.
I think... I finally just paid for Streamlabs Ultra.
I was trying the free options and
Like it was like working and then it kept breaking after like the next day it would stop working or whatever I think
Honestly if I have to pay 30 bucks a month to do this
I mean that sucks, but it's like 27 bucks a month a lot, but I
guess the tax write-off once I Once I get more organized, so that's good.
Okay, well, okay.
Yeah, we're going to play Aesho.
I've realized I'm the only one who's even kind of playing Aesho these days, so I've got to stick with it.
And I have enough content for Cilium to edit for a while. I'll load up the game. I
Got enough like random challenges. I like want to be sweaty
But I also want to play something kind of wacky. I feel like the ACO arc is exactly what I need But otherwise, yeah, okay.
I went live, everything works.
The YouTube live stuff can be really wacky.
So, I don't know.
This actually worked. I'm happy.
I'm happy.
I did see I don't know if there's anything real here. Someone did post something about shrapnel a different on-chain game
i guess they're super out of uh business
what's going on with shrapnel three this real quick multiple sources familiar with shrapnels financials so shrapnel is an fps game on chain game i found it really boring it was okay but
i found it really boring i'm obviously I don't even do FPS like
At this point, I'm not even trying to play them at all because I just it's too embarrassing. I'm like I'm like the the
The journalist who couldn't get through the cuphead tutorial. That's why I feel playing an FPS game
Nonetheless the studio is trying to get its monthly burn rate or costs to under a million but some months had a
burn of two million to 3.5 million a month the company has had a total operating expenses burn
of 86.9 million since the founding of the company they've burned 86 million dollars like i'm just
trying to like make three four thousand a month so that I can like not stress about my bills while I try to pump out content
You burned eighty seven million like
Bro hire me for 50k a year. I'll do better marketing than
Everyone's doing great. I'll do a good job is the point
How are they burning so much money?
Two sources called neon machine the startup that makes shrapnel. That's that's what that is, right? I guess so. I believe that's the startup that makes shrapnel. That's what that is, right?
I guess so.
I believe that's the company that makes shrapnel.
So two sources called it a toxic failing startup and alleged that the top executives who started the studio failed to develop a clear financial plan.
No clear financial plan with a crypto project?
financial plan with a crypto project you're kidding they claim the studio is out of cash
You're kidding.
and that an expected early 2025 round of fresh funding that expected to close in february has
failed yeah people saying funding is coming soon funding soon i've learned that can be a red flag
when it's funding is never here but it's always around the corner granted they spent a lot of
money already financial documents reviewed by block work suggests that neon machine lost 11 million in 24 like that's so much to lose
For a game that never had I don't know but I feel like they never had more than a thousand players in a month
Like I don't I don't know how many players they had
Like like off the grid got pretty hyped like shrapnel never really had that moment. That's so much money.
Last year it saw about, like, like, think about how many cool, creative indie games you could make with 11 million dollars.
You could make, like, a thousand.
You could fund, like, a hundred awesome indie games.
Like, I don't know.
Maybe, maybe that's an exaggeration.
You could, I mean, a million each, you could make 11.
You could make 11 million dollar games. You can make 11. It is the crypto standard. The plan is,
if you're just hype enough, you'll go to the moon, I guess.
2023 was its best year in terms of revenue, but it still wasn't profitable.
They say they had 21.7 million dollars in air
quotes services revenue what is that what is 21 22 million dollars of revenue coming from for
shrapnel i don't understand where that would even be coming from is that just nft sales and royalties
is that really from the bull market time? Was that really, I guess maybe, is that simple?
They've lost money every year since 21.
Yeah, I mean, it would make sense if they were building a ton of hype and a big audience,
but no one plays shrapnel.
So how the fuck can they even still be in business at this point?
Another Neon Machine financial document.
Like, I feel like shrapnel has the least hype.
Like, Neon Heroes has a little bit of juice off the grid has had its stuff shrapnel yeah metapod i mean that goes to show how like
unremarkable it was i actually played it a decent amount for like a few weeks trying to convince
myself to like it yeah the fact that you remember those but not shrapnel i think kind of sums up the
problem with shrapnel to be honest. Another document included a company prediction that it would operate a cash-on-hand deficit beginning in March 25.
And have a deficit of $13.5 million by the end of Q4.
Oh, it's a... I could have read the article.
Well, fuck me.
They've laid off nearly all their employees.
Well, damn, I wish I'd read this before I went through all the tweets.
Fuck.
I think the real problem is anything involving anything being the X of crypto.
Like, the Call of Duty of crypto, half the problem is the fact that you're trying to be the anything of crypto
instead of just trying to be good at what you are.
I know.
Why did they do it after all the...
I would have read this.
This could make for a good video tomorrow, maybe.
I definitely don't need to go through all this on stream right now.
But this could be interesting to summarize tomorrow.
Maybe for Paragons.
I'm going to link this to the Paragons team.
See if they're interested.
Maybe I can record something tomorrow off stream and like do a nice summary of this whole like what the fuck happened to shrapnel basically so Hold on, almost done, almost done typing. Okay.
Alright, made a note of that.
Okay. Okay, I made a note of that. Okay
Good good shit now. I need to actually play a shio
You want to marry the goddess and friends of Mineral Town?
100% of the game and she'll marry you?
Sounds like a good plan.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
Have you not done it yet?
Have you ever done that before?
If not, then you gotta do it.
Okay, so...
I'm opening up my notebook.
My parallel notebook. You've never done it? Oh, in that case, I think you should totally do it.
One of your favorite games and you haven't done something in it, in a classic game you love?
I think you should go for it. Sounds like a great excuse to start a fresh save.
So, Aishio, April 2025.
Cook all the recipes in the game?
I feel like that's exactly the kind of thing you're built for, though.
You're a completionist kind of guy.
You can get it done.
All right.
So here's the plan.
Okay.
My plan.
I was thinking about this.
Because I've got like a lot more content challenges I could do.
I've actually got a few ideas.
I'm not going to even say what they are.
But like a couple.
I've got a really cool idea for my next 100% run.
Which I want to do eventually.
But I feel like I've been craving to try to lock in and get
good at a deck again i've been doing so many content challenges so i think asio lock back in
no one's really repping asio i had a lot of fun with it my asio arc a couple months back
um and so i feel like my cat walked by and i got distracted i I feel like ACHO April is a good, like, kind of break from all the...
Every day doing something different.
And then once I get bored of this or once I get excited to do more content challenges,
then I have the next ones already, like, in my noodle ready to deploy.
And so the question is, what kind of ACHO list will work best?
This is, like, not easy to see see can I crank up the text size?
I've ants right now, man
The ants were gone for a while, but the answer back so only problem with my apartment building is the ants
Not too crazy, but they're just they're just every now and then I just see an ant and I'm like fuck you
How do I make this bigger can I zoom in?
Hold on. Let me see if I can make this bigger for you guys.
There must be a font size.
There literally has to be.
I've never in my life not known how to immediately make the text bigger before today.
In any app.
Yeah, I think we've talked about this before. I'll tolerate one or two spiders in the corner if the web isn't big. I'll let them have a corner of one room if they kill some bugs and eat some
bugs. I'll call it a deal. As soon as there's more than, than let's say two spiders. It's time to just like go go nuclear war and just
Yeet him. Yeah, no look a control mouse wheel doesn't work
I actually don't think you can increase the text size as crazy as that sounds
I'll tell you what
We're not gonna spend much time in the doc in the text doc. So let me just let me just
Just deal with it for a minute
but basically like so no mega style list
old school list like uses um
I forget what it's actually called unnatural selection. I think that's what it's called unnatural selection almost all kathari units
units no rummaging slash almost no neutrals okay good if you think it's fine on your crazy
No rummaging slash almost no neutrals
connection then it's fine or rummaging researchers slash uni draw cards but less cathari cards so less triggering of a sheo's passive which we need and then
I could almost imagine a third list which is relic slash board control with a
sheo as more of a backup strategy than the soul win condition with a sheo's active as more of a backup strategy so I
feel like there's like three main lanes here there's the kind of a list that's
similar to what we used to run like in the last I think it was February that I
did a bunch of a sheo I had like a 58% win rate too uh and then okay and then yeah that's pretty much i'm thinking yeah either the no mega style
rummaging researcher style or really kind of out of left field would be more of a skippy style list
But just using a using a show as a backup
So with all of that, let's actually delete these old a sure these I can rebuild these lists really easily
So let's delete these
Also, I did forget but I should do this right now
I should update my priming. They pushed a big update to the priming.
Let me see what they said to do.
Oh, where is it?
I have to go to settings on primings.
I'm doing this on the second monitor real quick.
Oh, I have to log into shit to do this?
Okay, I'll do it real quick. Okay.
Am I... Am I good here?
Go to settings.
Almost done, guys.
Hold on.
What's this say?
Go to settings.
And then reauthorize your parallel accounts.
Okay.
Okay.
Alright, great.
I think I fixed that.
I would look up Aishio lists.
I don't think there is anyone who's really got a good one they're grinding right now.
If we go for the last week, anyway, I don't think...
Yeah, no one is grinding Aishio in the last week. Not I don't think, yeah, no one is grinding Acio in the last week.
Not enough, no one who's sharing their data.
Even by last month, just no one.
Only 281 games tracked with Acio in the last month and a 40% win rate, which kind of tells you why.
We gotta make it work.
We gotta be the ones to bring Acio back. We gotta do make it work. We got to be the ones to bring Aishio back.
We got to do it.
Okay.
So let's...
I'm the king of Aishio by default. so the no mega style if i just kind of do not even thinking too hard but just kind of jam in
the cards that go into the usual kind of list it would be
something like this
uh we want the gamma.
Need all the tabulas.
What are the other units we run?
We could run recruiter, although we didn't used to run it.
We have a lot of two drops.
But I mean, recruiter just makes so much sense.
And then, what else did we run?
We run Kalar.
Magna, of course.
We can fit in Meridus, definitely, for more subjugate value.
Not Centurus anymore. Not send service anymore one Delta definitely justifiable
See the thing is you can run an x-ray or even if it's not like focused the focus of the deck like one It's such an easy bank, and then you get it with tabula later
But yeah.
That's pretty much.
The list.
Right.
Then you run your PS8s.
Maybe like two no snitching.
You can toss in a Wong.
Toss in a Harf.
Like that gets you most of the way there.
Maybe a Memento. Just because. Sometimes it would get wide. And win hearth. That gets you most of the way there. Maybe a memento.
Just because sometimes it would get wide and win that way.
I don't even think so though.
Not for this one.
Like memento would go in the other list maybe.
Not in this one.
This one is fully.
It's like old school Acio.
Full win condition.
What else would we even want?
I mean at this point.
Like this list you could just put in two researchers.
Oh, no, I missed the triumphs. I forgot to put in the triumphs. Forget about that. In that case...
See, the thing is, this list used to not even run Wong, which sounds crazy, but the way it's built, like, Wong isn't really needed.
So, something like this would be roughly it.
I mean honestly this is
probably a really strong list for
Ishiro. So this would be
like no mega
style Ishiro. Which I will copy over into my notes here
And I don't even think we need to build all three in a row
We can just like play a few with this one first and we'll just keep track of the stuff that we're testing and trying as we go
So let's, uh, let's see.
Let's see.
Alright, I'm gonna record in case you want to review the match.
Alright, let's just play a few games with this list.
Immediately get a feel.
Get a feel for what we're feeling.
Into a brand right away okay well now the the sweats have climbed a bit while i've been
playing twilight monk and doing content challenges or just playing some really
wacky decks so maybe we'll get a a gentle introduction into this issue arc maybe we'll get a gentle intro into here maybe possibly
maybe Are we going to connect or no?
False alarm, No match.
Alright.
Maybe we're not getting a match.
But at least we tried.
It was really the idea of the match that we were excited about.
It was really the idea.
It was the idea of playing that had us excited.
Actually playing is overrated, right?
That's right.
The friends and the memories and the journey along the way.
That's exactly what's good.
That is actually exactly and precisely what's good. All right, Nehemiah this time. What's up cloud it has been a long way since axi well I was trying to get my multi streams on YouTube in the last few days. It's been bugging
It keeps like using old thumbnails and titles so it looks like an old axi stream, but I think I finally got it fixed
Yeah, bro. I'm grinding parallel a lot right now
um all right we gotta turn on or no game game audio is on right i think we're good
uh no those axi streams on YouTube slapped though. Those are sick. Okay, so we go first. I think we keep 1 plus 2 and then we look for our draws.
I believe that's how we want to do this.
So 1, 2, 3.
Not a terrible starting hand.
Not a terrible starting hand.
Oh, man.
Back on the Acio arc.
I believe we can make it happen.
I have to, because no one else is doing it, man.
If I don't play Acio, literally no one's going to.
Like, unironically, I'll be the highest ranked Acio player in the game if I just try.
I like being good at something.
Top deck no snitching.
Wait.
What?
That was the biggest waste of their no snitching.
Fathomable.
I think, okay, we have to bank one of these.
I think we go for the delta.
The delta has so much more upside.
We just gotta make it to play this on four with some stuff on the board, trade it all in, and we're drawing really well.
Dude, they wasted that no snitching to an impressive degree
If this just survives a turn we're starting to feel better and better
to set up a big mournful delta.
To set up a big mournful Delta. Oh
Oh, I forgot to put Poisoner in here.
Oh, fuck. Okay, yeah, we have to fix that after this game.
We gotta make room for Poisoner. I knew I was missing something else.
This is the match we would really want it.
I need to make room for it.
What?
I was not expecting the wizened elder.
Oh, wow.
Well played, sir. I was not expecting that.
Okay.
Interesting.
I thought I was the off-meta guy, but clearly not. I'm just setting up Delta.
I mean, they're probably not going to Spores next turn.
This is not exactly a Spores setup.
Although, I don't know if they know exactly what they're trying to do.
What do I bank?
I want to play this to set up Delta, even though it's a bit more vulnerable to spores
I mean if they spores at least they're not doing anything really like that's pretty much their whole turn
Yeah, okay
Tabula.
Tabula
Defend here. Do it.
Nah, would've been too good.
Would've been too awesome.
Okay.
Well, we've got a good
Mournful Delta setup.
Unless
they Spores.
And if they Spores,
they're at least playing really slowly.
We've got an okay start to the deck here.
We've got an okay start to the deck here. We've got an okay start.
I gotta put together a playlist that is allowed for YouTube.
You just watched Paradise? It was pretty good?
Dude, really? I'm glad you watched it.
I actually deleted my YouTube video because I felt like it was a little too random and I should focus on gaming.
I don't know if that's what you saw or if you just heard me talking about it on stream, but I fucking love that show.
My video talking about how good it is is still up on X. I have not seen
Wayward Pines. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I'm definitely down to check it out at some point.
It'll take a little time. I'm kind of slow at TV recs, but I'm interested.
What is it? Can I look it up on Wikipedia or will that spoil it?
Do I need to go in super blind? Yeah, I just finished Paradise, and I also finished Silo Season 2 this week.
I loved Silo Season 2.
People complained about it.
I thought it was awesome.
Maybe it was better because I watched it all after it was done, so I didn't have to wait.
But I watched it with my mom, so I still waited between episodes.
You want to go in blind?
Okay, I won't even look it up then.
I'll just take your word for it.
What streaming service is it on?
That's all I really need to know.
What streaming service is it on?
But yeah, there's a lot of good TV out there.
Severance, Silo, Paradise.
I've been enjoying a lot of shows lately.
Do I attack the Loyalist?
I think we don't.
I think we just want to chill here.
But yeah, Paradise was sick.
If anyone's listening, I know it's not a ton of people here right now,
but if anyone's listening who hasn't seen Paradise on Hulu,
look up Nothing.
Watch my video on Twitter if you need a little like preamble on on it
grim and bones the nickelodeon cartoon from like two decades ago is that am i placing that name
correctly isn't that what that is ooh cape of sharma hall on a miserable loyalist is interesting
no i'm thinking of grim and mandy i'm thinking of like the whatever adventures of Grimm and Mandy.
That's what that show was called.
Random cartoon from when I was a kid.
Okay, I don't remember.
I think you told me about Grimm and Bones and I forgot.
I think I might have fucked up and forgot.
Okay, I could Magna...
You think it's on Hulu?
Alright.
Oh, two different shows. Grim and Bones.
Well, Bones I know. That was on at the same time as House.
It's like forensic...
Episodic
drama where they're like forensic
investigators, right? I remember that one.
Okay, I have Meridus.
Nothing good to do with it yet. We got to play this Magna I suppose
I mean Magna can kill this then it comes back though that Sharma Hall is actually sick
Should I draw first
I'm really not sure the best path here. I think I have to Magna, but this is hella awkward
I guess draw first. this is hella awkward. I guess draw first.
This is hella awkward.
The hearth, not doing much.
Alright, give me that draw.
Yeah, right now I've been kind of getting into Freeran beyond Journey's End.
Baved recommended it to me a long-ass time ago like a month or two ago
And I finally
Been watching it. It's super cozy. It's like the least stressful show possible, which is pretty nice right now
Dude the miserable oil list plus cape of Sharma Hall is actually kind of a sick combo. I got to give him credit
They even keep defenderender on that.
That's wild.
I think keep drawing here.
This is wild.
I think the way we deal with this is with the Kalar,
but it's going to take a minute to get there
Grim is campy, but you love it kind of reminds you of Buffy. Okay
Gotcha
Can't be stuff not as much up my up my alley as you know
Kalar can hopefully save me.
The Misra combo here is pretty sick, but then again, my Deltas are getting me close to Asio.
We just got to get Kalar value.
My hand is full.
I can't even top deck a PS8, though, to get Kalar going faster.
I might lose.
I don't know if we can get through these.
Fuck.
Full Buffy watch through?
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Dude, I think I might actually lose to this.
I might lose to this jank. I wasn't ready
for the Misra Cape of Sharmahal.
Would I just
discard?
Oh, yeah, I would have top decked the third PS8.
I actually overdrew,
and that's going to potentially cost me the match.
I could have traded in Delta sooner to avoid that.
That's tough.
That's tough with Asio.
It's tough.
I think all I can do is get more shit on the board here.
I mean, speed through the deck.
We're close.
I could Meritus and copy the ability from Delta and just keep trading shit in.
I might have to do that.
That plus Kalar.
Copy stats.
I don't have the Enraged beast in this yet we need to add poisoners and possibly the one enraged beast I mean I should have drawn first
bad ordering
Bad ordering.
Haven't seen a single one of our triumphs yet.
So if we can trade in Kalar and then triumph it right back, we might be okay.
Although I don't have gunslingers for the Kalar combo.
So that part's a little awkward.
They get to buff their Mizra's again, but I'm kind of forced to go for this
I'm forced to go for this. Hey, Arithmos. What's up, man?
The Cape of Sharma Hall plus Misra might actually have gotten us here. I mean I
Wasn't that's that's one way to go
That's okay. We've I remembered the things to tweak up the deck list.
Ladder's brutal.
Is it?
You feel like it is?
I'm committing to ACHO.
Literally no one else.
There's no ACHO mains in the entire game right now.
Like, there's literally zero, so it's my duty.
Even though it's terrible, I must try to be an ACHO main.
He's running Shoshana Standard.
My goal this month is to be above 50%.
Oh wait, he misplayed.
Okay, great. Thank you.
Thank you for the misplay.
He traded into Kalart.
Although I'm fucked. I can't draw Triumph because my hand is full.
My hand is full and I can't draw Triumph.
But I can probably just get to Acio and win because he's not going for damage.
Don't know if it's messing
with your head but you're literally treadmilling like you're just stuck at the exact same ranks
i mean the top players are like only around 16 to 1700 to be fair so it's really like
it's a very narrow band right now a very narrow ranking range you, so that could be part of it
But yeah that can yeah for sure when you're trying to climb and you get stuck I mean that's that's a brutal
It can be a brutal experience. Sometimes it can make it tough to have fun
Yeah, I would have drawn triumph, but obviously
Didn't have room I can bank and then play unnatural, I guess.
I mean, we just have to play Aishio next turn to win.
So, I don't even, how much damage they have? 6, 8, 17. It's not actually, they're probably not killing me next turn.
Nehemiah won't boost their damage. At least not nearly enough.
at least not nearly enough. So play those three, take us down to four, then three,
we'll get there. Unnatural selection could work but we don't need it. I believe
this is completely correct. This gets us... I don't think I'm being stupid.
I could have also played this one.
Am I messing this up?
I don't think so.
My positioning is bad, but it doesn't really matter.
It was cool.
if they block with the misra we won't get asio next turn but then we just win i think
and if we block with conduit actually never mind that either way
i should be good no i believe i'm not fucking up. Unless they get lethal somehow.
This token gets us there.
I believe I did it right.
I believe I've done it correctly.
Yep.
Okay, we win next turn unless they somehow find lethal.
The standard won't be enough because they're killing shit on their board.
Just stuck around 1, to eleven hundred i find whenever i feel hard stuck the only thing that works for me is to relentlessly focus on learning and like force myself to not think about the ranks even though it's like kind of
impossible i just like optimize my whole process like you know recording each match taking
screenshots of tough spots reviewing reviewing way more games,
calling up my sweat friends and DMing them the picture of the spot I got stuck on,
what would you do here? Like, it's super, super optimizing for all that.
It's like the only way I can kind of get my brain to stop being in tilt mode if I'm like,
feeling that way. It kind of breaks the whole like rank anxiety rank tilt thing
easier said than done though potentially I
Kind of saw this coming is the thing I saw that the the top level competitive players were ramping back up and that more
Pro TCG players were continuing to join the game And I like a few months ago. I saw that it was gonna get even more brutal on the ladder
That's part of the reason I've been like playing, playing around more with the kind of more creative stuff.
I just feel like the ladder grind is so unforgiving and so brutal right now.
And, like, I personally do not wish to play ladder 12 hours a day all month, you know?
Or even 6 hours a day all month.
I want to, like, take a week off if I want to to work on other content things
you know so I think I made the right call when I sort of shifted away from sweaty ladder grind.
Livestream new dawn that's pretty funny well you got to respect it at a certain point.
So I play ACO I win it'll take out our last one. Do I have enough damage in the waste? I guess I didn't think about that.
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22.
Oh, fuck.
Okay, hold on.
Not enough damage
yeah losing the super random shit can be the most frustrating for sure, but yeah, man. I mean honestly ladder grind is a tough a tough way to go
It is not easy
It is not easy I
Think we're like two damage short
And I don't have scanner probe for the double plus it it doesn't. I'm a one damage short and they have defender. I'm literally one off bro. I think I fucked up with, well I don't know.
No, I had to trade in the subjugate. I mean, if they can't kill this, I win next turn though,
I guess. It is evasive. I guess we'll just see. It stays on the board. This doesn't happen too
often. I mean, I don't, they don't have lethal. They're close. I guess we'll just see. It stays on the board. This doesn't happen too often.
I mean, I don't...
They don't have lethal.
They're close.
I don't think they're getting lethal off of this combo.
This dies.
Right?
Oh, it didn't even die.
Fuck me.
17, 23.
He has exact lethal.
Oh, it feels nice.
Feels great.
Go ahead.
Do it.
Please do it.
Just end it.
It's okay.
Close match.
Just end it.
Go ahead. I wonder if he can add can he add these big numbers? I mean it's a lot. It's that's some serious math
This is some big math. Can you add the numbers?
He fucked up and got rid of his lethal I
Knew he was gonna mess up. I just knew he was going to find a way.
I'm not trying to be mean, but I could just feel it.
I could just feel this dude was looking for a way to miss his lethal.
He literally just undid his attack.
He just lost nine attack power.
And we have evasive.
He had lethal right on the board.
That's why you never play extra shit.
Don't be funny. Like, when lethal is on the board. That's why you never play extra shit. Don't be funny.
Like when lethal is on the board,
he might not realize it as evasive as well.
Like he literally just had to drag the units onto my face.
I actually kind of felt like that was going to happen.
I felt like there was like a 50% chance I win that game.
I could just feel it coming.
I can't even explain. I could just feel it coming. I can't even explain.
I could just feel it.
My cat has been sleeping inside all day.
And as soon as I start streaming, it's time to go out, obviously.
So let me let my cat out real quick, and then we'll queue back up.
I have to make a few adjustments to the list, actually, don't I?
Hold on.
We need to put in Poisoner. And maybe Enraged Beast.
I mean, big oof for him.
I'm stoked.
That's good for me.
So I want to take out...
Okay, take out the Exurator maybe.
There's no room in this list.
We'll run Exurator in one of the other lists.
One of our other...
We have three different Acio theories, basically, right?
I think we can cut down to two Standard Bearers, honestly.
Like, Standard Bearer is way less important in asio i just need to make a little room then i could run a second
poisoner which until it gets nerfed is probably correct because we need wide boards more than we
need tall boards although earthen is definitely kind of the exception but even then we want to
use poisoner with a wide board to clear their big units,
as long as we can get past spores.
I do want to fit in one Enraged Beast, because with Meridus, and just with Acio, it's good.
I also could try to stuff in the Scanner Probe for the double attack tech.
I wonder...
The problem is Standard Bearer is still so good.
Nomega didn't run Convergent Recruiter for this exact reason.
We could actually cut down to two Recruiters. I just don't know if I like Severgent Recruiter for this exact reason. We could actually cut down to two
recruiters. I just don't know if I like Selection or Recruiter better. Like, it's tough. Honestly,
like, maybe just run one Unnatural Selection. It's a good card, but it has slight consistency
issues, especially with this list. Because if you don't draw a unit it sucks ass we can leave in the one unnatural
selection it is it's surprisingly good i mean no mega proved it and i also ran it
or i can just run no unnatural selections i just feel like recruiter is more consistent
than unnatural selection it's just more consistent and it's doing a similar thing
Okay, so let's lay out let's go let's go no unnatural selections then we have double poisoner and we have enrage beast I think that's gonna be better
Okay, really quick. I'm just gonna let my cat out because he's gonna be so antsy otherwise real quick Come on.
Yes. Here we go. Amém. . No, I honestly think we're getting...
We must be getting close to a change.
Like... Like... getting close to a change like like i just feel like it's not sustainable for much longer for like 98 of the energy in the game to be people either trying to brag about how good they are
or shilling wayfinder as hard as they can like I just don't think either of those are super
sustainable long term like you can't have every single person in the game trying to be the
competitive guy and you can't have every single person in the game focused on shilling tokens
no matter how good those
projects may be it just feels like the dam has to break soon where it's like people playing games
for fun you know what's happening is people are playing the game for fun like until we get there
it's all just kind of it's kind of it's hard for me to wrap my head around, honestly.
Games for fun.
In my Web3.
I'm playing with virtuals now.
I support people who want to do play to earn, but for me it was kind of taking the fun out of it
Match up against mr. D money here you can be a super sweat and plat four or you can just chill the a show and plat five
Yeah, I'm excited for colony, but unfortunately full colony like actual
Actual early access like start playing and don't have it
reset after a few days. Like, continuous
play. We're still really far away from that
unfortunately.
How do we even
try to win against Skippy?
I don't know if Kalar
is enough.
It's tough against Skippy for sure.
I mean, no snitching is good, and then like a PS8 could be good.
If we can just find a PS8.
I might want to stuff some gunslingers in, although I don't really want to.
The only reason to run gunslinger is for Kalar.
I think we can get away with not running it.
Colony sounds so fun.
It was cool.
It's definitely like the most interesting application of AI
in gaming
that I've
seen.
But yeah, we're pretty far away from that
being like a
playable thing for the long term.
Uh... I mean, we're gonna need to outdraw them to win, obviously, but we also need to not lose the board.
So, one, two, three, blank, five is pretty much it
It's tempting to no snitch this gamma. It's fucking tempting, but then if they play a standard bearer, it cooks me
Think we have to take this risk
I don't maybe it's maybe it's better just to instantly no snitching if they have the relic
They just insta cook me here, and it's over. I probably said no snitching. If they have the relic, they just insta-cook me here and it's over.
I probably said no snitching, done one.
It's just impossible to play around both the relic and the standard bearer.
You have to pick.
I should probably just play around what's already on the board. Oh Not much we can do here.
If he has Magna, we can concede.
Like, unironically, we can just concede if he has Magna, we can concede. Like, unironically, we can just concede if he has Magna. Okay, well, it's not Magna, but...
Upside down land.
655 ranks between 1080 and 11 and 12 11 yeah ranks just don't matter right now like honestly if you're sweating about being 1150 versus 1080 like it's time to take a break right
ranks don't even matter right now.
I mean, they do, but, like, they don't.
I'm ready to concede.
I think this one's over.
Lucky.
Get out of playing slow players?
What does that have to do with anything?
You're not going to tell me you're tilted about losing because you want faster matches.
I don't believe that for a second.
Everyone wants to win and wants to have high ranks because they want the cloud they want people to think that you're good at the thing
I refuse to believe your main motivation is getting away from slow players
That feels like copium
One minute 20 each turn I mean you're not wrong I get it
Maybe it's not copium. I don't know. It feels
kind of like copium though. Everyone wants to win because winning is good and fun and losing sucks,
right? But there are, there are definitely weird accounts. Yeah, maybe 50% cope. I mean,
that's a, that's, that's a fair assessment. 50% cope, 60% hope. That's a fair assessment.
50% cope, 60% hope. That's a fair assessment.
Yeah, I, uh...
There are weird accounts that, like, take really long every turn for no reason and kind of feel like bots.
Those ones, yeah, they can be really fucking weird.
They can be really fucking weird. I mean, we get to triumph next turn.
Maybe he doesn't draw a triumph and we start clawing our way back in.
Maybe. Time! Now this feels like fight
I got Magna my waist I got subjugate I guess we got a good subjugate triumph flow
We do have a decent subjugate triumph flow Give it a try I got a try right Did you get triumph player?
Give it a try. You got to try right?
Got a try right?
Enraged beast in the waste that's solid let's do some science kind of unlucky what's in the waste right now i need more
i guess i gotta play the Skippy in here. Five times.
Okay. Okay.
I mean, it's still bad, but at least we're finding a little counterplay in a somewhat ridiculous spot.
Somewhat ridiculous.
The fact that I'm still in this is actually kind of crazy.
Still three turns to eight, though. It's hard to imagine he doesn't kill me before then.
But at least I put in a counter punch.
Considering if he mag nut on three, I was just going to literally concede.
We have managed to put a punch back a little bit Fluxitine.
Fluxitine.
That's a new one.
What's up, Carmen?
Hey, right back at you.
Was good.
Just about to lose this game right here.
D-money with the quintuple radiant legion charge.
Casual quintuple charge.
Prozac, ignore you?
No, you're fine.
Oh, it's anti-depression.
Phloxatine, I see. Okay, cool.
Yeah, I didn't catch the... I just didn't know.
I never heard of that one.
I mean, shit. Not to be too casual
about a serious topic, but I might need
some of this shit. Fuck.
Well, not the premenstrual one, but...
I don't know.
I've been really curious.
I'm not trying to make light as shit.
I'm actually really curious to get a psychological evaluation at some point.
You take it too, Metapod?
There you go.
All right.
I think we're cooked here.
G fucking G.
5, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22.
You think of me every time because of the name? I appreciate that. That's very sweet of you.
Um...
I mean, technically it's not over yet.
Technically it's not over yet.
Like, technically... Allegedly it's not over yet
I'm doing this in slightly the wrong order
Which is cringe
We're in this together.
Love Prozac.
Only on ADMG.
I'm glad y'all are fine-tuned.
I'm glad y'all have gotten y'all's stuff tuned up.
That's good shit.
I'm sad that I'm losing this match, though.
Doesn't really give me enough of a... relief to, uh...
Yeah, I'll just save us both some time,
because he has to try to be careful and not throw the match,
and I can't win, so he can save us both some time.
This is the concede turn.
Wanted to concede on turn three, but I tried to...
I tried. I tried to win. I tried to win.
I did indeed tried to win I tried to win I did indeed try to
win we could put in relic removal in the deck I don't really know if that would
have made the difference in that match honestly I could also just stay like all
in on doing it this way E aí All right, another Skippy.
This is like one of our worst matchups for sure.
Where's the Shrouds?
Why do the Shrouds show up when I want to play a fucked up combo deck and disappear as soon as I play Aishio?
fucked up combo deck and disappear as soon as I play Ishiro. They gotta come back soon.
They got to come back soon.
The Shroud's gotta come back. This is ridiculous.
I get to go first this time so that helps so one
One two is okay. I mean one one what I want to look for
No snitching is really good in this matchup, but going first it's kind of tough We can do this though this this hand I think is okay
And then we just draw into more stuff. Do I just keep a tabula for the first turn bank?
Am I stupid for keeping this? I think this is okay.
Like, we can bank this turn one.
This sets up my first two turns pretty well.
I mean, it's not a good matchup.
Gotta try something.
Okay. Okay. We are in this together.
Hmm. Okay. I was thinking about no snitching the gamma, but I don't know. Let's get that pain! Okay, this is not bad, actually.
This is not bad.
You know, the only thing about not having unnatural selection is we are missing some synergies.
Maybe I should try unnatural instead of convergent recruiter. I'm starting to realize why no mega played it
It's just tough because it's not as consistent as this but it has more synergy
In this case though
Yeah, let's play for the board a little bit more here Hmm. Okay, yep, yep, yep, whatever.
Is Kalar the play here?
Yeah, we can Kalar now and then triumph it back and just hold on to the subjugate.
I guess we gotta...
Hmm, we can bank the Poisoner.
I don't have a way to discard this, though.
I might as well just bank this.
I can't discard it.
I need to fix the list a little bit.
The other option is to play Poisoner and just trade the standard bearer, but let's try it this way
All right I'm starting to think there's literally no viewers.
I shouldn't say that.
I should stop talking.
I'm starting to think there's no one who watches Parallel.
It's like all lurkers.
There's like 50 content creators and all the rest of the viewers are just like afk lurkers I'm really starting to think I'm honestly really starting to think
there's like 50 viewers in this entire content ecosystem total So annoying
You see what I'm seeing metapod right like I'm literally doing I've been doing good shit for like six months and it's just like
It's just tough man, it's tough like I'm doing this to meet my contract and it's like fuck man
Almost embarrassing to have stream this game for six months and still just have four viewers
I don't even blame anyone like we're all hanging out having a good time
I don't even think other streamers are doing better as a thing. I just think it's like afk lurkers
Like whenever a big streamer raid someone else and then they have a big view count for the rest of the stream
But no one ever says anything
Like you'll get a hundred plus raid and
not a single chat message which is like super weird you know I shouldn't say
shit it's just really it's frustrating once the game gets polished more it will
step up I mean I hope it's I'm not saying that I don't believe the future
has big potential but right now it is so people are very it's I'm not saying that I don't believe the future has big potential but right now it is so
People are very supportive too. I'm not saying even that but it's just
Just feels like I'm making a making content that there is no audience for like the entire audience is other content creators
And we're all just like trading who gets to have a good stream on any given day.'s like tough it's like really uh demoralizing some days it's
just hard to get better when you don't get you can't even like go off of i don't know how am i
supposed to even know what content's good when no one no one is watching anyone's content. I don't know. I shouldn't say shit. I'll be honest.
It's getting kind of...
discouraging.
At least with other games I focused on,
once I build an audience,
then I can continue to have an audience. Whereas in this game game. It's like I built an audience for four months and it all just went away
Don't I don't I literally don't even get it. I don't really know what happened
It's like no one cares I mean you guys are here. It's all good. I don't get it. It's really confusing
really confusing to be honest I just feel like I I've been way less important
To be honest I
in other games and gotten way more view like in parallel I have a way bigger
stature in the community than I ever have in any other game and yet it's just
like the viewership is brutal in gods unchained no one even gave a shit about
me and I was pumping views
It's just it's just weird
It's tough. I don't know. I'm just trying to not think about it I feel like you can't even say anything, otherwise people are like, oh no, stop fighting, oh no.
Should I just go straight for the mill or should I go Kalar?
I think I have to defend.
I feel like I have to defend. I don't know.
It's just tough.
It's tough to invest a huge amount of time into streaming this game and then feel like
there's just no viewers who want to watch anyone.
It's tough.
I'll admit, it's tough.
I just don't know how much longer, like, what, 6-12 months?
I don't, like, when is the game good to watch? I don't know.
I've never seen so many streamers and so few viewers for a game.
It's tough. It's tough. I don't know.
I shouldn't say shit, but no one's listening anyway, so I feel like I can.
I can say whatever problem.
It just seems like no one who plays the game cares about watching content at all.
It's just like people playing a social game trying to get up the clout ladder you know even though everyone's nice but that's what the content feels
like it feels like everyone's making content to try to like get everyone else to think they're
cool but no one is actually serving like an audience of viewers who want to see the content
everyone's just like group hug smothering themselves to death on wayfinder Shilling or whatever else is like the parallel insider thing of the moment. Okay, we got a poisoner play.
It might actually get through this.
And then next turn we can double
Subjugate into gamma
We got to do it this way this is our is our chance here
Mobile version is out, but it's not good yet
It doesn't...
Arithmos, it's hard to believe that there's thousands of casual players, my man.
It's hard to believe that.
I really shouldn't be saying this shit, but I'll just say the truth.
It's hard to believe that.
Swish claiming these growth numbers, and yet the number of people on the ladder never seems to change.
It's...
I know that you know what I mean.
You don't have to say shit. I know everyone wants to be careful, but you know what I mean.
To be honest, that's the most gaslighting-y part of it all to me.
The claims of growth that no one can see any evidence of is probably-
If it was like, yeah, game's not growing yet, at least then I'd be like, okay, well it makes sense.
It's early, blah blah blah. The claims of growth and yet in the content side we're just we're just fucking getting no attention even
though again support is there in every other way there's just no viewership you know that's that's
the part that I'm just venting I'm just venting I just wish I could put all my energy into YouTube right now because it feels like streaming is so not
What the game needs right now
A lot of players you've never seen this week. That's cool. That's good. That's good to hear. I
That's cool.
That's good to hear.
I don't know.
Whatever.
Just venting.
It's all good.
It's fine.
Keep doing what I'm doing.
Yeah, YouTube. Exactlyapod that's exactly something that is really good about the
Triumph on mobile no less that's good
Yeah, it's just just tough I've been I've just been I've been a little frustrated
It can be tough to keep up morale sometimes
When your main goal is to build an audience and it feels basically like impossible in the current this is though
It's gonna be frustrating
Okay, just clear the Domina actually we can do this. Well, we just got to survive
Two more turns I don't know Am I going to get there Or are we just going to survive two more turns.
I don't know.
Fuck, am I going to get there or are we just going to fall short?
Got to survive two more turns.
I actually don't even need this Mournful Delta.
Oh, yes, I do.
I have seven cards.
Wait, I thought it said a lower number.
Am I tripping balls?
I have seven cards left.
Okay, never mind.
I definitely need these.
I don't know.
I don't know if we can survive to get the deck empty.
One more turn.
Doing okay against Skippy.
It's our absolute worst matchup, I think.
Kathy and Skippy.
AKA the two most popular decks in the game. Thank you. I'll find my way back. Well, we were close.
We were close.
We were close.
We were close.
Okay, let's switch out the recruiters for unnatural selection.
Because now I can understand.
I remember why we run unnatural selection the discard is important
The discard the discard is important
GG Baved No, but you're I mean, it's true with most like I understand like if we all just keep doing what we're doing and
Everyone just does good shit,
then literally we just have to hold.
Just hold until a couple months from now.
I think if by the time Deception comes out,
we're not seeing more engagement with content from like casual players and viewers and not just
all of us scratching each other's backs if we don't see that by like august to be honest i
probably would quit streaming parallel at that point because it just there's only so long i can
i can like believe you know what i mean um even if I still believe in the game, I just can't like
It's just so tough because streaming feels very all-or-nothing you have to always be thinking about it and planning around it
Like I kind of agree if the game just ran really smoothly which I understand the patches are coming like that might be all it really needs oh
That was you Baved I didn't I forgot that was fucking you your blaze holy shit good mate good
game GG now I understand fuck my bad yo metapod you tried that game the game
looks really silly in a fun way the graphics are ugly but the game is kind of
neat the graphics looked ugly but in, but in a charming way.
Depending on which button you tap, it does different things.
If you tap A, it gives you points.
Tap B, it refills your energy.
Tap X, it does a power attack.
Keep track of your energy and press buttons.
I want to check it out.
I'm down to give that game a first look at. I probably wouldn't play it for a super long time but i'm totally down to uh give it a try i actually have it installed i think
friends you promoted the game to just say it's too slow once you've got bathroom break status
it'll be okay i hope so it's painful for me because like... I know this game has a million times more potential than Gods Unchained in the big picture, but...
And I have no temptation to go back to Gods Unchained. I would never do that.
But like...
It's just tough seeing how many people like to watch that game, even though it has no chance to be huge.
And this game actually could be huge.
And it has like no viewership. And it has, like, no viewership.
And it's just like, man, yeah, I hope the next three,
four months is a turning point.
I really...
Because it's just...
Otherwise, it just gets awkward for the content creation
side of things.
It just gets awkward is all at that point.
We may or may not get there. There's no way to know.
Dinner time. Alright, back to zero viewers. See you later.
The only parallel viewer is gone.
Sag.
At least I queued into a bot.
So that helps.
That's a cool thing.
Have your hopium.
I don't need it.
I've had more than enough crypto people's copium. I don't need it. I've had more than enough crypto people's copium.
I don't need even a single bit more.
Alright, well, it's a bot, so...
It's a bot, so whatever.
I am misplayed. Let's get a closer look.
Pre-registered for the Play Store version?
For Parallel? Awesome. Yeah, I mean...
They better not launch it in America until it's cleaned up.
If they launch a crappy version in America, they're fucking stupid.
I don't really know why they launched in the Philippines before the good patch, but I don't know.
I'm not an expert on that shit.
Just being angsty on stream.
Probably a bad idea.
I wish I was good at just shutting my mouth and smiling and not saying any of my thoughts.
That'd probably be a lot smarter.
Okay.
Cool hand bro
Cool neis bro
Cool neis
Oh shit 1.6 prime
Yo, thanks Arithmos, I appreciate that. Thanks for the five bucks. You know my Idris is working.
Thank you very much for the five bucks. Appreciate that.
Thanks for the prime. Very nice of you. Appreciate that.
Cheers, bro. appreciate that cheers bro I feel like a lot of people in this space have an easier time chilling because like
they're not paycheck to paycheck like I am.
I don't want to talk about this because then people will think I'm like pocket watching
which I'm really not.
I feel like I can't help but be more stressed because my like direct survival depends on me making good decisions
And a lot of people in crypto are like oh, you know worst case gotta gotta sell some bags or something
you know
into the hydrolyum
And then people are like whoa shit flux you shouldn't do that and it's like no fuck no fuck thanks for the brilliant advice
Let me go back in time seven years and fix my life.
And not be in this position.
Like, I agree, but...
If I can just...
Man, if just anything can fucking be stable at all,
then I'd be...
I swear to God, I'm really good at being patient.
I'm in too deep, and there's no fucking way out, so I'm just like, holy shit.
Clinging for dear life.
Yeah, it's an adventure, that's for sure.
Uh... They're actually running
Hydro-list chamber. Oh, I could have snitched.
I thought this was... I got confused. I thought this was
Baloruzzi. I thought this was... No, whatever the fuck it's called.
Interrogator.
Oh, fuck. What's it called?
Deal three damage. Alvaro Interrogator, right? Something like that.
I thought it was that one.
Otherwise, I could have snitched it one sooner.
Hand's okay, though. We got these two triumphs.
Triumph should be enough, triumph into the subjugate
Slam the twos I
Am I about to lose to this fucking neis there's way. There's no way Acio is this watch.
Oh, Magna, even better than Subjugate then.
We can Subjugate next time.
This will kill the Vengeful Allies.
This is huge.
This is huge. Okay, no. This is huge.
This is actually huge.
That's exactly what I needed.
Alright, well we should win this one, but man,'s the acio is gonna take some work to figure this out
She's even worse than she was that one month
We gotta I don't care though. I'm determined. I'm determined. I gotta make it work. I
Gotta figure out how to make a show not be too bad here. There's gotta be a way
Don't I don't know shit a show is always kind of swingy though, so a couple bad games doesn't also necessarily mean much
Okay, we got to kill the ally first here just slam definitely slam triumph
let's do some science
you only need the one buff at the start here.
We just need to clear the ally.
And then...
Hold on.
Yeah. They can trade into this anyway
Because I'll buff the Scipion Well, the ironic thing about all the parallel angst is that like I actually feel like the best way I can contribute is to like build audience in other games. And then when I play parallel...
Literally, the only people hanging out when the parallel zeitgeist isn't on me is my friends from other games.
I feel like I should build more friends from other games.
Because then they'll come here.
Otherwise, we're all just fighting for the same tiny audience.
But I feel like if I do that, people will think I'm not locked in on parallel anymore or something you know what I mean but like what what can
you do what can you do like d money's a professional card game player he has
eight viewers free tip has like 20 afk lurkers from a raid I don't want to talk
shit on King but he's got like 80 AFK lurkers like there's there's no
It would just be better to bring in I'm talking way too honest right now, but like it'd really be better just bring in
More people by doing great content elsewhere and also having parallel in the mix, you know
But I feel like if I do that people are gonna think I'm slacking
I mean added variety definitely I mean, it's not a coincidence that like I don't want to call out specific names and make people feel
awkward because like I'm not I'm not like scheming specifically for each person but like
It's not a coincidence that we happen to have fun with for example both Carmen and X
Doing stuff and now they've both hung out here a little more and vice versa
I hung out in Carmen stream more often lately and stuff like when we do things together we want to hang out more like it's just
it's just even if you like I know that I like y'all y'all know you like me but
like when there's stuff going on then you actually hang out whereas otherwise
okay we're about to win next turn whereas otherwise even if you like people you
just don't spend time together because you don't have anything to do.
Yeah, that's right, Carmen. Be awkward.
So, thinking of you as a viewer and the view count.
Not as a friend. I'm a terrible person.
Obviously, it's just a coincidence.
But it's a good example of, like, we've always fucked with each other.
You're my first follower, pretty much.
But, like, we just don't talk all the
time but if we're if we're both playing the same games we talk more often and i just feel like that
general thing applies to like everyone that i've ever watched or who's ever watched me like in
these smaller communities like and i feel like it's way better for parallel for me to actually
make banger variety content in an attempt to then have some people who might come in when i'm streaming other than i hope no one else is live
so the 20 parallel the 20 people who watch parallel on twitch all day will come in my stream
instead of being in x other streamer you know that's just a game that no one is winning you know
i don't want to play that game.
I want to play the most effective game,
both for me and for the community,
which really feels like to build out my lane more.
And I'm doing it.
But I don't know.
I really...
This Twilight Monk critique is going to be a really cool experiment to see if...
Forget about getting huge views.
Just do i see people
from that community who enjoy that i put time into the video like does the team reach out to me and
say yo that's awesome well that's the thing is i want to put in less hours on parallel now while
it's not a good time to stream and then put more hours in the parallel later when it's a good time
to stream it you know, I just fucked up
I had lethal. Okay one more turn. I
Like I don't want to do none but like I don't know I feel like I built my reputation on like a
150 hours a month of streaming and now I should just do like 30 40 hours a month like literally, you know, cuz it's
But I don't want people to think I'm slacking or to have any issues with any of my sponsor deals stuff.
You know, it's just, it's like a tricky thing.
I mean, I got to just communicate with people, I guess.
I'm just trying to navigate correctly.
I mean, I am still putting in hours, though.
I'm always insanely way too hard on myself.
I'm always insanely way too hard on myself.
Which is definitely, definitely fair. and I am figuring stuff out I've been working on all the multi-stream shit
But I wouldn't talk about this but since it's a quiet stream anyway who fucking cares might as well
I feel like I feel like doing the multi streams across all the platforms and
then and then
if i can do whatever i want on all my platforms and it's less about the twitch category and it's
more about building my thing over time which lets me contribute more
yeah metapod i wish i could like know exactly when it's going to be the problem is there's
other dude there's days when the category is empty for hours and hours,
but I just woke up and I have my chronic pain issues.
They're worse in the morning, so I'm like, I'm just not ready yet.
And then by the time I'm good, it's like 10 people a lot.
It's like so tough.
I wish I could, you know.
But it, oh, hold on, my cat's here okay useless opening send it back
It just isn't a stream game but brother
TCG's are the ultimate stream game like TCG's are one of the best genres to stream like it's the best kind Like it's a such a good format for streaming
So this game not being a stream game is
not an option and i understand that's where it is just being patient i do believe it is about
patience it is about not it is in that sense it is about having the patience to give the game a
little more time but like it has to be a stream game a card game can't succeed if no if it doesn't
i don't think it's possible for a digital card game to be good but not be a stream game a card game can't succeed if no if it doesn't I
Don't think it's possible for a digital card game to be good, but not be a stream game. I don't know how that would work
Like card games are one of the ultimate streaming genres. I feel like like FPS card games
Maybe MMOs like I feel like those are like the core. I don't know
But that's besides the point I think the game will get there it's just about what to do between here and there
And that's right. I really feel like yeah, I don't know like reaching out to other communities is just better
Yeah right now yeah in that case yeah for sure
Yeah, I don't know I think that's why I'm so frustrated though I feel like what I need to do is not stream that much parallel and go hard on the variety content to be able to bring people into parallel.
But I'm afraid that if I do that, I might like, I don't know. I don't want to even get too real. Like, you know, have issues with my contracts and stuff, which I need to pay the bills.
and it just sucks because I feel like what's right it'll it just I feel like it looks like
I'm fucking off and like losing interest when it's literally I just think it's the best thing
to do for the game like oh flux is just playing random games now he's off you know I mean like
it looks so but I literally think it's the right thing to do to bring in more people then when I
stream people will hang out like that I mean it's it's so obvious I got to figure out how to navigate the situation. It's so obvious that that's like the scenario
Okay, I could bank this and then get it back out with tabula
Or I can discard it with tabula. I
Really just want to play PSA and eat this though. I can do that next turn.
Okay, fuck it. I guess I'm gonna bank the tabula even though I don't want to.
I should probably just do the right thing
and let everything else shake out.
I should just do whatever is best for the content.
And if people misunderstand, they'll catch up to what I'm thinking once they're ready.
I think that's how I should do it.
There's a middle ground.
I just need to stream like three hours a day.
I just got to keep the streams short and tight.
When they're good, great.
And when they're dead as fuck, that's fine. I should just do like three hours a day. I just got to keep the streams like short and tight. When they're good, great. And when they're dead as fuck, that's fine. I just, I should just do like three
hours a day. Yeah, exactly. Like, that's what variety streamers are. The thing is, I think I
understand how air quotes variety content works now. I think I've never done good variety content
before. And I think if I do it
It does actually work a little bit, but it takes a very long time to build an audience with that stuff obviously
With anything gaming related with anything in life really it just always takes a long time
But that's exactly why I'm doing why I think the newer games
Indie studios like that's where there's like people play the game
But there's not enough like like look at Twilight Monk
It's got a hundred and fifty reviews on Steam
That's actually pretty fucking good and there's like no content about the game other than like unedited playthroughs like to me. That's a
That's basically an attention arbitrage
Like there is interest in the game and there's not content serving it now for all I know I do a critique
I spend three days doing my most ambitious video yet and then in no one cares like sure actually possible
but like it makes sense to me that
And even lately can see little things like is Twilight monk the next great Metroidvania 5,000 views
Does Twilight monk scratch the silksong itch 19k?
It's like there's people watching these things, right?
but no one has done like a in-depth-depth critique, I don't think. These are all more, like, kind of, like, talking a little bit about the game first impressions, which is, like, what I usually do, but I'm really curious to do more in-depth critique.
I think it'd be fun. I mean, at this point, I should just enjoy my parallel stream tonight. I'm already doing it. It's fine
But like that's that's really where my head's at
That's really where my head's at is it just like it makes a ton of sense
Yeah, metapod. No, I really think a game selection is actually a really important skill
And I used to think it was like who cares just play what you want. I
Think there actually is a skill to it. I also don't think I could definitely succeed with variety for sure,
but I feel like I could at least do a better job of it than I ever did before.
I have all the fucking skills.
I just need to get from here to there, you know?
I just need to get... I just need to keep pushing through I just man it just I know I can get there
But it's such a fucking difficult trek
To navigate the paycheck to paycheck life on the way to sustainable business doing what I'm fucking doing
But the way I see it is I've built an audience in like five different games and if I did variety as the main game
I could do it there too
Because I've done it whatever I focus on I can do you know and
Then parallel would be my card game and then I would bring in more people when I play but
Easier said than done for sure.
Yeah, exactly.
The little discords and stuff.
Exactly.
That's how it all plays out.
Well, if the video is really good, people will actually talk about it.
And they'll recommend it to other people and stuff like that. I don't know. Now this feels like fight.
Playing against a bot right now doesn't help things.
It's either meta decks or pure bots right now.
It's a little awkward.
That's the flip side of the rank reset, though.
I did want it, so I can't complain
overall it's good
oh but I just play a few more games maybe just do like a two and a half hour like
kind of short tight stream
And then I'll put a little time into the into the YouTube video I'm working on. Maybe that's a good plan
It's not too late. Well, it's kind of late, but I'm on a late schedule
Play some games another hour or so
Make some food spend an hour drafting out the script first draft for the Twilight monk critique
That could be good.
That could work.
People tend to only search out videos of new games.
Yeah.
Harvest Moon videos do better with the new releases.
Even if they're shitty.
Well, it just makes sense.
People are curious about
the new things whereas the old things is like it's like uh watching reruns you know what i mean
you you earn the right to run the reruns once you've built your audience doing tons of new
stuff it honestly makes sense because you're like you're contributing more when you talk about games that aren't already famous.
Like, if you find something good or interesting or worth talking about that isn't already being talked about,
that is a contribution to the world in a super small way.
Like, you're literally making something that isn't already all over the place.
already all over the place like you're contributing something at least somewhat
Like, you're contributing something at least somewhat new in some way.
new in some way whereas if you want to do like first play through a Skyrim like
why the fuck is anyone gonna watch that other than your close friends right or
your true fans if you have them like that it just makes sense frankly like
who the fuck is gonna discover your Skyrim first playthrough right and that
was me my whole you know whenever I did variety i was playing games the best games i haven't played yet which makes sense that's what's fun to do
but yeah for for variety content a million percent it's about covering new interesting
things which is what i've done in on-chain gaming it's not a coincidence and it all makes sense
like literally what have i been most successful with on-chain gaming? Why? Because people only care about blockchain?
No, definitely not.
Because that's when I've been doing the most interesting, new, fresh stuff.
And that's when I've had the most to contribute.
You can even feel it with the platformers.
I can do a better job playing a platformer because I have a lot of experience.
Whereas in FPS, I'm like the shittiest game journalist ever who'd never played a game before it's kind of obvious
You have to do new stuff in the area that you already have experience in and then you can make and then you can make content
that just is naturally gonna be interesting because
Anyone who's experienced and good with some shit. It's interesting to hear them talk about it. I
Think there's a here's a balance balance I just got to do short parallel stream I just got to keep these streams like two and a half hours three and a half like literally two and a half to three and
a half hours try to do that five six days a week just keep it up and then that that should be
enough to fulfill my stream obligations and to keep people understanding that I'm not going
anywhere but then I'll still leave me like the other four or five hours a day of working time to do
all the variety stuff. I just have to, I mean, just consider it practice for if I end up having
to go work at McDonald's, then I'll be working the day shift and then, or the night shift,
I'll be editing when I'm not there. So if I just try to think of it as like a crappy job,
it's a great crappy job. Like, oh, streaming, but there's not a lot to think of it as like a crappy job, it's a great crappy job like oh streaming
But there's not a lot of people or it's like kind of tough. Oh, that's a great crappy job. That's the best crappy job ever
Okay, metapod sounds good
Sounds good.
Who is it?
Pandapple.
What's up, brother?
Thanks for the raid.
Appreciate the raid. Thank you for the raid.
You lost the roulette today.
You lost the Twitch roulette.
Me too.
No, I get it. Me too.
No, it's not because you played Gaffar. It's just random.
You didn't get to have the random 10 to 20 AFK lurkers to bump up your view count so then no one else came in.
It's all... We're all in the same boat.
It literally has nothing to do with what you're streaming, I'm pretty sure.
It's just random if we get to have a good stream or if no one shows up.
That's just how the game is right now.
So thanks anyway for the raid, my friend. I appreciate you.
I think most of us are kind of stuck just waiting to see when we have a good day, yeah.
But thanks for the raid brother appreciate it
Someone's got to play Gaffar just like I got to play Aishio. Someone's got to do it
But I'm over Mill well no I'm not I'm just-entering the cycle. But I'm over Mill. Well, no, I'm not. I'm just going to win next turn.
What you doing?
You were talking about this today, every time you visit someone, they're streaming Skippy.
Like, there's nothing wrong with it, but I find Skippy or Kathy, it's not even boring.
I'll be real, I don't give a fuck.
Like, if people want to watch a certain deck, I'm down to play it.
But it's not even about, like like it's not even about that there's just not enough viewers to support the amount of streamers and we just have to stay strong men until the game is able
to get to that place where it starts bringing in some casual players it
should happen in the next few months and we should start to see that happening
we have to stay strong you know the truth is like there is no audience for
entertainment content the entire audience is like all of parallel is only a competitive scene right
now like there is no casual scene in the content space really it's there but it's barely like
the only thing people really get excited about is all the competitive stuff and so it leads to a lot
of just like 20 30 people lurking a master player grinding skippy which to be fair is not always the case
i mean lamby does lots of interesting decks but like i shouldn't throw shade certain people who
do nothing but like stream skippy don't don't talk that much but hey they're high ranks and
people want to watch like it's fine good for them but i'm i don't find that like
enjoyable i don't find that you know and there's a reason why i decided not to like continue
focusing on competitive i just think it's pretty obvious the next million players are going to be
the casuals intermediates and all the other people but there's a really awkward transition phase before they show up I think I
Just wouldn't judge yourself based on your twitch viewership at all at all right now
Already had city skylines on epic just bought it on steam rip rip
Fucking rip fucking rip you'll bring more check people at 6.5 well the problem is 6.5 is only for mobile though
so pc is still going to be slow once they fix once we have the the go fast patch for pc in theory
i don't know i don't want to get. I don't want to think about it.
If they just need to do it, you know,
they just need to make the game feel really good
and fast when you play
so you're not wasting time in loading screens
and like animations and stuff.
If they can make it feel fast
and like fluid and you get into,
not even the queue times, not that,
but just all the other stuff.
If they can make that stuff work,
we're good to go.
Or if mobile is available everywhere and it's good i don't really know it's not really my fucking job though it's my job to make content it's my job to make content i don't know what
the fuck they should do i just know that like yeah they need to make it appeal to casual players and
until then streamers are going to be kind of struggling. All of us, you know?
Everyone except for maybe Lambie.
And even he's, I mean, he could get more viewers and snap,
but at least he gets to be the king of parallel,
so he's probably feeling pretty good.
And he's earned it, he's earned it.
He's earning it every day.
No disrespect, he's earning it every day.
But yeah, it's... A lot of players, you know, tried parallel,
but were only able to play like three games.
I mean, someone told me that last week.
Literally, like I would go back to grinding as soon as they make it faster, but I just can't do it.
Like someone told me that last week.
Someone who's like an on-chain grinder, you know?
No, I mean, it's reasonable though.
Like why would someone choose to play this if they're just playing casually when it's so slow and buggy compared to Hearthstone?
It's hard.
Even though I prefer the game mechanics, it's hard to make that argument, you know?
I think we're all feeling it.
We just got to be patient and trust the team.
But admittedly, it's tough, you know?
It's tough for all of us putting in lots of hours just, know not being able to really build our audiences at all because there's just
You know not casual players yet
But that's the bet that you got to make I guess that's the you're betting you're early on the attention trade that if people start flooding in
You'll be here already and that can benefit you, you know
But there's a reason I'm leaning into more YouTube content and I definitely feel like I feel like it's best for the game if
You know a lot of us focus on just trying to make friends in a lot of different places so we can you know over time
Have more people notice parallel. I
Don't know it's tough. It's tough. tough it's tough everyone's got their own situation
I'm not even worried about it but it is what it is like I'm fine with it but yeah like so far
today I've lost to a few aggro decks and now I've queued into Nea spot three times in a row yeah it
is tough I guess it's not that shocking that we don't have the casual player base yet.
I really believe in the game's potential.
I just, yeah.
Just need to see this PC client tighten up.
Tighten.
Get tighter.
Used to stream Hearthstone for 100 to 150 people.
Now you get max 2 to 3 of your old viewers. Yeah, I get tighter. Used to stream Hearthstone for 100 to 150 people. Now you get max 2 to 3 of your old viewers.
Yeah, I get it.
I mean, same here with Gods Unchained,
except it was like 20 to 30, maybe 50 around my peak.
Like 20 to 50 people.
I mean, I averaged over 50 in Gods Unchained my best month.
Granted, I was doing some giveaways that month.
Everyone in the Hearthstone community started to hate you well that got really tough because hearthstone people got so vicious about parallel that got so like nasty for a while
i just think like we just need to not as content creators we need to not play the game of like
whoever has more viewers is cool and we're like haha i'm cool you suck we have to be careful
not to like imply that like haha i have the viewer like i think it's easy to for all of us
to subconsciously kind of compete with each other on viewership and like who's got the views who
doesn't i think we have to really be careful just to not do that to each other right now
just recognize that we're all trying and that some of us are just gonna have absolutely no viewers on some days because of the nature of the current ecosystem
and we just have to be in it together you know but yeah i'm thinking about i don't know i could like
either end stream early tonight and work on a video or i could do a first look at another
or I could do a first look at another game,
game and then that could be a video i could post on my channel i'm like
and then that could be a video I could post on my channel.
I'm like...
My head's just thinking, okay, what can I do on YouTube now?
Because this is just, unfortunately, like...
I would have fun if the stream was cooking a bit,
but it feels kind of like, oh, I should be doing something else.
And then just try again tomorrow.
It's like if the stream's dead for a couple hours,
just don't continue.
And then when it is a good stream,
then I can go a little longer you know feels like that's the uh the thing you know
sometimes it feels like there's 20 people viewing multiple streams at once
yeah like the fact of the matter is it feels like there's no viewers bottom line is it feels like
no one wants to watch i'm not trying to be negative but everyone is feeling that it's just everyone's thinking it
so i'll say it like all the streamers feel like man there is just it is so difficult to get anyone
to watch right now we all feel it that's what everyone's thinking traitor nah they're just
fucking dramatic everyone's being dramatic with that shit.
People can play whatever the fuck they want.
Nah, I think we're all feeling it, to be honest.
And I think acknowledging it is okay.
Like, I really think people panic. They're like,
wait, why are you fighting? It's like, no, no, no, no, no. It's okay to acknowledge the things
that are blatantly obvious. It's actually better to do that than to be like, just say good things
only. Don't, don't acknowledge it. Like this is, this is insider talk, you know, this isn't what
I'm going to tell someone who's like shows up and goes hey flux i just downloaded the
game what should i do but none of them are here right now so until they are we can talk about
this shit used to have a name in the community owned an esports team wow caster for check
nationals everyone knew you last time a guy wrote you a dm on twitch that you're getting paid for a
shit game and you're a sellout i mean i get those on youtube all the time post a video get like 20 views and one comment accusing me of being a paid
shill i totally get it that's why like we it's weird but you just you got to focus we have to
focus on good content and not really use the viewership as the main measure and maybe not
posting a shitload of content but just trying to do really good content like a few times a week
Because the thing is if you post more often your views go up in the short term
But then it it sometimes it like hurts the content quality, you know
Waiting for that paycheck oh for a shilling yeah, you're not even a page shill
Like technically I am a paid shill. Like, technically, I am a paid shill.
Um, take the trade? No.
So at least I deserve the dumb insults.
Oh yeah, the anti-crypto definitely makes it.
If you switch games to a crappy game that someone thinks is crappy they'll just like
stop watching but with crypto they'll like insult you and your whole family and accuse you of like
whatever weird shit of scamming which i get i mean i get it because all this it's it's i just feel
like everyone has a reasonable point there's lots of good points it just depends on your frame of
mind i can make a good argument in favor of, like, pro-crypto and anti-crypto.
Like, there's good discussions to be had there.
But that's not what people are looking for on the internet. They're looking for a fight.
But yeah, I don't know it's just tough it's tough it's tough I
Think we always want to have some people live it's tough though
It's just that you don't want to have like five people at the same time
All fighting for the same ten viewers, so. So it's a tricky thing, you know?
There's no perfect way, though. You can't schedule everyone's stream around each other. It doesn't
work. You were also anti-crypto, but it works. Had to see it with your own eyes. That's hilarious.
I was super pro-crypto for a long time. Now I'm a little more neutral. I think some of it makes
sense, but some of it is definitely problematic, so I feel like there's good and bad. I used to
be more of an evangelist. Everyone needs to learn about Bitcoin and Ethereum and all this stuff is
so cool. Things have changed since 2021, for sure. I used to be like, oh, I'm happy to talk about this.
Now I'm like, oh my God.
Someone, I was reading a book about crypto
and someone asked me about it
and I literally lied and said it wasn't about crypto.
Like on the bus.
I was like, ah, no, no, no, it's not about that. I just have to do the right things.
I can't let optics get in the way.
We can't go off of optics, and it feels like a lot of what we're doing is going off of optics.
We just have to do the right things
Lots people aren't anti crypto but rather anti crypto spaces because they're filled with unkind and unsafe people
I agree. I am I am anti crypto spaces. I
I have literally like this is a thing I've realized is I just don't fuck with crypto culture at all
At this point I'm I've said this openly to all my crypto friends too. I think crypto culture is completely putrid and it can't be saved I
Used to think like crypto native blah blah blah like the culture and I don't think that anymore
I think the technology is good and the culture needs to be like destroyed the original cypherpunk culture is amazing from before crypto
existed but crypto culture has lost absolutely any right to be taken seriously
that that's like my that's all if anyone asks me how I think about crypto That's what I would say is use the technology reject the culture. I
Wouldn't have said that in 2017
But I would say that now for sure because it has attracted some of the worst of humanity no question
And that's what I struggle with is like working on a few things mostly just parallel
That I think are cool, but then like even within parallel like
people are you know going super hard right now to shill the wayfinder token i'm not really
interested in that like i have no idea what people should or shouldn't buy with their money i you know
i mean like it's just i don't want to be involved in crypto very much so i'm definitely much more
of a realist now where i'm like to be honest this
shit isn't as cool as it used to be but i still think the technology is good and and it's probably
good for some stuff to use it but yeah i think we'd be we'd probably be better off with no crypto
than crypto the way it is on twitter right now we probably better off with not having it at all
so it's gonna take a pretty big shift
and i feel like you can't even fight against the scams you have to basically just ignore them and
exist in a different space entirely because if you fight against them they just take advantage
of that and turn it into more and more energy and more attention for themselves
but i think what crypto kind of needs is people like me who want to use technology and don't want to do the fucking bullshit.
The problem is people like me do not get our voices amplified in the crypto space at all because I'm literally going against the things that they're trying to scam people with.
It's no one likes me, basically.
No one likes me.
The crypto people don't like me.
The anti-crypto people don't like me.
I have no money. I have nothing. And no one likes me. The crypto people don't like me. The anti-crypto people don't like me.
I have no money.
I have nothing.
And no one likes me.
So that's, yeah, it's great.
It's a great time.
Basically, I am the pariah of the industry.
A guy who won't go along with every single fucking scam and and potentially convenient idea
i'm kind of talking angsty mode i'm exaggerating but yeah it's it's
pretty frustrating for me for sure but i truly think if i could just do gaming in general and then crypto is I play games NFTs if they're cool
But like obviously I don't do the stupid shit like that
That's like what the world needs if this thing is ever gonna if these things are ever gonna make sense
And I feel like there is a potential for a flip
Where it goes from like no one cares about this to this becoming like the loudest thing
I kind of feel like it could maybe this
is pure copium but i feel like it could kind of uh like this is what i believe in is that it could
it could basically leapfrog the crypto scam bullshit
where like right now in crypto the scammy stuff gets promoted super hard and then everyone else
outside of crypto hates it for good reasons and then good ideas get ignored because they're not get rich quick but i feel like the
stuff that's not get rich quick and not scammy would become the biggest and loudest part of it
eventually because that's what people would want they don't want scams they just want things that
make their lives better and so in theory it could leapfrog if people just used it reasonably with basic common sense
Not buying expensive things that are stupid and scams just to try to trade them up, but just having real ownership when it counts
My goal at this point is just to exist in no relation to either side
I don't want to argue with the crypto people
or the anti-crypto people i just want to fucking do my own thing that makes sense to me and i gotta
believe that that's how most people feel but it's just the extremes that get amplified on the
internet you know and so i have to be extremely just like don't really worry about it but just
make a ton of content that's like just actual gaming and then
like honest discussions about when it does touch crypto i feel like that's what should this whole
space should be that and it's not and that's what i'd like it to be i'm trying to put my energy
towards but admittedly it can be oh mega discouraging when it feels like everyone is just trying to play an angle
and whenever i try to do things based on creativity or whatever people kind of look
at me sideways like why would you do that it can be it can feel weird On the offensive!
Look at them face!
But at least we're farming bots, so I can talk as much as I want.
My ACO win rate is going through the roof.
I re-entered the cycle. through the roof yeah panda apple see you later brother yeah i agree metapod it's just it's tough it's it feels like no one wants it it's like the batman
thing the hero that nobody wants but everyone needs needs. Hero is the wrong word, obviously.
I'm just quoting Batman.
It's the content everyone needs, but no one wants,
which is just normal content.
I just wish I could set up Twitter
where I can't see what anyone else posts.
I wish I could use Twitter and see my own tweets,
but have every single other comment on the entire site neutralized
so I can only see my posts.
That's what I wish I had, because then it could only be output,
and I would never consume a single letter of text or anything from Twitter.
That's what I wish I could do.
If I didn't look at Twitter, I didn't look at Discord,
I could just pretend this stuff didn't exist.
That's the only place I actually have to see it.
Yeah, like, if it exists, it's probably low-key,
because Twitter does not want that to exist, obviously.
Twitter does not want that to exist, like, obviously.
If it does exist yeah mail my tweets to someone that posts them for me yeah like tweet proxy there you go
I don't know might just might just go s-rank a few cuphead bosses after this game or something I
Don't even want to rate. I don't want anyone to raid me now
Because now I'm just gonna be like oh how convenient like I'm not even in the i don't want the parallel raid now
i don't want the oh 20 people show up to lurk i honestly don't want it now like i once i stream
for two hours and no one is here except for people who agree with me that it's like oh this is weird
it's like all right i'd rather just try again the next day, you know? I think that's it.
I should just do two hours a day of parallel,
and then if it's like this, just switch games or rep.
I think that's pretty much the correct strategy.
Because when it's good, it's fine.
And I'm not even mad.
I'm just trying to do the right things.
I think it's pretty clear.
Am I tilted?
I don't think I'm tilted.
I do not believe that I'm tilted.
I'm kind of just... like a not mad, but disappointed. You know what I tilted? I don't think I'm tilted. I do not believe that I'm tilted. I'm kind of just
like a not
mad but disappointed. You know what I mean?
Oh, man.
I think that's the plan.
I think just like two,
two and a half hours.
Let's do one more game and then
yeah, I'm definitely, like I'm clearly not in my tilted mode. Two, two and a half hours. Let's do one more game and then...
Yeah, I'm definitely... I'm clearly not in my tilted mode.
I haven't said anything stupid...
Anything exceptionally stupid all day, I think.
It's been a very reasonable day.
I think I'm doing all the right things.
I just have to withstand the pressure to feel stupid
and crumble into self-consciousness and and and stress
i just got to resist
One more parallel game
And then I don't even know
S rank another cuphead boss or something and call it
I don't even know
Gotta get back to Mega Man 11 soon
But I think
I don't know if I'm ready yet
Twilight Monk just completely
obliterated the Mega Man
playthrough, but I'm not done. I'm definitely going back.
I don't know
on-off stream exactly how it's gonna go,
but I'm gonna restart it.
I am gonna beat Mega Man 11
for sure. I really enjoyed my first
two times
I played it.
Alright, let's relaunch.
There's also, I mean, I have,
there's really exciting stuff too.
Like the most exciting thing,
like Paragon's Dao is really exciting
because like we're really doing good shit.
We have to keep working on it
and the view count stuff we just discussed but like
I'm honestly very happy with just like the quality of this channel so far
And we're gonna start doing a little more variety of like other on-chain stuff
This has been the coolest thing for sure
Yeah, it's it's a good opportunity if we can just keep working on that and
That I get paid to do and it's not stream related at all like I don't have to stream for that So that's amazing like whatever whatever happens
Best resources for noobs to be free to play definitely the Paragon's channel
and then I
Mean honestly like
There's definitely stuff. I don't I don't know. I don't know. I honestly have no idea. I
Hate I hate to be honest. I have no idea, actually.
I think the Paragon's channel is pretty much the best.
Jeremy probably has some beginner guides.
I'm not sure who has the most updated guide right now.
I could ask around for sure, though.
I could ask around.
If you're going to start playing.
I would just go through rookie mode, because there's a tutorial and then there's rookie mode,
and that's a great way to learn the different classes and stuff.
And then, I mean, once you get into the meta...
I mean, okay, the real best resource is probably...
Now I know the right answer.
The priming. I'm being stupid.
Here.
You can look up deck lists for every Paragon
in the game and see a bunch of info.
So that's a great one.
How to get started at Parallel could be
some quick, easy capture content.
The thing is that it just goes out of date
really quickly. The meta changes.
I mean, we could do a video explaining, like, how to install the game and stuff.
But if I do, like, a breakdown...
The thing is, we have content.
TCGs are just kind of...
Could definitely do a 10...
The thing...
Okay.
It's not that the content doesn't exist.
It's just that I'm really bad at remembering what you've done
Yeah, we go. We have we have we have a lot of
We could do another one. Yeah, I guess we could maybe we maybe we do need one. Maybe maybe we do maybe we do
It does seem kind of obvious
If you're new to parallel start here like that we should have a video like that now you y'all are super right actually
y'all are super omega, actually. Y'all are super Omega, correct?
I should script that video tomorrow.
Worst matchup.
It's either a bot or it's a high-level player playing our worst matchup.
That's the only thing on the ladder right now.
Hopefully later in the month it'll be a little less like this.
It's going to be a painful Acio month, potentially.
Someone's got to do it, though.
Someone's got to play Acio.
Yeah, how to start playing parallel.
Yeah, we do need to make that video.
It's so basic that I didn't even realize we don't really have it
We have a lot of more specific guides. We don't have like that one
Because that should be if someone says hey, I'm starting to play what's the best resource
I should say watch this video first and that video can actually talk about the other resources like websites to visit
like where to get deck lists and
Things of that nature.
Yeah, that's actually a really obvious idea.
I don't know how I missed that.
Let me actually put that in our project manager right now.
How to get started with Parallel TCG.
A 10 minute video that is the one we link to players who ask.
I just downloaded the game.
How do I get started?
Okay, I'll do that tomorrow. I'm going to work on that tomorrow.
Yeah, no, it shouldn't be about the meta.
When you're first starting to play, it's not what you need to know anyway.
It's where to look to find all the information.
Like, basically, what do you click on when you first open the game?
And then, like, what are all the things that you're going to get confused about?
Like, what are the top five things you're going to stumble on?
And here's all the answers before you stumble on them.
Something like that.
Top resources.
Main stumbling blocks.
Top resources.
Websites.
Discords.
Etc.
Common issues.
Slash stumbling blocks.
Content creators, or maybe content to pay attention to.
Very, very basic explanation of Paragons slash... Or just the parallels, not even the Paragons.
Yeah, that's a really good idea.
That's a good idea.
That's a good idea.
Y'all have good ideas.
Who would have thought?
Hey, if you want to, Carmen, I'd appreciate that.
That'd actually be quite helpful.
Since the game has changed a lot lately.
I'd appreciate some market research.
Be pretty dope.
This has been a crazy session.
It's literally bots and then high-level aggro.
No in-between.
It'll fix itself in a few days, probably.
Early season hard reset, rank reset makes this happen.
Yeah, nah, this is good. This is good.
I'm glad we talked about all this today. This is good. This is good.
I just need to keep moving forward to shit.
I can't let myself get in a super unproductive cycle.
I can do this.
His hand is almost empty but not quite
His hand is almost empty, but not quite.
Yeah, we'll finish this game and I'm gonna go s rank a few cuphead bosses before I end streaming that's the plan
I'm about to concede this one because we're already almost dead
Give it another turn or two I have absolutely no commitment to this cuphead s rank thing, but it's
Feel like it's something fun. I could do to get a little gaming in before and I
Feel like I missed out like I've been looking all this Cuphead content and like the last few years
There's been like so much good content. I should have been watching it
There's been like so much good content. I should have been watching it there's like the
It just makes me think of an alternate universe where instead of having all these Dark Souls games
it's like the inverse where Cuphead is
the big series and there's like Cuphead 1 2 3 and Cuphead ring and then like Elden Ring is the indie studio and
Then like all the no-hit runners and all like there's like a millions of people
Everyone's just obsessed with Cuphead like that. I wish I could live in that universe
Unfortunately, it's the opposite. I love Dark Souls, but like when I when I see when I look up Cuphead
on Twitter
I'm sorry on YouTube and I see like just
Can you beat it without getting hit?
Without killing any minions?
Get a refund without touching the ground?
It's like, oh man, like I wish there was, I just wish it was like
Cuphead 1, 2, 3
Cuphead 3D, ah, I wish
It's just not the universe we live in
If Cuphead was a big series and I could put out a game every few years
Oh my god
I wish I lived in that universe
it's okay though
I don't
it doesn't really matter what I do, we're so far behind.
Mugborn and other cup likes?
Like, I really wish that was the world we lived in
Mugborn that's good that's really good I wish we lived in that world
unfortunately boss rush platformers just aren't the trend metroidvania is I wish boss rush platformers just aren't the trend.
Metroidvania is.
I wish that boss-focused platforming was a trend.
Because, man, that's so good.
I like Hollow Knight, but I don't have to run around lost for 10 hours between each boss.
We can skip that part.
But that's not how it works everyone likes Metroidvanias no one wants boss rush
I guess even though everyone does Cuphead is such a huge hit
Cuphead is such a huge hit
Well, whatever they'll drop the Zelda style game in like 10 years and then that'll be fun
That'll be cool
This list probably needs gunslingers. Okay, well, Aesho just sucking a bag of dicks today, honestly.
Absolutely nothing good happening today with this deck.
But at least we farmed bots and salvaged some ranks that way, I guess.
I'm either going to figure out how to make Aesho work in this meta,
or I'm going to fucking go down to bronze trying.
Like, I refuse to let there be no Acio mains in this game. I refuse.
But today's stream has been dead as fuck, so let's just play a little Cuphead to blow off some steam.
Let's get a few S-Ranks on the first island.
Cuphead cooldown
S-rankin
Updated on kick
Can't change Twitter or YouTube
And that's fine
They'll be fine
Mugborn I can't get over that.
That's so funny.
One other thing about YouTube that I've realized lately is that like...
You know what? Never mind. Enough talk about YouTube. Let's get S-Ranks. realized lately is that like...
You know what? Never mind. Enough talk about YouTube. Let's get S-Ranks.
My cat wants something, but I don't know what it is. Come and... Chalice make a deal.
We...
As a team...
Adventuring...
I think he's just bored.
He's like me.
He's pissed off that it's cold outside.
April's shaping up to be colder than fucking March was. Like like March was super nice, and now it's like lol JK
Also, I feel really stupid. I didn't realize delicious last course is
DLC I feel really stupid
Well, I lost my my chat window. I no, I didn't. I got it.
Okay, we're good.
Oh, he wants to go outside. He can wait.
He can wait until after stream.
We'll do dinner. He can go outside.
I'll make an edible.
Work on my Twilight Night critique.
I'm, like, really motivated
to make this critique. I feel like I could
really enjoy
critiquing games. I feel like I could really enjoy critiquing games.
I feel like we could actually,
I mean, I don't want to drag y'all into my bad ideas,
but I feel like we all could have fun
with this kind of stuff too.
Like, this is what I was gonna say is like,
if we're all streaming, like,
I want to watch all y'all streams.
And if y'all could,
you'd probably watch all mine to support me.
But like, the problem is if we all stream,
it's actually
increasingly hard for us to watch each other because we're all streaming and if you stream
for like four hours then your friend streams after you and okay you're gonna watch them because you
want to be nice and maybe you want to but then day after day eventually you're kind of just like
bro i need to go watch a tv show i'm sorry i can't watch i can't do my stream and then watch my other
two friends and then my third friend just went like,
streaming kind of has an issue with that.
But I feel like there's no way that my friends could make too much good YouTube content and I wouldn't have time to watch it.
You know what I mean?
So part of me feels like this critique stuff is like the beginning of, uh,
what boss do I want to go for next i'm scared s ranks are hard
world one is easy though let's do this one
i feel like i don't know i feel like there's something oh this is the toughest one actually
i mean we could probably get it but let's i'm going in order of the easier ones because i'm
intimidated by cuphead s ranks i'm honestly just doubting my own strength. I know
I can do it. Oh, also you can buy all the stuff in the shop. There's an achievement for it.
But I'm missing, what, six coins? I don't know where the hell...
I know there's two or three hidden coins
That from the coin guy, but I don't know what else I'm missing
anyway Is this the blob dude this guy is free, okay? This one's free
Let's get a few s ranks this one's free. Oh god. How do I dash different controls?
That's why I was messing up my dash in Twilight Monk. Now I understand.
I was hitting the cuphead button.
Wow, Metapod's right.
Dashing with anything other than the trigger is actually terrible.
I was dashing with Y the whole time I played and now I'm like, what the fuck?
Am I sadistic? Am I masochistic?
How could it be?
Oh, and then lock?
Yeah, we should swap those around a million percent.
And then this one...
Okay.
Okay.
Thousand percent better.
Oh, I didn't realize you could do that.
So you really, there's no way to turn off the crazy visual
Like film grain effect huh it never bothers me
But I always when I do notice it I always think wow that seems really excessive
But then I like sink into it and I'm like nah I guess that's cool
It always feels like that's got to be really like
Why am I playing in 720p?
Literally no idea why.
Wait, is this wrong?
What do I want?
You know I'm really bad at all this stuff.
What's the good one?
Is it 1920, 1080?
Is that what I want to do?
Is that the correct?
I can change the title screen back to original.
Oh, I've missed...
I've missed the original song so much.
The Delicious Last Course song is super cute,
but like
the the the devil will take his head that the original one is so iconic to me
Okay, get me out of here The tutorials not very good on ironically. Please actually give me the feedback. I
feedback. I would love to know what you do and don't like, and I'll actually, like, Carmen is
Would love to know what you do and don't like and I'll actually like
actually super correct, and I appreciate her for having this idea, because, yeah, I should,
that's actually very helpful, and that literally makes the video better. I can even, like, have
that be the intro. Like, I had two of my closest gaming friends, I don't know what to call y'all,
but you know what I mean, two of my favorite people on the internet checked out Parallel and played it for the first time.
I have to dash into these, right?
I hit the wrong button. I gotta adjust to the dash button.
It's objectively better, but I have to adjust.
This is probably the wrong weapon. I think we need to use the lobber for higher damage.
It does look a lot better. Holy shit. It looks so much better too.
I didn't realize how bad it was. I gotta go- I gotta double check the settings like every time. Let's just try-
I think the lobber is better. This weapon's not the right weapon.
The spread's not it here.
Roundabout...
...and... ...Lobber. The spread's not it here. Roundabout. And.
Clobber.
It does look a lot better now.
Holy crap.
That whole playthrough was so scuffed.
But yeah, if you don't mind, Metapod,
take a few notes on anything that you can think of
that you're noticing, and then...
That can literally make my video better. I'll be like, yeah, I had two of my friends checked out the game,
you know, played it for the first time and we used that as part of the feedback for this video.
That's like a really good...
Oh! Oh! I could've just ducked.
That was closer than I expected it to be.
Are those the only parries, though?
I think you have to get all three.
Oh, also for the super meter,
we have to use six super. we have to use six super.
We have to use six super.
This won't be an S rank, but this is at least better.
Oops. You want it to go through every little detail?
The goal of winning, what you can and can't do in a turn, stuff like that.
Don't even know if you're supposed to end your turn or do something else?
That's really good feedback.
Like, if you can copy and paste that and send it to me as part of your notes, that'd be amazing.
Okay, there's got to be a faster way.
We should just use the roundabout and then have the short-range cluster shot for that
final phase, I think.
Yeah, if you don't mind, Metapod, I'll actually, like, use it for the video, and I can also
pass it.
I'll literally pass it along
to the team
I'll like be like I can literally go to the person who is like I
Can send it to like multiple people on the team who will actually like value the feedback and will literally take it seriously
Yeah, so forget about the lobber. Use the spread for the other weapon.
And then... I mean, this might be easier if I actually don't use... I keep hitting the wrong
button. If I don't use the Astral Cookie. Also, I could... I should get the Divine Relic. Eventually,
if I want to S-rank the whole game
Which I don't know if I'm gonna go that far. This is definitely just a thing I do for fun as a warm-up or a cool-down, but
I'll want to turn the cursed relic into the blessed relic
Because that's like an op thing that you can unlock
This coffee is probably the best for this one. I don't think I need the i-frames. Here's a real bike class class class, Andrew Andrews! There we go.
Gotta remember to use at least six of my super.
Just remember I don't have double jump.
It's tough to switch off of Miss Chalice.
Ah, crap.
I get really, yeah, I get really used to the double jump.
It's hard to give if a man double jump and then take it away. It's tough. I Can't beat the boss he's too hard for me I
Have to get used to not always using this chalice I can't be a chalice only player. I
Can't I can't do that
I have to have at least some self-respect
Ah shit
Yeah, double shit. I can't take damage for the s-ray
Nope Alright, now that we got this. Dial it in.
Nope.
Okay, that was... I hit the wrong button. I'm surprised that didn't hit me.
Got lucky.
Damn it.
That's right.
Let's get some practice. His sound effects are really silly.
I guess you can get extra damage on this phase, like right there.
April is surely brutal.
It's on! Okay Okay.
Okay.
There we go.
Almost there. GG, right?
Just die, please.
There we go.
I think that's the S rank.
I think I got it.
Yeah, GG.
Another S-rank easily accomplished.
Easily.
Look at the list.
Look at the list.
Two down.
I can definitely S-rank World 1.
After this, it gets way harder.
I can definitely S-rank World 1.
I'm pretty confident.
There's one thing I want to do real quick for fun I've never done.
I keep hitting start instead of hitting the Y.
That's killing me.
Is... There's a secret phase.
Let's stay off of Chalice for a while.
I'm trying to not be Chalice only.
I just want to do this once for fun. I've never done
the secret phase.
Now that I'm learning...
Now that I'm looking into the game and all the little details,
I, uh...
I've learned some things.
I guess I could do Chalice only.
There's really no shame in it.
I just feel like Chalice isn't always the best choice, though.
Yep.
Doesn't matter.
So, the secret phase, just don't attack the onion.
I never knew this.
I believe you just don't attack him for a while, then you get a secret phase.
That's funny.
Oh my god, I never knew that.
That's cool.
It just adds a thing on the floor for the carrot phase. That's funny. Oh my god. I never knew that That's cool
It just adds a thing on the floor for the carrot phase, okay
Dude, I'm so spoiled by chalice. I just don't know what to do without
Without the double jump. Maybe I'll just accept it. I gotta beat that. I gotta beat it with the secret phase
Maybe I just accept my fate.
But there's some times where jumping to parry is easier than dashing to parry.
That's the only thing.
I'm gonna just do it based on the fight, though.
But it's so hard to not have double jump once you get to have it. Oh, I tried to parry, but I failed.
It's so funny, you just don't attack the onion.
It's so funny, I never thought to do that. It's actually hilarious.
That's really funny.
I just tried to double jump.
Fuck me.
I just tried to double jump.
I can get used to it.
I can learn to play with or without double jump.
I need to beat the secret phase now.
Otherwise, I can't ever respect myself again. This is it.
We got him.
Yeah, Metapod.
That's what I'm going through.
That's exactly...
I did it again!
I tried to double jump! Fucking hell. I just
forget. Like for one moment I'm like, oh double jump. I also played my entire
playthrough with the iframes relic. Having neither of those I'm like so not
used to it. Yeah, it's not even that it's too hard necessarily, but I'm super not used to it.
I think I can just do whatever's easiest for the fight, I guess, instead of making my life hard.
Like, honestly, like, having no iframes in this game is insane. I played almost the entire run with Smoke Bomb.
Maybe I can do it with that.
Ah, Double Jump's just really nice in this fight.
I just know that Chalice didn't used to exist in this game before DLC,
so I couldn't have done it this way before, but also, who fucking cares, right?
Also, at the same time, who fucking cares? It's not a challenge run. I'm just having fun I can always do it again in the future without chalice if I really feel like I need to prove it to myself but
Otherwise I'm just epically overthinking it
See it's like immediately easy I'm just epically overthinking it. See, it's like immediately easy.
I'm just spoiled by Chalice.
I'm spoiled.
You can't give a man a double jump and then take it away.
You can't do that.
You can't give somebody a double jump and then take it away.
Fuck off.
I wonder if you can destroy that thing on the ground.
Why do I...
Wow, it actually makes it way harder having this one thing on the ground.
It kind of changes it from being free to not being free at all.
Without the double jump it's quite tough.
Without the double jump, it's quite tough.
It's no joke.
That phase is so much harder with that thing on the ground.
We're almost there though.
I'm gonna beat it.
I'm gonna beat it and then I'm gonna go have dinner. I thought I was going to hit the onion by mistake there.
I let go too early.
You're okay, buddy.
Get out of here.
Yep, good for you.
Have a nice day.
Oh my god!
There we go. Damn it.
I really blew it at the start there.
No, I need to clear this, the secret phase now.
Now I'm worried.
I'm not, I can't do it.
I got this. bye bye
there we go this is the run we got him 100% got him this time Shit!
I thought that was it.
I could have used my ult though.
I gotta remember just to use the ult.
I could have had more health.
I'm really surprised at how hard that is.
Maybe I'm just being silly, but it's actually like...
There's something about it.
It's one of the easiest bosses in the game,
but that one extra thing makes it insane.
Okay.
Okay. Okay There we go we got him
GG I also still forgot to use my ult, but we'll do that. GG. Do you have extra health or something?
GG, I said. He must have extra health. Secret phase. I guess it's because we didn't damage the onion,
so we have to do more damage on this when it's a secret phase. That's actually a lot tougher. Okay.
That's a cool phase, though. That's a cool little twist.
Yeah, I never knew you could do that.
Things I've learned.
There's a couple other secret phases on bosses.
I just never knew.
Honestly, I just never knew.
Very nice.
Okay, well, super casual.
Pursuit of S-Ranks.
Got another one.
I could go for more, but that was just a nice little cooldown.
I needed something else.
I needed a little something else.
Alright, I'm gonna go have dinner.
I'm gonna work on the YouTube video or something.
I'm glad you had fun, Carmen.
Thanks for hanging out to the end.
Thank you for being here throughout the stream carmen metapod shout outs to rythmos earlier and
everyone else who's been chilling pandapple etc we'll keep cooking through good times bad times
and in the middle times we'll keep cooking have a good night y'all see y'all very soon peace out
