To quote a famous African warlord: "Just think, there's someone out there right now getting court martialed over a video game".

I like how each animated series has its own distinctive minion of a sort. Yahtz now has dog imps, JM8 has Ludo, and Frost has...sentient ice cubes? I mean hey, plush for the merch gods.

This list of military leaks on war thunder forums is incomplete. You can help by expanding it!

I love how one of the most consistent threats to international security is the nitpicking of the userbase to a free-to-play game.

I'm so glad The Stuff of Legends can continue with this new series. Frost's voice is still amazing, and I love his little ice cube minions. It's amazing what people will do to win an argument or correct a minor structural inaccuracy. This is why suspension of disbelief is so important.

I like that all of these instances amount to "I want realism in my games and, in order to prove I know about said realism, I'm going to completely disregard reality."

I've seen military documents get leaked on War Thunder forums 167 times, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT!!!!

It is hilarious how people get so passionate in a forum while arguing that they feel the need to prove they are right by leaking classified documents. I strongly doubt winning the argument is worth the jail time but I congratulate them on winning it anyway.

If you're a foreign agent, you have an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, you know where classified documents are going to be posted, but on the other hand, you know that everyone else knows it too.

On one hand, I was hoping that the change from Imps to Dogs would turn the meta-narrative "Frost babysits the imps for Yahtzee" into "Frost dogsitting for Yahtzee (with predictably mischievous results)" But on the other hand, I do like that Frost has a proper mascot character of his own now with the ice cubes, and not being stuck reading bedtime stories for dogs gives the animators more to play around with

Kind of crazy to think that some countries probably have agents sitting on forums, just in case discussions get too heated and someone either leaks their information, or information they themselves might like to know.

From all the buzz about warthunder players leaking secret documents, I thought 13 was pretty low. But then, midway through, I realized these were military secrets, which the number of leaks should be 0. This only cements Cunningham's Law, which states that "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer."

I just appreciate so much of not just the great editing and animations but just how tight the writing is. On any other channel this would be 45 minutes long. As much as i do like sitting down to a rigorous essay or analysis, it's earnestly refreshing just getting exactly what i needed from what i clicked on

The first time someone told me about this happening I was certain they were joking. It's wild to me that it has continued happening enough for it to become a meme. Almost as wild as how important it is for some people to win arguments with randos on the internet.

I'd love a deep-dive into Neopets economy shenanigans, since I think the new team has made some changes to make formerly-rare status symbol items into common playthings. Or mostly, Neopets has a very storied history and anything the Second Wind team cares to comment on for a legacy game, which has been both the best and worst of online communities (sometimes simultaneously) would be an interesting tale indeed! :D

I like to think the gremlins now looking like ice cubes is his alcoholism starting to manifest in ways that borderline concern.

IT LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED AGAIN

This Chronicle is the stuff of legends are made off.

And the funny thing is that serious sim people (at least when it comes to aircraft) *despise* War Thunder because they say it's balanced more for mouse and keyboard than regular flight controllers (joystick, throttle, etc.), they usually prefer DCS or even older (and modded) games like Falcon BMS.

I’m so excited this is continuing. I loved my beloved EVE getting a spotlight and learning about those moments from WOW and EverQuest was really cool. Really hope you consider the Battle of B-R5RB (10’s of thousands of players fighting in a battle that cost around 330,000 usd after the dust settled) as a topic. Your videos became my second go to after ZP. So excited

Man, who else thinks this vid is gonna be obsolete within the next few months? :P

This ties in to that internet law, where the easiest way to get an answer to a question isn't to ask the question, but to post the wrong answer. We love correcting each other more than we love being helpful. It's called Moore's Law.

The story of RuneScape's collapse from a combat overhaul followed by the creation of parallel but distinct 2007 version of the game before the overhaul might make a good story. Supposedly the 2007 version only exists because of a long lost build of the game that wasn't supposed to be saved

Frost's new avatar and ice companions are so cute

Aaand, two days after publication, it's already out of date. Truly incredible.

I follow some military history channels and it is amazing how much people like to get all the little details completely accurate or make a huge fuss out of it, all while missing the larger picture of the topic.

"If he did exist before I doubt he exists now" Beautiful stuff

I'd love to see a story about the debacle that was the Theatre of War multiplayer mode for Tom Clancy's EndWar: Ubisoft tried to do the three-way faction Risk thing similar to what they later did with For Honor, but several design decisions ended up culminating in a situation where a few weeks into its first campaign nearly 60% of the player base was literally unable to play.

YES! I'm so stoked to see you guys branching out and creating different animated series. Y'all are absolutely flourishing now that you're free from the constraints of the past, keep it up!

Oh, so is this the "replacement" for Stuff of Legends? That was my favourite series for the brief period of time it was being made, before it got cancelled in "the move." Since then we hadn't had a show that was focused on quite the same sort of stories as Stuff of Legends, until now I guess. Eagerly awaiting more!

You could cover the MinecraftForFree story? Basically a well known griefing team was hosting a website where users could, as the name suggests, play minecraft for free. They were told to take the site down, and in response challenged Notch to a game of Unreal Tournament. I think the wager was if the griefing team won, they'd receive capes, but if theyblost they'd commission a rap for Notch? They lost.

For something like this to happen once is astounding. Twice or three times defies belief. But thirteen times?! You’d almost wonder if people are doing it on purpose now to be part of the “legacy”

I genuinely cannot help but laugh every time a headline pops up on screen that ends with "- again"

From babysitting Yahtzee’s…android imps at naptime to running a newspaper with sentient ice cubes I say welcome back chronicle (formally stuff of legends)

I would like to note of one potentially missed that I'd heard rumor of early on in the game's life. Apparently, Russia at some point accidentally declassified documents about one of their older tanks a year too early. Apparently within the day a Russian user had found this out, acquired said document, and posted it onto the Russian forums to argue for why the tank should be added/changed. It was a while ago, probably like 2018, and since it supposedly happened on the Russian side of the forums so it's hard to confirm. But for me at least that was the earliest I'd ran into WT leaks.

I came away from this, loving the little ice cubes. They're so cute.

I have been waiting for a SW version of "The stuff of legends" for so long. Extremely excited for the premiere!

Excellent choice of topic for the rebirth of a series. I look forward to more historical moments in gaming history from you. Thank you for what you do.

Suggestion for a video: The assassination of Lord British. Lord British was the avatar of the dude who created Ultima online. He had one time he decided to hang out with the peasants who played his game but forgot to put up ins invisibility shield and someone killed him. It was one of the first times anything like that ever happend. I'd love to hear any details that could be added to that story.

Hooray, the return/revamp/rebrand of this series is finally here! Love the cube buddies 💖

First: this video made me cringe as someone who had a security clearance from military service. Second: the opening animation was FANTASTIC! Y'all went all out for that. Third: I know I mentioned it on the other channel, but would you be able to talk about the WoW Blood Pandemic and possibly its repercussions in the world, both after it was resolved in-game and in the time of the covid-19 pandemic?

Only Frost can take a topic I literally could not even remotely care about and still make it entertaining. I'll watch anything this dude puts out.

_"When will they learn? When will they learn, their actions have CONSEQUENCES!!!"_ 😂😂😂

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I have been SO excited for this segment to come back! I love these stories and the narrator, Sebastian if I read the credits correctly, has a wonderful speaking voice for this kind of content. I look forward to more, if only it were more than once a month!

This series is going to become the stuff of legends.

This is ridiculously interesting and I can't wait for the next story they post.

The thing I'm most curious about is that whats the framing story this time. It used to be frost babysitting the zp imps

When I ask aloud "How stupid and petty people can be?!" it's not supposed to be taken as a challenge!

I love this one. I knew about some of the stuff just from what made the news, but I didn't know there were multiple incidents across the world of people leaking stuff they shouldn't. I mean, I'm all for accuracy in games that are using real world weapons and the like, but I at least know it's a *game* and, thus, leniency with inaccuracies is to be expected. It's certainly not worth all the trouble one will get in for sharing that sort of information to randos on the internet.

I deadass thought that happened just once, twice maybe. But the video title alone is pure gold.

I'd love to hear stories like the one about that weird Cooking Mama game situation. You know, the kind where people get slapped on the wrist for trade disagreements, the public has no idea what the truth is and then suddenly there's rumors about Cooking Mama datamining cryptocurrency in an 'illegal' game. Alternatively you could talk about all the weird shit PETA's gotten up to over the years. Love your work, Frost. Keep it coming.

Stuff of Legends was my favorite show on the old channel, so happy it's back

The title alone is gold, comedy gold if it wasn't the truth

"If he ever existed I doubt he exists now..." I chuckled and then shuddered at myself cos that's almost certain.

I appreciate the clip from Dr. Strangelove "Gentlemen You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"

Thanks for the video, Frost & team

So glad to have my 3 favorite shows for the site that shall not be named up here. Your voice reminds me of the narrator from Bastion, which Yahtzee described as Disturbingly sexy and some one who replaced his lungs with 2 chocolate Profiteroles

this is like the third new show to have some sort of sidekick. 2 dogs and an ice cube

Here's a couple of game stories about presidents in video games. - Burnout Paradise (original not the remaster) for a while had the ingame billboards advertise the presidential race at the time. These billboards usually advertise DLC and content updates and were repurposed for it. No idea if the devs were paid to do or if they favoured a particular candidate or just wanted to encourage engagement in voting as I'm British so wasn't exposed to these billboards. - Mercenaries 2 had a DLC that bizarrely had character skins for Sarah Palin and Barrack Obama. It was just weird driving tanks around and blowing up stuff as literal presidential candidates. - The Ship is a multiplayer game based around assassinating other player passengers while evading security and the player tasked with killing you. One of the notable modes was World Leader mode which functioned the same as usual except every player model was a caricature of a real past and current world leader or political figure at the time. Aside from the hilarity of the kill feed, this mode did have a major gameplay change: you couldn't change clothes to hide your identity make evading your assassin harder but made finding your target easier. When remake got made, it updated this mode to include more people like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

6:29 It’s weird. In the UK treason is still punishable by death however the death penalty is banned here so more likely life imprisonment at worst

I love to imagine that every major power just have one agent now dedicated to watching warthunder forums to both protect state secrets and get a glimpse of other documents.

If yall would like a topic to do one of this videos about. I suggest taking a look into the rumors of insider trading and devs manipulating events on EVE Online. I read one interview that suggested one of the largest and most well-known heists of eve online history was orchestrated by one of the devs at CCP

Yes yes yes yes, this is exactly the series I was hoping would pop up on the channel.

The channel intro is so quick, neat, and slick. It's swish.

I know it's been a week but might I suggest a video on stories like say, the development of Fallout New Vegas: Studios brought in by larger companies to make a game on a huge time constraint with limited resources allowed, and with impossible-to-reach specific goals to meet, in order to maintain function or employment. The game falls hard at first, (because of those time constraints), and thus the company is fired, but, (in cases like New Vegas), the game actually becomes at minimum a cult classic, or at best...well...an across-the-board success, topping even the publisher's own works. Like I know we've heard this story before, (even from Yahtzee I think with his "Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee-hee-hee" sections), but stories like Obsidian's development crunch on New Vegas, with Bethesda to blame for it, still happen to this day in the gaming industry quite plainly. And honestly, it's always fun to remind the so-called apex companies and publishers in the industry, about their screw-ups and personal failures, (and I don't mean personal like behind-the-scenes scandals, at least in this case). Cause I don't think anything Bethesda makes, Elder Scrolls or Fallout-wise, will ever reach even New Vegas's current status. And considering some of the cosmetics added into 76 over the years of that game's service thus far, (like the NCR Ranger outfit and helmet from New Vegas), I feel like Bethesda has some guilt and regret over that egg-on-their-face moment, but not enough to directly, sincerely apologize to Obsidian, (unless their mutual parent, Microsoft ordered them to). It also doesn't help that even with Bethesda and Obsidian now under Microsoft, Obsidian will no doubt continue to design its own version of Fallout & Elder Scrolls as it were, with Blackjack & hookers. And good for them, to be quite frank. I don't expect Microsoft to tell Bethesda to hand over Fallout to Obsidian any time soon. I'd MORE likely expect Microsoft to order them to work together on a Fallout project, but I imagine there's plenty of bad blood between the suits and/or devs at either one. Especially since Fallout was more so Obsidian's baby when they were Black Isle Studios. And the one instance they were allowed to spend time with their child again, it was for a day at best in comparison, but their options of spending time incredibly limited and gutted. Not to mention, it was surveyed the entire time, clearly intended to fail and never happen again. (Funny enough, that one moment with said kid is perhaps the only moment that has actually stood out since the "Divorce" as it were. Not that Fallout 3 was bad, {I'd honestly put it above 4 in general and 76's launch}, but still.) (Side-note: I can't help but kinda enjoy how watching one of your vids, Frost, leaves my typing for a moment like above. I mean I am the kind of person that might start talking with a British Accent if I watch 1-2 episodes of Doctor Who, but still. XD

Good to see the "Stuff of Legends" format back, though I am going to miss the framing device of trying to soothe murderous imps.

A video on the Vanu Sovereignty getting the first ever continent lockdown in Planetside 1 would be cool as well, though it's hard finding info on it these days with all the Planetside 2 forum complaints you run into first. It's one of those things that got passed around in the early days of Planetside 2 as this legendary thing that happened and a deep dive into it would be really cool to see.

Love that this show carried over! It’s maybe my favorite Frost show!

Look, all I'm saying, Nick, is I bought imp merchandise in the early days of ZP and would 100% buy a drinking glass and plushie of the ice cube dudes.

I gotta be honest, this format was one of my favorites on the old channel. So incredibly happy that it survived the transition!

Maybe it isn't deep enough for the series but the development of the 32X addon for the Genesis-Mega Drive has an amusing anecdote about how it was designed on a hotel napkin by some Sega folk after the E3 announcement of the Jaguar and maybe the PlayStation. The suits were spooked by the announcement and wanted something cooked up immediately. You can find the story in 'Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works' by Keith Stuart.

This was fascinating. I will devour as much content like this as you are willing to make!

Yay! I loved this series before the ...name change... and am happy it's been brought back. If ever you're looking for a fascinating story from the early 2000s gaming scene, look up the story of Notorious Fandango in Puzzle Pirates. The cute little puzzle game about pirates that triggered an in-game war involving 1000 people at once.

There is no force on earth stronger than a nerd attempting to win a pissing match on the internet. If it existed back in WWII the Allies probably could've cracked the Enigma code in a weekend. Though in that case the information was held by scientists, so probably all they needed to do was drop them a discreet email and they'd happily spill all the details for free, they're just happy someone is taking an interest in their work.

1:54 this are pretty recent, and have barely any time between them. Until it jumps from multiple in September all the way back to January

Thank you so much for bringing this series back

Okay so as a former intelligence analyst, let me just say U//FOUO counts, because War Thunder is not an Official Use. Y'know, 'cause I expect this will come up.

Glad to see this show return as well. The new mascots are adorable and always happen to hear frost's narration. As for possible topics. With it's recent revival I'd love to see a coverage of the original end of City of Heroes, and the torchlight vigil that happened as the servers closed down. It was an awesome moment of solidarity from the community and would love to hear it recounted by Frost. it's a fond personal memory I had at least.

I've got to be honest, modern and historical warfare enthusiasts are amongst the most aggressively pedantic and obsessive gamers I've ever interacted with. It's one of the biggest reasons I fell out of love with the historical Total War games. You'd try to get involved with the fan community and most of what you'd find is 100 page threads complaining that CA's laziness ruined the game because the tiny French grenadiers had the wrong color socks or the wrong number of buttons on ther coats.

Loved the posters of Marty and "The Things of Fables" in the background. 😂 Glad to see this series come back!

The ice cube gremlins are by far my favorite thing you guys have going right now. You love to see it, beauty!

it's so good to see this format back! also a bit surprised those leaks only happened 13 times, hearing about them throughout the years made me think it's even more common

0:40 Imagine my suprised Pikachu face when a few minutes later a War Thunder midroll popped up

I'd love you to do an episode and/or series on the entire metal gear saga so I can finally understand what happened after the second one. The other 8 games hardly made any sense to me lol

Oh man I’m loving this I didn’t know how crazy it got.

yes Frost is back to whisper sweet video game trivia in my ears as I drift of to sleep.

Not sure if this is the kind of thing you do on Chronicle or not, but the ol' classic, where videogame footage/images have been used in news coverage could be a good one to retread.

Well, those little ice cube guys are adorable.

You could easily do an episode on the "virus" that happened in WoW many years ago. Epidemiologists actually study the event, giving it that extra spice of credibility

So stoked for this!

Amazing video, it’s hillarious how often this damn stuff happens

So glad to see this series has made a triumphant return, I love it.

I love War Thunder, there is no other game that regularly lead to this kind of situation.

I'm so happy to see this series! Love the variation in presentation, and the cubes are cute. Fitting for the coldest takes.

So glad this series is coming back, albeit under a different name. I was kind of worried they'd forgotten about it or decided not to do it, but it was easily something I looked forward to back on the other channel, and one of the few shows I watched there.

I was one of the first people to publicly view the Leeroy Jenkins video where it was first posted on the Blizzard official Laughing Skull server forums, which was well before exploding in popularity a couple weeks later when it was posted on the general forum. The original post didn't even have a single reply when I watched it. I don't have all the information, but I certainly know quite a bit more about the video and some history around it than the average person if you're ever interested in doing a Leeroy Jenkins video. Would be happy to share my experience with it, and what the guild Pals 4 Life (guild who made it) was like. Anyways, love the return of the series, can't wait for the next one.

The Purple Donkey needs to be a legit medal now.

"I award you the Purple Donkey." Priceless.

I don't know why but the delivery of "I award you the purple donkey" made my day.