Happy birthday you beautiful genius/masochist

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese”

Potato- "I need this city under siege, so I need some warriors." Meanwhile I do not have much army in place, so I use scouts to siege towns :D

1:13:32 *Centuries after killing a barb camp's spearmen* "I wanna capture that"

The po tay toe song ganna be stuck in my head for a bit XD

“Surprised so few religions are gone” -Said after packing the game with warmongers that de prioritize getting a religion.

"It's entirely my fault for listening to you guys (chat), but it's really annoying." LMAO🤣🤣🤣

Happy birthday! Your most recent series really helped me learn a lot about science victories. I decided to try out Arabia on standard and I got the victory on turn 300. I also got super lucky by being isolated on my own massive continent after taking out Scythian Empire and Japan. I'm a new player to Civ so that series in particular really helped with all the in depth tips. Love all your content and it's all a lot of fun to watch.

To answer this question for Potato (hopefully he doesn't mind): you'll only see the last 2 hours of the stream here until KZfaq processes the rest! Hopefully it doesn't take as long as the last one, but that was a much longer video (9 hours? vs 4 here)

I had a dream this morning that the ghost of Queen Tamar of Georgia needed me to help free the personification of the spirit of Georgia, which was actually one spirit per person. I really don't know why I'm telling everyone this. Happy birthday!

Maybe you did this already but would you consider a total war civ game where you have to declare war on everyone you meet the moment you meet them and you can never declare peace?

The deep sigh before the "hello spuddies" hit hard. Happy like 4 day late birthday man I love your channel

My friend got me into civ recently and I am totally addicted to it and watching you just makes me realise how much I gotta learn and it just reinforces my love for the game. Sorry for the late wishes but happy birthday.

Happy Birthday! Only found your videos about a week ago, loved watching your over explained and korea one city challenge. Nice work and have a great year!

Thanks to you, Tato, I was able to finish my first Immortal game and one in apocalyptic mode.

Holy moly- you have a great fanbase, Potato! You made a killing off of your birthday this year! I wish I could've caught the livestream, but it was still fun to watch the video- thanks for the great content!

Man, I played Apocalypse Mode Yesterday and actually got to full CO2 levels for the first time. Of the first 4 comets that hit, the first one hit my second city and the 4th hit my capital. Both were part of a mega industrial complex that carried me through that game. Not to mention the wonders I lost. Still managed to win because I was on cruising mode to Diplomatic Victory, but boy was that painful.

Incredibly good set up, even Tamar couldn't wreck it. Enemies all 1 side, ocean and a city state everywhere else, very nice. Smart move eliminating Shaka early on. Happy birthday.

The other day, I started a game on deity with a standard sized map, but with 20 civs and like 30 city states on apocalypse mode. Got a diplo victory about 200 turns in from all of the aid requests lol

Its also my birthday! I knew I liked you for a reason lol. Been enjoying the Civ Overexplained stuff. Keep up the good work!

I could watch the first 50 turns of you playing civ over and over.. probably because i understand it the most, but I thoroughly enjoy the early game

1:38:11 Ah, yes. Step the crossbowman out of the city. 2000 IQ play by the AI

This' crazy stuff, I am now a huge fan, Potato

Why don't you press R for "ranged attack" instead A for a generic attack and risk the unit moving?

Agree so much on the ship movement and that, I try to think realistically why, i pretend the ship has to anchor to ready for repairs

I keep wondering if Georgia is basically a substitute for the Byzantines in this game (walls, defensive, faith based into tourism), or if they will be unleashed in the upcoming Civs. I have had many thoughts on how they could work in Civ 6 in interesting ways.

Happy birthday potato! I love ur vids and they make me smile. You are teaching me a lot about civ 6! Thank you, and again, happy birthday!

I am not sure if anyone else has said this yet. But what I have found is once you have one crash on a game/save file, it will continue to have crashes. it just seems to be linked to that game/save and will continue when ever you play off that file.

Happy Birthday, Potato. Thanks for putting yourself through the eighth ring of Civ VI hell for us. Lol.

Happy birthday! Always remember: don’t accept the AI’s demands and live your life!

i HATE HATE HATE that these live stream games are never finished 😪😪

The old timey swear avoidance in my PA Dutch hometown was “cheese and cracked ice”!

I cannot believe you survived that early game - masterful

I've had the bugged voting thing: clear the Congress notifications.

HBD! I'm curious how you learned about things like ROI and opportunity cost, you also mentioned decision matrices. Was it through finance, game theory, coding etc. I feel inspired to learn the theories behind the strategy. Open to recommendations of smart people to research or good resources.

Happy birthday! My game also crashed a couple of times since the June update.

I've been watching WAY too many Potato Civ 6 videos the last few days and that damn alert is stuck in my head! lol

Yay! Happy Birthday Potato! Here's to more videos.

2:05:27 Don't fisheries give housing though? I actually use them to increase housing in coastal cities beyond what would otherwise be possible until you get to those floating habitation dome thingies. You can cycle governors and get a lot of OP combos if you get certain benefits.

Happy Birthday! Thanks for giving us the present of so much awesome content!

Crashes are why I changed my autosave frequency to 'each turn'. Worst case I only use 1 turn.

Missed this one by a long shot, but I have an aching feeling that Potato is going to get throughly boiled, mashed, and stuck in a stew. Here’s hoping that you don’t get swamped by Cyrus’s Immortals in the first 100 turns! 🤞

I enjoy your content and i have learned a lot i have never seen you live unfortunately but i like what i see

3:01:08 I've been wondering about that, because I think the opposite -- if you can't build a lumber mill on it, but also can't build a district, wonder, etc., then there's no point to harvesting it because it provides a constant enhancement to the tile in addition to the enhancement of whatever you need to build on there to get the luxury. I would only harvest it if I absolutely needed the production/food in that instant, because otherwise there's this tile in my empire that is unchangeable that would be made more lame if I cut down whatever feature was there.

At 54:22 Mikey Bohmer donated A$5 through chat. I swear, on first glance my brain interpreted that as Mikey Bohmer donated ass through chat. Thanks brain...

Is it just me or wouldn't online be the hardest because optimizing eurekas, etc is way harder and worth less. Also, the AI's number of cities will give them a huge headstart in online mode.

Somebody asked is the DLC worth the money? I was hesitant at first, but playing these new Civ over the past weeks has been a lot of fun. I played a game with Mali last night, I used the strategy I learned from this channel, and I had so much fun. I'm getting ready to play another game with hungry. And I've had my eye on Columbia as well, if you can afford it and you really want to beef up your game, I think the new content is awesome. The secret societies, Gyros, apocalypse, all add a new twist to the game and make the strategy that much more fun

I BLAME YOU MCWHISKEY!!! I was in the grocery store today and saw the potatoes, and this sing-song voice in my head said.. “Boil ‘em, Mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew.”...

Happy late Birthday Potato! We love you man

I always have Star Wars stuck in my head.

I will question your decision once more, but only because youre are the best civ player i know (and i mostly watch civ) and i hope to learn with yout awnser: at 37:00 you put your goverment plaza. Wouldnt it be better to put ar the 2f2p west Gori or the the 2food flood play closest to ondini and west Gori? There are less good tiles to work around (so less loss on puting the districts ?

How do you do the switch places maneuver with units? in my games it doesn't let me move a unit where an adjacent one is standing.

Was inspired to start a game woth the same settings. Started on 1 tile, surrounded by mountains and coast on all sides. How does tgis game think thats okay? XD

seems more like a diplomacy civ. early faith synergizes with diplomacy wonders, and faith based unit purchases to cover protectorate wars.

Sorry you had all these crashes. My game crashes a ton since last patch. I switched to DX11 and it helped somewhat.

Potato: Really exited about Ley Lines

Happy birthday, great videos! I was thinking it would be funny if you could get Sean Bean to read some lines for your channel. "Potatoes, boil, them, mash them, stick them in a stew" and "Tea is just okay"

No reaction video to the latest update announcement? Always enjoy hearing your thoughts.

I recently started playing Civ 6 and purchased all of the updates, since then I noticed my game crashing a lot more, this rarely happened with any of my Nintendo switch games

Potato, why didnt you settle right of the vocane insted of left? 1- Wouldt it be easiear to defend; 2- More cience yelds which you said it was one of the reasons you settle there; 3- More prodution, sinte the city tile had 2 more production; ??? Keep the nice work

Your little Hong Kong fan feeling appreciated for liberating XD

Nice stream. I am not game to play it on the highest difficulty lol. I would get owned. Do you always play fast movement and fast battles? And no music? Or do you only do it for streams? Just curious, that is all.

In my option, the following is the difficulty of the victories: (easiest) Science --> Culture --> Domination --> Religion --> Diplomacy -->Score (hardest). I put the Score victory last because the game usually ends long before you reach turn 500. Of course you could make a shorter game or disable all the other victory conditions in order to get a Score Victory.

Happy (probably belated) birthday potato!

when is the counting with elmo playthrough coming?

When and where was this livestreamed? I have like all notifications turned on...

I just saw a Mac and cheesus box...wish I could share photos on here!

Happy Birthday Potato! (Will you pause at any point for a whiskey!?)

3:43:30 I would promote it, since it can't earn XP while it's holding the promotion and will be more useful with a promotion -- not too much danger of death since you have 3 bombards and the computer seems to target the weaker (i.e. non-promoed) units all else equal.

Happy birthday Sbuddy.

Sweet Baby Jesus, Happy Birthday!

Did he ever finished that game? I cannot find a continuation?

I just came up with another idea for a brutal game. Primordial map with apocalypse mode on, sparse resources, no tribal villages or city-states, domination victory only and play as Kupe.

Happy Birthday! It’s also my Anniversary!

Does anyone know if the Better Balance Game mod significantly affects the AI?

Anyone else notice that archers get the 'Arrow Storm' bonus when attacking cities?

I always have the same problem with the BBG mod, I just rarely use it for multiplayer but it turns itself on on every new update its frustrating... at least you noticed it before you actually played :)

I was inspired to use the same settings as Mr McWhiskey in a Civ game this afternoon, except with all random civs. Potato runs into the Zulus, says "oh crap, I'm stuffed" and proceeds to wipe the floor with them. I, on the other hand, trample over Saladin, complete with smug look on my face, only to be met by the Mayans coming from the opposite direction. With crossbowmen. On turn 57. I'll turn back the way I came then I suppose...

Happy birthday mate!

Happy Birthday Potato!

Is it true that grievances affect city loyalty ? How does that work ?

HBD Potato!! ... wait when did YT become Facebook?? lol

Isn't a fast Campus the best way to start??

I'm surprised the Brutal start didn't include the only natural wonders being the Cliffs of Dover.

2:32:13 Tequilla! Happy birthday Potato!

Happy Birthday!

@PotatoMcWhiskey , if the game seems to freeze in the world congress, just place your votes, exit the congress menu, and force pass the turn.

Wow it’s my brothers birthday too

I mean really, it this just Dara o'Brien just chillin and playing Civ? Love it enyways

Happy birthday 🥔 :)

All angry boys without Suleman? Thats new level of disrespect.

Set autosave to save every turn. That's how i work around these crashes

What mods is he using for that hud?

I’ve never heard the Civ leaders called angry bois before

It has been driving me nuts with all the crashes - this new update is super unstable

Scythia would have bought your Diplomatic Favor, but they didn't have enough money to buy 100. When an AI doesn't want to buy something, it gives 1 Gold.

Part 2.... Want to see how it ends :)

An idea for amending the diplomatic penalty for occupying an enemy capital: "Each era that passes since the capital was captured reduces the diplomatic penalty by 1 (or 2)." This fits as other civ would naturally become more apathetic towards your previous aggression as time goes on. So if you captured an enemy capital in the ancient era then that would only cost you 3 Diplomatic Favour per turn by the Renaissance Era. Thoughts?

What a god level spawn!

Thanks!