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With a profile picture like that I'm willing to bet that you started the fire yourself.

@@commietearsdrinker what? I would never do anything like that! *Gallon of gas falls put my pocket* …erm Awkward!

Dont worry they aren’t qualified They’re arsonists trying not to get arrested

@@itsjustmark6624 he was not talking to you 😎😎

Jerma taking his computer into the bathroom was exactly what I was thinking about during that debacle.

Remember this is the same guy who ate an entire sleeve of Oreos and threw up in his mother's bed. It wasn't even that long ago.

Ster's got his priorities straight 😌

Honestly, that's the best you can hope for when meeting Jerma. A quick death.

And then he makes the most psychotic face of his entire career, like he got a weapon in Doom or something

real i missed him

Im a regular hood dude doing food reviews on my KZfaq channel slime

TF2 3 confirmed !

It'll be nice when we see them together again in 8 months! :D

Star sounds so incredibly different

Jerma is like a maniac psycho. His psychoness is very much random "spur of the moment" stuff with 0 plans and 0 backup plans. Star on the other hand is like a master manipulator sociopath psycho. He *always* knows what he's doing and everything he does is in an elaborate setup for the master plan he's cooking up.

Pyschokiller? Is that why he was spreading "f-f-f-fire f-f-f-f-fire-fire?"

@@LifeWKai Yeah, it's also why he was so worried that Jerma wanted to "run-run-run-run, run-run-run away"

they are both psychos

Someone *needs* to make this animation.

"Why you turn into a skeleton 😂"

You're probably sitting on the toilet anyways and if they throw you in the rescue zone, you will get back up to your sanctuary and play Vampire Survivors. Or shit.

hes watching

@@frozerus 😨😨😨

what's it like being inside a toilet?

@@qnybucks scary, damp, smelly 😔😔😔

@@Molly_97 mmm... sounds shitty.

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His dreams are exposure therapy for his worst fears. Once he becomes numb he'll destroy the world

Same I just took a bunch of dxm

I made myself a latte.

he posts a peak stoner time wth

@@shay230 do some real drugs next time get ketamine

ster has consistently proven that no game is fun to him unless he can optimize the gamplay out of it as much as possible lmao, I don't know of anyone who has takes as bad as him.

nah, I dont really think thats it. I actually feel the same way about Hades. Lemme try to explain a bit better. Its not about progress. I think he likes progress, and so do I. The problem is when content is kinda artificially gated by progress. Lets compare Binding of Isaac to Hades. Both are rogue-lites with heavy progression. Where they differ is that in Hades, you get upgrades to your base character. Those upgrades are so powerful that the game balance centers around them. They just exist on your character from the moment you start the run. And from what it felt like to me, the bosses you meet are kinda balanced with "when the average player gets here, they will have X amount of upgrades" and so if you are just good at the game and you get there without them, you feel like you had no chance to beat that boss, and you just need to play more runs to unlock stuff. Thats the time argument ster made. I remember I felt this heavily in Hades, that I had an awesome run going and I wiped to the first boss when I got to her for the first time. Few hours of runs later, I had a pretty garbage run, but I got to her and absolutely destroyed her simply because the upgrades I had made me powerful by themselves Compare that to Binding of Isaac.There is a fuckton of unlocks in that game BUT most of those are items you may find. A lot of those items are great, but are made rare to counter balance how broken they are. There are no unlocks that just straight up make Isaac start with +3 damage, +2 hearts, 10% crit chance and a chance to revive after dying (there are unlocks for characters that make them more powerful from the get go, but those are pretty few and far between, and you never feel like you NEED them to beat stronger bosses). Isaac can beat Monstro on the first floor just as efficiently if you have D6 unlocked or not. The great items you unlock probably make your runs as a whole easier, but its not like you need to unlock Echo Chamber, Mega Mush, Rock Bottom and Godhead before you fight Mother just because shes balanced around you having those unlocks I havent played Vampire Survivors, but I understood what he meant from the Hades analogy. Its not about unlocking stuff and progression. Its about the base power of you characters.

​@@lainothefirst The term you're looking for is 'meta-progression', which is what Hades and Vampire Survivors uses. These are changes to your gameplay experience through your profile that are obtained via progressing through runs, as opposed to changes to your gameplay experience through your character alone. In VS, the game becomes so much easier as soon as you unlock an extra life. In BoI, you don't just start with a 1UP because of how long you've played for. To take the games Jerma brought up, Diablo and MMO's don't give you +100% damage dealt across all characters just because you've progressed to a certain point.

@@LardDude32 yeah. But I would count TBoI item unlockables as meta-progression as well. Just... not consistent as just "start with an extra life", if that makes sense?

Enter the Gungeon is my favorite of the genre because it has an extremely satisfying balance between -like and -lite.

why did i think this said you watched rick and morty in the shower theres nothing to be misinterpreted as the words rick and morty

This. If I win at a roguelike, i want it to be via skill versus the rng gods giving me good items in shops and handing me the win

@@kingkuma4112 Fair enough as far as your personal preference goes. On that not however, I've played binding of Isaac, hades, vampire survivors, golden light, as well as some indie rogue likes, and they all factor in RNG in some form... Be it items, enemies, map layouts, they all get skewed and that's generally what makes replayablility so high for the genre. Suggesting that you want skill to be the sole determining factor makes it sound like your preferences align moreso with souls-like experiences, and there are plenty of games that fall under that tag that seem to be what you're describing.

@@MonkeGeorge I'm fine with some luck - I've got a crapload of hours in darkest dungeon and xcom, both of which have huge rng heavy elements- I just like there always to be a way to rig the scales, so to speak. I'm all for rng making a game harder, just that skill should be the factor that causes me to eventually die, otherwise it feels i just got screwed over. It being all skill is also kind of dull though, as then you reach a point where youre winning so easily it gets dull. It's a weird balancing act - though I do probably like less rng heavy roguelikes over ones with more of it.

​​@@kingkuma4112 Sorry but the whole skill over rng is negated by saying you like DD. I like DD and have 200+ but that game is not skill based is more like control the rng

He also mentioned his love of grinding games like Diablo which have 0 skill expression, so what's his beef?

He wasn't saying he didn't like Isaac, he used Isaac as an example of a good rogue like where if you took a certain element out it would be what he doesn't like

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its coming. The video was kinda lost in the sauce for a long time apologies

there was a 8 week war about who gets the scorn vod and it ended in a bloodbath, luckily I think we finally worked something out and it should be soon.

This is a month old comment, but the difference is that in Hades, there is no way to complete the game first time with no prior knowledge, a newcomer will definitely die in his first few runs (and will progress by leveling up his character, not by skill alone). Ster argument is that it's disingenious to say Hades can be beat with only skill, because the only way to achieve it is if you already have a lot of experience with the game and is aware of speedrun strats to help you, which is impossible for a first time player. A lot of games you can't beat on the first time, but, in contrary to Hades, success is eventually achieved through player skill alone, instead of stat increases.

Probably someone has Beaten Hades first time, and for some seasoned vets of the genre, maybe in 2-3 deaths. I was just saying this in the perspective of an average to above average gamer.

to be fair, he still has a point IMO. Jerma is extremely biased to gambling mechanics in general, it's honestly shocking to me he hasn't gotten roped up in a gacha game or something

If a game is at its most fun when everything is unlocked (which is the point of ALL of these unlockathon games where there's like 500 billion "challenges" and "achievements" aka a chores/grocery list) then why are you locking any of it behind progression to begin with. A game like that should always be at its most fun by the end. If it isn't then the game is literally not worth playing.

@@Paradox_Edge Instant gratification andies out here telling people it's not about the journey it's about the destination. My man, do you know how many game genres would be dropped if progression was completely abandoned? "Bro minecraft survival mode has no point, just go to creative and build a house out of diamond blocks" zero sense of achievement ass. "Wtf bro I hate how I have to level up in this multiplayer shooter to unlock more guns and abilities, wtf man gimme it all at immediately". "Bro who enjoys playing Rust, just get into a 1millionX server and build a fortress in 10 minutes smh" Y'all are clowns. Period.

@@MonkeGeorge I know that *many* (terrible, horrible no good) genres would be dropped, sure. Genres that prey upon the mentally weak and the completionists. Minecraft doesn't force you to die or complete boring-ass quests to let you mine diamonds, you can find an iron pick in a mineshaft and stumble across diamond 5 minutes into a playthrough if you're lucky enough (or use a seed). I will agree with the multiplayer shooter game. The progression in them are absolutely arbitrary and should not exist. Rust doesn't force you to die or complete boring-ass quests to allow you to build structures. It is entirely based on how resourceful you are as a person and how lucky you get with dickheads out to ruin your day by shooting you on sight and raiding your base. Who's the clown here. The idiot who hates most things because they're bad and filled to the brim with predatory trope shit or the idiot who can't make a decent analogy to save his life.

@@Paradox_Edge In the video Ster is complaining about games like Hades and Binding of Isaac, aka rogue-lites with built-in progression systems. Not whatever generic ubisoft game / JRPG that you have a hate boner for. Not a single person was talking about "achievement hunting" or "repetitive questing" which are obviously egregious practices that I didn't think we needed to rehash out of nowhere. I replied thinking you were talking about the same kind of games Ster was in the video, but clearly you branched off.