League of Legends is so toxic that it's affecting the comments section. This is truly an incredible phenomena.

Wow, seems Tad finally got sick of the comments asking which was which. I never got how people got confused, Aleks has said multiple times that he's a skin head.

Fuck, I always thought Aleks was the chubby one.

I love how ads for mobas like LoL and HotS that are all like "It's easy and fun for casuals, but deep enough for competitive! Anyone can play!!!" Lies.... Filthy, filthy lies.

swap voice boxes please

the most important ping in league of legends is when you fuck up and immediately get spammed with enemy is missing.

My early Smash 4 experience was just like this: I used to be friends with some toxic idiot that couldn't fathom playing Smash 4 without some form of competitive practice. Every time we hung out, it was Smash 4. Every time we hung out with friends, it was Smash 4. Every time he wanted to go out, it was fucking Smash 4. Because of this, I developed a bad mentality that this game was nothing but competitive, so whenever people told me to just have fun, it was extremely hard to believe them. Like.. what fun is there in doubles? A year ago, I hated it immensely, but after cutting ties with this person and playing with other people, I realized it's not so bad and actually really wacky fun. So yeah.. I agree how eSports ruined some of community aspect and made shitty people in the process.

I think that this video made me stop playing Overwatch. I was a Mercyslut and then I realized that I hated playing her and no longer had fun playing the game.

I've probably listened to every podcast, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO WAS WHO.

I'm confident Aleks is the one with the deeper voice.

I can't possibly be the only one who knew from the voices which was which. Also, all MOBAs are garbage.

found you guys two weeks ago, slowly but surely i'm catching up with your podcasts.

And the worst part is, nothing's changed. 5 god damn years. Still the exact same.

which ones dat and which is alicks

Fucking jimmy, man.

For the longest, I thought tad was aleks and aleks was tad

Love coming back to these older videos knowing that most of it is completely right about the state of online gaming.

I waited this episode for so long And it is delivered perfectly bois

Turbotism is the fucking funniest thing Ive heard all day

Completely, I hate how his competitiveness has seeped into the general public, and not in a fun way. I miss chaotic trashy TF2. But isn't the "nah I don't FEEL like it" guy the epidemy of not being a competition lord?

hey that Bob Ross skin in smite is pretty good.

Hey, been enjoying your podcasts. I don't know if any of you are using this, but put a compressor on your audio at a 3:1 ratio. Sometimes your audio is crazy with different audio levels. Sometimes too loud, sometimes too quiet. Definitely fix the too loud with compression. PM me for more info.

I got an ad for League of Legends on this

Not only did this age really well I have a point to add. People do not play these team games not because they want to play 5v5 but because they want to play 1v5 because if they win it was TOTALLY all them and if they lose it was TOTALLY everyone else's fault. I have never been able to get super into team games because while on 1v1 situations I can no stress just go all out in a team game I feel the need to be super nice and do everything they want then I just get stressed and depressed if I even lose one time because I feel like it was all my fault and I let everyone down. I have no clue how these guys can have such massive jerkwad egos about stuff.

the new photo truely shows societies achievements. This is the true pinnacle of modern minds, thank you LMTYA

The esports scene is super cringy and boring they have to over hype EVERYTHING

Hell ya upload

Nooooooooooooo you ruined the illusion! I will have to re-write all my gay fanfiction and deviantart porn about aleks and tad >:(

Pretty good, for a 50 minute audio file. I'd love to see examples onscreen of the stuff you're talking about

Heheh you had to draw label who was who

I realized this episode isnt the Spotify list, any special reazon why?

This is the nerdier version of The Complete Guide to Everything. They have the Tim and Tom dynamic and they also sound eerily similar to Tim and Tom.

The Dota 2 prize money is added up by how much money people spend on the game. Buying cosmetics or crates or whatever goes to valve and then the tournament prize pool.

thank you for the informative podcast photo

Love the new presentation

i cant believe there were so many of us that had no idea of who was who

Thanks for the name tags.

I will look at it later, gotta play with my premades in LoL.

Oh my god, this has EASILY been my favorite episode so far. Aleks flipping shit over teamwork is the best.

That rant near the end was hysterical

As someone who used to play LoL, I can attest to having only played it because my friends did.

I want to play a multiplayer game that's just singleplayer, but other players can affect everything in the world and the economy and the like. I just like games that ping a server because then it means that you're making a permanent contribution to something rather than just having your own save file that's completed that millions of other people have done.

did his mom not know how to spell "alex" and had to guess?

Fire Emblem Heroes is getting to that level, I know in the new banner there are people who spent ~$1,000 to get +10 bride cordelia, and others have spent $600 and haven't even gotten one of her. It's a huge Gacha game, so it works like a crate system essentially

I found it funny as fuck when TF2 decided to push comp by pairing with UGC, who were and still are known for having corruption.

14:28 MY MAN YOU GO TO MONSTERGIRL WIKI. What can I say you're a man of taste

These guys get me. I really dont like eSports. I get the endurance of it but it still feels like its a joke.

Heck yeah, I got the voices and names right :B good to know

There is an all chat in HotS though..

Rant at the end was fuckin perfection

Across all corepoints in this video there was no research done, no evidence to back your points being made.

To be fair, muting pings was literally the best solution for ping spam that's been a plague of normals, and ranked games alike. That sound is fucking annoying and I hate people pinging "enemies missing" over my corpse or the corpse of one of my teammates. This way people don't ping spam anymore since they're afraid they'll get muted. Also what the hell, first you complain about people getting mad that you don't cooperate with the team and like to "have fun" then you complain about one guy on your team not playing tank because he wants to have fun. That's some pretty heavy hypocrisy there.

in Latin America the community is SO TOXIC no one likes to play. its kinda boring of a game, but then you add the community and it makes you ragequit lol mainly popular here because its "easy" and the characters look cool. the problem is always the community. playing is fun, but somehow multiplayer online games are so damn toxic, unfunny and boring that you end up hating it.

Dark souls the Esport

i main lucina in smash

Aleks is my spirit animal.

"let me tell you about: with Tad and Aleks"

I'm glad I got to see DOTAs rise and fall, and never touch the garbage

I unironically enjoy Heroes of the Storm, yeah I was forced to play it for Overwatch skins but I ended up enjoying it as the first moba I've ever played and I think it can be a great game to introduce new players to mobas, but I do agree that it has barely any content and it will eventually get repetitive as long as I don't play it constantly and treat it as a game to only sometimes play or to play while talking to someone who isn't playing with me. Btw these points are way too fucking solid and I agree with all of them since I'm a forced Tank and Support main in Overwatch that got sick of trying to get autists to communicate properly and I eventually learned to enjoy screwing around as Roadhog and Lucio and playing the helpful roles in general. #StopPlayingHanzoAndGenjiYouArentSeagullYouAutistPlaySupportForOnceInYourGoddamnLife

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hmmm. so. Who's Tad and who's Alecks?

they just dropped a bob ross skin on smite ;o

As an active League of Legends player, yeah the esports thing is exaggerated (TSM FANS ARE ACTUAL CANCER) but IMO it's actually a good thing. Not for the reason every game is trying to do it, but because its making devs care about how fair the game is. Things like hats giving you stats in TF2 wouldn't have happened if people cared about players having similar power levels. And while fighting games do seem to care, there's plenty that don't and the Naruto episode was a good showcase of that. If games are going to be better for players of all levels because they want it better for competitive players and its creating jobs for players who love their game, that's a great thing. That said, we need more casual server based games. League has a custom games mode that's pretty dead and its dead in OW as well. Matchmaking pretty much means when you join a game you're expected to stick through it. Personally I think OW is a good example of how to run matchmaking for casual players tho, no hero restrictions other than the standard 1 per hero, all the maps are in rotation, you have a fuckaround server mode... I think that game does a very good job of balancing competitive and casual play.

Csgo cases were more popular than tf2 cases

I actually enjoy HOTS a lot more than LOL. Maybe it's because I'm a hopeless Blizzard fanboy who sucks Chris Metzen's nuts, but I love the Smash Bros-style mashup of all these characters I've come to love. It's just as anti-social and tryhard as any other MOBA, but I wouldn't throw stones from that nice glass house you're in. I'm just curious what you dont like about it, because I see a lot of jerks come through and act like they're too cool for this game and they just want their Overwatch skins (Isn't that some kind of irony?). I'm not judging, I just want to know your opinion on the gameplay.

it's fun with friends, that's it

"Ahoy, Fuckboys" lmao

You know, I don't entirely blame Riot for what happened. Remember, they were bought by Tencent, a chinese company, in 2011. before that, League was relatively fun. it was unique amongst mobas for its lighter tone, more parody elements that referenced pop culture or other games, and having an actual lore and story that they tied around the game and updated as the seasons went by. Then the chinese overlords bought them, and it went downhill from there as they became less focused on "fun" and "gameplay" and more focused on profit and whatever edicts came from above. (such as redesigning any characters with exposed bones or skeletons in their design, because exposed bones are offensive in china) Tencent killed Riot and ruined League of Legends. I say this as someone who started playing league fairly early on and was driven away by the kind of shit you mentioned

im so woke this new pic is fire

I am said mercy main

I've been saying it since 2010, e-sports is the cancer killing the artistic merit of video games.

so much salt

LOL is part of the reason battleborn exists

Am I the only one who got who was who right? Lol

great vid XD

rainbow six siege is good. and it an esport.

you guys are too young to play real MMORPGS. Everquest and Final Fantasy 11 are mmo. wow vanilla was the only time it was even a mmo.

>Pre wrath you had to spam trade chat with "LF blah blah blah, the conversations were never stellar BUT No buts. You disprove your own point, and the point of every other nostalgia goggles wearing cuck that plays WoW. It was a feature that was added so that you don't see all that garbage all the time, and you still see it for anything that isn't LFR/LFG (Mythics, normal+ raids) It was targeted at casuals, and that's exactly who it effects. There's nothing wrong with that. "BOO THERE ARE MORE OPTIONS NOW EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T EFFECT ME!" I just don't fucking understand this point of view lmao I agree about the garrison thing, it was awful and WoD in general really fucked WoW's community up. But spamming in trade for dungeons didn't have any more chance of great coversations being had than it does now. You can still talk to people in the dungeon, but norms/heroics are boring, simple and pretty easy compared to how they used to be, so people would rather just be done with them so they can move onto something more interesting. >You used to mark mobs for death And literally everyone still does?? You're just talking out of your ass. Just because you don't need to mark every little mob anymore in norms/heroics doesn't mean the game is shit. >Can someone deal with this? Says the 200h mercy main In a game where people are constantly asking people to switch to heals, you'd think you wouldn't be complaining about a Mercy main doing her job (and not touching her gun, because y'know, fucking heals" >FUCK you for picking the character you want to play instead of shoehorning yourself into this role you hate!" This is something you could have made a good point about (Especially if it was a comp game) but you just ended up sounding like an autistic cunt yourself I usually really like this series, but god damn are you just spewing a bunch of shit that makes you seem like you have no idea what you're talking about. I agree with some other things you're talking about, muting pings is one of the most retarded things I've ever seen from Riot. The entire reason that pings were unmutable up until this point is if you wanted to not talk to people (muting chat/that person) but still have communication, which is important in a team game. That, and autists dumbing games down for everyone so that it appeals to them more (like SFV) but you're also conflating a bunch of issues that have little to do with one another, or making issues out of non-issues.

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