Best of NEST: Choco - Shadowbringers Edition 

Alright, so a few things about this series for anyone new, and even some veterans: -These are moments I chose myself without anyone's input because I like to keep them a surprise. Patrons got to look over them to make sure I didn't miss anything, but they're mostly chosen by me. -Some clips highlight more than one member, so those clips will be included in the vids of each relevant member. It's not an accident. -No, we didn't do Diamond Weapon because we didn't want to stop progging E12S and we weren't hurting for damage enough to drop everything to get the weapons. We never made it in as a group afterwards either so, while unfortunate, there are still some reclear clips in here to make up for it. -We never did DR either but that's mostly because half the group's Primal characters are alts and they haven't unlocked all the stuff. That and I got swept up in finishing everything off before the next expac. -The prior two points can also be summed up in the fact that I had to draw a hard line somewhere as to where these would cut off so I wouldn't be gathering footage up until a week before the next expac. This isn't hard content to put together, but it was 16 hours of video already and making sure they're all as flawless as possible is stressful enough as it is. -This little disclaimer will be in every vid in case people coming in later start viewing them in random order. btw I do like medium rare burgers, but I had to go for the joke. no ragrets.

Weak bloodline indeed

Big sad the intro isn't a irl demonstration of the gooch press

Also Choco's panicked screams are probably my favorite part of NEST raids, not gonna lie. 😂😂😂😂😂

To this day my favorite NEST quote is Jesse saying "That's a nice Fight or Flight you got there bucko." Just the way he says it gets me everytime.

"G's just my favorite color" "Does it smell good at least?" "I don't know, Choco, I didn't look at it" "If you were gonna say something about Mike, don't worry. He's colorblind he can't hear you." This entire segment just got me

The Choco "SIR!" gets me every time, lmao! You never know how bad you need a laugh until you're crying from the hilarity.

I’ve noticed how certain people in nest play off each other really well by seeing where the most common overlap is in the best of videos. Chocco and woops are a good example of this

Man Drak has really stepped up his game on the intro segments huh. Looking forward to what the rest of the members' intros are going to be

This clip of "explain to me how breathing works" gets me every damn time....now I'm here and everything itches...

So as I was watching the intro, right around Drak was cursing out Choco, my music player decides to start playing Baka Mitai in the background. And it. Is. GLORIOUS!

I’m surprised the gooch press instructions weren’t in the intro lol

What a way to include the press in the intro without an immediate demonitization.

I absolutely love Choco's energy and the funnies he brings to NEST :3c

I'd love to see a "Best of Food Conversations" video for this expansion. I'm sure they're mixed in with the others, but there's been enough this expansion to make their own video.

Gonna miss the lad... What a fine addition to NEST. Loved every bit it. Hopefully he can come back but life is always so daunting as usual. Hope he takes care.

I love how many unique clips there are of Choco. Like everyone in NEST is funny in their own right, but just the pure chaos that is Choco is so entertaining to watch.

Guys, the Gooch Press has changed my life. Thanks Choco!

I sware each of these intro's just keep getting better and better. Can't wait for the next one and to just laugh myself into orbit! Keep up the awesome work with these as always Drak!

thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos, drak!!! i'm glad i always have lots of things of yours to watch to make me smile

Rhaya and Choco's squabbles are my favorite thing.

Can't wait for the Hans intro where it's just Drak jumping off a (hopefully edited-in) cliff

As someone whose been following the channel, this intro the best

Drak is so evil with these openers.. I love it.

The edits y'all did with Choco's avatar whenever he'd move away from the mic are priceless. XD

Whoo! A best of Choco! He's so off the wall, it's great, and it was wonderful seeing him heal a lot of the later stuff. Also his screams are hilarious. XD I don't know why, but him saying, "No, you're a Beatus of the Firmament," gets me every time.

In chocos defense, you can cook a burger medium rare as long as the internal temperature gets to 160 I think(I know it's around that but I don't have it in front of me)

27 minutes, more like 27 seconds chief XD I love it

the irony is whenever I go to any burger place I order medium rare not just because I like it but because I just like saying medium rare

Drak has a weak bloodline confirmed

Man, nest is what got me into raiding and I always look to their videos for entertainment for raiding~ I recently cleared on Wednesday, and got my chest piece for my Sam, and my blade as well and the mount. All in one week. I’m so happy to be done 😭first tier I’ve cleared.

"Take two steps back Choco." *starts toward boss* "NO THAT'S FORWARD!!!" I completely forgot about that big, and dang near spit my drink all over my monitor during that. XD

A year late to this, but if you need to inform Choco as to why steak tartare and sushi are safe to eat, but raw minced/ground meat needs to be fully cooked through tell them this: the meat in sushi and steak tartare are both frozen to at least -28 C for at least 48 hours after being processed to prevent the bacteria from multiplying (This also stops most cases of toxoplasmosis in tartare's case too). This means when they come to make it there are so few bacterium that you won't suffer food poisoning, probably.

Yay the SIR bit from E4S made it in! And the classic gooch press!!!!

My favourite NEST member by far it's always fun when Choco is involved, those panicked screams complete any NEST experience! But for real though, when's he going to patent the gooch press? there's some good money there

39:00 Good luck getting that covered under warranty...

to the medium rare burger discussion: please look up Mettbrötchen cuz thats mainly the reason I have to side with Choco there

If memory serves correctly, all that's left for general audiences is Hans and the assorted extra members.

I was really hoping this would be the director's cut of the Gooch Press explanation

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS I NEEDED ANOTHER ONE LOL

The last 20 minutes of Chocos video is some of the funniest shit. Especially with the 2Ps in Paradigms Breach lmao

Drak's stomach after the skit: SUCH DEVASTATION! THIS WAS NOT MY INTENT!

All this time I though Corey was my NEST spirit animal. Turns out it was Choco and his agitated shrieking all along...

Choco is the living embodiment of 'do it, no balls.'

"C a n y o u h e a l i n s t e a d o f t a l k i n g t o t h e m o n k e ? ?" Always kills me XD

When he said cooking tutorial i already knew that disgusting medium rare burger was gonna pop up.

woops is who I want to be like, Choco is who I always will be

I don't know why, but when Drak corrected Choco on wrestling, I could just envision him hitting Choco on the head with a newspaper as he said, "The answer on the board is wrestling."

38:03 Spofie re-enters. 38:07 Spofie re-exits. I still die every time.

MY MAN CHOCO

last year we had choco-late. this year i cant think of anything beside that god damn gooch press...

"I've got an outie brain." "W H A T"

The forbidden pink brownies of raw meat

LOL!!!! THE CHOCO BURGER MADE IT LMFAO!!!

Choco is the kind of person that eats "medium-rare" chicken.

I feel sorry for Choco. People will never understand his wisdom. Some people are not meant to experience the deliciousness of raw, minced pork. (Please fully cook your burgers. If you don't live in a place where a billion health regulations protect you from getting food poisoning from eating raw, minced pork, DO NOT EAT RAW, MINCED PORK.)

I think that Choco would benefit from a Kermit edit. For no reason.

Lol this is funniest ever totally best of eva&larry too 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏

ok grinding that meat yourself, i wouldn't eat that medium rare as well. But as a German, i can only say: weak!

What's the name of the song in the beginning?

FUCK NO! NOT THE CHOCOBURGER ARGUMENT AGAIN... I'm screaming... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Choco Pepero Cause of death: A Weak Bloodline (AKA he didn't cook his burgers all the way through and upchucked his entire digestive system) I kid, because I like mine medium, which is barely longer cooked than Medium Rare.

Drak you didnt wash it down with alcohol when you had the rare burger.

*Choco is typing...*

I feel bad for choco with all the talk of food. Let them eat how they want, you aren't the one eating their food.

my god I love choco so much, what a just wonderful hilarious dude

Stop Drak I'm having PTSD from the first raid tier. Choco talking about meat hurts.

CHOCO IS RIGHT THO

In defense of Choco, here in germany we eat raw minced pig meat and call it "Met", which you can turn into patties for burgers Tho we generally just throw it on bread with salt & pepper

Tell me you're american without telling me you're american: raw meats and eggs discussions :'D

Drake what does it take to be part of NEST?

eating burgers medium well for 20+ years... not dead yet ;p

As someone who's worked in the food industry for 23 years, I want to strangle Choco over the medium rare burger.

I wasn't the only one to expect that would be the thumbnail

00:07 so this is what happened to choco

Team choco on food

Well, as a german, I eat raw ground meat (beef or pork or a mix of the two with a bunch of spices, maybe raw egg, salt and onion). But that is a very different thing... a medium rare patty doesn't seem too appealing to me.

On that burger conversation, Choco won me over with the tartare comment. It's a relatively common food here, and that is ground beef that is completely raw, not even cooked at all. It touches the air quite a lot when it is being prepared, or when it is just out in the air waiting to be eaten (people like to put it on toasted bread here so it is just like in a bowl sometimes like a spread of sorts). By all means it should be contaminated ever since it was cut into pieces to begin with, but I don't really know anyone who would get any serious health problems from it, and I never even felt sick after eating it. Is this just luck? Or is the danger to your health just really uncommon?

Valid concerns if you've got a weak bloodline LMAO

is it a bad thing I want a reactive of my FFXIV character in the NEST style?

Gonna be honest, never had salmonella, and I had a lot of medium rare burgers in my life, y'all must suck.

is salmonella THAT widespread in the US ? Cuz it doesn't travel through air and it's not naturally in red meat, in other words you are putting it in there yourself

For this point I agree with Choco. I mean Biff tar tar is a thing. also its just not heat that kills bacteria. cold does as well. As long as he does not pour milk first he got me on his side.

Guess you're bloodline was Weak Drak. Haha!

I don’t have a free hour to watch quite yet. If the phrase “fleshy fun bridge” made it in, someone please let me know! Thanks!

I'm never taking cooking advice from Choco

69th like nice

I will always cook my burgers medium rare and y'all can back off and eat your overcooked burgers away from me

as a gay boy in school once I would have loved to have had touching duds as a class I would so excel in that sport you could call me grandmaster :D

Damn it's always crazy to me how parranoid you guys are with how cooked meat should be. Medium-rare is a classic way to eat meat where I'm from and we even eat Bleu cooked steak in some restaurants. America is weird man.

I'll just say...Every time Choco says dumb things about food preparation, my response now is just "Let 'im. Fuck around: find out." - it WILL catch up to him one day, and it will be a glorious moment to hear of his self-inflicted suffering =3

Like sure can cook medium rare but as someone thats had my dad cook burgers medium rare for years the issue I find isn't an undercooked thing. The texture is... TERRIBLE. Just... Please... No. Medium or well done everytime... Thank you... I don't like having that kind of party in my mouth between cooked and partial cooked in my mouth.

I have to mute everytime Choco start rambling about his obsession with contracting E.Coli from Hamburger.