Ender's Game, Good Omens, Secret Wars 

best kind of spoiler. I know exactly what's going to happen but don't know what how it's going to happen.

@@chrisnotaperson8127 didja see it?

Get in the comments!

She is the Brennan of all things Comics

her segments were the best when geek and sundry had a youtube

Now we need a gutz Brennan and Amy showdown!

@@FritztheChef ukku

Ngl, before he lost his hair, he looked super hot to me... After? Well, I'm a Genos type girl

Could you explain it please? 😊

Ghoul = pool

It’s better than “New York Ghost” by a long shot

It works on multiple levels! Mike is really quick witted.

I don't know if Trapp would be able to finish reading a single question in that episode

@ Trapp: "In the-" All three contestants: *Buzz.* "Um, Actually..."

Gutz needs to be there too

6 way Um, Actually with Gutz, Ify, and Shane also in there

Elite Circle "Um Actually" would be pretty killer

When was this recorded?

@@esoterra1024 It's from the book Good Omens which was released in 1990

@@esoterra1024 this episode is probably from 2018 or 2019, considering they switched to remote in 2020

Pestilence isn't limited to viruses though.

@@SphincterOfDoom Penicillin doesn't do anything for viruses

That's fun!

How dare they! Also: pics or it didn't happen :p

This aged so well right :/

@@LeumGaming This comment was made 13 hours ago so it hasn’t aged much

@@risottopose9970 I was referring to the world view/author's intent- not the comment

@@LeumGaming Ah

Man, The fact that were never going to get Terry Pratchett's social commentary about 2020 hurts.

yes because the hero association assigned him his code name he didn't get to pick it

But he knew that is what he would be saddled with long before it became official, he never had an idea for what to call himself.

i love that he even predicted that would be the name he got assigned

I think everyone forgot about Genos' superhero name too even though it's a really really cool "Demon Cyborg"

It would be even cooler if all the answers were occupations: "...they become a great chef/veterinarian/farmer/urb"an planner/librarian..."

or make it about how they die "gets hit by a truck after grocery shopping" "gets hit by a truck trying to save a little girl" "gets hit by a train while riding a bus" "gets hit by a truck trying to save their friend" (all of these are real and different from one another)

@@tychoderkommentator2989 You forgot "dies of embarrassment after pissing themselves after NOT getting hit by a truck".

@@ccggenius Ahh, who could forget our dear Kazuma

@@tychoderkommentator2989 What's said is if you change "trying to save a little girl," to "trying to save a child," I can name at least four characters that happened to off the top of my head.

Um, actually, isn't that from the licensed video game of Chamber of Secrets, and maybe specifically the Game Boy Color version? I guess I'm not sure how that fits into canon

@@andymonserud9029 the only video game thing might be the chocolate frog card for returning the chains but the rest is covered in the books. Harry is intrigued by “wizard” chores in the book and the ghoul is discussed but I don’t think he has any direct contact with the ghoul until they later tansfigure him. He’s definitely glossed over in the movie. I’ve only read the books and seen the movies so I feel like if I know that those parts they didn’t come from a game🤔

@@lisahoshowsky4251 yeah, that all sounds right. I do distinctly remember the chocolate frog bit from the game. I'm not sure whether that's also in a book but if so it seems an odd addition

Um, actually ghouls are kind of like house elves for poor families - they do nothing useful, but are sort of bonded to the house like their subservient counterparts. Nothing you said is wrong, I just thought the parallel was cute even if it's as on the nose as a lot of other elements :)

Or, now that I think about it, a good slogan for a quiet Roomba.

I was going to say this too!

Thank you I thought this was the case but wasnt sure if I was misremembering or not.

I was going to say this too. The Quibbler is a one-man show, and Xenophilus Lovegood just makes stuff up. He's no more a reporter than Alex Jones.

@@ashleyzinyk4297 I'm sorry but you are giving Alex Jones too much credit

Additionally, "one punch man" is not a name of a character, that was saitama or "caped baldy" as his hero name.

*Brennan

Same here

Americans have a staggeringly terrible reputation for geographical knowledge so I kinda get it

@@anthraxboi not long ago an USA news broadcast had a map with Czechoslovakia broadcasted. But that's not only happening in USA, people get confused about countries/languages everywhere.

Drago mi je da si ti napisala, jer sam doslovno bio u procesu pisanja lmao

Yeah my grandpa was Yugoslavian and I was cringing at her answer lol

There is no greater joy in life than watching Amy Dallen sweetly and kindheartedly crush any and all who would oppose her.

I totally thought of Gutz (sp?) when she got embarrassed about answering correctly :)

Yes, totally!

Yes!!

yes i love gutz!!

Emma's is definitely a "I know who has won this one already" with sigh of accepted defeat

and that is so silly, Amy knowledge of nerd stuff is pretty amazing, a lot of times we see people here stumbling on the right answer while she got 100% on two shinning questions, its the first time I see that. we have to admit that it was awesome.

Imagine hating someone for knowing something

@@spelcheak I’ve seen some real assholes on RU-vid comments when they know something others don’t

Unless it's Grant, then he'll try to regale you with inconsequential stories from when he lived in New York. Truly, Grant Anthony O'Brien is like a gay male Britta stretched way too thin.

Amy is like the female Gutez. She always seems to be embarrassed for knowing so much 😆

Um actually, the DC for that history check is 25, and your +4 history with a nat 20 is only 24, so you didn't actually succeed, please redact your statement.

I love Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett in general. I am a lesbian, but i am very straight for Neil Gaiman. (its his voice)

Yess!! I was yelling. That's not how you pronounce Crowley!!!! Its Crow-Lee!!

Pestilence is the John Wick of the Four Horsemen.

Pestilence retired; antivax took over.

Pollution is a much bigger issue these days though. Covid may be new and scary but it won't last long and it won't take long before pollution is killing more people again, if it isn't currently.

Right, except he doesn't trick his family. His family uses it to trick the government so their enemies wont be tipped off. :)

Yeah he pretends he has spattergroit and that's why he isn't going back to school. The ministry comes and checks on him at some point so they use the ghoul. Why do I know this

Um actually, he doesn’t do it to trick his family since they’re in on it, he does it to trick anyone else who comes by

Happy Friday!

huzzah!

A fine day to you, my friend

Um, actually, new episodes are posted on Saturday morning in my time zone, not friday

@@chromatos7428 1 Point!

She only lost 1 point this way.

The episode is in a later season

He’s in the anime episode on dropout. The audio is kinda fucky, but they were finding their 2020 footing

He's on one of the Lockdown episodes, which is currently available if you're a CH channel member. Maybe there was some weird rights stuff during the... "incident"? I don't know. Might be on Dropout. This episode is from late 2019 I think, so perhaps it'll just be a while before they get up to that one.

He is in a season 4 episode. RU-vid releases are only in the middle of season 2 right now.

@@Taurusus Originally full episodes of um actually were only on dropout and were one of the selling points of the subscription service (only snippets were on RU-vid). They started releasing them on RU-vid during the pandemic with ad inserts filmed by Trapp from home. So there is a long backlog before we catch up.

it wasnt even that pedantic my guy

@@_miak Yeah more just misdirection

Only because they wanted to trick people into calling it Superman.

I think he meant for Watchmen specifically

In my experience it may be better to use the kiosks of your local airport vs the kiosks in your destination country. At the very least, the surcharge is far less than outright using a credit or debit card internationally.

@@romxxii What if I told you that the airport in your destination country is somebody's local airport?

@@shadebug Yeah, my point is, exchange rates for your destination currency seem to be better from your point of departure. It's almost as if they charge you more for currency you'll be using the most where the kiosk is based.

@@romxxii Yeah, I got that, I just thought the mind blowing would be more fun

The exchange rates on my Australian Bank card at acceptable ATMs was actually better than both in Indonesia. Always check up on that, especially if there’s no fees.

I'm actually there's no real greater story

They need to do a battle of the Uber-nerd with Amy, Gutz and Brandon

@@ad_astroturf5037 Winner gets to go 1v1 vs that one fan, who obliterated the competition. (Don't know his name.)

@@CasparSG I forgot about that episode.

Thank you.

Um actually, Charlie has dragons. Bill is a curse breaker, working for a bank.

appreciate the vote of confidence

@@umactually When Trapp is the host, what else can you expect?

@@umactually I absolutely read this in Trapp’s voice

I'd love to see her and Brendan on an episode.

@@FabbyTravy Um, actually, his name is Brennan.

The best game would be a 4 person between Amy, Gutz, Brennan, and Matt

@@atsiaz4624 I feel like they would need 50% more questions to let everyone strut their stuff, but that would be amazing.

Amy actually used to have a comic book discussion show on Geek and Sundry while critical role was still broadcast there. It was called the Wednesday Club, and she, along with Taliesin Jaffe and Matt Key, would do discussions on a number of comics, sometimes with guests. It ended a few years ago, but was incredibly interesting.

Um Actually he changed his name

No ring escaped the corrupting influence. Yes the Dwarves proved highly resistant, but the bearers did go mad eventually and were lead to ruin. The Elves had a sort of heads-up to what was happening just before The-One was activated, so they used the loophole where, if the ring isn't being worn and/or used, They remain basically hidden from The-One's and Sauron's influence. The Three only started seeing use again after Sauron lost The-One and was weakened for a literal age.

Dang, I’m so glad you’re such a nerd ❤️

From what I understand, it did make them more greedy and less willing to help others. In a way, corrupted. I also believe the dwarfs were simply too stubborn. They also missed that sauron was involved in the construction of all rings but the three eleven ones. Why they were not corrupted. But they still answer to the one

@@Samael1113 I think another part of it is that Sauron and Celebrimbor worked together to create the first 16 rings; then Celebrimbor created the 3 elven rings by himself. They were created in the same method as the first 16, so the 1 still held some power over them, but not to the same extent as the first 16 that Sauron helped created.

@@erikaosborn9679 Exactly, although it's stated that Celebrimbor was helped by the other gwaith I mirdain as well as sauron so only the 3 and the 1 were made by individuals.

I came to the comments to post this.

True, they are under its power (that's why their power wanes when the One Ring gets destroyed), but not corrupted by it.

Yeah, Trapp is probably confusing him with Tirek.

Fellow brony nerd lol

The question says "among", not "THE" though. They are definitely part of the oncoming end of the world and cause chaos everywhere they go, and had to also be stopped.

Actually the four horse people of the apocalypse are antagonists as that they try to end the world and fight Adam and his friends, also some of the characters are aware of them before they even meet, Adam references them and Crowley and Azeriphale (probably misspelled) would know as they are magic and are trying to stop the world from ending

They aren't antagonists at all though. They are not actively working to fight or contest the protagonists. They are just the embodiment of the events that are happening.

To put it another way, you wouldn’t blame the darkness, you’d blame those that caused it. They aren’t causing the apocalypse…they ARE the apocalypse, or the personification of it.

Also Gargoyles specifically have spouts for mouths, the word they’re looking for is a grotesque but gargoyle is an extremely common mistake

@@johnnyraven8178 to be fair at a certain point cultural perspective on a name like this makes the original meaning less of a hard and fast rule, gargoyles have been played as living stone monsters (sans mouth spout) for so long that that’s kinda become how most people perceive them at least when viewed in a fantasy lens. So it’s not so much a mistake as it is just the modern interpretation of a Gargoyle. To be clear I say this in good faith, no argument intended, that’s just my viewpoint.

@@bloodhexesillustration1977 that’s completely fair and I can think of a lot of other examples of this, like how third world originally meant a country that didn’t ally with a major power in ww2 but now is a way of describing how developed a nation is. I agree that to a certain level this is just the nature of language. The reason I specifically have a pet-peeve about gargoyles is that the root of the meaning is in the name, “GARgoyle” has the same root as GARgle which is holding water in your mouth. It especially annoys me because grotesques and hunky punks are both acceptable terms for the same statues but that don’t spit out water but for some reason no one uses those names for them. I generally completely agree with you but the gargoyle thing is just a person thing for me. Thank you making such a civil reply btw

@@johnnyraven8178 hey, I completely get what you mean. Sometimes it’s just one of those things that bothers you lol, we all have them. No further explanation needed in most cases. Thank you for also being civil, and I hope you have a good day.

No way lol that's lit

Um actually, she said "Chinese" not "Japanese"

@@davida.corbala3279 Um Actually, she said that it may be also the same in Japanese but as pointed out, Neko is the correct word for cat

um, actually. Be sure to pronounce it as Neh-Koh. and not Knee-Koh which is the japanese word for smiling.

omfg you fucking weebs, stop correcting people on what you don't know. 1: Niko is NOT the word for smiling, Niko is INTERNET SLANG for smiling because that's the old emoji for it in japanese, just like we used :), they used niko ( ニコ ) 2: Mao is absolutely the word for Cat in Chinese, she's completely right about that. She said it "may be the same in japanese" because japanese has a ton of borrowed words from chinese so she's correct on that too, even tho it's it is not the word for it in japanese.

@@Ins4n1ty_ no you're the weeb! I'm just old and dont know how or the purpose of emojis.

Well technically _Contest of Champions_ was only in its own series, it did not overlap with the other comic books in any way, and no character change came about as a result of it. So it wasn't exactly a "company wide" crossover. Also there were a bunch of international heroes created for _C of C_ whereas in _Secret Wars_ the only major new character was the Beyonder itself.

@@jb888888888 you are technically correct, the best kind of correct

Yeah, that bit is just HILARIOUS now, Neil. I'd suggest Pestilence got the spot back from Pollution, but, well...

@@EmperorSeth Maybe that's the plotline of the second season of Good Omens? :D