Huge Gaming Drama | TBH EP 12 

Thanks again to Vessi! Use the promo code TBH for 15% off your entire order! Though i'm sure colossal already sold you on them

How can the game suck if the ps5 has no games

We have to start bathing these video game characters

Huge Gaming Drama

Colossal criticising main characters hygiene is incredible

Listening to Oliver is like listening to your racist grandpa during Christmas dinner and wondering if he's reached the worst of it yet

Forspoken aCtually has better writing than you think! You see the bag of money going up flames is a strong metaphor for you wasting your money on this game and making you relate to the main character.

Finally, they let Pyrocynical title an episode

So proud of the new voice actors for this episode! After Pyro, nerd, clown and dolan left I wasn't sure if this new episode would be possible.

Colossal saying the *The Groomer* to Pyro killed me

Vessi knowing that Collosal would just read the ad verbatim and making it impossible to do so is a Chad move

forspoken has a few classic isekai tropes; 1. parents are involved in the fantasy world; usually kings or queens 2. starts out with legendary object and/or is somehow the magical exception to the norm 3. death of mildly relevant character results in MC gaining motivation to kill the dark lord 4. completely hops, and/or never even thinks about, the language barrier, with bullshit logic nobody explains 5. kills off about 1 character the entire time, usually at the start 6. set in not-rome medieval rome. 7. protagonist (usually from modern day society) uses lots of cool hip slang like the kids do, and the world's natives dont understand its weird that forspoken wasn't a book. it'd probably be BETTER as a book.

I really like Nerd City's rants and talks, they are super educational and are actually teaching me so much about interesting things I never really cared about before at all. Like the Black Rock one for example was excellent. Thanks guy

Sounds like Colossal would appreciate the integrated showering mechanic in mgsV and the fact Quiet bathes constantly for 20 seconds straight in her cell at motherbase...it's not important why I know that

colossal getting angry about hygiene is just so good

I love how Clown puts his heart and soul into these ad reads :)

"Don't let anyone shame you looking into things" is a GREAT concept to keep in mind, Nerd had a great point, we're in such a weird moment in history and the whole COVID/lockdowns/masks thing made this thing 500% worse, people were just picking sides like it was a football game, it's just sad and it keeps getting worse

I love how scuffed the sponsored segment is, adds entertainment value.

I only just realised there's only 12 episodes to this podcast, and that I have actually watched all 12 videos of it so far. This is a massive first for me, I normally hate podcasts vehemently.

Apparently, the developers forgot that optimization is an important aspect of EVERY game

I actually like Colossal’s reading of the ads, I don’t skip them like I don’t skip Internet Historian’s ads

I love nerds segments in these podcasts. Just manages to talk about something potentially revolutionary for a while before we return to another sponser readout and my brain disintegrates to mush

its honestly genius how in later TBH episodes they specifically did not add the bottom red bar in the thumbnail so that when you watch the video to the end you finish the outline

the section on urbanism was interesting but its important to note that 15-minute cities are focused on regulating car use, in cities, not just generally travelling between areas. also any actual urbanist hates the idea of the line, its just a ridiculous vanity project

the bits where colossal reads ads are by far my favorite parts i am crying laughing

Colossal makes this a very different kind of podcast

8:08 british man imitating british accent fr

I accidentally found this podcast, didn't know it was a thing. I also didn't know that little factoid about Merlot sales, honestly I didn't know that anyone but my friend and I even remembered that Sideways and that line even existed! Nerd City out here analyzing all of this on a macro scale and the implications of these things while Pyro and Colossal are cracking jokes is amazing, I need more of this.

I'll never get tired of colossal's ad reads

Currently living in Oxford. A lot of the conversation is purely on travel, trying to reduce car emissions by encouraging a closer network of wants and needs. Oxford as a city is very anti-car, with the high street only having buses and taxis on it. We all received these anti-15 minute city pamphlets through our doors but all the concerns were vastly irrelevant to what Nerd City was concerned about. It was terrible. All the opposition was like: "Oh no, it's gonna take ages to take your kids to the park, wasting valuable time and you'll end up not even bothering and your kids will be soooo upset". Like what? Is that all you've got? I think this is telling that either this pamphlet was just so ignorant, or that Nerd's issues with the system aren't actually where the idea of 15 minute cities is heading, focusing less on segregated city areas and more on encouraging less car use. Either way, being a student who walks everywhere in the city to get to shops, lectures, pubs, nightclubs etc, it doesn't really affect me so maybe my understanding of it isn't at all in the right ballpark...

As a European I'm all for liveable cities, where I live it's very easy to get around the city without a car but this idea of giving fines to people for leaving your area is the stupidest thing I've heard in years. And this whole notion of reducing emissions is dwarfed by the emissions of industry. It's always companies trying to draw attention away from themselves and onto the people for causing climate change

That Vessi ad is killing me, I am wheezing~ But goddammit you guys, will you make some content on your own channels please? Looking at you, Nerd! I bought your damn Nerd City poster and you haven't made a video since! It's a thing of beauty. But my wall is breaking my heart on a daily basis, reminding me of the bittersweet memory of a channel without a pulse...

Everything pyro related starts with "huge" for some reason.

i never knew that dolan was such a sensitive little fella, very wholesome.

Colossals ad reads are way better than what vessi wants, makes me actually want to buy them

I can't tell if Colossal actually thinks that the not-showering thing is a valid criticism of the game lmao

Colossal is right.. Remember the Heavy Rain shower scenes? What happened to hygiene in gaming.. No wonder conventions smell like that, they've been failed

Lmao “pyro, you ever play prototype?” Pyro: *leafy era flashbacks*

Another solid ad read. They keep me coming back for more. XD

humans trying to avoid every way possible to use nuclear energy: "its going to boom us and that is very bad!!! 😱😱😱"

the 20 minute city thing kinda sounds like san francisco, which is like, 8 square miles? i think i heard once that there's nowhere in that city more than a 3 minute walk from a bus stop. can't personally attest to that, but i do know they have free college for all sf residents (in america) and a larger gdp than most states (and countries, i think the per capita GDP is around 300k) in the world, despite being only 8 miles across. it's really friendly for a metropolis, too.

This is easily your best podcast so far. Had me laughing a lot while also talking about some fascinating subjects

Love this podcast and the chemistry between all 4 hosts

please let colossal do more sponsor spots I like to see what precisely the sponsor allows the content creator to say

No reference to red dead horse testicles

Just want to remind people YET AGAIN that IGN gave the pile of trash that is forspoken, a $60-$100 triple A game 6/10 when they gave Choo Choo Charles, a super fun indie game with one developer a 4/10.

Glad to see that Clown is taking his dementia medication more regularly these days, so uploads don’t take 4 decades anymore.

1:15 That seems like a really easy thing to fix. That's literally the first thing you do when writing draw code for OpenGL. That's like compiling a program like Hello World (which usually doesn't take a lot of time) but on _every single frame._ Compiling is not resource cheap.

I love how everyone just has a normal conversation while Colossal just screams his head off about Vessi.

Never thought the ad read would be the highlight. Thank you Vessi.

"I don't play video games". Neither do I nerd, but I could watch pyro and co talk about games for 10 hours, especially bad games. To be fair I probably already do that sometimes with pyro at least. One of the funniest episodes so far, loved it.

First episode I watched of this podcast. I didn't expect to watch the entire thing but it was much more entertaining than I thought

I love Colossal's ad voice, please always do ad reads this way

Ehy do people hate colossals ad reading? They’re literally the best part

This WEF district shit sounds like the precursor to having Hunger Games

If this podcast ends abruptly need a nerd city podcast 100%. His insights are really interesting and definitely the highlight of the podcast so far

Thanks for that amazing Vessi add just a few minutes after I was recovering from a mental breakdown where I realised no matter what I did it usually just amounted to nothing and that I always felt just as insecure and non proud of myself as I always have

these are the only ad reads that i listen to

Colossus really is the old grandpa/uncle in the group since he definitely loves to emphasize how dirty or crusty a black person looked like to him. And him doing the ebonics voice too 😭

45:36 idk Oliver, when my gf and I were watching it and the scientist was asked what to do, we both said "nuke the area" before she did, and oddly enough, we didn't bring her ethnicity into it. You know, it just hit me how ironically you live up to the clown persona

I’ve never been more sold on an advert before than when colossal does it

colossal having inspiration for a video, even if it's a second channel one is hype, that boi hasn't uploaded on his main in 4 years

The whole 15 minute city concept is misunderstood here, it's about not needing a car to get from a suburb where there's literally nothing, no stores, no entertainment, only housing without even a fucking bus stop because it's highly inefficient, to anywhere, it's very inefficient american suburbs that are the worst offenders in this case, but it's not only americans that need changing. AdamSomething has a few videos about it where he explains the concept in more detail and with much better clarity than I could here.

I'm glad Colossal also fell alseep watching Pyro play... I watched the whole stream... Except I also fell asleep at some point and woke up for the last hour. The nap was the best part of me experiencing that game.

"Last of us best video game adaptation" Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Am I a joke to you?

I really luv these podcasts

Great job at titling this episode Pyro!

I can't believe Pyro would cause so much drama

Colossal does the ad reads like Lord Farquad

you guys should add time stamps for topics

The sponsor parts in this podcast are legendary 🙌

I love colossal's ad reads

I love these ad reads

That was the best ad ever i didnt even skip it

next ad read all 4 of them should do it together like an acapella band

Clown's ad reads are the reason I have not missed a single episode

"The Yard" but problematic

Colossal doing the ad reads sounds exactly like Heimskr preaching in Whiterun (videogame reference)

god i love this podcast

The biggest downside to car focused cities is just how much space we dedicate to it. We build massive multilane roads, sure... but just how much space do we dedicate to parking as well. The big benefit behind enabling people to shop within walking/transit distance is that then you can reduce parking areas freeing up space to be used for more buildings. Someone did the math, I think it was strongtowns, but if you take a Walmart and its parking lot and convert that to a block of housing with some supermarkets and small local shops you can not only serve more people than that walmart but you can also house hundreds of people in the same space. But if we're focusing on space, suburbs are the main cause. People live away from their work and their shopping which means they have no choice to drive which means we need giant block stores and parking lots to serve them, Surburbia was really big in the post war which coincided with the construction boom that established the cities we know today. Its also expensive AF to maintain, the infrastructure required for a 1 family home costs more than the city will make from them in property tax and licenses. Having half your property be lawn (average bylaw in suburbs) means the town needs to pay for double the infrastructure, you cannot expand your home if your family should grow, and contributes to the housing crises because cities cannot legally be more dense, only more wide. Its bad for the home owner, the renter, the city, and nature. Why do we do this? Its literally illegal in the US and Canada to do much else, zoning laws are often used to make pretty cities, not livable ones. The people making the zoning laws are overwhelmingly people who don't need to consider how convenient and cheap shopping is (young or broke people don't attend municipal meetings which they really should, your city has more impact on your life than your country, often enough!).

the guys not knowing who brianna wu is one of the rare moments of innocence I've seen from this group

LMAO colossal doesn't leave his house because he'll get kidnapped when he walks outside 🤣

never let anyone but colossal do the sponsor ever again please

17:09 19:50 31:35 My fav Clown moment

Vessi , if you are watching this, please know that collosal is great for your brand, I always skip ads but not when it's collosal. Keep giving them money. Manscaped you need to get collosal back on your marketing job. I just skipped your ad lol

Hearing them talk about TLOU being the best show based off of a video game hurts the soul. I guess everyone forgot that Arcane exists, or that these guys didn't watch it.

I love Oliver's bits there cracking he did superfluously more than vessi payed for

I didn't even know Frey was Black, I thought she was South Asian American

31:00 it did originally work under market forces, then the government added in very strict planning permission and the like which made these ideas illegal as they wanted to incentivise people to buy cars. I mean, look at the uks old tram systems and the like

Governments love sneaking shit into things that are meant to seem good, it's happened a lot in the U.S Government and probably others as well, specifically sneaking things into bills that are being passed.

The bar for game adaptations is stuck in the basement for the most part but Arcane was truly phenomenal and steps all over Last of Us.

Brianna Wu is a game dev who made the Game Revolution 60 who promised for an interesting game with characters of every shape, size, and ethnicity. What we got was a terrible mass effect knock off from a woman with a motorcycle fetish

Colossal’s ad reads make me want to buy these products more than any other ad I’ve ever seen on this site

God, the chaos of the ad read, I don’t even know what the fuck is being sold but I still want one XD

Everytime Clown reads an ad I think he's having a stroke.

I like how they just keep talking over him while he really gets into the ad.

The word huge has lost all its meaning. You can literally remove it from every title with it and it changes nothing.

please keep making these

I ordered my vessis with code TBH I hope it will last for 3 years!

Excited to see what they do with Fivespoken