Let's Play COSMIC ENCOUNTER in Tabletop Simulator! | Overboard, Episode 20 

Wait where

@@facepalmindustries2132 39:00

Which is really funny Bc I always think that he is in every single hidden role game

@@skawesomeone I can't tell if you just got woooshed or not

@@Void-cn6rn nah, a question was asked and answered. That's not a whooshable offense

Not balancing a game is just laziness. They can try justify it or attack those who call them on it, but it is just lazy.

@@ThanatoselNyx As said in the video, the downside of having an overpowered species is bullying, which makes it fair again

​@@ThanatoselNyx I mean if this game was balanced I don't think it would be nearly as fun, and that's not a bad thing. You don't need the alien powers to be balanced in this game to have fun, and that's the goal of it. It's not like MtG or something with a competitive scene. Having aliens with differing power levels makes the game varied and replayable, it adds unpredictability and can make for some incredible gaming moments. It's a decision, not laziness.

@@ThanatoselNyx they didn't say balance is for wimps, they said "fair isn't fun". I agree. A balanced game would be boring, the winner would be determined at the beginning and itd just be going through the motions until they win. And as someone else said, the game self-balances because a good power gets bullied into submission.

Actually it was foe weenies.

They have to get through the episodes of Overboard fast or else they'll run out of air in such tiny boxes.

DID YOU SAY THEY'RE IN BOXES? 100 NMT FOR ALL OF THEM

@@maetheunicorn81 NO I'M BETTING *200* NMT!

@@meking1808 IM BETTING 20 DOLLARS

The part when Brian's like "I don't have a plan" and Simone's instantly "IM IN!" is the most relatable moment of the vid ;;

Simone is dumbledor

@@braxtonkatz5726 simone= gryffindor; brian= hufflepuff; Jenna= slytherin; Pat = Ravenclaw (??); and clayton = death eaters.

Legit was trying to explain this game to my boyfriend and told him that it plays out like a typical episode of Yugioh

timestamp??

15:13

That they did.

_BITCH_

wait are pat and Simone actually together tho? or are they just friends? either way you're right it was adorable

no kidding, that must have been a pain to edit together

@@screaminggecko7660 funny considering he's the masochist

It already is for me

I've never said that, but it seems to be what people hear anyway.

bonus points if you carry the card with you everywhere and pull it out when you say that

how weird is that greeting compared to “hey”?

Memetic is the perfect adjective

And then Brian v Clayton happened.

@@BirdThatEatsPrometheussLiver and become the best resolve to end the game

The final round was even more math-y

@@BirdThatEatsPrometheussLiver So much competing math...

And pat still doesn't listen to the rules

When you put it like that, it makes me realize that all 1,000,000 people without fail watching a group play boardgames and explain new rules at the time proves card animes realistic

@@emmae2520 amazing

@@emmae2520 *brain blown*

@@emmae2520 bruh

Sophia Walsh Long oh my god i thought it was brian because the colors were confusing me but it being pat makes it infinitely better

It was giving me so much anxiety 😂

Finally a valid motivation to learn math

Or DnD

Ngl, it was a little like "Oh come on! That's basic subtraction it's not that hard!" for me, but stress can make the simplest of things a lot more difficult. That was a beautiful end :dd

@@crazydragy4233 And hey, not relevant in this case but there _is_ multiplication/division in the game too

Wait really? Where? @@metallsnubben

Every kid when their mum calls them by their full name

This is true for me just because my last name always gets butchered.

"i love to die!!!" - tiny clayton

Kind of. It is perfect. If you want uno reverse card, the game, try Exploding kittens. There are 'nope' cards, and you can 'nope' a 'nope'.

@@glowerworm you nope so many nopes. It is insane

wouldnt that game just,..be uno?

@@PschocatIII but uno reverse cards don't work like uno reverse cards in uno

love your use of dashing, and no one deserves it more than brennan

All is fair in love and coup?

Followed by figuering out the meaning of life as god intended, the figuering out if he was real

ALOR

Tbh, same

The ALOR Allure

Also the Bear association wants a couple of these, but with cut off sleeves.

bring back Vang0 Bang0

they’re trying to make it work!! source: brian on the itsbremily twitch channel

oh shit yes

YES PLEASE. Legitimately one of the best things on the channel, tbh

BRING BACK VANG0 BANG0!

When someone said that it wouldn't be out of place if there was a card where you have to say you're sorry, my mind also went to Munchkin for some reason.

Steve Jackson, Munchkin designer, was a big Cosmic Encounter fan before he designed Munchkin. Steve even wrangled a few Cosmic Aliens into the Space Gamer Magazine.

It gets compared to Munchkin a lot. But I think it's much better! You should consider giving it a try.

Munchkin is a game where the designers said "what if everyone got to be a wildcard" and I love it

yes! I've wanted this for a while now! :)

👏ugh queen shit😔

I just say their because it’s easier and less wordy

was looking for this

I never understand any of the rules to any of the games.

they also broke a few rules, so that didn't help (you can only play one flare per turn!)

@@MysticKenji2 Also Jenna can't play a negotiate card after using upset, because it says both have to play attack cards.

I think she can if she has no attack cards? Still seems incredibly busted, but that is this game I guess

@@jordanfry5138 she can if she has no attack cards. I think she didn't have any.

Every game would be better that way

Not to mention that these guys missed a line in the rules which really helps to streamline the game: "a player may use no more than one flare per encounter."

Was looking for this comment, the game is not supposed to be quite so chaotic lmao

Welcome to the weird and wacky world of Polygon.

@@jacobcain9008 oh thank you

Neil Kalef wait i did the exact same thing omg

i would even say especially in lockdown

@Lawful_ Depends on which Americans are filling you up, doesn't it?

GIVE PAT A TREAT GIVE PAT A TREAT

Totally agree, playing multiple flare cards per turn kinda screwed with the last encounter but Cosmic is messy and it created drama

@@andrewstockdale6084 yes. even if it weren't for the multiple flares. there was some misunderstanding of how the last encounter totals were calculated. cosmic is almost never not complicated. And thats why I love it!

Baku Technically, it shouldn’t do anything, since the card only applies to numbers over 15.

I'm pretty sure that changing the card to a 42 causes the -23 to no longer apply at all, since 42 is not an odd number

Clayton LeVerrier it takes the total of both attack cards so its still odd with the 42 and the 23

Thank you! This was also bugging me.

You can't play more than one flare each turn, so it's all a wash anyways.

i second that

I third that

I fourth that

He's dating Karen

I'm a straight male but if Brian came to me and said "It's time to get cosmic, baby" I'd marry him right away

I knew it would be someone and I was relieved when it was her

we are all. simone

actually my theory is that simone serves the literary purpose of the everyman, like watson in sherlock holmes or nick carraway in the great gatsby. she is the vessel by which the viewer relates to and understands the world, ie the events of each episode of overboard. that's why she's the only one who catches on to being gaslighted by brian in werewolf (though she is quickly convinced afterwards) and she begins to graffiti the stars in cosmic encounter when the viewer too is confused by the events that occur.

Yup! There are a lot of powers like that. The best powers are the ones that are really good but don't seem very powerful. A blatantly powerful power gets ganged up on, but a power like the philanthropist who can give bad cards to other players will never be targeted.

Among the 180 plus cards including all the expansions and taking into account that the deck distribution means you're more likely to have negotiates, an auto-win card like Pacifist is decidedly one of the strongest in the game.

Yeah, it's one of the strongest aliens in the game (with the caveat that of course there are no absolutes in Cosmic :P). Really they all had some strong boys, aside from poor old Masochist.

Pacifist seems like a character that would do much better by collecting negotiation cards and not attack cards, but well, there isn't really a good way to refresh cards while keeping some specific cards you get?

Pretty sure that was just the jackbox videos

Or just play in TTS because having all the characters costs hundreds :D

I got sick of Red Dragon Inn after like three games. It's so limiting strategy-wise, and the vanilla characters aren't very varied.

After having played RDI on TTS once after owning a few of the expansions, I think I can only recommend it on TTS now. It's too expensive to get all the good characters otherwise.

Good fuckin' luck my man!

dont give anything to kevin punt

marblewater I definitely won’t

@@lunarheavens2819 Hey, I recently got a shiny hoppip I can trade ya for your dex if you want it, I don't really collect anything so it's gonna be deleted once I restart the game

Candyishere I can’t trade my den, but I can trade something else, I’ve got a few spare of each of the Alola, Kanto and Galar starters