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Fun Fact about the WoW blood plague: People were arguing the data isn't realistic because there were trolls who actively tried to spread the disease, and shouldn't be used. Human kind sure showed those people how low we can go!
the useful data came after the hunter summoned their infected pet in the AH. watching people carry it into the bank or the forge area was very informative. yes, it was artificially introduced but the spread of it after that was natural.
I got a D&D question right that Matt Mercer got wrong. I feel like I should just go back to bed. I'm not going to do anything better today. Or this year. :*)
I'm almost convinced he did it on purpose to subvert expectations. Considering how big of a deal 5e makes about the variety of Infernal and Abyssal Tieflings, it's hard to imagine he didn't know.
In Monster High, there is a big social divide between the freshwater and saltwater monsters, and it is a major plot point in the romance between Gil and Lagoona.
"Now you know how people feel when learning English." Omg Haley was savage there, I love it. Also just generally love seeing her back along with Matt Mercer.
@@keithnewton5508 um actually, "gh" only makes an "f" sound when preceded by "ou" and "ti" doesn't make a "sh" sound, only a "ch" when followed by "on". Hope that makes things simpler ;)
Umm, actually, it depends on which definition of planet you’re using. Many planetary scientists define it as a rounded astronomical body that’s not a star.
@@TheAmishEngineer Way back during the second ever episode there was a statement about _Return of the Jedi_ where the statement was that the Death Star's shield generator was on "the planet Endor" when *Um, Actually* it was on "the Forest Moon Of Endor." So saying it's a moon not a planet is at the very least consistent with a previous episode.
I love how in the guinea pig disease question NOBODY mentioned how guinea pig disease was a direct way the developers used to punish players for neglecting animals...
The best “The Power Was Within You All Along” I’ve ever seen is in the How To Train Your Dragon books, where Hiccup suddenly discovers he is a master sword fighter after being terrible at it until that point despite constant training… because he breaks his right arm at the start of the fight and learns for the first time that he is actually left handed
You thought it was the best? Damn, I thought it was stupid. Cause, you know, if you've trained sword fighting with one hand and suddenly try it with the other hand, you'll suck at it at first. Sure, you'd be able to actually start learning properly now that you're using your dominant hand, but you are still untrained.
As a Lefty, I'm somehow kinda mad at this! You would know *very* early on what your dominant hand is, and there's no way you wouldn't try the sword in the other hand ever in your life until then.😑
So, I seem to have accidentally commented on the wrong video 😅 This was supposed to be a reply to an Overly Sarcastic Productions video about powerups, and it looks like RU-vid took me to a recommended video while I was composing this response and I somehow didn’t notice lol. This was mean to be a comment in response to discussion about how often powerups come out of nowhere without any in universe rational for why the character didn’t have the power before, and I specifically think it’s the best in that regard, in that it does give an in universe reason why he wasn’t good at it before: because the society he grew up in is extremely set in their ways and never thought to even consider handedness when teaching sword fighting. In that regard I think it’s actually a nice critique of how that would work: he was unaware of his handedness because he was forced to learn right handed and just assumed he was bad as sword fighting as a result.
@@KickyFut yeah back then there were heavy superstitions around being left handed so people 100% would not recognise it. The right hand was the sword hand and that's how people were taught. Many people pretented they were dominant in the other hand because depending on where you were born being left handed could have made you gifted by the gods or it could mean you were evil. It makes sense that hiccup wouldn't have known his dominant hand.
Uhm actually, while I don't believe the MCU explicitly states that The Grandmaster IS from Sakaar, we absolutely know he can't be from there in Marvel continuity proper by his definition as an original Elder of the Universe. The most accurate answer is probably either "Nobody knows" or "He was the last survivor of a 'test race' created by the Celestials just after the Big Bang before any stars or planets had really had time to form".
Kinda depends on how you define the question. It can be a question of where were you born, but it can also just be where you currently reside, or where you most recently lived
It's funny that they said "And then there's just a fencing guy who's a regular guy" for the Soul Caliber question, because if you continue down the line he just shows back up as a vampire.
@@kumaradio5414 Yeah, Raphael canonically wins Soul Calibur 2, claims Soul Edge, and by the time Soul Calibur 3 rolls around he's been corrupted by Soul Edge and is now a vampire. So he's just Regular Fencing Guy for the first game he appears in (he didn't show up until Calibur 2) and in later appearances he's a vampire.
Uhm actually, Trapp's joke about guinea pigs clashing with a naval theme is very strange to anyone that speaks German, as in German they're called 'meerschweinchen' or 'sea piglets'.
@14:45 Fremulon is the production company for Michael Schur so his shows like Parks & Rec, Brooklyn 99, Good Place all have that ending voiceover 'Fremulon' which is Nick Offerman's voice
Um actually, despite Fremulon being the production company for Parks and Recreation, the title card at the end does not feature Nick Offerman saying the name.
I love how everybody just, without verbal agreement, is in on the bit and they're in a think tank coming up with alternate names for 'made of wood killer' and they all just keep coming back to it! Fantastic stuff, y'all.
It should be noted that the "feelies" in those old computer games weren't just for fun or to save space. They served as copy protection against bootleggers. So even if you had the game, you would get locked out after a certain point because you NEEDED the items that came in the box.
Um Actually... In 2e, when Tieflings first appeared, they were NOT part fiend. Instead, they were just mortals who were "planetouched", meaning that over their lives growing up travelling the Outer Planes, they were warped by the alternate magics and philosophies, and had "something" that made them odd - strange skin tone, a whiff of brimstone, a tail, goat leags, or what have you. Genetically they were still human or elf or what have you, just... altered.
um, actually...plane-touched meant that they were descendants of a mortal and some planar being. fiend wasn't necessarily specified yet, but they were very definitely not genetically pure humans or elves or what have you.
@@chriswright8114 I suspect both the origin you describe and the one Valandar describes could be valid, because I doubt they explained it in enough detail to strictly rule out one or the other. That said, I’m happy to be corrected if there’s specific evidence for one. I started in the 4e era. I’ll add my own um actually correction though, because as of the current 5e lore, tieflings can be the result of any fiend bloodline, not just devils, though the vast majority (in both lore and in play, because the player’s handbook tiefling is one such) come from not just devils, but specifically Asmodeus’s bloodline. If tiefling lore interests you though, I highly recommend the series of novels Brimstone Angels, by Erin M Evans. They go into great detail about the origin of tieflings and how/why they changed between 3.5 and 4e.
@@JimCullen um, actually if I remember correctly; in 5e you can be a tiefling simply by having some dealings with a fiend in your families past. No actual descendancy needed, just made a deal with the devil and now you're making devil babies.
Um Actually, Cloud Strife IS Cloud Strife, he just unknowingly took some elements of Zack Fair's time while he was in SOLDIER, due to mental trauma and experimentation by Hojo, but never to an extent where he adopted a whole new name or identity. The only element that could be debated was during Sephiroth's attack of Nibelheim because Tifa knew some flaws in his story (like Zack being the SOLDIER First Class who accompanied Sephiroth to town)
Many years ago, a friend of mine adapted the "Dread" Jenga mechanic into our game of the Lovecraftian RPG "Delta Green" as the madness mechanic. Anytime something "horrific" happened, we had to move a block. But he also placed the tower across the room, so not only did you have to do the block move, you had to walk to and from across the wobbliest floorboards you have ever encountered. Having the fine motor control of a long-time guitarist REALLY paid off that day. My character was able to take an astounding amount of things in stride.
Um, actually, in an episode of “Batman: Brave and the Bold”, Aquaman communicates with a silverfish while having been shrunk to the size of an insect and claims that he can communicate with, and I’m paraphrasing here, “any kind of fish”
@@CthonicWisdom ...ok these just tell me that Brave and Bold is at LEAST as badly written as how much I hate its art style. No, they are not both subjective. A horrible story can be written well, and a good story can be written horribly. But good writing itself is objective. That kind of handwaving is HORRIBLE writing.
@@therealfriday13th It's a kid's comedy show that throws some whimsy in for the parents watching with their kids. I'm not at all sorry to report that it's very enjoyable and quite funny.
@@alastaircollins1145 it's a great show. Leans very hard into the camp and goofiness of an Adam West-esque Batman era. It also introduced me to a lot of obscure DC characters. Happy that there are people that also enjoy it.
There is actually a ttrpg system that does use scrabble tiles. It's called spell and you pull random letters to try and make words. Those words then become the magic spell you cast. Not really an um actually but I just want to share the system that let's you cast things like SUV at you, wondersously beefy, yeet, sex dragon, and bee misuse
Nahdo, glad to see you here. Hope to see more RU-vidrs come on here. Still waiting for James and Chelsea from Dead Meet to show up too. Heck, throw in their editor and occasional host Zoran in too and have the three of them go head to head!
12:46 Um, _actually_ Pandora is not a planet - it's one of the moons of the gas giant Polyphemus (the huge planet visible in basically every scene in the movie with any sky in it). So if the question is 'what _planet_ is Neytiri from', the answer is either 'Polyphemus' or 'none'.
24:22 it's especially funny because most epidemiologists threw out the data because "Nobody would go out during a pandemic that would be idiotic" turns out the data was pretty accurate.
Um actually, Cloud Strife didn't take someone else's name. However, due to Jenova and mako shenanigans, PTSD and a fugue state, he did assume the memories and certain personality traits of Zack Fair.
This is easily one of my top, if not my #1 favorite episode of all time. I could watch these 4 joke around for hours! Such a good group. Just shocked that the DM god missed the D&D question
Um actually, you can still legally go to Canada with a drivers license if you’re traveling via water or land and have an enhanced license that states that you’re a U.S. citizen. Since you can’t turn around if you take the exit to Canada (since it’s a bridge), people who live in the nearby towns in Michigan can apply for and are more often granted an enhanced license so they don’t have any issues if a mistake happens and don’t have to carry their passport constantly. One of my friends has an enhanced license because of this
I was also certain the passport thing was about how you can add pages to your passport, but apparently they changed that policy in 2016, confirming it was the bad year.
Same. I was 100% certain that you can add pages because I've had to have pages added due to work travel...that was pre-2010 though. Guess things change.
On the bright side, you can move anywhere else and be pretty you are getting an upgrade? disclaimer: never been to Ohio, just wanted to chip into the bullying from this side xD
@@andymonserud9029 I wasn't even sure they did P&R although it wouldn't be a surprise - I just know that's Nick Offerman's voice, so it's all connected either way. And always a joy to hear him saying goofy shit.
Many "Made if Wood Killer" was the bat itself? Let's retcon this to soul of a psychotic baseball player gets trapped in his bat and possesses anyone who picks it up.
Um Actually... Nando should have got a point for the last question because u don't need a passport to travel internationally everywhere; for example, if you have citizenship of a state inside the European Union you can travel to any other state inside the Union without a passport
While it is true that the country for the citizenship was never stated the age requirements were clearly using US requirements (Which to be fair aren't exclusive to the US). Finland for example is 5 years regardless of age, or Canada which is weird and actually gives you options (you can get a 5 year passport for cheaper. It's not half as cheap, so most don't get it, but it's still an option). Because of this I think that part of the question validates that the passport can't be referring to EU passports.
It will eventually be revealed that the "made of wood killer" is actually the secretly-sentient bat, which was puppeteering the human wielder all along.
Um actually, the Grandmaster isn't _from_ Sakaar; he predates the existence of Sakaar and is of one of the earliest races to exist in the universe, with no known planet of origin. He got stranded on Sakaar (in the MCU) and managed to become its dictator, and is even known as 'the creator of Sakaar' in the movie.
Um, actually, En Dwi Gast The Grandmaster in the MCU is not from Sakaar he's just the ruler there & he was stranded there like all the others living there. He was born shortly after the beginning of the universe long before Sakaar was even formed as a planet. He's the brother of Taneleer Tivan aka The Collector. They are members of the Elders of the Universe.
UM! Actually! Armin Tamzarian was pictured in the question! Seymour Skinner, on the other hand, didn't die, but was shipped away from Springfield tied to a train
Um actually, Seymour Skinner *is* his name. Tamzarian was legally conferred the name Seymour Skinner at the end of that episode (as well as his past, present, future, and mother).
@@caffau But, ironically, the judge never stripped the "real" Seymour Skinner of any of those, so, legally, there still TWO of them. They could easily do an episode down the road, where our Principal Skinner, while outside of Springfield (he does leave them as often as anyone else) bumps into the original again, and this time in a town where he DOESN'T have the backing of everyone. Or it turns out that Armin Tamzarian is due something (say, a massive inheritance from some relative he didn't know about,) and can't collect it because, legally, he isn't Armin Tamzarian anymore.
16:30 Holy crap, I was at that bar in the Vegas Hilton and it was amazing. For all that they splurged on the atmosphere, they did not scrimp on the food and the Warp Core Breach and the James 'Tea' Kirk were the most fun drinks I've ever had in my life.
They were right that you don't need a passport to travel internationally to every country. You can use an enhanced driver's license in place of a passport when traveling to going into Canada, but I think also Mexico as well. At least that's the case for a lot of the border states.
and even though i get why they did not talk about it as it is a us show, EU citizens don't need a passport to travel inside of the EU. AS long as you can identify yourself, like with your drivers license, you are free to travel in EU countries :D
Um, actually, Armin Tamzarian is not the one who was supposedly dead and came back, Armin is the principal's real name. Seymour Skinner is the name of the person who was presumed dead
The Metal Gear Solid "back of the case" clue was something I lived through too, but unlike Trapp I COULD NOT figure it out for the longest time and I think I had one of my friends tell me or I read in a gaming magazine or something. And, also unlike Trapp, I was MAD because I thought 'That's cheating! That's not even IN the game! How did they expect me to figure that out?!' 🤣🤣
They did the same trick even earlier with Star Tropics. I think in that case, it was a letter, and I think it had to be dipped in water to reveal an invisible password. I remember I was playing it with a friend, who had to go back to his house to get the game's box.
I say I'm a nerd then I watch channels like this and realize that, no, I am in fact not a nerd and just latch onto specific things and obsess over them until I move onto the next thing a year or so later
Um Actually, Cloud Strife did not steel someone else name, he forgot his own memories but remembered the life of Zach Fair and was telling people about a life he didn't live.
Actually.... Made-Of-Wood Killer got his start after seeing Sportmaster beat up Alan Scott GL with a baseball bat and is label both a Batman and GL villain.
Um, actually, tieflings are the descendants of humans and *any* type of Fiend, from any of the Lower Planes (including having entire tables of randomized fiendish trait based on which type of fiendish ancestry you might have). Tieflings being descended from people who made a pact with an archdevil is 4e-exclusive lore, which was removed again in the most recent edition (although it was kept as an optional background for particular subgroups of tieflings).
Also the second series ‘Sagas of Sundry Madness’ while not on Geek and Sundry channel can be found on RU-vid. It’s even better than the first Dread series! For Critters- it has Marisha and Liam in it.
That thing with the code on the back of the case was an attempt of antipiracy info given to you on the outside of the game that is required to progress at some point. The NES game StarTropics came with a letter from your character's uncle, who has gone missing. At first glance it's just a lead into the plot of the game, but 4 chapters in you are asked to wet the letter to find a code writen in invisible ink to progress. Unfortunately it seems the switch port of the game didn't include the letter, oops.
Um actually, Cloud didn't take Zack's identity, he somehow had Zack's memories and had them conflated with his own. He was Cloud, he did grow up with Tifa, he just never made SOLDIER, and Shepard Book never delved into his history so nobody knows his backstory but him and he took it to his grave in Serenity
Man, looking over some articles, not only does Aquaman not really talk to fish, since they don't apparently have that capacity, but his application seems to be anything that is semi aquatic, sometimes to a point he can even affect humans because technically we have ancient sea dwelling ancestors and atavism would apply. It's always a bit flimsy, but he can freaking spy on you if you have fish nearby, pretty cool application there
I absolutely love Dread for running a pick-up game at cons. Used to bring a folder of pre-made character sheets and a tower with me to DragonCon and various anime cons. Can't play the game myself but being the Storyteller was more than enough fun for me.
You can get additional pages inserted (or at least you used to be able to). It required a lot of paperwork and you had to have specific reasons for it. For instance, my uncle had to travel a lot for geological related trips and had a bunch of inserts in his passport (probably about 80 pages or so in total) and routinely got questioned as to whether his passport was real due to the odd size.
The incorrect statement about the Condiment King was one of my favorite questions in recent memory. Most other questions are just, "Do you know this nerdy trivia?" but dressed up in the 'Um actually,' paint. Which is fine! But most actual fans who would speak confidently about such topics usually wouldn't get those details wrong. But that one really feels like a genuine thing that a fan would say, only to get pedantically corrected by some other guy. And that's what I live for
I worked at a videogame store in high school, and we used to trade and resell used games. We didn't require the original cases for used games, so whenever we had a used copy of MGS without of the original case, I'd have to take apart the blank CD case and insert a sticky-note with the radio frequency for Otacon to the back before we could re-sell it.
This was a great episode! The contestants (and Trapp) really jived well with each other, their banter was really well done and they seemed to have a ton of fun.
I'm at 13:30 at this point and I think Mercer has caught on that his internet is slightly better than everyone else's. I don't think he suddenly forgot the answer to the Avatar question; I think he refused to answer it for fairness reasons.
The buzzer system really is kinda dumb for this show. Even on Jeopardy, I've often thought they should just do a rotation through everyone who buzzes in within a second of each other. It's worse here where there's not even a penalty for a foolhardy buzz, so everyone is just buzzing all the time and fastest/least laggy always has the edge...
I would say the most fun “gimmick that came with the game” I remember is the Braille table that came with Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire. You needed it to decode the messages in the caves that were puzzles leading to Regirock, Regice and Registeel
Um actually cloud strife never takes on a new name just a new persona, crafted from the memories of Zack and what jenova feels that a personality as a soldier 1st class was and a generous amount of his own cells. Cloud never actually took on a different name he was always cloud meant to be a pair that differs from Zack Fair
Aquaman's power set is more defined as a limited telepathy. It isn't as advanced as J'onn J'onnz, but he can communicate with some other life forms on occasion. I'm pretty sure there's no divide between freshwater or seawater fish as far as his telepathy is concerned.
im on my hands and knees licking up the crumbs of Matt Mercer and Soul Calibur being mentioned at the same time because it just allows me to remind everyone that he voiced the best character, Z.W.E.I in the fifth installment
1. For those of you who have not personally interacted with them, pigs are exceptionally charming animals. A boost to persuasion would not be unreasonable although bonus skill proficiencies is probably more fitting due to their remarkably high intellect. 2. Orcs (or possibly dwarves, thinking of poison resistance) could already be viewed as or reskinned to be pig people.
Um actually, he was right in the real life skills question. You can drive to Canada and Mexico without a passport if you have an enhanced drivers license.
Um, actually: along the line of the pages thing, some countries also won't let you enter if it's too close to your passport's expiry date! We did a tour in Europe and a member of our group got stranded in the UK because they wouldn't let her board her connecting flight because her passport was expiring within 6 months (even though we were only in Europe for 2 weeks). It was a nightmare~ lol
This is lowkey the funniest episode of Um, Actually, I just kept laughing out loud. Great chemistry and I didn't expect Matt to botch a D&D question! Also, fun fact: in Poland, a guinea pig would totally fit the nautical theme, as here it's commonly called the "sea pig" (świnka morska).
Just finished a an international trip from the the USA to the Bahamas a couple of weeks ago. I was worried that the trip would be need to be canceled because I could not get a new passport in time. An original or certified copy of my birth certificate was all that was required. (PS all that was required for re-entry, I entered the Bahamas with no documentation)
I would also argue they aren’t valid for 10 years, because they won’t let you fly within 3 to 6 months if they expiration date. My family has run into that a few times.
Um, Actually, in Michigan, you can get an enhanced license that can be used instead of a passport to re-enter the US if you travel by land or sea from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, or the Caribbean. There's no real reason to get one nowadays since it expires every 4 yrs instead of 10, and you have to provide the same documentation for proof of citizenship (or a passport) to get one. In the long run, it is more expensive than a passport, but it means one less piece of ID you have to carry around if you're driving or something.
The way Matt said 'it's a shared universe between The Boys and Waterworld' I would have been inclined to believe him too! God damn it! Loved that bit. Just the delivery. The fact that he got Trapp with that one. 'They're not...' End of sentence. Very good. Oooh Matt got that D&D question wrong. Oh damn didn't think I'd see the day. Though it's old lore it seems? Or what? I don't know but it's interesting to see. 'Now you know how people feel when learning english.' True though xD Ah, the Dread question. I absolutely expected Matt to know that one. He did play after all. :D The first shiny question was fun too. I knew absolutely only the very first and last question. 'He's from the trash planet' 'He's not from Ohio, no' Oh god! 'If it makes you feel any better Haley, it was a guess....?' Matt sounds nearly sorry for answering correctly here. So great. Sometimes all it takes is a lucky guess. Makes it even more frustrating if you actually knew about it though xD Oh, Matt lost one? That's a first, isn't it? I wanna say he seemed kinda tired or something, but I am absolutely not sure if that's just wishful thinking and some mild to big obsession with the guy or actually a thing. Anyway, still a lot of fun to watch, as always^^
Additional notes on feelies being not fun: a fair bit of the time feelies were used as a form of copy protection, in a way that was presumably very un-fun for any secondhand owners.
Um, actually, Nando shouldn't have been awarded a point for the Invisible Girl guess because he just kept saying different guesses but did not say "Um, actually" before that one.
