I love how Coles in Canada is a book shop chain, Kohls in America is a department store chain, and Coles in Australia is a grocery store chain. The world is strange.
Not to be a downer but I wonder if he regrets playing Tetris so much and should've spent time with his dad. His dad JUST died... A week later seems fast to be playing again.
@@TheCookieCrisp Depends on the circumstances, I suppose. If, for instance, his dad was terminally ill and hospitalised, then there's only so much time they could be spending together, and the dad might not have even been conscious toward the end. In that case, having an escape that (a) demands all your attention while doing it and (b) lends a sense of normalcy can be immensely helpful.
@@TheCookieCrisp maybe don't speculate on the mental state of a 13 y/o whose dad died a week ago? like we have no idea how much time this kid spent with his dad vs playing tetris, entirely possible it was a shared love. really beyond it being an addendum to the story, making his achievement all the more impressive, its not the business of internet strangers to comment on, especially since he's a kid. "A week later seems fast to be playing again." is super judgemental too, i dunno if you're projecting and if so I'm sorry for your loss but this sort of speculation feels super inapropriate and disrespectful to the real human person who this tragedy is directly affecting
reminds me a bit of the Zildjian/Sabian story! Except there's no sunshine and rainbows there it's just two brothers having a dispute over the family business
Feels kinda weird to see that Infestation game covered (albeit lightly mockingly), since I first heard about it under its original title, "Infestation 88", where the 88 stands for what you think it does (but also the year it was set in), the whole thing a lightly-veiled reference to the Holocaust.
Went looking to see if anyone left this comment. There's no hard evidence yet but a game about gassing your enemies who are monstrous rats infesting a place sounds a little iffy even before you get into the plethora of 14s and 88s all over their stuff. Also they definitely used AI voices and did some asset flipping but that feels like small potatoes compared to the rest.
@@zacsnowbank7632 Yeah, the original blurb was unsubtle in ways (eg, "1-4 players" rather than "up to 4 players") that made their intent openly apparent, especially to its intended audience, even without the behavior of various parties on their Discord server. No amount of "Just a coincidence! We're so sorry!" could possibly get those folks off the scent or get me the least bit interested at this point, and it just garnered an extra round of publicity for the developer/publisher which, frankly, may've been the point all along. I'd've ignored it entirely… except it came up in media I enjoy, and I really think vile stuff like this shouldn't be granted oxygen. Upon a day or so's reflection, I'm still pretty disappointed in LRR for granting it that oxygen: surely another example could've been chosen for the story in question. Oh well.
Just a correction on the Mickey Mouse Story. The video for Plane Crazy is also in the public domain as of this year, which opens up a different Mickey and Minnie design to the public. (The audio enters next year, cuz that was added later)
As a non-american I always enjoy when people bring their own cultural experiences into their international content instead of ironing out anything that's not strictly us American. Our online world is just a tiny bit richer for that.
Watching Blue Scuti play in person is like watching Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, or Sachin Tendulkar in their prime. I was lucky enough to watch the Classic Tetris World Championships in person this past year, in which Scuti finished 3rd, and I knew at the time I was in the presence of true greatness. I was also at the famous 'shrug game' where Michael Jordan went off in the NBA Finals against the Blazers despite having the flu. There was a feeling I felt that day that I felt again watching Scuti. He's going to redefine this esport. I'm proud to be part of the Scute Swarm.
I'm not into sports but comparing him with Michael Jordan and Gretzsky? The comparison leaves out the fact that team sports involves your own team working together and a team of other humans actively trying to stop you from being great. Maybe pole vaulting or long jumping would be a better analogy.
“Evil Barney” made me think of one of the very first fanfics I ever read, before I even knew that term: “The Day of the Barney” trilogy in which Barney, the demonic dinosaur, lead the children of the world to murder their parents. Was it good? No. But to middle-school me it was pretty great.
One of my first Doom 1 WADs I found had replaced some monsters with Barney. I had no idea who it was as it was from a different culture, but I wasn't picky as a kid.
@@trise2033That's just it -- The brass at game studios routinely give themselves 99% of the credit/money for their company's success. The devs, to them, are nothing more than a means to an end, and eminently replaceable.
If you want to see some good use of the Steamboat Willie copyright, look up Mousetrapped, a comic by artist Randy Milholland that's mostly sticking to the original material and drawing a new story for Willie.
Sorry Doctors LRR, I heard Cole's Notes and immediately thought, "Must be what they call Cliff's notes in Canada." How does it feel to know you are my default conception of a Canadian?
I'm glad the kid had this success at 13. I get RSI off platformers, and have since, according to steam, I last played Super Meat Boy in late 2015. I was in my 30s then, and I have to go with something way less punishing to play... Souls-Likes! (Possible caveat, Jedi Survivor is, in the latter half of the game, introducing me to not-quite-random crashes, which does spiritual damage to me, the player.)
As an Aussie who's heard of it as Cliff's notes, Cole's notes was obviously a regionalism, but learning that it predates the version I knew was very interesting. :)
When I was younger I had brand loyalty. We were a Nintendo household and could only afford one console. So of course I used to argue that the SNES was better than the Genesis because what else are you supposed to do in grade 4. But as I've gotten older I've come to realize that brands are this ephemeral thing that doesn't really matter. That being said every time I hear the execs at Square Enix talk about how blockchain and then NFTs and then AI generated content, is the future, a little part of my childhood dies.
I had to rewind and re-listen to the last few seconds. For the benefit of other listeners I think G is saying "a new kit of lights", not "the new kid a light"; which is what I thought I heard the first time.
"Someday it'll be done with Barney"? My brother in Xenu, it's already been done with Barney. They were doing it with Barney a decade before LRR was ever a thing. The difference is that nobody's *monetized* it yet.
Omg finally I know why I can never remember the correct name of C____'s Notes! I love when I find out things I take for granted are a specifically Canadian thing!
I've never heard the possessive for the notes, nor Cole being a thing. It was always cliff notes and I just assumed it was like a cliffhanger. It was a bullet point list of things that will get you invested in reading the whole thing, just like how a cliffhanger gets you invested in the next chapter.
In Dastar v Twentieth Century Fox, SCOTUS ruled that trademarks are not a way to backdoor control over formerly copyrighted works which have passed into the public domain. So, hey, at least there's that!
Its Freds notes... Because my uncle fred used to go into the book store buy the cliffs notes take them to the xerox store copy it on a canon printer, then run out without paying, run back to the book store and return the cliffs note book to the store and sell the freds note out front of the high school for half the price of the cliffs notes. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT! poor uncle fred, got shived in prison after being arrested.
To be honest, I thought "coals notes" since Christmas wasn't long ago and the original story was of a very disheartening situation. Happy to see Frogwares taking the W!
If you want to only spend 16 minutes to get caught up on NES Tetris in modern year, aGameScout's video is a great dive into this crash with a good narrative: ua-cam.com/video/GuJ5UuknsHU/v-deo.html
Happy New Year. Sorry I'm late. No, not because it's the 6th, but I usually "have a Checkpoint" with my Friday breakfast, but this one turned into Saturday breakfast. I hope you'll have forgiven me by 2025.
Love the show! I was a fan of LRR way back in the day and I discovered you are still making content only recently. I'm so glad you guys are still around, keep it up!
If anyone wants to know more about the Tetris record, I highly recommend aGameScout's videos on the subject. He is a really enthusiastic and engaging ambassador for the professional Tetris scene.
Given that Frogwares seems to have an issue with every "distributor" (as they claim) / "publisher" (as the other party claims)? I might think the problematic party might be Frogwares... They had a similar dispute with Focus back in 2019.
I have a bit of covidbrainfog going on, so I misheard "Nicole's notes" and merely assumed it was a summary compiled by someone behind the scenes, named Nicole.
All this easy talk about "oh you just get to level 155 in Tetris and easily crash the game." hurts me. Tetris and me are old foes and just the thought of trying to get anywhere NEAR level 155... Heck of an achievement. LRR should livestream their attempts to beat Tetris for one stream! :D
Did they ever played the Sinking City in Let's Nope? I tried to search youtube with no results but Adam mentioned something about the game in one episode... might have been misremembering for other CoC game
I mean, the original gist of what I guess we're now calling "mascot horror" was to specifically dredge up stuff we grew up with that was unintentionally creepy and exploit it for deliberate horror, but somewhere around the _Choo Choo Charles_ point it seems everyone stopped caring about the unintentionally-creepy part and just went "IDK, beloved childhood icons now want to kill you because reasons."
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I love how Coles in Canada is a book shop chain, Kohls in America is a department store chain, and Coles in Australia is a grocery store chain. The world is strange.
And in Gears, Cole’s a train!
@@UnabridgedGamer cole train runs on whole grain baby!
Coal trains too
This is why I.. an Aussie.. had to double take at coles too
And if you piss off santa claus...
We know Beej isn't 52; the 50th anniversary merch hasn't gone up yet.
Kind of an important sidenote for the NES Tetris story - he dedicated the run to his dad, who had died a week prior.
Thanks. That does seem rather important, and I'm pretty surprised that the video I saw all about it didn't mention it.
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Not to be a downer but I wonder if he regrets playing Tetris so much and should've spent time with his dad. His dad JUST died... A week later seems fast to be playing again.
@@TheCookieCrisp Depends on the circumstances, I suppose. If, for instance, his dad was terminally ill and hospitalised, then there's only so much time they could be spending together, and the dad might not have even been conscious toward the end. In that case, having an escape that (a) demands all your attention while doing it and (b) lends a sense of normalcy can be immensely helpful.
@@TheCookieCrisp maybe don't speculate on the mental state of a 13 y/o whose dad died a week ago? like we have no idea how much time this kid spent with his dad vs playing tetris, entirely possible it was a shared love. really beyond it being an addendum to the story, making his achievement all the more impressive, its not the business of internet strangers to comment on, especially since he's a kid. "A week later seems fast to be playing again." is super judgemental too, i dunno if you're projecting and if so I'm sorry for your loss but this sort of speculation feels super inapropriate and disrespectful to the real human person who this tragedy is directly affecting
Thank you for teaching me about the Cole's/Cliff's notes story
Or is it the Colffs quotes, the eventual merging of the two notes
That was honestly a really interesting bit of history and I loved it
It's cliff notes you you foolish canadians -so anyway ah a little light on the ground for actual gaming news-
reminds me a bit of the Zildjian/Sabian story! Except there's no sunshine and rainbows there it's just two brothers having a dispute over the family business
Feels kinda weird to see that Infestation game covered (albeit lightly mockingly), since I first heard about it under its original title, "Infestation 88", where the 88 stands for what you think it does (but also the year it was set in), the whole thing a lightly-veiled reference to the Holocaust.
Went looking to see if anyone left this comment. There's no hard evidence yet but a game about gassing your enemies who are monstrous rats infesting a place sounds a little iffy even before you get into the plethora of 14s and 88s all over their stuff. Also they definitely used AI voices and did some asset flipping but that feels like small potatoes compared to the rest.
Jesus fuck.
I thought this was where the story was going initially!
@@zacsnowbank7632If I'm remembering correctly, it has since been confirmed that the devs are full-on Neo Nazis.
@@zacsnowbank7632 Yeah, the original blurb was unsubtle in ways (eg, "1-4 players" rather than "up to 4 players") that made their intent openly apparent, especially to its intended audience, even without the behavior of various parties on their Discord server. No amount of "Just a coincidence! We're so sorry!" could possibly get those folks off the scent or get me the least bit interested at this point, and it just garnered an extra round of publicity for the developer/publisher which, frankly, may've been the point all along.
I'd've ignored it entirely… except it came up in media I enjoy, and I really think vile stuff like this shouldn't be granted oxygen. Upon a day or so's reflection, I'm still pretty disappointed in LRR for granting it that oxygen: surely another example could've been chosen for the story in question. Oh well.
Just a correction on the Mickey Mouse Story. The video for Plane Crazy is also in the public domain as of this year, which opens up a different Mickey and Minnie design to the public. (The audio enters next year, cuz that was added later)
"Fuck around and find out" - Disney's lawyers.
Graham: *Verbalizes an optimistic thought.*
Beej: Not on my watch!
I never realized "cliff notes" wasn't descriptive before. I thought it was like learning something in the time it took to fall off a cliff.
Lmao
As a non-american I always enjoy when people bring their own cultural experiences into their international content instead of ironing out anything that's not strictly us American. Our online world is just a tiny bit richer for that.
That's excellent news about The Sinking City! I held off on buying it because of the legal battle and I'm glad that paid off.
That pause after “after totalling up all the unplayed games in your Steam library.” Oof, my soul. My SOUL Beej!
He came for all of us 😩
I hope that the Knuckles 30th Anniversary now becomes 2024s running joke, like each time we talk about Sonic Knuckles appears
Watching Blue Scuti play in person is like watching Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, or Sachin Tendulkar in their prime. I was lucky enough to watch the Classic Tetris World Championships in person this past year, in which Scuti finished 3rd, and I knew at the time I was in the presence of true greatness. I was also at the famous 'shrug game' where Michael Jordan went off in the NBA Finals against the Blazers despite having the flu. There was a feeling I felt that day that I felt again watching Scuti. He's going to redefine this esport. I'm proud to be part of the Scute Swarm.
I'm not into sports but comparing him with Michael Jordan and Gretzsky? The comparison leaves out the fact that team sports involves your own team working together and a team of other humans actively trying to stop you from being great. Maybe pole vaulting or long jumping would be a better analogy.
@@TheCookieCrisp I'm thinking more of their impact on their respective sports. I should have put Serena Williams and Tiger Woods on the list as well.
It's Beej's fifty-second anniversary!
That's less than a minute!
"Some day it will happen with Barney."
As in the dinosaur? I remember those Doom mods from back in 1994...
All I thought was, "that's probably just canadian cliff's notes." Good to know, now.
“Evil Barney” made me think of one of the very first fanfics I ever read, before I even knew that term: “The Day of the Barney” trilogy in which Barney, the demonic dinosaur, lead the children of the world to murder their parents.
Was it good? No. But to middle-school me it was pretty great.
I'm old enough that a friend used to write horrendously gory text adventure games in QBasic where you had to kill Barney, with MSPaint graphics.
One of my first Doom 1 WADs I found had replaced some monsters with Barney. I had no idea who it was as it was from a different culture, but I wasn't picky as a kid.
For a moment I thought Alex was the expert, being the main victim of Watch and Play for a decade.
I thought the same thing. Does that mean Beej played even more crap games?!
You can always count on Square Enix corporate leadership to make the consistently wrong choice
*God* the game devs at Squeenix are carrying the company so hard lmao
@@cha0sniper Really? The game developers in the game development studio are developing the game development studio's games? What a shock.
@@trise2033That's just it -- The brass at game studios routinely give themselves 99% of the credit/money for their company's success. The devs, to them, are nothing more than a means to an end, and eminently replaceable.
Thanks for the Cole's Notes on Cliff Notes.
Thanks for those notes. I knew both existed, but not the story behind.
Not heard of Coles notes before, cool fact! I got what you meant from context.
If you want to see some good use of the Steamboat Willie copyright, look up Mousetrapped, a comic by artist Randy Milholland that's mostly sticking to the original material and drawing a new story for Willie.
Wait it's Knuckles' 30th anniversary?! Neat!
When asked how long it would take to complete the games in their backlog, the average Steam user replied "fuck you, that's how long."
The whole Cole’s/Cliff’s notes fun fact is now one of my favorite things
Actually Cliff's Notes is the name of the monster.
As a filmmaker, "I want a new set of lights" is one of the most relatable things you have ever said. Never have enough......
Came for the Frogwares info... Stayed for the deep dive on Coles Notes! Wow now I need the Cliffs Notes on... Cliffs Notes
As a Canadian living in the states. I approve of Cole's notes.
2:58 Yay trains!
Sorry Doctors LRR, I heard Cole's Notes and immediately thought, "Must be what they call Cliff's notes in Canada." How does it feel to know you are my default conception of a Canadian?
The first Checkpoint of the year!
I'm glad the kid had this success at 13. I get RSI off platformers, and have since, according to steam, I last played Super Meat Boy in late 2015. I was in my 30s then, and I have to go with something way less punishing to play... Souls-Likes! (Possible caveat, Jedi Survivor is, in the latter half of the game, introducing me to not-quite-random crashes, which does spiritual damage to me, the player.)
As an Aussie who's heard of it as Cliff's notes, Cole's notes was obviously a regionalism, but learning that it predates the version I knew was very interesting. :)
wait, did we get the Cole's notes on Cliff's notes, or the Cliff's notes on Cole's notes.
I paused the video to look up Coles Notes, so thank you for both getting me to look up an interesting fact and then expanding on that fact later!
I thought Cole's notes was some lrr inside joke till the explanation at the end lol
When I was younger I had brand loyalty. We were a Nintendo household and could only afford one console. So of course I used to argue that the SNES was better than the Genesis because what else are you supposed to do in grade 4.
But as I've gotten older I've come to realize that brands are this ephemeral thing that doesn't really matter.
That being said every time I hear the execs at Square Enix talk about how blockchain and then NFTs and then AI generated content, is the future, a little part of my childhood dies.
I had to rewind and re-listen to the last few seconds. For the benefit of other listeners I think G is saying "a new kit of lights", not "the new kid a light"; which is what I thought I heard the first time.
"Someday it'll be done with Barney"? My brother in Xenu, it's already been done with Barney. They were doing it with Barney a decade before LRR was ever a thing. The difference is that nobody's *monetized* it yet.
Omg finally I know why I can never remember the correct name of C____'s Notes! I love when I find out things I take for granted are a specifically Canadian thing!
I've never heard the possessive for the notes, nor Cole being a thing. It was always cliff notes and I just assumed it was like a cliffhanger. It was a bullet point list of things that will get you invested in reading the whole thing, just like how a cliffhanger gets you invested in the next chapter.
"It's Tails 30th Anniversary" 😂😂😂
Everyone knows Beej is ageless.. how dare you insinuate he is bound by human concepts like time
Oh shit, Friday Nights returns? Sweet!
Cool fact about Cliff notes \ Coles' notes!
Thanks for this.
Personally I was hoping for a goofy picture of Alex during Beej's first story. Still a real great ep
In Dastar v Twentieth Century Fox, SCOTUS ruled that trademarks are not a way to backdoor control over formerly copyrighted works which have passed into the public domain. So, hey, at least there's that!
Thanks for bringing back all of the memories of classmates that got suspended for using Cliff’s notes on book reports. (Yes, I’m old)
Did anyone mention that the Minecraft movie is live action and going to be filmed in New Zealand.
where the heck else would it be filmed.
That's a hell of a slogan for the NZ film industry 😂
I've always heard it without the possessive, give me the Cliff notes!
Cliff notes are things like "mind the edge".
Happy New Year LRR 🎉
A lot of us in America call them Cliff notes, without any apostrophe-s
That man paid for those notes, you give him back his ownership! 😂
I've even seen it written as all one word, and initially assumed it was referring a part of the actual book, like footnotes and endnotes.
as a Canadian I must say I have never heard it calleed cole's notes before it was always cliff notes in my part of the country anyway
I thought it was called "Cliff notes" because the notes were on the "cliff" of the page. until this.very. moment.
why does the world need a minecraft movie? we've already got minecraft minifridges.
as for voice acting, I thought the only thing Steve? says is "oof"
Cole for the Cole god! Cliff for the Cliff throne!
Its Freds notes... Because my uncle fred used to go into the book store buy the cliffs notes take them to the xerox store copy it on a canon printer, then run out without paying, run back to the book store and return the cliffs note book to the store and sell the freds note out front of the high school for half the price of the cliffs notes.
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT!
poor uncle fred, got shived in prison after being arrested.
I know we didn't expect Steve to have a voice, but if he was supposed to have a voice I would imagine it to basically be Jack Black's
To be honest, I thought "coals notes" since Christmas wasn't long ago and the original story was of a very disheartening situation. Happy to see Frogwares taking the W!
It was the Cole's Notes on Cliff's Notes.
I always figured cliff notes had something to do with like actual cliffs not a person or store named Cliff's
Great one as always
Man, as a Canadian i feel bad never having heard of Cole's Notes. I guess i just missed out.
I don't think I've ever seen Cole's or Cliff's notes in person. Cliff's notes I have only heard in movies and TV shows
If you want to only spend 16 minutes to get caught up on NES Tetris in modern year, aGameScout's video is a great dive into this crash with a good narrative: ua-cam.com/video/GuJ5UuknsHU/v-deo.html
Was that a This is Otakudom reference in the steam story? That's awesome
Strictly speaking, it was a Ninja High School reference, but yeah, it did get used in that project.
Happy New Year.
Sorry I'm late. No, not because it's the 6th, but I usually "have a Checkpoint" with my Friday breakfast, but this one turned into Saturday breakfast. I hope you'll have forgiven me by 2025.
A discord I was on was talking about the second person to crash NES Tetris. He actually did at the first time you can do it.
I kept waiting for them to mention SparkNotes.
The Beej 52s is my 64K cover band.
im canadian and ive never heard the term coles notes until today
Love the show! I was a fan of LRR way back in the day and I discovered you are still making content only recently. I'm so glad you guys are still around, keep it up!
If anyone wants to know more about the Tetris record, I highly recommend aGameScout's videos on the subject. He is a really enthusiastic and engaging ambassador for the professional Tetris scene.
I think tetris speedrunning is gonna be big for a bit.
I don't want the Sonic's 30th Anniversary joke to go away, I still plan on making a logo for you guys.
Don't think Jack Black is the best choice for the Minecraft movie? Listen to the audiobook for Max Brook's Minecraft: The Island.
I'm happy to hear Frogwares won their case against Nacon.
Given that Frogwares seems to have an issue with every "distributor" (as they claim) / "publisher" (as the other party claims)? I might think the problematic party might be Frogwares... They had a similar dispute with Focus back in 2019.
I have a bit of covidbrainfog going on, so I misheard "Nicole's notes" and merely assumed it was a summary compiled by someone behind the scenes, named Nicole.
Sorry to hear that. Take care of yourself; from a random stranger.
@@hughcaldwell1034 thank you for your kind words. I'm doing my best and the worst is behind me.
I dont think we have anything like coles notes/cliff notes in the UK. Cant say I've ever noticed anything like that
Belcome wack, always happy to be brought up to speed on weird things in the gaming industry.
Ah that I live to see Knuckle's 30th Anniversary
I was today years old when I learned it was CliffsNotes and not Cliffnotes. I have never heard anyone pronounce the first S before.
RE Coles v Cliffs notes; as an American it didn't even register he said Coles Notes and I just assumed it was equivalent regional thing.
well, your assumption WAS right :)
Beej looks great for being 52
Wtf are kohls moats?
I was able to have Defender roll over and reset it'ss score to 0.
So Beej must be closer to 52 than he is to 39, or he would have said one third. :)
Bring back Beejs Backlog for his anniversary!
IT'S CLIFF-
...
Oh, sorry. Nevermind.
All this easy talk about "oh you just get to level 155 in Tetris and easily crash the game." hurts me.
Tetris and me are old foes and just the thought of trying to get anywhere NEAR level 155...
Heck of an achievement.
LRR should livestream their attempts to beat Tetris for one stream! :D
Did they ever played the Sinking City in Let's Nope?
I tried to search youtube with no results but Adam mentioned something about the game in one episode... might have been misremembering for other CoC game
Probably not if they knew it was basically stolen by the publisher back then
Wait, Barney wasn't already evil and creepy?
I mean, the original gist of what I guess we're now calling "mascot horror" was to specifically dredge up stuff we grew up with that was unintentionally creepy and exploit it for deliberate horror, but somewhere around the _Choo Choo Charles_ point it seems everyone stopped caring about the unintentionally-creepy part and just went "IDK, beloved childhood icons now want to kill you because reasons."
50th anniversary's of Beej.
The worst thing about Infestation is that it seems to have a lot of neonazi shibboleths
Oh you guys skipped over some heavy drama with Infestation Origins.
"Heavy Drama" is putting it lightly >w>
May I get a cliff notes version while I go to bed?
@@Deathven1482
Maybe a Cole's notes -
super racist Discord leaks --> Original name "Infestation 88" --> red flags go sky high
surprised y'all didn't cover the OTHER thing about Infestation Origins, aka: the reason they changed the name.
Eh, they seemed to genuinely have made an ignorant mistake and I didn’t have a good way to work it into the story.
*beej* is the expert? Unplayable asset flips is clearly watch+play's pervue