The theatrics of the masked magician used to absolutely captivate me as a very very small child to the point where it was my favourite show and only now I realise how absolutely bizarre it must be to have a 5 year old glued to the TV watching a wrestling masked man do magic tricks with scantily clad assistants
Houdini escaping from prison cells reminds me of that episode of spectacular spider man where Spidey is playing QA to the raft and tries to find a way to escape their new maximum security cell to help them increase security, with JJ extremely smug about Spidey being in a prison cell
My 10 year old cat is called Houdini, when a friend went to my house to deliver him, he was outside the box and the box was intact. So the name was kinda Obvious
This is a lovely tangent. As far as simulation type games go I like playing dwarf fortress. Losing is inevitable and absolutely hilarious. An entire society of dwarves dying from zombie sponges is a thing and I regret not putting a grate up. One metal grate.
Houdini cutting himself out of his coat reminds me of the Futurama clip of Fry saying "I could fit if only I didn't have these damn arms" and proceeds to start gnawing at his arms
I think Penn said somewhere that the trick to a lot of stage escapes is to be undoing the previous steps while they are still applying more bindings. Like you pick the handcuffs while they put on the straight jacket
I named my cat Houdini, because he earned it. Brought him in as a stray kitten, and put him in the bathroom to acclimate. When I got home from work, he had worked the heater vent cover off, and gotten into the ducts. As I opened the ducts, along with plenty of paw prints, I saw skid marks going into the furnace. I opened the furnace, expecting to find a dead cat, but heard a meow as I took the cover off, and saw him covered in soot, perched on the only pipe above the blowers. He was dubbed Houdini, the escape artist on the spot :D
This sounds incredible. Are you telling me there's a secret subcategory of "masked revelation" reality television? We have a magician and a wrestler. Who else joins the roster? (anyone who says "The Masked Singer", doesn't understand the genre. I want people wearing masks, to avoid the backlash from revealing the trade secrets of a certain occupation/community)
Also, my ideal duo for favorite addition to the WWE would be Hanz and Franz, they seem like they would be both entertaining, and believable in just tossing other big dudes around.
Houdini was slso an exceptional engineer who invented many ways to escape and figured out you could use copyright instead of patents to protect your ideas without revealing the tricks. The milk jug had a removable top that could be opened from the inside. Amazing.
So that's why the first few gears matches are so memorable, I was a younger kid and wasn't good, got kills I shouldn't have, executions online gave a rush like no other, then I learned cover dashing and how scary shotguns and snipers are at point blank
Talking about game competitions being taken to far, the pro Pokémon players. They breed their Pokémon to get specific numbers on a random stat and even set up a list of plays like people playing chess. It’s so competitive that me and my friends avoid online play since the fights are so strategic and formulaic that it’s not fun
When I play Mario party with my nephews i will actively sabotage myself so they don’t get discouraged. The trick though is not letting them know i am doing that
I used to do that while playing cards with my younger siblings and cousins. It's quite the challenge to keep it believable sometimes! Of course, once they get cocky and start taunting you it's time to go all out and crush them! 😄
Giving new players an edge is not really any different to irl having handicaps in golf, and I doubt there are many golfers that complain about that; if anything they use it as incentive to improve, so gamers should adopt the same attitude. Regarding people being dismissive of wrestling for being fake - I think it’s really because those not interested in it have the misconception of evaluating it like a sport such as boxing or martial arts rather than as something theatrical. When you compare it to say a boxing match, it being fake matters because there’s a sense of whoever won didn’t ‘really’ win, but if you regard it as theatre, then it doesn’t matter that it’s fake as it’s no different to stunts/fights performed in a film (or rather a film that relies on practical effects more than special effects).
I can only speak for myself, but as a kid I couldn't for the life of me fathom that anyone COULD get enjoyment out of watching wrestling unless they thought it was real. I still don't understand the appeal, but at least I'm old and wise enough to know that there is one.
I... Honestly don't think that would do very much to stop him. Dude was an insane contortionist, could manipulate his own skeletal structure in too many different ways and as soon as one arm or even a couple of fingers are free it's game over. It would take more than just a tight rope to bind him. Also, he literally bit his jacket off, so I don't know if rope would fare much better than leather
i thought the complexity argument was super funny when he plays tekken which has the actual 300 something move lists when strive is like the simplest fighting game out there right now.
The soccer game you two were talking about, where you could foul and try to purposefully injure players, you're looking for a Blitz: The League or Blood Bowl, but for soccer.
Talk of the Masked Magician reminds me of the sad fact that, for whatever reason, one of the only things that gives me the ASMR feeling is up close magic, and pretty much all videos I can find are ones that reveal the trick, which completely eliminates the response U_U Masked Magician and other people who sparked the whole "magic tricks REVEALED" thing, you made it so I can't ever have a nice tingly feeling, thanks.
Speaking of injuring players on the other team. There is a game on PS1 called "Dead Ball Zone". It's a strange sci-fi sport that seems like a combination of football and hockey, but includes weapons. You can have your players whip out a chain-saw or a gun to attack the other teams players, and even set off explosions from the ball. From memory you only have a limited number of uses of these per game, but they can really tip the balance. For example, shooting the other teams goalie gives a fairly distinct advantage.
On the subject of what makes a good game. I think, a good game should have the mechanics restrained enough so that, no player can be beaten so badly that they never make one impactful play. For example, even against a chess grand-master, a new-player could consitantly succeed in taking one bishop or knight and a pawn or two. The newby would lose pretty quick but could feel like he acclomplished something.
Actually Carl EA did do a "space jam" NBA game line that was the NBA STREET line where every game would have a weird guest character depending on your console I remember the game cubes' was Mario ,Peach , and Luigi and Playstation's was the SSX Tricky characters
I actually stopped playing warzone because I won my first ever match after my friend who plays the game died and couldn't come back, so I went solo in a 2 person team battle Royale and dominated, that made me want to stop playing because where do I go from there? I can't get better than a perfect, I can only go down so why should I keep playing? So I think there is a sweet middle ground for new players, where people that want a challenge don't stomp but those that want to be casual can still get far enough to be satisfied😅
there's a old rugby game where you could choose a team where every player is Jonah Lomu, was a great game and i dont know why more games dont do stuff like that also. Like a football team of all ronaldo vs all messi or something like that
I think in battlefield 3 people used help boost their friends kds. It was funny but awful. One friend would be on ur team and their friend would be on the opposite team. Once u were killed theor friend would revive u and they would immediately kill u. Over and over again. Literally happened to be the first match i played and i almost quit right there
There were two old games for Sega genesis mutant league football and also mutant league hockey. One of the win conditions was a forfeit from the other team when you killed too many of the other players. Loved that shit.
i remember my first FPS (woftenstien enemy territory) and my god i died so many times before getting a single kill and would get so hyped when ever i got one. my k/d would been like 1/10 or even worse but it was so fun hehe months later after playing hours a day after school i think my best k/d ever was 64/3 or 4, anyone else played it? them kill streak announcements where epic! and kicking air strikes back at the enemy who threw it was so funny and when friendly fire was on you would kill a teammate by mistake and for the rest of the match you both would kill each other for revenge xD
Actually in the case of the milk crate if I remember correctly half the lid was fake and once he released himself from the handcuffs he could just lift it off without difficulty
With FIFA they should have a realism mode and an arcade mode where half the fancy stuff gets banned. I only play it a few times a year for a laugh I don't want to have to learn all the skill moves. With your point on racing games as someone who plays them a lot I still get stuck behind the people who are ridiculously good but I don't get stuck with the people at the back. So I run alone the entire time. Essentially I'm suffering from a skill issue and success at the same time.
You can snap people in half mode. Holy shit. More games need this mode. I’d love to abandon any pretense of the actual objectives and go full tilt into mayhem sometimes. C’mon Red Luigi, we’re curb stomping the mushroom kingdom!
I had an early FIFA game on Sega, from like 1993, where you could turn fouls off. You could also press two buttons at the same time to shove an opponent to the ground, so my brother and I would activate that game mode and have one of us take the ball while the other an ahead and knocked down everyone in his path.😄
Couldn't houdini's crew just, idk. Tamper with handcuffs in such with weaker metals inside the locking mechanisms to fail for him to escape for example, of many ways they could extend they're paycheck by keeping him successful? Not saying magic aint real. But slight of hand n trickery is as old as time.
I can assure you, you can absolutely get tilted with items in CTR. Even worse than the blue electric thing is the clock, especially if it's activated on a jump. Devastating. And all the items are more effective with 10 wumpa. That said my sister did make an effort to learn all the shortcuts and that kinda sucked for me a lot
32:57 I play fortnite off and on, and i suck ass a building. When they added the craftable flame bow, i used that shit constantly to destroy the towers my opponent would build when i got into a firefight. Geuss what, i still sucked ass and lost like 50% of those battles. But i felt like my opponent earned the win, and that i did good. So i played another match
It's funny to me that you mention Tekken as something you can casually hop into, but Guilty Gear being too complex for it. Meanwhile I'm sitting here as a casual Guilty Gear player, looking at Tekken, and thinking it's too much for me with it's characters that has like 100 moves on average, with most having multiple stances and or command throws.
I thought the same thing coming from GGACR, but moving to Tekken wasn't that bad at all, the biggest change was the tempo of inputs but now its my favorite fight game, you should give it a shot!
When it comes to difficulty elitists Souls like players are the worst. They go into absolute rage mode when you suggest something to make it more accessible.
THANK YOU for that Guilty Gear comment. my friends don't understand why I would rather play melee. They can't get past "BUT WAVEDASHING AND L-CANCELLING ARE TOO COMPLICATED!" meanwhile, they're playing one of the highest complexity 2d fighters out there...
Sorry, I know this is random but the way Brad pronounces "escapologist" kind of tickles me. I never really understood why some compound words are commonly pronounced totally different than the words they're made up of. Escape is said "es-kayp" but escapologist is "es-cah-poh-loh-gyst". Why not "es-kayp-oh-loh-gyst"? Same with "harass" and "harassment". "Hah-rass" "hair-ess-ment". "My-croh-scohp" "My-crahs-koh-pee". Why tho?
8:00 I love how he’s giving some motivational speech and “this character touches kids” slowly fades onto frame
It has the same energy of the popups in telltale games of “this character will remember this”
The theatrics of the masked magician used to absolutely captivate me as a very very small child to the point where it was my favourite show and only now I realise how absolutely bizarre it must be to have a 5 year old glued to the TV watching a wrestling masked man do magic tricks with scantily clad assistants
well if you say it like that now it sounds very weird...
Houdini escaping from prison cells reminds me of that episode of spectacular spider man where Spidey is playing QA to the raft and tries to find a way to escape their new maximum security cell to help them increase security, with JJ extremely smug about Spidey being in a prison cell
i remember that lol, but he made em look like dumbasses
My 10 year old cat is called Houdini, when a friend went to my house to deliver him, he was outside the box and the box was intact. So the name was kinda Obvious
So which was it, Houdini or Obvious
@@interconnectedchronicler Houdini Obvious ......ly
The Undertaker and Kane were both billed as paranormal entities for DECADES, a magician in the ring isn't too far fetched
To be fair, they did have a magician in the WWF. Phantasio.
It was shite.
Pour one out for the memory of The Amazing Randy. One of skepticisim's greatest advocates.
This is a lovely tangent. As far as simulation type games go I like playing dwarf fortress. Losing is inevitable and absolutely hilarious. An entire society of dwarves dying from zombie sponges is a thing and I regret not putting a grate up. One metal grate.
Lol the masked magician doing an in-ring debut is breaking my brain.
Houdini cutting himself out of his coat reminds me of the Futurama clip of Fry saying "I could fit if only I didn't have these damn arms" and proceeds to start gnawing at his arms
I think Penn said somewhere that the trick to a lot of stage escapes is to be undoing the previous steps while they are still applying more bindings. Like you pick the handcuffs while they put on the straight jacket
"It was the pissed-offness that did it" is a t-shirt I'd buy!!
Harry was my childhood hero. And this was a story I don't think I'd ever heard.. and I just LOVED this! Thank you, gents!
I named my cat Houdini, because he earned it. Brought him in as a stray kitten, and put him in the bathroom to acclimate. When I got home from work, he had worked the heater vent cover off, and gotten into the ducts. As I opened the ducts, along with plenty of paw prints, I saw skid marks going into the furnace. I opened the furnace, expecting to find a dead cat, but heard a meow as I took the cover off, and saw him covered in soot, perched on the only pipe above the blowers. He was dubbed Houdini, the escape artist on the spot :D
WWE had a magician. His name was Fantasio and he almost set the building on fire.
Yeah he's greatest trick was after like 2 shows he vanished.
This sounds like the script from a anime. Harry got his power up by being insulated.
There was also a “masked wrestler” show. He showed how all the wrestling moves were done.
Yo, I swore that was a fever dream from my childhood. I have memories of it, but had no clue what to even begin to search up
This sounds incredible.
Are you telling me there's a secret subcategory of "masked revelation" reality television?
We have a magician and a wrestler. Who else joins the roster?
(anyone who says "The Masked Singer", doesn't understand the genre. I want people wearing masks, to avoid the backlash from revealing the trade secrets of a certain occupation/community)
Also, my ideal duo for favorite addition to the WWE would be Hanz and Franz, they seem like they would be both entertaining, and believable in just tossing other big dudes around.
Houdini was slso an exceptional engineer who invented many ways to escape and figured out you could use copyright instead of patents to protect your ideas without revealing the tricks. The milk jug had a removable top that could be opened from the inside. Amazing.
I love that Karl talked about Tekken as though each character doesn't have over two hundred inputs
So that's why the first few gears matches are so memorable, I was a younger kid and wasn't good, got kills I shouldn't have, executions online gave a rush like no other, then I learned cover dashing and how scary shotguns and snipers are at point blank
First fade out surprised me to not even have been half way through the video this time. Lol
Bonus conversation!
Mirror cuffs. (Now in the possession of David Copperfield) The only restraints that Houdini could not escape from…
Talking about game competitions being taken to far, the pro Pokémon players. They breed their Pokémon to get specific numbers on a random stat and even set up a list of plays like people playing chess.
It’s so competitive that me and my friends avoid online play since the fights are so strategic and formulaic that it’s not fun
Props for the Community reference-one of the best shows of all time. 🤓
Remember, through Spite, all things are possible
In short. Harry Houdini, Captain Marvel, 2x HP, and Goku with a Shotgun.
When I play Mario party with my nephews i will actively sabotage myself so they don’t get discouraged.
The trick though is not letting them know i am doing that
I used to do that while playing cards with my younger siblings and cousins. It's quite the challenge to keep it believable sometimes! Of course, once they get cocky and start taunting you it's time to go all out and crush them! 😄
I keep forgetting his first name is harry.
If it makes you feel better, his name wasn't Harry or Houdini. It was Erik Weisz.
Not the title I expected today but good vid nonetheless
Lol I had a felling I knew the voice of the narrator
He was also colonel Steven Caldwell from stargate atlantis
Extra credits did some videos on game balancing - really interesting!
Giving new players an edge is not really any different to irl having handicaps in golf, and I doubt there are many golfers that complain about that; if anything they use it as incentive to improve, so gamers should adopt the same attitude.
Regarding people being dismissive of wrestling for being fake - I think it’s really because those not interested in it have the misconception of evaluating it like a sport such as boxing or martial arts rather than as something theatrical. When you compare it to say a boxing match, it being fake matters because there’s a sense of whoever won didn’t ‘really’ win, but if you regard it as theatre, then it doesn’t matter that it’s fake as it’s no different to stunts/fights performed in a film (or rather a film that relies on practical effects more than special effects).
I can only speak for myself, but as a kid I couldn't for the life of me fathom that anyone COULD get enjoyment out of watching wrestling unless they thought it was real. I still don't understand the appeal, but at least I'm old and wise enough to know that there is one.
I think the best way to trap houdini would just be to wrap him up in a really long length of rope and affix the ends to the opposite sides of the room
I... Honestly don't think that would do very much to stop him. Dude was an insane contortionist, could manipulate his own skeletal structure in too many different ways and as soon as one arm or even a couple of fingers are free it's game over. It would take more than just a tight rope to bind him. Also, he literally bit his jacket off, so I don't know if rope would fare much better than leather
@@leandrotoniut1619 probably
Strive definitely dialed it back on the complexity and gimmicks but I can understand guilty gear noy being your thing. Everyone has their tastes
i thought the complexity argument was super funny when he plays tekken which has the actual 300 something move lists when strive is like the simplest fighting game out there right now.
I loved the first 2 season of Prision Break..
Sounds like Karl would like the Mario Striker series (maybe)
The soccer game you two were talking about, where you could foul and try to purposefully injure players, you're looking for a Blitz: The League or Blood Bowl, but for soccer.
Not the Daily Mail, but the Daily Mirror. Hence, the Mirror Handcuff Escape. Anyway, thank you, this was a very fun video.
Talk of the Masked Magician reminds me of the sad fact that, for whatever reason, one of the only things that gives me the ASMR feeling is up close magic, and pretty much all videos I can find are ones that reveal the trick, which completely eliminates the response U_U
Masked Magician and other people who sparked the whole "magic tricks REVEALED" thing, you made it so I can't ever have a nice tingly feeling, thanks.
Speaking of injuring players on the other team. There is a game on PS1 called "Dead Ball Zone". It's a strange sci-fi sport that seems like a combination of football and hockey, but includes weapons.
You can have your players whip out a chain-saw or a gun to attack the other teams players, and even set off explosions from the ball. From memory you only have a limited number of uses of these per game, but they can really tip the balance. For example, shooting the other teams goalie gives a fairly distinct advantage.
On the subject of what makes a good game.
I think, a good game should have the mechanics restrained enough so that, no player can be beaten so badly that they never make one impactful play.
For example, even against a chess grand-master, a new-player could consitantly succeed in taking one bishop or knight and a pawn or two. The newby would lose pretty quick but could feel like he acclomplished something.
Scotch Scoolyard Picks, sounds like a hell of a game!!
We missed out on Undertaker vs Masked Magician
Actually Carl EA did do a "space jam" NBA game line that was the NBA STREET line where every game would have a weird guest character depending on your console I remember the game cubes' was Mario ,Peach , and Luigi and Playstation's was the SSX Tricky characters
I actually stopped playing warzone because I won my first ever match after my friend who plays the game died and couldn't come back, so I went solo in a 2 person team battle Royale and dominated, that made me want to stop playing because where do I go from there? I can't get better than a perfect, I can only go down so why should I keep playing? So I think there is a sweet middle ground for new players, where people that want a challenge don't stomp but those that want to be casual can still get far enough to be satisfied😅
there's a old rugby game where you could choose a team where every player is Jonah Lomu, was a great game and i dont know why more games dont do stuff like that also. Like a football team of all ronaldo vs all messi or something like that
I think in battlefield 3 people used help boost their friends kds. It was funny but awful. One friend would be on ur team and their friend would be on the opposite team. Once u were killed theor friend would revive u and they would immediately kill u. Over and over again. Literally happened to be the first match i played and i almost quit right there
There were two old games for Sega genesis mutant league football and also mutant league hockey. One of the win conditions was a forfeit from the other team when you killed too many of the other players. Loved that shit.
i remember my first FPS (woftenstien enemy territory) and my god i died so many times before getting a single kill and would get so hyped when ever i got one. my k/d would been like 1/10 or even worse but it was so fun hehe months later after playing hours a day after school i think my best k/d ever was 64/3 or 4, anyone else played it? them kill streak announcements where epic! and kicking air strikes back at the enemy who threw it was so funny and when friendly fire was on you would kill a teammate by mistake and for the rest of the match you both would kill each other for revenge xD
Actually in the case of the milk crate if I remember correctly half the lid was fake and once he released himself from the handcuffs he could just lift it off without difficulty
1:54 Yeah, what's that all about? Lies of P came out in 2023. Was there some meme I missed out on? Does this mean I'm old, now?
Wait. My middle name’s Houdini 😮
Were you born 7 months prematurely?
karl would have loved spellbinder. he was in wwe for a minute
With FIFA they should have a realism mode and an arcade mode where half the fancy stuff gets banned. I only play it a few times a year for a laugh I don't want to have to learn all the skill moves.
With your point on racing games as someone who plays them a lot I still get stuck behind the people who are ridiculously good but I don't get stuck with the people at the back. So I run alone the entire time. Essentially I'm suffering from a skill issue and success at the same time.
You can snap people in half mode. Holy shit. More games need this mode. I’d love to abandon any pretense of the actual objectives and go full tilt into mayhem sometimes. C’mon Red Luigi, we’re curb stomping the mushroom kingdom!
Fun Fact: after Houdini died he reincarnated into a Honey Badger named Stoffel...
You guys need to look into Sega Soccer Slam. It came out in 2002. Three on three arena soccer with full body checking.
I had an early FIFA game on Sega, from like 1993, where you could turn fouls off. You could also press two buttons at the same time to shove an opponent to the ground, so my brother and I would activate that game mode and have one of us take the ball while the other an ahead and knocked down everyone in his path.😄
@@korganrocks3995 That's dope. I think many game devs forget that they are creating fantasy for kids.
fifa needs a goddamn big head mode and unrealistic physics modes
WWE did a magician gimmick it went like 2 shows and was canned.
Couldn't houdini's crew just, idk. Tamper with handcuffs in such with weaker metals inside the locking mechanisms to fail for him to escape for example, of many ways they could extend they're paycheck by keeping him successful? Not saying magic aint real. But slight of hand n trickery is as old as time.
Blitz The League but soccer sounds AWESOME
I really like this channel
Skinner, from the X-Files and the hot women.
That's why.
6:46 THERE'S NO WAY THIS IS REAL
I can assure you, you can absolutely get tilted with items in CTR. Even worse than the blue electric thing is the clock, especially if it's activated on a jump. Devastating. And all the items are more effective with 10 wumpa.
That said my sister did make an effort to learn all the shortcuts and that kinda sucked for me a lot
Once again see you.
Not sure if anyone mentioned the one punch man painting in the background.
Funny enough listening to the sweat lords of your video game is what killed off Overwatch.
The discussion over games basicly applies to real life to.
32:57
I play fortnite off and on, and i suck ass a building. When they added the craftable flame bow, i used that shit constantly to destroy the towers my opponent would build when i got into a firefight.
Geuss what, i still sucked ass and lost like 50% of those battles. But i felt like my opponent earned the win, and that i did good. So i played another match
It's funny to me that you mention Tekken as something you can casually hop into, but Guilty Gear being too complex for it. Meanwhile I'm sitting here as a casual Guilty Gear player, looking at Tekken, and thinking it's too much for me with it's characters that has like 100 moves on average, with most having multiple stances and or command throws.
I thought the same thing coming from GGACR, but moving to Tekken wasn't that bad at all, the biggest change was the tempo of inputs but now its my favorite fight game, you should give it a shot!
When it comes to difficulty elitists Souls like players are the worst. They go into absolute rage mode when you suggest something to make it more accessible.
If anyone fancies a modern wormhole. Look up Martin Freeman's ex-wife, Amanda Abingdon and her new husband.
Holy shit red card soccer forgot about that game
Takken has got to be the worst example of a simple fighter.
The amount of effort other channels go to, in order to avoid issues, is getting silly.
Karl just uses the phrase "Turbo molesting".
We play as Leeds United 😊💖💖
Was his name originally Eric Weiss? 🤔 I can't remember if that's correct or... total bollocks?! 🤔 😁 🤷🏻♂️
Where's the green screen
THANK YOU for that Guilty Gear comment. my friends don't understand why I would rather play melee. They can't get past "BUT WAVEDASHING AND L-CANCELLING ARE TOO COMPLICATED!" meanwhile, they're playing one of the highest complexity 2d fighters out there...
Sorry, I know this is random but the way Brad pronounces "escapologist" kind of tickles me. I never really understood why some compound words are commonly pronounced totally different than the words they're made up of. Escape is said "es-kayp" but escapologist is "es-cah-poh-loh-gyst". Why not "es-kayp-oh-loh-gyst"?
Same with "harass" and "harassment". "Hah-rass" "hair-ess-ment". "My-croh-scohp" "My-crahs-koh-pee". Why tho?
Robo chomo!
🤣🤣
Some of the girls were wwe wrestlers
Masked magician would be way better than the shit attempt WWE made with the magician wrestler they did throw out
Hey you be quiet about thinking about weaker players over there lol
The OPM frame is crooked. Unsubscribing