Keep in mind that rather than placing the dice on their highest face, you should roll them until they naturally land on it themselves. This gives them the illusion that they chose the face and there is less chance they will be resentful and turn into traitor dice in the future.
Honestly it was hilarious and adorable, she loves him, but she has learned that this outbursts are his form of minor stress relief, and are just fun to kinda watch lol
I remember one night I was DMing and my dice were rolling absolutely awful. Nat 1 after nat 1 on different dice, every turn. I got so fed up, I opened up a new set of dice, layed them out, and made them watch as I put my entire box of dice in the refrigerator, and kept them in there for two hours. I took them out during a break, grabbed 8 of my d20s out of the box, and rolled them all simultaneously. Five of them were nat 20s, and the lowest roll on the other three was a 15. My players witnessed this happen in stunned silence, mouths agape. I did not cheer or clap. I narrowed my eyes, and said “good. That’s more like it.” They have not rolled poorly since.
Killing dice is for the weak, the fear of death is one hubris can temporarily overshadow. No, if you want to make sure to threaten a fate they will want death over, to threaten them with pain, longterm pain and trauma they will be forced to live through. *Break the traitors will, and the rest will follow the leader into obedience* If some still allow hubris to take over, well, you'll just have to think of a more creative way to break them too
@@Okazi11a Sports Fan who won't clean his late father's lucky jersey? Can't get more human than that! Zee washes such shirt before Play-Offs? Zee confirmed as fiend.
"YEAH, WELL NOW IT'S CLEAN" Every time I watch this, I forget just how savage that is coming off "this was the last thing my father wore before he died"
I assume people know there's difference between superstition and sentimental value? Like, my old man's guitar has priceless sentimental value to me, but that's not the same as me believing I would screw up a gig if didn't bring it along. I'm likely just being paranoid by taking this joke video too seriously ^^;
@@oOPPHOo are you sentimental about the guitar itself, or are you sentimental about the filth on the guitar, because I would be happy if someone cleaned something of sentimental value of mine
@@potatoheadpokemario1931 Oh, same. But I don't really hold it against someone for being sentimental about for example smells. Even just the classic "[sports star} I admire wore this shirt during [historic sporting event] and cleaning it is practically cleaning away the fact that they wore it" is something I can sympathize with. But yeah, I play my old man's guitar so I wanna keep it clean too (I also can't imagine myself wearing a filthy shirt), but I would hate to have it need repairs, for example. I recently knocked my other guitar off its stand so it crashed against the wall, dislodging a tuning peg. The peg (and therefor all the pegs) needed a full replacement. If that had happened to my old man's guitar, I would for sure be sad about it.
My little brother has a special ritual he does with his dice for Warhammer; he offers a prayer to Nurgle, god of diseases, and rolls 2 d6s from his favourite set of red dice. He always gets a seven, which he takes as a sign that Nurgle is watching him and proceeds to roll fives and sixes continuously, especially when making saves (disgustingly resilient saves because naturally he plays the followers of Nurgle). He also doesn’t shower, but I think that’s a personal hygiene problem more than anything
I grab my hydraulic press and press two die against each other. The first one to crack gets discarded for being weak and, over time, I create a super race of dice unsmashable by the crushing pressures that it may face in a campaign.
So, do you do like a tournament-style bracket? Because if it's just a v B and then the winner faces C, then faces D, etc, you're subjecting your dice to an uneven amount of pressure. Also, you'll probably just warp the dice or fuck up their balance.
So, something really interesting happened here... a traitor die made zee look like a fool by rolling a 20 when he was trying to make a point to Larry... and Larry insisted each side has a 5% chance... AKA beefing up his own prodigy dice... Brilliant.
at least you aren't a Vikings fan. Because they have the record for the most disappointing team, they aren't the worst, but damn do they give your hopes up. Basically "The Bazz" of football
@@Mythraen correcting that is very petty you knew what I meant and it serves no purpose in addition it's used commonly enough to not incorrect spelling
Fun fact, the idea that luck is dispelled by cleaning shows a complete misunderstanding of how object-imparted blessings/curses work. Clothes and cloths in particular, become more attached through care and maintenance. Just maybe keep an eye out for whether your particular lucky sock prefers machine cleaning or something more personal. Keeping a shirt unwashed so it can keep providing luck is abusive and will lead to inevitable, potentially violent, betrayal. Just watch How To Make Jorts, it should clarify some of what I mean. I would still refer to Zee for dice-related luck maintenance, I'm entirely unfamiliar with how those _resin bastards_ work, other than the fact that they _hate me._
They can feel your disdain. It soaks in, and once it's in, it's ever so hard to get out. You gotta give them a healthy coating layer of casual empathy, like plants get.
1:26 That took me back to the time I dated an obsessive D&D gamer who lost his shit on me when I touched his dice. We're talking almost dumping me kind of lost it. After that, I was always careful to ask at least twice before touching anyone else's dice. Fortunately, the man I married, who DMs on the regular, has no such superstition regarding his dice - provided all dice go back in the bag afterwards, he's cool.
I love how his friend has a key to his shop, but he has a key to his friends house, and they get a screw with each other like that. That’s friendship, man.
It's the fact that Zee bought new detergent that really sells the bit for me, personally. Like, THAT is dedication to spite to a truly vicious and comedic degree.
"It's just a gateway until they microwave their dice" That one did hit closer to home than i'm willing to admit. Also the i love you moment was mega sweet.
I know superstitions are bullshit, but once in a Game of Thrones d20 campaign a player was rolling crazy high on attack rolls and shock rolls, and the DM reached over and just grabbed his dice and mushed them around in his hand. Dude failed his next shock roll and almost got killed, spent three rounds trying to recover. We knew we had no reason to be pissed, but we were all still pissed.
Really? It sounds like you all had every reason to be pissed! I mean, even if you guys don’t believe in all that stuff, the DM still was fucking with other people shit especially another players dice! Everyone knows that’s not OK they did it on purpose and they should be punished!!!
He was probably checking to see if they were weighted dice or not, cause that is a thing. For some reason people decide to cheat at tables and its stupid.@@Nyx22202
Ok so I bought a set of dye that cost me 12 bucks and I bought it because they reminded me of my favorite character in MHA and I did all the superstition stuff and it fucking worked my d20 is rolling at least 16 on a bad day. I consider this man a god
I find that pushing your dice to roll nothing but 20s is unhealthy in the long run, and the stress placed on one's dice to perform results in more failures than anything. So I take a more relaxed approach and let my dice rest on their upper quarter, rather than 20s. But remember that dice can sense weakness, so if you use this method, the underperformers NEED to be punished or they'll take advantage of your kindness. Chessex cases work excellent to this end as corrective dice jail/shakers.
If you remember lesson 1, Larry mentioning the whole 5% thing and and calling Zee an idiot in front of the dice (in this case the super prodigy from the last episode [the one that rolled on it’s 20 side this episode]) he is inadvertently helping him keep his super prodigy rolling high
"Uh huh, like, an anomaly that would happen maybe, about, um, let's see, about 5% of the time. You're dumb as hell, man." Larry, you beautiful beast, you.
I arrange all my die from d20's down to d4's. Not for luck or any superstitious nonsense. I have mild OCD. It sucks ass feeling a compulsion to arrange everything at 90 degree angles in perfectly symmetrical stacks/groupings. But I'm naturally good at tetris and packing stuff, so there's that.
I like to think that his wife literally just watches all of the security cameras in the game shop just sipping coffee and laughing and watching her husband lose his mind at stupid DND questions
My mom and I play Yu-Gi-Oh. And one time she put a really powerful monster card and her deck that went along with the theme of it, this was a deck that worked pretty consistently, until she put that card in. For the next three games no matter how much she shuffled none of her monster cards would come up, until she removed that one monster card. and then everything was back to the way it was. And ever since then my mom and I believe that there really is a heart of the cards. I say this all because of one thing. It doesn’t matter if they’re inanimate objects, things can have personalities and if you take them off for any reason they WILL screw with you.
During my many years of rolling dice, collecting sets and splitting the good from the bad, one truth has always been constant. It occured to me after getting into wargaming, and finding my proclivity for large blobs of infantry. The thing is, Dice (at least D6) are pack animals. They feel safer and more confident when rolled together with their peers, and as such there's a clear constant that goes: "The more dice you roll at a time, the higher your average rolls are going to be". This is true power, this is what allows you to pull a victory out of your ass time and time again. People will call bullshit, say you can't be this lucky, chalk it up to chance, but you know better. Respect the dice and nurture a vibrant ecosystem for them to thrive in, and you will know no defeat on the table. -Sun Tzu, probably.
I roll all my dice to see who wants to play ball that session. When they start underperforming, I put a set in the bag of shame, and don't take them out for the rest of the session.
A note on microwaving dice, if you microwave metal dice they will roll 20s regularly (Seriously tho don't microwave anything metal it's a really really bad idea)
Every day I wish my dice a good morning and a good night. And every time before I toss a risky roll, I whisper “Daddy loves you, and believes in you.”. I cheer them on after high rolls and give them an uplifting message after a bad one, “You can do better next time champ.”. You’d be surprised how much this works.
Don't forget to also train your other dice. D20s are important, but you don't want to roll minimal damage on a crit. Train all you dice, they are all important equally (but some are more than others)
My party hate my dice rolls, to the point they gave me their worst dice to roll. When I rolled it, it had odd symbols so I asked "what's that?" She damn near fell over declaring "nat 20..."
"They know they're being watched." How about trying to create envy in a die by constantly placing it a number or two lower than the ones next to it? That's right, a perfect die for advantage situations because now it's time to show those other smug bastards what it can do!
To be fair, regardless of if you believe in dice personalities and training, Larry is an a-hole for breaking the nerd code's first rule; don't touch someone else's shit unless you have DIRECT permission from the owner. That's just good manners.
Back in 2004, I had a Traitorous d20. It rolled *5 CONSECUTIVE NATURAL ONES* during the course of one combat sesh. I took it home, and Began The Ritual. I stuck an empty Mountain Dew can in the snow, bottom-up. I placed the d20 in the concave bit, the number 1 facing up, and poured kerosene over it, filling the hollow. Then I lit it. The fire didn't burn hot enough to deform the die, but I let it burn for as long as the kerosene lasted. Then I quenched it with a fresh Mountain Dew (this being held at the time to be the sacramental beverage of our clique). After rinsing it, I wrapped it in a flannel cloth and kept it in a small box near -- but separated from -- my other dice. They smelled what a traitor got, and it was Enough.
Your dice don't have personalities! What you did was a sacrifice to the dice gods! It was them who improved your rolls and saying anything else is HERESY!
@@joebakerbfc I Disagree, Your dice have a will of their own, and once you learn to understand them, you can ride them as you would any creature presumeably to victory.
@@leatcanned this was settled during That Big Argument at GenCon in 83. Dice do NOT have free will. They are solely the medium through which the dice gods punish us for our hubris!
@@joebakerbfc That is Olde World mysticism from the Age of ADnD. The mighty forms of the Dice Gods have been reduced to bloated husks of their former form. We do not need them. We breathe the life of creation into our own dice, a heresy to be sure, but the gods no longer worry over such matters. Because the Dice Gods are dead.
@@calebwidogussy452 the dice gods will curse you with natural ones when you spend an entire game day explaining and explaining again the rules to a noob who doesn't seem that interested and takes forever to take their turn, leaving you only one opportunity to do anything for an entire session.
This is a very fair point. Especially in the case of 40K. If a Space Marine Army finds you using demon themed dice, may the Emperor have mercy on your soul.
my secret trick is to place them on their average face for training it has resulted in my die being more relaxed and fun loving and ive even won over traitors doing it.
yep this is the right way to do it. I can confirm from experience. I let my favorite dice sit on 20 overnight once, the next day it didn't roll higher than a 7.
I will be citing this in my Data Science thesis
We are two, I will put it right in the middle of my references.
Who wouldn’t?
Not a data scientist, but will also be referencing this for Statistical Analysis.
dont let the Super Prodigies see it...
i cant wait to read it
Keep in mind that rather than placing the dice on their highest face, you should roll them until they naturally land on it themselves. This gives them the illusion that they chose the face and there is less chance they will be resentful and turn into traitor dice in the future.
this man is truly ascended.
Reverse psychology, but for dice. Reverse Diceology, no, DIVERSE PSYCHOLOGY. I just thought of that. I'm using it forever. Thank you!
@@huoshewu dieverse psychology
This is a great idea.
You should feed them when they land on a 20 too. They mostly like the blood of virgins, but they'll accept certain burnt incense and fireworks
I would absolutely, 100% watch a sitcom based around Zee and his game shop.
this, please.
Same.
But will you pay for hbo max
@@alasanof yes....
@@alasanof I'd pay for it twice.
The wife saying "I love you" completely not phased with Zee's antics is the cornerstone of most healthy relationships.
Him coming back in and saying "I love you too" is what did it for me. Relationships are two-way, and that was a really nice moment
Honestly it was hilarious and adorable, she loves him, but she has learned that this outbursts are his form of minor stress relief, and are just fun to kinda watch lol
Spousal antics are, like, the best part of being married lol.
@@adaphion sameeee. it was just so funny and cute. definitely something I do a lot.
Well she prodded and found that Zee is a super prodigy so she has to be careful with what she says around him.
"It's just the gateway until they are microwaving their dice"
... Best line ever
Oh no, almost forgot to take them out, thanks for the reminder.
Yeah, I'm gonna be looking up videos of people microwaving dice now.
Me, watching the video: Wait, will that help?
Vengeance is best served with a hint of lavender and summer breeze.
I have a new favorite quote now, thank you.
This comment is underrated.
I prefer Piping Hot with Mandatory Seconds!
I remember one night I was DMing and my dice were rolling absolutely awful. Nat 1 after nat 1 on different dice, every turn. I got so fed up, I opened up a new set of dice, layed them out, and made them watch as I put my entire box of dice in the refrigerator, and kept them in there for two hours. I took them out during a break, grabbed 8 of my d20s out of the box, and rolled them all simultaneously. Five of them were nat 20s, and the lowest roll on the other three was a 15. My players witnessed this happen in stunned silence, mouths agape. I did not cheer or clap. I narrowed my eyes, and said “good. That’s more like it.” They have not rolled poorly since.
I wanted to upvote but it's at 69. So have a comment instead.
Killing dice is for the weak, the fear of death is one hubris can temporarily overshadow. No, if you want to make sure to threaten a fate they will want death over, to threaten them with pain, longterm pain and trauma they will be forced to live through. *Break the traitors will, and the rest will follow the leader into obedience*
If some still allow hubris to take over, well, you'll just have to think of a more creative way to break them too
Fucking perfect😂
The luck needed to get that was fucking perfect
The "I love you" part was too real. You never commit to the bit so fully that you can't say "I love you" back.
"That was the last thing my dad wore before he died"
"Yeah well now it's clean"
No remorse
"This was the last thing my father wore before he died"
"Yeah well, now it's clean"
just comedy gold
Finally got all the dad-corpse juice off it.
Zee and his wife have 4 fingers, Larry has 5.
The lore deepens.
well that's because Larry isn't human clearly
@@Okazi11a Sports Fan who won't clean his late father's lucky jersey? Can't get more human than that! Zee washes such shirt before Play-Offs? Zee confirmed as fiend.
Are Zee and his wife the weird ones, or is it Larry?!
they sacrificed their pinkies in exchange for wisdom
Because Larry always takes the 5 finger discount
Either he wasn’t kidding last video, or this is a level of shitposting that breaks conventional physics.
A shitpost with a density of 2 x 10^19 - so dense light can't escape.
Or maybe my sceeen is broken.
I think the joke is that he owns a gaming store and is trying to sell dice
"YEAH, WELL NOW IT'S CLEAN"
Every time I watch this, I forget just how savage that is coming off "this was the last thing my father wore before he died"
“This is the last thing my father wore before he died”
Oh wow, that joke hit deep.
"Yeah, well now it's clean."
"this is the last thing my father wore before he died."
"Yeah, and now it's clean."
Damn Zee is Gangsta.
I love how stone cold he is through the whole revenge.
I assume people know there's difference between superstition and sentimental value? Like, my old man's guitar has priceless sentimental value to me, but that's not the same as me believing I would screw up a gig if didn't bring it along.
I'm likely just being paranoid by taking this joke video too seriously ^^;
@@oOPPHOo ya you’re taking it too seriously
@@oOPPHOo are you sentimental about the guitar itself, or are you sentimental about the filth on the guitar, because I would be happy if someone cleaned something of sentimental value of mine
@@potatoheadpokemario1931 Oh, same. But I don't really hold it against someone for being sentimental about for example smells. Even just the classic "[sports star} I admire wore this shirt during [historic sporting event] and cleaning it is practically cleaning away the fact that they wore it" is something I can sympathize with.
But yeah, I play my old man's guitar so I wanna keep it clean too (I also can't imagine myself wearing a filthy shirt), but I would hate to have it need repairs, for example.
I recently knocked my other guitar off its stand so it crashed against the wall, dislodging a tuning peg. The peg (and therefor all the pegs) needed a full replacement. If that had happened to my old man's guitar, I would for sure be sad about it.
Larry says he does not believe in it, but when he needs a dice, he picks from a professional trainer. Guy is all talk.
Weighted dice...
I didn’t realize this topic was a multi-parter, but I’m loving every frame of it.
I'm sure Laura Bailey is loving it too >:P
That delayed, "I love you, too," was just too damn wholesome.
My little brother has a special ritual he does with his dice for Warhammer; he offers a prayer to Nurgle, god of diseases, and rolls 2 d6s from his favourite set of red dice. He always gets a seven, which he takes as a sign that Nurgle is watching him and proceeds to roll fives and sixes continuously, especially when making saves (disgustingly resilient saves because naturally he plays the followers of Nurgle). He also doesn’t shower, but I think that’s a personal hygiene problem more than anything
I guess this proves god is real and is Nurgle
The Plague Lord has blessed us
"Yeah, well, now it's clean." Savage!
I love the fact that Zee storms out in absolute rage, but returns back just to reply "i love you too"
I grab my hydraulic press and press two die against each other. The first one to crack gets discarded for being weak and, over time, I create a super race of dice unsmashable by the crushing pressures that it may face in a campaign.
You want dice ghosts, cause that's how you get haunted by an angry d8
@@nixiemaybe7394 How do you even crush d8s with a hydraulic press? Wouldn't the dice slide apart?
Dude all you are doing is showing the dice that they must overthrow you.
@@singletona082 So let them try.
So, do you do like a tournament-style bracket? Because if it's just a v B and then the winner faces C, then faces D, etc, you're subjecting your dice to an uneven amount of pressure.
Also, you'll probably just warp the dice or fuck up their balance.
So, something really interesting happened here... a traitor die made zee look like a fool by rolling a 20 when he was trying to make a point to Larry... and Larry insisted each side has a 5% chance... AKA beefing up his own prodigy dice... Brilliant.
"This was the last thing my father wore before he died!", "Yeah well now it's clean!" Holy shit that was brutal
"this is the last thing my father wore before he DIED!"
"Yea? well, now it's clean"
*door slams*
"i looove you!"
*door opens* "i love you too."
super cute
It was very sweet of Zee to come back and open the door to say "I love you too" back to his wife.
"Yea well now its clean" is one of the most brutal finishes ever. That was great.
Bruh that killed me man lmao
I finally found a good use for the notes section of the character sheet, tracking which die have taken to training the best
No amount of lucky jerseys will help the browns
-a Browns fan
at least you aren't a Vikings fan. Because they have the record for the most disappointing team, they aren't the worst, but damn do they give your hopes up. Basically "The Bazz" of football
Ah yes… disciplining the math rocks.
Gooooood
"This is the last thing my father wore before he died."
"Well, now it's clean."
That's, like, a brutal comeback, and also... not?
it's just friendly and resonable enough while still carrying alot of malice
@@marley7868 "alot" is not a word.
@@Mythraen correcting that is very petty you knew what I meant and it serves no purpose in addition it's used commonly enough to not incorrect spelling
@@marley7868 yes, but it is funny to imagine a creature called the Alot coming and eating your poorly preforming dice.
“He WAS my best friend!” Oh my that delivery was incredible.
Fun fact, the idea that luck is dispelled by cleaning shows a complete misunderstanding of how object-imparted blessings/curses work. Clothes and cloths in particular, become more attached through care and maintenance. Just maybe keep an eye out for whether your particular lucky sock prefers machine cleaning or something more personal.
Keeping a shirt unwashed so it can keep providing luck is abusive and will lead to inevitable, potentially violent, betrayal. Just watch How To Make Jorts, it should clarify some of what I mean.
I would still refer to Zee for dice-related luck maintenance, I'm entirely unfamiliar with how those _resin bastards_ work, other than the fact that they _hate me._
They can feel your disdain. It soaks in, and once it's in, it's ever so hard to get out. You gotta give them a healthy coating layer of casual empathy, like plants get.
Yeah, I always thought the whole "don't want the good luck to get washed out" theory to be a load of shlock, even as far as superstitions go.
1:26 That took me back to the time I dated an obsessive D&D gamer who lost his shit on me when I touched his dice. We're talking almost dumping me kind of lost it. After that, I was always careful to ask at least twice before touching anyone else's dice. Fortunately, the man I married, who DMs on the regular, has no such superstition regarding his dice - provided all dice go back in the bag afterwards, he's cool.
I love how his friend has a key to his shop, but he has a key to his friends house, and they get a screw with each other like that. That’s friendship, man.
The fact that they appear to openly hate each other, yet still hang out constantly, that's BEST friendship.
"and now it's clean" is such a good line, 'cause like - yea the shirt is not gone, the cherrished memory lives on
"Yeah well now it's clean" absolutely killed me, keep going with this
It's the fact that Zee bought new detergent that really sells the bit for me, personally.
Like, THAT is dedication to spite to a truly vicious and comedic degree.
"It's just a gateway until they microwave their dice" That one did hit closer to home than i'm willing to admit. Also the i love you moment was mega sweet.
Note to self: Do not fuck with Zee. That was absolutely BRUTAL! What a brilliant takedown!
Ob the one hand definitely brutal but on the other? You can always train another set. You can't in wash the shirt.
"I love you"
...........
"I love you too" in the distance.
Comedy Gold, also good relationship example. Noice.
"now it's clean" WOW that's awesome.
"This is the last thing my father wore before he died!"
"Yeah well now its clean."
That made me laugh more than most try not to laugh challenges 😂
I know superstitions are bullshit, but once in a Game of Thrones d20 campaign a player was rolling crazy high on attack rolls and shock rolls, and the DM reached over and just grabbed his dice and mushed them around in his hand. Dude failed his next shock roll and almost got killed, spent three rounds trying to recover. We knew we had no reason to be pissed, but we were all still pissed.
Really? It sounds like you all had every reason to be pissed! I mean, even if you guys don’t believe in all that stuff, the DM still was fucking with other people shit especially another players dice! Everyone knows that’s not OK they did it on purpose and they should be punished!!!
He was probably checking to see if they were weighted dice or not, cause that is a thing. For some reason people decide to cheat at tables and its stupid.@@Nyx22202
Nah being pissed was fair
"When I said 'blame the dice' I did not mean to literally ascribe agency to the polyhedron" ~D&D: Bad Dice (Door Monster)
At the rate Kyle was rolling 1's by that point, they absolutely beyond a doubt had agency.
"This was the last thing my father wore before he died."
"Well, now it's clean."
DESTROYED.
Larry is a good friend, he was just calming down your super-prodigies after you made them nervous.
What I learned from this is don't mess with other people's superstitions unless you want to engage equivalent exchange.
Yeah, if you trick someone into spilling salt or walking under a ladder, don't be surprised when they dump your grandmother's ashes down the toilet.
"I'm not superstitious."
Why did you give him an opportunity to test that?
Yeah. Dads "lucky shirt" was likely more about the smell & memory of him, not luck. OOPS!
@@kurtoogle4576 you clearly do not know sports fans
Holy fuck, that vengeance montage. 11/10. This is why I'm on youtube.
"Yeah, well now its clean" damn dude
Ok so I bought a set of dye that cost me 12 bucks and I bought it because they reminded me of my favorite character in MHA and I did all the superstition stuff and it fucking worked my d20 is rolling at least 16 on a bad day. I consider this man a god
I find that pushing your dice to roll nothing but 20s is unhealthy in the long run, and the stress placed on one's dice to perform results in more failures than anything. So I take a more relaxed approach and let my dice rest on their upper quarter, rather than 20s.
But remember that dice can sense weakness, so if you use this method, the underperformers NEED to be punished or they'll take advantage of your kindness. Chessex cases work excellent to this end as corrective dice jail/shakers.
honestly this just shows it doesn't even have to be dnd and your videos are funny af.
If you remember lesson 1, Larry mentioning the whole 5% thing and and calling Zee an idiot in front of the dice (in this case the super prodigy from the last episode [the one that rolled on it’s 20 side this episode]) he is inadvertently helping him keep his super prodigy rolling high
Dont fuck with people's superstitions or they'll fuck with yours
"Uh huh, like, an anomaly that would happen maybe, about, um, let's see, about 5% of the time.
You're dumb as hell, man."
Larry, you beautiful beast, you.
Yeah, regardless of the jersey logic, you've gotta give him that one. XD
I arrange all my die from d20's down to d4's. Not for luck or any superstitious nonsense. I have mild OCD. It sucks ass feeling a compulsion to arrange everything at 90 degree angles in perfectly symmetrical stacks/groupings. But I'm naturally good at tetris and packing stuff, so there's that.
"This is the last thing my father wore before he died!
"Yeah well, now its clean."
"This is the last thing my dad wore before he died!"ye.. that really sounds like a lucky shirt then...
"this was the last thing my father wore before he died"
"Well now it's clean"
The straight up "I'm gonna kill him!" gets me every time 🤣
- This is the last thing my father wore before he died!
- Yeah well now it's clean.
FATALITY
Ah yes, revenge is a dish best served cold wash with like colors, tumble dry on medium!
He washed the lucky jersey? Man that is cold. The wash cycle I mean. Perfect for stains.
I like to think that his wife literally just watches all of the security cameras in the game shop just sipping coffee and laughing and watching her husband lose his mind at stupid DND questions
That ending was savage.
My mom and I play Yu-Gi-Oh.
And one time she put a really powerful monster card and her deck that went along with the theme of it, this was a deck that worked pretty consistently, until she put that card in.
For the next three games no matter how much she shuffled none of her monster cards would come up, until she removed that one monster card.
and then everything was back to the way it was.
And ever since then my mom and I believe that there really is a heart of the cards.
I say this all because of one thing. It doesn’t matter if they’re inanimate objects, things can have personalities and if you take them off for any reason they WILL screw with you.
During my many years of rolling dice, collecting sets and splitting the good from the bad, one truth has always been constant. It occured to me after getting into wargaming, and finding my proclivity for large blobs of infantry. The thing is, Dice (at least D6) are pack animals. They feel safer and more confident when rolled together with their peers, and as such there's a clear constant that goes: "The more dice you roll at a time, the higher your average rolls are going to be". This is true power, this is what allows you to pull a victory out of your ass time and time again. People will call bullshit, say you can't be this lucky, chalk it up to chance, but you know better. Respect the dice and nurture a vibrant ecosystem for them to thrive in, and you will know no defeat on the table.
-Sun Tzu, probably.
I laughed WAAAY too hard at, "That's the last thing that my father wore! Yeah, well it's clean now!"
"That was the last shirt my father wore before he died" (3:42) Larry's dad died shirtless. May we all be so lucky.
C'mon Zee. The guy's a Browns fan. He's in enough pain as it is.
oh, snap.
As a Cleveland resident... can confirm.
And the Browns smashed the Steelers in the wildcard round, so maybe he needs to keep that shirt spotless ;)
Roll 3d20+4 burn damage. No, you don't get a saving throw.
I just noticed that Lary has five fingers! He's the real man living in a world full of hallucinations!
🤯
"Yeah, well now it's clean."
And probably has more resale value as a collectable.
Larry should be thanking him.
I roll all my dice to see who wants to play ball that session. When they start underperforming, I put a set in the bag of shame, and don't take them out for the rest of the session.
Hello. One of us is a leftover from the mirror pool then, because we share the exact same process.
"This is the last thing my dad wore before he died!"
"Yeah, well now it's clean..."
Perfect.
A note on microwaving dice, if you microwave metal dice they will roll 20s regularly
(Seriously tho don't microwave anything metal it's a really really bad idea)
What about the plastic one
@@ltphantomknight8942 Wanna learn how it feels dying by carbon dioxide gas?
@@zerobrain4764 Will the death be quick? If not I'll pass
@@ltphantomknight8942 If i remembered that safety video correctly, that stuff kills you in minutes and you can't even see it, smell it or taste it.
@@zerobrain4764 Do you know if it's Painful? Because so far this dosent sound that bad
Every day I wish my dice a good morning and a good night. And every time before I toss a risky roll, I whisper “Daddy loves you, and believes in you.”. I cheer them on after high rolls and give them an uplifting message after a bad one, “You can do better next time champ.”.
You’d be surprised how much this works.
"I'm not angry, just disappointed " -when they roll poorly.
At least it would make you focus on the positive, which is a good way to live.
the serious washing of the jersey was great :D
cool thing your wife had a guest voice role again :D
"Rraaddd."
“This was the last thing my father wore before he died” bro 😂😂😂
I wouldn't worry, Larry's a browns fan, that's a lot of natural 1's over quite a few years.
the bit with you and your wife, super adorable
Dude, for real, I think Zee's wife and my wife are conspiring over all our little quirks.
Don't forget to also train your other dice. D20s are important, but you don't want to roll minimal damage on a crit. Train all you dice, they are all important equally (but some are more than others)
Plus a bit of training might help the D4 to lose it's habit of hiding when it's dropped on the carpet. Mischievious little scamp!
My party hate my dice rolls, to the point they gave me their worst dice to roll. When I rolled it, it had odd symbols so I asked "what's that?" She damn near fell over declaring "nat 20..."
"They know they're being watched."
How about trying to create envy in a die by constantly placing it a number or two lower than the ones next to it? That's right, a perfect die for advantage situations because now it's time to show those other smug bastards what it can do!
I think the audience would just love a show based around this character doesnt even have to be dnd rules and spells anymore
"Where you teach dumb people to be fucking dumber." I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of that.
"Yeah, well now its clean."
Bro, you killed him. Like, massacred. Damn. Good video though...
"Yeah well now it's clean!"
I'm dead 🤣
Like Larrys dad?
@@HUNDIIl 🤣🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, regardless of if you believe in dice personalities and training, Larry is an a-hole for breaking the nerd code's first rule; don't touch someone else's shit unless you have DIRECT permission from the owner. That's just good manners.
I mean the reaction would have been ridicolous. And monstrous.
And that automatically makes it okay for Zee to do the same thing in return? lol
@@videogollumer Turnabout is fair play. Also, not doing your laundry is disgusting. 🤢
@@willowmcintire21 Not nearly as much as the reason for not doing it being that you believe "the luck will get washed out" is stupid! -_-
@@videogollumer I think the video tried to imply he didn't wash it not because he thought it was lucky but because it remined him of his father
Back in 2004, I had a Traitorous d20. It rolled *5 CONSECUTIVE NATURAL ONES* during the course of one combat sesh. I took it home, and Began The Ritual.
I stuck an empty Mountain Dew can in the snow, bottom-up. I placed the d20 in the concave bit, the number 1 facing up, and poured kerosene over it, filling the hollow. Then I lit it.
The fire didn't burn hot enough to deform the die, but I let it burn for as long as the kerosene lasted. Then I quenched it with a fresh Mountain Dew (this being held at the time to be the sacramental beverage of our clique).
After rinsing it, I wrapped it in a flannel cloth and kept it in a small box near -- but separated from -- my other dice. They smelled what a traitor got, and it was Enough.
Your dice don't have personalities! What you did was a sacrifice to the dice gods! It was them who improved your rolls and saying anything else is HERESY!
@@joebakerbfc I Disagree, Your dice have a will of their own, and once you learn to understand them, you can ride them as you would any creature presumeably to victory.
@@leatcanned this was settled during That Big Argument at GenCon in 83. Dice do NOT have free will. They are solely the medium through which the dice gods punish us for our hubris!
@@joebakerbfc That is Olde World mysticism from the Age of ADnD. The mighty forms of the Dice Gods have been reduced to bloated husks of their former form. We do not need them. We breathe the life of creation into our own dice, a heresy to be sure, but the gods no longer worry over such matters. Because the Dice Gods are dead.
@@calebwidogussy452 the dice gods will curse you with natural ones when you spend an entire game day explaining and explaining again the rules to a noob who doesn't seem that interested and takes forever to take their turn, leaving you only one opportunity to do anything for an entire session.
Time to mess with Zee's new dice...my laundry's piling up and hes very thorough!
Don't forget to only use dice the same color as your character, or army in the case of warhammer. ESPECIALLY in the case of warhammer
Unless you're an ork!
@@roderickwalt2969 then green is best and you know it
This is a very fair point. Especially in the case of 40K. If a Space Marine Army finds you using demon themed dice, may the Emperor have mercy on your soul.
yes. green dice (or whatever the favorite color of that squad is) for hits. Red dice for wounds (because red like blood)
That was covered in lesson 1 you get a super prodigy and then build your character around that.
my secret trick is to place them on their average face for training
it has resulted in my die being more relaxed and fun loving and ive even won over traitors doing it.
I'm not a sports fan, but I have friends who are. Rooting for the other team is an endless source of entertainment.
The salt, man. The literal barrels of salt for cleaning that shirt. Don't mess with a man's dice training program 🤣
Never ever ever leave your dice high side up! They get bored and roll low for a change of pace! That’s why you have bad dice luck, Zee!
Team all the good luck draws away from the 20 like grease off of bacon
You have to switch their sides regularly. It is like rotating crops for nutrients. You don't want to see a D&D dust bowl.
You gotta rotate 20, 15, 10, repeat. Keep them entertained but still rolling good.
nah you gotta get them USED to being on their high side, so it becomes their natural state of being that they tend towards
yep this is the right way to do it. I can confirm from experience. I let my favorite dice sit on 20 overnight once, the next day it didn't roll higher than a 7.
The 'love you too' was so cute
“Yeah, well, now it’s clean.” 🤣