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Is It Embarrassing to Be Good at Video Games?

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0:00 [Music] Great. Welcome back everybody to another episode of Careful Boys. Today we have Nick back with us. >> He missed puppy time. >> Yeah, you missed Athena, man. >> Yeah, I did. It was a whole week, huh? >> It's cool, dog. >> Whole week. I missed back. >> Well, when you miss a week, doesn't that feel Well, it's technically like almost a month. >> Feels like I haven't seen you guys in like two months. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But it's just it's just a month. >> I have to like develop rapport again with you. No. Two months, Joe. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I don't even know who you guys are. >> A month away feels like 2 months with us. It >> kind of feels like that. >> Right. >> I was literally gone for a month. >> I know. >> But no, we didn't know. >> Yeah. Yeah, I know. >> You guys probably >> Well, cuz I see you. >> You guys hanging out on your stories in Vegas all the time. >> Oh, yeah. >> You guys are playing Mario Kart.

0:51 >> Cuz I do >> play Mario Kart. It's so sick. >> I play Mario Kart. >> So fun. >> This dude got me back into that freaking competitive bug from N64 games. So you guys are just gaming all the time. >> Yeah, it's the best, dude. >> Is Steve actually really good or what? >> So fun. It's so fun. I think like as as an adult, it's so much more fun when other adults are angry about the game. >> 100% care. >> Yeah, they care so much. Yeah. >> Did he ask you a question? I want I want to hear the answer. >> I was asking, is uh Steve just smoking you and Mario Kart all the time though? >> Me a real good amount. Yeah, >> pretty much all the time. >> Steve, I don't know if you remember, but I thought Ryan was supposed to be good at games. >> Yeah, that's what I that's what I keep hearing. >> I thought I thought you're supposed to be good at video games. So all of a sudden you're just getting smoked by Steve. >> I'm good at I'm good I'm good at I'm good at male games. Men's games. >> I feel like ever since our election live stream, >> Steve's just been training for this moment of ████ >> He's doing joystick training. >> Yo, he like knows the game so freaking

1:42 well. It's insane. >> Well, it's cuz my buddy Mormon and me play all the time. Like we play during the week at like midnight and ████ >> He rings my doorbell at midnight. Dude, >> he plays the way that I play in my memory of myself being good back when I was a kid. That's how he plays now. Yeah. Yeah. >> You know, like when you think you're so good at a game, that's how good he actually is. >> Is this what What Mario Kart is this? >> Oh, so you don't play the new ones? >> The legendary 64. >> I don't I don't ████ with the new ones. >> Do you know Mario Kart 64? >> Of course. I grew up on that game. >> Me, too. And this will still destroy me. Like, >> no. I can't play with the the old controllers, though. >> You got to be into arcade. >> I mean, you can, but it's just the controller. It's just weird. >> I have both. Yeah, he has both. >> Okay, so you're kind of cheating. But it's crazy because you know like when you play him he >> the margin of error like that he messes up is so freaking tiny. If he makes one little mistake that's your only shot.

2:33 That's your only shot. >> True. >> But this guy thought this guy thought just cuz me and Anthony did like 18 shots on election night that I suck at Mario Kart. >> Turns out probably shouldn't do 18 shots. >> That's right. >> We were drunk driving in the game. >> Yeah, it's really fun. That's it. >> You like the story. >> Ryan sucks that Mario Kart. >> No, the thing cuz you asked like, >> "All right, wrap it up." >> You asked, "Do we Why don't we play the new ones?" >> Yeah. >> It's basically for kids. >> You know who's good at the new ones? >> Auntie Lee. >> Yeah, because it's like playing with the bumpers at bowling, you know, like the the rails. >> Yeah, exactly. Yeah, >> cuz I know the in the old games you would fall off the map every time. That's why I didn't like playing the game. But I think the new ones, you don't fall off the map.

3:23 >> No, you grab it. You hold your hand the whole time. >> Rainbow Road, you're ████ >> And there's some really there's some strange like glitched out like AI in the old game where sometimes the computer just can't be beat >> randomly. They'll just zoom out. >> They Yeah. They feather their way up. >> Yeah. There's like an error where it rubber bands their like their speed and all of a sudden they're just lapping you and you're like, "What happened?" Like >> that's not fair. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But you know, it's life. >> That's just what it is. >> It's cheap. It's outdated. What do you play? What do you play, ████ >> I play real simulator games, bro. >> Yeah, what simulator? >> You got a whole setup, brother? You got a ████ pilot set up and ████ like that? >> Oh, he used to have the car one. >> I said a Corsa. I still got it. >> Really? >> That's real ass game right there, bro. >> Well, which one you have? >> A set of Corsa. >> What? What? I don't know what you said. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Speaking Spanish. >> You have the wheel, the everything. >> Corsa. >> A set of Corsa, bro. It's a whole video

4:14 game. >> A set of Corsa. >> No, he's saying I said no. I No. What? That's not what I'm saying. I'm on Steve. I'm like, >> am I insane? I don't know. I know Italian so he knows the >> game is corre whatever that >> like that. >> But but it's a it's a real ass simulator, guys. Check it out. Okay. >> Plug. >> I was playing Cruising USA like a real Trump guy. >> No, I'm telling you. >> Doing back flips. >> The drifting the whole it's it's a whole shebang bang. And you download cars exactly to the car specs. What car you drive? >> Oh, I don't know what I'm driving, but I'm just driving all of them. >> Thought that was a freebie. I thought that was a >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I do it all, though. >> It just went right in front. He just went like that.

5:04 >> I'm still eating. >> Come on, man. >> Chill. Eating porridge, by the way. You're eating ████ porridge or something, >> dude. He's eating oatmeal with Sriracha. >> Am I good at Smash Brothers? Look, I don't want to say that because I know you guys are psychos about it or whatever. >> We should play. >> I'm scared of it. >> Hurt her to Smash Brothers is me to you, Mario Kart. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> Why don't they have Smash Brothers on the virtual console thing that I have? >> They don't have >> I don't know. >> We need it. >> But yeah, Colleen is >> Everyone says Colleen's really good. Ridiculous. Yeah. >> Are you good at the Gamecube one or something? >> Oh, I used to play that one. >> No, the now one with whatever now DLC characters out. She's just destroying me. >> Oh jeez. Yeah, but that's not like uh like she we were competitive for a long time and we were like neck and neck almost I would say and then now I'm like I don't have a ████ shot. >> Dude, that's I dude my my nieces and nephews kick my ass all day on that one. So I just play Bowser and I just stomp

5:54 them the whole time. >> I got one move. >> But yeah, >> it's like when we're playing Soulcalibur and I'm using Kik and I'm just hitting you guys the whole time. That's all I got. He's really good at Soulcalibur. >> Yeah, you guys are both good. >> Maybe one every 10 times I smoke this guy. But when I smoke him, I smoke you so good. But we can talk about how the the the real players look. >> Okay, >> let's talk about how the real players look. >> When it comes to competition, what do they always look like? >> Oh, you mean >> the elite competitors? >> No, they're little like this. >> They got red hair. >> The little Asian kids who beat Mario in 5 seconds. >> No, he's talking about the comic book guy neck beard guys. >> I feel like they're all Asian like little Asian >> red hair and all you see is their glasses and then they just wearing baggy >> eyes. They have a problem where like I think the stereotype was that at Smash Brothers tournaments like the um the major ones that the smell was so bad.

6:45 >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. They had a real >> like cuz none of them showered. >> Yeah. It was like a public issue. They were like telling people you It was like a required that you have hygiene in order to like enter the building cuz it was getting to be like >> Do they only take a shower like a ████ medieval monk like once a year and ████ >> I don't know. >> Sort of perspective. They're like I'm not here to ████ dude. I'm here to I'm here to play a game. shower. >> All due respect, guys. >> Yeah. Yeah. All love. All my >> sleep with you. >> Imagine growing up though, your whole future, you're 50, you're you're in your death and I was like, damn, this is the best best video game player. Imagine saying that. >> Yeah, but a lot of people I mean >> I kind of think it's ████ something. >> Hey, unless so they make a ton of money now, too. >> Yeah. Yeah. Unless you're like Billy Mitchell. Do you know the story of Billy

7:35 Mitchell? No, I don't. He was that guy through the 80s and 90s for like being the best at Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. He was a celebrity. This guy was showing up in my Archie comic book as a character. Yeah. >> His name was Billy Mitchell. He's got long hair, got a beard, >> a flag tie. >> Yeah. Very like patriotic dude. And then uh something happened where like they found out in like the 2000s maybe like less than a decade ago or something that he had faked like cheated that he was running um I guess he wasn't following the exact rules with the game where like he had some kind of different chip inside of his machine when he got the world record and then uh basically he hacked his own machine. >> He swapped the board out for a hacked board. >> Yeah. So it became >> what a loser but then he started >> well he is actually technically a real huge time winner because of it. >> Oh really? >> And he leveraged that into a lot of different things like what >> you got the brand deals.

8:25 >> He was on he's in a documentary called King of Kong which was fantastic. You should watch it. It's great >> and but he's the villain in it but it's still great and it raised his profile a lot. >> Yeah. It's pretty crazy that uh that they ended up even figuring it out. And it it was like I think the thing that like that made it obvious was that when the screen loads or something, it loads like left to right or something on a real but then on his video it it was like >> Oh, thank you. >> You might want to >> Okay, back to back to filming porn, boys. >> Oh yeah. >> Let me out. Let me out. Let me out. >> Hey, where's the where's the only girl going? >> The crazy thing is >> he would aggressively sue anybody that was like questioning him. >> Really? >> He had like crazy litigation. >> Dang. So >> that's why we don't even think he cheated. >> Yeah, he didn't have cheated all. >> Yeah, nobody who sues that hard could have cheated. >> Why would they? >> No, but that's your that's your guy in your mind that like would have on his

9:16 deathbed been exactly like that. Would have been like my life was ████ sick. >> What do you want to say on your deathbed ████ >> Yeah. >> What do I want to say? >> Cool enough to die with you. >> I want to talk about my family. >> That is so boring. >> Been there, done that. >> Everyone does that. >> No, >> everybody hates them. That's what he wants to say. You're going to get >> Everyone does it. >> Even Aussie Osborne did it. >> Yeah. >> I don't think Dan understood what the ████ he was saying. >> Did he die? >> Yeah, he died. >> Oh ████ >> Did he die? >> I didn't know Aussie died. >> Dude, the wildest one is that you guys just told me. >> Oh, we'll cover. Yeah. >> But yeah, that's um that's the coolest thing you can think of saying when you die is just >> I love that. >> My family was dope. >> Think about like the the achievement of saying I was the best at something. >> Yeah, that's a big deal. >> Yeah, but but not games. But there's like cowboys who died in like 1800s and ████ What were they saying? Like I was

10:06 just a ████ cowboy. >> I was a ████ cowboy. >> Yeah, that's cool, >> you know. >> All right. >> But like the best gamer thing though. >> At least you're the best at something. >> That's whack. >> And you love games. >> What if you're really good at PUBG? What if you're like, I'm the best PUBG player in the world? >> I don't even like that game. >> Don't you play War Zone? >> Yeah. You play that? >> That's for kids. You play Call of Duty, dude. >> Blackout. >> Raising a child is a War Zone is what he was. >> Yeah, let's go. Let's go. I wish I said that. >> Should have said that. Let me back it up and say that. >> It is kind of basic though cuz everyone has family >> but not everyone. >> I'm going to keep it simple. Back >> player been diesel, dude. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. What would you guys say >> on our deathbed? >> We die. >> Yeah. >> Well, if I died right now,

10:56 >> I should have died more. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> That's so real, though. >> It's so real. I think everybody who's dying will feel that no matter what you do in life. >> But you know what's funny is like you you see all those um articles coming out about like old people what they regret or whatever on their deathbed and they go I shouldn't have worked so hard. A lot of people say that ████ >> Yeah. A lot of people do say that. >> But maybe it's because they hated their jobs >> cuz I don't feel that way about the ████ I do. >> Or usually it's because they didn't spend enough time with whatever else they really wanted to do and they realize that like oh I've been looking at this thing all wrong. >> But I only like a handful of my family members too. People talk about, "I wish I ████ spent more time with family." You probably had really wonderful people in your family cuz like I don't want to spend I'm a I don't want to spend time now with most of them. >> 3 days I'm good. >> Yeah. Okay. That's true. >> I'll be like I wish I spent three more days. >> But they're not talking about uncles and ████ They're not talking about my

11:46 cousins. Like I wish I spent more time with my cousins. No, they're not talking about that. They're talking about their babies and ████ >> That's also that's also what's it called? That's also death bed vision. You know what I mean? Like it's like having near-death vision where like I'm going to change my life now. I almost died yesterday. But then you kind of do the same ████ after like a month or two. >> Like if you you relapse. >> Yeah. It's like if somebody brought you back to life the second you're like I wish I spent more time with family. You probably won't spend that much more time. >> I'll play more card >> cuz they got ████ to do too. You know what I mean? >> Put some more hours in. >> Also, what makes you think they want to spend time with you? >> Yeah. >> I don't like him. He talks way too much. >> Remember remember your kids, your wife, not your cous. >> Well, a lot of us don't have kids, bro. >> Another one they say is, "I wish I didn't fight with this person that much." Like I wish I I I I reconcile. >> Last week we were outnumbered by the kid peoples, but then this time >> Suben, you're the only one. >> You're the only one with the kid, dude.

12:37 >> I think things would change though cuz everyone does have kids and they go all, you know, everything changes. Their whole priorities, everything. They're like, "Oh, I want to spend more time with them." And it's like, >> "Yeah, but do they want to spend time with you?" >> Or I summon I'm in my death bed. summon my greatest nemesis and I have him come in the room and then I just go >> I summon ████ that >> or or I turn to like my family member and I just go the key the key is in Mexico >> like some mystery like that the key to what the key to what >> find who did this to me my gold >> my when you told >> whatever I've got cure it >> when Ryan Ryan told me that his grandma on her deathbed Yeah, >> literally her last words was, >> "Please stop dancing." >> No, she said, "Please don't do music."

13:28 >> That's tough. >> Did you laugh? >> No, I didn't laugh. I was very sad. >> That's pretty wild. >> How did that ████ you up? >> My whole family. >> How did that mess you up for a while? >> It was I was really distraught and then my cousin thought it was really funny and she was laughing and I was like, "Oh, it's actually kind of funny. >> It's so that's hilarious." >> I was good at music. I think it was 17 or 18. >> No, no, no. She just wanted him to stop pursuing it. Period. >> That's wild because he's so talented. >> She wanted me to do like medical or go to college for something else and and I guess like my parents would always gripe to her about like how they can't control me and what I want to do. >> A nurse instead. >> Yeah. Yeah. So then like I but we to be honest, we didn't know she was going to die. I didn't know that was the last thing she would say to me, but it just ended up being the last thing. >> Holy ████ >> Ended up being the >> It wasn't like she that was she used her last breath. She was she was intentional.

14:18 >> She was already in hospice. Yeah. She had a hospice care at her home and would just was in her bed and we would all visit her and she would say like one or two things to each of us. >> That was mine. And then >> do you feel like you're dishonoring her? >> The what? >> Do you feel like you're dishonoring her? >> Every day wakes up. >> Yeah. >> I feel like No. You know what it's like? I feel like I'm honoring the the stereotypical like Filipinos firstgen legacy of like you're supposed to kind of be defiant and use the defined energy, >> but like it's just a ████ it's a comedic take in my family that they all make fun of me about that ████ >> Please don't do me. >> Some people got like nice things. So people got like compliments and that's what I got. >> Yeah, great grandma. I'm sorry. >> That's awesome. That'll be my last word. >> Probably should listen to her. Stop mercing your dreams.

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