before we get into today's video I've got three things for you number one if you want to get a notification whenever we post a new video make sure you ring that bell number two there's a TCG player affiliate link in the show notes after clicking that link every purchase you make on TCG player comm help support this channel number three you'll also find a link to our patreon where you can support us directly and now kick back and enjoy the show yeah so we're here today doing something kind of cool we are going to learn how to set up a game space for playing magic over the Internet playing paper magic over the Internet though we're not playing a MTG oh we're not playing arena we're not playing anything like that we're playing cards we're playing paper magic with your hands on a table but we're gonna do it over the Internet we're gonna do it through video chat so provided everything sounds and looks good everybody can see me we're just gonna hop right into it there's actually a lot of communities for playing EDH and and really there's probably other forms of magic that you can play online as well but I know ADH is a really common one yeah CDH Nexus is a great place to do that there's also the play eth discord server there's a bunch of strainers that do live eth one of the ones that they haven't streamed in a while but one of my favorites is commander live which is also MTG lexicon there's our good friend Olivia's stream at affinity artifacts here on Twitch yes Scotty's stream was a really good one Scotty just did his last stream but I think he's maybe not gone forever don't quote me on that I don't have any inside information at all except for maybe a little bit of inside information but there's like so many cool people that stream paper EDH online and if you ever want to get in on that action you need to have an appropriate game space set up and I let me tell you like I don't even play online that much and I have seen some truly horrendous yeah so I've seen some truly horrendous ones I like everything that you could imagine I've seen I know there are people that have their you know they've got glare somewhere on their screen you can't see their cards it's too dark there's too many shadows with that being said let's get right into it I'm gonna go over a quick overview of the gear that I'm using right now I'm also going to let you know roughly how much it costs I'm going to give you the keywords that you want to search if you're looking online if you're looking on Amazon or anything like that I'll tell you what to search for I am going to hopefully edit this into a video that we're going to release on YouTube so if you're looking for like actual spec requirements you can you feel like at me on discord if you're on discord or you can wait until the video gets released and I'll include links to all of the equipment that we're using in the show notes to that video so without further ado we're gonna start with these arms so these arms are really great these are called scissor mounts and there you might recognize them you might have like a lamp that has this kind of a mechanism they're adjustable they're metal and there's kind of spring-loaded here they've got a number of dials that you can throw out there like knobs that you can use to adjust the stiffness you know whether you want it to stay where you put it or whether you want to spring back ya know Rhett say you like a read ready ready so read I so yeah take notes this is going to be video my hope is that this video will be a reference material for anybody that wants to do this in the future so if you're streaming on any of our cool friends platforms if you're on their streams welcome to the video and I hope you get a lot out of this yeah this is a scissor what it is is this one in particular clamps to my table so what it is it's got a little knob on the end here a little silver knob it's actually underneath the table you can't really see it but you know what I'm gonna go over around to the other side of the table [Music] so I don't know if you can see but this is going to clamp it claps down to the edge of the table just by spinning this knob at the bottom here so what you want to do is set up your arm so it is firmly attached to the table you want to trip over some extension cords yeah you want to make sure that it's firmly attached to the edge of the table ideally this is going to be in front of you and ideally it's going to be in the center of your play mat so you should be able to if you can draw a line down the center of your play mat you should be able to draw a line right to the base of your camera mount if that makes sense extension cords trip noted got it okay so we've got our camera mount what this actually has on the end of it the end of that hooks into the webcam you have to make sure that this is the appropriate size to fit into the bottom of your webcam now that's gonna vary based on what kind of a webcam you're using I'm using a Logitech c920 this is a very standard webcam you'll find these all over the place streamers love to use these because they're like entry-level they're not super expensive these run in Canadian dollars and dollar e-news these will run about seventy-five dollars I believe in the US you can find them on services like Amazon for about 50 bucks what I would personally recommend there's a ton of failed streamers out there so look for one second hand if you can find it if you've got like a second hand bulletin board website that you can use to look for electronics that is a great place to find these in Canada you would look on probably kijiji in the u.s. I think Craigslist is a little bit more popular so you might want to check Craigslist but if you can pick one of these up for 35 bucks or 30 bucks you're laughing they're a good quality webcam they're durable good image quality and yeah you'll enjoy it so the mount on the bottom of this Logitech c920 I think I said it was 70 at 1080p I think you need the logitech 922 to go in 1080p but it's plain pace brings up a good point the amount on the bottom of this is you'll see you'll see it referred to as 1/4 20 and that's the type of bolt that actually screws into the bottom of this so it's actually got like a female and for a bolt you can go to the you can go to the hardware store and pick up a 1/4 20 bolt you'll see that is like 1 / 4 - 20 and that'll fit into the bottom of any Logitech c920 webcam and they actually fit into the bottom of most cameras - like we're talking SLR cameras we're talking like the camcorder that I'm using right now has the same 1/4 20 volt adapter for the bottom it's a very very common size so if you wanted to build something if you don't want to pick up a metal camera arm or if you don't have anything to clamp it to you can actually you can actually build something if you want if you're handy you can build something out of PVC pipe I've seen that really successful you can build something out of wood you could take like one by fours and you could just build something if you're handy like that if you're not these are the camera arm is maybe I think they're about 20 bucks Canadian on Amazon that's probably 12 or 15 dollars u.s. they're not gonna break the bank all told this setup we're talking mate it'll be under a hundred dollars Canadian probably about sixty to seventy-five dollars u.s. so once you wear your webcam threaded into your camera arm and you put your camera arm attached to the desk you are plugging it into the USB port in your computer a lot of the time you're gonna have more success if you've read a USB 3 port and your computer a little bit of a faster transfer rate I'm not a huge expert on that so don't ask me a ton of technical questions about bit rates and video I'm mostly stumbling through that but I can tell you how to physically set up your play space yeah don't use it USB hub so USB ports have a maximum amount of information that they can take if you imagine this is a pipe with water flowing through it you're and width of your your port into your computer is like the diameter of your pipe so thinner pipe is not going to move as much water USB port can only hold so much data it's not just it's not just infinite bandwidth so there's a couple things you have to pay attention to there if you think that you can get away with using a USB splitter so that's something that plugs into your USB port and you know I've actually got one hooked up to my computer right now but I'm not running my webcams through it I'm running my mouse and my microphone through it but if you think that you're gonna get more than one webcam into a laptop you know to save on a USB port or something it's probably not going to work the way that you want it to work second is not every USB port on your computer like I'm using a laptop right now it has three USB ports it only actually has two hubs so two of the USB ports are on one hub they share an amount of bandwidth and the other one is on its own hub that is on its own it has its own bandwidth so if I plug in two webcams to the two ports that are on the same hub I'm gonna end up with bandwidth problems but if I plug it into the two that are on different ports we're not gonna have those problems so I flagged it into my computer I'm just running one webcam so you don't have to run two webcams I'm currently running two cameras right now just so that you can see me talking so that it's not just you know staring at my hands going like this yeah so we've got the webcam setup we've got it plugged into our computer and now we've got it facing downward at our play area so I'm gonna show you what it looks like here this is where the real technology comes in here's what my overhead playspace looks like so you can see as I move this down or up its gonna change the way that my webcam works oh thanks the mother-effing mage thanks for the sub appreciate it so we've got the webcam setup it's pointed down at the play mat we what we're looking to do here is we want to frame the play space as best we can we want to make sure that as much of it as in frame as possible and we want to make sure that we're not too zoomed in so if you zoom in too much the problem is people aren't going to be able to see your whole board state if you're way way way zoomed out like this people aren't gonna be able to tell what kind of cards you're running so what we want to do the good news is play mats are mostly the same aspect ratio as like a screen so we're just gonna try and finesse this while looking at the screen if you can I am wearing pants they're sweat pants super comfortable and we're just gonna finesse this down until we can't see the play mat anymore or we can't see the edges of the table anymore this is a little finicky but the good news is once you have it all set up you shouldn't have to touch it anymore [Music] and this is a really good point from blue Magnus Stormcrow if you set it up correctly you'll never need pants because people shouldn't be staring down into your lap the biggest problem when people are staring down into your lap I'm going to set this up like this so you can stare down into my lap is that if you're holding your cards like this people can see what's in your hand and that's no good you don't want that we want to keep our hands off the camera so people can't see what's in our hand in our hidden zone and that's a double entendre absolutely so this is looking pretty good if I do say so myself the other thing you can do is you can move your play map to this is you can do this if your play space is big enough you can move your play mat around you can Center it you can kind of tilt it make it look good but once you've read it the way you've wanted this looks pretty good once you got it the way that you want it what I like to do is just take a little bit of masking tape and just mark where the edges of your play matter because if you're able to leave your camera set up like this some people are some people aren't but if you can tape out where your play mat is leave your camera where it is then it's going to help in future setups you won't have to like start from scratch when you're kind of calibrating every time the other tip that I like giving is you have the play mat is backwards but we will talk about that in a sec yeah the other tip that I like giving you'll notice that my elbow is on the table and every time I knock the table you can see it's shaking the play mat that's not good it's like fine but if you can attach it to something that's not your desk that will also increase the quality of your stream one thing that we do when we are recording on the spike feeders here we have an open ceiling so we actually hang these on the joists in the rafters so we just clip these scissor mounts we just clamp them onto the joists and nobody's touching them nobody is like bumping them nobody's bumping the table and you know you're not hearing that in the microphone you're not seeing it on the webcam so a couple questions in chat is everything backwards the the camera is mirrored right now because of the last stream that I was on so Olivia affinity artifacts uses discord video for oh I don't know I don't know if both cameras are married I'm using one of the this camera up here as a camcorder that I've got hooked into a capture card right now so I haven't really configured it much it's just kind of doing its own thing but this overhead camera right here this one is mirrored because on discord video I believe some some kind of a setting that olivia has has it mirrored now we've got everything lined up and you'll notice one thing here I'm just going to do this what webcams have a tendency to do do you see what's going on here what webcams have a tendency to do is when the object moves closer and further from the webcam it's gonna autofocus and it's gonna auto adjust the brightness so you don't want that happening midstream sometimes it'll you know totally get knocked out of focus and it just won't come back one thing that I like to do go into your webcam settings I don't have my screen capture set up to show you this but Google how to turn off auto focus on your webcam so there's tons of tutorials out there with Logitech if you're using a Logitech c920 there is Logitech like configuration software where you can set some preferences you can flip the screen like mine is here if you need to yeah and the webcam does lag a bit when it autofocus is - that's a good point but what you can do is you can set it up so that your play map and your cards are in focus when you're doing your testing or of your setup and then you can just turn off auto focus and then it will stay at that level of focus you can turn off auto brightness - if you want to do that but yeah then it's not your computer's not using any additional processing power your webcams not gonna get knocked out of focus it's not going to lag I can't promise it's not gonna lag but this won't be the cause of the leg so we've got this all set up I heard somebody in chat asked the question what kind of quality of webcam and quality of microphone do you need with a webcam I don't think I would go lower than 720p there are ways that you can set up your cell phone to do this using I figure what they're called but if you google it how do I use my my my cell phone as a webcam there are a bunch of tutorials on how to do that I've never done it I like to have my web or my cell phone handy while I'm streaming just in case I'm bored just in case I need to look up Oracle text on stuff if I can't read something on somebody else's board I might want to look up the card and yeah in terms of microphones one thing that those of you that have been around since the beginning of the stream would know is that sometimes you're going to get an echo the webcam Mike I would not use the webcam mic is typically very low quality if you've got a headset I would definitely recommend using it this as you can see on the stream this is just a razor I don't know what it is a Kraken something like that I figured what they're called but honestly any headset is probably going to be better than the than the webcam microphone I recommend a headset for two reasons when you're streaming first reason is camera quality always sounds better when the microphone is really close to your mouth so you can get away with poor quality equipment if you can control the conditions that you use it in and if you've got your webcam you know pointed downwards if you've got your webcam maybe a little bit further away from your face it's gonna be reflected in poor audio the second reason why I would recommend a headset is because you have to be able to listen to what the other people are saying and you don't necessarily want you don't necessarily want your speaker's sound getting picked up by your microphone and that's where a headset it's gonna come in really really handy because you can just crank the volume on your on your headphones if the you know the earpieces and the headset and you're not gonna get any feedback with your microphone you're not going to cause an echo and yeah CNC power hour makes a really really good point that webcam mics pick up way too much room noise so you're gonna hear echoes I'm in a basement right now and you would probably hear my furnace there's a chest freezer in the corner exercise actually what my webcams sitting on right now is a chest freezer all of that noise would be super super super loud and you don't want that when you're playing games because it'll be like I don't know if you've ever played you know video games when you're you know if somebody's got a poor microphone or they're using you know their laptop microphone or something like that and you're picking up their their laptop fan you know the processors really working hard you can hear the whine from their laptop fan sounds like a jet-engine taking off cuz it's right next to the microphone you don't want that get a headset I would absolutely recommend it if you like are really interested in a real set up yeah rune fans are annoying as hell that is so true yeah I mean I also live by an airport so you can hear planes overhead you won't hear that because you can turn your input way down on a headset microphone you can also use any kind of microphone that you want so I'm using right now this is a shotgun microphone I picked this up on Amazon it's like a $90 no-name shotgun microphone that's what I'm using right now you could use blue snowball those are really common again you can go on you know second-hand websites at Craigslist Gigi find blue snowballs or blue yetis from failed streamers they're everywhere yeah even with earbuds if your earbuds have a built-in microphone I've seen people use those for streams I've seen people use those for like interviews like Skype interviews like any microphone that you can get closer to your mouth is gonna be better than a your laptop or or built-in computer microphone or be the microphone that's in the webcam so that's pretty much it for equipment I'm gonna get into lights in a second because I want to show you what this overhead angle looks like I'm just gonna put down a couple cards here we do this every time we record games because the conditions might be a little bit different okay I'm just gonna toss down you know just a few casual cards here I'm absolutely flexing right now here's I'm just gonna move the cards around the screen just so you can see let me know in chat if you see something going on it actually doesn't look too bad right now oh but look at this hang on we're going behind our thing here I'm just gonna move my my face out of the way because we've identified a problem look what happens when I move from this bottom corner up to this top corner sending so now we've got a white square this used to be an underground see bottom-right corner top left corner it is a totally white square this is a really good question oils and non foils actually do not make a difference if you have your lighting set up correctly you could play unsaved if you wanted to it's still gonna cause problems if your lighting is not configured correctly the number one cause of glare and there's there's like a million different causes of glare but the number one cause of glare is the angle of your light okay so what I'm gonna do is I'm actually just gonna put my hand everybody look at the small image like the the voice that you can see me over here I'm waving my hands what I want you to do is look at where my hand is and see how I'm casting a shadow that shadow is gonna move across my play mat and then once I reach the point this isn't really working out too well because I'm actually covering up oh here we go you see on my my hand is blocking some light and that as soon as I get to the point where my shadow starts covering up the underground see it stops being a white square right the reason why that's happening is I've got light that's coming down from the ceiling I've got a light directly above me okay so I'm not gonna show you this but I just take my word for it I've got a light it's like a directional pot light and in my basement it's directly above me what's happening is light is coming down from the basement or from the the basement ceiling it's hitting my play mat or the cards on my play mat and it's being directed right back up into the lens of my webcam right like that so what's happening is right here this underground see look boom glare right up into my webcam so what's actually happening I'm gonna move my my sort of face camcorder so you can see what I have going on with my light setup I see how I have a light set up there so what's actually happening there is I've got a light that's really high up it's pointed directly down at the table and it's at a really sharp angle so my light is really really close to the table and it's high up now what's happening like I mentioned it's bouncing down off the table bouncing up into the lens the way that we can avoid that is by doing one of two things and I'm going to leave this card here and you guys can see on the camera as I move my light how this changes okay so you can see it's still not perfect but it's quite a bit better this is no longer totally a white square but what we've got is the light is coming in at a really low angle what's happening is rather than it coming down from a steep angle from a ceiling it's coming down from a shadow angle and so when it's hitting my play mat it's going sort of towards my other camera right so this is why you can see with the whole table surface on the this camera right here is basically glare right because what's happening now is it's going challo angle bouncing back up directly into that camera instead of going up into this camera but this is no longer a white square you can now see it the downside to this is that you'll notice how long my shadows are and how pronounced they are so like my hand is fairly far back from my play mat and there's a huge shadow being cast so this is not ideal it's better so if you have the choice between direct overhead light and shallow angle light for a stream definitely go with shallow angle light okay it's not perfect and if you only have one light source it'll do it'll get you through a stream but it'll just be really shadowy what you really want to do to control glare and shadows at the same time is have multiple light sources so we're gonna go back to our other angle here yep CNC power our makes a really good point get some of those China ball lantern lights anything that's really diffused rather than like a spotlight you want even distribution of light around the room you're still gonna have to play around with angles a little bit but he's right if you put him on either side of the play mat you're gonna have multiple light sources it's gonna be fairly diffused and again you probably want a shallow angle not directly above your play surface because you don't want it to bounce down hit the mat and go right back up into your camera lens so one thing you can see right here is what I tripped over earlier I've got more lights so we're gonna see how this looks differently on the webcam place face on the overhead as I set up these lights and turn off my direct overhead lights [Music] you you there we go doesn't that look incredible cuz now we don't have these like massive shadows like if I put my hand up I'm not putting like you know two-thirds of my board space in shadow my board is super evenly lit and how move my thing out of the way and you can see my cards in actually really really good detail vexillology wood three lights one for each side it'd be even better than just the two you have set up yeah absolutely more lights are going to be better you don't want to have a ton of high intensity lights so these lights that I have are dimmable that works really well dimmable lights are awesome but as a general rule with lighting we're gonna end up with better light quality if we can have more light sources that are each at a dimmer quality and yeah okay and but yeah vexillology makes a good point I think I missed the point of your question and that's like where would I find games okay so played eh discord is a really good one if you want to find a link to that I'm sure somebody can be kind enough to drop the link to the play eh discord in chat I know there's also some people here repping the CED H Nexus so if you are on if you're playing CDH you can play on CDH Nexus they're a great group of folks as well there are a couple other places as well I've never played in those places I don't want to vote for them but I can tell you play th and CH Nexus are great good people there yeah so that's lighting so you can see that even though we've got some foils here right like this is an ancient tomb that's a foil we have no glare at all and this is like anywhere on the board we have no glare right none at all just beautiful cards so essentially that's more or less it I did mention why my play mat is backwards and in fact all of these cards you can see my grungy sleeves when I hold up like this all my cards are backwards to this is because the last room that I played on the purse who was hosting the stream all of their stuff was flipped hey good guy Ben thanks for joining us all of the stuff was flipped on the broadcast so all of our input had to be backwards so that when it got flipped on the broadcast that it would be the correct direction if that makes sense I don't know Logan was running and blame him yeah so normally it wouldn't be flipped like this you wouldn't want to have it flipped but you can change that setting a lot of the time in your webcam configuration software so like I mentioned Logitech has one built in it's just software that you can download online or you can download it from Logitech website oh yeah you can flip horizontal flip server vertical you can also like zoom in and out if you for whatever reason can't get your your webcam up high enough or if you can't get it up low enough you can zoom in a little bit you know if you end up having to mount it to the ceiling yeah you can do all that within the software you can also change the white balance if you want to do that to contrast brightness saturation the whole deal if you know how to do those settings great if not I would just leave them on auto but yeah those dis quartz those two disk words are great played eh just to make sure that you read the rules though Peter makes a really good point in chat CDH when you play at the CDH tier they're expecting that you're not bringing like meme decks I'm gonna switch back to my beautiful face angle here they're expecting you to play like tiered CDH decks these are like established best decks in the format as well as the decks that are specifically designed to play against them if you are not playing those decks I would recommend playing a tier lower but definitely they all have very very comprehensive rules and guides for how to set something like this up equipment recommendations like non video format I think it's an a it's in like a Google Docs document they'll also have like a guide for whether like how to tell what level you're playing at so they'll have like some descriptions of what a high power deck looks like or what a CDH deck looks like weather proxies are allowed eight pairs of rolling is allowed if your name is Jim yeah I guess I don't know like bearson cars is maybe a bit of a meme deck but people would probably let me play it and see EDH pots I took down some pods in Vegas with it cuz people don't have a great response for a turn one Sara Zenden CNC Power Hour makes a really good point in chat let's talk about etiquette so there's a couple things they've listed one and that's having proper tokens and dice this is one thing that I'm so bad at when I go on a Livius stream is I never like I don't have D 20s because I don't use them for anything like I have real D 20s but they're not spin downs I have like a couple D 20s somewhere in the house that you know I use for whenever I've gotten them from pre-releases or whatever but it's not something that I keep handy but I have a million like of these spike feeders D sixes I have a hangout I'll show you I have a million of them actually a million of them [Music] yeah so yeah they make a really good point make sure you have all your dice that you need make sure that you have all of your tokens that you need so if you are playing swonsong have a bird token if you are playing you know pong if I have your ape token having if you have rapid hybridization you know do get do all the research on your deck don't just show up with just the deck you should have all this stuff to yeah if you get gilded drink it's sometimes handy to have either a real gilded rake or like a proxy of a go to Drake just off screen so you can be like I've got to kill the Drake sometimes if you're really prepared you know other people if you're playing Gilda Drake you might have a couple extra copies of the stuff that you would likely kill the drink so I mean like in most CDH games you're playing like at CDH level you know you're probably gonna kill the drake like what whatever it are good Gilda Drake targets Sheila didn't uh Crom maybe I don't know like stuff that you would want to go the Drake if you have extra copies of those sitting around to that can come in really handy when you kill the Drake somebody generally what I do though is I put the Gilda Drake yeah mother-effing gauge makes a good there you know you you need to swan song token for other people playing swan song but yes good point but usually what I do if I use Gilda Drake on somebody else's creature I'll just put it upside down at the top of my mat to symbolize that somebody else controls it right now same thing with any control effects exile effects that kind of thing it shows that they're like still around they're still influencing the game but they're not under my control so I'm not tempted to like untap and try to attack with them yeah searching someone's library through a screen that's one thing that you can do a lot of the time okay so actually that brings up a good point as well about stuff like a taxing probe if you have to reveal somebody else's hand usually what you'll do in stream is the other two people that aren't privy to that information will look away so you'll say okay you to look away and then the person whose hand it is is not looking away but they'll hold their hand up to their webcam like this and yeah it's an honor system like don't cheat right we're having fun with their friends so you'll hold your like hand up to the webcam like that so that the person who's get probing you can look at your hand they are like free to reveal an information if they want but you know once you're done say okay we're back you know and you can look again but yeah it's an honor system don't cheat if you get caught cheating on these servers they will ban you and they should ban you because we're playing for fun like don't be a jerk yeah surging somebody's library if your stream is a little bit different I've done that once with a parade is grasped and I the person just sent me their deck list and they said like pick something and we had like a text chat going on I think we were like DMing on discord or something like that and I was like hey I want this card and they were like oh no that's in my hand and like I'm like okay I want this other card and like you just kind of got a make do with what you have people are very what's the word creative when they're overcoming solutions like this you can also yeah where you just D on the top for it yeah it's the same thing like you can't do everything totally perfectly in online play because that's not really like how the game was designed the game was designed for you to be able to reach across the table and grab something but a lot of people are very creative and they will help you out or just ask people like hey I've got a pretas grasp like how do we do this and people will help you out so yeah they're not supposed to know but like what can you do right like you don't want them to draw the card because they didn't take it out of their deck right and if they draw the card and they try to play it you don't want to be like oh that's the car that because then they've like sequins that are turned around and everything like you just tell them or realistically don't play paraders grasp online unless you're Logan who likes causing grief like that yeah CNC power makes a good point sticky notes you can also get I know they'll have maniacs have these and like a couple other groups I think England tokens does them but they're like dry erase tokens I got one from did I got one from MTG lexicon I got one from somebody in Vegas I have it like Andy I don't know way I don't like on it from though somebody was very cool and they were handing out these dry erase tokens and they're great because if you have a dry erase marker you can just write what's on it what brand is my lights that's a good question these are new wear lights they're spelled n EE wer we have two LED panels that are 402 that are 600 so the one that's behind me here this guy right here this one has like a cow around it it's like a steel thing that you can kind of adjust and direct the light a little bit that's a 600 is a little bit of a brighter light it is a little bit more expensive but you can get two packs of these on Amazon they're not super expensive and for like how much they cost they're a pretty good light we use these for filming and when I say they're not they were very expensive I think the 2 pack was of the 400s was like 7d bucks or something like that maybe maybe a little over 100 Canadian yeah so they're not cheap but you can get much cheaper lights and like C&C power our mentioned before if you if you really need something like go to Ikea and just pick up a cheap lamp like it's not worth it it just spent like 100 bucks on lights unless you're like really gonna use them right go with something cheap lights are lights unless you like really need them for a specific purpose if you're like broadcasting a th unless you're really really really getting into it I wouldn't recommend spending $100 on lights unless you're gonna use them for something else I used these lights all the time when I was renovating the basement here when I was doing drywall and stuff like that they were great so you know if you need to work light if you need lights for something else sure it's great but if you're just gonna use them to play you know EDH screams streams online once every two months I wouldn't drop the money on that just go to Ikea pick up a couple cheap lights you can get the ones that clamp to your desk and again just pay attention to your angles and try like every single configuration that you can think of for setting up your lights more sources of light is better if you have more try and dim them down a little bit so that you're not over saturating your place in it your play space and just keep them away from directly overhead yeah Chinese paper lantern lights they're great they're cheap and they're great cannot recommend enough like go to Ikea if you've got one near you and if you don't like go to a thrift store find a lamp right any lamp with a lampshade will work just make sure that if you're pointing it directly at your play mat that you have your angles right yeah I think that's just about it the other thing that I would caution you're just sort of going back to etiquette is try not to monopolize the conversation it can be very difficult to follow a conversation online when multiple people are talking at once so I when I'm streaming I like to try and sit back and listen as much as I talk and try not to interrupt people because it can really like mess with the flow of the game so that's like pretty much it I wasn't gonna get like lay deep I mean I have any question if people have any questions then let me know we have a lot of smart people in the chat right now so even if I can't answer them the people in the chat maybe Polly able to answer them yes yes CNC power makes a great point the logitech driver for webcams is like kind of trash and you will get better quality out of your webcams if you roll back the driver to the generic windows like USB driver for webcams yeah if you try and use multiple Logitech c920 s we found this out when we first started filming because we used to use Logitech c920 s on the show up until last season which now we've switched to camcorders but yeah if you try and plug into Logitech c920 s at the same time you leave your find that neither of them will work or maybe only one of them will work or you know this is my favorite one one of them plugged in by itself won't work but two of them plugged in at the same time will so you may have to look up how to do that you can always if you join those anybody want to post the links to the play ETH discord they have a lot of great troubleshooting documents and the people on there have probably gone through this so they can walk you through rolling back the webcam driver and yeah thanks for joining me this was super fun last minute I'm gonna give it maybe one more minute we'll take it to 8 o'clock if anybody has any questions if not you can always at me at me on Twitter at me on discord this was really fun if you have any other things like this that you want to hear me go over in stream I will be happy to do it if you want to talk deck-building if you want to talk strategy if you want to talk gameplay we did one of those CDH QA streams I loved doing that if you guys want to do that again I'm super in if you have any questions if you want me to give you like a Stewart or the studio just like at me and say hey Jim let's do a stream on whatever and I can like set all this stuff up takes me maybe 10 minutes to set up and then we can have a sweet stream like this oh yeah Peter I said that I was going to address this in the chat but one of the reasons why I'm doing this is because we want to start streaming webcam games with our patrons so we are starting it out by talking to our $10 patrons we've already started talking to them we've already given them some tips on equipment for the people that want to get involved but $10 and up that is going to allow you to hop in on the the games if you have an appropriate set up so we're not streaming games yeah if you want to start hosting that would be a good one - maybe I'll get a guest on there cuz I do happen to know a few people that stream games like CNC power our or Logan I've never streamed games though so I might even have to learn some things there as well so maybe we'll do a stream like that where I interview one of them and learn how to do it yeah sir of six is Logan in chat and he is the technical know-how behind a million different streams but yeah so $10 plus patrons if you want to play webcam these games with us I can't promise that it's gonna be super regular it's not gonna be like you know first Monday is not going to be Monday every week but we might start out with a couple one-off streams just to feel things out make sure that we can get our like our overlays and our like infrastructure in place [Music] yeah CNC power hour has been incredible they've been supporting us on Twitter helping us out with equipment with configuration of equipment and all that kind of stuff there's like so much knowledge in this community and people are so willing to share so like if you just like toss the question out on Twitter you'll probably find an answer yeah like I'm saying we are starting soon I was gonna do that tonight actually how I was gonna set up a webcam game but we couldn't find people last minute to do it but what I'm hoping to do is maybe get a few guests on the show I do know some people in the ADH community that might want to hop in a stream every now and then Logan this is an open invitation for you if you want to play on a stream that's not Olivia's and if you don't want to have to run it but yeah I might you know shout out to Olivia or any of the other people in the EDH community that I know have streaming set ups and yeah they're gonna be EDH they're gonna be CDH we're gonna be mostly playing with patrons and then sometimes guests so we're going to leave it to the patrons that are playing the games to decide so we're gonna ask that they tell us what level they want to play at then we're gonna bring appropriate decks and we'll play at that level but it'll be full spectrum if you want to play you know jank whatever decks then we'll play I've got decks like that range from actual factual garbage to pre cons to you know fun whatever theme decks to more tuned casual decks to high power to CDH to like tiered meta stuff so we can play like literally anything what does it take to be a guest here for the common game you want to be a guest you uh at me on Twitter DM me I think I follow you on twitter so just DN me yeah I have no problem with proxies for patron games what we'll probably do is we'll ask people to consent to having the games be recorded because I would love to do game summaries and post them to the channel so that's kind of one idea that I had I would love to be able to like you know record a game and then download the VOD and then edit it toss in the cards that are being played toss in a voiceover kind of like what you would see from muds or from playing with power or from casually competitive it may not be as good as them but yeah yeah I would love to release those as episodes so that all of our fans can see how sweet our patrons are yeah MTG lexicon I just want to say go check out MTG lexicon go check out CNC power our Q for the common game is actually doing some really cool stuff definitely I won't spoil it but go check out here for the common game on Twitter it'll like actually boil your mind yeah gg3 from MTG lexicon just posted a Google Doc that is actually a pretty comprehensive list of like every EDH content creator out there streamer or pre-recorded or whatever it tells you roughly how big they are what kind of gameplay they do whether it's you know what power level they play at how often you know how many how big they are all that kind of stuff if you ever want to go and look for MTG content that's like the place to find it and check out MTG lexicon they are the dive bar of CDH the dive bar of EDH I should say their stream is super super fun they play Saturday nights I've been on their show before and it is a riot these guys are so fun and yeah they're definitely go check them out they have sweet streams can't say enough good things about MTG lexicon okay so with that I think we're gonna log off but thanks for joining me everybody and remember at me if you want to see something else in this kind of a format hey thanks for checking out the spike heaters on YouTube if you're not subscribed yet make sure you click that subscribe button and you can click this link to check out our other great videos


250 150 - Wow I told Kody here to make my website look great and when I went to check it out it said he made 404 errors that means 404 wax 253 oh I should have you Squarespace throughout the late 50s and 60s one extraordinary person was climbing their way through the ranks of television her name was Joan Ganz Cooney as a public television producer she was creating some of the most provocative and challenging programming of the civil rights era on New York's public television station WN DT at a dinner party in 1966 a conversation between her and Lloyd Morissette an executive at the notable nonprofit the Carnegie Corporation sparked an interesting question could television be used to teach children complaints of the abundance of sex and violence on television as well as the influence of advertisements have brought upon a national debate as to the negative effects these trends could be having on the children watching there were a few popular programs directed at young children such as Captain Kangaroo but shows such as this were the outliers while the entertainment aspects of these programs were great the execution of the educational aspects was lacking Morissette who was also an experimental psychologist wondered if a program designed primarily to educate children could be successful ganz cooney known for never being afraid to step outside of her comfort zone found the proposition interesting after the conversation she secured research funding for an educational children's program she spoke to many experts in the field of early childhood development and educational media when she returned with her report titled the potential uses of television in preschool education WMDT rejected it after this she left the station joining Morissette at the Carnegie Corporation in a full-time role over the next two years ganz cooney in Morissette sought funding for their program starting the nonprofit production company the children's television workshop the two would eventually raise over eight million dollars for the show spending a large amount on research alone ganz cooney would be appointed as the executive director of the children's television workshop a monumental achievement in the male-dominated and biased television industry she and Morissette would begin to grow their team eventually adding television writer and director of John Stone to help with the show's creative development it became clear through the research process that in order to capture the attention of preschool children the program would need to be fast paced visually colorful and creative in its execution ganz cooney pointed to television commercials as a comparable to the type of segments the show would need to have luckily if she needed high-quality creative commercials stone knew the perfect person to do it hello there my name is Jim Henson and I'm a puppeteer I'm called a puppeteer because I work with puppets okay you're gonna love this story greatest story in the world [Music] in the summer of 1968 it was business as usual at Muppets Inc now operating under the new name Henson associates the company was still producing entertaining commercials for a variety of clients gymnast team continued to appear on variety shows performing Muppet skits and the Muppets were creating the occasional television special on pilots - pilots 1962 s tales of the tinker D and 1964 s the land of the tinker D featuring a group of medieval Muppets in a fairy tale Kingdom never saw the light of day in 1965 Jim had been asked to bring them up it's on to a pilot for his snow-white parody being developed by Johnstone for CBS Jim and stone hit it off and the duo would collaborate on other projects including an episode for NBC's experiment and television a program that was satisfying Jim's passion for experimental film now in mid-1968 there were a few months away from shooting the project that came from the snow white parody although the program had moved from CBS to ABC and the leading princess had been changed to Cinderella after stone joined the children's television workshop he would not hesitate to invite Jim to some of the developmental meetings Jim shyly sat in the back of the conference room slouching low in his chair as he would often do when he was finally introduced to ganz cooney his work preceded him Jim's quiet nature was overshadowed by the Muppets reputation for the loud and the chaotic and those at CTW especially ganz cooney were thrilled that he might bring that energy to their new show Jim on the other hand was hesitant if he provided the Muppets for the preschool program he could risk the thing he wanted most a prime-time up--it series using the Muppets for the young demographic could solidify their reputation as children's entertainment a verdict that would be detrimental to any pitch for a family or adult style Muppet Show however this concern was overshadowed by the mere fact that he respected what Ganz Cooney and CTW was doing they were pushing the boundaries of television a personal goal of his as well plus he couldn't deny that the format that they were describing was perfect for him in the Muppets he eventually agreed to work for the show leaving that due to the unpredictable nature of children's programming it would probably only last a month or two anyways Jim demanded his typical condition that he owned the rights to any Muppet characters he created for the program during negotiations Jim would end up allowing a 50/50 split of any character merchandising from the show but him in ctw Henson and his team would begin in 1969 and Jimin stones Cinderella spoof was set to film in late 1968 the hour-long special called hey Cinderella received mixed reviews when it aired in the spring of 1969 the most notable part of the special would be that it officially completed Kermit's transition from abstract monster to frog a gradual transformation in design that produced the recognizable version of the beloved character throughout 1969 gymnast team worked to produce their scenes for the CTW project the Muppets would create small insert segments teaching children about letters and numbers that would then be placed in between the show street segments which featured the main storyline of human actors Jim took creative Liberty with his part of the show not only creating Muppet segments but shooting live-action and animated sequences as well one of the first assignments for Henson was to create the pitch reel for the show which had recently been given the name Sesame Street hey these kids can't read or write can they then how's about we call the show hey stupid hey stupid what are we gonna do for a title hey ruff hmm why don't you call your show Sesame Street my entire career as a TV educator you're a genius Sesame Street I love it the kids will love it I can see it up there in lights the children's television workshop presents Sesame Street new Muppets we need to be creative for the puppet segments of Sesame Street two of the residents would be a pair of roommates named Bert and Ernie performed by Frank Oz and Jim respectively the gruff Stern Bert would be constantly pestered by the squeaky-voiced goofy Ernie not unlike the more serious aahs on the often goofy Henson the comedic relationship between Ernie and Bert was immediate likely because odds and Henson's friendship was so strong a semi new character was a blue googly eyed monster with a large appetite performed by oz utilizing a painfully gravelly voice the character had evolved from previous Muppets that the team had used in various commercials throughout the years and throughout the first season of Sesame Street he would be the name Cookie Monster Kermit would also be used in many segments to teach concepts acting is one of the few mature Sesame Street Muppets if you test cuts of the show were created using gym segments and other footage shot by CTW and the episodes were shown to the show's target demographic these early tests revealed that children's attentions dropped significantly during the show street segments in which only human actors were shown it was then decided that Muppets would need to be added to the main setting of the program this wasn't exactly good news for Jim he could easily provide the show's inserts as he could create them in bulk on his own shooting schedule but becoming members of a cast would mean a more strenuous time commitment he could assign his fellow performers Frank Oz or Jerry Nelson to the post but they had proven to be indispensable in the Muppets year-round work on various projects this meant Jim needed new talent so as he had done year after year he returned to the puppeteers of America convention this time seeking out a young puppeteer named Caroll Spinney who he had met a few years prior he convinced Spenny to come work on Sesame Street full-time performing two characters for the street segments a large childlike yellow bird named Big Bird and a grumpy trash dwelling orange monster named Oscar the Grouch the position was perfect for Spenny as he seemed to excel in solo performances as opposed to a member of an ensemble he set up shop in New York in 1969 and he would immediately give life to the full body Big Bird puppet performing him as a naive curious character that children could relate to at the urging of Jim who thought the character could be very popular with the audience popular would be an understatement Sesame Street premiered on November 10th in 1969 on national educational television the show instantly became popular among the young children tuning in and it would start a national dialogue on the roles and responsibilities of children's entertainment the show featured a diverse cast of human characters and it would have to overcome widespread racism and Prejudice but the decision to feature a realistic cast was one of the show's best there were a few critics of the show during its first few months on the air but the consensus seemed to be that Sesame Street was a groundbreaking and incredible show one that would remain on the air and in the minds of children for years to come this was great news for everyone except Jim Henson while he was thrilled the show was successful and was even more happy to see his 50% of merchandise in sales over the next few years the popularity of Sesame Street largely thanks to his and the Muppets contrib you Asians had realized his worst fear he was now a children's puppeteer this wouldn't become an issue right away as he made plans to capitalize off the Sesame Street success with other Muppet specials for children when he would eventually try to step outside of this demographic he would learn just how strong of a reputation Sesame Street had given him with the flexibility of the show's shooting schedule thanks to spinies work Jim pursued a script for a children's special written by Jule entitled the great Santa Claus switch in which an evil magician takes santa's place on Christmas Eve to steal from homes the script had been rejected countless times over the past few years but to Jim's delight Ed Sullivan who had frequently invited the Muppets on his program offered to air the special in place of an episode of his show the good news meant that Henson would have to hire additional puppeteers and in the summer of 1970 oz Nelson and Henson open auditions for additional Muppet performers this resulted in two new puppeteers joining the team fran brill and richard hunt both were a perfect fit for the Muppets the great Santa Claus switched saw the introduction of a group of monsters named the Fraggles as the henchmen for the film's filming these would continue to be used in other Muppet works and one frackle referred to as the cigar-box frackle would eventually evolve a knack for adrenaline the great Santa cost which was well received but had little cultural impact upon his premiere in December of 1970 Jim pleased with the results was already on to his next project the next year Henson began development on a follow-up to hey Cinderella now billed as the anthology series tales from up at land the second film in the series the Frog Prince would be filmed in March of 1971 the film featured Kermit alongside a new cast of Muppet frogs including the small robin performed by Jerry Nelson they call me sir Robin the brave a new full body muppet would also be introduced in ogre named sweetums performed by Richard Hunt the growing fanbase of Sesame Street resulted in more attention for tales from up at land the team would shoot another special for the series the muppet musicians at Brennan in 1972 adding a full cast of rats and chickens to the Muppets while the ensemble of month before MERS was enough to fulfill the various projects the Muppet Workshop needed additional hands builder Don Saleem a mastered his craft in a recent addition the talented Bonnie Erickson would be joined by two new designers Franz vizag's a builder that specialized in adding unique mechanisms to each puppet and Dave goals a puppeteer with little confidence in his performances the workshop was now preparing for a Broadway show starring the Muppets the Jim had been pitching to investors titled in evening with the Muppets plans for the show would be canceled in late 1973 and Jim set his sights back on television his hope was to secure a series of Muppet holiday specials or ideally a weekly show Henson Oz and Nelson would come into office after office getting rejected by executive after executive who was either uninterested or confused by the pitches the consistent concerns seem to be that puppets including the dynamic Muppets were merely children's entertainment as proved by Sesame Street luckily Jim would eventually convince one of the suits a young energetic executive at ABC named Michael Eisner Eisner loved the Muppets and the pitch and he would greenlight a pilot for a weekly Muppet series while Jim imagined the series is a disjoined a variety show starring the Muppets and human guest stars for this pilot he wanted to explore one of his Muppet holiday special concepts deciding on the Muppet Valentine show Jim and his team would shoot the special in late 1973 and finishing in January of 1974 the show was written by jewel and co-writer Jerry Ross in Jim's hope for a human guest star would be fulfilled with Mia Farrow joining the cast of the Muppets the show had an interesting format it was hosted by a muppet named Wally the show screenwriter that was having a difficult time writing about love the Muppets living in a house with overgrown foilage helps him describe the feeling of love from each of their own twisted perspectives the show would also implement a variety of musical numbers throughout other featured Muppets included the army of frogs from the Frog Prince a frackle Kermit who was given a hilarious musical fantasy segment with the song froggy went a-courtin Oh in a few newcomers the new Muppets included Brewster a muppet both designed and performed by Dave goals and his first step outside of the workshop Mildred miss mousey and THOG all performed by Jerry Nelson George the janitor performed by Frank Oz mopes and a maniac arsonists named crazy Donald performed by semi frequent performer John Love lady there were also a new race of Muppets from the fictional planet of Coos Bane and one of the show's segments featured the species demonstrating their alien mating ritual the 25-minute long pilot aired on January 30th 1974 critics and audiences loved the energetic and funny special an ABC opened the door for Jim to produce more holiday specials and pilots later that year the Muppets would appear on her Albert and the Tijuana brass a special starring the jazz musician in which the Muppets would add a comedic element to the band set he often forgot special is notable in that one of the Muppet interruptions featured a newly built character and in less than 2 minutes of screen time a star was born where are some of the other puppets that you've been developing oh I guess well the ones on Sesame Street are the ones people know most Big Bird and Oscar and most places frogs and their puppets are for adults but in this country they're for children how do you account for that either one can answer that well I think we're in terms of the Muppets where we're working to sort of do some some things different we're working on am an adult television show right now and we're working on a theater show so Jim would pitch another pilot for a weekly show to ABC called the muppet nonsense show which would include more sketches and short segments this time however he was determined to reach a more adult audience to further distance himself from Sesame Street which was by this point a cultural phenomenon when the second pilot was Greenland Jim title it The Muppet Show sex and violence to emphasize the targeted adult audience and comment on the current state of television the show would be shot in mid-december the pilot centered around a group of Muppets putting on a variety show culminating into a pageant for the seven deadly sins each represented by a grotesque stylized Muppet the show was also a lot more quick paced and cynical than the Muppets Valentine show and the Muppet Workshop was tasked with creating an even larger ensemble of new characters this will include a new house band called the Electric Mayhem featuring a keyboardist dr. teeth performed by Henson a guitar player Janice performed by fran brill a saxophone player Zoot played by Dave goals the sarcastic bassist Floyd performed by Jerry Nelson and the wild and violent drummer animal performed by Frank Oz there were also a series of skits featuring two elderly gentlemen Statler performed by Richard Hunt and wool dwarf performed by Henson who passed the time making small talk in their antiquated home there was a cooking show segment with a Swedish Chef demonstrating some unconventional cooking methods and less than accurate Swedish the chef had been born from previous chef skits that the Muppets had performed the character was a live hand puppet similar to Rolf and Ernie in typical live hand Muppet performances the head and left arm are performed by the primary puppeteer providing the voice while a second performer would operate the right hand a job referred to as simply right-handed the Swedish Chef was unique in that the character would be voiced by Jim but he would only be controlling the head the hands would both be controlled by a second puppeteer Richard hunt in the sex and violence pilots with his actual human hands being used this created an entirely different performance style as Jim would be providing humorous dialogue and facial expressions not necessarily knowing what the hands of the muppet would do next the sex and violence swedish chef skits also featured chinese subtitles another odd element to the skit running the show back stage was Floyd Sam the Eagle a large blue eagle with a strong moral backbone played by oz and perhaps the most peculiar addition to the Muppet cast and sex and violence the show's host a nasally almost drowsy frontman named Nigel played by Jim what we have here is the conference room which is sort of the nerve center of the place Nigel had little character or charm especially considering his role as host Herman and Rolf the established dynamic and recognizable muppet host would appear only briefly as would various other Muppets that Jim had built for the previous pilots and specials of segments were created for the pilots including Mount Rushmore in which the four presidents would tell bad jokes and a fake movie review segment called returned to beneath the Planet of the Pigs a Planet of the Apes parody featuring a new version of piggy performed by fran brill and a mad scientist pig named dr. naga played by jerry nelson there was also a segment called at the dance where a series of gags were played off his Muppets danced in a ballroom the special ended with a wide shot reviewing the muppet performers beneath the puppets an idea originally conceived for them up at Broadway show in an ending that would have presumably continued should the show have been picked up however this was not the case ABC was unhappy with the pilot from the beginning urging Jim to change the name and the special he stood firm on the sex and violence title which seemed to be more funny to him than anyone else another issue was the show's characters whose personalities did not work together as an ensemble it seemed that in each scene from the pilots a plot a different character was halting the energy whether it be nigel with his sleepy dull delivery or sam with his strict obliviousness it didn't help that most of the time the characters backstage were not preparing for the show but were instead playing board games on top of this the show's pacing was atrocious and the editing was too quick in some segments and too long in others he had to dance in the Swedish Chef segments which both only had enough footage to be a single insert were chopped up and placed throughout with some bits lasting less than 10 seconds well you see this show jumps from place to place okay despite these issues Jim hoped that this was the pilot that would solidify a weekly muppet show Jim made the rounds on late-night shows heavily promoting the airing of the pilot are you gonna be on the special tomorrow night when the reviews came in it was clear that sex and violence had not resonated with audiences while some found it entertaining a majority of viewers felt the humor didn't work and ABC decided against picking up the series Jim was hopeful than another network would who was disappointed when others rejected the concept as well some because of the response to the special anothers because of the same reason Jim had been hearing again and again they felt puppets were for children in the morning not adults at night if a Muppet TV series was going to happen Jim would need help so he reached out to a person that he believed could make his dream come true an IBM executive named David lazer the Jim had worked with in the past to provide a few funny short films for IBM board meetings laser would join them up its team and a producing capacity and his knowledge of business and energy would prove to be an asset that the team had been missing the first step was to create a pitch to networks this would take the form of a 25-minute reel featuring the Muppets in a variety of settings in short skits interacting with humans and in musical numbers the climax of the reel would feature an enthusiastic Muppet pitchman making his case the network executives to greenlight a Muppet Show praise the United States of America needs the Muppet Show and you should buy this show now we're not pulling any punches here I mean there's nothing subtle about this pitch so buy the show and put it on the air cause we'll all be famous and we'll all get temperamental and hard to work with but you won't care because we'll all make a lot of money [Music] Jim's agent Bernie Brillstein would shop the real round to no avail during this process real Steen had made a deal with NBC to have the Muppets appear on a new live variety show debuting in the fall of 1975 the Muppets were brought on to his waste the fears of executives at the new show named Saturday Night Live would be too edgy as it took on the hot topics of the day this was perfect for Jim's attempts to get the Muppets into the adult comedy scene or Michael's SNL showrunner and also a client of Brill steam enjoy Jim's work and was happy to have him perform a skit on each episode of the show Jim's recurring sketch would be called the land of Gorch and would feature mature alien Muppets in adult situations the Muppets were designed by recent workshop addition Michael Fred and the bizarre alien certainly looked the part for late night however the Muppets an SNL were not a match her writers guild rules all the sketches had to be written by SNL staff writers and their subtle sarcastic style did not lend itself well to the more slapstick Muppets that said the writers weren't necessarily trying their hardest they would have much rather written the other sketches and those forced to write for the Muppets were often angry head writer Michael O'Donoghue reportedly scoffed quote I won't write for felt the cast also did not enjoy giving enough airtime to the Muppets cast member John Belushi's anger would lead him to coin the phrase mucking fuch 'it's it was difficult for Jim to bring his team every week into a tense situation where they clearly weren't welcome although despite the behind-the-scenes drama he would never speak ill of the SNL staff publicly and when asked he would be quick to praise the talents of Lorne Michaels we had a deep respect for Michaels appreciated Jim's work but it was clear early on to the both of them that the Muppets do not belong on SNL luckily Jim wouldn't have to live in 30 rock forever a British television producer named Lew grade had been following the work of Jim in the Muppets for the past few years and he was interested in discussing a potential Muppet TV series one of his employees located in New York invited Brillstein laser to a meeting the two past on the 25-minute pitch reel and the next day a deal was made a 24 episode first season with a total budget of three million dollars would be produced the episodes would be distributed via a new practice called primetime syndication in which a show would be produced independently an unsold station by station after the deal was reached five CBS owned and operated stations bought the show's first season biggest ask Abril seen was that gym in the muppet shoot the new show at a studio in London borough scene agreed without even consulting gem and after a deal was reached he called Henson to tell him the news jim's response was simply I love you the Muppets were going to the UK this episode of defunct TV is sponsored by 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wait
smashers
don't
know
how
to
play
fighting
games
yet
first
game
of
the
day
is
a
free-for-all
which
is
great
for
someone
who
has
no
idea
what
they're
doing
why
did
i
let
that
happen
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he
gonna
do
yeah
yeah
okay
would
you
believe
that
that
one
was
an
accident
see
this
is
this
free-for-all
just
a
really
good
learning
environment
for
me
because
i
i
just
had
to
remember
what
all
the
inputs
are
and
now
i
have
done
it
see
this
is
the
wii
u
i
know
like
i
don't know
how
to
play
this
ryu
but
this
is
like
a
whole
game
expired
let's
watch
the
shield
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shield
yes
no
what
am
i
doing
oh
my
god
i
mean
at
least
i
didn't
let
luigi
went
look
at
this
face
dude
i
have
never
seen
someone
so
traumatized
by
a
loss
like
that
before
i
can
absolutely
tell
that
if
we
managed
to
get
these
characters
in
elite
smash
we
just
never
touch
them
again
they're
just
there
for
decoration
how
did
you
do
that
and
get
away
with
it
too
come
on
oh
that's
that's
a
little
bit
of
depression
all
right
all
right
well
we'll
take
that
at
least
that
doesn't
do
anything
yeah
i'm
just
going
to
wait
here
for
him
to
do
something
else
walking
walking
that
strategy
that's
not
the
right
move
either
okay
that's
going
to
be
a
lot
of
what
this
video
is
now
let's
just
get
the
hell
out
of
this
direction
no
no
i'm
not
going
to
get
there
by
that
okay
that
back
here
you
know
what
i'm
actually
not
super
out
of
this
that's
bad
that
was
that
was
a
little
bad
though
but
he
missed
it
so
it's
good
ah
let's
go
he
didn't
think
i
had
a
jump
huh
watch
this
roll
easy
oh
it
feels
so
good
the
game
plays
itself
for
me
i
didn't
turn
around
that
was
all
rings
big
brains
short
all
right
so
just
because
i
won
does
not
mean
i'm
getting
better
that's
the
setup
and
punch
line
i
just
think
it's
true
and
yeah
i
thought
it
would
be
cute
to
play
with
meter
because
you
know
it's
it's
meters
and
street
fighter
and
stuff
like
that
but
i
have
to
wonder
where
else
are
street
fighter
characters
he
asks
as
he
leads
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today
[Music]
all
right
both
of
our
brains
are
off
i
see
that
now
oh
i
the
game
has
been
out
for
like
two
years
at
this
point
and
i'm
still
fully
prepared
for
fox
falco
side
b
to
go
through
my
shield
dude
there's
no
way
in
hell
i'm
beating
this
falco
like
he
pushes
too
many
buttons
for
me
to
like
even
press
one
i
mean
that's
why
i
kind
of
thought
about
the
mewtwo
but
like
we
pulled
it
out
of
there
right
and
then
that
happened
oh
my
god
no
no
no
i
meant
to
cancel
it
okay
well
we
both
wasted
ours
and
that's
worse
because
i'm
losing
[Music]
um
i
am
ryu
i'm
a
thick
boy
i
might
be
able
to
survive
a
few
more
hits
i
think
what
i'm
forgetting
is
that
i'm
approaching
him
when
i
can
just
sit
and
shield
an
up
tilt
see
as
soon
as
i
start
playing
like
a
bit
more
defensive
things
start
working
out
well
what
hit
me
again
hit
my
shield
again
i
dare
you
let
me
do
one
true
input
oh
look
i
learned
how
to
do
it
i
think
the
absolute
craziest
thing
about
ryu
is
that
every
time
i'm
playing
sometimes
i
just
decide
to
stop
losing
and
then
i
win
like
it
is
a
little
crazy
to
me
that
if
you
just
play
lame
no
one
knows
what
to
do
i'm
sorry
but
there's
no
way
in
hell
i
don't
lose
this
donkey
kong
i
just
get
that
energy
i
mean
i
can
open
with
like
the
dumbest
moves
in
america
and
then
i
might
stand
a
chance
i
almost
rolled
there
i
rolled
and
then
got
scared
oh
not
that
one
not
that
up
tilt
probably
could
have
killed
him
if
i
did
the
right
uphill
like
this
one
no
are
they
too
many
up
tilts
i
get
sour
spot
no
no
you
guys
final
smash
that
was
yeah
that's
a
tea
bag
worthy
moment
isn't
it
that
was
not
intentional
i
have
changed
my
mind
it
was
intentional
come
on
come
on
man
be
cool
be
cool
be
cool
be
cool
bro
oh
i
told
you
right
from
the
beginning
i
had
that
read
on
donkey
kong
you
know
the
read
that
i
was
going
to
lose
or
hello
okay
so
now
now
is
about
the
time
where
i
just
start
like
shielding
and
we'll
just
see
what
happens
oh
if
i
did
true
input
that
would
have
killed
absolutely
would
have
killed
uh
let's
just
throw
this
out
here
see
what
happens
[Music]
it
almost
it worked
of
worked
it
was
supposed
to
be
like
a
great
equalizer
but
it
kind
of
worked
honestly
okay
i
meant
now
oh
oh
sun
death
sun
death
sun
death
whoo
my
wind
condition
one
expects
to
read
you
to
jump
that's
all
i'm
saying
[Music]
yeah
oh
my
god
the
most
hints
that
was
so
scary
that
was
so
scary
i
thought
like
my
focus
was
gonna
break
i
didn't
know
if
it
was
like
percentage
but
let's
just
see
if
we
can
like
squeeze
out
a
few
more
wins
right
we
are
going
to
squeeze
out
zero
more
wins
ken
you're
up
to
bat
let's
see
if
we
can
sneak
this
bastard
into
lead
smash
while
we're
at
it
i
would
just
like
to
say
that
that
timer
was
absolutely
the
dk's
rule
set
so
like
if
he
loses
because
of
that
i
think
that's
on
and
we're
running
it
back
huh
is
he
afk
is
he
just
like
unhappy
with
the
last
game
[Music]
well
i'm
putting
that
my
kin
combo
video
that's
all
i'm
saying
oh
is
he
trying
oh
okay
he's
playing
now
he's
got
the
fight
in
him
like
we
acknowledge
that
he's
the
better
player
but
that
does
not
always
determine
the
winner
because
i
know
what
this
move
does
wait
the
only
thing
i
really
know
about
canon
i
think
the
only
thing
i
need
to
know
is
that
his
proximity
whole
jab
deals
like
14
and
combos
into
shore
you
can
for
like
ever
like
there
might
honestly
come
a
day
where
i
start
playing
ken
a
lot
more
but
i
just
cannot
see
me
doing
that
with
ryu
dude's
just
too
bulky
and
it
just
feels
so
stiff
but
like
can
though
he
be
swinging
and
by
that
i
mean
matching
and
that's
what
i
look
for
in
a
character
why
did
i
why
did
i
show
you
why
are you
a
hood
in
the
other
way
the
character's
whole
gimmick
is
that
i
don't
have
to
aim
roll
in
oh
he
was
dead
if
he
rolled
in
roll
in
oh
i
forgot
i
forgot
what
the
move
was
i
i
just
panicked
under
pressure
oh
that's
the
move
that's
what
i
was
looking
for
yep
that
wasn't
intentional
but
if
it
worked
it
would
have
been
i
feel
like
a
lot
of
ken
ryu
players
it's
just
like
these
tropes
of
excellency
are
just
like
i
didn't
mean
to
do
that
but
i'll
take
it
oh
i
didn't
mean
to
die
i
feel
like
i've
convinced
him
that
i
know
what
i'm
doing
though
which
is
nice
then
that
happens
and
we're
back
to
square
one
being
funny
man
with
the
character
that
you
don't
understand
is
honestly
hard
but
i
think
that's
like
where
the
entertainment
today's
video
comes
from
what's
the
shield
break
button
because
i
know
ken
has
one
of
those
look
at
that
he
was
at
like
1
million
percent
and
i
still
combo
that
kill
confirmed
that
is
so
nutty
i
loved
it
i
i
think
i
like
the
good
man
coming
through
coming
through
oh
he
is
angry
now
yep
okay
i'm
now
losing
this
game
if
you
want
to
look
at the
scoreboard
[Music]
there's
the
roll
oh
yeah
one
move
i
found
it
is
that
how
to
play
king
because
i
honestly
think
it
is
i
just
spent
that
whole
stock
scrambling
i
was
like
where
can
i
find
jab
how
can
i
jab
him
once
so
after
playing
this
a
bit
more
like
i
definitely
understand
why
i
don't
like
ryu
but
i'm
convinced
i
like
ken
like
this
is
a
character
i
might
actually
like
want
to
learn
how
the
buttons
work
you
know
because
funnyman
go
burr
oh
god
the
third
street
fighter
character
how
could
i
forgotten
about
the
young
man
i'm
scared
he
took
me
to
fd
of
course
he
did
okay
how
is
it
fair
that
little
mac
gets
to
cross
me
up
my
whole
character's
gimmick
is
that
it
can't
be
i
think
my
cheesy
neutrals
now
being
exposed
but
i
just
want
to
say
if
you
lose
to
online
little
mac
on
fd
no
one
will
blame
you
and
i'm
just
saying
that
as
a
backup
in
case
i
lose
oh
he
wanted
that
oh
god
that
was
that
was
the
worst
role
of
my
life
i
knew
what
was
coming
and
i
still
rolled
okay
that's
fine
i
was
like
180.
that's
dead
though
i
thought
i
was
gonna
die
i
thought
that
was
like
a
little
misplaced
okay
like
for
someone
who
doesn't
know
how
to
play
ken
i
look
like
i
know
how
to
play
ken
but
like
only
to
other
people
who
don't
play
again
i'm
so
mad
i'm
so
mad
that
the
little
mac
player
took
me
to
fd
i
would
never
let
this
fly
okay
just
end
it
just
end
it
i'm
so
pissed
i'm
so
mad
just
hit
me
with
it
just
hit
me
with
it
wait
that's
huge
that's
actually
huge
i
know
how
i can
cheese
it
out
now
[Music]
get
over
there
look
at
that
timer
this
is
your
rule
set
buddy
i'm
playing
your
game
[Music]
[Applause]
yeah
yeah
you
you
want
to
play
elise
you
want
to
play
like
this
oh
i'll
take
that
hit
oh
tell
him
how
you
really
feel
see
ya
buddy
see
ya
in
the
sudden
death
i
have
never
felt
more
proud
of
my
life
uh
i
was
getting
real
ass
tilted
there
for
a
second
i
was
like
honestly
about
to
walk
off
the
stage
kind
of
tilted
and
i
saw
an
opening
i
saw
my
wind
condition
and
i
took
it
and
for
the
first
time
it
wasn't
me
pressing
jab
[Music]
and
i
know
that
i
kind
of
created
a
theme
for
this
video
but
i
kind
of
just
want
to
play
donkey
kong
and
i
hope
that's
okay
come
here
cloud
come
here
cloud
time
for
yours
oh
okay
that's
fine
i'm
gonna
hit
him
with
the
funny
upbeat
move
coming
through
oh
that's
a
kill
in
my
book
what
what
are
you
doing
hello
hello
oh
i
think
he
was
just
a
little
confused
[Music]
stop
that
recover
high
oh
my
god
how
he
reversed
i
had
the
read
i
had
the
placement
that's
insane
oh
and
he's
he
just
didn't
get
to
play
did
he
lots
of
fire
emblem
characters
today
oh
that's
fine
i'm
fine
with
that
often
[Music]
hey
you
can
bring
your
final
smash
there
oh
we
got
her
we
got
her
that's
also
smart
because
it
preserves
our
final
smash
because
if
we
died
at
hypersense
we'd
lose
it
but
now
like
we
retain
all
the
meter
that
was
so
optimal
meter
management
[Music]
i
slid
through
that
like
a
thief
in
the
night
and
oh
my
god
she
died
i
wanted
to
like
combo
into
it
but
if
she
just
gives
me
a
corn
on
a
silver
platter
how
am
i
not
going
to
take
it
unless
it's
filed
unless
it's
fireman
fades
and
then
i
would
the
joke
is
the
game's
bad
oh
sorry
my
brain
is
now
processing
how
many
games
i
won
with
these
characters
i
claim
to
not
understand
at
all
and
isn't
that
insane
like
there
are
so
many
games
where
i
was
absolutely
convinced
i
would
lose
and
then
i
would
either
clutch
it
out
or
their
bad
rule
set
would
take
me
to
sudden
death
i
love
i
love
punishing
cross
laugh
at
that
coming
through
i
mean
kind
of
that
wow
i
got
hit
and
he
was
optimal
that
was
honestly
just
kind
of
a
good
stop
[Music]
no
stop
that
move
air
dodge
that
was
bad
okay
well
i
went
for
the
funny
move
and
it
almost
worked
oh
dude
what
did
cloud
do
against
donkey
kong
this
dude
despises
him
i'll
be
honest
to
say
i'm
a
one-and-done
for
the
content
but
you
know
i
i'll
give
this
guy
another
one
he's
at
73
oh
that
was
going
to
be
so
sick
i
i
can't
believe
like
he
got
rocked
so
hard
at
the
start
of
the
game
oh
no
yeah
he's
taking
me
down
oh
no
you
know
what
he
did
deserve
to
take
me
down
that's
not
fair
oh
he's
got
limit
and
final
smash
now
oh
he
can
combo
this
yeah
i
was
about
to
say
does
he
know
that
i'm
dead
double
or
nothing
right
here
this
one's
for
all
the
marbles
i
i
will
tell
you
that
our
cause
is
just
though
you're
[ __ ]
kidding
me
[Music]
[Applause]