What's up guys, welcome to Road Riot. I'm Alex Fanover. What's Flyer C? Lidrib, Bubby. We're gonna do a race. It's gonna be Sean and I versus Drew and Bubby. Two pilots, one radio. This is something we see requested in the comments all the time, and we've never done it. And there's a very good reason for that. We just usually don't really feel like it. And... All right, so two pilots, one radio. What that means is one pilot's gonna control the pitch and the roll, and the other pilot's gonna control the yaw and the throttle. What I was thinking is we do two races. We do one race. For example, I'm doing throttle and yaw, you're doing roll and pitch, and then we'll switch it. Yeah, it'll be awesome if we can race. Yeah. I just want to see if we can even fly this. What do you want? Pitch or throttle or roll or what do you want? I'll go pitch and roll. You want that? Okay. I think Bubby is the better racer between the two of us as far as getting around a course. And I kind of feel like the pitch and roll stick, I don't want to say more important, but like I feel like you have a lot more authority over that.  You just tell me more or less and I'll just kind of help you steer. Cool. I think we should probably do the similar strategy. I'm thinking I take roll and pitch and you take throttle and yaw. Okay, works for me. So we'll just kind of do the same thing. So what we're going to try and do is we're going to just first off, make sure that we can actually fly two pilots in one radio. I don't think that'll be an issue, but actually doing it well is another thing. And then what we're going to try and do is we have a simple racetrack that's set up, relatively simple but somewhat challenging given the circumstances we're going to be flying on. And we're just going to do three lap race, first one to the finish line wins. So I'll be doing the throttle and I'll be helping you steer with yaw. But I think I'm going to rely on you to be in charge. So I guess you communicate to me what you want me to do, you know? Gotcha. Or should we come up with like a code? Cause so you don't have to say out like, yeet for more. And for more or less. Yeah. Okay. And then left, left, left. Okay. Like maybe like left.  I'll go a lot of yaw and sit. And with right, you go, not left, not left, not left. Yeah. No, I would just say right. We're kind of flying our freestyle quads. Like this one right here, if you look at it, it's a stretch X quad. This is like kind of a racing quad. It's got a session on it. It's lighter than their quads going to be. So we have an advantage of the quad, higher KB motors. So we have no excuses. Go for it. I'm on the pitch. Here we go. Let's just go. This isn't bad. Oh, this isn't hard at all. A little bit of yaw. Hey, let's do a roll. Let me some throttle. Look at that. We're already doing freestyle. Let's go this side. Let's just go right around the trees. Okay, left. Then let's go straight after these trees. Let's see if we can do the start gate, yeah. Nice. Nice, left to the gate. Let's just go around the flag. Okay. On the other flag. Let's just do the slide. Practice. Okay, yaw. Yaw, yaw, yaw. I think we're doing pretty good. This is freaking awesome. Just tell me if I can. This is way better than, oh, we're not going to power loop though, right? No, let's just get through it. Okay. It's okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're doing something. Look at this. I don't know where we're going now. That one. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Hold on, let's back up. I know, I know. It's hard we don't know the other person's doing. All right, all right. So let's go to the next gate this direction. Yeah. Whoa! I know, I'm trying to help. Way too fast now. That's okay, that's okay. I already did it. Top gate, bottom gate. Whoa, where are we? We need to communicate which way we're going to turn around it. We're going to have to have to stop. All right, left after this. Oh, okay, top. Now, which way you want to go left? Okay. Let's go back to the same bottom gate. My arm's getting numb. Yeah, I know, right. Around the flag. Yep. All right, into that gate. Into that gate. And then straight into the start gate. We'll just not do it. Oh no, go right, go right, go right. Okay, right. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Start gate after the left flag or? Yep, yep, yep. Good. Holy crap, we made a course. We made it. Whoo! Whoo! I'm not sure that's what y'all was doing there.  Oh, let's see me in land. Let's do a Rubik's Cube real quick. One Rubik's Cube. Oh my God. It's all me. Just gotta give it throttle. Throttle and then off the throttle, off now. Oh my gosh. Nice! Oh, that was sick. All right, so let's go between those two trees right there. Right there, okay. Go. Boom, all right, let's hit the top gate. Try to hit the top gate. Top gate, top gate, top gate. Nice! Turn right, let's go around the big tree. Let's try some solemn, so let's go too much here. Okay. Between the trees. Between the trees again, okay. Okay, and we're in a power loop. Power loop, power loop, power loop, power loop. Keep looping. There it is. There it is. Shoot the gap, shoot the gap, shoot the gap. Yes! Yes! All right, let's go around to go under there. Dude, let's power loop this thing. Power loop, like, power loop gap. Oh yeah, so here. What are we doing? Let's track out a little bit. Okay. Okay, all right, we're gonna turn, we're gonna turn left, turn left, turn left. Turn left, okay. That's too fast. All right, and power, oh, okay. Nope, oh! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, okay, reset, reset, reset. Are we trying to power loop gap? What are you doing? Yeah, I wanted to power loop the gap. We're going kind of fast to do this. Yeah, it was a little bit fast, so let's go to the other side. All right, and... Okay. Bro, are you kidding me? We were so close. Are you kidding me? Wanna try trippy spinning? Oh my, a trippy? Yeah, so, yeah, so like, turn this way when you do it. Okay. So, three, two, one. Oh no. Sorry, I went the wrong way. Okay, okay, I know. I'll do the same thing you did. Okay, three, two, one, go. Oh, two, one! Let's go!  Yes! Oh my gosh. Okay, wanna try matty flipping? What are you doing? Oh yeah, that's matty flip, this gap here. Okay, let's go. Get one right here. Yeah, right here. Three, two, one, go. All right. Oh. Drop it. Keep it back, keep it back, keep it, matty flip! Woo! Are you kidding me? Yeah!  Let's, what do you want? Under, under, under, boom. Power loop! Okay, you wanna power loop? Okay, what are you doing? What do I do? Power loop? Oh, no. I don't know what we're doing.  Okay, here we go. Here we go, and boom. Floaty, floaty, floaty, floaty, floaty, floaty, floaty. Woo! Oh, power loop. Woo! Yassmin. Oh, no, no, no, no, okay. All right, let's bring it in, buddy. Let's bring it in. All right, let's do it. Okay. Okay. I'm just timing. That's incredible. That was so much fun, dude. Oh my gosh, did we get a trippy spin? What? We did the power loop. I just felt like our mind was like one, dude. We lived in the same frequency. Sean, I don't know. I mean, I think we did really well. You did great. We didn't even try. We did room excursions, we did Maddie. We did everything else. We did it, we did it, we did it. I think that we are going to win because Drew's probably gonna forget the course. He's gonna forget the course. I think so too. I don't know. I feel like between the two of us we have the most racing experience. There you go. So I feel like that's gonna play an advantage because we're not gonna succumb to the pressure or anything like that. These guys went straight to freestyle in their practice and we just practiced. Yeah, we were actually going through gates and actually flying the track.  Like we're actually practicing. Let's see you trippy spin. All right, I'm required. Less than five. Go. Okay, turn left. All right, slow it down maybe a little bit. Slow it down, because you gotta go through that one on the very left. Okay, let's go around here. Okay. It's okay. It's okay. Here, here. Oh my God, we're so good at this.  Okay, okay, turn around. Okay, go down, and boom, go through the gate over there. Drop, drop, boom, and go through this one. Left one, left one. No, we gotta go around. We gotta go back through it. Get your car back. I know, hold on. We gotta get down. We gotta get down. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we gotta go through the start now. I know. Okay, now let's go, let's go. No, we're yawning, we're yawning. I'm yawning the wrong way. Okay, okay, okay, we're fine. We just blue past that. Going down, boom. All right, there we go. Now left after this. Up, up, up.  Okay, turn left, left, left, left, left, left, left. There we go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Left turn. Left turn. Go. All right, all right, all right, all right. We had one lap so far. All the way, all the way, just left turn, left turn, left turn. Okay. Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow. Go down, we don't need to do that. Where are you going? Where are you going? Shot, where are you going? Where are you going? It's confusing here. Boom. Go slow, we can go slow, we're good. Boom. Boom. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. All two guys. Oh my God. Made through, made through, and we're gonna land. We're gonna have a nice landing. We're gonna have a nice, nice landing. This arm. We had a nice landing. I don't know about you guys. I mean, what matters more at the end of the day? The only thing is poor shot was yelling the wrong way ever. We never said what the rules were. Was it first to three laps? It was first to three laps. Okay. We lost. We lost.  We actually thought you guys were gonna crash. Me and Drew beat Alex Vanova and Ray. This is what it feels like to win. Find my flow, man. Throw, man. Oh man. Oh God, stop, whoa. You wanna try swapping now? I feel like we should try swapping. I'm not sure if the result changes. I know. You're so confident. You're supposed to beat us again. I'm just, hold on. Oh, you're not confident? I mean, we'll probably lose again, but. We'll do well with Sean on this side of me. On this side. This is probably our option. Yeah, all I gotta do is operate the RC car now. It's just left right up to down. But we're gonna push a little bit harder. A little bit harder.  Since he's on the throttle stick, I've got no choice but to go to his. Yeah, we're gonna be now. You're long for the ride. That's what you're saying? All right, in listin'. Five, go.  Sean, Sean, Sean. Oh my gosh. That was way worse. Bring it down, bring it down. Turn him up, turn him up. Oh, there it is. Boom. You can still catch up. Whatever, this is tough. All right, we're gonna go through the top one and I'm gonna split us to the left. Okay, boom. Boom. Or go here, if it was good. All right, nice. We are way slower in this configuration. Boom. Boom. All right, we're good. First lap done. Here we go. Yeah, I'm last lap done. Good. I wanna say a good conversation. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Go let your lap go. Let's go, let's go. One. One. Just try to take the start a little too fast. This is good, this is good. This is good, this is good. Keep it going, keep it going. We're on her slow. Okay, to the left. Left, here we go, left. And is that second lap or done? Second lap. Oh, we're done. Here we go, second lap. Oh my gosh. Yeah, we're a lot smoother, but slower than this one. All right, one. Left. All right. Going good over here, Sean. Yeah. We're almost there. I think she's taking a rest. Oh my gosh, they just passed us? Yeah. Oh, but we're ahead on left, right? Oh my God. Okay, throttle, throttle, throttle. Here we go. All right, keep close, keep close. We won! We won!  He's like, I don't care, let go. Let go of the quad. We didn't even work turtle-moting for 20 seconds over here. Dude, he disarms and jumps up and the quad just goes flying. Fedover's reaction is just priceless. It's like, disarm, run. I'm done. So who's at you with this? Why did we even do this? That's my idea. Yeah. I'll admit it, it ended up being more fun then. Yeah, I was trying, telling this guy for weeks, I'm like, we gotta do this when we're all in town. We gotta do this and you're like, ah, I don't know. And then him and Bubby try, he's like, okay, wait, we gotta do this. We're pretty good at this, man. We are pretty good at this. I'm just saying that. Troopy spin, Matty flip. Listen, we power looped. Like, the real thing, yeah. Did you guys see us do that? I had a blast. I didn't think it was gonna be as much fun as it was. And it was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. Like, I didn't think we'd be able to fly, but like, the fact that we were able to use some electrics, we did it was pretty sick. And I did finally beat Van over in a race.  You won round two. So we don't even. I'm just not very good at yaw. I gotta be honest. Yeah, you were just yawing in the wrong way. I was like, hold me back. Well, once I forced you to like, go full throttle, I was like, Shawn, we're going because I'm giving you everything it's got. You guys crashed out and I thought there was no chance you ever did that. Well, yeah, we didn't think either. Well, because what happened is we take off, I'm like, Shawn, we're going to launch hard. And he just holds it and we just. Yes. He's like, all right, I'm going to give you a really heart. I'm like, okay, pitch forward. He just holds it. And then we came back and we were really quiet. We were focused and I was giving him all the throttle. Oh man, it was awesome. That was somewhat larky. We thought we had it. We were just chilling. We were like, why risk it? Because if we crashed out, then we're going to have to redo it or something like that. Was that them testing us? Yup. It was a lot of fun.  Like, in an open field. In a field. Because it's actually so much fun. You guys can switch around. It's something different. And I don't think a lot of people realize how much fun it can be. Just be safe about it. Like, I think one of the risky things that can happen in like, in a wipeout, you're like, well, who's responsible for disarming or something like that. So make sure you kind of think about that. I have a time and like play safe. Don't take any lines where you're like coming at you, you know, but if you just think about that, it's safe in it and being a lot of fun and like working with someone to like try to do certain lines, whether it's like freestyle or racing. See, that's what we learned. The first time we just banked on you not being able to remember the course. Yeah. I remember the course. Bobby remember the course. Exactly. So it ended up being basically a tie. We won one round, you won another round. Which team do you guys think is superior? Is it the Drone Bandits or, you know. We don't need a name. We're not kids, Sean and Alex. Like, we're just great. Drone Bandits. Drone Bandits. Drone Bandits. Thank you guys for hanging out. This was a lot of fun. If you're new here, hit the subscribe button. Every Monday, hit the thumbs up button to let us know you had a good time. Guys, I'm LaDrib. I'm Alex Manover. Let's fly RC. I'm Bobby F.E.D. We'll see you next time on Rotorat. Woo! Here's your square up. Square up against you. Remember when we wrestled in San Diego? Square up? Can I square up, bro?  Square up against me. Square up?  You don't hit each other in the square up.


Okay, story time. I have depression and anxiety, and it's not as bad as it used to be, but sometimes it gets bad. And a lot of you already know this. I try and be very open about it. If you've ever joined a live stream, good chances I've talked about it. If you've ever met me in person, there's a good chance we've talked about it. And if you've ever watched that video I made a while back, then yeah, that video, yeah. But for a lot of you, it might be a shock. I don't know. I don't like using the word public figure. But whenever a public figure talks about their depression, especially when it's someone that tries so hard to be positive every single day that they're on the internet, sometimes it can be surprising. So let me give you a little bit of background history. Let's summarize that video I made in not so many words. When I was young, my parents were terrible people. They didn't love me. And they were very open about the fact they didn't love me. My dad would straight up tell me to my face and also show me. And mom never said it, but it was obvious. And on top of that, there was a lot of abuse in my house, mostly mental. And it definitely took its toll. And I think the biggest thing for me as a young kid growing up was the feeling of just knowing your parents don't love you. It's a crushing feeling. And it's something I didn't understand for a long time. It's just something I was used to growing up, like that's what my parents were like. So when I started going to my friends' houses and seeing what their parents were like and the relationship that they had, I started to realize that something was wrong at home. And I was a very, very good kid.  But I was a good kid while I was there. And I was still good after that, but I just stopped caring. So it was, I didn't understand, I remember thinking at the time, I do my best and they don't love me. I don't know why.  At least it did for me. I was very insecure. If my own parents didn't love me, who would? Who could? That's, I thought that all the time. And that filled me with anxiety. When I was younger, it wasn't so much depression, it was mostly anxiety. I would have anxiety attacks all the time. And then moving into high school, I was, for lack of a better word, a baby. I was going to say a word I shouldn't say on this channel. I was a baby. I was just so insecure. I had no self-esteem, no self-worth. And I was bullied a lot and I let it happen because I felt like I deserved it. But that's what started my depression. Obviously it didn't help my anxiety, but that's what really kick-started my depression and led me down suicidal thoughts. I started to not care what happened to me anymore. And then leaving high school after bombing the last couple years, because, I mean, my parents didn't care. Why would I? Right? I didn't really have any ambitions or really any qualifications to do anything with my life. So I started working data and jobs, retail, stocking shelves, and I hated it, obviously. Well, I mean, depending on the job, you can enjoy that. But where I was, I hated it. But it was a very secure job, so I stuck with it and my depression just got worse. And I never sought help because I was very, very stubborn. I never wanted to try anything. I just believed I could get through it or believed I deserved it. And then, stroke of luck, I came across this channel called The Game Chasers. My friend did, actually, and he said, hey, why don't we do something like this? And I started a YouTube channel, and it gave me a hobby, it gave me an outlet to be creative. And I was very creative before I gave up. And so it was like going back to that, and it helped a lot. And I started getting support from you guys, and a lot of nice comments made me feel a lot better about myself. And then that channel got to the point where I wanted to travel with it. I wanted to go see some of the friends I was making through the channel and the friends I had made overseas. And so I did, and it made me happy. So I decided to move and try and stay. It made me happy for a while, but just like anything, you live somewhere for a year or two that's no one exciting, depression sets back in and the same old things start bothering you. I didn't truly find happiness until I met Kim. Kim is everything. Kim showed me what it was to be loved. So for the first time in my life, I felt loved. And around that same time, my channel started blowing up, which that in itself didn't give me the happiness like a similar level that Kim was giving me of course. It made me happy, but it did help in a way I didn't expect because the more I tried to put positivity out into the world with my content, the more people told me I was making them happy and that my content was helping them. So all of a sudden after not even knowing what happiness was my entire life, I went from having my own happiness and being able to give happiness back to hundreds of thousands of people, which is a feeling I can't describe, and both of those things gave me a reason to live. This is why I don't talk about this stuff. But not everyone knows how to deal with depression. Not everyone has their Kim yet or has their outlet or knows where to turn to or know what to do with their depression and their anxiety.  I told myself I wouldn't cut this video or edit it, but man, they're happy tears.  It's got me a little emotional. Stupid. I wear my heart on my sleeve. While being able to spread positivity the way that I do is great, I want to be able to do more. The fleeting moments of happiness that you may get from my channel or being involved in my community is amazing and it fills me with happiness. But there needs to be more. There needs to be a way that I can actually help more and help put people in the position I am. So this Monday, I am doing a live stream. I don't know how long for, I'll get to that, but I'm doing a live stream to raise money for charities that help people with depression and anxiety. This is something that's extremely important to me. I have always wanted to do a charity live stream and I've always put it off because I always knew what charity I wanted to do it for and I dreaded making this video. For obvious reasons, but it was time. It's time. And there's a reason why it's time. But before I get to that, I want to do this because a lot of you, every time I talk about depression or even when I go to these conventions, are so way too many of you. And I love that you have this outlet through my content and through me, but it's too many people suffer from depression and anxiety. And I just need to do my part in helping. So by doing this, I'm not only raising awareness or trying to raise awareness for these places that can help you. So even if you're not donating, even if you're not, you know, on that side of it and you're on the other side, the depression side and you don't know what to do when you've been looking for an answer, hopefully these charities will be a place that you can look to for your help. And then on the other side of things, if you just want to donate to these charities because they feel like that's something that's close to your heart or you just want to help support those people or myself, then, you know, that that one's obvious. You can you can do that in the live stream. These are the charities, by the way. OK, the reason why I'm doing these four is because I found a site that recommended them, but also they kind of tackle different parts of depression and anxiety. So the first one is American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This charity works to understand and prevent suicide, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. This Foundation awards scientific grants to those working to make discoveries and understanding the causes of improving the treatments of mental disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, autism, bipolar, attention deficit, hyperactivity, post-traumatic stress and obsessive compulsive disorders. Treatment Advocacy Center. This charity works to improve the treatment of severe mental illness by promoting policies and practices for the delivery of psychiatric care and supporting the development of treatments for and research into the courses of psychiatric illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. And then finally, the Trevor Project. This national organization provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens and young adults. So please, if you're free Monday or you want to donate to these causes, I'm going to leave links to everything down below and join me on Monday. I want to raise $1,000 minimum for each charity. I'm not going to stop until that's happened. So we're going to need at least $4,000 and there's two surefire ways we're going to get there. The first one is you watching this right now. I know not all of my half a million subscribers are going to watch this, but imagine if they did and they all turned up. What would you have to give each like two cents? Like if you all gave $1, that's half a million to all these charities. So I mean, the bare minimum for each person is so small that we can definitely get this done. If you come and show the support I'm asking you to show. And the second way this is going to happen, almost immediately get halfway there is I obviously have a Patreon and my Patreon, if you go and look at it right now, it's public. I don't hide anything I do. It's almost up to 2000 a month. That is half of what I'm asking for. So I'm looking at you right now, Patreons. There's 402 of you right now, I believe. And I know you're watching this because if you're not, then why are you leaving a Patreon? So please for this month, take that donation away from me, cancel it, whatever it is you need to do to make sure that doesn't go through this month. And instead, either join me in this live stream or just use it down below and donate towards this cause, preferably in the live stream so we can all see that bar grow because that'll be the coolest way. But as long as you're giving to these charities, it means the world to me. And I would much rather it go towards this. So right there, we're halfway there, guys. I'm going to stream for as long as I humanly possibly can before I just want to go to bed. But I'm going to at least get this 4,000 funded and it should not be hard. Again, this is obviously something that means a lot to me personally. And I just want to do whatever I can to help more than however much I already help. That is the point of this video in a nutshell. I've said it, I've said my piece and here's why I'm doing this thing. And here's how you can help. And if you have depression, here are places you can go to to get help. That's the point of this video, but something that's really going to help me right now and my depression is saying something else. That has definitely been an instigator for me doing this video and supporting this cause because I've wanted to turn this negativity I've been experiencing lately in a positivity. And it's something that I need to say.  I wear my heart on my sleeve. And when people say mean things about me that I don't feel like a true, I have such a hard time leaving it be. But every time I've tried to combat these things that are being said about me, it's just gotten so much worse. And a lot of people might say you should still leave it alone. And a lot of people have no idea what I'm talking about. Those that do are who I'm talking to. But this started a couple months ago. People started making these videos about me and about my friends. Calling us scammers, essentially, which went on. We haven't been doing anything differently on the platform than any other creator, nothing differently that we haven't been doing for years and years now. That in itself is fine. You can look at that.  It's going to happen when you grow a channel that that thing is going to happen. I mean, you can look at it. You know, it's misinformation and you can leave it there. You can laugh at it with your friends and just and just ignore it. That's easy. But it became harassment and it became bullying pretty quick with constant, constant comments on all of my social medias and these videos being made nonstop. And I was still going to ignore it, but then very quickly, it became amazingly toxic, just so disappointingly toxic. And what really broke me down and destroyed me was and I know this person is going to know who they are and they're going to take it as a victory. But I don't I need you to know how much it hurt. They made a video about me purely because they don't agree with the fact I have Patreon. They made a video about me and wanting to hurt me physically. They were talking about what they were going to do to me. That I can take. I think it's a bit extreme and it's definitely harassment and bullying, but that I can take. But very quickly in the video, it turned into being about Kim. And it was disgusting. And I immediately felt like a failure. I felt like I should never have brought Kim onto the channel. I felt like I wasn't doing a good job protecting her. And I didn't understand why it had to get to that point. And now that that's allowed by YouTube, people are legitimately trying to find where I live. And it's scary. Kim wants to get security alarms put on the house, which I agree. And I'm going to do that because I need to know that she's safe when I'm not here. It's just very scary. And it seems to all be because I have a Patreon and I have a PO Box. And so I need to address it and I need to at least get my opinion out on these things and explain to you why I have these things and what they do. Because I don't want it to get to the point where one of us gets hurt because I have these things. And I just didn't say anything about it leading up to it. So here it is really, really quickly. Okay, because I know a lot of you already understand and I'm talking to about 200 people right now. But my Patreon I started when Patreon itself started and no one cared then. I had a few people donating and it helped me buy certain things for the channel. It was nice. As the channel grew, obviously it grew. And initially I only had a $1 tier, a $5 tier and a $10 tier. But then as people started donating more crazy amounts like $20, $50, I started to look at that and be like, wow, this guy's giving me $50 a month. And I didn't have a reward for him. So I made a $50 tier.  No, not really. I told him not to. He did it as a joke initially but then just followed through with it. Gave a $100. And I didn't have a tier for a $100, but I wanted to give him something back. I don't think playing games with me is worth $100. But I wanted to give something to him for donating that much. So I made him a tier at that point. I didn't have a $100. I didn't have $50. I didn't have $20. I gave these people tiers so they had something to look forward to for the insane amounts they were donating. And then more people gave to those tiers. I'm not making it any higher because that's insane at that point. I just wanted to give them something. So that's why those tiers are there. And I've always been very public about my Patreon. I've always shown exactly how much my Patreon makes because I didn't want any misconceptions. If someone wanted to donate to my show because they wanted to show support and they went to my Patreon and saw how much I was getting a month and thought that's enough for that guy, I wanted that to happen. I wanted them to know how much I was getting. It was very important to me that I was very open. I'm also very open with my Patreons about where the Patreon money goes. I'm not going to get into it now. The Patreons already know and those are the ones that matter. The Patreon supports the show. It directly supports the show and it really helps. And the reason why the channel keeps growing and exploding in quality is because I can afford to buy new cameras.  I can afford to have an editor help me make more content than I usually would make. Shout out to you Jordan Fringe.  It directly supports the show. I don't ask for any more than what's already given. I just use what is given to improve the quality and keep doing what I do as best as I can do it. I have a PO box because I made one back when I have a thousand subscribers because everyone else had one and I really wanted to get fan mail. I thought it would be the coolest thing and it was. It was amazing. I still remember the first thing I was sent. It was a freaking Xbox from the Netherlands that had 5,000 games put on to it. Chris and I lost our minds when we opened that. And I made it a point to show everything I was ever sent on my channel because it was important to me because I know that these people are sending stuff to me because they get happiness from my show and they want to give it back and I know if I show what they have sent I'm giving them that moment of happiness in return and they get to see them making me happy and we get to make each other happy and happiness is so goddamn important. Shoot. But I don't ask for any of it. I don't need any of it. I'm not trying to take any of it. It's just there if people want to give it. And I use it to create content. I use it as a crowdfunding source to create more and do more and give it back to the people that give to me. That is why I have Patreon. That is why I have a PO box. So if you still hate me for that and you still want to make videos about me and my wife and my friends know that you're doing it just because you don't like me. Not because I'm doing anything wrong. Not because I'm scamming people. Not because I'm a bad person. But just because you don't like me and that's fine between you and me I'm not very fond of you either. But that's why you're doing it. You don't like me. I don't know why you don't like me. Not everyone likes me and I understand that people don't like me for different reasons. The reason why I changed my Twitter bio to say I'm in a quiet taste like Vegemite is because I feel like I am. I'm a very loud obnoxious person. I'm very sensitive. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a big old baby a lot of the time and I'm just always yelling at the camera about games.  I don't care about that one though. It ain't gonna stop. That's why you're here right now, right? But if you continue to make these videos and I'm sure you will and power to you I just want you to know that you're not exposing me. You're not exposing any of my friends. You're not calling us out on anything and you're not making a difference. You're not making a change because nothing is happening here. I want you to know the reason why you're making these videos because you don't like us. And because the people that watch you don't like us. That's why it's violent threats. That's why it's homophobic comments. That's why it's sexual threats towards the woman I love. It's not because we're doing anything wrong. It's not because you're exposing us. It's because you don't like us. And that's okay. But just know that that's why you're doing it. And know that you depressed me and upset me so much that you inspired me to do more and be more active in my community and help more people. It's because of you that thousands of dollars are about to be raised for charities. And you can take pride in that if you want. You weren't about it a really bad way but that is the only positive thing that has ever come from the content that you make. Now that I got that off my chest I do feel a lot better. And I can go into taking all this negativity and turning it into positivity on Monday with a happy, light-weighted heart. And I really hope all of you join me for that stream. I hope all of you understand the context of this video the purpose of this video. And let's give. If you have any connection to all of this, if you understand where I'm coming from let's give on Monday. Let's see how crazy we can make this thing. I want it to be insane. I'll settle for the 4,000 but I want it to be insane. I love you guys and remember this goes to each and every one of you even those that might not be dealing with depression right now but definitely those that are you are not alone. Those are the most powerful words I can give that helped me so much. You're not alone. Whenever you feel like you're alone you're not alone. There's so many other people dealing with exactly what you're dealing with. In so many different ways and walks of life there are people out there dealing with it as well. It's not just you. You're not alone. It's not anything that's wrong with you. It can get better. And you can find help. You can get through this. You can. There are people that are in such worse positions than I was ever in and I even can't imagine what that feels like. But there's always a way. There's always something. I never thought YouTube and starting a channel was going to be my thing and you will never know what's your thing. You won't know until you try. So do not give up.


The Nigerian Senate has confirmed Loretta Onochi, special assistant to the president as chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The confirmation of Onochi and 12 others as members of the NDDC board followed the presentation of a report by the vice chairman of the Senate Committee on NDDC, Senator Amos Bullos, on Tuesday in plenary. The committee wishes to recommend for confirmation the nomination of the following as chairman and members of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Loretta Ifain Onochi as chairman, Governing Board of NDDC, during the screening exercise, the committee observed that two of the presidential nominees were absent and there was no information from the special assistant to the president on national assembly matters explaining the absent. The two presidential nominees that were absent and therefore no screen are, one, Dr. Pires Ekperimwen Odudu, nominee to represent Edo State on the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, two, Injena Anthony Akane, nominee to represent Emo State on the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission. Accordingly, the committee stepped down the screening of the two nominees for reason of non-appearance before the committee. NDDC Before their confirmation, some senators objected to Onochi's confirmation saying she's not from an oil-producing community but reverse is senator George Sekibose, who says this issue is not clearly defined in the act's establishment for NDDC. NDDC Submit that we should add a clause in our resolution calling on not only this president but all future presidents who will have to implement the act to comply in their nominations with the requirements of indigestion. But what the law says is that the nominees should come from oil-producing areas. But that anyhow you interpret it, it cannot go outside communities, it cannot go outside a local government and it should, in my view, not go outside the senatorial district. It should not be interpreted to mean the same thing as an oil-producing state and therefore you go to an oil-producing state and you nominate anybody from within that state. I disagree with that. So, Mr President, this has been done. Because the NDDC Commission, I've been there for a very long time. We have tried to be sure that it was, you know, the nominees were sent to us. I couldn't do much. Now, the president in his own wisdom, when he's almost leaving office, he could have closed his eyes and then sent this thing to us. So, whatever will form a bottleneck to the nomination of the commission, I think we should leave it. Because the truth argument about closed community and oil-producing community have not been properly defined. It has not. It's going to create more problems, even the PIA. That problem will be there. People assume that oil-producing areas is where you have flow stations, where you have a sound path, water from the ground, that things are moving horizontally. If they drill here, it doesn't mean that. In a remark while performing the confirmation, President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawar, charged the newly confirmed board to hit the ground running by and backing on projects that will ensure peace and stability in the Niger Delta region. He also requested that copies of the audit reports be made available to the National Assembly. That information will the Senate confirm the nomination of Loretta Ifani Onoche from Delta State representing South-South as chairman in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Those of you who say aye, those again say nay, the ayes have it. The nomination of Loretta Ifani Onoche from Delta State representing South-South is hereby confirmed as chairman in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Time is of essence here. This confirmed chairman and members should hit the ground running. So much time has been lost. I believe that from now until when the attorney will expire, they have a lot of work to do because NDDC itself, as we all know, is an interventionist institution. I also want to add to the executive arm of government to send us the results of the forensic audit. Yes, let's see what the forensic audit, because forensic audit of the NDDC has taken toll on the NDDC itself. Most of the time the argument was there shouldn't be the management in place and the forensic audit is over. Okay, now the forensic audit is over, we want to see what the outcome is and the best place to bring it to is the National Assembly. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of prime comments. Hope you're having a wonderful Sunday And before we get into it I want to make a small announcement about our Nintendo Prime podcast Starting this week. We are going to have one long video for our podcast and we are going to continue that through the end of Well this year and then we'll revisit if we want to continue that format in 2018 now This is how most podcasts handle it. You whether it's a video version or an audio version. They typically Just have one long segment and that's it Well, we've been splitting up our segments kind of following an old thing that kind of funny games used to do Where you split it up per topic and then we found that the per topic videos from our podcast We're getting more views than just the one long video podcast So we just decided that that was the best way to move forward However, an issue happened this past week that made me rethink all of that And that is that we had videos come out about Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and videos come out about doom at Times when what we talked about in those videos were no longer relevant This was always going to be an issue that was going to crop up some day because we typically record Thursday nights Release a day early on Sunday evenings and then start releasing the podcast on Mondays and because of that We're already a few days behind as is but because typically gaming news doesn't come out over the weekend We're not really going to be too far behind on topics when it's published on a Monday But since the Xenoblade and doom one were to the last topics They came out after the Xenoblade Direct and then you know the same day that the doom reviews were coming out so To combat that we are just going to go back to one long podcast Don't know how I'm going to handle titles with it yet we already have the new episode done in fact if you are a patreon backer and You are at the five dollar level or above you can literally listen to the podcast right now It was published before I even recorded this video And if you want to hear this week's podcast already go to patreon.com slash nintendo prime and Check it out five bucks a month. You can access the podcast right now this week. It's just Eric and Nate And hopefully next week we'll be getting some of our $20 backers out So let's get into the comments from this week. There's only three specific comics We're gonna go over out of like the 18 videos we released Man, I've been really ramping up video production. I think we're not too far away from the average in 20 videos a week That's almost three videos a day. That's insane Specially since it's mostly just me but Let's get right into the comments So this first comic comes from the triple a publisher should take lessons from Nintendo to increase profits and lower risk It's kind of a discussion video. I made giving my opinions on that and Umair as if had this to say Triple a games are becoming a fad just look at all the games released They start with huge hype and anticipation once they are released They start to lose their value within months triple a studios can't afford to take risks and create a new Amazing idea which they think will give profit so at core they add little to no changes So they already tried and tested gameplay mechanics Majority of games are just the same game mechanics with each iteration getting a massive eye candy So it feels new and fresh but when you play it it starts to get boring within weeks Western studios are working like mindless machines All they want to do is recover the money they invested taking low risk and maximizing profits Nintendo is a completely different story. Their philosophy is gameplay first Rest goes around the gameplay to compliment it their story is almost the same for Zelda or Mario for years and years But the gameplay is just so different unique and fun that no one cares Graphics compliment the world and they create it into play So it's still fun in 520p as much as it is on 1080p sorry really weird sentence at a hard time reading that one They take risk in new games and ideas in a very smart way look at arms They launch a completely new IP a new way to play a fighting game to prevent losing a ton of money They sort of made the game where it will suffice to be fun and show what can be done with minimum budget Once it started to sell. Well, they started to add more into the game Improving the game from the profits. They did the same with Splatoon 2 Nintendo loved to take risks after we you know other company would have dared to take a risk and switch But they did rather than make the most powerful box out there like everyone wanted them to and took another hugely A fate with the switch. So I appreciate some of your sentiments. You're you're wrong on some parts that you say about Nintendo As an example the sales of arms have nothing to do with the content that I've added to arm since they announced They were gonna add that content to the game before the game even released and the sales of arms is less than impressive It's to give you an idea 1-2 switches outsold arms While it's sold over a million copies I don't know if Nintendo considers that a success or a failure It's certainly not at the levels of Splatoon when it originally launched And the content that they add in Splatoon and Splatoon 2 again all of that was announced They were going to do that before those games came out So it's really got nothing to do with how well those games sold for that content That was the original plan for those games before they even released and had even one sale So yeah, that's a really good nothing to do with Nintendo's plan for those games Sorry a little itchy here. I don't know why I'm itchy on my nose, but outside of that I don't know. I mean, here's the thing like when you talk about triple triple a games are becoming a fad They're obviously not a fag is triple a games have been around for decades and decades Fads are like the we Not not something like triple a games triple a games aren't actually going anywhere triple a games today are Arguably as popular as they've ever been They're only getting more and more relevant not less relevant if that's the case That doesn't mean there aren't other types of games that are becoming extremely relevant I think the B tier of gaming has started to come back which was desperately needed and I think It sucked when that kind of went away when triple a games really took over heading into the now HD era of gaming but you know you talk about how How triple a studios can't afford to take risks. They can't afford to take risks It's got nothing to do with affordability of taking a risk Horizon zero dawn. Hello. If you're gonna give breath of the wild and Odyssey and arms and all the stuff credit Why not the new IP that Sony has in a horizon zero dawn which took a lot of risks in terms of the type of game It is being a single-player game in a market where multiplayer games not having a ton of micro transactions Followed by they just released a really what appears to be a really really good a story based DLC pack And by and large is fantastic. It's not just Nintendo doing these things I think sometimes when you are so invested in a single company like a lot of people are with Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft or EA or Ubisoft like people who just play like those kind of games or on those systems You tend to forget that Nintendo's not the only one taking risks Ubisoft, you know the division that was a risk. That was a new IP Ubisoft technically did a risk with Mario plus rabbits kingdom metal I know it's a spin-off game from two like well-known series, but it was still a pretty big risk Especially for a strategy game. That's like XCOM pretty big risk. There's other companies taking risks. Nintendo's not alone And the companies I just mentioned like these are third-party companies, so And when you're you know, you look at how they add little to no changes That's what a lot of people think Nintendo does Does the upcoming Kirby and Yoshi game look really that much different from other Kirby and Yoshi games Did Mario Kart 8 really look that much different from Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart 6 and Mario Kart 5 4 3 2 1. I mean Nintendo does iterative things as well You know Super Mario Galaxy. What does it be in praise for feeling a heck of a lot like Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine? So is it that they reinvented the wheel or that they realized what people want or the 3d Mario's and just gave us more of that? Same with Breath of the Wild did it reinvent the wheel by being open world when the original Zelda games open world or having more? RPG elements when Zelda through Zelda 2 used to literally be an RPG. I don't think That Nintendo it reinvents the wheel as much as a lot of people think they do I think what happens is they realize That they got pretty stagnant and that they were making a lot of iterative things as an example New Super Mario Brothers new Super Mario Brothers 2 new Super Mario Brothers we knew Super Mario Brothers you that really became iterative It doesn't matter that new Super Mario Brothers you is probably the best game of that series It just felt very samey going game to game the same with Super Mario 3d land Super Mario 3d world The games felt very samey even if the latest version of a 3d world was in my opinion a vastly superior game to 3d land Yeah, it Nintendo gets iterative and then they realize they've been kind of doing that for too much So then they go back to something they used to do I know Nintendo we like to give Nintendo a lot of credit like why are people excited for the next metro game? It's Metroid Prime 4 the fourth game in an ongoing style of Metroid games Pokemon on switch. We're just excited to have a console version of a Pokemon game And Pokemon itself has been very iterative over the years. So yeah, Nintendo I Don't know that Nintendo takes a lot of hardware risks They take a lot of risks in terms of trying to create a new way to game But their bread and butter is very iterative stuff That doesn't mean they don't put new ideas into that obviously like item breaking mechanic and their cooking and all If there's new stuff incident climbing everything That's probably the biggest thing they add in Breath of the Wild like there is new ideas. They put in these things But for the most part Nintendo is just like all the other triple-a companies. They're really really good at what they do and they stick to what they do And they still make new IPs as do other companies So yeah, I guess I just don't agree with your entire premise I think you're giving Nintendo too much credit and you're taking a lot of credit away from what triple-a publishers are doing Because they're doing a lot of the same thing that Nintendo is doing, you know people get mad Oh another Call of Duty. Oh another Assassin's Creed. Oh another Mario game another Zelda game another Kirby another Yoshi I mean Nintendo does the same thing It's just you like those games versus maybe not liking their games Whereas there's people that like those games that may not like Nintendo games hence bunch of people yelling at each other Throwing a bunch of mud at the wall and seeing what sticks for some reason Um, you know when you talk about you know massive eye candy There's obviously games that go for the massive eye candy, but they're also good games on top the unchartered series The last of a series very very good eye candy, but also just very very good games um But yeah, you know you talk about like mindless machines I guess usually we call duty when they say that but I don't know Call of Duty. It's still fun It's a fun thing to play. I don't really see an issue with I guess a more mindless game like that Um and in terms of I'll recover the money they invested by low risk and maximizing profits triple a gaming is anything but low risk Let's just be clear about that Triple a gaming is all about spending that money money money In fact, what makes a game triple a is the money spent on it So it's very high risk in terms of maximizing profits If they're a western studio, especially they legally have to maximize profits If they do not try to maximize profits, they can be sued by their shareholders. So On nintendo, I don't know what the laws are in japan. So they might they might not Be able to be directly sued about it plus nintendo seems to buy back a lot of their shares So nintendo holds on up to a lot of their own equity in their own company Which might prevent, you know, that might be a preventative measure measure from being like, oh, you're gonna sue us But like one of the majority shareholder you can't sue us kind of thing And I don't I don't even think nintendo is the majority shareholder in themselves But yeah, I think they're trying to become the majority shareholder.  You have to do this. You have to do that because it makes the most money And when what nintendo does right now, obviously makes money as well But could they make more money in supermoney odyssey if they added microtransactions for the costumes if they added loot boxes Sure, they would make a lot of money, but they're not doing that because they don't want to Um in the west if it was made by ea We could talk about the evil corporation, but like if they don't do that they can be sued So ea is stuck between a rock and a hard place like they want to make great games But they have to throw in this stuff because if they don't they're gonna get sued because this stuff has been proven To maximize profits.  They don't owe us anything Their pure existence is about money money money.  You're wrong They don't care about you. They care about money even indie developers Uh, when you when an indie developer lives up lives out their dream and makes their dream game and puts it out there They're putting it out. They're hoping to make money I mean They might it could be a passion project, but they're hoping their passion project makes them money Then the creator of minecraft is upset that he made all this money off of minecraft, of course He's not upset about it. Why would he be upset about it? I know he's battled depression and some other things That's topic. We're going to get into later. But yeah, um, two you're taking too much credit away and giving too much credit to Nintendo anyways, we'll be done Uh, the second comment to talk about sony has zero plans to compete with switch a lack of potential in the handheld market A little news piece we put up this week trevor grover I have this to say I mean sony wants nintendo in their own hybrid console market So that sony doesn't have to compete with nintendo in the traditional home console market space I don't think it's true at all. I don't think sony cares if nintendo made a traditional home console or not Um, I think what happened is sony doesn't think they know how to properly connect with people who want games on the go Uh, which was very apparent with vita and their approach of vita I mean the switch is basically a vita, but with its full potential realized Sony, I think realized that they just don't understand that market very well Uh, so they're going to stick to what they know. They're going to stick to what they've always been best at in terms of video games Um, and they don't really care if nintendo owns that one market because sony doesn't Doesn't see any crossover with that market even though you can argue home console gaming on the go You can say there's crossover there. Uh, we just got doomed. We're getting la to our blah blah blah, but you know Sony right now doesn't view that as competition. So it is what it is We'll see what happens in the future. They have no reason to by the way switch came out Is doing phenomenally well topping sales charts. PlayStation 4 sales weren't hurt by switch Like they didn't slow down because switch came out. So Uh, should they even be concerned? Of course, I mean, of course not at this point because Switch is doing better than sony, but sony sales aren't doing any worse In fact, in some metrics, they've actually increased year over year Anyways, he adds a last comment from this week comes from 2018 will be the year of third party on switch. I guarantee it Get a bold statement by me. Um, Christopher kensei had this to say or kensei And it's all thanks to birth of the wild link single-handedly saved nintendo and the switch Link was the reason ultra street fighter 2 sold 500,000 copies Link was the reason mario plus rabbits was massively profitable Link is the reason Bethesda is giving us doom and link is the reason every other success story on the switch Breath of the wild was a catalyst to this runaway train of success. Everybody think link you couldn't be more wrong Link and breath of the wild were a catalyst for having a killer launch game for switch Uh, it certainly was the reason that a lot of people bought switch at launch But none of that matters if one switch itself isn't appealing if Breath of the wild was a launch game on we you we you wouldn't have been successful It's still what a sold out at launch like it always did and it's still what a tank after that Uh Just because you're a launch title a great launch title doesn't guarantee anything. Let me give you an example Super mario 64 Launch title for the n64. It was the reason to buy an n64 Yet the n64 only moved a little over 30 million units By today's standards, that's not good. I mean, that's even less than the xbox one at this point so You're talking about how Zelda Or like mario is why ocarina of time sold then mario is why and you know Golden eyes sold like that's just that not the case in this case The what it was of the combination of a killer launch game Combined with a hardware people want combined with consistent software releases The this one there is not just a one factor that made the switch successful Just like there's not, you know Breath of the wild isn't my ultra street fighter 2 sold 500,000 copies Ultra street fighter 2 sold 500,000 copies because there was 500,000 plus people that owned the switch that wanted to buy Ultra street fighter 2 despite the fact that it was more expensive than other versions of the game Um mario plus rabbits was massively profitable. We don't actually know if it was massively profitable We assume it is but mario plus rabbits was vastly profitable a because of mario Because of rabbits and c because it's a really damn good game It didn't need zelda to sell it If they didn't have zelda at launch mario odyssey would have been there at launch by all accounts mario odyssey has been ready for over a year They delayed it till towards the end of this year because zelda Was ready to and they obviously were going to keep delaying zelda after all the delays that had So they were going to have zelda come out at launch and then have mario odyssey come on end of the year So yeah, if zelda wasn't there odyssey would have been there and I argue odyssey might have been a better launch game in terms of sales, so Yeah Um, I don't think zelda's why we're getting doom. You could think zelda's why we're getting skyrim I can see that but doom I don't think has anything to do with it That has to do with nintendo went to them in person said here's the switch We really want you on our hardware. Well, how can we do to make it work? And that just worked out like we know that nintendo went to them in person Literally their japanese branch went to Bethesda in person to their studios and been like, hey, what do we got to do to get you on our platform? Uh, they did this actually with several third-party companies. Bethesda is just the only one And 2k I guess a bit that that kind of took the bait and said all right. All right We like what you're doing. We're going to give you this this and this and we'll announce it when we're ready Uh, so yeah, you can say breathable was the catalyst breathable while was just part of the reason Um, a very important part but not it not not everything so I'm not going to thank link for the switch being successful I'm going to thank nintendo for having a good idea marketing it right hitting with the right crowd of people Having a platform that actually works the way they say it'll work and For maybe the first time in years no games routes Like and i'm not just talking about oh, they've released some indie games I mean like good games consistently coming out over the course of the first year of the platform We're not even to the end of the first year and we already have zeno blade chronicles 2 coming out We have this entire month is like all third party games Uh, I'm sure we're going to end up with uh, yoshi or I think it's kirby that's announced for early next year So that's probably going to land in january or february So they're consistently releasing good games that are good to great games at this point. So yeah Zell those is a part of all that but not the whole reason well now The final thing we're going to talk about quick is I made a video this week I just want to draw some attention to it breath of the wild helps save someone's life a personal story of escapism and depression I didn't take any comments from that because a lot of personal stories in there people bring it up I went per I The first 13 minutes of that are basically me talking about this story about uh, how this person was depressed I read off their their story they gave And how breath of the wild uh kind of helped save them and help get them out of the place with even quotes From actual uh psychologists on there I'm talking about how breath of the wild and Zelda could be a perfect way for people to escape And then I transitioned that into 13 minutes talking about my life and my experiences with depression And how I even mentioned an injury that happened that happened that same day. I recorded it I'm actually still dealing with it The only reason my wincing in pain is because I've been trying not to move my arm or my shoulder It's actually down to my back now too. I didn't even realize that at the time So I'm in I'm in a lot of pain. I can't even sleep very well But I just want to draw some attention to it. I'm going to put a link down to that and the other Videos we talked about in the comments below just if you have depression, uh, you know, watch that video And hopefully it'll help you Maybe realize some things about yourself. Maybe help you get some help. I hope The hardest thing to do when you have depression is admit that you need help Just like with anything in life any time you're struggling the hardest thing to admit is that hey You need help. It's okay to admit that you need help Um, all of us need help at times Anyway, folks, I'm Nathaniel Ruffigens from the tender prime and if you like this video, you know what to do And if you dislike the video hit that dislike button Subscribe for more content and I will catch you guys See see what I mean in the next one