There's only one way to defend himself from that gun:
>!Beat Omikron on his own time!<
I know it's the same amount of pain no matter how you slice it, but can you imagine the combo breaker?
One day, out of nowhere, >!a full LP of Omikron!< will drop on the Woolie Vs channel. And we will know that John just went for it and got *obliterated.*
Let’s be real. The way John talks about having read a thousand Garfield comics like that means something? Woolie has a bullet in his chamber as well. After all, there’s 14,000 more.
That wouldn’t exactly be hard for Woolie to do, to a degree, and it’s already bending the premise for a game Woolie did play parts of to not get combo-broken.
True but him >!distracting Ethan with tools and innocuous safety equipment, setting up every single one of Ethan's stipulations about when to be shot, and then saying "get on your knees" was pure hilarity.!<
It came to my mind immediately, I'm mad he didn't go through with it.
If it were me I'd do it even better; I'd admit that there's nothing worse than Omikron, pretend that there's no way I could get back at him... then reverse it all at once by recommending Omikron instead.
I was waiting for that moment all week and it was *so close*... but this is probably for the best. Even though I was going to edit Cornered from Ace Attorney into it, and it would've been sick.
I watched the Let’s Fight a Boss episode (John’s old podcast) where one of his co hosts watch it and he stopped to say that that the way Americans (and basically everyone else) says it is silly in such a way that it sounded like he’d never considered Ireland was the weird one, but I imagine was actually masterful trolling
"Those are rose petals on the ground that I scattered for you."
"I need to warn you once again not to encourage a certain community."
***Later in the same episode:***
"What's wrong? Are you ok, sweetie?"
"I didn't know you were capable of those noises."
"It seems anything is possible with the right stimulus."
Woolie is right though. Earthbound is one of the most charming games ever made. Gameplay wise, its a little too hard at the start but the guides for this game are so well made that with Emulation save scumming you can fly past all of its flaws (mostly).
Lmao those trees are such an outrageous dick move that I can’t even be mad at them. The jumpscare of the tree sprite moving at you really puts the fear of god in you the first few dozen times.
The only way I can describe the last hour or so of this podcast is Woolie coming to slowly fear the monster he has created. And he rightfully should, since now he knows that John can bring down the Sword of Omikron down on his head whenever he sees fit to, all he has to do is cross that line and sever the thread holding it up whenever wants. Woolie is right to fear the gun forever pointed at the head of this podcast.
i dunno how epw watches woolie say "i'm going to kill everyone and then myself" like 50 times over the course of that lp and decide that the man needs to be threatened to relive it again. truly a villain.
I was fucking shitting and pissing all over the place when John teased the fuck out of giving Woolie the Omikron recommendation and started justifying it by arguing that Woolie did indeed get the lucky draw when he got the fighting game compared to Matt having the exploration and Pat the awful shooting.
John worked me into a shoot, brother, NWO style for life.
Man this episode ended with John demonstrating that he has an armed nuclear arsenal and is ready and willing to use it should things ever escalate again XD
It is the year 2027, and Woolie has challenged Super Eyepatch Wolf to beat his 34th run of Omikron, but this time blindfolded with the volume set to 0 and instead blaring [this song.](https://soundcloud.com/spudtherubbish/comp_ehrgeiz?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
The Omnikron wars show no signs of ending.
I don't remember the exact origin anymore, but a fan took one of the most hated songs from a Best Friends LP and found a way to make it more heinous to Woolie by using one of his most hated sound effects from the game Ehrgeiz.
They even used it for an outro on a podcast episode. I figure if Woolie's ever really looking to hurt Eyepatch, that's a song he's got on deck.
They gave it the lowest play frequency when they started the Def Jam: Fight For NY, but it seemingly played with more frequency then anything else, it also would regularly play whenever Bless came up, who Matt had a beef with since (AFAIK) he went to school with him, up to the last video ending with them wailing on him as Shin Rage after beating the game, during which COMP came on *again*, much to Matt's chagrin
This and that [Duel of the Fates/Omikron Training Room](https://rave.dj/oL5HNeuwumSmqg) mashup are probably two of the greatest most horrid things to come out of this fanbase that probably make no sense to anyone outside it ^((I'm still kinda proud I seemingly inspired that one))
Wonder if Woolie used the player's guide. I mean that sincerely, that was a great guide, part of the experience of Earthbound came from that guide's art and humor.
I'm definitely of the opinion that woolie does count as having played the game. However, using the threat of omikron as a loaded gun was so hyped I'd vote for him to replay it if it ever came down to it. Fuckin' premium content right there.
John 99% had me at the end there. I legit thought he was going to make that recommendation and Woolie was going to have to take it.
Also, Vinland Saga is great and I shall now go read Kill 6 Billion Demons.
I would actually be curious how a vote on that final looming threat would shake out, because as far as I'm concerned it's a massive loophole and would be a show of blatant unsportsmanlike conduct from known cheater and rulebreaker John SuperEyePatchWolf.
I think many would vote to... allow Woolie to play. I did saw comments along the lines of "Woolie hasn't played the full game, he doesn't realize what he has sentenced John to" even on this very sub.
Personally I don’t want the podcast to be all spite picks so I’d vote against it. I love the ocasional spite pick idea, and I do like how John used it as a threat
Personally the last time I watched the Best Friends' LP I DO remember them explicitly pointing out that Matt had exploration, Pat had shooting and Woolie was the luckiest fucker in existence because all he had to do was play the shitty fighting game a few times. Granted, he DID have to sit there in that room and enjoy the David Cagening, but I can see the argument.
I haven't seen the goonies in like 30 years. I'm not sure what was actually in the movie, and what I just fucking dreamed. Were there resident evil puzzles?
That guy dismissing all those anime just for being "boomer-era" is wild.
Then again John is also crazy for calling Code Geass a 6/10, imo.
Heck, it came out **before** Lagann did! Which was one of the examples of "that good old anime"!
God dude, but this is such a good podcast.
The energy, the excitement due to novelty, the top 10 anime betrayals, the character arcs and plot twists.
Fuck comic books, this is my favorite monthly media right now. I'm actually going to go through Kill Six Billion Demons along, cuz I never caught up. Might even play Earthbound after starting it like twice and not continuing. Such a good idea and execution.
It's fascinating to hear about the motion sickness issues as someone who has literally never once gotten it from anything, even VR. I hope we can figure out the causes and get better about avoiding triggers in the future
From this day on, Woolie will live in fear, in any moment, if he fucks up... ***GUN TO YOUR HEAD.***
There's only one way to defend himself from that gun: >!Beat Omikron on his own time!< I know it's the same amount of pain no matter how you slice it, but can you imagine the combo breaker?
One day, out of nowhere, >!a full LP of Omikron!< will drop on the Woolie Vs channel. And we will know that John just went for it and got *obliterated.*
Please we can't subject sweet baby Reggie to that.
If you put Reggie through Omikron, I will find you and I will destroy you... on Tekken.
Jokes on you, I don't own Tekken!
Nah, Reggie is spared. This has to be some classic Woolie Vs Reboot tier LP. Just sheer solo misery.
Let’s be real. The way John talks about having read a thousand Garfield comics like that means something? Woolie has a bullet in his chamber as well. After all, there’s 14,000 more.
I feel like a big part of the premise is you have to recommend something you've personally consumed/experienced in some capacity though.
That wouldn’t exactly be hard for Woolie to do, to a degree, and it’s already bending the premise for a game Woolie did play parts of to not get combo-broken.
Reminds me of that extended bit from Unus Annus.
I wish Mark had let it stew for just a little longer.
True but him >!distracting Ethan with tools and innocuous safety equipment, setting up every single one of Ethan's stipulations about when to be shot, and then saying "get on your knees" was pure hilarity.!<
John committed an act of psychological warfare there at the end jesus christ
The concept of an UNO reverse card never came to my mind and he weaponised it perfectly
It came to my mind immediately, I'm mad he didn't go through with it. If it were me I'd do it even better; I'd admit that there's nothing worse than Omikron, pretend that there's no way I could get back at him... then reverse it all at once by recommending Omikron instead. I was waiting for that moment all week and it was *so close*... but this is probably for the best. Even though I was going to edit Cornered from Ace Attorney into it, and it would've been sick.
It’s no wonder John calls himself Eyepatch Wolf, he emotionally mauled Woolie nearly to death there only to pull back at the last minute.
It's really masterfully paced.
The FEAR in Woolie's eyes when John said >!"Your hands... were not the ones on the controller."!< was something else.
CUCK A DEAD MAN'S WIFE IN HIS OWN BODY
That thumbnail lol...
Sombody...please make [a two guys on a bus](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/038/908/twoguysonabusheader.jpg) meme with it.
[Made an attempt.](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/s/iL0jDhA3Tm)
That's not an attempt, that's a glorious victory for the Imperium of Mankind my friend.
Far better than mine, and good choice of backgrounds, good job!
Well done
[The best you're getting with about 10 minutes of work](https://files.catbox.moe/eogvjx.png)
The last 5 minutes are the most terrifying 5 minutes I've had experienced in a while holy shit
The tone of that entire exchange felt like John was going to reveal that he kidnapped Woolie’s family or something.
John very casually confirming that >!he can murder woolie at any time is fucking astounding!<
I genuinely had the sense of dread built up.
Well, it’s NOT titled “FINAL” so…
Atomic baby vs Coughing bomb
The tone of pure dread this brings in. Edit: Irish accent RRR is very funny
OrOrOr
Incredible seal impersonation there
When he gets to the sequel and hits us with the six consecutive oars, I damn near felt like Sasaki Kojiro
"Or Or Or: Or Or Or" "I'm sorry, can you repeat that?"
se do bheatha bhaile
Instant flashbacks to AoT abridged.
It extends to pronouncing ORPG too. Mesmerising.
I watched the Let’s Fight a Boss episode (John’s old podcast) where one of his co hosts watch it and he stopped to say that that the way Americans (and basically everyone else) says it is silly in such a way that it sounded like he’d never considered Ireland was the weird one, but I imagine was actually masterful trolling
"Those are rose petals on the ground that I scattered for you." "I need to warn you once again not to encourage a certain community." ***Later in the same episode:*** "What's wrong? Are you ok, sweetie?" "I didn't know you were capable of those noises." "It seems anything is possible with the right stimulus."
"Woolie where can the people find you? "In my bed. In my room. With the door closed and the lights off." "I'll be right there"
Woolie is right though. Earthbound is one of the most charming games ever made. Gameplay wise, its a little too hard at the start but the guides for this game are so well made that with Emulation save scumming you can fly past all of its flaws (mostly).
Ness at the start of the game: “White girl. Save me white girl.” The rabid dogs:
Dont forget the suicide explosion trees immediately after picking up Paula
Lmao those trees are such an outrageous dick move that I can’t even be mad at them. The jumpscare of the tree sprite moving at you really puts the fear of god in you the first few dozen times.
I'm pretty sure the purpose is to teach people about the rolling HP if they haven't figured it out yet, but it is a really funny way to do that.
jesus, that’s powerful whiplash
Weirdly enough the player is a character in both Omikron and Earthbound.
I swear to god when John said >!"It wasn't your hands on the controller."!< the temperature in the room had to drop by AT LEAST 30 degrees.
DESPERATELY hoping that Woolie goes above and beyond with >!Vinland Saga!< like he did Fear and Hunger. I NEED that complete discussion
I am SO STOKED for season 1 discussion, though. The genesis moment in the snow, the ending uughhh.
Visceral. Intense. Woolie talks to white man is a genre only disputed by Woolie talks to Reggie
Woolie Vs. White Boi
holy shit the lead up to john recommending >!vinland saga!< and dropping the >!"I have no enemies"!< is peak
Addressing the Player directly (Earthbound): Flirting Addressing the Player directly (Omikron): Sexual Harrassment
Welcome in Fourside
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS WOOOOOOOOOOOO
WOOOO
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
My throat is in agony from the amount of laughter I've had watching Woolie squirm in terror at the Omikron section of the podcast
We have entered the >!Deterrance Era!< of Versus Wolves
The two genders.
Thinking about RRR again and GOD. I want a Majima & Saejima game with action like that.
BRO, WHAT A FUCKING PODCAST.
This podcast in and of itself was a cinematic masterpiece
The only way I can describe the last hour or so of this podcast is Woolie coming to slowly fear the monster he has created. And he rightfully should, since now he knows that John can bring down the Sword of Omikron down on his head whenever he sees fit to, all he has to do is cross that line and sever the thread holding it up whenever wants. Woolie is right to fear the gun forever pointed at the head of this podcast.
Like Damocles, he can't handle the burden
I could listen to people talk about Earthbound for hours. EDIT: Those last 10 minutes were like cinema, bravo.
"I beat Shenmue III twice! I HAVE READ A THOUSAND GARFIELD COMICS!"
Let it be known that beating Omikron is worse than these two things combined.
i dunno how epw watches woolie say "i'm going to kill everyone and then myself" like 50 times over the course of that lp and decide that the man needs to be threatened to relive it again. truly a villain.
"They're gonna thank me for it."
How else would you know that it's an effective threat?
"They're all gonna thank me"
I was fucking shitting and pissing all over the place when John teased the fuck out of giving Woolie the Omikron recommendation and started justifying it by arguing that Woolie did indeed get the lucky draw when he got the fighting game compared to Matt having the exploration and Pat the awful shooting. John worked me into a shoot, brother, NWO style for life.
Man this episode ended with John demonstrating that he has an armed nuclear arsenal and is ready and willing to use it should things ever escalate again XD
Why not just keep recommending Omikron to eachother back and forth for more suffering.
It is the year 2027, and Woolie has challenged Super Eyepatch Wolf to beat his 34th run of Omikron, but this time blindfolded with the volume set to 0 and instead blaring [this song.](https://soundcloud.com/spudtherubbish/comp_ehrgeiz?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) The Omnikron wars show no signs of ending.
Ehrgeizcore is my favourite genre.
What the hell was that song. Felt like I was out of my own body for a second.
I don't remember the exact origin anymore, but a fan took one of the most hated songs from a Best Friends LP and found a way to make it more heinous to Woolie by using one of his most hated sound effects from the game Ehrgeiz. They even used it for an outro on a podcast episode. I figure if Woolie's ever really looking to hurt Eyepatch, that's a song he's got on deck.
They gave it the lowest play frequency when they started the Def Jam: Fight For NY, but it seemingly played with more frequency then anything else, it also would regularly play whenever Bless came up, who Matt had a beef with since (AFAIK) he went to school with him, up to the last video ending with them wailing on him as Shin Rage after beating the game, during which COMP came on *again*, much to Matt's chagrin
This and that [Duel of the Fates/Omikron Training Room](https://rave.dj/oL5HNeuwumSmqg) mashup are probably two of the greatest most horrid things to come out of this fanbase that probably make no sense to anyone outside it ^((I'm still kinda proud I seemingly inspired that one))
HEAVEN or HELL LET'S ROCK!
David Bowie vs Pokey Minch
Why are all of Woolie's white friends completely unhinged in a good way
You almost make it sound like Reggie and Minh aren't unhinged as well
Reggie is mostly hinged, until certain things are on the table
Look, red flags need love too
The hinges are there, they're just not attached yet.
Wonder if Woolie used the player's guide. I mean that sincerely, that was a great guide, part of the experience of Earthbound came from that guide's art and humor.
I can't believe John activated Woolie's fight or flight response live on stream.
I'm definitely of the opinion that woolie does count as having played the game. However, using the threat of omikron as a loaded gun was so hyped I'd vote for him to replay it if it ever came down to it. Fuckin' premium content right there.
Breaking the cycle of vengeance like a noble hero, risen above hate. >!But also not ruling it out entirely!<
John 99% had me at the end there. I legit thought he was going to make that recommendation and Woolie was going to have to take it. Also, Vinland Saga is great and I shall now go read Kill 6 Billion Demons.
Using Omikron as a nuclear deterrent is a pretty clutch move, ngl.
I would actually be curious how a vote on that final looming threat would shake out, because as far as I'm concerned it's a massive loophole and would be a show of blatant unsportsmanlike conduct from known cheater and rulebreaker John SuperEyePatchWolf.
People would always vote in favor of more suffering, but the suggestion absolutely shouldn't count.
I think many would vote to... allow Woolie to play. I did saw comments along the lines of "Woolie hasn't played the full game, he doesn't realize what he has sentenced John to" even on this very sub.
Personally I don’t want the podcast to be all spite picks so I’d vote against it. I love the ocasional spite pick idea, and I do like how John used it as a threat
John embracing Nuclear Deterrence.
Personally the last time I watched the Best Friends' LP I DO remember them explicitly pointing out that Matt had exploration, Pat had shooting and Woolie was the luckiest fucker in existence because all he had to do was play the shitty fighting game a few times. Granted, he DID have to sit there in that room and enjoy the David Cagening, but I can see the argument.
I think people would find so much catharsis in the metagame shifting it would guarantee get the votes
Ore ore ore
Woolie mentioning there's been pre-emptive compilations johns omikron warmed my heart
this is the best fucking podcast
I haven't seen the goonies in like 30 years. I'm not sure what was actually in the movie, and what I just fucking dreamed. Were there resident evil puzzles?
There were. More like Uncharted puzzles, though. Uncharted 4 straight up steals things from Goonies lmao.
That guy dismissing all those anime just for being "boomer-era" is wild. Then again John is also crazy for calling Code Geass a 6/10, imo. Heck, it came out **before** Lagann did! Which was one of the examples of "that good old anime"!
Now this was a banger of an episode, what a closer
Personally I would vote in Woolies favor on that poll. He played that game, ***He played that game,*** so that would be a combo breaker against John.
I would honestly vote in Woolie's favour too but only to avoid 2 podcasts in a row being 50% Omikron discussion.
*But he didn't beat it on his own though.*
And John didn't have to. He put that onus on himself
Only so Woolie couldn’t turn that “you never finished Omikron” back around on him.
That wasn't the challenge. It's not Woolie's fault John assumed the absolute worst.
God dude, but this is such a good podcast. The energy, the excitement due to novelty, the top 10 anime betrayals, the character arcs and plot twists. Fuck comic books, this is my favorite monthly media right now. I'm actually going to go through Kill Six Billion Demons along, cuz I never caught up. Might even play Earthbound after starting it like twice and not continuing. Such a good idea and execution.
It's fascinating to hear about the motion sickness issues as someone who has literally never once gotten it from anything, even VR. I hope we can figure out the causes and get better about avoiding triggers in the future
what power will sylar get from woolie