 We, uh, we just went live strolling soon, so as you can see, things get like crazy around here, right before the show starts. Who's the best gamer of all time? Of all time? Yeah. Forcin'. I'm from Texas. Football is just what you do. You go to church on Sunday, you turn to high school football games on Friday. That's just the way things go around here. You being fully immersed in Diablo. Why is a full immersion so important to you? That's the one thing I'm not familiar with. You should be talking three to five. So it's quick. Exactly, so I got a question, answer, question. For me, like, it was good. Okay, so guys, we play studio, best is the standard, okay? Why is best the standard? Because I'm involved in everything I do is best. Yeah, so I have a little bit of a different role this year. Last year, I was on a few panels and we talked like RPGs and stuff like that. But I'm going to be hosting like during the whole show this year. I'll be presenting. I feel pretty confident. It's going to be fun. I feel like a famous person right now. I feel like Britney Spears. Yeah. This is basically what happens before every show is Ms. just finds people to think pictures with and use them for likes. I mean, that was just pretty effective. The O.T.K. choice is going to be a game that we pick ourselves. Now, also, it's not just these four. They're going to be joining me. Very importantly, for a variety of games. I'm worried I might not be a little bit underdressed for tomorrow. I'm concerned. We got all these guys dressed. We've got an incredible line-up of games that we're really excited to see. I feel like there's a commitment to excellence. I feel like there's an expectation. I don't want to let the people down. I don't want to let the fans down. I don't want to let the kids down. And that's really what it's about. It's about the children. It's not easy being a role model. From Furbier Games. Let's check it out. Chance, what did you think? Well, as a man, Chance is not in control of this panel. I am. For some respect, I'm dead as we're distant. We are the variety gaming panel. You know what? I've got some people to say before we talk about the team. So I have to prepare. Give me away three warrior creators who you see. And then we go to the Aspen because he actually introduces a segment. Okay. I still introduced Aspen earlier. Yeah, earlier for the show. That's basically the moment where the general rule of thumb should be we shouldn't sacrifice continuity for the sake of simplicity. It sets the tone for the whole show. Big energy. Yo, this is the panel. Yo, this is Aspen. Aspen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the variety gaming panel. Yes. Let's go look at the gaming PC. Boom. I'm ready. I'm hungry. We have a bunch of like media people coming in and throughout the day while we're doing the rehearsals and just interviews and like different like news outlets and stuff. Which is kind of cool. I wanted to mention one thing. I saw you at GDC. I gave you like candy. Oh, yeah. I feel really bad about doing that because like I realized how sus that looked didn't like save the system. Just gave someone an unmarked bag of... Yeah, I remember that. I was like, I don't know what to do with this. Cool. I need a scan. Hi, this is Banffa. I'm a story mom. Yeah. Yeah. Josh. Yeah. Good to meet you. Yeah. Nice to meet you. How do you find just break periods or like resets so that you don't like burn out as much? I don't. Part of it is like, it's just the nature of what we do to some degree. First thing I did want to just ask you how do you intertwine ambition with I guess concentration so that you're able to manage the things that you need to get done without maybe being too ambitious and having too much on your plate. I'm almost like obsessed with like progress. I'm literally addicted to the feeling of progression whether that's in the types of games that I play what I do in those games or just like in real life. Like I always like trying to like get better. What word is that ambitious aspect stem from? Does it stem from your days when you're in football or even before football? Was that something where you've always just been ambitious towards the things that you really enjoyed? Yeah. I think ambition can come from a lot of places. A lot of times it's how you're raised. So both my parents are Middle Eastern. So there's that. But you know, joking aside, it's championship mentality. Ever since I was like younger and you know, we were doing football, it's like you got to have like a you have to have a winning attitude. You're a winner. And part of being a winner is actually losing. My dad would always say this, I love American football because they lose. And they have to learn how to lose. And they have to take that loss and they have to grow from it. My dad said that whenever I was younger and it like always stuck with me. First, would you just feel to provide a context of how you got into football and then how that kind of drove some of your passions? I'm from Texas. Football is just what you do. It is, you know, you go to church on Sunday, you go to Texas High School football games on Friday. That is just the way things go around here. Something that I didn't play until I was 12, I think I was in sixth grade. And what happened was I had a friend of mine, one of my best friends. Basically, it was like, hey, like, you know, you're a big guy, our, our, literally team are designing linemen. So you want to come play? I was like, okay, sure. So I joined halfway through their season and I didn't really know what happened. I just was like, okay, cool. And I just started playing a little bit. No idea what happened. Played like four or five games. Then whenever middle school came around, it's like, okay, I was going to join the football team. I just kind of played football because that's what everybody did. I was, you know, it was big and no real football background. I think they literally put me on like the A team in seventh grade just because I was big. I had coaches actually tell me that. He was like, yeah, I mean, you just put you out there because you're bigger than most of the other kids. So like, cool. I didn't get a scholarship to go play anywhere. And I ended up walking on this in you. I had a little bit of an injury history coming in. And then I hurt my neck in practice. We were doing a drill and I hurt my neck in practice and actually practiced through it for a few days. And I was like, something is wrong. And then when we got to go check it out, I was like, yeah, okay. But it was against Justin Waller, who he played for the Rams for a bit and then for the Titans. By the way, amazing dude. Like he was one of my really good friends in college. I ended up getting hurt. And then whenever I got hurt, I was away from football for a bit. And then one of the new coaching staff came in and there was Chad Morris and everybody. People got retained on staff. One of them called me up and he's like, hey, I know you can't play anymore, but we know you love football. We know you're smart. They want to do some more things on like the tech side. Would you be down to come help out? I was like, sure. I volunteered at first, like kind of video stuff. And then within like a few weeks, I was doing like graphics, social media, a bunch of stuff with recruiting, like digital recruiting side of things. Like I was even helping with equipment a little bit, like helping with like designs for like some of the clothes, like workout clothes and stuff like that. And pretty much everything but coaching. That's what I wanted to get into. And I started doing that. Like I got like playbooks and stuff that they gave me. And I was in meetings all the time taking notes because my plan was to end up being a coach. But now I'm here. So, yeah. Appreciate your time. Yeah, it was great. So look. What's up, guys? Welcome back to a very special interview. We got the one and only S-Fan. That puts you on the spot. A lot of games on display throughout this expo for hundreds of thousands of people to see, which is great in itself. But what game at the expo is exciting you? There was one that was like a really cool parkour night game. And when you see it, you're gonna be like, oh, yeah, that looks sick. Like it's just just looking at it look cool. Another one, it's, it was toxic crusaders. I think it's the first thing we show in the show. Again, I haven't played that one. But we were watching the trailer for it. And I'm like, dude, I love Super Nintendo. I saw it. I'm like, this just looks exactly like turtles in time to me. Like the old Ninja Turtles game. And just like the setup of you've got like the, it's like four players beat them up type game. Like I love that stuff. Like the X-Men arcade game. Like I love games like that. So it just felt like that style of gaming to me. So I probably will try and like couch co-op that and get some of the guys together and move it together and play that. And before anyone hops on you, these guys have reviewed hundreds of games, if not slightly over a thousand games for this expo. It's a long, strenuous process. Can you take us through what it's like to have to hand sift through so many games? I'm telling you, months of going through some missions. Is it this many games for these categories or these the categories we want to go with? There's a lot of emotions because you guys also had a big announcement, which again, we're in the future. So they've already had this big announcement with Mad Mushroom being a publishing company. Gotta ask you, you've played a lot of games throughout your lifetime. So what's the motivation of wanting to start this publishing company? And what's like the ultimate end goal behind Mad Mushroom? Mad Mushroom is ambitious. Not only do we have a lot of big streamers, it's part of OTK, but we have people that are like, our guys, whether it's Asvin or Chance or anything, we have guys who played games for years and years and years. And a lot of the value of what a publishing company brings is really enhanced by rhythm marketing. If there's a game that's good and we want to publish it, we're like, okay, this game looks good. It looks fun. We'll publish it. We'll play those games on stream. If that's something that we really believe in, it's going to be a great deal for those games. There's so much value in being able to do that. Having that direct community feedback that a lot of devs don't get. Let's say a game comes out and you're like, okay, that was cool, but I think it should have this or this should have that. And I'm playing it on stream. If I play a demo of one of these games that we have in the Games Expo, then I hear what chat says. But it's a lot harder for a dev for any of these games to not only get people to play the games in the first place, but then knowing that they played the game and then going back and sifting through all the feedback and being like, what do people think? What does the streamer think? And we have that direct connection. We end up being the bridge between the community that the game is the target audience for and the developers. I'm very, very, very excited for what we can do with Mad Mushroom. We saw a cut of you playing Diablo, and it was a special cut. It was you being fully immersed in Diablo, like fully immersed. And so the question being, why is a full immersion so important to you? If you want to play games at the highest level, and I've always believed in this, you've got to be completely and totally immersed in your character. You've got to become one with the character in order to play the highest level. So sometimes you can do that. Sometimes you can't. It's just, it is what it is. But whenever I was like, hey, look, I loaded up Diablo, and I was clicking through the characters. You know, Sorcerer, Necromancer, you got the Rogue, you got the Barbarian, and then you have S-Band. So I clicked on S-Band. I clicked on the Druid. And it's like, no, this is literally like me. Everybody's like, dude, Druid looks like S-Band. Druid looks like S-Band. I'm like, okay, ha ha, guys, long hair beard equals S-Band. I went to go look at it, and I was like, oh, no, like that's me. And it's like, same body, same type of frame, same body type. I'm a little bit deflated a little bit. I haven't worked out in a few months because of some injuries. So I went up and I stood next to it, and I was like, man, I got to get back in the gym. S-Band. But no, it's actually, yeah. It's the thing, it's just you want to play at the highest level, you got to be one with your character. Yeah, man, full immersion matters. Kind of as a flip-flop, as we close down the questions, who's the best gamer of all time? Of all time? Yeah. Forcing. Why? Forcing. Why? Forcing. That'll work. Well, you know, it wouldn't be an OTK event without another announcement of a new company. Thank you. Good job, guys. So where's the creature keeper? You just want to know what I lost night? Hmm. I have canton and bananas. Guys, I just wanted to introduce myself. I work with the villains. One day. One day. See you all. See you all today. Give me the video. Hi, guys. Hi. Hi. What's the puns there with games? Yeah. What's the puns there with games? What's the puns there with games? Hello. Good morning. Hi, I am. Good morning, Lake. Good morning, vlog. So what was editing this? Just do this over and over again. What? Multiple minutes of misgift pull-ups. Do it again. Make it look like it'd be 40 seconds. Oh, wow. Wait for all the way here for this. Fuck this. Yeah. Just make sure I'm filming it. We just went live starting soon. So there's a show. As you can see, things get like crazy around here right before the show starts. A whole lot of juice, a whole lot of energy. People get really excited. You can't even contain this off the walls. Okay. There's been so much work and everything putting into this. But as you guys see this, the show's already got to be done. So I hope you guys enjoyed the show. And I hope you guys enjoyed the behind the scenes. I like doing all the behind the scenes stuff for events and whatnot. So leave a like. Leave a comment. Subscribe to the channel. All that stuff. Let me know what you thought. Let me know what you would like to see more. Let me know what I can do better. We'll keep doing this stuff. And thanks for supporting everything I do. And everything OTK is doing. And everything everybody's doing. He's like, hey, guess where I'm at. That's awesome. Guys. It's crazy how games that are ads aren't better. Okay. So the winner of Chance Choice is going to be the engineer. Yo, we did it. We did it. We did it. Good job. Great fucking job, dude. Thanks to you. That was the hardest fuck. That was a lot. That was a lot. They were getting tongue tied. Yeah. That was a lot. Turned out really good. You're the engineer, right? And you know what's funny? Yeah. They said Anyanari at the beginning of the trailer. That's why I thought I pronounced it wrong. Yeah, that's because that's what the world was at. Yeah. Okay. I'm not saying I should. Okay. But anyway, guys, thank you so much for watching. Good job, man. Thanks. Great job, man. Thanks. Hey, we'll see you guys later. Make sure to sub YouTube, all those things. Comment, like. Great job, man. You guys like the likes. Thank you. He did so well today. Keep a comment. Let me know what you guys like about these vlogs, what we should do different, what we should add, what kind of stuff you guys want to see. Thanks guys for watching. We'll see you guys next time.