 Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin, and I got a bit of a challenge here today because usually I feel like I'm up against it when I play games, you know, because of who I am as a person. But this game is called Good Company, which kind of hits me from two angles because I had a company before a shop that I had to sell, and also I've been told I'm not a very good company. Alright, I'd stop bringing up the potato famine if you knew more about it. Ah! Alright, let's get started. Okay, company name. The potato famine. We're coming back everyone! Oh Jesus, everyone Irish must hate me. Explains why there's very little people from Ireland who watch me. I guess their percentage is really small. What most looks like a potato? That? I guess. If only it was my brain. My brain resembles a potato, nice and smooth. That's a good logo. I'd enter the shop or warehouse or whatever it might be. My name will be potato. Is this just my way of saying I am hungry? Oh, I was about to say that I won't have any companion because, you know, that's fitting. But this guy's kind of cute. I don't think I can resist. I'm going to call him bad ideas because, you know, the light bulb. Every time I have an idea, it's usually a bad one, so that is pretty fitting. Good Lord, that potato is thick. I hope they don't charge by weight because that's enough to feed a whole family. What am I talking about? Kevin, stop talking. My person looks like they're wearing a disguise for some reason and how their sunburned. All right, let's go potato and bad ideas. It kind of makes sense because you get potato, you get bad ideas, potato famine. It all just makes sense. You've been hired by the federal bureau of industries to get the local economy back on track. Why did you hire me? I'm going to go work in my house now. This is where I'm going to start my business after the day to get the entire economy back on track. I'm like, I better start a home business. I can sell essential oils. Okay, I just ordered a load of this stuff. Thank you, employee. Who even are you? I'm firing you. I don't even remember hiring you, so you're gone. Goodbye. He's the first day of work. He just started unpacking stuff and I'm like, I don't like your body language. Uh-oh. I'm on the tutorial pair and I can't actually hire anyone, I don't think. Oh, no, wait, hold on. I got it. It's just going to cost me some money. I'll hire Jesus. Can I just hire like a load of people even though this is the tutorial? This should fix the local economy. I'm hiring everyone in town. I got just not even enough space for us here. I hope they aren't supposed to be social distancing in this game. All right, guys, get to work. They're like, what do we do here? That's not the point of this business. We're fixing the economy here. All right, what does the tutorial want me to do? A place to sell order for a case. Okay, hold on. There we go. Look, I'm selling this. Good job, everyone. We're making profits. Someone whispers to another employee, I don't think this guy knows what profit is. Look, there's a reason my store failed. Okay, we're learning that now. I've often blamed it on getting mowed down by a car, but that is just a small piece of the puzzle. You can see our history. Just takes a massive dive. Oh, no. Well, this is what the potato famine does. It's in the second name. All right, what's my next thing? Place a thank you table. I don't know if I have enough money. All right, we got another table. That means two of you can work at the same time. Why do you all have this Z thing over your head? You literally do not work. How are you tired? Oh my God, no. See the button in the top right-hand corner called quick hire. I don't think we want to do that. Oh, no, we've hired someone. Fantastic. Your first proper hire. Are you saying the rest weren't proper? How's everyone doing? You enjoying your first day on the job? Sorry about the lack of bathrooms. There's just so many of you. There didn't seem like there was any point because there'd be a queue out the door. Wait, am I still buying things? Oh no, I've been buying things constantly. My money is running out. Oh no. Oh no, no, no. All right, well buy more stuff. May as well go all in now. I need some of these to make batteries. Look how much plastic I've bought for no reason. I nearly have as much plastic as employees. That's saying something. You, sir, would you like a job to shouting over the hedges? I'm here to fix the economy. Come here. I got some job opportunities in my van. You know what this reminds me of? That's sims online game where there was just lines and lines of table and people just grinding skills and me annoying them. Could you all please stop whistling trolls? You're the troll. All right, there we go people. We have enough tables for nine of you. That leaves nearly half the workforce with a job. All right, I'm actually going to assign like all of these desks to be worked on to see if we can get out of this massive debt because I'm actually afraid of the potato famine right now and what's happening to them. Like I mean the company. As an Irish person, I am in constant fear of a potato famine. Oh no, they want me to place a different type of table. I didn't know there'd be more to this. Oh man. All right, hold on. I can place it here. It's just a little bit in the way. Yeah, we're going to make calculators. This is going to be awesome. We're going to have so many calculators. What do you need? Oh yeah, you need electronic parts. You can just make a calculator out of plastic. I mean you can, but it won't really help you. All right, electronic parts. Yeah, buy those. All right, we are flying high now. The potato famine is back and fiercer than ever. Wait, they're trying to make me make it myself. No, I don't want to. Someone else can make the calculator. That's why I'm the big boss man. God damn it, I'm trying to like spy on them to see if they're doing a good job. But every time I try and sneak up on them, the clap of my ass is alerting all the staff. Is my storage full? No, we're okay. Add a rule and we'll sell calculators. If you'll feck and make them, what's wrong with you? Oh, I need to do it myself. Are you serious? Like what's the point in hiring 300 employees if I got to do it myself? I like how they brought me in to fix the economy in one afternoon. I'm minus 18 grand. Oh, I just fired someone by accident. Oh my God, now we're understaffed. What was that? Or are you trying to help me? Reducing their walk times. That's all right, they'll get around. It's not that big of a place. Okay, I'm carrying like our entire stock on my person. Can I now make the thing? Why can I not make the thing? Oh, wait, I'm missing this, the LED array. Hold on. Is no one making the LED arrays? Hold on, let me, let me figure this out. But you're meant to be. Why are you not making it? God, we really are understaffed, aren't we? Can I need one plastic, one single cell battery, and an LED array? I've got them all. Yes, I'm making calculators. I like his arm movement. He's like, yeah, I'm just making calculators. Okay, guys, it's been hard work. We've wasted $24,000 and I've hired about 30 employees. But this is it. We're finally going into profit. I have made one calculator. Congratulations. Another company has dug itself out of a difficult situation. No, I've actually dug myself into a difficult situation. Do I continue this one or do I go back to campaign map? Let's go back to campaign, see what the next opportunity is. I guess I got a government grant after I assume inventing the calculator because just making one and shipping it out isn't that impressive. What's this? Charlie's sounds ink is closing down, not on my watch. Your dad worked at Charlie's for decades. There's no way you can let it go under. Time to step in. All right, I'm on it. This is my dad. Well, I have some questions for you. Firstly, how is this business failing? And secondly, why would you call me potato father? What have I done to make you hate me? I don't know what I'm doing here. They're asking me to just sort of their career roots and I don't know anything about logistics. Okay, there we go. I've created a route between them. An employee. Go on, Jody, you can do it. In fact, I'll give you some help. There you go. There's some employees for you. There you go. Look at that. Conker, conker, conker. We have a fun workplace, don't we guys? It's like three boxes. They're just coming back with nothing on the trace. Oh, skeleton. These are the previous employees. I'm creating a skeleton maze. There you go. Be free, everybody. Oh my God, that's terrifying. Let's put down a little rug as well. Dress up the place. Oh, and some floating portraits. Victorian lamps for a bit of class. And then what was I actually supposed to do? I think I was supposed to get like a rack or something. There we go, a small shelving rack. Perfect. Oh, he wanted it next to the assembly table. Okay, well, I'll just put it there. I don't know how to rotate stuff, so you can't use it. But it's there. Okay, the company's struggling a bit. We need storage space and we've ran out. I think we're in the wrong market, honestly. Like we're minus 40,000. Why don't we just sell the skeletons, which we are sourcing for free? Honestly, if I was one of these employees, I'd be a bit worried too. We have loads of skeletons and like clearly an absurd amount of employees. Hey, do you think we're overstaffed? No, you should have seen us yesterday. We had like 50 more people. Anyway, let's get moving these skeletons. All right, well, you know, I think I've helped these people out enough. I think I'm ready to start my own business. I'm sick and tired of other people reaping the rewards over what me, Potato, does for them. Plus this company has a lot of skeletons in their closet. I don't want to get caught up in this. They were struggling when I came in, apparently. They had like eight grand. Now they're minus 53 in one afternoon. Well, you know what, Papa? That's what nepotism gets you. Oh, no, I can't do free play until I complete level two and I've made a mess of level two. Oh, no. All right, I'm just going to start again over in this little shack over here. I'll ignore the rest. They'll be fine. They're self-sufficient. Oh my God, when I bring up advisor tips, there's just all these red exclamation marks. I'm going to ignore that. I'm doing just fine. I have so many employees, yet I'm the one moving components around because they're not doing their fucking job. I'm going to blame them even though it's clearly poor management. I'm just not pretty good at delegating here. When I have my own company, though, I'll micromanage it so bad, like they will want to die. Like why is she not going over there for the supplies? She's just standing there. She's like some sort of an empire. She has to be invited to cross the threshold. It's about to say with an attitude like that, you'll never make it in this business. But I think everyone can make it in this business even if you just refuse to work. Yeah, I'll carry the chemicals. Just pick up the chemicals and bring them over. He needs them, okay? Doesn't matter if they're dangerous. Yes, I did it. Look at this. A well-oiled and lubricated grease stop machine. Capitalism at work, folks. It only took 112 employees, $164,000 in debt, and this absolute mess of a workshop. But we made one cassette player. What do you mean people don't use cassette players? You mean in the time it took us to make that cassette player, they invented an iPod? What is an iPod? I'm sure it's just a fan. Cassettes will never go out of style. To be fair, my guy's definitely stuck in the 80s. Anyway, folks, now that I've set your business off on the right track, now I'm going to go do my own business. Goodbye. Oh, that's not where the exit is. All right, that was... Sorry, excuse me, hold on. Sorry, I just need to scoot past you there. Sorry about the big exit speech there. All right, all right, all right, goodbye. Oh, also can't get out here. Okay, I'll just scoot past you there. Sorry about this, sorry. My apologies. All right, free play, new game. Oh yes, I'm going down to the beach to make products. We're going to be in like Silicon Valley, I assume. I just hear of Silicon Valley. I don't know what it is. I think it's down in Kerry. All right, what are we going to make? I got to make a decision here. I'd like to make skeletons, but I don't think that's possible. Plus, I don't think there's a huge market for them right now. All right, by my calculations, calculators are the way forward because I can't calculate anything else. But we're going to make funky ones. Look at that, everyone will want one of these. This is what the kids will think is cool. Everyone will want them. It's going to be the next fidget spinner. I'm not going to peel minus 1.5 out of five stars. What? Come on. Okay, I'm calling a fidget calculator. That should go down a treat with the youth. Oh my God, the design is so inefficient. Oh my God, it could cost $450. I don't think you need a calculator to calculate that that is a rip-off. I don't think many people are going to be buying this calculator. But then again, it is called fidget calculator. All right, let's make some fidget calculators, everyone. All right, make an LED matrix. They're like, I am not a train employee. I do not know how to do this. All right, what if I just buy everything I need? Oh no, I can't. Only base products can be... Oh no. Okay, I have to actually make these. Oh, that means effort. All right, I need metal and I need plastic. All right, there we go. You got some plastic. Now you make parts. I'm going to need a lot more employees than this because I don't plan on doing any of this myself. Oh yeah, sorry, I have nowhere to store anything. Hold on, bear with me. There we go. Okay, now we're ready to be all greased up in a well oil lubricated machine. I'll stop saying lubricated. Did someone just sneeze? You're not going home. We need you here. See, this is what was handy in the other place. We had like 70 employees ready to take their place if someone got sick. All right, starting to feel really lubricated up in here. We got a lot going on and it's just going very, very smoothly. No hitches at all. Soon we'll be making calculators and then we'll be able to add up the numbers and see that we're going into massive death really fast. Okay, we're just missing the LED matrix and an LED array. Come on, I think she's got a box of them here. Okay, wait, we only need the LED matrix now. Okay, something is going right. Who's making the LED matrix? Wait, oh no one is. Oh, who can I blame for this? You Richard, I am sick of your shit. You're out of the job. Can't believe you didn't correct me. You've no spine at all, Richard. You dick. You can't even give out to me because dick is short for Richard. So no HR for you. And that has nothing to do with the fact we don't have a HR department. You're just wrong. Okay, he needs circuit boards. Don't pretend you don't have metal and plastic. I can see there's plenty of metal and plastic. There you go. Maybe we need some more logistics people. We have this one poor woman, his middle-aged woman just hauling all of the equipment all the time. Okay, I'll get you one more logistics person. Produce 300 calculators. Yes, I'm committing to that. I think I can do that. I mean, we've yet to make one, but I think once we get the wheels turning, we're going to go straight off a cliff. We're going to go straight up the... We're going to do it. My goal at the moment is just sell a product or have to do well on that goal yet. She's making it. She's making the calculator. Good thing you have your hard hat on. God, you must feel like such a loser. You're the only person in here with a hard hat. In fact, I might just fire you because you're so uncool. All right, add a rule. And where's the calculator? Fidget calculator. And we're going to sell them. Look at that. Our first fidget calculator. Why is it in such a big box? God, this technology must be old. Milestone reach. Did I sell something? I sold two calculators. Yes. By my calculations, that is a huge success. Unexpected too. I'm going to go for a stroll on the beach because I feel like I've earned it. Hey, everyone, please help me. My business is failing and I feel so overwhelmed. Help me. Help. Don't just run. She's always short of these things. I need some more benches. Yeah, make the matrix. Yeah, make the matrix. That profit, didn't it? That was a huge movie. If we get Keanu in here, sell some calculators, do some marketing. I mean, look what he did for Cyberpunk. My guy's just doing laps. He's so anxious all the time. He's under so much stress. He knows deep down. He knows nothing about business and he's in constant fear of another potato famine. All right, we're still not in profit, but I'm going to up production. Another assembly line. More calculators. We have a bit of a storage issue. She's just standing there waiting to put it on the rack with this little space. Maybe I should buy them some more. I just want to stop sinking money into this thing. I want a profit, please. Potato needs this. Look at him. He's devastated. I think we just need more logistics people. I think that's the problem. We're not moving fast enough. Give me three of them. I know this seems overboard, but I just want to be efficient. What are you missing? You're missing those. And then if she's going slow, that's because she's missing. Let's see. What's she... No, no, she's flying now. She's flying now, lads. She's going to be just fine. There's loads of boxes here. Like, I think they're just not close enough because he's just waiting. Let me make, I guess, a rack over here or maybe I could store them here and he'll come over. I know he's just being lazy now. They're right there and he's not coming to get them. Okay, now we're lubricated, verging on greasy. This seems to be flying along, except for this. What does he want? LED arrays. Who's making the LED arrays? Could you hurry up, please? This lady, please hurry up. Come on. I know you get no time to see your family and no lunch breaks, but come on, speed things up. Gonna buy a suggestion box too, guys. If you want to make a suggestion, just drop it over here. Thank you. There's so many supplies that are just not being used for some reason. They're just up on the racks and they're just ignoring them. Okay, I've optimized buying and selling. I'm buying a bit less supplies, so hopefully we don't run out because we seem to have a massive surplus at all times somehow. Oh my God, we've only sold 41 calculators? I thought we'd almost be complete. The gold bar looked like it was almost full up here. Oh my God, for a brief moment, I think I was profitable. Yes, by $4 at one stage, I was profitable. Okay, wages are costing me a bomb. The materials are costing me a lot as well. My reviews, oh my God. My margin is minus 80% and growth is minus 1%. All right, I'm going to fire you. That'll bring my costs down a bit. I just got to pick someone random. And the logistics people, I'm going to fire you at random as well. I hope I didn't fire my original one. I want to see how far I can push the human spirit with her. Oh yeah, that's her. That's her. She's fine. I wonder if I made another assembly desk and we just assembled more and more calculators. Would it work? Because I think we have enough supplies. We definitely have enough. Come on, dude. Joseph, come on. There you go. There's no way I could make even more, is there? This is so inefficient, like the layout, everything about it. There's nothing lubricated about this, to be honest. It's the least greasy machine I've ever seen. I'm blocking the doors in case the employees try and leave. You're not allowed to leave anymore, guys. Your soul is linked to this business. It is linked to the potato famine. All right, I think all the doors are blocked. This one maybe? Okay, there we go. There we go. I think these are just windows, are they? But it's still an escape. I'm making a profit. Oh my God, we're running so efficient. We're constantly running out of metal cases, though. I'll hire someone and make them make metal cases. How is he gonna get in? Okay, he's not. He's not coming in. Whatever it is, he's not able to get in the building. So I guess no one leaves or enters anymore. We're just shipping out calculators. This building's gonna become like a myth, some folklore among the villagers. They're never gonna see anyone who worked here ever again and calculators are gonna be shipping out constantly. The thing is I don't actually know how to move objects because I was trying to move objects earlier because I made it so badly arranged in here and I wanted to move some things about to fix it but I couldn't because I don't know how so now I can't get any employees. We're just stuck in here. Wait, what the hell? Why have we plummeted in revenue? We're not making any calculators. Why are we not making any calculators? She's holding the metal cases. Oh, we don't have enough storage space. Oh my God, oh my God. She just stopped working for some reason and halted her whole production just when it was going well. Oh, thank God we've gone into profit again. Oh, well, that was short lived. I just just never speak, Kevin. Just never ever speak. Oh, wait, that's my new employee. She can't get in. She's just trapped in the other building. I honestly didn't even know I had another building. Sign of a good business owner. Paying rent for a second building you don't even realize is there. Oh, well, more skeleton storage, I guess. Your company's bankrupt. You have 179 days left. Each day is only 20 seconds. I think I see the writing on the wall. Oh my God, total cost versus revenue. Everyone just lost interest in calculators all of a sudden. I guess they just got better at math. What a horrible society to live in. All right, well, you know what? I think I should bail. I should sell the business and leave. It's always a good strategy. Trust me, I've done it in real life. But yeah, thank you very much for watching. I appreciate you and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.