 Hello, welcome to my YouTube channel. Today we're going to be taking a look at playground records and why players are so focused on it. If you guys are new to the channel, be sure to subscribe. Let's get into it. Record looking nice. I honestly haven't seen anybody else with this good of a record. I'm trying to have quote-unquote one of the best records on 2K, but it's not possible when you're getting sold. Probably the best record on this game that's top-ranked right now. At the beginning of every game is a park record. Now some people take pride in their record. There's an undue amount of stress put on being able to keep a high win percentage. In fact, some almost find it embarrassing when their win percentage is anything below average. I even posted a video showing you guys my record, and I told you guys in advance the reason why my record was so trashed. A majority of you guys immediately understood, you know, because I already know me from 2K, 16, 17, I already know I'm nasty in the game. But some of you guys were just, you know, quick as hell to judge. Almost like a feel-good story in need of a feature film, you was able to turn it around and gain a good reputable park record. Me three Ls, I'm currently chasing a 91 percentage. And that's the first thing I think you guys need to do. If you guys want to fix up your record, the first thing is to have a goal. But why fix up a park record? Who cares? And is this a good representation of someone's skill? To help explore this topic in a little bit more detail, we have on- Whoa! God! No! God! Please no! No! No! No! Oh, do I get the pure shock creator? Aww, we stuck with a small one too. Are you excited by the potential prospect of guarding this 7 and 45 player? I'm 19 and 14, I don't have much else to say. Interesting. A very interesting development. Good? Okay! It's a new release! All right! At the start of games, you'll see players mocking others for having a better win percentage. It's the constant spike for approval that spiked my curiosity. Jonathan Bundy in his report, a burden of responsibility said, and I quote, Social approval will serve as either a buffer or a burden in influencing evaluator's crisis sense-making and attribution. Do I know what that means? Absolutely not. But what does matter is there is a lot of stress when it comes to this record. Almost difficult to find people to play with that are willing to goof around and have fun because everyone's so focused on winning. I hopped into a game to experience some participatory action research. I set out to ask some questions to dive deep to get some real empirical data so I can come to a set of conclusions about people's park records and how it affects their daily lives. Yeah, don't pass me the ball real quick. Oh, as I say. Oh, my God. All right. That's a small idea. Wow, what a garbage player. Interesting. All right. Okay. What was that? That was excellent. Who needs a shot meter when you can shoot like that? I do. I suck. I promise it's easier without a shot meter. The first thing I noticed in my questioning was people with poor park records almost find it embarrassing. Like they have no authority to be confident in their ability to hit shots. Regardless of their ability to play in game, it seems like a park record is a defining factor in whether someone can play or not. Oh, that's a brick. Wow. Wow, this is bad shot selection these guys are taking. You think that has something to do with their record? Excellent. Damn it. Another blog. They just can't seem to take good shot attempts. Okay. They both have on generic t-shirts. Wow. Oh, my. Interesting. What do you guys think about their records? Not good. Not great. Can have some improvement early on. They can set the tone for something different. Nice. Someone call you a snagger. Wait, honestly, give me that. Wow. These guys, these guys love to get blocked. I'm good. Okay. And he turned that. Oh, let's go. For three limitless. That was actually green. Oh, that was actually green. Wow. A slash and limitless three. Wow. Okay. I found in my studies that people with poor park records often wear generic or almost popular AKA height beast t-shirts. I set out to the my court to put on one of those basic t-shirts to see how it impacted my performance. I had it outside of my my court lab. I wanted to sit there and think for a bit on how exactly I'd be conducting and analyzing on this experiment. So I head out to the elevator. This is around the time where my PS4 Pro sounds like a jet engine almost as if it's about to implode on itself. I did the ever so popular micro glitch to give myself some room, some breathing room so I can think. This experiment here, there's a lot of variables and moving parts and I wanted to make sure that when and if I come to a conclusion that it was going to be a decisive and valuable one for members in the community. Interesting. Very interesting. Wow. What do you guys think about the records? Uh, it's kind of good, I guess. I think they play the game too much. Yeah, I think they're no-life on Ices. Damn, numbs in his face. I know the pure shot. Oh my God, look at that defense. Wow, what a silly mistake they made. That was a solid game team. So even good records. In my tests I've noticed that of the people we played, the people with poor park records were taking a higher percentage of bad shots. Here is a state-of-the-art bar graph that proves the somewhat but weak correlation between win percentage and skill on the game. I think perhaps what might be a better figure to focus on is games play. Ugly facecans, check, generic shirts, grace webpants, check, 2k defaults, check, subpar records, check. Alright. Actually scared, we might lose. Now, oh wow. What the- You can't get a- You can come with me out there. And we did lose. I don't want to say BAKE called it, but he kinda did. I was determined to break the stigma of wearing brown shirts, because I refused to believe that me wearing a brown shirt was the reason we all played so poorly that game. It couldn't have been. It can't be the brown shirt. I wore brown shirts before so I'm looking for a different variable. Up against a pure playmaker, leaving me wide open. Excellent release in the corner. Alright yo, Mike Blanks, stop patching my releases, man. There's been a struggle out here. Inside the bag! That's easy. Oh fuck! Miss a game! Oh man. Oh my. Oh my. And if you don't know- Are you corny-ass guys in the comments section? What's wrong with y'all? People can't enjoy games no more, because they get criticized every time they lose. I don't understand it. People hit me up in my comments. Who are you people talking about? Agent, your record though. What's wrong? Listen guys, alright. The 2K system, when it comes to the ranking system, overalls don't mean anything, because you can't go down. If you can't go down for playing bad, it's not a real ranking system. It's like when those track and field, they told me to run 1.5 kilometers. I was like, I'm not, and you know, they gave me a participatory medal. They're like, yo, here you go, because you can't run. I'm like, I understand. Thank you for the medal is what you're doing when you have a ranking system like that. And so of course, then people resort to caring about their record. But there's something so exhausting about every game I'm supposed to try. I had to do that when I was playing The Last of Us, because you have one bad game. Your whole clan members died. Anyone who knows, who's played that game knows how that game works. Exhausting. You just get to a point where you're like, yo, I'm just going to enjoy myself. Now, nobody enjoys losing. That's no one's purpose going into a game. But can y'all just let everybody breathe? What's up with this chokehold y'all got on people about, you better have a good record or else I'm not going to think you're good. Y'all think I just wake up like, I wonder how I can convince everybody I'm good at NBA 2K today. If y'all don't, I want to say I don't care. I wake up and find a way to make lit videos. Now, allow other people to do the same. Stop now. There is a point we've seen a correlation between people who play less being trash. But what's that mean though, man? What's that? Would you not allow to be trash at a game? Now, you know how trash I am at Tekken? Yeah, you put me against the most average Tekken player. I'm going to get my ass whoop. I still enjoy playing it and I don't ever once in that community, oh look at that trash ass player. Well, one there's skill-based matchmaking so I'm playing bums at my level. It's like, damn y'all, it was not with the community bro. It wasn't like this last year. Last year, everybody just accepted it for what it was. My record last year was some booty cheeks bro. Like, 80% of the time I was on, I was goofing around. Anyway, yo, if y'all enjoyed man, make sure to drop a like, subscribe if you guys are new. Listen, I'm going to try and continue with the daily uploads. It seems like every time I do though, something goes wrong like four or five days in. Yo, I'm going to catch y'all later. I'm out. Actually, click these videos on the screen if you haven't watched them already. There's some of my latest videos. Of course, it's coming from me. It's lit, all right? I'm out y'all. Peace.