 Hello there everybody, and welcome back to another Let's Draw video. I apologise that we don't have a full and complete normal video game story time for you this week. The reasoning for that is that I am absolutely exhausted. Bretton Stripes recorded all of her audio for this week's episode far earlier in the week, and I just did not have the time or the energy to actually be able to draw all the pictures, so in lieu of that I'm going to sit on this bench and I'm going to draw for a minute. And I am going to tell you an innate pointless story from my past as a ridiculous na-head. Seriously, it has been the longest month or so. Particularly last week I think we were in three different hotels in three different parts of the country following Bretton Stripes with her work, and so this week I was looking at all of the stuff that I needed to draw in order to get the next video ready, and I just thought I need a week off. Luckily though, drawing a little video like this takes a lot less time and is also a lot more relaxing because I can just sit and I can just adjust the camera a little bit, and I can just kind of let everything out. These are very relaxing to make, I have to say. Hopefully they feel as relaxing to watch and not just terribly boring. Thank you for everybody who responded very well to the last video, by the way. It's gratifying to know that people that enjoyed watching me just sit and brattle on endlessly. Before we get too far into this video, I just wanted to let you know that this picture that I am drawing is going to be raffled off for charity. There's a link in the description down below. We are going to be giving it away to one lucky contributor who donates money to a Just Giving page at the bottom of which is linked in the description, which is for the charity Sands, which helps women who suffered from stillbirths or miscarriages. This is not to get too far into my boring family history that you probably won't care about, but this is a charity that really matters to my family in particular. My sister back in January, when she had her birthday, she asked that in lieu of presents people would donate to this charity, and I felt like this was an opportunity to kind of continue that for her and to hopefully be able to raise a few extra dollars for it. If you give any amount, if you donate even just a single dollar, then you're in the runnings to win the picture. If you want it, I mean you probably won't win, but you might win, but you probably won't, but you might, you know, and that's how raffles work. More importantly though, we can do something to raise some money and make my sister feel really good about life. Now, so the reason I'm drawing Sonic today is because, first off, I wanted to. He's looking a bit chubby, but hopefully it'll work out by the end of the picture. I also have a story that I wanted to tell. I asked on a poll on the channel here whether people would rather hear a story about my experiences with the Sonic fandom, or whether they'd rather hear my experience of the greatest moment of my life playing Sonic the Hedgehog, and I guess one of those titles sounds a lot more clickbait-y than the other, so I can kind of understand why people wanted to hear about the greatest moment of my life. This is actually a story I told someone at the wedding, not the full story, I just told them a bit about me being completely awkward and horrible. This story may sound a bit like I'm bragging, I'm seriously not. I'm aware of just how ridiculously silly this whole thing is. So let me start by just explaining the backstory here. I am notoriously bad at sports, any kind of sports. If you put a ball in front of me, I will probably end up falling on my face or getting hit in the face. My favourite sport when I was younger was cricket. We used to play a lot of cricket, especially at Cup Camp, and I gave myself the nickname which I really didn't grasp the full potential meaning of ball magnet, because wherever I was on the cricket pitch, no matter what I was doing, the ball always seemed to just fly straight at my face and hit me upside the head or just bash into me. I would just get constantly injured by playing cricket, and it only took me years and years before I realised that actually, while everybody else probably had the ball coming at them the same number of times, they actually caught it, and the difference was not that the ball was necessarily aiming for me specifically, but it was that when I had the opportunity to actually play some cricket by trying to catch the ball, I would do so badly that I would take it to my face. I remember as a teenager I was playing some cricket and someone there says, wow you're really bad at this, as I thought to myself, am I? Oh well that makes sense, I thought this was my best sport, and it probably still is, it's just not really that bad. Although in fairness I did see bread and stripes for the first time at a social activity, and I was bowling in cricket, and I bowled to her and I thought to myself, wow, why do I never meet any women like that, she's amazing, and I didn't speak to her for another few weeks after that, so you can also, I guess, credit cricket with changing the course of my life and helping me to meet such an amazing woman, but that's beside the point. So I'm just terrible at all sports, I have never won any kind of medal in my life. One year they put all, me and my siblings, two of them at least, two were in the school at the time, in the same team for sports day, and they had these team events and they figured that's a good idea, everyone's in the same team as their family members, so everyone can go around and the parents can, you know, they only needed to watch one team of kids, and it was really relaxed sports day, it was like, kind of egg and spoon races and that kind of stuff. And my team lost every single event because they had made the mistake of putting three of my family all in the same team and we were all absolutely terrible. If there's one thing I am good at though, it is playing Sonic the Hedgehog because I have sunk far too many hours into this game, I've just played it over and over and over and over. And I remember as a teenager, fully aware that I was never going to win any kind of medal for any kind of sporting event or anything like that, thinking to myself about, wouldn't it be amazing if there was some kind of Sonic championship? I felt like kind of, this was before the idea of speed running really existed, or at least before I was aware of it. And I just, I would sit and play Sonic and imagine to myself that there was some kind of big world championship and everybody, all eyes were on me as I was playing this, you know, the final level of Sonic and I was pushing through and had to do it in a certain amount of time without getting hit. And hopefully if I could do that, then I would win the day and everybody would be thrilled and getting great prizes and all of this stuff. I was kind of desperate for that experience and loved imagining the idea that I would have that playing Sonic the Hedgehog. Fast forward, you know, 10 to 15 years and the town that we live in at the moment is very soon gonna close, but at the moment they've got a big museum of sorts for old video games and they have a cafe slash bar there where they come together regularly to play video games. And one of the events they have is the completeathon where people form teams of four and we have to play through a game as quickly as possible and whoever at the end of the night gets the furthest through the game wins a special prize and is normally like kind of sweets or candy or like the bottle of shampoo or some really, really awful games that the guy runs it got from like the Poundland or from the local pawn shop or whatever. It's just kind of a little bit of fun but it's something that some of us take seriously, some of us take less seriously and we just kind of, we have a good time. And so I'd been coming to a couple of these in a row and I'd met some good friends there, my best friend of which, they're kind of a duo, Chris and Liam, they are a lot of fun, I really like them. And they're also exceptionally good at video games, just really, really spectacularly good. And so we had a fair amount of success for the first few months that I was coming to this event, playing on their team, I was useless. My job was mostly to kind of look up the kind of speed running strategies for the game in question, because we don't get told the game in advance, you kind of show up and then you've got to just do it, but you are allowed to look at your phone and kind of come up with walkthroughs or whatever that will help you to get through the game quicker. And so my strategy was normally to, you're supposed to rotate regularly around all the players and everybody has to have a turn and when you die or when you complete a level you have to switch out. But like the first one we played together was Billy Atcher and my job was mostly to just watch YouTube videos about Billy Atcher and make sure that we were all kind of taking the fastest route. And I was seeing actually in one of these videos there was a really difficult to nail shortcuts that you could take if you were speed running the game where you had to kind of fall off a platform and land on the one underneath. And I said this as I was watching this video and Chris who was playing was like, yeah, I'll give that a try. Did it instantly the first time. So we ended up doing very well in that particular completeathon and I was very pleased and we formed a team and I think we did another one after that and then it was Sonic the Hedgehog. And this was right after Pokemon Blue and Pokemon Red and Pokemon Yellow actually had released on the 3DS shop and it was a completely different atmosphere to normal in the Toast Bar which is what it was called the place. It's unfortunately gonna be closing soon where we have these completeathons because everybody had their 3DS out and everybody was trading because of course you can only in those games on the 3DS version of them at least, you can only trade by being physically in the same place as somebody else. So while everybody was playing the game, everybody in the arcade was desperately trying to find people who they could switch out games with and they could find people to trade with and so we were all trading with each other. And so I started chatting with a couple of new people, Dave and Cassie and they were both playing the game and they were both trading with me and David made the same choice of starter because I had Bulbasaur so clearly I liked him because he obviously picked the best one and yeah, so we were having a good old time and then when it came time to start the competition they were just the two of them. Chris and Liam also had a friend called Kyle who was there as well who was also phenomenally good at games and I kind of felt bad for these two guys by themselves and how they were just gonna be playing and doing their best but not really gonna kind of, they didn't stand much of a chance because their team was a lot smaller than everybody else's and I was having a good time playing with them and so I was just like, you know what? For this one time I think I'll play with you guys instead and it doesn't matter if I win or lose I will just have some fun and then they announced that the game was Sonic the Hedgehog the original on the Sega Mega Drive or Genesis depending on which country you're born in and I realized that it was this moment was the one that I'd always been waiting for and suddenly I had an opportunity to actually play Sonic the Hedgehog competitively against other people and put all of my years of experience to the test and have that moment that incredible moment of playing against other people in something that actually mattered and potentially winning a prize and the prize was gonna be a big bag of sweets and a bottle of shampoo but still it was what I had always wanted as a teenager and I realized that I had bet on the wrong horse because Chris and Liam were almost certainly going to win to put it simply, Dave and Cassie did not stand a chance they had never ever played Sonic before and so they had no idea what they were doing whereas the other team were experienced and also phenomenally good at all kinds of computer games and I thought to myself, all right, fair enough I'll just play with this team and I will have a good time and I will not worry about winning necessarily and it turns out that that was actually quite difficult because while I am generally speaking the most laid-back non-competitive person on planet Earth apparently I am insanely annoying when it comes to playing Sonic the Hedgehog competitively it turns out that something that just like a fire was lit within me and I just couldn't help but just shout out backseat driving advice for how to jump here and go over that, turn around there and sometimes this was useful because I knew where there were the shortcuts and the secrets and the hidden extra lives and stuff within Sonic the Hedgehog is the original game but I think I was probably more annoying than I was actually helpful for my team because I was just shouting, jump, jump, over there, no, over there it seems completely useless and I couldn't help myself I was just getting really invested in this but it turned out that actually against all odds like Chris and Lee and their team took an early lead but soon after we were able to overtake them and we were ahead and we were doing well and I thought, oh, this is incredible and they're playing over the speaker system they're playing music constantly and they're playing City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2 and everyone's singing along and everyone's having a good old time and it was just this incredible moment of wow, I'm actually playing Sonic the Hedgehog competitively and so we kind of, we stumble our way through the first level or so I think I then took the controller for the third level and just kind of breezed us through it because I knew what I was doing and we started racing ahead as far as we could get we'd taken an early lead now and as long as we kind of just kept up momentum we figured we'd be absolutely fine and all around us other teams are struggling and they're getting game overs and going back to the beginning and we're pushing further and further forward and we're thinking to ourselves we're doing really, really well here and then our kind of nearest competition is Chris and Liam and their team gets a game over as well and they're sent right back to the start and we're like, right, brilliant as long as we keep very far ahead of everybody else then we've got this and then we realized our fatal flaw which was, so the thing about Sonic is people always say, gotta go fast actually, if you want to play Sonic you need to slow down sometimes and get some extra lives so that when you reach the later levels you're not horribly handicapped and that was the situation we found ourselves in as we got further into the game we burned through as many of our lives as we could not deliberately, but just we would kind of fall into spikes or a particularly labyrinth zone was a nightmare because constant drowning issues and two people who'd not played the game before it was even more stressful I think it was for me because at least I knew what was going on and yeah, we just slowly were whittling down our lives and we realized that what we should have done was right at the start instead of rushing ahead paused to get as many lives as possible on the earlier levels where it was easy to clock up 100 rings or find extra lives that are hidden around everywhere and because we hadn't done that we were dangerously, parasely close to running out of lives entirely which would meant that we would have basically just got all the way to near the end of the game before getting a game over and having to start all over again and around us, a lot of other teams are at this point giving up they're like, well, everyone else is so far ahead of us and we've just got a game over so what is the point of continuing to play? and we asked we asked the guy who runs it, Joe how does this work? Is it going to be at the end of the competition the team that got the furthest or the team that is currently the furthest? in terms of it, it was going to be the team that was currently the furthest which meant that we thought to ourselves for a minute well, maybe we should just stop playing because we've got such a big lead that if we die, then we're sent back to the beginning but if we just carry on sorry, if we don't carry on if we just kind of wait here for the next hour and a bit then we'll win by default, right? Except Chris and Liam's team are now catching us up because they have learned from their mistakes they figured out how to play the game a little bit better and they've taken the time to grab some extra lives and so they can run through the game a lot faster than us whereas we've needed to really slow down in order to avoid any kind of pitfall or obstacle and so they're coming up fast behind us and it's only a matter of time before they either catch us up or just completely overtake us meanwhile we're desperately struggling we're down to our last few lives at one point another member of the Cassie and Dave's friendship group turns up and he's like, oh, I'll play for a bit and then plays for about three seconds and instantly falls into some spikes and dies and so it was just kind of forbidden from touching the controller again not just by me, Cassie was the one who shoot him out of the way but Cassie, in fact, I think kind of dropped out as well saying hi to all the runners in the background there I thought that the park was going to be nice and quiet on a Saturday morning but it turns out that there's a fun run that goes on here regularly but running in the background it's more appropriate than the soldiers in the Pokemon video from last time and besides I'm drawing Sonic so yeah, it seems to fit everybody's doing some running but so yeah, Cassie dropped out as well so it's just me and Dave and Dave has never played the Sonic their job before but he's doing a really good job in spite of this like he's just managing as best he can and then when I take over the controller I'm just kind of cautiously but carefully blasting my way through a lot of these levels and still finding as many secrets as I can we get to the Labyrinth Zone boss and I'm terrified because I hate the Labyrinth Zone boss I've just so many times but I've just completely wiped out on it and just not been able to move fast enough up the so if you've not played the game instead of having the hit Doctor Robotnik or Doctor Eggman repeatedly you have to chase him as the water slowly rises up this canyon and if you fall down the canyon then you're kind of stuck at the bottom and you die by asphyxiation which is horrifying and there's also spikes and there's also things that are shooting projectiles at you and there's just so many ways to suffer and die and any small setback ends up sending you further down the level and you just drown, which is horrible and so I did not want to have to face that and Dave says I'll give it a try and to his credit somehow he did it he just very very carefully snuck his way up the level and managed to get through all in one go which is fantastic because I think up to that point I'd taken most of the bosses just because I knew them very well and I knew the attack patterns but because that one was my least favorite and I kind of offered you want me to take this and he was like no I'll give it a try and then just does it first time maybe I'm not as good at Sonic the Hedgehog as I thought I was maybe I just played it so much that I kind of have memorised a lot of stuff but Dave actually managed to pull a lot of stuff off kind of first time which was very impressive for me watching because I'm fully aware of all the times I had died playing that in the past and hey maybe I'm just more used to the Christian Whitehead version of the game by this point and I've forgotten how to play the Mega Drive one but that's just like the point this was running on NME8 certainly but it was the original version of the game and probably nobody else cares about the distinction there but I do I think it's important Christian Whitehead version of the game is the one on mobile on Apple devices you know iOS and on the Android shop and it is arguably the definitive version of the game because it fixes a lot of bugs and it puts in extra features and it's just a little bit nicer to play but they're all fine now every version of the game is good I actually just kind of taking a random point this tangent for a minute here like I prefer the original Sonic the Hedgehog to Sonic 2 a lot of people say that Sonic 2 is the better game because it's more streamlined and it's got more zones and it's got a bit more variety I kind of and Sonic 1 feels more like it's kind of a more generic platformer that occasionally has some moments of speed I kind of like all the old platforming bits and I just I kind of think it's fun and also chemical plant zone in Sonic 2 which is the second stage with all the pink goop that is a nightmare and I think as a kid I didn't play very far into Sonic 2 because I constantly ran into a point where you drown in pink goop and I didn't like that whereas in Sonic 1 you drown in labyrinth zone a lot later in the game so you can get further through before it gets overwhelming I'm going to just cover this in now with my funky pens these are Letraset Pro markers and I think the Windsor and Newton now because they're rebranded these are the British equivalent to Copic markers which we do also get here now but they're very expensive because you have to import them and they're nice because they're alcohol based and they just spread out the ink over the whole of the page so that if you do something like this you don't get those horrible streaky lines that you get with felt tips and you can kind of come up with some very good impressive looking effects and like blend different colors together which I'm not very good at so what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a big lump of flat color and then I'm going to put some shading on it over the top once it's dried which make it kind of stand out and look a bit funky and cartoonish but will not be kind of using these pens to their full potential just because I don't know how because I'm not very good at them also this paper is just computer paper like just printer paper so it's not the best for blending anyway but still I think my Sonic's turned out all right actually he does look a little bit chubby but he could be worse anyway so we're playing this game and we've managed to get through that brint zone and we somehow stumble our way through starlight zone which is also like that one particularly I always find difficult because there are lots of projectiles and lots of bombs and lots of things that explode that can take you down and there are bottomless pits you know I really do wish the Sonic games didn't feature as many bottomless pits I feel like it's a cheap way to just kill someone off they're worse in the more modern games where they would just pause for a second to be like right now you've got to jump with kind of pixel perfect precision otherwise you're going to fall to your death but even in the old school ones I feel like it's necessarily lazy game design but certainly it's cheap at times when you just you say right now the player is dead like that's just me no one wants that it's kind of I guess coming from that old school arcade mentality of forcing people to play over and over and over so that they get more out of the game and so they put more coins into the machines I think a lot of that still kind of was prevalent in the in the 90s when the Sonic Network was first around and otherwise like if they didn't have all the bottomless pits the game would probably only take about half an hour for us in this in this instance in our completeathon it took us about an hour and a half that was the full time we had because we normally have half an hour then a break and then half an hour then a break and then the last half hour but uh but yeah because we were hardly speed running it as a team of relative noobs who didn't really know what they were doing and then just me who was as I say shouting abuse at the screen constantly and being very unhelpful anyway so somehow against all odds we make it to metropolis no not metropolis and that's the one from Sonic 2 what's the scrap brain zone sorry me trying desperately to think of these names probably means nothing to all of the people watching this who are not quite as familiar with Sonic the Hedgehog as I am and I apologize for that and I apologize as this video in general sounds like just white noise or incoherent garbage but just bear with me so we get to scrap brain zone and there are several bottomless pits in that zone as well wouldn't you know it and some that are just terrible with platforms that kind of spin around and disappear regularly and so you've got to time your jumps perfectly and I did really bad at this and I think Dave walked away from the screen for a while and so even though you're supposed to rotate regularly through the players it's not like it's fairly informal no one really cares if you're not exactly following the rules and so I gave a couple of attempts to a particularly challenging bottomless pit and wasted down to our last life falling into the same pit over and over and over and I didn't know and it's just like right well let's just pause here for a bit so Chris and Lee and their team and now I think Starlight Zone maybe like they're right behind us they're on our tail there's there's not much in it they are exceptionally close to catching us up and we've got one life left and they're still half an hour to go on this morning hello I thought I'd picked a really nice quiet part of the park where no one would come and interrupt me but it turns out that the I guess one of the park rangers needs to check the the what you call it the life floatation device the life preserver here at the park so he's just doing that that's fine oh well almost got away without anybody else showing up in the video apart from those runners bye bye and so yeah we're down to one life we're halfway through I think the second act we're most of the way through the scrap brain zone apart from the one there's a level then that goes under water which we had not got to yet and we kind of we just stuck and I'm not sure what to do and then it's the end of the half hour segment and it's time for a break and Joe the guy who runs the complete the thong comes up to us all and he says right everybody else has given up it's just these two teams left and that's not much it's not much fun for everybody just kind of waiting and thinking that they're not going to do anything so we're going to run a second complete the thong challenge instead where they're all going to race at a different game which turned out to be Super Mario Brothers do you two teams want to just sack it off and call these guys the winners or do you want to carry on just for the sake of seeing what happens next and my attitude was let's give up let's end this now we're in the lead we've won that's great that's all we need we can go home and other people change that kind of disagreed like Chris and Liam Chris in particular we wanted to see what was going to happen he was eager to see whether we made it or not and Dave was like I want to see what happens let's carry on and so what we decided in the end was because I I desperately wanted some prizes I wanted some vindication I wanted to feel like yes I'm that good at Sonic but I've got prizes so we agreed to all share the prizes that we were going to win between our two teams so that we were just playing for victory and not for sweets because I wanted some sweets and to be honest I wanted to take some chocolate home to Bretton Straton and say look I won you this chocolate by being so good at Sonic their job so we agreed to share our prizes and we just carried on and so the break finished everybody else started playing Mario Brothers and Dave looks over at me and everybody else has started Chris's team has started playing again and Dave looks over at me and he's right okay let's do this and he just very calmly casually picks up the controller and he like goes into a zen state of some kind and just disappears into the game and just leaps and jumps and slides and rolls his way through and somehow incredibly completes the the zone that I was stuck on that I as this amazing you know experienced player of the game couldn't get past he just does it and he just finishes it all in one go and it's and it's over and it's done but somehow he managed it and he just gets through it and it's finished and it's it's it's down to I think then labyrinth's own act two and I think I left him to take that as well as act two or as act three it's the one where it goes under water no I took this one I'm fairly certain I took this one because I knew about the secret shortcut and so I rushed through right at the beginning of the stage there's a secret shortcut so I take the control and I rush down through it and this zone is no problem I can just I can wait out the air bubbles I can just take it really really slowly Chris and his team and by this point given up because they're just watching because they want to see what happens next and also I've got other people coming over Joe's watching Ollie who's another guy who runs the thing several of the other people at the computer on who were not constantly playing or Sonic the Hedgehog not like Super Mario Brothers by this point they've all come over to watch me play and I just kind of hopping and skipping through and just taking my time and going really really slowly Chris's logic by the way is that if he if we wipe out then he can just very easily use the next half hour to catch us up and then overtake kind of where we were at the end and complete the game and if we get to the end and there's no point in him necessarily rushing it so he's watching intently we're doing our best but it's kind of it's down to the wire and I get through labyrinth's own act 2 or act 3 or whichever one it is I forget and it's time for the big final boss and this is that moment you know as a teenager I had hoped a dreamed daydreamed about this kind of thing where everybody's eyes are on me everybody's watching and it's you know down to the wire there's no room for error there are no mistakes to make and when I was a teenager and I practiced this a lot and I kind of had this fantasy in my head I would often make mistakes so they went along and kind of have to justify that within the narrative of my little imagination but this time there wasn't an opportunity for that I had to have it flawless and so this the final boss of Sonic the Hedgehog Dr. Robotnik or Eggman I'm being inclusive here with my naming he has this big smashy thing that comes in and tries to crush you and you have to jump up at the last second and figure out where he is because he's got several places that he could pop out from and there's also projectiles these big laser bursts that can come down and destroy you but I have by this point and you know because it's right at the end of the game as a kid I didn't see this particularly often because I would very rarely actually sit through the entire thing in one go but thanks to the Christian Whitehead port of the game and all port even the Christian Whitehead rebuilding of the game I had practiced this level a bit more and I'd got to the end regularly and I had figured out the attack that and so I'm just I can't I have no rings because there are no rings in the final level I have no extra lives or anything it's as it and if I win if I beat the level then we win and if I don't beat the level then we die and I just chill out and with even with everybody staring at me and with everything going on I just like I have to just relax just breathe and let it happen and I move in the pattern that I know over and over and take my time and I do it and I finish it and I say that's it that's it it's done and Dave grabs me and he's yelling and screaming in my ear and everybody else is cheering and I'm like no it's finished it's finished I've done it and everybody else is excited too and even Chris and Liam and Kyle they're all thrilled as well just because it was like I say this was a bit of fun and it was just it was fairly impressive that the two of us Dave and I managed to get through the entirety almost of the final zone and boss of the game with one life and without getting hit losing any rings it was incredible and it was genuinely one of if not the most satisfying moments of my life because I'd finally had this experience I told Chris and Kyle and Liam about it afterwards and Kyle says you know it would have been fun to win but I'm more happy that you won because it seems like this is something that you needed and I did I needed it and there's somebody who is absolutely terrible at all sports and it was never won anything competitive I held on to my shampoo bottle for a while that I won from this and had it as my trophy and put it on my desk while I was at work and I would look at it it was like a bottle of princess shampoo or something so it was about as silly as you could get for a prize for a sonic competition you know they now the Complete Throne actually has like a special plaque that I think they get named engraved on but um as I say the place is closing and moving to another part of the country now so it's unfortunately I'm not going to be able to do it anymore but um and I missed one this past Thursday because I was watching Baby Gamer all evening because Britain Stripes had to work and stay away in another hotel because because life is busy but yeah I did it and I completed this game and with my team of relative newcomers who had never really played before we had managed to blitz our way through the entirety of Sonic the Hedgehog and it felt wonderful and there was also this kind of this slight sense of of um anti-climax I guess or just kind of this realization that that was probably I had peaked I was never going to do anything like that again never going to win another thing never going to feel like I'd seceded in something quite so um challenging and I'd blown that on a game of Sonic the Hedgehog but you know what I enjoyed myself and I had a really good time playing with my friends and that at the end of the day I think is the most important thing um just finishing up this Sonic now he's almost done just going to put a little bit more color on him but yeah that is the story of one of if not the most exciting most the greatest moment of my life I posted on Facebook about it and I said you know I've just had this wonderful experience it was one of the greatest of my life and Breton stripes uncle asks better than when you married my niece I was like well not necessarily better but certainly more exhilarating more satisfying more life affirming that does sound weird if I say that it was a silly moment but it was one that met a lot to me and we've since had other Sonic competitions at the the and I've gone back regularly and competed in other things and done my best and done pretty well in those as well and it's kind of it got me more into speed running Sonic and so I learned how to speed run a few of the kind of the earlier levels of the game because the competitions always seem to be get through Green Hills on the fastest once I'm a beat Joe at it and he's never let me forget it I went there a little while ago with Breton with not Breton so it's with Baby Gamer and Joe saw Baby Gamer and said did you know that your daddy once beat me at Sonic there Chug that was the way that he introduced himself to to Baby Gamer which was fun but yeah anyway so this has been my pointless story about that time that I played Sonic the Hedgehog really well in a team and I take all the credit for it when I retell the story thank you very much for watching as I say if you would like to own this picture please contribute whatever you can whether it's a dollar or more to the Sands charity in the Just Giving page down below and we will see you next week for a full video thank you very much