History WebVideo / LetsGameItOut

* BadBoss: If he's given workers to manage, it's guaranteed that he'll treat them as psychotically as he would any other [=NPC=]. This is best shown in his video on ''Overcrowd'', where the subway's entire staff ends up depressed, fatigued and dropping like flies due to Josh's meddling.

* Josh tends to make a lot of tornados as well.

** '''"Is there a limit?"'''. '''"I wonder if I can..."'''/'''"I wonder what happens if..."''' tend to precede madness as well, especially if he finds out that you can, indeed, do that.

* {{Corpsing}}: InUniverse. In the playthrough of ''VideoGame/HornsOfFear'', Anthony reads the main character's lines in an old geezer voice that gives Josh a case of the giggles, but Josh breaks up completely when the lines explain the character is only supposed to be 38.

* BadBoss: If he’s given workers to manage, it’s guaranteed that he’ll treat them as psychotically as he would any other [=NPC=]. This is best shown in his video on ''Overcrowd'', where the subway’s entire staff ends up depressed, fatigued and dropping like flies due to Josh’s meddling.
--> '''Josh:''' Well now that you’re free, Williams, I need you to go fill up these gas things. [[CaptainObvious You might also wanna go get your head checked out]], but like...[[KickTheDog do that on your own time]].

* BigRedButton: Josh places a literal big red button outside the giraffe enclosure in one of his ''Planet Zoo'' videos, helpfully labeled “SALVATION.” When a child eventually presses it, [[spoiler:all the giraffes instantly die]].

** In ''Planet Zoo'', Josh purchases over 100 giraffes at once and places them in a very small exhibit, causing several of them to merge into what he dubs a "giraffe hydra". Later in the same video, something similar happens with gorillas.

-->'''[=Josh=]''': Look at this, it's almost like we're a real community now: we have someone building pickaxes, we have someone building a floor, just in this one frame we can see four dead bodies...

*** He tends to say '''“Well, only one way to find out!”''' after the aforementioned phrases.
** He also has a nonverbal catchphrase in the form of '''"X Time Later"''', which usually pops up immediately after he says he'll be back in a second. It can go anywhere from a few minutes to several ''days''-- or in the case of ''Settlement Survival'', 19,577 years!

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Anthony was still around, the thumbnails would always have the silhouettes of him and Josh. That is until part 3 of their ''Firework'' playthrough where Anthony's silhouette began FadingAway, foreshadowing his departure from the channel four videos later in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STjuZAjL1XY A Fond Farewell to Anthony]]".

* GiverOfLameNames: If the game [[HelloInsertNameHere lets you change a character name]], Josh will make it something as absurd as possible for maximum comedy. In his playthrough of ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsIII'', for instance, he promptly changes the name of France to "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM", renames his dynasty "Hungie for Brekkie", and names his heirs "Lunchtime", "Second Breakfast", "Brunch", and "Tea Time".

--> "You know, it's weird, but the game's frame rate doesn't seem very steady when you add a whole lot of rubber duckies. It's almost like the game doesn't want you doing this. But if that were true, why does it fill me with such joy?"

* HelloInsertNameHere: Games that allow this generally end up with combinations of silly names, [[ButtMonkey NPCs renamed "Grace"]], and [[OverlyLongName names that are several paragraphs long]]. Examples of this include names such as "Johnny Hotbody" or "Chad Broski", or renaming France to "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM".
* HeroAntagonist: The protestors from his ''Planet Zoo'' playthroughs are completely justified in their opposition of Josh (who up to this point has starved giraffes to death, forced a group of various animals into a "[[BattleRoyaleGame battle royale]]", turned animals into [[BodyHorror multi-headed abominations]] and built an underground zoo where they are given the bare minimum to survive). Josh, being [[{{Sadist}} Josh]], buries all of them alive.
-->'''Josh''': [[EvilCannotComprehendGood I don't get it]], why is everyone still protesting?

* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: By its own admission, ''Streamers Company Tycoon'' was [[BlindIdiotTranslation very poorly translated]] into English, leaving Josh baffled when the game asks, "Would you like to hold an activity to connect wheat with wheat?" He's worried that it means something very dirty, but it turns out to be a collaboration of two streamers chatting. (Apparently, in simplified Chinese, the character for "wheat flour" is similar to the one for "face"; the intended meaning was "face to face".)

* PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel: Josh's strategy to farm views in ''Youtuber's Life 2'' is to churn videos that are literally only that.
* PsychoKnifeNut: Thanks to the use of HelloInsertNameHere, ''everyone'' becomes this in ''Dwarrows''. To behold: he names the 3 main characters "Thrustmaster" (he wanted to originally name him "Sir Stabs-a-lot" but it didn't fit), "Dr. Shiv" and "Ol' machete", and together, they build Stabsville, a "knifetopia".

* SingleAttemptGame: Josh and Anthony attempt the game ''RussianRoulette: One Life'', spending a lot of time making sure they have mastered the game's mechanics in the demo mode before they used their one life playing it for real. [[spoiler:It turned out to be an EpicFail as they died on the very first round.]]

* StarScraper: One of Josh's favorite limits to break is "Is there a limit to how high it can get?". As such, in ''Foundation'' he tries to build a church so high it's never visible entirely, even when far beyond the map, but has to cancel it because it destroys his fps. Or rather, he tries to cancel it, which triggers a [[GameBreakingBug game crash]]. So, he settles for "mere" skyscrapers.

-->'''Josh''': Is this all ''Cats'' is? Is it just a bunch of felines running around aimlessly with [[NoPlotNoProblem no plot]]?

* TakeThat: Josh's hand-built Zoo City in ''Planet Zoo'' has a movie theater whose only feature film is ''Film/Cats''. Upon going to it, Josh immediately hears screams coming from inside. When he actually enters the theater, he just finds a bunch of tigers and leopards on a stage doing nothing. He then says this gem of a line.

* TakeThat:
** Josh's hand-built Zoo City in ''Planet Zoo'' has a movie theater whose only feature film is ''Film/Cats''. Upon going to it, Josh immediately hears screams coming from inside. When he actually enters the theater, he just finds a bunch of tigers and leopards on a stage doing nothing. He then says this gem of a line.

* ButtMonkey: In his ''Planet Zoo'' series, giraffes are his favorite animals to torment.
%%** Pretty much everyone in any game Josh plays, particularly any NPC he decides to name Grace.

* HeroAntagonist: The protestors from his ''Planet Zoo'' playthroughs are completely justified in their opposition of Josh (who up to this point has starved giraffes to death, forced a group of various animals into a "[[BattleRoyaleGame battle royale]]", turned animals into [[BodyHorror multi-headed abominations]] and built an underground zoo where they are given the bare minimum to survive). Josh, being [[{{Sadist}} Josh]], starts sending them to the "Habitat Of Suffering" which is scattered with the bones of dead Elephants and ultimately leads to them suffering a [[AndIMustScream horrible fate]] below the Earth.

* GameBreakingBug:
** Breaking games is Josh's shtick. He is ''very'' good at it. Which can, if Josh abuses the game too much, lead to the entire game shutting down due to this or frame-rate suffering too much. After a while you start to suspect that the reason so many developers send him keys to alpha builds and early access releases is so he'll find these.
** In the aptly named “I Completely Broke The Entire Game With Just 1 Item In Game/{{Raft}}”, Josh discovers how to use the “decorative plank” item in the Final Chapter update. It turns out that it lets him build unlimited planks to any destination, which he can walk on to avoid ''every single challenge in the game.''

* GameBreakingBug: Breaking games is Josh's shtick. He is ''very'' good at it. Which can, if Josh abuses the game too much, lead to the entire game shutting down due to this or frame-rate suffering too much. After a while you start to suspect that the reason so many developers send him keys to alpha builds and early access releases is so he'll find these.

* AdvancedTech2000: The Faceripper 9000 in his Satisfactory videos, a series of hyper tubes strung together that propel you fast enough to end reality (or maybe it just stops the game from being able to render the world/lighting/anything, hard to tell).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Aside from the presence of Anthony, early Let's Game It Out played games in a pretty standard fashion with generic energic music for a theme. After Anthony left Josh began his trend of playing games wrong starting with Meeple Station and blossomed into his whimsical torturing of games by his Satisfactory playthroughs.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: It's only happened once or twice, but occasionally Josh will break a game ''so hard'' that it retaliates and causes this trope. The demonic jeep from ''Tank Mechanic Simulator'', for instance, began to freak out and ''attack him''.

** Also from ''Satisfactory'' is the HugMaster 9000: Two giant arms made out of remote explosives attached to the comically tiny and easy-to-tip-over factory car. Fortunately for Josh, explosives in the game will only explode when you press a detonator because it didn't take long for him to tilt over and get stuck.

* {{Corpsing}}: In the playthrough of ''VideoGame/HornsOfFear'', Anthony reads the main character's lines in an old geezer voice that gives Josh a case of the giggles, but Josh breaks up completely when the lines explain the character is only supposed to be 38.

* PleaseSubscribeToMyChannel: Josh's strategy to farm views in ''Youtuber's Life 2'' is to churn videos that are literally only that.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: "Chad Broski" and "Johnny Hotbody."

* KnifeNut: Thanks to the use of HelloInsertNameHere, ''everyone'' becomes this in ''Dwarrows''. To behold: he names the 3 main characters "Thrustmaster" (he wanted to originally name him "Sir Stabs-a-lot" but it didn't fit), "Dr. Shiv" and "Ol' machete", and together, they build Stabsville, a "knifetopia".

* AdvancedTech2000: The Faceripper 9000 in his Satisfactory videos, a series of hypertubes strung together that propel you fast enough to end reality (or maybe it just stops the game from being able to render the world/lighting/anything, hard to tell).
* AndIMustScream: Any simulator and tycoon game with NPCs who can't be killed or die of old age becomes this with Josh. Special mention goes to Grace in Parkitect, who is forced to ride an amusement park rides for eternity and is never allowed to go home or die.

* BadBoss: If he’s given workers to manage, it’s guaranteed that he’ll treat them as psychotically as he would any other [=NPC=]. This is best shown in his video on ''Overcrowd'', where the subway’s entire staff end up depressed, fatigued and dropping like flies due to Josh’s meddling.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Whenever he's the CEO of a company, profit comes first, employee wellbeing comes last, and customer wellbeing is not exactly a priority.

* OverlyLongGag: At one point in ''Youtubers Life'', Josh finds how to make collabs with someone. He proceeds to try to make a collab with a youtuber woman. She doesn't accept, but Josh starts thinking it's because she doesn't like him enough. So he proceeds to improve relationships with her, making him an acquaintance, only to find out it's still not enough. So he proceeds to become her friend, then fill out her "friend" bar, then her special friend, then her boyfriend, then her fiancé, while she refuses to collab at every step, and ends up marrying her only to find out [[ShaggyDogStory she STILL refuses to collab!]] He then proceeds to try to collab with one of his in-game coworkers... who accepts on the first try.

** Whenever the avatar he's playing had sustain injuries, life-threatening or not, he reassures them with a "You're okay/fine..."

* YankTheDogsChain: Happens a lot, especially when dealing with Grace. In ''Foundation'', he withholds giving his citizen houses for almost the whole videos, but finally caves in and gives them plots... on an island on the other side of the river. So he builds a bridge... that crosses the island, but doesn't actually stop in it. So he builds a whole maze of bridges, spanning the entire map. None of which actually go to the right island. Finally, he decides to build a bridge that goes there for real... but not before burying the island in a maze of gates. But at long last, they can reach their plots and build a house!... Or at least before Josh decides to bury them with even more gates.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: In ''Satisfactory'', Josh uses conveyor belts to build a hundred-foot tornado that blocks out the sun and annihilates the frame rate when looked at, giving this impression. In its final form the framerate isn't as bad (there was a patch) but if you're close enough to make out details the radiation will kill you.

%%* AndIMustScream: Any simulator and tycoon game with NPCs who can't be killed or die of old age becomes this with Josh.

* AndIMustScream: Any simulator and tycoon game with NPCs who can't be killed or die of old age becomes this with Josh.