| 1 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soviet_womble.png]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:300: ''"Beset on all sides [[SurroundedByIdiots by idiots]]"'' ]] |
| 3 | ->''"It's fine, it's fine!"'' |
| 4 | -->-- '''[=SovietWomble=]''', [[ObviouslyNotFine lying.]] |
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| 6 | [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SovietWomble SovietWomble]] is a British streamer and [[InsistentTerminology self-proclaimed YouTube Phenomenon]] who is most known for his Bullshittery series, monthly videos that chronicle the misadventures of Womble and his friends as they '''attempt''' to play different games together, ([[WithFriendsLikeThese for some]] [[ItAmusedMe definition of]] [[{{Troll}} "together"]]). Womble is usually joined by some regular friends and teammates, most of them being fellow members of the online gaming clan ZF (pronounced the British way "Zed-Ef", standing for "Zero Fucks"). The videos are generally labelled "[[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Random (insert-game-here) Bullshittery]]". |
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| 8 | They consist of a collection of funny moments, zany situations and the all-around chaos that comes naturally when a group of dorky and irreverent friends play together, complemented by his addition of [[FunWithSubtitles subtitles]] and occasional {{Cutaway Gag}}s that are edited in afterwards for comedic effect. |
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| 10 | While Womble was never a particularly prolific video creator, by 2018 his time was more often spent with live streams on [[https://www.twitch.tv/sovietwomble on his Twitch channel]]. Those often provide the source material for later videos. |
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| 12 | His most prominent clanmates/collaborators include: |
| 13 | * [[TheLancer Cyanide]]: Often referred to as "Cy", he is Soviet's oldest and most frequent collaborator [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial (they're not friends, though)]] and usually the most troublesome, who will usually steal the scene by [[BigDamnHeroes saving your life]] in the most self-aggrandizing way or shooting you in the back [[ItAmusedMe for kicks, depending on his mood]]. Singaporean Indian, currently residing in the UK. |
| 14 | * [[TheAce Edberg]]: Mexican (according to Cyanide; he's actually a Paraguayan-born Swedish national) streamer and singer, also the closest thing ZF has to a StraightMan, usually raging at Soviet's incompetence and Cyanide's antics, [[NotSoAboveItAll when he's not being a Troll himself]]. |
| 15 | * [[TheSquadette Nep]]: [[FemmeFatale Austrian singer]], gamer, ''not streamer'', [[TheTease and all around seductress]]. Possibly the most popular female in the series (though not the only one), don't let the sultry voice and sexy accent fool you tough, as she's a top CS:GO player and crack shot with any pistol. |
| 16 | * [[TheUnintelligible Nevil]]: Original name was "holynevil" ("Holy 'n' Evil") which Womble read as "Holy Nevil". Even after realizing his mistake, they decided to keep calling him Nevil. For reasons unknown to everyone[[note]]the clan is aware he's Vietnamese with a thick accent, but they like ribbing him about his English[[/note]], including ZF members, [[TheUnintelligible he speaks (and writes) in an extremely broken English and borderline gibberish]]. Also, [[SirSwearsalot an extreme potty mouth, even by ZF standards]]. In fact, oftentimes the only thing Nevil says that ZF ''can'' understand is "Fuck you!"[[note]]As of 2020, Nevil is no longer part of ZF or their friend circle, see PutOnABus below.[[/note]] |
| 17 | * [[AllGermansAreNazis Gambit]]: ZF’s resident king of crossing the line twice due to being a German player who makes Nazi jokes at every available opportunity. Despite his antics once resulting in Womble dubbing him the “clone of motherfucking Hermann Goring”, he’s not ''actually'' a Nazi. We think. |
| 18 | * [[TheCutie Cake]]: Hands-down the most adorable person featured in the Bullshittery videos, anyone who hears her voice has been known to [[CutenessProximity spontaneously melt into a pile of “aww”-ing jello]], which makes her rather memorable despite being featured in only a few of Womble’s videos. To pile on the cuteness, she has [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc8vuiTJ2-2Wr0CB2MUSH4g her own Youtube channel]] where she sings cover songs in her beautiful voice! |
| 19 | * [[TheStoic Quebec]]: Another British member of ZF with a sexy English voice, being generally [[TheStoic unflappable]], and having a thing for [[OneLiner one-liners]], which makes it all the more hilarious when something manages to [[NotSoStoic break his cool]], primarily due to the ''[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl noises]]'' he makes when that happens. |
| 20 | * [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Digby Tatham-Warter]]: AKA "Digby" for short, yet ''another'' British member of ZF and notable for his fun-loving personality, snarky attitude, and love for classical wartime music. As Womble once put it, he's basically what happens if you take a man from the 1930s and drop him in the modern world, possibly the actual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter British Major in question]]. |
| 21 | * [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming TobiWan]]: ''Not'' a member of the ZF clan, Tobi is a famous VideoGame/Dota2 [[CombatCommentator caster]] that began showing up in Womble's [[VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds]] streams in late 2017. |
| 22 | * [[TeamPet Lulu]], Soviet's French Bulldog puppy, who rivals Cake with the strength her CutenessProximity field and cameos whenever nothing else interesting is happening during a stream. |
| 23 | * Along with various members of [[https://www.twitch.tv/team/zfclan the ZF clan]] such as Social, Tactical, Stealth, Airborne, [=FrankieOnPC=], [=CartonWaffle=], Poro, Gladpus, Kaffe, Zeis, Moogle, Tom, Yuki, Rotary, Bavon, [=BadassMonkeh=], Darius, and Beasty. |
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| 25 | Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/TheWombles'', though this is indeed where Soviet gets his avatar and username. |
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| 28 | !!Tropes found in [=SovietWomble=]'s videos: |
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| 30 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Soviet parses"holynevil" ("Holy 'n' Evil") as "Holy Nevil" or simply "Nevil" early in the "Arma 3 Bullshittery" series, much to N'Evil's annoyance, though whether out of habit or ease of pronunciation, he's still referred to as "Nevil" in later videos. |
| 31 | * TheAce: Edberg is the most consistently lethal member of ZF in FPS games, more importantly the most consistently lethal person ''[[FriendlyFire against the enemy team]]''. He's even reached Global Elite in CS:GO several times and it's apparently high praise when he actually has hope for someone's skills (as opposed to the rest of the clan). |
| 32 | ** In ''Random Team Fortress 2 Bullshittery'' this applies to Quebec who, despite his claims to the contrary, is a complete menace to the opposing team when he plays Spy, especially when he has access to the [[FakingTheDead Dead Ringer]], as Soviet and the rest of ZF can attest to. |
| 33 | * AcePilot: Cyanide, when it comes to providing CAS in Arma 3. [[TheFriendNobodyLikes While the rest of ZF don't really enjoy getting on an aircraft with him]], he's never shown missing the target, is almost always shown being highly effective outside of a few situation out of his control, killed ''at least 40'' enemy soldiers in a single CAS mission, and is never shown being shot down by enemy fire[[note]]the only times he's crashed are due to a) his computer crashing, b) him wanting to see if he could land on a bridge, and c) a [[AccidentalAimingSkills one-in-a-million accident]] involving Soviet's squad machine gunner somehow ''headshotting him in the cockpit'' while Soviet's squad was suppressing an enemy force[[/note]]. Compare to one of the other CAS pilots, who completely missed the target and spent most of the run shooting the ocean. He also successfully flew a C-130 cargo plane under an elevated oil refinery pipe in VideoGame/DayZ without crashing. ''Twice''. |
| 34 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: In the first part of the ''Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery'' series, ZF starts off attacking a power plant (an early game objective), when [=TobiWan=] arrives with a ''stolen interceptor jet fighter'' (a difficult late game objective). What makes it even funnier is that Tobi was 1) new to the mod and had no idea what he just accomplished 2) [[EpicFail immediately crashed and exploded it by doing absolutely nothing]]. |
| 35 | * AintNoRule: Ain't no rule saying that a 5v5 CS:GO grudgematch between Womble and Cyanide that allows outsiders can't draft [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming professional gamers]] [[CurbStompBattle without telling the other side]]. Womble exasperatedly mentions that he didn't think that that had to be a stated rule. This is made more amusing by Soviet's own prior claim that he himself was a "professional CS:GO player." |
| 36 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The result of a DrinkingGame over a CS:GO session in "Part 3". Play is deteriorated ([[FunnyBackgroundEvent though hilariously enough, their scores seem to indicate they're still doing pretty well]]), speech is slurred, decisions are sub-optimal, and in the end [[spoiler:Womble left his character just staring up at the sky for the last hour or so of the Twitch stream, he himself having gotten so drunk he just got up from his computer and wandered off to probably be sick/pass out.]] |
| 37 | * AllGermansAreNazis: Gambit [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]], being one of the more popular German members of the clan and being notoriously TriggerHappy. Naming his characters stuff like "Auschwitz" and "Gas Chamber", building a swastika-emblazoned Reichstag in ''VideoGame/{{Rust}}'', and making other Nazi-related references don't help this. |
| 38 | --->'''Soviet:''' [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV How many people can]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext we fit in the shower?]]\ |
| 39 | '''Gambit:''' At least 12 Jews. |
| 40 | ** When helping the crew clean up a destroyed space station in ''VideoGame/VisceraCleanupDetail'': |
| 41 | --->'''Edberg:''' We have a German guy working the incinerator... |
| 42 | --->'''Gambit:''' (trying not to laugh) Why do you think I ''like'' working the incinerator? |
| 43 | ** After gunning down every criminal in sight in ''VideoGame/SWAT4'' without introducing himself as Police: |
| 44 | --->'''Cyanide:''' That's so German! "Zey did not comply, so I shot zem!" |
| 45 | ** Mav, while watching Germany lose to Algeria in the World Cup: |
| 46 | --->'''Mav:''' Nurr, ve should have killed zem all... |
| 47 | * AllJustADream: The [[spoiler:entire 5-part Antistasi ''VideoGame/Arma3'' Bullshittery series]] ends this way after [[spoiler:the ''dedicated server'' ZF's game had been running on crashes -- the ''entire game world'' is reset, with the resistance movement put all the way back at square one (and apparently [[ButtMonkey Cyanide becoming an intangible ghost]] whom no one can see or hear) and all of the signs of war -- gun battles, military checkpoints, burning wrecks, dead civilians, everything -- all fading away to show a normal, peaceful life across Altis. The other members decide that everything that had happened in the past five episodes was a fever dream, with Soviet hurrying off to work as a clerk at a beachside concession stand... [[OrWasItADream although he does hum the Badgers theme song at the very end...]]]] |
| 48 | * ArmedFarces: The ZF clan has a strong preference for realistically-grounded, tactical military simulators such as ''Arma 3'' and ''Rising Storm 2: Vietnam'', but whatever force they end up playing becomes a complete joke at their worst, or just horribly incompetent when they do try. |
| 49 | * AtomicFBomb: |
| 50 | ** Cyanide can get... salty, at times. |
| 51 | --->'''Cyanide:''' Pick up my negev! I'm not kidding dude, pick it up!\ |
| 52 | '''Sheep:''' ''[picks it up]''\ |
| 53 | '''Cyanide:''' Thanks, Sheep! Thank you! I appreciate that, Sheep.\ |
| 54 | '''Sheep:''' ''[[[{{Troll}} throws it outside the map]]]''\ |
| 55 | '''Cyanide:''' I appreciate-- '''FUCK YOU! FUUUCK! YOU!''' ''[RageQuit]'' |
| 56 | ** He also drops an amazing one in "Random Space Engineers Bullshittery (part 1)" after realizing he'd inadvertently colored his entire ship 2 different shades of yellow. |
| 57 | ** A RunningGag in the CSGO Bullshittery episodes is when Womble realizes his rank's going up, resulting in Cyanide and Edberg raging that Womble doesn't deserve his rank because they're better than him (and their own ranks are relatively close to his), which causes them to drop massive F-bombs. The last one was especially funny because Womble made Distinguished Master Guardian after his mouse died on him and he was useless for the entire game. |
| 58 | * AuthorAvatar: As featured in 'official' art and fanart. |
| 59 | ** Soviet Womble: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A Womble in a Russian coat.]] |
| 60 | ** Cyanide: A Pringles can with a turban on its head. |
| 61 | ** Quebec: A cartoon bear. |
| 62 | ** Edberg: A skeleton wearing a sombrero and a poncho. |
| 63 | ** Tom: A crow. |
| 64 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: |
| 65 | ** In "Random ''VideoGame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds'' Bullshittery (part 2)", after nearly getting sniped, Soviet manages to deduce the location of the shooter based on the trajectory left by the bullet hole. [[BuffySpeak It's a lot less eloquent than it sounds, though]]. |
| 66 | --->'''Soviet:''' Hang on, I can calculate like the trajectory, use like, Series/{{CSI}} shit, and tell that it came from that building over there... ''[scopes to a building with a broken window on the second floor]'' AH, I--I--I can deduce from the broken glass that the shooter was there, you see? ''[aims at the building's entrance]'' And then I can sort of, triangulate his next, like, move... [[BuffySpeak move, thing]], and say he's gonna come out that door. I'm using like CSI shit--''[enemy walks out]''--OH, LOOK AT THAT! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3jnW2kcUs *Cue the YEEEEAAAHHH*]] |
| 67 | ** At the end of "Random Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Bullshittery (part 3)", Womble develops a both ornately-planned yet [[SimpleYetAwesome fundamentally simple]] way of amassing kills: printing out a copy of the map, creating paper markers measured to scale, and getting himself a rifle grenade launcher. With this setup along with the in-game navigation system, he's able to calculate the precise distances and directions to launch explosives from afar, nailing multiple deadly airstrikes in the process. In other words, Womble was safely and efficiently killing more opponents than his teammates... using ''math''. |
| 68 | * BadBoss: Cyanide occasionally lapses into Commissar-mode in ''CS:GO'' and summarily executes anyone (usually Soviet) he suspects of "desertion". [[DisproportionateRetribution Even tactical retreats or looking backwards momentarily]]. |
| 69 | * BaitAndSwitchComment: |
| 70 | -->'''Cyanide:''' The only "B" word you should ever call a woman is "beautiful"... 'cuz bitches love it when you call 'em beautiful. |
| 71 | * BerserkButton: |
| 72 | ** Never call Womble a faggot. |
| 73 | --->'''Smooth Void:''' ''[strums a guitar]'' ♫ Womble is a faggot... ♫\ |
| 74 | '''[=SovietWomble=]:''' Oh, fuck you. ''[guns him down]'' |
| 75 | ** For Cyanide, anything remotely positive happening to Soviet, especially Soviet going up the ranks. |
| 76 | ** Womble also hates ProductPlacement in his streams. Naturally, when Womble leaves the stream for a moment, everyone begins plugging Creator/{{Ubisoft}}, Creator/ElectronicArts, pre-order culture, [[ProductPlacement and themselves]], and Cyanide's own twitch channel, which leaves Womble furious when he gets back. |
| 77 | ** Captain Keyes' [[ArtificialStupidity suicidal behaviour]] during the EscortMission in the third level of Halo becomes this for Soviet and Cyanide, with a large part of their second stream being taken up by them trying to escort him, only for him to run straight at an Elite with a plasma sword, and dying. Or him standing on a grenade, and dying. Or him charging into a horde of enemies, and [[RuleOfThree dying]]. |
| 78 | * BigYes: In "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (part 7)", Cyanide lets out several ecstatic ones after he [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu gets a knife kill on CS:GO pro]] [[https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/NBK NBK]]. |
| 79 | * BittersweetEnding: The "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery" miniseries ends on this note: [[spoiler:after a GameBreakingBug anticlimactically results in the resistance losing all their progress, [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain they decide to dismiss their revolt]] as AllJustADream and return to their civilian lives. A montage shows Altis returning to peace without military conflict or personnel ([[ButtMonkey including Cyanide]]), with Womble now working as a clerk for a food stand... where in a quiet moment, [[OrWasItADream he casually and nostalgically hums the]] [[RippleEffectProofMemory Badgers anthem to himself]].]] |
| 80 | * {{BFG}}: In "Random ARMA Bullshittery", Cyanide has this to say about A-10 Warthog armed with a [[GatlingGood 30mm gatling gun]]: |
| 81 | -->'''Cyanide:''' I wouldn't recommend shooting at me, because your gun goes 'pew pew' but my fucking gun goes- '''[[MoreDakka BBBBRRRRRRRR!]]''' |
| 82 | * BlackAndGrayMorality: In Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9. Yes, the Russians invaded and annexed the Republic of Altis to strengthen their influence over the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, but they're also using their resources to expand public services and provide clean drinking water to areas of the island that had long been neglected by the previous government, are treating the locals well, hold a legitimate vote on whether or not the locals want to become part of Russia (although they probably knew they were gonna win after everything else that happened), and they are ''a lot'' better than the [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil Badgers]][=/=][[VillainProtagonist M.I.L.F.]][=/=][[LaResistance the Resistance]]. |
| 83 | * BlatantLies: |
| 84 | ** A fair amount of the humor in "Random [X] Bullshittery" montages are people making blatantly false claims (e.g. Soviet engaging in friendly fire then claiming that it was the enemy) despite any evidence to the contrary. |
| 85 | ** When the team decides to do an eco-round in ''CS:GO'' (only buy pistols to save money), Cyanide buys [[MoreDakka a belt-fed machine gun]] (literally the biggest weapon in the game) and claims it's "just an automatic pistol". |
| 86 | * BookEnds: Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9 begins and ends with a montage of (rather well made) fake news clips setting up the story. The one at the start talks about the Russians invading the region. The one at the end talks about [[spoiler: the Russians wiping out the Resistance, as well as talking about the various war crimes the Resistance committed, and how [[VillainWithGoodPublicity public opinion on the islands has shifted in favour of the Russians]], both for bringing stability and actually doing a lot to improve peoples quality of life]]. |
| 87 | * BoringButPractical: Womble's strategy at the end of "Random Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Bullshittery (part 3)" involves making a simple system of paper grid squares to help him triangulate distances for firing a rifle grenade launcher. It ''works'' and lets him blow up several groups of enemies across the map from relative safety, a marked improvement from his... mixed performance as a frontline squad leader. As the adage goes, "Infantry wins firefights, armor wins battles, artillery wins ''wars''". |
| 88 | * BreakTheCutie: Any time Womble plays horror games, as he has said himself he "doesn't do well" with them. Most of the time he goes from adorable to a gibbering, nervous wreck within the first ''two minutes'' of the video. |
| 89 | ** This happens to Cake when they play Viscera Cleanup Detail and Womble messes up the neat pile of boxes she had been meticulously arranging. |
| 90 | * BritishTeeth: In one of his Twitch streams, he admitted to having a sweet tooth and not taking that much care of his teeth. Expectedly, the chat proceeded to make fun of him with this trope. |
| 91 | * BuffySpeak: At times, the ZF clan are not the most eloquent bunch: |
| 92 | -->'''Womble:''' Someone's running around in the thing with the wood and a balcony thing.\ |
| 93 | '''[=Moley=]:''' [[LampshadeHanging Fuckin' hell]], [[SarcasmMode explained like a pro]]. |
| 94 | * BullyingADragon: During one part of the "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery" videos, the clan gets bored of fighting Russians and decides to antagonize the ''Americans'' (and the rest of NATO) instead. To put it mildly, an utter CurbStompBattle ensues. |
| 95 | -->'''Womble:''' Okay, lets go poke the Yanks. ''[after "poking the Yanks"]'' Oh Christ, the Americans are bloody terrifying. |
| 96 | * TheBusCameBack: In "Random [=PlayerUnknown's=] Battlegrounds Bullshittery (part 2)", during Womble's sudden "over-edited" ''Series/{{CSI}}''-style montage, one of the characters listed is "Detective Clive", aka his [[CompanionCube companion rock]] from ''The Culling''. |
| 97 | * CallBack: |
| 98 | ** A raid on another base that was built into a cliffside in "Rust Bullshittery (part 1)" by ZF goes awry when the defenders get the idea of locking them inside so that they can't get out - Womble starts getting bathroom flashbacks.[[note]]In a previous video, Womble relayed a story of him being locked in his own bathroom for four hours because the key finally broke[[/note]] |
| 99 | ** This happens again in "Random GTA V Bullshittery" when Womble takes a shower and EVERYONE rushes to block the door. |
| 100 | ** When Cyanide reveals that the two "[[SecretWeapon friends]]" on his team in "Random CS:GO Bullshitery (part 7)" are [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming professional CS:GO players from EnVyUs]], Womble says that he should have put in the rules that Cyanide wasn't allowed to get professional players for his team. Then NBK reminds him of a previous CS:GO Bullshittery where Womble held that ''he'' was a "professional" CS:GO player (since he makes videos of CS:GO on Youtube as his "profession"). |
| 101 | ** As Womble picked up an AK-47 and reloaded it in “Random CS:GO Bullshittery (Part 3)”, one of his teammates jokingly asks him if the rifle still had ammo left to shoot, a reference to Womble [[FailedASpotCheck not checking his primary firearm for bullets]] in the previous CS:GO Bullshittery video. |
| 102 | *** Later, Soviet dies with an AK-47, having exhausted its ammunition. Cyanide picks it up, not noticing it has no ammo, and dies with it. |
| 103 | --->'''Cyanide:''' What the... it had no ammo! |
| 104 | --->'''Soviet:''' How does it feel, Cyanide? |
| 105 | --->'''Cyanide:''' Why would you drop me a gun with no ammo? |
| 106 | --->'''Soviet:''' Because I DIED. |
| 107 | ** In Part 9 of Random Arma Bullshittery, while objecting to the massive number of war crimes the other members of the Resistance are committing, he references the fact that he's already known for calling in an airstrike on a village of civilians, but points out that, unlike what the others are doing, that was ''legitimately'' a mistake caused by him and his squad not realising the targets were civilians until the strike was already happening, versus the other guys purposefully executing surrendered enemies. |
| 108 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: Soviet was the lightest weight member of ZF that played the CS:GO drinking game, leading Cyanide to taunt him about his low alcohol limit. Then again, depending on your standards, simply being able to ''survive'' that many shots within a few hours is a feat in and of itself and even Womble was still more or less coherent after 8 drinks. Also worth considering was that Womble had no shot glass to measure how much he was actually drinking and just taking swigs off the bottles. |
| 109 | * CarFu: |
| 110 | ** A staple of the ZF school of driving. Taken to its logical conclusion in "Random GTA V Bullshittery" where the clan plays Sumo with cars. |
| 111 | ** Notably, it ''works'' a few times, twice in [=ARMA III=] and once in [[VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds Playerunknown's Battlegrounds]]. "Ramming speed!" |
| 112 | * CarPorn: Cyanide (who famously has an SLS AMG), Waffle, and Gambit are notable car enthusiasts, to the point of calling for a time-out in ''VideoGame/CounterStrike: Global Offensive'' to just talk about cars (much to Soviet's dismay). When they went to a strip club in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Grand Theft Auto Online]]'' Soviet realized that Cyanide and Carton were not actually drooling over the dancers but the [[CoolCar cars]] parked outside. |
| 113 | -->'''Cyanide:''' Look at it! The doors open upwards! Look at it! |
| 114 | * CassandraTruth: PlayedWith in "Random ''Videogame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds'' Bullshittery". With Soviet perching on top of a high balcony, Cyanide tells him the game hasn't implemented fall damage yet, and eggs him on to jump off to see for himself, [[CryingWolf which given Cyanide's track record with lying, Soviet refuses.]] After a rather lengthy back-and-forth, Soviet finally caves in and jumps off... and takes no damage, much to his surprise and Cyanide's joy. |
| 115 | -->'''Cyanide''': I'M NOT A LIAR! |
| 116 | * CatScare: |
| 117 | ** Womble tends to play horror games slowly and with extreme caution if he can help it, and often times he spooks himself due to his in-game character doing something more abruptly than he expected like slamming a door open in ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' or dropping loud items in ''VideoGame/{{Monstrum}}''. |
| 118 | ** During the tense "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIDakt6_fI The Fairfax Residence - Swat 4]]", as Womble and Cyanide are investigating the house and are listening to what sounds like something struggling against the wall[[note]]Many commentators believe it's just a radiator[[/note]], both are startled by [[spoiler:a sudden voice blurting "PENIS!" appears from out of nowhere. It turns out it was someone else still in their Teamspeak channel, who apologizes and leaves]]. |
| 119 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 120 | ** Womble frequently asserting some variant of "It's fine, it's fine!" or "I'm fine, I'm fine!" when [[BlatantLies things are definitely not fine]]. |
| 121 | ** Nevil [[SirSwearsALot frequently gives a snarky "Fuck you"]] when annoyed, made all the more noticeable by how despite [[TheUnintelligible his disposition]], this phrase is consistently intelligible coming from him. |
| 122 | * ChekhovsGag: In "[=DayZ=] Bullshittery", one of the ZF rather spectacularly flies a cargo aircraft through a small gap and launches flares as it pulls up, much to everyone's amazement. [[spoiler:Later in the episode someone steals a helicopter from Womble's friend, and after luring them to the same location, this trick is used once again to distract the thief as Womble kills him and retakes the helicopter.]] |
| 123 | * TheChrisCarterEffect[[invoked]]: {{Discussed|Trope}} in "What's so strange about The Forest? (2014)" as what Womble considers perhaps the biggest overarching flaw of [[VideoGame/TheForest the game]]. While Womble praises several aspects that it ''did'' pay off (namely the endgame sequence [[spoiler:featuring the SadisticChoice in whether or not to resurrect your son by recreating a horrific plane crash to find another sacrifice]]), he ended up massively disappointed to realize that a vast majority of the questions he asked throughout the rest of the game -- most of which were based on intriguing and conspicuously-placed StoryBreadcrumbs regarding the setting -- are completely divorced from the main driving plot [[{{Fauxshadow}} or are just unresolved entirely]], leaving them feeling just plain nonsensical. Womble highlights that as ''The Forest'' was made primarily as a WideOpenSandbox survival game -- a genre of game that relies primarily on EmergentNarrative by players interacting with the world -- where the story was added as a secondary concern for later, and it suffers from feeling exactly like that: a story whose entire existence feels completely detached from the game that it's a part of (or in other words, a story called ''The Forest'' [[TheArtifact where the forest can be entirely removed and change nothing]]). |
| 124 | * ClusterBleepBomb: In Random Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Bullshittery (part 1), a section of the video records all the moments when ZF clan said something racist. Every racist word in the section is bleeped out, and one clip towards the end has a sentence-long bleep. |
| 125 | * ComicallyIneptHealing : Soviet's brief stints as medic in ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}} 3'' result in this. |
| 126 | -->'''Soviet:''' Shit! I've accidentally given one of you LSD! |
| 127 | * CompanionCube: In "Random The Culling Bullshittery Part 2", Soviet becomes enamored with a rock he finds and names it "Clive" (he even captions him as such in the inventory), and there's an extended sequence of him interacting with "Clive" and speaking on his behalf. |
| 128 | * CorruptTheCutie: Soviet tries to invoke this after [[MsFanservice Nep]] disconnects from a match, ordering [[TheCutie Cake]] to take her place as "the eye candy". It... doesn't go as planned. |
| 129 | -->'''Soviet:''' I said "moan seductively", not "have a fucking seizure". |
| 130 | * CurbStompBattle: |
| 131 | ** Womble + 4 ZF members vs. Cyanide + 2 ZF members + 2 random friends named Dicky and Frosty in a CS:GO faceoff. Womble's team wins the first 5 rounds (of 30) quite easily and Soviet [[TemptingFate goes to send a message to the other team to "get gud."]] [[spoiler:Dicky responds with [[LetsGetDangerous "Getting good now,"]] and Cyanide's team suddenly wins the next 16 of 17. Turns out "Dicky" and "Frosty" are [[SecretWeapon actually NBK and Enkay of professional CS:GO squad Team EnVyUs]].]] |
| 132 | ** Siege of Willow Lake. [[spoiler:First assault, ZF clan entirely annihilated by three PMC clan opponents. Second assault, Helicopter insertion to the of the castle with 6 men. Lose their helicopter, four of them die, and they have to get another copter to extract them while under fire. Third assault, taking all the stops out they go to their car park, and pull out the ultra rare M113 APC. On the way they proceed to lose their pickup full of ammo, and a helicopter with Cyanide nearly losing both his satchel charges. When they finally reach Willow Lake, The one defender asks in chat,[[CasualDangerDialogue "PMC ECHO: So soviet, how is things?"]]]] |
| 133 | ** Cyanide's Hunter-class ship in ''Space Engineers'' versus Poro's little starfighter - the latter is utterly annihilated in just two missile salvos from Cyanide. |
| 134 | ** [=ZF=] tries to take on the American armed forces in "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery". It devolves into everyone trying desperately to hide as airstrikes and gunships utterly anihilate them. |
| 135 | * CutenessProximity: |
| 136 | ** He has uploaded a video of his French bulldog puppy, Lulu, on his channel. In his {{Website/Twitch}} streams, he is often heard cooing over and being affectionate toward her. There's also Cake, as seen below as TheCutie. |
| 137 | ** Since late 2017 Womble sometimes switches to a "Lulu Cam" in some streams, which showcases Lulu in all her glory on a couch. The chat is predictably inundated with cooing over her every time it occurs. |
| 138 | ** "Random Arma 3 Bullshittery Part 9" has him coo over NPC dogs on two separate instances ... only for his clanmates to respectively [[ForTheEvulz shoot and run over said dogs]] soon after, much to his horror. |
| 139 | ** The follow-up to the above in "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery Part 1" has him plead with his Clan not to shoot a dog that wandered into the crossfire, and he sounds genuinely heartbroken when the dog is predictably shot dead after Cyanide declares it to be [[BlatantLies armed with a suicide vest]] and thus a valid target. |
| 140 | * TheCutie: |
| 141 | ** Cake, anytime she talks... |
| 142 | --->'''Womble:''' Everyone just ''melts'' every time Cake speaks.\ |
| 143 | '''Cyanide:''' Hello, Cake!\ |
| 144 | '''Cake:''' ''Helloo!''\ |
| 145 | '''Entire ZF Clan:''' [[CutenessProximity AWWWWWWWWWW]]\ |
| 146 | '''Nep:''' [[StrangeSyntaxSpeaker How can be someone so cute?]] |
| 147 | ** Even her ''meltdowns'' can be cute as her OCD showed in ''VideoGame/VisceraCleanupDetail''. |
| 148 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: An InUniverse example at the end of "Random ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' Bullshittery Part 3". An opponent tried to surprise Womble and a teammate and Womble returned fire, but his gun ran empty before he could kill him so Womble ran up to him clicking the middle mouse button to use a melee attack a la ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' or ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}''...forgetting in the heat of the moment that this game didn't have such an action. He dies as a result. |
| 149 | * DatingServiceDisaster: In "Arma 3 Bullshittery (part 6)", Cyanide was sent to rescue Sophia Miacova, but he discovers that it's actually [[spoiler:a guy with an effeminate voice, whom [[DisproportionateRetribution Cyanide promptly shoots]].]] |
| 150 | -->'''Cyanide:''' ''[[LampshadeHanging I WAS CATFISHED!]]'' |
| 151 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "The Badgers, they are the Badgers!..." |
| 152 | * DesignerBabies: In CSGO Bullshittery Part 8, Cyanide claims he was an IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) baby. Womble naturally snarks he was "genetically bred to be the perfect retard." |
| 153 | * DeviousDaggers: Over the course of repeated streams of the VR title ''Blade & Sorcery'', Soviet develops a strong preference for daggers, particularly for DualWielding or stabbing {{Shield Bearing Mook}}s in the back via telekinesis. |
| 154 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Out of boredom, [=ZF=] decides to [[BullyingADragon antagonize the U.S. Military]] during "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery Part 3". The result? Millions of dollars of drones, attack helicopters, and special forces rain absolute hell on a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits small insurgency]] in response to blowing up a $50,000 NATO truck. |
| 155 | --> '''Soviet:''' Right, what we're learning from this is that the Americans have '''absolutely no chill!''' |
| 156 | -->'''Digby:''' (later) Someone in my chat just asked me how it feels to lead an insurgency that elicits a bigger response than ''bin Laden did''. |
| 157 | * DistaffCounterpart: "CS:GO Bullshittery" introduces Nep, who turns out to be both a great FPS player and reveals she was a former professional singer. Womble jokes that she could replace Edberg, and Cyanide remarks that she is "literally the woman Edberg". |
| 158 | * TheDitz: [[ArmedFarces Much of the ZF Clan are to some degree incompetent]] at ''{{VideoGame/ARMA}}'', but Harry gets especially ribbed for how ''clueless'' he is on the regular, having a tendency [[TooDumbToLive to run full-tilt towards any order no matter how suicidal]], [[NoSenseOfDirection frequently getting lost]], and unable to read a map to save his life (as in, [[FailedASpotCheck he can't recognize a]] ''[[FailedASpotCheck giant]]'' [[FailedASpotCheck red circle on the map marking where they're heading to until it's pointed out to him]]). |
| 159 | -->'''Quebec:''' I want you to know, a Russian man claiming to be an officer walked up the road in a full NBC suit, and the man of first contact to talk to this Russian soldier who's demanding terms of surrender was Harry, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint and he went "Hey, what's up?"]] |
| 160 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: |
| 161 | ** During "CS:GO Bullshittery (Part 4)", Nep makes some... ''[[TheModestOrgasm questionable]]'' sounds, which she writes off as "stretching." Nobody buys it. |
| 162 | --->'''Nep:''' I'm getting... lots of friend invites right now, is it because of your stream? |
| 163 | *** She did it ''again'' in "Random VideoGame/RocketLeague Bullshittery", only this time with very ''excited'' expressions. |
| 164 | ---->'''Nep''': [[InnocentInnuendo Come on, come on... GO IN! COME ON! OH YES!]] ''(laughs)''\ |
| 165 | '''Cyanide''': Ohhhh god, what's in my head?\ |
| 166 | '''Womble''': Nep, can you stop making my chat go apeshit?\ |
| 167 | '''Nep''': [[LampshadeHanging Did I do sexual stuff?]]\ |
| 168 | '''Womble''': You did sexual stuff. |
| 169 | ** A similar thing happens in "PUBG Bullshittery (part 3)", where Soviet notices some faint moaning noises in the background. It turns out to be [=JoinkStreams=]' girlfriend, though [[TheStoner she was only tapping his hand and begging for brownies]]. |
| 170 | ** Also during "Random Rocket League Bullshittery", Darius ends up contributing a lot of [[TheGruntingOrgasm odd grunts]] which are presented in the same way. |
| 171 | * DoNotTauntCthulhu: In "CS:GO Bullshittery (part 7)", after beating Cyanide's team the first six rounds of the match, Soviet types "get gud" in all chat. [[spoiler:[[LittleDidIKnow Little did he know]] that Cyanide's "friends" were actually [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming NBK and Enkay from EnVyUs]].]] |
| 172 | -->'''"Dicky":''' getting good now |
| 173 | * DreadfulMusician: Cyanide has an absolutely wretched singing voice. Not that it stops his singing from being absolutely hilarious, mind you. |
| 174 | * DrinkingGame: The latter half of "CS:GO Bullshittery (part 3)" is a one of these over a game of CS:GO - 1 drink for each time the player dies, 3 drinks if the player dies by a knife, 1 drink if someone else gets a knife kill. AlcoholInducedIdiocy ensues, especially for [=SovietWomble=] given his low skill level in the game compared to others in the clan. [[spoiler:It ended with him becoming so plastered he forgot he was streaming and physically wandered off.]] |
| 175 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: |
| 176 | ** Cyanide at times, especially in "Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Bullshittery": |
| 177 | --->'''Womble:''' Oh, car.\ |
| 178 | '''Cyanide:''' Whoa! ''[Slamming into a wall and landing facing the opposite way]''\ |
| 179 | '''Womble:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Obviously it's Cyanide.]]\ |
| 180 | '''Cyanide:''' Taxi service! |
| 181 | ** Back in the [=DayZ=] Bullshittery days, Marbles had this reputation, frequently getting his vehicle stuck in the most improbable positions. |
| 182 | * DungeonBypass: |
| 183 | ** During "Random [=DayZ=] Bullshittery - Siege at Willow Lake (part 2)", the squad attempts this after accidentally trapping themselves on the castle, some stuck on the roof with a locked door blocking their way down. They spend a while chipping away at the cinderblock door with their crowbars (estimated to take about 1,200 hits), but the castle's owners return and wipe most of them out, forcing the survivors to retreat by rescue helicopter. |
| 184 | ** A similar thing happens in "Random Rust Bullshittery", where the clan stages a raid on a large enemy base, but in the process gets locked inside by its owners knowing they can keep them trapped. Womble comes up with the plan to make tools using the materials they just pilfered to break through the walls, and after several minutes of picking, this time, they successfully manage to do so and escape. |
| 185 | * EpicFail: While playing through the Arma 3 Antistasi mod, they manage to cause a fatal script error that crashes the server host, losing Commander Petros (the head of the rebellion and the win condition of the mod) in the process. Quebec then tries to go into the debug menu to get him back, which then undoes the team's entire progress, while not even getting Petros back along the way. And without access to Vesper's (the server owner) server commands, the playthrough ends in failure. |
| 186 | -->'''Quebec:''' The server is ''totally'' fucked, holy shit. We lost Petros, and then ''stabbed the server in the heart'' trying to fix it. Vesper's going to come back and say that like, the server host's burned to the ground or something. |
| 187 | -->'''Moogle:''' Maybe the real Petros was the friends we made along the way. |
| 188 | * EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Almost always used whenever Nevil is speaking in any of Soviet's videos because of the clan's massive difficulty to understand what he's saying thanks to his thick accent and use of broken English. |
| 189 | * EveryBulletIsATracer: An interesting part of the subtitle of his videos is that nearly every single bullet fired in his videos ''have subtitles follow where the bullet gets fired into''. |
| 190 | * ExactWords: |
| 191 | ** "CS:GO Bullshittery (Part 5)", Womble was screwing around one round by tossing a Molotov in the path of his teammates, two of whom got burned. That particular round his side won and Womble happened to win MVP, which meant the game auto-generated a stat related to him that was missing some critical context: |
| 192 | --->'''Cyanide:''' ''[reading the announcement]'' "[=SovietWomble=] torched two players with fire." They don't mention those two players are '''fucking ours'''. |
| 193 | ** Cyanide and Womble are stuck in Inferno's archway to B. Cyanide asks Womble to run after he throws a flashbang to the end of the hallway. Womble proceeds to run ''the opposite direction'' down the hallway. |
| 194 | --->'''Cyanide:''' ''[beat]'' I'd like for you to know that you're a piece of human shit. |
| 195 | ** Cyanide promised Womble he would subscribe to Womble's Website/{{Twitch}} stream if he got a kill with the [[LittleUselessGun R8 Revolver]] in "CS:GO Bullshittery (Part 6)". Cyanide didn't specify, though, that it had to be an ''enemy'' kill, which results in Soviet simply shooting Cyanide in the face and winning the bet. |
| 196 | * FakeNationality: Invoked. Edberg isn't actually Mexican (he's a Paraguayan-born Swedish national) but everyone jokes that he is anyways. |
| 197 | * FailedASpotCheck: Frequently in ''CS:GO''. Notably, a barely-concealed CT popped out from behind a crate and liquidated both Womble and Nep ''immediately'' after Womble and Cyanide cracked wise about how they would make incompetent real-life terrorists. |
| 198 | -->'''Womble:''' How did neither of us notice that guy?! |
| 199 | * {{Fauxshadow}}: {{Discussed|Trope}} as a recurring problem in "What's so strange about VideoGame/TheForest? (2014)". Womble points out that the game's plot is, first and foremost, a mystery, and thus the player [[StoryBreadcrumbs is expected to pay close attention to details that may be clues that will help them figure the story out]]. The issue is that the game is of such inconsistent quality -- with frequent bugs, sporadic technical issues with presentation, and just plain weird video game logic -- that it's hard to tell what are ''actual'' clues the player is meant to pay attention to, or just simple mistakes that make everything confusing. It's even worse when Womble completed the game and realized that many things that most certainly ''are'' intended (namely [[spoiler:the entire presence of cannibals in the peninsula]]) [[RedHerring have nothing to do with the conclusion and are never explained or resolved]]. |
| 200 | * FiveTokenBand: Surprisingly despite the offensive jokes made by the group (such as Cyanide, who's Indian mind you, making jokes towards Indians), the [=ZF=] clan is, in Soviet's words during "Random [=CS:GO=] Bullshittery (Part 4)", "equal opportunists" when it comes to recruiting new members. |
| 201 | --->'''Cyanide:''' Indian Guy: Check. Hungarian Gypsy: Check. Pasty White Dude: Check.\ |
| 202 | '''Womble:''' Yep, we're equal opportunists. |
| 203 | * FlatWhat: Womble's reaction to someone sticking a mine detector in his face in the beginning of "Random Arma 3 Bullshittery (part 5)". |
| 204 | * FormulaBreakingEpisode: Aside from the Bullshittery shenanigans, Womble has also done a few video essays such as a series on ''VideoGame/DayZ'' (part 1 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhmHO6qXf4 here]]) and on ''The Isle'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7JzmEf-_c here]]. |
| 205 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: |
| 206 | ** Cyanide seems to be this way in Womble's videos, if the fact that he has been kicked out of a CS:GO game by unanimous vote in the middle of a round by his own side (twice!) is any indication. Although those two times were mainly ForTheLulz of [[{{Troll}} messing with Cyanide]]. Hilariously, one particular vote-kick wound up getting him banned from the game for 3 hours. |
| 207 | ** Ironically, this is what Cyanide claims ''Womble'' is. |
| 208 | --->'''Cyanide:''' ''[to his girlfriend]'' Don't talk to him, we don't like him. |
| 209 | * FromTheMouthsOfBabes: In "Random [=DayZ=] Bullshittery (part 8)", the clan meets the daughter of one of its members named Georgia, who is young enough that she can barely spell her own name... yet is able to interject with "[[CreepyChild I kill you]]." |
| 210 | -->'''Georgia''': Dad, remind me... I kill you. See ya! :) |
| 211 | * FollowTheBouncingBall: In Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9, the Badgers/M.I.L.F. anthem employs this. |
| 212 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: |
| 213 | ** During the DrinkingGame during "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (part 3)", astute viewers may notice that not only is the ZF clan actually winning their matches despite getting increasingly plastered, the enemy team is exploding with rage in allchat, even accusing the clan of hacking. |
| 214 | ** After Cyanide and his girlfriend [[HilarityEnsues utterly fail at a tandem setup]] in "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (part 4)" (Cyanide using the keyboard and his girlfriend using the mouse), Edberg at one point puts in the game's text channel "still better than womble". |
| 215 | ** At one point while reacting to KJ's strange-sounding sneezes in "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery - Part 1/5", Womble is looking through his loadouts whose names are insults to the rest of ZF, such as "Chinny can't drive" "Cyanide likes willy" "Digby is a twat" and "Edberg is gaaay". |
| 216 | ** In "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (part 5)", there's a scene where Soviet's team votes for a timeout just so Cyanide and Edberg can discuss cars. The scene is focused on Womble's annoyance with the tedious conversation, but Nep can be seen silently dancing with her gun almost off-camera to the left. |
| 217 | ** In "Random [=PlayerUnknown's=] Battlegrounds Bullshittery Part 3," when others are doing the "Daddy Soviet" joke and Womble tells them to stop it, notice how his shadow reveals an additional shadow of his subtitles ''above his head'', tracked like he was viewing someone else from third-person view. He's in first person mode when this happens, so he went an extra mile just to add it. |
| 218 | * FunWithAcronyms: |
| 219 | ** One of the names for LaResistance in "Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9" is the '''M'''olos '''I'''ndependence and '''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment L]]'''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment iberation]] '''F'''ront, or '''MILF'''. Womble isn't down with it, but it unfortunately for him, it sticks a lot more than "The Badgers". |
| 220 | ** In the following Antistasi campaign, while Womble continues to push for "The Badgers", he's once again overridden, this time with the '''W'''orkers '''A'''nd '''N'''ational '''K'''insmen (or the '''W'''orkers '''A'''utonomous '''N'''ational '''[[ShoehornedFirstLetter K]]'''[[XtremeKoolLetterz ollective]]) as '''WANK'''. |
| 221 | * FunWithSubtitles: |
| 222 | ** Probably the videos' most defining feature. Subtitles are usually positioned on screen (from the viewer's point of view) so that they are right above or on top of the player speaking or the nearest edge if the speaker is off screen, like the viewer is watching a moving comic strip. The subtitles are also prone to being dynamic: for example, the clip of [[https://youtu.be/JRMYngXvqL4?t=5m41s Cyanide's (attempt at) singing]] in "ARMA 3 Bullshittery Part 3" has his words being thrown in with an arc and dropping to the ground one by one as they hit the far side of the screen. |
| 223 | ** The subtitles even go as far as to turn [[EveryBulletIsATracer bullets into tracers for the viewers to follow]], particularly when a really cunning enemy in ''VideoGame/CounterStrike: Global Offensive'' took down his three-man squad in just three shots, with the last "pew" filling up the entire screen for a single frame. Other times, the subtitles are used to represent a player, object or an object making noise before it falls apart upon being destroyed. |
| 224 | ** For the more technically curious, Project Kino has done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZjEYTBJO7g a semi-satirical video essay discussing how Soviet uses subtitles]]. |
| 225 | * TheGadfly: A good portion of the videos involves clan members intentionally screwing with one another off for the laughs - for example, throwing [=AWPs=] onto the roof in ''CS:GO'' when another clan member is asking for it. (That much of the remainder of the videos is them screwing with one another with their incompetence should say something.) |
| 226 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: {{Discussed|Trope}} extensively in the video essay "What's so strange about VideoGame/TheForest? (2014)", which examines many bizarre discrepancies and quirks of logic that make the experience feel "off", which Womble determines to be in part the result of a plot being added in an ad hoc fashion against [[WideOpenSandbox a very particular style of gameplay]] that wasn't meant to support it. |
| 227 | ** Early on, he calls out how despite the setup -- the protagonist has crash-landed in a mysterious forest and is in search of his missing son -- the game encourages unintentionally weird behavior like [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset stitching the bones of cannibals as armor]] (despite crash-landing in a plane and having an axe to cut metal with) and having no guided effort to try and call for help despite there being an increasing high amount of ways for outside communication. |
| 228 | ** This problem becomes even more severe when Womble reaches the post-game, where by completing the "main plot" and dissecting all the things it leaves entirely unanswered, Womble realizes that the story ([[spoiler:a mystery surrounding a corporation experimenting with an evil artifact requiring human sacrifice]]) and gameplay (survival against hordes of cannibals) are in fact almost ''completely'' segregated, with every potential lore implication the core gameplay loop brings up [[{{Fauxshadow}} being almost entirely irrelevant]] to the ''actual'' plot, with almost zero intersection. |
| 229 | --->'''Womble:''' This bit up here [the plane crash, the Red Man, the Sahara Corp, and mutants], that's what the game is about, and everything below it is essentially [[RedHerring misdirection]]... but without exaggeration, ''that's the entire fucking game!'' [...] Doing the open-world parts in an open-world survival game, in which [[KudzuPlot you're potentially building up a bow wave of questions insofar as what exactly is going on here]], and apart from like two major things [...] the questions that you'll probably come up with [[TheChrisCarterEffect don't fucking matter!]][[invoked]] This right here [[TitleDrop is what is so strange about The Forest]]. I came in here post-''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'' wondering if plots added to survival games in post would feel detached, but ''The Forest'''s plot is ''so'' detached it may as well be the ending to a completely different game! |
| 230 | * {{Gasshole}}: Among Soviet's Twitch followers his dog Lulu has developed this reputation because in many streams he will mention Lulu farting in his vicinity, often more than once. Sometimes the farts are even loud enough to be heard through Soviet's mic. |
| 231 | * GenreShift: |
| 232 | ** In "Random VideoGame/DayZ Bullshittery (Part 12)" Womble notes that Cramps has been modding the server. The game then shifts into "Operation Blue Waffle," a pastiche of VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown, complete with exploding curry jars, racially stereotypical unit barks, and an AI bandit [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard sniping Gambit out of cover in a single shot.]] |
| 233 | ** "Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9" has something of an actual story arc, following the Resistance as it fights against the Russians, all while SlowlySlippingIntoEvil, and begins and ends with a montage of (fake, but well made) news broadcasts to set up and close out the story. |
| 234 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: Played completely straight by the guys during "Random Space Engineers Bullshittery (Part 2)". |
| 235 | -->'''Gladpus:''' Speaking of gay, I'm gonna go and do some gay stuff right now.\ |
| 236 | '''Cyanide:''' Can you send us a picture? Or video?\ |
| 237 | '''Womble:''' Yes. We want pictures please!\ |
| 238 | '''[=TeamSpeak=] Announcer:''' ''User left your channel.''\ |
| 239 | '''Cyanide:''' No!\ |
| 240 | '''Womble:''' Oh goddammit. Lesbians never listen, do they? |
| 241 | * GracefulInTheirElement: Soviet's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Doomsday]] shotgun rounds are [[ShortRangeShotgun worthless]] at {{Videogame/ARMA}}'s normal engagement range, but as soon as he brings them into an urban close-quarters environment he gets almost thirty frags, demolishes several buildings, and ''blows up a tank''. |
| 242 | -->'''Cyanide:''' We can see [[{{Malaproper}} concisely]] where you've been, Soviet, [[FollowTheChaos by tracking the fucking buildings.]]\ |
| 243 | '''Womble:''' When I said it [[ExactWords negated cover,]] I was being serious. |
| 244 | * GratuitousGerman: Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Bullshittery has Cyanide reveal he's been working on his German, which Poro admits is pretty good. Naturally, Cy's grasp of knowledge extends solely to [[BigEater ordering food.]] |
| 245 | -->'''Cyanide:''' ''Ich liebe Hänchenflugel''.[[note]]I love chicken wings.[[/note]] |
| 246 | * GratuitousSpanish: Cyanide, despite being (Singaporean) Indian, utters random Spanish or swear words once in a while. That being said, [[https://youtu.be/xNOCkkFKnQ8?t=338 Cyanide seems to know some Spanish anyway.]] |
| 247 | -->'''Cyanide:''' I become Spanish when I'm scared. |
| 248 | * HeroicBSOD: During his playthrough of ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'', Womble experiences several, experiencing several near panic-attacks at the sheer intensity of the game (not helped by the fact by the fact he admits he horror games are a weakness of his) and requiring several breaks to calm himself down. [[{{Determinator}} He eventually braces through it all]], but even once he hits the credits, [[PostVictoryCollapse he collapses in overwhelmed sobbing]]. |
| 249 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 250 | ** In "Random Arma 3 Bullshittery (part 3)", Ed reveals himself to be a good singer, doing an impressive rendition of a verse from [[Music/{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]. |
| 251 | --->'''[[DreadfulMusician Cyanide]]:''' [[BlatantLies He learned how to sing from me.]] |
| 252 | ** Due to Singapore's national service, ''Cyanide'', of all people, is actually ex-firefighter/paramedic/emergency services. He's also studying economics at post-secondary. |
| 253 | ** Despite his antics and goofiness, Soviet is generally a fairly effective squad leader in ''Arma 3''. |
| 254 | ** While streaming ''Blade & Sorcery'', Soviet often takes breaks between rounds to educate his audience about the real-life applications and tactics of the game's various medieval-era weapons. |
| 255 | ** Womble's [=DayZ=] video essay series shows off more of his in-depth knowledge about software development and understanding of video game mechanics and trends. |
| 256 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 257 | ** The "CS:GO Bullshittery" videos feature misthrown grenades by Soviet Womble or some other ZF members, the result usually victimizing themselves and others. Part 8 of that Bullshittery series has Edberg calling out Soviet about still not knowing how to throw grenades even after hundreds of hours in the game right after the latter blows himself up with one. |
| 258 | ** In "PUBG Bullshittery" when Cyanide snarks that the NESW directionals should stand for '''N'''obody '''E'''njoys '''S'''oviet '''W'''omble, Womble takes out a Molotov Cocktail and tries to incinerate his team for agreeing. [[KillItWithFire It blows up in his hand from holding it too long and he immediately self-immolates]]. |
| 259 | * HonorBeforeReason: When playing as terrorist in CS:GO, Cyanide team-kills anyone he deems as "[[DirtyCoward deserters to the cause.]]" This includes merely turning around from the point of attack, as Cyanide interprets that as being tempted; and him getting hit with [[HypocriticalHumor friendly fire]], which he interprets as betrayal. |
| 260 | * HypocriticalHumor: Womble himself often engages in the same griefing, trolling, asshole-ish behaviors he berates his clanmates for, usually to humorous effect. After yelling at everyone to stop being racist in "Random Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Bullshittery", he finds a shrine to Ho Chi Minh and goes "[[InterchangeableAsianCultures This is where they learn lessons about Ho Chi Minh, the inventor of the instant noodle. Konnichiwa!]]" |
| 261 | * IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: In the "Random VideoGame/DeadByDaylight Bullshittery", Womble gets a lot of mileage out of one of the levels being called "The Ironworks of Misery", especially [[OhCrap as he immediately gets chased down by the killer.]] |
| 262 | -->'''Womble''': Oh god, he's coming up the thing! Have I just trapped myself inside the Ironworks of Misery? Up the Staircase of Woe? Jump out the Window of Pain! On the Catwalk of No Hope! ''([[JumpScare runs face first into the killer]])'' OH MY GOD HE'S ON THE CATWALK OF NO HOPE! Get back up there quickly, Window of Misery, WINDOW OF MISERY! |
| 263 | * IdenticalStranger: Vocally, at least -- in "Space Engineers Bullshittery (part 2)" the clan is introduced to Zebedee via Teamspeak, whom Womble immediately notes sounds exactly like him. Zebedee does Womble's "It's fine, it's fine" catchphrase and sounds so close to Womble that Cyanide immediately [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere gets up out of his chair and leaves]] because his brain couldn't take it. |
| 264 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The majority of Soviet's videos are titled "Random (insert-game-here) Bullshittery (part X)". |
| 265 | * IdiotPlot[[invoked]]: During "Random VideoGame/FarCry3 Bullshittery", Womble gets frustrated by the fact the game fully expects Jason -- a random everyman with no prior training -- [[AllUpToYou to save his friends from pirates]], lamenting his inability to contact the local police or the U.S. embassy to make things ''much'' easier. |
| 266 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Apparently a common trait for ZF members; either they can't hit the intended target for shit, or they somehow end up teamkilling. In one [=DayZ=] Bullshittery, Cyanide claims there's a gun named after the ZF clan, which Womble jokes "fails on every third shot," while another clan member says it "only targets allies." |
| 267 | * IncompetenceInc: ZF make for some ''awful'' cleaning contractors in ''VideoGame/VisceraCleanupDetail''. The first group spent their time making a ''bigger'' mess than they started with, bludgeoning each other with mops, "cleaning" by just shoving all the dirty furniture out the airlock, and crash the server from spawning too many buckets. When it's just Cyanide and Womble, Cyanide mostly dicks around and makes Womble miserable. |
| 268 | * InsistentTerminology: |
| 269 | ** Soviet Womble is an "internet phenomenon" and a "professional CS:GO player" (professional in that he streams the game as a source of income). This comes back to bite him when he gets obliterated by actual pros, who point out that their presence is fair game because Womble himself claims to be a professional. |
| 270 | ** Cyanide, frequently overlapping with BlatantLies. It's an "automatic pistol", not the largest machine gun in the game; it's a "strategic ambush", not blatant camping; it's "selective viewing', not stream censorship; civilians are "acceptable casualties"; and so on... |
| 271 | ** Womble almost always refers to Cyanide's girlfriend as "Cyanide's Super-Hot Girlfriend". |
| 272 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: In Part 6 of his Alien Isolation series, Womble is trying to prevent a reactor on a space station from going nuclear, declaring, "We are not gonna fucking die on this station!" A moment later his screen goes black. Cue him laughing at the death screen, which reads (edited by Womble): "You fucking died on this station." |
| 273 | * InterchangeableAsianCultures: PlayedForLaughs in "Random Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Bullshittery (part 2)" with Womble berating his clanmates for constantly misidentifying the nationality of the Vietcong, from Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc. At one point, Womble himself stumbles and bewilderingly almost calls them ''Mexicans''. |
| 274 | * IsThisThingStillOn: |
| 275 | ** Two times when Cyanide's gone AFK, Soviet made a jab only for Cyanide to remind him that he still has his speakers on. |
| 276 | --->'''Womble:''' ''[talking about the Able Gamers charity]'' And those of you sitting watching the stream, you too can help someone who would normally not be able to [[YourMom claim they've slept with someone's mum over]] ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''. Oh, just to clarify; when we mean handicapped, we don't mean mentally handicapped, we don't mean Cyanide here. Cyanide's perfectly capable of using the controller that he has.\ |
| 277 | '''Cyanide:''' ''[from across the room]'' '''[[ImStandingRightHere I can fucking hear you!]]''' |
| 278 | ** And another when Cyanide goes AFK during his first time in ''VideoGame/VisceraCleanupDetail''. |
| 279 | --->'''Womble:''' I also talk to Cyanide's girlfriend, and by "talk" I mean send penis pictures and I get penis pictures ba-\ |
| 280 | '''Cyanide:''' '''No you fucking don't!''' |
| 281 | ** During "The Culling Bullshittery (Part 1)" Cyanide annoys Womble by repeatedly calling his music selection "gay" and shouting over his attempts to defend himself. Womble eventually storms off but Cyanide doesn't realize the stream is still running and Womble's mic is muted, leading him to singing for about 20 minutes while Womble is demanding he shut up over a muted mic. |
| 282 | ** In "Random ARMA Bullshittery (Part 7)", Womble goes AFK to get himself some water. As he's still broadcasting on Twitch and hates in-stream advertising, the rest of ZF immediately gather around in front of Soviet and [[CharacterShill start shilling]] Creator/{{Ubisoft}}. Cyanide even manages to sneak in a plug for his own Twitch channel. When Soviet realizes what's happening, he [[BerserkButton immediately draws a shotgun]] (or rather, a rifle with an M203 and buckshot rounds) and tries to gun down Cyanide, only to kill Sledge by accident. This gets him in trouble with the platoon's CO [[RefugeInAudacity (who he also shoots)]]. |
| 283 | * ItMakesSenseInContext: From Rust Bullshittery Part 2: |
| 284 | -->'''"Hitler's a friend"'''\ |
| 285 | -- [[QuoteMine Soviet Womble, 2015]] |
| 286 | * ItWorksBetterWithBullets: |
| 287 | ** "CS:GO Bullshittery (part 2)", with only a few players still alive Womble swaps out his [=P90=] for an AK-47 not realizing the ammo count in the corner read 0/0 for ''[[FailedASpotCheck 23 seconds]]''. He only finds out it's empty when he tries to kill the last enemy... who kills him first with an AWP. |
| 288 | ** In part 3, this happens to Cyanide when he picks up Soviet's weapon, who ''just'' ran out of bullets before he died with it. [[WithFriendsLikeThese Of course]], Cyanide tries to find a reason to blame Soviet for it happening anyways. |
| 289 | ** While being pinned down by gunfire in "Random Pavlov Bullshittery", Soviet attempts to counter his aggressors by tossing a grenade, which might have done some good if he had actually ''pulled the safety pin off'' before lobbing it. |
| 290 | * JustForTheHeliOfIt: In "Arma 3 Bullshittery (Part 6)", Soviet tries to talk down Cyanide from bringing an attack helicopter to what amounts to a simple ''recon mission''. |
| 291 | -->'''Cyanide:''' Logically speaking, we want to assure the highest possible chance of success. The helicopter will provide that, see? We don't want to go under-armoured.\ |
| 292 | '''Womble:''' Okay, but at the same time we have no way of knowing whether or not --\ |
| 293 | '''Cyanide:''' ''[interrupts]'' No, no, no, no, no...\ |
| 294 | '''Womble:''' -- You can't just bring a fucking attack helicopter on any mission!\ |
| 295 | '''Cyanide:''' ... You're wrong! You're wrong! You're wrong! |
| 296 | * TheLancer: If Soviet plays a game with only a single other member of ZF, chances are it'll be [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Cyanide]]. So far they've teamed up for ''VideoGame/SWAT4'', ''VideoGame/TheStompingLand'', ''VideoGame/Portal2'', ''Farming Simulator'', ''The Culling'', ''VideoGame/WeWereHere'' and ''VideoGame/SpaceEngineers'', among many others. |
| 297 | * LaserGuidedKarma: |
| 298 | ** "CS:GO Bullshittery (part 7)", Soviet challenges Nep to a knife fight, who doesn't want to at first because she doesn't trust Soviet not to just shoot her. Soviet throws down his Scout to entice her out (while keeping his pistol on him) - when she does approach, he [[DirtyCoward switches to his pistol and gets a few shots off]] before she [[ProperlyParanoid pulls out her shotgun]] and kills him in one headshot. |
| 299 | ** Whenever somebody dicks around in "CS:GO" (like slamming the same door repeatedly just because) and gets killed for it, Womble will usually add the subtitle "DESERVED". |
| 300 | * LaughingMad: |
| 301 | ** During a stream of ''[[VideoGame/SilentHunterSeries Silent Hunter III]]'', Womble learned of how ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1206 U-1206]]'' was sunk due to a mishap with a toilet[[note]]''U-1206'' had a brand new [[http://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/28/The-Toilet-that-Sank-the-U-1206/ advanced toilet system]] that came with a complicated instruction manual. Captain Karl Adolf Schlitt had to go, and after he was finished he tried to flush the toilet from the manual himself instead of getting the toilet technician. When Schlitt did eventually get the specialist, the specialist opened the outside valve when the inside valve was still open as well. The water flooded the batteries, filling the sub with chlorine gas and forcing them to surface. When they were on the surface, they were discovered by a British patrol and bombed. One man died in the attack, three in the heavy seas after the U-boat was scuttled, and 46 men were captured.[[/note]], which he found so hilarious that he had to stop the stream to periodically take breaks over the next ''20 minutes'' because he just couldn't stop laughing. He even had to abort the stream ... still laughing. |
| 302 | ** He gets this again of the "Stress Laughter" variety during his ''Alien: Isolation'' playthrough. It gets to the point where he has to pause the game and take a break, and in the background you can hear him pacing and ''giggling'' nervously. It's admittedly a bit creepy. |
| 303 | * LethalChef: A variant occurs with Womble when he attempted to make a banana and mango smoothie using a liquidizer he got but he put a giant chunk of clumped together ice cubes instead of individual ice cubes, [[StuffBlowingUp and thus...]] |
| 304 | -->'''Womble:''' Erhm... My vision kind of went white with a sort of mango'y tint and... And now... After that... [[CoveredInGunge my kitchen is pretty much laminated in a thin layer of banana and mango smoothie]]. |
| 305 | * TheLoad: Womble in CS:GO, to the extent that apparently his nickname within ZF is "The Handicap". |
| 306 | * MacrossMissileMassacre: Cyanide's [[CoolStarship ZF Hunter Class - Hunter]] in ''VideoGame/SpaceEngineers'' has ''[[SpaceIsAnOcean dual broadsides worth of rocket launchers]]''. Combined with RammingAlwaysWorks, [[CurbStompBattle he makes short work of Soviet's]] ''Archer'' frigate, Poro's small fighter and even the ''[[{{Franchise/Deadspace}} USG Ishimura]]''. |
| 307 | * MadArtist: Edberg in ''VideoGame/VisceraCleanupDetail'', as he spreads blood on a wall and calls it "contemporary art." |
| 308 | -->'''Womble:''' [[LampshadeHanging If you're not on a no fly list somewhere in the world, someone is not doing their job.]] |
| 309 | * MadLibsCatchphrase: A RunningGag in Womble's Twitch is for him to answer the constant queries on when his next video would be out with, "I've decided to quit Website/YouTube to become a/an [Insert Random Job Here]." One [[https://clips.twitch.tv/WittyDreamyPonyCharlieBitMe instance]] had him reply that he'd decided to quit [=YouTube=] to focus on his career... as a [=YouTuber=]. |
| 310 | * MadnessMantra: [[https://youtu.be/XctVrJrCsO0?t=690 It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, I'm not freaking out, I'm not freaking out, I'm not freaking out, I'm not freaking out...]] |
| 311 | * MeaningfulName: Chinny claims to have bought the explosives that failed to blowup the factory in ''Antistasi Part 2'' from a man called Sketchy Irishman. Womble points out that the name should have clued him in that the guy was a sketchy Irishman and his explosives probably weren't good, but Chinny notes that the fact that he was willing to sell bombs to resistance fighters[=/=]terrorists is just as likely to be the source of his sketchiness. |
| 312 | -->'''Womble:''' Could you not have bought it from the Totally Legitimate and Highly Competent Irishman?! |
| 313 | * MisspellingOutLoud: "CS:GO Part 6", at one point before game start Cyanide is texting. |
| 314 | -->'''Cyanide:''' How do you spell "luscious"? |
| 315 | -->'''Soviet:''' L-U-S-C-C-I-O-U-S-T. |
| 316 | -->({{beat}}) |
| 317 | -->'''Cyanide:''' [[DelayedReaction ...what!? Fuck off!]] |
| 318 | * MolotovTruck: During part 2 of "Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery", after two separate attempts to blow up a factory via quiet infiltration fail, the clan decides to brute-force it by strapping bombs onto one of their trucks and car-bombing it. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Unfortunately, this plan goes awry]] as Aizen is given a dead man's switch as a precaution, but when [[FailsafeFailure he's suddenly disconnected from the server]], the bombs all suddenly go off, killing the entire clan mid-conversation. |
| 319 | * MsFanservice: Nep is easily the most popular girl in the streams both for being the best player and the prettiest one around. It seems that the clan is fond of having at least one in the best scenarios. |
| 320 | -->'''Womble:''' ''[Nep disconnects]'' Oh no! What will we do without the eye candy? [[TheCutie Cake!]] You're the new eye candy!\ |
| 321 | '''Cake:''' Okay! |
| 322 | * MultiNationalTeam: |
| 323 | ** The trope is invoked in a "SWAT 4 Bullshittery" clip where each of the four players come from different countries (Womble - United Kingdom, Cyanide - India[[note]]living in Singapore[[/note]], Gambit - Germany, Phoenix - United States). [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Does nothing to stop them from tasing each other]] [[ItAmusedMe for the hell of it]]. It's supposed to represent world politics, Germany's harassing India, the U.K tries to calm things down then the U.S. barges in exclaiming "You're all my bitches! All of you!" |
| 324 | ** The ZF clan in general, as members are based in various countries and play together (for some definition of the term) at various times in various games. |
| 325 | * NervesOfSteel: |
| 326 | ** Quebec in "Random 'The Forest' Bullshittery" is remarkably composed and unfazed by the dangerous elements of the game. Probably the best showcase is as the team is learning how to build a campfire in the middle of nowhere, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight he casually mentions]] "Oh, there's something walking towards us from behind you guys!" [[JumpScare There was.]] |
| 327 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K1PoDkFLnE He also showed very little reaction]] to the claustrophobic, NothingIsScarier elements in ''VideoGame/{{Monstrum}}'', and his reactions to coming face-to-face with the monsters are that of mild annoyance, with the scenarios that were sending Womble into hysterical panic instead being an opportune time for Quebec to tell a story about a man [[ToiletHumor covered in shit]] who came into the Specsavers he worked at. He does make one high-pitched, indeterminate noise subtitled as [[BringMyBrownPants "terror wee"]], but then again, [[UnreliableNarrator the video was edited by Womble.]] |
| 328 | ** "Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Bullshittery Part 1" (and their various streams) [[NotSoStoic shows that even he has limits]], with a brief montage of [[JumpScare him getting freaked out by sudden threats on the battlefield]]. |
| 329 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Badgers[=/=][[FunWithAcronyms M.I.L.F.]][=/=]LaResistance in "Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9" count if you consider their ''original'' objective of Altis liberation from Russian occupation before they start SlowlySlippingIntoEvil. They start committing so many war crimes and heinous actions that public support (and even the support of NATO) ends up going to the Russians instead. |
| 330 | * NoOneShouldSurviveThat: |
| 331 | ** "ARMA 3 Bullshittery (part 2)", the squad is taking a quick break in a chapel with one of the members behind the podium - Womble himself is in the front pew beginning a confession when someone else [[OhCrap throws a frag grenade behind the podium]]. Womble and the others flee as far as they can before the grenade detonates and spreads fragmentation every which way -- he asks for a status check and the one behind the podium stands up from his prone position completely none worse for the wear. Through Soviet's befuddlement at how he's still alive, Rotary proclaims it to be [[ThereIsAGod a sign from God]]. |
| 332 | ** Happened again in Part 9. Soviet attempts to take out a pair of Russian soldiers in a small building. He shoots one, but the other is hidden around the door corner. He decides to throw a grenade into the room; it bounces around the corner and explodes (scattering "pew" subtitles against the near wall). Soviet and a teammate then enter the room...only for them to be both gunned down by the remaining soldier, who was still alive and lying prone around the door. |
| 333 | --->'''Womble:''' What the ''fuck'' was he made of?! |
| 334 | * NoSenseOfDirection: A mild variant; a minor RunningGag with Cyanide is the fact he forgets cardinal directions, and constantly has to be reminded of "'''N'''ever '''E'''at '''S'''ea '''W'''eed". |
| 335 | -->'''Cyanide:''' ...or, as I've been told and like to call it, '''N'''obody '''E'''njoys '''S'''oviet '''W'''omble. |
| 336 | * NowYouTellMe: During "Random Arma Bullshittery (part 9)", Womble tests some AI assignment settings in the Antistasi mod they were using. [[spoiler:Rorkiy messaged him that "Did I mention that [the enemy] eventually zeroes in on the mortar fire?" AFTER Womble fires a smoke round and attracts the attention of the Russian air force]]. |
| 337 | * NotSoAboveItAll: For all his complaining about ZF's [[{{Troll}} dickery toward each other]] and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential cruelty to game worlds]], Soviet himself is definitely not above doing the same things himself, especially when it's funny. |
| 338 | ** He also has the occasional moment of humouring his clanmates in post. One such example is him and Cyanide playing ''VideoGame/FarmingSimulator 15'' and Cyanide pretends the grain tank unfolding on his harvester is a "missile launcher". Despite Womble's disagreement, he suddenly edits in the harvester firing a couple [=SSMs=]. |
| 339 | * ObviousBeta[[invoked]]: |
| 340 | ** {{Discussed|Trope}} at great length as the first point of his video essay series on ''VideoGame/DayZ'', brought up as a severe mistake that could doom a product right on the spot, as it did with the standalone ''[=DayZ=]'' game. Womble argues that [[Platform/{{Steam}} the Early Access model]] of releasing games early has its pros and cons, but it's unacceptable to do so for a product that's barely ''functioning'', let alone complete, since all it accomplishes is [[TaintedByThePreview a tainted first impression]] and places the onus on paying customers to deal with their jank and ongoing shifts in development. |
| 341 | ** Also discussed in his video essay about ''VideoGame/TheForest''. Womble overall describes it as being a far more stable game than ''VideoGame/DayZ'', highlighting several aspects where there was clearly a lot of impressive attention to detail (well-crafted environments, subtle sound design, creative inventory/UI arrangement, etc.), only for janky details to rear their ugly head and disrupt the immersion ([[ArtificialStupidity poor enemy pathfinding]], inconsistent audio mixing, extremely obvious typos, etc.). The see-saw of quality was especially problematic considering the game is a mystery where the player is expected to play close attention to details, with it being unclear if certain features are intentional or not (i.e., "is the strange behavior of animal [=NPCs=] hinting at a story development, or are they just bugging out?). While he does understand that the game was made by a very small team with limited resources, he -- speaking from his experience in software QA -- asserts that quality control is still extremely important, and many of those obvious flaws could have at least been identified through playtesting. |
| 342 | --->'''Womble''': When working in a software team, we can design the most creative feature set imaginable, we can code the most incredible system of systems, but at the end of the process, if it doesn't actually function, if it doesn't work properly in the hands of the customer, [[PrecisionFStrike then what the]] ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]'' [[PrecisionFStrike are we doing?]] Doubly so if our team plans to make follow-up products based on our reputation. People aren't stupid; if your first product launch was jank, they're not going to rush out to pay full price for the second. Essentially, this is me talking to future creators: ''never'' half-ass quality. Take the time to get it right. |
| 343 | * OhCrap: |
| 344 | ** Womble's reaction in "ARMA 3 Bullshittery (part 1)" after Cyanide rather calmly asked why they had called for fire support at 225199 - their current location. |
| 345 | --->'''Womble:''' Team 1! Team 1, fucking scatter! |
| 346 | ** Again in "ARMA 3 Bullshittery (part 7)" after Womble realises that the Su-25 flying overhead is lining up for a strafing run on their current location. |
| 347 | --->'''Tigernos:''' No, that's an Su-25!\ |
| 348 | '''Sarissa:''' That's an Su-25, that's a [[ReportingNames Frogfoot]]!\ |
| 349 | '''Moogle:''' Yeah, that's not-that's not friendly!\ |
| 350 | '''Womble:''' [[OhCrap Oh.]]\ |
| 351 | '''Cyanide:''' Well thank you Moogle for that incredible piece of information...\ |
| 352 | '''Womble:''' Err, guys? It seems to be, erm, errr, it's coming straight towards us! RUN AWAY! |
| 353 | ** Womble again in "ARMA 3 Bullshittery (part 9)" when he [[spoiler:accidentally alerts the Russians to the headquarters of LaResistance by testing too many mortar rounds, which moves on him with several ''gunships'']]. |
| 354 | ** Womble has a ''massive'' one that heralds the end of his sanity during his ''Alien: Isolation'' playthrough: after nearly losing his mind evading the homicidal android guards, he enters a baggage terminal and walks past an air duct to check a suitcase for supplies....and then turns back around to notice the tell-tale Xenomorph drool coming from the duct... |
| 355 | ---> '''Womble''': [''makes a horrified gasp that would make Manga/AttackOnTitan expressions look like mild dismay in comparison''] [[RapidFireNo No, no no no.]] [[AnythingButThat Don't be that.]] Not now, don't be that. Don't do that. [[MadnessMantra Don't be that.]] (Motion detector beeps and shows ''[[SensorSuspense something]]'' approaching fast) No...! Don't be that. Please don't be that. ''DON'T BE THAT!'' |
| 356 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] after a CurbStompBattle delivered to his team by Cyanide's team, the latter having gotten [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming Team EnVyUs NBK and Enkay as ringers]]. They stayed around to play some additional games before Cyanide let out a scream of amazement - ''[[CherryTapping he had knifed NBK]]''. Soviet lamented the fact that Cyanide is ''never'' going to let that go and is going to end most ''VideoGame/CounterStrike: Global Offensive'' conversations with "Well, I knifed NBK!". |
| 357 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 358 | ** Cyanide throughout "The Fairfax Residence" in ''VideoGame/SWAT4'', he was very much out of his usual character, not cracking a joke and he was genuine when he heard a noise that sounded like someone pushing up against a door jamb (turns out it was simply a radiator). The only time when he went back into his usual character was when he decided to pepper ball the killer, but even that is a marked downgrade of the silly behavior that normally characterizes Soviet Womble's videos, especially since it's quite obvious that he's not doing it to troll Soviet (He only did it after Soviet purposefully reminded him that he's carrying the non-lethal pepper ball gun), but because he legitimately hates the suspect. |
| 359 | ** To a lesser extent, Cyanide is considerably less Trollish and actually demands that the survivors work together during "Random Dead By Daylight Bullshittery" because he's too scared shitless to do his usual shtick. He's just as loud and lively, however. |
| 360 | ** In general, when Cyanide ''isn't'' goofing off, he's actually dangerously competent, and a rather effective leader to boot. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-mdAPehig8 This]] video shows him in full seriousness mode, leading his squad into the middle of a besieged town to extract a fellow fireteam, issuing orders and remaining (relatively) calm even as the entire operation goes pear-shaped. |
| 361 | * OutOfGenreExperience: In stark contrast to his usual content, Womble made [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBitIgZ_UvGFNHPFlRg4834gYBmbYmdr7 a 3-part video essay discussing]] ''VideoGame/DayZ'' (both as a mod and its standalone version) as a companion piece to his "Bullshitteries". |
| 362 | * OverlyLongGag: "CS:GO Bullshittery (part 7)" has a rather extended montage of Cyanide getting a hold of a bunch of did-you-know facts and starts reading them all out loud, to everyone's dismay. [[BrickJoke In the succeeding CS:GO Bullshittery Part 8]], before actually starting a serious conversation, he starts with [[HereWeGoAgain "Did you know?"]] which causes the rest of the team to [[ThisIsGonnaSuck groan aloud]]. |
| 363 | * ParanoiaFuel: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] during ''Random Team Fortress 2 Bullshittery'', where Quebec is such a nightmare [[InstantKill Spy]] player that everyone eventually expects him to strike anywhere at anytime (remarkably Quebec ''still'' manages to assassinate them). Soviet jokes that he's so paranoid that he's starting to check behind him in real life too. |
| 364 | * PerverseSexualLust: In "Random Arma Bullshittery (part 6)", the entire reason Cyanide demands his squad press on a brutal rescue mission despite many people having already been injured or died is because the hostage is Sophia Miacova. [[spoiler:[[UnsettlingGenderReveal Until he actually sees]] [[CrossPlayer who "she" is]], and later he bitterly rejects any missions to rescue "her" again.]] |
| 365 | -->'''Cyanide:''' I will have my head in between her heavily-muscled thighs! |
| 366 | * PoliceBrutality: In ''VideoGame/SWAT4'', if ZF aren't being horribly abusive to a suspect or a hostage/bystander, it's because they're already busy tasing/beating/shooting each other. |
| 367 | -->'''Cyanide:''' Oh my God, there are people watching us teabag a civilian!\ |
| 368 | '''Womble:''' Hello! Hi there, civilians! Protect and serve, protect and serve...\ |
| 369 | '''Gambit:''' Professional police work, ladies and gentlemen, professional police work. |
| 370 | * PoorCommunicationKills: In "Random Arma Bullshittery (part 9)", the squad notices an enemy helicopter approaching them after a successful base raid, but it turns out it's Rorkiy, who tells everyone through the walkie-talkie channel to hold fire. Unfortunately, due to the heavy rain garbling the sound, Womble shoots it down with an anti-air rocket right as he's being told it's friendly. |
| 371 | * PornStash: In "[=DayZ=] Bullshittery Part 7", Womble said he had 5 "fap folders" totaling 136 GB of porn on his computer, "all sorted into varying degrees of obscenity." |
| 372 | * PutOnABus: |
| 373 | ** Phoenix was rather prominent in early Bullshitteries as the "[[TokenWhite Token]] [[SarcasmMode American]]" of the clan, with his girlfriend [=WhiskeyChick=] getting a fair amount of screen time as well. He would disappear after the ''VideoGame/DayZ'' videos, however, due to some nasty behind-the-scenes trouble between ZF clan members, resulting in him getting kicked from the clan. He was accepted back years later, but due to the clan expanding significantly and Soviet having an established party to play with, it's highly unlikely he'll ever be seen in another Bullshittery. Official word from the Reddit FAQ is that Phoenix and a few others from the early days of ZF "do whatever they want" now, and leaves it at that. |
| 374 | ** As of 2020, this has been what's become of Nevil, as well. Due to a series of racially-charged comments and outbursts on his stream, his Twitter, and on the ZF Teamspeak server that have crossed the line from being played for laughs to being legitimately unsettling to the rest of ZF, he was banned from their Team speak, and according to [[https://twitter.com/zfedberg/status/1269008417202606081 Edberg on the subject]], he is no longer considered a part of their circle of friends. |
| 375 | * RageQuit: Cyanide does this several times when things in ''CS:GO'' go particularly pear-shaped for him in the process of play. In Part 1, he lets out a BigNo and Rage Quits right after Edberg knifes him (Cyanide had been the last remaining ZF member to not get knifed by him); in Part 5 he asks Sheep to pick up the [[MoreDakka Negev machine gun]] for him (having already died in the round) and starts thanking Sheep when Sheep does pick it up but immediately drops an AtomicFBomb and Rage Quits when Sheep [[{{Troll}} tosses the gun over a fence]] [[YankTheDogsChain right before the round resets]]. |
| 376 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: |
| 377 | ** Despite the realistic consequences when doing this in ''VideoGame/SpaceEngineers'', they tend to ram each other in their ships, particularly Cyanide while flying the ''[[MightyGlacier Hunter]]''. Their ship they built and battled with at the end of Part 2 weaponized this even further by placing explosives at the bow of the ship so when they rammed the enemy and then reversed, the bombs would be left inside (although the mechanism failed), and the battle was narrowly won by Cyanide burrowing their ship into the opposing ship to gut their power core. |
| 378 | ** Soviet's first time driving the [[TankGoodness M1A2 Abrams]] in ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}} III'' was a little clumsy but he did get a moment when an enemy APC just happened to show up, while Cyanide and the commander were busy trying to get clearance to engage, Soviet just simply reversed then went full speed, knocking the APC over and ''[[StuffBlowingUp it exploded]]''. |
| 379 | ** In one scene in "Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Bullshittery," after running out of bullets, Womble attempts to drive his truck into another truck with an enemy hiding behind it. It works, instantly killing him. |
| 380 | * RecklessGunUsage: "Random Pavlov Bullshittery" thankfully only features VR guns, but nonetheless features antics including pulling down the trigger ''while looking down the barrel'' to see if it's loaded, and test-firing while being trained to reload and [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace shooting a clanmate in the face]] ([[DisasterDominoes prompting everyone else to do the same]]). He also curiously tests out a knife on an ally to see if it's sharp, [[GoneHorriblyRight and it instantly kills him]]. |
| 381 | * RefugeInAudacity: |
| 382 | ** When they make easily offensive and crude comments, they do it either over-the-top or extremely casually that it comes off as humorous. |
| 383 | *** Especially since a many of the racially insensitive remarks are made by people who are that race (see Cyanide's many jokes about Indians). |
| 384 | ** Seen literally in an episode of Arma III Bullshittery, where Soviet inadvertantly shoots the wrong teammate whilst trying to punish Cyanide for advertising EA in his stream. When asked to explain himself by his CO, Soviet shoots him too and books it. |
| 385 | * RewindReplayRepeat: During "Random VideoGame/RocketLeague Bullshittery", Nep [[EpicFAil flubs up an incredibly easy goal]], and when she exclaims [[TemptingFate "No one fucking saw that!"]], [[TheGadfly Womble's response?]] |
| 386 | -->'''Womble''': Ladies and gentlemen watching: This is Nep missing a wide-open goal with the ball directly in front of her. No defenders, no chance of missing, and yet she does so anyway! ''(cut)'' Oh look, here it is again! ''(cut)'' And here it is in slow motion! ''(cut again as [[EvilLaugh he has a cackle]])'' |
| 387 | * RunningGag: |
| 388 | ** Poor throws of flashbangs in ''CS:GO'' that end up blinding the thrower. |
| 389 | ** Soviet's use of grenades or other throwable explosives end up hurting either himself or his teammates. Otherwise, they just go into the most inconvenient or aimless trajectories. |
| 390 | -->'''Edberg:''' When are you going to learn nades? |
| 391 | ** Someone [[{{Troll}} throwing a good weapon onto a roof]] in ''CS:GO'' that could have gone to a teammate, [[ItAmusedMe because they can]]. |
| 392 | ** No one being able to [[ATeamFiring hit anything even with ridiculous amounts of gunfire]]. |
| 393 | ** Digby's eulogies, complete with funeral music played over the comms, appear [[RuleOfThree three times]] in Random [=PlayerUnknown's=] Battlegrounds Bullshittery (part 2). |
| 394 | ** Whenever ZF finds themselves in the middle of a gunfight and appear to be losing expect them to engage [[WeaponizedCar Ramming Speed]] and drive full throttle into people. |
| 395 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: |
| 396 | ** Soviet has some giggly screams when he panics, which he tends to subtitle as [[SelfDeprecation "girly screaming".]] |
| 397 | *** He apparently does this off streams, too. In "Random [=DayZ=] bullshittery (part 14)", he relayed a story of how he got stuck in his bathroom without a phone and was screaming and banging at the walls for help for three and a half hours. When a neighbor finally called the fire department who came and freed him, they told Womble that they "got a report that a woman was stuck in her bathroom." |
| 398 | ** Cyanide can devolve into high-pitched shrieks of terror when he's genuinely scared, as evidenced by "Random Dead By Daylight Bullshittery". |
| 399 | * SelfDeprecation: The clan as a whole is aware sometimes that they are not super-elite pros in the games they play, especially ''CS:GO''. |
| 400 | -->'''Cyanide:''' It'd be great if they (ISIS) learnt to think from us, because then they'd be completely useless and not a threat to anyone. |
| 401 | * ShaggyDogStory: |
| 402 | ** At the end of the Arma 3: [=ArmaGeddon=] Mod - Escape from Altis video, Womble and Cyanide escape the island on a helicopter, but then Cyanide tries to do a backflip... |
| 403 | ** The misadventures of the Badgers/M.I.L.F. on the Antistasi server are abruptly ended when [[spoiler:Womble, between official sessions, accidentally reveals the location of their headquarters to the Russian military, who proceed to kill the resistance commander and end the campaign.]] |
| 404 | ** Throughout "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery - part 2/5", the resistance repeatedly tries to destroy an enemy factory, with all traditional attempts at planting explosive charges and running [[AntiClimax being inexplicable failures]]. When they decide to improvise and try to drive a [[ExternalCombustion car bomb]] into it, a player connection hiccup causes it to go off prematurely and kill the squad. As for [[HumiliationConga one last coup de grâce from the game]], a later mission shows the squad fighting for a different factory, [[AllForNothing only for it to be demolished to pieces from a single motorbike explosion]] ''[[EpicFail by pure accident]]''. |
| 405 | *** ''The entire Antistasi campaign'' ends up being this, and for one of the [[AntiClimax saddest reasons possible]]: [[spoiler:while investigating a potential bug of their commander NPC, they accidentally triggered a fatal script error that crashed the host server, [[ResetButton causing them to lose all their progress]]. The clan decides to cut their losses and return to their civilian lives, writing off their resistance shenanigans [[AllJustADream as a dream.]]]] |
| 406 | * ShapedLikeItself: During his "Dead by Daylight Bullshittery", Soviet is searching for a generator to activate, inquiring about its general appearance in order to locate one faster. |
| 407 | -->'''Soviet:''' I don't even know what they look like!\ |
| 408 | '''Gambit:''' Like generators.\ |
| 409 | '''Soviet:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, thank you very much for that input, it's very appreciated.]] |
| 410 | * ShortRangeShotgun: Exaggerated by the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Doomsday]] shotgun shell add-on in ''Arma 3''. At first Soviet thought the ammo was worthless due to it doing nothing at normal firefight distances. Then he uses it to devstating effect at point-blank range in urban combat, to the point of making craters in the sides of entire ''buildings'' with it. |
| 411 | * SmallNameBigEgo: While Soviet had around 10K Youtube subscribers and 2K Twitch followers at the time, this was still PlayedForLaughs in "Random Rust Bullshittery", where Soviet was invited to see a mural of community-drawn paint signs. |
| 412 | -->'''Gladpus:''' The rose and the drowning man are two random people who came by and we invited to draw. They didn't know who you were, but they were like "Oh yeah, okay, we'll draw."\ |
| 413 | '''Soviet:''' What do you mean?\ |
| 414 | '''Gladpus:''' Uh, this rose and the picture of the drowning man.\ |
| 415 | '''Soviet:''' No, I mean what do you mean they don't know who I am?\ |
| 416 | '''Bevrel:''' You're not that famous, Womble. ''(entire chat bursts out laughing)'' |
| 417 | * SmugSuper: The clan recurringly jokes during CS:GO Bullshitteries about [[TheAce Edberg's]] ego when he hits Global Elite. |
| 418 | -->'''Womble''': Whenever he gets to Global Elite, he starts, yknow... sunshine flowing from his anus.\ |
| 419 | '''Edberg''': As long as we've known each other, I've only been in GE twice, including this one now.\ |
| 420 | '''Womble''': Yeah, and both times you were insufferable. |
| 421 | * StartMyOwn: At the beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhmHO6qXf4 his video essay on]] ''VideoGame/DayZ'', Womble admits that part of why he made it was in response to the earlier initial wave of content creators who only approached its infamous standalone version on a very surface-level way, indicative to Womble that they had not understood or played the mod it was based on. As someone with history in software QA and massive fan of the original mod, Womble felt the need to add his five cents. |
| 422 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution: Womble repeatedly asks why Jason Brody doesn't just call the nearest US Embassy to rescue his friends in "Random VideoGame/FarCry3 Bullshittery". |
| 423 | * TheStraightMan: |
| 424 | ** This role usually ends up being given to Edberg, usually [[EnragedByIdiocy raging at Soviet's incompetence]] [[SurroundedByIdiots and Cyanide's antics.]] |
| 425 | ** In "GTA V Bullshittery (Part 2)" Womble and several others are stuck atop Mt. Chilliad without a ride so someone else has to try drive one up to them. Emphasis on ''try''. |
| 426 | --->'''Womble:''' ''[watching as Cyanide manages to tilt the truck over the side of the mountain road and rolls all the way back down the side of the mountain to his helpless screams]'' I'm in a clan of fucking idiots. |
| 427 | ** Womble again at the end of "CS:GO Bullshittery (Part 7)" after his teammates go storming off [[CallBack making]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext random noises.]] |
| 428 | * StringTheory: Two-thirds into "What's so strange about The Forest? (2014)", Womble reveals he set up a massive chart of this to compile all the various questions he asked about the game's story and its world, highlighting [[TheChrisCarterEffect how many of them unfortunately failed to tie together]][[invoked]]. |
| 429 | * TakeThat: |
| 430 | ** "Random Arma 3 Bullshittery (part 7)" [[https://youtu.be/JFtB_9aW0bg?t=470 has an extended sequence of this]] to mainstream Youtube channels in general, more specifically [[JustJokingJustification prank channels]] and LetsPlay/PewDiePie (in reference for his habit of filling thumbnails with his face). |
| 431 | ** "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery Part 3" has a part where [=ZF=] purposefully [[ComedicSociopathy runs over a war correspondance journalist]] that no part of the fighting, to Womble's protest. He then "finds out" that the journalist is with [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Mail]] and proceeds to riddle the man with bullets. |
| 432 | ** In "What's so strange about The Forest? (2014)", during Womble's explanations of the various discrepancies of StoryBreadcrumbs and the confusing timescale it results in, he mentions how the game implies the dynamite to be incredibly old and [[ArtisticLicenseChemistry fails to acknowledge]] that old dynamite is ''[[HairTriggerExplosive extremely]]'' [[HairTriggerExplosive volatile and dangerous]][[note]]Womble does bring up some potentially conflicting information that debunks this adage, and that old, "sweating" dynamite actually expires quite fast, [[VoodooShark but that raises question on how it's still functional]][[/note]], that "even the writers of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' know about this, and every single one of those writers is reta-''[[CurseCutShort (BOOM)]]''". In the same segment, he physically demonstrates the level of deterioration a Bible suffers after being waterlogged for several weeks to compare with the inexplicably pristine Bibles all around the peninsula, then reassuring to the audience that he didn't actually drown a real Holy Bible -- he just put the cover sleeve around a copy of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' and drowned that instead. |
| 433 | * ATankardOfMooseUrine: During the drinking game in "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (part 3)", Blair pulls out a bottle of "Oddka", a cucumber and spinach vodka. It goes about as well as you'd expect. |
| 434 | -->'''Blair:''' Mine's quite alright, actually. ''[beat]'' Oh! Never mind! |
| 435 | -->'''Blair:''' ''[at least 10 shots later]'' This cucumber shit [[TastesLikeFeet tastes like AIDS...]] |
| 436 | * ThatCameOutWrong: |
| 437 | ** In "Random Space Engineers Bullshittery (part 2)", Womble shares a story of when he borrowed an [=iPad=] from a coworker and teased her with a look of disgust and asking "Have you cleaned this of your taint?", unaware that "taint" had [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=taint a much more NSFW meaning]] different to what he thought. |
| 438 | ** [[MsFanservice Nep]] accidentally uses the wrong word to threaten Cyanide in "CS:GO Bullshittery (part 6)". |
| 439 | --->'''Nep:''' I swear to God if you don't get this, I will ''fuck''[[note]]she meant "beat"[[/note]], the shit out of you!\ |
| 440 | '''Cyanide:''' Oh, OKAY! I am not fucking... ''[completely disarms himself and charges the enemy]'' '''COME 'ERE!''' ''[dies]'' |
| 441 | ** In "Random Rocket League Bullshittery", Womble stumbles on a witty retort: |
| 442 | --->'''Nep''': Womble likes [[DoubleEntendre touching balls?]]\ |
| 443 | '''Womble''': [[NoYou So do you]]. [[VerbalBackspace No, not "So do you"]], as in "I don't, and you do", not "so do you"-- ''(Nep laughs)'' --shut up! |
| 444 | * ThatsWhatSheSaid: It's a rule in ZF that if you make a TWSS joke and no one laughs within ten seconds, you're kicked from the Teamspeak server. Soviet himself gets kicked this way, and is accelerated by Cyanide when Soviet blurts, "Fuck you, I'm a [=YouTube=] phenomenon!" "Okay, just for that--''you were kicked from the server''" |
| 445 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot[[invoked]]: {{Discussed|Trope}} two-thirds into Womble's video essay on ''VideoGame/TheForest'', where after completing the main storyline, left many unanswered questions but also [[PostEndGameContent a post-game involving the Artifact Key]], his mind was running rampant on the possibilities of how the elements of the central plot ([[spoiler:a corrupt company abusing an ancient artifact and sacrificing children to conduct experiments on immortality and/or resurrection]]) would tie in with other things that had yet to be explained (including, but not limited to: [[spoiler:the existence of the cannibals on the island, their quasi-religious effigies and other ritualistic acts of violence, the various traces of non-corporate outsiders voluntarily coming to explore the peninsula (including what were implied to be a swathe of Christian missionaries), an ''enormous'' sinkhole in the middle of the forest, and several corpses implied to be killed not by physical violence, but [[BrownNote something]] or [[BrownNoteBeing some]]''[[BrownNoteBeing one]]'' [[BrownNoteBeing that vaporized them on sight]]]]). Womble ended up ''immeasurably'' disappointed to realize that the actual payoff for completing the postgame ([[spoiler:simply [[AWinnerIsYou an artifact to turn off the cannibals and allow you to play the game in creative mode]]]]) completely failed to capitalize on ''any'' of the potential, resulting in [[KudzuPlot a vast majority of the game being a narrative dead-end]]. |
| 446 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Womble is this for the Badgers[=/=][[FunWithAcronyms M.I.L.F.]][=/=]LaResistance in Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9, basically being the only one who routinely objects to their [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized morally dubious]] actions, wants to establish a democracy,and isn't there [[NotInThisForYourRevolution just]] [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for the money]]. Following the third rendition of their theme song, which calls them terrorists and ends with announcing that they ''were'' the Badgers ([[FromBadToWorse they've announced a partnership with ISIS]]), he starts to join in on some of it. |
| 447 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Several videos establish Cyanide's to be Pringles. He even correctly identified the flavor by the sound it made. |
| 448 | -->'''Soviet:''' Cyanide, listen, can you tell the flavour of the Pringles by the sound of the tube? ''[shaking]''\ |
| 449 | '''Cyanide:''' The green coloured[[note]]Sour Cream and Onion[[/note]] ones?\ |
| 450 | '''Soviet:''' ''[with a sound of surprise]'' Fuckin' hell. |
| 451 | * TranslatorBuddy: Cyanide has gotten so proficient at understanding [[TheUnintelligible Nevil]] that he can even translate for the rest of the clan, more or less. |
| 452 | * TrollingTranslator: ''[[TheCutie Cake]]'', of all people, pulls a fast one on Womble for a World War 2-modded ''VideoGame/{{Arma}} 3'' game, with the group gathered at a mission briefing to destroy heavy water plants in occupied Norway. Cake had prepared translation booklets of Norwegian phrases and distributed them to the group; among the phrases was "Når er neste pisspreikeriutgivelse?", which supposedly translates to "Are there any Germans nearby?" but subtitles reveal actually means "When is the next bullshittery?" |
| 453 | * UncertainAudience[[invoked]]: {{Discussed|Trope}} in his ''VideoGame/DayZ'' video essay series as a large part for why the standalone version flopped. As the initial ''[=DayZ=]'' mod had evolved and diverged significantly into different variants of gameplay (the basic classic survival gameplay, the communal and base-building gameplay, and the [=PvP=] battle royales), Bohemia Interactive had no idea which of these styles (aspects of which are conflicting in nature) was the "true" ''[=DayZ=]'' experience they wanted to cater to. Combined with simply [[ObviousBeta releasing the game too early]][[invoked]], it floundered in an unholy mixture of "ItsTheSameNowItSucks" and "TheyChangedItNowItSucks" that pleased no one and wasn't even substantial on its own merits. |
| 454 | * UnderlingWithAnFInPR: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3pU0VqEFVs Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9]], Womble tries to lead the resistance (known as the Badgers or [[FunWithAcronyms Moltos Independence Liberation Front]] to everyone but him) to [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified be morally upstanding and focus on liberating the island of Altis from Russian troops]]; however, the rest of the ZF [[note]] Zero Fucks [[/note]] clan constantly undermine him and his hearts and minds initiative by shooting civilians and one another (in the former case this was because of bugs, the latter because someone went AFK in real life), killing dogs, and then [[FromBadToWorse executing Russian soldiers who have clearly surrendered and even]] ''[[SuicideAttack using suicide bombers]]''. The former leads Womble to believe that the group have officially crossed the line and eventually, the combined antics of everyone else leads him to declare ThenLetMeBeEvil and say "fuck it" from a PR standpoint. [[spoiler:When the resistance is eventually wiped out, it turns out that Altis and its citizens decide that the Russian occupation is [[BetterTheDevilYouKnow the lesser of two evils]], while the rest of the world condemns them as terrorists.]] |
| 455 | * TheUnintelligible: |
| 456 | ** Holy N'Evil/[[AccidentalMisnaming Nevil]] speaks in such badly broken English that none of his clan-mates can understand him. Clan members have actually pointed out that they know he's Vietnamese with a thick accent and occasional grammar issues when using English, but they like ribbing him about it the same way [[VitriolicBestBuddies everyone mocks each other in ZF]]. |
| 457 | --->'''Nevil:''' [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped Cy yeah, go full butt to butt, queue medic don't need to go on the frump]]. |
| 458 | ** Gets taken up to eleven in "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (Part 8)", when we learn that he even ''types'' in broken English, to ZF's collective bewilderment. |
| 459 | --->'''Nevil:''' i still not BOTTOM FARGH (sic) |
| 460 | ** As of "Random Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Bullshittery (part 2)", he's actually improved a bit, with some of his phrases either understandable or translatable, even with a distinctive [[SirSwearsALot "Fuck you."]] That said, it still takes a bit for them to realize "Gam in the aero" is a request to "Camp in the airdrop." |
| 461 | ---> '''Soviet:''' "Airdrop"! Right! Where the hell was the D and the P!? "Aero" you said. "Air ''drop!"''\ |
| 462 | '''Nevil:''' Fuck ''yoouuu''. |
| 463 | ** By the time of "Random [=PlayerUnknown's=] Battlegrounds Bullshittery (part 3)", [[IntelligibleUnintelligible Cyanide has become amazingly fluent in Nevil's accent]], and spends a while [[TranslatorBuddy translating for others]]. |
| 464 | --->'''Nevil:''' Whydufuc he dun aeight? waysdid in aeight for ths shet!\ |
| 465 | '''Edberg:''' I can't understand him for the life of me.\ |
| 466 | '''Cyanide:''' "I gave you the 8x, you can't aim for that shit."\ |
| 467 | '''Womble:''' ''(laughing)'' He's actually translating it!\ |
| 468 | '''Cyanide:''' I'm fluent in idiot, I can't help it! |
| 469 | ** [[VocalEvolution He's further improved]] by the time of his appearance in "Random Arma 3 Antistasi Bullshittery Part 2/5"; unlike his appearances in previous Bullshitteries, he actually has proper, understandable subtitles, though his accent is still very noticeable. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Nobody in ZF comments on this.]] |
| 470 | ** It's been theorised that ceasing to be an example of this trope was what ultimately got him booted from the clan, because he was a lot easier to like when it was harder to tell what he was actually saying. |
| 471 | * UnseenNoMore: For nearly a decade, Soviet was meticulous about [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen never allowing his face to show up on screen]], semi-jokingly claiming he's afraid that he might get stabbed by a LoonyFan. This was eventually defied, with him showing up on camera for the closing monologue of his "What's so strange about The Forest? (2014)" video essay. |
| 472 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Between proper ZF sessions on an Antistasi server[[note]]In which you play as a resistance movement against occupying Russian forces[[/note]], Womble goes in one morning to try and play around with NPC assignments, ordering a Resistance soldier to fire a mortar. [[spoiler:This draws the attention of the Russians, who immediately show up with gunships, overrun the Resistance headquarters and [[KeystoneArmy kill the NPC commander]]. As the game-over screen fades to black, a gobsmacked Womble laments that his simple experiment accidentally ruined the entire campaign for everyone.]] |
| 473 | * VictoryByEndurance: How Womble actually wins [[spoiler:a round in ''The Culling'' on advice from Cyanide - stock up on bandages and other healing items, let the other teams kill each other and avoid the crossfire, wait as long as possible for the poison gas to close in, then rush into the gas and heal faster than the gas saps his own health while waiting for the gas to kill the other player.]] Cyanide tried to [[spoiler:do the same as well as Womble's teammate, but he got sniped by another player before he could pull it off.]] |
| 474 | * VideoGameCaringPotential: Womble often displays this. |
| 475 | ** He wants the Badgers to actually be good guys in ''Arma 3'' part 9. |
| 476 | ** He's audibly relieved when they find the kidnapped victims alive in the ''VideoGame/SWAT4'' Fairfax Residence. |
| 477 | ** He prioritises keeping as many surviving crewmembers alive when playing ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' with Cyanide. |
| 478 | ** He is genuinely upset when he finds [[spoiler: Ricardo has been facehuggered]] in ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation''. |
| 479 | * VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Cyanide "securing" several civilians in "Arma 3 Bullshittery" by executing them with headshots. |
| 480 | ** Among many other breaches of the Geneva Convention, the Badgers turning civilians into human shields in ''ARMA 3'' Bullshittery Part 9. |
| 481 | * ViewerPronunciationConfusion: [[InvokedTrope Several of the clanmates have fallen into pronunciation hijinx throughout the videos:]] |
| 482 | ** Womble had only read ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' and when someone talked about one of the characters, he was confused for an extended period because he thought Hermione was pronounced as "Hermi-one" (as in the number 1). |
| 483 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTvznTaoSlE "Random CS:GO Bullshittery (part 7)"]], he also revealed that he thought the "h3h3" of {{WebVideo/h3h3productions}} was pronounced [[Letters2Numbers "hee hee"]] for a year [[TheGadfly thanks to Cyanide.]] |
| 484 | ** In "Random Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Bullshittery (part 2)", he accidentally pronounces the name of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc Kim Phuc]] not as "fook", [[CrossCulturalKerfluffle but as... well...]] |
| 485 | --->'''Womble''': I'm British! We didn't invade the rest of the world to speak their language! |
| 486 | ** Womble isn't the only one to fall for this. In ''Random Player Unkown's Battlegrounds Bullshittery (part 3)'', Cyanice pronounces UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} as "CA-li-GOO-lah". |
| 487 | --->'''Womble''': Sorry, how long were you calling Caligula "Caligoola"? I must know.\ |
| 488 | '''Cyanide''': I DON'T OFTEN REFER TO CALIGULA! |
| 489 | * VillainousBreakdown: If you count [[VillainProtagonist Soviet and Cyanide as the villains in this case]]; in the ending of the second ''The Culling'' episode, Soviet and Cyanide end up in a last stand against Soviet's younger brother, Lamram. Naturally, he goes straight to try and press his [[BerserkButton buttons]], but it ends with [[spoiler:[[UnderestimatingBadassery [=LamRam=] charging up]] [[CurbStompBattle and kicking both their asses]], leaving Cyanide LaughingMad and Soviet in rage-and-panic-fueled InelegantBlubbering.]] |
| 490 | * VitriolicBestBuddies: While the ZF members will gleefully insult, grief, and troll each other and are quick to deny being friends, in unguarded moments they have admitted their friendship. ZF members also tend to becoming rather angry when other people go beyond good-natured insults and start harassing their clan mates. Edberg has told off Twitch chat members, both in his chat and Soviet's, for demanding bullshitteries from Soviet or accusing the latter of being lazy and not putting effort for not making bullshitteries as fast as they want. Cyanide [[https://clips.twitch.tv/InnocentHardCrabsMVGame firmly and seriously]] scolded chat members for demanding ZF players play with each other on their streams. |
| 491 | * WeAreStrugglingTogether: Sometimes ZF is attempting some semblance of a coordinated team effort when friendly fire (intentional or not) or griefing occurs. Hilarity usually ensues. |
| 492 | * WeHaveTheKeys: The door-is-unlocked variant in "SWAT 4 Bullshittery (Part 1)" when Soviet, taking point on a closed door, prepares to use C2 explosive to blow open the door when Cyanide suddenly speaks up from off-screen: |
| 493 | -->'''Cyanide:''' Don't use C2, don't use C2, wait, wait wait wait wait.\ |
| 494 | ''[Door suddenly opens inwards]''\ |
| 495 | '''Cyanide:''' Hi. |
| 496 | * WeirdnessCoupon: If the beginning of "Arma 3 Bullshittery (Part 6)" is anything to go by, the fact that a server is located in Russia is reason enough to explain why a nonexistent rocket fired from an imaginary rocket launcher is able to take down a very real helicopter. |
| 497 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: ZF is extremely prone to griefing, team-killing, or just fucking with each other, to the point that Womble insists that he and Cyanide aren't, in fact, "friends". A good example is the "Random PUB:G Bullshittery" series, where Womble, Cyanide, and Edberg repeatedly throw each other under the bus for their own benefit ([[ItAmusedMe or just because]]). |
| 498 | * WordSaladTitle: According to the man himself, "Soviet Womble" was just a random throwaway account name that has absolutely no meaning. |
| 499 | * WouldNotShootACivilian: Fully exploited in "Arma 3 Bullshittery (Part 9)", when the Badgers use civilians as human shields to attack and capture Russian outpost, as the enemy A.I. actually follows this trope. Note that at this point they were so deep into villainy that even [[TokenGoodTeammate Womble]] decided that it was a great idea. |
| 500 | * {{Yandere}}: PlayedForLaughs in "Arma 3 Antistasi Part 3/5" where as a result of Cyanide expressing fear at her PMS-induced possessiveness, Gorty/[[InsistentTerminology Cyanide's Hot Girlfriend]] appears to shut him up in the most creepy manner possible. |
| 501 | -->'''Gorty''': You're allowed to tell all of the stories about me if you want to, but don't take them out of context cause then ''[[SuddenlyShouting I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!]]'' ''[[EvilLaugh (laughs)]]''\ |
| 502 | '''Cyanide''': ''(whimpers in fear)''\ |
| 503 | '''Womble''': ...okay, "Cyanide's Hot Girlfriend" has been replaced with "Cyanide's ''Psycho'' Girlfriend", folks! |
| 504 | * YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Initially played straight in Random Arma Bullshittery Part 9, but as the episode goes on the other members of the Badgers continue to commit various war crimes. By the time of the third and final rendition of their theme song, the lyrics outright call them terrorists, with [[TokenGoodTeammate Womble]] himself commenting "We are, aren't we?". |
| 505 | ---- |
| 506 | |
| 507 | -->YOU MASSIVE OVEREDITOR\ |
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