Getting an actual real life body armour expert to explain how armour works and have a replica of someone in Halo's Mjolnir to analyze it with the expert really deserves a mention and in the process explaining why Spartans are so susceptible to physical blows.
Getting Reggie freakin' Fils-Aimé on his Deadlock sub-series to debate the merits of motion controls vs. classic controls. Sure, it's one step short of advertisement for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but it does make good and interesting points on both sides. How many high-ups in modern gaming would do something like this?
And he did it again: Reggie reappears in the next Deadlock video, debating with MatPat about the merits and disadvantages of Nintendo having its own consoles.
Despite some of his...questionable thoughts on parts of Five Nights at Freddy's, the creator has consistently and regularly followed his work. And on his last one before the sixth game, said it was "very close". Pretty awesome.
MatPat backing out of a Electronic Arts sponsorship in protest of their microtransaction policies in Star Wars Battlefront II. He also tells his viewers not to harass YouTubers who did do EA sponsorships, since many of them were locked into contracts signed before the microtransactions came to light and feel just as taken advantage of by EA as anyone else.
MatPat's response to YouTube's way of handling the Logan Paul Aoikigahara controversy.Context On New Years Day, 2018, Logan Paul uploaded a video detailing his experience in Aoikigahara, the video in question including the body from a recent suicide, which lead to massive backlash. Not helping is that YouTube acknowledged that said video violated the terms and conditions but didn't do anything about it until after the backlash.
In What (Else) We Missed, MatPat talks about the novels of FNAF and blurts out how he hasn't even begun to scratch his theory that Charlie is a robot. When The Fourth Closet was released, his theory turned out to be correct. And MatPat figured this out at least one whole novel ahead of time.
The 2019 charity livestream for St. Jude’s managed to raise over $1.33 MILLION dollars. Even removing the $500,000 from Scott Cawthon, they still raised over $800,000.
They repeated this feat in 2020, and more than doubled it by raising over $3 MILLION for St. Jude’s.
Whenever MatPat's theories predicting a future release actually ends up coming true. Notable events include: