Online Gaming

***Online Gaming*** is the second episode of the first season of *Cyberstars*. It was both written and directed by David Ragin. It was released January 15, 2016 on YouTube.

## Synopsis

A group of friends get together to play *Grand Theft Auto Online*, but the game takes an extremely long time to load.

### Plot

Trayvon sits down with his friends Marcus, Denzel, Brandon and Justin to play *Grand Theft Auto V*. While Trayvon, Marcus, Brandon and Justin are all playing on the PlayStation 3, Denzel is playing his on a PlayStation 4, which he falsely believes will allow him to do more than his friends. After twelve seconds, Marcus begins to get angry and Justin goes to the bathroom. Five minutes later, Denzel mentions that first-person is available on PS4, to which Marcus reminds him that they "aren't playing *Call of Duty*". Brandon explains that he doesn't plan on buying a PS4 until it becomes backwards compatible, and Trayvon and Marcus agree. Justin finally returns and questions the games status, as it is still loading. Two hours later, Trayvon is called into work, but leaves the game on to load while he's gone. Brandon predicts that the game will still be loading when he returns, which is proven to be true six and a half hours later. Trayvon questions why they remained on the game; Marcus took the day off, Brandon doesn't have a job, and Denzel "doesn't have a life". Brandon decides to go to sleep (because he has school in the morning), but when he wakes up eight hours later, the game has still yet to be loaded. Marcus reassures his friends that the game will load "eventually". However, time passes long enough for Brandon to graduate high school, Denzel to get drafted by the Detroit Pistons, and for Marcus to get married. Finally tired of waiting, Brandon turns his game off, with Trayvon following soon after. Denzel gets called to go to practice by his coach, and he ends his game as well. Marcus's wife becomes fed up with Marcus for "spending [their] entire marriage" waiting on the game to load, and Marcus ends his game as well, leaving Denzel alone. Miraculously, the game finally starts, but Denzel realizes that everybody has already left. Denzel simply recounts that his friends "should've got a PS4" and begins to finally play the game he waited years to play.

## Cast

### *Cyberstars* Cast

* Christian Parker as Trayvon
* Cortez Andre as Denzel
* Demonte Thompson as Brandon
* David Ragin as Marcus
* DK Williams as Justin
* Alyssa Crawley as Marcus's Wife

## Trivia

* First Appearance of Christian Parker, though his character of the same name wouldn't appear until *How We Play*.
* According to the *Cyberstars Pitch Meeting parody*, not having the characters use their normal names was, according to David Ragin, "a mistake".
* To promote the skit, David Ragin commissioned DiamondDesignHD to create GTA character posters of the Cyberstars members.
* Demonte Thompson portrays a character named Brandon. Ironically, he would go on to portray another character with the same name, Brandon Williams in *Graffiti: Heroes and Villains*.

#### Cultural References

* Marcus's claim that they are "playing *GTA*, not *Call of Duty*" refers to *Call of Duty* being a first-person shooter.
* The jersey that Justin is wearing when he gets drafted is actually Ben Gordon's Piston jersey.
	+ Ironically, during the time of filming, the #7 on the Pistons was being worn by Brandon Jennings, while Ben Gordon hadn't worn #7 for the Pistons since the 2010-11 NBA season, and hadn't played for the Pistons since 2012.

#### Goofs

* Randomly and frequently throughout the video, the screen will flash black for a frame or so.

## External Links

* *YouTube Episode Link*
* *IMDb Page Link*