Countdown Vampires Part 1

Format: Streamed

Stream Date: 3/2/2018

Cast: Rick and Flux

Episode Title: Our Disastrous First Twitch Stream Part 1

Twitch Episode

YouTube Episode

Background: This was the first game streamed by Robot Co-op on twitch. 'So 1990s it hurts' inadequately describes this Resident Evil knock-off. The crew initially abandoned it due to how horrible the game-play was, but requests to return to the game resulted in a Re-roast stream years later.

Notes Read As:

'Notice of appointment' read by Flux; no specific impression but read in the same manner he says his catch-phrase 'Ee-poppa-choo-cha!'

'Slot Machine Breakdown Repair Procedures' read by Rick; no impression attempted.

Memes created:

'OMG! Did someone just say COUNTDOWN VAMPIRES?!!!' -this terrible game created a running gag amongst the Robot Co-op followers where some would freak out if anyone else mentioned this game in passing. They would also immediately request the game if Rick and the Bots asked chat what other games they should play or go back to; much to Rick's apparent dismay as the chat filled with other people demanding to know if someone just mentioned the game.

'I'm a homicide detective' -sometimes used when a game protagonist looks nothing like what one would expect a person in the stated vocation should be. The main character in CDVs looks to be a 20-something surfer dude, or porn star, and hardly like a veteran police officer.

Memes extended:

Streamtastrophe. This shaky first go at Twitch streaming suffered a number of technical issues and a few places where Rick and Flux either broke character or screwed up something with established show lore.

1. No Mic Noise.

2. Chromakey issue gives Rick 'black lipstick.' (It looked faaaaabulous.)

3. Rick flubs some dates of release dates of consoles and publications.

4. Rick breaks character and confuses his real name spelling and his character's name.

5. Software errors cause post-game editing issues.

6. The facecam software malfunctions and keeps displaying an error message overlaid on Flux and Rick's faces.

7. It takes them a while to notice that error message.

8. It made it onto YouTube despite editing.

9. Rick grammarnazis something that's not grammatically wrong.

10. Rick reminisces about things he wouldn't have been old enough to do based on the show's setting. Realizes he's broken character.

11. Flux also references doing something that he would have not been around to do based on the show's lore. Doesn't care he's broken character.

12. A computer reboots mid-stream and corrupts some of the recorded data.

Tribal Tattoo Trigger: Rick is frequently vocal in his loathing of them and the main character of this game has a prominent one.

'TLDR': Rick sometimes doesn't fully read game instructions, then gets salty when he can't understand what he is doing wrong. In Countdown Vampires he only reads the first sentence of the how-to and dismisses it. He claims he can't pay attention to details and instructions on account of the main characters glistening pecs and tribal tattoo.

Danzig: Glenn Danzig tends to be a frequently mentioned celebrity on Robot Co-op's streams and this stream is no exception given the gothy, heavy metal vibe of the game's 'aesthetic.'

O.D.M.: Item drops in the game look a bit like Jack's fishing gear boxes from RE7 which were filled with grubs, maggots and squelching things. There is a call-back to a skit they did during the RE7 streams where 'Hipster Rick' demonstrated how he now only listens to the 'Organic Drone Music' these bugs make.

'Are you a Dracula?!' Whenever there's a game with vampires or something similar in it, one of the team -usually Flux - will shout this question.

Other Silliness of Note:

Flux commenting on the game trailer before the start screen: 'Is this a video game for the movie Strange Days?'

During a tangent on tribal tattoos Rick declares he has a tattoo he's not proud of but at least it is somewhere most people won't see it. Flux says he has seen it and that it is of Genie from Aladdin coming out of Rick's butt. Rick would not be ashamed of this.

A Game Over animation has one vampire 'teabagging' the player character, but then suddenly two more vampires enter the frame and Rick declares it a foursome and Flux comments it looks like a 'dry-hump orgy.'

Rick reveals he wore a trench coat in high school not because he was in 'the murder gangs' but because he was a Highlander fan.

During another tangent on tribal tattoos, Rick relates a story where he went off about them at a music gig and another band in the room revealed they all had tribal tattoos. Fortunately they acknowledged that the tattoos were a bad idea.

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