https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2T51Vo1qA
0:00 – “We’re going to be trading off here and there because of my hands.”
Always good to start the stream off with a lie. Mike has none of it. He always has a look of disdain when Erin talks about her fake maladies.
0:45 – They’re at the name select screen and there’s a default name there.
Erin: Should that be my name? Alcedor? I’m kind of down. Or should I make it Erin?
Mike: Whatever you want.
Erin: Oh…
Mike: You know what I think you should do? I think that you should make it — what would be a funny word that you could put in?
Erin: I don’t know, Mike. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Mike: I don’t know. What are you thinking?
Erin: Were you going to say “casserole”?
Mike: “Casserole would be a perfect word to put in. Why don’t you do that?
Erin: I don’t know if it will fit.
Mike: Because “casserole” is a really funny word.
Erin: How do I go back? Oh, like that. Wow.
And she hit the underscore option because she’s an idiot.
Nice shout out to the blog, though. It’s a reference to this article:
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2022/02/casserole-full-breakdown-erin-plays.html
It was one of my better ones. Something different.
Erin: What if I spell it wrong?
Mike: Don’t you agree, chat?
Erin: I don’t know how to get rid of that underscore.
Mike: Oh, the entire chat just lit up. Everybody thinks that “casserole” is the funniest word. I agree.
Erin: Good. I’m so glad. Does that look right, everybody?
Then there’s an edit. Fortunately, Erin didn’t put this video behind a paywall so we can see what she edited out.
Erin: Did I spell that right or are you going to check?
Mike: I’m going to check.
Erin: Because sometimes, and this is like in real life, people will be like, “Erin, you’re an English major” and it’s like, “Yes, but I don’t remember how to spell every single word.”
I find it interesting that she refers to herself as an “English major” as opposed to somebody who has a degree in English. Did she not graduate?
1:45 – Then there’s an option between regular mode or easy mode. Erin, of course, wants to put it on easy mode but Mike convinces her to put it on normal mode.
When referencing regular mode, Erin says that it’s for players, “Like you or I because we’re pro gamers” and she looks into the camera. “Me too. Right?”
Erin is playing into the obvious fraudulent nature of what she’s doing.
2:30 – Erin starts reading the intro story and the word “_casserole” appears frequently. She gets a bit uncomfortable with this fairly quickly.
Oh, in case it needs to be said, Erin is really bad at the game. She gets hit a lot, even by these introductory enemies.
4:15 – “Don’t let me play too long because I don’t want to regret it later.”
Yeah. Keep a close watch on her, Mike. You don’t want to Erin to get too engrossed in this video game that she just can’t put it down. She has carpal tunnel syndrome, after all.
5:30 – Another edit. It’s just Erin talking about how she regularly restarts the streams and then when she puts the videos on Youtube, she edits them to shit. It’s true. This was all edited out, though.
7:00 – Another shout out to her carpal tunnel syndrome. She’s afraid to “dash” in some Castlevania game. She’s only playing this game because she’s using some special controller.
8:30 – “Should I go down these holes or should I just keep walking.”
Mike doesn’t know what to say. These “holes” are presumably pits that lead to your death. Erin is so inexperienced with video games that she doesn’t know this.
9:45 – Erin is quoting from “Scott Pilgrim”. Whatever that is. Some movie that Tony from Summarise the Movies recently did a video on. I really doubt that Erin watched that “review” but maybe she saw Tony advertise it on Twitter or something. So now Erin is all about Scott Pilgrim. She always just picks up whatever she happened to see recently and then she tries to pass herself off as an expert on that thing.
10:00 – There’s a locked inn and Erin says, “There are probably awful things going on in that motel.” Some kind of sex half-joke. But for Erin, this is a real improvement. It was almost a joke. Some kind of innuendo. It wasn’t just “casserole” or “X looks like Y” or whatever.
11:45 – Erin died to, I believe, the first boss so she gives the controller to Mike. She wants nothing to do with this.
14:45 – Oh, you can just go down into those pits. Erin was right.
16:00 – There’s one of those delightful “Later” graphics that Spongebob was famous for. Erin uses this shit a lot. It’s so lazy and unfunny. But at least it’s a clear indication that she’s editing stuff out. I’d check to see what she’s editing out but I don’t even care. I’m just trying to get to 30 minutes so that I can end this for today.
27:00 – Erin badly mispronounced “alms”.
28:15 – Mike asks Erin if she knows where “dingoes ate my baby” is from. Naturally, she does not. He then says, “Seinfeld”.
I don’t think that that’s right. I know what he’s talking about but it must have been a reference to something else. Let me look this up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby
It was something that was at least sort of said during a murder trial in Australia in 1980. Then there was a 1988 film called Evil Angels, based on this case, that is presumably what was being referenced in Seinfeld.
So that’s 30 minutes. I’ll stop there. Erin actually did a half-way decent job. She killed a boss on the first attempt. She was able to mostly kill the enemies without getting hit. So good for her.
“Dingo ate my baby” isn't from Seinfeld lmao, what the fuck is wrong with Mike this guy is a decade older than me so he should know this shit, it was from a murder trial in Australia where they tried to charge the mother for murder but she pleaded that a dingo ate her baby – turns out it actually did and she was exonerated. They used this “joke” in more shows than Seinfeld too – Frasier did it at one point.
i'm actually feeling bad for that horntard whose comment was edited out from erin's uploaded youtube video. i assume that twitch is an unfiltered medium, so whatever the audience voices is going to stick, so he felt like that was the best opportunity to put forward his query and innocently inquire about the possibility to bulk subscribe, whatever it means. maybe it's a way to pay in advance years' (decades?) worth of subscriptions to erin's channel so when one term is coming to a close it immediately ties in with the next, as if the subscription were automatically renewing itself so he wouldn't worry about missing a single second of his favourite content creator. whatever the case, all he did was creep erin out, to the point that she decided to leave this part out of the youtube upload.can you do a top 10 erinplays comments? like the sort of comments that display astronomical levels of simpness and loserdom e.g.: “omg i wish that powerpad was my face!”; “a girl who is into video games? my dream has come true”.probably the most cringe-worthy comment was someone admitting to being a loner and that erin would be weirded out by him, but nonetheless he would watch the videos because (his own words) he liked to pretend that erin was in the same room as him.all of this is very sad. the comic relief comes from the fact that everyone is willingly taking part in this farce and lying to themselves to avoid an uglier side of reality that doesn't cater to their delusions. i'm sticking for the comedic value
Yeah, I remember that guy. He said that he didn't have a girlfriend and he pretended that Erin was his girlfriend because he wanted a girlfriend who he could play video games with. He even said something like, “I know this will sound pathetic”. This was years ago.
The trial was in 1980 and the film was in 1988 so this wouldn't have been on his radar. He was born in 1980. I didn't know about that trial either until I looked it up. Maybe it was bigger news in the UK.
I can't get annoyed at someone for not knowing something but I am annoyed when someone thinks something is a reference to a thing that it isn't: like Mike thinking it's from Seinfeld. I knew this guy at my last job who thought the Buffalo Bill scene with him dancing and putting on lipstick in Silence of the Lambs was originally from fucking Family Guy.
That's not just pathetic but also irrational. If he wanted to pretend someone was his gamer girlfriend why would he pick someone who can't and won't play games?