For everyone who's confused about casually explained showing up, Harstem coached him for a bit a few years back after casually explained made his starcraft video.
A VERY disproportionate amount of my favorite TH-camrs since years ago have a history with StarCraft lol. Casually explained theprimeagen and a bunch more. Really weird considering I only got into StarCraft this year
20:45 "That pickup was way cleaner than the game before!" What Harstem missed, is that there was in fact *no* pickup and he lost that fight because he had 15 marines AFK inside medivacs the entire time.
I think it’s hilarious that in the 4th game Harstem is complimenting the Terran on how clean his pick up and drop was, not noticing that there *was no* pick up, because he had an entire Medivac full of Marines just idling during the big fight. He only dropped when he noticed. 🤣
@MattMarshallUK I went for Masters 2, and felt vindicated when Harstem picked the same. Admittedly, I don't play. My strategy primarily involves watching the bank and the APM, and watching for good stutter-step to validate the APM. Second, I factor in any obvious flaws in strategy/tactics (ie: bad builds/dumb move commands). Lastly, I adjust my ranking based on the server (Masters 2 in NA ~ Diamond 2 in EU ~ Platinum 2 in Korea). It works fairly well, usually giving me a single digit end score.
I like it when Harstem helps smaller streamers get exposition. This guy looks cool. Does he have a preset list of images and frantically change them while he speaks? How does that work?
Remember when there was going to be streamed coaching for Casually Explained? I remember. But then Casually Explained couldn't schedule time for it and it never happened. Happy to see him on the channel again :)
What are you on about, probes are quite often destroyed by invisible units like mines, DTs and even lurkers. Just admit that you have a secret admiration for ghost invisibility.
Speaking as one of "those guys" in diamond, it takes genuine talent to weasel your way into Google with no coding skill and still not get fired this late into 2024.
The most amazing thing about Rank Roulette is that Harstem never actually gets any better, and he´s so good at gaslighting he is able to fool him self .... Every single time ±D
The world needs a Harstem + casually explained 2v2 to grandmaster series. You guys are literally the perfect duo. Nothing but pure clean fast paced witty banter.
I guessed Diamond 1 for that third game and then Plat 2 for the fourth. The issue with the third and fourth games was the opponents were clearly inferior to the terran. The third game the terran rushed ghosts at like 3:30, no one expects that and is going to win a bunch of games against Protoss who simply aren't expecting it. That alone is going to push him higher. THis was a game it worked. Watch him in a game it doesn't work and he probably is a plat player, but that rush itself is going to get points. The 4th game was the terran taking such a massive lead quickly he looked way ahead. THe problem was he kept getting obliterated during fights until he was so far ahead it didn't matter. Harstem always says rushers are higher than they look because the rush probably works more often than not. Even if that 3rd game player was "really" a plat player, that rush is probably enough to push him a lot higher. That fourth game looked better because the zerg fell behind early and got strangled. Being that far ahead can make anyone look better than they really are.
As a high-plat player at best, I feel like I have an unfair advantage spotting silvers, golds, and plats. The Diamond 1 threw me; I thought that was Plat 3, maybe plat 1 at best--so I was way off there. The rest of them I was at worst off by 2.
Replays 3 and 4 are so freaking cursed. You could swap the ranks and it'd be more believable haha. Game 3 the guy hugs the nexus while his probes get slaughtered one by one, how the hell is that diamond 1.
That protoss player makes me ashamed of my fellow diamond 3 comrades. Bro didn't cancel a single building even when he was cannon rushing until two spine crawlers
Wait CasuallyExplained and Harstem?? Is this dream? The crossover we didn't know we need but now we do Can we hope that we'll get Casually Explained Starcraft or something? xD
I have to say, this is one of the best videos in this series, I've never laughed so much :p Thanks to all three of you for all of the hard work you've put into this!!
Harstem, the D1 terran had his medavic join with his army. Like you know how pros do when they move out before their medavic is complete but they ralley the medavic to army and boost them immediately as they come out of SP. I think it was just a bad timed version of that thing.
me 2: S2=0, P1=2, D3=3, M3=7 TOTAL:12 I angry on that last one. All I kept screaming was, "PLAT 3?! FUcking bullshit! That's a smurf, fucking lying sack of shit!" I was thinking at most I'd be off maybe 2 or 3 placements? But plat? His unit comp was shit, but that micro reminded me of the split commands in some of the older RTS games like Aoe2 and Red alert.
As a guy who peaked in gold, I can confirm that anything up to that point is basically indistinguishable. I dropped from gold to bronze in a day and made it up the next.
Bro, i was legit having a beautiful run with like 2 points but last game i was in the same headspace as harstem and choose masters 2 and had the same reaction when casually explained broke it down. I hated how right he was but i couldnt change my answer.
Wait, did Harstem say the pickup was cleaner, when the guy removed 2 full medivacs worth of fighters from his main army while fightining then flying over enemy territory before turnign around and only dropping half that picked up army into the main after he lost the main fight already compeltely? :D Dang ^^
Imo this was a very hard set of matches. Every game had some moves that looked awful, but others that looked much better to me. And the players also looked very unevenly matched. Even in the first game I was thinking the macro was looking much better than the micro or decisionmaking. In the second game somehow the zerg who build no anti air against a player massing voidrays was in a good position? In the third game the build looked very wacky to me, and especially the defense against the initial ghosts, but the terran did have the forsight to retreat with his ghosts and the later fights looked really clean, especially the use of the emps at the start of the fight immediatelly puts it at least in diamond. And in the last game there were good presplits, but then the excessive use of hold position (or marines sitting in medivacs) meant half the marines weren't even doing anything during the fights and just waiting to get slaughtered. Usually I have a pretty good idea what I'm watching, but this time I wasn't confident about any of my guesses. Impressed by the 13 points score from mr cash!
My Guesses: First game was very confusing, it looked like a bronze game except the macro was waaay better than bronze. Gold 3: 3 Diamond 3: 0 Diamond 2: 2 Diamond 2: 5 Score: 10 That fight in the last game he had the marines in the medivac during the whole fight. There was no pickup. I thought the macro was too good for plat 3 even though he had won the game though. Though I should've realized it was at least plat 1.
Great content, love the handsome guest and quality banter
I think he could workout a bit. Those arms looked like it was straight from a stickman
CE - Casually explaining how a harsten viewer brain works...
Harsten putting the pieces together - Oh shit.... I regret everything.
the OG vtuber :))))))))))))))))
@CasuallyExplained I'm in Plat 3 and on that second one, I was 100% with you. For sure it was plat 3.
@@notrather5514 he's toning his biker body for optimal aerodynamics.
This is the crossover no one asked for but everyone needed
Hell yeah brother
Harstem already coached him a few years ago, if you didnt know
Back in 2020 him and harstem made some vids
@@joaopadua7134Where can they be found?
When I saw the thumbnail I cried out in pure joy and told my wife about it. She totally didn't give a shit.
Guess she'll be sleeping on the couch tonight!
@@hamster_designsLMAO
Is your wife into you? C. Can't tell.
same.
Can relate bro
For everyone who's confused about casually explained showing up, Harstem coached him for a bit a few years back after casually explained made his starcraft video.
Thanks for the context i was surprised
You answered my question before I asked 👌
That's how I discovered Harstem :p
A VERY disproportionate amount of my favorite TH-camrs since years ago have a history with StarCraft lol.
Casually explained theprimeagen and a bunch more.
Really weird considering I only got into StarCraft this year
And he's also randomly GM. I'm still mentally coming to terms with the fact that casually explained is just way better than me at SC 😂
20:45 "That pickup was way cleaner than the game before!" What Harstem missed, is that there was in fact *no* pickup and he lost that fight because he had 15 marines AFK inside medivacs the entire time.
lol
I think it’s hilarious that in the 4th game Harstem is complimenting the Terran on how clean his pick up and drop was, not noticing that there *was no* pick up, because he had an entire Medivac full of Marines just idling during the big fight. He only dropped when he noticed. 🤣
Two of them. And from what we could see he left the one to die over the creep, even.
I had a total score of two for the first three games. 4th game completely threw me
Same here, it was pretty good until I said D1 at the last one. Just the fact he was close to 200 supply at 10:30 make this odd for me and I play P2
@@hanrockabrand95 Same dude. I guessed Masters 1 for the last one lol. Don't know how I was so wrong.
@MattMarshallUK I went for Masters 2, and felt vindicated when Harstem picked the same. Admittedly, I don't play. My strategy primarily involves watching the bank and the APM, and watching for good stutter-step to validate the APM. Second, I factor in any obvious flaws in strategy/tactics (ie: bad builds/dumb move commands). Lastly, I adjust my ranking based on the server (Masters 2 in NA ~ Diamond 2 in EU ~ Platinum 2 in Korea). It works fairly well, usually giving me a single digit end score.
Casually Explained casually explaining the mind of the player in the last replay is pure gold. I want more!!!
I LOVE how harstem is talking about the good "pickup" while those marines were in the medivac the whole fight. thats the funniest thing i saw today XD
Yes, that's because his pickup was so fast that it even happened way back in time :)
"If you judge a goldfish by its ability to climb you will end up with a depressed goldfish" is an idiom I will definitely use in the future.
-Harstem "Einstein" DeKoning, 2024
omg, his webcam replacement with its gestures is so funny :D
I like it when Harstem helps smaller streamers get exposition. This guy looks cool. Does he have a preset list of images and frantically change them while he speaks? How does that work?
Jamie drew a couple of images and then Hamster (editorman) put in all the hard work in post-production.
@@HarstemIt was work well done, and a very enjoyable video!
He has 4m subs to Harstem's 120k
@@quickdraw6893that’s the joke
@@quickdraw6893 The joke you meme
Remember when there was going to be streamed coaching for Casually Explained? I remember. But then Casually Explained couldn't schedule time for it and it never happened. Happy to see him on the channel again :)
Lol yeah. Harstem got ghosted by casual hahaha.
Holy moly this is a crossover i did not see coming, but im all for it!
I don't usually watch these but thew myself all over it as soon as I saw Casually Explained. Absolutely loved this crossover.
Harstem getting smacked by Casually Explained's logic is top-tier content
Your chemistry is amazing!
This was by far the funniest episode yet.
Am I the only one that found it very cathartic to finally see a PROTOSS mineral line being destroyed by invisible ground units?
Justice does exist!
I often see this! When I got destroyed in PvP against DT! 😂
What are you on about, probes are quite often destroyed by invisible units like mines, DTs and even lurkers. Just admit that you have a secret admiration for ghost invisibility.
What game are you playing? Protoss has tons of issues with mines?
Yeah Noone has ever seen mines killing an entire mineral line in 2 seconds at the 5 minute mark😂
God Casually Explained is so funny. This was your best episode yet.
Speaking as one of "those guys" in diamond, it takes genuine talent to weasel your way into Google with no coding skill and still not get fired this late into 2024.
this is most unexpected but greatest crossover i have ever seen
It just occurred to me that Harstem has made a sport out of how well you watch a sport. I love that.
Casually Explained should be re-branded to Casually Gaslighting. 🤣
The cut-forward at 10:38 is the purest form of comedy. I wonder how many people don't notice whole joke?
yeah, I was laughing so hard at that
Plz explain
@@macurvello He said "I'm gona go with" and actually revealed his vote too early, so they had to cut it.
Or I'm imagining stuff.
this is the single most op crossover alive
My favorite anime character and casually explained.
Yoooo I remember seeing some of your old videos with casually explained (on both channels) love seeing you guys again.
This is quite possibly the funniest ranked roulette episode ever. Bring him baaaack!
What casully explained is a genius
I love a lot of the guests we've had but Cas Explained really had some back and forth banter, this ep was hilarious.
The banter on this one was just out of hand... Loved this episode! Hopefully we'll see Jamie again
The most amazing thing about Rank Roulette is that Harstem never actually gets any better, and he´s so good at gaslighting he is able to fool him self .... Every single time ±D
The world needs a Harstem + casually explained 2v2 to grandmaster series. You guys are literally the perfect duo. Nothing but pure clean fast paced witty banter.
I loved the couching between Harstem and Casually Explained! Would also love seeing him play SCII again.
Wut... Thats wild this crossover is happening
@CasuallyExplained have no fear we do appreciate the skill here on this piece of content!
17:30 the gaslighting is epic 😂
This is so good, love seeing Harstem and casually explained together!
I guessed Diamond 1 for that third game and then Plat 2 for the fourth. The issue with the third and fourth games was the opponents were clearly inferior to the terran. The third game the terran rushed ghosts at like 3:30, no one expects that and is going to win a bunch of games against Protoss who simply aren't expecting it. That alone is going to push him higher. THis was a game it worked. Watch him in a game it doesn't work and he probably is a plat player, but that rush itself is going to get points. The 4th game was the terran taking such a massive lead quickly he looked way ahead. THe problem was he kept getting obliterated during fights until he was so far ahead it didn't matter.
Harstem always says rushers are higher than they look because the rush probably works more often than not. Even if that 3rd game player was "really" a plat player, that rush is probably enough to push him a lot higher. That fourth game looked better because the zerg fell behind early and got strangled. Being that far ahead can make anyone look better than they really are.
These two had the best chemistry! If game 4 is worse than game 3, harstem is going to explode!
As a high-plat player at best, I feel like I have an unfair advantage spotting silvers, golds, and plats. The Diamond 1 threw me; I thought that was Plat 3, maybe plat 1 at best--so I was way off there. The rest of them I was at worst off by 2.
18:09 "If you knock Serral out of my playoffs I am going to be upset" face
Replays 3 and 4 are so freaking cursed. You could swap the ranks and it'd be more believable haha. Game 3 the guy hugs the nexus while his probes get slaughtered one by one, how the hell is that diamond 1.
If I had to rate 1-5 I would instead disconnect rather than replying. And he is not wrong!
That protoss player makes me ashamed of my fellow diamond 3 comrades. Bro didn't cancel a single building even when he was cannon rushing until two spine crawlers
Did not entirely see this coming, but I did remember he did get some SC2 coaching (maybe from you) a few year(s) ago!
That is correct! Although it has been a while xD th-cam.com/video/FzoEcCD5ibE/w-d-xo.html
No way! Never in my years did I even imagine these 2 to collab
More of this pls. Been waiting on Jamie to make another appearance for years now. The two of you work very well together.
Harstems reaction to the statement 'they look like they're having fun which counts for something' was gold. Nobody enjoys laddering lol 5:10
This is honestly some of my favorite content
CE was so giggly in this haha, I have always thought he was pretty serious and stoic. Funny to seem him be goofy
Damn that was really fun, the back and forth banter was really funny. Thanks for the vid!
Wait CasuallyExplained and Harstem?? Is this dream? The crossover we didn't know we need but now we do
Can we hope that we'll get Casually Explained Starcraft or something? xD
Holy that was my best score with 5 over all episodes until now. That was a good one! Keep 'em coming.
Damn, beating Winter is no easy feat!
@@hamster_designs to be fair, I had more tries than our contestants here.
Love how on the discussion/guessing screen his named changes to Casually ExPAINed
I wish there would be a full season of CasuallyExplained and Harstem
that was so much fun to watch :D
Always love to watch CasuallyExplained
I have to say, this is one of the best videos in this series, I've never laughed so much :p Thanks to all three of you for all of the hard work you've put into this!!
Harstem, the D1 terran had his medavic join with his army. Like you know how pros do when they move out before their medavic is complete but they ralley the medavic to army and boost them immediately as they come out of SP.
I think it was just a bad timed version of that thing.
This is the greatest collaboration since marines and medivacs.
I happened to click on my video right when Harstem froze.. It confused the hell out of me. I didnt know if the video was paused or playing
YES Casually Explained!
My Guesses: S1 =2 P3 =4 M3 =2 M1= 9 TOTAL:17 That last one lol
me 2:
S2=0, P1=2, D3=3, M3=7 TOTAL:12
I angry on that last one. All I kept screaming was, "PLAT 3?! FUcking bullshit! That's a smurf, fucking lying sack of shit!"
I was thinking at most I'd be off maybe 2 or 3 placements? But plat? His unit comp was shit, but that micro reminded me of the split commands in some of the older RTS games like Aoe2 and Red alert.
This was hilarious and my favorite one so far, thanks guys! Dear god you guys need to have your own youtube channel casting SC2!
yoooo i couldn't beliebe my eyes when i saw the thumbnail! what a colab!
As a guy who peaked in gold, I can confirm that anything up to that point is basically indistinguishable. I dropped from gold to bronze in a day and made it up the next.
Like a true rollercoaster!
Wow! I literally would have never expected this crossover!
I thought I was being click baited so hard, but I'm so excited to see Jamie actually here. Now I gotta watch the episode lol.
The no losing replays thing makes me want to play a game just to get trashed but then I’d have to play *and* I’m so bad that I doubt it’d make it
I love this so much. My life has been on a distinct upper trajectory this past week and this just brings. the. fucking. shit. home.
The animations of casually explained are sick!
Bro, i was legit having a beautiful run with like 2 points but last game i was in the same headspace as harstem and choose masters 2 and had the same reaction when casually explained broke it down. I hated how right he was but i couldnt change my answer.
lmao this episode is SO good again. You two have a good chemistry lmao
The crossover I should have expected but somehow didn't, this is amazing!
This might be my favorite episode, and I might go watch Casually Explained now. I want him back, this was hilarious. And honestly a respectable score.
19:31
Captain: We have nice micro
19:33
Marines walk into the bunch of banes...
loved this episode.
loved the art. Hamster did a great job. i don't think Harstem can have such artistic abilities.
glhf.
Nah mate, those are CE Original TM!!
@@hamster_designs damn. great artist too? hats off.
Wow, that was a really fun episode, you should do more stuff with him, your chemistry is so cool! ;3
God bless this collab what a nice surprise!
The 14:11 interaction made me guffaw!
The terran in game 4 was up 100 supply on the zerg and he couldn't win the fights.
the "pickup" Harstem being so impressed about not actually being a pickup but him idling 2 full medivacs is hilarious.
How fun! Who knew casually explained was a StarCraft2 fan? All the best folks are!
Harstem used to coach him back in the days actually. The playlist of that is still on the channel right here ^^
@@hamster_designs so, cool! Will check it out
More casually explained. I love their chemistry. Hopefully he doesnt go mia again
Wait, did Harstem say the pickup was cleaner, when the guy removed 2 full medivacs worth of fighters from his main army while fightining then flying over enemy territory before turnign around and only dropping half that picked up army into the main after he lost the main fight already compeltely? :D
Dang ^^
That's an example why we don't base the point system of him xD
Best episode yet, hilarious banter
listening to 4:23 while i was getting food and not seeing the screen made this so much better lol
3 of my worlds collided today, that Hans Nieman joke! wasn't expecting it...
same
"The Avengers films are the biggest crossover of all time"
A Dutch Captain and a stickman:
CE: I feel like if you could study the replay for 30 mins it would be way easier.
Harstem: oH rEalLy
🤣
I want to see Harstem vs Hamster rank roulette.
Damn what a crossover!
This was by far my favourite episode
The first game was like watching a tower defense gameplay
i did not expect this but i am already interested
Incredibly funny episode 😂 Harstem's tilt lmaoo
Their synergy though! Had me cackling the whole time
Imo this was a very hard set of matches. Every game had some moves that looked awful, but others that looked much better to me. And the players also looked very unevenly matched.
Even in the first game I was thinking the macro was looking much better than the micro or decisionmaking.
In the second game somehow the zerg who build no anti air against a player massing voidrays was in a good position?
In the third game the build looked very wacky to me, and especially the defense against the initial ghosts, but the terran did have the forsight to retreat with his ghosts and the later fights looked really clean, especially the use of the emps at the start of the fight immediatelly puts it at least in diamond.
And in the last game there were good presplits, but then the excessive use of hold position (or marines sitting in medivacs) meant half the marines weren't even doing anything during the fights and just waiting to get slaughtered.
Usually I have a pretty good idea what I'm watching, but this time I wasn't confident about any of my guesses. Impressed by the 13 points score from mr cash!
My Guesses:
First game was very confusing, it looked like a bronze game except the macro was waaay better than bronze.
Gold 3: 3
Diamond 3: 0
Diamond 2: 2
Diamond 2: 5
Score: 10
That fight in the last game he had the marines in the medivac during the whole fight. There was no pickup. I thought the macro was too good for plat 3 even though he had won the game though. Though I should've realized it was at least plat 1.
Having his avi change is golden.
this episode was really fun
Never have I seen this crossover coming
That last game.. Marines perform well without instruction, that's why the game looked good for him.