TierZoo - 2022-04-28
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This guy is such a genius
explaining nature using gaming terms making it understandable AND interesting
True, I actually have zero intrest and knowledge in gaming but these videos are still highly entertaining to watch
Gamer English is becoming this weird pseudo-dialect in the same way Legalese is technically English, and it’s interesting how gamer terminology makes knowledge transfer more efficient with all the shorthand words.
He also does it in such a way where the gaming terms don’t distract or cover up true facts that much; he doesn’t like make up stuff just to make it work for the terminology
first time? meme
It’s great for younger kids as well, I think this approach should be utilized in kindergartens.
"Every player needs to respect them as a threat"
Me with a marine build: i have no weakneses
Marine build is a great counter for this types build
Flying eusocial builds like to wait for their pray outside the water, so amphibian builds are in big trouble, while with full marine builds usually have no problem unless they're also mammals
never heard of a marine frog.
@Mattoiles_ i think a dolphin cannot live in ponds and bees cannot stay so much long in the sea. If they are a full marine build, they usually come to sea, where a more competitive meta offers more rewards (with some River builds as an exception)
Wasps stuck in pools able to still sting: Drowning anger never dies noises
If anyone wonders what the parasitoid wasps do that is so disturbing, they will paralyze their prey before laying eggs on them, the prey is alive but in a permanent state of paralysis, so the larvae would hatch and literally eat the prey alive. (Source: Brave Wilderness, Tarantula Hawk)
Aaaaah I remember one time I found a bug that looked like a caterpillar… it could barely move or at least that’s what it was trying to do… anyways I decided to poke it with a stick and as soon as I touch its body, it cracked open and hundreds of tiny larvae came out from its insides… aaggg it literally traumatized me ( i was 8 or 10 years old) and I could never get that image off my head
Alien…
Propably what xenomorph was based on
some species can even enthral the larvae.
They turn you into a mother and a meal. I think it's sweet in a hannibal kinda way
TZ has me rollin when he refers to extinction level events as "balance patches".
I'm just waiting for humans to get patched out by the devs.
@lee 1 will dragon mains finally be a thing then?
@HyzMarie maybe if their are enough radioactive lizards that can reproduce 😇
@Samlink yay! (Don’t tell anybody, but I’ve been modding it in)
@lee 1 brother , you want to be logged out early ?
It's great that you used hornet's theme from hollow knight as the music in parts, considering the theme of the video
cultured.
and the Hollow Knight font too!
Shes actually a spider team cherry made the lore a lot more confusing with the name.
@chezfry I forgot that she isn't a bug 😂
A fellow gentlefolk of culture, Doma Doma to you my good man 🪲🎩
Everyone always forgets the termites, they invented eusociality, agriculture, climate control, standing militaries, gender equality, and more but the upstart ants always get the credit.
And have crazy castes organization with all those different types of queens and kings like ergatoids and nymphoids...
Also they have gender equality
They are not from the same species. They are more closely related with beatles than ants or wasp....
Termites are more basal, less aggresive and less dangerous. Not to mention that they are not as widespread as ants wasps and bees.
@Jie Kimbuous holy shit, based bugs
I love how you used the darkest dungeon fear effect to show their intimidation stat
I like how the music in the beginning was the intro for the godskin apostles.
2:13 I don't know why but I find this moment incredibly hilarious. It's like three friends just messing around with the launch and physics mechanics.
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wth this only has 1 like
@@ASocialistTransGirlcuz literally no one cares about nebula
@@daxlucero2437LOL he forgot to pin his own comment.
This actually is a really common type of exploit in a lot of games, entirely disregarding something that seems really important to most players (in this case size and HP) in order to spend all your available points into OP abilities that you could never combine otherwise or unlock that early.
Except any Game with a Minimum of difficulty that punishes you for having low hp
@@jesussanjose2664just don't get hit 😔
@@jesussanjose2664stop fat rolling. Just take the armor off for better iframes
Would be interested in a rating of the mantis shrimp build and other related builds; as the mantis shrimp has some of the most unique perks of any build in the aquatic server
I think they broke the game too. Hackers from another Meta imo.
Modded attacks
We don't support hackers here. They have maxed STR stats & quickdraw ability
@Nick Sibilla: mantis shrimp are hackers
Mantis Shrimp: lol, get good scrub
https://youtu.be/oS8DpNRn6wA
Tier zoo already has a video on them!
Imagine spawning as an ant, one of the most powerful and viable insect classes ever, just to be used as a literal barrel
@what now wtf is that
44 likes yo I'm famous
80 likes wtf
Or as a glue gun in the case of weaver* ants.
It matters not. I life and die by the colony.
Have you ever played Goths?
@hundred-eyed monster a family of spam channels that have been crippling a lot of comments section lately
I’d like to hear you talk about how the Argentinian ant supercolonies have exploited this even further with the way they entered other servers leading to a lack of in fighting between their colonies on invaded servers allowing them to heavily out compete other ants in the area.
Actually a video covering the major effects of server switching invasive species in general would be interesting.
South American parrots settling into North American cities should go here too - one particularly fascinating case is monk parakeets in Chicago building their characteristic gigantic multi-chamber stick nests on top of active electrical equipment, giving them both heat and insulation to survive astonishingly brutal Chicago winters!
Playing as a worker ant is so fun, being able to not have the common breeding main quest makes a lot more time for fun, while also the spawn availability is so big, so everyone can just do a suicidal attack at a powerful enemy and still spawn as a new ant not very long after.
Normal players: Ugh, I need to survive!
Ant players: LET'S DIE BY THE THOUSANDS FOR THE GLORY OF THE HIVE
Incels really need to stop taking their anger out on the world
I never understood how so many players could collaborate for something that goes against the main objective until I watched this. the way you describe it is perfect!
I've seen quite a lot of players trying to specialize into a crab build lately, could you talk about it please ?
Crab mentality
My mom won’t let me watch this video because of the violence but I just want to say that this is one of my favorite channels! Keep doing what you’re doing :D
Ur mom is a bad mom. Sorry to tell you the truth.
L mom. This is hella entertaining and educating.
What violence? Its Nature
Its just nature, does she not let you outside or something? Plus its really educational
A bit too overprotective with a touch of control
But her heart is in the right place so its all good❤
That was a really nice explanation of how eusociality breaks down normal natural selection processes. Just by changing how genetic information is passed on, the math of the objective itself switches.
Hymenopterans be like: Just when you think you have all the answers, I change the questions
I'm glad the info came across well enough to be understood! It's a complicated topic so I was worried that the gaming jargon would obfuscate an already difficult point too much.
@TierZoo Personally, the gaming terminology is much more understandable than the legitimate scientific terms which each have like a bajillion sub sections and etc
I wasn't expecting eusociality to be based on changing the genetics math, i just assumed the queen intentionally only birthed infertile females to the only way to keep their genetic code going was to serve the queen. I didn't realize that the sisters were 75% the same making them closer than they are to their own children, which really changes the math on how to best pass on your genes.
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@TierZoo can now send this to explain during my cool caste infodumps to explain the relatedness theory
Man I remember discovering this through the super smash subreddit when this was a super tiny channel and now it's HUUUGE! Big congrats man! Haven't checked it out in a while but it really shows how much dedication has gone into it. Everything good about it back then has gotten even better. The throwbacks to oldskool games blend seamlessly into the educational narrative that doesn't even feel meme-y, it's simply become a legitimate language to talk about how lit nature is, which in turn underlines the transferable nature of 'game logic'. I'm sure you're aware but I am pretty confident that this channel might actually be highly impactful in shaping the next generation of biologists, even if it's only by being extremely successful in nurturing passionate curiosity in the current generation of the modern youth. Cheers!
Those ants really snapped that dragonfly’s neck.
A worm tier list would actually be pretty interesting. They don't even have to be closely related, such as flatworms and earthworms
Even things like mealworms?
@Jaime Martinez Nah like it would only include animals that are called "worms" even in their adult stage. So things like inchworms, meal worms etc won't count. I mean things like earthworms, flatworms, bristleworms, bloodworms, among others
The various music, be it RuneScape or Kingdom Hearts or some other on-theme tunes that you drop in at the perfect moments, really make these videos even better than they otherwise would. I feel nostalgic while I’m learning, AND it’s entertaining! Brilliant.
I can’t believe I slept on this channel for so long. The videos are interesting, I love the framing device of Life being a game with expansions and DLC and etc., but most of all, I absolutely LOVE the music choices. Every time I hear some old RS music or whatever that iconic little ditty is bookmarking this video, it makes that happiness thing happen 🥲
Never realized just how much ant and bee eusociality breaks the game. And to think the devs have been letting them get away with these broken builds for 100 million+ years...
Hey it's Curious Archive! Love your videos by the way!
I think they're calling it a feature now
Peak fiction youtuber😤😤😤😤
We busted the game wide open by mastering the tech tree over evolutionary stat bumps. Our build doesn't need exploits to be viable, dude. Unless the devs add growth to the next expansion, i doubt they will overtake our position in the leaderboard.
The game devs have brought a huge nerf to these exploiters already:
The long term solution is global warming. Sadly the recent patches have only contributed to the dying of very specialized and laid back groups,
The tryhard factions like the red fire ants or yellow crazy ants are already coming up with new exploits. One Bee faction is now respecing to be Africanized “Killer” Bees, which shows their desperation. We can only hope the Wasps will be left out in the next patches, to stop the terror of their new and upgraded yellow jacket.
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" Thumbs up for that line alone. Also, great video! I was looking to see if there were already a video game named after the main game of "Outside" and unfortunately it looks like someone already made it and it is a poor executed horror/survival game. It's totally unworthy of the title "Outside". Oh well. Still, I think it would be really cool if a video game of similar name were made because I believe it would serve as a good in-game guide to this game we're already participating in. Sort of a hidden game within-a-game that might give one hints or cheat codes to better perform in this game. I understand through things like 'education' and 'common sense' we already have player guides but I believe it cannot hurt to have another format for a player guide and visual/audio formats like video games or mmorpgs are very engaging and might assist in upping the intelligence attribute of many players.
Issue is, TZ made this like a DnD-WoW-platform fighter-FF hybrid that would be very hard to recreate
[4:26]
"Dataminers have discovered"
man this is the best channel ever XD
theres a major point you should have mentioned is that even if these choices are awesome, you can't really play your own way, the queen is controlling the whole hive and makes you obligated to give all of your exp and resources into the common inventory where only the queen can decide to give back these items, making the point of playing itself non-existant since you can not do your own things.
there is also the issue of how you have to attack if judged nessesary by the hive, essencially risking all of your progress.
Agreed, in addition, how does one become a queen? Is there a dlc required?
AMAZING! This is the first TierZoo video I've come across, and wow! So dang creative and interesting!
This is truly top-tier science communication.
On the off chance the people involved reads this comment, WELL DONE!
You are doing a real service to young people with this type of content! (and I like it too)
This channel is perfect for me. Very informational and osrs graphics/music plus many more gamer related things. You are brilliant!
Calling scientists "dataminers" has to be one of the more clever things I've heard here. Great stuff man.
I love it.
Considering the dataminer that made the knowledge of passing down code more widespread only did so after his character's offspring spawned with debuffs because of the "incest" mating style in humans, I'd say they're doing good work.
ok
@TheBlazingBlade So science started.. because the first scientist.. fucked his family?
👀🙌💖 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 👀🙌💖
So I thought I was clicking on a dark souls video...but this was even better. Just an amazing idea to impart knowledge in such a huge way.
I'll definitely go and watch more videos from you rn.
I love your channel so much I just subscribed to Nebula through your link! I absolutely love your style of content and I will definitely keep watching any new content you make :)
A good thing to mention is that this faction as has also evolved into the most intense form of a matriarchy (typically a behavior saved for larger builds). Rather than the queen lead the colony it is actually the female population that rules the hive. Their job is still protect the queen but it's also there job to ,1: Make sure there is a queen 2: make sure the queen is laying eggs. If the queen is not doing it's job the female population will simply create a new queen by feeding the larvae a special protein rich food/jelly. The new queen will then simply violently usurp the queen's job. So even if another build is able to take out the queen it is exponetially more difficult to kill of all the females AND all the larvae. This makes it virtually impossible to deal a game ending blow without complete immunity to stings and bites (unless your a human main)
this is the first of your videos that i have watched
the gamer references throughout the video had me rolling
s-tier narration and scriptwriting
Best YouTube channel. Every one of your videos is quality.
What is the main goal of Outside?
Normie players: “Survive and reproduce!”
Human mains with god-tier INT:
“What IS the main goal of Outside?”
Their INT stat is so high that they start asking stupid questions
Humans get so bored they seriously try to get 110% completion...
@Daniel Nachimson So high that they start questioning their own existence, which is indeed a pretty stupid question -- the sidequest "Outer Wilds" taught me that the goal of Outside is to have fun :) Enjoy your playthrough while you're here, because the servers will shut down one day, and that's okay. We had a great time together, didn't we?
That's true!
Bees/Hymetherions: OK let's survive and reproduce by helping our Queen (Our Glorious Leader) by gathering food so she can clone herself or her grubs and so we can continue building our dominions!
Also Bees/Hymetherions: "Damn Bears! Stealing our food-"
(Later) Damn Bears! I stab you! Stab Stab
Recommendation: ticks
They are so small and yet so annoying and can carry very dangerous diseases. From spring to autumn I feel like I'm not living on a open world server without very high level beefed up protection gear and 100x caution
Anti-recommendation: ticks are gross
Ticks Main Are Annoying
@Mik wazozki Tick mains need to be banned in the next balance patch.
I would be extremely happy if outside became a real playable game by the way keep up the good content tier zoo!
It already is except we're stuck maining humans.
Wow re-watching your vids because I have a rolled ankle. It’s actually helping (with rest and forgetting it hurts). Thank you, tierzoo. Your the best. And could you do outside play through again? I really liked them and would enjoy watching them again (especially in the modern game).
Whoever makes tierzoo deserves millions of dollars a year. Genius content
You really upped the phase and flow with this one. Well done! Very entertaining and educational.
An ant tier list would be really good
he needs to collaborate with Ants Canada for that!
@REAVL OH HELL YES!
"What's up AC family, today we're talking about OVERPOWERED ANT BUILDS."
"You get an S, you get an S ..."
Man, ants are SO cool!
There are so many ants to cover up
That video will be juicy
As always your edits are out of this world.
Probably one of the best channels ive ever stumbled across
First video I'm watching from this creator. I'm instantly impressed. Keep it up mate.
Love that your making videos again
Something I think is really cool about bees is that despite using Eusociality actually manage to have team crossplay with a whole other faction, one that's almost universally preyed on, plants!
An ant tier list woulr be really good. Even though most of their playstyles are the same, there are some species that are clearly better than the others and have different strategies or abilities.
Yes please
Think bullet ant may be a tier
And leaf maybe a s teirs
The best ant build is definitely the chimera ant, combining their eusociality with human intelligence is definitely a meta warping build.
the S+ tier is the ant whose head is a door, without him an ant nest is everyone's nest
@Yuniversal human intelligence?bro please, ain't no ant aeroplanes, ant animes, ant radio signals...
I have no idea how stumbled onto this video but this presentation was amazing! You sir have a new subscriber!
@kasshern - 2022-04-28
A top tier class complaining about another class being busted, TZ is truly a gamer.
@user-rz7hg9my6h - 2022-04-28
@Newcious Nobody will remember you.
@mauriciokenway9922 - 2022-04-28
And not only a top tier but THE top tier class complaining about other class.
@CheeseOfMasters - 2022-04-28
@Mauricio Kenway Ants have more biomass on this planet than humans, also probably cover more ground, so they are more successful in those metrics.
@justjay7093 - 2022-04-28
@Kaesemeister yes but if humans decided to they could wipe half the class on a whim, human class is still top tier while ants are simply viable when playing coop
@ExtremeMeinung - 2022-04-28
@Mauricio Kenway Depends on how you define winning the game. I dont think humans are THE top class. To say they are just plays into their designflaws of thinking they are the center of the universe, pinnacle of creation.