CGP Grey - 2020-06-02
‣ Adapted largely from The Invisible Hook. It's great, go read it: https://amzn.to/36PLKSE ‣ Grey's 2-hour Director's Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efhut46ylC4&list=PLqs5ohhass_Ti_MyDhtRvw59GgGKcdstB ## Special Thanks Peter T. Leeson for reviewing a draft of the script. Check out his newest book, "WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird": https://amzn.to/3eEMm09 ## Crowdfunders Steven Snow, Bob Kunz, John Buchan, Nevin Spoljaric, Donal Botkin, BN-12, Chris Chapin, Richard Jenkins, Phil Gardner, Martin, سليمان العقل, Steven Grimm, Colin Millions, Saki Comandao, Jason Lewandowski, Andrea Di Biagio, David F Watson, Ben Schwab, Elliot Lepley, rictic, Bobby, Marco Arment, Shallon Brown, Shantanu Raj, emptymachine, George Lin, Henry Ng, Jeffrey Podis, Thunda Plum, Awoo, David Tyler, Derek Bonner, Derek Jackson, Fuesu, iulus, Jordan Earls, Joshua Jamison, Mikko, Nick Fish, Nick Gibson, Orbit_Junkie, Ron Bowes, Tómas Árni Jónasson, Tyler Bryant, Zach Whittle, Oliver Steele, Kermit Norlund, Kevin Costello, Ben Delo, Arctic May, Bear, chrysilis, David Palomares, Emil, Erik Parasiuk, Esteban Santana Santana, Freddi Hørlyck, Frederick The Great, John Rogers, ken mcfarlane, Leon, Maarten van der Blij, Peter Lomax, Rhys Parry, ShiroiYami, Tijmen van Dien, Tristan Watts-Willis, Veronica Peshterianu, Dag Viggo Lokøen, John Lee, Maxime Zielony, Bryan McLemore, Elizabeth Keathley, Alex Simonides, Felix Weis, Melvin Sowah, Giulio Bontadini, Paul Alom, Ryan Tripicchio, Scot Melville ## Music David Rees: http://www.davidreesmusic.com
Kids : Let’s play pirates
One Kid : I’ll be the Captain
Young Grey: I’ll be the Quartermaster
I’ll be apart of the crew
And gamble away my profits
Lmao
@dragonbretheren ok so do we sing a sea shanty?
Let's play pirates, he said. It'd be fun, he said.
Two bloody years later and here we are on the high seas, and we've got tons of treasure, but George lost an eye! And me? Me, well, I lost me an arm and a leg. Granted, injuries are low, and our treasure high, so we must be doing something right?
@Jogailė Jurkonytė INFINITE PAPER
I love this format SO MUCH. By that I mean where there are characters explaining the world they live in to another character as opposed to explaining directly to the viewer. Your poetic writing lends itself so well to this theme. Please do more.
he did more
Especially two perspectives, not always contradictory, but definitely at odds
Amen to that! What a fantastic video
Agreed. His videos are fun.
just watch samonella (he hasnt uploaded for a year, but still active on his secret shorts channel) and oversimplified who uploads every 3-4 months
Legend has it he's still making the captain and the quartermaster retell their sides over and over and over again.
Not that the Captain would mind, he gets to talk about BRANDING a whole lot.
Plot Twist: He is Hired By The Empire To Stall Time So They can be arrested
@Genalynne San Juan The guy who was asking them over and over again: "If you haven't noticed, you've fallen right into my trap"
Just checked.
Still true.
The captain and quartermaster have been trapped in an infinite time loop
The Captain waxes poetic, the Quartermaster waxes philosophical.
The swabbey waxes the deck.
the powdermonkey waxes cANNONS
@Jovin D'souza Underrated....the second highest rated comment?
@ShroudedWolf51 it had almost no likes when I wrote that
I'd say the quartermaster waxes financial
I'd like to speak to the swabby.
Ah yes, the 8 traits : strength, cruelty, aggression, loyalty, intellect, saw skills, seasickness and YAARRR
AAARGH I see a many a crew with ye traits!
There are only 6 traits : Strength, dexterity , constitution, intelligence, wisdom and charisma
The more YARRR you have the more people give up!
@AbsquOre r/woooosh
What makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
0:50 Already, Grey is showing his love for the humble hexagon...
hexagons...
are the bestagons
And triangles and many othr shapes wanna be the bestagon but that woukd be the hexagon
Humble bumble
But ofcourse! Hexagons are the bestagons afterall ^^
@Muh Wyndham goddamnit we're never getting that gift
When a teacher talks in dull monotone it is hard to focus and stay awake. Somehow when Grey does it I am paying attention to every word.
Rythm. The rythm is careful made.
@Mat860000 and the topic
CGP Grey: Releases dozens of well-researched, highly informative videos covering a broad and diverse array of subjects, in an interesting format.
Also CGP Grey: Lol...booty.
*Smirks*
Quartermaster: Treasure
I like how when the quartermaster starts talking about costs and accounting of pirating, the captain just looks out of the porthole because he's more interested in "branding"
These details make me love grey's videos so so much
Time stamp?
@Mil X 5:46
@Ezra Young thx
"You're demoted to 1/8th master."
-Stede Bonnet,The internet historian
Octer. 1/16 will be Hoxer.
So THAT'S why they call the coin "Piece of eight"?
not nearly as catchy
1 1/16 shares baby
@Red was Taken it’s a reference to a story of a wealthy Englishman turned pirate, who wasn’t a very astute pirate. But still a pirate nonetheless. Great story I recommend (Stede Bonnet)
5:37 love how the quartermaster's sleepy eyes open up when he sees the money hahahaha
And he smiles
N I C E
1:05 i would kill for this design of pirate ship management rpg style game
Just get a anchor not like these guys
@11_Jason Maxmilan A. how is it?
Sea Dogs: Caribbean Tales might be what you're looking for.
Play her majesty’s ship. It’s like that but empire edition.
I believe there was an old pirate's of the Caribbean game like this
The captain is Grey with coffee,
and the quartermaster is Grey without it.
It’s not coffee... Its meth
I think the captain may be Grey in an alternate universe,
and the quartermaster is Grey with and without it.
Jamey: Umm, Grey, I don’t think that the captain should torture the survivors of the other ship...
Grey, holding a real knife and rope: it is the only way
Damn, coffee makes him speak in ryhms and alliterations?
5700th like!
I love the way you've set up the classic tonal difference between Marketing side and Accounting side within the popular, memetic, and terrifyingly cruel (in reality) world of piracy. Including a fair bit of the stereotypical difference in attitude.
Accountants and their ilk are joked to be dull, humorless, over-reliant on rules and without initiative or creativity.
Conversely, salesmen and their ilk are joked to be unscrupulous, immoral and manipulative, without regard for truth and honesty.
I heard it said in business school that generally students either loved Marketing and hated Accounting or the reverse, and there's a mote of truth to that; Many students I knew found the rules of accounting confusing and exceedingly dull... Whereas I found the "right answers" in marketing to be infuriatingly arbitrary.
Of course, business demands some success of both sides to function well.
Can we also get ones for the empire? So one from the captain, and maybe one from a crewmemeber. Also, would you consider doing a few more for the pirates (eg one for a crew member and another for someone who work for pirates but was severely injured and got little out of it.
You're a peasant in the empire. Most of what you make is taken by the monarch in the form of taxes. The monarch incentivizes you to keep being a law abiding citizen because acting in the interests of the crown is the morally right thing to do, and if you try any funny business you'll be executed and your soul will burn in hell forever.
The captain is so cute "ask me about branding" WITH HIS BIG SMILE AWWW
4:59 - I will enforce the rules of this vessel with my stand: Great Britain!
Yare yare daze.
Lmao
TEA TEA TEA TEA TEAAAAA
With my stand: Union Jack
CGP Grey’s Bizarre Adventure
The monotone really sells the “this is just a business like any other” theme
1.3k likes without replies?
Socrates: “would you want people voting for a captain?” Pirates: “yes.”
This was very insightful, Grey. I had no clue the quartermaster was so vital to the ship's overall operation.
I love how eventually the captain gets bored of the Quartermaster, and just starts looking out the gun port!
Next
How to be a Pirate: Surgeon Edition
Then
How to be a Pirate: Carpenter Edition
Thennn
How to be a Pirate: Crew’s Edition
And finally
How to be a Pirate: Empire Edition
Empire edition: "No."
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"oh yeah it's all coming together"
How to be a pirate empire edition script leaked "So you wanna be pirate, DONT.
@nolan nolan Ö
I cannot express how much this makes my accountant heart happy!
3:48 The surgeon has the lowest stats in "cruelty"? I'm not so sure about that...
@ZetaD Ah, a fellow Medic player, i see.
@Nathan MEEEDDDDIDIICCC
@999九九九999 YOU ARE CRUEL
@999九九九999 I am fully charged!
Healing is not rewarding as a hurting
5:37 the only time the quartermaster smiles.
Inquirer: It's an adventure!
Quartermaster: No, it's a business.
Captain: It's a game!
Quartermaster: No, it's a business.
5:42 "Our customers, occasionally!" I laughed so hard at this. CGP, you sir, are an internet treasure.
I'm stuck in the loop... it has been weeks
I'd like to hear... From the captain
4:45 Ah yes, my favorite personality trait: Yarrr!
6:22 “I became a pirate as the gold in this grail chose its form” is BEAUTIFUL
“I’d like to speak with The Empire.”
Id like to speak to a crewmember
Pirates were also histories greatest thieves murderers and rapists. Not this fake comrades in arms Hollywood fantasy.
Stop sympathizing with them deluding yourself these were all purely socio economic factors.
@pbfloyd13 if you are lucky you will be with a kind captian and we will get rich together fighting off pirates and plundering the new world , backed by the mighty empire
@Jorge Shaft … I’d like to speak to that merchant
we need that
The captain is remembered while the quarter master is informative
"If there is no surgeon, the carpenter will be surgeon."
Does he get twice the pay?
No, because that wouldn't be equal
Depends on the pirate crew
I absolutely adore this two-perspective approach, grey <3
Love this series. You should do a “crewman edition” to get a different perspective
“I’d like to talk to that guy”
“I’d like to talk to the captain”
Oh god! It’s an infinite loop!
i hate youtube they wont show us anythig new
He found the secret to infinite views!
Well to understand recursion, you've got to understand recursion.
How to get infinite views.
I've been stuck here for 3 months
These two videos might be my favorites that Grey has ever done. Not only do you learn about pirates, but about branding and economics, too. :)
This makes me want to have an absolute deadpan business-minded quartermaster in my next D&D game
How to be a modern pirate:
Step 1. Own a computer.
Step 2. Google; "free download (random series/movie)"
Step 3. Go to one of the results.
Step 4. If website doesn't work, go back to step 3, repeat till working website is found.
The narrator sounds like a disappointed father explaining to his son why he'll never amount to anything in life.
I love how the quartermaster has a completely different voice than the pirate. CGP Grey is a voice actor confirmed
Different personality entirely...
The captain smiling so cheerfully while the quartermaster explains things seriously is so cute
@Benjamin Price *greys impersonation of himself
This... this is a joke, right?
I think much of it is in the writing but yes CGP is a voice actor confirmed.
1:30 When the anime studio blows its whole budget on that one fight scene
I really like the legally distinct pirates theme playing in the background
The more time goes on the more this deal sounds enticing
this whole thing is like a gaming simulation, especially with the music
Pirates are so overdramatized in books and movies, yet their real story is just as interesting!
@Natasel I doubt you've actually looked for historian's take on pirates.
Many of the overdramatizstions were fueled by "historians" back in the 18th century that actually just made up a lot of stuff. Which is partially why they stuck.
Like the captain video said, they wanted branding. Ie, propaganda, "fear us, we did x thing". So a lot of it was purposefully spread rumors that eventually became widely known
@Kriegs Commissar McCraw I might be wrong, but raiding a trade ship or two would still give them quite a lot of money. It's not gonna make them a strong and united political power, but still
@Cereal With Water and double that apparently
@Rod Weiler know im pretty late but you should watch black sails, a tv series about un-romanticised pirates with good characters and story
The captain is the one you'd want to talk too. And the Quartermaster is the one you need to talk too.
This could be the intro to a great game actually. "Pirats. Treasurer and spreadsheets."
I love this too much.
I wonder: "How to be a Pirate: Poor Bastard Walking the Plank Edition"?
CGP Grey - 2020-06-02
The Captain's Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YFeE1eDlD0
Sean N - 2021-03-20
did he join?
B1AZ3 P1AYZ - 2021-03-23
Did I become a pirate or somethin'?
Stigma - 2021-05-30
Thank you for explaining me, that I would have been a Pirate if I would have been living in this era.
truckjumperdude - 2021-06-03
nice
Oachkatzl - 2021-06-10
I have a question. Do Pirates ”attack” other Pirates?