History WebVideo / UncleDane

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xG4yv5AHE The Wrench]] is [[MasterOfNone simply outclassed by every other option]], and even the Jags' downside of taking an extra swing to remove sappers isn't much of a downside. He even recommends using the Southern Hospitality as while it cannot do random crits, it can apply a bleed effect on cloaked spies, making them easier to track down.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xG4yv5AHE The Wrench]] is simply outclassed by every other option, and even the Jags' downside of taking an extra swing to remove sappers isn't much of a downside. He even recommends using the Southern Hospitality as while it cannot do random crits, it can apply a bleed effect on cloaked spies, making them easier to track down.

* TakeThat: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyobntgRCmk "The Funslinger"]], "The Mini-Sentry hate bandwagon was popularized by [[WebVideo/{{STAR}} someone]] who has just as much respect for [[TacticalRockPaperScissors necessary class counters]] as he does for the community who got him the amount of popularity he has today", which is emphasized by that someone's video intro faintly playing over Dane's gameplay footage as he talks about it.

-->--'''[[Characters/TeamFortress2Defense The Engineer]] at the beginning of every video'''

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUbUqsoI4OQ The Shotgun]] really is quite powerful, but not many people use it as the engineers' other secondaries are simply more beneficial to you and allies. The Rescue Ranger lets you heal buildings from afar, while the Panic Attack can be used for its consistent bullet spread (which is disabled on shotguns in casual servers) to hit players reliably, meaning the basic Shotgun essentially becomes disused, and anyone using it is invoking UnderestimatingBadassery in Danes' eyes.

Compare with ''Creator/LazyPurple'', a fellow [=TF2=]ber known for providing tips on classes, ''[[Creator/SoundSmith Mann's Guide]]'', a series that explains popular weapons, and ''WebAnimation/TeamServiceAnnouncement'', an SFM skit series that tries to educate new players of the game.

[[caption-width-right:350:Uncle Dane the Engie Main.]]

The name comes from an old skit of his; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAzeaNFbro Uncle Dane's Famous Hot Cocoa]] that, according to Dane himself "just sounded right", and they used as their handle when starting out making Team Fortress 2 videos online.

Compare with ''Creator/LazyPurple'', a fellow [=TF2=] Youtube star who focuses on giving tips and tricks to all classes in the game, rather than just the engineer, and ''WebAnimation/TeamServiceAnnouncement'', an SFM skit series that gives AnAesop to educate new players of the game.

* AuthorAvatar: His videos have him represented by the Engineer wearing the [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Danger Danger]] [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Gold_Digger Gold Digger beard]] and the [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Insulated_Inventor Insulated Inventor]], all painted in "An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge" (A.K.A: White).

* BoringButPractical: The "Stock Engineer Weapons Trilogy" of videos has this as a running theme:

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xG4yv5AHE The Wrench]] is simply outclassed by every other option, even the Jags' downside of taking an extra swing to remove sappers isn't much of a downside. He even recommends using the Southern Hospitality as while it cannot do random crits, it can apply a bleed effect on cloaked spies, making them easier to track down.

** Dane has hired Nathan Vetterlain, voice of the Scout, to appear in his videos, most notably being the voice of the person making the common arguments for randoms crits in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHvwijT2ss8 "Remove Random Crits from TF2"]].

Compare with ''Creator/LazyPurple'', a fellow [=TF2=] Youtube star who focuses on giving tips and tricks to all classes in the game, rather than just the engineer, and ''Machinima/TeamServiceAnnouncement'', an SFM skit series that gives AnAesop to educate new players of the game.

Compare with ''WebVideo/LazyPurple'', a fellow [=TF2=] Youtube star who focuses on giving tips and tricks to all classes in the game, rather than just the engineer, and ''Machinima/TeamServiceAnnouncement'', an SFM skit series that gives AnAesop to educate new players of the game.

The name comes from an old skit of his; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAzeaNFbro Uncle Danes' Famous Hot Cocoa]] that, according to Dane himself "just sounded right", and they used as their handle when starting out making Team Fortress 2 videos online.

* {{Parody}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLks7Vph674 "Will it Kritz?"]] is a pastiche of ''Advertising/WillItBlend'', and Dane's handle in-game was changed to the "don't breathe this" meme. The point of the video was to show off the Kritzkrieg being used on all the engineer weapons in the game.
* {{Shoutout}}:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ieN1ACfP4 TF2 Maps (Actual Size)]]'' has a thumbnail parodying [[Music/{{Pitbull}} Mr. Worldwide]].

* HypocriticalHumor: In ''Machete Mechanic'', he berates another player for building a sentry gun on Watergate because, as he claims, doing so is against the rules. So how does he punish them? By shooting his own sentry against theirs with his Wrangler.

--->''(in [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent his "foreign" accent]])'' "Uncle 'Dan'' is a [[FunetikAksent veary goud]] sentry man!"

* AscendedMeme: The thumbnail for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_K45ptRZIc this Q&A video]] has the words "I use RaysHud Thanks for watching". A common question in his comments is what HUD Dane uses.

--> (in green): Makes you a badass in every imaginable way possible

Compare with ''WebVideo/LazyPurple'', a fellow [=TF2=] Youtube star who focuses on givimg tips and tricks to all classes in the game, rather than solely engineer, and ''Machinima/TeamServiceAnnouncement'', an SFM skit series that gives AnAesop educate new players of the game.

Compare with ''WebVideo/LazyPurple'', a fellow [=TF2=] Youtube star who focuses on givimg tips and tricks to all classes in TF2, rather than solely engineer, and ''Machinima/TeamServiceAnnouncement'', an SFM skit series that gives AnAesop educate new players of the game.

* TheCameo: Dane has on several occasions hired Nathan Vetterlain, voice of the Scout, to appear in his videos, most notably being the voice of the person making common arguments for randoms crits in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHvwijT2ss8 "Remove Random Crits from TF2"]].

The name comes from an old skit of his; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAzeaNFbro Uncle Danes' Famous Hot Cocoa]] that, according to Dane himself "just sounded right", and was henceforth used as his handle when he started making Team Fortress 2 videos online.

Compare with ''WebVideo/LazyPurple'' (a fellow [=TF2=] Youtube star who focuses more on all classes and what makes them great) and ''Machinima/TeamServiceAnnouncement'' (an SFM skit series that gives AnAesop to players to educate new players of the game).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUbUqsoI4OQ The Shotgun]] is really powerful, but not many people use it as the engineers' other secondaries are simply more beneficial; the Rescue Ranger lets you heal buildings from afar, while even the Panic Attack can be used for its consistent bullet spread (which is disabled on every other gun in casual servers), and so the shotgun essentially becomes disused, and anyone running with it is invoking UnderestimatingBadassery, as it's still a good gun that many are caught unaware by when killed by it.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtnWHhyVO4 The Pistol]] is overshadowed by The Wrangler, which lets people take manual control of their sentry, as well as giving the sentry more damage resistance as it has a shield when active. The two benefits of the pistol are that it's quite accurate, even at a fairly long range, and it has functionally infinite ammo (200 bullets!) and can finish off opponents others may not be able to catch, or by spamming lead into them.

* TheCameo: Has on several occasions hired Nathan Vetterlain, voice of the Scout, to appear in his videos, most notably being the voice of the person making common arguments for randoms crits in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHvwijT2ss8 "Remove Random Crits from TF2"]].