Line #127 LetsPlay/NerdCubed


1	[[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nerdcubed2024.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:288:''[[Music/DanBull The Nerd who? The Nerd³.]]'']]
3
4	->'''Hello, procrastinators!'''
5
6	Nerd³ is a British LetsPlay channel on Website/YouTube created by Daniel Hardcastle and run by himself and Wot Fanar, devoted to gaming and reviewing games. It can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/@NerdCubed here]]. Largely inspired as a cross between Hannah Hart's ''My Drunk Kitchen'' and [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit's]] ''WTF Is...'', it combines quick editing with strange, unexpected humour and real-time gameplay.
7
8	After a hiatus in summer 2017, his videos have been largely very unique takes on his standard formula, ranging from a video entirely devoted to [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Dan watching VR pornography]] that's only focused on his face to uploading an entire second "season" of his Planet Coaster series [[ArchiveBinge in one day, Netflix-style]]. Basically, he's doing what he wants, and it's awesome.
9
10	----
11	!!''Nerd³'' provides examples of:
12	* AbortedArc: Dan released two episodes of ''[=NerdCubed=] Completes VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' in mid-2013 before axing the ''Completes'' series altogether. The ''Completes'' series returned a year later with ''The Simpsons: Hit & Run'' and would go on to cover many games. But he didn't return to finish Psychonauts until 2020, a full seven years later!
13	* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Evie/Cleverbot pronounces her own name as "Cle-VER-but". Cue Dan bursting into hysterical laughter.
14	* AllJustADream: Dan wonders if the events that happen in ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' are just a dream.
15	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Invoked. Due to some out-of-context lines from Franchise/{{Barbie}}, Dan views her as an international terrorist.
16	* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[invoked]] Dan wonders in his ''Flight Simulator X'' video if pilots fly really close around the Golden Gate Bridge for fun. [[http://sploid.gizmodo.com/incredible-photo-of-an-f-18-zooming-through-the-golden-1645700221?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow He is completely right, as it turns out]].
17	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: [=DadCubed=]. Oh, God, [=DadCubed=].
18	* AprilFoolsDay:
19	** For April 1, 2013, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDaUQ1JXw8g Dan decided to take a new direction and play]] ''VideoGame/HappyWheels'' with a face cam, not unlike LetsPlay/PewDiePie. [[spoiler:The video only lasts for about two minutes before showing twenty minutes of Website/YouTube's "An error occurred. Please try again later" message.]] Mostly meant as a TakeThat.
20	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxCk23RwmZo For April 1, 2012, ]] Dan also decided to conquer his fears and play ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''. [[spoiler:Unlike the VideoGame/HappyWheels video, this one is actually a full video of Dan playing "Petz Horsez" 2.]]
21	* ArchEnemy: Ducks, and Brad.
22	* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In the VideoGame/{{FTL\|FasterThanLight}} [[SelfImposedChallenge What Would Jesus Do challenge]], perhaps unsurprisingly. One of the most notable examples comes when considering self-defense:
23	-->'''Dan:''' ''It was, it was...if someone slaps your ass cheek, they can also slap your other ass cheek, wasn't it? It was something like that, I got the weird Bible.''
24	* AscendedExtra: ''Westerado'' was originally going to be a short on ''Nerd³'s Three Free Games Friday'', but Dan enjoyed it so much that it got its own ''Nerd³ Permadeath'' series instead.
25	** A similar process happened for ''VideoGame/SuperHot''.
26	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: One of his key personality traits is his ''complete'' inability to pay attention to one thing for more than a minute straight. Unless, of course, ThePerfectionist within him arises while playing a sandbox game, in which case he'll invert this and pay ''too much'' attention.
27	* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Awkward isn't really the right word.
28	* BerserkButton:
29	** Being named ''Brad'' and being around Dan will not fare well for you, even if you are on the same team as he is.
30	** Ducks, ever since one particular incident in a ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' Let's Play.
31	** A downplayed one now, but he doesn't take very kindly to the objectification of females in videogames. It's one of the main reasons he loathes ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}.
32	** A downplayed one is when a game doesn't offer invertible controls.
33	** A not-quite-as-downplayed one along the same lines is not being allowed to change the field of view.
34	** As of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYtnRYfe13s TMI Vlog With ''Emma Blackery''!]], baths have become a new one.
35	** He absolutely ''despises'' {{Microtransactions}}. He went so far to put "Every single game with microtransactions" at the top of his worst games of 2013 list and made an entire video ranting on the mobile version of Dungeon Keeper for taking it too far. This one is such a berserk button that Ninja Kiwi sent him a special version of ''[[VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense Bloons Tower Defense 5]]'' without any microtransactions -- it's his only game on his phone.
36	*** The entire point of his famous "Henderson Challenge" video, where he and a friend compete to see how much progress they can make in GTA V in an hour. [[spoiler:One of them uses microtransactions, the other doesn't. In the end, Dan considers both options failure, because if you give in to microtransactions you've resorted to spending real-world money on temporary fictional items, and if you refuse to touch microtransactions then you're essentially working for less than minimum wage.]]
37	** "Share on Facebook" buttons in games really ticks him off, as witnessed in the lengthy rant during his Bridge Constructor video.
38	** Poor disclosure of brand deals is another surefire way to get him angry.
39	** Everything regarding ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''; he absolutely hates this game, despite him normally being a ''Sonic'' fan.
40	* BigEater: Dan, as pointed out early in his first ''VideoGame/CookServeDelicious'' video.
41	* BigNo: Dan does this in his ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' video when [[spoiler:the train he was riding on kills his horse, which, [[TemptingFate as he pointed out only a few minutes prior, he had kept alive through the entire game until that point]]]].
42	** He also does this in his Worms video when [[spoiler:his worm "Kennith Kennithso" gets shot off of a shovel and killed with a SlowMotionFall, followed by that same enemy worm shooting Sasha off a ledge in the same manner to her death]]. He does, however, win the match.
43	*** See also: Numerous occasions in his Let's Play of Sonic 06, with [[spoiler:the point he discovers he has to go through the trials section with Silver]] earning a particularly throaty one before cutting to his outro.
44	* BlackComedy: When collabing with Jay on grounds of Make-A-Wish, Jays's two victorious bouts against cancer were fair game, including the final bit of the video [[CrossesTheLineTwice "I did what cancer couldn't!"]].
45	* BlatantLies: Dan makes blatant lies so often that it has become one of his catchphrases.
46	** During the "Space Racists" challenge for ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'', he claims he got the ship's name by hitting random letters. The spaceship's name? The USS [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem UKIP]].
47	* BolivianArmyEnding: The ending to "Nerd³ Plays... Gang Beasts".
48	-->You see from this ending, you don't know who won. Sort of.
49	* BookDumb: Downplayed. Dan is genuinely knowledgeable about certain topics (predominantly physics), but otherwise, he's a self-admitted college dropout and he's actually completely [[TheDitz clueless]] about what he's doing during his Let's Plays most of the time.
50	* BreakTheCutie: When he started ''Simpsons Hit and Run'' he spoke positively of the game and of the Simpsons itself, but when he reached the infamous last mission, after multiple tries in the last episode of the series, and last video before the reboot, [[spoiler: he reaches the final checkpoint, and then the time ran out, just as he was a few seconds away from completing the mission.]] His reaction sums it all up.
51	-->'''Dan:''' (very close to mic) '''I HATE THIS GAME.'''
52	* BritishHumour: Well, he is British, and an entertainer, so naturally, most of his humor revolves around being incredibly vulgar and making jokes that border on offensive.
53	* BuffySpeak: When he doesn't know the technical terms for something, he applies this... [[ExaggeratedTrope a lot, and almost entirely on instinct]].
54	* ButtMonkey: [[BornUnlucky Not the luckiest guy in the world]], but that doesn't stop him from making it comical.
55	* CallBack: In "Nerd³ Plays... F1 2020", at the beginning of the episode, he calls the Jeff communicating with him as his team manager "a flying shark". While this seems random at first, it's a reference to his ''[=RollerCoaster Tycoon 3=]'' series where he encountered a bugged shark floating in the air, calling him "Jeff".
56	* CaptainObvious: Cleverbot
57	-->'''Cleverbot:''' Chinese is Asian.\
58	'''Dan:''' I'm not even debating that.
59	* CartridgesInFlight: Parodied in the first ''Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades'' video; Dan fires two shots from a Barrett M82, and then [[RecklessGunUsage uses the gun itself like a baseball bat to "fire" the casings.]]
60	-->'''Dan:''' [[{{Understatement}} People who like guns are crying right now!]]
61	* CatsAreMean: Demon Kitty from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas.''
62	* CharacterCatchphrase:
63	-->"Hello, procrastinators!", at least until the 2015 channel reboot. (This hasn't stopped the phrase coming up in the comments.)\
64	(Dan makes obviously false statement) "True story."\
65	"Lovely jubbly!"\
66	"Are you ready for this jelly?" and variants.\
67	"Don't you hate it when [an unusual and extremely game-specific situation]."\
68	"Nailed it!"\
69	"We can [action] him/her, we have the technology!"\
70	"He was a [questionable description of game character he just killed] [[ComedicSociopathy and now he's dead]]."\
71	"Murderize!"\
72	"Let's get rid of [valuable item]. [Valuable item] is rubbish!"\
73	[Improvises something bizarre or says a word wrong] "Well done, brain/Thank you for that, brain."\
74	"Goodbye, procrastinators." and/or "Ta-ra."\
75	Dan's high-pitched "EEEEEEEEEEEEP!" when passing very close to in-game hazards.\
76	[[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy "You saw nothing!"]] in his stealth games.\
77	For [=DadCubed=]: "[[IncomingHam YEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAA!]] Hello everybody, and welcome to [=DadCubed=]! Yeah, the old man from Essex is back again!"\
78	"This costs real money."[[note]]Used since Air Control for games that aren't worth buying at any price.[[/note]]
79	* CheatersNeverProsper: Almost always an AccidentalAesop, but whenever Dan cheats in a challenge, competition, or other form of meta-game, he loses anyways, either by chance or because he counts the cheating as losing[[note]]For example, in the 2.5 million subscriber special, he uses GTA Online's micro-transactions to get extra money in order to beat Matt. However, at the end, not only did he fail to make money with the things he bought using those transactions, he counts that money as debt he needs to pay, and notes that the money will only last as long as the servers do. This is an InvokedTrope here, since he did it to prove how bullshit GTA Online is.[[/note]]
80	* ClusterFBomb: Most notably the Dungeon Keeper Mobile review.
81	** Also in his ''Fallout 4'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJMEx7D9zlU&t=1m37s playthrough]], as the queen mirelurk rose from the water
82	--->'''Dan:''' Oh. My. Shitting pants shit. What the shit pants is this shitting pants pantsy shit pantsiness?
83	* CozyCatastrophe: The people in the Tsunami mod sat around and drank coffee while the water was reaching their necks.
84	* CurbStompBattle: Dan goes into ''Gang Beasts'' on his own after a few updates, and feels he's so good at the game that he'll make this happen. And indeed it does.[[spoiler:..with him on the receiving end of many beatings.]]
85	* CurseCutShort: See TemptingFate.
86	* CrossOver: With ''Hannah Hart'' of ''WebVideo/MyDrunkKitchen'', ''WebVideo/EmmaBlackery'', ''LetsPlay/InTheLittleWood'', ''Creator/StevenMoffat'' on Dans Vlog channel, and [[spoiler:[=NightHood=] & Decoy]].
87	** He also runs a podcast with ''LetsPlay/ManyATrueNerd'' and ''Mattophobia'' called the ''Nerd³ Podcats'', and has appeared on the ''Podcast/TheCoOptionalPodcast'' on more than one occasion.
88	** He's also done a few collabs with ''[[WebVideo/StuartAshen Ashens]]''.
89	* DeadpanSnarker: Daniel again. He frequently does this when making a joke about the matter at hand.
90	* DeathFromAbove: When playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' Online with Martyn Littlewood of the Yogscast, he flies around in a cargo plane with Martyn riding in the back in a car. Then Dan pulls up and drops Martyn down to Earth. He survives. Three guesses as to what happens next...
91	-->'''Dan:''' Incidentally, [[OhCrap look up]]!
92	* {{Determinator}}:
93	** Dan must be if he plays Desert Bus for eight hours straight for his 1,000,000 subscriber special.
94	** On a wider scale, he is this for his whole Let's Play career, considering that on Feb 12 2024, he updated his channel description to:
95	--->"[[LongRunners Thirteen years in]]. [[RefugeInAudacity No sign of stopping]]. New videos every weekend."
96	* DisproportionateRetribution: Almost everything that Dan does when he is police officer in ''GTA IV''.
97	* DreamRealityCheck: Dan tests if he is dreaming when he finishes off the Metal Gear RAY in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' by slapping himself.
98	-->'''Dan:''' whak No, I slapped myself in the face and I felt it, so I'm definitely awake...
99	* DrivenToSuicide: PlayedForLaughs in the first ''Airport Simulator'' video. After discovering the dreadfully long wait times between tasks, Dan goes through a montage of the FiveStagesOfGrief, before supposedly shooting himself at the "acceptance" stage.
100	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Driving fast without looking forward is common. [[{{Creator/Thecynicalbrit}} TotalBiscuit]] made a brief note of this in his video ''Why We Watch''.
101	* EpicFail: Every time he plays a simulator. Every time.
102	-->'''Dan:''' (Before every simulator) I sincerely apologize to anyone that [insert anyone who actually does what the game is simulating].
103	** Also Lampshaded in his Microsoft Flight Simulator X video, where he fails all video at one objective: landing the plane.[[note]]It didn't help that he was actually attempting to land a Boeing 747, a famously huge airliner, at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_City_Airport London City Airport]], which is only designed to accommodate, at most, small regional jets.[[/note]]
104	--->'''Dan:''' If you ever get on a plane and the pilot's voice comes over the intercom and it's mine, run. Just jump out of the plane. You have a better chance of survival.
105	** And according to Dan, the London 2012 Olympic Games's (the official video game) keyboard controls.[[note]]Though in his Challenges video of winning the Olympics in the game, he said that it works much better if you play with a controller.[[/note]]
106	--->'''Dan (After failing at the triple jump):''' The problem with this jump, my friend, is that this game was made by a GIBBON!!!
107	** Pretty much the entirety of [=DadCubed=]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-nzALREk0c first video]] on his own channel (on ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram''), in which he fails spectacularly at staying in the air. Of special note, however, is that one of his launches ended with nothing happening except ''the command pod decoupling on the launch pad'', causing Dan to [[{{Corpsing}} audibly break up laughing in the background]].
108	* EvilGenius: Kennith Kennithson.
109	* ExactWords: Dan's reason for playing the aforementioned London 2012 game with a keyboard instead of a controller. The controller was simply "recommended", so to Dan, that meant he didn't need it.
110	* FanCommunityNickname: "Procrastinators".
111	* FatBastard: The single striped badgers in ''VideoGame/{{Shelter\|2013}}''.
112	* FluffyTheTerrible: Nicknames [[FinalBoss MACE]] from ''{{VideoGame/Intrusion2}}'' "Carl", since it resembles the name of a puppy, and, "I'll never fear someone called Carl. [[BlatantLies True]] [[CatchPhrase story.]]"
113	* FreezeFrameBonus: "Vote Kitty President" from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''.
114	* TheGadfly: His usual form of humor, which is making fun of someone or something just because he can and it's in his first instinct.
115	* {{Gamebooks}}: His 100,000 subscriber special.
116	* GeniusSlob: Kennith Kennithson, the EvilGenius started to dig through the garbage to find things.
117	* GilliganCut: Early on in his first solo ''Gang Beasts'' video, he goes in [[TemptingFate with great confidence]].
118	-->'''Dan: '''''There is a downside to playing this game - it's that I've got too good at it now, so this is going to be sort of [[CurbStompBattle a bit of a merciless domination]]. Don't expect this to be one of those videos where a black screen with the word 'Attempt' comes up every few minutes, because I won't be having a lot of goes with this. I'm probably going to do this the first time. Seriously, it's going to be easy-'' '''ATTEMPT 1'''
119	* GracefulLoser: Dan's [[FailureHero not very experienced at many things]], naturally, so when he ''does'' fall completely short in a competition, especially against [[CompetitionFreak players/AI who take the competition seriously]], he doesn't seem to mind it.
120	* GroinAttack: He ends up having his character land on his crotch at least three times in his ''Skate 3'' video. He [[ShareTheMalePain shares the male pain]] when he isn't killing himself laughing.
121	-->'''Dan:'''''"Karate kick! (Lands with a ledge between his legs) Oooohohoooohhhhhh...my [[UnusualEuphemism sausage-sandwich]]!"''
122	* HelloInsertNameHere: Dan often plays around with these features for the sake of a joke. For example:
123	** His ''Car Mechanic Simulator 2014'' video has him click on a new save file labelled "Empty" by default. He then names it "Empty".
124	** His video on the patched version of ''Simcity'' had him name his city "Wank", just so that the main menu would have an option that said, "Resume Wank".
125	* InnerMonologue: Used throughout his video on ''I Get This Call Every Day''.
126	* ItMakesSenseInContext: The entirety of "Nerd Cubed Out of Context" is to catalogue these moments.
127	* JerkassGods: Parodied whenever Dan plays a game where he can control the universe, though the most obvious example is ''VideoGame/UniverseSandbox''.
128	-->'''Dan:''' Again, this is why I'm ''not'' God.
129	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ParodiedTrope. As a mockery of the pedantic game reviewer type, Dan's online persona is to be frequently snarky, foul-mouthed, blunt, and quite prone to ComedicSociopathy regarding the games he plays. He also likes to [[{{Troll}} mess with NPCs and mechanics just for the fun of it]]. In spite of this, he does admire parts of a game he genuinely finds impressive and is overall not intentionally trying to damage anyone's reputation as he does this, since he acts the way he does for his own amusement.
130	* JumpCut: Dans main style of humor inspired by [[WebVideo/MyDrunkKitchen Hannah Hart]].
131	* JumpingTheShark: [[InvokedTrope Literally.]] Dan opens his Skate 3 video by trying to jump a massive fake shark. He fails, and ends up [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Crushing]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Australian]].
132	* JumpScare: At the end of Dan's ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' video.
133	** Half-way through episode 25 of his ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' playthrough.
134	--->'''Silver:''' Everything is so great here, isn't it? [[MundaneObjectAmazement The sky is gorgeous, and everyone's happy]]!\
135	'''Dan:''' ''(way too close to the microphone)'' '''''I'M NOT!'''''
136	** Episode 10 of his ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' Completes series had one near the end when he [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the fact that many people have probably fallen asleep watching him put down trees on his farms and belts out a quick, loud "'''WAKE UP!'''".
137	* JustOneMoreLevel: Goes for one more attempt at beating MACE in ''{{VideoGame/Intrusion2}}''...[[SubvertedTrope and then falls off the platform immediately]].
138	* LargeHam: While Dan isn't hammy in the sense of being loud ([[NoIndoorVoice sometimes]]), he ''is'' hammy in the sense that his every line of commentary is something incredibly over-the-top said in the most ''absurd'' possible way.
139	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: At the end of his video on ''Tokyo School Life'', he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere storms off in disgust]] when the game implies that he groped a teenage girl. The scene is left on the screen for the better part of two minutes before the outro kicks in.
140	* LikeFatherLikeSon: Inverted; Dan's dad, Steve, began to show up on the channel in "Father and Son-Days" videos. Apparently, he really enjoyed the experience, because he eventually got his own Website/YouTube channel, [=DadCubed=].
141	* MadDoctor: Dan in VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013. He will tear every organ out of the body even when it isn't in the way, use a hammer to destroy ribs and skulls, and at the end of his Surgeon Simulator in Space video even tried to achieve the quickest kill using what he called a tomahawk.
142	** And [=DadCubed=]. Especially after he finds the laser.
143	*** When Dan accepts a challenge to do a blind brain surgery and has [=DadCubed=] as his assistant. Eventually after getting frustrated, [=DadCubed=] decides to just kill the patient.
144	---->'''[=DadCubed=]:''' Okay. Back towards us. Down. Grab! Dan grabs the drill Lift up, lift up, perfect!\
145	'''Dan:''' What've I got?\
146	'''[=DadCubed=]:''' [[BlatantLies Umm...you've got the hammer.]] Now right. Forward. Forward. There! Yes, yes! Now left! The drill stabs the patient in the side of the head, killing him Perfect! Right in the ear hole!\
147	'''Dan:''' What've I done?\
148	'''[=DadCubed=]:''' You've killed him. [[HesDeadJim He's gone now.]]
149	* MadLibsCatchPhrase: Every video's description ends with "All other music is in game music. It makes me want to [something related to the game played]."
150	** As of the 2015 reboot, this was replaced with "A game about [something related to the game played]."
151	* {{Manchild}}: With his immature jokes, constant ComedicSociopathy, his excitement over ''everything'', and his general incompetence, Dan is more like an excitable child in the body of a grown man. He's also rather obsessed with Franchise/{{LEGO}} toys, but for the simplicity of the brand than the mechanisms that can be done with LEGO bricks like more sophisticated LEGO-focused channels.
152	* MoodWhiplash: The opening of "Nerd³ is in Hospital": it starts with the sound of medical equipment and a black screen before fading in the hospital room of [[spoiler:a young bald man. Then Dan pops up from behind the hospital bed and yells [[DissonantSerenity "I'm fine!" complete with confetti.]] ]]
153	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: In-universe, Dan seems to consider [[https://youtu.be/kkkCLuMaVds?t=831 the sound of a fuel truck exploding]] in his ''{{VideoGame/Sniper Elite 4}}'' video this.
154	* MundaneMadeAwesome: On multiple occasions in his video on ''Cook, Serve, Delicious'', he get's particularly anxious when the game asks him to "'''''FLUSH THE TOILET!'''''".
155	* MusicalisInterruptus: The in-game music for ''Nyan Cat: Lost in Space'' is simply Nyan Cat's theme. Three seconds into Dan's video for that game, he mutes it.
156	-->'''Dan:''' NOPE! No, I won't have that on my channel.
157	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He occasionally mimics [[Series/TopGear Jeremy Clarkson]] and his {{Character Catchphrase}}s just because he can.
158	* NoIndoorVoice: Mocked in the AprilFoolsDay video for ''Happy Wheels'' when a reading a description typed entirely with CapsLock on.
159	-->'''Daniel:''' FEEL FREE TO RATE FIVE AND SAVE ALL YOUR CRE-AY-TIVE REPLAYS, said this person.
160	* OfficialCouple: With [[GenderBlenderName Mr. Rebecca]]. As of 2016, they're even married!
161	* OrionDrive: Essentially what Dan attempts to build in his "The Big Bang" challenge in ''Kerbal Space Program''. He only succeeds at launching the capsule about a mile into the sky at most, while blowing up half the space center in the process.
162	* OverlyLongGag:
163	** His yell of "WHOOOOOAAAAA" as he uses a fire extinguisher in ''Airport Firefighter Simulator'' lasts for quite a while.
164	** He got into an argument with Cleverbot repeatedly alternating between "No, I don't" and "Yes you do". According to the ensuing caption, it took over 26 minutes.
165	** The TrainingMontage from his first solo ''Gang Beasts'' video.
166	* PerfectlyCromulentWord: He uses the phrase, "delicate flambambos of chocolate" in his ''VideoGame/CookServeDelicious'' video, possibly as a hurried corruption of the word, "flambé". [[CatchPhrase Well done, brain.]]
167	* ProfessionalSlacker: InUniverse, whenever he plays a game where you ''actually'' simulate a real-life job, expect him to avoid the responsibilities that come with it by ''any means necessary''.
168	* RageQuit: Dan throws his controller after failing the [[NintendoHard last mission]] of ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'', something he has spent the best part of two episodes making over a dozen attempts at, by crashing [[FinaglesLaw right next to the last objective]]. This particular Nerd Completes series will likely remain technically incomplete due to how frustrating this particular section was.
169	** A year later, Dan came back to it in a challenge to complete it. [[spoiler:Time ran out [[ShaggyDogStory right as he finished]].]]
170	* RapidFireNo / SerialEscalation: Gets into a contest of alternating between a large number of "no"s and "yes"s while playing with Cleverbot.
171	* RecycledTitle: This confuses him when he tries to play ''VideoGame/SimCity'' (a video that mostly amounted to a rant about always-online UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}):
172	-->'''Daniel:''' Hello procrastinators, and welcome to ''[=SimCity=]''! This is the ultimate city building...sand...box...balls! I put the wrong footage up! ''Why do modern games all have the same name as old games!?'' I don't understand, I do apologize, hang on... (switches to ''[[FanRemake Micropolis]]'')
173	* RefugeInAudacity: Most of Dan's jokes are borderline offensive (politically ''and'' socially) or even selfish at worst, and yet he somehow makes it comedic and his audience laughs along with him [[LargeHam because he's so over-the-top with it]].
174	* RememberTheNewGuy: {{Parodied\|Trope}} in the ''Tertiary Heist'' when Dan brings up [[LetsPlay/ManyATrueNerd Jon]] to his dad, who has no clue who Jon is. Dan then proceeds to treat Jon as a regular collaborator of the channel. At this moment, we get a brief flashback cut to [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten Dan tearing the wings off of the glider in Aerofly FS]], where Jon has been overdubbed talking to the crashing Dan.
175	* RevisitingTheRoots: In Dan's 2024 reboot, he returns the "Hello, procrastinators!" intro sequence and replays games that he played during 2011 to 2015.
176	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Dan does this to every town he can find in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' after [[spoiler:his horse is killed]].
177	* RunningGag:
178	** "All music is in-game music. It makes me want to [do something related to the game in question]."
179	** Dan often tells BlatantLies throughout all his videos followed up by him claiming they're true and factual.
180	** In the 2012 Olympics challenge Let's Play, there are numerous occasions where Dan yells at the audience to stand up for the national anthem.
181	--->'''Dan:''' "STAND UP, YOU BASTARDS!!!"
182	** "Defence Baby", a pack of toilet rolls with a picture of a baby on it in the ''VideoGame/GoneHome'' video.
183	** In his video for Robot Wars Extreme Destruction, the cow head on Dan's robot gets knocked off every single fight, much to his annoyance.
184	** "Have you preordered this game yet?!" after he demonstrates cool things you can do in the tech demo of Next Car Game.
185	** All of the ''Airport Simulator'' videos contain various moments in which Dan acts as the airport's PA operator.
186	--->"Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Rapture appears to be happening.]] We expect there to be delays of up to twenty minutes."
187	** Each multiplayer heist in ''Grand Theft Auto V'' has Dan kill off his fellow players after the heist's conclusion.
188	* SanitySlippage: As he fails more and more in the [[ThatOneLevel more]] [[NintendoHard difficult]] missions of ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'', his composure visibly begins to break apart more and more. This came to a head in part 19, where at the end of him failing the infamous "Set to Kill" mission for the umpteenth time, he lets out an [[SensoryAbuse ear-piercing scream]] that only lasts for a couple of seconds, but is enough to make someone jump.
189	-->'''Video Description:''' [[IRegretNothing I'm not sorry for the ending.]]
190	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Near the end of the Pizza Delivery challenge video in ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'', he decides to check how many of them there are. After seeing [[spoiler: that he's only three quarters of the way through]], he gives up then and there.
191	-->"How many are there? Tell me, Google, tell me... Err... How man-- how many? How many? There we go, right... [[spoiler:'''[[OhCrap TWENTY?!]]''']] drops controller No."
192	** And again in the ''Tokyo School Life'' video, which ends with his character crashing into a schoolgirl - and all but outright stating he groped her boobs.
193	** In response to lack of monetization and general Website/YouTube communication issues. To preserve his mental health, he planned on taking around a month off of Website/YouTube.
194	* SelfDeprecation: In ''VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013'':
195	-->'''Daniel:''' Ok, you may feel a small prick...hitting you with a very large hammer.
196	** Also from his ''Simpsons: Hit And Run'' video:
197	--->'''Dan:''' "We have to put up with ''morons spouting shit''. Speaking of, hello!"
198	** And from his Plague Inc. Evolved video, he chooses to start off his virus in the UK "'cause fuck those guys".
199	** Dan doesn't collect trash, he only makes it.
200	* SensoryAbuse: After failing [[ThatOneLevel Set to Kill]] in ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'' for the umpteenth time, he lets out a ''loud'' scream which only lasts a couple of seconds before [[SmashCut the video cuts to the outro]].
201	* SequelEpisode: "Nerd³ Challenges! 3 Day Baby - The Sims" acts as a sequel to "Nerd³'s Month of... The Sims 3", by having an older Kennith Kennithson return to do more evil.
202	* ShipSinking: From ''Nerd³ and Emma Blackery do Reddit!'':
203	-->'''Reddit Question:''' Did you find out if you're BFGF?\
204	'''Dan:''' If we're....''(to Emma)'' should we tell them?\
205	''(Dan turns to camera)''\
206	'''Dan:''' Internet: We're dating...\
207	''(Dan and Emma turn to kiss each other, then stop and turn back)''\
208	'''Both:''' ''Other people. Twats....''
209	* SirSwearsALot: When civilized, he doesn't particularly swear. Due to his HairTriggerTemper, however, it's easy to provoke him into expelling a tirade of curses and the occasional ClusterFBomb if he's particularly enraged.
210	* SoBadItsGood:
211	** Dan's in-universe reaction to ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Fast and Furious: Showdown]]'''s lack of a physics engine and ugly textures and backgrounds. Because of that, he considers it a better game.
212	** He got a good bit of fun out of the silly physics engine in ''VideoGame/FarmingSimulator'' 2011 and 2013 (and their counterpart, ''Ski Region Simulator''), while largely not caring about the rest of the gameplay. Naturally, he found himself displeased upon playing the 2015 iteration and discovering that the vehicle collision physics had been removed.
213	* SophisticatedAsHell: Dan's first comment on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IoV5nrV4E0 the demise]] of his short-lived computer in December 2012.
214	-->'''Dan:''' In the immortal words of Creator/WilliamShakespeare... ''[[PrecisionFStrike Bollocks.]]''
215	* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Most of his jokes are a case of ComedicSociopathy, but the other half is [[ShoutOut constantly making references to things]].
216	* StarbucksSkinScale: Referenced in Airport Simulator, as a TakeThat to airport security tending to select darker-skinned people for [[BlatantLies "random searches"]].
217	* SunkCostFallacy: The reason for the existence of "Nerd³ Completes... Sonic '06". He predicted that ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' would end with the title duo teaming up to fight [[BigBad Lex Luthor]] and would play the game to completion if he was wrong, and [[TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight he was right]], but since he ''prepared himself'' to be wrong and play it to completion, he ''had'' to play it to completion anyway.
218	* TakeThat:
219	** In his Microsoft Flight Simulator X video, upon attempting a loop in an Airbus A321 and crashing into the Palace of Westminster:
220	--->'''Dan:''' Whoops, I killed the [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem Tories]]!\
221	'''Video text accompanied by applause:''' And nothing of value was lost.
222	** Also in part 21 of his Nerd Completes: Bully Let's Play to homophobes. Jimmy needs health, but there's no girls around to kiss. So he ends up kissing a guy, resulting in "THIS GAY KISS!"
223	--->'''Dan:''' Before we begin, I do have some serious news to discuss. I received a record number of complaints about a video. Nearly a hundred people complained about the last episode of ''Bully'', as it featured THIS GAY KISS! shows footage of the kiss Now, a lot of people wanted me to edit out THIS GAY KISS! shows footage of the kiss from that episode, but unfortunately, I don't keep raw video files, so THIS GAY KISS! shows footage of kiss is going to be there forever. They've also asked me if I would kindly (I say they asked me kindly. They didn't. [[InternetJerk They shouted.]]), they asked me kindly if I would not show things like THIS GAY KISS! shows footage of the kiss in any future or current videos. Well, I've decided...Jimmy is now bi. Deal with it! shows footage of kiss Right, that's people dragged into the 21st century [[FlameWar and the comments section annihilated...]]
224	** Also the entirety of "Nerd³ Plays...Day One: Garry's Incident"
225	** In his video of the London 2012 Olympics game, he doesn't have many positive things to say about the Olympics themselves, referring to them as "a massive sports day that rolls into town every four years and bankrupts a country."
226	** For his ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' "Space Racists" challenge, Dan names his ship the "USS [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem UKIP]]", [[BlatantLies by hitting random keys on the keyboard]].
227	** In his lets play of Arkham Origins, we get this gem:
228	-->'''Dan:''' Do you think we'd respect the police more if they wore capes and stopped shooting unarmed black men?
229	** From Tearaway Unfolded:
230	--->'''NPC:''' "Are you one of them? A spirit of darkness?"\
231	'''Dan:''' "No, I'm not a Republican."
232	** In his review of ''VideoGame/HuniePop'', when Kyu tells Dan to say something hardcore, he says "I voted Romney."
233	** In his Bonelab review, a swinging noose appears in front of him: "Oh look, it's the [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem Tories]] economic plan".
234	* TakeThatAudience: His former introduction before the 2015 reboot is essentially him calling out his viewers for being procrastinators, in the sense that they're watching him [[SelfDeprecation instead of doing something productive]].
235	-->"Hello, procrastinators!"
236	* TalkativeLoon: Usually whenever he isn't explaining the game he is playing, he goes on and on with barely any breaks, even during the longer, slower pace, Completes videos.
237	* TemptingFate: "Pfft...tanks can't hit shi-" explosion
238	** Dan starts off his first solo ''Gang Beasts'' video claiming that he's gotten better at the game. [[spoiler:So did the enemies, apparently. Not even a TrainingMontage helps him.]]
239	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
240	** Repeatedly happens as the ''{{VideoGame/Liero}}'' video goes on.
241	** In episode 2 of ''Let's Play Buildy Thing'', Dan blows up a large portion of the house he had built in the first episode just to kill a spider.
242	* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: Specifically painkillers, in the case of his ''[[{{VideoGame/Peggle}} Peggle Nights]]'' video, resulting in him rambling nonsensically for most of the video trying to get through his unfortunate illness. He even admits this in-universe.
243	* TooDumbToLive: In his Flan's Mod video, he accidentally shoots the wing off his own plane. What does he do to attempt to survive? ''Shoot the other wing off so that the plane balances.''
244	* TookALevelInJerkass: Surprisingly, Dan's humor wasn't as vulgar or [[ComedicSociopathy sociopathic]] as it was when he started, as he seemed to veer more into basic sarcasm and was much more likely to ''show'' his appreciation in a game. Modern Dan, on the other hand, takes being vulgar and sociopathic to great extremes, and it comes up entirely on instinct.
245	* TitleScream: Dan does this when he announces that he's playing ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' with the '''''SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE RACIST!''''' challenge in mind.
246	* TrainingMontage: He indulges in a lengthy one in an attempt to get better at ''Gang Beasts''. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
247	* UnintentionalUncannyValley: Dan repeatedly gets creeped out by the unsettlingly-calm expression on [[{{Website/Cleverbot}} Evie's]] face. And then she starts winking.
248	* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: In competitive multiplayer games, Dan will lie and cheat as much as he can, and then gloat if he wins and have shouting fits if he loses.
249	* VillainProtagonist: [[EvilGenius Kennith Kennithson]] from Dan's ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'' lets play.
250	* WhamLine: In "Nerd³ is in Hospital" near the beginning, for those who hadn't put the pieces together.
251	-->'''Daniel:''' [[spoiler:I'm fine!]]\
252	[[spoiler:'''Jay:''' I'm not.]]
253	* WorldGoneMad: When he challenges himself to survive ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'''s Carmageddon mod, he very much believes that Liberty City has turned into one of these. And for good reason.
254	* WorstAid: Pretty much guaranteed whenever Dan plays ''VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013''.
255	-->'''Daniel:''' Stop struggling! I know I've taken your lungs out, just let me do what I'm doing! I'm a doctor, [[BuffySpeak I know this thing]].
256	* WrongGenreSavvy: In ''VideoGame/GoneHome'' he knew all the horror tropes to avoid. [[spoiler: In spite of the game's emphasis on NothingIsScarier, this would have been useful if ''Gone Home'' actually ''was'' a horror game.]]
257	* YourMom: In ''Airport Simulator 2015'', when he attempted to ram an airplane from behind using a tiny Follow-Me car.
258	-->'''Dan:''' I'm coming in the back! I'm like your mum in her job!
259	** And then when he bounces off of the airplane's tires:
260	--->'''Dan:''' Oop, I bounced! I'm like one of your mum's checks!
261	** One of his vlogs made a very nerdy "your mom" joke:
262	--->'''Question:''' What's your favourite element?\
263	'''Dan:''' Your-mum-ium.
264	** In his ''Videogame/SonicTheHedgehog''-playthrough, after getting increasingly more frustrated by the Crisis City [[ThatOneLevel Mach-speed section]].
265	--->'''Sonic:''' [[MemeticMutation That tornado's carrying a car!]]\
266	'''Dan:''' Yeah, well so is your mum, oh wait she's just a fat bitch.
267	----

Context LetsPlay / NerdCubed