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- High Risk Fortune Cookie: At The Mercy of Fate Edition
- The second game rolled for the night was Mega Man 8: Anniversary Edition, causing Jon to wonder why the cookie has been giving him Mega Man games lately
.- The last game of the night ends up being Mega Man 2... for the Game Boy. Jon continues to wonder about the cookies's seemingly love for Mega Man, with people wondering if the month of January was going to be mostly Mega Man games.
- A discussion of horse-flavored mouthwash leads into HeIsAnEvilGenius recounting how he was inspired by an old Listerine commercial:HeIsAnEvilGenius: "They were like 'Listerine is an action hero for your gums!'"
Jon: "Oh I remember those commercials! Yeah~!"
HeIsAnEvilGenius: "Yeah! And it was the dumbest thing, but then I just started going to Walmarts and bringing Listerine to the movie section, putting them on the shelves, because of that commercial..."
Jon: "What?!"
HeIsAnEvilGenius: "And — and one thing led to another, and eventually, it got to the point where I actually had a Listerine poster on my wall in my bedroom..."
[Jon completely loses it laughing]
HeIsAnEvilGenius: "I'm serious! This movie theater magazine that I had, had an ad for Listerine that looked like the poster to a movie, and it had, like, this big Listerine action figure, and the gum disease villain, and I cut it out of the magazine and put it on my wall as a poster."- This is combined with the Mega Man theme when fanartists start drawing pictures of a Listerine-themed Robot Master. What follows is a bizarre Contrived Coincidence as Jon looks at a bonus on Mega Man 8 showing art concepts for proposed Robot Masters submitted by fans at the time the game was made...and one of them is, indeed, mouthwash and toothpaste themed.
- The complexity of the lore of different media franchises is discussed, with Jon pointing out that Tekken 3's lore consistents mainly of people being thrown into volcanoes. Repeatedly.
- The chat is impressed to learn that HeIsAnEvilGenius is the man behind Peter Chimaera of "And Then John Was a Zombie" intentionally terrible fanfic fame, and begins trying to persuade him to write a sequel.
- The second game rolled for the night was Mega Man 8: Anniversary Edition, causing Jon to wonder why the cookie has been giving him Mega Man games lately
- Fortune Cookie: A Barrel Full of Barrels (Note: May Not Contain Barrels) Edition
- In an odd bit of serendipity, one of the minigames of WarioWare: Touched! asks him to "Spell EGG!" Jon and his co-comms can't help but marvel, wondering what the odds were of that.
- The final game of the stream is none other than the GBA YuYu Hakusho: Spirit Detective. When Jon starts it up, the first file is named Dan, leading him to wonder if DanTheEngima gave him his copy.
- Dan himself soon arrives and confirms that no, he actually wasn't responsible for giving him the game. Making the file names nothing more than sheer, dumb coincidence.
- Dan himself soon arrives and confirms that no, he actually
- In an odd bit of serendipity, one of the minigames of WarioWare: Touched! asks him to "Spell EGG!
- High Risk Fortune Cookie: Have I Played These Before? Edition
- A training montage in Rocky leads to Jon crashing the game via punching.
- After being offered The Berenstain Bears Camping Adventure, Jon decides that, despite his prior request for short games, he's going to use one of his three rerolls of the night to get something else. What does the cookie offer him next? Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country, taking him from one extreme to the other. Followed by Jon burning another roll off on Bill Lambeer's Combat Basketball.
- A training montage in Rocky leads to Jon crashing the game via punching
- Fortune Cookie: Colosseum Countdown Edition
- Jon is playing Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories. He finds a depressed person, and someone triggers a very unfitting alert.
- Jon is playing Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories. He finds a depressed person, and someone triggers a very unfitting alert
- Fortune Cookie: "I Forgot Today's Subtitle" Edition:
- Near the start of the stream, Jon plays D. He gets through the first disc, and due to a mod choice returns to finish the rest as the last game of the night. Hilarity Ensues throughout, particularly due to the game's cheesey (especially by modern standards) nature. Highlights include:
- Jon finds a 'slot machine' that spins a number between 00 and 99, gives it a couple spins, and gets a perfectly-timed alert.
- Jon returns to the spinner after finding the number he needs to get. He explains how he believes the puzzle works, gives the machine a spin, and immediately lands on the target number.
- Jon and his co-comms constantly mock the main character's slow movement speed and bizarrely-loud walking-on-stairs sound effect.
- Jon's familiar with the start of the game due to having played it on stream before. Not long after he gets past what he's done previously, a surprise moment catches him completely off-guard.
- The best moment comes near the end, where Jon triggers a particularly plot-relevant cutscene and completely loses it at the sudden reveal.Jon: WAIT, WHAT?! [laughing]
Co-Comm: Excuse me?
Jon: [still laughing] The D does stand for Drac-! Oh my god! Oh my god, the D does stand for Dracula! I'm waking up Reese I'm so sorry but holy shit!
- Jon finds a 'slot machine' that spins a number between 00 and 99, gives it a couple spins, and gets a perfectly-timed alert
- Near the start of the stream, Jon plays D. He gets through the first disc, and due to a mod choice returns to finish the rest as the last game of the night. Hilarity Ensues throughout, particularly due to the game's cheesey (especially by modern standards) nature. Highlights include:
- Fortune Cookie: A Downward Spiral of Sorts Edition
- Jon decided to have FamilyJules a co-comm. This might have been a mistake as Jon quickly looses control.
- Jules' first request is "Hungry Pumkin", aka the game that gave us the Memetic Mutation of "Give me the [food item]!" and "No! I don't want that!" For the rest of the stream, Jon continues to spam Pumkin saying "Noodles!" after someone sent him the sound clip.
- FamilyJules' story during Mario's Picross 2. Said story involved MasaeAnela, which ended up joining the call and suggesting Beautiful Katamari as the next game, which won with 70% of the vote.
- Jon decided to have FamilyJules a co-comm. This might have been a mistake as Jon quickly looses control.
- Fortune Cookie: Hot-Blooded Video Games Edition
- One Egg is simply a thirty-second clip of one of the enemies from Serious Sam screaming. One of the co-comms and several members of the chat note that it sounds uncannily like Tom Fawkes.
- The Pinball jokes continue, with both Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire and Mario Pinball Land cracking the Cookie. During the former, one chatter suggests Jon try to tempt Reese with a Danganronpa pinball table, pinging her immediate interest.
- One Egg is simply a thirty-second clip of
- Fortune Cookie: Press Start To Stop Edition
- Much like Super Mario Bros. 3 way back when, Bad Dudes turns into a scrambled mess, with the opening text first appearing as long rows of 'ZZZZZZZZ':Jon: Guys, are we playing as 4L367 or KLJIK7J?
- Much like Super Mario Bros. 3 way back when, Bad Dudes turns into a scrambled mess
- Fortune Cookie: Symphony of Glitches Edition
- The first game rolled after Mr. Driller: Drill Land...is Canada Hunt for the Wii. While Jules and Jerod joke about Canada in front of Jon, the game is effortlessly given a mercy kill and wins the poll.
- It's not just that poll either. EVERY poll of the stream ends in a mercy kill, and the frequent Lampshade Hanging after the final poll (and the VOD description) proves that this isn't lost on anyone.
- Jon reveals the new TRG site, with biographies for each member of the team. The title given to Jon on his bio? "The Master of Misfortune". When Jerod asks for his wife Erika's title, Chatia's says "The Voice of Reason".
- The first game rolled after Mr. Driller: Drill Land...is Canada Hunt for the Wii. While Jules and Jerod joke about Canada in front of Jon, the game is effortlessly given a mercy kill and wins the poll.
- Fortune Cookie: A Rollercoaster of Emotions and Rollercoasters Edition
- In a complete turn from the above mentioned "Symphony of Glitches Edition", every cookie ends in a game getting a 1% rule, followed by that game winning the next cookie by 1%.
- A clip from the previous stream's playthrough of House of the Dead: Overkill becomes the latest madlib meme, with Jon getting over 20 egg submissions that are edits of the video with different music.
- An egg submission uses the intro to the bootleg game Ronaldinho Soccer 97. During that time, someone randomly sets off the Wario Landaldihno Bucket 64 alert. Jon is utterly baffled at the coincidence, as it's a random chance which Wario alert plays and there are now hundreds of them.
- Fortune Cookie: Game Gear's In The Mix Now Edition
- As the title suggests, Jon is now able to stream Game Gear games, and celebrates by beating the Japan-only, extremely ambitious and impressive Game Gear port of Gunstar Heroes, one of his favourite Mega Drive games.
- During the above, Jon is raided by Heisanevilgenius Tom but thinks the game has no pause function (because Start is used to switch weapons) so can't run countermeasures. He somehow manages to miss the chat telling him how to pause every time he looks at it, and in the end Tom has to break into Discord to tell him live on air.
- Pac-Land for the TurboGrafx-16 somehow comes up back to back on two successive Cookies, leading Chat to vote for it as 'a sign'.
- High Risk Fortune Cookie: Who Knows? Edition
- HyperCole64 sent in a video of himself ordering "5 bombs" over the phone after Jon played the NES version of Bomberman. It turned out to be a setup for him to drop a gift sub bomb to 5 people at the perfect moment while the video was playing.
- Jon's attempt to roll the final game of the night.
- The first game he rolls is Resident Evil 5, which gets a re-roll because of the next stream.
- The second game is Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands; Jon re-rolls because he doesn't want to start in the middle of the series.
- The third game is Metal Slug: 1st Mission; Jon vetoes it because he can't stream Neo Geo Pocket Color gamesnote .
- The fourth game is Master of the Monster Lair; the consensus is to use the third and final re-roll.
- The fifth game is Pit-Fighter for the Atari Lynx, a console which he can't stream.
- The sixth game is a game based on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers for the Sega CD, which he can't stream due to copyright reasons.
- Before the seventh game, Jon accidentally presses the button to play the Family Feud buzzer instead of the usual drum-roll. By sheer coincidence, the seventh and final game is Family Feud 2012 Edition for the Wii.
- Fortune Cookie: Jamming with the Band Edition
- The first game of the night would have been Super Mario 3D All Stars...but Jon's copy hadn't arrived yet. Before stream started, one of the mods reminded Jon that it was the two-year anniversary of Bowsette. So the first game of the night promptly became New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, playing as Toadette.
- The second cookie had some issues. One of the games that popped up was the Vita game Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk, which was rerolled cause he couldn't play that system. After that was The Last Remanant, an RPG. And then after that was Pokemon Blue. Finally, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team is rolled and Jon gives up despite it being a tactics RPG. It passes Among Us while everyone's talking, getting the win. Jon ultimately ends up playing Rescue Team DX (after a fumble where he accidentally says Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon).
- Fortune Cookie: "It's Been A Month?" Edition
- Jon starts with the Japan-only beat 'em up 64th Street: A Detective Story on Lucahjin's suggestion because of its obnoxiously loud sound clips. Jon spends most of his play time making jokes about how protagonist Rick looks like J. Jonah Jameson from Spider-Man.
- A comment from a Booru post has autocorrected Skynet as Skype, which Jon saw as a funnier outcome.
- Magical Tetris Challenge gets chosen for play, and it's his first time playing the titular Magical mode, the mode itself being prone to absolute chaos. Cue the astonished first reactions to getting pentaminoes, 5x5 blocks, pyramids and stairs, and genuine surprise at the game's soundtrack.
- Fortune Cookie: Merry Soonmas, Everyone! Edition
- One of the "games" picked by the cookie is Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia for the Sega CD. Jon spends the duration reading the outdated 1995 entries of topics that the chat selects. When someone suggests Barbie, he finds that the dolls do not have an entry. However, he is intrigued by an entry for "Barbie, Klaus"...
- Mod Sampler: Misfortune Cookie, In Mod Form
- The beginning of the stream is an Escalating Punchline of surprises: Frank's choice La-Mulana (which he's been trying to get Jon to play for years) wins a blind poll, then Super Jeenius returns as a co-comm for the first time since 2018 (during which time, as Jon comments, people kept asking him "Where's Jake, is he dead?") and then DeceasedCrab, one of the original Something Awful LP'ers alongside Jon (and Lucah's other inspiration to be an LP'er besides Jon himself, though it doesn't come up) arrives in the chat due to being the one who originally popularised the game in the first place. And then, Jake has Jon beat the snake stage that traumatised him in the Battletoads race eight years earlier.
- Jake drops a 100 gift sub bomb during an Art Block.Jon: JAKE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Jake: Wheeeeeeee!
Jon: What are you doing?
- Fortune Cookie: Hello Boxing Day & Farewell 2020 Edition
- One of the games that wound up being selected for the cookie was Mario Party 2, where Jon selected Luigi as his playable character and Wario as his partner. Later on in the night, Mario Kart: Double Dash is selected by the cookie. Jon chooses Koopa and Paratroopa as his team...and his rivals that plague him through the Special Cup? Luigi and Wario. What makes this funny is that the odds of this specific duo showing up as the rivals are 1 in 306, or approximately 0.326%.
