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Daniel Condren, better known as RTGame, is an Irish Youtuber and livestreamer who primarily does live streams of various games, including Cities: Skylines and The Sims 3. His Youtube content primarily consists of stream highlights, with his older content primarily being based around Team Fortress 2 content. His humor primarily relies on crossing the line twice and exploiting Video Game Cruelty Potential, with hilarious results. His Youtube channel, where he uploads edited highlights of streams, can be found here, with his Twitch here for those that want to see the streams in full.

Daniel is part of a group of Irish Youtubers affectionately known as the Irish Lads, that also includes Call Me Kevin, Jacksepticeye, Daithi De Nogla and Terroriser.

Played Games


Daniel's videos consist of the following tropes:

  • Abusive Parents: Many people in chat have described RT as "a streamer who role-plays an abusive father to his chat".
    • RT's questionable parental skills are on full view during his Babysitting Mama playthrough. He complains the whole time about the awkward placement of the Wii remote and nunchuck and proceeds to abuse the baby every chance he gets. This includes shaking it violently (which is probably unavoidable due to the position of the Wii remote), beating it with a potato masher, slamming it on a cutting board, forcing it into a cooking pot and shoving it into a blender. And then he decides to load up Wii Sports.
    • The running gag of PowerWash Simulator is that RT is an abusive dad who orders his kid to get him beer while he works on powerwashing various locations and objects, doing various unsafe stunts, and yelling at his kid for getting concerned.
    • Troping his playing of the game
  • Accidental Misnaming:
    • In his permadeath playthough of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: he accidentally refers to the Rito champion Revali as... "Ravioli".
    • RT repeated unintentionally kept mispronouncing "Toy Day" as "Toy Doy", causing him to joke that he needs to get himself tested for a speech impediment.
    • Troping his playing of the game
  • Addressing the Player: Played for laughs with Super Mario Maker 2. His viewers left tons of comments directly addressed to him in all of the levels he was playing, which he admits is incredibly distracting (not to mention extra confusing to players that aren't him). The lone exception being that one level where all the comments were addressed to Vinny of Vinesauce instead, prompting Daniel to wonder if all the more famous levels are full of people calling out to their favorite streamers. (Vinny actually made said level, as Dan eventually realized.)
    • Troping his playing of the game
  • Affably Evil: This is how Daniel's flippant attitude towards crimes against humanity gets depicted as the mayor in the animation about the poop volcano's eruption.
    • Troping his playing of the game
  • All for Nothing:
    • Daniel once spent nearly 7 hours in Hitman 3 putting every single citizen of Sapienza inside a freezer, with the intention to kill all of them in one shot with an explosive rubber ducky... But about 7 hours later when he had all the people unconscious (Save for a few that randomly died) with a total of 254 in the freezer, he finally threw the duck in there... and only killed about 20 people, much to his horror and dismay.
    • Troping his playing of the game
      Daniel: No! No! My life's work!
    • "Vino Humano" was the spiritual successor to Sapienza incident as Daniel planned to put every NPC on the Mendoza map into the wine press. After 6 hours of work he decided to end the stream and resume at a later date only for the save file to corrupt, preventing him from continuing.
    • Troping his playing of the game
  • Alone with the Psycho: Chat considers themselves to be experiencing this during the Miitopia playthrough when Daniel puts the Chat and Magical John Miis in the same room.
    • Troping the Twitch chat
  • Ambiguous Gender: It's subtle, but in the first of his Nuzlocke videos, he consistently refers to Bugsy by they/them pronouns, implying that he honestly can't tell if the character is male or female.
    • Unsure. Technically he created the character, but otherwise it seems to be mainly his playing of the game.
  • Amusement Park of Doom:
  • And There Was Much Rejoicing: He's absolutely giddy over Magnus's death in Minecraft: Story Mode, to the point where he plays "Conga" as he lies dying.
    • Troping his playing of the game.
    Daniel: Hey Magnus, I got a second F-Bomb prepared, just in case in my back pocket... Go fuck yourself!
  • And This Is for...: At the end of his Pokémon Heartgold Nuzlocke, he dedicates his Lugia's final Aeroblast to his fallen comrades: Noodle the Umbreon, Donut the Snorlax, Arson the Quilava, Gilbert the Gyarados, and Birb the Pidgey. It turns out Red had one extra full restore, so RT adds Spicy Birb the Ho-oh and Fodder the Caterpie to the list before the real final blow.
    • Unsure
  • April Fools: In 2022, Daniel finally listened to the many requests to play Undertale and started... only to Bait-and-Switch viewers by saying they'll actually be playing Fortnite. And then actually playing the Undertale... but on his own terms: the very first thing he does on stream in the game is kill Sans while complaining about how overused Sans is as a joke, before beelining the genocide ending and starting a soulless pacifist run.invoked
    • Unsure. Does this count as creative content?
  • Arc Words: Go to bed.
  • Author's Saving Throw: Discussed in his Pokémon tierlist, he had a very rough time with Pokémon Sword and Shield's main campaign, but the DLC for that game saves it, to the point that Sword and Shield without DLC is an F tier but with DLC it's in B — which outranks the majority of all the other games released at the time.invoked
    • Troping his opinions.
  • Back for the Finale: "When City Planning in Cities Skylines floods Atlantis" features at least one element from each of his previous streams on the game.
    • ZCE. No finale, no characters being back
  • Bad Boss: In his Minecraft streams where he coordinates the rest of the server into building a project, he typically fills this role. No OSHA Compliance is intentionally met, players' attempts to unionize (jokingly or not) are quashed with lava buckets, and (during the stream where the server built an island resort) anyone caught attempting to escape is slain. It goes even further with the Santa/Amazon HQ video, where the entire point of the video is to make them build what amounts to an elf slave camp.
    • Fine
  • Bait-and-Switch: In his six-story hedge maze The Sims 3 video:
    Daniel: I thought for today, we'd revisit [The Sims 3]. And it's gonna be with a very special family that that has long been anticipated to make a return...
    [He scrolls his mouse over the Bob family household]
    Daniel: It's the Connors!
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: In the middle of a flood during the first Cities Skylines video:
    Daniel: Look, these people all are complaining they don't have water, so if anything, I'm doing them a favor.
    • Playing the game and saying a joke. Otherwise, fine
  • Berserk Button:
    • Do not call him British or say that Ireland is part of the UK.
    • While it's played for comedy, RT doesn't hide his disdain for bad writing in games due to having an English degree. His Minecraft Story Mode series was captioned with the title "A man who hates bad writing plays Minecraft Story Mode," which made a return for Pokémon Shield. Said game's excessive hand-holding and bad attempts at comedy start making RT audibly exhausted of the game, with several moments where a bad joke has him opening the Nintendo home screen as if to close the game in exasperation.
    • Backseat gaming, which refers to whenever the Twitch chat starts yelling too much about the optimal way to do something. He had to lock the chat to subscribers only several times during the Breath of the Wild permadeath run due to it being too much and distracting him. In particular, Daniel had to defend several of his cooking choices as deliberately not being the optimal way to cook the resources, because he was more focused on getting as many bonus hearts from them as possible.
      • All troping the person
  • Biting-the-Hand Humor: The video where they "build YouTube in Minecraft" is pretty much nothing but jabs at the platform's more questionable features and predatory copyright system. Naturally, everyone starts joking about how that video is going to be instantly demonetized or outright taken down.
    • Light on context but correct, tropes the audience too for some reason
  • Bizarrchitecture:
    • The Bob family lives in a house that's extremely wide but only a few tiles long. Due to the house's gable-shaped roof, it results in a disproportionately giant roof.
    • In his later Cities: Skylines streams, he tends to make towns into this. Case in point: roads that drive up impossibly steep angles, buildings that clip into and intersect with others, residential districts on incredibly steep mountains but with jarringly flat tops, a road "intersection" that's better described as a pile of spaghetti, and the list goes on.
    • Both troping playing the game
  • Black Comedy: Almost all of the humour in his videos.
    • ZCE
  • Body Horror: I want die. Standout examples include his mouth being between his eyes, an extremely large and vaguely rectangular Gag Nose, a Porn Stache on his chin, Big Ol' Eyebrows that form a 'V' on his forehead, Tareme Eyes, and red glasses that barely even fit over his eyes. There's a reason he's called I want die.
    • His original design actually had to be revised between the Miitopia streams as the aforementioned mouth, among other aspects, was unnerving many viewers.
    • Badly indented and troping playing the game normally
  • Busman's Holiday: Discussed in the I forced 200 Minecraft Players to turn an island into Starbucks stream. One person in the chat came back from their work as a barista in Starbucks, only to spend their evening free time watching a Starbucks being built in Minecraft.
    • Feels like misuse of Busman's Holiday but otherwise a discussed trope is probably fine
  • The Bus Came Back: For his Miitopia playthrough on the Nintendo Switch, RT uses a whole new set of Miis based on the increased number of channel injokes since his 3DS playthrough, resulting in some of the original cast being booted out temporarily:
    • Obama the pop star eventually returned in all his glory as the first member of I Want Die's third crew.
      RT, in his Obama voice: "Did you miss me?"
    • Magical John arrives as the final major Mii team member as an Ascended Extra in Miitopia, over 2 years since his first and only appearance in Scribblenauts.
    • When the Dark Lord receives his new face, Daniel brings back a long-abandoned Mii: The original i want die who was replaced for being too damn ugly.
    • The final member of the original team, End Mii, doesn't return until the postgame, where she resides in the Villa. Naturally, Baby Gilbert is banished to the Villa so that End Mii can take his place.
    • The only member of the original crew who isn't relegated to a later chapter than the first is Mr. Bean.
      RT, after Mr. Bean joins the team: "Nice to meet you, old friend. [...] There's like, ancient murals in like the Pyramids that depict these two together."
    • Misuse as described
  • Butt-Monkey: Anytime Baby Gilbert (from one of the Cooking Mama videos) shows up, expect him to either be subject to physical abuse such as being stuffed into a blender, or The Friend Nobody Likes (in the Miitopia playthrough). It wouldn't be nearly as funny if he weren't a doll serving as a punching bag.
    • Fine
  • Call-Back:
    • He decided to name all of his caught Pokémon in Pokémon Shield after weapons. So, he named his Wooloo (later Dubwool) after the deadliest weapon Agent 47 owns: the muffin.
    • During a charity scene, he set notifications to play with a mixture of the "Cleric Beast" boss music from Bloodborne and Ross from Friends screaming about sandwiches, pivoting, and danger. When RT actually played Bloodborne and reached Vicar Amelia, chat started telling RT to pivot because the boss was angry about her sandwich.
  • Cast Full of Crazy:
    • The recurring characters appearing in his Dark Souls playthrough are all incredibly loony and prone to turn on RT whenever they're so much as slighted. The most normal one is RumbleTumble, who is an unequivocally good-aligned character. But the protagonist of the adventure is a naked Ryan Reynolds, and the most recurring characters are a floating mushroom and a pair of legs named Jack who is nicknamed for whatever pants he happens to wear.
    • His Miitopia playthrough has this, especially in terms of the actual party members. The core member is I want die, whose battle cry is a scream of agony. His first party consists of Mr. Bean, a knight with a cocaine habit, Chat, a hive mind of RT's viewers who is constantly demanding food and new robes, and anime Goofy the serial killer. The second party has Cupcake the cat-sheep, Gilbert the surprisingly eloquent baby, and Existential Dread, who everyone gets to know very well. The third party starts off normal with pop star turned vampire Barack Obama, and Jefferson the alien-penguin-tank, before going hard crazy with Magical John, the most terrifying flower since Flowey.
  • Catchphrase:
    • "Von Karma, no!", which usually follows RT doing an impression of Manfred Von Karma plotting some sort of crime.
    • "Who's to say?" in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, whenever Granddad needs to make a choice and has the option to respond in the negative or generally be unhelpful.
  • Cavalry Betrayal: In the Rust Roleplay video Daniel is supposed to act as backup for the Welsh during the assault on the Orks. He decides to hold back his forces until the Welsh are wiped out.
  • Character Name Limits: "I Want Die" and "Connor TheAndroidSen".
  • Corrupted Character Copy: Every single mascot from Daniel's "Donseyland" is a deranged parody of a popular Disney character (and even some who aren't like Beter Greffen). Some of them include:
    • The main mascot of the park is Rickey Rat, a chain-smoking drug addict with bloodshot eyes.
    • Then we have Roofy, a serial killer that targets children. His so-called "funhouse" is filled to the brim with blood, skulls and bones that are implied to belong to his victims.
    Roofy: BYE BYE KIDS!
  • Couch Gag: Every video ends with the words "Subscribe for more [whatever funny and/or unpleasant stuff has happened or has been brought up in the video]".
  • Cozy Voice for Catastrophes: That lighthearted, Irish-accented tone of his persists even as he quips that he's about to obliterate a city via meteor strike, and even helps reinforce the humor.
  • Crossover: Occasionally, with Call Me Kevin, Wilbur Soot or Plumbella to name a few.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Daniel accidentally skips the match that would have pit Demise (Ganondorf), Thanos (Falco), Nekos (Rosalina), and Floyd (Toon Link) against each other. Thanos ended up winning the "match", leading to Daniel cracking that he just snapped them.
  • Death Seeker: His Mii, I want die, as described by RT in one of his Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournaments.
  • Detachable Lower Half: Exaggerated with Jacknote  in the Dark Souls streams, who is literally a walking pair of legs.
  • The Dog Bites Back: One of the many radios that RT destroys in Portal manages to push him into deadly sewage via wonky physics.
  • Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: A Freeze-Frame Bonus variation in his "How to stop the Train Banana Bay Edition" video. After he has the entire server go as Engineers and construct buildings across the entire train track, the train is noticably struggling, and has slowed to a crawl. Then, after one Engineer who was standing right in front of the slowed train does the Schadenfreude taunt, the train immediately accelerates and plows through him and the rest of the buildings, going even faster than it normally does.
  • Downer Ending: His "Bob Family Household" series of The Sims 3 streams ended with everyone in the household (and perhaps even the entire town the streams were set in thanks to the age settings used) dying of old age, and a social worker coming to take away the two horses and the cat.
  • Drives Like Crazy: It's well known that Daniel doesn't actually have his license in real life, and it doesn't get any clearer than when he gets to play Forza Horizon 4. Expect lots of flips, driving through the countryside at uncontrollable speeds, and cheerful encounters with a variety of trees and walls. He doesn't seem to know brakes exist and is never not at full throttle.
  • Epic Fail:
    • Him managing to kill Ross Bob from exhaustion soon after starting the first Bob Family Household stream in The Sims 4.
    • After completing a permadeath run of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in just two attempts, including beating all four Divine Beasts and Ganon, RT's first death in the postgame comes when he tries to shoot a fire arrow at an enemy and accidentally sets the tall grass around him on fire.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Whenever he's not using Black Comedy, RT titles his videos this. Guess what he does in "I forced my loyal fans to build Ireland itself in Minecraft"?
    • And of course "We're Literally Just Watching Paint Dry".
  • Expy: In "A Sad Loser Plays Nintendo Land all by himself", RT wants to put I Want Die on his Wii U but he can't directly send him there himself. As a result, he creates the Mii "Me Like Pain" generated from an image of I Want Die.
  • The Faceless: Averted. Daniel is quite open about showing his face when the situation calls for it, but due to not using a facecam outside of certain streams it's almost a running joke to ask about when he's doing a face reveal stream, especially as most of the reveals are on Youtube instead of Twitch.
  • Fake-Out Fade-Out: In the highlights video of Celeste, RT finds the Embedded Precursor and plays it. When he completes it, his usual YouTube ending card pops up for a couple of seconds, music and all.
  • False Flag Operation: Inadvertently pulled in the Rust Roleplay stream when one of RT's crew kills an English tax collector and takes his head but blames the Orks. RT then informs the English that the Orks killed the tax collector, triggering a war.
  • Franchise Original Sin: Pointed out in his Pokémon tierlist: he argues that people who complained about Pokémon Sword and Shield's dexit should be equally mad about Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire's similar Pokémon availability, since trading from the previous installment wasn't possible and acquiring a complete Gen 3 dex required multiple other games, which is part of why he ranks Ruby and Sapphire at the bottom tier alongside the Gen 1 games.invoked
  • Gender-Blender Name: When playing Pokémon Shield, he made his character female and named her "Boris", after Boris Johnson.
  • Happy Ending Override: "When City Planning in Cities: Skylines requires an active water volcano" opens with RT popping open most of his previous Cities: Skylines maps and carpet bombing the Christ out of them with meteors.
  • Have a Gay Old Time: Brought up when RT played Geoguessing with the Lads in Ireland. After a street named Cummer and a hill named after the F-slur, they're terrified to look at any of the signs as they don't know what they're going to get.
    Daniel: [face palming] Someone's gotta like go around all of Ireland and just update the place names.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: The spirits offering to help Daniel during his Dark Souls playthrough are quick to invade and attack if he doesn't summon them. Then they'll offer themselves as friendly summons once again.
  • Hurricane of Puns: "We have gone toe far in Fall Guys" has RT discover a skin combination that makes his bean look like a limbed toe. He and Plumbella are soon volleying toe puns back and forth.
  • Hypocritical Humor: "Watch your fuckin' language! Little Timmy might be watching!"
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Vino Humano.note 
  • Improbable Weapon User: RT usually turns Agent 47 into this. Muffins, a fish, and a briefcase containing the fish are all things he uses to take out guards.
  • Incredibly Lame Fun:
    • "We're Literally watching paint dry", where RT pulls all the stops to make as many people on Twitch watch paint dry at the same time for four hours. Just changing the stream name to that pulled in about a hundred people, and even more joined when RT puts out a tweet for it, pings everyone on his discord, and pulls in Special Guests Kiwo, Jacksepticeye, and his own mum for the stream. He pulls over 10 000 viewers doing this.
    • For the sheer amount of time spent on something like this nothing (so far) beats hunting for a Shiny Wooloo in Pokémon Shield in order to name it Cupcake, and then play through the rest of the game using only said Wooloo. It took 49 hours of game time split across several months. Long enough that merchandise related to Cupcake had been designed, manufactured, and delivered before Cupcake was finally caught.
  • Inexplicably Identical Individuals: In one of his The Sims 3 streams, where he replaced every family in the entire town with The Connor family. And, a single Hank for good measure.
  • Intelligible Unintelligible: Because RT can't keep up a good Mr. Bean impression, in Miitopia, Mr. Bean can only talk in "Bean". I want die seems to understand him just fine, however. Same thing for GLA in the same game, who only speaks in car noises.
  • Interface Screw: His "Baby in a Blender" controller with which he played Dark Souls; the inputs are incredibly bizarre ("crack the baby's neck to drink Estus"), but is otherwise entirely capable of what a normal controller can do. What's more, if RT places it on a desk or table to support its weight, due to its standing shape it creates a massive visual obstruction that he has to lean around in order to see his screen, a matter not helped by his character holding a massive hammer that blocks a sizeable amount of the screen as well.
  • Irony: In his Minecraft streams, he'll usually have restrictions as to what people can build (either themed around something - i.e., Starbucks, the country of Ireland - or where they can build - i.e., Terraria). He gave other people complete freedom to build whatever they wanted when he had his fans create Lego, a product known for being sold in kits with a predetermined purpose.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: While humans may be subject to all kinds of hilariously bad treatment, cats tend to fare much better. Also, RT has featured and immortalised his cat George (who sadly passed away after a sudden illness) in the form of a Tropico map and Minecraft statues.
  • Madness Mantra: In "I forced 200 Minecraft Players to turn an island into Starbucks", players made a room in the Starbucks HQ building on the titular island filled with nothing but signs saying "We are good slaves" plastered on every single wall and floor block in the room.
  • Malevolent Architecture: Every house that the Connor family moves into is this, and they have to run through a Death Course just to reach the living space on the top floor. Their first house was a giant "death course" with a Hedge Maze, swimming challenge room, a room full of fireworks, and a room with a narrow passage beside a death pit where RT intended for them to have to sit and get off chairs to pass. Their second house was just a 6-story hedge maze, but the family just bypassed it by glitching up to the top floor.
  • Man of a Thousand Voices: Averted; he lampshades that he has basically three voices while playing The Simpsons Hit & Run: his normal voice, his Toad voice, and his Goofy voice. Any other voice impressions he does are just mild twists on those; his von Karma voice for example being a slightly nasal and enunciated version of his normal voice. The tone and emotion for each character he voices is what separates them, usually.
  • Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Dan's 2021 playthrough of Miitopia involves the return of many characters from previous games and channel gags. For a small glimpse into the madness that ensues: I Want Die leads a team consisting of Mr. Bean, Twitch Chat, Anime Goofy, Cupcake, Gilbert, Existential Dread, Barack Obama from the previous playthrough, Jefferson, and Magical John against the Dark Lord Von Karma, with assistance from Mint, Crumpet, Void, the Mercedes GLA, and Great Sage Khadgar (formerly Phoenix Wright).
  • Mind Screw: As seen is "Let's play a simple game of chess. With time travel.", Daniel brings to the stream AnnaChess as he plays 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel. Despite being a professional chess player and commentator, Anna is just as confused as everyone else.
    AnnaChess: I've played chess my whole life, I've been on the Olympic team and all that stuff, but I don't know what you're doing.
  • "Miss X" Pun: One of Daniel's moderators drew a character named "Mr. Steak". Daniel started a bit talking about Mr. Steak's life, before realising the pun with the name "Miss Steak" and steered his bit into being about Miss Steak.
  • Mood Whiplash: During "When City Planning in Cities Skylines floods Atlantis", Daniel gives a heartfelt speech about how his life has changed since he started streaming... except, as Daniel points out shortly after, while half of the chat was "love hearts", the other half was more focused on destroying Atlantis.
    Daniel: (barely able to avoid corpsing) "RT! REMOVE THE DAM! KILL ATLANTIS!"
  • Monkeys on a Typewriter:
    • The Terraria and Minecraft streams where he bands together 50+ people to play at the same time. They actually achieve their goals surprisingly fast; in the Minecraft build streams, entire islands have been populated with buildings of varying quality within relatively short timeframes, and in the Terraria stream, they managed to overcome the first boss of the game through sheer numbers alone. It's just that any progress they make looks chaotic as all hell, due to the uncoordinated nature of audience participation.
    • He also directly talks about the trope when playing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, since instead of getting a partner for the game, he instead opted to leave the job to the Twitch chat (with obligatory reference to Twitch Plays Pokémon, of course).
  • Moral Event Horizon: invoked The chat was noticeably upset in "When City Planning in Cities Skylines creates a city in the sky" due to Daniel deciding to hold the chat hostage via the Poophole Estate.
    Daniel: I'm holding you guys hostage until you say nice things about me.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: Every video about Two-Point Hospital and Overcooked!, some of his The Sims videos, among others. A blimp or two in the city not interesting enough? How about over eight hundred?
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • Not Quite Back to Normal: After Kevin is turned into a child, he gets short, black hair for some reason. After he's turned back into an adult, the black hair stays.
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten: During his Brilliant Diamond playthrough, RT ended up wiping on the first gym. For the rest of the run, and for some of his Super Mario Sunshine run, viewers would call him "first gym died guy" whenever he tried to express any form of gaming experience and knowledge.
  • One-Steve Limit: Inverted for his Terraria stream, where he played with at least a hundred other players, all of whom set their character names to variations of "Zach".
    • Two members of the Bob family household share the first name "Billy". RT distinguishes them as "Billy" and "Other Billy".
    • Inverted again on his World of Warcraft stream, where he assembles an army of Level 1 Paladins, all named Zach.
  • Only Known by Initials: "RT" is The Artifact from when his username was "RumbleTumble Games". According to Daniel in his final TF2 stream, that's not what it stands for anymore, leaving it up to the imagination what it does stand for now.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: RT's version of Walter White in Stardew Valley is significantly less morally ambiguous than the original Walt, selling fruits and wine instead of hard drugs, and generally playing him for comedy. But even Walter's more Jerkass remaining traits get dropped during serious moments such as when Shane threatens to commit suicide.
  • Overly Narrow Superlative: His TF2 server holds the world record for the highest killstreak ever achieved by a train.note 
  • Playing Against Type: A few weeks after RT's playthrough of Detroit: Become Human, his viewers were once again treated to Bryan Dechart's voice... as RT invited him (as well as Amelia Rose Blair) for a few rounds of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Judging by the comments, hearing Connor lob swears, crack dumb jokes, and pull a parodic "WHAT'S UP GAMERS" voice for laughs made for one hell of an experience.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Playing Tropico 6, he ends up, much to his dismay, having to abolish child labor. Because the kids were stealing all the jobs.
  • Press Q to Not Die: Daniel can't just stop himself from referencing the trope every time it happens in Minecraft: Story Mode. And it happens a lot.
  • Progressively Prettier: I Want Die, believe it or not. The general details of his appearance were kept the same with his post-3DS Miitopia redesign, but he's far easier on the eyes now. The original design reappears at the very end of his Switch playthrough, at which point the changes become shockingly apparent.
  • Rapid Aging: To absolutely everyone during "When Playing God in The Sims goes wrong" video. RT sets all the default maturity speeds to their minimum of two days, with the exception of the Teen stage which lasts eight. This results in his town's Sims dying of old age within about 19 days of being born.
  • Recurring Character: For his Wii Sports Resort stream, he created a bizarre-looking Mii called "I want die." The Mii was the only one on his system (until his Wii Play stream, which introduced "End mii"), causing him to reappear in any stream requiring a Mii.
  • Red Baron:
    • RT's endeavor to knock every Sapienza NPC unconscious and put them all in a freezer in Hitman 3 (as part of a greater but failed effort to kill them all at the same time) led to him being christened by the gaming press as "the Butcher of Sapienza".
    • Also, Parodied: "Did you know that I used to be called 'the drift king' back in college?" First used during a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe stream with friends, then became a Running Gag from how mockery-inducing it is.
  • Repetitive Name: Bob Bob, from the original and The Sims 4 editions of the Bob Family Household.
    • Also, Barbara Barbara.
  • Running Gag:
    • RT's Irish heritage is an infrequent mention on the channel. He's done streams whose entire theme is Ireland or Irish culture, and building off of that, his hatred of the Spire of Dublin is another running joke.
      Daniel: I can't- look, Paris has the Eiffel Tower. New York has the Statue of Liberty. Dublin has a pole.
    • "Take Me Home, Country Roads" being played for any sort of disaster in Cities: Skylines, notably when meteor strikes occur.
    • Killing people (especially any given allied NPC) with a Windblast in Dishonored. Usually accompanied by a Game Over for killing key allied NPCs.
    • In the Minecraft build streams:
      • At least one person will build a giant sign somewhere that reads "Help", "Help us", or some variation on that. Similarly, "FEED" signs made by players.
      • Someone will build Sans in a matter usually related to the stream in question, for example a wooden Sans in the Team Trees stream or the Sans planet in the Planet stream.
      • The tendency of players on his Minecraft streams to build something that appears normal or even wholesome but contains a disturbing, fleshy interior.
    • In one particular Stardew Valley stream, repeated demands of having the other players go to bed.
    • The Dosney Corporation.
    • Whenever he has to mention the name of a small child (usually as part of a hypothetical situation that ends up being bad for the kids), he'll just name the kid "Little Timmy".
    • "David Cage, you've done it again!"
    • Making fun of the people who demand he do a face reveal... when he's already been showing his face for years.
    • As of the Subnautica stream calling any place that's really hot, "Texas". Usually goes hand-in-hand with RT mockingly stating that a Texan would visit the place in question and say "Y'call that hot?", whether it's an underwater volcano or a Lethal Lava Land.
    • RT parodies Pokémon Sword and Shield's tendency to constantly reference Leon's Charizard, how it's powerful/unbeatable, that it's his Signature Mon, etc. It comes back up again for his Super Paper Mario stream.
    • Manfred von Karma somehow masterminding the events of anything and everything, often tying back to chemicals burning off Yanni Yogi's fingerprints. Von Karma's feats range from burning off Yogi's fingerprints specifically using the chemical fingerprinting dust from Case 5 and raising a kid for the sole purpose of screwing with Phoenix in court, to burning off and stealing everyone's faces in Miitopia and adding the Bed of Chaos into Dark Souls. Typically followed by RT saying:
      "Von Karma, no!"
    • In his Breaking Bad themed Stardew Valley playthrough, he nicknames Sebastian (whom he substitutes Jesse Pinkman for) Sebby and often makes comments about making some sort of colored "product" or mocking him. Particularly after he breaks up with him to marry Emily instead.
  • Self-Imposed Challenge:invoked
    • For his Breath of the Wild Master Mode run, Daniel has a rule that any deaths will result in him deleting the save file and starting over. As a consequence, he's also not allowed to have any fairies in jars or use Mipha's Grace.
    • For Pokémon Shield, RT did as much of the game as he could with a Shiny Wooloo that he spent several months grinding for.
  • Serial Escalation: Standard for repeated streams/videos of the same game.
    • For example, his Cities: Skylines streams escalating from just messing around to erupting poop volcanoes and building (then destroying) Atlantis in an Earth-shaped map.
    • His The Sims videos have gone from simply playing God by reducing Sim autonomy and modifying other controls to "recreating the Thanos Snap" and creating hundreds of identical Sims to overrun an entire town.
    • When streaming for charity, RT opted to hit his Skylines city with a meteor for every $1000 donated, to the soundtrack of Doom (2016). When he did hit his goal of $10,000, he wound up spamming meteors until he heard the first announcement, to the tune of Country Roads. Then, he upped the goal to $15,000, and changed to Dublin - upon hitting that target, he prompted to spam tornadoes.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: When he realizes that Magnus can die in Minecraft: Story Mode instead of Ellegaard, he reverts back to an earlier chapter. Not because he cares if Ellegaard lives or dies, but just to kill off Magnus.
  • Shamu Fu: The fugu is his recurring weapon in the Hitman games, eventually culminating in "I killed 553 people using only a fish in Hitman 2". The title is alas not entirely truthful (it counts as a non-lethal takedown, so they actually died of the ensuing Neck Snap) but he does legit slap half a thousand people across the face with a fish over the course of the video.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: A recurring joke is that he'll do streams involving VR or him on camera as this. He did both his Just Dance and Ring Fit Adventure streams dressed in a suit. Which promptly got ruined by the sweat in the latter stream.
  • Shout-Out: Some of the members of the Bob family household were Ross Bob (an obvious nod to Bob Ross), Waluigi Bob, and Gruntilda Bob.
  • Shown Their Work: Featured heavily in his Minecraft: New Earth videos. Expect plenty of builders to do their research in regards to whatever continent/country they're building on and add in landmarks and fun facts.
  • Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: Invoked in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, where this happens to RT and he jokes a ton about delaying the main quest.
  • Sigil Spam: When he asks his Minecraft players to turn a large island into Ireland for St. Patrick's Day, it only takes a few minutes for them to cover a sizable portion of the landmass in nothing but Irish flags. Hilarity ensues.
  • The Simple Life is Simple: Not simple enough, it seems. Both times he played Farming Simulator, once with the Yogscast and once with the Irish Lads, they ended up having a lot of trouble getting their harvest, let alone turning a net profit.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has a joking version of this trope with Call Me Kevin - amusingly, this is in spite of (or possibly because of) a common joke among fans that both are the same person.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance: Famously, whenever some wide-scale disaster happens, RT usually plays the fairly mellow "Take Me Home, Country Roads".
  • Spiritual Antithesis: The Pokémon Sword and Shield streams are pretty much just RT poking an endless number of holes at the game's questionable quality and appeal. By contrast, his Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX stream is incredibly heartfelt and all about his nostalgia for the series.
  • Springtime for Hitler: He cuts off his one-road city from the outside world and tries to drive it bankrupt, only for it to thrive more than any previous point (and it was already far and away his most successful city, surpassing even West Virginia).
  • Surprisingly Creepy Moment: His Kirby and the Forgotten Land streams have him express a lot of shock about how dark the lore can be and the grotesqueness of certain lategame enemies, given Kirby's outwardly cute and adorable appearance. Given that this was his first Kirby game, it was inevitable.
  • The Swear Jar: In one Planet Coaster stream, he introduces the "Murder Jar" to dissuade him from building another rollercoaster that blends people.
  • Take That, Audience!: RT sarcastically pokes fun at the audience about how playing with LEGO isn't entertaining, but apparently watching 100 people slowly dig a hole in Minecraft is.
  • Tempting Fate: During his attempt to recreate the Thanos Snap in The Sims 3, Daniel mentions near the end that despite doing the Snap, no one actually died. Thanos drowns in the pool not too long after Daniel starts a fire to try and kill Sims.
    • In a positive example, when playing The Dalaran Heist, he chooses a card randomly because of its vague description, sarcastically calling it "The best card in the game". Said card, Wondrous Wisdomball, ends up winning him the entire adventure, resulting in him sincerely declaring it to be the best card in the game.
  • That Came Out Wrong: While playing Phogs with CallMeKevin, Daniel comments that his bone sense is tingling which chat rephrases to "my bone sense is throbbing". And then Kevin says he's "expanding".
    Daniel: We have enough fanfiction as is. Please, we don't want any more.
  • Theme Naming: In his Pokémon Shield playthrough, Daniel decided to name every Pokémon after a weapon: Gun, Knife, Carbomb, Muffin...note 
    • Edible Theme Naming: Starting with Cupcake, the theme shifted to confectionery for his shiny pokemon, including Wedding Cake (a Snorlax) and Cookie (a Lycanroc).
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: 1-3 meteors is usually enough to permanently cripple or outright exterminate a city. He has a habit of raining dozens of them on his cities, sometimes accompanied by extra disasters. At one point, when he uses the Ragnarok Extreme mod (which allows the intensity of disasters to go 500, well beyond the base game's default), he put in so many meteors that he managed to crash the game!
  • Transhuman: RT claims to be one during his VTuber debut.
  • Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: The WWMii video pits an absurd number of amiibo fighters against each other, such as TorqueDawg (Samus), The UK (Captain Falcon), and Mr. Bean (Mii Swordfighter). Mr. Bean wins.
    • Daniel did a follow-up for his 2019 Christmas special, this time featuring almost exclusively Miis of various political figures and pop culture icons, including Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Putin, Fidel Castro, Bob Ross, Jack Black, Baby Yoda, Sans, Shaggy, the YMCA and the returning Mr. Bean. Initially, Shaggy was the victor, but it was discovered that several of the amiibo including his had been enhanced with Spirits, so the bracket had to be re-run, and Putin won in the end.
    • The third round, which Daniel streamed for his 26th birthday, had the theme of resolving every global crisis he possibly could through an amiibo tournament. COVID-19 (Meta Knight) vs vaccines (Dr. Mario), Jeff Bezos (Ganondorf) vs labour laws (Ness), a basic education (Byleth) vs fake news (Fox), the Roman Empire (Marth) vs Mr. Bean...oh yeah, and the stream chat were gambling channel points this time. In the end, a Dark Pit amiibo representing 2020 as a whole won out.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: Exaggerated with the Connor family in The Sims 3, where it's just one character copy-pasted eight times.
  • Uncatty Resemblance: Boris, RT's player character in Pokémon Shield, is dressed in all black and has a jet-black afro that looks just like Cupcake, her signature shiny Wooloo.
  • Uriah Gambit: On the Rust Roleplay server, Daniel conspires with the English king to have the Welsh lead the initial attack on the Orks to be killed.
  • Video Game Caring Potential: Despite the stuff he does tending to fall into the below trope, Daniel did legitimately care about most of the members of the Bob family, with him even restarting to an earlier save whenever Ross Bob died, until deciding it would be better to accept his fate and let him go.
  • Video Game Cruelty Potential: Common in his streams, with it happening in almost every single one of his Cities: Skylines streams, usually with the Fallout 76 trailer cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads playing over the ensuing natural disasters. This actually earned him a sponsorship, as Calypso Media, the devs behind Tropico, thought he would be perfect in their series about running a communist dictatorship.
  • What the Hell Is That Accent?: Whenever he plays a Super Mario game and a Toad appears on screen, RT usually will attempt to read his dialogue with a Toad voice. Most of the times it proves hard to keep up, however, and RT will end up with something closer to Marge Simpson.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Spiders freak him out immensely. He states he had them replaced with bears by a mod in Skyrim, and he outright had Crabsquids from Subnautica removed and replaced with nothing, though we get to see him panic whenever he finds one before that.
  • Writers Cannot Do Math: In one of his streams for Cities: Skylines, a small town of roughly 2000 people manages to produce an 25 billion litres of sewage in about 15 years, able to nearly fill the valley around it to the brim.

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  • The Tracks Toybox stream. RT manages to find all sorts of ways of screwing with such an innocent-looking toy train simulator, whether it involves ruining a whimsical city skyline with some International Space Stations, cramming a bedroom full of mountains of Jenga blocks, or adding boosts to the track and thus inventing a particle accelerator made out of toy trains.
    • His quest to disable the speed cap - someone hints at it in the chat and RT gets desperate to find out how. Someone else ends up setting up a subreddit for the game, which swiftly devolves into unrelated shitposting.
  • Any of the Scribblenauts videos:
    • In the first video, the moment RT is let out of the railroady tutorial, he is asked to get a cat down from a tree. RT sets the tree on fire.
    • "Throw something to knock over the bottles but don't cross the barrier!" RT summons a nuclear device and only ends up blowing himself up. Dropping a meteor also kills himself and a nearby NPC while leaving the bottles intact. The solution that works in the end? "Throwable child".
    • The second video immediately starts with RT trying to give schoolchildren a flag to salute by attempting to put a baby on top of a flagpole.
    • "'The cannibal has shown up for the special'... oh no. Everyone's been screaming at me this entire time to feed a baby to someone...and now the fucking cannibal walks in...and it's gonna be hard to get around it. But joke's on you, we're gonna give him the old man!"
    • RT's Tranquil Fury when the game accepts a pineapple as a pizza ingredient.
    • A grandma wants Maxwell to, "Help me befriend the birds" - RT summons a "Bald Hunter" who shoots the birds down on sight. RT summons a rifle of his own to try and stop the hunter, and accidentally shoots the grandma.
    • "Will you help us get our ball? Be careful not to touch the old man's lawn." Said old man is sitting in front of the garden and RT still has the rifle from earlier...
    • "Spread the word that the new building is ready to use!" - the building in question is a cemetery. And RT succeeds in spreading the word by equipping a handgun. And the cemetery ends up being adorned with wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men.
    RT: Wait, no, this is really inappropriate!
    RT: Oh, that's disgusting.
    • "The cosplayer is a huge fan of video games and anime! Create someone from nerd culture that he can talk to!" RT fails to summon Mario, but then corrects it to "Maid". And to his horror, it works.
    RT: Oh god, please don't be a maid... [completion chime] No! No! Put her in the bag! Nope! Save her from this! Save her from this! Oh, that's so sad! That's very upsetting! Remember guys, if you go to prison, you too can get your own personal maid and live out your weeb dreams! You disgusting person!''
    • "Time to put her skills to the test! Create something to give the student an opportunity to gain work experience!" To RT's bewilderment, "Mafia" works.
    • The fourth video makes its statement by having RT attempt to clear an avalanche with a spoon.
    • RT is told to pacify a Yeti without killing him. "Comatose" still works, even if the Yeti still falls to his death.
    • Jack Frost wants "the other Jack" to leave his cave, and intends to scare him out with a loud noise. RT gives him a gun.
    • When asked to give something to a zombie, RT tries "Rideable Walking Dead Season"...and eventually has the game correct it to, "Rideable Walking Dead Sea Cow".
    • "This hot chocolate tastes boring, add some flavour to it." RT wins with "Tasty Cyanide".
  • A playthrough of Talisman with Kiwo, Spiffing Brit, and Mango sees the green-clad Daniel acquire a princess and mule, leading to the declaration he's Shrek. Spiff, whose bard looks suspiciously like Farquaad, proceeds to use Mesmerism to steal Fiona and sell her to a castle. Then Kiwo steals Donkey and drops him in a chasm, sending Shrek into a breakdown.
  • The Forza Horizon 5 video where he took the car from Mr. Bean and ramped it up to 200 MPH, leading to him and stream chat coming up with a hypothetical episode where Mr Bean would actually end up winning a race... because he would try to take a shortcut to get home to watch the race and blunder onto the track.
  • Just, literally everything in his Miitopia playthrough, also known as The RT Game Cinematic Universe. The journey that consists with the first Mii character he created since he bought the Wii, I Want Die, along with his party members: Mr. Bean, Twitch Chat, Anime Goofy, Cupcake the Shiny Wooloo, baby Gilbert from Babysitting Mama, Existential Dread itself, former president Barack Obama, Jefferson the Pengling from Below Zero and Magical John from Scribblenauts. And who are they up against? The Dark Lord Von Karma
    RT: This is a world of Miitopia. It is a world where every Mii can live in peace and harmony… that isn’t the Street Pass Mii Plaza in the Nintendo 3DS… that you have since stopped playing… Remember when you collected puzzle pieces? Remember when you turn on your 3DS every time you go outside… in hopes that you walk pass someone in the street to completed the jigsaw? Or to complete the RPG adventure in that? To defeat the Lord Emperor, who then appear in the Smash Bros stage, and reminded you that you haven’t played that game in like five years? This is what you left behind. This is what you abandoned… THEY WAITED FOR YOU!
    • The fact that Goofy, of all party members, was the first to introduce the suggestion of getting a new hairstyle. Made it even more hilarious that his chosen hairstyle resulting Blinding Bangs that completely covered his eyes.
      Goofy: What do you think? I’m an anime character now! I am so kawaii!
      • And let’s not forget Goofy’s suggestion for the party of using the Calming Fruit as a tool to become the world’s benevolent overlords.
    • Every time they find an inn, when reviewing each party member's desired new items, Chat always demands new Robes. Though, even when RT offers them money to get it, most of the time Chat fails to buy the item they want. Then when RT wants to save up or give money to the other party members, Chat in Twitch would either spam “ROBE” or “NEGLECT” and of course, “FEED” like a Veruca Salt-level of a spoiled child.
    • Dread already fitting his role accurately when he finally joins, feeling anxious when I Want Die, Cupcake and Gilbert don’t know where they are going to their next quest.
      Dread: (thinking) For real, are we gonna be OK…?
    • During the "Jesus" boss battle, RT and chat react with horror to Gilbert being Judas when using his new skill, "Secret Whispers" to get Jesus’ guard down.
      RT: No, Jesus! Don't give into temptation! That's the ONE THING you're not supposed to do!
    • Magical John finally joins… as a Flower, much to the Chat's dismay. When Chat demand RT to get rid of him, RT offer in exchange to get rid of Chat instead, or worse, replace Chat with John. Even gets worse for Chat when they party finally reunite, RT would always room Chat with Magical John throughout the playthrough. Even more hilarious during the time the party get separated in Von Karma's castle, Chat got stuck with Magical John.
      • Then there's one suggestion of using Magical John as bait for Von Karma while the rest of they party hides behind a bush. But that plan would still fail regardless and Von Karma would spare his face.
        Von Karma: Where did all your friends go?
        Magical John:
        (tied to a tree) They left me here. They didn’t want to be my friend anymore. But, you’ll be my friend, won’t you, Von Karma~?
        Von Karma: (mildly disturbed and uncomfortable) I’m… going to leave now.
    • One of the Fab Fairy Sisters, GLA, communicates only with car revving noises from RT’s soundboard.
    • Gilbert and Jefferson got into a fighting during the trek, but when they finally arrive to inn… they instantly reconcile. Chat believe that because they’re babies, they have the tiniest attention span that they completely forgot what a grudge is.
    • Chat and John go on an outing where they're on a cliff stargazing... until Magical John slowly gets abducted by aliens. Though he does get back immediately after that scene, which goes to show that the aliens, seeing Magical John the first time, instantly change their minds and drop him off immediately because of how disturbing he is.
    • When Obama switch class from Pop Star to Vampire, Chat suggested to RT to nickname him Barackula.
    • Whenever Mr. Bean falls into the hole, the viewers state that he’s re-enacting the intro of his show.
    • Ex-Dark Lord Von Karma joins as a guest party member, and RT was disappointed that his attacks only consisted of throwing rocks. Chat believes that his true skill is wielding a gun to shoot his enemies… but only does so if they are in an elevator.
      Von Karma: I’m mostly here for moral support. I don’t like getting my hands dirty… unless it’s an elevator shaft.
  • From one of his Mario Kart 8 videos, there's this exchange:
    RT: Brian, you took all the items!
    Terroriser: (in the most condescending tone possible) Awww, really, Daniel? Awwww, sorry, I've had the most boring two rounds because Shigeru Miyamoto's been giving you handjobs this entire goddamn game!
  • RT's controller runs low on battery while he's streaming Super Mario Sunshine, so naturally he takes a moment to plug it into a charger. However, for some reason the controller doesn't register the charging cord, causing more and more low battery alerts to pop up, and Twitch chat to think that RT lied about plugging in the controller. RT gets increasingly desperate to prove that he's not lying, and even takes a picture showing the plugged-in controller... but the alerts are still popping up, and chat accuses him of photoshopping it.
  • While playing golf in Wii Sports Resort, RT starts roleplaying as "John Golf", a hilariously psychotic nutbag who wants his son to drink tequila and tries to shoot his caddie after a bad swing. He also starts retorting with increasingly nonsensical "I Will Show You X!" comments whenever someone tries to talk to him:
    RT: (as caddie) John, no! That's not even connected, there's a cliff! We can't get the golf cart up there! (as John Golf) I'LL GET YOU UP THERE! (misses the shot)
  • While getting demolished yet again in Mario Kart, RT makes a shocking confession: He won the 2015 Drift King championship, but lost the follow-up tournament in 2016. Chat's world begins crumbling around them.
    Chat: What else is a lie!? ...Are you really Irish?
    RT: I'm Irish-Canadian, dual citizen. I'm not even like an authentic Irishman.
    Chat: Is your legal name even RT? You're not even my real dad, are you?
    • When Chat demanded an apology video, RT proposed an 18 minute long video which essentially consists of RT crowbarring in a sponsorship and mid-roll ad roughly every sentence.
  • Playing Elden Ring, RT was stuck for hours on Starscourge Radahn. The boss's mechanics were so absurdly over the top that RT started calling him a World of Warcraft boss and compared summoning his allies to getting a raid together. Soon enough, he was acting out the part of an elitist guild leader, calling out his NPC guild members for their failures. After winning, he congratulated everyone then kicked them out of the guild, but also told them he still expected them to show up next week to clear Radahn again.
    • RT accidentally driving chat berserk over discarding The Greatsword. Then again, because chat, being pushy as they were, went crazy while failing to provide full context of the sword aside being “anime shite” RT, with ZERO knowledge of the manga or its creator, jumped to conclusions that chat was trying to warn him and they want him to get rid of that weapon as a way to save himself. Though he does eventually apologize later as he wasn't trying to disrespect both its late creator and the Berserk fandom.
  • Not only did he go into Kirby and the Forgotten Land blind, playing it was the first time he got exposed to the deeper lore of the Kirby series. He starts off incredulous when chat tried to explain the typical final bosses to him, but his jaw is on the floor by the time he gets to Fecto Forgo. After reaching the post game his entire perspective on the series had changed, and his over the top reactions to such are a joy to behold.
  • Early on while playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, RT talks about the option to take in-game selfies, which soon devolves into portraying Link as a stereotypical vlogger, obsessed with constantly making selfie videos showing off his adventures and demanding that viewers hit the like button. RT also portrays much of the quest through a streaming context, like Link leaving Outset Island solely to look for more content, or thinking that Ganondorf is a rival streamer. Plus trying to make selfie videos at the most inappropriate times, especially in the middle of boss fights.
  • After playing through the Bugsnax DLC, RT immediately started reinterpreting the entire plot as a Biblical allegory, with Lizbert and Eggabell sharing the role of Jesus and Beffica being Judas, among other things.


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