History LetsPlay / TippingForties

* PCVsConsole: Alex (and to a lesser extent Ryan) dislikes shooters on consoles. Enter New Vegas on PS3.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Ryan likes to sneak in references, like [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 ancient dentistry]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil Jill sandwiches]], to see if he can get them past Benson, who hates those.

* FanArt: They've generated quite from the SA forums, ranging from MSPaint humor to actually decent pieces to even music. Check the [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/ffx/ LP Archive]] of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX FFX]] for a good amount of it.

* JerkAss: Alex. On a background noise in one of the GoldenEye videos:

--> '''bandunk:''' "It's like if you took a normal-looking woman's head and put it onto Wrestling/TripleH."

* JerkAss: Alex. On the subject of his and Ryan's annoying neighbor dogs:

->'''Marvelis:''' "[[Film/CoolRunnings Feel the beer. Feel the wine. Get on up,]] [[Main/TheAlcoholic it's drinkin' time.]]"

In May 2012 they announced their breakup, which meant the end of the podcast as well as everything else that had the T40 name on it. However, Kuvo still does Let's Plays with a new crew, and streams together with Bandunk and Benson. They also have a new show where they riff Netflix movies. Links below.

!!'''Let's Plays Produced Post Break-Up:'''

* [[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Let's Play Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon]], a VLP with Kuvo and Minifoo [[http://lparchive.org/Mystical-Ninja-Starring-Goemon/ [link]]]

--> '''Marvelis:''' On this podcast we normally talk about things we like, things we hate, stupid people... but the only thing we like is hating stupid people.

--> '''Kuvo:''' "Good work X, you did it."
--> '''topiKal:''' "You're not winning any awards here."
--> '''Marvelis:''' "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]] this game!"
** Bandunk calling himself by a variation on his name, often a word related to what's happening with -dunk on the end.
** Kuvo groaning, "Thanks, ''Game!''" when it turns out [[GuideDangIt the player must do something absurdly unintuitive to proceed]].

---> '''topiKal:''' "Why does that song go so well with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX every]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 game]] [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia we play?]]"
** topiKal also challenged fans to make a collection of every drunken song they've ever done. Considering how often they sang and how many videos they have (5 videos a week nearly every week for almost three years, with little to no [[invoked]]ScheduleSlip), it would be quite the challenge.
* EasterEgg: How they hinted at new LP's. Kuvo would hide images in the programming of their website that give small hints, leading the thread to hunt and guess.

* JerkAss: Marvelis.
--> '''Marvelis:''' "I have caught many scorpions in our house and I always throw them over the fence for the neighbor's dogs to play with. They have less dogs now than a year ago."

* TeamPet: Used to be Old Kentucky the cat, before Kuvo and Marvelis moved out of where the cat lived. After topiKal moved to LA, Bianca's parrot has become this.

* TemptingFate: Kuvo explicitly states that "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlUEuH0m4Ig#t=18m20s Final Fantasy X-2 is a terrible game and we will never play it.]]" [[OhCrap It wound up being their final LP.]]

** [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Bagel Nosh]] for Noishe.

--> '''topiKal:''' "Damn, that was a big no!"

* [[invoked]]ScheduleSlip: Averted. After getting their save-file corrupted, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Kuvo sat down and played the entire game up to that point again]]; it took him six hours to get back to where they left off.

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: During episode 19, the guys noticed and commented on a problem with the VMU... and then their save file got corrupted. Kuvo bought another controller and spent 6 hours playing through the entire game up to the point where it happened to avoid ScheduleSlip.

--> '''topiKal:''' "Man, you could've fucked a black guy! [[BlackIsBiggerInBed Can you imagine how big his dick would've been?"]]

--> '''Kuvo:''' "I'm disappointed in you, Bandunk."
--> '''Marvelis:''' "I fuckin' hate you, Bandunk. [[RunningGag Fuck Bandunk.]]

--> '''Marvelis:''' "You notice that he's the only character in the game we pay attention to and don't talk over?"
--> '''topiKal:''' "Well, why would I talk over him? [[HeyItsThatGuy He's Dave Foley.]] [[TakeThat I have no problem talking over Matthew Perry.]]"

--> '''topiKal''': "No Jecht."
--> '''Kuvo''': "Not that I know of."

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Kuvo's beaten-up PS2 would crash the game every time they got a game over.

* SoundEffectBleep: Towards the end of ''MarioParty 8'', Mike begins talking about "[[NoodleIncident something]] [[NauseaFuel really gross]] [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow that shouldn't be repeated]]". Almost everything he says is bleeped out, save for "No, but -- but here's the gross part!" [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow The reactions]] [[BrainBleach of the others]] [[{{Squick}} are left uncensored]].

--> [[strike:Alex]] '''Bill Walton:''' "John, I've never seen a rapist better than Big Ben!"
--> [[strike:Ryan]] '''John Madden:''' "He is one Super Bowl away from being considered a good person."
--> [[strike:bandunk]] '''Joe Buck:''' "There is nothing like whipping your dick out at a woman to make you feel like a winner."

* [[invoked]]FanNickname: [[ToiletHumor Poop]] for Akiba.
* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: ''[[MemeticMutation Solid Snake catches bullets with his teeth?]]''

* CherryTapping: Doing Forcystus in with Colette's Pow Hammer (seen [[http://youtu.be/dd8ZlS3hz1Q?t=21m4s here]].

* ParodyEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67HPxfFXWJI Let's Play Super Bowl XLV]]

---> '''topiKal:''' "Why does that song go so well with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX every]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 game]] [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia we]] [[VideoGame/Shenmue play?"]]

---> '''topiKal:''' "Why does that song go so well with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX every]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 game]] [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia we play?]]"

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: During the final battle for the Hoover Dam, The Boomers [spoiler]arrive in the stealth bomber Raddunk salvaged for them and blow up the Legion fortifications.[/spoiler] Raddunk, however, is too busy staring at the Fort to notice that this is even happening.
* PCVsConsole: Alex (and to a lesser extent Ryan) dislikes shooters on consoles. Enter the New Vegas LP on a PS3.
* RefugeInVulgarity: In the New Vegas LP, as Raddunk [[http://youtu.be/WhVWFo4lkk4?t=8m10s tries to employ a ghoul as a prostitute]], Benson and Alex try to gross each other out with jokes about what sex with her would be like.

--> ''Bandunk'': Hi! I win! Yaay!

* ConsummateLiar: Thanks to Raddunk's high Speech stat, he is able to trick people into believing just about anything despite being a crazy old man in a spacesuit. He tricks a young girl into running straight into artillery fire, gains entry into an NCR base by claiming to be part of the "NCR Space Division", makes Mortimer spill the beans about the White Gloves' secret cannibal plot within minutes of meeting him, and tells Caesar that his brain tumor is actually a case of "intra-cranial blastoma fibrolosis".

* ConsummateLiar: Thanks to Raddunk's high Speech stat, he is able to trick people into believing just about anything despite being very obviously insane. He tricks a young girl into running into artillery fire, convinces an NCR soldier that he is a member of the "NCR Space Division", makes Mortimer spill the beans about the White Gloves' secret cannibal plot within minutes of meeting him, and makes Caesar think that his brain tumor is actually a case of "intra-cranial blastoma fibrolosis".

BigNo: Alex, when bandunk threw out the [[GatlingGood minigun]] to make room in the inventory. The whole crew would do it whenever he passed up a [[GayOption Confirmed Bachelor]] speech check.

* MomentOfSilence: In Episode 41, the crew takes a moment to remember the recently passed [[Wrestling/RandySavage Macho Man Randy Savage]]. It lasts for about five seconds, after which they start yelling his catchphrases.

* CallBack: For each episode, each player would be wearing a new costume. Character-themed costumes included [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Wakka]], [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Raddunk]], [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd]], and others. A fan also sent them a custom level that was a medley of things from all their previous LPs, but sadly a physics glitch prevented them from making it to the end.

* DrunkenMaster: The leader of their SuperMonkeyBall scoreboard got a fantastic score no one else can get close to...while being completely smashed.
* ExtremeOmnivore: The final segment of the Webathon, "What Can Alex Eat?", involved Alex mixing combinations of food suggested by fans into a blender and eating the disgusting results. The combinations he ate:
** Sardines, roast beef, and Clamato.
--> '''Alex's verdict:''' "Wasn't that bad."
** Cheetos, cinnamon, liquid smoke, and [[DoesNotLikeSpam Cheez Whiz]].
--> '''Alex's verdict:''' "Pretty good!"
** Crisco, ranch dressing, and butter.
--> '''Alex's verdict:''' "That was hard to get down, but once I got it down..."
** Green chili, cloves, [[DoesNotLikeSpam cheese sauce,]] Sriracha hot sauce, and tuna.
--> '''Alex's verdict:''' "AAAARGH! I had to chew the cloves!''

Tipping Forties were a group of young gentlemen in Arizona that enjoy the drink.

They also enjoyed making [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]].

Originally a team of three gents named Ryan, Benson and Michael, they started out on the SomethingAwful forums under the handles Kuvo, topiKal and bandunk, respectively, with a let's play of VideoGame/FinalFantasyX which gained some popularity. Following that up with an additional let's play of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 and adding Alex (a.k.a. Marvelis) to the team, they came into full-swing... until the beginning of the VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Let's Play, where Marvelis bailed out.

The guys also made other videos that put a face to the voices. You can watch their videos on [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/kuvo/videos/ Kuvo's Viddler]], [[http://tippingforties.blip.tv/ TippingForties's blip]], or [[http://www.youtube.com/user/tippingforties TippingForties's YouTube]]. There's also their non-LP series, LunchBreak, [[http://lunchbreakshow.com/ found here]] and their movie [[{{Highlow}} High]]

On May 27th, 2012 they announced their breakup, which meant the end of the podcast as well as everything else that had the T40 name on it. However, Kuvo still does Let's Plays with a new crew, and [[http://www.twitch.tv/kuvosa streams]] together with Benson, bandunk and Minifoo. Benson and bandunk also have a new show, [[http://www.twitch.tv/mockflix/ Mockflix]], where they do riffs of Netflix movies.

* Grab Bag, where they play various shorter, single-session games [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsz31gTLKEYRCDmJBgL4vqRG5vB9nPCI1 [link]]]

* [[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Let's Play Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon]], a VLP with Kuvo and MiniFoo [[http://lparchive.org/Mystical-Ninja-Starring-Goemon/ [link]]]

Originally a team of three gents named Ryan, Benson and Michael, they started out on the SomethingAwful forums under the handles Kuvo, topiKal and bandunk, respectively, with a let's play of VideoGame/FinalFantasyX which gained some popularity. Following that up with an additional let's play of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 and adding Alex (a.k.a. Marvelis) to the team, they camI have caught many scorpions in our house and I always throw them over the fence for the dogs to play with. They have less dogs now than a year ago.e into full-swing... until the beginning of the VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Let's Play, where Marvelis bailed out.

* TheShowMustGoOn: Lost or defective recordings, broken equipment, or corrupted save files never stopped them from their surprisingly good schedule track record. They even continued streaming after the band broke up.

Originally a team of three gents named Ryan, Benson and Michael, they started out on the SomethingAwful forums under the handles Kuvo, topiKal and bandunk, respectively, with a let's play of VideoGame/FinalFantasyX which gained some popularity. Following that up with an additional let's play of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 and adding Alex (a.k.a. Marvelis) to the team, they came into full-swing... until the beginning of the VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Let's Play, where Marvelis bailed out.

--> '''Benson:''' "Would you say 'for sure' or [[JiveTurkey 'for shizzle?'"]]
--> '''Alex:''' "Shut the fuck up."
--> '''Benson:''' "...that's fair."

--> '''bandunk:''' "Cash money millionaires!"

* DrunkenSong: Done very commonly, most notably by bandunk. ''[[EltonJohn It seems to me...he lived his life like a candle in the wind.]]''

** TheLancer: Benson

** TheSmartGuy: Minifoo

* SoOkayItsAverage: The general verdict on the game.

* SoBadItsGood: They consider the game to be this.

* ScheduleSlip: Averted. After getting their save-file corrupted, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Kuvo sat down and played the entire game up to that point again]]; it took him six hours to get back to where they left off.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yes Man.

* EndingFatigue: Started kicking in around the last third, as the team quickly ran out of funny side things to do and started doing more and more of the (uninteresting) main quests. The pace picked up again for a few episodes, though, as Alex [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1C-mm2Y7JY tried to start a family]].

** topiKal also challenged fans to make a collection of every drunken song they've ever done. Considering how often they sang and how many videos they have (5 videos a week nearly every week for almost three years, with little to no ScheduleSlip), it would be quite the challenge.

* FanNickname: [[TheNapoleon Small Ronso]] for Kimahri.

* ThatOneBoss: Seymour Flux and Yunalesca.

* FanNickname: [[ToiletHumor Poop]] for Akiba.

* FanNickname:

* EndingFatigue: By the end, everyone just wanted the game to be over and started to hate it more as the LP went on.

* FanNickname: [[UnfortunateImplications Fuck-san]] for Fuku-san.

* ItsEasySoItSucks: Alex got mad at Ryan whenever he used the Star power-up in New Super Mario Brothers, because it made the game too easy and "like Sonic".

* FanNickname:

* FanNickname: [[SuperMarioBros Bowserstone / Bowsertown]] for Bowerstone.

* FanNickname: Anime/NinjaScroll and Turtle for [[FatAndSkinny Ormi and Logos]].

* MissingEpisode: The Lost Episodes.

* TheAce: Alex is the most skilled at games, and won't miss a chance to boast about it.

** This reached its crowning point for the VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 LP, where drinking conditions were basically what you were watching it for. When they played {{Shenmue}}, they didn't use them at all, so they can get back to their roots. They ended up drinking more without the conditions.

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** Here, too. They recorded a whole week of VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 without any game audio, so they rerecorded and released the audioless ones as [[MissingEpisode Lost Episodes]].
** During episode 19 of Shenmue, the Forties noticed and commented on a problem with the controller... and then their save file got corrupted. Kuvo bought another controller and spent 6 hours playing through the entire game up to the point where it happened to avoid ScheduleSlip.
** During episode 7 of VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii, Bandunk's Wii Remote died on them. [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent We then got to see Alex and Benson going to Target to buy him a replacement.]]
** At the beginning of episode 11 of VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii, the audio got really crackly and sometimes died. Kuvo said that he would fix it. And fix it he did.
** Ep 46 of New Vegas, where the gain on the audio recorder was set way too low and made the guys barely audible.
** During Final Fantasy X-2, Kuvo's beaten-up PS2 would crash the game every time they got a game over.

* TooDumbToLive: During ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' the group is fighting a trio of Blue Orbs. Assuming [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Blue means ice]] (when it actually means water), they try fire magic. When that doesn't work, the group doesn't know what to do, despite the fact the Orbs constantly cast water spells. They died two or three times in that one fight. Even after finally winning, one of them complains about fire not working.

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* [[http://www.hitbox.tv/cookingwithgas]] - Ryan's, Benson's and Bandunk's shared channel, put together after the [[Webvideo/VideoGameChampionshipWrestling Twitch Cops]] banned Ryan's old channel for streaming anime.

* [[http://www.twitch.tv/kuvosa KuvoSA]] - Ryan's channel, where the weekly stream is now held.
* [[http://www.twitch.tv/topikal TopiKal]] - Benson's channel, where he streams mostly adventure games. Co-starring [[TheChick Benson's Girlfriend]] and [[TeamPet Kiki the parrot]]).
* [[http://www.twitch.tv/mockflix/ Mockflix]], where Bensor and bandunk riff movies live.

* FanNickname: More than a few.
** [[HeavyMetalUmlaut Rüsty]] for [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]].
** [[TheNapoleon Small Ronso]] for [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Kimahri]].
** [[ToiletHumor Poop]] for [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Akiba]]
** [[TotallyRadical Rad]] for [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Kratos]].
** Old Kentucky for [[SummonMagic summon spirit]] [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Corrine]].
*** Since Old Kentucky is a real-life cat, they seem to name anything vaguely feline after him. VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} has Old Kentucky, Young Kentucky, and Middle-Aged Kentucky.
** [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Bagel Nosh]] for [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Noishe]].
** [[AnythingThatMoves Nasty]] for [[ChivalrousPervert Zelos]].
** [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale Soap]] for [[{{Prison}} Regal]].
** [[UnfortunateImplications Fuck-san]] for [[VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} Fuku-san]].
** UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton for [[VideoGame/{{Vanquish}} President Elizabeth Winters]].
** [[RecycledInSpace Space Putin]] for [[VideoGame/{{Vanquish}} Victor Zaitsev]].
** [[QuitYourWhining Bitchdunk]] for bandunk during the second Grab Bag thread.
** [[SuperMarioBros Bowserstone / Bowsertown]] for [[VideoGame/FableII Bowerstone]].
** Anime/NinjaScroll and Turtle for [[FatAndSkinny Ormi and Logos]] in VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2.

* HesBack: After their run as Tipping Forties were done, Alex stopped appearing in any streams or videos... until he came back unannounced for a stream to join in on riffing Film/BabysDayOut.

* NonActionSnarker: bandunk tends not to play in any of their single-player Let's Plays, choosing rather just to lampshade and snark at-will. As the other T40s tend to point out, he isn't very good at games.
--> '''Ryan:''' "If you didn't notice, we leveled everyone up to level 16, which is the max, and gave them full stats and everything. Except for bandunk, who picked the level 1 Scott Pilgrim because he's stupid."
** Broken for the New Vegas LP, in which bandunk takes the wheel. He's not particularly good at it.

** "WHY WON'T ANYONE LET ME TALK?!"

* PirateParrot: Benson's and his girlfriend's pet bird.

* TheShowMustGoOn: See WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties. Lost or defective recordings, broken equipment, or corrupted save files never stopped them from their surprisingly good schedule track record. They even continued streaming and (to an extent) LPing after the band broke up.

* SlashFic: During the FFX LP, the guys would read slash fiction about the characters to pass the time during the boring to watch temples. One written by a fan even managed to name an episode. See UnusualEuphemism.
** Taken back into practice during and after VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia. Apparently the VideoGame/MetalGearSolid ones were all "too creepy."
-->'''bandunk:''' "They're all creepy! All of them."

** Silent Roommate is starting to not be so silent.

** Stealtly Asian, AKA [[TheEveryman Matt Smith]].

* TeamPet: Used to be Old Kentucky the cat, before Kuvo and Marvelis moved out of the apartment complex where the cat lived. After topiKal moved to LA, Bianca's parrot has become this.
* TitleDrop: Done in reverse; the Forties, after saying a particularly funny or ridiculous quote, will often mention that that will be the title of the video. Most of the time, it does.

* ThatOneBoss: [[invoked]]The gang's encountered a number of these; Seymour Flux and [[spoiler:Yunalesca]] in VideoGame/FinalFantasyX, Ocelot from VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 (partially due to the control system unique to that fight), [[strike:Sylph]] the Wind-chicks from VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia, [[strike:Chai]] [[Main/TheLordOfTheRings Smeagol]] from {{Shenmue}}, Bowser from VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii, and Baralai from VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Dreb Ja Vu, a rerecorded episode of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 because Ryan forgot to check to see if they were recording. Curiously enough, they posted the audio because Benson felt the story about [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext clowns]] had merit.
** The Sheena Shuffle, where half an episode of commentary was lost due to dead batteries.

* HelloInsertNameHere: Used to great effect, such as naming Tidus "Rüsty" right off the bat, and eventually giving increasingly creative names for the Aeons, such as naming Anima "[[spoiler:YOUR MOM]]" and the Magus Sisters "STOP", "CRYING" and "FAGGOT" respectively.

* NamingConventions: The first video of an LP is named The [x]ing Game. For instance, VideoGame/FinalFantasyX's first episode is named [[Film/TheCryingGame (yes, that one)]].

!!''Tipping Forties'' provides examples of: