Line #30 Awesome/StephenPlays


1	* [[AxCrazy Lil' Brekflek]] proves his worth in ''[[http://youtu.be/Q6ljC9l9MpA?t=18m49s Skyrim #158]]'' by killing Grelod the Kind.
2	* Stephen helps LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} demonstrate the Versus mode of ''Pikmin 2'' on his channel. Stephen has only played the first ''Pikmin'' game, and that was a long time ago. He's rusty and Chugga is clearly the superior player. Despite this, Stephen manages to win a battle through an aggressive strategy.
3	* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Max5VubCca4 Stephen teases Mal]] by having her play [[ThatOneLevel Mine Cart Carnage]], only for her to pull off a ''perfect'' run on her first try.
4	--> '''Stephen (impressed)''': Boys and girls, ''that'' is why you marry a gamer.
5	* Mal finds her way across a dangerous floor in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' on her first try, despite not having played the game in years.
6	* In episode 16 of the ''Mario Kart'' versus, Stephen notes that he is good at all the tracks in this cup, and in practice he beat Mal on each one. When they actually come to record, Mal proceeds to ''get a perfect score of 60'', which requires you to take first place in every race.
7	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' episode 59, after Mal warns Stephen how difficult the race against Yeta is, he does it on his first try.
8	* Stephen's PreAssKickingOneLiner he delivers to the Epsilon Program in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV.
9	-->'''Stephen''': Kifflom be praised. (throws sticky bomb)
10	* The ''Mario Kart'' LP goes down to a tiebreaker after over 20 episodes ending in a tie, and in the end Mal wins.
11	* The fact that there's almost always three Let's Plays going on at once without breaks between them.
12	** December 2014 takes it even further by having an additional ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]'' Let's Play bringing it to four Let's Plays at once with two being uploaded per day.
13	* After many fails to beat the Master Core on 7.2 Intensity, Stephen is able to beat it, with a character he's only played as twice, (Palutena).
14	** They said that they would fail hard with Shulk, but they successfully manage to beat 8.2 Intensity on the first try! {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}} would be proud.
15	* Episode 8 of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' features the mine cart stages, but what takes the cake is a split path in 4-2: Since they're able to jump independently, Stephen takes a jump that leads to a background track, while Mal stays on the foreground. ''They're taking both routes at the same time, Stephen doesn't even lag behind.''
16	* During the First 20 for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Stephen manages to successfully [[https://youtu.be/eAWMvl2jAbA?t=12m7s get the second Crystal Shard on the second level without losing a life!]]
17	* Extra Life 2015 had them streaming for about 18 hours straight with over $10,000 dollars being raised.
18	* In ''Magic Duels'' #24, Stephen manages to reduce his opponent from 122 to 57 life through a combination of Scute Mob and Wildheart Invoker... while at one single life himself. And if the special win condition hadn't been fulfilled, he would've actually been able to outright defeat his opponent the old-fashioned way in another three turns or so.
19	* In ''Pikmin 2'' during the Submerged Castle, Stephen and Mal tangle with the Waterwraith. Stephen, who is in control at the time, is understandably freaked out by its appearance and invulnerability... and then he almost instantly turns around and decides to try luring it to kill the enemies on the floor. It does. So he tricks it into running over a Fiery Bulblax that had been giving him trouble (as the dungeon doesn't let you take in red Pikmin, or any Pikmin at all that aren't blue), waits for it to roll away, snags the treasure the Bulblax had, and hightails it to the next floor without losing a single Pikmin to the Waterwraith that floor. Considering many people consider the first floor of the Submerged Castle to be one of the hardest, especially on a blind playthrough where you don't know about the Waterwraith, this is a surprising display of ingenuity and strategy.
20	** Mal's performance in Sublevels 2 and 3 is nothing to scoff at either. She gets through Sublevel 2 near flawlessly, collecting all of the treasures before the Waterwraith even has a chance to spawn; and because her time spent clearing out Sublevel 3's Electric Hazards ran out the timer for the Waterwraith to appear, she was forced to find and collect all the treasures with the Waterwraith on her tail. While she took some casualties, she managed to find and collect all three treasures on the floor despite being scared stiff of the Wraith. Sublevel 3 could also be considered a collaborative [=CMoA=], as the final success came from Stephen [[EurekaMoment realizing how useful the Ultra Spicy Spray would be in transporting the treasures]], and Mal making great use of them in both transporting the treasures and kiting the Waterwraith through the floor's winding corridors.
21	* In Morning Mario Stephen beats the seemingly impossible "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_IiXSKXxA Mystery at Boo Manor]]" level after a EurekaMoment ''while editing the video''.
22	* In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate World of Light]]'', Stephen and Mal leave any Legend class spirits for the end of an episode, due to how hard the fights can be. When it was time to fight the [[ThatOneLevel/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Dr. Wily spirit battle]], Stephen goes in with Lucas and a disadvantageous typed M. Bison. [[note]]While max leveled, Bison is a throw type spirit, which is weak against an attack type spirit like Dr. Wily. Stephen had been picking Bison for his ability to boost PSI Attacks[[/note]] He won in one try.
23	* Extra Life 2018 raised more money than ''every other Extra Life Stephen and Mal have ever done to that point combined'', peaking at well over 60 thousand dollars (more than double their initial goal).
24	* Extra Life 2019 was plagued by technical difficulties, including a DDOS attack on the charity which meant many donations were temporarily lost, yet Stephen and Mal (with help from Dan and Chaz) still almost equalled 2018's record-breaking score, with over 56 thousand dollars raised.
25	* Stephen decided to show off the new version of RPG Maker by creating an entire short game, ''Secret of the Corral'', live on stream (taking ten hours) while managing to incorporate all the random and in-jokey suggestions given by the chat. After the stream was finished he added some extra unseen content for a bonus; when his friend Thomas played the game on stream, Stephen and Mal raided just in time to see Thomas find one such secret, [[spoiler:unlocking HIMSELF as a playable character in the game]].
26	* Extra Life 2020 not only ran without any technical issues, but smashed its $70k goal, raising an amazing $130k - more than the previous two years combined!
27	* Stephen and Mal manage to get a Platinum Rank on all but one of the [[VideoGame/Pikmin3 Olimar's Comeback]] missions.
28	* Stephen getting to be featured in an official Nintendo video for New Horizons.
29	* For Extra Life 2022, Stephen & Mal asked Hayley to sew a diaper for their Babysitting Mama doll, since theirs was missing the one it came with. Not only does Hayley recreate the diaper, she sewed an entire [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Whelk]] costume for it! [[https://twitter.com/TheKubliest/status/1586401575798738945?cxt=HHwWgsDUyf_0g4QsAAAA Behold, the Snaby!]]
30	* As of Extra Life 2022, Stephen, Mal, & co have raised over ''$500,000'' for [=McLeod=] Children's Hospital!
31	* At the end of 2022, Stephen and Mal race the first part of ''Earthbound''. Mal dies repeatedly on the Titan Ant boss and falls well behind Stephen... only to pull it back and win anyway, in part because Stephen forgot to buy the Holmes Hat item.
32	* During a ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' stream/recording session, Stephen and Mal tell a story about a [[ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife "Capital-K Karen"]] they ran into at the store, who was going on a tirade against a store employee while her daughter stood and watched. Another customer, an old lady, steps up, and this exchange takes place:
33	--> '''Old Lady:''' Ma'am, you are setting a bad example for your daughter.
34	--> '''Woman:''' Don't even go there!
35	--> '''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Stephen:]]''' ''I'' will.
36	** Cue the woman turning to rebut Stephen, only to realize ''[[GentleGiant just how tall he is]]'' and decide against it. She apparently continued her tirade (until the manager came over to get rid of her), but as Stephen points out, he "[[TranquilFury doesn't like it]]" when people are rude to retail employees, and the viewers were astounded and proud to hear about him standing up to the woman like that.
37	* Major props have to be given to Dan for getting the first part of the Tears of the Kingdom playthrough up as soon as he did. Per word of the comments, it was in the space of about 12 hours.
38	* Extra Life 2023 had more people there than ever before, including Thomas, and raised $113,600.

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