Line #72 LetsPlay/Sips


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2	->''The real guy, the best guy.''
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4	Sips, real name Chris Lovasz, is a Canadian-British [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] and a member of the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}. At some point before he made gaming videos for them, Sips worked as the Yogscast's web designer.
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6	During his rise to popularity on Website/YouTube, he collaborated with LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}, LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, LetsPlay/{{Turpster}} and LetsPlay/HatFilms on vanilla and modded ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' series. After around three years of mostly regular Minecraft videos, he moved to playing other games that interested him and eventually stopped doing Minecraft on his own channel while still collaborating on Minecraft with other Yogs until the end of the last Yogscast "main channel" Minecraft series Whale Lords. At the end of 2017, Sips moved mostly to [[Website/{{Twitch}} Twitch streaming]] and stopped uploading videos to his [[https://www.youtube.com/YogscastSips YogscastSips Youtube channel]], though he does upload his Twitch streams to a separate [[https://www.youtube.com/sipslive/ Sips - Live!]] channel. As of December 2018, Sips has 305,000 followers on Twitch.
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8	He's known for his casual style with lots of improvisational humor. His ''Minecraft'' co-op series are largely filled with aimless or laid-back conversations with the other Yogs and not a lot of progress. He also plays banter-filled rounds of ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' minigames with Hat Films and Turps, such as ''VideoGame/PropHunt'', ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown'' and ''Murder''. Even in his solo series, he frequently has humorous one-sided conversations laced with sarcasm and profanity towards the characters (and in some cases, inanimate objects) in the games he plays. His content is generally aimed at a teenage to early adult audience.
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10	He has done a bit of voice work for web animation shows. He voiced the blue spaceman in ''WebAnimation/{{Spacemen}}'' and the blue ninja, "the Burrito Bushido", in ''WebAnimation/{{Ninjas}}''.
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12	Sips can be found streaming on [[https://www.twitch.tv/sips_ his Twitch channel]]; the recordings of these streams get uploaded to his [[https://www.youtube.com/sipslive/ Sips Live channel]] on Youtube. His videos from when he was still active on Youtube can be found on his [=YogscastSips=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/YogscastSips here]].
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15	!!Sips provides examples of these tropes:
16	* AchievementsInIgnorance: Since Sips tends to go in blind for games such as ''Skyrim'' and ''Fallout'', he quite often manages to miss or fail quests due to mistakes. Every once in a while, however, his rashness and playing as the IdiotHero pays off. In ''Fallout'', his stupidity pays off when [[DumbMuscle Harry the Super Mutant]] mistakes him for a ghoul and leaves him be, letting him finish the water chip quest in rapid time. He later tries to find Morpheus and [[spoiler:ends up killing him]] entirely by accident, which isn't a bad thing.
17	* AllLowercaseLetters: all of his tweets and every comment on his subreddit are always lowercase.
18	* BadBadActing: His IncomingHam in the [=BlueXephos=] channel's ''WebVideo/JaffaFactory'' series. Weirdly, Sips' normal voice almost never changes, including later on in this series, but here, he acts like a really furious boss.
19	* BadBoss:
20	** He clearly has a lot of fun with this trope in the ''WebVideo/JaffaFactory'' series, given how it is PlayedForLaughs and taken up to eleven. He fires [[spoiler:LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} just because LetsPlay/LewisBrindley is nearby]], and when the latter is settling in with the former's job, he is told how workers have a Christmas Party once a century with no holidays; this is in turn followed by the revelation that they work for limited pay and for 20 hour days; this is all just before he is given five minutes to collect 30,000 bits of dirt.
21	** Much later, in his ''Skyrim'' series, he ordered [[TheComicallySerious Uthgerd The Unbroken]] to shackle herself to a dungeon wall.
22	--> '''Uthgerd:''' [[InformingTheFourthWall Nope. Not possible.]]
23	* BigNo: In [[http://youtu.be/pIcU3w1F4tw?t=6m30s this]] episode of ''VideoGame/HappyWheels''. Switches quickly from BigYes to this, then back again.
24	* BigYes: In [[http://youtu.be/pIcU3w1F4tw?t=6m30s this]] episode of ''VideoGame/HappyWheels''. Switches quickly from this to BigNo, then back again.
25	* ButtMonkey: Not much goes right for him in games. Mostly PlayedForLaughs but sometimes played seriously.
26	* BorrowedCatchphrase: The phrase "rip your dick off" (describing the audience reaction to the player doing something stupid) originated in a series with Sips and Hat Films. Nowadays, Sips says it the most, but other members of the Yogscast use it when appropriate.
27	* {{Catchphrase}}:
28	** "You magnificent/beautiful bastard," or describing something as "fantastic".
29	** "It's gotta be said." / "It's gotta be known."
30	** Something being "not the best" when it isn't.
31	** Talking about things happening "in a major way."
32	** "Big Money, Big Women, Big Fun".
33	** "Anybody? No? Just me? Maybe my dad?"
34	** "Aw Shiiiiiiiiit."
35	** [[Videogame/SimCity "I'll do it!"]]
36	** In fact, he has so many of these that his subreddit have devoted a wiki project to listing every. Single. One. [[http://www.reddit.com/r/sips/wiki/sipsisms See here.]]
37	* TheChewToy: Sips himself tends to get a bit of flak, but LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} has become one for ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', both due to the actions of the others and also due to the game screwing him over (giving him the gun ''once''- at which point he shot the wrong person, never being the murderer and spawning with the killer right next to him).
38	* CloudCuckoolander:
39	** Some of his rambling divergences can be seen as this, particularly when playing alone or with LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}.
40	** He specifically refers to these kind of conversations as Lego Talk; when two people are concentrating on something (like building a Lego set) but still want to talk to each other despite dividing their attention, this is what happens.
41	* ColorCodedElements: His Website/YouTube page's colour scheme used to be brown, after his dirt factory in his Tekkit series.
42	* ComicallySmallBribe: In the Yogscast ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V'' series, Sips attempts to make LetsPlay/LewisBrindley betray his long-time ally LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} for... One crab.
43	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: PlayedForLaughs in the ''WebVideo/JaffaFactory'' series series following the firing of [[spoiler:LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} from his company]]. The subversion comes when he disapproves of industrial sabotage as [[spoiler:LetsPlay/LewisBrindley just admits to having stolen resources from his old company, Honeydew Inc.]] DoubleSubverted when he then says, immediately afterwards no less, that he favours it if it benefits him.
44	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer:
45	** Invoked. Most of he and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}'s knowledge on pop culture sounds like they pulled it straight out of their own asses. Though it's most likely on purpose given their status as trolls.
46	** The "Chet Williams" videos are deliberately full of blatantly false "facts".
47	* {{Crossover}}: Music/{{Area 11}} did the instrumental and backing vocals for "Big Girl".
48	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: At gaming in general. The best example would be when he's playing "Race for the Wool" on LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}, LetsPlay/LewisBrindley and LetsPlay/DuncanJones' team and he proves a pretty effective archer after [[OneManArmy Sjin]] is eventually ran down.
49	* DeadAllAlong: In episode 58 of the vanilla ''Minecraft'' series, [[spoiler:it's revealed that Sips died a few episodes ago in lava, and his ghost has just been hanging around with LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}.]]
50	* DeadpanSnarker: It helps that his voice almost never changes.
51	* DissonantSerenity: His voice never changes. Ever. Sometimes PlayedForLaughs.
52	* DoubleEntendre: Plenty. Usually contributes to the HoYay[=/=]FauxYay.
53	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: His ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' skin, which has unhealthy-looking grey skin. It's a skin condition! Vitamin deficiency. Downplayed slightly with his skin as of the time of writing - he has a lot more color in his face.
54	* {{Egopolis}}: Sipsco Games, Sipsco Dirt Factory, Sips City, Sipsville, San Fransipsco, the Mississipsi River... the list goes on and on,friends.
55	* EvilKnockoff: _Zips, an evil clone of Sips who sells poor-quality gravel, calls Sjin "Suh-jin," and lives by the motto, "No money, no women, no fun."
56	* GagPenis: The Space Penis.
57	* GenreSavvy:
58	** Sips is good at ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', particularly in ''Murder'' and ''VideoGame/PropHunt''.
59	** There's a particular scene in one of his ''Skyrim'' Let's Play episodes where just after recovering the Staff of Magnus Sips guesses that he'll run into some guy around the next corner.
60	--> Sips: "We don't want anyone all the sudden turn up and be like ''Ho ho ho travelers! Thanks for getting the Staff of Magnus for me, I'll be taking that''"
61	-->'''cue Estorno showing up'''
62	--> Sips: "Oh shit! I called it!"
63	* GoodCopBadCop: LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} as the good cop, and Sips as the bad cop. [[spoiler:Except for when Sjin breaks character and starts swearing at Udders.]] They switch roles later.
64	* HeterosexualLifePartners: At the very least, he and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} are this. He also has this sort of dynamic with Lewis.
65	* HiddenDepths: Sips [[https://www.reddit.com/r/sips/comments/2ju05t/an_ama_to_remember_oct_2014_ongoing_for_a_few_days/clf28co is actually a vegetarian]] and has been for over eight years. This was partly due to concern about what the hell he was eating, and also due to cruelty in the industry which disgusted him.
66	* IdiotHero: Sips tends to portray himself as more stupid than he actually is, at least in ''Minecraft''. During his ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' playthrough, he also sets his intelligence stat low and subsequently "Mike Tyson" is only capable of talking gibberish for most of the playthrough, eventually forcing him to get hooked on Mentats; this causes ''more'' problems when his intelligence takes a hit, and he ends up just taking an intelligence upgrade out of frustration.
67	* ImplausibleDeniability: This happens a fair amount in ''Gmod'', when someone will deny being the bad guy despite having murdered someone in plain sight.
68	* ImprobableHairstyle: The case of big pigtails.
69	* ILoveTheDead: In the Chet Williams review of ''Minecraft'', Chet's only complaint is that there are "no fuckable zombies".
70	* LemonyNarrator: Very often.
71	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He describes his ''Skyrim'' character as a "lizard wizard prostitute," and her name is [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]].
72	* OhCrap: He freaks out quite notably whenever Ross is the murderer and takes him by surprise, because of Ross's downright terrifying behaviour.
73	* OrphanedSeries:
74	** According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT1SIdQdogs&lc=TGJiEYq0EPtryQHI4q16wUUHBPBmGLSV38Pt_XicApQ&feature=g-user-c this]] comment, the reason his other series like ''{{Towns}}'', ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'', and ''[[VideoGame/OrcsMustDie Orcs Must Die! 2]]'' haven't been updated is because he lost his hard drive and all of his saved games.
75	** All of his ''Minecraft'' series post-2013. That includes three series with Sjin (Dirt Factory, Sipso Space Program, and Cheat Police), and a series with Lewis and Turps (Dirt Quest).
76	** His ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' playthrough was orphaned due to his hard drive problems. Sips just lost interest in playing after that.
77	** He got very close to the end of ''VideoGame/FallOut1'' but abruptly stopped, something fans are still upset about.
78	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' received the same treatment.
79	* PerpSweating: In Sips and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}'s ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' LetsPlay, Sjin and Sips build an interrogation room for this purpose. With an um, stripper pole.
80	* PowerTrio: During ''Dirtquest'', he forms one with Turps and Lewis, with the trio all working on a dirt factory.
81	* PutOnABus:
82	** Fernando by the beginning of Sips' second ''Towns'' series.
83	** Sips himself in the Sipsco Space Program series when he was replaced by a [[PaperThinDisguise poorly made]] clone named _Zips, while Sips was [[spoiler:trapped on Mars]]. Sips was [[spoiler:eventually rescued from Mars]] and began a series with LetsPlay/{{Turpster}} and LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, with his [[spoiler:rescue from Mars]] depicted in the ''LetsPlay/{{JaffaQuest}}'' series.
84	* RunningGag:
85	** Before he fixed it, Sips' "toaster mic".
86	** The extremely awkward string of "bye"s at the end of Minecraft videos.
87	** Sips making fun of Juliana's weight in his Towns playthrough. [[spoiler:Even after she dies.]]
88	** References to his "mom" or "dad".
89	** In his Tekkit videos:
90	--> '''Sips''': "...Uranium."
91	--> '''LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}''': "Whose Ranium?"
92	--> '''Sips''': "My Ranium"
93	--> '''Sjin''': "What are you doing in Tehran?"
94	** LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} making a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' reference and Sips having no idea what he's talking about.
95	** Closeup shots of Uthgerd with creepy music in his ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' series.
96	** Also in his Skyrim series, putting buckets on people's heads after killing them to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
97	** Sips doesn't livestream, he pre-records the gameplay and streams it with a voiceover.
98	* {{Scandalgate}}: Sipsgate, of course. For those not in the know, Lewis and Simon dialled up Sips, at the time just the website designer, and repeatedly woke him up. He had given the duo his number for what was supposed to be emergencies only and understandably wasn't happy at the time; he eventually forgave them and got his own back by trolling Lewis during a livestream.
99	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Sips, completely cornered in a game of ''Worms Reloaded'', just gives up and has his last worm jump into the water.
100	-->'''Sips:''' You know what? Fuck you guys. Fuck this game. Fuck you. jumps
101	* ShoutOut:
102	** [[Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire You do not want to wake up the dragon,]] Quackers.
103	** His ''Gmod'' series contains frequent shoutouts to ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and many other famous franchises.
104	* SelfDeprecatingHumor: "[[https://twitter.com/Sips_/status/492444596408836096 another episode of "hole diggers" has been released and i am unfortunately in it. it goes without saying that i am very sorry for ruining it]]". [[MemeticMutation "I'm sorry for ruining [X]" has now become a minor meme whenever somebody guest stars unexpectedly in someone else's series.]]
105	* StylisticSuck: His Chet Williams videos don't take themselves seriously at all and are deliberately low-quality. This serves to make them even funnier.
106	* SurrealHumor:
107	** Any commentator who can go into detail about the Beaver Mafia bombing their house probably deserves a mention.
108	** Whenever he and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} talk about movies and start throwing in random actors and plotlines.
109	** His descriptions of his ''[[VideoGame/GameDevTycoon Game Dev Tycoon]]'' creations are made of this. For example, there's Planet Uppercut, a ScienceFiction RealTimeStrategy where the combatants invented space flight but not weapons and thus their entire armies fight by [[GoodOldFisticuffs uppercutting]] each other.
110	* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Compared to LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} or LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, both of whom are the technician since they focus more on the work side of things, Sips is the performer, focusing less on progress and more on entertainment. This becomes especially apparent when he arrives at Craggy Island in ''WebVideo/HoleDiggers'' and makes LetsPlay/SimonLane of all people look productive.
111	* TemptingFate: In his playthrough of ''VideoGame/HotlineMiamiWrongNumber'', he makes a promise to avoid cursing. The very first line of the game turns out to have an f-bomb that he reads out.
112	* {{Troll}}:
113	** His ''Anno 2070'' antics, where he wasted his team's money just to pave an island. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And then he drew a troll face on it.]]
114	** He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iScd030uJ0 interrupts a livestream]] several times for no good reason other than checking how loud his mic is.
115	** In The Walls ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' map, he and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} decide to not do any real preparation for battle and create a big "[[AC:EAT SHIT]]" sign in their area instead.
116	* VerbalTic: Go to any video, count the number of times he says "fantastic".
117	* VitriolicBestBuds:
118	** The Sirs of LetsPlay/HatFilms and Sips love each other's humour and have a lot of fun together, but can be very profane in their ''VideoGame/GarrysMod VideoGame/PropHunt'', ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown'' and ''Murder'' matches. This also applies when LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, LetsPlay/{{Turpster}} and LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} join them.
119	** He and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} really do get on well in real life, but in their videos they constantly bicker and abuse each other, with Sips dishing out most of it. They are still almost inseparable.
120	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: His child, [[ShoutOut Poopfeast 420]] [[note]]This is a ''really'' popular name originating from fans of professional-level ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'', after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmqs_6CBzcU&feature=player_detailpage#t=25s this video from commentator Artosis.]][[/note]].
121	* WrongGenreSavvy: He initially assumed ''VideoGame/DontShitYourPants'' was a horror game. Justified since the game jokingly claims to be one, and Sips had just heard about it.
122	* XtremeKoolLetterz: Initially put an underscore in his ''Minecraft'' name since someone else had taken the name Sips. Now he keeps it [[MundaneMadeAwesome just because.]]
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