Creator / Mah-Dry-Bread

Your quasi-entertaining host as always.

A video game-based YouTuber who's been making videos for over five years, Medraut Stowe is a Canadian YouTube and Hitbox commentator, usually uploading playthroughs or "how to" videos, blending in-depth analysis with dry wit.

Often collaborating with other YouTubers, Mah-Dry-Bread is perhaps best known for his "Flash Trash" series, in which he and GodfreyGames play bad Adobe Flash horror games, "Payday 101," in which he analyses various weapons and skill builds in PAYDAY 2, and his Creepypasta Readings, usually written and submitted by members of his forum.

He also has a weekly Pokémon Challenge video in which he sees if he can beat a Pokémon game with limits on Pokémon (such as only one member of a Pokémon species, Pokémon gotten through trade, or Honey tree Pokemon), a certain move handicap (no new moves after its caught, only Metronome), or no free healing (such as at a Pokémon Center or places that work similar to Pokémon Centers such as your bedroom).

He is also one of the founding members of the weekly charity livestream "Pass the Controller Please," and appears on HeroTheyCallMe's wrestling podcast, "Hero is Wrestling."

Mah-Dry-Bread's website is here with his forum here and Twitter here.

---

Tropes Related to Mah-Dry-Bread:

• Been There, Shaped History: Has several play-throughs of games such as Crusader Kings 2 and Hearts of Iron 4 where he defies history by changing the outcome of a war or changing the political system of a country.
• Berserk Button:
  • Bad grammar to the point of not being to comprehend what he is reading.
  • A story being written around a mental illness, and the author being ignorant on how that mental illness works.

• Determinator: When it comes to editing or getting a game to run? He'll do anything you can possibly imagine and then a few more ideas just to provide content to his viewers
  • He has played an incredibly old game called Konung: Legend of the North. An old Russian game made in 1999. The description of what he had to do to get the game recording has to be heard to be done justice. The story takes 10 minutes to tell.
  • Several of his Pokémon challenge runs qualify. Perhaps the clearest example occurs during his Wobbuffet-only run in Pokémon Emerald. He has to acquire a Leftovers, but the only way to get one is with a level 81 Zigzagoon's Pick-Up Ability. This requires training the Zigzagoon through an Experience Share, which is a very slow grind in of itself, and then fight wild Pokémon until the ability activates; something that has only a 1/10 chance of occurring. On top of that, he only has a mere 1% chance of getting a Leftovers when the ability activates. He does the entire grind, getting his item.
• Epic Fail:
  • A few Flash Trash episodes, but most notably The Nightmare Realm, which had to be heavily edited down due to spending too much time trying to figure out how to get through a forest.
• Failed a Spot Check: In his challenge where he attempted to beat Pokémon Red with just an Onix, he ended up not noticing that he accidentally messed up the randomizer and replaced the wrong starter.^note Having his rival end up with a Charmander instead of a Squirtle
• Fan Community Nickname: Frequently called Mo as a shortening of Mah-Dry-Bread or MDB.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • Canadian Bacon is not Ham. You're thinking of Peameal Bacon. Ham is Ham.
  • In his Pokemon challenge runs, he calls Gyarados "Water Onix".
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: He's mostly known for his Creepypasta Readings. Despite them being a very small part of his channel and him thinking of them as his least good videos (Excluding his early videos).
  • This is no longer the case as of the late 2010s/early 2020s, as his Pokémon challenges made him absolutely skyrocket in popularity and defined his content going forward (dwarfing the popularity of anything he had ever done previously) and he has made it absolutely clear that he loves doing them.
• Running Gag:
  • The Forbidden Word ^Explanation Saying Shrek during one of his streams will get you timed out. Why this rule exists will never be explained because it's funnier that way. He has since stopped with this gag to avoid alienating new viewers.
  • "How Does it Feel to be as dumb as Brandon?"
  • 4/5, 7/10 ^Explanation A reference to several reviews on Newgrounds that say exactly that that.
  • "You can do it Goku!" ^Explanation A reference to a really bad Fan Translation of Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu where Piccolo is referred to as Goku at one point.
  • "Use a Net Ball!"
  • "Proofread, send to friends!" ^Explanation A reference to the many times he's had to say this during his Creepypasta Readings.
  • I was gonna add another example, but fuck it. To be specific, buttfuck it. ^Explanation Originating from an insincere apology during a Red Alert 3 stream.
  • !ye! ^Explanation A reference to another fan translation of Super Saiya Densetsu. This video more or less sums it up.
  • "While I'm in Mt. Moon, I pick the Helix Fossil. I know that if I didn't say, you'd all be asking in the comments ... actually, do comment anyway; comments are good for the Youtube algorithm." ^Explanation Said almost verbatim in every Pokémon Challenge run in the Kanto games, with minor variations for other regions. Becomes especially ironic during his 'Kabuto-only' run.
• Series Hiatus: Following the Corsola only challenge in Gold, MDB went onto hiatus for health reasons. Ended on December 3rd, 2022, with a challenge run with Chansey in Platinum.
• Self-Imposed Challenge: Does a lot of these in his Pokémon videos.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With GodfreyGames to the point where "as dumb as Brandon" is a common simile.
  • While not best buds, he also trades ripostes with SuperEffector, Mandizzle, Gadgez, Doug, TheMadLibrarian, Whattageek, Schaly, MxoLydia, SecretFiri and SnappishHippo whenever they're present.

---