"Pirates just stole shit from other people?" - Dan Ryckert on Ubisoft's Skull and Bones
I mean... Dan accidentally said something kinda true. There were pirates (in all but name) who were funded by governments.
I mean this in this nicest like HA HA way possible but.. jesus, every day Dan finds a way to make himself even more perfectly fit the village idiot image of him in my mind. Like something in a Mel Brooks movie. I'm not sure how his body knows to breathe.
I saw Alex's "renaissance painting" tweet and the accompanying pic and one of the amazing artists in this community better make a painting of that.. This moment needs to be immortalized and taught to our children in schools and books long into the future. The future where Dan just somehow stumbles along through life and becomes the President and gets us all nuked with one of his comments.
What I want to know is.. what did he think game piracy was up until this point?
There is a "Dan Ryckert just said" topic, but this is on a whole new level and probably deserves it's own thread.
I don't buy it. Ryckert is doing a bit. He knows the verb pirate means to steal. Therefore, he has made the connection sometime in his life that pirates in the past used to steal. Checkmate.
"Straw Hat" Dan.
Probably my favourite E3 moment so far. I will treasure it ( and bury it after I'm dead.)
@cerberus3dog: A lot of people understand what an incidence is and what a coincidence is, but don't get that those two words are intrinsically related. Native English speakers are taught words and sentence structure, not so much roots and meanings beyond very basic stuff. I can buy that "pirate" the noun and "pirate" the verb were two totally separate things in his head.
@cerberus3dog: A lot of people understand what an incidence is and what a coincidence is, but don't get that those two words are intrinsically related. Native English speakers are taught words and sentence structure, not so much roots and meanings beyond very basic stuff. I can buy that "pirate" the noun and "pirate" the verb were two totally separate things in his head.
He then makes the connection about the root when he connects (digital) piracy with pirates Showing that it was the first time he made the connection between those two words.
This is definitely a new Top 5 "Dan" moment. Even after experiencing him for something like 4 years, he still has the capacity to utterly baffle me. I know the man's interests are decidedly narrow and insular (Video Games, Wrestling, and Cool Guy Action Movies) but the fact that he never connected pirates to "stealing things" is something else.
Pirates were actually nothing like how they're portrayed in popular culture, often eschewing alcohol and rape (and other behaviors we commonly associate with piracy) in favour of relatively clean living. However all sources agree that the fundamental basis of piracy is stealing shit.
To be fair, depending on what pirate media he has exposed himself to the most and remembers, it is believable that someone could get the idea of a pirate being a Nathon Drake styled treasure hunter who sails the seas on swagger and rum. They'd have to completely ignore or be unaware of history and any media that depicts them more correctly, but hey, its Dan.
Oh man....i thought Dan was confused about something much deeper and not what pirates literally are.
I mean... Dan accidentally said something kinda true. There were pirates (in all but name) who were funded by governments.
This is what I thought when he said it too lol but he's Dan after all.
@cerberus3dog: I really wish this "Dan is doing a bit" stuff gets put to rest. We've had first hand accounts from Bianca, his wife, about how ignorant he is of a lot of common sense things. He says so himself on the latest Beastcast.
When Vinny is doing a bit it's extremely obvious and he can't make it last more than a few minutes. Dan starts to crack up when he recalls his own stories and when he's telling jokes. We've seen repeated times over and over that this is who the man is. To say he's not is to deny his true self and is honestly a disservice for him. He goofs and this time he goofed hard but he owns it (for the most part).
It always amazes me how little thought Dan has put in to so many subjects. He takes everything at face value and moves on.
Dan's statement is funny enough on it's own, but that split second of silence as everyone tries to process what he just said and the looks on their faces might elevate this to one of my favorite Giant Bomb moments ever.
Yea, I like how some of them absorbed it faster than others. And Vinny just turns and is still thinking like.. Did he just..?
Honestly, I know Vinny tries to diffuse the situation by moving on, here and on podcasts, but I really wish they'd just rail the shit out of Dan for this sort of stuff. It is so funny hearing their frustrations and trying to puzzle it out.. how someone can make it this far in life without knowing certain things, and Dan usually gives some sort of rebuttal which just digs the grave even deeper.
He deserves to suffer for a few minutes for comments like this haha Him jabbing at Kingdom Hearts was another bit. I've never played those games and I don't really like them so I'm kind of like Dan.. but I'm not going to sit there and say this is absurdly stupid and none of it makes sense, particularly while people are trying to watch this thing, and then not long after, start cackling like a child about half a second of baby butt in Death Stranding (which he's already seen before in the other trailer!!!!!!) and acting like its amazing.
I just.. I get such a strong urge to slap him sometimes hahaha
Somehow this just gets funnier every time I watch it. Everything about this bit is perfect, GB hall of fame moment for sure.
Dan is truly a special kind of moron. At least he's a moron in an entertaining way.
Pirates were actually nothing like how they're portrayed in popular culture, often eschewing alcohol and rape (and other behaviors we commonly associate with piracy) in favour of relatively clean living. However all sources agree that the fundamental basis of piracy is stealing shit.
To be fair, I recall Bartholomew Roberts being the strictest pirate I'd ever heard of. There certainly weren't all so... unstereotypical with respect to their behaviour. Hell, doesn't the story go that Anne Bonny and Mary Read were the only ones repelling the attack that did them all in because Calico Jack and the rest of the men were all too drunk to manage a defense?
Besides, it's not like they all followed the same codes, nor that they'd all even necessarily follow them under every circumstances. Bart's rules maybe, cause again, that dude seemed like a real stictler who'd fuck up your shit prim and proper if you stepped an inch outta line. But even his rules didn't explicitly rule out rape; it just kinda made it so only one person got to "lie with her" instead, to protect her virtue of course.
They're not necessarily all brutes, but they surely weren't a disciplined and galant sort of criminal either.
@spunkyhepanda said:
Hey, I'm genuinely glad Dan is willing to learn by asking questions.
But yeah, wow.
I'm positive that there are 1 or 2 particular science/general knowledge questions that Dan has asked on the podcast, got an answer to, forgotten the answer, and then asked again 6 months later when a different email reminds him of the topic.
He's inquisitive and willing to learn something new, but I don't think he manages to retain any of it, so overall it seems his level of knowledge stays about the same (low) despite his willingness to ask questions.
It's never a bit. He just verbalises his revelations in real time out loud, where another person might just think 'oh shit, I never made that connection'. His brain is divided into 4 parts: Brands, Wrestling, Video Games and Misc.
Man, sometimes I really hate Dan Ryckert.
I don't care if he's doing a bit or if he actually is that ignorant. Either way, it offends my soul.
In the early days of his hiring Dan's ignorance would piss me off to no end. But then I realized a lot of his ignorance stems from his childhood, which is more the result of parenting (or lack thereof) than anything. I think he's being honest when he said he doesn't think about pirates that much - he probably doesn't think about pirates as an adult. And as a child it seems he didn't grow up in a household that really fostered learning, exploration, trying new experiences (i.e. all the food he has never had), etc. so he wasn't exposed to pirate knowledge there either.
I was prepared for this moment but it was far more entertaining than I anticipated.
I don't really get how moments or slips like this can really cause so much anger and hate, but whatever.
Privateering is State Funded piracy, so Dan had a minor point but still yeah they steal shit. Privateers got booty and some state funds / a ship. Still does Dan use Bing or something? google is great for looking up stuff. Or maybe just bookmark Wikipedia all kinds of great stuff down there. And Dan probably thinks meat comes from the supermarket right ? And that it grows on meat trees right? I had this great video that demonstrates that meat grows on trees but's in dutch.
Do i get mad ? Not really just disappointed that the "greatest" country on earth, might have the shittys't education system, Keep on importing Professors from different countries.
I take Dan's lack of common knowledge over Alex's urge to sound smart and cynical as well as his constant reminders that we live in dystopian end times any day.
But that's just me.
@kingbonesaw: If it was called Sea of Pirates, Dan wouldn't know what to do with the game. Crisis averted
Man, sometimes I really hate Dan Ryckert.
I don't care if he's doing a bit or if he actually is that ignorant. Either way, it offends my soul.
In the early days of his hiring Dan's ignorance would piss me off to no end. But then I realized a lot of his ignorance stems from his childhood, which is more the result of parenting (or lack thereof) than anything. I think he's being honest when he said he doesn't think about pirates that much - he probably doesn't think about pirates as an adult. And as a child it seems he didn't grow up in a household that really fostered learning, exploration, trying new experiences (i.e. all the food he has never had), etc. so he wasn't exposed to pirate knowledge there either.
It’s also a problem with the education system. Every time Dan talks about his time at university, I wince.
I really wanted to go to uni, but for financial and family reasons, I couldn’t. So it upsets me when he talks about not doing any work, not going to classes etc. But it’s the system that allowed that behaviour and it meant that Dan didn’t get a full education and is now a man in his 30’s who doesn’t know what a pirate is.
@fledeye: Yep. One person, already known for being quite ignorant of many topics, isn't right about something but yeah, it's the ENTIRE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
The amount of snowballing here based on one comment is crazy. God forbid Dan mentions something about not knowing how revolvers work otherwise we might start talking about US foreign policy.
"I-I mean I get it."
- NO YOU DON'T!
That might be my favorite Jeff moment ever, hah.
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