This video brilliantly satirizes the absurdity of turn-based logic, where "strategy" is often just a sophisticated way to hold the game clock hostage. It’s a sharp reminder that in high-level RPGs, the ultimate power isn't a weapon, but the total exploitation of the action economy.
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Tech n Mek in: The Infinite Museion | in collaboration with Owlcat Games
Added:This video is supported by Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader.
>> Drazin! Drazin, we've come TO RETURN YOUR LAWN MOWER. ONLY 56 YEARS LATE.
>> YOU MIGHT NOTICE IT'S A LITTLE BANGED UP.
>> AND YOU MAY ALSO NOTICE THAT THESE DAMAGES ARE consistent with hooligans doing donuts in the parking lot while pouring diet soda into the motor to see if it could go faster.
>> And then driving it into THE OCEAN TO SEE IF IT could also function as a submersible.
>> Yeah. Um it can't, for the record.
>> Yeah, strictly a terrestrial vehicle, as it turns out.
>> NOW, OF COURSE, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN ANYONE.
>> YEAH, IT COULD have been.
>> Uh but it was us, just in case you were wondering.
>> Yeah, just wanted to make that clear.
>> Huh.
Guess he isn't home.
>> Probably missed his own lawn mower so MUCH HE WENT OUT TO GET A NEW ONE.
>> OH, WELL. Let's make a nuisance of ourselves and go around and mess with his stuff till HE GETS BACK.
>> YEAH. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
They say that Drazin is the greatest collector in the universe, with exhibits featuring many of the galaxy's most elusive gifts, frozen in time, unable to [screaming] act or be acted upon, forever serving as a reminder of the fleeting nature of existence. Cruel, isn't it, the cursed destiny of man?
>> Neat.
>> This here is A THUNDER WARRIOR, PREDECESSORS OF THE MIGHTY SPACE MARINES, said to have been exterminated after they outlived their usefulness.
>> I wonder if we'll be exterminated once we've outlived our usefulness.
>> OH, YEAH. I TOOK THE LIBERTY of having it written into our contracts.
>> That's what you needed my signature for?
I thought we were adopting a baby Crootoks.
>> Hey, I can't be expected to keep track of all my various dealings and dealings.
Anyway, sign here, please.
>> Oh, yes.
>> MAYBE THIS THUNDER WARRIOR WANTS TO SIGN some contracts, too.
>> Why?
>> Organized fun.
>> Hey, little dudes. have I arrived at the legendary planet of the babes?
>> No, you're in Trazyn the Infinite's Vault. An impressive, yet decidedly babless environment.
>> Dude.
Bummer.
>> Maybe this contract will cheer YOU UP.
>> OH, RADICAL. You know, I was a notary public before I was drafted into the unification wars to crush the skulls of the techno barbarians on the wastelands of future Terra.
>> Huh.
Was there much of a transferable skill set there?
>> More than you'd think, little dude.
Huh. And you know, if I didn't know any better, I'd say this contract was hastily written over a rogue trader's warrant of trade. Their house name clumsily scribbled out with a green marker, your name put in its place, and a rider included that you were to be given uh 500 doubloons as an annual stipend. Uh you know, that actually isn't that much money. You could probably have gotten away with more.
>> You were right to do it. He was badmouthing the doubloons.
>> LIKE YOU'VE TRAZYN'S GOT ANY.
>> LET'S see here. Enough of my hydraulic destructor, golden banana eyes and light bone backscratcher, nobody you drinking out of a shot of the deceiver, embarrassing statue of Orkan at a Christmas party. Aha! Two golden doubloons, minted in 1548, if I'm not mistaken.
>> Gosh, Trazyn really has everything. SO, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR NEW FOUND DOUBLOONAGE?
>> WELL, THERE IS A vending machine right over there.
Huh. Only two flavors. Do you want uh bubblegum delight or toxic radioactive sludge in a can?
>> Uh hmm.
Oof.
Uh hmm.
>> Come on, it's literally a binary choice.
>> I know, but this is an expensive open-ended role-playing game where your decisions matter. I don't want to have to reload my save if I change my mind.
>> What the hell are you talking about?
>> I'll go with uh uh bubblegum delights.
>> Yeah, that could save my life, obviously. Good pick.
>> Yeah, I was going to say I don't see how selling canned radioactive sludge could possibly be a viable business model.
>> I'll [clears throat] have one if you don't want it.
>> Oh, okay. I guess there's something for everyone.
There you go.
>> Thanks.
>> [screaming] >> What do you think? IT'S A [music] FLYING ONE.
HE'S GOING TO FIRE.
>> OH DEAR GOD, NO.
>> DO [screaming] YOU HAVE A PLAN?
>> I CAN'T. I'M [music] STUCK IN A TURN-BASED combat system.
>> Okay, don't panic. We'll spend more time with you as you wait for the flying things.
You see that BUTTON WITH A PICTURE OF >> UH-HUH.
>> CLICK ON THAT.
>> GOT IT.
>> Now click on him.
>> Right.
IT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.
>> I TOLD YOU, ROY. BRING up your stats screen.
>> [music] >> How's it looking?
>> Okay, NEW PLAN. HE'S TURN-BASED, SO AS LONG AS YOU NEVER, EVER END YOUR TURN, YOU WON'T GET FRIED.
>> LOST. Foiled again.
>> What? So, I JUST STAND HERE FOR THE REST of my life?
>> I bet you can't fly, can you?
>> But what if my LEGS GET SORE?
>> FINE, YOU BIG BABY. I'll go get a chair.
>> Just to get the awkwardness out of the way, as a tech priest, how much of your original skin would you say you have left?
>> Um I guess like 35, maybe 40%.
>> I'm going to say the blood side of the silicone rocks of the Eldar he made. How soft is it?
>> Mag, could you hurry up?
>> Meanwhile, >> I just don't understand why stop serving breakfast at 11:30. An hour and a half earlier, and they catch everybody going to work. An hour and a half later, and they HIT THE LUNCH RUSH.
IT'S ALL beyond my ken.
>> Are you going to be hung up on this all day?
>> Oh, no, let him talk. He's bringing up some GOOD POINTS.
>> FOR LAUGHING FLAT SOME.
>> THE POOR BUGGERS MUST HAVE gotten stuck in a turn-based combat encounter and starved to death.
>> Oh, immortal God Emperor, I pray for the repose of these two dumb, stupid, idiot souls.
>> And judging by the state of decay, I'd say they've BEEN DEAD FOR 10,000 YEARS.
>> [music] >> YEAH, WEIRD, RIGHT? They were like this when we got here.
>> We too was once stuck in an abnormally difficult turn-based battle.
>> How did you escape?
>> How else? BUT, WITH MY AIM.
>> Razzle Dazzle Infinite.
>> And [music] you too can have a thrilling adventure full of deep strategic turn-based COMBAT AND EXPLORE AN ENGAGING narrative filled with impactful [music] decision-making in the third but the final major DLC for Warhammer [music] 40,000 Rogue Trader, The Infinite Museum. Get a glimpse of my legendary collection as you've never seen it before in a gripping storyline in which you, yes, YOU MUST CONTEND WITH MY VARIOUS plots and machinations. I can't tell you what they are here because you need to actually go play the thing, but be assured they are most foul, treacherous, and underhanded.
>> He speaks with such conviction, I have no choice but to believe him.
>> But, you won't [music] be doing it alone. You'll have a brand new companion in the form of Rogue Trader [music] Janus Draik, a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus who wields the mighty [music] motive force of weapons of his allies and defending him with his own brilliant [music] arcane powers. STILL NOT CONVINCED?
>> I I I I can't say anything.
>> Then make use of the brand new AUGMENTATION SYSTEM. REPLACE PARTS of your crew biomass with the strength and fury of steel, granting significant [music] gameplay advantages or new abilities. Be warned, however, that such power comes with a price, and not all of your companions will [music] be so eager to serve alongside some kind of freaky screwed-up robot guy. Even though they should, because being a freaky screwed-up robot guy is pretty nifty, [music] but I I digress.
>> But Trajan, when will this magnificent expansion be available for purchase and download?
>> [music] >> Now.
I said right for IT NOW.
GO!
GET OUT OF [music] HERE!
GO ON!
SWIM!
GO HOME TO YOUR DESKTOP PERSONAL COMPUTERS [music] AND PURCHASE, DOWNLOAD, AND PLAY THE NEW EXPANSION OF WARHAMMER 40,000 ROAD TRAITOR RIGHT NOW! NOW! NOW!
ANYWAY, YOU GUYS SAID SOMETHING ABOUT returning my lawnmower.
>> SURE, IT'S RIGHT OVER HERE.
ANYWAY, we'll be on our way now.
Got to download that new expansion.
>> Clarence, flay those two alive.
>> [music]
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