When Eddie teased the gang saying "Guys, this fight is very tough, there's no shame in retreating. Don't be the hero tonight." I screamed to myself: That's Matt! Those writers watch running the game!
@LeMayJoseph
Жыл бұрын
For me, it was, “…And THIS is why we play!” with that little bow.
@OldSchoolGM94
Жыл бұрын
That was a super common strategy in 1e days. All of those players had likely run from many a combat because combats where not balanced in those days. It is more impressive that they all bound together and decided to fight and likely die without the expectation of balance you have in modern D&D.
@farrout000
Жыл бұрын
@@OldSchoolGM94 I don't balance my combat in 5E now... there's stuff out there that will mess you up! (but I also played back in these days so I think it is more a style rather then edition... assuming you aren't running the published adventures).
@nicka3697
Жыл бұрын
@@OldSchoolGM94 ha true but combat isn't balanced in these days either. Not properly and not at all tables anyway. I think that the problem with 5e is that many DMs try to stay in initiative order too long so instead of running as a group everyone is moving one at a time, getting in each others way and the monsters continually catch up to characters lower in the initiative order, hitting, grappling or dropping them at which point everyone has to run back and start fighting to get them out of there and players in those games learn that running doesn't work. Good DMs won't always chase, or may follow more slowly reasoning that the opponents may fear it is a ruse to lure them into a prepared ambush, or may drop out of initiative quickly and adopt chase mechanics.
@Smaug84
Жыл бұрын
@@farrout000 Exactly. Is it truly anything resembling a random encounter if it is always within a narrow level balance spectrum close to the party level?
@brandon8667
Жыл бұрын
My dad was an Eddie. He once dressed as drizzt at a Halloween party (no black face). Got black out drunk and got lost at the party. He walked miles dressed as a dark elf across mall parking lots, alongside interstates, through a park. Eventually made it home after an many hour long journey My mom, at the time, was calling the police department asking "if they picked up a man dressed as an elf". He also taught me and my friends how to play d&d. Sometime next month I'll be surprise DMing for him on his bday.
@aattrpg3199
Жыл бұрын
An unfortunate thing about being a teenager is that you've learned just enough to think you know everything.
@Sound_Tech
Жыл бұрын
Being a teenager is the ultimate experience in the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Unfortunately there's nothing you can say or do to expand the scope of the views a teenager holds other than to let them grow out of it.
@MightyGachiman
Жыл бұрын
Funny thing is he still thinks as such. We all do. You can never stop growing
@Grimmlocked
Жыл бұрын
I really miss knowing everything.... WTF happened
@NoBrakes23
Жыл бұрын
I've never understood this trope I certainly didn't think I knew everything or even close to most things. And I knew almost no teens that thought they knew it all.
@cookechris28
Жыл бұрын
Then college hits and after a year or two you hit that WALL of realizing that not only do you know nothing, but the people that know better than you will openly admit to you that they're basically equally clueless, albeit with more details, practice, and a stronger foundation. The fact that nearly everybody is playing it by ear as best they can floored me.
@thedungeonmastersmojo5139
Жыл бұрын
His name was Thor. He was my best friend and he was Eddie, he had Iron Maiden posters and drew incredible art of our characters and the things that tormented him. I never knew I was the poor kid and he was poorer than I was. Later he drank himself to death. I miss him. You made me think about him again and I full on cried after watching this. Thank you Matt. This meant a lot to me.
@Ellebeeby
Жыл бұрын
He’s in Valhalla now, friend!
@bradman4399
Жыл бұрын
Up there hanging with Dio 🤘 Rest in Peace Thor
@escondidoguitar
Жыл бұрын
I was a D&D nerd and metalhead in the 80s, as was my friend Pat (who also often used the nickname Thor). I lost touch with him years ago, I hope he's not the same Thor. That said, I hope your friend is Rolling In Piece, and horns up for his memory and for D&D and 80s metal.
@thedungeonmastersmojo5139
Жыл бұрын
@@escondidoguitar I hope your Thor is living life well and still rocking! Thor was not my friends nickname, it was his actual name. LOL He would be reveling in that now for sure, but I'm sure his version of Valhalla is great.
@johnnyctant
Жыл бұрын
My first DM was incredible. A regular old Matt Colville. His name was Ed, he went by Eddie to our group and we lost him to suicide in 2012. He was a master weaver of wild plots and he helped me DM for the first time. He was the sole inspiration for a lifelong love of DnD and so much more. It's honestly striking how universal your experience was.
@kevindaniel1337
Жыл бұрын
My favorite Eddie moment was when he was mocking Lucas' sister, and when she showed that she knew what she was talking about, Eddie wasn't angry, or petty, he was thrilled. This little girl knew his game, and wasn't going to be intimidated by his acting, and that made her cool to Eddie, that made her someone he wanted at his table.
@SuperrrStaggie
Жыл бұрын
I came for a lesson in being a better DM, I walked away with advise on how to be a better human-being. Didn't see that one coming, but it is more then appreciated. Great work Matt, as always, or maybe even more then normal ❤
@dreadpirate907
Жыл бұрын
That's one of the great things about Matt, honestly, is that if you look hard enough, it's there in many of his videos.
@MrDeadend1973
Жыл бұрын
That's one thing these videos have taught me. These two often overlap. Best wishes, Staggie
@hisscout
Жыл бұрын
That's Matt for you.
@ThorMan91587
Жыл бұрын
Now I'm crying all over again. My older brother Scotty was an Eddie. Looked the part, too. He isn't here anymore, but he had an enormous impact on my interests as a kid.
@erichall090909
Жыл бұрын
Glad you had one. All we can do is keep on keeping on with our interests that they gave us
@Nachovyx
Жыл бұрын
I... I can't belive this actually made me tear up. I wasn't an Eddie but I was friends with one. He was a metal head living in a poor neighborhood, but was really kind and fun and we would spend entire afternoons playing videogames. He's now an engeneer and living a great life.
@christophermiller8589
Жыл бұрын
Wow, that actually made me a little emotional. Really eloquently put. Always happy to get another glimpse into what makes you, you. Shoutout to the Eddies of this generation, may you show no remorse in being yourselves.
@popburnsy3207
Жыл бұрын
🤟🏽
@briandavison7033
Жыл бұрын
I knew Eddie. I miss him.
@darcyw156
Жыл бұрын
Happy to hear I'm not the only one.
@SadisticBlessings
Жыл бұрын
Man, this one hit me right in the feels. I had this same experience watching Eddie in the most recent season of Stranger Things, and for the same reason - I spent high school in the early 2000s trying to “pass” as a cool kid (and failing), and looking back I can only wish I’d been brave enough to be more authentic and just be open about enjoying the things I enjoyed. Also, shout out to Scott, the metalhead bassist from the trailer park down the road who went out of his way to befriend me in 11th grade when I was in a bad place with my mental health. I honestly never understood why you wanted to hang out with a lonely nerd like me, but having a friend like you might have been the only reason I made it through high school at all.
@arsonor
Жыл бұрын
Maybe Scott needed you as much as you needed him. Glad to hear you guys had each other.
@SinDemon
Жыл бұрын
I'm only 24 but this video really hits home, I was definitely too stuck up in my own head when I was a teenager. Thanks for making me cry about Eddie all over again Matt :P I definitely should've been one of the Eddies of my generation. Maybe it's still not too late.
@labshire
Жыл бұрын
What the hell Matt. I don't need to be crying like this right before bed
@FerreusDeus
Жыл бұрын
I was (am?) 100% an Eddie... most of my group was. Death metal and dark-elves all the way. And on top of that I'm very obviously disabled... but the weird thing for me is that I never really got picked on for any of it. Don't know why. I never stuck with one clique even though I was clearly metal. I made a point to float between them and make friends from each clique. My house was where everyone would gather after school and I loved that you would walk into my place and see jocks and skaters hanging out with metalheads and nerds. It was like the influence of high school and societal bullshit didn't exist in my house, and we all became better people for it... made friends we never would have otherwise. Our D&D party wasn't just wildly varied by character class and race, but in the people playing them.
@stupidityevolved7513
Жыл бұрын
That sounds like a wonderful time
@LordNumbnutsthe1st
Жыл бұрын
gods, that's beautiful... *sniffles* would that that happened more often.
@Aiglos78
Жыл бұрын
This touched my heart, Matt. I grew up poor in the rural South in the 80s. I was a sensitive kid who grew up hardscrabble and spent a lot of time fighting and "working," but who really just wanted to live in the library and roll math rocks. I didn't have a lot of folks around me who understood or cared about DnD. And it was also a "secret" that I had to harbor. Strangely, my very religious grandmother who always had a desire to live beyond her "raisings," also loved the wider world and all of its diversity and uniqueness. And she was able to see beyond the fundamentalism and orthodoxy of her own faith and actually bought me my first DnD book ...Legends and Lore. ...man, was it life changing. I still didn't get a chance to play DnD regularly for many years because I couldn't afford a DMG or Player's Handbook and there were no resources around me to help me understand the "game." But what that book did do was express an idea to me that was a powerful epiphany. It showed me that there was a concept of representation I had not considered before -- that you could *embody* fantasy in a system (both mathematically AND narratively) that would let you live out all the adventures and daydreams you kept hidden in your head or in your journal. There's a whole lot more story I could spill out between 7 and 43, and some of it would be very similar to yours. I didn't want to conform to my culture, but it took me many years and a lot of trauma to break away and dissolve the bonds of religious and cultural dogma that I inherited...not even from my family necessarily, but just from that time and place. Anyway, I'm sitting here now ...44 and tearing up mightily, because I now get to share this deep, deep, deep creative passion that had lived in me since childhood with many people I love, admire, and call friends and family every single week -- sometimes several times a week. And I get to spend much of my time LIVING that creative life that I was so desperate and longing for as a child that the world around me just could not understand and would not let me have. DnD (ttrpg in general) is my passion and my hobby. It makes me happy ...but what makes me happiest is finally having arrived at a place in my life where I can share it openly and joyously with other people I love who feel the same. And this video certainly surfaced a lot of those emotions I hadn't even considered in many years...fear of rejection, the sense of always being an outsider but being able to offer up a facade good enough to "pass" within a culture you don't WANT to "pass" in ...just a lot of stuff I hadn't given much introspection to in a lot of years. And now I'm HERE, right? Wow...just wow. I'm glad a lot of us grew up to be the Eddies we didn't have the courage to be then. Hopefully, we're helping usher in a new generation of Eddies who will have the courage to just be who they are regardless...
@senilord
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this video Matthew. I have been a fan of your work for years, and when I saw the title I actually teared up a little. I expected what it was going to be about, and damn, you hit it on the head. Eddie is probably my favorite character in the past ten years of television, what a character, what an arc. Amazing writers, and an awesome actor.
@thesuntitan
Жыл бұрын
When Eddie screamed “this IS music”, I wished from the bottom of my heart that 16 year old me could hear him. Still, I’m happy that there’s probably a whole lot of teens out there that, thanks to this character, just heard what they needed to hear, that it’s ok to be different
@JustKeyes26
Жыл бұрын
This resonates with my childhood, enjoying nerdy things but not wanting to be seen as a “nerd/geek/dork”. I remember my high school and college years being proud of my ability to “chameleon” into a group, not suppress my nerdiness in order to be like. Man, if only I realized sooner how much happier I would be if I was just myself and did the things I wanted to try and do.
@giangio1976
Жыл бұрын
I must confess I did tear up watching this video. I was very much like Eddie growing up and your words resonated with me so much. You have a big heart, Matt. Thank you.
@cogspace
Жыл бұрын
Not sure how I've managed to make it this far without watching Stranger Things, but now I know I've been seriously missing out.
@cdfreester
Жыл бұрын
You and me both
@stbananastein
Жыл бұрын
It's good stuff! Season 2 is weak, but 1, 3, and 4 are great
@robinvobin9094
Жыл бұрын
I teared up, as a queer kid who feels this way in a lot of stuff. It gave me a bitter sweet smile and hope that one day we won't be like this anymore.
@arsonor
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been watching For All Mankind, an alternate history of the space race, and it jumps decades each season. Season 3 is set in the 90s. One of the many themes of the show is how homosexuality is addressed in that time period. Watching some of the interactions/consequences of even being known as gay confused me. How could people treat each other this way? Then I remembered… I had lived through that time. It’s almost exactly what I remember. 50 year old me is ashamed of teenage me. But hopefully we’re getting better.
@beamjim7549
Жыл бұрын
Me too. People treated me like shit and I had to be ready to fight at anytime.
@willlagos8554
Жыл бұрын
This one gets a big, "Hell yeah, brother," from me.
@angryguy3000
Жыл бұрын
Great video. I suspect some people are gonna come in here and say “how is this supposed to help me run D&D?” and I suggest they watch the video again, bc it’s as relevant as it gets.
@aqacefan
Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite quotes from the "Suicide Solution"/"Better By You, Better Than Me" era came from Lemmy Kilmister. "If you honestly think that a kid listens to a track from an album and blows his brains out, think of all the kids who listened to that track... and didn't." It's tragic that someone took their own life, but blaming it on a song is deflecting from a very serious mental health issue that has nothing to do with the artists.
@TheSmuey
Жыл бұрын
This video hits very close. It's a funny thing. When I started highschool, I wanted to 'fit in', like most kids do. Along the way, I found out that the kids I was trying to fit in with, were not at all nice people. Popular, sure, just not very nice people. That caused me to connect with some 'Eddies' in my school (and outside of it) and they turned out te be awesome and interesting people. Most of them are still to this day good friends of mine and I'm almost 40. They made me realise that embracing your inner nerd is actually a very good thing and that the opinions of others should not matter that much to you. Excellent video, Matt!
@micklangan7544
Жыл бұрын
Great video, and as a man in my 50s still playing TTRPG with my now adult sons, I am so very pleased that my sons and I can happily talk about Games and random shit in the Pub over a beer. In a world that seems so incredibly polarised at the moment we absolutely need more people who are not scared to think differently. We need more Eddies and more Matts.. ,
@drugmaster_telros7770
Жыл бұрын
from a eddie of this generation, I gotta say we appreciate it man! Its still a massive contrast for me, my parents are well off. I have no where near the upbringing that they would of had. But one thing is for certain. I was an outcast. The big thing was for me growing up there were barely any other eddies in my school. Some times if any at all.
@Pixl0311
Жыл бұрын
I'm not crying. You're crying.
@imissnewspapers
Жыл бұрын
To all the EDDIES out there 🥂🥂 Long may you Reign !
@nordicnugz
Жыл бұрын
Great Video! I learned this lesson from my mom through life, and only realized it after she passed away. Being able to connect with people from any walk of life is a huge strength, and I shouldn't shy away from having a conversation with anyone.
@BroseidonLive
Жыл бұрын
This adds so many more levels to my favorite character from stranger things s4! Thanks Matt for giving us the insight. We need more Eddie’s in the world!
@TomCantDance
Жыл бұрын
This video pairs well with the Mountain Goats song "You Were Cool" It's really nice hearing these stories from people who were there. Thank you, Matt
@batmenic365StopMotion
Жыл бұрын
Got to appreciate when ones interests intersect. Lovely song
@inscrutableone
Жыл бұрын
Matthew, this is fantastic. One of your very best. So refreshingly honest and candid, you say a lot and teach a lot about how to be a good human without ever making it sound like you are lecturing people. Well done indeed. So impressed. -He was a good kid...
@redpandaluver8561
Жыл бұрын
I can't find the crying emoji, but this actually made me start to tear up. Hearing from someone who was the age of the characters in the time period the show is set in is a whole other perspective, and I really appreciate how freely you talked about your biases, and confronting them and where they might have come from.
@popburnsy3207
Жыл бұрын
🥲😭😥😢
@jademonolith
Жыл бұрын
My best friend was "Eddie" and through him, our group experienced the best times of our 90s lives. We played RPGs, appreciated music, and played in a band together- He passed on in 2010 but I am forever thankful that we shared those wonderful experiences in that brief window of a moment called youth.
@wusashicat1
Жыл бұрын
In Rhode Island we got called, "Rock Head". It was wild when some of us went to the west coast where "Rock Head" means someone who smokes crack.
@xkristianx
Жыл бұрын
So grateful you shared this because it really puts into words and brings out to the light why Eddy was such an amazing character😭 So many of us knew Eddy, or someone like them, and when we reflect back, are left wondering ... how did I miss this guy!
@one_for_one
Жыл бұрын
Eddie's are still being born today, and just look different. as one of them this was a really nice message to hear. thanks for the emotional constipation Matt 💙
@kylekillgannon
Жыл бұрын
You can practically feel the inner monologue this man went through watching Season 4. Out of it he produced this deeply meditated, heartfelt apology for not connecting with people he could have shared much with if not for a few petty reasons. This is true maturity and wisdom. Looking back, and only wishing you'd known sooner how easily you could have made some friends.
@robk1595
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if I was someone's eddie. I don't remember knowing anyone who played DnD. It was something I always wanted to try. But I remember the kids who played Magic or Star Wars trading cards that that I didn't hang out with because they were too nerdy for me. At 30 I had listened to several dnd podcasts but it wasn't until a friend who watched Stranger things asked if I wanted to play DnD that I finally did in my 30s. I DMed my first game and I found out it was so much better than I ever thought. I can't imagine not playing now. I feel shame shunning those kids years ago, too scared to admit I was as nerdy as I am. Maybe I would have discovered this passion years ago, but I have it now and I am grateful
@diggis79
Жыл бұрын
I'm in this boat. Came into the game late and regretted passing up the opportunities I had to play it in the past.
@jebgordon6608
Жыл бұрын
Our group learned from the books. Starting in 1984, but it took until about 1988 to get things running smoothly to resemble a "real" AD&D game. I grew up in rural Canada so there was no way to connect to other players back then, we just knew they were out there somewhere. Those other groups were as real as the elves and dwarves in the Monster Manual to us and we assumed they struggled to learn as well. I sometimes think being so young was the only reason that we persisted. Our Eddie was my older neighbour Doug with the hopped up convertible and Puppets cracked.
@morglyne
Жыл бұрын
I knew from the title alone that I was going to cry at some point during this video. I almost made it and right at the end is when the dam burst! My favorite thing about Eddie is that he was always unapologetically himself. Dustin said it best when he said “he never stopped Eddie.. even in the end.” ❤
@tap5445
Жыл бұрын
Man, these videos always pull me back into a time where I wasn't even born yet. Getting a glimpse of 1980's america is something so alien but facinating to me!
@the_arcanum
Жыл бұрын
To a eurokid born in this timeframe, the persistence of the american highschool clique culture (jocks, nerds and all) since the 50's, with its emphasis on conformity and group segregation, has always both fascinated and repulsed me. Even when income level disparity could be felt by us kids, it never ruled our elective affinities and groups were fluid and non binding: you could be into sports AND the chess club, look like a hard rock kid and belong to an affluent family, be a blue collar baker's son and an OG computer nerd,. And nothing was set in stone, you could blend from one groyp to another. When you analyse american tv series and movies, they're still saturated today with references to this artificial segregative culture occuring in highschools. It feels so out of place and out of touch with the way the youth sees the world today in our much more diverse western society.
@elijahpeters3637
Жыл бұрын
I was an Eddie growing up, minus the actually being a cool guy part. Rough home life, loner who didn't know how to interact with others but really wanted to, hell even the metalhead part (my poison was Pantera). I was shunned up until my junior year of high school, and even then it only stopped because I was actually pretty good at football as well. I graduated in 2014, so I don't believe we're in a more civilized age because it still happened to me, but to see me represented really helped me work through a lot of stuff, while also helping me show my wife some of what I was talking about the whole time.
@elfbait3774
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. I grew up in the PNW in the 80s. I was friends with a lot of Eddies and a lot of other kids in other cliques. Somehow, I avoided looking at anyone as lesser or weird (thanks mom) but I do remember being looked on as the weird poor kid who couldn't afford the cool stuff and played that devil game. I guess I did a good enough job at coming across as some sort of "Eddie" myself because I remember getting invited to other stoner/rockers' birthday parties because they thought I was "one of them". I was, but not exclusively. I was a lonely weird kid and honestly, I think that made me open to friendship wherever I could find it. Being a gamer nerd with ADHD before that was a thing made me an outcast in a lot of ways too.
@chrisbrezny5893
Жыл бұрын
Matt, I was 18 in 86 and yes, we D&D nerds hid from the public. I was also (and still am) a huge Judas Priest fan. Also, hid that from my school friends in order to survive. Everything you talked about in your video here is spot on and takes me back. I appreciate how similar your gaming style and interests are so much the same as my experience (save the metal interest). Stained Class by JP is one of the best albums ever; cutting edge for its time, imho. But through that all I am still a devout Catholic - heck I'm ostracized for that back then and now. Just wanted to say I appreciate your commentary and appreciate you.
@Warloser360
Жыл бұрын
The idea that people could like different things (and also be different than me) and I didn't need to be a jerk about it was something I spent an unfortunate chunk of college coming to terms with, but it's a lesson I'm glad I learned eventually. Cheers to young me for learning his lessons so older me can look back on what a dunce I was, to Eddie Munson for being my favorite character in the new season, and to you for succinctly putting those feelings into words in this video.
@wolfgangfalck1250
Жыл бұрын
This is an exceptional Video that tells everyone what growing up, in whatever timeframe, really means. It should be played at every semesters start right at the beginning and maybe once again midway through every semester between the ages 12-16. This is a life lesson for every insecure teenager i.e. every last one of us until we become Eddies who realised: "Life's what you make it". Please answer if you know which great 80s Band this song is from.
@fupa_chalupa
Жыл бұрын
I really hope that the point of this video isn't missed. Great work 🧡
@enzobambino
Жыл бұрын
In 1981, I was 12 and in jr high. I played AD&D with a group of kids from neighboring high schools. Peter, Jason, Robin, Noah, and a few others. We were from schools, towns, and backgrounds. I was of the lowest group by all standards. I don’t know how we became a group. But it was fantastic! For a few hours (and longer if my mom was working that night), none of our oddities or statuses mattered. I do remember other kids snd adults to stay away from some of my group. Not because of the game. I am glad I didn’t listen. Thanks for a great video reminding me of so many good times.
@sidress1
Жыл бұрын
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
@scottcampbell9515
Жыл бұрын
As a member of GenX and a few years away from 50 I relate to everything in this video too much. Thank you so much for sharing this, however why does it seem like someone is cutting onions nearby? 😢 ❤ 🤘🏻Eddie 🤘🏻
@jpappyo
Жыл бұрын
I started the video thinking "Holy shit is that a picture of young Matt!!" I ended the video with a profound sense of steps we can take to self reflect on how we have treated people of our past to be better humans.
@williamharris5663
Жыл бұрын
From an Eddie that got lucky, thank you. This made has made me cry, a lot, but in a good processing way.
@markthrelfall5168
Жыл бұрын
I didn't meet my Eddie at school; I met him later when I was at college. My Eddie came to me at the right time; I was ready for him; you could say he saved this kid from the "rich side" of town and showed me a world I needed to see. I felt I became who I am because of my Eddie; he was very important to me. Oddly enough I accepted my Eddie straight away, but somehow, along the way, I lost him in my life. By the time I had a chance to talk to him again, my Eddie had emigrated and now lives in California. He has a good life. He deserves it. A few years ago, I received a message from my Eddie. I thought he had forgotten about me, and it would have been deserved if he had. I thought I had no effect on him, but after reading that message, it seems we changed each other's life for the better, and we came into each other's life just when we needed to happen. I miss my Eddie. We had some good times. Just not enough of them.
@georgecook83
Жыл бұрын
This was a touching an real moment. Thank you for that.
@kallei8496
Жыл бұрын
Great video Matt, I think this is the best video you made so far. So emotional and hit me right in my nerdy heart. It was great seeing you opening up about how you viewed yourself and the "Eddies" you met.
@liizumi3337
Жыл бұрын
i really appreciate how 1, you acknowledge your past's faults in not being open-minded, and 2, forgive yourself for those faults.
@torenatkinson1986
Жыл бұрын
I had an Eddie. A literal Eddie, and he was indeed a DM. I remember playing a thief and when he gave my character a book that raised my thief skills, I called the book the Kleptonomicon which made him laugh. He listened to metal music and introduced me to the band Flotsam and Jetsam, among others. I went to possibly my third ever concert with him, and probably my first in a bar, I forget which band it was, but it was something metal. Because he was a metal head, we called him Metal Ed. I don't know where he is now but I'll never forget him!
@aSloppySandwich
Жыл бұрын
Man... You just never know what you're gonna get with a colville video, but you know it's gonna be good.
@daviddalke926
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this Matt. I was an 'Eddie' in the 80's. This video essay brought tears to my eyes.
@DarthMalnu
Жыл бұрын
My name is Eddie. I was born in 1986. Been a life long metalhead, nerd, geek, gamer, theatre kid, weirdo. Now I'm a father, husband, and long term DM. I grew up (and remain) in the Ottawa Valley Ontario. Amidst the farmers, hockey players, hicks, and hunters I've always been an outcast and I'll never be ashamed of that. This video really spoke to me. Cheers, Matt!
@Trashloot
Жыл бұрын
I think this kind of talk is something every parent should have with their kids.
@Pandaemoni
Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the 80's, in 1984 when I just started playing D&D and was not aware enough to real;size it has a reputation for being strange word got back to the pastor of our charch that I was playing. The pastor made a special weekday trip to my house to tell my mom that D&D was Satanic. He claimed to her that he personally ministered to a child who played the game and was possessed by a demon asa result who was levitating off the ground when confronted. My mom thanked him, said she'd do something about it...then we changed churches because she knew he was lying (or was nuts). My friend who got me into D&D (name Eddie) continued at that same church but was more discreet than I was.
@georgesquillace300
Жыл бұрын
Flippin' awesome video. Love your honesty and your comitment to growing as a person.
@matphat
Жыл бұрын
I was Eddie in the 80s. I mean the spitting image physically and socioeconomically. Stranger Things nailed the archetype. Matt, the Eddies understand what was going on, even if it was disappointing at the time.
@matthewlewis8106
Жыл бұрын
Great video! I love seeing your vulnerability and and your heart for people, thank you for sharing. As a long time D&D player, metal head (shout out to blackmetal!🤘), and recovering outcast, your message means a lot. Got me tearing up over here! Love your work and all your intentional inclusiveness to the game! You make the world a better place.
@moemoes5586
Жыл бұрын
You Sir are a positive influence on the world. Thank you.
@fredstauffer1331
Жыл бұрын
This, in my opinion, is your best work yet. Powerful and certainly resonates. Bravo.
@helloalicecraft
Жыл бұрын
I just wanted to say that I really appreciated this video. It really took me back and is just so illuminating. Thank you!
@silvertattooer
Жыл бұрын
You literally made me cry on this one. That goes deep on social interactions we usually don’t mind too much. ❤
@amherstwarehouse3382
Жыл бұрын
This hit home. I was Star Trek, Star Wars, Wolverine, X-Men and drawing. In High School, I was the outcast. No hard feelings. We're all good. It's just part of growing up.
@TallTaleGael
Жыл бұрын
Very moving. Thank you.
@bbondsie2
Жыл бұрын
I've watch so much of your stuff and this might be one of my favorite videos you have done. Made me think about myself a lot.
@wemilk
Жыл бұрын
That was an emotional one for me. This just now made me realize a knew two Eddie’s. I was close friends with them and when the changed schools in 7th grade I was devastated. Thanks for the vid!
@Finkeldinken
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, man. This was beautiful, and resonated for sure.
@direden
2 ай бұрын
I just watched this again a year later... And love, these takes even more
@ghiliath
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video, it gave me chills and got me emotional. I've met many outkast, and try not to be like them, nor knowing that it was all that that was outcasting great people, and potentially a more happy life. Thanks for this
@CM-ck4nl
Жыл бұрын
Very heartwarming I love these snippets of insight
@rachdanaelee
Жыл бұрын
This is easily the best video I've ever seen of yours. Thank you for your introspection it's beautiful.
@N7P2R2
Жыл бұрын
Damn Matt. This hit right in the feels this morning. Thank you for sharing this, that was beautiful
@ammo1206
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this, hopefully this spurs everyone to take a look at how far they’ve grown.
@MOTARACTUAL
Жыл бұрын
In 86 I was a punk rock/ skater kid who played D&D all the time with a bunch of Eddies...
@FugueNation
Жыл бұрын
Got a tear jerk out of me on that closing. I had an Eddie and we were good friends for quite a while, but lost contact years ago
@CeeLoGreen666
Жыл бұрын
Wow thank you. This made me super emotional. I was in hs in 2014-16 and it's great ( and sucks ) to see that nothing really changes. I was in the same economic situation and felt the same way. In the middle.
@aydan-taylorrome1029
Жыл бұрын
This video made me quite emotional. Wonderful as always, thank you Matt
@Atrivion
2 ай бұрын
Venom Black Metal, one of the first ever songs I remember from my childhood, that and Run to the Hills. Good times.
@kaijew8930
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful message Matt. Most of us where definitely not are better selfs even if its only not excepting ourselves when we are young!
@b00m0ny0u
Жыл бұрын
Never seen Stranger Things, but this is a graceful way for someone to own up to the things they did that used to be okay, but aren't anymore. Take note, this is how to be humble about being wrong.
@williamjusino3640
Жыл бұрын
I love your videos. This is the first one that's made me tear up. I'm only now, in my late 30s, realizing how much this affected my own upbringing. Thank you for this.
@Drew1749
Жыл бұрын
One of the best video essays you've produced. Really amazing stuff.
@Niki99fun
Жыл бұрын
You are my cure for writersblock
@sunyavadin
Жыл бұрын
Me and all my TTRPG friends back then were all Eddies. Until the mid 90s our videogames were all on tape though. That was just the UK Micro scene. We also had the same thing with narrow music tastes, I branched out from metal in my 20s and 30s to a much wider range of stuff. 80s conservative parents though, wow, mine literally looked down on my friends' parents for living in council houses, because they *owned* the caravan we lived in like good Thatcherites.
@jasonhudson7697
Жыл бұрын
No words, just the need to pass out hugs.
@machbass
Жыл бұрын
We spend so much of our youth trying to be something we aren't- rather than building up our skills and being ourselves.
@alienspaceshaman
Жыл бұрын
I had two sets of friends, nerdy dnd types, and the other friends were stoner metalheads. Years later i found friends who were both.I was born in 73, I wouldve loved to hung out with Eddie!
@Ritzyjet
Жыл бұрын
This was amazing! I’d love to see more personal reflections like this
@CamembertDave
Жыл бұрын
This is a really powerful video Matt, thank you for making it.
@robertmartin8710
Жыл бұрын
I love going to comic and pop culture conventions. My younger daughter does as well, and she wanted to cosplay for one this summer. She was so happy after getting asked for photos and getting compliments, and the smile on her face was amazing. I said to her that she had found "her people" and she just smiled and nodded that she had. In my own life, I wish I could have spent more time with the Eddies in my life. They were closer to being "my people" than I cared to admit for most of my life, well into my 40s. I am working on that now and have hopefully given my daughter the chance to be happy with being herself. Peace. Out.
@TredHedJon
Жыл бұрын
Wow. This is some deep stuff here. Thank you Matt!
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