have video game skins gone too far?

You ever seen a cosmetic in a video game that makes you say, that's it, that's it, there's no way we're getting any weirder than this. I just saw Nicki Minaj hop out of space marine armor and launch a 300 pound man thousands of feet into the ocean with a King Kong emote. There's no way we are getting weirder than this. Yes, my brother, yes, my brother.

Oh my God. You think to yourself, they've gotta run out of skins eventually. The world isn't some bottomless pit of intellectual property. There has to come a point where somebody in charge says stop. Alright stop.

STOP.

Yet somehow, someway, developers keep making skins weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder like the weird is gonna keep creeping upwards forever and ever. This is my regular sized cat alright? This is my other regular sized cat. I scroll up to scumbag cat and she's fucking huge. Fortnite is obviously the king of this practice,

yet Call of Duty is always the one that stuck out to me as the most jarring, the most drastic, and the most out of place. You can't avoid me, holy shit! The first Call of Duty game I played was in 2008, followed by arguably the most influential ever in 2009.

And back then, it was serious business high stakes high-rises serious character serious missions and sometimes we got a little silly with Shit like burger town, but almost every second of Call of Duty was dead serious fast forward to today and half the time I don't know what the fuck I'm looking at. Why is this beanbag holding a Kimbo Glocks? Thought this game was about ultra-nationalist super villains so evil that the wake of their destruction was literally too large to quantify. Since when are there Gundams, Catgirls, Popstars, and Dinosaurs running around cell-shaded rust?

Just the fact that Makarov has to stare Nicki Minaj in the eyes upon dropping into rust is so funny.

I hate everything about that sentence you just spoke.

And over the past two years, I've been collecting skins as receipts for this very video to showcase what Call of Duty has become. Yes, I got him with the chair, baby! $233.61 of which I purely spent on skins as basically a record keeper of how weird things have become Every time Activision dropped a bizarre skin, I would log in say to myself There's no way they'll ever drop something weirder than this buy it as evidence and then log out

I gotta be Activision's favorite customer. I've dropped thousands on a game. I don't even play. Yes. I got it with the smack, baby

That was perfect. That is until today customer. I've dropped thousands on a game, I don't even play. YES I GOT IT WITH THE SMACK BABY THAT

WAS PERFECT. That is, until today. I decided to go back and use all these skins and all these cosmetics that I've collected over the past two years to see if they were worth the money. To see if they, in the Marie Kondo sense, spark joy for me and determine to a conclusion is to spend hours and hours thinking, playing, and talking about it, which is the reason for this video's creation. It's too easy to dismiss Activision for being greedy or soulless without buying the skins and using them for days and days to make a determination of how I feel about them. So if you're a big fan of middle-aged men yapping into the concrete abyss of his own mind

About a bunch of polygons PNGs and funky animations boys. This is the video for you I'm already sick and- She's mad mad. Oh god.

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But I blew most of my cash on Modern Warfare 3, I already made a video on Black Ops 6, Black Ops 7 does not interest me, and I think Call of Duty games set in the future almost always suck. I still want a refund after seeing the zombies. I would like Treyarch to pay me $70 I also understand that I'm in an extremely privileged position buying these skins

Not only do I say on taxes because these purchases are a business expense But I get to share them with my friends and you right now So I probably get more value out of these skins than anybody else on earth. Yes, I got it, baby I cannot tell you how often I hear you guys say something like you only like this game because blank. You only like this game because you have friends. Yes, you're right.

You only like these skins because you're a YouTuber. Yes, you're right. Two for two. That's completely valid criticism. And there's an infinite number of words that could fill in this blank.

Yeah, like you and like, that's why I like to play any game. We're not fucking video game reviewers, dog.

We're people playing games for fun. Like, I don't know. I eat cookies and shit.

Like, what's that one 4chan post? Like equality slop,

like you only like it because it's good.

What the fuck did you just say? Can you repeat that one more time? Equality slop, you only like it because it's good, you can't name a real reason to like it. Why am I only attracted to women that have mental illness? All women have mental illness. There was another guy that was like, you only call things fun because you can't think of an actual description.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Quality slop is getting to me. Like it's actually sitting in my head right now.

Like how the fuck do you come back from that? What do I say? Like... right now. Like how the fuck do you come back from that? What do I say? Like. Now my relationship with Call of Duty skins is just like my relationship with junk food. I know they're soulless products made by greedy corporations to maximize their profits. I'm getting executed.

Wait, I'm getting executed.

I know they're not good for me and that I shouldn't be consuming them, but you'll still catch me munching on a bag dressed chips at the end of the day because they're delicious and I just can't stop myself from shoving them into my mouth. Potentially? Yes, I got it, baby! Perfection! The most shocking part about Modern Warfare 3 Cosmetics is just how many aspects of your experience can be customized with a purchase.

You might think the monetization in this game is just custom operators and custom gun skins, but you would be sorely mistaken. It's so weird seeing my last name as a gun. The gun up on screen right now is super freaky. Just so you understand the extent to which you can customize the cosmetics of your experience, I've identified nearly 20, yes 20, different features you can modify in the game. Music, loading screens, emblems, calling cards, vehicles, operators, weapons, camos, gun screens, charms, decals, stickers, finishers, inspecs, tracers, death effects, reticles, and even killstreaks. You can turn a recon juggernaut into a space marine with a custom skin and this is not a joke. Oh my god, it's John40k! I immediately got drilled.

His neurons.

Bro be like, I fucking hate 40k.

The goofiest part of customizing killstreaks is that the skin applies no matter who cracks open the crate, so I had to suffer the humiliation of being killed multiple times with my own skin that I paid money for. No, it's inbounds. Oh, somebody stole it. Wait, wait, get to that corner, get to that corner. No! paid money for. The more you play the game, the more absurd shit you see.

Like I don't know if you were paying attention when I got drilled into dust a minute ago, but that guy had an emblem based on the vibe check meme from 2019 where that red-eyed emoji reloads in 1911 and blasts a hole in your screen. They've got Drake memes from 2015 as calling cards,

smug anime women that they think changing the hair color of will somehow make original. And even small anime girls getting socked in the face by bigger anime girls. I tell you what, if you're into anime shit, tactical shit, or skeleton shit, this game has an endless number of cosmetics that will help you fill that void in your soul. He said, typing these words on top of an anime girl mouse pad

wearing a tactical anime shirt, looking a skeleton dead in the eyes. I love seeing how Activision will take an existing concept by making it completely over the top. Like the first time I saw a weapon inspect was the AK in Counter-Strike, where your character takes a look at his rifle in an animation that takes maybe five seconds. Call of Duty said, nah, son,

our weapon inspects are gonna have holographic anime women taking up half your screen as they dance and wave at you in the middle of your shipment round. That's not even the most egregious one either, into the void, rip out a can of Deadshot Daiquiri, slurp it down, crush the can on your head, then toss it back into the void in an animation that lasts almost 30 seconds.

Holy shit.

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Oh my God. Ah! Mono Warfare 3 may have dozens of options for customization, but playing it day after day, hour after hour, I've determined the five that truly matter. In no particular order, the cosmetics that I feel are absolutely worth the cash are music, weapon skins, special weapons, operators, and finishers. I know it's crazy that monetization isn't limited to the visual medium anymore now that

you can pay Activision to change how your game sounds. When you think about it, music is really just a cosmetic for your ears, and the reason I bought the Hans Zimmer pack is that you get so much mileage out of it. The main menu, the spawn screen, and the end screen are all soundtracks from 2009's Modern Warfare 2, and boy, is it ever worth it. Don't act like that's not the tightest shit you've ever heard in a video game, with the

exception of maybe Bury the Light. Weapon skins are also very worth it, and I'm lubing in stuff like camos, tracers, and death effects here too. If you really love a weapon and use it round after round, a custom skin is absolutely worth it and will fundamentally alter the way your gunplay feels. It can be so transformative that sometimes it can piss off your teammates with how much you've altered the

visuals of combat in what I like to call skinterference. No, no, I just died because you killed someone and they turned into a fucking comic book silhouette Which I thought was a person and then died Like legitimately died to your skin just now which was very cool. That was very cool particle effects of the way Died to fucking aggressive monetization Special weapons are technically weapon skins because they're just altering the appearance of an existing weapon like turning the soul render sword into a beam saber But they fundamentally alter the way the weapon behaves

So I think calling it special is fair like turning the gladiator push dagger into the beast glove makes the weapon completely Unrecognizable this is just a regular one-hit knife and this is going to send your enemies flailing thousands of feet in the air These things are not the same. The Beast Club is by no means the only game in town because you've got the beam saber, the Doom chainsaw, even the chainsword from Warhammer 40k. You like body check like her and she would have like

actually flown backwards, dog. Dog, no. I gotta tell you what's happening right now. All these dudes are so good at killing me. They are picking up my chainsword, and when I run at them with the chainsword, they all counter my execution with the chainsword. So I ran into this crate, and there were three dudes with chainswords all waiting for me,

and they counter-chainsword my chainsword. That's also how I know these are special weapons that everybody wants to get their hands on, because anytime I die with one of these things, you better believe that an enemy is gonna pick it up. That and these items elicit more rage out of enemy players than any other item in the game, and it's not even close. Left the game to get away from this dumb ass badger guy and got in the game with him again. This dude is mad about the monkey glove.

I have killed this guy, Jerry, so many times that he is so mad. Looking for him all that's Jerry. What the fuck you can't run from me Jerry. I'm sorry You just can't you just can't fuck open my eyes just like a thermite grenade is always right You are always in the same spot Jerry fucking jumping. I really hope he was about to say the word nerd

bitch

fucking

Jumping motherfucker Jerry you're 1250. You can't be talking like that read the code of conduct, buddy That's fun as these weapons are they do come at a cost And the beast glove is probably the most laughable micro transaction. I have ever purchased unsurprisingly I don't even think it's a micro transaction anymore. This is a macro transaction To get the beast glove you have to buy four separate Godzilla King Kong bundles that are all $20 each for a grand total of $80 for a single digital monkey glove. Wait, can I outdo that with monkey?

Monkey! The main event of monetization in Modern Warfare 3 will always be the operators. Perfection, finally, it happened. Get this guy off the fucking boat! I know the novelty of universe crossovers is no longer interesting now that Fortnite exists. Like, you guys can see Hatsune Miku kill Thanos in a pair of Air Jordans in front of Slim Shady and Batman, dancing to Blackpink and be like, Yeah, that's normal. Meanwhile, my eyes are popping out of my head like Jim Carrey in The Mask. But Fortnite is a cartoony-ass game for whimsical children,

and Call of Duty is a pretty serious rated-M-for-mature shooter that makes all of these crossovers a hundred times weirder.

Am I tweaking or did I just see fucking Alucard walk by?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, Alucard's in the game.

What the fuck is he doing here, man? of dollars in operator bundles, I think it's safe to say that I had the most fun with the characters that were most out of place in the Call of Duty universe.

Yes, I got him baby!

Hell yeah!

The kind of shit that makes the enemy team have a double take at what the hell just ran across their screen with an assault rifle.

Skeletor up in this bitch!

Smack this bitch!

Alright, that was more Bane from Harley Quinn than Skeletor, but I can't really do a good Skeletor. SPOILER! It's not a real table! My starting five that break the immersion of Call of Duty are Dinosaur, Gundam, Skeletor, Nicki Minaj, and Scumbag Cat.

No!

Nicki, please!

Yes, I got her!

I smacked Nicki Minaj right in the face.

But the real magic happens by combining the right operator with my fifth and final cosmetic absolutely worth the money in Modern Warfare 3, finishers. That's it, you're going to fucking jail, Izzy. The goal here is to take an operator and a finisher that have absolutely no business being put together and putting them together. Like Rhea Ripley doing wrestling finishers is already a sight to behold, I can't believe this exists in a Call of Duty game. Holy shit that is a cool execution.

Yes I got her baby, hell yeah, do. How we do it right into it? Yes, but if you mix and match the Rhea Ripley bundle with the Kevin Durant finisher now, we're cooking with gas objection Real fucking ball it just try to think of an operator and a finisher that are as different from one another as possible and put Them together homeland or Nicki Minaj style. Oh my god. I got it. Bye Once I successfully combined all the right cosmetics together including weapons weapon skins operators and finishers My god, I got it! Finally! Motherfucker, fuck your ancestors, fuck everything about you, fuck your undercover life,

you and the rest of the fucking females of character,

you bitch ass fuckers.

And it was a great reminder that no matter how many skins I buy, no matter how many cosmetics I equip, and no matter how much people complain, Call of Duty is still Call of Duty underneath it all. No matter how many code of conducts you make players sign, they will still be racist, bigoted, and hateful while yelling into a microphone that they probably forgot was on.

Did I ever tell you guys that I didn't know about the COD, like hot mic-ing your shit thing and one of my friends was going to a divorce-

No, he was about to do it to one of you, alright? Burp Red was very, very close.

I was talking her through the divorce and I didn't know that it would hot mic shit, I would play Warzone and people would be like in the gulag, they're like stop talking about your divorce.

I didn't know about the hot mic thing.

Oh god, I'm gonna fucking cry dude, I'm gonna cry.

In a fucking Discord call with a friend, he's just, you know, I haven't even eaten right, and just, it's been hard to sleep.

You're gonna fucking quit being a Warzone.

I'm just gonna quit. I'm just gonna quit. I think shipment is a perfect metaphor for call of duty in 2025 because in modern warfare three, they re-skinned it with a new coat of paint eight separate times. Arena shipment, bit mint, sell ship, ship miss, go ship, ship mint, stay high and sunny ship. We were basically forced to play this 24 seven shipment playlist because all of the others had super low player counts and queue times longer than Marvel movies.

And you know what? I ain't even mad. 24-7 Shipment on Modern Warfare 3 is the preferable Call of Duty experience in 2025 when you compare it to anything Black Ops 7 has to offer. Who out here trying to eat some pizza tonight?

I did not know you were gonna-

I FUCKING LOVE PIZZA! Big love pizza! Shipment is by far my favorite flavor of first-person shooter Brain Rot, because it brings out so many emotions as it slowly destroys your gray map.

If you put steak on ketchup, bro, I'm not going to lie.

Dude, steak on ketchup, what are you saying, my man? What are you saying?

What are you saying?

Playing on this tiny-ass map is like speedrunning your friends committing the seven deadly sins, especially greed, envy, and wrath. and Rath. Oh Sigrid you rat bastard you thought you were doing that? God damn! Oh who's it was the only person that calls in fucking care packages? Who's is it?

Have you seen that Roblox video of the guy doing the DQ voice in the public lobby? He's like, No! Kitten! Come back here right now! His body's getting really angry!

Fuck you! Apostle can you move? Apostle you're blocking the- Those of you that have been around a while know that me and the boys hit peak brain rot playing shipment on modern warfare 2 in 2023 but I managed to experience a round that was so chaotic that if I downscaled this gameplay to maybe 480 or 360p you would think this was me being farmed with What are these drones? What are these drones? Dude. Yo my screen is straight up explosive. Oh my god a swarm.

We're gonna fucking die.

We're gonna fucking die.

We're gonna fucking die.

I'm getting legitimately fucking farmed right now.

We're dying through the water.

I shouldn't have to kill a swarm.

What is this?

What kill streak is this?

This makes no sense. The swarm is the highest one. I'm gonna kill a swarm! What is this? What kill streak is this? This makes no sense.

The swarm is the highest one.

Oh.

We let somebody farm us so hard that they get to just delete us from the map.

I'm so energized.

Dude, listen. Listen! Listen! You're not supposed to play this game. You are.

This is the reason why you aren't supposed to.

What the fuck is happening?

This is actually actually my brain you're not supposed to be playing call of duty dude

i feel like i'm getting like mp ultra programming right now in my brain

they are beating us 183 to 31 this is this is dumb are you for real no no my loadout is suboptimal dog i don't know what to tell you my screen is As impossible as it may seem, running around with reskinned characters, shooting reskinned I love that you're all finally getting to experience the average experience of me playing an FPS. As impossible as it may seem, running around with reskinned characters shooting reskinned weapons on a reskinned map that has only barely changed since 2007 was still incredibly fun for me. And I say that knowing full well that paying $70 for a game that is essentially the same

title as a year earlier and then filling it with ridiculously expensive microtransactions is scummy. But my niche interest of taking serious video games and transforming them into the silliest possible experience makes my purchase of this game and these skins 100% worth it. I was having so much fun in these lobbies that I was barely able to string together sentences after watching back my stream vods. I'm just gonna let that happen

I saw cigarette being beaten to death with the chair WWE style and I just let it To make things even better heavenly invited legendary vtubers and Treya to our lobby which cranked everything up to 11 And I'm here to tell you right now that if given the opportunity to go back in time to buy these silly ass skins, to play on this silly ass map with my silly ass friends,

I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.

Women, especially women, will play a video game and pick one disgusting man and be like, this is my little scrum-blo.

Oh shit, that explains a lot.

That explains a lot. I might gotta rethink some things in this lifetime. This is my little grungus. Look how scrimbly he is Stop saying this shit right now worse than doggo Cannot be talking like Millennials in the voice call not around me on God we boiling you in liquid dog

I'm fun. We call You cannot be talking like millennials in the voice call, not around me. Oh God, we boiling you in liquids, dog.

I'm fine, we call french fries potato jeremies.

Shut the fuck up.

There's also no way that's true.

Where the fuck are you from?

How do we feel about somebody naming their kid Aquaman? Zed, what are you doing here, bro?

Wait, wait, no, didn didn't mess a little bit i didn't know we unlocked a new version of bottom there what the hell are you doing around here sorry we were being southern while playing

league oh sure i got that what that means hold on i will not elaborate on what that here we go

oh shit oh i forgot she could do that i completely forgot there we go

is this what you wanted yeah yeehaw is this what the what you wanted? Yeah yeehaw, Namnayo Is this what the fuck you wanted, bottle?

Wait, wait, wait

You think this is fucking funny? I'll fuck you up

Which top 10 watch mojo video are we watching right now?

Is this like country's entry?

She has two voices and she really wakes up sometimes and chooses to be British

I'm surprised you can pick up the fucking controller you greasy fat bitch. Zed move your fat ass out of the fucking way I can't get out of the box. Move Bickham's goddamn. Fuckin' 88 billion polygons in the ass, two in the face bro.

Can you move?

Chudtreya you blocked me two times in a fucking row.

Did you just think of that Chudtreya? Or is this a running gag? I just came up because I spawned right behind her again in the same fucking box. Heavenly Chuntrea is so disrespectful. I can't believe you said that out loud dude. That's so mean.

Like whatever beef you have with Zentrea, that's just rude.

That's just rude.

You hear that Heavenly?

Oh yeah.

Yeah Heavenly, why can't you just be kind?

Wait man, what are you talking about? Be Jolly. What? What happened? I stopped paying attention for 5 seconds.

Okay, I don't recall... All I'm saying is, during this stream, I don't remember Zen saying anything bad about you, but I do remember you calling her Tra-Trail.

So, Trail was in my chat and literally said I didn't know they set up PCs for call doing a fat camp, heavenly. Like, what do you mean? She attacked me before I attacked her.

Are we going to act like that's not just gas though? That's just gas. That's funny.

That's awesome, cause I made that up.

What?

Yeah, me when I lie in set ups and shit.

Gas lighting at 2025. Fuck you.

And that's about it dog I would like to thank you so very much for watching my video Thank you a hundred thousand hundred trillion times over I am kind of fried after that one, but I feel great at the same time Please pick up some rad sickness on your way out You can even use code badger so I can get a commission on it You can even use code badger so I can get a commission on it

That would just be so fucking dank. I'll be sure to tune in next time when skulker and clue and cigarettes somehow get me to play arma I don't know why they want me to play arma, but I guess I'm gonna play arma. All right