They Took It Back (Day 3395 - 3/12/19)

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The vlog starts out with Stephen finding the receipt for Mallory's new office chair so they can return it back. Stephen says that they talked to a couple people about the chair and were told that "an uncomfortable chair is uncomfortable forever" which Mal agreed with. Mal called Costco to tell them that she wanted to return the chair and asked if they had to disassemble it since they already built it. But, Costco told her that she doesn't have to disassemble it. Stephen tells Mal that it sucks that this chair didn't work out, but she will definitely find a chair that she likes eventually.

They then drive to Costco to return the office chair. Stephen says that there were ten hundred thousand (you mean 1 million Stephen?) police cars out today. He said that they had to stop by the Post Office first to drop off Mal's Patreon prints and on the way they saw a person that was stopped by 2 police cars. On the way back up the road, there were 2 more police cars that stopped 2 more cars. They then saw a police motorcycle and another police car. Mal said that all those police cars they saw were in the span of 3 miles. Stephen says that he will drive exactly at the speed limit because he's not risking getting a ticket today with all the police cars driving around. He says that he is not sure why the police are out in droves today. Stephen then says "I'm going to drive...I guess it's not nice and slow, nice and average".

They are then inside Costco where Stephen said that Mal tried out the display chair again and said that it definitely felt different than the chair they just returned. Stephen says that now that doesn't matter because they took it back. He says that Costco has the best return policy as they didn't even ask them any questions when they returned it. Stephen then says that they have only had that chair for a short amount of time, but he thought it would be fitting to make a clip in memory of "Mallory's Chair - March 10th, 2019 - March 12th, 2019". The clip included Mal trying out the display chair multiple times, the time-lapse of them building the chair, and the clip where Mal said that she disliked the new chair.

The video then transitions to Mal cooking shrimp for dinner. Stephen then talks about how a lot of companies are making weird chip flavors and that most of the time they are a "miss". When he went to his parent's house, they gave him a bag of Kroger Prime Rib And Horseradish Flavored Wavy Potato Chips. Stephen says that he wasn't expecting them to be good, but they were actually really good. He then recommends getting them if you like the flavors of prime rib and horseradish together. Stephen goes over to Mal and asks if the shrimp will cook quickly. Mal says that the shrimp was a little colder than she expected when she put them in the hot oil, so they might take a couple more minutes to cook. Stephen had his shrimp with a baked potato on the side and Mal had her shrimp with kale chips. Stephen mentioned that he used to eat baked potato often as as a kid.

He then says that the difference between his and Mal's plate is that he will be using the "superior" condiment which is Bookbinder's Seafood Cocktail Sauce. Stephen says that he grew up eating seafood, especially shrimp, with cocktail sauce and he really loves it. Mal on the other hand has strong negative opinions about cocktail sauce which makes him sad because he really loves it. Stephen says that he is interested in seeing if other people also like cocktail sauce or not. Mal then feeds him a kale chip. Stephen then says that cocktail sauce also tastes good with french fries and that it's basically just horseradish ketchup. Mal cuts in and says that cocktail sauce is not good at all. Stephen says that cocktail sauce is basically spicy ketchup basically spicy ketchup. He then says "You hear that Whataburger fans? Do you hear that Thomas? Isn't that what you want? Cocktail sauce. Whataburger spicy ketchup is just cocktail sauce" as he zooms into his face and ominous music plays in the background. Mal cuts in again and said that Stephen has never tried the spicy ketchup before. Stephen then acknowledges that he has no idea what it is and that it's probably different than cocktail sauce.

The video then transitions to Stephen talking about how they have been productive, despite having to go to Costco for the 4th time this week. He then says that Mal was showing him some videos she found online about some interesting Fallout 4 conversations. In Fallout 4, the game doesn't stop when you are talking to NPCs so things can happen in the environment around your character. In the videos Mal showed Stephen, there are bizarre things are happening in the background as the character is talking to an NPC. Stephen says that his favorite one was the death claw one where a death claw is fighting something in the background as the character is talking to an NPC. He also includes that death claw clip in the vlog.

Stephen then talks about how he has been reading comments about people's thoughts on the changes in camera settings. He saw that a lot of people were saying that filming in 24 frames/sec was making people motion-sick. Stephen says that the 24 frames/sec isn't permanent and he will be switching between that and 30 frames/sec to see which one he likes better. He says that he wants to be able to be happy with the settings so he is trying a bunch of things out. But, he also doesn't want to viewers to get sick from watching the videos. So, he wants to find the settings that wont' make people puke at their screens from motion-sickness. Stephen says that there is already enough puke around here and films Kepler while saying "Yeah, I'm talking about you."