Life's A Glitch TV



"NovaWar: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is NovaWar! MaximusBlack: And I'm an Angry Black Man. NovaWar: And I'm an angry Batman."

Life's A Glitch TV (commonly abbreviated as LAGTV) is a YouTube channel hosted by two Canadian guys named Adam (NovaWar) and Jeff (MaximusBlack). They have done some Let's Plays for Resident Evil 5, Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead 2, although they are mostly known for their StarCraft II commentary series called "When Cheese Fails 101", which has been retooled as "Will Cheese Fail?".

Unlike their contemporaries such as Day Nine, Husky Starcraft and TotalBiscuit (all of whom cast games at Tournament Play level), LAGTV casts replays of mid- to high-level Ladder games submitted by their fans, in an attempt to analyze in-depth what happens when cheese tactics fail. The duo also casts more traditional 1v1 Ladder games, while still keeping them separate from When Cheese Fails 101 proper.

MaximusBlack and NovaWar are known for their insightful analysis, upbeat personality, natural chemistry and poop jokes. LOTS of poop jokes.

"NovaWar: (after about twenty seconds of Stunned Silence) WHY IN THE FUCK! DO WE GET! THIS! HORSESHIT! WHY DOES IT HAPPEN?! WE HAVE TWENTY - SIX - HUNDRED EMAILS FOR WHEN CHEESE FAILS, AND 90% OF THEM ARE THIS SHIT!"
 * Berserk Button: If you are winning a match, you better hope you don't do something stupid to throw it away in the endgame, especially if your opponent has made every mistake under the sun and has essentially given you the match on a silver platter. Otherwise MaximusBlack will destroy you.
 * It is also not advised to send the casters replays of worker rushes.

"NovaWar: You know what's better than a Planetary Fortress? A "polanetary forotdds". Those are so OP."
 * Big OMG: A favourite phrase of MaximusBlack's whenever something extraordinary happens, such as  and , and especially
 * But Not Too Black: Frequently lampshaded by Maximus, who is quite black in Real Life, but has a regular Canadian accent without so much of a hint of Soul Brotha. He'll sometimes slip into stereotypical Soul Brotha when he's really angry though.
 * Canada, Eh?: Both casters have extremely distinct Canadian Accents, right down to saying "aboat" (NOT ABOOT) instead of about.
 * They tend to make exclusively Canadian pop culture references by accident, failing to realize no one will get them until it's too late. On more than one occasion they've referenced Tim Horton's, and once they even compared a fast unit to Donovan Bailey, before lampshading how obscure the reference would be to non-Canadians
 * Catch Phrase: Several.
 * "Good afternoon/evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is NovaWar/MaximusBlack!" "And I'm __________!"
 * Hit me up with that noise!
 * Whenever a player's attempted cheese backfires on them, they are said to have "shit the bed."
 * Whenever the units get killed, they are also said to be "shitting the bed".
 * "Uh Jeff? I have a question for you."
 * "Sour about life."
 * "Bouse."
 * "You Fool!"
 * Epic Fail: Pretty much everything on When Cheese Fails, although some episodes take this Up to Eleven.
 * Fan Boy: Adam and Jeff are this for The Elder Scrolls.
 * Fan Nickname: Zealots are all named Bob, Colossi are Giraffes, and Marines are Billie Jeans. Players with hard-to-pronounce names are also given alternate nicknames; for example, Jadaba becomes known as Jabba.
 * If a player reaches 5,000 minerals in the bank (in a game where you are expected to spend minerals CONSTANTLY and never hoard), it's called Facebook Money. FireToBlaze almost reached 10,000 minerals at once, which prompted the casters to give that milestone a new nickname: Oprah Money.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: How Jeff and Adam usually portray themselves. There's very occasionally some mild Ho Yay that gets Played for Laughs.
 * Hypocrite: Players will sometimes complain about their opponent's cheese tactics in the chat, when really said opponent was just fighting the complainer's cheesing with their own cheese.
 * Large Ham: Both casters often become this.
 * Man of a Thousand Voices: Maximus is always the sound effect guy, "hitting NovaWar up with that noise" before the start of each match, providing his own interpretations on the battle noises of certain units, and doing a-capella "epic music" during particularly large-scale battles.
 * The Merch: NovaWar once joked about making Bob the Zealot T-shirts.
 * Non Sequitur: Both Adam and Jeff are prone to these. However, at one point, Adam took it to a whole 'nother level and basically turned an entire episode into one.
 * Rage Quit: Per typical StarCraft etiquette, any player who leaves without typing "gg" in the chat is assumed to have rage-quit, and this tends to happen a lot in LAGTV-casted games. One particularly memorable early episode had a Protoss player ragequitting one minute into the match because his probe died in an attempted proxy cannon rush.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In particuarly obnoxious matches, the casters will break down step-by-step exactly how much their cheese failed.
 * Rouge Angles of Satin: Misspelled chat messages are mocked.


 * Self-Imposed Challenge: NovaWar says makes MaximusBlack perform builds under crazy restrictions. For instance, there's the "Tripping Balls" build which involves no combat units save for Sentries and hallucinations.
 * Sound Effect Bleep: F-bombs (and/or worse) are usually bleeped out. Videos that aren't bleeped get a special "Mature content warning" preface.
 * Stunned Silence: After ranting and raving about a particularly stupid move, the casters will sometimes suddenly go dead silent.
 * Tempting Fate: "If he, somehow survives this (which he won't), I will... (quit LAGTV?) ...yeah.")
 * He does it again.

Other games

 * Epic Fail: "Failcraft" episodes in the minecraft series show unusual or strong screwups.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard: In his house in Minecraft, Jeff had built a "pit of death", an extremely deep pit with lava at the bottom. This pit has killed Jeff 3 times, and helped in causing him to loose a lot of valuable items.