Rock Paper Scissors vs. Russian Roulette - Stark’s Rap Battles (Feat. garbageGothic, & More!)

Welcome back to the long awaited return to Stark’s Rap Battles! In today’s 3v3 we have Rock Paper Scissors, the nostalgic game from everyone’s childhood going up against Russian Roulette, a deadly game with deadly consequences. Who will survive? And who might fall? That’s for you to decide! ▼ Listen to the song on Spotify, Apple Music, and iTunes! ▼ (COMING SOON) Thank you to Jamie12o4 & MaviKartal2003 for being our Patrons for this battle! ▼ If you like what you see, please consider supporting me on Patreon! ▼ ▼ Who Won? Vote here to decide! ▼ ▼ Join the Discord server! ▼ PRODUCTION: Golden as Rock Jenni No Mercy as Paper @JenniNoMercy IsaacV as Scissors garbageGothic, Michael Stark & Matt Raichous as Russian Roulette @garbageGothic @ERBoNostalgia Writing: garbageGothic, Jenni No Mercy, Matt Raichous, & Michael Stark Producer: Mat Andasun Arrangement, Mixing & Mastering: Michael Stark Sound Designer: Matt Raichous Directing: Michael Stark, Jenni No Mercy & Matt Raichous Audio Playback: Matt Raichous, Michael Stark & garbageGothic Makeup: Alley Raichous Costuming: Alley & Matt Raichous Editing: Michael Stark Thumbnail: Michael Stark Series Logo: Cannibal Worms ABOUT rock paper scissors (also known by several other names and word orders, see § names) is an intransitive hand game, usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. these shapes are “rock“ (a closed fist), “paper“ (a flat hand), and “scissors“ (a fist with the index finger and middle finger extended, forming a v). the earliest form of “rock paper scissors“-style game originated in china and was subsequently imported into japan, where it reached its modern standardized form, before being spread throughout the world in the early 20th century. a simultaneous, zero-sum game, it has three possible outcomes: a draw, a win, or a loss. a player who decides to play rock will beat another player who chooses scissors (“rock crushes scissors“ or “breaks scissors“ or sometimes “blunts scissors“), but will lose to one who has played paper (“paper covers rock“); a play of paper will lose to a play of scissors (“scissors cuts paper“). if both players choose the same shape, the game is tied and is usually replayed to break the tie. rock paper scissors is often used as a fair choosing method between two people, similar to coin flipping, drawing straws, or throwing dice in order to settle a dispute or make an unbiased group decision. unlike truly random selection methods, however, rock paper scissors can be played with some degree of skill by recognizing and exploiting non-random behavior in opponents. russian roulette (russian: русская рулетка, romanized: russkaya ruletka) is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against the head or body (of the opponent or themselves), and pulls the trigger. if the loaded chamber aligns with the barrel, the weapon will fire, killing or severely injuring the player. according to andrew clarke, the first trace of russian roulette can be found in the short story “the fatalist“, which was written in 1840 and was part of the collection a hero of our time by mikhail lermontov, a russian poet and writer in the story, which is set in a cossack village, the protagonist, grigory alexandrovich pechorin, claims that there is no predestination and proposes a bet in order to prove it, laying about twenty gold pieces onto a table. a lieutenant of the dragoons of the tsar, vulič, a man of serbian origins with a passion for gambling, accepts the challenge and randomly takes one of a number of pistols of various calibres from its nail, cocks it and pours gunpowder onto the pan. nobody knows if the pistol is loaded or not. “gentlemen! who will pay 20 gold pieces for me?“, vulič asks, putting the muzzle of the pistol to his forehead. he then asks grigory to throw a playing card in the air, and when the card lands, he pulls the trigger. the weapon fails to fire, but when vulič cocks the pistol again and aims it at a service cap hanging over the window, a shot rings out and smoke fills the room. #rockpaperscissors #russianroulette #rapbattle rock paper scissors vs russian roulette rap battle