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I forgot that thing

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In my recent Addiction video, people are
like, wait, how do you use a mouse in Tetris

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How do you play on the PC?
Well, it's actually pretty easy

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I use an app called Nox App Player. You
can just Google for it, Nox App Player

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If you're worried, it's just bignox.com.
There'll be a link in the description

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You can just click that directly.
Hello, Parker. It's really simple stuff

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You just want to download. There's one
big download button. There's a Mac version

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There's a default version for Windows. If you've got
a Linux PC, well, you knew what you were getting into

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It's going to take a few seconds
to download. It's not too big

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I'm not entirely sure how much space it takes up exactly. Unless
you're on like a tiny SSD, it's probably not going to matter too much

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That's going to be more than a couple of gigs, I think.
I don't know exactly how big Android is these days

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It's like four gigs on my phone, but I'm not sure
if that's different for like just this emulator

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Anyway, what Nox is, it is an Android
emulator that just plays Android apps

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All it really is, I already have it installed,
so it wants me to back up some stuff

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This demo is really bad. It's too much for me. Actually,
I'm not going to back it up because I do POSTAGES

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That's one important thing for Android
games. Back it up. I don't care

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I have POSTAGES backed up so all
my save files are on my phone

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POSTAGES are one thing you're going to have to watch for if you
want to play this game on both your phone and on the Linux PC

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I'll get into that a bit later. Basically, any game that has
cloud save, you can save on your phone if it's an Android phone

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And then you can load it up on Nox App Player and play it here. Nox has
pretty good compatibility. There's a few games I haven't got to play

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Mostly just Pocket Plants, actually.
Pocket Plants I do not get to work

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Really, that's about it. I'm sure there's
probably other ifs and bits that don't work

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The installation process is super simple. You might have
heard of BlueStacks. BlueStacks is another alternative

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I don't recommend it anymore. I actually recall
having a bit more trouble with the component

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Not like it was just a couple extra
menus. It really wasn't a big deal

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But it also comes with this new video recorder,
which I already have my own video recorder stuff

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It has gamer ads. Nox is
supported by ads. It just adds

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It'll install the latest mobile game
craze on your PC. Not on your PC

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On the Android thing. You'll see Pocket Plants
or whatever. You don't have to run the app

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It doesn't put video ads on
there. It's not a big deal

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It's not as obnoxious as BlueStacks has gotten.
I hope it never gets as obnoxious as BlueStacks

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BlueStacks has just gotten worse
and worse. That's why I go for this

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This is also designed more specifically for gaming
stuff. As you can see in the background there, it's like

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oh, look at all these games you can play.
It's mostly designed for playing apps

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It's an Android emulator full on, as far as I'm
aware. I think it has some managed screencasts

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I'll never use the internal one. It also has auto-touch
macros. If you want to find some stuff in the distro

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you can set up some basic stuff.
Here's the ad I was talking about

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It just pops on some popular
thing that you want to play

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What you want to do is just open the Play
Store. You probably have a Google account

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If you don't, you can make it here. You
need one to download stuff in the App Store

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Excuse me a second, I'll log in with my own info. All
right, now that I've logged in with my Google account

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I did get a little, did you just sign in thing,
because Google has a lot of issues with grading

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You can just click OK on that. You just
want to search for EBCM on the store

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Install it, blah, blah, blah. It's just
like installing an app on your phone

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because that's basically just what it
is. It's not your phone, obviously

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You just want to run the game. If you're on
iOS, you can transfer your save file over

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It's a little bit more convoluted.
If you log in with Facebook

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you can load, the cloud save actually goes to
Facebook, as well as iCloud and Google Play

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So you can actually switch devices as
long as you save to a Facebook account

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You don't really care about this
tutorial. You can skip the tutorial

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It's been a long time since I've seen this. I know
the name change seems pretty permanent at this point

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but I still hate the term tap, tap, save.
It's a big dream, what a cool freaking name

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Hey, excuse me. And it'll probably actually
automatically load you a save data

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if you're on, if you play normally on Android.
And for some reason, it loads twice sometimes

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See, I'm not entirely sure what that is. But if
you're just starting out, you can just load both

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I usually, what I do is I make a manual
save before I'm going to switch over

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Save to cloud. Actually, wait, no, let's progress
over it. I actually, since I just loaded this

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I want to be absolutely sure I have the latest
stuff because pearls are really painful to lose

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I had a few bugs and lost pearls. I'm really
frustrated with that feature, by the way

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I don't think it do a lot of speed on me.
117, that's the correct amount of pearls

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Yeah, what you want to do when you switch devices, you
want to be absolutely sure you click save to cloud. Yes

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And then on your other device, you want to click restore
from cloud. And you want the sanity text, last save time

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That's one thing, when it tries to auto-restore your
save, it won't tell you what the last save time was

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It won't tell me how many sticks you have. There's another
game called, all right, I'll have it installed right here

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But the Octave test will tell you
how many plants you have unlocked

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So it's really easy to tell whether your current save file,
like it'll say, oh, your current save file has 10 plants

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but the cloud save has 11 plants. And obviously,
you can go, oh, phew, I want the 11th plant one

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That's one, thank you. And this
game kind of forces its way through

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If you're on Android, which is what the Knocked app
player is, if you get that confirmed loading thing

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you can actually just press that button,
and you can cancel out of the auto-load

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And you can just manually go to save from cloud. It'll
tell you exactly when it was saved, which is really handy

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I do recommend not giggling around too much. I
have accidentally overwritten saves a couple times

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when bouncing between my phone and this. I mostly stay in
the app player or in the phone for long stretches of time

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It is possible to bounce around like I said,
but you do want to be a little bit careful

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Now, remember, like I said, if you're on iOS,
and you want to play on Knocked app player

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you're going to need to log in on
Facebook. You can do it on any Facebook

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You need to put in a Facebook here.
Log in on your phone, save the game

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log in on here on the Knocked app player. Then you
can load your saved game from the source in cloud

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and you should be all good. I haven't done
it myself because I have an Android phone

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I don't have this iOS stuff that will. My
cat is activating things on the keyboard

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Great, thank you, my friend. Yeah. And then
from there, it's pretty much just a bit freeing

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like you've always seen it. It doesn't,
there's nothing really too fancy or lashy

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You can go into settings. If you have a Wii shirt, if
you have a Toast PC, you can be all right with Knocked

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You just want to kick the performance
settings down. I have a Surface Pro 3 tablet

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which is not really, you know, it's not a gaming
PC. So what I usually do is I set, on that one

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I set the resolution down a
little bit. 720 works pretty fine

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You want to set the frame rate down to, it
looks like a slider, if it didn't be no slider

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I set the frame rate slider down to 30. You can put
the resolution down a little bit lower if you want

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You can put the performance down to mid. If
you don't notice a difference in your games

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and you set your performance settings low, I'm not
going to say it because it's going to want to restart

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If you set the performance settings low, I
haven't noticed a difference in it this year

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This year is a pretty flexible game. You
can play it with whatever settings you want

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Certain features of the game are a little bit
painful. With the mouse control, like taking pictures

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is really painful to play. Unless you have a touch
screen PC. It works properly on my Surface Pro

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because it has touch input. But for the
most part, you're probably not going to be

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taking amazing pictures. Some games, like
I said, this is mostly just for this game

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but some games will be a little awkward to play.
You might want to set up a little something

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Some macros, add some macros to
certain games. You can set up..

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I'm not sure exactly how accurate... Oh yeah,
gamepad thing, I think this is. Keyboard control mode

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Oh yeah, basically for this, you can set like, okay,
whenever I press the left trigger on my gamepad

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I want you to press this button here. You can
mouse your keyboard or your gamepad to play things

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That's more for games like, you know,
other platforms or shooters and stuff

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The mouse works fine for this game. But
that's pretty much all you need to see

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That's pretty much how you play a bit game on
your computer. You can play it on PC or Mac

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I don't know if it works in line on Linux.
If you're on Linux, you're on your own

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and you're used to being on your own. Pretty much
the game just works the same it does on Android

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because it's just Android. It's not too
complicated. But hopefully that helps you out

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And like I said, the link to Knox is just in the
description if you want to just go straight there

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It's not too big, it's not too complicated.
It works on pretty much everything

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My general standard is it works
just fine on a CineScope 3

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which is like, it's a decent, it's
like a three-year-old business laptop

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I figure if you can run it on that, it's
pretty, you can run it on pretty much anything

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that you'd expect you to run modern programs.
It's not the worst thing in the world

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It's not a toaster, but... You
can run this near toast quality

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It might be a fancy toaster, but I do
believe there are toasters out there

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that could, in fact, run good old Obituary and like
this. Random tip, completely unrelated to the game

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I learned on Reddit that you can move... I
don't have multiple PCs to show you properly

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but you can stack these ride locks. You can
stack one here and then move one over here

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As long as the locks touch each other,
you can actually move them over

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and you can create a bridge into the main
area. You can actually see your creation

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I don't, unfortunately, have enough
PCs to really show you what I mean

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because I've been saving all of my stuff
up for the stuff that affects vitality

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But you can make bridges and move stuff over
here so you can actually freaking see it

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You can just barely see off to the left there.
That's why it's two to those in the corner

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So you can see them. If you have a lot more...
If you have pearls to burn on white rocks

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I would just make a little bridge so you can actually
see a bit. I don't know why the expand isn't down here

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because there's no coal here and you
can actually see it. I don't know

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Not very to the point, but... Yeah,
that's pretty much how you do it