Alexei Navalny plays PUBG

That's it, we're live.

Yeah, we're live.

Well, I can tell you, this is a fiasco,

bro.

A fiasco, yeah. Listen, did we really just

do this to ourselves?

I've been reading the comments this whole time, and I can

say that [ __ ] and "autists" are

[laughter] the mildest things we've been

called. It's not my fault. It's all them.

Us?

After I become president, all of you will

be punished. Kidding, kidding. All of you,

all of you will get your

awards with a frying pan. This one

right here. I'll just beat you with it.

Can you make me minister of

streams?

No. So we'd have streams like the one you

put together [laughter] this time? No,

thanks. No, I'll have proper

ministers of streaming. What? Press p

Press it. Yeah, that's it, we're ready. We've got everything

set.

Pressed it.

That's it.

So, I'm going to be this guy in his underwear.

Yeah. And next to you there'll be another guy in

underwear.

Okay.

You didn't choose any clothes, that's your own fault.

Alright then.

Well, I mean, it's like in PUBG here.

I'm ready to be the guy in underwear. Is this a hand,

or not?

No, don't worry.

The developers allowed players to choose

let go or what? What are we waiting for?

Alright, alright, basically right now you and I are

at the keyboard.

Right, right. There was actually a scandal there,

the developers let players choose the size,

let's say, of that particular thing. And players,

naturally, all set it to the biggest one.

Good thing we're not playing a game

where you have to agonize over which one to pick and

what to do. With requests, yeah, a vote.

So then they made it so that

every time you respawn, the size is

random.

Okay, remind me. W is forward,

right? That's the main button in any game.

Start it.

How exactly? What interests me most is

this. I can press

Shift and W at the same time. There I am.

But you need to.

There are so many people here.

Yeah, you do.

And most of these people want to

kill me, as I understand it. Everybody wants to

kill us.

Oh, we can hear some guys. They're

saying something. Remember when I told you

about my first PUBG match?

You hear that too? [laughter]

Totally normal. That's what the gaming community

is like.

By the way, make the chat louder for us.

Actually, not louder, but, well, you know what I mean.

But what we're picking up right now

doesn't matter at all, because we'll

have to pick everything up again. This is just,

[laughter] yeah, this is just practice.

Who's screaming so disgustingly? Oh, that's

some guy attacking me and hitting me.

That's the other 97 people

on the server.

Why is he yelling like that?

That's normal. That's PUBG.

Okay. So, look, Lyosha, we need to

land in the same place.

Why does it say "Corn on a Horse" for me?

Oh, that's you, "Corn on a Horse"?

Yeah. Did you want a different nickname from me? Yeah.

Alright, alright, alright. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I didn't

want that, didn't want that.

Why is Bled Navalny playing with me?

Well, everything's fine. Look, I'll tell you

when we're going to jump, and I'll place

a marker on the map so we can jump there

and loot there, and then go looking

for trouble.

Looting means picking up all sorts of stuff.

Okay. But you know what, this is very

basically

are we going to be listening all the time to the wild

screams of the people playing

with us? That's only at the very

beginning. So, basically, over my dead body,

he's about to run out, I think. Here I go.

No, there he is, look. Yeah, there are two of them there,

basically. Look.

So you've already been taken out, and I have to

deal with all of this by myself. Thanks, thanks,

damn it, Gosha, you're a great partner, damn it.

I'm going to run out now and shoot. Uh.

[clears throat]

Yeah, yeah. They're outside. Outside.

Sounds like a car is already driving toward you,

judging by the noise.

Okay, and I see this... Ah, that's

Yep. Look, he's sitting right behind the

wall and apparently waiting for his

teammate.

Here's some kind of clothing, I don't know, it's

white or not white, should I take it?

You need clothes and a motorcycle.

Clothes and a motorcycle. How do I do that?

So, you got killed. And now you're just waiting

for me to get killed too, or for me to become

the winner of this game.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that right now you

... we need gas.

Listen, I think, by the way, we've been spotted there

by some schoolkids, judging by the

screaming.

Come on,

Lyokha.

And this is meaty. [laughter]

Ah, come on.

Alexei, we—we come in peace.

Oh, great. Killed him, killed him.

They come in peace. You came in peace. What kind of

peace, damn it? Hello, ma'am. Okay, quiet,

quiet. Look, they're not hitting you. They are.

Okay. Fine,

guys. This is

that's it, that's it. We're about to organize

a picket. What's the issue? Damn, come to the rally

guys. Damn,

look, they'll give me a ride now.

I'm out of ammo. Damn,

then reload with us. Yeah, that's it, look,

they brought a car. Nice, listen. Everything's

all organized. Alexei, damn,

get in, basically.

How do I get in with you?

Press [laughter] now.

Come on, let's go.

Alexei,

what am I hearing from you, Alexei? [laughter]

And the people watching the stream, they

can hear this—it's Alexei. Alexei.

But they can't hear us.

We've got a great unauthorized

rally [laughter] here.

We'll gather one now. So, by the way, how many people

does a rally usually draw on average?

Wait, stop bugging me about rallies,

damn it.

This is cool. It's just that I don't really

understand. Some people are saying that I

what am I supposed to do? Go out to the lobby?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Some people say, we came in peace,

and accordingly I shouldn't

shoot at them. Others are shooting. And you didn't get

killed. Well then, guys, now I'm going to shoot at

everyone. Sorry.

Also, look, we need to turn off,

by the way, this.

Why can't we see the stream?

Nothing.

They forgot to press the button for us there.

Press the button for us. We're also

curious what it looks like.

Go into the sound settings.

Okay, I don't see it.

Ah, there, where the little gear icon is.

Well

and there it is, right, sound.

See, by the way, the game is only half-translated

And below that, voice channel,

voice output, and voice—this stuff is

all turned down to zero.

Well

I don't want to turn it off completely. It's

actually pretty funny that they're, well,

shouting. That's amusing. I just want

to understand

the audience.

The audience and, like, the spirit of the game. Well,

probably if we turn everything off. So,

shall we start?

Ah, yes, my settings are being

saved here now. All set. Okay, uh, let's press it.

I'm ready.

Hope it won't be like the first time. I just

you know, was a total amateur.

I'm counting on you, damn it. How did you

get shot right away?

Your fans showed up, you see, they

basically took you away from me and, well,

that was it. Guys, I was hoping I'd be playing

with a pro, but I'm playing with someone

just like me, so please,

go easy on him.

Is it frozen or not? Everything's fine. Could you

move it a little higher so we can

see that someone just donated 2,000 rubles

to you.

Thank you very much. Whoever donated 2,000 rubles.

And in the meantime, we've already raised half

that amount.

We've already raised half the amount.

How did they find me so quickly? Were they

like watching where I was? And

they've already found us.

But how—how can they even find us?

Because you spawn randomly,

somewhere. Someone's hitting me, dude.

Damn, I've got a rifle and there are a lot of

people right now. Th-they're yelling, damn it,

Navalny. They all just ran over to me,

all of them.

Everyone, yeah, everyone made it.

Just like United Russia (the ruling political party), damn it. What

kind of people are you? I'll fight you off anyway,

damn it. Damn Putinists.

I'm full of holes, damn it. I'm dying, but

I didn't give in.

We've arrived.

Ah, that's it, we're flying.

Is that some kind of nuclear power plant,

right? And over there is a power station.

Actually,

welcome to PUBG. Yeah,

by the way, it really is one of the

most popular games right now.

That's called strip sniping.

Stream sniping. [laughter] Stream sniping.

That's when you watch the stream

and figure out where the person is.

You figure out where the person is—is that you

flying over there or what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, I'm right next to you

now. It's fine. Now we're

Yeah, I see you and I'm flying toward you. Everything's

good.

One second. Okay, if only I could just

kill someone at least once. And

you can't crash here. It opens automatically.

You can't. The parachute, yeah, is automatic.

And when you're flying with the parachute, you can't boost

you can only steer.

Right.

So if you press W, can you

speed up, right? You just made such a loop

there.

Okay. But if I crash into a tree, will I die

or not?

Yes. No, no.

Let's do it here, there are some nice little

houses and a police van for transporting detainees nearby. We can do something next to the

[laughter] police van. Look, there it is,

just standing there. Okay, I'm running, running, running, running,

running.

I'm right next to you. Okay, it's

quiet and calm here,

everything's fine.

So, what's our strategy? Tell me. Are we

more like, you know,

for now we'll just loot a bit,

and hide from everyone.

I think we'll be pushing forward more.

Okay,

and why is that, tell me please? You

told me I shouldn't wear a white

T-shirt. Yeah, white is easy to spot. That's not

tactical. You're just noticeable in the bushes,

that

Arkadi Roberg donated 10,000 rubles.

10,000—Rotenberg, thank you very much

to Arkady Rotenberg for the 10,000 rubles. But

after the victory

of the opposition, of course, you still won't

get off lightly. So, where's, where's

some kind of weapon?

No weapons. I only found pants.

But I found something like this.

So what do you have?

I've got a little backpack. Excellent. Excellent.

A backpack is

boots. Listen, do boots

matter in terms of this

protection?

No, no.

There's a helmet here. A helmet.

There's nothing. Listen, we

No, not really, in general. I mean,

you can put something on. There is some kind of armor,

right? A helmet. You can wear a helmet, and it will

protect you. Okay, let's take a look.

Look, you and I are outside the point,

or rather, outside the circle. So basically we need to

Okay, did you find any wea—

Why are you running around naked? Do you

because I don't

I only have pants. Well, what kind of

salary is that?

Ah, look, the door is open. That means

someone was there. Was that you? Yes,

yes, so let's go together. We

need to move forward slowly.

Look, a truck. Let's take it.

But it's broken. That's it.

Well, there we go, as usual.

A car. Lyosh, cover me—there's a motorcycle coming at you.

Oh, did you see that? Shoot at him, shoot,

shoot, shoot. Oh, pardon me, sorry.

It's okay, it's okay, I've got it now. Okay. Oh, you, you

hit him, you hit him.

Hey there, Navalny.

Hey. [laughter]

Damn,

wow, Lyosh, you killed a person.

Well, he just wanted to

say hello to me. Sorry, I can't

tell the difference anymore, [laughter]

damn. I'm not allowed to do that. What? Look, another

presidential candidate—I'm not allowed. And

what is this it popped up saying while playing?

Because I'm swearing here. I can't do that.

It's fine.

My kids might be watching me.

Listen, look, everyone came to play

with you.

He's not shooting me. Come on then, let's all

kill somebody together. Who's the

main villain here? I need ammo.

So, no weapons, right?

That's how it is. [laughter] So, on the

motorcycle I can fight back with my bare hands

basically.

Yeah, don't move now. I'll

pick you up now. Well,

Hey, the motorcycle, damn it, [laughter] it got stu—

I got on the motorcycle. Oh no, I got on the

motorcycle. It's all fine. This is some kind of

motorcycle with a sidecar. Just look,

how many people there are.

Uh, the red zone has started around us.

Lyosh, I—yeah, I'm going to go down heroically now. I'm

going to heroically steal this

motorcycle right now and just drive off.

This is terrible. It's a fiasco, just a complete

fiasco. I, I'm leaving. At least I killed

a person, though one who wasn't

resisting—at least one.

What are you doing?

I'm trying to get out of here right now. There are

a bunch of people after me.

Avenge me.

I'll avenge you by shooting them.

With what? I have nothing.

Can you, uh, take any items off a corpse?

Ah,

yes, but you didn't have—They're already

shooting at me. They're already shooting at me.

Well, just shoot him faster already so we

don't drag this out.

Well, you see, you asked, and they did it.

Look, they're good guys.

I'm leaving this match.

At least we didn't go down for nothing.

Listen, okay. Right now, with

all these people running around, we could unite

them into our game and put together a team of five

people and wipe everyone out. But in theory we

could get banned for that,

but someone who doesn't want to do

the same thing could just sneak in among us and, like

a treacherous Vladimir Putin, shoot us

a shot in the back for us.

There was a similar story. Ah, some guys

would form big groups of 20 to 30

people, and they had one distinctive

feature. They took off their pants

to recognize each other. And

Well, here you don't have any to begin with,

pants. But there are pants. Take them off. Yeah.

Okay, if they start hitting me again now,

I'll do a better job of running away from everyone then.

Okay.

And the continuation of that story was that they were

infiltrated, and then they were shot in the

back.

Ah, well

So the guys infiltrated them and also

took off their pants.

Again, I can see a whole crowd of people around me.

They're going to start hitting me again now.

Listen, everyone just wants to

play with you. Literally everyone.

Well, so far all I've seen is people trying to

kill me. There, there, there again, there. I don't,

I don't see that they just want to

talk to me.

Lyosha, we've raised 103,000 rubles. Damn,

from here. What kind of entertainment is this?

Damn,

where's Shift? Jeez, I'm going to run away from you, from

all of you, like you're the National Guard (Rosgvardiya, Russia's internal security force).

[laughter]

By the way, looks like this is National Guard

training. Everything's fine.

There they are, look, running after me. The second

group is running after me.

Another 300 rubles.

Alright, let's go.

Do you hear that? Everyone's yelling. Everyone really

wants to get on the stream. Absolutely everyone.

But you can't intentionally get into our

session, right? It happens by chance?

No, by chance. Yeah.

Right.

Do you think 37,000 people are watching? Are they

watching, or are they playing?

I... some are following, some are watching, and

some are sending money, because,

Lyosh, 103,000 rubles have already been raised.

Thanks to everyone who's donating.

And we've exceeded the goal. Another 400 rubles. Guys,

seriously, this is really cool. This is amazing

support. And, well, I don't even know, streams are

freaking awesome and alive. And here, like,

we kind of need to rein ourselves in somehow.

What? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, really, forget it

altogether.

I started going off on some rant, basically. You

cut me off at just the right time.

So, what do you think of the streaming community?

Look how much they're supporting you.

No, it's really cool.

Seriously, it's great.

I think the chief of staff and the whole, whole

rest of our staff will now be very

worried that instead of

doing my work, I'll spend more time playing.

But I need to figure out how to set this up

on a... well, install it on a Mac.

You probably can do that, right?

We'll show you.

Okay, I see.

Okay, look, there's one to our left.

Ah,

Right now I'm definitely going to land at that little house

before anyone else. Yeah, let's do it. Me too.

Alright, there'll be people here soon. Are we going to

start killing them right away, or will we figure out

whether they're friendly or not?

Look, if they come up to us themselves,

start yelling,

well, if they come up on their own

and don't start shooting at us, then they're

friendly.

Okay.

A way to check whether they're friendly or not.

Wait and see whether they shoot or not. Yeah, I

really suggest just a giant...

Which finger do you press Shift with?

Your pinky.

Your pinky.

Well yeah, you know, it's kind of zen

that you need to master to learn how to play on

a keyboard. I myself am more of a

console guy.

You too, by the way

... Right. I found a pistol.

I already found an assault rifle.

Oh, well that's it then, basically I'm useless again

with just a pistol.

Well, there's some stuff lying around here. I don't know.

Pick it up. Yeah, but you don't...

pick it up, pick it up,

pick up everything you can.

There's some kind of shirt over there

red. There are always some books lying

around—do you need them here?

No, no, no, that's... well, you know, that's just... Okay,

I found a black one, by the way.

Okay. So is the strategy here more like

run around and kill everyone, or hide? And

you know, it depends. If you're actually

good with your hands, then you can kind of run

around and just take everyone out.

Why is it that I picked up a weapon, but it isn't

showing up in my hands? And I think they've already

arrived for us. Yeah, judging by the sounds, they've

come for us.

Where did they get motorcycles and

everything else so quickly?

Ah, they got lucky. They happened to be nearby.

Oh, I found pants on the

I think I just picked up a rifle. So where

is it? Why don't I have it? There it is,

lying there.

Some dude is just hitting me.

He's hitting you. Okay, okay, okay, [laughter] okay, okay. I'm

running to you. Alright, guys, we need to save

Lyosha, basically.

Save Lyosha. Save him. Some

chick is already beating me up.

That's it,

you got taken down by a woman. Live on air. Well, I'm

going to get revenge now. Okay, we're ready in advance.

I'm on it. Uh-huh. Oh,

there, there, hit her. Get her. This is

I didn't see anything. Oh well, I just

gave myself up.

Didn't get revenge again. Again, no revenge.

Why? Look, you keep getting

assault rifles, and I get all kinds of [__]

I picked up this rifle somehow, and for some reason it

didn't show up for me. But I have to admit,

this guy—or girl? She killed me

with her bare hands after all.

Okay, again,

we're ready to go again. Oh, by the way, a big,

well, I mean, you see, there's no point

waiting to find out whether someone's friendly or not, because

by the time you find out whether they are or not,

you're already dead.

Yeah, there was a similar game, DayZ. And there you had

to actually survive, eat, heal yourself.

Never heard of that.

Yeah, but that's basically, by the way,

the prototype, basically.

Sexist. Look, people are already writing that I'm a

sexist, that I should be

all at once. By the way, how long did it take before you were

accused? Quite a while had passed, actually.

An hour.

An hour, I'd say. Getting accused of sexism after an hour is pretty

impressive.

Dol is writing

for a good cause [laughter]

they're writing that it was Sobchak

when I tell you, by the way

we've already run back again [clears throat]

everyone's beating me again, so later I'll reveal a big

secret

I'm going to be running circles around them again now

because maybe Ksenia is

how do you jump here, with the space bar, right?

Lyosh, Ksenia may be much closer than you

think

where, behind the next door?

maybe, maybe something

By the way, what do you think of the idea of

holding debates in the future, for example, in

fighting games?

I'm not sure about that.

Not sure?

Listen, definitely not in PUBG, basically,

because here you can,

yeah, I mean I'd lose here. I'm not ready

[laughter] for debates in PUBG. They'd be like

Alright, that's it, let's get serious now.

[clears throat]

We're now

Okay. Getting serious—how is that different

from what we were doing before?

We'll try not to die in the first 5

minutes. We'll try, come on. Is there, uh, well,

some kind of smart or dumb place

to jump out of the plane?

Yeah, ideally you jump in places

where there aren't that many people, because

And how do you know?

Well, let's put it this way: big cities are

more populated. And then there are, for example,

also a school here,

sorry, they're saying 96 alive, so 100

people is the maximum number

of players in a session.

Yeah, yeah, by the way, they're promising in the future maybe

200.

41,000 people are watching us. Hi,

guys.

Alright. Thanks for watching our

humiliation and not laughing too hard. [laughter]

Okay, let's jump,

right? And head straight to Pochinki. I

put a marker right on M. Look at the

map.

Basically, nearby

5,000 rubles just came in for you.

Thanks. Guys, honestly, this kind of support

is just incredible. Really

the anti-corruption fight will be pleased. Listen,

that would be great. I mean, we have

we have an actual person whose job is

fundraising. Turns out

you can just sit and play and raise

even more money. And that's great.

And

by the way, you're pretty close. And near

us there are at least two more people.

Yeah, several people, but I've got a building

nearby. Maybe I'll still

try to make it to the door.

Whoa, go, go, Alexei, yeah, come on,

come on, come on.

That was a good donation just now. We missed

all of it.

Go.

10 seconds.

10 seconds. 'Putin President' donated

money.

Okay, I got the weapon, but he took the ammo.

Ooh.

Alright, good. Now that's an interesting story.

What, I've got some kind of choke bore for a

shotgun or something?

Okay, someone else landed too.

Listen, you won't believe it, I found a weapon,

but the ammo got snatched right from under

my nose.

Alex,

Alexei, would you like,

would you like a jacket? I don't want a jacket, dude.

I want a gun to shoot you. Don't

you dare. Ah, wait, hold on, now. They're

helping you now, look.

Ah, guys, hi guys, easy, don't

hit me, [laughter] I've got nothing.

Okay, wait, I'll come over now and sort it out.

Come with us. Hi. Let's go then. They

They can hear us.

They can hear us — they should be able to, in theory. Yeah,

I'm Alexei. I'm a naked man in his underwear.

Give me the jacket.

Give me the jacket.

Come on, the jacket.

There, there, he gave me the jacket. Look at that, how kind.

What happened? I got killed here. I was running to you,

and your kind people shot me. Do you

understand? Let's go. Let's go kill somebody,

guys. Your kind people

hate me.

I took the jacket, that's it. There's the jacket. There,

I see the jacket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great. Because

I'm Navalny. And you, you're, well...

And I would...

And you [laughter]

you took so long setting up the stream.

And I'm corn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Right, let's go. Where to? The girl

isn't very dressed. She gave me her

shirt. She gave it to me. I didn't undress her.

You're the sexist here. She gave me her

shirt. You

made a woman take her clothes off.

For some reason you're focusing on

the undressing instead of thinking

about the fact that she's a good person and just

helping,

just helping, gave me clothes. I also

put on a jacket, and now we're going together

in order to get revenge

for me,

on everyone who killed you. Look, someone's coming.

Damn, I, I...

almost, almost...

I thought, hang on a second, I'll figure out

whether this person is good or not.

I won't do that anymore.

No, you just see someone and shoot right away.

You know, I've played so much PUBG, but

I've never had anything like this before. Usually I sit

alone, playing at night, you know,

concentrating, watching out so I can

avoid people, keeping track. I mean,

I'm really hunting. But this right here,

this is something else.

So, shall we start?

Start it.

41.

This is, of course, very, uh, very, very

exciting. An awesome game,

if only they'd let us actually play it properly.

It's so... it's constantly so

tense, but, well, probably when you

get better at it, I guess, well,

it's not quite like this.

You know, the biggest nerves come when

there are only about 10 people left.

Have you ever actually won?

Only one left

three times.

Cool.

Three times. Ah, of course, now they're starting to punch me.

See? They spotted you and immediately started hitting you.

But basically, it's just like in...

You show up and this is what happens right away.

Well, I'll try to...

Listen, these girls here — are they

probably actually girls, or are they more likely

just people who picked female

characters?

Most likely, on the other end there's

a very fat, hairy man sitting there. You're not

getting away from them now.

Uh,

damn, what the hell are you all doing, huh,

[laughter]

damn.

Oh,

damn, get off me.

What kind of...

Alexei? I think this is a rally.

This is definitely a rally. All right, move along,

citizens. You're blocking my way,

damn it. Oh, someone's firing a flamethrower. Ah,

oh,

look, everyone's writing: "Let's go to the

rally."

The chat is complete chaos, especially since

we're seeing it with a delay, right?

Because

yes, we are. No, apparently we're seeing it

in real time, but people can't

spam.

We have a 20-second delay.

We have a 20-second delay. But if

that means we have

a 20-second delay; if we want, we can

increase it, and then

All right, are you ready to jump?

I'm ready to jump.

Let's jump and fly, yeah, yeah. To

that little town right there

over there

the very closest one, the one that's

just a little to your right.

Is that some kind of runway there, or what

are those things? Ah

no, those are just fields.

They're asking when the rally is. It just happened

just now,

yes, there was a rally.

Alexei, do you realize that you're basically the first

politician to hold a virtual

rally?

Well, listen, I think that in PUBG,

probably the first. I'm proud of that. I

really like it.

All that's left is for us to come first in the game

and then, basically,

if only we could just win the election already so that,

you know, unlike Putin, who kind of pretends

he's governing the country, while in

reality he just sits there doing who-knows-what. And I

I'll be playing PUBG.

PUBG. Though, actually, that's a more concrete

At least some activity.

Spacebar, yeah, to jump.

Okay, look, we're close. Ah, loot

that little house then. I know you hate

the word 'loot.' Rush in, rush in,

rush in. Damn,

here's some kind of automatic weapon.

A Golikov assault rifle, I thought that's what it said

on it. Apparently that's a thing.

Oh, you've got a Thompson. All good.

Okay, by the way, someone else is landing

near us.

I've got some clothes at least.

Okay, yeah, yeah, I see them, I see people.

There's someone over there.

Lyosh, I think there's already a war going on over

you there.

Yeah, finally I actually killed a guy,

damn it, who was attacking me. Nice,

yes, got him.

Yeah,

damn, of course I wasted my energy here for nothing.

Okay, and I killed two. Oh, what just

happened to me? I jumped,

Lyosh, everyone's here again. I did at least properly,

fair and square, manage to take down one person

though.

I managed to kill two, but look, basically

the whole crowd came here.

What? Let's hit reconnect.

Everyone, everyone on Twitch is really asking us to increase

the delay so the stream snipers

don't have, like, a two-minute advantage.

Well actually that's kind of fun. We'll

practice like this and become really tough,

really cool guys, and then under normal

conditions we'll wipe everyone out. One.

I got two. That's it, this is our best match.

Let's queue up.

See, we agreed to play properly, and

it immediately started working out.

Okay, we can grab a car and drive away

from everyone.

Yeah, yeah, we just need to find one.

Do you know where it is? Ah, okay, you don't,

when you see a car, just mash the keys

right away. Just instantly go for it.

They, ah, right, they just

look at the screen, see where we are, and figure it out. I mean,

people play so much that they can basically

tell from the surrounding houses

which part of the island we're in.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the problem is that this

is going to turn into a rally again. No, [laughter] this time

I'll run away from everyone.

I can show you a good spot.

Wait, so we've been kicked off this

site, nothing got approved for us. We'll

have to go to another one.

They're already running after me.

They found you.

Okay, okay, okay, okay. They found me. No,

[laughter] no, no.

You won't manage it. This is pa— I just

see that behind you

Putin can't do this. [laughter] Behind you

there's literally a whole crowd running.

No, let them run. They won't

catch me. I just need to hold out for 19 seconds.

hold out.

Go uphill. Come on, come on, come on.

Alexei, go.

Skipper. You can see a little bit of

my screen interface there.

11 seconds. 11 sec— Lyosh, I can see

a whole crowd of fans running with you. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Sosnovka Military Base. Need to hold out for 4 more seconds.

They won't catch me.

Yes. I got away.

Yes. I'm so good. I'm so good.

[snorts]

Nice.

Oh,

you know, it's like a crowd of zombies who

spot one living person and immediately

go after them.

Why zombies? Maybe they're supporters? Well,

right now all they're doing is hitting me.

If we jump out right here,

for example, that would be stupid.

Let's try it. There's a bridge here, and nearby

there are sometimes cars.

The moment you mentioned the bridge, now everyone's going to

rush here too. Wait, is that you flying

ahead of me, or some villain?

Yeah, I'm right in front of you. [snorts]

Now I'll be trying to spot

a car.

No, that's not you. I can see you. But there

was some other guy right in front of us.

Okay, another one. Aha. Yeah, yeah, I see another

guy.

Okay, I see a car. I think it's a car. Yeah,

looks like it. Yeah, I'm going now.

Get in it and drive straight to

me. I really hope that car

actually, in this game finding a car is a problem,

because there are very few of them. And some

guy is right in front of me. So you

just rush in for now,

rush in. Damn, he's closer to the house than I am. I'm

afraid that by the time I get there to push in, he'll already

take me out.

Okay, there are two more people here. Well, it's

clear now. Unfortunately, what looked like a car was actually

some boxes.

Ah

a woman killed you again.

Yeah.

Oh, killed him. No, just knocked him down.

Just knocked him down, that's all.

Is that it, is he dead for good or not?

You can finish him off, because right now

his friends might revive him.

I just clicked him to death.

Well done, Alexei, you're a natural-born killer.

[laughter]

Great movie, by the way.

Okay, I found a shotgun. Everything's fine.

Somehow I've picked up a whole bunch of clothes. I

have like 10 different ones of these.

Okay, I can already hear a bunch of people. So,

some guy came running up shouting about the president, and

I started punching him. Of course, damn it, he

killed me, I guess?

So you can't just run around like that

shouting things like that? Yeah,

go on, kill me then. Well,

I can see cars heading toward you. Damn,

they killed you. Yeah,

Lyosh, I can see two cars coming toward you. Well

all right, I'll go avenge you

real quick.

Go, go.

I'm running. Just as I was born, with whatever I've got.

Meanwhile, 142,000

rubles

Yeah, they killed Navalny. They're so happy. Everyone's like,

"They killed Navalny. Hooray!" What are you so happy about?

[laughter]

Okay, by the way, I can see one victim over there.

I'll run up to them now.

What did they kill Navalny for?

What for, exactly?

People are right to write in the chat

in all caps: protect him, protect

me.

You see, they're just hunting you down.

There was some guy standing over there.

And there was another guy just up ahead

here. Alone.

That's it, they killed me.

It was just one guy.

The one in the blue shirt is lying there dead.

Okay, I heard him, he's above me. I'll

deal with him now.

Go on then. Yeah, there.

Did you see how he survived two

shots? Okay, through the window

a car. The car seems to be broken.

Oh. And what I'm hearing in my headphones,

you can hear over there too—someone's saying that

Navalny is my best friend. See,

look, you've got admirers.

Yeah,

and apparently you shot him. Please,

someone's sitting in that thing.

Well, he's just sitting there.

Oh, so he brought us a car,

and you came over and started shooting at him.

I'm hijacking the car.

We had actually just started talking about your

gaming career, about how you played GTA. I

just love GTA's writing.

It really is written

so well, and all the characters are

brilliant. But what have you been playing

lately?

Well, GTA Online, and I replay Fallout

when I have time. I really love Fallout.

I'm a fan. So, which one is the latest now?

The fourth one, right,

the fourth.

It's really great, I love it. But mostly

I'm playing GTA Online these days, of course.

If I have time and feel like

playing something, I go into GTA Online—there are

a ton of new possibilities there. All these

gangs and everything else—I still

haven't really figured out how to use

all of that. I have one huge

problem.

Right: no friends.

Yeah, I have no friends. And Zhora Alburov from the

ACF. I told him, "Zhora,

sign up, and you and I will

rob banks together." But he's on Xbox,

so that doesn't really work out.

Did you hear that?

And I don't have anyone to play with. I need

three more people to make a great

gang and rob everyone.

Do you play on PlayStation 4?

I play on PlayStation 4, so

by the way, in GTA Online my

rank was something like 101, I think. I mean,

I'm not exactly, well, not exactly amazing, but

I'm fairly advanced. I know how to

play.

So you do at least know how to press buttons? Yes.

On

I do know how to press buttons. Yes.

By the way, I found a frying pan. I picked it up.

At least somewhere I'll have a frying pan. And

there, with the frying pan, yeah. And look, people are running

over here. Come on, friends, run this way,

come on. Come on.

I've got an assault rifle, as it happens.

They found you. They're sort of singing, "Navalny, our

president." Everything's fine.

I like that people reacted to

all of this in a very positive way overall. I mean,

of course, uh, we were

well, as I understand it, it's basically a

pretty friendly community,

yeah, yeah, yeah. Even though, I mean,

well, [laughter] you can see for yourself,

yeah, 40 people come running up and start beating you

immediately, so that's that, basically.

Well, that's sweet.

That's sweet,

yeah. Where are we dropping?

Let's do it.

What was that?

Vorozhok. There's a town there. And now

that's where we're going to jump.

We're jumping, right? And it's right in front of

us.

Right over there.

I can already see some people there.

Can you drown here if you fall into the

river?

No, you can't drown. You can swim. This isn't

GTA, after all. Remember how

in the older games you couldn't

swim? It was so frustrating.

about that. But not now. Here you can,

but of course you can get shot in the pod.

Uh-huh.

Okay, there are three people next to me. Lyosh,

let's go over there. Yeah, a little back,

just a bit. Over there, back. Exactly. I’m

a little intimidated by this crowd.

What is there to be scared of? There’s nothing left to do

anyway.

We’re dropping into the crowd. Alright then.

Well,

what can you do?

There’s one tractor there, but we’re not getting far

on a tractor, right?

I don’t think the tractor works. They

say they’re going to add new vehicles, including

that one.

Can you die from falling here, from a height?

Ah, well, I need to...

Like, from the second floor and up, something like that,

right? Yeah. You can from a height.

At one point you couldn’t, and players

abused that in every possible way. Pants

here. Sa.

Oh, a helmet. I’ve got a helmet. So that means

I’ll be harder to kill now? Yeah,

yeah, yeah. A helmet gives you armor.

The main thing is to find a frying pan. And—wait, have they already

killed you or what?

Some guy came up to me right away, already

fully geared. Look, he just grabs me and

beats me down.

Lyosh, hang in there. What?

Oh, someone’s shouting at me. Okay, okay,

wait, dude, don’t come near me. I

understand that I have

we’re just pinned in this passageway. Okay,

come on,

pick up a weapon. Pick up a weap— There’s only a mattress here

lying here. Ah, now I see everything. Look,

there’s stuff here. Take everything. Loot everything

you possibly can.

You’ve got a Saiga, that’s a good weapon.

You switch weapons with the scroll wheel here, right?

Uh-huh. Or with one or two between

the slots.

Okay, buddy, step back, move away. I’m going to have to

kill you. Please step back,

step back.

Lyosh, I think you have to. You have to, you’ll need to.

Sorry,

that was bloodthirsty.

That was bloodthirsty. I’m really sorry.

What can you do?

He was like, “What did I even do?”

Ah, press Tab.

Uh-huh.

And he even said so sweetly, “Alexei, like,

I support you,” and you just

put a bullet in his head.

A grenade.

So that’s what you’re like, huh. Yeah.

No, I’m a good person. I had to. I was, I

had to. He trapped you in the passageway.

Yeah, you were forced into it.

You asked him to step back.

How do you shoot here? Yeah, generally the strategy is

that I should move along the houses, kind of

stick to them. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. Yes, loot very carefully,

then hide, then the

play area starts shrinking. By the way, we still haven’t

gotten to that yet. [laughter]

That’s the main part of the game. Then

I’d like to see how that

works when the area starts shrinking.

A big blue

invisible wall appears, and if you go beyond

its boundaries, then you

start taking damage. I mean, it basically

drains your health. That’s a helmet.

Meanwhile, we’ve crossed the mark of

150,000 rubles (about US$1,600).

Nice.

That’s awesome.

You know, I thought maybe 10 people would show up

or something.

So what would you need, say,

a suppressor

for?

Does it have any practical use?

Well, you know, it works. Ah, but you can’t

attach it.

If I run around on the roof here, I’ll just get

shot with a sniper

rifle,

most likely. Yeah, but a sniper

rifle is very hard to get. It

only drops from crates. And you still have to

get to the crate. And who drops them? Those

crate people.

The red zone has started. What does that mean?

Here, press M. Press M.

I could get shot right now while

doing that.

Yeah, judging by the look of it, they’re already after you anyway.

I

Wait. Yeah, I’m not pressing M.

Okay,

I got run over by a UAZ (a Russian off-road vehicle).

[snorts]

You know, right after the phrase “you could...” That

was fast, huh? That was very fast.

What’s separately amazing is that

so many people are watching this, all of it. So

for many people, apparently it’s more interesting to watch than to play,

it turns out.

Yes. Yes. But then again, look, some people

really put in the effort, you know, and show

really cool gameplay. They’re genuinely

tactical, they shoot well. Those are the ones

that are always enjoyable to watch.

Alright then, let’s play a couple more rounds.

Sure, sure. I mean, we need

to at least manage one time without getting hit by a UAZ

or something. Is there a way to

see how the zone closes in?

Then let's just keep running away for now.

From everyone, until the

zone starts shrinking.

Well, we'll try.

Well, I manage to do it on the island,

to run away.

And over there you can't kill anyone

Not on the island, but right at the very beginning,

At the rally, you mean.

And yes, we actually wanted to take a look

at the blue wall. I've already seen it many times

myself.

A person can write any message

to me, yes, if they make a donation,

Yeah, they wrote all sorts of nasty things to you again,

So. No, no, no. I can see there: support

the domestic producer

100 rubles. Nice.

Okay, they're already running after me.

The second riot cop is after me.

Okay, hide.

Oh, there's some kind of tunnel there. What's in it?

It's just part of the map.

Ah, then I won't run there. No, no.

Okay, I think we've already played with these guys

before. You know, I'm just watching right now

a crowd of people running after you.

They won't catch me. I've already learned

how to get away here.

What's going on?

What's going on? Literally everyone is

running after you.

Well, I'm nimble, I got away from them.

Lyosha, do you realize that right now you're the country's top

streamer?

Well, if I did this regularly,

probably not so many people would be

watching. So I'm still not inclined

to exaggerate my abilities. And,

probably the people who do this

regularly get just as many viewers,

they're really cool, every single time getting

40,000. Gotta

Nadochek, thank you very much, writes—and by the way,

"your dad." Yeah.

Ah, and there are people who stream

and constantly get 42,000 viewers, or

tens of thousands of people.

Only a handful worldwide.

Worldwide

only a handful. Well,

Right. So, let's go to the school.

Look, there's a school here. It's time for us to

do this. Just tell me when to jump. Yeah, I'll

tell you, we'll need to fly over

You already said school. Now a bunch of

people are going to rush to the school. Come on. Our

goal is to survive until the red zone.

We're getting out now, getting out. Guys, help

us survive until the zone shrinks.

Yeah, I can see it—four people jumped out

with us, and they're all running to the school,

probably.

Okay, you and I now—okay, I see you.

We'll go a little farther than the school,

just a bit farther. Guys, seriously,

help us, otherwise it's impossible—they're hunting us.

Everyone is trying to get us, and right here with us

you can see it. In real life.

Yeah. There's the school right there.

That's the one, yeah,

Yeah, yeah. Let's land nearby,

not right on it, because there are going to be

a lot of people there now.

Well, you flew straight to the school.

What's the point? Well, if we run there

and they're already there, then...

Yeah, so let's go around the back, over

here.

Okay, let's get away from everyone for now.

Let's just not say where we are, and

see what happens. I'm curious to see. And

the zone shrinks. It keeps shrinking until

you can no longer hide from

anyone.

When there are literally only a few

people left, the zone becomes 5 by 5, and you know,

survival turns into a real

challenge. Okay, I found a helmet.

They're already coming for me. They're already coming for me.

Oh, kind, kind Lyosha. All right, we've got support

now. Everything's fine. Let's go.

Good evening.

Okay, I see two people. Okay, I see a

car.

They seem fine too. All right. Okay,

let's run.

Lyosha, they brought us a car. Our Uber

has arrived.

Where are you?

There, there, there. I see it. Okay, dacha, dacha,

please. Come back, damn it, somebody.

Or did I just bump into something?

You bumped into something. You did. Okay, there are already

four people after us. Damn, no.

Why are they hitting me? Don't hit me,

don't hit me.

Okay, they're about to kill you. Sorry,

Gosha, I'm off.

Let's get out of here. This place isn't great.

What's happ—?

They're shooting at me or hitting me, something

like that. Where's the car?

The car left. The car left. That's it,

they killed me.

That's it, some guys got me too

Thanks, guys. That was...

Real helpful. Real helpful. Thanks.

Well, by the way,

that dude is screaming like crazy. What's that about?

He's pressing a button. No, actually,

that's really rare. It's the first time I've seen

someone screaming like that in the actual game.

Okay.

Well, let's do one more round.

Come on, let's sum up

the results.

Let's just, this time, immediately

run to the car ourselves and just get away from

everyone. I want to find a car so that

we can get out in time. Just let us

find a car. Let us drive around the

island.

And I'm sure that on the other side right now

they're saying, no way, we're never going to let you

do that. Don't show

our screen until we find a car.

We

people won't find it interesting to watch like that,

right? For now, at least, well, I mean,

we'll somehow get through this stage.

How about for now we don't—well, why not just

look at our faces,

right? We need to survive for more than

2 minutes somehow.

What can you do?

We were forced into it.

They're already running after you. They've already found you.

Well, [laughter] so, Alexei Navalny, everyone wants

to get acquainted with you. Look, everyone does.

Alright, that's it, the beating has basically started.

That's it, they found you. Look, there's still

some fired-up guy coming with you, but he's already cooled off,

listen. Though, actually, the rally isn't really

forming anymore. He's speaking in this kind of

metallic voice. You can

change your voice here, just, and some kind of

Yeah, there are all sorts of modifiers for that.

Okay.

But not in the game itself, through third-party sof

Alright, good. Let's do it. Though, let's

first of all not say where we're

dropping.

For now I'll just show you.

I'll just tell you. We're dropping on

this.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

I'll mark it.

Alright.

Well, not here. No, don't, don't.

Let's go farther. Come on. Look here,

see, here, here is fine.

Just tell me, "Jump." I don't understand

anything.

Yeah.

Alright, jump and fly after me.

I see you, I'm coming.

[snorts]

We can kind of trick people right now.

Let's go to the school. To the school again. Come on. The school,

the school. There's the school, the fields, all that stuff.

Alright, I see you're behind me.

Yeah,

maybe right now we

Do you actually know how to drive a car properly,

because I'm not sure I can

do it.

I don't have a license, so whatever.

No, that's not what I'm asking about.

[laughter]

No, in this game I'm fine, I'm fine.

Alright, do you see a car anywhere?

Over there, I think,

there is.

Ah, no, that's something else.

No, that's all. Alright, here—oh, maybe.

Maybe we'll get lucky now.

Do they usually stand somewhere near a house,

or what?

Ah, usually near the road. Well,

most of the time.

Oh, there's a car near us. There is, there is,

right next to you. Next to you. Right

somewhere behind you

there's a buggy over there, I think.

Some guy is flying after us over there.

They're not showing us yet.

We got lucky.

What do you mean lucky? There's no buggy at all. There is

a car. There is.

Take it, come on. Where is it?

I'm taking it now and coming straight to you.

Okay, go.

We're ready. I'm running to you. Yeah. Yeah.

Alright, that's it.

You just get in with F, right?

Yeah. Yeah. From now on you can show our

screen.

I mean, you can, you can show it now.

Alright, behind you.

Just don't run me over by accident. Or can you not

kill me?

I can, I can.

Wait, we're in the same game together.

Ah, Alexei, behind you, behind you. Get in, come on,

come on, it's time for us to get out of here. Alright, let's go.

Alright,

let's go.

Whew, well, at least we got a little lucky,

at least with the car. After some—after

how long will this start shrinking, what?

What? To look?

It's actually telling us that the circle has already started

shrinking.

And what does the white dotted line

mean?

It means we're driving to that point. In other

words, that's the direct route.

And why do we need to drive to that point?

Because look, the zone is shrinking. We need

to get into this zone here, which is

basically marked by the white

line.

Ah, got it,

right? Because outside it, over time, it'll start

killing us. There'll be this blue

wall closing in. We shouldn't go beyond it. Though

you can with certain tactics. There are

people who are good at that.

And does everyone have this dotted line right now,

everyone who's trying to get inside the circle?

Only us.

Only us,

yeah, because I placed a marker and that way you can

see

where—well, rather, where we need to drive.

And so far, surprisingly,

Hey, I can see the countdown. Look,

it says 3:58 now. What does that mean?

Yeah, that means in 4 minutes the zone

will shrink right up to that white line.

But it's already gradually shrinking.

Yeah. Got it.

And each next zone

shrinks faster.

Man, it'd be nice to find some kind of weapon.

Well, we'll figure it out there.

Two naked dudes riding around in a buggy. This is,

of course, a great game.

Hey, at least we're still alive.

At least,

in theory we can just drive around

along the edge of the circle and not let ourselves get killed.

And you can shoot from a vehicle. So that means

guys in a buggy could catch up to us, but with

an assault rifle and gun us down? Yeah, yeah, they can.

Let's see what we've got.

We won't run out of gas, right?

We might run out of gas. Let's quickly

check what we've got here. Really

fast.

Go, go, go.

Super fast, super fast. If there's a

gun here. Yeah, there's a gun here. Take it.

Here, there's a weapon right here.

Okay, and I'll immediately

there, there, it was nearby. Okay, I found a

pistol. At least

something. Has the red zone started? Where?

There, there, there, there, there it is. There,

there it is. I'm looking right at it. Take it.

Wait, right here. Yeah.

And then we leave right away.

Okay, I hear them, they're already coming. They're already coming.

Get in, get in

faster, faster. Alright, let's go.

Come on,

press B to switch to automatic fire, not

burst fire.

B.

Yeah. B. That's it.

Okay, that's it. Alright, I think behind us,

there is.

And now I'm going to shoot

behind us. Check if anyone's there.

No, I don't see anyone. Ah, there is, there is, there is,

there is. Hold on, hold on, I'll take him down.

Alright, just floor it, get away from him.

By the way, there's a red zone there. We've got

a whole crowd behind us in a buggy.

Why can't I—why isn't it—why can't I shoot at it?

Why won't it fire?

Ah, click aim. Press

right mouse to aim.

Okay, no. It won't fire for me.

Very strange.

Okay, a UAZ again, remember? That's probably

the UAZ that ran me over last

time.

Hey, this is some kind of style masterclass.

Get out of here with your UAZ. Around here

we only drive fashionable buggies.

Why can't I shoot? I don't get it.

This is really weird. Click. Wait.

Maybe it's because you pressed B. Okay,

here's automatic firing mode.

Nothing's working.

[ __ ] You can't aim

right now, can you?

Anyway, we're getting out, getting out.

They're asking us not to run away, you know. I

don't believe them. I don't believe it. My

trust has been broken.

It flipped over. It's fine. Fine.

And you almost flipped too. No, it's fine,

nice one.

Okay, the shrinking has started. Why can't I

see anything? What does it, what does it

look like when it shrinks? Ah, actually

it'll start in a minute.

We've got enough gas, right?

Well, how do I put it. Ideally we should

find a new vehicle.

Which is basically what we're doing now—ah, a rock

killer. All good.

Oh, Lyokha, hey. Hey, guys. Don't

shoot at us. We're boxed in. That

UAZ looks sketchy.

We're squeezing through.

And there are flashes over there. That's

someone—some kind of shelling. You're about to

drive into the red zone, dude.

I, I mean, I'm deliberately driving along the edge of it.

I actually wanted to drive our

opponents in there.

So you can't shoot from the buggy after all.

So you've been playing all this time and you didn't

know that.

You could shoot. You could. You can.

Well, I can't do it, though.

Okay, we're gradually pulling away.

So you think it's me who can't

shoot?

Of course.

Alright then. So what do I press to make it

shoot?

Okay, look, I found a prison van, basically.

Prison van

No, mine's loaded.

Okay, Lyosha, how do we do this? No, we probably won't

have time to get out.

Damn, that guy's shooting at us.

And you got killed.

No. Alright, I'm going to avenge you.

Go ahead. I'm not dead yet, damn it. I'm crawling

somewhere, damn it.

Yeah, that's it, that's it, we got killed. Alright, but we

survived for a while. We shouldn't have stopped in

that vehicle.

Alright, let's do one last round.

Sure, sure. I liked the car strategy.

That would be nice.

We need to get a vehicle, get some weapons,

when this kind of crap happens, just take it and when

Someone—no, when someone's chasing us,

we should stop and take them all out, and then

keep driving again.

Sounds like a plan. You know how it'll go

in reality.

How? Well, we'll try. So far we don't have anything

better. Nothing has worked for us. Well,

it'll happen again unless we get in the car,

we don't show where.

Until we get a car, we don't show

where. Because that's kind of the key

to successfully hiding from—By the way, meanwhile

we've also got a stream going on VK (VKontakte, a Russian social network) for those

who don't like Twitch for

religious reasons. It's already got 130,000

views there. Everyone came to watch you,

literally everyone. And we've already raised 167,000

.

Wire

like that.

Navalny's the best. Yeah, I'm the best, damn it.

But why are you hitting me? That's it,

that's it, we've already been spotted. That's it, too late now

they found us. There, I can see

just run away, just run.

A guy yelling, "Navalny, I'm your fan,"

is running after me and hitting me

just like that.

Thanks for being my fan. Couldn't you

[laughter] help out somehow?

Right now I'm basically seeing a zombie apocalypse.

And now I'm going to try backing away from

everyone.

That's just a bad idea

there. Shift, Shift, Shift will save me.

And you know, on top of that, you're being chased by

all the other people who see that

a crowd is running and think, "Well, I guess

we should run too."

I want a flamethrower. Where do I get a flamethrower?

There is no flamethrower here. There are Molotov

cocktails.

No. I saw some guy shooting with a flamethrower,

or at least it looked like it. It really seemed like

there were jets of flame.

No, no, no, there's no flamethrower,

damn. They definitely didn't finish it,

the developers didn't complete it. It needs a flamethrower.

Zero out of ten. That's it, you're not playing

anymore, I take it. Okay, let's again

not show where we're

landing.

We're not showing the screen right now. Yes,

excellent. Good. Cunning plan.

Cunning plan.

We'll keep that in mind for the future. Everything's fine.

Okay. Go ahead. When you deliberately

deliberately—I'm supposed to have it. Yes, yes,

I do have it, first-aid kit

here.

Uh-huh.

Okay.

Uh-huh. I'll tell you when to jump.

This is a cunning plan.

This is a fiasco.

No, it's a cunning plan. The fiasco was what we had

every time before this.

Okay, let's go.

Okay, that's it, I'm watching myself.

This time it'll work.

Okay.

Okay, some people jumped out with us

too.

I doubt they're going to be friendly to us.

Where are you—oh, I see you. Yeah. [snorts]

Okay, I think I can even see, basically,

an armored truck.

Okay, well

you know,

transportation is kind of a big deal.

Listen, can people hear the game audio, or do they

hear our conversation, or do they hear both

one and the other?

Both.

Okay.

You see, we're not hiding anything.

Everyone already knows everything about us—where we

are, what we're running around with. Okay, I saw

you're not far away.

I'm running toward you now.

Yeah, come on,

come on, man, find a car.

And now we'll try to find a ride.

Well, we're still not showing

the demo, right?

I hope they're not showing it. I hope so.

Listen, I've got bad news for

you. Okay, we've already got company behind us. You

go left, I'll go right. Come on,

come on, come on.

We've already got company behind us.

How are they—? Oh, well, they can't find us,

because they still can't see our screen.

Yes, yes, but I think I can see it, I can see it.

It's straight ahead. Twelve o'clock from your position. Damn,

he's right here, behind us.

That's okay, if we sort of end up with

a passenger, that's not too bad.

Damn, the main thing is that the passenger doesn't

start shooting at us.

Well, doesn't seem like it so far.

We could always charge him money, of course.

How is it that so many people from Russia

are playing with us? Aren't they supposed

to be foreigners?

There are foreigners too, but the game matches people

based on connection quality. So basically,

since we're in the same

region, our connection is better.

He's taking our car right now, man. I'm first, I'll

be the driver. Come on.

Okay, I

You're the driver.

We have bad news. I'm not

the driver.

He's not the driver, but we're hoping he's

a good guy. What's his name? Ah, you can't see

what his name is.

I can't see it. Okay, no, it's not showing up, not showing up.

nickname,

buddy. Come on.

Okay, I hope that's the gas, sort of. On the right,

press on the right.

Where is he taking us?

I don't know where. What if, by the way, he

is leading us into a trap right now?

Well, yeah, no, probably not. Why would he? Then he would've

started shooting at us or doing something

like that. Ah, he doesn't have a weapon either.

Are you showing him on our screen already? Uh,

yeah, yeah, we can see him now. And we have an

unnamed driver.

We're in a sketchy situation. We hopped into

a car with a stranger. Never do

that.

Get in.

Yeah,

by the way, another UAZ (a Russian off-road vehicle). It's like—oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Good driver. A good one. Not for nothing.

How do we find out whether he can hear us or not,

and we can't send him a message

or anything.

We'll have to communicate with him

nonverbally. And how do you shoot him in the

head? You can't

just do it. Dude, drive forward, please.

Well

okay. Let's just hope that he

understands everything he needs to do.

Yeah,

listen, look. Good, good,

reasonable.

When does the gas run out?

Ah, we've got less than half a tank, unfortunately.

Okay.

Okay. The main thing is that he doesn't stop

anywhere at all.

Okay, there he stopped. No, no, no,

no, no, no, no. He

it's fine. Screw the little fence.

Everything's fine.

Okay, uh, there's already a crowd somewhere nearby.

What's the coolest vehicle here? There's

another UAZ over there.

Listen, they're all good in their own way. The buggy,

for example, is very light and it's easy to

get away in it.

Is there some kind of, I don't know, like a

Hummer, that you can run everyone over with?

Basically, this UAZ (a Russian off-road vehicle) here,

some kind of armored car? Ah, a UAZ, right.

Yeah, there isn't really anything else. They promise to add

more vehicles. But, but for now—oh, oh, oh.

Our friend is driving around the zone, but he knows

what he's doing. Everything's fine, actually. Good

driver.

He's doing the right thing.

We'll have to give him a good rating later

afterward.

Oh, and here you can also rate

another player.

Oh, no, uh-huh.

It's fine. Listen, look, and the zone is

close.

We've just driven into the white circle now, right, the one

where if we were outside

the circle and it shrank, would it just pull us

back in there, or would we die?

No, no. We'd start dying slowly.

What was that?

We'd start dying slowly.

Ah, got it. So when you're

outside the circle and it's already caught up with you

Oh, another car, but it's a bad one, not

the right one.

Why is it bad?

Because it's wrecked.

Ah, okay. And there's a plane flying. What, what

does it do?

It drops bombs and drops

crates with awesome guns.

Listen, it's fine, they haven't

spotted us yet. Everything's fine, basically. We're hanging in there.

Okay,

cool game. Listen, good guy.

You could— Dude, I don't know if you can hear

us.

Nice one,

handsome devil.

Oh, by the way, PUBG is coming to consoles,

since you

When?

Ah, it's coming to Xbox One at the end of the year, and

to PlayStation 4 sometime.

Sometime next year.

They even promise to fix the bugs. But

he's driven straight into some yard.

Ohhh. Why did he bring us here?

Why did he bring us here, buddy?

Come on. Well

uh

it's fine. Phew. We've got a whole crowd behind us already. Three

cars.

An escort. A wedding. A Dagestani wedding (a joking reference to loud wedding motorcades).

Everyone's driving and shooti—

Shooting into the air. By the way, we've got nothing to, nothing to

shoot into the air with. Wait.

How? Why are you dressed? When did you manage

to get clothes?

The same way you managed to grab

guns. Got lucky. And you're sitting there naked.

And look, there's a parachute over there. That's a loot drop,

right?

Yes. Yes. But look, as a rule,

pretty much every nearby player heads there.

And the fight over the crate is usually

really

What's the point? What could be in that crate

that's so special?

Really awesome guns. And armor, and,

for example, a sniper rifle. So

you can pick everyone off from far away.

Okay, I see one car, a second, a third,

and even, I think, a fourth.

What if we suddenly run out of gas?

We're getting out.

Okay, wait. There was someone else. I have an

idea. Look, I have an idea. Get on

with me. Get on with me. Hop on the back,

the back, the back.

No, get on. That's it, damn. Yeah, look,

how many people came running up. And

turns out they were driving over here to kill

us.

No. Okay, I

outrageously. What you did was outrageous.

Why did you do that? I don't understand. I'm

just leaving here. You could at least have

killed me slowly,

so that we'd have at least some hope.

Okay, we've been playing for 2 hours already. Almost 2 hours.

Well, this whole thing of ours.

All right, fine, I surrender.

Surrender then.

Nobody needs me.

You were the only one everyone cared about. Look,

nobody wants to kill me.

No, wait, hold on, I can see they're already driving over

my corpse for the tenth time over there.

Well, that's fine, that's fine,

probably some United Russia (the ruling pro-Kremlin party) team.

Must've bought their driver's licenses.

Oh, can you take it from him?

Yeah, I want to take her motorcycle, but

it probably won't work. Oh, look,

I managed to take his motorcycle.

All right then, I'll finish him off.

Show me. Let me see how

this zone is going to shrink.

Uh-huh. Then I'll just take, actually,

the UAZ.

Go ahead.

The UAZ is empty. That sucks.

All right then. The motorcycle. The motorcycle is

flashier. It's more maneuverable too.

See, that's it, we're leaving, leaving, leaving.

Okay, see, it's just started

shrinking. I just

there, there, uh, the yellow dot will be the center

of the shrink zone.

Yeah, yeah, I just marked it.

They're already coming after me. Everything's fine.

More of them are coming after me too.

New game. [laughter]

It's fine, it's fine. My job is just

to show you how, basically,

this

blue wall of death works.

By the way, we can just drive

straight toward it. Some very funny

comments are coming in. Everyone

is shooting to my right. What

the driver of this UAZ is going to

say that he drove Navalny around

you [snorts] have a driver?

Ah, yes, I'm riding with a driver right now, because

if you drive yourself, well,

he'll definitely stage some kind of

provocation and then say, "Oh, like,

think about that guy in the VAZ."

Yeah,

he did pretty well, by the way.

He did pretty well, yes, but he didn't

refuel, of course.

Right. Yes, by the way, that was his fatal

mistake. Gas cans are there

for exactly that. You can refuel your

car.

And you can either take another car,

or refuel, but usually it's easier

to just take another one.

Listen, are there any stable groups here,

like in GTA

Online, where people join

communities so they can

play together all the time? Are there groups like that? And which one is

the best team?

There are. Oh, listen, I don't know. Usually,

all the guys are already playing

various esports titles.

But a lot of people play in squads of four.

By the way, before the stream started, we were

discussing whether it makes sense to hold

a championship for something like the

Navalny Cup. Though everyone told me that

I [ __ ] that it's a stupid idea. So write in and tell me,

what you think about it. Does it make

sense to organize a tournament like that? I mean,

of course, without gathering

all the players in one place, because in

that case it wouldn't be in-game poli-

not in-game, but real, actual

politics [laughter] police with real

UAZ vans would show up and arrest everyone. But

if it can be organized online,

then why not?

Listen, you can always gather

a rally here.

Yeah, right, when they stop giving

any permits at all, I'll hold rallies in

PUBG.

Okay, by the way, it's shrinking, yes, it

is shrinking, it's close. We can even

stop here and wait. I hope nobody

will

What's the smallest zone you've ever seen?

I mean, is it literally like

one meter by one meter?

Yes, literally.

Okay. And if, well, you do nothing and

don't kill anyone, how does it end?

I mean, well, yes. Basically,

if you go outside the zone,

it kills you over time.

No, but say there are only two people left,

but they don't kill each other. The zone

shrinks, shrinks, shrinks. It gets

that tiny, and they're standing there. So what

happens?

Here, by the way, is the zone. I mean, look,

the zone will keep shrinking until

it literally turns into a point.

So basically you have no choice. You

end up, basically, one-on-one with the other person.

One. Here it's already a case of either you kill him,

or he kills you. There. Oops.

I'm shooting. It's all fine.

There, you can see the zone, basically. Yeah,

there it is. There. This zone, right? Can you see

it slowly getting me?

Ow-ow-owww-ow.

That's it. So, you—I can't say the word for what

you did to the motorcycle, but you

you ba...

I buried it.

I washed it, rather—yeah, you, you

lost it,

Yeah. And you see, the zone actually moves very quickly.

On purpose,

so you're forced to take a car or

die slowly.

Yeah. The only way, really,

is exactly what we're doing now.

Too bad there are no bikes here. There are bikes,

Yeah? But there aren't any bikes.

What, isn't this like GTA for you? Listen, here

is there any place without bikes?

This isn't the place where there are tons of people who

love bikes.

Bike lanes.

Bike lanes.

The last day.

So, you see, while I'm outside the zone,

I need to run really fast. It's

taking my health little by little. And

the next zone, which will be even worse,

takes away even more health. So

it just keeps going like that indefinitely.

So right now, you have to run into this

blue zone. Once you get in there,

it'll stop. Okay.

Yeah. Ah, well, I'm just

showing you.

And it says Ruins there—what's that? Is that, is that

the name of a town, or

it means ruins, right? Basically, here

there's an area like that. We can

look around here now.

You're about to die, dude.

Well, it's already too late. I mean, I'd

die anyway without you. Who's going to

support me then?

Well, so far I haven't been much support.

Sorry. It wasn't helping you much while I

was playing.

That driver helped us.

Ah, 187,000.

Don't forget to upload this horror to

YouTube.

There, you see, I made it. The zone

isn't hurting me anymore. Well, you see,

that's how it works, kids.

Come on then, go shoot at least

somebody. There's no weapon there.

Well, there's a house.

Where did you see a house? There, ahead.

Wait, then turn around.

No, no, it's outside the zone. I don't want to go

there. It's not great there. And I have 2

minutes before the zone starts shrinking

again.

So you need to run farther inside the white

circle.

Yeah. There again. There are people near me.

Interesting.

He's typing, he said he's friendly. It's all good,

we'll go with him.

It's fine. So, basically, people...

Tell me, please: if he's talking to you

and there are five people running around you,

whose voice do you hear? All

five of them?

All of them.

Well, basically, if you're playing in

a team with your friends, then presumably you won't

all be talking at once, and you'll

be able to hear each other clearly enough.

But when you're playing with random

players, of course, as you can see, all sorts of things

happen—but rallies, honestly, I've never seen that

in any game before. [laughter]

That's something new,

when you're not playing yourself and just

watching, it's easy to get dizzy. How do

people watch this?

Well, listen, you need to get used to it.

On stream, right? So, basically, there's nothing

here.

And we're most likely about to get shot.

Or rather, we'll just die outside the zone.

By the way, your little corpse is somewhere around here,

not far away.

Everyone keeps writing: "Let Navalny play."

Yeah, let me have a turn.

No, no, no—come on, finish your round.

I mean, I'm already ready to die, you know?

Nothing matters now.

All right, die then. We need you to die.

I'm exiting.

This is really cool. It's a great game,

it really pulls you in. So,

what should we say at the end of our

stream?

Well, hold on. First of all, we're about to have

a giveaway for the little frying pan. We'll launch

a special bot, right? And the rules are very

simple. We're starting the bot now. You

need to type a simple command in the chat.

Exclamation mark "I want a frying pan".

All as one phrase. And we'll choose one player.

And what does your bot do?

It does it randomly. It's very fair. It will

And can we make a bot like that on YouTube,

or is that only a Twitch feature?

You can. You can do that?

You can. Yeah. Live and learn.

Who would've thought.

Well, we'll tell you later, yeah. People have

already started typing. I don't know whether the bot has

been launched yet or not.

Apparently, ap-apparently not yet. Yeah,

the bot is launching. Excellent. Yes, we have

Exactly 3 minutes.

And this little frying pan here,

it’s actually very heavy.

It’s actually very heavy.

We had a marker lying around somewhere, and we’ll need to

sign it.

Can I stare at the wall for a little

while? Please stare at the wall.

You have to— alright, I’ll play along. I’ll play along.

[laughter]

This is a cool frying pan,

authentic, a really solid, hefty frying pan. Well,

I mean, if you have a frying pan in your kitchen,

I assure you, this one is much

heavier. Cast iron, probably, one of those

proper old cast-iron frying pans, like

the kind grandmothers used to cook with,

frying potatoes in it,

you probably can’t even use something like this on an

electric stove. This

needs to go on gas, I guess.

But I think it’s specially designed

for hitting people and all that.

And this was signed by the guy who created

the game.

Yeah, and there’s a funny story about him. He

first made a mod for another game with this

mode, and then he was invited to make another

similar game.

He left and moved to the Korean company

Blue Hall

and basically became the creator of this

game. Basically, PlayerUnknown’s

Battlegrounds. The name comes from the fact

that he is PlayerUnknown.

Ah,

yeah, yeah, clever, see? I mean, like,

the guy got pretty seriously famous. And,

for example, his wife didn’t believe in the success of

the game.

Wives always believe in their husbands.

She left him. And then he broke

several Guinness World Records, and even before

release, 17 million people had bought the game.

And his wife is probably now just

smacking herself with a frying pan, saying:

"What an idiot I was—what have I done?"

If I were him, on the anniversary date,

or rather, on the date of their divorce every year,

I’d tap the frying pan lightly

as a reminder.

Someone’s writing: [laughter] "We’re waiting for you in

Kaliningrad, we’ll definitely come to Kaliningrad

for sure."

Did you see how you were just hitting yourself

on the head with the frying pan? No, they did—

I missed it. I think out of all this stuff here,

unfortunately, some of it will get cut. I

think I swore twice after all,

couldn’t hold it in. That definitely shouldn’t

be cut out.

I didn’t hear you use any profanity.

And I never do that. It’s just that

the director said it because there was a

bad broadcast. I wasn’t swearing. No.

Also, by the way, the donations are still pouring in.

19,000.

And where do you see how much we’ve raised? Over there,

see that bar at the top, that yellow

little bar? It says: "For Navalny’s

stream."

Oh, that’s it? Yeah. 190,000 for Navalny’s stream.

Thank you very much. That’s awesome.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) will be pleased.

Alright. So what now? Alright. The bot will now choose,

yes, one winner. Yeah, one more minute.

But we’re also giving away a poster for the game,

signed, basically, also

by the game’s creator.

And basically, everyone participating in

today’s VK Video chat.

Just leave your comment, and we’ll

also randomly choose one person

who will get the signed poster. I

hope you’ll leave something there too.

I will.

An X mark. Sure. Or I can just sign it.

I’ll sign it with my nickname: "Navalny was killed

here 17 times."

And that’s that, basically.

And we ended up with a wonderful poster. So

go ahead and write, give it a shot. Our bot is honest,

incorruptible. Uh, donations don’t help

at all.

Listen, Twitch is such a cool thing.

Yeah, it’s awesome.

And what else can you do on it? Is it only

for streaming games here, or do people just,

I don’t know, stream food too?

Cooking food, yes, cooking food. Also things like

petting cats, old phones, all sorts of stuff.

So basically all the same things as on YouTube.

Well, yes, except that people here are already

used to watching live streams, so

it really has its own

community,

which allows— Why do we need it?

Ah, and is it better to make some kind of

unique content specifically for Twitch, or

just stream the same thing that you

do on both Twitch and YouTube?

Ah, it depends, there are different ways you can

do it—just interactive

streams. Is the bot done? Yes,

the bot is done.

The bot is done. And we’re ready to announce

the winner. Yes,

it really will pick just one person.

So how will we see it?

They’ll read out the nickname to us, because the

bot will show who won.

People really want the frying pan. 40,000

people want the frying pan.

40,159.

Alright, we have a winner.

And the frying pan will go to...

Drum roll

will go to... the frying pan.

We don’t have a winner.

The frying pan.

Trolla.

Dima Trollo.

Dima Trollo. You wanted the frying pan?

Here you go. That would’ve been great. Just now I almost

blurted it out on camera. That would’ve been— that would’ve

made a great GIF. It would’ve been

a perfect ending to the stream. Dima

Trolla, congratulations on winning the frying pan.

So, how are we going to raffle off the poster?

We’re doing the poster randomly through the service too.

They turned it on there, turned on the bot,

who knows.

What’s going on here now? People are typing. Numbers,

some kind of numbers. Like 322. 322.

I think it’s just spam. I mean,

like, you know, why spam

the number 322?

Yes. We have a winner,

Tanya Kulbaka.

Tanya Kulbaka gets the

poster.

Dima, Dima Trolla gets the frying pan.

Everybody gets something. I get— the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) gets

193,000 rubles.

Let’s push for another 7,000. Just 7,000 more while

the stream is still going. Come on, guys,

let’s make one last little push. And

you can see people are already dropping off the stream.

It’s already down to 39,000. The moment you said,

“Let’s send money,” people immediately started

hitting stop, “End

stream.” 193,000 rubles. That’s still

really awesome, and that’s great. Thank you

so much, guys, everyone who watched this

stream. I genuinely got a lot of

enjoyment out of it.

Did you hold the rally?

I held the rally. I got beaten up at every one

of those rallies, but it was still

great. And the election campaign is on

right now, so unfortunately I don’t have

the opportunity to play

PUBG.

Do you—do you have a chance to play with

us? You can come to us, or we can come to

you.

Well, sorry, but the nature of an election

campaign means that I have to

go somewhere, to some city. Uh,

I’m actually going to Irkutsk soon

and I’ll be speaking there. So we’ll

make it all happen.

Lyosha,

yeah.

The most important thing is left [snorts]:

to sign this frying pan, write

some kind of parting message. You

can just use any area here.

Let me write on this side of the frying pan.

Or this—or this will be a secret

message.

Everyone’s bargaining for the frying pan.

They are. How much are they already trying

to outbid for it?

For how much?

So far, 10k at most. [laughter]

They’re selling the frying pan for 10,000. I saw you had

a second one lying around.

I’ll sell you a frying pan for 30k.

I’m about to unload someone else’s frying pan. I’m

signing it with the nickname I acquired

here. I’m writing here—

he really is signing it

LD

n

v L.

This is awesome. This is the main gaming

artifact. Write 2018. How could you not?

2018. You’re right.

How much? 150

150,000—50,000

for the frying pan. [laughter] I’ll buy you a whole bunch

of frying pans and sell them. I’ll sign them and sell them.

Listen, so, yes, here’s the frying pan, everything’s

signed, everything’s there. Many thanks

to everyone who watched this stream. Many

thanks to you guys for

organizing this whole thing. Especially at the beginning,

everything was organized really well. Great.

Thanks so much, guys. Yeah, I’m kidding, I’m kidding.

Actually, nobody expected

that, as I understand it, Twitch itself wouldn’t

handle such a huge, huge

stream. And we kind of screwed up with

that nickname. We shouldn’t have

shown it. But

we’ll know for next time.

We’ll know for next time. Thank you

so much. When I have a free minute,

I’ll definitely play this game.

Well, I won’t be such an idiot, I won’t

stream it so I don’t get killed. I want

to understand at least a little how all this

works.

Ah, well, I think today I understood a little

what this is. And I understood the point of

all these streams, because before this I

really didn’t understand why people

watched them at all.

Well, apparently from the outside it’s pretty fun

to watch when someone gets killed and goes,

“Ow, they killed me.”

You know, I saw how our whole

streaming crowd was messing with you from time to time,

so maybe they’re already offering $100,000

for the frying pan. Not bad.

Well, okay. Someone’s writing: “One bitcoi—”

One bitcoin is a lot right now.

A lot, a lot, a lot. Lyosha, honestly,

I’m really glad that you finally made it

to us. We waited for you for a very long time, and we

were worried. 196,500

3 left to go for this

Alright, we’ll wait and hit 200 next time.

We’ll make it.

Next time, next time we’ll make it to 3,500.

Just

Listen, dude, I keep building up to the

finale because it’s the law, and you keep

starting to say something, b—come on, understand

me, we need to end on some kind of grand

note, like when, when you say

“thanks, guys, for watching the stream,” that

means it’s time to wrap it up now.

They’re already suggesting a watch-athon here, we’ve basically got

a whole crypto market going on, long story short.

[laughter]

Guys, peace to everyone—

wrap it up, the big boss has already come over here

and is signaling to him like: enough,

enough, you’re torturing all of us. Huge

thanks for watching.

Thank you so much for watching this

stream. It was really great. We were so

happy to be with you. We’ll meet again

here on Twitch. The end.

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just a tiny bit short. Well, just a little. Come on,

10 seconds. The last 10 seconds. We

can do it, Lyosha, we can do it. No, that’s it. Alright,

I’ve got a frying pan. I can end

this—end this broadcast with a frying-pan smack.

Thanks so much, guys. We’re signing off.

Bye-bye.

Turn it off. Forcefully. Pull the cord

out. M.