1 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:30,640 Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November twenty eighth, twenty twenty three. Welcome 2 00:00:30,839 --> 00:00:35,479 to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and seventeen, powered by NZXT. 3 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:41,520 I am your host, Jan Ochoa. I you know I was thinking about 4 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,640 this. Here's my pitch. Here's my early cut, the check pitch, 5 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,039 James Gun. If you're listening out there, and I know you are because 6 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:50,840 you listen to God's favorite podcast, the Taylor Swift Podcast, The Giant BombCast. 7 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,759 This podcast. He loves this pod. True, no one has ever 8 00:00:55,799 --> 00:01:00,880 succeeded trying to kill the Batman. Let's try and bang the Batman. Let 9 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,480 me introduce my villain that I'm willing to play because not pro bono, but 10 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:11,640 pro bono. Instead of trying to lure the Batman with a bunch of riddles, 11 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:17,000 I'm just gonna use a bunch of pickup lines and and and bed the 12 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,439 Batman to bang the bat You're just pitching a classic honeypot. Are you going? 13 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,280 Are you going to achieve anything from it? Or is your only goal? 14 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:30,719 I haven't thought that far ahead. Uh So, instead of using a 15 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:34,159 bunch of riddles, I'm gonna use a bunch of pickup lines. And from 16 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:40,280 now on, I want everyone to call me the Rizzler anyway, co captain 17 00:01:40,359 --> 00:01:44,680 of the ship, steering it as always, keeping the news on board. 18 00:01:45,519 --> 00:01:49,599 He's he's our own king Shark. Because he wears fun little hats. You 19 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:55,079 just don't see it sometimes because he keeps that private. Yes, Jeff grub 20 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,719 Yeah, I'm gonna steer the ship right into the rocks. So let's just 21 00:01:57,799 --> 00:02:01,079 let's ground this thing. I've got no idea what we're doing here. He's 22 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,359 gonna be a it's gonna be one of them podcasts. Jan you think you 23 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:07,359 think it's gonna be one of them episodes. I don't remember how to podcast. 24 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,639 I was telling you this yesterday. There I went a couple of days 25 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,680 without talking in front of a microphone, in front of a screen. I 26 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,919 don't know what to do with myself. The turkey make you forget. It's 27 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:22,199 the chemicals or whatever. Yeah, the fan turkey turkey make you forget. 28 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,479 It makes you sleepy and not know how to do podcasts anymore. Exactly, 29 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:32,319 exactly, King of Turkey and all other avian birds to consume our own Jeff 30 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:38,120 Backler, Well, that way, I get that. Do you not want 31 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:45,000 that? Do you not want to that turkey king. I'm gonna be afraid 32 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:53,560 of the Turkey King. Turkeys are terrifying. What about if I want that? 33 00:02:53,759 --> 00:02:58,520 He what about the ham Man? What about the ham Man? Well, 34 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,840 that just feels anti Semitic. Yeah that is that tree. That's tray, 35 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,599 motherfucker. No, yeah, I mean I could own that. I 36 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:12,960 like chicken. Chicken's probably my favorite animal to eat. You know, I'm 37 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,280 a boring guy. You know. What can I say? I like fried 38 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:21,039 chicken. You know that's my thing. Listen, Turkey's bullshit. Though. 39 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:28,080 I had brisket for Thanksgiving this year, because turkey is the most mid poultry 40 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:34,360 you can possibly ingest. It's just silly and plain. Chicken is a blank 41 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,560 canvas. We all know this to be true. My Thanksgiving was great. 42 00:03:38,599 --> 00:03:44,759 Thanks for asking. We didn't finish introducing everyone. Sorry we can't talk about 43 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:51,319 the about I too have turkeys. You do want to know how the King 44 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:57,199 of the Turkeys is doing things on the docket here? Yeah? I thought 45 00:03:57,199 --> 00:04:00,759 I was the guy and I meant to was meant to speak about turkeys, 46 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:05,680 but I guess not last, but certainly not least, our favorite guest here 47 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:11,639 on the Giant Bomb Cast, Shitley Myers. Everyone, it's my new name. 48 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:17,319 I love it. I'm reclaiming it exactly exactly. They can't hate on 49 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,399 you claming it and then immediately reclaiming it exactly. Yeah. No, I 50 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,879 it's like, come up with the come up with a different one. This 51 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:30,879 one's mine because I love it now, shitly sh I love that. You 52 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,319 know, sometimes you see something you're like, wow, the hate male game 53 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,120 here is so strong. And sometimes you see something like he didn't even try. 54 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:42,720 That's so fucking funny. This makes it better. Mix some Yeah, 55 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,920 I've had people on Twitter suggesting like legitimately good puns. I'm like, no, 56 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,800 these are getting hurtful. I like the other one. Yeah, let's 57 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,040 just stick with Shitley. Yeah, that's the one. I like this. 58 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,160 This is gonna Yeah, Bailey and I are going to spin off and do 59 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,600 our own villain podcast, Hitley and the Rhy, where we we rate your 60 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,839 your advice for any and everything. I hate to punch up your name after 61 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,920 making suggestions about mine, but I do feel like if we're going to do 62 00:05:10,959 --> 00:05:13,360 like a Buddy Cup show title, it should be Shipley and the Riz. 63 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,680 All right, I'll take it. I'll take it, and then we need 64 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,199 like Grub or bacclar just pounding a handle on the tables, like get me 65 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:28,399 the riz and Shipley, Well you're the one with ratings Backlar, how is 66 00:05:28,439 --> 00:05:30,360 your Thanksgiving? No one else tell me about their Thanksgiving. I don't want 67 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:36,720 to know. Thanks for asking. It was it was fine. It was 68 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:45,399 fine. You know, whenever I go down to Virginia for Thanksgiving, I 69 00:05:45,439 --> 00:05:48,519 know I'm gonna be playing a lot of Nintendo Wii, the original Nintendo Wi. 70 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:56,079 God, that thing's starting to just look like absolute dog shit bad, 71 00:05:56,639 --> 00:06:00,480 ye what it's like for a while. It's been bad for a while. 72 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,319 But like my brother in law got like a bigger TV and he's like, 73 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:10,360 I'm still hooking up. You know, he's probably he's probably hooking it up 74 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:13,399 like with old cable. You can probably make it it look a little bit 75 00:06:13,439 --> 00:06:16,160 better. But I bet they're like stretching it and ship I bet that being 76 00:06:16,199 --> 00:06:21,240 stretched. Have you heard have you heard the song from the Nintendo we store 77 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:26,639 recently that ship pops off? It's still good, like the men, like 78 00:06:27,519 --> 00:06:31,040 the Timy kind of like ethereal Menual music is like Star Wars prequels, where 79 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:38,360 it's memes are very powerful, like it's like a very memorable console, just 80 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,000 just free with just yes and whatever you need to do, appreciate it. 81 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:47,600 Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's the lowest common denominator of video game 82 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,920 consoles, so it's very easy to mean because memes are the lowest common denominator 83 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,680 of Internet content. Yeah. No, you're right, very true, very 84 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,639 true, very correct. So whenever I'm down in Virginia, I'm always like, 85 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:03,160 oh, what food are we gonna eat outside of the house? What's 86 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:05,839 gonna happen? And the first thing to do, like you want to go 87 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:11,040 get pizza? And I'm like, abs fuckingly not, no, do I 88 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:15,000 don't want pizza? Like why would I want pizza? Down here? For 89 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:17,519 people that don't know and that have never seen Jeff Backlar in person, he's 90 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,439 in a perpetual state of his hands in his pockets, just kicking sand ye 91 00:07:23,079 --> 00:07:30,959 no saying and I'm saying rats. I'm just like rats, rats. You 92 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,319 know a lot? Uh And look it's fine. We did the thing. 93 00:07:34,399 --> 00:07:38,399 I just I was drunk as long as I possibly could be, which is 94 00:07:38,439 --> 00:07:43,120 pretty great as so my goal while I was down there was bowl of three 95 00:07:43,199 --> 00:07:46,600 hundred in we bowling, and I couldn't do it? You do it overhand? 96 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:57,000 Overhand? What fuck it up? Video games for Escape Overhead. It 97 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,160 wasn't even like on the table as this dryd get so mad at me. 98 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:07,240 I keep winning, pulling over him. Look, I god, I got. 99 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:11,560 The best I did was eleven strikes in a row and I just missed 100 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,800 the twelfth and obviously the thirteenth, and like, I just couldn't be happy. 101 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,759 But what I did do a lot in general or just in the we 102 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:22,040 Bowl, like no, just like for the for the for the thirty six 103 00:08:22,079 --> 00:08:28,199 hours I was there. Also, I had two things that I thought was 104 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,519 really I experienced two new things that I thought was very interesting. The first 105 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,480 one was an actual hoverboard. I had never been on one, and my 106 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:39,600 niece got one for her birthday and I didn't know anything about like being on 107 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,240 one. I was like, what could this be? Will I be naturally 108 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:46,799 good because I have the balance of a mediocre Beer League hockey player? Is 109 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,960 that gonna work out? No? That did not translate at all. But 110 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,559 my kid but Dib hops on it and he's just skating around the whole room. 111 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,240 He's like, what's up, Dad, what's up? I'm like, 112 00:08:56,399 --> 00:08:58,440 do you know how to ride? One of these. He's like, yeah, 113 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,320 it's super easy. Motherfucker's going front words backwards. He's spinning around doing 114 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,159 like seven twenties and shit. I'm just like, damn dude. So I'm 115 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:09,879 gonna get one of these and We're going to enter our hoverboard arc here in 116 00:09:09,919 --> 00:09:13,440 the back of our house. Uh. Number. The second thing I experienced 117 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:18,399 was peanut butter whiskey. Oh they ever had? Yes, is screwball or 118 00:09:18,799 --> 00:09:24,159 screwball? Yeah? Ok, do a shot of that with like a floater 119 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,440 of shamp or you get a peanut butter and jelly. Oh that's neat. 120 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,480 Uh, they didn't offer that at the house. I was at just the 121 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:33,080 spot for the future, just so you know, for me to you, 122 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:37,159 that's good to know. It was hitded to me as like a novelty, 123 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:39,039 like, hey, you want to drink some of this, and I'm like, 124 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,960 sure, shit's like fucking candy I did. I wasn't expecting how sweet 125 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,799 it is. Holy shit, O my god. Anyway, that was my 126 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:52,559 thanksgoing how many shots of this did you did you have? Then go on 127 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:58,480 the hoverboard? Very peanut butter whiskey sounds more insane than a shot to me. 128 00:09:58,519 --> 00:10:01,240 I'm sorry that actually sounds crazy. What are you talking about? All 129 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,759 right? You're really supposed to do it as a shot. You have to 130 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:07,240 know that, like that's a novelty drink. So here's what I did, 131 00:10:07,279 --> 00:10:11,960 and you can judge me. I don't care. I will a little bit 132 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,600 though. I put it in like a double shotglass and I just sort of 133 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:18,720 sip the chot class like the double shotglass, because I was like, I 134 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,320 didn't know what to expect, and I wanted to taste this. When you 135 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,120 shoot something, you're basically like attempting to get it into your body as quickly 136 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:28,879 as possible. And I was like, I want to see what this is 137 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:31,480 all about. And I was like, oh, this is specially candy, 138 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:35,679 you know, So anywere just thinking, I'm just thinking of how you can 139 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:41,879 mix it with goodval liquor. You can mix oh my sugar, but yeah, 140 00:10:41,879 --> 00:10:45,679 I'm in sure if you wanted to make it a mixed drink like a 141 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,399 lunatic, you could put it in some cream soda, call it a fluff 142 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,000 or nutter. Yeah, So that was the thing. As soon as I 143 00:10:50,039 --> 00:10:54,720 tasted, I'm like, I would prefer this be poured on like a Sunday 144 00:10:54,039 --> 00:11:00,679 because that's like it tasted like a syrup. It tasted like some were popping 145 00:11:00,879 --> 00:11:03,879 you would put on a Sunday. So I think you're in the right frame 146 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:09,799 of mind there, Bailey. I've noticed on my street every single day there's 147 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,759 a new abandoned buzzball on the street, and it's a different buzzball. It's 148 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:22,519 You're delightful, No, Bailey, you're itch. I can see you're so 149 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:28,919 sorry that I know about all the alcohols. Apparently, Buzzball is proudly advertised 150 00:11:28,919 --> 00:11:33,840 as a woman owned company. It is a beverage that is roughly the size 151 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,200 of a grenade and shaped like one. And then when you pull the pin, 152 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:43,759 something similarly bad happens. Where you then drink the buzzball and whatever happens 153 00:11:43,799 --> 00:11:48,120 next is on you, I suppose. But you know, they they outlawed 154 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:54,159 for Loco, so we had to get creative out here. And okay, 155 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:58,799 they also make a giant buzzball backlar. I mean, can I get this? 156 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:05,519 I live probably, I've never seen this. Ever, it looks very 157 00:12:05,639 --> 00:12:07,720 you need to you need to hang out at a gas station these things they 158 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:13,559 have. Okay, I did not realize buzz balls has three z's in it. 159 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:20,720 Oh sorry, it has three Z. You absolutely should have assumed I 160 00:12:20,759 --> 00:12:24,320 should have. You're right, I'm slipping over here. Yesterday you called me 161 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:28,000 a dumb slut. I'm going to say it back, bro, Absolutely right. 162 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,759 This one looks like Dejon Honey mustard. No, I don't think it 163 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:37,399 tastes like it too. Who knows, it won't matter after your second one. 164 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:43,519 It's the name of this buzzball is chock Tease. Wait, chok teas. 165 00:12:43,759 --> 00:12:48,159 These are at my local store. I'll be back. I get it. 166 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:56,120 Choco chiller, peach chiller, and strawberry rita chiller. All right, 167 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:01,360 buzzballs as I've only ever had them because I was already drunk, so it 168 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,440 seemed like a good idea, and rarely, if ever, a good idea. 169 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:11,279 Yeah, sponsor, sponsor the podcast. They are shaped like alcohol would 170 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:13,240 be shaped in a sci fi video game, like yeah, like Prey, 171 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,480 Like this is what alcohol would look like in pray. Yeah. I'm convinced 172 00:13:16,519 --> 00:13:20,480 you don't actually drink it. You just like squish it in your hands and 173 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:26,080 you consume it that way. Yeah. Yeah man. Yeah, I'm trying 174 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,480 to dance next week, I'm trying to I'm trying to drink a little bev 175 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,759 next week, y'all because dancing. Have you ever got gone out dancing? 176 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:35,279 Like for dinner and dancing? I don't think the Giant BombCast has ever gone 177 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:41,200 out dancing. I'm gonna definitively say that. Listen, I who who amongst 178 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:48,039 you would you say is the best at throwing it back drinking or dancing? 179 00:13:48,039 --> 00:13:56,600 Because I mean I mean throwing it back dancing. Yeah, it's definitely Giannacho. 180 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:03,279 I'm from the area. I would have guessed that before, but after 181 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,279 watching Dan's moves in Warrior, where I'm not sure that man can almost can 182 00:14:07,279 --> 00:14:11,039 almost do a split? Yeah? I can split? Yeah, you can 183 00:14:11,039 --> 00:14:13,200 do a split? Chin, I could do a split. That's part of 184 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:18,200 the rich Janler, you want to be a goalie, you won't be a 185 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,679 goalie today. Both ways, it doesn't matter. Okay, wait, wait, 186 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:26,240 Jan, when's the last time you did it? Did a split? 187 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:31,320 Last week? All right? I will because even though I've gained some extra 188 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,960 jam splits on stage in l A. Okay, well, all right, 189 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,879 I have a follow up. Why can you do a split? Like? 190 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:46,840 How are you? Are? You? Just like everything? Now do the 191 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,879 splits? So I so this gets on my best friend's nerves because my best 192 00:14:50,879 --> 00:14:52,600 friend is a break dancer. We'll eventually talk about video games, folks, 193 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:58,679 eventually, I'm sure we will. I've always been like a little have a 194 00:14:58,679 --> 00:15:01,600 little extra jam around me, you know, little chubbers my whole life, 195 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:07,399 you know, you know what, Okay, But for whatever reason, I've 196 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:13,039 always been oddly flexible. And I attribute this to my seventh grade elective teacher. 197 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:18,039 Sixth grade elective teacher when we had karate at a Catholic school, which 198 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,759 sounds weird, where we were doing the butterfly stretch right, So it's when 199 00:15:20,799 --> 00:15:26,080 you're sitting not quite Chris Cross apple sauce, but your feeter touching, You're 200 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,159 supposed to bend forward, right, get as close to the ground as possible. 201 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:35,200 She just full all of her weight pushed me all the way down to 202 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:39,200 the floor and I heard something crack, and I'm like, you know what, 203 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:41,399 okay, cool, and then I kind of just stayed there and then 204 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,840 everyone around me was like, man, Jendrome's like, I know that he's 205 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:48,399 like a little chubby and stuff, but he still has a great personality and 206 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,000 everything, and he's fun to be around and he's funny. But that's just 207 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:54,720 like a chubby thing. Anyway, But anyway, look at that guy fucking 208 00:15:54,759 --> 00:16:02,919 stretch. Oh my god, she separated your bu Yeah yeah, so since 209 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,799 then, since then? Yeah, I can? I can? I can? 210 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,440 I could do the basket thing or the scorpion where my feet touched the 211 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,200 back of my head. It's great. Damn kata karate sounds wild. Dude, 212 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,679 Yep, you beat up a nun or what's the deal? No, 213 00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:23,559 they beat me up about private God's Greatest Warriors, shouts out to HISSTERI lean, 214 00:16:23,799 --> 00:16:30,360 she made a great lemon bar. Anyway, video games, we made 215 00:16:30,399 --> 00:16:34,000 it. We made it, folks, and we already did we bowling. 216 00:16:34,799 --> 00:16:38,919 Oh there we got, we got, we already got a game in uh. 217 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,159 I did try and look at it like they had a bunch of other 218 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,360 Wii games, and I'm like going through the things, every single jewel case 219 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,000 is empty. I never asked anyone about it, but every jewel case was 220 00:16:48,039 --> 00:16:51,679 empty. I was like, that's just the normal state of a week election 221 00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:56,960 and you wanted to play. I wanted to show Dibb Mario Galaxy. I 222 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,320 mean, that's an understandable thing. Was it meant to be? Really? 223 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:04,119 Those discs are not still good at this point. Right, don't last forever. 224 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,119 They got holes in them now, yeah, I mean they have a 225 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,839 hole. It takes a while. For Yeah, it'll take like fifty years. 226 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:18,160 Yeah, it'll take a while. Divis is for some people. It 227 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,200 takes for some people it takes thirteen years. Alan Wake specifically thirteen years, 228 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:26,119 brub you put on the dock here, Alan Wake too. Yeah. Yeah, 229 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,160 I wanted to like do a little check in, so I played a 230 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,640 little bit more on the site yesterday. I am through, well I think 231 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,880 I'm through the first part of Coffee World anyhow, and I am like, 232 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,119 yeah, I get it now, I get what is good about this. 233 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,000 Yeah, I mean it's like it's been it's been a journey for me where 234 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,880 I'm like everyone builds it up so so much, and I'm like, okay, 235 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:52,160 it's it is the game I thought it was. It is like, 236 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,400 hey, you're gonna be most of the gameplay is going to be poking around 237 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,759 looking for stuff, and then we're gonna throw some of the wildest shit you 238 00:17:59,839 --> 00:18:03,200 ever seeing in terms of storytelling in a game at you and I hope that's 239 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,359 your jam. And it's like once I accept the like, oh I'm here 240 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,039 for that. That's fine. I'm like, okay, I totally get what 241 00:18:08,079 --> 00:18:12,519 this game is, and I'm really enjoying that part of it. It was 242 00:18:12,599 --> 00:18:15,920 actually a little bit difficult coming all right off of Residual four to come back 243 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,039 to this and be like, oh, okay, that rest Bell four just 244 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:22,079 plays so well, And now I'm like, uh, they're just different things. 245 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:23,599 They really, I know, they feel similar, they occupy a similar 246 00:18:23,599 --> 00:18:27,000 part in my brain. But now that I'm like taking them as their own 247 00:18:27,079 --> 00:18:30,079 things, it's much easier to just like fully get into what Allen Wake two 248 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:37,119 is doing. It's it's not even like the gameplay is like I wouldn't say 249 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:42,000 like boring or anything like that. It's just it's reduced, right, It's 250 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:45,720 like the dials turned down on what they're what they're asking of you as a 251 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:49,400 player in these sections. And so it does feel like occasionally like okay, 252 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,920 I'm just kind of waiting to get this next bit, and the combat is 253 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,640 what it is. I don't think that's that's especially great. I do say 254 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,000 I like the puzzles because they're my kind of puzzles where I'm just like, 255 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,839 Okay, observe the world a little bit and go solve this thing and that's 256 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,559 been that's been fun. So yeah, I definitely get it. At this 257 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:08,880 point, I'm wondering how you guys are still feeling about it, Jan have 258 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,960 you beaten it yet? I decided to put on the back burner and try 259 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:18,599 and complete a couple of smaller indie games right in the meantime, and then 260 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,599 I quickly realized that we're starting Game of the Year this week, so I 261 00:19:22,599 --> 00:19:27,119 thought, like, okay, I gotta go in overdrive here. I actually 262 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:32,319 went back and replayed a couple chapters. I rolled back to an older save, 263 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:37,759 just because I just remember seeing Grub find all these cases and words of 264 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:41,839 power that I completely missed out on, and not that I was struggling where 265 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:47,119 I was at in the game, but I felt like I just needed some 266 00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:51,119 extra juice there, and I just wanted to spend even more time than I 267 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,480 was already spending in these levels. So I don't know if I'm just gonna 268 00:19:53,559 --> 00:19:56,799 roll with that older save because I just went back a couple chapters. But 269 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,519 man, I'm still I'm still digging this out of it. I thought a 270 00:20:02,519 --> 00:20:06,440 couple of weeks removed from playing it would kind of take me out of it 271 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:11,720 and maybe remove the recency bias of thinking it's absolutely amazing. But that was 272 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:15,039 I was wrong. As I was watching you play play yesterday, I'm like, 273 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,640 yeah, I would still visit the crap out of Coffee World, like 274 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,440 I would live there, well in its current state or like maybe in its 275 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:32,000 prime, like I either let's do some urban exploring, let's steal an animatronic, 276 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:36,400 let's go streaking at Disneyland, Let's just do it. It's really hot, 277 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,359 right, genuinely I found out about that because it's all of my friends 278 00:20:41,519 --> 00:20:45,880 were there when it happened. I wasn't just like finding out on the news. 279 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:52,000 My friend was like, he approached our boat. I was like yeah, 280 00:20:52,559 --> 00:20:56,039 And I'm like, there are very few places where I wish to see 281 00:20:56,079 --> 00:21:03,519 a dick unexpectedly Disneyland, Bottom of the Lands for sure, especially Small World 282 00:21:03,559 --> 00:21:07,119 where your hackles are already raised. Did you know the dolls hair grows? 283 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,839 Jeff, jeffs, Jan and Jeffs. Did you know the dolls hair grows? 284 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:18,160 Or yeah, what does that mean? What are this is a real 285 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,200 thing? Okay, don't start that because before he gets cool as hell but 286 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:26,799 also fucked up. Before you explain that, Bailey, because you need to 287 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:29,920 know to these two. Uh, I got I got beef with small world 288 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,359 because sometimes there's a Filipino dolls. Sometimes they're not Look at the fuck I 289 00:21:33,839 --> 00:21:37,599 see my fellow seasons. Let me bang with the busy, Let me bang 290 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,200 with them. Yeah, I think everyone's some bone to pick with. It's 291 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,519 a small world, depending on every walk of life. I think has a 292 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:52,559 justifiable bone to pick with. That rid the uh The boring official explanation for 293 00:21:52,559 --> 00:21:56,039 why the hair grows is that it is made of yarn, and yarn loses 294 00:21:56,079 --> 00:22:00,480 its elasticity over time, and so it will stretch out, and so they 295 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:04,000 have to trim it so that it's the right length and stuff and looks good. 296 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,119 No, the doll's hair just grows. Actually, okay, it fully 297 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,720 grows as haunted by the spirits of children. Right, and then to go 298 00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:18,519 over that guy's body and want to get naked, right, Bailey, have 299 00:22:18,599 --> 00:22:22,359 you stuck around or circled back to Alan Wake too at all? I have 300 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,160 not had a ton of time for it because I had to play Assassin's Creed 301 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,200 Mirage. Watch the Honest Game trailer comes out today, But every every Honest 302 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,920 Game trailer since the Allen Week one we have made multiple references to Alan Wake. 303 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,240 It is constantly in my brain. Now. It's very scary. I'm 304 00:22:37,319 --> 00:22:42,319 a baby. I can't play scary games. My heart's too weak. But 305 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:47,079 it's so interesting that I want to keep playing it. Plus, I was 306 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,400 really proud of myself because I beat that first boss, like on the first 307 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,200 try, and yes, you did. That's a really good job if you 308 00:22:53,200 --> 00:23:03,279 did that. You did that on the first try, that's really uh like 309 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,559 uh five, And I think it did me like three actually, ye, 310 00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:14,400 something like that, five or eight. I was so afraid and it made 311 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,880 me better at aiming the gun. I think that's a good sign. There 312 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:22,559 you go. But so how far into it are you, Bailey? Not 313 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:26,599 terribly far. I just know a lot about what happens later due to just 314 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:34,319 suresosis. Yeah, I'll say that. I think the frighteningness of the game 315 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:40,559 dials down pretty quickly after that. I think, like I've done a couple 316 00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:42,640 of sections now where it's like this, they're just having fun and it's more 317 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:52,720 like weird adult swim instead of horrifying constantly. Yeah, I to equate it, 318 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:56,839 to equate it to a movie. It's like Shutter Island, and then 319 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:03,480 it becomes like Zodiac of like, okay, what's happening? Okay, we 320 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,960 cool. It still has a lot of tension. Yes, I think it's 321 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:17,039 less stressful pretty quickly. So yeah, yeah, I think. Uh, 322 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,000 some of the environments get a little worse where you're just sort of like, 323 00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:25,039 oh no, I don't want to do that. And I think there are 324 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:30,319 they still do those triggered jump scares, which do eventually kind of get numb 325 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,440 too. I thought I was done with this game, and then it was 326 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,839 like no, we got more and I'm still in it. I feel like 327 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:44,720 my my in game counter is thirty two hours? What am I doing? 328 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,119 Am I just really a record for you guys? For this guy? Maybe? 329 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,160 Uh, for sure, I don't think I've played any game for thirty 330 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,680 two hours. Maybe I actually I have been doing a lot of the new 331 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,839 Call Duty. Uh we could talk about that maybe a little later I want 332 00:24:57,839 --> 00:25:03,119 to hear. But yeah, I you know, I still think. Oh 333 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,119 and also for people who've made it to I don't want to spoil anything, 334 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,400 but there is like a part where you're this isn't that, but you're in 335 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:15,400 a movie theater and you can like watch pretty much like a whole movie. 336 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,960 It's not a whole movie. It's probably like a fifteen minute Jimmy jam Jan, 337 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:26,559 did you watch the whole movie? I I was at war with myself 338 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,440 of like wanting to keep going or just sit there and watch the movie. 339 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,599 LEXI said, it's twenty two minutes. I didn't really that man, okay, 340 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,880 And then I just couldn't. Three times I just couldn't because I was 341 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,000 like, oh man, am I just gonna leave right now? Like I 342 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,880 want to see, like what the real audio actor looks like. I want 343 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,559 to hear that guy a little bit. And it's just fun. It's just 344 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:49,480 fun. I watched the whole thing and it's it's fucking weird. It's definitely 345 00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:53,160 like a student film week. I played through it really fast, like that 346 00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:57,200 section and watch that movie later on YouTube. Would I be fine? I 347 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,960 think you'd be fine. I wish I like, I mean, I think 348 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,920 it's it's very neat how that movie just starts to play, like you you 349 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,599 know, I still find that game very engaging and very you know. I 350 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,119 I will say this, I'm at the point now where I've like kind of 351 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,880 lost the narrative thread a little bit, and I'm just like, all right, 352 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:22,200 Sam, you're you're just I'm just gonna have to hear you do a 353 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:27,720 podcast now, because I I feel like I was there and then the last 354 00:26:27,839 --> 00:26:32,119 i'd say, you know, four hours of my playthrough, I've just been 355 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,640 like, oh, I realized we're in like the third act here, and 356 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,920 we're trying to like, you know, stick the landing, and it's good. 357 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,880 It's it's enthralling and it's and it's it's not dissimilar to any sort of 358 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:48,599 like cerebral you know, sci fi prestige movie or show where you're just like 359 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,039 I I was following and then all of a sudden, I lost it and 360 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:57,160 I would really appreciate a recap, but yeah, I'm still I still am 361 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:03,559 absolutely all tied up in this. I'm still really digging it, for sure. 362 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:07,960 I'm glad. I'm glad I'm continuing to come back to it because it 363 00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:11,319 is just like, all right, I'm enjoying what they're doing here and all 364 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:17,720 the all the storytelling stuff, all of the tools that they deploy is impressive 365 00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:22,279 because you just don't you don't see that anywhere else. So I'm very appreciative 366 00:27:22,319 --> 00:27:23,200 of what they're working with. And you know, I grew up like I 367 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,240 didn't. I didn't. I didn't want to say this to you, But 368 00:27:26,319 --> 00:27:29,119 now I think it's maybe there's a little bit of truth to it. I 369 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,279 think the way you played it, where like we were watching you play, 370 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,440 I think that is almost a bit of a disservice to like the experience that 371 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:41,920 Jen and I individually have probably had and Bailey obviously have had with this game, 372 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,799 right where like a lot of that stuff happening to you by yourself is 373 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,200 a bit more powerful. I think I can see that. Yeah, I 374 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,960 know, I know what you mean. I will say, though, the 375 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,920 other side of that is when something mundane happens or I just walk past them 376 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,559 and then you guys go, oh my god, exactly, thats be like 377 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,319 more curious and more too. Something special is happening with this game. If 378 00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:11,279 they're making connections like that almost constantly, so definitely it makes it feel the 379 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:15,680 game is really well thought out in a way that I haven't realized yet. 380 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,880 But the promise of that being sewn into my experience has been very helpful. 381 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:23,079 Right, Like we're giving you like the fan commentary almost right where like you 382 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,559 know you need you sort of need to split the difference with that, Yeah, 383 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,039 and I needed that a little bit. Now. I think I'm out 384 00:28:30,039 --> 00:28:32,559 at a point where I think I'm good. Yeah, And you know what 385 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,440 you talk about with the combat, Like, I do think the combat is 386 00:28:34,559 --> 00:28:40,279 pretty good. I do like that wrong with it. I do there are 387 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,480 times where I'm like, man, I haven't done any of that in a 388 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:48,039 while. I do think some of that is sort of mitigated with with the 389 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,319 the kind of potentially intense puzzle solving. I do like the majority of the 390 00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:59,720 puzzle stuff. I think sometimes I like stumble over a key that was hidden 391 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,720 in aer and I'm just like, I don't know what chlos do. Well, 392 00:29:03,799 --> 00:29:04,599 not even that we were, just like, who the hell was I 393 00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:11,119 gonna find this? Like I just stumbled upon it? You know that aside, 394 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,359 most of those are super satisfying. Yep, awesome, a good game. 395 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,400 Well, going from one remedy game to a game that is definitely inspired 396 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:25,279 by Remedy. I've been playing El Paso elsewhere. This came out a couple 397 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:30,119 I ask amazing things about this one. Please tell us more. Jan You 398 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,000 can tell that I like this game a bunch because I'm constantly while I'm playing 399 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,319 it on Steam just hitting F twelve F twelve f twelve because of the story 400 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:45,960 beats happening in the game, the actual gameplay I'm not the biggest fan of. 401 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:49,200 I'll be honest about it. This one is like the max pain, 402 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,680 Like kay, okay, yeah, this is the max pain. Like, 403 00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:56,559 so you have bullet time where you can slow down time, you have a 404 00:29:56,559 --> 00:30:00,480 meter, or do the dive where you slow down time and you'll have like 405 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,559 two pistols. You eventually get shotgun Tommy gun, et cetera, et cetera. 406 00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:08,960 And the gameplay loop is not my favorite because generally you are just dumped 407 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:14,200 into a level, find the hostages. Once you get all the hostages, 408 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:18,839 head back to the exit elevator. That formula differentiates a couple of times, 409 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:25,640 but the levels where I wind up remembering the most is more so where they 410 00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:30,039 fludge around with the environment. You're dumped into like a motel at the start 411 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:33,440 of the game, and then you just descend down an elevator, and whether 412 00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:41,000 the elevators actually descending down a physical space or whatever is to be determined from 413 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,319 where I'm at in the game, but it'll fudge around with the environment where 414 00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:49,599 like, oh crap, everything's small now, or there's a lamp that's floating 415 00:30:49,599 --> 00:30:53,599 in the sky. Now I'm in a graveyard, and then it'll mix like 416 00:30:53,599 --> 00:30:59,319 the graveyard with the motel you're in, and it does need stuff like that, 417 00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:00,799 and I like it when the game is doing that. I feel like 418 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:07,720 they could cut down on a lot of the actual levels because they're supposedly fifty 419 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,920 and at this point, I'm kind of tired of the actual gameplay loop and 420 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,720 I would actually just like the story because that is where this game really really 421 00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:22,200 sings. There's a couple of sequences where the music will kick in and then 422 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:26,480 it's it's pretty just ambient music with like it, like how Silent Hill will 423 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:33,839 occasionally go like or whatever in the background. El Paso Elsewhere totally does that. 424 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,839 But y'all, it's the fucking story. It's the small cut scenes and 425 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,359 like the pacing and the editing of it that just fucking hits in a certain 426 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:48,440 way. Shouts out to who I think May May who should maybe get the 427 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,400 best debut of best new character, James Savage. He's just a dude trying 428 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:59,359 to go after his vampire ex girlfriend. Sure there, right, yeah, 429 00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:05,440 and then like the whole time he's like coming to terms with their their whole 430 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,200 relationship, his own relationship with himself, and like the whole time, it's 431 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:15,279 like it's fucking hitting, let's fucking go, let's go. So that that 432 00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:20,799 part to try and see the rest of the stories propelling me through the actual 433 00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:23,640 story beats, and there's there's light humor in the game where you know they'll 434 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,599 introduce a new enemy and one of the first new enemies is like a werewolf 435 00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:30,759 and then like the cut see interstitial cut scene in between levels will be like 436 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,920 is that a fucking werewolf in the bathroom? And then hard cut to the 437 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,839 next level, and then it'll it'll have like other introspective moments where when they 438 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,720 introduce a new characters like oh, this is a bride, like we're like 439 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,799 what was your deal? Like were we married? Or you were you getting 440 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:51,799 married and all that other stuff. And I think the voice acting is very 441 00:32:51,799 --> 00:33:00,880 great. I believe the writer and developer voiced the game himself. Exlavier Lavier 442 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Nelson. I think I'm sorry for mis pronouncing your name. You said that's 443 00:33:05,039 --> 00:33:09,680 pretty awesome. It's there's a lot of vowels in his name. It's true. 444 00:33:10,799 --> 00:33:17,559 Hey, I'll take full onus for man, Like it's just like the 445 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:22,680 story beats. Honestly, it is what's pulling me through because I am just 446 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,559 very, very tired of the actual game at this point. Yeah, I 447 00:33:25,599 --> 00:33:30,880 was gonna have so for the game itself, how much does like it change 448 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,480 up over time or is it just kind of slow mo shooting and maybe get 449 00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:38,039 different weapons. It's pretty much that, and then you just go to point 450 00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:40,000 A. I was like, oh, now I got to flip a switch 451 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,279 to open this gate, and that maybe fifty levels too is a bit too 452 00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:46,039 much for Yeah, if that's not going to change too much. I feel 453 00:33:46,079 --> 00:33:50,359 like when I was playing that demo when it came out during like what was 454 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,839 the what's like the festival they did next? Yeah, the next fest. 455 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:57,960 I like was feeling that in what I was playing in only in the demo 456 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,920 where I was like, oh, wow, it's just this a lot, 457 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:04,519 a lot, a lot. I dug it though. That's yeah, that's 458 00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:06,680 cool to hear that you're you're so into it. Well, yeah, I 459 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,039 mean it seems like it's got a ton of styles. It seems uh. 460 00:34:08,119 --> 00:34:12,079 And if it does seem like it's got a lot of cool stuff happening in 461 00:34:12,119 --> 00:34:17,800 the story, is it how remedy inspired do you get any like live action 462 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,079 stuff and anything like that. No live action stuff, I think besides like 463 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:28,079 using pain killers and bullet time and diving and then just messing with the geometry 464 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:32,039 of the levels. That's where I'm getting the remedy lives. I've never played 465 00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:42,159 through Max Pain, so I can't speak to exactly. Wow. Also, 466 00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,239 James Savage wears like a trench and like Max Pain, where's a trench? 467 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,880 Oh yeah, yeah, clearly going for that. Uh. I mean they're 468 00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:52,159 not even trying to hide it. It's like this is definitely trying to be 469 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:59,039 an homage to to Max Pain. Uh. Okay, So the key question 470 00:34:59,079 --> 00:35:00,679 here for this week. You know, Friday we start Game of the Year 471 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,119 stuff. Should and I askee this before, but now that you play a 472 00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:09,440 little bit more, should I be playing this? It's Tuesday, It's Tuesday. 473 00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:15,800 It's really hard to recommend. It's hard. Like the story part absolutely 474 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:23,119 amazing, but then I'm about like four or five hours in and I and 475 00:35:23,159 --> 00:35:30,559 I'm almost to level fifty and it's quite Some of the levels do feel like 476 00:35:30,679 --> 00:35:36,239 quite the slog where you are messing so much with like not inventory Ammo management. 477 00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:42,440 They do promote like in the game of breaking virtually every wooden object so 478 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,639 you can get a stake to stab enemies with and that's like a one hit 479 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:52,320 kill. But I've just found myself very frustrated at occasional parts of it because 480 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,039 it just the difficulty ramps up out of nowhere and they just throw a bunch 481 00:35:55,079 --> 00:36:00,360 of enemies at you. There are modifiers that you can fudge around with every 482 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,800 time you boot up the game, so you could have infinite health, infinite 483 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:08,719 AMMO if you want, or like increase the efficiency of health pickups or how 484 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:14,480 much you get damaged. So I think if you really wanted to just zoom 485 00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:17,719 through the game, you could turn all those on to your favor interesting and 486 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,239 I don't think you would lose much out on the game. It would just 487 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,719 feel in my opinion, I think it feels like more like a slog. 488 00:36:24,079 --> 00:36:28,760 But like I know, it sounds like I'm harping on the game a lot, 489 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,079 but I'm telling you all, like the cut scenes and just like the 490 00:36:31,119 --> 00:36:34,760 pacing of it, it's just at such a frenetic pace. And I hate 491 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,119 using the word fornetic. I'm probably mispronouncing it. I just feel like it's 492 00:36:37,119 --> 00:36:44,000 overused. There we go boom boom baby. It just speaks to me in 493 00:36:44,039 --> 00:36:50,559 a weird way, and I think the delivery is really on point of James 494 00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:57,440 and your vampire ex girlfriend, and I feel attached to these people, and 495 00:36:57,519 --> 00:37:00,559 like the framing of all the like the little mini cut scenes is tastic as 496 00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:02,280 well, Like there's a lot of attention when it comes to that, and 497 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:08,639 it's not just like talking face talking face, it's it's beautiful given the kind 498 00:37:08,639 --> 00:37:14,480 of shitty ps one dirty polygon vibe that it's going for. Yeah, I 499 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:20,719 mean I'm still really into this cool look of taking early PC games or early 500 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,440 three D games of any kind and giving them like good lighting and calling it 501 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,679 a day. Like, yeah, that that works for me a ton. 502 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,480 I think that's a pretty cool look. I I have like like trying to 503 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,000 place elpass Oaks elsewhere in my head, but like, as you've been talking 504 00:37:32,039 --> 00:37:35,960 about it, and I'm like, wait, is it it sounds for some 505 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,079 reason, the name makes it sound like it's a visual novel or something like 506 00:37:38,119 --> 00:37:40,280 that. So I'm like, oh, okay, no, this is the 507 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,679 game I've been seeing on TikTok. It's it is the max paying game that 508 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,960 people have been playing on TikTok so. So it's got enough vibes that people 509 00:37:49,079 --> 00:37:51,159 are like, oh, what is this? What is that game? What 510 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,800 is that game? So yeah, I'm I'm into the way it looks, 511 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:59,679 and I like the presentation. I might check this out, which I had 512 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,079 a lot more time before Friday, I I grub. I would play up 513 00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:07,639 until the level where you hear the rap track kick in. Okay. That's 514 00:38:07,679 --> 00:38:14,719 always a good sign because like it is it, it hits. It's not 515 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,960 my style, it's not my style of rap that I personally prefer, but 516 00:38:17,039 --> 00:38:20,960 it's just one of those of like, Okay, let's fucking go. And 517 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,239 then like you know, as I'm as I'm playing here in in in the 518 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:28,239 dark, I'm just like yelling my own like little ad libs to the side 519 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:35,199 while while they're going off, like anyway, just get a case of buzzballs 520 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:40,719 and time perfect evening. I guess I'm not gonna judge you, Bailey. 521 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,239 I I invited you onto the podcast not only because we we we need you, 522 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:51,400 but because I I wanted to brag to you that I have now finished 523 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:57,199 two more video games in my life. God, I just wanted to I 524 00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,039 just wanted to try and impress my friends and have it be recorded for posterity. 525 00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:07,719 So so your list now is Cheers of the Kingdom and lies of p 526 00:39:07,599 --> 00:39:16,480 Lies of p right right right now, Venba, okay and Juson. I 527 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,400 think that's really impressive. Jan thank you, thank you, Bailey, thank 528 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:27,000 you Shitley, thank you Shitley, thank you Shitley, Venba. Folks may 529 00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:29,639 have seen this pop popping around as well. It's gotten a lot of buzz. 530 00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:31,519 It's a very very quick game. You could definitely be in one sitting, 531 00:39:31,559 --> 00:39:35,400 maybe like two ish hours. So should we really count that as a 532 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:42,760 full game then? Huh? So it follows a narrative of your immigrant mother 533 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,280 immigrating to Canada with your pops, and then you know, it's a really 534 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:50,440 sweet game. It's more so about the story they're telling it. It kind 535 00:39:50,519 --> 00:39:53,400 of looks like it is a cooking game, like a cooking Mama, but 536 00:39:53,480 --> 00:40:00,719 really your mom is just putting together recipes and the story is wrapped aroun and 537 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:05,239 everything, and it if you were a child of immigrants, specifically specifically first 538 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:14,400 gen, then I five thousand percent not recommend and am telling you you need 539 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,559 to play this because this deals a lot with cultural identity crisis of growing up 540 00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:22,519 whether or not you want to assimilate to the greater culture of wherever you're at. 541 00:40:22,639 --> 00:40:24,159 Here it's in Canada. For me, it was like in the US. 542 00:40:24,199 --> 00:40:28,880 And then just kind of dealing with those like racial stereotypes of like, 543 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,360 hey, I only know this thing about Indian culture, like you like tick 544 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:36,119 a masala, right, and then realizing like, oh, you know, 545 00:40:36,199 --> 00:40:39,159 I yes, Indian, but there is like different aspects to being Indian and 546 00:40:39,199 --> 00:40:45,159 that's not the only thing that my people eat. And then it's facing the 547 00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:49,320 shame of bringing in like a homemade dish to lunch and everything. And that's 548 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,360 definitely something like I've come across in my life of like having other classmates point 549 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,719 out my smelly food and be like, ooh, what's that? That's not 550 00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:00,719 a chee. So it's really touching in the aspect it deals a lot with 551 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:07,800 They touch on just being proud of the culture that you come from, and 552 00:41:08,559 --> 00:41:15,159 it really touches on how the first generation immigrant experience can feel like being a 553 00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,800 tourist in your own culture where yes, like that is a part of me 554 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,519 and I speak the language kind of and I can read it kind of, 555 00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:30,079 but me being Filipino American and In this instance, the Sun character is Tamil, 556 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:37,079 a Canadian. Again, apologies, I'm getting that incorrect. It really 557 00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:39,639 echoes a lot of my own sense feelings and like what I've experienced of like, 558 00:41:40,159 --> 00:41:43,559 yeah, like I'm proud of this culture, but I'm also kind of 559 00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:45,719 ashamed of it sometimes, But like why am I ashamed of it? Who's 560 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:50,400 telling me to be ashamed of it? And deals with the more so with 561 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,119 the parent side of that of like why can't my kid be proud of this? 562 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:58,760 Why are they ashamed of this? And just like your name is Caven 563 00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:01,599 versus like and you want to anglicize it and be called Kevin and stuff. 564 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:07,039 Again, if you if you love cooking, if you're a child of immigrants, 565 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:08,800 or you're looking for a quick game to play or a game with a 566 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:14,559 hot mom, play venpa, Oh okay, just throw that one right at 567 00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:16,599 the end. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. That 568 00:42:16,679 --> 00:42:20,719 sounds great, especially for that last bit. Oh yeah, definitely. I 569 00:42:21,039 --> 00:42:23,480 started this, and I will say I found it very pleasant just following the 570 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:30,920 recipes because it's not like it's written out explicitly. It's like suggested at and 571 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,760 you know, it's you know, pretty close to an explicit show suggestion of 572 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,559 like what you're supposed to do, but it's it's still fun just be like, 573 00:42:36,599 --> 00:42:39,039 Okay, clearly I'm supposed to put this and then this, and oh 574 00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:42,079 there's little holes here, so I gotta let the steam through, so I'm 575 00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:45,440 going to line it up this way. And just going through that those processes 576 00:42:45,559 --> 00:42:51,239 is really satisfying, especially because it's like I am making foods and using like 577 00:42:51,679 --> 00:42:57,239 electronic kitchen devices that I've never seen before, and man, I'm always fascinated 578 00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,840 by those things, and it's like a safe space to play around with that 579 00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:04,760 someone else's culture and have them kind of from their perspective. I'll say that 580 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,800 I don't know if this is a lesson that gaming has learned so much as 581 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:14,800 other mediums, but like specificity is like is like what makes storytelling really work. 582 00:43:15,039 --> 00:43:19,320 And telling a very honed in story about a certain kind of person from 583 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,239 a certain place that's experienced a certain thing, it's like, well, that 584 00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:28,079 actually makes it easier for someone elsewhere that has no relationship to those specific things 585 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,599 to latch on because it's still like the same kind of things that everyone goes 586 00:43:30,639 --> 00:43:35,119 through. So I definitely got that right away right away, where I'm like, 587 00:43:35,119 --> 00:43:37,800 this is something that appeals to me, even though it's completely the opposite 588 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:44,280 of anything I've ever experienced. Totally Yeah, five thousand percent. And it's 589 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,760 on game Pass if you've got game Pass. Oh cool, easy slam dunk. 590 00:43:47,199 --> 00:43:52,440 Also, Jan you buried the lead. The dad's also hot for everybody. 591 00:43:52,559 --> 00:43:54,599 You know. He's got a stash and he's like almost the same shade 592 00:43:54,599 --> 00:43:57,840 of brown as I am. And I'm like, I see myself as this 593 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,559 guy. Look at this man, Look at this man. There's also a 594 00:44:00,559 --> 00:44:06,559 frame where like, my guy might be smoking a fat duchy you know, 595 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,559 helly, Yeah, seems like a cool day. He can hang. I 596 00:44:09,639 --> 00:44:14,360 gotta play this game. You gotta play this game. The party. Let's 597 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:20,719 go shitty kids. It's got something for everyone. Also, real quick, 598 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,280 I just want to touch on and quickly talk about juiceant Grub. You you 599 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,639 mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. Now I don't know if you've finished 600 00:44:28,639 --> 00:44:30,199 it, Grub, I not, but I intend to go back to it. 601 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,960 I'm excited to hear that you finished it. I know that the sprint 602 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,719 to Game of the Year is insane with all these other titles popping up, 603 00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:39,320 but again, I implore you, if you have game passed, if you 604 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:45,639 have access to that, devote maybe three four hours to playing Juiceant. I 605 00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:49,599 got really tired of it, and I knew that I was close to the 606 00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,280 end, so I just kind of powered through the climb and continue to climb 607 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,960 in this game, I had a lot of issues with it. To grub. 608 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,840 I don't know if you came across it, but like collision detecting being 609 00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:05,920 super weird, it gets weird, yeah, And like the they telegraph really 610 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,239 well what you can throw on and like, uh, clutch onto to climb 611 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:14,000 through stuff, and sometimes that just wasn't connecting for me personally, and like, 612 00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:15,639 yep, that's definitely happened to me too. Like the jumping mechanic where 613 00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:20,360 you're jumping to like another handhold or whatever, like would fuck up sometimes for 614 00:45:20,519 --> 00:45:25,159 me. But yo, here here's how to get an easy cheap pop from 615 00:45:25,199 --> 00:45:30,199 me. Throw a fucking space whale in your video game space. What do 616 00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:36,639 you mean space? What is that space? Well, whales and space. 617 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,599 You have a little QT in your backpack, right, the little qt? 618 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,360 Yes? Is he safe? The whole time? I need to know this 619 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,599 before I embark on this mission. There's a there's a moment. There's a 620 00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:52,519 moment Bailey, whether your cute little squishy friend does get hurt. I can't 621 00:45:52,559 --> 00:45:58,519 plan it. I'm not going the beginning part of stray. He only gets 622 00:45:58,599 --> 00:46:00,320 hurt for a little bit and then, like you ammliately get it immediately gets 623 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:07,039 resolved. There's a there's just like the moment in it, which I think 624 00:46:07,079 --> 00:46:09,920 I need to put that out of the dock for best moment of the year. 625 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:16,559 It's just like, Okay, let's go shouts out to the space wheels. 626 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:22,559 Yeah, I've heard the final climb is very exciting, so yeah, 627 00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:27,679 I might check it out. Yeah the you know, I was gonna say 628 00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,719 that maybe that's the thing you could just YouTube and fully experience, but like 629 00:46:30,679 --> 00:46:35,639 I I'll just kid, I'm just gonna beat it. Yeah. I like 630 00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,039 that game. I appreciate it. It does seem like dope, No, 631 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,760 got to a point where it's like, you know, we could spend more 632 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,840 time perfecting this, but we kind of got it to where we need to 633 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,639 get it, and I think that. I mean, I like what I've 634 00:46:47,639 --> 00:46:52,159 played of it a lot. It does a really good job of evoking emotions 635 00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:57,480 without doing a lot of overt storytelling or throwing cut scenes, and I really 636 00:46:57,519 --> 00:47:00,480 appreciate that. And then I just enjoy climbing games. There's climbing games in 637 00:47:00,559 --> 00:47:04,599 VR. I like just climbing in general and video games, and this is 638 00:47:04,679 --> 00:47:08,199 like really a really good one of those. So I that was probably an 639 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:12,079 momentum to get me back into it. And hearing that the Indian is very 640 00:47:12,119 --> 00:47:14,199 good. Yeah, I'm gonna check it out. Yeah, I think it 641 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:19,679 really delivers there. And you can skip the the notes and like the little 642 00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,840 pickups and the rock stuff Grub if you just want to like minati critical path 643 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:29,639 your way through the game, that's right, yep. Speaking about whales and 644 00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:31,480 space whales, Jeff Grubb, this is the last game we have listened to 645 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:36,280 here. This is quite the whale of the game. Walter's Kick three. 646 00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:39,000 Yeah, Yeah, I've been trying to stick to this game a little bit 647 00:47:39,039 --> 00:47:45,159 more. I I just got out of my depth with my character party where 648 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:50,440 we were take we were all level two and we were taking on like level 649 00:47:51,079 --> 00:47:55,119 five or six people that were like part of some main quest. Excuse me, 650 00:47:55,199 --> 00:47:58,400 I don't know what's the main question, what's not yet Still, I'm 651 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,679 just kind of like doing things that might characters I like, are asking me 652 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,719 to do for the most part, while also trying to get cured of this 653 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,719 thing that's in our head, and that's just living babies, and that's just 654 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,199 living. That's like we're all dealing with that, aren't we. And I 655 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,719 got to this point where these characters were just wrecking my shit, and everyone's 656 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,159 like, just turned down the difficulty, just turning down the difficulty and get 657 00:48:20,199 --> 00:48:22,280 through all this stuff. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I should 658 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,480 just do that, And so I turned down the difficulty to the easiest setting 659 00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:29,920 to basically like get out of this jam, this pickle I put myself in. 660 00:48:30,199 --> 00:48:32,800 And now I am starting to build up some momentum where I'm leveling up 661 00:48:34,039 --> 00:48:37,760 and I'm getting back over to a place where it seems like maybe I should 662 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,559 have been in the first place. And I'm solving some of these story quests 663 00:48:40,639 --> 00:48:45,719 and they're almost always interesting. I'll say I like it whenever I'm in a 664 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,440 dialogue tree in this game, that's always a good time to be like, 665 00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:51,800 how can we play around with these characters? How are they going to mesh 666 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:52,960 together? And then we get back to the world and say, oh, 667 00:48:53,039 --> 00:48:55,360 I left my backpack somewhere go look for it, and it'say, well, 668 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:59,480 this is not very fun. That's why am I looking for this stupid little 669 00:48:59,519 --> 00:49:02,559 thing and this in this world? Yeah, and it's like it's harder to 670 00:49:02,599 --> 00:49:06,519 see these things. I'm like, I found it. It's whatever. But 671 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:12,920 the game mostly is these cool dialogue options and then a pretty cool combat system 672 00:49:13,079 --> 00:49:15,599 that I'm still getting the hang of. I've heard people really build it up, 673 00:49:15,679 --> 00:49:17,719 like, oh, you know, you can set off these chain reactions 674 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:22,119 and have all these cool physics interactions that happen in combat, and that's my 675 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:27,280 I really like those kinds of things, but I just and either having a 676 00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,519 difficulty wrapping my head around what is possible in any moment because there's so much 677 00:49:30,639 --> 00:49:35,679 to learn, or I'm just not very creative, which is entirely possible. 678 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:37,920 So I'm like, Okay, I'm still kind of feeling that side of things 679 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:43,239 out. But as I get into any situation where I can have characters, 680 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,519 it's like face off in a battle of wits and I'm rolling dice. That 681 00:49:45,679 --> 00:49:49,400 continues to be very exciting. So I'm like, I'm pretty on board with 682 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,760 this game at this point. It's it's not like rocketing to the top of 683 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,119 my Game of the Year list or anything like that. But it's it's been 684 00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:59,119 a very good time, and it's the game that I am playing the most 685 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:00,199 leading up to Game of the Year. It's the one I want to like 686 00:50:00,599 --> 00:50:05,840 have a good grasp of at this point. And and yeah, it continues 687 00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,400 to play really well in the handheld PCs, So yeah, I'm enjoying it. 688 00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,360 Are you doing it? That's the thing is like I keep going back 689 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,960 to it too, and I'm just like, yeah, no, I for 690 00:50:14,119 --> 00:50:16,079 me, that's Game of the year thing is, I'm this is the one 691 00:50:16,119 --> 00:50:20,719 I'm still playing like. I just started a darker run and it's been very 692 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:30,599 fun. I recommend to anyone who uh wants to support women's rights and women's 693 00:50:30,639 --> 00:50:32,280 wrongs, although I guess you're darker character giving a man too or whatever. 694 00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:37,320 Fu. Yeah, but mine's the hottest woman you've ever seen, and all 695 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,719 she wants to do is murder and her blood. What can we say? 696 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:46,199 It's one of she's amazing, she's fucking the vampire who loves that she wants 697 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,519 to murder. It's all working out. Okay. Yeah, see that that 698 00:50:51,079 --> 00:50:53,599 right there, that little the anecdote there that sounds amazing, like the fact 699 00:50:53,639 --> 00:50:57,280 that all this stuff is possible in the game. So yeah, I'm gonna 700 00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,840 keep messing around in it and see what I can where I come out on 701 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:01,880 the side. I just don't think I have the time. I'm just going 702 00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:07,159 to defer to the crew and that uh and trust that that everyone else. 703 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,800 Baby. Oh yeah, it's too late for you, fellows. I'm sorry. 704 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:15,760 Yes, I don't care how long this plane ride is. State not 705 00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:22,280 go go not playing that, not doing it? Go play the dark Horse 706 00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:23,920 that we all don't want to admit is actually the game of the year. 707 00:51:24,079 --> 00:51:29,119 On that plane ride back, go go go play yourself and Pickman four. 708 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,480 Yeah, yeah, I might have to bring along the Nintendo switch that is 709 00:51:32,559 --> 00:51:37,159 basically being held together by du duct tape and dreams at the time. That's 710 00:51:37,199 --> 00:51:39,400 a good reason to get a whole new one. There you go. Yeah, 711 00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:47,400 you're right, You're definitely right. But I long. So someone was 712 00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,719 like, which switch should I get? I'm like, none of them, 713 00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:58,360 none of them at all. Wait, wait a year. Listen, anyone 714 00:51:58,519 --> 00:52:04,000 been playing anything else? Played the Modern Warfare? Right, he's talk about 715 00:52:04,039 --> 00:52:07,360 some God, yeah a little, but got the cod boys. Listen, 716 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,559 I had this, I had this Nicki Minaj skin. I wasn't gonna let 717 00:52:10,559 --> 00:52:15,480 it collect dust in the corner, Okay, question I was. I was 718 00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:17,400 gonna ask if you were still playing as Nikki. And I'm so glad that 719 00:52:17,599 --> 00:52:23,000 absolutely, yeah, absolutely, And it's it's injected a whole new breath of 720 00:52:23,079 --> 00:52:27,559 fresh air into the gameplay experience. Let me tell you, because some of 721 00:52:27,679 --> 00:52:34,280 the some of the soundbites that uh Nicky is rocking is amazing, like get 722 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:39,199 out of my way, dumb ass bitch, like it's so sick incoming grenade. 723 00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:44,280 It's so it's just they just made Nicki Minaj be a call of duty 724 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:50,960 soldier. It's a fucking phenomenal anyway, Yeah, that game all these old 725 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,159 ass Mapson's played all these fucking maps a billion times. They just slapped a 726 00:52:54,159 --> 00:52:57,800 new fresh coat of paint and all this bullshit. But you know what, 727 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:02,239 game's fucking really good and it doesn't try and like look very over the top. 728 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,800 Was that like a bullshit jingle? Was I? Sorry? No, 729 00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,559 no, no, no no no, that was me. I was trying 730 00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:08,360 to wrap it up. No no, no, no no no. I 731 00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:13,559 was trying to cueue up some Nicki Mina's voice. It's crazy I thought there 732 00:53:13,639 --> 00:53:16,760 was a soundboard, but there's there's just this video. Baby. Oh yes, 733 00:53:17,159 --> 00:53:22,440 tell is where your squads at to the keep going, keep going. 734 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:27,599 There's so many good ones place. Six six and a half minutes of this. 735 00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,079 Yes, they're so good. She was in the voiceover for a while. 736 00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:35,480 Yeah, didn't work. Yeah, an entire morning to the south, 737 00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,320 to the southeast, to the southwest, to the west, took out the 738 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:44,239 animal box, took out their armored boat, took out their recondron trophy systems 739 00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,679 up. Trust me, you want this bad bitch on your side. Yes, 740 00:53:47,159 --> 00:53:52,800 yes, there's nothing better. There's nothing better than saying that there's nothing 741 00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,840 better. I'm glad that your her. I'm just picturing her doing all of 742 00:53:55,920 --> 00:54:00,400 those lines just like that in the booth, like no breaks or nothing, 743 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:05,639 just that professional. She gets one take for everything. It's perfect every time. 744 00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:07,199 She's like, I'm gonna knock this out before lunch, let's go. 745 00:54:07,519 --> 00:54:10,239 I'm glad. I'm glad that you can feel like you can girl boss now 746 00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:15,079 and you can tell your your buddies like, I'm glad you can have this 747 00:54:15,119 --> 00:54:17,360 sposs bitch on your squad. Yeah, so cool, Like I just want 748 00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:22,599 to hang out with her and like all her jewelry is on display when you 749 00:54:22,679 --> 00:54:24,159 reload, and you're like, goddamn, she's got like all these diamond rings 750 00:54:24,199 --> 00:54:27,360 on. You're just like this is great. This is so stupid, but 751 00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,960 it's so great anyway, that game, like I said, they're they like 752 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:37,159 they reeled some of it in in a way where it's not as bewildering. 753 00:54:38,039 --> 00:54:43,760 Uh, they like stuck to a lot of like traditional like XP pops and 754 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:50,079 like you know, different kind of like hallmarks of that game that feel maybe 755 00:54:50,119 --> 00:54:55,239 they're registering in like a very positive nostalgia kind of like way. But it's 756 00:54:55,280 --> 00:55:00,199 working really well. I think that game's a lot of fun. I I 757 00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:06,559 think I think the temperature of like Minormity Friends is that there's less bullshit and 758 00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:10,239 because of that, we're just having a better time. What was the bullshit? 759 00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:14,039 It was just like distractions in like the game trying to get you to 760 00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:15,960 do other stuff you didn't care about. Yeah, I mean, you know 761 00:55:16,039 --> 00:55:20,760 again, like I just think there was it was very busy in a lot 762 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,519 of like needless ways. And I think, like I said, they reeled 763 00:55:22,559 --> 00:55:28,079 a lot of that in and you know, you're not you're not sort of 764 00:55:28,159 --> 00:55:32,000 like juggling some of the mindless minutia that would maybe kind of percolate under the 765 00:55:32,079 --> 00:55:37,880 surface. And I think they do a lot of smart things with like weapon 766 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:42,400 progression, even though that in itself is like this, you know, never 767 00:55:42,679 --> 00:55:47,320 ending a laundry list of like incomprehensible objectives. But they've done some interesting stuff 768 00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:50,599 where you can like say like, hey, like I want to get this 769 00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,519 scope on this gun really bad, and it's like forty eight you know, 770 00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:59,760 unlocks down the line. You can basically like select that and say, okay, 771 00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:04,119 I'm playing for this now and you have to unlock objectives and satisfy objectives 772 00:56:04,159 --> 00:56:07,760 could get that thing. You know. Again, it's still relatively indecipherable and 773 00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:12,519 you have no idea what you're ultimately unlocking, because at the end of a 774 00:56:12,599 --> 00:56:15,119 rematch there's like forty five seconds of screens that are like you did this, 775 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,960 and meters go up and levels go up, and you're like, I have 776 00:56:19,039 --> 00:56:22,800 to did I just lose money? Like I don't know what happened? You 777 00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:24,159 know. It's like video poker where you're like, I don't know if I 778 00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:29,639 want tak my bank account, what happened? Something happened, right, but 779 00:56:30,119 --> 00:56:32,159 it is really good, and they've chosen like the maps that they have in 780 00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:37,960 this game. There, they've been out of rotation long enough where you're just 781 00:56:37,079 --> 00:56:40,239 like, god, damn, these are really really good. There's a reason, 782 00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:46,320 yeah that those games are are are thought about more fondly or than the 783 00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:50,159 newer stuff. Like their maps are just better. The maps are just better 784 00:56:50,199 --> 00:56:53,639 straight up. And yeah, it's good. I'm we're playing it actively. 785 00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:59,000 The I always say this every year. The real true test, the barometer 786 00:56:59,119 --> 00:57:00,800 that we all have to keep our eyes on collectively, the entire game in 787 00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,960 community is whether or not Jeff and his normany friends play after the new year. 788 00:57:05,079 --> 00:57:08,039 If we're still playing come middle of January, you know this one stuck. 789 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:12,480 If we didn't, you know, it's our version of like Groundhogs anyway. 790 00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:15,639 If we didn't, you know, it's a stinker. And six more 791 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,519 months of Call of Duty Winter, Yeah exactly, I'm betting we're still playing 792 00:57:19,599 --> 00:57:22,920 in six weeks. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard good things and it's mostly 793 00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:28,519 about the tweaks to the running around and the gameplay, and then yes, 794 00:57:28,679 --> 00:57:30,760 get the bullshit out of the way, And that's probably the right choice. 795 00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:34,119 If this is how they were going to approach this totally. It's like, 796 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,559 I mean, the wrong choice was all the other stuff they did with like 797 00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,599 hey, let's just you know, shit out a really terrible campaign and make 798 00:57:40,639 --> 00:57:44,880 a big deal about that and all this other stuff, and it's like, 799 00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:46,920 okay, actually, if you dig in, it's just a really fun call 800 00:57:47,039 --> 00:57:50,760 anything. But they can't sell a seventy dollars game on that because that does 801 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,360 feel like an update, so they had to like focus on all this other 802 00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:57,239 annoying stuff that didn't matter. But well, that gets you into the car, 803 00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:59,639 and now do you actually like driving the car? It has nothing to 804 00:57:59,679 --> 00:58:01,599 do with it anything we sold you on it, But now that you're sitting 805 00:58:01,639 --> 00:58:05,679 there actually using it, it's really reliable. It does what you expect. 806 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,360 You can understand it. So yeah, I'm uh, I think I'm gonna 807 00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:13,239 pop back in play some more myself, and forgive me. If you hear 808 00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:15,760 some leaf blowers, that's probably what you're here. And there, jan I 809 00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,440 think like, uh, you know, look you still play, and all 810 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,400 of a sudden, like Shredder's next to you, and you're like, all 811 00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:27,960 right, well that's that's fucking weird. But what is Shredder doing here? 812 00:58:28,039 --> 00:58:31,079 What's that what is Shredder yelling. I don't know, I haven't heard any 813 00:58:31,119 --> 00:58:37,760 of the He's probably just like you should feel lucky to have a boss pitch 814 00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:45,480 on your team. What does he say? And I hope they're oh my 815 00:58:45,559 --> 00:58:47,400 god, I haven't heard that one. That sounds fun. I hope they 816 00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:51,320 are like soundbites from like the first two movies, but I don't think they 817 00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:55,719 are where he's just like idiots like that stuff like that. He uses grumble 818 00:58:55,760 --> 00:59:00,000 around a bunch, but and then they're skeletor is like up in this game, 819 00:59:00,079 --> 00:59:04,320 spawns up in this game, And that's kind of it. I think, 820 00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,760 for like the way I could do stuff and you know what that and 821 00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:14,079 Groot for whatever reason is there, Like, Yeah, lot of players were 822 00:59:14,079 --> 00:59:20,800 saying that Grout's OP because apparently he like blends. His skin is very uh 823 00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:25,119 like translucent and transparent in a lot of like convenient ways, especially in like 824 00:59:25,199 --> 00:59:30,400 the Wooded Maps. He's voiced by Vin Diesel, the most powerful act. 825 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:38,800 Yes, the range that Vin Diesel continues to demonstrate OP the op human all 826 00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:43,440 of all of us. But yeah, it's it's fucking good, like games 827 00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,559 good. Good game is good, and I'm feeling it I'm gonna click on 828 00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:52,559 a random button on a random Nicki Minaj soundboard that I found. Pray to 829 00:59:52,639 --> 00:59:59,000 God that I don't get canceled over this, and we'll take a break. 830 00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,320 We'll be back. First wait, but first, but first, but first, 831 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,960 if I could, please, please, can I please say something before 832 01:00:05,039 --> 01:00:09,079 we break? Please? And everyone again, We need to let you know 833 01:00:09,239 --> 01:00:14,960 about Game of the Year tickets. Okay. I was told this morning that 834 01:00:15,079 --> 01:00:19,360 there's a very small number of tickets left. Okay, not going to tell 835 01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:22,039 you how many, but a very small number of tickets. We're not joking. 836 01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:28,320 This is basically last call. There's one left, all right, there's 837 01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:35,599 one left, and yeah you can't bring yeah, no, no more plus 838 01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:40,039 ones. But seriously, very limited number left. I'm assuming by the end 839 01:00:40,039 --> 01:00:45,519 of the week we're done. So this is it. No more venue changes. 840 01:00:45,559 --> 01:00:49,440 We're too close to the point of no return. Get your tickets now 841 01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,159 or forever. Hold your piece and you can. You can bring a baby, 842 01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,679 but if you do, I get to sign it. I don't think 843 01:00:54,719 --> 01:00:59,239 you can. I think the venue is eighteen and up. Actually I will 844 01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,239 sign the baby baby all right, leave your baby Benjamin button. You can 845 01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:07,159 get them in that. Yeah, my nineteen year old baby here, Benjamin 846 01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:12,400 Buttonhole. I got a friend of a friend in LA that keeps saying, 847 01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,840 do we want a robot for the show? Yes? Yes, okay, 848 01:01:16,039 --> 01:01:22,320 why you questions asked? All right, hey, if you're going to the 849 01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:24,840 Giant bomb Game of the Year live, the real game of the year, 850 01:01:25,039 --> 01:01:30,920 let's be honest, folks. Hey, bring a sign, let's let's let's 851 01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:34,440 put let's make this, let's put wrestling in this. Bitch, we're about 852 01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:38,119 to upset everyone watching on twitch and YouTube for the live stream because it's one 853 01:01:38,159 --> 01:01:43,360 of those instances where you know you gotta be there to experience the whole juice. 854 01:01:44,239 --> 01:01:47,760 Uh, that's right. Tickets still on sale for now at least three 855 01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:52,519 baby handfuls of tickets, and that's not a lot. Have you seen a 856 01:01:52,599 --> 01:01:54,920 baby's hands? Yeah? Anyway, can't hold ship, Nikki take it away? 857 01:01:55,199 --> 01:02:07,440 Not our Niki, but Nicki minajs lit, Hey, Nikki, should 858 01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,119 we keep doing the show? Should we keep doing the podcast? You can't 859 01:02:10,159 --> 01:02:16,559 get rid of me, bitch. I'm not blowing nowhere. I'm not blowing 860 01:02:16,679 --> 01:02:22,079 no fucking aware. Hell yeah, all right, Nicki Mina, I guess 861 01:02:22,119 --> 01:02:24,679 we already keep doing the show, So Jeff Grubb, let's get the news. 862 01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,840 So it was early last week I noticed that every single piece of software 863 01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,800 I had was updating all at the same time, Like, what's going on? 864 01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:44,079 I realized it's like it was about to be Thanksgiving. So a lot 865 01:02:44,119 --> 01:02:45,679 of places we're just gonna take the rest of the year off. And that 866 01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:50,639 sort of happened with the news. There's not a lot happening. Uh, 867 01:02:50,679 --> 01:02:52,880 the industry is slowing down. There will be some news next week because the 868 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:57,800 Game Awards will happen, and I'm sure Jeff Keeley will delight us with all 869 01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:02,679 his many pleasures the flesh. But in the meantime, we have a few 870 01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:07,719 new stories here, starting with Sony faces lawsuit over store prices. This is 871 01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:13,679 a weird one. A class action lawsuit accusing Sony of overcharging PlayStation store customers 872 01:03:13,719 --> 01:03:16,400 by up to five billion dollars actually five billion pounds, which would be about 873 01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:21,599 six point two seven billion dollars, can proceed to trial. The lawsuit was 874 01:03:21,639 --> 01:03:25,280 filed in August twenty twenty two by consumer rights campaigner Alex Neil on behalf of 875 01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:30,400 eight point nine million PlayStation customers. The lawsuit alleges that Sony abuses its dominant 876 01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:37,119 position in the market by charging excessive PlayStation store prices. Basically, the argument 877 01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:40,599 is that on top of the cost to produce the game and make a profit 878 01:03:42,159 --> 01:03:45,800 for the developers and the publishers, Sony then takes a thirty percent cut, 879 01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:50,199 and that is way more than it needs to be according to this lawsuit, 880 01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,239 and so prices are higher than they need to be, and Sony can get 881 01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:57,559 away with this because you can only get games through Sony on a PlayStation console. 882 01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:03,559 It's kind of like, well, that's everything. It would be pretty 883 01:04:05,559 --> 01:04:09,320 It's hard to see how this goes through and actually has a chance of winning 884 01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:14,760 unless it flips what's upside down the entire industry of digitally distributing software, which 885 01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,800 hey, maybe that does happen. That could happen, Yeah, hey, 886 01:04:18,079 --> 01:04:23,800 I would laugh. I do, like, does this make any sense to 887 01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,880 you, guys? I kind of see what they're saying, like, yes, 888 01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,920 you can only get the PlayStation Store on PlayStation, but they did all 889 01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:31,880 the work to sell those PlayStations, so I kind of I mean at certain 890 01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,559 points, like yeah, they get to reap the rewards a little bit. 891 01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:38,159 I don't know, how do you guys see it? Yeah, I mean 892 01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,000 they make the store, they make the games. They can kind of call 893 01:04:41,079 --> 01:04:44,360 the shots there, right, Yeah, it feels like that's the way it 894 01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:48,039 should be. But I go to a farmer's market, the guys that grew 895 01:04:48,079 --> 01:04:50,880 the oranges can tell me how much she wants me to pay for the oranges. 896 01:04:51,679 --> 01:04:56,599 Yeah, and like I could say no to paying that. And honestly, 897 01:04:56,719 --> 01:04:59,400 there are other options. You just have to get something other than a 898 01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,639 PlayStation, but I think there are. You know, the PlayStation is the 899 01:05:01,679 --> 01:05:03,599 thing that has the most games, and some of these games you can only 900 01:05:03,639 --> 01:05:06,599 get on PlayStation. We'll see. I mean, most of this is going 901 01:05:06,639 --> 01:05:11,280 to be ambulance chasing. This does remind me, though, that there's another 902 01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:15,599 lawsuit happening right now against two K for NBA two K, and that one's 903 01:05:15,599 --> 01:05:20,079 a little bit more compelling. Apparently they are getting sued for stealing people's money, 904 01:05:20,159 --> 01:05:25,920 because what happens is people put money into the virtual currency in an NBA 905 01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:30,400 two K game, and then that NBA two K game gets replaced by next 906 01:05:30,519 --> 01:05:32,400 years and it doesn't stay online for as long as you would think, so 907 01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:38,719 there's unspent currency for many people sitting in those games that just disappears. Forever, 908 01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:42,559 and so a bunch of the players got together and now they're suing two 909 01:05:42,639 --> 01:05:46,119 K for stealing that money. And that one does sound pretty compelling, because 910 01:05:46,199 --> 01:05:50,320 yeah, for what reason wouldn't the virtual currency jump over from one game to 911 01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:54,639 the next, right, exactly, just like my Ubi soft U points right, 912 01:05:54,920 --> 01:06:00,519 you play all your sweet ubcf U points always pro consumers taking their power 913 01:06:00,639 --> 01:06:02,360 back, even if the stony one doesn't have legs. I support it. 914 01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:06,400 I think it's great. Class action lawsuits rock. The other day I got 915 01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:12,599 PayPal two hundred dollars for some random class action lawsuit. Two hundred, two 916 01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:15,639 hundred dollars just in my PayPal for class action lawsuit. I was like, 917 01:06:15,679 --> 01:06:19,519 do you know what? Good? I hope more people get two hundred dollars. 918 01:06:19,719 --> 01:06:23,039 I got to know more than that. Someone. You don't have to 919 01:06:23,079 --> 01:06:27,559 tell me on the show, but I think I might require it in private 920 01:06:28,039 --> 01:06:31,840 for you to tell me what got you two hundred dollars in a class action, 921 01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:35,559 because usually it's about seven dollars. I got like three fifty from Red 922 01:06:35,599 --> 01:06:40,800 Bull once and I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I'm I oh. 923 01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:44,960 It was like one of those I'll tell you later, But it was 924 01:06:45,639 --> 01:06:48,360 so valid what the thing was. But I wasn't actually negatively affected by it 925 01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:53,400 at all. Don't tell anyone, but I did get two hundred dollars hell 926 01:06:53,519 --> 01:06:58,280 yeah. My favorite one always is Nintendo having to like settle and they're like, 927 01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:00,320 we'll just get everyone a five dollars Q pond so they have to spend 928 01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:03,320 more money on Nintendo stuff. It's like, goddamn, Nindo, why do 929 01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:08,559 you always get away with everything? Well, isn't what was that called when 930 01:07:08,639 --> 01:07:13,199 like mining towns used to do that to their company? Script? Yes, 931 01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,159 yeah, yeah, why are they allowed to do that? Yeah? It 932 01:07:15,239 --> 01:07:17,679 was wild. It's like the government's like, oh yeah, we really got 933 01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:21,519 Nintendo for all of their like price fixing and stuff and not working with all 934 01:07:21,559 --> 01:07:25,239 these companies. And Nintendo was like, we just gave everyone a reason to 935 01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:29,679 go spend more money one yep. And that that I mean, that was 936 01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:32,599 why Like early Nintendo of America was like, oh, we hired a couple 937 01:07:32,639 --> 01:07:35,639 of good lawyers like Howard Lincoln, and then they're like, Howard Lincoln, 938 01:07:35,639 --> 01:07:39,920 guess what your president of Nintendo of America now, Because Nintendo of America is 939 01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:45,559 a law firm first and foremost for Nintendo, so true all right, up 940 01:07:45,679 --> 01:07:49,400 next, The Division Heartland could release soon. The Division Heartland has been rated 941 01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:54,519 in Taiwan, suggesting the release date could be close. This is that PvE 942 01:07:55,360 --> 01:08:00,800 VP shooter for Division Listen, I don't know. Yeah, please, let's 943 01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:02,800 do it. Let's all do an exercise here, all right, humor me 944 01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:08,400 here, all right, we're going to google the Division Heartland. Don't do 945 01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:10,760 it right now, folks. Okay, you two can play at home. 946 01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:14,159 I want you. Let's go around the horn here. Let's describe what you 947 01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:19,279 think. What do you think the game looks like? I think it looks 948 01:08:19,319 --> 01:08:24,000 like a dude sitting by a tree with a rifle and he's got his knee 949 01:08:24,079 --> 01:08:27,000 up and he's just thinking, like, man, I love I love the 950 01:08:27,079 --> 01:08:32,600 Heartland. Yeah. Like there's certainly a windmill present in the background, Like 951 01:08:34,079 --> 01:08:39,520 is it a windmill or is it a like water tower? I mean they're 952 01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:44,159 interchangeable, Like, I mean, this is a place where tornadoes happen a 953 01:08:44,239 --> 01:08:48,479 lot. This is I would imagine maybe a white picket not picket fence, 954 01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:53,920 but like a white farm fence to keep some cows and shit in check. 955 01:08:55,279 --> 01:09:00,199 And uh yeah, like silo adjacent material we're talking, you know, and 956 01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:02,800 Uh, yeah, that's the hard Land. That's that's what I'm thinking, 957 01:09:03,079 --> 01:09:05,560 Bailey. Maybe a horse or two. I don't know. I feel like 958 01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:11,840 it's a gotcha game with Anime wifeus who are rifles they turn into boats. 959 01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:15,000 Yeah, I'm sorry blacked out for a second. I heard Anime and wife 960 01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:21,000 foos like what. Yeah, I think I've kind of seen a little bit 961 01:09:21,039 --> 01:09:26,000 of it. It's a close like that Far Cry five game. But what 962 01:09:26,119 --> 01:09:30,399 if it's the Division instead? Sure, you really stretching their legs. If 963 01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:34,840 I can direct y'all to look at the stream real quick, I will pull 964 01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:40,239 up some Marquee art. I also want everyone to know this the first time 965 01:09:40,239 --> 01:09:44,600 I'm hearing about this game, this game that's been like it was right, 966 01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:49,479 we got a water tower. That's a guy dealing with a rifle. I 967 01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:53,640 think, Wow, that's pretty spot on. If you want any of those 968 01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:56,079 characters, you got to pay money and win them in the gotcha game. 969 01:09:56,199 --> 01:10:01,039 Yeah, right, wasn't expecting the foley. Yeah, it's the suburbs in 970 01:10:01,119 --> 01:10:04,560 the Fall, right, that's what So, I don't know if it's Heartland. 971 01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:11,439 Maybe my definition of heartland is different than Ubi sauce. Yeah, they 972 01:10:11,439 --> 01:10:14,479 probably think the Heartland is the Midwest, and they're just wrong. That's a 973 01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:18,359 completely different area. And I just had to play so much Assassins Creed Mirage. 974 01:10:18,399 --> 01:10:23,760 I cannot even think about Ubisoft right now without getting angry. Yeah, 975 01:10:24,319 --> 01:10:28,239 I have a fun game to play. What was the last Ubisoft game I 976 01:10:28,359 --> 01:10:30,600 played? I'm playing, sure, I know, yeah that I played. 977 01:10:31,319 --> 01:10:34,640 I think it might be Mario and Rabbids one of those. Nope, Oh 978 01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:40,079 was it Assassin's Creed Mirage. Nope, on a schame trailer out now, 979 01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:45,760 Creed Syndicate. I'm not joking. I don't know what it is. Have 980 01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,359 you played any Tom Clancy again? Did you play Rainbow six Siege with Mike 981 01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:53,000 Maharty. It seems like something you would played Siege. I bet it's Siege 982 01:10:53,079 --> 01:10:58,680 on PC like six years ago. Okay, well, I mean listen, 983 01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:00,640 I know the next thing you saw game you're gonna play? What's that? 984 01:11:01,079 --> 01:11:05,039 Come on this month? Come on? Well you know it, you have 985 01:11:05,119 --> 01:11:09,600 to know you, but you won't stop talking about it. Avatar game? 986 01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,680 Come on, baby, let's I'll probably see some of that. I thought 987 01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:18,520 you were getting on. Uh yeah, I bet, And like I yeah, 988 01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:20,920 I don't know. What was the last far cry. I played the 989 01:11:21,359 --> 01:11:25,720 one you were just talking about with the cult, Okay, far Card five 990 01:11:26,119 --> 01:11:30,279 just that was a while ago. Huh yeah, God damn. Their bones 991 01:11:30,319 --> 01:11:38,840 are made out of fiberglass. Think about it every day. I think it's 992 01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:43,720 a reinforced carbon or fiber carbon or whatever. It is not fiberglass carbon, 993 01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:46,920 yeah, carbon fire. It's still wild. Yeah, oh yeah, that's 994 01:11:47,119 --> 01:11:53,479 even more while all right, the Vision Heartland. I I honestly I don't 995 01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,640 know what to make of this other than this is what you be soft trying 996 01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:00,439 to get another one of these online shooters to take off other than Siege. 997 01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:02,960 We'll see how they do. I hope it's successful. Yeah, yeah, 998 01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,640 sure, I mean whatever, I'll try it. I have nothing against it. 999 01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:09,640 We'll see. I'll play it with you all and then never touch it 1000 01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:14,439 again. Jet Force Gemini is the next in sixty four game coming to Switch 1001 01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:17,680 Online, and Nintendo confirmed that Jet Jet Force Gemini will be released on Nintendo 1002 01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:21,399 Switch Online in December. The game will be available in Japan a little bit 1003 01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:25,880 earlier, on November thirtieth. Jet Force Gemini is a rare game, not 1004 01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:30,439 in terms of its availability, in terms of the developer they made this, 1005 01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,399 and that means that once again Nintendo Microsoft andre had to work together to get 1006 01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:38,880 this released because I do believe this one is fully owned by Rare, but 1007 01:12:39,039 --> 01:12:42,359 yeah, that's pretty cool. This one was not part of the original announced 1008 01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:46,199 like package of in sixty four games, and they haven't released the last one 1009 01:12:46,239 --> 01:12:49,279 of those yet ten eighties, so they're getting ahead of the curve here and 1010 01:12:50,079 --> 01:12:54,239 sort of signifying there will be more in sixty four games coming into Nintendo Switch 1011 01:12:54,319 --> 01:12:57,880 Online. I like Jet Force Gemini. It was kind of an early in 1012 01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:00,800 sixty four. It's an early shooter, but an n sixty four game. 1013 01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:02,920 It looked pretty cool. It was. It has a lot of that Rare 1014 01:13:03,039 --> 01:13:06,359 kruft where there's like a million little things to do and it can get kind 1015 01:13:06,359 --> 01:13:11,119 of draining by the end, but I enjoy it and it's a pretty good 1016 01:13:11,119 --> 01:13:16,560 game. So Killer Instinct is getting a new anniversary edition and a free to 1017 01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:19,920 play version on Steam. To be clear, it's been free to play from 1018 01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:25,159 the very beginning. This version of Killer Instinct will include one free weekly rotating 1019 01:13:25,279 --> 01:13:28,600 fighter, as well as a single player, local and ranked modes. The 1020 01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:31,880 thirty dollars Killer Instinct Anniversary Edition upgrade you can get will include all twenty nine 1021 01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:35,800 fighters. But what makes this really a big deal for fans of Killer Instinct 1022 01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:40,720 is that this is a big balance patch. Iron Galaxy came back to work 1023 01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:44,119 on the game, and this is ten years after it originally released. This 1024 01:13:44,199 --> 01:13:46,159 game came out it was a launch game for Xbox One. So the fact 1025 01:13:46,199 --> 01:13:51,640 that it's getting a lot of attention this far along it's one that's interesting that 1026 01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:56,359 normally doesn't happen, And two, it does signify Microsoft still seems to have 1027 01:13:56,479 --> 01:13:59,039 some interest in making more Killer Instinct happen, which was what we've heard a 1028 01:13:59,119 --> 01:14:02,079 bunch of times now there just was no developer available. When now Iron Galaxy 1029 01:14:02,079 --> 01:14:05,439 is coming back to work on this, that does signify they'll probably work on 1030 01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:10,479 the next game as well. Although some fans like Turbot Shawn, who's a 1031 01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:13,439 big Killer Instinct fan, he mentions that he thinks this is like a trial 1032 01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,439 run. I bet it's like even more than that. I bet they're already 1033 01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:19,960 working on the next game. And then finally, Dragons Dogma two will get 1034 01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:24,199 its release date today. They're having that showcase today. It's happening at one 1035 01:14:24,239 --> 01:14:29,600 pm Pacific time, so a little bit later this afternoon. But the director 1036 01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:31,800 of the game confirmed that they will announce the release date, which they might 1037 01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:34,680 not need to do because Steam already has it listed for March twenty second, 1038 01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:38,640 which is the release date that we've seen leaked a bunch of times now. 1039 01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:43,000 So this game gonna be out in a couple of months and I'm looking forward 1040 01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,439 to it. Any Dragons Dogma players, you ever do an honest games trailer 1041 01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:53,640 about Dragon's Dogma Bailey, You know, it's not on the list right now, 1042 01:14:54,039 --> 01:14:57,439 but we'll see if it starts trending anytime soon, and maybe we'll take 1043 01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:00,920 advantage of that sweet seo. Hell yeah, uh yeah. That's just for 1044 01:15:01,039 --> 01:15:03,520 the news though, Jan hold in the back over to you. There's not 1045 01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:06,239 a lot this week. Wait, that's it. Wait, yeah, there's 1046 01:15:06,399 --> 01:15:10,239 not much news happening. I mean, there's a couple more lawsuits and if 1047 01:15:10,239 --> 01:15:12,640 you guys want to talk about that, but nothing, I mean, there's 1048 01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:19,239 the the Festa stuff is who oh, they've been responding to negative reviews on 1049 01:15:19,359 --> 01:15:21,520 Steam. Have you not been seeing this? Oh? No, I didn't 1050 01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:27,520 see this. What happened? I tell me barely myers. I can't believe 1051 01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:29,920 you haven't seen it. Like I wasn't looking at the dog or I would 1052 01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:32,359 have suggested it before we started. Well, no, tell us all about 1053 01:15:32,399 --> 01:15:40,319 it. They've been responding to negative Steam reviews about Starfield and explaining why, 1054 01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:43,960 actually the review is wrong for being negative. Oh boy, I just got 1055 01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:47,399 that from Rodo Rouder. They came to look at my water heater and charged 1056 01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:54,319 me ninety dollars to get to give me a an estimate for a gas heater. 1057 01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:56,399 And I'm like, that's bad because I have an electric heater. So 1058 01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:58,600 I just wrote that review and then I woke up this morning. You're like, 1059 01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:00,600 you got a response, and I'm like, a bet, I fucking 1060 01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,119 didn't. I just closed it didn't look so yeah, that's always a good 1061 01:16:02,199 --> 01:16:06,119 sign when they're out there doing that instead of updating the game. Yeah, 1062 01:16:06,239 --> 01:16:12,720 they're saying stuff like you're actually incorrect for complaining that some of the planets are 1063 01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:16,119 totally empty, because the point of the game is to show you how vast 1064 01:16:16,199 --> 01:16:20,359 and awesome spaces, and sometimes planets don't have anything on them, like when 1065 01:16:20,399 --> 01:16:26,319 they landed on the Moon and I was like, guys, what do you 1066 01:16:26,399 --> 01:16:30,880 think this is like? Because this is obviously not mister Howard getting on there 1067 01:16:31,039 --> 01:16:38,079 at four in the morning, being on Turkey. Yeah, to get in 1068 01:16:38,239 --> 01:16:42,119 there. I think, I think, uh, what do you think? 1069 01:16:42,199 --> 01:16:45,079 This is just like people who are so horny to work for Bethesda and they're 1070 01:16:45,159 --> 01:16:49,880 like super fans and then they like, I don't know, I mean they 1071 01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:56,159 have genuinely don't know the community. Job it is to like tell the people 1072 01:16:56,199 --> 01:17:00,439 who run these companies what the sentiment is. And then maybe they're just like 1073 01:17:00,279 --> 01:17:02,640 so steeped in it that they break a little bit and they're like, I 1074 01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:06,239 got I'm gonna fix this. I can fix this fandom. It's just so 1075 01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:12,359 weird. It's just it feels very like pr motivated, but is also maybe 1076 01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:16,399 some of the worst pr I've ever seen in anything. Idea, it's a 1077 01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:20,600 really bad idea, Like why would they do this? Yeah, it's like 1078 01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:24,560 they're so much better off if they just focus on making the game better, 1079 01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:27,600 if they just did some updates and and and did that instead. Like that 1080 01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:32,119 speaks way more than going going on the defensive. Yes, yeah, I 1081 01:17:33,119 --> 01:17:38,560 desperately need to desperately to believe it's Todt himself and he's just so upset that 1082 01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:43,880 it didn't get nominated for shit. This feels like that sounds like exactly what's 1083 01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:45,479 happening. I got a couple of reviews here if we want to read some 1084 01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:50,520 key highlights. Yes, oh they're they're awful. It's it's got to be 1085 01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:57,159 someone who like works in there, like you know pr PR community. It's 1086 01:17:57,159 --> 01:17:59,600 coming from their official account, right, But that's what I'm saying, Like 1087 01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:03,800 some one who like they accidentally hired a fanboy freak and was like, you 1088 01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:11,399 know some ship poster like a contractor of a contractor Yeah, yeah, you 1089 01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:14,640 can kind of see it. Or somebody is just getting so frustrated with the 1090 01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:18,600 public perception of the game. It's like you don't just as actually is. 1091 01:18:19,079 --> 01:18:25,479 But there's anyway, some key highlights here and credits to uh juice head thirty 1092 01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:29,920 three on Twitter for pulling these. While there may be loading screens in between 1093 01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:33,000 fast Traveling, just consider the amount of data for the expansive gameplay that is 1094 01:18:33,079 --> 01:18:38,640 procedurally generated to load flawlessly in under three seconds. Oh my god. We 1095 01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:42,119 believe that shortcoming will not hinder our players from getting lost in the world we 1096 01:18:42,239 --> 01:18:46,880 created. Yeah I did. They're responding to a negative review saying it hindered 1097 01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:50,680 their ability to get lost in the world. Uh, we are sorry that 1098 01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:55,199 you do not like landing on different planets and finding many of them empty. 1099 01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:59,439 Some of Starfield's planets are meant to be empty by design, but that's not 1100 01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:02,439 boring. When the astronauts went to the Moon there was nothing there, they 1101 01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:08,800 certainly weren't bored. The intention of Starfield's exploration is to evoke a feeling of 1102 01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:13,560 smallness in players and make you feel overwhelmed. You can continue to explore and 1103 01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:16,439 find worlds that do have resources you need, or hit an outpost to look 1104 01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:24,279 through back in my day when we landed on planets throws the planet? What's 1105 01:19:24,319 --> 01:19:29,159 fun? Is that? Like? The immediate response after like that very specific 1106 01:19:29,279 --> 01:19:33,399 critique to the review is like a s feel that feels like The Steam description 1107 01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:36,680 of the game of Starfield is an RPG with hundreds of hours of quest to 1108 01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:44,680 complete and characters to meet most questions. Maybe this is dude, If I 1109 01:19:44,840 --> 01:19:47,920 be, that's how I combat this bad press. I go your whoops A 1110 01:19:48,119 --> 01:19:56,039 I did it? Sorry? Yeah, oh my god. A procedurally generated 1111 01:19:56,119 --> 01:20:04,640 game and procedurally generated pr disaster. At that sense, the common and response 1112 01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:11,680 are both AI arguing now on a Steam message board. I love the fact 1113 01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:15,600 that the response is like, were you around for the moon landing because that 1114 01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:28,319 wasn't boring. It's because it doesn't at certain points like oh, you're just 1115 01:20:28,359 --> 01:20:30,880 not hearing the criticisms. Okay, we like it would be nice if you 1116 01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,520 heard the criticisms, because then maybe you could do something about it. But 1117 01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:35,960 this just makes it seem like, oh, none of that's getting through, 1118 01:20:36,239 --> 01:20:41,000 and you think what you made is is flawless, when it's like the flaws 1119 01:20:41,039 --> 01:20:43,800 are pretty evident to just about everyone who plays, and it's like the first 1120 01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:45,399 thing everyone says to each other where it's like, well, land on a 1121 01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:48,319 planet. It took me way too long to walk to something I cared about. 1122 01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:51,520 It's like that's a big problem in a game that's supposed to be fun. 1123 01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:55,600 I don't care what realism you're going for. At a certain point there, 1124 01:20:55,720 --> 01:21:00,319 they're one more response away from like you should be fucking thankful games even 1125 01:21:00,359 --> 01:21:04,239 get made, you know, like, get the fuck at a got one 1126 01:21:04,279 --> 01:21:09,279 more, got one more here? Do yes? Thank you for taking the 1127 01:21:09,359 --> 01:21:13,119 time to leave a review for Starfield. Exclamation mark. You can fly, 1128 01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:16,319 you can shoot, you can mine, you can loot. Starfield is an 1129 01:21:16,359 --> 01:21:20,760 RPG with hundreds of hours of quest complete and characters to meet. Most quests 1130 01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:25,720 will also vary on your character skills and decisions, massively changing the outcome of 1131 01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:31,199 your playthrough. Try creating different characters with backgrounds and characteristics that clash or oppositive 1132 01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:36,680 oppositive of your previous character. You will feel like you're playing a totally different 1133 01:21:36,720 --> 01:21:42,039 game. Put points in different skills from a character you've previously created, and 1134 01:21:42,159 --> 01:21:45,680 now facebook completely different decisions to make and difficulties to encounter. There's so many 1135 01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:50,159 layers of Starfield that you'll find things you never knew where possible. After playing 1136 01:21:50,199 --> 01:21:56,439 for hundreds of hours, now I know this is AI. Two things. 1137 01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,760 One, this is the thing I was always worried about with this game. 1138 01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:05,680 They made Skyrim, and Skyrim was a game that people play forever and ever 1139 01:22:05,760 --> 01:22:10,520 and ever. They did not make that game like they did not set out 1140 01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:12,239 to build it be like, oh, people are gonna play this forever. 1141 01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:15,119 But then when that game happened and they did have all these people coming back 1142 01:22:15,119 --> 01:22:18,239 and it was always in the most played games on Steam, and they started 1143 01:22:18,279 --> 01:22:21,640 making a Starfield, we have to build a game that is going to be 1144 01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:27,119 able to support play for ten years plus, and they just completely lost the 1145 01:22:27,159 --> 01:22:30,399 thread and forgot how to make like the basic stuff work, which and then 1146 01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:31,680 everyone else just built all the bullshit on top of it, so they didn't 1147 01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,640 need to actually focus on that. The other thing is with them like being 1148 01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:38,199 like you could do this, you could do that. It sounds like when 1149 01:22:38,239 --> 01:22:40,920 Tommy was so is like defending the room and he says you can laugh, 1150 01:22:41,079 --> 01:22:44,520 you can cry, but please don't hurt each other or whatever. It sounds 1151 01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:47,239 exactly like that. So that's not a good way to start off your defense 1152 01:22:47,279 --> 01:22:49,920 of your game. I always so does sound a little like a robot who's 1153 01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:54,520 lost control, So that makes sense. Yeah, there's a little man in 1154 01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:56,800 his head that's controlling his body. And it was like part of that. 1155 01:22:56,920 --> 01:23:01,079 Steating him was part of that last prompt when they plugged into chat GBT is 1156 01:23:01,119 --> 01:23:09,000 like have some of it rhyme. There was a lot I was. Yeah, 1157 01:23:09,039 --> 01:23:11,880 I was a little frightened. It was going to keep Ryan Ryman and 1158 01:23:12,159 --> 01:23:15,079 like, oh, they're just spitting bars over there, all right, Uh 1159 01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:17,439 well, greub if that's it with the news, and that's it with some 1160 01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:24,279 beath as the clapbacks and I feel weird even saying clapbacks because they're not really 1161 01:23:24,359 --> 01:23:29,119 clapping at anything. No, robots can't clap for starters. That's true. 1162 01:23:29,279 --> 01:23:32,600 Robots can't clap, and that's how the universe will be saved. I mean, 1163 01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:35,880 I mean the other news is like Jeff Kelley wade in on the day 1164 01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:39,560 of the diver indie game debate, and I don't want to talk about that 1165 01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:44,079 anymore. So that's what we got. That's that's what That's the number one 1166 01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:46,880 news story on VGC right now. Is Kelley has an opinion on indie games. 1167 01:23:47,079 --> 01:23:49,520 Hey, that's just where we're at the week after Thanksgiving. Everybody. 1168 01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:51,399 You know, we're going to save this for the end of the show, 1169 01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:56,840 but let's let's get some news now, and news on Giant Bomb's Game of 1170 01:23:56,880 --> 01:24:00,960 the Year, the real Game of the Year awards. Here, let's talk 1171 01:24:00,039 --> 01:24:04,520 some scheduling, huh, folks, Like when when you all can expect some 1172 01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:12,760 jazz. Day one starts this Friday, nine am Pacific time, twelve Eastern. 1173 01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,600 We're gonna be live on Twitch. We're going to be discussing seven categories, 1174 01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:24,680 seven different fun categories that'll be live for folks at home. Day two 1175 01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:29,920 will be next Tuesday. It's gonna be a pre recorded jam. Seven more 1176 01:24:30,039 --> 01:24:32,880 categories, to discuss. Some of this will be live, some will be 1177 01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:35,520 pre recorded, just due to the nature of all of us having to travel 1178 01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:42,279 in all that jazz and get stuff situated. Day three is November seventh, 1179 01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:46,800 nine am twelve Eastern nine am Pacific, twelve eastern live on Twitch, and 1180 01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:51,079 that is when the whittling begins, folks. That's when we take all the 1181 01:24:51,199 --> 01:24:58,319 games of this year and get down to the top twenty from there. Day 1182 01:24:58,359 --> 01:25:02,399 four the finale. I'm in person at the Teagram Ballroom and on Twitch. 1183 01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:06,439 I'm gonna I'm gonna pray to God that that av person will just look at 1184 01:25:06,479 --> 01:25:10,640 me and nod and like, don't worry. So there's good news in that 1185 01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:14,800 last email, Jan there's good news. Fantastical. Hell yeah, I love 1186 01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:19,439 it, per fact. Because that is when we will also cover a couple 1187 01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:24,319 more categories, about three or four. We'll have special guests like our own 1188 01:25:24,319 --> 01:25:30,720 Shitley Myers here. Sorry I feel bad because I live here. Yes, 1189 01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:36,520 I would have shown you is very affordable. I'm gonna I'm gonna expense the 1190 01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:42,760 absolutely. Yes. I don't know who approves your expenses, but I'll tell 1191 01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:47,159 them just do it. Uh. But we will crown giant bombs Game of 1192 01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:54,039 the Year on Saturday. Well, we'll see and we'll realize oh damn oh 1193 01:25:54,119 --> 01:26:00,840 ship it was some sweep exactly. I want to see some predicts right now 1194 01:26:00,239 --> 01:26:06,199 on people's individual top tens are what will eventually shake out to be the top 1195 01:26:06,279 --> 01:26:12,800 ten of the website. So far we have it that uh uh, myself, 1196 01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:16,680 Jeff, Jeff, Tam, Lucy, Dan, and Minatti will will 1197 01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:21,279 be finalizing the voting. But who knows what we'll throw in. Maybe we'll 1198 01:26:21,319 --> 01:26:26,279 be like, hey, Bailey, here's twelve points. What do you want 1199 01:26:26,319 --> 01:26:30,600 to give this to? My God, give me twelve points? You know 1200 01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:35,800 what should be the only one that counts? What what would get your twelve 1201 01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:38,680 points? Just tell me right now and then I'll decide whether or not you 1202 01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:41,279 can actually vote or not if it will help the game I want to win. 1203 01:26:41,479 --> 01:26:44,600 Okay, so we're doing this Eurovision style, Bailey, Okay, yeah, 1204 01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:48,760 it's science the Pickman for all. Right, there we go, let's 1205 01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:51,399 get her in. I didn't see any winking, let's go. I do 1206 01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:56,159 have a weird feeling that like Pickman is gonna do, is gonna make some 1207 01:26:56,279 --> 01:27:00,640 waves in a weird way. So I got play it. I'll play four. 1208 01:27:01,199 --> 01:27:04,439 Yeah, yeah, I'll play. I just don't know when, but 1209 01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:09,720 I'll play it before next Saturday. You just got to get through that the 1210 01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,560 first hour, which is a tutorial, and then after that it's like just 1211 01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:19,960 the best looping games. Okay, And I'll definitely vote for it. Hell 1212 01:27:20,039 --> 01:27:25,039 yeah, I can be bought too, for the record, like I can 1213 01:27:25,199 --> 01:27:29,600 be bought. If you really want to get your game higher up, I 1214 01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:36,560 can be bought. Yeah, can I can? I we have another minute. 1215 01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:40,439 I guess now that, like we have several minutes, we have another 1216 01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:44,680 segments. I need I need a little bit of help, and I'll open 1217 01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:47,680 this up to like the extended family, meaning the live chats and obviously you 1218 01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:54,359 three my wife the other day and my wife she's like, what do you 1219 01:27:54,800 --> 01:27:57,000 I think I talked about this somewhere else, but we got to get into 1220 01:27:57,039 --> 01:27:59,119 it now. She goes, oh, what are you wearing? What are 1221 01:27:59,159 --> 01:28:02,399 you wearing to the game wards? Oh? I didn't think about that at 1222 01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:05,079 all. Last year, I like, I went to suit supply, I 1223 01:28:05,159 --> 01:28:09,000 got a jacket, I did a whole thing. This year, I haven't 1224 01:28:09,039 --> 01:28:15,279 done ship, and I think it's because I don't care. But that's right, 1225 01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:19,479 right, But I can't show you be sitting next to a dude in 1226 01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:29,920 jeorts and you don't know that odds are high. It's just so funny, 1227 01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:35,640 like the disparity of of attire at this thing is like literally umbros and then 1228 01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:41,520 like a tuxedo. So uh yeah, I don't know what to do. 1229 01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:46,119 And I'll take anything, any advice or or whatever. Not doing hockey jersey 1230 01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:54,159 what, I'm just gonna larp as Kevin Smith, like you know, it's 1231 01:28:54,319 --> 01:29:00,640 not there's new Jersey's only big enough for one hockey jersey person, and that 1232 01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:03,079 war goes to mister Smith. I don't I don't know what to wear. 1233 01:29:03,159 --> 01:29:05,520 I'm not gonna wear a hat, but I don't also want to wear like 1234 01:29:06,199 --> 01:29:10,119 I don't want to do like a T shirt thing. Even though I could 1235 01:29:10,479 --> 01:29:15,239 have the Starfield dance club outfit. It goes with everything what I do, 1236 01:29:15,399 --> 01:29:18,640 like that Starfield. Here's here's what we do. I don't have it. 1237 01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:23,039 I don't have it. Backler, here's what we do, Jane. I'll 1238 01:29:23,079 --> 01:29:27,319 take you seriously, you're you're serious about fashion, Michael Oriol Michael him, 1239 01:29:27,359 --> 01:29:32,039 and I will take you shopping. Oh my god, I think you lately 1240 01:29:32,319 --> 01:29:36,800 was like he was like this gentleman. He was a vision. You can't 1241 01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:43,479 see the hat, you can't see the looks. Michael him proves that you 1242 01:29:43,560 --> 01:29:46,119 can wear a hat to a wedding and look cool. So just wear the 1243 01:29:46,239 --> 01:29:49,920 hat back. Are just wear a different style of hat, a little like 1244 01:29:50,159 --> 01:29:55,920 Giant Bomb went not to wear episode. No. I just, I just 1245 01:29:56,600 --> 01:30:00,159 I don't want the hat doesn't play. The heck could play, but it 1246 01:30:00,199 --> 01:30:02,520 does. It's not gonna play for me because I just I was at a 1247 01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:08,199 wedding recently and I wore a tux and and like, there's no room for 1248 01:30:08,239 --> 01:30:11,079 a hat in that outfit. And I thought I pulled it off nicely. 1249 01:30:11,199 --> 01:30:14,920 I thought it was lovely. This year, I'm gonna go hatless. Here's 1250 01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:20,439 full like saf pipe. Yeah, I'm sorry what pipe? Yeah grew up, 1251 01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:24,279 suggested pork Pie, which I love. But I am also gonna throw 1252 01:30:24,359 --> 01:30:30,039 in there just a tall fucking top hat. Yeah. I can't go in 1253 01:30:30,199 --> 01:30:39,159 there like fucking breaking down ming like the hatman over here. Yeah, I 1254 01:30:39,199 --> 01:30:41,720 don't know, you guys has not been helpful at all. I came out 1255 01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:45,760 with a serious I came in with a serious conundrum, and I'm getting deeply 1256 01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:49,920 unseerious feed I think the answer is half high. M and Jan take you 1257 01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:54,960 shopping. Yeah, okay, we'll go to the fashion district in LA and 1258 01:30:55,039 --> 01:30:57,840 quickly realized no, we shouldn't be buying anything here. This is all just 1259 01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:00,640 fabric. And then we'll go to a mall. Yeah, I mean, 1260 01:31:01,039 --> 01:31:04,119 you know, I just thinking I still need to buy pants in LA because 1261 01:31:04,119 --> 01:31:09,199 I ripped pants two years ago down there. Yeah, I'm gonna bring an 1262 01:31:09,239 --> 01:31:17,239 alpha. I'm just I'm gonna bring an outpha as a backup, just in 1263 01:31:17,279 --> 01:31:23,000 case we strike out with the in person shopping spree makeover yo, But yes, 1264 01:31:23,079 --> 01:31:26,079 I would love to do that if you both fellas ladies. If you 1265 01:31:26,119 --> 01:31:28,159 want to wear a suit and bees, if you want to wear a suit, 1266 01:31:28,199 --> 01:31:30,319 here's what you do. It's fine, go get the black tucks, 1267 01:31:30,399 --> 01:31:33,359 go get the dark navy tucks, the great tucks. But what you want 1268 01:31:33,439 --> 01:31:35,840 to do if you want to add a little spice to your life, get 1269 01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:42,199 a subtle pattern going on. You know I'm going, and then we'll be 1270 01:31:42,359 --> 01:31:45,600 like, Oh, you'll stand out from all the rest of the shmo's out 1271 01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:48,880 there, rock in a normal ass suit and instead, Hey, who says 1272 01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:54,079 you gotta wear a dress shirt? Baby? Backlar go get a turtleneck. 1273 01:31:54,159 --> 01:31:59,439 Put that ship under a blazer. Baby. If I wear a turtleneck, 1274 01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:02,079 the turtle that collar goes up to the bottom of my nose. I have 1275 01:32:02,319 --> 01:32:10,319 no necks to fold it. That's folded, Bailey, hold it, yeah, 1276 01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:14,960 fold it, fold it. Then I have like a giant hula hoop 1277 01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:21,800 around my neck, laser, no shirt, just a long chain. Oh, 1278 01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:26,840 like, what's the ECW manager guy who used to do that. There's 1279 01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:30,840 a dude who used to rock that. I don't know the other chain. 1280 01:32:30,920 --> 01:32:32,840 The other thing you gotta do, like, forget the shoe game. Throw 1281 01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:38,600 your fucking laces away. Get some loafers. Loafers are real hot right now. 1282 01:32:39,279 --> 01:32:43,800 Or I've got like some double munk straps. Baby, whatever it's Los 1283 01:32:43,840 --> 01:32:47,479 Angeles. Get some sandals. Flicks those toesies. No, oh my god, 1284 01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,960 there's nothing I hate more than people who wear pants and sandals. I 1285 01:32:51,159 --> 01:32:55,960 am not going to become that person. Bareley, Jesus Christ, we have 1286 01:32:56,079 --> 01:32:59,119 so much of getting to know each other to do. Now, let's talk 1287 01:32:59,199 --> 01:33:06,239 sunglasses and doors, because I say, yes, pro if I had contacts, 1288 01:33:06,359 --> 01:33:13,600 I would wear sunglasses all the time indoors. This is gonna be harder 1289 01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:15,800 than I thought, you guys, this is gonna be real tough. All 1290 01:33:15,880 --> 01:33:19,880 right, we'll see what happens. Or or just wear too much. Patterns. 1291 01:33:23,399 --> 01:33:26,920 Patterns, Yeah, that's a thing. Power clashing, that's real power 1292 01:33:27,039 --> 01:33:30,560 clash. That's a cool name. I used to think I was a cute 1293 01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:34,359 individual for wearing floral shirts and Hawaiian shirts. And then I looked at the 1294 01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:40,439 gaming industry and men there and male presenting people. I'm like, fuck, 1295 01:33:40,920 --> 01:33:44,880 we all thought the same thing. We had the same thought. A little 1296 01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:48,399 pattern on, and you're competing with all the best dressed women you've ever seen. 1297 01:33:49,199 --> 01:33:58,000 No one, there's no formal overalls out there. Just wear what every 1298 01:33:58,399 --> 01:34:02,000 single dude i've ever seen the Game Awards wears, which is some kind of 1299 01:34:02,079 --> 01:34:09,800 gaming T shirt, no laser and jeans, and you're nicest sneakers. First 1300 01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:13,479 of all, there's something wrong with sneakers. There's nothing wrong wearing nice sneakers. 1301 01:34:13,560 --> 01:34:16,039 That's what all like the kids are doing too. I was at a 1302 01:34:16,159 --> 01:34:20,560 third I was at a bot Mitzvah a couple months ago, and like literally 1303 01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:26,760 every girl that was wearing Jordan's. It's like the sneakers are like stuck around. 1304 01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:29,960 It's like culturally relevant. Oh my god, I don't think they've been 1305 01:34:30,119 --> 01:34:35,960 ever been the easiest way to punch down grub wait which by having good sneakers, 1306 01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:40,560 so I could having nice kicks to prove like I have a flex on 1307 01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:45,279 these hoes. Okay, all right, yeah man, okay, tough, 1308 01:34:45,399 --> 01:34:47,920 Okay, alternative plan. But the steaks are low. Let's just be honest. 1309 01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:50,880 The snakes are very low. Bailey, I already know that you bought 1310 01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:55,960 a dress for the Game Awards. Yes, and it's you did. Yeah, 1311 01:34:56,159 --> 01:34:59,520 yeah, and it looks amazing. So we didn't help you with that, 1312 01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:02,560 so you gotta okay. Yeah, No, I channeled my inner freak 1313 01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:05,600 and I mixed it with my inner friend dresser, and I found I found 1314 01:35:05,600 --> 01:35:10,359 a beautiful and you're all gonna you're all gonna see it on the stage that 1315 01:35:10,479 --> 01:35:12,640 night. You're gonna know exactly what I mean. You're gonna love it. 1316 01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:15,239 Oh my god. And what do I wear to that? Yeah? You 1317 01:35:15,319 --> 01:35:23,680 got two things to worry about, yo, Let's get matching sweatsuits. I 1318 01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:29,279 could see your track suits. Juice on the ass the ass, Yeah, 1319 01:35:30,279 --> 01:35:32,319 that would be tight. What I would be into that? That would be 1320 01:35:32,439 --> 01:35:35,119 so easy for me to do the splits in, you know, like I'm 1321 01:35:35,159 --> 01:35:39,560 already rocking, so it's like, you know, just like that and ship. 1322 01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:45,479 I think I think the Hour Game of the Year is less formal than 1323 01:35:45,520 --> 01:35:49,479 the Kili. The other awards more formal. Ours is the more real one. 1324 01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:55,760 You really have to dress up. I'm just letting everyone know that I'm 1325 01:35:55,760 --> 01:35:59,840 gonna I'm gonna be that snob and gonna wear my nice datum were my nice 1326 01:36:00,199 --> 01:36:03,840 all your nice denims. What's the what's the weather like in December? And 1327 01:36:04,199 --> 01:36:09,359 it was as cold as fuck last year it was awesome. Okay, hold 1328 01:36:09,439 --> 01:36:13,159 on, I'll tell you what the sixties? Just tell me what's the ten 1329 01:36:13,279 --> 01:36:15,960 day? And tell you right now what's the today? Phones pulling it up, 1330 01:36:16,479 --> 01:36:21,920 it's gonna be in the seventies and then yeah, okay, yeah, 1331 01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:26,239 next week is going to be the high to mid seventies. And then what 1332 01:36:26,319 --> 01:36:30,119 about at night though, because that's the only time we go out mid fifties 1333 01:36:30,399 --> 01:36:33,479 there we go. Now we talk and that's why my dad denim. Then 1334 01:36:35,119 --> 01:36:40,119 Jan, what makes it bad? Jenom, it's eye own it. I 1335 01:36:40,319 --> 01:36:43,199 have to go get a hair cut because my hair is too long now, 1336 01:36:44,159 --> 01:36:47,520 like I'm trying to stunt all these holds. It looks good. I think 1337 01:36:47,560 --> 01:36:51,960 it's fine. It's too it's too like it looks like I'm trying to do 1338 01:36:53,119 --> 01:37:00,159 a terrible afro. Are you gonna not finish another game first? Or right? 1339 01:37:00,199 --> 01:37:01,319 Well, that does it for news. It's very light this week. 1340 01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:05,199 Hey, real quick. Embracery is going to shut down the Times, Twitters, 1341 01:37:05,279 --> 01:37:11,279 Studio Free Radical. Basically they are in that consultation process, which they 1342 01:37:11,399 --> 01:37:15,039 legally have to do in the UK, where I think that's where they're look 1343 01:37:15,039 --> 01:37:17,159 at. Yeah, they legally have to do that before they could shut them 1344 01:37:17,199 --> 01:37:20,800 down. But it sounds like we're gonna shut them down because it's embracer and 1345 01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:30,279 they fucking suck And that's the news. Wow, way to Yeah, that's 1346 01:37:30,359 --> 01:37:33,039 that's this news this week. It's like a bunch of like stuff that doesn't 1347 01:37:33,079 --> 01:37:38,920 matter and then bad news. I realized what Mine and Bailey's cop show should 1348 01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:44,520 be called. It's friendly fire because I'm always catching strays. All right, 1349 01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:48,760 well, we'll take another quick breaking break and we'll see you with the emails. 1350 01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:59,960 And we're back with emails. This is the emails for the show. 1351 01:38:00,119 --> 01:38:04,199 Oh, Nicki Minaj BombCast giant bomb dot com is the email address. To 1352 01:38:04,239 --> 01:38:09,319 send your emails to. Yo. They got to put Cardi b in call 1353 01:38:09,359 --> 01:38:15,520 of duty because like her, just sounds in general are just so much fun. 1354 01:38:17,319 --> 01:38:21,800 Anyway. BombCast Giant bomb dot com is email address to send your emails 1355 01:38:21,920 --> 01:38:26,520 to. I love and appreciate every single email. If you shout out a 1356 01:38:26,600 --> 01:38:29,560 single person of the crew. If you ever have some kind words you want 1357 01:38:29,560 --> 01:38:32,760 to share with someone specific, I don't send it to them, so I 1358 01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:36,640 only read them and then I think it's about me instead. That's the way 1359 01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:40,640 to do it anyway, So it's stolen valor, but I think it's the 1360 01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:45,560 right thing to do. Hell yeah, hell yeah, Alyssa in quotation march 1361 01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:53,119 marks here Ali Maricle Elli miracle. Yeah, I'm in chat a miracle. 1362 01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:57,439 I'm terrible at reading today. Hey, Cudi's applying this week to SoCal from 1363 01:38:57,479 --> 01:39:01,000 Nevada to see my partner and to go to the GB Live event because I'll 1364 01:39:01,039 --> 01:39:04,800 be there for two to three weeks. I was considering bringing the PS five 1365 01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:09,720 I've currently to play through sixteen and other things with them when I visit, 1366 01:39:10,479 --> 01:39:14,880 along with my laptop for work, a personal laptop switch and a monitor. 1367 01:39:15,079 --> 01:39:18,239 On top of my first time flying in probably half a decade and change any 1368 01:39:18,279 --> 01:39:23,720 advice I can get on traveling with so many electronics. Thanks forks, and 1369 01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:28,439 can't wait to see y'all livelis Can I say pre check Elissa? Yeah, 1370 01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:30,600 you're gonna want to prediction otherwise you're gonna take all that shit out, do 1371 01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:34,800 you. How do you guys feel about expensive electronics? Like a laptop in 1372 01:39:35,039 --> 01:39:41,760 checked luggage, you can't, right, they don't let you check what you 1373 01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:44,279 can check a laptop game? You're checking a game. You can check it, 1374 01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:46,840 like check fucking guns. You can check anything. Wait, check, 1375 01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:50,720 you just can't check avabe check like checking uh, putting it under the plane, 1376 01:39:51,159 --> 01:39:54,439 yeah, get me check it? Get like letting them take it. 1377 01:39:54,560 --> 01:39:58,760 And whenever I've tried to do that with a laptop or an electronic, the 1378 01:39:59,239 --> 01:40:00,159 lady at the counter WI always to be like, no, you can't do 1379 01:40:00,239 --> 01:40:03,560 that. You done it. No, you can't do anything with lithium batteries. 1380 01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:06,520 If I'm not mistaken, Yeah that sounds oh wait, maybe you can 1381 01:40:08,239 --> 01:40:12,560 definitely lithianion batteries, so yeah, well then just lie about it. I 1382 01:40:12,680 --> 01:40:16,039 suppose you, guys, I'm pretty positive you can do that in the belly 1383 01:40:16,079 --> 01:40:18,640 of a plane, like you I've definitely put a battery, but yeah, 1384 01:40:18,880 --> 01:40:23,199 mentioned like you and I think I've seen that warning. I'm not always heated, 1385 01:40:23,279 --> 01:40:26,840 I suppose, so don't come arrest me. Says batteries cannot go on 1386 01:40:27,079 --> 01:40:30,880 check bags. Does that include like that? I guess I don't. I 1387 01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:32,359 do it all the time, so I don't know what's happening here. I've 1388 01:40:32,399 --> 01:40:36,600 done it a bunch of yeah, but yeah, like those are the bags 1389 01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:42,600 they take when you check in for your flight. Jan it seems like you've 1390 01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:46,199 done this, You've done you don't care with your arms right. Basically, 1391 01:40:46,239 --> 01:40:48,520 what I'm asking is, do you guys? Are you guys afraid of your 1392 01:40:48,560 --> 01:40:53,600 expensive stuff and your check luggage' getting stolen? I don't trust. You don't 1393 01:40:53,600 --> 01:40:57,319 trust Okay, yeah, my wife doesn't trust, and I'm like whatever. 1394 01:40:57,359 --> 01:41:00,039 I've never had anything taken on my bag from check luggain, so I don't 1395 01:41:00,119 --> 01:41:04,479 have anything taken either. But I just I feel like the capacity for stuff 1396 01:41:04,520 --> 01:41:09,479 to get broken is really high. That makes me nervous. I'm not like 1397 01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:13,800 a feared of thieves in my airport. I'm more like, ah, these 1398 01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:17,279 things are easy to break, and this plane goes so fast. Yeah, 1399 01:41:17,920 --> 01:41:21,159 for me, like well, if it's in the chair or in my carry 1400 01:41:21,239 --> 01:41:24,760 on though, and I'm like taking it out at security and stuff, I'm 1401 01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:28,520 always afraid it's going to get kind of like broken in the machine, or 1402 01:41:28,560 --> 01:41:30,800 I'm gonna drop it when I'm just trying to put it on the thing or 1403 01:41:30,840 --> 01:41:32,640 something like that. So I worry about that too. I don't know, 1404 01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:35,720 I think, you know, if I could be completely honest, I mean, 1405 01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:39,920 I realized two to three weeks is a long time to be traveling anywhere. 1406 01:41:40,279 --> 01:41:45,000 But I would also maybe like trim down. I would maybe not like 1407 01:41:45,199 --> 01:41:53,279 go all out with the amount of items that you're planning on taking with you. 1408 01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:56,479 I would maybe, yeah, I mean, if your bag is more 1409 01:41:56,479 --> 01:41:59,159 than fifty pounds, you're gonna have to pay more. Yeah, it be 1410 01:41:59,479 --> 01:42:01,960 it'd be a that's going to be a hassle. And with that many electronics 1411 01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:05,279 in a bag, like it's that very likely could happen. But if you 1412 01:42:05,319 --> 01:42:09,600 need all that stuff, you need all that stuff. I get it right 1413 01:42:09,680 --> 01:42:11,600 off the bat, though, Like why do you need a monitor? You 1414 01:42:11,640 --> 01:42:15,079 have two laptops with you use the laptop as a monitor. You can't do 1415 01:42:15,159 --> 01:42:18,199 that with a switch. I don't think. Oh, I had a portable 1416 01:42:18,199 --> 01:42:21,760 switch as a handl fuck it. I look listen. I when I went 1417 01:42:23,039 --> 01:42:27,199 on my trip over the summer, I brought a portable monitor, and as 1418 01:42:27,359 --> 01:42:30,800 awesome as it was, and as it inexplicable that it worked as it was, 1419 01:42:31,079 --> 01:42:34,800 I feel like still I'm not quite sure how that thing is able to 1420 01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:39,920 display switch. But anyway, it was a pain in the ass. Like 1421 01:42:40,279 --> 01:42:43,119 it was great, but it took like twenty minutes to set it up. 1422 01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:45,760 Power is always finicky on a plane. You never really know what you're going 1423 01:42:45,840 --> 01:42:53,319 to get. I do think editing is like is the move again? Two 1424 01:42:53,399 --> 01:42:55,880 to three weeks is a long time as well. So I just know what 1425 01:42:55,920 --> 01:42:59,760 you're Here's what you do. You go to Costco. As soon as you 1426 01:42:59,800 --> 01:43:02,159 get here, you buy a p S five, you buy a monitor, 1427 01:43:02,439 --> 01:43:08,279 and you return that ship before you leave. Are they aren't they getting like 1428 01:43:08,399 --> 01:43:12,680 more knowing with that? No? No, they'll take anything good. Okay, 1429 01:43:12,960 --> 01:43:16,000 thank good, damn man. Bat PS five is big. It's a 1430 01:43:16,039 --> 01:43:19,960 big giant that I mean. I so are all these things going to be 1431 01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:23,880 and carry on? That's gonna be tough. Ali uh ell America, that's 1432 01:43:23,920 --> 01:43:28,720 good. Yeah, I would really think about your game plan here traveling with 1433 01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:33,039 a PS five is just like you know, you're bringing this anchor with you, 1434 01:43:34,399 --> 01:43:39,640 you know, and it's a way and you're gonna have that's it's gonna 1435 01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:42,760 have to get jammed into a hoever overret compartment and you're gonna be sitting down 1436 01:43:42,800 --> 01:43:45,319 and then some other assholes gonna come to put their bag in there and they're 1437 01:43:45,319 --> 01:43:47,479 gonna jam it right next to yours, and all that ship is going to 1438 01:43:47,520 --> 01:43:50,239 be in there. Yeah, that this is Yeah, try to trim down 1439 01:43:50,359 --> 01:43:57,079 if possible. That I was. I don't know where Ali's flying from, 1440 01:43:57,199 --> 01:44:00,359 but they're they're flying from Nevada to Lost Angelist. That's not that. Then 1441 01:44:00,479 --> 01:44:04,880 just drive then just drive, okay, just if you rent a car, 1442 01:44:05,039 --> 01:44:09,920 Yeah, rent a car, steal a car. I know, Las Vegas 1443 01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:15,479 to La Isurs. I mean that feels worth it to keep all your electronics 1444 01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:18,840 safe without them. Oh, I didn't realize we were doing Vegas to La 1445 01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:24,720 What are we doing? I don't know what we in Nevada, So it's 1446 01:44:24,880 --> 01:44:27,479 sorry. Sorry I thought I thought it was Vegas. Sorry, Okay, 1447 01:44:28,119 --> 01:44:32,880 could be Reno could ship everything. I thought about that too, you could 1448 01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:38,560 try and ship everything. But it is Vegas. Listen, listen out Vegas. 1449 01:44:38,640 --> 01:44:42,600 Come on, come on, girls, come on, get get a 1450 01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:45,359 car, steal a car, whatever you need to do. I just think 1451 01:44:45,439 --> 01:44:49,399 like the value of having that right, even if you need to rent, 1452 01:44:49,600 --> 01:44:53,640 the value of not having to go through security, not having to be on 1453 01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:57,600 a plane, not having to do all the plane stuff. For me, 1454 01:44:58,039 --> 01:45:01,920 I would drive. Renting a car, uh financially does kind of work out 1455 01:45:02,119 --> 01:45:06,359 very similar to a plane ticket a lot of the time and all your stuff 1456 01:45:06,479 --> 01:45:14,199 safe. But let's say so people don't drive, So okay, if you 1457 01:45:14,239 --> 01:45:20,199 don't drive, then how do you about a bus? Like what a John 1458 01:45:20,319 --> 01:45:30,920 Candy Martin films? Don't just take the Thanksgiving Yeah, that's when everyone watches 1459 01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:34,279 that movie. Didn't fucking wats this ask? Like, make that loop that 1460 01:45:34,399 --> 01:45:39,439 goes from l A to no, he didn't do ship. Oh he didn't. 1461 01:45:39,520 --> 01:45:41,560 He said a thing and he didn't do it again. Okay, that's 1462 01:45:41,600 --> 01:45:47,119 weird, wild lifting out of the dumb motherfucker. Well, folks, if 1463 01:45:47,159 --> 01:45:53,720 you're listening live or watching the archive listening to the archive, please send only 1464 01:45:53,800 --> 01:46:00,960 some tips potentially of how Ali can bring all the baggage. Report back how 1465 01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:08,000 this went the show? Yeah, yeah, all right, all right. 1466 01:46:08,319 --> 01:46:17,279 Next email comes from Brian. Brian writes in asking why are people like this? 1467 01:46:18,039 --> 01:46:24,640 Hi BombCast this weekend after the Saampunk blowout, I saw multiple people attacking 1468 01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:30,319 wrestling journalists aka the Dirt Sheets about Fiel showing up and how they were wrong. 1469 01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:32,319 This was, of course, despite the fact that Triple h all but 1470 01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:36,840 confirmed most of the reporting by the noted journalist prior to that night as correct. 1471 01:46:38,319 --> 01:46:41,640 This reminded me of what I often see with games as well, where 1472 01:46:41,720 --> 01:46:46,279 journalists are often attacked and their coverage is misreported by aggregators and people with bad 1473 01:46:46,319 --> 01:46:51,039 intentions. I remember grub being attacked over Kajima to Xbox for months. My 1474 01:46:51,239 --> 01:46:55,800 question is what is wrong with people? Why are people like this? Is 1475 01:46:55,920 --> 01:47:00,960 media literacy dead? Is the rise of YouTubers and social media the main contributing 1476 01:47:00,039 --> 01:47:03,279 factor? Or are we just stupid or as a society I'm thinking both. 1477 01:47:03,760 --> 01:47:08,720 Yes, yeah, it's all of that, of course it is. Bryan's 1478 01:47:08,840 --> 01:47:12,039 all the above. Thanks for all you, Brian, and Lowell, Massachusetts 1479 01:47:12,119 --> 01:47:17,000 said for my iPhone, it's getting worse right now because of all the financial 1480 01:47:17,039 --> 01:47:23,079 incentives lining up for people who are good at getting people riled up about these 1481 01:47:23,159 --> 01:47:26,479 things like you can get paid on Twitter, you get paid on YouTube, 1482 01:47:26,520 --> 01:47:28,479 you get paid on TikTok. If you want to go and be a shit 1483 01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:33,159 heel and appeal to people's base baser senses there about Oh you like a thing, 1484 01:47:33,279 --> 01:47:35,479 Well, what if that other thing was better than the thing you spend 1485 01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:39,039 a bunch of money on? Doesn't that make you uncomfortable? It turns out 1486 01:47:39,079 --> 01:47:41,680 for a lot of people yes, to the point where they act out and 1487 01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:45,479 lash out about it. And yeah, the Kojima thing, that was definitely 1488 01:47:45,479 --> 01:47:47,680 all it was. It's like people there was a bunch of Sony fans who 1489 01:47:47,680 --> 01:47:50,640 did not want to believe Kuagie you could ever do anything with Xbox, and 1490 01:47:50,760 --> 01:47:56,159 they they believe that's so hard. They work themselves into a shoot about that 1491 01:47:56,399 --> 01:48:00,520 one game. What was that one horror game that was a scam that that 1492 01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:01,680 person said they were going to make. I can't remember the name of it 1493 01:48:01,800 --> 01:48:06,960 now, but yeah, it's like they they're like this because they're afraid that 1494 01:48:08,039 --> 01:48:10,960 they made the wrong decision and they have a lot of anxiety about it, 1495 01:48:11,399 --> 01:48:14,880 and you just have to ignore it. I've to ignore it. It's never 1496 01:48:15,039 --> 01:48:17,600 been a better time. And this has actually been true for about twenty years 1497 01:48:17,640 --> 01:48:20,119 now, But I don't think it's ever been a better time to be a 1498 01:48:20,239 --> 01:48:28,720 complete fucking moronic psychopath. Like. Ye, you are in the best of 1499 01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:31,800 company at this point. If that is your emo, like to be a 1500 01:48:32,119 --> 01:48:39,119 raging lunatic, the world is your oyster like it's that's just what it is 1501 01:48:39,279 --> 01:48:43,479 right now. I think it's never been a better time for grifters or anyone 1502 01:48:43,920 --> 01:48:48,319 who uh is just like ready at a moment's notice to just pound on a 1503 01:48:48,359 --> 01:48:53,079 perfect stranger for no good reason. Yeah. I don't think grifters have had 1504 01:48:53,159 --> 01:48:57,319 such a such a big moment since like snake oil salesman. Yeah, this 1505 01:48:57,399 --> 01:49:00,920 is a big moment, crazy yeah moment. Yeah. That being said, 1506 01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:09,279 click on this link and get a free eyelash extensions with my t Moulink peddling 1507 01:49:09,399 --> 01:49:15,279 Giant Giant Bomb branded patent medicine. Ah. Man, I think about if 1508 01:49:15,359 --> 01:49:18,039 I were a terrible more of a terrible person than I am in my real 1509 01:49:18,119 --> 01:49:23,880 life, and how I could fleece these motherfuckers anyway. Yep, It's very 1510 01:49:23,920 --> 01:49:28,079 easy to fleece people if you're a terrible person. Yeah, I'm off way 1511 01:49:28,119 --> 01:49:34,399 there. Uh. Matt from Murfreezburg, Tennessee, Uh asks about desktop setup. 1512 01:49:34,760 --> 01:49:41,439 Hey guys, I've been diving deep into the rock Ally reviews lately, 1513 01:49:41,600 --> 01:49:44,760 and while I think it's really cool, I may actually just want a desktop 1514 01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:47,239 setup. I have a twenty thirteen MacBook Pro and it is still running like 1515 01:49:47,319 --> 01:49:51,800 a champ. But I long missed the boat on getting that thing to run 1516 01:49:51,920 --> 01:49:56,960 games, not to mention the whole Mac thing. I recently saw a beautiful 1517 01:49:57,039 --> 01:50:00,359 curve display setup at best Buy while visiting their display out After starting to look 1518 01:50:00,399 --> 01:50:04,880 for deals on PCs, I quickly realize I had no idea what I was 1519 01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:09,359 doing. Where should I go? Where do I begin? I know I'll 1520 01:50:09,399 --> 01:50:12,399 need a new computer soon, so I consider getting something that might run games 1521 01:50:12,439 --> 01:50:16,119 while I'm at it. I'm pretty much much an exclusively Xbox gamer where they 1522 01:50:16,159 --> 01:50:20,000 switch title once every few years. I love the look at that curve display, 1523 01:50:20,399 --> 01:50:25,399 but is it just a gimmick? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks Matt 1524 01:50:25,439 --> 01:50:30,600 from Murphfreesboro, Tennessee. Matt's be an Xbox gamer and a Mac piece and 1525 01:50:30,680 --> 01:50:33,800 a Mac user. Matt, you see things don't usually go together. You're 1526 01:50:33,880 --> 01:50:40,159 a unique individual there, Maddie. Maddie, Maddie, Hello, Matt. 1527 01:50:40,520 --> 01:50:44,319 Have you not been listening. Do you not know? We are in the 1528 01:50:44,439 --> 01:50:48,199 pocket of big n ZXT. It's not a bad idea. ZXT does have 1529 01:50:48,279 --> 01:50:54,039 some good pre builds. Don't do the thinking yourself, is what the truth 1530 01:50:54,159 --> 01:50:57,399 is here, Like, there's communities out there that have done all the thinking 1531 01:50:57,439 --> 01:50:59,399 for you about what you should do with the PC. Don't feel like you 1532 01:50:59,479 --> 01:51:01,239 have to build one. That period is sort of passed where it's like you 1533 01:51:01,319 --> 01:51:05,399 have to build your own PC or else you're gonna spend so much extra money. 1534 01:51:05,439 --> 01:51:08,199 It's like, Nah, the costs have come down. There's a lot 1535 01:51:08,239 --> 01:51:13,239 of composition in that space. The prebuilds are good. The curve display, 1536 01:51:14,039 --> 01:51:15,600 it's not just a gimmick. If it's wide enough, you do need it 1537 01:51:15,680 --> 01:51:19,119 to be like kind of curved around you so that it's an equidistant from like 1538 01:51:19,199 --> 01:51:23,720 no matter where you're looking at it. But yeah, don't feel like you 1539 01:51:23,920 --> 01:51:28,840 need that either. Like, and yeah, if you really just want to 1540 01:51:28,840 --> 01:51:31,680 play PC games, one of those handheld computers is still pretty good and you'll 1541 01:51:31,680 --> 01:51:34,880 be fine. That will get you started, and it's all in one package. 1542 01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:38,600 I still think the Steam deck is a good one for people who have 1543 01:51:38,800 --> 01:51:42,119 no idea what they're doing because it's such a consolized version of the PC. 1544 01:51:42,960 --> 01:51:45,479 But you'll have a good time with any of those. And if you're gonna 1545 01:51:45,520 --> 01:51:46,319 hop in, yeah, just go get a pre built somewhere and you'll be 1546 01:51:46,399 --> 01:51:51,000 fine. Yeah, just be wary, Matt. As soon as you explore 1547 01:51:51,079 --> 01:51:56,439 down the curved monitor rabbit hole, you may wind up thinking, oh, 1548 01:51:56,520 --> 01:51:59,359 maybe I'll just get an ultra wide. Oh you know, I definitely will 1549 01:51:59,399 --> 01:52:01,720 think that maybe I'll just get two screens. You know what. Two screens 1550 01:52:01,720 --> 01:52:06,079 ain't enough. I need two more. And then you have one that's vertically 1551 01:52:06,119 --> 01:52:11,199 aligned so you can just watch Twitter burn down as you go about your day. 1552 01:52:12,159 --> 01:52:17,319 All right, that's right. Next email comes from Brian from Illinois. 1553 01:52:17,800 --> 01:52:23,720 Brian writes in about handhelds, and Brian is to Brian says, high, 1554 01:52:23,760 --> 01:52:27,319 Hi Tom, Tom, giant bomb bomb Badill. Now that we're on what 1555 01:52:27,439 --> 01:52:31,279 feels like the cusp of a new generation of handheld hardware, what prior generations 1556 01:52:31,319 --> 01:52:36,239 of hardware should someone hold onto for backwards compatibility's sake? For me personally, 1557 01:52:36,520 --> 01:52:42,359 I've held onto these handhelds along the way, held onto these handhelds while holding 1558 01:52:42,439 --> 01:52:46,399 hands handily. Nintendo DS, the Nintendo three DS, I suppose the three 1559 01:52:46,439 --> 01:52:50,199 DS technically covers the DS games i'd want. It's still nice to have analog 1560 01:52:50,319 --> 01:52:56,279 pocket, Nintendo Switch, Steam deck. I can't imagine needing anything else to 1561 01:52:56,319 --> 01:53:00,439 play almost any game handheld. And after typing this, okay, Nintendo, 1562 01:53:00,760 --> 01:53:02,880 haven't I bought enough? Please give us something on the next switch that will 1563 01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:06,880 let us play more of the back catalog games. I've always felt burned by 1564 01:53:06,920 --> 01:53:12,079 the fact that the we virtual console library of games wasn't Slash isn't fully available 1565 01:53:12,159 --> 01:53:15,640 on Switch Slash Nintendo Online. What do y'all think if you're not a collector 1566 01:53:15,680 --> 01:53:18,279 and wanted to ditch old hardware, what new devices would you trust to access 1567 01:53:18,359 --> 01:53:23,600 classic games? Cheers and happy holidays. Brian from Edwardsville, Illinois, sent 1568 01:53:23,680 --> 01:53:28,600 by Pterodactyl. Yeah, I mean the ones you listened to here are pretty 1569 01:53:28,600 --> 01:53:33,640 good. I think you analog pocket isn't for everybody like it is pretty expensive. 1570 01:53:34,279 --> 01:53:36,960 But the reality is if you were to go try to track down a 1571 01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:42,239 three DS these days, those have gotten very expensive as well. And while 1572 01:53:42,279 --> 01:53:44,640 you can hacker three DS to put a ton of stuff on it, and 1573 01:53:45,199 --> 01:53:46,840 I think you can run some emulators to play stuff like game Boy and game 1574 01:53:46,880 --> 01:53:50,279 Boy Advance, and then you would have all the DS games and all the 1575 01:53:50,279 --> 01:53:55,079 three DS games if you wanted to really go that route. That's nice, 1576 01:53:55,159 --> 01:53:58,000 but three DSS have gotten expensive, so you don't already have one of those. 1577 01:53:58,079 --> 01:54:00,800 That could be a hassle. I actually think is pretty good these days. 1578 01:54:01,119 --> 01:54:06,479 It's it's that's easy to hack, it's relatively affordable. If the DS 1579 01:54:06,520 --> 01:54:09,960 games actually look better on a DS and then they do on a three DS 1580 01:54:10,039 --> 01:54:14,079 because it's the right resolution. Game Boy Advanced games just work, work natively. 1581 01:54:14,279 --> 01:54:16,720 It's yeah, So I really like having a DS, my analog pocket, 1582 01:54:17,159 --> 01:54:20,960 and then something like a Steam deck. If if I have those three 1583 01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:25,239 things, I'm set. The reality is most people aren't gonna have want three 1584 01:54:25,239 --> 01:54:27,359 things. If you can only have one of these, just get something like 1585 01:54:27,399 --> 01:54:30,840 a Steam deck that's going to cover you across the board. Yeah, I 1586 01:54:31,239 --> 01:54:33,640 you know, there's a couple things you could do with a Steam deck to 1587 01:54:33,680 --> 01:54:40,079 play a DS game. And yeah, the DS actually and the the Steam 1588 01:54:40,159 --> 01:54:44,079 input like presets are really good with that with like switching between the screens with 1589 01:54:44,159 --> 01:54:46,359 the button press. I was just playing a Link between Worlds for the three 1590 01:54:46,439 --> 01:54:49,479 DS on my Steam deck the other day and it ran great and it's yeah, 1591 01:54:49,600 --> 01:54:54,119 so it's all that stuff has been done. All that work is just 1592 01:54:54,439 --> 01:54:57,560 going to be done for you, and you just install m you deck run 1593 01:54:57,640 --> 01:55:00,800 that script and everything will just work. You have to provide your own ROMs, 1594 01:55:00,840 --> 01:55:03,840 but other than that, you're good to go. All right. Final 1595 01:55:04,119 --> 01:55:11,000 email of the show comes from Michael in Boulder. Hello, Bombers, I'm 1596 01:55:11,039 --> 01:55:15,119 getting ACL surgery this week and I'm gonna be bedridden on and off work for 1597 01:55:15,279 --> 01:55:20,640 a good while prime gaming time. You all have any memorable gaming experiences while 1598 01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:25,439 convalescing. Love you Michael and Boulder. PS. Don't get hit by a 1599 01:55:25,479 --> 01:55:30,199 cyclist while you're out for a run. It really sucks. God sent from 1600 01:55:30,239 --> 01:55:33,920 my iPhone. I hope you see them. It's probably Dion Sanders. If 1601 01:55:33,960 --> 01:55:38,159 you're on Boulder, watch out for that guy. Yeah, I guess you 1602 01:55:38,239 --> 01:55:41,800 gotta sue that guy. All right? Yeah, thank you? Yes, 1603 01:55:43,640 --> 01:55:46,560 I hope you're okay, Michael. Other than having ACL surgery, you're not. 1604 01:55:47,039 --> 01:55:49,840 Who is the ambulance chasing lawyer in Denver? But we can get you 1605 01:55:49,960 --> 01:55:54,359 Misney out here from Cleveland. Misney makes them pay, so we'll send you 1606 01:55:54,439 --> 01:56:00,680 Disney and he'll make this bicyclist pay sorry about that. Sorry her from getting 1607 01:56:00,720 --> 01:56:04,319 my wisdom teeth out. To answer your question, I yeah, it was 1608 01:56:04,399 --> 01:56:06,640 convalescing. Yes, it was an injury. That's what I like to call 1609 01:56:06,720 --> 01:56:11,920 it, my wisdom teth surgery. I was in high school, so we 1610 01:56:12,039 --> 01:56:15,800 had all the games and stuff, and I just played Guitar Hero for fucking 1611 01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:20,159 hours. Man. I was just high off my ass playing Guitar Hero for 1612 01:56:20,439 --> 01:56:26,000 hours with a face full of like puff, like a chipmunk. It was 1613 01:56:26,079 --> 01:56:30,760 great. I was just living off of John Bajuice missing every other note. 1614 01:56:31,600 --> 01:56:39,359 Yeah, that's my recommendation. I don't remember, like I never had like 1615 01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:43,800 really long term bedridden injury that would like give me a chance to do this, 1616 01:56:43,920 --> 01:56:46,840 But like playing hooky from school or actually being sick from school and staying 1617 01:56:46,840 --> 01:56:50,399 home and playing stuff like techno boal, I finally remember that for sure. 1618 01:56:51,680 --> 01:56:58,000 I remember healing from a broken heart and playing Oh my god, that's the 1619 01:56:58,119 --> 01:57:03,159 cutest thing I've ever heard, playing a lot of Resident Evil five. Well, 1620 01:57:03,199 --> 01:57:05,800 that's one way to get out of that. Alders Gate's really good for 1621 01:57:05,920 --> 01:57:13,720 that too. Just for the record, Yeah, nothing's coming to mind, 1622 01:57:14,079 --> 01:57:18,239 uh because I just yeah, I haven't been bedridden like that. Uh, 1623 01:57:20,039 --> 01:57:23,800 I have nothing to add all I can. My brother broke his leg in 1624 01:57:23,840 --> 01:57:26,079 half when he was uh, when he rode a four wheel were into a 1625 01:57:26,159 --> 01:57:29,079 tree and half. Yeah, I had care. I had both half. 1626 01:57:29,319 --> 01:57:31,119 I mean like the skin was still attached, but the bone wasn't half and 1627 01:57:31,159 --> 01:57:34,079 I hadn't him in the van and yeah, it was messed up, and 1628 01:57:34,119 --> 01:57:36,279 we were like forty minutes away from a hospital. He had to take a 1629 01:57:36,520 --> 01:57:42,359 helicopter, so he when he got out or was this another time he got 1630 01:57:42,479 --> 01:57:45,439 evacuated by a helicopter. Yeah, that's this is the time he got out. 1631 01:57:45,520 --> 01:57:47,319 That's what he did. He just spent an entire time drinking wine until 1632 01:57:47,359 --> 01:57:50,359 he got gout and uh. And then I played video games around him and 1633 01:57:50,439 --> 01:57:58,479 he just complained about that out mostly scout. Yeah that's how you like, 1634 01:57:58,520 --> 01:58:00,359 Hey, don't drink red wine. He's like, that's you. That's all 1635 01:58:00,359 --> 01:58:09,520 I'm drinking my red wines and my patis well, I have a shrimp cocktail. 1636 01:58:09,680 --> 01:58:14,920 All the things that are bad for me up upon the trifle and the 1637 01:58:15,119 --> 01:58:20,560 organ. Mates. We forgot to tell everyone Friendly Fire, Chile and Riz 1638 01:58:20,800 --> 01:58:30,560 it's we're old people. By the way, we're old people cop detectives. 1639 01:58:30,479 --> 01:58:34,720 Oh, you guys should run like the early Bird shift. Yeah, you 1640 01:58:34,840 --> 01:58:38,239 know that, like half of our scenes are going to be in some like 1641 01:58:38,479 --> 01:58:43,840 shitty fucking diner. Yes, yes, Oh I love this show. Coffee 1642 01:58:44,079 --> 01:58:47,880 it's in black and reason rhymes. That's yeah, because we've never started or 1643 01:58:47,960 --> 01:58:53,159 caused one or done one. Let's solve them. Why did you say it 1644 01:58:53,279 --> 01:58:56,920 like like we have. That's the most suspicious way I've ever heard of person 1645 01:58:57,119 --> 01:59:01,199 say that they wanted to solve crime. You're big nemesis should be like timor 1646 01:59:01,560 --> 01:59:06,159 with with an eye patch, you know, and he's like always your nemesis. 1647 01:59:08,560 --> 01:59:11,880 Okay, okay, but either way your nemesis you needn't for the spinoff. 1648 01:59:12,520 --> 01:59:15,039 Yeah, either way, Like he's the bad guy and he's always doing 1649 01:59:15,199 --> 01:59:20,359 like very mediocre crime. Signe guy Bubbsy is saying that Jan doesn't even own 1650 01:59:20,399 --> 01:59:24,039 a brick, and I don't even remember what they're alluding to, not that 1651 01:59:24,159 --> 01:59:29,640 I've ever hurled a brick at someone. Manate might be kind of like a 1652 01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:33,760 Hamburglar type. No, I don't think Minaate is involved in like deep crime. 1653 01:59:33,880 --> 01:59:39,479 No, man Manati Hamburgler is involved in deep crime. Yeah, that's 1654 01:59:39,560 --> 01:59:43,199 the definition of felony is what I say. No, I think Manati is 1655 01:59:43,279 --> 01:59:45,479 like, you know, worried about cutting tags off mattresses. Yeah, I 1656 01:59:45,560 --> 01:59:49,199 guess little two shoes like he would never Yeah, he never, not even 1657 01:59:49,279 --> 01:59:54,479 hamburgling. Yeah, when he's not wearing the mask. But when he puts 1658 01:59:54,560 --> 02:00:00,479 that, that's another off. Yeah. Manates like the informant that we have. 1659 02:00:00,720 --> 02:00:02,880 He's like, he works as like he's not a dog vendor. He's 1660 02:00:02,920 --> 02:00:06,159 like, I got some news for you guys. Figment, Yeah is bad. 1661 02:00:08,079 --> 02:00:10,119 Do you want me to help you commit a crime when we're in La. 1662 02:00:10,640 --> 02:00:13,319 It's not that hard, It's not fair. I feel like crime is 1663 02:00:13,399 --> 02:00:16,199 legal. Have you never committed one? Yeah? And you guys are visiting 1664 02:00:16,239 --> 02:00:24,439 during the purge a lot easier, wonderful. Okay, murder everything in La. 1665 02:00:24,720 --> 02:00:28,359 Uh God? All right, let's get to the shout outs of the 1666 02:00:28,760 --> 02:00:31,680 show. Shouts out to I wrote this here. Jake Decker and John Luke 1667 02:00:31,720 --> 02:00:39,199 made a cyberpunk documentary that you should five hundred percent check out. Uh Next, 1668 02:00:39,399 --> 02:00:42,880 we have sorry Jan Batman's batter. Wang has already been in so many 1669 02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:46,079 bat caves that he's more likely to die from chlamydia than Clay face. Oh 1670 02:00:46,279 --> 02:00:50,439 okay Bailey for being awesome, and I love when Bay graces us on GB 1671 02:00:50,560 --> 02:00:55,800 content. Scopa Ohio for getting us high in the middle and round on both 1672 02:00:56,000 --> 02:01:00,800 ends. Shouts out to Catholic karate where rosaries are Nunschucks and sence. Burder's 1673 02:01:00,199 --> 02:01:03,880 censor is used as a kill Bill Go Go style chain Mace Janet, everyone 1674 02:01:03,960 --> 02:01:09,199 looking Hella good with or without a haircut. The everlasting wish of ultraman Ace, 1675 02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:12,760 caring for the week, helping each other in your times of need, 1676 02:01:13,039 --> 02:01:15,319 becoming friends no matter where you're from. Please don't lose the feelings, even 1677 02:01:15,359 --> 02:01:21,079 if those feelings are portrayed hundreds of times RoboCop Rogue City Check. I played 1678 02:01:21,119 --> 02:01:25,960 the demo, I did not start it. I should have, but I 1679 02:01:26,039 --> 02:01:30,479 did not. Shouts out to Jeff Keeley, shots out to Bailey's there for 1680 02:01:30,600 --> 02:01:33,600 you when the rain starts to pour. Bailey's there for you like she's been 1681 02:01:33,640 --> 02:01:36,920 there before. Bailey's there for you because she's part of the GB crew. 1682 02:01:39,840 --> 02:01:48,880 What song is that? It's obviously like a song right like you, guys, 1683 02:01:48,960 --> 02:01:51,279 I didn't even watch that show, and I knew that. I know 1684 02:01:51,399 --> 02:01:55,600 you're in kindergarten. Yeah, I was too young for it. The humor 1685 02:01:55,680 --> 02:02:00,800 was inappropriate. They have a naked neighbor, how dare they? Ross Gaellert 1686 02:02:00,920 --> 02:02:03,760 is probably the worst character in all of sitcoms. But Turkey is the Starfield 1687 02:02:03,800 --> 02:02:08,680 of Thanksgiving only AI defend that mid meat? Would you? Guys Hire Sampunk 1688 02:02:08,680 --> 02:02:11,640 when he walks out of WWE, Mike Manati, it's a small world, 1689 02:02:11,760 --> 02:02:14,319 after all, Hi, this is the real mic. I do not condone 1690 02:02:14,399 --> 02:02:17,479 what happened that it's a small world. Beat Boop Starfield is good. Actually, 1691 02:02:17,560 --> 02:02:23,399 beat Boop Animals. I have not been reading animals. I've been too 1692 02:02:23,439 --> 02:02:27,359 busy. Grub twenty four Rebel Slash Rebels check? I started watching and Or 1693 02:02:27,399 --> 02:02:30,159 again. I'm sorry you started watching the thing you already watched already. I've 1694 02:02:30,199 --> 02:02:34,239 watched it like three and a half times now. Sometimes it's good. That 1695 02:02:34,359 --> 02:02:39,079 makes sense to me. But the only good TV show that's pretty cool? 1696 02:02:39,079 --> 02:02:42,960 All right, all right? Jan Twin Peaks check. I have not watched 1697 02:02:43,000 --> 02:02:45,880 Twin Peaks, and I intend to watch the show time version. Suit. 1698 02:02:45,239 --> 02:02:47,920 Any truth to the rumor that in the new year, Quick Looks will now 1699 02:02:48,119 --> 02:02:53,319 be called Grub one out? Who fucking told you that? Where did you 1700 02:02:53,399 --> 02:02:56,439 hear that God, I think I left the wrong dog open. Hey nos, 1701 02:02:56,479 --> 02:02:59,359 fuck you you realize your tongue does not have a comfortable place to rest 1702 02:02:59,439 --> 02:03:01,720 in your mouth? Fuck you. I hate what someone says that. It's 1703 02:03:01,800 --> 02:03:06,720 such a mean, dumb thing to say. Somebody good old Shitley Myers, 1704 02:03:08,279 --> 02:03:13,399 slayh Girl Sleigh, far away off in infinity, though they are so distant, 1705 02:03:13,439 --> 02:03:15,039 if the light of the stars can reach me, we can communicate, 1706 02:03:15,479 --> 02:03:19,680 just as I believe, I reach out and grab it like a blazer bazarre. 1707 02:03:20,079 --> 02:03:24,239 The desire to protect someone, your brave soul, your message, a 1708 02:03:24,359 --> 02:03:28,960 wish is courage stronger than words. We are the same blaze to illuminate where 1709 02:03:29,000 --> 02:03:31,600 life is headed. Oh, light show us the way tomorrow. Uh uh 1710 02:03:31,840 --> 02:03:35,960 uh er uh, Dylan, Emmy, Addie, Scout, Goose and Noodle 1711 02:03:38,479 --> 02:03:42,920 Jan for encouraging everyone to come come to the Giant Bomb Game of the Year 1712 02:03:42,960 --> 02:03:45,800 live in Los Angeles. Tickets are running low, get yours today. And 1713 02:03:45,920 --> 02:03:49,760 finally shouts out to Gasolina by Daddy Yankee all the time. I was at 1714 02:03:49,760 --> 02:03:53,439 a friends giving and they were like, Oh, let's have a community playlist. 1715 02:03:53,479 --> 02:03:57,119 Everyone go add your stuff in. I had Gasolina like twenty times too. 1716 02:03:57,560 --> 02:04:00,520 And they're like, who did this. I'm like, I'll try to 1717 02:04:00,560 --> 02:04:04,720 find the guy who did this. God, I fucking love daddy. Let's 1718 02:04:04,760 --> 02:04:09,119 let's can we go to like a reggaeton like club or something. Anyway, 1719 02:04:09,279 --> 02:04:14,600 Absolutely, anyway, that has been the Giant BombCast once again, Folks. 1720 02:04:15,119 --> 02:04:19,159 Game of the Year starts this week, starting this Friday, nine am Pacific 1721 02:04:19,319 --> 02:04:24,720 twelve Eastern on the Dot. We're gonna be rolling off with seven categories. 1722 02:04:25,520 --> 02:04:28,920 I'm not gonna tell you what the seven categories are because we got to prepare 1723 02:04:29,000 --> 02:04:31,840 for that shit. And then on Tuesday next week, in place of a 1724 02:04:31,960 --> 02:04:38,079 proper bomb cast, we will be having day two Giant Bombs Game of the 1725 02:04:38,119 --> 02:04:43,600 Year deliberations. Those will be pre recorded for your ears everybody Wednesday of that 1726 02:04:43,720 --> 02:04:47,119 week, Wednesday's Giant Bomb at night Grub. It's gonna get back on the 1727 02:04:47,199 --> 02:04:51,880 host and couch and hang out with some industry folks and us. Sorry, 1728 02:04:53,039 --> 02:04:56,600 you're gonna be hanging out with us again. Thursday. We got a two 1729 02:04:56,680 --> 02:04:59,800 for free of folks, two for for Game of the Year because at the 1730 02:04:59,840 --> 02:05:03,520 Game Awards, Bailey Myers and Kurt Indivina will be hosting a pre and post 1731 02:05:03,600 --> 02:05:09,199 show on Game Spot, please tune into that, and then us Hooligan's in 1732 02:05:09,239 --> 02:05:14,600 the next room will be goofing and gabbing over it. Grub Dan, Mike 1733 02:05:14,800 --> 02:05:18,079 and myself Bail if she wants to pop over to that other room right more 1734 02:05:18,119 --> 02:05:25,039 than welcome to. And then Friday or no Thursday, that same day actually 1735 02:05:25,279 --> 02:05:29,439 of the Game Awards, we will be streaming live the whittling process. It 1736 02:05:29,479 --> 02:05:32,079 will not be a whittle stream at all, because we will be taking the 1737 02:05:32,479 --> 02:05:38,600 all of the games that came out in twenty twenty three and condensing that down 1738 02:05:38,680 --> 02:05:45,039 to the top twenty. Because Saturday, December ninth, we will be having 1739 02:05:45,199 --> 02:05:48,680 the finale where we all vote and decide what is Giant Bomb's Game of the 1740 02:05:48,760 --> 02:05:53,800 Year and the top ten, as well as having some fun little categories, 1741 02:05:54,159 --> 02:05:58,159 some fun, fun, little fun Little Gordy can't wait to award my twelve 1742 02:05:58,199 --> 02:06:00,760 points. So I'm gonna do it so hard. Which game it's going to 1743 02:06:00,840 --> 02:06:02,880 get it? I don't know the thing is, I don't know where the 1744 02:06:03,159 --> 02:06:06,000 what the gimmick is this year. One year it was like taking taking the 1745 02:06:06,039 --> 02:06:10,119 straps off, and then it was like defending a game. I don't know 1746 02:06:10,159 --> 02:06:14,039 what game to have a fucking monologue for this year. Have monologue for it. 1747 02:06:14,239 --> 02:06:21,039 Just got a text that I get sixty points, told you that a 1748 02:06:21,159 --> 02:06:30,319 long match. I'm gonna I'm sorry, Hey, next baby, h I'm 1749 02:06:30,359 --> 02:06:34,000 going to try and match your coffee intake the whole. Not do that, 1750 02:06:39,560 --> 02:06:42,920 and you watched him drink coffee. Please don't do this bad. I've been 1751 02:06:42,960 --> 02:06:48,039 playing so much hockey to prep my heart for it. When when I'm dead 1752 02:06:48,079 --> 02:06:50,960 and I went to Valve to check out the ol ed steam deck, we 1753 02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:56,600 had beef fast beforehand, and then I just like absent, not not even 1754 02:06:56,680 --> 02:06:59,680 knowing. I just held my cup out for the kind waitress to fill it 1755 02:06:59,760 --> 02:07:01,439 up with coffee, and I didn't even look, and I just kept sipping. 1756 02:07:01,479 --> 02:07:05,159 And then I did that at least four times because I'm broken inside. 1757 02:07:05,199 --> 02:07:09,960 Wait you had four? Okay, maybe I'll have. You said some shit 1758 02:07:10,039 --> 02:07:12,159 you can't take back back. Yeah, very well, all right, we're 1759 02:07:12,159 --> 02:07:18,359 not exactly shaving my head, are we. I will match half your cay. 1760 02:07:19,119 --> 02:07:23,439 Okay, No, that's normal, that's probably not normal. Maybe a 1761 02:07:23,520 --> 02:07:28,560 third is the right way to go. But you were have ye? Yeah, 1762 02:07:28,560 --> 02:07:32,800 I mean I like coffee a lot though. Okay, so that's gonna 1763 02:07:32,840 --> 02:07:35,520 go great for you then, no, I mean, as long as you 1764 02:07:35,680 --> 02:07:41,840 match my pooping, we'll be fun. You know, we'll be all right. 1765 02:07:42,239 --> 02:07:45,000 I feel like I'm not allowed to drink coffee then, because I don't 1766 02:07:45,000 --> 02:07:47,800 want to break back or no, it's all right. I'll if it gets 1767 02:07:47,840 --> 02:07:50,960 too much, I'll bring it down to a quarter. All right, well, 1768 02:07:51,159 --> 02:07:55,000 you know, we'll we'll. I'll just we'll have like a fun group 1769 02:07:55,119 --> 02:07:57,760 chat. And then I'll just put a coffee emoji each time I drink a 1770 02:07:57,800 --> 02:08:01,159 coffee, whether I'm with everyone or not. Okay, cool, I may 1771 02:08:03,359 --> 02:08:07,279 I'll intersperse some some spro into that as well. Don't make it a private 1772 02:08:07,359 --> 02:08:11,239 discord. That's all ass, Michl, You're gonna be so good at drinking 1773 02:08:11,279 --> 02:08:13,760 coffee. This hubres will not buy you in the ass. You might even 1774 02:08:13,840 --> 02:08:18,159 be better than the gods at drinking coffee, ye tell you. In a 1775 02:08:18,319 --> 02:08:20,479 pinch. Over the weekend, I may or may not have just like thrown 1776 02:08:20,560 --> 02:08:24,680 instant coffee in my mouth just to feel something. Oh see, that's okay, 1777 02:08:24,840 --> 02:08:30,399 that's like almost some back alley coffee worrying shit that I need to have 1778 02:08:30,479 --> 02:08:37,439 an intervention stuffing beans at my butt. I need it so bad, Please 1779 02:08:37,479 --> 02:08:41,000 don't support my bad habit. It's honestly a problem at this point that everyone 1780 02:08:41,079 --> 02:08:45,000 in my life is concerned. But hey, you know what, you should 1781 02:08:45,000 --> 02:08:50,680 also be concerned about tickets selling out to the finale at the Teograph Ballroom because 1782 02:08:50,680 --> 02:08:52,560 we only got a few left. So if you've been hemming and haueing, 1783 02:08:54,199 --> 02:08:56,680 or you're thinking about going to La, or you're in La or in the 1784 02:08:56,720 --> 02:08:58,439 so Cal area, just just go. I'd love to see you. Are 1785 02:08:58,439 --> 02:09:01,520 you just like or you're just like buying stuff on Ticketmaster? You should go. 1786 02:09:01,920 --> 02:09:05,680 Yeah, it's it's unlikely you're gonna be able to be like, oh 1787 02:09:05,840 --> 02:09:07,399 man, I'll just try to drive there and get a ticket at the door. 1788 02:09:07,640 --> 02:09:09,840 That. Yeah, do not count on that. Don't do that. 1789 02:09:11,359 --> 02:09:13,560 Yeah, do not do that. Don't do that. But you know what 1790 02:09:13,680 --> 02:09:16,680 you should do though, You should check out store dot giant bomb dot com 1791 02:09:16,960 --> 02:09:20,880 because we got some sick ass new merch o. We got a voicemail dump 1792 02:09:20,920 --> 02:09:24,239 truck shirt I think is not new, but we got joggers that are new. 1793 02:09:24,319 --> 02:09:28,600 We got a fanny pack, and then it was pod Yes we have 1794 02:09:28,760 --> 02:09:31,159 all that. I'm sorry to interrupt you like that, Jane, it's a 1795 02:09:31,279 --> 02:09:33,800 new uh sweatshirt version of the dumb Truck. Sure, so that is new. 1796 02:09:35,840 --> 02:09:39,960 But yes, Fanny packs a new dad hat. The posters sold out 1797 02:09:39,079 --> 02:09:43,319 very quickly. Oh shit, but we but we do. But the we 1798 02:09:43,399 --> 02:09:46,479 have the regular version, which I believe there are a couple. Uh, 1799 02:09:46,640 --> 02:09:50,520 I think like a dozen or so left of those as well. Whoa minus 1800 02:09:50,560 --> 02:09:54,600 one because you're gonna bring me one? Right? Well? I yeah, 1801 02:09:54,720 --> 02:10:01,640 don't worry about that. It's almost these inventory numbers they don't want to apply 1802 02:10:01,720 --> 02:10:05,960 to you. Okay, don't worry about that. There, there we go. 1803 02:10:07,960 --> 02:10:09,960 Like I mentioned at the top of Shadouts, go check out John Luke 1804 02:10:11,159 --> 02:10:15,520 Jake Decker's doc that they worked on for Cyberpunk. They follow the devs around 1805 02:10:16,840 --> 02:10:20,880 about the launch of Cyberpunk two point zero and Phantom Liberty. But Bailey Myers, 1806 02:10:20,479 --> 02:10:24,960 sorry me, Shitley Myers. What else should folks check out? Oh? 1807 02:10:26,119 --> 02:10:28,359 Well, I mean, just a mere hour and a half ago, 1808 02:10:28,479 --> 02:10:33,359 the honest game trailer for Assassin's Creed Mirage dropped. I worked really hard on 1809 02:10:33,439 --> 02:10:35,199 it. But what do you mean I played Assassin's Creed Mirage. Oh I'm 1810 02:10:35,199 --> 02:10:41,079 sorry, So please watch the fruits of my labor. And then I don't 1811 02:10:41,119 --> 02:10:46,359 know tomorrow. I'm going to be playing Darker boulders Gate on stream until midnightage 1812 02:10:46,399 --> 02:10:50,359 after dark, So check that out if you want to on my stream and 1813 02:10:52,079 --> 02:10:56,680 tah stick folks. She's been Shitley, I've been the Riz, he's been 1814 02:10:56,760 --> 02:11:03,239 Jeff. He's also been Cheff and you are so exciting. Great stuff is 1815 02:11:03,279 --> 02:11:05,560 in store. Baby. Let me, let me let you know we're it's 1816 02:11:05,600 --> 02:11:09,560 gonna be fine. Don't worry. Don't worry. The hod is it right 1817 02:11:09,600 --> 02:11:11,960 around the corner. And it's gonna be a new year, but it won't 1818 02:11:11,000 --> 02:11:15,000 be a new U because you are already great. And we'll see you next 1819 02:11:15,039 --> 02:11:18,319 week for Game of the Year. We'll see you later this week for Game 1820 02:11:18,359 --> 02:11:24,239 of the Year. Baby at the check those beans. Oh no, pink 1821 02:11:24,359 --> 02:11:33,359 wig thick ass, give him whiplash, yo, real talk about like Nicki 1822 02:11:33,439 --> 02:11:39,920 Minaj's verse on Kanye's monster Fucking All Time Verse of All Time, all Right,