WEBVTT 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. 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