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What is it? Button's not working
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What the hell? I hate go
xlr uh burderer. Hey, everybody,

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Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode
eight hundred and forty two, powered by

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enzxt definitely not freaking powered by go
xlr. I'm gonna go bury this in

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the backyard after this. I'm your
host, Chan Shoah, Welcome on this

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lovely May twenty eighth, twenty twenty
four. Holy Smokes joining me co captain

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of the ship. As always he
is. He's here with his his poop

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shovel, ready to help show you
how to properly dig a latrine and bury

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it. It's at least six inches, folks. Jeff Kroub, the one

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of the few knots I remember from
Boy Scouts is how to like lash together

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several logs, not that kindalog,
so that you can build a like latrine

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yourself, like a sit down chair
where there's a hole where butt goes,

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so the poop can go into the
hole in the ground. I could I

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can lash it together for you at
a summer games. Best jan just ask,

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just say the word what the hell
did I miss on Friday? What?

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Oh? I don't remember Okay,
I don't remember either. I don't

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even remember if we did anything on
Friday or if we I thought today was

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Wednesday. And that's real messed up
in joining us the belated birthday boy himself,

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Heradusan's best friend. They're grabbing donuts, they're they're they're they're splitting some

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donkeys together, Turbo Shawn Sean McDowell. Hi, I'm Sean. I'm not

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fixing any of that in post jan
Yeah. Nope, nope, don't.

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I don't want you to, and
I don't want you to, all right,

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ain't get how's it going, boys, it's oh, actually you know

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how it's going. It's going to
be a lovely live show. June ninth

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at the Bellevue. We're doing GB
at Night bell Weather Bellweather There, hosted

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by Jeff grub. We got a
bunch of lovely folks as guests, popping

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on your your normal GB cohort popping
there. But we also got Juice and

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Schreyer. We got a lot of
peerists Paris Lily, Patrick Kleppik. We

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also got Ef weed Way and uh, I guess Mike Manatty's going to be

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there and with Mike Manatti but we
got a bunch of surprises, a bunch

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of giveaways planned there. We'll see
you there six' nine. Nice.

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I am still offering unsolicited life and
spiritual advice. If you bring crystals,

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I will charge them. Ooh okay, we'll want to uncharged crystals laying around

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I'll get I'm top them off.
Yeah. I mean, if you're gonna

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be in Los Angeles, odds are
it will be very easy to find crystals.

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Oh, I'm not even talking about
the drug variety. I'm talking about

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shoot crystals. Uh, how's it
going. It's going good. It was

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a long weekend, but I uh, I spent basically all of it outside

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doing yard work, and so I'm
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And it turns out it's like gonna
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because we're gonna be doing work and
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here pretty soon. So oh well, we'll get on the other side of

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Summer Game Fest and then I'm going
to like hibernate I think until Video Games.

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Yes, I think. I'm also
I think I'm also going to hibernate

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grub after SGF. Yeah. Also, I'm like, you might be able

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to hear it. I'm allergies.
I think. I'm like, did I

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get a cold? And it's like
it's like ten percent of a cold constantly,

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which I think is just allergies.
I think that's what that is.

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Yeah, I don't. Is it
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Because I feel like way more now
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that's a question. Yes, yes
you are, Okay, I'm Yes's

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why we keep you around, buddy. Yeah, I'm forty one, and

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this is definitely not something I'm used
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so that's why I'm like, that's
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was a cold. But I'm like, it's got to be allergies. I

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took a hitsed me last night and
it seemed to help. I went backpacking

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over the weekend and it was a
kind of a disaster. Unfortunately. Oh

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what, Sean, what are you
peeling? I just like I'm peeling something

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and people like theirs and so that
would get them a nice peel. I

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like that last, like the last
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Sorry, Jane, you mean you
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like, oh, that's right,
I got something at the convention. Is

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how much perversion did you purchase at
this at this event, Jeff, there's

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a reason those posters are staying,
those posters in the background. All right,

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let's go in dis order. Jan
tell us about your disastrous backpacking trip,

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and then we'll hear about combo Breaker. Yes, yes, we'll hear

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about combo Breaker, and then we'll
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ladies, gentlemen, and envs.
So, as I mentioned, it was

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a surprise to me that it was
called backpacking. Over early weekend, cobbled

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together all the necessary stuff, hop
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other friend h and two dogs.
I was ready to go. I'd looked

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up the trail, I'd look at
the elevation, was gonna be relatively flat,

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the whole way, good for entry
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soon as we jump in the car, Hey, that trail. I told

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you all about that. We h
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still closed. It's still closed.
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two hours east of San Francisco,
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on this other trail that has a
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Okay, this is getting good.
How close were you to the hoe the

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hoe being Oh we I was like
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really know California geography. I just
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there were several things. I thought
we were still talking about the poop shovel.

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I thought we were talking about me
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offended. But we were about maybe
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the California Oregon border, which is
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And let me just say my partner
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both of our packs were very,
very full, and what was supposed to

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be an eight mile hike to our
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mile hike where we eventually made camp
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hey, maybe it's not a good
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because there's mosquitoes and it gets really
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spray isn't really a fixed all solution
to uh to two problems, and it's

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more of a repellent, which means
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it's gone down now. But I
had my arm had swollen up where I

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looked like Popeye because I got a
spider bite on my forearm. It's gone

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down, down. I should have
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oh, I might die. And
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night one and I'm thinking, oh, we can make the most of this.

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I'm very adaptable to things. We
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The other dog that came with us
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best friends and our other friends sleeping
pads and the sleeping packs just like inflatable

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little bittress right just to separate you
from the ground, and everything popped,

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both of them because he's one hundred
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were trying to do the mental gymnastics
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ground for another night, or are
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then we quickly decide, all right, we're just gonna stay here the night

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and we'll dip out. We'll hike
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then I thought, okay, smooth
sailing. We'll go home. I'll have

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an extra day to play some games, relax. And then it became the

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longest drive home. What was supposed
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Memorial Day weekend, huh sure,
Nope, nope, no, having

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to do a bunch of stops and
people getting a little bit epy on the

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road and uh uh making pit stops
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need to drive another hour north to
go to a burger place. Oh hell

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yeah, okay those kind of pit
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up when we're supposed to go down. Maybe there's gonna be a burger place

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between those two places and San Francisco
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let me tell you, let me
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things about this place. It's places. It's very quaint, it's very clectic.

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I like it. It was okay, but uh, waiting an hour

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for a burger because the line is
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yes, And then I was like, okay, cool, this burger is

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supposed to be really good and they
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If you want going there now.
Listen, if someone offers you a

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side of rib, you go and
order the side of rib. All right,

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But Sean Grubb, I believe barbecue
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versus me and California. It's basically
inescapable. Yes, what are your expectations

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when you order a singular rib?
Like when you order ribs, you just

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tell a person ribs. Yeah,
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which I might be like a half
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a quarter wreck. I'm expecting the
four bones with with like you know,

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the meeting between like covered in barbecue
sauce. That's what I'm infecting. Yeah.

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In terms of fall off the bone
quality, oh yeah, and I'm

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expecting it to be very moist in
like Finne Parket, Like if you were

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to shake it, it would fall
off. That's what. This was the

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worst rib of my life. Hell, let's go. Oh it was.

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I was very excited for this rib, so excited and then like I tried

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to do the thing where we pulled
the bone off, No, that that

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sucker was stayed in there. I
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of meat in my life. Oh, worst rib. But all in all,

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I did enjoy backpacking. I do
suggest that it's very fun. Scout

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loved it anyway. Good. I'd
like to hear about potentially a very much

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more positive and good Sean. How
was Combo Breaker? Combo Breaker was great.

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You know, I've talked about a
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in case people didn't know, Yeah, it's a big fighting game tournament,

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one of the biggest in the world. Now we get a very international out

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and now it takes place in Chicago
Land. It's great place for me to

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go obviously because just you know,
it's a drive but a couple hours down

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and my buddies placed down Mass and
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we like space out the drive and
everything. It's a fun time though.

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Combo Breaker. Every fighting game tournament
has a vibe to it, and like

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EVO is nicknamed the Fighting Game World
Championships. I put a ton of production

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value into it. CEO, you
may or may not be familiar with.

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Down Florida has the wrestling theme that
they do every year. People come out

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to you know, wrestling intros and
stuff. Combo Breakers whole theme is music

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festival. So Rick Thayer and his
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this event where it is rent out
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is you know, projectors, projector
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games happening on the other side,
same thing, and they're all right next

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to each other on each side with
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at concerts and stuff. So that
way, wherever you're standing, you could

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be watching Let's say you're watching street
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The street Fighter experience. You can
hear people popping off, like you

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know, like one or two games
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like, what's going on over there? Dragon Ball? Dragon Ball seems cool?

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I should wander over there, And
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of I'm hearing something just like slightly
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and check it out. And it's
it's very fun. I love being able

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to just meander around and catch different
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sometimes wild games. They have Chicago's
fame famous mystery game tournaments where they just

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pull the wildest stuff out of the
wildest bags. Yeah, well like Top

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eight included. I don't know the
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But it's that game that's like Initial
D with trains, and they were

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playing the for like Top four or
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We were all just in this.
It was in a separate ballroom because

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they had it was very smart.
They had all these consoles set up on

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tables because you know the Unie Step
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and stuff for all these wild games
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we had this like tiny ballroom packed
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with trains and this like indie foosball
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I see the look on Jan's face. Jam Let me tell you.

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One year, grand finals in the
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the children's Yeah, oh my god, it's wild. This year, this

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year they did an interesting one.
It was Nintendo Switched Sports and they did

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Chambara. Oh cool, yeah,
fighting game exactly. Oh god, yeah.

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I participate in the Mystery Game Tournament
and I played, Ah, what

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the hell is D See something or
other on the Supernintendo made by like Data

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East back in ninety four or whatever. Game sucks? Who the hell is

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Desparrow. I don't know, but
he has a dive kick that goes through

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everything and it is wild. That's
the kind of vibe you get from that,

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and that's a kind of vibe get
from Combo Breaker in general. It's

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a little more grit than the other
events, but still having the extremely high

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production value. It somehow feels very
grassroots while being extremely well produced and being

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extremely professional in earthing. And that's
why it's my favorite event of a year

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to go to. It's a great
time and it's always it's so refreshing to

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talk to real human beings, y'all
like to get Yeah, to get away

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from the Twitter replies and sometimes comments
sections and just people who don't realize that

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you can't just talk mad ship to
the dude next to you, because this

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seven foot tall dude who plays Kirby
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outside himself if you do that.
Like, just real people interacting and talking

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to each other. It's just it's
what I needed. It was so refreshing.

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Yeah, sending you a fruit basket
will send you like a person to

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talk to, just geez, just
just a therapist for a little while.

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Just oh my god, shouts to
all the Giant Bomb FGC that I ran

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into, though some people walked up
and we're like, hey, what's up.

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I got to meet some people from
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A group of them were there and
they were like, they watched me

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get my ass handed to me and
a super barman are in the Mystery Game

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tournament. Oh god, but yeah, I got to meet them talk with

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them a little bit, and a
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Herada for a little bit. As
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was not like a chat or anything. It was one person saw him wandering

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the halls and was like, cant
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you know he puts on the persona, but he's cool. So he's like,

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oh, yeah, you want me
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sign that too. And then someone
else comes up and it's like can I

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get that? And yeah, get
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forming down the hallway like between ballrooms
and stuff. It I waited line a

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while to get picture with but it
was nice. It was nice to just

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yeah, I get picked and everything. I got to meet a couple of

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my favorite artists, one of whom
I had a nice little chat with David

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Lou I believe his name is d
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mean Crystal Picks. Did you commission? We don't to talk about that we

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talk about, but you know I
got I got a bunch of T shirts.

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I got. Oh, hang on, you get something? Yeah,

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absolutely, I don't oh your funds
in her mind. I'm not going to

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talk anything, Okay, Yeah,
don't talk smack, don't talk about what

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happened before the show. I got. Well, I think are some of

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the greatest pieces of merch ever.
So we have this little combo breaker branded

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Salt Plushy. All right, I'm
a lily. To me when I'm playing

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games on this site, I will
kill you. I will beat you up.

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Don't ever saym salty. That's why
I bought it. I'm a lily

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player in tech and so it's just
too perfect to get the salt shaker when

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you know she has her cat named
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they had the combo breaker. Salt
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Yeah, I love it. Yeah, that's great, it's funny. And

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then I got a bunch of our
stuff. The events was so much fun

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to lose a lot, and I
didn't do particularly well. I continued my

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tournament luck of running into pro or
otherwise high ranking players, so I got

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washed in almost everything. Look techan, when dude sits down next to you

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and pulls off his sweatshirt pocket the
best buy rock Candy three sixty controller that

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just hasn't after plugged into the end
of it, you know you're screwed because

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that guy's been playing competitive tech in
for at least a decade. Now you

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know that his muscle memory is developed
in such a way that he can only

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play like he can only play on
this crappy twenty dollars bag you got like

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fifteen years ago. Do you think
he's like fix that thing and repaired it

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because a rock Candy control, I'm
not imagining standing up to the test of

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time. You can, but like
you know, you you get used to

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what you get used to. Yeah, right, That's why some people play

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off frank controllers or whatever, because
that's what they bought when they didn't have

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any money, and then yeah,
that they can't plan anything else is the

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reason why people don't switch between like
stick and controller. A lot, you

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know, right, Is that why
there's so many smash folks that swear on

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the GameCube controller? Yeah, because
they haven't switched off of it since Melee,

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which yeah, yeah, okay,
but then you know, newer players

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come in with, say the pro
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they played with just because they're used
to it. It's not like one thing

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is good or bad or better than
the other. Some things are more accurate

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for certain things, but it's just
wherever you got used to. I did

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best in Street Fighter, of all
things. I wasn't expecting that because I

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was very rusty, but maybe it's
because of the balance patch. People weren't

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because I mentioned this on GMM.
I think that they were rocking the balance

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patch that was like a couple days
old, because that's what the community voadon

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since it wasn't a pro tour event
and so oh man, some people were

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busting out some wild stuff. The
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with Lily like widely known to be
the worst character in the game, so

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that that was a great thing to
pop off about, and watching all the

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top eights in general was so much
fun. I can't stress this enough.

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Watching techn live ballroom with thousands of
our people is always my favorite thing to

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do every Yeah, it sounds like
a great time. Yeah, yeah,

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it's it's not that far away from
me. I should go. I was

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trying to peer pressure you and Mike
into it, but he had his thing

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going on every weekend. And then
you you're you, so, yeah,

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you're busy. But when when you're
in when you're in this room, this

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giant convention hall, I post a
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when everyone kind of knows what's going
on, and you can sort of like

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chant along or like sing along to
his NG or something that's always very fun.

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Like Techn in particular has that combo
structure where you juggle the person and

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so you can sort of like the
thing we do is uh you think tasty

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Steve for this, I assume,
but you can sort of like grunt along

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with it. So the cowbos like
hit hit hit hit, we go like

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h uh uh oh and just but
thousands of people doing that all outs you

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feel like you're a part of something. And sometimes you get funny ones.

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funny ones. We'll chant to anything. In the FGC like We'll get you

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know draight that water and just silly
stuff like that. And in the Marvel

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Auction Tournament, another specialty of Chicago, betting on a character or a team

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and then taking the pot if you
win. Uh, there was one with

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someone's rocking spider Man. Spider Man, notoriously in Marvel three, has this

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infant I don't know if it's true
infinite, but like an infinite like string

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where he can use his command grab
web swing three to the R side screen,

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wave dash over web swing to the
R side screen and every time he

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says see you later. And so
just this whole crowd twenty times in a

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row see you later. That's that's
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then yeah, attacking was last,
and so Top eight just popping off is

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the kind of thing where you can
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I didn't finish matching Regional. Wherever
you're at, people like cheering for the

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hometown hero. And so we had
one American in Top aid, Joey Fury

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unfortunately didn't make you very far,
but it was so hyped to cheer,

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you know, chant Usa and all
that stuff. And then whenever you got

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win, everyone was jumping up and
down and everything just shaking the ground.

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We were all losing our voices.
You could hear it outside. It's just

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so much fun. I can't stress
this not I know. I know the

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events aren't for everyone because you know, you might be a little shy,

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or you might just not you you
might not like being around people. That's

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totally cool, I get it.
But I will say, when you're at

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an event where everyone knows what's happening, where you're all there for the same

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you said, you feel like you're
part of something. And also, what's

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the worst that happens? You're you're
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like I'm watching my homies play in
pools and they're you know, they're winning

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or losing their games. I'm sort
of like cheering or like, you know,

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sort of reserved. But the worst
that happens is you lean or to

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person next to you and say,
Yo, that Cam he's doing some crazy

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stuff, and like boom, you
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it's so easy to get those things
rolling. And I can't recommend enough to

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at least try it if that's the
count thing. You're interested in not even

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just fighting games, you know other
types of conventions too. Because we're in

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the same room with the same people
who all are into the same thing,

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it's very easy to just like meet
our people and start. You don't even

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need to see them the rest of
the week, and you just have a

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fun interaction and it's just a fun
time and like I said, it's refreshing

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to just be around that crowd.
May I say that the only time as

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of late that I'm cool with people
chanting USA and I don't feel like a

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weird it fighting game turnout exactly.
Yeah, because we're cheering for the one

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dude from the US and top eight. We should we should try and make

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our way over to EVO because despite
not being a fighting game person, EVA

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was probably some of the most fun
I've had at a gaming event that wasn't

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like a PATS or whatever you write
John about like the spirit of it,

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because it feels like it feels like
the buzz of like the last three matches

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of a ww pay per view or
premium live event where it's like, okay,

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all right, there's like a tangible
like like like hype that is building

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across here that I need to tap
into. And I feel like it's different

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with a fighting game with a fighting
and crowd because, as you said,

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Sean, everyone knows what's up,
and everyone also, surprisingly compared to like

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other gaming events I've been to,
very supportive and cool with each other,

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Like it is a much more approachable
environment for whatever is to to lean over

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and be like, yo, they
can't be doing some things exactly and you

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see what John just did there?
What Like? Yeah great. I also

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like the level of peacockery happening at
We got some personalities, for sure,

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Yeah, definitely some personalities. I
remember the EVO that I went to with

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Ben a couple of years ago.
A guy was just rocking like uh,

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like an Nes cartridge around his neck
with like a gold chain, and I

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was like, man, this this
dude. Oh yeah, you see some

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wild stuff. People are in cosplay
and everything because they have a cosplay contest.

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I didn't mention this at the top, but Rick and his team,

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the team that runs Combo Breaker,
when EVO had issues with you know,

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management, some people being shitheads and
they were looking for new management. What

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they do they just look to Rick's
team. So now the Combo Breaker team

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is running Evo, which is why
EVO is being run better than ever.

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And some of that is also trickling
back to Combo Breaker, which is why

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we had like the Evo setups of
like all the Sony motors and headsets and

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the ps fives everywhere for every game
and everything. Uh yeah, and it's

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really well run. Jan I've you
know, I'm trying to pressure Mic into

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it, like maybe this would be
a good year ago to EVA, like

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they got they got, Oh no, you're taking your little trip the same

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weekend or something. Yeah, I
think a pantrim. Oh no, I'll

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go and we'll carry on a CRT
and we'll just see when we get people

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do random cash games for like the
dumbest oldest games. I think that would

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be so much fun. Yeah,
I mean, you know people are running.

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Look we made the joke and the
fuc about people running multi blood sets

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in the bathroom, of course,
but people just set their laptops and steam

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decks up everywhere. Like even me, I brought my steam deck in my

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dock so we could play in the
hotel room the night before or you warm

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up. That really has changed the
portable setup where you can just sit down

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in a lobby, Like you know, off to the sides are not anyone's

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way. But people just set prop
up the steam deck on doc plug that

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thing in and people are yeah,
we're just lying up and like getting sets

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and in whatever game before their parent
rules. Someone please find this initial d

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train game because I've not been able
to stop thinking, oh, I'll rob

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right up or even nothing else.
I'll send you a link to the stream

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because it was streamed. Every game
is streams. So we need to get

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into he matches with trains. Yeah, this is how the giant bomb evolves

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and grows. We're just gonna get
all the way into digital trains finally,

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and then we'll finally finish the train
blocks. That's what you need to do.

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Oh my god, shoo motherfu.
Yeah, and then we're all trains

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and it's just our faces like Thomas
the tank Engine terrifying ass show. Oh

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my god, Sean, I'm glad
that you had a lovely time. It

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makes me makes me miss Evo.
I want to go now. I want

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to go to Combo Breaker. I
guess that's a second reason to go to

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Florida besides Disney World for Chicago,
the other one you make. Yeah,

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I guess you know, maybe maybe
maybe maybe. Anyway, let's talk about

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video games. Hokey Maine co owns
EVO. What well, yeah, her

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her comp cohnes Evo now with Sony
like Sony and Pokemon, but they both

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equally. Just didn't Sony buy Ebo
or Amy making that up? It's it's

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uh, I'm probably messing up the
terminology. But yeah, Sony owns Evo

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and then her company has some kind
of steak in there or something. Sure,

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sure, sure yeah, And that's
why I like when she tweeted out

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free MVC to Max lost his mind
in earthing you have the power to do

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that? Yes, oh my god
words. Uh, gentlemen, I played

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a game. Uh and Sean,
I believe you may have played it as

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well. And let me tell you, I had a lot of excitement for

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this game. Rakugaki Yes, RKGK
Yes. The trailers looked super flashy.

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It looked like it had a lot
of budget behind it. Based off of

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the trailers, looked super well animated, like it reminded me of some Netflix

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anime or animation that they've been put
out in terms of style. But I

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could not gleam at all from the
trailers. What type of game this was,

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and because I'm pretty disappointed with the
product of the game, because after

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that initial hype trailer and like the
splash screen it does, it throws you

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into static images with words, and
a lot of the substance of the game

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kind of falls apart, and it
feels like they threw all their budget into

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making this trailer. I feel like
I got original Suicide squatted. Oh okay

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the movie, sure yeah, And
what Rakugaki is. It is definitely inspired

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by jet Set Radio Jetset Future where
you are parcouring around. It's a three

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D platformer. You were collecting coins, you're collecting spray cans, and you

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00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:52,960
were just tagging up walls. The
method of movement, you're just mostly running

406
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:59,440
around, hopping and bopping around.
You can use your spray can to do

407
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,480
a split two un style slide around
the level, and then you can also

408
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,720
use your spray cans to do a
like a glide type of thing where you're

409
00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:14,039
spraying down and these movement abilities katana
sure, yeah, exactly, exactly,

410
00:30:14,119 --> 00:30:17,720
I'm sorry, not not like a
glide in Breath of the Wild, a

411
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:25,240
shotgun glide like a dai katana and
the neat thing about the movement those methods

412
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,960
of movement to assist you as you're
running around is you have to use those

413
00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:37,039
to trigger buttons and levers. As
you're playing through there's enemies, so there's

414
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,119
very very light combat, and even
then the combat is like, oh,

415
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,680
no, this enemy has a shield
on his head. I guess I can't

416
00:30:45,279 --> 00:30:48,759
spray him from below with my Dkatana
shotgun glide. I have to hit them.

417
00:30:49,039 --> 00:30:52,119
And then other enemies will have the
inverse of that where you do have

418
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,720
to glide over them. And the
game just feels very slight. Just feels

419
00:30:56,799 --> 00:31:02,799
very slight in sub stints and everything. Okay, I feel like I could

420
00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:07,119
turn my brain off because most of
the levels, all of the levels,

421
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,400
you're just going from point A to
point B, and at point B you

422
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:15,559
just do a giant tag. It
doesn't feel like the graffiti elements are involved

423
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,799
at all. Other than having to
have like the appropriate number of spray can

424
00:31:19,839 --> 00:31:25,440
collectibles. They don't really do anything
to the environment, which is a little

425
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,079
bit disappointing, and you're just hating
a button. At least in Bomber Cyberfunk,

426
00:31:29,079 --> 00:31:32,359
you have to trace a pattern real
quick to get that going, and

427
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,279
I think I'm just disappointed by the
state of graffiti video games. Boys.

428
00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:38,759
Yeah, I'm like, so,
I was like struggling figure out what kind

429
00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:42,880
of game this is. So you're
describing like a three D platformer basically,

430
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:48,880
yes, yes, it's a three
D platformer. Is it like, uh,

431
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,960
just a radio where you like grinding
on stuff and trying to like park

432
00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:53,960
You know what it looks like when
I look at the trailers, it looks

433
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,960
like a like a sonic kind of
three D platformer where it's like your dad

434
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,799
to a lot of stuff, that
sort of thing. It's nowhere near as

435
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:08,960
fast as a sonic game, okay, of course, and even the movement,

436
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:15,720
like the three D movement doesn't feel
as fluid or as good as perhaps

437
00:32:15,759 --> 00:32:19,400
a mar game, even a ratcheting
clank game. It feels like there's a

438
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,000
little bit of odd momentum to it. And yeah, it's just pretty much

439
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:30,359
a three D platformer. It's like
you ripped out a character from jet Set

440
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,200
Radio, threw them into the world
of ghost Runner, and gave them a

441
00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:39,759
spray can. Yeah, and I
really wish I enjoyed it more because the

442
00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:45,440
trailer looks super well done and animated, but like the rest of the game

443
00:32:45,279 --> 00:32:51,359
is very bare bones, like even
though like the little hub area got it's

444
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:58,240
just very light. You're just buying
different outfits and stuff. Even running around

445
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,759
the environments, you're mostly just using
those movement abilities like a Splatoon like slide

446
00:33:02,799 --> 00:33:07,319
and the glide, and you're just
running around like normal. The air Dash

447
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,519
does not feel good either, Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't look good

448
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:14,200
either, like it just kind of
looks sluggish. Yeah, And I don't

449
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,440
know, I was. I think
I was really shocked because if folks check

450
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:22,039
out the trailer, I think it
played recently at a showcase. I think

451
00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:25,799
it was the Triple I initiative.
Yes, yes, yes it was.

452
00:33:25,839 --> 00:33:30,559
It was during that and I was
expecting something like a pleasant platform or surprise

453
00:33:30,839 --> 00:33:37,640
like Pepper Grinder or Penny's Big Breakaway, and I was kind of left the

454
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,160
bad taste in my mouth with that. Oh that's a bummer, because yeah,

455
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,200
I haven't played it yet. I
do have it downloaded, and I

456
00:33:44,279 --> 00:33:46,920
was getting ready to play it,
but I ended up practicing some fine games

457
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:51,200
before a tournament instead. But yeah, I was gonna fire that up like

458
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,319
tonight or so on. So it's
a little a little bit of bummer.

459
00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:55,480
That's not him with the IL I'll
astot check it out myself and see if

460
00:33:55,759 --> 00:34:00,319
you know, maybe it vibes me
a little bit more because like I got

461
00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:02,519
around to playing much of a bomb
Rush Cyberfunk, but as a big just

462
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,839
a radio fan that was really hidden
with me. I know it didn't really

463
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,360
hit with you last year, Jan
But yeah, so I really like it

464
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,559
though, so that that could happen
with this game. Yeah, it may.

465
00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:15,440
It'll just be a different vibe from
me. Then I'm interested to try

466
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:22,159
it out for sure. Yeah,
real quick. RK GK Rakushi Rockagaki Rokugaki,

467
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,000
thank you? Yeah, okay,
okay, So that is I believe

468
00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:31,960
it does literally mean graffiti. There's
there's totally uh strategy going on there with

469
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,239
that naming. I think though,
because I know a little bit of background

470
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,760
this because I follow a lot of
Japanese artists on Twitter and they sometimes tongue

471
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:45,239
in chic refer to uh. Because
you can quite literally use it to refer

472
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:51,159
as my understanding refer to it work
in progress as r K G K Rockagaki.

473
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,719
So you know, yes, sketch, there's there's sort of being being

474
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:59,519
funny with that one. But they
also sometimes will tongue in chek post like

475
00:34:59,559 --> 00:35:02,000
something that's clearly amazing, really good, and they're like, uh, rock

476
00:35:02,159 --> 00:35:05,400
cocky because it's not done yet.
And I was like, this is an

477
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,920
amazing piece of art, but you
put r kgk, which is what you

478
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,679
know, how they abbreviate next time, It's like, alright, alright,

479
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:15,239
so I think they're maybe going for
a little c O or something there,

480
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,360
but it's also smart, like if
it is just it does just mean graffiti

481
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,119
or whatever. I am. I'm
still chasing, chasing that high of Mark

482
00:35:24,159 --> 00:35:30,159
Echoes getting up, which is apparently
on Steam most of this. Yeah,

483
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,360
Mark Echo is getting up contents under
pressure. I don't know if that's a

484
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:37,440
sequel or definitive edition. Is all
right, I'm adding it right now.

485
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:45,360
All right, well we're playing this
week? Oh hell yeah, I love

486
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:52,239
this game. I never want to
talk about racially ambiguous heroes. That's Tally

487
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:57,119
was the voice. Oh man,
man be simple in the sand though on

488
00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:00,039
on Steam? Oh what is yeah? I guess this is also low key

489
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:07,079
another stealth game. Well is god? It is? Why is he hiding

490
00:36:07,159 --> 00:36:09,559
from like an arbor? Oh my
god? This game is wild. I'm

491
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:15,960
I'm not one to uh normally like
buy a lot of like gaming related paraphernalia

492
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:20,679
just because I'm ashamed of myself.
Of course, got to hide away.

493
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,440
But god, the two things that
I always wanted from video games is the

494
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:34,079
Sly Cooper backpack from Infamous and the
Mark Echoes getting up sweatshirt with the X

495
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,360
in the real Oh my god,
thanks, he's getting up. Also a

496
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:45,119
way of saying I'm gonna do yeah, okay, oh my god. That's

497
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,719
that's a that's a whole different side
of scumbag jam that we have yet to

498
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,599
share. What's your No, there
was no tag, it was just a

499
00:36:52,599 --> 00:36:57,960
stupid drawing anyway, Penis yep.
Yeah. I mean you know, everyone

500
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,480
giggles. Even if you're offended by
it, you get a reaction. It's

501
00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:06,159
like, oh, come on,
that's all right. It's it's art.

502
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:13,519
It's art, baby, speaking about
more art baby. I and maybe potentially

503
00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:17,679
other folks have been playing Lorali and
the Laser Eyes. All right, I

504
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:22,280
intend to start this jan It sounds
like exactly like my kind of game.

505
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:28,400
Uh okay, yes you think so
okay, finish finished grip. I'm just

506
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,360
gonna say, and so it's like, I but I'm Also, it sounds

507
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,360
like it's gonna be all consuming,
because I don't think I'm gonna be able

508
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,880
to think about other things once I
started. So I'm like, I've started

509
00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:38,639
a thousand year door. We'll talk
about that in a second. And then

510
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:44,719
once I finished that, I am
gonna go play Laura LII. I'm gonna

511
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,280
tell y'all, I think I'm too
stupid to play this game. Everyone's saying

512
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,920
that, though, everyone feels that
way about this game. So I saw

513
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,480
the trailer at what Nintendo director or
whatever. What is the game gameplay wise?

514
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,960
So it is a puzzle game.
It is like a walk and talk

515
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,440
or not walk and talk. It's
like a walk and solve type of game

516
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:08,159
where solve them up, right,
Yeah, solve them up where you know,

517
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,840
the game just throws you in and
then it's a one button type of

518
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,760
joint where you're just moving around and
if you can go walk up to something

519
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,440
that is interactable, you interact with
it. You have a couple options,

520
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:27,039
and you have the choice to exhaust
set options. And as you are going

521
00:38:27,079 --> 00:38:30,360
through those options, Laura I,
or at least a character you're playing as,

522
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:36,599
which I'm pretty sure is Laura II. Starts unlocking little key pieces of

523
00:38:36,679 --> 00:38:39,760
memory, stuff to remember for you
to refer back to in like a little

524
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:45,360
journal Afterwards. Sometimes those clues feed
into an immediate puzzle coming up, or

525
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:51,280
in a puzzle that's coming way later
down the line. It does the untitled

526
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,079
Goose game thing, where after you
interact with something or like a locked door

527
00:38:54,760 --> 00:39:00,079
or a path you can't go through
yet, it'll mentally take the note for

528
00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:02,880
you and have a running to do
list of like, okay, cool,

529
00:39:04,079 --> 00:39:06,920
supposed to do that. I can't
do anything with this now, all right,

530
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,840
cool, okay, okay. But
one of the first interactions you do

531
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,400
is you go into your car,
you open your glove compartment. This isn't

532
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:21,159
spoilers. This happens in the first
five minutes. And one of the options

533
00:39:21,199 --> 00:39:23,800
when you go into the glove compartment
is look at the instruction manual and it

534
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:30,039
is the shoot instruction manual for the
game, which is hilarious, and one

535
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:34,880
of the tooltips it tells you is, yo, you are going to need

536
00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:38,800
a notebook another piece of paper to
play this game, and you need to

537
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:45,079
be locked in. Oh yeah,
okay, like you need to focus on

538
00:39:45,119 --> 00:39:50,519
this game. And it's another aspect
of it. It has like the Resident

539
00:39:50,559 --> 00:39:53,639
Evil save system where you can only
save it saved points, and if it's

540
00:39:53,639 --> 00:39:57,320
been a minute since you've gone to
one and you shut your game off,

541
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,519
you lose all your progress. There's
no quick save at all, so you

542
00:40:00,599 --> 00:40:04,639
gotta find them. You don't have
to worry about like ribbon ink or whatever,

543
00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:07,400
so you can keep saving as many
times as long as you find one.

544
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,920
But god, guys, it is
a this this game is completely a

545
00:40:13,039 --> 00:40:17,679
vibe. It's monochromatic except for like
some uh, some splatters of it looked

546
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:24,039
very stylish in the Nintendo Indie Showcase
super or super stylish, and like the

547
00:40:24,039 --> 00:40:30,480
puzzles range from stuff like, hey, here is a four digit luck combo.

548
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,679
Have you seen any four digit numbers
lately? And then it'll do some

549
00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:38,800
stuff with light math of like hey, uh, here's this dial with three

550
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,559
numbers, another dial with a plus
sign and then an equal sign that you

551
00:40:43,599 --> 00:40:45,960
have to get to this sum and
it's like, okay, all right,

552
00:40:46,039 --> 00:40:52,400
let's just pull out our Texas instruments
T I thirty x two. Just listen,

553
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,880
literally just did that? Yeah,
shouts out, I don't know,

554
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,639
shouts out texts, oh, your
partner is a teacher that makes sense.

555
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:06,320
Yeah, yeah, and like it
gets light like that, but then you

556
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:12,000
come across a grandfather clock with nothing
but Greek symbols on it and five layers

557
00:41:12,039 --> 00:41:15,559
of dials, where it's like,
Okay, I don't know what any of

558
00:41:15,559 --> 00:41:22,360
this means. And then I'd gotten
to a point where you walk into this

559
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,840
hotel that the game takes place in, and I feel like I had exhausted

560
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,920
all of my options and I feel
like, oh no, was I not

561
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,519
paying enough attention to all of the
MISSI Lady's clues I was picking up?

562
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:38,679
And then this game does a brilliant
thing where you think you're stupid as hell

563
00:41:39,119 --> 00:41:45,519
and you realize maybe you are stupid
as hell, but it teases you,

564
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:50,400
and like the breadcrumb trails pops up
where oh hey, that locked door where

565
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,800
there was this person talking behind it. Oh, now the persons popped up,

566
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:59,280
and this person's gonna guide you through
kind of breadcrumb trail you through the

567
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:05,159
places you need to go. But
then from there they opened, they literally

568
00:42:05,159 --> 00:42:08,480
opened a door for you, and
there's a whole slew of more puzzles and

569
00:42:08,559 --> 00:42:15,800
more tools at your disposal. This
game talks about Latin phrases to help open

570
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:25,119
doors. Okay, okay. Roman
numerals another a thing in the instruction manuals

571
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:29,599
like, hey, you have to
be familiar with Roman numerals and Arabic numbers,

572
00:42:29,639 --> 00:42:34,000
just normal numerical stuff, and maybe
a moon phases by the way,

573
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,400
and also feature Yeah, and you're
you gotta know your Myers Briggs personality test

574
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,880
And I would have put it past
this game to do that, honestly.

575
00:42:43,639 --> 00:42:46,480
And it's neat because from from what
it seems like, it is a very,

576
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:53,239
uh, eerily casual game where there
isn't any danger, but there is

577
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:58,880
tension building because, uh, you
know, are you solving a murder mystery?

578
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,800
Is something fishy happening? Who is
this person that has invited you to

579
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:06,639
this hotel? What is their deal? What is your deal? Because you

580
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:12,599
kind of have no memory of the
situation, And it's really neat. The

581
00:43:12,639 --> 00:43:15,760
only problem is this definitely feels like
a game that you have to be locked

582
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:21,760
in and in the zone four,
where like if you took a break from

583
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,880
it, and too long of a
break, I think you kind of be

584
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,920
out of place in terms of the
world. Terrifies me that idea, like

585
00:43:29,559 --> 00:43:32,599
because that's the difficulty with how I
play games is I don't ever use a

586
00:43:32,639 --> 00:43:36,519
notebook. I do have to keep
it all in my head at once.

587
00:43:36,599 --> 00:43:38,440
I will use a notebook if I
play this game, I'll break that rule

588
00:43:38,519 --> 00:43:43,000
of mind. It's not a rule, but like keeping things in my head

589
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,400
is like stressful, but I enjoy
it, Like I enjoy a game that

590
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,000
forces me to do that. But
it's like the kind of thing where once

591
00:43:50,159 --> 00:43:52,119
it starts to seep out, well
there's no stop in that. It's all

592
00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:55,039
just going to leak out and getting
it all back in there is such a

593
00:43:55,159 --> 00:43:59,239
huge hill to climb back up that
I'm like, Okay, once I play

594
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,400
this game, I am going to
have to lock in. Jen. Let

595
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:06,519
me ask you, is it where
does the difficulty come from? Primarily?

596
00:44:06,639 --> 00:44:09,320
Is it like the individual puzzles.
Is it figuring out where to start,

597
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,719
like to like decode what the puzzles
are asking for you? Or is it

598
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,920
just this overwhelming sense of there's so
much I don't know where even to begin.

599
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,199
It's probably at least where I'm at
with a game. It's it's the

600
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:29,159
latter where you have I've come across
so many different doors and things to unlock

601
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:34,599
at this point that my to do
list has ballooned into like three four pages

602
00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:38,599
and I don't know quite know how
to proceed, And the fact that it's

603
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:45,039
throwing so many different tools that you
in terms of like here's a book that

604
00:44:45,079 --> 00:44:51,599
breaks down Latin phrase like normal Latin
phrases, and this other book that reteaches

605
00:44:51,639 --> 00:44:58,480
you Roman numerals, another book that
teaches you like the Greek alphabet in terms

606
00:44:58,519 --> 00:45:02,159
of like alpha, beta, et
cetera. Now I'm thinking, crap,

607
00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:07,159
is this telling me something that I
have to know for a puzzle coming up?

608
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:12,960
Is this important to remember right now? Or should I just like wash

609
00:45:13,039 --> 00:45:15,400
this from my brain? Right?
Is it just getting in the way of

610
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,360
actually solving, Like yeah, is
it a red herring? Yeah? Okay.

611
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,119
For folks that really like the Witness, I think this will be right

612
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:25,840
up your alley. So this is
why I think this is a Jeff Grub

613
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:31,199
game. Yeah, it sounds like
Witness Oberden Oh Curse with Golden Idol.

614
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,960
Games that you play primarily in your
own head, where it's yes, you

615
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:37,920
are like getting an idea and now
you need to unfold it on your own.

616
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,480
The gameplay is the thoughts you're having, and then you got to come

617
00:45:40,519 --> 00:45:44,559
back to the game with the solution. That's the Jeff grub John right there.

618
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:49,639
Hell yeah, let's go. But
like, definitely this game will mentally

619
00:45:49,679 --> 00:45:54,400
test you in like your rote memorization
skills or basic knowledge. I guess.

620
00:45:55,079 --> 00:45:59,559
I'm I don't know if this would
play well like for a stream game,

621
00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:04,239
just jumping at it cold because I
watching folks solve puzzles can be a little

622
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,840
bit frustrating. And then oh god, there was like another book that I

623
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,679
picked up where it just had a
bunch of several mini puzzles inside of it

624
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,719
that I don't know if I was
supposed to go solve it then and there.

625
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:21,760
And then it was like eighteen pages
of miscellaneous home puzzles that I don't

626
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,079
know if they have any bearing to
the actual game. And then one of

627
00:46:25,119 --> 00:46:29,480
the ones that I spent like a
good ten minutes on is Okay, here's

628
00:46:29,519 --> 00:46:32,360
a maze. Solve it in the
least amount of turns in terms of like

629
00:46:32,679 --> 00:46:37,119
changing your cardinal directions, And I
was like, oh no, I thought

630
00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:43,400
I was good at mazes, but
maybe not. This game is like falling

631
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:49,960
into a cruton factory because it's like
breadcrumb okay in terms of like what is

632
00:46:50,039 --> 00:46:54,159
laying out for you? And I'm
I'm super excited to like get to all

633
00:46:54,199 --> 00:46:59,039
of it, or even get to
some of it, because it's building up

634
00:46:59,039 --> 00:47:04,719
some intrigue for sure. Jeff Grubb, I'd love to see you and see

635
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,400
how your brain functions to play this
game. Yeah, it's good. It's

636
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,280
gonna happen. I'm gonna hop in
there and I'm gonna play this game.

637
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:14,440
It's I remember we were in a
meeting a couple of weeks ago and Kurt

638
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,199
was talking about He's like, yes, I'm twenty hours in and I'm so

639
00:47:17,199 --> 00:47:21,039
stuck. I need help so bad. And I think next time I like

640
00:47:21,079 --> 00:47:22,559
we spoke to him about that,
he had gotten over it and he was

641
00:47:22,559 --> 00:47:27,280
like, yeah, and that was
amazing. So if it's if you're getting

642
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,800
stuck in games, is something that
that bothers you, sounds like these kinds

643
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:31,639
of games are. This probably wouldn't
be for those kinds of people, but

644
00:47:31,679 --> 00:47:36,440
I think that's part of the fun. Even then, Like I didn't think

645
00:47:36,559 --> 00:47:42,679
this game would be for me per
se, but I think if you get

646
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,000
stuck in the early bits of this
he kind of definitely rewards you, or

647
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:52,519
at least it really does a good
job at like telegraphing where you're supposed to

648
00:47:52,599 --> 00:48:00,119
go and I and I'm assuming that
process kind of gets better as you have

649
00:48:00,159 --> 00:48:01,760
like a refined goal of like Okay, well this is my north Star,

650
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:07,280
let me get there, and if
I wind up solving these other side puzzles

651
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:12,719
on the way, at least like
that is in the back of my head.

652
00:48:13,159 --> 00:48:17,519
The game does a good job though
at kind of identifying your specific list

653
00:48:17,639 --> 00:48:22,679
of things. But the environment you're
walking around is very maze like, which

654
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:28,320
I am one hundred percent a fan
of. It's all like locked angles and

655
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:32,519
everything, so no need to move
a camera around or anything. You don't

656
00:48:32,559 --> 00:48:36,400
have to play with perspective. The
game does that for you, and it

657
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:42,079
also projects where there are doorways and
what is interactable, so it's not like

658
00:48:42,119 --> 00:48:46,199
you're doing like an object hunt throughout
the different tableaus. It's really done well.

659
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:51,519
I want to I might make this
a steam Deck game and this could

660
00:48:51,519 --> 00:48:55,920
be the game where I lay in
bed frustrated. Yeah, play and everything.

661
00:48:58,079 --> 00:49:00,239
It also recommends that you play with
headphones. You don't know if that

662
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:06,079
means there's going to be any specific
audio cues. If they're saying that probably

663
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,280
probably, and that also reminds me
of The Witness, which I am kind

664
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:14,679
of curious. Jane, you mentioned
sort of side puzzly stuff or not knowing

665
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:20,960
if like a puzzle is specific specifically
necessary to advance. What would any side

666
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,440
stuff like that accomplish. Is it
just for fun? I think it's probably

667
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:30,039
just unlocking more knowledge and getting more
context to the overall story. There's a

668
00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:35,159
lot of shortcut doors that the game
will put in front of you and it'll

669
00:49:35,199 --> 00:49:37,920
say, like, oh, well, you need to solve this from the

670
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:42,719
other side or figure out how this
works into that. Like what are the

671
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,480
early things you come across? Are
these movie posters that are shredded up,

672
00:49:46,199 --> 00:49:50,159
And at first I thought, oh, maybe I just have to rearrange this,

673
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,039
But the only thing you do with
it is like you just look at

674
00:49:53,039 --> 00:49:59,679
the pieces and then you make the
mental note, and then those movie posters

675
00:49:59,679 --> 00:50:04,280
become uh, you know you've seen
the same movie posters shredded up repeatedly that

676
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,239
that title of that movie becomes very
familiar in your brain, and then you

677
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:13,559
see that title somewhere else in the
game, and then that leads into another

678
00:50:13,599 --> 00:50:17,199
set of clues of like okay,
all right, I didn't think I need

679
00:50:17,199 --> 00:50:21,199
to pay attention to this, but
now I do. And then you think

680
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,679
back about that Shredded movie poster and
notice that, oh crap, there was

681
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:30,559
like a pattern put a painted onto
these movie posters. Maybe I gotta go.

682
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:36,400
Maybe that means something. And I
don't think this game is trying to

683
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:40,639
steer you wrong and frustrate you where
you know, like puzzles that don't mean

684
00:50:40,639 --> 00:50:45,960
anything. I feel like everything is
very purposeful, right, okay, even

685
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:52,000
from the jump where it feels like
they're building on one another or one okay,

686
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,320
it feels like they're they're building on
top of each other and like building

687
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:59,400
to the side as well. In
terms of like the different components, it's

688
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,039
it's very all done. Also,
you can pet the dog. I'm sorry,

689
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:07,320
there's a dog pissed. Yeah,
you know this. It also reminds

690
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,760
me of what you're describing is like
a single play, single player version of

691
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:15,840
a Scape Academy where uh oh yeah, where like that is you have to

692
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,039
be observant and you have to be
able to like figure out the know,

693
00:51:19,079 --> 00:51:22,840
the brute force of solving these puzzles. And it's like Escape Academy was grea

694
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,880
because you could play a multiplayer and
I play with Mike, and he was

695
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,880
He's very observant, so he was
like gathering up all the stuff of like,

696
00:51:29,159 --> 00:51:30,599
here's all the things the game's trying
to tell us about. And then

697
00:51:30,639 --> 00:51:32,519
once all the pieces were in front
of me, I'm like, and here's

698
00:51:32,559 --> 00:51:36,480
the solution instantaneously. So it's like
it was a good thing of like we

699
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,280
could use the two parts of our
brains in a way that that were really

700
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:42,760
complimented one another. I'm like,
I also like the idea of having a

701
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,719
game that's like no, you're you're
expected to do both. And I'm like,

702
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,239
Okay, I will probably have to
work on my observation skills in this

703
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,079
game to make sure that I am
gathering up all the information I need.

704
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:55,639
But yeah, it sounds promising.
I'm very curious about this one. Oh.

705
00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:00,000
The other aspect I forgot to mention
is you know, you'll come across

706
00:52:00,079 --> 00:52:06,400
an interactable object or a little puzzle, and sometimes laural I goes into her

707
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,000
purse and like, oh, maybe
I have to interact with this in my

708
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:15,360
giant Like I think it's sixteen sixteen
grid of different objects that she can put

709
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:21,079
into her person. Eventually, interact
with the world. And it's funny because

710
00:52:21,079 --> 00:52:24,440
the game starts you just have kerkys
and a tampon. And best believe me,

711
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:30,159
I've tried to use that tampon every
lock door, every time there was

712
00:52:30,159 --> 00:52:35,400
like a resident evil like statue with
a hole in its head, and the

713
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:39,440
game says, hmmm, you can
put something in that hole in that statue,

714
00:52:39,679 --> 00:52:43,880
and you know me, I put
that tampon in there. She didn't

715
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,000
do shit. Okay, it has
the tampon done anything yet? No,

716
00:52:46,519 --> 00:52:52,920
Man, it's gonna be such a
hype moment. I want to believe there's

717
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:57,000
like one interactable moment where you toss
out founder or something but does nothing else.

718
00:52:57,039 --> 00:53:00,960
The entire game the most like hypes
it ever, so we can go

719
00:53:00,119 --> 00:53:07,599
giant bombs Moment of the year.
The tamp really badly want that. I

720
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:12,119
think this is gonna be a low
key contender of like maybe the top half

721
00:53:12,159 --> 00:53:15,199
of Game of the year. Folks
like developing. Spend enough time with it,

722
00:53:15,519 --> 00:53:21,719
sure, and don't get too frustrated
with it and give it the time

723
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,639
to Breathe shouts out to Kurt for
like really putting this on our radar.

724
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:32,000
Yeah, all right, another another
game we have here last game that we

725
00:53:32,039 --> 00:53:38,039
have on this doc I've also been
playing Duck Detective. That game ten out

726
00:53:38,039 --> 00:53:44,679
of ten because deductions. Okay,
well, we'll talk about that more later

727
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,119
in the week. That is a
that is a cozy game as well.

728
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:51,800
But Jeff Grubb, you put on
the list here paper Mario the Thousand Year

729
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,280
Door. Yeah, so I started
this. I've played it a little bit

730
00:53:54,320 --> 00:54:00,280
before. I've never gotten anywhere near
close to finishing it, and it was

731
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,800
on the GameCube. But I'm playing
it now and I'm the furthest I've ever

732
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,320
been into it. I've been playing
it kind of non stop over the last

733
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,119
few days when I have time,
and I am really impressed by it.

734
00:54:10,159 --> 00:54:14,440
I think a big part of it
is it does feel very new, even

735
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,920
though you know it's it's kind of
a one to one recreation of that of

736
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,960
the GameCube game. The visuals do
have this extra flourish to them that really

737
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:27,559
makes it pop, and it just
looks beautiful. I really enjoy looking at

738
00:54:27,559 --> 00:54:30,960
the game. All the characters have
a ton of personality. I think a

739
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:35,719
big part of this is the the
presentation was really strong for this game right

740
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,559
at the time. You know,
there's no voice acting, so there's voice

741
00:54:38,559 --> 00:54:43,000
bubbles, but they're not like just
doing that. This is not just a

742
00:54:43,039 --> 00:54:45,960
means of getting the writing across.
This is also part of conveying how things

743
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:50,519
happen in the world. So when
there's one person talking, that doesn't mean

744
00:54:50,519 --> 00:54:53,000
there's not another character in the background
that has like a million little thought bubbles

745
00:54:53,039 --> 00:54:57,760
popping up or like they're having their
own conversation that you're not a part of.

746
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,360
This is how people in the world
speak, so you could like see

747
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:04,880
that happening, and it just adds
a ton of flavor and personality to the

748
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:09,280
world. And then I think it's
just a really strong Super Mario RPG.

749
00:55:09,559 --> 00:55:14,199
Like it's it's got a ton of
very fun characters that are great to spend

750
00:55:14,199 --> 00:55:19,840
time with that all are really funny. The adventure side of things, where

751
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,599
it's like I feel like I am
on this epic quest and it's taken me

752
00:55:22,639 --> 00:55:25,559
from one thing to another really hits
this really kind of in chapter three.

753
00:55:25,639 --> 00:55:30,039
I think this is where this really
came across for me. I'm like,

754
00:55:30,079 --> 00:55:32,800
Okay, the first two chapters are
both kind of lengthy. I'm about seven

755
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:37,000
eight hours in and I'm like,
okay, now we're gonna go do another

756
00:55:37,039 --> 00:55:38,880
one that's kind of gonna be structured
pretty pretty similar to what I've done so

757
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,719
far, but I'll have a different
setting, a different side character, that

758
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,760
sort of thing. It's like,
no, We're going to completely change how

759
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,840
the game works. Now it's gonna
feel so fresh and so different. I'm

760
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,599
like, oh, okay, that's
what's possible when you realize you're not just

761
00:55:52,639 --> 00:55:55,880
making You're not just like, here's
not just one version of what a quest

762
00:55:55,880 --> 00:56:00,920
can look like. Your quest can
then inform how the game play. And

763
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:04,159
I've been I'm just very happy with
that because now it's like I'm like a

764
00:56:04,199 --> 00:56:07,199
wrestling organization and stuff like that,
and it's just so much fun. The

765
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:12,480
characters are very different, they all
have once again, huge personalities, and

766
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,079
I'm really having a good time with
it. And then off top of that,

767
00:56:15,119 --> 00:56:19,360
it's just like, oh, yeah, this is how RPG combat should

768
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:23,199
probably work in these paper Mario games. I get wanting to freshen things up.

769
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:29,719
But like Orgami King, a game
that I adored out for everything except

770
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,280
for its combat system. It's like, if it just had this combat system,

771
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:36,840
that game would be beloved. If
people would just be going gaga for

772
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,440
it. Here's a game that does
have that combat system and does have all

773
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:43,639
that other stuff that you're looking for, and it really just it really just

774
00:56:43,679 --> 00:56:46,639
works for me. I'm enjoying myself
quite a bit. Yeah. I peeped

775
00:56:46,639 --> 00:56:51,360
some the gameplay, like a like
an impressions thing, first ten to fifteen

776
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:57,480
minutes of it, which is hard
for one of those games yo writing,

777
00:56:57,559 --> 00:57:02,960
And you know, forgive me for
my naivete, but are all the paper

778
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:09,639
Mario games just very funny? Treehouse
is top tier localization. You know,

779
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:15,079
I really have no frame of reference
for the original Japanese scripts. I bet

780
00:57:15,079 --> 00:57:19,960
they're also hilarious. I have no
idea, but Nintendo Treehouse is well known

781
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,880
for like making those things come across
very excellent, and yes, they're all

782
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,320
very funny. And that's part of
what's happening with me with this is like

783
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,920
I am constantly assessing it against the
other Super Mario RPG games that I will

784
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:36,800
play and enjoy, and I'm like, is this up there with like Superstar

785
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,159
Saga for the Game Boy Advance.
It's like, well, not quite in

786
00:57:38,199 --> 00:57:42,519
this way, because the writing is
so good in that and then another scene

787
00:57:42,519 --> 00:57:45,000
will happen here and I'm like Okay, well this is pretty good. This

788
00:57:45,159 --> 00:57:47,000
is up there. I see why
people like this game so much. So,

789
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,920
Yeah, it's it's definitely the kind
of thing where if you get,

790
00:57:51,079 --> 00:57:54,599
if you you know, get on
its wavelength of the kinds of funny storytelling

791
00:57:54,639 --> 00:57:58,480
it's telling, it's like there's not
much else out there that matches it for

792
00:57:58,519 --> 00:58:00,920
that sort of thing. Yeah,
that's awesome. In what really drew me

793
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:07,199
to all of the Mario RPGs Martin
Luigi, the first Couple in particular,

794
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,800
and then pretty much all the paper
Mario games. You know, they all

795
00:58:10,159 --> 00:58:15,360
have different levels of gameplay, but
they are always very funny. Their presentation

796
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:19,320
is always what draws me into that
stuff because they are incredibly well written.

797
00:58:19,719 --> 00:58:23,280
Always. I find the paper s
SEC in general charming because they do some

798
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:29,360
funny stuff with that, some clever
stuff where they they make some interesting under

799
00:58:30,239 --> 00:58:34,199
that or like you can you know, like how do you progress, Well,

800
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,800
let's just slip through event, you
know, because we just turned sideways

801
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,360
and slip through it or something like
that. It's very cute. I always

802
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:45,199
appreciate the paper Mario games for that. Yeah, And it's like I'm like

803
00:58:45,239 --> 00:58:47,920
looking at Rogueport, the opening city
and it's like, oh yeah, there's

804
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:52,559
like so much more here because I'm
not realizing on paper, and that opens

805
00:58:52,639 --> 00:58:57,599
up some possibilities of exploring, like
between buildings or between buildings it's or you

806
00:58:57,679 --> 00:59:00,320
know, the the great on the
ground that you're talking about, that sort

807
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,280
of thing, and it's like,
oh yeah, this that makes this town

808
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:07,119
feel more alive and I'm just enjoying
spending time in this world. It's it's

809
00:59:07,159 --> 00:59:12,719
a really well done update to that
game, and if you haven't played it,

810
00:59:13,199 --> 00:59:15,960
I fully recommend it, and I
think it's the kind of conversion where

811
00:59:16,039 --> 00:59:20,039
people who did enjoy it are going
to find a lot to like come back

812
00:59:20,079 --> 00:59:22,159
and it's like, oh, it's
going to look better than ever. Basically

813
00:59:22,679 --> 00:59:24,039
it does run at thirty frames per
second. I'm over it. I don't

814
00:59:24,079 --> 00:59:27,519
notice it. Don't notice it all
when I'm playing it, not even a

815
00:59:27,559 --> 00:59:30,440
little bit. It's not the kind
of thing where it's like, again,

816
00:59:30,519 --> 00:59:32,360
you put them side by side,
I might notice, but even this game,

817
00:59:34,199 --> 00:59:36,880
there's a chance I might not.
Honestly, it's that smooth. I

818
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,639
tried. I feel like some people
kind of just forgot. I try to

819
00:59:39,679 --> 00:59:45,000
remind people paper Mario is usually timing
base rather than reaction based, and you

820
00:59:45,039 --> 00:59:47,519
don't need uh, you don't need
high frame rate for timing. You need

821
00:59:47,599 --> 00:59:53,039
right. It is you know,
prescriptive, it's it's deterministic. It's going

822
00:59:53,079 --> 00:59:57,639
to happen at the same time every
time exactly. So once the thing starts,

823
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,159
you're you're filling in the gaps anyhow
your brain works, so you're not

824
01:00:00,199 --> 01:00:05,599
reacting anymore. You're just waiting for
the rhythm to come, and it's zero

825
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,960
effect on the combat. As Chad
just points out, the windows in these

826
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:13,639
games are usually pretty wide too.
Yeah, that's very forgiven here. Yeah,

827
01:00:13,679 --> 01:00:15,880
And I mean I like the systems, like the Badge system. There

828
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,880
is one thing where I'm like,
okay, I'm about I am getting to

829
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:24,039
like nine ten hours into it.
I'm my attack hasn't gone up, but

830
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:28,960
I don't do more damage with my
attack. Ever as I level up and

831
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:31,039
say, oh, I think they're
just kind of going to keep it like

832
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:36,360
this low level of attack, and
maybe occasionally I will, like very rarely,

833
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,639
will get maybe a weapon that improves
my stats, but not like in

834
01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:43,039
Super Mario RPG, where it's like
basically every time you go to you're getting

835
01:00:43,039 --> 01:00:45,119
a new weapon. Your attack goes
way up, and instead it's like you

836
01:00:45,239 --> 01:00:50,400
were just going to keep most of
who you're fighting at about like you know,

837
01:00:50,559 --> 01:00:52,840
ten HP the entire game. And
that's like, oh, okay,

838
01:00:53,719 --> 01:00:58,440
what I think, what it's really
doing here is focus on these other things

839
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:02,440
and let's stop doing the pretending that
that raising your attack is going to have

840
01:01:02,519 --> 01:01:05,920
much of an effect on the world, because when we do that in a

841
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:09,400
video game, we then introduce new
enemies that are more powerful so that you

842
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:13,800
kind of are going up at the
same speed, so that fights always take

843
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,559
about the same number of attacks to
complete. That's like, okay when you

844
01:01:16,599 --> 01:01:20,079
put it, when I think about
it that way, that's pretty neat.

845
01:01:20,119 --> 01:01:22,719
It's but it is like a mental
hump I had to get over where it's

846
01:01:22,719 --> 01:01:24,079
like, well, I like the
number going up, that's that's great,

847
01:01:24,239 --> 01:01:28,679
but there's a plenty of other numbers
that do go up. And a thousing

848
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,119
your door is the one where you
increase attack power with the equipment, right,

849
01:01:32,079 --> 01:01:36,280
yeah, right, And like you
can get badges that make you do

850
01:01:36,519 --> 01:01:40,400
more powerful attacks, but by using
flower points, which is like your magic,

851
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:44,679
your manna, and what you need
to what you need to realize is

852
01:01:44,719 --> 01:01:46,519
like, well, I'm upgrading that
constantly. There's only three things to upgrade,

853
01:01:46,519 --> 01:01:51,519
either your HP, your FP,
or your your BP your badge points.

854
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:53,239
And so I'm like, well,
I'm upgrading my HP a little bit,

855
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,920
but I'm like kind of managing most
of these fights. So I'm putting

856
01:01:55,960 --> 01:02:01,199
most of my upgrade points into FP, BP. And what that means is

857
01:02:01,239 --> 01:02:06,000
now I have way more matches I
can attach or yeah I can, I

858
01:02:06,039 --> 01:02:08,840
can wear it one time, and
that enables that opened a bunch more attacks

859
01:02:09,039 --> 01:02:14,119
and things like that, and many
of those attacks use more FP, and

860
01:02:14,159 --> 01:02:16,599
now I'm like much more comfortable using
those attacks because I have a ton more

861
01:02:16,599 --> 01:02:21,480
of that, And that's where the
actual increase in damage is coming from.

862
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:23,639
I think I think I might be
I think I might need this game.

863
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:28,320
I think I honestly, I think
you would have a very good time with

864
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:31,480
this. Have you never played it
before? Zan, just like casually at

865
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:36,960
a friend's house, okay, and
like I remember, I don't remember which

866
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,280
paper Mario was, but like at
a Toys r us kiosk once, yeah

867
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:44,840
it was probably this one. Probably
yeah, No, this this is what

868
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:46,320
most people say is the best one. I haven't played since I was a

869
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,800
kid, when I first came out, but I always love this one the

870
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:51,920
best out of all of them.
It's a fantastic game, and there's a

871
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:55,559
reason people put it up on pestal
Yep. I don't love like doing the

872
01:02:55,599 --> 01:03:00,920
tier list rankings of things in the
series that I like, uh, but

873
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:04,159
like right now. Can't excuse me, I can't help it. I am

874
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:07,360
like, Okay, I think Superstar
sag is probably number one, then Super

875
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,320
Mario RPG, and then this.
We'll see where I land at the end.

876
01:03:09,639 --> 01:03:14,440
Okay, okay. I have played
the Mario and Luigi games in the

877
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:17,880
past and really appreciated and dug those. Yes, Mario Luigi Superstar Saga is

878
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:22,719
fantastic. So it's boucer inside story. Yes, a lot of them are

879
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:27,039
pretty good, is all right?
Putder stem is all right? What's what's

880
01:03:27,079 --> 01:03:34,679
the Sleepy Time one? Uh?
Ohm? A meal that came with my

881
01:03:34,679 --> 01:03:37,039
my year of Luigi three d s
Yes, I had. I got that

882
01:03:37,079 --> 01:03:39,880
one too, and that's a sharp
one, the silver and gold, Yes,

883
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:44,599
I like. Steph got it more
for me for a Christmas for our

884
01:03:44,599 --> 01:03:46,760
birthday, and I stumbled across it
in a closet before then, and I

885
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:51,400
went to go peek at it like
a child several times before I actually open

886
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:57,159
it. Yeah, it's uh that
that one is okay, But it's just

887
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:00,719
it's it's like, got so much
of the what's up the game to tell

888
01:04:00,719 --> 01:04:02,559
you how to play this part of
the game. I think it just got

889
01:04:02,599 --> 01:04:08,079
bogged down in that, which was
a bummer. Yeah. I wouldn't mind

890
01:04:08,679 --> 01:04:13,880
like a stripped down Final Fantasy game
like this. Maybe maybe you don't need

891
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:18,119
the grand grandiose stuff. Yeah,
what if they do Final Fantasy Pixel remaster

892
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:27,199
like sixteen they remade basically Yeah,
did you play Octopath too yet? Jane?

893
01:04:27,639 --> 01:04:30,760
I did? I. I I
got to the part where we listened

894
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:38,320
to Michael Hymes presents Octopath two Traveler
Octopath Travel I listened to the Yeah,

895
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:43,079
I got to I got to the
sacks and it whips. But also,

896
01:04:44,119 --> 01:04:47,360
there's too much happening in this game. I love systems, but there's too

897
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:53,320
much guys. Okay, all right? Oh god, I thought I thought

898
01:04:53,519 --> 01:04:56,199
Laura I the Laser Eyes was going
to be a lock in terms of like

899
01:04:56,400 --> 01:05:00,280
the game I bring down to SGF, But maybe maybe it's gonna be paper

900
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:05,320
Mario instead. Real quick, I
am playing on the switch again because this

901
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:09,599
is where that's where this game is
and say, okay, so I wrenched

902
01:05:09,639 --> 01:05:12,880
the switch back for my children a
little bit, they're still trying to take

903
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:17,000
it back. I put my hory
Pad Pro like light controllers back on there,

904
01:05:17,039 --> 01:05:19,840
and I just wanted to say I
love those things. Yeah, split

905
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:24,679
Pad Compact, Yeah Compact, thank
you split Pad Compact. The big part

906
01:05:24,719 --> 01:05:29,280
of it is they lock onto the
switch much more securely than anything else.

907
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:32,239
Yes, and then the buttons feel
pretty good. The build feels pretty good.

908
01:05:32,239 --> 01:05:35,320
It's not like none of this stuff
is premium about it. It just

909
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:40,840
does its job so well and locks
on so much better than anything else that

910
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:44,920
it's just that much more comfortable.
So I like swapped out. I think

911
01:05:45,159 --> 01:05:49,000
those nixy ones n y Xi they're
okay, but I always feel like they

912
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,360
are almost gonna slip off. I
don't have to hit the button if I

913
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:55,239
pull hard enough, they'll just come
right off, and I hate that.

914
01:05:55,880 --> 01:06:00,360
So yeah, I just wanted to
like shout out those horry Pad Compact Company

915
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,119
for peripherals in general, like I
have the the split Pad pros, the

916
01:06:03,119 --> 01:06:08,960
originals background and switch right now,
which are bulkier, they're like almost full

917
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:12,840
sized Xbox controllers on either side,
and that's why the compact is good.

918
01:06:13,039 --> 01:06:15,440
Also, Hory makes the pad that
I brought to Combo Breaker over the weekend,

919
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:20,920
So like they make just good stuff
for a variety different systems. Yeah,

920
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,280
last thing I have on the list
here two things. I have something

921
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:28,559
after Sean, but Sean remembered something. Yeah, I just wanted to rapid

922
01:06:28,559 --> 01:06:30,760
fire. I played a bunch of
arcade stuff or the weekend. Yesterday for

923
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:34,599
my birthday, we did go to
Galloping Ghost Start in the World, thanks

924
01:06:34,639 --> 01:06:40,960
Jeff. But we just played a
whole variety of stuff. I want,

925
01:06:41,079 --> 01:06:43,800
you know, all the usuals,
POSSI want to shout some of the cool

926
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:47,360
stuff, like they did still have
the zero Ax machine that Jeff grub destroyed

927
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:55,079
was memory card that one time they
had the ww F I'm Not Wrestling Royal

928
01:06:55,159 --> 01:06:59,639
Rumbull game by Sega, and I
quickly asked Dan, who's topped here in

929
01:06:59,639 --> 01:07:02,880
the is It's like play Stone Cold
or the Rock and I did not win

930
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:09,320
the Royal Rumbles. I'd say no, that an air guy's machine. God

931
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,039
bless the ring, and you better
believe me. And my boy played a

932
01:07:12,119 --> 01:07:16,320
Tifa versus Cloud. Oh that game? What that game sucks, but I

933
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:21,880
love it so much because Tifa just
like sliding across the ground is taking Cloud's

934
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:26,599
legs out and stuff. So much
fun. The grid. Did you mention

935
01:07:26,679 --> 01:07:29,719
that? I'm sorry? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, definitely the Grid.

936
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:32,280
Good good call out the Grid if
anyone doesn't know, this is the kind

937
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:34,719
of thing. This is why I
love going to arcades. It's a kind

938
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:39,760
of hardware where you need to go
to an arcade to play it is they

939
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:44,440
have a full step of like six
cabinets there and they think like David Busters

940
01:07:44,639 --> 01:07:46,280
or my game works because you had
a four cab okay, yeah, because

941
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:50,639
they have like the cabinet four and
then they added on to like a one

942
01:07:50,679 --> 01:07:55,960
person once that you can like because
they all network. And what it is

943
01:07:55,960 --> 01:08:00,480
is basically you're playing Quake three arena, but with a like a flight stick

944
01:08:00,559 --> 01:08:04,039
for movements and jumping and shooting and
a track ball for aiming. So it's

945
01:08:04,119 --> 01:08:08,280
very accurate aiming once you get the
hang of it, because the track balls

946
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:11,440
really good at that. But it
is just quaite through arena. It's midway,

947
01:08:11,719 --> 01:08:15,119
you know, at their prime.
It's so much fun. I would

948
01:08:15,199 --> 01:08:20,000
love a grid machine. What a
wonderful future we could have lived in if

949
01:08:20,119 --> 01:08:25,920
like, yeah, adopted track balls
like that. Yeah, I was thinking

950
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:28,720
about excuse me when you were talking
about Laura lining the laser eyes, and

951
01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:30,399
like, we're getting Laura line the
laser eyes. So this thought that occurred

952
01:08:30,399 --> 01:08:34,119
to me doesn't mean anything, But
I'm like man on the DS, I

953
01:08:34,159 --> 01:08:39,399
went from like Professor Layton to like
a million other like knockoff puzzle games.

954
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,600
A shirt in chat like them.
There's a match stick puzzle game that's just

955
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,399
the match stick puzzles from Professor Layton, and there was like a couple hundred

956
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,279
of those in there, and I
would play that. It's like, there

957
01:08:47,319 --> 01:08:51,520
was a time where we were just
getting games like that on these consoles and

958
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:55,479
that doesn't really happen anymore now.
Those things, they they're out there,

959
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,479
they're on mobile, they're in a
million other places. This is just old

960
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,920
man stuff. But it's like,
no, there was a beautiful time where

961
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,880
we could go to an arcade and
someone would make a giant machine that was

962
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:09,439
the first person shooting, and there's
no world where we get that anymore.

963
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,560
That was an event that happen.
Then. One of my favorites. I

964
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,000
spent a little bit of time on
this is a silent Scope. Because Silent

965
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:19,279
Scope and the arcade, you have
the giant sniper rifle, and the screen

966
01:09:19,319 --> 01:09:24,640
on TV is like the broad view
of where you're looking. But then on

967
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:29,520
the sniper rifle itself, he's a
screen that shows the view as if it

968
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:33,039
were yeah, a sniperscope. It's
really really cool. We played some House

969
01:09:33,079 --> 01:09:34,920
of the Dead, of course,
because you have to a whole bunch of

970
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:40,640
racing games. They had a I
Know It Sonic and Sega All Stars has

971
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:45,039
an arcade version that racing game that
was next to also an arcade version of

972
01:09:45,079 --> 01:09:48,039
after Burner Climax, like an next
BLA game. For a while back.

973
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:55,279
My buddy camped out on the Initial
d Machine because of course, and what

974
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:59,680
else. Oh, one of our
favorites my group, because there's three of

975
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:04,600
us, the Michael Jackson's Moonwalker Machine. The arcade game is different than the

976
01:10:05,039 --> 01:10:10,640
Genesis game. It's three players and
it's an asymmetric view. You're all Michael

977
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:14,880
walking around, uh, beating the
batties up and then yeah, saving the

978
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:17,840
kids. Galloping Ghost is just fantastic
place against Craig. It's never been Yeah,

979
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:21,159
the base arcade in the world.
They just put even more stuff,

980
01:10:21,159 --> 01:10:25,640
and they did another expansion or the
past summer or whatever. Man, okay,

981
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:29,039
I gotta go back. Yeah,
there's so much stuff, some stuff

982
01:10:29,039 --> 01:10:33,720
you'll never see elsewhere nowadays. Like
they have the Silent Hill arcade game.

983
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:39,800
They have the Castlevania game that has
light gun whips. Yep, the whip

984
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,479
yep, yep. Yeah, it's
exactly how it sounds, Jane. You

985
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:45,760
got if you want to, If
you want to see that, it's in

986
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:48,960
a video on giant bomb dot com. Mm hmm uh. They got a

987
01:10:49,039 --> 01:10:53,680
new one in I think it's new. They have a Contra game, like

988
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,399
a recent Contra game says, you
know, kind of whatever, three D

989
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:58,600
graphics, but hey, it's Contra
in the arcade. It's new, so

990
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,399
that's kind of neat. Uh.
What made me think of all this,

991
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:03,720
though, besides that is part of
my trip or the weekend, was that

992
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:08,520
at Combo Breaker they had a much
bigger arcade section than they've ever had,

993
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,800
And in addition to all the usual
fighting games and stuff, I did get

994
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:15,439
to play some indie fighting games that
were being exhibited there. Tough Love Arena

995
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:19,560
is making a tag team game no
one's ever heard Tough Love Arena cool little

996
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:24,359
indie game that you play in your
browser, Like it requires nothing you need

997
01:11:24,399 --> 01:11:27,720
to play on your phone because it
just runs on a browser. And they're

998
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,760
making a tag team game. A
couple are ones that were really cool.

999
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,920
There's like the shooter one. I
forget the name, not to find it,

1000
01:11:34,159 --> 01:11:39,920
but it basically I think Geometry War
is a competitive multiplayer, Like it

1001
01:11:40,399 --> 01:11:43,560
is pretty cool, like a twin
stickcout thing. But then the machines we

1002
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:47,920
played mostly usual stuff. I finally
got to play my mind that Arcade Rhythm

1003
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:54,039
game where people describe it as the
washing machine at Games Done Quick, whereas

1004
01:11:54,079 --> 01:11:57,159
like it's a circular thing at the
screen and the buns around it and you

1005
01:11:57,279 --> 01:12:00,560
like tap the screen. I finally
got to try that because they had a

1006
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:05,279
head to head set up. I
saw someone like on TikTok with one of

1007
01:12:05,279 --> 01:12:10,960
those machines at their house. Yeah, just like streaming from it. Insane.

1008
01:12:11,079 --> 01:12:14,479
Yeah, some people get those,
like, yeah, they've showed at

1009
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:18,560
GDQ streaming from home. Some people
have like BDR machines and stuff that they

1010
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:21,159
set up at their homes and stuff. It's really cool. Yeah. I

1011
01:12:21,159 --> 01:12:26,399
did get to try the new what
the PDP riff Master. I believe it's

1012
01:12:26,399 --> 01:12:29,840
called the new Guitar Hero Guitar that
they just put out. They had set

1013
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,760
up on an Xbox with just a
whole bunch of like rock band, a

1014
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:38,720
whole bunch of songs download to it
if anyone's curious. It does just feel

1015
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:42,239
like a rock band guitar. It
worked very well. Me and my friend

1016
01:12:42,359 --> 01:12:44,960
just got right back into it.
We haven't played in years, but that

1017
01:12:45,079 --> 01:12:47,560
was awesome. And then, yeah, the one thing I made me think

1018
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:51,520
of all this is that I did
get to play two XKO again because they

1019
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:56,800
brought the arcade machines that they made
from that they had EVO, which,

1020
01:12:56,920 --> 01:13:00,800
if everyone forgot, is what Riot's
fighting game is called now project at not

1021
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:06,439
your scale. But yeah, get
to get in a really long line for

1022
01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:11,119
that a few different times, because
you know, of course everyone wanted to

1023
01:13:11,119 --> 01:13:15,119
play it. And I think this
is indicative of something where my friend,

1024
01:13:15,119 --> 01:13:18,960
who is still getting into fighting games, he's he's starting to get actually pretty

1025
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:21,840
good at them, to a point
of being like being better than me and

1026
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:27,560
tech and and stuff, but he
still prefers like simple inputs, like he

1027
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:30,720
plays Modern Controls and street Fighter and
stuff like that, and so him playing

1028
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,640
two x KO even though it was
on stick, because they had the like,

1029
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:38,960
you know, kind of cool arcade
machine setups. He said that he

1030
01:13:39,039 --> 01:13:44,600
usually can't understand what's going on in
tag games, but he could totally like

1031
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:46,640
suss out what's happening at any given
point in two x Kale. It was

1032
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:51,600
like just the right speed and just
the right amount of effects on it and

1033
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:56,399
everything, and uh, yeah,
I'm gonna wiggle my sault shakers just for

1034
01:13:56,520 --> 01:14:00,399
Nicky. Yeah, no, that
is is really fun. Can't wait for

1035
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:06,119
two s KO to come out at
some point in the future. One day.

1036
01:14:06,159 --> 01:14:10,880
We're seeing you at at Gallavin.
Ghost did make me realize when I

1037
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:13,399
went there. I came home and
I'm like, there are a bunch of

1038
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:19,920
specifically Sega arcade games that never came
home or got poor arcade conversions. And

1039
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,560
I'm going to spend some time getting
that set up and play that. And

1040
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,399
now I'm like, okay that we'll
have to make some time on this website

1041
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:28,199
to do that. I think,
well, maybe we'll do a upf or

1042
01:14:28,199 --> 01:14:31,119
something that's like all those old Sega
arcade games. Oh yes, please yeah.

1043
01:14:31,399 --> 01:14:35,079
Also, someone find me this initial
D Train game. I still can't

1044
01:14:35,079 --> 01:14:42,159
stop don't worry last thing I wanted
to bring up, you know, but

1045
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:46,079
there's a little tech small things that
I enjoy, we all enjoy on this

1046
01:14:46,159 --> 01:14:55,399
website. Jeff Grubb, I fell
prey to the TikTok shop. Buy what

1047
01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:58,760
Chinese handheld did you buy? I
did not buy a Chinese handheld. I

1048
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:04,039
bought what. Initially it felt like
a very uh shoddily put together when I

1049
01:15:04,039 --> 01:15:10,439
opened the box phone tripod monopod thing. Yeah, and you know, I

1050
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:14,119
was just going backpacking for the first
time. I thought, let's let's go

1051
01:15:14,199 --> 01:15:16,920
try make a video or let's get
some some good footy to remember back on

1052
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:21,079
the times here and like, you
know, it's a pretty long telescoping tripod

1053
01:15:21,119 --> 01:15:27,479
there listeners, you can't see it
roughly. Yeah, I think it goes

1054
01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:30,680
to like that and then you know, just like a little full down tripod

1055
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,000
there you get a little small tooth
remote, low profile tripod at the bottom

1056
01:15:33,039 --> 01:15:38,119
of eah if you want. And
then it's a quarter three three quarter inch

1057
01:15:39,039 --> 01:15:42,920
mount on top. So maybe if
I felt comfortable, I could throw my

1058
01:15:43,079 --> 01:15:46,239
big boy camera on there. Sure, who knows. I do feel some

1059
01:15:46,279 --> 01:15:49,880
type of way about telescoping stuff because
sometimes the tension goes out super quick.

1060
01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:55,039
But hey, this served me well
and it's very lightweight. I might bring

1061
01:15:55,039 --> 01:15:59,000
this down to SGF and some we'll
pull some shinanies down there. It looks

1062
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:02,359
handy. Yeah, it looks it's
yeah, last thing before we go to

1063
01:16:02,399 --> 01:16:04,720
brick and break, and we'll talk
about the news and then eventually get to

1064
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:14,199
emails. I have so much newfound
respect for camping and outdoorsy vloggers or whatever,

1065
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,720
because they set up the shot,
they'll walk walk past the camera or

1066
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:24,560
walk away from the camera a pretty
decent length, but then they have to

1067
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:29,720
go back and grab the fucking car. And when we were all comparing our

1068
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:32,000
steps at the end of the day, mine were nearly doubled because I would

1069
01:16:32,039 --> 01:16:35,840
have to walk back and grab the
camera. This is why, this is

1070
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:39,960
why you got to get one of
those like AI drones, the ones you

1071
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:41,680
could just like throw out and be
like, all right, I'm wearing the

1072
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:45,159
special belt. Follow me and it
will It'll follow you around and like take

1073
01:16:45,199 --> 01:16:47,560
all the footage for you. I
bet that doesn't work. But I like

1074
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:53,479
to pretend something that I've wanted to
toy around with. But I know that

1075
01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:58,319
this is going to open too much
of a hole to dive into is And

1076
01:16:58,359 --> 01:17:00,279
I thought about this when I worked
on The Robot Show. But I want

1077
01:17:00,319 --> 01:17:05,640
an RC controlled camera that is like
on a gimbal and then has like something

1078
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:11,079
to stabilize the z axis as well, so it's like it's eliminating like the

1079
01:17:11,119 --> 01:17:14,520
rumbles that you would get. But
like, man, what if what if

1080
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:18,239
we got into RC cars huh and
just mounted cams on them? Yeah,

1081
01:17:18,399 --> 01:17:24,600
I mean the person shooter like RC
car like like event that we put on.

1082
01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:29,039
Yeah, let's do it, guys, I might I might still know

1083
01:17:29,119 --> 01:17:33,600
some folks that work at battle Bots. Maybe we could go in Vegas.

1084
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:40,000
You do a flipper one. The
flipper one is the you know, yeah,

1085
01:17:40,199 --> 01:17:44,039
that's that's the go to design.
Just like we are about to go

1086
01:17:44,079 --> 01:17:47,960
to break folks. Well, Jeff
Crab's got a whole pipe and hot cup

1087
01:17:48,039 --> 01:17:53,359
a news for some news. There's
some news and we'll get to that right

1088
01:17:53,479 --> 01:18:00,600
after this. There is nothing I
love more than listening to Jeff Grubb tell

1089
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:06,479
me about the news. Oh,
if I'm being honest, there's like at

1090
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:14,640
least maybe three books in this oh
but still top five. Ah, all

1091
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:15,600
right, let's do it. There, we lied to you. There's not

1092
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:19,119
that much news. There's some things, there's just not that much. I

1093
01:18:19,199 --> 01:18:25,439
think everyone is in slight hibernation for
Jeff Rubin. Was Jeff crub lied again?

1094
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:28,479
Yes, we're speaking of listen.
I think there's still going to be

1095
01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:30,880
a state of play this week,
but we'll see. So hold on,

1096
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:32,960
everybody, hold on to your horse. Yes, okay, grub give me

1097
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:35,560
two minutes and then I have a
breaking news thing for you. Okay,

1098
01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:39,840
sure sounds good. All right,
let's start here at the top. The

1099
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:44,159
Xbox app confirmed that Call of Duty
Black Ops six is coming day one to

1100
01:18:44,279 --> 01:18:47,840
Game Pass. Call of Duty Black
Ops six I want It's called Duty twenty

1101
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:51,520
four Black Ops six there will be
available in game Pass on day one,

1102
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:56,960
according to a notification sent to Xbox
players. The notification was shared widely on

1103
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:00,760
social media before being replaced with an
airscreen, indicating that it was sent out

1104
01:19:00,079 --> 01:19:04,239
prematurely. Activision has since confirmed the
news in a live action trailer for Black

1105
01:19:04,239 --> 01:19:08,319
Ops six. This marks the first
time a Call of Duty game will be

1106
01:19:08,359 --> 01:19:15,960
included in a subscription service at launch, so this isn't too surprising. We

1107
01:19:15,079 --> 01:19:18,720
were expecting this, although there was
rumors that there was some conversation and I

1108
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:23,479
think, of course there is you
have conversations about all these things, but

1109
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:27,359
they are just straight up saying,
now Black Op six in game Pass.

1110
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,800
This, I mean, this kind
of limits to what they could do with

1111
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:33,560
those like tier adjustments they were doing
that we were talking about previously. Right

1112
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:36,119
now it's like maybe they can raise
the price, but they said it's going

1113
01:19:36,159 --> 01:19:39,560
to be in game Pass. It
has to be in all versions of game

1114
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:43,560
Pass, right, yeah, like
PC game Pass as well, right,

1115
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:46,880
PC game Pass. I mean I
would think I guess there's some wiggle room

1116
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:49,880
there, I suppose, but probably
not. No, it's first party,

1117
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:53,479
it should just be in game Pass
across the board. Call of Duty is

1118
01:19:53,479 --> 01:19:58,039
also bigger on console, so I
don't think those right be an issue honestly,

1119
01:19:58,319 --> 01:20:00,399
just it seems like it would just
help game Pass on PC a lot

1120
01:20:00,399 --> 01:20:02,560
for it to be on there,
like oh yeah, yeah, that audience

1121
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:05,239
might be like I'll check it out, but yeah, much much bigger on

1122
01:20:05,319 --> 01:20:13,399
console. This is like not going
to be the situation where and it's not

1123
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:16,199
on Xbox one and PS four,
so if you want to like upgrade now

1124
01:20:16,279 --> 01:20:18,359
you have to get an Xbox.
But it does sound like the kind of

1125
01:20:18,359 --> 01:20:25,119
thing where this should help out both
game Pass and the Xbox Console and and

1126
01:20:25,239 --> 01:20:27,600
like their entire ecosystem, but it's
not. God, I don't think it's

1127
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:32,039
gonna be an overnight change. What
do you guys think? I don't.

1128
01:20:32,279 --> 01:20:36,439
I think it's gonna definitely incentivize a
lot of people to check out game Pass,

1129
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:41,560
but I don't know if this is
gonna be a massive spike. Yeah,

1130
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:45,239
I think. I mean, it's
a joke, right, but it's

1131
01:20:45,279 --> 01:20:47,520
also real Call Duty twenty four.
At a certain point, when you're that

1132
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:53,479
far into something, people are settled
in their ways, and it's very difficult

1133
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:57,000
to get them to like even if
you present that with a deal that maybe

1134
01:20:57,239 --> 01:21:00,359
is in some lights much better or
more affordable or whatever. I think a

1135
01:21:00,359 --> 01:21:02,680
lot of people are like, no, I've owned all these games. I'm

1136
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:04,840
going to keep owning them, and
that's the way I want to do it.

1137
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:09,359
And I don't think Microsoft wouldn't hate
that. That's more money. They're

1138
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:12,920
very happy to have that. I
think it depends on how they approach the

1139
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:16,279
marketing and then how the story is
spun, because it's important to keep in

1140
01:21:16,359 --> 01:21:20,000
mind that this Call of Duty game, it is not for the hardcore crowd.

1141
01:21:20,039 --> 01:21:25,000
Anymore. Like we talk about call
of Duty and we see it all

1142
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:29,760
the time in replies and comments and
the live chats, this audience just doesn't

1143
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:31,720
care about call of Duty anymore,
which is totally fair because we've played so

1144
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:34,119
many of them for so long,
or maybe just never cared about call of

1145
01:21:34,159 --> 01:21:39,079
duty to begin with. But the
casual audience is still there for these things,

1146
01:21:39,079 --> 01:21:42,479
and they still show up in droves
every single time, even with free

1147
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:45,800
to play stuff like Warzone. That
being said, I feel like that casual

1148
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:49,119
audience isn't going to flock to an
Xbox. I feel like they've kind of

1149
01:21:49,119 --> 01:21:53,439
developed their patterns of like, but
well, I got this PS five,

1150
01:21:54,159 --> 01:21:58,800
you know I can play it here. I think if the messaging, whether

1151
01:21:59,039 --> 01:22:02,640
from x Box themselves or just on
social media and stuff, is hey,

1152
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:05,760
you can play a new Call of
Duty for ten bucks, which has always

1153
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:12,239
been the thing that I think.
I don't know why they don't lean into

1154
01:22:12,239 --> 01:22:16,399
this marketing. Maybe because they don't
want to. Maybe they don't want people

1155
01:22:16,399 --> 01:22:20,560
to realize that you can subscribe without
staying subscribed. May they don't want people

1156
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:24,399
to like figure that out too quickly. But it has always been odd to

1157
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:28,399
me that they don't say play for
ten bucks, like, yeah, yeah,

1158
01:22:28,399 --> 01:22:30,399
you can buy an PS five for
seventy, play for ten bucks,

1159
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:34,479
don't have vaxbucks stream it whatever.
Ten bucks. Like that would appeal to

1160
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:39,039
a lot of people, especially now
I more and more people are talking about

1161
01:22:39,039 --> 01:22:42,119
the cost of games, like that's
how I get my friends to play games.

1162
01:22:42,279 --> 01:22:44,760
If it's an expensive game but it's
also on game pass, I'm like,

1163
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:46,520
yo, guys, re up your
game pass ten bucks. There you

1164
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:48,800
go. Now bottom Tiery is still
ten bucks? Huh? Why do I

1165
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:51,319
think it was eleven? They raised
all the prices of everything except for that.

1166
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:55,840
I think it's like twelve euros or
something like that. Okay, I

1167
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:59,840
think there's other territories. That sounds
right. I think the reason that they're

1168
01:23:00,399 --> 01:23:03,560
about the play it for ten bucks
thing is if that becomes like the mantra,

1169
01:23:04,119 --> 01:23:06,560
like five dollars foot long, when
you have to raise the price,

1170
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:11,760
it's like, well, I remember, well not necessarily, not necessarily the

1171
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:15,760
price, but just like play it
for less, like this is the exact

1172
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:18,720
budget friendly way to play the game. You're gaining the same quality experience.

1173
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:20,640
What's it gonna cost you a lot
less? You just got you know,

1174
01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:25,199
invest in some kind of hardware,
Phil, get ready to cut the check.

1175
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:29,079
Here's your slogan, play more for
less. Yeah, I mean I

1176
01:23:29,079 --> 01:23:31,399
think we're getting that though, And
I agree with with both your guys saying

1177
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:36,840
this. The marketing for game Pass
somehow still seems lacking. Yeah, and

1178
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:42,439
now you're much weird to say yes, But I think a lot of that

1179
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:45,560
is like the community's a best deal
in gaming, and I feel like somehow

1180
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:48,760
Microsoft has not been able to get
that across themselves. Like a lot of

1181
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:51,840
us get that, but there is
that casual audience out there we're talking about

1182
01:23:53,079 --> 01:23:56,039
that does not seem to care about
that, and I think Microsoft has failed

1183
01:23:56,079 --> 01:23:58,920
in communicating that to them. Yeah, now with call Duty, you have

1184
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:01,560
a new chance to do that once
again. Will they be ready for it?

1185
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:03,560
I don't know. I still I'm
still skeptical. Yeah, and you

1186
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:06,680
said the whole best deal in gaming
thing that they had for a while there,

1187
01:24:08,279 --> 01:24:11,479
Like Nicky points out the chat,
if they're not doing like advertising out

1188
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:15,039
the ass for this during like NBA
finals and NFL season and everything like that,

1189
01:24:15,359 --> 01:24:17,239
what are you doing? Because whatever
where the price may end up being

1190
01:24:17,239 --> 01:24:19,560
for a given person, whether it's
you know, ten bucks, for a

1191
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:24,520
base plan or like you you do
need gold on console some you know,

1192
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:28,439
fact that, and you need Ultimate
or something, but you still with bugs.

1193
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:31,600
But even even though you still start
with start playing Call of Duty for

1194
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:35,039
ten bucks a month or whatever it
is, start playing next month or whatever.

1195
01:24:35,319 --> 01:24:39,119
And then and then you step up
the ladder like once they're in,

1196
01:24:39,319 --> 01:24:41,520
like, well, now I need
online and then what's there already in?

1197
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:45,119
It's so much easier. That's also
marketing. Yeah, you just you you

1198
01:24:45,199 --> 01:24:49,199
emit the tiny details and you know, not necessarily something I'm endorsing, but

1199
01:24:49,319 --> 01:24:53,880
I'm laing with why a Marlin player
required for Aline multiplayer? You could say

1200
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,399
that, and that's true, and
you can you could even say that loudly,

1201
01:24:56,600 --> 01:25:00,199
but start playing it like it's Yeah. This is also creatively spinning the

1202
01:25:00,279 --> 01:25:04,640
story. I'm just wondering why the
marketing team hasn't been doing that. It's

1203
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:09,520
a good question. Puzzles me.
Yeah, there, I thought that just

1204
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:14,039
popped up in my head. Do
you see them offering Call of a Duty

1205
01:25:14,079 --> 01:25:19,039
on game pass day one and everything, but do you see them also charging

1206
01:25:19,039 --> 01:25:25,000
an extra premium like a pre order
bonus type of situation for early access to

1207
01:25:25,520 --> 01:25:28,840
a game? Not saying that's gonna
happen for Black Op six, but moving

1208
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:32,039
forward in the future, it's probably
gonna happen for Black Op six. I

1209
01:25:32,079 --> 01:25:36,439
think that's one of the ways that
they make this all make sense is it's

1210
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:41,279
in game Pass. But for you
freaks out there who are the biggest fans,

1211
01:25:41,359 --> 01:25:44,279
the ones most likely to give us
the most money, you can start

1212
01:25:44,279 --> 01:25:48,079
playing five days early if you buy
the one version. Now they've done this

1213
01:25:48,159 --> 01:25:53,800
multiple times, and I mean at
a certain point, I'm like the fair

1214
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:56,720
game. I know a lot of
people hate that, but it's like I

1215
01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:59,800
can when it's five days, I
can wait five days and I'll save a

1216
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:01,560
lot of money. And to me, that feels like I'm getting a deal,

1217
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:04,279
even though it's not. It's it's
the way it's always been where it's

1218
01:26:04,279 --> 01:26:08,800
like I'm just getting out the way
whether they had done this, uh this

1219
01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:11,720
promotion or not. It's like,
Wow, those suckers are paying a lot

1220
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:13,479
of money and I'm just gonna wait
and I'll get it. Part of game

1221
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:17,680
pass, it work. It works
with Floriza Forza Horizons so very well.

1222
01:26:17,720 --> 01:26:23,680
People basically paid close to the price
of a game to get that deluxe edition

1223
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:29,000
of a million players before hit games
and the greatest suckering of it all those

1224
01:26:29,039 --> 01:26:32,640
people don't know the game, they
just own the outside. Or do they

1225
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:39,079
do that where they offer that that
that problem of pay one hundred dollars more

1226
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:45,039
or you can play five days early
on game Pass? Yeah, maybe maybe

1227
01:26:45,079 --> 01:26:46,840
the higher tier. Maybe that's part
of like what happens with like they introduce

1228
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:53,439
an even higher tier that has that
benefit included. Oh you Deluxe game or

1229
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:57,119
game Pass Deluxe I guess would be
called that is Deluxe Additions on game Pass

1230
01:26:57,159 --> 01:27:00,279
and that's like twenty the deal includes
dec and all that stuff. I hate

1231
01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:04,000
the thought that I've had haunting me
this whole since we brought it up of

1232
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:12,279
an ad supported tier of game Pass
and just thinking of the monstrosities they would

1233
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:15,199
throw ads in for that. It
definitely feels like it could easily mutate into

1234
01:27:15,199 --> 01:27:19,479
something very ugly, in something that
we don't necessarily want. But in this

1235
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:24,880
moment, game Pass still looks like
something that I find mostly appealing. And

1236
01:27:25,359 --> 01:27:29,079
when call of duty comes around,
I will If I think I have a

1237
01:27:29,079 --> 01:27:31,239
subscription right now, it could lapse
by then I would let it lapse,

1238
01:27:31,279 --> 01:27:33,920
and then when call of duty comes
around, I'll probably be like, that's

1239
01:27:34,119 --> 01:27:36,199
probably the way I'll do it,
and that way I'll be able to catch

1240
01:27:36,239 --> 01:27:39,920
up on some of these other games. I'll keep game mess for at least

1241
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:43,279
a couple of months. I'll play
Indiana Jones. There was some other stuff

1242
01:27:43,319 --> 01:27:45,600
launching later this year. Now I
can't remember avowed. Is it avowed.

1243
01:27:46,319 --> 01:27:50,439
I'll hit those games and then i'll
know, wrap things up and maybe cancel

1244
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:54,239
again. And I'm like, oh, that's I've played a lot of games.

1245
01:27:54,319 --> 01:27:56,520
It got some Call of Duty time, and now I'm not playing Call

1246
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:59,359
of Duty anymore, so it's easy
to cancel. That's the story I'll tell

1247
01:27:59,399 --> 01:28:03,920
myself. Now. Microsoft just needs
to get into the trenches and explain people,

1248
01:28:04,159 --> 01:28:06,800
Hey, that's a viable story,
and you're gonna get Call of Duty

1249
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:11,039
and all these other games. Maybe
you care about that. I don't know.

1250
01:28:11,079 --> 01:28:15,159
They're gonna have to convey that message
though. Yeah, all right.

1251
01:28:15,199 --> 01:28:18,199
For the first time in three years, Dragon Quest threes HD two D remake

1252
01:28:18,239 --> 01:28:23,560
has been teased. Scar Yes,
Finally, Squaring X has teased since HD

1253
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:26,319
two D remake of Dragon Quest three
for the first time in the quite some

1254
01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:30,239
time. The publisher initially talked about
this back in May one, uh and

1255
01:28:30,319 --> 01:28:36,119
it's it is remade in the HD
two D style of Octopath Traveler. However,

1256
01:28:36,199 --> 01:28:39,960
nothing has been seen of the game
since that time, leading some to

1257
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:43,720
wonder if it was still in development. Today, to mark Dragon Quest Day,

1258
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:46,319
Squaring n x pop posted a teaser
video of on the official dragon Quest

1259
01:28:46,359 --> 01:28:53,560
account on Twitter, suggesting that more
information is coming. I'm trying to remember

1260
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:57,319
where did this first appear? Was
it at a direct? So that Nintendo

1261
01:28:57,319 --> 01:29:00,920
direct coming up in June, which
I think. I think it's notable because

1262
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:05,319
this had platforms on it. I
don't remember if we had platforms and ounce

1263
01:29:05,359 --> 01:29:10,399
beforehand, but is PS five,
Xbox Series X and S Switch and PC

1264
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:13,880
what this says? Yeah, yes, so that's good news as well.

1265
01:29:14,039 --> 01:29:17,520
Yep. And I mean, I'm
pretty excited about this. I like some

1266
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:20,319
dragon Quest games I've enjoyed. I
don't never beaten any of them, but

1267
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:24,399
I really like the look of HD
two D games, and I think,

1268
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:28,239
yeah, if we were to sit
here today before this teaser happened and say

1269
01:29:28,279 --> 01:29:30,000
what do you expect to be in
that direct, this definitely would have come

1270
01:29:30,079 --> 01:29:32,520
up, Like we definitely would have
mentioned this as like, oh that makes

1271
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:35,840
sense. Maybe we finally see it
again and now I think it's teaser all

1272
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:39,600
but confirms that it maybe could pop
up somewhere else, but I think it's

1273
01:29:39,680 --> 01:29:42,199
likely in that direct. Is this
one of the good games that Square Inx

1274
01:29:42,279 --> 01:29:44,880
is going to make? Oh?
Yeah, right, they've decided to start

1275
01:29:44,920 --> 01:29:46,119
making good games. Yes, this
is one that they're going to put out

1276
01:29:46,119 --> 01:29:49,880
because they think it's actually good.
Oh cool, I think so, all

1277
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:56,159
right. Days of Play twenty twenty
four adds new PS two Classics and PSVR

1278
01:29:56,199 --> 01:30:00,840
two games to PS plus PlayStation Plus
monthly game lineup has been kicked off with

1279
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:03,880
a new Days of Play, which
is like their occasional Like they make a

1280
01:30:03,880 --> 01:30:09,479
big deal out of subscribing to PlayStation
Plus and it's store. It's an annual

1281
01:30:09,520 --> 01:30:11,880
thing. It used to be a
lot more interesting where they were at have

1282
01:30:12,199 --> 01:30:15,520
limbed edition hardware to go along with
the downt if they even do that anymore.

1283
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:18,720
But I remember by yes specific bluing
gold controller when you're or something like

1284
01:30:18,760 --> 01:30:23,920
that. Yeah, this one feels
notable because, as Jesse Norris the chatpoints

1285
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:27,640
how they remembered PSVR two and they
put some games in the PS plus for

1286
01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:30,439
that. Let's start here though,
First with the monthly games line up for

1287
01:30:30,479 --> 01:30:34,680
PlayStation Plus, it is getting SpongeBob, SquarePants, The Cosmic Shake, aw

1288
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:40,560
Fight Forever, and Streets of Rage
four. I listen, I think I

1289
01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:44,680
didn't play that SpongeBob game that's not
the Bikini Bottom a Battle Bikini Bottom.

1290
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:47,840
People really like this is the newer
one that's not quite up the snuff,

1291
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:53,039
but I think it's probably fine.
I like aw Fight Forever, but I

1292
01:30:53,079 --> 01:30:56,279
would like this is the way to
play it in a subscription service that's the

1293
01:30:56,359 --> 01:31:00,319
right price for that game. And
then Streets Rage four is incredible us the

1294
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:02,000
best beat him up of all time. I think I really do think that's

1295
01:31:02,039 --> 01:31:08,520
the case. So more people should
play that, uh than ps VR Uh.

1296
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:12,960
It's getting for PlayStation Plus, ghost
Ghostbusters, Rise of the ghost Lord,

1297
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:16,760
which I completely forgot existed, Walk
ghost Lords right, Rise up ghost

1298
01:31:16,840 --> 01:31:20,920
Lord? Uh, walk about mini
golf, synth Riders before your eyes.

1299
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:25,520
Oh, which, man, maybe
that's how I should play I should just

1300
01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:29,680
get yeah, because it's gonna have
eye tracking while in VR, right,

1301
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:31,319
Yes, that's why you can't do
it in other VR systems. I think

1302
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:34,399
VR two is going to be the
only way you do this right now,

1303
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:40,439
bud webcam and stuff. But yeah, got you don't buy a PSBR two.

1304
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:43,359
Dan sent you the game sent.
The least he can do is send

1305
01:31:43,399 --> 01:31:46,079
you the good Okay, I'm gonna
make him send me the PSVR two.

1306
01:31:46,119 --> 01:31:50,119
He's not using that thing. Yeah, I think he said PSBR two as

1307
01:31:50,199 --> 01:31:54,479
well. Yeah, all right,
there we go. Uh the Walking Dead

1308
01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:58,119
Saints and Centers Chapters one to two, which apparently those Walking Dead VR games

1309
01:31:58,159 --> 01:32:02,000
are very popular. Yeah, Tam
and I tried that out at PlayStation before

1310
01:32:02,039 --> 01:32:05,119
the Pizier two came out. It
was okay, yeah, okay, then

1311
01:32:05,119 --> 01:32:10,159
then that's probably why they're popular.
Probably decent. There was also PlayStation two

1312
01:32:10,199 --> 01:32:15,600
titles Good Firm for PlayStation Plus.
These are new like newly emulated games or

1313
01:32:15,640 --> 01:32:18,439
new like that. This is they
were not part of previous iterations of ps

1314
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:23,119
two games showing up on newer PlayStation
consoles. Like it's a new batch,

1315
01:32:23,520 --> 01:32:26,920
starting with tomb Raider, Legend,
Star Wars, The Clone Wars, and

1316
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:30,760
Sly Cooper the Phoebious Raccoonis, which, hey, that sounds like a good

1317
01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:33,560
time to me. And then finally
the following titles will be added to the

1318
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:40,399
PlayStation Plus game catalog Dredge, Lego, Marvel Superheroes five, Cricket twenty four,

1319
01:32:40,439 --> 01:32:45,880
and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas the
definitive addition. Yeah, sure they

1320
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:47,560
improve that, right, they probably? I think they as much as you

1321
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:50,880
can as Yeah, I would probably
still just play the original pure. I

1322
01:32:50,920 --> 01:32:54,960
don't think the rain messes you up
as bad anymore. Okay, weird,

1323
01:32:56,159 --> 01:32:59,800
All right, let's move on here
to a new Astrobot game will be revealed

1324
01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:03,279
in weeks. It is claimed a
new Astrobot game for PlayStation five could be

1325
01:33:03,279 --> 01:33:08,439
announced within the next fifteen days.
According to prominent game leaker billbil Coud.

1326
01:33:08,720 --> 01:33:12,600
The game is said to be simply
titled Astrobot and will reportedly feature a desert

1327
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:16,119
environment and a new character resembling a
robot, Thinnic Fox, which sounds very

1328
01:33:16,119 --> 01:33:20,720
cute to me. The game will
be released for PlayStation five. Unlike the

1329
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:24,760
previous full entry, It's not going
to be a PlayStation VR two game.

1330
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:28,239
There might be some VR component,
but this is a PlayStation five two D

1331
01:33:28,359 --> 01:33:31,640
screen game. Yeah. Hey,
I've heard about this as well. It's

1332
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:36,800
supposed to be coming this year.
I'm hoping it pops up at a PlayStation

1333
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:42,439
event before the end of May,
which again I've heard from multiple people.

1334
01:33:42,760 --> 01:33:45,600
But that's happening, so it'd be
weird if it didn't at this point,

1335
01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:49,119
but I guess there's always a chance
that plans changed. Go till Friday.

1336
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:53,239
Hey, whatever, we'll see.
I'll take my spanks on the bottom if

1337
01:33:53,279 --> 01:33:56,319
it doesn't happen. I'm fine with
that now. This game, this game,

1338
01:33:56,319 --> 01:33:59,479
I'm looking forward to it though,
because all the Astrobot stuff has been

1339
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:01,840
good, even dating back to the
PS four launch with that little you know,

1340
01:34:01,920 --> 01:34:05,199
tech demoid thing like that was still
cute at the very least, they

1341
01:34:05,279 --> 01:34:11,840
just grew it out. Yeah,
should we for maybe upf this week?

1342
01:34:11,880 --> 01:34:15,000
If Dan is around, should we
just do some head to head races with

1343
01:34:15,039 --> 01:34:18,520
you and him? See what muscle
memory has retained in Astrobot. I would

1344
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:21,680
love that, all right, sorry
myself, I would love that. Yes,

1345
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:26,199
that would be fantastic. Please,
Yeah, let's do that. Okay.

1346
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:29,760
That was one of my favorite tagas
on the internet. That's man,

1347
01:34:29,840 --> 01:34:35,279
it's good stuff. That's basically why
you got to know Dan. It's like

1348
01:34:35,319 --> 01:34:39,479
where we first started to connect.
Uh. You know, I always listen

1349
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:43,560
to Giant Bomb for a long time. That's where I first discovered dan uh,

1350
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:46,359
but yes, we started interacting because
of astro. We all remember where

1351
01:34:46,359 --> 01:34:50,279
we first discovered dan uh huh.
Everyone knows where they were. Yeah,

1352
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:55,479
one of the worst days of your
life. I remember kind of funny had

1353
01:34:55,479 --> 01:34:57,680
this guy on a podcast one time. I were like, this dude got

1354
01:34:57,760 --> 01:35:00,920
married in Taco Bell. Can you
believe that? No? I can't.

1355
01:35:01,760 --> 01:35:06,079
That sounds made up. All right, it's real and he's here with us.

1356
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:11,640
All right, let's move along here. Nintendo is opening an official store

1357
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:17,359
in San Francisco next year. Hey, Jan, are you excited? Yeah?

1358
01:35:17,399 --> 01:35:19,560
Man, I like that Nintendo store
in New York a whole bunch.

1359
01:35:19,680 --> 01:35:23,319
Yeah, we're getting now by so
much for us, dude. Oh yeah,

1360
01:35:23,319 --> 01:35:27,720
you're screwed, dude. And now
they're opening one in SF. It's

1361
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:30,960
yeah, it's gonna be exactly like
that Nintendo store in New York. They

1362
01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:32,520
have a couple in Japan. I
know they've at least won in Japan.

1363
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:38,199
But yes, Hey, I don't
know where this is. Have you heard

1364
01:35:38,199 --> 01:35:40,359
about this, Jan? You'd like, do you buy any Okay, So,

1365
01:35:40,520 --> 01:35:45,039
like what part of town this is
going to be in? Union Square?

1366
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:49,520
Union Square has kind of gone down
the pits because of how San Francisco

1367
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:54,520
is mismanaged as a city and how
the poverty gap is the biggest it's ever

1368
01:35:54,520 --> 01:35:57,199
been. But I'm not going to
get into that, and how my city

1369
01:35:57,199 --> 01:36:00,600
has been fucking ruined and I will
never own a home here anyway. It's

1370
01:36:00,680 --> 01:36:05,079
it's gonna be in a very centralized
part of San Francisco, very heavy on

1371
01:36:05,119 --> 01:36:10,920
the tourist track. It's it's gonna
be a very good location. And I

1372
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:15,880
think Nintendo is actually going to give
the downtown s F area a much needed

1373
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:21,840
one up. Yeah again, he
did it. I hate myself. So,

1374
01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:27,199
Okay, this is different than the
Metreon shopping center that I'm in met

1375
01:36:27,279 --> 01:36:31,359
Okay, very different, maybe a
fifteen minute walk away from Okay, okay,

1376
01:36:31,359 --> 01:36:34,119
all right, cool? Yeah,
because like I think I remember there

1377
01:36:34,119 --> 01:36:39,000
being like some there's a target at
that Metrion on and I think at one

1378
01:36:39,039 --> 01:36:41,960
point there was like a PlayStation store
there. I'm like, are they just

1379
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:44,880
replacing the PlayStation store? But no, completely different part of town. Okay,

1380
01:36:44,960 --> 01:36:48,840
gotcha? Yes. Also it is
near the Haunted cupcake shop that I

1381
01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:55,159
used to work at. Oh yes, also we were a Jack in the

1382
01:36:55,199 --> 01:36:59,159
box. No, no, yeah, but is are the cupcakes haunted or

1383
01:36:59,199 --> 01:37:02,680
is the shop the shop Haunted.
Okay, we'll get into it. Thanks

1384
01:37:02,680 --> 01:37:09,359
for the holidays, all right.
Fantastic Atari has acquired the television brand,

1385
01:37:09,560 --> 01:37:14,520
ending the first ever console war,
which is what they said. Atari has

1386
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:19,880
acquired the television brand and certain games
from a Television Entertainment LLC, ending what

1387
01:37:19,880 --> 01:37:24,760
they called the first console rivalry,
which dates back to the nineteen seventies.

1388
01:37:25,079 --> 01:37:28,159
The deal does not include the Amico
console, which will be continued to be

1389
01:37:28,239 --> 01:37:32,000
developed by in Television Entertainment under a
license from Atari. The Intellivision console was

1390
01:37:32,039 --> 01:37:35,880
released by Mattel in nineteen seventy nine
and went head to head against the Atari

1391
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:41,520
VCS, which was later renamed the
Atari twenty six hundred, starting the first

1392
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:46,960
ever video game console war. I
like Atari. I like that they're doing

1393
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:50,319
this sort of thing where they're like, hey, we are going to get

1394
01:37:50,439 --> 01:37:58,279
very into a mining of nostalgia and
bringing stuff back. And they acquired Digital

1395
01:37:58,359 --> 01:38:01,760
Eclipse, right, and did they
also get Night Dive. Yeah, they

1396
01:38:01,760 --> 01:38:04,279
have night now, right, And
so the whole idea is like, let's

1397
01:38:04,279 --> 01:38:08,279
get these teams that are very good
at knowing what to do when they have

1398
01:38:08,319 --> 01:38:12,079
an old property or old game,
and how to not even just update it,

1399
01:38:12,159 --> 01:38:15,560
but like represent it to a new
audience and let them do that,

1400
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:17,680
and now they have more stuff to
work with. I don't think there's a

1401
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:23,720
ton of people clammoring for in television. But you could do a decent television

1402
01:38:23,760 --> 01:38:27,439
fifties like the Atari fifty and I
would be all board for that. Yeah,

1403
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:31,600
it's disappointing that they're not getting the
Amiko because that's sure clearly bread winner

1404
01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:38,239
and all this. But Tommy Teller
could get a payday from this, I

1405
01:38:38,279 --> 01:38:42,880
don't think so. I think Tommy
has been fully separated from the television entity.

1406
01:38:43,119 --> 01:38:46,600
Okay, yeah, he's just like
licensing stuff, right, he probably

1407
01:38:46,640 --> 01:38:50,359
owes that company money on it.
Tommy probably owns a lot of people.

1408
01:38:53,760 --> 01:38:57,560
No, But you know, Atari, I feel like a certain point we

1409
01:38:57,640 --> 01:39:00,800
kind of clowned on them in recent
times, says because it's like Atari's doing

1410
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:04,920
something like who the hell cares about
it? Seems like modern Atari is actually

1411
01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:10,239
like being very smart about it,
a vision of something totally yeah, like

1412
01:39:10,319 --> 01:39:14,119
Atari fifty. And then the companies
that they are buying and working with,

1413
01:39:14,439 --> 01:39:16,960
it feels like they are being run
very well. Now the hotel els might

1414
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:20,479
actually happen now, Yeah, they're
coming back. I got my Atari Hotel's

1415
01:39:20,479 --> 01:39:27,600
hat on a winner. I am
so desperate to be there on opening night

1416
01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:30,640
of the Atari Hotel. I can't
have to see what that means. I

1417
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:35,079
have to see what that's like.
I don't think I'm gonna get Jenny Nicholson

1418
01:39:35,119 --> 01:39:40,079
out make a four hour video about
it. I can't we have the means

1419
01:39:40,079 --> 01:39:43,000
to get Jenny Nicholson on things.
Yeah, I don't know why we haven't

1420
01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:45,640
tapped that bridge. We will.
I rest the peace to Bill Walton.

1421
01:39:45,880 --> 01:39:48,600
Bill Walton gave me his email address
once, and I'm like, I should

1422
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:50,800
have had him on the voicemail dumb
truck. That would have been incredible.

1423
01:39:50,800 --> 01:39:55,079
That guy would have been ame on
there. But rip, Oh my god,

1424
01:39:55,359 --> 01:39:59,399
what if we we we send Jenny
Nicholson on assignment to the Atari Hotel.

1425
01:39:59,600 --> 01:40:02,760
I would that would be amazing?
Alright, alright, let me go

1426
01:40:02,840 --> 01:40:10,920
text. All right, a couple
more story, Just one more story here?

1427
01:40:11,399 --> 01:40:14,159
Uh no, there's another one,
says Jan's news story. Okay.

1428
01:40:14,199 --> 01:40:17,840
First, Konami confirms Silent Hill live
stream for this week. Konami has announced

1429
01:40:17,880 --> 01:40:23,079
a second excuse me, a second
Silent Heil digital showcase from May thirtieth.

1430
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:28,840
They're planning to like go over the
stuff they've already previously announced. They probably

1431
01:40:28,840 --> 01:40:31,239
won't have a ton of new announcements, but they still haven't released Silent Hill

1432
01:40:31,279 --> 01:40:35,880
to remake Silent Hill Townfall and Silent
Hill f So I'll probably see all that

1433
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:41,640
stuff and then maybe a new season
of that Silent Hill YouTube interactive show.

1434
01:40:41,680 --> 01:40:46,479
Got I want to get on board
on. We need to do a film

1435
01:40:46,479 --> 01:40:51,960
on forties of that. Oh,
that'll do u. And then yeah,

1436
01:40:53,039 --> 01:40:58,600
real quick, yeah, there's that
twenty five piece great deco Diku Deku tree

1437
01:40:58,720 --> 01:41:03,520
set from the legend from Leo.
Yeah, that looks fantastic and it looks

1438
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:08,760
really really good. It does absolutely
fantastic. All right, Jan, I'm

1439
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:12,199
handing the show back over to you, but for a news story. Apparently,

1440
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:15,640
yes, I have a news story
here, ladies, gentlemen, and

1441
01:41:15,840 --> 01:41:23,039
nb's the live show is happening June
ninth. Tickets available on ticket Master just

1442
01:41:23,079 --> 01:41:29,520
search for Giant bomb breaking News Here. We can announce a new guest that'll

1443
01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:34,119
be there. This is a big
get, folks, because one let me

1444
01:41:34,199 --> 01:41:41,600
just do this, Brad Shoemaker,
We'll be there, Brad Shoemaker, we

1445
01:41:41,720 --> 01:41:45,079
have a seat for you on this
couch, sir, and we will be

1446
01:41:45,319 --> 01:41:49,880
graced to have bread Shoemaker on the
giant bomb couch. Big Get, folks,

1447
01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:55,279
Get. I'm very excited. I'm
very excited. I've been excited for

1448
01:41:55,319 --> 01:41:57,840
the live show and everything, but
I'm one I got. Once I got

1449
01:41:57,880 --> 01:42:00,880
that confirmation, i started feeling the
tingle. It breaks the whole thing together.

1450
01:42:00,960 --> 01:42:03,920
It feels like, I can't wait. It's gonna be a good time.

1451
01:42:05,159 --> 01:42:08,199
Yeah, you want to you won't
want to miss it. And then

1452
01:42:09,039 --> 01:42:12,319
I'm like, then I'm thinking like
the stuff that Dan's doing and in between

1453
01:42:12,359 --> 01:42:14,720
segments, which is like gonna be
harmless to everybody, but it's like it

1454
01:42:14,760 --> 01:42:16,640
could be really fun. So I'm
like, he'll probably have some ideas for

1455
01:42:16,680 --> 01:42:23,840
Brad. Now, all your favorites
will be there. It's it's gonna be

1456
01:42:23,880 --> 01:42:28,600
a good time. And hey,
the Nasty Boys have a segment on the

1457
01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:32,479
couch. Not at the live show, but maybe the King of the Nasty

1458
01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:38,079
Boys will will have an instrumental part
in the live show. Shout out.

1459
01:42:40,119 --> 01:42:43,159
It's gonna be some good stuff.
It's gonna be some amazing stuff. And

1460
01:42:43,199 --> 01:42:47,479
I'm very very happy to see Brad
there later get your tickets now Ticketmasters.

1461
01:42:47,479 --> 01:42:51,399
Search for a giant bomb there and
you'll be able to get your tickets for

1462
01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:56,840
the bell Weather, which is what
bell Weather, bell Weather, bell Weather,

1463
01:42:57,239 --> 01:43:03,159
bell Weather. There's also vip uh
tickets available as well. It's gonna

1464
01:43:03,159 --> 01:43:06,439
be a good grand time. And
oh god, I got I got the

1465
01:43:06,479 --> 01:43:10,479
goosebumps, y'all. The hair is
standing on the back of the next.

1466
01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:15,640
I can't wait to see Brad you
heard me, you heard Okay, now

1467
01:43:15,640 --> 01:43:20,239
go away working out so much he's
gotten multiple next now yo. Oh man,

1468
01:43:20,359 --> 01:43:25,319
I'm so glad I stopped taking the
creatine before I went backpacking because the

1469
01:43:25,399 --> 01:43:31,720
creatine has just been liquefying my guts. And when you got the coffee,

1470
01:43:32,239 --> 01:43:38,000
when you when you gotta like dig
up a hole to go number two in

1471
01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:41,800
the woods, folks. That does
it for news. Thank you, Jeff

1472
01:43:41,840 --> 01:43:46,039
Grubb. Beautiful selection. I can't
wait to see everyone's lovely faces on on

1473
01:43:46,119 --> 01:43:54,760
June ninth at the bell Weather bell
Weather. You got it bell Weather ding

1474
01:43:54,840 --> 01:43:58,520
Ding ding Ding folks, And we're
gonna take another quick freaking break. We'll

1475
01:43:58,560 --> 01:44:13,319
be back with some emails and what
we learned see after this podcast. Johnbomb

1476
01:44:13,359 --> 01:44:16,279
dot com is the email address to
send your emails too, and read any

1477
01:44:16,319 --> 01:44:20,760
and everything that you send there,
whether it's your daily list, your musings,

1478
01:44:21,279 --> 01:44:27,800
Miscellini's questions, coupon codes, newsletters
you signed us up for. I

1479
01:44:28,159 --> 01:44:30,920
subscribe from all of them because it
clutters up my own personal mailbox, and

1480
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:36,720
lord knows mine is already cluttered.
I welcome everything, and folks, I

1481
01:44:36,840 --> 01:44:40,760
just want to give this quick special
shout out to you listening at home.

1482
01:44:40,800 --> 01:44:45,119
We've got a lot of emails,
not with any specific questions or whatever,

1483
01:44:45,199 --> 01:44:47,439
but just saying, hey, love
the show. Start being a new listener

1484
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:53,039
about a year or so ago,
so I appreciate you. If Jeffy Backler

1485
01:44:53,079 --> 01:44:56,399
allows it, give you a kiss
on the cheek, oh shit, And

1486
01:44:56,479 --> 01:45:00,359
then here's another on the cheek.
It's the other cheek. I mean most

1487
01:45:00,399 --> 01:45:02,359
of us have fort cheeks, you
know what I'm talking about. But we're

1488
01:45:02,359 --> 01:45:05,119
not gonna kiss those cheeks. What
do you have to do to get Janet

1489
01:45:05,199 --> 01:45:11,479
binaural microphone set up? So we
should not get me that like the ear

1490
01:45:11,479 --> 01:45:16,159
shaped one. You can lick them
and everything. Jan SMR. There's something

1491
01:45:16,199 --> 01:45:20,840
there. No, No, I
can't don't. You can't do it for

1492
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:24,560
free? Is what you're saying,
the only chance, the only chance.

1493
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:28,720
Yeah, let me tell y'all those
links are out there. No they're not,

1494
01:45:28,880 --> 01:45:33,439
they're switch no joking, no goof
He's now, that's right. The

1495
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:41,439
creator to Break Money Breakdown is much
better at fans exactly. I'm not on

1496
01:45:41,520 --> 01:45:45,079
there either, guys. Yeah,
but hey, if there's an appetite for

1497
01:45:45,079 --> 01:45:54,720
that. Uh. First email comes
from Pocono Paul. This one's about side

1498
01:45:54,720 --> 01:45:59,800
gigs, dear bombers. On a
recent BombCast, Mike made an offhand choke

1499
01:46:00,239 --> 01:46:03,159
wanting to grab some billable hours before
leaving on a trip. This got me

1500
01:46:03,239 --> 01:46:08,840
thinking about the crew's very side hustles
and how everyone except Janetchoa seems to have

1501
01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:12,680
one. Dan Record has Fire Escape
Cast, Giant Bomb Is, Mike Manatti's,

1502
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:15,279
and Jeff Grubb has so many that
is hard to tell where the side

1503
01:46:15,359 --> 01:46:18,159
hustles and the main hustle begins.
But jan Jan doesn't seem to have any

1504
01:46:18,159 --> 01:46:23,359
side hustle that he's willing to admit
publicly. This has inspired me to think

1505
01:46:23,399 --> 01:46:27,000
about what side hustle would be good
a good fit for each member of the

1506
01:46:27,079 --> 01:46:30,119
crew. The following is what I
came up with for y'all. Jeff Backlar

1507
01:46:30,479 --> 01:46:36,079
Jeff Backlar is the vape king of
New Jersey. His Facebook marketplace store isn't

1508
01:46:36,159 --> 01:46:42,279
limited to the finest of Chinese vapes
available with no age verification. He also

1509
01:46:42,319 --> 01:46:46,119
sells faux gold change in both plus
and asterisk styles. Right with spokes versus

1510
01:46:46,199 --> 01:46:53,399
Joe Piscopo. I don't even know
what he means by asterisk styles. Jeff

1511
01:46:53,399 --> 01:46:58,439
Grub Grub earns extra spending money working
as an exotic dancer. The club he

1512
01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:01,159
works out out of does it have
a license for fully nude entertainment. So

1513
01:47:01,199 --> 01:47:04,640
Jeff keeps a classy with a gold
sequin g string that shines like a disco

1514
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:11,960
ball. His stage name is That's
Right, That's right, Dan Riker.

1515
01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:16,560
Dan Riker is big into backyard circus. He mainly performs at children's birthday parties.

1516
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:20,840
That's why Dan has such an aversion
to children because of side hustle.

1517
01:47:20,960 --> 01:47:25,319
It's like work, yes exactly.
He doesn't want to give up the ghosts

1518
01:47:25,319 --> 01:47:28,039
and you know I have people find
out. Yeah, I can't be around

1519
01:47:28,119 --> 01:47:32,600
children for free. Yeah. His
action of him in full ring master regalia

1520
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:38,600
leading five trained Pomeranians through various tricks
like jumping through hoops and balancing on balls.

1521
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:41,159
For some reason, he also has
a giant snake that he hauls around

1522
01:47:41,199 --> 01:47:45,800
in a gray plastic tote. This
is Dan, That's just Dan. Mike

1523
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:50,079
Menatti. In his spare time,
Mike Manatti works as a corrections officer at

1524
01:47:50,079 --> 01:47:56,159
the local prison. I have this
theory that Mike actually has a powerful personal

1525
01:47:56,239 --> 01:48:00,720
presence that he cuts quite an intimidating
figure until he opens his mouth and starts

1526
01:48:00,720 --> 01:48:05,439
talking about Disney So on the weekends
without saying much, Mike works part time

1527
01:48:05,520 --> 01:48:10,960
as a CEO, shaking down cells
and fire hosing dudes. Poke and O,

1528
01:48:11,039 --> 01:48:13,000
Paul, you got that one hundred
percent right, didn't Yeah, that's

1529
01:48:13,439 --> 01:48:15,640
Cheff helped me out here. Didn't
that happen once where Mike was like mistaken

1530
01:48:15,680 --> 01:48:18,920
for security at bar and they started
talking and they're like, oh, wait

1531
01:48:18,920 --> 01:48:23,600
a minute, that sounds familiar.
I think he told that story. Yeah,

1532
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:28,359
I think so. Let's I'm not
going to answer this. Who are

1533
01:48:28,359 --> 01:48:31,720
you? Uh Janna show? At
first, I was thinking of something more

1534
01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:35,439
nefarious for Jan, like black market
denim smuggler, But then the perfect side

1535
01:48:35,520 --> 01:48:40,560
hustle for him occurred to me.
A YouTube cooking show. I know this

1536
01:48:40,600 --> 01:48:43,640
idea has been flooded many times before, but the version I imagine comes with

1537
01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:47,640
a personal twist cooking shows. Cooking
show hosts will often fill dead air by

1538
01:48:47,640 --> 01:48:53,079
telling a personal anecdote tangentially related to
the dish they're preparing. Jan does the

1539
01:48:53,079 --> 01:48:57,039
same, but rather than being boring
and forced, Jan's pre ran anecdotes become

1540
01:48:57,079 --> 01:49:00,159
increasingly bizarre and funny as a show
progresses. Hey, let me tell you

1541
01:49:00,239 --> 01:49:03,039
that's my whole im baby. This
way, he can tell his audience about

1542
01:49:03,079 --> 01:49:06,960
the time his trip to the local
municipal playground ended with him punching a baby

1543
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:12,000
bear in the face, all the
while narrating this test to make the perfect

1544
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:14,720
sushi roll. Anyway, That's why
I came up with I'm curious to what

1545
01:49:14,760 --> 01:49:16,479
you think would make a good side
hustle. Sincerely, Poke and O Paul.

1546
01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:19,920
PS. I'm available to help Jan
write his cooking show, but part

1547
01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:24,600
of my fee is that Dan must
develop and act and perform it at a

1548
01:49:24,720 --> 01:49:28,800
Rollblocks themed birthday party in my backyard. I should warn him that I don't

1549
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:31,000
have any kids, but it will
be okay because it'll just be me there

1550
01:49:31,039 --> 01:49:35,720
and we'll work through the awkwardness together. Yeah, that's good. I want,

1551
01:49:35,800 --> 01:49:39,640
Like, if I was gonna have
a side hustle, I a hassle,

1552
01:49:39,800 --> 01:49:44,119
I would probably want to do something
like working outside. And I'm like

1553
01:49:44,159 --> 01:49:45,800
trying to think of something that's like
not gonna be too skill intensive, but

1554
01:49:45,840 --> 01:49:48,039
something no one wants to do,
and I could charge a lot of money

1555
01:49:48,039 --> 01:49:51,800
for, so, like cleaning out
gutters. I would clean out gutters for

1556
01:49:53,079 --> 01:49:56,960
like a side gig. I think
because like I could like put on a

1557
01:49:57,000 --> 01:50:00,800
podcast and just zone out or a
book on tape or something like that and

1558
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:02,560
just do the work and be done
and then get a big check at the

1559
01:50:02,640 --> 01:50:04,920
end. That sounds good to me. Yeah, I could see you.

1560
01:50:05,319 --> 01:50:08,239
It was it hard work. Yeah, I want hard work, is what

1561
01:50:08,279 --> 01:50:14,079
I Yes, totally, I could
see you realigning satellite dishes on people that

1562
01:50:14,159 --> 01:50:16,159
still have satellite dishes at home.
Yes, the old people. Yes,

1563
01:50:16,199 --> 01:50:18,560
that's that's what I'm going for here, the old people. A lot of

1564
01:50:18,560 --> 01:50:23,199
money that's going after. I was
thinking this while I just we're doing a

1565
01:50:23,239 --> 01:50:27,399
lot of driving or the weekend,
I was thinking this, just mowing lawns

1566
01:50:27,399 --> 01:50:31,119
are riding lawnmower, like working at
a landscaping company and doing that. I

1567
01:50:31,159 --> 01:50:33,199
feel that would be a good way
of past time. Again. You just

1568
01:50:33,239 --> 01:50:36,479
put on those like noise canceling headphones
kind of just listen to a podcast and

1569
01:50:36,560 --> 01:50:40,760
just go up and down for like
a hour or so. Like, I

1570
01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:43,920
feel it'd be hard to have that
company and not like grow it really fast

1571
01:50:43,960 --> 01:50:45,119
because you're like, you get more
business, You're like, well, I

1572
01:50:45,119 --> 01:50:48,000
guess now I got to hire people. Now suddenly I'm running a small business.

1573
01:50:48,039 --> 01:50:50,319
And I mean, I guess that's
not a bad problem to have,

1574
01:50:50,399 --> 01:50:53,800
but it's like it could get out
of hand fast, I would think.

1575
01:50:53,840 --> 01:50:57,159
But if you're really good, then
you just become the guy everyone comes to

1576
01:50:57,279 --> 01:51:00,760
and you're in high demand. So
it's just like I need some cashy open

1577
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:04,359
booking, let's go. Yeah,
I've thought speak about side hustles I and

1578
01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:08,479
you know, Sean, you kind
of like rattled my brain with this,

1579
01:51:08,640 --> 01:51:15,159
But I do miss talking to shoot
people in person. I've thought about picking

1580
01:51:15,239 --> 01:51:18,880
up weekend shifts at like a coffee
shop or something here in a SF,

1581
01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:23,159
But then I was like, then
I have to work, but I like

1582
01:51:23,279 --> 01:51:27,439
talking to people and I like making
coffee. So then I think I'm me

1583
01:51:27,800 --> 01:51:30,760
and a homie. We we did
ninety percent of the work of starting a

1584
01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:36,920
pop up. May maybe we'll pop
Okay, yeah, I would do some

1585
01:51:36,960 --> 01:51:41,479
poppy up. Said that up on
stage at GB at night. So I

1586
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:44,039
can get a coffee when I need
one. Oh, Jeff Grub, I'll

1587
01:51:44,039 --> 01:51:45,199
get you a coffee whenever you want, buddy, Hell yeah, you know

1588
01:51:45,279 --> 01:51:48,800
what I do. Want to give
gifts to the crew. I'll give everyone

1589
01:51:48,800 --> 01:51:53,680
the good instant coffee. Oh hell
yeah, Okay, that sounds good.

1590
01:51:53,880 --> 01:51:58,079
Sean, and I'll mail you want
don't thank you, Dory uh oh god,

1591
01:51:59,039 --> 01:52:03,720
Okay, it's so funny. Michael
Hym and I have had several pre

1592
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:10,159
pro meetings about revitalizing our podcast that
only had two episodes. I think it's

1593
01:52:10,159 --> 01:52:14,560
still on Spotify somewhere. Hell but
Spotify messed up the upload and my really

1594
01:52:14,600 --> 01:52:18,880
good jay Z imitation got muted out, so I think it was too good.

1595
01:52:19,119 --> 01:52:23,600
I think jay Z tried to clap
at your boy is what it was?

1596
01:52:23,680 --> 01:52:28,680
No competition, U okay boy ows
two more emails, but thank you

1597
01:52:28,680 --> 01:52:31,439
everyone to send an email into the
show. I appreciate all of them.

1598
01:52:31,840 --> 01:52:35,560
This one comes from Joe from New
York. Jan last episode, you said

1599
01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:41,359
that Nipple DLC has gone away.
You're absolutely wrong about that. You're just

1600
01:52:41,359 --> 01:52:45,239
not playing the right games. Well
I'm here quick. PSA for the listeners.

1601
01:52:45,560 --> 01:52:48,000
Just because your deodorant says seventy two
hours doesn't mean you don't have to

1602
01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:54,239
shower for three days. Jesus Christ, please bathe regularly brush your teeth to

1603
01:52:54,680 --> 01:52:58,520
love Joe from New York, brought
to you by CARLS Junior. How is

1604
01:52:58,560 --> 01:53:02,520
the smell at Combo Breaker? Rick
had to put out a tweet basically saying,

1605
01:53:02,560 --> 01:53:05,720
for the love of God, people
shower and wear deodorant because, let

1606
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:10,319
me tell you, vast majority of
people great, you know, like,

1607
01:53:10,399 --> 01:53:15,279
well captain, it doesn't take a
lot to undo that exactly. Just wash

1608
01:53:15,359 --> 01:53:18,439
your ass, put some deodorant on, and you're fine. But there's always

1609
01:53:18,479 --> 01:53:21,760
like one person in, you know, a crowd of like a couple hundred,

1610
01:53:21,920 --> 01:53:25,159
one person walks by. We all
get away, and it's like,

1611
01:53:25,239 --> 01:53:29,000
what were you doing? What?
What has been happening doing? What?

1612
01:53:29,039 --> 01:53:32,319
Who aren't you doing? Is more
important? Yeah? Oh god? Yeah,

1613
01:53:32,439 --> 01:53:38,479
that's that's the one thing I don't
like about going outside. Sometimes it

1614
01:53:38,560 --> 01:53:46,479
smells people smells grub packs west out
we're outside. I couldn't visualize it perfectly

1615
01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:54,560
because of yeah, the scent memory. Yeah yeah, and you just get

1616
01:53:54,560 --> 01:53:57,439
a breeze rolls by, and then
the gentleman in front of us. It

1617
01:53:57,520 --> 01:54:00,880
became readily apparent that this man did
not shower. Mm hmm, are white

1618
01:54:00,880 --> 01:54:04,319
properly? Yeah? Please, for
the love of God, wash your hands

1619
01:54:04,439 --> 01:54:08,560
it. Don't be afraid of your
Yeah, yeah, don't be afraid of

1620
01:54:08,600 --> 01:54:11,840
that. But yeah, words to
love by. That's the lesson here.

1621
01:54:12,079 --> 01:54:15,920
The community. The panels never smelly, and those are always great. You

1622
01:54:15,960 --> 01:54:21,800
guys are great. Yeah, we're
talking about the other the kind of funny

1623
01:54:21,800 --> 01:54:28,720
panels stink that's from the panel themselves
as wild. Yeah, exactly, Wow,

1624
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:32,840
Wow, like Greg Miller's dirty beard. Say that about blessing or snow

1625
01:54:32,880 --> 01:54:36,359
Black Mica. Nah, they're great, they're great. Yeah, yeah,

1626
01:54:36,359 --> 01:54:39,800
they're great. They're great. Jane, if I can find the video of

1627
01:54:40,000 --> 01:54:44,640
you and Mike singing that Lincoln Park
song with jay Z, can I put

1628
01:54:44,680 --> 01:54:47,880
that on the behind the scenes Discord
channel? Yes, yes, yes,

1629
01:54:48,520 --> 01:54:54,520
because my favorite part about that is
our good old friend part of the Nasty

1630
01:54:54,560 --> 01:54:58,520
Boys Moists Tavera saying, Jared,
you could say it, I give you

1631
01:54:58,560 --> 01:55:02,479
the whole past to get him like
no, No, I'm not gonna say

1632
01:55:03,000 --> 01:55:09,319
you're not allowed. No, all
right. Last email comes from Cooper from

1633
01:55:09,359 --> 01:55:13,239
Santase Hey Cooper, Uh hey,
folks. The other day I was talking

1634
01:55:13,239 --> 01:55:15,479
to my partner and said, I
ended up working myself into a shoot.

1635
01:55:16,159 --> 01:55:19,880
I've never seen a single piece of
wrestling media, nor ever had an interest

1636
01:55:19,880 --> 01:55:24,880
in wrestling. I learned this from
you. You've bridged the gap between wrestling

1637
01:55:24,920 --> 01:55:29,039
fans and mainstream society and now have
to live with the knowledge of that wrestling

1638
01:55:29,119 --> 01:55:31,920
jargon is just part of my vocabulary. Damn you Wall Cooper from San Jose,

1639
01:55:33,000 --> 01:55:38,960
Your Damn Dan reicher really, Yeah
for being fair. Damn Jeff Jarrett

1640
01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:42,960
really because he allowed us. Uh
huh, yeah, he gave it.

1641
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:45,439
He gave us the hall pass.
Yeah, yes, yes, that I'm

1642
01:55:45,439 --> 01:55:50,800
completely fine to say, folks.
We got a short week because a Memorial

1643
01:55:50,920 --> 01:55:55,680
Day, and I'm assuming it is
business as per usual this week. Game

1644
01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:59,119
mess probably Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Grab Yep, that sounds right to

1645
01:55:59,159 --> 01:56:05,640
me. And I believe Mike Manette
Naughty is back in town. And unless

1646
01:56:05,720 --> 01:56:14,279
Dan reichert is terribly destroyed physically,
which is always a possibility, possibility should

1647
01:56:14,359 --> 01:56:18,279
pop back up tomorrow, Voicemail dumb
Truck on Thursday. We'll figure out if

1648
01:56:18,279 --> 01:56:24,159
we're doing another stream on Thursday in
between game Mess and Voicemail dumb Truck on

1649
01:56:24,279 --> 01:56:28,840
professional Fridays. And we're hoping for
the return of BCR. Folks, We're

1650
01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:32,600
trying real hard. It's just we're
we're all spinning so many plates here at

1651
01:56:32,600 --> 01:56:38,279
Giant Bomb hq U. There is
a little bit difficult. Are we all

1652
01:56:38,319 --> 01:56:42,199
caught up on next min ninety seven? Now? Oh, I've not finished

1653
01:56:42,199 --> 01:56:44,359
it, but I will. All
right, Maybe homework for the end of

1654
01:56:44,399 --> 01:56:46,079
the week, you and me,
Jeff, that sounds good. Oh god,

1655
01:56:46,159 --> 01:56:53,439
maybe may we get to the fin
man Okay that yeah, okay,

1656
01:56:53,560 --> 01:56:57,319
okay, Oh my god, like
as as like amic book nerd like this

1657
01:56:57,479 --> 01:57:01,600
is just like and hey, you
know, maybe this whole time the X

1658
01:57:01,640 --> 01:57:09,520
Men were better than the Avengers.
Oh oh yeah yeah yeah. Uh Chef

1659
01:57:09,640 --> 01:57:13,159
Sean, yep. What do we
learned today? Oh? I can't wait.

1660
01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:17,039
We learned that yo? That can
we over there? She doing?

1661
01:57:17,159 --> 01:57:21,800
Thanks? We learned that if a
line pops up in front of a Dunkin

1662
01:57:21,880 --> 01:57:28,920
Donuts to meet a creator. A
producer of Tekan Haradusan he'll gladly sign everything,

1663
01:57:29,399 --> 01:57:31,800
but maybe give him a donuts as
a fun, little little thank you.

1664
01:57:32,680 --> 01:57:35,880
We didn't learn what tampons are for, and we're still figuring that out.

1665
01:57:36,039 --> 01:57:39,880
We're still on that quest. Maybe
sometime we'll find a friend to help

1666
01:57:39,960 --> 01:57:43,880
us there. Graffiti just isn't the
same, like gun and whips exist,

1667
01:57:44,119 --> 01:57:45,960
and hey, maybe you shouldn't be
afraid of your butt. Go ahead and

1668
01:57:46,039 --> 01:57:49,119
watch it, especially if you're gonna
see a bunch of people. And you

1669
01:57:49,119 --> 01:57:55,159
can see a bunch of people,
including the Brad Shoemaker at givet Bomb Live

1670
01:57:55,319 --> 01:58:00,520
Gie Bomb at night June nine at
the bell Weather Tick thro Veil. Now

1671
01:58:00,640 --> 01:58:02,199
you can go meet us there,
go meet Jeff Grubb. Yeah, tickets

1672
01:58:02,239 --> 01:58:08,119
are available. We're giving stuff away
at the show. I'll be glad to

1673
01:58:08,119 --> 01:58:11,000
see you. I'll give you in
the kiss in the cheek. Maybe I

1674
01:58:11,039 --> 01:58:13,960
won't, but I'll shake your hand. I'll charge your crystals for you,

1675
01:58:14,239 --> 01:58:16,960
and uh and Mike Manatti will be
there, and I hate that I gave

1676
01:58:17,039 --> 01:58:20,359
him the and again I hate that
I gave him away. With Mike Manatti,

1677
01:58:20,800 --> 01:58:25,119
the Nasty Boys will be making appearance, and I hope you also make

1678
01:58:25,159 --> 01:58:30,239
an appearance. Tickets available now Ticketmaster, dot com search Giant Bomb. I've

1679
01:58:30,239 --> 01:58:33,600
been Jan, he's been Jeff,
he's been Sean, and I exactly play

1680
01:58:33,640 --> 01:58:39,479
this again. I'm gonna change this
setting on my gogsler. There you go.

1681
01:58:39,840 --> 01:58:43,319
That's it. We'll be back with
another episode of the Giant BombCast next

1682
01:58:43,359 --> 01:58:47,399
week. Until then, take care
of yourselves. I love you, bye.

1683
01:58:48,159 --> 01:58:53,319
Happy birthday, Bailey, A birthday
Baill Yeah, that's the other thing.

1684
01:58:53,600 --> 01:58:58,159
Happy belated birthday to our own Turbo
Sean and a happy birthday to Bailey

1685
01:58:58,199 --> 01:59:01,520
Myers. We'll see you next week. Maybe maybe we'll have like a little

1686
01:59:01,520 --> 01:59:19,680
birthday party stream this week day on
Women's Day, Women's Day. About about my HM