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Welcome everyone. In the episode one
seventy six, so the jace begins,

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Cassimy host rob It gains Zen joining
me today my two favorite people, Ryan,

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how are you? What's up?
How are we doing there? Hopefully

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everyone's doing okay. I'm doing perfectly
fine. I'm a little multitasking a little

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bit, but I am definitely here
for the podcast. Definitely understandable. I

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feel like this is a multitasking podcast. I've a multitasker on this call,

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Drew, how are you? God
damn it. He's multitasking by both playing

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games and dying and dying. I
am all right. I am trying to

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lega for lost time and trying to
play video games. That's what this podcast

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is for, is to play some
games. And that's what we're trying to

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do. That is what we try
to do. Uh that that's that's kind

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of what this whole thing is,
right. We try to play some video

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games that we try to talk about
some video games. Um, emphasis on

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try, emphasis on try. We
are all working adults with with fairly busy

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lives, right, so not always
the case where we can get to a

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bunch of different things, but we
try to fit it in what we can

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um some quick housekeeping before we all
start. Uh. Once again, we

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did do the JSP Anime cast UM, not this past weekend, but the

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weekend prior. UM that was focused
on anime Paranoid Agent. Definitely want people

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to go check that out. UM. You can find that on our YouTube

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as well as all the audio services
under a JS the anime UM. It

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was one of my favorite episodes that
we have done, so I definitely want

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to be able to check that out
if you can. UM. But outside

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of that, UM, that's really
all I had for this. For this

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intro, it felt like I had
more, and I think I did have

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more to say, and then I
just kind of like forgot it as I

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started talking. So if it comes
back to me, I'll bring it up.

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But other than that, let's get
into some video games. Uh.

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Any volunteers to start, UM,
I mean I can go ahead and start,

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because we know we know Drew's uh, he's make it out. He's

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making out of time, so we
got it. We gotta stall for Drew.

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Yeah. Granted, it's not gonna
be a lot of time because I've

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been busy with a bunch of other
things that's going on. UM. Of

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course, I think I told you
guys last podcast makesically getting things ready for

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my first ever like art booth.
I'm now doing it a couple of weeks

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from now, and so I've been
mainly focused on on that and trying to

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get things ready for that, and
um so there with that, there hasn't

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been a lot of gaming per se, but there's still been enough to where

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I can definitely keep talking about I
don't show down. Oh yeah, yeah,

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you want to talk about a game
that has taken over my life?

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Yeah, that game is. It
has been a while since I have been

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just cracking out on a fighting game, and this has been that game that's

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been for sure like fulfilling that competitive
like fighting game side of it, at

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least, you know, until Street
Fighter six comes out. But even then,

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I felt like I'm still I'm still
going to be playing this game on

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top of like Street Fighter six,
Like I don't, like, I just

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have that feeling. Um, it's
just a really fun game. It really

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is. Like it's it's probably like
not the most well balanced video game,

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but it's a whole video game and
like and I say not balanced, but

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it's like it's one of those games
that's like broken in a really fun way.

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Like every character is juice too,
like an extreme right, So it's

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like even the weakest character is like
still you're like this is bullshit. Yeah,

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yeah, no, it definitely is
for sure. Um Like I've definitely

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been playing a lot of it.
I still am playing a lot of bouton.

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That character is just too fun Like
she eventually, she's just way too

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fun Like yeah, Like I mean
I've tried out some of the other characters

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everything, but like as far as
fun factor goes, like, that's the

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character I have the most fun with. So like I'm definitely staying with you

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know, gonna be sticking with her
for the most part when it comes to

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that. Um But like I mean, it's just funny, like all the

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different things they keep fighting with the
game and like finding with like characters and

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stuff like that and everything that just
makes the game just like super enjoyable.

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So like I've definitely been playing that
a lot. I did also gone back

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to playing a few other of the
Rhythm games. Um mus Dash dropped another

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DLC pack, nothing big though,
but they keep adding tracks to the game.

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It's just like every time I see
them add more tracks to the game,

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I gotta boot it back up and
play because you know, it's one

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of my h It's still probably as
far as rhythm games go, it's still

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probably like my favorite rhythm game to
play something, because it's just like super

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easy and it's like two buttons,
and I just really liked the all the

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different ohsts they've put in the game, especially like the Toho tracks and stuff

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like that. UM. And then
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I took it the trip to uh
the Comma to kind of check it out

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for the art boots stuff and everything
and kind of get engaged for anything,

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I did go down the street a
little bit over the leaderboard and h checked

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out and see if they had anything
new and stuff like that. Um,

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they've updated some of those rhythm games
over there now too. UM. I

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keep forgetting the damn pronunciation of it, but it starts to see like h

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or whatever. Yeah, that one
they've added. UM they've added new tracks

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to that. UM to that one
as well. UM that one is probably

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still like over there like a leaderboard. That's probably still like my favorite rhythm

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game to play, because this is
unique with how with how you play it

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and stuff like that. UM,
but they've definitely added some new stuff at

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least from like the last time I
saw it. Um, they've been they've

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updated it and uh I guess um, I don't know if we talked about

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before, but Leaderboard is actually going
to be opening up another location soon.

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Yeah. Um no, Um,
it's actually gonna be um in the Mandarin

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area. So before you yeah,
so so before you cross the bridge to

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go into Orange Park, like before
you go over that bridge, it's gonna

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be off those exits are um is
where the new location is going to be.

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That's still closer. Yeah, oh
very much, still very much still

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like ten minutes yeah yeah, yeah, so it's still like so it would

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definitely be a much easier trip to
take in that regard. Um. But

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um, yeah they I was talking
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and yeah, I think they said
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in uh sometime in the summer.
I want to say. I think they're

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like pegging, like they're um trying
to go for July or something like that.

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Yeah. Fun fun side note.
Actually, uh, fellow JSD anime

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host Jenny her Band is actually going
to play over there on the opening day.

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Oh really, they got They're gonna
do a small concert outside. Yeah.

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Interesting, that's cool. M I
like that definitely. Uh, it's

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gonna be a fun time when that
location opens. I'm very very excited to

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go check it out. So JSB
just continues to do different things to take

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takeover society. We're are all over
the place, everywhere, all over.

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Yeah, we got people in bands, we got people on the moon.

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Like listen, we're everywhere. We
are indeed everywhere. Do not mess with

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us. Thank for we year legion. Um. So like gaming wise,

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like that's really all I've done,
because, like I said, a lot

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of my time has been dedicated to
getting things ready for this art booth,

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which I did put up a new
piece two which for those that are Valhalla

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fans, I decided to do a
remake of Alma and um this is by

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far been probably my biggest piece I've
ever done. I gotten over two hundred

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likes on Twitter for this piece.
I love that. That's my first,

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like definitely my most well received piece. And even when I did the Alma

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piece last year that I did it
also took off and got a lot of

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traction too, but not as much
as this new one that I just did.

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So definitely checked that out. If
you guys want to r CB under

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Square Draws, that's where you can
find that. And U Yeah, that's

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been pretty much it as far as
uh, things that I've been doing.

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I want to start star Rail.
I'm I still want to play that game.

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I still want to boot that up
and everything. I'm hoping maybe I

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can maybe try to boot that up
sometime this week, um maybe Tuesday or

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sometuthing like that, um, because
I definitely want to get it on the

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star Rail Action and kind of talk
to you know, talk star Rail things

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with you. So three yeah,
so um oh, and also still been

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grinding out um a mente mori um
yeah, I'm I finally got passed um

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a certain part in the U story
map stuff. Yeah, in that game,

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and yeah, it's it's still very
much a grind. And uh,

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I'm now trying to get Merlin to
be um a limited um limited version of

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her. I almost have it.
I just see to get like one literally

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just like one more Merlin to go
ahead and unlock and uncap that part,

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and then I'm pretty close to level
up Florence as well. I almost I

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think my Merlin's actually in the same
spot. I think I need I need

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one more for for the LR.
Yeah, so like they this won't give

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it today. Yeah. That was
my way with Florence for a while too.

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And then like my final I was
able to get the limited uncapped on

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Florence too. I was just like
oh thank god, um and yeah.

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And then like now that I got
the purple armor on her and stuff like

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that and everything, almost all of
it, I think I still I'm missing

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like the boots or stuffing like that
and everything, but everything that she has

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the U S armor armor and stuff
like that, and uh yeah she's uh

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she is dishing out the the mahe
like that over the place. I think

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Cordy still does the most damage for
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two forty. Um okay, Florence
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okay, yeah, So like Cordy
still like attack and damage and everything.

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It's like eleven million or something like
that. Um so like Cordy, if

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they were the same level, she
would like Florence would double Cordy. Yeah.

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So um so, like I'm still
working on that, which reminds me

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I need to do my dailies momentu
Mori soon. I don't want to finish

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with those. Good news is I
can do those in like ten minutes.

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So hell yeah, um, because
you know, Momental Moria is a great

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um mobile game where you can do
things very very quickly. I'm so upset.

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So I finally got Bell when they
did the rerun, Oh you did

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nice. I finally got Bell.
I was like, hell, yeah,

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this new girl that's in the bander
that just went away or is going away

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like three hours, I don't have
her. Oh no, so I'm probably

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this situation again where I'm not gonna
get her and I have to wait,

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you have to wait to get her
and stuff like that. I am doomed

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to never have a complete action of
characters. Yeah, because like you'll finally

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you'll finally get one to be like, yes, I got one, and

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then momento more is like, oh
you think you got them all? Now

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here, let's drop a new character. Let's let's drop a new character,

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which the new character drops in a
couple of hours, and I'm like,

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well, yes, I'm just gunning
for this one. Yeah no, but

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I've definitely been Yeah, like I
said, it's been a while since I

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played a game on phone like that, probably since Grand Blues rightly the last

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time I did, like grind a
mobile game like that. But yeah,

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yeah, this momento MORI has definitely
been like hitting all the right spots as

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far as like how like I perceive
mobile games to be now and stuff like

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that and everything. Yeah, it
just has like a very like straightforward progression

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path too, Like it's not because
like Grand Blue gets very complicated after a

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certain points, yeah, where it's
like you have all of these men and

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yeah, I try to get into
Grand Blue several times and I just couldn't

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because it's just yet overwhelmed, very
very very fast. Yeah, yes,

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this is really really really overwhelming.
Well it's cool, like there's a lot

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of really cool mechanics and stuff in
there, but it's very hard to like

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break through and get there, and
it's just it's too much. I think

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the other thing too with like Grand
Blue, which I think part of the

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reason why I stopped playing it,
is because like when you're trying to uncap

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your SSR characters, right, like
you're trying to uncap all them. I

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think there's some characters where they're like
requirements are so different from everybody, from

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everybody else. Yeah, And you
know what came to mind was the was

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the eternals and what you have to
do the uncapped them, And I'm like,

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this is a freaking chore. I
don't have time for all this.

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It really does become a chore.
Yeah yeah. And I'm just like like

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you have to do this and you
have to hope that you get this right.

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And it's just like I don't have
all this time to just resource dump

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into trying to like just uncap one
damn character. Like m I'm like,

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nah, that's that's it for me. I'm I'm tapping out. Like I

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enjoyed everything else about it. I
loved the art style, I love how

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they did everything. The music is
great in that game too, and everything

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like it's it's it's a great game, but it's a game where like I

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just don't have the time to dump
all that stuff into it. It's a

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second job. Yeah, it's literally
a second go Yeah. And it's just

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like, look, I'm already trying
to work three other jobs, Like I

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don't I don't need to do all
that. So mm and like my metimor

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just distills it all. It's like
it's purest form, Like there's there's very

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one, very simple way to uncap
characters and in level of UMP and it's

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just get the better equipment, make
the number go higher. Mhm, very

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straightforward. Yeah, so that's basically
what I'm doing. And and and here

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i'd like listen check this out.
When we were talking about this, and

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uh, I've already completed all my
dailies in moments of more. So it's

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it's all easy done, that's simple. That's why I'm wrapping this up.

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I love it. I just got
done talking about it and I'm done with

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the dailies now. It's that quick. We're done. Next next, next

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subject, next topic, thanks,
thanks? Topic? Is that the Tom

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Path? Yes? It is a
Drew. Do you need more time?

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I mean I can talk this.
This is the Drew Watch twenty twenty three.

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I mean I could talk this a
whole time. I could talk talk

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talk talk talk. Yeah, all
right, talk to me. Um.

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So, I'll be honest, I
haven't really had much time to play much.

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I'm still trying to work my way
through Octopath too. Um. I

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will say so A Zela came out
on Friday, right, yep, so

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let me came out on Friday.
I was traveling this weekend and the only

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thing I could think about it's Octobaud. Like as I'm digging through, like

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I'm almost sixty hours in, as
I'm digging through this game, and I'm

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starting to hit like the midway of
these characters vignettes like I got hit with

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one this week that I'm just like, bro, I'm feeling feelings and I

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was ready for this. I love
that, like, and you know,

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you know, mileage may vary depending
on like how easy you cry or not.

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I cry very easy. So but
like I want to say, like,

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because I couldn't play octopath too because
I was traveling, I was pretty

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much just dissecting where I was at
the game and like how it was making

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me feel, and like, I
love this game so much. This game

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improves upon the original in almost every
way. Like the game is not perfect.

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There are still some fundamental flaws in
Octopaths overall, like design choice and

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systems, presumably like forcing you to
stick with one character that kind of lopsides

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the game's difficulty. There are answers
to that. There's equipment that you can

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find in the game to weaken your
protagonists so that even though they're over leveled,

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you can bring them down to the
level of the rest of your party

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members, because basically the way I've
been playing the game is I've been constantly

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swapping out members because I like everybody, so I want to use everybody.

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the character that you choose at the
beginning, your journey's protagonist has to be

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in your party at all time.
This causes two major issues. One that

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is a guaranteed slot of like path
actions that you're just stuck with. And

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second, because they're there for everything, they just get overleveled so fast.

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Like my protagonist is ten levels higher
than the rest of my party, which

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you know that that does like lopside
difficulty a bit. And I'm glad that

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they give you that equipment to sort
of like normalize your protagonist with the rest

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of the party. But I'm just
like, you can also just ditch this

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protagonist system because it doesn't really serve
any purpose. The only purpose it serves,

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or at least within the context of
the first game, is when you

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beat the final chapter of your protagonists
the credits rules and I'm like, okay,

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cool, I guess like there's nothing
there that dictates your protagonist needs to

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be with you at all time,
and like, I do think that there

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are a few design choices that Optopath
kind of sticks to that, Like I

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don't really feel like they need to
stick to the other one, being like

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you have eight travelers, but you
can only have four in a party at

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a time, which for battle purposes, that's fine. I get that,

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you know, they don't want to
overload you party members, but like not

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having all eight path actions available to
you at once, Like I understand why

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they probably did that because they probably
want to like choose like what path actions

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you feel you'll need for you know, a given situation, but it really

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just ends up making it tedious,
right. I also don't know like how

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great the emphasis on path actions really
is. I think it's a neat idea,

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but I think like from a narrative
standpoint and from a design standpoint,

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basing everything on path actions is somewhat
limiting in your game's design. For example,

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from a narrative standpoint, there are
story beats like as you're going through

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a chapter of vignette, and like
you'll be watching a cut scene and then

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like you're the character will say something
of like, well, I need to

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do this, and then the cut
scene stops for you to do a path

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action and then starts another cut scene, and I'm just like, why,

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what's the point of this? It
breaks up right, like it kind of

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takes you out of the theme.
Yeah, Like, and I feel like

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it would be far less egregious if
like the cut scene didn't fade to black

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and then it fades in for you
to path action and then it fades the

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black path act, like if you
all did it in engine to where like

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the cut scene ends and you just
can immediately do the path action and then

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it just picks back up. Sure, I guess, but like that whole

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sort of design choice, Like I
understand why they're going for it, because

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again they want to be like,
oh, there's these eight travelers and they'll

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have like their unique skills and traits, but like it doesn't feel necessary ironically,

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Like I think the reason since I
like Octopaths, are not the reasons

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that developers think. I like Octopath
like, I like the characters. I

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like the battle system. The soundtrack
is fucking ten out of ten um like

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all of that is cool, and
like the job system is really you know,

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I love job systems, so like
from that aspect, I really like

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Octopath the actual like hath action sort
of Delio is all right, but I

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don't feel like it really brings that
much to the table, if that makes

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sense. I think it does.
I think path actions in general, and

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like a lot of rpts are implemented
fairly poorly, and it just starts to

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be like an annoyance more than anything. It's almost like just like the root

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cause of like some sort of tedious
thing you to do, and it's just

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like it's aileen of the game,
right, Like I've very rarely and I'm

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struggling to think of one actually where
I think I enjoyed its implementation. I

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would have to really sit and think
about it. But more often than I

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might feel like it's a poor design
choice. Yeah, and like it doesn't

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make the game bad, Like the
game is still good. I really like

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the characters. Again, the battle
system's really fun, the soundtracks amazing.

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Like this world building that they do, this sort of dark, soulsy sort

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of it's not like it's not entirely
soulsy in the way like they're telling those

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the story of Celsitia, but like
you can definitely tell and I think it

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does a better job and occopat two
than it does in the first game,

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where you can kind of see how
all the travelers stories are loosely connected,

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and I think that's really cool.
So like the world like at the risk

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of you know, bringing the falcom
you know, me into this, Like

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that's what a world building is.
It reminds me of Trails a bit,

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where like you have all these happenings, but you also have like all these

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characters individual stories happening at the same
time, and I think it's really cool.

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I think it's one of the things
I really like about Octopath is this

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world building that they try to do. And I think if they just eliminate

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like or just find a better way
to do path actions, like, the

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game would be better for it,
you know, yeah, because because again

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it leads to that sort of like
stilted storytelling, and like when you do

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character chapters, like it's basically like
fetch quests and side quests are the same

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way where it's like it's it's fetch
quests based on path actions that force you

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to use the path actions to solve
the side quests, and those don't really

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necessarily feel fulfilling per se. They're
just there and you get cool rewards.

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In some ways, it reminds me
of like Zeno Blade side quests in the

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fact that like so there, but
they're kind of teased to do, but

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they're there, Whereas like and like
they're called side stories an Octopath, and

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they could have like more meaningful side
quests that didn't have to revolve around the

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path actions, Like you could have
like really cool just side characters. I

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think part of it is due to
like Octopaths open end of nature, Like

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that is a problem to a degree, because there are times that I'm not

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sure Octopath knows what it wants to
be, Like it wants to be this

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open ended story with like these eight
different stories happening at the same time,

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and you can have that, but
like it's nonlinear, Like the storytelling is

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nonlinear, but it's also linear,
ye, and so like I feel like

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they just benefit by it just being
linear, and like you can have these

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eight stories happening, but you could
do it in a way that sources the

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player to go in like a certain
direction, so you could build off on

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that. Because open ended gameplay does
limit what you can do in certain design

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aspects, like it can limit you
know, how you tell your story or

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like what kind of story beats that
you can tell? Um, Like that

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part does limit storytelling and in RPG
where you want to tell these stories,

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like these design aspects are going to
clash. Yeah, one percent. Like

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there's a lot of times where stories
suffer for being open open ended, right,

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Like there's there's like a narrative through
line that just kind of breaks and

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then it creates situations where it just
takes out of it um or story chapters

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and things they'll flow together. Um
yeah yeah, And like the open ended

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the open endedness of octopath is oh
looan so to speak, because like you

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still get like gate kept by like
level caps and like, hey, this

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area you need to be like you
should be around like level thirty, but

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you're only level five, So like
yeah, you tychnically could go there,

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but you're not gonna get very far
right. Um, So, like is

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it really open ended? No?
Not really. So if that's the case,

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why not like sort of revamp where
like you can still have this illusion

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of like an open ended journey,
but like you still read this narrative tale

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that is unnecessarily like a linear path, but like your narrative could be that

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much stronger for it, you know. Yeah, if if they kind of

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guided you through this a little more. I feel like linear is not the

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word I'm looking for, but if
it's right, yeah, structured where it's

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like and like you don't even need
to make it incredibly You're like you can

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do it in a way where like
you have to do everybody's chapter one first.

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That way, when you do everybody's
like chapter two, three, and

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four, like all the party members
are there and like they can interact on

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like certain story beads or whatnot,
and like you can have more grandiose cutscenes.

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Yeah, or maybe like instead of
letting you pick which characters start first,

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maybe they just like commit to your
first character and then just like add

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it to where you're going through a
specific order that like narratively weaves all these

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characters in together, Like you can
make them fit together as a group and

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still have this, you know,
eight characters from eight different walks of life

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with their own stories going on.
But you can weave them together a lot

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easier if you just put more structure
behind it. Yeah, you know,

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it's weird because like I feel like
Octopas suffers a bit from like an identity

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crisis to a degree because like it
doesn't know exactly what it wants to be.

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But like what's here is good,
don't get me wrong, Like this

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is teetering on potential game of the
year for me because like everything comes together

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well well in like a messy sort
of way. Um, Like I can

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tell you one percent the best sound
track of the year guaranteed, like fuck

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bombings a sixteen that's of you out
my god, Soaken, I mean Soaken,

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these nuts, like wow, wow
wow. Actually I've heard some fourteen

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tracks and soundtracks probably be pretty good. But this man with these nuts,

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oh my Lord and savior token uh
Yasinishiki is like almost the Uramatsu of like

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the current generation. Like the soundtracks
that he makes are amazing. Like these

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tracks just fucking hit. And I
was pissed because as I was driving,

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I was like, you know what, I listened to enough of the Octopat

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two soundtrack I can throw on and
like listen to a half of the playlist

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before I have to shut it off
before I like hear songs I haven't heard

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yet, Right, I can't find
it anywhere, Like it's not on YouTube

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nothing. I'm just like mother,
so like I'm just it's it's really good,

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man, It's really good. And
like I can't remember if I mentioned

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this, but I think I did, but I didn't go into detail.

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Like the character vignets in this game
was so much stronger than the first ones.

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I find myself caring and having more
intrigue about these visual stories in the

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first game. Like the first game, I really like Primrose, but like

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the rest of them were pretty throwaway. I don't remember a lot about any

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of them, Like when they'll Hannett
was like trying to hunt a beast for

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her master. Yeah, Oldberick,
I have no ideas, something about a

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fallen country or something. Uh,
Ferryon had like some partner that betrayed him

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or something. I like Tressa Trust's
tight. Cyrus was like looking into something

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but I can't remember what it was. Let's see. That's my point.

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It's like I have these vague ideas
of what their stories were, but that

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isn't like really stuck with me,
whereas like this game has we are you

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watching cut scenes from like earlier chapters
to be like wait a minute, is

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that related to this? And like
yeah, uh, and and again like

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it's pulling in characters that I was
just like, I'm not sure I'm gonna

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like this character, and then like, like, bro, the vignette that

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I did on Tuesday that Heavy in
Tears was from the character. When I

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started this game, was like,
this is my least favorite character, guaranteed

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always like the best surprise and yeah, and now I'm like, why is

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this character making me cry? Oh
my fucking god, like I said,

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hate you get crying for him?
Although this was less about the character itself

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and more about like the situation that
the chapter was in, but like,

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I really like the character in that
chapter, Like I really like, like

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this character is put into a very
tropy situation, like their art is somewhat

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tropy, but I really like how
the character is just developing trope aside.

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You know, um, they also
probably have like one of my favorite character

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themes and like that's helping them a
lot, So they can't be my least

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favorite character because just everything seems to
be like this is secretly a very crude

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character. It sounds like kind of
kind of like I really thought they were

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going to be boring, Like as
I was doing their provog and then like

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as I'm doing their additional chapters,
I'm like, oh, okay, you

406
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:44.720
know it just chay Um and like
partition of the Merchant, Like it's turning

407
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:46.160
into like one of my favorite characters. And like he was the one that

408
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:50.839
was making me question if I wanted
to do like English strub versus Chapmaneses done

409
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:55.559
because he has like a very sick
like country southern accent, and I'm just

410
00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:58.839
like, oh, I don't know
if I like this, but like it's

411
00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:01.000
grown on me to the point where
like he's a very fun character and like

412
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:07.519
his lines are very very fun.
Um So like I couldn't see myself playing

413
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.719
the game in any other way.
And just like all these characters are really

414
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:15.519
growing on me more so than the
first game Evergen. That's awesome. I'm

415
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:21.000
excited to to get to it at
some point. It's it's really really good.

416
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:23.360
I'm hoping I can have a beat
for next weekend so I can start

417
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:30.599
Zelda. I already know some things
about Zelda. Um, but you know,

418
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:34.639
well, well we'll see how that
goes. He knows some things,

419
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:42.280
he thinks he knows some things.
Something something he thinks he knows. Uh.

420
00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:46.719
That's about it. That's all been
playing market the Bath Okay, sounds

421
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:52.320
good. Nice, I like that. Uh So, I'm like twenty hours

422
00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:54.119
in Zelda. But I can't talk
about Zelda because Ruth said he'll kill me

423
00:34:54.159 --> 00:35:00.440
if I talked about Zelda. No
talk about Zelda. No, Like I

424
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:05.159
can't talk about anything about Salda.
So we don't talk about them. Because

425
00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:07.079
we don't talk. We don't talk
about the things you might know in Salda.

426
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:14.360
Um what else have I been doing
aside from dumping twenty hours over the

427
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:20.559
past three three days? UM,
I finally started Coffee Talk episode two.

428
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:28.480
UM. Copee Talk is a game
that I I recommended a lot to people,

429
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:32.239
um though very few people have played
it. I feel like, um

430
00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:36.719
but but it is a game that
is very similar to like Balhalla, right

431
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:42.599
where instead of um, this cyberpunk
aesthetic and you're running a bar, it's

432
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:46.039
more of a coffee shop in Seattle. Um. Nobody wants to go to

433
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:50.159
Seattle. Nobody wants to go see
it rains all the time in Seattle,

434
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:54.360
nobody wants to go over there.
Um but but instead, the twist of

435
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:58.880
it is, instead of it being
a cyberpunk world, it's more like a

436
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:05.880
fantasy world. UM that that's kind
of merged with with our reality um also

437
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:09.920
known as Seattle, also known as
Seattle. Right. So it's like on

438
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:14.400
top of like it is like a
modern day as well. Right. So

439
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:19.559
it's like twenty twenty three Seattle.
Um. But alongside humans you have like

440
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:23.239
fantasy creatures. So there there are
vampires in this world, there are werewolves

441
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:28.639
in this world. Um. There
are cat people in this world as well.

442
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:32.559
Um works. In the first game, you run into an orc lady

443
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:36.639
that is a game designer, and
it's very fascinating her story as she like

444
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:40.360
complains about work and and talks to
other people. Um. And you just

445
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:44.960
run run into all kinds of all
kinds of people. Um. So it

446
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.800
has that very same feeling as Wellhollow
where you have blacky characters, you have

447
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:52.360
more serious characters, and he's been
very interested in, like what's going on,

448
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:55.280
right, um in the lives of
all of these people. Um.

449
00:36:55.519 --> 00:37:04.239
So Episode two is very much more
of that. UM. I've already been

450
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:08.360
reacquainted with Georgie, who is this
black police officers very prominent in the first

451
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:13.159
game. He's he's kind of the
first customer you really run into, aside

452
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:15.920
from your one of your close friends
Freya. UM. He comes in always

453
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:21.360
after his shift, sometime around midnight. Oh, this coffee shop runs in

454
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:23.800
the middle of the night, so
it is like there hours are from like

455
00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:29.440
eleven PM to like six am or
the crack of don basically, um,

456
00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:32.239
so when I want my coffee of
course, right, that's when everybody wants

457
00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:36.960
their coffee. Um. So it's
just a little low key joint, like

458
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:40.440
in some corner, not a popular
busy place. So he usually stops in

459
00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:46.199
after his shift and talks about what's
going on on the streets or talks about

460
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:52.639
his daughter and in his family issues
that are that are occurring. Pretty good

461
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.480
family man. I like Georgie,
he's great people. Um. But in

462
00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:00.760
the beginning of episode two, I'm
already introduced to two new carry, um

463
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:09.880
Lucas, who is like, um, it's really funny because because when when

464
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:13.679
you start the game off, it's
like a rainstorm, right, and Georgie

465
00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:16.599
comes in and he's like, man, crime in the area is ridiculous.

466
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:21.000
Right now, somebody just slashed my
tires. I can't get home. It's

467
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:22.400
rain and I can't call a cab. My wife is yelling at me,

468
00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.320
so I'm just gonna sit here until
the rain dies. Down h, it's

469
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:28.400
have some coffee and you're like,
damn man, you're having a night.

470
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:35.440
Um. And then walks in Lucas, who is like this young uh seemingly

471
00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:38.320
like a YouTube star right, Like
he he is definitely like a YouTuber or

472
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:46.679
a twitch streamer of some kind.
But um, the thing is is like

473
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:52.440
he's not like the annoying type.
Right. It is very much a case

474
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:59.760
of like he's trying to sort of
rebrand himself and he's trying to like find

475
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:05.719
his way through that sort of life
right where it's like you could tell he's

476
00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:07.480
talking about how like his views aren't
really as high as they used to be

477
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:10.960
in his manager is kind of like
forcing him to do things that like he

478
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:14.840
doesn't really want to do, you
know what I mean, Like that kind

479
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:16.679
of deal where it's like do I
want to do this for fun? Do

480
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:19.800
I want to play the games i'd
be the entertainer that I want to be,

481
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.119
or do I want to do this
for views? Right? And it's

482
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:28.800
like those are two very different paths, you know what I mean. Well,

483
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:30.519
that that leads to like depression and
some stuff too, right, because

484
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:35.920
it forced you to do the things
that you don't want to do like we

485
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:40.159
understand that life, any sort of
creative understands that life. Yeah. So

486
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:45.800
it's a it's a really good look
at like that kind of character. And

487
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:47.599
this is only like the intro stage
of him, right, but he still

488
00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:51.960
kind of has like this sort of
happy go lucky personality behind it. But

489
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.880
you see the like the cracks that
he stops that he's sort of like throwing

490
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.239
down and you're like, okay,
um, I would like to know more

491
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:05.280
about you. Um. And and
as he's like talking through that and you're

492
00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:07.599
getting to know him, um,
and it's really funny because like he calls

493
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.480
Georgie pops and it's really it's just
like funny exchange between those two, and

494
00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:17.079
like the facial expressions between them are
very very good. Um. There's a

495
00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:22.199
blackout in the in the in the
cafe, uh. And as you're going

496
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:25.199
to fix the blackout, uh,
you see like Lucas is scared of the

497
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:28.679
dark, so like his eyes are
like freaking out, like you can only

498
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:30.960
see his eyeballs. Um. And
it's really really funny. And when the

499
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:36.320
lights come back on, this other
character appears, uh named Riona, and

500
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:40.360
she's she's a banshee um. And
he Lucas is like terrified. It is

501
00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:44.239
the funniest shit in the world.
UM. But when you start to like

502
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:47.719
talk to her and learn more about
her, UM, she's like on a

503
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:54.440
completely different end of the spectrum of
like she wants to become like a singer,

504
00:40:54.719 --> 00:41:00.320
right, but she's a banshee.
So it's like we know the type

505
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:01.880
of bancees, right, like the
shrieking, the yelling and stuff like that.

506
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:06.599
UM, And she's going for like
a very specific type of musical role

507
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:10.639
that like banshees can't really succeed in. And she has like this really good

508
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:15.480
talk with Lucas about like being an
entertainer and trying to put yourself out there.

509
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:19.079
It's it's a really good conversation and
it really sets the tone for like

510
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:24.639
what this game is um and ultimately
like what those two specific relationship will be

511
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:28.880
going forward whenever they meet each other. Because it doesn't necessarily end on like

512
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:32.599
a great note between those two um, because like they're there are instances where

513
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:37.840
like they don't see eye to eye. Um, but it's it's great.

514
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:42.280
Um. Coffee Talk continues to be
like a really amazing series that's just like

515
00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:51.559
grounded in like almost real problems in
like a fantasy setting. Um it's they

516
00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:55.800
also introduced um, not just coffee, but like T is now a thing

517
00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:02.159
here which they now s of hibiscus
in blue pea. I think it is

518
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:07.199
called T, which is a very
funny exchange when you try to explain what

519
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:12.559
blue pea is in Georgie's like p
and like there's a fundamental misunderstanding of like

520
00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:19.800
what is fundamental? Yeah, and
only imagine it's very very good. Um.

521
00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:23.880
On top of like the coffee making
mechanics very similar to like Valhalla,

522
00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:27.440
right, you pick your ingredients,
you have like your base ingredients, you

523
00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.679
have like the next thing you throw
in there, and and stuff like that.

524
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:36.480
You do have latte art that you
can make in Rioa. Riona is

525
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:39.119
like the catalyst for showing you how
to do latte art because she wants to

526
00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:44.440
drink that looks pretty. Um So
if you want to get into, like

527
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:47.960
you know, the artwork side of
things, Uh, there's a fully like

528
00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:54.559
robust latte art system in here.
I'm very bad at it. Um.

529
00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:58.639
I tried to make like a butterfly
and they just look like a blob.

530
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:00.800
And I was like, well,
it's the best I could do. But

531
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:01.880
she told me it was cute,
So I was like, okay, I

532
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:06.679
did, Okay, she's lying to
me, but it put a smile on

533
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:12.440
my face. I attempt it.
I get points to dry. Um.

534
00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:16.000
Great game, great great ost Um. All of the songs so far have

535
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:22.159
have really set the tone for for
this place. Um. Much like Valhalla,

536
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:23.760
you do have like a little juke
box in the corner where you can

537
00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:30.239
like set the playlist and set the
tracks to play. Um. Another thing

538
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:34.360
that is really cool about the world
building of this game as you do have

539
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.400
access to a cell phone which contains
a couple of different apps, UM,

540
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:43.440
one being the Tomodachi app, which
I think is a very very good name

541
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:53.559
for like a Twitter type space did
you app no? Uh tomodachi Ah gotchachi

542
00:43:54.519 --> 00:44:01.639
uh close But Tomodachi does mean friend. Uh. It's a pretty pretty app

543
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:06.199
name. UM. And you can
keep up with like characters. They'll they'll

544
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.639
post on this this tom about the
app. Like it's pretty much Twitter,

545
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:10.719
right, so like they'll post their
tweets and like you can go in you

546
00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:15.599
can like them. Um. They
have like little stories and stuff in there

547
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:17.119
too, so if you want to
get some more background story about like the

548
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:20.360
characters, and what they're up too. There's a lot of world building that

549
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:23.679
happens in that app, um.
And there's also like the news app as

550
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:27.039
well, so like you can get
the headlines of like what's going on in

551
00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:32.639
Seattle as a whole right and understand
like you know this whole new like I

552
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:37.760
forget what the name of it is, but it's a new like law that

553
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:44.039
just passed where it's welcoming like more
races into the fold, right, which

554
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:46.199
is why you're starting to see like
other different types of characters show up in

555
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:52.000
Seattle. And there's like throwaway lines
between like Lucas and Riona about like being

556
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:55.039
a banshee and I forget the type
of race that Lucas is. Um.

557
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:59.760
I think he's like a minotaur,
um, but I forget the term that

558
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:04.960
you but like they have this conversation
about like you know, the history of

559
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.559
their people and like being accepted and
like the low key like racism that goes

560
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:13.920
on. And it's great. All
of that stuff is is fascinating. Um.

561
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:16.719
So if you want some of that
stuff, if you want some good

562
00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:22.280
storytelling, some great characters, UM, I definitely definitely recommend Coffee Talk.

563
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:28.280
It is a great sequel to an
already awesome game. UM. I hope

564
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:35.599
they do more. UM. Another
game that I have been playing UM that

565
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:40.079
has taken over my life is this
game called Hunkai Star Rail. I think

566
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.679
I talked about it last week.
I'm gonna talk about it this week.

567
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:46.119
I'm probably gonna talk about next week, and I'll probably talk about it the

568
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:54.119
week after. Umair bro So I
just finished like as of like maybe an

569
00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:59.800
hour before we started recording M.
I finished like the first major story arc

570
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.320
for for the game, UM.
The planet you initially arrive on, I

571
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:08.360
think it's called Jarlo six. I
think they call it UM, which is

572
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:14.519
this ice planet UM. I completely
complete the entire story segment for that place,

573
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:21.480
and I loved a lot of that
story. UM. It's not like

574
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:28.039
a fairly unique tale, UM,
but it was told very very well.

575
00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:32.000
Like you get into like the the
internal politics of what's going on there UM

576
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:37.719
the overworld in the underground basically,
like you have all the poor people in

577
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:42.639
the underground basically and the rich people
in the overground, and like the way

578
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:47.280
that those two factions sort of separated
UM and and the ruling party that is

579
00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:52.239
in place that is oppressing them.
But also keeping secrets from from the populace

580
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:57.719
and all that stuff was like really
well told, right. Um, it

581
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:01.199
was nothing that like you couldn't guess
what's going to happen, but the way

582
00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:05.960
that it was presented to you was
like very well done. And also like

583
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.679
the way that it ended, I
was very impressed with because it gives you

584
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:14.880
the sense of, like without like
fully spoiling it, right, It gives

585
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:21.079
you the sense of your job is
done here, not everything is like one

586
00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:23.800
hundred percent and good, Like,
not everything is. The world is not

587
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:29.239
all of a sudden the perfect place, right, There's still stuff left to

588
00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:36.400
do, and it takes a very
like realist realist approach to like solving that

589
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:40.400
world's problems. And I was very
impressed by that because I'm very used to

590
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:47.679
like RPGs or especially like something like
this to be you know more like,

591
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:50.920
hey, we saved the world.
Cool, let's move on to the next

592
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:52.880
thing. It was like, no, y'all, y'all definitely put us in

593
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:57.039
the right direction, right, but
there's still more here, and I'm like,

594
00:47:57.119 --> 00:48:00.639
that's cool. I always appreciate when
there's a little like open endedness in

595
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:09.599
the story and it's not just you
know, everything is perfect. Now A

596
00:48:09.719 --> 00:48:15.039
bunch more systems opened up in that
game, not necessarily in a bad way,

597
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:22.039
but it's definitely like there I see
where all of the grinding content is

598
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:27.079
right where sort of Genchen kind of
throws a lot at you at once.

599
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:30.079
Once you get to that point of
like, okay, here's all of the

600
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:35.519
different areas where you need to grind
these stages for equipment, and then here's

601
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:38.880
where you get accessories, and then
here's where you get essential materials. This

602
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:44.119
kind of like takes its time to
put all that stuff out there and on

603
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:50.079
board you in a way that doesn't
feel overwhelming, but also all of the

604
00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:53.519
activities that it kind of wants you
to do, you get through it very

605
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:58.480
quickly. So it still is a
game that is not very time consuming in

606
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:01.320
terms of like let me get my
day least done right. It's just more

607
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:05.519
of a case of like what do
I want to prioritize today for my dailies?

608
00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:08.719
And it's like do I want to
does my characters need level ups?

609
00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:14.000
All right, cool, today's dailies
will be let me just grind for XP

610
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:17.480
materials. Five ten minutes later,
you're done. Cool. You can move

611
00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:22.440
on with your day. Or do
story stuff, you know, or the

612
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:24.719
next day you can be like is
my priority, you know, I want

613
00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:30.079
more equipment. Okay, I'm going
to do my dailies and focus on equipment.

614
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:32.480
Five ten minutes go by, I'm
done with my stuff. Right.

615
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:37.280
So it's still a game that doesn't
require a lot of time commitment. But

616
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:43.239
all of the systems that we're in
Gentien are here. So it's like the

617
00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:46.599
way that you have like your equipment
sets and like set bonuses that's still in

618
00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:52.280
this game, right. The way
that every character has certain ascension materials and

619
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:55.320
all the certain dungeons will give you
those materials that is here. It's it's

620
00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:59.079
almost like a copy and paste.
It's just you get through that content a

621
00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:02.360
lot quicker and a lot here,
which which I appreciate that aspect of it,

622
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:05.920
and it makes it a lot more
palatable and it makes it easier for

623
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:15.320
me to play the Rogue Light mode
that's in there. So this is this

624
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:19.320
is the mode where like when you
defeat an enemy, it gives you like

625
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.000
a random power up and you're basically
going through the space to get to the

626
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:23.840
boss, very similar to like the
Mental Mora mode that we talked about last

627
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:30.360
week. That got way more interesting
the further along I get, So it's

628
00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:37.039
like I unlocked the third stage of
that. And at this point the game

629
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:42.440
is like pushing back a little bit. I have to think about like the

630
00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.599
boss fights more, not necessarily the
trash mobs, like that's still I can

631
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:47.519
set the game to OTTO and it
does it, but I do have to

632
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:51.639
think about, like one, my
team composition a little bit more, and

633
00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:53.880
I have to think about the buffs
that I'm picking because that ship can go

634
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:59.000
sideways real quick. And I appreciate
the little bit of pushback, and it's

635
00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:01.840
it's not like I'm not sweating,
but it's like, Okay, I do

636
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.920
have to be on point with like
when I do my heels and stuff like

637
00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:08.000
that, and that keeps me on
my toes. Um, So I do

638
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:14.679
like that. But they also introduced
the mechanic to where um, when you

639
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:17.079
do those runs, you gain a
currency to where you can get permanent stat

640
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:23.079
boosts or permanent buffs for like the
next runs. So it really turned into

641
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:30.000
like a fully fledged like mini rogue
like game that I found very very fascinating.

642
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:35.320
Um And like every time I get
to like a new world, a

643
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:39.679
new subsystem opens up that allows me
to like crack out my team even further,

644
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:45.079
or do really wild builds and runs
in ways that I didn't think was

645
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:49.559
possible. Um. It flips that
game upside down and turns it into like

646
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:57.760
a very interesting, like little ten
minute adventure. UM. And I appreciate

647
00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:00.280
that. I appreciate all of the
thought that went into all of the game

648
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:05.199
modes in this video game. It's
it's insane to me that this is a

649
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:12.400
free to play rpg, UM,
because it is one of the better RPGs

650
00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:20.079
I've played in recent memory. Just
like in general, UM, the presentation

651
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:22.280
is like ten out of ten.
The animations, the cut scenes, the

652
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:28.280
the voice acting like, the music
is really good. The boss fight,

653
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:34.159
the final boss fight UM. For
for this arc like actually blew me away

654
00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:37.639
in its final final boss team uh
in a way that like I was yelling

655
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:42.400
in one of my chats, like
because because Chase already finished it, UM

656
00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:47.320
finished the segment, and I was
like, so I just got to this

657
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:52.599
part here, Um, why is
this song so good? And Chase was

658
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:55.559
like, Yep, it's really good, you know in that ways that like

659
00:52:55.840 --> 00:53:00.800
like Chase you can hear him saying
that, right, UM. And then

660
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:05.679
like halfway through the fight, the
vocals kick in and then I just like

661
00:53:06.079 --> 00:53:12.000
scream and like Chase is like screaming. You know it's real when the vocals

662
00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:16.000
kick in. Bro, I was
not prepared for the vocals to kick in,

663
00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:20.519
and it kicks in at like the
right moment with like the cut scene

664
00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:22.119
is playing off and you transition to
the next phase of the Boston I'm just

665
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:29.039
like mejlio or holio verse, like
what do you do? Y'all is showing

666
00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:34.440
out in ways that like y'all should
it be like insane? Um? It

667
00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:39.119
was hype fuku one of my favorite
moments of this year, I think.

668
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:45.119
Um. But it also introduces another
very similar mechanic that carried over from Genschen,

669
00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:51.480
where your main character and switch between
like elements. Right, So,

670
00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:54.679
like in Genschen Impacts Um, your
character first starts off I think it's Wind

671
00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:59.840
element, and you have like a
wind overworld ability that you can use,

672
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.000
and when you get to the next
area in that game, you you have

673
00:54:04.039 --> 00:54:06.719
the option of switching to Earth element, which gives you like a different quote

674
00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:09.800
unquote path action, right, um, And as you travel through the game,

675
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:15.039
you get different elements and you can
kind of like make your MC into

676
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:20.159
whatever you need them to be to
fit your team composition. Right. This

677
00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:24.000
game does something very similar where you
start off as like, uh, one

678
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:29.480
type, and in the process of
this fight, you get the second type,

679
00:54:29.559 --> 00:54:34.039
which is a fire type, which
is sick as fuck. Um.

680
00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:37.440
They have a completely different ability set, like instead of being a damage dealer,

681
00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:43.360
they are now a tank um.
And it is again some of the

682
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:46.760
coolest like animations. I was popping
off at just like the basic attacks and

683
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:51.000
then like there's a way to enhance
your attack and that attack looks sick,

684
00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:52.760
and I was just like, what
is going on this ship is amazing?

685
00:54:53.559 --> 00:54:59.559
Um. So I'm very excited to
see like what the other other elements will

686
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:02.320
do for your character, because it
also changes the weapon that you use.

687
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:07.800
Um. So like initially your character
is using a baseball bat, which I

688
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:10.880
think is already a sick aesthetic,
Like they just roll up and they just

689
00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:13.840
twirl the bat in their hand and
you're just like, oh, yeah,

690
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:19.880
shit's going down. But in the
fire stands they have like this giant fire

691
00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:23.400
broad sword, which I think is
very very cool. Um. So I'm

692
00:55:23.559 --> 00:55:28.800
very curious to see like what the
other elements will bring when we get there

693
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:34.440
and I feel like this, I
think at this point it's only fire right

694
00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:37.000
now, and I feel like the
other elements will come at future updates.

695
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:42.079
UM. I feel like the art
that I'm in currently probably isn't none,

696
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.199
It's probably only a couple of stages
before I hit like the content wall,

697
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:52.559
I feel like right, M and
then looking at like what the leaked,

698
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:57.559
um, what the new characters are
in some of the leaks that have flown

699
00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:00.719
around. UM, I can definitely
tell like, yeah, we're gonna be

700
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:04.719
sitting in this arc for a little
while because the characters that are coming are

701
00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:08.440
part of this arc that I'm in. UM some charcs to see what that

702
00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:15.840
goes. UM. It again is
like it feels tonally like a better star

703
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:21.880
ocean. Right. It's a case
of like we are traveling this universe and

704
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:25.239
going to different places, meeting a
bunch of different people in types of people.

705
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:29.679
UM, there's a there's a very
real emphasis. So I'm like this

706
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:35.519
intergalactic community that's going on in like
different factions of that. UM as you

707
00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:43.519
are soon the console version is supposed
to come pretty soon. UM. But

708
00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:47.239
I also I didn't mention it last
week, but UM, you mentioning consoles,

709
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:50.960
bring it up, brings it up. This also plays very well on

710
00:56:51.079 --> 00:56:54.360
mobile. Um, whereas like get
an Impact was a mobile game, but

711
00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:58.360
like, let's be real controls for
that game, was asked not by trying

712
00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:02.760
to play that game on mobile is
a tour Yes, terrible. This game,

713
00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:08.559
being a turn based RPG, runs
incredibly well just as a mobile game.

714
00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:15.400
I play it a lot in mobile
in mobile form, um as I'm

715
00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:16.719
like the first thing I do when
I wake up or right before I go

716
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:20.639
to sleep, I will boot it
up. I'll do my dailies or even

717
00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:22.920
progress story content, like I have
no problems, just like playing it on

718
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:27.159
my phone for a little while.
Um, and then whenever I decide to

719
00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:30.079
actually get up, I'll move to
my computer and play it on the big

720
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:37.199
screen or whatever. But it feels
and controls great. Um. There's I'm

721
00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:45.639
using a pixel six brouse my phone, um and it runs sixty fps,

722
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:51.760
no issues. Um, seems really
well optimized for mobile. I was very

723
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:55.599
very impressed with his performance. UM. So I definitely like, if you're

724
00:57:55.679 --> 00:58:00.559
if you're not against like playing on
your phone, I highly recommended as a

725
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:07.679
mobile title. Um. It feels
in plays great. Um that was something

726
00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:09.920
I wanted to mention last week that
I that I forgot about. Um so

727
00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:15.000
out of like the probably sixty ish
hours I've put into this game so far,

728
00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:22.360
um, I've probably played like fifteen
event Mobile. Um So yeah,

729
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:27.519
definitely give me that game a look, man, because like it's it's blowing

730
00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:34.159
me away in pretty much every way
you could. Um. I was not

731
00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:38.440
expecting this out of me jo.
I was not expected to get into it

732
00:58:38.719 --> 00:58:45.079
the way that I am. Right
it is. I'm very excited for more

733
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:50.760
Hunky Star Rail like just I cannot
emphasize that enough. I am all the

734
00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:55.320
way in. Um. I am
notoriously not a person that completes battle passes

735
00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:59.519
right. Like usually I get a
couple levels in on the battle pass and

736
00:58:59.519 --> 00:59:01.280
I'm like, all right, cool
whatever. Um, I think this battle

737
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:08.519
pass goes up to fifty levels or
fifty or sixty uh, and I'm already

738
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:13.039
like halfway done. Um. And
that that immediately, like when I saw

739
00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:15.679
I was at like level twenty five
this battle pass, That's when I knew

740
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:19.239
this game like actually has me hooked, because I don't think I've ever gotten

741
00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:22.280
that far in a battle pass in
any other game that offers a Battle Pass

742
00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:28.440
that that includes like all the time
I put into like Eternal Return and like

743
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:34.320
their passes and stuff too. It's
just like that passed a benchmark that one

744
00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:37.280
I never even think about until I
saw it and I was like, yeah,

745
00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:40.960
they got me, Like I'm probably
gonna buy the premium battle Pass and

746
00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:47.519
catching all of these points that are
now saved up. Um, It's it's

747
00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:52.639
impressive, man, Like, please
please give that a look. Um.

748
00:59:54.159 --> 01:00:04.000
I have also been playing. Um, I feel like there was another thing

749
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:08.679
on here that I was going to
talk about real quick, and I might

750
01:00:08.800 --> 01:00:14.360
have lost it in my brain as
I quickly pull up the Xbox app to

751
01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:16.920
look at my play history, because
I feel like it was on game that

752
01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:30.159
the worst. What I'm saying,
Oh, Cassette Beasts. Um. Cassette

753
01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:32.519
Beasts is a game that just came
out pretty recently. Um, I think

754
01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:36.079
at the end of April, like
April twenty six or something like that.

755
01:00:36.519 --> 01:00:39.239
It is a I'm not super far
in and I'm only like an hour into

756
01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:43.320
it, but it is a monster
capture game. I'll like, hey,

757
01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:49.559
Pokemon, right, but it has
like such a different tone to it,

758
01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:53.280
where like I texted Drew one day
and I was just like, I think

759
01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:59.440
this game is gonna make me cry
because like the way it starts is not

760
01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:01.599
like a Pokemon in terms of like, hey, I'm gonna be a Pokemon

761
01:01:01.679 --> 01:01:05.079
master and I'm going to travel the
world and do all of this stuff.

762
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:10.320
It is like you you wake up
on an island, Uh, you don't

763
01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:17.360
remember like where you're from, and
there are there are like little throwaway dialogue

764
01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:23.599
that makes me think of are we
actually just dead? Oh? Everybody shows

765
01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:29.800
up on this island the same way, we can't really remember our past selves

766
01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:34.480
and we can't get off this place. And in another character is just like

767
01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:39.639
jokes about death in a way that
I'm just like, m is this kid

768
01:01:39.719 --> 01:01:49.000
gonna go place? Yeah? Exactly, Like I was not ready for that.

769
01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:52.840
Um, So I really want to
see what the story goes in that

770
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:58.800
regard. Um. But it is
uh, I almost want to say it's

771
01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:02.679
it's both very similar to a Pokemon
game where it's like you do have your

772
01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:09.760
capture mechanics. It is a turn
based game, right, but I I

773
01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:13.719
know there's a lot of subsystems that
are very different and unique. I just

774
01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:19.400
haven't gotten to it yet. So
people were telling me about how how the

775
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:25.679
weaknesses, and like hitting an opponent's
weakness is very different and not just a

776
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:30.679
case of oh, it does more
damage. It's like elements can like mix

777
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:36.760
and match and sort of have different
effects based off of like the weakness or

778
01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:40.440
whatever. It's very very confusing,
and I need to put more time into

779
01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:46.079
it to really like get a good
feel and describe it properly. But it

780
01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:50.920
sounds like this game is very very
different, and while on the surface it

781
01:02:51.039 --> 01:02:52.159
is very much like, hey,
let me just capture this monster here or

782
01:02:52.199 --> 01:02:58.119
there, it seems like mechanically it
is very much its own thing, and

783
01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:00.960
I'm very excited to dig more to
that and see what that stuff is,

784
01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:06.559
because as someone who was breaking it
down, I was just like, this

785
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:13.760
doesn't even sound like Pokemon anymore,
but but it has the presentation of it.

786
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:17.719
So look forward to that when I
actually get into that stuff, because

787
01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:22.320
it seems like I'm in for a
very wild ride, but I'm very much

788
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.960
enjoying it. I think the music
in this game is really good as well.

789
01:03:29.519 --> 01:03:35.800
It's hard to describe it, but
it takes me back almost to like

790
01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:38.199
a nineties era of music. I
mean, I mean the game is called

791
01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:42.079
Cassette Beast right. So, like
the way you capture the Pokemon is you

792
01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:46.079
capture them in this like cassette tape. Right. So there's a very specific

793
01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:52.960
vibe that they're hitting both musically and
and visually that I'm like, this is

794
01:03:53.000 --> 01:04:00.480
striking a chord and the vocals that
kick in for the home town it is

795
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.400
just like ten out of ten,
like Chef's kiss. Um, it's really

796
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:08.960
setting a tone. Um. But
yeah, I'll get into more of that

797
01:04:09.119 --> 01:04:12.480
probably next week as I put more
time into it so I can like really

798
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:18.119
break down the systems of this game, um, because I really want to

799
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:21.960
get to that stuff. Um.
But so far, it's great. It's

800
01:04:23.039 --> 01:04:25.920
it's really cool. Uh. Some
of the best Sprite work, Like the

801
01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:30.039
Sprite animation is like really really good. And Drew, I think you would

802
01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:32.440
really love the names of a lot
of these creatures. Um, they are

803
01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:40.679
they are. They are very good
puns. Um, pretty puns. And

804
01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:45.880
every time I see a new creature, I give a really long sigh and

805
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:48.800
I put my head on in my
hands, and I'm like, this is

806
01:04:48.840 --> 01:04:55.000
the most true game to ever Drew, and then I keep on going fantastic.

807
01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:01.400
It's yeah, Um, this game
has local co op, which I

808
01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:08.519
find very interesting as well, like
only local um, because it is primarily

809
01:05:09.639 --> 01:05:14.519
it's primarily a two v two battle
system, so you have a character that

810
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:17.639
is with you almost at all times. Um. And it seems like there's

811
01:05:17.639 --> 01:05:24.719
like a persona style like social link
system at play here too, um,

812
01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:28.719
as you can learn more about your
partner characters. UM. So I imagine

813
01:05:28.719 --> 01:05:31.480
it's just like drop in co op
in terms of the other player could just

814
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:35.920
control the other person that is with
you. UM. But I thought that

815
01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:39.480
was kind of like a neat little
edition that they didn't have to do,

816
01:05:40.159 --> 01:05:44.519
Like I don't think it really changes
much in the grand scheme of things,

817
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:49.360
um, but it seems cool.
Um. This game has a really cool

818
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:54.039
like difficulty slider as well. I'm
kind of it's like scattered with my thoughts

819
01:05:54.079 --> 01:05:57.679
on this game, but it has
a really cool difficulty slider and that you

820
01:05:57.719 --> 01:06:04.159
can like really customize like your experience
in how the AI treats these battles,

821
01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:12.360
so like as you bring the slider
up to it being harder, you can

822
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:17.599
customize things of like wild Pokemon will
use random attacks, but trainers will like

823
01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:25.119
actively target your weakness and stuff like
that. And I thought that was really

824
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:28.920
fascinating, right, because like when
you think about it in terms of like

825
01:06:29.639 --> 01:06:33.599
wild Pokemon probably don't have like that
kind of like you know thought, and

826
01:06:33.679 --> 01:06:36.400
they're just like throwing things out,
and I'm like, oh, that kind

827
01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:39.639
of makes sense, do you think
about it? And like trainers are going

828
01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:41.599
to be more hard about battles,
and I was like, oh, it's

829
01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:44.719
very cool. And then as you
slide it harder and harder, harder than

830
01:06:44.760 --> 01:06:46.760
it's like, okay, all of
these things, you know they're going to

831
01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:51.760
like target you more and more specifically
and make the game like way harder in

832
01:06:51.840 --> 01:06:56.599
that fashion. So I thought that
stuff was really cool. I'm always a

833
01:06:56.599 --> 01:06:59.880
big fan of like getting in there
and like customizing difficulty to like exactly how

834
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:04.000
you want it. Um. And
I'm playing it on like not the hardest

835
01:07:04.039 --> 01:07:09.039
setting, but like a couple of
notches away from that, and so far

836
01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:15.840
it's been it's been good, been
good, So look forward to more thoughts

837
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:19.599
on Cassette Beasts. Um. I'm
slowly plugging away at Hi Fi Rush.

838
01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:25.840
I will beat that game at some
point. I swear to fucking god that

839
01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:30.599
game is still probably like my favorite
game that I've played this year, and

840
01:07:30.679 --> 01:07:34.800
I haven't even finished it yet.
But I think about that game very fondly.

841
01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:42.679
Um, so yeah, I think
that that's it on my fronts um

842
01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:47.320
Adrew, did you hear about the
Square Nix investor call that just happened?

843
01:07:48.519 --> 01:07:54.719
No? Oh man, So they
heard us talking shit last week, so

844
01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:58.920
they decided to get on a phone
call and was like, hey, we

845
01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:03.519
can talk about our earnings, uh
and what our future plans. Drew over

846
01:08:03.639 --> 01:08:10.400
in Florida talking mad shit. I's
talking about shit. So we gotta get

847
01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:14.920
our ship in order. Um,
I mean I'm standing like, you know,

848
01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:24.279
my opinion swing. That's a lot
of people. Um. So basically

849
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:27.319
they went over kind of confirming like
what we were talking about a little bit

850
01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:31.079
before. Where it's like, uh, this last fiscal year which ran between

851
01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:35.920
uh what it's a like April to
March twenty twenty three. So April twenty

852
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:40.680
twenty two to March twenty twenty three
is it is typically the fiscal year for

853
01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:45.039
the gaming industry. Um. Overall, like their sales were down right,

854
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:51.640
Um, they had some good shocker, right, they had some good good

855
01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:56.640
sales here there. So like off
Theopath Traveler did pretty pretty good, Like

856
01:08:56.840 --> 01:09:00.920
Crisis Core Reunion did pretty good,
but it's like they're bigger main titles like

857
01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:05.640
for Spogan and stuff like that hanged
right. So they also confirm like,

858
01:09:05.840 --> 01:09:11.720
hey, Final Fantasy fourteen in our
MMO market is keeping us afloat, So

859
01:09:11.880 --> 01:09:15.640
it's like, oh yeah, HP
is carrying this whole company on his fucking

860
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:18.079
back. But I also do want
to remind people that Dragon Quest ten is

861
01:09:18.119 --> 01:09:21.039
still a thing that makes quite a
bit of money for them as well,

862
01:09:23.840 --> 01:09:26.800
which is an m momo that they
got that hasn't been brought over here,

863
01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:30.319
but people don't really think about it
too much, but that is a game

864
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:32.279
that is still making the money as
well as Final Fantasy eleven. Like the

865
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:39.800
MMO market makes them money and that's
funding all of their other projects. So

866
01:09:40.079 --> 01:09:43.199
they confirmed that that that is their
strategy, right, like, Okay,

867
01:09:43.479 --> 01:09:46.600
we're gonna have f fourteen in all
these other mobile games and in MMOs.

868
01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:50.359
It's going to fund our Triple A
development. We need to get ourselves in

869
01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:55.319
order, and it's like, yeah, get yourselves in order. And then

870
01:09:55.680 --> 01:10:00.960
the president was like, so here's
our plan for this upcoming year. Oh

871
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:04.279
boy, oh boy, let me
let me mentally prepare myself because this is

872
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:11.199
going to be a fucking winner.
I'm sure it's fucking great. I'm going

873
01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:15.600
to read this quote here. So
in response to these findings, Square Nix

874
01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:19.079
made a call to action to prioritize
establishing a stable, reoccurring income. So

875
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:25.279
what they're going to do is their
new approach for a broader extension will include

876
01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:30.960
aggressive research and development efforts and investments
in AI, cloud and blockchain games,

877
01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:38.720
stated by the president. So they're
going to take all of the hard money

878
01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:43.640
that yoship made. They see the
error in their ways. They know that

879
01:10:44.199 --> 01:10:48.960
Triple A game development isn't what it
used to be, and they said we

880
01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:56.199
need to go all in on AI
and blockchain games. So where annex is

881
01:10:56.239 --> 01:10:59.600
on the path, they heard us
talking shit, they know what they need

882
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:04.119
to do. Uh and I believe
Guennix is gonna come out stronger for this.

883
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:27.000
Mm hmm interesting. Interesting. Goodbye
true, we bye true. Yep,

884
01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:38.000
that was that was the response I
fully anticipated. Hi Drew, welcome

885
01:11:38.039 --> 01:11:45.399
back, welcome back, welcome back. I wish you could see my face

886
01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:55.920
right now. That is the takeaway. These motherfuckers, How can you be

887
01:11:56.319 --> 01:12:05.720
that fucking stupid? Oh, it's
so good, it's so good, Like

888
01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:16.600
man, m hm hm why Listen, man, it's the only way clearly

889
01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:23.520
game development. Listen, man,
these video games they're not selling that,

890
01:12:23.680 --> 01:12:28.920
the games that they make and are
selling, how do you explain that,

891
01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:33.079
Drew, It can't be in the
quality down on the worst marketing game ever

892
01:12:33.239 --> 01:12:39.359
made in your light? Listen,
man, they keep putting out these high

893
01:12:39.479 --> 01:12:43.439
quality video games that they're just not
selling. It has to be blockchain.

894
01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:51.560
I'm so upset, al Kyrie Eleison, it would have been a better game

895
01:12:51.680 --> 01:13:00.960
if it had blockchain. I mean
that may be a true statement. That's

896
01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:05.279
more of a that's more of a
commentary on Valpyrie Elysium than the blockchain.

897
01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:13.000
It's a man. If forth spoken
was made entirely out of AI technology,

898
01:13:13.039 --> 01:13:18.600
it would have sold more. Do
they just like like just not read a

899
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:24.840
room? Is that what's happening?
They have not they don't know to read,

900
01:13:26.399 --> 01:13:32.279
let alone an entire room. It
blows my mind. It blows my

901
01:13:32.359 --> 01:13:40.880
mind really, um considering there's been
like no evidence at all in terms of

902
01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:45.359
like these blockchain moves and stuff like, it's very clearly like a negative thing,

903
01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:49.880
right like in every facet, like
any company that has tried it has

904
01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:58.880
failed miserably and in every other attempt
at this is usually a scam or proceeded

905
01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:02.880
by like very bad degative press,
and these motherfuckers are just like, yes,

906
01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:09.840
this is the answer. I don't
understand, Like I wish I could

907
01:14:09.920 --> 01:14:18.199
understand what they're seeing because it is
not reality. Like, all right,

908
01:14:18.439 --> 01:14:21.920
the president of square Ennis has to
be like embezzling money, Like he just

909
01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:27.199
has to be. Well's the only
explanation for this is like he is just

910
01:14:27.520 --> 01:14:30.600
literally stealing from the company, and
to cover his tracks, he's going to

911
01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:41.039
take square Enix down. It is
the only explanation I could possibly think of

912
01:14:41.560 --> 01:14:45.479
that they would fucking do. This
is nonsense. I mean that that makes

913
01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:55.560
sense to me. Yeah, nonsense, literal nonsense. It's insane, Dude,

914
01:14:56.079 --> 01:14:59.880
I don't understand what this company is
doing. I hope RCP takes over

915
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:05.720
soon, needs to, he needs
to. Somebody saves square x or like

916
01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:10.760
I'm almost like starting to believe in
like all the conspiracy theories that like Squarres

917
01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:13.800
is just trying to tank their fucking
public value so that somebody can buy them

918
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:20.640
out. Um, I'm like,
I means probably Sony, if you was

919
01:15:20.680 --> 01:15:27.720
to pick like a Big three,
right, Um yeah, probably sure.

920
01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:34.039
I would love to have the Final
Fantasy franchise. Yeah, I'm saying like

921
01:15:34.319 --> 01:15:38.720
that that that is like the rumblings
I keep hearing, and like the fucking

922
01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:43.079
theory crafting tinfoil hat theories I keep
coming across. I'm like, you know

923
01:15:43.159 --> 01:15:46.640
what, every action they make is
kind of like making me a believer.

924
01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:56.319
I'm talking, Bro, the guy's
embezzling. Like, mark my fucking words,

925
01:15:56.399 --> 01:16:00.199
it's a record. When that article
comes out like one month, two

926
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:04.960
months, three months from now,
fucking called it. Bro. It wasn't

927
01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:08.640
just usually knock. It was all
the way at the top. It was

928
01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:11.760
all the way at the top.
Oh wait, that's right, did you

929
01:16:12.039 --> 01:16:20.239
I'm gonna get arrested for that twice
twice within three weeks. I mean I

930
01:16:20.279 --> 01:16:25.600
got arrested. It's out of bell
or whatever. And they got arrested again

931
01:16:25.600 --> 01:16:33.720
in a week later. Come on, bro, video game it's so hard.

932
01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:41.159
It's we need blockchain and AI to
create video They're they're having such a

933
01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:48.199
they're having a hard time selling all
their Final Fantasy games. Yeah, they're

934
01:16:48.199 --> 01:16:55.479
not selling brow Final Fantasy seven remake
was below expectations. Oh my god,

935
01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:05.439
I'm very surprised. I have to
not seeing that headline, yet insane the

936
01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:09.439
only thing I can think of.
It's the only thing. Man, if

937
01:17:09.520 --> 01:17:14.760
only, if only remake did more, It's only it's all better? Did

938
01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:20.399
Actually did they actually say that about
Remake? No? No remake was I

939
01:17:20.560 --> 01:17:28.239
believe one of their best selling titles. Exactly? Yeah, although, but

940
01:17:28.359 --> 01:17:30.239
I mean although, considering everything that's
happening right now, you wouldn't think you

941
01:17:30.279 --> 01:17:35.279
wouldn't think so, exactly, right, Um, it's everything else that is

942
01:17:35.319 --> 01:17:45.560
failing on them, right, what's
that Simpsons mean? It's like maybe maybe

943
01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:49.560
it's maybe I'm the wrong and all
the kids are right? No, yeah,

944
01:17:49.720 --> 01:17:59.279
exactly for principal Skinner. Yeah yeah, that's square. Yeah yeah,

945
01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:05.720
man, I am fascinated by this
company in their self destruction. It is

946
01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:15.520
indeed self destructing. Mm hmm.
Just affiliating. Yeah, both can be

947
01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:23.399
true. But that that's all.
That's all I had. Um, I

948
01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:28.000
just thought I should shout that up
that Earnings called out after after our discussion

949
01:18:28.119 --> 01:18:34.199
last week. It's a hell of
it's a hell of a follow up,

950
01:18:34.840 --> 01:18:40.760
I'm saying. Man, I'm saying, uh with that, Does anybody else

951
01:18:40.840 --> 01:18:43.600
have any other topics you want to
you want to go over? Anybody want

952
01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:51.760
to talk about Zelda Weld's the thing. I think. I'm good. I

953
01:18:51.840 --> 01:18:57.680
don't know how else we can possibly
in that one oh two new characters coming

954
01:18:57.760 --> 01:19:00.239
to a Mega Strikers. Oh word, I didn't see that. Yeah,

955
01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:05.880
they just they tweeted out about six
hours ago They're gonna reveal two new characters.

956
01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:14.840
Okay, I'm excited. I hope
one is a goalie. Mh.

957
01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:20.039
They definitely need more goalie arc types
they dore. I mean, Doooboo does

958
01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:24.359
everything but give my, give my. Hamster's on a break. Yeah,

959
01:19:25.359 --> 01:19:34.560
I know he deserves a break.
He deserves the world so upset. Oh

960
01:19:34.640 --> 01:19:39.039
my god, he's so upset.
Let's let's end this podcast before Drew does

961
01:19:39.119 --> 01:19:42.640
something unheard of. Yeah, yeah, that's a good choice. Yeah.

962
01:19:42.800 --> 01:19:45.159
Somebody gave me thirty million, and
I'll go last wear inks and I will

963
01:19:45.239 --> 01:19:49.720
make good games. I don't even
think you need thirty million at this point.

964
01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:56.199
You see aim blockchains, that's it? How much wait late lately?

965
01:19:56.359 --> 01:20:05.640
How much did they sell the there
what's the studious for again? Aaron Ex's

966
01:20:05.680 --> 01:20:14.600
sare three hundred billion. Okay,
I bet you can buy square Nex for

967
01:20:14.720 --> 01:20:21.800
like one hundred million. I bet
you they were cave. Let's start the

968
01:20:23.000 --> 01:20:28.960
let's start the patron Let's let's start
the kickstarter. Let's JCB buy Square x

969
01:20:29.720 --> 01:20:39.039
H like you have to themselves.
They are risk to themselves and everyone around

970
01:20:39.079 --> 01:20:45.159
them. Uh, let's let's get
out of here before this just becomes square

971
01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:53.079
next doom dum posting? Uh,
Ryan, where can people find you and

972
01:20:53.159 --> 01:20:58.560
all of the cool stuff you've been
doing? A seat Twitter or subianas draws.

973
01:20:58.920 --> 01:21:02.840
That's where post on my artwork,
including my latest art piece I did

974
01:21:03.199 --> 01:21:09.000
of We were talking about Valhalla a
little bit earlier, and uh, I

975
01:21:09.159 --> 01:21:14.199
felt like revisiting one of my favorite
characters from Valhalla, Alma Armis, and

976
01:21:14.520 --> 01:21:19.920
uh uh did an art piece of
her, and uh it's been received very

977
01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:26.039
well, of course everyone's favorite titty
hacker. Uh. So yep, you

978
01:21:26.079 --> 01:21:30.479
could check that out, um and
see all that. That will also be

979
01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:35.479
available as a print for the upcoming
art booth I'm going to be doing in

980
01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:42.840
a few weeks from now over at
a Nakama on June fourth. Hopefully you

981
01:21:42.920 --> 01:21:46.680
guys can come by swing by,
say hi. I'll be selling prints and

982
01:21:46.920 --> 01:21:51.199
stickers. Also, fun fact,
I had to get more stickers reprinted.

983
01:21:51.640 --> 01:21:57.840
Uh yeah, I almost sold out
of all my stickers at work flying off

984
01:21:57.880 --> 01:22:01.680
the shelves, yeah, including Kayu. Okayu is probably the most popular one,

985
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:09.279
so yep, so I have to
get some more Okayu done. Um

986
01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:14.399
printed, uh, so you can
find me there. Um. I do

987
01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:18.720
stream on Twitch on occasion. It's
just kind of whenever I feel like streaming,

988
01:22:19.720 --> 01:22:26.039
so you can just go there,
Twitch, dot d Slash RCB,

989
01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:31.680
I'm to score TV. That's primarily
where you can find all my stuff that

990
01:22:31.760 --> 01:22:38.239
I'm doing everything. I am going
to try to complete one more piece potentially.

991
01:22:38.840 --> 01:22:43.399
Um. Street Fighter six, of
course, is on the horizons,

992
01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:47.399
so I'm trying to decide if I
want to do a Cammy fan art or

993
01:22:47.520 --> 01:22:51.760
a Jury fan art. I'm not
sure which one I want to do,

994
01:22:51.920 --> 01:22:57.039
but I'm going to try to get
that done before the release of street Fighter

995
01:22:57.119 --> 01:23:00.199
six, And since the art booth
is on the weekend the street Fighter six

996
01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:02.560
releases, I figured that would be
a good time to try to have one

997
01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:06.439
of those. I do get the
Bunny Suit chun Ley stickers still, but

998
01:23:06.560 --> 01:23:11.199
I do want to try to get
like at least the plan is to try

999
01:23:11.239 --> 01:23:15.520
to get one print done of either
Cammy or Jury. I'm not sure which

1000
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:17.560
one I want to do yet.
I mean, listen, how well can

1001
01:23:17.640 --> 01:23:23.960
you draw feet? Because there's there's
been a feet surge lately thanks the Street

1002
01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:28.680
Fighter, So I'm pretty sure the
feet fellas will will turn up in Everything's

1003
01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:32.319
terrible. You know, this is
the world we live in, Cammy,

1004
01:23:32.359 --> 01:23:40.119
it is does it have to be? That's what we're in. If you

1005
01:23:40.199 --> 01:23:48.880
want to get Essa Kaide feet kun
Essa kaide By feet, kuns kid By

1006
01:23:48.920 --> 01:23:54.039
feet you know, fet do be
driving those trucks. That be true,

1007
01:23:54.359 --> 01:24:00.279
people, that's true, speaking of
like Essa Kaide. You can rot me

1008
01:24:00.319 --> 01:24:11.239
on Twitter at tweeting about some you
know, squaring ex opinions and whatnot,

1009
01:24:11.920 --> 01:24:20.199
getting us to cat my f let
see, I understand, Uh, and

1010
01:24:20.399 --> 01:24:30.000
you can you can find me on
Twitter doing stuff. Yeah, that's about

1011
01:24:30.039 --> 01:24:38.039
it. Um, you can find
all the jas stuff going on at at

1012
01:24:38.199 --> 01:24:40.760
Jail, at Jack Savage Base.
I had to think about that for a

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second. Oh my god. Um
where we post up all the things that

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we've been doing. Uh, there's
a couple of other new stuff floating around.

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Um. I feel like our our
old friend nick uh in Asher have

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been thinking about some new content lately
that I'm trying to push them to do,

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which I think would be very cool. I believe there's going to be

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some stuff happening at Nakama possibly soon
with the jsp Anime Cast crew. Um

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as they opened up there Isakayah side
of the of the store. Um,

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so look forward to that stuff.
UM. Docupon Kingdom just came out a

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week ago, so I'm trying to
possibly organize some Docupon content I throw up

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there. So there's gonna be some
fun stuff. UM. I'm gonna gonna

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keep trying to think of new stuff
to throw up there because I want to

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just do things. UM, so
yeah, keep it out of that stuff

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there. Be sure to listen to
JESB Anime Cast as well. UM let

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me know your thoughts on that stuff. Follow all these goons on this call

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for all the cool things that they
do. I appreciate them for being here

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in all that stuff with me,
and we will be back next week mah

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later everythan the ceremon Let me buy
a square