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Hey everybody, it's Tuesday. Welcome
to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred

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and fifty. I'm your host,
Jan Shoah, powered by NZXT. That's

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right, I'm powered by NZXT.
I'm plugged into the mainframe. Nothing is

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going to fail about this operating system. No planes are going to be grounded

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today. Joining me co captain of
the ship World Warrior himself, Jeff Grepp.

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I'm drinking dirt and dirt don't hurt. Let's go right. I'm glad

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you're back. Jan. I'm glad
I am back as well. Dirt don't

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hurt. A master of the dirt, constantly bearing people with a shovel,

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Dan Record, I come from the
dirt. It's Kansas. There's a lot

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of dirt, you know, the
dirts red in Oklahoma. I went to

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Oklahoma recently, and that's like their
claim to fame is like red dirt.

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That's how exciting Oklahoma is that.
That's actually fairly interesting. It wasn't red.

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I saw it speaking about Red.
He's he's red because he's he's brimming

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with rage today. He's so angry, he has heat with everyone. He's

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so upset. Ay, Hey,
everybody is this is this blue screen gimmick

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so funny. Oh no, it's
too hot. That's why I'm describing it.

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I listen audio listeners. I tried
to turn on the Windows blue screen

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of death, but it came in
really tiny and embarrassing, so I had

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to slowly make it bigger. Right. And if you're wondering what he means

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by turn on the blue screen of
death, don't worry about it. He's

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an old man. He's losing it. Yeah, And everybody in chat was

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like, that's very funny, Mike, thank you, Live Chat. You're

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very Yeah, we're all very proud
of you. Yeah, yep, yep,

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yep. And coming back from the
hell hole of America or Paradise,

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depending on who you're talking to.
A hell se Vegas EBO champion, Sean

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Turbo, Sean McDowell, and these
zero games that I played in. It

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didn't lose, did you not wrongfeated
undefeated this year, defeated. That's how

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we choose to look at it this
year. That's what we're going to start

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calling you instead of Turbo Sewan,
We're just going to start calling you undefeated,

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Sean undefeated. Yes, you had
nice Vegas when I was there was

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one hundred and eighteen. I checked
when you were there, and it was

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like one hundred and eight. That
was nothing. I mean you got up

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to one hundred and fourteen one night. Good. It's not good your words

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side, and it's just like you
feel like you are getting cooked, Like

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you feel like you are a piece
of meat on a grill. Yeah,

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it's awful. No, what is
what is the lowest temperature at which like

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food cooks, like any food,
It probably is like some food that cooks

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at like one hundred and twenty five, right, sure, yeah, probably

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like ninety eight six. Yeah,
I've never heard of packing anything below leodi

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two hundred, right, Like sure, that's pretty wacky. Under two hundred,

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bet you could. I bet one
eighty will do it? Sure,

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I mean yeah, yeah, one
eighties should do it. Like if it's

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a very slow like, what's a
slow cooker going at? What's the lowest

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temperature there? That's what I'm saying. I like smoking things, like some

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people will do things at two hundred
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the if you're going really long,
but like generally to fifty even to twenty

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five is I think more of a
normal slow smoking temperature, like a SOUV

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goes down pretty low, right,
Yeah, but SOUV yeah for a very

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long time. That's the whole idea, I guess. But yeah, I

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guess, Like, yeah, I
guess you could cook something in suv if

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you want to like literally get it
to like one sixty, you just put

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that water at one sixty and it
actually gets there, so one sixties,

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like where like you can get your
tap water to one sixty if you set

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your your like water heater high enough. Yeah, my go to is always

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three seventy five because the main but
the only time I'm really setting temperatures is

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on the air fry to like reheat
pizza or taco bell or something, and

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I generally do like three seventy five
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usually good for reheating. I'm h'm
I've adopted an air frar at this point

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because everyone has. But I'm still
kind of scared about, uh, you

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know, how quickly air friars took
over the kitchen appliance industry. Good reasons

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are something there. Maybe it's because
it's actually fantastic, yeah, yeah,

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and it's just like a connection of
them. I don't know. I don't

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know. Something still rubs me the
wrong way. It's because it is just

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a toaster of and just rebranded so
and I know everyone will sit out,

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but it's just the same kind of
heating process. Do you haven't just made

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him very convenient? Do you have
it a version to trends? Jan?

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Is that what it is? It's
just a cool guy obviously, Like,

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yeah, as the cool hipster one
here sipping my coffee on the sides of

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Peerie with my dirt jazz cigarettes,
he holds the key to your breaking news.

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I've just been verified as the number
two worldwide beater of Larry Coopa.

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Yeah, that's right, Larry Coopa
in nine seconds and third three six a

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milliseconds. Uh, only one person
on the planet has me beat for Larry

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Coopa beating Shakir mea moto just there
with a stop watch time and how fast

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you can beat Larry. All right, I'll put the link in the chat.

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It's verified. Hell yeah, someone
please write beat Larry on the document.

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All right? Uh, Sean,
you came back from Las Vegas.

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I came back from Japan. Before
we get to the Games, I came

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back from Kansas. Is that exciting? Yeah? Okay, well it was

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Kansas actually, I guess it was
Missouri. I was on the Casey side

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the whole side it. He was
good. I went to the Extra Life

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the Night conference, so I was
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first time ever, which is really
weird because I'm like walking around downtown Kansas

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City and I'm like, it felt
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first time, because that's I never
I grew up fifteen minutes from there,

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but like no one ever went downtown. If I went to wrestling, it

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was at Kemper, which was like
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chiefs were a ways. So it's
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I've ever really been to Kansas City
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discovering Kansas City. It was weird. What like what reason would people have

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to going to downtown just work.
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that's why the Extra Life was there. I mean there's barbecue, but

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like barbecuess also like mostly spread out. It's not like all the Power Light

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District is like their thing that came
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like the part of the bar district. But that's Newish. But yeah,

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it's not like a big tourist destination. I would say, yeah, okay,

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Sean Jan, you did something not
gaming related. How about how are

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you do that? And then I'll
do okay, all right, all right,

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that's that's that's bance related. I
came back from Japan. Let me

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tell y'all, it was fun as
fuck. I'm sorry for the cussing.

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I'm sorry for the cussing. I
made it past the first minute of the

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show what's the best kit Cat you
had? So I'm not like a sea

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KitKat type of guy. Guys,
but my partner did go in and like

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yo yo yo, the tales that
people have of don Quixote the store don't

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do it justice until you actually go
there and witness the mailstrom of a mall

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store that it is, and just
seeing wall to wall. One side you

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get made costumes, the other side
you get car air fresheners, and then

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you see people go behind a sketchy
curtain and then you follow them and now

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they're suddenly embarrassed that they had a
bunch of blow up dolls in their cart,

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and then you realize, well,
you know what, it's really hot

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outside. I gotta go buy some
sunscreen, and then you see these gentlemen

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that are also buying a blow up
doll now also getting sunscreen and other various

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lotions. I'm going to assume it
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because it was very humid and hot
in Japan. I would not recommend traveling

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to Japan during the summer because I
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I could sweat from your blow up
though, yes, yes, yes,

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yes that being set to I also
get one and go in the tax freeline,

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so they had to put it in
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couldn't touch it until I got back
home. Who's the sick? But y'ah,

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real talk. I don't think I
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was definitely not enough because I lost
two days to travel and everything. Yeah,

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and Tokyo is so goddamn big that
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have done everything that I wanted to
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were traveling with one of her high
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had been to Japan before, so
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a bit that. We eventually split
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into Alex Bunyello out there and Alex
and Bunyello is doing rent out there,

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and we had some lovely coffee.
He's a landlord's yeah exactly, he's he's

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uh no, he's one of the
renters. Yeah, that's right, he's

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rent too. And we went to
Glitch Coffee in Ginza, and let me

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tell you, that was like going
to like a fancy whiskey bar because of

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the gentlemen up there. They were
like, hey, smell these beans.

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And I'm like, yes, I'll
spell these beans for you, guys.

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I kind of want to stranger to
tell me this smells beans. But these

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were very polite gentlemen. What about
that, Mike? But if I was

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very polite and rolled up to you
with a canister and like, Mike,

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smell these beans. So someone did
try to hand Mike beans once and Mike

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said no, so, yeah,
Jeff Gordon is a can of baked beans.

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I was like, I don't want
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car driver. No jezz jezz jezz. Oh you said, oh, like

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you know, I'm pretty sure you
don't know. I don't know, but

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it makes more sense than the NASCAR
driver offered Mike Manatti beans. He's not

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one of the ones that died,
right, is Jeff Gordon alive? Jeff

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Gordon's I've heard. I've heard of
like four NASCAR guys, and I think

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most of the crash, Yeah,
did he die in a crash? One

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died, but there's another daleer and
hurt than Yeah, he del aar and

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hurt too. I think it's still
going strong cars. I think those juniors

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and yeah, but I think they
were referencing deal or Earnhardt one in the

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movie as well. So Dominic Toretto's
dad died in Fast nine. That's NASCAR

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adjacent, but that was like an
indie scrub league. Please, do you

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think Pepsi was ever as popular as
when Jeff Gordon was like always wearing the

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Pepsi jackets, Sandy Crawford, Michael
Jackson, that's its height, alright,

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Yeah, yeah, but Yo,
the thing I love the most in Japan,

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guys, I loved taking all of
the trades. I loved riding the

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subway. It'd be like, oh, we could completely get to that other

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part of the city in a reasonable
time. So scenic, and you get

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to like, look at what you
just are like almost a dad. You're

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like, this is a ficient travel
our destination. I feel real good about

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it because Jane lives in a city
that hypothetically has trains that you can take

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around. But I've lived in that
city and it ain't that easy. No,

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no, it's not. It's this
is like if a city was like,

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Yo, you want to get to
a place in the city, Let's

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make a train that goes there,
yeah, instead of sandy, cheap and

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safe and get you there on time. Yeah. There's the other thing.

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No one's whacking off. Well,
I mean the point don Quixote would have

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you question otherwise, But they're whacking
off privately. Oh right right yeah,

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but like yeah, I don't know. Just like I've been to New York

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and like the trains run very they
run in New York. New York's train

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system is better in San Francisco's for
sure, just because it covers more of

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the city. I mean, like
the buses in San Francisco are pretty okay.

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But anyway, like the trains in
Japan, and just like Yo,

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not only could I go to a
vetting machine to get a fun apple juice

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or a coffee or a chocolate milk
spewear, Pacari sweat. If I needed

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to pee, there was a clean
bathroom in all of these train stations.

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There were full on restaurants that were
like better than some of the food I

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have here. If I was like
get into sweat, I'm like, God,

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damn, I could use a new
T shirt. There was a Uniclo

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right in this train station. Man, if I needed a book that I

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couldn't read because everything was a Japanese
right to the Unico. If you're to

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help with something, somebody will nice
will just come up and help you and

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also speak your language, you know, exactly crazy. Yeah. But the

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other thing for folks out there that
want to travel to Japan but have some

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type of travel anxiety because they don't
speak the language, they can't read the

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language, throw that fear out the
window. It doesn't fucking matter. You

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can get around not speaking to anyone
and just staring at your phone. Like

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Google Maps will guide you through the
trains. It'll tell you exactly which platform

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to get on, what exit to
get out of, and then like the

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train systems like they'll flash like they'll
be in Japanese and then they'll flash to

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like Korean, but they'll eventually flash
to English and you'll be able to see

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of like, okay, I'm going
the right way, and it'll tell you

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where the nearest stairs or escalator are. Oh my god, imagine being that

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works. It's great. We should
all go to Japan. It's sure.

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The best meal I had was like
eleven o'clock at night. We were tired.

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We got out of the train station
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We were looking for food and we
got lost, and then we wound up

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going to like like a food mall
or whatever, and the restaurant we were

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gonna go get yakatori, but then
the line was too long, so we

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turn around and behind us was like
this local mom and pop joint with just

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selling curry, Japanese curry, and
there was no way to order it from

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a person. The kind lady who
just pointed at the vending machine looking thing,

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she was like, just press bundons
and load up your yen. I

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got the best plate of curry in
my god, that's what I'm really chilling

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Dan, real Japanese curriage. The
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and you're looking up you know,
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you know constantly looking like Google Maps, reviews and all that stuff.

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In Japan. I can't tell you
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walk into like a random alley and
like this place looks like it as ramen

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or curry or something like, oh, that's the best ramen or curry I've

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ever had in my life, just
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I mean that is like what the
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It's like the best food in the
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it better than everyone else. But
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curry with some cheese on it six
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me the most because my partner and
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we decided to get curry here in
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people. Yeah, uh huh yeah, Jan try forty dollars for one person,

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which is why get used to over
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yeah. And then like you know, the thing was we we would be

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very tired at the end of the
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get a chance to go out for
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So we would just go to the
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guys, seven eleven I had like
legit food. You heard the good news

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other than all that here. Yeah, they were like, hey, we

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want the seven eleven America to be
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said that in like the last two
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like, you couldn't. You are
speaking my love language. That is the

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most amazing thing I've ever heard.
I'm so excited, but it's not gonna

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work. It's not gonna be as
good. Well, okay, then why

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is the San Francisco we want our
trains to be trains in Japan? Yes,

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because that's a public service and we
hate like we're terrible people in America's

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that's different. This is capitalism.
This is very different. Like sheets is

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becoming more and more popular everywhere.
Stuff like that, Like the BUCkies.

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People fucking love that fucking gopher whatever
he is, but BUCkies go for I

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think punkies go for people buy that
BUCkies merch. I've had like six different

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people in my life evangelize that fucking
gas station. To me, it's like,

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okay, wow, yeah, I
want that for me. Yeah yeah,

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I want that for all of us
guys, people like mascots, Mike

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me like these in these seven eleven's, like everything was so goddamn cheap.

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I could get a high ball and
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like whiskey and soda water, and
that's my favorite thing in the world.

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Just like fifty cents, what the
fuck I can have it now, mash

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Well, the low yin is the
problem for Japan. We're sorry about all

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that, but it'll bounce back.
Thanks for being so cheap Japan. Japan.

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Now instead of waiting, you know
what you do if you're not going

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to go to Japan. I thought
about this the other day. Everyone said,

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it's actually a decent idea is to
convert some of your cash right now

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into yen. Now did you ever
go to Japan? You have the enn

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ready to go, and then if
it goes up in value like what you

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already have it. But Mike,
mikey, the part of my trip that

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I was excited to tell you about. Yeah, this is what I've been

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waiting for patiently, like a good
play, all right. I went my

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partner and I and her her friends. We went to Disney C and we

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also went to Disney Tokyo O.
Mike Minatti, The Frozen ride almost brought

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me to tears. It was so
fucking good. It's bran spankin new I've

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watched the ride throughs. It's insane
how good it is. Oh my gosh,

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Like it's top of the line special
effects and animatronics. Just the part

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where Elsa Elsa's icicles come out of
the ground jem right, oh you know

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what. And it just makes me
so sad that I have to go back

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to disney Land and just deal with
the poor old antiquated animatronics on the on

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the Ariel's Grotto ride where she's just
like broken at the hip, just shaking.

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Yeah. But Fantasy Springs is both
parks Disney C and Disney Tokyo much

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smaller, yet they have a lot
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it was just weird going to Disneyland
and the main street being so teensy and

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seeing the castle and it being so
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That being said, the second best
ride Mike Manati, The Beauty and

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the Beast Ride. Yeah, I've
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It It is similar technology to what
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So there's like no rails, You're
just moving on like a track that

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is underground. I'm assuming it's magnets. Who the hell knows. It's just

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computers. It's just computers. Oh, it's just computers. Okay, cool,

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It's it's insane, how great it
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my, my qualms though, they
have too many nice popcorn buckets. It's

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like a whole thing in Disney japan
culture. If we might, I understand,

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it's like popcorn over there is way
more important than like pop like park

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popcorn is popular in the state,
sure, but it's a way of life

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in Japan. Uh. They had
Macho white chocolate popcorn, soy sauce and

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butter popcorn, Sea salt popcorn,
whatevers. Jeff Grubb, they had curry

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popcorn. Oh baby, oh shit, baby waffing those smells. So I

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got some instant curry upstairs. I'm
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Uh. But if you are a
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and you want to go to either
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get there way before that shit opens. Uh. We we got there at

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like five thirty six o'clock in the
morning, and that still wasn't enough time.

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Our standby for the Frozen ride was
way way way later in the evening

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than we WoT. Yeah, that's
still yeah, all that stuff over there

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with the Frozen stuff. Oh but
Mike, the facade of like the rock

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face as you enter Fantasy Springs where
they have on an elsa carved into the

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rock Peter Pan and then Rapunzel.
Oh my god, it was so beautiful.

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I wanted to cry. He was
got Mike, We're forty one members

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away for me being obligated to take
you to Disney. Everybody joined that patron

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just said if we got to a
certain number, he take me to Tokyo

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Disneyland. Game mess start saving.
I'll go and heilmet. Yeah, don't

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worry compensated to me. I'll just
go and hang out. Chance I make

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to everybody, Okay, I don't
want to just like go through a list

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of rides to ask you did it, but I'm gonna allow myself to do

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that for like thirty seconds, and
it just if you did, just say

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what you thought. The Winnie the
Pooh ride fantastic, Okay, the sam

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Bad ride with the song closed who
journing the Center of the Earth, Oh

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my god. Too scary for Mike
easy think or Mike Mikey, Mikey.

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You could deal with the matterhorn,
right Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Oh you're fine. There's no like
big drop, right, that's what

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that's usually what it's big drop,
but it's projected like well ahead of time.

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Yeah, I think I think I
can handle it. What's their space

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mountain? Like, actually, I'm
not even sure. We didn't get the

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chance to because I hate space Mountain. I hate Space Mountain. I forgot

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that's right. Okay, well that's
fine then ah yeah that Winnie the Pooh.

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It's funny because that Winnie the Pooh
ride because that was the first of

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that trackless ride technology they think that
we ever had. Yeah so when so

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when Ben Hansen was on Rise of
Resistance, he's like, this is like

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that Woody the Poo ride. Yes, it is God and the Food in

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Disney, Tokyo, Disney, see
great, all they I had the alien

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Mochi looking do dads. They were
cute as hell cold, Oh my god,

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there's just so many opportunities at both
of those Disney parks to spend too

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much money. And it was also
crazy to not see the Star warsification of

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a park because if you go to
Disneyland and Socow, so much Star Wars

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everywhere, and obviously because we have
that one land, but there's like lightsabers

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in almost every store or at least
some Star Wars related memorabilia. Here.

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It's just like, oh, this
is just Disney. That's crazy. And

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Mickey Mouse's little Teddy Bear friend,
the love Duffy. They love Duffy.

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They love Duffy and all his weirdo
friends Elec Duffy. Uh no, no,

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no, it's just think Duffy.
There's like a couple of characters that

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they especially love a Japan that we
do not care about here, like the

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one little girl Cat from Aristo Cats
and Stitches girlfriends girlfriend and the girl Chipmunk

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from Chi Girl Chipmunk. Yes.
So for the first time at the Disney

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World Christmas Parade even I was like, who's that in Disney? Uh see

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she was carrying a cigarette. I
was like, this is so whoa She

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was like a fancy like French cigarette, Like she was like, yeah,

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exactly, vous French Chipett. That's
it, Sean, I should have taken

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a picture. Uh yeah. Also, guys, the worst fucking thing is

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that there's gotcha machines everywhere, like
everywhere. How did you come home?

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I thought you would have lost all
your money? Oh no, I got

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I got two of these. I
got two of these. Would the gimmicks

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want these? Yes? I wanted
love that the game it to me.

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No, you know what, they
just just saw this. I'll put it

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in the chat. Speaking of the
gotcha machines, this right here, there's

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new Nintendo. I think there are
official Nintendo things, these key chains that

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are like the face buttons, and
yeah, oh my god, where do

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we get these? Japan? Really
send that to Fianca and said, next

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time you're out there, please hunt
these down because you found all the piman

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ones. I don't know if you've
seen all the Pickman terrarium things in the

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got She got me a full set
of that last time she was in Japan,

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so I got around the hunt for
that. Next time. I would

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pay like fifty bucks for that game
cube face button. Really Jesus Christ,

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Wait, okay, wait, which
one does everyone want the most sixty four

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analog stick I want. I want
the sixty four buttons. Definitely the GameCube

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BUTSAK buttons. That's real good too, just being able to press that a

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button like on the go, a
little fidget button on your I like the

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way the GameCube buttons feel. I'm
aesthetically I don't know if I love looking

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at it. I like looking at
a third were alchemies, Yeah, dare

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you? I would say the lowest
of the six is the Super Nintendo face

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buttons. I like the Super Famicom
ones with the colors. Now we are

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also enemies. I don't like the
dance button. Dance you know. The

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colors that's better. That's better because
we're adults in America and we need something

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mature looking cool. I want to
know when I'm playing games, like the

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Super famic Com buttons look like freaking
like preschool kid colors to me, I

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don't know. I'm sorry, they
look like the future. What town?

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It looks like they look like spreezee. Try to forget about awesome, but

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yeah, gotcha's for virtually any and
everything. It was hilarious. I saw

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one that was just camping equipment,
not shoot camping equipment, but like mini

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versions of it. The Disney stores
also had their fair share of Gotcha Gotcha

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ponds, airports did, every train
station did. It was so great just

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because like Japanese currency still relies on
a bunch of coins, and I had

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a bunch of coins, so I
thought, why not just burn through these

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and just spin to win. Speaking
about spin to win, one of the

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most heated gamer moments I witnessed was
Alex Bunyellow at a crane game and he's

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so toxic. Yeah, he really
is. The boy, the renter he

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got he got a snoopy bag and
I witnessed it. He was glorious and

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it was It wasn't one of those
like crane games where you had to like

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lift lift up and drop it in
the thing. It was the kind where

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you have to use the crane to
push something down into the pit. First

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try Alex Bunyellow one. There's a
pushed down crane game, so you it's

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the same mechanics as the crane,
but like you know how sometimes like the

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arm is super limp. Yeah yeah, instead of like lifting an item up,

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there is one item precariously positioned in
the machine and you have to you

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use the crane to move them the
item down into the pit. That sounds

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to me like remember the gimmick that
it's just like a billion gold tokens in

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the thing, and you gotta hope
that somehow you make the wall pull this

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website. No one want to I
want so many coins. You're talking?

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You got word? No, no, I I had a little bucket.

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They weren't real, you know.
It sounds like American Gladiator crane game where

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it's like a guy on the platform
and you to them down. Yeah,

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yeah, the best one. Yeah, I'll ask Alex if he's cool with

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me posting that video. But the
hilarious thing was we went into this arcade

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because we're killing time for my jeans
to get hemmed, and I'm getting That's

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the last thing I'll talk about.
And then the first to first two floors

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just like crane games, very pure, very light hearted. We go up

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the third floor. They have rhythm
games. They have the tycho uh drum

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machine, the beat Mania Maniasani,
and then they had the washing machine one.

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It's like a circle controller. I
forget what that one is. Yeah,

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I played that Commo breaker, I
forget what's called that. And then

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they had like a a physical card
Uh the machine where you had to put

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shoot cards down and they projected onto
the actual arcade machine. That was super

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cool. Judgment. Yeah you can
tell you tell the age difference here.

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I was gonna say, like you
you right, Jan, we're all generation

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to fighting video games. That was
that might just come out, oh boy.

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Uh. And then we go up
the next floor and uh, it

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was pachinko machines and I thought like, oh, okay, if my partner

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and Alex weren't here, I could
spend some time here. And then we

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decided like let's keep exploring. We
go up a floor. It's just straight

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up horse betting, like virtual horse
betting. And then like one dude is

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just curled up like fetal position,
like in his chair, his sandals kicked

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off, just like smoking a cigarette, drinking a can of coke and just

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like pressing buns and bedding, and
I'm like, that guy's living the dream.

403
00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:26.119
I want to be like him when
I grow up. And then we

404
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.519
go up another floor and it was
like sketchy or gambling, I don't even

405
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.119
know what it was, Okay,
oh, but it was great and it

406
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.200
was so hilarious. And then we
picked up my jeans, and I just

407
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.839
want to give a special shout out
to my best friend Rio Ryo at Hanoya

408
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:48.640
One in Ginza. If you're looking
for salvage denim at the best customer service

409
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:53.160
you've ever had, go to Hanoya
one. Homeboy hooked it up because I

410
00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:56.319
was like, yo, I want
jeans of this specification. I wear boots,

411
00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:02.119
I have very thick thighs that up
against each other, and I generally

412
00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:03.680
tend to have holes in my pants
after a while, and he was like,

413
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:08.880
bro, I got you. And
then he he he went to a

414
00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.799
a stack of jeans, pulled one
out. It was my same exact size,

415
00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:15.279
and then he looks at me up
and down and then he like,

416
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:19.720
uh, cuffs them for me at
the perfect height I tried. After I

417
00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:22.279
tried them on, I was like, oh my god, how did you

418
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.799
know? And then he had done
the same thing with my partner. My

419
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.640
partner picked up a pair of jeans
and then he did the same thing with

420
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:33.039
Alex. It was great, It
was fantastic, and that was Alex.

421
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:37.519
Alex is like maybe an inch or
too taller than me. Okay, that's

422
00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:41.440
ass. He's just eyeballing it and
he does. Dude, it's just eyeballing

423
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:42.559
it. He did it for my
partner too. My partner's like five to

424
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:49.119
two perfect cuff and then and then
hold on, hold on, Okay,

425
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:52.680
fan sounds fun, It's cool.
Yeah the hell? What am I doing

426
00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.559
here? Right? Ohio sucks?
I'm gonna yeah, get Ohio. It's

427
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.160
the same thing. Basically. We
all know. I like the Bear,

428
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.960
right, Yes, the show,
Yes, the show, the show.

429
00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:12.200
Yes, the show is the Key
and the Mighty. That was like they

430
00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:18.480
they were selling the shirts from the
Bear, these Whitesville shirts there over in

431
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:23.039
the States. These it's a two
pack of white Tea's in the States,

432
00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:27.039
this goes for one hundred dollars.
Uh, it was not one hundred dollars

433
00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:36.000
there, So no, I think
I joked that you went to Japan to

434
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:40.440
get the shirts from the Bear.
Well I should have done better. No,

435
00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:44.799
No, of course I did,
of course, Like I bought raw

436
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:49.359
Denham. I don't need Rod Denham. I have too much already. Please

437
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:52.680
describe your arms right now for the
audio listeners, like the stone washed and

438
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:57.279
raw Denim. The two where come
from? Salvage Denim. It's raw Denham

439
00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:02.319
specific No, no Budgs. I
don't know either. Oh no, yeah.

440
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:03.279
Wait, wait man, we're on
the same page here, right,

441
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:10.279
amazing a Business Wars episode about like
uh Levi versus the other one and they

442
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:12.359
like said where denhim came from?
And I don't remember any Okay, Mike,

443
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:17.839
no one help us. Let's guess
where Denham comes from. I bet

444
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:22.279
it's a plant. Yeah, it's
gotta be some kind of fiber tree,

445
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:29.279
a certain tree product or leaf.
Man. I'm like, I'm like,

446
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:33.440
it's gonna be almost completely you think
wheat wheat. No, I don't think

447
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.799
it's a wheat. We do a
lot of things. And I don't know.

448
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:47.359
Jeff Jeff left. Jeff couldn't handle
his shot. He's going, it's

449
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:49.599
got it's I bet it's a bark
By product. I wonder if a bug's

450
00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.359
involved. Somebody said the word I
don't think bugs are involved. That what

451
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:59.400
is happening here? We're trying to
figure out where you like, what probably

452
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.039
comes from cotton, and that's a
plant. There you go. Damn.

453
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:05.640
I figured that out pretty quick.
I was about to ask, I don't

454
00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:07.839
know where any clothes comfirms like,
wait, cotton just a plant. It's

455
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:09.279
the label poly that's sure. I
don't know what the fuck that is?

456
00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:14.359
Uh so, Mitch, Mitch,
what do you think bugs? Nah?

457
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:15.640
Bugs, I throw that out there. No, I think it's a plant.

458
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:19.839
I think it's some sort of cotton
or cotton adjacent. Okay, so

459
00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:24.200
we're both saying roughly trees, roughly
where it's at the tree family. Okay,

460
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:30.519
Christ, it's just con you knuckle
answer, denim is cotton, Well,

461
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:36.119
it's it's They do a lot of
the processes. Yeah, like stuff

462
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:38.119
happened, process is carried. Did
we need more words? Because like you

463
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:39.920
know, if I eat cheese,
it's people be like, oh, that's

464
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:44.079
his process cheese, it's processed.
You can't say the same thing goes into

465
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:47.279
cheese as making cotton jeans. There's
gonna be a different word for that,

466
00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:52.000
right. There is a process.
It's a bespoke different process, but like

467
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:58.119
a food word for process and also
like a pants food processing food processing,

468
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:04.319
it's phrase. I suppose it feels
like we could use distinction like it's it's

469
00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.559
inherent that Yeah you would, okay, not just the process. It's not

470
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.119
descriptive. When I the amount of
fact, it would be like, oh

471
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.039
you like all this processed food?
Okay, what does that mean? Give

472
00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:16.279
me a descriptor. Okay, well, the reason we're saying process is because

473
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:21.000
we don't know the fucking process.
That's not my job. Well, somebody

474
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:23.759
needs to describe it accurately. Wait, Dan, if you have the heat

475
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:30.279
from the sun not not from the
la, and you have heat from your

476
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:35.640
oven, is that not just both
heat? Well, there's major changes in

477
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:39.319
severity there, but is it not
just heat? Yeah? So when we

478
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:45.480
say the word process, it's the
same thing. You're it's usually an adjective,

479
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:51.640
your verb. You're something is processed
or you're processing it. I think

480
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:54.200
the best way to describe how anything
happens is just show the sped up footage

481
00:33:54.200 --> 00:34:00.359
with a don't like turk tank tank, turk tank like assembly line something.

482
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:02.119
Then that would explain everything. I
mean, you're not wrong, right,

483
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:08.519
we should do that more. Uh
So, is just denim that hasn't been

484
00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:12.960
like stonewashed or something? Right?
Yes, yes, it is blue?

485
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.639
What makes it blue? No,
there's black. Then I bought jeans and

486
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:20.519
they were black, and then it's
still don them. They can be not

487
00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:32.039
blue. I really enjoy that's true. Yes, you are congratulation what colors

488
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:38.840
in Japan? It's still blue.
It's still dye diet, what's natural jean

489
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:46.000
color? Cotton blue? Okay color? Okay, okay, google what color

490
00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:52.519
is denim? Naturally? That's I
think it's a gray. I think it's

491
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:58.199
like because of the progress, it's
like a washed out gray. I don't

492
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:02.360
know if whoever first decided to everyone's
saying indigo, which I think it's funny

493
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.320
that you all said indigo specifically.
But I think of end glow way more

494
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:13.639
than I think of indigo. Remember
remember they all watch watch see it in

495
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:16.480
the movie Theater o the World.
Yeah, yeah, I want one so

496
00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:21.280
bad. Dan he goes the die
check, doesn't know what they're talking about.

497
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:27.320
God, But that's how I think
of it. My head hurts now.

498
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:31.000
The other takeaway from Japan is that
everyone had like these little hand towels

499
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:35.440
with them all the time. They're
very cute, very useful, especially when

500
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:37.800
you're sweating in the sun. Uh. I forget what they're called in Japanese.

501
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:44.000
But I did find a bunch of
pinker, not quite a handkerchief,

502
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:49.280
just like that towel material terry cloth, terry cloth, yes, little terry

503
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:58.079
but he's going to get it.
But I got everyone's little hand towels expect

504
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:00.159
them in the mail, Sean,
I need your mailing address. Sure they're

505
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:06.119
all Nintendo related. Yeah, cool, thank you. I saw them in

506
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:08.000
the Nintendo Star. I was like, I gotta get these for my hooligans.

507
00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:10.360
That's awesome, thank you. They're
all cute. It's it's just like

508
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:15.280
a little small towel. So it's
like, nothing too crazy. Uh that's

509
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.400
too big, Mike, is that
blood? What is he? Mike just

510
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:23.800
held the towel the camera and had
a bunch of coming. It just looks

511
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:30.639
like yeah, He's like, yeah, this is I got from the jet

512
00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:38.599
blood. That's pon your little fishy. She's the little fishy with the around

513
00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:43.719
to me like meat adjacent creatures,
you know. Yeah, Addie is our

514
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:49.320
little ponyo we call her because no, no, it's a GIBBLI. Oh

515
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:52.559
yeah, they're They're just like one
by one squares like this. Uh,

516
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:58.559
don't worry, I got I got
them to what I think everyone would like.

517
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:06.039
Uh, I'll send them your way
here deeply about towel size. I'm

518
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:09.440
also just gonna try and get the
company to let me nail them so I

519
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:14.719
don't have to deal yea, yes, yes, yes, yes, I

520
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.000
had a lovely, lovely time in
Japan. I already want to go back.

521
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:22.119
We should all go together. Yeah, that'd be great. Must be

522
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:23.760
something I can't believe I've ever been
in Japan. I've been this industry now

523
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:27.920
for like twelve years. I thought
something would have come up by now,

524
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.880
some red. Yeah, it just
hasn't happened. Oh but also like yo,

525
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:36.159
it's go to Henoya in Ginza,
and like they will take care of

526
00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:39.039
you if you want to drop some
some hard cash on some denim, like

527
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:43.000
tell them your boy Jan sent you
and they won't know who the fuck you're

528
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:49.599
talking about. I got some questions
for them too about denim I kept putting

529
00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:53.480
in jail. You're not allowed back. Oh, like the funny thing,

530
00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:59.360
what very do you take it away? What color is? Tell me?

531
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:05.199
The cute thing was. I came
back a second time because I was very

532
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:07.920
tempted to buy more jeans. I
just wanted buying Hawaiian shirts instead. God,

533
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:10.559
they're the best Hawaii shirts I've ever
had. Hawaiian shirts are so back,

534
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.480
baby, and I thought I was
over it, but now now we're

535
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:17.920
all the way back. Now I
only need to buy the specific brand of

536
00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:22.280
Hawaiian shirts. DM me if you
want the deats anyway, I go back.

537
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.639
My main man, Rio is there
and he's like, oh, like,

538
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:29.039
welcome back. Man. He drops
what he was doing. He was

539
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:34.719
helping someone else. He came to
help me instead, and then he's like

540
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.800
he's helping me on and everything.
And then he's helping me try stuff on.

541
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:40.159
He's pulling sizes and he was like, oh, where's your friend.

542
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:45.119
I'm like, oh, the white
guy and then he says yes, yes,

543
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:46.400
yes, and then like we go. I go on to tell him

544
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:52.360
like, I guess he's at work, and then he proceeds to ask like

545
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.880
about Org, and I'm like,
I guess it's rehearsal. He's doing Rent.

546
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:00.440
Do you know Rent? And then
he was like, oh, Rent

547
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.360
the musical And then he proceeds to
get super excited. He talks to his

548
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:07.280
coworkers in Japanese and then the only
word I'm picking up is rent, Rent

549
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.679
Rent, and then I'm like yeah, cool, uh and then he proceeds

550
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:14.760
to tell me, yeah, man, in uh in middle school, I

551
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:19.280
tap danced. I gotta make time
and try and see Rent. I hope

552
00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:23.920
your friend comes back. Just such
a pure thing. Did they start singing

553
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:28.760
anything from rent. No, okay, all right, they starts saying the

554
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:37.719
number. No they did not,
But anyway, God fucking love Japan.

555
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:38.480
I want to go. You had
a good time, jan she was,

556
00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:42.599
I know you wish you got got
like a little bit longer there. But

557
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:45.559
uh no, it seems like he
had a good trip. It was just

558
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:49.639
way too hot, guys, way
too hot, Like uh next time,

559
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:53.079
A ten minute walk from the subway
station back to my hotel in like two

560
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:59.280
pm in the afternoon, just drenched
and sweat drenched. And it didn't help

561
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:04.440
that I started wearing like my new
denim jeans and that was also dressed.

562
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:07.039
So I got I gotta go put
those in the freezer to watch them.

563
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:12.360
What short culture like in Japan?
Are they pro shorts? Oh? Okay,

564
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:19.599
I thought you meant like height.
I would never Most of the locals

565
00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:22.679
aren't wearing shorts, but like they
don't care about the tourists wearing shorts.

566
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:28.400
I think what America's greatest accomplishments is
normalizing shorts. Like we did it.

567
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:30.639
We did the right thing there.
Yeah, look at that. Let them

568
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:36.840
see this, some five meat look
at that. Hell yeah, that's like

569
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:38.559
in Mexico's so hot and They're like, we would never wear shorts. That's

570
00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:45.159
for boys. Yeah yeah, But
I wasn't the only one traveling. Dan.

571
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:49.039
You you went to Kansas City,
but Sean, you went to Sin

572
00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:53.039
City. I sure did. Oh
my god, you want to talk about

573
00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:59.440
hot, Holy moly, Las Vegas
was hot this weekend. Uh yeah.

574
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:04.119
I traveled out there for EVO,
my second EVO. Now, first one

575
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:09.679
was last year. It was an
interesting comparison between the two because last year

576
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:15.719
was at the Mandalay Bay Convention Hall
that they have over there at the Resort,

577
00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:19.519
which is where they were for several
years now, and now they are

578
00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:24.199
back to a previous venue in the
Las Vegas Convention Center. So first of

579
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:28.800
all, I gotta tell y'all about
my trip. I gotta tell y'all about

580
00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:30.800
what it was like getting out there, because, like I mentioned, game

581
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:35.920
as mornings that morning I went out, the plan was take a bus down

582
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:42.199
to Milwaukee and then fly out cheap
O airlines to Vegas from Milwaukee Easy Plan,

583
00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:46.000
Allegiant Southwest, Sun Country Spirit.
Okay, I would have been spirited

584
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:49.280
out Allegiant back. So I was
like, eh, whatever, but the

585
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:54.440
flights were so much cheaper, you
know. So again on this bus after

586
00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:58.960
it's been delayed by an hour and
a half, and they finally picked me

587
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.920
up, and I'll the way down. My flight keeps getting bumped, It

588
00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:08.800
keeps getting bumped, and then eventually
canceled. While I'm on the freaking buss

589
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:17.199
down to Milwaukee. Yeah, I'm
wondering if maybe, yeah, the whole

590
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:22.599
crowd strike thing maybe affected that starting
affecting things on Thursday night. I don't

591
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:28.760
know when it started like messing everything
up, but yeah, so I went.

592
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:31.960
I'm on the bus down to Milwaukee
trying to figure out, Okay,

593
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:37.239
my flight's been canceled. I have
work stuff lined up in the morning,

594
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.519
I need to get out to Vegas. What the hell am I gonna do?

595
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:45.400
And so I concocted this plan where, Okay, we get to Milwaukee,

596
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:50.159
I'm gonna take an Amtrak train down
to Chicago. I'm gonna fly out

597
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:54.280
of Chicago because they got late night. But Amtrak's at seven thirty five.

598
00:42:55.199 --> 00:43:00.119
We just barely get hit at like
seven point thirty. I'm renting down the

599
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:05.440
freaking the bus station to the train, just barely make it on like a

600
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:08.039
minute later they close the doors.
So I'm on the train and I'm like

601
00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:12.480
trying to figure out trying to book
this flight, and as quickly as I

602
00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:16.320
can get on get tickets for the
flight. All right, So I get

603
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:19.239
out of the train station. When
we get down there. By the way,

604
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.960
trains lovely, like we're talking about, especially when you come from like

605
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:28.239
a more suburban area like I do, and there's terrible public transportation. Trains

606
00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:30.880
are just nice, yep. But
we get down there, you know,

607
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.360
I have to uber over to the
airport. I'm like rushing over there to

608
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:37.639
make sure I get there for checking
time, and because I don't know what's

609
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:40.280
happening with like all the computer stuff, which I assume is what affected it.

610
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:45.639
I get there and everyone's kind of
just saying around, like looking annoyed,

611
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.239
and I look and it's been delayed. And then I sit down.

612
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.079
I'm like, all right, whatever, Well, I guess I have extra

613
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:53.119
time to go grab some I eat. Oh So you did all this hustling

614
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:57.760
without really knowing what was going on, what was happening? Yeah, Oh,

615
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:00.960
because like I was so freaking freaking
out because you know, my initial

616
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:05.280
flight was canceled and okay, I
need to get on this plane. You

617
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:07.719
just thought it was just your flight. Okay, I thought I was having

618
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:12.760
the worst luck in the world,
and it keeps getting bumped and bumped and

619
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.719
bumped, and this like ten thirty
plane. We're sitting there at like twelve

620
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:19.440
forty five, like what is happening? Like what's going on? And they're

621
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:23.239
just like technical difficulties with the plane. And then yeah, finally we get

622
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:28.960
on and yeah, you're close to
one am, and I get out there

623
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.119
safely. I do get out to
Vegas safely, walk outside. It's blazing

624
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:36.280
hot. But yeah, that that
the trip was absolutely insane. I don't

625
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:38.480
know if it's because of all the
computer stuff messing up, but definitely was.

626
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:42.000
Yeah, it had to be,
I assume at this point. Yeah,

627
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.239
once I actually got there, Vegas
isn't at least the Vegas Strip,

628
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:47.400
because you know, everyone who lives
in Vegas says like, oh no,

629
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:51.199
it's different off the strip, you
know, like any like big city with

630
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:54.440
major attractions. But yeah, the
Vegas Strip definitely is not my kind of

631
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:58.960
place. No, you like,
get out and it's like, oh,

632
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:05.159
Ereyland's just the whole place reeks of
smoke and booze and there's just like people

633
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:08.719
throwing up over on the side over
there shiny lights. Yeah, but hey

634
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:13.000
there's pretty lights. And hey over
there, the the Westgates sign is blue

635
00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:16.639
screen. Huh. I wonder why
that happened here this spearcreen. No,

636
00:45:17.719 --> 00:45:22.920
they made retain that one. Have
I heard that the strip has gotten like

637
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:28.719
worse recently or is that just something
my sheltered parents told me. It's the

638
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.360
same, It's always the same.
Yeah, yeah, i'd assume so at

639
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:37.199
least I know the difference between two
years obviously. But yeah, stayed at

640
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:38.920
a relatively cheap hotel, so you
know, check in and then uh,

641
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:43.559
that's one thing. Las Vegas is
reliable for cheap hotels because you spend money

642
00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:46.320
on everything else. Yeah. Well, I mean it's always funny because they

643
00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:50.840
get you with the resort fee if
they stay on the strip. But even

644
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:53.039
then, my hotel for the weekend
was relatively cheap. It was like four

645
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:58.679
hundred all sent doge. That's for
an entire four days in Vegas. That's

646
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:01.800
like very awesome. We got our
resort fee waived because our first night there,

647
00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:06.360
the AC wasn't working when it was
one hundred and eighteen degrees. Ye,

648
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:19.360
noour bar and just just going to
the casino. I guess Yeah,

649
00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:21.599
that was a nice thing. It
was a cheap hotel, but at least,

650
00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:23.199
like, you know, the room
was clean, it had ac Like.

651
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:27.320
I was like, I'm passing out. I'm getting up to do the

652
00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:30.159
stuff I got in the morning.
Yeah, actually getting out to EVO.

653
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:34.000
Uh, it is EVO as I
remembered it from last year, just in

654
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:37.320
a different space. I believe the
square footage of the convention Center is actually

655
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:42.400
a little bit bigger. But what
they did this year is they did something

656
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:47.400
interesting because last year and previous years, Amandoally Bay has the michelob Ultra Arena,

657
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:51.400
you know, where like NBA stuff
is held and everything. It's just

658
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.679
like actual big, awesome arena,
and so that's where the finals were always

659
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:58.599
held. So what when I got
into the convention Center, I got to

660
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:04.440
see that they have a very convention
looking area for EVO proper, but then

661
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:08.320
over to the side they like partitioned
off part of the hall. And this

662
00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:13.559
is something the director Rick was talking
up before the event. He was like,

663
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:21.159
we're gonna recreate the arena in the
convention Center using the like because Formula

664
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:23.679
one you know, big in Vegas
now in the past few years. So

665
00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:29.400
now they have the infrastructure to set
up like arena seating anywhere, like it's

666
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:34.599
portable, and so they set up
basically a recreation of the Michelobultra arena within

667
00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:37.079
the convention center. It was really
cool like that, you know, the

668
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.280
crazy yeah, blackout currents on one
side, so it's like nice and dark

669
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:45.400
in there, and they had the
lights andnary thing. The problem is,

670
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:49.360
as Marino said, the jack is
I know he was there. It was

671
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:54.480
not big enough because what they did
was they were banking on people wanting to

672
00:47:54.480 --> 00:48:00.719
do the live watch parties that streamers
were doing. So Maximilian and his friends

673
00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:02.639
and then I know Mighty Keith had
one. I think a couple other people

674
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:07.199
did too. They had what they
were calling live watch parties where they would

675
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:09.559
get one of the mini stages where
like games were being shown throughout the weekend

676
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:15.719
and then those people were just doing
their stream you know, like they would

677
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:17.920
do at home, but live from
the EVO show floor. Yeah a lot.

678
00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:21.920
Yeah, Yeah. It was a
cool concept and Maxes went really well

679
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.599
and that was was packed. But
because they were banking on a lot of

680
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:28.960
people wanting to do that wind up
play casuals throughout the weekend, they made

681
00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:34.960
the arena, uh An arena smaller
than it should have been, and so

682
00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:37.639
I think someone told me who got
the numbers? It was like two thirds

683
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:42.760
the size of the arena from last
year, despite being the biggest esports tournament

684
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:45.320
of all time. So yeah,
and everyone seemed like they were there.

685
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:49.559
There were so many more people in
my like on Twitter saying it I'm there

686
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:52.480
than I've ever seen before. It's
it seems like it's huge now. Yeah,

687
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.840
over ten thousand unique entrants alone,
just competitors were there. Yeah,

688
00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:01.119
So not to skip ahead too much, but on Sunday, you know,

689
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:07.239
final Sunday, there was a line
wrapping all the way around the conventions there.

690
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:14.039
It was two hours to get the
arena. Yeah, security was cracking

691
00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:16.360
down. You like could not get
in if you left, so you need

692
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:21.079
to like stay in their seat,
stay in the place where they also only

693
00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:25.760
had two bathrooms. Oh no,
no, I could never. I could

694
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:29.800
never. It was it was like
two on either side, so you know,

695
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:32.199
one male and female on either side. Yeah, but like how many

696
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:39.199
like stalls per not super big,
like there's you know, like at least

697
00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:45.039
for the guys. You know,
there was like probably five urinals and a

698
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:46.559
bunch of stalls, I will say, so like that we get people and

699
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:50.599
the line was moving, but it
was like at least a twenty minute wait.

700
00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:57.000
Just used my poor bladder. It
was in convention bathroom is a war

701
00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:00.519
zone, like even like a giant
LA convention center. Like two of sounds

702
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:02.840
insane, right, Yeah, yeah, the streamer might like take your video

703
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:09.079
while you're in there too. Yeah
about that like raw dogging g fuel on

704
00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:15.440
the right set up on the counter
they're playing or something. Yeah, I

705
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:17.760
was. I was so thankful this
because this was my first year with the

706
00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:22.119
media passed. Since I was working, I was able to like skip some

707
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:34.400
lines here and there, not the
bathroom lin because oh yeah media on Sunday,

708
00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:38.159
I was staying in the Bandy Namco
press box because we needed like approval

709
00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:40.599
for certain things, so like that
was the easiest way to do it.

710
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:44.840
So also I got to like skip
the line to get in, thankfully,

711
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:49.000
because I needed to for my job, of course, But like I yeah,

712
00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:51.199
I felt awful that people are to
weigh in line so much, and

713
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:53.440
like people I knew had to weigh
in line. I know, say,

714
00:50:53.559 --> 00:50:59.440
Jam was trying to get a competitor
to the stage and he was having trouble

715
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:02.400
like getting him through security. Just
he was like, dude, look at

716
00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:07.760
his badge and everything, like he's
playing on the stream for one hundred thousand

717
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:10.440
people and like a little bit like
come on, get him up there.

718
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:14.920
It was that, Yeah, that
was the downside of the whole weekend,

719
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.840
but that was like really the only
negative. It seemed like a great time.

720
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:23.320
It's awesome. The production was fantastic. I do think they did a

721
00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:29.880
good job recreating the arena for all
the top six is how how did everything

722
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:31.960
else look to you guys, like
anything else that you saw, like y'all

723
00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:35.800
that it all looks good to me? I thought it looked amazing. I

724
00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:37.360
thought I was like, man,
this is They're doing a really good job

725
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:42.480
of presentation. Like you said,
just the quality of the competition is what

726
00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:45.480
it was kind of I was losing
my mind during Third Strike. There was

727
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.840
a question because I've never seen any
ebo stuff ever, and like I've always

728
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:52.639
been afraid of it. Not afraid
of it, but you know what I

729
00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:54.360
mean, Like I haven't seeked it
out because I assume that you have to

730
00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:58.840
like know deep, Like I like
fighting games the way like Mortal Combat and

731
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:00.559
Street Fighter and stuff. But like
I've seen clips, like I saw that

732
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:05.320
clip that was going around from this
new one where everyone's freaking the fuck out,

733
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:08.000
and it's like if I don't know, like is it accessible to someone

734
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:12.840
who doesn't know like deep fighting,
like the intricacies of because I didn't know

735
00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:15.480
why everyone was freaking out so much
when like, you know, the guy

736
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:16.639
jumped over the other guy and it's
like I don't know what that means and

737
00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:19.800
everyone's losing it. I'm like,
man, it's just some people are having

738
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:21.920
a good time here, but I
don't understand what's happening. You know,

739
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:24.360
Yeah he's I mean he had like
no health left. He timed the jump

740
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:29.639
the dropkick to go over his last
ultimate at like the perfect time so that

741
00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:30.920
he could drop his and take the
guy out, and uses me to it

742
00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:37.119
was less. It's less about knowing
the intricacies of the game and more just

743
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:38.880
like if you just pay attention to
what's going on screen, like maybe maybe

744
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:43.280
you just don't find that stuff as
hype, but something like you know,

745
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:46.320
both people being down to like very
low health and like just really slugging it

746
00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:51.159
out trying to get a last hit
in and something like yeah, it was

747
00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:54.800
HIGHO. People are calling it EVO
Moment thirty eight because it was the close

748
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:59.400
most Yeah, it was most hype
thing that happened over the weekend. Just

749
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:00.800
the fact that you know, we're
like, oh, he's gonna die to

750
00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:07.199
the super move and he does a
drop kick that nobody ever does that move.

751
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.480
It's a useless move. It's justin
long sound stream, and so he

752
00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:15.199
used it with the biggest read in
the world to jump over the super because

753
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.239
that's the only way that he could
recover it. And then it's ice cold

754
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:20.920
blood. It's like, it's the
coldest moment I've ever seen. For real,

755
00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.360
it sounds awesome. You hear you
describe it. That sounds fucking cool.

756
00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:25.239
And seeing the crowd pop up,
it was just like, oh my

757
00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:29.719
god, Like I feel like I'm
missing something because it's clearly very exciting,

758
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.920
but like without knowing that, I
play a little third strike, like I'm

759
00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:38.239
you know, I could beat Mike
ad of course, but if but if,

760
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:42.360
Like when I'm watching, I am
not thinking about any of those intricacies,

761
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:45.840
I am not thinking about any of
the I'm just like I could see

762
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:49.119
he's got low health. I could
see this other guy is about to do

763
00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:52.159
something really crazy, I use his
meat or whatever. Again, I'm like

764
00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:53.599
barely thinking about that stuff. And
I'm like, so he's screwed, and

765
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:57.400
in this situation, I would give
up basically, and he is like,

766
00:53:57.480 --> 00:54:00.000
no, I'm going to perfectly block
everything up in the air drop down,

767
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.159
and the guy's like still got meter
up, so you're still screwed. And

768
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:06.480
then then he does a drop kick, and like in that mode I'm see

769
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:07.480
him do that, I'm like,
oh my god, he did that deliberately

770
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:09.760
to time it. And I don't
know how I knew that other than like,

771
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:13.800
yeah, I'm just kind of paying
attention a little bit watching health bars

772
00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:16.079
and stuff. Yeah, and if
you believed you understood what was going on,

773
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:21.079
you wouldn't know enough to be excited
about it. When I went,

774
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:24.199
however, many years ago with Ben, like, I don't know much,

775
00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:28.639
if anything, about fighting games,
but when I was in the pit watching

776
00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:34.400
some of the finals, it was
the most hype I'd ever been watching,

777
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:38.639
like a live event happen. It
felt like I was in Mania or at

778
00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:43.920
Mania because of like how uh you
just get caught up in like the swell

779
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:47.239
of the crowd walking or Yeah,
it's less about what's happening on screen,

780
00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:51.960
and more of the fact that you
are among thousands of our people who are

781
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.800
all like loving the same thing and
just seeing a situation where, oh wait,

782
00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:59.119
these two people are down to basically
one move will kill the other person.

783
00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:02.559
One person does something that's almost guaranteed
to kill and somehow the other person

784
00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:07.280
avoids it and like swings back.
That is just a hype moment. It's

785
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:09.079
undeniable. Seeing the crowd, Like
I mean, I really do love seeing

786
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:13.039
a hyped up crowd, and like
that is like up there with you know,

787
00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:15.480
the most I've seen. We should
go next year. We should all

788
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:19.000
go next year. Definitely. Yeah, no, like finals are reason enough

789
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:22.039
to go. But like EVO has
expand out to just being a convention now,

790
00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:24.679
there's so many things to do.
I got I got a ton of

791
00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:28.679
footage. That's why I'm gonna do
on the giant bomb side of things.

792
00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:30.280
I have all this foots I can
put together on a video. I have

793
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:35.159
some interviews from some very cool people
that I'm excited to put together. I

794
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:37.800
even got one from a mark Man, the Utter of Evo. Yeah,

795
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:40.320
so that's gonna be a fun one
to put in there. A few are

796
00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:47.480
fun faces. I think everyone all
right. So there's booths like E three

797
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:53.599
booths like just everywhere for like Bandai
Namco As one where the're swing off tech

798
00:55:53.679 --> 00:56:00.599
In and the new Dragon Ball game
Sparking zero. Uh, there was Fatal

799
00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:04.840
Fury have booth and you know Capcom
have one for mar Varsus Capcom Collection.

800
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:07.199
So all these fighting games are coming
out that you'll be able to play soon.

801
00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:10.840
You can demo them at the event
with the again, like if you

802
00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:15.079
can't go at E three or you
know what was E three Summer Game Fest

803
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:17.880
whoever, Like this is where you
can get that four fighting games, which

804
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:22.960
is really cool. There's the arcade
section, Dan, you would just love

805
00:56:23.039 --> 00:56:27.519
being in the arcade section. It's
like they took if you've ever been to

806
00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:30.039
Galloping Ghosts or you know about it, it's like, yeah, several rooms

807
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:35.159
that they basically like knocked down the
walls to form this giant arcade in a

808
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:38.239
like a mini mall. They basically
took a room from Galloping Ghosts and like

809
00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:42.480
PLoP down the EVO shop floor.
That's how big the arcade space is there.

810
00:56:42.599 --> 00:56:45.079
And they have everything. They have
rhythm games, they have racing games,

811
00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:49.639
they have fighting games. They have
beat them ups any it's free player.

812
00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:52.639
Yeah, so if you just have
nothing else going on, and like,

813
00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:53.920
that's why I eventually ended up doing. I went over and played some

814
00:56:53.960 --> 00:57:00.119
Crazy TAXI played some power Stone.
Yes, it was great. There's the

815
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:04.039
oh God, the Artist Alley,
where I spent a bunch of money,

816
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:07.880
as I always do. I had
a homie over there, who I was

817
00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:15.679
talking to a little bit as David. I was just I was amazed by

818
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:22.119
the presentation of it all, Like
PlayStation is running the show now, so

819
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:30.559
they had PlayStation stuff that I could
do. I played Astrobot. That awesome.

820
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:34.440
Yeah, just random to people in
New York. That's awesome. They're

821
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:36.960
like taking around the country and email. You're right, PlayStation yeah, owns

822
00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:38.880
the place, so why not.
I was like, why is this here?

823
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:46.800
But by the way, Astrobot very
good, Big Mario Galaxy favor Yeah

824
00:57:47.039 --> 00:57:55.920
yeah that picture of jeffs No,
yeah, I don't have to do that.

825
00:57:57.039 --> 00:58:02.880
Maybe they had these Grand Tarismo like
simulators where it was like a like

826
00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:09.440
a big like the big machine with
like you know, racing wheel and then

827
00:58:09.519 --> 00:58:13.480
like a seed and everything that looked
like that. It was really fun.

828
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:15.360
Yeah, I'm just trying to think
of like everything that I saw, and

829
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:19.360
I'll put all in the video frame
that I missed. But there's a huge

830
00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:23.199
like art gallery, so not like
artist sality where people are selling stuff,

831
00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:29.920
but like uh art from fighting game
history, like was all like framed and

832
00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:32.800
put up in this like museum next
to the fight stick Museum, which they

833
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:37.599
also have that's like a mark Man
pet project, I believe, where like

834
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:42.840
just fight sticks from throughout the years. It was awesome. When it comes

835
00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:47.480
to work stuff, I did a
whole variety of things I did so first

836
00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:51.119
of all, shouts to Tam for
like cooking me up with the right people

837
00:58:51.239 --> 00:58:57.159
and like helping me schedule a bunch
of appointments. I got to interview and

838
00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:00.880
I, I don't know if we're
posting all these interviews on game Spot,

839
00:59:00.880 --> 00:59:02.960
but at least one of them will
go up as a text Q and A.

840
00:59:04.960 --> 00:59:09.039
I got to interview Matsumoto from Capcom
director on three Fire six, and

841
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:15.360
I specifically interviewed him about Marl Verus
Capcom Fine Collection. I got to interview.

842
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:19.360
I thought it was gonna be Horada, then turned into Harada and Michael

843
00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:22.840
Murray, and then when I got
there it was the techan team on the

844
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:29.599
other side of a table from I
sit down Herada is wearing literally it's a

845
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:32.400
shirt that's the cover of the Godfather, but it's him, and it's like,

846
00:59:32.440 --> 00:59:38.119
you know, the Godfather. I'm
teking, what a cool guy.

847
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:44.199
So I got to interview yeah,
the tech and project crew, and I

848
00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:49.119
got to interview Sean Rivera from Riot
about two Xkale. So I got to

849
00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:52.519
talk to a bunch of cool people
about their games. I think that all

850
00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:55.400
the interviews went really well. I
said, I don't know if we're posting

851
00:59:55.440 --> 00:59:58.880
all of them, but at least
I believe the banda namco one should be

852
00:59:58.920 --> 01:00:01.719
going up on Game Spot and Near
Future. And I got to get hands

853
01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:07.840
on with NVC collection MK one's new
characters, so Takeda and then Pharahz the

854
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:12.960
cameo and I got to play a
bunch of two xcal which, by the

855
01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:15.599
way, uh Jeff and Mike No. I ran into one of our Argentinian

856
01:00:15.639 --> 01:00:22.079
friends just randomly, like our press
contact was like, hey, Sean,

857
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:23.719
do you want to work with like
an other press person to get some footage?

858
01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:25.440
Like he's here too, trying to
get some footage. I'm like,

859
01:00:25.519 --> 01:00:30.119
yeah, yeah, and they bring
them over and you know, this dude

860
01:00:30.119 --> 01:00:31.760
I've never met, and I'm like, oh, where you're from? I

861
01:00:31.800 --> 01:00:38.079
believe it ares And I'm like,
what outlet are you from? That just

862
01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:42.960
happened to be Yeah, one Christians
Homies. So yeah, that was fantastic.

863
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:44.599
Yeah, I saw they were there
too. Yeah. Again, it

864
01:00:44.679 --> 01:00:47.679
just seems like everyone was an EVO. Yeah, and that's what like the

865
01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:52.119
the video I'm making for here is
going to be. Like initially it was

866
01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:54.519
going to be, you know,
more traditional travelogue about like the trip itself

867
01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:59.400
kind of and then also covering EVO
and like intersportsing the interviews. I'm I

868
01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:04.960
am just in it a little bit
to be like I might even call it

869
01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:07.920
what it's like to be at EVO
yause I got so much footage of just

870
01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:12.559
like first person stuff. I got
a handful of interviews, and yeah,

871
01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:15.559
I just want to put together something
that shows people why if you weren't here,

872
01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:20.199
you need to be here, like
even just as a casual fan,

873
01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:22.400
Like if you can make your work
for you, go with some friends,

874
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:24.679
you know, split the bill on
a bunch of stuff, and if you

875
01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:28.800
make it work for you, it's
just fun to go and be in that

876
01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:31.719
environment around so many people. You
know, if you've been listening for a

877
01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:35.880
while now, you know when I
talk about Combo Breaker, I say the

878
01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:37.960
same thing. It's just cool be
in that environment, be the around every

879
01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:44.119
one, and EVO is it's Evo. It's that. But yeah, to

880
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:49.360
the highest degree, were you happy
to be there in not competing or did

881
01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:51.639
part of you miss that? You're
like, you know, I would have

882
01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:53.519
liked to practice and get in there
and even if I got washed or whatever,

883
01:01:53.719 --> 01:01:57.440
still that would have been great.
Or what was it like time because

884
01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:00.639
you weren't competing. I was initially
a little bummed that I wasn't competing because,

885
01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:04.519
like, you know, I'm not. I want to be very clear,

886
01:02:04.679 --> 01:02:07.800
I'm not good at fighting games,
like yeah, no, just like

887
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:12.519
in general, I'm a very like
average player, Like I usually hover around

888
01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:15.639
like platinum in a gameplaying. I'm
not you know, so I'm all right

889
01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:19.159
at whatever game I play. But
it's like I'm not I'm probably not beating

890
01:02:19.199 --> 01:02:22.559
anyone at these major tournaments. But
even then, I just have fun hanging

891
01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:27.679
out and like watching the matches live, getting to play games early, getting

892
01:02:27.719 --> 01:02:30.679
to hang out with people, just
you know, randomly chatting people up or

893
01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:32.880
itsus like we don't know each other, but we have something in common,

894
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:37.920
so we just talk for like ten
minutes because we're both watching Max's stream,

895
01:02:37.079 --> 01:02:39.920
or we're both waiting in line at
one of the booths or something like.

896
01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:45.400
It's it's fun to just be there, thankfully for me, like working kind

897
01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:49.599
of replaced competing for me, right, which is you know, that's something

898
01:02:49.679 --> 01:02:52.400
more unique to me. But I
think if you're just going as a spectator,

899
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:57.960
you absolutely can still have incredible time. You'll still be doing stuff too,

900
01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:00.559
you know. There's like I said, you need even just spend all

901
01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:02.719
day in the free play arcade,
and that's something you could do. You

902
01:03:02.760 --> 01:03:07.559
know. I've seeing all those clips, specifically in all the tweets about Street

903
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:13.440
Fighter three and Third Strike, I
feel like high out just like in general,

904
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:17.440
just mugging the camera costantly on stage, like I can't wait to show

905
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:22.280
you guys the footage of the crowd
erupting anytime. Hell yeah, okay.

906
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:24.360
It's like I feel like s F
three was like one of the only times

907
01:03:24.440 --> 01:03:29.119
nineties gaming magazines really let me down
because like I love Street Fighter two,

908
01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:30.920
I love Street Fighter four, but
you know, when you're a kid,

909
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.320
you have to be really economical with
what you're buying and stuff. I was

910
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:37.199
very much as reviews were the thing, and Street Fighter three came out,

911
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:40.480
I was so fucking excited for it, and every review was like, it's

912
01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:44.880
not Street Fighter two, most of
the characters aren't here, it's not as

913
01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:49.840
good. And so my understanding until
a few years ago was that Street Fighter

914
01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:52.480
three sucked. And then like,
now this happens, and I see,

915
01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:53.440
like, you know, several people
on this call be like, man,

916
01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:57.079
Third Strike kicks ass. This is
the perfect game. This is literally made

917
01:03:57.119 --> 01:04:02.440
maybe the best thing ever made.
This happened. Why ever, first of

918
01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:06.760
all, the first like two versions
of Street Far because you know street Fire

919
01:04:06.800 --> 01:04:13.159
does multiple versions versions of Street Fire
three. Uh Street Far three, and

920
01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:17.679
then second impact. Second, we're
just not great. They specifically were not

921
01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:21.199
amazing games. They were missing some
stuff that people want, just you know,

922
01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:25.960
high level Street Far three. Third
Strike is the one where it's like,

923
01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:29.679
Okay, this feels like what we
want. This feels like more of

924
01:04:29.719 --> 01:04:32.320
like the natural successor. They tweaked
some stuff with like the parrying the way

925
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:36.159
that worked and know everything like that, but people still didn't like it.

926
01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:41.119
Back in the day, Strike was
not a popular game back in the day

927
01:04:41.320 --> 01:04:44.960
because it was people saw it as
very technical, as you know my understanding,

928
01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:51.079
I wasn't necessarily not capcom. Well
even people don't like that. I

929
01:04:51.079 --> 01:04:54.440
mean, this is back when like
Mortal Kombat was the biggest thing and that

930
01:04:54.559 --> 01:04:58.639
was very accessible. There was a
lot of people wanting technical showcases. They

931
01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:00.400
want games to look like Moral co. They wanted like, you know,

932
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:04.360
techan was the hot new thing around. The Fire was still doing well,

933
01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:08.119
especially in Japan. So they look
at Street Fire and they're like, Okay,

934
01:05:08.119 --> 01:05:10.760
it's a little old school. It's
kind of hard to get into the

935
01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:14.199
Perry system. I can't quite wrap
my head around it because like, well

936
01:05:14.239 --> 01:05:16.000
I do something to someone, they
just parry it. What's the point?

937
01:05:16.320 --> 01:05:21.039
But that made a very very good
competitive game. And what happens with games

938
01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:26.320
over time, the casuals drop off, the competitive scene sticks around, and

939
01:05:26.360 --> 01:05:29.840
that's how we get moments like Evil
Moment thirty seven and so we have,

940
01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:34.000
you know, twenty years of pixel
art slowly being deprecated by these met Like,

941
01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:36.719
yeah, pixelarts still exists, but
it's made by small teams, not

942
01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:41.280
by like the biggest teams with the
biggest budgets that can spend all this time

943
01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:44.039
on making the best animation you've ever
seen. So it's like, now this

944
01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:46.800
feels precious. It feels like a
special thing that we don't get anymore.

945
01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:49.079
You will tell you put work into
it like that. You know, they

946
01:05:49.159 --> 01:05:55.039
literally like rotoscopes. Some I forget
the scene is, but some dancer like

947
01:05:55.079 --> 01:06:00.840
someone in animation. Yeah, just
it looks so as they alert copy you

948
01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:04.880
know, someone's like dance moves or
whatever like it. It's just an immaculately

949
01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:09.880
made game and took the competitive scene
lashing onto it for us to realize that

950
01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:15.320
it's a broken game. It's hilariously
imbalanced, but thanks to the Perry system,

951
01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:18.079
like allowing you to just you know, toss anything off your shoulder,

952
01:06:18.199 --> 01:06:21.280
like, oh yeah, you're using
a high level move. If I can

953
01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:26.320
predict it, I'll parry it and
I take no damage. And that alone

954
01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:30.800
has caused the game to just develop
even now, even to his day,

955
01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:34.400
and you see stuff like what there
was like one of the players was like

956
01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:39.639
a young person who was like twenty
one years old. He's younger than Third

957
01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:45.039
Strike and he's like playing in Top
six. Like that's how good that game

958
01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:46.360
is. This sounds like like an
other mediums. It's like you always hear

959
01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:48.599
about like oh, when Predator came
out, critics hated it, or like

960
01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:58.639
let Zeppe you know, yeah a
group it's fine. Yeah, it just

961
01:06:58.679 --> 01:07:01.840
gets better over time. Okay,
cool Sean. I was like haavy this.

962
01:07:01.960 --> 01:07:04.280
I was like, man, I
like the Third Strike up was awesome.

963
01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:06.440
But yeah, like that game has
been kind of figured out in terms

964
01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:10.360
of the meta for a while now, Like you know, it's a lot

965
01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:14.039
of chun Lee's and kens and yunes. I was, you know, we

966
01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:15.440
always want Third Strike to be there. Gotta be awesome. If we got

967
01:07:15.440 --> 01:07:19.119
like a new rebalance of that game, maybe do things like let you use

968
01:07:19.159 --> 01:07:25.320
the backgrounds from st from New Generation
and Double Impact. Yeah, it would

969
01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:29.039
be cool if there was a Street
Far three or like a Hyper three Far

970
01:07:29.079 --> 01:07:31.920
three, like the different SF two
where you see different versions of the characters

971
01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:38.280
and then like we could maybe ban
certain versions because they're way too popular or

972
01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:43.679
whatever. But yeah, I think
I think laying Third Strike rock as is

973
01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:46.039
is fine. Sure, it's kind
of boring to just see a lot of

974
01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:51.159
chun Lee and Union top eights,
top sixes, but you know that's the

975
01:07:51.199 --> 01:07:56.119
game, Like a lot of fighting
games have that problem. I do think

976
01:07:56.119 --> 01:07:58.400
Techan has a bit of that issue
right now, with a lot of dragon

977
01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:01.320
offs and tops sold. Dragon off
did not win the Yeah, well,

978
01:08:02.199 --> 01:08:09.159
tracking off on principal like who beat
the dragon olls Arcel and Ash the best

979
01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:13.239
teching player of all time? Like
at this point, I don't think there's

980
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:18.399
any debate. Uh, five time
EVO champion just plays basically perfectly every time

981
01:08:18.399 --> 01:08:21.640
he plays the game. That's why
I tried to take him out. Yeah,

982
01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:27.760
I don't know Lily Peachu beat,
so she might be up there now.

983
01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:32.560
Maybe maybe I asked Harada about that
a little bit. Hell yeah,

984
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:35.000
yeah, oh yeah. I met
Jason Finelli while I was there, too.

985
01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:38.439
I met a whole bunch of people. I met a blessing from kind

986
01:08:38.439 --> 01:08:42.399
of yeah great, Yeah that was
by the way. Oh yeah, yeah,

987
01:08:42.520 --> 01:08:44.199
trying to make it jell us there
a little bit, yep, I

988
01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:45.800
was. Yeah, I met a
whole bunch of people, and uh,

989
01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:49.479
it was a really fun time.
I know, Dan was asking good questions.

990
01:08:49.479 --> 01:08:56.079
Anybody got any other questions about EVO? I guess I'm just I know

991
01:08:56.159 --> 01:08:59.319
last year we said, you know, I gotta get out there next year.

992
01:08:59.399 --> 01:09:01.119
This year, I really, I
hope. I mean that I would

993
01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:04.039
love to be at EVA just looks
like so much fun. I mean the

994
01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:11.399
Street Fighter six finals also were super
fun. That yeah, those are god.

995
01:09:11.479 --> 01:09:14.720
Cap COM's so back, dude.
Like street Fire six was a good

996
01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:17.279
top six where like all the other
ones have their issues, especially with like

997
01:09:17.439 --> 01:09:23.119
character mirror matches at people playing kind
of busted characters. The street Fire six

998
01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:26.359
is doing really well. It looks
so yeah, it's yeah, it looks

999
01:09:26.399 --> 01:09:30.600
so good. How like, how
was like that Mars's Capcomb booth. Was

1000
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:32.640
it kind of pop in? Was
there a lot of excitement there? I

1001
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:35.479
mean the booth itself was a bit
basic. It was basically just you know

1002
01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:40.960
how Capcom has those like arcade machines
that they built themselves for new games or

1003
01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:44.720
like they commissioned out where kind of
just looks like, uh, you know,

1004
01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:46.399
it kind of just looks like a
large like letter a made of of

1005
01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:49.920
like white PC or what or whatever
it is, and they just have like

1006
01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:54.720
a PS five underneath. Like they
just had a bunch of those and not

1007
01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:57.239
much else at the booth itself.
So people, you know, if you

1008
01:09:57.239 --> 01:10:00.720
want to play NBC in line,
play a check out like Marvel two or

1009
01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:04.119
what by the way, collection,
it's fantastic, like it just it is

1010
01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:09.840
what you expect. It's i will
say, almost a little boring because it

1011
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:14.359
just works right. Yeah, it's
like, oh that one's kind of like

1012
01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:16.800
that too, but yeah, functional, but maybe not quite as spicy as

1013
01:10:16.840 --> 01:10:20.520
you. Yeah, this is just
how we're going to play NBC two unless

1014
01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:23.600
you know, Spiel really want to
play on our caboards. But it's like

1015
01:10:23.640 --> 01:10:26.159
otherwise, this is how most people
are just going to play MBC too.

1016
01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:28.960
Now, I was pretty I was
a little disappointedly to get an actual release

1017
01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:31.760
date for that collection at some point
during Evo, but yep, and I

1018
01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:36.760
didn't get one either. I asked
some fun questions I asked about why is

1019
01:10:36.760 --> 01:10:41.039
it not Xbox for example, Like, I asked a few questions about that.

1020
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:44.800
Uh, maybe I'll say that for
the those interviews do go up,

1021
01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:46.479
you have to check you out.
Can you throw them on that? Why

1022
01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:49.840
is it this patch version of X
Men versus Street Fighter without the wall combos

1023
01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:56.760
or whatever? It is? Okay, damn. Now. One thing I

1024
01:10:56.760 --> 01:11:00.520
did learn, and this was a
learning experience for me, like interviewing people

1025
01:11:00.640 --> 01:11:04.439
for the first time professionally is especially
if you're working with a Japanese company,

1026
01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:10.520
I like learn this ofwfly translation can
take a while. Yeah, and when

1027
01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:13.880
you have a limited amount of time, you got sort of like, okay,

1028
01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:17.560
suddenly I need to pick and choose
my questions very specifically. That's true.

1029
01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:19.279
Yeah, I definitely done interviews like
that. I was like, I'm

1030
01:11:19.279 --> 01:11:23.000
gonna maybe get two or three questions
in. Yeah, so I gotta be

1031
01:11:23.039 --> 01:11:28.000
pretty specific here. You know,
something real stupid. A lot of my

1032
01:11:29.279 --> 01:11:31.640
question for you, Sean, Yeah, you eat anything fun out there?

1033
01:11:32.760 --> 01:11:39.680
I went to Tacos El Gordo,
which is like, uh, basically they

1034
01:11:40.399 --> 01:11:45.600
Taco Bell two. It's like Taco
Bell two, the sequel Electric Boogloo.

1035
01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:48.880
So it's like the the home Cell
Mexican that I get here where I live.

1036
01:11:49.720 --> 01:11:53.199
But it's like it's like fast food
style, you know, like you

1037
01:11:53.319 --> 01:11:56.399
go up to a line and they
just order what you want. But they

1038
01:11:56.439 --> 01:12:00.439
do make everything fresh because do literally
had like you know, specual Yeah,

1039
01:12:00.439 --> 01:12:02.079
strips of steak that is grilling on
the grills, Like what you want.

1040
01:12:02.159 --> 01:12:05.680
I'm like a you know, you
know, three State Tacos, took a

1041
01:12:05.720 --> 01:12:09.960
slab, chopped it all up,
you know, put it on some fresh

1042
01:12:10.039 --> 01:12:13.960
tortillas p on the cilantro and onion
and whatever else I want. And yeah,

1043
01:12:14.119 --> 01:12:16.279
it's just fresh tacos where I go
right down the street from the strip.

1044
01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:18.800
Unfortunately, because I was so busy, I didn't get to go as

1045
01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:25.840
many places I want. Anyone whoever
does, go to Evo Jaolong Dumplings a

1046
01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:30.880
little off the strip, spicy soup
dumplings that are no shit, maybe the

1047
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:34.760
greatest hand of our tasted. They're
so good. All right, we should

1048
01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:40.720
the talk about where Dan got married
a couple of weeks ago. Also to

1049
01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:44.680
a place there called the Blackout,
where it's literally a pitch black room,

1050
01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:49.000
so the waiters have night vision goggles. What the it's awesome. It's a

1051
01:12:49.039 --> 01:12:53.039
seven course meal where it's like you're
in a lobby and you sit down and

1052
01:12:53.079 --> 01:12:56.000
they bring you into like a red
room for your eyes to start adjusting,

1053
01:12:56.399 --> 01:12:58.439
and then they're like you have to
do the like okay, putting your hands

1054
01:12:58.479 --> 01:13:00.079
on shoulders the person in front of
you, and they walk you in and

1055
01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.520
it's I knew it was gonna be
dark, but it's literally it's like you

1056
01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:08.600
have a blindfold on and so you're
eating it's glasses. It's seven courses.

1057
01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:11.640
The first one, he's like,
all right, you've got a here's we

1058
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:14.359
put a bowl in front of you. It is a little bit wet.

1059
01:13:14.520 --> 01:13:16.079
There is a spoon to your right. And I'm like, okay. When

1060
01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:18.720
they said it was a little bit
wet, I thought it was gonna be

1061
01:13:18.760 --> 01:13:20.399
like a buffalo wing. And I
was like, I'll just grab this and

1062
01:13:20.439 --> 01:13:25.279
I reached my hand in. It
was a bowl of carrot soup. I

1063
01:13:25.760 --> 01:13:28.760
put my hand in a bowl of
carrot soup. But it's a good gimmick.

1064
01:13:28.840 --> 01:13:31.039
It works. It's just so much. I would be so anxious.

1065
01:13:31.079 --> 01:13:34.039
I'd be miserable. I wanted too. I ate stuff that like it was

1066
01:13:34.079 --> 01:13:36.680
like very male based and stuff that
I probably would not have if I could

1067
01:13:36.680 --> 01:13:40.479
have seen it. When I was
asking people more familiar, like one of

1068
01:13:40.520 --> 01:13:43.720
the good eats in Vegas, they
kept recommending stuff like that. I'm like,

1069
01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:45.520
no, I'm not that kind of
guy. I I got. I

1070
01:13:45.560 --> 01:13:50.279
got tacos and drink for twenty bucks
in Vegas. I'm happy give me gimmicks

1071
01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:54.079
I wanted. I'm wanted the problem
tourists. So I just went to good

1072
01:13:54.039 --> 01:13:58.720
to all the celebrity chef restaurants,
which good. Yeah, there's nothing wrong

1073
01:13:58.760 --> 01:14:01.560
with that. It used to be
I'll be flay one in this somewhere.

1074
01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:10.640
It was he's better than other people. Very good, very good, Well,

1075
01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:13.800
Sean, I'm I'm happy to hear
that your trip was very fun and

1076
01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:16.359
successful. We're going to take a
quick bricky break, actually, and then

1077
01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:21.399
we're just going to combine the games
and the news quick Seggie. Right after

1078
01:14:21.560 --> 01:14:28.880
this bricky break, I want to
go to the face so bad. This

1079
01:14:29.119 --> 01:14:32.680
apparently is a podcast about video games
and not miscellaneous vacations, So I guess

1080
01:14:32.680 --> 01:14:46.640
we're legally obligated to now talk about
video games. I'm steering the ship so

1081
01:14:46.680 --> 01:14:50.000
I can talk about where the funk
I want to talk about. Sorry for

1082
01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:59.000
the cussing today, I'm feeling very
spicy. I'm a little I was telling

1083
01:14:59.039 --> 01:15:03.359
my partner that, like Yo,
I have to find japan Jam here because

1084
01:15:03.880 --> 01:15:10.840
I found Jam and then there's like
Barber Jam, there's me Jam. Now

1085
01:15:10.880 --> 01:15:15.000
I have to find Japan Jam.
It was not successful. Five days isn't

1086
01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:19.279
enough anyway. The one game that
I played was the New York Times Mini

1087
01:15:19.479 --> 01:15:25.960
Crosswords. Yeah, look, you
took a flight that long and you didn't

1088
01:15:26.000 --> 01:15:30.680
have more games than Crosswords. Dan
you were in that meeting where I said

1089
01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:33.159
the flight back, I just raw
dogged the flight. Wait you did the

1090
01:15:33.199 --> 01:15:36.079
thing where you just looked at the
map. I just looked at the map

1091
01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:39.520
and I just stared in front of
me the whole time. Nine hours wait

1092
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:44.560
for Japan. Yeah you what you
really did? Yeah? Yeah? Way

1093
01:15:44.640 --> 01:15:47.159
work stronger man than me. This
is the thing now, is what all

1094
01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:51.399
the strong silent types are doing.
How Like I was bored out of my

1095
01:15:51.600 --> 01:15:56.520
mind and I fell asleep because I
was sleep deprived. Like how it was

1096
01:15:56.560 --> 01:15:59.960
a four hour flight? What hang
on? I want I want this big

1097
01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:03.199
you're painted here, Jane. Did
you have earbuds in? No, so

1098
01:16:03.239 --> 01:16:06.079
you weren't listen to anything. Did
you have anything in your hands? I

1099
01:16:06.119 --> 01:16:11.760
had my phone occasionally looking at the
time. Okay, did you have the

1100
01:16:11.840 --> 01:16:16.359
trade down? No? Did you
eat anything they had? We we bought

1101
01:16:16.359 --> 01:16:20.159
a meal? Yeah, okay,
Okay. How long was the middle seat?

1102
01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:26.520
Oh? Okay, it could be
bad. But is it like was

1103
01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:30.880
it a Dreamliner or like a was
a eighth No. Seven eighty seven or

1104
01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:32.199
something. I don't know the model
of the plane. It was an older

1105
01:16:32.239 --> 01:16:38.119
plane because we flew zip Air,
which is a cheaper Uh, probably sixty

1106
01:16:38.159 --> 01:16:43.399
seven. You were describing a legitimate
nightmare for me. Well, okay,

1107
01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:45.600
my partner had the window seat so
I could lean if I needed to.

1108
01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:50.000
But then there was a quite tall, hairy gentleman to the right of me

1109
01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:54.760
that kept leaning on me as I
had to like push them over. Sure,

1110
01:16:55.279 --> 01:16:59.279
And yeah, just stared in front
of me, just thought about everything

1111
01:17:00.399 --> 01:17:03.840
the whole time. Did you pee? Yeah, I got up in peede

1112
01:17:03.880 --> 01:17:09.159
like once or twice. Did you
poop? No, Okay, I don't

1113
01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:15.279
like an airplane, not a lot, but I've yeah, I have,

1114
01:17:15.359 --> 01:17:18.680
Like if the flight like to Narita, Yeah, yeah, I don't think

1115
01:17:18.720 --> 01:17:20.800
I can. I don't. I
think my body's like no, no,

1116
01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:24.600
we're shutting here down. For sure. That's normally what happens. Yes,

1117
01:17:24.760 --> 01:17:29.359
that normally my body shuts that stuff
down. This is like reactively like meditating

1118
01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:31.479
or you is there anything. That's
why people say that Brad Dogg in the

1119
01:17:31.479 --> 01:17:34.319
flight is it's like they're staring at
the map and it becomes meditative. That's

1120
01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:38.239
a lot. I meditate every day. That's a long time to meditate.

1121
01:17:39.439 --> 01:17:42.520
I would just like go through like
periods of my life and just try and

1122
01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:46.079
track like all the mistakes you mad, yeah or grub I was. I

1123
01:17:46.119 --> 01:17:49.800
was being nice to myself all the
winds I've had. Hell yeah, that's

1124
01:17:49.880 --> 01:17:55.560
it. I was like good shober
yeah, And I thought like, oh

1125
01:17:55.640 --> 01:17:57.960
yeah, I like where I'm at
in like this is great, it's cool.

1126
01:17:58.960 --> 01:18:03.159
It's played the many once a day. Were you talking? No,

1127
01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:06.920
my partner fell asleep, so that
would be me. I'm the person if

1128
01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:11.439
I sleep on the window seat,
that's my move every time I cannot fall

1129
01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:14.239
asleep. But like I I've got
overseas flights, a couple of them coming

1130
01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:15.239
up in the next month, and
like I highly do I'm trying to,

1131
01:18:15.279 --> 01:18:18.159
like Red Eye, I'm trying to
figure out how to sleep, but I

1132
01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:20.640
just don't. Even even with the
like pull reclient thing, I can't do

1133
01:18:20.680 --> 01:18:26.880
it. A drama mean and you
know whatever else I am drunk. Yeah,

1134
01:18:26.920 --> 01:18:29.479
don't get d I did. Uh. I did a xan X on

1135
01:18:29.479 --> 01:18:30.520
the flight, just like a small
little one, and it's like, oh,

1136
01:18:30.520 --> 01:18:33.000
this actually works, this is actually
I didn't sleep, but I like

1137
01:18:33.199 --> 01:18:36.279
was not having a panic attack for
the entire duration of flight. So take

1138
01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:40.039
a next and a drama me and
I feel like, look, I'm not

1139
01:18:40.079 --> 01:18:44.760
making any promises. But you'll be
pretty sleepy feel out. Okay, Okay,

1140
01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:47.279
I guess I don't know why I
did it. I had stuff downloaded

1141
01:18:47.319 --> 01:18:53.199
on my phone, I had my
headphones charged. I just yeah, an

1142
01:18:53.680 --> 01:18:57.239
I don't get on a plane without
a switch, a steam deck and an

1143
01:18:57.279 --> 01:19:00.239
analog, you know, all loaded
up on like six different new games and

1144
01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:02.560
plans for like, Okay, I
win to wake her over here. I

1145
01:19:02.600 --> 01:19:05.600
got this over here. I haven't
like I have to have a full plan

1146
01:19:05.680 --> 01:19:09.439
for like a fucking hour of flight
to Kansas City. I was loaded up

1147
01:19:09.479 --> 01:19:12.920
with like a million games. I
cannot imagine what you did. I respected

1148
01:19:13.439 --> 01:19:15.520
I wouldn't I enjoy that stuff.
I'm excited to have the time to do

1149
01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:17.640
that, but I don't like,
I don't need it. Sometimes I do

1150
01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:23.039
just like zone out for a while. Anyway. Yeah, I play that

1151
01:19:23.399 --> 01:19:28.159
the New York Times Mini and it
hurts me inside that my coworkers are better

1152
01:19:28.199 --> 01:19:30.800
than me. Yeah, I'm I'm
almost always the worst, and I'm I'm

1153
01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:34.680
gonna tru me to ADHD processing issues. I got some more excuses. Let

1154
01:19:34.720 --> 01:19:39.159
me think it's you and me grub
at the at the bottom of the leader

1155
01:19:39.199 --> 01:19:42.119
board all the time. We're usually
better than back Allard, though I'll take

1156
01:19:42.159 --> 01:19:46.800
that. I also have unreasonable competition
in Lucy, who is just a god,

1157
01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:49.960
literal god. I don't understand it. Can you do this in a

1158
01:19:49.960 --> 01:19:56.439
browser? Yes? What do?
I go to Google New York Times NYT

1159
01:19:56.640 --> 01:20:02.119
games and it's the mini I did
today's and then I'll get Yeah, yes,

1160
01:20:02.279 --> 01:20:04.439
you're gonna have to like share a
link to like get friends added to

1161
01:20:04.479 --> 01:20:09.239
your leaderboard and stuff. I'll can
I just play without an account right now

1162
01:20:09.279 --> 01:20:11.119
and see how fast it is?
Yep? I think so? Yeah,

1163
01:20:11.119 --> 01:20:13.800
and everyone has the same one every
day? Yeh, yes, Okay,

1164
01:20:13.800 --> 01:20:18.600
here we go. Uh food that
fills both blanks of uh what piece of

1165
01:20:18.680 --> 01:20:24.680
cake? P I E? Pie? Okay? Why display five letters?

1166
01:20:25.520 --> 01:20:29.920
I don't know, quintessentially boring color
beige? Beige? Yeah, if it's

1167
01:20:30.399 --> 01:20:34.079
paint? Is that good founder of
Amazon Bezos? This is gonna type of

1168
01:20:34.119 --> 01:20:40.239
beer hail? Maybe game show contestants
hope a prize? Oh? This is

1169
01:20:40.279 --> 01:20:44.399
fun? Othello, I don't know, they're never opened. Twenty four seven

1170
01:20:45.039 --> 01:20:49.600
Shakespeare play help me, Mama me? A group is abba? Film school

1171
01:20:49.720 --> 01:20:55.800
is real? Four across wide display? You got it? What is it?

1172
01:20:56.239 --> 01:21:00.239
Air? A are are whye display
air row you have all those letters?

1173
01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:04.159
You got it? Come on right
there, right display air wide.

1174
01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:14.199
Don't tell me our you got a
roses rice and Spanish? What what the

1175
01:21:14.279 --> 01:21:15.920
fuck is a r R? Okay, I don't know that two down is

1176
01:21:15.920 --> 01:21:18.119
a fellow vision villain. I don't
know what the fuck othellow is it's I

1177
01:21:18.279 --> 01:21:21.680
blank geo? Three down? Is
there? Never opened? Twenty four seven?

1178
01:21:21.760 --> 01:21:29.600
E blank E s. I'm stumped. G Dan add us on the

1179
01:21:29.680 --> 01:21:33.800
leaderboard immediately, So I have to
break on a New York Times accounts.

1180
01:21:33.800 --> 01:21:36.319
Probably if you're on your phone,
you probably just have one. Right,

1181
01:21:36.479 --> 01:21:43.159
Oh, okay, what's what's the
wide display? Iago is the fellow villain?

1182
01:21:43.560 --> 01:21:47.039
That's they're never they're never opened twenty
four seven playing music eyes? Is

1183
01:21:47.039 --> 01:21:49.000
that? Then? Is Iago the
one that he has to do the pound

1184
01:21:49.000 --> 01:21:51.640
of flesh at the end? Or
is that he's the one that you could

1185
01:21:51.720 --> 01:21:55.960
kill early and if you don't then
he can help you with bail the dread?

1186
01:21:56.840 --> 01:22:00.119
Yeah? Wow, okay, I
need to add all of you on

1187
01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:02.319
this, Okay, I like,
just post the link it gives you,

1188
01:22:02.319 --> 01:22:05.680
post it in the in the slack. Don't add Lucy and don't don't have

1189
01:22:05.760 --> 01:22:10.680
really don't let her. Yes,
because so the thing is, I added

1190
01:22:10.720 --> 01:22:14.760
Bailey Bailey and Lucy's times they're like
neck and neck. Yes, I've never

1191
01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:16.840
felt dumber. Yeah, I think
I don't think women should be allowed to

1192
01:22:16.840 --> 01:22:26.680
play games crowd with certain people.
Anyway. That's that's the only game I've

1193
01:22:26.680 --> 01:22:30.079
played, The New York Times City, I suggest every I'm in an account.

1194
01:22:30.039 --> 01:22:34.000
No World Championship City. Yes,
that is pretty good. Issues,

1195
01:22:34.640 --> 01:22:38.159
yes, okay, well yeah,
I okay. Well, first of all,

1196
01:22:38.199 --> 01:22:42.359
you've you've submitted some scores. I've
got three seconds in the worlds in

1197
01:22:42.479 --> 01:22:44.640
one person in the world. I
think most of those are ties, but

1198
01:22:45.319 --> 01:22:46.279
that's what I've got. How are
you doing on speed run dot Com?

1199
01:22:46.279 --> 01:22:48.800
There? Yeah, I I got
a cup I haven't like done all of

1200
01:22:48.840 --> 01:22:54.520
those that like have a kind of
a gridlock at number one. I'll get

1201
01:22:54.560 --> 01:22:56.800
in there. I'll try those.
But I got a couple that are pretty

1202
01:22:56.840 --> 01:23:00.159
I'm pretty happy with their number twos
and number threes and things like that.

1203
01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:04.039
The reason we're using speed run dot
Com. Yes, there is no real

1204
01:23:04.119 --> 01:23:06.319
in game leaderboard. I know.
We say that, and then then I

1205
01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:12.319
posted the screenshot of leaderboard. That's
the week leader leaderboard for individual challenges in

1206
01:23:12.399 --> 01:23:15.560
the World Championship mode, even those
suck well they okay they are, but

1207
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:18.359
even those suckers, I can't scroll, can you? And you can't scroll?

1208
01:23:18.600 --> 01:23:21.399
There is no friends leaderboard. There
is just global and it shows you

1209
01:23:21.479 --> 01:23:25.319
where you rank with like ten people, although to be fair, I did

1210
01:23:25.319 --> 01:23:28.079
see Mike four behind me on one
of them, which is pretty funny.

1211
01:23:29.159 --> 01:23:31.560
And then there's your birth year leaderboard, which, hey, it's fun that

1212
01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:34.960
I was number one in a couple
for my birth year, but that is

1213
01:23:35.119 --> 01:23:38.520
it's still not I want to I
want my friends. I just want to

1214
01:23:38.520 --> 01:23:42.039
see what my friends are doing.
That's a matter like that. We assumed

1215
01:23:42.039 --> 01:23:44.520
it would be on Why would we
assume this it's Nintendo, But like I

1216
01:23:44.520 --> 01:23:48.399
think we assume, oh, it's
a speed Run focus. It's gonna be

1217
01:23:48.399 --> 01:23:50.239
like, you know, every levels
gonna have a little leader board, and

1218
01:23:50.279 --> 01:23:53.479
then then we'll probably have a thing
where all of the matter together, the

1219
01:23:53.479 --> 01:23:56.560
cumulative thing that Astro did, which
is so smart. No, none of

1220
01:23:56.560 --> 01:24:00.000
that ship so Speedrun dot Com to
the Rescue. I mean, it's not

1221
01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:03.680
It sucks in a way because like
what a fraction of a fraction of a

1222
01:24:03.680 --> 01:24:06.319
percent of people that play this game
are going to actually have an account and

1223
01:24:06.359 --> 01:24:11.640
upload. I think we can rely
on whoever really is the fastest probably will

1224
01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:14.640
be uploading the speed run. But
beyond that, who knows, Yes,

1225
01:24:14.760 --> 01:24:16.159
so you gotta rely on that,
which I do like that site. I

1226
01:24:16.159 --> 01:24:19.479
mean they're really good at like punch
Out and Quackshot and stuff that They're fantastic.

1227
01:24:19.560 --> 01:24:21.840
It's cool to have an account with, Like now I have multiple runs

1228
01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:25.840
across push Out in this and stuff. Yeah yeah, And it's it's interesting

1229
01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:29.680
because like there is one person that's
submitted a full game run of the game,

1230
01:24:29.720 --> 01:24:31.800
which I guess is just playing all
of the ones. Yeah, it's

1231
01:24:31.760 --> 01:24:35.760
took like an hour or something,
but yeah, they're technically level runs.

1232
01:24:35.800 --> 01:24:42.119
So it's right here in game timer, right, Okay, I'm like figured

1233
01:24:42.119 --> 01:24:44.119
that out, all right, yeah, which is why I like punch Out

1234
01:24:44.159 --> 01:24:45.359
would do that where it's like you
just see the timer of the fight and

1235
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:48.479
add that up instead of a real
time attack, which is like stop Watch.

1236
01:24:48.520 --> 01:24:53.319
You know, right, what was
I seeing that? Grub You're the

1237
01:24:53.359 --> 01:24:56.560
best forty one year old? Yeah, so okay, so there, so

1238
01:24:56.600 --> 01:25:00.439
there, here's how the game is
set up. It is World champ Ship

1239
01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:01.640
and that they're like focusing on it. There's a party mode, but when

1240
01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:05.760
you're playing single player, there is
a speed run mode, which is essentially

1241
01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:09.880
a practice mode, so much so
that you have a little window on the

1242
01:25:09.960 --> 01:25:12.479
left side that is your current run
that you're doing, and on the right

1243
01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:15.039
side it shows your personal best time, so you could compare and contrast while

1244
01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:17.319
you're playing, which I've done a
little bit. Most of the time.

1245
01:25:17.319 --> 01:25:19.800
It's just kind of over there and
I'm ignoring it. Then there is the

1246
01:25:19.920 --> 01:25:24.920
World Championship mode, which is each
week they are going to pick five of

1247
01:25:24.960 --> 01:25:28.920
those speed run events and then everyone
in the world's supposed to compete in those,

1248
01:25:29.079 --> 01:25:31.760
and you don't see a leaderboard while
you're competing. You just keep trying

1249
01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:35.680
to get your best time. And
then at Monday at five am, which

1250
01:25:35.720 --> 01:25:43.199
maybe I played until the other night
with Mike Manatti on Twitch might have cost

1251
01:25:43.239 --> 01:25:47.319
a rough Monday for both of us. At that time, the games to

1252
01:25:47.399 --> 01:25:50.359
shut down. They have new games
and they're like tabulating results. In an

1253
01:25:50.359 --> 01:25:55.239
hour later, they post leaderboards for
your global time in each of those events,

1254
01:25:55.479 --> 01:25:59.239
and then your birth year of ranking, so everyone that was born that

1255
01:25:59.319 --> 01:26:02.560
year will be put up against one
another's and that's those are the only leaderboards,

1256
01:26:02.600 --> 01:26:05.920
and they're like Dan said, there's
no cumulative one where it's like here's

1257
01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:09.840
how you did it, Like for
the entire World Championship, it's just those

1258
01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:14.079
five events. So it's I'm glad
those are at least there, but it's

1259
01:26:14.119 --> 01:26:18.199
that side of this game is still
a disappointment. Everything else is kind of

1260
01:26:18.600 --> 01:26:23.600
really well done. I think they
really have nailed like people were seeing this

1261
01:26:23.680 --> 01:26:26.760
and not playing it and seeing a
damn leaderboards. Like Nintendo doesn't understand speed

1262
01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:30.640
running. No, they understand all. They got everything right about it.

1263
01:26:30.680 --> 01:26:33.920
Like the input map button so you
can see what people are doing on the

1264
01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:41.159
controller is basically like wholesale stolen from
speed running software. They are very key

1265
01:26:41.199 --> 01:26:43.600
in on this stuff, and they
they just make choices to scale it back

1266
01:26:43.640 --> 01:26:46.760
for whatever reason and showing the ghost
image of like your your best run.

1267
01:26:46.840 --> 01:26:48.760
So it's like with something like some
of them, if it's like a four

1268
01:26:48.800 --> 01:26:51.319
second one, you're not looking over
there. You just can't in that amount

1269
01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:54.359
of time. But some of them
are longer, so it's like okay,

1270
01:26:54.439 --> 01:26:56.720
the Zelda two one where I have
to run across a bridge, I can

1271
01:26:56.800 --> 01:26:58.840
kind of glance over and see like, oh, okay, I got past

1272
01:26:58.920 --> 01:27:00.600
the power up brag on this one, so I'm actually tracking ahead of myself

1273
01:27:00.680 --> 01:27:02.920
right now, Like that's kind of
helpful. Yeah, I was doing it,

1274
01:27:02.920 --> 01:27:05.239
and I was trying to figure out
the quick start on Super Mario Brothers

1275
01:27:05.279 --> 01:27:09.199
one. Oh gosh, one,
I look that up. That's wacky.

1276
01:27:09.279 --> 01:27:11.359
What is that? So you have
to like look the other way and jump

1277
01:27:11.399 --> 01:27:14.199
back or something. I think you're
trying to get like a little left like

1278
01:27:14.279 --> 01:27:16.239
sort of hook and then you would
immediately start going right. But someone was

1279
01:27:16.279 --> 01:27:19.800
able to do it like where they
they're looking left and then they're jumping right,

1280
01:27:19.840 --> 01:27:24.439
and then they do another longer backwards
facing like back jump, and that

1281
01:27:24.479 --> 01:27:27.199
gets them so much more speed than
they have the world record. I can't

1282
01:27:27.239 --> 01:27:29.760
figure it out, but I was
watching. I'm like trying to figure out.

1283
01:27:29.880 --> 01:27:31.640
I did it a couple times,
and I could tell because I did

1284
01:27:31.680 --> 01:27:34.239
go to the speed run mode and
I could see that when I got to

1285
01:27:34.279 --> 01:27:38.720
the one or the pipe that you
can go down into, I was falling

1286
01:27:38.760 --> 01:27:41.800
off of that one a fraction of
a second faster than the other one.

1287
01:27:41.800 --> 01:27:43.960
And I can kind of keep that
in the side of my eye. It

1288
01:27:43.960 --> 01:27:46.239
would still be better if there was
a ghost in the level itself or have

1289
01:27:46.319 --> 01:27:49.520
the option for that. But still
they have these things in the game and

1290
01:27:49.560 --> 01:27:53.520
it's pretty good. It is fascinating
because like a lot of these games.

1291
01:27:53.560 --> 01:27:56.119
Look, I am the right age
to have played a ton of these games,

1292
01:27:56.159 --> 01:27:58.279
and you know, feel like I
kind of know them in and out.

1293
01:27:58.279 --> 01:28:00.359
But then it's like, you know, all of a sudden talking about

1294
01:28:00.439 --> 01:28:03.199
metroids platforming in a way that I
have never thought of before, where it's

1295
01:28:03.199 --> 01:28:06.000
like and then I'm watching videos like
wait, why is he aiming his gun

1296
01:28:06.119 --> 01:28:10.800
up when he falls? Does that
change the ball speed or something? Or

1297
01:28:10.840 --> 01:28:13.680
Mario two where we were talking it's
like, how did he keep his speed

1298
01:28:13.720 --> 01:28:15.640
coming out of that pipe? Is
like, oh, if you hold jump

1299
01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:17.680
coming out of a pipe, you'll
keep your run speed and just oh fall

1300
01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:21.840
slower. And it's like I like
watching these videos and real and then I'm

1301
01:28:21.840 --> 01:28:25.119
like going to play the game and
I'm like, oh my god, and

1302
01:28:25.119 --> 01:28:28.800
I played Supermarde Brothers do so much, so much to the point where it's

1303
01:28:28.840 --> 01:28:30.399
like this is how I would play
the game to entertain myself when as a

1304
01:28:30.479 --> 01:28:34.119
kid, I would like play as
Luigi trying to jump on the buzzos or

1305
01:28:34.119 --> 01:28:38.279
whatever those enemies are called, trying
to like kind of just have fun little

1306
01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:40.840
challenges. So the idea that that's
one of the first challenges in the game,

1307
01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:43.079
I'm like, it's made for me. They nailed this up, and

1308
01:28:43.119 --> 01:28:45.960
they fully understand what these games are
and know how to make good challenges.

1309
01:28:45.199 --> 01:28:48.319
But then then to have those moments
where I'm playing so much and putting two

1310
01:28:48.359 --> 01:28:53.600
and two together and realizing new things
about these games, it's pretty magical.

1311
01:28:53.640 --> 01:28:57.039
It's pretty amazing. Youre's the beauty
of speed running is like, you know,

1312
01:28:57.119 --> 01:29:00.520
when I played Mike Tyson's fund Out
a billion times before I started with

1313
01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:03.119
speed running it and then you learn
all these things about how the game actually

1314
01:29:03.119 --> 01:29:06.600
functions and everything, and just fundamentally
changes the way you approach fights and the

1315
01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:10.159
way you play the game. You
know, like quack Shot and stuff.

1316
01:29:10.159 --> 01:29:12.159
Play that a whole bunch growing up, and like now it's like, if

1317
01:29:12.199 --> 01:29:14.920
I play now, I'm going to
shoot a plunger every time I jump because

1318
01:29:14.960 --> 01:29:16.720
I know X and Y or whatever
because I've speed run the game. It

1319
01:29:16.760 --> 01:29:19.800
really does give so much new life
to these games you've played a million times,

1320
01:29:19.800 --> 01:29:24.840
which again I don't need to play
Mario three or Zelda again. You

1321
01:29:24.840 --> 01:29:26.920
know, I probably will for the
rest of my life. But like it's

1322
01:29:26.920 --> 01:29:29.960
fun to do it with like a
different purpose for it, you know,

1323
01:29:30.039 --> 01:29:33.520
and to have it like presented in
this way where it is here is a

1324
01:29:33.600 --> 01:29:38.199
five second challenge, Yes, do
that as fast as you can, and

1325
01:29:38.239 --> 01:29:41.279
then it builds. It sort of
goes up and down and like here's like

1326
01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:43.520
a thirty second challenge, here's another
five to one, here's one that's like

1327
01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:47.119
literally two seconds, and then maybe
the legendary challenge will be beat the entirety

1328
01:29:47.159 --> 01:29:50.039
of Super Mario Brothers One. And
I'm like, hell yeah, I've been

1329
01:29:50.079 --> 01:29:53.600
doing all these things, building up
all these these skills, and now I

1330
01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:57.279
can use it to actually just straight
up speed run Super Mario Brothers One in

1331
01:29:57.439 --> 01:30:00.119
Nintendo World Championships and it was great. I'm like, I want to do

1332
01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:02.920
more of that, so I just
it was done. It was great,

1333
01:30:03.000 --> 01:30:05.680
like getting really into the weeds,
like like that Metroid one was the one

1334
01:30:05.720 --> 01:30:09.680
I spent the most time grinding,
where it is just one of those like

1335
01:30:10.159 --> 01:30:14.800
vertical corridors and you're just jumping up
it. I saw a video where somebody

1336
01:30:14.840 --> 01:30:18.039
got like the one Crawler Enemy that
crawls around the whole platform. He was

1337
01:30:18.079 --> 01:30:20.960
going, yeah, like normally does
it counterclockwise, so he's kind of in

1338
01:30:20.960 --> 01:30:24.479
your way. You kind of have
to like wait a bit to jump around

1339
01:30:24.520 --> 01:30:27.680
him. Then I saw like somebody
has a really good time. Wait why

1340
01:30:27.720 --> 01:30:30.359
is it going clockwise? So he
has a much cleaner jump there, and

1341
01:30:30.359 --> 01:30:32.239
I was like, how is this
happening? Yeah? If finally like people

1342
01:30:32.279 --> 01:30:36.600
are like, oh, like you
have to make one enemy scroll off the

1343
01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:40.720
screen when he's facing to the right
instead of the left, And I'm like

1344
01:30:40.760 --> 01:30:43.760
why is that? What the term
is that? But it is and just

1345
01:30:43.800 --> 01:30:47.159
like learning all these weird little like
behind the codes, like it's the neo

1346
01:30:47.239 --> 01:30:50.720
and the matrix moment, you're like
seeing the code and manipulating it. It's

1347
01:30:50.760 --> 01:30:54.920
incredible. And that's what's good about
speed running now. It's it's also the

1348
01:30:55.000 --> 01:30:57.560
right speed of like you can there
is a quick reset. You just hit

1349
01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:00.800
to ZR and ZL and it very
quickly goes back. You get a three

1350
01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:02.800
timer and it's like just long enough
to kind of get your bearings again and

1351
01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:06.119
then get started, so like it
never feels like it's like I got len

1352
01:31:06.199 --> 01:31:09.640
R for the quick restart. People
are because there's the z r N.

1353
01:31:09.960 --> 01:31:12.520
We'll take you back to the menu. I learned that very long. I'm

1354
01:31:12.560 --> 01:31:15.279
sorry, what wait, there's one
that you don't have to do the menu

1355
01:31:15.359 --> 01:31:18.399
part? Yeah? Oh really,
just put right now, push the shoulder,

1356
01:31:19.439 --> 01:31:24.319
let me coop a hang on.
I thought this three hundred times in

1357
01:31:24.319 --> 01:31:30.119
the last twelve hours. It just
restarts. That's what you were saying.

1358
01:31:30.000 --> 01:31:33.479
No, I was saying this one. Yeah, I didn't know about this

1359
01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:39.319
one. Oh that changes. I've
been laying in the hotel bad the entire

1360
01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:41.960
weekend doing the slow way, and
you know what that does. It does

1361
01:31:42.079 --> 01:31:44.800
kind of make it kind of crack
cocaine at that point, because you could

1362
01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:48.600
just mainline, oh, this is
gonna be potent. Oh, Jeff and

1363
01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:53.600
I literally could not stop. We
like, you know that we're streaming like

1364
01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:56.359
at the same time, and Jeff
came, I was like, we'll do

1365
01:31:56.359 --> 01:32:00.439
this for half an hour. Wed
like three or four hours, because I

1366
01:32:00.439 --> 01:32:02.920
streamed from one to five am so
much of what's just betroit Nes And it's

1367
01:32:02.960 --> 01:32:05.600
like, you think that would be
maddening. I'm like that just like the

1368
01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:10.239
way metroid feelings. Yeah, well
that's the thing. Like I'm like,

1369
01:32:10.600 --> 01:32:14.319
I never cared about Balloon Fight.
I just got through all the Balloon Fight

1370
01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:15.840
challenges, s ranked all of them, and the last one again is like

1371
01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:19.600
beat these three stages back to back
and they show that they do a really

1372
01:32:19.600 --> 01:32:23.279
cool thing. For the last,
the Legendary challenge, where it is these

1373
01:32:23.319 --> 01:32:28.319
longer ones, has a classified information
button that has like a strategy guy that

1374
01:32:28.439 --> 01:32:30.520
shows you some like really key things
that you need to know, and it's

1375
01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:33.560
so well presented. I love that. But I'm like, I got good

1376
01:32:33.600 --> 01:32:38.800
at Balloon Fight. That's something I
never thought I would do or care about.

1377
01:32:39.039 --> 01:32:42.199
So let's talk about that, because
I feel like the lens of like,

1378
01:32:42.239 --> 01:32:45.000
you know, we all the old
guys here, we grew up with

1379
01:32:45.039 --> 01:32:47.399
the nes and I feel like you
see certain games like, oh, these

1380
01:32:47.399 --> 01:32:49.159
are all classics, and then when
you play them again, it's like,

1381
01:32:49.199 --> 01:32:51.760
oh, maybe not as much.
So let's it's a short list. I

1382
01:32:51.800 --> 01:32:55.199
wish I was hoping they'd be punch
Out and make a Man and all this

1383
01:32:55.199 --> 01:32:57.880
stuff they didn't really go with.
Third any hope in your heart that they

1384
01:32:57.960 --> 01:33:00.720
might update this game with new games
like that, It would make me very

1385
01:33:00.720 --> 01:33:02.439
happy. I would be ecstatic.
Yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not getting

1386
01:33:02.479 --> 01:33:05.600
my hopes up. All right,
so there's like twelve or thirty whatever.

1387
01:33:05.680 --> 01:33:10.399
Let's let's see just real quick if
we feel these are underrated or overrated or

1388
01:33:10.439 --> 01:33:15.359
correctly rated based on playing now Balloon
Fight. I've always like Balloon Fight.

1389
01:33:15.399 --> 01:33:18.199
I think it's a little underrated.
I think it's underrated now after getting it's

1390
01:33:18.239 --> 01:33:24.560
like, and it's a challenging input
mechanic of you only can really move if

1391
01:33:24.600 --> 01:33:27.039
you are flapping your arms, but
if you're flapping your arms, you're going

1392
01:33:27.119 --> 01:33:29.680
up and getting height and you have
to sort of predict it, and it's

1393
01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:32.399
it's got to be infuriating to anyone
picking up the controllers immediately. But now

1394
01:33:32.479 --> 01:33:35.560
I'm like, kind of it might
be their most with it derivative game because

1395
01:33:35.560 --> 01:33:39.319
it is just joust, right,
It's just yeah, yeah, it's fine,

1396
01:33:39.640 --> 01:33:42.239
okay, donkey Kong. I feel
like it's still really fucking good.

1397
01:33:42.479 --> 01:33:45.399
Yeah, yeah, still great.
That a lot of this game actually yeah,

1398
01:33:45.479 --> 01:33:48.000
yes, I'm always excited with because
there's somewhere I feel like, I'm

1399
01:33:48.039 --> 01:33:50.239
just like, I got to play
another fucking Ice Climber level. Like I

1400
01:33:50.279 --> 01:33:53.520
don't like Ice Climber. I never, I didn't like it as a kid.

1401
01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:56.600
I don't like it now, Yeah, you're right, balle fights are

1402
01:33:56.600 --> 01:33:59.039
I think the marios are all exactly
where they should be. They're all everyone

1403
01:33:59.119 --> 01:34:03.600
knows, they're unders incredible. The
one I've never fucking understood Kirby. I've

1404
01:34:03.680 --> 01:34:09.840
never heard about the Kirby platformers.
Good. I don't Kirby. I don't.

1405
01:34:09.920 --> 01:34:14.000
It's weird hitting up to float like
it's just like just this one and

1406
01:34:14.119 --> 01:34:16.159
some of them are jumped to float. But yeah, I like the character

1407
01:34:16.239 --> 01:34:18.800
of Kirby. I like that he
exists. I like him in other games.

1408
01:34:18.840 --> 01:34:21.920
But the actual platformers, I feel
like they're all just very slow and

1409
01:34:21.960 --> 01:34:25.720
clunky. And now I inhale and
now that button. Yeah, you're hitting

1410
01:34:25.760 --> 01:34:30.399
the dash. It's like a whole
beach to run. I want to a

1411
01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:32.800
mechanic that I like. Whenever I
get that, I'm very excited. You

1412
01:34:32.840 --> 01:34:35.800
can never tell Mike and I that
game that he likes to slow and clunky.

1413
01:34:35.840 --> 01:34:44.840
You can never you are talking one. Yeah, uh no, maybe

1414
01:34:44.840 --> 01:34:48.279
me and you could play uh Kirby
Superstars someday co op and maybe I'll win

1415
01:34:48.359 --> 01:34:51.399
you over at it. I just
it's also one I never played as a

1416
01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:54.359
kid, and none of my friends
had it. It's like there were the

1417
01:34:54.399 --> 01:34:58.479
games that everyone had like excite bikes
on here, every fucking person I knew,

1418
01:34:58.720 --> 01:35:01.159
including myself, excite bike playing it. Now, I don't think excite

1419
01:35:01.199 --> 01:35:04.800
bikes that good. Oh I think
that one's underrated now because that was Yeah,

1420
01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:08.880
I might be dan on that because
I was like, I was getting

1421
01:35:08.920 --> 01:35:12.039
the hang of, like of landing
perfectly on these jumps and it's like,

1422
01:35:12.039 --> 01:35:14.880
oh, this is really skill intensive, and I was. I was vibing

1423
01:35:14.920 --> 01:35:16.600
with that. It is the big
jumps around those are fun, but then

1424
01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:18.439
they're the ones where was like,
here's six in a row and you're like

1425
01:35:20.119 --> 01:35:23.920
it's very annoying. Yeah, I
was just yeah, I was getting in

1426
01:35:23.920 --> 01:35:25.159
the flow of it, and so
yeah, I was like, oh,

1427
01:35:25.199 --> 01:35:28.439
I think I like it more time. I thought you spend more time with

1428
01:35:28.479 --> 01:35:30.720
stupping. But even as a kid, like I had excited, but I

1429
01:35:30.720 --> 01:35:32.640
don't ever really quite got it.
Say I would like make a course and

1430
01:35:32.680 --> 01:35:35.199
be like I didn't really why why
did I do this? And we all

1431
01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:40.199
agree, kidd Chris has always sucked. Yeah, I'm kind of like because

1432
01:35:40.239 --> 01:35:43.399
like that's the big harder challenge for
this week's thing is like, yeah,

1433
01:35:43.399 --> 01:35:45.880
I play a lot of kids,
I'm like, rather, would it rather?

1434
01:35:46.199 --> 01:35:50.560
Yeah, it's slippery, it's I
don't know. The jump is like

1435
01:35:50.640 --> 01:35:55.239
there is no half jump, so
you always you always hit your head on

1436
01:35:55.239 --> 01:35:57.600
one of those parts, and I'm
like, this sucks. I hate down

1437
01:35:57.920 --> 01:36:00.800
hearts, but the hearts aren't health
and only Castlevania can get away with that

1438
01:36:00.800 --> 01:36:06.920
that you can't stand where he stood? Yeah, kids like I always like,

1439
01:36:06.960 --> 01:36:10.439
because that's one where I never really
played as a kid. So I

1440
01:36:10.640 --> 01:36:14.680
went back to it like way later
and I'm like, I don't know about

1441
01:36:14.720 --> 01:36:17.199
this one. Actually I would play
at friend's house and be like this,

1442
01:36:17.920 --> 01:36:21.960
I never liked. That. Sounds
like a BCR segment rated overrated, properly

1443
01:36:23.039 --> 01:36:29.960
rated, underrated. Yeah, I
like that. So have you done all

1444
01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:31.880
the challenges this week for the Oh
yeah yeah, I thought them all once

1445
01:36:31.920 --> 01:36:38.800
at least underrated by one twenty two
point zero eight in Kittris thing, Okay,

1446
01:36:39.399 --> 01:36:41.640
I'm not. I have not grinded
that one out yet. There's that

1447
01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:44.960
one once this week. I did
that one because kittic Ris is one of

1448
01:36:44.960 --> 01:36:46.760
the first ones I cleared out because
I'm kind of doing the thing where it's

1449
01:36:46.800 --> 01:36:50.079
like I want to finish my vegetables
first, So I'm like, beaten the

1450
01:36:50.079 --> 01:36:54.239
ones I don't love so much first, and so I practiced that one a

1451
01:36:54.279 --> 01:36:55.920
lot. Then it's when I got
to hear I'm like, I'll just do

1452
01:36:55.960 --> 01:37:00.560
it while it's still mostly fresh.
Well, have Donkey Kong twenty one point

1453
01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:03.720
three to one? I got twenty
one point five. Okay, I think

1454
01:37:03.880 --> 01:37:06.479
I gotta go until I get some
good rng G in that one. Have

1455
01:37:06.600 --> 01:37:10.520
you guys been kind of fantasy booking
like some of the games that aren't in

1456
01:37:10.680 --> 01:37:13.640
here, Like I've been thinking like
what would the Mega Man two challenges be?

1457
01:37:13.720 --> 01:37:16.560
What the Pennsylvania one Challenges be?
That's the thing on the setting thing

1458
01:37:16.720 --> 01:37:19.920
you can fucking change. Like there's
this giant list of games and it's like

1459
01:37:19.920 --> 01:37:24.000
what's your favorite NS game? And
it's got like all of them things.

1460
01:37:24.039 --> 01:37:28.680
It's like, I was surprised to
see Mike Tyson's name one I thought wouldn't

1461
01:37:28.680 --> 01:37:30.479
be in there. I'm like,
they won't put Mike Tyson's name ww F

1462
01:37:30.680 --> 01:37:34.159
is on this first art game.
Just even seeing it is weird, Like

1463
01:37:34.199 --> 01:37:39.119
we're looking of this list is like
Ointstones games are on there, like Mega

1464
01:37:39.199 --> 01:37:43.840
Man. That's the first thing I
think of too. It's like three Super

1465
01:37:43.920 --> 01:37:46.840
dodge Ball, a number of great
as games. That was I like tripping

1466
01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:49.399
out. Could you like change some
of the in game assets and some of

1467
01:37:49.399 --> 01:37:53.199
the stuff, because I thought I
saw people having cheap cheaps and Super Mario

1468
01:37:53.279 --> 01:37:57.000
Brothers two in that thing and instead
of the things. But maybe it was

1469
01:37:57.039 --> 01:38:01.359
a weird nightmare. I had nightmares
in Colorado night Okay, that makes more

1470
01:38:01.399 --> 01:38:04.279
sense. It's more like, oh
my god, I can't believe that quick

1471
01:38:04.359 --> 01:38:10.600
researt thing. I'm seriously thousands thousands
of research over the last several days.

1472
01:38:10.680 --> 01:38:14.960
I did not know you could quick
restart and stronger. Yeah, I know,

1473
01:38:15.319 --> 01:38:19.239
but they said z L and ZR
to to restart and I did that,

1474
01:38:19.359 --> 01:38:21.880
and I immediate was like, let
me just try this, and I

1475
01:38:21.960 --> 01:38:26.159
did it right away. And then
I'm like, oh, okay, fantastic.

1476
01:38:26.199 --> 01:38:28.880
But then you never say it anywhere. It's kind of messed up.

1477
01:38:29.079 --> 01:38:31.359
Also, I bought the special edition
of this, and it's a pretty solid

1478
01:38:31.399 --> 01:38:33.720
one. It's got it's got the
gold cartridge. Did you open it or

1479
01:38:33.720 --> 01:38:35.920
do you keep it in that?
I opened it. I got my gold

1480
01:38:36.000 --> 01:38:42.520
cartridge. I shift here, it's
gotta go stand for it with the Nintendo

1481
01:38:42.600 --> 01:38:45.560
logo. So it's a sharp good
pens cover arts. Yeah, it's good.

1482
01:38:45.640 --> 01:38:47.920
It's good. I like, yeah
the pen said is good. Yeah,

1483
01:38:48.279 --> 01:38:51.399
I like pens. Yeah, big
pin guy. Did you get the

1484
01:38:51.479 --> 01:38:55.960
Mario ones from the Mario thirty fifth
anniversary which was like those are awesome.

1485
01:38:56.079 --> 01:39:00.159
Yeah. There's a local multiplayer mode
in this yeah. Yes, at some

1486
01:39:00.279 --> 01:39:03.000
point Dan, Jeff and I might
be together and we might be able to

1487
01:39:03.079 --> 01:39:06.439
try that out. We hope soon. Yes, it does seem more like

1488
01:39:06.520 --> 01:39:11.680
a party mode party. Yeah.
Yeah, I found that there's a survival

1489
01:39:11.720 --> 01:39:14.199
mode you can do online. That's
the right exactly. Yeah, that's right.

1490
01:39:14.279 --> 01:39:16.840
Which kind of online? I mean
it's a synchronous. It's people's ghosts,

1491
01:39:16.880 --> 01:39:25.159
so it's like, okay, so
people and so it's really frustrated.

1492
01:39:25.319 --> 01:39:28.960
What they do is in the the
easy mode. There's two modes like Silver

1493
01:39:29.119 --> 01:39:30.760
and gold or whatever they're called.
Yeah, Silver division, Gold division.

1494
01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:35.439
Silver division is always the easier challenges
from this week's World Championship, and I

1495
01:39:35.520 --> 01:39:40.520
think they give you easier ghost data. Then the Gold division is the harder

1496
01:39:40.600 --> 01:39:44.439
challenges and you get more difficult ghost
data because you'll get people who are s

1497
01:39:44.560 --> 01:39:47.000
ranking every single time, and that
is I've beaten that mode once and I

1498
01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:49.520
don't know if I'll play it again. Okay, that fucking explains it.

1499
01:39:49.640 --> 01:39:53.359
Because I was on some of the
longer challenges. It's like oh, eight

1500
01:39:53.439 --> 01:39:56.279
people and it's like a battle Royal
style or whatever, and I would finish

1501
01:39:56.359 --> 01:39:58.640
it and I would let's say I
got furst and I would hit a to

1502
01:39:58.720 --> 01:40:00.119
do the next one. It would
take me right there. Wait, they're

1503
01:40:00.119 --> 01:40:04.920
still playing. We gotta wait for
them. But yeah, I mean you

1504
01:40:05.039 --> 01:40:10.279
know why they did that, right, if you had active multiplayer if that

1505
01:40:10.399 --> 01:40:13.680
requires net code, but if you
just did ghost data, that's just a

1506
01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:16.680
replay. Yeah, and then it's
like implement right. They had the you

1507
01:40:16.720 --> 01:40:20.159
know, simultaneous multiplayer in Super Mario
Maker two and stuff like that, and

1508
01:40:20.239 --> 01:40:25.000
it didn't work great, But it's
like I do it better, Just do

1509
01:40:25.159 --> 01:40:28.600
that, but better. That's what
it's so frustrating, because like there is

1510
01:40:28.760 --> 01:40:30.199
I love playing this game, I
really do, and you know, it's

1511
01:40:30.239 --> 01:40:33.560
just it's obviously scratching such an itch
for me, and just like this,

1512
01:40:33.720 --> 01:40:36.680
the small little things, and it's
things that I keep assuming that they were

1513
01:40:36.840 --> 01:40:41.520
just going to do, like the
leader boards or every single challenge. Why

1514
01:40:41.640 --> 01:40:45.399
not or like the weekly challenge having
an accumulative score. Again, why not?

1515
01:40:46.399 --> 01:40:49.960
It's it's fine that I could see
my personal best on a separate screen,

1516
01:40:50.319 --> 01:40:54.199
but even that, it's like,
why isn't that not just actual ghost

1517
01:40:54.479 --> 01:40:58.119
data? And why can't I get
anybody's ghost data? Why can't I see

1518
01:40:58.159 --> 01:41:00.720
the first place ghost data in all
happen with Xbox Live Arcade game since like

1519
01:41:00.760 --> 01:41:04.199
two thousand and seven. Well,
question, did you guys buy it?

1520
01:41:05.920 --> 01:41:11.960
Yeah? Look, okay, that's
why it is the problem. No,

1521
01:41:12.319 --> 01:41:15.479
I'm saying I'm again, like we
talked about Game as Mornings, Jeff,

1522
01:41:15.479 --> 01:41:17.199
I'm a Pokemon fan. I'm a
sucker too. Yeah, but that's why

1523
01:41:17.239 --> 01:41:20.880
they're not doing it, because it's
a low budget thing that they're putting out

1524
01:41:20.880 --> 01:41:26.000
that everyone's gonna buy. Anyways,
who wanted to buy it? I could

1525
01:41:26.119 --> 01:41:30.359
see like the difference in like millions
of dollars between making Scarlet and Violet like

1526
01:41:30.840 --> 01:41:33.960
a better game than it was.
But this it's like leaderboards. Come on,

1527
01:41:34.079 --> 01:41:39.079
you have leaderboard technology in the games. Yeah, that's the one weird

1528
01:41:39.119 --> 01:41:44.840
one because they clearly have the data
already and you're you actually got to something

1529
01:41:45.079 --> 01:41:49.279
in the speed run mode that doesn't
seem to have any actual online features whatsoever.

1530
01:41:49.840 --> 01:41:53.880
So what is that connecting to.
I bet they're keeping your your your

1531
01:41:54.079 --> 01:41:58.279
speed run times. I'm hoping they
just update this up up comes and they'll

1532
01:41:58.279 --> 01:42:00.760
be like, hey, now we're
adding leaderboards to everything. I'm seeing the

1533
01:42:00.880 --> 01:42:04.800
leaderboard thing as a specific design decision
because they might be the Nintendo World Championships.

1534
01:42:04.840 --> 01:42:08.880
They want to be you submitting your
score at the end of the tournament

1535
01:42:09.039 --> 01:42:13.159
like you do back in the day. That I think was a design to

1536
01:42:13.399 --> 01:42:15.479
clearly, I just yeah, just
don't agree with I think everything else was.

1537
01:42:15.720 --> 01:42:19.760
We're cutting corners, yep, yeah, only six challenges for ice clamoring.

1538
01:42:19.960 --> 01:42:24.880
Must do that, that's all you
need. I'm glad they know the

1539
01:42:24.920 --> 01:42:27.720
ones where it's like, okay,
here's a billion Mario three one, okay,

1540
01:42:27.800 --> 01:42:29.920
thank you. Yes, yeah,
I had no idea what ice Comors

1541
01:42:29.960 --> 01:42:32.239
even was until they put those characters
in Melee and I remember you, like,

1542
01:42:32.279 --> 01:42:34.680
wow, there's a Nintendo and yes, can I even know about I

1543
01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:38.239
can't wait to go to Funk,
go in and buy it. And then

1544
01:42:38.279 --> 01:42:43.319
I did and got home like,
eh, sounds like you guys are having

1545
01:42:43.359 --> 01:42:45.399
a good time in this and you're
going to continue to have a good time.

1546
01:42:45.479 --> 01:42:50.199
Perhaps we'll place some on the website. Yeah, you guys want to

1547
01:42:50.199 --> 01:42:54.359
play some tomorrow, maybe after game
this morning. Well, yeah, I

1548
01:42:54.399 --> 01:42:58.199
think it'd be fun to try to
see that one to one legendary challenge.

1549
01:42:58.239 --> 01:43:02.039
But we could try a bunch of
other stuff anytime these three get into speed

1550
01:43:02.159 --> 01:43:04.920
running, you know, like the
Neon white stuff and everything like that.

1551
01:43:05.319 --> 01:43:09.960
Maybe it makes me think maybe we
should finally do a certain feature where you

1552
01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:14.399
guys learn how to speed run a
certain game. Awesome, Oh, Mary,

1553
01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:15.279
I do. I very much want
to do that. But also we

1554
01:43:15.359 --> 01:43:23.399
got Astro coming up soon, we
got Yeah, but Sean, you also

1555
01:43:24.000 --> 01:43:27.039
talked about your time in Las Vegas, and I want to hear a little

1556
01:43:27.079 --> 01:43:30.680
bit more about two x KO.
Yeah. Two x Ko a name that

1557
01:43:30.880 --> 01:43:35.199
just rolls right off the tongue.
Still, so everything I played at EVA,

1558
01:43:35.279 --> 01:43:38.600
Like, you know, I talked
about the NVC collection. You know,

1559
01:43:38.640 --> 01:43:41.439
it's kind of what you expect.
It is a nice package they got,

1560
01:43:41.680 --> 01:43:43.960
you know, some cool artwork in
there and everything, but otherwise it's

1561
01:43:43.960 --> 01:43:47.560
what you expect with Mortal Kombat.
I'm not an m K one kind of

1562
01:43:47.600 --> 01:43:50.359
guy, so I'm maybe not the
best person I talked to you about why

1563
01:43:50.359 --> 01:43:55.800
I did play of Taketa and Faarah
other than Takeda feels to me like he

1564
01:43:55.880 --> 01:43:58.439
did an MKX, so I had
fun with him because that's the last time

1565
01:43:58.439 --> 01:44:00.840
I played him. But two x
yo. This is a game that people

1566
01:44:00.960 --> 01:44:03.680
don't know a ton about, so
I thought it would be interesting to talk

1567
01:44:03.680 --> 01:44:09.920
about, especially after Dan mentioned sort
of not being necessarily huge into the competitive

1568
01:44:10.079 --> 01:44:13.760
side of fine games, playing them
a little more casually. So I got

1569
01:44:13.800 --> 01:44:15.680
to play to x Kale for a
decent amount of time. I got a

1570
01:44:15.760 --> 01:44:18.960
hands on with Brahm, the new
champion that they're adding from Legual Legends,

1571
01:44:19.199 --> 01:44:25.319
Big Burley Dude, Giant Shield,
ice themed. He's really interesting, like

1572
01:44:25.439 --> 01:44:27.880
you can at the end of some
of his combos you can apply this like

1573
01:44:28.000 --> 01:44:31.039
ice buff to him that gives him
armor on his moves. He's a really

1574
01:44:31.119 --> 01:44:35.119
fun character. And just I got
to play to x Kale for the first

1575
01:44:35.279 --> 01:44:40.039
time. Let me see, was
he yeah evo last year when it was

1576
01:44:40.079 --> 01:44:42.680
project out, So I played,
then, I played at Combo Breaker.

1577
01:44:42.720 --> 01:44:46.000
I play it now and I do
think the game is like slowly progressing along

1578
01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:51.279
in a positive way. I'm enjoying
every time I play the characters. So

1579
01:44:51.319 --> 01:44:55.239
I'm curious how much you guys know. I kind of want to, like

1580
01:44:55.319 --> 01:44:58.359
quizz you guys a little bit about
how much you know about, say,

1581
01:44:58.960 --> 01:45:01.319
the input system in the game,
and if that's appealing to you at all.

1582
01:45:01.960 --> 01:45:04.800
How much do you guys know?
I know it's simplified because I played

1583
01:45:05.119 --> 01:45:12.439
that weird fighting game that the company
that Robot fighters Thunder. Yes, I

1584
01:45:12.680 --> 01:45:17.399
remember playing Rising Thunder for games Beat
way back when and even interviewing what's his

1585
01:45:17.520 --> 01:45:21.359
name? Can you still play that? Because it was only ever. I

1586
01:45:21.520 --> 01:45:26.079
think they may have done a community
version. They may have. I don't

1587
01:45:26.119 --> 01:45:28.880
remember, Yeah, but so you
know, I yeah, and I remember

1588
01:45:28.960 --> 01:45:30.479
that. That was the whole point. It's like, oh no, these

1589
01:45:30.560 --> 01:45:33.119
uh you know, a lot of
people can't do corper circle punch input things.

1590
01:45:33.199 --> 01:45:36.399
We're going to simplify, and we're
seeing a lot of other fighting games

1591
01:45:36.680 --> 01:45:41.920
basically implement similar systems in one way
or another. It's interesting to have a

1592
01:45:41.960 --> 01:45:45.319
game that's entirely built yah sef killing
and if it's Seth killing about that because

1593
01:45:45.319 --> 01:45:48.560
it was his company. Then Riot
acquired it and they've been working on this

1594
01:45:48.720 --> 01:45:53.920
since then. It's been a while. Yeah, So yeah, if anyone

1595
01:45:53.960 --> 01:45:57.840
doesn't know. You basically do smash
style inputs for all the inputs in the

1596
01:45:57.920 --> 01:46:00.199
game, so it's you know,
uh, a move will just be like

1597
01:46:00.279 --> 01:46:03.840
forward plus special and that'll be a
move, or they'll just do down plus

1598
01:46:03.960 --> 01:46:08.199
punch. It won't be like a
core circle or the emotion or anything.

1599
01:46:08.600 --> 01:46:13.640
And the more I play it,
the more it's interesting. There's a balance

1600
01:46:13.720 --> 01:46:15.960
of there does seem to be a
lot of surface level flashy stuff that they're

1601
01:46:15.960 --> 01:46:19.119
putting into get people into the game, Like you can just always do auto

1602
01:46:19.199 --> 01:46:26.000
combos combos and you'll get like a
prety basic combo, but then you know

1603
01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:30.039
they're trying to reach out to the
hardcore audience by having you do manual combos

1604
01:46:30.159 --> 01:46:32.079
where they can do you know,
live, medium, heavy, special and

1605
01:46:32.159 --> 01:46:38.000
then maybe end with something else.
I think it feels really good to play.

1606
01:46:38.159 --> 01:46:40.960
It's looking good. They do small
tweaks every time I play it,

1607
01:46:41.079 --> 01:46:44.159
and they keep adding new characters like
that I got to play Brahm and other

1608
01:46:44.239 --> 01:46:48.199
Thing's coming together really well. I
think something that talked to to Sean about

1609
01:46:48.279 --> 01:46:54.560
in our interview was that one of
the design processes on this is that it

1610
01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:58.920
being a League of Legends Fighter sort
of a riots theory on a lot of

1611
01:46:58.960 --> 01:47:01.399
their games apparently is that they just
want people playing together, and that was

1612
01:47:01.439 --> 01:47:04.840
part of the inspiration for bringing to
XKO from a one v one to a

1613
01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:10.800
two v two tag team because they
do it where you can play duos in

1614
01:47:10.880 --> 01:47:14.560
a fighting game. You can play
you and your friend versus you know,

1615
01:47:14.640 --> 01:47:17.600
one other person or against two other
people. And the way he was describing

1616
01:47:17.760 --> 01:47:20.840
is just like in Legal Legends,
where you can have like, you know,

1617
01:47:21.439 --> 01:47:27.399
your buddy's the tank and then you
are doing damage. They want to

1618
01:47:27.520 --> 01:47:30.640
have similar situations to that in two
XKO. Yeah, so like when we

1619
01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:36.279
were playing, I was playing with
Jeremias, I was playing Brahms, so

1620
01:47:36.359 --> 01:47:40.840
I was like the tank and I
was trying to like back him up while

1621
01:47:40.920 --> 01:47:44.920
he was doing damage with like say
Ari or someone. And so once I

1622
01:47:45.159 --> 01:47:48.399
realized that's what they were going for, and they want like that synergy between

1623
01:47:48.479 --> 01:47:51.239
you and your friend or even if
it's you on your own and you're just

1624
01:47:51.319 --> 01:47:55.640
calling in the R person manually,
I think that's going to lead to some

1625
01:47:55.800 --> 01:47:59.840
very interesting situations and I'm excited to
see, like if EVO gets say,

1626
01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:01.720
I don't know how they're gonna handle
that is, it just can be open

1627
01:48:01.800 --> 01:48:06.399
bracket and like anyone can enter either
as a solo or duo, or they

1628
01:48:06.439 --> 01:48:10.920
gonna do duos only in a separate
bracket. I don't know how they're gonna

1629
01:48:10.920 --> 01:48:14.439
handle it. I assume I would
love to see it if, like you

1630
01:48:14.479 --> 01:48:17.199
know, Evil Grand Finals is like
one person who's really good at the game,

1631
01:48:17.359 --> 01:48:20.039
and then two people who maybe aren't
quite as good but work really well

1632
01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:23.880
as a team, and they go
head to head. I think that would

1633
01:48:23.880 --> 01:48:27.359
be amazing. Yeah, I think
that would be a really awesome thing to

1634
01:48:27.359 --> 01:48:29.720
see on stage, and they should
have a tag belt for that though.

1635
01:48:30.119 --> 01:48:33.520
Yeah. Yeah, game continues to
feel really good, and I'm feeling good

1636
01:48:33.560 --> 01:48:36.359
about two XG. I was a
little worried that, like with the auto

1637
01:48:36.399 --> 01:48:40.680
combos, not as much simple inputs. I think simple inputs are fine,

1638
01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:46.720
but playing controls, yeah, well
controls. The emphasis on bun matching a

1639
01:48:46.840 --> 01:48:49.119
little bit may have gotten a little
tiring. But no, I do see

1640
01:48:49.159 --> 01:48:54.840
that there are stronger combo pads.
One of the developers did come over and

1641
01:48:54.960 --> 01:48:57.560
help us with a lot of that
stuff, and they were showing us,

1642
01:48:57.720 --> 01:49:00.199
oh yeah, yeah, like the
autoc combo gets union like four solid hits

1643
01:49:00.319 --> 01:49:04.159
decent amount damage, but let me
show you a manual combo and was basically

1644
01:49:04.239 --> 01:49:09.560
doing a Marvel style combo that went
on for a good while and did a

1645
01:49:09.600 --> 01:49:12.119
solid chunk of damage. I'm like, okay, there there is depth here.

1646
01:49:12.720 --> 01:49:15.479
I have confidence that they are balancing
these two things well. And yeah,

1647
01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:17.720
to scale it continues to feel really
good. I think, well,

1648
01:49:17.800 --> 01:49:23.319
going from something that feels good to
something that feels kind of questionable. We

1649
01:49:23.760 --> 01:49:29.600
chatted last Friday or two fridays ago
about our feelings on Concord. Mike Minati,

1650
01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:32.520
you play a lot of Overwatch.
How do you feel about Concord?

1651
01:49:33.560 --> 01:49:38.399
Yeah, so, I because the
open beta happened this last week, and

1652
01:49:38.479 --> 01:49:41.840
I did want to go in there
and try it out because I did like

1653
01:49:41.920 --> 01:49:45.359
Overwatch a lot. I kind of
fell off a bit into Overwatch too,

1654
01:49:45.520 --> 01:49:48.039
Like I imagine a lot of people, it seems like, you know,

1655
01:49:48.119 --> 01:49:51.680
the first impression is just kind of
like, I don't find these characters quite

1656
01:49:51.720 --> 01:49:56.680
as appealing, right. It's you
know, I do think that Guardians of

1657
01:49:56.720 --> 01:50:01.640
the Galaxy comparison is apt up because
it is that more it is that sci

1658
01:50:01.800 --> 01:50:05.199
fi, but you know, it's
like the realistic face Madels right where it's

1659
01:50:05.239 --> 01:50:09.600
like Overwatches doing things like everyone has
kind of bigger eyes so that they look

1660
01:50:09.680 --> 01:50:12.000
like a little bit more like babies. So you kind of find them.

1661
01:50:12.079 --> 01:50:15.000
You know, you're your your your
natural instincts kicks and you're like, I

1662
01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:18.319
must protect these people, right,
especially right especially, Yeah, Reaper's got

1663
01:50:18.359 --> 01:50:21.439
the biggest baby eyes of the mall
for sure. But you know there is

1664
01:50:21.560 --> 01:50:25.960
there's a style there, and here
it is. You know, it's obviously

1665
01:50:26.159 --> 01:50:29.359
very fanciful and it's sci fi,
uh, but you know it's it.

1666
01:50:29.560 --> 01:50:31.760
You look at a person's face like
it's just kind of a real person's face

1667
01:50:31.800 --> 01:50:36.439
and they put some tendrils on it, that kind of thing. So you

1668
01:50:36.520 --> 01:50:39.159
know, the characters. I wasn't
doing a lot for me, but I

1669
01:50:39.199 --> 01:50:43.840
was playing the game like, okay, this is fun, especially when I

1670
01:50:43.960 --> 01:50:47.319
got to a point where I unlocked
basically the counter strike mode. Because even

1671
01:50:47.359 --> 01:50:53.319
though like every character has abilities and
that's very Overwatch, ye, the time

1672
01:50:53.399 --> 01:50:57.840
to kill is there's ultimate there's no
ultimates, which I I kind of I'm

1673
01:50:57.880 --> 01:51:00.359
not like, yes, I think
that's fine. I know people are like

1674
01:51:00.359 --> 01:51:02.279
it feels like you're not building towards
something, but it changes things. So

1675
01:51:02.279 --> 01:51:03.920
all I'm saying, but yeah,
keep going. Yeah, I think over

1676
01:51:03.960 --> 01:51:08.760
I think ultimately kind of became a
problem. And Overwatch eventually, like ault

1677
01:51:08.840 --> 01:51:12.359
economy is such a big important part
of that game that eventually, when you

1678
01:51:12.399 --> 01:51:14.720
play that game a lot, it
does get a little bit boring, like,

1679
01:51:14.760 --> 01:51:17.000
oh, I guess we lose this
push because that team had three ultimates

1680
01:51:17.039 --> 01:51:20.079
and they use them. Okay,
great, like any comeback mechanic. It

1681
01:51:20.199 --> 01:51:23.600
just got to be too much.
It got to be a little much like

1682
01:51:23.680 --> 01:51:26.880
I would like it if Overwatch couldn't
emphasize them in some ways. It's hard

1683
01:51:26.920 --> 01:51:29.560
because it's such a important part of
the DNA. But if I was making

1684
01:51:29.600 --> 01:51:32.640
a new game like that, I
think I wouldn't have It's also I think

1685
01:51:32.680 --> 01:51:34.840
I'd be like, no, I
think that those are kind of problem or

1686
01:51:34.880 --> 01:51:39.760
maybe if I did, they'd be
way less powerful or you know, not

1687
01:51:40.119 --> 01:51:43.720
something that is a team wipe if
you use it correctly. I get it.

1688
01:51:43.800 --> 01:51:46.199
It's like a hype moment all stuff. So that's fine, But I

1689
01:51:46.359 --> 01:51:50.119
like the kind of longer time to
kill people said, you know, it's

1690
01:51:50.159 --> 01:51:54.520
like you have Overwatch felt a little
bit more like a Halo or a Destiny

1691
01:51:54.640 --> 01:51:59.399
kind of thing. And I do
get that reasoning. The kind of counter

1692
01:51:59.479 --> 01:52:02.399
Strike that I eventually unlocked was actually
my favorite, and it is like it

1693
01:52:02.479 --> 01:52:05.479
was basically like plant the bomb,
kind of like Encounter Strike, except the

1694
01:52:05.520 --> 01:52:11.359
bomb was in the middle and either
team could take it and it doesn't when

1695
01:52:11.399 --> 01:52:13.760
you die yet to wait for the
next round. But also, if you

1696
01:52:13.960 --> 01:52:16.680
win a round it's like a best
to get three or something like that,

1697
01:52:17.000 --> 01:52:20.479
you then can't play as the hero
you won that round with next time.

1698
01:52:20.680 --> 01:52:23.239
It's like, oh, okay,
so this is like a neat way to

1699
01:52:23.319 --> 01:52:25.880
kind of make me bounce around,
and I need to have at least like

1700
01:52:26.560 --> 01:52:30.960
four heroes or whatever. That the
squad builder mechanic, which I don't know

1701
01:52:30.960 --> 01:52:33.039
if you messed around with, you
can build your own You can build your

1702
01:52:33.039 --> 01:52:38.560
own roster of characters and your reserves, and you can have like different variants

1703
01:52:38.680 --> 01:52:41.479
of each of the characters that might
have different passive abilities, and if you

1704
01:52:41.560 --> 01:52:44.199
want to go from one of them
to the next, you can play as

1705
01:52:44.239 --> 01:52:45.439
the same character, but you have
to have them as one of the slots

1706
01:52:45.560 --> 01:52:47.840
or something like that. Okay,
So I didn't really mess around with that

1707
01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:49.840
because I was like, what is
that? That's scary? I'm just y

1708
01:52:49.840 --> 01:52:53.560
playing exactly and it's like that's good. That's the kind of stuff that will

1709
01:52:53.640 --> 01:52:56.119
matter a few, like a month
into the game, not so much when

1710
01:52:56.119 --> 01:52:58.840
people are first just like taste testing
it, right, but you know,

1711
01:52:59.119 --> 01:53:00.520
you know, like there was a
lot a lot of characters and not everything

1712
01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:02.840
clipped with me. Like at first, I wanted to play the big robot

1713
01:53:03.239 --> 01:53:06.760
because it's fun and his whole thing
is like, oh, he has kind

1714
01:53:06.800 --> 01:53:11.560
of like the Luigi's mentioned vacuum and
you can kind of vacuum up bullets.

1715
01:53:11.600 --> 01:53:14.720
But the feedback on it wasn't great. It kind of feel good. I

1716
01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:16.720
was like, I'm like, this
is working, is it? Maybe?

1717
01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:20.520
I guess they're just shooting my feet
like it doesn't like this sucks. Yeah,

1718
01:53:20.520 --> 01:53:24.560
it's weird. It's kind of like
how Zario works in Overwatch, but

1719
01:53:24.720 --> 01:53:31.039
it feels odd that the visual indicator
is sucktion. I don't know something right.

1720
01:53:31.159 --> 01:53:33.680
So there's like a few things like
that where things just going a requit

1721
01:53:33.720 --> 01:53:36.800
as well as it could. But
you know, like I was having enough

1722
01:53:36.880 --> 01:53:41.920
fun. I was enjoying it enough. I will say that, like right

1723
01:53:41.960 --> 01:53:45.399
afterwards, I did like pop into
Overwatch shoo because they have a new character

1724
01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:47.800
called Juno, and again it's like
what I'm talking about. I'm like,

1725
01:53:47.880 --> 01:53:51.680
oh, this character looks so awesome. It's like this eighties like like sci

1726
01:53:51.880 --> 01:53:57.880
fi like cartoon anime aesthetic. I
was at me, like, I must

1727
01:53:57.960 --> 01:54:00.279
protect her. She supports, So
I went in there and just was immediately

1728
01:54:00.279 --> 01:54:02.960
playing some games of hers. She
has like little jet pack things you can

1729
01:54:03.039 --> 01:54:06.239
kind of hover around, and she
she shoots her friends to heal them,

1730
01:54:06.279 --> 01:54:10.239
which is always a fun mechanic.
And I was just like, oh,

1731
01:54:10.920 --> 01:54:13.760
even with like all the complaining I
do about Overwatch these days, this is

1732
01:54:13.840 --> 01:54:18.760
still better. I still like this
more more appealing and stuff like that.

1733
01:54:18.960 --> 01:54:23.680
And maybe it's just as a comfy, cozy factor there too, So you

1734
01:54:23.720 --> 01:54:26.720
know, it's like I I liked
Concord more than I thought I would,

1735
01:54:26.840 --> 01:54:30.760
and it's still is just a tough, uphill battle for that game. Yep.

1736
01:54:30.239 --> 01:54:35.520
Yeah, yeah, I really wanted
to like it because I've been craving

1737
01:54:35.560 --> 01:54:40.359
an Overwatch. Like, but maybe
he'll just go download Overwatch too, Maybe

1738
01:54:40.399 --> 01:54:45.520
we'll play some more Overwatch again.
Yeah that I am excited though about the

1739
01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:49.119
Marvel Rivals beta. Uh yeah we
should try that. Yeah, I will

1740
01:54:49.159 --> 01:54:53.079
say like that's like that one is
funny because every time I watched people play,

1741
01:54:53.159 --> 01:54:56.399
like, oh this is really overwatched
that they have the same UI,

1742
01:54:56.640 --> 01:55:00.560
they have the same art style.
I'm like, okay, yeah, I'm

1743
01:55:00.720 --> 01:55:04.079
I'm curious for Mike though. The
conclusion we came to when we talked about

1744
01:55:04.159 --> 01:55:06.960
in those initial impressions, which you
know, we were hot off of some

1745
01:55:08.199 --> 01:55:11.800
like issues with the game and every
thing. So we're writing levels of I'm

1746
01:55:11.840 --> 01:55:15.600
mostly overall negative on the game,
I'm curious what you think of just sort

1747
01:55:15.640 --> 01:55:21.840
of why do this now, like
because like it, I know people want

1748
01:55:21.920 --> 01:55:26.720
like competition in various spaces, and
sure there's room for different things in different

1749
01:55:26.800 --> 01:55:30.439
genres. But this made me think
a little bit about like how the term

1750
01:55:30.720 --> 01:55:33.680
moba. People are like, yeah, Moba is a genre. I'm like,

1751
01:55:34.960 --> 01:55:39.079
is it really though? Or is
it mostly legal legits and Dota and

1752
01:55:39.119 --> 01:55:42.640
everyone tried to copy them. I
kind of feel that about Hero Shooter right

1753
01:55:42.680 --> 01:55:45.880
now, and like Concords like we're
a Hero Shooter. It's like, or

1754
01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:49.039
are you going to be for very
long? No one's really asking for this

1755
01:55:49.119 --> 01:55:54.800
game based on the Steam numbers,
where almost yeah, it seems like the

1756
01:55:55.000 --> 01:55:58.479
numbers aren't quite there. I'm curious
if you think, like it is it

1757
01:55:58.600 --> 01:56:00.760
worth it when Overwatch is right there? I mean I could tell you why

1758
01:56:00.800 --> 01:56:04.199
same mappen. Because if you're Sony
and you're you have this shotgun wide net

1759
01:56:04.279 --> 01:56:08.600
approach to live service games, of
course one of those is going to be

1760
01:56:08.640 --> 01:56:12.840
an Overwatch, like right and and
here it is. No, it's it's

1761
01:56:12.920 --> 01:56:15.439
difficult the forty dollars to get in
things. It's gonna be hard for a

1762
01:56:15.560 --> 01:56:19.079
lot of people, like for me, Like, to me, that's always

1763
01:56:19.079 --> 01:56:23.000
a selling point, like oh I
liked what Overwatch was like that actually,

1764
01:56:23.119 --> 01:56:26.920
but most people can be like,
no, I'm not gonna pay to try

1765
01:56:27.000 --> 01:56:29.960
this game. I mean people could
have tried it for free this last weekend,

1766
01:56:29.960 --> 01:56:32.159
and like I said, the seams
so Steam numbers didn't seem very good.

1767
01:56:33.279 --> 01:56:36.239
You know, I'm certainly far from
rooting against this game. Yeah,

1768
01:56:36.399 --> 01:56:41.239
yeah, yeah, Like we never
want games to fail, Like obviously,

1769
01:56:41.279 --> 01:56:45.079
it would be awesome if this has
some kind of comeback story where it's like,

1770
01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:47.840
you know, they do turn around, they listen to people's complaints about

1771
01:56:47.840 --> 01:56:49.960
the beta, and it does turn
it into a really good game. That

1772
01:56:50.079 --> 01:56:54.119
would be sick. I'm just a
little worried about it. I will say

1773
01:56:54.439 --> 01:56:57.720
it is weird to me that their
marketing, at least initially was so much

1774
01:56:57.760 --> 01:57:00.680
more about the characters and like this
story stuff, when again that's like I

1775
01:57:00.760 --> 01:57:03.880
think that's maybe your weakest aspect here, and some of them like kind of

1776
01:57:03.920 --> 01:57:08.840
won me over, like that guy
who's like looks like yon du who I

1777
01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:12.039
thought looked super at first. He
was probably the one that dear to me

1778
01:57:12.119 --> 01:57:15.199
the most. Eventually the there's like
the big guy who was just so literally

1779
01:57:15.439 --> 01:57:19.279
drags that it's kind of pathetic,
like yo oh man, right, and

1780
01:57:19.319 --> 01:57:21.920
you never want to, like I
think if you had are designing characters and

1781
01:57:21.920 --> 01:57:25.920
people come inay with like, that's
kind of sad, Like that's like maybe

1782
01:57:25.960 --> 01:57:29.039
the lowest form you can actually end
up hitting. You. Guys talked about

1783
01:57:29.079 --> 01:57:31.520
this briefly yesterday and Game mess Mornings, but it seems like an odd move

1784
01:57:31.760 --> 01:57:36.880
to have so much story and character
investment on people were just meeting for the

1785
01:57:36.960 --> 01:57:43.119
first time, and uh, we
just immediately draw the comparison to Guardians of

1786
01:57:43.119 --> 01:57:46.880
the Galaxy when you know they completely
scraped the Last of Us multiplayer project,

1787
01:57:46.960 --> 01:57:51.920
where I feel like the Last of
Us probably has the most and that was

1788
01:57:51.920 --> 01:57:55.159
gonna be the plan for that game
too, I think was well, there

1789
01:57:55.279 --> 01:57:58.000
was gonna be a lot of storytelling
in that however they were gonna do that.

1790
01:57:58.039 --> 01:57:59.920
I don't know if that was gonna
be with cut scenes, but they

1791
01:58:00.039 --> 01:58:03.479
definitely had a lot of narrative development
planned for that game, and to me

1792
01:58:03.720 --> 01:58:06.199
makes a lot more sense than what
they're doing here. Yeah, because like

1793
01:58:06.279 --> 01:58:11.319
there you have the buy in from
folks that have only ever watched the show

1794
01:58:11.399 --> 01:58:14.800
and now have played the games or
like checked out the remasters that came out.

1795
01:58:15.279 --> 01:58:17.439
Check the quick look for that for
the Last of Us Part one remaster

1796
01:58:17.560 --> 01:58:21.600
is very good. And I was
like what they present, like, what's

1797
01:58:21.640 --> 01:58:26.319
the story, Like, Oh,
you got accepted into a group? Cool,

1798
01:58:27.920 --> 01:58:30.439
great, fantastic. You gotta shoot
the other groups? All right?

1799
01:58:31.199 --> 01:58:35.359
That group looks like me? All
right? All right, Well that's that's

1800
01:58:35.439 --> 01:58:46.600
Concord. And now this is the
news. The news. Jeff Grubb,

1801
01:58:47.000 --> 01:58:49.880
I hear you have news. I
have news for you. Everybody. Let's

1802
01:58:49.920 --> 01:58:54.880
get right into it. Nintendo's teaser
leads to new Famicom Detective Club game.

1803
01:58:55.359 --> 01:59:00.680
Nintendo announcedom excuse me, the Smiling
Man, Famicom Detective Club Forintendo Switch and

1804
01:59:00.760 --> 01:59:03.880
it's coming excuse me. August twenty
ninth, the first new famic Con Detective

1805
01:59:03.880 --> 01:59:08.560
Club game in over thirty five years, or I should say first new story,

1806
01:59:08.600 --> 01:59:13.039
because we did have those new releases
of the Famicom Remix on Switch recently.

1807
01:59:14.439 --> 01:59:16.520
This is one it's M rated,
that got a lot of attention because

1808
01:59:16.680 --> 01:59:20.800
Nintendo teased it with a sort of
saying what IsMEO who iso it's man with

1809
01:59:20.880 --> 01:59:24.880
a bag on its head? Uh, And it's M rated, and they

1810
01:59:24.920 --> 01:59:27.600
didn't say anything else about it.
So when it did get announced, some

1811
01:59:27.720 --> 01:59:30.399
people were definitely disappointed. They don't
have interest in visual novel games, but

1812
01:59:30.560 --> 01:59:34.239
this, you know, it's a
detective story about a serial killer. Nintendo's

1813
01:59:34.319 --> 01:59:38.399
making it. I'm I'm curious still, so I'm gonna check this out in

1814
01:59:38.439 --> 01:59:42.119
any any interest in Neo from any
of you. I like the Detective Club

1815
01:59:42.199 --> 01:59:45.760
games? You do? Yeah,
I didn't know anybody here played it?

1816
01:59:45.920 --> 01:59:48.079
Like? What? What? What
is it actually like? Is it mostly

1817
01:59:48.199 --> 01:59:54.199
visual novel? Is there some puzzle
solving? Mostly visual novels? Adventure?

1818
01:59:54.359 --> 01:59:57.520
Is you know it's got some of
those? More or less than a Phoenix

1819
01:59:57.640 --> 02:00:01.479
right game? Less than a Phoenix
right game? Okay, I don't think

1820
02:00:01.520 --> 02:00:06.760
you'd like it if like you like
Phoenix Right for Detective ish games. I

1821
02:00:06.840 --> 02:00:09.760
mean, I like the story stuff
and PhiX right, But I think if

1822
02:00:09.800 --> 02:00:13.479
a game was like even as much
as I love Phoenix Right, even that,

1823
02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:15.520
sometimes I'm like, I wish like
maybe we sped up the talking a

1824
02:00:15.640 --> 02:00:20.479
little bit. Everybody. It's a
little the Detective Club games are a little

1825
02:00:21.119 --> 02:00:25.680
too chatty. Sometimes I understand that
people might not work for me. Then

1826
02:00:27.560 --> 02:00:30.960
maybe that's why poison. Yeah,
let's talk about some real games. Like

1827
02:00:31.039 --> 02:00:35.920
what I just put in their grub
the news sections. Hey grub, look

1828
02:00:35.960 --> 02:00:41.560
at this, uh and it says
here the wait what oh what? Wait?

1829
02:00:42.239 --> 02:00:45.800
Wait? Wait? Which one?
Which one? Hey grub? Look

1830
02:00:45.840 --> 02:00:48.600
at this? No? No?
No? Which oh that one? I

1831
02:00:48.680 --> 02:00:51.920
thought you went the last news story? No. I just had that one

1832
02:00:53.000 --> 02:00:57.600
to help and I was gonna scream
at x I a debs form New Studio

1833
02:00:57.720 --> 02:01:03.000
to develop a spiritual successor to NBA
Street on Unreal Engine five Shots and everything.

1834
02:01:03.439 --> 02:01:08.319
Yes the run Colan got next which
okay, yeah, I got that

1835
02:01:08.880 --> 02:01:12.720
is a three v three online basketball
game with a twist. I'll just read

1836
02:01:12.760 --> 02:01:16.760
here from Cat Bailey at IgM.
Several former EA developers including former Visceral Games

1837
02:01:16.840 --> 02:01:20.560
GMS, Scott Probst, have formed
a new studio to make a spiritual successor

1838
02:01:20.600 --> 02:01:26.600
to NBA Street the beloved three v
three street basketball series titled The Run Got

1839
02:01:26.800 --> 02:01:30.199
Next. The new project, developed
by Play by Play Studios, is a

1840
02:01:30.319 --> 02:01:33.920
character driven full court three v three
hoops game that celebrates the attitude, style,

1841
02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:38.520
and skills of streetball culture, and
it will be developed in Unreal Engine

1842
02:01:38.600 --> 02:01:43.079
five, with players stringing together an
extended winning streak against opponents, either solo

1843
02:01:43.199 --> 02:01:46.520
or with friends online. Discussions are
ongoing about whether it will include a complete

1844
02:01:46.560 --> 02:01:51.760
offline mode similar to Rogue Lights.
Like Balatro, players will be able to

1845
02:01:51.920 --> 02:01:57.279
visit a shot between games to acquire
items, sponsors, abilities, kicks,

1846
02:01:57.640 --> 02:02:01.600
and more. That's not a bad
idea, having run based NBA Street Rogue,

1847
02:02:02.000 --> 02:02:13.359
NBA Streets Round. Who Okay,
look, I'm interested too. There's

1848
02:02:13.399 --> 02:02:19.520
been a lot of these spiritual successes. Yeah, what's I'm living if you

1849
02:02:19.560 --> 02:02:24.920
can't get your hopes up? And
then because n B a two K playgrounds,

1850
02:02:25.000 --> 02:02:32.439
Jeff, that's that's why again,
sports, you don't know what we

1851
02:02:32.560 --> 02:02:40.479
went through, hurt. We need
the Midway Sports Asylum back next. All

1852
02:02:40.600 --> 02:02:44.159
right, all right, all right, okay, yeah, so yeah,

1853
02:02:44.159 --> 02:02:46.640
that's exciting. I hope that comes
through an next sounds pretty solid. Yeah

1854
02:02:46.720 --> 02:02:49.319
yeah, listen, there's no reason
it can't be good. If it still

1855
02:02:49.399 --> 02:02:51.760
might not be, but it can't
be good. It could be good,

1856
02:02:53.359 --> 02:02:56.640
like, yes we can. We
can't be good, not this episode,

1857
02:02:56.680 --> 02:03:00.760
but we've done it before. EVO
happened and there was some headlines from here.

1858
02:03:00.039 --> 02:03:03.960
S and K has re released its
classic fighting crossover S and K versus

1859
02:03:04.079 --> 02:03:09.840
Capcom Colon SVC Chaos, Right and
well Classic is in. It's just old.

1860
02:03:10.239 --> 02:03:14.279
Uh, it's it's getting released for
PC as well as switching PS four.

1861
02:03:14.399 --> 02:03:17.039
It was originally on Xbox. Is
that original one backward compatible? I

1862
02:03:17.079 --> 02:03:20.760
don't know. I don't think it's
out now you can download the game now.

1863
02:03:20.840 --> 02:03:24.840
This was a shadow drop. People
mostly don't like this game. I

1864
02:03:25.000 --> 02:03:28.960
like looked into a little bit and
like it looks interesting in a weird way,

1865
02:03:29.000 --> 02:03:31.840
although I could tell it is mostly
bad. It's a neat artifact.

1866
02:03:32.239 --> 02:03:36.800
Yes, that's because you have odd
design decisions, like they put Zero from

1867
02:03:36.880 --> 02:03:41.960
Mega Man Zero in as one of
the Capcom characters. Oh yeah, it's

1868
02:03:42.119 --> 02:03:45.119
wild, it's wacky, but it's
I think the big problem is that pales

1869
02:03:45.159 --> 02:03:49.520
in comparison to CBS. On the
writer side, it definitely felt like a

1870
02:03:49.840 --> 02:03:54.000
scrambling move of Hey, we have
this deal with Capcom where we can use

1871
02:03:54.039 --> 02:03:56.359
their IP. We should do that, all right, how were we gonna

1872
02:03:56.359 --> 02:03:59.640
do that? We can make it
for the Neo geo still and oh that's

1873
02:03:59.760 --> 02:04:04.560
all what are you talking about?
Partly they support the Neodo because of where

1874
02:04:04.600 --> 02:04:08.199
it was popular in the countries it
was popular. Sure, yeah, it

1875
02:04:08.319 --> 02:04:11.479
just it just felt like they were
making a move to like uc I P.

1876
02:04:11.600 --> 02:04:14.560
At the last moment they were probably
about I think you're dead on about

1877
02:04:14.560 --> 02:04:16.279
that. I think I have heard
a story where that's literally what happened.

1878
02:04:16.319 --> 02:04:18.880
I kind of slap it together at
the last moment. It looks like that,

1879
02:04:19.079 --> 02:04:21.279
And part of me is like,
okay, I stole interested in that,

1880
02:04:21.359 --> 02:04:24.720
So I'm glad that this is widely
available now. This is like S

1881
02:04:24.800 --> 02:04:27.720
and K at the kind of end
of their first run when they you know,

1882
02:04:27.840 --> 02:04:31.760
are about to go bankrupt or whatever
exactly is when they like got together

1883
02:04:31.800 --> 02:04:36.239
with playmore right, That's like when
their first merger. It's it's just it's

1884
02:04:36.279 --> 02:04:40.279
funny now though, because like I'm
probably more just than this now than when

1885
02:04:40.319 --> 02:04:42.279
it came out, just because like, well, we don't get like these

1886
02:04:42.520 --> 02:04:45.239
two D pixel games very much at
least, so you know, there's weirdness

1887
02:04:45.399 --> 02:04:49.359
that the vibe of the game is
bizarre. It's not like those awesome two

1888
02:04:49.399 --> 02:04:54.159
D backgrounds where everybody's watching its cheering. It looks like everything takes place in

1889
02:04:54.279 --> 02:05:00.319
hell almost right again, they're all
in heaven or something like that worry and

1890
02:05:00.359 --> 02:05:02.560
they're trying to fight, like get
out or something. That's a mistake.

1891
02:05:03.000 --> 02:05:06.840
It's some weird Yeah, it's some
weird decisions with this one. But I

1892
02:05:06.960 --> 02:05:12.039
think look, as someone who has
plumbers don't wear ties Defendive Edition on his

1893
02:05:12.119 --> 02:05:16.199
shelf, I think all games deserve
to be preserved. Yeah, even which

1894
02:05:16.239 --> 02:05:23.760
I heard so exactly gets it.
I just redeemed the game. I'm going

1895
02:05:23.800 --> 02:05:29.079
to check it out soon. Okay. Uh Heyshama, who is a known

1896
02:05:29.399 --> 02:05:32.920
teching character, will join Tech and
eight as the third DLC character this autumn.

1897
02:05:36.880 --> 02:05:42.520
A volcano though he's fine, right, he's immune to a volcano.

1898
02:05:42.560 --> 02:05:44.640
He's built it out. Well,
guys, guys, it was cliffs,

1899
02:05:44.760 --> 02:05:51.640
you know the the they love cliffs, and then there's yeah, every Cliff's

1900
02:05:51.680 --> 02:05:55.199
funny. He's really tough. I
guess I do want to ask the panel

1901
02:05:55.239 --> 02:05:57.479
because like, I'm being a little
bit of a fuddy uddy about this.

1902
02:05:57.520 --> 02:05:59.800
I want to know how much of
a fuddy did he am. I'm rolling

1903
02:05:59.840 --> 02:06:04.760
my Isaac. You're being a puddy
duddy. That's fuddy duddy. You're being

1904
02:06:04.760 --> 02:06:09.079
a funny duddy. So we all
hate it when Papa Tine returns somehow,

1905
02:06:09.119 --> 02:06:17.560
and that's a big story in Fortnite. Yeah we dimbered you would be eating

1906
02:06:17.640 --> 02:06:21.640
it up. Yeah yeah, different. Now hey Hachi would be doing the

1907
02:06:21.680 --> 02:06:26.000
Wu Tang thing. It'd be great
because, hey, Hachie should come back

1908
02:06:26.079 --> 02:06:29.880
in a fighting game where story is
secondary when you're telling the story, doing

1909
02:06:29.920 --> 02:06:32.199
a bad story is bad. Lu
Can got his next nap and turned into

1910
02:06:32.239 --> 02:06:35.479
his zombie and now he's fine and
now he's a god and that rules.

1911
02:06:35.800 --> 02:06:41.159
So okay. So so I can
put an end to this because in my

1912
02:06:41.359 --> 02:06:45.720
interview with the tech and team here
we Go, I actually asked him about

1913
02:06:45.760 --> 02:06:48.439
this after guys, I saw this
because I need to be brief. I

1914
02:06:48.520 --> 02:06:54.680
was like, you motherfuckers, you're
ringing them back. Huh. So I

1915
02:06:54.760 --> 02:06:59.800
asked him about He was not originally
planned to be in this game. This

1916
02:07:00.159 --> 02:07:04.279
is a pivot that they made.
He was gone. It wasn't Herrada who

1917
02:07:04.279 --> 02:07:08.560
said that, it was someone else. So like the plan was like,

1918
02:07:08.720 --> 02:07:12.960
no, they wanted that ending to
be the ending, and they want to

1919
02:07:13.079 --> 02:07:15.720
move on to the next phase of
the Mishmas, especially if you know how

1920
02:07:15.800 --> 02:07:19.239
teching a story ends. No,
they were just simply moving on to the

1921
02:07:19.319 --> 02:07:23.479
next generation of the same conference.
And then it became cowards well, and

1922
02:07:23.560 --> 02:07:32.159
then they were like the feels wrong
with that sheet The wind Taker came back

1923
02:07:32.199 --> 02:07:39.159
after at This is literally my argument, Mike is Tekan is just the wrestling

1924
02:07:39.319 --> 02:07:43.439
of fighting. This is just wrestling. Mike. Were you mad when Han

1925
02:07:43.560 --> 02:07:46.760
came back in fast and furious?
I mean I thought it was kind of

1926
02:07:46.800 --> 02:07:50.119
pathetic. Yeah, I mean I
guess I was happy he was there,

1927
02:07:50.399 --> 02:08:03.279
but it was stupid and Mike,
Yeah, Mike, you have a giant

1928
02:08:03.479 --> 02:08:07.239
robot man fighting bear in this game. You're like, this is stupid.

1929
02:08:09.279 --> 02:08:11.920
I respect your fuddy duddy about this. I don't want you to I don't

1930
02:08:11.920 --> 02:08:13.840
want to convince you. I don't
want to change your mind. I'm glad

1931
02:08:13.880 --> 02:08:26.960
that you Yeah, somebody we can't
be positive, okay, uh Gil Guilty

1932
02:08:26.960 --> 02:08:31.399
Gear Striveal add Lucy from Cyberpunk Edge
Runners. That's Wild, which is the

1933
02:08:31.600 --> 02:08:35.439
that's the Netflix show, right,
Yeah, that's the Studio Trigger animated anime.

1934
02:08:35.640 --> 02:08:39.439
Yeah. Yeah, and that will
she'll join that in season past four

1935
02:08:39.520 --> 02:08:43.399
in twenty twenty five. This will
be the first guest character in series history.

1936
02:08:43.479 --> 02:08:48.800
Yeah, and it's weird because like
me and I also met some the

1937
02:08:48.840 --> 02:08:50.520
score of sports people. By the
way, Danielle and Matt were very nice.

1938
02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:54.640
I was talking to Danielle and we
were trying to make the connection why,

1939
02:08:56.239 --> 02:09:01.000
like how did wait, how did
a character from the cyberpunk anime make

1940
02:09:01.079 --> 02:09:05.239
it into Guilty Gear because like CD
Project, you know, trying to put

1941
02:09:05.279 --> 02:09:09.800
their characters in everything, but why
this game for this character? And we

1942
02:09:09.960 --> 02:09:13.600
sort of like realized, oh wait
a second arc System works. Did that

1943
02:09:13.720 --> 02:09:16.800
kill a Kill game? Kill a
kill a Trigger animated show? Like maybe

1944
02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:20.359
there's just a business thing that sort
of went down the chain there, but

1945
02:09:20.520 --> 02:09:24.920
still a wild I always assume it's
someone who is influential on the team,

1946
02:09:26.199 --> 02:09:28.119
watched the show and liked the character. I think that I always just assume

1947
02:09:28.159 --> 02:09:31.159
it's a Kojima situation where he's like
I watched the TV show. Now I

1948
02:09:31.279 --> 02:09:35.399
like this actor and someone to work
with them, but the connection there is

1949
02:09:35.399 --> 02:09:37.319
probably a big part of it.
I know. For some reason, it's

1950
02:09:37.560 --> 02:09:41.119
it seems like a better fit for
me than like, I don't know anything

1951
02:09:41.279 --> 02:09:46.439
else. Cyberpunk characters could show up
in better fit. But that's the thing

1952
02:09:46.479 --> 02:09:50.399
where I was like this. She
would have been a perfect Blaze Blue character.

1953
02:09:50.439 --> 02:09:54.960
Except there's no new Blaze Blue right
now. So all right, let's

1954
02:09:54.039 --> 02:09:58.119
keep going here. Let's see Valorant
console release date in Modern Warfare three game

1955
02:09:58.159 --> 02:10:03.199
Pass launch detail seemingly leak, although
I think we've gotten moderl one for three

1956
02:10:03.319 --> 02:10:07.000
is official. It's coming to Xbox
game Pass tomorrow, thank you. And

1957
02:10:07.079 --> 02:10:11.119
then Valerie also could be coming to
console very soon. It's rumored to launch

1958
02:10:11.199 --> 02:10:16.720
on July twenty sixth. This information
comes from Extasists, who has a history

1959
02:10:16.800 --> 02:10:20.760
of accurately revealing upcoming game Pass titles. Valerie, of course would be free

1960
02:10:20.800 --> 02:10:24.239
to play, but there's been a
lot of extra stuff in game Pass for

1961
02:10:24.399 --> 02:10:28.840
Riot games in the past, so
that could be what's happening for VAL's the

1962
02:10:28.920 --> 02:10:31.359
Riot one, right, I'm not
yet having a brain fart for seconds.

1963
02:10:31.640 --> 02:10:37.479
That's the Riot hero based counter strike. That's pretty fine. I'm really glad

1964
02:10:37.520 --> 02:10:41.039
that MW three is going to game
Pass because, like I said this in

1965
02:10:41.199 --> 02:10:43.479
my Gamely year list last year,
it ranked in my top ten and the

1966
02:10:43.800 --> 02:10:48.359
thing I started with was, do
not buy this because it's insanely fun,

1967
02:10:48.800 --> 02:10:52.520
but it's a seventy dollars DLC.
Yeah, it's the one that didn't have

1968
02:10:52.600 --> 02:10:56.920
a real campaign, right, Yeah, I think that's why I never played

1969
02:10:56.960 --> 02:10:58.239
this one. Is like, that's
kind of my main thing. But the

1970
02:10:58.399 --> 02:11:03.239
cool thing is he brought back like
all of m W two, like classics

1971
02:11:03.600 --> 02:11:07.800
maps, maps, but with the
gunplay of the current game. So it's

1972
02:11:07.800 --> 02:11:09.439
still a game that me and my
friends play all the time. So this

1973
02:11:09.520 --> 02:11:11.960
is a great way for people to
get in. And all I'm hearing is

1974
02:11:13.119 --> 02:11:16.239
is exeous to bring back Oops all
nickys No, speaking of Nicky's, I

1975
02:11:16.439 --> 02:11:20.359
just my phone buzz and I checked
it and I opened it and it went

1976
02:11:20.439 --> 02:11:24.560
right to the mini leaderboard, and
Nikki, who I believe was in chat,

1977
02:11:24.600 --> 02:11:28.039
did it in twelve seconds. Twelve
let's wait, which you can't type

1978
02:11:28.119 --> 02:11:33.359
that listening to the answer, says
Dan did the crossword. But let's keep

1979
02:11:33.399 --> 02:11:37.920
that to ourselves, all right,
Trust Nikky. I trust Nicky. If

1980
02:11:37.960 --> 02:11:45.840
I was a nick I would do
it. Let's see here. Xbox is

1981
02:11:45.880 --> 02:11:52.079
reportedly exploring more new game pass tiers. Microsoft is considering a clouded tier that

1982
02:11:52.119 --> 02:11:54.960
would be relative, relatively cheap and
accessible. That's for Mike, allowing users

1983
02:11:56.000 --> 02:11:58.479
to play games without owning a console. We've said it every time this has

1984
02:11:58.520 --> 02:12:01.840
come up. Xboxes cloud stuff is
just not up to snuff. It's bad

1985
02:12:01.920 --> 02:12:07.640
these days, there's all. They're
also maybe considering still an AD based tier.

1986
02:12:07.800 --> 02:12:11.600
That's one that's been rumored for a
while. They have a McDonald's connect

1987
02:12:13.399 --> 02:12:16.079
exactly. I will do that.
I will downgrade just so I can yell

1988
02:12:16.159 --> 02:12:20.319
McDonald's. I love how much you
like that? Is so your thing that

1989
02:12:20.439 --> 02:12:24.520
you're everyone like, even like tangently
comes up. You bring that up,

1990
02:12:24.520 --> 02:12:26.840
and it makes me happy every time
I would look forward to it. I

1991
02:12:26.880 --> 02:12:28.119
could be in the middle of a
speed run and if it said, hey,

1992
02:12:28.199 --> 02:12:33.600
yell McDonald's, Oh yeah, let's
do it. There's gotta be something

1993
02:12:33.600 --> 02:12:39.159
like Sketchrea can make where you do
that. Yeah, hey, okay,

1994
02:12:39.640 --> 02:12:41.560
I'm I'm sort of like at a
point where I'm like over thinking about game

1995
02:12:41.600 --> 02:12:46.079
pass all that much. If they
want to do this. Fine, wouldn't

1996
02:12:46.079 --> 02:12:50.399
We wouldn't be surprised, But it
does feel like we are over the hump

1997
02:12:50.520 --> 02:12:52.920
with game Pass and now they're like, just like, hey, what is

1998
02:12:52.000 --> 02:12:54.239
any way we can get more people
in here so we can make any more

1999
02:12:54.279 --> 02:12:58.399
money whatsoever? And it feels it
feels less special than it once did.

2000
02:13:00.039 --> 02:13:03.800
Kind of where I'm at with game
Pass. It gave me the Fortnite Club

2001
02:13:03.880 --> 02:13:05.760
feeling. When I saw it auto
renew, I'm like, oh I still

2002
02:13:05.840 --> 02:13:11.199
have this I stuff that at the
seon point? How much? How much

2003
02:13:11.319 --> 02:13:13.800
was it? Jan? I was
like, fourteen ninety nine. Okay,

2004
02:13:13.880 --> 02:13:16.119
well yeah, no, no,
no, no, no game Pass.

2005
02:13:16.319 --> 02:13:20.319
Oh they have console. Yeah,
it's probably gonna go up to twenty here

2006
02:13:20.319 --> 02:13:22.840
pretty soon. Jan, So keep
an eye on that. Okay, okay,

2007
02:13:24.479 --> 02:13:26.680
all right, next story, But
does the workers vote to become the

2008
02:13:26.760 --> 02:13:31.520
first Microsoft Games to you that is
fully unionized, Well done, good work

2009
02:13:31.560 --> 02:13:35.720
over there they have, but as
the Game Studios has unionized under the Communication

2010
02:13:35.880 --> 02:13:39.439
Workers of America, over two hundred
and forty developers, including artists, engineers,

2011
02:13:39.520 --> 02:13:45.399
programmers, and designers, signed union
authorization cards or indicated their desire for

2012
02:13:45.520 --> 02:13:50.880
union representation online. Microsoft has already
recognized the union. They just said the

2013
02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:54.920
general stuff. They're trying to improve
working conditions, advocate for job security,

2014
02:13:54.000 --> 02:13:58.560
compensation, transparency and flexibility, and
set a new standard for the industry,

2015
02:13:58.600 --> 02:14:03.439
which this almost certainly does. This
is the biggest studio to unionize like this.

2016
02:14:03.640 --> 02:14:07.640
This does accomplish exactly that. If
they can do it, it feels

2017
02:14:07.680 --> 02:14:09.439
like anyone can do it now.
They have an advantage in that Microsoft as

2018
02:14:09.479 --> 02:14:16.239
publicly stated on the record to politicians
that they would recognize unions going forward.

2019
02:14:16.680 --> 02:14:20.920
Other developers won't have that advantage,
but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try.

2020
02:14:20.960 --> 02:14:24.000
They probably can get that to happen
if they were to go for it,

2021
02:14:24.319 --> 02:14:26.760
and this sort of paves the way. So, yeah, it feels like

2022
02:14:26.880 --> 02:14:28.359
a sea change, feels like things
are very different than they once were when

2023
02:14:28.680 --> 02:14:33.319
stuff like this is very important because
did you see the breaking news that's coming

2024
02:14:33.399 --> 02:14:37.239
out right now about Humble Games.
Yeah, yeah, so the Humble Games

2025
02:14:37.600 --> 02:14:39.920
has It was a QA person saying
that my team was laid off, but

2026
02:14:41.000 --> 02:14:43.000
then I think they also said everyone
at Humble Games was laid off. Yeah,

2027
02:14:43.119 --> 02:14:46.279
I'm saying the entirety of Humble Games
is laid off, right either,

2028
02:14:46.279 --> 02:14:50.239
way, Humble Games is having layoffs
right now, and they seem significant.

2029
02:14:50.319 --> 02:14:52.760
I don't know if this means Humble
Games is going away. Humble Games is

2030
02:14:52.840 --> 02:15:01.479
an ign thing now, right,
it's entirety right, So that's new layoffs

2031
02:15:01.520 --> 02:15:05.119
for IgM, which had layoffs relatively
recently as well. Yeah, that's that's

2032
02:15:05.239 --> 02:15:09.079
rough, and yeah that this would
help in those situations. It's not going

2033
02:15:09.159 --> 02:15:13.800
to stop layoffs, but it can
like improve packages or make it a little

2034
02:15:13.800 --> 02:15:16.359
bit more difficult to do layoffs,
or have that transparency so you could see

2035
02:15:16.760 --> 02:15:20.359
how much money is being spent on
bullshit as opposed to paying people to do

2036
02:15:20.560 --> 02:15:26.439
jobs, So that could be beneficial
going forward. There's a new PS five

2037
02:15:26.520 --> 02:15:30.520
update that mostly like there's like new
stuff in there overall. But this one

2038
02:15:30.640 --> 02:15:33.439
new thing that I think is handy
is you can now get a URL to

2039
02:15:33.560 --> 02:15:37.479
send to somebody that they can use
to join your online session. So I

2040
02:15:37.560 --> 02:15:41.800
think the way it would work is
you can get this URL, you can

2041
02:15:41.920 --> 02:15:45.000
like text it to your friend,
they can click on it, and then

2042
02:15:45.159 --> 02:15:48.199
it will open up in the PlayStation
app, which will then connect their to

2043
02:15:48.279 --> 02:15:50.520
their PlayStation and turn it on and
send them right into that mode. So

2044
02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:54.800
oh wait, how is this any
easier than a game invite? Well,

2045
02:15:56.039 --> 02:16:00.560
it's I think it's only easier for
dealing with like very casual friends, because

2046
02:16:00.800 --> 02:16:03.760
you know, the asking someone to
get on Skype versus sending them a zoom

2047
02:16:03.840 --> 02:16:09.399
link? Is that? Is that
like a good metaphor there, nine year

2048
02:16:09.399 --> 02:16:13.720
old I know, when you're incorporating
other devices into the chain versus just like

2049
02:16:13.920 --> 02:16:18.439
hey, turn on your PlayStation.
And I think maybe the hang up is

2050
02:16:18.720 --> 02:16:20.319
if you have to be in the
PlayStation Apple on your phone, in which

2051
02:16:20.359 --> 02:16:22.079
case it's like, well, at
that point, what does that matter?

2052
02:16:22.199 --> 02:16:26.680
But it's I don't casual, are
you? Do you have the PlayStation Apple?

2053
02:16:26.880 --> 02:16:30.199
That's right? Probably not right?
So if if that's required, that

2054
02:16:30.279 --> 02:16:33.399
does break down at that point,
I think. But I don't know.

2055
02:16:33.440 --> 02:16:35.120
If it is as as easy as
a zoom link. I do see a

2056
02:16:35.159 --> 02:16:39.920
benefit to it. It's not probably
almost never going to use it and who

2057
02:16:39.959 --> 02:16:43.399
knows, But I don't know.
It's it's putting it into slack, right,

2058
02:16:43.799 --> 02:16:46.280
having a zoom having the link put
in a slack like just click this.

2059
02:16:48.159 --> 02:16:50.520
That's the thing I'm thinking about is
because if we're just all friends on

2060
02:16:50.559 --> 02:16:52.920
a platform, it's easier for me
to just like press the home bun,

2061
02:16:52.000 --> 02:16:56.280
select you on my list and joint
game. Sure. But if but if

2062
02:16:56.319 --> 02:16:58.879
I'm like, get my PlayStation set
up and you're like, there's the r

2063
02:16:58.959 --> 02:17:00.680
L and I just click on it, and by the time they get over

2064
02:17:00.719 --> 02:17:01.719
there, the PlayStation set up and
ready for me to go. If it

2065
02:17:01.760 --> 02:17:05.319
works that way and that's the way
it works, I I guess I don't

2066
02:17:05.319 --> 02:17:09.520
know. Does this analogy work.
When I was producing remote podcasts for WWUE

2067
02:17:09.639 --> 02:17:13.559
and I had to get a wrestler
on the call, if I said,

2068
02:17:13.760 --> 02:17:18.280
hey, Undertaker, download zoom,
it would not work that way. But

2069
02:17:18.440 --> 02:17:20.280
if you text the link and you're
like, click this, it'll be fine.

2070
02:17:20.319 --> 02:17:22.959
Just give a permission for your camera, then wrestlers could typically be like,

2071
02:17:22.959 --> 02:17:26.719
okay, I get it. The
situation I'm thinking of thinking about,

2072
02:17:28.079 --> 02:17:31.600
Like, the one instance I can
think of is if you're playing a tournament

2073
02:17:31.799 --> 02:17:35.959
for anything, like being able to
create a session for the tournament and not

2074
02:17:37.120 --> 02:17:39.440
have to deal with like adding someone
that could be useful. Yeah, I

2075
02:17:39.479 --> 02:17:43.399
think it's neat, but yeah,
definitely pretty each I could see this being

2076
02:17:43.520 --> 02:17:46.920
like a passive way to get the
homies onto a game, like maybe people

2077
02:17:48.040 --> 02:17:52.319
aren't online quite yet. But it's
like, yo, like join my game,

2078
02:17:52.840 --> 02:17:54.399
just just tap the link and then, like you know, people will

2079
02:17:54.399 --> 02:18:00.280
get online when they get home exactly. So I'm who knows how the official

2080
02:18:00.319 --> 02:18:03.959
this will actually be. I just
thought it was kind of neat last couple

2081
02:18:03.959 --> 02:18:07.719
of stories here. Despite ninety percent
of its sales now being digital, Capcom

2082
02:18:07.799 --> 02:18:13.239
claims it won't stop producing physical games. Capcom has no plans to discontinue producing

2083
02:18:13.319 --> 02:18:16.920
physical games despite the increasing popularity of
digital titles. The company recognizes that many

2084
02:18:18.040 --> 02:18:22.200
end users still prefer physical games.
While major Capcom titles are released in both

2085
02:18:22.239 --> 02:18:26.120
physical and digital formats, some smaller
games are released digital only. Digital sales

2086
02:18:26.159 --> 02:18:30.760
dominate the video game industry, with
a growing preference for digital titles each year.

2087
02:18:31.520 --> 02:18:35.559
In the UK, physical software sales
declined last year, while digital console,

2088
02:18:35.639 --> 02:18:39.559
PC and mobile game sales all experienced
increases. This is the way it's

2089
02:18:39.600 --> 02:18:43.120
going, and yet I think this
is also always the right move if you're

2090
02:18:43.120 --> 02:18:48.079
a company like Capcom. Even though
I'm someone who doesn't really buying physical games,

2091
02:18:48.479 --> 02:18:50.760
I would hate the idea of they
stopped making physical games across the board.

2092
02:18:50.799 --> 02:18:54.440
That would be a terrible move on
this. This is one of things

2093
02:18:54.520 --> 02:18:58.000
I talked to matsumotoves On in my
Maral Versus Capcom interview where he said one

2094
02:18:58.040 --> 02:19:01.360
of the reasons that he personally at
least wanted to do this was, you

2095
02:19:01.440 --> 02:19:07.799
know, NBC has sort of disappeared
into the ether because of licensing and everything

2096
02:19:07.840 --> 02:19:09.479
like that, and like part of
this was, Okay, now you can

2097
02:19:09.600 --> 02:19:15.399
have a physical copy of these Marvel
versus Capcom games that will never go away.

2098
02:19:15.879 --> 02:19:18.639
And he said, you know,
as like a collector of physical media

2099
02:19:18.680 --> 02:19:20.440
and everything like, that's one of
things he wanted the fans to be able

2100
02:19:20.479 --> 02:19:28.200
to have for the future. I
felt taunted and ridiculed and made to look

2101
02:19:28.280 --> 02:19:31.319
like a fool when I went to
the Capcom store in Japan that was next

2102
02:19:31.360 --> 02:19:37.520
to the Nintendo store, because these
motherfuckers had nothing but Mega Man Battle Network

2103
02:19:37.600 --> 02:19:41.840
merchant everywhere. And then I'm like, what do you what are you guys

2104
02:19:41.920 --> 02:19:45.639
telling me? Did I miss news
or something? I'll bring ales back?

2105
02:19:46.040 --> 02:19:48.639
And I was just like, oh
god, I just want to check in

2106
02:19:48.840 --> 02:19:54.000
so bad, really well. They
did very well, so good games,

2107
02:19:54.079 --> 02:19:58.440
dude. You know there's all these
like angry like gaming YouTubers where that's their

2108
02:19:58.440 --> 02:20:00.959
whole gimmick is like every news to
rider, I'm so angry about him.

2109
02:20:01.719 --> 02:20:05.959
Can you do you think there are
any videos where somebody's just really pissed off

2110
02:20:05.000 --> 02:20:07.959
about a company saying they're going to
keep doing physical games? Like what is?

2111
02:20:09.159 --> 02:20:11.920
Is there an angle rock to believe? Like? Does that video exist?

2112
02:20:13.000 --> 02:20:16.959
It's it's often gaslighting about the environment. Yeah, I guess yeah,

2113
02:20:16.959 --> 02:20:20.000
it's bad for the environment. Okay, yeah, okay, sure, it's

2114
02:20:20.040 --> 02:20:22.840
your fault. It's not the corporation. It's fault. Everybody's yours now,

2115
02:20:24.360 --> 02:20:28.719
Okay, but yes, sorry,
Mega Man they're not going to do that.

2116
02:20:28.760 --> 02:20:31.159
It meg Man's done anyway. Next
story, Capcom says it's considering how

2117
02:20:31.200 --> 02:20:35.959
to make Mega Man games on a
regular basis. What the hell Capcom is

2118
02:20:37.000 --> 02:20:41.879
considering creating new Mega Man games more
regularly. Capcom recently shared a survey and

2119
02:20:41.879 --> 02:20:46.600
asking fans which class at Capcom Francis
they want to see a new entries in.

2120
02:20:46.959 --> 02:20:48.559
In the past fifteen years, only
three major Mega Man games have been

2121
02:20:48.600 --> 02:20:52.000
released, Mega Man Wow, Mega
Man ten, and Mega Man eleven.

2122
02:20:52.040 --> 02:20:56.079
That's in twenty eight, twenty ten, and twenty eighteen, respectively. The

2123
02:20:56.120 --> 02:21:00.159
Mega Man series has sold over thirty
eight million units throughout its thirty six Your

2124
02:21:00.239 --> 02:21:03.040
History. Nintendo recently added all five
Game Boy Mega Man games the Nintendo Switch

2125
02:21:03.120 --> 02:21:09.920
online service, so they they remember
it exists, but not much else going

2126
02:21:09.959 --> 02:21:13.200
on there. But I think we've
gotten the sense recently because of that that

2127
02:21:13.440 --> 02:21:18.079
survey that they're like, what can
we do next? After like all these

2128
02:21:18.319 --> 02:21:20.159
ws, can we get another one
with maybe something else? And Mega Man

2129
02:21:20.319 --> 02:21:24.280
feels like the one they should try
to get a dub with next. Yes,

2130
02:21:24.920 --> 02:21:26.840
Mega Man was in a bit of
a weird spot because you know,

2131
02:21:26.920 --> 02:21:31.600
some of those franchises had gone along
in the two regular Mega Man exit,

2132
02:21:31.680 --> 02:21:35.520
even the kind of Battle Network and
It's star Fors spin off there and then

2133
02:21:35.559 --> 02:21:39.559
in a fune left right. He
was kind of shepherd that series for a

2134
02:21:39.639 --> 02:21:43.600
good while, and I think like
meg Man eleven, even though it was

2135
02:21:43.639 --> 02:21:46.799
the best selling Megama game, I
think they had some high expectations for it

2136
02:21:46.000 --> 02:21:50.239
and that scared them off a bit. I think, gosh, enough time

2137
02:21:50.239 --> 02:21:54.639
has passed from that. There are
so many ways, so many directions you

2138
02:21:54.760 --> 02:21:58.440
can take Mega Man, and even
as somebody who does like classic Mega Man

2139
02:21:58.520 --> 02:22:01.120
the most, I don't think that's
maybe the smartest thing to do next.

2140
02:22:01.479 --> 02:22:05.920
You either bring back x either bring
back Battle Network even or you know there's

2141
02:22:05.959 --> 02:22:11.719
there's there's other collections we can still
do here, especially Yeah, you know

2142
02:22:11.719 --> 02:22:15.639
what you do, you do Doom
Doom twenty sixteen, where where it is

2143
02:22:15.760 --> 02:22:18.000
like it is a new Mega Man
but then occasionally he has to hack into

2144
02:22:18.000 --> 02:22:20.559
a system and then you play a
couple of levels that are like any s

2145
02:22:20.639 --> 02:22:24.280
Mega Man. Yeah, yeah,
I thought where you going with that?

2146
02:22:24.520 --> 02:22:30.200
Did you hear about the canceled Mega
Man X like FPS Maverick Connor, Yeah,

2147
02:22:30.680 --> 02:22:33.159
I've heard about it. Yes,
they should do that too. What

2148
02:22:33.239 --> 02:22:35.760
they really should do is, yeah, it could be like that, but

2149
02:22:35.799 --> 02:22:37.959
you know, we had Mega Man, we had megmn X and zero.

2150
02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:43.360
It should be the next one of
those like Mega Man blank and it will

2151
02:22:43.440 --> 02:22:46.079
probably still be a two D action
platformer, you know, with all of

2152
02:22:46.200 --> 02:22:50.760
that familiar stuff, but it can
serve as more of a new entry point

2153
02:22:50.879 --> 02:22:52.760
for a lot of people. But
right, you know, I love MEGMANA

2154
02:22:52.840 --> 02:22:56.440
so much. I just want to
see something and I'm not I'm honestly not

2155
02:22:56.479 --> 02:23:01.440
even worried about it. It's going
to happen, and yes, yes,

2156
02:23:01.760 --> 02:23:05.760
because he is still their mascot and
you know, like I like to remind

2157
02:23:05.799 --> 02:23:09.639
people. You look at these numbers
over thirty eight million units, but then

2158
02:23:09.639 --> 02:23:13.840
you think about how many Mega Man
games there are millions. It says a

2159
02:23:13.879 --> 02:23:18.719
lot about their sales numbers. I
think that's just why they're hesitant every time.

2160
02:23:18.799 --> 02:23:20.600
It's like, okay, so how
do we sell this one? Because

2161
02:23:20.639 --> 02:23:24.159
we got to sell it, I
think CAP becomes a little more open to

2162
02:23:24.360 --> 02:23:26.799
having smaller games in general. You
know, we saw like ghosts and goblins

2163
02:23:26.799 --> 02:23:31.680
and ever thing. I think it's
just maybe it's almost like a little embarrassing

2164
02:23:31.760 --> 02:23:33.719
that their mascot never sells well.
So they're trying to like, come on,

2165
02:23:33.799 --> 02:23:37.479
let's let's get Mega Man a win. This what a fun mascot.

2166
02:23:37.559 --> 02:23:41.079
Though it's not gonna be like Chris
Redfield, you know. No, they're

2167
02:23:41.120 --> 02:23:45.799
they're better off sticking with Megan trying
to replace them with someone else. Honestly,

2168
02:23:45.879 --> 02:23:48.680
I forget where it happened. But
people are asking like, is a

2169
02:23:48.719 --> 02:23:52.399
Mega Man really still the mascot or
is it like maybe reuint it's that dog

2170
02:23:52.440 --> 02:23:56.760
from Resident Force. Definitely play on
a command guy hot Dog, because they

2171
02:23:56.840 --> 02:23:58.440
still, like, you know,
megment does still show up a lot of

2172
02:23:58.479 --> 02:24:03.639
things, and the merchandise for Mega
Man has always been very robust, right,

2173
02:24:03.799 --> 02:24:07.040
And I mean at certain point,
maybe you need to make a new

2174
02:24:07.079 --> 02:24:09.680
game just to keep supporting that,
right, so you can keep making this

2175
02:24:09.879 --> 02:24:15.440
maybe smaller but very diehard group of
people. The people who like Mega Man

2176
02:24:15.920 --> 02:24:20.440
like money, really like Mega Man, right, we like him a lot.

2177
02:24:22.159 --> 02:24:24.879
And you're talking about physical copies,
you know how you get people to

2178
02:24:24.879 --> 02:24:28.559
buy physical copies, Like how we
just bought a physical copy of the Tender

2179
02:24:28.600 --> 02:24:31.479
World Championship, like us a couple
knick knacks, right to make a Mega

2180
02:24:31.520 --> 02:24:33.760
Man, maybe you're only going to
sell one or two million of them,

2181
02:24:35.000 --> 02:24:37.479
It doesn't matter. Give me a
helmet for like two hundred dollars, I'll

2182
02:24:37.479 --> 02:24:43.319
buy it. I'm not a plush
stuffed toy person, but like I got

2183
02:24:43.559 --> 02:24:46.639
very close to buying several Mega Man
Battle Network plushes because I'm a fan.

2184
02:24:50.000 --> 02:24:52.920
So I'm excited. I'm uh,
you know yeah, and you're rapping.

2185
02:24:52.959 --> 02:24:54.760
I can't wait to see it.
You're right about it's it's you shouldn't be

2186
02:24:54.760 --> 02:24:58.840
worried because they will do another one, and it's you know it, it's

2187
02:24:58.879 --> 02:25:01.520
not it's not even the long guess
it's been since one right between twenty ten's

2188
02:25:01.719 --> 02:25:05.920
Mega Man ten and Mega Men eleven
and twenty eighteen. That was the years.

2189
02:25:05.200 --> 02:25:07.280
So yeah, that was probably that
was as long as it got.

2190
02:25:07.319 --> 02:25:11.000
I mean there's some smaller games that
aren't on like that, you know,

2191
02:25:11.159 --> 02:25:13.079
like that you hit that Mega Man
X Dive Happen, which you know it's

2192
02:25:13.079 --> 02:25:16.239
small, but it isn't game,
right, you're right, even Street Fighter

2193
02:25:16.399 --> 02:25:20.520
Cross Mega Man, which was a
fan game that Capcom Dana did like officially

2194
02:25:20.600 --> 02:25:24.760
published, right, so yeah,
but basically three games. And it is

2195
02:25:24.840 --> 02:25:28.120
wild because it used to be like
it was a joke how many Mega Man

2196
02:25:28.200 --> 02:25:31.440
games they released, right, and
now it's like man, we were eating

2197
02:25:31.520 --> 02:25:37.319
good, give me just the Battle
Network but like Slay the Spire. Oh

2198
02:25:37.360 --> 02:25:41.360
wow, have you ever? I
mean, there's so many easy things they

2199
02:25:41.399 --> 02:25:43.319
can do, especially with indie companies, so many people, so many indie

2200
02:25:43.719 --> 02:25:48.200
just make Mega Man games. Get
just get the people who made thirty x

2201
02:25:48.440 --> 02:25:52.360
X, which is Mega Man X
roguelike and it rules with gorgeous like two

2202
02:25:52.399 --> 02:25:56.719
d art. Just give them the
Mega Man license. Yes, right,

2203
02:25:58.079 --> 02:26:00.479
yeah, there you go. Christian, why had get on it? Uh

2204
02:26:00.799 --> 02:26:03.360
yeah, just so we can eventually
get a Mega Man movie starring Chris Pratt

2205
02:26:03.680 --> 02:26:07.159
of course, yeah, he looks
like the cover of the first game.

2206
02:26:07.200 --> 02:26:11.639
That would be fantastic. Actually,
yes, all right, that does it

2207
02:26:11.719 --> 02:26:13.719
for the news. I'm handing the
show back over to Jan. Oh gosh,

2208
02:26:13.799 --> 02:26:16.719
now I'm just thinking of Chris Pratt
as Doctor Light and it's making me

2209
02:26:16.879 --> 02:26:26.799
upset. That's not quickly Mega manwe
wowee Uh, I'm I realized the show

2210
02:26:26.879 --> 02:26:28.639
needs a quick brickie break and we'll
be back with some emails, just a

2211
02:26:28.719 --> 02:26:33.079
baby's handful of them. Stay tuned, folks, We'll see you right after

2212
02:26:33.280 --> 02:26:48.879
this. We emails. BombCast a
giant bomb dot com is the email address

2213
02:26:50.159 --> 02:26:54.319
to send your emails to. You
can send emails about virtually and in everything.

2214
02:26:54.520 --> 02:26:58.760
Whether you've got a quiz you want
to send our way uh fan casting

2215
02:27:00.360 --> 02:27:07.040
you see us in what characters we
would be in perhaps the uh my dinner

2216
02:27:07.120 --> 02:27:11.159
with Andre? Which characters we'd be
there, whether it be Andre or the

2217
02:27:11.280 --> 02:27:18.120
other guy let us know for sure. Or if you've got questions about anything

2218
02:27:18.200 --> 02:27:22.399
happening in video games, send them
our way at BombCast at giant bomb dot

2219
02:27:22.159 --> 02:27:33.399
ah. First email comes from Spencer. Spencer writes in about a hot topic.

2220
02:27:33.559 --> 02:27:37.600
That hot topic being Avril Levine.
After y'all brought up the crime against

2221
02:27:37.680 --> 02:27:41.120
mankind, Miss Avril Levine, Hello, Kitty Song. I had to go

2222
02:27:41.280 --> 02:27:45.719
watch the video and listen to it
for myself. While looking through the comments,

2223
02:27:45.760 --> 02:27:50.079
I found out that apparently she's massively
popular in Japan. She has clothing

2224
02:27:50.120 --> 02:27:52.879
lines there, has sang songs for
anime openings, and is the first Westerner

2225
02:27:54.200 --> 02:27:56.440
to have three albums in a row
sell over a million copies in Japan.

2226
02:27:56.840 --> 02:28:03.479
DLDR Japanese people love Apae Spencer.
It's no one's felt this way about a

2227
02:28:03.600 --> 02:28:09.040
foreigner since David Hasseloff in Germany.
It's almost matching those levels. Yes,

2228
02:28:09.200 --> 02:28:15.600
yes, it's exactly that. Gwen
Stefani was not right because Gwen Stefani exploited

2229
02:28:15.680 --> 02:28:18.879
the right. She had Japanese people
as pets. They weren't appreciative of that.

2230
02:28:20.319 --> 02:28:22.760
Turns out that's not cool. That's
not so cool. I wonder how

2231
02:28:22.799 --> 02:28:26.799
you say she said see you later
boy in Japanese, just like that.

2232
02:28:26.879 --> 02:28:31.000
I feel like that would hit really
hard though. Yeah, all right.

2233
02:28:31.479 --> 02:28:39.280
Next email comes from Lauren Hey Bomb
crew listening to the recent discussions of Shadow

2234
02:28:39.319 --> 02:28:41.440
of the Nerd Tree and how Dan, Jeff and Mike never really played much

2235
02:28:41.479 --> 02:28:46.399
of the older Souls games got me
thinking as to what elden Ring has that

2236
02:28:46.520 --> 02:28:50.799
provides a stronger draw than previous entries
In this quote unquote series, all the

2237
02:28:50.840 --> 02:28:54.200
games play fundamentally the same way.
I have the same kind of exploration in

2238
02:28:54.319 --> 02:28:58.399
similar openness and level design. I
would even go so far as to say

2239
02:28:58.440 --> 02:29:03.600
that elden Ring is the most impenetrable, being not only substantially longer, but

2240
02:29:03.840 --> 02:29:07.200
considerably more difficult than any of the
other others, with many enemies having long

2241
02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:11.600
attack strings if you're punished opportunities and
awkward delay attack timings. So what do

2242
02:29:11.639 --> 02:29:16.000
you think elden Ring's secret sauce is
that makes it engaging then more engaging than

2243
02:29:16.040 --> 02:29:22.040
previous entries? Is that the horse
the jump button mimic Tier Georgia Railroad Martin

2244
02:29:22.200 --> 02:29:24.399
self cessed. I do think it's
a great game, though I would personally

2245
02:29:24.520 --> 02:29:28.719
consider it to be lower on the
list, so I'm very curious to hear

2246
02:29:28.760 --> 02:29:31.920
everyone else's thoughts. A piece Lauren
from Melbourne, you could run away.

2247
02:29:33.680 --> 02:29:37.719
You get something challenging the idea of
having an open world where you have options,

2248
02:29:37.159 --> 02:29:41.639
so that you're like, well,
I'm not having fun because I'm getting

2249
02:29:41.639 --> 02:29:43.959
beat by this boss. Well,
there's a million other things to go do

2250
02:29:43.040 --> 02:29:46.479
and have fun with now I know, and that leads to leveling up,

2251
02:29:46.639 --> 02:29:50.559
which makes those things easier. You
just see the pathway to conquering the game

2252
02:29:52.079 --> 02:29:54.920
much easier. It's easier to visualize
in Elder Ring than these other ones.

2253
02:29:54.159 --> 02:29:56.360
And so I think that was a
gateway for a lot of people. I

2254
02:29:56.600 --> 02:29:58.760
mean, I was I played some
of these games before, but I was

2255
02:29:58.840 --> 02:30:03.680
mo was excited because of that reason. I'm actually doing my first Dark Souls

2256
02:30:03.719 --> 02:30:07.479
one play through right now. Yeah. Yeah, so uh, and I've

2257
02:30:07.520 --> 02:30:11.000
been enjoying that a lot. And
it is kind of funny, like,

2258
02:30:11.000 --> 02:30:13.639
why didn't I care about Dark Souls
when that was coming out? Really?

2259
02:30:15.040 --> 02:30:16.159
And I don't really have a great
reason for that. I don't really think

2260
02:30:16.200 --> 02:30:20.000
there's gonna be an answer that to
satisfy the emailer here. But yeah,

2261
02:30:20.000 --> 02:30:22.879
I think what you're saying about Older
Ring, a part of it is just

2262
02:30:22.959 --> 02:30:26.280
the zeitgeist, right. It was
bigger than it ever was for even any

2263
02:30:26.280 --> 02:30:28.000
of those other from software games,
and they all had kind of, you

2264
02:30:28.079 --> 02:30:31.399
know, these these big moments,
but Outer Ring did feel like this big,

2265
02:30:31.639 --> 02:30:35.520
you can't miss thing. But I
do think something about that open world

2266
02:30:35.600 --> 02:30:41.440
formula made it more approachable, because
exploring in the Dark Soul games can be

2267
02:30:41.479 --> 02:30:45.799
a bit more daunting. I think
the walk backs when you die and go

2268
02:30:45.879 --> 02:30:48.639
to a boss line you have,
those are a lot longer, and those

2269
02:30:48.719 --> 02:30:54.079
could be more frustrating. Older Ring
is usually way more generous with just kind

2270
02:30:54.079 --> 02:30:58.520
of putting those right before. Boss
fights are generally even having more of them

2271
02:30:58.559 --> 02:31:01.959
anyways, and you can do things
like fast travel, right and it's pretty

2272
02:31:01.000 --> 02:31:05.399
easy to go around and just I'm
gonna piss off here and go somewhere else.

2273
02:31:05.520 --> 02:31:07.719
You could do some of that in
Dark Souls, right, like,

2274
02:31:07.760 --> 02:31:09.719
Okay, maybe this area is difficult. There's probably a few other ones I

2275
02:31:09.799 --> 02:31:13.559
could go explore right now. But
again, even going to those areas as

2276
02:31:13.680 --> 02:31:20.600
it can be a bit more daunting
than an out and Ring uh ps f

2277
02:31:20.639 --> 02:31:24.239
Lauren has a The correct ranking of
these games is as follows one Dark Souls

2278
02:31:24.280 --> 02:31:30.079
three, two blood Borne, maybe
three Dark Souls four, Elder Ring,

2279
02:31:30.399 --> 02:31:35.159
five Dark Souls two, and six
Demon Souls. They add I don't think

2280
02:31:35.200 --> 02:31:37.200
Sokkoro really fits in this list,
as it is pretty different at its core,

2281
02:31:37.399 --> 02:31:43.600
but it is the best from soft
game uh best from soft games ever

2282
02:31:43.680 --> 02:31:46.319
made. Yeah, and it is
one of the greatest games of all time.

2283
02:31:46.440 --> 02:31:52.639
Heart Yeah, yeah, of course
six actually goes above that though correct

2284
02:31:52.360 --> 02:31:56.479
Secer is great. Love that game. Yes, rules uh. Next email

2285
02:31:56.559 --> 02:32:01.680
comes from Hill sent from my iPhone
here BombCast crew as a fighting game fan

2286
02:32:01.799 --> 02:32:05.680
whose favorite series of all time is
Marvel versus Capcom. Announcement of the collection

2287
02:32:05.840 --> 02:32:09.600
at the Nintendo Direct was a dream
come true. It was totally convinced we'd

2288
02:32:09.639 --> 02:32:13.879
never see any sort of re release
or new installment because of the legal issues

2289
02:32:13.920 --> 02:32:18.280
and the fact that the last game, NBC Infinite was a dud. But

2290
02:32:18.440 --> 02:32:22.639
now it seriously looks like there's hope. Are there any series or franchises you

2291
02:32:22.799 --> 02:32:26.159
totally thought were dead but unexpectedly returned
to your delight? I'm mostly thinking games.

2292
02:32:26.200 --> 02:32:30.520
It could also honestly apply to TV
shows, movies, books, anything

2293
02:32:30.760 --> 02:32:35.719
Sending love from Chicago, will send
from iPhone. Yeah, Marvel versus Capcom

2294
02:32:35.040 --> 02:32:41.920
Man Hello, spoiler for my GB
sixteen moment here. But that's that's my

2295
02:32:43.120 --> 02:32:46.120
favorite, just because that's one of
my favorite memories, is being on a

2296
02:32:46.239 --> 02:32:48.600
call with these guys and me and
Mike popping the hell off, freaking out

2297
02:32:48.719 --> 02:32:52.639
of there was like no chance.
There was no shot of that coming back.

2298
02:32:52.719 --> 02:32:58.360
And to see it like in a
Nintendo directs right here. Literally it's

2299
02:32:58.399 --> 02:33:03.600
never been a win Nintendo. Yeah, that was wild. That's apparently something

2300
02:33:03.639 --> 02:33:07.200
that they thought was like very fun
was announcing it during the Nintendo direct.

2301
02:33:07.200 --> 02:33:09.159
They were like, yeah, get
out to a different audience, you know,

2302
02:33:09.280 --> 02:33:15.479
like if you you guys. It's
weird with like TV shows and movies

2303
02:33:15.479 --> 02:33:18.239
because it seems like everything comes back
now to the point where it's not exciting.

2304
02:33:18.360 --> 02:33:20.479
Like there was a time in my
life where you were like there's a

2305
02:33:20.559 --> 02:33:24.639
new quantum leap. I would be
like, that is the most exciting thing

2306
02:33:24.920 --> 02:33:28.120
ever. It's still happening, right, Yeah. I think that show came

2307
02:33:28.159 --> 02:33:30.920
out. I don't know I came
out. It definitely came out. It

2308
02:33:31.000 --> 02:33:33.360
was on Network TV. It has
like twenty four episodes of season. I

2309
02:33:33.399 --> 02:33:37.639
think it's I think it was on
long enough that's actually like finished. Yeah,

2310
02:33:37.680 --> 02:33:39.799
I think it's done. Like you
know, you know, Jeff,

2311
02:33:39.799 --> 02:33:41.520
you know how much of National Treasure
was kind of like an early meme with

2312
02:33:41.600 --> 02:33:45.000
me. For a while they had
a show on Disney Plus. I didn't

2313
02:33:45.120 --> 02:33:54.200
watch that like you watch and it's
always kind of mediocre, usually mediocre.

2314
02:33:54.680 --> 02:33:58.600
Then everybody talks about it, so
I will know, and then I'll go

2315
02:33:58.760 --> 02:34:03.440
see Tough Gun Maverick and cry to
the Lady Gaga song in my car afterwards.

2316
02:34:03.680 --> 02:34:07.879
I listened to it on repeat because
it's the most beautiful fucking thing ever.

2317
02:34:07.719 --> 02:34:11.200
My kids love that song. Yeah, it's good. Hold my head.

2318
02:34:11.319 --> 02:34:13.959
Uh. By the way, oh
man, I was, I'm like

2319
02:34:15.360 --> 02:34:16.920
Skyle, hoping we could all see
it together. Maybe I'll I'll make you

2320
02:34:18.000 --> 02:34:18.840
go see it with me again before
you have nothing else to do one of

2321
02:34:18.879 --> 02:34:24.200
those nights. I'm Glenn Powell is
gonna save this country. Oh yeah,

2322
02:34:24.200 --> 02:34:26.319
he's already doing it. Yeah,
well that is the one I'm kind of

2323
02:34:26.319 --> 02:34:30.079
saying, because there's a rumor like
he's gonna also be in a new backdraft.

2324
02:34:30.159 --> 02:34:33.799
I'm like, hell yeah, now
that you got my attention, Mike's

2325
02:34:33.879 --> 02:34:37.000
right. Mike has the correct take
on this, where it's like, yeah,

2326
02:34:37.120 --> 02:34:39.799
most there's so much stuff coming back
that it doesn't feel special anymore.

2327
02:34:39.840 --> 02:34:43.559
But the one that got me was
Dark Crystal, the Netflix show is actually

2328
02:34:43.639 --> 02:34:48.159
surprisingly good, and like, I
like the idea of Dark Crystal the movie

2329
02:34:48.239 --> 02:34:50.520
more than I like watching Dark Crystal. Uh. And so when the show

2330
02:34:50.559 --> 02:34:52.959
came out and it kind of like
actually got all of that stuff right.

2331
02:34:54.079 --> 02:34:58.959
And I think Mark Hamill does one
of the characters and he's just fucking killing

2332
02:34:58.040 --> 02:35:01.319
it. It's a it's a a
good show. I like it quite a

2333
02:35:01.360 --> 02:35:03.719
bit. I just thought of a
perfect one from this weekend, because like,

2334
02:35:03.760 --> 02:35:05.360
I never just like watch TV.
You know, it's like, Okay,

2335
02:35:05.360 --> 02:35:07.600
I'm gonna go to Hulu, I'm
gonna watch the show I want to

2336
02:35:07.639 --> 02:35:11.959
watch. I'm never flipping through channels
unless I'm in a hotel. And I

2337
02:35:11.040 --> 02:35:13.280
was in a hotel and I was
just playing an e S and I just

2338
02:35:13.319 --> 02:35:16.000
want to put something on the background, and I saw in Comedy Central it's

2339
02:35:16.000 --> 02:35:18.120
like Beavis and butt heead and I
was like, oh, I love Beavis

2340
02:35:18.159 --> 02:35:20.639
and Butudhead. Let me put that
on. I did not realize that it

2341
02:35:20.760 --> 02:35:24.920
came back and it was, Yeah, they were like old the episode I

2342
02:35:24.959 --> 02:35:26.600
saw they were like older. They
were like in their forties or fifty or

2343
02:35:26.639 --> 02:35:31.040
something, and they were watching like
influencer like YouTube videos instead of music videos,

2344
02:35:31.040 --> 02:35:33.360
which is such an interesting take on
it, and like what they would

2345
02:35:33.399 --> 02:35:37.079
do, and it's still Mike Judge, It's still the voices and like I

2346
02:35:37.280 --> 02:35:39.319
was like laughing throughout, was like, what the fuck? How is it

2347
02:35:39.399 --> 02:35:41.639
good? Busy? But have a
new show and it's good, Like it

2348
02:35:41.719 --> 02:35:43.760
makes me you want to find it
and watch more of it. Yeah,

2349
02:35:43.760 --> 02:35:46.920
that new piece of that is actually
pretty great. Yeah, I was shocked.

2350
02:35:48.120 --> 02:35:52.360
I think it's on Comedy Central as
a new they're doing a new season

2351
02:35:52.399 --> 02:35:54.760
on Comedy Central now I think it
was. It's also on Paramount. I

2352
02:35:54.760 --> 02:35:56.879
think it's all on Paramount Plus.
Also, yea, yea, that's probably

2353
02:35:56.879 --> 02:35:58.680
why didn't because I've never had Paramount
Plus. There's a new movie too that

2354
02:35:58.840 --> 02:36:01.200
was part of that also, right, the new movie was pretty good as

2355
02:36:01.200 --> 02:36:05.239
well. This guy wasn't surprised.
It wasn't quite do America good, but

2356
02:36:05.319 --> 02:36:11.159
the movie is good to America.
We had a meeting in fourth Ground,

2357
02:36:11.200 --> 02:36:15.520
went to a Catholic school and MISSIONI
pulled us all into a we had like

2358
02:36:15.559 --> 02:36:16.920
a rally with all the teachers and
all that whatever, and they're like,

2359
02:36:18.159 --> 02:36:22.000
there is a show on television right
now that is very popular and it would

2360
02:36:22.040 --> 02:36:24.520
be inappropriate to even say the name
of it, but talk to your parents

2361
02:36:24.559 --> 02:36:28.559
about it and make sure. Yeah, because but was in the word.

2362
02:36:28.639 --> 02:36:31.959
It was a Catholicy or school,
and yeah, talk to your parents about

2363
02:36:31.959 --> 02:36:35.680
it and make sure you never watch
it. At one point. It's incredible

2364
02:36:35.799 --> 02:36:39.600
the fake problems we had to imagine. Oh yeah, the moral what it

2365
02:36:39.799 --> 02:36:43.360
was called scare Mongerine. Yeah,
that's the most moral panics. Yeah.

2366
02:36:43.639 --> 02:36:48.719
There's a scene in Do America where
an old lady says slots and Beavis thinks

2367
02:36:48.760 --> 02:36:50.799
she's saying sluts and they both get
very excited, but for different reasons.

2368
02:36:50.879 --> 02:36:54.520
So it's a good movie. Yeah, so that new show seemed good.

2369
02:36:54.520 --> 02:36:58.680
Also, mcgrueber came back, which
is good. Right of course, superb

2370
02:36:58.799 --> 02:37:03.319
show back and was supposed to be
good. That's what American Summer first season

2371
02:37:03.840 --> 02:37:07.520
is one of the most incredible things
that has ever been made. It is

2372
02:37:07.559 --> 02:37:11.239
the best prequel ever made because there's
so many weird jokes and what in American

2373
02:37:11.280 --> 02:37:15.799
Summer. And then they explain the
origins in this TV show, which you

2374
02:37:15.920 --> 02:37:18.079
know they never had any explanation when
they're making it, but you find out

2375
02:37:18.159 --> 02:37:26.000
how like John Benjamin becomes a can
right like the Can, Yeah, because

2376
02:37:26.040 --> 02:37:28.600
it starts out as a man.
It's incredible. Show me the Thief,

2377
02:37:30.280 --> 02:37:33.479
Yes, and the where that song
comes from? They should explained where the

2378
02:37:33.520 --> 02:37:37.159
song comes from everything, and it's
so fucking funny. They do another there's

2379
02:37:37.159 --> 02:37:41.079
another season that's like that, the
Last Day Camp or ten years later or

2380
02:37:41.120 --> 02:37:43.079
something like that. It's not as
good, but it's still pretty decent.

2381
02:37:43.239 --> 02:37:48.040
Bite everything else. Someone in the
Chagos X Men ninety seven, You're dead

2382
02:37:48.319 --> 02:37:52.120
right, Oh yeah, God damn
show rule. You all heard about how

2383
02:37:52.159 --> 02:37:54.600
good X Men ninety seven. It
is like, you know, when these

2384
02:37:54.639 --> 02:37:58.479
things are good and then it's okay, now I'll pay attention. Games wise,

2385
02:37:58.600 --> 02:38:01.520
I was very happy that after Twist
the Medal got lost to nine and

2386
02:38:01.639 --> 02:38:03.680
nine Studios for a few years there, that like and Cog started up in

2387
02:38:03.760 --> 02:38:07.600
Jaffey and that team made Twist Metal
Black. Like I know it was only

2388
02:38:07.639 --> 02:38:09.680
a few years, but it kind
of felt like, oh Twist Metals,

2389
02:38:09.399 --> 02:38:13.920
like this really good one comes back. Yeah yep. I can't think of

2390
02:38:13.000 --> 02:38:16.959
too many With games. I guess
it was It's neat seeing Dead Rising.

2391
02:38:18.559 --> 02:38:22.040
Yeah yeah, pac Man Championship Edition, so that sort of thing I think

2392
02:38:22.040 --> 02:38:24.079
about where it's like these old arcade
games, they're not gonn update him anymore.

2393
02:38:24.079 --> 02:38:26.399
It's like, oh my god,
this is genius the gaming one the

2394
02:38:26.440 --> 02:38:31.920
big gaming one Streets of Rage four
craps. We should we should do that?

2395
02:38:33.079 --> 02:38:35.840
Uh survival mode too? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, that'd be great.

2396
02:38:35.760 --> 02:38:41.399
Oh key dope key, let's see
uh. Last email of the show

2397
02:38:41.559 --> 02:38:46.000
comes from Allen in Virginia. Hey, bomb Bastic crew. All the talk

2398
02:38:46.000 --> 02:38:50.719
about PS two games on BombCast eight
forty eight reminded me of a fun story

2399
02:38:50.719 --> 02:38:52.520
from college freshman year. Like a
lot of people, a bunch of us

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would get together and play games on
a console in one of the common rooms.

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I had a bunch of wacky friends
back in college, and we tended

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to come up with weird waste to
play games during these hangout sessions. One

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night we hit the best idea for
playing a fighting game. We went around

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and borrowed two DDR pads for the
PS two and proceeded to run a Soule

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02:39:09.600 --> 02:39:13.760
Caliber two tournament using just the DDR
pads. Unfortunately, one DDR pad only

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02:39:13.799 --> 02:39:18.120
had two face buns block and kick, and the other had a broken right

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02:39:18.239 --> 02:39:20.319
era, but it was some of
the most fun I ever had playing any

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02:39:20.399 --> 02:39:24.079
game. To this day, every
time I hear someone mentioned DDR or PS

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02:39:24.159 --> 02:39:26.719
two, I get the urge to
shop for a DDR pad. And try

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02:39:26.760 --> 02:39:31.200
to figure out what games I'm currently
playing which I could play on a DDR

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02:39:31.280 --> 02:39:33.719
pad instead of a controller. Do
you any of you have any stories of

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02:39:33.760 --> 02:39:37.200
attempting to use a weird controller or
peripheral to play a game? It wasn't

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02:39:37.239 --> 02:39:41.120
meant for Alan bet then and I
play all of Mary Kannon Ashley Sweet Steam

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02:39:41.120 --> 02:39:46.159
Licen to Drive with the resident Eve
before chainsaw controller? Did you did?

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02:39:46.959 --> 02:39:52.680
For many hours? You're the one
who's losing your goddamn mind. There was

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02:39:52.719 --> 02:39:58.200
a lot. I played a little
of Ari one on PS one with a

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02:39:58.399 --> 02:40:05.159
steering with a Threstmaster steering wheel.
Yeah, with like accelerate being walk forward

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02:40:05.200 --> 02:40:07.680
and then take control. Yeah,
oh I see a speed around that.

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02:40:07.840 --> 02:40:15.520
Someone I believe Froud does that with
Alien Isolation. Well, folks tuned into

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02:40:15.600 --> 02:40:20.799
the GB Sweet sixteen stream yesterday,
we saw a fond memory where uh,

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02:40:20.159 --> 02:40:24.040
Dan, you were playing Deep or
you were playing punch Out with John Drake's

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02:40:24.079 --> 02:40:31.280
face ye and gloves. Yes,
yes, thanks to trek Hey Shreker,

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02:40:31.319 --> 02:40:35.959
who also had me play Soul Caliber
with a Dreamcast fishing controller once. Hell

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02:40:35.079 --> 02:40:39.399
yeah yeah that yes, speaking of
so like at EVO, obviously, I

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02:40:39.479 --> 02:40:43.600
saw all kinds of wacky controllers that
people love bringing their weird stuff to fighting

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02:40:43.639 --> 02:40:48.879
game tournaments. I saw what someone
had clouds uh sword, but it was

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02:40:48.920 --> 02:40:54.239
a hip box and so it just
had buns on for like you know,

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02:40:54.559 --> 02:41:01.440
you had Materia but it was like
cool, wait you play you're playing uh

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02:41:01.959 --> 02:41:05.239
or guy's god Bless the Rings.
I didn't play that there. I did

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02:41:05.319 --> 02:41:09.799
play that galloping ghost last time I
was there, but yeah, I don't

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02:41:09.840 --> 02:41:15.440
know what the hell he was using
that for. I also saw oh god,

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02:41:15.719 --> 02:41:18.639
oh the classic is because you know
the already four chainsaw controller that is

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02:41:18.959 --> 02:41:22.719
just a controller. It's just shaped
weird. It's just weird shaped. People

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02:41:22.879 --> 02:41:28.719
using a guitar hero controller to play
a fighting game. That's talent right there.

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02:41:28.360 --> 02:41:35.000
When people do that, you're trying
to diminish my accomplishments with I saw

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02:41:35.159 --> 02:41:37.760
what oh someone, I don't know
who they are. They love bringing it

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02:41:37.840 --> 02:41:43.079
to combo breakers, specifically the World's
Biggest fight stick, where they had to

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02:41:43.239 --> 02:41:46.600
like use it as a backpack because
it's just this giant cardboard contraption they made

2439
02:41:46.959 --> 02:41:50.879
like the uh this uh this top, the ball top for the and for

2440
02:41:52.000 --> 02:41:56.200
the stick is like the size of
your head and he has to like you

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02:41:56.280 --> 02:41:58.000
know, use it like this and
then like hit the giant buns with his

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02:41:58.040 --> 02:42:03.319
whole palm. And then of course
my favorite story is people playing soul Caliber

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02:42:03.559 --> 02:42:07.799
with the fishing controller, like in
a mini tournament that popped up at like

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02:42:07.879 --> 02:42:13.399
one am one time. That's the
FGC loves their wild controls. Playing games

2445
02:42:13.440 --> 02:42:16.440
with the Dreamcast fishing control is just
actually a delight. That's such a good

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02:42:16.479 --> 02:42:20.600
control. Some games are made for
it, Like soul Caliber actually has that

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02:42:20.760 --> 02:42:26.000
programmed in a little bit, which
is hilarious. They're good And that about

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02:42:26.120 --> 02:42:30.799
does it for emails this week.
Speaking about this week, we got a

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02:42:30.840 --> 02:42:35.840
bunch of stuff popping off. This
week is always super busy. Blight Club

2450
02:42:35.000 --> 02:42:41.479
popping off tomorrow, Yes, yeah, so guarantee this time. Well,

2451
02:42:41.520 --> 02:42:46.319
we figured out we figured out an
issue, like Jeff couldn't save and like

2452
02:42:46.600 --> 02:42:50.079
we just kind of realized, wait
a second, you could just walk back

2453
02:42:50.159 --> 02:42:52.479
through that one load screen and the
game should save for him without a safe

2454
02:42:52.559 --> 02:42:58.079
gym. So it seems like cheating
to figure things out. Pret to think

2455
02:42:58.159 --> 02:43:03.399
about me. I think so Games
Mornings for the rest of the week,

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02:43:03.399 --> 02:43:09.399
we'll have a voicemail dump Truck Sean. Yes, I was gonna say we're

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02:43:09.399 --> 02:43:11.680
gonna play nintendor World Championship tomorrow too. In between, yes, after after

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02:43:11.760 --> 02:43:16.159
games mornings tomorrow we'll get on.
We'll do some Nintended World Championship and Friday

2459
02:43:16.600 --> 02:43:24.200
Anime Mario party. Yes, yeah, I guess sweep the board, me

2460
02:43:24.680 --> 02:43:28.120
grub, Baclar and Minati. I
think is the plan. We got switch

2461
02:43:28.200 --> 02:43:33.760
God for us Mario party. Remember
when we did Garfield Mario or Mario party

2462
02:43:33.799 --> 02:43:39.440
for my birthday? He was like, right, yeah, that's right,

2463
02:43:39.600 --> 02:43:41.440
Yes, we had to have the
computer play for you or something. Yeah,

2464
02:43:43.079 --> 02:43:48.479
switch coach. Yes, oh yeah, yeah, you're totally what's your

2465
02:43:48.520 --> 02:43:52.920
face? You would be. She's
the only character I know for some knows

2466
02:43:52.920 --> 02:43:56.920
anime about it? Yeah, exactly, yeah, b CR. Perhaps this

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02:43:58.319 --> 02:44:03.559
week Sewan is working on an EVO
video, and then I will be joining

2468
02:44:03.600 --> 02:44:09.200
Tim and Lucy and Emma down in
San Diego. God, I don't know

2469
02:44:09.239 --> 02:44:13.600
what to expect. Boys, I
heard I can buy things there, cons

2470
02:44:15.159 --> 02:44:20.280
find some broad denim. I will
every city. I go to True Color

2471
02:44:24.120 --> 02:44:28.000
and you know, finally, what
do we learn today? Oh? We

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02:44:28.200 --> 02:44:31.879
learned that there are pleasant bean men
out there that'll offer you canisters and beans

2473
02:44:31.879 --> 02:44:35.360
to smell from We learned that Shawn
went undefeated this year. In EVO,

2474
02:44:37.239 --> 02:44:41.600
we learned that Street Fighter third Strike
is hella fucking cool. It may have

2475
02:44:41.680 --> 02:44:45.920
been a mistake to start streaming Nintendo
World Championships at one am. Grub is

2476
02:44:45.920 --> 02:44:48.280
the best forty one year old out
there. Eleanor is a quick restart in

2477
02:44:48.399 --> 02:44:54.000
Nintendo World Championship. God, that's
the most important thing we learned. And

2478
02:44:54.079 --> 02:44:58.600
we also learned that the true power
that healed us throughout this week was proper

2479
02:44:58.680 --> 02:45:01.920
planning and a speed running game.
Who knew that, folks? Is what

2480
02:45:03.000 --> 02:45:05.000
we learned this week. We'll see
you next week for another episode of the

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02:45:05.040 --> 02:45:07.159
Giant BombCast. I've been channing,
he's been Jeff, he's been Dan,

2482
02:45:07.239 --> 02:45:11.639
he's been Mike. He's been undefeated
Sean. And we'll see you next week

2483
02:45:11.680 --> 02:45:22.319
for a beautiful episode of Giant BombCast. Under said the blue. Oh oh

2484
02:45:22.959 --> 02:45:28.799
they just said that. Okay,
cool, that's an answer. Oh.

2485
02:45:28.840 --> 02:45:31.719
If you're going to Comic Con,
we have a panel, go to the

2486
02:45:31.799 --> 02:45:39.879
panel and then we'll see you there. Giant BombCast is brought to you by

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02:45:39.959 --> 02:45:43.959
your beautiful face and dirt Water and
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