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Hey, everybody to Welcome to the
Giant BombCast, Episode eight one hundred and

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twenty three, powered by N sixty. Today is January sixteenth, twenty twenty

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four. The year is going by
too fast already. I haven't even made

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goals for this year. I'm just
going to continue in my new year regressions.

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I'm your host jam Shoah joining me
as always co captain of the ship.

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He's not making goals either, because
he is the goal speaking about goals

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this week, Congratulations Jeff Grub,
Jeff Grubb, we scored. We scored

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professional football goals. Who is Wei? I am an honorary member. I

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always talk about sports on this video
game podcast. I know, right,

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weird. God listen, we as
fans. I also don't like what people

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are like we the team, but
this one I'll make an exception for because

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it really has been my entire life
and I rooted for him when they're own

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sixteen. So listen, I'm going
to take the win. Yes, the

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Royal We we did it are our
own royal. We biggest sportsman on the

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block here at giant bomb dot com. You can't stop talking about pickleball lately.

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It's his newest thing, Dan Riker, that's my thing. Look,

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it's probably fun, right, probably, Like I love racquetball, but yeah,

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I've never played pickball, racketball.
There's a lot of moving around.

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I feel like pickleball. Isn't that
one of those things where you can like

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drink and play and it's like you
mostly standing still. I like because it's

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like taking over the tennis courts and
so there's like beef at like every local

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playground or whatever. Just like I
like the idea of people getting upset about

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their tennis courts. Been like these
damn pickaball kids. So a big fan

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of that. I would try it. I bet it would be fun.

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We should do pick a ball next
time we're all together. Oh, we

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should do Yeah. I have a
growing list in person activities. Okay,

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uh, speaking about these damn kids. These damn kids are getting onto the

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podcast now Terribo. Shan McDowell is
in the one. Yes, I'm realizing

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that there's a lot of light coming
from this direction. You can't tell us

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because there's like a foot and a
half of snow. Actually, no,

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that's that's all for me. I
just radiate, just radiate it. That's

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why it's behind Jan and everything to
a size by grub. Everyone checked the

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current wind chill. Let's see who's
winning. It's not gonna be you,

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guys. Mine is okay? Negative
fourteen here? All right, let's see

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wind chill negative seven seventeen. Second, let's go negative nine. Well,

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okay, Wisconsin, let's go.
It's colder where Jan is. Let's see.

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I don't think they report windshill here
in the area. Where does the

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temperature per shoot? But Jim,
do you kind of still want to complain

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about how cold it is there?
Five? But not amongst y'all. I'm

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freezing my ass off. I'm worried. It's it's cardigan weather here here again.

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Also, cardigans are back in vogue
for dudes. I'm living right,

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Ja. Fifty eight? Is it
fifty eight? There? What is it?

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It's probably fifty eight. It's like
four to two, jeh, Jen,

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I have a question for you.
How many layers do you think I

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wore on my upper body yesterday when
I had to go to the store.

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Uh? Four five? I was
one away the lower body. Jan,

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Well, you just had like a
garbage bag filled with milk to insulate you

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on the way to the store.
Oh, garbage bag full of milk?

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Is okay? That might be the
grossest immer heard, Jam, what's wrong

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with you? I did have to
put the Christmas tree back into the shed

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yesterday, and so I had five
layers on my I'm the upper part of

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my body and I was still wearing
shorts and it was definitely like negative twenty

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five last night with the windshill,
and I'm just like just outside medical condition.

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If I can't feel it even then, I probably they probably get that

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looked at. Like all my Christmas
stuff is still on the floor of the

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garage and every time I go to
the car, I'm like, God,

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I gotta bring this out of the
shed. But it's like, no fucking

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way right now. It was rough, Yes, it was just like we

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had to get that tree out of
there, but everything else is waiting.

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I went to go get my mail
this morning, and our mailboxes inside because

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it's an apartment. I was still
very cold going over there, and I

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had like three layers on. Feel
bad for me as well, guys,

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Yeah, we're feeling for you,
so sorry. Jan Yeah, yeah,

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you know this this is these unprecedented. There's nothing funnier to me when a

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dog falls into a hole, especially
when it's like a small Corgie and they

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fall into a gopher hole and then
they just get sad about it, or

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like when a dog tries to jump
up onto a couch and they just bitfit

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completely, Like that's hilarious. It's
the best, it's the best. I'm

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not advocating for dogs to have accidents, it's just funny when they have little

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goofs, because they're all a bunch
of goofy little guys and girl. Dogs

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are like one of the best animals
at feeling shame because it takes a lot,

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it looks like for them to feel
shame, but when they do,

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it just makes it all the sweeter. Oh yeah, oh yeah, gosh.

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Is that some working over? A
little light on games this week,

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mostly because stuff is under embargo right
and we talked about Prince Persia on Friday,

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but will continue to talk about Prince
absolutely today later. So Sean,

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we we asked you to be here
today so we could talk about the most

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important game. And it's not really
a game, it's a sport really interest.

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Okay, Okay, what all else
fails, We need to pat out

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time. Baby. We can always
rely on wrestling. Yes, I'll play

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along. I'll talk about wrestling with
you guys. Yeah, when did Drew

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McIntyre get really interesting? When did
he get good at promos? Yeah?

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Like really good. It's when he
just started like saying what he really thinks.

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I think he's been very fascinating lately. And it's weird character of like

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he's kind of being booked as a
heel, but he's not saying anything that's

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like unreasonable. Like that promo was
set where he was talking about trying to

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make his parents proud, but then
like having a you know, miss them,

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like the day passed while he was
applying his trade around the world.

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It's like, damn, this is
like an interesting, nuanced heal. I

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really like, I'm starting to believe
that we're not going to finish the story

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this year. Yeah, maybe not. I could see a triple threat.

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Oh wait, I'm gonna miss the
dog playing Gyro made on GDQ for this

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shit? What am I doing here? It's the technology of two different tab

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show two different tabs. Yeah,
yeah, you all talk about your wrestler.

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I'm gonna go watch the Important ship. Damn is it really is a

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dog really playing? Dog's gonna play
Gyro? Or sorry? Euro My Dan.

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I don't want to step. That's
delicious, all right, yeah yeah,

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But but on top of that,
you know who I'm loving even more

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more than lately. Our Truth.
Oh ask Judgment Day stuff, him selling

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bootleg shirts the Live Lap Love Ship, Tom and Nick Mysterio. He is

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fucking weird and hilarious and I love
watching the Judgment the Day guys trying not

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to corpse whenever he's doing his ship
because everyone finds him fucking hilarious and is

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trying to corpse whenever he's doing anything. Yeah, yeah, I this is

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how I would be fine if they
break up The Judgment Day because of Our

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Truth, because somehow Damian Priest is
going to become best friends with Our Truth.

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Well, he was into it when
he got some money last night.

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Yeah, guys, cut of the
merchantmid he was super into it. I

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also feel bad for JD McDonough because
he's not even on the fake shirt are

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true. There's numerous pieces of Judgment
d emerged, but j D McDonough doesn't

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have a shit. Man wrestling's in
a good spot. Who knew if you

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just you know? I hate that
cause it does make me want to watch

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like the weekly shows, which I
would. I've got to a point where

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I'm okay missing but now I do
feel like I'm missing out by not at

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least catching some of these, even
like watching or catching up on like Square

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Circle and watching the Gifts doesn't really
feel like enough anymore. So I'll probably

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put this on in the background now
in play some games. I guess that

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means I gotta do for many,
many years ever since. I kind of

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like the Daniel Bryan type, you
know that rest. Like ten years ago

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or so, I was watching week
to week and pretty much since then,

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I've watched the occasional one or if
there's a standout match, or followed Stepsis

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online or whatever. And like,
I didn't even watch week to week when

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I was working there, And now
it's like fucking three hour raws. I'm

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watching from beginning to end. I'm
like, God, damn it. Everything

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is going places. Everyone got a
character, everyone's got a feud. It's

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fucking good. Now we we should
uh we should do a power bomb cast.

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Uh maybe right after the rumble,
right before after the rumble, when

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we have kind of a vision of
what's going on with Mania, I think,

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yeah, yeah, let's do it. I know, we we chatted

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about this before, but like any
updated picks on the Rumble winner sehn uh

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you know the dude, the guy, right, the man, the man

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has to win them. Yeah,
yeah, she's the smart money. Yeah

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yeah. If if Seth is hurt, which it sounds like he's probably okay

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from the reports I've been here,
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and I think that the odds of
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we'll see then maybe then it's Drew
or the Rock or yeah, who knows,

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but I think Punk's the smart money, assuming healthy. Yes, Grub,

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I have been watching much recently,
so yeah, I just I assumed

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it was going to be a punk
That's what I've been assuming, just from

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like glancing at everything. Well,
well, here's the thing, Grub,

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I distinctly remember. He's probably the
last power BombCast we did. Everyone was

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very very sour on Punk, just
like, oh, disappointed. I can't

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imagine him back in the the WWE, And here I am like a fucking

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mark going like, yeah, I
think pok should win at Night One.

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Clear, nothing we were saying back
then has changed in terms of our thoughts

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on the dude and stuff like that, but as ours He's always been a

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fascinating wrestling character, and part of
that character is him just being him and

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all the drama and bullshit that comes
with that. It makes for fascinating television,

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especially when there's this stuff with Rollins
where there is real life beat between

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the two. It makes it feel
much more real. So like it's and

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he's been on good behavior because it's
kind of his last chance, which has

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been reminding him of So yeah,
yeah, no, the drama feels real.

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He seems to be holding up his
end. It's been good. Yeah,

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And you know, I know we
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let me just say TNA right now
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calling it again now, t and
A again. It's like it's like building

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back up to where when like AJ
Styles was like the big dog there and

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like their main horse. They're working
theirselves back up and it's it's pretty impressive.

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Sean. What's TNA stand for?
Jeff? I can't talk about that

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in this podcasting, you know,
can you can you imagine if we went

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back in time to like twenty twenty
and we told ourselves, like, hey,

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in a few years, you're all
going to be really hyped up on

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what we is doing. And also
TNA comes up very positively, and AW

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is the one that's like really kind
of struggling. That's it. Smojo is

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champion. Some of the new Direction
stuff post all this Devil bullshit has been

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better and it's a it's going on
in the direction, but there was that

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stretch during the end of the m
JF reign that was not good at all.

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Yeah. Yeah, I can't believe
MJF beat Jay White with like a

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bum leg and inference and ship and
oh my god, yeah those dark times.

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Someone also take Tony Kn's phone away
please? Oh yeah. I can't

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pay attention to AW until that happens. I mean, it's just one of

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those situations where you know, he's
the boss, he's the guy, Like,

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who's who's going to tell him?
I'm sure people have tried and it

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didn't go well. So he's gonna
do what he's gonna do, and it's

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uh, maybe his dad could take
it away from him. Yeah, yeah,

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you couldn't. All right, I
guess we should eventually, since we're

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a video game podcast, we should
talk about video games. Trying to hit

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the bun for games. What start
watching start watching an anime. But that's

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okay, maybe we'll talk about that
later. Start watching, Well, let's

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just talk about it now. Then, what anime are you watching? I

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told you this one shot. I
think the Starship Troopers, the nineteen eighty

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eight one. It was like,
I was fascinated to find out there was

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a Starship Troopers anime based on the
same book as the movie. And that

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movie is like one of my favorite
movies all the time. It's a perfect

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movie. And so when they go
check it out, it was like kind

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of blown away. I'm like,
oh my god. The story, the

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structure is almost exactly the same.
It's a very nineteen eighties anime. So

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it's got like the weird, really
weird pop needle drops, and then you

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know, the animation's mostly stiff and
they save a lot of money on that

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stuff, but they still have like
the dude standing in the wind and the

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jacket like flowing and all that stuff, which is really all I need from

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anime. If you do that,
I'm all on board. Yeah, how

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we I need shots of that of
everyone on staff. Next time we're together.

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Okay, next time we're together,
we're all taking a k pop dance

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class. We're playing pickleball of course, sports esports intro and then cool jacket

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blowing in the wind intro. Oh
yes, you just want us to have

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an anime intro for Giant Bomb content. Is that why I'm hearing here?

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I mean, anime is just say
yes, yes, just say yes.

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I'm just saying you you put all
those together. That's basically what you got.

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Uh huh. I feel like he's
actually yeah, yeah this. I

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can't wait till we have a tournament
arc here in giant bomb dot com.

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It makes a tournament arc. Let's
go nickleball tournament. Uh. If you

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missed last week's BombCast Revenge. So
we had a little review podcast of Prince

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of Persia the Lost Crown, go
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lot of fun conversations and generally actually
completely everyone really likes it. Grub,

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you've beat it, Sean, you're
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stuck at a really dumb part and
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deck and laughed of I'm an idiot. Yeah, Grab, how do you

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feel about it now? Yeah?
I love it. I still love it.

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I'm glad I beat it. I
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The deeper and deeper you get into
is like, oh, all of these

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like athorabilities and all these boss fights
are just some of the coolest looking things

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in a video game. They really
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and a lot of stuff, like
I don't love the story, but I

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also like, I'm not I don't
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story hits like it's like, oh, this is pretty neat. It is

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very much like a bad Avatar Nick
the Nickelodeon show, the animated show.

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It's like a bad one of those
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which isn't you know great, you
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like this, there's a power up
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basically you turn into Goku. But
the way it works is like you're one

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of your friends that you meet and
get in a fight with, like he

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has this ability. So when you
use this ability, it's actually you doing

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the same thing, and then like
a shadow version of that friend doing it

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as well, and it just looks
so slick and neat, and I'm like,

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okay, yeah, cool callback.
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I get excited because it's it's a
hype moment, but the game is just

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it just feels so fantastic in that
final boss fight, you know, it's

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not like met right, Dread's final
boss fight where it's like, Okay,

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this is a bunch of patterns you
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little bit like that, but it's
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it's still like a very cinematic moment, and uh, I was just all

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bought in at that point. So
yeah, really just a huge, huge

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fan of this game. Kind of
easy recommendation. Yeah, I'm on pushing

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up Going also more so than Dread
as far as like that last boss fight

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and everything, like you can go
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then it's easy enough to get back
out and like kind of tweak your amulets

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and things like that and come back
and be stronger, which Dread was was

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not as easy to do that,
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thought was really perfectly tuned throughout.
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platforming sections that were really good,
but not for everyone. They are typically

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optional things. You know, there
there are challenging platforming sections that you have

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to do to beat the game.
But like the really crazy like Champions Road

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type bullshit, I said, bullshit
lovingly is optional. Yeah, I found

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that Celesti b side thing everyone was
talking about with like the weights, the

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spiked weights. Yeah, that rules. That's so so cool to be able

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to like to have a moment where
it's say, hey, you've been doing

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these awesome platform and thinks this whole
game, do you really want to see

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if you can do it? And
you have to get these three things all

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at once in one run and get
back down to the ground. And I

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had a couple where I did it. I looked so cool. I was

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perfect, and right before I'm about
to get back to the ground, I

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like hit a spike or I missed
the ground platform because I thought the ground

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was wider, and so I'm like
just falling down into the ether, looking

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over at the ground right over there, just yelling curses at myself. It

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is so good. It's the idea
here that they had so many of these

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really good elements from other games,
and it's still up there with some of

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the best in all these different genres. And then it's still a good Metroid

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Venue on top of all that.
That is the most impressive thing about Prince

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of Persia. Yeah. I think
they could have easily kept all the platforming

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stuff they've added in all the movement
abilities, but like just go very basic

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with the combat and it still would
be a good game. The fact that,

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like you have a very deep combat
system where you can juggle dudes and

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then grub what you're talking about with
like your shadow clone, or you're utilizing

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your weapons in a different way like
Dan, like I'm glad that you mentioned

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to use the bone arrow during combos, Yeah, because that has been absolutely

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essential and I feel fucking amazing.
It's also you can really cheese shit too,

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where it's like some of those like
flying pain in the ass enemies,

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you'll you can park next to one
of those arrow things just like fuck you,

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fuck you, fuck you, fuck
you like entire that it totally works.

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like, oh, I'm having fun

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using the bone arrow, it's like, oh, well, I have all

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those bone arrow amulets that I've been
ignoring. I'm just gonna do a bow

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and arrow build and you can get
soup like even more powerful on top of

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what you already can do with that
stuff and have like flaming arrows and all

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that. All of it is very
cool. And yeah, there are so

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many amulets that you really can have
very distinct builds in this game. Yeah,

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for folks, eventually when you all
pick it up, if the combat

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hasn't grabbed you yet, there's like
an early mini boss. I think he's

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like one of the jailer dudes,
prison dudes with a He's half naked,

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he's carrying one of the pillars.
The combat didn't click for me until that

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fight because you were just constantly dashing
underneath his legs, hitting him from behind,

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and it's just so good. And
like, if you're having the accessibility

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options we sung its praises last week, but if you have trouble with the

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Perry timing adjust that make it a
little bit easier for yourself, you're gonna

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have a fantastic time. Sean,
how are you liking it? You're in

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the middle of it right, Yeah, I'm I've only gotten a couple hours

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into it because again other stuff came
up. Uh so I managed to progress

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a little bud steam Deck, which, by the way, you got running

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on steam Deck. Okay, yes, thank you, Sean. Yeah,

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showing you as possible. It's great. You mentioned steam Deck. I didn't

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even put through or two together there. That's great. Yeah. Uh.

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The installation process for anyone curious,
it's it's not I wouldn't even say it's

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involved. It's just going to the
desktop mode and getting a specific launcher and

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then from there just making sure you
you be soft connect credits are the same.

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Yeah, if you're comfortable doing that
kind of thing on your Windows desktop,

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you can totally do it on Steam
decks that's fine too. And then

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can you launch it from the standard
like steam deck mode. Yeah, you

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just got to add it to Steam
and use I use a little program that

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lets me add artwork to it and
ourthing, so it just looks like any

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of our game on my steam deck, like mu deck type stuff, like

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you know, making it so you
can runcept from okay, yeah, just

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steam deck. Steam deck dev is
so get at this point. There's always

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a tool for something that automates a
lot of stuff. But yeah, no,

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I'm really enjoying it. I Uh, the more I play it.

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Even when you guys were talking about
the endgame stuff and or being early game

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stuff, I was thinking about,
Boy, that's the metroid read shit right

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there, like like especially like you
know, having an early boss that you

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slide under and have to like learn
the combat through then or everything like that.

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Yeah, but you know, the
sincerest form of flattery definitely, because

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I got I. Every time I
play this game, I'm like smiling.

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It's one of those games where I
just I do something cool. I'm like,

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oh, that was fucking awesome.
I love this game. I'm having

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even more fun with the platforming sections. More of those come up on the

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like on the side. It's usually
on the side when you're doing the main

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story, but I will absolutely go
over there because that's my jam, and

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I do this lest thing. I'm
trying, you know, trying to get

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like the perfect run of dashing back
and forth across the walls and even sometimes

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doing things a little more difficult that
I need to, just because it feels

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good to move in this game.
I'm so guilty of that in these kinds

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of games, and most games,
but especially anything with a pary anything with

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like really intense platforming, I'm going
to try to make it look cool because

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that makes me happier. Yeah,
perrying in particular. You know, I'm

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a third strake kind of guy.
So yeah, I love me my Parry's

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and I just anytime I get into
combat, I treat it like I'm trying

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to like make a combat video for
you, like just how long can I

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extend this combo on this one job
or And it's just always a blast and

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the shit you can do too with
like that shadow guy where you can like

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charge your thing up, make your
shadow throw your thing, and then you're

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shadow throws his beam and it's like, oh man, there's so many I've

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already seen some really crazy videos coming
out of that, Like, yeah,

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that's been awesome to see. Is
like that that scene is growing fast?

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And is the game actually out out
now? I think it's gonna come out.

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It's like early you be soft?
I play on my calendar. Yes,

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it's out in early access for the
whatever you be softing they do and

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there comes out on Thursday. Okay, okay, right, okayo. Yeah.

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So it's just seeing people already going
ham on this game with the awesome

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combat videos has been really cool to
see. Well, in per game that

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has so many different abilities, you
know, you would think that there at

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least be a couple of times that
you get a new ability and you're like,

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okay, whatever, but like pretty
much all of them were like,

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oh okay, I can do a
lot of shit with this now. Yeah.

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I think they really did figure out
the sort of escalation curve with those

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abilities in a way that it really
is impressive, because you know, you

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get the double jump pretty late,
and then there's some abilities beyond that you're

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like, okay, yeah, I
was expecting to get something that was inconsequential,

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and it's like it just never happened. Everything completely improved and changed how

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I was playing already. Yeah,
like Man said, the difficulty curve,

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I feel it's just perfect. It
like it just expertly ramps up. There's

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there's the kind of little difficulty spice
you want, like the tiny ones where

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it's like, Okay, I've reached
a challenging boss, but it's not pushing

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me too hard for what I can
do right now, And I love that

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too well. And the double jump
and the air control stuff is already so

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good like in the mid game,
and then you get that RB ability near

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the end. It's like, oh
man, adding this, it's like this

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is a crazy amount of air control. The game's fifty dollars and people I

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think some people are hesitant, for
one, because Ubisoft games are going to

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drop in price really fast. But
we take that out, like, is

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there any doubt in your minds that
this is worth fifty dollars? No?

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I no, yeah, No,
I happily spent sixty dollars while I spent

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what was a eighty dollars in our
collector's addition for Metroid Dread Like right,

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yeah, Like the game is good, Like, I absolutely spend that amount

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on other games of that length,
and I think a lot a lot of

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people still have. Unfortunately, it's
kind of a toxic airnet opinion to have

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of like this is a game twoty
games aren't worth it. It's like,

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get the hell out here with that, Like just because it's not a Naughty

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Dog game or a big budget,
you know, coalition game that looks absolutely

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gorgeous. No, the game is
still very fun. It has a solid

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length, even for a Metroid vein. Yeah, yeah, and no,

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it's it's absolutely worth it, I
think, one hundred percent agreed. Yeah,

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and I'm not. I think I
might be around where Sean is in

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terms of completion of the game,
but it feels like a fuller game than

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Metroid Dread and METROI Dread was full
price when that came out, so I

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wholeheardly recommend this. Again. Ubisoft
has their weird subscription thing, so if

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you're a little bit hesitant on that, maybe go sign up for that subscription

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thing for a month so you can
try it out. Time pointing this out

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and this hurts me. Fifty dollars
is the new forty dollars. This is

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the new budget price absolutely a year
ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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you know, if you like,
I would do that fifteen dollar thing if

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you're price conscious. But you know, there's also a bunch of great Metro

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venues probably haven't played yet, so
if you're like, this one reminds me

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a lot of Strider, that old
one from twenty fourteen, twenty fourteen,

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yes, thirteen, yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's like the combats

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for some of this builds on that
in every way. This is better than

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that in every way, but yes, it's still there's some hidden gems out

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there. It's definitely the type of
game where this was not a team that

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was told you're making a Metroid Venua
out of this ip. This was a

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team that said, we love Metroid
Venues. Yeah, I understand how they

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work. We are going to make
our take on this genre. Didn't there

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used to be like a twenty dollars
here. I feel like in the PS

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two era, Like remember that ESPN
two K five football game, those twenty

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BUCKSI Demasi was like twenty twenty years
ago. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't

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super frequent, but there was that
twenty dollars tier that didn't really exist in

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the Super Nintendo Sega years. You
know, well that twenty dollars tiers still

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existed for a long time on Steam. It's thirty dollars now. It's definitely

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thirty dollars now though, Like that's
that's the price you would get for something

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like a indie game that is like, no, we're we deserve to make

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a little bit more money thirty dollars, and the occasional one from like a

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well established indie studio will be forty, Like like Hades two comes out,

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I hope that's like forty make that
forty dollars go to two in the heyday

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of like Summer of Arcade XBLA Lebo
Explosion, man, Like, I feel

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like those were like ten right for
that, Like TIF it was usually as

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Crashers. Yeah yeah, yeah,
in fourteen ninety nine or whatever, that

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was all fund Microsoft points exactly.
Yes, but now you got Vampire Survivors.

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Yeah. Well sweet you have SWEEKA, right, which is two ninety

405
00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:45,039
million on the switch. Oh yeah
yeah yeah yeah, so you got to

406
00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:49,400
play the switch version, the browser
version, the physics are off. No,

407
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,559
the switch version is the real Squeak
again. Yeah, yeah, that's

408
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,400
right. Yeah. There's a Blaze
Blue metrod Vina in early access on he

409
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,519
told you about this like six months
ago. I know it. Listening when

410
00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:04,119
you're talking, I know, I
can tell it's about in it. Now.

411
00:27:04,519 --> 00:27:08,000
It's weird because it actually has like
nothing to do with Blaze Blue.

412
00:27:08,079 --> 00:27:11,519
The characters are just in it.
It's really weird. But yeah, it's

413
00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:15,839
it's like Metroid Vanya Rogue Light things. I was like, this is a

414
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:22,039
grub game. Get that question for
y'all, since y'all y'all are bigger metroid

415
00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:26,319
heads than I I know. In
Metroid Dread, they added the like upper

416
00:27:26,319 --> 00:27:33,839
cut Perry thing that Sam's can do. What if they gave Samus a sword?

417
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:38,240
Yeah, I want it was an
energy sword, yeah, of course,

418
00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:41,400
of course. Yeah, it's like
a It's like, what's the Mega

419
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,240
man gimmick? The is it zero
or like yeah zero yeah zero zero yeah

420
00:27:45,279 --> 00:27:52,839
yeah zabern That just feels wrong.
I just unless it's okay, you know

421
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,640
the ending of Metro Dread. If
that is her sword, Okay, okay,

422
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:06,559
that talk, that's what. But
otherwise not, I don't want to

423
00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:08,920
see holding hard. I'm sorry.
I like it when I when an energy

424
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,119
sword does just go on forever.
It can like cut the earth in half.

425
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:18,480
I'm a big so Rath type stuff. What a game. I played

426
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,599
the hottest new release this weekend.
I beat it Messle Gear Solid. Are

427
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:29,559
you familiar? Oh I saw a
little bit? Yeah it is. It

428
00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:33,039
is okay, Now, don't confuse
it with Snake versus Monkey the part Snake

429
00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:38,319
Eater subsistence where Snake or Big Boss
is hunting monkeys from Ape Escape. It's

430
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:44,960
the ape Escape three mode where you
are playing as a monkey Solid Snake going

431
00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:48,960
around capturing monkeys, and it's just
a full fledged, like hour and a

432
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,599
half. Like there's like a metal
ear fight at the other there's numerous boss

433
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,319
fights Stelsea. If you have a
banana gun, there's a torture scene with

434
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,519
an ocelot monkey and the actual like
human character model a big boss. It's

435
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:06,039
fucking insane and I loved it.
So it looked really stupid and I liked

436
00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:07,240
it a lot. Yeah. Yeah, and the snake first monkey thing is

437
00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:11,960
very fun too. I just I
miss when games did dumb stuff like this.

438
00:29:12,559 --> 00:29:15,599
Yes, it's so dumb and so
funny. It's I loved it.

439
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:22,359
Yeah, putting a snake in what
evolutions skateboarding or whatever and was level or

440
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:29,519
big shell skateboarding and substance, Yeah, yeah, I love the design of

441
00:29:29,599 --> 00:29:33,480
those stupid monkeys and Ape Escape.
Yeah you skate back please, it's sap

442
00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:37,519
eskate back. It is definitely time. Is that a konami like owned I

443
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:45,200
p? Or does oh my god
do that? In psv R two,

444
00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:48,960
you got some good news, I
got some bad news. Sony's got a

445
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,880
lot of money. They can make
a lot of games. Bad news is

446
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,759
they close down Japan studios. They're
not going to do that again, ship

447
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,079
really very much. So. The
whole thing is they want games to have

448
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:02,039
global appeal, and then got that
meant that meant like it's got to look

449
00:30:02,079 --> 00:30:06,200
expensive and not be awesome like Ape
Escape now and me and grub have been

450
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:11,440
harpound this for like a year now
on various podcasts like High Fire Rush.

451
00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:15,880
Do that for like ape Escape and
stuff? Dude, more monkey games?

452
00:30:17,319 --> 00:30:21,279
Yes, yes, Sony, if
you're listening and I know you are,

453
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:27,359
come closer, come closer, Astrobat, ape Escape yeah, or both of

454
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,279
those or just both of those things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

455
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,599
no, a bunch of apes are
in my PlayStation five? Who can save

456
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:40,720
my PS five astrobot exactly? Yes, there we go, Josh, use

457
00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:45,200
that idea. I don't know somehow
Addie plays Astrobot every every single day.

458
00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:51,000
Every day she's playing fantastic platform.
She Escape beats it every day. Yeah,

459
00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:55,720
yeah, beautiful, beautiful. Uh. Speaking about games that are doing

460
00:30:55,799 --> 00:31:02,039
something and improving on other things.
During last week's ups, the three of

461
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:07,519
us plus Nikki played Knock and for
the folks that don't know, Knock is

462
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:12,119
probably, after Half Life Alex,
the best VR game and it is just

463
00:31:12,319 --> 00:31:18,160
Rocket League yeah with bow and arrows
and you're like skating around and flying in

464
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:19,880
away that makes you want a puke, but you feel fucking alive. Yeah,

465
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,079
but he just works so well.
So like with your with your left

466
00:31:25,119 --> 00:31:27,440
hand, like Dan said, you're
holding down the trigger and you're skating with

467
00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:32,640
it, so you're like pulling the
ground and like slaloming where you're supposed to

468
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,279
go. And then it's right with
your right hand. You pull the trigger

469
00:31:36,359 --> 00:31:38,920
down, you throw your arm down, and you jump, but you can

470
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,680
throw the world down. You don't
jump, you throw the world down.

471
00:31:42,839 --> 00:31:47,319
That's how it is, isn't it
the same hand as all like the mobility

472
00:31:47,359 --> 00:31:49,599
stuff, and you domin in hand
for the bow and arrow stuff and it

473
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,279
automatically. Yeah. Yeah, it
just feels fucking pretty. It's like fifteen

474
00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:56,519
seconds to learn how the mechanics work, and then you're just off to the

475
00:31:56,599 --> 00:32:00,720
races and it's fun as hell.
So you skate forward, throw the world

476
00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:02,759
down. You're hovering up in the
air, and then you pull the arrow

477
00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:07,720
back and you hit the ball perfectly, and you feel so fucking cool.

478
00:32:07,279 --> 00:32:10,839
I felt so cool doing that.
And then we played and then and then

479
00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:15,799
dance like the cell fall on the
ball around. I'm like, oh,

480
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,319
I guess I gotta go play for
real. I can't just be floating up

481
00:32:19,359 --> 00:32:22,079
here in the air. But it
was still a really cool time. Yeah,

482
00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:23,640
we will do that again. We
Yeah, we definitely got to do

483
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:29,559
that. Again soon and they what
it's a three arrow limit and then you

484
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,079
got to recharge just getting a pickup. If you hit the ball with an

485
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,000
arrow, it puts one back in, but then you can pick up either

486
00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:37,960
the one or three pickups like skating
around. Oh okay, so if you

487
00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:40,880
hit the ball, it rehups your
arrow. Okay, that's cool. Yeah.

488
00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:45,359
If folks, if you have a
metaquest three or I think it's also

489
00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:49,279
on Steam, so if you have
an index, definitely fucking check out knock

490
00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:52,759
that. Let's do a T and
T for knock. Oh yeah, lock

491
00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:59,960
it up because knocked up? Oh
my god, the shit all right?

492
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,200
Yeah? Because it did? It
was a custom lobby thing, right,

493
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,079
Uh huh, this is this is
not a quest too, I could do

494
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,279
this. Yeah, oh yeah,
let's do that. I like, I

495
00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:15,480
don't know, there's there's probably small
indie VR studios out there, dev's out

496
00:33:15,519 --> 00:33:17,720
there, But like, yo,
how does this just work? And how

497
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:22,559
did we just hear of this last
week? It's a weird idea and it

498
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,960
just works. I don't think I
ever what I heard about it at all?

499
00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:28,039
Had Nicky not Like Nicky was like, let's go research some stuff for

500
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,200
for our upf and then they found
that. I'm like, okay, yeah,

501
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,359
I'm down. I'll just download all
these and I'm not really even paying

502
00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:37,960
attention. And then I saw Knock
was like a like Rocket League, and

503
00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:39,039
I'm like, I bet has a
totorial. I'm gonna go check that out.

504
00:33:39,079 --> 00:33:42,319
Make sure I'm ready to go.
And I played the tutorial and was

505
00:33:42,359 --> 00:33:45,160
immediately like, I get it.
This is awesome. More of this.

506
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:47,039
I then I was thinktting, I
bet everyone else is going to get sick

507
00:33:47,079 --> 00:33:50,440
and we won't be able to play
it, but we all did get sick

508
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,160
and we still just kept playing it. I will happily puke for Knock.

509
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,880
Yeah, that was like that in
the box. I'll puke for Knock well,

510
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,880
because right before we checked out a
pretty well established ping pong game and

511
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,960
we had difficulties even playing against each
other or getting into the game. And

512
00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:10,960
I think that game is like twice
the price of Knock. Yes, it's

513
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,320
been rare a long time too.
It's been out for a long time,

514
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,039
so they've definitely had the time to
iron the kinks out. But I had

515
00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:22,599
a much much more fun being a
weird cat person. Yeah. Yeah,

516
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,840
it was. Yeah, it was
like it was like a weird like glob

517
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:34,360
with arms. Yeah, it was
like. I had a great time in

518
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,199
eleven table tennis though, because I
destroyed you. That was a lot of

519
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:38,559
fun for me, you know,
like the the physics over there. I

520
00:34:38,559 --> 00:34:42,159
didn't set my grip properly, you
know. Oh that's what it was.

521
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,480
I didn't do the grip that I'm
used to. Someone's mentioned in chat that

522
00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:52,039
Lethal Company got a full VR mod
that can be fun. Oh, we

523
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:57,679
could use the we can use steam
link. Okay, so if we ever

524
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:02,159
need to take out Jeff Becklar,
now we we have the weapons. This

525
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:08,000
is a batman plan. His bald
head would just explode everywhere I'm starting.

526
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:13,800
I decided hateful. I'm sorry Jeff
Backlark. I feel like Lucy's gonna catch

527
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,960
a stray here, and Lucy's like, like, Lucy, we'll take back

528
00:35:19,039 --> 00:35:22,320
Laren. We'll be It's fine,
You'll be fine. Yeah, Like,

529
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:23,239
as everyone's walking in, We'll like, Lucy, no, no, just

530
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,599
go sit out. Just go sit
over there real quick. You just watch

531
00:35:25,679 --> 00:35:30,639
this the monitor you got yeah,
yeah, just just use a regular monitor.

532
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,719
Oh man, not get so good. I want I booted back up

533
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,599
and I just played against Randoms and
I still had a fantastic time. Really,

534
00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:42,119
I haven't tried that yet. I'm
gonna play some more. Uh,

535
00:35:42,559 --> 00:35:45,079
grub you. I don't know if
you have time to play some more,

536
00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:50,880
because you apparently have been taking your
time and setting up your Aya Neo Retro

537
00:35:51,199 --> 00:35:53,719
Mini PC. Yeah yeah, I
and Neo makes a bunch of those handhelds.

538
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,480
But they decided to like just take
one of those handhelds and put it

539
00:35:57,519 --> 00:36:00,239
inside a small PC that you hook
up to your TV, and it looks

540
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,159
really cute. It looks basically like
a Macintosh and even has like the little

541
00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:07,360
rainbow logo on it and stuff and
a fake screen, and when you boot

542
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:12,480
it up, the wallpaper says hello, like like the Macintosh. Did I

543
00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:15,519
like it a lot? It works
well. I got the rise in five

544
00:36:15,599 --> 00:36:17,519
model instead of the Rise in seven
models, so it's even like the more

545
00:36:17,559 --> 00:36:22,760
affordable version that I think is like
not I think it's like two three D

546
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:27,320
not even it's like like superb It
might be three, five and seven.

547
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,639
Because I was looking, I think
it was the Rise in three is like

548
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,400
two hundred. I was okay,
okay, this might actually be good for

549
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:35,440
a home server, yes, exact, And then I'm like, I'm gonna

550
00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:39,079
move my My plex server is getting
moved over to this. I'm done with

551
00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:42,400
the shield. The shield is a
little bit too cumbersome at this point,

552
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,039
so yeah, Plex servers moving over
to that. And then I'm setting up

553
00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:49,039
to play retro games and I'm like, you know what, m you deck

554
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,920
got updated for Windows. I was
going to try that. And I went

555
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,599
through that and I set it all
up and I started trying to play my

556
00:36:55,679 --> 00:37:00,519
games and nothing worked, like maybe
the ants games work, nothing else,

557
00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:01,800
and so I was like, okay, I'm sure some of these are BIOSes.

558
00:37:02,159 --> 00:37:06,159
And I got all the bios to
set up and still basically nothing worked.

559
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:07,559
So I'm like, Okay, this
isn't quite there yet. And to

560
00:37:07,639 --> 00:37:12,079
be fair, Mudeck for Windows is
in like a beta phase. It's early.

561
00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:15,960
But that was like, I'm at
a point where I, yes,

562
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:20,480
of course I still enjoy setting up
my emulators and all that stuff, but

563
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,079
I got to a point where I've
done that an infinite number of times in

564
00:37:23,159 --> 00:37:25,599
my life. I will kind of
just want to get back to playing the

565
00:37:25,679 --> 00:37:29,440
games and not like setting everything up
and be like, oh, look what

566
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,480
I've done here. I'm being so
pleased with myself, and so I'm kind

567
00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:37,079
of believing in the dream that I
could press a button and have it all

568
00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:39,280
just happened automatically. Was beautiful,
and it's like, Okay, we're not

569
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,280
there yet, at least with Windows. So I'll go in there. I'm

570
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,679
going to update these emulators myself.
But I got like a five hundred and

571
00:37:45,679 --> 00:37:51,199
twelve gigabyte USB three point two stick
that I'm putting all the games on.

572
00:37:51,679 --> 00:37:54,320
I might put bat O Sarah on
there, which is a build of Linux

573
00:37:54,719 --> 00:38:00,280
that is specifically made to just be
a front end for emulators, and it

574
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:05,199
completely like you would just boot into
that instead of Windows. But the things

575
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,079
already has Windows on it, and
I was like, I'll try this first.

576
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:09,639
Now that that hasn't really worked,
I think I will go to the

577
00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:15,440
Botto Sarah route. Problem with that
is sometimes for these newer PCs, you

578
00:38:15,519 --> 00:38:19,039
have to go into the bios and
turn off some like security features to get

579
00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:21,679
it to boot into Boto Serah,
and that sounds like a headache, and

580
00:38:21,679 --> 00:38:23,239
I don't know if I want to
like have it work that way, So

581
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:27,519
I have to like set it up
every single time or go and like flip

582
00:38:27,599 --> 00:38:29,840
back and forth. If I want
to go back into Windows or something like

583
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,159
that, and if I want to
use this my plex server, I'll have

584
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,400
to do that. So I'm like
trying to figure out what the best solution

585
00:38:35,599 --> 00:38:38,719
is here. But I'm I'm here
to report these mini PCs have gotten very

586
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:43,840
very very good. And if you
are looking for something to like, Hey,

587
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,239
I just wish I had something I
could connect to my TV. It

588
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,719
can handle all this other stuff that
like, oh, some of these smart

589
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:52,440
apps get closer or you know,
I have my consoles set up. Yeah,

590
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,760
but if I could like have a
PC that can do all this emulation,

591
00:38:57,159 --> 00:39:00,400
do all the extra stuff I need, and then can then stream from

592
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,280
some of these other devices when I
needed to this is this seems like a

593
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,880
really good solution for that. So
I've been really happy with it. Hey,

594
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,599
GB, is enough enough? How
many things do you need? What's

595
00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:15,599
that words sound? I don't know. I'll talk about the slide again if

596
00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:17,320
you want. If you're not careful, god show me the slide. So

597
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,519
show me the slide. Yea,
yeah, absolutely. Just listen to the

598
00:39:20,559 --> 00:39:25,440
clunk on this when because it's it's
spring loaded, it goes with force.

599
00:39:25,679 --> 00:39:30,840
What is that the I in EO
slide it is. It's from the same

600
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,360
company, and it's got a full
keyboard underneath the screen, and the best

601
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,960
part about it is the like amber
coloring on the keys, which reminds me

602
00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:40,360
so much of the Sidekick, like
just looking down at my little my little

603
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,000
fire in my hands or whatever.
But it hit. It also has windows

604
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:50,599
and all that actual cave man actual
cave man ship. That's right, But

605
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,280
it's uh, this has a seventy
eight forty U which anyone who's been paying

606
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:58,519
attention to these handhelds, well,
no, that's basically been in all the

607
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:01,719
top end handhelds and runs games really
really well. It's not as not quite

608
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:07,599
as powerful as like a Acus Roger
ally, but it's it's still very powerful

609
00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:10,480
and can run most of your games
and I'm enjoying it. It's a little

610
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,119
bit smaller, but it's also uh
kind of still thick and heavy and stuff.

611
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:20,480
I might be interested in that because
like I had a long session of

612
00:40:20,679 --> 00:40:23,920
playing Prince of Persia on the steam
Deck and that bad boy, the original

613
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,760
steam Deck. It's kind of hefty, a little hefty on the hands there.

614
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:34,079
Yeah, this this one is still
pretty heavy, is the difference.

615
00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:37,840
Yeah, dense exactly. I'll do
a comparison. If you're looking for a

616
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,039
lighter one. There are things from
I in e Oh that don't have the

617
00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:45,480
keyboard that are significantly lighter. They
just announce that they're pulling out the AEO

618
00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:47,800
light. I think it's just us. Yeah, and that's just going to

619
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,960
be a three hundred dollars entry level
thing if you just want to play like

620
00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:54,679
lower level games. That's this is
for sickos, right, yeah, this

621
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:59,599
is this is for ciccos. Like
the screen like bazz Out, like thirty

622
00:40:59,639 --> 00:41:02,320
percent, that's pretty comfortable. The
issue is that the keyboard that I,

623
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,400
I mean, that's really what I
wanted it for is to actually like use

624
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,280
my thumbs to type like I did
on my Sidekick, and I love that.

625
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:12,679
I would spend so much time typing
stuff out. It's a bit too

626
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,920
why these center keys are hard to
get to. I gave it to I

627
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:17,960
give it to Stephanie. I'm like, can you reach these middle keys?

628
00:41:19,039 --> 00:41:21,480
And she's like, no, my
hands are basically going to explode if I

629
00:41:21,559 --> 00:41:22,840
try to do that, And I'm
like, yeah, that's that's what I

630
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,960
figured. I kind of wish they
would space out these keys to each side

631
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,599
and then put a touch pad here
in the middle. Because you are still

632
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:34,599
using Windows up here, it would
be nice to have the touch pad as

633
00:41:34,599 --> 00:41:36,239
an option. So the fact that
you still have to go up here and

634
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,639
use the touch screen. Sometimes I
found myself like, okay, I'm navigating

635
00:41:38,679 --> 00:41:42,400
Windows. Time to type in a
password. I click on the thing,

636
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,960
and without thinking, I just started
using the on screen touch keyboard because I

637
00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:49,400
just wasn't like even thinking about the
keyboard being underneath because I'm already in the

638
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,599
touchscreen interface. So it's it's neat, but it's not perfect. It's not

639
00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:57,920
exactly what I wanted as a gaming
device. It works pretty good, but

640
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,679
you know, the price is pretty
high for what it is. Well,

641
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:05,800
Greb, speaking of you playing retro
games, can we tell the fine folks

642
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,000
at home about the old game that
I have convinced you to play Sight Unseen

643
00:42:09,079 --> 00:42:13,800
on this website starting this week?
Absolutely? Yeah, what am I playing?

644
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,880
Dan? You knowing nothing about this
game. Over the next two to

645
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,880
three weeks when when we play time
after game mess morning, you will be

646
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,039
playing through Tale of the Sun for
the PlayStation one. And don't look anything

647
00:42:27,119 --> 00:42:30,239
up. Just we're just going to
go in and we're going to see how

648
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,480
it goes. I will say that
the one thing I do know about this

649
00:42:32,599 --> 00:42:38,119
game is it got a zero from
EGM. I believe a zero one tell

650
00:42:38,159 --> 00:42:43,559
you one. That's an accomplishment.
I mean this like, I understand why

651
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,519
is Some people, and some confusing
were like, what the fuck is this

652
00:42:46,679 --> 00:42:50,719
game? Even? I have played
through this entire game twice now, and

653
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:55,079
I can say earnestly, unronically,
I think it's a good, fascinating game.

654
00:42:55,679 --> 00:42:59,239
Yep, I'm looking forward to this. I always wanted to play it

655
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:00,360
when I saw that. Okay,
I was. I was gonna ask you,

656
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,480
Dan, are you trying to inadvertently
fool Grub into doing two sea?

657
00:43:07,039 --> 00:43:09,480
I entirely played through this whole thing
twice and loved it both times. I

658
00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:13,599
Grubb, you might want to have
like a paper and pen. I made

659
00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:17,639
my own map as I explored the
world. I have to pay attention to

660
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:22,960
something. Oh no, I'll be
there to help, all right. I'm

661
00:43:22,039 --> 00:43:25,840
looking forward to this. Okay,
it looks wild like it always looked wild.

662
00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:29,719
I can't wait to actually see what
happens in it for real. I

663
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:34,400
have never played anything like it even
since then, so it's I think you're

664
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,599
gonna like it, Okay, looking
looking forward to it for sure. I

665
00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:38,760
think Thursday is the first time we're
gonna do it, and maybe a couple

666
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,119
of hours next week. So yeah, I look forward in like the early

667
00:43:42,199 --> 00:43:44,679
morning, afternoon, depending when you're
where you're at in the States. But

668
00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:47,599
yeah, it should be fun,
yep, looking for it to going from

669
00:43:49,199 --> 00:43:52,679
something that no one has ever heard
about to other games that I believe,

670
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:57,079
as far as I know, grub
Dan and I have no fucking clue what's

671
00:43:57,119 --> 00:44:00,480
going on, Sean, you put
those other three D fighting games on the

672
00:44:00,559 --> 00:44:05,199
list here, yes, And I
know you Sikos have at least heard of

673
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,719
Dead or Alive, So don't don't
say, oh, don't say you haven't

674
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:14,000
heard of Yeah, maybe from other
sources, but regardless, No, yeah,

675
00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:16,360
this is I mentioned, what was
it last week on the BombCast two

676
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,000
weeks ago, that I was doing
a lot of stuff on Steam Deck.

677
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,519
You know, I got the O
lead and just getting all the retro stuff

678
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:27,039
up and running has been a lot
of fun, revisiting old stuff or checking

679
00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:30,400
out stuff I've never scene before.
And so one of those things is that

680
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,639
you know, at the end of
this month, we got tech and eight

681
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:37,440
coming out, and so my journey
for the past like month and a half,

682
00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:39,320
may two months even because I just
do a little bit here and there,

683
00:44:39,639 --> 00:44:44,760
has been sort of acclimating myself to
three D fighting games because I'm very

684
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,760
much a street fighter marl Vus Capcom, you know, those sort of two

685
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,800
D fighters killer and saying that kind
of thing. So I've just been checking

686
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,840
out the other big three D fighting
games to get myself in the right head

687
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:59,039
space for it, and I checked
out some of the older teching games.

688
00:44:59,119 --> 00:45:02,119
I checked out Virtual I will say
the one that stuck actually was Dead or

689
00:45:02,119 --> 00:45:08,679
Alive, not for those reasons,
but I played the absolutely hilariously bad story

690
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:15,679
modes. Oh man, oh there's
listen. If we ever need ideas,

691
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:20,039
guys, I got some games.
We ever need to say, grub down

692
00:45:20,119 --> 00:45:23,320
for something. I got some games. It's funny to make you suffer,

693
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:29,519
Okay, I will say Dead or
Alive Dimensions on the three DS is oh

694
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:37,079
fantastic game actually, because it summarizes
the stories of one through four and teaches

695
00:45:37,119 --> 00:45:42,280
you how to play while doing so. So, like, the story is

696
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:46,199
fucking awful, but while you're going
through it and just laughing at how bad

697
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,800
it is the game teaches you.
Okay, now we're gonna introduce this layer

698
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,559
of three D fighting games. Now
we're gonna teach you how throws working at

699
00:45:53,559 --> 00:45:57,480
three D space. Now we're gonna
teach you how this like sort of weapon

700
00:45:57,559 --> 00:46:00,159
triangle of you know, breaking throws, works, strikes and everything like that.

701
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:05,639
And it just feels really good to
play in a way that I've always

702
00:46:05,679 --> 00:46:08,039
thought teching his a little obtuse because
he got the two buns for punches and

703
00:46:08,159 --> 00:46:13,159
kicks. Virtua Fighter leans so heavily
into throws. That's always been a little

704
00:46:13,199 --> 00:46:16,119
daunting. Deader Alive. You can
kind of just like do a three hit

705
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,960
combo with punches or like three hit
combo with kicks, and then you can

706
00:46:20,079 --> 00:46:22,119
figure out on the flyhouse string them
together. It's really free for him.

707
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,840
And so yeah, I just ended
up playing all the Deadoral Live games and

708
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,480
they're actually really fun, and so
that was just sort of my little pet

709
00:46:30,519 --> 00:46:34,840
project for the past month while I
was checking out retro stuff. Was fun.

710
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,960
First series that really did the like
multi layered like, oh, I

711
00:46:37,039 --> 00:46:40,079
knocked someone into a off this thing
and they went on like, well that's

712
00:46:40,079 --> 00:46:45,280
the first one. Well, no, Virtua Fighter did a little bit of

713
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,719
that. First deador Alive was definitely
one where it's like, I'm gonna knock

714
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,360
you off this cliff and there's gonna
be like a cinematic I must falling and

715
00:46:52,519 --> 00:46:55,440
be like punching you and then you
slam into the ground. I thought that

716
00:46:55,559 --> 00:47:00,840
was pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Like on how you find playing a

717
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:05,360
fighting game on a on a portable
like a Steam Deck, weir it depends

718
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,679
on the game because like for six
pun games, I do use my little

719
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:13,199
uh, I use my little leverless
controller right here for audio listeners. It's

720
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,079
if you are seeing a hip box
style controller where it's all buns. That's

721
00:47:15,079 --> 00:47:17,840
why I'm showing off here, just
a smaller version of it that's called the

722
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,880
SGF bridget it the name after the
Guilty Gear character because a little small thing.

723
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:30,800
But for any like other fighting game
where I'm not used to that layout,

724
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,679
I feel like it's okay a play
on controller. Like I was alternating

725
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,559
between Steam Deck and sometimes desktop for
these games, and I felt like,

726
00:47:38,639 --> 00:47:43,519
you know, using a controller for
a four bun fighting game is okay,

727
00:47:43,639 --> 00:47:45,920
especially as a good D pad.
Steam Deck does not have a good dpad.

728
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,400
But like I mentioned, for a
lot that I was playing out a

729
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,559
three DS, which has incredible one
the Xbox controller currently has a great dpad,

730
00:47:53,639 --> 00:47:57,679
and so for those games, it
was definitely okay. If I was

731
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,800
trying to place on those sixunon though, I'd probably fall that to that over

732
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:05,559
there though. Okay, well,
thank you Sean for that quick history lesson

733
00:48:05,679 --> 00:48:09,039
God, we should just check out
a bunch of miscellaneous three DS games that

734
00:48:09,159 --> 00:48:12,719
have gone lost to time. I
think that'd be fun, could Oh yeah,

735
00:48:13,079 --> 00:48:16,960
yeah, there's uh, there's that
early Steel Diver and what it's like.

736
00:48:17,039 --> 00:48:21,679
One of the first games I ever
got for it was that Ubi Soft

737
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,440
Tactics game that was based on Tom
Clancy and it was like surprisingly good Shadow

738
00:48:25,519 --> 00:48:31,119
Agents or something shadow that Tom's No. I remember there was that project code

739
00:48:31,159 --> 00:48:35,400
name Steam that was like a tactics
thing first party Nintendo right where you're like

740
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,440
a b Lincoing x Tom or something. I really didn't like that game.

741
00:48:38,639 --> 00:48:45,280
I wanted to use the nub for
the new that's right, Yes, nub.

742
00:48:45,599 --> 00:48:49,079
I liked it. Not that never
really used it though. Uh.

743
00:48:49,519 --> 00:48:52,199
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars Grub
was that. That's it, That's what

744
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:57,440
it was. Yes, Shadow wars. Yeah. Yeah, folks, if

745
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,119
you if you got any hidden three
DS gems throw marware, maybe we'll collect

746
00:49:00,159 --> 00:49:06,480
those and not so or not so
gems. Yeah. Ap mentioning that citri

747
00:49:06,599 --> 00:49:10,000
VR is coming to Oculus, so
you could do full three D support with

748
00:49:10,159 --> 00:49:16,840
the with the Oculus quest snaky.
Oh yeah, okay, people that version

749
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:22,719
right. Someone said it's the best
version. It did find great. I

750
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,159
think the frame rate was kind of
rough, but I think there's ways around

751
00:49:25,199 --> 00:49:30,079
that. Now. Oh man,
maybe now I just want to I just

752
00:49:30,159 --> 00:49:32,000
want to dig out my three D
s which is just a door the doorstop

753
00:49:32,119 --> 00:49:36,719
one. Someone three D dot hacks. That is that what the website is.

754
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,960
Sean, I'm not hearing anything.
I'm not hearing any u r ls.

755
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:46,960
We're not doing any crimes here.
Uh last game we have here,

756
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,400
it's not a Game of the Week
or anything. This is maybe just another

757
00:49:51,559 --> 00:49:55,599
spiral, another void I'm willing and
happy to jump into. I was telling

758
00:49:55,679 --> 00:50:00,159
grub earlier, uh earlier, before
we started the show. Oh how I

759
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:07,079
hate the nicest man on the internet. I hate David Chen of the Slash

760
00:50:07,119 --> 00:50:09,519
Film cast because he had talked about
a book he was reading, and then

761
00:50:09,559 --> 00:50:13,639
I started listening to the audiobook,
and now I just want to get all

762
00:50:13,679 --> 00:50:15,920
the way into poker. Let's go. I want to get so into poker.

763
00:50:16,119 --> 00:50:19,239
Jan and I will help you on
this journey if you want. I'm

764
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,159
hosting a poker night in a few
weeks here if you want to come out

765
00:50:21,159 --> 00:50:25,000
to Minnesota in February. But it's
very fun. Dad will be here.

766
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,800
So if you want to learn poker
with me and my dad and a bunch

767
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,320
of friends, you can do that, like a good time. Yeah,

768
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:38,000
yeah, very fun. I only
know like a couple of hands and well,

769
00:50:38,559 --> 00:50:42,599
okay, I I think I also
only know the names. Okay,

770
00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:44,880
all right, Well let's let's see
if you can surmise what they are.

771
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:49,199
Okay, a full house. It's
like all the people cards, right,

772
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:57,280
no, you're no, no,
fuck me, three sevens and two two's

773
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,280
you know, three of a kind? Yeah, yep, so okay,

774
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,760
there's five cards and so yeah,
three and two basically is okay, So

775
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:08,239
that's that's an Uncle Jesse h,
Uncle Joey and Danny Tanner and then the

776
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:13,400
twins basically they call it. Yeah, yes, okay, okay, so

777
00:51:13,599 --> 00:51:16,039
is a royal flush? All the
people cards in the ace a royal blush

778
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:22,079
is ten through ace right now,
Jack, Queen King Ace, and then

779
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,880
all of the same suit would be
a royal flush. Oh okay, So

780
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,800
a flush is just those lushes.
It could be two, three, four,

781
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:30,400
five, six, the same pads, you know. Yeah, okay,

782
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:36,440
so I always fix up the flush
is higher than the straight straight.

783
00:51:36,519 --> 00:51:38,320
Yes, that's the one I've been
trying to memorize for a long forever.

784
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,039
And then there's a straight blush,
which is like, let's say you had

785
00:51:42,519 --> 00:51:45,400
yeah, seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack, Queen of Hearts,

786
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:47,960
that's a straight flush. Okay.
How come sometimes when people play poker

787
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,920
they only have two cards because that's
the more fun way you can do.

788
00:51:52,199 --> 00:51:54,599
There's a million weird ways to play. The old way was like the kind

789
00:51:54,639 --> 00:51:59,039
of dry card draw type thing or
five card draw. Uh. And then

790
00:51:59,199 --> 00:52:01,360
in like the mid twoth when like
the world Tiers of poker got us hold

791
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:05,800
on everything Texas hold them got huge, and it's a I think it's a

792
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,199
lot more fun. Some people,
it's demonstrably more fun. Absolutely, Okay,

793
00:52:09,599 --> 00:52:12,800
So that's the one I should love. Like when I play with my

794
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,840
mom and her husband, they do
Pineapple a lot where it's like dealer's choice.

795
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,199
They can throw out a third card
and you got to like discard one,

796
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,599
but we won't mess with that to
start with. Well, just basic

797
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,840
Texas, hold them two cards,
yeah, shared pot. Yeah. Okay.

798
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:30,039
Basically what I'm saying is if and
when Sean goes to EVO in Vegas

799
00:52:30,159 --> 00:52:32,239
this year, I'm also going to
go to Vegas, but not for EVO

800
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:38,199
at all. I'm just gonna go
and blow an obscene amount of money craft

801
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:43,360
first. Oh yeah, perhaps is
free money? Absolutely, yeah, craft

802
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,440
up on crafts overall. Yeah,
I know that it makes sense to do

803
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:52,559
uh A Game of the Year and
the Game Awards in la because that's where

804
00:52:52,599 --> 00:52:57,039
Kiley's hosting it. We have the
fandom studio there. There some really fancy

805
00:52:57,079 --> 00:53:00,159
poker houses in l A. Though, just so you know, oh well,

806
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,559
never mind what I was gonna say
that, because I was saying we

807
00:53:02,559 --> 00:53:07,280
should just do Game of the Year
and like the pyramid thing, Okay,

808
00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:16,239
that's the sphere. Oh my god, damn my god. We're going to

809
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:22,159
drag that. It's more back of
our thing than not being oppressed by the

810
00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:29,719
sphere. That's the most bacular thing
in the world. Shocking Jesus Christ he's

811
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:34,400
gonna be on a missions not wanting
to be in Vegas, avoiding the sphere

812
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,519
and trying to find me in whichever
miscellane is poker table I find myself at,

813
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:43,360
and then we're gonna play the uh
Keino. We're gonna learn, we're

814
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,639
gonna get big into Keno either.
I think you should pick some numbers.

815
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,920
Yeah, Keno's pretty random. Do
you know pol tabs? You have pol

816
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:52,800
tabs anywhere else Sean? Do you
have pol tabs in Wisconsin? I have

817
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:58,079
no idea what you're talking about.
Meat rapple style thing, Okay, pole

818
00:53:58,159 --> 00:54:01,199
tapter thing? What meet when you
go to bars and there will be like

819
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,440
a separate employee that goes there,
like so here's the bar where you get

820
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,320
the drinks and stuff, but then
there's like a little booth over here where

821
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,199
it'll be like I think they have
kenots sometimes. But then poll tabs where

822
00:54:10,199 --> 00:54:14,480
it's like they're usually a dollar a
thing and they're a little cardboard gimmick and

823
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:16,760
it's almost like a scratcher type thing, but you pull them, they're like

824
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:21,400
it's like a cardboard perforated thing and
you pull three things and it's almost like

825
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,199
a slot machine. Like, get
three strawberries and you win this and you

826
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:27,280
bring it back to the polltab person, you win some money. I think

827
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:31,039
I saw that your Tahoe. But
Tahoe is like super close to Reno.

828
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:36,519
Uh so that makes sense why that
would be there. It's all over the

829
00:54:36,559 --> 00:54:38,119
place here in minnesot I'm surprised.
Here in Wisconsin. It seems like it's

830
00:54:38,159 --> 00:54:43,199
just more of like a more complicated
way to do lottery or Bengo or something

831
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,199
like that. That's just that's like
a scratcher. Basically, it's pretty pretty

832
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:49,320
simpar. Yeah, scratch. I
have a one hundred dollars scratcher. It's

833
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,880
been sitting in my car for a
while. I shouldn't say that on the

834
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:57,159
internet. But do those expire?
I should probably go like, I don't

835
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:00,559
think so. Yeah, but the
place seems like it shouldn't expire. I

836
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,639
don't believe so. I used to
do some of the stuff when I work

837
00:55:02,639 --> 00:55:07,519
at a grocery store. I don't
think they're okay. Everyone scream ass,

838
00:55:07,599 --> 00:55:10,920
yes they do, okay, probably
not like after a year though, Right,

839
00:55:12,079 --> 00:55:14,960
we'll cash it in now, grub
Okay, I will do it.

840
00:55:15,039 --> 00:55:19,199
Today we did a white elephant thing
with the family for Christmas, and you

841
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,360
know you like steal up the three
times like each item at a white Elephant.

842
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,079
I don't know, everyone does different, but basically, my dad's gift

843
00:55:24,199 --> 00:55:30,440
that he brought was a quick trip
gas station gift card and three Scratcher tickets,

844
00:55:30,559 --> 00:55:31,960
and then he spent the entire White
Elephant trying to get it back for

845
00:55:32,119 --> 00:55:44,960
himself. That's a move that sounds
Larry David move man. Uh okay,

846
00:55:45,079 --> 00:55:46,719
all right, well, I'm gonna
get super into Texas hold them because Texas

847
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:52,440
hold them kind of sounds like easier
majong and I barely remember how to play

848
00:55:52,480 --> 00:56:01,239
majong. I was about to break
an embargo? Is a thing? Is

849
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:07,519
there a teching minigame of Magong?
Stupid penalty box? Everybody see you later,

850
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,360
All right, after greb is death
serving his time at the penalty box,

851
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:14,079
we'll be back with the news.
Hey, if you got rex for

852
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:15,920
how to learn Texas hold them,
I don't know, don't send them my

853
00:56:16,039 --> 00:56:20,320
way, but let's just play.
Just start playing. That's the best way

854
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,239
to learn. Or go back,
go back at time and watch Chris money

855
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,400
Maker. No play with us.
Let's do like a discord poker thing or

856
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,960
something and there's no real money on
the line, and you can just openly

857
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:30,199
talk about your hand and we'll tell
you how to play it. Okay,

858
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:36,000
all right, all right, I'll
boot up something. I'll find a book

859
00:56:36,039 --> 00:56:38,800
as well to read the same Poker
Night at the At the inventory, it's

860
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:43,199
like, oh, the scheme joint, if you have it is still listed.

861
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:47,719
Oh really, that's a bummer.
Well anyway, Uh, Grub's gonna

862
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:52,960
go serve his time for for him
and his crimes, and we'll just keep

863
00:56:52,039 --> 00:56:55,599
him company in the box until it's
time to break them out and we'll be

864
00:56:55,679 --> 00:57:00,920
back with the news. Well it
it's over for me, folks, it's

865
00:57:01,039 --> 00:57:06,480
so over. I had to turn
off my camera. My camera died.

866
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,400
I learned how to play poker,
and then I'm just smiling ear to ear,

867
00:57:09,599 --> 00:57:14,920
So my camera died to hide my
shame because of how much I now

868
00:57:15,039 --> 00:57:22,400
love poker, poker, break and
fast and it's great. Holy shit,

869
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,679
Why don't we should have a night
where we all play poker together? Perhaps

870
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:32,960
Poker Night? Yes? Oh man, is that what that show is about

871
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,800
with Natasha Leone poker Face? She
doesn't play any poker in that show,

872
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:42,480
basically, sure, I think she
does in like the first episode, because

873
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,320
she could tell when people are lying, right, I think that's how they

874
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:50,199
show. Oh man, I'm gonna
get us all cool slightly translucent visors,

875
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:53,639
yes, oh I love it.
Sunglasses. Yeah, man, I can't

876
00:57:53,679 --> 00:57:58,639
wait to gimmick this ship up.
Okay, all right, oh no,

877
00:57:59,159 --> 00:58:00,239
this is fix some of them,
my kid. I'll be right back,

878
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:05,280
okay. Uh. But yeah,
that's very easy to learn. And thank

879
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,880
you Dan, thank you Sean,
thank you Grub for teaching me. This

880
00:58:07,039 --> 00:58:12,199
is fun. I hope everyone marks
us down in their journals that this is

881
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,360
the day that my life changed forever. Well, and Jon, you're in

882
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,840
a pun spot because the beginner's luck
thing is really real because like normally,

883
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:21,119
when you're playing with a bunch of
people who know how to play and everything,

884
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,079
you know that he's going to follow
the rules of like just logic.

885
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:27,400
And I've seen so many times when
somebody knew is at the table and you

886
00:58:27,599 --> 00:58:30,119
just never know, like, well, nobody would ever do that, but

887
00:58:30,239 --> 00:58:34,760
they might not know not to do
that strategy. It is real and it

888
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:39,199
works. Yep, yep, oh, fantastic, fantastic. Wow, not

889
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:44,960
news to everyone, but here it
goes gin with another stupid hobby and Jeff

890
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,519
Grubb please save me with the news. Yeah, I'm here for you.

891
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:57,559
New got Yeah. We played like
like two minutes of poker and I'm already

892
00:58:57,639 --> 00:59:04,320
like itching. Oh that's a good
game. All right, let's start here

893
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,800
Elden Ring DLC. Excitement is building
because there's some things maybe pointing to it

894
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:13,159
happening soon. Elden Rings DLC Shadow
of the Er Tree has been shrouded in

895
00:59:13,239 --> 00:59:16,599
mystery since its announcement a year ago. Despite from Software's silence, rumors and

896
00:59:16,639 --> 00:59:22,280
signs have hinted at its impending arrival. Recent developments include a leaked product page

897
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:27,239
suggesting a February launch, aligning with
Elder Ring's two year anniversary. Additionally,

898
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:32,039
a mysterious excuse me and coming update
on Steam has been discovered, fueling speculation.

899
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:37,360
The update, which doesn't explicitly mention
the DLC, has sparked excitement as

900
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,039
it marks the first change through the
game's downloadable content in over a year.

901
00:59:40,599 --> 00:59:45,280
Fans eagerly await more information, hoping
for official announcements soon and then furthermore.

902
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:52,000
Rumors suggest the possibility of a second
major DLC in twenty twenty five, indicating

903
00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:55,679
a bright future for elden Rings post
launch content. Shadow of the ear Tree

904
00:59:55,840 --> 01:00:00,559
probably happens this year. I could
see it happily as soon as next month.

905
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,719
Except for like, man, why
wasn't it at the kileis then,

906
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,159
because they had that relationship worked really
good when they worked really well when they

907
01:00:08,159 --> 01:00:12,840
announced the game originally, why wouldn't
they do that same strategy again? There

908
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,280
are probably a bunch of reasons why
you don't do it. It's just like

909
01:00:15,519 --> 01:00:19,199
h I thought it would have I
would have expected it, but hey,

910
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,079
I'm I will hop right back in. I just realized I'm missing elden Ring

911
01:00:22,159 --> 01:00:27,360
pretty bad, so I'm looking forward
to this. Is it supposed to be

912
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,360
pretty substantial, Like if they said
anything of note other than just like the

913
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:34,920
title, I don't know how much
they've said. The assumption is it'll be

914
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,719
pretty substantial. I think they did
confirm that you're going to like a whole

915
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:43,239
New Island or something like that,
So basically it'll be like a mini sequel,

916
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,199
I think is how people are viewing
it. You know, from software's

917
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:51,800
expansions in the past have been very
substantial. I think the the the assumption

918
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:53,920
here is this will be the biggest
one yet and that's probably going to be

919
01:00:53,960 --> 01:01:00,280
the case. Okay, cool,
I am a little surprised. We're like,

920
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,440
oh, already hearing maybe the possibility
of a second expansion next year.

921
01:01:04,599 --> 01:01:08,039
But elder Ring's the kind of game
that it could just sell forever like a

922
01:01:08,119 --> 01:01:13,880
Skyrim did, so them supporting it
makes a lot of sense. This is

923
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,159
also kind of the trend I feel
for a lot of games is two major

924
01:01:16,239 --> 01:01:21,079
expansions, like we see a scaling
all the way up to like even Pokemon

925
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:23,280
does this a lot where they just
they put out the two expansions. I

926
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,920
feel like I hear a lot of
games doing that. We're doing the Fantasy

927
01:01:27,119 --> 01:01:30,679
Draft Alan wait two as those two
story expansions listed. I feel like that's

928
01:01:30,719 --> 01:01:34,800
kind of the norm at this point. Like eldon Ring is a big game

929
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,199
to be doing that, but I
guess if they're going with the trend,

930
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:40,000
why not. Yeah. It's also
the kind of thing where it's like,

931
01:01:40,119 --> 01:01:44,920
you know, they probably sketch out
why that's worth it to them from the

932
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,320
start, so it's built in and
then being like, Okay, how can

933
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:52,039
we make that bigger as the game
really succeeds and we can use that to

934
01:01:52,119 --> 01:01:55,039
carry the momentum forward. I bet
that'll happen here. I bet this game

935
01:01:55,079 --> 01:01:58,880
will continue to sell for a very
long time. And you know, once

936
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:00,719
both of these expansions are then you
do a Game of the Year edition that

937
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:04,840
has everything in there or whatever,
and you then you, you know,

938
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,400
you triple dip and get people back
in again, set it to a more

939
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:13,400
slightly discounted price eventually, and then
it just sells forever. Janet, triple

940
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:20,440
dip beats a flush. That's right, we'll cover. Yeah, we'll show

941
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:28,559
it's the it's the secret poker arts. There's three dips. Oh god no.

942
01:02:29,679 --> 01:02:34,199
Uh. Halo Battle Royale has reportedly
been canceled after years of work.

943
01:02:34,239 --> 01:02:36,880
And I should have known this was
going to happen because I just mentioned it

944
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,079
on a podcast over the weekend,
so of course it should it was going

945
01:02:39,159 --> 01:02:44,199
to get canceled. The Halo batter
Royal project, co named Project to Taka,

946
01:02:44,719 --> 01:02:49,480
is reportedly canceled. The games developer
Certain Affinity had previously discussed the project

947
01:02:49,519 --> 01:02:52,119
publicly and mentioned in collaboration with three
four three Industries it was going to evolve

948
01:02:52,159 --> 01:02:57,079
Halo Infinite. The project status was
unclear, with rumors suggesting it may have

949
01:02:57,159 --> 01:03:00,599
shifted directions. Microsoft is recent has
been contact of or comment. They haven't

950
01:03:00,679 --> 01:03:07,079
said anything yet. This came up
on xbox eras podcast they mentioned they heard

951
01:03:07,159 --> 01:03:09,800
it was canceled. When you think
about it, I don't know if that's

952
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:15,199
too surprising, because do they really
want to launch a separate Because people talk

953
01:03:15,239 --> 01:03:16,400
about this like, oh, it's
going to be a mode in Halo Halo

954
01:03:16,519 --> 01:03:20,559
Infinite. It seems like that's not
exactly how it would have worked, because

955
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:22,639
this was made an unreal engine probably
would have to stand on its own,

956
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:28,800
and they would have required a support
team of its own for years and years

957
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,519
and years kind of no matter what
it ends up doing, whether it's successful

958
01:03:31,599 --> 01:03:35,320
or not. And even if it's
successful, that's like a big burden to

959
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:39,800
carry. And right now they're building
up Halo Infinite back to like a place

960
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:44,079
where people are pretty happy with it, maybe it makes more sense to just

961
01:03:44,119 --> 01:03:46,599
focus on Halo Infinite instead of dividing
that audience. So I don't know,

962
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:51,599
is anyone here like bummed out you're
not going to get a Halo Infinite Battle

963
01:03:51,639 --> 01:03:55,960
Royale. No, particularly, it
never made a ton of sense to me,

964
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,280
Like I was I was saying about
the environments of Halo Infinite and it's

965
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:05,760
a lot of you know, the
Pacific Wooded Area stuff all that, and

966
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,159
I was just like, I don't
know if I want to do a battle

967
01:04:09,239 --> 01:04:12,840
rail in that area. Even if
there is cool stuff like the grappling Hook

968
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:15,639
and everything like that, I don't
know. It always just felt off to

969
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,719
me. I don't know if it
necessarily would have been there if it's its

970
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:23,239
own project, but just like the
vibes of Halo Infinite felt like it wouldn't

971
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:26,599
have fit if they were trying to
go with that theming when I was playing

972
01:04:26,639 --> 01:04:29,320
Halo Infinite and I was going through
that map, I felt that kind of

973
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:30,760
the opposite. It was like,
I think a big, like one hundred

974
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:34,440
person shooter could make sense if you
like lopped off a section of this larger

975
01:04:34,519 --> 01:04:40,360
map and let people just do stuff
in there. But that was definitely informed

976
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:43,880
by like having the grappling hook and
all this stuff and getting around and I

977
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,679
don't know, I imagine just like
okay, you know, hiding in these

978
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,679
areas and getting used to the environment. But we did hear that this was

979
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:53,719
a whole other engine was going to
be completely separate from that, and I'm

980
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,519
like, oh, that doesn't seem
like it would be, by the way,

981
01:04:55,599 --> 01:04:59,239
Devil's advocate for that, because since
I wanted to call it duty sikos

982
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:02,239
around here, I will say there
was an overlap period when MW three was

983
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:08,039
coming out where you would fire up
the Call of Duty app if you wanted

984
01:05:08,039 --> 01:05:13,079
to play war Zone, it would
behind the scenes fire up MW two because

985
01:05:13,079 --> 01:05:15,840
they hadn't yet like upparted it to
like support all the MW three stuff.

986
01:05:16,039 --> 01:05:19,840
So theoretically that could have worked.
But yeah, it was sure right,

987
01:05:20,159 --> 01:05:26,480
like that is probably what would have
happened. It's just yeah, I think

988
01:05:26,519 --> 01:05:28,360
they start looking at it then and
it's like, okay, then they need

989
01:05:28,559 --> 01:05:30,559
the separate support team and all this
stuff, and I think all those combination

990
01:05:30,639 --> 01:05:33,880
of factors probably does drag it down. They probably would have presented it as

991
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,840
a mode, but it would have
been its own thing in many respects.

992
01:05:39,079 --> 01:05:42,000
I don't know. For Halo,
I mean it is, it's still in

993
01:05:42,039 --> 01:05:44,679
a tough spot. I think infin
it's a very fun game to play,

994
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,920
but it's not like the top tier
franchise game that Microsoft maybe needed it to

995
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:53,519
be. What's next for Halo?
They probably just come back and try to

996
01:05:53,559 --> 01:05:56,360
do another sequel at this point,
right, I think that's the move,

997
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,639
Like I can't. There's enough problem
Halo Infinite and like you said, Grub,

998
01:06:00,679 --> 01:06:05,760
they're building back some positive momentum,
but perhaps releasing that Battle Royale and

999
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:09,760
if it was like you know,
poor state at launch, it would just

1000
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:14,079
kill whatever building momentum they had.
What is it? Is it a numbered

1001
01:06:14,119 --> 01:06:16,840
sequel, is it Infinite two?
Is it infinite? Is it open in

1002
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:19,599
the way that Infinite was or is
it more linear campaign in the way.

1003
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:24,159
Yeah? I like the Infinite campaign. I thought I did too, honestly

1004
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:27,519
a lot. I really enjoyed it. We should that four player co op

1005
01:06:27,559 --> 01:06:29,599
got put in there. We never
touched that. Maybe we should go try

1006
01:06:29,679 --> 01:06:31,159
that sometime. That was sure,
Oh yeah, we thought about that.

1007
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:35,679
I bet they kind of walk away
from the openness a little bit and they

1008
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:40,800
do go back to kind of level
based Halo. Uh, maybe just try

1009
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,880
to do play the hits a little
bit, just make a game that they

1010
01:06:44,039 --> 01:06:46,639
just called Halo twenty twenty seven or
whatever, like oh yeah, god,

1011
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:51,639
probably yeah, probably what happened,
right, Infinite was all right supposed to

1012
01:06:51,679 --> 01:06:55,159
be like sort of a soft reboot, and then it's like, how do

1013
01:06:55,199 --> 01:07:00,360
you reboot, a soft reboot the
first time. Yeah, that's how hopere

1014
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:04,400
on it. They would they do
something so else Yeah, Stalker two has

1015
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:09,239
been delayed again. Stalker two heard
of Chernobyl, which I wrote down here

1016
01:07:09,239 --> 01:07:14,719
as Chornoble. The post apocalyptic shooter
sequel by GSC Game World has been delayed

1017
01:07:14,719 --> 01:07:17,280
again and is now set to release
on September fifth, twenty twenty four,

1018
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,760
so not getting moved out of this
year, but just later into this year.

1019
01:07:20,559 --> 01:07:26,119
The decision was made based on fan
feedback after they received thousands of players

1020
01:07:26,599 --> 01:07:29,320
testing results and a lot of people
enjoyed the game, but they said they

1021
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,800
want more time to polish it up
and make it better. Of course,

1022
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:35,039
this is the studio that was in
Ukraine when the war started. They were

1023
01:07:35,239 --> 01:07:38,800
that seems like most of them were
able to get out and have been out

1024
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:43,320
for a very long time now continuing
to make the game elsewhere. But obviously

1025
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:46,320
that put a huge kink in the
works and caused many of the original delays.

1026
01:07:46,639 --> 01:07:49,199
And now they're like, don't they
have a game. It probably could

1027
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:51,840
launch, but they want to get
to a certain level of polished, which

1028
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:58,880
is understandable. Stalker two a sequel
to Stalker, a immersive sim survival game

1029
01:07:59,039 --> 01:08:01,880
that people love. Ever played,
I always intended to go back, but

1030
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,079
it has a lot of fans.
Stalker two will have a lot to live

1031
01:08:05,199 --> 01:08:08,800
up to, so I don't blame
them for wanting to do put the best

1032
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:14,079
possible foot forward there. The game
will launch on I believe Xbox Game Pass

1033
01:08:14,119 --> 01:08:16,119
on day one. Yeah, that's
what it says here, so people will

1034
01:08:16,119 --> 01:08:20,479
be able to check that out when
it comes. We'll see. Ubisoft Boss

1035
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:24,800
says gamers need to get used to
not owning their games because they're not used

1036
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:29,640
to that yet. Ubisoft C's as
significant growth opportunity and subscription services such as

1037
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,079
Ubisoft Plus if consumers can adapt to
not own owning games like they do with

1038
01:08:33,199 --> 01:08:38,840
other media like music and movies.
The publisher recently rebranded it's Ubisoft Plus service

1039
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:43,000
and introduced a new PC offering,
Ubisoft Plus Premium, which is available on

1040
01:08:43,039 --> 01:08:45,439
PC, Xbox, and Luna for
a monthly fee includes a day one access

1041
01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:49,039
to new releases, a sizeable back
catalog DLC early access to title games,

1042
01:08:49,239 --> 01:08:54,119
are to select games, and more, and it has stuff like Ubisoft Plus

1043
01:08:54,159 --> 01:08:58,279
Classic. Basically, the person who
was interviewed here is the person in charge

1044
01:08:58,319 --> 01:09:01,199
of Ubisoft subscript subscriptions serve and they
said, the point is not to force

1045
01:09:01,319 --> 01:09:05,079
users to go down one route or
another. We offer purchase, we offer

1046
01:09:05,159 --> 01:09:10,119
subscription, and it's the gamer's preference
that is more important. Here we are

1047
01:09:10,159 --> 01:09:14,760
seeing some people who buy choosing to
subscribe now. But it all works,

1048
01:09:15,159 --> 01:09:18,079
and then he goes on to say
in other mediums, it's been much easier

1049
01:09:18,119 --> 01:09:20,920
to get people to move to subscriptions, but for some reason, gamers are

1050
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:25,800
a little bit more hesitant and they
aren't moving as quickly as anyone expected to,

1051
01:09:27,319 --> 01:09:29,640
I guess, And mostly I wanted
to just like check the temperature here.

1052
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:33,479
How are you all feeling about subscriptions
versus buying your games? I want

1053
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:36,720
it to stay where we have the
choice at all times. Unlikely do like

1054
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:40,560
Netflix, Like there's no guarantee you're
going to be able to buy something on

1055
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:44,960
Netflix. I think that we've kind
of already reached where where I think most

1056
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:47,920
people are comfortable. Is that where
you all are at as well? Yeah?

1057
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:53,239
Yeah, it's a weird comparison because
I feel like there's a subset of

1058
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:59,760
folk the music community and movie watching
community that are getting back into buying physical

1059
01:10:00,119 --> 01:10:03,279
like I know, on top of
like vinyls becoming huge again and a lot

1060
01:10:03,319 --> 01:10:08,920
of people are pushing to buy physical
albums, and then same thing with movies.

1061
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:12,800
Now, like I have to pull
my partner off a cliff of wanting

1062
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:16,000
to buy four K Blu rays of
existing Blu rays that she already has,

1063
01:10:17,399 --> 01:10:21,760
and that's a slippery slope as well. Yeah, I saw that video from

1064
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:28,960
a couple months ago, just this
past week of Kojima at Criterion going through

1065
01:10:29,039 --> 01:10:30,920
the clouset there and putting the movies
into the bag, and I'm like,

1066
01:10:31,039 --> 01:10:34,239
I want that for me. Maybe
I should get back into getting physical movies,

1067
01:10:34,319 --> 01:10:36,880
but no, I can't. I
do that with like all my favorites.

1068
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:40,439
So I probably got like I don't
know, seventy or eighty like four

1069
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:42,680
K things. I'm trying to like
do that thing where I'm like all my

1070
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:44,960
Blu rays, I'm getting rid of
them, bring them a good Will and

1071
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:46,680
buying the poor K when they're on
sale or whatever. And it's it's stupid

1072
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:49,920
because I did that when I went
from DVD to Blu ray. So half

1073
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:54,079
of those fucking Blu rays I brought
to good Will were sealed. And now

1074
01:10:54,079 --> 01:10:57,039
I'm just buying them all again on
four K and then it's probably gonna happen

1075
01:10:57,079 --> 01:10:59,520
again. But I mean, most
of the time it works. Most times

1076
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:00,720
you want to watch movie, like, even if you don't own it,

1077
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:03,039
you know, you can go to
Amazon and just you know, rent it

1078
01:11:03,119 --> 01:11:06,199
for like a couple bucks or whatever. But like recently, Bonk and I

1079
01:11:06,279 --> 01:11:10,359
really wanted to watch Near Dark,
that Catherine Bigelow movie. We'd never seen

1080
01:11:10,399 --> 01:11:12,520
it. We were good things,
we were on kind of but Katherine Bigelow

1081
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,600
kick and it's like, not anywhere
on streaming, there was no way you

1082
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:17,680
couldn't rent it on Amazon or anything. I was like, all right,

1083
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:20,880
I'll just buy the physical media.
And then I went to like eBay and

1084
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:24,279
Amazon and everything, and you can't
even buy it. And so it's like

1085
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:27,880
on a rare instance, it's just
like it becomes hard to watch something.

1086
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:30,720
But like usually ninety nine out of
one hundred times, if you buy it

1087
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,479
physically, you're good to go.
I think that does highlight an issue though,

1088
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:38,840
with games in particular, and Jan
this conversation just killed them. I

1089
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:46,640
guess games are quite frequently delisted or
changed or updated the people don't like,

1090
01:11:47,119 --> 01:11:53,119
and sometimes they become different games.
Sometimes the games aren't available anymore. It

1091
01:11:53,239 --> 01:11:57,640
is so difficult to just go back
and play old games that there are people

1092
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,800
who see preservation efforts shuch as emulation
as piracy because that's what they've been trained

1093
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:05,560
to do by these corporations. The
problem is, all right, what's your

1094
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:10,439
solution, Like, how are we
going to access this old media without becoming

1095
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:15,600
loss of time? And that's where
people are hesitant going into more subscription based

1096
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:18,800
stuff. Not owning your games,
Like people are still getting used to owning

1097
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:24,319
digital games because you're quote unquote owning
them. You're you're licensing them. You're

1098
01:12:24,359 --> 01:12:27,359
not actually you own have a disk
in your hand. That's why I still

1099
01:12:27,399 --> 01:12:30,600
have a shelf of physical games.
It's because for currant ones, I do

1100
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:32,319
want that disk. I want to
be able to pop in a cartridge into

1101
01:12:32,399 --> 01:12:39,479
a Nintendo system or whatnot. And
so the fact that yes, the industry

1102
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:46,439
will move towards streaming and subscription services
and all this more digital stuff, but

1103
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:51,560
bro, you can't say that.
You can't just get up here and be

1104
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:58,079
like the most No one will call
you out harder than gamers can't. You

1105
01:12:58,159 --> 01:13:00,479
can't say, boy, I very
try. I can't believe where we're not

1106
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:08,359
screwing these people over Why aren't they
you know, being SAPs easier? Yeah,

1107
01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:11,640
you just can't say that on this
level, just like let it.

1108
01:13:12,039 --> 01:13:15,319
The reason it happened organically for music
and movies is because people let it happen

1109
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:18,960
and they are now okay with just
I listen to music on Spotify. I

1110
01:13:19,079 --> 01:13:23,960
watched TV on a million streaming services
that costs more on cable. That's just

1111
01:13:24,039 --> 01:13:26,800
where we are at this point.
I think, you know, it's the

1112
01:13:27,279 --> 01:13:31,199
movies and music reached a point where
they became commodities where for most people they

1113
01:13:31,239 --> 01:13:34,319
were very interchangeable. Well, yeah, yeah, I have a favorite song,

1114
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:39,000
but most music I hear is something
I'm going to listen to for a

1115
01:13:39,119 --> 01:13:41,520
week and then I'm going to listen
to the next one. I'll probably listen

1116
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:43,920
to on the radio while I'm working, and I'm not going to think about

1117
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:45,600
it too much. I think movies
got pretty similar. It's like, yeah,

1118
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:47,680
I go see a summer blockbuster and
I'm just not going to fall in

1119
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:50,399
love with Many of these games still
kind of feel precious in a lot of

1120
01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:54,000
ways, where it's like we get
a game and it feels like a miracle.

1121
01:13:54,119 --> 01:13:57,800
A lot of times, and so
I think people build a stronger attachment

1122
01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:02,439
to games, and that's kind of
been this fence mechanism between games and becoming

1123
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:08,399
the subscription fodder. Most people who
have been into games have had to view

1124
01:14:08,439 --> 01:14:10,359
it because if you're into games,
you have to view it in this way

1125
01:14:10,359 --> 01:14:13,560
at a certain point because they're so
expensive, like spending sixty dollars on a

1126
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:15,840
game. You won't get to that
point if you think games are special,

1127
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:19,119
and the next one might be the
next special one for you. So I

1128
01:14:19,199 --> 01:14:25,600
think that's been a thing that it
would be risky for these companies to disentangle

1129
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:29,800
that notion that games are special,
because then they don't feel that then they

1130
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,199
won't be worth sixty dollars in most
people's eyes. We already saw what happens

1131
01:14:32,199 --> 01:14:35,119
on mobile when that happened that you
know that race to the bottom there,

1132
01:14:35,199 --> 01:14:39,600
and now Mobile has been stagnant for
for a decade a decade straight. So

1133
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:44,479
I get the people whose jobs it
is to get people sign up for subscriptions

1134
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,760
being frustrated by this. But this
is actually a beneficial thing to your company

1135
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:54,560
overall and probably something you don't want
to undo. Right Meanwhile, though in

1136
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:58,720
the UK, retailer. Game,
which is like they're equivalent to GameStop is

1137
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,760
going to end at game Trade ends, Game, a prominent video game retailer

1138
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:06,359
in the UK, will cease accepting
trade ins for physical video games starting February

1139
01:15:06,479 --> 01:15:11,640
sixteenth. The remaining pre owned stock
will continue to be sold until it's depleted.

1140
01:15:12,079 --> 01:15:15,640
Game staff across the country have been
informed of this change. Customers with

1141
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:19,079
unwanted physical games are advised to trade
advised to trade them in within the next

1142
01:15:19,199 --> 01:15:24,439
month. Currently, game accepts most
consoles, games, gaming accessories, except

1143
01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:28,119
for retro items, which is PlayStation
two and older. Trade Ins can be

1144
01:15:28,159 --> 01:15:33,479
exchanged for store credit or gift cards. This is I'm a little bit surprising.

1145
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:35,600
That's like we're at this point,
but you start I start to think

1146
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:39,880
about it. I don't know many
people personally that trade games in anymore.

1147
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:44,199
I know some some does, and
I get why. It's like, you

1148
01:15:44,239 --> 01:15:46,560
know, games are understand why if
you're going to blow through a game in

1149
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:49,119
a couple of weeks and you can
still get you know, thirty thirty five

1150
01:15:49,159 --> 01:15:51,279
bucks forward or whatever, I mean
that that helps. So like I see

1151
01:15:51,319 --> 01:15:55,680
why my sister does it. But
like the convenience factor of like not having

1152
01:15:55,680 --> 01:15:58,840
a line up at a midnight release
and everything kind of trumps that. But

1153
01:15:59,239 --> 01:16:01,039
it's just it's kind of bummer because
I mean this has been just another on

1154
01:16:01,119 --> 01:16:05,760
the line of like the slow death
of the way I bought and got and

1155
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:10,079
traded in games growing up. Like
funkal Land was my whole thing growing up.

1156
01:16:10,079 --> 01:16:12,560
It's all right, the Genesis came
out, I'm trading in my nes

1157
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:14,920
and all this stuff, getting Genesis, Okay, the PlayStations out, trade

1158
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,520
in the Genesis, Like that's how
I was able to keep getting new games

1159
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:20,279
and stuff. And it was it
was almost like a fun thing, seeing

1160
01:16:20,319 --> 01:16:23,760
like you know, the trade in
values of everything, and sometimes it's be

1161
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:26,720
like, oh, trade in any
three of last generation's games and you get

1162
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,840
one of the new generations games.
Like it's just that whole trade in culture

1163
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:32,119
was how I got games growing up. So just whenever I see one of

1164
01:16:32,159 --> 01:16:34,439
these stories, and there's a million
of them every year, it's just like,

1165
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:38,439
ah, yeah, that whole kind
of marketplace is just dead at this

1166
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:42,520
point. Yeah, you mentioned Kayla
does l I and like I up until

1167
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,800
recently, that's what I did too, because games are like we just mentioned

1168
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:47,640
a little biggo really expensive, and
you want to keep up on the new

1169
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:49,880
ones, Like I know, I
could wait, but you know, my

1170
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:51,680
friends are playing a new thing.
I want to play a new thing.

1171
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:54,760
And then now I know there is
playing a new thing, well I want

1172
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:57,359
to talk to them about that,
and it gets pricey. So yeah,

1173
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:00,560
thankfully. Now you know, I
do get codes for some games, and

1174
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:03,840
that definitely helps things out. But
up until that point, I was one

1175
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:08,520
hundred percent just trading in the new
game while I could still get you know,

1176
01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:13,319
like even eighty percent of it back. Because that's that that just makes

1177
01:17:13,319 --> 01:17:15,439
things easier on me. And I
think, to tie it into the previous

1178
01:17:15,479 --> 01:17:19,079
conversation, subscription services are helping with
that a lot, because if you can

1179
01:17:19,399 --> 01:17:24,720
spend ten or fifteen bucks a month, you know, that's basically what I

1180
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:29,279
was spending on games. After the
whole trade in and like fees and shipping

1181
01:17:29,359 --> 01:17:31,520
and all that stuff, I was
basically spending like ten to fifteen bucks a

1182
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:34,800
month on games. So I think
that's sort of we've shifted a bit.

1183
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:40,600
I think that's why we're seeing stuff
like this, like brick and mortar retailers

1184
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,680
are not doing as much of this. It makes sense, but yeah,

1185
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:45,560
it is still a bummer because it
feels like the end of an era.

1186
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:49,239
Yeah, you're like, as someone
who's spent over eight years working for the

1187
01:17:49,279 --> 01:17:53,159
Game Stop Corporation, I can tell
you it is not a business model that

1188
01:17:53,199 --> 01:17:57,199
works anymore, and it hasn't for
a while. So here's a fun little

1189
01:17:57,199 --> 01:18:00,800
subscription service. I recommend to the
folks at home that are are budget conscious,

1190
01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:06,319
perhaps go to your If you live
in a major metropolitan area, that

1191
01:18:06,399 --> 01:18:11,720
is easier for you. Sign up
for a library card and then, sorry,

1192
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:15,119
I just saw the cocking sign up
for a library card, and then

1193
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:20,399
you can also get games. Most
big libraries in your city do have physical

1194
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:23,960
copies of games. You can stay
up with them up to date stuff.

1195
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:27,960
Sometimes they are not day and date, so you may have to wait a

1196
01:18:28,079 --> 01:18:31,520
week or so to get the newest
hotness. But if something has a physical

1197
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:36,119
release, odds are it could be
at your library. And if it's not

1198
01:18:36,239 --> 01:18:42,960
at your library, go and request
that. Or even if you know,

1199
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:46,720
we have a hoopla. Now now
you can get stuff. Yeah, now

1200
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:49,600
you get digital stuff through your through
your local library. If you have a

1201
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:54,600
library card, you can sign up
for account there and stream stuff because if

1202
01:18:54,640 --> 01:18:59,039
it's part of your library's catalog.
You'll have access to the streaming version of

1203
01:18:59,119 --> 01:19:03,439
it, which is maybe where I
found some Pokemon movies that might be part

1204
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:05,760
of a pitch that I have for
you. Jan they will talk about it.

1205
01:19:06,079 --> 01:19:10,399
If there's that Canopy too, which
is like basically like a streaming service

1206
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:14,600
for video that is based on Believe
on your library card, and they got

1207
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,840
a ton of stuff on there.
I was searching for an old PBS documentary

1208
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,439
by the guy that does all the
PBS documentaries. His name is Escaping Me

1209
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:25,319
right now, about the making of
the Brooklyn Bridge and like how these dudes

1210
01:19:25,319 --> 01:19:27,960
would go underwater and there'd be all
this pressure over him and like one hundred

1211
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,439
people died or whatever, and I'm
like, I'm never gonna be able to

1212
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:31,680
watch it again. I can't find
it anywhere, and it was on Canopy,

1213
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:35,560
So I definitely recommend that. Oh
here's the other thing. You don't

1214
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:39,479
got to live in the city that
you're signing up for a library card in.

1215
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:44,319
Yeah, I'm still using my Colorado
one. Yeah. Like, my

1216
01:19:44,840 --> 01:19:47,840
partner students wanted to watch a movie
and it wasn't available at any of the

1217
01:19:47,920 --> 01:19:51,960
local libraries here, so they just
signed up for a Delaware card and no

1218
01:19:53,159 --> 01:19:57,479
problem there. And I guess the
Delaware library had the specific movie they were

1219
01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,760
looking for. Yeah, there's no
loss in Delaware. That's the last thing

1220
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:09,279
about Delaware, Delaware. Yeah.
Yeah, text situation is weird. Uh

1221
01:20:09,399 --> 01:20:14,520
huh? Do you have anything incorporated
in Delaware? Dan? I think fire

1222
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:18,800
Escape might be. I'm already set
up. I have to ask. I

1223
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:24,560
bet he did. He did.
That's fantastic, all right. Time for

1224
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:28,920
the Foam Stars News Hour, A
couple of stories out of Foam Stars.

1225
01:20:29,359 --> 01:20:33,039
Let's see film Stars launches next month
on PlayStation Plus. Square Enix announced that

1226
01:20:33,159 --> 01:20:36,840
it's four v four shooter Foam Stars
will be available on February sixth as a

1227
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:42,319
PlayStation Plus three monthly game until March
fifth. After that, it will be

1228
01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:45,720
sold on the PlayStation store for thirty
dollars. The goal, yes, the

1229
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:48,800
goal of this the deal is to
ensure a large enough player base from the

1230
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:53,279
start and quickly established community. It
has worked in the past. It worked

1231
01:20:53,279 --> 01:20:57,960
for Rocket League. Do you expect
Rocket League like success for Foam Stars?

1232
01:20:58,319 --> 01:21:04,000
Dude? This game is a PS
four and PS five exclusive service game that

1233
01:21:04,039 --> 01:21:10,199
they're charging thirty dollars for. You
can't copy everything Splatoon is doing. Because

1234
01:21:10,239 --> 01:21:14,239
that's over on the Swiss Square Enix. That's not gonna it's not even on

1235
01:21:14,319 --> 01:21:18,199
PC. Nope. Oh that's silly. It's real dumb. That's not a

1236
01:21:18,239 --> 01:21:21,479
good idea. Yeah, I saw
I saw this in the in the run

1237
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,680
of show. I'm like, Okay, thank god, this is going to

1238
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:28,439
get some people playing it for a
few weeks at least. Yeah, we'll

1239
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:30,960
check in on it. I'm looking
forward to it. Although they do that

1240
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:32,960
that, one of the stories I
was going to include here in the Phone

1241
01:21:33,039 --> 01:21:38,159
Stars News Hour was they want people
to stop comparing it to Splatoon. Wow,

1242
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:40,720
it's not going to do that.
I'm not going to do that.

1243
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:44,399
Yeah. Maybe don't make a wet
game. Yeah, don't make a game

1244
01:21:44,439 --> 01:21:47,960
that looks a lot like Splatoon.
Yeah yeah, in a while. Uh.

1245
01:21:48,159 --> 01:21:53,439
Film Stars will receive free seasonal updates
over a year with new characters,

1246
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:56,279
maps, and game modes for everyone. That sounds like the kind thing where

1247
01:21:56,279 --> 01:21:58,760
it's like, let's just take some
stuff out of the game and just add

1248
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:01,119
it back in later. That's I
don't know why. When you began reading

1249
01:22:01,199 --> 01:22:04,880
that sentence, I thought you were
going to say, Foam Stars will return.

1250
01:22:06,279 --> 01:22:12,800
Where's it going. It's going to
the same place. Yeah, that's

1251
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:17,439
going to make it all right.
The second start here, Foam Stars uses

1252
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:21,960
a little AI as a treat.
Foam Stars, an upcoming PlayStation shooter from

1253
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:28,159
Square Inx, includes an AI generated
art mid Journey, a generative AI tool

1254
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:31,640
well was used to create a small
portion what they claim is less than point

1255
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:35,199
zero one percent of the game's album
covers, which I think are things you

1256
01:22:35,199 --> 01:22:39,319
can collect in the game. Sean, you played this game right. I

1257
01:22:39,399 --> 01:22:42,520
have no idea what they're talking about
there. Okay, I checked it out

1258
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:47,960
too, and I don't know what
they're specifically talking about. Maybe says literally

1259
01:22:48,119 --> 01:22:53,439
something that's like on the ground somewhere. I have no idea. Maybe it's

1260
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:58,000
a spray. Either way, it's
like they used to they we're testing this

1261
01:22:58,119 --> 01:23:00,800
out. The reason it's like,
well, mid Journey definitely is just using

1262
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:04,119
a bunch of artists stuff that you
don't have access to. So this seems

1263
01:23:04,159 --> 01:23:09,159
like a risky thing to do.
If they were like using their artists to

1264
01:23:09,239 --> 01:23:12,600
create a a treachro trove of stuff
that they then trade a trained a model

1265
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,760
on, uh, that would be
one thing. But this is not that.

1266
01:23:15,039 --> 01:23:19,960
Mid Journey is just a completely open
thing that is taking stuff from all

1267
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:23,560
over the place. You know why
Square Enix would never do that, though

1268
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:26,960
they have some of the best artists
in the world who would not do it

1269
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:30,000
exactly. Yeah, uh huh.
If I was if I was on the

1270
01:23:30,039 --> 01:23:32,520
squares roster and they said like,
all right, we're gonna dump all your

1271
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:36,359
work into and training AI, I
believe in a fucking hard beat. Yes,

1272
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:41,560
I believe that that was to take
your job from you. Yeah,

1273
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:45,359
really cool. Uh. They tried
to explain it. In this instance,

1274
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:48,840
we experimented with experimented with mid Journey, using simple prompts to produce abstract images.

1275
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:53,439
We love what was created and use
them as the final album covers players

1276
01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:57,239
will see in the game. Everything
else was created entirely by our development team.

1277
01:23:57,760 --> 01:23:59,920
All right, do you think this
whole year we're going to see more

1278
01:24:00,079 --> 01:24:03,000
more stories where developers and publishers keep
trying to figure out where the line is

1279
01:24:03,039 --> 01:24:05,640
that they can get away with and
oh, yes, there's gonna be blow

1280
01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:08,760
back every time. Like, do
you feel like this is on the level

1281
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:12,000
of like that NFT period where it's
just like everyone is trying to do n

1282
01:24:12,079 --> 01:24:16,279
FT stuff and similar thing. Yeah, with the same level of anger and

1283
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:21,359
blowback and failure you think. I
think it'll be the same level of anger

1284
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:26,720
and pushback. I think the the
you know, the proof and the pudding

1285
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:30,439
will be does it work and actually
save them money? Because that's the thing

1286
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:33,319
to have with NFTs is sure it
didn't actually work, and and yes it

1287
01:24:33,399 --> 01:24:36,079
made them money, but it didn't
make them that long term tail money that

1288
01:24:36,159 --> 01:24:39,560
they were expecting, where it's like, every time someone sells one of this,

1289
01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:42,720
we're gonna get ten percent cut and
we're gonna be rich because it's gonna

1290
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:44,640
make us money forever. And then
no one gave a shit in the price

1291
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:48,880
of NFTs crashed because they were never
real uh AI could have real implications and

1292
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:51,880
probably could save them money. I
think what they'll probably get better at is

1293
01:24:53,359 --> 01:24:55,840
the framing around it, where it's
like, oh, this is just a

1294
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:59,439
new tool in photoshop, and this
is just a new tool built into our

1295
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:01,960
other tool, and when you need
to do this one little thing in your

1296
01:25:02,079 --> 01:25:05,640
job, you press this button instead
and it basically does AI. But still

1297
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:10,039
it's the same artist doing the art
now as it was before, so no

1298
01:25:10,119 --> 01:25:12,720
one lost their job. They'll probably
find new ways to talk about it.

1299
01:25:13,079 --> 01:25:15,600
But yes, there will be throughout
this entire year, this back and forth

1300
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:18,960
between developers and publishers scene what they
can get away with and trying to figure

1301
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:25,119
out where that line is. The
difference is that AI can be used for

1302
01:25:25,399 --> 01:25:30,680
good purposes and not just stealing job
purposes, whereas like the NFTs or just

1303
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:33,920
complete horseshit. So, for instance, like the way that like Hello Games

1304
01:25:34,239 --> 01:25:39,960
like like procedural generation isn't in that
same conversation, is it where it's like,

1305
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:43,319
you know, like if there are
elements of no Man sky or light

1306
01:25:43,399 --> 01:25:46,159
no Fire, they're like procedurally generated. That's that's a different thing, right

1307
01:25:46,279 --> 01:25:51,399
than different branches of the family tree. Yeah, it's all part of the

1308
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:57,039
similar spectrum, right. Yeah,
it's like Catholicism and being a Lutheran.

1309
01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:01,319
Yeah, sure, that's all christiananity. You know. The idea with procedural

1310
01:26:01,399 --> 01:26:08,600
generation is a human being programmed the
algorithm that is them running and doing the

1311
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:12,640
procedure. There is an author behind
the procedure, still not scraping the Internet

1312
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:15,439
and literally stealing other art styles,
and that's going to continue to be the

1313
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:18,279
major point of difference. Yeah,
is there any blowback at all towards like

1314
01:26:18,319 --> 01:26:20,439
you know, procedural generation type stuff, or is that just kind of an

1315
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:24,039
accepted like okay, that's actually like
a okay, well, there was a

1316
01:26:24,119 --> 01:26:27,119
blowback from gamers who were like,
I like it when my stuff is authored.

1317
01:26:27,119 --> 01:26:30,079
I hate generation, but nothing beyond
that. Yeah, no, because

1318
01:26:30,119 --> 01:26:34,239
this is just you know, a
formula that an algorithm that just some coder

1319
01:26:34,479 --> 01:26:39,479
or team of coders programmed, and
they're like, you're gonna put the art

1320
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:43,640
assets that we've created, Uh,
the computer is just going to randomly assign

1321
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:46,359
them, so like you know,
no, yeah, no harm done there.

1322
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:49,199
The same way that like at some
point in the chap point out it's

1323
01:26:49,199 --> 01:26:53,279
evemn weird that we call this AI
to begin with. But they're like,

1324
01:26:53,399 --> 01:26:57,520
AI generated are is literally just yeah, we're gonna scrape Twitter all these artists

1325
01:26:57,560 --> 01:26:59,800
you know who are putting their stuff
out for free. We're is gonna scrape

1326
01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:03,199
all and then use as a basis
for generative art. That's just it's so

1327
01:27:03,399 --> 01:27:08,319
fucking weird. Yep. Yeah,
Nihlocks says they work in that space and

1328
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:12,439
like AI art is taking work from
stock photo illustration sites, which took work

1329
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:16,079
from photographers and illustrators for the past
fifteen years. So it's like it's it's

1330
01:27:16,119 --> 01:27:18,960
a new form of what we've seen
for a long time. Yeah, that's

1331
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:24,039
they will find new and innovative ways
to take money from other people who deserve

1332
01:27:24,079 --> 01:27:27,479
it. I mean, the Finals
is doing it and they've kind of been

1333
01:27:27,520 --> 01:27:31,279
getting away with it with the AI
commentators that are absolutely dog shit, like

1334
01:27:31,359 --> 01:27:34,960
anytime it boot up the Finals.
That's like the sour part of playing through

1335
01:27:35,039 --> 01:27:38,760
that game of like, all right, I just wish these two would shut

1336
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,560
the fuck up because they're not real, so stop telling me. These people

1337
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:45,880
are responding mm hm at me,
and I think on Game this morning,

1338
01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:48,079
I mentioned that, like, I
think people are gonna get savvy to this

1339
01:27:48,119 --> 01:27:51,199
stuff, and that you know,
the people that like are paying attention will

1340
01:27:51,279 --> 01:27:56,920
get savvy. The broader audience really
doesn't care. The broader audience is still

1341
01:27:57,039 --> 01:28:00,199
like I just used open ai to
write a job, right and that ruled,

1342
01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:02,800
and so like, you're not gonna
be able to reach those people.

1343
01:28:03,159 --> 01:28:06,880
The thing though, those people that
are using open ai chad GBT to write

1344
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:11,560
a resume, write a cover letter, they don't actually have the skills to

1345
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:15,439
do the job. Yeah, but
yeah, but that's never stopped anyone in

1346
01:28:15,479 --> 01:28:17,960
the past. From faking their resume
and stuff. So yeah, I mean

1347
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:20,680
what, I don't care if you
getting around the job hiring process. I

1348
01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:24,840
don't give a fuck. Do whatever
you want. But but yeah, I

1349
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:27,479
think most people just see something that's
going to do some work for them that

1350
01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:30,640
they didn't want to do anyhow,
and then we'll have we'll continue to have

1351
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:35,439
this conversation. The thing with interesting
gaming is we can get very very loud

1352
01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:39,520
about everything Sean said, like you, you know, gamers can have pushed

1353
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:43,199
back against anything you say that Ubisoft
guy. That goes true for all this

1354
01:28:43,319 --> 01:28:45,199
as well. So things like like
that. Remember that to Ubisa courts that

1355
01:28:45,279 --> 01:28:48,479
they announced is like their big NFT
marketplace and oh you're gonna get the special

1356
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:50,840
helmet with a digit on it and
all that stuff. Like is that even

1357
01:28:51,079 --> 01:28:56,000
active anymore? Or is that a
wholesale abandoned? I want to see it's

1358
01:28:56,079 --> 01:28:59,760
dead. I think they made eight
hundred dollars and shut it down. Yeah

1359
01:29:00,159 --> 01:29:03,279
like that. Games Stop just shut
down the market. Yeah, game Style

1360
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:06,840
I didn't even include that story.
And GameStop has just shut down their market

1361
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:12,159
shot out. Part of that is
going to be regulation, Yeah, but

1362
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:15,319
the real thing is no one fucking
used it. No one bought anything on

1363
01:29:15,399 --> 01:29:18,800
that stuff. So yes, very
shocking. Well, like even Twitter,

1364
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:24,439
of all websites, is ending support
for n f T user icons now right,

1365
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:29,319
mm hmmm they are yeah, yeah, Now we can't call out the

1366
01:29:29,359 --> 01:29:38,600
idiots. Shame. There's still significant
thing if you got to, like some

1367
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:41,279
people get blue checks and and don't
hide them. I don't get it.

1368
01:29:41,319 --> 01:29:43,880
They give you an option to hide
it, Like why wouldn't you hide it?

1369
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:45,600
Like, are you actually proud of
your blue chet blue checks? They're

1370
01:29:45,640 --> 01:29:50,600
actually proud of it. That's the
That's a whole discussion. All right.

1371
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:55,640
Let's see here new Burden, the
next Battlefield is going to lean back into

1372
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:59,239
destruction. Repel Effect, which was
previously known as dice l A, is

1373
01:29:59,319 --> 01:30:02,439
working on a new battlefield game that
aims to deliver the most realistic destruction effects

1374
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:06,439
in the gaming industry. Their job
ad seeks a senior three D artist to

1375
01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:11,680
help achieve that goal. Ripple Effect
is one of several studios currently contributing to

1376
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:17,079
the Battlefield franchise, which has undergone
significant restructuring following the underperformance at the launch

1377
01:30:17,159 --> 01:30:23,399
of Battlefield twenty forty two. Destruction
seems like it's back in a big way.

1378
01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:28,800
Battlebits had a lot of destruction and
then the finals former Dice people going

1379
01:30:28,840 --> 01:30:31,720
on to make a very popular shooter. So it doesn't surprise me too much,

1380
01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:34,239
but it also feels like, oh
my god, you are the leader

1381
01:30:34,319 --> 01:30:38,279
in the space and now you're playing
ketchup again, where you're like, okay,

1382
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:42,199
we should go back to making destruction
be a big part of battlefield evolution.

1383
01:30:42,920 --> 01:30:45,039
But another company? Yeah do that? Yes, please do? Is

1384
01:30:45,079 --> 01:30:48,520
there any chance that that's what's happening
here, that maybe like this Dice La

1385
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:54,680
team the Ripple Effect is actually working
on Bad Company while Dice Proper is working

1386
01:30:54,760 --> 01:31:00,039
on the next Battlefield. I don't
know what the fuck is going I Bellfield

1387
01:31:00,079 --> 01:31:06,359
anymore man or whatever. No,
God, that was such a mess when

1388
01:31:06,399 --> 01:31:12,199
that it was Yeah, it's so
what I always heard is like Bad Company

1389
01:31:12,279 --> 01:31:14,880
is the one that they wanted to
keep in their back pocket as something they

1390
01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:18,720
can go back to and get people
excited. There was Bad Company one and

1391
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:23,159
two like remasters in the works for
a little bit, and then when Vince

1392
01:31:23,159 --> 01:31:25,960
Sampello took over, he's like,
let's actually let's hold up on that,

1393
01:31:26,039 --> 01:31:28,319
because if we're going to do that
like, let's do it, like we're

1394
01:31:28,359 --> 01:31:30,960
gonna go really big when we go
back to Big Bad Company. So that

1395
01:31:31,119 --> 01:31:34,319
was years ago when I heard that. Who knows. It seems like they

1396
01:31:34,399 --> 01:31:38,640
kind of have to get their feet
underneath them with Bad with Battlefield overall before

1397
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:42,520
they could start maybe doing some more
offshoots. But we'll see. Uh.

1398
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:45,600
Mario puts Rabbit Sparks of Hoped it
all right. After having an initial launch

1399
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:48,560
where it was like, oh,
this game underperformed, it's now reaching about

1400
01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:53,960
three million copies sold, which is
pretty good for like a strategy game on

1401
01:31:54,039 --> 01:31:58,760
the switch. Now, they did
have to lower the price that the original

1402
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:01,680
game I think did pretty sim smilar
with far fewer switches out in the world,

1403
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:05,119
but for a game where people are
like, getting the three million copies

1404
01:32:05,159 --> 01:32:10,720
sold is pretty impressives. I still
have not played it. I own it,

1405
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:14,159
but I've not really played Sparks of
Hopes all that much. Did any

1406
01:32:14,159 --> 01:32:15,119
of you guys ever check it out? Off of it? Yeah? It's

1407
01:32:15,159 --> 01:32:18,840
good. Actually, I'm looking at
this website and I think you did.

1408
01:32:19,079 --> 01:32:24,880
Yeah, I did. Yeah,
I remember why I stopped playing this,

1409
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:30,359
and it's because of the new rabbid
they introduced edge. Yeah, you called

1410
01:32:30,399 --> 01:32:33,920
the character edge. That's right.
Yeah, it came out around the same

1411
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:36,880
same time as Bonetta three, right, and it had the same exact character

1412
01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:41,279
in it. Oh that's right,
that's right. Yeah, like it a

1413
01:32:41,319 --> 01:32:44,359
lot, and I did not super
love Kingdom Battle and we're not beating it.

1414
01:32:44,399 --> 01:32:48,159
But like sparks, I hope like
really got me take two file to

1415
01:32:48,199 --> 01:32:53,600
trade Bark dispute over Remedy's new logo, saying it's too similar to rock Stars.

1416
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:58,319
Now they both are are, but
the rock Star one has a star

1417
01:32:58,680 --> 01:33:03,680
and the Remedy one says fucking Remedy
underneath it. So the argument here would

1418
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:06,520
be, like this is going to
cause confusion for the consumer in the marketplace.

1419
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:11,199
That's what a trademark is all about. It is a brand out that

1420
01:33:11,279 --> 01:33:14,119
you would to have protected so that
when a consumer goes to pick up a

1421
01:33:14,199 --> 01:33:16,000
product, they know the thing they're
picking up that has that brand on it

1422
01:33:16,199 --> 01:33:19,680
is definitely from the company that they're
thinking of. That's why, like oh,

1423
01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:24,079
Mickey Mouse is in the public domain, those ears, their trademark is

1424
01:33:24,159 --> 01:33:27,079
going to be protected for forever because
they want to make sure that people know

1425
01:33:27,159 --> 01:33:30,359
that's a real Disney product. I
think one way that's going to help people

1426
01:33:30,399 --> 01:33:33,439
from knowing that it's a Remedy game
and not rock Star is it says fucking

1427
01:33:33,560 --> 01:33:40,119
Remedy in it colizer for audio listeners
who may not have seen this, just

1428
01:33:40,199 --> 01:33:43,479
like I did not see this up
until just now. The rocks AAR logo,

1429
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:45,720
as you know, is an R, a capital R with the star

1430
01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:49,199
next to it. That Remedy logo
is an R. It's like a capital

1431
01:33:49,319 --> 01:33:53,039
R with like ripples through, so
it kind of looks a little weird and

1432
01:33:53,079 --> 01:33:56,239
funky like you expect from Remedy.
And then yeah, bellow, it says

1433
01:33:56,359 --> 01:34:02,680
fucking Remedy. Think we're gonna get
heat for calling BombCast re Vengeance bc R

1434
01:34:03,119 --> 01:34:13,439
and then if we just own R
absolutely, uh grow up? The other

1435
01:34:13,560 --> 01:34:16,319
thing here? Do you think that
Take two knows that rock Star is working

1436
01:34:16,399 --> 01:34:21,279
with Remedy on Mad Max remasters?
Like they're doing that? Now? Maybe

1437
01:34:21,319 --> 01:34:26,079
you just call a person, what's
that Max Pain, right? Max Pain?

1438
01:34:26,159 --> 01:34:30,880
Yespecially? What did I say?
Yeah? Thank you? Yes,

1439
01:34:31,239 --> 01:34:33,920
just that just the brain part there, Max pay wanted to, Uh,

1440
01:34:34,119 --> 01:34:38,039
yeah, they're they're doing that.
They're making that right now. Uh so

1441
01:34:38,159 --> 01:34:42,199
these companies are already working together.
Uh I don't know. It's a bit

1442
01:34:42,279 --> 01:34:45,359
strange. It's like, oh,
Take two's lawyers maybe got a bit big

1443
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:47,159
in their breitches for this and just
rushed out and did this without thinking.

1444
01:34:47,239 --> 01:34:49,880
Now, it's not like I don't
think it's a lawsuit. It's I think

1445
01:34:49,920 --> 01:34:55,960
it's just Remedy trying to get their
trademark approved. And then uh, there

1446
01:34:56,039 --> 01:34:59,720
was just a dispute filed by Take
two to say, hey, we don't

1447
01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:02,920
think should be filed because it's similar
to our logo and it's not that big

1448
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:05,800
of a deal. But also maybe
you could figure out another way to make

1449
01:35:05,880 --> 01:35:12,319
that work. Last couple of stories
here, Dragon's Dogma two director says newcomers

1450
01:35:12,359 --> 01:35:18,920
can safely dive in because the hero
has a video game, is gonna do

1451
01:35:19,039 --> 01:35:24,159
the thing. Yeah, basically it's
so you know who's the director. It's

1452
01:35:24,199 --> 01:35:27,279
like, no, don't be afraid. The character also doesn't know what happened

1453
01:35:27,319 --> 01:35:30,800
in the last one, And anytime
a character in a video game has amnesia,

1454
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:34,680
I'm just so happy. I get
so happy. Yeah, I guess

1455
01:35:34,840 --> 01:35:39,359
so jazzed. Yeah, imagine the
first developer that thought of that, like,

1456
01:35:39,640 --> 01:35:41,720
Okay, people aren't going to know
what's going on in this world.

1457
01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:44,520
And then someone says, but what
if they have amnesious they have to have

1458
01:35:44,600 --> 01:35:46,560
everything explained to them, And it's
like there should be a statue built to

1459
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:51,439
that person. That person. If
we're looking at the ripple of fact,

1460
01:35:51,479 --> 01:35:56,880
the barfly effect, whoever invented the
concept of amnesia, So the first person

1461
01:35:56,920 --> 01:36:00,640
to lose their memory invented the rogue
light, right, Well that's the responsible

1462
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:08,199
Look at that. It's beautiful.
Finally Capcom is backtracking on its DRM that

1463
01:36:08,359 --> 01:36:11,600
was putting into a bunch of old
games because it didn't want people to mod

1464
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:15,720
those games. Uh, it was
a really weird thing we talked about one

1465
01:36:15,399 --> 01:36:18,880
morning. Yeah, yeah, I
like just kind of like threw this in.

1466
01:36:19,039 --> 01:36:21,760
What what happened here? Sean?
I also haven't other people have made

1467
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:28,520
videos about what happened here. Basically, my understanding is Capcom finally got caught

1468
01:36:28,840 --> 01:36:31,399
basically with it because they've been doing
this for a while now. I've variety

1469
01:36:31,399 --> 01:36:34,760
of different games adding in. I
forget what the name is of the DRM.

1470
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:39,239
Someone's gonna tell us a second here, but this has sort of been

1471
01:36:39,279 --> 01:36:43,560
their fallback when they like take Danuvo
out, is they'll take Danuva out and

1472
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:48,800
then sneak this one in instead of
Crack, and basically some people in Steam

1473
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:56,760
common Enigma Enigma thank you. Like
it started causing issues for whatever reason,

1474
01:36:56,800 --> 01:36:59,880
and some people started calling it out
and that's what led it to being a

1475
01:37:00,039 --> 01:37:03,039
big deal. I don't know,
the whole thing is weird. First of

1476
01:37:03,079 --> 01:37:09,000
all, fuck DRM in any way, shape or form. But it's just

1477
01:37:09,479 --> 01:37:11,680
this is one of those stories that's
a little odd to me because, like

1478
01:37:12,319 --> 01:37:15,239
y'all, this has been there,
Like I get they they might have been

1479
01:37:15,279 --> 01:37:18,079
added to more games that they didn't
want. Rich two was the recent one

1480
01:37:18,119 --> 01:37:20,039
that got it. I think that
was the one that where people are going

1481
01:37:20,079 --> 01:37:24,239
to pay attention because that's a very
popular game still. I know they like

1482
01:37:24,439 --> 01:37:29,359
alternate between it depending on how big
or high level it is. Like I

1483
01:37:29,439 --> 01:37:33,920
think what they the RI four demo
Haddnuvo, but then the full release had

1484
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:36,720
Enigma something like that. I don't
know. Well, I'm looking at the

1485
01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:42,960
Steam page right now for Dark Void
and it says incorporates third party DRM secure

1486
01:37:43,039 --> 01:37:45,159
rum but good news it is.
I'm saying, like five dollars for dark

1487
01:37:45,199 --> 01:37:50,760
BOYD now so secure that's yes,
the ancient version that's that goes way man

1488
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:55,359
I've been getting a craving to play
Dark Void over the last week. I

1489
01:37:55,399 --> 01:37:59,279
don't know what that is. They've
been thinking about Dark Void. Yes,

1490
01:37:59,359 --> 01:38:01,039
in the last me and Mike were
just talking about it. But yeah,

1491
01:38:01,159 --> 01:38:05,159
even before I talked to him out
aim like that, come up Rocket Night.

1492
01:38:05,279 --> 01:38:11,239
That's why you don't think it during
Blake Club because we're talking about you

1493
01:38:11,279 --> 01:38:14,880
should play a good cover shooter,
and I was like that vertical cover shooter

1494
01:38:15,079 --> 01:38:17,159
dark Void. I think of Dark
Void every time I travel with Tim Turry

1495
01:38:17,199 --> 01:38:24,880
because he still uses his fucking dark
Void media toiletry bag. That's a power

1496
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:28,439
move. Yeah, dark Void's got
a great soundtrack at the very least,

1497
01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:32,920
so should we should we play Dark
Void's club? But if we play dark

1498
01:38:32,960 --> 01:38:38,560
Void, we can do it.
Okay, best the rocketeer likes play that.

1499
01:38:39,199 --> 01:38:44,439
You're gonna play Dark Void? Hey, listen, the GB plays banner.

1500
01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:46,720
We could just play anything. Yeah, you can give it. Played

1501
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:51,439
Power Sun in twenty twenty four.
Yeah, how was that game? Like

1502
01:38:51,520 --> 01:38:58,479
probably like twenty years nine older game? Right? Yeah? God, let

1503
01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:01,520
me see it's PS one ninety six
April twenty six, ninety six. Is

1504
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:06,920
that older than you? Show?
I was Let me think ten months old,

1505
01:39:08,399 --> 01:39:13,000
Jesus Christ. Disgusting. Actually,
Sean, it's it's not for PlayStations

1506
01:39:13,039 --> 01:39:16,680
for it's this other console called duck
Station. So it's very population kids nowadays

1507
01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:23,039
now though, so we got work
around exactly. That does for the news.

1508
01:39:23,279 --> 01:39:26,920
Jan, this is your show once
again. My camera's still dead,

1509
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:30,920
so I'm still using a jpeg of
me in my old place. We're gonna

1510
01:39:30,159 --> 01:39:34,039
go collect some emails and then we're
gonna go read them together. Maybe we'll

1511
01:39:34,079 --> 01:39:36,520
get a quick round of poker in
between. Who knows, I don't.

1512
01:39:38,239 --> 01:39:43,560
Let's fucking go. Uh maybe we'll
just conduct mike checks and poker now,

1513
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:48,399
Oh god, okay, all right, that's good. All right, Well

1514
01:39:48,399 --> 01:40:01,159
we'll see you after quick breaking break
with emails. Poker is is now my

1515
01:40:01,279 --> 01:40:05,039
new favorite thing. I'm glad that
this has been documented within the span of

1516
01:40:05,119 --> 01:40:10,800
what three hours, I've become all
in. I already have the visors in

1517
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:15,000
my Amazon cart there it's two day
shipping. Don't worry, folks, Jan,

1518
01:40:15,319 --> 01:40:17,239
you haven't played shoe poker yet.
We're imagine how good appeels when you

1519
01:40:17,319 --> 01:40:19,800
know you've got a great hand and
you got some fish on the line.

1520
01:40:19,800 --> 01:40:21,960
There, you got people you know
you can get some money from and you

1521
01:40:23,079 --> 01:40:26,079
say all in and you get to
push all your chips out physically. Oh

1522
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:30,239
man, that sounds cool. That's
the big one, the little one tower.

1523
01:40:30,239 --> 01:40:31,000
If we just want to a little
caller, We're just gonna toss some

1524
01:40:31,039 --> 01:40:33,720
chips out there, stack them up, you know, just physically. Poker

1525
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:38,359
feels very good too. Dear listeners
at home, this is what we call

1526
01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:42,920
being in enabler. Yeah, recommend
it with your friends. Dan, Yeah,

1527
01:40:43,479 --> 01:40:45,760
this is I call it being a
friend. There you are, you

1528
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:48,880
know what, Scott in the s
F office, I will respond to your

1529
01:40:48,920 --> 01:40:56,880
poker night, Invice me and Scott
tear it up the town what department Scott

1530
01:40:56,920 --> 01:41:00,159
works? And I don't fucking know, uh, but I do know.

1531
01:41:00,239 --> 01:41:04,319
It's time for emails. BombCast giant
bomb dot com is the email address to

1532
01:41:04,439 --> 01:41:09,880
send your emails too. You can
send them about virtually any and everything.

1533
01:41:10,039 --> 01:41:12,720
Tell us about what books you're reading, tell us about what movies you're watching.

1534
01:41:13,079 --> 01:41:18,199
Tell us perhaps about dumbest injuries,
as Joe and Michigan writes in shouts

1535
01:41:18,199 --> 01:41:23,239
out to Michigan again in honor of
Dan, what's the dumbest way you've injured

1536
01:41:23,279 --> 01:41:27,159
yourself? When my wife and I
were dating. I snapped my thumb trying

1537
01:41:27,199 --> 01:41:33,920
to show off by doing fingertip push
ups. Hell yeah, she has to

1538
01:41:34,039 --> 01:41:40,720
help me open ziploc bags sometimes because
I never got full strength back. She's

1539
01:41:40,760 --> 01:41:44,560
still very impressed. Love you all. Joe and Michigan. Oh Joe.

1540
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:51,479
Oh no, hell Joe. I
got really bad tendonitis. H Well,

1541
01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:57,319
my my tendin ice was reactivated because
I was playing a mobile game for too

1542
01:41:57,439 --> 01:42:00,680
long. I think it was called
like Brawl Stars or something thing it okay,

1543
01:42:01,119 --> 01:42:03,760
God, I gotta find it,
but I was It was a dual

1544
01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:09,520
analog sticks shooter. But because it
was like touch dual analog that's what threw

1545
01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:14,920
off my thumbs. I guess wow, because like there's no like pushback or

1546
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:19,600
whatever from using shoot analog sticks.
The digital screens fucked up my thumbs.

1547
01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:25,479
I got a month months of physical
therapy because I was training every day to

1548
01:42:25,520 --> 01:42:29,640
try to be Tyson around one TKO. So I still haven't really played it

1549
01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:34,840
since. Yeah, I was in
like maybe the second grade, third grade,

1550
01:42:35,239 --> 01:42:39,079
and I tried to jump from one
end of the monkey bars to the

1551
01:42:39,199 --> 01:42:42,039
other and I would grab it and
i'd hook it, and I did that

1552
01:42:42,239 --> 01:42:45,359
like ten times, no problem,
like swinging from one arm, and I

1553
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:47,840
looked pretty cool. And then I
did an eleventh time and landed right on

1554
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:51,840
my shoulder, and I'm pretty sure
I broke a bone, then my collarbone.

1555
01:42:51,920 --> 01:42:56,560
But I went to boy Scouts that
night and I was telling people like

1556
01:42:56,960 --> 01:42:59,279
the other boy Scouts, like I
fell down. I heard it. It

1557
01:42:59,399 --> 01:43:00,720
hurts really be like if you were
to hit it right now, like you

1558
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:03,600
know the kind of shit like kids
talk like you know, dude, you'd

1559
01:43:03,640 --> 01:43:08,319
hit it. Hurt so bad.
And the guy just goes like just hammers

1560
01:43:08,399 --> 01:43:12,279
right on my shoulder with a full
fist, and I was like, excuse

1561
01:43:12,319 --> 01:43:15,960
me, And I just went out
in the hallway and crying so bad.

1562
01:43:15,520 --> 01:43:19,159
It hurts so bad. And I'm
like like go tell my parents, and

1563
01:43:19,199 --> 01:43:21,600
they got me like it was like
the ship wasn't even like a cast because

1564
01:43:21,600 --> 01:43:25,199
it's collarbhone, they can't do anything. It was like straps they put around

1565
01:43:25,239 --> 01:43:28,279
your shoulders. But I had a
broken collarbone once and I was in a

1566
01:43:28,399 --> 01:43:31,680
sling and I was playing soul Caliber
against my friend Charlie, and We're just

1567
01:43:31,720 --> 01:43:34,800
sitting on the floor playing soul Caliber
and I was going full shit, heal

1568
01:43:35,439 --> 01:43:39,960
just you know, just heal tactics, really rubbing and then being a real

1569
01:43:40,039 --> 01:43:43,079
asshole. I got some cheese dick
ring out or something like ha ha,

1570
01:43:43,479 --> 01:43:45,920
just being an asshole, and he
wasn't thinking he reached. We had like

1571
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:48,640
a metal bucket in the room.
I think there had been like a stain

1572
01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:50,520
or something, but there's like a
metal bucket. He grabbed it by the

1573
01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:57,319
handle and whipped it directly into my
freshly broken collarbone. I just yelped,

1574
01:43:57,399 --> 01:44:00,079
like a dog who's tail you step
you step on? He was, oh

1575
01:44:00,119 --> 01:44:06,239
shit, like I saw on his
face. Yeah. Like we were playing

1576
01:44:06,279 --> 01:44:09,960
gold Night with my friend. We
were on the football team in middle school,

1577
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:11,720
and we all hung out of his
house because he broke his leg,

1578
01:44:11,720 --> 01:44:13,520
and we're like, oh, we'll
have to make you feel better. We're

1579
01:44:13,560 --> 01:44:15,800
playing gold Knight, and I got
pissed. I just slammed my fist on

1580
01:44:15,920 --> 01:44:18,680
his leg without thinking his broken legs. So I suppose this is still funny

1581
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:21,920
a story about how I got injured, because then everyone else beat me up

1582
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:29,039
for doing that. So I'm really
hard here, exactly. I've always been

1583
01:44:29,079 --> 01:44:33,159
such a careful person, Like I've
done saying it's like oh yeah, out

1584
01:44:33,199 --> 01:44:38,319
of anger one time I spiked a
controller or something. But the only thing

1585
01:44:38,359 --> 01:44:40,720
that comes to mind is when I
was just you know, I was like

1586
01:44:40,840 --> 01:44:46,560
fourteen, real real dumb age.
You do dumb dumb stuff at that Yeah,

1587
01:44:47,279 --> 01:44:53,960
me and this guy were like beefing
hard over a girl, as you

1588
01:44:54,039 --> 01:44:58,159
do at fourteen, and so for
whatever reason, we're at a party and

1589
01:44:58,279 --> 01:45:02,079
we did this game. Ever heard
of a game called tennis? Not in

1590
01:45:02,239 --> 01:45:08,159
reference to the to the racket.
No, Yeah, you walk up to

1591
01:45:08,279 --> 01:45:13,600
a guy, you do like the
predator handshake, fucking slap each other's hands.

1592
01:45:14,840 --> 01:45:17,680
That's it. That's the quote unquote
game. You take turns slapping each

1593
01:45:17,720 --> 01:45:27,520
other's hands, smack the other dude's
hand, and the whole goal is like

1594
01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:30,960
you know, who chickens out for
basically bloody knuckles type thing, Like you

1595
01:45:30,039 --> 01:45:34,199
know, it's like, yeah,
game of chicken, like who who who

1596
01:45:34,319 --> 01:45:38,640
leaves first? Again, I can't
have fantasize enough. I was very dumb,

1597
01:45:39,039 --> 01:45:43,000
and boy I stayed in that way
longer than I should have. Well,

1598
01:45:43,119 --> 01:45:45,439
was the girl impressed by either of
you, Sean? Uh No,

1599
01:45:45,640 --> 01:45:49,279
she thought we were both idiots.
Now, granted I was dating at the

1600
01:45:49,319 --> 01:45:56,159
time, so I guess I won. But people are very very stupid that

1601
01:45:56,279 --> 01:46:00,720
age. Oh yes, yeah,
they have like probably ten other times to

1602
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:03,279
hurt myself in really dumb ways.
But I can't think of anything right now.

1603
01:46:03,399 --> 01:46:06,920
Yeah, I think there's a time
where a friend, uh like cut

1604
01:46:08,039 --> 01:46:13,720
me really bad on the shin because
of a knockoff bay blade. There's just

1605
01:46:13,800 --> 01:46:17,039
something you just deserve it. Then
that's just right. Long's car bad magic

1606
01:46:17,600 --> 01:46:20,760
because let me tell you, like
knockoff bay blades and folks can attest,

1607
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:26,640
uh they're part of a bay blade
is the weight ring to like give it

1608
01:46:26,720 --> 01:46:32,119
some centrifugal force. Some knockoff bay
blades would have like these little like little

1609
01:46:32,119 --> 01:46:38,359
studs poking out these little nubs that
would if they sparked against concrete or another

1610
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:43,399
knockoff bay blade and create sparks.
If it's going really fast and hits your

1611
01:46:43,439 --> 01:46:48,720
shin when you're like ten, it's
a shred skin. Yeah, messed up

1612
01:46:48,760 --> 01:46:56,279
ones like they even they had knives
basically, they just had really there two

1613
01:46:56,359 --> 01:46:58,800
things. One time I was trying
to get the mail out of my mailbox

1614
01:46:59,399 --> 01:47:01,359
while I was in my van or
my car. I don't think I had

1615
01:47:01,359 --> 01:47:04,319
the van back then, and so
I reached down the mailbox and was getting

1616
01:47:04,319 --> 01:47:08,399
the stuff and then I started sort
of started driving away while my arm was

1617
01:47:08,399 --> 01:47:12,840
still in the mailbox because I was
very stupid and kind of like it bent

1618
01:47:12,960 --> 01:47:15,479
backwards enough that I was like,
what am I doing? And I had

1619
01:47:15,520 --> 01:47:17,880
I gone like two feet further at
my arm would have just stabbed in half.

1620
01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:21,439
So I stopped myself from hurting myself. But it was very close,

1621
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:25,680
and that would have been real dumb
because it's like I was fully in control

1622
01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:30,399
of everything in that scenario. I
could get my arm out of the mailbox.

1623
01:47:30,560 --> 01:47:32,039
I couldn't have done that. This
is the dance between you and me.

1624
01:47:32,279 --> 01:47:35,800
I willingly got hurt that one time, being an idiot. You were

1625
01:47:35,920 --> 01:47:40,720
just like, just just live adio. Yeah, that's my whole life.

1626
01:47:40,840 --> 01:47:45,159
Yeah. The other thing breaking news
story epic is kind of doing a pretty

1627
01:47:45,159 --> 01:47:49,640
sad and desperate thing and letting some
meme game on there called Monk Island Rise

1628
01:47:49,680 --> 01:47:54,279
of the Beast that I think is
trying to be like that King Corny.

1629
01:47:55,159 --> 01:47:58,600
It is pronounced monkey, okay,
return to monkey as the kids say.

1630
01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:01,880
Yeah, I've never said the memes
out loud. So Monkey Island Rise of

1631
01:48:01,960 --> 01:48:04,560
the Beast, and it looks like
it's trying to be that King Kong game,

1632
01:48:04,800 --> 01:48:09,439
and they have stuff like features include
a giant monkey. It's good and

1633
01:48:09,640 --> 01:48:15,720
urge to play this masterpiece fifty thousand
for frames per second RGB lighting. It's

1634
01:48:15,800 --> 01:48:18,960
kind of pathetic, but I also
kind of want to play free. Yeah.

1635
01:48:18,960 --> 01:48:21,479
I also just got an email that
was added to my epic libraries.

1636
01:48:23,479 --> 01:48:28,199
Yeah, so you see this is
genius because that cong game that which,

1637
01:48:28,239 --> 01:48:30,439
by the way, Netflix gave us
a DMCA over thanks to Netflix. Are

1638
01:48:30,439 --> 01:48:34,840
you kidding over on TikTok? It's
fine, it's just my work that I

1639
01:48:34,840 --> 01:48:42,239
got affected is genius because that game's
EXE is named Monkey and Monkey, so

1640
01:48:42,359 --> 01:48:47,199
they're very clearly yep, I'll check
this out. Oh boy, oh boy,

1641
01:48:48,239 --> 01:48:53,680
we're going to check out another email. This is a queue for the

1642
01:48:53,760 --> 01:48:57,760
sandwich artists. Is from Jerry in
Wisconsin, Hey bombers. This week,

1643
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:02,159
Subway is rolling out new nation wide
menu items. A foot long turo what

1644
01:49:02,359 --> 01:49:08,880
foot long pretzel? Foot long chocolate
chip cookie? What the fucking I don't

1645
01:49:08,880 --> 01:49:12,560
know if this is for shoot.
Since y'all are connoisseurs of fine dining and

1646
01:49:12,720 --> 01:49:15,760
have a former sandwich artist on staff, Hi, I was hoping to get

1647
01:49:15,800 --> 01:49:19,840
your thoughts on this foot long trend. I would personally quit on the spot

1648
01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:25,000
if I worked at a subway and
a customer asked for their tuna melt between

1649
01:49:25,039 --> 01:49:29,159
two foot long cookies. But I
digress. What's the endgame in this foot

1650
01:49:29,199 --> 01:49:32,239
long flatbread? Pizzas, foot long
glizzies, a foot long ball of holopenos

1651
01:49:32,239 --> 01:49:36,800
for grubs breakfast? Are there any
foot long a fied items you'd buy at

1652
01:49:36,840 --> 01:49:41,880
a sandwich place? Cheers Jerry in
Wisconsin. Food is better if you tell

1653
01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:44,600
me it's foot long. Yeah.
It's a shoot too, by the way.

1654
01:49:45,039 --> 01:49:47,439
Yeah, but it's not like bread
a bread option. It's not like

1655
01:49:47,479 --> 01:49:50,560
you're gonna be able to like put
the sandwich on the cookie. It's just

1656
01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:56,399
like a dessert thing. This is
them trying to like reset the SEO because

1657
01:49:56,399 --> 01:50:00,680
they bone themselves with a whole five
dollars foot long and then they're like,

1658
01:50:00,760 --> 01:50:02,520
oh wait, prices go up over
time, but everyone still thinks footlongs are

1659
01:50:02,560 --> 01:50:08,720
going to be five dollars and now
they're like fourteen dollars. That hasn't been

1660
01:50:08,760 --> 01:50:11,560
that way forever. Yeah, right, but it's still in my head,

1661
01:50:11,640 --> 01:50:13,920
and I think they're trying to like
fix that here. By like, no,

1662
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:16,479
foot long means fucking churos. You
idiots take that instead. Did you

1663
01:50:16,520 --> 01:50:19,520
guys see the article I just linked
in the chat. I'm looking at it

1664
01:50:19,640 --> 01:50:23,319
now. I will check it out. Looking at this picture, Oh my

1665
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:26,560
god, I want this foot long
cookie so bad. When I was so

1666
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:30,760
movies, yeah, like I thought
on my head, I was like,

1667
01:50:30,800 --> 01:50:32,920
Okay, this is gonna be a
really dumb gimmick where they make one giant

1668
01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:38,479
cookie for the store or no,
they're just making like really ray law.

1669
01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:42,279
Yeah, like a tray of cookie, the longest turo you've ever seen,

1670
01:50:42,479 --> 01:50:45,199
and are really long pretzels. Much. Cookies are pretty pretty decent too.

1671
01:50:45,279 --> 01:50:49,359
Yeahs my favorite thing from Subway actually
the cookie. Yeah, it's by far

1672
01:50:49,479 --> 01:50:55,119
the best part of Sway. Trips
are already pretty yeah. Yeah, this

1673
01:50:55,319 --> 01:50:58,920
isn't too odd. Yeah, because
they're not like twelve inches. I guess

1674
01:50:59,199 --> 01:51:02,239
they're probably like eat and she's normally
I suppose, but listen, you know,

1675
01:51:02,399 --> 01:51:08,279
to give me that look. I
was giving that give the audience all

1676
01:51:08,319 --> 01:51:12,199
right, Okay, okay, they're
not I was doing the camera. I

1677
01:51:12,279 --> 01:51:16,239
can't order one this Acxio says,
it's well, this is Actuo Chicago,

1678
01:51:16,319 --> 01:51:20,720
so maybe that's why they say Chicago. Is it nationwide? Uh? I

1679
01:51:20,880 --> 01:51:28,479
was just January eighteen, Oh that's
why. Oh yes, it's right there.

1680
01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:34,920
Well we'll celebrate later this week that
that's not like cookies to do that

1681
01:51:34,960 --> 01:51:39,319
when we expense our poker paraphernalia.
I like the visors, we'll do it

1682
01:51:39,399 --> 01:51:44,000
all at the same time. Yeah
yeah, what what what scene? Which

1683
01:51:44,000 --> 01:51:48,439
would you put a foot long turo
cookie or pretzel in? Maybe that'd be

1684
01:51:48,520 --> 01:51:53,720
good. Yeah, actually that would
be good. Like the pretzel definitely.

1685
01:51:54,079 --> 01:51:56,239
Yeah, yeah, the prets would
be good on most of those. The

1686
01:51:56,279 --> 01:51:59,359
pretzel actually would be good on tuna. I would actually eat that. Oh

1687
01:51:59,479 --> 01:52:02,279
I am totally going to a subway
and asking them to use the pretzel as

1688
01:52:02,399 --> 01:52:06,840
the bun. Yeah that was too
small. I don't care. Jan we

1689
01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:12,279
gotta make this work, dude.
Oh man, I haven't been to a

1690
01:52:12,319 --> 01:52:15,239
subway in maybe five years. Am
I about to go to a subway later

1691
01:52:15,359 --> 01:52:19,239
this week? Fine, that's fine. I think the last time I went

1692
01:52:19,279 --> 01:52:25,520
to a subway Dan was one of
the like last in person San Francisco game

1693
01:52:25,560 --> 01:52:29,199
of the years when we all got
the Ultimate meatball marin era. That's right,

1694
01:52:29,279 --> 01:52:32,640
and there's like that wet bread that
like super garlicy bread. It was

1695
01:52:32,680 --> 01:52:35,760
a lot, but I remember being
pretty good. It was pretty good.

1696
01:52:36,159 --> 01:52:41,000
And then that nothing else happened that
day because everyone else food come, it's

1697
01:52:41,039 --> 01:52:45,880
so hard, but I think I
got. I kept getting well, you're

1698
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:50,560
you're built different, You're building different. That's uh man. That was Did

1699
01:52:50,600 --> 01:52:54,319
we even answer the question, like
what do we want to see as a

1700
01:52:54,359 --> 01:52:59,119
foot long starbars? Just one big
star burst a long star verst long way

1701
01:53:00,039 --> 01:53:06,319
our forstal love dancer moving on?
Yep, yeah, no no notes,

1702
01:53:06,439 --> 01:53:15,239
no notes? Uh A footlong spaghetti
anyway? Right? Yeah, but just

1703
01:53:15,359 --> 01:53:19,039
like I want straight noodles, it
comes out of the box straight and rigid.

1704
01:53:19,119 --> 01:53:23,840
I just want to get it twelve
inch stiff spaghetti noodle going right down,

1705
01:53:24,560 --> 01:53:30,920
talking about eating raw like spaghetti box. Listen. I remember pulling up

1706
01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:33,439
to a one on one meeting with
Jess and then she was eating a box

1707
01:53:33,520 --> 01:53:39,199
of pasta, and I was very
confused of why she was eating a box

1708
01:53:39,239 --> 01:53:43,159
of just straight raw pasta? What
kind of kind of pasta? What was

1709
01:53:43,239 --> 01:53:45,840
the pasta shape? Bow tie?
Few silly because that was a real silly

1710
01:53:45,920 --> 01:53:55,680
thing to do. Okay, all
right, next email is about permanent records

1711
01:53:56,399 --> 01:53:59,279
We got a bunch of emails this
week, by the way, so I

1712
01:53:59,359 --> 01:54:02,359
shout out to y'all. Yeah them. I appreciate all of them, even

1713
01:54:02,399 --> 01:54:06,000
the mean ones. I appreciate you
take your time to send them, so

1714
01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:13,920
thanks anyway. This email comes from
Pete from Calgary, Canada. Hey bomb

1715
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:17,079
crew on the Prince of Persia video
Jan and Nikki. We're talking about permanent

1716
01:54:17,159 --> 01:54:20,560
records. I don't know how this
works in the US, but students do

1717
01:54:20,760 --> 01:54:26,239
have to file do have a file
that follows them throughout school. Mostly it

1718
01:54:26,279 --> 01:54:29,960
lives in a file cabinet in the
office and gets copies of report cards,

1719
01:54:30,199 --> 01:54:33,840
program modifications such as how is this
child learning, how is this child's learning

1720
01:54:33,880 --> 01:54:40,359
disability being accommodated? And records of
contact home for behavior, attendance, et

1721
01:54:40,439 --> 01:54:43,640
cetera. It follows you from school
to school, and I believe has to

1722
01:54:43,720 --> 01:54:46,000
be held for a certain number of
years after you graduate. But beyond that

1723
01:54:46,159 --> 01:54:50,800
it's not much. The main reason
that I'm writing in to the class is

1724
01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:58,720
that we don't follow them permanent records
and I uh oh okay, and I

1725
01:54:58,760 --> 01:55:02,920
would like to hear chancery action to
their name. They are called the student's

1726
01:55:03,680 --> 01:55:09,920
cumulative file. But that's so long. But in conversation, every single teacher

1727
01:55:10,079 --> 01:55:18,199
I know calls it the cum file
just cume for short, uh huh spelled

1728
01:55:18,840 --> 01:55:29,359
cum the cum file, Yeah,
he said it. The first time I

1729
01:55:29,520 --> 01:55:34,000
got an email from admin asking about
a cum file was a very confusing day

1730
01:55:34,079 --> 01:55:40,079
for a young teacher. How do
they know I have one of those years?

1731
01:55:40,159 --> 01:55:45,720
I hope all of your cum files
remained squeaky clean. Pete from Calgary,

1732
01:55:45,840 --> 01:55:53,000
Canada, and oh man, that's
that's very good permanent file. Like

1733
01:55:53,119 --> 01:55:58,199
yeah, but like no one looks
at those beyond school and probably not even

1734
01:55:58,279 --> 01:56:00,159
like later in like high school.
They probably hadn't no interest in your because

1735
01:56:00,159 --> 01:56:05,079
it's like more work and like like
criminal files goes away after like seven years,

1736
01:56:05,279 --> 01:56:09,600
So I can't imagine your elementary school
file does much for it. Seem

1737
01:56:09,680 --> 01:56:15,079
know a lot about this grub listen. I mean, they definitely look at

1738
01:56:15,079 --> 01:56:18,640
the permanent record of more recent years
when you're like going into college, and

1739
01:56:18,760 --> 01:56:23,880
sure that they'll look till like late
middle school even into early high school.

1740
01:56:23,960 --> 01:56:29,479
But okay, that makes sense.
I'm now I'm curious about my cum file

1741
01:56:29,560 --> 01:56:33,199
and seeing what was stored in there. Nikki ordered theirs, right, Yeah,

1742
01:56:33,239 --> 01:56:35,880
Nikki ordered theirs, and I think
it. I think they said it

1743
01:56:35,960 --> 01:56:39,439
was two to three business days,
so they may have their cum file in

1744
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:43,000
hand. I thought no. I
thought it was all a really long amount

1745
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:45,359
of times. It was like a
month front of it because I just got

1746
01:56:45,520 --> 01:56:50,079
back Trump of the Country. Yeah, twenty, just leave it off the

1747
01:56:50,199 --> 01:56:53,319
zero there. Yeah. I think
they're they're going to get it in like

1748
01:56:54,439 --> 01:56:58,199
long after we all forgot about this, and then that'll be fun, good

1749
01:56:58,279 --> 01:57:02,239
content. You love when your cum
files surprises you, all right. This

1750
01:57:02,680 --> 01:57:08,199
next email is actually a pair of
emails. Last week, maybe two weeks

1751
01:57:08,199 --> 01:57:12,359
ago, we were talking about how
Epic had bought a mall to convert into

1752
01:57:12,479 --> 01:57:17,880
an office building. Well Will and
Ben right in separately to give us updates

1753
01:57:17,880 --> 01:57:24,520
about the Epic mall. Will from
North Carolina Rights and Hi Bombers was listening

1754
01:57:24,560 --> 01:57:28,520
to the BombCast last week and realized
I was driving past the mall Epic bought

1755
01:57:28,640 --> 01:57:31,920
this bought right as y'all were talking
about it. I decided to pull into

1756
01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:35,800
the parking lot see what had been
done. Seems that much like the Epic

1757
01:57:35,880 --> 01:57:40,520
store, this was another half baked
idea that had no intention of following up.

1758
01:57:40,560 --> 01:57:44,640
Oh, my god. Really wow. Only about half of the mall

1759
01:57:44,720 --> 01:57:47,479
has been demolished so far and the
other half is still standing and there's no

1760
01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:53,119
construction equipment anywhere to be seen.
A quick Google search shows that the plan

1761
01:57:53,239 --> 01:57:57,960
for the plan was for new Epic
campus to open in twenty twenty four.

1762
01:57:58,279 --> 01:58:00,680
Oh And reached out for an update
on the project in October of twenty twenty

1763
01:58:00,720 --> 01:58:05,279
three. Epic still has no updates
in what is planned and uh and when

1764
01:58:05,319 --> 01:58:10,399
it plans to resume work on the
site. Cheers Wheel from North Carolina.

1765
01:58:10,439 --> 01:58:14,000
They also shared a picture which is
just a bunch of gates. Why I

1766
01:58:14,039 --> 01:58:18,079
didn't even realize that they were like
demolishing the mall, Like, I think

1767
01:58:18,119 --> 01:58:21,359
it's point. What's the point of
fucking buying a mall if you're just gonna

1768
01:58:23,000 --> 01:58:26,800
strip the land and build something else. Just use the old fucking mall?

1769
01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:31,479
Yeah, right about how fun that'd
be? Yeah, you can turn into

1770
01:58:31,520 --> 01:58:36,239
a Tony Hawk two level two level. Uh. Well. The Ben also

1771
01:58:36,319 --> 01:58:41,359
writes in dear BombCast on last week's
episode, you brought up Epic purchasing an

1772
01:58:41,399 --> 01:58:45,640
old mall, old shopping mall to
turn into a new office building. Fun

1773
01:58:45,720 --> 01:58:48,560
fact. Not only is that mall
carry Town Center, the mall my family

1774
01:58:48,680 --> 01:58:54,359
frequented for multiple decades, but my
father actually works for a company that was

1775
01:58:54,399 --> 01:58:57,720
involved in the whole Epic deal.
Wow. He was there on site as

1776
01:58:57,800 --> 01:59:00,920
a as part of the group giving
the EPIC team the initial tour of the

1777
01:59:01,000 --> 01:59:06,319
property, and had various anecdotes such
as Epic employees riding electric scooters around and

1778
01:59:06,399 --> 01:59:14,840
excitedly banging on abandoned storefronts and machinery
so they record noise and noise for the

1779
01:59:14,880 --> 01:59:18,199
audio team. Oh, that's fine. My father remarked that he and his

1780
01:59:18,279 --> 01:59:23,000
coworkers, who are all older men, suffered a bit of a culture shock

1781
01:59:23,279 --> 01:59:26,640
from the EPIC team. We're all
twenty to thirty years younger on average,

1782
01:59:27,119 --> 01:59:30,279
according to my father, who still
works at the same company, lives ten

1783
01:59:30,319 --> 01:59:34,279
minutes away from the repurpose small There
hasn't been much progress on renovations. While

1784
01:59:34,319 --> 01:59:38,800
demolition apparently starting twenty twenty two,
nothing really came of it, so the

1785
01:59:38,840 --> 01:59:44,039
property is currently nothing but a wasteland
of partially demolished buildings with no further progress

1786
01:59:44,119 --> 01:59:45,880
in sight. I'll be, in
fact moving back to the area a few

1787
01:59:45,880 --> 01:59:48,760
months later this year, so I
should be able to see this astounding lack

1788
01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:51,479
of progress for myself. I can
try and send you guys some pictures if

1789
01:59:51,479 --> 01:59:55,560
you want. Ben I do want
that, yes, please please, I

1790
01:59:55,880 --> 01:59:58,960
want to stay on top of this
story. Yeah. Yeah, it seems

1791
01:59:59,000 --> 02:00:01,600
so stupid. It is, just
especially if you're gonna excitedly right around a

1792
02:00:01,680 --> 02:00:05,279
mall and electric scooters. That sounds
so fun. I mean, the good

1793
02:00:05,359 --> 02:00:09,479
news here is it's not like this
money caused them to have to lay off

1794
02:00:09,520 --> 02:00:12,800
anybody because they spent in on this
instead of oh wait, what the fuck

1795
02:00:12,920 --> 02:00:18,520
that's exactly what happened. This is
baffling. I can't imagine spending this amount

1796
02:00:18,520 --> 02:00:21,560
of money on something and then just
be like, well, I'm not gonna

1797
02:00:21,600 --> 02:00:26,119
do anything with that. That's like
a okay, I was gonna say epic

1798
02:00:26,199 --> 02:00:30,279
misappropriation of money, but I'm just
gonna stop right there instead. I'm sorry.

1799
02:00:30,439 --> 02:00:31,399
Ahead, you can say, you
can say yeah, well no for

1800
02:00:31,479 --> 02:00:34,920
the I'm just gonna let that count
instead. Uh. Yeah, this is

1801
02:00:34,960 --> 02:00:39,640
absurd. Yeah. I don't know
what would y'all do if you bought like

1802
02:00:39,640 --> 02:00:44,560
an abandoned mall. I'd live in
it. The Rising Museum. Yeah,

1803
02:00:44,920 --> 02:00:49,039
oh fun fun, just like the
biggest game of laser tag you've ever seen,

1804
02:00:49,239 --> 02:00:54,079
yeah, or paintball even Yeah,
I actually did that once. There

1805
02:00:54,239 --> 02:00:58,359
there was part of one of one
of the game centers somewhere here. I

1806
02:00:58,920 --> 02:01:01,279
it was so long ago, I
can't remember which bought like the building next

1807
02:01:01,359 --> 02:01:06,880
door, and then just converted this
like abandoned large store or whatever into a

1808
02:01:06,960 --> 02:01:12,960
laser tag area. So there's like
multiple floors and everything that was sick that

1809
02:01:13,159 --> 02:01:15,720
I mean, making it like an
experience, like an experienced area. Obviously

1810
02:01:15,760 --> 02:01:18,880
you'd have to like make sure it
was safe if you're going to do this

1811
02:01:18,960 --> 02:01:24,159
for real, but like, yeah, a haunted mall for Halloween would probably

1812
02:01:24,239 --> 02:01:26,800
crush, would probably make a ton
of mone my god. Oh yeah,

1813
02:01:26,960 --> 02:01:30,800
make the first level all like a
ball pit and let people jump from two,

1814
02:01:30,880 --> 02:01:34,159
three, four or however many stories
there are, the first one that's

1815
02:01:34,279 --> 02:01:41,039
never gone back for anyone, what
I thought, and ship like that,

1816
02:01:41,279 --> 02:01:45,119
And yeah, I mean, so
you'd be safe. See when you said

1817
02:01:45,159 --> 02:01:47,600
waiver of course and now cool,
I forgot. I don't want to get

1818
02:01:47,640 --> 02:01:51,720
sued. Yeah, yeah, Dan, are you aware of the twitchcun foam

1819
02:01:51,760 --> 02:01:55,800
pit. I'm just curious if this
is yes, I am okay, okay,

1820
02:01:55,880 --> 02:02:00,880
okay, yes, yes, safety
is important. People need to know

1821
02:02:00,960 --> 02:02:03,800
what they're doing. Yes, yes, yes, that's the whole first floor

1822
02:02:03,880 --> 02:02:08,840
is balls. I get it.
Okay, the whole first floor is balls.

1823
02:02:09,439 --> 02:02:13,760
Just like the level of shoutouts this
week, folks, We're gonna punts

1824
02:02:13,760 --> 02:02:17,119
on the shoutouts this week. We
we we gotta clap. I got meetings

1825
02:02:17,199 --> 02:02:20,680
to go to since we had to
start the podcast a little later then normally,

1826
02:02:21,479 --> 02:02:26,319
Greb, what do we got going
on this week? Well, uh,

1827
02:02:27,159 --> 02:02:30,239
I gotta say one of my favorite
weeks of any time of the year,

1828
02:02:30,600 --> 02:02:34,239
the week where I no longer have
to play a Blake club game and

1829
02:02:34,319 --> 02:02:45,439
it's ned. We're doing Mortal Kombat
mixedologies Colon Mike mcqwonchie it's for audio listeners

1830
02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:49,640
dancing and you can't see me with
his hand that has a slight like band

1831
02:02:49,640 --> 02:02:54,000
aid on it. Now, yo, splint, it's a yoke. Splint,

1832
02:02:54,720 --> 02:02:59,439
I need it. Uh Yo.
Explint could be the name of this

1833
02:02:59,520 --> 02:03:02,199
podcast, Jane, if you need
that, and then okay, then what

1834
02:03:02,279 --> 02:03:05,119
else we have going on? We're
gonna have most of our normal shows the

1835
02:03:05,199 --> 02:03:09,199
Grub. On Thursday, We're doing
Tail of the Grub. I'm gonna be

1836
02:03:09,239 --> 02:03:12,319
playing Tail of the Sun, which
is an old ass PS one game that's

1837
02:03:12,439 --> 02:03:15,479
very weird. All I know about
it is that e GM gave it like

1838
02:03:15,560 --> 02:03:18,199
a point five or one out of
ten, and then Dan's played it and

1839
02:03:18,199 --> 02:03:20,880
it's like it's actually pretty neat.
So I'm gonna be checking that out.

1840
02:03:21,239 --> 02:03:26,239
And then Friday a new video game
is out, Jan, are we playing

1841
02:03:26,319 --> 02:03:30,399
that? Yes? Yes, the
original well, the original plan was to

1842
02:03:30,520 --> 02:03:36,560
be another VR UPF playing knock and
perhaps poker. But folks, something comes

1843
02:03:36,600 --> 02:03:43,680
out into early access on Game Pass
this Friday, that thing being Powell World.

1844
02:03:44,159 --> 02:03:46,760
Shoot those Pokemon, Jan, I'm
gonna load up and we're gonna go

1845
02:03:46,880 --> 02:03:51,279
to town. We're gonna go hunting
or maybe go hunting with nice. I

1846
02:03:51,359 --> 02:03:59,479
don't Yeah, we all need to
download it or other games were but yeah,

1847
02:03:59,479 --> 02:04:02,439
I also they didn't free to play. I don't know. If it's

1848
02:04:02,439 --> 02:04:04,399
a multiplayer, we'll all get in
there. Like, I'm not in a

1849
02:04:04,479 --> 02:04:06,800
Pokemon, but if you give them
a bunch of guns, I might be

1850
02:04:06,920 --> 02:04:12,199
interested. I watch a video where
they're just like there's a girl with like

1851
02:04:12,239 --> 02:04:15,760
an AK forty seven just unloading into
the biggest Pokemon you've ever seen, and

1852
02:04:15,840 --> 02:04:18,880
it's sort of just sitting there,
like, please don't shoot me. It's

1853
02:04:18,960 --> 02:04:25,920
incredible. What was that? Like, MMO we checked out like sometime last

1854
02:04:26,000 --> 02:04:32,359
year? Yeah that and yeah what
the was that? But I feel like

1855
02:04:32,439 --> 02:04:35,159
it's gonna be like that, mate, I think so too. Yeah,

1856
02:04:35,199 --> 02:04:39,960
what the fuck was that? That
game? I'm like about to go through

1857
02:04:40,000 --> 02:04:43,279
my library of like a thousand games
and try to find it, but we

1858
02:04:43,319 --> 02:04:48,239
can probably it's probably an easier way
to do that. Hope chat Come on,

1859
02:04:48,479 --> 02:04:53,399
folks, at least, yeah,
act as her brain. Another episode

1860
02:04:53,399 --> 02:04:58,600
of Jeff Jeff's this week. I
believe Uh okay, I can find same

1861
02:04:58,840 --> 02:05:04,880
mere Land Chimera Land okay yeah,
character creator? Yeah, yeah, yes

1862
02:05:05,239 --> 02:05:11,920
right yeah. On top of that
game, Mess Mornings popping off Wednesday Thursday

1863
02:05:11,960 --> 02:05:15,079
Friday. We'll have an episode of
the Voicemail Dump Truck on Thursday, as

1864
02:05:15,119 --> 02:05:19,399
well as another episode of Pompcast Revengeance
this Friday. Who knows what the topic

1865
02:05:19,439 --> 02:05:23,000
will be, We'll figure it out. It's gonna be the Detroit Lions.

1866
02:05:23,079 --> 02:05:26,680
Let's go, there we go.
We're gonna we're gonna turn into a sports

1867
02:05:26,720 --> 02:05:30,479
podcast and then a movie podcast as
well. We're gonna talk about poor things

1868
02:05:30,000 --> 02:05:34,640
and the and then the Detroit lions. Oh man, god, that movie.

1869
02:05:34,640 --> 02:05:38,479
You watch that movie. I'm gonna
check it out. Everyone seems to

1870
02:05:38,520 --> 02:05:41,640
love it. I watched Gotti again, made by Movie Past, starring John

1871
02:05:41,680 --> 02:05:44,920
Travolta. If anyone's been watching that, what do you mean? Made made

1872
02:05:44,960 --> 02:05:47,199
by Movie Pass? I didn't.
Movie Past put out Gotti and it got

1873
02:05:47,279 --> 02:05:51,279
a zero percent critics score on Rotten
Tomatoes, but the user score was higher.

1874
02:05:51,359 --> 02:05:56,199
So Movie Passes marketing campaign was like, oh big movie critic doesn't want

1875
02:05:56,199 --> 02:06:00,840
you to see this, but the
people love it. Baffling, terrible fucking

1876
02:06:00,920 --> 02:06:03,159
movie. It's awesome, family because
whatn't like? Does it? Movie Past

1877
02:06:03,199 --> 02:06:06,680
benefit for people not going to see
movies? Why are they encouraging people to

1878
02:06:06,720 --> 02:06:14,680
get they ever knew what they were
doing any God, biggest, Dan Reikert,

1879
02:06:16,159 --> 02:06:19,880
I know what's the opposite of saying, looks incredible and this looks bad?

1880
02:06:20,359 --> 02:06:25,239
Yeah, it looks ship, looks
awful, looks looks not good,

1881
02:06:25,600 --> 02:06:29,399
looks not good. You look good
at home. I've been Jeff No,

1882
02:06:29,520 --> 02:06:32,640
I'm not fit chef. Oh god, oh man, god, he's just

1883
02:06:32,680 --> 02:06:36,720
got God, he's got me fucked
up. I'm gonna go play poker after

1884
02:06:36,800 --> 02:06:40,359
this. I'm gonna teach scout how
to play, so we'll come up with

1885
02:06:40,399 --> 02:06:44,319
strategies together. I've been Jan,
he's been Jeff, he's been Dan,

1886
02:06:44,560 --> 02:06:46,640
he's been Turbo Shawn and you at
home have been great. Thank you for

1887
02:06:46,720 --> 02:06:50,079
tuning into today's episode of The Giant
BombCast. We'll see you next week for

1888
02:06:50,119 --> 02:06:56,239
another episode of the Giant BombCast.
Hey, there's a budget great stuff popping

1889
02:06:56,279 --> 02:06:58,560
off on the site this week as
well as last week, so go check

1890
02:06:58,600 --> 02:07:00,800
that out. You love you see
then Kisses on the cheek, kisses on

1891
02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:06,960
the mouth. Uh fold called big
slides the terms I learned earlier from poker.

1892
02:07:08,000 --> 02:07:15,159
I'm gonna remember the ball. Bye
Slides, What was it, big

1893
02:07:15,640 --> 02:07:35,279
little guy. The Giant BombCast is
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1894
02:07:35,479 --> 02:07:36,560
this week, Poker