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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
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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
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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
in the middle of it. I got

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stuck at a really dumb part and
h I h looked away from my Steam

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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
think the one thing you realized.

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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
want to be good, but but it's

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like this, there's a power up
you get, an athorability you get where

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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
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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
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