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Mmmm, Hello, it's Tuesday,
due the second, twenty fifteen, and

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you are listening to the Giant Bomb
cast two weeks till E three thirteen days,

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well, twelve days, I mean
by the time you hear this,

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it will be E three. Well, what do you consider are you talking

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about when we fly down there for
the first day of the show? The

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fourt show? Okay, the fourteenth
that but that's the thing I think is

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is ground zero three three? Well, that's like no show the show floor

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opens, that's E three saying Tuesday
morning. Yeah, okay. If that's

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the case, then we got a
solid two weeks. Yeah. Press conferences,

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like the press conferences are almost more
exciting in the actual show. Yeah.

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Four is gonna be sitting in a
room like this with you know,

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air conditioning, eating sandwiches cand In
Yeah, talking about stuff like can we

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get customer sandwiches because usually whenever they're
sandwiches catered there brought up so there was

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someone someone in marketing asked and I
actually Drew brought it up, I believe,

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and I said like, yeah,
don't put mayo on some of them.

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You did, so we'll see how
you are. You are meddling with

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forces you do not understand, I
mean just gonna like the minute you start

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like very I mean whatever, Like
at least you can guarantee the sandwiches will

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suck. But now they're going to
try to make some special ones and those

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will probably suck in a totally different
way. Like I have zero faiths Yeah,

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I have zero faith in is that
in any kind of sandwich that I'm

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not ordering myself any kind of meeting
where they're bringing in pizza, No,

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they're not. It's not gonna be
any good. Just think about how many

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people though that that that mandate has
to pass through. I just need from

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you to the sandwich arriving. Do
you think about how many different people have

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to understand and implement that, and
then in a box of sandwiches gets delivered,

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you know, will they be labeled
in a way that prevents someone else

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from having those sandwiches first? There's
so many points of failure in this planet.

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And I don't want, I don't
want. I have an alternative idea

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for you. What's that? This
is a way easier, solu. You're

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just going to tell me to eat
whatever comes out, learn to eat mayonnaise.

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No, And here's the thing,
I'm not asked, so any one

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thing. Generally speaking, these sorts
of like convention floor sandwich is the ones

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that will be in like the weird
like war room area. The mayonnaise is

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on the side, So it may
just be that we have to pull like

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tomatoes and lettuce. Not actually that
crap off of it, think of it.

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I think that's pretty much how institutionalized
sandwiches are delivered, right. The

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condiments are always on generally, but
we're we're in the weird space where it's

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not the same. You know,
we're not on the convention show floor,

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so siches might be made right there, no idea what will happen. But

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in those circumstances where you know,
just me because being a fussy eater and

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everything, If forty sandwiches come out
and they're catered in and there's nothing I

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can eat, I am never mad
about that. I'm always like, you

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know what, Yeah, I'm the
weird one here, I'm the one he

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needs. I'll go hungry or I'll
get my own thing. That's my own

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dumb fault. Yes, I don't
fault anyone for that, if that question

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whatever. As someone who has been
a bit fussy himself, I have never

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once gone like, how dare you? You didn't bring the sandwich the way

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I ordered it? Like the minute
you cross that line, just you're a

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monster. You Yeah, I don't
know that. I don't know. The

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special dietary needs is how I would
characterize dancer. Like, it's not like

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I have an actual allergy or anything. I'm just an idiot. So you

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know, I can't be mad at
anyone for anything that sounds I mean,

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that sounds like a condition to me. I don't know. I don't want

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to eat maio either, You're idiot. Dietary needs, Yeah, but they're

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specific, they're not needs, they're
fussy. If you have discussed last week

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you have record syndrome, I do. I do a pretty severe case.

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How long about almost thirty one year? How much longer do you have?

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So I got a good five or
ten? Okay, I'll be nine hundred.

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Sure. Oh, how's everybody feeling
with the show? Looming? Really

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good? Yeah? Continuing a pace? Yeah, absolutely, there's a lot

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of stuff that has to get booked
on our end gear that's got to get

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fiddled with. I feel like we
got ready to take appointments about a week

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after the industry started saying, hey, let's take appointments, which is normally

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how it goes. I think it's
a lot of emails where it's going we're

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not ready yet, hang on,
I will get back to you next week

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while I'm out of the office,
Like I'll be out of the office for

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a whole full week, and people
go like, hey, I need to

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get this locked down by tomorrow,
and I'm like, well, you're not

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gonna sorry, because I'm off in
the middle of nothing and it's impossible for

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me to do that. But yeah, I'm especially excited because this is like

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a completely different experience for me.
You know, I was a gi last

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year and it was just like balls
of the walls the entire time, and

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here we get to hang back and
we'll be broadcasting the conferences and talking over

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them in our own little speet.
Yeah. I like that. I'm down

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for this idea. Yeah, it's
it was a good time last year.

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But there was that nagging feeling that
even as I'm like turning down the RSVPs

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for the press conferences this year,
I'm just going like it feels wrong.

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Yeah, it's strange. Yeah,
I had like a chaotic moment, like

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kind of a little a little bit
of stress. I'm like, oh shit,

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I didn't register for these conferences that
I didn't respond anything. I'm like,

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oh wait, I don't have to
this year. It's just an objectively

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better way to cover and experience E
three conferences because like the first year where

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they basically what you're saying, we're
so good. No, no, I'm

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saying anyone who decides to sit back
in their hotel rooms and stream it or

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like any news outlet or anything,
that is an objectively better way to do

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it, because like I've done the
thing where I'm trying to post news articles

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from the Nokia theater or something.
You're trying to cover the press conference,

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don't do it from the press conference. I'm we're trying to write like Kirby's

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epic yarn announced things from like the
squeezed and little seats. Sonny added a

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separate thing. Whether it's like if
you you know, the blogger zone where

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they get like you know, pays
places where your plug in your laptop and

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like slightly bigger seats like desk type
of things, and that's a little bit

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better for people that want a live
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people live blog anymore like the texture
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in games it happens way less now
that it's on Twitch, and just like,

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you know, like the streaming of
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and in some pockets it still is, but it used to be this like

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big negotiation where it's just like,
well only IGN and game Spot game trailers

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maybe are big enough to handle this
press conference and it's coming over a satellite

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feed, and there's there's like at
least one truck involved. Yeah, there's

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there are trucks and all sorts of
stuff for or sometimes there weren't. You

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you'd be like it used to be
like okay, well you'd go into the

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press conferences going, well, Microsoft
hasn't send us the IPS that we're going

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to have, and we need static
ips to send out to whatever bullshit thing

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we have to hit to upload the
thing, and then it always breaks because

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they say they have good internet,
they never have good enough internet. So

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I think that's why they started getting
a satellite truck, is to just fucking

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stop having that conversation. Sure,
yeah for now, yeah they have plenty,

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and it's it's a weird. Yeah, I don't know the now that

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just everyone's on Twitch, everyone's on
YouTube or where wherever streaming their press conferences

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themselves like that. I feel I
even like that rat race is just like

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insane that there are people still out
there, like still doing Hey three coverage

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still comes in many and varied forms. It's true. Absolutely. The difference

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is that if you are if you
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instead of their Twitch stream, you
get to put your own ads before it.

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Yeah yeah, yeah, but believe
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feeds as a huge en in the
ass. There's been like a sharp decline

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in the past couple of years where
there's just not nearly as many people backstage

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doing their own streams from the direct
feed. How's the Riser looking lately?

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The Riser is still I don't know. I feel like the well, we

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didn't the Riser here. Every time
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very cutthroat place. Yeah, like
everyone describes Rise like any any of them,

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Like everybody's jockeying for Like those are
usually cast ones, so you'll see

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people with you know, broadcast quality
cameras. But then there's also like a

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subset of people that are just like
getting a direct line, popping it into

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the laptop or there. They just
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I've definitely like gone like downstairs at
YOUB saw often seen Vinny like fucking

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crawling under a table full of cable
he just covered in cables, hooking up

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a pix or something to capture this
thing. Yeah, and and in fact,

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Vinny saved my ass two years ago
at like Ubisoft. I got there

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a little bit late. Uh and
actually I jacked into Vinnie's picks and I

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got a feed off of there because
like all of the spots were taken.

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Oh yeah, yeah, I will
always look out for each other out in

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the field. Yeah seriously. Yeah
yep. And actually yeah, somebody jacked

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into mine as well. So it
was just a it's like a fucking daisy

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chain. It was. It was. It was cool. But yeah,

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there was fewer people at all of
those last year for sure, so I

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don't think there's gonna be many.
It was maybe that was just because like

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Vinnie and Drew are so imposing,
they create such a presence. Fucked them

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out of that space. Yeah,
they're absolutely, it just seems empty.

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It's very conspicuous. Well, if
Vinie and Drew right there. I'm not

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going it fair enough. I'm not
going either, that's not Yeah, OK,

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let's not go to the press.
We're sitting the confines of our late

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night show space. He's sandwich and
yeah, all right, you talked me

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into it. Jeff Gerson, all
right, great, Jason a Striker,

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the voice of the voice of production
here this week. How are you Dan

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with the eating habits. That's me, that's his that's his true last name,

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Dan with the eating Belgian. I'm
Brad Triebaker. We're back in the

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small room again. Yeah. Sorry, I'm hugging the mic this time.

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Yeah, we have to it goes. Last week, I was talking more

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out here, and I bet you
can tell the difference right now as opposed

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to right here. Get up on
that might eat And this problem. The

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problem is, uh, this pop
screen, these pop screens has a lot

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of dust, little stuff. So
when I when I took them home,

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it just they kind of sat in
a corner and got dusty. But I

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don't think I dis this dust.
Yeah, I didn't do anything nasty to

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them. I thought this was like
desiccated spittle because these yeah, these are

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these are the microphones we used in
as of like two thousand and eight,

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like in this very podcast and Saucelitos
so because the podcast studio here in the

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building has it is basically on fire. It is all the time studio in

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one way. But there's yeah,
once equipment in there that's been giving us

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some trouble. But yeah, a
lot of road miles on these MIC's pop

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screens. It's true. This one's
got like we brought these microphones to trade

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shows, you know, these these
been to Japan. These have been to

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Japan. There's been to E three
uh and and I never expensed them.

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So they're my microphones just in case
you need them exactly. Yeah, in

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case I'm gonna start like a barbershop
quartet, I've got actually have five total.

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It's the premium feature of working on
exactly bomb. WHOA, So what's

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going on? I don't know.
I don't know, man. That was

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just like a full stop. At
that point, was like, all right,

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I don't know how far are we
going on this barbershop quartet. We

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got at least like five more minutes
before we can talk about videos. Okay,

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no, no, we could talk
about we could talk about what we

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can talk about other ship before we
get to video here. I don't know

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what you talking about. What do
you got? I just played video games

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all weekend, like the whole weekend. It's pretty I went hiking at one

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point, but otherwise that's all I
did either. I had thought about maybe

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going for a hike, but my
my old roommate who no longer lives there,

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came back to town to get some
of his stuff and he ended up

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being around all weekends. So I
hadn't seen him like a year more and

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he's had his stuff there for like
a year or more. Yeah. Yeah,

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we talked about some criminal friend of
ours that is a criminal, and

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it's just like weird crime stuff master
criminal. No, No, we're talking

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about the jail time he may or
may not be doing in the near future.

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So some weird stuff, not a
good not so good at beating his

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wrap. Then we'll see how it
goes. I mean, sentencing has as

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yet to happen, but as holy
shit, Yeah, I didn't think I

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did. But then all of a
sudden, I started actually thinking about it

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in the wake of some of it, and I was like, oh,

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man, like whoa, I'm glad
I got out of it. Yeah,

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situation I had to move away from
a lot of friends. Sure, you

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know it's the snooa county difference exactly. Yeah, it's it's crime time off.

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Everybody's a criminal. Uh. Speaking
of moving, Yeah, we were

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actually looking at new places. Like
the place that we moved into is great,

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Dan, you've been there, but
yeah, school spot, but it's

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pretty goddamn small. And uh,
I got really high ceilings. Yeah,

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that's very true, but I can't
really stack stuff up to the ceiling.

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We have like four thousand arcade sticks
in there. I might have a lot

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of space. I might have to
bear down on some of those. Really,

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I guess what's the criteria. What's
first on the chopping block? First

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on the chopping block, I want
to get rid of, Yeah, some

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of Lisa's books, maybe arcade sticks. I gotta get rid of books first.

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That our first. I mean these
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romance novels are just that's uh.
Yeah, we we have to make some

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space. Actually, so we have
I think I can talk about this now.

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We've got taught. Is it under
embargo? I know you signed a

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lot of stuff. I think the
yeah, it led up about an hour

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ago, but I got the okay
to talk about it. So, yeah,

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we were expecting we're gonna have a
little baby, expecting arcade sticks.

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Wait a minute, Yeah I am
that would that would be great. Yeah,

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but no, I knocked up.
Knocked up. My wife got damn

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good going, thank you. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like we're gonna

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have a boy. She's about four
months along. So how long have we

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known the gender? Yeah, we
just found out last week. Okay,

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Yeah, so that's super exciting.
But yeah, we have to find a

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new place, and that's always super
scary and not fun, especially in this

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market. You look on this side
of the bay. Yeah yeah, yeah,

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well part of anything. I know
it's not going to happen, but

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I'm looking. But yeah, we'll
probably end up out in NICs Bay.

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Still, okay, yeah, we
shall see. It's a rough time.

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I think I saw I think I
saw the medium rent. Medium rent in

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SF is like five grand that's right
now for like what a one bedroom or

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no, no, me, like
it's like the medium It's like, oh

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okay, yeah, that's that's everything
from you know, I think that's everything

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from like down to one bedrooms and
studios. It's weird because you know,

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if if we do move farther out. You know, the rent is gonna

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be a whole lot cheaper. Butt, transportation everything is gonna you know,

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increase as well. So it's it's
always always trade off. Yep. If

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you if you want to pay a
less and have a bigger place, you

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got to spend more time on the
bart. Sunset's good. I like the

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sunset. Text me twenty five minutes
to get down. Here's all right if

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you want like quieter places. But
even those places, the rent is so

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fucked right now. It's just high. Yeah, it's bad news. And

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then the East Bay is not,
i mean not getting any better. No,

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it just seems like people are San
Francisco like they're fleeing East totally.

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Is it is? Most of Oakland
pretty stabby from what I've heard, because

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no, no, no wrons alright, isn't it like any But I mean

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over in my area is fine as
well. There's a couple of yeh,

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kind of shady neighborhoods, but I
do you have that is it's scary like

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going over there and not knowing where
the lions are. Like okay, if

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you go across the street, it's
you know, really high crime and everything

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like I thought about moving out there, but just watch for the railroad tracks.

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Is that wire railroad tracks associated with
crime? It's just the way it

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works. Just don't walk over.
Yeah, everything on your side of the

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railroads. If you were on a
side of the railroad tracks and haven't been

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stabbed, then chances are on the
good side of the tracks. I get

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able to assume. So that's weird. I don't know what that is.

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I think driving around in the area, you can get a pretty good feel

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for what the neighborhood is. Like, yeah, I've only been over the

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for like hood slam and to go
to your place, so yeah, see,

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and my place is fine, yeah
yeah yeah, but then like you

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know, four or five blocks away, it's like, I don't I'm not

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going to dan if you got a
place that you're remotely happy with and yeah,

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and you're not paying normonal legs,
hang on, I just resigned a

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lease on Saturday. Yeah there for
another year. Just hang on for dear

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life. If it's especially if it's
rank controlled, I don't know if it

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is. No, it went up
forty dollars, Yeah, you're probably okay,

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wait, no, per month,
Yes, she said that, like

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the maximum San Francisco allowed rent increases
like three or six percent or something here.

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Yeah, and so she did that. But I mean it's like,

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yeah, I went up like forty
dollars a month. Okay, you're probably

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fine, Yeah, you'll probably be
fine there. But Jason, let's commit

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this audio. I got DIBs on
Uncle Dan. No, you have DIBs

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on crazy Uncle Da. Okay,
but I will have the official uncle Is

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there another dand in the running?
Uh, I don't know, No,

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there's I haven't heard of it.
We just need to make sure that you

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know crazy is the prefect. Okay, Okay, okay, all right,

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that child needs to know what he's
dealing. But he's gonna call me Uncle

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Dan. He's gonna call you crazy
Uncle Dan. That's fine. I love

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like kids are awesome because it's so
like I feel like in terms of sense

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of humor, it's so easy to
just kind of click with them to where

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like I remember at a game from
Kyle had that little kid Claire Claire.

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Yeah, and I would just started
doing like arm pit sound effects and stuff

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I gotta do make like art pit
sound effects and like weird faces and stuff,

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and they start laughing. It's like
it's the best audience ever, pretty

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easy to please. I feel like
a shame to admit this, but i

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am. I've always been unable to
make arm pit noises. Really, I've

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never I've never figured out how to
do it. Arm pit quartet. It

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gets harder as you get more hair
under theirs. Not no live studio.

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Yeah, well, it's another new
high this week for in all of podcasting.

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I think it's pretty good. Man, my hand's sweating now, okay,

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yeah, you wanted to talk about
video games, right, yes?

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Fortune, hang on? Whoa?
I can do this with your hands,

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your hand the palm method. Yeah, I can do the thing where I

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put my hands together and then blow
into it. I used to be a

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hang Can you do the crazy whistle
with the two fingers? I can't do

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any finger whistling, none of that
ship it doesn't I can't. I can't

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do regular whistling. Can you do
the tongue talking? I can whistle,

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yeah, I cannot get all my
tongue. I can do it, which

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plays yeah super well on a podcast, But yeah, whistling, it just

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has eluded me from my Apparently,
I can't do the thing where I put

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my hands together. I'm making a
little noising. Wow, that's pretty good.

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You're just whistling. You're not doing
anything cool. Feel like there we

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go there, Like I need to
find this podcast or this moment and put

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it in the show notes. Welcome
to the Giant Podcast. You're one and

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only source for all things bird calling. Dude is great. It's such a

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cool game. It's pretty cool.
Yeah, it's all right. We're we're

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all right. It's one potential issue
is I don't think there's nearly enough of

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it. Yeah, I'm not tired
yet. Like, what what level are

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you, Jeff? I'm like level
six or seven? Okay, I think

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I'm the seven or twelve. And
I feel like I have UI like issues

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with the UI, and there's some
stuff that I think could be tightened up

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there. And I think and I
worry that there's not enough of it.

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Yeah. I wish it was easier
to equip like different weapons like between just

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like this little spawns or something.
I wish if you just go like,

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well, actually I want to use
the role or this time out. You

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know, we got to change.
It was pretty quick to bomb out of

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there, change a weapon and walk
back into the matchmaking room. Surely that's

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something the three minute matches. It's
like, I feel like that is the

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perfect length of time for that game. Absolutely. I think the four no

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three, that's three three really yeah, pretty sure. Anything less I think

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would be too short. Anything more, I think they'd get a little too

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protracted. It's enough time for you
to kind of cover the majority of the

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space, or almost all of it, I mean, with between the two

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teams. Eventually it would be this
like tedious war of attrition right right,

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Like you've cover their stuff up,
but but then they just cover it right

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back, and someone would would be
behind you and you know, payle stuff

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back there, and then you'd be
like, oh well I need to respond

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to this. Yeah, that's the
right amount of time for that game.

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Yeah, I find it. I
found it really weird that they don't let

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you spend any of your money or
buy anything until level four, because I

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was like, buy that. Like
the second I hit level two, I

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was like, all right, let's
go. Time to buy new weapons to

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be freshman. I was not nearly
fresh And I think you can buy a

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weapon it too. It's the Gears
four, it's the hat shoot really yeah.

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Oh dude, So I check all
the closed stores and they said no,

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and I didn't bother to go,
So I said, you get your

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first paint roller pretty early on because
two or three or something because that p

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show, Well that sucks because I
used the I forget what it's called.

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The default gun is, isn't this
is incredible? Yeah? I use that

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thing all the way up the level
four and that was not a pleasant experience.

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But I don't know, like I
used the regular splatter shot for a

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while, and then there's a variant
of that splatter shot that has the same

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gun stats but different items I've got, Yeah, and you unlock that through

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like story mode the single player stuff, right, No, I don't know

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why those I mean I had to
buy it. I think I think you

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find yeah, whenever you beat a
boss, and the single player stuff you

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get like a weapon schematically seems to
be like an offshoot of an existing weapon.

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Okay, huh okay, I don't
know. All the weapons in the

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store just have a level on them
and just says on the locks at level

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whatever. Yeah, and I started, uh, you know, doing some

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of the ambo stuff. But it's
like you can talk to me about that.

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So it's uh so the single player
or these challenges that I didn't think

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we're that great, but I haven't. I haven't played into deep. Alex

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actually said they get better and that
the final boss is really good. I

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read. I read some stuff saying, yeah, the final missions are right

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up there with some of the Mario
but there it's good stuff. It sounds

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like it's good stuff. But I'm
with uf of that first mission was pretty

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Yeah, I played the first hand
full of them. That first boss.

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Uh, yeah, boss is pretty
cool. That like cube guy that falls

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over and gets climb up. Yeah, second ones to do. Yeah,

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I like the boss metals so far. But yeah, the I took the

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amibo, what I took the boy
amboy and you know, hit that and

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then it just gives you these challenge
levels. But you it's just those single

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player levels again, but with a
roller weird okay. Yeah, and and

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then you unlock gear for completing that, so there's like a reason to do

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it, like get their clothing.
You're like shit, so all that stuff

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and the single player comes back out
into the multiplayer stuff. No, like

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when you buy the stuff like those
those up grades, No, none of

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that comes out. But you can
only play with the amibo. You can

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only play levels you've already completed in
the standard single player mode, so like

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I hadn't gotten very far and at
that point, so I'm like, well,

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crap. So I played like the
first couple levels of the rollers.

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I'm like, man, all right, well, doing those with the roller

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doesn't sound great because there's a lot
of like airborne enemies and stuff, and

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that little flick doesn't have too much
range to it with roller. You know,

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Yeah, I think the rollers awesome. I love it. It's so

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good for just like staying back and
covering ground and stuff like that, and

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making sure that your area is a
very thoroughly painted out. It's kind of

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why I wish you could change weapons
mid match, because I feel like there's

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like a first spawn roller second spawn
Like was it like the the fifty two

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caliber or whatever it is whatever,
Well it would be would be like a

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neat strategic way to go, but
you know, I don't know. Plus,

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sometimes like a round will start and
you'll all turn out of your squid

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forms and it's like, oh,
all four of us have rollers, great

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like, and then you'd like to
switch and be like kind of more of

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the offensive. I feel when when
people I didn't actually play when they were

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doing those those very short beta sessions, but it seemed like I saw people

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complaining about the roller being overpowered.
It's kind of like the shotgun, I

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think as far as like in terms
of combat, like you can get up

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on someone up close. I just
exactly like I haven't had a problem dealing

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with people like other the other team
having rollers, Like obviously they cover a

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lot of ground with paint, but
like the guns, keep your distance,

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Yeah, keep your distance because it's
on it's one it's killed. Well's that

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is, Yeah, But like the
roller, the standard guns, it's like

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three hit kills, so it's whatever
you're killing. You're mowing people down in

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that game. Wait, and as
soon as you see a roller coming at

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you, you can just turn into
a swimmediately out of there, right So

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yeah, yeah, yeah, the
squid stuff is good. Like the I'm

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having some trouble like kind of it's
kind of saying like, oh, you

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know, paint your way up a
wall and then get up there and then

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jump to get up better or get
up faster, And I'm like that that

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doesn't seem to work. Yeah,
feel like I'm doing something wrong or I'm

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not. I'm not reading that the
weapon us, and you can't do that

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at all, Like if you have
a roller, you can't paint your way

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up you can you can flick it
usually you can. Yeah, yeah,

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the flick will work. But it's
like you eventually paint your way up there

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and it's like, Okay, well
I need to keep going. Can I

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something kind of hop out and do
it? Flick? It's not the best.

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It's not the best. So,
like I wish that kind of the

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vertical movement was a little more streamlined
in some spots. But did you switch

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over from because we talked a little
bit about motion controls and you told me

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that you like turning it off at
first, and so I played first few

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levels with just the right stick or
whatever, and then Alex was saying that

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he loves the motion control and that's
not a lot of reviews mentioned that,

407
00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:25.279
right, And actually, now that
I've gotten used to it, I do

408
00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:27.079
think the motion control is better.
Have you have you switched back to that?

409
00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:30.519
No? No? Yeah, I
think it's a lot quicker as far

410
00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:33.160
as covering around. Sure, yeah, no, I bet, because it's

411
00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.799
just you can look up and down
a lot more quickly with that than you

412
00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.279
can with the stick. Even if
you, you know, turn the sensitivity

413
00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.039
up, it's you know, theoretically
you're going to be more precise, I

414
00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:45.480
think, But I just I haven't
had any situation where it's like I couldn't

415
00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:48.720
look up fast enough to shoot something. Yeah, so I find the vertical

416
00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.319
sensitivity is way higher than the horizontal. I don't know if you've noticed that.

417
00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:53.799
Oh, I can look up and
down with a stick way faster than

418
00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.960
you can turn left right, And
there are no independent settings for that,

419
00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.440
which is just like an overall camera. Yeah, which I didn't really appreciate

420
00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.960
it, but I couldn't turn the
motion controls fast or offa I tckled it

421
00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:07.160
off the second that it let me
in the return back. I think it's

422
00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:08.400
so much faster that way. Like
I like faster for what I mean to

423
00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:12.160
what end? Though? Like what
what what is it giving you? Specifically?

424
00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.880
What I like is like if I'm
playing with like the thirty two gallon

425
00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.799
or whatever, I like to get
to kind of elevated positions. And then

426
00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:19.759
especially like at the end of the
match, when you're just doing that mad

427
00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:23.039
dash to cover as much space as
possible, so get to an elevated position,

428
00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:26.759
and then you just want to spray
everywhere, and so I you're just

429
00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.359
moving the game pad around like crazy, just covering all this ground way faster

430
00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:32.559
than you'd be able to. Which
is the right stick? I mean it's

431
00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:34.240
real scatter shot, but I mean
at the end of a match or something

432
00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.000
and just trying to hit anything.
That's yeah. I mean I turned the

433
00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.559
sensitivity of the stick up when I
switch off the motion controls, because it's

434
00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:44.200
the default is bad. It's way
too l yeah. Yeah, you so

435
00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:47.640
once I turned it up to like
one, yeah, or maybe even two.

436
00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:49.839
At that point it was like this, this is fine. I saw

437
00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:56.200
some people were strapping we mote to
pro control. I thought, put out

438
00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:59.279
that picture. That's it's official.
Yeah, that's the official way to do.

439
00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:02.519
Yeah, controls with a two players, like same screen or whatever.

440
00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:03.759
I did a little that two player
mode. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's

441
00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:08.519
fun. Yeah, two players same
screen or same console, same console.

442
00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:14.880
Yeah, it's one on. I
did some of that. It's fun.

443
00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.319
Yeah. You're attacking balloons and stuff
and you get power ups. It's kind

444
00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:19.720
of like a Mario Kent thing where
it's cool you grab a thing and cycles

445
00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:23.359
between like oh you'll get the ink
missile or whatever, and a bubble whatever

446
00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:26.160
game feel like it should have been
on the Dreamcast. Anybody, Yeah,

447
00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:30.400
is like a smile Bitch or something
that's like this, but it definitely feels

448
00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:34.079
like yeah, like that era or
maybe even like you know, just some

449
00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:37.440
random PS two game that you imported
and went. Man, this game's got

450
00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:44.839
fucking style. Yeah, like sure, yeah, it's I really really like

451
00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.920
it. Like I haven't felt the
need to keep playing over and over to

452
00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.400
level up and get new gear and
stuff like the last three Call of Duties

453
00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:55.319
I feel haven't hooked me as much
as as this, and I like call

454
00:25:55.400 --> 00:25:57.359
it. Yeah, I like the
recent ones, but this one I really

455
00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.680
was not able to see. Like
I'm into. I'm enjoying it, but

456
00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:03.039
I'm definitely like playing it in short
spurts because I feel like if I sat

457
00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:06.240
down and played, like I'm gonna
play for six hours straight, like I'd

458
00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:08.319
be nope, Like I would burn
through the entire like my entire time of

459
00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:11.000
the game in one sitting. You're
like, I don't want to do this

460
00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:12.960
anymore because there's like there's only six
maps. Yeah, and like some of

461
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:17.400
the UI stuff that I feel like, you know, like it actually would

462
00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:22.319
be nice if you could create different
loadouts of equipment gear and then switch between

463
00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:23.200
them if you're like, well,
this time, you know, let's I'm

464
00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.240
gonna use this weapon and then with
that weapon, I want to you know,

465
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:32.240
use less ink when I shoot or
whatever it's fast or yeah, yeah,

466
00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:34.440
you know, like like that sort
of like load out mentality and having

467
00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:37.559
multiple settings I think would work well
for them instead of like, I mean,

468
00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:40.599
I go through the equip men,
you like, Okay, what's this

469
00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:41.880
one do? I'd turn it around, see what the bonus? Dad is

470
00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.799
like that stuff's not great? Yeah? Does some of the later game gear

471
00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.440
have like more slots for special adalities
on the okay, okay. So that's

472
00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:51.799
one of the issues I've been running
into, is because I've been playing it

473
00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:53.640
pretty much all weekend a little before
that, and so I'm, you know,

474
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.000
level eleven or twelve or whatever.
I'm fairly leveled up. I've got

475
00:26:56.039 --> 00:26:59.759
some pretty good gear and everything,
but most of my gear is like this

476
00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:03.200
two star levels, so it's like
I have two or three abilities per clothing

477
00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:07.119
thing. And then like I'll see
I get killed by someone in a match

478
00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:08.960
and it'll show like, oh,
they're wearing this stuff and they have like

479
00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:12.640
nine or ten abilities. Wow,
oh my man, Yeah, like they'll

480
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:17.400
cross their entire wardrobe is nine or
ten or nine? No, the entire

481
00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:18.839
thing. Like I think I still
a lot though, yeah, because when

482
00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.759
you start out you have like what
six maybe yeah, I think six,

483
00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.920
Well it's one per with one unlockable
and then no, it's like nine totals,

484
00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:29.240
so like, you know, I
think three backs per clothing item.

485
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:30.759
But still it's like, oh my
god, they've got two defense things,

486
00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:33.640
two inkory fills, a fast squid
thing, a fast run thing, like

487
00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.720
all this stuff, and you know
I've got you know, five or six

488
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.240
things on. So I wonder how
good the balancing is going to be,

489
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:42.599
Like if someone picks it up a
week from now and they're trying to jump

490
00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:45.440
into things while they're level two,
if they're just gonna be getting creamed by

491
00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:48.279
people that are you know? Sure? I found I mean you gain XP

492
00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.400
by painting stuff, so like you
can still paint stuff. Kills not influence

493
00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.039
that at all, uh kills emit
paint. So I think that there's probably

494
00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:59.359
something in the long those lines,
but I'm not sure. Some of the

495
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:00.519
matchmaking is seems a little dodgy to
me, you know, like you'll end

496
00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:03.880
up in cases where like like when
I was really low level, it's like,

497
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:06.839
oh, there's a game where like
two ten level ten people get matched

498
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:08.759
and they both end up on the
same team. Yeah, against a bunch

499
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:11.160
of people who are way lower than
them. But for all you know,

500
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.200
they for all you know, they
could have been like, hey, I

501
00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:17.319
want to play with friends, and
maybe it automatically puts them on the same

502
00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:18.680
time. Yeah. I read.
I read that it actually jumbles the teams

503
00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:22.160
after each match, so you can't
you can't put somebody constantly. Yeah,

504
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:25.759
Jason and I played a couple and
I feel like we were on opposing teams

505
00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:26.559
at least once, at least once. Yeah, I think, Yeah,

506
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.599
it's like you never three times were
we played? And yeah, two times

507
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.519
we were together, and yeah,
it just scrolled us to or dropped us

508
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.680
in another team. Yeah. I
once on the first time I tried to

509
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:41.039
join a friends game, it just
like popped up a like an error message,

510
00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.279
so like failed to connect the partner's
device or whatever. You haven't getting

511
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.119
that one a little bit. Are
there any bots in that game? Because

512
00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:51.480
a lot of the ways the names
are displayed made me wonder if some of

513
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.119
them were boughts, you know.
But it seems like it's just simplifying using

514
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:57.839
your like like first field, me's
name, okay, you know. And

515
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:00.519
and when I first started playing,
it was like the day or two before

516
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.920
I was out in the US,
and it was matching me up with Japanese

517
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:04.920
players. I was just showing me
all these Yeah, I played a few

518
00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:08.039
matches before work and it was one
hundred percent of Japanese players in my matches

519
00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:11.920
in me. Yeah at seven am
or whatever, I've had a lot of

520
00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.160
those. So they're adding a new
map and a new weapon to or it's

521
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.640
by the time you hear this,
yeah, well it'll be out, and

522
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.160
that's kind of cool. I just
wonder where they're well, they'll get two

523
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:25.160
with it in terms of what their
eventual map count's going to be. They're

524
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:27.000
turning on Ranked play two, which
has some different games. I guess,

525
00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.039
yeah, that's a different mode.
When I saw that it was ranked,

526
00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:32.119
I was like, oh, great, it's the same mode but ranked.

527
00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:34.119
No. But it's not like it
actually is new stuff. It's different.

528
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.839
There are different there are different variants
in there that yeah, I don't know

529
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.240
that it's fastly different or not,
but there are differences. Yeah, and

530
00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:45.680
I guess there's a I don't think
they've said when it's coming, but there

531
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:48.839
is one actual new mode coming in
the next few weeks called like tower Control.

532
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.920
I think it's supposedly it's a lot
like the payload mode from TF two,

533
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:56.319
Like you're kind of moving a single
platform back and forth, fighting for

534
00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:59.960
control over it. I'm curious to
see how like how you know, because

535
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:04.240
the level of communication is well,
you can say what come on and boo

536
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:10.039
yahoo yeah. Yeah. So you
know, the more they go go into

537
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:14.599
mode variants that might require actual teamwork, the more like the lack of communication

538
00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:18.400
might expose itself. But I mean
whatever, I don't ever want to talk

539
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:21.440
to anyone while playing any shooter or
ever. So it's I want to talk

540
00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.400
to friends, you know, if
we do form a team like banks or

541
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.839
something like that, Yeah, that
would be you know great. But you

542
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:29.759
know, I can I can certainly
see why they did not turn on voice

543
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:32.079
chat in this game. The ink
stuff is such a unique mechanic in that

544
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:33.839
genre though, you know, I
mean, somebody those games are literally just

545
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.119
based on kill counts in terms of
who wins me. You know, It's

546
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:41.240
like there's stuff where I'm going,
like you know, six and one and

547
00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:42.759
in a game or something like that, and then it's like that none of

548
00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:47.599
that even matters taching third because there's
there's such a you know, they emphasize

549
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:49.960
the aspect of territory control so much
that like, there are definitely spots where

550
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:52.759
you could see it would be nice
to be able to coordinate with people.

551
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.480
But they do such a good job
of like that second screen to find out

552
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.200
where everybody is. And one of
the things that I love the most does

553
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.160
like after you uh, you know, respawn, you can actually tap one

554
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:06.440
of your teammates and you just jump
directly to the use that all the time.

555
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:08.079
That is so cool. That's it. I really wish I could use

556
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:11.119
the proof controller, thinking yeah,
I know, yeah, what what what

557
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.599
would you get out of the I
don't like the game pad really what.

558
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.680
I don't really okay, I mean, because it's like it's just like it's

559
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.039
the button placement is almost identical.
It's just just stretched apart a little bit.

560
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:26.440
You know. It's like there's no
yeah, I wasn't getting bad cramps,

561
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:27.680
but it does make my hands kind
of ache after a while using a

562
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:32.440
thing. It's just like a weight. Maybe maybe that's what it is.

563
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:34.880
It's just unwieldy, Like I couldn't
imagine using the motion controls with that thing.

564
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.039
Oh it's great, because it's just
it is so cumbersome. I like

565
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:41.200
looking at the map and noticing that
there's a huge war going on in one

566
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.200
part of the map and then seeing
like the enemy's color somewhere and no one's

567
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:45.920
over there. It's like, oh, I'm just gonna go over there.

568
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:49.039
It is a little janitor guy and
clear no one's messing with me. It

569
00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:52.160
is fun to get sneaky. Yeah, and you go take a bunch of

570
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.640
stuff. Uh. People out there
who are not immediately painting their own base,

571
00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.759
Yeah, y'all are crazy. Yeah, Like I keep getting that.

572
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.480
I like, what are you doing? Which I have found that one of

573
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:06.839
my favorite things to do now is
to make sure, like if I do

574
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:08.680
the paint roller, I hang back
in like my half of the map,

575
00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:13.720
and I make sure that every area
is very thoroughly covered, because I find

576
00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:15.640
that the winning team is usually one
that like doesn't have a lot of splotchy

577
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:19.079
things on their side, because you
know that all kind of adds up.

578
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.720
Yea, it's gonna be harder walls. I don't know. You get points,

579
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.200
you get the p points or whatever
it does. Okay, it does,

580
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:28.000
Okay, that goes with the percentage, Okay, okay, cool.

581
00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:30.599
Huh. It's it's so much fun. I like, I like to jet

582
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.319
to the middle of the map as
fast as possible, Like too, I'm

583
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:36.640
gonna die out there an awful lot, but I'm gonna paint you know,

584
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:37.640
more of my base. You know
every time that I that I respect.

585
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.559
That's why I'm taking the bas is
so important because the like the areas the

586
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:45.640
skirmishes are taking taking place are almost
never in one of the two bases.

587
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:47.720
It's always in the middle of the
maps. I'm definitely like respond. I've

588
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:50.599
been like, oh, there's like
three people from the other team here,

589
00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:53.240
like occasionally occasionally got bad, they'll
warm their way in there. Sometimes.

590
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:57.519
I love that feeling sometimes at the
end of the matches when it just kind

591
00:32:57.559 --> 00:32:59.519
of zooms in on the map and
you're looking at it and it's like,

592
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:01.200
I think we might have more paint
than them, and you do the good

593
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:05.400
guys bad guys thing like that.
Stupid cat. Yeah it's cool, that's

594
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:08.079
that's stupid Cat's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, I really like that game.

595
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:10.440
It's it's a fun game, you
know, it would it would be

596
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:15.000
almost unforgivably thin though if this free
content wasn't coming. Well yeah, and

597
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:17.359
I'm curious see how much of that
that there is, because I mean it's

598
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:20.680
one of tho things where you look
at it is like a sixty dollars product

599
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:23.279
with like a single player mode that's
really doesn't seem that great and you know,

600
00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:27.039
six aps for multiplayer. I feel
like, I feel like this game

601
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:29.839
would be if this were like a
call like a you know, you're kind

602
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:34.839
of typical online shooter, it would
be getting vicerated for absolutely what's in there.

603
00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.279
Yeah, it's the thing would be
like a twenty dollars downloadable or something

604
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:40.559
in a lot of other cases or
something. But it's fucking rad. But

605
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:44.680
but also since they are making good
with this, these all these add ons

606
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.079
that are supposed to coming, like
they're out there. They haven't been very

607
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:50.160
specific, but they've been using language
like summer of free content or something.

608
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:52.880
That's the headline. I've been seeing
like they're committing to some number of weeks

609
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:54.880
of stuff. As it's actually like
the way that like the you know,

610
00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:59.400
the maps rotate, Yeah, we
have the old TV station come out.

611
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:00.440
Hey, these are the two maps
are gonna find right now? They have

612
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:05.279
they explained, like what the philosophy
is though behind limiting it to only two

613
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.759
of them. I mean, you're
asking Nintendo to explain philosophy. Yeah,

614
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:09.159
I don't think you're gonna. So, I just don't understand what the goal

615
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:13.119
is there maybe, or how is
that supposed to be beneficial? Maybe?

616
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:15.719
I mean I'm just guessing here.
Maybe it's for load out purposes to where

617
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:16.800
if you see it's like two maps
that you know, it's better to have

618
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:21.480
close range stuff. It's like,
Okay, hang on to this load out

619
00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:22.480
for an hour or whatever, because
I know it's not going to go into

620
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.800
this big like oil rig level or
whatever. Sure, So I don't know.

621
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:29.199
I guess that Dada stually makes a
lot of sense. I like the

622
00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:31.079
skatepark, Yeah, skate parks fund. The mall's fun. Actually. I

623
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.280
like all the maps. Yeah.
The warehouse is good. Yeah. The

624
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:37.480
skatepark's weird to take a roller into
because of all those curved surfaces that you

625
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:39.840
kind of came from the Yeah.
I like the mobility stuff when you're a

626
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:43.000
squid, when you're just trying to
get around real fast. It's like hopping

627
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.679
off those little like half pipes and
stuff. It's pretty cool. Often does

628
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:51.400
the clothing stuff the accessories rotates?
I I can check every time I level

629
00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:52.679
up, okay, and I try
to see if there's like new stars,

630
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:54.920
because you know all my stuff.
I'm two or three stars now, I'm

631
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:58.880
like, yeah, level six or
seven, and nothing has rotated to you.

632
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:00.760
I don't know if it's a daily
thing. It's based on level,

633
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:02.840
but every time I level up,
I want to say that there's new stuff

634
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:07.320
available. That's for weapons for sure. Yeah. The clothing stuff, yeah,

635
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:08.639
I'm not sure. I'm not positive. I'll check again tonight. We'll

636
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:12.480
see. I have way too much
cash. And there's a weird peedy guy.

637
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:15.440
You can order clothes from the urchin
which last time I played, I

638
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:17.960
ordered clothes and I haven't gone back
to since to like pick them up or

639
00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:22.880
whatever it is. I don't know
that's you keep right, But like you

640
00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:23.840
said, straight up, he's like, yeah, you're probably not gonna get

641
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:27.039
the perks they have on their clothes, but you'll look just like them.

642
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:29.480
So like, do you keep the
perks you had on your previous quarters?

643
00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:31.880
I kind of assumed that it would
be like it would be the clothing would

644
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:36.199
show up, but it would be
different perks, that's my guest. Yeah,

645
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:37.360
or when you level it up,
you know, you go through that

646
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.840
slot machine thing again, like yeah, I think you just get the look

647
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:45.039
of it. She goes play that
weird arcade game. Yeah, yeah,

648
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:47.920
squid Jump, Yeah yeah, what
is that based off of it? Will

649
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:51.639
do? It looks like, yeah, I do wonder if you hit a

650
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:53.559
certain score, if you get some
or something that was I wonder if that

651
00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:57.280
will be Nintendo's first mobile game.
They just put that out on iOS.

652
00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:00.440
Go there you go fake any s
game phone, right, Have you guys

653
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:04.360
figured out what the thing is?
It looks like a little like dollar sign

654
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:08.400
or a dollar bill with eyeballs on
it. At the lobby screen smoking idea

655
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:12.360
plus time, So yes, the
I'd went and talk to the cat and

656
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.440
the cat told me about it.
It's the sort of thing where like when

657
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:17.079
you get on a roll, I
think you get a multiplier but also give

658
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:20.519
way more to lose if you then
lose the most, okay, because yeah,

659
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:22.000
I might sit out at like plus
nine. It said like smoking and

660
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:27.199
I was trying to tell it it
doesn't make it clear points or think it

661
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.599
is something of a multiplier, okay
for your stuff. Huh, yeah,

662
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:35.119
it's a nice game. Yeah,
it's all right. Man, that's pretty

663
00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:37.320
unanimous. Cool. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean,

664
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.599
I I it's hard to imagine the
person who could sit down and just hate

665
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:44.039
that game. Yeah, I don't
like. At worst, you can think

666
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:46.000
it's just a neat novel. I
can understand why people, like, some

667
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:50.519
people could come away disappointed just from
the like the amount of contents there are

668
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:52.239
things, the amount of multiplayer content
in it or something. You know,

669
00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:57.119
the fundamentals are pretty strong. Though
you look around, it's not getting like

670
00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:59.440
tens or whatever. But everyone's like, yeah, this is really fun to

671
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.039
play exactly. Yeah. And they
you know, they tried something new in

672
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:06.559
an online shooter. Yeah, it's
commendable. It's a very Unnintendo game,

673
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:07.760
and it's it's really kind of cool
to see them do that. Yeah.

674
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:10.320
Yeah, it's not all you played
this weekend. No, I just played

675
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:13.880
end your whole weekend. I played
a lot Latin in the other the thing

676
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.880
I played the most this weekend.
I also I played a lot of Witcher.

677
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.199
You know, nothing to beyond what
we've talked about the last couple of

678
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:22.039
weeks. Followed a couple of quest
lines pretty far that go into some weird

679
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.280
places, the bloody barren stuff.
I've done a lot of that, and

680
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:29.639
that's all pretty cool stuff. You
gotta finish that up. It's I'm going

681
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:32.320
to some weird places with that.
I don't want to get spoilery with it.

682
00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:36.079
That's where I put the game down. I made. I made the

683
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:39.360
very painful decision to put that game
down until they fix it. Oh yeah,

684
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:44.239
yeah, yeah. There's just too
many people having some crazy issues with

685
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.840
that game, like game breaking stuff
with the XP bugs and stuff like that.

686
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.639
So that's been lucky so far.
Yeah, I mean, it's it

687
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:52.960
seems like the kind of thing that
you wouldn't notice unless you were really paying

688
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:57.119
attention, because like they just there's
like severe problems with the leveling progression.

689
00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:00.840
It's all for a lot of like
our forums there there's threat on our forums

690
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:02.760
full of people who like people were
like, oh, I was playing all

691
00:38:02.760 --> 00:38:06.559
weekend and then I realized I hadn't
been getting any experience and I'm not leveling

692
00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:08.639
up for doing like major story quests, and it's like, huh, that's

693
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:12.440
the only viable way to level up
in that game because monsters give you shit

694
00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.599
for XP so they said the fixes. The patch is coming very soon on

695
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:20.159
PC and like pretty after for consoles. So I think I've done that so

696
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:22.960
far because yeah, like it's obviously
it's not gonna hit everybody. But it's

697
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:24.559
one of those things where if you
didn't catch it until after you had been

698
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:28.119
playing for a few hours and then
realized it had been a problem, it's

699
00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:29.920
just like fun. I don't want
to go back and do all that again.

700
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:36.159
So outside of that, I beat
Strangers Wrath awesome game. That twist

701
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:39.599
that Jeff brought up. I guess
there was one guy on Tumblr that said,

702
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:43.880
please don't spoil it. Is it
fair to say we can spoil this

703
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:45.000
ten year old game? Untill that
guy to stop listening right now for a

704
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.719
second. I'm gonna I don't want
to hear it like I actually do,

705
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:52.480
And yeah, I actually want.
It's a really cool moment, okay,

706
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:55.119
And I'll say it plays well in
twenty fifteen. I played it with no

707
00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:59.199
nostalgia or anything. First time started, you know, a couple of weeks

708
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:01.280
ago. It's a great game.
It's pretty cheap on I think it's just

709
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:06.800
on Vita. I looked on the
PS three story search for its three,

710
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:08.440
and I've played a bunch of it
on PS three. It is absolutely on

711
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:13.440
There is there any unless I know
it exists because I saw it on YouTube

712
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:15.519
and stuff, But like I searched
for Odd World, unless it's I didn't

713
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:19.679
imagine why they would have taken it
down. But huh, well, regardless,

714
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:22.320
play the game. It's super cool. I think the whole way through

715
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:24.239
is really fun. So beat that. And then Brad, I had the

716
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:28.159
same thing that I know you've got, were that promotional credit we had to

717
00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.440
spend, and so I was,
what am I gonna buy? I've got

718
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:32.960
fifteen dollars left. I can't find
anything. I had thirty five. Actually

719
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:36.679
originally I had sixty, but I
got it down to thirty five. I

720
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:38.559
wound up buying on Friday night.
Where's that? Where did that even come

721
00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:40.920
from? I had, Like,
I don't know where the twenty bucks in

722
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:45.159
my account came from. I don't
either it's the first box rewards or I

723
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:49.559
don't know. Yeah, one of
those things where they credit you some it's

724
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:51.719
like, oh, you bought this
than this and this, there's five bucks

725
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:53.800
or something. Yeah, yeah,
and it seems crazy to me that that

726
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:58.320
stuff expires. But yeah, I
because I have credit on PSN two and

727
00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:00.320
that has not expired. So I
don't know what's going on. But Friday

728
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:02.480
night, I was like, well, okay, and six fires on Monday.

729
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:05.840
I need to just buy a bunch
of stuff right now. And there's

730
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:07.639
no sixty dollars stuff I wanted.
Anything I wanted to pre order, you

731
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:12.079
couldn't do yet. You know,
it was all stuff that comes out much

732
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.280
later. So I got I wrote
them down. Sixty second Shooter Prime,

733
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:22.320
yep, nut Jitsu, beach buggy
Racing okay, and I bought shovel Night

734
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.719
again. Yeah, so those are
what I bought. And then I just

735
00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:29.519
spinxbox one. They'll just let anybody
in there. Well, the thing is

736
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:31.400
like, everything's that thousand achievement points
now, and for the first time in

737
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:34.159
years, it's like, you know
what, I'm just gonna have an achievement

738
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:37.360
hunting night. And so Friday night, since I'm not going out because I

739
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:39.599
don't want to drink since Mexico,
I just sat around just trying to get

740
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:44.400
achievements all night, and sixty second
Shooter Prime is actually pretty cool. Yeah,

741
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:47.679
it's it's kind of a paired down
geometry world. Yeah, there was

742
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:51.480
this video that on the side.
I mean for those forty five minutes I

743
00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:53.239
played and the like nine hundred achieving
points or whatever, I go. It

744
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:57.280
was fun, you know, and
it was like seven bucks or something.

745
00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:00.559
Uh, nut Jitsu, You're a
little spot. That's Is that from the

746
00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:05.440
Kingdom of the Keflings guy? Oh, isn't really sure. The UI is

747
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:07.159
weird because the game, the part
of the game you actually play, takes

748
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.519
up like sixty percent of the screen, so it looks like like a High

749
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:14.639
West game that they just put borders
on or something. But yeah, you're

750
00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:17.280
a ninja squirrel and you run around
and you're you're collecting nuts and avoiding foxes.

751
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:22.239
And then Beach Buggy Racing I think
is a mobile port of a cart

752
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:24.239
racing game. That's all right,
So that's that was my Friday night,

753
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:28.199
was just playing those games and trying
to get achievements, but had a good

754
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.360
time. You like to live on
the wild side? Wow? Yeah.

755
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:31.360
Yeah, it turns out when you're
not going out and drink and you just

756
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:36.119
sit around playing beach Buggy Racing.
Yeah. Nut Chittsu is from Ninja b

757
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:40.960
oh yeah yeah that's Kels folks.
Yeah, crazy yeah cool. Yeah.

758
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:44.599
Just a ton of games this weekend. Next well much Jeff, Hello,

759
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:50.920
what is happening? I don't know? Man been wild? Yeah yeah,

760
00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:53.159
so yeah, I don't know.
I played some Splatoon since we last spoke,

761
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.280
mean like five minutes ago. Yeah, you've been over there, like

762
00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.840
playing it under the table totally game. Uh. And then some of the

763
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:04.199
stuff that I saw while I was
out of the office is now like available

764
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:08.280
to talk about. I don't necessarily
have a ton to say about this stuff,

765
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:14.679
but uh yeah rock band four they
had an event. You played it?

766
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:16.079
I played it? Okay, It's
cool, all right. Like the

767
00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:22.480
stuff they're doing is cool stuff.
It's stuff that you wouldn't necessarily think of,

768
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:24.320
Like you think about like, well, what do you do for the

769
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:28.639
like the next rock band? You
think like, you know, structural changes

770
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:30.079
around how some of that stuff works, I guess. But like the the

771
00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:32.440
some of the stuff they're doing,
I mean the stuff that they've previously kind

772
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:36.280
of talked about, like vocal improvisation
and stuff like you know, you're singing

773
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.239
in key but not exactly the way
the song was written. You're still getting

774
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:44.719
some points for that, they kind
of string together songs into uh you know,

775
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:47.400
uh like shows. They have a
whole shows concept where it's like,

776
00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:50.360
you know, at the end of
the song and be like, ah,

777
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.599
you know what song you want to
play next? Or Hey, the crowd

778
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:54.440
really wants to hear this, do
you want to play it? And then

779
00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:59.800
maybe they'll demand noncore of playing.
I feel like they did that in another

780
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.840
rock band game. Sounds familiar,
like in their kind of story mode thing

781
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:07.960
or something, but like this is
a little more strung together, and there's

782
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.719
like banter so like between songs,
like it'll just straight up and say like,

783
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:15.960
how are you doing out there?
And then city it's just the bill

784
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:17.599
just at a city name, which
I imagine they're just going to have a

785
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:22.880
you know, document full of city
names that they'll pull in name, it's

786
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:25.159
good to be back here, city
name, and uh and yeah, I

787
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:29.760
don't know it was it's it was
good to see, uh, you know,

788
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:32.639
more rock band, but still rock
band. It is still rock band.

789
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:36.960
I hear it's an RPG. I
don't know, it's the case one

790
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:38.119
of the headlines going around. No, I mean, I don't know,

791
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:40.360
like we just played rock band.
It was it was. There was no,

792
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:45.239
there was not much of a look
at the kind of some of that

793
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.400
stuff string it together. But there
are new systems in place for like drum

794
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:53.280
fills and some of the stuff that
are pretty interesting. So uh there it's

795
00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:57.440
they're making gameplay changes to that game
that I think are cool. I can

796
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.559
wait to see. What else?
Can you talk about? Batman? Batman?

797
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:05.039
Yeah? Have you heard of him? I like that guy. His

798
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:09.000
parents died from crime, shame,
so he decided to fight crime as the

799
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:16.639
Man of Steel, and the they're
making a video game based on his exploits.

800
00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:20.239
Finally, Yeah, it is about
time. Yeah, I'm waiting for

801
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:28.119
years. Arkham Knighted. It looks
really great and it was a four four

802
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.000
really yeah, I don't feel like
there's something people are saying a lot about

803
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:36.360
console games lately. Uh yeah,
yeah, it just it looks awesome.

804
00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:37.800
You know, it's a really great
looking up grade. I mean, you

805
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:43.239
know, the Arkham games have looked
great, super super strong arts. It

806
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:49.400
just it looks very nice and it's
a Batman game. I don't know,

807
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.559
you like this. I feel like, you know, like the one of

808
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:53.840
the core things they like if he
seems like the core change they're making is

809
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:57.960
hey, there's the Batmobile. And
the more I see if the Batmobile,

810
00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:01.239
the more I don't think gets a
great addition to the game. I think

811
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:05.000
I might be with you. How
necessary is it to get around? I

812
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.280
mean, can you still do the
grappling? So I'll give you an example.

813
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:08.800
There was a quest that I had
to complete. There was like,

814
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:13.400
I don't like you have a big
radial menu with all your available missions.

815
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.159
You kind of selects, like the
selected the Penguin, and it's like,

816
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:19.679
here's the next penguin mission. So
I walk through a door. There's two

817
00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:21.960
turrets around the corner. If I
walk around that corner, I'm just dead

818
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:27.679
and there's kind of nothing I can
do except wait, there's a like a

819
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:31.360
little fuse box or something on the
opposite wall that when I hit they roll

820
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:37.039
up. Door rolls up. And
then from that point I still can't walk

821
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:40.639
around the corner. Somebody get shot. But I can call the batmobile,

822
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:45.559
which can you know you can control
remotely even when you're not inside of it.

823
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.679
So you got to switch control back
and forth between you and the Batmobile.

824
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.239
So the situation there is you switch
to batmobile, drive it over through

825
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:57.079
this roll up door, shoot those
turrets apart, and then switch back to

826
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.280
Batman and then continue forward. And
it was the sort of thing like it

827
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.239
was like to cover basically four feet
of space took me switching back and forth

828
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:08.440
a couple of times in a way
that wasn't especially fun or interesting, And

829
00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:12.559
it was the sort of thing like
this, this is not making this game

830
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.400
better, Like, shouldn't I also
be able to just throw an exploding batter

831
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.159
rang around this corner and kill that
thing? Yeah? Do you get the

832
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:21.920
sense that it would be literally impossible
to do it on foot? Like is

833
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:27.760
it required? I believe that's my
understanding was that that was the solution to

834
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:31.360
that particular problem. Uh and yeah, so I mean driving the Batmobile,

835
00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:35.159
there's like some cool stuff about it. You know, launch yourself out of

836
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:37.320
it and then like right in the
flight, right right right, Yeah,

837
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.719
she stave way up in the air. And then as you're in the air,

838
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:44.159
dive vombing, kicking people, doing
you know what, whatever the fuck

839
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:47.400
you're doing, you then can as
you're floating down to call the Batmobile and

840
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:50.960
then you land right in it,
and so you're going they've been they've been

841
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:53.599
touting that for a while is that
something you aim at It just seek No,

842
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:57.840
you just you hit the call Batmobile
button while you're in the air,

843
00:46:57.880 --> 00:46:59.960
and you're just gonna lay the rest
of it happen no matter what. Yeah,

844
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:01.800
okay, So, and it's you
feel kind of rad as you're doing

845
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:05.400
it. You're like, fucking ay
Man jumped out of this car, eat

846
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:07.079
the guy's ass and then landing back
in the car. Yeah. Uh,

847
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:14.000
and that's that's neat. What reminds
me of what Batman or Batmobile designed they're

848
00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:19.320
going with. Is it like the
Christopher Nolan like militarized tumbler looking When you

849
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:21.920
pull the left trigger, it turns
into a fucking hover till I know that,

850
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:23.519
you know, like it is all
armored up and has a tank and

851
00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:27.559
is very dark and black and dark. Okay, so it's it's looks like

852
00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:30.880
a piece of military hardware. Yeah. Yeah, I feel Tim Burton yea,

853
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:34.480
even I love the Tim Burtons,
even the first one. It's yeah,

854
00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.239
it's it's like the Cadillac of batmobiles. Yeah. Yeah, so this

855
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:38.679
thing just yeah, I mean,
at any point you can pull that left

856
00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:42.519
trigger and start hovering around, which
you know, it gets back to like

857
00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:45.079
a lot of the weird car combat
stuff I think we were talking about last

858
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.159
week. It's just weird having a
car in general in there, because even

859
00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:50.400
in Larkha City, you know,
like the best way to get around the

860
00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:52.239
city was just fly over it.
I didn't actually play it for myself,

861
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:54.800
but there's a Riddler mission in there
that where you're just kind of driving in

862
00:47:54.840 --> 00:48:00.679
a tube and ceiling and rotating.
That's gonna be like a lot of those.

863
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:04.280
Yeah, that was practically like a
race slash like obstacle for mission.

864
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:07.239
Yeah. No, one's very clearly
just like contrived for a car. Yeah,

865
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:08.760
And I just spend some time looking
at us like that's not that's not

866
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:14.280
why I'm here. It looked kind
of dumb, yeah, you know whatever,

867
00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:16.599
Like you know, those most open
world games have little racing side missions

868
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:21.599
of various types. You're you're absolutely
right, so and you know, as

869
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:23.440
far as I combat's concerned, you
know, I was talking to someone over

870
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:25.840
there, and it sounds like they've
had a lot of more situational awareness for

871
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:30.519
Batman bashing the people's heads into walls
if you're in the wall and that sort

872
00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:32.199
of stuff. But Nightwing is there, so in this mission, it was

873
00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:36.199
like, uh, you know,
the situation was like, okay, well,

874
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:37.440
as soon as I get to these
guys, Nightwing you should show up

875
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:40.320
and help. And so as soon
as you get there to where you like,

876
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:44.280
as soon as you start the fight, Nightwing arrives. And then there

877
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:49.320
are takedowns and dual takedowns where you
basically switch control to night Wing midfight and

878
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.559
you are playing as Nightwing for a
while and you have the full same combat

879
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:55.199
system and then you can switch right
back to Batman, but you can switch

880
00:48:55.199 --> 00:49:00.880
as you're doing takedowns. So it
is the same kind of like relatively easy.

881
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:02.840
I mean, you know, it's
the same basic concepts for combat.

882
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:07.440
You know, you're you're doing your
thing and just fucking up large rooms full

883
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:12.320
of people. Yeah, and and
that's still super fun. And the night

884
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:14.119
Wing stuff, at least in that
demo, like I don't know if they

885
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:16.280
had everybody upgraded or whatever it is. It just felt like like I'm gonna

886
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:20.360
switched to night Wing to win this
fight and switch back and forth between two

887
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.199
characters, because each time you switch
it was a takedown. Just when you

888
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.000
switch it an auto take. It's
like the on screen prompt is like night

889
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.159
Wing dual takedown, you just hit
the button, you switch to the other

890
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.079
character. You fucking murder somebody in
the process, or like basically it's like

891
00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:37.239
you kick someone over to Nightwing,
he crushes him, and then then you're

892
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:43.559
playing his Nightwing. So but it
looks great, Like the process of all

893
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:45.800
that stuff looks awesome. It's almost
like in a fighting game when you do

894
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:50.360
one of those moves to summon in
your other guys in. Yeah, but

895
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:52.679
it seems like it all happens automatical. It seems like the kind of thing

896
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:57.079
that looks great the first time and
by the twentieth time, I don't know,

897
00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:59.599
it's yeah, well we'll see.
I'm yeah. I mean, I

898
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:01.920
think that game looks really nice,
and obviously there's going to be a whole

899
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:05.760
lot to it, but I worry
that, like the things they're adding aren't

900
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:07.519
necessarily making the game better. Yeah, I mean that was you know,

901
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:12.239
whatever, personal preference. Not everybody
feels this way, but I already felt

902
00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:14.920
they had that problem with Arkham City
to an extent. You know, like

903
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.559
like Arkham Asylum was such an incredibly
well designed and focused thing, and then

904
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.280
they kind of deluded that a little
bit with you know, by by expanding

905
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:25.199
it out in the city and filling
the city to an extent with content that

906
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.920
was not as strong. Yeah,
yeah, but I think that you know,

907
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:32.519
that was like it was cool to
see kind of a larger open world

908
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:36.079
to take on that concept. I
think that, you know, for what

909
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:38.159
it lost in focus, it gained
and just kind of breadth breath. Sure,

910
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.320
And and I feel like that third
game, like Origins, I think

911
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:47.079
was not a good game. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't just say definitively

912
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:50.119
it's a bad game, but I
mean it was a different studio, you

913
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:52.960
know, like yeah, totally totally, but it's for it. But at

914
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.920
the same time, like you know, it does mean that now this is

915
00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:59.159
the fourth one of these, like
Rocksteady can get up there and talk about

916
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.360
the end of their really all there
all they will certainly do, but this

917
00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:06.599
is the fourth one of those games
that Warner has published, and and you

918
00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:08.440
know, it's a little long in
the tooth at this at this point,

919
00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:13.599
also, everyone has stolen Batman's Combat. Yeah, I don't know that too

920
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:15.920
many games have done it better,
but everyone has taken it. I'm trying

921
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:22.800
to think if anybody's done it better. I think it's always just has it's

922
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:25.679
a suite of cool special moves.
Moret I always thought of Mortar is like

923
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:30.199
a sloppier and more forgiving and kind
of like, I don't want to say

924
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.599
more fun version, but it was
definitely a lot more forgiving, you know,

925
00:51:32.639 --> 00:51:36.920
a lot leading do you drop a
combo in mortor if you hit and

926
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:39.679
miss or if you've mist someone like
you was still very much that like you

927
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.519
hatch the buttons, you're gonna drop
your combos. That was Mortar. Yeah,

928
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:45.320
let you get away with a lot
more missus and stuff, and there's

929
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:49.039
a lot of slop there. Like
Batman, is still precise in the way

930
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.079
that you expect it to be,
like I thought it, Like in Asylum,

931
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.920
it was such an like a revelation
that I did every fucking combat challenge

932
00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:58.079
I let's do in that game.
I was like, this is incredible.

933
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:00.440
I need more of this. But
at the same time, I even even

934
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:01.400
if no one has done it better, like the number of games that have

935
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:05.880
cribbed from it, and and you
know, kind of built onto that system

936
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:07.880
or just taking that system whole cloth, like it, it means that it

937
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:12.079
even if they're still doing it better
than anyone else, it is not as

938
00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:15.400
impactful as it was, I guess, especially four games in so like I

939
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:20.280
still better enjoy. Absolutely, I'm
not saying it's a bad system. I'm

940
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:23.079
just saying that, like now having
done it through let's say two and a

941
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:27.840
half games, because I didn't finish
Origins, Uh, I don't know that

942
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.440
I want to. It's it's not
a draw. It's not something that I'm

943
00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:31.079
like, oh, I can't wait
to get back to that combat. It's

944
00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:36.400
like, I've done this multiple times
and it's not necessarily going to be a

945
00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:38.239
big differentiator at this point. Yeah, they're a little more going through the

946
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:40.239
motions. Yeah, but you know, they've got an upgrade path for you

947
00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:44.159
and all that sort of stuff,
like you're you're building, you're building your

948
00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:46.280
own Batman. Is it a bigger
city now that you have the Batman bill

949
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:50.039
and everything to feel like a new
city, It's still you know, I

950
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.079
didn't I didn't transcribe all the points
about the demo, But yes, I'm

951
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.480
sure that one of the things like
this is the biggest Batman ever. I'm

952
00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:59.079
sure at some point someone said that
very excitedly. They'd almost have to have

953
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.280
for them to be making this game. But yeah, I'm confident that it

954
00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:07.079
will be another Batman game, and
there will certainly be some pretty awesome moments

955
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:09.559
in it. I just wonder how
it'll all shake out in the end.

956
00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:15.000
I'm absolutely fine with it, man. I loved the first three games enough

957
00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:16.559
to where it's like, Okay,
give me more. I'm okay with that.

958
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:20.800
Yeah, yeah, one more,
Yeah, yeah, one more fun

959
00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:22.480
that's it, And that's that's seems
to be what they're saying, is that

960
00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:25.519
this is the last. If the
rock Steady turned around and made a fourth

961
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:29.159
one of these, like, it
would go against absolutely everything they have said.

962
00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:32.880
What if they started a new trilogy
of Batman? I would I'm like,

963
00:53:34.039 --> 00:53:37.760
I'm super excited to see rock Steady
do something that's not Batman because they

964
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:39.880
kind of came on the scene with
Arkham Asylums they've never done. There was

965
00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:44.000
all that talk for a while that
they wanted to do Superman and take on

966
00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:45.440
that challenge, and then I think
it wasn't. Wasn't there also a rumor

967
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:50.199
about them doing and then Turtles game. Yeah, Well that's just probably because

968
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:53.000
they were named rock Steady. I
don't know if it was a rumor getting

969
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:55.920
that one. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, super excited to see that

970
00:53:55.960 --> 00:54:00.639
studio do something else. Yeah,
and then I don't know, I think

971
00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:04.079
we were going to talk about it
in news, but well, I've got

972
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:06.079
the press release in front of me. We just talked about it now.

973
00:54:06.119 --> 00:54:10.280
So Lego Dimensions, another Warner release. This is there. There, buy

974
00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:15.320
some figures, put it on the
portal toys. It's part. It's part

975
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:20.559
of the Toys to Life category,
the burgeoning Toys Life category. Oh I

976
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:22.440
figured it was. That's kind of
everywhere at this point, right, Like,

977
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.119
so yeah, if if if if, if the deal had not been

978
00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:30.159
sealed already, Ambos came along and
turned it into a bonafide on. I

979
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:32.880
just feel like Ambos are a different
thing a little bit. I mean,

980
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:37.440
it's it's definitely separate from you know, like Skylanders. Yeah, like when

981
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.960
when you put Skylanders or Infinity things
or even these Lego things on the thing

982
00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:45.719
you play as that character, it's
a it's a massive gameplay change, whereas

983
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:51.239
Ambo seems like, you know,
you could here's a way to unlock collectible

984
00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:54.320
things. Say, Ambos are a
bad version of of what this type of

985
00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:58.000
thing can be. Yeah, sure, but you know, but still kind

986
00:54:58.039 --> 00:55:00.360
of like the same. It's still
a collectible thing based on characters. Yes,

987
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:05.079
yeah, so Lego Dimensions is their
version of this game, and I

988
00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:08.440
just I think they're just like so
far away from what like a Lego when

989
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:13.679
you think about the Lego brand of
bricks swearing you build your own thing.

990
00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:19.639
Yeah yeah, I mean, but
the figures will come with bricks, Like

991
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:22.000
the figures are real Legos that like
the versions we saw, you could remove

992
00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:24.679
them from the bass. It was
like, here's a Batman, dude,

993
00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:27.920
and you can take them off the
base and he's just a Lego man.

994
00:55:28.039 --> 00:55:31.360
Can you take them apart? Like? Can you take these vehicle? Figures

995
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:36.159
will come with additional pieces, so
you can you can build your little batmobile

996
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:39.840
or you can rebuild it into a
sonic tank thing with the additional parts.

997
00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:44.719
But that's not what adjust things in
gameplay. At no point does it know

998
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:46.400
what Legos like you rip all off
and just put the bass on there if

999
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:52.679
you want, But that's that's their
thing for the endgame thing is you every

1000
00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:55.679
vehicle can be upgraded multiple times,
so at some point you turn the Batmobile

1001
00:55:55.760 --> 00:56:00.800
into some kind of sonic batmobile that
can blow up blue brick. Someone tells

1002
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:02.239
you, like, oh, follow
these instructions now make it look like this

1003
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:05.599
on screen. It will show you
the instructions and you can look at any

1004
00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:07.800
time to say like, hey,
here's how you can reconfigure this toy to

1005
00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:09.960
look like the one in game.
But you don't gotta. It's kind of

1006
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:15.000
cool though, I mean I would
do that, you know, if you're

1007
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:15.960
a kid, that'd be fun.
But what if you needed to switch back

1008
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:19.480
to the regular Batmobile? Would you
then take it apart again? Like,

1009
00:56:19.639 --> 00:56:23.000
like, will pause the game and
take it apart? I assume it's like

1010
00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:25.840
a permanent like, oh, you
upgraded the battle. It seems like it's

1011
00:56:25.880 --> 00:56:30.480
more situational. Oh okay, well
but but I'm not sure about that.

1012
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:34.480
So is the game? I mean, you know, like the Lego video

1013
00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:37.559
game franchise is lengthy and storied at
this point, Like is it one of

1014
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:39.440
those absolutely? Yeah, you were
walking around punching stuff. They have different

1015
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:43.800
abilities. You can you know,
who can build things on the platform?

1016
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:46.039
Who can you hold down the button
to make these legos? You're building something,

1017
00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:50.400
You're building things, you're finding the
gold bricks. Yes, okay,

1018
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:53.360
okay, I mean they're like you
know character gates where it's like, oh,

1019
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:57.960
you cannot go down this area unless
you buy it's character style. So

1020
00:56:58.239 --> 00:57:00.199
I think I think it will.
It'll end up being a little bit like

1021
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:04.039
original Skylanders where they had the kind
of the different affinities, the elemental stuff,

1022
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:07.719
and I think you will have characters
like you know, even in the

1023
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:10.599
other like Lego Games has done this
textbook Travelers Tales. It's like, oh,

1024
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:14.079
you need a you need a building
character to get in. Yeah,

1025
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:16.960
so instead of being able to unlock
like a hundred characters in game, or

1026
00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:20.320
maybe they'll still do that, but
you know, you could just go buy

1027
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.760
them at a store, are they
gonna be kind of insidious? Yeah?

1028
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:29.320
They seems here's this thing where sixty
fires. Well, so yeah it is.

1029
00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:31.960
It's a weird thing because there's such
a precedence for them doing these sorts

1030
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:37.119
of games that then bolting all the
toys onto what is sort of similar to

1031
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:42.679
their existing concepts seems a little crazier
than just starting with that from the get

1032
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:45.719
go, the way Skylanders and Infinity
did. And in their defense, the

1033
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:51.400
range of properties they're incorporating. One
thing is they've got a story mode that

1034
00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:53.760
is based on the mash up.
Like you think about Infinity, it's you

1035
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.760
know, you're going to play in
the Pirates play set, and you're gonna

1036
00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:00.960
use Pirates characters to experience this store
end a fucking story. If you want

1037
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:04.559
to match things together, it's in
the toy box and they're you know,

1038
00:58:04.639 --> 00:58:07.360
the toy box is cool and then
to all this other stuff, but it's

1039
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:10.760
not the story mode in a video
game. So the one thing Lego to

1040
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:15.519
mentions is doing is like they are
they are bringing together all of these things

1041
00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:17.599
into something resembling a cohesive story from
the looks of it. So it's like

1042
00:58:19.119 --> 00:58:27.800
the starter kit will get you Batman, uh Gandolf and some lady from some

1043
00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:30.400
property that I think it might just
be Ninja Go or you know, some

1044
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:35.679
Lego pros. Lego Ninjago is listed
here the fan fiction what's her name?

1045
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:43.800
Her name is a star fire cool
lady. I don't know DC, and

1046
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:46.360
there's just Warner Brothers Marvels in there. Mark Warner owns DC. It's a

1047
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:51.679
Marvel. But I'm so confused because
there's Disney Infinity, which is also that

1048
00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:59.840
Marvel, right, but then they
made publishing the game, so Marvel isn't

1049
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:01.840
with Disney infin of the and Lego
dimensions, they made, didn't they make

1050
00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:05.119
They made a Lego Morto. There
is no Marvel, and they made a

1051
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:08.760
Lego Marvel. There is no Marvel
Lego dimensions. There is no Star Wars

1052
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:15.599
in Lego dimensions, but there is
Midway Arcade? Are there nark guys?

1053
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:17.960
I don't know. They didn't say
anything of it, so they just spit

1054
00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:21.840
out a list of properties, and
it's like it's crazy stuff because it's like

1055
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:24.440
they should make Lego narc figures.
They're not doing like Mortal Kombat guys and

1056
00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:28.360
stuff. So there's a trailer that
is going to hit alongside this that I

1057
00:59:28.519 --> 00:59:30.400
could have sworn I saw raiding in, but I don't. I'm not familiar

1058
00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:35.800
enough with the Ninjago or some other
Lego things to know if if that's true

1059
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:39.000
or not. But it's it's just
they're listening to property as Midway Arcade.

1060
00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:43.119
It doesn't say specifically say Mortal Kombat, So I don't know what that ends

1061
00:59:43.159 --> 00:59:46.000
up meaning other than like it's probably
like paper Boy. I don't know.

1062
00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:52.880
Saldavita, Yes, you play a
Saldavita soul okay le soul Lego Saldavita.

1063
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:54.000
Yeah, I would buy I'd buy
that as a separate product. I don't

1064
00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:57.360
even want to play a game,
but I would buy the figure. I

1065
00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:01.280
feel like I feel like I should
just round flies because property a lot of

1066
01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:07.400
really good things. It's ridiculous.
The previously announced list of properties that are

1067
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:10.639
gonna be in this are DC Comics, Lord of the Rings, the Lego

1068
01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:15.280
Movie, Wizard of Oz, Lego
Ninja Go, and Back to the Future,

1069
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:20.760
and then today they also just announced
the Simpsons, Doctor Who, Ghostbusters

1070
01:00:21.159 --> 01:00:27.800
Portal, Jurassic World, Midway Arcade, Scooby Doo, and then Lego Chima.

1071
01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:30.360
Is how you say that, c
H I m A. I'm not

1072
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:34.000
familiar with that property. I don't
know. Yeah, anyway, anyway,

1073
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.199
that's just like a like think about
the number of rice holders involved in the

1074
01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:39.519
ship yea, and pulled all this
stuff together into one game, and it's

1075
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:44.039
gonna be a storyline where you go
to these different worlds, and it seems

1076
01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:45.639
like the story will be based around
those three characters in the starter set,

1077
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:49.599
like in terms of like cut scenes
and stuff like that. But the portal

1078
01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:52.800
holds like seven fucking things. So
at some point you just go like,

1079
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:55.440
well, let's add Scooby Doo to
the mix here, and then run around

1080
01:00:55.440 --> 01:00:59.199
as a dog. And then they
showed a little bit of Scooby Doo level

1081
01:00:59.199 --> 01:01:01.239
and actually they're kind of shading it
and the music and stuff they're bringing in

1082
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:06.519
and voice work. These legos talk, so you can it actually looks cool,

1083
01:01:06.599 --> 01:01:07.920
like the Lego Scooby Doo stuff actually
look good. I was like,

1084
01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:13.039
man, that that's actually really nice
looking Scooby Doo legos. I mean the

1085
01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:15.519
plot of the Lego movie revolves around
this exact concept. Yeah, so it

1086
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.400
seems like the properties mashing up in
the Lego world. Seems like they did

1087
01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:21.960
a lot of that Lego they've been
they've been. It seems like they've been

1088
01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:24.079
building up to this for a while. So you could be like Gandoff and

1089
01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:28.559
Scooby going through like a Batman level. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool.

1090
01:01:28.599 --> 01:01:30.960
That's weird. Yeah. The part
that I played was a Wizard of

1091
01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:36.480
Oz huh. So you're you're on
the Yellow Brick Road. You are looking

1092
01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:39.400
for this gem that then the Wicked
Witch comes to try to steal with flying

1093
01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:43.079
monkeys and that's like kind of a
boss fight and you could fight the Wicked

1094
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:45.760
Witch is Batman yep, Okay,
all right, Yeah, this press release

1095
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:52.599
refers to these fourteen brands in the
language. Yeah, so I yeah,

1096
01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:55.480
I wonder if that's all of them, or if they're more that they still

1097
01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:58.639
have to announce or what the deal
is. But that's it seems like a

1098
01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:06.840
lot. Have they talked about price
for an individual figs M. I don't

1099
01:02:06.920 --> 01:02:10.199
know, that's not it's not in
this press release none. But yeah,

1100
01:02:10.199 --> 01:02:13.400
I don't know. Like the for
me, it all broke down when it

1101
01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:15.920
played like a Lego game. Yeah, I just I just don't want to

1102
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:19.320
play those games. Those traveler sales
games have been so prolific for so long,

1103
01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:22.000
it's crazy. I fell off around
like the second Indiana Jones one or

1104
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:25.920
maybe the second bat I thought that
they were inventive and really cool, but

1105
01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:29.480
man, I never liked playing any
of those. I kind of like the

1106
01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:31.519
Star Wars ones for co op that
was fun, Like the first Indie one,

1107
01:02:31.559 --> 01:02:37.039
the first Batman one. Past that
one's actually really good, Like,

1108
01:02:37.719 --> 01:02:39.239
yeah, is that the one that
came out around launch of PS four and

1109
01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:42.599
Xbox one? Yeah, very well, could be. I played a little

1110
01:02:42.599 --> 01:02:44.840
of that. Yeah, that's right. That was Yeah, that was Lord

1111
01:02:44.840 --> 01:02:46.639
of the Rings was okay. There
was some interesting stuff in that one like,

1112
01:02:46.760 --> 01:02:51.239
and then the first one where they
talked. Yes, I think it

1113
01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:52.159
was. Oh, I think it's
been longer than that. Well, I

1114
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:55.119
think I think the first Lord of
the Rings one was the first one long

1115
01:02:55.239 --> 01:02:59.800
Batman two or something. They used
soundclips from the movies. I want to

1116
01:02:59.840 --> 01:03:01.400
say it was. That's what it
was. They had they had recorded their

1117
01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:05.920
own their own dialogue. Oh wait, previously had Lord of the Rings used

1118
01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:07.400
movie dialogue? Yeah? I think
you're right, that's probably what it was.

1119
01:03:07.840 --> 01:03:10.960
I wanted to say one of the
Batman ones was the first time that

1120
01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:15.239
they used I think right, maybe
that would have It was Batman two.

1121
01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:17.239
Is that the one where they had
the open city? Yeah, that's the

1122
01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:20.960
thing they like they kind of said
like, oh, Lego goes open world,

1123
01:03:21.039 --> 01:03:23.360
but it didn't really. It was
kind of like a very Yeah,

1124
01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:25.840
it was a very limited facsimile of
an open world, Like if they made

1125
01:03:25.880 --> 01:03:29.760
a real open world Lego game,
like that could be cool. But it

1126
01:03:29.840 --> 01:03:31.639
wasn't. But it wasn't that.
What was that way you game the Lego

1127
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:37.360
City stories? Yeah, isn't that
Lego one? Oh? Sure? Yeah,

1128
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:39.000
yeah, but that's a that was
a different thing entirely right. It's

1129
01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:42.920
hilarious. Oh my god, I
mean to play that game. It's really

1130
01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:45.880
funny. Yeah, so I don't
know, like I played a little bit

1131
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:49.239
of it and it was like,
oh, it's yeah, yeah, it's

1132
01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:52.079
totally one of those and that kind
of that kind of soured me on it.

1133
01:03:52.119 --> 01:03:55.519
But their list of licenses, like
the idea of like a lego doctor

1134
01:03:55.639 --> 01:03:59.599
who thing in the world of Ghostbusters
or you know, like all there's just

1135
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:03.360
a bunch of weird potential there.
I wish they there are vehicles, so

1136
01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:05.480
like like I said, you know, like you put those vehicles on the

1137
01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:08.400
portal and then you can get into
them the drive around. So it's like,

1138
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:12.079
okay, I'm gonna drive through this
roadblock in the Back to the Future

1139
01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:15.800
Deloran. Yeah that's okay. Sure, sure you could do a lot worse.

1140
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:18.519
Yeah, you could do a lot
worse with that stuff. But they

1141
01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:24.960
should have gotten Lord and Miller to
make this game. Mm hmmm. Yeah

1142
01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:30.920
they made the movie. Is that
good? Like a movie is fucking It

1143
01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:34.679
looks like it's the guy that they
had talking about the game had worked.

1144
01:04:34.719 --> 01:04:36.480
I had done the movie. Oh
no, shit, it was okay,

1145
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:42.119
I heard it, remember his name. But it's like it's sort of Pixar

1146
01:04:42.199 --> 01:04:45.679
issue in the sense that it plays
It plays well for children, but it's

1147
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:48.519
also got plenty of things for adults
to appreciate. Actually, I would say

1148
01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:53.000
the humor is a little bit more
nuanced. It was a lot more nuanced

1149
01:04:53.039 --> 01:04:56.440
actually in this movie than in Pixar. The director of someone who Miller.

1150
01:04:56.599 --> 01:04:59.599
Those are the guys they did the
Jump Street movies, and they did Jump

1151
01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:03.119
Street. They didn't think Last Man
on Earth that was serious. Show like

1152
01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:06.480
they're they're pretty awesome, Like they
have to keel the pools throughout the entire

1153
01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:14.320
highly recommended the movie. I'm not
sure. Okay, that's good stuff.

1154
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:18.639
Yeah, that movie is a lot
of fun. Okay. See, I

1155
01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:24.440
started playing You Must Build a Boat, which is out this week. I

1156
01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:28.159
started building a boat. Yeah,
I have not yet finished the boat.

1157
01:05:28.159 --> 01:05:30.199
I mean i've I started with basically
a canoe, and now I have a

1158
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:32.920
boat that I could have a below
decks. Why must you build a boat

1159
01:05:33.719 --> 01:05:36.239
because you have to go up river
and you need a bigger boat to hold

1160
01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:40.639
all these people as you're kind of
traveling through this world. If this is

1161
01:05:40.679 --> 01:05:43.719
the sequel to ten Million, yeah
I didn't. I had no idea about

1162
01:05:43.719 --> 01:05:45.679
that. Until I looked at you
playing it and I was like, that

1163
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:47.360
looks a lot like ten Million,
Like yeah, like yes, the sequel,

1164
01:05:47.400 --> 01:05:49.559
And I was like, oh,
yeah, that guy doesn't give a

1165
01:05:49.559 --> 01:05:54.559
shit about branding his games. Or
ten Million was just like you just fight

1166
01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:56.800
like a dragon or something at the
end, right There wasn't like a story

1167
01:05:56.960 --> 01:05:59.679
like yeah, you're building a boat, so there's yeah, building a boat.

1168
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:00.679
It's it's sounds like there is a
bit more that from what I've played

1169
01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:04.239
of the early game, it is, it's exceedingly similar. You are,

1170
01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:10.119
you are kind of building, You're
getting you're getting materials to pay for upgrades.

1171
01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:13.840
You're you're unlocking upgrade shop guy,
you're finding it, you know,

1172
01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:16.480
like like completing quests on your runs
and stuff like that and just running over

1173
01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:19.039
and over again and getting a little
more powerful each time you go, and

1174
01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:23.400
like that. That part of the
game seems very similar. But it sounds

1175
01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:27.480
like that this one goes some different
directions in terms of just like a story

1176
01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:29.599
and and that sort of stuff,
but I haven't seen any of that yet.

1177
01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:31.119
I'm super excited about that because ten
Million did the same thing that like

1178
01:06:31.239 --> 01:06:34.400
Mario Puzzling Dragons did for me.
Because like, I'm not a typical match

1179
01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:38.519
three guy like Buduel or whatever.
But if something has a cool twist on

1180
01:06:38.559 --> 01:06:40.639
it, which ten million. As
soon as I started, I was,

1181
01:06:40.760 --> 01:06:44.000
oh my god, it's so incredible. Yeah, so this is a lot

1182
01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:45.920
like that. It's awesome. I'll
play the hell so far. Yeah,

1183
01:06:46.039 --> 01:06:49.559
so I'm I'm excited to be playing
that again. I saw you planning that

1184
01:06:49.719 --> 01:06:54.000
on Steam, right, I think
you said it comes out on iOS the

1185
01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:56.400
same time. I think it does. I don't actually I all me,

1186
01:06:56.800 --> 01:07:00.320
you know, because I'm gonna I'm
gonna wait, I'll buy that up here.

1187
01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:03.559
I'm actually gonna gonna poke around on
my email here and and see if

1188
01:07:03.599 --> 01:07:08.599
I can get the answer to your
question. What if I went to the

1189
01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:11.480
app store and typed in, Well, it's not gonna be out till the

1190
01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:14.199
fourth. Oh okay, so oh
it's not even out on Steam yet.

1191
01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:17.559
Yes, I see, yeah,
okay, yeah, it's coming out June

1192
01:07:17.639 --> 01:07:21.280
fourth, and yes it'll be out
on PC, mac Lennox iOS. And

1193
01:07:23.360 --> 01:07:26.280
it looks like at the same time
from the sounds of it, so price,

1194
01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:29.960
I do not have a price here. I'd pay upwards of ten bucks

1195
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:32.000
for another one of those that first
one was so good. Well yeah,

1196
01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:36.159
but it's uh, it's it's nice. This this seems like a solid sequel

1197
01:07:36.199 --> 01:07:40.239
to that game. Awesome. There's
some some good little changes right off the

1198
01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:43.880
bat. And and yeah, and
if it's you don't need to have played

1199
01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:49.119
the first game to enjoy it.
Understand the understand the books. So yeah,

1200
01:07:49.519 --> 01:07:54.119
I we will record something with that
if you want to see more of

1201
01:07:54.199 --> 01:07:57.880
it. But I'll just say that
I think it's a really cool game so

1202
01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:01.199
far. Ten million was three dollars, so I'm probably be fun so much

1203
01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:04.079
gameplay out of that. Yeah,
I never I never bought that. It

1204
01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:10.639
was it's like a top three game. Wait for it. Oh oh shit,

1205
01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:14.800
uh ah. The app store is
thrashing. It's ruining the moment.

1206
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:16.640
God damn an app store. I
was about to be all I just bought

1207
01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:23.399
it, Okay, I just yes. Is that don Android as well?

1208
01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:27.800
I don't know, Okay, I
have not played it, so it's great,

1209
01:08:27.880 --> 01:08:30.279
Okay, yeah I did. I
did eventually come out on Android,

1210
01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:34.640
I believe. I'm pretty sure I
read that this this new one's built in

1211
01:08:34.680 --> 01:08:39.560
Eugeny, so I imagine that it's
very easy to spit it out everywhere.

1212
01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:43.960
Better I say that as a non
game developer, Right, push buttons and

1213
01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:46.439
it goes. Right, it's all
exactly. I mean, this computer language

1214
01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:53.439
just just you know exports play four
Yeah totally. But yeah, hit go

1215
01:08:53.960 --> 01:08:57.680
paid. Pretty sure that's how that
works. Yeah. Uh Jason, Yo,

1216
01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:00.399
what have you been playing? We
had we already talked about this stuff.

1217
01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:03.479
We talked about this platoons, Yeah, the Witchers, the Witcher Yeah.

1218
01:09:03.600 --> 01:09:06.279
Yeah, trying to IM trying to
get uh, you know, just

1219
01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:09.880
like my gear up to stuff.
So I've been doing a lot of the

1220
01:09:10.239 --> 01:09:14.439
treasure hunting stuff, the Griffin school
whatever, and that stuff is really really

1221
01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:17.199
freaking good. You finding a lot
of I'm reaching like a week back into

1222
01:09:17.239 --> 01:09:19.960
my past because I'm played it in
that long, but were you finding a

1223
01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:25.760
lot of like Witcher gear? Uh, that's exactly what Yeah, that's exactly

1224
01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:28.800
what I'm looking for. So like
those treasure hunt lines, they'll they'll give

1225
01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:31.960
you like locations to where you can
find those diagrams specifically for Whitcher. Oh

1226
01:09:32.079 --> 01:09:34.199
is that what those quests are for? Or like is that why they're in

1227
01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:36.880
their own category in the quest log? You got it? Yeah? And

1228
01:09:38.039 --> 01:09:40.920
yeah, I'm pretty sure you know, it's all just for witcher gear.

1229
01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:44.840
I haven't seen anything else to the
contrary, so which I'll see okay,

1230
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:48.239
But yeah, just getting myself up
to the snuff gear wise, doing a

1231
01:09:48.279 --> 01:09:53.119
bunch of side quests. I got
to the the one main town, met

1232
01:09:53.239 --> 01:09:57.520
some familiar friends and stuff. Yeah, so sorry wit witcher gear. Do

1233
01:09:57.560 --> 01:10:00.680
you just mean silver swords? Is
that kind of sm Like there are full

1234
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:02.800
sets of I don't know if are
there set bonuses for wearing the whole set

1235
01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:06.039
doesn't seem as such, but they
do tell you once you created that you

1236
01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:09.720
should hold on to these because there's
gonna be a way to upgrade them.

1237
01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:12.279
So that's what you can't do with
the normal stuff. Like I don't know

1238
01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:14.279
if I did a treasure hunt quest
out of order or something, but I

1239
01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:18.039
ended up with a full set of
plans for it's some tier of ursine gear.

1240
01:10:18.159 --> 01:10:21.479
It's like superior arsne or something like
that. But then I look at

1241
01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:26.479
the what the requirements, and it
was like one of the required maps was

1242
01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:29.119
the enhanced version of that gear.
Like you say, you like you upgrade

1243
01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:31.079
through the tiers of it, but
I only found the plans for like the

1244
01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:34.399
top tier, not the like three
tiers below that so I can just never

1245
01:10:34.520 --> 01:10:36.960
make it. Yeah, it's all
unless I find the plans for all those

1246
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:42.920
other parts where like it's weirdly like
I feel like there's like there's a lot

1247
01:10:42.920 --> 01:10:45.920
of really excellent gear in that game
in extremely unassuming places, you know,

1248
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:48.439
surely, yeah, Like there're a
lot of those schematics I found for like

1249
01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:51.760
level twenty four stuff, and I'm
still like level twelve or thirteen, but

1250
01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:56.079
a lot of that stuff can be
contained in loot containers that look like like

1251
01:10:56.119 --> 01:10:58.600
you if you didn't go into like
witch er Vision, you'd probably never see

1252
01:10:58.640 --> 01:11:00.920
that it was even there to loot. Like, there are no there are

1253
01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:03.039
no big like exalted glowing lute chests
in that game. It's just like,

1254
01:11:03.159 --> 01:11:06.560
oh, I found this incredible silver
sword in a crate, or you'll see

1255
01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:10.119
like an unassuming hut in the middle
of the wood, Dania Watkin. It's

1256
01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:12.840
not really tied to a quest or
anything, and you know, it might

1257
01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:15.439
be some string in linen and one
thing and the next one's like, oh

1258
01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:16.920
jesus, here's the super rare and
get or you know, a piece of

1259
01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:20.880
arms. Totally like incredible rare items
could be literally anywhere in that game,

1260
01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:26.159
and like in like a weird way
that feels like it violates like what's considering

1261
01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:28.600
considered like good game design, you
know, or like the kind of game

1262
01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:30.520
design that like leads the player toward
things they should be looking at. You

1263
01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:34.039
know, I feel like this game
violates that in like eight different crazy ways.

1264
01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:36.920
You know, Like they've had a
lot of like gameplay stuff, like

1265
01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:40.520
you know, they're they're very much
doing their own thing. Yeah, Like

1266
01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:43.199
I'm not I'm not saying it's a
bad thing. It just it defies your

1267
01:11:43.239 --> 01:11:46.680
expectations when you've played a bunch of
games back to back that are very much

1268
01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:49.399
about like, oh, let's not
let the player go anywhere that they shouldn't

1269
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:53.239
be where they might have a bad
time. I can for sure, Yeah,

1270
01:11:53.239 --> 01:11:55.680
totally. Like I've had multiple cases
of like it's like, oh,

1271
01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:58.640
I've got a quest that's at my
level. I know where it is.

1272
01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:00.000
I'm just gonna set the marker and
run to it. And on the way

1273
01:12:00.039 --> 01:12:03.319
to that quest, I'll hit a
mob that's so high and level that it

1274
01:12:03.359 --> 01:12:05.680
doesn't even show me its level.
It's just question marks. And it killed

1275
01:12:05.680 --> 01:12:08.680
me in one hit, you know, which is like I thought I could

1276
01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:10.920
be here. You said that this
is my level, you know, that's

1277
01:12:10.960 --> 01:12:14.319
true, But it's a little bit
of believing ability to the world. I

1278
01:12:14.359 --> 01:12:16.680
guess. Yeah, like dangers everywhere. It's kind of frustrating in the moment

1279
01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:20.319
because the load times are so savage
in that game. But but at the

1280
01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:23.600
same time, it's like, yeah, it's like, oh, I thought

1281
01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:25.960
I was safe here, I let
my guard down and then I got punished

1282
01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:29.479
for it, like always be saving
something a little dark soulsy about that.

1283
01:12:29.680 --> 01:12:30.920
That's kind of cool in a way. I guess. How bad are the

1284
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:35.399
load times on PS four? We're
talking like Bloodborne worse? Oh serious,

1285
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:40.279
full minutes to load back in after
you die PC I have like a ten

1286
01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:42.439
second thing at the beginning where it's
telling me the story or whatever, and

1287
01:12:42.479 --> 01:12:45.479
then zero load time after that.
I tried the PC version on the machine

1288
01:12:45.520 --> 01:12:47.960
here in the office, and even
that took a little while told in at

1289
01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:49.920
home minutes. Yeah, yeah,
me too. Yeah, that's great.

1290
01:12:49.960 --> 01:12:53.720
I can't even like read the tooltips
or whatever during the loading screen because it

1291
01:12:53.760 --> 01:12:56.800
just goes so fast. It's awesome. We'll lucky you. Yeah, all

1292
01:12:56.880 --> 01:12:59.319
right, that's a great game,
though, I'm dying, dying to get

1293
01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:00.880
back to it. Yeah, I
had to take a break from like mainline

1294
01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:03.800
stuff just because like I wrapped at
the Bloody Baron and I'm just like,

1295
01:13:04.520 --> 01:13:08.159
fuck, that was so good.
I feel like I feel like Bloody Baron

1296
01:13:08.279 --> 01:13:12.600
is becoming It's that phrase is now
being spoken on Twitter and the same tones

1297
01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:15.640
that you heard people say like dark
Brotherhood back when O Bolivion came out.

1298
01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:17.199
Yeah. Sure, like everybody's going
like, oh, that's the quest line,

1299
01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:19.479
Like that's where you see like how
good this game can be. And

1300
01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:23.720
that's like the first major one too, So man, I hope they keep

1301
01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:26.000
it up throughout the entirety. Well
see, I saved at the beginning of

1302
01:13:26.039 --> 01:13:28.760
that thing and haven't gone back to
it, so they're chomping at the bit.

1303
01:13:28.960 --> 01:13:30.399
Some tough decisions in that one too, I know, just even would

1304
01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:34.840
seemingly weird side stuff. Yeah,
yeah, I wow. That game,

1305
01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:40.319
for all its faults, man,
shit, they do so much good.

1306
01:13:40.439 --> 01:13:43.159
I just I hope they keep sending
it with with these updates that are coming

1307
01:13:43.199 --> 01:13:45.319
out. You know, they've already
said they're they're trying to you know,

1308
01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:47.319
rework the UI to make that less
shitty. That would be great, Yeah,

1309
01:13:47.319 --> 01:13:49.640
because I I trying and played you
know with couch play, but you

1310
01:13:49.640 --> 01:13:53.279
know via PC. So but yeah, they've been on top of a lot

1311
01:13:53.319 --> 01:13:58.119
of the PC stuff, Like they're
in patch what four or five four four,

1312
01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:00.600
and yeah, they're they're trying to
keep the consoles up to date as

1313
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:02.520
well. We'll see. And Jason, the thing you talked about last week,

1314
01:14:02.600 --> 01:14:04.880
I think I think we actually ran
into the same mission. I just

1315
01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:08.520
love when you're just going around trying
to clear up all the question marks.

1316
01:14:08.560 --> 01:14:10.199
Oh and you know, like one
of them it will just be like,

1317
01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:13.960
oh, here's some idiot drowners guarding
a chest. But then you'll find like

1318
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:17.479
whole stories that are like really well
written, like really interesting quests that you

1319
01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:20.520
could just completely miss if you walk
past that question mark. They do a

1320
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:23.760
good job making the world feel lived
in, you know, it's like this

1321
01:14:23.920 --> 01:14:26.880
this feels like a place where things
have happened, where there's like history built

1322
01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:28.800
into this place. Yeah. That's
why I like, I think I'm going

1323
01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:30.479
to have one of those two hundred
hour playthroughs, because every time, like

1324
01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:32.880
you know, I'm walking someplace and
somebody will walk up to me and be

1325
01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:35.199
like, oh, this thing's happened. I can't find my wife helped me

1326
01:14:35.239 --> 01:14:39.520
out, Like I might say no
in another game, but in this one,

1327
01:14:39.560 --> 01:14:42.399
it's like, hell, maybe this
goes into a three hour quest with

1328
01:14:42.439 --> 01:14:44.399
a bunch of amazing things that I'd
miss it if I just said no.

1329
01:14:44.560 --> 01:14:46.279
Ear Yeah, so I just accept
everything. Anytime anyone asked me to do

1330
01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:48.560
anything, I'm like, yeah,
totally, yeah, I'm there. I'm

1331
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:50.880
the Witcher. Let's do it.
Yeah, that's what I'm here for,

1332
01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:59.199
witching. Ye, it's good.
Yeah, all right, got anything else

1333
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:02.279
that's that's talk about it? Yeahs
hunting and ship like that. So Washington

1334
01:15:02.319 --> 01:15:05.439
TV and just trend chill. The
apartment directly below me is renting out right

1335
01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:09.079
now, so if you want to
directly below. Yeah, you know,

1336
01:15:09.119 --> 01:15:11.680
I messed around a little bit more
with that killer Instinct shadow stuff. Oh

1337
01:15:11.760 --> 01:15:13.840
yeah, I wanted to talk about
that too. Yeah. I'm gonna have

1338
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:15.720
to stop you there real quick.
Okay, great time, take a quick

1339
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:18.720
pause here, uh, and then
we'll come right back. All right,

1340
01:15:50.199 --> 01:15:54.760
and we're back. We are back. Oh, thanks for having me.

1341
01:15:54.800 --> 01:15:57.000
It's good to be here. It's
great, Jeff. You're looking a little

1342
01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:00.479
pensive over there. No, I'm
just it's this a chair in the room.

1343
01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:03.520
It's just a little weird. We
don't have a fancy podcast studio like

1344
01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:08.680
those suckers in New York. Man. These guys are living the highlights I

1345
01:16:08.760 --> 01:16:14.000
know out there compared to how how
how the tides have turned, how the

1346
01:16:14.079 --> 01:16:17.000
tables have changed. Yeah, and
they're like using that podcast studio now too,

1347
01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:19.880
right, I think? So?
Yes, they working out there now.

1348
01:16:20.079 --> 01:16:23.479
We shouldn't We should just go out
there every week and use their studio

1349
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:27.800
to record. That's probably true.
We should just take over the Beast caste

1350
01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:33.479
the Giant Beast Cast from them.
Better. Yet, what if we just

1351
01:16:33.600 --> 01:16:39.000
let them handle the podcasting gool see
it, We'll retire this thing. They're

1352
01:16:39.039 --> 01:16:41.520
here now. No, No,
we just sit on a beach somewhere.

1353
01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:44.039
No, I was thinking we would. Instead, we would just have double

1354
01:16:44.119 --> 01:16:48.920
podcasts, okay, on Tuesday and
a Friday. This thing's already like close

1355
01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:50.640
to three hours. No, that
thing, hey, that thing is?

1356
01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:55.640
That thing's on if you're out there
is that's the Giant Beast Cast, which

1357
01:16:55.680 --> 01:16:58.479
we've been talking about it here in
the past couple of weeks. Here you

1358
01:16:58.560 --> 01:17:01.239
can go to iTunes and to it. They have their first official episode out

1359
01:17:01.319 --> 01:17:08.439
as of last Friday, rounding out
the cast with the addition of Austin Walkdon

1360
01:17:08.479 --> 01:17:11.640
and has joined us. Yeah,
his first official day this week. Yeah,

1361
01:17:11.840 --> 01:17:15.159
he's already putting in work too.
Man, totally came out of orientation.

1362
01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:18.239
I thought he had news stories going
up on day one, like raually.

1363
01:17:18.399 --> 01:17:21.479
I figured he would be like trapped
in a dark room being forced to

1364
01:17:21.520 --> 01:17:26.720
watch like clips of CBS program corporate
corporate jazz videos. Yeah. That was

1365
01:17:26.760 --> 01:17:30.239
our first day. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. After chatting with Austin,

1366
01:17:30.279 --> 01:17:34.079
I am now happy to realize that
five it's out numbering five to three.

1367
01:17:34.279 --> 01:17:39.880
Giant Bomb staff are wrestling guys.
M I'm gonna start that site.

1368
01:17:40.640 --> 01:17:45.279
Did you so we with him when
you decided to call him a wrestling guy?

1369
01:17:45.479 --> 01:17:47.039
I think he would be okay,
okay, are you calling me a

1370
01:17:47.119 --> 01:17:49.840
wrestling guy? In that case,
what did you watch last night? I

1371
01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:51.840
don't know nothing, I don't know. It's four to four as far as

1372
01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:57.159
I'm con say, I'm out.
No. Yeah, he also watched last

1373
01:17:57.199 --> 01:17:59.680
night, or so I'm tweeting about
it. He's he's he's been public in

1374
01:17:59.720 --> 01:18:02.720
his stay yepatch, I mean varying
levels. Yeah, you know some of

1375
01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:06.079
us are you know, nightly viewers
and everything. Some of us are yeah,

1376
01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:12.199
five to three in a minority.
Brad, Great, somebody's got to

1377
01:18:12.239 --> 01:18:15.720
go against this fucking green ros on
tonight, Brad, bring some beer and

1378
01:18:15.760 --> 01:18:19.279
pizza. A good it's you're probably
better. There was some good stuff that

1379
01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:23.600
happened over the weekend. But don't
don't be fooled, Doune'll they'll suck it

1380
01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:27.119
up. I can't wait to hear
about it on your wrestling podcast. Yeah,

1381
01:18:27.399 --> 01:18:32.079
let's get it every week. I'm
right there a whole host of podcasts,

1382
01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:36.239
Power Bomb Cast we've done in a
while, terrible and we've been busy.

1383
01:18:36.359 --> 01:18:40.960
But yeah, no, the Giant
Beast Cast is out there if you

1384
01:18:40.960 --> 01:18:44.520
want to sign it for that.
Yep. Anyway, what we're talking about

1385
01:18:44.560 --> 01:18:47.840
shadows, shadows, shadows, Shadow
Lab. I went to the shadow labea

1386
01:18:47.960 --> 01:18:53.079
weekend and built up my jay go. We played someone Friday on the show.

1387
01:18:53.399 --> 01:18:56.720
Let's let's let's let's bring it back
for a second. Plain this shadow

1388
01:18:56.760 --> 01:18:59.600
mode to me. All right,
I'm gonna played dunk. Okay, all

1389
01:18:59.640 --> 01:19:02.920
right. The fighting game is where
you it's like you are a guy or

1390
01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:06.439
a lady or a beast. Yeah, and you can punch and kick people

1391
01:19:06.600 --> 01:19:10.359
and sometimes shoot fire. Out of
your fists, punches on top, kicks

1392
01:19:10.399 --> 01:19:12.520
on bottom. Got it? Okay, you got it? Okay, I'm

1393
01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:15.119
that far all right? Shadow shadow
Jago? Yeah yeah, shadow to Jago.

1394
01:19:15.279 --> 01:19:17.560
Yes, is that where we're playing
shadow? No, we're not.

1395
01:19:17.880 --> 01:19:23.560
I made a Jago shadow totally different, Okay, So yeah, it's There

1396
01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:25.840
have been modes like this in some
other fighting games. It was like tech

1397
01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:28.720
in five Dark Resurrection for the PSP. He had it, and I think

1398
01:19:28.880 --> 01:19:31.239
a couple of the techn games NBC
three did something kind of similar where you

1399
01:19:31.279 --> 01:19:33.680
weren't creating a shadow. You were
like, you know, fighting against an

1400
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:38.279
AI appointed that was supposed to be
kind of like whoever made it? Yeah,

1401
01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:42.800
it was weird. This seems like
more advanced than those things. So

1402
01:19:43.159 --> 01:19:45.319
it starts out, you go and
you create a shadow, you go,

1403
01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:49.479
get in three fights, and it
watches you fight and then tries to mimic

1404
01:19:49.560 --> 01:19:54.800
your style, so based on how
you play, it will react in a

1405
01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:58.079
similar fashion. And then you can
go on and kind of continue to play

1406
01:19:58.119 --> 01:20:00.399
more matches and use that to update
your shadow. It was kind of brain

1407
01:20:00.680 --> 01:20:05.159
your shadow brain, and then other
people can challenge your shadow for like a

1408
01:20:05.199 --> 01:20:08.359
certain amount of points or something like
that. Yeah, that's a bit of

1409
01:20:08.399 --> 01:20:11.520
a risk reward versus, you know, like stuff in there where you can

1410
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:14.560
kind of challenge other people's shadow.
You can just go into a survival mode

1411
01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:16.239
and just fight other people's shadows all
day long, just random strangers. That's

1412
01:20:16.279 --> 01:20:17.960
what I did. And at the
end of that fight is like, hey,

1413
01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:20.399
you want to upload that and add
it to your your profile? Yes?

1414
01:20:20.439 --> 01:20:24.600
Absolutely, Okay, So it's not
like automatically taking samplings of how you're

1415
01:20:24.640 --> 01:20:27.439
fighting. No, at the end
of every fight it says like, Okay,

1416
01:20:27.560 --> 01:20:29.479
do you want to add this?
I feel like that should be like

1417
01:20:29.520 --> 01:20:30.720
automatic. It should be the sort
of thing where it's like if you fuck

1418
01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:34.239
if yeah, boss, if you
fuck up, then hey, your shadow

1419
01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:39.239
is not as good. Yeah,
that's it should reflect you at all times.

1420
01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:41.359
You can kind of be selective.
If you have like a real bad

1421
01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:45.439
match or something, maybe you could. I would be so goddamn like I

1422
01:20:45.560 --> 01:20:47.439
do. I wouldn't upload shit unless
I had like a perfect match. I've

1423
01:20:47.439 --> 01:20:53.000
been uploading everything really yeah, and
building my guy out. Actually, so

1424
01:20:53.199 --> 01:20:55.159
we played a few matches on the
show on Friday, and I kind of

1425
01:20:55.239 --> 01:20:58.079
uploaded that guy and then I when
I got home and tried it on Saturday

1426
01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:01.039
my shadow and fought like twenty times. Okay, how did you do?

1427
01:21:01.279 --> 01:21:03.760
Did all right? I want to
say, like one over half of the

1428
01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:09.479
matches? Damn? Yeah. So
and then then I put in some work

1429
01:21:09.560 --> 01:21:11.800
and I don't know if I made
my shadow better or worse. Okay,

1430
01:21:12.279 --> 01:21:15.920
but it actually the AI of the
shadows feels a lot more like an online

1431
01:21:15.960 --> 01:21:19.119
matter or you know, like you're
fighting a real player. I'm not gonna

1432
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:23.760
say it's like one hundred percent identical
or not. It feels like the AI

1433
01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:27.119
is more varied and interesting than typical
fighting game AI. It got to the

1434
01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:30.560
point where like I was fighting somebody's
shadow and bear in mind, this is

1435
01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:34.159
a this is an AI opponent,
and they were te bagging me and on

1436
01:21:34.319 --> 01:21:38.760
taunting in between rounds. I got
a couple of taunts in so my shadow

1437
01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:43.960
will now occasionally taunt. I think, uh, but still bad at manuals

1438
01:21:44.039 --> 01:21:47.039
and bad at you know a lot
of like guessing on combo breakers and stuff.

1439
01:21:47.039 --> 01:21:50.039
But there's certainly some like uncanny stuff
that that happens, like you know,

1440
01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:54.039
I know how I play right,
and then watching my shadow play against

1441
01:21:54.079 --> 01:21:56.560
like like you, I'm like,
fuck, yeah, I actually do that.

1442
01:21:56.680 --> 01:21:59.640
It's really impressive and kind of scary
at the same time. Yeah,

1443
01:21:59.680 --> 01:22:01.359
it's it's good stuff. I was. I was pretty surprised by it.

1444
01:22:02.239 --> 01:22:04.840
On the other hand, there's some
jagoing on that with that as well.

1445
01:22:04.920 --> 01:22:09.960
So initially made my shadow as Jago, right, and I was playing against

1446
01:22:10.039 --> 01:22:12.479
you know, all kinds of other
Jagos. So if you know, another

1447
01:22:12.560 --> 01:22:15.399
Jago throws a fireball, I'm gonna
shadow kick through that fucking thing. Yeah,

1448
01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:19.640
But then my shadow starts doing that
all the time against opponents that don't

1449
01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:24.359
throw a fireball, so like full
screen shadow wind kicks. Yeah, that's

1450
01:22:24.359 --> 01:22:27.399
not gonna be Yeah. Somebody played
one one of my shadows and uploaded it

1451
01:22:27.479 --> 01:22:30.000
and I'm like, I would never
ever do that, But maybe you need

1452
01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:33.279
to get more matches in to further
refine it because it will also, you

1453
01:22:33.319 --> 01:22:36.680
know, it seems like it's building
it. So I read up a little

1454
01:22:36.680 --> 01:22:40.039
bit on it. They've been kind
of putting out some stuff about how they

1455
01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:43.560
built this stuff in the first place, and it sounds like if it's a

1456
01:22:43.720 --> 01:22:46.800
character that you haven't necessarily fought against
a lot, it will try to pull

1457
01:22:47.000 --> 01:22:49.760
from some of your existing data,
but it's not going to be as good

1458
01:22:49.800 --> 01:22:55.159
as you actually uploading data of you
fighting against that character. It seems like

1459
01:22:55.279 --> 01:22:57.600
you've got to put in a lot
of work to get like a good,

1460
01:22:58.119 --> 01:23:01.600
well rounded Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, it's really interesting.

1461
01:23:01.840 --> 01:23:05.319
Yeah, texts super impressive. Yeah, I actually want to go back

1462
01:23:05.359 --> 01:23:08.640
into the game. I just like
trained my shadow a little bit. Yeah.

1463
01:23:08.680 --> 01:23:11.119
So yeah, it was not embarrassing
fun to do it there. But

1464
01:23:11.279 --> 01:23:13.439
yeah, it's one of the things
I hope kind of makes its way to

1465
01:23:13.640 --> 01:23:15.479
a lot of other games, you
know, just like Fighting Game AI is

1466
01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:19.840
awful and a weird like roundabout benefit. It's like, you know, I

1467
01:23:19.960 --> 01:23:24.600
want to play against you know,
some of my friends, but schedules never

1468
01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:26.600
sync up. So it's kind of
cool to just like, you know,

1469
01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:28.760
have that back and forth kind of
a synchronous like, hey I beat your

1470
01:23:28.760 --> 01:23:31.399
shadow, you're terrible. Yep,
exactly. They can kind of you know,

1471
01:23:32.319 --> 01:23:35.520
run back a synchronously. I guess
it has too been good to kill

1472
01:23:35.520 --> 01:23:39.319
her instincts. Yeah, I guess
it's not not just eight new characters.

1473
01:23:39.399 --> 01:23:41.520
They put a story mode in,
they put this thing in. Yeah,

1474
01:23:41.520 --> 01:23:43.840
it seems like they really flushed that
thing out. Yeah, they've got like

1475
01:23:43.880 --> 01:23:46.399
a Maximilian, who's a huge Killer
Instinct fan working on the storyline, you

1476
01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:49.399
know for that. And man,
all these new characters are just like super

1477
01:23:49.439 --> 01:23:53.680
smart. They're not straightforward, you
know, mashy characters. You know,

1478
01:23:53.720 --> 01:23:56.720
like they're real crazy in a way
that is kind of intimidating, honestly.

1479
01:23:56.920 --> 01:24:00.159
Yeah for me, yeah, because
you really need to geez, like,

1480
01:24:00.359 --> 01:24:01.760
you know, even fighting against them, just like these there are systems coming

1481
01:24:01.800 --> 01:24:03.680
at me that I'm not even away. I don't know what's going on,

1482
01:24:04.039 --> 01:24:06.479
Like, what the fuck do these
characters do? And it's just, yeah,

1483
01:24:06.600 --> 01:24:11.479
that stuff's been so like that's intimidating
it for new people, but you

1484
01:24:11.520 --> 01:24:14.479
know, people that have stuck through
this game, it's really really refreshing,

1485
01:24:14.560 --> 01:24:16.159
and it's you know, yeah,
they're not just like here's another guy that

1486
01:24:16.199 --> 01:24:18.800
shoots fireballs. I don't know,
like, yeah, so there's definitely more

1487
01:24:18.840 --> 01:24:21.119
to it than that. Yeah,
I don't know. Let me curiously if

1488
01:24:21.119 --> 01:24:24.159
they do anything more with it from
here, they're doing a great job.

1489
01:24:24.600 --> 01:24:27.720
Thanks for not sucking it up,
Davely for once. There's still time.

1490
01:24:28.079 --> 01:24:30.680
Yeah, that's true. That's true. It's always time, all right.

1491
01:24:31.600 --> 01:24:35.079
If nobody else has any other games
to bring to the four. Let's move

1492
01:24:35.119 --> 01:24:38.079
on to the headlines of the week. Okay, what do you say,

1493
01:24:38.560 --> 01:24:42.760
Sure, let's talk about some news
news item. The first x com two.

1494
01:24:43.239 --> 01:24:45.760
Yeah, yeah, got a fucking
sword man. You fucking take the

1495
01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:48.840
sword and you chop they are.
It's great. I wonder if they had

1496
01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:51.840
intended to announce this this earlier,
if it was just so leaky that they

1497
01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:55.439
were like, let's just the league. Stuff was people, it was stuff

1498
01:24:55.439 --> 01:24:57.039
they were putting out them. Yeah, I know, I know they were.

1499
01:24:57.039 --> 01:25:00.319
People were connecting the dots, maybe
a little more quickly than then they

1500
01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:02.119
thought. I'm not sure that was
that was definitely happening. Yeah, I

1501
01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:05.439
feel like I saw the word x
COM two even before that. But yeah,

1502
01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:12.680
the official title is an x coom. I don't see anything whatever.

1503
01:25:12.760 --> 01:25:15.479
There's no subtitle as of yet.
Just they're just calling an x com And

1504
01:25:15.520 --> 01:25:16.920
they're also saying it's only coming to
the PC. That is. That is

1505
01:25:17.039 --> 01:25:20.039
by far the craziest part of this. Never really I thought they did really

1506
01:25:20.079 --> 01:25:24.199
well on contract. But yeah,
I mean you do that for facts,

1507
01:25:24.279 --> 01:25:25.960
No, I don't. I don't, that's the thing. But you know,

1508
01:25:26.039 --> 01:25:29.680
they scored a ship ton of rewards. I played it on both PC

1509
01:25:29.960 --> 01:25:31.800
and three sixty and I thought it
was great, but yeah, oh yeah,

1510
01:25:31.840 --> 01:25:35.960
totally like yeah yeah. And so
it's one of the things whether it's

1511
01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:41.560
like the announcement was accompanied by some
coverage. I think IGN had some stuff,

1512
01:25:41.600 --> 01:25:44.439
and it sounds like they are kind
of commenting on like, yeah,

1513
01:25:44.520 --> 01:25:46.840
by not doing on the consoles,
is allowing us to do more stuff.

1514
01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:51.840
Okay, so or they straight up
says there there's it seems like they're design

1515
01:25:51.960 --> 01:25:55.560
that were only on this game will
have modding, this game will have it,

1516
01:25:55.640 --> 01:25:58.880
you know, like there's there's stuff
that they are attempting to So it's

1517
01:25:58.880 --> 01:26:00.800
one of the things where was like, okay, well you know, because

1518
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:02.319
and you see this announcement, you're
like, oh, well, obviously it

1519
01:26:02.319 --> 01:26:05.279
would come to consoles, they just
haven't announced that yet. And there's a

1520
01:26:05.319 --> 01:26:09.079
lot of people going like somebody in
two weeks, we'll say we're getting it

1521
01:26:09.159 --> 01:26:13.479
too right. But now that they're
out there kind of like commenting on the

1522
01:26:14.079 --> 01:26:18.159
like with with specificity about how going
to a single platform has changed the way

1523
01:26:18.199 --> 01:26:20.279
they're thinking about the game, then
you start to wonder like, oh,

1524
01:26:20.359 --> 01:26:24.960
well, maybe there won't be a
console port until they ship on PC and

1525
01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:29.000
then if it does well, they
will get someone to port it after the

1526
01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:31.159
fact or something. You know,
maybe maybe they're actually like sales trends or

1527
01:26:31.199 --> 01:26:34.239
market research or whatever they tell them, hey, this is actually the right

1528
01:26:34.319 --> 01:26:39.199
thing to do. Maybe, Yeah, I would think that's distinctly possible.

1529
01:26:39.239 --> 01:26:42.199
I actually don't. Yeah, I
thought about in trying to dig up sales

1530
01:26:42.279 --> 01:26:45.520
data for like X common consoles to
see if maybe it just wouldn't be worth

1531
01:26:45.560 --> 01:26:47.359
it for them to do it,
because that version, I mean, like

1532
01:26:47.399 --> 01:26:50.640
they were fine, but it's like, you know's there's loading involved. Yeah,

1533
01:26:50.640 --> 01:26:55.239
that was the way to go.
Yeah, the version was heads and

1534
01:26:55.359 --> 01:26:58.079
heads and tails. For a game
like that, I think they did a

1535
01:26:58.319 --> 01:27:03.600
surprisingly good job. I played the
controller on the PC. But wait,

1536
01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:06.359
man, I mean you just don't
get out in front of as many people.

1537
01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:09.800
I mean, if you're not on
I would not at all. I

1538
01:27:09.800 --> 01:27:12.319
mean that game had a very long
tail, I'm sure on the PC,

1539
01:27:12.479 --> 01:27:15.560
and I'm sure they sold a ship
ton of units through Steam sales stuff like

1540
01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:16.600
that. So like, I wouldn't
be surprised if the you know, that

1541
01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:20.279
was the highest selling platform for them, And certainly, you know, like

1542
01:27:20.399 --> 01:27:24.079
for access is enough stranger to just
putting out games on Yeah. Most most

1543
01:27:24.079 --> 01:27:27.039
of the stuff is you know,
like a Sieve and stuff is just PC

1544
01:27:27.239 --> 01:27:30.439
only. Yeah, well, just
this last one. I mean they certainly

1545
01:27:30.439 --> 01:27:31.720
have done Sieve on console. Yeah, well, but they made it for

1546
01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:36.760
console. It's not a uh this
game assumes that the Aliens won the first

1547
01:27:36.840 --> 01:27:41.199
game, which that seems to be
out went for like people. It seems

1548
01:27:41.239 --> 01:27:45.960
like, hey, yeah, it
seems like uh, it makes it sound

1549
01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:47.359
like humanity is on the run in
this one. The twenty years later,

1550
01:27:47.960 --> 01:27:54.279
Yeah, you're kind of you're kind
of a ragtag, scrappy band of survivors

1551
01:27:54.319 --> 01:27:58.800
who were trying to fight back against
the Aliens who sword Yeah yeah, you

1552
01:27:58.880 --> 01:28:01.880
guys will have swords. Those screenshots
look good. Yeah, that's uh yeah,

1553
01:28:02.640 --> 01:28:04.359
I wonder how that's going to affect, like, you know, the

1554
01:28:04.439 --> 01:28:06.800
idea of being this like resistance,
you know, the humans or whatever,

1555
01:28:08.039 --> 01:28:11.000
like, because that was such a
big part of the last one was just

1556
01:28:11.119 --> 01:28:14.960
this command center and you know you're
going all over the assets ready to build

1557
01:28:14.960 --> 01:28:16.119
a new base. I would assume
that the resistance would have a base,

1558
01:28:16.560 --> 01:28:19.239
right, I mean they would build
because they I would assume they would move

1559
01:28:19.279 --> 01:28:23.680
into a vacant space and have to
build that base up room think so,

1560
01:28:24.479 --> 01:28:26.479
I think you're probably right, But
then there are stuff where it's like,

1561
01:28:26.520 --> 01:28:29.640
oh a UFO crashed and poland you
know you got to fly out there or

1562
01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:31.000
whatever, like I would think,
Yeah, I think it just changes of

1563
01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:33.800
the mission structure. I think they're
they're getting out there and saying that a

1564
01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:38.279
lot of the maps and stuff will
be procedurally generated so you won't run into,

1565
01:28:39.119 --> 01:28:42.159
you know, some of the prefab
fit together pieces you ran into in

1566
01:28:42.199 --> 01:28:45.560
the last game. I feel like
there were so many of those UFO crash

1567
01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:47.239
in the woods, you know,
go check it out, right, So,

1568
01:28:48.920 --> 01:28:50.439
but you know, at the same
time, it would make sense that

1569
01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:54.840
all the UFOs were designed identically because
you know, why would you build a

1570
01:28:54.920 --> 01:28:58.760
unique UFO every time you built a
UFO get board. Sure, yeah,

1571
01:28:59.600 --> 01:29:01.399
but you know if this time,
if it's fewer crash Uphos because you're on

1572
01:29:01.439 --> 01:29:04.800
the attack, then you know it's
more bases. It's more you know,

1573
01:29:05.159 --> 01:29:10.960
either Earth areas that have been taken
over by aliens and there's a lot of

1574
01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:13.880
potential there. I think. So, ye, did they say anything as

1575
01:29:13.880 --> 01:29:17.880
far as release window or November?
Yeah, this year six months awesome by

1576
01:29:17.920 --> 01:29:20.239
the way, here you go,
here's your new X come game. Yeah,

1577
01:29:20.439 --> 01:29:25.159
that's kind of it for details,
but that's an exciting announcement. Yeah,

1578
01:29:25.399 --> 01:29:27.880
that's great. It's also nice to
see some announcements before you three.

1579
01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:32.319
Sure, yeah, give us some
of it now. I like instant gratification.

1580
01:29:33.720 --> 01:29:40.479
Uh, Twitch will no longer allow
you to stream adults only games.

1581
01:29:40.720 --> 01:29:44.960
What it seems like that they've they
would have. I didn't think it would

1582
01:29:44.960 --> 01:29:47.880
have any anyway this, but it
gets it's like them formally saying like okay,

1583
01:29:48.279 --> 01:29:51.840
hey, no, don't yes,
yeah, you know, I saw

1584
01:29:53.560 --> 01:29:56.000
I've seen people out there on message
boards and stuff going like, oh this

1585
01:29:56.159 --> 01:29:59.520
is this is suspicious with right happening
right before Hatred comes out of them.

1586
01:29:59.560 --> 01:30:03.840
There's nothing about it at all.
They implemented this policy to stop people from

1587
01:30:03.840 --> 01:30:08.880
streaming hatred, but also they just
haven't had two before they there have not

1588
01:30:08.960 --> 01:30:15.000
been any other high profile AO releases
the Yo games, Yeah exactly, and

1589
01:30:15.079 --> 01:30:16.720
that sort of stuff is you know, I think they probably had I don't

1590
01:30:16.760 --> 01:30:18.960
know what their terms of service said, but I assume it said like hey,

1591
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:21.800
no nudity even in games or anything
like, hey, we're not allowing

1592
01:30:21.840 --> 01:30:24.960
this, this and this. Well
they this is a little more blanket and

1593
01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:26.600
spread out. It was like,
hey, if it's got this rating,

1594
01:30:26.640 --> 01:30:28.520
don't stream it. I mean they
you know, they even cracked down on

1595
01:30:28.640 --> 01:30:30.640
like the amount of skin that streamers
were showing. Yeah, a year or

1596
01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:33.960
two ago, and it's never been
the sin. I haven't streamed on Twitch

1597
01:30:34.000 --> 01:30:36.439
since. Yeah, seriously, Yeah, it's gone to the dogs. But

1598
01:30:39.039 --> 01:30:41.800
yeah, you know, like the
last, as far as I can tell,

1599
01:30:41.840 --> 01:30:44.520
I looked at the Wikipedia page,
the last AO game that came out

1600
01:30:44.640 --> 01:30:47.279
that was not like a hentai game, like some kind of manga type thing

1601
01:30:48.159 --> 01:30:51.520
was the uncut version of man Hunt
two in two thousand and nine. Yeah,

1602
01:30:51.680 --> 01:30:56.000
so that I must have been just
pec Yeah. But but but you

1603
01:30:56.079 --> 01:30:59.159
know, the point being like Twitch, Twitch has not had to deal with

1604
01:30:59.279 --> 01:31:02.640
a big game coming out since it
existed. That extends to other territories as

1605
01:31:02.640 --> 01:31:06.560
well. So like their equivalent of
an AO game is that right? I'm

1606
01:31:06.840 --> 01:31:11.640
almost positive it might be eating that
during the whole hot Coffee thing, Like,

1607
01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:15.000
did they they never actually put out
a version of San Andreas that was

1608
01:31:15.039 --> 01:31:16.560
AO right now, like the yes, we said, oh it's AO,

1609
01:31:16.680 --> 01:31:20.039
and they're like, well we gotta
recall it. Yeah, okay, Yeah,

1610
01:31:20.039 --> 01:31:23.960
they didn't go back and sell like, here's the full version. You

1611
01:31:24.000 --> 01:31:27.760
don't even need a game shark anymore. Let's do this stupid mini games.

1612
01:31:27.880 --> 01:31:38.199
Yeah, yes, what a terrible
Jesus. Yeah, it's uh so I

1613
01:31:38.439 --> 01:31:41.119
think that you know that they run
into situations where you know, as a

1614
01:31:41.680 --> 01:31:46.520
like they sell ads on on their
audiences, on their users streams, uh,

1615
01:31:46.720 --> 01:31:50.760
and if those streams are adult in
nature, the advertisers are going to

1616
01:31:50.800 --> 01:31:55.520
get spooked, uh and not want
to advertise. And you know it's it's

1617
01:31:55.560 --> 01:31:58.039
you know, so at some point, like there are great business reasons for

1618
01:31:58.119 --> 01:32:00.319
them to do this. On top
of that, you know they're there the

1619
01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:03.119
perception angle of like a huge portion
of the Twitch audience is made up of

1620
01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:08.520
fairly young kids. Sure, and
Twitch is part of a giant, multi

1621
01:32:08.600 --> 01:32:13.239
billion dollar corporation now right, Like
they're going they're going to foster a family

1622
01:32:13.279 --> 01:32:15.880
friendly and they're going to have to
lock down a lot of rules. You

1623
01:32:15.920 --> 01:32:17.399
know, it's like streaming has been
the wild West for so long, and

1624
01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:20.000
you know it's been cleaning up over
the years, and you know, it

1625
01:32:20.079 --> 01:32:24.239
just makes sense that you're going to
see more rules, not less. Yeah,

1626
01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:26.840
Like the bigger and more popular things
get the more buttoned up they get,

1627
01:32:26.960 --> 01:32:30.560
and and kind of look at video
like the less edgy. You know,

1628
01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:33.039
public companies. If you really need
to do it, there's lots of

1629
01:32:33.119 --> 01:32:38.640
other services out there. Yeah,
yeah, it's stream I'm sure Like Box

1630
01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:40.920
at this point is like, fuck, you want to stream porno games?

1631
01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:44.039
Come to us. I don't actually
have no idea what their rules are,

1632
01:32:45.159 --> 01:32:46.479
no idea. Yeah, I don't
know. I played a little Hatred today

1633
01:32:46.560 --> 01:32:53.039
before we came in here. Yeah, it's it's postal, Okay, Like

1634
01:32:53.239 --> 01:32:57.800
someone sat down and said, like, let's make a new postal and then

1635
01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:00.079
we'll put out a trailer that makes
it look like this something and people will

1636
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:03.520
fucking take the bait all over again. And now that it's out, I

1637
01:33:03.560 --> 01:33:05.640
look at it and go like,
man, everyone is an idiot, every

1638
01:33:06.279 --> 01:33:12.079
top to bottom. We are all
idiots across the board for very hard.

1639
01:33:12.560 --> 01:33:15.199
It's not even pay any attention to
this. Yeah, I mean it's the

1640
01:33:15.359 --> 01:33:19.760
sort of thing that's just Yeah,
it's a It seems super lame. And

1641
01:33:19.920 --> 01:33:24.880
also like I think if you were
trying to make that kind of gruesome ass

1642
01:33:24.960 --> 01:33:28.199
game, you could do a lot
better. Like it seems like it's bad

1643
01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:30.399
even on that front. You know, it's just like, man, this

1644
01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:34.560
sucks. It's like I'm like a
weird, fucking goatee version of Glenn Danzig

1645
01:33:34.680 --> 01:33:42.119
running around a French coat fucking just
randomly shooting people in this shitty isometric environment.

1646
01:33:42.159 --> 01:33:44.760
Like it it's just it's a fucking
half assed across the board. It's

1647
01:33:44.800 --> 01:33:47.119
just like it's, yeah, I
don't know, like I I don't know

1648
01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:49.600
what I was expecting, but I
thought it would be more than like a

1649
01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:57.079
fucking like weird like revisiting a fucking
postal, which makes a lot of sense,

1650
01:33:57.279 --> 01:33:59.920
I guess in the In the end, is it all isometric because there's

1651
01:33:59.920 --> 01:34:03.000
like trailers made it so yeah,
and stuff during these groups are executions,

1652
01:34:03.239 --> 01:34:05.720
so you if you get up close
to someone who is you know, is

1653
01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:09.760
not dead, you can hit the
Y button or whatever it is on keyboard,

1654
01:34:10.439 --> 01:34:13.319
uh, and it'll go into an
execution animation. The cash with that

1655
01:34:13.479 --> 01:34:15.399
is like the action doesn't stop,
so you're just getting surrounded by guys with

1656
01:34:15.520 --> 01:34:19.439
guns shoot you. There's there's a
toggle. Yeah I think they don't.

1657
01:34:19.439 --> 01:34:23.600
Maybe they don't shoot you until I'm
not sure, but it's like there's a

1658
01:34:24.359 --> 01:34:28.680
there's a toggle and the options called
safe executions only that takes that removes those,

1659
01:34:30.319 --> 01:34:32.399
but yeah, like those don't look
good like if you were if you

1660
01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:35.960
were out there going like, yeah, let's see some murder porn, Like

1661
01:34:36.039 --> 01:34:41.079
it's it's bad with that too,
you know. So it's like it under

1662
01:34:41.159 --> 01:34:45.960
no, Like I'm I'm struggling to
find like some area of this game that

1663
01:34:45.119 --> 01:34:47.880
like it does really well, and
it's like the shooting is bad, Like

1664
01:34:48.000 --> 01:34:53.359
the controls are pretty rough, like
visually, I think it's it's ultra rough.

1665
01:34:53.720 --> 01:34:56.279
So even for that demographic that does
want to see it, for the

1666
01:34:56.319 --> 01:35:00.239
controversial edgy stuff, it just seems
like it just seems like fucking like this

1667
01:35:00.359 --> 01:35:03.520
masturbatory, junior high fantasy thing of
just like we're gonna listen to fucking death

1668
01:35:03.600 --> 01:35:08.439
metal and here's this fucking polish death
metal that plays over the end credits.

1669
01:35:08.520 --> 01:35:11.560
It's just like fuck you. Like
you scroll through the credit, like so

1670
01:35:11.680 --> 01:35:15.399
I watched the credits and at some
point, like it gets through their names

1671
01:35:15.479 --> 01:35:17.560
or whatever, and it's like all
the it shows all the executions over that

1672
01:35:17.720 --> 01:35:21.600
with with these you know, the
developers names over and then it's just like

1673
01:35:21.800 --> 01:35:26.319
I don't know the exact one of
the exactly says, but it says thank

1674
01:35:26.399 --> 01:35:30.800
you to fucking no one. Yeah, and then it prients season scrolls,

1675
01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:33.640
accept our fans and this people,
and it's just like the whole thing just

1676
01:35:33.680 --> 01:35:40.720
seems so half assed that it just
it starts to look like a cheap attempt

1677
01:35:40.800 --> 01:35:45.119
to cash in on that stuff,
which you know, that's maybe the worst

1678
01:35:45.199 --> 01:35:46.560
thing of all. It's like they
couldn't even commit to their dumb, fucking

1679
01:35:46.600 --> 01:35:50.439
weird thing and make something cool.
It said Junior High earlier, and everything

1680
01:35:50.479 --> 01:35:54.760
you're describing it sounds very very Junior
High, like trying to be edgy.

1681
01:35:54.920 --> 01:35:58.640
Yeah, attention grabbing totally. Like
it's just it really seems like that.

1682
01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:05.000
And I don't know, like the
the idea that it generated as much fucking

1683
01:36:05.039 --> 01:36:09.800
fervor as it did Obviously it would, yep, obviously it would. Yeah,

1684
01:36:10.079 --> 01:36:15.439
as as Layman without merit as hatred
sounds like it is. Though it

1685
01:36:15.560 --> 01:36:18.439
kind of does make an interesting point
that there is potentially, like it a

1686
01:36:18.560 --> 01:36:21.920
life for AO Games at this point, you know, like thinking back to

1687
01:36:23.039 --> 01:36:26.279
when AO was Like the last time
I thought about AO Games was like on

1688
01:36:27.600 --> 01:36:30.399
I don't know that's what it says. It's thank you to no one except

1689
01:36:30.520 --> 01:36:35.640
Lord Gabin. Yep, it literally
says great, Like when when was the

1690
01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:39.119
last time that AO stuff was really
in the news, like hot coffee?

1691
01:36:39.439 --> 01:36:43.399
Yeah, but it's you know it, you know, since no retailers would

1692
01:36:43.439 --> 01:36:45.600
stocking and no consoles would allow it. That is the thing. It's like

1693
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:49.880
AO games didn't exist, Like the
AO rating was basically the kiss of death

1694
01:36:49.960 --> 01:36:54.840
for a game, and games weren't
going through ESRB ratings because they weren't being

1695
01:36:54.880 --> 01:36:57.640
sold in any kind of legitimate fright, So it's kind of if nothing else,

1696
01:36:57.680 --> 01:37:00.520
it's just a reminder of how much
the market has changed or get placed,

1697
01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:03.159
rather like the distribution methods, you
know, like the a game that

1698
01:37:03.319 --> 01:37:06.760
a game that like embraces its AO
rating can still like make its way to

1699
01:37:06.800 --> 01:37:11.640
consumers now, you know, And
yeah when years a few years ago,

1700
01:37:11.720 --> 01:37:14.720
like it just couldn't right, you
know, yeah, like AO games basically

1701
01:37:14.760 --> 01:37:17.000
couldn't exist until you know, just
within the last few years. Yeah,

1702
01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:19.600
and maybe someone will do something interesting
with it, right some day, Right

1703
01:37:20.279 --> 01:37:26.760
was the guy game AO? No? It was actually I swear I saw

1704
01:37:26.800 --> 01:37:29.640
it on that Wikipedia. I think
it was because it was just boobs and

1705
01:37:29.720 --> 01:37:32.439
then didn't it get like recall so
something. So the thing they ran into

1706
01:37:32.760 --> 01:37:40.960
is that an underage person signed a
waiver about light light about their age,

1707
01:37:41.239 --> 01:37:44.239
and then that led to a sudden
situation where it's like, oh, this

1708
01:37:44.439 --> 01:37:50.119
is technically way illegal. Yeah Jesus
Christ, there was a real so not

1709
01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:56.600
AO but super illegal, yes,
super illegal. I reviewed the Guy game

1710
01:37:56.640 --> 01:37:59.760
it's from, and that was at
a time where we were kind of reviewing

1711
01:37:59.800 --> 01:38:02.039
game for like what they were and
and and kind of leave the people out

1712
01:38:02.039 --> 01:38:04.199
of it. And it's like you
look at it and you're like, for

1713
01:38:04.359 --> 01:38:08.800
what it's trying to accomplish, this
is all right? At it you did?

1714
01:38:08.840 --> 01:38:11.159
It is just a trivia game where
you see boobs if you're right or

1715
01:38:11.199 --> 01:38:14.119
something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is like the typical guy questions

1716
01:38:14.199 --> 01:38:16.479
was that the whole gammick was like, I forget questions were now, but

1717
01:38:16.920 --> 01:38:23.479
that game was like like X Retro
or X like Turrock, Like really,

1718
01:38:23.479 --> 01:38:26.319
I want to say it was like
Dave distant beer worked and then he's just

1719
01:38:26.399 --> 01:38:29.560
like, all of a sudden wanted
to make you know, shitty like Girls

1720
01:38:29.640 --> 01:38:30.960
Gone Wild. Right, Yeah,
it's like we went out there and shot

1721
01:38:30.960 --> 01:38:39.479
all this footage. Yeah I'm actually
typing that in right, now it's got

1722
01:38:39.560 --> 01:38:43.520
a terrible cover. That guy looks
like a big idiot. Where was I

1723
01:38:43.560 --> 01:38:45.800
working at the time that I got
recalled? And I'm like, no,

1724
01:38:46.000 --> 01:38:49.319
I'm just gonna like cash us out
to myself or something. You own the

1725
01:38:49.399 --> 01:38:54.039
guy game? I think I don't
think I do anymore. But I also

1726
01:38:54.159 --> 01:38:57.520
used to own the There was a
Tiger Woods game. Yeah, Cyber Tiger.

1727
01:38:58.039 --> 01:39:00.319
Uh it wasn't Cyber Tiger. I
mean it was like that is a

1728
01:39:00.359 --> 01:39:03.920
Tiger Woods tame but like buried on
the disc is this like episode of South

1729
01:39:04.079 --> 01:39:06.800
Park. It's like a Divic's file, right, Yeah, something like that,

1730
01:39:08.000 --> 01:39:11.119
like somebody just forgot to take it
out of like the repository or whatever.

1731
01:39:11.199 --> 01:39:16.119
When the Jeff Spangenberg, who was
a producer, was yeah, he

1732
01:39:16.239 --> 01:39:19.840
was at Iguana and retro and so
like part of that kind of Texas and

1733
01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:25.880
sixty four scene of like Tarak or
whatever. It was fucked up. Iguana

1734
01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:29.960
had a cool logo. It was
Iguana spinning a basketball on us. I

1735
01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:31.960
think that was just for NBA.
That's when I saw the most for him,

1736
01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:34.840
laying on the logo being cool and
laid back through to their word.

1737
01:39:34.920 --> 01:39:40.640
That was a fucking Iguana yeah,
yeah, it was. I remember like

1738
01:39:40.720 --> 01:39:42.960
when they came by to demo The
Guy Game before it was out, it

1739
01:39:43.039 --> 01:39:46.119
was like there was this yeah they
went on the road with the Guy Game.

1740
01:39:46.600 --> 01:39:50.039
Uh, and there was this like
weird pedigree associated with it. Was

1741
01:39:50.079 --> 01:39:55.479
like, whoa this you talked to? You just worked on these you know,

1742
01:39:55.840 --> 01:39:59.439
popular shooters and sure, you know, just like Metroid like what but

1743
01:39:59.520 --> 01:40:01.760
they had a really classy three booth. I bet yeah, I don't know.

1744
01:40:02.199 --> 01:40:04.000
I don't think they ever made it. I don't know they ever made

1745
01:40:04.039 --> 01:40:09.479
a D three. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Wow, yep,

1746
01:40:10.279 --> 01:40:14.239
wow, Okay, And it was
just like, yeah, it was

1747
01:40:14.319 --> 01:40:17.640
ridiculous. A lot of video games
are, to be fair, you're you're

1748
01:40:17.800 --> 01:40:21.439
not wrong, Like a lot a
lot of them are, and some of

1749
01:40:21.479 --> 01:40:25.640
them in a way that is like
creepy. Some of the way that's just

1750
01:40:25.720 --> 01:40:29.479
sad. Yeah. Speaking of which, I'm just gonna read you this next

1751
01:40:29.520 --> 01:40:35.319
headline Verbatim Okay, Laurie full of
Special Editions, Splatoon, Ambo Stolen a

1752
01:40:35.399 --> 01:40:41.840
Whole, Laurie Full Tire, Lord
Tire Lourie England. Yeah that's correct.

1753
01:40:42.079 --> 01:40:44.479
Do you guys, did you guys
see the story going around? Yeah?

1754
01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:47.279
Yes, like the so the the
big retailer or one of the big games

1755
01:40:47.359 --> 01:40:53.279
retailers in the UK. Game I
had a massive shipment of the special edition

1756
01:40:53.359 --> 01:40:59.960
of Splatoon that's got like special Splatoon
Ambo with it straight up hijacked and stolen,

1757
01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:03.159
and that shipment is gone and they
had to cancel a bunch of people's

1758
01:41:03.199 --> 01:41:06.079
pre orders of that special edition.
Why are they not rioting? Right?

1759
01:41:06.520 --> 01:41:10.800
I don't think people were particularly happy. Yeah, sure, it can't be

1760
01:41:10.880 --> 01:41:14.279
that fresh. No, that is
not fresh. No, not at all

1761
01:41:14.359 --> 01:41:17.039
anymore freshness, you know, I
mean this is a you know, specifically,

1762
01:41:17.159 --> 01:41:20.079
this is a shitty situation. You
know, people obviously are not getting

1763
01:41:20.079 --> 01:41:23.640
the thing they wanted like that.
You know, there was some olive branch

1764
01:41:23.720 --> 01:41:27.800
extended with like oh well sell you
the regular edition and take an extra ten

1765
01:41:28.119 --> 01:41:30.600
pounds off or whatever, like they
tried to make good or anything. But

1766
01:41:30.920 --> 01:41:34.319
mainly I pulled this story out because
what the fuck is going on with Ambo?

1767
01:41:36.039 --> 01:41:40.680
Like it's baffling, It's we have
no idea that that's it's directly related

1768
01:41:40.720 --> 01:41:43.159
to that. Who knows they could
have just stolen a truck not knowing what

1769
01:41:43.279 --> 01:41:45.760
was on it, just seeing like
it was this this truck has something on

1770
01:41:45.880 --> 01:41:49.359
it, I guess, And it
just seems like a very strong coincidence.

1771
01:41:49.399 --> 01:41:54.319
Though maybe I think they'd robed like
a fur coat truck or something if they

1772
01:41:54.359 --> 01:41:57.640
wanted to like sell this stuff,
not a fucking splatoon ambo truck. Yeah.

1773
01:41:57.680 --> 01:42:00.520
Have you seen how much some of
those amb and you've seen like the

1774
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:03.479
people don't like for coats. As
it turns out, they're expective though,

1775
01:42:03.560 --> 01:42:06.800
right, probably all right because no
one makes him anymore. So now you

1776
01:42:06.840 --> 01:42:10.840
want when you gotta go, you
got to go on safari yourself. I

1777
01:42:10.920 --> 01:42:13.359
see, I don't know if someone
probably still makes wore coats. A small

1778
01:42:13.479 --> 01:42:15.920
a small handful of people that I
fall on Twitter, I see them strategizing

1779
01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:19.640
like hours or days in advance of
the new Amibo shipment's coming in about like

1780
01:42:19.760 --> 01:42:23.479
what their plan of attack is going
to be, and then like they always

1781
01:42:23.520 --> 01:42:27.199
come back talking about what they did
and didn't get and they seem very disappointed

1782
01:42:27.239 --> 01:42:31.119
on a regular basis. I want
to jump ahead to an email real fast.

1783
01:42:31.600 --> 01:42:36.000
How about that? Okay, I
was at fries this weekend and they

1784
01:42:36.039 --> 01:42:40.800
had a boy Amibo and I had
it in hand and I put it down.

1785
01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:45.279
Wait, which which Amibo? The
squido. Okay, I saw boys

1786
01:42:45.439 --> 01:42:48.960
and girls that Target. Really when
I was there over the weekend? Did

1787
01:42:49.000 --> 01:42:51.399
they sell the three pack? They
did not have the three pack in Yeah?

1788
01:42:51.560 --> 01:42:55.600
Wait, what's the third Amibo?
Squid? Just a straight up squid?

1789
01:42:56.520 --> 01:43:00.159
All right? Here's a short email
from John Hey bomb cast on.

1790
01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:02.279
Here are currently standing in line at
the Toys r US waiting for it to

1791
01:43:02.359 --> 01:43:06.000
open. I'm sorry, there's a
line of about twenty people. I set

1792
01:43:06.039 --> 01:43:10.600
out today and all I wanted was
a Robin and Lucina amibo, being a

1793
01:43:10.640 --> 01:43:15.279
fan of fire Emblem Awakening driving around
my small town in middle Georgia, and

1794
01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:18.880
every game stop, Target and best
Buy already had similar lines lined up.

1795
01:43:19.840 --> 01:43:25.359
Every location already had Robin and Lucina
already claimed by the first in line.

1796
01:43:25.960 --> 01:43:29.560
So here I am waiting in line
and an employee steps out handing out tickets

1797
01:43:29.600 --> 01:43:33.159
for certain amibos. I took a
ticket for Charisard and Granninja. I don't

1798
01:43:33.199 --> 01:43:38.000
even want these two. Why am
I buying these? I've reached a low

1799
01:43:38.119 --> 01:43:42.199
point, so I have a Granninja
and Charisard. I didn't even want these?

1800
01:43:43.760 --> 01:43:45.239
What are people doing? How many
people do you think? Like?

1801
01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:48.399
What person do you think are buying
them for gameplay purposes and how many are

1802
01:43:48.439 --> 01:43:51.199
just putting it on a shelf.
I don't know. I would guess it's

1803
01:43:51.239 --> 01:43:54.880
way more collect I would. Yeah, I would absolutely agree with you.

1804
01:43:55.119 --> 01:43:59.119
There's definitely a certain scene out there
that wants to train their amibos for Smash.

1805
01:43:59.680 --> 01:44:02.000
There's there are people out there that
are you don't need that heavy into

1806
01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:04.760
it, but you don't need like
eight Well, I guess do you need

1807
01:44:04.800 --> 01:44:09.199
a bunch of them? Like is
it one character pert? You might even

1808
01:44:09.239 --> 01:44:12.119
want multiples of them because there's different
ways to train your character up to.

1809
01:44:12.359 --> 01:44:15.760
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's a
deep dark hole, Dan. I messed

1810
01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:17.279
around with that mode and smashed Like
it did not seem that cool that there

1811
01:44:17.319 --> 01:44:21.399
are strategies to it. Yeah,
there's Yeah, it seems like Yeah,

1812
01:44:21.399 --> 01:44:24.640
I don't, I don't I feel
like this. I'm sure that's a small

1813
01:44:24.720 --> 01:44:27.359
percentage of the people buying it.
I feel like this is just part of

1814
01:44:27.439 --> 01:44:31.119
like growing pains for Nintendo and then
eventually they will figure out the supply chain

1815
01:44:31.199 --> 01:44:33.880
on this and this won't be a
problem. If you think about the first

1816
01:44:33.960 --> 01:44:38.399
year of Skylanders, especially at launch, it was a fucking nightmare. You

1817
01:44:38.439 --> 01:44:42.359
couldn't get anything. Ever. It
was just like everything was sold out and

1818
01:44:42.680 --> 01:44:46.119
it just that thing blew up immediately. Uh. And then eventually Activision kind

1819
01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:54.239
of figured out the finer points of
being in the plastics business and it was

1820
01:44:54.319 --> 01:44:57.399
never a problem again unless they wanted
it to be with certain they're like,

1821
01:44:57.439 --> 01:45:00.000
Okay, well this edition is limited
to Target, so that one's going to

1822
01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:05.399
be hard to find stuff like that, but generally speaking, the standard Skylanders

1823
01:45:05.479 --> 01:45:11.600
figures seemed like way easier to find
after about six months, so that they

1824
01:45:11.800 --> 01:45:14.079
sort of that ship out. Do
you think Nintendo's gonna get to that point?

1825
01:45:14.079 --> 01:45:15.199
Are they going to start this stuff
is popular enough that I think they'll

1826
01:45:15.199 --> 01:45:16.720
have to. I mean, they've
already kind of said they were going to

1827
01:45:16.800 --> 01:45:20.479
make more Marths, but I think
it was a different Mark Martin waiting.

1828
01:45:20.920 --> 01:45:24.760
But I suspect that this is just
like them not wanting to be left with

1829
01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:28.319
a warehouse full of fucking shit they
can't sell, understandable, and they're still

1830
01:45:28.399 --> 01:45:30.159
trying to ramp up, Like what's
the actual you know, we go through

1831
01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:32.600
when we launched T shirts to a
certain extent, like what how many T

1832
01:45:32.680 --> 01:45:35.720
shirts should we do with the first
run. If we don't do enough,

1833
01:45:35.880 --> 01:45:40.000
then people have to kind of order
some and then we have to wait for

1834
01:45:40.079 --> 01:45:43.560
the next printing and we bring them
back and stop like that sucks for us.

1835
01:45:44.000 --> 01:45:46.039
Wasn't damaged on the scale of Nintendo. It's even fucking crazier. Wasn't

1836
01:45:46.079 --> 01:45:49.239
that What really fucked over THHQ was
that you draw tablet? I didn't they

1837
01:45:49.319 --> 01:45:53.119
order a ton of those? Yeah? Yeah, yeah they were. They

1838
01:45:53.159 --> 01:45:56.319
were clearing those things out fire sale. Yeah. I was just holding I

1839
01:45:56.399 --> 01:46:00.439
was holding my you Draw tablet about
a week ago. Why I was putting

1840
01:46:00.479 --> 01:46:02.399
it into a box so that it
could not be so that it could be

1841
01:46:02.399 --> 01:46:09.479
out in the garage with my outfit
three sixty face plate and some other stuff

1842
01:46:09.520 --> 01:46:12.439
that has no business existing. They
belong together. It sounds like what you

1843
01:46:12.479 --> 01:46:15.720
should be doing with the uter in
twenty fifteen. Yeah, all right,

1844
01:46:16.039 --> 01:46:23.680
mornon Tendo News, Who's ready?
The Nick, the newspaper in Japan,

1845
01:46:24.760 --> 01:46:27.960
is reporting that the NX, the
next Nintendo console, will be based on

1846
01:46:28.119 --> 01:46:33.359
Android and right, it's a really
good track record for home console. There's

1847
01:46:33.399 --> 01:46:39.039
a lot of really great stuff partnered
with Nintendo, who's very forward thinking.

1848
01:46:39.319 --> 01:46:45.199
Yeah, yeah, this is all
the markings of great success. There's there

1849
01:46:45.319 --> 01:46:50.560
is very little other detail to go
around this nugget of information. An insider

1850
01:46:50.640 --> 01:46:56.119
tells neither the Nick that the nx
is quote operating system is loaded with Android.

1851
01:46:57.439 --> 01:47:00.640
This this would be able to speed
up getting all the game developers on

1852
01:47:00.720 --> 01:47:04.039
board. Uh, and the story
continues that it would also mean development could

1853
01:47:04.039 --> 01:47:10.199
be expanded to smartphones, tablets and
other devices. You know, it seems

1854
01:47:10.199 --> 01:47:15.000
seemed like a move that largely would
be centered around kind of helping cross platform

1855
01:47:15.039 --> 01:47:18.600
stuff, I would think, right, I yeah, I don't know,

1856
01:47:18.960 --> 01:47:24.079
I don't know what the benefit of
that. Android developers are they looking top?

1857
01:47:24.359 --> 01:47:27.039
We got to get these Android developers
on board because otherwise, well,

1858
01:47:27.039 --> 01:47:29.920
I mean, I don't I don't
mean specifically to other Android developers. I'm

1859
01:47:29.960 --> 01:47:31.960
saying that, you know that all
the Nintendo consoles so far are on entirely

1860
01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:38.199
closed platforms that don't have anything in
common with the other consoles or PC.

1861
01:47:38.840 --> 01:47:41.199
You know, yeah, yeah,
what does the Android typically run on as

1862
01:47:41.239 --> 01:47:44.640
it arm? I think, I
mean, yeah, I mean most devices

1863
01:47:44.680 --> 01:47:45.840
are armed these days, but but
I think you know, it could be

1864
01:47:45.840 --> 01:47:49.159
poored to anything. It's just Unix, yeah, like everything is Unix deep

1865
01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:54.000
down pressure un once it comes out
of Microsoft, it's running some kind of

1866
01:47:54.199 --> 01:47:58.520
some kind of old Unix Core or
whatever. But you know, like the

1867
01:47:58.720 --> 01:48:01.199
like the PS four runs on DSD
or like a modified BSD, right,

1868
01:48:01.319 --> 01:48:05.239
Like everything has got kind of similar
underpinnings when you get down to it at

1869
01:48:05.239 --> 01:48:09.359
a certain point. Yeah, so
maybe that doesn't matter, but it's it's

1870
01:48:09.399 --> 01:48:13.439
a little Yeah. When you think
about what Android has done in the like

1871
01:48:14.119 --> 01:48:19.159
televisions cooking up to a TV space, it has not been the super encouraging

1872
01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:24.680
sure, but you know, I
think if you probably threw enough hardware at

1873
01:48:24.720 --> 01:48:26.680
it, like that's a lot of
that. One of the other problems is,

1874
01:48:26.760 --> 01:48:29.119
like you know, the UA,
A lot of these other boxes they're

1875
01:48:29.119 --> 01:48:32.239
out there running Android that you know
you are theoretically gonna play games on is

1876
01:48:33.119 --> 01:48:36.880
it's they're too slow to do that, and everything runs like shit from the

1877
01:48:36.920 --> 01:48:40.800
menus on down. So you would
like to assume the Penex will be a

1878
01:48:40.840 --> 01:48:45.000
bit more powerful than the HYA,
you would like, Yeah, probably,

1879
01:48:45.079 --> 01:48:47.640
I would hope. I mean UIA
is like similar to phone hardware in a

1880
01:48:47.680 --> 01:48:50.800
box, right, Yeah, more
or less. The Amazing Frog was really

1881
01:48:50.920 --> 01:48:56.960
pushing those pixels. Yeah, that's
where duc game debut, not a whole

1882
01:48:56.960 --> 01:49:02.039
lot else to go on powerful yeah
with that stuff, But the story does

1883
01:49:02.079 --> 01:49:05.600
point out that the UK has been
very good at at predicting accurate into the

1884
01:49:05.720 --> 01:49:10.960
rumors in the past, with citing
some other examples, so that might very

1885
01:49:11.000 --> 01:49:14.319
well be happening. By the time
they get ready to announce it. This

1886
01:49:14.479 --> 01:49:18.319
might not be happening anymore. It's
hard to say I'm a sucker for intend

1887
01:49:18.319 --> 01:49:21.279
of Properties. I mean, if
this is just like some weird offshoot and

1888
01:49:21.359 --> 01:49:25.000
not something that they're going to be
doing full time, it might be well.

1889
01:49:25.079 --> 01:49:28.319
Opening up that operating system is is
like that's something they need to do,

1890
01:49:28.439 --> 01:49:32.399
you know, like running these continuing
to run these closed proprietary platforms seems

1891
01:49:32.479 --> 01:49:36.960
very bad for them strategically the way
things are going, but we shall see.

1892
01:49:39.279 --> 01:49:42.840
Uh. Lastly, there's a new
Monster Hunter. Yeah, yeah,

1893
01:49:43.000 --> 01:49:45.199
Monster Hunter Cross. What the hell
is saying? I don't know that they're

1894
01:49:45.279 --> 01:49:49.319
doing super moves and stuff, so
this is like their way of bringing it

1895
01:49:49.399 --> 01:49:54.159
into like some stylish action game.
I don't think it's gonna be like mon

1896
01:49:54.239 --> 01:49:59.279
Hunt May Cry or anything like that, but yeah, you get super moves

1897
01:49:59.319 --> 01:50:02.159
now, so it's kind of class
based as well so, and it seems

1898
01:50:02.199 --> 01:50:05.239
to be like bringing in some of
the stuff from Frontier, which is like

1899
01:50:05.359 --> 01:50:13.119
the uh the PC version okay,
like overseas. Yeah, yeah, it

1900
01:50:13.159 --> 01:50:15.199
looks nice. I've seen videos.
I was like, man, that looks

1901
01:50:15.239 --> 01:50:17.239
really good. It looks really good. It's also like not translated as far

1902
01:50:17.279 --> 01:50:19.880
as I know, unless there's like
patches. But yeah, I don't I

1903
01:50:19.920 --> 01:50:23.439
really don't want to go down that
road. But yeah, this is interesting.

1904
01:50:23.520 --> 01:50:27.199
Yeah, the supermoves add add a
bunch of flash to it. Uh,

1905
01:50:28.159 --> 01:50:30.119
And I don't know if this is
going to be like you know,

1906
01:50:30.720 --> 01:50:35.079
the new engine going forward or anything
like that. They're recycling a lot of

1907
01:50:35.399 --> 01:50:40.159
you know, locations that they've been
to already, saying really yeah with monsters

1908
01:50:40.199 --> 01:50:44.039
as well, and there's really like
a handful of new things to see and

1909
01:50:44.159 --> 01:50:46.920
do. But yeah, they're putting
a large focus on on the supermove stuff.

1910
01:50:47.039 --> 01:50:50.359
But I don't know, I don't
know how I feel about this.

1911
01:50:50.439 --> 01:50:53.800
This could be really bad, you
know, because this is like in in

1912
01:50:54.760 --> 01:50:58.840
like stark contrast to how a lot
of the Monster Hunter games have been previously,

1913
01:50:59.000 --> 01:51:01.880
you know, very methodical. Yeah, totally, maybe this is them

1914
01:51:01.920 --> 01:51:05.159
finally coming around, yeah, which
which yeah. No, we're gonna make

1915
01:51:05.199 --> 01:51:09.479
good games that people want to play. Could be but you might ail in

1916
01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:13.039
it in it, yeah, exactly, like we're into it. That doesn't

1917
01:51:13.039 --> 01:51:16.760
seem like Yeah yeah, considering how
popular the right is over there, people

1918
01:51:16.800 --> 01:51:19.520
that like Monster Hunter seem to like
it just the way it is. Yeah,

1919
01:51:19.800 --> 01:51:23.079
so kind of, I mean,
and that's why they keep doing what

1920
01:51:23.159 --> 01:51:25.840
they've been doing. Now, what
if they went out and got the Dynasty

1921
01:51:25.920 --> 01:51:29.359
Warriors team and said, why don't
you guys make us a Monster Hunter game?

1922
01:51:29.399 --> 01:51:30.800
Okay, I'm done with that.
Man. I played you can just

1923
01:51:31.880 --> 01:51:34.760
over and over and over. Yeah
yeah, and then win get a lock

1924
01:51:34.840 --> 01:51:38.319
onto stuff. Yeah? Great,
Right, did you keep playing that at

1925
01:51:38.319 --> 01:51:41.800
all? No? I fell off
pretty hard on that thing. I don't

1926
01:51:41.840 --> 01:51:44.479
know why. Yeah, it's a
bumpy road. Really into it for like

1927
01:51:45.000 --> 01:51:47.399
ten hours and then just I don't
know, but man, you ride it

1928
01:51:47.479 --> 01:51:54.399
out. You tame that bucking bronco
fu. Yeah fuck yeah, it's so

1929
01:51:54.560 --> 01:51:58.960
good. I could see the appeal. All right, that's all I got

1930
01:51:59.000 --> 01:52:01.840
from news. Let's move on to
emails, all right. Bodcast a johnbomb

1931
01:52:01.880 --> 01:52:08.159
dot com is the email dress.
First email comes from Julian in the Netherlands,

1932
01:52:09.039 --> 01:52:13.520
who writes in about spiritual sequels and
a big publisher copyright everybody's favorite topic.

1933
01:52:15.359 --> 01:52:18.000
With the ever growing amount of these
so called spiritual sequels like Mighty Number

1934
01:52:18.079 --> 01:52:23.640
nine, Ukulele and blood Stained,
do you think eventually the big publishers who

1935
01:52:23.720 --> 01:52:27.720
own the original ips will try and
to block these efforts for their own gain.

1936
01:52:28.520 --> 01:52:31.640
We've already seen that happen to Jeff
Minter when Atari stepped stopped him from

1937
01:52:31.640 --> 01:52:36.720
making anything resembling Tempest. Ever,
again, seeing as these studios are usually

1938
01:52:36.760 --> 01:52:41.119
small studios when compared to the big
publishers and their hordes of lawyers, I'm

1939
01:52:41.159 --> 01:52:44.520
inclined to think they wouldn't last a
day. Is this something you think you

1940
01:52:44.560 --> 01:52:46.439
can see happening? And if not, why not? Depends on if they

1941
01:52:46.479 --> 01:52:50.000
have like a legal fun stretch goal, I guess. I mean, what

1942
01:52:50.239 --> 01:52:53.680
would the claim be with something like
you know, blood Stained, something that

1943
01:52:53.720 --> 01:52:57.760
doesn't share any names or you know, anything with Castlevania outside of just a

1944
01:52:57.880 --> 01:53:00.000
general style of gameplay, You can't
you know, like the look and feel

1945
01:53:00.079 --> 01:53:03.079
isn't something you can protect. And
you know that goes back to you know,

1946
01:53:03.239 --> 01:53:05.600
like do you think about the number
of pac Man clones and you know,

1947
01:53:05.680 --> 01:53:09.439
it's like you think of because I
think they could go after Shadow Complex

1948
01:53:09.520 --> 01:53:13.479
if that was the thing, right, you could go after Galaxian if you

1949
01:53:13.560 --> 01:53:16.399
were Tito, because like it's a
lot like Space Invaders, except the ships

1950
01:53:16.439 --> 01:53:19.760
dive, and we don't think that's
enough. Yeah, I have heard of

1951
01:53:19.840 --> 01:53:25.720
cases, like talking to developers of
smaller games of like of like you know,

1952
01:53:25.840 --> 01:53:29.199
like, oh, the copyright for
game X actually encompasses more than just

1953
01:53:29.319 --> 01:53:31.239
like the name of the game,
you know, like there are specific elements

1954
01:53:31.279 --> 01:53:34.319
to the way that's built, where
like we couldn't do X, Y and

1955
01:53:34.439 --> 01:53:39.279
Z even if we were making a
game like that game, we couldn't do

1956
01:53:39.439 --> 01:53:43.720
like X and Y because those things
or those elements are contained within their copyright

1957
01:53:43.840 --> 01:53:47.560
or whatever. But but surely nothing
like Mighty Number nine or Bloodstained it could

1958
01:53:48.279 --> 01:53:51.399
like those are so general, right, right, Like what could those things

1959
01:53:51.439 --> 01:53:57.920
do that could actually infringe on like
those specific properties that already exist. Yeah,

1960
01:53:58.079 --> 01:54:00.960
yeah, I think I think you're
right, it'd be it'd be a

1961
01:54:00.000 --> 01:54:02.479
hard case for that. With the
case of the Jeff Minter stuff, I

1962
01:54:02.520 --> 01:54:09.479
think it's a little different because there's
a lot of just like audio visual information

1963
01:54:09.680 --> 01:54:12.680
in t XK that you look at
and go like, that's from something else,

1964
01:54:12.760 --> 01:54:15.680
Like he lifted stuff, right,
I mean he lifted stuff from his

1965
01:54:15.800 --> 01:54:19.159
own well, but at the same
time he did work here. Yeah,

1966
01:54:19.159 --> 01:54:21.840
well, he mean he made Tempas
two thousand and four Atari. Right.

1967
01:54:23.039 --> 01:54:26.840
It's like John Fogerty getting sued for
sounding too much like Credence. Yeah,

1968
01:54:26.960 --> 01:54:32.039
it's like it's it sounds insane philosophically, but legally like it's it's totally correct.

1969
01:54:32.199 --> 01:54:34.720
Yeah. Like the the t XK
situation is super weird because you're like

1970
01:54:34.760 --> 01:54:38.680
playing that game, You're like,
oh, the guy that made Tempas two

1971
01:54:38.680 --> 01:54:41.760
thousand for a tari is making another
one of those, and he has made

1972
01:54:41.800 --> 01:54:45.079
games you know, like Space Draff
is similar in look, but it's a

1973
01:54:45.159 --> 01:54:48.520
very blatant flip on the mechanics in
a way that makes it feel really different.

1974
01:54:49.079 --> 01:54:51.600
T x K is kind of returning
to I mean, it's not identical,

1975
01:54:51.840 --> 01:54:55.399
but there are things about it that
like you just go like, yeah,

1976
01:54:55.399 --> 01:54:57.720
there, you know, he's he
wants to make a sequel to Tempas

1977
01:54:57.760 --> 01:55:01.600
two thousand, but isn't calling it
that because he can't. And that's a

1978
01:55:01.720 --> 01:55:04.319
weird situation. Like I ain't no
lawyer, but I looked at that thing

1979
01:55:04.359 --> 01:55:10.520
and one like yeah, kind of
sort of what they're doing. They did

1980
01:55:10.600 --> 01:55:13.159
like video interviews with Jeff Minter leading
up to the release of that game,

1981
01:55:13.800 --> 01:55:20.000
and the number of times they said
tube shooter instead of saying tempest was super

1982
01:55:20.079 --> 01:55:24.680
weird, Like they really went out
of their way to not use the word

1983
01:55:24.760 --> 01:55:30.159
tempest in other classics in the tube
shooting genre, like two Nights Huge Love

1984
01:55:30.279 --> 01:55:32.560
That of course, Yeah, Gyrus. I was just about to ask if

1985
01:55:32.600 --> 01:55:38.880
Gyrus counted as one of those.
I guess so, all right, Nanotech

1986
01:55:38.960 --> 01:55:45.279
woert no no perish the fault all
right. Next to email is entitled fuck

1987
01:55:45.359 --> 01:55:49.840
Destiny. Hey guys, the names
Liam and I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba,

1988
01:55:49.920 --> 01:55:55.039
Canada. Over the holiday weekend I
had I went to Combo Breaker, the

1989
01:55:55.119 --> 01:55:58.960
Chicago fighting game major Yeah late one
of the first nights I had gone to,

1990
01:55:59.039 --> 01:56:01.279
say hi today of Lang and check
out the Iron Galaxy booth. Oh

1991
01:56:01.720 --> 01:56:04.720
but when I went over, I
found him grinding shards and Destiny, but

1992
01:56:05.359 --> 01:56:10.279
Dave Lang ten feet away from him. World class Mortal Kombat X matches were

1993
01:56:10.319 --> 01:56:15.119
happening on the main stage. Fuck
Destiny, ps, fuck Dave Lange.

1994
01:56:15.000 --> 01:56:20.439
Maybe langs of Destiny guy. He
really Wait. I look up to Dave

1995
01:56:20.520 --> 01:56:24.000
in so many ways, and this
is kind of a disappointment to hear he

1996
01:56:24.399 --> 01:56:27.199
has way into this new expansion.
I can tell you from personal experience.

1997
01:56:29.640 --> 01:56:34.760
Yeah, I don't know about that. They're I deleted Destiny for my PS

1998
01:56:34.800 --> 01:56:39.920
four yesterday culturate. I don't think
I want to talk about it anymore than

1999
01:56:39.960 --> 01:56:42.560
that. I just wanted to say
that I'm proud. I'm proud of you

2000
01:56:42.680 --> 01:56:45.319
and I support like pouring the bottle
down the sink. Basically, wow,

2001
01:56:45.920 --> 01:56:50.520
really dark moment with that game.
O bad. We got your back man,

2002
01:56:53.399 --> 01:56:55.119
Hey, you want to run the
second raid with me? I still

2003
01:56:55.159 --> 01:57:03.159
haven't seen it? And fuck Destiny
going back to DODA clean Yeah, yep,

2004
01:57:04.239 --> 01:57:14.079
sure, yep uh. Next email
comes from Ashley. It's about the

2005
01:57:14.720 --> 01:57:18.000
complexity of game development. High long
time listener, first time emailer. The

2006
01:57:18.119 --> 01:57:24.279
podcast is a great soundtrack to covering
people in in Spatoon. Anyway, As

2007
01:57:24.319 --> 01:57:28.600
a recent computer science graduate, I've
been getting increasingly frustrated by the flippancy of

2008
01:57:28.680 --> 01:57:30.960
comments about how developers are stupid and
should have done X, instead of why

2009
01:57:31.920 --> 01:57:35.760
that seems to come from the gulf
of knowledge about development between actual developers and

2010
01:57:35.840 --> 01:57:40.199
the general public. Do you think
that as time goes on, people will

2011
01:57:40.239 --> 01:57:44.359
become more appreciative of how hard development
of a game is and be less cutthroat

2012
01:57:44.399 --> 01:57:47.520
to any single mistake a developer could
make. Could game development becomes something that

2013
01:57:47.640 --> 01:57:51.079
is covered in general knowledge, Like
how most people can appreciate that it's not

2014
01:57:51.159 --> 01:57:56.000
easy to be a musician, for
example, I don't know that's how people

2015
01:57:56.079 --> 01:58:00.199
probably probably not even even a lot
of shitty albums take a lot of like

2016
01:58:00.359 --> 01:58:03.720
musicians ship and the work to come
together, and no one appreciates like,

2017
01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:06.039
oh, there's very few people are
like, well, at least it was

2018
01:58:06.119 --> 01:58:11.960
well played, like the drums were
on time. No, No, the

2019
01:58:12.199 --> 01:58:15.399
general public doesn't care, and honestly, like, in a sense, they

2020
01:58:15.439 --> 01:58:18.520
shouldn't have to. You know,
they're for them. It's a it's transaction.

2021
01:58:18.600 --> 01:58:21.000
They're out there spending their money on
the thing. They want the thing

2022
01:58:21.039 --> 01:58:26.000
to be good, and they're not
always going to have nuanced criticisms of the

2023
01:58:26.079 --> 01:58:29.439
thing that they but but they love
acting like they know, oh yeah,

2024
01:58:29.520 --> 01:58:32.920
I mean that's not Yeah. There
are certainly people out there that basically basic

2025
01:58:33.039 --> 01:58:36.760
human psychology, like the less you
know about something like the more over confident

2026
01:58:36.800 --> 01:58:39.800
you are about what how a bunch
you know about it? How long a

2027
01:58:39.880 --> 01:58:44.279
video takes to render out? But
but yeah, like there's there's no reason

2028
01:58:44.319 --> 01:58:45.640
that people should ever really be made
aware of this stuff, you know,

2029
01:58:45.720 --> 01:58:48.159
or that they would be you know, like sure, it's not like they're

2030
01:58:48.199 --> 01:58:53.319
going to be instructional videos out there
necessarily with the next call of duty saying

2031
01:58:53.399 --> 01:58:55.960
like here's how many thousands of man
hours. Yeah, it's like if someone

2032
01:58:56.039 --> 01:58:58.159
says, like, hey, there
needs to be more guns and call of

2033
01:58:58.239 --> 01:59:00.119
duty, like they could put out
all these videos showing how long it takes

2034
01:59:00.159 --> 01:59:02.880
a person to implement one gun and
call of duty, But that doesn't you

2035
01:59:02.920 --> 01:59:05.000
know, no one's gonna look at
that and go, oh, well,

2036
01:59:05.000 --> 01:59:11.439
I guess you know you have something. Well it's it's not people aren't looking

2037
01:59:11.600 --> 01:59:14.760
for the actual answer to the question. They just want to be satisfied.

2038
01:59:15.159 --> 01:59:16.439
That's absolutely true. I mean,
at the same time, I can absolutely

2039
01:59:16.600 --> 01:59:19.319
understand Ashley's point that, you know, like a lot of the language that

2040
01:59:19.399 --> 01:59:24.800
is employed against the people who make
video games is incredibly try and cut those

2041
01:59:24.800 --> 01:59:27.880
people out of my life. Yeah, that's mostly possible. Like the amount

2042
01:59:27.880 --> 01:59:30.119
of invective out there about like,
oh, lazy developers like how they were

2043
01:59:30.159 --> 01:59:33.199
they like, they're fucking so lame
and stupid, you know I could do

2044
01:59:33.239 --> 01:59:36.920
it. Yeah, like armchair everything, you know, armchair quarterbacks, armchair

2045
01:59:38.199 --> 01:59:41.039
game developers like you know that that
sort of stuff is. It's one of

2046
01:59:41.039 --> 01:59:43.319
those things where like you know,
like, yes, a lot of games

2047
01:59:43.359 --> 01:59:45.880
ship buggy and they shouldn't like it's
not excusable necessarily, but like the idea

2048
01:59:45.960 --> 01:59:49.680
that they were just like too stupid
or lazy to fix the game before it

2049
01:59:49.760 --> 01:59:54.039
came out. Yeah, Like yeah, it's like you know, when you

2050
01:59:54.159 --> 01:59:56.279
hear about you know, QA and
how like oh you know, like,

2051
01:59:56.319 --> 01:59:59.239
oh we know about every major bug
the ships. That doesn't doesn't necessarily mean

2052
01:59:59.760 --> 02:00:01.199
we have the resources to fix all
of them, right, you know,

2053
02:00:01.840 --> 02:00:04.479
But like I get, you know, the more developers you talk to,

2054
02:00:04.520 --> 02:00:06.920
you the more you get the sense
that they buy and large like no,

2055
02:00:09.159 --> 02:00:11.680
what's wrong with their games? You
know? Yeah, it's it's the funny.

2056
02:00:11.720 --> 02:00:13.960
It's the funny thing like when you
know, like on the reviewing end

2057
02:00:14.039 --> 02:00:16.159
of things is like you know,
running a review of a game that points

2058
02:00:16.159 --> 02:00:19.560
out some specific the shortcomings of a
game and then having like fans of that

2059
02:00:19.720 --> 02:00:25.119
game go like no way, they
made it perfectly and it's you you're fucking

2060
02:00:25.199 --> 02:00:27.960
wrong. And then like having a
conversation with the developer who goes like,

2061
02:00:28.119 --> 02:00:30.000
yeah, no, totally, we
know we I mean, yeah, we

2062
02:00:30.039 --> 02:00:33.039
would have loved to have fixed this, this and this just ran out of

2063
02:00:33.079 --> 02:00:35.800
time. A lot of developers are
pretty realistic about it. Yea, you

2064
02:00:35.840 --> 02:00:41.680
know the the this person was a
monster and the project went sideways here,

2065
02:00:41.760 --> 02:00:44.479
here and here. You know.
It's like they know, right, it's

2066
02:00:44.560 --> 02:00:46.640
like we had we had to reorder
half of the levels at the last minute,

2067
02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:49.000
and that's why the story doesn't make
any sense or whatever. Yeah,

2068
02:00:49.399 --> 02:00:51.960
we're just like, oh, the
voice acting fell through and this happened and

2069
02:00:51.960 --> 02:00:57.680
blah blah blah. Yeah, yeah, that that's always It's it's like frustrating

2070
02:00:57.680 --> 02:00:59.920
in a way because you can't exactly
get out there and say like, oh,

2071
02:01:00.079 --> 02:01:02.760
actually, everyone who worked on the
game knows that I'm saying things that

2072
02:01:02.840 --> 02:01:08.680
are true about the game message board
guy, right, But at the same

2073
02:01:08.720 --> 02:01:10.239
time and again, at the same
time, you can't. You can't.

2074
02:01:10.279 --> 02:01:13.319
That's not to excuse the things that
are wrong with games that you pay money

2075
02:01:13.359 --> 02:01:15.439
for, right, No, totally, you need to be vocal about it,

2076
02:01:15.520 --> 02:01:17.039
But it's more it's constructive ways to
do it right. Unfortunately, the

2077
02:01:17.079 --> 02:01:21.000
people that are on message boards that
are talking in all caps are but they're

2078
02:01:21.039 --> 02:01:24.960
not. Unfortunately they're the loudest,
and marketing, you know, here's them,

2079
02:01:25.039 --> 02:01:27.319
and Marketing will go back and say
it, all right, you guys

2080
02:01:27.399 --> 02:01:30.359
got to fix this shit. But
it's the way that Twitter and other kind

2081
02:01:30.399 --> 02:01:33.600
of forms of social media has made
it like a lot easier to contact someone

2082
02:01:33.680 --> 02:01:36.760
directly is where the thing is.
Because you know, people on a message

2083
02:01:36.760 --> 02:01:40.720
board are gonna have conversations about whatever
they're going to have a conversation about.

2084
02:01:40.720 --> 02:01:44.479
It doesn't necessarily include you the person
being talked about. You know, it's

2085
02:01:44.520 --> 02:01:45.640
like they're and they're free to go
off and do it like who cares,

2086
02:01:46.359 --> 02:01:51.640
you know. But it's when they
can specifically target the people that are of

2087
02:01:51.720 --> 02:01:56.760
the decision makers and bomb them with
like you need to do this, this

2088
02:01:57.039 --> 02:01:59.920
and this, and you're fucking terrible
your job. I could balance your game.

2089
02:02:00.000 --> 02:02:03.239
I mean you're like, that's no, Like maybe they're not great at

2090
02:02:03.279 --> 02:02:06.520
their job. I have no idea
but to come at them that way,

2091
02:02:06.600 --> 02:02:10.439
it's still super shitty. Yep.
Sorry, A twenty year old Internet guy,

2092
02:02:10.479 --> 02:02:12.640
you might not know as much about
game development as you think you do.

2093
02:02:13.840 --> 02:02:15.720
Just be a fucking nice person.
Ye, yes, Like find a

2094
02:02:15.760 --> 02:02:19.640
way to articulate and express your complaints
in a constructive way that could actually help

2095
02:02:19.760 --> 02:02:24.920
somebody improve something, and don't be
a dick. Yeah yeah, yeah,

2096
02:02:24.960 --> 02:02:28.039
it's it's I don't know, I
feel like we at least try to be

2097
02:02:28.359 --> 02:02:30.439
respectful here and there. I'm sure
occasionally there are probably some people that feel

2098
02:02:30.439 --> 02:02:33.159
like we're crossing a line with the
way we talk about games on this very

2099
02:02:33.199 --> 02:02:36.279
podcast, But you know, like
generally speaking, try not to. I

2100
02:02:36.319 --> 02:02:40.840
mean they're fucking trash. Yeah.
Well well yeah, I mean they're fucking

2101
02:02:40.840 --> 02:02:43.319
bad at their fu job. Trash
made by amateurs, right, Yeah,

2102
02:02:45.279 --> 02:02:48.479
way to fucking compress a pilot horseshit
onto a Blu Ray disc. Fuck?

2103
02:02:48.520 --> 02:02:50.960
Were they thinking, I don't know
I could fuck I don't even know you

2104
02:02:51.039 --> 02:02:55.199
could do that. Yeah, So
I guess it's impressive in that sense.

2105
02:02:55.239 --> 02:02:58.800
Yeah, yeah, that like cleared
sirt. God. Yeah, at least

2106
02:02:58.800 --> 02:03:03.359
they accomplished something. Yeah, but
that last spans would come on. Moving

2107
02:03:03.399 --> 02:03:09.439
on next to email from Peter,
who writes Son about the E three drive.

2108
02:03:10.800 --> 02:03:13.159
I guys, this will be my
first E three and my first time

2109
02:03:13.279 --> 02:03:15.760
driving down to LA from the North
Bay. Myself, I'm familiar with the

2110
02:03:15.800 --> 02:03:18.399
five and the one, as I
used to drive to Santa Barbara a lot

2111
02:03:18.479 --> 02:03:21.600
with my kid with my dad as
a kid. But I was wondering if

2112
02:03:21.640 --> 02:03:25.880
Jeff has any travel tips for the
drive, any specific spots I should check

2113
02:03:25.880 --> 02:03:29.680
out on the way or just good
places for food and a pit stop.

2114
02:03:30.800 --> 02:03:32.279
Also, any non E three related
places I need to check out. I

2115
02:03:32.359 --> 02:03:35.479
know Roscoe's and Portillo's are favorites of
the site, but are there any others?

2116
02:03:35.960 --> 02:03:41.279
Pill it's down by Disneyland, but
you could I mean, if you

2117
02:03:41.359 --> 02:03:43.600
have a car down there, you
could go. Yeah, I've done that,

2118
02:03:43.680 --> 02:03:45.520
but it's not near E three.
I will do it. I might

2119
02:03:45.600 --> 02:03:46.960
do it again, man. I
usually go to a Polipe, the original

2120
02:03:47.079 --> 02:03:50.720
supposed to be like the originator of
the French dip sandwich. Super good.

2121
02:03:50.760 --> 02:03:54.239
It's kind of like near downtown LA, kind of close to Yeah, it's

2122
02:03:54.239 --> 02:03:57.560
a quick cab ride from the convention
center. Yeah, super super good sandwich

2123
02:03:57.600 --> 02:04:02.640
place. Roscoe is for sure.
I would Rosco's once and wasn't super It

2124
02:04:02.720 --> 02:04:04.960
was all right, you know.
I didn't like the first time I went

2125
02:04:05.000 --> 02:04:08.399
there. But I found a good
way of like eating their stuff. It's

2126
02:04:08.439 --> 02:04:11.239
just like you you cut the waffle
in like quarters, and then they that

2127
02:04:11.399 --> 02:04:15.279
forms like a taco. So you
take a little bit of whoa chicken on

2128
02:04:15.399 --> 02:04:17.000
top of that, okay, kind
of drenched the syrup and then roll it

2129
02:04:17.079 --> 02:04:20.560
up like a little mini taco.
You get the entire I just don't think

2130
02:04:20.960 --> 02:04:25.880
I don't like the taste of the
syrup and the chicken together. I think

2131
02:04:25.880 --> 02:04:28.920
that's I think I just like,
that's not huge for me. Stick right

2132
02:04:28.960 --> 02:04:30.399
in there. Yeah yeah, then
if you don't like that taste in Rosco's

2133
02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:32.560
is not for you, because that's
the whole right thing, you know,

2134
02:04:32.760 --> 02:04:38.399
Like I love chicken and I love
waffles. It's not together. Yeah,

2135
02:04:39.079 --> 02:04:43.479
I love it. A little Tokyo
has some really good like authentic Japanese like

2136
02:04:43.520 --> 02:04:46.600
tonkatsu curry and yeah. Yeah,
it's a gas station near the convention center

2137
02:04:46.680 --> 02:04:51.119
that'll sell you, you know,
drinks for a dollar each, sushi knows

2138
02:04:51.159 --> 02:04:55.119
all what was my one la thing? But that closed so I got nothing.

2139
02:04:55.199 --> 02:04:58.000
Now I gotta shi play something tape
of that's incredible, yeah, super

2140
02:04:58.039 --> 02:05:00.159
good. Yeah. But yeah,
in terms of the drive down, you

2141
02:05:00.239 --> 02:05:01.520
know, just stop when you're hungry
or we have to use the back.

2142
02:05:01.520 --> 02:05:06.439
There's there's there's the Andersons. There
the split pea soup place. That's cool,

2143
02:05:06.640 --> 02:05:09.920
let's see. I mean, but
there's probably a little hot weather,

2144
02:05:10.079 --> 02:05:12.399
you know, you like, stopping
in the middle of a long drive for

2145
02:05:12.479 --> 02:05:16.640
split pea soup might lead to some
crazier stuff a little later on the drive.

2146
02:05:16.800 --> 02:05:18.840
I mean, the you know,
the classic is the Santa Nella.

2147
02:05:19.359 --> 02:05:23.760
They'll talk Sla. So the Andersons
is that is at that exact exit,

2148
02:05:23.920 --> 02:05:27.319
Santaella. So uh yeah, but
I always thought that thing was a little

2149
02:05:27.319 --> 02:05:29.560
too early in the drive. Yeah
it is. It's only like an hour

2150
02:05:29.680 --> 02:05:31.000
in if you have a car.
I think I've said it before. The

2151
02:05:31.119 --> 02:05:36.000
best barbecue I've seen west of Kansas
doctor Hoggle Woggles Tyler, Texas Barbecue.

2152
02:05:36.000 --> 02:05:40.600
I've already got it pulled up.
Oh yeah, right, yeah, this

2153
02:05:40.760 --> 02:05:45.920
is in Van Nuys. Uh.
Let's see one thirty six. Seple Veda,

2154
02:05:47.840 --> 02:05:51.279
my favorite, my favorite medal for
Seplevita. They're really good. It's

2155
02:05:51.359 --> 02:05:59.439
it's affordable. It's affordable. They
give you a giant goddamn plate of of

2156
02:05:59.760 --> 02:06:02.199
me. Fries are really good.
The sauce is incredible. I did not

2157
02:06:02.279 --> 02:06:05.920
expect to find good barbecue in California. I'm damn another bottle of their sauce

2158
02:06:06.000 --> 02:06:09.760
once another. I had a huge, like half gallon thing. Yeah,

2159
02:06:09.760 --> 02:06:12.880
but god damn no, it's it's
so good. It's a ways out though,

2160
02:06:13.000 --> 02:06:15.359
like we'd packed it out there once
and it was like sixty bucks or

2161
02:06:15.359 --> 02:06:16.880
something. So good. You have
a car kind of sword on the way,

2162
02:06:16.920 --> 02:06:20.960
it's a little bit yeah, if
you're driving. Yeah, it's really

2163
02:06:21.000 --> 02:06:25.520
not that going through some parts of
the valley and stuff. Yeah, yeah,

2164
02:06:25.800 --> 02:06:28.479
it's great. It's good actually driving
down just so I can go there.

2165
02:06:28.880 --> 02:06:30.800
Are you driving down? Yeah?
Really? Yeah, I don't know

2166
02:06:30.840 --> 02:06:32.960
that. Yeah. At Leasta hasn't
really seen much of it. La la

2167
02:06:33.039 --> 02:06:36.279
oh. I mean I keep telling
her that it's a fucking shit old Yeah.

2168
02:06:38.279 --> 02:06:40.000
She wants to. She wants to
see it. So yeah, she's

2169
02:06:40.000 --> 02:06:43.920
gonna be hanging out there. Didn't
know she was there. It's a nice

2170
02:06:43.960 --> 02:06:47.399
place for four to five days.
Yeah, no, even that's about all

2171
02:06:47.439 --> 02:06:51.760
I got in me real bad.
I was just there for four to five

2172
02:06:51.840 --> 02:06:56.039
days, and I say, Santa
Monica's all right. I was near the

2173
02:06:56.079 --> 02:06:58.760
beach. Yeah, I was in
Santa Monica Santa Monica iss al right,

2174
02:06:59.039 --> 02:07:02.520
like, yeah, it's all right, La, though you could do worse.

2175
02:07:04.720 --> 02:07:08.920
I always feel like I've been smoking
a packet day by the time I

2176
02:07:09.000 --> 02:07:11.720
get out of there. For me
three or spending time in Silver Lake,

2177
02:07:13.039 --> 02:07:15.720
I've been over there a little bit, you know, Like in San Francisco.

2178
02:07:15.800 --> 02:07:17.479
I think there's probably a good forty
percent of the population that I want

2179
02:07:17.520 --> 02:07:21.239
to punch in the face all the
time. Silver Lakes to solid sixty five,

2180
02:07:21.439 --> 02:07:24.880
I could see that not being your
favorite place on that it was no

2181
02:07:25.119 --> 02:07:27.399
good. No, sure, I
don't know if it's like that anymore,

2182
02:07:27.399 --> 02:07:30.960
because I don't think anyone's quite like
that the way that it used to be.

2183
02:07:30.319 --> 02:07:33.159
I went, like when I was
crashing on couches during you three years

2184
02:07:33.199 --> 02:07:35.680
ago, my friend took me to
I guess Kei for Southerland's favorite bar,

2185
02:07:36.000 --> 02:07:40.119
Like that's gotta be awesome, Kei, I trust Keef for Southerland's fast in

2186
02:07:40.199 --> 02:07:45.439
places to drink, And oh no, it was still rough. Yea not

2187
02:07:45.600 --> 02:07:47.720
your scene. Huh Well, Keif
for Southerland is an actor, it's true,

2188
02:07:48.000 --> 02:07:54.119
and might just have slightly different tastes
than maybe his characters do. He's

2189
02:07:54.159 --> 02:07:59.640
so cool though it's Keifer the man
can drink? Is I understand? Yes?

2190
02:08:00.039 --> 02:08:03.560
I think who was in a who
was in a bathroom next to a

2191
02:08:03.640 --> 02:08:07.520
drunk key for Southerland? God,
I've heard this? Yeah, anyway,

2192
02:08:07.920 --> 02:08:09.159
whatever, somebody in the press right, I don't know. I feel like

2193
02:08:09.279 --> 02:08:13.840
I don't know this person. If
we know you and you or if we

2194
02:08:13.920 --> 02:08:18.479
don't know you either way and you
paid next to drunk key for Sutherland,

2195
02:08:18.520 --> 02:08:22.119
Please get in touch. Yeah,
we want to hear from you. Uh.

2196
02:08:22.600 --> 02:08:28.600
Next to email comes from Matthew Uh, he says. Brad has been

2197
02:08:28.640 --> 02:08:31.479
talking up The Witch or Three lately, and in the same breath has also

2198
02:08:31.600 --> 02:08:35.159
mentioned its glaring flaws. The positive
aspects of the game seemed to eclipse the

2199
02:08:35.199 --> 02:08:39.560
flaws for him, and I can
really appreciate games that do that for players.

2200
02:08:39.399 --> 02:08:43.439
There's just so much good about the
game that it overshadows the shortcomings.

2201
02:08:43.199 --> 02:08:46.600
The issues that Brad has mentioned have
largely been about movement speed, though imagine

2202
02:08:46.600 --> 02:08:50.520
there are other issues that he's not
mentioned. I started to wonder about what

2203
02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:54.880
it would take for Brad to reconsider
his opinion if other major issues plagued with

2204
02:08:54.880 --> 02:08:56.439
The Witch or Three. My question
is this, what are some of the

2205
02:08:56.560 --> 02:09:01.359
essential features of a game that must
work operaly for you to consider it to

2206
02:09:01.439 --> 02:09:05.319
have potential, i e. Character
movement to something Brad can overlook. But

2207
02:09:05.359 --> 02:09:07.640
what is non negotiable for the rest
of you. What are some other games

2208
02:09:07.720 --> 02:09:11.960
that were so good in certain areas
that they're major issues faded into the background.

2209
02:09:13.039 --> 02:09:15.960
I think if there's any risk of
like corrupted save data, I think

2210
02:09:16.039 --> 02:09:18.079
that's a yeah, a deal breaker. I feel I feel like we can

2211
02:09:18.119 --> 02:09:22.640
sort of like set aside, like
you know, became breaking technical flaws because

2212
02:09:22.640 --> 02:09:26.319
I think everybody can agree that that
stuff is a deal breaker. But I

2213
02:09:26.319 --> 02:09:28.760
don't know. The character movement thing
for me is a huge pet peeve,

2214
02:09:28.880 --> 02:09:31.239
Like I don't like it in Rockstar
games either, But again, like you,

2215
02:09:31.399 --> 02:09:35.199
it's it's something I can like grip
my teeth and get used to if

2216
02:09:35.199 --> 02:09:37.840
the rest of the game is that
good, especially when like it's such a

2217
02:09:37.159 --> 02:09:41.199
huge, vast, you know,
open world. Like, I'm way more

2218
02:09:41.279 --> 02:09:43.960
forgiving than that, because you know, Skyrim had its fair share about Fallout,

2219
02:09:45.039 --> 02:09:48.560
did you know. You know,
as long as it's working nine five

2220
02:09:48.560 --> 02:09:52.079
percent of the time, I'll forget
because like, yeah, the Witcher has

2221
02:09:52.159 --> 02:09:56.039
been jankis a couple of times with
me, but most of the time it

2222
02:09:56.119 --> 02:10:00.079
works fine. So yeah, and
you get used to it after the a

2223
02:10:00.159 --> 02:10:03.359
while, and I think typically I
would have thrown that game out the window,

2224
02:10:03.560 --> 02:10:07.600
like if the writing and everything else
were not so good, Like the

2225
02:10:07.720 --> 02:10:11.239
controls are they're asked, Yeah,
they're They're really not good at all.

2226
02:10:11.439 --> 02:10:15.239
They're point about three hours into the
game in that first town where I was

2227
02:10:15.279 --> 02:10:18.119
just trying to like negotiate the little
pathways through that first town on the horse

2228
02:10:18.279 --> 02:10:22.319
and just going like I don't think
I'm gonna keep playing this game, Like

2229
02:10:22.359 --> 02:10:24.560
I don't think I can do this. But then like it just I hit

2230
02:10:24.560 --> 02:10:26.800
a couple of side quests. It
just like hit me just right, and

2231
02:10:26.880 --> 02:10:28.319
I was like, dope, fuck
all that. I gotta keep playing this

2232
02:10:28.439 --> 02:10:33.000
forever and stuff. Man, Like
I've got a good I have to like

2233
02:10:33.239 --> 02:10:35.039
have a good overview of the game. I guess, like I factor in

2234
02:10:35.079 --> 02:10:39.239
a lot of different things, and
if something's good, then you know,

2235
02:10:39.279 --> 02:10:41.119
it might cause me to overlook other
things. Yeah. I think the answer

2236
02:10:41.199 --> 02:10:43.439
is different depending on what else I've
got going on. Yeah. Yeah,

2237
02:10:43.479 --> 02:10:46.079
you know, if I've got like
nothing but time, then you know I'm

2238
02:10:46.079 --> 02:10:48.800
willing to overlook more. If it's
just like, all right, I've got

2239
02:10:48.840 --> 02:10:52.000
a limited window with which to get
in on this thing before I've got to

2240
02:10:52.039 --> 02:10:56.279
do something else. So if it's
if it's rough out of the gate,

2241
02:10:56.319 --> 02:10:58.399
it's just like at some point it's
like I can't, I can't do it

2242
02:10:58.760 --> 02:11:01.960
yet better places be. I don't
think I've ever abandoned an otherwise good game

2243
02:11:03.039 --> 02:11:07.159
because of like minor ish technical issues. It has to be something like Code

2244
02:11:07.239 --> 02:11:09.039
Veronica. I had this one save
and I got to a boss fight and

2245
02:11:09.039 --> 02:11:11.439
I totally didn't have the weapon I
needed to kill it, and said,

2246
02:11:11.479 --> 02:11:15.479
well, okay, I'm quitting this
game because that's a major thing that sucks.

2247
02:11:15.680 --> 02:11:18.760
Minor things like Stu I'm seeing with
the Witcher, like I'll overlook that.

2248
02:11:18.960 --> 02:11:22.520
Yeah, there's no one thing,
no one like aspect of a game

2249
02:11:22.560 --> 02:11:24.560
I can think of that has to
be like good for me to stick with

2250
02:11:24.640 --> 02:11:28.760
it. You know. It's it's
more of a just a it's like how

2251
02:11:28.800 --> 02:11:30.960
many other things in the game are
good? And how good are they?

2252
02:11:31.000 --> 02:11:33.039
You know? It's like if there
are other things, no matter what they

2253
02:11:33.079 --> 02:11:35.560
are, that are that are quite
good, that I can kind of overlook

2254
02:11:35.600 --> 02:11:39.600
anything being mediocre. Uh, I
booted up expen Destiny at one point in

2255
02:11:39.680 --> 02:11:43.680
the GAMEPLAYE not not that great?
Oh man, isn't that that Silicon Nights?

2256
02:11:43.800 --> 02:11:46.119
Yeah? Like that last one thing? Yeah, follow up to Ultimate

2257
02:11:46.159 --> 02:11:54.800
Alliance too, kind of like RPG, right, yeah, but some of

2258
02:11:54.880 --> 02:11:58.960
the voice acting and the writing in
that game was just so fucking bad.

2259
02:11:58.159 --> 02:12:03.880
Like, yeah, there was one
point where just like your name's Piro damn

2260
02:12:03.920 --> 02:12:07.520
means you control fire, and that
is that is as far as I got.

2261
02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:11.680
I don't know, I don't Yeah, I'm in. I'm gonna open

2262
02:12:11.720 --> 02:12:15.319
up. I'm gonna pop the shrink
wrapping my copy of x Mendestiny going on

2263
02:12:15.680 --> 02:12:20.039
it. Good luck, just those
all you can take. It was one

2264
02:12:20.039 --> 02:12:22.000
of the few games that I've just
like, no, I have no time

2265
02:12:22.039 --> 02:12:26.399
for this. Yeah, no time, Ye all right. Gabriel from New

2266
02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:33.399
York sends in an email that says, Hello, bobcast, I'm wondering if

2267
02:12:33.439 --> 02:12:37.600
we're still two or three years out
from APS four or Xbox one hardware revision,

2268
02:12:37.279 --> 02:12:41.760
or are there any rumblings about new
revisions at this pending E three M.

2269
02:12:43.000 --> 02:12:46.840
I'd be surprised. Yeah, it
seems way too soon for that.

2270
02:12:46.960 --> 02:12:50.319
They probably have warehouses full of the
existing you're talking about specifically, like cosmetic,

2271
02:12:50.560 --> 02:12:56.479
Yeah, like the shrink. I
would love us Xbox trust, but

2272
02:12:56.640 --> 02:12:58.359
I don't expect it this year by
any ye. Yeah, I mean they're

2273
02:12:58.359 --> 02:13:03.319
always provides the internals of consoles as
they figure out cheaper ways to make them

2274
02:13:03.319 --> 02:13:05.600
and stuff like that. But in
terms of just like like the shell itself,

2275
02:13:05.720 --> 02:13:09.560
like that's yeah, that's give it
a couple of years. Smaller Xbox

2276
02:13:09.640 --> 02:13:13.600
one seems inevitable, Like that thing
seems so oversized for what it does and

2277
02:13:13.760 --> 02:13:16.840
for like the heat that it doesn't
generate. Surprised we never got that with

2278
02:13:16.840 --> 02:13:20.399
the original Xbox. That thing was
fucking cute. Well they killed that thing

2279
02:13:20.439 --> 02:13:22.199
early, yeah, like they basically
cut its life short, like at the

2280
02:13:22.279 --> 02:13:26.880
point where they would have made one
of those and instead said this kind of

2281
02:13:26.920 --> 02:13:31.399
infamously only gave that thing four years
at market and the three sixty came out.

2282
02:13:33.319 --> 02:13:37.039
Three sixties. Slam was one of
my favorite cosmetic upgrades. That's a

2283
02:13:37.079 --> 02:13:39.439
good one. I thought it was
for sure much better also because I went

2284
02:13:39.520 --> 02:13:43.239
through nine of the old ones because
I would do it, and then I've

2285
02:13:43.239 --> 02:13:46.279
been using the Slam ever since and
no problems. Yep. Yep, I

2286
02:13:46.359 --> 02:13:50.720
got one of the third version three
sixties, the ease, the one that

2287
02:13:50.800 --> 02:13:52.840
was redesigned. I think that one
even looks for second. No, no,

2288
02:13:52.920 --> 02:13:56.159
it's the one that sort of looks
like the Xbox one. Yeah,

2289
02:13:56.439 --> 02:14:00.279
I think that thing looks nice.
Huh okay, yeah it look Sorry.

2290
02:14:00.319 --> 02:14:01.359
The PS four, if anything,
I wish it was a little bigger,

2291
02:14:01.840 --> 02:14:07.119
because the fan in mine is already
starting to get like uncomfortably loud, which

2292
02:14:07.159 --> 02:14:09.640
is the exact same thing that happened
with my launch PS three launching issue.

2293
02:14:09.680 --> 02:14:13.880
It was like within the first year, but like same thing, the fan

2294
02:14:13.039 --> 02:14:16.439
just got louder and louder over time
until I literally bought a new PS three

2295
02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:20.000
when when it was a Black Friday
sale, just because my old one was

2296
02:14:20.000 --> 02:14:22.680
so loud. Like, I feel
like, I don't see any reason for

2297
02:14:22.680 --> 02:14:26.800
the PS four to be as small
as it is with that kind of issue

2298
02:14:26.840 --> 02:14:31.560
going on. But maybe it's just
me. Uh. I wonder what they

2299
02:14:33.079 --> 02:14:35.720
do when they shrink the Xbox.
Do they take like the TV stuff out?

2300
02:14:37.840 --> 02:14:39.439
Yeah? I could see him taking
the like one of those htm I

2301
02:14:39.560 --> 02:14:46.039
ports out. Maybe does anyone really
use that? I've never still running through

2302
02:14:46.039 --> 02:14:48.800
there, but I talked about it
like a month or whatever. I use

2303
02:14:48.880 --> 02:14:52.960
the antenna through it, and that's
pretty pretty great like that, Okay,

2304
02:14:54.520 --> 02:14:56.920
yeah, I haven't. It gives
you some nice features. Uh, did

2305
02:14:56.920 --> 02:15:01.800
you guys see the new Xbox one
controller got confirmed? What it's it's like

2306
02:15:01.920 --> 02:15:05.880
a very well so it leaked and
then they kind of confirmed it. It's

2307
02:15:05.119 --> 02:15:09.239
uh, it's adding an actual just
straight up headphone jack like the PS four

2308
02:15:09.319 --> 02:15:11.760
controller as awesome. Okay, like
you could get that with the current controller

2309
02:15:11.840 --> 02:15:15.359
with an adapter, but there's like
a twenty five dollars adapter. Yeah,

2310
02:15:15.359 --> 02:15:18.760
because they've only got that digital port
on there now, so I don't.

2311
02:15:18.760 --> 02:15:20.840
I'm actually not sure if it's still
gonna have that digital port and a headphone

2312
02:15:20.920 --> 02:15:24.880
jack. Were just moving to the
heaphone jack. But it's so nice on

2313
02:15:24.960 --> 02:15:28.079
PS four because I've got Turtle Beach
PC headphones and just to be able to

2314
02:15:28.119 --> 02:15:30.359
like unplug it from that and plug
it in. Yeah, it is.

2315
02:15:30.479 --> 02:15:33.119
It is a fantastic feature. But
they didn't they didn't talk about whether there

2316
02:15:33.119 --> 02:15:37.000
are any other new features in that
revision of the controller or not. I

2317
02:15:37.039 --> 02:15:41.800
guess we'll find out. Uh,
let's move on to one all wireless man,

2318
02:15:41.960 --> 02:15:46.920
fucking I want that fucking PC wireless, like the official microsofting to come

2319
02:15:46.920 --> 02:15:50.880
out chords on anything. Yeah,
well so that I'll have to I mean,

2320
02:15:50.960 --> 02:15:52.119
I think they have to wait for
Windows ten on that one, because

2321
02:15:52.359 --> 02:15:56.079
like Windows ten will have built in
support for the Xbox one drivers. That

2322
02:15:56.159 --> 02:16:00.760
s stuff. It's a different it's
not x input, it's a different really

2323
02:16:00.840 --> 02:16:03.359
standard. Oh weird, I guess
I guess that explains why some games don't

2324
02:16:03.359 --> 02:16:07.840
support Well, it's a different standard. And and then like there's some software

2325
02:16:07.880 --> 02:16:11.760
that like a will fuck up.
It's twenty fifteen and most of my gaming

2326
02:16:11.760 --> 02:16:15.880
has done wired because I play through
Steam on my TV. Yeah. Yeah,

2327
02:16:16.319 --> 02:16:20.399
chords are a bomber. Uh.
Let's see email from Jordan about game

2328
02:16:20.439 --> 02:16:24.880
of the Year. Who's ready to
start talking game? Yeah, we already

2329
02:16:24.920 --> 02:16:28.520
talked about the Witches. Start building
our list. It's a contenda. Yeah,

2330
02:16:28.840 --> 02:16:31.840
it's out there. Yeah, it's
a good game. Uh, Jordan

2331
02:16:31.920 --> 02:16:35.399
just wants to know it. Seems
like January and February are usually really slow

2332
02:16:35.479 --> 02:16:41.239
months of the year. Four new
releases. December releases usually get get shafted

2333
02:16:41.280 --> 02:16:46.280
in most of the discussions. Talas
Principle, Oscars, Emmy's Golden Globes,

2334
02:16:46.280 --> 02:16:48.799
et cetera. Already do this,
Uh, why not do your Game of

2335
02:16:48.840 --> 02:16:54.760
the Year podcasts in January or February
because we like having things go up between

2336
02:16:54.799 --> 02:17:00.399
Christmas and New Year's when when we're
not at work. Alex say that answer,

2337
02:17:00.479 --> 02:17:03.520
it's kind of nice to have something
in that window when there's kind of

2338
02:17:03.559 --> 02:17:05.680
nothing else. I like. I
like having a coda on the year's worth

2339
02:17:05.719 --> 02:17:09.440
of games, like right at the
end of the calendar year, you know,

2340
02:17:09.600 --> 02:17:11.879
as opposed to like, I don't
know, I feel like if you

2341
02:17:11.959 --> 02:17:13.680
do it a month into the next
year, people kind of don't care so

2342
02:17:13.840 --> 02:17:20.000
much. But it is sticky.
You know, there are always a very

2343
02:17:20.040 --> 02:17:22.360
small handful of games that, yeah, it gets hard to include in that

2344
02:17:22.520 --> 02:17:26.440
discussion, and always hate when something
falls through the crack. Yeah, Talent,

2345
02:17:26.520 --> 02:17:28.159
this is a good example. Like
that game is pretty fucking cool,

2346
02:17:28.959 --> 02:17:31.360
and I wish that's time to play
more of it than it seems. Like

2347
02:17:31.760 --> 02:17:37.239
Far Cry three and four we're both
late enough to where four four came out,

2348
02:17:37.319 --> 02:17:41.399
and like the Tuesday before Thanksgiving that
was like that it was three that

2349
02:17:41.479 --> 02:17:46.719
was like three. Yeah, but
you know it's counterpointed. This guy's email,

2350
02:17:46.799 --> 02:17:50.840
like farkr three was like pretty heavily
lauded in our Game of Year awards

2351
02:17:50.200 --> 02:17:54.360
despite coming out like deep into December. That's that's a crappy feeling too,

2352
02:17:54.360 --> 02:17:56.559
because like we used to have those
discussions a Game Informer, and you know,

2353
02:17:56.639 --> 02:18:00.159
with print lead time and stuff.
It's like we played most every I

2354
02:18:00.239 --> 02:18:01.959
had not played far Kright three that
was the one had not played, and

2355
02:18:03.000 --> 02:18:05.319
so I put my top ten list
in for the magazine and then I played

2356
02:18:05.319 --> 02:18:07.399
Parkright three and it's like, oh, this would have been like way up

2357
02:18:07.399 --> 02:18:11.680
there on my latest. Like crappy
feeling. Yeah, that's that's Print man.

2358
02:18:11.920 --> 02:18:15.040
It is Print. Yeah, yep, it's the Print Life. Yeah,

2359
02:18:16.600 --> 02:18:20.639
let's see. Carlo writes in about
Tech and seven cabinets. Yeah,

2360
02:18:22.920 --> 02:18:26.159
techon, guy, but talk to
me, hey, bomb cast crew,

2361
02:18:26.239 --> 02:18:28.559
emailing you from Sacramento if you can
get Jason on the next BombCast for this.

2362
02:18:28.719 --> 02:18:33.159
I did what's she need? Last
BombCast, you guys talked about the

2363
02:18:33.200 --> 02:18:37.559
Star Wars battle pod with Jeff ending
the topic talking about Tech and seven cabs.

2364
02:18:37.920 --> 02:18:41.399
That's how I know he's serious.
He calls them cabs. If you

2365
02:18:41.479 --> 02:18:45.879
ever want one or want to make
one instead of waiting for console, here

2366
02:18:45.920 --> 02:18:48.799
you go. In terms of av
the Namco system, the powers tech and

2367
02:18:48.879 --> 02:18:54.440
seven has HDMI for controller input.
The board still requires some form of arcade

2368
02:18:54.479 --> 02:19:01.600
input JAMA or JVS I've never heard
of JVS uh in the playable builds featured

2369
02:19:01.639 --> 02:19:07.600
in many US tournaments uses a PlayStation
to arcade input board found in older Japanese

2370
02:19:07.680 --> 02:19:13.040
Namco cabinets. PS two sticks,
dual Shock twos, and personal PlayStation sticks

2371
02:19:13.200 --> 02:19:16.520
have worked in that setup. EVO
will have units with Hocus Pocus Pocus Mumbo

2372
02:19:16.639 --> 02:19:20.719
Jumbo drivers so players can use their
own arcade sticks of newer generations for a

2373
02:19:20.799 --> 02:19:26.520
tournament. For the board itself,
it will come in at possible possibly ten

2374
02:19:26.559 --> 02:19:33.360
thousand dollars or more for one unit. Since local versus mode requires two units,

2375
02:19:33.440 --> 02:19:37.840
you will need to buy another one. In addition, you have to

2376
02:19:37.920 --> 02:19:41.079
make sure you're able to connect to
Bandai Namco's Arcade network for content up.

2377
02:19:41.120 --> 02:19:45.079
Basical balance changes. Man, you
sound like you really, which they may

2378
02:19:45.159 --> 02:19:48.920
not be in allowing you to connect
to that from outside Japan. Yeah.

2379
02:19:50.840 --> 02:19:54.079
While you can make your own cabinet
or use an existing HD cab, the

2380
02:19:54.159 --> 02:19:56.440
official noir cab can vary. Do
you know what that means? He does

2381
02:19:56.520 --> 02:20:00.559
not say he does not mentioned what
the term noir means. That's probably just

2382
02:20:00.639 --> 02:20:03.159
the brand of the cabinet, okay, because he says he says the Tech

2383
02:20:03.200 --> 02:20:07.479
and six Noir is the cheapest at
maybe fifteen hundred to three thousand, but

2384
02:20:07.559 --> 02:20:11.760
outputs at seven twenty P. Newer
models such as the Tech and Tag tournament

2385
02:20:11.799 --> 02:20:18.120
too noir in our office, apparently, yeah, are ten ADP pricier and

2386
02:20:18.239 --> 02:20:22.040
harder to obtain, harder than mud
too. Yeah. I believe that in

2387
02:20:22.159 --> 02:20:26.479
Korea there was a case of a
player buying his own tech at seven cabinet

2388
02:20:26.760 --> 02:20:31.079
where he could play against others from
different arcades and PC bombs that carry second

2389
02:20:31.120 --> 02:20:35.959
seven totaled at fifteen thousand dollars.
That's super expensive. But now that's kind

2390
02:20:35.000 --> 02:20:39.440
of cool, like it's it's crazy
because I mean, so it's all like

2391
02:20:39.559 --> 02:20:43.600
PC base now right, Yeah.
Yeah, if you look at these cabs,

2392
02:20:43.680 --> 02:20:46.879
yeah, you'll see very familiar at
PCs. So that's why you're able

2393
02:20:46.920 --> 02:20:48.399
to cobble one of these things together. Yeah yeah, Well no, you

2394
02:20:48.520 --> 02:20:52.479
said, when you buy the board, you're getting the whole. The board

2395
02:20:52.520 --> 02:20:54.239
is still the thing you plug in. It's not like you have to go

2396
02:20:54.760 --> 02:20:58.360
supply a CPU or so right,
I got it. But the internals yeah,

2397
02:20:58.479 --> 02:21:01.079
very similar alert to what you would
find in a PC. Okay,

2398
02:21:01.760 --> 02:21:05.879
interesting, all right, while there
you go. Yeah, there was a

2399
02:21:05.879 --> 02:21:07.799
story of while back, like a
lot of people would speaking of the online

2400
02:21:07.879 --> 02:21:11.719
verification stuff, a lot of people
had kind of hacked some DDR stuff because

2401
02:21:11.760 --> 02:21:16.399
like Konami had implemented, uh some
kind of online checking for their stuff,

2402
02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:20.200
and and it sounds like a lot
of services, like there was a service

2403
02:21:20.239 --> 02:21:24.959
that people were using to connect to
in lieu of Konami's official stuff. I

2404
02:21:24.079 --> 02:21:28.319
think that got shut down a while
back and some kind of it was a

2405
02:21:28.360 --> 02:21:31.239
d MCA thing or what. But
like, yeah, arcade games have weird

2406
02:21:31.319 --> 02:21:35.760
DRM on them in some cases.
It's kind there some of the old school

2407
02:21:35.799 --> 02:21:39.639
stuff like on capcom boards where if
you remove the battery like it would it

2408
02:21:39.639 --> 02:21:43.920
would actually like I kill it.
I have like four CPS two boards that

2409
02:21:43.000 --> 02:21:46.280
are slowly dying. Right, one
died. I think a capacitor blew up

2410
02:21:46.639 --> 02:21:54.520
on it and it's done. That
was my zero to alpha board. That's

2411
02:21:54.559 --> 02:21:56.799
a shame. Yeah. So so
also with these new tech and there's like

2412
02:21:56.959 --> 02:22:01.399
HDMI out to it as well.
So I've actually saw like an ad of

2413
02:22:01.200 --> 02:22:07.600
averymedia was like connecting little capture boxes
to the back of these tech machines.

2414
02:22:07.639 --> 02:22:09.799
You could like, you know,
pop in your own SD card and record

2415
02:22:09.879 --> 02:22:11.239
your matches and then pop it up. I don't I don't know if there's

2416
02:22:11.239 --> 02:22:15.040
that's kind of cool. Yeah,
that's that's kind of neat. That it's

2417
02:22:15.120 --> 02:22:18.440
neat seeing that stuff. But like
the controller pack on NFL Blitz cabinet,

2418
02:22:18.479 --> 02:22:24.600
exactly just like that, all right. Mitchell writes in about making beer using

2419
02:22:24.639 --> 02:22:28.680
Wu Tang beats at Bomb Crew.
I wanted to know your thoughts on the

2420
02:22:28.760 --> 02:22:33.479
brewery Doc Street in Philadelphia using Wou
Tang clan to stimulate the fermenting process.

2421
02:22:33.520 --> 02:22:37.120
Personally, I think it's a genius
idea and I'm a bit upset. I

2422
02:22:37.200 --> 02:22:39.840
never thought of it. Maybe Giant
Bomb could start doing the same. But

2423
02:22:39.959 --> 02:22:43.840
with insane clown posse or guns and
roses, they're pretty much two identical things

2424
02:22:43.920 --> 02:22:48.200
there, they're equivalent. Sure,
it's like playing Motzart while the babies in

2425
02:22:48.239 --> 02:22:50.959
the crib kind of Yeah. I
personally, I want some ween beer.

2426
02:22:52.600 --> 02:22:56.559
Mmm, I want I wanted.
I want a chocolate and cheese. Give

2427
02:22:56.600 --> 02:23:03.239
me a chocolate and cheese stout chocolate
beer the worst. God, I do

2428
02:23:03.440 --> 02:23:05.319
not agree with that. I don't
want fear to taste like anything, and

2429
02:23:05.399 --> 02:23:09.680
chocolate tastes like way too much stuff
to be in my beer. We've got

2430
02:23:09.760 --> 02:23:15.319
some chocolate wine. Actually, we
do need to try that. So what

2431
02:23:15.440 --> 02:23:18.639
band would you what musical act would
you pay with your with your beer production?

2432
02:23:18.840 --> 02:23:20.879
It has to be beer, it
can't be I don't know. He

2433
02:23:20.920 --> 02:23:22.879
doesn't he doesn't go to a lot
of detail. I mean, I assume,

2434
02:23:22.959 --> 02:23:28.319
like I assume it's the vibration from
the base in here that's like kind

2435
02:23:28.319 --> 02:23:33.479
of causing the beer to sort of
jostle around as it's fermenting motorhead. Okay,

2436
02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:37.399
all right, sure Maiden and yeah, okay, Like I don't know,

2437
02:23:37.520 --> 02:23:41.719
some bass CDs like DJ Magic Mic
or something like that. Just something

2438
02:23:41.799 --> 02:23:45.920
for maximum shaking, you know,
you want to constant bass tones? All

2439
02:23:46.000 --> 02:23:48.840
right? Just point sub wiffers your
beer and see what happens, all right?

2440
02:23:50.520 --> 02:23:56.360
Uh. Alex from Atlanta writes in
about the high cost of video games

2441
02:23:58.920 --> 02:24:01.000
in response to the email you guys
received last week asking why games are so

2442
02:24:01.120 --> 02:24:05.200
expensive to make. There was a
particular tangential point that I thought very few

2443
02:24:05.239 --> 02:24:11.239
people consider when the emailer stated how
Saga declared Alien Isolation a failure as well

2444
02:24:11.319 --> 02:24:16.719
as other titles. There's definitely a
different bar for success that developers and publishers

2445
02:24:16.840 --> 02:24:20.440
use that isn't immediately intuitive. Some
will see games sell millions of copies and

2446
02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:24.399
think, wow, surely they made
their money back. They'd be correct if

2447
02:24:24.399 --> 02:24:28.000
their goal was to break even or
even generate a small profit. What they

2448
02:24:28.079 --> 02:24:31.799
miss is that these blockbusters aren't shooting
for two x or even three X return.

2449
02:24:31.239 --> 02:24:35.600
They're hoping for five x ish to
cover the inevitable duds that will be

2450
02:24:35.719 --> 02:24:41.159
released subsequently in either the same or
different franchises under that company's control. It's

2451
02:24:41.200 --> 02:24:45.079
no doubt a stressful situation for dev's
when a games goalposts of success are to

2452
02:24:45.159 --> 02:24:48.360
carry itself plus however many other games
between it and the next big Squeur hit.

2453
02:24:48.799 --> 02:24:54.239
There's no surprise, then, that
when you see developers and publishers looking

2454
02:24:54.280 --> 02:24:56.799
to other models and revenue streams to
try to make each title stand on its

2455
02:24:56.840 --> 02:25:01.799
own, DLC and micro transactions,
et cetera. On a slightly different note,

2456
02:25:01.840 --> 02:25:05.520
there's a weird dichotomy and that gamers
are so vehemently against different business models.

2457
02:25:07.360 --> 02:25:09.360
Eg. How dare they charge from
more content on top of sixty dollars

2458
02:25:09.440 --> 02:25:13.680
so close to release, but in
the same breath lament the lack of variety

2459
02:25:13.799 --> 02:25:18.159
coming out of bigger studios. Yeah, I mean that squares with everything I

2460
02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:22.600
know about yap of stuff. You
know, like you see, no one,

2461
02:25:22.680 --> 02:25:24.079
no one's in this business to break
even. Well no, but but

2462
02:25:24.239 --> 02:25:28.079
also like you know, at least
at that at that level high levels,

2463
02:25:28.200 --> 02:25:31.040
right a companies. But you know, it's it's it's not only hey,

2464
02:25:31.120 --> 02:25:33.440
we want to make a lot more
money on this game than we spend on

2465
02:25:33.520 --> 02:25:35.879
it, but it's also you know, this is a super hit driven business

2466
02:25:35.920 --> 02:25:39.600
and not everything is hitting. Yeah, so based on you know, they're

2467
02:25:39.639 --> 02:25:43.079
their goals, right, well,
it's like we need the hits to hit

2468
02:25:43.200 --> 02:25:46.319
really hard to make up for all
the things that didn't even make their money

2469
02:25:46.360 --> 02:25:48.520
back. I guess you know,
it's kind of like what happened with tumb

2470
02:25:48.559 --> 02:25:52.040
Rator, right, yeah, exactly. Tumb Rators sold like three million dollars

2471
02:25:52.319 --> 02:25:56.159
or three million copies sorry, and
uh uh, and they declared that they

2472
02:25:56.200 --> 02:26:01.360
failure. Yeah, right, because
like a lot of the stuff coming out

2473
02:26:01.399 --> 02:26:03.600
of Japan was underperforming, you know, and like basically it didn't. He

2474
02:26:03.719 --> 02:26:07.120
didn't do what they needed it to
do to make up for the other things

2475
02:26:07.159 --> 02:26:11.879
that the company was kind of whipping
on. Murder was a failure. That's

2476
02:26:11.040 --> 02:26:13.639
uh. I wouldn't say that.
No, not at all. Great game.

2477
02:26:13.879 --> 02:26:22.200
Yes, it's a great fucking game. Financials the roof uh Scott emails

2478
02:26:22.200 --> 02:26:26.559
about old portable game reviews the BombCast. I was listening to the podcast Retronauts

2479
02:26:26.559 --> 02:26:30.440
from a few weeks ago, an
episode about the Neo Geo Pocket and Wonder

2480
02:26:30.479 --> 02:26:33.680
Swan. In it, one of
the guys said the game Spot used to

2481
02:26:33.760 --> 02:26:37.479
not review portable games because they were
seen as substandard, and it wasn't until

2482
02:26:37.559 --> 02:26:41.159
sometime after the Game Boy Advance launched
they started to give them a fair shake.

2483
02:26:41.879 --> 02:26:43.360
Is this true? And if so, what was the idea behind the

2484
02:26:43.440 --> 02:26:48.440
portable hate? But now we we
outsourced tons of reviews to free answers for

2485
02:26:48.799 --> 02:26:54.040
like Frank Provo made a lot of
money reviewing game Boy games for game Spot.

2486
02:26:54.239 --> 02:26:58.040
Yeah, we didn't always do them
in house, right, because we

2487
02:26:58.159 --> 02:27:01.639
just had a lot of other stuff
going on. But yeah, I think

2488
02:27:01.680 --> 02:27:05.760
I reviewed a few game Boy games. Yeah, maybe possibly, I have

2489
02:27:05.799 --> 02:27:11.520
to go back and look, that's
where I remember that though, Uh yeah,

2490
02:27:11.520 --> 02:27:15.680
video games just like everything else.
Yeah, that's so no truth to

2491
02:27:15.799 --> 02:27:20.799
that whatsoever. Yeah, no,
close in that book. Well there you

2492
02:27:20.920 --> 02:27:26.360
have it, all right. Two
more emails Vinnie and Dallas. I don't

2493
02:27:26.399 --> 02:27:28.239
know what he's doing down there.
It's supposed to be running the podcasts and

2494
02:27:28.280 --> 02:27:35.280
stuffy subject line. Play all video
games, No, don't do that.

2495
02:27:35.760 --> 02:27:41.360
You have to play all video games
ever made to completion of the main story,

2496
02:27:41.559 --> 02:27:43.440
or seventy five percent if there is
an in game completion counter. Otherwise,

2497
02:27:43.520 --> 02:27:48.479
we can't talk about ship. That
includes every game someone labeled as done

2498
02:27:48.639 --> 02:27:52.319
or released for sale from the dawn
of video games through January first, at

2499
02:27:52.360 --> 02:27:58.040
midnight of twenty seventeen, including games
you've already played. Games made on GameMaker

2500
02:27:58.079 --> 02:28:01.440
software don't count. But indie games
totally count. Indie games that they're not

2501
02:28:01.520 --> 02:28:03.840
real game, I mean, what
about indie games that were made on GameMaker.

2502
02:28:03.959 --> 02:28:09.639
You can choose one of the three
following supernatural abilities to allow you to

2503
02:28:09.719 --> 02:28:13.639
do this. Number one, eternal
life. You will age until fifty five,

2504
02:28:13.719 --> 02:28:18.399
then no further, and if dismembered
or beheaded, your body will fully

2505
02:28:18.479 --> 02:28:22.680
reconstitute, and you will still require
but you will still require sustenance and air.

2506
02:28:22.520 --> 02:28:26.440
Number two. You can pause time
and unpaused time at will until you

2507
02:28:26.520 --> 02:28:31.000
reach age eighty five. When time
has paused, you can only affect objects

2508
02:28:31.040 --> 02:28:35.799
you were touching. The game you
were playing will still work. I assume

2509
02:28:35.879 --> 02:28:39.479
he's also saying that you will not
age will time has paused here, Okay.

2510
02:28:39.639 --> 02:28:43.600
Number three. Each minute you play
a game, you will travel back

2511
02:28:43.639 --> 02:28:48.760
in time exactly one minute. Choose
wisely. That sounds super confusing that I'm

2512
02:28:48.879 --> 02:28:52.040
voting Number two. I've always wanted
to stop just be able to stop time,

2513
02:28:52.760 --> 02:28:54.920
pretty cool, I have. I
have very frequently thought I wish I

2514
02:28:56.000 --> 02:29:00.440
could stop time while playing video games, specifically show you what like every Monday

2515
02:29:00.440 --> 02:29:05.879
morning, I'm like, I wish
I could actually play the two hundred hours

2516
02:29:05.000 --> 02:29:07.600
of content in the which or three
and not have it take away from the

2517
02:29:07.680 --> 02:29:11.360
other things in my life. That
would be pretty awesome. Number two for

2518
02:29:11.440 --> 02:29:15.120
me. Yeah, number two,
Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna go number

2519
02:29:15.159 --> 02:29:20.120
one because he does he doesn't say
that the eternal life ends when you finish

2520
02:29:20.159 --> 02:29:24.159
all the games. Yeah, but
then you're just gonna be some dude floating

2521
02:29:24.159 --> 02:29:26.040
around in space after the world blows
up or whatever. The sun the sun's

2522
02:29:26.040 --> 02:29:28.840
gonna get huge. You want to
be fifty five forever? You got billions

2523
02:29:28.840 --> 02:29:31.879
of years to figure out a solution, though it's a long time. You're

2524
02:29:31.879 --> 02:29:35.399
gonna get bored. Yeah, you're
probably right. Somebody destiny expansions. Oh

2525
02:29:35.600 --> 02:29:39.399
god, you're right. Fuck,
I should just go now. And if

2526
02:29:39.440 --> 02:29:43.479
fifty five would your motor skills of
deteriorated a little bit? Like I feel

2527
02:29:43.479 --> 02:29:46.319
like if it was more like,
you know, thirty five or twenty five

2528
02:29:46.440 --> 02:29:48.360
or something, I'd be a little
closer to sign up for that. You

2529
02:29:48.360 --> 02:29:52.159
can still have a perfectly fine quality
of life of fifty five? Sure,

2530
02:29:52.319 --> 02:29:54.959
sure, especially these days as opposed
to eighty five on these other conditionals.

2531
02:29:56.200 --> 02:30:01.159
All right, I guess that's everybody's
answer. A lot email Aaron from Houston

2532
02:30:03.079 --> 02:30:07.920
writes down about the bomb casting couch. No, not like you think,

2533
02:30:07.639 --> 02:30:11.040
not yet. You're not live in
a world where Bad Dudes has been turned

2534
02:30:11.079 --> 02:30:16.959
into a movie. Enough cast of
the movie Bad Dudes? All right,

2535
02:30:16.079 --> 02:30:18.360
I'm in it? Like, can
you take people? Can I pick like

2536
02:30:18.479 --> 02:30:22.959
eighty stallone or what it would be
twenty fifteen? Also, what do we

2537
02:30:22.040 --> 02:30:26.079
got here? We got get the
rock? We got the bad Dudes?

2538
02:30:26.639 --> 02:30:28.959
Was it blatant striker. Yeah,
you get the Rock for one. We

2539
02:30:30.040 --> 02:30:33.879
got the President, yeah, the
Ninjas, well and Dragon Ninja. Right,

2540
02:30:35.120 --> 02:30:37.879
it's bad Dudes versus Dragon Ninja to
fight Karnov in that game. Oh

2541
02:30:37.959 --> 02:30:43.719
really okay? Uh the President's daughter. Mmmm, this is getting it casting.

2542
02:30:45.719 --> 02:30:48.280
I just don't remember enough of the
characters. They're the ones, dude,

2543
02:30:48.319 --> 02:30:50.639
the four I just rattled off or
from the Wikipedia page, right,

2544
02:30:50.840 --> 02:30:54.280
bad dudes, president and Dragon Ninja. President's daughter is the one who's kidnappedy

2545
02:30:54.319 --> 02:30:58.120
Ninjas. Wait, no, no, it's the president right, No,

2546
02:30:58.239 --> 02:31:01.399
yeah, you're right, the President's
been kidnapped Ronnie. And then there's the

2547
02:31:01.440 --> 02:31:03.239
guy who's the guy with the sunglasses
and the flat top that's telling me that

2548
02:31:05.520 --> 02:31:09.920
uh Gyle okay, dam I think
that's you know, actually I think that's

2549
02:31:09.959 --> 02:31:13.319
a secret service agent. I think
that read that and the synopsis, M

2550
02:31:13.840 --> 02:31:18.760
who are the bad dudes the Rock? I don't know. I was thinking

2551
02:31:18.840 --> 02:31:24.840
Channing Tatum as well. I was
thinking Channing Tatum and Channing Tatum in the

2552
02:31:24.879 --> 02:31:28.159
Dual Rules that will surprise you.
The Rock is gonna be Jack Burton,

2553
02:31:28.200 --> 02:31:33.959
like this is the new parent Trap. Yeah, hmmm, uh, I'd

2554
02:31:33.000 --> 02:31:37.680
have to see a picture of the
bad dudes. If you wanted the Rock

2555
02:31:37.760 --> 02:31:41.879
to play like, you know,
the Dragon Ninja, then maybe I bet

2556
02:31:41.920 --> 02:31:45.159
he could pull that off. Bill
Pullman is the President Rock. The Rock

2557
02:31:45.200 --> 02:31:48.319
seems a little too bulky to play
a ninja to me. Yeah, yeah,

2558
02:31:48.440 --> 02:31:50.200
that guy's look scary, but I
have to see what looks like it's

2559
02:31:50.200 --> 02:31:54.079
been a while. The Rock can
like slim down and bulkuve just at will,

2560
02:31:54.159 --> 02:31:56.280
basic like you seem in painting the
Game. You could just like inflate

2561
02:31:56.360 --> 02:31:58.360
himself. Basically, he's the Rock. Yeah, huh. It's pretty cool

2562
02:31:58.360 --> 02:32:01.319
power to have. Yeah, he
only has it until he's eighty five,

2563
02:32:01.719 --> 02:32:09.319
right, Okay, he's gonna play
the president President. I don't think like

2564
02:32:09.440 --> 02:32:16.680
CG running Reagan. Yeah, okay, it's the only choice, all right.

2565
02:32:16.719 --> 02:32:20.280
I like your dual Channing Tatum.
I do them. That's pretty good.

2566
02:32:20.040 --> 02:32:22.440
Sure, all right, there you
go Everent haircuts though, right,

2567
02:32:24.200 --> 02:32:28.040
one of them gotta go to Yeah, okay, cool? Tell you told

2568
02:32:28.120 --> 02:32:31.680
apart? All right? Is he
evil? I mean I wanted to look

2569
02:32:31.719 --> 02:32:33.559
like the game. He doesn't.
He doesn't play by the rules. Okay,

2570
02:32:35.799 --> 02:32:39.479
clean, clean, clean shaven can't. Channing Tatum is straight and narrow.

2571
02:32:39.600 --> 02:32:41.399
Right, he's the other guy's loose
cadden. Yeah, yeah, all

2572
02:32:41.479 --> 02:32:50.040
right, that'll work. Bobcast is
hiantball dot com. Yeah, send emails

2573
02:32:50.239 --> 02:32:54.520
to that thing. Okay, we
made it. Yeah, we're done with

2574
02:32:54.559 --> 02:32:58.159
this podcast. Rough. Yeah.
We started off upstairs around like crazy people,

2575
02:32:58.639 --> 02:33:01.959
difficult. He's got a late start, all right, and here we

2576
02:33:01.040 --> 02:33:03.959
are. We did it. As
we get clawed our way to the end,

2577
02:33:05.360 --> 02:33:09.399
the finish line, we're done.
Uh you three's coming, so we

2578
02:33:09.479 --> 02:33:11.000
got a lot of stuff to do
for that. But there's some stuff happening

2579
02:33:11.120 --> 02:33:16.559
on the website, such as such
as you're gonna bang your head against that

2580
02:33:16.600 --> 02:33:20.799
fucking bloodborne boss for another several hours
or something, right, shoot through that

2581
02:33:20.840 --> 02:33:22.920
thing in ten minutes and keep going. Okay, how much more is there

2582
02:33:22.920 --> 02:33:26.639
after that? I don't know.
I'm not that much, okay, h

2583
02:33:26.680 --> 02:33:31.360
And everybody says that's by far the
hardest part. So I'm optimistic that last

2584
02:33:31.440 --> 02:33:33.319
episode you pretty much just fought that
boss over and over again for two hours.

2585
02:33:33.440 --> 02:33:37.719
Yeah yeah, yeah, that was
That was two hours, which is

2586
02:33:37.920 --> 02:33:39.600
is still a fair sight less than
I've seen a lot of people saying it

2587
02:33:39.639 --> 02:33:43.840
took them to be yea dude,
I've seen people say, like it took

2588
02:33:43.920 --> 02:33:46.319
me four hours. It took me
several days of trying off and on.

2589
02:33:46.559 --> 02:33:50.159
Yeah, yeah, like it's not
it fucking try that thing. No,

2590
02:33:50.559 --> 02:33:52.479
sit down and try it. I
haven't played that game in a while,

2591
02:33:52.520 --> 02:33:56.399
and now I feel like, you
know, I wouldn't have the muscle memory

2592
02:33:56.600 --> 02:33:58.680
to go back to it. I
mean it's it's one of those where they

2593
02:33:58.719 --> 02:34:03.440
cut your bar and half. Oh
and that thing that things at least a

2594
02:34:03.479 --> 02:34:05.760
couple has a couple of the tacks
that just kill you in the one hit.

2595
02:34:05.479 --> 02:34:07.559
Yeah, it's pretty much just go
level up a bunch. Yeah,

2596
02:34:09.000 --> 02:34:13.360
that'll do it. Yeah, I
wouldn't do ship. Uh yeah, I'm

2597
02:34:13.399 --> 02:34:16.000
looking at the non non Galaxy PS
four and some of them. There's a

2598
02:34:16.000 --> 02:34:20.319
new episode of Dancers Up with the
guy named Paul Reichert from Kansas. Oh

2599
02:34:20.440 --> 02:34:22.879
No, I gets some life advice
from him, bringing the riff raff in.

2600
02:34:24.120 --> 02:34:35.719
Yeah he's next week. Yeah,
we're all right, yes, Yeah,

2601
02:34:35.799 --> 02:34:39.920
we'll look at you must build a
boat. Yeah, we might talk

2602
02:34:39.920 --> 02:34:43.760
about some wrestling. Uh yeah,
we're seeing if we can get everybody's schedule

2603
02:34:43.879 --> 02:34:46.479
to line up for that. Hopefully
you ever doomed yourself now? Yeah,

2604
02:34:46.559 --> 02:34:50.639
Well he's up talking about wrestling.
Yeah, it might might happen, might

2605
02:34:50.719 --> 02:34:54.360
not. Well, we'll hopefully we'll
get it to get it in. But

2606
02:34:54.840 --> 02:34:58.360
all right, great, excellent stuff. It's happening. It's pretty exciting.

2607
02:34:58.719 --> 02:35:01.600
Yes, we'll be in a marketing
meeting about E three stuff. Yeah,

2608
02:35:01.840 --> 02:35:05.360
go over when the truck is coming
to we have to load the gear onto

2609
02:35:05.360 --> 02:35:09.319
the truck. About the mythical truck. Yeah, the truck. We're bringing

2610
02:35:09.360 --> 02:35:11.440
the couch. We're bringing the couch. We're bringing the couch in the chair

2611
02:35:11.520 --> 02:35:15.959
like that couch right over there.
You got it instead of buying new couches.

2612
02:35:16.040 --> 02:35:18.079
Yeah. Could I run the back
of a truck to E three?

2613
02:35:18.319 --> 02:35:20.159
Yes? I should not always still
could? Please? Can I cancel them?

2614
02:35:20.360 --> 02:35:24.479
I love riding in the backs of
trucks. Can I don't want to

2615
02:35:24.600 --> 02:35:28.200
ride in this truck? Any trucks
fund to ride in the back? You

2616
02:35:28.239 --> 02:35:28.920
can give a shot. You know, I've written in the back of some

2617
02:35:28.959 --> 02:35:31.200
trucks and then had a good time. I think I'm probably with you.

2618
02:35:31.280 --> 02:35:35.680
Pickup trucks, Yeah, this is
not going to be a pickup truck.

2619
02:35:35.959 --> 02:35:39.000
I know it'll be a big leg
truck with the box roxy truck. Then

2620
02:35:39.120 --> 02:35:41.239
you'll sleep on the couch in the
back of the truck. Also, see

2621
02:35:41.239 --> 02:35:43.239
that sounds fine. Also, you're
gonna get unloaded from the truck by teamsters.

2622
02:35:43.280 --> 02:35:46.360
I don't know how you feel about
that. I'll be laying on the

2623
02:35:46.399 --> 02:35:50.159
couch like a nice smooth ride to
the hotel. Yeah. When does the

2624
02:35:50.200 --> 02:35:52.879
truck have to leave? Are we
gonna be cauchless for a few days?

2625
02:35:52.959 --> 02:35:56.079
Yeah? We really? Wow?
That should get interesting. Yeah, yep,

2626
02:35:56.840 --> 02:36:00.079
Well, exciting times are ahead.
Yeah, that last Friday show on

2627
02:36:00.559 --> 02:36:03.559
right before you three will be interesting. Oh, there'll be no catch.

2628
02:36:03.680 --> 02:36:05.319
Great. We're also not gonna have
anything to stream with. Oh right,

2629
02:36:05.399 --> 02:36:09.479
we'll see, we'll see, we'll
see cameroscope, pope something. Yeah,

2630
02:36:09.559 --> 02:36:13.760
we'll come over something. Should be
a good Ye. Drew is already like

2631
02:36:13.799 --> 02:36:18.000
nope, not doing a show,
but we're gonna try come over something.

2632
02:36:18.200 --> 02:36:20.600
Yeah cool, All right, stream
out of a ps FO one PS four

2633
02:36:20.719 --> 02:36:24.639
I don't see why not with the
with the camera hooked up for feed,

2634
02:36:24.760 --> 02:36:28.719
and then we'll play a game streaming
out of another PS four do UF and

2635
02:36:28.799 --> 02:36:33.719
Second Life? Yeah sure, let's
say I've been doing UPF and Second Life

2636
02:36:33.760 --> 02:36:37.399
for years now. I see okay, all right, well, wait to

2637
02:36:37.399 --> 02:36:41.040
see your broadcast. All right,
it's gonna do it for this episode of

2638
02:36:41.040 --> 02:36:43.920
the jib Onodcast. We're gonna get
the hell out of here. Come back

2639
02:36:43.959 --> 02:36:46.360
next week. Maybe we'll give you
another one. See you then,