What's going on. It's a new year, it's a new podcast. It's
a new host. That's right, Janel Choa gone here and forever more.
Jeff Backlar, that's me. Welcome to the Giant BombCast. I'm kidding.
Jan's a little under the weather, uh, and I'm taking over for him
today, So don't you worry. Jane will be back by March the earliest,
right, don't worry about it. Welcome to a brand new year.
Happy new Year, ladies and gentlemen. And I mean's in everyone who is
tuned in to this very special episode the first of the year. Some call
it the Giant BombCast. I'm Jeff Backlar. I'm joined by a trio of
generally good people. Dan Reicherd, how are you? I am doing great
good? Jeff Grubb, what is up with you? You are mister producer
man today? How you doing? I'm doing good. I'm gonna there's a
twenty twenty two on the screen and that's messing everybody up, So I'm gonna
cover up with some text here it's says twenty twenty four instead using the text
tool in obs. Thanks bro yep, I'm here for you. Very good
work. Thank you. Jeff Grubb, Turbo Shawn is here as well.
How are you christening twenty twenty four with us? Sir? Trying to wrap
my head around DHL is an American founded German logistics company. I don't know
how that. I still don't know what that means. I'm not gonna read
anymore on the Wikipedia. Are you attempting to besmirch the good name of DH?
I'm just like Grub was adamant that it's like a German company. I'm
like, yeah, that sounds right now. I'm like, American founded German
logistics. How does that work out? Yes, so they outsourced their German
logistics to America, as you do, all right, the other you get,
the money comes to America. The logistics happened in Germany. That's what
That's what you would want, right, Okay, Now to this college dropout,
would you mind explaining in layman terms of what that means? Oh?
Which part? Okay? Well, listen. It's like when a person from
America is like, Hey, we want to start a shipping company, but
we're going to base it out of a different country because the in the United
States it's already completely saturated by as it's like a Swiss Bank account. Okay,
I got yeah, got it. It's any more than that. They
probably just remember figured they could do a hub in Germany and that would make
it easier. But I'm guessing here, so I don't know. I'm magnure
that. Right as we were going on the air, Alex Navarro and somebody
else joined the Discord call and we're just sitting there like as we were going
off the left line, Oh did they really? That was weird? Alex
Navarrow pop out, like, what's that happened once before? So I was
trying to get some people to join for the first Mortal Kombat when I was
playing through the World Combat stories and in the chat for this room that we
use in Discord, I went at everyone, not realizing what I did,
not realizing that when people go to check that notification, they it makes them
join the audio call by clicking on it. Yeah and and yeah, take
you right into the call. And I was like, uh, Alex Snovari,
I don't Hey, you don't have to be here. You can do
your own job anymore. Listen, listen, I want to do it again.
Then no, it's bad, it's bad form. I want to do
it again. This is this is we're fishing. This is fishing. Poa
correct, We're all going to get new Blake club games if Alex comes in.
I think, yeah, that's right. We've got to be very careful
with that. Absolutely. Oh man, what dangerous power we are wielding in
the palm of our hands. Out. How's how's everyone and doing? Happy
New Year to you all? Uh I, I don't really care much about
this holiday, but it feels good to say it, so Happy New Year.
That's right, That's right, everyone new Jeff New, twenty twenty four,
New Year. I'm gonna like everything. Whoa whoa for New Year's the
first thing starting great here. Basically the first words of the New Year was
I don't care about this ship. Yeah, but I'm gonna be nice about
it as odds with the new attitude. Fair fair, I'm gonna I'm gonna
walk it back. I'm gonna lose me walking it back, and I'm gonna
say I'm just gonna be more honest about everything. Now, Okay, okay,
that is cool. I could accept that. Seems like a better on.
Five minutes into the first BombCast the year, and we're walking stuff back.
This is a great start guys. Yeah, I regrets. I agress
drank from a billion kegs in my life, but I've never gotten one myself.
And so I got a keg for a New Year's party I had here,
and that meant I had to try to tap it. And so it's
in my kitchen and I put the put the YouTube tutorial. I talked to
the guy at the store for a while, like how do I do this?
I act like you're talking about five year old and walk me through everything
because I don't want this to explode, And so he showed me everything and
I took it home. I still put up a YouTube tutorial just to be
safe, and I'm step by step, like frame by frame, almost following
this thing, and it fucking explodes all over me. Like two hours before
the party, we had a painting up there. It's on like a shoot
paint like got beer on it, and everything just exploded all over the fucking
kitchen, all over me. So I'm just wreaking a beer as soon as
guest started showing up, and it's all over the kitchen, not getting that
you pauzed back? Do you do? You know? Like what was the
failure point? I don't know adult. Timptorry showed up later and he was
able to do it like an adult. But yeah, yeah, like,
I mean, I haven't done it in many, many years, but I
don't remember being brain surgery by any stretch. It's just that you touch this
little thing and then there's any pressure on it. If it's not immediately locked
in, it just just fucking explodes like the old like vinegar baking soda volcanoes.
I like those vinegar baking volcanic mark for those. Yea, yeah,
absolutely, that was They're like, make a science project. I'm like,
I'm just gonna do that again. That was great every year? Yeah,
yeah, for real, every year. I would have done it if they
would have let me. Yeah, so you had a good New Year's Is
that aside? Smell? It was great? It was awesome. I was
watching Grimlins two at five in the morning, so yeah, it went great
always. That is that a thing? Like you? You were like,
I'm a not only am I staying up till midnight, I am staying up
till somebody It was like two, it was like one or two am by
the point that I have a Grimlin in my room here and it's like one
of the full size like Grimlins and uh, somebody a friend of mine was
like, oh, I've never seen the second one. I was like what
And I literally just like running around the party like, all right, who's
in for the late night Grimlins crew? We're doing Grimlins two and so at
like three thirty am, I think we started Grimlins two and watched it and
it was fantastic. God, we defined fun so different one. It was
great. We have such different ideas of what Wait new Jeff loves Gremlins too,
right, that's right, Yeah, I haven't seen it. He's being
very truthful, being honest. It's my honesty. ARC. Okay, podcast
has not seen Gremlins too. That's good, No good, no honesty,
ARC, I haven't seen it. I can't stress enough how important it is
to cinema. Honesty. ARC. Haven't seen it. Don't care that much
for the first one. No, I don't even really care about the first
one. And I realized that the joke is like the second one, was
like, hey, what if we just made this and didn't give a shit?
I know, yes, and that's why that one's awesome. In the
first one, yeah, yes, I watched Home alone with my child for
the first time. Last night and uh still unsure if that was a mistake.
Think he's gonna good ideas. Well, he's either gonna go to good
ideas. You're gonna go one of maybe three ways. One he's like,
oh, a career in a home invasion now possibility number Two, he's gonna
like think all criminals are as dumb as Marvin Harry. They might just be
like be like I can defend my home. Or uh. Three, he's
just gonna be completely taken over and obsessed with, uh, you know,
just being robbed all the time, which I guess is a thing that happened
to people who saw that movie when they were really young. Oh really,
it never even really occurred to me as a kid. I was watching like
that's a fantasy that doesn't happen, exactly, Like that movie came out when
I was Dibb's age and I saw in the theater, and I never once
was like, wait a minute, this is potentially scary, Like it didn't
even didn't even occur to me. I was just like, oh, these
are the two biggest fucking idiots ever and they probably should have died by now.
Not wrong, Well, well they know clearly are they're immortal that cannot
be killed. So that's a big, big benefit for them. I do
have a new uh conspiracy theory about Home Alone that like to unleash to the
world. New Jeff is a big conspiracy theory. Guy in four hey,
fuggle up because it's in four days from now today being January second. So
yeah, ok oh, yeah, that's holiday backler, that's what he's looking
for New Years. January sixth is where it's at for back alot, Mister
Slay's allowed to talk about whatever the fuck he wants to. Okay, Uh,
let me ask you folks who have seen Home Alone, do you do
you ever recall seeing Kevin's room in that house? No house, it's most
of the common areas. And then when he's doing the bathroom stuff, he's
in like the master bathroom. Right, where's his fucking room when you're packing,
when they're packing his bag at the very beginning, is that his room?
Or are they Are they in the mom's room at that point? No,
that's the mom's room. The first scene is in the master bag he
goes to everyone else to ask for help for package. Yeah. Yeah,
he doesn't live in the attic. The attic is clearly a guest room.
It's clearly some sort of you know, he got what he got sent to
the attic, right, did you get? Like? Yeah, I punish
Schmidt. Like Catherine, her hare is not like go up to your room,
she says, go up to the scary, creepy attic where we don't
want to look at you anymore. Yues, they just didn't bother. They
probably just didn't bother making that set, because if you're only going to show
up for like the opening scene, because he's spending the rest of the movie
everywhere else, why bother Sean the conspiracy there has come. Kevin is a
ghost. That's a success situation. They can't all be ghosts. Back,
are you say this about every movie? Okay, he's not a ghost,
he's he's a he's a angel. He's an angel baby in the dream of
Catherine O'Hara, while she's on the Polka truck, Sure what happens he dies
of beastings girl. So maybe it's that's the prequel, is in the moment
that he's dying in my girl. Yes, I'm sorry, but this disturbed
me in a very big way. Also, uh, because he does have
a bedroom that you saw looked over. I looked over and I go to
say some like there's this kid's bedroom, like there's this is the biggest house
and I haven't seen it, so it doesn't exist. That's what, husband
of mine. You're onto something here and we haven't slept since so, I
mean, you know, we're getting down to the gritty details. Come a
lot. It's really it's really good. I love fucking the old man.
I said, we got that recorded, right, We gotta okay, good,
okay, good, good, good fantastic. Why do I speak?
Uh? The old man who literally does nothing to help himself. He's like
the creepiest looking motherfucker ever. He knows there's rumors going around about him,
yet he continues to drag a metal trash cannon around, being as creepy as
possible, not saying a word, being all bloody and fucked up. Right,
It's down until they're in the church where he's like, hey, I'm
actually normal. If there were stories about you in the neighborhood, you wouldn't
play them up. Come on, Oh, I know what that's about,
baby, You're damn right I play there. You know he's not just shy.
He has every opportunity to say hi to Kevin get out of here.
Also, it pisses me off that like Catherin Hare's like, I have to
just go home again, right, And meanwhile everyone gets home the same time
she does. She spends a million dollars to like hitchhike across the United States
and get back and everyone shows up the same time. I'm just like,
Oh, what a waste of fucking money. What a waste of fucking money.
This is like when people are like Indiana Jones and Raiders that lost Ark.
Everything would happen just fine without him. Like, yeah, that's not
the point of stories. That's not what it's about. No one's keeping score,
Like, what are you talking about, people, I'm bouncing the check
books here. Except for back backlar is keeping score. Okay, Last Home
Alone trivia true or false? They really do put a tarantula on Daniel Stern's
face. That's why I assuming. I bet he'd be gaing for that.
Everyone thought they didn't, but they did. It's absolutely true. Yeah,
Danger Stern seems like he's down to clown. Oh, he was clearly down
for whatever. He's like, look you want to throw me down the stairs?
Happy to do it. There was really good in that movie too.
Bush Whacked. He's down for a lot of stuff and bush Whacked. Everyone
remembers bush Whacked, right, that's the rest. I do remember Bushwhacked once.
No, you're thinking of the bush Whackers, not Everything's wrestling Backlar.
No, thisic the nineteen ninety five comedy film. Yeah, he like leads
children into the woods or something that. Yeah, get his ass kicked for
another hour and a half. That was kind of his That was his gimmick
back then. I do remember this. You know what Daniel Stern national treasure
he keeps. He should get like some sort of lifetime achievement award. It's
on some point. Yeah, give him like a Kennedy Center award, or
do one of those do one of those keybodies or whatever things are. If
you google image search Bushwack, there's like three different posters or DVD covers for
this movie, and they're all amazing. They're all like him falling or swinging
and screaming. Yeah, there's one of them. This looks great. Yeah,
I mean, aside from being the voice of Kevin Arnold, he got
the shit kicked out of him in a lot of movies. Oh, man,
these good posters are really good. I might get all of them.
Giant poster, a bigger and bigger poster, A bushwack arrives at my house
every day for a year. That's gonna do it. Well. That about
sums up my holiday break. What about you all? How to go for
you sickness? Mostly? Yeah the case. So I got over my sickness,
and then everyone else got sick, so we're gonna do a family Christmas
thing and then I'm like, well, I guess it's just me coming down.
And then a few hours later it's like everyone's getting worse. You should
come home. So I got back home that night, and the little ones
just keep getting sicker. So I'm like, okay, we're gonna have to
go to urchin care at some point here because it's not like it's probably just
a flu, but it's like, I would like it better if you seem
to be improving instead of getting worse, like the day before you go back
to school. So lots of that, but apparently that's everybody. I've heard
a lot of people got sick over the holidays, so not just Fleu,
a lot of covid Our boy jams is the almost sickness as well. So
yeah, apparently everybody's dealing with that, so that that kind of like put
a damper on my break where it's like, uh, kind of just dealing
with that mostly. Sorry to hear that, and you sound good now I'm
doing. I'm doing fantastic. I'm great. Nothing's gonna kill me. Ever,
speaking of nothing that will kill you, Dan Reichert, how how's your
break? It's good. It was travel and you know, getting ready for
the party and all that stuff, so it felt like it was busy for
a break, but oh I was. I was waiting in the airport in
Kansas City to come back, and my flight kept getting it got delayed like
five hours. I'm like, God, damn it, I gotta sit in
the Kansas City airport on my break, which is a new airport. It's
a nice airport, but I just wanted to get home so bad. But
then I go to a new bar there and they've got self served beer kios
and like each one's airport beers, and so it's like you go up and
you just you know, do your Apple pay or you can do it to
wipe a credit card, and then it's like buy the ounce so it'll be
like, oh, sixteen ounces of most of these beers were like eleven or
twelve dollars. And then I looked around. Yeah, but one of them,
luck, one of them said fifty cents. And I'm looking at all
of them. There's like twenty different beers, you know, spouts, and
I'm looking at all of them, say eleven, twelve, eleven, twelve,
thirteen. Yeah, that says fifty cents for sixteen ounces. Okay,
I'm not reading that wrong or anything. And it's the Sam Adams Winter Logger.
And I was like, all right, and I scanned my Apple Pay
and I filled it up all the way and then I checked my my app
and it was like, yeah, you got charged fifty cents. I was
like, you've got hell yeah. Well, this whole fuck, I'm just
playing steam Deck. There was a ten week old Golden retreat for puppy next
to me the whole time from someone else was also on the same flight,
just being adorable this little puppy. So I'm playing steam Deck, I'm playing
Doom Eternal. I got a puppy next to me, and I'm drinking fifty
five dollars worth of beer for two dollars and fifty cents of the airport,
and I'm like, all right, my flight's delayed. This is the way
to do it. This is awesome. Man violently throwing up on the point.
No, I was having a great time. It was awesome. And
when I left, I paid it for it. I turned around. There
was a guy next he was like, hey, heads up, go look
at the price on that same Adams winter logger. Holy shit, thank you
while you were sitting there, did anyone else? And vibe like, while
I was sitting there, I didn't want to raise too many flags, right,
Yeah, I just I wouldn't know. Was my secret for like five
hours, and then I passed it on as I left. Yeah, very
cool. It was awesome, very good. Casey Joe's barbecue though. We
made that on Christmas Day, and hey, that's good barbecue turned out.
It's incredible, right, also really good. It's got that right level spiciness,
the hot spiciness, very flavorful. Yeah yeah, yes, spurnings were
tender as hell. We had the pulled port as well. The sausage was
fantastic. It's like really spicy and crispy. It was really really good food.
I never get the sausage. I should do that on my next door.
Really liked the sausage. Yes, huge ark for Casey Joe's always so
yeah. I had it delivered like you said, and they just shipped it
in like the dried ice and all that stuff and it became perfect. And
uh, couple of bags did like break open, so it was like I
couldn't really boil them, but I found out their ways to heat them up
and it was all good. Yeah that's awesome, Yeah, real good.
I can't say enough about them. Yep, Sean, what kind of barbecue
did you eat over the break? None? Man, how do I follow
any of this? Just had the best break ever. At least I didn't
get sick. I will say that I wasn't sick. I had a very.
I had a very you know, just solid, like lazy break in
the best way possible. Just got some housework done, did some sprin cleaning
on computer, and then just you know, played some games throughout the throughout
the week. I finally got a chance. I got my Steam deck back
there, finally got a chance like set up thing on there, and so
I just started playing like a whole sore and random games, some emulation stuff,
some Steam stuff, some other stuff I got sup from Epic and whatnot
because they're now free games left and right, as they do over the holidays.
I just oh, man, it was just so nice to unwind and
just take some time off from me dinner. Denre was not nearly as excited
I would know what to do for Christmas dare anymore? Like I just like
repeat Thanksgiving dinner at this point minus the cramp. Yeah, that's that's why
I was trying to avoid. That's why I was like, dance but talk
about Casey Joe's. We were going to deliver it. I just thought we
just left LA and I was like, looking at the price, I'm like,
this is not bad. This is going to make a lot of sense
just to have this ready to go for Christmas dinner. So I was glad
to do something very different. But like a traditional Christmas dinner is like what
like I guess a lot of people do Turkey still, but like a spiral,
it's like Thanksgiving. That's why I did, you know, I just
didn't ham and some some stuffing because I was like, ah, we still
got like a box list. Stuffing's great every day of the year. Yeah,
I just did that. We well, my my family has a tradition
of we don't want people working our holiday. So Christmas Eve dinner is always
we just order a pizza, so you know, I have that tradition of
course. But yeah, we went to the Hibachi and that was. That
was great. Nice. I love this places. Yes, it was that's
we do that every Christmas Eve, and that's great. And I was all
ready to get on the healthy train after this, you know, gauntlet of
travel and holidays and stuff. But then for the party, we ordered ten
pizzas, and but we also had like this huge spread and all this other
stuff, and we had all this food before the pizzas, so like half
of the pizza's got eaten, and so now I've got like five pizza.
So this morning I just had like six slices of pizza. Immediately, I
gotta go through this and I can start getting out the Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, you just eat pizza for breakfast. Hell yeah, breakfast food
people are there's some weird scam going on with breakfast. It's people are lying
to you. It's break food is good anytime of day. If it's good
at eight o'clock at night, it's good at eight in the morning. I
don't know what an egg industry has pulled the wool over everyone's eyes or something,
but yeah, the big egg is is everywhere. The terry industy tree
is massively powerful. Yes, that's just all correct. Yeah, yeah,
I just I just kind of feel like I want that savoriness, uh,
not for breakfast, you know, that's all. That's really just because you've
been right. Yeah, I'm in the p Yeah, I'm in the pocketa
big egg. What do you how do you you freezing all that pizza or
what are you doing? It's in the fridge and I just air fry it.
Yeah, but I'm saying like, because eventually it's gonna be in there
for a while. I can do maybe one or two more days of it,
and I'll probably toss the rest eventually. Eventually, some many of those
pizzas are just gonna go feed the raccoons. Yeah, I don't be afraid
to freeze pizza. Don't be afraid. Oh no, it's great for that.
But I also had as part of the the spread, you know,
Bank made all this like incredible food and made cakes and all of a sudden,
this big charcoterie spread and everything and My contribution was a little plate of
Oreos and Nato cheese, and I made a people try it and almost universally
thumbs up. It's way better than I ever would have given you credit for.
Yes, it's right, convincing and be like just try it, just
try one. I promise it's not gonna be gross, and a lot of
like thinking chewing, and then like, you know, that's actually a lot
better than I expect him. He says he won't try that, and that's
when I'm like, listen, the fruit thing, we understand, it's understand.
It's a big word, is different exactly. Accept you as you are,
Mike. But for the natural cheese and oreo, now, he just
he needs to step up for that one. I remember when we brought that
to me. I was like, yeah, this is probably gonna be good.
Remember you did it to me in New York. You're in the office,
You're you're like that. Then you're like, yeah, that's cool,
let's go. I think. I was just like, yeah, this is
probably gonna be good. It's like salty and sweet and it's probably gonna be
good and good. Well, you were just hopping around like an idiot being
like, oh this is You're like, is gonna blow your mind? And
I'm like, come on, dude, sweet cheese. Like I'm not saying
it's the best food ever. I'm just saying it's a lot better than you
would expect. Yeah, they should make like pretzel oreos and then dip that
in the nacho cheese that because I like pretzels and cheese a great deal.
I had that a bunch over the break, just like we were up in
Vermont skiing and like every restaurant had like pretzels and cheese, and I was
like, real nice, real hot pretzel, and Tim Terry brought me a
ceramic Donkey Kong barrel filled with loose Skittles and Starbursts, and I just don't
feel like anyone's ever understood me more than Starburst already unwrapped. No, so
no, sorry loose loose Skittles. The Star Wars are wrapped, so I
got the DK barrel upstairs. It's just wonderful stars packaging. They are just
in the wrappers, like the Star Wars are just in the rappers with the
star exactly. Ok. Yeah yeah. And then we were talking about what
to do afterwards, and Bonk had the idea of like we could put like
a Venus fly trap and a Donkey Kong barrel around. Yeah, okay,
that might be cool. Do they do Star Wars Raw Dog anywhere? Like?
Can you get Raw Dogs mini bags? You open? I got one
of those upstairs. You open it up. It's like a ziploc thing,
and it's dangerous because you just get a handful of the tiniest starburs and then
takes like forever to chew. But it's delicious. Yes, they're like tiny
little cubes. They're unwrapped, so I don't think I've seen those. They're
not really haven't been in a dollar store recently. Sorry that Yeah, it's
like if you like Honey I shrunk the kids like starbars Like, it would
be the same, same proportions and everything, just much chinier. They Raw
Dog Reese's Peanut butter mini cups? Did they have a little like Uh?
Yeah, they're just like little morsels like little Okay, those are dangerous.
I won't just see a bag of those straight up. Yeah all right.
Well, as much as I continue to, uh, I want to talk
about candy, I guess at some point we should probably talk about video games
over this break. I'm trying to think if I did anything with DIB game
wise, we played a lot more Spider Man. We had seen credits roll
on that, but uh, you know you see credits roll on that.
It just makes my kids think like everything has a stinger, Like there's always
a thing at the end of everything, and it's just like I don't know
what to tell you it, you know, Like he thinks, he's like,
well, when's the Seaguel coming in. I'm like, dude, it's
it's twenty twenty. Like we just know it's all the long time. He
is a long nine, he's a eight. Okay. That is like he's
had a like maybe a year of understanding time in any real way, right,
he still doesn't. Yeah, right, the concept of time like really
takes a long while for kids to get the hang of like duration, Like
there's no way, like ten minutes is the longest time in the world.
To my kids, I'm like, I'll do it in ten minutes or like
that is literally forever. I'm oh, okay, it's like I just got
to finish like one or two things and I'll be right over there. So
yeah, and it's probably gotta takehim a minute before he recognizes what a heat
like, Oh, that game's coming out in two or three, five years,
like that means nothing to him right now. I was thinking about talking
to him about the Insomniac League, but I chose again. I mean,
you have to at some point, like we all have to protect you from
it. Yeah, I don't know. This is what's wrong with these Are
these the leakers? They forced us parents of these hardest situations. Absolutely.
Uh. The only game that I wound up playing unexpectedly over the break was
beer Pong and that for the week. Not that was not expected, not
for the wee, for the for the patio, and uh, that's what
we did on New Year's But game wise, no, I I did not
get into too much trouble. But I want to hear what you guys got
into trouble with h I play. I got into that puzzmo finally that I
was talking about, Yeah, I'm phoning up the forty dollars, even because
I'm like, yeah, I'll do this for a year, someone like,
I don't know. At some point someone mentioned it's like, oh, it's
just cool to have it. Maybe it was one of the game of the
Year lists. It's nice to have those daily newspaper games. Obviously, like
wordle it was filling that spot in New York Times. Games with connections and
stuff fills that spot. But puzzmo't just having it all right there in front
of you on this web page and then having familiar things like spell Towers that
what it is. And then some of the other games that oh, really
bad chess, like just having it all in there as like, oh,
this is one place I can go and play these games that I was sort
of like going to from app to app on my phone and instead of having
an all in one convenient location really makes it somehow a little bit better.
And then the leaderboards are done really well, having like the games tell you
your percent tile for any number of aspects of how you performed, where it's
like, okay, you're in like the twentieth percentile for time, but in
score you're in the tenth percentile. It's like, oh that feels really good.
And then I do really bad and really bad chess, it's like you're
in the sixtieth percent time. I'm like, okay, well, next time,
I'll try to think about it a little bit harder, but just and
then having all like the games that are experimental as well, where like,
hey, we're trying these things. They're not finished, but you can start
playing with them now. I really like appreciate that where it's like there's always
going to be something new, and then there's several like really strong games already
that I will play every day, and then I'll experiment with some of these
other ones. And that's been really fantastic. So yeah, I just like
in the mood for these kinds of things. It's like five minutes I have
here and there to play something like Connections. It's like I get down with
Connections. I'm like, Okay, well I have a little bit more time.
I would like to do something, but I'm not going to go start
up a whole, real, big, actual video game. So going to
Pusmo dot com, I'm like, yeah, this is a really it fits
in with my life really well. So I'm a big fan of it so
far. This is awesome. I have not been here before and I just
checked it out and like I just typed in a couple like crossword things.
It's so smart the way it auto fills, like the clues like oh this
I got blank blank tea. So this is is Zach Gage right. This
is a developer, and Zach's been doing mobile game design for a very long
time and has a very good understanding of what a good one of these looks
like and behaves like. And it just comes across in every single one of
these games. And then the games are not just all like oh, it's
not like a one person show. They're bringing in editors to like, okay,
someone else is editing the new crossword puzzle and things like that. So
it's just really it's the next generation of newspaper games. Is really what it
feels like in a really clean and cool way. Yeah, especially with all
the stat tracking and stuff. Yeah. Uh, I I got I got
in a little earlier before I guess it went fully public And now I see
that they're there. They are gating some of the puzzles. But I mean,
uh that now who's uh it was Ben's Ben's game of the Year list.
Uh he mentioned this. I'm like, oh, okay, I'm gon
go check it out. Then, yeah, like cube clear, I really
like and uh now that I see it's it's gated, I'm like, yeah
this to spend that for the year is uh is totally worth it? For
sure? Y? Yeah, I played this like on ski lifts. Yeah,
like waiting waiting for like, you know, someone crashes up there,
so the ski lift stops. You like, all right, well we'll just
this for thirty seconds. E. Some snowboarder aid it again. Yeah yeah,
oh well how am I doing? No that? The pusmo is awesome?
Can't recommend it enough? Yeah, big fan of it. I also
finished my first like full campaign of Steam World Build. Really enjoyed that city
builder game. I've talked about it before just to recap. It is like
a city builder up top. As I've explained it to Mike. He says,
it sounds a lot like Anno, and other people have mentioned that as
well, but the Ubisoft city building games like Anno eighteen eighty six or whatever
it was, that's not the year. But so on the top level is
the order is yeah, the order, yeah, Ano, the order eighteen
eighty six. On the top level is where you're building the city, and
it's pretty simple of like, Okay, you have this building, and the
building's not going to necessarily do much for you in terms of mechanics, but
what it does is feed into another building that you need to upgrade this building,
and then that process gets more and more complicated until you get to the
end, and then you need to be like filling up gas into a ship,
and every one of your cities and needs to be happy in order to
be able to produce that particular resource and in order to make people happy.
Then you've got to go to the bottom levels, which is like these minds
that you need to work with, some with a different kind of characters and
they and then this is where you can actually get attacked by enemies, and
so you have to set up defensive positions and actually send out a little riflemen
to go out and attack these guys. So there's more going on and it
gives you a lot a lot to juggle, But at a certain point,
it's like at the end of the game, I'm like, I think I
got what I wanted out of this. I don't necessarily feel a need to
return to Steam World Build. I think a big part of that is that
going through that process is satisfying the first time. But like, looking back,
I don't really feel like I have too many stories of my time with
this game. It was like, no, I went through the process and
I did one step, then the next step in the next step and yeah,
that was great, but it wasn't. It didn't feel bespoke. It
didn't feel like I made a lot of decisions. I sort of was just
filling up the meters and then going to the next challenge was which was filling
up different meters. It's still really well done, and I'm always impressed with
like the Steam World a universe and how they're able to adjust to these different
genres and they do so really well. But I think I'm probably good on
any more time with Steam World Build personally. Okay, what else do we
have here? My big one that I've been playing. I had not heard
anyone else talk about until Bank recommended it to me. It's called the Cobalt
Core and it is on Switch and I've been playing on Steam Deck as I
travel. Bank's been playing the Switch version and apparently runs great on there as
well. It is like Into the Breach meets Slay the Spire, but it's
like space combat, like with ships and stuff. So it's like you play
like you can unlock all these different space ships and everything, and you'll be
on the bottom, the enemy ship is on the top, and it's deck
building and so you'll bring three characters in our three pilots, and they all
have totally different styles where it's like, okay, this one all their stuff
is about mobility. This one is all about like launching these drones that will
like auto attack, So like good Variet there with the different decks and everything,
and just like Slay the Spire, unlocking new cards and everything that pop
up in future runs. It does that same type of you know rogue light
map where you can choose do I go here and repair go here and you
like or go to like a boss fight or something like that, and then
I'll get these artifacts that are you know, persistent upgrades and things like that.
It's the thing about it that reminds me of Into the Breach is like
you always see what the enemy is going to be doing. So they'll be
up there and you will see, like, okay, when it's their turn,
that cannon is going to shoot for two damage this over here, they're
going to shoot an asteroid out to try to block my next thing. Here.
They've added a statis effect themselves, so they are going to auto dodge
my first shot on the next turn, So like you know exactly what you're
dealing with. There's like no surprises, you know, just like Into the
Breach and man, I'm on, I've done a bunch of different runs on
it now unlocked a bunch of different ships and pilots, and like, it's
just so much fun to seeing the different ways that the pilots and decks can
work together and uh, incredibly smartly put together. Getting this right away is
it's bic. It has been my go to and it is perfect, perfect
to be just like like I love night towards like me and Bonk and we're
both just like playing something on the couch, like like last night, you
know, we had raw on three hours and sometimes you pay attention, sometimes
you don't, and we're just sitting there playing Cobalt Corps for hours, and
uh, just wonderful for that. Yeah, I love Into the Breach.
One of my favorite games of all time. Uh and yeah, and I
also like we've been looking to get into like something like Slay the Spire,
So yeah, this could be the one for me and I love I Love
very much FTL. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, I would love
to hear what you think of it, because like I I kind of want
to because I'm loving tonight I'm playing this night right aways. Soon as we're
done here, I'm playing this. Look at you did the grub. Oh
my god, I said, my my keywords. I'm like into the breach.
Seriously, I think about it every day. I was like shocked when
I started playing, Like, I did a couple of runs and I was
like immediately hooked. I was like, no one's talking about this, Like,
I think I heard about it on the I think min Max was talking
about it came out in November. Yes, yeah, yes, it's been
out for a bit, but you know, I think someone did mention this
on the game of your podcast for mid Max. They like I got a
shout out. I think Cobalt. Okay, yeah, that might be where
she shared it. Yeah, okay, very cool. Cool? What else
dan? Uh? Do Maternal? Uh? You know, I was traveling
with the steam Deck and I was like, you know what do Maternal is
one that I never actually beat despite loving twenty sixteen, and I was like,
I wonder if it works well on the Steam Deck. It turns out
it runs fucking great on the sacks. Those games are so well optimized,
those Doom games. It looks like incredible, It's so it's so awesome.
Yes, yeah, how'd you find it? I'm liking it a lot more
now. I think I just got overwhelmed when it first came out, because
it's like every two seconds, I feel like I was like, here's this
new system, here is this new upgrade screen, here's this like it was
like bombarding me with a bunch of stuff, and I think I just got
kind of overwhelmed or something else came out. So I only played a couple
levels of it back then, and uh yeah, I just you know,
said I'm going to take the time and learn how all these systems work and
everything. And there I don't think it's perfect, Like it has great platforming
for a first person shooter. It feels really great moving around, like but
specifically in combat, I think it feels great moving around. There are some
like larger traversal sections that I think the kind of the sign posting and knowing
where to go and everything, it's a little messy and uh so, but
the combat, like when you get to an arena where it's like on the
map and it's red and you know, like, all right, this is
gonna be a room where I'm just gonna fuck up enemies for like fifteen minutes
like that's where it really shines, and I'm fucking loving it for that.
Did you like June twenty sixteen Dan loved it, loved it? Okay,
and how far are you in Eternal? I would say four to five hours
maybe, okay, So do you have the grappling hook or yeah, ohh
okay, okay, yeah, I've I haven't played since came out, so
forget how early on you get. But well, once you really get in
the flow of using the grapple hook for like everything, that game just feels
freaking amazing. See I'm barely using it actually because I got it. It's
tied to the super Shotgun, and like I love the standard shotgun because the
alt fire on that is the grenade launcher, and so like I usually go
to that because it fire is quicker and has the grenade. But I haven't
really needed to use the grappling hook much. It is the gimmick with that
that like you hook onto an enemy and then shoot them as you get closed
because it doesn't like auto shoot when you okay, I just got to got
to get the swing or you're like you'll you'll glory kill them from like meleeing
them. Once in the Glory Killer like you do shot Melee Glory Kill,
I think, is how I remember doing it. But once you get into
that kind of flow with it, it works really well. It just it
kind of I think once you get into the hang of using it as fixing
the problem of June twenty sixteen of closing in gaps, and you just use
it specifically get from a group A over to group B. You mess them
up in close range and then you you know, rinse and repeat to get
through all the different waves. It sends your way. I think once you
get into that flow, it's very satisfying. Okay, yeah, I'm kind
of torn on. Like I've been doing it both on the Steam deck,
on controller on my TV, and on PC. And I know that you
know it's Doom. You know it's obviously PC is in the DNA, so
I've seen when you say PC, your you mean mouse and keyboard and keyboard.
Yeah, yeah, sorry, And like the aiming is much better,
but I find that in the heat of combat, there is just so much
stuff in that game and I'm trying to like, wait, which button was
the plane thrower, which one was the which one was? So like,
I do think it just kind of translates to controller a little better, which
might be here see to you know, people you know play it on PZ
or keyboard and mouse. Are you using a Splatoon style like motion controls on
your steam deck because it can do that. I've never tried that. Ye
are like a serious person or are you just saying that I don't. I
don't like it so much backler, But I know Dan does. He likes
it in Splatoon, right, you use the most controls. Oh yeah,
no, it's critical for a slatoon and people people do love it. They
always swear by it. Yes, they swear by it. That good once
you get used to it closes the gap between mouse and keyboard and controller.
It actually does, all right, I'm that sounds adorable. I just I
just like to me not playing like a you know. I remember loading Doom
up on my Steam deck being like, wow, this game looks great.
Oh I'm not control I I just controlling it. There's something different. I
don't. I already don't enjoy joy game paths for FPS is and like,
I don't know, I wonder you don call duty with the mouse and keyboard
back on? Yeah? No, no, I switch back and forth.
But we call est controller. Yeah, grub, you're good at doing fucked
up things the video games. Is there a way? Is there any way
I could play Doom Eternal with the wemote and unchuck Absolutely absolutely good. Yes,
very You'd probably have to do some like configuration, but I bet there's
some like stuff on the Steam community for weird stuff like that that could like
get you started, and then you probably have to dial in a few of
the things yourself. I know how stupid program where you can translate a wee
pointer to just the mouse mouse. We can very easily make this happen.
Oh, that's very dumb, just because doesn't mean we should with like the
most laggy like pointer. Maybe we could make a upf like that where it's
like just messed up ways to play video game. I just play everything with
the bresident evil chainsaw, and I got my USB D d R pad right
behind me. We can do some stuff with that. Yeah, oh nice.
Cursed with a Steam deck with the tilt controls, you can set it
so that the tilt will only activate if you rest your thumb on the right
stick because it has a touch on there, so it knows when you're touching
it, So you just rest it on there and that's when it will move,
and then the rest of the time you can just like keep your thumb
off there and then it won't be like juttering around as you're moving the steam
deck. So there's some really smart stuff on there. I would be interested
if you would try that and see like what it was like. Yeah,
yeah, I mean, is that in the doom settings that I could change
the gyro? What is a euro? One of them to say I always
forget this so far you've said nothing that is correct. Yeah, who's gyro?
I don't know. I don't know the gyroscope or gyroscope or eu.
What do you think it is? What do you think it's gyro? What
do you gyro? Said? You said it was gyra, It's gyroscope,
gyro, gyro? Joining think giant mom gyro. Okay, still I obviously
forgot that, so okay Gyro. But you want the sandwich guy. Some
people say yuro yero Okay, but then there's gyro. Gyro is the right
one, aren't you like mister Oh no, you're spelling pronunciation. Yes.
Yeah. With the steam deck, you hit the steam button and then just
keep pressing right, it'll take you controller configurations over then, yeah, just
use the community one because there's going to be a community one for maternal emotion
control. Okay, this this is the I can't let this one go.
Dan, What do you call that game on the ne e s where Rob
raises and lowers red and blue pillars? What do you call it? I
don't think I've ever said it out loud, but I would guess gyromite,
gyromite, gyromite, gyromite. It's gromite, seems right right? No,
definitely not Dan, You're you're just hero mighte zero control. Okay, can
we should be Guyromite is jobber in w C W. Jen, if you're
listening, can we get giant bomb dot com with a Y please? Thank
you? That's going to confuse me more guyant bomb that. I'm sorry,
that's just maybe a little dizzy. I was thinking about sitting down from saying
I had a couple other things real quick. My kids, uh, mostly
Addy, the four year old is just every three D Mario game. She
bounces between him in place like half an hour, then plays the other one,
then play was playing all of them? Three D All Stars is a
bit yes, and then she'll go to Odyssey and then it just so and
every ten minutes she needs help with something. So I've been playing a lot
of three D Mario basically, and I do have like, like, man,
I should go back and play Replace Sunshine. It's probably time I was
getting used to like, uh, the inverted left and right camera where I'm
like, I remember at a time when this made perfect sense to me.
This was like, of course, this is how a game is supposed to
control. So the idea of getting used to that again and playing the whole
game, I'm like, I kind of want to see what that's like again.
And then I played Against the Storm, which is a Rogue Light city
builder. I am on my first run, so I'll probably talk about it
more next week. I'll just say it feels really good. It just has
really satisfying sort of when you click things into place. It just has a
lot of good feedback. But I haven't experienced to any of the Rogue Light
stuff yet, so I'm just saying the people that recommended it they were right,
because it does have a lot of good stuff going for it. I
actually need to see more of it, so I'll talk about it next week.
All right, very good? What else? Friends. So I mentioned
that I was mess around with the steam deck over the break and I was
getting a bunch of stuff running. The one thing that I really want to
do just because I don't know this is like almost like a blind spot for
me in recent times that I wanted to revisit because I checked out a bunch
as a kid, is actually the Ridge Racer series. One was talking about
Ridge Racer. You know, Mike won't shut up about Type four. I
got John Linneman talking about Ridge Racer seven, a bunch of our people talking
about five. Like everyone was talking about Ridge Racer in the retro community for
whatever reason. So I decided to fire a bunch of those up and I
sort of just went through them to a couple of races with each and man,
the one that really stuck with me was Ridge Racer seven is actually really
cool. I feel like people sound like a Vita one. Which one is
this? No, so Ridge Racer seven. I'm definitely not stalling here because
I want to get this right. I believe it was. I think it
was launched. Yeah, it should have been launch for the PlayStation three,
right, Yes, this is this is the Ridge Racer or that that was
because he held up well that he was sorry, sorry three game with the
beat with PSP. Yeah yeah, but anyways, Ridge Race for seven is
still actually super impressive because guys, that was ten eighty P sixty fps as
a PS three launch game. Well the processor, I mean, oh of
course, yeah, come on, no, it's like from this weird alternate
reality where instead of doubling down on all these different like processing effects and trying
to like push graphics as far as possible, what if we just had the
games looked not necessarily PS two like, But what we had them looked like
an og Xbox game but on newer hardware, and it looks so clean as
a result. Nowadays, I was playing it on the Steam Deck. Emulation
isn't perfect of that post run sixty fps, and like man, I was
just say so smooth, and I was having a ton of fun with That's
also where I believe it was the first one where they introduced they actually introduced
nitrous to the series, so you could just straight up like boost like in
Kneed for Speed and whatnot. It was super fun talking about Xbox games running
really well, the actual like Xbox backwards compatibility stuff. Some games I I
played through Max Pain one and two for the first time a couple of years
ago, and god damn if you like on the series X, it just
makes it run so so well. Yeah, so yeah, it's really good
for that. Yeah, definitely, absolutely, And then Ridge Racer. The
thing with those games always was that the power sliding felt better than just about
any other game that wasn't you know, Mario Kart has really good powerful Yeah,
it took me a second to get used to it because I am so
used to it in Mario Kart. Mario Kart. But once you get used
to it and you're not like spinning out because you got you gotta you know,
gently steer into it, especially because the first few were like you know,
digital only, they didn't have a lot of controls, right, so
you have to sort of get used to that mentality. But I think,
especially once I got analogue on seven or anything like that, it just it
felt really good to control. So I see why Mike won't shut up about
the series, I guess, is what I'm saying. Do you think it
could come back? Right? They could do a new Red Racer today?
Yeah, And I think, I mean it probably wouldn't be necessarily a two
million seller, but they could probably do a lot of I think you could,
honestly, if you like, maybe marketing right and everything, because there's
really nothing else doing that style of arcady mixed with sim racing. Right.
We got we got the arcade Racers back recently with the Hot Wheels one and
the Cruising Blast. Yeah, what's that Fortnite stuff? You know that's arcade
racing? Yeah, yeah, exactly, and so but like this, you're
right, this specific version of Okay, it's gonna be real cars and it's
going to present itself like a real racing game, but it's still an arcade
racer. We haven't had a lot of that. That's what all the games
trying to fill a niche are doing, you're right, is cartoony, over
the top stuff almost trying to take from Mario Kart and not the old school
arcade racer like Daytona like they should be. So I think there is that
niche that could be filled in. I mean, Ridge Racer became a show
piece for new systems because what five, six, and seven were all I
think they were all I'm not sure about six launch games on their respective systems
PS two three sixty PS three, So I think if they want to,
they could bring it back and just have it be that incredible combination of the
real cars and our thing, but with a more or loose arkadie feel right
and stand apart from something like need for speed, which they need to speeds,
like, hey, we're going to be open world, and how do
you like do all this other stuff and just do make a lot of different
decisions than that you could set yourself apart. We had that brief moment on
the three six zero where a split second and Blur came out around the same
time, and it was like I was like, yeah, yeah, just
stop making those games against probably because of those games. Yeah, m okay,
and is this one more you have here? Sean, Yeah, this
is the other half of what I was doing over a break is I was
just playing a lot of buying games with my friends because we actually had the
time to sit down and you'll play some more three Fighters six We checked out
the new version of Grand Blue Fantasy Versus, but the one that stuck with
us was actually this was the first game that Epic gave away as part of
their deals, So it's very cool to get this for free because we've been
waiting for a sale one, but d NF duel. It's based on this
long running MMO ish kind of game from back in the day that is still
going, I believe called Dungeon Fighter Online. Uh, and it's super popular
overseas less over here obviously, but man, this game it's made by Aiding,
and that's the company that's made games you're familiar with and games you are
definitely not. So they made like the Naruto Clash of Ninja games on the
GameCube, which you might have seen back in the day, but they also
made like Marvel versus Capcom three, so like they have a really good degree
of just making games today. Yeah, you press buns and you of it
feels good. And so we've just went in expecting, you know whatever,
we'll try us out for an evening, and it really stuck with us because
it just feels great to control. It feels kind of like Marvel three but
one v one's and so that's just is so much fun to just figure out
your combos and it just feels good when because a lot of fighting games this
is my problem, well i'm modern fighting games. Street Fire six a little
bit better about this, and Moral Kombat one as well, but fighting games
not allowing you to just do combos that make sense, Like the dudes ran
from me, I should be able to like punch them, but just the
system mechanics will make you like, well, no, he's gonna spin out
after this, or this is gonna whiff because of this, that or the
other. And then d NF do is just like screw all that. We'll
let you do whatever the hell you want. You got the meter, Yeah,
you're dealing eighty percent. We don't give a shit. And man,
that just makes you get a couple of beers with the boys. That just
makes her a real good night. So we're having a blast playing that for
sure. Sean's doing it the right way. Guys, you know living what
is ARC system Works involvement here? Like did they make previous Stench of Fighters
or did they work on this one? No, it's a huge collaboration between
collaboration next On and Neopol. Let me see, I'm trying to wh Yeah,
next On Neopol are like the rights holders a Dundon Fighter. Arxists provided
like basically the framework because it looks like an ARC system Works the game if
you look it up. And then eighting is like aiding is a work for
hire teams, so they made the actual game like underneath all that. But
why do I recognize eiding What did they work on that? I've pie you
might have seen them in the news because they are working on the upcoming Hunter
Hunter fighting game and a lot of people are talking about that, like Tam
was swinging about that stuff. You know what they developed. They've developed twenty
twenty three's game of the Year, Pigment four. Pigman four. Yeah.
Yeah, they worked on that with EPD or whoever. Yeah, man,
that rules. Okay, cool, wow, man, I'll check this out
just for that good team. Hi gays, Very good man. I didn't
think there's gonna be a much gaming over the break, but there was.
There's all that games around here. Who I thought, Yeah, you know,
all right, Well, very good. Everyone sounds like you enjoyed your
gaming. I hope everyone enjoyed the first segment. Here. We're going to
take a quick break and when we get back, we're going to dive into
all the game news that's fit to discuss on the Giant BombCast. Stick around,
We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Giant BombCast. Kevin mccowister
as a ghost. I really, uh, I really have a good time
with you guys. I want you to know that, oh like a dying
I'm dying. No, I'm not sure if it Wait what look it makes
you think? Sean? Does it not good? I love how the first
conspiracy theory out of conspiracy theory back lart is the same one that Pokemon fans
have been talking about for years with the anime What if Ash just died to
that lightning bolt in the first episode? The whole twenty years that was all
hallucination? Yeah, but like my theory holds water though. You're right,
what was I thinking? I mean, come on it sound it sounds like
it's airtight logic. Yeah, you couldn't see his bedroom? What else?
I'm sorry you're you're in your own home and it doesn't occur to you,
like I don't have a bed where? What have I been doing for these
years? I'm looking up the Lego Home Alone set because then you get a
full, right, canonical answer to this question. Right, They're pretty accurate.
I also one, let's see, well the side for the one is
the set? Do they do they get to like the house? About all
the bedrooms? That's bathroom? You do you see Jerry's bedroom Sometimes that's there.
That's true, it's rare. Yeah, Okay, there's the Michael Jordan
thing in the in the living room, there's the kitchen. Is there no
bedroom in this lego house? I told you, I told you turn the
lake, you turn the lego thing upside down? Graveyard right, this room
with the little Nero's pizza and the angels with filthy wings on the TV.
Is that it? That's the that's like they're that's like their sitting rooms in
the library. Wait a second, he's he's like the kid nobody likes.
Isn't there a chance that he just has a bed with one of the other
kids, like like a butcher where the hell's name is buzz Yeah, butch
Buzz. No, he's definitely not allowed, not allowing busses room. I'm
just saying facts are facts, and they certainly lead you to believe that Kevin
is no longer with us, and it was never with us to begin with.
Speaking of a man of facts, Jeff Grubb is here to lead us
down fact avenue in the world of video games. Take it away, mister
Grubb. All right, news, all right, got some news for you.
Everybody. You know, it was the holidays, not a ton happened.
But there's some things we can discuss. Definitely a few little interesting tidbits,
especially happening on the Nintendo's Sign of Things, but we'll get to that.
After Mickey Mouse has entered the public domain, everybody finally cares because everyone's
like, what a terrible fucking ip that I don't need to use about Mickey
Mouse here? Yeah, uh, there's a video game called Infestation eighty eight
that was ready and rare in to go. Is the hell it's yeah,
so it's Mickey Mouse basically as a fanaffe character. It's a five night at
five Nights at Freddy's alike, and you're gonna get hunted down by a decrepit,
dilapidated Mickey Mouse. Basically, he looks like he's been left out to
rot, and he has the Steamboat Willy hat and everything, so that they're
right on, Like, Okay, we can definitely use Mickey Mouse as long
as we're referring to the Steamboat Willie version. Now, Steamboat Willy does take
off his hat, so if you want to make a Mickey Mouse without the
hat on, you can. But yeah, this is probably gonna happen quite
a bit this year. Would your kids recognize Mickey Mouse? Like in a
police lineup? You always do this? Do you always? I'm genuinely curious.
Is it no grub? I don't know. It's tough. It's tough
to say. Yeah. I mean, oh, it's gonna be so good.
Where do you go? I can't wait for the public So here's the
deal. A lot of these fuckers. What they won't tell you, right,
is that they're saying. They're saying that Mickey Mouse is in the public
domain. Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse's Mickey Mouse side. It's not is Steamboat
Willie, who is a better character than Mickey Mouse. Because all Steamboat Willy
likes to do is heart animals. That's his fucking goal. If you watch,
if you wash the short, all he does is he drives a boat,
he gets off the boat, and then what he does is that he
torments animals that he doesn't like for real, Yes, Like, all he
does is he pulls dog's tails, he hits other animals. It's fucking sick.
Watch Steamboat Willy. There's a lot of I feel like there is evidence
that Steamboat Willy had a narrative and was an actual like show or short film
or something. The modern day Mickey Mouse, which is still under copyright.
It's just a fucking logo right outside of Pantasia where he doesn't even talk.
No, no, he's just a little bit. He has a he has
a news show on Disney Plus that's actually pretty good. The shorts. Okay,
you can't kick me, Mike, Mike? Is that? Who really
wants this? It's some people are just gonna make Micky Mouse now, and
it's like, I don't know, I kind of want it. This is
fun, this, this be interesting. So it is. It is Steamboat
Willie. But Steamboat Willie is Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse. So both are
in the public domain. Now, you just you wouldn't be able to use
the color scheme that he got later on, right after they established character later
on, at least not without risking some problems with Disney. I think it's
like the Steamboat Willie depiction of Mickey Mouse. Would your kids recognize that grub
Absolutely not? Well, I mean they would, they would be able to
put it together. They would know, you're like, okay, yeah,
that's Mickey Mouse. Yes, but they wouldn't be like, Yeah, if
I just said, hey, you guys want to watch steam Boat Willie,
what are you talking about? What about? Did? Uh? Did would
be like is that old Mickey Mouse? That's what did Okay? He'd be
like, oh, what is up with like old man Mickey Mouse looking all
black and white and pointless? Okay? Okay? You know Dan always brings
us Mickey Mouse versus Sonic Grob. I want to ask you, do you
think your kids are more familiar with Mickey Mouse or Pikachu. Oh, it's
Pikachu for me. Pokemon like frost kids around the world, which Mike has
tried to argue against me about. He's like, no, no, Mickey
Mouse, moren Pikachu? What them? Oh? Dan didn't like that one.
Okay, God, Mike just moved him this power right, yes,
yes, I almost permanently. I love that. This is the day we
decided to record locally. Yeah, great, this is going very do you
kicked me out to let men in? He got in and then he shouldn't
be able to do that, right, How do we fix that? That's
that's a friend of the site air. We got to fix that h violation?
Okay, Okay, I don't know, all right, So I mean
Mickey Mouse public domain. You guys gonna start making your Mickey Mouse artworks.
Now what do I need Mickey for? Quite quite frankly, friends, this
story is only good for a headline, and that's basically different too. Yeah,
I mean, okay, So, like Charlotte, Sherlock Holmes is mostly
in the public domain, and we've gotten tons of great Scholock home stuff.
I don't think the same thing is necessarily going to happen with Nicky. Well,
well, how long has Sherlock Holmes been in the public domain for like
twenty years? Now? Hang out Robert Downey Junior movies. Did they not
have to like pay the Holmes family or hang out? Because Grubb remember in
uh what you McAll Dasa Turney games, we've got Herlock Shulms. Because that's
still an issue. So okay, it depends on how you present the character
always like because because yeah, because some of the the listen, this isn't
for very litigious uh like families that still have some of the rights. I
think with like Sherlock Holmes, like, you can't make a nice Sherlock Holmes
because a nice Sherlock Holmes didn't appear in the books until many years later,
which and those books are still under copyright. The nice variant of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes that isn't a complete dick? Like, yes, part of his
characters that he's a dick. Oh, yes, definitely. Really he's like
a know it all for sure. Yeah, he's a complete a he's a
complete asshole. Yes, Like that's like the whole point is, like he's
the smartest guy in the world and he's a dick yet. Yeah, this
is the weird thoughts And like his business. What's weird about public domain characters
is you can't use someone else's depiction of it. So it's like, you
know, you can't just take Disney's Cinderella and use that as you're a Cinderella.
You'd have to go up with a different Cinderella, you know that's right,
Make my own Disney World and put cool rides in it and use Teamboat
Willie for that. Yes, yep, you could Disney now because Disney's trademarked
and call it Mickey Mouse World, and you couldn't put like the mouse ears
that they use as their trademark. You can't use that because that's face,
but you could use this whole face. Yes, so I can make a
cool version of Disney World. They would. I don't know who that was,
but yeah, it was fun. It's still look look look I when
I was at Disneyland, I was like, Okay, I get like this
is very well done, like everything is. I get it, but it's
still a lame version of an amusement park. Like you watch, there's no
new video rides there. Did you watch our video of like all the rest
of the of the stuff, the Disney Travel stuff was pretty fun. We
were having a good time there, matime. There you say, like many
times, you're like this is pretty good. I'm okay here, I'm happy
here. It's not a bad time. I never said that. I'm just
saying, like, you show me one where I'm walking around Mickey mouse Land
and one where I'm going on cool fucking roller coasters and stuff. There's a
winner every time. You know me themes I want the thrill rides. I
did Smike if he wanted to be on this episode, and he said no,
Yeah, seems like he's real busy. We're just honoring his wishes.
When we kick it out. Your hats all do you like, are you
like you're still a roller coaster person, like crazy roller coaster, any thrill
ride, skydiving, any just like just super adrenaline anything where it's like your
body is like, oh my god, I'm dying, but then you know
you're safe, so you get all the adrenaline everything, but none of the
danger. Like that's great, you know. I don't know if I like
I still like the idea of roller coasters. I don't like the idea of
like waiting in line for him anymore. And I don't know that should get
the past past. Yeah, yeah, juice isn't necessarily worth the squeeze.
I'm like, I would probably probably prefer like actually like skydiving or something compared
to like going on you've ever gone, I have never gone? You should
What you should do is you should just set it up when we're on a
trip sometime just take me without telling me, and and then that's probably I
would do it. I would still do it, but I would like I
like the idea of it. Suddenly I'm like, wait, I'm skydiving in
ten minutes, so you could like that, can I like ack you out
or something? And then you wake up and we're ready to go out out
of the plane, Like, can you be a safe place you go to
bed if you go to bed at my place. Let's say we were up
drinking and watching Grandlins and you pass out and I am able to get you
onto a plane and strap to a tandem. Guy, you can't up.
You can't push you out, you cannot wekend up Bernie skydiving. I'm drawing
the line right. I'm asking if he says yes, I think legally,
I'm good. No, You're not. Give you a BRITTIONI if there is
another adult there that I implicitly trust stopping you from doing all the other things
that would happen to me if I was asleep around you and everyone listening to
this podcast, this is exactly how this guy's brain works. It's just no
like planning or thought about any logistical priority. It works most of the time.
Do you imagine that works? It doesn't work, You're not going into
the train and works like grub nose grub. Yeah, I could see this
planet training tandem. Look, I've done both. I've done by myself five
times. I've done tandem two or three times. Tandem. You could pass
out. Shit your parts and land safe. Why did you go with nothing
from you, the safety instructor, just being like, and what's the deal
with this guy? Like? Okay, that works lesly, We're in the
clear. Yeah, that passes the sniff test me exactly. All right,
let's get on with the news here. Developers and Japan are talking about their
excitement for twenty twenty four. They did a bunch of like quotes for four
gamer in Japan, and many of these developers mentioned new hardware. Some of
them specifically said we're excited about Nintendo hardware. A Capcom producer said twenty twenty
four will bring new consoles and more endie titles to look forward to. Ache
Techno producer said Nintendo's new platform has been the focus of much attention, and
another Coe Techno producer said, we look forward to seeing what new gaming platforms
and their titles will bring to the table. So at this point's getting a
point where it's probably an open secret, or at least these developers are assuming
that Nintendo will have something new in twenty twenty four explicit though, But it
does it does? I mean listen, Coe Techno works with Nintendo very closely.
Capcom works with Nintendo pretty closely and have done you know, both of
both of these companies have done work for higher work from Nintendo in the past,
very likely could do it again. Capcom's maybe a little bit busy these
days. But the point is that these companies would probably have development kits for
a long time now at this point if the thing is coming out next year.
So yeah, I think this is probably backed up by them being excited
for a reason, and yeah, we can expect to see it now,
does anyone at this point in January twenty twenty four, I think we get
this any time before the holidays, because it feels like the holidays is when
this things. I think, yeah, November, Yeah, I think maybe
in the in the spring, right, yeah, yep, and then like
a big blowout September, even though it might be a little early with how
Nintendo's doing this, they might be like, you know, they might have
the ANNOUNCEMA, the announcement pid it back and day like yeah, we're working,
we're working on sign We'll let you know a few months, and then
like in summer they're like, yeah, well launches in four or five months,
Yeah, Metroid Prime four launch game. Like I'm still I still believe,
and this is just a belief that Metrod Prime four comes out for the
Switch before the Switch to Minimum. It wants to be a game. Yeah,
all of a sudden one day later now in twenty twenty four, that
seems like a real rough Yeah. Well, you're right, because they haven't
mentioned anything about it. They made Primary Mastered as a foundation for Prime four
though, so I'd imagine that they were optimizing for Switch Harwar this whole time.
Yep. Yeah, yeah, and Mike. Mike also agrees with you
very much back of art that it's not going to be a switch game.
Uh, or maybe at the very least it'll be a cross gin. All
right, let's see your Hideo Kojima Uh yeah, yeah. He gave of
development development updates on dest Training two and OD. So Destraining two the game's
working out with PlayStation ode, the game he's working out with Microsoft. Uh.
Basically said Destraining two is still in development and will likely be released in
twenty twenty five. Maybe seems like there's some wiggle room there for late twenty
twenty four, but probably twenty twenty five. OD is still in early stages
of development and a release date is not yet known. That seems like it's
probably pretty far off, but he Kajuma Production says, Kuchuman Productions has been
doing a pretty good job of getting these games out relatively quickly, at least
with death Stranding, so maybe it won't be that long after all. How
you guys feeling about Kojuma these days and these games? I thought that ODO
that first trailer was weird. I'm excited to see what the next five trailers
will look like, but beyond that, I don't know. Yeah, that's
how it's always been. Trailers. Well, He's always been the king of
like doing like really interesting teaser trailers that lead to really fleshed out, long
dramatic trailers that are super fun, like any no one's better at the hype
cycle than Kujama up for you know, twenty five years or so now.
So yeah, I like that. I don't really know what OD is and
I look forward to weird ass desk randing trailers. So yeah, I'm along
for the right. This is part of being a Kajima fan, yep,
exactly, and I agree that he does it better than anyone else. I
was gonna ask, since Dan phrased it that way, what's the vibe check
on Kojima right now, Like, how are you feeling about the studio and
you know him as a director and all these projects, how are we feeling
about the output there? I love it because he's clearly just doing the weird
shit he wants to do and doesn't have a lot of bullshit like Konami involvement.
And like, even if I don't love everything that like Death Stranding,
like the story everything is nonsense, but I just I have to appreciate and
love how much he just goes into his own bullshit and like that's part of
what makes him fascinating. And of course the story being nonsense means the A
twenty four film is moving ahead that were working on for Death Stranding, So
he's busy. He's got a lot of a lot of you know, pokers
in the fire. However you say that, and he's going to make something
happen there. Yeah, it might be the first round of constructive criticism our
boy gets maybe from a movie studios, like, no, dude, this
has to make sense, this has to have three acts. You have given
him the iron claw. Yeah, yeah, I think I think the reason
that, like Melgar, solid one to me still holds up as his best
work is because in the localization he had people who like told him no and
who like even the original game told him no, like, we're doing it
this way. And that's why Melgar Solid one story holds up like the game
holds up. It's a fantastic game. The mel Gear Solid too. Everything.
Wollt the fucking window. They just let him run three, run free
out. It was fascinating for it. It was interesting. I'll give him.
I don't know, like I I dest Stranding didn't do it for me.
I'm like, man, if the first quarter of your game is intentionally
boring, congrats you made a boring game. And then oh d I'm like,
what what is this trailer for you? This? Yeah, I have
no idea what thing there? I mean the trailers. Like, I'm one
with Dan on the trailers, like he's gonna make weird stuff, and as
long as it keeps getting weirdy with these trailers, I'll be on board because
I think that's part of the fun with I like the weirdness, but I
would I agree totally, and I like the death Stranding trailers more than the
game and like that's not great, uh you know, but it's better than
not liking either. That's the true point, h likely. Yeah, there's
you know, there's a lot of star fucking going around. I just I'm
always just like he's the king of that too, the leader of the free
Michaels of the video game industry. When it when I watched that, there
was a like a clip on like TikTok or some of these someone talking about
Lorne Michael's like name dropping and he always acts like he's pained. He's like
I was set with the Obamas, my friend Paul, he was in the
Beatles. Yeah, heard of them, something like doctor Evil when everyone does
an impression of them, because that's what Lauren directly based it on. Lauren
idea. Really that makes much more sense. Okay, Holy Ship, which
is just like good to know, right, Yeah, it puts a lot
of things in perspective there. Twenty four is pissing me off lately. Also
with this fucking dumb ass Civil war movie and like you shut the fuck Civilar
movie. People are I think are overreacting to it. It looks I think
it's people. I don't know. People are like do we need to don't
need a movie like this? And like I don't think we don't know.
I don't know. I don't think it is that movie because it's like the
free Western territories of Texas and California are fighting. It's like, oh,
okay, they would never work together, right, this is a complete work
of fantasy, like it's it's it's probably gonna called something else. I know
that in today's age, grub Well, I mean the movie yet, I
don't know, And you're right, people are gonna take it. But people
take that like fucking the Joker movie that was the worst for that right,
where people like I have a personal weirdness of about like, I mean,
how how soon after nine to eleven was there a nine to eleven movie?
It felt like the Cage one was Cholas. I don't know. United ninety
three was pretty soon four years where like the dude ended up being in the
Twin Towers or something that was only like a couple of years after. I
think we're favorite circus country. I'm just it's just like we're such a fucking
joke. The guy that did a Friday Night Lights camember his name now,
but him and Mark Wahlberg did the the the what's the Big Oil Rig?
That caught him fire. Uh that one, that one like a year later,
Yeah, in Rotten Oil rig Yes, and then they did one for
the Boston Marathon bomb. Yes, steep Water Horizon, Thank you Bungus.
Stepwater Horizon. They had a movie like a year later, and then they
had a movie for the Boston bombing like a year later, and they did
those two would be fair. Both those movies are excellent. They are great.
But it's like, man, you guys really just got to work that
night and started making a movie. It's like it's a weird reaction to a
tragedy and be like god an idea. Like literally the first people on the
scene are the E M T s and people looking to like, yeah,
fucking Oliver something like for a movie for me, can't you help? We'll
get you a doctor, but can you just sign this because I'd love to
have motherfucking Yeah, I know you're under rubble fucking Christ. Yeah, fair
enough. I didn't want to see The Iron Cli, but I did.
I did. How was it? I you know, it's really good.
It's uh, you know, I'm sure there are superhistorians that will be like,
oh, this order of things or this wasn't exactly I meant getting the
broad strokes out to a mainstream audience that probably does not know the story of
the tragedy the von Erics, it gets the broad strokes really like. It's
just incredibly well made. There are little things that are just weird to me
as a wrestling fan, Like I know the Flair depiction. A lot of
people are like, what the hell was that, and like, yeah,
as a person who's seen Rick Flair talk a lot, including that specific promo
that's in the movie, it's like, this is weird. This feels like
a yeah, the Party City, you know, version of Rick Flayer.
But they weren't going for an impression, so I don't think it actually detracts
from the movie if you're someone who's just going in and doesn't know the story
or anything. But yeah, it's just nipicky little things. But overall,
I thought it was a very good movie. I can't wait to see him.
All Right, some more news here. There's a flash cart coming for
the switch, and I did say flash cart yep, So go ahead and
have your victory lap there, Turbo Shan. The MiG switch can load up
games from backup files on any switch, it's claimed, so right now,
if you want to run backups or legal games on your switch, you're gonna
mostly need that first generation of switch before the battery upgrade, and that battery
upgrade almost specifically happened because of piracy from Nintendo or that was a big part
of it. This this flash cart, basically they're saying you could put in
any switch with any firmware and you'll be able to load up your games.
Now, it seems like it's like you blow up one game at a time
and then you need to like reset it and load up different games. So
there's no like a user interface at least as it is right now. But
this is a first gin version of one of these. It'll probably improve over
time. The point here is, though it's happening, and it's I think
pre orders go on sale soon. Nintendo, you know, clearly getting ready
to move on to their next hardware. But they're not going to be happy
about this, although you know the fact that they were able to keep it
from happening for so long is pretty impressively. Yeahs had one like in year
two or three or something. Yeah, right, like Nintendo handhelds and this,
you know it's a hand aled Sure, Nintendo handhelds almost always have a
flash car within the first like year or two. So the fact that here
we are at the end of the switch's life mass just now getting to it.
So yeah, they really did crack down security outside that one vulnerability that
was Nvidia's fault at the beginning of the switch. Yep, exactly, So
we'll see what happens here. I do like these things exist when once these
systems get like depreciated and they and or deprecated and they're no longer in use,
and it's like, Okay, I just want to have my one thing
that has all the games on it and think there's ways to do that,
you know, like from three DS. I did the three DS hacks around.
That's good for preservation. People can say, where are they want?
But I ain't buying, you know, like an old Pokemon game for like
loose Kart one hundred and twenty dollars or fifty dollars year. Yeah, like
no, I'm gonna pop in a flash cart or like home brew my DS
and then just play it that way because I shouldn't have to give money to
a third party just to feel good about myself. No, I'm this.
Yeah, you play these old backups that are completely off circulation, and so
you know these things. Yeah, they might be used for piracy in the
near term, which is always unfortunate, but in the long term, it's
important that the type of technology exists. Yep. And we'll see how this
actually comes out and works once it's out there. Who knows. It could
be a really bad experience and actually not be for most people, but we'll
see. The last couple of stories here. Twenty twenty four is Mother two's
thirtieth anniversary. That's Earthbound, according to the website, to commemorate the thirtieth
anniversary of Mother two, which were in the hearts of many people in the
Mother series, we are planning a lot of fun in twenty twenty four.
That probably just means merch. It probably doesn't mean another three that everyone's been
asking for forever, but maybe. I mean, listen, I don't think
the chances aren't zero, but they're pretty close to zero. I feel like
with Mother three these days, I don't know any Earthbound fans amongst you.
I've tried it a couple times, and I see what people like, but
I never stuck with it. I think I'm exactly in the same boat.
And Okay, I respect this is like a cool take on like a JRPG,
but it's still yeah, wasn't for me. Yeah. And then finally,
Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door has been rated for the Switch by the
EESRB. In America. It received an E for everyone. The game doesn't
have an official release date yet. They just said twenty twenty four. They
might have said like a time of year, but they said twenty twenty four.
Being rated by the ESRB suggests it's probably coming pretty soon, so we'll
see. That could be like announced in a direct either this month or next
month. Probably it probably happened a little bit later, or they could just
say on a YouTube video or a Twitch or Twitter drop at any point,
so we'll see. But I am excited to go back to the Thousand Year
Door, so we'll see what happens there. Well, I'm looking at I'm
looking at the descriptions for why it received the rating. What is it?
Is that a typo? Or is it really meant to say no interactive elements?
I think that that's for like the fantasy or the fantasy violence might not
have interactive elements? I think, God, yes, yeah, does you're
like timing a to like hit things with hammers. No, but I think
talking about like cut scenes like there's nothing right is that? I mean this
is how they put it in the SRB. Yes, I'm actually sure why
they would call it. And this is in quotes no interactive elements. Yeah,
because it says mild fantasy violence and mild suggestive themes and no interactive elements.
That's probably thing. Its probably means like miles suggestive themes with no elements,
no no hot cost. Unfortunately. Uh that does it for the news
though, Beckler, I'm gonna hand the show back over to you, all
right. I will take it from my hand and put it in my pocket
and we will take one more break back with emails right after this stick around.
There's one thing I did have over the break that I hadn't in a
while, and I feel like you'll enjoy this, Dan I had. I
had soda. Really, Oh, I drank Doctor Brown's black cherry soda.
Do you know Doctor Brown's. Do you guys know Doctor Brown? I got
the pepper, you got mister peppers, the both doctors. This is like
an I p a of SODA's that No. I think it's the only place
you can really find them. I feel like is in Deli's, like like
East Coast Delis. There is a purple can and it just like brought me
back to a real weird place I don't know, like drinking. Wait,
so it was just like a full on sugary soda. Oh yeah, this
is like sugar ass like Marlboro red version of soda. All right, thank
you up. If you're not used to man, I was twenty years.
It's made me do things I was not used to doing. I'll do I'll
do a Mexican coke on Christmas Day. I didn't do it this year,
but in the past that's like yourself. Thanks the real sugar. Yeah,
all that stuff. It's really tasty and it comes in the glass bottle.
Jeff, I am glad that you brought this up because I actually had something
that I wanted to discuss with Dan very quickly. Here it's it's on a
topic. Dan. Did you see the Mondu news today, No, or
the twentieth anniversary of Baja Blast. It will be in stores year round twenty
twenty four. Well, here's the big question. Because Mountain Dew is notorious
for announcing a bunch of awesome sounding flavors that I'll never have because they don't
have zero versions. So they occasionally will do like Major mellon zero. They've
done the Live Wire zero one point. Will it have a zero version?
Well, I mean they did. I mean they did in stores. Yeah,
so I assume I don't. I don't see details here. I assume
it's going to be base Baja and zero sugar. You're all right, if
they do it right, then I will add that to the rotation very regularly.
That that's great. That's great to hear of every soda. Clearly,
Jesus, they're good. They're just passing money up. I'll invest in my
own as pertainer, do it myself. Where do you get that? You
get like chemical companies on the plants, you know, squeeze it up from
the plant, from the ass plant. I'm hoarding ass plants. All right,
it's the emails time, folks. Got some emails that I believe.
I'm just gonna assume channel Chilla in bed somehow, grub you did this.
I did not do this. But I can grab them if these ones aren't
up to date, or we could just answer the same emails again. Who's
gonna start her up to date? Are they? I have no idea,
I am. Let me look right now? Is it the New Year's resolutions?
Well this Christmas? Yeah? Yeah, okay, all right, fantastic,
Thanks Jen, Thanks feel better Jen, and thanks jan Uh. This
one comes from Jeff from Quebec City. Hey, gang, New Year's resolutions
are upon us. What was this successful? Tell me if I'm doing this
again, by the way, because I have no idea. Uh, what
was the successful change you did in the past, and how'd you do it?
What was your one secret trick? Anyone ever go through one of these?
I mean, the one successful thing is right on topic what we were
just talking about. It was stopping drinking soda, and I drank. I
stopped drinking all soda for a very long time. And then I like,
now I when I go out to eat, I will have a zero and
uh for like special occasions. But that that was my wedding. I wanted
to I wanted to loose some weight for my wedding, so I stopped drinking
Coca Cola and full sugar doctor pepper, and that was it was the one
time I re remember like, oh, this is a change I'm actually gonna
be able to stick to because yeah, and that will change your fucking life.
Oh it was, yes, it was time. It was definitely time.
I when I traveled, that's what when I like traveled to uh,
I think it actually was Amsterdam. I said ice the last time and then
went to Amstream and I had all those PEPSI maxis. That was after I
stopped drinking the pop and it's like, oh no, this is like tearing
my throat up because there's so much acidity in it. Like I needed,
I needed to stop doing this. I'm getting too old. It's if you
are a soda drinker and you're looking to maybe lose weight, Like I've said
this a million times. After college, I stopped drinking soda and lost twenty
seven pounds. But were you just drinking like full of sugar or sodas?
I mean I was zero period. I hated zero. Well zero wasn't a
thing back then, but there was obviously diet, and I just never drank
diet. I was like, I'm going all the way with real ass soda,
but I was probably maybe having like two a day. But still like
you that it is drinking like what like four hundred five hundred calories there,
you just need one of those like standard like gas station bottles of like mountain
dew or something to be like two hundred and forty calories. It's insane.
I just I've never understood why anyone drinks full of sugar sodas. That's nuts.
So you're a kid and you didn't know any better, that's what happened
a kid. I definitely did. But I mean now that we know and
you know were you got a count calories little more, It's like that's so
many. Oh, I'm to be clear, more pissed than my parents,
uh like upset with my parents letting me drink soda as a child. Yeah,
that's that's like one of the big things is like apparently I'm like I'm
not gonna really like yeah, full soda like a real drug basically, like
you just get poked on it. Listen. I have my own problems with
like caffeine and what not, sure whatever, but sugar actively like makes me
feel like ass afterwards, Like I feel so bad now that I've almost complete
could I'm just drinking water, the flavored waters, you know, your Lacroy
Spindro style stuff. Yeah, I can't do a full sugar so does anymore?
Even even a diet soda is a bit of a stretch for me sometimes
where it's like even now, I'm like, there's so much stuff in here,
like, just give me a water and then I'll have like my sugar
free monster a couple times a week and that's it, dude. Yep,
water ever, guarantee. For the first twenty years of my life, I
had way more full sugar soda than I had water. And it probably wasn't
even close, Like probably that it was even like it wasn't every thing I
thought about, never even considered it, but yeah, probably the same yeap.
Just taking on a whole two liter one sitting no problem. Yep.
You know, thinking about it gets me pretty upset. Yep. So I'm
not gonna not gonna do that anymore. Any other New Year's resolutions that anyone's
trying to hold on to or do or have had past success doing. I
find that like whenever it's not necessarily a New Year's thing, but whenever I've
like gotten too heavy and I'm like, okay, I need to lose like,
you know, twenty thirty pounds or whatever, I will set so rules
and stuff and then I can do it. But then once I kind of
get to like a good spot. Then I'm very quick to kind of go
back to old habits and stuff. And I find that when it has worked,
it's always been due to routine and like just getting yourself used to that,
like not being loosey goosey. Where's like, Oh, I'm gonna try
to work out every day and sometimes it's seven in the morning. Sometimes it's
like, oh shit at seven pm and I haven't worked out yet today,
Like I need to like set a routine. So like now I'm trying to
do like seven thirty to eight thirty every morning, and that tends to work
a lot better for me. Yeah, that's true for everybody. The back
sliding, it's just it is universal. It happens to everybody unless you are
militant about it for your entire life. That's the one thing where I would
like a dan Ass solution to where like if I could just get a machine
that works me out for me, you can do a lot of like little
things like I mean even like standing dos and stuff, like you know you're
burning It's a little little thing, but you are burning more calorie standing than
anywhere. Like I'm thinking about getting like an underdesk, like a foldable treadmill
or something just we can get some steps in while I'm down here. So
oh yeah, it gets worse than that. Though. I mentioned before the
show that I had some you know, random local channel on just as some
background noise, and one of the ads I absolutely hate on there is that
they have this thing where like it's like it's like a you know, the
stationary bicycle. What do you call those? Is that elliptical exercise bike kind
of machine? Well, yeah, whatever that type of thing is. They
have one of those that is motorized, so it moves your legs for you,
and they're like, it's gonna work out? Is there anything? I'm
just like, that is bad. I think I always loved that dream of
like you'd remember like the old like fifties ads for like, oh, you're
just like it's kind of like goes around. It's gonna shave off your mid
like internal bleeding or whatever. Yeah, you need to put the work in.
Yeah, can you've done the cross country skiing yet or what? It's
we just got the first snow and it's like a dusting that's gonna be gone
very soon. We've been waiting. We want to I forgot to tell you
this. I went skiing over Christmas and I saw these freaks going up the
mountain the wrong way. You want to do cross country, which is not
this. I think this is like snowshoeing. But I saw people literally like
climbing up the mountain in their skis with their walk with their poles, and
I was just like, is this what Dan's gonna do? And my immediate
thought was like, there's no way Dan can do that. And then the
second thought was, is this also what you want to do? You don't
want to do that, right? You don't want to climb up a mountain?
Well, I mean you want to declines. It's it's also not a
mountain. It's like it's no I know, put like trails and stuff that
I'm wait, when I saw people doing that, like these people were like
you know they they clearly looked like, you know, the winter rized version
of a marathon person right like they were they were. I just couldn't believe.
I was like watching someone climb up a mountain with skis and I'm just
like that the worst way. It's way easier going the other way. Place,
hear me. It's just you know, little inclines and dclimbes, Like
Minnesota isn't super super hilly around here, so yeah, definitely not up a
mountain. What about snowshoeing. That seemed like that would maybe be something that
I would do where that's what you're not. Just chance said he did snowshoeing.
Yeah, work liked it. Yeah, yeah, all right, Well
good luck with that. What else any other resolutions are? Are we moving
on? I'm the I'm the boring one. I just never have them,
this whole backlog dance, like the first time I've ever stuck to anything.
I never do them either, because it's just like, uh, I don't
know if I'm not. I don't judge people who set them, definitely,
you know, but it's not for me. If I need to do something
badly enough, I just do it right away. I'll wait until January first
to start doing Yeah, like on February third, I'm going to stop smoking
for my New Year's resolution next year, of course, And what I'm going
to do, I am one year away from the age my dad was when
he decided to start smoking. So maybe I'll set a New Year's resolution for
next year to start smoking. I hate that, in fact, so much
that like it's incredible to delete it from my head. Insane. Yeah,
once I heard that, I learned everything I needed to learn about your father.
Yeah, Nick from Australia Rights in Haye Bomb Squad. I love euro
the euro truck simulator too and American truck simulator games from the Czech developers at
SCS Software. As I've driven well over one thousand hour hours across the two
games maps, I've noticed my European and American geography skills have gone from being
unable to find prominent countries and states to finding individual cities on Google Maps by
just zooming in from a Global View show off. This got me wondering has
any of the gbstaff noticed any improvements and skills they learned at school or were
they meant to or were they meant to learn by playing a game? So
have we ever learned anything from a game? I think is what the something
we're meant to learn but you actually learned by playing a game? Yeah?
Everything I know about the Cold War is from Metal Gear in Rocky, very
accurate at that, Like they know they didn't even try to teach us the
Cold War in school or like any like they touched on World War two,
I think briefly, but like any like historical war type thing is all from
video games. Yeah, I mean that's true for a lot of that Stuff's
true for me video games and movies. So I learned a lot more from
that stuff than I did in school. But that's just because a lot of
a lot of my teachers weren't very good. It was a big part of
that. But uh, I don't know. In terms of skills, I
don't know if there's any skill that comes to mind necessarily that I learned,
right. I mean, I guess i'd get more confidence doing things like when
I had to when I was moving my house and I was putting everything in
a big truck. It's like why I played it. I like games with
big trucks, and I felt more confident about using it because I had spent
so much time doing that. Now, not many of those skills translated one
to one, but I definitely felt like I am familiar, like with this
cockpit, I am familiar with how this truck is supposed to move generally,
and so kind of taking things slow and letting it like letting the skills translate
where they did. I think it just kind of gave me a jump a
little bit of a head start there, but nothing like a hard skill or
anything like that. I think, just through so many honestly, like a
decade of playing drums in rock band, Like I very loosely know how to
play drums now definitely, Like yeah, I've sat down at my friend's drum
set. I'm like, oh, I can recreate what I learned this game
once you taught me, you know, like how it correlates to like the
different types and like this a high head and yeahda yah, yeah, so
I can do like basic stuff there. I think that might be the closest
I've ever come, But I did want to ask since I haven't played it.
Grub chance of sinar and learning language is that like legit you think you
think you are better at that scale? Again, it's the it gives me
the confidence that if I were immersed in a place with the language, that
I would be able to do that. And that's something like I have done
that I have done before when I worked at Burger King and it was like
it was all all these guys from Mexico that I worked with, and it
was like basically one other English speaker and he sucked so I talked to them,
the Mexicans a lot, and they taught me a ton of Spanish because
I was immersed basically, and so it's like recognizing that in the game it
worked the same way, and like, Okay, I'm that that's a skill
that wasn't just coming to me because I was sixteen or whatever a burger king.
It was something that my brain actually can do that again. And chances
Nar is a gamified version of that. Yeah, but you're not going to
take any necessarily any like, Okay, I've learned something chances SNAr and now
I'm better at speaking languages right to yes approach, it is practicing the same
skill set and recognizing that you can use those things once you get into those
situations. Okay, it would be sick to have a game teach you another
language, though, Yeah, I mean I'm thinking about that. Yeah,
no one has tried or no one has tried. Well no, I've seen
them on like Steam and stuff, like I don't know how effected there,
but they games and stuff. Yeah, like learn Japanese to play a simple
RPG. There are gamified for sure. Yeah, it's gamified, but like,
uh, the you need to you need hands on right, like you
need to be. I bet if you like played a thousand hours of Grand
Theft Auto with it set to a different language, I bet you would come
out the other side with like a pretty decent amount of Actually, I think
that is something you hear people. That is something you hear about people who
learn English as the second language, or like just watched a bunch of TV.
Oh yeah, Like I hear all the time in the Pokemon community from
people who are English as a second language. Like I picked up English through
Pokemon because it's such a simple game back in the day. I did eventually
just associate words, and you do learn through immersion, Like, uh,
I'm part of Mexican and so the Mexican side of my family. I just
sort of, you know, I don't know Spanish like fluently, but I'm
just taken it in enough that I'm like, I don't loosely what people are
talking about me. Oh, I know this, we're in this way in
the syntax there. Okay, that that makes sense. So you definitely you
do learn just by being immersed in something. Kevin Owens credits Jim ross Is
announcing on raw as the way he learned English so much Kevin Owens is a
wrestler and he was from Quebec and he just watched raw all the time growing
up, and he credits like he learned English from Jim Ross, Like slobber
Knocker was a hey, however, you can get it right. There was
a buriod when I was going real hot and heavy on Stardo Valley that I
did have the thought a couple of times, like I wonder if i'd,
like ever just retired from games, if I could just maybe I just start
a farm. It seems like I've learned a lot from starting and real like,
shoot, farming is probably a lot harder than starting well, definitely,
definitely, But like if you were like let's say, take okay, so
you did Starduo Valley, Now if you did farming simulator, that would get
you a little bit closer to understanding what actually goes into it, and then
yeah, you could probably take something from there and like have the general shape
of what farming should be, like like concept of like I didn't think about
like the seasons, being like, oh this fruit grows in this season?
Like started? Who taught me that? So closer than I was before I
started? Yep, definitely m I'm really I like, I've been thinking about
this the entire time. I have not learned one goddamn thing from any game
ever, Like right, maybe honestly the worst I take that back. The
worst thing I've learned is just like the names of guns, Like like I
understand like someone because I know what a desert eagle is because of counter Strike.
Right, that's definitely true. Yeah, great, learned all the worst
possible things. But metal Gear teaches you that war is bad? Did it
teach you that? No? I think that's probably common sense, but I
mean it really drives it home. Like, oh man, this is like
wasn't until I played metal Gear did I realize you know what War's bad?
But the P ninety is really cool? Oh yeah, but the M four
is fucking dope. Christ all right, thank you emailer. Next up h
rites in high BombCast. I recently picked up Shadow Gambit and it got me
thinking who gets the money when you buy a game from a defunct studio.
It looks like me me me me me me me me was independent, So
who is now catching those steam checks? Will the devs actually see any of
the money from sales post studio closure? That's a good question. That's a
great question. It's gonna be different in every situation is going to be different.
My assumption here for a studio like MEMI me is that there is someone
who set up the like the bank account and the relationship between the bank account
and steam so that when those funds get deposited, they go into a certain
bank account. And I mean there's a chance that all that money's just sending
that bank account for that person. The more likely scenario is there is an
understanding, there is a contractual agreement that like, as that money continues to
come in, it still gets dispersed to the to the stakeholders who were involved
in that studio, Like regardless of how loose it is, there is a
rights holder to some degree, like even if it's an unofficial thing of like
I was ahead of the studio that was in depend so I guess it goes
to me now, Like you know, it's like what I was assuming that
someone has to essentially own the closure, right like like someone It has to
default back to something, to some entity. So yeah, imagine, yeah
it's it's and it probably is. I mean, they paid the people to
do that work. That money was always supposed to go to them. That's
how this often works. So if they're getting that money, it's just like
Nope, that's working the way it's supposed to. That goes back to like
what I was talking about with buying retro games and why it's like silly to
have a moral high ground when it comes to buying those old games. It's
like nobody who worked on those are seeing any of the money on that.
Yeah, I mean, or think about like what's happening with music right now,
Like all these older artists selling their catalogs to these fucking companies. Kailer,
dude, that's why she's re recording because she's like, I'm not seeing
a penny of this, and I have some of the most popular music in
the world. That is stupid. Yeah, But d Snyder from like Twist
Centers Sisters, like, I've made a lot of money. I sold my
entire catalog to some company and it's like, oh, okay, I kind
of don't care if that company gets paid for that music. So that this
is pretty silly at this point, but yeah, that the same thing will
happen in games eventually, h wild. All Right. Finally, Josh the
Canadian writes in I was gifted an analog pocket this Christmas, and now I'm
on the hunt for the games I played as a kid. Talk to Dan
Num kidding, this is that's what I did. Now this is new territory
for me, and I was shocked to see so many reproduced fake games.
These fakes seem to have amazing reviews and are fraction of the price of legit
used copies. For example, a legit copy of Pokemon Read is over one
hundred dollars at the indie game store near my house, but there are reproductions
for under twenty five dollars all over the internet. Is there anything I should
know before diving into this world of nostalgia? Legal legalities aside, are reproduced
games safe to play? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Man, So
going in, going into analog pocket with no plan seems like quite the task.
Well that's what we're here for. Yeah, yeah, I you know,
as I got into retro collecting and everything, I got hit a couple
times by like early on being like wow, Normally Harvest Moon sixty four costs
you know this much. But I found this one that you know, it's
got good reviews and it's it seems legit, and I it arrived and it
was just it felt glossier. It felt like it was just a car.
I was like, I've held a lot of sixty four cards in my life,
and this feels off, like the weight and the kind of shininess to
it and everything. And and it happened also with a Smash Brothers cart once
and it was the same type of thing. And there's a lot of resources
out there to make sure you're getting the right thing. The one that I
watched that I credit with learning a lot is Kelsey Lewin from the Video Game
History Foundation put up a bit I specifically about sixty four stuff that she showed
off, like, Okay, the eye the dot on the I on Nintendo
on the back of the cards is like on legit cards, it's like more
of a square, and if it's fake, it'll be like more round,
and just other ways that you can just kind of like telling old Nys cards
and everything, Like she she runs down a lot of that. Now it
bothered you that you got fakes, right, I mean, yeah, I
don't. Yeah, I want you. I want you legitmart games, Yeah,
sure, they run like I mean that Smash Rubbers. You run in
a sixty four, but like, did you pay the appropriate price or were
you paying less? I was saying less, and like that that is you
know, something I learned early on too, is like, look, you're
retro collecting is enough of a thing right now to where like the odds of
like, oh nobody bought this and I got it on a steel like not
gonna happen on an eBay, Probably not gonna happen even on like marketplace,
because you know, people are like scouring marketplace all the time and they'll scoop
stuff real quick. Outside of like getting real lucky at a garage sale or
a free market situation, you're probably gonna have to pay close to the price
that you see on price charting dot com. So the reason I asked that
is that the josh the Canadian says is it's safe to use, Like it
still seems interested in playing these repro cards. I always say collecting games is
different than playing games. So if you're here to collect games, and if
that's the joy you're getting out of this, go after the real deal thing
if that matters to you, If it's just about playing the games, go
get the jail break for your analog pocket. Go get the course actually don't
have the jail break like it's built right in. Go get the course for
the game Boy, game Boy Color, game Boy Advance, all that stuff,
and just get the ROMs and installed on an SD card and play it
that way. Don't even deal with all this stuff because as we said earlier,
the money is not going to be going to Nintendo for buying these secondhand
games or the repro cards, So just don't worry about it so much.
There's ways to get that stuff going real easy. I actually didn't even see
this email. I was talking about all that before. Yeah, if you
doesn't want to play the games, honestly, I think I always think that
the best combination is original hardware or in those case, you know, analog
pocket is you know, FPGA basically is original hardware even better in many ways,
and combining that with like a flash cart, so like you want to
be like very simple and you you, for my reason, want that pocket
specifically, though I do I recommend against the flash card right exactly, because
that's what I'm gonna get to. It doesn't need it, like if you
were doing this on original you know, for any other system, you know,
like for an End sixty four. Let's say buying an Never Drive sixty
four and lowing up that with ROMs. If you just want to play,
that is the best way to do it, I think, because then it
plays like it originally does, but you don't have to spend all that money.
That being said, you know this person does specifically say you're on the
hunt for games you play as a kid. I've looked into a lot of
this stuff as well. You know, I have fled this for a long
time. I will say you you actually do need to be careful buying quote
unquote fake games like actually carefully made reproductions are generally good. But if you're
buying like the super Cheapo versions, those sometimes can incorrectly receive voltages and stuff
that could damage the game. It could damage your system. That actually is
a bit of a sketchy area to go down. So I would say avoid
avoid any sketchy stuff like actual like highly recommended repros. You'll find those in
certain places if you do a little research. But otherwise, yeah, try
you try using the resources that we said to find the real deal, and
you're gonna have to pay for the real deal. But if you know,
if you're a collector man. That's worth it too. Yep uh someone and
judge just said, and stay off Timu. I any type of the team
you could see some naked ladies apparently, Yeah, I'll send it to you
last. That's interesting. So that's what that TikTok scammer. It's like,
here's a like the thing that's gonna get vanned off TikTok in a second.
But here's a naked lady. And if you put this number into team,
you can see it's I assume that you put the number into t MO and
it's like someone's getting money somewhere for Yeah, how have I not seen this
before? T It's Timu's like like you know, do you know wish dot
com? Like the bad webs Okay, it's like a really bad eBay or
a really bad Amazon with a lot of sketchy bullshit stuff. Okay. So
when something makes a joke about like back in the day, would have been
like, oh you got like the kmart version of it, like the cheap
version of it. Today it's like Timu, but it's way worse than Kmart
did. July twenty twenty two. Oh, this boat's really well Okay,
yeah, yeah, timus seems like I something for whatever reason. It doesn't
even it just sets off all the wrong alarms. Oh correct, you're right.
It's like I'm an chess. It's a pyramid scam. I don't never
even consider that. But now now that I think about it the way that
I've seen it interact with me before, that seems right. Probably even the
TikTok shop feels shady to me. But it's like it's local stores I know
are selling on there. I'm like, I can just like go on there
and buy stuff through them. TikTok will take a percentage off. And this
is a really weird thing. TikTok is quickly turning into QVC like it's happening
like that. It's like every other video it's like trying to sell you something
from the TikTok store. It's like, this kind of sucks. Now.
I tried to film from Instagram once and got scammed. It was a Neon
w CW sign that got advertised. And that's the one time I tried to
buy anything up Instagram and it's just never got sent that credit card company the
market stuff, but that's been the most successful. Uh way that I'm that
Instagram has has proved to be like monetizable rights all the store junk and and
you know that's yep, seems uh speak slash store dot com dot giant bomb
dot com. Yes, I said door. We're also gonna have new stuff
heading there. I want to say sometime this month. Uh, there will
be new stuff. And maybe if you didn't get to go to a certain
thing in person, you'll be able to get the thing that people got in
person later, if that makes sense. Just chew on that for a little
litle bit. Hey everyone listening, Uh, Happy new year to everyone.
Thank you so much for sticking with us through all of twenty three. Twenty
four is shaping up to be an even better and brighter year. So we're
very excited about what's going on over here. Thank you so much for all
the support. Hopefully Jano cho is able to join us next time. Hope
he's feeling better. Thank you. Oh, we didn't have We didn't do
the I just realized we didn't do the shout outs. That's okay, that's
Jan's thing. You know what. I'll give a shout out because I do
want to here a couple of big shouts first, shouts to anyone who submitted
a list for our little end of the year round up. There a bunch
of guests except for Adam Cole. We didn't know the activities he was involved
with. We would have said no to Adam Cole had we known his nas.
We officially apologize for that. Actually yeah, yeah, but we do
have a just a crat ton of listing top ten lists they can go look
at on the site right now from everyone's steph. I think Nikky's going to
it when and they're their last person remaining, but now a bunch of guests
ones as well, and also huge shout outs. I do want to say
a huge house to Marino for doing oh yeah, just so much the heavy
lifting on that and all the system formatting it way better than me and Grub
could apparently because fifteen pictures from the CMS because I didn't know what I was
doing was the leading stuff. But yeah, that that was also of him
to help us out on. So yeah, big shouts there as well.
Much love, yes, thank you so much Marino, and thank you to
Dan Riker, Jeff Grub and Turbo Sean Object. Backler will be back with
a brand new BombCast next week. Until then, we'll see you land