WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:29.359 Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, December nineteenth, twenty twenty three. It 2 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:33.000 is way too late to get the Christmas gifts now. It's you should you 3 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.880 should have thought about it. Go go make a gift or give the gift 4 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.359 of the giant BombCast like we're giving you today, Episode eight hundred and nineteen, 5 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.159 powered by NZXT. I am your host, Janetcho. I've had way 6 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.719 too much caffeine for ten o'clock am today, but it's all right. We're 7 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.960 gonna keep sipping. We got a glass loaded up. There's for you audio 8 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.799 listeners. It's loaded with the green juice. Joining me as always co captain 9 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.119 of the ship Chuff Crub, I'm the opposite. I had blood removed for 10 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.040 my body this morning, and then I rewarded my cell intentionally. Yeah, 11 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:07.000 I went to I had my labs done, so I didn't eat for like 12 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.200 the eighteen hours. I rewarded myself with a breakfast Buffalo Chicken pizza. It 13 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:12.359 was a personal size. There we go, There we go. That was 14 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:15.519 a good reward. So I'm doing good over here. Master of Blood and 15 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:21.159 all things blood related, Dan Reichert, that's me, Hello, Yes, 16 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:26.239 how are the blood arts doing today? Dan, Uh, my knees are 17 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:32.280 no longer bleeding my nor are my elbows from this weekend. So yeah, 18 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.799 good all around. Then it sounds well, I mean the finger's fucked up, 19 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.879 but like there's the blood is done. So yeah, the blood is 20 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.159 done, just like the blood is never done. Also for the for our 21 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:49.280 other blood master, our our our blood ambassador, Jeff Backler, very very 22 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:57.159 pro blood. I'm a pro blood guy. And speaking of NZXT, I 23 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.920 just heard today that whoever won the machine, it's on the way and I 24 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:07.599 just want to thank again n ZXY for giving away a ringing computer game of 25 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.280 the Year live, which is that was cool? Event? Yes, it's 26 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:16.879 a taxable moment. Yes we're using the euphemism moment, not an event, 27 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:22.120 got it. It's softened the blow a little bit. Uh No, Yeah, 28 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:27.280 I'm doing well. Blood's blood's doing well, and I'm excited to hear 29 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.039 about your blood report, Jeff Grubb. I'll bring it all here, you 30 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.560 guys. You will. You'll be the first to know. Okay, give 31 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:36.960 the lipids, the triglytrides, all that and the whole good lipids, the 32 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.599 bad lipids, the medium lipids, all the lipids. Look at you getting 33 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:46.680 work done, grug. I remember earlier this year you saying I haven't done 34 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:53.319 ship. Look at you ending you're strong. That's right. Months ago a 35 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.360 co Ago, you asking me like, do you see a doctor? Uh 36 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:59.599 huh? Now it was in a bad situation because I was asking Dan, 37 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.039 right, yeah, yeah, you should be. You should have a doctor. 38 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:08.080 Arguably the most uh like grown seeming out of all of us, Jeff 39 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:14.439 Grubb asking for medical advice. Jesus Christ, like, oh, something's wrong. 40 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:21.000 Why do that when I could procrastinate instead? That exactly always my motto. 41 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:24.080 Just take a take a soak in some apps and salts. Huh. 42 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:28.360 We should go to it. We should go to a sauna together, not 43 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.000 like a I mean, if you want, but whatever y'all want to do, 44 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:38.199 or oh a hot springs, let's do that. It's good as hell. 45 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.360 Yeah, okay, I'm a question. Hey, whatever happened with those 46 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:44.840 bath salts that the Florida was doing, all those drug bath salt? They 47 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:46.919 ran out, they ran out, they did the good question. That's a 48 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:52.080 good question, Like people are like eating faces and stuff. Now where's that 49 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.240 face eating kid? Yeah? See, I think it happened one. But 50 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:00.520 you know what, in my opinion, once. That's too many times. 51 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.280 Yeah, I'm gonna say it wasn't the bath Salts that did that. That 52 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.840 was just that kid. That could have been It could have been a kid 53 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.919 situation. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like at a restaurant 54 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:14.680 with his parents and then he just like calmly got up and left and went 55 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:17.920 in like ate a dude's face and killed That is what happened. Yeah. 56 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.600 I remember that story being like fucked up, and I followed it for a 57 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.240 bit and uh, yeah, he was just having a dinner and he's like, 58 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:26.959 I'm gonna eat a guy's face and excuse me for a second. What 59 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:29.560 Yeah, it was fucked up, Dan, do you know what he was 60 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:31.560 eating for dinner already? Like what if that awoken something? You know. 61 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:35.399 I don't remember there was a security footage. I don't remember where they were 62 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:40.279 at or somewhere in Florida, because sometimes when you eat like a lasagna, 63 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.639 right, the layer of cheese on top feels like you're ripping off skin, 64 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.639 So I you know that might be Oh so we had a taste for okay, 65 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.720 yeah yeah, okay, yeah, Why why deal with this imitation face 66 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:53.199 when I can get the real deal. This is Florida. After all, 67 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.120 what why, why? Why why do you have to bring up bath salts? 68 00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:59.600 You know, why why did we go here? I'll tell you that 69 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.279 much. I regret doing it. I don't know why I did. But 70 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:08.399 here we are. This is on you. Jan Oh yeah, yeah, 71 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:11.680 it's your fault. Thank you for helping me in mind palace that out. 72 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.759 It's the last BombCast, live BombCast of the year. Boys, what a 73 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.120 yeah, just came out of like a lovely all hands. We're talking about 74 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.839 all the nice things we've done, and I'm like, oh wow, huh, 75 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.600 look at us, look at us. I would just want to give 76 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.600 everyone like a little little little hug and like a little pat on the back. 77 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.199 There you go, there you go. That was nice. It felt 78 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:32.480 nice, felt good, the warm embrace. Right. Yeah, I'm ready 79 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:36.120 to sleep for like two weeks. Oh my god, yes, yeah, 80 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:44.279 yes, oh yeah, I'm dying for like two months. Yes. Avoid 81 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.600 any sort of mac and cheese incidents that might further your damages to your body 82 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.000 and things like that, yeah, I would, I would hope. So 83 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.879 I think I'm I'm pretty slammed through the end of the year, and I 84 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:58.560 think January second is when maybe maybe I can have a normal existence. Oh 85 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:00.519 yeah, we're back to work on January second. Yeah, so that'll be 86 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.720 perfect normal existence, just like it wouldn't work. It's fine. I'm talking 87 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.759 about like traveling a much other ship. Like I specifically, yesterday, there 88 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:11.000 was a moment where I realized I probably could get comped to the Royal Rumble 89 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.720 and go to the like two K event and stuff. Somebody was like asking 90 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.319 about it, and I was like, uh no, I don't want to 91 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.680 do that. Oh my god, he said, no, folks, Yeah, 92 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.680 folks, I said, no, Yeah, it's good just to stay 93 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:26.279 home. I want to stay home all day. Yes, you know, 94 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.439 I'm a I'm a I'm gonna take over dan slot of doing too many things 95 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:31.600 I wanted to. I want to do too many things. Yeah, not 96 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.759 that I don't like me. You don't do enough. That's what everyone always 97 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:38.519 says. Yeah, I just have the one plate and I'm still learning how 98 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.480 to spin it. And it's like about how lazy you are a lot. 99 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:46.120 That's actually what most of all hands meeting was about. Yeah, yeah, 100 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:47.920 yeah, I I didn't get invited to the first All hands where that was 101 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:55.040 you know, yeah we got and everything positive. Yeah, but then like 102 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.680 he was a problem in two parentheses, so it's like, uh, it 103 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:02.600 can't each other out. Yeah, this is a lie. Yeah, like 104 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:14.319 pem dos right parent the fuck is pem dos rainbow exponent exponent multiplication division edition 105 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:16.639 subtract. We got there, folks. By the way, I am like 106 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:21.199 knee deep in math these days, because like you know, kids bringing home 107 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:28.879 some stuff that's like little, well too advanced for my family. He's third, 108 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.279 what they what are they doing? They should be doing like times tables 109 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:35.720 right least, that's what they're doing. Like they're doing it different. I 110 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:40.480 don't think I got algebra to like the fifth or sixth algebraic adjacent things. 111 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.040 Are they doing those different or backlar? I don't know if they're doing it 112 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.720 different. I mean I think they're they're doing it in what appears to be 113 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.000 a more intelligent way, because it's I don't know. I always remember like 114 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:55.600 not realizing how important math was till I was like, you know, thirty 115 00:07:55.600 --> 00:08:00.199 three, and uh, I think, uh, you know, if someone 116 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.399 broke it down in a way that I think they're trying to for kids under 117 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:07.600 ten, where it's like no, man, like you're gonna need this, 118 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.199 like especially algebra and you know, basic math, like you will need that 119 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:15.040 every day of your life more or less. Yeah, And so it's just 120 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:16.800 like breaking down like okay, yeah, six times six is thirty six, 121 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.759 but what else does that mean? Right? And they're they're trying to like 122 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:22.720 break it down like that, which I think is interesting. I don't know, 123 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.920 I'm enjoying like having a bit refreshed too. Well. Like they'll break 124 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.600 it down and they'll like they'll they'll show you like a bunch of like a 125 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:35.320 grid and they'll be like, well, it's also it's also two times six 126 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.879 plus four times six, right, So they'll like put those into parentheses and 127 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.399 be like, hey, it's okay that it's not just you know, counting 128 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.120 six six times. You can break it down to two times six and four 129 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:50.399 times six. I will say that's actually like as a kid, how I 130 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.360 would do a lot of multiplication in my head was be like, Okay, 131 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.720 this time's okay, only just do like ten times that. So I break 132 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.000 it up into one thing that's easy, yeah, other thing that's easy and 133 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:03.799 right. And I think they never taught us that you just organically like figure 134 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:05.120 that out. And I think, and that's a good point. You bring 135 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.759 up like I think they're trying to get them to realize, like you shouldn't 136 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.519 be like obviously counting on fingers were way beyond that, right, Like now 137 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:20.000 you need to like understand instant associations and taking these kind of shortcuts and understanding 138 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.360 like what you're doing. And it seems to be resonating. It's interesting stuff. 139 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.519 I'm enjoying it. Maths fun, Maths cool, and math is always 140 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.559 right, that's the thing, right, it's never like guess. You shouldn't 141 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:35.240 be guessing. That's what I've been through this those stupid ass imaginary numbers. 142 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:37.519 Sure, but we're not there yet. You know we're not there yet. 143 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:41.840 So yeah, it's fun. Hey, Greb, how are they teaching the 144 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:46.039 gimmicks how to read? Because a teacher friend of mine, not my partner, 145 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.960 in elementary was flabbergasted that she had to teach kids how to site read 146 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:56.600 versus phonetically read. Yeah, I will tell you my wife being an early 147 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.159 ED educator. For a while, they go back and forth on that, 148 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.159 like site reading for like, that's actually way you should do it to Like 149 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.000 now, I think there's a little bit of a backlash towards site reading, 150 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:09.759 where it's like what is sight reading where they want you like whole word recognition. 151 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:11.600 When you look at a word, they want you to recognize it. 152 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:16.360 They don't necessarily want you always to be sounding it out. They mostly it's 153 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:18.919 hybrid. Now, there are definitely words that you should be that are site 154 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.000 words that you should just know by looking at them very early on. And 155 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:26.159 they don't even like waste time being like try to sound out the like no, 156 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:30.720 just learn the And so there's a handful, you know, maybe a 157 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.879 hundred site words that they're really focused on Emmy with and she's in first grade 158 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.399 now, and then everything else is sounding out and she's like the sounding out 159 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.480 stuff is she's good at the site words take some time and that you know, 160 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.279 problem with that is like she's got some bad site issues, so that 161 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.360 doesn't help. But yeah, they do, they try to do both. 162 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.159 And I will say they go back and forth. Do they do the like 163 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.200 Greek suffix and prefixed stuff? Because I always liked that, like that that 164 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.720 would help you like learn what a word meant just looking at it, like 165 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.360 oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then they aren't doing a lot 166 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.879 of that right now. But I talk about that with her. What do 167 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.559 you mean, like Greek like Latin. Do you mean Greek? Yeah? 168 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.320 Yeah, it's like, oh, well, this is this prefix. This 169 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.480 suffix means this, and so if you see this prefix attached to this, 170 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:16.919 you know you can kind of purse out what that means. They are on 171 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.159 their way to that, but they're not doing that yet. She will get 172 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.759 to that though. Okay, okay, well look at us, Look at 173 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:26.200 us talking about education and all that jazz. What else is popping off before 174 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:31.840 we talk about games? Geez? What is going on? Dan? You 175 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:35.320 had an insane weekend. I mean that's but that's been your past weekends for 176 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.559 the past year. Yeah. Yeah, I had that realization the other day 177 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.519 where it's like, oh, every Saturday for the last month plus has been 178 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.000 like a seven plus hours show. I just I haven't been able to forget 179 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:50.879 all the four of us Minatti, Grubb, Dan and myself in the elevator. 180 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.559 I think the last night of the Game Awards and Backlar had already left, 181 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.720 so you can't feel film up. Jeff. Okay, good to know 182 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:03.360 of Minati being like Dan, we're tired, we can't go watch Face Off, 183 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.200 and then Dan you just yelling in his face. I'm tired too. 184 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.480 I feel like I'm dying just twenty minutes. And you know what, I 185 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.840 made him watch Face Off with me. Yeah, and you know you can 186 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:18.039 win it important when things better, you got a rally, right, we 187 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.519 know what happened. Crop Bell asleep on the fucking couch. I made Manati 188 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:24.240 stay up and watch Face Off. It was to what end? To what 189 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.720 end? Listen to your Snati just has seen Face Off. Now I made 190 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.440 a life better. Yeah, but just something you crawl through the desert for 191 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.159 a week and a half like it's worth it. You know. It's like 192 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.240 an emotional like hike that Dan is going on, an emotional and like physical 193 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.639 test of the body, and the spirit is specifically testing Mike Manatti's spirit. 194 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.720 And the timing was perfect because I learned that face Off and thinking about Face 195 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.120 Off again, I realized that a four K just came out and it just 196 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.360 arrived in the mail today. It's got seven deleted scenes, it's got audio 197 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.799 commentary from John wu it's got a making of but it's like out of the 198 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.159 darken into the light that make a base off. So when Bonk and I 199 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.480 open our Christmas gives to each other this week, we're going to watch all 200 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:09.120 that stuff and it's gonna be a delightful holiday night. That's the true meaning 201 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:11.720 of Christmas. Yeah, y'all, y'all got like a good director's commentary movie 202 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:16.960 you like watching or like you you've got It opens with him, I think 203 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.879 I've said this fort Grimmin's too, the director com Terry opens up with Joe 204 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.279 Dante is welcome to Grimlins, to the most unnecessary of sequels, and then 205 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.840 that that attitude carries throughout the entire thing, and I really appreciate it. 206 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:31.600 That's fun. Oh he had a uh, he had a specific thing he 207 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:33.519 was going forward that sequels. All right, if I have to make this 208 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.759 fucking movie, I'm gonna make it dumb as shit. Yep. And he 209 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:41.360 succeeded. It's a good way. Yes. What's the one with Schwarzenegger where 210 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:46.840 he's just describing what happens on is a total recall where he's just describing now 211 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.799 the part we're gonna get at the borce, but this isn't real and like 212 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:54.200 and describing it. It's like, Arnold, I think you misunderstood what this 213 00:13:54.320 --> 00:14:01.039 is. You're active, all right, all right, you know we got 214 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.720 Game of the Year done. If this feels like the home stretch. There 215 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.000 is the community Game of the Year voting happening on the message boards right now. 216 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.600 So you go to giant bomb dot com you log in. The community 217 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:13.440 is voting on Game of the Year as we speak, so feel free to 218 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:18.159 go in weigh in on that. Yes, I love her, I love 219 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.919 her freaks at home. I'm just curious as to what they think the game 220 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.000 of the Year is. Yeah, I bet it's going to be boulders Kate 221 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:28.279 three. But who could win? We'll see that seems right. Who knows 222 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.919 it could be a Pickman four. Heyet, it would be amazing. Grub. 223 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.679 I'm with you on so many things, but man, I've never been 224 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:39.639 more with you than when you stood up there and you were really uh giving 225 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:43.519 it to Pickman four in a good way. There. It was I and 226 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.600 I felt good about it. That's how I knew it was like this is 227 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:46.919 the right choice, because like, yeah, this makes me feel happy that 228 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.799 I'm picking picking Pickman four. Yeah, it's it's my number two of the 229 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.240 year. But like anytime I see someone go up there and be like, 230 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.480 hey, let's give it to Pickman, I'm like, yes, yeah, 231 00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:58.679 Like I feel like that's a more underdog. You know, like, here's 232 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.799 the Kingdom. I think is the bigger, better, more important game. 233 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:03.960 Blah blah blah. Yeah, and I think that too. I think it's 234 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.320 a better game. But like Pickman four, I think could use the kind 235 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.080 of that that raw spirit. It deserves it. It's like, definitely the 236 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.679 one that hit the hardest above its bike, like it's weight, right, 237 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.799 It's punching above its weight, so much harder than any other game this year. 238 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.399 Yep, agreed, Well, we already started talking about games. Let's 239 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.679 talk about games some more. It feels like the end of the semester. 240 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.120 It's you have senioritis in a way that I can't put into words. It's 241 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:35.679 just like, uh, I don't know this time of the year. But 242 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:37.960 you know what, I hope people can. Like I whenever I used to 243 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.679 listen to podcasts when I when I did back in the day, I would 244 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.000 like hear this in the voice of hosts and be like, yeah, I'm 245 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.919 I'm enjoying that with you. So I hope people are getting that. Yeah 246 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.559 that makes sense. Yeah, this is the time of year. Enjoy enjoy 247 00:15:54.639 --> 00:16:00.200 the laxadaisical nature of it, all right, agreed? Agreed, Bone it 248 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.240 is what we're saying. Bone it in Now with Game of the Year over, 249 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:06.960 it feels like we just completed finals and I've been playing a lot of 250 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.720 the finals. Holy shit, guys, I feel a lot. I've been 251 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.360 playing this a lot, and I blame Jeff Bakalar profess I don't know. 252 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:23.480 This is the three v three v three shooter PvP. You're going to unlock 253 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:26.200 bank vaults and then cashing in the vaults, and then from there you are 254 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:32.360 defending the vaults until the time are completes. There are three different classes here. 255 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:36.600 It's Light, Medium, and Heavy. The different classes have different weapons 256 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:40.679 and different abilities. And let me tell y'all, this has unlocked a part 257 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:47.000 of my brain that Team Fortress two and Monday Night Combat had occupied in my 258 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:52.000 early adulthood fun multiplayer competitive shooters. Yes exactly, where like I just turned 259 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:56.799 my brain off and the reflexes and muscle memory just goes. Okay. The 260 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:02.440 specifically, i've been only playing as the Light class. I've discovered that at 261 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.720 the tail end of that GB plays we did last week. Because you're a 262 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:10.079 zippy boy, right, I'm a little zippy boy. Because the Light class 263 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:14.079 had one of its abilities is a grappling hook on a cool down, and 264 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:18.319 there's already a lot of verticality and a lot of easy movement in the game. 265 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.319 Unless you're the heavy class, you just move a little bit slower. 266 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:27.799 But the way that you can maneuver around with in conjunction with using the grappling 267 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:32.960 hook, the little zip lines. If your friend is a medium class that 268 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:36.759 can throw out a jumpad and you can zip across the map like your Spider 269 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:41.359 Man, and like the grappling hook refreshes pretty fast, So I've been able 270 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:45.839 to get in steal the vault from someone jump all the way across the map 271 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.920 completely skipping pro tip folks, don't go to the closest cash and vault, 272 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.279 go to the farthest one away. Yeah, make that makes sense. Yeah, 273 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:56.920 you're a zippy boy. That's easy. You're a zippy boy. It's 274 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.279 so easy. And then the phone grenade, the foam grenades, it's like, 275 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:08.880 was it prey right, remake, Eat, pray love and then just 276 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:14.160 smother that bitch in foam and get the homies to do it just like, 277 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:18.240 uh, just keep pinging foam, foam foam. It's smart, it's smart. 278 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:22.480 And then uh, you surround the vault and you're protected for a little 279 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:26.440 bit. But the best part about the finals is the destruction. Yes, 280 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:30.480 oh yeah, definitely hands down Like Backler, you said it best during that 281 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:34.519 that video, but it feels like Red Faction Gorilla. Oh what ykay? 282 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.000 I need? I was already very interested in everything you were saying, and 283 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.799 now I'm downloading it immediately out Dan the Heavy Class has a sledgehammer and in 284 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.119 ability where you just hit Q and you just cool aid man through walls. 285 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:49.200 Yeah, you tackle and it blows up in front of you. Okay, 286 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:53.559 I'm going to play this like a little spoiler. It found its way into 287 00:18:53.640 --> 00:19:00.240 my top ten. Playing this game non stop, like it's the only thing 288 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.160 I'm really playing the last three days or so. It's really really good. 289 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.119 It's really like I think the amazing thing about this game is that it like 290 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:15.440 has on paper, this should be the most cringey, like annoying casino vomit 291 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:19.599 like weird thing, and it's just not. It is a highly precise, 292 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:29.279 uh really uh finely tuned first person shooter traversal game that's like feels so good 293 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:32.680 to play. It is exceptional, you know, you know what. It 294 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:36.079 feels like it's from Embark Studios, which is what I was gonna get at 295 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:41.640 here. It's Embark, which is former Dice people, including one of the 296 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:44.559 founders of Dice and I can never remember his name, but he was like 297 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:47.880 the big guy that went from Dice to be an EA and he was the 298 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:49.799 guy at eas like everyone's gonna use frost Bite, everyone's gonna use the Dice 299 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.359 engine. And he left and he made a game an unreal engine. But 300 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:59.920 it like, it feels like, what if Dice had the freedom to take 301 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.200 all the stuff they're good at destruction cool modes and make a new game without 302 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:07.559 any of the baggage of having to make Battlefield. This is the game they 303 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.640 would make. I think it's totally like learning from like like, hey, 304 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:15.799 Battlefield did destruction very well for a very long time, and now that feels 305 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:18.480 kind of like, yeah, that's something that happens in those games, but 306 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.119 it's not what you come to those games for. I mean, I'm sure 307 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:23.440 some people still do, but it's not like it is in the finals, 308 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:27.839 where it's like it's core to the experience and every moment something's blowing apart and 309 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.839 they specifically make the maps so that the vault is up in a thing hanging 310 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:33.680 in the sky, and all you could think about is I'm going to shoot 311 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.920 my rocket for broke grenade at that thing and make it fall to the ground. 312 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:38.279 All they want to do in this world right now? Yeah, And 313 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:41.839 then it works and it falls right in front of you and people are scrambling. 314 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.400 It's so much fun and like starting to think about how those classes work 315 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.519 together. Where I was playing the heavy class a lot, I did end 316 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:52.039 up liking the light class and be able to zip around, but thinking that, 317 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:53.720 Okay, if we are going to be a team, if I am 318 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:59.319 the heavy, I can use my tackle and my sledgehammer strategically so that I 319 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:02.039 can make holes for the people who are faster so they can get through these 320 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:04.000 walls. And if like we start pairing that stuff up together, it's, 321 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.480 oh man, that teamwork could be huge and it's a lot of fun to 322 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.960 think about. Quick question, real quick. So when I hear three on 323 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:12.519 three, my only concern here is, like if I'm someone who like never 324 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:15.759 puts on a headset, never plays online multiplayer, like Voice Chad, I 325 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:18.119 don't want to like get a bunch of people like if I'm a solo, 326 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.160 like when I play Fortnite, I only do solo. Is it good if 327 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:27.519 I'm with two randos and not talking to them? Yeah, I've found a 328 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:33.240 lot of success just randomly matching up with folks. I mean, the the 329 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:37.480 the objective is very clear, Like you're all working towards that. I mean, 330 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:41.880 I think you're better off talking with friends, right, I think you'll 331 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:47.079 you'll. That's true of any team based sort of multiplayer game. But yeah, 332 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:52.759 it's completely you know, capable going solo. For sure. I like 333 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.119 doing it, for sure. You like doing it with you It's easier in 334 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:59.559 our context where it's like, Okay, we've got our like work days and 335 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:00.359 we do this, you know, to do shows and stuff. So like, 336 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.480 I like doing it in that context. It's just a pain in the 337 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:06.319 ass doing it, like everyone's got weird schedules and like doing it at night 338 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:07.559 and trying to get people together. But like I would love to do it 339 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.839 on a show here. Yeah, we will play it again for sure. 340 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:15.680 Again for sure. Okay, the best part of this thing is like at 341 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.039 least two or three times a match, the thought crosses my mind of like 342 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:22.400 I wonder what's gonna happen if I do that? Yeah, and uh, 343 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:27.960 that's really special there there. You know, it's everything feels over the top, 344 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:30.279 but not too over the top. I think there's just like a really 345 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:34.119 good balance. And you said it like the things you say, I want 346 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.440 to try that and things work how you expect. Like, yeah, I 347 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:41.640 did have my RPG out and someone was about to capture the vault and it 348 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:44.279 was on the floor right above me, and so I just like, I'm 349 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:45.240 not gonna be able to get there. So I'm climbing up these stairs. 350 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.200 I'm like, okay, it's like four flights. I get to the third 351 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.440 flight and I see the meters about to hit it. So I just hit 352 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:53.440 the ground where I think the vault is with the RPG. You know, 353 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:56.279 I take a little bit of damage, but mostly the floor just evaporates in 354 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:59.759 front of me, and the vault falls right in front of me. I 355 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:03.319 was a like they unlocked it. So the chest is right there and I 356 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:04.200 just take it. I start running. I mean, they killed me. 357 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:08.640 But the whole like concept of like having this idea, being able to execute 358 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:12.680 it, having the game, uh like have results that like work the way 359 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:15.519 you expect them to work. All that stuff is very well done. Dan. 360 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.559 The other great thing is that there are a bunch of barrels, miscellaneous 361 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:23.640 barrels like smoke barrels, poison gas, flame, foam, foam, and 362 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:29.359 just explosion barrels that you can syops pick up at any point and just launch 363 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:33.200 launch. Yeah. Yeah, you keep saying things that I mean, I 364 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.640 was so old when you first started talking about this, and then you said 365 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.920 like eight other things I wanted to do, and maybe this is like very 366 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:42.480 throwaway, but there's something that really agrees with me, the fact that like 367 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:45.119 it's all just like a virtual kind of thing, like oh, sure, 368 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.160 you're just you're not killing anyone. You're you're sort of like in this virtual 369 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.960 reality arena and that's where this and they make it canonically takes place. And 370 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:56.519 there's no there's no like over the top blood or like you know, explode 371 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.799 when you die. Yeah exactly, you know, like and like other games 372 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:04.640 too. That's also for like Call of Duty is virtual right now. Roman 373 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.400 dies every time so much. I don't I hope you're not like putting guilt 374 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:12.759 on yourself every time battlefield like they're not dying. It's Called of Duty the 375 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:17.079 most. Yeah, you as far as I know, Yeah, as far 376 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:18.440 as I know. But you can never be too sure. It looks very 377 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.119 realistic. No, I say this. The second half of the thing that 378 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:26.359 I didn't say is it is because I'm like going back and forth of like 379 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:29.200 showing my kid this, right, and like that's what it comes down to, 380 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:33.200 And I do think like it could maybe be a good entry point into 381 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:37.319 that. I guess Fortnite is like another thing, but you know, yeah, 382 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.279 And I also think what's really cool about the Finals is that you can 383 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.960 it's very early right in this game's existence. I know it was in alpha 384 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:49.160 and beta for a little bit, but now I'm starting to see like, 385 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:56.839 oh, they're gonna hopefully introduce a lot newer modes and like ideas into this 386 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:00.440 thing, and I'm very excited to see this grow. Yeah. I mean 387 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.400 the mode is pretty fun too, right, Yes, absolutely, but you 388 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:07.200 know they're gonna like possibly there's new like you know, specials that come in 389 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.200 or whatever it is. I just think the runway is really long for this 390 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.279 game, and that's exciting. There's there's always just a fun way to think 391 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.680 about it, a handful of levels, but there's variations of the levels in 392 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:22.759 terms of times of day the weather as well, And I thought it was 393 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:26.119 kind of whack at first that there are only the three classes, but then 394 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:30.640 this depending on how you speck out your person, it really modifies it significantly. 395 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:34.559 Like the Medium class can just be your all around like Mario, all 396 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:37.319 around your type of dude. It can also be a healer, or you 397 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:41.480 could kind of play like an engineer and Team Fortress where you have a turret 398 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:45.240 coming out. And then the Light class. I thought it was very akin 399 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:49.279 to Scout in Not My Dog but in Team Fortress two. But because of 400 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:53.200 the mobility, you can also play as like a spy because you have like 401 00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:57.119 backstabbing weapons, or you can go invisible if you choose a different ability, 402 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:02.319 or you could be a sniper because you can't. You have that verticality and 403 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:07.359 you can reach places faster than other folks. The other really neat thing is 404 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:14.519 how you revive people when you die and you explode, you explode into like 405 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:18.480 a small little action figure type of guy. You can grab those yeah, 406 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.400 throw them somewhere safe, and then just hide and revive someone on the spot, 407 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:25.799 which is so it's just so smart. Yeah, it's cool. Yep, 408 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:29.640 you know, it just adds to like the pace of it. Yeah, 409 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.359 and when you're dead. You can either wait to respond or you can 410 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.519 request to be revived by teammates. And like I found that to be like, 411 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:40.839 oh okay, cool, I'll just request the revives so you get me 412 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:44.799 now, so we're all closer to the objective rather than me being way further 413 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:49.079 away. I think I think there's a couple things that will also be finessed 414 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.440 too. I think like there you know, some of the especially that popular 415 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.160 the main mode that we were playing, where you are just kind of looking 416 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.200 to you know, a big stratus to like just steal the the cash out, 417 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.200 right, Like that is kind of what this game turns into, where 418 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:07.720 like it doesn't necessarily matter if you're the one to initiate the cash out, 419 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:11.079 it's are you the last one standing when the thing when the timer's up? 420 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:15.559 And I do think like people are learning new strategy to like protect and ultimately 421 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.839 like you are in a better position to win if you do initiate the cash 422 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.799 out and and sort of have a strategy to do what how to defend it. 423 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:26.359 But yeah, I'm curious to see like how they tweak that stuff, 424 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:30.440 Like it makes sense to approach it a different way, Like you know, 425 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:34.160 I was just thinking like, oh, maybe you know there's like you know, 426 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:40.039 just like random generative stuff you can put in there that yeah, changes 427 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.640 the way people think about playing the game, and it'll cause newer strategies to 428 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:48.880 form and evolve and fun. Another pro tip, there's just these giant cubes 429 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:53.920 filled with stuff suspended in the arenas. Just shoot those down because they contain 430 00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:59.319 like little gas canisters or like the little throwball items. I was in a 431 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:03.759 game last night backlar speaking of like different strategies developing, Whereas me and two 432 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.759 other people playing as the light class all had grappling hooks and we just hot 433 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:15.000 potato the vault to each other across the hole map and it was absolutely insane, 434 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.279 and I felt like I felt like the Raptors in Jurassic Park, just 435 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:25.079 quickly running around and killing dudes. It was great. Nor speaking about games 436 00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:29.920 that are growing, Lethal Company is something that Jeff Greb and I played on 437 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:36.319 the website, along with More and turbot Shan. That's a that's a fun 438 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:41.400 time is as how I'll phrase it. We never actually accomplished our goal, 439 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.799 which was a very modest quota of Okay, the game is, it's four 440 00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:48.400 players cooperative. You go out in the world, you collect junk, you 441 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.160 bring it back. Chances are some crazy stuff is gonna happen. You're gonna 442 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:52.559 se a monster, giant spider, you can fall into a pit. Uh, 443 00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:56.240 it's gonna be dark, there's gonna be dangers, and you gotta work 444 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.119 together to bring that stuff back to your ship in three days. And on 445 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:02.920 the fourth day you have to fly to the store sell everything you get. 446 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:04.279 You got and if you meet the quota, then you can keep going, 447 00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:07.799 and then you could buy more stuff to make it easier, like a shovel 448 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.319 or whatever. We were figuring a lot of this stuff out on the fly. 449 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:17.799 But that process of not really understanding what it is going in blind and 450 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:22.160 having moments just happen, it was really a good time. Like jan would 451 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:25.920 be going ahead, he would go a slightly different direction and he would turn 452 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.240 around and he would hear us all our voices fading, and suddenly we were 453 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:30.359 just dead and he had no idea what happened. He turned around, like, 454 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.079 what's going on here? And eventually you would piece it together and I'm 455 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:36.480 gonna talk around some of these things because I think we should all play this 456 00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:38.480 together. And you guys Backlard Dan. Have you guys looked into this at 457 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:41.920 all. I haven't seen it. I've just heard people talking very glowingly about 458 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.759 it. But yeah, like I'll be going in pretty Dan blind, just 459 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.119 knowing that people are liking it a lot, Right, So I think the 460 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:49.759 idea would be like us the mod, so we can get all of us 461 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:52.359 in, as many of us as possible, and we'll see if we can 462 00:29:52.400 --> 00:30:00.160 make that happen. But it is just an emergent gameplay this situation generate or 463 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:02.279 where it's like, hey, let's go in and try this. Is that 464 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:04.759 going to work? Let's try to jump across there, and you can stand 465 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:08.000 on the great watching your friend try to make that jump, and sometimes they 466 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.640 make it and sometimes they don't, and it's always funny though. The animations 467 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.799 are really simple but expressive, especially the running, so it's like you just 468 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:21.079 with some yes the heee. So when everyone's panicking and running and everyone's actually 469 00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:25.240 scared of something, it's still like a really hilarious thing to see all these 470 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:29.240 goofballs just doing this heiinee run back to the ship and freaking out. The 471 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:36.599 best part is that it is all local voice proximity and proximity Yes, proximity 472 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:40.000 voice. Yeah, yes, and so, and then the voice modulates depending 473 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:41.880 on the environment end. So if you're in a metal environment, it's echoing 474 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.400 oft the walls and it changes and that sounds really great. And so if 475 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.400 you're like getting further away from everyone else, so you can hear that, 476 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:51.200 and then at a certain point you can't hear anyone anymore unless you buy a 477 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:55.839 walkie talkie. Uh. And that really adds to the atmosphere and to the 478 00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:57.799 hilarity again where it's like, Okay, they thought I was dead, and 479 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:00.880 then suddenly I come back around the like hi, host Silver and it's like, 480 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:06.440 ah, we're back together in these really fun moments. I don't know 481 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:07.880 how much more there is to the experience, but I'm at a point where 482 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:10.640 it's like I don't really care, because, like you could tell, we're 483 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:14.039 going to be having a lot of fun playing this in like seeing seeing how 484 00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:17.000 far we can get. And I bet there are more experiences and moments that 485 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:19.559 we haven't encountered yet that are waiting for us. We just happened to find 486 00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:22.880 a couple on the random planets that we landed on so far. Yeah, 487 00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.079 this is a single dev as well, right, Greb. Yeah, I 488 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:27.160 think it's I mean that's what I've heard. It's one one dude, one 489 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:32.640 person Wow, insane, and it's a hugely popular. It's when I think 490 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.599 it's still the most played game on Steam. It's one of the best line 491 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:38.039 games of the year. It's huge. Speaking about another huge game, Dan, 492 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:42.440 I see that you have put among Us DLC. Here. Oh, 493 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:47.599 I guess I probably should have put Vampire Survivors among Us DLC. Oh. 494 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.920 Yeah, yeah, I haven't played among Us in forever. Yeah, it's 495 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:57.039 anytime there's Vampire Survivors DLC. I loaded up and I this is now the 496 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:01.000 third time I've started a completely new file a Vampire Survivors because I'm playing on 497 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:05.160 a different account, and it's like at first I was like, oh man, 498 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.119 I don't have my say, and then I was like, wait, 499 00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.799 that's an excuse to play Vampire. So yeah, like all last night I 500 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:15.559 was just playing. I unlocked the among Us stuff. It's uh, I 501 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.400 mean, any new Vampire Survivors is always fun for me. I'll say that 502 00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.680 I never liked the look of among Us and so you know, like the 503 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:27.160 nah and like you're playing is them and unlocking them, you're kind of playing 504 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:29.680 on those maps and everything, and like it's always fun to see like what 505 00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:31.599 the weapon evolutions are and stuff like that, but it's all very much like, 506 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:35.160 oh, here's the one where it's like the wires from among Us are 507 00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:37.680 stretching across the screen and killing enemies and stuff. And I guess I don't 508 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.400 love the look of it. I I you know, I do love the 509 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:45.359 look of the original Vampire Survivors, just kind of that like vaguely Castlevania pixel 510 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:52.039 art going on this one. It's all very among Us obviously, And at 511 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:54.519 this point I think we got to be reaching the upper limits of like weapon 512 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:58.720 evolution things that take up the whole screen. Like there's some clever ones where 513 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:00.640 it's like, okay, this evolution will make it. So there's a bunch 514 00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:04.559 of like a keypad on the ground and you got to press the keys in 515 00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:06.599 order like one, two, three, four, and then that's someone's like 516 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.799 a rocket at the top of the screen that like shoots down a bunch of 517 00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:13.200 flames and stuff on the enemies. Like there's some pretty clever ones that work 518 00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:15.240 with the among Us theme, but uh, I mean they're all kind of 519 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:19.200 just big bullshit that kills everything on the screen, right, I love every 520 00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.480 weapon evolution. Yeah, it's it's it's its own like siloed off thing. 521 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.720 It's it's the Adventures tab is like some of the most recent DFC not like 522 00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:31.799 you're not gonna have among us in the Core Vampire Survivors experience from what I've 523 00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:36.440 seen. I just played the Core until it unlocked this Adventures thing, and 524 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:38.319 then the Adventures thing is like, oh, here's the legacy of the moonsfell 525 00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:43.119 or whatever among us, with like its own power ups, with its own 526 00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:45.880 like currency and things like that that exists, and that siloed off thing. 527 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:50.160 So I don't know, it's an excuse play more Vampire Survivors. It got 528 00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:52.440 me back into that, which is like the ideal. Like I just put 529 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:53.440 on Raw last night and just played it all night, and it was at 530 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:58.240 a good time, so it's also a good RAW. I was pleasantly surprised 531 00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:00.720 the last couple of weeks I early sit down and watch an entire raw live. 532 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:04.640 I'll just like watch a match fire. It was really good. Watch 533 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.079 the last raws and I was like, wait a minute, all these stories 534 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:13.440 like have places they're going and there's like multiple over baby bass and like like 535 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:16.920 this, the Drew promo was really good last night, and it's like it's 536 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:22.320 actually actually getting like to be a pretty good wrestling show. Yes, it 537 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:27.239 had to happen. Yeah, punk rolling stuff. It's fascinating, Like, 538 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:34.599 man, what the hell? Our Truth just hilarious? God yeah, yeah, 539 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:38.920 yeah, you would love Our Truth. It's like scary that there's it's 540 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:42.920 just like a good show and it's a three hour long raw that I'm like, 541 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:49.239 man, all this I started. What's going on? I'm waiting for 542 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.519 to drop. I'm like, what's happening? Yeah, I don't know. 543 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:55.800 I just did like a pie chart of like all the time I have in 544 00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:00.679 my day, and like there's just no sliver for aw Like it's just not 545 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:06.199 you gotta spare three hours in the evening. Come, there's just not I 546 00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:10.199 If I send you a series of gifts, will that help? I can't 547 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:14.280 wait to consume wrestling? Yeah, Like if I could just have a gift 548 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:20.480 based sort of like consumption of that medium, I'd be happy. You know, 549 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:22.679 just do that. In fact, I encourage you to do that. 550 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.360 I would like to consume wrestling only in gift form for the rest of my 551 00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:30.320 life. Get the whole you know, industry. Yeah, thank you, 552 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:36.679 thank you, even the promos you can get gift it's great. Dan. 553 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:40.480 You also put here house Flipper too. Yeah. I never played that before. 554 00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:44.039 I think I think I was on a quick look that like Abby did 555 00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:45.480 back in the day, and I was like, oh, that was cool, 556 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:47.280 but I never played it. I'm playing this now and like it's immediately 557 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:52.840 kind of that scratching that hour wash itch where it's like you go into a 558 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:54.559 new area and it's just like, oh man, this place is fucked up. 559 00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:58.840 Like there's this trash everywhere in pizza boxes, and there's like graffiti all 560 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:01.400 over and windows, like everything's fucked up. And then by the time you're 561 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:07.599 done, it's looking great. And this is just like powerwash simulator if it 562 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:09.079 was power washing and then a bunch of other stuff. So like, I 563 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:13.480 love like getting my process together. I go into a fucked up house and 564 00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:15.599 at first I'm like, okay, all the trash, all the like, 565 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:17.360 you know, just food boxes and just shit on the floor and broken glass 566 00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:21.280 and broken bases. I'm cleaning all that shit up, put in the garbage, 567 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:22.800 and then there's stains everywhere, and so I'm going around, I'm spraying 568 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:25.559 everything I'm wiping everything down with my cloth, the ceilings, there's fucking gross 569 00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:29.360 stains everywhere. I'm getting all that figured out, and then you know, 570 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:31.400 there's a bunch of just bullshit that you're selling, like you're flipping the house. 571 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:35.280 So you have like a flip or tool. So you go. It's 572 00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:37.719 like all these shitty old chairs, all this stuff you sell and that get 573 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.440 rid of these cabinets, all that shit, and then you see like what 574 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:42.880 you're supposed to buy to put in there. It's like, Okay, now 575 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.480 I can reorganize this room however I want. I got rid of this dividing 576 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:47.599 wall. I'm gonna put this couch over here. Like it's it's scratching a 577 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:52.360 lot of itches between like almost like simgame like more like like the ones where 578 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.639 you're actually like designing a house or like when you're building a place in Minecraft 579 00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:00.360 or something. Plus it's got the cleaning element of like a power wash. 580 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:06.280 I'm also learning that I think I have no fucking skills whatsoever at like a 581 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:09.119 design, like interior design, because like I'll get into the place where everything's 582 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:10.840 clean, it's like, all right, now, what am I gonna do 583 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:14.599 with the wallpaper and the tiles and stuff here, and I'm all right, 584 00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:17.679 this like geometric white and blue wallpaper looks you got to put that up there. 585 00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:21.800 And I'll get these like hexagon tiles and put them here and this for 586 00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:23.480 the floor. And then I sit back and like, given me with no 587 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:25.719 eye for aesthetics or anything, I'm just like, oh, this looks like 588 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:29.559 shit. Like walk if I walked into this house, I'd be like, 589 00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:32.599 this place fucking sucks. So once it opened up and it lets you kind 590 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:36.280 of do whatever you want aesthetically, I just realized, like, I don't 591 00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:38.119 I need people to tell me like, okay, yeah, put wood down 592 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:42.360 here and then like stone up here, because if left of my own devices, 593 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:45.760 it's just gonna look like garbage. But your basement is really nice, 594 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:50.719 Dan. The way you've organized it is that because it's all like memorabilia stuff 595 00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:52.639 that you have an affinity for. If it was just if you weren't allowed 596 00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.119 to put like any gaming stuff in her room, do you think that's where 597 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.440 you would struggle? That's a cheek code. I mean if I'm just like 598 00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:00.800 setting up a fun game room, I know how to do that, Like, 599 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:01.559 oh, here's a bunch of cool shit. I like like here's I 600 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:05.440 want to just play these nes games. Arcade goes over there, Like that's 601 00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:07.039 that's like almost like cheating. It's just like, how's that room not gonna 602 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.840 be cool? It's just a bunch of video game stuff versus like if I 603 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:13.159 had to go into a room and just be like get some nice couches and 604 00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:15.800 wallpaper, I would just leave, you know. Yeah, I'd be the 605 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:17.639 same way for sure. Yeah. But a game room, I can put 606 00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:22.119 together game room for sure. Right. Yeah, that's always been I like 607 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:24.360 games like Animal Crossing, Disney Illusion Island. I mean I like that game 608 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:29.280 for other reasons, but when it comes to the interior decorating aspect, I'm 609 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:34.199 just absolute garbo of like I like that table, these chairs don't match, 610 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.800 but I have enough money for these chairs. Yeah, but yeah, like 611 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.159 I'm like, oh, all this stuff costs money and I'm gonna be bad 612 00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:43.119 at this, so I'm gonna make a mistake. So so I just sort 613 00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:45.000 of just freeze instead of like, oh, I'm afraid of wasting money on 614 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:49.440 chairs that won't match, so yes, I avoid it. I'm a very 615 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:52.320 function over aesthetics guy. Yeah, yeah, just be that way. Yeah, 616 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:55.559 maybe we should just have benches everywhere. Huh. You just slide into 617 00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:59.760 a bench, and I would be happy to have a bench sort of air 618 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.079 like a picnic table as our table for the family room. I'd like I 619 00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:05.559 got a big bean bag out there, that's nice. Yeah, the big 620 00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:08.639 bean bag is what's what's what's the etiquette with a bean bag? When you 621 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:12.079 got to fluff it? Do you just turn it over and do you worry 622 00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:15.360 about the bottom side? I do a couple of rolls. You just like, 623 00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:16.199 you know, get it up on one side it's not normally on. 624 00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:19.519 Kind of roll it around a couple of times in its space and put it 625 00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:22.039 back down. It'll be nice and fluffed up. Jeff Greb, look you 626 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:24.800 good for a second? Is there something about other kind of fluffing? So 627 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:29.320 I was gonna say, cup the balls, that's that's what you're Wow, 628 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:35.880 Hey, bad boy, I know listen. I stopped myself and then you 629 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.559 asked I was gonna let it go. No. I was curious if jerking 630 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:44.400 off cardboard cutouts wasn't enough. Now, I don't know, I have no 631 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.760 idea what I was just gesturing to my friends, just hosting a television hosting 632 00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:53.480 the show. Yeah, yeah, that was part of the feedback. I 633 00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:58.199 even heard that at a meeting. All good things, all good things, 634 00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:00.679 all get all good things, wonderful, all good things, all good things, 635 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:07.519 all good things. Another good thing that has circled back around. Turns 636 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.519 out God of War Ragnarrock's really great. What if we turned it into a 637 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:19.400 roguelike with God of War Valhalla something like I know, I know what this 638 00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:21.639 is, but I don't know what it is, so just tell me and 639 00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.400 I'll get around to it sometime next year. Yo. Hey, you ever 640 00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:28.880 want to like, go play God of War but you don't want the story 641 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.719 and like him talking to his kid and like, yes, that's all I 642 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:37.079 want. Dan. Do you like Hades? Yes? Did you like playing 643 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:42.000 twenty eighteen God of War and Ragnarrock playing it? Playing it? Yes? 644 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.920 What if you just had Hades and God of War? Yes, yes, 645 00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:50.119 that's what that's what this is. Okay, I would like to play that, 646 00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:54.400 so as of course, yes, But I mean that fighting system was 647 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:58.639 always really good, even though I didn't like Ragnarok, absolutely fantastic. Just 648 00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:01.199 do the fighting system. What if you had everything unlocked and had all the 649 00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:04.800 weapons right from the game. Yeah, the weapons you don't they're not fully 650 00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:07.199 powered up. You're gonna it's a rogue light, so you're gonna lose some 651 00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:08.679 of that stuff. But yes, all this sounds good. Yes, So 652 00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:13.800 that's basically all it is. It's a separate menu item. You just launch 653 00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:17.440 into Valhalla quick download. There's a little bit of story bits at the time. 654 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:22.440 It does take place after the story of Ragnarok. Yes, but I 655 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.920 didn't play through Ragnarok, and everyone's like, you're gonna be so lost, 656 00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:28.960 there's gonna be spoilers, and that just doesn't matter at all. It's a 657 00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:30.719 bunch of people being like, oh, you're in there, you're fighting these 658 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:35.400 things because your credos. That's that's wild. Man Like, yeah, that's 659 00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:37.440 pretty wild. I'm gonna go back in there now, and that's it. 660 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:42.920 So okay. And it does do the Haiti style storytelling where okay, you 661 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:45.800 went through a run, you died, and probably pretty quickly on that first 662 00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:47.199 run, seems like they kind of put you up against stuff that's pretty tough 663 00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.760 right away. You come back out and they're like, okay, now here's 664 00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:54.199 a new little quick cut scene that's gonna going to move the story forward. 665 00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.480 But it doesn't really get in the way in the way that I felt like 666 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:00.239 the storytelling and some of these other PlayStation games Ken this is a really good 667 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:04.760 idea. I'm a huge fan of this trend by the way of just taking 668 00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:07.280 a game turning into a rogue light, especially as an update that comes a 669 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.519 year or like two or three years later. This is fantastic. I'm a 670 00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:14.440 big fan of this. It's cool. I realize, oh shit, Ragnark 671 00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:19.800 looks amazing. Yep, and yeah, it's one of the best looking games 672 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:23.480 all the PS five and then totally Backlar. I think we had this conversation 673 00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:30.239 where it's tough to want to revisit God of War specifically because you just don't 674 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:34.039 want to replay all the story bits. It's because you've felt you've gone through 675 00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:37.360 it already, but going through everything and oh Jeff's is Jeff gone? No, 676 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:43.119 I see you for a second. But in Valhalla, just being able 677 00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:46.199 to riins through these enemies and then you know, like in a roguelike, 678 00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:52.119 have to quickly adapt your style of gameplay and then deciding of like, okay, 679 00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:54.199 I normally rock with the Blades of Chaos, but like this run, 680 00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:59.199 we're just doing spear and they give you different bonuses, so I encourage that 681 00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:01.679 variety of plays, so it's like your first room, you're gonna get a 682 00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:06.239 couple of options. Do you want to do something with your Blades of Chaos 683 00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:08.000 or do you want to do something with the Axe, And then as you 684 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.440 do that, that's going to influence all of the upgrades that show up in 685 00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:13.800 the world after that, so it's like, Okay, this is going to 686 00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:16.800 be mostly an axe run. You can still switch your weapons and make some 687 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:20.880 decisions that might change things up later during that run, but it does a 688 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.079 good job making each run feel different than the last, which is something I 689 00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:25.320 think even Returnal struggled with, which like, oh yeah, to me, 690 00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:29.639 that felt very samy from them to run, So like this is actually in 691 00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:34.119 some ways more impressive than return It's really smart too, because you will have 692 00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:38.440 run to run upgrades that you're unlocking for your specific runs, and then when 693 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:42.559 you get to a checkpoint, which is after a couple of rooms, you 694 00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:44.920 can suspend the game and be like, all right, I'm gonna come back 695 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:50.000 later if you wanted to, I guess check out the other parts of Ragnrock. 696 00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:55.679 But there's also general upgrades for Krados across the board, so you can 697 00:43:55.679 --> 00:44:00.199 increase your rage meter, increase your health, all your different stats like strength, 698 00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:04.199 vitality, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, 699 00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:09.079 it's real fun and I just love that mostly everything is un locked. You're 700 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:13.800 not super powered up, like Grub said, but like also, when you're 701 00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:17.800 starting each run, you choose between like your shield and your different rage ability 702 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:21.400 and and then also have bonuses each time, so it's like, Okay, 703 00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:23.639 I've never used this shield before it has the bonus. This time, I'll 704 00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:28.320 just use that, And now that means I'll get more benefit in the long 705 00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:30.559 run, where I'm upgrading the character longer term so that the next run is 706 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:35.920 even easier. Yeah, And then it's that way you're encouraging different play styles 707 00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:38.639 of like, Okay, I never would have checked this out if I wasn't 708 00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:44.800 incentivized to do it this way. And then there's quiet moments in between where 709 00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:46.159 you know they'll sprinkle in a little bit the story, a little bit of 710 00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:49.920 roaming around, but it's and the people do like the story have been saying 711 00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.000 that they like this stuff still, so it's not like a completely devoid of 712 00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:57.239 the things that people do like about Cora Ragnarok is. It's just this is 713 00:44:57.320 --> 00:45:00.559 much more the style of game that I'm into these days, and so I'm 714 00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:04.159 greatly appreciative that this is here as an option. Totally wild that this is 715 00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:07.239 a free update as well. Yeah, totally yeah. And then the way 716 00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:12.760 that they're framing you being in these different parts that you've visited in both games. 717 00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:15.920 It's like, oh, well, this is Valhalla pulling the memories out 718 00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:19.159 of credos, So this is why you kind of remember it like this, 719 00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:22.480 or this is why it's condensed. But you've been here before, you fought 720 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:27.000 these guys before, and mymir is around, my miir is not like two 721 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:30.119 talkie, and uh yeah, god it it's just so good. It's so 722 00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:37.159 good. I played it on my Steam Deck using the chiacky app Chiacki four 723 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.119 decks, which has showed me how to do that. How'd that go? 724 00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:43.000 It's super easy. Now there's just a couple of steps that are weird about 725 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.480 getting your PSN, Like, you know your the code for PSN, which 726 00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:47.840 is something you just got to go to a website to do. So the 727 00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:51.840 first time I try to set up Chiocky for deck on my original Steam deck, 728 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:53.880 something went wrong. It didn't work. I gave up. That's why 729 00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:59.199 I was I'm considering a PlayStation portal the new PSP for a while. Now 730 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:02.920 I'll just get that. But then Chiaki four deck updated and now it supports 731 00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.159 HDR on the steam deck o LED, so I was like, okay, 732 00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:09.000 I should just try that first and see how that works and maybe I can 733 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:12.599 get working. This time, it was super easy. I just went through 734 00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:15.079 a couple of steps and again i'll show you that jan and it just started 735 00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:20.000 working. I was able to turn on my PlayStation five remotely from upstairs and 736 00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:22.880 I went over there, updated a God of War and started playing it, 737 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.519 and the HDR just worked. And that's the best thing about the Steam deck 738 00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:30.199 o Lead actually is how well the HDR works compared to a PC where it's 739 00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:32.519 such a crapshoot and Windows is terrible of that stuff. Here, it's like, 740 00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:35.920 if HDR is going to work, it'll just turn on. It's going 741 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:37.239 to work, and that that's how it happened here, and it looked great. 742 00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:42.760 It ran fantastic. I was going over my six gigahertz connection, which 743 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.440 is really great for all this wireless gaming stuff. Now that's how I've been 744 00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:50.079 using the mediquest three and steam is with the six gigahertz connection, It's flawless. 745 00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:52.559 There was never never even stuttering, stuttering like I've had before with it. 746 00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:55.599 So it's like things are getting to a point where these things can work. 747 00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:59.840 And now it's like my preferred way to be playing PlayStation five games. 748 00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:01.880 So I would not have I would not have had time to check in with 749 00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:05.840 Valhalla. That just the way it fits in with my life. I sitting 750 00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:08.159 down here by by myself on the couch while people are upstairs. The guilt 751 00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:12.440 is too much. I just feel like I'm disconnected from everybody. So being 752 00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:15.679 able to sit around them on the Steam deck and fit it in here and 753 00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:19.280 there and fits in spurts like fits and starts like that's it's worked. It 754 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:22.559 worked really well that way, So yeah, and again it's super easy to 755 00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:28.239 set up these days. I faced a moral conflict when I fired up Valhalla. 756 00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:30.440 And it's been a minute since I've played Ragonrock. I don't I don't 757 00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:37.079 think i've touched it since last year, and I immediately hit square to melee, 758 00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:39.840 but then I've remembered, Oh, it's all the bumpers and the triggers. 759 00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:43.760 They dark sold it. They dark sold it in and I got to 760 00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.559 ask, y'all, where do you land on the preferred melee button placement. 761 00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:52.679 I've come around on it because I like keeping my thumbs on the sticks. 762 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:57.159 So this is I think it's just pretty good these days. It's it took 763 00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.119 me a while, I do I in my heart, Squire still melee like 764 00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.639 and then trying what is going to be the heavy attack. In my heart, 765 00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:07.519 that's the way it is. But once I get like it takes thirty 766 00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:09.239 seconds. Okay, it's up here on the bumpers and the shoulder button. 767 00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:12.760 I'm used to it. Now, I'll just keep my thumbs on the sticks 768 00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.199 and now I can look around and attack at the same time. In this 769 00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:17.000 game, they always have someone someone running up behind you, so it's important 770 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.480 to be like on a swivel. So I do like it. It's probably 771 00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:24.039 actually the right way to do things. I don't dislike it at all, 772 00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:27.800 Like I like, you know, Armored Core and Elden Ringing the way from 773 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.920 has kind of done it. But I am old, so I do like 774 00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:34.760 it when things are like they were on the PlayStation two. So as long 775 00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:37.559 as you can admit that ex. Jump, Square, Slice, triangle, 776 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:43.159 heavy circle, grab. Yeah. I do like block being on the bumper 777 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.639 though, Like that feels like a good place for it. El One l 778 00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:49.280 One's block button. Yeah, yes, definitely. I think def Jam Fight 779 00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:52.400 for New York introduced that into my life, and then I'm like, okay, 780 00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:54.840 well this is the only place that has it can be now technically the 781 00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:00.559 wrestling games they made on sixty four before that did the all right pipe in 782 00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:02.440 a video that's going to come out next week, I learned that I've committed 783 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:07.639 crimes holding sixty four controller of the way I've held it my whole life. 784 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:09.920 Oh I don't want to see a picture of that. Yeah, not good, 785 00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:14.159 it's not good. This was also covered in the meeting. I'm assuming 786 00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:16.559 this doesn't game. Oh yeah, yeah, totally. We had a conversation 787 00:49:16.599 --> 00:49:21.079 about this. Yeah, oh god, well you'll get the breakdown. Yeah, 788 00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:24.440 there's one more game listed here, and might as well call it the 789 00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:29.320 game of the week, because why not? Why not? Why not? 790 00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:35.599 Sweak a game? Yeah, Dan, I've heard this, just take I 791 00:49:35.639 --> 00:49:40.800 heard this yeah, like a week ago, and uh yeah, downloaded it. 792 00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:44.920 It's what three dollars. Yeah, there's a bunch of clones and then 793 00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:46.280 there's a browser one I tried that out. The physics are all a won 794 00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:49.880 you no, no, you gotta go a physics have to be right. 795 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:54.039 The browser very important garbage. Yeah, it's it's so interesting because like when 796 00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:57.400 you start playing it, it seems like it's like, okay, well this 797 00:49:57.519 --> 00:50:00.280 is like the simplest puzzle game ever. You get it. Within like thirty 798 00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:01.079 seconds, You're like, Okay, I feel like you're going to reach a 799 00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:05.880 certain point where's get it can't really get much past that. But as you 800 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:08.559 play it a few hundred times, uh, do you start to realize that, 801 00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:13.280 like, okay, the physics of this and like you know, there's 802 00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:15.960 there is a strategy that like I find myself getting better, Like I'm now 803 00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:20.639 like in the like mid three thousands on the score, which at first it 804 00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:22.719 was like, you know, two thousand was kind of like as high as 805 00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:23.559 I could get. And it's because now I know it's like, Okay, 806 00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:25.679 I've got these big ones over here, I'm gonna try to keep the small 807 00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:29.639 ones over here, you know, how to kind of lay things together where 808 00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:30.880 it's like when they do start bouncing around like some we're going to get through 809 00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:36.320 the cracks and form together. You start knowing how to avoid things popping out 810 00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:38.480 if it starts getting too high. For those who haven't played it, it's 811 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:42.559 just it seems like everyone's playing. So I don't know if I'm just reaching 812 00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:44.880 the choir here, but you're just putting fruits together. Put a couple of 813 00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:46.000 cherries together, it turns into a strawberry. Couple of strawberries together, it 814 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:51.400 turns in grapes. A couple of grapes turns into it. Some weird's that, 815 00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:57.239 like, the physics sounds like I just heard like a Southern auctioner voice 816 00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:01.440 come out of for a second with fruit you were like two firs Kansas fought 817 00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:07.480 for the North. Yeah, Southerner, but yeah, no, it's just 818 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:09.400 yeah, it's uh. I've heard it described as like, you know, 819 00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:15.320 a Tetris puzzler, you know, meets threes with physics, and that's what 820 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:17.239 got me to download it, and it's far the accurate description, and it's 821 00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:21.599 very, very fun. It's simple. It's three dollars you get the switch 822 00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:25.039 version. How juicy is it in terms of like actual literal fruit juice, 823 00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:29.280 like spring out of fruits? No, no, no, no, no 824 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:31.119 a lot. I wish it was a juicier. I wish it was much 825 00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:36.719 juicier, like a fruit juicry. Yeah, there's no real juice. They're 826 00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:39.079 just kind of like smile on that faces. They don't really I'll be honest. 827 00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:45.199 I don't even consider them fruit. They just are like reproductively fruit. 828 00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:49.559 No, I realized, like JPEGs. Yeah, they're just sort of marbles 829 00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:52.480 like they they could be more fruits. Look, I call it like I 830 00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:57.960 see it faces that just smile and then if one pops out to go like, 831 00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:00.880 that's about it. I was saying grub saying something is just a jpeg. 832 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:08.559 I'm like, wow, I never heard something more derogatory. We're making 833 00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:15.239 new slurs. Let's go, God, this is going to hurt my political 834 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:21.000 career in a couple of years. Man's fucking boning myself so hard. You're 835 00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:29.840 gonna be Mari James. We found some deeply troubling podcasts calling people jaypegs. 836 00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:36.719 As we all know is now uses a shirt two that I used. The 837 00:52:36.719 --> 00:52:39.119 one wants to open a portal to another dimension in them room. I don't 838 00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:42.800 even know how to open that, I do, I don't even I'm so 839 00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:45.400 scared. Who uses what is the practical use for a jpeg? Two thousand 840 00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:51.519 I don't think there actually is one anymore. Support the future? What do 841 00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:54.519 you want? That? Is it for games? Unless anyone else has anything 842 00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:59.840 they want to chat about, real real quick. I want to play that 843 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.400 as cards as cards raft to me too. Meta Quest three it got a 844 00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:09.840 ten from my gn what oh yeah, ten? It got a ten a 845 00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:15.519 VR ten, ten out of ten? Well, I mean like ten out 846 00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:17.199 of ten on VR? What is it like Alex? Right? Yeah? 847 00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:21.679 Alan definitely the best? Right, So it's like this has got to be 848 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:25.679 as good or at least as impressive as Alex. Right, So I'm gonna 849 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.440 try this out. And is a v Yeah, like what's the what's the 850 00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:35.920 scales? VR ten? What does that translate? Oh my god, I 851 00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:38.880 mean Alex, are you a Miami ten or a VR ten? You know? 852 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:45.119 Oh, I get what we're doing. Yeah, come on, play 853 00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:50.000 along alexas like Alex is like legitimately like a great game. If you take 854 00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:52.559 Alex out of the equation, What is the like next? Like VR ten? 855 00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:58.239 Astrobos a good one. It's a really good one. Yeah, there's 856 00:53:58.280 --> 00:54:01.239 a couple of really good ones. I guess. Yeah, I'm interested, 857 00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:06.079 and I'll say I am using my MEDA Quest three still almost every night. 858 00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:09.480 Uh. Wow. The big thing is, uh, I started streaming Star 859 00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:14.280 Wars Jedi Survivor into it not as a VR game, It's not a R 860 00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:16.000 game. It just makes a big HD screen, so I could just like, 861 00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:19.519 Okay, I'm like tired, I don't want to go set up the 862 00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:22.559 family room and play games in there. I'll just stream it in bed and 863 00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.480 have the screen be up here and like kick back and have the controller connected 864 00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:30.840 to the PC and I play. I played way to turn your brain up 865 00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:39.599 before a night of restless weep. Bright pixels shot directly into my next I've 866 00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:44.079 been sleeping great. I don't know what you're talking. I screen in my 867 00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:50.960 bedroom much. Yeah, exactly, Listen. I think we all just need 868 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:53.440 to hear this every now and then. I know I'm surely not the first 869 00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:58.119 person to suggest this. I just want to put this out there. Uh. 870 00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:06.719 The film, the film Wally was a warning, dudes, I'm not 871 00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:09.280 my bean bag. It's actually what I'm doing. So my body is like 872 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:14.440 floating in mid air and I'm just like, I feel exactly like one of 873 00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:22.000 those big human babies. So yes, Wally was a warning, suggest ambition. 874 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:27.000 It was an ambition that it wasn't a goal to aim for. This 875 00:55:27.199 --> 00:55:31.559 was the human human future? Bad, No do this. I'm I'm gonna 876 00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:36.519 say this was something slightly naughty that I did. Don't think naughty like that 877 00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:45.039 and VR dirty shape eggs. Okay, So I pulled the grub, right, 878 00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:46.920 I pulled the grub. He said he was laying in bed with a 879 00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:50.800 VR helmet. I'm like, oh, I'll try that up through on the 880 00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:52.079 VR helmet. And then I was like, oh, you know what what 881 00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:55.599 if I fall asleep? So I put on my seat papachute, Oh my 882 00:55:55.639 --> 00:56:02.280 god. And then I just watched just two hours of Alita Battle Angel in 883 00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:07.679 three D. This fucking rules. I didn't know you had your step machine 884 00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:12.239 on chan. You are living in the year three thousand. You must this 885 00:56:12.280 --> 00:56:15.400 is the next step of human evolution. We are witnessing it. Yo, 886 00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:22.119 you must have. That was cyberpunk, fucking abomination. Someone took a photo 887 00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:25.559 that was the best way to see a three D movie was greatly actually it 888 00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:30.519 Actually, it's a great way to watch three D movies like Dental Nitrous And 889 00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:36.639 then do that ship. Did you have insures and elixirs inside your seatpap Yeah, 890 00:56:36.679 --> 00:56:39.360 I've thought about that. Is the meta Quest Is that, like, 891 00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:44.360 what's this? What's still the most powerful VR out there? You're talking about 892 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:47.639 wireless? Yeah, it's I just want to know the most powerful one out 893 00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:51.880 there, the one we can go back to a computer, because your computer 894 00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:57.119 is the most powerful with the Medaquest like the mid platform, Like, so 895 00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.360 we've established it obviously has to be hooked up to your computer for the most 896 00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:01.960 powerful VR. Okay, feel you know in that case, mata Quest three 897 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:07.280 with the wireless over the six gigahertz has been fantastic. It's been so good 898 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:09.239 and if you have trouble with that connection, you can always see the direct 899 00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:12.760 link cable things. So, like, honestly, the meta Quest three is 900 00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:15.920 without a doubt the best I've used. Yeah, I mean, you're gonna 901 00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:21.719 get better resolution and a few other very expensive headsets, but like what takes 902 00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:23.559 good it's good enough for me. We are at a point where it's like 903 00:57:23.920 --> 00:57:28.880 everything is good enough. The tracking is good enough, the software to understand, 904 00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:30.480 Yeah there's a okay, sure, there's a bean bag in the area 905 00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:34.719 that I that I marked off, but let's just be chill about that. 906 00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:37.280 Let me fucking lay in the bean bag and keep everything working. And it 907 00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:40.199 just keeps working and then the resolution is strong enough so you don't get the 908 00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:44.920 screen door effect, so you can actually watch an HD movie or play a 909 00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:49.280 game and it's not going to be distracting. The one problem is in in 910 00:57:50.079 --> 00:57:52.960 Star Wars, and I think this happens in any game that you're playing Eastern 911 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:57.679 Steamlink. If the pointer turns off, it goes into sleep mode. It 912 00:57:57.719 --> 00:58:00.960 turns your headset into the mouse cursor. So when I move around now and 913 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:04.239 the mouse is like looking around, and it's like very distracting. So I 914 00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:06.159 have to like kind of turn that off every a little bit. And apparently 915 00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:08.599 there's no solution for that, so there's still some caveats. But if you're 916 00:58:08.599 --> 00:58:12.000 looking to get in a VR right now, I really do recommend the Meta 917 00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:15.679 Quest three. It's very good. Yeah, people really seem to like they're 918 00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:21.039 hot on this big screen. Oh yeah, that's that's what we're using. 919 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:24.079 That's how I stumbled on to lead a battle Angel. There's also people can 920 00:58:24.119 --> 00:58:29.960 host public rooms. Yeah, and don't accidentally walk into the public rooms. 921 00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:35.440 Well yeah, I mean if you want one there Because I caught the last 922 00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:38.800 thirty minutes of Leave the World Behind that new Julia Roberts movie on Netflix. 923 00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:42.440 I went into one of those rooms and that was there, and I'm just 924 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:45.000 like, I had no idea what this movie was, but I got I 925 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:47.639 got an Ethan Hawk vibe. I'm like, I think Ethan Hawk's going to 926 00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:51.039 be in the next scene, and then he wasn't, but he was in 927 00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:58.079 the scene after that. Yeah. Is Big Screen an app or future? 928 00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:01.519 Okay? So oh, I thought you meant the hardware. No, No, 929 00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:05.519 big Screen VR is an app you can get through all the vrs. 930 00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:08.079 Okay, because there is a VR headset called big Screen. Oh they probably 931 00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:10.280 make I think they make their own right, Okay, yeah, they make 932 00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:14.880 them. Yeah, that's right. Yes, I saw them talking about that 933 00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:15.719 in the app. When you load up the app, they have a thing. 934 00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:19.360 But yeah, that's pretty It's probably pretty good. Yeah. My only 935 00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:23.000 uh, the only delta I'd say is when you're in a scout I swear 936 00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:27.320 to god. Uh, if you're in a dimly lit room and you're trying 937 00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:30.280 to use the hand tracking to point to stuff you accident you occasionally will click 938 00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:35.800 on accidental rooms that you don't mean to walk into, and then some uh, 939 00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:40.880 some questionable audio pops up and then you you you suddenly accidentally start watching 940 00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:45.480 something with a bunch of other people in everyone else in the room. Yeah 941 00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:49.199 yeah yeah, and then you have to panically rip off the VR helmet and 942 00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:53.159 then your seepet machine and go confess in church. Yeah yeah, well I 943 00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:57.599 mean the church part. That's that's a virtual confession. Yeah, virtual church. 944 00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:01.320 You go to a different app to launch. Yo, I'm sorry, 945 01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:05.719 but we could. Verch dot org is like, if it's not a thing, 946 01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:12.880 we need to get this episode VICH or dirty JPEGs. God, pretty 947 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.360 good. Verch dot org for me is like, I think how we're gonna 948 01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:20.960 raise our Alex. But if you're still listening to the podcast, can you 949 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:24.400 do a cover of take Hosiers Take me to Church? But instead of take 950 01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:30.800 me to church, just go take me to VICH? Please take me to 951 01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:34.800 Did he text you too during this podcast? Because he also texted me? 952 01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:38.000 And now I feel offended? Alex? What are you doing? You text 953 01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:42.639 everyone when we do the podcast? What is happening? Why? Why don't 954 01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:47.280 you just make a group chat Alex? Day time you're in this discord? 955 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:51.639 Alex? Anyway, you know what he wrote me? He's like, I'm 956 01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:55.880 not going to tell you. Second thought, no, never mind, he 957 01:00:57.280 --> 01:01:00.360 just sent me a string of numbers. That was my only disconcerting Anyway, 958 01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:05.599 We're gonna go take a quick bricky break and we'll be back with some video 959 01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:10.880 game news. Fuck you, No one knows what is real anymore. No 960 01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:15.119 one knows what is fake. Uh. That was a fantastic demonstration of the 961 01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:20.000 abdominable muscles. Dan Reiker, thank you, Thank you, Jeff Grab It's 962 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:30.320 time for the news. This is a news heard the show rch. Yeah, 963 01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:35.079 we got a yeah, welcome to Verirch. Let us pray on a 964 01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:42.239 lot of news here, mostly this Insomniac hack. Oh my god, they 965 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:45.800 got fucking hack to hell. I mean so, a ransomware group previously threatened 966 01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:51.880 PlayStations Insomniac Games. They claim to have a lot of material. They proved 967 01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:53.679 that, and then they said they were going to either put it out publicly 968 01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:59.199 or auction it off. This is a crime. A lot of crimes happened 969 01:01:59.239 --> 01:02:02.840 here. They apparently hint their hinting that they did actually end up auctioning off 970 01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:07.199 two percent of the materials. The rest of the one point three million files 971 01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:13.639 have been uploaded online amounted to one point six seven terabytes of data. On 972 01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:19.039 the dark web of like unreleased game assets and suffered. So okay, so 973 01:02:19.400 --> 01:02:22.840 yeah, so let's talk about this real quick. We're going to talk about 974 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:24.199 some of the things that are in this hack. It is a hack. 975 01:02:24.599 --> 01:02:28.679 There are like you go online right now. I did. I saw the 976 01:02:28.679 --> 01:02:34.920 footage of early gameplay, footage of Wolverine, early animation tests, things like 977 01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:37.039 that, there's a you know, if you look in this dock here, 978 01:02:37.079 --> 01:02:42.199 I post some stuff for our purposes of like of the the name of the 979 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:44.679 new Venom game, or at least the name as it is right now, 980 01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:46.920 and there's a Venom game. We're going to talk about this stuff. It's 981 01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:50.920 news. We can't go around this. But again, it's hacked the source. 982 01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:53.960 It does make this a little bit questionable, but it's out there. 983 01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:58.639 It's public data or public information. We're going to discuss it. I'm not 984 01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:00.440 going to like point people to where it's where they can go find the early 985 01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:05.679 animation test. Beyond saying that it's out there, it doesn't really serve much 986 01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:08.360 much of a purpose to see those things because it's so early. At very 987 01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:10.800 least I watched the animation test and you could tell like, oh, this 988 01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:15.639 is a team having fun making stuff for their coworkers, and then it's very 989 01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:16.440 easy to be like, man, I feel bad that all this stuff is 990 01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:22.239 out there because they was clearly never intended to be out correct. WHOA, 991 01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:24.119 so is this like I'm looking at like the actual flow of a game and 992 01:03:24.159 --> 01:03:28.760 like boss fights and like that level of so yes, so yeah, so 993 01:03:28.800 --> 01:03:34.159 there's some information about Wolverine. Again, the data that is probably worthy of 994 01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:36.880 discussing here. It is going to come out in twenty twenty six, is 995 01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:39.400 what they're aiming for. They're in the middle of developing it now. Before 996 01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:44.320 that, though, they will have another game, Venom is going to be 997 01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:49.199 coming that's going to be a standalone eight to ten hour experience that they're planning 998 01:03:49.239 --> 01:03:51.119 to put out. And again, this is all this stuff could change. 999 01:03:51.199 --> 01:03:52.920 This is as it is internally, and who knows actually when these documents are 1000 01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:55.679 from some of this stuff could already be out of date. This is where 1001 01:03:55.679 --> 01:04:00.119 it's like hazardous to talk about some of these things. Yeah, but you 1002 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:02.119 know, if you're looking at like the the at one point the roadmap did 1003 01:04:02.119 --> 01:04:09.559 include Spider Man two and then Wolverine Spider Man three, and then they're gonna 1004 01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:12.440 make some X Men games. Down the line, and then they're planning new 1005 01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:16.480 ips in like twenty thirty one and twenty thirty five. That's how far into 1006 01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:23.639 the future they are planning. Right now is granular detail of like business deals 1007 01:04:23.679 --> 01:04:27.559 and stuff too. That's so, yes, so we do have exactly I'm 1008 01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:30.119 going to make this big so it's easier for me to read. Yeah, 1009 01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:34.559 So they talk about getting the X Men license and how much that that costs. 1010 01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:38.480 Like here, like this is where it's like actually valuable because it helps 1011 01:04:38.519 --> 01:04:42.280 us better understand how the industry works. For example, the exclusivity deal, 1012 01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:45.840 where it's like, okay, between now December thirty first, twenty thirty five, 1013 01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:49.000 Marvel cannot release or announce any X Men games on console, PC and 1014 01:04:49.079 --> 01:04:54.440 streaming, or use X Men characters as a competitive advantage in a game for 1015 01:04:54.480 --> 01:04:58.920 example, play as Wolverine and Ultimate Alliance exclusively on Xbox. X Men characters 1016 01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:02.000 can appear in multi family Marvel games like Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy. 1017 01:05:02.199 --> 01:05:05.400 So that might date when this happened when the deal went through, because those 1018 01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:09.639 games are now pretty old they wouldn't be of concern, but the time of 1019 01:05:09.679 --> 01:05:14.039 this writing it clearly was. But Marvel retains rights to children's games and certain 1020 01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:16.800 X Men games from the nineteen nineties, but they cannot release those or re 1021 01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:21.760 release them forty five days before or after the release of Insomniac x Men games. 1022 01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:25.960 So it's like a good look at how these deals actually get put together. 1023 01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:32.760 Yeah, this feels so like it feels dirty looking at all this time, 1024 01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:38.039 isn't it. Yeah, so I don't see anything. Yeah, exactly 1025 01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:40.679 all. You said that some of it was being held for ransom. Is 1026 01:05:40.679 --> 01:05:43.400 it all out there or are they still like threatening, like, oh, 1027 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:45.639 we're gonna put out more stuff. I think that they said two percent of 1028 01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:50.199 the data was sold off that I don't know exactly what that was. That 1029 01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:55.639 the hackers did claim that they had personal information of people who worked in Insomniac. 1030 01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:58.480 None of that stuff is I haven't seen any of that stuff. I 1031 01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:01.880 haven't been looking for it either. It's probably out there, But yeah, 1032 01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:05.079 in terms of like what was sold off and what wasn't, my guess is 1033 01:06:05.280 --> 01:06:12.280 if something was sold off and it wasn't the personal information, the source codes 1034 01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.480 for these games would be valuable to the less scrupulous developers in some parts of 1035 01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:20.159 the world. That's happened before where developers in China have bought the source codes 1036 01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:24.599 of games that were hacked and then use that to make their games. The 1037 01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:27.159 big one I always remember is the same time, would like the Half Life 1038 01:06:27.159 --> 01:06:29.800 two source code? Did anything ever come of that? Where did people buy? 1039 01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:32.679 Did people use it? Or did that just delayed development? I think 1040 01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:35.760 it just delayed development, But I don't know. I've looked into that a 1041 01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:39.559 little bit before and I had the same question, and I couldn't find any 1042 01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:42.760 exact thing that might have been. But the world's very different now at this 1043 01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:45.360 point. It's so much easier to make a game. Someone could take that 1044 01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:47.840 source code and maybe do something with it or maybe not. Who knows how 1045 01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:50.039 it's actually going to go through. Really, what this is going to do 1046 01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:54.599 is going to feel very bad for the people whose job was to keep this 1047 01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:58.840 stuff secret so they could build a marketing plan around it. And now it's 1048 01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:01.000 going to also put expectations on the developer because they're going to get asked about 1049 01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:05.679 their X Men game that they haven't officially announced or confirmed exists. So it's 1050 01:07:05.920 --> 01:07:09.679 that's going to be troublesome for them. But again, this information's public. 1051 01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:12.199 Let's try to put it in context. On this show, we'll try to 1052 01:07:12.239 --> 01:07:15.800 talk about it in a responsible way. This the Venom game. I think 1053 01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:19.039 we talked about it when we got when we all talked about Spider Man two, 1054 01:07:19.400 --> 01:07:21.840 like, they're probably going to do a Venom game as the next standalone, 1055 01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:26.840 expand alone game. That is what's happening. They're planning that as an 1056 01:07:26.880 --> 01:07:30.280 eight to ten hour standalone experience, twelve missions, that sort of thing. 1057 01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:33.159 Again, all that stuff could change, but it will. It will have 1058 01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:36.480 switchable Venom and the apparently the other Spider Man will still be in the game, 1059 01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:41.679 but it will be called Venom. So that's coming next year, which 1060 01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:46.360 I mean that seems like you just kind of right, like it's just like 1061 01:07:46.440 --> 01:07:49.840 pasted on in the way that Morales was. It's gonna be like Miles Morales. 1062 01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:51.679 Yeah, and I think that's a really good way of doing that, 1063 01:07:51.760 --> 01:07:55.920 right. Playing his Venoms is a lot of fun. So right, Miles 1064 01:07:55.920 --> 01:07:59.320 Marles feels like now he needs to be part of the core Spider Man games 1065 01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:01.440 going forward, So how do you expand it out? Yeah, Venoms is 1066 01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:04.199 right there, you do that. That's how I felt when I was finished 1067 01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:06.280 with that game. I'm like, I would like to play a standalone Venom 1068 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:11.440 game. So, yeah, that's pretty cool. There is some data about 1069 01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:15.199 like what they might do with Spider Man three. I think the budget for 1070 01:08:15.279 --> 01:08:19.359 this is maybe the most astounding thing in all of this data, or some 1071 01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:23.560 of the most astounding. For Spider Man three, they're planning as a two 1072 01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:27.880 part game at four hundred million dollars in terms of cost, that's how much 1073 01:08:27.880 --> 01:08:30.520 will cost to make it. There's some more data about like how much games 1074 01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:33.000 cost and how much they need to sell to recoup their costs. We'll get 1075 01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:36.199 into that in a little bit. But yeah, so they would release part 1076 01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:39.880 one, and again, all these things could change. Part one we're releasing 1077 01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:44.319 Holiday twenty twenty seven. Part two would release Holiday twenty eight of Spider Man 1078 01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:46.880 three and then and both of those would be fifty dollars each, or you 1079 01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:51.640 could buy always one like a combo pack in twenty twenty nine for sixty dollars. 1080 01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:55.000 So, and they also were gonna have a multiplayer thing. They have 1081 01:08:55.039 --> 01:08:58.680 a whole plan to do multiplayer games for all of these games going forward, 1082 01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:01.239 So to be a multiplayer a Spider Man or there's gonna be a multiplayer version 1083 01:09:01.239 --> 01:09:04.359 of the X Men games. Wolverine all that stuff's happening as well, So 1084 01:09:04.359 --> 01:09:11.800 they have a lot happening over there. Insomniac, insane, I don't jeff 1085 01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:16.199 Mike Grubb, Yes, Jeffrey, please sorry. I was the part of 1086 01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:18.600 Jeffer Mike. It's a really weird thing to say, but now I'm afraid 1087 01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:24.079 you're gonna do it from now on, so I should say anything. Has 1088 01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:30.039 there ever been anything this granularly leaked? Yeah? I mean I don't think 1089 01:09:30.119 --> 01:09:33.159 this is notable, not for data that is so current and future looking. 1090 01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:39.520 The Nintendo gigaleak is massive. It's has so much data that people are still 1091 01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:42.359 going through it today. It's been out for years. People are still coming 1092 01:09:42.359 --> 01:09:46.159 through it and finding stuff. But that was like Nintendo documents going back for 1093 01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:48.920 decades. Uh, and so people are like picking up things, Oh, 1094 01:09:48.920 --> 01:09:51.319 this is what happened with that game, and here's something that got mentioned there. 1095 01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:56.159 Uh. This is like uh, the plans, And it's not just 1096 01:09:56.159 --> 01:09:59.720 for insomnment. There's data here on like what's happening inside Gorilla a little bit, 1097 01:09:59.760 --> 01:10:01.520 and how PlayStation thinks about things and things like that. So I don't 1098 01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:06.840 think there's ever been a hack quite this comprehensive for current and future looking information. 1099 01:10:08.239 --> 01:10:11.239 Wait, so the Nintendo Giggleague theme missed that being huge? Was that 1100 01:10:11.319 --> 01:10:15.079 like this level of like announcing future games and asktal Again, there were some 1101 01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:17.039 of that stuff, but mostly it was like data about oh, how they 1102 01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:20.439 made Super Mario Sunshine and stuff like that. There's all kinds of stuff in 1103 01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:26.359 there, though, Okay, historically valuable stuff that actually would have been like, 1104 01:10:26.399 --> 01:10:28.760 it's good to know, but again it's a hack. That was a 1105 01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:31.119 hack as well, I believe, and so it's like illegally sourced, which 1106 01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:35.720 is always a problem when you're trying to cover these things. When Insomnia looks 1107 01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:38.920 at that, how it's when it's making its games, like it's like, 1108 01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:41.159 okay, how much revenue are we going to make? Their planning to make 1109 01:10:41.199 --> 01:10:45.479 one point seven billion dollars in revenue from let's see here six games. That's 1110 01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:48.520 Miles Morales, Spider Man one, remastered, Ratchet and Clank, Spider Man 1111 01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:53.880 two, Spider Man three, and Wolverine. People are really looking at Ratchet 1112 01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:57.359 and Clank here because it lost eight million dollars according to this chart. But 1113 01:10:57.399 --> 01:11:00.159 it's like hard to know if that was a projection or actually how much it 1114 01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:02.840 lost in terms of like because we can't date this this information. So again 1115 01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:06.279 it's like if you put this in context, because what else is on here, 1116 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:10.359 Spider Man three, Wolverine games that haven't come out yet, So it 1117 01:11:10.359 --> 01:11:13.359 feels like all of these are projections. But they do list like how much 1118 01:11:13.399 --> 01:11:16.760 games need to sell in order to break even. Miles Morales needed sell three 1119 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:19.920 million copies, did way better than that. Spider Man two needs to do 1120 01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:23.399 five point five, it'll do better than that. Wolverring needs to do to 1121 01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:28.079 do for five, but like that's the the scale at which PlayStation studios are 1122 01:11:28.079 --> 01:11:30.399 working. These games need to sell five million copies or more to break even. 1123 01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:34.319 It's just so nuts that like these are all just like like this is 1124 01:11:34.359 --> 01:11:36.880 not a very complicated chart, do you know what I mean? Like, 1125 01:11:38.079 --> 01:11:41.800 yeah, I find it's something, but it's not peculiar. It's just very 1126 01:11:41.840 --> 01:11:46.039 interesting. Like this is just like a very simple chart with very simple numbers 1127 01:11:46.079 --> 01:11:50.600 on it, and it's there's really not there's no like a method to the 1128 01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:53.840 madness really, right, I mean, this chart is the kind of thing 1129 01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:57.000 you hand to someone at the very tippy top, right. This is not 1130 01:11:57.159 --> 01:12:01.079 for the actual finance personal act. This is Zmila Games This is like the 1131 01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:08.600 simplified version of how they're making their decisions. They talk a little bit about 1132 01:12:08.680 --> 01:12:13.840 like what PlayStation thinks about Microsoft acquiring Activision. They said, it's elite frog 1133 01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:16.760 strategy, and this is data from PlayStation, not just from Insomniac. It 1134 01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:21.359 says Activision provides incredible strategic value across live service games, scale and mobile and 1135 01:12:21.439 --> 01:12:26.479 PC storefront with battle dot net. In addition, Microsoft is building a mobile 1136 01:12:26.479 --> 01:12:29.039 game store to compete with Apple and Google, and so this is how the 1137 01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:33.279 PlayStation views the threat. They also have a lot of information here about like 1138 01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:39.000 how they're worried about Call of Duty and how the shift of Microsoft taking that 1139 01:12:39.039 --> 01:12:42.520 over will affect things. But it's stuff they've talked about in so many terms 1140 01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:44.760 before, but now we get a little bit more information about how they think 1141 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:49.479 about it. They also are worried about the best way to frame and present 1142 01:12:49.640 --> 01:12:55.920 their subscription service. They said it's an elusive perfect game subscription. Trying to 1143 01:12:55.920 --> 01:12:59.039 figure out what this actually looks like. They want to have premium content, 1144 01:12:59.840 --> 01:13:03.079 and they want to have a unified sort of presence across mobile, PC and 1145 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:06.880 console, but they also are worried about how these things are going to impact 1146 01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:11.159 the sales of their premium games. That's their biggest concern still, and they 1147 01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:14.479 don't really know how to solve that when they're positioning themselves up against game Pass. 1148 01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:18.760 These are things they still talk about in these in this content mostly though, 1149 01:13:18.760 --> 01:13:23.319 it's like, it's interesting to figure out, Hey, okay, Insomniac 1150 01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:26.960 is thinking ten years ahead of time and where we'll talk about the next Ratchet 1151 01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:30.760 and Clank game that is like twenty twenty nine, but they're already planning it 1152 01:13:30.880 --> 01:13:33.920 right now today, and that is six years in the future, and then 1153 01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:39.159 their new IP starts in twenty thirty one. That's how long it takes to 1154 01:13:39.159 --> 01:13:42.760 start planning a game. These days, you are thinking almost a full decade 1155 01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:45.039 ahead of time. And for Insomniac, you're like, I believe they can 1156 01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:48.520 execute on this. But that's a well managed, well organized studio. Imagine 1157 01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:51.680 what it must be like at a studio that has a little bit more drama 1158 01:13:51.720 --> 01:13:56.760 happening internally, and you're not Insomniac that's had three or four great hits in 1159 01:13:56.800 --> 01:13:59.479 a row. It's got to be a little bit it's got to be a 1160 01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:02.640 lot more challenge, and I bet it's still challenging for Insomniac as well. 1161 01:14:03.079 --> 01:14:06.159 Who knows what's gonna happen as a result of these hacks. Who knows what's 1162 01:14:06.199 --> 01:14:10.199 if they're gonna change things up because this stuff is public now, but a 1163 01:14:10.239 --> 01:14:12.800 lot of these things they're committed to. We're definitely gonna get X Men games 1164 01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:16.119 from them. How do you guys feel about like more than a decade straight 1165 01:14:16.199 --> 01:14:20.359 of basically Marvel games and then a Ratchet and Clay game from Insomniac. It's 1166 01:14:20.399 --> 01:14:25.680 wild to see how things have swayed back into license ip right, Like I 1167 01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:28.800 feel like that's in a hard, hard way, big distaste for like, 1168 01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:31.640 oh, this is a shitty licensed Marvel game, Disney game, et cetera. 1169 01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:38.239 But then to see those games kind of being major tent poles specifically for 1170 01:14:38.359 --> 01:14:43.960 Sony, right, like Spider Man is bread and butter and it's hardcore associated 1171 01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:46.920 with Sony and PlayStation In my mind, now, yeah, I don't think 1172 01:14:47.079 --> 01:14:51.199 I don't think it's a one to one comparison. But remember that meme of 1173 01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:58.279 like the Marvel the MCU phase like three thing where like you see movies into 1174 01:14:58.319 --> 01:15:00.199 like the twenty forties and you're just like, what the fuck they're gonna make 1175 01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:05.640 eighteen Doctor Strangers, like, and my point being that they're not the same 1176 01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:09.159 because it's much easier to make a movie than it is a video game or 1177 01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:11.760 a triple a video game like this, Like without a doubt, Yes, 1178 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:16.399 that is an objective truth. I don't know. But with that said, 1179 01:15:16.439 --> 01:15:21.159 like, the planning for games has to be much more involved and conscious of, 1180 01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:25.720 like your time, because of how long development does take. So I 1181 01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:30.159 do wonder if like any of this would change. Obviously, when you look 1182 01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:34.439 at that MCU meme, there's dozens of things that are just not happening anymore, 1183 01:15:34.479 --> 01:15:39.840 right, Like things go and change and they move around. At the 1184 01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:43.079 same time, there's you know, there's only like ten games here, right 1185 01:15:43.439 --> 01:15:45.000 because of how long it takes to make a video game. So you gotta 1186 01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:48.640 imagine like starts spreading out to like we like, game after game from them 1187 01:15:48.720 --> 01:15:50.920 a couple years in a row. What turns out that's not going to last 1188 01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:56.960 forever? Right exactly? Uh, It's it's wild. It's absolutely wild. 1189 01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:00.720 I just feel so bad for everyone in it, Insomniac and like that. 1190 01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:08.039 I'm not advocating for cyber attacks on anyone, but why Insomniac. Yeah, 1191 01:16:09.640 --> 01:16:13.680 there's any reason that I, you know, I don't know. I also 1192 01:16:14.680 --> 01:16:20.439 maybe I'm foolishly cautiously optimistic. I don't know. Again, like obviously there's 1193 01:16:20.439 --> 01:16:28.880 compromises here that cannot be unseen and cannot be undone. I think I hope 1194 01:16:29.000 --> 01:16:32.920 that ultimately the the end is sort of like gross of it all doesn't change 1195 01:16:33.000 --> 01:16:36.920 the sort of outcome of like how things would go. I think you could 1196 01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:41.840 say probably something similar about like something like that GTA six trailer getting leaked or 1197 01:16:41.960 --> 01:16:45.039 like, sure, I'm not sure how much that actually does move the needle, 1198 01:16:46.760 --> 01:16:51.159 And I hope, you know, Insomniac experiences a similar sort of non 1199 01:16:51.239 --> 01:16:57.479 turbulent future with this. But man, that's it's it's bummer. Yeah, 1200 01:16:57.920 --> 01:17:00.840 I also feel bad for the studio. It's it's going to cause a lot 1201 01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:04.960 of headaches, especially at the end of the year. Yeah, getting hacked 1202 01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:11.359 must be a terrible experience. I don't know the final the final couple of 1203 01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:15.680 things here. If we're looking at like costs to make a Getting Spider Man 1204 01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:18.279 two cost three hundred and fifteen million dollars. Now, I don't know if 1205 01:17:18.319 --> 01:17:23.000 that's just development costs and also marketing, but even if it is, it's 1206 01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:26.680 like, that is a huge number. This is why we are getting what 1207 01:17:26.720 --> 01:17:30.359 we are getting from game developers and publishers these days, because you look at 1208 01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:32.079 how much it costs to make a game that can perform as well as Spider 1209 01:17:32.119 --> 01:17:35.319 Man two, and you're like, Okay, we're gonna have to spend two 1210 01:17:35.399 --> 01:17:39.800 hundred to three hundred and fifteen million dollars And they're planning to spend three hundred 1211 01:17:39.800 --> 01:17:42.119 and eighty five million dollars making Spider Man three. By the way, they 1212 01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:45.800 have that listed, so it's going to be even more. And you look 1213 01:17:45.800 --> 01:17:47.399 at that number, you're like, Okay, how much money on top of 1214 01:17:47.399 --> 01:17:51.720 that would it cost to turn a new IP into something that is as valuable 1215 01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:55.840 and as capable of selling well as Spider Man? And they look at the 1216 01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:59.680 numbers and it just doesn't make sense. So if you are getting a little 1217 01:17:59.680 --> 01:18:01.520 bit sick of big ips and you want these studios that you love to go 1218 01:18:01.560 --> 01:18:05.319 back to making original ips, it might be time to look at it and 1219 01:18:05.319 --> 01:18:10.399 be like, that seems more unlikely than ever. They are sure they're planning 1220 01:18:10.399 --> 01:18:14.079 to make a new IP in the twenty thirties, like yeah forever, which 1221 01:18:14.159 --> 01:18:18.760 is that? Yeah, that could change you know, I do think games 1222 01:18:18.840 --> 01:18:24.119 have the advantage of the space between right. I do think where like you 1223 01:18:24.159 --> 01:18:28.319 are again back to that MCU thing where you are you know, it happened 1224 01:18:28.399 --> 01:18:31.760 right like there was a Marvel overload, where like you know, we experienced 1225 01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:39.560 that fatigue. The gap in between games is time allows for there to be 1226 01:18:40.319 --> 01:18:46.239 a recharged interest. I think, yeah, but this it's just I guess 1227 01:18:46.279 --> 01:18:50.680 at the end of the day, the the the budgets don't surprise me really, 1228 01:18:50.760 --> 01:18:54.319 I think, like, I mean, we had the sense that they 1229 01:18:54.319 --> 01:18:56.960 were above two hundred million for a while. Now the fact that they're over 1230 01:18:57.000 --> 01:19:00.279 three hundred million after years after hearing two hundred million, of course they are 1231 01:19:00.399 --> 01:19:02.880 sure, yeah, yeah. The good news for Sony is they're pretty good 1232 01:19:02.880 --> 01:19:05.159 at picking the winners and the ones that are going to make them back their 1233 01:19:05.199 --> 01:19:10.039 money. You know, God of War and Last of Us. Those games 1234 01:19:10.039 --> 01:19:13.359 also are two hundred, two hundred and fifty million dollar projects. And sure 1235 01:19:13.359 --> 01:19:16.439 they aren't as profitable as Something's because they are so expensive, but they're still 1236 01:19:16.560 --> 01:19:20.680 very profitable. It seems like, yeah, based on these results, and 1237 01:19:20.720 --> 01:19:29.560 I totally understand people's disposition to insomniac being quote unquote stuck making license games. 1238 01:19:29.560 --> 01:19:31.800 But the thing is, I if it were any other studio, I trust 1239 01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:36.119 Insomniac the most to flip it around and make something amazing out of it. 1240 01:19:36.520 --> 01:19:41.439 You know, back while you've talked about MCU fatigue and I've beat this drama 1241 01:19:41.479 --> 01:19:45.520 bunch, that giant fan of Marvel and all that jazz. The movies have 1242 01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:49.239 absolutely bored me over the last couple of years, you know, like I 1243 01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:54.840 didn't think I'd ever experienced a fatigue, and I was really latching onto all 1244 01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:58.560 those Disney Plus shows. But I can't bring myself to watch Secret Invasion. 1245 01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:02.680 Didn't even I didn't finish a Loki season two. I didn't start it. 1246 01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:06.279 Don't quite care for any of the upcoming releases. But when it's like a 1247 01:20:06.319 --> 01:20:11.239 Marvel game from Insomniac, you know, I want to be like day one, 1248 01:20:12.600 --> 01:20:15.159 especially if you know they might feature my you know, the best X 1249 01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:19.720 Men soon, you know, I think they make them. I mean, 1250 01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:23.600 listen, if they're making the Wolverine game, then you make side Clops his 1251 01:20:23.720 --> 01:20:28.600 sort of foil, like the friend that is also the rival in the X 1252 01:20:28.640 --> 01:20:30.920 Men games. I think that's the way to do it, especially since apparently 1253 01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:35.439 this is the one small, very tiny spoiler that shouldn't be surprising anyone. 1254 01:20:35.520 --> 01:20:39.000 Jean Gray is going to be a big part of the Wolverine game. Woo. 1255 01:20:39.960 --> 01:20:43.399 So you take that into the X Men games and yeah, right there, 1256 01:20:43.399 --> 01:20:45.920 you got to have your love triangle ready to go. The other slide 1257 01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:50.239 here where they talk about their multiplayer ambitions. They according to this chart, 1258 01:20:50.319 --> 01:20:55.760 they've been working on their multiplayer architecture for the last three years, and the 1259 01:20:55.760 --> 01:21:00.199 intention is in twenty twenty four to launch spider Man two Online, and then 1260 01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:04.640 in twenty twenty six they will have Wolverine Online, and then in twenty twenty 1261 01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:08.600 eight and this is like that will be like so multiplayer one point oh will 1262 01:21:08.600 --> 01:21:11.760 be spider Man two Online, then they will update that with multi multiplayer two 1263 01:21:11.760 --> 01:21:15.760 point zero in Wolverine Online, and then they will have a multiplayer three point 1264 01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:18.399 zero. No details about what that means. I guess we can imagine multiplayer 1265 01:21:18.399 --> 01:21:24.359 three point zero with x Men Online in twenty twenty eight. So they are 1266 01:21:25.039 --> 01:21:30.960 their plan is make these big tent pole blockbuster games and then their multiplayer slash 1267 01:21:30.640 --> 01:21:36.359 live service question Mark games will be multiplayer modes in these massive games. Now 1268 01:21:38.159 --> 01:21:40.600 we were just talking about Hey, a Spider Verse game. This seems like 1269 01:21:40.680 --> 01:21:42.920 Spider Verse was probably just a code name for this stuff. I mean, 1270 01:21:42.960 --> 01:21:46.840 they do have like a Spider Man the Great Web. Then here in some 1271 01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:50.520 of the documentation exactly what that is, I'm not sure, but yeah, 1272 01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:53.560 it seems like this is going to be Their big plan is to have these 1273 01:21:53.560 --> 01:21:57.399 two forks of the big tenpole games, and then multiplayer modes for those games 1274 01:21:57.640 --> 01:22:01.760 as updates that come out later. So all right, I don't know any 1275 01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:05.520 other thoughts on Insomniac before we move on. Guys, can you imagine planning 1276 01:22:05.600 --> 01:22:10.760 your life ten years ahead of time? I can't even plan two days forward 1277 01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:14.119 or backward? Amen? Brother? Yeah, yeah, I don't like seeing 1278 01:22:14.159 --> 01:22:19.159 these things like printed anywhere. That's upsetting. Please make it go away. 1279 01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:25.159 All right? Hey, Suicide Suicide Squad spoilers are out there, and I 1280 01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:29.199 saw some people getting upset about this. But guess what the Suicide Squad spoilers 1281 01:22:29.199 --> 01:22:32.079 are for the subtitle being killed the Justice League. Guess who dies in the 1282 01:22:32.079 --> 01:22:38.000 game the spoilers. So yeah, avoid them. But if you think, 1283 01:22:38.079 --> 01:22:40.399 hey, oh my god, Batman dies in this game, that's such a 1284 01:22:40.399 --> 01:22:44.119 spoiler, I bet there's more to the story than that that stuff like audio 1285 01:22:44.279 --> 01:22:47.079 and some clips are getting out there of these moments, So if you want 1286 01:22:47.079 --> 01:22:50.600 to avoid how they happen, that do that. And then there is no 1287 01:22:50.640 --> 01:22:54.800 information about like, oh, well, Batman's probably gonna come back or maybe 1288 01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:58.439 you won't. I don't know, but the full story's not out there. 1289 01:22:58.479 --> 01:23:00.920 So yeah, if you want to avoid some spoiler, they're out there, 1290 01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:05.119 but avoided. In the words of the great timre Hussein, grow Up, 1291 01:23:05.520 --> 01:23:11.399 Grow Up Indeed. Of City and co founder has talked about getting rejected from 1292 01:23:11.399 --> 01:23:16.039 when he pitched Elder Scrolls spinoffs to Bethesda. Of Cidyan has proposed multiple times 1293 01:23:16.039 --> 01:23:19.680 to develop more Fallout games and the Elder scroll spinoffs, but were rejected by 1294 01:23:19.720 --> 01:23:24.880 Bethesda. The last mainline Fallout game was twenty fifteens Fallout four, and the 1295 01:23:24.880 --> 01:23:29.479 most recent non mobile series entry was twenty eight teens online multiplayer title Fallout seventy 1296 01:23:29.479 --> 01:23:31.800 six. Todd Howard said in twenty twenty one that he would be hesitant to 1297 01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:36.760 outsource Fallout five. Howard reiterated last year that Fallout five remained behind Elder Scroll 1298 01:23:36.800 --> 01:23:42.079 six in the studio's production queue, but apparently Bubsidian was like, hey, 1299 01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:44.479 we'll do that. We'll take that on. In the past, this hasn't 1300 01:23:44.479 --> 01:23:45.840 happened recently, but in the past they were like, hey, we'll pitch 1301 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:49.199 this, We'll do this within the Elder Scrolls or Fallout, and it's been 1302 01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:53.720 very hard to get. It's seemingly Todd Howard, but all Bethesda to be 1303 01:23:53.720 --> 01:23:57.119 like, we're okay with that. It seems especially true of the Elder Scrolls. 1304 01:23:59.119 --> 01:24:00.479 This doesn't make a ton of sense at a certain point, but that 1305 01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:02.640 is this going to have to let someone else make a Fallout or else. 1306 01:24:02.640 --> 01:24:05.960 We're not going to get a new Fallout game until like twenty forty, so 1307 01:24:06.720 --> 01:24:11.079 I'm not exactly sure what they're thinking here. Obsidian seems like a good choice 1308 01:24:11.079 --> 01:24:15.920 for this, especially these days. That's a quality studio video footage vs. 1309 01:24:15.960 --> 01:24:19.880 Footage of Mario sixty four's two player modes showed up recently. This is from 1310 01:24:20.119 --> 01:24:25.319 a Space World show from nineteen ninety five, and it has a glimpse of 1311 01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:29.680 what looks like possibly Luigi or maybe just the color was shifting on a second 1312 01:24:29.680 --> 01:24:32.119 Mario character, but there were two Mario characters running around on the screen at 1313 01:24:32.119 --> 01:24:35.439 the same time. This is something that Mimotos had talked about being a part 1314 01:24:35.479 --> 01:24:39.800 of the game early on and then they removed. But you can actually see 1315 01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:42.880 a quick glimpse of this for the first time ever, and it's from a 1316 01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:47.119 video from what almost twenty eight years ago. Split screen or is it on 1317 01:24:47.159 --> 01:24:49.399 the name two Mario's on the screen at the same time. I would have 1318 01:24:49.439 --> 01:24:53.960 been fucked up, exactly. Fucked up is what I think, too, 1319 01:24:55.279 --> 01:24:58.960 Like is there like an invisible wall that happens or could Luigi go all? 1320 01:24:59.039 --> 01:25:00.720 We have to figure it out. There's problems. This is why probably why 1321 01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.319 they cut it right. They probably not have their solutions to all those issues. 1322 01:25:04.399 --> 01:25:06.640 That's also a game they made, and we mentioned this on Game Last 1323 01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:10.920 Mornings, but that's a game they made in like eighteen months, a year 1324 01:25:10.920 --> 01:25:14.439 and a half smow right here, So you're right. So it's like they 1325 01:25:14.439 --> 01:25:17.640 were probably like any sort of thing that presents a lot of problems that we 1326 01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:20.600 need to solve, fucking cut it, get it out of here. Let's 1327 01:25:20.640 --> 01:25:24.399 just focus on the stuff that's right in front of us that's going to make 1328 01:25:24.439 --> 01:25:27.960 this game the most fun right away. And thankfully they had that stuff figured 1329 01:25:27.960 --> 01:25:30.479 out. Great game. I don't I still don't know how two players in 1330 01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:33.760 a three d environment on the same screen happened. I was gonna ask y'all 1331 01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:38.720 because I'm not as well versed with Mario sixty four, but does that game 1332 01:25:39.159 --> 01:25:42.960 feel like it'd be okay with the second person? I mean, the only 1333 01:25:43.039 --> 01:25:45.880 things like I'm the person I've thought about it, but like em actually like 1334 01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:47.920 King Babom the first Star, Like you know, Luigi's over here, like 1335 01:25:47.920 --> 01:25:50.760 hey, King Bbom, and Mario's getting behind him and grabbing him instead of 1336 01:25:50.800 --> 01:25:54.199 having to do a weird flip or run around. You know, like there's 1337 01:25:54.279 --> 01:25:58.359 elements that could be fun. Like if they announced that some fucked up two 1338 01:25:58.359 --> 01:26:00.840 player Marius four is coming to switch on like tomorrow, I would absolutely jump 1339 01:26:00.880 --> 01:26:04.760 out there and even see it like Sandboxy fund too, we both get make 1340 01:26:04.840 --> 01:26:12.319 our own race or whatever and then not yeah exactly right away, race to 1341 01:26:12.359 --> 01:26:14.800 see who can get eight red coins first, Like okay, remember, there's 1342 01:26:14.800 --> 01:26:17.119 some things that could be fun there. Yeah, yeah, exactly. H 1343 01:26:17.399 --> 01:26:20.960 elder Ring DLC is possibly coming soon. According to a retail listing, elder 1344 01:26:21.039 --> 01:26:25.680 Ring's first expansion, Shadow of the urg Tree, could release in February. 1345 01:26:25.960 --> 01:26:30.199 The listing was uploaded by retailer data Blits and has since been pulled. However, 1346 01:26:30.239 --> 01:26:33.680 it included details of it upcoming elder Ring theme controller from thrust Master. 1347 01:26:34.159 --> 01:26:38.199 The controllers were said to be released in February twenty twenty four to two. 1348 01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:42.159 And this is a quote sync with the new Shadow of the Ur Tree expansion 1349 01:26:42.199 --> 01:26:47.920 release and elder Ring's second anniversary that normally, when these things get entered into 1350 01:26:47.960 --> 01:26:50.960 retail sites, it's easy to ignore because it's probably someoneho doesn't know what they're 1351 01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:56.199 talking about. But this seems more plausible just based on having that controller attached 1352 01:26:56.199 --> 01:26:59.560 to it and saying that the reason for the release timing was sinking with the 1353 01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:03.640 expansion, and also February seems a perfectly reasonable time to release an expansion for 1354 01:27:03.960 --> 01:27:08.000 elder Ring. I've been I've been waiting. Let's let's make it happen. 1355 01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:11.359 I'm too scared. I'm not ready to go back in that world. I'm 1356 01:27:11.399 --> 01:27:16.039 ready. I'm ready to take my life. Yeah, we haven't heard much 1357 01:27:16.039 --> 01:27:19.319 about Shadow of the ar Tree for a while since they announced it. I 1358 01:27:19.359 --> 01:27:23.239 thought it would showed up at the Kills, so if the fact that it 1359 01:27:23.239 --> 01:27:26.640 wasn't there does make me question this. But they could announce that dang and 1360 01:27:26.680 --> 01:27:29.279 release it a month later. Yeah, ever, it doesn't matter, it 1361 01:27:29.319 --> 01:27:30.880 does. It does not matter. They could still announce it and release it 1362 01:27:30.920 --> 01:27:36.359 in February. We'll see though. Last couple of stories here. Activision Blizzard 1363 01:27:36.359 --> 01:27:41.439 has to pay fifty more fifty four million dollars to settle its discrimination lawsuit. 1364 01:27:41.680 --> 01:27:45.399 Activision Bliter will pay that fifty four million dollars settlement to end a twenty twenty 1365 01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:49.000 one sex discrimination lawsuit. The publisher, which was acquired by Microsoft in October, 1366 01:27:49.399 --> 01:27:54.199 entered into an agreement with the California Civil Rights Department to settle the case, 1367 01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:58.840 which was related to claims of unequal compensation and promotion practices on the basis 1368 01:27:58.840 --> 01:28:01.199 of sex from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty, so just five years of a 1369 01:28:01.199 --> 01:28:05.640 little sex discrimination. Activision Blister will pay as much as forty six point seventy 1370 01:28:05.640 --> 01:28:11.600 five million of that money to female employees who claim they received in inequitable pay 1371 01:28:11.880 --> 01:28:15.359 during this period. Might sounds like a lot, it's really a slap on 1372 01:28:15.399 --> 01:28:19.119 the wrist. Not even that. If you look at like comparable cases, 1373 01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:25.000 Riot Studio that is half the size, has half the employees had to pay 1374 01:28:25.039 --> 01:28:27.840 twice as much. They had to pay one hundred million dollars, and there 1375 01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:30.479 was complaints about that not being enough. So fifty four million dollars for Activision 1376 01:28:30.520 --> 01:28:33.840 is a very small number. They basically got away with a speeding ticket here, 1377 01:28:34.359 --> 01:28:38.279 but hey, that's Bobbykottock's wholemo, always getting away with things. So 1378 01:28:38.560 --> 01:28:41.800 yeah, as part of this, they also said, oh, there's no 1379 01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:47.000 evidence of wrongdoing by Bobby Kottock or the board of directors. Sure, sure 1380 01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:49.880 there is, and that was part of the settlement agreement. So it was 1381 01:28:49.920 --> 01:28:55.479 like very important to Bobby Coottock that they said that. Ohly shit, Yeah, 1382 01:28:55.479 --> 01:28:58.840 it's it's pretty frustrating. This is one of the reasons to be optimistic 1383 01:28:58.840 --> 01:29:00.800 about the Microsoft takeovers, like maybe things will get a little bit better. 1384 01:29:01.319 --> 01:29:04.600 Bobby Kottock is out at the end of this year. Does that include drub 1385 01:29:04.920 --> 01:29:10.640 I don't know if you know former employees as well. Yes, it's anyone 1386 01:29:10.640 --> 01:29:13.920 that worked there during that period, and includes contractors as well, so not 1387 01:29:13.960 --> 01:29:17.199 just employees but also contractors. If you were a woman contracted to work at 1388 01:29:17.279 --> 01:29:21.680 Activision Blizzard from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty, there's a way to get some 1389 01:29:21.720 --> 01:29:26.079 of this money. If that's the case. Fifty four million is way too 1390 01:29:26.119 --> 01:29:29.159 low. Yes, exactly, it's going. Yeah, it's not going to 1391 01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:32.720 go very far at all. Let's see here. Max Pain voice actor James 1392 01:29:32.760 --> 01:29:36.479 occaffrey has passed away. James McCaffrey, renowned for his role as Max Pain 1393 01:29:36.600 --> 01:29:40.520 in the iconic gaming series, passed away at the age of sixty five. 1394 01:29:40.960 --> 01:29:44.319 McCaffrey, who lent his voice and likeness to the Max Pain character across three 1395 01:29:44.359 --> 01:29:47.800 games. That's mistyped, he wrote, just the Voice, reported lost his 1396 01:29:47.840 --> 01:29:51.880 battle with cancer on Sunday. Mcaffrey's talent extended to Remedies Game Control, where 1397 01:29:51.920 --> 01:29:57.720 he portrayed the Federal Bureau of Control Director Zachariah Trench. His performances have left 1398 01:29:57.760 --> 01:30:01.560 in enduring mark in the gaming community. Remedy also confirmed this and said they 1399 01:30:01.560 --> 01:30:05.520 were sorry to hear the news and wrote a really nice message about James McCaffrey. 1400 01:30:05.880 --> 01:30:11.119 McCaffrey was sixty five. Uh that does it for the news though, 1401 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:14.920 boys, So I'm hitting the show back over to you. Jan Oh boy, 1402 01:30:15.079 --> 01:30:18.439 what a what a doozy to end the news segment on Yeah, sorry 1403 01:30:18.439 --> 01:30:20.800 about that, but yeah, shout out to James McAffrey. Shout to James 1404 01:30:20.880 --> 01:30:27.319 McCaffrey. Go play Allen wake too and celebrate Hisson fantastic work. It's Alex 1405 01:30:27.359 --> 01:30:30.199 Casey does the voice of Alex Casey. Very good, very good, and 1406 01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:33.560 uh to his voice. You know what is that? It's not a moan? 1407 01:30:33.880 --> 01:30:39.279 Was it a growl? It's a growl, A growl, a growl? 1408 01:30:40.119 --> 01:30:44.399 Yeah like that? Where wow they got it? You get that vocal 1409 01:30:44.479 --> 01:30:49.800 fry? Yeah, it's the fry. Yeah. My feet bloody and what 1410 01:30:51.039 --> 01:30:57.479 all it's souring? Oh wait, I'm not finished. There you are and 1411 01:30:57.520 --> 01:31:01.000 there you are. Another break and we'll be back with some emails. After 1412 01:31:01.159 --> 01:31:06.079 a quick breaking break, go go take a one minute nap. Challenge starts 1413 01:31:06.159 --> 01:31:15.399 now. Wakey, wakey, It's time to read some emails. Please. 1414 01:31:15.960 --> 01:31:21.760 Emails for verch verch verch dot org now apparently leads to giant bomb dot com 1415 01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:28.640 slash chat. So welcome to our service. We're here today to read to 1416 01:31:28.720 --> 01:31:34.199 you emails. The electronic variety BombCast A Giant Bomb is the email address to 1417 01:31:34.199 --> 01:31:39.760 send your emails to. I appreciate every single email, whether or not you 1418 01:31:39.840 --> 01:31:43.279 sign us up for a spad list or not, or for whatever reason we're 1419 01:31:43.319 --> 01:31:49.199 still on or we've wound up on or still on a longerie email distribution thing. 1420 01:31:50.720 --> 01:31:56.600 So yeah, that's cool. I guess uh. First, love, 1421 01:31:56.680 --> 01:32:00.680 a good push up bra, a magic bra, whatever you want to call 1422 01:32:00.720 --> 01:32:05.359 it, A good Lacey number, a good Lacy number, A good Lacey 1423 01:32:05.439 --> 01:32:10.079 number reminds me. Never mind, I'm not going to finish that sentence. 1424 01:32:10.840 --> 01:32:15.159 First email comes from Reza, Hey, GB crew, merry xmus and Happy 1425 01:32:15.199 --> 01:32:19.079 New Year. Got some questions that needs an E needs an needs either and 1426 01:32:19.239 --> 01:32:24.560 I do or I don't. Number one, brushing teeth in the shower. 1427 01:32:26.279 --> 01:32:30.439 I don't. I do occasionally. Situational, right, yeah, situational. 1428 01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:33.560 Never have I done it ever? Really, I don't think it's that weird 1429 01:32:33.600 --> 01:32:35.840 the idea of it, but I don't think I've ever done it. I 1430 01:32:35.960 --> 01:32:41.199 just I get. I just don't understand why, Like are you is time 1431 01:32:41.399 --> 01:32:44.720 that much of a crunch. I don't think you're time. Yeah, Like 1432 01:32:45.039 --> 01:32:47.520 things, I shaved my head in the shower because then it's like, well, 1433 01:32:47.560 --> 01:32:50.399 the little hair things go into the train. There's like a functional reason 1434 01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:55.920 literally things. Yeah it's not even they're not even hair, they're just doubble, 1435 01:32:56.000 --> 01:32:58.880 you know. Yeah, yeah, but at least the shower makes the 1436 01:32:58.920 --> 01:33:02.800 cleanup make more sense. Get the toothbrushing. I don't really get the functional 1437 01:33:03.000 --> 01:33:06.119 part of it. Sometimes I just want to spit all over yourself. Yeah, 1438 01:33:06.439 --> 01:33:11.199 that's what I'm saying. Like there'd be no way that I wouldn't do 1439 01:33:11.279 --> 01:33:15.600 that and therefore would feel insane. I want to avoid that. That's why 1440 01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:17.279 I limit it. But yeah, sometimes you know what it is. It's 1441 01:33:17.319 --> 01:33:19.680 like when I'm like really tired, but I stole for some reason, feel 1442 01:33:19.800 --> 01:33:23.000 need to take a shower before bed because it was like a busy, long 1443 01:33:23.079 --> 01:33:25.239 day and I'm like, you know, I'll just get this ship out of 1444 01:33:25.239 --> 01:33:27.720 the way, clean my clean, my mouth, clean my body, get 1445 01:33:27.760 --> 01:33:30.000 the bed right away. It doesn't. It doesn't happen very frequently. It 1446 01:33:30.199 --> 01:33:34.319 seems like overkill it, you know, question on his list. But I 1447 01:33:35.359 --> 01:33:40.079 don't pee in the shower, and I feel like I'm the weird one out 1448 01:33:40.119 --> 01:33:44.960 now. I mean feel everywhere, man, Yeah, like no matter where 1449 01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:48.560 I'm going, I'm pissing. No. I think pissing in the shower is 1450 01:33:48.600 --> 01:33:55.840 fine because I also get activated by warm water, Like I can't not if 1451 01:33:55.840 --> 01:34:00.640 it's just like association of that place. We shouldn't have a bad news to 1452 01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:03.840 beer around backlark. I'm just saying no warm water, like that's the thing. 1453 01:34:03.880 --> 01:34:08.920 It makes everyone want to pee if you uh, if you're if you're 1454 01:34:08.960 --> 01:34:11.600 not pissing in the shower. If I'm not pissing in the shower, I'm 1455 01:34:11.680 --> 01:34:15.680 actively like holding it in and like I'm compromising the integrity of the shower. 1456 01:34:16.279 --> 01:34:19.800 So I don't want to do that at all. In defense of brushing your 1457 01:34:19.800 --> 01:34:24.800 teeth in the shower, sometimes you have to leave conditioner or shampoo in, 1458 01:34:25.399 --> 01:34:28.520 right, and maybe you very sudds up your body, so you got all 1459 01:34:28.520 --> 01:34:31.920 that time to kill of letting the conditioners set. I realized this is a 1460 01:34:31.960 --> 01:34:35.119 problem that somebody wouldn't I don't know that I do with the beard. I 1461 01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:38.479 put the conditioner in the beard first because bigger. Then I can just sit 1462 01:34:38.479 --> 01:34:41.279 in there the whole rest of the shower. Yeah sure, yeah, yeah, 1463 01:34:41.279 --> 01:34:45.159 sure all right. Number two, finishing the last bite of food for 1464 01:34:45.319 --> 01:34:48.760 your partners slash kids plate instead of throwing it away when they can't finish. 1465 01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:53.079 This is why I'm fat, Yes, this is this is why I'm chubby. 1466 01:34:53.439 --> 01:34:56.840 This is like fifteen pounds of my overweightness right here. Yeah. I'll 1467 01:34:57.000 --> 01:35:00.359 only do it if it's something I want, Like if it's just like if 1468 01:35:00.399 --> 01:35:03.520 it's something I don't want, I let it go. Sure, but like 1469 01:35:03.640 --> 01:35:06.239 yeah, I mean, i'd say half the time I'm grabbing. It's like, 1470 01:35:06.279 --> 01:35:09.640 for sure, the last three bites of their girl cheese sandwich, I 1471 01:35:09.720 --> 01:35:11.840 might not eat all, but I'll take a couple more bites of that. 1472 01:35:12.119 --> 01:35:15.159 Sometimes if there's something that looks real good, I'll take a big old jeff 1473 01:35:15.239 --> 01:35:18.520 bite out of it. You know. Here's the thing. Emmy will walk 1474 01:35:18.600 --> 01:35:21.279 up to me sometimes not even asking to me, like hey, finish this, 1475 01:35:21.319 --> 01:35:25.560 and then shoves a spoon into my mouth and suddenly I'm eating half a 1476 01:35:25.600 --> 01:35:28.239 bowl of rice, and I'm like, I'm looking at her. This is 1477 01:35:28.279 --> 01:35:31.039 why I can't. You're just you're just the garbage and sposal that that's what 1478 01:35:31.119 --> 01:35:35.079 she tells me, You're just the dumpster. She's like, all, my 1479 01:35:35.119 --> 01:35:40.199 little raccoon, eat the garbage guy. I'd rather drop this in you than 1480 01:35:40.279 --> 01:35:44.119 the trash. So here it is these terms of endearment I can't tell anymore. 1481 01:35:44.319 --> 01:35:45.560 Sometimes I don't know if she just doesn't want to learn how to use 1482 01:35:45.600 --> 01:35:51.479 the compost bin anyway. Number three sitting till the end of video game credits. 1483 01:35:51.840 --> 01:35:56.319 I do I do I do. I try to, but not always. 1484 01:35:56.600 --> 01:36:00.239 I'll do this speed thing. If they's I'm like, ah, all 1485 01:36:00.319 --> 01:36:04.159 right, yeah yeah, I'm respecting the devs, but faster, I'm letting 1486 01:36:04.159 --> 01:36:08.439 my eyes do all the word faster. Yeah. Ye. Number four, 1487 01:36:08.560 --> 01:36:13.199 Skipping dialogue when you've already read the subtitles. Yes, yes, I'll never 1488 01:36:13.239 --> 01:36:15.720 skip it before i've read it, but I will do a quick scan then 1489 01:36:15.720 --> 01:36:18.880 i'll skip. Yes, yeah, I skip it in like it took me. 1490 01:36:19.359 --> 01:36:23.800 It was like fifteen minutes before I was doing that all over Starfield, 1491 01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:26.399 and it's just like, everyone shut up. I don't care. I don't 1492 01:36:26.399 --> 01:36:28.720 care. I don't care every game, pretty much every game. If I'm 1493 01:36:28.760 --> 01:36:30.600 reading faster than they're talking, skip the next line, next line, next 1494 01:36:30.640 --> 01:36:33.840 line, unless I'm captivated by the scene. Yeah, I'm touring to my 1495 01:36:33.840 --> 01:36:36.720 middle year solid because like there's all those codex in the early games. It's 1496 01:36:36.760 --> 01:36:40.000 just like, man, I love everything they're saying, and I love the 1497 01:36:40.119 --> 01:36:45.720 voice acting, but it's like a lot, you know. Yeah. Yeah, 1498 01:36:45.760 --> 01:36:48.880 finally, do the smell test on food left on the counter overnight to 1499 01:36:48.880 --> 01:36:53.840 see if it's still good leaving food on the counter overnight. Yeah, I 1500 01:36:53.880 --> 01:36:56.840 do to all food I'll smell all food. I'll be like, is this 1501 01:36:56.880 --> 01:36:59.760 food bad? Yeah, you smell. Why are you leaving food on the 1502 01:36:59.760 --> 01:37:02.720 count overnight? It depends on what we're talking about. I don't think it's 1503 01:37:02.800 --> 01:37:09.399 left uncovered, right. You wouldn't leave a slice of leaving uncovered overnight. 1504 01:37:09.560 --> 01:37:13.760 You'd put like I'm heard the questions applying here. I think the question I 1505 01:37:13.800 --> 01:37:16.000 was asking if you have to slice of pizza out overnight, I would not 1506 01:37:16.079 --> 01:37:19.279 trust the smell test to be able to smell that level of that pizza is 1507 01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:24.840 good over pizza is gonna be fine overnight anyway, the fridge, I'm with 1508 01:37:25.000 --> 01:37:27.159 you. Put in its foil, wrap it up, put it in the 1509 01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:31.680 fridge. You're gonna get lives near place is gonna smell totally for the third 1510 01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:34.880 time, we agree. But a kid my family would keep it in the 1511 01:37:34.920 --> 01:37:39.640 oven overnight, and I'm like, fine, it's not it's not. But 1512 01:37:40.119 --> 01:37:42.880 yeah I did it and that was fine. You're right, Maybe that's fine 1513 01:37:42.880 --> 01:37:45.880 because it was never a problem for us. What is the oven if not 1514 01:37:45.920 --> 01:37:48.960 another closet when it's not on I mean, come on, hey, storage 1515 01:37:49.000 --> 01:37:54.520 baby, talking about leftover food. Here's a here's a pro tip that I've 1516 01:37:54.560 --> 01:37:58.079 done mild this amount of research for so don't completely take my word for it. 1517 01:37:58.560 --> 01:38:01.159 Yo, baby's out there, not actual babies. Uh, if you 1518 01:38:01.199 --> 01:38:04.760 got left over rice. If you got left over rice, freeze that ship 1519 01:38:05.039 --> 01:38:10.960 and then reheat it because you lower the glucose in it. So all my 1520 01:38:11.039 --> 01:38:15.800 diabetic friends are on the verge of diabetes. If you got worried about glucose. 1521 01:38:15.760 --> 01:38:20.439 There you go, babes, this does sound like science. I right 1522 01:38:20.680 --> 01:38:25.840 again, quick tangential research, greb. Where's that barbecue medate at right now? 1523 01:38:26.279 --> 01:38:30.159 It's in my freezer in the garage. And I'm so you you messaged 1524 01:38:30.199 --> 01:38:32.640 me and you're like, You're like, tell me about the casey Joe's delivery. 1525 01:38:32.720 --> 01:38:34.560 And then the next thing you're like, and there's a there's a deal. 1526 01:38:34.560 --> 01:38:36.039 Have you already ordered? I'm like no, And like, so I 1527 01:38:36.039 --> 01:38:42.520 got a free extra pound of the burnt ends. Yeah. I'm kind of 1528 01:38:42.600 --> 01:38:45.960 thinking I have enough that I could get some of this early and then still 1529 01:38:45.000 --> 01:38:47.800 have enough for the Christmas dinner. Throw it, throw it in the fridge 1530 01:38:47.800 --> 01:38:51.239 a day or two before, get it all softened up, and then throw 1531 01:38:51.239 --> 01:38:55.479 it in the fridge, throwing the bridge and let it kind of soften up. 1532 01:38:55.560 --> 01:38:57.880 But then you throw the whole package in the bottle. Right. They 1533 01:38:57.880 --> 01:39:00.000 gave me the rehit heating guy, and I put that in the freezer two 1534 01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:02.119 so I know exactly where it is. Uh but yeah, okay, I'll 1535 01:39:02.159 --> 01:39:04.399 read that up and make sure I do it exactly right, but i'll throw 1536 01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:08.319 it the fridge. I'm very excited about that. So was it in that 1537 01:39:08.399 --> 01:39:12.560 sauce? Oh with that? Oh, no problem there, that's gonna yes, 1538 01:39:12.640 --> 01:39:17.960 okay, you're yes, yes, yeah me. It came in like 1539 01:39:18.000 --> 01:39:25.239 a couple of days. Casey Joe's just online that you get burned in a 1540 01:39:25.279 --> 01:39:29.239 freezer delivered in a little styro from cooler with the dried ice. It came 1541 01:39:29.319 --> 01:39:31.720 completely frozer right in the freezer. It has the re hitting guide where it's 1542 01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:34.600 like it's in the plastic casing. So I'm like, I think you're supposed 1543 01:39:34.600 --> 01:39:36.479 to put it in a boiling water, right, and that's gonna heat it 1544 01:39:36.479 --> 01:39:39.800 back. It's like twenty minutes of boiling. Well, you do boiling and 1545 01:39:39.800 --> 01:39:42.000 then when it gets to a rolling boil, you turn the heat off. 1546 01:39:42.199 --> 01:39:44.479 You toss it in there for like twenty minutes. You pull out the vacuum 1547 01:39:44.479 --> 01:39:45.840 sealed thing, open it up, slatter it in the sauce, and go 1548 01:39:45.880 --> 01:39:49.079 to town. Oh that's okay, that's Christmas dinner right there. I'm so 1549 01:39:49.159 --> 01:39:55.279 excited. I'm about to be a dirty jpeg eating this. Uh it's about 1550 01:39:55.399 --> 01:39:58.960 eight pounds of barbecue meat my freezer right now, and like like ten bottles 1551 01:39:58.960 --> 01:40:01.920 of the sauce. So yeah, looking forward to it. Reza has a 1552 01:40:02.000 --> 01:40:05.880 couple of specific questions for me, jan if you'd indulge me need some coffee 1553 01:40:05.960 --> 01:40:10.560 questions. Number one, do you scoop out the coffee grounds before pouring it 1554 01:40:10.560 --> 01:40:13.279 out? Reza should have put this ahead of time, but they use a 1555 01:40:13.319 --> 01:40:16.520 French press slash plunger method to get their coffee. I don't scoop it. 1556 01:40:16.720 --> 01:40:20.680 I don't like French press coffee, so but I wouldn't scoop it out anyway, 1557 01:40:20.720 --> 01:40:24.439 Just let that as you stir in their baby. Number two, should 1558 01:40:24.479 --> 01:40:27.680 I stir the coffee grounds after the four minutes? Yes, get a even 1559 01:40:27.720 --> 01:40:31.279 extraction. Number three, what the hell is the dome and does it actually 1560 01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:35.720 make coffee taste better? I'm unfamiliar with what you mean by a dome in 1561 01:40:35.760 --> 01:40:40.159 this context, but in my context, often a dome is just the dome. 1562 01:40:40.920 --> 01:40:45.520 That happens when you bloom pour over coffee. It's just for me. 1563 01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:54.039 It evaluates the freshness of the beans and everything. Next email comes from We 1564 01:40:54.359 --> 01:41:00.119 Tipper. They write into the show and ask, hi, BombCast, did 1565 01:41:00.159 --> 01:41:02.720 you guys explain the tipping culture in America to an ignorant European? How much 1566 01:41:02.760 --> 01:41:05.760 do you guys generally tip? Do you start pulling out calculators to measure? 1567 01:41:05.800 --> 01:41:09.720 How much is twenty percent of the bill? What happens if you don't tip? 1568 01:41:09.880 --> 01:41:12.640 Do you get mean looks? Called out? Thrown out? You guys 1569 01:41:12.720 --> 01:41:15.640 like the tipping system regards we Tipper. You know, nate a calculator for 1570 01:41:15.680 --> 01:41:19.039 twenty twenty piece and I always do twenty is the default, Like pretty much 1571 01:41:19.079 --> 01:41:23.199 the matter one point one place to the left or one point and then and 1572 01:41:23.199 --> 01:41:25.880 then you just double that. That's twenty percent. Yeah, give me give 1573 01:41:25.920 --> 01:41:30.319 me a give me a reasonable dinner for two cost So it's gonna be thirty 1574 01:41:30.359 --> 01:41:32.960 five dollars in twenty seven cents thirty five seven, so ten percent would be 1575 01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:35.640 around three to fifty double at seven. That's it, yep. And then 1576 01:41:35.880 --> 01:41:39.439 to be safe, you do seven. To be save, I always go 1577 01:41:39.479 --> 01:41:41.560 one dollar up yeah, I would do. I would jump it out a 1578 01:41:41.600 --> 01:41:44.439 little bit, yes, yes. And then there are the things like twenty 1579 01:41:44.479 --> 01:41:45.680 is like the default, and if it's like really really good service, you 1580 01:41:45.720 --> 01:41:49.720 know, bump it up a bit. I rare rarely go below twenty unless 1581 01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:54.920 someone's like actively being shitty, you know, like but that almost never happens. 1582 01:41:55.119 --> 01:41:59.720 So I have in the last year discovered I do like the tipping system, 1583 01:42:00.000 --> 01:42:03.840 and I'll explain why it gives me agency and my relationship to the person 1584 01:42:03.840 --> 01:42:08.680 who is serving me my food, so that I can feel good about our 1585 01:42:08.720 --> 01:42:12.720 relationship regardless of how they feel about their place of employment. I'm tipping them, 1586 01:42:12.920 --> 01:42:14.960 and a lot of times I'm tipping, like the driver, I'm tipping 1587 01:42:14.960 --> 01:42:16.520 them up front a lot of times, so they see, Okay, this 1588 01:42:16.520 --> 01:42:21.520 person did a good tip, and so I can prioritize taking care of them. 1589 01:42:21.880 --> 01:42:25.239 And it's not like, oh, I hate my job, so I'm 1590 01:42:25.239 --> 01:42:26.600 going to take it out on this person. It's like, no, this 1591 01:42:26.640 --> 01:42:29.920 person's tipping me, so I I can feel good about it and they can 1592 01:42:29.960 --> 01:42:32.239 feel good about it. Like I still get like anxious going to someplace like 1593 01:42:32.279 --> 01:42:36.119 McDonald's where I know it's just a minimum wage employee in there toiling away and 1594 01:42:36.159 --> 01:42:39.800 there's nothing, no way for me to let them know I'm on their side. 1595 01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:42.239 I would if I could give you more money. I would, if 1596 01:42:42.239 --> 01:42:45.199 there's no means to do that. So it's like, God, I hope 1597 01:42:45.199 --> 01:42:46.319 they're okay, and I just have to like roll the dice that they're not 1598 01:42:47.439 --> 01:42:49.399 upset and they're going to take it out of my food in some way. 1599 01:42:49.439 --> 01:42:53.800 And maybe that's like anxiety, like, oh, people actually don't do that, 1600 01:42:54.000 --> 01:42:56.359 but you know, I've worked at places I know how people can feel, 1601 01:42:56.399 --> 01:43:00.000 and it's like artist, I was a sandwich artist and that wasn't people 1602 01:43:00.119 --> 01:43:02.920 like pissing and elimonade or something like that. But people can get like hurt 1603 01:43:02.960 --> 01:43:05.840 about like their job and then take it out on people. And I just 1604 01:43:06.039 --> 01:43:09.800 want to get rid of that factor completely. Yeah. Growing up, my 1605 01:43:09.800 --> 01:43:13.039 mom was a Chili's waitress, so like I've have pretty strong fail driver. 1606 01:43:13.359 --> 01:43:15.680 She would come back and she'd be like, this table at ten was here 1607 01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:17.319 for hours and took up this table forever and then they didn't tip shit. 1608 01:43:17.359 --> 01:43:20.680 And it's like I know how much that like devastates like a single mom working 1609 01:43:20.720 --> 01:43:24.159 as a waitress, you know, which, by the way, quick tip 1610 01:43:24.159 --> 01:43:27.560 while I'm thinking about it, If you type in Amazon thank my Amazon driver, 1611 01:43:27.880 --> 01:43:30.880 it will Amazon you give the driver of your most recent delivery a five 1612 01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:33.800 dollars tip, so you have nothing to lose. You're literally just giving Amazon's 1613 01:43:33.840 --> 01:43:38.680 money to your delivery drivers, free money and no reason not to. Yeah, 1614 01:43:38.720 --> 01:43:44.279 exactly, Yeah, sure, it feels it's nice to be able to 1615 01:43:44.319 --> 01:43:47.039 have that bit of a relationship with your you know, server, right, 1616 01:43:47.039 --> 01:43:48.840 but like, yeah, that's what this is, just me. Yeah, 1617 01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:51.720 no, you're not wrong. You're coming from the right spot. But like 1618 01:43:51.840 --> 01:43:56.479 obviously it shouldn't even like be like that, right, Like that's the biggest 1619 01:43:56.479 --> 01:44:01.039 thing is that people there are too many dickheads that don't tip, so the 1620 01:44:01.079 --> 01:44:05.439 system is not is just flawed in so so many ways. It's like you 1621 01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:11.159 can't operate like this, and it's why people like we tipp are come to 1622 01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:15.159 our ridiculous, bad shit country and they're like, what the fuck are you 1623 01:44:15.279 --> 01:44:20.760 doing? And understandably so, because what are we doing? Yeah? Yeah, 1624 01:44:20.800 --> 01:44:25.079 for sure, I just uh I when I go to other places now, 1625 01:44:25.079 --> 01:44:27.800 it's like, oh, you don't tip here, It's like yeah, 1626 01:44:27.920 --> 01:44:30.399 I still really really want to though, I like, because that's how you 1627 01:44:30.479 --> 01:44:33.800 like that's how the system spit you out. The system spit you can you'll 1628 01:44:33.840 --> 01:44:36.640 be like I need to do this. Yeah, I work on both sides 1629 01:44:36.640 --> 01:44:40.039 of it, though. It's like, yeah, I just like having that 1630 01:44:40.039 --> 01:44:44.319 direct relationship with the person that's doing the work for me. Sure you're going 1631 01:44:44.399 --> 01:44:47.960 to do Japan with Timptory once and uh he used to work at Applebee's before 1632 01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:53.000 game and former not Applebee's outback, out back and we went to an outback 1633 01:44:53.000 --> 01:44:56.560 in Japan and he had to like pull the waiters over and talk to him 1634 01:44:56.560 --> 01:44:58.840 about all the differences and so oh we have the same knackin holders. That's 1635 01:44:58.880 --> 01:45:00.800 crazy. And then like, I know that's not normally how this goes here, 1636 01:45:00.800 --> 01:45:02.600 but can I tip you? Can I please tip you? It's been 1637 01:45:02.680 --> 01:45:04.640 so great to be here and talk to you and everything. And they're like, 1638 01:45:04.680 --> 01:45:06.640 no, seriously, don't do that. We don't do that here, 1639 01:45:06.680 --> 01:45:10.560 and like it could just broke Tim's brain to not be able to tip these 1640 01:45:10.640 --> 01:45:13.479 out back waiters. And it's offensive to tip in some cultures, right, 1641 01:45:13.560 --> 01:45:17.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've never been called like I mean 1642 01:45:17.600 --> 01:45:23.319 I do the twenty percent thing too. I've never had a situation where you 1643 01:45:23.520 --> 01:45:27.359 just to follow up on the rest of the questions then thrown out. That 1644 01:45:27.399 --> 01:45:30.079 would be sick. I've seen people see like this is where it gets ridiculous 1645 01:45:30.079 --> 01:45:36.079 and messy and dumb, where Like I've seen bartenders literally call out people who 1646 01:45:36.159 --> 01:45:41.159 like did not tip what they thought they should have been tipped for pouring a 1647 01:45:41.239 --> 01:45:45.600 drink, and it's just like I've seen it. I've seen the city dozens 1648 01:45:45.640 --> 01:45:49.000 of times. I've had a similar instance with like an uber taxi driver when 1649 01:45:49.039 --> 01:45:54.039 I'm taking a personal ride and I'll hit zero on the thing because I just 1650 01:45:54.039 --> 01:45:58.960 want to give them physical cash cash, and like they'll they'll get all up 1651 01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:02.079 at you at first and be like, oh I live on Milish, is 1652 01:46:02.119 --> 01:46:03.880 actually better for them? No, no, no, no, no, 1653 01:46:03.880 --> 01:46:08.199 no, here you go, man, chill out. You should just do 1654 01:46:08.399 --> 01:46:13.279 the money first, jam what are you doing then? And then hit the 1655 01:46:13.359 --> 01:46:18.479 zero. Uh. Yeah. People do get called out sometimes, and mostly 1656 01:46:18.520 --> 01:46:21.920 though, people just get frustrated and quiet. That's what I mean. When 1657 01:46:21.920 --> 01:46:27.279 I would go in early to Jimmy John's for a big delivery order on Ohiose 1658 01:46:27.319 --> 01:46:30.079 State Campus and like, all right, this orders three hundred dollars. I'll 1659 01:46:30.079 --> 01:46:31.439 come in, I'll help make all the sandwiches, I'll deliver it and then 1660 01:46:31.520 --> 01:46:33.960 get stiffed on the tip, and yeah, that felt real bad. Like 1661 01:46:33.960 --> 01:46:39.159 I'm expecting to get thirty to sixty dollars and you get nothing. That's that 1662 01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:42.840 can be very frustrating, But most people actually do tip and most people get 1663 01:46:42.840 --> 01:46:44.960 it, and a lot of times as a delivery driver it was like, 1664 01:46:45.000 --> 01:46:46.439 oh, put one dollar on this deal and it's like okay, well that 1665 01:46:46.560 --> 01:46:50.159 still kind of sucks, but going home with cash every night was always good. 1666 01:46:50.439 --> 01:46:54.560 It's it's the side where it's like, Okay, tipped employees make less 1667 01:46:54.560 --> 01:46:58.079 than minimum wage because the tips are supposed to make up for it. That's 1668 01:46:58.119 --> 01:47:00.640 the side that like actually probably should change for sure. Hey, uh, 1669 01:47:00.840 --> 01:47:03.840 you know the Giant BombCast and Giant Bomb in general is the perfect place to 1670 01:47:03.840 --> 01:47:09.399 seek legal advice, right mm hmm yeah, lawyer, Yeah, yeah. 1671 01:47:09.439 --> 01:47:13.159 Hey, if if I worked at a coffee shop for X amount of years 1672 01:47:13.399 --> 01:47:18.279 and you know they they used the point of sale system where it's the iPads 1673 01:47:18.279 --> 01:47:23.520 and you add the tips there, and if I never saw any of those 1674 01:47:23.560 --> 01:47:28.079 tips that got added from a credit card or a debit card transaction, I 1675 01:47:28.079 --> 01:47:30.720 should probably uh cause a fuss about that, right, you should. You 1676 01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:33.720 should if you have any way of tracking any of that, Jane, And 1677 01:47:33.760 --> 01:47:36.439 I don't know if you do, but even if you don't, I would 1678 01:47:36.640 --> 01:47:40.920 estimate and go to your Bureau of Labor in the state, and they will 1679 01:47:40.960 --> 01:47:43.720 fucking go to town for you. They will, especially in California. They 1680 01:47:43.720 --> 01:47:45.760 did it for me in Ohio, so if they did it for me in 1681 01:47:45.800 --> 01:47:47.760 Ohio, California will really get their ass. All Right, the trap house 1682 01:47:47.800 --> 01:47:51.680 is about to get fucking retroactively praid these assholes. Yeah, let's go. 1683 01:47:54.439 --> 01:47:59.199 I'm not gonna say the name of the coffee shop. Uh. Next email 1684 01:47:59.319 --> 01:48:03.880 comes from dam and they write in high bombers Grub asked the question who are 1685 01:48:03.920 --> 01:48:09.000 these people that buy the day before on the most recent BombCast? And I 1686 01:48:09.000 --> 01:48:13.439 can answer that with at least one example. My sixty seven year old dad 1687 01:48:13.840 --> 01:48:16.880 what. He's been a gamer most of most of his and all of my 1688 01:48:17.000 --> 01:48:21.000 life, and my very first gaming memory is sitting on his lap at around 1689 01:48:21.039 --> 01:48:25.479 five years old watching him play MT and Magic three in nineteen ninety one. 1690 01:48:25.720 --> 01:48:29.960 He's a real gamer. Okay wow. In the past couple of years, 1691 01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:34.479 he's been playing mostly survival games like Scum Subnautica, Valheim grounded and most recently 1692 01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:39.760 returned to Moria. He didn't know how much about the game, as is 1693 01:48:39.800 --> 01:48:42.680 often the case, that he just fell victim to it. Big thanks to 1694 01:48:42.720 --> 01:48:46.000 you guys, because otherwise I wouldn't have known to tell him to get a 1695 01:48:46.000 --> 01:48:50.800 refund for that game. He's never before, he has never before in his 1696 01:48:50.840 --> 01:48:55.560 life refunded anything on Steam and has also played more than the two hours, 1697 01:48:55.560 --> 01:48:58.479 but his request was just granted. Thanks for all that you do, lovely 1698 01:48:58.520 --> 01:49:01.399 people, Daniel. But are you glad to hear that? What's the TLDR 1699 01:49:01.479 --> 01:49:03.479 on? What is the day? Yeah? I was going to give that 1700 01:49:03.479 --> 01:49:08.039 to you real quick. So The Day Before is the game that got announced 1701 01:49:08.079 --> 01:49:10.520 a while back, and it became one of the most wish listed games on 1702 01:49:10.560 --> 01:49:13.159 Steam because it kind of looked like, hey, what if the Last of 1703 01:49:13.239 --> 01:49:15.680 Us was a survival game, which is like catnip to a lot of people, 1704 01:49:15.760 --> 01:49:18.520 especially on Steam, and it was it was clear from the beginning to 1705 01:49:18.600 --> 01:49:25.560 most people that it was not real in any way. It was always it 1706 01:49:25.600 --> 01:49:29.880 was like they would take like the looks, the exact actions that would happen 1707 01:49:29.920 --> 01:49:31.800 in other trailers, not just like games, but like movies and like the 1708 01:49:31.880 --> 01:49:36.800 dum, what's the Will Smith movie with the dog men and zombies? Yes, 1709 01:49:36.840 --> 01:49:40.359 men in Black? You would take the Men in Black movie and uh, 1710 01:49:40.439 --> 01:49:43.079 and they would like make their trailer look just like that, and it's 1711 01:49:43.079 --> 01:49:45.840 like, Okay, clearly they're just lying. But some people got pretty hyped 1712 01:49:45.880 --> 01:49:49.399 for it. It came out a couple of weeks ago and it was a 1713 01:49:49.439 --> 01:49:54.000 disaster. It barely worked. It was clearly just stuff bought off the asset 1714 01:49:54.039 --> 01:49:57.640 store, a completely empty game, and then the studio shut down four days 1715 01:49:57.720 --> 01:50:02.199 later and they closed the same shit. So when we talked about it, 1716 01:50:02.279 --> 01:50:06.880 I was like, I I'm mostly glad that games like this can happen because 1717 01:50:06.920 --> 01:50:10.840 that means anyone can go make a game and something will come out and actually 1718 01:50:10.880 --> 01:50:14.479 be good. But that means people should go get refunds if they bought it, 1719 01:50:14.720 --> 01:50:16.079 and Steam will give you a refund even if you played more than the 1720 01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:18.399 two hours that they say you always you play more less than two hours, 1721 01:50:18.399 --> 01:50:20.760 you can get refund. After that, you have to keep game. That's 1722 01:50:20.800 --> 01:50:24.520 not true, especially in a case like this where they just pulled the rug 1723 01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:27.720 out from everyone. They are giving refunds to everybody for this game, So 1724 01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:30.159 definitely go do that that's what hasn't been delisted or anything. Yeah, I 1725 01:50:30.159 --> 01:50:32.560 don't think you can buy it anymore. Yes, okay, good, Yeah, 1726 01:50:32.600 --> 01:50:39.000 definitely Jesus all right. Pocono Paul sent in a very long email about 1727 01:50:39.039 --> 01:50:43.560 podcast point conversions. So I'm gonna go ahead and give Pocono Paul a good 1728 01:50:43.640 --> 01:50:46.279 twenty podcast points. If you're listening live right now, you get five. 1729 01:50:46.359 --> 01:50:49.640 If you're listening to the archive, you get five, and then you'll get 1730 01:50:49.640 --> 01:51:02.399 six later when the later point is well. But Pete writes in about about 1731 01:51:02.640 --> 01:51:08.199 being under the influence while playing Allen Wack two Hey BombCast during the Game of 1732 01:51:08.199 --> 01:51:12.439 the Year discussions on the Soldier Boy Presents category, Bakalar had such a strong 1733 01:51:12.520 --> 01:51:15.439 opposition to playing Allan Wake two while HI that it made me curious to give 1734 01:51:15.439 --> 01:51:19.800 it a try. I'm off the same That was the takeaway. That was 1735 01:51:19.840 --> 01:51:23.680 the thing to do. I'm off this week. So I figured I would 1736 01:51:23.680 --> 01:51:28.319 set aside a day, have a macrotost in the morning, and fire a 1737 01:51:28.359 --> 01:51:33.199 new game plus for Allen Wake two. Despite the discussions discussions during Game of 1738 01:51:33.239 --> 01:51:36.239 the Year, I figured I would have a pretty good time and my state 1739 01:51:36.239 --> 01:51:41.239 of mind would play well with the trippy aspects of the game. Unfortunately, 1740 01:51:41.279 --> 01:51:45.720 I did not enjoy it and build after a couple hours. Yeah, Shock 1741 01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:49.479 nothing terrible, but I just wasn't vibing with it really well. Afterwards, 1742 01:51:49.520 --> 01:51:55.279 I went back to playing Avatar to get more more experience. Just curious, 1743 01:51:55.279 --> 01:51:59.159 what are the situations that you have all been in where you were intoxicated from 1744 01:51:59.159 --> 01:52:02.560 one thing or another and found yourself just wishing you were sober. Thank you 1745 01:52:02.600 --> 01:52:08.880 guys for endless hours of entertainment, Pete. I have the opposite where I 1746 01:52:08.960 --> 01:52:13.359 was playing Super Mario Brothers while very drunken high at a friend's house, and 1747 01:52:13.880 --> 01:52:16.239 it was like everyone's passing the control around and everyone was struggling with the level, 1748 01:52:16.239 --> 01:52:20.000 and it got back to me and I just basically mainlined it right to 1749 01:52:20.039 --> 01:52:24.960 the end, jumped over the hammer Brothers perfectly slid underneath the bowser, and 1750 01:52:25.000 --> 01:52:28.439 I looked like king shit for playing a video game, which is even being 1751 01:52:28.479 --> 01:52:30.359 good at video games sometimes like that doesn't happen very often, so be able 1752 01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:33.239 to like show off and have people actually be impressed. I was like, 1753 01:52:33.279 --> 01:52:40.880 I was clearly in the butter zone there so love the butter zone. Like 1754 01:52:40.960 --> 01:52:45.239 I guess the three times I you know, had anything harder than weed. 1755 01:52:45.399 --> 01:52:47.399 And like when I was eighteen, like doing mushrooms a couple of times and 1756 01:52:47.479 --> 01:52:50.520 just like the whole time. Well, no, there's a fun like hour 1757 01:52:50.640 --> 01:52:53.960 or two there, and then it's just like, oh god, I'm dying, 1758 01:52:54.159 --> 01:52:58.319 make this stop. Like pretty much just that tweed, we'll do that 1759 01:52:58.800 --> 01:53:02.079 something like half the time. But alcohol that's the time. Yeah, I 1760 01:53:02.079 --> 01:53:03.920 got them. That's why I don't smoke a lot of weed. Like I 1761 01:53:03.960 --> 01:53:06.720 just like it doesn't really I'm a very anxious up in my head person, 1762 01:53:06.720 --> 01:53:10.800 and like it doesn't take much for me to just like fixate on just like 1763 01:53:11.039 --> 01:53:14.640 my ears feel weird or something, and then I'm you know, having anxiety, 1764 01:53:14.800 --> 01:53:16.640 whereas drinking. Every time I'm drinking just like yeah, this is this 1765 01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:19.119 is a good time. Yeah, if you had fifty if I had a 1766 01:53:19.159 --> 01:53:24.319 fifty percent success rate with weed, i'd yeah probably do that right when I 1767 01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:30.119 do. It's like a three milligram seltzer or something. Three milligram seltzer, 1768 01:53:30.199 --> 01:53:31.039 Yeah, yeah, one of those during a movie or something like that. 1769 01:53:31.079 --> 01:53:33.840 It's just nice and it's enough to feel it a little bit, but you're 1770 01:53:33.920 --> 01:53:38.840 you're not at risk of getting up in your head too much. Huh. 1771 01:53:38.960 --> 01:53:44.840 They do three milligram seltzer. They have one milligram stuff. Now, oh 1772 01:53:44.039 --> 01:53:48.239 no, that's a little yeah, yeah, it seems a little means I 1773 01:53:48.279 --> 01:53:51.960 have have like and you won't even like you don't even really feel that when 1774 01:53:53.079 --> 01:53:58.119 you get your weed seltzer. That's a big thing here in Minnesota because like 1775 01:53:58.199 --> 01:54:00.279 it's going like full and dispensaries are coming like I think within the next year. 1776 01:54:00.880 --> 01:54:04.319 But there is like a loophole type thing where like in breweries, like 1777 01:54:04.399 --> 01:54:08.640 you can go to a brewery and you can all you'll get like a thc 1778 01:54:08.760 --> 01:54:11.039 selter with your beer or something. You know, you can do that. 1779 01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:16.079 I think I accidentally micro dosed at a brewery recently. Yeah, like there 1780 01:54:16.159 --> 01:54:20.279 was something like called space dust or some something like that. And then afterwards 1781 01:54:20.279 --> 01:54:26.079 I was, that's just that's just a PCP oh ship cool. I was. 1782 01:54:26.119 --> 01:54:27.840 Afterwards. I was telling him, it's like, hey, you're not 1783 01:54:27.920 --> 01:54:30.399 drinking. You're like we're ubering home right like, are we going to get 1784 01:54:30.399 --> 01:54:35.359 a ride with someone? I just can't be with people right now. Have 1785 01:54:36.239 --> 01:54:41.039 weed seltzer? Oh man, come on, I got a bunch of the 1786 01:54:41.039 --> 01:54:45.000 bridge. We didn't win bag. Have one had one while I was here. 1787 01:54:45.039 --> 01:54:49.800 We got yeah, very nice. Yeah, we got weed beer over 1788 01:54:49.840 --> 01:54:56.399 here. I was puking. You were just puped it up and drinking weed, 1789 01:54:57.520 --> 01:55:01.720 living in Minnesota. Fucking party right there, that we party in Minnesota. 1790 01:55:02.159 --> 01:55:09.359 That's all Lucy god. Oh right, last email of the show, 1791 01:55:09.520 --> 01:55:13.239 the last live bumb cast of the year. Who knows if we're going to 1792 01:55:13.600 --> 01:55:15.920 have time to pre record something for next week, Probably won't have time. 1793 01:55:16.119 --> 01:55:20.680 Just wanna get that out of the way now, But we would be remiss 1794 01:55:20.720 --> 01:55:27.399 if we ended the year without reading one. Last email from Nathan from tom 1795 01:55:27.399 --> 01:55:30.800 Water, Washington. Are there any hobbies you picked up during COVID Lockdown that 1796 01:55:30.840 --> 01:55:36.680 you still enjoy? Nathan from tom Water, Washington learning a bunch of production 1797 01:55:36.760 --> 01:55:41.920 shit. Hey, that that is what I applaud Dan for. I'm like, 1798 01:55:41.960 --> 01:55:45.039 wow, look at you knowing all of this stuff, look at you 1799 01:55:45.279 --> 01:55:47.800 diagnosing all this stuff. It's great. I think it's it's awesome. Yeah. 1800 01:55:47.840 --> 01:55:50.119 I always had, you know, a Drew or a Bennie or a 1801 01:55:50.119 --> 01:55:53.720 Hanson or someone before or I would just sit in be a jackass for a 1802 01:55:53.720 --> 01:55:57.000 couple hours and they worry about all this stuff. Now it's like during the 1803 01:55:57.039 --> 01:55:59.840 pandemic. It's all right, set up camera, it's gonna learn obs all 1804 01:55:59.880 --> 01:56:01.800 the stuff and oh shit, okay, right, Like I used to do 1805 01:56:01.800 --> 01:56:04.279 a bunch of like video editing and stuff. I like doing that stuff to 1806 01:56:04.279 --> 01:56:06.560 make a bunch of silly short films, and it's like, oh okay, 1807 01:56:06.560 --> 01:56:10.840 I like I like reactivated something in my brain. And uh yeah, I'm 1808 01:56:10.880 --> 01:56:15.439 glad I still get to do a lot of that here. I stopped doing 1809 01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:17.920 this because it became very costly. But I used to develop film at home 1810 01:56:18.199 --> 01:56:21.840 and it was very fun and home. Yeah, wow, yo, they 1811 01:56:21.920 --> 01:56:26.800 make the chemicals so much lighter now that it only will slightly poison you, 1812 01:56:26.640 --> 01:56:29.680 you know, hell yea, And what do you like do it in a 1813 01:56:29.680 --> 01:56:32.199 windowless bathroom or something? Yeah, you got to load up the film. 1814 01:56:33.000 --> 01:56:36.439 I don't even know where they're in a bag. I didn't use a bag. 1815 01:56:36.479 --> 01:56:42.640 I just used my extremely good night vision to load to unspool the film, 1816 01:56:42.960 --> 01:56:45.399 load it up into a little thing, and then yeah, you just 1817 01:56:45.439 --> 01:56:48.239 go to town with the chemicals. That's why I bought a souv not to 1818 01:56:48.279 --> 01:56:51.640 actually cook, but to like keep my chemicals at the right temperature. Sure, 1819 01:56:51.880 --> 01:56:55.840 sure, sure, the black and white chemicals though. You can't pour 1820 01:56:55.880 --> 01:56:58.640 those down down the drain. You got to figure out a ditch to throw 1821 01:56:58.680 --> 01:57:01.199 those away. You just drink those yeah yeah, yeah, set them to 1822 01:57:01.239 --> 01:57:05.000 Canada. But the part of the reason why I stopped developing film at home, 1823 01:57:05.079 --> 01:57:11.680 other than film becoming stupid expensive over the course of the pandemic, because 1824 01:57:11.760 --> 01:57:16.439 a lot of folks were also getting into film, or was how time intensive 1825 01:57:16.520 --> 01:57:23.680 it is to scan every single fucking film negative? Oh yeah, Oh so 1826 01:57:23.760 --> 01:57:30.239 then like imagine you're right, you get a film stock of thirty six pictures 1827 01:57:30.319 --> 01:57:31.680 in your head when you're taking the pictures like, oh, you're just zooming 1828 01:57:31.760 --> 01:57:35.159 through it. But then when you have to sit there and scan every single 1829 01:57:36.000 --> 01:57:41.359 image for like five minutes plus just to get the right thing, and then 1830 01:57:41.399 --> 01:57:44.560 to convert it afterwards. Oh fuck that. Afterwards, I was like, 1831 01:57:44.680 --> 01:57:46.319 I don't want to do this anymore. That reminds me of the thing that 1832 01:57:46.439 --> 01:57:48.880 was like not really a hobby because it's something I did for work when I 1833 01:57:48.920 --> 01:57:54.880 was writing for games Beat still, but getting into like benchmarking computer components GPUs 1834 01:57:54.920 --> 01:57:58.800 and CPUs, you could try to automate some of that stuff. You can 1835 01:57:58.840 --> 01:58:00.760 try to like write script to go through all these games. But if you 1836 01:58:00.800 --> 01:58:04.439 do that, something's going to break, and it will all the test results 1837 01:58:04.439 --> 01:58:08.800 will be completely useless. So you kind of have to babysit as you're like 1838 01:58:08.840 --> 01:58:12.199 going through one game after another and all these different components, and it was 1839 01:58:12.239 --> 01:58:14.800 so time consume. It's like, this is fun up to a point, 1840 01:58:14.920 --> 01:58:17.079 but when you're on like the fourth GPU, like in the fifteenth game, 1841 01:58:17.119 --> 01:58:20.239 for each one of these things, it takes up so much time that it 1842 01:58:20.279 --> 01:58:24.800 became a name and I had to stop, even though I really liked getting 1843 01:58:24.800 --> 01:58:28.720 computer parts for free from these companies to cover them, but even that wasn't 1844 01:58:28.720 --> 01:58:32.840 worth it at a certain point. That about does it for emails. Let's 1845 01:58:32.880 --> 01:58:38.520 get to the final portion of the show, the shout outs, starting with 1846 01:58:38.600 --> 01:58:42.399 shots out too. Hi, mister Grubb, Hi, mister Grubb's previous doctor 1847 01:58:42.439 --> 01:58:45.840 here in my defense, he was a first patient I've had that wasn't a 1848 01:58:45.880 --> 01:58:50.960 horse, and I respected he didn't want to kiss me. Sincerely, Richard 1849 01:58:50.960 --> 01:58:59.119 Handler, ohs gp obg y N and slight hand slight fan magician. All 1850 01:58:59.199 --> 01:59:01.680 right, you said it, true story. My dentist gave me shoot horse 1851 01:59:01.720 --> 01:59:09.359 antibiotics for gum problems. The National Football League MVP front runner brock Perty is 1852 01:59:09.399 --> 01:59:13.359 not a system quarterback. He is the system. Bang bang giant bombs, 1853 01:59:13.399 --> 01:59:18.039 bizarre buffoons, balance barefoot on bulky video game bricks, babbling about bewildering behemoth 1854 01:59:18.039 --> 01:59:24.079 beatles and virtual battles, befuddling their feet fleetingly the doc cops Dan, you 1855 01:59:24.119 --> 01:59:28.960 ever get to enjoy any more of that rented hero for Dreamcast? No, 1856 01:59:29.159 --> 01:59:30.239 I just that w onet stream. That was a lot of fun and silly. 1857 01:59:30.479 --> 01:59:33.479 Speaking of Dreamcast, question for y'all, if you added a second stip 1858 01:59:33.640 --> 01:59:36.800 stick to the Dreamcast bad, would it be the best controller of all time? 1859 01:59:36.960 --> 01:59:41.319 Brackets? Also, I guess if you added shoulder buttons second brackets. 1860 01:59:41.439 --> 01:59:45.159 Yes, this is hypothetical. It still has the VMU and you have to 1861 01:59:45.159 --> 01:59:47.760 make the cable come out the top. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, So 1862 01:59:48.520 --> 01:59:53.960 you make a few slight changes make it a different controller than Yes. Yeah. 1863 01:59:53.960 --> 01:59:56.920 Shouts out to Kingdom Hearts two, the perfect game to play for fifteen 1864 01:59:56.960 --> 02:00:00.039 hours of extra life. Shouts out to Mike for shopping the team doing final 1865 02:00:00.079 --> 02:00:05.119 mix myths this past Sunday, and also thank you for that beautiful cover slash 1866 02:00:05.199 --> 02:00:08.840 remix of I'll Make a Man out of You. But switching Man to Jan. 1867 02:00:09.199 --> 02:00:13.199 Fantastic Shots out to TC Tuggers the only shirt that's got a little knob 1868 02:00:13.239 --> 02:00:16.720 in the front half. Happy thirtieth anniversary to the Mega Man X series X 1869 02:00:16.800 --> 02:00:20.720 represents endless possibility. Shots out to Tanuki, those wonderful, adorable and ohso 1870 02:00:20.760 --> 02:00:26.760 fluffy raccoon dogs, especially Science Factory Adorable Trio Sukushi May and Moogie, the 1871 02:00:26.800 --> 02:00:30.720 Tanuki who loves to ride Torque in her own doggy travel pouch, Malagai and 1872 02:00:30.760 --> 02:00:35.079 Pasco Mangakuya. Shots out to swag of Pinos and their drip for simbunka Slash, 1873 02:00:35.079 --> 02:00:41.439 Midnight mass verch dot org and www Dot Gonzo hole dot com. Jan, 1874 02:00:41.560 --> 02:00:43.600 you look great, Backler, you look great. Dan, you look 1875 02:00:43.640 --> 02:00:45.840 great. Oh oops, grub you look great. Dan, you look Dan? 1876 02:00:45.920 --> 02:00:50.279 Saltlick check? Looking at it right now? I put it in a 1877 02:00:50.319 --> 02:00:54.520 little notch between two trees, and it has at some point fallen out, 1878 02:00:54.800 --> 02:01:00.079 but it is still very rectangular. You got a shitty salt lick. Yeah, 1879 02:01:00.479 --> 02:01:03.079 Also like kind it's sticking out of some leaves and stuff. So around 1880 02:01:04.680 --> 02:01:10.760 do you think Dan, that you interacting with the saltlic first interfered with uh 1881 02:01:10.880 --> 02:01:14.039 yeah, with your dirty human oils. Yeah, the deer and turkeys happened, 1882 02:01:14.039 --> 02:01:17.560 like I know. Thanks uh parentheses. Also, Dan, you look 1883 02:01:17.600 --> 02:01:21.880 great. Hey nos a very merry fuck you to you. Jangle Bells, 1884 02:01:23.039 --> 02:01:27.239 Grubman smells Dan can't cook an egg. The back of our mobile has a 1885 02:01:27.319 --> 02:01:31.880 Logitech wheel and Manatti went to Disney World to pray a everybody Jangle Bells, 1886 02:01:31.960 --> 02:01:43.159 Grubman smells cook the wheel and Manati went to the Mike Manatti for a fifteen 1887 02:01:43.159 --> 02:01:46.359 hour extra live stream mic saying sixteen Disney songs. Shouts out to Marino. 1888 02:01:46.760 --> 02:01:51.119 The GV community Game of the Year voting is live now, Big Big Special. 1889 02:01:51.159 --> 02:01:55.960 Shouts out to Yes coming out per Game of the Year. That was 1890 02:01:55.960 --> 02:02:00.079 excellent, guest listen everything just a huge help. The best egg. Shouts 1891 02:02:00.079 --> 02:02:04.880 out to Alex Bunyello released the sheet music for the Mike MINNAUGHTI song fire Escape 1892 02:02:04.880 --> 02:02:10.119 for an eight hour Game of the year's stream. Jesus Christ your butts Christmas 1893 02:02:10.159 --> 02:02:14.159 in San Francisco is dog shit song and you all know it all right grub 1894 02:02:14.159 --> 02:02:17.520 twenty four check. I haven't started back up? Yeah, yeah, I 1895 02:02:17.800 --> 02:02:20.920 will. I dining tend to Maybe that'll be my New Year's resolution is to 1896 02:02:20.920 --> 02:02:27.520 get back to Jack Bauer. Yes, season three is hogg on Heroin to 1897 02:02:27.520 --> 02:02:30.159 see that. That's the best one. I think for sure. I'm not 1898 02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:35.520 going to read this shout out here because words, but shouts out to the 1899 02:02:35.560 --> 02:02:39.560 GB crew for a wonderful game of the year and wishing ill happy holidays. 1900 02:02:39.560 --> 02:02:44.079 And finally shouts out too, and as Tiny Tam observed, scout the dog 1901 02:02:44.119 --> 02:02:50.560 bless us. Every one. Every one shouts out to these hooligans around me 1902 02:02:50.680 --> 02:02:54.720 on the call. Right here, shouts out to the other hooligans that are 1903 02:02:54.720 --> 02:02:58.039 not on the call. I feel like we've had a fucking banger of a 1904 02:02:58.119 --> 02:03:03.880 year. Boys. Yeah, good work, every good absolutely a crew here. 1905 02:03:03.960 --> 02:03:09.119 Huh yeah, it's real good. I was telling afterwards, like, 1906 02:03:09.119 --> 02:03:11.600 hey, it's not that I'm sad to be back home. It's just like, 1907 02:03:11.920 --> 02:03:14.640 I really enjoyed hang out with everyone. It was nice to see everyone. 1908 02:03:15.239 --> 02:03:16.760 It was a really good time. I know we've said this before, 1909 02:03:16.800 --> 02:03:21.239 but it's like, oh wow, I like all these fuckos. We have 1910 02:03:21.279 --> 02:03:25.239 a good time. So let's meet up more next year. Yeah, let's 1911 02:03:25.239 --> 02:03:28.560 do that. Let's do the place. Yeah yeah, maybe we'll go these 1912 02:03:28.640 --> 02:03:32.079 coast first or something. You know, if you want some nice wheat selters. 1913 02:03:32.960 --> 02:03:34.920 No, I just found out I could have it sent to me. 1914 02:03:35.000 --> 02:03:38.439 So but okay, I got a great diary of toilet. If you're ever 1915 02:03:38.479 --> 02:03:42.880 feeling that so cool? Can I pug in that top tier top tier? 1916 02:03:43.159 --> 02:03:45.319 I legitimately had the idea this weekend when my hearty was here because we got 1917 02:03:45.399 --> 02:03:47.359 Juicy Lucy's, and he was saying, like, oh, the dairy, 1918 02:03:47.359 --> 02:03:49.920 I'm probably have like a diary explosion in your bathroom. I said, like, 1919 02:03:50.039 --> 02:03:55.239 if you do use this particular one, and I legitimately thought about getting 1920 02:03:55.239 --> 02:03:59.239 plaques made up of my friends who have diarrhea in that bathroom, putting up 1921 02:03:59.239 --> 02:04:01.800 like grub if I sit you like a portrait like when a celebrity eats at 1922 02:04:01.840 --> 02:04:09.720 a restaurant, would you put it in that bathroom? That awesome sign of 1923 02:04:09.720 --> 02:04:15.199 course? Okay, the perfect picture. Okay, it's not, don't worry. 1924 02:04:15.720 --> 02:04:18.359 Oh boy, what what do we got going on the rest of this 1925 02:04:18.560 --> 02:04:26.000 week? I think mostly I'm just imagining, like you know, the middle 1926 02:04:26.039 --> 02:04:29.039 of the week, Dan just like walking around the house, goes into that 1927 02:04:29.079 --> 02:04:33.199 bathroom admiring all the people ship, just like, oh you remember that ship. 1928 02:04:33.560 --> 02:04:36.039 Yeah, we had to change the play wed become a thang for that 1929 02:04:36.079 --> 02:04:43.000 bathroom just a bunch of bush photos, yes, weird house. Okay, 1930 02:04:43.039 --> 02:04:45.079 so let's see her games morning. The last one of the year is tomorrow, 1931 02:04:45.079 --> 02:04:48.119 everybody, and guess who's on there, Lucy James. Look out for 1932 02:04:48.199 --> 02:04:51.279 that. It's gonna be a lot of fun. What else do we have 1933 02:04:51.319 --> 02:04:55.039 happening tomorrow? We're gonna do a Blike Club, right, We're gonna do 1934 02:04:55.039 --> 02:04:58.119 a Blake caub a little bit earlier, and then is the plan to do 1935 02:04:58.600 --> 02:05:02.079 Lethal Company after that? Okay, whoever can show out of it, okay, 1936 02:05:02.159 --> 02:05:04.520 Leaf of Company. I'll send you guys a hip file for the mods. 1937 02:05:04.640 --> 02:05:08.439 We're gonna try to get as many people in the Lethal Company as possible. 1938 02:05:08.640 --> 02:05:11.520 The game was not available for sale yesterday and we were worried about it. 1939 02:05:11.520 --> 02:05:14.560 It's back up now though, so uh, I think I think we're 1940 02:05:14.600 --> 02:05:16.840 good. So we'll get that happening. Uh. That will probably be one 1941 02:05:16.840 --> 02:05:19.439 of the last big things we do. And then we'll have a voicemail dump 1942 02:05:19.439 --> 02:05:25.119 truck on Thursday. But we're probably not going to do a beast BombCast re 1943 02:05:25.199 --> 02:05:29.000 vengeance this Friday, right, probably not. I'm gonna go to sleep, 1944 02:05:29.560 --> 02:05:32.960 yeah, and then uh doing a BombCast next week. It's just no promises, 1945 02:05:33.359 --> 02:05:36.119 like no, there definitely won't be a live one. For sure. 1946 02:05:36.359 --> 02:05:39.960 We might have something in the feed, but just no promises because it's the 1947 02:05:40.079 --> 02:05:42.239 end of the year and we're kind of wiped out. Everybody. Okay, 1948 02:05:42.239 --> 02:05:44.279 the Game of your list are going up, so look out for that of 1949 02:05:44.279 --> 02:05:46.039 the site. Yes, and then you can catch up with our Game of 1950 02:05:46.039 --> 02:05:48.840 the Year content on there as well. We did we say one more dumb 1951 02:05:48.840 --> 02:05:51.479 brooni too, Yeah, yes, yeah, okay, we'll have well, 1952 02:05:51.560 --> 02:05:55.159 we will have the Dumb Truck on Thursday. That will be live, so 1953 02:05:55.199 --> 02:05:58.399 look out for that. That will last dump of the year, last dump 1954 02:05:58.399 --> 02:06:00.800 of the year, Get your get your calls in seven oh seven exit flew 1955 02:06:01.359 --> 02:06:06.119 And that does it for the last episode of the Giant BombCast, at least 1956 02:06:06.119 --> 02:06:11.439 a live episode of the year of twenty twenty three. Holy holy smokes you 1957 02:06:11.560 --> 02:06:14.359 all week on Unreal Doune did it we done? Did it? Unreal? 1958 02:06:15.880 --> 02:06:19.279 I am so happy and so proud of this team. Special shouts out to 1959 02:06:19.399 --> 02:06:24.119 everyone. You know what, I'll say this for everyone. Thank you to 1960 02:06:24.239 --> 02:06:26.399 Turbo Shawn, thank you to Nikki, thank you to Emma, thank you 1961 02:06:26.399 --> 02:06:28.319 to Bailey. Thank you to Marino, thank you to Chris, thank you 1962 02:06:28.359 --> 02:06:30.439 to Mike, thank you to Tam, thank you to Lucy, thank you 1963 02:06:30.479 --> 02:06:31.479 to Dan, thank you to Jeff, thank you to Jeff, thank you 1964 02:06:31.520 --> 02:06:35.239 to me, and thank you for the folks at home. You've been absolutely 1965 02:06:35.319 --> 02:06:40.399 amazing this year, whether you've been a listener for a long time a short 1966 02:06:40.439 --> 02:06:42.920 time. I love you. I'll kiss you in the mouth if you want 1967 02:06:42.920 --> 02:06:45.039 to reclaim any of your podcast points, actually, you know what, Hey, 1968 02:06:45.119 --> 02:06:46.840 if you just come to me and be like, Yo, this is 1969 02:06:46.880 --> 02:06:50.439 happening, then hey, it's happening. I've been Jan he's been Jeff. 1970 02:06:50.439 --> 02:06:54.239 He's been Jeff, he's been Dan. You at home have been great. 1971 02:06:54.439 --> 02:06:57.840 We love you. We'll see you next year for a year episode of The 1972 02:06:57.840 --> 02:07:24.600 Giant Bob Gust. Bye, everyone on by, I love yall. Goodbye. 1973 02:07:27.239 --> 02:07:30.920 You're doing great. You're doing great. Good job. Bye.