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M M. It's a four day
week what Vinnian drew. Yeah. A

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lot of people like to talk about
three day weekends. Yeah, but I

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like to focus on the four day
week. That's the secret, hidden gem.

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Yeah, three day weekend is that
the weekend comes even a day sooner

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the next weekend. It's like you
get two awesome weekends. Yeah, back

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to back. I always get awesome
weekends. I just won't want your guess

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on that man as a man who
has lost his weekend in fatherhood. Yeah,

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yeah, it's awesome all the time. Well all right, yeah,

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hey, four day week, three
day weekend, three man podcasts. Yeah,

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what anything about that? I like
them numbers. I say, let's

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let's give it a go. Brad
Shoemaker dealing under the weather. Did not

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maybe have an awesome yeah that extra
day or maybe it was too awesome and

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now come Tuesday, by one outside. See that's the first mistake. Don't

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did something? No that? Yeah, I mean I I went outside,

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but it was to walk from my
car to a donut shop, So I

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don't know that counts. Would you
do at the donut shop? I bought

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donuts, you know. It was
the first time I had purchased donuts locally

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in at least a decade. What's
the donut shop's name? I don't want

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to say the name of the donut
shop holding one. No, because I

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got mediocre donuts from the donut shop. They were the first time. Like

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I you know, I don't eat
donuts a lot. If i'm if I'm

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out and about and someone's got donuts, I like donuts, I'm not gonna

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go get donuts. I mean,
would you get though? I got like

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a chocolate donut. I got one
that was custard filled, because I like

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a custard film Donutuh. I got
an apple fritter, all right. And

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then they had big old croissants and
it's technically not a donut, but I

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got one anyway. Was it a
cronut, Jeff, No, it was

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just a big old croissant chocolate.
No, it was just a big croissant.

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And none of these items were that
great. The croissant was really good.

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Ciss Yeah, nice, good,
flaky, just you know, good

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buttery. So you know, I
got a handful of donuts and ate them

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over the course of a couple of
days. Here, you know, just

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just sit down and empty a box
of donuts because they were not great donuts.

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The chocolate tasted almost like it had
coffee grounds in it, like a

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little bit just there was some off
flavor about it. I could get behind

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some chocolate coffee et chocolate. But
yeah, yeah, I mean it wasn't

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but chocolate covered coffee bean. Yeah
yes, oh boy, yeah, you

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know it's ruined donuts for me.
What this whole quote unquote health craze that's

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going around the nation. Yeah,
Like I'm a bad person because I do

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want to empty a box of nuts. Now I'm the bad guy. Now

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I can't enjoy opening up, you
know, box of donuts, and you

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are a bad guy sitting down.
Yeah, and now, like I said,

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this is the first time that I
have purchased gone to a donut establishment

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to purchase donuts like locally as just
like for a very long time. Yeah,

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they were like there are like three
choices in town for dedicated donut establishments.

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There's one that I know to be
good, but it was all the

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way on the other side of town. And their hours are sketchy. The

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true hallmark of a of a proper
local business because people are just like I

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think we're out of business. I
think we're out of donuts today, so

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we're just gonna close. Okay,
yeah, I can hang out till two,

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but whatever. So I went to
the place that has Chinese food also

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okay, yeah, I've seen a
lot of yeah, yeah, yeah,

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and and picked up some donuts.
They were not get un filled with chiming.

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They did not offer that. Yeah, I would have probably given that

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a shot. It looked like they
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Well, now there's an idea.
Yeah, I do, like there's

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a spectrum. Oh yeah, you
a baked or steamed? Man, I

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like, I'm a steamed, but
baked are great too. Yeah. Yeah

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uh. And it's there's a couple
of Chinese places that will deliver up north

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where I am that do sell some
steam pork buns, but they're not as

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good as what I can get here
in San Francisco. When the game Spot

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offices were on Clement Street, that
was that was. Yeah, that's where

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pork buns lives. That's where they
were invented. As far as I'm concerned

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housing probably, Yeah, people will
have to live by the pork buns yea.

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And the first like idn't had them
before I got that job, and

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so I just didn't even know,
Like pork bon what is that? That

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sounds ridiculous? Who would eat that? And then then someone kind of god

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to me and eating one, I
was like, oh, okay, all

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right. And then I went and
got a box of them, like nine

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of them, and then and then
ate them all myself meat well. And

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then I had to hide under my
desk for the rest of the day because

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on Tyler used to bring in for
the those were rich, the big Yeah,

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that was a pork bons are fantastic. That was crazy. I like

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that, Like that was like the
bean, like the kind of Desserty dessert

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sweet ones. Yeah, yeah,
I like those. It's a different kind

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of deal. I like the I
like boat nights, the bun that or

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it's I don't know if it's a
dumpling or what. But they put like

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everything in. It's like chicken and
mushrooms and eggs and vegetables. It's like

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all in one big Yeah, it's
like a knapsack. Sometimes when I eat

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food that sometimes I want to eat
mushrooms. I just I immediately want to

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throw it all back up. It
sort of pushes me away from doesn't make

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you a fun guy. No,
wow, the opposite of a fun guy.

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Wow. Yeah, yeah, that's
it. I'm just gonna take that

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and keep rolling with it. You
can, you can. You can put

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it the brakes. You can hit
the brakes on that if you want.

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I'm just we're just gonna keep rolling
going on those lines. Yeah, Jesus,

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this podcast is like truck with no
brakes. Soun it don't stop it,

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don't stop. Well, then what's
coming up next? What's coming up

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next? Because I need the brace? I don't know. Yeah, you

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put your head between your knees.
No, you just watch out what's next?

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In the sixth grade comedy class,
Yeah, here we go. Soft

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park quotes. I saw, I
saw RoboCop? Did you did the film?

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The new twenty fourteen film, the
PG thirteen RoboCop? So I went

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in with solo of an expectation.
Of course, why wouldn't you, because

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you know, like everything about like
the original RoboCop is one of the greatest

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movies ever made. Yeah, yeah, it's a pretty silly movie. Yes

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it's but it's like, you know, it was that like good kind of

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biting satire, oh future, mixed
with just shit getting totally raw. It's

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like a fantastic period piece. Yeah
for being the future, but of the

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of the of its what we thought
the future was gonna end up like and

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then and it's it's fun to look
at like the ways that like people well

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people were people were totally right,
but also it's usually the scariest, most

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depressing ways that they predicted the future
would be. Those are the ones that

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came to pass and all the fun
stuff. No, no, just like

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the Carousel of Progress, Yeah,
but gone terribly dark with like an two

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and nine carrying up that family.
Yeah, just continuing to shoot director's cut

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style into that guy in the board
room. Yeah. Uh so the RoboCop

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I went to go see. I
was like, Mommy, and this is

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gonna be a train wreck. Well, because like it could go either new

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total Recall or New Judge dread,
you don't know, So this went,

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uh depending on how what your feelings
on those two things tend to be to

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me were opposites. I like the
new Judge. I think it's pretty good,

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and this went that direction. Okay, it was. It was a

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thinking man's robo cop, which sounds
crazy because like robo cop spent about I

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feel like five to ten minutes of
like, uh, you know, I'm

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I don't know, I don't really
have time to think about being Murphy and

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the flashbacks of my kids and everything, because I'm too busy shooting dude deep

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crotch. Yeah. It was like
Murphy gets transferred to this fucked up division.

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Yeah, goes out first time out. I got this Clarence Bodker,

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the guy's p right, Lewis gets
the gun kicked at rant Lewis snapping bubbles,

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bubbles Murphy Murphy, and then Murphy
is getting the shit shot out of

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him constantly. Yeah. Uh,
and everybody else is too. And then

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you've got your like, you know, equivalent of a training montage where they're

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putting robo cop together, right,
and then you know, you get it.

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You're gonna be one bad motherfucker.
Yeah, and then it's a lost

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swearing, lost swearing, and then
uh, robo cop comes back and Murphy's

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they're still snapping bubbles and uh,
I'm sorry Lewis Lewis uh, and then

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uh, Murphy has like five minutes
of like self doubt and then he's you

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know, guy falls an acid gets
hit our car and yeah we're moving on.

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Yeah, everybody ray Wise in it
this this get the big cobra guns

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and just shoot up. Oh man, Uh, this spends the art bank

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bank. That's what that is.
This spends about I have the movie,

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I'd say, really thinking about what
roboocop means in kind of like a good

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way, in like a in a
very like science fiction way, like how

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books are you're in like in the
humanity, Like what's it like to have

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your body parts replaced? Yes,
in a societal way. So I heard

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that in this movie, like people
volunteer for that and they are not shot

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up by criminals. First, I
don't know that that's true or not,

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but you know, so in this
was okay, was there something that necessitated

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him becoming mostly robot? Yes,
okay, definitely all right, but it

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is more of like the program that
leads to the RoboCop program is run by

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uh Gary Oldman and h he is. He's a doctor basically who's helping like

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ampute victims and like robotic parts.
Yes, uh, nobody's alike. It's

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not really elective. But in this
universe, like ED two nine's and other

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mechanic fully automated machines are like in
Afghanistan fighting the war. That is Old

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RoboCop as well, Oh is it. Yeah, they kind of gloss over

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like the you know, military distribution
when we want to bring it home,

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like that was the thing. Okay, so that is what's happening here too,

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and there's nobody wants it here in
the on their soil. Uh.

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So that is kind of the premise
for you say America is robophobic. No,

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I wouldn't say that. Michael Keaton
says that, or no, somebody

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says that, so Mike, Michael
Keaton's also on this movie. Yeah.

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Uh, Sam Jackson's also on this
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it. I think so that's that's
what I've heard repeated often in the previous

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Sam Jackson as That's a couple of
great lines. So he basically is playing

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Uh, he's like the Fox News
reporter. He's kind of kind of like

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your conduit to the audience of like
what's happening on the streets of Detroit today,

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but at this real kind of hardline
view. At one point he said,

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has Congress become pro crime because they
won't pass it? You know that's

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up for you to decide. Wow, but you get you get your same

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you get your Sam Jackson moments,
which is great. You get your Michael

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Keaton freak out moments, which is
great. You see where they spent the

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money, because that's some When I
was first watching, I was Keaton's in

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this not in this one. But
they might have got one of these clones

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from Multiplicity. Uh, and you're
like, wow, why they cast Michael

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Keaton as an noderle and then you
see him in a boardroom or whatever and

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doing his Michael Keaton is he playing
the equivalent of Dick Jones? Was he

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the head? Was he the CEO? No? No, the CEO is

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the old man. Yeah, Dick
Jones is the guy that's kind of pushing

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it two o nine as the solution. Michael is the CEO. He's the

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He's the big bad or at the
end of Dick You're fired. No.

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So they sneak in a couple of
lines of weird places. Uh. They

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sneak in the I'll buy that for
a dollar just like, yeah, weird

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places. Uh. I think one
of the guys is seeing Rubbocop like,

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fuck up, and I would buy
that for a dollar. Burn. But

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it's good. It's it's actually a
pretty good movie, Like, uh,

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it's not it's not blood and gory
like the original Rubbocop. Like original RoboCop

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was only like that in a few
limited cases, like that's it's it's a

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long movie. I remember that thing
being for people who like squibs. If

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you like a squib, Every bullet
hole in a person in that movie is

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like the size of yeah, you're
right, you're right there. There's a

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lot of that, and then when
you think about the yeah, I'm thinking

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about the edge. That's it though. It's like there's that Okay, I

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guess I get shot through when the
guy gets shot in the legs by Clarence

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Potocker, it's pretty Nasty's as a
scene in a like a white house room

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where everyone gets shot, Yeah exactly, the bitches leave. Yeah uh so

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there's kind of none of that,
which is like some my disappoint some people.

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It is like not a funny move, like he doesn't have the satire

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not rhystorical aspects of it anymore.
It's just no, it's pretty like it's

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pretty straight and actually kind of like
you know, a little delves into like

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this is weird. You know,
the things that are going on are like

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kind of serious and in a way
that guess that makes sense. I think,

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you know, people's fears about or
or the people's thinking about that sort

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of thing. Like back then they
call them drones because yeah, yeah,

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that's yeah, totally yeah, like
that is very much a modern reality,

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not some far flung like at two
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never happen. It's like, no, it's not gonna happen like that because

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they can all fly right, right, So the whole thing is like,

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do you need somebody to Americans want
somebody who can think, who watches the

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watchers, But he's never he's never
going to be as efficient as so therein

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lies the kind of the movie,
right, It's like what's the trade off

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between being efficient or being having a
conscience? Right? And they kind of

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successfully or not explore that for an
hour and a half or whatever. Uh,

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some of those questions are not answered, yeah, and some of it

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is just like I don't care.
But all of that aside, because you

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know, the movie's kind of fun
to watch. They paint RoboCop black because

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he's more tactical, which is funny. Start out like silver and then it's

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like a PR meeting, Black is
testing better. Uh. I think the

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Michael Keaton looks as like what he
looks like a toy, like because the

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guys that he transforms his Viger comes
down. Kids love it, make them

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black, more technical, it'll test
better anyway. It's because you know,

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the whole thing is trying to sell
Robert Cope. But there is us scene

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and I'm not gonna say what it
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I found that Murphy scene when he
gets blown the bits really disturbing me too,

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Like I just should not have watched
that. I can still see it

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in my head playing back. Horrible
the way they shoot it, everybody laughing.

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It's the look on his face,
like when they shoot his hand,

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Yeah, and he's just like he's
just like so confused, like oh,

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just shocked that they would do that
to him, the way I remember.

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I actually haven't seen the scene in
years because I refused to watch it because

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I know it'll bring back horrible childhood
members. I just wet my pants.

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But there's just like just everybody shotguns, just laughing, just having a good

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time, and Murphy just getting blown
legs getting blown off. Yeah, there

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there's a scene that I had no
problem with that scene. How about that

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I don't know what that says about
me, but yeah, whatever they shot

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that dude up it was. There
is a scene in this movie for being

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PG thirteen I find as disturbing,
if not more so in this movie.

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And then it's a kind of PG
thirteen. You don't get a lot of

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blood and guts and gore coptual way. Yes, that is just like I

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don't want to. I saw it
with a friend of mine and we just

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he just started laughing like that weird, like what the fuck? Uh So,

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yeah, that's it is. I
recommend people who like Rubbocop check it

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out because I think it's a decent
horriblecop movie. Seems like people are all

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over the map on that one.
I've definitely seen people go in and say

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like, yeah, you know it
was it was still pretty good, you

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know, not necessarily looking for but
it still can't up pretty good. I've

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seen people just like go like that
was not the Rubocop movie and run around.

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No, it is not the rubblecop
movie that the original one was.

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Yeah, it is very different.
I think, like Drew said, it's

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it's more a lot of like a
reimagining, like a Judge dread like done

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in a pay is it's tribute,
but like it's like, here's a twenty

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fourteen version of this movie. Yeah, you kind of have to do that

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in some way. I don't just
don't think the story of that original RoboCop

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hits as hard today as it used
to, because all those concerns have changed,

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because so many of those things are
this much closer to becoming a reality,

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and just those like pure action movies
don't. They don't really anymore.

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It's like you gotta adge you RPG
mechanic to your brawler, Like you need

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a little more meat in there.
Yeah, explosions just don't cut it.

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There are like a few kind of
really kick ass action scenes, but it's

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not that many. Uh you know, he rides his motorcycle in the shoots

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a motorcycle. Yeah, RoboCop motorcycle. But I enjoyed it and I think

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it's fun. I wonder if they'll
keep going with it, though, is

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my question. If they make a
new RoboCop two, I wonder, I

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wonder how this one will do.
Do they follow the story of Virginal RoboCop

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two and everyone gets into nuke?
Is that the sequel to the to this

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new RoboCop and everyone gets into Nuke
that does that too. Yeah, RoboCop

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two is the big nuke addicted,
big bulky robot. Yeah, they put

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it in their next and the three
was the one that had the kid in

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it. And I never saw three, so I think I'm confusing three and

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two. I can't Three was like
don't do drugs or something. I thought

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that's how I always remember remembered it
being referred to as. But I never

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saw RoboCop three. I've seen bits
and pieces of it. It always looked

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like the worst fucking thing in the
world. So that that's the thing with

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RoboCop is like I really like the
original RoboCop, but they already ruined RoboCop.

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Sure, you know, they did
that cartoon, they did a TV

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show, like, there's all that
different stuff that they did to you know,

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the video game that most recent one
for PS two and Xbox was fucking

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garbage. Yeah, they have already
tarnished Robocops so much that like people getting

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mad about it at this point just
seems kind of ridiculous. This is a

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dignified RoboCop. This RoboCop is okay, Like it's it's it's a it's a

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solid movie. There's there's a grace
to this movie, because yeah, I

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do feel like Robuck Up just became
a characterature, like a lunch box characterature,

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totally. Yeah, you know,
they were shipping it to kids,

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and they got rid of they got
rid of the R rating. But yeah,

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but you know, the newer ones
were not Two might have been R,

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but three was definitely not or an
R rator. But I'm saying the

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original one that had like toys and
stuff coming out with you like, yeah,

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yeah, they like that terminator.
There were Rambo toys back then.

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Yeah, they were, they did
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you know, I think it was
just acknowledged at that point that like kids

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were into all this raw action stuff
and rightfully so that stuff was Yeah,

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and and you know he didn't have
they didn't have the spike the computer yeah

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usb port. Yes, I think
they actually do take like a thing I

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can't quite remember. I think they
take a piece out of his brain and

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just plug it into like a USB
port. I might been misremembering anyway,

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but yeah, he doesn't have like
going on his finger. Yeah, but

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yeah, no, that's that fucking
spike. Yeah, a dumb movie.

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That's how I'm gonna jack into this. What is that port to the data

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spike? Yeah that's yeah. Yeah, I think you have to do things

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to RoboCop to make it work today. But I don't really have a problem

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with that. No, I think
I said, I think. I think

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it's if you go into it being
like, let's see what they did to

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RoboCop, not let's I hope they
remade RoboCop. I think that's is the

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attitude I would say, go into
it. Yeah, anyway, that's what

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I did a Monday, on the
holiday or Monday, spent the day with

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the robot president of Robots. Yes, I did not go mattress shopping.

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I went to the movies. I
almost went mattress shopping. God, they

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got you. There was a guy
out front of the mattress store holding the

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sign a real live human, not
some robotic No, less because you won't

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have it, exactly. I'm robophobic
when it comes to sign shakers. Pro

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crime, yeah totally, yes,
I mean it depends on the crime.

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Really, I think there's some crime
that enriches society. Okay, graffiti for

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examples, Oh sure, yeah yeah, not my backyard. Yeah, you

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know you want to cow tipping,
you know, just like stuff that liked

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drinking on the street. Yeah,
yeah, street drinking. Stuff that helps

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people learn a little bit about themselves
and about each other. Those types of

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crimes, I think, except for
the cows. Except for the cows,

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and the building, the buildings and
all depends on the i'man building whatever.

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They just making it prettier. Man. They should just have one building that

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is like fucking it's up for grab. That's they. That's what kind of

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happens now is there are building owners
and stuff that'll be like, could do

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it, Yeah, you can do
it. So in Pedaluma there's the Phoenix

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Theater, which is where local bands
play and stuff like that. And out

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back, Uh, they'll let people
throw up their their big pieces. Oh

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I thought you meant they let people
tag up the outback. Yeah, you

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can tag up the outback too,
but only outback themed. Uh. You

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know you have to write steak,
fosters and an arrow pointing. No rules,

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It's right, no rules. Never
curst Blooming Onion, Yeah, I'm

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working on it, working on my
blooming onion grades. Tag Blooming Onion,

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great Spray, and counter strike.
It's kind of long, Yeah, it's

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kind of a long name to men
you know, I just meant more like

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a graphic. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, just spray it out an actual

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Yeah, that would be pretty good. Tried to make a blooming onion once.

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They just seem gross hard and like
it's a really big onion there bad

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for you or something for you.
But I could work the whole thing.

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Yeah, do you really think you
can put a hole in down? I

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think I almost did once. Almost
is not a whole thing because I've almost

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done it and it's at last like
real grizzly bottom part. I really tried.

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I'm not gonna try. But because
it's like eight thousand calories, yeah,

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and you're doing that and then like
eating of steak afterwards anatizer appazer h

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do you dip it? Use the
great and that's aweso that that's probably another

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twenty thousand calories. Yeah yeah yeah. How else has your week gone?

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That's a bad way to ward that
question. Let me back that up.

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Okay, so you saw RoboCop?
What else have you done since we last

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convened for this podcast? Great question, Vincent, great question. I'm glad

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you asked. Yeah, we're not
really talking about my week right now.

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Okay, but what I can say
is man. You're going to have a

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lot to look forward to in the
coming weeks and months as Vinny Caravella develops.

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Great, yeah, all right,
look forward, look forward to speaking

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with you guys more about it.
Great, okay, well, we're definitely

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looking forward to that more. What
platforms are you on and when you am?

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So, I'm in California right now
and we're looking at distribution later on,

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but we don't really have anything we
can commit to yet. Okay,

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all right, well, we'll be
looking forward to new news from that either

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way. Great, Thanks Jeff,
thanks for your time. Thank you.

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You never get anything from these people. They're so well trained. That go.

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Okay, that is that funny,
guys? Is good going on?

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Probably, I mean when's the embargo? Uh? Let me tell hey,

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when's the uh it sounds like it
is Tuesday, okay, so probably tuesday?

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Ash okay, cool, all right, thank you guys so much.

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There's I can't do that, all
right, let's tell him tuesday. And

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they don't care. Water and stuff. If you guys want, there's a

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couple of free consoles and stuff over
there. If you guys want to get

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your hands on and spend some time, I know you guys are probably probably

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pretty busy, but do you know
any questions. I'd love to stick around

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to play, but we got run
to our next day. Come back around.

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Uh, he is on his way, Brad shoemaker. Shoemaker, Yeah,

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okay, I think I have his
email. Yeah you you you almost

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certainly do. I think he'll come
by and say, hi, cool,

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great, great, you guys got
a copy of the assets and everything.

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Yeah, yeah, we got the
disk. We're good. So I'll see

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you guys later on. All right, I'll pencil in. Yeah, great,

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thanks guys. Yeah, Drew,
Yeah, lay it on me,

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man. So many threes, so
much tough? Yeah really? Yeah,

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you see my high score? What
do you guys have? Center? What

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are you guys up to now?
So I got seven thousand? Okay,

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that's about where that's I've not cracked
into the twenty thousand layer yet. There's

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this that's kind of the next bump
up. Wow, fil't forming. The

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next number is nine. I was
playing. I was playing in bed,

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and that's where I do most of
them. My threes. Yeah, threesomes

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in bed. The kid made it
dirty. I was literally talking about playing

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threes in bed. Okay, well, we'll stick back around to sex.

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Great. Okay, fucking tell me
about it. Okay. So I'm having

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a threesome in my bed round and
the kids in the other room. Huh.

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And he comes in and I'm like, you need to not be here

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because I'm in the middle. This
is the greatest moment of my life.

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I'm having the best game I've ever
had. Yeah, he's in the bed

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with me, and then the threes
and uh, I am like trying to

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move around so that he can't get
a hand in there and accidentally swipe something

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he shouldn't stop. He'll screw the
whole thing up. Yeah, he'll mess

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the whole thing up. And I
was literally, this is the game.

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I'm hitting all my dream scores with
this. One one hundred and ninety six

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boom, another one hundred and ninety
one, who gets prob another one hundred

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ninety Si. I just combined him
and there's a forty eight coming right up

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my way. Uh. And so
I'm moving, I'm moving, I'm shaking,

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I'm trying to like turn around.
Uh, and he's just all over

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me. Uh. And I got
I reached ninety seven hundred okay's and then

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then I then I then I'm against
all odds against it. Yeah, and

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I felt like I should have got
an extra like three hundred because of the

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way I had to kind of like
shimmy and shake. Ye still over nine

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thousand, it was, it was
over nine thousand. Yeah. Uh.

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And then now I'm never gonna play
again because on top because that I'm never

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gonna hit. There's so much more
to do. I can't. I can't

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it gets it takes a long time
when it or it takes no time.

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And I squear I was just moving. I was just moving pieces. Uh,

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but I don't want I don't think
I want to play any more.

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Yeah, it's uh, I've kind
of been playing it, you know,

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in the morning or something like as
a wake up, like get my head

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together, like play game of threes. It's fun. Yeah, but yeah,

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I still haven't gotten into gotten out
of these seven to nine thousand range,

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Like that's definitely where I've been.
So I was, I was definitely

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in the three to like like three
thousands, yeah, for a long time.

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And then it's like that one I
don't know, everything just hit right.

404
00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:33.960
A friend of mine started playing for
low score, trying to build the

405
00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:37.799
board. Yeah, yeah, I
got like a sixty nine. But I

406
00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.960
saw someone that had like something that
was maybe in the forties. I done

407
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:44.880
like one hundred and fifty. How
do you see the low scores? You

408
00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.319
don't? You have to just you
know, share it, okay over Twitter.

409
00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:51.039
So a friend of mine has been
kind of collecting Okay, I just

410
00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:53.359
checked that ahead of Brad right now, So all right, all its good?

411
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:59.319
Yeah, So what's your like,
what's strategy? I combined the numbers

412
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.200
and then the board gets over half
full. That's when I start looking at

413
00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:06.200
what the next tile is to try
to to figure that out. And sometimes

414
00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:07.519
I have real bad games sometimes,
you know, sometimes it goes well.

415
00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:11.960
Sometimes Yeah, there's a random element
in there that is can get you.

416
00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:15.279
Yeah, it took me a lot
to figure out that when you do slide,

417
00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:21.160
when a new tile comes in,
it's from the direction from the direction

418
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:25.519
it is in the column that like
some stuff has just happened, like a

419
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:29.200
tile has combined. So if I
always thought that was just kind of random,

420
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:32.279
I don't know. You might you
might just be imagining that part of

421
00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:36.119
it. But you've gotten like five
in a row on the same column,

422
00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:38.119
right because you've just been combining,
combining, combining. I guess. So

423
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.359
I don't know. I think there
is a higher probability of it sliding in

424
00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:48.200
on something on a column or a
row where there is action, all right,

425
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:51.319
so that's might maybe. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know.

426
00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:53.920
I don't have any twenty thousand points
or whatever said on your No,

427
00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:59.200
I'm not I have not. I
have not cracked that yet. The high

428
00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.559
score on the thing is like nine
hundred something thousands. But people might be

429
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:08.799
cheating. Whoa, what up,
buddy? What? Uh? Yeah,

430
00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:18.000
we're talking about threes because we're talking
about threes. Uh, Brad, shoemakers

431
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:23.200
here, Brad, what's your threes
high score? It's like seven thousand something.

432
00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:30.599
I'll tell you, hidling seven thousand, four hundred and one, not

433
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.400
seven thousand, seven hundred and twenty
two game. I think the scoring is

434
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:37.599
broken in that game, and it
ruins it. Oh h huh, sure

435
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:38.559
it is, now that I beat
you. It is. I hate the

436
00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:42.480
way they stratify the leaderboard because your
score, your high score is basically just

437
00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:45.480
function of the highest single number you
got. Like, look at the leaderboard

438
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:48.400
like it's a whole bunch of three
thousands, and then it's a whole bunch

439
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:52.480
of seven thousands and then it's a
whole bunch of ten thousands. Yeah,

440
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:53.880
yeah, definitely like that. It's
gonna kind of just you know, it's

441
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:57.039
it makes it kind of boring to
look at the high scores. I'm mostly

442
00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:00.759
into just like trying to progress as
far as I can't get the highest number.

443
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.640
Eating my own score is fun,
but comparing to other people is kind

444
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.279
of useless. Well, as I
was saying, uh, some people are

445
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.400
are playing for lows, what like
trying to get the lowest score possible.

446
00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:15.119
I'm playing for home Depot. Yeah
he's hardware that had a bit in but

447
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:18.480
okay, yeah, yeah, it's
good to go pro pro threes threes game.

448
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:22.359
I've been talking to Osh, Yeah, how are they They're they're good

449
00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:25.400
so far. I don't have a
lot of capital, but willing to give

450
00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:29.799
me a you know, part ownership. Cool. Well, other than threes

451
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.000
hasn't been going what else? Well
more had I had a few? I

452
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:36.359
had like an hour. I'm like, okay, what can I do with

453
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:41.079
this hour? And I actually wrote
down on post it note a bunch of

454
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:44.680
games in like a circle format,
and then spun a pen and wherever it

455
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:47.720
landed was the game. I played. So you made a game about game

456
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:49.559
about which games you're gonna play?
Yeah, okay, there was what else

457
00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:56.119
is on there? It's like Broken
Age two Human was on there, pretty

458
00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:59.559
much the same game right there.
Yeah, one to one uh and it

459
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:06.079
landed on war Hoog So I played
that. Yeah. Yeah, well it

460
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:10.119
was like Broken Age two Human and
the rest of them reward Hog. But

461
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:12.119
yeah, I went through going through
some more tutorials, you know I'm about

462
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:18.640
Uh Well, I learned how the
targeting pod works a little better. That

463
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.559
thing's nuts. You can zoom in
on targets miles away, and it uses

464
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.000
like visual detection to be able to
say, like, that's a tank.

465
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:29.160
I'm gonna lock onto this tank just
by looking at it, I know what

466
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.440
a tank is, okay, And
then you can you can fire missiles at

467
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:33.960
it. So that's pretty cool.
I want to get through all the tutorials.

468
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:36.920
So it takes me a long time
to get through the tutorials because I

469
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:38.559
take notes on them. So,
like one, that thing took me an

470
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:41.799
hour, uh, even though like
if you're just playing, it would probably

471
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.319
take it like ten minutes, because
you know, I'm pausing and writing descriptions

472
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.680
in my notepad because I'm gonna write
it all up later for like a you

473
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:56.599
know, a big a big guide
which eventually will become an all encompassing thing

474
00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.720
for myself that whenever I want to
play that game, I just sit down

475
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:02.319
and read and refresh my memory and
play. So that's when I'm actually going

476
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:12.000
to play it. I haven't really
really played that game ever ever. I

477
00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:14.839
mean I've messed around in it,
but it's never like Okay, let's load

478
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:20.480
up a mission and then use all
the tools at my disposal to correctly do

479
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:23.440
this mission. Like I'll load up
and like get shot down or like switch

480
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:27.440
to the guns and fly really low
and strave people, which is super fun.

481
00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:32.799
Yeah, but like reaching the at
you know, fighter pilot actually actual

482
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:40.039
yeah, yeah, correctly the targeting
podlaying the game. He doesn't know.

483
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:43.480
I don't know. You haven't played
it. I haven't. I haven't played

484
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:50.240
it a little bit. What are
the games that you do? Have you

485
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:53.839
not played? I? Uh,
well, what was on that wheel?

486
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.200
Yea age? Yeah, I mean
I've I've gotten through a couple hours of

487
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.519
that, but not much to human
and I'd probably just start over to human

488
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:05.319
at that point. Yeah, experienced
the story as it was intended right all

489
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.160
the way through. Yeah, I
did play more golf in the real world.

490
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:13.279
Okay, yeah, like actual I
went to go just alright, but

491
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.799
this time it was a driving range
in San Bruno, which was a double

492
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:19.640
decker. Yeah. Nice, I
had never been to Maybe you feel like

493
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:23.440
I was in Grand Theft Auto.
It's fantastic. Yeah, that's I've never

494
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:28.920
I've never been to one. It
looks cool San Bruno. Yeah yeah,

495
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:35.359
yeah, is it cool? Brad? Hello, how are you feeling not

496
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.559
great? But thank you for coming
into this small room and coughing. It's

497
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:40.160
not It's not that. It's not
that kind of not great. Okay,

498
00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:43.799
what kind of not great is?
I don't want to talk about it.

499
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:50.720
M m it's that bad all right? Oh mmmmmm picking up? If you're

500
00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:53.160
putting picking it up'm gonna pick it
anything out it or not. Actually,

501
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:55.119
it's theirs something I've cost all day. I don't know what's up with that

502
00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:00.279
A likely story anyway, talk to
me. You just finished reviewing the last

503
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.720
of US DLC. Seems like you
liked it. I did, but I

504
00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:06.799
was I was coming up here.
No, I don't have any problems with

505
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:08.639
Okay, should I post it sure, like right now, go for Yeah,

506
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:12.159
like I brought my laptop for that
express purpose. Go ahead, put

507
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:14.280
it up. I could click the
published button. Tell me about it.

508
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:16.559
What about the side bugs? Should
I just ignore that stuff? What bugs?

509
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:22.239
Which? Which one's in the email? What DLC release is not showing?

510
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:27.840
Oh, let's do some live debuggings
here? No bugs on our way?

511
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.639
Is that intentional? No? Be
intentional? That is not intentional?

512
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.719
Maybe I should hold the review look
at that stuff after. I mean,

513
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.800
I could load at the CMS.
So you can only choose releases that are

514
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.280
on the main Yeah, I designated
in emas the review of the DLC.

515
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:43.840
But on the review actual review.
Okay, so the last second stuff is

516
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:45.679
there that display is not on the
actual life side. It just says the

517
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:49.440
last of us review. That's stupid. Okay, but you can override the

518
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.639
headline. Yeah, but that doesn't
take an effect on the actual page.

519
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:54.559
It doesn't the title tag, but
not in the headline. All right,

520
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:59.079
we'll fix that after the fact and
go ahead and publish it. We'll we'll

521
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:01.239
put that on a list. All
right, I'm gonna put that up right

522
00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:05.719
now. I tell me about it, but don't tell me about I hammered

523
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:08.320
on this point in the review A
bunch. But can you think of a

524
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:13.800
game that less needed DLC than The
Last of Us? I bet you can't.

525
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:20.519
Like maybe Tetris, Fioshock Infinite,
most story driven games, really yeah,

526
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.880
but that one is special. Yeah
sure, back ops, I mean

527
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:25.960
yes, that applies to a lot
of games. But the Last of Us

528
00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:30.039
is right up there. It definitely
was up there. Well, they did

529
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:35.519
it, and they succeed. They
did a phenomenal job of it is fantastic.

530
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:37.800
That's surprising, and it is really
good. I mean it is.

531
00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:43.039
It is a masterclass in how to
kind of augment your story driven game without

532
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:49.280
like sucking it up or we're feeling
contrived or just unnecessary, right not,

533
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:52.960
it's kind of alright, So nothing
like I can't even spoil this for you,

534
00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:58.280
because nothing that happens in this will
be a surprise to you. It's

535
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.199
not about stuff that is like reference
in the main game, Ellie. Ellie

536
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:05.599
basically tells the story of everything that
happens in this DALC in the main game,

537
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:09.719
like in thirty seconds or something.
It's not it's not full of a

538
00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:13.639
bunch of like profound revelations about things
that happened, like you know where it's

539
00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:15.199
gonna end up as soon as it
starts. Like half of it is set

540
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.599
during the Last of Us. Like
actually, it really smartly cuts, like

541
00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:24.199
it's intercut between this. Okay,
if you haven't played The Last of Us,

542
00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:30.119
turn this off five four three,
but come back. So it starts.

543
00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:36.000
I think it's in Colorado when Joel
is impaled through the gut, remember

544
00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.039
that all, Yeah, So like
you see that happen. That that's how

545
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:42.320
the DALC starts, Like it's just
that cut scene from the game, and

546
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.880
half of this DLC is set like
minutes and hours after that, when she's

547
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:51.639
out there scrounging for medical supplies,
Like it shows her patching him up temporarily

548
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:53.960
and he's like on the edge of
death and she's like desperately out there trying

549
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:59.840
to find some stuff to like properly
stitch him up and stuff. And that

550
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.840
that's where all the combat happens in
this, because the flashback stuff is at

551
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.000
a point in her kind of evolution
as a character where she shouldn't really know

552
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:09.719
how to fight, you know,
like she I think she actually says during

553
00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:12.800
the game at one point, like
when he gives her that rifle. She

554
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.159
says, like that's the first time
she's ever fired a gun. So,

555
00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:17.320
you know, they couldn't very well
have her running around like headshotting, fighting

556
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:22.159
and fighting infected or whatever in the
flashback stuff. So all the fighting takes

557
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.400
place and the present day stuff while
she's going through this mall looking for medical

558
00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:30.519
supplies. That stuffs fine, you
know, like that's that was not necessarily

559
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.559
the strongest draw of Last of Us
to begin with, yea, so it's

560
00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:36.960
good. It doesn't really overstay.
It's welcome here, you know, like,

561
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:40.360
what, what's the the other half
of it? Well, so that's

562
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:44.519
all the stuff with her friend Riley
that she talks about during the ending,

563
00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:47.400
So that's you know, it's kind
of just getting down to the nuts and

564
00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:50.840
bolts. That's when she got bit. Yeah, that's when she found out

565
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:53.840
she was immune. So you're moving
around, you're running around. It's not

566
00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:58.280
just cut scenes, but there's no
fighting, no enemies show up. It's

567
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:00.400
basic kind of exploring. It's basically
a lot of exploring, Like they go

568
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:02.480
to a different mall. It's kind
of weird, like the whole thing takes

569
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:08.000
place in two different malls. But
zombie Yeah, yeah, exactly she's just

570
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:10.440
she's at this mall kind of reminiscing
about the last time she was in a

571
00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:14.639
mall. Uh No, and the
second Mommy and the second mall is full

572
00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:17.880
of like bandits and zombies. Okay, so there's none of that stuff comes

573
00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:21.760
up, but I mean it is
sort of an echo of what happened before,

574
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.920
you know, in terms of the
setting, and also that she had

575
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:27.840
two people who were really close to
her who were in really kind of dire

576
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:31.519
situations. But the stuff in the
flashbacks is fantastic, just in the way

577
00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:35.480
that it builds their relationship, like
kind of just these little character moments.

578
00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:37.639
Uh. And it's not it's a
lot of kind of you know, pithy

579
00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:40.880
back and forth, little exchanges between
there's just these two teenagers who are really

580
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:44.199
fond of each other, you know, although they've got some weird history,

581
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:47.280
there's some tension. But I don't
want to give any examples. Even though

582
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:52.039
they're really fun to talk about,
they don't they find they use the mechanics

583
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:55.320
of the game in some really awesome
ways, Like in terms of I'm talking

584
00:38:55.320 --> 00:39:01.119
to even even things like aiming a
gun or aiming like throw bricks or even

585
00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:05.599
stuff more basic than that, they
use all all that stuff that you did

586
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:08.239
in the combat in a lot of
non combat ways. We really fun to

587
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.320
see just really creative uses of what's
already built into the game. What's the

588
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.880
Facebook integration, I've heard it's just
there's a photo booth that they get in

589
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:19.760
Okay, and you can upload that, like you can take like the background

590
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:22.480
on your photo card and the facial
expressions they make and stuff, and then

591
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:30.480
just it'll it'll share your unique assortments
and your eyes bigger, not quite that

592
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:35.880
far, this happened before. The
best part is the best part is that

593
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.719
that photo booth in the game world
has like when they finished taking the pictures,

594
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:42.159
it's all pressed this button to share
to Facebook, and they're like,

595
00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:44.840
what the fuck is Facebook? And
like, really, there's this whole little

596
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:47.480
thing. There's this whole little thing
about like what is the Internet? Because

597
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:52.519
they're born after because they were both
born after internets, the work after things

598
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.280
went to ship, Like there's a
ton of that stuff as they're exploring them

599
00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:59.880
all, just a whole lot of
like kind of this process of discovery of

600
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:01.440
like, oh, this is what
an arcade looked like when it was powered

601
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:04.800
up. Even though none of the
games work. You know, there's lights

602
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:07.679
and stuff, and like they go
to music store and find like they have

603
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:10.760
a cassette player and they go and
mess with that stuff. Just just real

604
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:15.119
small little character moments that kind of
build up that relationship and then you know

605
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:17.880
where it's all going because she told
that story, all right, yeah,

606
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.280
and you finish the game. So
it's like there's this kind of sense of

607
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.400
dread throughout the whole thing because you
know that it's going to go bad at

608
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:29.679
the end. So do you feel
like this is a piece of DLC like

609
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.679
flavor DLC for people who finish the
game, just like flesh out the universe

610
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:35.599
more. Yeah, that's the thing. It's not like they're gonna make any

611
00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:37.559
big reveals like oh, the fireflies
are actually up to this or you know

612
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:40.000
this was what was going on and
behind scenes and you didn't know about like

613
00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:44.119
you meet the giant alien that is
the infection, right, it's like,

614
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.480
oh yeah, you see you see
the space rockfall to Earth that carried the

615
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:51.039
infection on it, or he's at
the bottom of the least. It's it's

616
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:54.719
purely just it's just character development basically. Okay, that's fine. And in

617
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:58.480
the in the present day stuff with
the combat. The one thing they do

618
00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:01.280
that's kind of neat, although it's
a little forced, is they start giving

619
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:05.519
you combat encounters that have both types
of enemies on them. What's the other

620
00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:07.920
type the infected, it's affected in
the in the hunter type bandit guys.

621
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:10.480
You know, obviously they hate each
other too, so you get some good

622
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:15.239
uh, you get some good doom
style like hitting enemies against each other,

623
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:16.840
which is a lot of fun.
You get any new who wins most of

624
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:20.920
the time. Uh. And I
was playing on normal because I just wanted

625
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:23.679
to see the story in this and
the infected came out ahead, like almost

626
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:28.960
every time you infected in the end, because what you do is just sit

627
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.360
behind a barrier with a listen mode
on, watching their silhouettes like fuck each

628
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:36.559
other up. And the Hunters would
always like they have apparent apparently have some

629
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:38.719
frames of animation before they fire their
gun, and they would always take a

630
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:42.840
hit before they could get a shot
off, and that would reset over and

631
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.320
over, so they would just get
beaten to death. Did uh Did they

632
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:51.079
introduce any other new combat mechanics or
stuff mechanics takes place? Yeah? No,

633
00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:53.840
they they show you getting the bow
and arrow that she has. Oh

634
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:58.320
yeah, just forward the winner.
Yeah, in the game, like she

635
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:00.039
just has boone arrow. So it's
cool that you're selling to see her pick

636
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:02.519
that up. And they don't even
like there's no cut scene where she's like

637
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:05.920
oh boo or whatever. It's just
like you literally just pick it up as

638
00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:07.920
a pickup. I mean, like
they don't references at all, but it's

639
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:08.599
like, oh, that's how she
got that. Do you feel like in

640
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:14.079
some weird director's cut of The Last
of Us that is integrated just right into

641
00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:16.679
the game, You mean like this
is a material like this is like a

642
00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:19.519
cut from the game. No,
no, no, I'm saying like in

643
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.639
some other iteration of this game,
you just play. Yeah, you just

644
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:27.679
play seamlessly into that event and have
all the flashback stuff during Ellie's missions.

645
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.440
I don't think so, because it
wouldn't fit quit. I mean the reveal

646
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:31.400
in the ending, you know,
the way she talks about this stuff in

647
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:35.840
the ending is kind of integral to
the way they build up. You think

648
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:37.960
it's more interesting to play it,
like kind of after hearing about it.

649
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.079
Yeah, like the emotional timber in
the end, Like you can't watch the

650
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.960
New Star Wars movies. Yeah,
partially reliant on her telling that story the

651
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.519
way Darth Vader to become Darth Vader. And it's a lot more meaningful to

652
00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:50.840
in a way to go through it
knowing what's going to happen, Like it

653
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:54.199
gives it this other kind of a
sense of kind of sadness underneath it all

654
00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:59.760
because you know what's going to happen, sad game and you know it it

655
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:04.519
enhances what happens in the main game, you know, like it shows you

656
00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:07.280
like she's been through this kind of
loss before, Like that's why she is

657
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:13.280
so intent on keeping him alive because
it was real shitty the last time around.

658
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:16.039
And they're you know, they're really
smart about what they show adult show.

659
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:20.079
How much is that in terms of
in terms of like, you know

660
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:22.039
what happens at the end, but
it's not too graphic or you know what

661
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.920
I mean if they kind of cut
at the right times. It's fifteen bucks

662
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:31.039
and it's only i'd say at the
very outside, if you did everything,

663
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:35.599
you'd get like three hours out of
it. Well, it's like every optional

664
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.519
conversation and finding every little thing you
can click on. There's some really good

665
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:43.519
stuff in there, though, so
I think it's totally worth it, even

666
00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:45.679
if it is a little short.
Well, what else? What else you

667
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:52.000
got going on? People can start
listening again now Mark at that time,

668
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:54.480
I don't know, did you guys
talk about Strider yet? No, we

669
00:43:54.559 --> 00:44:00.119
have not talked about Strider yet.
I think that's probably it. Besides Strider,

670
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:07.079
how about have you played more Lightning
returns? No? No, you

671
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:10.519
need to find the four codes on
the wall. Remember what happens at six

672
00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:15.519
am? Remember when six am rolls
around. You're gonna have to come back

673
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:19.000
to this bright room with me.
I'm a real idiot. Remind me what

674
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.440
happens at six six am. You
gotta come back here, Hey, Lightning,

675
00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:24.519
Hey, you gotta come back here
at six am. Hey, don't

676
00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:30.360
forget six am is gonna roll around. I haven't seen anybody that like says

677
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:32.320
that they like that game without reservation. Yea. Even the people that say

678
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:35.440
they're into it are like, well, listen, this sucks, but I'm

679
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:39.440
still kind of enjoying it. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, Okay,

680
00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:47.360
Well I played Strider, okay did
ye? Yes? Uh yeah?

681
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:50.679
Yeah. I finished Rider. I
the reviews mostly Britain, and I just

682
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:54.679
gotta polish it up a little bit, quick look up on the site for

683
00:44:54.719 --> 00:45:00.119
yourself. You see Strider for yourself. How is Strider doing? Strider is

684
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:06.199
good? Yes, how much Strider
did you play? Brad? Did you

685
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:07.480
finish Strider? That's why I asked
how much you played? Because I didn't

686
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:09.239
play as much as I thought I
was going to play. Yeah, and

687
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:13.920
I was really looking forward to that
game, and then for like an hour

688
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:15.039
or ninety minutes, I was like, I'm not going to play this one

689
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:17.960
again. For a little bit.
I took about five hours to finish it,

690
00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:22.480
shorter than expected, and that was
like seventy two percent items Like there's

691
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:27.320
a trophy for under three hours in
there, so that's kind of their their

692
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.440
speed run thing, but I'm sure
you can probably getting faster than that.

693
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:35.960
It's there are a lot of really
good things in Strider. There are a

694
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:39.360
lot of things I like about Strider, but it doesn't do enough with those

695
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:46.039
things and needs more like combat variety
and more reasons to use your arsenal.

696
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:51.280
So I'm pretty unfamiliar with the original
Strider. Yeah, it was an arcade

697
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:55.360
game first. Yeah, so that's
the version of Strider that matters in this

698
00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:00.880
conversation is the original Arcade Strider in
Genesis port of that game. But yeah,

699
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:06.519
the Arcade Strider is pure action game. You can run, you have

700
00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:07.360
a sword, that's it. Just
get to the end of the level,

701
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:09.599
fight the boss. There's like five
levels or what left right? Or do

702
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:15.360
you have sometimes move left? But
yes, generally speaking, it is it

703
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:17.800
is not a backtracking game. It
is linear, linear levels that you are

704
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:22.320
finishing and moving through. Okay,
uh, this Strider, this New Strider

705
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:28.119
is a retelling of that game.
So it's it's just kind of it's it

706
00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:30.360
starts roughly the same way. It's
the same basic area. You see a

707
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:35.519
lot of the same environments that you
saw in the Arcade game kind of fleshed

708
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:37.440
out. Yeah, a lot of
the boss fights are taken directly from that

709
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:42.480
Game's gonna ask, is there a
robot grill? Of course? Yeah,

710
00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:46.079
Okay, there's an achievement in there
that specifically says I worried about that.

711
00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:50.880
Yeah. But in terms of like
skill set, you're you're you're you had

712
00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:52.920
a sword. Yeah, you had
a sword, and you could you could

713
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:57.880
do the slide and you could jump, and that's about it. You couldn't

714
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:01.679
even you couldn't you could not aim
your sword attacks. Jumping while hitting the

715
00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:05.239
sword button cost it to come out
of the side. You couldn't slash down.

716
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.000
You couldn't slash up of this one
grapples for the ceiling though. Yeah,

717
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.280
you could still kind of crawl in
the ceiling and stick to walls and

718
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:14.599
stuff like that, and you would
get some of the robots and panthers and

719
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:17.639
stuff like that as power up items. Got it. But it was not

720
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:22.239
like an action adventure in any way. Okay, and this is so the

721
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:25.440
Metroid style level design is different,
yes, okay, Yeah, it seems

722
00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:30.599
like a game well suited to that
kind of arrangement. Yeah, it does.

723
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:36.480
They well, Yeah, so the
NES game was not at all the

724
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:38.800
same game, and it was more
of an adventure game, and even it

725
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:42.800
was a totally separate story that was
based more on the mod I spoke with

726
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:50.800
Strider expert John Carlo Veronini and the
NES game was based on the manga that

727
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:55.239
was kind of made to support the
Strider character and also stuff about another Strider

728
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:59.880
that has gone missing or gone bad
or being mind controlled. Yes, yes,

729
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:02.719
yes he is not Strider. He
is Strider here. You talked about

730
00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:06.679
this recently. Yes, how do
you become a Strider. Where's the Strider

731
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.639
Academy there is? So what are
how do you become a credential Strider?

732
00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:15.840
There is nothing in this game that
goes into the backstory of the Striders,

733
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.280
what a Strider is, what a
Strider does, anything like that. To

734
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:21.800
go to get that sort of information, you kind of have to go to

735
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:27.320
the manga or the nes game or
John Carlo. Uh. And the Striders

736
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.559
are it is like a mercenary organization. So you are just kind of sent

737
00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.840
in to assassinate the grand Master and
you do that. You sitting there playing

738
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:38.840
chess and you just just roll in
there and just be like, checkmate,

739
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:49.159
motherfucker yellow, one stab and then
yeah, I got you basically. Uh

740
00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:53.480
yeah. So it's interesting because it
is kind of retelling that game, but

741
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:57.280
I say like retelling the story.
But that's a really weird way of putting

742
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:00.840
it because there's just so no story. Uh, they're just kind of pulling

743
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:05.400
inspiration, you know. The music, enemies, environments, all of that

744
00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:09.159
is just kind of coming out of
that original Arcade game Scratch any shadow Complex,

745
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:14.239
which is a little bit but it's
not it's not done as well shadow

746
00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:16.760
complex. Shadow Complex is a better
game. Yes, that was my initial

747
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:21.800
problem. Finding the stuff isn't as
fun. Yeah. Usually the biggest problem

748
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:24.679
for me is the level design just
runs together, like everything looks the same.

749
00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:27.639
Yeah, a lot of the rooms
that you're in, the lighting is

750
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:29.599
so weird on some of the walls
that like you can't see some of the

751
00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:31.079
little passages you can slide through,
and yeah, there's a lot of like

752
00:49:31.159 --> 00:49:34.159
looking at the map and I'm like, oh, that's something I can slide

753
00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:37.280
through. Like the visual communication in
the level design is not great. Yeah,

754
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:42.199
yeah, sometimes that is a little
a little off. Those robots communists.

755
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:46.239
No, maybe it's not a Russian
on those walls. There is,

756
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:52.400
and it's you're in like Kazakh City, So it is kind of meant to

757
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:55.280
evoke a lot of that. But
at the same time, the grand Master

758
00:49:55.400 --> 00:50:00.159
is an alien, so okay,
it's not really all right. I'm with

759
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:02.880
it. He could be an alien
communist, you know, his views are

760
00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:06.800
expoused near the end of the game
in this one. Okay, you kind

761
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:09.199
of get a little better sense of
like what I'll find is perhaps trying to

762
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:15.679
do I don't know. Anyway,
My problem with that game is that most

763
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:19.559
of the enemies and even most of
the boss fights are bested by you running

764
00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:22.039
up to them and mashing on the
sword button until it blows up, which

765
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:25.480
is a lot like the original Strider
in a way. But they give you

766
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:30.159
a lot of different get well,
not gadgets, but you get a lot

767
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:32.119
of gear. Over the course of
the game. You get you know,

768
00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:37.760
abilities for your sword attacks that make
it do explosive damage or ice damage or

769
00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:42.039
whatever. And bullets, Yeah,
you can reflect bullets, but that's not

770
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.199
that's a nonstarter. Like you you
do that like in the tutorial where you

771
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:49.440
have to do it, and then
I didn't do it at all since then

772
00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:52.960
because bullets are coming at you at
such weird angles that you can't really reflect

773
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.000
them all. So even you know, if you're playing on the harder difficulty

774
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:57.960
and like where you know, like, okay, maybe I need to reflect

775
00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:00.960
some of these because it's the best
way to avoid damage. Now, it's

776
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:05.559
still not great for that, so
I gotta imagine it's it's it's got to

777
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:10.679
be hard to stay true to an
original game and try to integrate new stuff.

778
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:16.320
Yeah, and they seem kind of
caught between it and and they don't

779
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:21.199
really they don't really make good on
either at the end of it. You

780
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:24.039
know, well, when I was
watching you play, the the time it

781
00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:28.800
would take you too reflect the bullets
seemed like more time sitting there than to

782
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:30.719
kill the guy shooting you with exactly
I should just be running up to him

783
00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:34.559
before he starts shooting and cutting him
into a little bits and seem to work

784
00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:37.159
pretty well for yeah. Yeah,
and the amount of damage you took from

785
00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:39.079
that all bullet or two you got
back by killing. So I mean,

786
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:42.800
you can play it on hard,
but like you know, the tactics are

787
00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:46.360
not necessarily in place for you to
avoid one damage and do all this stuff.

788
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:49.639
Like you know, they've they've got
something in there, like there's a

789
00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:52.239
trophy for you know, kill twenty
guys without getting hit. And in a

790
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:54.679
lot of there are areas where you
have a little more open air and you

791
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:57.719
can kind of get over bullets and
get under stuff. But in some of

792
00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:00.320
these tighter passageways, like you're just
gonna kind to take some damage along the

793
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.559
way, but it just doesn't matter. Yeah, I had the exact same

794
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:07.639
feeling about it, like the combat
feels. I feel like inelegant is a

795
00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:10.079
good thing for it. It almost
like when I noticed I was getting health

796
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:13.880
out of every kill, right.
I almost wondered if they've got a certain

797
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:16.079
point into development before they did that, when they just realized, like this

798
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:19.239
is gonna be the only way for
people to you know, like this is

799
00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:21.960
the way to fix this. Just
give you hell from everything because you're gonna

800
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:23.920
take damage from everything. Yeah,
maybe I don't know. Or either that

801
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:27.440
or they could have slowed the bullets
down to the kind of the stereotypical like

802
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:30.760
look like it's just going to crawl
their way across the screen. Yeah,

803
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:36.719
inelegance probably the right way to put
it. Like, Yeah, it was

804
00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:42.360
still enjoyable, Like it's still I
like the some of the animation stuff is

805
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:44.840
good. I think there are areas
later on in the game that at least

806
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:47.000
look a little different, but it
is still kind of like here's this facility.

807
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:52.440
Even Shadow Complex for taking place in
Awe. Shadow Complex, I feel

808
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.440
I got more out of its environments
than a Strider does. I feel like

809
00:52:55.519 --> 00:52:59.519
visually it looks really nice. It
has like a really crisp, yeah,

810
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:04.719
like nice saturated look to it.
I think Shadow Complex seemed a little more

811
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:08.079
tactical, a little a little just
a slightly bit more puzzly and like,

812
00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:10.519
you know, playing your kills out
a little bit. A little bit,

813
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:14.400
yeah, a little bit. Not
to say that it was like kill this

814
00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:16.079
guy first, I'll be fair.
You had guns in that game, you

815
00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:19.199
know, and you were a little
more fragile. I mean they were kind

816
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:22.440
of like once you get the ranged
attack and strider, like, I didn't

817
00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:23.920
use it that much, but I
probably should have. It would have made

818
00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:28.760
everything so much faster because it is
so so powerful. Does it work.

819
00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:32.360
It's like it is a spreadshot of
Ninja stars, okay, that you upgrade

820
00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:36.079
to do and you know, throw
out more at a time you are they

821
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:39.719
limited, they'd use up energy,
but if you have upgraded your energy recharge,

822
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:45.480
that's not really a concern either.
But you know, there were boss

823
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:49.800
fights that I dealt with strictly by
just flinging that stuff at them until they

824
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:53.960
died. And yeah, you know, there were a few boss patterns to

825
00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:59.039
learn to do well, but generally
speaking, there were a lot of bosses

826
00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:00.000
that you just didn't even have to
think. It was just like I'm just

827
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:04.079
gonna chase you and keep hitting you
with this sword as fast as possible,

828
00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:07.199
and I will outlive you because I'm
really good at hitting this button. I

829
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.920
can't remember, but the Shadow Complex
have like pretty tough limits on MMO.

830
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:16.519
Was it was that something that you
were coming not really you got gold guns?

831
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:21.360
Yeah, you did that a gold
gun. Yeah, so you you

832
00:54:21.519 --> 00:54:22.639
beat it and you said you didn't
really feel like going back, No,

833
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:27.360
not really running here. Yeah.
No, it was five hours of the

834
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:30.440
items and you know, yeah there
were little spots like a dig into and

835
00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:36.199
get more stuff, but yeah,
that didn't feel like a great reason to

836
00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:38.320
go back. And our costume unlocks
if you do certain things, like a

837
00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:42.000
ton of them. Yeah, you
find different costumes, and it's just different

838
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.159
colors from what I've seen. I
don't I don't know that there's anything more

839
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:49.280
elaborate. I was hoping for some
classic capcom stuff in there, but that's

840
00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:53.000
possible. But everything I saw was
just like you found this other Strider's outfit,

841
00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:57.360
especially the way that and now you're
Yellow Strider, especially the way that

842
00:54:57.400 --> 00:55:00.480
the concept art pickups or that little
pal which I don't think it's even from

843
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.760
Strider. It's from like nineteen forty
two from like it's from like Commando,

844
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:08.760
right, like all these other Capcom
games which seemed like weird out of place

845
00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:13.559
things. You know, plays the
plane from nineteen forty two, right,

846
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:20.039
I mean I didn't find I'm surprised
it wasn't like a Yashi yashi chi because

847
00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:22.639
that's usually would be used for their
secret those I would have been down with.

848
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:28.440
Strangely, I think those were in
the Nintendo Strider. Sure, yes,

849
00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.079
problem. I think the problem was
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,

850
00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:34.840
it's it's a likable game. I
think there's some really cool stuff,

851
00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:37.159
you know, for fifteen bucks.
I think it's it's you know, it's

852
00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:43.320
good. It's good. I enjoyed
it. But I wish that, you

853
00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:45.920
know, like they they paint striders
and Ninja, you know, like all

854
00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:49.199
this the you know there there are
not a lot of Ninja tactics in that

855
00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:52.239
game. It's brute force. But
his voice actor actually is Japanese, right,

856
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:54.679
or he's got a Japanese accent.
Yeah, they are accenting the Yes,

857
00:55:54.800 --> 00:55:57.519
he talks, he does talk.
Yeah, there are a couple of

858
00:55:57.519 --> 00:56:00.519
spots should striders talk, Probably not
riders, as it turns out, probably

859
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:04.360
not. I think a lot of
the voice acting in that game is not

860
00:56:04.519 --> 00:56:07.480
great. Yeah, the super Russian
sounding guy that comes over the lad speaker

861
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:09.800
all the time, like, yeah, old be out pastur Few. You're

862
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:14.039
kind of guy, right, like
talking to his robots super and that's that's

863
00:56:14.119 --> 00:56:15.559
like robots. I feel like that
guy is one of the better characters in

864
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:17.960
the game, if that tells you
anything about its kind of where it goes.

865
00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:22.079
But like I said, you know, I did still enjoy it.

866
00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:29.039
Uh, that's everywhere except for portables. That's PC's five platform. Yeah,

867
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:34.559
both both old consoles, both new
consoles and PC. Yeah, I played

868
00:56:34.599 --> 00:56:37.440
it on they'd probably have to bust
it down a little bit to get it

869
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.679
on the Vedo. I think probably. I played it on the three sixty

870
00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:44.400
a few months ago, and he'd
even looked great there, Like I think

871
00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:47.119
you can play this one whatever and
you'll be fine. Yeah. Yeah,

872
00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:52.320
it's not it's not bad. That's
good in fact, but I feel like

873
00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.960
it could be more like it starts
out really promising, Like there are things

874
00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:58.559
early on in that game you're like, oh, fuck, yeah, this

875
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:00.760
is the perfect way to do a
Strider and game, and then you just

876
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:05.679
don't do enough with it. I
wonder if that'll come to the PlayStation plus,

877
00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:12.360
uh, freebees. Maybe is Microsoft
still doing trying to do theirs?

878
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:16.880
Okay, they don't they don't have
enough games. It was like Gears right,

879
00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:22.039
it was Knock Yourself Out. Okay, they put an age of Booty

880
00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:27.440
in there. I don't know.
That might have been on PlayStation plus,

881
00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:34.000
I don't know. Yeah, so
I played that, played some titan Fall.

882
00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:37.519
Then you guys, well I'm trying. I tried. I tried enter

883
00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:42.199
those codes codes, and they kept
On Saturday, it went free for everybody

884
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:44.679
to do. Yeah. So no, by that point, I've been so

885
00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:49.679
frustrated, being like, I don't
know if this is broken. Uh.

886
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:52.239
One code was used, and the
three other codes I tried it was sorry,

887
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:59.320
something's wrong. You know that Microsoft
is great new Uh technical, Hey

888
00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:02.159
buddy, it's up. Yeah,
ship went bad. Try again later lates

889
00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:07.119
and the my favorite was that happened
to me the first time I put the

890
00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:08.280
code in, and all that says
it's like something went wrong. Yeah,

891
00:58:08.360 --> 00:58:12.000
but then it gives you this giant
alpha numeric string, and it's like,

892
00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:15.039
that's that's not the worst part.
It's it gives you that string, and

893
00:58:15.079 --> 00:58:17.440
then it's like, take this code
and go to this other website and they

894
00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:20.440
give you a link. Oh I
didn't get that, and they say,

895
00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:22.159
put this code into the form on
this other website and we'll tell you what's

896
00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:24.760
wrong. Oh really, I was
like, fuck, was at the bottom

897
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:27.800
of the page if you did it
on the web. Yeah. I just

898
00:58:27.880 --> 00:58:30.119
tried it on the web, and
I tried it on the Xbox One and

899
00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:34.079
your error was it was just used
right. No. So that was the

900
00:58:34.119 --> 00:58:37.400
first error. And then I got
other codes. Somebody had sent me some

901
00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:39.599
codes. It was like, try
these. Yeah. In my experience,

902
00:58:39.639 --> 00:58:42.800
you just have to keep doing it
over and over until it works. I've

903
00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:45.000
tried like five and then finally I
was like, fuck Titan Falls, fuck

904
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:51.480
it RoboCop smart, but that was
the time doesn't work out. That was

905
00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:53.039
like Friday night. Yeah, yeah, you guys talked about robocomp. Yeah.

906
00:58:53.159 --> 00:58:57.800
I did talk and listen to that. It's uh, it's pretty good.

907
00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:00.639
Yeah, Titan Fall's pretty good time. And Fall seems everybody talked to

908
00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:05.679
you that has played Tight and Fall
says it's a lot of fun and it's

909
00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:07.760
great. Makes great first impression.
And then when I read the Internet,

910
00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:12.599
people are like, fuck it,
I'm tight. I'm so dune because you're

911
00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:14.400
reading the Internet. I guess,
I don't know. I don't know.

912
00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:15.599
I'm reading the bad parts. Yeah, I don't know if that's like people

913
00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:20.000
who can't play it that are just
like lashing out or people that haven't played

914
00:59:20.039 --> 00:59:21.840
it. I feel like that's it's
it is one of those things that like,

915
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:23.760
once you play it, a lot
of the stuff makes sense in terms

916
00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:28.119
of I think that game, more
than almost any other I can think of,

917
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:31.559
feels so much different than it looks. Yeah, yeah, I don't

918
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:37.320
really, and that is well,
it's a big part laying it adds so

919
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:40.679
much more the player, the mobility
of the player. I think the thing

920
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:45.559
you know that sets it apart and
you don't don't really get that from Yeah,

921
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:47.440
that's that's fair. I see that
stuff as as things that have been

922
00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:51.800
layered on this core concept that yeah, totally everybody is super Yeah. On

923
00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:54.199
the other hand, the people that
are lashing out going like good idiots saying

924
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:58.159
it's just call of duty with robots, then we'll get it, like,

925
00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:00.559
no, it's kind of call of
duty with robots. But it's really funny

926
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:04.760
because I've seen people you know,
and people I follow on Twitter or just

927
01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:07.760
people out there that like wouldn't give
call of duty the fucking time of day.

928
01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:10.920
They're just like, oh, that
that's a bunch of garbage. Titan

929
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:15.320
Fall is fantastic. It's like we
got a bunch of friends together and played

930
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:17.440
titan Fall and had a great time. I'm like, you idiots, you

931
01:00:17.480 --> 01:00:23.239
would probably have let's say eighty nine
of that good time with Call of Duty.

932
01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:28.960
Also, like I mean, titan
Fall changes things up, it makes

933
01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:32.480
it's a meaningful difference. The mobility
is huge. Yeah, the addition of

934
01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:37.000
the robots, you know, I
mean they have really I think that's polished

935
01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:40.719
that great existing concept. But it's
not like Call of Duty is some busted

936
01:00:40.760 --> 01:00:44.960
as it is now. If you
have played Call of Duty every year and

937
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:46.440
now you're like, man, call
of Duty, I dont want to play

938
01:00:46.440 --> 01:00:49.679
anymore. I get it. But
people that are like I haven't played Call

939
01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:52.960
of Duties. It's modern warfare too, because fuck it, you will you

940
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:57.239
suck. Well, I haven't played
Call of Duty since Modern Warfare. Two

941
01:00:57.599 --> 01:01:00.920
suck. I've tried. That's a
lot I've tried, I think, so

942
01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:04.280
I haven't spent that much time.
I think people that are just like have

943
01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:07.159
totally written off Call of Duty for
years, and meanwhile haven't played it to

944
01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:10.079
understand why they should write it off. And when they should have written it

945
01:01:10.119 --> 01:01:15.000
off. I totally understand what I'm
saying. That's it's it's funny to me

946
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:17.760
to watch people will be suddenly super
into Tighten. I feel like there's definitely

947
01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:21.559
an element of thumbing your nose at
the popular institution. It is call of

948
01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:23.360
duty, and like this is the
feel good story of the guys who said

949
01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:27.159
fuck you to the man, went
out did it their own way. I

950
01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:30.119
totally get that. Everybody's all behind
that. Yep. Yeah, but yeah,

951
01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:31.280
I totally see what you're saying.
They're just going out there tearing down

952
01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:36.880
walls. So the uh I was
gonna say, I think sometimes the call

953
01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:38.840
of duty stuff actually, like you
said, is maybe not a great thing

954
01:01:39.239 --> 01:01:43.039
for those people who are like,
like call of duty, I don't want

955
01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:45.079
to get into it, but I
think, having having played some of it

956
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:49.960
and watched a bunch of it,
I think that there are fundamental changes in

957
01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:52.480
there that make it more accessible than
Call of duty. Like for me,

958
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:55.920
as somebody who's terrible at first person
shooters, I find I'm frustrating to get

959
01:01:55.960 --> 01:02:00.400
into because of how bad I am, and I'm not gonna put the time

960
01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:07.320
and to get better. Uh.
The the kind of oh, the empowerment.

961
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:10.239
Maybe is it work? Like the
robot stuff feels powerful, like you

962
01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:13.840
feel like you're doing something at all
times. Yeah, and like being able

963
01:02:13.880 --> 01:02:17.960
to take one down feels cool.
And then in a Call of Duty game,

964
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:22.039
I feel like I try my best
just to kill all guy without dying

965
01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:23.960
right right, and in here it's
like I can kill the mobs or I

966
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:27.760
can kill the robot, and like
I can feel like I did something.

967
01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:30.519
Maybe I've got a sporting chance and
and this is gonna be a me thing

968
01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:34.079
and this is not because this I
also think this might be a detriment.

969
01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:37.320
But the smaller map size or the
match size, I should say, the

970
01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:39.920
six on six, I feel like
I have a sporting chance to get on

971
01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:45.480
a leaderboard at least uh with with
with with a group of friends or something,

972
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:47.559
yeah, or like less of a
chance to just gets sniped by the

973
01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:51.679
sixty fourth dude who joined the game. It's it ends up being like I

974
01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:53.159
think that's one of my favorite things
about it right now, and we'll see

975
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:57.480
if it kind of holds true,
like now that people have gotten better at

976
01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:00.360
it and once the final game comes
out, Like how much of a roll

977
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:04.960
sniper rifles really play you have,
you dug into them a bit because you're

978
01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:07.119
you're kind of going with the medium
range. I mean, I never play.

979
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:10.320
I mean it's more like are people
sniping? Are they I haven't really

980
01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:14.679
seen a ton of it, even
though I mean, you know that game

981
01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:15.800
has gotten verticality to it, like
you know, you could get up there

982
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:20.559
and you could snipe. Yeah,
but the way the players are moving,

983
01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:23.880
like if you're really just booking across
these maps, it seems like it would

984
01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:28.599
be more difficult to snipe, more
difficult to camp. Like you're you're better

985
01:03:28.719 --> 01:03:31.159
off. You're probably doing more for
your team if you are on the move,

986
01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:36.480
because they are putting those bots out
there, and in a lot of

987
01:03:36.519 --> 01:03:38.639
game types, shooting those as a
meaningful it'll always have a meaningful effect on

988
01:03:38.719 --> 01:03:42.920
you because it'll take down your time
or to get your next robot. Guess

989
01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:46.760
is you're camping the nodes whenever they
called the Yeah, if you're playing defense

990
01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:50.599
on the control points, like that's
that's meaningful. And they're kind of dropping

991
01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:53.440
in drones around those spots anyway for
you to take on or for them to

992
01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:57.239
try to camp out on the points
or something. So you know that stuff

993
01:03:57.280 --> 01:04:00.039
does happen. But there there is
so much verticality that an attack and come

994
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:04.280
from pretty much anywhere. So you're
looking down at sniper scope, you're very

995
01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:09.480
unaware surrounding. So I don't know, it might it might work out.

996
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:11.840
Yeah. So that's that's one of
my things. So that that's the thing

997
01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:14.440
that you know, it's it's part
of the reason why, you know,

998
01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:17.960
certain Battlefield maps get on my nerves
because he gets people just set up camp

999
01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:21.800
and just just work you for a
full match, and you spend the whole

1000
01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:24.519
time going like, all right,
how am I going to get that guy

1001
01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:26.920
out of there? It becomes the
whole match. Yeah, and then you

1002
01:04:26.960 --> 01:04:29.360
get them out of there, and
then you fail to keep that spot and

1003
01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:30.280
they just run right back to that
spot and you're like, well fuck.

1004
01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:34.519
And you know, Call of Duty
definitely, you know, is maybe less

1005
01:04:34.679 --> 01:04:40.840
of a sniping game, i'd say
than Battlefield, just because the map size

1006
01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:43.440
is a little different, but you
know, it definitely has its shareff snipers.

1007
01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:45.079
I just don't like getting hit by
sniper rifles. I don't think that

1008
01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:47.159
they're unbalanced. I don't think you
know, in games like that, I

1009
01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:50.440
don't problem it's just it's a frustrating
thing that like, I'm not having fun

1010
01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:55.360
with this, Like flush out the
sniper is not an exciting gameplay thing for

1011
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.800
me to do. Uh, And
that's where I come in. It's not

1012
01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:01.039
like, oh they're camping. No, it's just like this, this is

1013
01:05:01.159 --> 01:05:04.920
fun. This act is not where
the action is for me, So timefall

1014
01:05:05.039 --> 01:05:10.480
reducing it's reliance on that at least
so far. That's how it's felt to

1015
01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:14.119
me. That's a real positive thing, and that's something that you wouldn't necessarily

1016
01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:17.440
uh notice right away, I guess, But who knows, Like maybe they'll

1017
01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:21.000
add in maybe the stuff that they're
hiding back on it is like all the

1018
01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:24.639
sniper class. Well, so,
I mean, there there is a sniper

1019
01:05:24.719 --> 01:05:27.239
rifle in the beta, it's just
the one, but it just seems like

1020
01:05:27.320 --> 01:05:30.360
it hasn't really seen a ton of
use. It's only human stuff, right,

1021
01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:34.039
yeah, it's pilot stuff. So
someone apparently has done some digging around

1022
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:38.199
in the files of the beta,
of course, and pulled out like a

1023
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:41.760
list of perks, a list of
weapons, a list of map names.

1024
01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:48.800
Uh, it seemed legit. It
looks legit. Hard to know the digging.

1025
01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:53.920
It looks like it's about fourteen maps
fifteen. If you count the training

1026
01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:57.800
ground, it seems pretty good.
Good. I need to go look and

1027
01:05:57.840 --> 01:06:00.679
see like how many like you know, the rid shooters ships with these days

1028
01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:05.800
really done the comparison. But if
they're like any other Titan types besides the

1029
01:06:05.880 --> 01:06:09.400
Core three, it looks like they're
just the Core three. Yeah. Yeah,

1030
01:06:09.880 --> 01:06:12.360
I kind of struggled to think of
something else to do with that.

1031
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:15.079
I mean, the chat, Yeah, you've got your all around, you've

1032
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:17.480
got your fast weak, and you're
heavy, and it was you know,

1033
01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:21.440
and I am kind of extrapolating from
some of the stuff because they all though

1034
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:26.440
stuff was bundled together in terms of
just like here's all the perks and so

1035
01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:30.480
like there's damage Core on that list
or Hypercore, which is presumably what the

1036
01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:33.400
damage core upgrade that the Atlas has. But then there was one called Marathon

1037
01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:36.440
Core, which you would expect the
Strider, the faster one to have,

1038
01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:40.480
and then there was I think Ogre's
the other one. There was one that

1039
01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:45.639
was like defensive Core, so maybe
they swapped those so that the Strider gets

1040
01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:47.039
defensive Core, and then you know, so you can I don't know what

1041
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:49.480
that who, I don't know that
you can change that. I'm not sure.

1042
01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:53.880
I think the ability comes with the
core. It's not something you can

1043
01:06:54.000 --> 01:07:00.119
switch out right, I don't think
right there, Yeah, the change a

1044
01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:05.639
core you changed. Yeah, it
seemed like a decent list of weapons and

1045
01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:12.280
gear and perks and stuff for just
you know, looking at it, assuming

1046
01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:15.519
it's legit. Again, I didn't
go dig into those files myself, so

1047
01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:19.199
I'm kind of going off of a
gaff thread, but I'll do that.

1048
01:07:19.559 --> 01:07:26.400
It all looked legitish legit. They
had images that were pulled out of there

1049
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:29.880
that were images for the other maps
that all had file names on them that

1050
01:07:30.039 --> 01:07:32.039
presumably are the name of the map. So they have said no, no

1051
01:07:33.159 --> 01:07:36.920
micro transactions. But DLC. Yeah, so if even if it's like fifteen

1052
01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:42.519
or seventeen maps maybe there would it
be weird for them to put those maps

1053
01:07:42.639 --> 01:07:45.840
oh gosh and then lock them up. Well, I mean they could already

1054
01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:49.400
be in the planning stages on some
DLC maps and maybe those images are already

1055
01:07:49.480 --> 01:07:53.760
on the disc. That's and and
that would you get pushed into the beta

1056
01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:58.320
somehow. I guess that's possible.
But anything's possible. Yeah, anything's possible.

1057
01:07:58.800 --> 01:08:01.280
Well, no, sooner enough that
came out relatively soon. So yeah,

1058
01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:08.760
you're right eleven. Yeah, that
is real soon games. Yeah,

1059
01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:12.199
and then that's when Dark Souls is
out also, right, Dark Souls out

1060
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:15.639
that day for the Consule, Right, Yeah, I was wrong in our

1061
01:08:15.679 --> 01:08:17.359
South Park video last week. That
game is actually out of the week before

1062
01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:24.479
those other two games. Really Yeah, Fourth of Marsh huh so stuff to

1063
01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:28.960
play that's soon too, that's like
even sooner. Yeah. Geez, it's

1064
01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:30.600
weird how that word. That game's
got to be done. Like Thief and

1065
01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:35.680
Castlevania are coming up. Yeah,
wait, when's that coming out? Next

1066
01:08:35.720 --> 01:08:39.960
week? What? Wow? Alex
is playing it for review right now?

1067
01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:45.319
What's yeah? Thief, Thief,
Alex, the Dark Thief, The Dark

1068
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:50.520
Age, Dark Dark Amulet Party.
Uh. Castlevania, I don't forget,

1069
01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:56.560
man, it's supposed anticipated release of
the season. But yeah, it's the

1070
01:08:56.680 --> 01:09:02.279
next big game now it isn't It's
the next great game in the Castlemania franchise.

1071
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:05.880
I also played t x K.
What is t K? Tell me?

1072
01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:10.439
That is Jeff Minter's new game for
Vita. It is available now.

1073
01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:13.600
It's Tempest. It is his new
Tempest. Is it Tempest? It is

1074
01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:16.760
a lot like the old Tempest.
It is Tempest where a space draft is

1075
01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:23.520
decidedly not Tempesta t x K is
Tempest okay, uh, it is very

1076
01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:27.600
much like Tempest two thousand. You
can jump whoa whoa like you could in

1077
01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:30.840
Tempest two thousand. They've got a
different kind of beyond. They've got a

1078
01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:34.039
different between level kind of thing that
requires you to tilt the vita in a

1079
01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:39.439
way that doesn't work quite right.
Can you're getting your you're working your way

1080
01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:42.520
around a ring or something, yeah, or a shape or you know,

1081
01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:44.720
it doesn't have to connect on the
other end, so you might hit an

1082
01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:46.399
end and have to go back around
you shaped or a straight line or something

1083
01:09:46.479 --> 01:09:49.159
like that. And same deal.
Man, you're on the edge of that

1084
01:09:49.239 --> 01:09:53.159
thing. Stuff's coming out at you. You need to stop it from getting

1085
01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:56.000
you, oh yeah, and then
shoot it, okay. And then there

1086
01:09:56.039 --> 01:10:00.119
are the equivalent of spikes like in
Tempest, and you can you know,

1087
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:01.359
when you get the jump power up. That means if they get up to

1088
01:10:01.399 --> 01:10:04.119
the top of the ring, Yeah, you can jump and still deal with

1089
01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:05.840
them. How do you how do
you shoot him? When here up on

1090
01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:09.600
the top of the ring, you
jump and then spin over them and as

1091
01:10:09.640 --> 01:10:12.279
you're going over them while you're in
the air you shoot them that way.

1092
01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:16.079
So is there is it really like
Tempest? Is really like Tempest two thousand?

1093
01:10:16.159 --> 01:10:19.520
Is it unapologetically? Is it an
homage? Is it like? What's

1094
01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:24.399
the deal? He's the man who
made Tempas two thousand and he's saying,

1095
01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:27.159
and he has made another one of
those, okay, And it doesn't have

1096
01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:30.520
the Tempest name on it. And
I don't even know who owns the Tempests.

1097
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:34.159
Well presumably it was in it was
one of those ip auctions that Atari

1098
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:39.319
was looking to sell off some IPAs. Can't have just like traded some llamas

1099
01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:42.800
for that. One would expect that, I, you know what, as

1100
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:45.279
much as like at the impression Jeff
Mentor probably loves tempests, not as much

1101
01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:50.399
as he loves those lamas. Sure
his sheep and his animals and stuff like

1102
01:10:50.479 --> 01:10:54.880
that. I believe that he would
not. He is a he is a

1103
01:10:54.920 --> 01:10:58.720
good man. He would not do
He would not trade animals for ip man.

1104
01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:00.880
What a guy. He farms and
makes Tempest clones, Yeah, at

1105
01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:05.319
the same time, and Tempest and
and real Tempest at various points in his

1106
01:11:05.399 --> 01:11:09.960
career. Can you say this has
like lifted sound effects so when you jump,

1107
01:11:10.039 --> 01:11:12.079
it makes the jump noise from Pitfall, and I don't know what the

1108
01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:15.119
fuck is going on with that.
There was the like the little I jumped

1109
01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:20.600
over some animals from the arcade games
Zookeeper, a Taytoe classic, one of

1110
01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:24.800
the few Tato games developed in the
US. Did he work on that?

1111
01:11:25.000 --> 01:11:28.199
No, it's a great game.
I love Zookeeper, So when that when

1112
01:11:28.199 --> 01:11:30.560
I heard that noise, I was
of two minds and went like, oh

1113
01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:33.319
man, I love zoo Keeper.
Why is he stealing sounds from zook Keeper?

1114
01:11:33.319 --> 01:11:36.680
Why don't they just make a new
zoo Where's Zookeeper? Two thousand Zach

1115
01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:44.239
guy's farming the zookeeper, He's getting
the net and he's slamming those animals back

1116
01:11:44.239 --> 01:11:46.760
into the center. That's a weird
situation. I wonder. At one point,

1117
01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:51.840
like the artistic merit of referencing a
prior work. Trump's like whatever legal

1118
01:11:53.359 --> 01:11:57.039
you are? Like you just emitted, like out of your mouth, the

1119
01:11:57.239 --> 01:12:00.720
exact argument that music is going through
for years and years, like the fair

1120
01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.239
use case of like well girl talk
and mash ups and remixes, although I

1121
01:12:04.279 --> 01:12:08.000
mean in that case they're taking an
entire song, or at least the beat,

1122
01:12:08.039 --> 01:12:09.800
which is kind of the core of
the song where it's just like you

1123
01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:12.520
know, the the jump sound effect
is a very small part of Pitfall,

1124
01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:16.760
right, you can play druse yourself. Yeah did it? Yeah, well,

1125
01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:20.319
but he didn't own those songs at
that point, right, But does

1126
01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:23.600
make your own all this stuff?
No, No, he didn't make any

1127
01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:26.920
of that stuff originally, so it's
a lot those stuff. He has no

1128
01:12:27.039 --> 01:12:30.000
claim to the jumps. Yeah,
he's no claim to Tempest unless he's been

1129
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:31.520
on the IP, which if they
had done that, they would have called

1130
01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:35.039
it Tempest, not t x K. I mean, the problem with Fogerty

1131
01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:39.760
was he didn't get the song writing
credits right or or he lost him or

1132
01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:43.920
something. But legally poker game,
legally, he did not gamble him away

1133
01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:47.119
own those songs. Yeah, it
was my understanding, right, Yeah,

1134
01:12:47.239 --> 01:12:53.199
it's it's a weird thing. And
like I mean, the entire catalog of

1135
01:12:53.319 --> 01:12:59.880
Lama Soft has been like this.
You know. There he made a really

1136
01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:04.720
good Caverns of Mars clone for iOS. He did not make the original Caverns

1137
01:13:04.760 --> 01:13:08.920
of Mars for the Atari eight bit
computer. Did that come out recently?

1138
01:13:09.560 --> 01:13:12.760
Yeah? Relatively, yeah, like
since Space Draft. Yes, weird.

1139
01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:15.239
I thought he I thought he only
put out like two games a decade or

1140
01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:16.399
something. Now he put out like
three games in iOS. Oh wow,

1141
01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:19.800
Like some of them were ports of
older games and updates of older games,

1142
01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:25.159
but like, yeah, just this
like a pretty good Robotron knockoff, which

1143
01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:28.560
he did. He did Lamatron back
in the day for people in countries where

1144
01:13:28.560 --> 01:13:31.359
they didn't have Robotron machines. So
it's that case where like like Super Gianna

1145
01:13:31.439 --> 01:13:35.000
Sisters, where like they played that
version first and then realized, like,

1146
01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:38.880
what what is his other fucking game? Wait, like how far back in

1147
01:13:38.920 --> 01:13:43.560
the day, like at Robotron release. Yeah it was, Yeah, Lamatron

1148
01:13:43.640 --> 01:13:47.399
was like eighties. Wow, man, probably it's probably a Commodore sixty four

1149
01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:53.279
and like ZX Spectrum game and stuff
like that. If Caverns of Minus minus.

1150
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:58.319
Yeah, like the Minotar it's part
of the more like the Greek eats

1151
01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:01.079
more Beasts to one dollar. Yeah, it's pretty good. That's weird.

1152
01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:05.520
It's the original. But yeah,
like a lot of his career has been

1153
01:14:06.319 --> 01:14:09.600
you know, like grid Runner is
Centipede. You know, there's like a

1154
01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:12.159
lot of stuff like that that you
can just trying to trace back to,

1155
01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:16.039
you know, him him making home
versions of arcade games and changing things up

1156
01:14:16.079 --> 01:14:19.640
and for you know, to not
just directly clone them. Does it feel

1157
01:14:19.640 --> 01:14:23.000
like this one has changed up a
bit? No, that If anything,

1158
01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:26.640
it's like one right back to Tempest
from what you know. Space Draft was,

1159
01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:29.600
like I said, very much not
Tempest, as much as it looked

1160
01:14:29.640 --> 01:14:31.680
like it. The scoring mechanic and
a lot of what you did to excel

1161
01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:35.600
at it. We're very much not
like Tempest. And they had a play

1162
01:14:35.680 --> 01:14:42.039
text specifically says Space Draft is not
Tempest. Yeah, exactly does this say

1163
01:14:42.720 --> 01:14:45.920
this is Tempest? No? And
in all of the interviews and promotion and

1164
01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:51.640
all this other stuff, it's like
t XK harkens back to the classic tube

1165
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:59.760
shooters of yester year, all of
those tube shooters, Slighting Runner, Gyri,

1166
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:03.199
remember all those twobe I got so
sick of tube that one level in

1167
01:15:03.479 --> 01:15:06.960
GORF World War tube shooters, They're
just they were all over the place,

1168
01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:11.560
and I'm so glad we've moved on
from that. Yeah, it's just saturation.

1169
01:15:11.920 --> 01:15:14.560
But t XK is really good.
I really enjoy it. It's just

1170
01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:18.439
there's a it's just weird. All
this all this stuff, like the career

1171
01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:21.880
of Jeff Minter is really strange.
I guess is what I'm saying. And

1172
01:15:23.560 --> 01:15:26.319
and in a lot a lot of
ways, I feel like he is like

1173
01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:30.840
doing really great remix work in the
same way like a girl talk would and

1174
01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:32.920
like you know, in music and
stuff, and I just I just love

1175
01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:36.960
the while Mark Serny is architecting the
PlayStation four and like Eugene Jarvis is being

1176
01:15:38.479 --> 01:15:41.880
honored at awards things. Yeah,
Jeff Minter is just on a farm somewhere

1177
01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:47.239
still making cage by himself. Yeah, fucking a. This is our legacy,

1178
01:15:47.479 --> 01:15:51.720
this is this is the history of
our our medium here. Yeah,

1179
01:15:53.119 --> 01:16:01.000
the Cornerstones. Yeah uh and I
also played Chroma really yeah, right back

1180
01:16:01.039 --> 01:16:05.520
at Dice. The New Harmonic,
the New Harmonics shooter. What's up with

1181
01:16:05.640 --> 01:16:09.479
that? What's up with that?
Harmonics is working on a free to play

1182
01:16:09.520 --> 01:16:14.319
first person shooter for the PC,
and it's also being developed by Hidden Path,

1183
01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:17.399
which is the crew that did Counterstrike. Go oh right, okay,

1184
01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:20.760
they know shooters. Yeah, people
like that. So they are making a

1185
01:16:21.039 --> 01:16:27.880
music like a rhythm based shoot,
team based shooter. Class based is a

1186
01:16:27.960 --> 01:16:32.760
class based shooter in which music is
the weapon. I think the trailer says

1187
01:16:32.920 --> 01:16:35.800
music is your weapon. It says
music is your weapon, which is very

1188
01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:39.359
much not music as the weapon.
They knew what they were doing. Look,

1189
01:16:39.560 --> 01:16:43.079
it's you know, if you're making
that stuff in Boston, whether you're

1190
01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:45.399
aerosmith or harmonics. At some point
this is how it goes, right,

1191
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:50.680
Yeah, music is a weapon apparently? Yes? Do you shoot CDs out

1192
01:16:50.720 --> 01:16:57.880
of your gun? Sadly no?
Jeff? How is this shooter a music

1193
01:16:58.079 --> 01:17:01.680
game? Uh? So? That
happens in a handful of different ways.

1194
01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:06.039
Some of it is very simple stuff
like if you jump on the down beat,

1195
01:17:06.079 --> 01:17:11.239
you jump a little higher. There
are jump pads that will help you

1196
01:17:11.359 --> 01:17:14.319
kind of leap around a level really
quickly, and you have to hit the

1197
01:17:14.399 --> 01:17:15.880
jump You have to stand on those
hit the jump button in time with the

1198
01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:19.520
music to make it happen. So
you're kind of like traveling around the level

1199
01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:23.880
in time to the music to get
from place to place. But all of

1200
01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:28.560
the weapons fire rhythmically, and that
means different things for different classes, like

1201
01:17:28.760 --> 01:17:32.079
so that they're trying to make it
so if you don't understand anything about playing

1202
01:17:32.119 --> 01:17:36.800
rhythm games, you can play like
the Assault class, which it fires when

1203
01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:43.880
you hold down the fire button and
it's only reloading that needs there or benefits

1204
01:17:43.960 --> 01:17:46.000
from any kind of rhythm, so
it's like an active reload. Yeah,

1205
01:17:46.039 --> 01:17:49.279
it is an active reload where you're
hitting right mouse button for four beats in

1206
01:17:49.359 --> 01:17:54.119
a row, and if you get
it perfectly, you are getting some kind

1207
01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:58.560
of bonus. I guess every class
has two weapons, but then there are

1208
01:17:58.680 --> 01:18:00.680
classes like the Engineer, which is
it has dual pistols. They will lock

1209
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:04.000
onto a target if you stare at
it long enough, but it only fires.

1210
01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:11.039
Like there's literally a rock band style
note highway on the screen with it's

1211
01:18:11.079 --> 01:18:15.520
it's two lanes corresponding to left and
right mouse button, and it will only

1212
01:18:15.640 --> 01:18:17.359
fire if you are hitting those.
If you're just mashing on those buttons,

1213
01:18:17.439 --> 01:18:23.319
nothing ever happens. So you have
to fire in time to the music.

1214
01:18:23.479 --> 01:18:27.000
But it's tracking the dude, it's
locking on, so you don't necessarily have

1215
01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:29.319
to like line up a shot while
you're doing it, right, So you

1216
01:18:29.399 --> 01:18:31.600
lock on and then and then play
the track. Even reloading has to be

1217
01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:35.479
done by you playing the track.
Okay, it seems like that homing thing

1218
01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:39.039
saves it, because I if I
had to, if you had to do

1219
01:18:39.119 --> 01:18:40.960
both, you can never do it. You can never do it. Yeah,

1220
01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:44.199
this whole game seems to be a
giant question of balance. You know.

1221
01:18:44.359 --> 01:18:45.880
Yeah, it's like, do the
limitations of this weapon? Do you

1222
01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:49.000
make up for those limitations on like
the damage side or right? You get

1223
01:18:49.039 --> 01:18:53.640
some like I might be mismatching the
weapon in the effect, but I'd swear

1224
01:18:53.680 --> 01:18:56.239
I saw there was a grenade that
only explodes at the end of a measure

1225
01:18:56.600 --> 01:18:59.359
down beats, okay, explodes on
down beat. There was something that only

1226
01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:02.000
happens I think at the end of
every measure. I might be wrong,

1227
01:19:02.159 --> 01:19:04.520
but the point is, like,
you know, if you if you miss

1228
01:19:04.600 --> 01:19:08.960
a shot because it's about time with
music or you know, something happens,

1229
01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:13.399
it is detrimental to you because it
wasn't perfectly lined up like it seems like

1230
01:19:13.439 --> 01:19:15.079
that could get frustrating relation. And
that's what the sniper Riffle kind of was.

1231
01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:18.239
The sniper riffle is weird. It's
got a scope you can zoom in

1232
01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:23.279
and you can fire it at any
time, but going around the scope is

1233
01:19:23.399 --> 01:19:27.119
a kind of time meter that you
know, fills up at the end of

1234
01:19:27.119 --> 01:19:30.079
every measure. But maybe that's what
I'm say. So you can take that

1235
01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:33.000
shot at any time, but if
you can line up the shot and wait

1236
01:19:33.199 --> 01:19:36.920
until this thing is full then it
will do full damage, and that just

1237
01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:43.680
seems like something no one will ever
do. It's all real experimental. Yeah,

1238
01:19:43.760 --> 01:19:45.720
it sounds crazy. When they showed
it to us at dicele or they

1239
01:19:45.720 --> 01:19:48.760
were kind of showing it off.
They have not put out footage of it

1240
01:19:51.319 --> 01:19:55.720
of gameplay because the version they were
showing us was missing a lot of art

1241
01:19:56.079 --> 01:19:58.640
and they were just like, yeah, we're gearing up towards a closed alpha,

1242
01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:02.520
which they're taking sign ups for now, and uh, it's gonna look

1243
01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:06.199
a lot different over the next month
or so because we are ramming art into

1244
01:20:06.279 --> 01:20:10.600
it as quickly as possible as it's
getting finished. It's gonna look like the

1245
01:20:10.680 --> 01:20:14.680
trailer that like Weird Tron Worlds.
Yeah, it does sort of look like

1246
01:20:14.840 --> 01:20:16.359
that. Uh, it does sort
of look like that, like because in

1247
01:20:16.680 --> 01:20:19.600
the version we play there was like
Red Team and Blue Team, and each

1248
01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:23.239
team had kind of a different sound, so like it's the Blue It was

1249
01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:25.039
a control point map, but it
was like you had to take them over

1250
01:20:25.159 --> 01:20:27.960
in order. It wasn't just go
control all the points at once. It's

1251
01:20:28.000 --> 01:20:33.000
like you're pushing your way across a
mapt fighting over control points. Oh Sue,

1252
01:20:33.680 --> 01:20:40.279
you know, whole time. I
never realized you're fighting against other humans.

1253
01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:45.119
Yeah, okay, yes, it
is a competitive team based It is

1254
01:20:45.119 --> 01:20:49.760
Team Fortress too in tron World with
music, with music, it's original scores.

1255
01:20:49.800 --> 01:20:53.399
It sounds like, yes, you're
dropping in death. They're kind of

1256
01:20:53.439 --> 01:20:56.279
open. You can't just drop in
your own stuff, but they're they're cannot

1257
01:20:56.600 --> 01:21:00.279
you cannot. They are open to
exploring a lot of options. Basically,

1258
01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:01.560
it sounds like they're going to get
this alf out there see what people think

1259
01:21:01.560 --> 01:21:04.279
about it. I wonder if everybody
would have to be playing through the same

1260
01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:10.039
song or if it maps. It
very much matters because the level also changes,

1261
01:21:10.439 --> 01:21:14.079
so as you're on a map when
it reaches these kind of section end

1262
01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:16.720
points in a song, like parts
will grow up out of the level.

1263
01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:20.079
You know, bridges will appear or
water will appear that you can't Yeah,

1264
01:21:20.199 --> 01:21:28.439
yeah, exactly, bridge on the
bridge. There was no dub step,

1265
01:21:28.479 --> 01:21:30.399
you know, there's that's in the
trailer and they've been out there going like,

1266
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:32.800
look, guys, this isn't a
dub step shooter, because I think

1267
01:21:32.840 --> 01:21:36.920
people went, like the music stupid, but like it's so in the version

1268
01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:40.800
we play like. The Red Team
was a more rock focused team and the

1269
01:21:40.840 --> 01:21:44.439
Blue team was more kind of electronic
music, so as they took over the

1270
01:21:44.439 --> 01:21:46.760
control point, that would impact the
music that was playing in that section of

1271
01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:50.479
the map. And you know,
it's free to play, so it seemed

1272
01:21:50.479 --> 01:21:55.000
like some of the things they're exploring
is like, you know, it's cosmetic

1273
01:21:55.039 --> 01:21:58.159
in a weird way where you would
get you know, some other sound pack

1274
01:21:58.319 --> 01:22:00.600
or some other instrument pack for the
class, for this team or whatever.

1275
01:22:00.840 --> 01:22:04.520
So maybe you're the rock team against
the SKA team, or you know,

1276
01:22:04.760 --> 01:22:09.880
there's a lot of different places they
could take it. But so instead of

1277
01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:14.920
like red or blue your checker,
yeah, exactly nice, Yeah, but

1278
01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:16.920
that all sounds like, you know, every time that they go to add

1279
01:22:16.960 --> 01:22:21.199
one more sound pack to the game, they would then have to go remix

1280
01:22:21.560 --> 01:22:27.479
every single song in the game to
work with that sound pack, or like

1281
01:22:27.880 --> 01:22:30.880
other people hear your sound pack.
Yes, that would be the idea.

1282
01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:38.399
Yeah, but whilst you could have
a vote, well, so they weren't

1283
01:22:38.439 --> 01:22:44.319
sure if like sound pack would be
team wide or player specific, so you

1284
01:22:44.399 --> 01:22:46.359
could have like five different clashing sounds
on a team or well, you know

1285
01:22:46.479 --> 01:22:49.920
that there's a lot of stuff that
they had not committed to, and and

1286
01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:55.119
and had to kind of iron out
or just straight up weren't talking about at

1287
01:22:55.159 --> 01:22:58.560
that point. So I'm glad to
see somebody exploring it. It's something shooters

1288
01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:00.720
in music is something I've thought it
has been a long time. Yeah,

1289
01:23:01.039 --> 01:23:05.319
so glad to see, Hey,
I've got different ideas what that genre might

1290
01:23:05.359 --> 01:23:10.319
be, but I'm glad to see
other people finally exploring it. I think

1291
01:23:10.359 --> 01:23:12.920
it's I think there's interesting stuff to
do there. Yeah, I can't.

1292
01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:14.920
I kind of came away from it
going like, you know, there's something

1293
01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:17.319
to this. Like the version they
showed was super early, and it's kind

1294
01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:21.880
of hard to tell, you know, if that's necessarily on the right track.

1295
01:23:21.960 --> 01:23:26.560
But there are some cool ideas there, so if it all comes together,

1296
01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:28.720
it could be really neat. It
sounds like something I really want to

1297
01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:31.479
play, like just see how it
all works. Yeah, it's interesting to

1298
01:23:31.520 --> 01:23:35.560
see it all in motion. Like
I feel like in my head, the

1299
01:23:35.640 --> 01:23:41.720
thing that I always think about is
like editing video and cutting stuff to the

1300
01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:45.000
beat always makes it seem more impactful, and you know, gunshots and exposures,

1301
01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:47.920
So I think that's you know,
that's the ideal that they would be

1302
01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:51.560
going for. So try to create
a game full of those moments. Right,

1303
01:23:51.680 --> 01:23:57.239
So if you can get yeah right, kick drum or something like that

1304
01:23:57.399 --> 01:24:00.279
might be fun. Yeah, if
it works, I think liked said,

1305
01:24:00.319 --> 01:24:02.159
is it going to be a hell
of a balance. Yeah, yeah,

1306
01:24:02.279 --> 01:24:05.680
that's definitely. I think there will
be some players that are never going to

1307
01:24:05.840 --> 01:24:11.039
get into the idea of I pushed
the fire button then nothing happened. Yeah.

1308
01:24:12.079 --> 01:24:13.840
I mean, you know, at
the core, that's why Call of

1309
01:24:13.920 --> 01:24:15.079
Duty is so popular, right,
Like you line up your shot, you

1310
01:24:15.159 --> 01:24:18.000
take the shot. Second you take
the shot, something happens, that guy

1311
01:24:18.079 --> 01:24:21.239
goes down. Yeah, like it's
immediate. So I think that's why I

1312
01:24:21.359 --> 01:24:25.680
was thinking this whole thing was like
playing against it. Right now, it's

1313
01:24:26.079 --> 01:24:29.479
okay. The mode, I said, the mode that they were showing was

1314
01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:32.720
that kind of control points in order
kind of mode. But they also said

1315
01:24:32.720 --> 01:24:36.119
they're going to do like a cart
push, which is like straight up t

1316
01:24:36.239 --> 01:24:40.319
F two from the sounds of it, kind of moving the card around.

1317
01:24:40.399 --> 01:24:43.279
They have any dates on that stuffers
way too early. They are going to

1318
01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:46.479
start a small closed alpha pretty soon
here that they are taking sign ups for

1319
01:24:46.640 --> 01:24:49.239
right now, and their Steam page
says it will be out in May,

1320
01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:55.119
but like out out or well,
like Alpha out, I don't know,

1321
01:24:55.760 --> 01:24:59.000
well, none of the stuff that
they sent over as like, here are

1322
01:24:59.039 --> 01:25:01.079
the details about this game, said
may, but the Steam page says may,

1323
01:25:01.199 --> 01:25:04.760
so that who knows, Maybe it'll
be a work in progress for a

1324
01:25:04.840 --> 01:25:08.560
long Yeah, that's one of that's
one of those like free to play things,

1325
01:25:08.680 --> 01:25:11.279
right, is it's got to be
a work in progress forever or something.

1326
01:25:11.920 --> 01:25:15.640
So, yeah, there's something to
it. There's there's definitely something to

1327
01:25:15.720 --> 01:25:18.000
it. Uh So I'm kind of
curious to see how that all works out

1328
01:25:18.159 --> 01:25:24.279
for sure. Yeah, and that's
uh. Yeah, so that took place

1329
01:25:24.319 --> 01:25:26.920
at Dice, which, by the
way, at Dice, the Dice people

1330
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:30.000
have put up all the talks from
Dice. So if you want to watch

1331
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:36.600
Eugene Jarvis get honored, uh,
and you've watched Trip Hawkins say a bunch

1332
01:25:36.640 --> 01:25:42.079
of crazy shit about Angry Birds or
a bunch of crazy shit generally, but

1333
01:25:42.119 --> 01:25:44.720
then also be kind of salty about
the success of Angry Birds. Yeah,

1334
01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:46.239
I had no idea about that.
I didn't either. That's crazy, I

1335
01:25:46.279 --> 01:25:49.640
don't I didn't either. That Like
apparently the people that May made Angry Birds

1336
01:25:49.680 --> 01:25:54.560
were at Digital Chocolate and left and
made Angry Birds and then he was just

1337
01:25:54.640 --> 01:25:59.199
like we did it with a penguin, and it was just God, I've

1338
01:25:59.239 --> 01:26:03.960
done it with a pang. God. Damage from Pocus is yet to sign

1339
01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:06.039
them for any kind of No.
No, they're all just on YouTube.

1340
01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:08.960
But if you go to if you
go to their site, they have like

1341
01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:11.680
easy links to all of that stuff, like a playlist or whatever. You

1342
01:26:11.720 --> 01:26:14.159
can watch the award show. I
don't quality, I don't know, watch

1343
01:26:14.199 --> 01:26:16.359
the award show. It's all right, okay, so you know you can

1344
01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:20.479
hear the people talking. Ted Price's
talk was more about kind of leadership and

1345
01:26:20.560 --> 01:26:25.439
courage and leadership and stuff like that
that you know, it's a kind of

1346
01:26:25.479 --> 01:26:29.560
some free management training if you haven't
gone through management training. Uh. When

1347
01:26:29.560 --> 01:26:31.520
I went through management training, it
was just that it was it not Ted

1348
01:26:31.560 --> 01:26:36.079
Price. Though. It was not
Ted Price, so way less convincing resistance.

1349
01:26:36.319 --> 01:26:42.640
Yeah, okay, let's get into
some Well okay, so this is

1350
01:26:42.680 --> 01:26:45.359
not quite news, but it's you
know, it's everyone's talking about it.

1351
01:26:45.840 --> 01:26:53.640
They playing Pokemon on Twitch. The
thing everyone's talking. Everyone's talking about great

1352
01:26:53.720 --> 01:26:57.920
Twitch plays Pokemon. That's all I
did up like seventy eight thousand people this

1353
01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:00.520
morning. There were over ninety thousand
people. It was down to about eighty

1354
01:27:00.640 --> 01:27:05.399
last time I checked, But it
is and that's around the clock. Yeah,

1355
01:27:05.399 --> 01:27:09.960
it has been going for about five
six days now. I think they

1356
01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:13.039
have an insane pile of money.
I don't know. Yeah, maybe,

1357
01:27:13.079 --> 01:27:15.600
oh yeah, I wonder how they're
monetizing that. It's they're getting there.

1358
01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:19.520
There are pre roles, but uh
the person behind the channel who was I

1359
01:27:19.560 --> 01:27:24.800
guess, remained anonymous thus far.
This is not a twitch No, no,

1360
01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:28.159
no, no. Like I wonder
if you'd have to some point say

1361
01:27:28.239 --> 01:27:30.079
like, I can't mind, I
can't take money for this because of the

1362
01:27:30.159 --> 01:27:35.239
ship I'm doing to this game,
you know, like this is he did

1363
01:27:35.319 --> 01:27:39.520
not create Pokemon. I assume he
does not have the source code to Pokemon.

1364
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:42.560
Well, at some point you are
like saying, no one should make

1365
01:27:42.600 --> 01:27:45.479
money from streaming anything. Ever,
I'm saying he has gone in and obviously

1366
01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:51.800
done things to Pokemon. How is
he taking inputs? There's a there's a

1367
01:27:51.880 --> 01:27:56.079
script that is being piped to an
emulator that is running the wrong Okay,

1368
01:27:56.159 --> 01:28:03.359
so okay, person types left,
person in chat types left, it theoretically

1369
01:28:03.399 --> 01:28:09.319
goes left. But because Pokemon only
takes inputs when it's not moving or anything

1370
01:28:09.399 --> 01:28:12.000
like that. If you if it's
already moving one square to the left and

1371
01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:15.439
you say up, it doesn't do
anything. So there are only set intervals

1372
01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:17.840
when it will take input. And
there are tens of thousands of people just

1373
01:28:17.920 --> 01:28:21.359
typing garbage, typing garbage commands over
and over again. We're left up up

1374
01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:26.600
a start and they're just people,
just assholes, just making it hitting start

1375
01:28:26.640 --> 01:28:29.800
to bring the menu up, and
they have disposed of key items. They

1376
01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:33.399
have let like high level Pokemon free, but they have also beaten like four

1377
01:28:33.520 --> 01:28:39.239
of the gyms whoa Like, it's
they're making real progress, but also it's

1378
01:28:39.279 --> 01:28:44.279
fucking chaos and it's insane. This
is like, it is amazing, the

1379
01:28:44.439 --> 01:28:50.279
actual manifestation of a thousand monkeys totally
on a thousand typewriters. Yeah, pretty

1380
01:28:50.359 --> 01:28:53.800
much. So you'll have people that
have a basic idea of what they want

1381
01:28:53.840 --> 01:28:56.880
to do fighting against people that are
just typing start over and over again.

1382
01:28:56.920 --> 01:28:59.760
It's crazy. Or you know,
there was, oh, man, like

1383
01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:04.560
most of yesterday or maybe it was
Sunday or maybe both, there was this

1384
01:29:04.640 --> 01:29:10.159
one area where there were a series
of ledges, like kind of three or

1385
01:29:10.199 --> 01:29:13.079
four of them, and there was
one kind of staircase that would take you

1386
01:29:13.199 --> 01:29:15.000
up the ledge, but if you
walked down off the ledge anywhere, you

1387
01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:18.479
would fall, and they just needed
to walk up, but so many people

1388
01:29:18.520 --> 01:29:23.760
were typing down they would just get
you know, or trying to get left

1389
01:29:23.800 --> 01:29:26.319
and right to get to the staircase
to go up the ledge. They would

1390
01:29:26.319 --> 01:29:28.600
then just keep walking off down the
ledge, down the ledge, down ledge,

1391
01:29:28.960 --> 01:29:30.840
like a half a day, if
not more, just on this one

1392
01:29:30.960 --> 01:29:36.720
spot. It's a it's a fantastic
statement. Yeah. The Internet totally about

1393
01:29:36.840 --> 01:29:42.720
games. So they have rent of
they have revised the algorithm that it uses

1394
01:29:42.880 --> 01:29:45.960
take inputs. The thing that changed
when I saw it this morning is they

1395
01:29:46.000 --> 01:29:50.720
now have two modes. That mode
of people just typing everything and it taking

1396
01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:56.720
input. When it is taking input
is called anarchy, and they have another

1397
01:29:56.760 --> 01:30:00.000
mode called democracy. And when you're
in democracy mode, it takes votes.

1398
01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:03.880
So people type all the commands.
You see the votes kind of instantly tally

1399
01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:06.520
and it eventually takes the motion.
It's ten seconds. I don't you know,

1400
01:30:06.640 --> 01:30:11.560
I don't know how how frequent it
is. So you can also input

1401
01:30:11.960 --> 01:30:14.920
strings of commands at that point,
so you can go up to left two

1402
01:30:15.399 --> 01:30:17.880
as your vote. Only in democracy
mode, and somebody would have to have

1403
01:30:17.960 --> 01:30:21.439
the exact same string. Yeah,
okay, how did it change from is

1404
01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:26.119
it on the guys? People?
People are also, in addition to the

1405
01:30:26.199 --> 01:30:30.000
button commands, typing either anarchy or
democracy and it'll swing this. You'll see

1406
01:30:30.039 --> 01:30:34.439
a meter swing back and forth in
real time as it's tallying it up and

1407
01:30:34.479 --> 01:30:36.920
when it gets over to the side
like it was in democracy mode. When

1408
01:30:36.920 --> 01:30:40.560
I fired it up this morning.
I checked it before we came up here.

1409
01:30:41.560 --> 01:30:44.119
It was back in any and people
just type anarchy, anarchy, anarky,

1410
01:30:44.159 --> 01:30:47.039
anarchy, and then they start type
start nine to hit the start button

1411
01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:49.840
nine times in a row. I
wonder how it knows. So would you

1412
01:30:49.880 --> 01:30:55.840
have to do like a comma B
comma up, comma left comma Know how

1413
01:30:55.880 --> 01:31:00.520
people are typing string You're typing like
up to left two okay or eight left

1414
01:31:00.560 --> 01:31:04.840
eight eight eight or you know whatever
it is, okay, man, So

1415
01:31:04.880 --> 01:31:10.000
anarchy wouldn't count as an a press
no, no, no, recognize it.

1416
01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:12.479
Yeah it recognized. Yeah. The
whole thing I think is fantastic.

1417
01:31:12.600 --> 01:31:15.720
It is the if you are not
playing right, you know, learn to

1418
01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:17.279
play this game. You're not playing
this game right. Taken to its extreme.

1419
01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:21.920
Oh, and seeing people get angry
is so much fun because there are

1420
01:31:21.960 --> 01:31:27.199
people in there. It's like they're
trying to coordinate the world's largest wave and

1421
01:31:27.239 --> 01:31:30.760
then getting angry when people aren't doing
the wave right or like no, we're

1422
01:31:30.800 --> 01:31:33.079
gonna sing rod rod rod your boat. Then you come in. No,

1423
01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:35.840
you came in early. So it's
people going like, no, you need

1424
01:31:35.960 --> 01:31:40.479
you're not sticking to the plan.
Yeah, click this, like read the

1425
01:31:40.520 --> 01:31:44.199
plan, this is what we need
to do. Let's start. Yeah,

1426
01:31:44.399 --> 01:31:46.199
and then just and then I was
just in there typing start over and over

1427
01:31:46.239 --> 01:31:50.439
again, because fu fuck them.
You need you need all types of people

1428
01:31:50.479 --> 01:31:55.720
to make that thing go exactly.
You want chaos. But even in democracy

1429
01:31:55.800 --> 01:32:00.199
mode it is still plenty chaos.
Did the game Boy not have a uh

1430
01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:06.199
uh push like four buttons reset the
device thing like some of them I think

1431
01:32:06.239 --> 01:32:10.319
some games may have. But also
you can't hit multiple buttons at the same

1432
01:32:10.359 --> 01:32:14.039
time. Oh okay, so the
processes in a row. Okay, that's

1433
01:32:14.319 --> 01:32:17.760
safe. Yeah. For a while. The solution to the because of the

1434
01:32:17.800 --> 01:32:20.920
start problem, like people would type
and start and when it got got taken,

1435
01:32:20.960 --> 01:32:25.279
the menu would come up. Yeah, and that's how you got situations

1436
01:32:25.319 --> 01:32:27.960
where it's just like looking at these
objects over and over and again that have

1437
01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:30.960
no bearing on This's like you can't
use that here. Yeah yeah, or

1438
01:32:30.359 --> 01:32:34.399
like the fucking up and releasing Pokemon, so they can't do that anymore.

1439
01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:39.640
You can. But so what they
did for a while was sometimes the start

1440
01:32:39.640 --> 01:32:43.880
button would get disabled and it would
randomly work again for a while. So

1441
01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:45.880
people sometimes you would see start come
up on the stream where they're kind of

1442
01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:48.960
processing commands. It would be great
out so you'd see like that's not going

1443
01:32:49.039 --> 01:32:51.439
to get processed, But sometimes it
would be could you quit the game?

1444
01:32:54.279 --> 01:32:57.680
I don't know that it has a
quit two menu function you can save,

1445
01:32:58.000 --> 01:33:00.720
but I think you quit by turning
it off. Okay, so there's no

1446
01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:03.119
way to de leade to save.
I don't believe. So, I don't

1447
01:33:03.119 --> 01:33:08.359
believe. So you'd have to maybe
reset the device. Yeah, probably.

1448
01:33:09.279 --> 01:33:12.520
Yeah. The whole the whole concept
is great, fantastic, and I fully

1449
01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:15.680
support it. I think it is. Take a look at this. Is

1450
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:17.760
this where you want ahead? Is
this the future? You want? Think

1451
01:33:17.760 --> 01:33:21.800
about this? Think about what you're
looking at. Yes, I want to

1452
01:33:21.880 --> 01:33:26.680
destroy what all anarchy? Anarchy?
Anarchy, anarchy, I want to type

1453
01:33:26.720 --> 01:33:30.239
anarchy forever. Oh, I want
the end of the world. It's the

1454
01:33:30.399 --> 01:33:35.520
only way out, he said,
is a was the did they name him?

1455
01:33:35.920 --> 01:33:39.600
Does he have a name? Did
they get get to the point where

1456
01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:43.119
the trainer the trainers named Red because
it's Pokemon Red. But a lot of

1457
01:33:43.159 --> 01:33:46.960
the Pokemon got gibberish names that then
people tried to make into nicknames that they

1458
01:33:47.039 --> 01:33:51.560
could remember them by. But the
two that had the best nicknames were the

1459
01:33:51.840 --> 01:33:59.319
ones that got released. It's yeah, like i've I've I turned it on

1460
01:33:59.479 --> 01:34:01.680
randomly when they were getting into one
of the fights against some one of the

1461
01:34:01.720 --> 01:34:08.079
gym leaders, and it was awesome
to watch they and they won. Yeah,

1462
01:34:08.239 --> 01:34:12.960
eventually eventually because they've been grinding for
hundreds of you know, like a

1463
01:34:13.079 --> 01:34:16.159
hundred hours. Yeah, they're Pokemon
on all level eight totally. Yeah,

1464
01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:19.319
you know they're they're because they're getting
in all these random fights and doing all

1465
01:34:19.319 --> 01:34:21.920
those random bullshit along the way.
It's taking forever to get there, so

1466
01:34:21.960 --> 01:34:25.840
they're ending up with Pokemon that are
usually over leveled by the time they get

1467
01:34:25.880 --> 01:34:28.600
there. But they're not playing with
any kind of real strategy because it's impossible

1468
01:34:28.800 --> 01:34:31.800
because the twitch stream, I mean, remember Twitch implemented that long delay on

1469
01:34:31.960 --> 01:34:34.800
top of this, so it's not
you're typing it and then seeing it.

1470
01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:39.159
You're typing it with thousands of other
people. You're seeing stuff scroll by at

1471
01:34:39.199 --> 01:34:43.399
a blinding rate, but it's also
happening forty seconds of the future. Yeah.

1472
01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:45.600
Yeah, I wonder what that says
about the Pokemon's game design, whether

1473
01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:53.119
it's rock solid or terrible. I
just it's it's more of a factor of

1474
01:34:53.239 --> 01:34:58.680
time than anything that you could just
I wonder if you like recreated this,

1475
01:34:58.800 --> 01:35:02.439
but instead of having people put in
the commands, just random so that exists

1476
01:35:03.199 --> 01:35:08.239
that is called r n G plays
Pokemon, oh boy, and they are

1477
01:35:08.359 --> 01:35:12.319
running all fired up and see if
it's still running. They are just running

1478
01:35:12.319 --> 01:35:16.159
a random number generator that is randomly
pushing buttons. They are also running the

1479
01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:21.199
emulator at five speed, so it
is kind of burning through things a little

1480
01:35:21.239 --> 01:35:26.000
more quickly, or at least it
theoretically could be. But it's also pure

1481
01:35:26.079 --> 01:35:28.880
chaos. I'll load this up and
see how it's going. Oh, this

1482
01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:33.359
might be running playing Pokemon Crystal,
So I wonder which one would be quicker,

1483
01:35:35.039 --> 01:35:40.720
you know, like, is there
some something about a human collective human

1484
01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:44.680
human CONTI I think there is I
think that because on the human side,

1485
01:35:44.880 --> 01:35:49.600
maybe maybe less so now because it
has become so popular. But you know,

1486
01:35:49.880 --> 01:35:53.560
enough humans pushing it in the right
direction, knowing where they needed to

1487
01:35:53.640 --> 01:35:55.720
go. It was getting there,
like I said, they you know,

1488
01:35:55.880 --> 01:36:00.720
they've they've gone pretty far. They've
beaten a handful of these gems, whereas

1489
01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:08.600
the random number generator might just run
around in the tall grass forever. Yeah,

1490
01:36:08.760 --> 01:36:10.720
is that the random one? That's
the random one? Al right,

1491
01:36:10.800 --> 01:36:14.800
So it's just it's just sped up
and randomly running through games. And yeah,

1492
01:36:16.399 --> 01:36:18.840
any idea where it's at in the
game. No, I don't know

1493
01:36:18.960 --> 01:36:23.640
Pokemon well enough to know, but
it okay, maybe they restarted it,

1494
01:36:23.760 --> 01:36:30.680
because yeah, they must have restarted
it because it's Pokemon's level five. So

1495
01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:33.880
next we need to start running songs
through here to see you know, like

1496
01:36:34.399 --> 01:36:41.760
if the entire Elo catalog could make
it through Pokemon by assigning tones different keys

1497
01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:45.239
and then and then you can write
the perfect Pokemon song. Yeah, and

1498
01:36:45.319 --> 01:36:50.800
who can get like damn fucking Aerosmith
yea makes it through Pokemon. Music is

1499
01:36:50.840 --> 01:36:54.960
the weapon? Yeah they know it. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

1500
01:36:55.239 --> 01:36:59.079
So this so this thing so so
that one's interesting the random number generator

1501
01:36:59.159 --> 01:37:00.880
is interesting. The other one that
I saw that was kind of cool was

1502
01:37:01.800 --> 01:37:09.399
someone was taking the chat inputs from
the original Pokemon stream and then filtering that

1503
01:37:09.640 --> 01:37:15.560
into Tetris for the NES. So
it's using the same inputs as the Pokemon

1504
01:37:15.720 --> 01:37:20.079
second, right, so they're using
game Genie codes that let you push up

1505
01:37:20.239 --> 01:37:27.000
to move the blocks up. Yeah, so the blockers just sitting the blocks

1506
01:37:27.079 --> 01:37:32.199
are just going all over the place. Uh. And then there are a

1507
01:37:32.319 --> 01:37:35.640
ton of knockoffs of this. One
started up this morning. That is street

1508
01:37:35.680 --> 01:37:41.840
Fighter two running, but like you
know, different inputs for both players.

1509
01:37:42.039 --> 01:37:45.479
And that's that seems to be going
nowhere. A ton of different Pokemon runs

1510
01:37:45.600 --> 01:37:47.840
trying to do the same thing,
Like none of them are catching on the

1511
01:37:47.880 --> 01:37:50.279
same way the original did. And
and those other two I mentioned, I

1512
01:37:50.319 --> 01:37:59.079
think are are interesting and doing something
really different. You work on typing,

1513
01:37:59.119 --> 01:38:01.199
B, I'll work on type,
but just people just like no, no,

1514
01:38:01.279 --> 01:38:04.279
no, it's gotta be always gotta
alternate. Well, so you'll be

1515
01:38:04.319 --> 01:38:06.560
in charge of BS, I'll be
in charge of a's. We'll just spam

1516
01:38:06.600 --> 01:38:09.680
them out as fast as we can
and hope it lines up. But nobody

1517
01:38:09.720 --> 01:38:13.199
would ever do it everybody would just
yeah, that'd be just too much.

1518
01:38:13.239 --> 01:38:15.960
It's all you're gonna do dive kick. That kick could be pretty good.

1519
01:38:16.960 --> 01:38:24.680
Man. It's great concept. I
love it. Yeah, it's it's it's

1520
01:38:24.800 --> 01:38:29.000
great, and it ties into a
lot of the stuff I think with you

1521
01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:30.159
know, the stuff we were talking
about with Jeff Mentor and with you know,

1522
01:38:30.279 --> 01:38:33.119
kind of remixers and stuff like that. They're like, this stuff is

1523
01:38:33.199 --> 01:38:39.880
all quasi legal in the grand scheme
of things. It's well, whatever emulation

1524
01:38:40.039 --> 01:38:44.039
is legal, that's the the If
you've got the downloading these ROMs, you

1525
01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:47.960
check it out for twenty four hours, then has no you know, you

1526
01:38:48.039 --> 01:38:53.439
can dump your own cartridges and and
and that's technically legal, and as long

1527
01:38:53.479 --> 01:38:56.159
as you're not going into the game
and fucking around with the code, then

1528
01:38:56.239 --> 01:38:59.640
I think you're over. So on
this mainstream they are running a hacked version

1529
01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:02.920
of the ROM that lets you get
all one hundred and fifty one Pokemon without

1530
01:39:03.000 --> 01:39:06.319
trading, because it was it's you'd
have to trade with Blue to get them

1531
01:39:06.359 --> 01:39:11.199
all. And they say that this
is some modified version of the game,

1532
01:39:11.920 --> 01:39:14.359
but not in a in a grandiose
way. I think it's just like we'll

1533
01:39:14.399 --> 01:39:16.840
make it so everything shows up everywhere, or that you can potentially get all

1534
01:39:16.880 --> 01:39:21.239
of them from one copy of the
game. Really shitty. If like Nintendo

1535
01:39:21.319 --> 01:39:26.079
went out for him to shut it
down, it would, yeah, but

1536
01:39:26.199 --> 01:39:32.760
may help they do better by,
you know, letting people experience the magic.

1537
01:39:33.399 --> 01:39:36.319
I think, uh, in a
lot of ways than to yeah,

1538
01:39:36.439 --> 01:39:42.199
than to than to try to shut
down this stuff. And yeah, man,

1539
01:39:42.359 --> 01:39:44.479
it's it's one of those things.
Like I said, it's it's only

1540
01:39:44.560 --> 01:39:51.760
possible because of the pervasiveness of emulation
and the new pervasiveness of streaming. Ye

1541
01:39:54.079 --> 01:39:56.520
that that a lot of the stuff
is happening. You know, you're starting

1542
01:39:56.560 --> 01:40:01.039
to see people that are like randomly
glitching ROMs. They're running for artistic purposes.

1543
01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:03.439
You know, you say what you
will about whether it's good art or

1544
01:40:03.520 --> 01:40:09.680
bad art. I think it's fun. It's cool to see. But there

1545
01:40:09.720 --> 01:40:13.079
are are Lewis scripts out there for
emulators. Theyll let you pick up Mega

1546
01:40:13.119 --> 01:40:15.399
Man with a mouse and drag him
around the screen and then let off and

1547
01:40:15.520 --> 01:40:20.399
let it keep running. You know, like people are doing interesting things.

1548
01:40:20.439 --> 01:40:26.880
People are finding out more things about
these games. People are finding hidden photos

1549
01:40:26.920 --> 01:40:31.319
of Dave Lange and cartridges because of
emulation. Because this stuff is out there

1550
01:40:31.399 --> 01:40:34.920
because you anyone can be a video
game historian as long as you are willing

1551
01:40:35.000 --> 01:40:39.199
to live on the other side of
the law. In this technical, weird

1552
01:40:39.279 --> 01:40:44.279
way. It is sort of victim
lists but maybe also crushing Nintendo's virtual console

1553
01:40:44.319 --> 01:40:48.359
business. Let's be honest here,
that probably has a real impact. Hey,

1554
01:40:48.399 --> 01:40:51.000
you know, I don't know,
they're not doing that great a job

1555
01:40:51.039 --> 01:40:54.960
on their own. They're doing a
terrible job with the virtual console. But

1556
01:40:55.079 --> 01:40:59.640
you know, if but imagine if
none of this emulation stuff existed and that

1557
01:40:59.720 --> 01:41:01.039
was the only way you could get
it, we'd all be broken not play

1558
01:41:01.079 --> 01:41:03.319
any game, all right, you
wouldn't. You wouldn't have that comparison point

1559
01:41:03.319 --> 01:41:10.479
anymore. Of like it's trivial for
anyone to get these games. Right then

1560
01:41:10.520 --> 01:41:14.159
you're gonna charge me like ten bucks
for the shitty one. Yeah, and

1561
01:41:14.239 --> 01:41:19.000
it's terrible and it's not as feature
rich as right. Yeah, it's weird

1562
01:41:19.279 --> 01:41:24.000
that that stuff coming. There are
people out there coding achievements into old video

1563
01:41:24.079 --> 01:41:29.039
games. That it's crazy, Like
there's there's there's a lot of great stuff

1564
01:41:29.039 --> 01:41:32.399
happening around old games, but it's
happening in this you know, like relatively

1565
01:41:32.520 --> 01:41:36.199
lawless, like kind of gray area. But that's the most exciting stuff.

1566
01:41:36.199 --> 01:41:40.239
Always has it always has been,
Yeah, totally, and like that's the

1567
01:41:40.279 --> 01:41:42.840
stuff when you look at like big
outlets, even us, like we're not

1568
01:41:42.920 --> 01:41:45.199
gonna go there. We kind of
can't really, but like that's the future.

1569
01:41:45.439 --> 01:41:47.960
Some of that stuff has changed a
little bit a bit. But like

1570
01:41:48.079 --> 01:41:50.760
when I think of, like what's
the next video game feature, like how

1571
01:41:50.800 --> 01:41:54.960
do you make a feature with video
games? Video game game show? Like

1572
01:41:55.079 --> 01:41:58.479
this is the ship? I think
is awesome? The billion people playing Pokemon

1573
01:41:58.880 --> 01:42:01.239
at the same time. Fucking genius. That's great. Yeah, yeah,

1574
01:42:01.560 --> 01:42:04.600
yes, that's what do you say, ninety thousand people playing at that time?

1575
01:42:04.680 --> 01:42:09.840
Boom? I don't care about what
guns are in the next big game

1576
01:42:09.880 --> 01:42:12.840
release. I want to watch this
stupid ass thing happening. Yeah. I

1577
01:42:15.560 --> 01:42:17.920
can find out whatever fucking guns are
gonna be in that game anytime. I

1578
01:42:17.960 --> 01:42:23.479
don't want to miss this. Yeah
that's great. There's a heel beam in

1579
01:42:23.600 --> 01:42:27.119
Chroma while we're talking about the guns
of Chroma. Great, what else?

1580
01:42:27.600 --> 01:42:30.520
I have to wait until next week? That's right for the next gun reveal?

1581
01:42:30.960 --> 01:42:32.079
Now they actually they when it came
out and said what all the guns

1582
01:42:32.119 --> 01:42:35.600
do would waste an opportunity. I
know could have the guns of Chroma.

1583
01:42:35.720 --> 01:42:41.199
There's a rocket launcher that will re
aim at enemies. You lock onto it,

1584
01:42:41.319 --> 01:42:43.119
fire it, and then if they
move out of the way, you

1585
01:42:43.319 --> 01:42:45.399
hit the fire button on beat with
the music and it adjusts every time.

1586
01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:50.960
It's so kind of keeps its great
the edge, take them to the edge.

1587
01:42:51.000 --> 01:42:57.760
And that's right, you two.
Let's get into proper news. Irrational

1588
01:42:57.840 --> 01:43:05.119
Games MHM is on whoa what dude, Irrational Games is shutting out? Is

1589
01:43:05.159 --> 01:43:08.920
that just for effect? Yeah?
Okay, I'm the audience surrogate. Brad.

1590
01:43:10.960 --> 01:43:15.359
Wait what Yeah, that's actually the
reaction you had, not Yeah,

1591
01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:19.000
I was We told you that what
and I wish that we hadn't said anything

1592
01:43:19.039 --> 01:43:28.840
until we got you up here and
said what shutting down? Can lop BioShock

1593
01:43:29.479 --> 01:43:34.079
flop floppy bird. I didn't want
you to be an audience surrogate in that

1594
01:43:34.159 --> 01:43:39.760
way. I'm gonna keep the flop. And man, the number of people

1595
01:43:39.960 --> 01:43:43.399
coming out this morning going like,
well fuck BioShock inf it was terrible anyway.

1596
01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:45.159
Really yeah, really I didn't see
any of that song. I don't

1597
01:43:45.159 --> 01:43:49.479
know what internet were you on.
You're on some fucking grunge k bullshit.

1598
01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:54.399
I think you know you want that
was actually on Twitter that I saw that

1599
01:43:55.439 --> 01:43:57.479
you weren't. It wasn't. It
wasn't that many people. But just like,

1600
01:43:57.560 --> 01:44:00.359
come on, man, have a
little bit of respect for come on.

1601
01:44:00.640 --> 01:44:02.680
So what's the story? The story
is Ken. There's an update from

1602
01:44:02.800 --> 01:44:06.520
Ken Levine on the Irrational site that
I actually have here in its entirety that

1603
01:44:06.560 --> 01:44:10.880
I could read if you like,
could your paraphrase? How long is it?

1604
01:44:11.119 --> 01:44:14.199
It's just those two paragraphs in the
middle of it kind of sum it

1605
01:44:14.279 --> 01:44:15.319
all up. Yeah, yeah,
you know. He talks about the kind

1606
01:44:15.359 --> 01:44:17.960
of the founding of the studio and
all that sort of stuff and kind of

1607
01:44:18.000 --> 01:44:20.840
gets to a point w says,
well, what's next? Here we go.

1608
01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:26.039
Seventeen years is a long time to
do any job, even the best

1609
01:44:26.119 --> 01:44:28.359
one, and working with the incredible
team, but Irrational Games is d the

1610
01:44:28.399 --> 01:44:30.560
best job I've ever had. While
I'm deeply proud of what we've accomplished together,

1611
01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:33.199
my passion has turned to making a
different kind of game that we've done

1612
01:44:33.199 --> 01:44:36.239
before. To meet the challenge ahead, I need to refocus my energy on

1613
01:44:36.279 --> 01:44:40.840
a smaller team with a flatter structure
and a more direct relationship with gamers.

1614
01:44:41.840 --> 01:44:44.560
In many ways, it will be
a return to how we started a small

1615
01:44:44.600 --> 01:44:47.520
team making games for the core gaming
audience. I am winding down Irrational Games

1616
01:44:47.560 --> 01:44:51.560
as you know it. I'll be
starting a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at

1617
01:44:51.600 --> 01:44:56.000
Take two. This is going to
mean parting ways with all but about fifteen

1618
01:44:56.079 --> 01:44:58.760
members of the Irrational team. There's
no great way to lay people off,

1619
01:44:58.800 --> 01:45:00.399
and our first concern is to make
sure that the people who are leaving here

1620
01:45:00.760 --> 01:45:04.600
have as much support as we can
give them during this transition. Then they

1621
01:45:04.680 --> 01:45:08.880
talk about, you know, he
talks about how there's going to be support

1622
01:45:08.960 --> 01:45:12.840
for these people to find them other
jobs and recruiting, you know, endeavors

1623
01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:16.800
and stuff like that. So why
couldn't he just pull a Infinity ward and

1624
01:45:16.920 --> 01:45:21.239
go start his own gig. He
was going to do that, he goes

1625
01:45:21.319 --> 01:45:25.560
on. In time, we'll announce
a new endeavor with a new goal to

1626
01:45:25.600 --> 01:45:29.479
make narrative driven games for the core
gamer that are highly replayable. To foster

1627
01:45:29.600 --> 01:45:32.439
the most direct relationship with our fans
possible, we will focus exclusively on content

1628
01:45:32.520 --> 01:45:35.960
delivered digitally. When I first contemplated
what I wanted to do, it became

1629
01:45:36.039 --> 01:45:39.199
very clear to me that we were
going to need a long period of design.

1630
01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:41.760
Initially, I thought the only way
to build this venture was with a

1631
01:45:41.840 --> 01:45:44.920
classic start up model, a risk
I was prepared to take. But when

1632
01:45:44.920 --> 01:45:46.479
I talked to Take two about the
idea, they convinced me that there was

1633
01:45:46.520 --> 01:45:54.079
no better place to pursue this new
chapter than within their walls. H goes

1634
01:45:54.119 --> 01:45:57.119
on to thank the fans, and
if we're lucky, we'll build something half

1635
01:45:57.119 --> 01:46:00.880
as memorable as BioShock. We'll do
our best to update in the space as

1636
01:46:00.960 --> 01:46:03.039
questions come in. So, Brat, I have a question for you.

1637
01:46:03.520 --> 01:46:06.279
What do you exactly? I talked
a little bit to Jeff about this.

1638
01:46:06.359 --> 01:46:10.520
Do you think this is where?
Do you think this initiated the journey?

1639
01:46:10.680 --> 01:46:14.560
That was the thing that I especially
as I saw this huge outpouring of negativity

1640
01:46:14.560 --> 01:46:16.399
towards kindline this morning, just all
these people going like, well, the

1641
01:46:16.479 --> 01:46:19.640
fucking the creators on Easy Street while
he fires everybody, fucking asshole, So

1642
01:46:19.920 --> 01:46:21.880
what do you think? So?
Yeah, so the whole we'll think about

1643
01:46:21.920 --> 01:46:29.520
the other side of that though.
If the creator doesn't have his heart in

1644
01:46:29.560 --> 01:46:33.000
that project anymore, should he be
then tethered to these life. Well,

1645
01:46:33.279 --> 01:46:35.199
first of all, I'm not agreeing
with that sent up at all, but

1646
01:46:35.319 --> 01:46:38.520
more to the point, Yeah,
like that was the exact question I was,

1647
01:46:38.560 --> 01:46:41.520
I'll talk to Alex about it.
So and I was amusing about that.

1648
01:46:41.720 --> 01:46:46.279
It's either either he said I want
to make smaller games and they convinced

1649
01:46:46.359 --> 01:46:49.199
him not to leave and stay there
and did it, or they came in

1650
01:46:49.319 --> 01:46:53.000
and they said, we are shutting
your studio down. You can hang around

1651
01:46:53.039 --> 01:46:55.479
with the Skeleton crew if you want. Okay, Yeah, So what do

1652
01:46:55.520 --> 01:46:57.600
you think. I don't know.
I don't think there's really any way to

1653
01:46:57.760 --> 01:47:00.439
I mean, he'd obviously takes like
full responsibility for it in this in this

1654
01:47:00.560 --> 01:47:03.920
messaging. I think we were talking
about it. So we did that interview.

1655
01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:09.000
Yeah, sure, we did that
interview with with Ken Levine when he

1656
01:47:09.079 --> 01:47:12.880
came in, you know a little
bit before BioShock Infinite was released and kind

1657
01:47:12.920 --> 01:47:15.479
of asked like, you know,
what's you know, you're going to sign

1658
01:47:15.600 --> 01:47:18.119
up for this whole you know,
he kind of talked about the process of

1659
01:47:18.199 --> 01:47:21.159
starting one of these projects and going
through it again, and talked about it

1660
01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:24.560
in this way of like, you
know, because he's got his screenwriting thing,

1661
01:47:24.600 --> 01:47:27.520
because his Logan's run right, yeah. Yeah, which I initially when

1662
01:47:27.520 --> 01:47:29.159
I heard this news, before I
read the thing, I was like,

1663
01:47:29.279 --> 01:47:30.640
Oh, he's just going off to
be a screenwriter now, I mean,

1664
01:47:31.439 --> 01:47:34.520
you know, assuming you know,
the smaller projects, mean you know,

1665
01:47:34.560 --> 01:47:38.600
like a slightly less time investment once
the design ramp up is complete, right,

1666
01:47:38.720 --> 01:47:41.079
Like it would leave him time,
sure maybe, but at least he's

1667
01:47:41.079 --> 01:47:45.640
still staying in games. Yeah.
Yeah. But when we talked to him

1668
01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:48.600
then I got the impression that he
was kind of at a crossroads in a

1669
01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:51.199
lot of ways of just like,
you know, is this is this really

1670
01:47:51.239 --> 01:47:55.479
the thing I wanted? Am I
ready to sign up for another beast like

1671
01:47:55.640 --> 01:47:57.760
this? Another? I mean,
god, what was it? It was

1672
01:47:57.800 --> 01:48:01.920
almost a six year cycle, something
like like late latesh mid to late seven

1673
01:48:02.800 --> 01:48:13.119
through Yeah. Yeah. So none
of this really surprised me because of that,

1674
01:48:13.199 --> 01:48:15.920
because it's you know, I looked
in the man's eyes. He seemed

1675
01:48:15.920 --> 01:48:17.279
like, you know, he was
a guy that had a lot to think

1676
01:48:17.319 --> 01:48:20.760
about in terms of what he wanted
to do next. Uh, and and

1677
01:48:20.920 --> 01:48:25.680
that you know, just trucking on
and let's make another BioShock or let's make

1678
01:48:25.720 --> 01:48:29.920
another something else that is this same
size and scope and you know, be

1679
01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:33.520
put through the ringer on this again
didn't necessarily seem like his first choice.

1680
01:48:34.000 --> 01:48:38.159
I am surprised he's not doing his
own thing. I'm surprised that it wound

1681
01:48:38.239 --> 01:48:42.680
up being like, we're gonna carve
out a new thing here at two K.

1682
01:48:43.880 --> 01:48:46.359
I suspect that that is, you
know, like I take what he

1683
01:48:46.399 --> 01:48:49.439
says about that stuff at face value. That you know, he would have

1684
01:48:49.479 --> 01:48:51.880
been prepared to go it alone.
No, no, no, And they're

1685
01:48:51.920 --> 01:48:55.800
like, how about your I mean, you're still ken Levine, So we

1686
01:48:55.840 --> 01:48:59.880
would we would rather make the investment
and take the risk on paying these fIF

1687
01:49:00.079 --> 01:49:04.079
teen people to own this thing you're
gonna make, rather than let you go.

1688
01:49:04.239 --> 01:49:06.319
They do, I mean they probably
will, They probably will. But

1689
01:49:06.319 --> 01:49:11.560
I mean it's just there's always the
chance that they promised him some some proper

1690
01:49:11.640 --> 01:49:14.000
actus for retaining some ownership or whatever. Who knows. I mean, he

1691
01:49:14.079 --> 01:49:15.760
must have gotten favorable terms as the
point, you know, because he has

1692
01:49:15.840 --> 01:49:18.920
Ken Lean he could god, I
mean, he's got some he has representation

1693
01:49:18.960 --> 01:49:23.520
out there on his behalf looking for
the best deals. So right, So

1694
01:49:23.840 --> 01:49:27.119
so I wonder I wonder what happens
now. So I mean, you know,

1695
01:49:27.159 --> 01:49:29.560
if this did start with him.
I don't know. You can't begrudge

1696
01:49:29.600 --> 01:49:32.359
a guy in a creative position for
not sticking with something he's not into anymore,

1697
01:49:32.479 --> 01:49:35.720
or you know, for pursuing what
he is into now right. I

1698
01:49:35.800 --> 01:49:39.720
think the only thing that one could
say to that point, to your point,

1699
01:49:39.760 --> 01:49:43.760
Bratt, is that like without Ken
Levine, does that mean that whole

1700
01:49:43.840 --> 01:49:45.600
team go, that whole team has
gone, like that whole team has been.

1701
01:49:46.640 --> 01:49:50.039
That's that's the It's just the Yeah, I could somebody else have stepped

1702
01:49:50.079 --> 01:49:53.680
out. It's usually unfortunate. But
like the people that are blaming him for

1703
01:49:53.800 --> 01:49:57.960
it, like are I think,
acting pretty naive about the way that big

1704
01:49:58.000 --> 01:50:00.680
corporations work. And I would hope
he would have the best interests of his

1705
01:50:00.720 --> 01:50:02.479
tea. More the point, it's
not his decision, Like he doesn't own

1706
01:50:02.600 --> 01:50:05.199
the name Irrational Games or the studio
or any of it. You know,

1707
01:50:05.319 --> 01:50:10.479
that's take two, and the name
Irrational Game still has some cachet to it,

1708
01:50:10.960 --> 01:50:12.840
whatever you think of buy a shock
Invvent or whatever. I mean.

1709
01:50:13.479 --> 01:50:16.520
If two K thought that was a
brand and like an institution worth maintaining,

1710
01:50:16.800 --> 01:50:19.319
like they would have kept it open. They would have appointed a successor,

1711
01:50:19.399 --> 01:50:24.039
and they would have. But if
those people, those fifteen people are the

1712
01:50:24.279 --> 01:50:28.359
core leadership and real decision makers at
that studio, you know, yeah,

1713
01:50:28.640 --> 01:50:31.119
at some point they would have to
transplant a new team in or look at

1714
01:50:31.159 --> 01:50:33.199
that team and go like, are
there people here that we can promote to

1715
01:50:33.239 --> 01:50:35.840
these new leadership roles? You know, and maybe at that point they were

1716
01:50:35.880 --> 01:50:39.119
like, you know what, like
we've already kind of gotten out of the

1717
01:50:39.159 --> 01:50:43.600
studio business and some other parts of
the country, maybe this is you know,

1718
01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:45.199
maybe this is just characteristic of the
way Take two does business, but

1719
01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:48.640
it is atypical of this kind of
situation that's happened elsewhere. Yeah, you

1720
01:50:48.720 --> 01:50:53.479
know, like It's Software lost most
of their founding people, but they still

1721
01:50:53.520 --> 01:50:56.000
are called his Software. You know, they're still hiring people to keep that

1722
01:50:56.039 --> 01:50:58.960
studio right, right? What was
the other example of Infinity Ward is the

1723
01:50:59.000 --> 01:51:00.920
other example? You know, it's
like you have these storied names that have

1724
01:51:01.039 --> 01:51:04.600
reputations, and right the game development
business, like you keep them going and

1725
01:51:05.039 --> 01:51:08.760
pump new talent in there if it
seems like it's beneficial to your company.

1726
01:51:08.880 --> 01:51:12.239
Yeah, and at some point,
like the name on the door doesn't matter

1727
01:51:12.319 --> 01:51:15.439
as much as the names of the
people who were there and what they're actually

1728
01:51:15.479 --> 01:51:18.840
capable of, And that's been the
thing. You know. It's like people

1729
01:51:19.000 --> 01:51:21.840
talk about, like, oh man, I really want Rare to make another

1730
01:51:21.920 --> 01:51:26.319
game. It's not the same people
in a lot of cases, Like it's

1731
01:51:26.319 --> 01:51:29.319
some of the same people probably,
but it's not the same makeup. It's

1732
01:51:29.319 --> 01:51:32.199
not that it's not the same mission. Sega is not Sega anymore. Yeah,

1733
01:51:32.680 --> 01:51:34.840
you know, even Irrational if they
kept the name going, it would

1734
01:51:34.880 --> 01:51:38.159
not be Even if they keep the
name going with you know, his new

1735
01:51:38.239 --> 01:51:40.640
thing and call it Irrational Games,
it seemed like that wouldn't be the case

1736
01:51:40.720 --> 01:51:44.520
either. Van Hagar was not the
same band as Van exactly, but if

1737
01:51:44.520 --> 01:51:46.760
they called it van Hagar, you
might have been a little more accepting us.

1738
01:51:47.479 --> 01:51:49.600
It's when they decided to put the
dungeon Keeper name or anything, they

1739
01:51:49.640 --> 01:51:53.680
sucked it all up. Yeah,
I just you know, it's a lot

1740
01:51:53.680 --> 01:51:56.359
of ground cover in a little bit. But yeah, it's just it's hard

1741
01:51:56.399 --> 01:51:58.239
to know, you know, I
don't I don't know what the sales on

1742
01:51:58.279 --> 01:52:01.760
BioShock Infinite, what that ended up
being, it was great or not.

1743
01:52:01.920 --> 01:52:04.960
That was the other aspect of this, Like I didn't realize this for myself

1744
01:52:05.000 --> 01:52:09.159
but I saw it in a lot
of the chatter today that in their last

1745
01:52:09.239 --> 01:52:12.640
earnings report they didn't mention the sales
by a shocking infant at all, which

1746
01:52:12.720 --> 01:52:17.319
is yeah, pretty atypical of them
do that if there's something there worth talking

1747
01:52:17.359 --> 01:52:19.560
about, Like right, you see
how how how they got out there with

1748
01:52:19.600 --> 01:52:23.199
the sales and GTA five and stuff
like yeah, yeah, well yeah,

1749
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:25.439
then GT five you've kind of get
out there with well, you know,

1750
01:52:25.680 --> 01:52:29.359
so this could have been twofold.
This could have been a timing thing where

1751
01:52:29.359 --> 01:52:31.439
they were like, hey, this
game didn't do great, like we either

1752
01:52:31.560 --> 01:52:35.920
need you to double down on a
military first person shooter or you know,

1753
01:52:36.239 --> 01:52:40.319
there could have been pressure from that
end as well. But I am saying

1754
01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:43.680
that, like, you know,
I feel like the move he's making,

1755
01:52:44.640 --> 01:52:49.199
the thing he is looking to start
up makes perfect sense to me from kind

1756
01:52:49.199 --> 01:52:53.520
of where he was at and the
impression I got last time we spoke.

1757
01:52:55.279 --> 01:52:59.039
So so that bit isn't shocking.
If there were other external financial pressures that

1758
01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:03.279
kind of worst this or or made
it happen a different way than than maybe

1759
01:53:03.319 --> 01:53:08.520
he thought it was going to,
then you know, that's certainly possible.

1760
01:53:09.159 --> 01:53:13.079
I don't want to completely discount that
end of it. But I will say

1761
01:53:13.199 --> 01:53:17.119
that you know from talking to him
that that was not a shock. The

1762
01:53:17.239 --> 01:53:20.439
words he used for his next endeavor
really interesting. He says he wants to

1763
01:53:20.520 --> 01:53:29.119
create narrative driven games that are replayable. Yeah. Yeah, interesting. Yeah,

1764
01:53:29.279 --> 01:53:30.680
let's see what he does. Yeah, yeah, I'm curious to know

1765
01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:33.279
what form that takes, if it's
you know, because it's a small team,

1766
01:53:33.319 --> 01:53:38.359
if it ends up being a smaller
they do, say if folcusing exclusively

1767
01:53:38.399 --> 01:53:41.439
on digital games, But I wonder, like how much outsourcing they would do,

1768
01:53:41.600 --> 01:53:44.520
Like do they you know, do
they try to make a big,

1769
01:53:44.680 --> 01:53:45.960
small game or do they just try
to make a small game. Yeah,

1770
01:53:46.039 --> 01:53:53.359
we're talking a fifteen dollar game or
adventure games. Right When he says replayable,

1771
01:53:53.359 --> 01:53:56.680
I think about like a lot of
the games that are driven by kind

1772
01:53:56.680 --> 01:54:00.560
of randomness, procedural stuff like you
know, like FTL and stuff like that,

1773
01:54:00.640 --> 01:54:02.239
you know, games that are repeatable
in the way. Yeah, I

1774
01:54:02.319 --> 01:54:06.640
wonder if he's trying to maybe bring
a more narrative sensibility to that kind of

1775
01:54:06.720 --> 01:54:12.600
game. It could be. It's
impossible to know right now, but I

1776
01:54:12.640 --> 01:54:15.720
wonder if he had left owner,
if they would have shut down irrational because

1777
01:54:15.920 --> 01:54:17.960
I suspect he couldn't have taken fifteen
people with them, presumably, Yeah,

1778
01:54:18.000 --> 01:54:21.319
like he stayed and they're shutting it
down. Well I wonder, I just

1779
01:54:21.399 --> 01:54:24.479
I just I don't. I don't
see how it would have been his call

1780
01:54:24.560 --> 01:54:28.760
in any way, what happens to
that studio? Right kind of once once

1781
01:54:28.960 --> 01:54:30.439
you know, once the decision is
made about what he's doing, then yeah,

1782
01:54:30.560 --> 01:54:34.199
at some point that's that's a two
K. I take two decisions,

1783
01:54:34.279 --> 01:54:39.479
right, But I expect he couldn't
recruit out of that. I think he

1784
01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:44.359
definitely could, like if he's not
necessarily illegal, sounds like those like bridge

1785
01:54:44.399 --> 01:54:46.600
burning moves, but it's might be
contract more to the point, Yeah,

1786
01:54:46.720 --> 01:54:48.760
yeah, we don't know. We
don't know what the commune structure. The

1787
01:54:48.760 --> 01:54:51.840
point, it sounds like he already
has recruited. He's keeping his fifteen people

1788
01:54:51.920 --> 01:54:55.560
or whatever, and it's probably all
he's getting for a while, right,

1789
01:54:55.600 --> 01:54:58.479
And this I was I was wondering, just kind of thought experiment. If

1790
01:54:58.520 --> 01:55:00.800
he had left started his own thing, there probably would have been some kind

1791
01:55:00.800 --> 01:55:04.399
of non compete stuff there. You
know, you never know, but weird

1792
01:55:04.479 --> 01:55:06.520
weird times two K. Yeah,
it's not like you know, I don't.

1793
01:55:06.600 --> 01:55:09.960
It's not like he's going to go
off and do his little skunkworks thing

1794
01:55:10.000 --> 01:55:12.399
and just say, fucking drop the
hammer on those guys, fuck them.

1795
01:55:12.600 --> 01:55:15.000
Yeah, you know, like I
don't think so, Like why like why

1796
01:55:15.000 --> 01:55:16.840
would he maliciously tell tu K to
shut that studio down? Well, best

1797
01:55:16.880 --> 01:55:19.560
of luck to those guys. Yeah, it's it's a shame for everybody.

1798
01:55:20.119 --> 01:55:25.199
Boston's real rough right now. There
was there was a round of layoffs at

1799
01:55:25.239 --> 01:55:30.039
Turbine last week, so it's it's
yeah, Boston's real crazy right now.

1800
01:55:30.479 --> 01:55:35.239
What game jobs pot full of talented
people looking to make some hot properties,

1801
01:55:35.279 --> 01:55:39.880
I hope. So there's there's a
ton of studios on Twitter today saying hey,

1802
01:55:39.920 --> 01:55:42.640
we're hiring right and none of them
are in Boston. I got to

1803
01:55:42.680 --> 01:55:45.960
figure that a lot of the people
that were a part of Irrational, that

1804
01:55:45.000 --> 01:55:49.880
would have worked on Infinite or the
original BioShock, or you know, maybe

1805
01:55:49.880 --> 01:55:54.800
even further back than that, would
you know, they've got good shipped games

1806
01:55:54.920 --> 01:55:58.319
on their resume that they are,
and they are used to working in a

1807
01:55:58.399 --> 01:56:01.880
tense under fire situation. So I
bet that they are as long as they

1808
01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:06.079
were not broken by the experience,
they are probably rock solid motherfuckers. So

1809
01:56:06.479 --> 01:56:09.680
you know, maybe we'll get a
bunch of awesome, smaller games out of

1810
01:56:09.680 --> 01:56:11.720
this. Yeah, it could be, you know, maybe this fuel is

1811
01:56:11.720 --> 01:56:15.319
the next indie boom in Boston or
something. I think we see more BioShock

1812
01:56:15.880 --> 01:56:18.079
like in any form. I mean
he he did say two ks taken over

1813
01:56:18.119 --> 01:56:20.079
the property, right, yeah,
I mean they own it, they have.

1814
01:56:21.079 --> 01:56:25.000
Wasn't there wording in there employing they
can to keep it going? Or

1815
01:56:25.079 --> 01:56:27.720
did I dream that he said?
He think? He says, you know,

1816
01:56:27.760 --> 01:56:30.640
hopefully that whatever they make is Yeah, it's half as good as BioShock.

1817
01:56:30.800 --> 01:56:34.079
Yeah. Yeah, I guess their
their dealcs out right, they're done

1818
01:56:34.119 --> 01:56:36.960
with their it's not quite out.
Episode two hasn't come out yet, but

1819
01:56:38.239 --> 01:56:40.279
yeah, but it is done.
There must be done with it, and

1820
01:56:40.399 --> 01:56:44.720
that's the end of their season.
Pass yep. Yeah, yeah, I

1821
01:56:44.760 --> 01:56:48.000
don't know. It's industries, it's
a it's a it's an interesting way for

1822
01:56:48.039 --> 01:56:51.039
that stuff to go down when you
think about how studios usually close and how

1823
01:56:51.119 --> 01:56:55.239
it usually all happens. That's,
uh, that's a unique one. So

1824
01:56:56.159 --> 01:57:01.039
I wonder if it'll be uh people
will be watching that as the industry continues

1825
01:57:01.079 --> 01:57:05.119
to churn like, how well does
this? Do? You know? Do

1826
01:57:05.239 --> 01:57:08.720
I have the name to get out
there and do this like other people in

1827
01:57:09.000 --> 01:57:11.319
a Kent Leavine like position, yeah, who are like I don't want to

1828
01:57:11.399 --> 01:57:14.159
do you know. Maybe it was
after infinite shift and they're like, all

1829
01:57:14.199 --> 01:57:16.760
right, great, Ken, what's
next? That he literally says like that

1830
01:57:16.960 --> 01:57:19.720
is kind of how it went.
Like people are starting to wonder now that

1831
01:57:19.720 --> 01:57:23.880
we're running out, what's next.
It's like, ah, I'm burned out.

1832
01:57:24.479 --> 01:57:27.239
Motherfucker's next is I'm writing the script
and I'm going to sleep in for

1833
01:57:27.239 --> 01:57:30.319
a little bit, sitting here in
my underwaryat and cheetos. Yeah, doing

1834
01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:32.880
nothing. Seeah, I wonder if
there are other designers out there they're like,

1835
01:57:33.359 --> 01:57:38.399
I'm gonna leave, or maybe you
can give them my own small team

1836
01:57:38.680 --> 01:57:45.079
could do something something something. I
don't know, small expensive team seems it's

1837
01:57:45.159 --> 01:57:49.880
weird. There's weird environments for making
games. Yeah, depends on what you're

1838
01:57:49.880 --> 01:57:53.560
making. That that's you know,
we don't know enough about that part of

1839
01:57:53.600 --> 01:57:57.000
it to to really say one way
or the other. But there it is

1840
01:57:57.000 --> 01:58:00.039
an interesting series of happenings, and
best of luck to everyone that's been and

1841
01:58:00.439 --> 01:58:05.039
you know, put out of work
by this, Yeah for sure and yeah,

1842
01:58:05.119 --> 01:58:13.920
man, Boston. Wow, let's
see what else. Uh npds came

1843
01:58:13.920 --> 01:58:16.760
out. Uh PS four seems to
be out selling Xbox One by about two

1844
01:58:16.800 --> 01:58:21.760
to one in January, and I
feel like I'm seeing stories about people that

1845
01:58:21.800 --> 01:58:26.279
are seeing Xbox ones on shelves,
whereas the PS four still seems to be

1846
01:58:27.439 --> 01:58:30.439
pretty tight quantities. So I don't
know what's going on out there. More

1847
01:58:30.520 --> 01:58:32.520
than that, there seems to have
been this weird push from multiple retailers all

1848
01:58:32.520 --> 01:58:35.399
of a sudden, where they're all
going like the heart to find Xbox one

1849
01:58:35.520 --> 01:58:40.239
is in stock. So I've seen
this no like we got maybe I was

1850
01:58:40.279 --> 01:58:43.680
the only one that got it.
I got a press release about that from

1851
01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:45.439
one retailer, weird and saying like, hey, we're about to announce we

1852
01:58:45.520 --> 01:58:49.319
have Xbox ones in stock. And
I guess I saw some form chatter saying

1853
01:58:49.399 --> 01:58:53.119
like I think it was Walmart or
some similar and you know, Big Box

1854
01:58:53.359 --> 01:58:56.359
Chain was saying the same thing,
like it's kind of weird that they're all

1855
01:58:56.399 --> 01:59:00.600
out there at the same time proclaiming
hey we got them either one yeah,

1856
01:59:00.680 --> 01:59:04.560
the next flood of the channel,
or maybe they had a bunch of maybe

1857
01:59:04.600 --> 01:59:09.039
they're sitting on some sitting and can't
move them. You guys are dark.

1858
01:59:09.760 --> 01:59:12.960
I gould be so cynical. I
don't know. We got movies. I've

1859
01:59:13.000 --> 01:59:17.319
had an order for Xbox ones for
our studio since December. They can tell

1860
01:59:17.359 --> 01:59:20.119
them to stop going through preferred vendors
I have, and they will not.

1861
01:59:20.479 --> 01:59:24.600
They want to pay eight thousand dollars
per Xbox one, should just cancel that.

1862
01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:28.359
We should just buy xboxes and totally
right, because that's when we first

1863
01:59:28.439 --> 01:59:30.359
got here. That's what I did. Totally. We bought all that ship

1864
01:59:30.479 --> 01:59:34.520
from Amazon and just expensed it.
So we should just do that. Absolutely,

1865
01:59:34.600 --> 01:59:38.720
want to just do it, not
right the second, but yeah,

1866
01:59:39.079 --> 01:59:43.479
it's just gonna make sure somebody's going
to improve that right here, Man,

1867
01:59:43.760 --> 01:59:45.880
do you don't improve my expense reports? I could? You could just like

1868
01:59:46.039 --> 01:59:49.039
direct me as I mean, it
would be totally out of protocol, but

1869
01:59:49.479 --> 01:59:54.159
I drew bio prove it. There
you go, you've solved the problem,

1870
01:59:54.800 --> 02:00:01.439
violating only two corporate by laws.
Yeah. I don't know where they Yeah,

1871
02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:05.319
they're trying to buy them from some
weird person who also sells high end

1872
02:00:05.359 --> 02:00:09.840
video cameras. I'm sure, right, Yeah, exactly that they don't get

1873
02:00:09.880 --> 02:00:12.960
any allocation for an Xbox that's such
a specialized thing. Well, who were

1874
02:00:13.000 --> 02:00:15.920
they working with over there? The
best, only the best, all right?

1875
02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:20.399
Great. Meanwhile, we are a
few days away from the Japanese launch

1876
02:00:20.439 --> 02:00:25.279
of the PS four, so that
is crazy. The twenty second is when

1877
02:00:25.319 --> 02:00:28.600
that's out over there. Finally,
maybe I can you put some of those

1878
02:00:28.640 --> 02:00:30.840
on my next cap ex order,
get some of those in. Yeah,

1879
02:00:31.840 --> 02:00:36.239
they would work Japanese. PS four
is would totally work here. Uh congratulations

1880
02:00:36.359 --> 02:00:43.640
Japan Yeah, well better the next
generation import. So over the weekend,

1881
02:00:43.720 --> 02:00:46.800
the Japanese version of the PlayStation Network
Store went up, So, I,

1882
02:00:47.520 --> 02:00:51.359
uh, because the console's not out
over there, they wouldn't need the store

1883
02:00:51.399 --> 02:00:55.520
to be up until just now a
few days before launch. So I went

1884
02:00:55.560 --> 02:01:00.000
ahead and created a Japanese store account, and you can totally pay five hundred

1885
02:01:00.079 --> 02:01:03.279
en for a Sadoku game. I
saw that Strider was for sale, Yes,

1886
02:01:03.479 --> 02:01:06.840
Strider was for sale four days Like
do you think just just they had

1887
02:01:06.880 --> 02:01:10.640
it ready to go for the launch? Yeah, and just figured like,

1888
02:01:10.720 --> 02:01:12.159
oh, well, you know,
it just needs to be there for the

1889
02:01:12.239 --> 02:01:15.399
launch anyway, So nobody's gonna someone
forgot to flip a switch, or at

1890
02:01:15.439 --> 02:01:23.279
least there they were making people pay
for it. Yeah, any horse racing

1891
02:01:23.279 --> 02:01:26.640
games fourteen? I've not seen any
horse racing there. Yeah, the FF

1892
02:01:26.720 --> 02:01:28.960
fourteen beta was there, but the
servers were not up. Was that not

1893
02:01:29.119 --> 02:01:31.039
up on or that doesn't exist on
us yet? Not yet? That's supposed

1894
02:01:31.039 --> 02:01:33.560
to actually hit the twenty second,
I think, is when that's supposed to

1895
02:01:33.600 --> 02:01:36.439
go wider or when it's supposed to
go live. You don't want to play

1896
02:01:36.479 --> 02:01:40.279
that? No, it was just
free, So I was just down.

1897
02:01:40.359 --> 02:01:43.359
I was just curious to see if
I could download stuff out of the Japanese

1898
02:01:43.359 --> 02:01:45.239
store and if it would run on
my US account. It did, and

1899
02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:46.199
then it said, can't hit those
I don't know what these servers are.

1900
02:01:46.319 --> 02:01:50.840
Fuck you. So but I totally
went to the internet and bought a Japanese

1901
02:01:50.880 --> 02:01:56.600
points card and then bought Sadoku,
and then bought the other Japanese titled game

1902
02:01:56.800 --> 02:02:00.359
I saw in the store, and
then whoops, it was anime Sexy Majong

1903
02:02:02.880 --> 02:02:08.680
You can rub the girls with the
touchpad. Wow, you can't launch console

1904
02:02:08.720 --> 02:02:13.239
in Japan without a Majong game.
It's true. One of the girls is

1905
02:02:13.279 --> 02:02:18.399
fifteen? What wait, like it
said, do you read Depanese ones like

1906
02:02:18.439 --> 02:02:20.159
twenty nine. No, it's just
numbers. You know, you can see

1907
02:02:20.159 --> 02:02:26.439
the numbers. I can read numbers. What's ther blood tip? I don't

1908
02:02:26.479 --> 02:02:29.319
know. I don't know how to
play Majong. Yeah, that's the bigger

1909
02:02:29.399 --> 02:02:31.199
problem. Yeah, so I just
kind of randomly picked tiles, and I

1910
02:02:31.239 --> 02:02:34.960
don't know if I'm winning or I
don't know, right, I don't know

1911
02:02:35.239 --> 02:02:40.439
the girls smiling or they angry.
They're always kind of smiling or demure or

1912
02:02:40.600 --> 02:02:43.680
some kind of you know, are
they on the tiles or are you playing

1913
02:02:43.720 --> 02:02:46.039
the game with you're playing against them? Okay, So I don't know how

1914
02:02:46.119 --> 02:02:49.920
that goes. There's a big image
gallery that most of the images are locked

1915
02:02:49.960 --> 02:02:53.119
in because I have not beat any
of the girls. There's like five or

1916
02:02:53.119 --> 02:02:56.800
six of them at Majong. Yeah, and I assume you unlocked there.

1917
02:02:57.800 --> 02:03:00.640
You can rub the girls of the
touchpad. Okay, we'll do a quick

1918
02:03:00.680 --> 02:03:06.479
look that stuff. It's a dooku
that I can play. Okay, do

1919
02:03:06.520 --> 02:03:13.760
you rub? Yeah? Touchpad does
nothing in that game. ZIP Welcome to

1920
02:03:13.840 --> 02:03:20.680
the four zero UH. Nintendo's uh
micro transaction nightmare is becoming a reality with

1921
02:03:20.800 --> 02:03:27.000
Rusty's Real Deal Baseball what is the
nightmare? The nightmare is there is a

1922
02:03:27.119 --> 02:03:30.760
virtual character that you can haggle with
over for prices. It's a it's a

1923
02:03:30.800 --> 02:03:34.479
mini game collection. I guess it
will come with one, and then you

1924
02:03:34.520 --> 02:03:39.119
can use items you get from that
game, or talk at the right times

1925
02:03:39.159 --> 02:03:44.560
to day or something and haggle prices
with a virtual character. It's kind of

1926
02:03:44.600 --> 02:03:46.399
like the rabbit that would come up, and it's a different rabbit, I

1927
02:03:46.520 --> 02:03:51.199
think, to what end? To
get a lower price on the next mini

1928
02:03:51.279 --> 02:03:56.720
game you want to buy, you
can haggle with a virtual character for prices

1929
02:03:56.880 --> 02:04:01.000
of mini games that are all baseball
themed Rusty's Real Deal Baseball. It is

1930
02:04:01.079 --> 02:04:04.039
called It'll let you'll at least let
you know when you hit the minimum price

1931
02:04:04.119 --> 02:04:06.560
up. Okay, so I won't
go any lower than yeah, yeah,

1932
02:04:06.640 --> 02:04:11.039
these scumbag Yeah, I gotta talk
to my boss. Yeah, let me

1933
02:04:11.119 --> 02:04:13.399
go. Welcome to back. I
really want to see how this works.

1934
02:04:13.840 --> 02:04:16.920
Why it sounds like a hellish nightmare. Why wouldn't you just always do the

1935
02:04:17.000 --> 02:04:21.279
things I feel somewhat responsible, Just
look up online how to get the lowest

1936
02:04:21.319 --> 02:04:25.319
price every time? Because you might
have to grind for those items. Who

1937
02:04:25.359 --> 02:04:29.760
knows that you have to use to
get the lower price. Can I just

1938
02:04:29.800 --> 02:04:35.880
pay for those items, buy those
items? Goddamn? Yeah that sounds rough.

1939
02:04:38.359 --> 02:04:45.600
Yeah, that sounds rough. A
big balanced patch announced for Dive Kick.

1940
02:04:45.880 --> 02:04:50.600
They're calling it Dive Kick a E, where AE stands for Addition Addition,

1941
02:04:51.960 --> 02:04:58.319
which I think is a pretty funny. They are changing character some characters

1942
02:04:58.399 --> 02:05:00.319
very dramatically. They are also adding
new characters. The games coming out for

1943
02:05:00.359 --> 02:05:03.119
free on the existing platforms and then
it'll be kind of rolled into the next

1944
02:05:03.279 --> 02:05:09.680
generation versions of the game. But
they put up like kind of balance change

1945
02:05:09.720 --> 02:05:13.239
notes on the site. S Kill
doesn't teleport anymore. It seems like they

1946
02:05:13.359 --> 02:05:15.119
kind of smoothed out like some of
the characters that were a little too crazy

1947
02:05:15.359 --> 02:05:20.000
for people to deal with, Like
the Bazz is totally different and s Kill

1948
02:05:20.159 --> 02:05:26.079
doesn't teleport, but they both become
kind of crazy when their meters are full,

1949
02:05:26.239 --> 02:05:30.119
basically, so it kind of gives
players a better chance to just kind

1950
02:05:30.159 --> 02:05:33.079
of figure out what the fuck is
going on. And then they said they're

1951
02:05:33.079 --> 02:05:36.239
going to be at least one new
character and one new background when that thing

1952
02:05:36.319 --> 02:05:42.119
is is finally out. Big things, big things in store for Dive Kick.

1953
02:05:43.000 --> 02:05:48.760
The World of dive Kick Dive Kick
universe. Yeah, but my controller.

1954
02:05:49.359 --> 02:05:57.600
They are adding actual dpad navigation to
the menus. Such a weird concentative.

1955
02:05:57.800 --> 02:06:00.880
But they love deepads. Deepads are
huge, man. Yeah, they're

1956
02:06:00.880 --> 02:06:06.560
coming back. Battlefield four DLC will
be out today Second Assault, which is

1957
02:06:06.600 --> 02:06:11.840
a bunch of Battlefield three maps,
So that means Battlefield four is fixed kind

1958
02:06:11.920 --> 02:06:14.800
of. I don't know. I'm
sure that there are plenty of people out

1959
02:06:14.840 --> 02:06:16.159
there that are still running into issues. The past couple of times I've played

1960
02:06:16.159 --> 02:06:24.000
it on PlayStation four, I have
not run into any major problems. Major

1961
02:06:24.359 --> 02:06:30.000
problems. It's commander problems now,
sorry, commander problems. And I guess

1962
02:06:30.039 --> 02:06:33.920
the Second Assault stuff has been out
on Xbox One since launch, sou so

1963
02:06:33.960 --> 02:06:39.079
they're rolling that out across the other
platforms. I don't know what this means.

1964
02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:40.720
They kind of said that we were
not going to do any more work

1965
02:06:40.720 --> 02:06:43.199
on DLC until the game is fixed, like you were alluding to. But

1966
02:06:44.000 --> 02:06:48.239
mission accomplished maybe, I don't know. I don't really know what to make

1967
02:06:48.239 --> 02:06:58.479
of that. Uh, let's see
here. I've got some emails here.

1968
02:06:59.119 --> 02:07:03.319
If anyone has anything else to bring
to the table, like news, Like

1969
02:07:03.439 --> 02:07:08.279
I don't you know what's going on, guys, heys, go around one

1970
02:07:08.319 --> 02:07:10.439
more time. What's happened over the
last couple of hours for you? Guys?

1971
02:07:10.479 --> 02:07:15.000
What's it been like about that thirty
five dollars to item? Really?

1972
02:07:15.359 --> 02:07:19.720
Yeah? Yeah? Really? You
want to know why? Why? Because

1973
02:07:20.399 --> 02:07:23.960
you might say, but it'll be
there forever. You could buy it whenever

1974
02:07:24.000 --> 02:07:26.159
you want, like when it's on
sale or something, but I'll be there

1975
02:07:26.159 --> 02:07:28.359
forever. You might be able to
buy whenever you want, when it's on

1976
02:07:28.439 --> 02:07:30.840
sale or something. But if I
bought it before the end of the New

1977
02:07:30.880 --> 02:07:34.039
Bloom festival, it would say the
word exalted on the front. Okay,

1978
02:07:35.039 --> 02:07:38.680
that's the time I can understand.
Okay, Oh really okay, yeah,

1979
02:07:38.880 --> 02:07:43.199
okay, claud we're sympatic on this
now. That totally makes it exalted.

1980
02:07:43.199 --> 02:07:45.479
I mean it would be exalted quality. Yeah. If I waited till I

1981
02:07:45.520 --> 02:07:48.560
think today, if it might be
tomorrow, I'm not sure, But if

1982
02:07:48.560 --> 02:07:51.680
the festival's over, it would no
longer be an exalted item. Fuck that?

1983
02:07:51.920 --> 02:07:58.760
Fuck that? Who wants a non
exalted ito that? Yeah? How

1984
02:07:58.800 --> 02:08:01.000
often do you play is that?
Care to actually use your thirty five dollars

1985
02:08:01.039 --> 02:08:05.279
item? I've only played him once
since I got it good stuff. Well,

1986
02:08:05.439 --> 02:08:09.279
that means one hund hundred and something
characters in that game. You can't

1987
02:08:09.319 --> 02:08:11.880
play the same one all the time. Why not? It would be good.

1988
02:08:11.920 --> 02:08:13.359
That's what fighting game players do.
Honestly, they did. They do

1989
02:08:13.479 --> 02:08:16.520
that to get really good at it. I would get boring. I have

1990
02:08:16.640 --> 02:08:24.520
been finding if I stick the same
handful of characters, I've no, that's

1991
02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:28.560
what It's not that sticking to the
same characters. It's kind I've kind of

1992
02:08:28.560 --> 02:08:31.880
been able to focus on sort of
game since and general flow better. You

1993
02:08:31.960 --> 02:08:35.600
know, when you're not thinking about
like you're not sitting their eyeballing ability tool

1994
02:08:35.760 --> 02:08:37.760
TOOLTI text all the time trying to
figure out it's like, oh, I'll

1995
02:08:37.760 --> 02:08:39.840
never played this guy before, how
does he work? Like, if you

1996
02:08:39.920 --> 02:08:43.359
know how to play your character,
you can kind of focus on the larger

1997
02:08:43.399 --> 02:08:46.600
stuff. So that's that has been
working for me lately. Yeah, but

1998
02:08:46.680 --> 02:08:48.359
playing the same character every time.
I do know people who only play supports

1999
02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:52.520
and only do blah blah blah.
But like, the value of DODA isn't

2000
02:08:52.520 --> 02:08:58.119
all the variety of the matchups?
No, Well, let's get into emails

2001
02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:03.600
then BombCast a giant bomb dot com
to the email address, and you can

2002
02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:09.560
send in your emails to that address
and then I'll look at them and something

2003
02:09:09.600 --> 02:09:11.199
happens. I don't know, they
end up in this form and then I

2004
02:09:11.239 --> 02:09:16.800
read them out. Ben and Wales
sounds like a great ice cream company.

2005
02:09:16.199 --> 02:09:20.479
Yeah, right, since is at
the moment we're in a titan Fall media

2006
02:09:20.560 --> 02:09:24.319
typhoon. I know that interest in
this game is huge, as it's one

2007
02:09:24.319 --> 02:09:26.960
of the most anticipated releases of twenty
fourteen, and of course the gaming community

2008
02:09:28.039 --> 02:09:31.359
wants to know as much as possible
about the game prior to release. Yet,

2009
02:09:31.359 --> 02:09:33.800
ever since the media embargo on the
game was lifted last week, the

2010
02:09:33.880 --> 02:09:37.800
various podcasts, YouTube channels, and
websites I visit have been literally crammed full

2011
02:09:37.840 --> 02:09:41.439
of a near endless stream of titan
Fall content. I've seen her to know

2012
02:09:41.720 --> 02:09:43.640
so much about the game, I'm
already starting to feel burned out on titan

2013
02:09:43.680 --> 02:09:46.520
Fall and I didn't even get into
the beta. Do you think the big

2014
02:09:46.600 --> 02:09:50.560
release titles such as titan Fall can
sometimes receive too much coverage? And on

2015
02:09:50.680 --> 02:09:54.680
your end, does having to offer
up so much content on the game even

2016
02:09:54.720 --> 02:09:56.319
before it's released. I mean,
you can't actually enjoy it once it has

2017
02:09:56.399 --> 02:10:01.600
been released. I've got such bad
news for him. He's in the beta.

2018
02:10:03.319 --> 02:10:09.239
Everybody's everyone's in the beta. Whether
you like it or not, you're

2019
02:10:09.279 --> 02:10:13.760
part of the problem. Now it's
over tomorrow. Though. It's funny,

2020
02:10:13.199 --> 02:10:16.399
like I've seen this a few times
and it's it's kind of funny to see

2021
02:10:16.520 --> 02:10:22.520
because up until last week, there
are people complaining, how do we know

2022
02:10:22.640 --> 02:10:26.359
so little about this game? They
haven't said anything about the Xbox three was

2023
02:10:26.439 --> 02:10:28.119
They haven't. They still haven't said
anything about the Xbox three sixty version.

2024
02:10:28.279 --> 02:10:31.600
But there were people complaining that,
like, this game's coming out in a

2025
02:10:31.640 --> 02:10:33.760
month and I don't know shit about
it. What are they hiding? What

2026
02:10:33.920 --> 02:10:37.239
do they have? What? This
game must be terrible. They're hiding all

2027
02:10:37.239 --> 02:10:41.319
this stuff, and now here we
are they have realized that, like,

2028
02:10:41.520 --> 02:10:43.760
oh wait, we spend all this
time not talking about the game, and

2029
02:10:43.800 --> 02:10:48.199
now no one knows it exists.
We had better do something. And then

2030
02:10:48.199 --> 02:10:52.039
they did something, and now we're
getting emails like that, so no one,

2031
02:10:52.079 --> 02:10:54.119
no one is ever happy. But
at the same time, yeah,

2032
02:10:54.239 --> 02:10:56.600
there's a lot of red meat.
It's like there's not a lot of games

2033
02:10:56.640 --> 02:11:00.520
coming out. There's a huge game. Every outlet's gonna jump on whatever they

2034
02:11:00.560 --> 02:11:03.279
can do to put coverage up.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's

2035
02:11:03.359 --> 02:11:05.159
like, yeah, this is Yeah. I feel like, you know,

2036
02:11:05.840 --> 02:11:09.920
we did that one video because I
went and played it elsewhere, and then

2037
02:11:09.960 --> 02:11:11.560
we did that other thing because I
just wanted to play more of it.

2038
02:11:13.560 --> 02:11:15.920
That's you know, talk about it
here and there. But yeah, the

2039
02:11:16.000 --> 02:11:18.239
only thing I feel like they've been
remisson is describing the campaign stuff a little

2040
02:11:18.279 --> 02:11:20.920
more. Yep, Like the structure
of that stuff is still kind of a

2041
02:11:20.960 --> 02:11:24.560
mystery. Yeah, and that seems
like a huge part of it not be

2042
02:11:24.600 --> 02:11:26.600
out there with the number of maps
and stuff like that, Like they're you

2043
02:11:26.680 --> 02:11:31.159
know, not that games are just
summed up by numbers, but it's one

2044
02:11:31.199 --> 02:11:37.079
of the concerns because they have this
multiplayer only game like it more than most.

2045
02:11:37.960 --> 02:11:41.520
It becomes about like, yeah,
the value proposition of the content,

2046
02:11:41.039 --> 02:11:43.840
and coming out of the beta,
I feel like, you know, I

2047
02:11:43.920 --> 02:11:46.520
know that the core mechanics are enjoyable. I have a good time playing that

2048
02:11:46.640 --> 02:11:50.119
game, but I want to know
that I will I will be able to

2049
02:11:50.239 --> 02:11:54.399
play it in a variety of environments, and that the unlockable gear will be

2050
02:11:56.119 --> 02:12:00.319
various enough for me to try out
a bunch of different things and a bunch

2051
02:12:00.319 --> 02:12:01.640
of different things. We'll have good
news for you. What that stuff's all

2052
02:12:01.720 --> 02:12:07.560
in the pr plan for next week
whatever. It all fucking leaked on the

2053
02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:13.199
gas and those numbers look all right. How did the servers do on Xbox

2054
02:12:13.319 --> 02:12:16.920
once they opened it? They I
was shocked to see that they did.

2055
02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:18.159
That was like, that seems risky. It seemed like that was the plan

2056
02:12:18.239 --> 02:12:22.920
all along. Yeah, was to
to get it if if they were happy

2057
02:12:24.000 --> 02:12:26.239
with where it was, with the
codes they had sent out to eventually just

2058
02:12:26.359 --> 02:12:28.920
go fuck it. Man. So
I mean, yeah, if they're if

2059
02:12:28.920 --> 02:12:31.840
they're scaling, really is as elastic
as they've been acting, like yeah with

2060
02:12:31.920 --> 02:12:35.439
that cloud stuff, and I think
it's super weird. Like so the first

2061
02:12:35.479 --> 02:12:37.079
thing in that game is like you
launch it and it connects to a data

2062
02:12:37.119 --> 02:12:39.920
center. Yeah, lets you pick. It's like he's paying to your closest

2063
02:12:41.000 --> 02:12:45.319
day center. Is this okay?
And it's like, I mean I get

2064
02:12:45.359 --> 02:12:46.800
that it's a multiplayer game and all
that stuff, but like, you know,

2065
02:12:46.840 --> 02:12:50.640
they tone it down a little bit, Maybe let me get into the

2066
02:12:50.720 --> 02:12:56.000
menu without like walking away for a
couple of minutes and having it kick me

2067
02:12:56.159 --> 02:12:58.840
out of the game. Even just
because I'm taking up a spot on their

2068
02:13:00.039 --> 02:13:05.399
data center. But that seems weird. Yeah, tied demand. Hey,

2069
02:13:05.479 --> 02:13:07.319
if you think this saturation is bad, man, wait until Dark Souls two

2070
02:13:07.359 --> 02:13:13.000
comes out. What if you think
this saturation is bad, wait until Lords

2071
02:13:13.039 --> 02:13:16.880
of Shadow two comes out? Yeah, I know everyone's gonna be trying to

2072
02:13:16.920 --> 02:13:24.079
play the streams constantly. Dual mode. Yeah, connect your data center first,

2073
02:13:24.119 --> 02:13:26.720
Yeah, connect the call center and
then call Zobeck and then he comes

2074
02:13:26.760 --> 02:13:28.600
over your house with the pizza.
We're not supposed to reveal Zobek duel until

2075
02:13:28.640 --> 02:13:33.119
next week. Ship's cool, man, just take that top slide. Then

2076
02:13:33.880 --> 02:13:39.560
fuck, I spent someone sign photoshop
of so Beck with the pizza. You

2077
02:13:39.640 --> 02:13:45.239
mean that was not a provided asset? Mark writes in and says, after

2078
02:13:45.319 --> 02:13:46.560
listening to the work stories in recent
weeks, I feel compared to share what

2079
02:13:46.600 --> 02:13:48.920
I find to be one of the
more hilarious adventures in my career as a

2080
02:13:50.000 --> 02:13:54.920
police officer. Yeah. Wow.
Several years ago, I received a call

2081
02:13:54.039 --> 02:13:58.680
regarding an argument. This is like
a for how flip this story is told?

2082
02:13:58.720 --> 02:14:03.640
It's dark. I received all regarding
an argument between a couple. We

2083
02:14:03.760 --> 02:14:05.800
arrived and found the girlfriend running out
of the house, screaming that her boyfriend

2084
02:14:05.880 --> 02:14:11.199
was inside planning to light himself on
fire. My partner escorted the girlfriend to

2085
02:14:11.239 --> 02:14:13.640
the back of his squad car and
we proceeded into the house. Lo and

2086
02:14:13.680 --> 02:14:18.840
behold, we found the boyfriend,
heavily influenced by the meth, covered in

2087
02:14:18.960 --> 02:14:22.479
lighter fluid, and flicking a lighter
near his chest in an attempt to immolate.

2088
02:14:22.079 --> 02:14:26.199
Instinctively, one of my partners shot
the mail a couple of times using

2089
02:14:26.279 --> 02:14:30.159
bean backgrounds, and we were able
to subdue the man before he could harm

2090
02:14:30.279 --> 02:14:33.479
himself. We took the man to
a nearby hospital, where we essentially baby

2091
02:14:33.520 --> 02:14:35.880
sat him for the next five hours. Eventually we left and returned back to

2092
02:14:35.920 --> 02:14:37.720
our police department. By now it
was morning, as the call had taken

2093
02:14:37.720 --> 02:14:41.319
all night. As a usual tradition, we gathered out back where we parked

2094
02:14:41.319 --> 02:14:43.199
our cars and talked about the night's
events. As one of my partners pulled

2095
02:14:43.239 --> 02:14:46.199
into the lot, I heard another
burst out, laughing. I wonder what

2096
02:14:46.319 --> 02:14:48.720
caused this laughter, and then I
saw it. The girlfriend of the man

2097
02:14:48.880 --> 02:14:52.920
who my partner had escorted to the
back of his squad car at the beginning

2098
02:14:52.920 --> 02:14:56.640
of the night, was still seated
in the back seat. She herself had

2099
02:14:56.439 --> 02:15:01.960
been rather impaired by illicit substances and
apparently passed the fuck out shortly after we

2100
02:15:01.000 --> 02:15:05.279
went into the house to find the
boyfriend. She spent all night on my

2101
02:15:05.439 --> 02:15:09.119
laptop, just she had spent all
night in the back of my partner's car

2102
02:15:09.159 --> 02:15:11.720
without ever making a peat. My
partner ended up driving her back to her

2103
02:15:11.800 --> 02:15:15.840
home, where he woke her up
and pretended that nothing had happened. Wait,

2104
02:15:16.439 --> 02:15:18.800
all right, Ronnie, know I'm
not gonna ask any questions. All

2105
02:15:18.880 --> 02:15:22.119
right, Okay, I don't know
who's really at fault there, yep,

2106
02:15:22.399 --> 02:15:26.199
but sounds good man, everybody everything. I don't know this whole thing.

2107
02:15:31.479 --> 02:15:39.199
I wonder if that laughter was a
nervous laughter or a genuine chuckle of shit.

2108
02:15:39.479 --> 02:15:41.439
I gotta go, like the end
of the Back to the Future,

2109
02:15:41.720 --> 02:15:43.399
We're gonna go. Wake up.
She's been asleep out in front of the

2110
02:15:43.399 --> 02:15:50.199
house for two movies or something.
I'm moving him. Yes, Yes,

2111
02:15:50.399 --> 02:15:56.800
don't don't do math, don't do
drugs, don't get into squad cars.

2112
02:15:56.720 --> 02:16:00.479
Anthony says, today is my birthday, and there's also a podcast. I'm

2113
02:16:00.479 --> 02:16:03.520
twenty five today and wanted to know
what you guys thought I wanted to know

2114
02:16:03.680 --> 02:16:09.560
what you guys thought space travel in
general. I'm gonna say it was about

2115
02:16:09.600 --> 02:16:11.760
space travel general. Do you think
warping or jumping through space will ever be

2116
02:16:11.840 --> 02:16:16.800
a reality? I think space is
super dope twenty five you said, yeah,

2117
02:16:18.000 --> 02:16:22.159
okay, I agree that space seems
super dope. I've never been there.

2118
02:16:22.279 --> 02:16:26.520
It would be cool to go,
Brad. Is it positively or negatively

2119
02:16:26.560 --> 02:16:31.399
curved space? Yeah? Or was
a flat? I think it's negatively Curveies

2120
02:16:31.440 --> 02:16:35.440
is a big question. I'm just
guessing that's my guest buzz. My gut

2121
02:16:35.479 --> 02:16:37.879
tells me negatively curved, and you
can fold it over on top of itself

2122
02:16:37.920 --> 02:16:41.879
and that's how we'll warp. I've
seen it. Yeah. I think the

2123
02:16:41.959 --> 02:16:46.239
answer that question determines whether the universe
has an end or not. Reading about

2124
02:16:46.280 --> 02:16:52.680
this recently, I think you can
definitely jump in space. But that doesn't

2125
02:16:52.680 --> 02:16:54.559
sound too hard jump he said,
jump or warp? Right? Yeah?

2126
02:16:54.799 --> 02:17:00.719
Yeah, I predicted our in our
lifetime, somebody will jump while in space

2127
02:17:01.719 --> 02:17:05.319
bodily. Yeah, like it.
It's dude, good prediction. It's probably

2128
02:17:05.360 --> 02:17:11.079
already app I think it's several times. Well, okay, yeah, listen

2129
02:17:11.120 --> 02:17:16.479
to me. Will anyone jump bones
a space that I fell asleep in the

2130
02:17:16.559 --> 02:17:20.360
back of this space shuttle. Massive
testing to that effect, like space boning.

2131
02:17:20.799 --> 02:17:26.120
I think they have. They haven't, but they are. There's one

2132
02:17:26.399 --> 02:17:31.319
instance where it might have happened.
No one knows for sure. They don't

2133
02:17:31.399 --> 02:17:37.479
publish those papers. They don't talk
about space. If you're in a fucking

2134
02:17:37.559 --> 02:17:39.520
I don't care who's with you.
You're in a space shuttle, you're going

2135
02:17:39.520 --> 02:17:46.159
into space. It happens like twenty
times total. Uh huh. You're gonna

2136
02:17:46.200 --> 02:17:48.280
get some bone on. You're gonna
be one of like twenty people who've been

2137
02:17:48.399 --> 02:17:52.600
like and we're fucking up here alone. This is a lot of cameras around

2138
02:17:52.600 --> 02:17:54.639
here. But like, don't just
don't you just want to know? Don't

2139
02:17:54.680 --> 02:17:56.680
you just want to know? You
have to know, don't We have to

2140
02:17:56.719 --> 02:18:03.719
know when are we gonna When are
we gonna be back? Never it's true,

2141
02:18:05.360 --> 02:18:07.760
we won't talk about it. I
really want to find out now.

2142
02:18:07.120 --> 02:18:11.680
I think there was a husband and
wife cosmonaut team that was up at the

2143
02:18:11.719 --> 02:18:16.319
same time and in a space station. Yeah, it's the papers you don't

2144
02:18:16.360 --> 02:18:20.680
read. M h. Space babies. I hope, I hope we warp

2145
02:18:20.719 --> 02:18:24.959
around in space I mean make it's
a lot more interesting. Yeah, if

2146
02:18:24.959 --> 02:18:28.479
we can go somewhere far, that
would be useful. Yeah, it seems

2147
02:18:28.559 --> 02:18:33.360
useful. If we can't get far
without I'm just waste the more time.

2148
02:18:33.440 --> 02:18:35.239
And then we have to build colony
ships. And then it's like we're gonna

2149
02:18:35.239 --> 02:18:39.239
get on these ships knowing that our
grand kids will maybe get to a planet

2150
02:18:39.280 --> 02:18:43.760
that they might be able to live
on. Yeah, it's all reapers or

2151
02:18:43.840 --> 02:18:46.600
something exactly. It's the problem is
the problem is that even if we achieve

2152
02:18:46.639 --> 02:18:48.920
the speed of light, which is
a big fucking if. Yeah, it's

2153
02:18:48.920 --> 02:18:52.040
still pretty slow. The closest star
is still four years of that away.

2154
02:18:52.159 --> 02:18:56.920
What about a wormhole? Jeffary said, it folds like a piece of folds

2155
02:18:56.920 --> 02:18:58.600
like nap just through the hole.
Yeah, like you know, all of

2156
02:18:58.639 --> 02:19:01.639
the ship and star trek relies on
being able to go thousands of times faster

2157
02:19:01.760 --> 02:19:05.200
than light. Well, should we
know can travel really fast? I have

2158
02:19:05.280 --> 02:19:09.959
seen it upsets thus cheat is run
like sixty sixty five miles. Well,

2159
02:19:09.959 --> 02:19:11.479
they actually go through a wormhole.
I guess that's true. That's what the

2160
02:19:11.520 --> 02:19:15.600
spots are. Look, all we
need to do solve the problems in the

2161
02:19:15.600 --> 02:19:18.920
Middle East, go in excavate all
of Egypt find the stargate. Yeah,

2162
02:19:20.040 --> 02:19:22.319
totally, Yeah, where's they only
have to activate the one on the other

2163
02:19:22.399 --> 02:19:24.559
side. Yeah, how do you
do that? Kurt Russell will still be

2164
02:19:24.559 --> 02:19:28.600
alive on the other side. Yeah, that's where he is. Yeah,

2165
02:19:28.639 --> 02:19:33.520
he keeps the stargate. It's in
his place. Oh. Thanks Wikipedia.

2166
02:19:33.959 --> 02:19:37.879
Sex in space is human sexual activity
in the weightlessness and or extreme environments of

2167
02:19:37.879 --> 02:19:45.120
atter space. Thanks for clarifying.
I wasn't show, okay, John and

2168
02:19:45.200 --> 02:19:48.360
Philadelphia says. I went into my
local game stop recently to purchase and PlayStation

2169
02:19:48.520 --> 02:19:54.239
four. A mistake, I know, but I was excited. I just

2170
02:19:54.280 --> 02:19:58.639
got my tax refund. Fuck and
taxes, that's gonna happen. We defaulted

2171
02:19:58.680 --> 02:20:05.840
on the b all right, I'm
my federal nom done, and thus allowing

2172
02:20:05.879 --> 02:20:07.520
me to jump into the next console
generation. Finally, I was target first.

2173
02:20:07.559 --> 02:20:11.120
They didn't have any, so I
went into game stop. Hope's foolishly

2174
02:20:11.159 --> 02:20:13.280
high. There was a stack of
PS four boxes right by the door.

2175
02:20:13.399 --> 02:20:16.559
Each monk marked three ninety nine and
looked promising, But boy, I was

2176
02:20:16.600 --> 02:20:18.559
wrong. I asked to buy one
and they said I could buy the empty

2177
02:20:18.600 --> 02:20:22.159
box, but there was wait for
it. Won't be any PS four's in

2178
02:20:22.200 --> 02:20:26.079
the US until April. The counter
help went on to explain that Sony announced

2179
02:20:26.120 --> 02:20:30.719
a stoppage of production in the US
to focus on the Japanese release. I

2180
02:20:30.840 --> 02:20:33.920
pointed out that this doesn't make any
sense since they have their first big first

2181
02:20:33.959 --> 02:20:35.840
party release and Infamous coming out in
a few weeks. His answer was a

2182
02:20:35.840 --> 02:20:39.799
shrug, and that's what Sony told
us. But if you wanted to get

2183
02:20:39.840 --> 02:20:45.040
a six hundred dollars bundle, I
could have it here by Wednesday. Yeah.

2184
02:20:45.200 --> 02:20:46.280
You went on to explain that it
comes to the next control or two

2185
02:20:46.360 --> 02:20:50.559
games and PlayStation plus. Long story
short, I told him I didn't want

2186
02:20:50.559 --> 02:20:52.959
to buy his shitty bundle, then
win a home and bought one on Amazon.

2187
02:20:52.040 --> 02:20:54.920
It will be here by wednesday.
So my question for you is this,

2188
02:20:56.000 --> 02:20:58.840
did Sony actually stop US production to
focus on Japan? Am I wrong

2189
02:20:58.920 --> 02:21:01.360
for thinking that sounds nuts? That
sounds nuts. That sounds nuts. I'm

2190
02:21:01.360 --> 02:21:05.520
sure that they are that they have
put together. They have probably been stockpiling

2191
02:21:05.559 --> 02:21:11.520
shipments for Japan for some time and
having consoles that are configured and boxed up

2192
02:21:11.600 --> 02:21:15.440
that way. But I don't think
they have completely cut off the US to

2193
02:21:15.600 --> 02:21:18.639
accommodate that launch. But you know, but supply is going to be tight

2194
02:21:18.680 --> 02:21:24.000
for a while. Yeah, they
probably want to get a bun. Supply

2195
02:21:24.120 --> 02:21:24.840
is gonna be tight for a while. But I think Amazon was back in

2196
02:21:24.879 --> 02:21:26.959
stock for a little bit this weekend. I mean he said he ordered one

2197
02:21:28.000 --> 02:21:31.760
on Amazon. So obviously, Hey, no, we have ordered what PlayStation

2198
02:21:31.840 --> 02:21:37.520
four? Yeah, from December that
have not showed up yet because those got

2199
02:21:37.680 --> 02:21:41.200
ordered the Xbox One. But they
got ordered from some weird ass company that

2200
02:21:41.360 --> 02:21:43.719
fuck man, I don't know,
and selling lights. I don't know,

2201
02:21:45.840 --> 02:21:48.719
lights and routers. I have no
idea. I don't know. But they're

2202
02:21:48.719 --> 02:21:52.840
a preferred vendor. Yeah, they're
a preferred vendor. We need they need

2203
02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:54.360
able to take a purchase order.
The hell. They must be preferred for

2204
02:21:54.399 --> 02:21:58.760
a corporate preferred vendor program where they
can you know, se get you ship.

2205
02:22:00.680 --> 02:22:05.520
Yeah. It's it's a mattress and
the PlayStation four. I haven't seen

2206
02:22:05.600 --> 02:22:09.280
them. Weird, Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Apparently they're somewhere.

2207
02:22:11.440 --> 02:22:13.600
I don't know. It's weird.
Times. You should cancel that order

2208
02:22:13.639 --> 02:22:18.399
and then we should just order something
from Amazon and then they're bought, they're

2209
02:22:18.440 --> 02:22:20.040
paid for. Okay, all right, well, Xbox one, we get

2210
02:22:20.079 --> 02:22:24.639
these xboxes. Let's just get them
as soon as we can. We'll just

2211
02:22:24.799 --> 02:22:28.200
get to get it done. Like
that's ridiculous, all right, talk to

2212
02:22:28.239 --> 02:22:33.639
some people because it's in the budget, right fuck man, I don't know.

2213
02:22:33.520 --> 02:22:37.000
I forgot that. That's actually the
hard question. It's all sorts of

2214
02:22:37.040 --> 02:22:39.559
stuff in the budget. Man,
I just add lines and excel. What

2215
02:22:39.639 --> 02:22:46.680
do you want? Do you want? Right? Uh, let's see,

2216
02:22:46.399 --> 02:22:52.440
Juan says. So I was driving
around with my wife in an impossible question

2217
02:22:52.520 --> 02:22:54.319
came to me. She would not
dignify this question with an answer. So

2218
02:22:54.399 --> 02:22:58.280
I was hoping you guys can help
me out that it was a good sign.

2219
02:23:01.440 --> 02:23:03.440
I don't even know. I you
know, I pulled this because it's

2220
02:23:03.440 --> 02:23:05.040
like, you know, if you
can't get an answer or anyplace else,

2221
02:23:05.159 --> 02:23:07.399
I mean, we have to step
in. It saved the days, right,

2222
02:23:07.440 --> 02:23:15.440
it's what it's the we signed the
the Podcasts Compact, and now this

2223
02:23:15.639 --> 02:23:20.200
is we are legally bound if not
us, right? Who? Who?

2224
02:23:20.440 --> 02:23:24.760
I don't know, Adam Carolla?
Who else does a podcast? What are

2225
02:23:24.879 --> 02:23:28.959
what other podcasts? I think it's
just us, the Tappitt Brothers. What

2226
02:23:28.559 --> 02:23:33.719
that doesn't that doesn't exist? Car
talk what car talks on radio show?

2227
02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:37.680
That's different. They're they're like number
one podcast. You're a number one podcast.

2228
02:23:39.399 --> 02:23:41.559
You go to your favorite foodery and
there's a new item on the menu.

2229
02:23:43.239 --> 02:23:46.280
It happens to be your exact favorite
regular item, except for one thing.

2230
02:23:48.159 --> 02:23:52.040
It is haunted the food. Would
you eat this haunted food item?

2231
02:23:52.120 --> 02:23:54.920
What's it haunted by? This is
at the end of the question. That

2232
02:23:56.000 --> 02:23:58.280
is the end of the questions.
Would you eat haunted food? Haunted by?

2233
02:23:58.319 --> 02:24:03.479
What? Ghosts? Like? Thin
the ghost? I think you're saying

2234
02:24:03.559 --> 02:24:07.120
like haunted is bad? Right?
Is it haunted by like the ghost of

2235
02:24:07.200 --> 02:24:11.239
Hitler? I don't know. Would
would food continue to haunt you after you

2236
02:24:11.520 --> 02:24:16.319
ate it? Probably? Could?
I say that there is will haunt me

2237
02:24:16.479 --> 02:24:20.760
after I eat it for some amount
of time, But then well, the

2238
02:24:22.079 --> 02:24:24.319
light is green, the trap is
clean, and then it's no longer a

2239
02:24:24.360 --> 02:24:30.639
problem. I'm not sure. I
don't know if I could dignify that with

2240
02:24:30.680 --> 02:24:37.799
an answer. I don't think I
would dignify that, would not eat?

2241
02:24:37.600 --> 02:24:41.120
What's the incentive to eat your because
it's your favorite food? I guess yeah,

2242
02:24:41.239 --> 02:24:45.600
I don't know. By the transitive
property, would you then become haunted

2243
02:24:45.680 --> 02:24:48.280
That's what I want to know if
you haunt you after you know, I

2244
02:24:48.360 --> 02:24:52.879
don't think it would, would you
just I think haunted food? Yeah,

2245
02:24:52.879 --> 02:24:56.200
I think haunted food. You would
be freeing the ghosts, eating exercise.

2246
02:24:56.200 --> 02:25:01.680
It's fulfilling its purpose. Perhaps you
would past haunted stool. That's more of

2247
02:25:01.719 --> 02:25:11.120
a problem that happens to me once
or twice away a ghastly stool. Oo,

2248
02:25:13.200 --> 02:25:20.559
you're okay in there, I'm gonna
go. I'm just gotta Oh,

2249
02:25:22.399 --> 02:25:26.639
I'm okay. Thanks for playing that
out to its conclusion. I didn't want

2250
02:25:26.639 --> 02:25:30.879
to leave anybody, you know,
you know, wondering where those good Gotta

2251
02:25:30.879 --> 02:25:35.040
spell this stuff out? Uh,
number one podcast, Number one podcast,

2252
02:25:35.360 --> 02:25:41.120
Take that click and clack. Jeff
and China writes in and says, Hi,

2253
02:25:41.239 --> 02:25:45.600
this is Jeff Wu from China.
We are a factory which produces pet

2254
02:25:45.680 --> 02:25:48.360
clothes, pet harness, pet leash. Please let me know if you are

2255
02:25:48.399 --> 02:25:50.559
interested to buy from us. Thanks. I will send the price lists and

2256
02:25:50.680 --> 02:25:54.799
website to you then only if you
get back them. Yeah. Do that

2257
02:25:54.840 --> 02:26:05.280
make stuff for guinea pigs pets?
The pets with the Z nope Max from

2258
02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:07.639
Australia Rights and it says last week
some guy named Max from Australia wrote in

2259
02:26:07.719 --> 02:26:11.520
saying how it was okay to wear
thongs with jeans and at work and a

2260
02:26:11.559 --> 02:26:15.079
bunch of other crap as another person
named Max, also in Australia. Do

2261
02:26:15.239 --> 02:26:20.879
not listen to this crazy person.
He is crazy beef. It's the same

2262
02:26:20.959 --> 02:26:24.639
guy. Yeah, thong beef freaking
out right. So wait, what did

2263
02:26:24.680 --> 02:26:28.959
I do? That's not right?
I made the wrong impression. Couple people

2264
02:26:30.000 --> 02:26:33.680
writing in about some of the things
that came up on this podcast about the

2265
02:26:33.719 --> 02:26:37.799
mem wage in Australia. Yeah,
no one really refuting it. Dania right,

2266
02:26:37.840 --> 02:26:41.879
some people saying like, you know, it's the exchange rate's gotten weird

2267
02:26:41.000 --> 02:26:45.799
and you know the top salaries are
still lower, so it still is kind

2268
02:26:45.840 --> 02:26:50.600
of a thing. But Alec writes
in it says, just listening to the

2269
02:26:50.680 --> 02:26:54.319
latest podcast and realized you may not
have been aware of one of the features

2270
02:26:54.360 --> 02:26:58.440
of the Sony credit card, Brad, Okay, you can use that card

2271
02:26:58.440 --> 02:27:01.760
to purchase your PlayStation four from any
retailer. Yeah, I know where this

2272
02:27:01.840 --> 02:27:05.159
is going, and then file the
form with Sony to give the cost exchange

2273
02:27:05.159 --> 02:27:07.319
for your points, so you buy
your PS four for three ninety nine.

2274
02:27:07.319 --> 02:27:09.920
Felt the form have three hundred ninety
nine points and in points subtracted from your

2275
02:27:09.920 --> 02:27:15.319
account. He is right, but
they added a pretty significant seurcharge to that,

2276
02:27:15.600 --> 02:27:18.760
yeah, a year or two ago. So like how significant are we

2277
02:27:18.799 --> 02:27:22.079
talking here? You buy a four
hundred or something in points like you,

2278
02:27:22.559 --> 02:27:26.959
Oh, I lose an additional fifteen
or twenty percent worth of points doing it

2279
02:27:28.079 --> 02:27:31.360
that way. I would still do
it that way. Yeah, we'll see

2280
02:27:31.399 --> 02:27:33.959
how dire the situation gets. You
can buy a sick bundle. The longer

2281
02:27:33.000 --> 02:27:35.760
I have to weigh, the more
appealing that becomes. Also, I don't

2282
02:27:35.799 --> 02:27:39.959
think it's any retailer. Maybe I'm
wrong. I thought it had to be

2283
02:27:39.079 --> 02:27:43.360
like I had to go to Sony
Style Store or something like that. I

2284
02:27:43.360 --> 02:27:46.760
don't know. Yeah, I know
with with my my American Express points translate

2285
02:27:46.799 --> 02:27:52.040
directly to Amazon, so I can
just yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna dish

2286
02:27:52.120 --> 02:27:54.799
that card. Yeah digit not digit, but you hang on to it from

2287
02:27:54.799 --> 02:27:56.559
my credit history. But I'm gonna
get a more versa tole. Yeah,

2288
02:27:56.719 --> 02:28:01.159
rewards card. I mean you're paying
for the rewards up front, and well

2289
02:28:01.159 --> 02:28:05.120
it depends on how you treat your
credit, I guess. But anyway,

2290
02:28:05.280 --> 02:28:09.360
no annual fee you on this thing
at least? Yeah, annual fees in

2291
02:28:09.360 --> 02:28:11.040
credit card, that's what the fuck
our corporate card? Wit. You have

2292
02:28:11.079 --> 02:28:15.920
an Amazon card? I thought,
I I have an AMX blue like those

2293
02:28:15.959 --> 02:28:20.120
American Express points. Just huh,
I think the Amazon visa I looked at

2294
02:28:20.200 --> 02:28:24.680
head an annual fee. Yeah,
no, I don't have an Amazon say

2295
02:28:24.719 --> 02:28:28.200
the one that's like, hey,
you could save, might do it right

2296
02:28:28.239 --> 02:28:30.799
now. But also it might be
wrong about Yeah, it might be wrong

2297
02:28:30.959 --> 02:28:35.879
that this thing the rewards the stuff
like they're either passing the savings onto retailers

2298
02:28:35.959 --> 02:28:39.040
by charging them higher fees. They're
charging the consumers higher fees. No one

2299
02:28:39.079 --> 02:28:43.159
ever wins, and there's no free
lunch. Credit card companies get free lunches

2300
02:28:43.520 --> 02:28:46.399
all the time. As it turns
out, pay off your balance every month,

2301
02:28:46.639 --> 02:28:50.520
come out ahead. Yeah that's what
I do. Yeah, So that's

2302
02:28:50.559 --> 02:28:52.879
why I just don't buy anything.
You don't have the money for. What's

2303
02:28:52.920 --> 02:28:56.159
a credit card? So how you
buy those? It's yeah, it's how

2304
02:28:56.200 --> 02:29:00.639
we make those Xbox ones show up. They were invented by kid Icris.

2305
02:29:01.040 --> 02:29:05.280
Okay they call him. Oh that's
the money pit. I've seen. I've

2306
02:29:05.280 --> 02:29:09.520
heard the money pit. You can
get more hammers. You can defeat the

2307
02:29:09.559 --> 02:29:13.079
eggplant Wizard. The only way to
destroy it to cut it in a half.

2308
02:29:13.879 --> 02:29:16.399
Yeah right, I've seen it.
And then call up and say,

2309
02:29:16.879 --> 02:29:18.159
I'd like to cancel this card,
but I want you to note in my

2310
02:29:18.280 --> 02:29:22.360
file that I am canceling it.
It is not you are not canceling it.

2311
02:29:22.440 --> 02:29:26.639
My credit is still good. Yeah. Yeah, if you canceled credit

2312
02:29:26.639 --> 02:29:31.920
card at all, have an impact
on your credit history? Really, yes,

2313
02:29:31.200 --> 02:29:35.360
I can, oh yeah, consolutely. Yeah, Like they say,

2314
02:29:35.440 --> 02:29:39.799
like you're you're a bad customer.
No, your credit history only extends as

2315
02:29:39.840 --> 02:29:43.280
far back as your oldest card currently
held card. So if you have like

2316
02:29:43.399 --> 02:29:46.600
if if you if you first credit
card is like ten years old, and

2317
02:29:46.639 --> 02:29:48.879
then you got another one four years
ago, and then you canceled a ten

2318
02:29:48.920 --> 02:29:52.120
year old one, like that nullifies
that initial six years of credit history.

2319
02:29:52.120 --> 02:29:54.120
Is such a well, it's fucked
up. It's so weird. There are

2320
02:29:54.120 --> 02:29:58.879
all these weird ins and outs to
it that are not intuitive like or liked

2321
02:29:58.879 --> 02:30:03.440
you never know about unless you did
your research. It's bullshit. It's so

2322
02:30:03.559 --> 02:30:07.520
weird that you're better off having used
the credit card and paying off that stuff

2323
02:30:07.760 --> 02:30:09.840
than to have never been in debt. Yeah, like the people that I

2324
02:30:09.879 --> 02:30:13.159
see you going around like I've never
had a credit card that it's like,

2325
02:30:13.239 --> 02:30:16.600
dude, you're screwing yourself over like
you were not godstry. You'll never be

2326
02:30:16.680 --> 02:30:20.200
able to buy a house. It
is it. Yes, you have to

2327
02:30:20.360 --> 02:30:24.479
get into this system and it's fucking
it's a real fucking racket. Or you

2328
02:30:24.559 --> 02:30:31.120
have to be off the grid man
only. Yeah, bitcoins, which,

2329
02:30:31.159 --> 02:30:35.719
as it turns out, or not
quite as off the grid is as cash.

2330
02:30:37.000 --> 02:30:41.559
Last question, bring up this old
chestnut. Michael writes, Sinces,

2331
02:30:41.639 --> 02:30:48.879
I have a question about Call of
Duty and resolution gates. Don't don't play

2332
02:30:48.920 --> 02:30:52.000
the resolution gate bumper here there's we've
been a letter of resolution gate pumper.

2333
02:30:52.159 --> 02:30:56.520
I don't know we sent that out. Yeah, ign, Eurogamer and a

2334
02:30:56.559 --> 02:30:58.719
few other sites ran with video side
by side of Call of Duty ghosts that

2335
02:30:58.799 --> 02:31:03.520
were found later to be inaccurate.
The PS four resolution was later upgraded to

2336
02:31:03.559 --> 02:31:07.120
ten ADP with a patch. I
remember Giant Bomb waited until after the patch

2337
02:31:07.200 --> 02:31:09.360
was released to cover the game.
Activision stated that the discrepancy was due to

2338
02:31:09.440 --> 02:31:15.239
a configuration issue on the PS four. What really happened here was Activision doing

2339
02:31:15.280 --> 02:31:20.000
Microsoft a favor. No recently,
numerous multiplatform games run at ten adp and

2340
02:31:20.040 --> 02:31:24.600
sixty frames on PS four and at
least nine hundred and sixty frames mostly seven

2341
02:31:24.639 --> 02:31:28.840
twenty p on Xbox One. What
is the deal? So, yes,

2342
02:31:30.000 --> 02:31:31.920
there was a yeah, call of
duty when it launched, wasn't running at

2343
02:31:31.959 --> 02:31:35.680
the resolution that it did after a
patch, like they you know, games

2344
02:31:35.719 --> 02:31:39.799
go gold. Guess what what?
Making games for consoles that are not out

2345
02:31:39.920 --> 02:31:43.840
yet is more difficult than making games
for consoles that have been around for a

2346
02:31:43.879 --> 02:31:46.879
while. The tools are not as
good, the path to optimizing your game

2347
02:31:48.799 --> 02:31:52.000
is more difficult, and you're spending
a significant portion of your development time developing

2348
02:31:52.079 --> 02:31:56.520
for a console that maybe doesn't have
its specs locked down yet. Weird,

2349
02:31:56.760 --> 02:32:00.639
So a lot of things come together
real late with those games. Even games

2350
02:32:00.680 --> 02:32:03.600
that are coming out now might as
well be launched games, and you know,

2351
02:32:03.680 --> 02:32:07.920
they haven't really had time to learn
from the first generation software to make

2352
02:32:09.159 --> 02:32:11.959
noticeable improvements. So you get these
situations where by the time they had to

2353
02:32:13.000 --> 02:32:15.760
press discs for PS four, they
were locked into this thing. And whether

2354
02:32:15.760 --> 02:32:18.719
it's configuration error or not, I
don't know. I remember hearing before it

2355
02:32:18.799 --> 02:32:20.120
was out, Before the PS four
was out, they're like, oh,

2356
02:32:20.120 --> 02:32:24.200
Activisions trying to get a patch through
that's going to bring it up to ten

2357
02:32:24.239 --> 02:32:26.239
ADP and all this other stuff,
and the game still has some frame rate

2358
02:32:26.280 --> 02:32:33.319
issues on on PS four in terms
of like Microsoft like somehow paying for that

2359
02:32:33.639 --> 02:32:39.399
process, so they launched not at
ten ADP. That is the conspiracy nonsense,

2360
02:32:39.520 --> 02:32:43.079
like, that's not that's not where
the battles are fought. It's not

2361
02:32:43.200 --> 02:32:46.840
like you need to make it look
slightly worse on the other guys and we'll

2362
02:32:46.840 --> 02:32:50.600
pay you to do it. That's
shortsighted bad business for the people making the

2363
02:32:50.680 --> 02:32:54.719
games because they just want to sales
money as possible. They don't really give

2364
02:32:54.719 --> 02:32:58.239
a fuck. Like the co marketing
money that people get out of these people,

2365
02:32:58.559 --> 02:33:03.799
out of these publishers for various things. It's not insignificant, but compared

2366
02:33:03.879 --> 02:33:07.200
to having your IP available on all
platforms instead of just one like that,

2367
02:33:07.399 --> 02:33:13.120
the money does not make up that. So people just are so quick.

2368
02:33:13.120 --> 02:33:16.719
It's the problem with our culture,
you know it. I think a lot

2369
02:33:16.760 --> 02:33:18.520
of it gets into the same reason
why people are so afraid of fucking science

2370
02:33:20.920 --> 02:33:24.120
and all this anti vax stuff that
goes around. It's all the same mentality

2371
02:33:24.719 --> 02:33:30.479
of people that are just like so
quick to mistrust large corporation. There's there's

2372
02:33:30.479 --> 02:33:33.959
a lot of there's a lot of
weird basic psychology around mistrust of experts.

2373
02:33:33.159 --> 02:33:35.799
Yeah, there's the same thing happens
in the political process. Yeah, Like

2374
02:33:35.840 --> 02:33:39.479
you see, like the educated elite
is considered untrustworthy because they're not down to

2375
02:33:39.520 --> 02:33:41.760
earth. They've got to be putting
one over on right, Yeah, right,

2376
02:33:43.399 --> 02:33:46.799
like people they are sometimes that they
are sometimes that's the bigger problems.

2377
02:33:48.120 --> 02:33:50.000
Yeah, but established like a clear
pattern of the people who know what they're

2378
02:33:50.000 --> 02:33:52.639
talking about being wrong all the time, and then maybe we'll talk yeah.

2379
02:33:52.680 --> 02:33:54.920
Right, But it's one of the
things where if you follow the money back

2380
02:33:54.959 --> 02:33:58.200
on this and how these deals generally
work like that, that's not a scenario

2381
02:33:58.440 --> 02:34:03.239
that is financially beneficial to anyone involved. Like they don't sell more Xbox one

2382
02:34:03.319 --> 02:34:07.879
copies of Call of Duty by the
PS four one being inaccurate, especially at

2383
02:34:07.959 --> 02:34:11.239
launch where all of the launch allocations
are already sold out. It doesn't fucking

2384
02:34:11.520 --> 02:34:16.360
matter because all those consoles are already
sold. You have to be able to

2385
02:34:16.399 --> 02:34:20.639
point specific examples if you're gonna sail
the credibility of the quote unquote experts.

2386
02:34:20.959 --> 02:34:24.399
But it depends who you put up
as a quote unquote expert. Fox News

2387
02:34:24.399 --> 02:34:26.120
will put up like any dude as
a quote unquote expert. I don't think

2388
02:34:26.120 --> 02:34:31.479
anybody is taking anything, Fox News
says, seriously, not anybody, but

2389
02:34:31.239 --> 02:34:35.760
yeah, plenty of people are.
Anybody with a remotely open mind is not

2390
02:34:35.879 --> 02:34:37.360
looking at that and saying that that's
you know, but I mean, you

2391
02:34:37.399 --> 02:34:41.239
know, just get back where like
we live in in a world right now

2392
02:34:41.280 --> 02:34:45.399
where Jesse Ventura is literally running a
show out of Mexico where he's off the

2393
02:34:45.440 --> 02:34:48.719
grid. Yeah, he's an expert
because the conspiracy either out there. I

2394
02:34:48.879 --> 02:34:52.680
love Predator. Yeah, and god
damn it, that man can wear a

2395
02:34:52.760 --> 02:34:58.000
boa the way a few people can. But fucking come on, he was,

2396
02:34:58.399 --> 02:35:01.920
he was in our political system.
He knows better than anybody. He

2397
02:35:01.399 --> 02:35:05.760
knows what's up. Yeah, I
mean you look at you look at you

2398
02:35:05.840 --> 02:35:09.520
know, look at the experts,
not necessarily in the scientific field, but

2399
02:35:09.559 --> 02:35:11.840
looking at her politicals. That's what
I was talking about, Like, that's

2400
02:35:11.959 --> 02:35:16.319
terrible. I feel like the bulk
of the political spectrum at this point is

2401
02:35:16.399 --> 02:35:18.879
just fucking noise and garbage. It's
noise is garbage, But those are paid

2402
02:35:18.959 --> 02:35:22.799
those are elected officials that we have
said you are the expert. Yeah,

2403
02:35:22.840 --> 02:35:24.639
you're my delegates. You have to
cater to all sorts of people that just

2404
02:35:24.760 --> 02:35:30.239
want like totally meaningless information out of
them, And that's the private industry.

2405
02:35:30.399 --> 02:35:37.000
Yeah, You've got so many different
interests that have swayed the political realm to

2406
02:35:37.120 --> 02:35:41.280
their fucking whim over and over again, be a corporate interests or religious interests

2407
02:35:41.319 --> 02:35:43.879
or whatever. You it's fuss.
See how fast this Comcast time order merger

2408
02:35:43.959 --> 02:35:48.040
goes down? Right? No shit, So I think it is. I'm

2409
02:35:48.120 --> 02:35:50.360
not I'm not trying to justify crazy
conspiracy theory stuff, but like you know,

2410
02:35:50.399 --> 02:35:54.280
like I think, like you said, sussing out the getting through the

2411
02:35:54.360 --> 02:35:56.639
noise, sometimes I think it's more
difficult than maybe. It seems like you

2412
02:35:56.760 --> 02:36:01.920
got a lot of information out there
and then people doing some really fucked up

2413
02:36:01.959 --> 02:36:05.360
shit that you'd never imagine, Dan, how is that even possible? Corporations

2414
02:36:05.399 --> 02:36:09.319
are what? I feel like the
number of times that I am, like

2415
02:36:09.639 --> 02:36:13.040
having to decide whether I'm going to
post a link to Snopes or not has

2416
02:36:13.120 --> 02:36:18.559
gone up significantly. Yeah, over
the past couple of years of like people

2417
02:36:18.600 --> 02:36:20.879
on Facebook going did you know that
this happened, and it's like, no,

2418
02:36:20.120 --> 02:36:24.079
this is not at all. I
stopped responding to those to my dad.

2419
02:36:24.760 --> 02:36:26.600
But well, that same token.
The number of times I read stuff

2420
02:36:26.600 --> 02:36:30.719
in the paper being like you gotta
be out of your fucking mind, this

2421
02:36:30.920 --> 02:36:35.239
is real has gone up as well. Yeah, like the amount of like

2422
02:36:35.680 --> 02:36:41.200
how did this? Yeah? What? That's crazy? But you bear this

2423
02:36:41.280 --> 02:36:43.680
out, like you follow the money
on this, It doesn't make any sense,

2424
02:36:43.879 --> 02:36:46.319
you know. The notion of just
like we're gonna make the ship at

2425
02:36:46.360 --> 02:36:50.840
a slightly lower resolution that only nutcases
will make a big deal about. Well,

2426
02:36:50.920 --> 02:36:54.479
I mean, I mean the Call
of Duties sold more on the Xbox

2427
02:36:54.520 --> 02:36:58.879
anyway. Yeah, that's the empirical
truth, right, If there's money to

2428
02:36:58.959 --> 02:37:01.920
be made, then that's probably the
least likeliest or the most likely scenario.

2429
02:37:03.200 --> 02:37:05.760
If it is an activision's best interest
to make these the best products on each

2430
02:37:05.799 --> 02:37:09.680
platform, that's most likely what they're
going to try and do. Yeah,

2431
02:37:09.680 --> 02:37:11.920
I mean, I feel like,
in general, when you're out there trying

2432
02:37:11.920 --> 02:37:13.360
to weigh your options in terms of
who to trust and who to believe,

2433
02:37:15.399 --> 02:37:18.479
drilling down, Yeah, drilling down
on their motives and their methodology is always

2434
02:37:18.520 --> 02:37:20.879
one of the best ways to figure
out should I trust this person or not?

2435
02:37:20.040 --> 02:37:22.719
And even then it's it's not always
going to be the case. There's

2436
02:37:22.719 --> 02:37:26.079
been some stuff going around about titan
Fall that you look at and go like,

2437
02:37:26.159 --> 02:37:30.360
well, maybe there's some merit to
this, Like after they pushed back

2438
02:37:30.399 --> 02:37:33.200
the Xbox three sixty version of the
game. There are kind of two scenarios

2439
02:37:33.719 --> 02:37:37.280
in that case, and some people
are floating around that they're they're pushing back

2440
02:37:37.319 --> 02:37:41.040
the Xbox three sixty versions so that
more people buy the the Xbox One version

2441
02:37:41.040 --> 02:37:46.520
of the game, and that's somewhat
plausible. But to believe that, you

2442
02:37:46.639 --> 02:37:52.600
have to believe that Microsoft is stepping
in and making that beneficial for EA,

2443
02:37:52.399 --> 02:37:56.239
and I guess response maybe blue point
at that point, I'm not sure,

2444
02:37:56.319 --> 02:38:01.760
but probably just EA that it's in
EA's best entry to move that game back

2445
02:38:01.799 --> 02:38:05.479
a couple of weeks, potentially,
you know, lose sales for a little

2446
02:38:05.479 --> 02:38:09.440
bit of what the version of the
game that will be shipping like on probably

2447
02:38:09.479 --> 02:38:13.559
the highest installed that'll probably go on
to be the best selling version of that

2448
02:38:13.639 --> 02:38:16.000
game. You have to believe that
Microsoft is so focused on trying to get

2449
02:38:16.000 --> 02:38:20.520
people to buy the Xbox One version
that they would they would get EA to

2450
02:38:20.600 --> 02:38:28.600
delay that version two weeks possible,
possible, or or the core version of

2451
02:38:28.639 --> 02:38:31.600
the game that Respawn is doing is
so down to the wire and so last

2452
02:38:31.639 --> 02:38:35.079
minute that they're running this beta to
try to figure out how the servers are

2453
02:38:35.120 --> 02:38:39.319
going to go, that the version
that is chasing it that is being developed

2454
02:38:39.360 --> 02:38:43.920
by someone else has to be late
because they're making changes to the main version

2455
02:38:45.120 --> 02:38:48.159
so late in the game that there's
no way they could be accurately reflected in

2456
02:38:48.200 --> 02:38:52.040
the Xbox three sixty version of the
game. Also, also the version that's

2457
02:38:52.040 --> 02:38:54.600
going to sell do tens of millions
more people or consoles, so they could

2458
02:38:54.639 --> 02:39:01.079
have on the servers might be in
their best interest to say, hey,

2459
02:39:01.159 --> 02:39:05.719
let's get make sure Xbox one and
that stuff is up, that's before before

2460
02:39:05.799 --> 02:39:09.280
dumping all these people on it,
before handing it with maybe there's all or

2461
02:39:09.360 --> 02:39:16.079
the money. I think that there
is a very real possibility that that money

2462
02:39:16.200 --> 02:39:22.639
changed hands and that the game got
slipped specifically to push the Xbox one version

2463
02:39:22.680 --> 02:39:24.479
of the game, because I think
when that, you know, having talked

2464
02:39:24.520 --> 02:39:26.760
to a couple of people here and
there that that did see it and say

2465
02:39:26.760 --> 02:39:30.879
it looked fine, I think it's
one of those things that if people look

2466
02:39:30.920 --> 02:39:33.680
at it, they'll go like,
wait, how come these consoles that are

2467
02:39:33.719 --> 02:39:37.920
a generation apart looks so similar?
So this that to me is the part

2468
02:39:39.000 --> 02:39:41.600
where it starts to make sense.
But so this is the part where I

2469
02:39:41.639 --> 02:39:43.760
think it can get You can start
conflating things kind of easily where people would

2470
02:39:43.760 --> 02:39:48.479
be liked, Oh, could Microsoft
then payoff Activision to say, let's,

2471
02:39:48.479 --> 02:39:50.200
you know, make a mistake,
you know, for two weeks, Like

2472
02:39:50.280 --> 02:39:54.360
that's not necessarily like that. Yeah, but like the leaps of conversation,

2473
02:39:54.360 --> 02:39:58.120
and also they were working on getting
that patch done before the discs were on

2474
02:39:58.200 --> 02:40:03.200
shelves. I know that for a
fact that information isn't the case. Yeah,

2475
02:40:03.360 --> 02:40:07.479
so I see what they reported it
before it was on shelves, so

2476
02:40:07.600 --> 02:40:11.600
it was pretty radily accessible. Well
everybody should be reading exactly well yeah,

2477
02:40:11.959 --> 02:40:16.639
but yeah, we're definitely in a
weird age of like information overload and just

2478
02:40:16.719 --> 02:40:20.159
all that garbage is gosh, what
like things come together in such a way

2479
02:40:20.239 --> 02:40:24.440
that anyone can come up with any
sort of cockamami scenario. Yeah you see

2480
02:40:24.520 --> 02:40:28.559
which, Yeah, sort I getting
there. The scary thing to me is

2481
02:40:28.639 --> 02:40:31.600
that the mistrust of kind of established
scientific and medical doctrine is going up.

2482
02:40:33.159 --> 02:40:35.959
Yeah, like you know, look
at you know, I mean, don't

2483
02:40:35.000 --> 02:40:39.559
trust. Don't trust the corporation.
I mean that's just yeah, the reation

2484
02:40:39.600 --> 02:40:41.520
does not have human interests in mind
either. You know, no one does

2485
02:40:41.840 --> 02:40:46.280
right except you. You look out
for you. So trust. Try to

2486
02:40:46.319 --> 02:40:50.559
be sensible about trust. Science the
usually science and published science is usually pretty

2487
02:40:50.559 --> 02:40:52.799
good, peer reviewed, Yeah,
peer reviewed. Trusted in the science is

2488
02:40:52.920 --> 02:40:56.120
usually pretty good way to go.
But well, let me extend that out.

2489
02:40:56.920 --> 02:41:01.799
What about the chemical that was used
in yoga mats that is in us

2490
02:41:03.399 --> 02:41:05.879
that Well, now, I definitely
don't trust yoga in the subway. It

2491
02:41:05.959 --> 02:41:07.000
was in the subway bread, but
it's also in buns at a lot of

2492
02:41:07.040 --> 02:41:11.200
fast food restaurants and all that other
stuff, and it's still in their subway.

2493
02:41:11.200 --> 02:41:13.479
Has got out and said we're taking
it out. But it's not because

2494
02:41:13.479 --> 02:41:15.319
of you. We were taking it
out in any way. Shut the fuck

2495
02:41:15.399 --> 02:41:18.440
up. What's wrong with the subway
bread? It had this chemical in it

2496
02:41:18.479 --> 02:41:22.479
that was also used to make yoga
mats puffy? Is it bad chemical?

2497
02:41:22.719 --> 02:41:26.799
It is generally accepted as safe.
Okay, we'll is generally recognized as safe.

2498
02:41:28.239 --> 02:41:31.280
It is also banned outside of the
US as a food added it.

2499
02:41:31.479 --> 02:41:33.559
Well, that comes down to the
FDA, right, you know, the

2500
02:41:33.879 --> 02:41:35.959
FDA has has gone on said like
it's generally recognized as safe. Yeah.

2501
02:41:37.000 --> 02:41:39.520
I mean they also used to work, you know, small children in factories

2502
02:41:41.000 --> 02:41:43.840
twelve fourteen hours a day. Yeah, you know, like they'll they'll do

2503
02:41:43.959 --> 02:41:46.520
what they can get away with.
Ye. Mistakes, mistakes get made.

2504
02:41:46.559 --> 02:41:48.280
So if that if that chemical is
harmful, that's on the FDA. Is

2505
02:41:48.360 --> 02:41:52.600
it though, that's should be.
They are the ra body, so it

2506
02:41:52.639 --> 02:41:54.879
should be harmful. Oh is it
harmful? Because there are people just like,

2507
02:41:54.959 --> 02:41:58.639
oh, it's causing you know if
if if people breathe in the dust,

2508
02:41:58.680 --> 02:42:03.159
it's causing asthma. But then it's
there's so much information and misinformation out

2509
02:42:03.200 --> 02:42:07.559
there about it that it's become very
difficult to decipher what's real and what is

2510
02:42:07.879 --> 02:42:11.680
is people just freaking out kind of
about nothing. What does science say?

2511
02:42:11.760 --> 02:42:16.799
I don't know. The FDA says
it is generally recognized as say, meanwhile,

2512
02:42:16.879 --> 02:42:20.479
in Europe and other countries it is
no, it is not allowed to

2513
02:42:20.520 --> 02:42:22.879
be used as a food. There's
a lot of that stuff that is banned

2514
02:42:24.040 --> 02:42:28.079
across like the EU, and one
would think that if this chemical is being

2515
02:42:28.239 --> 02:42:31.879
has been used for a significant length
of time, Yeah, there'd be some

2516
02:42:31.120 --> 02:42:35.200
we know about it by now,
it would have been removed by now.

2517
02:42:35.360 --> 02:42:41.200
I don't know they're there are some
strong powers that be I guess our cigarettes

2518
02:42:41.239 --> 02:42:45.479
harmful? Like why is that a
fight? Why was that such a drawn

2519
02:42:45.520 --> 02:42:48.559
out legal battle for so long?
Well, that is just right of corporate

2520
02:42:48.600 --> 02:42:50.559
interests and all the other stuff,
right, But what do you think the

2521
02:42:50.799 --> 02:42:54.559
manufacture. I don't think that there's
like a I don't think there's a yoga

2522
02:42:54.360 --> 02:43:00.479
lobby out there. I bet you'd
be surprised. I bet you can maybe,

2523
02:43:00.840 --> 02:43:03.680
uh yeah, but that sounds crazy. I don't know who to trust

2524
02:43:03.719 --> 02:43:07.040
anymore. Trust Giant Bomp, Trust
this podcast. That's right accurate information.

2525
02:43:07.120 --> 02:43:09.000
Yeah. All we want you to
do is sign up with us, and

2526
02:43:09.639 --> 02:43:13.399
you know we're not going to resort
to any trickery to do that. We

2527
02:43:13.520 --> 02:43:16.719
hope that you do, and we
hope you'll like it. We hope that

2528
02:43:16.760 --> 02:43:20.120
we offer a product you feel is
worth paying for. It took all the

2529
02:43:20.159 --> 02:43:22.639
p s, three versions of tight
and fault, ground them up, added

2530
02:43:22.840 --> 02:43:26.600
to aluminum, and now they're distributing
them in the atmosphere with aeroplanes using to

2531
02:43:26.680 --> 02:43:31.600
make the subway bread rise faster.
Yeah, generally acknowledge as food safe.

2532
02:43:33.280 --> 02:43:35.799
Generally generally. I think in the
EU may I don't know if it's just

2533
02:43:35.920 --> 02:43:43.319
UK though genetically modified foods are banned, it is all right, or it

2534
02:43:43.360 --> 02:43:46.079
may be labeled. Yeah, I
think it's a it's a labeling thing more

2535
02:43:46.159 --> 02:43:54.520
than a MSG. Still bad.
I like it can cause temporary, but

2536
02:43:54.719 --> 02:43:56.120
it's in some some people are sensitive
to it, right, Is that the

2537
02:43:56.200 --> 02:44:01.280
case? You get sleepy, don't
you? We get headache headaches? Yeah,

2538
02:44:01.680 --> 02:44:05.920
I don't know. It's never been
a problem. We bought I put

2539
02:44:05.040 --> 02:44:09.360
MSG on a steak once or a
roast or something we were making, like

2540
02:44:09.440 --> 02:44:11.840
you just had it. Yeah,
we bought some msgeks. We thought it'd

2541
02:44:11.840 --> 02:44:13.159
be funny and then we had laying
around and then it's like, you know,

2542
02:44:13.319 --> 02:44:16.479
had all this meat and like we're
doing up this big old roast.

2543
02:44:16.760 --> 02:44:18.920
Damn. I don't know. It's
try putting much MSG on it. See

2544
02:44:18.959 --> 02:44:22.360
what happens is what happened? Nothing? That was fine? Just get a

2545
02:44:22.399 --> 02:44:28.600
headache? No? Was it good? Yeah? It's fine. Mono sodium

2546
02:44:28.760 --> 02:44:33.360
glutinate, Yeah, that's the one
mate glut mate. I can't remember one

2547
02:44:33.399 --> 02:44:35.159
of the others. It's it's it's
one of those things that you know,

2548
02:44:35.280 --> 02:44:41.639
it's like people are always like trying
to say that aspartame is going to kill

2549
02:44:41.680 --> 02:44:45.200
everyone is very rotten. Uh do
you ever look at the study for that

2550
02:44:45.239 --> 02:44:48.559
stuff. It's also like one of
the most tested chemicals around because of the

2551
02:44:48.600 --> 02:44:54.040
stuff like that that he's been thrilled
into the into the ground testing on the

2552
02:44:54.120 --> 02:44:58.799
hydrogen monoxide. It's at some point
it's like the cut the tumors out of

2553
02:44:58.840 --> 02:45:03.239
the rats and then they submitted the
rats that these rats are healthy. That's

2554
02:45:03.239 --> 02:45:05.360
one of the things I heard.
You heard this is what I heard,

2555
02:45:05.520 --> 02:45:09.159
yeah from it was a weird Yeah, it's it's actually it does have a

2556
02:45:09.200 --> 02:45:13.559
really and it's posted on Facebook,
and yeah, you know, maybe it

2557
02:45:13.680 --> 02:45:16.239
is causing all sorts of problems if
that's the problem is. You know,

2558
02:45:16.360 --> 02:45:18.719
the Internet and the availability of information
has also led to the rise and the

2559
02:45:18.719 --> 02:45:22.959
availability of bullshit. Oh yeah,
and then the best bullshit is when it's

2560
02:45:22.959 --> 02:45:24.239
a kernel of truth, yeah,
and then surrounded and they're like, oh

2561
02:45:24.280 --> 02:45:28.079
man, that's plausible, and then
surrounded by extrapolation, right yeah, like

2562
02:45:28.200 --> 02:45:31.239
oh yeah, I know, they
cut the too and it's like, no,

2563
02:45:31.399 --> 02:45:33.760
that's not they did, but not
the reason you think they did,

2564
02:45:33.920 --> 02:45:35.559
and like all that stuff. That's
where like at some point they just need

2565
02:45:35.680 --> 02:45:39.680
some kind of like dumbed down peer
reviewed thing of just like here's science for

2566
02:45:39.719 --> 02:45:43.559
the people. Shut the fuck up, here's what it's really is. But

2567
02:45:43.639 --> 02:45:46.239
then people would just not trust that. That's why I think snopes is actually

2568
02:45:46.280 --> 02:45:48.280
pretty great. I use that a
lot, and usually the best ones are

2569
02:45:48.319 --> 02:45:56.000
the ones that are like Snopes was
driven button. But as for what is

2570
02:45:56.040 --> 02:45:58.920
the deal with the you know,
multi platform games running a different resolution?

2571
02:46:00.239 --> 02:46:03.200
The PS four is more powerful and
the tools are better, Like maybe that'll

2572
02:46:03.239 --> 02:46:05.719
change, maybe it won't, but
the power is what it is. Maybe

2573
02:46:05.760 --> 02:46:09.879
the tools will get better so it'll
be less of a gap. But there

2574
02:46:09.879 --> 02:46:13.639
you have it, right right.
I'm no scientist, okay, but that's

2575
02:46:15.000 --> 02:46:18.000
I feel like we talked to enough
developers now to say that the PS four

2576
02:46:18.319 --> 02:46:20.840
i've ever heard that continues to be
a more powerful machine and that the Xbox

2577
02:46:20.920 --> 02:46:24.920
one tools are not where they need
to be. Yeah, heard, the

2578
02:46:26.000 --> 02:46:28.159
STK is kind of garbage. Yea, Yeah, that that seems to be.

2579
02:46:28.639 --> 02:46:31.639
So that will get ironed out.
The power thing will be the power

2580
02:46:31.719 --> 02:46:35.639
thing. You know, we'll see
if if a better tool chain closes the

2581
02:46:35.680 --> 02:46:37.360
gap. I don't know, Yeah, I guess what it comes down to

2582
02:46:37.479 --> 02:46:39.959
his head room, right, Yeah, like is there more power that can

2583
02:46:41.000 --> 02:46:43.559
be realized from this thing that hasn't
been tapped yet? Yeah? Well,

2584
02:46:43.600 --> 02:46:46.719
man, if they keep making good
PC ports, the whole thing is off

2585
02:46:46.760 --> 02:46:50.000
anyway. Yeah, Like sure,
that time fall, it's all right,

2586
02:46:50.200 --> 02:46:54.799
it's super duper high insane, same
textures that look all right, it did

2587
02:46:54.879 --> 02:46:58.319
look nice, but yeah, that's
gonna do it for emails and I guess

2588
02:46:58.479 --> 02:47:05.399
the entire podcast, right, I
mean, unless anyone's got to talk about

2589
02:47:05.440 --> 02:47:11.559
more theory and conspiracy bullshit, it's
just it's just so fucking exhausting, and

2590
02:47:11.639 --> 02:47:13.120
it's like, you know, it's
hard to know where to turn. But

2591
02:47:13.360 --> 02:47:18.559
like, I feel like if if
people kind of try to use their heads

2592
02:47:18.559 --> 02:47:22.040
a little bit more on some of
this stuff, you know, you're not

2593
02:47:22.120 --> 02:47:24.920
always going to have the expertise to
fare it out what's really going on,

2594
02:47:24.200 --> 02:47:28.719
but in some cases you can start
to follow the money and at least try

2595
02:47:28.799 --> 02:47:33.280
to extrapolate, like okay, well
you know, like what interests are involved

2596
02:47:33.319 --> 02:47:37.559
in this? Who actually who actually
benefits in a real world way, not

2597
02:47:37.760 --> 02:47:41.200
in a message board bubble of like
Microsoft paid so many to do this,

2598
02:47:41.399 --> 02:47:45.840
why so two hundred people could like
go, oh shit, what a sick

2599
02:47:45.920 --> 02:47:48.479
burn. That's not where they're spending
their money. And how much money would

2600
02:47:48.479 --> 02:47:52.600
it cost them to pay off yeah, that other company? And then where

2601
02:47:52.639 --> 02:47:56.280
does that money come from and where
does it get put on their books?

2602
02:47:56.239 --> 02:48:01.719
I don't know. It's it's it's
a comar like that stuff does it gets

2603
02:48:01.760 --> 02:48:03.879
buried? It's co marketing money.
The shitty thing, though, is tomorrow

2604
02:48:05.200 --> 02:48:07.120
they could totally be a leak that
said Microsoft paid off Activision to do the

2605
02:48:07.159 --> 02:48:11.479
ship and then we'd be like,
fuck man, I give up because everything

2606
02:48:11.600 --> 02:48:16.559
is so stupid. Everything is really
stupid. Like but when people make moves

2607
02:48:16.600 --> 02:48:18.639
like that, they do it.
They are bigger moves, I hope,

2608
02:48:18.680 --> 02:48:22.120
and they do it for real reasons. They make some stupid moves too.

2609
02:48:22.520 --> 02:48:26.280
There have been some stupid moves that
come out and being like why would anybody

2610
02:48:26.319 --> 02:48:28.879
ever do this? And I think
you can get away with this. It's

2611
02:48:28.959 --> 02:48:31.879
dumb, Like what yeah, like
Chris Christy, what are you just about

2612
02:48:31.879 --> 02:48:35.399
to say? What the hell is
going on? Expect us to believe you

2613
02:48:35.440 --> 02:48:39.159
didn't know what any of the people
in your apart department I'm doing. I

2614
02:48:39.200 --> 02:48:43.879
don't know. I'm not gonna it's
fucking dumb, though, even your staff

2615
02:48:43.520 --> 02:48:48.200
gay close down to fucking GW bridge, close down lanes and not think anybody's

2616
02:48:48.239 --> 02:48:54.239
gonna be like what foods construction?
God damn it dumb. Seemed personally affronted

2617
02:48:54.319 --> 02:49:00.680
by this. It's a really big
bridge, a really major piece of is

2618
02:49:00.719 --> 02:49:03.000
it a real shitty thing to do. It's a real shitty fucking thing to

2619
02:49:03.079 --> 02:49:07.000
do, not not just shitty in
terms of inconvenience, but think about,

2620
02:49:07.040 --> 02:49:09.479
like I don't know, if they
try to get emergency vehicles across that bridge,

2621
02:49:11.120 --> 02:49:13.319
like if if if things were if
like life and death situations were not

2622
02:49:13.360 --> 02:49:18.399
addressed in a timely manner because of
this gridlock or whatever, then that's just

2623
02:49:18.479 --> 02:49:20.239
the audacity, just like, yeah, we can get away with this.

2624
02:49:20.879 --> 02:49:24.159
Not only that, but the reasoning, like as just as political retribution.

2625
02:49:24.639 --> 02:49:28.040
I don't know, fuck off,
I guess like that's the video. It's

2626
02:49:28.079 --> 02:49:31.840
the ultimate problem at the end of
all of this is that humans are the

2627
02:49:31.920 --> 02:49:35.680
ones making the calls and you should
go and playing Pokemon. Yeah, yeah,

2628
02:49:37.079 --> 02:49:39.440
that's right, we've got humans at
the controls. We need to take

2629
02:49:39.479 --> 02:49:41.680
people out of the loop. We
need computers that can launch those missiles.

2630
02:49:43.479 --> 02:49:46.719
Swopper will solve the problem. You
know what, a whopper sound solves a

2631
02:49:46.760 --> 02:49:50.600
lot of problems. No, man, it's got fucking yoga dust in the

2632
02:49:50.719 --> 02:49:56.719
buns. Man, you will get
puffed up asthma disease. Let your stuff

2633
02:49:56.760 --> 02:50:01.440
on fire, Okay, Yeah,
that'll solve the problem. All right,

2634
02:50:01.440 --> 02:50:03.440
I'm gonna go bid myself on fire
and uh, we'll talk more next week.

2635
02:50:05.399 --> 02:50:26.200
Bye. Alright. Hurry hurry,
hurry, hurry. M hm.