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Hey, everybody, It's Tuesday,
February twenty seventh, twenty twenty four.

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Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode
eight one hundred and twenty nine. I

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am your host today and I am
also powered by nzxt Jan the Shoah joining

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me co captain of the ship.
You know, he's ready to wrangle chocobo's

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if you need him to. Jeff
crob houty, everybody, I am here.

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I'm ready. Mostly I'm like thinking
about getting to that PACs because I'm

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here with my teammate, Jeff Backlar. Jeff Backlar, did you know that

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you're my team mate? Wait?
What what are we doing? You're playing

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in sixty four games? What?
Today? No? A couple of weeks

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where oh this was? This was? You're asking me about any S versus

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sixty four? I like any better? Okay, well then you're gonna be

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playing any S games against Mike Manatti. Never mind. Oh it's funny though.

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If we we make you and you
and Mike play against you're probably right.

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All right, congratulations, you're back
to the n sixty four. That

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was fast. I don't understand what
am I doing though, Like I don't

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know Dan, Dan Doco dare live. Dan's gonna come with a bunch of

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challenges in these games, so we
gotta do them. We'll see, Okay,

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no one's gonna have fun except for
Dan. No dance there. Yeah,

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I didn't hear that name. Uh
here, ready to ski down the

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slopes of video games and video news
and emails and perhaps movie talk. Jeff

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Backler, Hey, what's up?
Listen? Something fucked up going on in

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front of my house right now.
It feels like there's always something happening.

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I know there's a lot of activity
in New Jersey. Uh, there's this

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is I don't know what to do
there. I have these I have a

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column in front of my house and
I think there's an animal in it and

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it can't get out. Is this
and I nope? This is lin.

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There's you know, there's like sheet
metal that wraps around what's presumably it's some

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sort of like iron or concrete column
marble. You have marble columns, come

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on marble maybe next door but not
me. And there's something in it and

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it's been trying to like it's like
flapping around. It's a squirrel or some

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sort of bird. I guess it
got in through like the top where there's

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a little opening and it's rattling around, and what do I do. It's

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gonna die and die in there and
then it won't be a problem anymore.

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Yeah, but I just feel bad, like, is this something I need

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to do something about? People?
There are tons of animal corpses in there,

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and eventually it'll rise up to the
top where they won't get trapped in

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there anymore. That cream dead animals
rise to the top. That's right,

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Okay, Uh introducing folks, where
we've come up with a new face,

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a new name, a new persona. He's not team captain of the team

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though Tam and I had a separate
meeting to discuss this that he's probably gonna

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feel like he is, but he
is not the team captain of the team,

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either Tam or myself. We have
earl. I mean, it sounds

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like there's a vacancy for team captain
then, is what I am here?

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That's right? I don't know who
else is on team Yeah, so I

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assume it what the jeffs and Dan
versus team Tam. Come on, it

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is Jeff Jeff and see against Tam. And because is Dan dance like the

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host? Okay? Yeah, okay, And like we're all competing like against

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Console slow I have like an ny
S opponent is what's happening and it's me.

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It's what it sounds like. Yes, question, when did you guys

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go ahead? When did you guys
do this? He says, it's gonna

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be like the the basic one.
So that's gonna be a lot, I

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mean a lot of Mario Mike.
We both lost the last time we played

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Mario. So yeah, you're pretty
good. You're better at to D marian

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B. But like Mega Man's not
on there, and I'm gonna keep it

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that way. Yesterday, Oh okay, that's fair enough. Okay, yeah

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I was. I was dead set
of like, all right, we need

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to establish these teams and then by
Wednesday establish a team name so we can

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make up fun shirts because I want
fun shirts. And then I want the

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drama of tam Earl and I fighting
over whose team captain. So we're just

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we all have like the sea patch
on us. That's the internal drama.

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And I also want promos against each
team. I can kind of promo right

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now. I don't even care.
It's easy. Well hang out real quick

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that this is our panel at packs. It is called Dan doco there.

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It is going to be like a
competition. It's going to be a you

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know, team versus team of sort
of relay race kind of. And we're

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gonna have different packs challenges that that's
going to include the any ass Super Nintendo

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N sixty four, So we're just
gonna do all this stuff on nso since

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that's easy, and then when there
might be some other bonus challenges that involve

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other things, we'll see. Dan's
putting it all together right now. He

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sounds like he's having a lot of
fun. This one is the Saturday Night

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one. I can't remember which one
is, maybe the Friday Night one.

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Okay, the Friday Night one,
thank you? So yes, it's gonna

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be It's gonna be a good time. The the X factor here, though,

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that is that we have yet to
factor in, is how uh how

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Nikki will contribute to the chaos,
because Nikki will also be at uh at

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Packs East, helping Dan make Dan's
dreams come true. Wow, I'm a

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little terrified. A little terrified.
Oh okay, and doesn't dream, he

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he just does, he just does. How's it going, boys, what's

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happenings? Popped? Going good?
Yeah? Going real good? Yeah?

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Absolutely no. Actually, I played
so much, so much Billatro over the

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weekend that iaid it was unhealthy,
like I legit started thinking that it was

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an actual problem, and I foreshoot
problem. So this is interesting because I

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feel that way too sometimes, and
I think it's only because this game has

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like casino gambling games. We play
a lot of games all the time.

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I don't feel guilty about it.
I play this. I played a ton

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of hades. I never felt guilty
about it. I played more hades than

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this, and never felt guilty about
this. But suddenly there's like poker chips

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even though there's no real money,
and I play for an hour, I'm

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like, this is kind of like
a sin that I'm doing over here.

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It's not even a lot of money. I mean, like you only win

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like fifteen dollars out any real money
though, So it's not like, yeah,

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there's it's nothing to it. There's
no reason for it matter. Yeah,

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the only only thing you're losing is
time. And you know, as

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Mike and I know, I'm sorry, Earl, and I know time is

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a valuable thing. That's the greatest
sacrifice. I guess I still don't know

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if like there's still a lot of
blotcho that I don't even like have a

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like that that's called a flush.
No. No, I understand the rules

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of poker, and I understand the
deck building, uh manipulation that this game

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provides. What I don't understand is
some some of the perks to some of

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the jokers, like for I'll read
a lot of the descriptions and then I'll

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be like, oh, I understand
the multipliers, I understand extra chips,

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I understand some of the other rules. But then it'll get into like if

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you choose the blind and then have
a tag, and I'm like, I

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don't know. I think it's complicated
it, but I don't know what that.

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Just pick up on all the specific
and verbiage and and all that stuff

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early on those Just play for fleshes
and you'll be fine. Hey, Jeff,

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you win yet? No, I
won a bunch. Yeah, I've

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not won either. I've played some
amount of this game too. I get

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to win. Well, I didn't
know. It's better than all of you

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as like a person. You're having
fun, though it sounds like you're so.

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I look like IoT having fun.
He's having more fun than I am.

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I think it sounds like you don't
have a problem though, and having

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a problem is kind of fun.
Yeah, I did win an addiction,

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so that's something I did win something
to talk to a doctor about. That's

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great that I talk to my dad. You can give them money that he'll

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give to me later. And yet
Mike wins again comes back to me,

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So call you the house from backlar
A blind is like the round that you

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were playing, right, sure,
then I know, yeah we set off

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when the blind when you picked a
blind and be like, okay, now

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you get too common jokers if you
have space. Okay, so now it's

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okay, sure, okay, but
I don't say the tag one. Now

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that one I would like you just
to explain to me. Yeah, what's

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the tag? The tag one is
like the little bonus you get when you

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see the badge, the little so
when you yeah, when you skip the

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blind, you get the tag.
And sometimes the tag will be like,

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oh you'll get two Arcana packs or
you'll get like a free reroll on the

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boss, and that's what the tag
is, right, So the one that

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says like you'll like sometimes when you
skip a blind, he says, hey,

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you'll be able to carry this tag
forward or whatever. So you get,

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like, the next tag happens twice. Yeah, so if in your

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small blind, which is the first
round in a or the first instance in

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a round, right, and that
says you'll get a double tag if you

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the next tag you acquire will happen
twice. Okay, all right, I

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understand it now, thank you.
Yeah. I feel like I get a

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little too precious with my jokers as
well, and I try, Yeah,

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I don't. I don't sell them
back enough. I also like, I

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I see something like with the planet
cards and it's like, oh, you

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want to level up four of a
kind, and it's like, motherfucker,

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I'm never getting four of a kind. I don't need that planet card,

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you know. Yeah, I mean
you'll get if you start going for four

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of a kind. So if you
start building your deck in that way,

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getting all the time, and really
that is like when I've got the closest

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to winning is really min maxing to
the point where it's like, okay,

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I do have almost half of my
deck are kings, and I have the

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thing where every king I have in
my hand is one point five x and

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and then I have one that's gonna
set them all off again. And I

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got really close, but that I
missed out. And it's like all about

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like believing that once you start going
down the path of like, okay,

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maybe I can actually set it up
so I'm getting straight flushes if I'm willing

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to discard until like you know,
ride or die. Obviously it's still a

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little bit of a risk. But
if you build your deck in that way,

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you can really amplify the chances in
such a way that it feels much

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more possible. That we have to
have the right jokers, and like those

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multiplier jokers are very important. It's
also important you can organize your jokers.

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It's important to have the multipliers at
the end after just like the normal malts

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or whatever, but multipliers, I
mean like the times two's instead of like

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the plus four multiplier. It sounds
confusing and I didn't understand the difference for

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a while. The other thing,
too, is like those rewards for skipping

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blind sometimes actually are worth it.
You need to pay attention to those nis.

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I started doing that a lot,
and that's uh, you know,

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I mean, sometimes I'm burning out
much quicker, but then the runs that

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do go are much more successful.
Sometimes just ones like everything from the next

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shop is going to be free,
I'm like, well, I always I'll

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always take that skip blind in Yeah. I mean, well, the whole

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point of trying to win around is
get enough money to buy stuff, So

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of course like free MegaR cannot pack
like okay, yeah, I can't stick

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for that, yep. Or if
a free like joker pack, it's like,

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yeah, jokers are going to be
the things that make the biggest difference,

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so yeah, go for it.
So uh do y'all When y'all jump

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into an instance of Bulato, are
you do you have your specific strategy in

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mind? Are you kind of trying
to adapt as you can? I do?

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And that's when I find that I'm
failing the most if I have something

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I'm trying to recreate where I'm like, god, that was so much fun

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and I got so close and almost
one. I just want to have that

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King deck again I was talking about
And it's like, you know, it's

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like that's actually the most random part, Like getting a four of kind during

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the hand, you could sort of
fudge that, you could force that to

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happen. Getting the right jokers.
There's one hundred and fifty different jokers,

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right, and like you're unlocking more
all the time, so as you as

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the more you play, the less
likely it is you're going to be able

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to build the exact build you want. So you really do have to start

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just going with the flow, seeing
what's working, and then start moving in

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that direction and kind of play along
with the game. At least that's what

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I found. I say, early
on, I think the best, the

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most likely strategy you're going to stumble
onto is flushes, because there are just

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a lot of tarot cards and other
things that make it easier to set up

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flushes, and you can kind of
early on figure out what suits you're going

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to favor and try to make that
work. Yeah. Fact, it's almost

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a problem for a while where I
kind of feel like all of my good

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runs were flushes. Eventually I was
discovering other strategies and like getting weird jokers

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that were making other things work.
Yeah, something that uh I think I

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found. I fell into the trap
way too for way too long of hunting

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for flushes and straights and ignoring virtually
any and every other type of hand.

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And then last night I got all
the way to the very last boss and

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I was maybe like five thousand chips
short, but my my winning stuff.

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God, my my winning combination was
three of a kind because the end multiplier

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I leveled it up. Did you
have that half joker that like, if

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you only play three cards you get
like a multiple. Yeah, that's cool.

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Yeah, yeah, that was one
of them. And then I I

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don't know if the math still counted
with it, but you no, I

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guess it didn't count actually, because
that's why that that joker was just not

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dinging or getting the extra bonus.
It was the joker where you get like

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a plus multiplier if there's a pair
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three of a kind, I don't
think it was ticking off. But it

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was still a gray yeah, because
it was holographic, it still had the

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other like multiplier over it. So
that's why I didn't ditch it, and

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the one I played the most early
on. Absolutely I would. When I

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started ship things around, I was
like, you know what, I'm I'm

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going to just try to see what
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return on pairs and even high card
and so every time I would get a

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planet and the option to choose either
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card. I would just keep doing
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you know, X seven or x
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was also doing the thing. Ever
chance I had to turn something in my

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hand into a steel card, which
is that one point five X. So

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it's like I'm holding all these things
in my hand that can amplify it.

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I'm playing a high card and then
it's like getting that big multiplier and it's

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like, no, that was that
was huge, and I'm like it really

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is going off like a slot machine
at that point, just making all those

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sounds because you're getting so many things
happening at once. So it's like,

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yeah, there is no like,
oh, you should definitely be going for

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flushes or anything like that. You
could make just about anything work. But

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again it's a rope light. You
gotta go with the flow with all this

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really easy sorry, it'd be a
really easy and fun competition. Just had

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a lot of people playing to see
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so we can all take the same

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seed and we can just all start
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we can even guarantee we will have
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wow, and we could just do
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time. We can all have like
you could look at Tetra nine, just

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have everyone's boloatro screen up at the
same time. I love that. What

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I was thinking is we can do
this next Friday. Everybody's that's the plan

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right now. What I was thinking
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we preview the first round, right, so we'll see whatever blinds there are,

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whatever uh tags, and then like
the boss so then you can kind

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of like prep mentally for what that
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up with the seed tanks it purposely
we all started new. I feel like

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jazz. I love it. I
love it. My my ulterior motive is

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and I don't know how the grand
calculus of the universe is working out in

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my favor, and that a lot
of people are now not learning poker hands.

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Yes, Nicky discovered what a what
was it a flush? Today?

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Yeah? I learned about yep.
So you know, when we all get

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together, perhaps maybe it impacts East
or hard game Fest capacity. Maybe we

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get some underground GB Texas hold them
games poppin', you know. Yeah,

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God I. I mean, so
we're like final fantasies happening later this week.

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That's why we're like moving this spilatro
idea to next week and then Mike,

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but I still want to just have
a giant bomb poker night. So

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what did we poker back? I
think it's coming. I think it's like

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having a high tide moment the taste
maker, right, yes, Polkes and

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did it? You know, I'm
not I'm going to take any creds,

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but you addicted it into uh like
uh popular popularity, which is amazing.

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Like what will you do next?
There you go like, you know,

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uh, mister influencer, whoever cut
the check, I'll do it, you

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know, I'll influence everyone. We
got this. This is why I think

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I could lead a cult. And
that's the that's a douncer out doing your

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cult. Jeff, what's going on
with your microphone? It's not it really

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is not no control over it.
It's not happening on my feet. It's

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just when I send it to Jan, I don't know. It's weird purple

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audio listeners, and it seems to
beginning more and more purple. It's taking

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over more of the screen. It's
really weird because in the preview feed I

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have of of grub on my Oh
he's just gone now I got rid of

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the purple. Uh. It's like
trying to fix a CRT that I put

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a MAGNETUD help me, I think, Yeah, I think you're turning into

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like the matrix. It like fixs
it a little bit by little bit.

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to know what's happening there, it's almost

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certainly like the codec. It like
tries to keep as many pixels the same

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as the last frame so that it
could save bandwidth. And I think it

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just got confused somewhere along the line, and so it just needed a full

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stupid what a idiotic You prefer the
Minati codec. Yeah, yeah, certainly.

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Well, well here's the thing,
A little peak behind the curtains,

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y'all. I just want to untangle
us completely from v mix entirely and just

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rely on obis and a lovely user
of the website. I forget your name.

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I know the user icon oddly enough, but they suggested vd O ninja.

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This used to be called obs ninja. I remember Brad Shoemaker and I

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were just like with a pickaxe and
like a shovel trying to figure this shit

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out pre pandemic or like into the
pandemic, and then we just kind of

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abandoned it and wound up using other
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it's pretty neat. It's working pretty
well. The reason why except for the

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blob taking over my life, but
the reason why I like it grub when

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I when I can pick a codec
for this room here, I guess what,

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guess what codec? It lets me
pick Patroska a V one baby Hell

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yeah? Just uh, anyone else
have anything else to say about Bilatro?

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I mean, there's plenty to talk
about. I I don't I don't want

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to spend the whole show on it. I think I played it for the

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first time on for like a long
session on steam Deck, and I was

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just like, same, thank you
and thank you for this existing. It's

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phenomenal that has thirty thou current players
on Steam now it is taking off it.

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Yes, yeah, it's really impressive, and it just I mean,

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really is that good? I mean, so, Jane, when you first

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already talking about it, and I'm
like, this sounds like it's going to

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be a good game, but not
one that's like, I'm is somehow like

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you know, that much better than
any of these other like indie card games

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that pop up on on Steam,
just because I'm like, yeah, mabe,

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yeah, it probably has pretty decent
ideas in there. It's like,

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no, it's it just does everything
right. It makes every choice to make

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it that much more fun to play, and I really do find it to

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be really impressive. Yeah. I
think what adds to it is just the

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snappiness and like how fast you can
get in and out. And I think

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it's a testament to a good rogue, like where if you fail immediately and

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then like the carrot on the stick
is still there to just pick up another

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run asap. It's It's great.
It's fantastic. This. It it like

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a satisfies an urge that I has
has felt dormant and a void that has

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been created since I kind of got
tired of playing Slay the Spire just because

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of like that combat and just having
this just be pure numbers and chance,

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just like okay, all right,
feed me, eat me more, yep.

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I mean I do have a game
like Bilatro about like once a year,

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it seems like, and it was, you know, last year,

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in the year before Vampire Survivors.
It doesn't remind me how I felt about

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Dead Sales. Again, I played
like eighty hours of in a week when

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I was like really just going crazy
for that game. There's a handful of

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other like these Rogue Lights where it's
like, yeah, just like it has

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a really good base gameplay, and
then actually unlocking things is just as satisfying

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and really changes things up and draw
some drastic ways. Have you guys gotten

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it, like any of the really
crazy decks I've seen Some people use something

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called like an erratic deck, and
it basically every time you not erotic erratic,

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every time you roll it, it'll
have like, you know, seven

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kings and ten fives then, but
it still only has fifty two cards.

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So you get it. You can
see it. You're like, Okay,

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I have to like really think about
what the strategy is going to be,

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and it's like, oh, I
have like twenty two hearts. I really

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should just be going for flushes this
whole time. So it's like, Okay,

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want to get to that point where
I could really start like messing these

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these runs up? Gone that crazy? Yet? I unlocked a checker deck,

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which is like your your deck is
only two of the suites instead of

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four of them, so obviously you're
like really stumpers for flushes right away.

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It just just actually sounds pretty good
instead of being wacky, I guess.

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But unlocking that's kind of like once
you once you beat it once, the

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metagame becomes beating it with all the
other decks because that unlocks more decks.

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Once you beat it with so many
decks, you unlock challenge mode. I'm

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not even sure what that is yet. So there is like a reason to

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keep just like you know, all
these good rogue lkes, there's a reason

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to beat it beyond that first time. This game has that too. Yeah,

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this has that. Uh. I
don't know what it is, but

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I haven't felt similarly about a game
since Hades, where it has tasted there

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forever to actually beat and have a
successful run. Yet I'm still coming back

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in and just learning and adapting more
and more. Yeah, Like I like

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roguelikes. I don't know if I
like them quite as much as say,

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like like grub like dead cells and
things like vampires fiber. We're like,

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they're fine by me, and I
like them. Hades was the one I

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really like. This is kind of
up there with hades for me. This

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is just totally firing on all cylinders
for me. Oh yeah, Like it

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is interesting, like which hands will
actually count getting a flush royale or whatever,

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a flush house excuse me, where
it's all the same suit, but

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it's three of a kind and two
of a kind and seeing that that counts

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as something different than a full house
or a flush It's like, oh,

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it's a flush house, which is
in a real hand and poker, but

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it's one of the secret hands.
And of course, like five of a

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kind, you would expect five of
a kind of work, but it does,

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and that's cool to get. And
then once you do that, you

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can actually start getting the planet cards
to upgrade those as well. And I'm

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like, man, I don't know
if I'll ever get on a run where

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I'm not going to be expecting to
get flush houses that often, but maybe

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maybe. Yeah, that really successful
run I had where three of a kind

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was really popping off. One of
the planet cards I found was black Hole.

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Yes, and it upgraded all of
the hands. Yeah, really cool.

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I've gotten black Hole whole once and
I'm like, man, yes,

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yeah, uh. And and you
know, I think similarly to like Hades

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is like or probably dead Seales.
More is the discovery factor and like whatever

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else you a friend post about Bilatro
and like their deck comp or whatever.

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I'm like, I've never seen any
of that shit, Like Mike, when

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you're talking about that checker deck,
never seen that ship? Yep yah that

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I love like discovering things I didn't
expect to work. I got a joker

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that uh at the start of each
round would kill the joker to its right

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and then take its sell value and
added to its multiplier. And I bought

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it at first for just some reason, I didn't even realize what it did

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and was mad at myself. Then
I realized each round I just bought a

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new joker to feed it, and
my multiplier from that got so large that

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it kind of took me through to
a win there. So just stumbling across

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these strategies that I didn't even consider
is a lot of fun. Oh God,

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Blacher is a lot of fun to
honestly talk about it for like the

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whole Yeah, I mean absolutely,
ah, really really good month. You

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know what is surprisingly had uh?
I was trying to work ace up its

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sleeve or is that jewla fairmore?
Mike I've seen that you've been streaming and

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playing this grub. I know you
want to keep playing this. I do

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want to keep playing it. You
know, I've completed this game. I

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think this is a work of art. I completed it too, I you

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know it playing through it just to
beat it. It's probably only gonna take

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you about three hours, and it's
a really fun three hour playthrough. But

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there's like other stuff to get you
can do like a one hundred percent thing,

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But I don't know, like I, yeah, there is something beautiful

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about this game in terms of just
if we were grading games on a scale

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of being able to do the thing
that they set out to do, then

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then this is a ten out of
ten, right, like, hey,

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let's make a tribute to those weird, awful CDI Zoda games. It's still

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obviously have it be that, but
actually I haven't played pretty well and be

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a lot of fun. Gosh,
Like it makes you think it's janky,

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and there are things about it that
are jinky, but it controls how it

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should. It's fun, the progression
makes sense, the loop is good,

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and just all that animation, Like
I get that it's a joke. Maybe

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not everyone understand, but you should
understand the joke. Just go and look

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at the cut scenes for those CDI
Zelda games. You immediately understand the joke,

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and I think you'll be able to
have a lot of fun with this.

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I think, if anything, it
is because I've never played through that

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original CDI Zelda. I've only seen
like cinematics and stuff. Right, that's

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most people. But I feel like
our z has maybe improved that game in

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retrospect and kind of made me appreciate
I don't want to say the art,

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but like, whatever the fuck it
decided to be that, I'm glad it

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exists. Right that they're awful.
They look terrible, and I've been thinking

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about those games NonStop since I saw
them at a CDI like Demo Kiosk when

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they were new. It's not like
something that aged poorly. Even right when

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it came out, everyone was like
what the hell is this? And I

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think that their existence has enriched my
life. Yeah, And it's those games

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were like this huge promise, right
that that or that switch to CD and

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video and it's like fmb's the future
and all this stuff, and it's like,

406
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.039
okay, cool, what's that going
to actually look like? Well,

407
00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:33.160
it turns out like, yeah,
you can have this technology, but executing

408
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:37.519
on filmmaking and animation was really really
challenging for these people that had no experience

409
00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:41.400
doing that. And then at the
time we were like this just looks bad

410
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:44.000
and silly at most people. I
think some people got it right away where

411
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:45.720
we're like, this is awesome,
this is like punk rock. But at

412
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.759
the time I was definitely like this
looks bad. I'm like, I don't

413
00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:51.960
why would I care about this?
You guys are doing a bad job.

414
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.160
And it turned out no, they
were just making like well, it was

415
00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:57.000
bad, but it was like this
whole other aesthetic that now I fully miss

416
00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:03.279
and I wish there was more of
it. To me of Bram Stroker's Dracula,

417
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.160
it's like phra Insis for Copla was
like, hey, I'm gonna save

418
00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:08.039
some money, so we're gonna make
this movie as if it's like an old

419
00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.640
movie with like really cheap looking,
not cheap looking, but like really obviously

420
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.839
fake sets, like it's almost happening
on a sound stage and you're supposed to

421
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.839
know that because it's a movie that's
spiritually from the nineteen thirties. It's like,

422
00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:22.759
this is like in that same thing
where it's like, we're just gonna

423
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.400
start drawing stuff because we can,
and we don't necessarily know how we're doing

424
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:29.480
how to do that and make it
look like a Disney film, So we're

425
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.039
just gonna start drawing the next frame
and the next frame. And then once

426
00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:36.000
they get you know, a thousand
frames of the animating and they look back

427
00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:38.559
and they'm like, this looks messed
up. It's so warped and weird,

428
00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:41.640
and it's like, well, since
then, we've had this whole style of

429
00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:47.000
animation on Comedy Central and an adult
swim that feels informed by that, and

430
00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:49.440
so now I have this huge amount
of nostalgia for that era, and to

431
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:52.839
have our zet come along and like
fully understand that and grasp that and have

432
00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.160
a ton of fun with it is
like really fulfilling. I think the beauty

433
00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:03.759
part of our z is that it
is obviously inspired by the Cdislda stuff,

434
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:11.160
but it's totally not paying attention or
honoring any type of animation framing cinematic rules

435
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.799
at all, and it just throws
all that out a window. Like instead

436
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:21.200
of cutting to like the next character, they'll just slowly start sliding into frame

437
00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:23.880
and like they'll be looking at you, the player, and you're just under

438
00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:29.759
the pretense of like are they talking
to each other, and then like out

439
00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:33.119
of nowhere, like one will cartoon
style like run away to the foreground and

440
00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:38.640
then come back, and none of
it matters to the actual scene that is

441
00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:42.680
playing out to. Like the level
right, like the one that a lot

442
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:48.240
of folks probably saw after upf is
just that wolf just howling, and like

443
00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:53.880
the wolf just skidaddling away after you
you give him citizenship to the town.

444
00:29:55.759 --> 00:30:00.079
Just so fucking fantastic. Also,
like the the voice acting so overdone in

445
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:04.039
the best way possible. Yeah,
and they got they got some some like

446
00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:08.559
people from kind of all over the
place in the industry. MVG's in there,

447
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:12.480
John Lemon's in there doing voices.
So uh, it's just a lot

448
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:17.839
of fun. You have a freaking
Hotel Mario mini game, just furthering the

449
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.400
CDI madness. Yeah. I think
it's just really impressive, and I hope

450
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.200
we get more games like this,
Like I want to see somebody try to

451
00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:27.920
make a good version of Mortal Kombat
mythologies, and I still want like cheesy,

452
00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:33.319
cheap live action cut scenes, and
I still want to basically be an

453
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.920
action two D game with fighting game
controls. But now we can kind of

454
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:40.960
make that better and still capture that
the stuff that is good about that game,

455
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.279
the cheesiness and the hokiness. I
feel like we were getting some of

456
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:49.200
that cheesiness and hokiness in the three
sixty era with like the Xbox Indie arcade

457
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:56.160
stuff Like I remember some god awful, terrible two D fighter platformers that still

458
00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.000
had a little bit of merit to
it, right that that, you know,

459
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.960
given a little bit of jug we
could get to the same caliber of

460
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:06.599
metrologies, it turns out. I
mean, if you if you think about

461
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:08.240
these things for long enough, it's
it's still they become a part of you,

462
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:11.279
whether you cared about them in that
way in the first place or not.

463
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.559
And so when someone's like, well, here, I've been thinking about

464
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.480
it for a long time as well, and I'm gonna make something that's basically

465
00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.519
that, it feels like you're making
this connection with this whole other era and

466
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.920
this these other people who fully appreciate
these things the way you do. And

467
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:30.359
that's really nice. I mean,
honestly, like Finaff is just kind of

468
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.960
like night Trap, right, I
guess I haven't played a ton of Five

469
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:36.720
Nights at Freddy's, but I always
thought it was pretty similar to the way

470
00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:40.359
that Night Trap worked. So it's
like that's already sort of had a second

471
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:42.720
life, and I want this to
happen with all of those games. R

472
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:48.720
went back Sewer Shark, Dude,
Sewer Shark was my two rules. I

473
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.880
played a bunch of it, like
last year because it was on that Sega

474
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.039
Genesis Mini too, and I'm like, it's still like, Okay, I

475
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:04.119
have very vivid memory of like going
to the one kid who had Sega CD,

476
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.279
going to their house and just like
night Trap, Sewer Shark, Night

477
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:12.160
Trap, Sewer Shark, just that
tandem for about eight and a half hours,

478
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.000
not really making any meaningful progress in
any of that, just sort of

479
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.240
like watching it because you thought it
was weird that there was like full motion

480
00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.799
video and it was you know,
you're like twelve and that's good enough and

481
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:25.000
yeah, yeah, my friend had
Willy Beamish and we would play that.

482
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:28.880
It's like most of the time we
spent waiting for the game to load,

483
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:31.920
because it was a two minute loading
times every single scene. Wonder part of

484
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:36.240
it's just because you know, there's
a little bit of a stagnation obviously now

485
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:38.480
in terms of the kinds of games
we see, whereas in the nineties it

486
00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:43.799
was there's just so many different eras
in that one decade that there is something

487
00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:46.880
wild about seeing this, this really
short lived era of this. Yeah,

488
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:52.759
these early cedy games and kind of
bringing that back and sort of optimizing it

489
00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:55.519
is interesting. I haven't played any
of this. I I've watched all the

490
00:32:55.559 --> 00:33:00.119
videos on it. I am intrigued. I can relate to like the very

491
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:06.640
quick flash in the pan like time
period that this is very much sourcing its

492
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:10.240
uh it's aesthetic from I think it's
super easy to have missed this as well.

493
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:14.880
Oh yeah, uh And I find
I think it's why, you know,

494
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:20.359
I'll be interested to see how it
does because of just how uh missible

495
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:22.599
I think this eras for a lot
of people. Yeah right, I think

496
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.960
they probably know this, of course. Yeah, it's like going to appeal

497
00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.720
to a certain set of freaks.
And I count myself among What are the

498
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.200
twenty year olds think of it?
I guess, right, I guess that's

499
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:39.319
the question, because because there is
like a fondness about eight bit stuff right

500
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:45.400
in a way that like, I
don't know if that's same gets applied,

501
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:47.400
right. Yeah, Like most people
are like would glance at this and be

502
00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:51.319
like, oh, that looks really
bad. How much is it? Oh?

503
00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:53.799
Eight hundred dollars? Okay, no, thank you, and then they

504
00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:57.440
just would never think about it again. And I was like, well,

505
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.319
I guess I'm gonna be thinking about
that for the rest of my life life

506
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.759
now, so I'm glad they made
this game for me. I think I

507
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:07.159
want to play through the CD that
I always say too. I've been afraid

508
00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:09.400
to say it because then I'll never
get them on Blake club But I want

509
00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:13.440
to the funny things you could get
them on Bla Clubs, aren't they like

510
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:15.199
pretty short? Yeah, but you
know somebody here had to play a long

511
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:20.440
game not too long ago, and
maybe. Well so, there's three of

512
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.199
them, and two of them are
just like our zet It's one you play

513
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:27.960
that only plays link. The third
one you also play a Zelda, but

514
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:31.119
it's a top town game like more
traditional Zeta. Yeah. Of all like

515
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:37.840
live action assets and real bad loading
screens, and it's probably the worst of

516
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:43.679
them. It looks like the assets
in the top down graphical style are like

517
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:46.800
just JPEGs pasted onto a screen.
It's weird. It looks very weird.

518
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:52.199
That's Zelda's adventure. The other ones
are link faces of Evil and Zelda the

519
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:59.039
Wand of Gammel on this. Okay, I can make us constantly. That's

520
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:01.400
why this is really hit for me. Well that's the difference between you and

521
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:09.360
I. But okay, you don't
think about Wand of gambled on Backlar burns

522
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:14.400
like, what else is coming out
mid March that I could just dedicate some

523
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:21.280
time on this website. The dragons
dragons thing between then and now, I

524
00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:22.960
mean, you're gonna to play Final
Fantasy, I guess, but but beyond

525
00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.599
that we might be able to spit
some time in there. I don't know,

526
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:30.280
man, what's hard for cd I
emulation is a little weird. But

527
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:36.360
I think somebody like decompiled and remade
this at least the two's out of games.

528
00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:42.199
I'm not sure. I think we
can get it working all right,

529
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:49.039
going from one beautifully hand drawn game
that is our zette to another beautifully hand

530
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.199
drawn game not hand drawn. I
don't know. Someone drew it. Unicorn

531
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.320
Overlord. I checked out the demo, folks. It is fucked up.

532
00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:00.960
He is fucked up. The people
that the whole indust doing this to me.

533
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.519
They gave me infinite wealth at the
beginning of this year, and then

534
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:07.639
they gave me Persona three reload,
and then I thought, like, Persona

535
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:09.480
Threeason not for me, and then
I stuck with it and realized, oh,

536
00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:13.159
it is for me. Okay,
there's a dog in this game.

537
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.880
And then I was like, you
almost did there? What am I becoming?

538
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:23.599
And then f F seven Rebirth comes
out. We'll talk about that in

539
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:29.159
a few That game has absolutely destroyed
me. This this might be it,

540
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:34.639
folks. I might be done with
games after this game because Unicorn Overlord,

541
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:43.599
if I were to distill it,
it is a RTS auto battler. That's

542
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:49.039
it, but done in the beautiful, gorgeous style that we all know and

543
00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:53.159
love from Vanilla Ware. How it
works is god. So you get a

544
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:58.800
level, a map, and then
from there you deploy units and those units

545
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:05.199
have different tile formations, so you
have up to I believe six units per

546
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:09.960
tile set, and then with that
tile set of units, you can deploy

547
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:14.719
them to go anywhere across the map. Sometimes you have to get them to

548
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:17.920
take over or reclaim a town,
or sometimes it's just to wipe out enemies.

549
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:23.840
So you can divide your divide and
conquer or you can set your groups

550
00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:29.400
of units to go in the same
direction. In one group of units maybe

551
00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:32.719
a little bit faster because they're on
a horse versus on foot. And then

552
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:38.599
once you get to the battling against
the enemy units, if you are close

553
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:44.480
enough in proximity your two friendly units, you can swap them so you can

554
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.920
kind of do a leap frog.
And how the battle works, it's all

555
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:52.440
automatic. The only thing you do
is set the formation of your specific units

556
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.920
and set their abilities. So how
the turns play out is that there are

557
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:02.039
active points and there are passive points. Everyone exhaust their active points first and

558
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:08.079
then their passive points pop off if
the conditions are met. So say when

559
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:14.440
you enter in a battle, your
first person's active point is to automatically hit

560
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:17.920
the first enemy, like they'll go
and slash, and then it'll go in

561
00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:22.719
order from there of the active points, and then the passive points will trigger.

562
00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:28.440
So, for instance, you'll have
a a passive point of like,

563
00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:30.760
all right, if any of my
homies are hit, I will automatically heal

564
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.679
them. Whoever gets hit first,
I will automatically heal them. And that

565
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:37.639
applies for the enemy units as well, of like, all right, if

566
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:42.440
we get hit, we're all gonna
guard up, or I will automatically guard

567
00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:47.239
for you. And then it just
starts popping off from there. And you

568
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:55.239
know in late game Final Fantasy Tactics
or even Final Fantasy seven remake and Rebirth,

569
00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:00.800
where the encounters are almost playing themselves
because the ability, you've gone to

570
00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:07.760
a point where the abilities are just
popping off after a while gambits and okay,

571
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:12.599
yeah, exactly like that. You
were just setting off gambits constantly and

572
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:15.719
letting them play out and just seeing
how they interact with each other. So

573
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:23.920
after everyone exhausts their action points,
whoever has the higher HP of that encounter

574
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:30.199
will win the battle. And if
the enemy has not been wiped out after

575
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:36.840
that initial encounter, you have the
option to strike them again, and all

576
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:40.960
of your own action points will trigger
off automatically first. So sometimes you'll take

577
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.719
turns with priority with action points against
you and the enemy. But if you

578
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:52.519
are getting the first strike in after
they've been weakened, you will, you'll,

579
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:58.719
you'll you'll have priority there. And
guys, it's fucking me up because

580
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:05.559
everything sucks you up, jan I
know, especially especially it's because it's like,

581
00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:08.480
yo, we got tiles, we
got tactics, we got pretty two

582
00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:16.079
D people. Yeah, Jan,
you're just you're just like the consumer.

583
00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:21.360
That's what I'm gonna call your consumerism
is a problem. Jan, I wouldn't

584
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:25.679
know Christmas. You're just the consumer
like everything. It's like, well ship

585
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:31.079
if no one wants us, I
bet Jannell bo like a lot of people,

586
00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:37.480
aren't that. People people like this
looks so good? And you you

587
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:42.400
are mister focus group. You are
just like does Jan like it? He

588
00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:45.199
does? Print a million of them? Grub what was that? J rpg?

589
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:51.440
We we we did a quick look
of field Chronicles. Yes, this

590
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:59.280
is like if deal Field Chronicles was
more manageable with a controller and good right.

591
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.119
I've seen a lot of people in
chat saying this is actually kind of

592
00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:07.400
like Tactics Ogre Games, which I
never really got to play, or Ogre

593
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:08.480
Battle. I think it's the same
thing that I never got to really play

594
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:12.400
those. This looks so good to
me. The only reason I think I

595
00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:15.639
don't want to play the demos because
I know I'm going to just buy this.

596
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:17.000
Do you know if you can carry
progress? I know it's a long

597
00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:21.280
demo too, yeah, people say
it's like eight hours worth of just in

598
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:24.360
the demo, so I don't know
if your progress saves over, but it

599
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:29.480
did give me the option like in
an hour in two save, so I'm

600
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:32.280
assuming that this will just help you
skip over the initial prologue stuff. Yeah,

601
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:36.440
Chat says, Progress says okay,
because yeah, I mean, I

602
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.559
don't know. Vanilla Ware games are
usually very good. I like Thirteen Sentinels

603
00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:46.320
a lot, and this looks absolutely
gorgeous. I am totally ready to dive

604
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:50.280
into this one. So I am
excited to hear that you're really liking it,

605
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:52.159
because yeah, I'm me too.
I was like, Okay, I

606
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.320
figured it would be like no good
art, probably decent gameplay, all this

607
00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:58.639
other stuff. To sound here,
it's like, really hitting for you is

608
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:04.119
very exciting. You said the combat's
kind of automatic. Is it automatic,

609
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:07.960
like into the breach where you are
setting up the pieces and you know exactly

610
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:12.400
what they're gonna do, and you're
just like then hitting the go button and

611
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.039
the things that you knew were gonna
happen, we're gonna happen. Or is

612
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.559
it sort of more random and so
you're kind of setting up contingencies, like

613
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:21.000
you said, where it's like if
you were to happen to get hit,

614
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:24.559
someone's going to heal you, Like
how much pre information do you have before

615
00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:30.199
each turn? There you kind of
run into both instances with that grub because

616
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:36.800
sometimes you will come across a new
type of enemy that is, let's say,

617
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:42.679
more susceptible to magic attacks. So
maybe your first encounter with them was

618
00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.719
all all your melee units, so
you're not really doing a bunch of damage,

619
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.199
so you'll kind of have to set
that melee unit to go somewhere else

620
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:54.159
and send in like your magic dudes
to go clean up shop afterwards. So

621
00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:58.119
there is a little bit of that. There is a little bit of experimentation

622
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:00.159
of like, okay, is this
gonna work against these people? And then

623
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.960
kind of like the fire emblem formula
starts to kick into your head of like,

624
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.719
Okay, I recognize these units just
by looking at them, so I'll

625
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:14.079
send these dudes to go fight those
guys. Okay. From my time with

626
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:19.039
the demo so far, I don't
believe there's any advantage to terrain. At

627
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:22.320
least that's what for where I'm at
right now. Who knows that could completely

628
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:27.400
change, And I think I was
initially turned off because I didn't want an

629
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:31.400
auto battler type of thing. But
I think there is enough strategy still happening

630
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:38.639
in your team comps, in your
unit composition here to rectify that there's still

631
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:45.239
tactics happening. And I feel like
Dalo Field Chronicles, I really liked the

632
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:50.360
premise of it because he was an
active ish, turn based ish type of

633
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:52.760
game. Right. It was almost
I think it was like real time,

634
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.800
but it was so slow it might
have well been have been turn based.

635
00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:59.800
I think that was that one.
Yeah, I like that too. I

636
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:04.440
think the maps in Dalo Field Chronicles
were a little bit too big, and

637
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:08.320
since you only had four or five
units slowly trudging across the map in some

638
00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:13.480
scenarios, I hate that too.
Yeah, but I think this kicks into

639
00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:17.079
where a game like Fire Emblem or
Advanced Wars even succeeds, where you have

640
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:22.880
multiple units that you can fork off
and still find success if you are planning

641
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:27.800
ahead enough. The only thing I
don't like about the game is that I

642
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:35.159
am just I just don't like the
medieval fantasy setting. I think after Thirteen

643
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:37.719
Sentinels, I was like, all
right, let's go in a bunch of

644
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:40.639
mechs, let's eed, some YACKI
soba and some hamburger. Stay. It

645
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:47.320
sounds like you need a fantasian game. Oh my god. I couldn't believe

646
00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:51.679
I worked myself into a shoot with
that one where it's like I originally thought

647
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:53.320
that and like that's funny, and
then at some point I like, no,

648
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:57.280
that's what that is about, right, Yeah, you're right. Jeff

649
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:01.880
on gay best Board Eggs asking Eva
if the game fitation is a portmanteau of

650
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:06.679
a apportment to portmanteau, Now I
feel staated. It doesn't matter you say

651
00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:09.960
tomato toto. Yeah, but then
of is fittation a portmanteau of the words

652
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:15.719
fantasy and age? You should listen. I asked the hard hitting questions on

653
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:20.679
my show. I'm a journalist.
You're lucky you asked that to Emma not

654
00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:30.159
to be had to be nice to
seeing producer extraordinary or host extraordinary. Emma

655
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:35.000
Fife's eyes like slightly dim after you
said that, and then came back and

656
00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:37.559
of like, all right, well
how am I going to save grub?

657
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:39.719
It was? It was amazing.
If it's not, they should that's what

658
00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:44.159
it should be. I would have
said, what the fuck did you just

659
00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:51.599
ask me? Uh? But like, if anything I've said about Unicorn Overlord

660
00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:54.760
interests you, definitely check out the
demo. I also think the writing is

661
00:45:54.840 --> 00:46:00.000
really good as well, which I
fucking hate because then I'm actually gonna want

662
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:07.119
to play the game to completion.
It ends okay, because here's the thing

663
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:10.280
that gets me. I'm a fucking
sucker for showing in style stories of like,

664
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:15.159
sure, well all right, I'm
I'm the little orphan boy and I'm

665
00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:20.119
gonna go make a bunch of friends
and friendship will be the thing to say

666
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:25.440
this guys. I mean, Annie
turned out kind of it, and Batman's

667
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:31.039
pretty good, right, but like, yeah, like the first big tutorial

668
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:35.800
boss ish encounter you have is just
like with a dude that you used to

669
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:39.639
know and then before you're about to
your your night friend is gonna kill him.

670
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:44.280
The main character steps in is like, wait, I need to know

671
00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:47.519
why you did this? Hey,
so and so do you remember when we

672
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:51.880
used to play out in the fields
and you used to watch and protect me?

673
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.920
What happened? Man? And then
he like comes over, he uh

674
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.960
gets over whatever brainwash spell he was
under, and then everyone's like, oh,

675
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.920
we're all friends. I love you. It's like a ship this yep,

676
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:13.760
that's that's Jen's Friends and Tiles.
That would be the name of your

677
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:19.920
game, Friends and Tiles. Friends
and Tiles. That's the autobiography God and

678
00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:23.559
you have to read it. Tiles
and Crane Games, the Channel chillis story.

679
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:29.519
You can only buy it if you
play the Crane game. That's actually

680
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:31.599
that's a really good idea. I
like that. My books available now,

681
00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:35.519
but only inside of Crane Games.
I would I would have to go get

682
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:37.679
that. Well, there's that Crane
game in Persona three. Jane. You've

683
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:39.840
seen that, right, Yes,
of course I've seen that. Did you

684
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:45.679
get the Jack frostalls for Elizabeth?
I did, just very thankful. I

685
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:50.639
needed to. I needed to do
that. Uh well, well we'll talk

686
00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:53.119
about f F seven and a little
bit. But Jeff Grubb, you've been

687
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:58.280
playing a game and you were showing
this to us in the mic pre check

688
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:02.039
here called Window Kill. Yeah.
This just came out on Steam and it

689
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:08.159
looked pretty interesting and it's actually this
really neat thing where, just to give

690
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:12.280
you an idea, when you boot
up the game, the menu, like

691
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:16.880
the opening like splash screen menu opens
up in like seven different little windows on

692
00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:22.679
your screen, and then the game
itself is played in this moving shape shifting

693
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:25.159
window. And I want to say
window, I mean like straight up application,

694
00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:30.840
a Windows application window, and it
shrinks over time. And what you

695
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.199
need to be doing is you need
to shoot the sides to bang out the

696
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:36.199
side of the window to make it
bigger so you have more of a play

697
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:38.079
space and you can move around.
It's like Geometry Wars basically, like the

698
00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:44.719
basic gameplay is a slow moving Geometry
Wars with little geometric shapes coming to either

699
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:46.920
hit you or to shoot things at
you. You're avoiding those and at the

700
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:50.199
same time, so you could shoot
those guys to get rid of them.

701
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:52.239
At the same time, you're trying
to shoot the walls to keep your window

702
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.119
of the application growing bigger so you
have enough space to move around. Then

703
00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.400
occasionally a major enemy will come along
and you'll see like, oh, this

704
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:01.880
is like a big laser being coming
from off screen. All right, I

705
00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:05.920
need to track that down, So
you start shooting the window in that direction

706
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:07.760
to move over to that part of
your screen. And once you're there,

707
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:12.719
the big this big enemy will be
in his own little window that you need

708
00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:14.960
to like join up with so you
can get over there and start shooting at

709
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:16.840
him. And it's this, it's
this really cool idea and it's really well

710
00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:20.280
executed. I've only played a little
bit. I don't know how long.

711
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:24.000
Is this a gimmick that wears off
relatively quickly? H you know, I

712
00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:28.239
played for a couple hours last night
and a little bit more this morning.

713
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:32.280
I think it's just a really cool
idea. It has a shop like any

714
00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:35.960
at any moment, as you're killing
these enemies, you get like some currency.

715
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:37.960
You hit the space bar, You're
gonna upgrade your speed, your shot

716
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:42.119
speed, like how much damage you're
doing all this stuff, your max health.

717
00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:44.880
So it's like very quickly you get
into that loop of upgrading. And

718
00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:47.639
that was keeping it very interesting for
me. Uh but just the idea of

719
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:51.920
the way it looks and the way
it functions is immediately so eye catching that

720
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:57.000
I thought it was really all one. This is this is just really clever.

721
00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:00.960
It's clever. Yes, Like if
your minds me if anything else right,

722
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:04.440
like like you said, like maybe
it does, like you know,

723
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:07.480
run out of ideas or maybe become
not fun. I don't know, but

724
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:13.639
just seeing this and like just brings
me back to like Windows ninety five like

725
00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:16.519
Shenanigans, where you would just sort
of like like, there's no way this

726
00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:22.920
game is not born out of that
monotonous like you know, the shit you

727
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:27.599
would just do in Windows right when
you first like got that gooey right,

728
00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:30.079
and you were just that's how you
were just sort of interacting with everything.

729
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:32.320
This is really smart. This is
very good. Exact I think it's like

730
00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:37.480
five dollars, yeah, four fifty
right now it's on sale. This game

731
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:39.320
both looks really cool and looks like
one of the most Jeff grub Bass games

732
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:43.079
I've ever seen in my life.
Yes, definitely. As soon as I

733
00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:45.079
saw I'm like, oh, that
looks like the kind of thing that's going

734
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:47.360
to tickle my fancy. It turns
out my fancy was tackled. Absolutely good

735
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:52.800
for your fancy. Do you think
you naturally put yourself at a disadvantage if

736
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:55.440
you play this game with an ultra
wide monitor? Yeah, I was thinking

737
00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:59.599
about that, yeah, Or maybe
that gives you like more space to work

738
00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:01.159
with. Ye. So I wonder
if like, once you're in the corner,

739
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:04.760
if you're like, if you are
sort of trapped there because you've moved

740
00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:07.039
all the way to that edge,
and now if you're there, you got

741
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:08.199
to like move back the other way, and if there's something there, you

742
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.480
have nowhere else to go. So
if you have more play space, maybe

743
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:14.920
you have more placebo. Actually don't
know if it would go to this other

744
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:17.599
because I have a second monitor and
it didn't seem like it was like migrating

745
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:21.880
up there. I wonder if that's
something you could enable. Maybe that would

746
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:24.119
be too frustrating, But either way, it's just like such this like as

747
00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:27.599
soon as I saw it, I'm
like, I get what they're going for.

748
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.840
And then to play it and actually
see that it works the way that

749
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:34.360
you're imagining it works like that was
the coolest, the coolest part about it

750
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:38.000
for me so far. This game
reminds me of like how pop ups are

751
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:45.360
like kind of all over your face
in some movies and TV shows of people

752
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:49.880
entering in computers. I don't like
that this could be possible market research and

753
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:52.880
how we have to fight off and
click away from ads in the field.

754
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:57.800
They used to be much more dodgy
than they are now, Like it used

755
00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:00.519
to be a much different experience.
But I hear what you're saying. I

756
00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:04.079
never feel safe clicking on any link
as long as it's not on giant bomb

757
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:06.679
dot com. Oh my god,
I watched the whole thing about pig butchering

758
00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:10.760
last night. What you click on? Do you guys know what pig pig

759
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:15.320
butchering is. It's butchering a pig
to eat eat its meat. No,

760
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:22.039
it's actually the most successful new like
sort of like internet scam. Let's tell

761
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:24.760
us about it. Uh, John, it was on John Oliver last night,

762
00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:29.239
and uh, as he as he
does, he goes into great detail

763
00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:32.360
about like what it is. It's
basically, Uh. It seems like a

764
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:36.119
lot of these scams start, you
know, when you get like a random

765
00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:38.920
text message that's just like, hey, you missed your doctor's appointment and want

766
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:42.760
to reschedule, and you're I was
gonna say, I have gotten a bunch

767
00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.719
of messages recently on my email where
it's like, hey, there's a withdrawal

768
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:49.360
from your account. Click on this
word document. Oh no, it's not

769
00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:52.559
even that. It's not even that. It's like much. It's much more

770
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:57.800
social engineer engineering. It's like it's
like, you know, you get some

771
00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:02.079
completely unrelated thing and you and what
they they're just look that that's the first

772
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:06.679
thing, like you the second you
interact with that they've got they've got you

773
00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:10.039
on a hook, right, Uh
so you so people reply and then like

774
00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:14.239
through that like no, sorry,
I think you have the wrong text,

775
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:21.239
the number or whatever. They slowly
build a relationship with the with with the

776
00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:28.760
mark, right with the target,
and uh slowly but surely they basically get

777
00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:32.760
them into they start talking about money, but not necessarily asking for money.

778
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:38.199
It's much more like cerebral and layered
than like I'm a prince from an African

779
00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:43.280
country, right, Like it's uh, it's it's building trust, and then

780
00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:49.440
it's basically showing you how to make
money in crypto. And then people all

781
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.079
right, of course, look,
you know we all say it and we're

782
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.400
all like, yeah, of course, what these schmucks who fall for it,

783
00:53:54.480 --> 00:54:00.880
like they deserve it, but the
insane amount of like real realistic experience

784
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:07.920
of it all like these people are
building fake apps that show you like transactional

785
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:13.519
wealth and they like make you think
you're running your own account. They're not.

786
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:15.840
They're like, I don't want any
money. They're like, but here's

787
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:19.840
how to do it, right.
It's it seems very in depth and very

788
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:24.320
like scary. I think you know
people who are very online like have a

789
00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:28.920
sort of radar that would probably go
off for stuff like this. And then

790
00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:31.519
it also got into like the people
who are doing the scamming and how some

791
00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:36.239
of them are like like working,
you know, like slave workers, and

792
00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:40.639
they're being threatened. It's it's real. That story got real dark, real

793
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:45.039
fast as it does. But that's
what pig butchering is. It starts off,

794
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:47.599
you know, it's fattening up the
little piggies getting ready to uh.

795
00:54:47.719 --> 00:54:51.800
And like the people that were scammed, the victims, they had on on

796
00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:55.079
the on the on the story.
I mean they were out like two three

797
00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:59.840
hundred thousand dollars and they and they
were like, hey, I know how

798
00:54:59.880 --> 00:55:02.199
to I know when I'm being scammed. And this was the most non scamm

799
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:07.840
thing I've ever it was. It's
wildly uh in depth. It doesn't make

800
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:10.320
me. I am like at a
point now where I'm like any email,

801
00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:15.000
I really don't recognize any message.
I do not know the source or I

802
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:17.880
don't know exactly why they're contacting,
which isn't great because like I don't keep

803
00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:21.719
track of like doctor's appointments, so
when they are asking me to remind me

804
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:24.079
about that stuff and I'm being suspicious
of that that just means I'm missing a

805
00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:28.360
doctor's appointment. But I am getting
more and more suspicious about that stuff because

806
00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:32.760
it does seem both more sophisticated and
also I feel like I'm not as vigilant

807
00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:37.239
at like, oh making sure one
percent, like once I'm like looking at

808
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:39.000
it that I'm going to be very
careful about it. Sometimes it's like,

809
00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:42.880
oh, the email is putting the
word doc as a button you could just

810
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.039
click, I like clicking buttons,
And I'm like, oh, if I'm

811
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:46.760
going to be like that, I
have to like put up a guard before

812
00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:51.039
I'm even like looking at these things
in the first place. So so I

813
00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:54.719
mean, look like I'm I'm just
having parents who use the internet is like

814
00:55:54.800 --> 00:55:59.480
upsetting, Yeah, where you're just
like, you know, my you know,

815
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:02.440
my dad bonehead thing a while back
and you know, hasn't really suffered

816
00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:07.920
any consequences from it, but like
certainly walked over the line and I had

817
00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:10.920
to kind of like grab him and
sit him down and be like this is

818
00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:19.079
bad, bad boy. I'm getting
I'm worried that we our generation, the

819
00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:22.079
generation who grew up the first generation
to grow grow up with the Internet.

820
00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:25.880
Right, when are we gonna when
is it going to be like our number?

821
00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:29.119
Right? Like, when are we
finally going to be the I mean

822
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:31.760
we will be the latest marks eventually, right right now? Our parents.

823
00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:37.519
So I'll tell you a scam that
that came across me that I that,

824
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:40.800
Hey, Jane, you're in the
clear for ten more years. This scam

825
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:45.840
was so good and I caught it, and I was like proud of myself

826
00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:47.360
that I caught it. But it
was so good that I was like,

827
00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:52.039
I think ninety out of one hundred
people would have fallen for it. It

828
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:55.119
was so fucking good, was it? So? Back in twenty twenty when

829
00:56:55.519 --> 00:57:01.840
uh, you know, mortgage rates
had plum did right right during the pandemic

830
00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:07.679
the start of it. I should
have butterfu let me look, let's not

831
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:15.840
get into that thing. But yes, I could not not refinance the mortgage.

832
00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:20.760
It was insane what mortgage rates were
at. So I started the process

833
00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:27.079
to REFI I went through this you
know, broker, and it was the

834
00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:30.960
day to wire the closing money.
Right. So I'm on the phone with

835
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:37.440
this person and I'm like, hey, tell me the routing number, right,

836
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:39.760
I got to wire you this money. Told me the wiring number.

837
00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:44.159
She goes, I'll also email to
you. And I was like, okay,

838
00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:51.199
great. The email I got was
spoofed to look like it was from

839
00:57:51.800 --> 00:57:58.039
her. Now the title agency's logo
on the top of the email the same

840
00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:05.440
domain. Okay. I was like, I call them back, right,

841
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:08.440
I go, you have a mole. There's someone in your company who is

842
00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:15.639
sending out fake emails, phishing emails. What's going And like they were all

843
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:17.719
like, I don't know, I
don't know what you're talking about. I

844
00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:22.440
said, I just got an email
from your domain. Like it's all all

845
00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:27.519
the metadata's there. It came from
you, guys, and you and and

846
00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:32.199
it was a false wiring address.
I would have wired five digits right to

847
00:58:32.719 --> 00:58:36.639
worth of money to this place.
What are we doing? I did,

848
00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:39.480
And they were just sort of like
my real estate adrient mentioned that that is

849
00:58:39.519 --> 00:58:43.719
something that does happen. I was
like, oh, She's like She's like,

850
00:58:43.719 --> 00:58:45.760
like, I will call you to
confirm anything before you send any money.

851
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:49.239
I was like, oh nuts,
I didn't know that was happening.

852
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:52.440
But you literally have to like almost
you almost have to like go and see

853
00:58:52.480 --> 00:58:55.920
the person and bring a laptop,
right. You almost have to like have

854
00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:59.519
that person in your eyes say,
being like, tell me the number?

855
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:02.360
What the number? You know?
I couldn't believe it. Like if you,

856
00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:07.400
if anyone else got this email from
the title agency, like you just

857
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:09.960
talked to them on the phone.
Why would you expect How could you expect

858
00:59:09.960 --> 00:59:14.920
someone at that very moment you hang
up to send you an email that's fraudulent?

859
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:17.800
Right then and there, within five
minutes the email came in. Yeah,

860
00:59:17.840 --> 00:59:21.960
that's nuts. So that just meets
someone's in the inside there, right,

861
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.599
Like how could you? Yeah,
someone said, like their network is

862
00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:27.199
desperately compromised. That's right. Like, and I was just like, you

863
00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:30.519
guys are gonna something terrible is gonna
happen. I said, look like I'm

864
00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:35.039
gonna report all this. I have
to, just because I need to do

865
00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:39.280
something because this was so appalling.
Uh and yeah, I don't know,

866
00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:45.159
but uh, just be careful,
especially wiring lots of money. You gotta

867
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:51.400
gotta be sure. Anyway, pig
butchering, let's go. Oh sorry,

868
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:54.159
oh what the fuck is that?
There? We go? I killed it?

869
00:59:54.599 --> 01:00:00.239
No, are you playing Unicorn or
Balatro? Sorry? H okay,

870
01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:05.519
that got rid of it. Apologies
folks at home watching, Well we have

871
01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:12.280
now gotten to the game of the
week, Final Fantasy seven Rebirth. Folks

872
01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:17.000
at home, we had a lovely
roundtable review cast discussion last week. Full

873
01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:22.519
house, actually a full hell house
sounds like. Also what happened to almost

874
01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:25.880
happen to? Jeff Beckler there,
uh where you know, tam Lucy,

875
01:00:27.199 --> 01:00:34.079
Emma, Mike and Turboseean and Grub
Lovely moderating the panel. We're going over

876
01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:37.119
that. Uh So, if you
want to hear some deep talk, some

877
01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:42.039
spoiler free deep talk about Final Fantasy
seven Rebirth, I highly suggest checking that

878
01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:45.280
out. But I wanted to share
that this game, it's fucked up.

879
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:52.199
This game is also fucked up.
Fucking hate this game. Everything up?

880
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:55.719
Okay, consumer, jan tell us
about it. Let me tell you why.

881
01:00:57.159 --> 01:01:00.199
You know, what do we got? We got a lovely group of

882
01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:05.480
lovely people that that think and feel
with their feelings and their brains. And

883
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:08.719
then they all they're all friends with
each other, and then it's a fun

884
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:15.320
story talking about eco terrorism and just
consumerism and capitalism and just wanting to just

885
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.199
burn it all to the fucking ground
and forgetting the past, not letting the

886
01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:24.119
past color of judgment. And also
Tifa is in this game. I've heard

887
01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:28.199
this I've heard this about this game
is that it's kind of a teeth word

888
01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:31.639
that we've defeated the woke, canceled
culturalist. Try to keep Tifa away from

889
01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:35.679
it. They did, you see
they they got people got macas they rewoke

890
01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:38.039
it because that's right, Yes,
they put they put a shirt on her

891
01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:42.639
and put a shirt when Tifa is
underage in a flashback, they put uh

892
01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:46.199
slightly less cleavage on her. So
it's a woke now the respects wore back.

893
01:01:46.280 --> 01:01:50.920
Never mind, everybody cancel the parties, all right? Well, uh,

894
01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:52.800
but also I just wanted to say
that, God, this is the

895
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:59.840
best Kingdom Hearts game ever. What
you mean, like the this is what

896
01:02:00.239 --> 01:02:04.480
parts always should have been. Nomura
should have let me control Donald and Goofy

897
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.039
from the get go and make those
party members actually useful, give me direct

898
01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:13.320
control over them, or at least
issue commands, because I really enjoyed Final

899
01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:16.840
Fantasy seven remakes combat system, and
this is pretty much the same, but

900
01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:22.960
the added improvements are fucking absolutely amazing
in terms of like it feels like a

901
01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:29.159
rhythm game at points where you get
into a boss encounter. The bosses in

902
01:02:29.199 --> 01:02:32.039
this game fucking love them. I
love fighting the summons, they're so good,

903
01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:38.599
Mike, and then just being able
to fire off like insane combos with

904
01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:44.599
like the crew, and I feel
like this is uh. I ran into

905
01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.239
this with Like a Dragon, where
I wound up not using some party members

906
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:52.079
just because I didn't find them useful
to my play style. I love how

907
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:57.519
everyone controls here. Everyone is so
diversified, and this game will do the

908
01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:00.320
thing where it kind of forces control
over specific characters and some story beats,

909
01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:05.599
and I don't mind it at all. I enjoy it because it gives me

910
01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:09.280
like a deeper appreciation in like figuring
out the mechanics there. And also I

911
01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:14.119
will not stand for some UFI slander
out there, y'all. Yeah, yeah,

912
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:20.159
let's go UFI Defense Force right here. Shut up, Dan, shut

913
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.159
Dan Reiker exactly. I have no
dog in this fight. I don't care.

914
01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:25.199
Also, the most fun player to
care at the play as. Actually

915
01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:29.679
I played like as UFI, maybe
even more than Cloud. By the end

916
01:03:29.679 --> 01:03:32.719
of the game. She was just
so useful with all of her elemental attacks

917
01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:36.840
and god, later on she can
make a little clone of herself, so

918
01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:39.360
you're kind of like doubling up on
stuff, and oh, it is very

919
01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:45.559
fun. Mike, how have your
thoughts and feelings on FF seven evolved since

920
01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:50.559
we spoke last about it? Just
that I think of freaking rules. I

921
01:03:50.599 --> 01:03:55.320
think it's great. I think it's
the best game with the words Final Fantasy

922
01:03:55.360 --> 01:04:00.239
seven in the title. I absolutely
love that. I'm very excited I had

923
01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:02.199
far more people to play it.
I haven't played it since the deadline,

924
01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:05.800
just because I like played so much
of it in a dense period of time.

925
01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:11.519
But I really do want to get
back in there and kind of like

926
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:15.000
one, largely because I don't care
about like platinum trophies, but this game

927
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:20.400
has a sort of in game trophy
shelf case that you get for completing task,

928
01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:24.039
and that's what I care about.
And there's a fucking treasure chess that

929
01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:27.079
you can only open when you get
all that stuff done, and I'm like,

930
01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:29.440
well, what's in there? There's
gotta be something good in that treasure

931
01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:32.000
chest. What you're hiding in there? I gotta see it. It reminds

932
01:04:32.039 --> 01:04:35.800
me of completing Jim Andy's journal.
Kingdom works too, so I could unlock

933
01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:40.880
that movie that I could have just
watched on early Google videos back then or

934
01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:45.840
whatever, but no, no,
I gotta got it real media players.

935
01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:48.599
Yeah, exactly. No, I
just love it, I you know,

936
01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:51.639
and I've seen, like you know, the reviews have been very positive,

937
01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:56.639
and I've seen even the small complex
people have and even some of them I

938
01:04:56.639 --> 01:04:58.559
can kind of agree with, and
a lot of them I even don't.

939
01:04:59.199 --> 01:05:02.079
I love of all the mini games. I love that this game seemed to

940
01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:05.400
have a mandate of we're gonna have
so many mini games because that's something that

941
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:10.960
Foum fifty seven wasn't known for.
We're just going to blast players with it.

942
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:14.079
And I love that. And some
of them are just kind of like

943
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:16.239
simple, like it's like a normal
fight, but you have to do these

944
01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:20.400
things. And then other times it's
like you're playing a completely different game.

945
01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:25.119
Yeah, everyone's going to freak out
over Queen's Blood. I think I can't

946
01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:28.599
believe how much fun Queen's Blood just
it's Queen's Blood. The kind of thing

947
01:05:28.599 --> 01:05:30.599
where if they did a standalone game, would you play it? Oh yeah,

948
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:34.679
they could absolutely gwentch that shit up
and it went. It's what the

949
01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:38.840
industry calls that. Yeah, it
maybe be smarter, like, don't expect

950
01:05:38.880 --> 01:05:41.400
it to like what they did with
Like this is going to be like Carstone

951
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:44.320
we're gonna, you know, hopefully
supports for five years, just make a

952
01:05:44.360 --> 01:05:46.559
really good product that can maybe have
a couple expansions. I don't know.

953
01:05:46.880 --> 01:05:50.480
Right, it's out for ten bucks
and that'll be fun. Yeah, I

954
01:05:50.519 --> 01:05:55.760
definitely want more Gwent in my life, for sure, not Gwen Queen's Blood,

955
01:05:56.599 --> 01:06:00.239
and I was actually on the other
side of means Blood initially. By

956
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:04.960
the time y'all were talking about the
game last week and then spending some more

957
01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:10.519
time in Queen's Blood and unlocking some
more booster packs and cards. You can

958
01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:15.079
get really fucked up in that game. In Queen's Blood, specifically in such

959
01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:20.480
a good way where you absolutely bone
this the computer opponent, where you almost

960
01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:28.400
feel bad for how much you are
dominating because just how some cards will will

961
01:06:28.599 --> 01:06:32.360
work with a board. You wind
it behind enemy lines and it's so good.

962
01:06:32.440 --> 01:06:36.239
It's so good, right, and
you can really like position It's about

963
01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:42.719
positioning and scoring. A positioning can
really mess up the opponent's ability to score.

964
01:06:43.119 --> 01:06:45.960
It's this game that's both beautifully simple
and complicated, and it ramps up

965
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:51.480
in a really satisfying way in terms
of that complexity. It's just very well

966
01:06:51.840 --> 01:06:57.039
executed and it's a difficult thing to
do with a card mini game, right,

967
01:06:57.039 --> 01:07:00.760
that's supposed to just be one component
of something that we're doing inside this

968
01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:08.800
game. And I am coming to
Final Fantasy seven Rebirth from a similar position

969
01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:13.639
as Lucy last week, where I
have never played the original Final Fantasy seven

970
01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:19.639
somehow, despite checking out ninety percent
of Final Fantasies and just knowing most of

971
01:07:20.280 --> 01:07:24.599
or some of the characters and story
beats through cultural osmosis over the years,

972
01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:30.800
and just meeting Cloud and company through
Kingdom Hearts. But I'm enjoying everything about

973
01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:35.159
it, especially with a story Tam
and Emma touched on it. Part of

974
01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:38.920
the thing that I love about this
story where I'm at so far, I'm

975
01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:46.000
about like thirty plus hours in,
and that's just me mainlining everything and occasionally

976
01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:53.519
dipping out for the side quest stuff
or the side content. I love,

977
01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:58.440
love, love, love the relationship
between Tifa and Erth. Like I've heard

978
01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:00.920
this repeatedly now that people really do
this very well done, and I think

979
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:04.480
that's like, go ahead, sorry, I know, it's just incredibly wholesome.

980
01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:12.239
And I feel like in games with
big ensembles like this, sometimes the

981
01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:15.920
side characters just get swept under the
rug in favor of whoever is like on

982
01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:20.479
the cover right, Like, in
the process of finishing the story, no

983
01:08:20.479 --> 01:08:25.960
one cares about anyone else in the
Cody Rhodes universe other than Cody. Eventually

984
01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:30.039
finishing the story. We've forgotten about
Ja main event jay Uso in this but

985
01:08:30.119 --> 01:08:38.920
here, Tifa and Eric and even
read thirteen Barrett have such a heavy chunk

986
01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:43.159
of the story that you can't help
but be invested in it. And you

987
01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:46.680
know, I'm sure it's probably fun
for someone even more fun for someone that's

988
01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:50.880
played the original Final Fantasy seven.
They're just seeing how everything's reimagined and the

989
01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:56.199
different liberties that they may be taking
with the story. Maybe I don't know,

990
01:08:57.319 --> 01:09:00.239
But here, as someone just completely
frust to it, I absolutely love

991
01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:04.760
it. These feel like real characters
and not just like one dimensional characters that

992
01:09:04.840 --> 01:09:11.399
are just party members to heal you. Yeah. One complaint I've seen about

993
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:15.000
Rebirth and remake, it's just from
people who don't inherently like that they took

994
01:09:15.039 --> 01:09:18.079
one game and they're kind of making
three games, and to them it's like

995
01:09:18.119 --> 01:09:23.880
they're stretching it out. I think
that expanding the story is doing a ton

996
01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:28.319
of good because you are getting things
like an actual relationship with tifan Aris.

997
01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:31.640
A lot of RPGs, your party
members will have a relationship with the main

998
01:09:31.720 --> 01:09:38.119
character and never with like amongst themselves
very much, and expanding here allows a

999
01:09:38.119 --> 01:09:41.560
ton more of that, a ton
more of development for all these characters and

1000
01:09:41.640 --> 01:09:45.439
for a lot of other characters.
Even some of these new characters from remake

1001
01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:48.119
get to come back here and have
these fun moments. So I'm all for

1002
01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:51.199
that. Actually, I think that
just expanding these games, you know,

1003
01:09:51.279 --> 01:09:56.239
because look the story of fun Fantasy
seven, like the actual plot of Fun

1004
01:09:56.319 --> 01:09:59.159
Fantasy seven, I don't know if
that's what I ever liked about the game,

1005
01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:03.079
or most Final Phasy games or most
video games. It's really the characters

1006
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:09.800
actually, So just having more character
moments, that's what's going to make me

1007
01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:13.319
happy. That's what I want,
and that's what they one hundred percent take

1008
01:10:13.319 --> 01:10:19.239
advantage of by smartly breaking this game
up into these three chunks and being able

1009
01:10:19.239 --> 01:10:21.840
to really dive in. I mean, just think about in remake, how

1010
01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:26.520
Jesse suddenly became this interesting character and
they play off of that, right,

1011
01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:30.520
you have moments calling back to that
character here that are really impactful that just

1012
01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:35.880
could not exist in the original game. I think I got to that moment,

1013
01:10:35.960 --> 01:10:40.720
or maybe it's one of those moments, and as someone that really really

1014
01:10:40.760 --> 01:10:46.439
fell in love and became very thirsty
for Jesse in remake, I was it

1015
01:10:46.520 --> 01:10:51.279
was a very strong gut punch that
I didn't think the game would be able

1016
01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:57.319
to deliver to someone that had only
played remake prior to this. Yeah,

1017
01:10:58.479 --> 01:11:00.159
it's great, and I kind of
I get yelled at sometimes for this,

1018
01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:06.079
but I think that the original Phanphasy
seven kind of becomes less interesting because halfway

1019
01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:11.359
through, because the plot really loses
focus on all this Shinra stuff, which

1020
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:14.960
is so important. The beginning of
the game just kind of focus on Sepharoff

1021
01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:17.079
wanting to summon a media and destroy
the world because he's a bad guy,

1022
01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:21.439
blah blah blah. And again,
with like this larger format here, they're

1023
01:11:21.479 --> 01:11:26.800
really able to make Genra still feel
like a much bigger part of the game,

1024
01:11:26.840 --> 01:11:30.359
whereas they really begin to disappear into
the background as the original game went

1025
01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:36.239
forward and forward. As someone who
never played through all Final Fantasy seven,

1026
01:11:36.239 --> 01:11:41.039
I've definitely started a couple of times
had some fun with it. It doesn't

1027
01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:44.600
the stretching it out never really occurred
to me you could tell from a distance

1028
01:11:44.640 --> 01:11:46.159
site No, they're just going deeper
and so they can do more with this.

1029
01:11:46.199 --> 01:11:49.239
And also, these games are bigger
when you make them today. So

1030
01:11:49.239 --> 01:11:54.079
if you're trying to replicate a game
from the nineties with like full you know,

1031
01:11:54.239 --> 01:11:57.760
like cut of the cutting edge,
state of the art technology, you're

1032
01:11:57.760 --> 01:11:59.800
going to need to take your time, and it's gonna you're gonna have like

1033
01:11:59.840 --> 01:12:01.079
lim a your budgets per game and
try to get as much money out of

1034
01:12:01.079 --> 01:12:04.439
as possible. So that always made
sense. What I've heard about this game

1035
01:12:04.479 --> 01:12:06.800
that does have me the most excited
about it is the stuff where it's like

1036
01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:11.479
it's about the characters and their relationships. That is, like, you're right,

1037
01:12:11.520 --> 01:12:13.560
that's what I come to most game
sports, what I come to most

1038
01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:16.159
movies and books for. So the
fact that they're nailing that here and everyone

1039
01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:19.520
that I've talked to seems to universally
agree that that's the best part of this

1040
01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:23.199
game or one of the best parts. It's like, Okay, I cannot

1041
01:12:23.199 --> 01:12:25.840
wait to get into this and actually
start playing. And I think the sheer

1042
01:12:25.880 --> 01:12:31.760
audacity with a lot of the characters
to just wholly be either super cheesy,

1043
01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:38.560
super corny or like super emotional.
I think comes off as very authentic and

1044
01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:42.199
earnest. I think it's part of
the success of Infinite Wealth with me of

1045
01:12:42.319 --> 01:12:45.000
like, all these characters are just
feeling their emotions and they're just like doing

1046
01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:50.560
their thing, even if part of
their thing is being very is overacting.

1047
01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:55.960
And I feel like the cast,
the extended cast a Final Fantasy seven rebirth

1048
01:12:56.039 --> 01:13:00.319
really nails that. But the thing, grub, the thing that fucking just

1049
01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:04.359
sings, is just playing the game
as well. The common system rules so

1050
01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:11.239
much, it's just so good.
Like it's the uh, the synergy abilities

1051
01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:15.239
that that you you unlock, and
just like the different combinations of those and

1052
01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:21.039
how like, oh, almost any
permutation of of three of any of these

1053
01:13:21.159 --> 01:13:27.159
these party characters will work somehow and
will work incredibly well. It's great.

1054
01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:33.880
I really didn't like enjoy playing as
Earth in remake, but here homegirls firing

1055
01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:39.920
off lasers like orbital lasers, and
it's sick as shit. She really benefits

1056
01:13:39.920 --> 01:13:43.039
from some of these new synergy abilities
because like one of them is just called

1057
01:13:43.119 --> 01:13:45.239
bodyguard. Just press a button and
a character will kind of appear in front

1058
01:13:45.239 --> 01:13:48.239
of you to defend you. For
a bit because whoever you're playing as will

1059
01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:53.359
often draw the attention of enemies,
and at least build is so cast or

1060
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:56.960
focus and cause she needs to kind
of plant herself in a specific place and

1061
01:13:57.079 --> 01:14:00.800
cast abilities, it could be difficult. So that stuff kind kind of makes

1062
01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.840
it a bit easier to get a
handle on her here, and I don't

1063
01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:10.760
find the game to be supermashy like
game Like supermashy games kind of like tend

1064
01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:14.000
to give my hands like a lot
of fatigue because of the tendonitis. Here,

1065
01:14:14.399 --> 01:14:19.199
completely fine, it's completely great.
I feel like I feel like a

1066
01:14:19.319 --> 01:14:24.720
coach sometimes when I get the ATB
gay just to fill out completely, and

1067
01:14:24.760 --> 01:14:29.479
then we're just firing off abilities and
syncro abilities left and right, and then

1068
01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:30.680
like, hey, you know what, let's throw a fucking summon into this

1069
01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:33.159
shit. Let's do that too.
It's a small thing, and the last

1070
01:14:33.159 --> 01:14:36.119
gift did it. But I love
that when you do like quote unquote pause

1071
01:14:36.159 --> 01:14:40.560
the action to issue those ATP abilities. It's not a pause, it's a

1072
01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:48.039
really slow emotion and it just feels
so satisfying every single time. It's very

1073
01:14:48.039 --> 01:14:51.239
good and I can't wait for people
to play it, and I don't want

1074
01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:55.159
to spoil anything. I haven't gone
to the very end, but I need

1075
01:14:55.199 --> 01:14:58.399
to spoil something. Oh god,
it is near and dear to my heart.

1076
01:14:58.680 --> 01:15:00.800
Hey, everyone's been warned. Yeah, so so as soon as the

1077
01:15:00.800 --> 01:15:04.039
twenty ninth rolls around, as soon
as like everyone is downloading and buying that

1078
01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:08.560
game, I'm gonna tweet something out. Oh no, all right, yeah,

1079
01:15:08.720 --> 01:15:15.359
is it about a boat? A
boat adjacent? What is the best

1080
01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:20.239
method or best version? I should
say to play the original Final Fantasy seven

1081
01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:25.880
probably, which is great, which
is great. There's something about the way

1082
01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:30.520
that all those remasters look with the
kind of smoothed out character models on the

1083
01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:34.000
blurry background. Still, I bet
the best version involves getting the Steam version

1084
01:15:34.359 --> 01:15:39.600
with some mods. I bet there's
like a really good mod pack that does

1085
01:15:39.640 --> 01:15:45.399
some kind of like AI upresing on
those pre rendered backgrounds or something like that.

1086
01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:46.960
Ye, Steam with mods would be
the way, and it's from phasey

1087
01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:50.000
seven. I bet there's a very
easy guide exact what you need to do.

1088
01:15:50.039 --> 01:15:54.520
I bet you'll still get a good
experience if you just play that Switch

1089
01:15:54.640 --> 01:15:56.920
version. Sure, but uh yeah, that's what you need to do.

1090
01:15:57.560 --> 01:16:01.159
Uh. And you know, my
specific use case is very specific because I

1091
01:16:01.680 --> 01:16:09.600
have fiber where I live. But
I've been playing through Final Fantasy seven Rebirth

1092
01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:15.840
almost entirely through Chiocky for steam Deck, and it is absolutely amazing. The

1093
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:19.039
only times where it feels like it's
been a little it's dipped a little bit

1094
01:16:19.199 --> 01:16:24.840
or Lancy has been suspect is through
some of the Rhythm games. Oh yeah,

1095
01:16:25.159 --> 01:16:28.920
but there's there's not So there's not
a bunch of those. There's just

1096
01:16:28.960 --> 01:16:35.359
like one specific portion where where the
the story kind of puts you, puts

1097
01:16:35.359 --> 01:16:40.079
you in that position. But yeah, it's absolutely it's absolutely fantastic. And

1098
01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:44.399
just seeing that ship right there and
like almost falling asleep while someone's talking and

1099
01:16:44.399 --> 01:16:48.279
then having that steam Deck almost fall
on my face exhilarating. That's that'll that'll

1100
01:16:48.359 --> 01:16:51.199
keep you put some hair on your
chest. Yeah, you talk about the

1101
01:16:51.199 --> 01:16:56.840
stuff in June on. I assume
yes, because I think that's one of

1102
01:16:56.840 --> 01:17:00.399
the things what people are complaining about
being forced to do minigames or complaining about.

1103
01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:01.520
And again to me, I was
like, that's like one of the

1104
01:17:01.560 --> 01:17:05.479
top three best mos in the game. I like the lead up to it

1105
01:17:05.479 --> 01:17:13.159
because of how Silly Leaps so great. Yeah, ah, I absolutely adore

1106
01:17:13.199 --> 01:17:15.239
that game, so much. I'm
yeah again so excited when we're people to

1107
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:17.920
play it. I'm probably gonna be
thinking about that game a time for the

1108
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:23.359
rest of your what in ridiculous first
two months this year. I can't believe

1109
01:17:23.600 --> 01:17:26.399
I could make a top ten.
I could make a top ten right now.

1110
01:17:26.399 --> 01:17:31.079
Probably it's insane easily the spoon is
full everyone, there's too many games

1111
01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:36.920
on it. I do want to
add I was feeling a little bit discouraged

1112
01:17:38.039 --> 01:17:45.640
seeing everyone's opinion on whatever the ending
is supposed to be. But I feel

1113
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:54.039
like my tolerance for bullshit and Final
Fantasy stuff maybe closer aligned to yours,

1114
01:17:54.079 --> 01:18:00.520
mike Ye and hearing Emma's take on
the ending being like, oh oh okay,

1115
01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:03.159
and I feel like I am wedged
in between you two when it comes

1116
01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:06.279
to Final Fantasy again, no spoilers. I know people think that they're going

1117
01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:10.000
to infer something from what I'm saying, trust, but you're not. But

1118
01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:13.840
yes, look it's it's like it's
indulgent and it's a lot and honest and

1119
01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:17.840
didn't bother fine, yeah what again? What I really care about? Like

1120
01:18:18.039 --> 01:18:23.039
these great great character moments and fantastic
boss fights, and the last few boss

1121
01:18:23.039 --> 01:18:27.560
fights are fantastic. They were great, So yeah, they didn't really bother

1122
01:18:27.720 --> 01:18:30.000
me. The last thing I'll say
about Rebirth, at least for this week,

1123
01:18:30.720 --> 01:18:40.800
is I am exhausting my console's memory
with screenshots and clips Oh yeah,

1124
01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:45.399
yeah, or ninety percent of them
from the beach No, no, no,

1125
01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:56.760
fine, no, y'all respectfully and
disrespectfully. I multiple times have felt

1126
01:18:56.840 --> 01:19:03.119
like the text avery uh the Wartoon
Wolf of Aga. My jaw is dropping

1127
01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:06.720
on the floor and my eyes just
bulging out, and then my partner looking

1128
01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:10.720
over, looking over and means like, are you playing one of those games

1129
01:19:10.720 --> 01:19:12.239
again? I'm like, no,
no, no, no, this one's

1130
01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:16.159
for work, Tifa's game. In
a lot of ways, Tifa gets a

1131
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:20.119
ton of screen time in Rebirth and
it rules. Twenty twenty four is kind

1132
01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:23.800
of the year of Tifa, especially
if she does show up and tech and

1133
01:19:23.920 --> 01:19:27.279
like, I think we're all expecting
her to big year for Tifa, biggest

1134
01:19:27.319 --> 01:19:31.880
year ever. So the thing is
I came into f F seven uh remake

1135
01:19:32.039 --> 01:19:35.560
dead Set just because, like,
I don't know, I kind of like

1136
01:19:35.600 --> 01:19:40.039
Tifa more that I was like Tifa
all the way. I don't give a

1137
01:19:40.039 --> 01:19:43.359
shit about Earth. She was kind
of in Kingdom hearts, but she wasn't

1138
01:19:43.439 --> 01:19:46.960
useful. But yo, the fucking
writing in this game is getting me to

1139
01:19:47.119 --> 01:19:53.479
care so deeply about her in such
a way. Can we say the thing

1140
01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:57.119
about the dates? Is that definitely
one of the things we can't say actually

1141
01:19:58.600 --> 01:20:03.399
specifically written it is written out like
that. But just like the answered,

1142
01:20:03.640 --> 01:20:08.960
the relationships you explore are just like, Oh, I thought I felt some

1143
01:20:09.039 --> 01:20:14.119
way about all of these characters.
I'm one over, I'm one over.

1144
01:20:14.319 --> 01:20:16.800
Yeah, yeah, I thought it
was actually more of an airth person I

1145
01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:19.680
wasn't remaking. Then this one's like, oh, I'm dang it. No,

1146
01:20:19.680 --> 01:20:23.520
no, nope, it's hard.
It's hard. We're all read thirteen

1147
01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:30.399
people now read thirteen ers. Ah, but man, you also, I

1148
01:20:30.439 --> 01:20:32.720
don't understand why people would hate you. Fee. She's got a giant Shurikin

1149
01:20:32.800 --> 01:20:35.359
on her back. Yeah, look, she could fuck She has a bit

1150
01:20:35.399 --> 01:20:39.000
of that thing that I had with
that coffee girl from Tech, and she

1151
01:20:39.000 --> 01:20:42.039
could sometimes be a bit one note, just yelling about material lot. She's

1152
01:20:42.039 --> 01:20:45.279
the comic relief. She's self proclaimed
comic relief. I can't lay great.

1153
01:20:45.359 --> 01:20:49.039
Some people, I'm like, yeah, she's a goober. It's fine,

1154
01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:54.760
it's funny and we all need goobers. We need goobers. Some people are

1155
01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:59.399
mad at me because I pointed out
the Turks Reno and rude because like what

1156
01:20:59.479 --> 01:21:01.359
the play stationed account posted a picture. I'm like, ah, these two

1157
01:21:01.439 --> 01:21:03.680
dudes are back. I love to
see it. And I was like,

1158
01:21:03.760 --> 01:21:06.439
yeah, these two are great.
I'm like, these are the two that

1159
01:21:06.520 --> 01:21:11.720
dropped the plate. They killed thousands
of people, including women and children,

1160
01:21:12.199 --> 01:21:14.680
and I I never even said the
words you shouldn't liked them. But I

1161
01:21:14.680 --> 01:21:17.119
had a lot of people get mad
at me for suggesting that they can't like

1162
01:21:17.359 --> 01:21:21.920
them. But I don't know.
That's the whole thing. The weird,

1163
01:21:23.039 --> 01:21:29.800
the vegeta syndrome of media where UH
war criminals and genocide committer has become fan

1164
01:21:29.880 --> 01:21:34.520
family my top tier list of atrocity
committers. Yeah, yeah, so it's

1165
01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:42.319
fun. Uh we shouldn't put that
as the episode titled no, We'll think

1166
01:21:42.319 --> 01:21:46.720
about it though. During this break, can't put that one on there,

1167
01:21:46.760 --> 01:21:50.199
Mike, but he says he kill
terrorists. Yeah, print that on the

1168
01:21:50.239 --> 01:21:54.119
back of the podcast. People were
like, oh, I a witch also

1169
01:21:54.199 --> 01:21:56.960
kill people. I was like,
yeah, that's a whole new sentence.

1170
01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:03.880
We make the Alive movie the what
movie. No, they just did a

1171
01:22:03.880 --> 01:22:09.359
new story Isn't Alive based on a
real thing? Or there's there was a

1172
01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:13.960
real plane crash right where people crash
and ate the football team and they had

1173
01:22:13.960 --> 01:22:18.399
to eat each other something snow right, people of the snow people, snow

1174
01:22:18.439 --> 01:22:23.960
society. What are we talking about? Yeah, Jeff Beckler, how did

1175
01:22:24.000 --> 01:22:28.199
we get here? Uh? We
got here? These are like the cool

1176
01:22:28.199 --> 01:22:31.560
atrocities that you're talking about. Yeah, these are like the the you know,

1177
01:22:31.760 --> 01:22:35.560
the sort of like acts of God. If you man, I'm never

1178
01:22:35.600 --> 01:22:40.319
going to have a political career if
I start if I keep saying things like

1179
01:22:40.359 --> 01:22:45.119
cool atrocities. Let's make new slurs. Uh Yeah, I mean I think

1180
01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:49.760
new slurs are are interesting for like
sci fi movies, like when they're like,

1181
01:22:50.359 --> 01:22:54.199
you know, you hear like a
weird word in there. I like

1182
01:22:54.319 --> 01:22:59.039
fake like fictional drug names too,
Yeah, stuff too. I like when

1183
01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:04.079
the droid from the Prequels are called
clankers. I like that. Yeah,

1184
01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:08.239
all right, I'm gonna go think
about my words. That's too harsh of

1185
01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:12.439
a slur word for you, Mike. You don't like clanker. It's upsetting.

1186
01:23:12.479 --> 01:23:16.399
You need one for Disney adults.
I'm just Disney asults is the slur.

1187
01:23:17.800 --> 01:23:20.399
It's too much of a mouthful.
It's got to be like two syllables.

1188
01:23:20.439 --> 01:23:24.760
Tops. It's fine. I shorten
and makeup words all the time.

1189
01:23:25.159 --> 01:23:28.239
Uh, and I'll think of one
during this breakoffs, we'll be back with

1190
01:23:28.399 --> 01:23:38.039
some video game news. Boys.
This news music is gonna sound terrible.

1191
01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:47.479
We'll fix it. I should just
start talking about the news. Huh.

1192
01:23:47.560 --> 01:23:50.960
That's that's like that toss is normal. That's what That's what that was.

1193
01:23:51.039 --> 01:23:54.239
Huh. All right, well,
you know what, fine, I will

1194
01:23:54.239 --> 01:23:57.359
do exactly that. I got a
lot of news here for you, everybody.

1195
01:23:57.520 --> 01:24:00.359
Uh. Pretty busy week, but
today popped off with what is going

1196
01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:04.199
to be seemingly the theme of this
year. More job losses in the video

1197
01:24:04.199 --> 01:24:10.439
game industry. PlayStation has cut nine
hundred jobs, affecting the studios that make

1198
01:24:10.479 --> 01:24:15.760
games like Spider Man and the Last
of Us and Horizon. Sony's PlayStation division

1199
01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:20.600
is undergoing significant layoffs with the closure
of its London studio and cuts at other

1200
01:24:20.720 --> 01:24:26.039
studios like fire Sprite, as well
as the aforementioned Insomniac games Naughty Dog and

1201
01:24:26.079 --> 01:24:30.319
Gorilla. The layoffs amounting to nine
hundred people, or about eight percent of

1202
01:24:30.359 --> 01:24:35.319
PlayStation were confirmed by outgoing Sony Interactive
Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, who described the

1203
01:24:35.399 --> 01:24:41.880
decision as extremely hard. Affected staff
across major SIE regions, including the Americas,

1204
01:24:41.960 --> 01:24:45.720
EMEA, Japan, and APAK,
will receive severance benefits. These layoffs

1205
01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:50.880
come amid discussions about the evolving economic
landscape and changes to how SIE develops,

1206
01:24:50.880 --> 01:24:56.039
distributes, and launches games. Other
recent high profile layoffs in the gaming industry

1207
01:24:56.079 --> 01:25:00.079
include those at super Massive Just Yesterday, The makers of Until Dawn layoffs themselves

1208
01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:04.720
recently a couple weeks ago. Microsoft's
also laid off about eight percent of the

1209
01:25:04.760 --> 01:25:11.760
employees working on Xbox across Xbox activisions
some of their other subsidiaries. Twitch has

1210
01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:15.520
also had layoffs. Riot that we
are approaching I think about eight thousand,

1211
01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:19.920
nine thousand layoffs in the industry so
far in twenty twenty four. This is

1212
01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:26.439
that eight percent number keeps popping up. Everyone's just cutting their workforces by about

1213
01:25:26.479 --> 01:25:30.600
five to eight percent, and here
we are once again someone else cutting that

1214
01:25:30.600 --> 01:25:34.159
many people. Unaffected studios include Sucker
Punch. You get the sense that,

1215
01:25:34.279 --> 01:25:35.880
like, hey, if you have
a game coming out soon, well we

1216
01:25:35.920 --> 01:25:39.319
need all hands on deck. And
if you have a game coming out six

1217
01:25:39.399 --> 01:25:42.399
years from now. Well, you
know, you just launched a game.

1218
01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:45.479
What have you done for us lately? And so you got we're gonna cut

1219
01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:47.760
some jobs. It's rough out there, No, I mean, look,

1220
01:25:47.800 --> 01:25:53.680
these games are all terrible games.
They don't do well right now. They

1221
01:25:53.680 --> 01:25:56.960
don't make any money, they don't
make comy, they don't sell like twenty

1222
01:25:57.119 --> 01:26:01.199
million copies for the last They don't
make any fucking money. They are all

1223
01:26:01.560 --> 01:26:06.119
released at a gigantic loss, and
uh it, you know, it puts

1224
01:26:06.159 --> 01:26:12.840
all these companies deep into the red. And that's what explains massive layoffs.

1225
01:26:12.920 --> 01:26:15.720
Of course, I'm fucking kidding right
there, because you can has has had

1226
01:26:15.800 --> 01:26:19.079
huge profits for the last several quarters. The last one was a little bit

1227
01:26:19.119 --> 01:26:23.319
down, but they were still a
very profitable company. So I don't want

1228
01:26:23.319 --> 01:26:27.760
to fucking hear any more financial reporting. I don't want to know how good

1229
01:26:27.800 --> 01:26:30.239
you're fucking doing, because it doesn't
fucking matter. It doesn't fucking matter,

1230
01:26:30.239 --> 01:26:33.840
because you're just gonna lay off everyone
else because you didn't do as good as

1231
01:26:33.880 --> 01:26:39.520
you are already doing, right yep, So what what are we even doing

1232
01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:43.359
for? What are we even doing? They're just setting themselves up for bad

1233
01:26:43.479 --> 01:26:47.199
times. You look at PlayStation right
now, what is the most obvious problem.

1234
01:26:47.359 --> 01:26:53.640
It's the fact that PlayStation studios releases
I've kind of slowed to a crawl.

1235
01:26:53.960 --> 01:26:56.840
Well, how is that going to
look like going forward? When you're

1236
01:26:56.840 --> 01:27:02.239
cutting jobs from like three developers and
Naughty dogg Intosomniac that have done nothing but

1237
01:27:02.399 --> 01:27:10.199
good things for you, Like they
are the backbone of that entire exclusive structure

1238
01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:15.359
and you're gonna cut them off like
the with CUD. I mean, they

1239
01:27:15.399 --> 01:27:18.600
said something that seven Rebirth came out
about how they're able to do this so

1240
01:27:18.680 --> 01:27:21.640
relatively quickly because it's a giant game, And he said, well, hey,

1241
01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:25.279
we have people who've been working with
each other for a while. It's

1242
01:27:25.359 --> 01:27:28.840
not just that you're gonna have less
people working there, which is already a

1243
01:27:28.840 --> 01:27:31.760
fucking huge problem. But people are
more efficient when they are working with people

1244
01:27:31.800 --> 01:27:36.359
that they have worked with for a
while. The problem right now is that

1245
01:27:36.640 --> 01:27:43.159
these games that Sony likes to make
are very expensive and they take too long

1246
01:27:43.199 --> 01:27:46.720
to make. This isn't gonna help
that at all. That problem was already

1247
01:27:46.760 --> 01:27:53.560
getting worse. Now it's gonna get
exponentially worse. There's absolutely no regard for

1248
01:27:53.680 --> 01:27:58.039
the future. When making this move, it's just about maximizing profits for the

1249
01:27:58.079 --> 01:28:00.760
next financial report, so we can
keep investors happy for just a little bit

1250
01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:03.119
longer, and then we'll figure out
what we got to do for the next

1251
01:28:03.239 --> 01:28:08.640
quarter. We can't keep thinking quarner
by quarter like this, or financial year

1252
01:28:08.960 --> 01:28:13.960
by financial year like this. It's
gonna go nowhere they did, this will

1253
01:28:14.359 --> 01:28:19.640
continue to happen forever because it is
allowed to happen. That's it, that's

1254
01:28:19.680 --> 01:28:24.439
it. There's no labor protection.
Yeah, on that point, people that

1255
01:28:24.479 --> 01:28:28.560
worked in these studios in America done
today. People in the UK are going

1256
01:28:28.640 --> 01:28:31.119
to go through a consultation period.
People in Japan, I think that work

1257
01:28:31.119 --> 01:28:34.880
in Japan for Sony are going to
be working them for quite some time before

1258
01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:38.479
like this happens, so they have
a chance to find new work. And

1259
01:28:38.560 --> 01:28:42.199
like Sony has to pay for that
process. You can tell the regulation how

1260
01:28:42.239 --> 01:28:45.159
it affects what it is like for
everybody in America. Fucking cut loose spot.

1261
01:28:45.199 --> 01:28:48.800
Everyone gets through severance, Yes,
but that's like that was then,

1262
01:28:48.880 --> 01:28:51.520
like just being competitive. Everyone has
to give a severance to like attract these

1263
01:28:51.520 --> 01:28:55.239
people in the first place. But
when it comes to actually how they're treated

1264
01:28:55.520 --> 01:28:59.680
out the door. It is just
good luck and have fun in America.

1265
01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:04.640
I think that the most baffling and
frustrating part one of the components, at

1266
01:29:04.720 --> 01:29:10.680
least, is all these people that
have made these projections and are in turn

1267
01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:15.920
bragging about all these profits. They're
facing no backlash as far as I know,

1268
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:18.079
in any of these layoffs, No
one. Trine's retiring. He's getting

1269
01:29:18.079 --> 01:29:23.560
his golden parachute. He's out.
God, I hope a bird crashes into

1270
01:29:23.600 --> 01:29:27.359
his golden parachute. Yeah, yes, so much for him leaving on top,

1271
01:29:27.399 --> 01:29:29.760
by the way, because he's leaving
with this now. So this is

1272
01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:32.560
you know, his legacy is that
he did not set PlayStation up to succeed

1273
01:29:32.800 --> 01:29:36.840
on his way out. They somehow
seem to be in a bad position despite

1274
01:29:38.159 --> 01:29:42.159
winning the made up console war,
which is more made up than ever.

1275
01:29:42.720 --> 01:29:45.920
God, if you spend any amount
of your time yelling at somebody because of

1276
01:29:45.960 --> 01:29:51.720
the box they play games, Yeah, look who you're rooting for. Look

1277
01:29:51.720 --> 01:29:57.199
who you are in the bag for, these motherfuckers who do not care PlayStation

1278
01:29:57.359 --> 01:30:00.239
one and this is the victory lap. Congratulations. Okay, PlayStation one Xbox

1279
01:30:00.279 --> 01:30:04.279
lost both laid off eight percent of
their workforce. Yeah, yeah, what

1280
01:30:04.319 --> 01:30:06.760
are we talking about here? What
were we doing? What were we doing

1281
01:30:06.760 --> 01:30:11.079
with that time and energy? You
made the world worse place for no reason.

1282
01:30:11.119 --> 01:30:14.560
Great, I'm glad you yelled at
somebody on the internet. It is

1283
01:30:15.840 --> 01:30:19.520
reminiscent of how the industry felt going
into the PS four and Xbox one generation,

1284
01:30:19.560 --> 01:30:24.159
where they were very unsure about the
future. Then they were unsure about

1285
01:30:24.199 --> 01:30:27.000
how consoles were going to sell,
like, we're probably not gonna it's not

1286
01:30:27.039 --> 01:30:30.159
gonna be like trending down where like
Sony was trending downward at that time because

1287
01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:31.359
the PS three. So they're like, okay, well, we're not sure.

1288
01:30:31.439 --> 01:30:34.720
N Xbox was we're gonna do this
TV stuff because we see people buy

1289
01:30:34.800 --> 01:30:38.560
Xbox and then actually they use it, use the Xboxes to watch TV and

1290
01:30:38.600 --> 01:30:43.279
Netflix, so we're going to focus
on that instead. They then start up

1291
01:30:43.319 --> 01:30:45.560
that generation and both those consoles did
very well. The Xbox one actually sold

1292
01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:50.720
pretty well. PlayStation four obviously was
a huge seller. Then they were like,

1293
01:30:50.760 --> 01:30:54.039
okay, well, we're going to
slowly build up the software and get

1294
01:30:54.039 --> 01:30:57.159
that going, and Microsoft kind of
struggled and stumbled and then never really actually

1295
01:30:57.159 --> 01:31:00.279
accomplished that and Sony did. They
got a bunch of studios going. But

1296
01:31:00.319 --> 01:31:03.520
now they're like, we don't think
we're gonna be able to justify making these

1297
01:31:03.600 --> 01:31:08.800
games for the industry that we sort
of built up to look this way.

1298
01:31:08.800 --> 01:31:10.800
The industry needs to look like,
hey, you put out a console,

1299
01:31:10.840 --> 01:31:12.800
then you put out exclusives for it, and now they're like, well,

1300
01:31:12.840 --> 01:31:15.640
we don't think that's gonna work.
Who fucking did that? And so what

1301
01:31:15.279 --> 01:31:17.359
what do you what do you talk
I mean, what are you talking about?

1302
01:31:17.399 --> 01:31:21.159
This is the industry you built.
Everything seems to be set up to

1303
01:31:21.279 --> 01:31:26.279
favor these console companies, and yet
they still can't find a way to consistently

1304
01:31:26.319 --> 01:31:29.520
make it work for more than a
five year period. So okay, everything's

1305
01:31:29.520 --> 01:31:30.560
gonna be good for five years,
and then after that we're blowing the whole

1306
01:31:30.560 --> 01:31:33.159
thing up and we don't know what's
gonna happen. And they just they just

1307
01:31:33.359 --> 01:31:39.880
got a surprise smash it with hell
Divers too, that the books couldn't possibly

1308
01:31:40.119 --> 01:31:43.880
have accounted for. Big Hit got
to be making a lot of money.

1309
01:31:43.880 --> 01:31:48.840
It doesn't even fucking matter. It
doesn't matter. So you know, we

1310
01:31:48.920 --> 01:31:54.199
talk about, hey, the backbone
companies, studios losing workers of course,

1311
01:31:54.239 --> 01:31:59.239
at the same time, London Studios
yet another team that was doing weird,

1312
01:31:59.319 --> 01:32:03.920
interesting stuff. They did a lot
of like the really sort of gamy VR

1313
01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:06.520
games recently. Right, it's like, hey, well London Heist or whatever

1314
01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:09.880
it's called, where it's like you're
actually gonna go in there and it's it's

1315
01:32:09.880 --> 01:32:11.880
gonna tell you a story, but
it's gonna have a lot of cool gameplay

1316
01:32:11.880 --> 01:32:14.319
moments, and like they were like
one of the studios putting out games for

1317
01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:16.399
that thing that made the PlayStation VR
fuel like it was a real platform.

1318
01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:20.680
It almost seems like they're punished for
being the VR studio. The VR games

1319
01:32:20.720 --> 01:32:25.600
prot didn't sell very well because it's
they're fucking VR games like a fraction of

1320
01:32:25.680 --> 01:32:28.800
an audience. So now this studio
is getting shut down. They were doing

1321
01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:31.840
interesting things, so we're not even
getting like obviously Japan Studios shut down a

1322
01:32:31.840 --> 01:32:35.880
while ago now, and they were
some studios that would do some interesting things.

1323
01:32:35.960 --> 01:32:40.319
It's like okay, we need yes, yeah it was. It feels

1324
01:32:40.319 --> 01:32:45.319
like a huge mistake, and yet
like everything all the choices they're making seem

1325
01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:49.399
to reinforce exactly what happened there where
it's like we can only support the studios

1326
01:32:49.640 --> 01:32:54.079
that are making the biggest, most
most expensive games, the ones that will

1327
01:32:54.119 --> 01:32:56.760
take six years to complete, and
probably in the future are going to start

1328
01:32:56.760 --> 01:32:59.840
taking seven eight years and three hundred
and fifty million dollars, And it's,

1329
01:33:00.039 --> 01:33:01.960
oh, why are you going further
down the road when that's clearly not the

1330
01:33:02.000 --> 01:33:05.159
answer and actually part of your problem. I don't get it. And it's

1331
01:33:05.199 --> 01:33:10.680
not their fault that PSVR two was
just not well received. Of course,

1332
01:33:10.680 --> 01:33:14.680
not everyone that a PSVR was like
always looking forward to the London studios games

1333
01:33:14.520 --> 01:33:16.199
that I always hear them talk about
that, and so it's like they did

1334
01:33:16.239 --> 01:33:19.319
their part. They held up there
in the bargain, make something interesting for

1335
01:33:19.399 --> 01:33:27.039
this platform that barely anyone was buying
games for. What can you do this

1336
01:33:27.239 --> 01:33:33.439
is It does feel like Sony Microsoft
probably won't do too many layoffs after this,

1337
01:33:33.520 --> 01:33:35.720
but that doesn't guarantee that they won't
have anymore. But it seems like

1338
01:33:35.760 --> 01:33:40.239
they were like, hey, let's
pull the band aid off now. But

1339
01:33:40.359 --> 01:33:43.119
the industry does feel like it's going
to continue going through this. I think,

1340
01:33:43.199 --> 01:33:45.640
especially now that we see it's happening
at Sony, it's like, Okay,

1341
01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:49.439
it could be anybody. Obviously,
Sony's last financial report did detail how

1342
01:33:49.479 --> 01:33:55.279
they are concerned about this upcoming year. Last year they sold the piscol year

1343
01:33:55.319 --> 01:33:58.039
that's going to come to in at
the end of March, they expect to

1344
01:33:58.119 --> 01:34:01.159
have sold about twenty one million PS
five through that twelve month period. They

1345
01:34:01.199 --> 01:34:05.039
originally anticipated to twenty five million.
That was always a sky high number.

1346
01:34:05.159 --> 01:34:09.479
It seemed kind of out of reach. But they did about everything they could

1347
01:34:09.800 --> 01:34:14.119
to sell twenty five million PS fives, including cutting the price aggressively in several

1348
01:34:14.159 --> 01:34:17.600
deals for the PS five. So
they've kind of like they've done what they

1349
01:34:17.640 --> 01:34:21.000
can with like good deals to get
people interested into PS five to come buy

1350
01:34:21.039 --> 01:34:24.680
it. And now they're going to
go into this next year whether they said

1351
01:34:24.720 --> 01:34:27.479
they hey, we're worried about profits
now, so that means we can't cut

1352
01:34:27.479 --> 01:34:30.920
the price of the PS five as
frequently. So that means they're probably going

1353
01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:32.920
to sell fewer PS fives. And
that's why they keep talking about, hey,

1354
01:34:32.920 --> 01:34:36.439
we're on the second half of the
PlayStation five's life cycle. They expect

1355
01:34:36.439 --> 01:34:40.560
things could start trending down this next
year. And I said, ooh,

1356
01:34:40.560 --> 01:34:45.439
that does seem like a problem.
If you were a company that your costs

1357
01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:48.319
keep growing, and that is that
it brings us right back to what does

1358
01:34:48.359 --> 01:34:51.079
PlayStation do. We've been talking about
this on this show and on Game US

1359
01:34:51.159 --> 01:34:55.560
Morning for weeks now because at the
Xbox news would come up and people were

1360
01:34:55.600 --> 01:34:58.199
like, all right, the Xbox
seems like they're in trouble, and we'd

1361
01:34:58.239 --> 01:35:00.439
always remind hey, no PlayStation is
not out of the woods, and here

1362
01:35:00.479 --> 01:35:04.720
they are basically having the exact same
problems as Microsoft. How do you guys

1363
01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:09.800
feel about the future of consoles?
Matt Piscatella this whole week. He's the

1364
01:35:09.800 --> 01:35:13.000
Circana analyst that always does to stuff
when I talk about the MPD numbers,

1365
01:35:13.000 --> 01:35:15.000
the Icana numbers. He's the guy
that writes all that stuff, and he's

1366
01:35:15.039 --> 01:35:18.680
been kind of having arguments with some
fanboys all this past week, being like,

1367
01:35:18.720 --> 01:35:23.920
guys, it's just the two thousand
and eight dynamics of selling consoles are

1368
01:35:23.960 --> 01:35:28.079
gone, and they're gone for good, and no one's really thinking that way

1369
01:35:28.079 --> 01:35:30.119
that works at these companies in any
leadership role. They're not thinking about,

1370
01:35:30.159 --> 01:35:33.800
Oh, the future is okay,
we sold one hundred and forty million PS

1371
01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:38.159
fours or whatever. Now we're going
to sell two hundred million PS five it's

1372
01:35:38.199 --> 01:35:40.840
like, no, we're going to
sell about as many PS fours or maybe

1373
01:35:40.840 --> 01:35:44.560
even fewer. And if your audience
is shrinking, how are you going to

1374
01:35:44.600 --> 01:35:47.840
make more money as you are mandated
to do to keep your investors happy?

1375
01:35:48.319 --> 01:35:51.800
What's the future here? I don't
think they'd have any inkling of what the

1376
01:35:51.800 --> 01:35:57.640
future is because any like in retrospect
now, looking at any story to come

1377
01:35:57.680 --> 01:36:02.159
out of PlayStation Sony whatever, it
just feels like absolute bullshit to just try

1378
01:36:02.199 --> 01:36:06.800
and turn a quick buck. Like
I thought it was cool that the PSBR

1379
01:36:06.840 --> 01:36:11.319
two they were trying to get it
to work with PCs and thinking like,

1380
01:36:11.399 --> 01:36:15.239
oh, whatever possibilities that could open
up, But now just like, oh,

1381
01:36:15.439 --> 01:36:18.159
it's because you're getting rid of that
studio, one of the most more

1382
01:36:18.199 --> 01:36:23.199
innovative studios that were supporting that uh
piece, and you're not gonna make any

1383
01:36:23.199 --> 01:36:25.920
other games for it. Yeah,
And now like I'm thinking about like the

1384
01:36:25.920 --> 01:36:30.319
PlayStation Portal and like how half baked
that fucking shit is, And it just

1385
01:36:30.359 --> 01:36:35.039
happens to keep selling out for whatever
reason. I don't know, I still

1386
01:36:35.159 --> 01:36:42.279
very many of them. May I
guess that scarcity is leading to profits there?

1387
01:36:42.319 --> 01:36:45.600
It just seems like no one knows
what they're fucking doing, and I

1388
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:48.159
just don't know when the shoe is
gonna drop. M Well, I mean

1389
01:36:49.359 --> 01:36:55.520
like on a long enough timeline,
Like you just can't keep firing everyone and

1390
01:36:55.560 --> 01:36:58.960
expect people to spend money on your
thing. Like if no one is employed

1391
01:36:59.199 --> 01:37:04.520
and you the disparity between the highest
uh wealth owners and the people who have

1392
01:37:04.600 --> 01:37:11.479
nothing, you are eliminating the people
right Like I don't. We're just not

1393
01:37:11.520 --> 01:37:16.399
on a very sustainable trajectory. Games. Yeah, I don't want to consume.

1394
01:37:17.680 --> 01:37:24.079
Yeah, I mean I was gonna
say, uh, brom there Dad,

1395
01:37:24.239 --> 01:37:29.239
No, I'm kidding. I think
chance of realization that he that the

1396
01:37:29.319 --> 01:37:34.439
call is coming from inside the jan
house, Hi capitalism. Uh. They

1397
01:37:34.479 --> 01:37:38.600
know that they need to do more
PC ports like Day and Date That helped

1398
01:37:38.600 --> 01:37:41.640
of held Diverse too. That seems
to be the stress in their last financial

1399
01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:44.439
report a year or two later.
People just kind of don't care as much.

1400
01:37:45.079 --> 01:37:49.119
I think both Microsoft Dancing Microsoft Lague
has kind of tried this. They

1401
01:37:49.159 --> 01:37:54.520
got to find a way to make
smaller games and still have their audiences care

1402
01:37:54.640 --> 01:37:57.840
about them. They gotta have a
way to get fifty million dollar games or

1403
01:37:57.920 --> 01:38:00.680
less or even more. But you
can't only have games that cost two hundred

1404
01:38:00.760 --> 01:38:05.039
million dollars or more and take seven
to eight years or more be the only

1405
01:38:05.159 --> 01:38:11.079
games that excite people because they are
just gonna be so few of those.

1406
01:38:11.239 --> 01:38:14.760
I get. I know that things
are gonna take longer and take more money

1407
01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:16.399
to make, but I just can't
believe we went from like a Naughty Dog

1408
01:38:16.800 --> 01:38:21.960
making four big, huge games on
the PlayStation three to now we're gonna get

1409
01:38:23.159 --> 01:38:27.359
one real game of generation from them. That's just not gonna be enough.

1410
01:38:27.399 --> 01:38:31.439
For how much that you depend on
something like a Naughty Dog, something has

1411
01:38:31.479 --> 01:38:35.840
to change, and something fundamentally on
how we're approaching the whole process here.

1412
01:38:36.199 --> 01:38:41.279
And the reality is it's like it's
gonna change with them or without them,

1413
01:38:41.359 --> 01:38:45.920
right, because at a certain point
people will grow to learn that. It's

1414
01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:48.359
like, Okay, yeah, I
really like it when naughty Dog puts out

1415
01:38:48.359 --> 01:38:53.479
a game. Those are my kinds
of games. But I like, if

1416
01:38:53.520 --> 01:38:57.840
I start looking forward to only those
games like that is like not to be

1417
01:38:57.880 --> 01:39:01.239
grim five more maybe in the rest
of my life, Like that's weird to

1418
01:39:01.279 --> 01:39:04.760
think about that. But so what
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start looking

1419
01:39:04.800 --> 01:39:10.119
to other places for my games,
and if I can't if that's like readily

1420
01:39:10.119 --> 01:39:13.720
available to me and like interesting stuff's
happening on other platforms, people are gonna

1421
01:39:13.720 --> 01:39:18.399
start looking away. And I think
that Obviously, third parties in indie studios

1422
01:39:18.520 --> 01:39:24.720
make games on consoles, but these
companies finding ways to facilitate that and make

1423
01:39:24.760 --> 01:39:27.840
that a bigger thing. Obviously,
Hell Divers two is working on PlayStation,

1424
01:39:27.880 --> 01:39:30.279
but it's working even more on PC. And maybe that's just because it's a

1425
01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:32.880
game that appeals to PC players.
I don't know, but it's like this,

1426
01:39:33.000 --> 01:39:35.159
these are the kinds of lessons that
need to learn. How do you

1427
01:39:35.920 --> 01:39:41.600
enable and empower other studios to do
things that fill in these gaps frequently and

1428
01:39:41.680 --> 01:39:44.640
often and make that the norm,
make it feel like, hey, we

1429
01:39:44.680 --> 01:39:47.000
show up to this console to play
all kinds of stuff and not just the

1430
01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:50.720
biggest games. And I really I
don't know if the answer is because at

1431
01:39:50.720 --> 01:39:56.680
a certain point video gaming was built
on this foundation of the thing we're all

1432
01:39:56.680 --> 01:39:59.840
most excited for is the thing that
looks the best does look the most expensive,

1433
01:40:00.159 --> 01:40:01.760
and it's like we just got to
maybe get over this hump of like,

1434
01:40:01.800 --> 01:40:03.920
okay, well they look about as
good as they're going to look.

1435
01:40:04.119 --> 01:40:08.840
The barrier for a long time was
the GPU. It was how powerful the

1436
01:40:08.840 --> 01:40:11.720
system was, and now it's how
much time and money you have. So

1437
01:40:12.079 --> 01:40:15.439
just by the nature of that,
like by physics, well, if you

1438
01:40:15.479 --> 01:40:17.600
spend more time and more money,
it's going to look better than than the

1439
01:40:17.680 --> 01:40:20.239
Joneses down the street. And so
you got to spend more time and more

1440
01:40:20.279 --> 01:40:24.239
money. It's like, oh,
okay, well we need to actually think

1441
01:40:24.239 --> 01:40:28.239
about that and criticize that and understand
it and maybe get ourselves off that path

1442
01:40:28.399 --> 01:40:31.479
because that leads to the path of
unsustainability, something we've been talking about for

1443
01:40:31.560 --> 01:40:34.720
years and now here we are.
This is the end result we've been talking

1444
01:40:34.720 --> 01:40:39.399
about. Grand Theft Auto six comes
out next year, and it's going to

1445
01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:43.880
be this game made with more money
and more time than anybody else can afford.

1446
01:40:43.960 --> 01:40:46.199
It's not like, oh wow,
we're here now with video games,

1447
01:40:46.199 --> 01:40:48.840
this is what we expect going forward. No, it's going to be an

1448
01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:53.640
anomaly now and we're gonna have to
maybe accept like, yeah, maybe there's

1449
01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:59.520
two or three game series that can
afford to do that anymore, if maybe

1450
01:40:59.520 --> 01:41:03.680
two of them are like the Last
of Us and whatever they're working on at

1451
01:41:03.760 --> 01:41:08.159
rock Star. But Yeah, we
can't. We can't be doing this forever

1452
01:41:08.239 --> 01:41:14.039
anymore. I want these big companies
to know I don't give a shit about

1453
01:41:14.119 --> 01:41:19.880
puddles, right, I don't fucking
care. Just just yeah. I feel

1454
01:41:19.880 --> 01:41:25.159
like the games that I've wound up
glombing onto and just thinking like, wow,

1455
01:41:25.239 --> 01:41:30.720
this is a real uh good use
of technology is like more stylistic shit.

1456
01:41:30.800 --> 01:41:33.159
I don't need shit to look real. I don't want to see Peter

1457
01:41:33.279 --> 01:41:38.720
Parker's creepy smiling face. Just put
that fucking mass back on him. Mm

1458
01:41:38.800 --> 01:41:41.640
hmm. Yeah. Let me.
Let me choose one of the suits that

1459
01:41:41.680 --> 01:41:45.079
looks like a cartoon character, which
I play as the entire time I'm playing

1460
01:41:45.079 --> 01:41:46.720
that game because I don't care.
Or he maybe make a really expensive Spider

1461
01:41:46.720 --> 01:41:51.039
Man game and have it be a
giant success, huge hit, and then

1462
01:41:51.199 --> 01:41:54.920
have a bunch of people laid off. Anyways, I don't even know iron.

1463
01:41:55.079 --> 01:41:58.000
That could never happen. That's how
it works. It's a meritocracy we

1464
01:41:58.079 --> 01:42:00.399
live in. If you make something
good, you can reward. Yeah,

1465
01:42:00.439 --> 01:42:05.279
that's exactly it. Yeah. And
then yeah, Jim Ryan is leaving.

1466
01:42:05.840 --> 01:42:10.039
It did seem like he was He
knew all this was coming. He's the

1467
01:42:10.039 --> 01:42:13.239
own sense. He announced his retirement
that they were looking at their financials,

1468
01:42:13.319 --> 01:42:15.560
they were looking at the outlook of
how long it's going to take to make

1469
01:42:15.600 --> 01:42:18.520
these games. He was looking at
like the release schedule, and knew they

1470
01:42:18.600 --> 01:42:20.680
we were going to have to say
stuff like we are not going to have

1471
01:42:20.760 --> 01:42:26.359
any franchise Triple A games released in
the entire fiscal year that ends in March

1472
01:42:26.399 --> 01:42:30.439
twenty twenty five. And those are
a bunch of problems that no one knows

1473
01:42:30.439 --> 01:42:32.239
how to solve, let alone Jim
Ryan. And so he got out.

1474
01:42:32.319 --> 01:42:34.760
But you're right, this is,
like I mean, at the very least,

1475
01:42:34.760 --> 01:42:38.560
he did write the blog post about
this, so he did like take

1476
01:42:38.600 --> 01:42:40.760
some ownership of it, so he's
going to be associated with that. But

1477
01:42:40.800 --> 01:42:45.119
who the fuck does that help?
No one. I hope everyone affected here

1478
01:42:45.479 --> 01:42:47.680
is lands on their feet. The
industry seems real rough. If people are

1479
01:42:47.760 --> 01:42:51.119
done with games and want to like
leave and go work in like, you

1480
01:42:51.119 --> 01:42:55.560
know, finance, I don't blame
them. I totally understand, and I

1481
01:42:55.600 --> 01:42:59.720
hope that they I hope the industry
misses them because we probably will. We'll

1482
01:42:59.720 --> 01:43:00.800
probably to get it like down the
line, like why aren't these games as

1483
01:43:00.800 --> 01:43:03.640
good as they used to be and
say, well, some people with like

1484
01:43:03.680 --> 01:43:06.800
really special knowledge left the industry because
of a bunch of layoffs in twenty twenty

1485
01:43:06.800 --> 01:43:12.960
four and twenty twenty three, So
we don't deserve them if we can't keep

1486
01:43:13.000 --> 01:43:17.640
them employed after making awesome game after
awesome game, it sucks, all right.

1487
01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:23.159
Moving on, There was a Pokemon
Direct earlier this morning. You guys

1488
01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:25.840
got up at Mike. You were
there, bright eyed and bushy tailed.

1489
01:43:26.119 --> 01:43:30.000
Jan you were also there. Yeah, I was, I was, I

1490
01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:34.359
was there. You were there.
They made some announcements. I wrote down

1491
01:43:34.399 --> 01:43:38.000
a couple of things. Guys,
I only understood half of what was going

1492
01:43:38.039 --> 01:43:40.720
on. Yeah, well you were
in the woods, is why you know.

1493
01:43:40.760 --> 01:43:44.359
I was in I was literally skipping
through the woods while this was happening.

1494
01:43:44.920 --> 01:43:49.159
Pokemon Go added new Paldean Pokemon with
horizons. Event they keep adding Pokemon

1495
01:43:49.199 --> 01:43:54.000
from the other games. This is
just them coming from which this is Sprigetito

1496
01:43:54.079 --> 01:43:57.680
and Fuake Coco. Which jen is
that from? I can never remember the

1497
01:43:57.760 --> 01:44:00.920
newest one. Yeah, I think
that that's the newest one. That's scarlettle

1498
01:44:00.960 --> 01:44:04.520
Violet. Yeah, let's see.
Yeah, this is gonna be happening pretty

1499
01:44:04.560 --> 01:44:08.479
soon. I think they said it's
uh. March fifth to March eleventh is

1500
01:44:08.520 --> 01:44:13.119
the event that coincides with the series
premiere of the new anime launching on Netflix

1501
01:44:13.119 --> 01:44:18.000
in North America on March eighth.
Then, the Pokemon trading trading card game

1502
01:44:18.119 --> 01:44:24.119
Pocket was announced for mobile devices.
There's already a way to play this game

1503
01:44:24.159 --> 01:44:29.000
on mobile, and I'll PC with
TCG Live. I think it's called uh,

1504
01:44:29.119 --> 01:44:32.840
this is not that, but it's
still basically that I don't understand.

1505
01:44:32.840 --> 01:44:38.279
What is this? Yeah, so
that other game is just made by the

1506
01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:43.039
Pokemon uh you know company. Yeah, and this yeah, this one like

1507
01:44:43.119 --> 01:44:46.800
has other involved Yeah, DNA,
some people actually know how to make mobile

1508
01:44:46.840 --> 01:44:51.079
games and creatures. So it looks
a lot spiffier for mobile. It's got

1509
01:44:51.079 --> 01:44:55.359
this. Uh even just opening that
packs looks nice. Apparently you get two

1510
01:44:55.359 --> 01:44:58.479
free packs of day and then you
do play the game. But it's like

1511
01:44:58.520 --> 01:45:00.239
a trunk cadd version of the game, so it's meant to go faster.

1512
01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:04.920
So at first it was really confusing. I look at it more, I

1513
01:45:05.079 --> 01:45:10.760
kind of get it. I'm even
kind of intrigued a little bit, especially

1514
01:45:10.760 --> 01:45:14.159
if you do get two free packs
a day. Although Sean explained it as

1515
01:45:14.199 --> 01:45:18.039
this is like dual links to tg
tcg's Live Master Duel and I don't understand

1516
01:45:18.359 --> 01:45:24.319
that either. I can go ahead
and translate that please. Duel Links is

1517
01:45:24.359 --> 01:45:29.239
a streamlined version of Yu gi oh, so instead of five lanes, there's

1518
01:45:29.279 --> 01:45:31.880
only three, and from the trailer
it looked like that is the same case

1519
01:45:32.159 --> 01:45:40.520
for this Pokemon card game for mobile. I think part of the hesitation there

1520
01:45:40.720 --> 01:45:45.479
is that folks that went all the
way in on that existing game have an

1521
01:45:45.520 --> 01:45:53.479
existing inventory. Uh just you know, just a generic folks. Who could

1522
01:45:53.479 --> 01:45:59.840
it be huh mister consumer him?
Did I go on eBay and perhaps buy

1523
01:45:59.880 --> 01:46:04.159
a bunch of Pokemon card codes to
flesh out my digital library? Yes,

1524
01:46:04.720 --> 01:46:09.439
yeah, I do, certainly.
Okay, we don't need to slut shame

1525
01:46:09.479 --> 01:46:12.680
me right now. All right,
I was gone for the pod last week.

1526
01:46:13.159 --> 01:46:16.119
Just let me have this, Okay. So I think there's a little

1527
01:46:16.119 --> 01:46:19.800
bit of hesitation there of like,
all right, does that card library carry

1528
01:46:19.840 --> 01:46:26.079
over? And then because of the
nature of anything mobile, God, I

1529
01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:30.800
can just feel them charging so much
for like, all right, you want

1530
01:46:30.800 --> 01:46:35.439
to open another park today? And
then just seeing how whatever ladder that's gonna

1531
01:46:35.439 --> 01:46:42.800
look like. God, yeah,
I saw that video. That's bad.

1532
01:46:42.840 --> 01:46:46.359
That's bad news. They're coming for
you now, they're trying to. They're

1533
01:46:46.359 --> 01:46:50.680
trying to. Luckily I've thrown my
phone out the window. Yeah, that's

1534
01:46:50.680 --> 01:46:53.880
the only thing you can do.
That's the only thing that works and can

1535
01:46:53.960 --> 01:46:57.520
keep you safe. So you're probably
gonna be fine now. Yeah. And

1536
01:46:57.560 --> 01:47:04.439
then there's Pokemon Legends Zadasha zaw Hot. So that did get me laughing,

1537
01:47:04.479 --> 01:47:10.960
Mike when I was on my walk
when you started as that's announced for Switch

1538
01:47:11.039 --> 01:47:13.960
it's releasing in twenty twenty five.
Kind of nuts or switch or was a

1539
01:47:14.000 --> 01:47:16.880
Switch logo? Man, there's a
bunch of things about this I find interesting.

1540
01:47:17.000 --> 01:47:20.960
I thought Legends was possible. I
thought just a remake was more likely,

1541
01:47:21.640 --> 01:47:25.720
But man, I was right.
What is this like when you say

1542
01:47:25.760 --> 01:47:29.279
like you were expecting the Legends,
is this just going to be Legends archaist

1543
01:47:29.399 --> 01:47:31.239
like the game I played and really
liked. I think So it seems like

1544
01:47:31.279 --> 01:47:36.000
there might might be some kind of
city building or management system in it.

1545
01:47:36.119 --> 01:47:43.600
So this one is set in that
region that looks like Paris from the X

1546
01:47:43.680 --> 01:47:46.960
and Y game Lumio City. Yeah, will Yeah, So it's just Paris

1547
01:47:46.960 --> 01:47:50.399
and there's like a blueprint in all
this stuff, right, But they're using

1548
01:47:50.520 --> 01:47:54.319
the Legends tag, and unless the
Legends tag is just someth time they're going

1549
01:47:54.359 --> 01:47:58.960
to do for anything experimental, I
assume there is still that loop that I

1550
01:47:59.000 --> 01:48:01.319
really liked in Legend is Archaeus,
where you you know, it's open world

1551
01:48:01.319 --> 01:48:05.840
but kind of streamlined in this pleasant
way. I hope that's still a part

1552
01:48:05.880 --> 01:48:11.479
of it. If it's just like
we're making a city builder, gosh oh.

1553
01:48:11.720 --> 01:48:14.319
Sean says that there was a quote
that it takes place all in Lumia

1554
01:48:14.439 --> 01:48:15.680
City. I mean, it is
a big city, but yeah, what

1555
01:48:15.760 --> 01:48:19.520
the hell does that mean? Because
that just sounds inherently like a very different

1556
01:48:19.680 --> 01:48:24.319
the urban Pokemon. Hell yeah,
let's get some of those. I mean,

1557
01:48:24.279 --> 01:48:28.000
in comparison, like Legends Archius was
what feudal ish Japan, it was

1558
01:48:28.039 --> 01:48:30.159
like yeah, yeah, yeah,
it was an isa Kai right in.

1559
01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:35.079
Yeah, big like but like open
undeveloped areas, so very different than what

1560
01:48:35.159 --> 01:48:42.279
this almost can be. But also
a dense city. God. I saw

1561
01:48:42.359 --> 01:48:45.840
the towns in Scarlet and Violet.
I was not impressed. Uh. And

1562
01:48:45.880 --> 01:48:49.000
that's the other component here. If
I thought whatever they were going to show

1563
01:48:49.039 --> 01:48:55.399
here was almost certainly going to be
something for the Switch this holiday because we

1564
01:48:55.479 --> 01:49:00.039
have no idea what the Switch is
getting this holiday because maybe we thought that,

1565
01:49:00.159 --> 01:49:03.399
you know, originally that was when
I switched. It was probably supposed

1566
01:49:03.439 --> 01:49:06.880
to launch, So you need something
for the Switch, I figured a Pokemon

1567
01:49:06.960 --> 01:49:11.199
game. Maybe no, because this
is coming twenty twenty five. So is

1568
01:49:11.199 --> 01:49:14.479
that because it always was? Is
that because this was always meant to be

1569
01:49:14.520 --> 01:49:18.239
a switch to game? So it's
getting pushed back with the console. I

1570
01:49:18.279 --> 01:49:20.960
don't know. But either way,
boy, what is the Switch going to

1571
01:49:21.039 --> 01:49:25.279
get this holiday? Well? This
is this is? Uh? Is this

1572
01:49:25.359 --> 01:49:29.520
supposed to be a different team than
the team that worked on Scarlet and Violet?

1573
01:49:29.800 --> 01:49:31.399
Like this is the same Legends Archaist
team. It would assume this is

1574
01:49:31.479 --> 01:49:34.359
just what the Archaist team went to
work on right after that, right,

1575
01:49:34.840 --> 01:49:41.399
So I hope they had a little
bit of time in between releases to make

1576
01:49:42.000 --> 01:49:45.119
something. Archaist wasn't that long ago, though, jan that was early twenty

1577
01:49:45.159 --> 01:49:50.600
twenty two. Was not long ago? Why? Two? It was early

1578
01:49:50.640 --> 01:49:59.239
twenty twenty two, very old.
My guts hurt? Okay, I had

1579
01:49:59.239 --> 01:50:02.439
an epiphan Yeah, what was your
realization? All right? At the end

1580
01:50:02.439 --> 01:50:08.079
of the Pokemon Direct earlier, I
asked the panel of Nikki, Sean,

1581
01:50:08.239 --> 01:50:13.039
and Mike who they thought the starters
would be in Legends. Za, uh,

1582
01:50:13.359 --> 01:50:18.720
legendsa legend, Legends, it's the
more powerful Legends. Yeah, because

1583
01:50:18.760 --> 01:50:25.079
we had different starters for Legends Archias. If this is going to take place

1584
01:50:25.079 --> 01:50:30.399
in Lumo City, which is Mike
Generation six or uh, yes, that's

1585
01:50:30.439 --> 01:50:35.439
right. See red and blue,
gold and silver, ruby, sapphire,

1586
01:50:35.640 --> 01:50:40.319
diamond, pearl, black and white, X and Y six okay six,

1587
01:50:40.800 --> 01:50:46.079
And probably the most popular starter out
of Gen six is froky To Greninja.

1588
01:50:47.159 --> 01:50:53.319
You are going to have a Parisian
Greninja that uses his tongue as like a

1589
01:50:53.359 --> 01:50:59.119
fancy Paris scarf. He's going to
have a little an ascot an ascot.

1590
01:50:59.239 --> 01:51:01.039
Yes, yes, oh my god, I'm calling it now. And if

1591
01:51:01.039 --> 01:51:05.079
it doesn't happen, well, Pokemon
fucked up. They should have cut the

1592
01:51:05.159 --> 01:51:09.000
check to the pro conceiving. Yeah. Well I'm speaking of fucking up.

1593
01:51:09.079 --> 01:51:13.760
Like Sean's suggesting that maybe this a
Legends Moniker that we assumed would mean a

1594
01:51:13.840 --> 01:51:16.880
game that is like Archias every time, like I guess a little bit more

1595
01:51:16.880 --> 01:51:20.840
like Monster Hunter, he said,
might not mean that at all, and

1596
01:51:20.880 --> 01:51:24.840
maybe it's just any time they put
a game into the far past, and

1597
01:51:24.880 --> 01:51:28.399
it could be any kind of game, and if they're doing that, they

1598
01:51:28.439 --> 01:51:31.600
have messed up. That is like
the wrong thing to do. That is

1599
01:51:31.720 --> 01:51:35.479
not what anyone wants. You can
put games in the past, who cares.

1600
01:51:35.840 --> 01:51:41.239
But the whole thing, we weren't
excited about Legends Archaius because it took

1601
01:51:41.279 --> 01:51:44.840
place in the past. Are you
crazy? What are you talking about?

1602
01:51:45.479 --> 01:51:48.600
Right? There's a yeah, there's
a few weirdnesses there. I'm still weird

1603
01:51:48.600 --> 01:51:53.640
about that. We just skipped the
Black and White generation, which is a

1604
01:51:53.680 --> 01:51:58.319
lot of people's favorite. It's a
beloved one to kind of lead even they

1605
01:51:58.399 --> 01:52:00.399
know that they would mess that up
and it would be bad. Hopefully,

1606
01:52:00.880 --> 01:52:04.479
hopefully Black and White remakes are still
coming, I guess even later. But

1607
01:52:04.479 --> 01:52:06.640
I don't know. Maybe maybe this
is a me thing. I did not

1608
01:52:06.760 --> 01:52:10.680
like X and Y. Nothing wrong
with the setting, I guess. So

1609
01:52:10.680 --> 01:52:14.560
if you're just using that setting,
it's a new game, fine, whatever.

1610
01:52:14.640 --> 01:52:15.800
Oh so what is with this name? I know we're making fun of

1611
01:52:15.800 --> 01:52:20.039
it because at first it just said
Boogeymon Legends Z and that was cool because

1612
01:52:20.079 --> 01:52:24.920
we never got like the Z version
component to X and Y and then they

1613
01:52:24.920 --> 01:52:30.399
had to go and fuck it up
with this dash a bullshit and the other

1614
01:52:30.920 --> 01:52:32.920
how do you say it? Is
it Pokemon? You're supposed to say Pokemon

1615
01:52:33.079 --> 01:52:39.359
z dash A. I don't know. Well weird. The other component here

1616
01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:45.000
that I know that Mikey's not a
big fan of is seemingly mega evolutions have

1617
01:52:45.079 --> 01:52:58.319
returned. Legends are legends? Are
tab of the hut dye are melting?

1618
01:52:58.800 --> 01:53:04.479
Had uh fudged with with the meta
in such an interesting way, and I

1619
01:53:04.560 --> 01:53:09.560
feel like I just wrapped my head
around terrastrializations. Then now I got to

1620
01:53:09.600 --> 01:53:14.119
remember all this fucking mega evolutions shit
now uh pokemons. I mean, this

1621
01:53:14.239 --> 01:53:15.920
is not gonna be a revelation to
anybody, But Pokemon's definitely in that state

1622
01:53:15.960 --> 01:53:18.600
where Zelda was, where it's like
here, here's Zelda again, but we

1623
01:53:18.680 --> 01:53:23.840
got a new gimmick, and it's
like Pokemon's over and over again. Yes,

1624
01:53:24.000 --> 01:53:27.239
it's been that for a lot in
that loop. I would rather have

1625
01:53:27.720 --> 01:53:35.159
a two D game where Pekachus is
going excuse me, because that'd be exponentially

1626
01:53:35.239 --> 01:53:39.079
more interesting than a lot of I
guess it is a little bit. Maybe

1627
01:53:39.079 --> 01:53:41.560
it's a relief that they're like,
listen, we're not going to try another

1628
01:53:41.720 --> 01:53:44.720
new one. We'll just go back
to the gimmick that people seem to like

1629
01:53:44.760 --> 01:53:47.760
the most, which is megas.
I guess yeah, that that is definitely

1630
01:53:47.800 --> 01:53:50.560
the most popular game, and I
am in the minority for not liking that

1631
01:53:50.640 --> 01:53:55.479
one, and that's fine. I
just I don't like all those gimmicks where

1632
01:53:55.479 --> 01:53:58.680
it's just like some button you push
once per battle and watch an overly long

1633
01:53:58.800 --> 01:54:01.840
but still not all that extra and
cut scene for some temporary power boost.

1634
01:54:01.960 --> 01:54:05.359
Like I get it that we had
to find a way to make abilities that

1635
01:54:05.479 --> 01:54:09.479
just increase your stats exciting, so
we just kind of had to give it

1636
01:54:09.560 --> 01:54:13.000
this visual flare. But it's just
a lot of it's a lot of busyness

1637
01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:15.560
to me. And again, I
think because when they first announced, I

1638
01:54:15.640 --> 01:54:18.000
was like, oh, that's cool, I'll be able to evolve my charizard

1639
01:54:18.399 --> 01:54:23.600
to a fourth tier and it's not
actual dragon fine, right, And it's

1640
01:54:23.680 --> 01:54:28.359
not that it's like it's it's like
going super Saiyan instead for a little bit.

1641
01:54:29.199 --> 01:54:34.640
If anything, that I am interested
and excited for is kind of handpicking

1642
01:54:34.800 --> 01:54:40.359
specifically which pokemon are in this title, that we don't need all of them

1643
01:54:40.840 --> 01:54:43.640
because a lot of them are garbage. Some of them are literal garbage.

1644
01:54:43.840 --> 01:54:45.319
That's what it's nice about Legends.
I think like Legends kind of had a

1645
01:54:45.439 --> 01:54:49.439
small ish Pokadex. Really there's a
lot about Legs that worked for me is

1646
01:54:49.479 --> 01:54:54.279
that it kind of rained a lot
of things in it streamline things in a

1647
01:54:54.359 --> 01:54:58.680
pleasant way. Like I liked actually
just capturing Pokemon by literally just sneaking up

1648
01:54:58.720 --> 01:55:00.760
on them and throwing a ball at
I'm more like the anime. I was

1649
01:55:00.760 --> 01:55:03.520
like, yeah, I don't actually
need to get into a battle with everybody

1650
01:55:03.600 --> 01:55:09.359
and like make sure I have the
false wipe TM on some trash Pokemon and

1651
01:55:09.479 --> 01:55:13.800
do that whole rigamaro. No,
that's fine. Uh look, Let's Go

1652
01:55:14.000 --> 01:55:15.439
games kind of have you on board
with that, Like, actually, this

1653
01:55:15.560 --> 01:55:18.600
is just how I want to catch
Pokemon. Now, let's fine. I

1654
01:55:19.159 --> 01:55:24.359
still maintained that the Let's Go games
were probably some of the stronger, more

1655
01:55:24.399 --> 01:55:28.000
recent Pokemon games. I am a
little surprised Let's Go we're like the first

1656
01:55:28.039 --> 01:55:31.119
switch Pokemon games. I'm a little
surprised we're going back to Legends before getting

1657
01:55:31.239 --> 01:55:34.359
Let's Go Another agree, I thought
that's why if I had to put money

1658
01:55:34.399 --> 01:55:36.399
on it beforehand, I'm like,
well, we're gonna get anything that's not

1659
01:55:38.039 --> 01:55:41.439
something to do with black and white
remake. We could probably get a Let's

1660
01:55:41.439 --> 01:55:44.039
Go, especially since you obviously just
do it with the you know, gold

1661
01:55:44.079 --> 01:55:47.119
Silver generation, which again, yeah, one of the most beloved generations,

1662
01:55:47.159 --> 01:55:50.399
So you just do Let's Go Togapi
or whatever. It seems like that would

1663
01:55:50.439 --> 01:55:54.399
do well. Yeah, if they
didn't want to split the versions again,

1664
01:55:54.439 --> 01:55:58.720
because there's no clear mascot other than
Toga p and I don't know, Mayroll,

1665
01:55:59.520 --> 01:56:02.760
maybe you could just still jo too. Yeah, that'd Beeple point out

1666
01:56:02.760 --> 01:56:06.520
that it was the Let's Go games
where a byproduct up ghost popularity, and

1667
01:56:06.600 --> 01:56:10.720
I'm sure that was the case,
but I think that there's still like maybe

1668
01:56:10.720 --> 01:56:13.239
you know, to call them Let's
Go, maybe do something else with them,

1669
01:56:13.319 --> 01:56:15.840
but having the simpleized version of I
like Let's Go, I would be

1670
01:56:15.880 --> 01:56:18.119
fine with it. And I as
much as I know they were associated with

1671
01:56:18.279 --> 01:56:23.079
the Pokemon Go, in my mind
they stand alone. Yeah. I never

1672
01:56:23.199 --> 01:56:30.399
even I don't really even associate them
personally myself. All right, I guess

1673
01:56:30.479 --> 01:56:31.880
the only the last thing to talk
about before we move on from this is

1674
01:56:32.159 --> 01:56:38.319
this was announced for twenty twenty five, not twenty twenty four. I don't

1675
01:56:38.319 --> 01:56:42.439
think they put a finer date on
it than twenty twenty five, but they

1676
01:56:42.520 --> 01:56:45.720
did have a logo for the Nintendo
Switch on it. This probably is also

1677
01:56:45.960 --> 01:56:49.239
like a big deal switch To launch
game. Right, So there was another

1678
01:56:49.279 --> 01:56:55.600
tweet. I believe it's by the
state side Pokemon company that didn't explicitly say

1679
01:56:55.720 --> 01:57:00.439
Nintendo Switch in their their copy.
They said platforms. I believe, yeah,

1680
01:57:00.520 --> 01:57:02.159
I mean, I think they're being
coy about this for a reason.

1681
01:57:02.680 --> 01:57:08.960
It seems like this game is lining
up for Switch systems broadly, and it

1682
01:57:09.000 --> 01:57:13.560
will be something that is mostly associated
with switch to probably will and if this

1683
01:57:13.720 --> 01:57:16.640
is on switch To it there's gotta
be some kind of bump in fidelity.

1684
01:57:16.760 --> 01:57:19.399
I know. I just went on
this huge ramp about, like this huge

1685
01:57:19.479 --> 01:57:24.680
rant on Sony chasing that fidelity dragon. That's the true poking about company about

1686
01:57:24.680 --> 01:57:29.000
companies their own case. He's a
little bit of that dragon. I think

1687
01:57:29.199 --> 01:57:33.199
just a smidge like this can't come
out and look a bit better than Scarlet

1688
01:57:33.479 --> 01:57:40.319
and Violet. Right, there's gotta
be a pretty decent leap here, all

1689
01:57:40.439 --> 01:57:45.359
right. Bravely Default producer teases an
announcement for later this year. Uh,

1690
01:57:45.479 --> 01:57:49.359
the producer of the Bravely series to
Moya Asano has hinted at a new announcement

1691
01:57:49.439 --> 01:57:54.720
later this year in celebration of the
third anniversary of Bravely Default two, basically

1692
01:57:54.920 --> 01:57:58.600
celebrating Bravey Hey. Braveley Default two
is three years old, and basically said

1693
01:57:58.880 --> 01:58:01.119
he in twenty twenty four. We
will have more news coming up soon.

1694
01:58:02.359 --> 01:58:04.680
Mike, I know you like the
Braveley Default games to a point. Are

1695
01:58:04.720 --> 01:58:09.239
you excited about the three? Do
you think that's what's happening here? If

1696
01:58:09.239 --> 01:58:12.239
I had a guess, I think
maybe they're gonna bring Braveley Default one and

1697
01:58:12.359 --> 01:58:15.920
maybe Bravely Second to the Switch,
honestly, which would be nice. Yeah,

1698
01:58:15.960 --> 01:58:19.439
Braley Default's weird for me because I
love Bravely Default. I even really

1699
01:58:19.600 --> 01:58:25.520
liked Bravely Second, and then for
some reason, Bradley Default two did like

1700
01:58:25.800 --> 01:58:29.079
nothing for me, and I have
no idea why. I don't know why

1701
01:58:29.159 --> 01:58:32.840
it felt that different to me.
But yeah, it might be a new

1702
01:58:32.880 --> 01:58:35.720
game. But you know, it's
almost kind of surprising that we haven't had

1703
01:58:35.760 --> 01:58:39.600
those games ported over to Switch yet, right to those original ones. A

1704
01:58:39.680 --> 01:58:43.359
lot of the popular three guest games, especially ones that don't really depend on

1705
01:58:43.520 --> 01:58:47.279
touch screen gimmicks or three D gimmicks, and Braveley default doesn'ts on either end.

1706
01:58:48.199 --> 01:58:54.680
It would be surprising if we didn't
get parts of those eventually. Let's

1707
01:58:54.760 --> 01:59:00.680
see PlayStation Portal surpassed Sony's expectations.
This is from Tony Steve been Totello,

1708
01:59:00.840 --> 01:59:10.479
not Tony stee Tillo Steven game File, uh gaming's most Italian reporter. UH

1709
01:59:10.680 --> 01:59:14.159
Sony's unusual. Well, I'm sorry, Mike didn't mean to put you down

1710
01:59:14.199 --> 01:59:18.000
like that. Uh. Sony's unusual
and perpetually sold out new handheld gaming device.

1711
01:59:18.039 --> 01:59:21.560
The PlayStation portal is hot, hotter
than the company thought it would be.

1712
01:59:21.960 --> 01:59:25.600
Although we don't have any numbers to
share, the demand has continued to

1713
01:59:25.680 --> 01:59:30.840
exceed our expectations. Play PlayStation's VP
of Product Management, Hiromi Wakai recently told

1714
01:59:30.880 --> 01:59:35.359
Steven Totolo the portal has been sold
out for the last couple of months pretty

1715
01:59:35.439 --> 01:59:39.319
much NonStop. People would like WARDO
sixty four. I'd be like, hey,

1716
01:59:39.359 --> 01:59:43.159
it's available now, and then it
sells out in seconds. So PlayStations

1717
01:59:43.199 --> 01:59:45.600
like, yeah, way more people
thought won it than we thought would,

1718
01:59:45.840 --> 01:59:49.079
So it's exceeding our expectations that doesn't
mean it's some like huge, massive success,

1719
01:59:49.680 --> 01:59:54.439
uh Sirkana the map is Katello thing
we were talking about earlier. He

1720
01:59:54.520 --> 01:59:59.039
put out the results from January and
they moved the PlayStation portal from hardware over

1721
01:59:59.119 --> 02:00:02.319
to accessories because basically as a PlayStation
five accessory, and it was the fifth

1722
02:00:02.399 --> 02:00:08.199
best selling accessory of the month,
he said, whereas like the PlayStation dual

1723
02:00:08.279 --> 02:00:11.800
Sense Edge, that two hundred dollars
controller was the number one in terms of

1724
02:00:11.840 --> 02:00:14.880
dollar sales. This was fifth in
terms of dollar sales. So a two

1725
02:00:14.920 --> 02:00:17.840
hundred dollar controller for the PS five
still selling better than this two hundred dollar

1726
02:00:17.880 --> 02:00:21.640
controller with a screen on it,
and then there's like four other things selling

1727
02:00:21.720 --> 02:00:27.399
better than this, So that seems
to come down to supply. Like PlayStation

1728
02:00:27.479 --> 02:00:30.960
probably just didn't make a ton of
these things, but at the very least

1729
02:00:30.000 --> 02:00:32.520
seems like they could sell more if
they were to make more. So I

1730
02:00:32.560 --> 02:00:35.560
don't know, I'm just like not
going to get a portal at this point

1731
02:00:35.640 --> 02:00:39.720
because I am having such a good
time using the Steam Deck. Do any

1732
02:00:39.720 --> 02:00:42.119
of you guys have interest in a
portal? They have a portal, they

1733
02:00:42.159 --> 02:00:45.720
sent me one. I haven't really
used it a whole ton just because I

1734
02:00:45.840 --> 02:00:48.840
have so many other things to play
in that space, right, like Switch

1735
02:00:49.039 --> 02:00:54.880
or even on my Roger outline.
Now, I bet I bet Sony,

1736
02:00:54.920 --> 02:00:58.680
and I think Microsoft's the same thing. They both are just racing to figure

1737
02:00:58.720 --> 02:01:01.600
out a way to make actual portable
versions of their modern console. Yeah,

1738
02:01:01.680 --> 02:01:05.880
that probably can't happen, Well can't
probably doesn't happen until the next generation for

1739
02:01:05.960 --> 02:01:10.560
both companies, right, so they
can like make it fit into their their

1740
02:01:10.760 --> 02:01:14.319
hardware lineup their hardware stack. But
I think you're right. I think they're

1741
02:01:14.319 --> 02:01:17.279
both trying to get to that point
as quickly as possible. Uh, Pentiment,

1742
02:01:17.359 --> 02:01:20.079
this is a weird one. Pentament
somehow ran better on the PS five.

1743
02:01:20.279 --> 02:01:24.199
Not that this is a game that
matters how many frames per second you

1744
02:01:24.319 --> 02:01:27.600
get, but it ran out one
hundred and twenty frames per second on PS

1745
02:01:27.720 --> 02:01:30.439
five, And some people pointed out, Hey, that original thing, when

1746
02:01:30.479 --> 02:01:33.000
you like acquired Bethesda, you said
the games would be first or better or

1747
02:01:33.079 --> 02:01:38.680
best on on Xbox and here it's
only sixty frames per second and it's one

1748
02:01:38.720 --> 02:01:41.920
hundred and twenty frames per second on
PS five. Again, no one really

1749
02:01:42.000 --> 02:01:44.800
cared because they're like, it's Pentiment. But it's like why did this happen

1750
02:01:45.239 --> 02:01:46.960
really quickly? Josh Sawyer came out. Josh Sawyer is the director on that

1751
02:01:47.039 --> 02:01:49.640
game. He's like, this was
a bug as part of like basically as

1752
02:01:49.640 --> 02:01:53.199
part of putting this on PS five, we discovered it and we fixed it,

1753
02:01:53.439 --> 02:01:55.640
and now this is going to run
at one hundred and twenty frames per

1754
02:01:55.680 --> 02:01:59.239
second on the Xbox. But I
guess it's like people are like, well,

1755
02:01:59.279 --> 02:02:02.000
why didn't you notice before the PlayStation
Why did you need the PlayStation version

1756
02:02:02.039 --> 02:02:04.760
to figure this out? But I
don't know. There was a little bit

1757
02:02:04.760 --> 02:02:09.319
of a hubbabaloo about this. It's
not much. And look, I know,

1758
02:02:09.439 --> 02:02:13.039
I get real upset if something's in
thirty fps and not sixty fs,

1759
02:02:13.359 --> 02:02:16.079
but kind of past sixty fps,
I can't really tell that much. To

1760
02:02:16.159 --> 02:02:19.560
be your eyes don't work. I
mean, I get it now, Mike's

1761
02:02:19.600 --> 02:02:25.840
right, like, I think ninety
frames per second, I'm still like noticing

1762
02:02:25.920 --> 02:02:29.800
it. I'm realizing like on the
handhelds when I'm using those, but you're

1763
02:02:29.800 --> 02:02:32.800
write anything above that it is huge
diminishing returns. I just think it's funny

1764
02:02:32.800 --> 02:02:36.399
that they're like, yeah, this, uh, this is a bug.

1765
02:02:38.159 --> 02:02:41.439
Yeah fixed it? Uh huh,
all right, We're just gonna flip the

1766
02:02:41.439 --> 02:02:45.159
switch. Now it works on Xbox
Happy. It's weird. I love the

1767
02:02:45.199 --> 02:02:49.920
Internet because I can both be yelled
at for caring about games being sixty instead

1768
02:02:49.960 --> 02:02:54.319
of three fs and for saying that
I can't tell the difference between sixty and

1769
02:02:54.520 --> 02:03:00.680
one to lose lose situation, just
looking for it's to be mad at you.

1770
02:03:00.000 --> 02:03:02.039
No matter what you say, We're
gonna find out what it is.

1771
02:03:02.119 --> 02:03:06.279
Don't worry. I like it.
Last story here. Apple Arcade has the

1772
02:03:06.479 --> 02:03:11.439
stench of death about it, according
to many developers asked about it. That's

1773
02:03:11.520 --> 02:03:14.640
just the hedgehog. They put him
on there, so that is what happens

1774
02:03:14.640 --> 02:03:18.800
when you put Sonic on there.
No Multiple sources from Mobile gamer dot biz

1775
02:03:18.920 --> 02:03:25.399
express concerns about the future of Apple
Arcade, citing a decline in developer payouts

1776
02:03:25.479 --> 02:03:30.239
and a shift towards family friendly IP. Apple Arcade is facing criticism due to

1777
02:03:30.560 --> 02:03:34.319
several developers saying the payouts have grown
smaller and smaller over the last several years,

1778
02:03:34.720 --> 02:03:38.479
to the point where it's like no
one's really even counting on that anymore,

1779
02:03:38.600 --> 02:03:42.399
and it doesn't seem like Apple Arcade
and Apple are going to developers.

1780
02:03:42.439 --> 02:03:45.159
The way they used to and green
lighting projects. That's just that's kind of

1781
02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:51.960
over. Apple Arcade has already been. Apple already rebooted Apple Arcade once.

1782
02:03:53.920 --> 02:03:56.479
It sounds like there's a possibility that
they might try to do that again.

1783
02:03:57.199 --> 02:04:00.800
But at the same time, it's
like Apple just never takes game seriously,

1784
02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:03.279
and so why are they surprised that
this is the result. Whenever they take

1785
02:04:03.359 --> 02:04:05.800
something seriously, everyone's like, oh, well, then we better take it

1786
02:04:05.840 --> 02:04:09.680
seriously. And then whenever it comes
to gaming, everyone so we know you

1787
02:04:09.800 --> 02:04:12.920
don't really mean this, like you've
never cared about games. So I think

1788
02:04:12.960 --> 02:04:15.800
most people are just happy to ignore
them. And for me, like Apple

1789
02:04:15.880 --> 02:04:18.479
Arcade, it's definitely something I've eyed
a couple of times. There's that teenage

1790
02:04:18.520 --> 02:04:23.239
Mutant Ninja Turtles game that's basically haitis. It's good, yeah, and I've

1791
02:04:23.279 --> 02:04:25.800
heard great things about it. Well, I can't wait to play that.

1792
02:04:25.880 --> 02:04:27.920
But at the same time, like
I know it's going to come to Switch,

1793
02:04:28.000 --> 02:04:30.079
it's going to come to PC in
like a year, I'll just wait

1794
02:04:30.159 --> 02:04:33.239
for that. So that's what I've
been doing. And I think that at

1795
02:04:33.279 --> 02:04:35.840
a certain point they're like, this
is an uphill battle and we're going to

1796
02:04:35.880 --> 02:04:40.560
look for other ways to get some
success here. A lot of the people

1797
02:04:40.600 --> 02:04:44.359
who don't like playing games on phones, like like a me, just aren't

1798
02:04:44.359 --> 02:04:45.640
going to do this anyways. And
a lot of people do like playing games

1799
02:04:45.640 --> 02:04:50.000
on phones just probably already have like
their games on the phone anyways, or

1800
02:04:50.079 --> 02:04:54.520
they don't think they need to pay
for a subscription, right And if people

1801
02:04:55.079 --> 02:04:57.960
have an Apple rcie subscription, and
then like a lot of people, it's

1802
02:04:58.000 --> 02:05:00.000
like I got to get rid of
at least a few these subscriptions. I

1803
02:05:00.079 --> 02:05:02.640
think Apple Ark is one of the
first ones to go for a lot of

1804
02:05:02.680 --> 02:05:06.720
people. Yeah, yeah, agreed. Uh. And like the other aspect

1805
02:05:06.880 --> 02:05:10.960
is like, if you're looking to
play, like, I don't know,

1806
02:05:11.479 --> 02:05:15.119
a Triple A style game, you
have found ways to do remote play on

1807
02:05:15.239 --> 02:05:20.279
your phone already, and you're not
going to your phone specifically for any of

1808
02:05:20.359 --> 02:05:27.800
those titles. Yeah, Like I
really am interested in that Hello Kitty Animal

1809
02:05:27.840 --> 02:05:31.399
Crossing, Like it's good God adventure. Yes, And I'm yes exactly,

1810
02:05:31.560 --> 02:05:33.800
And I keep like getting emails about
it. I'm like, oh, yeah,

1811
02:05:33.800 --> 02:05:35.760
I should go check that out.
And then I like stop myself.

1812
02:05:35.800 --> 02:05:39.159
I'm like, even if I were
to like get a device to play that

1813
02:05:39.840 --> 02:05:42.039
one. If it was like on
my TV, that'd be a little bit

1814
02:05:42.039 --> 02:05:45.279
of asshole. So maybe I'll get
an iPad or an iPhone to play it

1815
02:05:45.359 --> 02:05:46.600
on. I'm like, I just
don't like the idea of sitting on one

1816
02:05:46.600 --> 02:05:50.760
of those devices just eating up battery
playing those games when I could just wait

1817
02:05:50.840 --> 02:05:55.199
for it to come to a dedicated
gaming device where I don't ever have those

1818
02:05:55.239 --> 02:05:58.560
feelings. So I expect it to
come to switch eventually and I'll play it

1819
02:05:58.640 --> 02:06:02.560
then. And that's kind of where
I'm gonna keep sitting with that. Apple

1820
02:06:02.680 --> 02:06:06.520
Arcade is the kind of thing where
it's like, it's almost surprising that they

1821
02:06:06.720 --> 02:06:11.479
don't just stumble into success with that
because I think they give away a trial

1822
02:06:11.840 --> 02:06:15.560
with every Apple device that people buy. It's like at a certain point most

1823
02:06:15.600 --> 02:06:19.239
people just like kind of let those
trials go into them then paying a monthly

1824
02:06:19.319 --> 02:06:21.960
fee. But it's like, I
think a lot of people aren't even activating

1825
02:06:23.039 --> 02:06:27.600
the trials, so it's it's weird. I think a lot of the stumblings

1826
02:06:27.720 --> 02:06:32.960
or parts of Apple ArKade that are
unappealing is a lot of those games are

1827
02:06:33.039 --> 02:06:39.039
not specifically made for the iPhone.
It's just like an experience that you can

1828
02:06:39.199 --> 02:06:42.880
get or will eventually get. Like
you said, Greb on the Switch on

1829
02:06:43.119 --> 02:06:47.039
PC, what was the like what
the Golf I feel like was very good

1830
02:06:47.159 --> 02:06:54.039
and that was like the go to
recommendation for Apple Arcade initially when when that

1831
02:06:54.119 --> 02:06:57.600
came out. It was fucking fantastic
that in that puzzle game that later shut

1832
02:06:57.680 --> 02:07:00.479
up in other places. Yeah,
a lot of blocks. I can't remember

1833
02:07:00.520 --> 02:07:04.680
the name, but hey also has
a Fantasy Asian Jeff, Yeah, Fantasy

1834
02:07:04.720 --> 02:07:08.600
Asians. Yeah, Brianstone, thank
you, Fran Do you see they're doing

1835
02:07:08.760 --> 02:07:12.119
that? Developers doing another what the
is called what the Car? Now?

1836
02:07:12.239 --> 02:07:13.960
Yeah? I saw that. I'm
just like, oh, yeah, should

1837
02:07:14.000 --> 02:07:18.239
check car. Yeah, that's the
best place to play mobile games. Of

1838
02:07:18.279 --> 02:07:25.560
course, I'm a bad person.
I'm gonna wrap up the news by handing

1839
02:07:25.600 --> 02:07:27.680
the show back over to Jam and
think about Oh wait, no, real

1840
02:07:27.760 --> 02:07:30.079
quick. Xbox Era. They did
an Xbox book that I contributed to.

1841
02:07:30.359 --> 02:07:34.359
They're doing a second run. Uh
the kickstarter for it. I'll tweet this

1842
02:07:34.439 --> 02:07:38.920
in a little bit, but they
did. They spent so much money on

1843
02:07:39.039 --> 02:07:41.720
shipping the first one that the book
is like not even like made a ton

1844
02:07:41.760 --> 02:07:44.600
of money for them. So this
second run is like really their their opportunity

1845
02:07:44.640 --> 02:07:45.880
to make some of that money back. And it's a good book. It's

1846
02:07:45.920 --> 02:07:48.800
like really pretty and I'm in it, so you should buy it. So

1847
02:07:48.840 --> 02:07:51.640
I'll put a link out there for
it. There you go. There you

1848
02:07:51.720 --> 02:07:56.640
go buy books, ever, and
go buy a book. I I just

1849
02:07:56.720 --> 02:08:00.239
had a thirty two X book come
in the mill. Oh, would like

1850
02:08:00.319 --> 02:08:03.199
to check that out something I think
about a lot too, and I never

1851
02:08:03.239 --> 02:08:09.159
really had one. Uh And we
will go read some emails after this break.

1852
02:08:13.720 --> 02:08:16.520
Before we get to emails, I
need to see this book. I'm

1853
02:08:16.560 --> 02:08:18.399
a pro. I'm pro books.
Yeah, there we go. Look at

1854
02:08:18.439 --> 02:08:26.079
this The Complete Sega thirty two X
Guide by uh Sean Along aka RGT eighty

1855
02:08:26.239 --> 02:08:28.760
five. It's nice. It's got
like a little bit on I think just

1856
02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:31.000
about every thirty two X game,
or at least a lot of them.

1857
02:08:31.239 --> 02:08:33.439
I just got this in haven't looked
at it yet. I'm gonna get that.

1858
02:08:33.520 --> 02:08:37.840
That looks great. Very excited though. Thirty two X is a fun

1859
02:08:37.079 --> 02:08:41.039
little curiosity. I love the way
the cover looks like a thirty two X

1860
02:08:41.119 --> 02:08:46.600
box. This is on Amazon again, the Complete Sega thirty two X Guide.

1861
02:08:46.840 --> 02:08:50.479
I want. I need to write
a book. I was I was

1862
02:08:50.520 --> 02:08:58.079
going to say, I want to
fleece people. Sure we know that you're

1863
02:08:58.239 --> 02:09:03.000
you're like, you're flim flam man. The way to do it. I

1864
02:09:03.079 --> 02:09:07.359
didn't write a book with my brothers. We wrote a nineties Disney book and

1865
02:09:07.479 --> 02:09:09.640
there was like a guy on the
line to publish it, and then he

1866
02:09:11.720 --> 02:09:15.600
just disappeared. So we had this
book written mysteriously it's written. Why you

1867
02:09:15.680 --> 02:09:18.399
do that thing where it's like people
going, yeah, pubbing like on demand

1868
02:09:18.479 --> 02:09:24.000
they can like, uh, yeah, you already did the book. Is

1869
02:09:24.039 --> 02:09:26.800
it just a text? What's that? Is it just a text or have

1870
02:09:26.880 --> 02:09:30.560
you guys already like laid it out
and everything. It's been like laid out

1871
02:09:30.600 --> 02:09:35.520
and everything. So okay, get
that pdf up on there and yeah,

1872
02:09:35.920 --> 02:09:39.039
Amazon can do it. By it. Mike, there's what you do and

1873
02:09:39.119 --> 02:09:41.680
stuff. Again, you go to
bond Yellow, get him to write a

1874
02:09:41.720 --> 02:09:46.720
forward for you. Yeah, you're
right, Yeah, I would tell my

1875
02:09:46.760 --> 02:09:50.199
brothers, I'll figure that out.
About about the time when I this all

1876
02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:54.039
happened was also when everything started kind
of popping off for me with the with

1877
02:09:54.159 --> 02:10:01.960
the videos. Hold Mike, you
know, yeah, I'm just sorry.

1878
02:10:03.199 --> 02:10:07.920
It's this massive weight of success is
just keeping me from Disney Book Publishing Dreams.

1879
02:10:07.920 --> 02:10:11.720
I'm gonna get on that. God
is Mike Manatti the Drake of Giant

1880
02:10:11.760 --> 02:10:16.039
Bomb? Yes? Is that Josh
and Drake? Is that what that is?

1881
02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:20.159
Oh? No, you mean the
way more famous Drake. Oh I'm

1882
02:10:20.359 --> 02:10:24.399
sick. That's not a joke.
You were serious. It's not a joke.

1883
02:10:24.520 --> 02:10:28.640
Oh God, I was like,
well I did. Was was Drake

1884
02:10:28.680 --> 02:10:31.119
the one that had like crazy get
rich quick schemes or something? I don't

1885
02:10:31.159 --> 02:10:39.000
know. That's Josh how also how
he puts them out of order? It's

1886
02:10:39.159 --> 02:10:43.199
Drake and Josh. I've never heard
anyone say Josh and Drake. It's not

1887
02:10:43.399 --> 02:10:48.199
Josh and Drake. It's like someone
saying Kellen keenan. Yeah, that's I

1888
02:10:48.239 --> 02:10:52.279
don't actually seen Drake and Josh,
not Josh and Drake and Josh. I

1889
02:10:52.279 --> 02:10:58.039
never really watched. It's what I
thought of the first mouth to say that,

1890
02:11:00.479 --> 02:11:01.640
buy your book? Why don't you
set up a pre order? Get

1891
02:11:01.680 --> 02:11:07.720
that going? Also buy my book? That it'll it'll be stupid anyway.

1892
02:11:09.199 --> 02:11:13.520
Anyway, speaking about stupid, let's
get to something incredibly not stupid. And

1893
02:11:13.600 --> 02:11:22.920
those are your emails emails. Yeah, Drake wasn't Oppenheimer right, he was

1894
02:11:24.000 --> 02:11:30.119
the button pusher. That's no,
that was Josh Peck. I can't keep

1895
02:11:30.199 --> 02:11:35.439
him straight. Wow, he's sound
like a stupid asshole. I think actually

1896
02:11:35.439 --> 02:11:39.439
a fantation. Yeah, uh,
there's nothing about white people in that movie.

1897
02:11:41.319 --> 02:11:45.520
BombCast at giant bomb dot com is
the email address to send your emails

1898
02:11:45.560 --> 02:11:48.479
too, and I love and appreciate
and read all of them, no matter

1899
02:11:48.600 --> 02:11:52.560
what they're about. I'm slightly freaked
out about whatever the fuck is going on

1900
02:11:52.640 --> 02:11:56.279
with the video right now, but
I'm gonna choose to disregard that and trust

1901
02:11:56.840 --> 02:12:05.199
in your emails. First email comes
from Eli from Austin. Eli writes in

1902
02:12:05.079 --> 02:12:09.359
and says, like most nerds my
age, I was obsessed with Final Fantasy

1903
02:12:09.439 --> 02:12:13.119
seven growing up. My friends and
I would talk about it endlessly. TIFO

1904
02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:18.800
was maybe my first crush. Seproth
was the coolest motherfucker around. I loved

1905
02:12:18.840 --> 02:12:22.000
everything about that game. But I
don't think I've ever finished any other Final

1906
02:12:22.039 --> 02:12:26.840
Fantasy game. I think I played
maybe twenty hours of fifteen and then stopped

1907
02:12:26.840 --> 02:12:31.000
playing it, and I never even
touched the older Pixel Final fantasies. I

1908
02:12:31.159 --> 02:12:35.199
just feel complete apathy for the rest
of the series. You'll have any serieses

1909
02:12:35.640 --> 02:12:37.720
that you don't really care about,
but there's that one game in the series

1910
02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:41.640
that you adore for some reason or
another. Also, Jeff is an insane

1911
02:12:41.680 --> 02:12:46.159
person for not watching movies in a
single sitting. Eli, I'll get some

1912
02:12:46.279 --> 02:12:52.000
real problems, motherfucker. Eli Ormustin, sent from my MacBook while at work.

1913
02:12:52.439 --> 02:12:56.319
I don't watch movies in a single
sitting, but not because I don't

1914
02:12:56.359 --> 02:12:58.039
want to. I wish I was, but like, life just gets in

1915
02:12:58.079 --> 02:13:01.439
the way these things. Yeah,
I like these are the words of someone

1916
02:13:01.479 --> 02:13:07.039
who has nothing important going on.
Dutch movies they're not very good anyways.

1917
02:13:07.880 --> 02:13:15.479
Like it's just like, oh Man
is a very Dan reichert ass take is

1918
02:13:15.520 --> 02:13:18.800
all I'm gonna say. It's like, what else could you possibly be doing

1919
02:13:18.920 --> 02:13:24.359
besides drinking beer and Edie McDonald Yeah, put my kids to bed, Yeah,

1920
02:13:24.600 --> 02:13:28.600
dealing with life. I for me
a long time. The answer to

1921
02:13:28.680 --> 02:13:33.119
this question probably would have been a
hit Man, because I only cared about

1922
02:13:33.199 --> 02:13:35.560
Hitman twenty sixteen, and now this
one. It's like, well, then

1923
02:13:35.640 --> 02:13:37.039
Hitman two came out, Hitman three
came out, and I'm like, I

1924
02:13:37.279 --> 02:13:39.880
was planning to go back to Blood
Money. I probably will play the rest

1925
02:13:39.920 --> 02:13:43.840
of them, not all of them, and care about them. But Hitman's

1926
02:13:43.840 --> 02:13:46.680
like the closest answer to me for
this, I don't have anywhere. It's

1927
02:13:46.680 --> 02:13:50.600
I only played the one and never
touched another one. Uh, first off,

1928
02:13:50.600 --> 02:13:54.119
you should put some more found fantasies. They're pretty neat. But you

1929
02:13:54.199 --> 02:13:58.239
know, I played Silent Hill two
and did and did really like it and

1930
02:13:58.359 --> 02:14:01.439
then never had desire to like play
any other One's. Part of the problem

1931
02:14:01.520 --> 02:14:05.680
is that almost everyone says, no, I'm not anymore. I'm not,

1932
02:14:05.760 --> 02:14:07.880
I'm not I'm not a big boy. Now, I'm in my my brave

1933
02:14:07.960 --> 02:14:13.119
phase. I'm not afraid anymore,
but brave. Yeah, this is my

1934
02:14:13.239 --> 02:14:16.319
brave character arc. The part of
the problem is that when there's a franchise,

1935
02:14:16.439 --> 02:14:20.800
maybe that happened with seven for him, a bit where everyone talks about

1936
02:14:20.880 --> 02:14:24.640
one the most, like being the
best one definitely happens a Silento two,

1937
02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:26.600
and obviously people like other Salon Hills. But I was kind of like,

1938
02:14:26.640 --> 02:14:30.399
well, I played the best one. I don't really know why I need

1939
02:14:30.439 --> 02:14:31.680
to go and play all these other
ones, or at least it's not a

1940
02:14:31.760 --> 02:14:41.079
priority kind of answering this question,
But I I'm sorry Mike Manatti, I'm

1941
02:14:41.119 --> 02:14:45.399
sorry to have to say this in
front of you. Oh exactly, I've

1942
02:14:45.439 --> 02:14:50.520
never quite cared for normal Mega Man
one through eight or whatever they're at now,

1943
02:14:50.840 --> 02:14:56.199
or the X games those whatever.
That's I think that's totally fair.

1944
02:14:56.760 --> 02:15:01.880
But as we know, I love
the Battle Network game and I also like

1945
02:15:01.000 --> 02:15:07.119
the Mega Man zero games. Yeah, those are good. Those are hard

1946
02:15:07.199 --> 02:15:09.000
too, Those are some of the
hardest ones, but they have a bit

1947
02:15:09.039 --> 02:15:13.399
more character stuff in it, whereas
like X has a little bit the normal

1948
02:15:13.479 --> 02:15:18.560
games have like none, They're more
anime, I guess as well. Yes,

1949
02:15:18.720 --> 02:15:22.760
yes, Zero is definitely much more
anime. X is decent anime also,

1950
02:15:22.800 --> 02:15:24.920
but a different flavor. But yeah, maybe that's why I like normal,

1951
02:15:26.279 --> 02:15:30.479
Megan man It's it's like, flavor
of anime is Saturday Morning cartoon anime,

1952
02:15:30.760 --> 02:15:31.880
and I'm like, yeah, this
is cozy. I like that,

1953
02:15:33.159 --> 02:15:41.479
just fine. I only played Fallout
three. That's interesting Vegas. Every other

1954
02:15:41.560 --> 02:15:46.239
Fallout I guess. I touched Vegas
New Vegas a little bit more than I

1955
02:15:46.359 --> 02:15:50.319
touched four, and then I don't
even I'm sure there's other Fallout games,

1956
02:15:50.399 --> 02:15:56.560
but I fall three was dope.
Fall Out three is good. I loved

1957
02:15:56.600 --> 02:16:01.039
it. I played it to completion
and really dug it. And then I

1958
02:16:01.159 --> 02:16:05.880
was like, oh, I think
I'm good on that. Just kept living

1959
02:16:05.920 --> 02:16:09.760
my life. I should play New
Vegas. Yeah, I also play New

1960
02:16:09.840 --> 02:16:13.640
Vegas. Yeah. New Vegas is
fun. That's good. Like one of

1961
02:16:13.680 --> 02:16:20.680
the most Jeff Grab games I've never
played a lot. Then you agree with

1962
02:16:20.760 --> 02:16:24.319
me about Fallout four being mid after
you play New Vegas, we'll see.

1963
02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:28.640
That's what's important, is that you
like something else less. That's what will

1964
02:16:28.680 --> 02:16:31.440
make me happy. Yes, what's
important is I fixed my opinions to align

1965
02:16:31.520 --> 02:16:35.120
with Mike Manatti. Yeah, I
guess. I guess I'm like that with

1966
02:16:35.200 --> 02:16:37.959
Pickman four. Now, I guess
I'm like this. I think a lot

1967
02:16:37.959 --> 02:16:41.440
of people are like it with boulterers
Gate now where boorters Gate three? Yeah,

1968
02:16:41.680 --> 02:16:45.559
I've heard that a bunch. Now. Yeah, I almost barely even

1969
02:16:45.600 --> 02:16:48.239
think of boaters Gate three as the
third game in a series. In a

1970
02:16:48.319 --> 02:16:52.479
lot of ways, kind of just
this this thing that happened. I did

1971
02:16:52.559 --> 02:16:56.799
play a lot of Border's Gate Dark
Alliance. That was a lot of Yeah,

1972
02:16:56.120 --> 02:17:01.799
buddy, yeah, song tavern that
the tavern keeper or over there,

1973
02:17:01.479 --> 02:17:13.680
oh mama ouga yeah, respectfully,
respectfully, respectfully. Next email comes from

1974
02:17:13.840 --> 02:17:16.639
Jared in Iowa. Hey, crew, I've been playing a ton of Blattro

1975
02:17:16.760 --> 02:17:20.040
since it dropped on Tuesday, and
after seeing Jan post a picture of his

1976
02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:24.600
Bolottro fit, he got me thinking, what would your Bolatro joker cart ability

1977
02:17:24.719 --> 02:17:28.559
be? Mine would be to give
plus four multi for every time a blind

1978
02:17:28.600 --> 02:17:33.920
a skipt as I'm all about doing
as little work as possible while making myself

1979
02:17:33.360 --> 02:17:37.040
just useful enough that you don't want
to get rid of me. Cheers Jared

1980
02:17:37.079 --> 02:17:41.079
and Iowa. I think I should
get like plus three multi for just not

1981
02:17:41.360 --> 02:17:46.799
playing a flush because it's very difficult
for me to do anything excide from flush

1982
02:17:46.840 --> 02:17:52.280
builds. I would be like you
get a bonus for like a random set

1983
02:17:52.319 --> 02:17:56.959
of cards and it changes every round
because I can't remember what they were last

1984
02:17:56.959 --> 02:18:00.680
time because of bad memory. Uh
So it would be like ive seven,

1985
02:18:01.360 --> 02:18:05.680
ace and two and it would just
be completely random each time. Mine would

1986
02:18:05.719 --> 02:18:11.280
be your multiplier goes up the more
money you spend. Yeah, I'm probably

1987
02:18:11.319 --> 02:18:16.559
in line with that. Jan.
I'm always at zero dollars at the end

1988
02:18:16.600 --> 02:18:22.600
of every fucking turn. You know
some At first, I was like,

1989
02:18:22.639 --> 02:18:26.280
I don't want these juggers that just
give me money. I need multipliers multipliers.

1990
02:18:26.680 --> 02:18:28.440
Having money can help though, really, Yeah, I started using the

1991
02:18:28.520 --> 02:18:33.760
deck that gives you money interest.
That's last one I won with and give

1992
02:18:33.799 --> 02:18:37.079
me even just having ten dollars extra
the beginning, that can really help you

1993
02:18:37.120 --> 02:18:41.079
get rolling the interest. That's the
yellow deck, the interesting Yeah, I

1994
02:18:41.120 --> 02:18:45.920
think that's I think it was a
yellow deck. The green deck is the

1995
02:18:45.959 --> 02:18:48.920
one you're thinking of. Back green
deck you raised? Yeah, right,

1996
02:18:48.520 --> 02:18:54.079
mind you you just start with ten
dollars from the beginning. Yeah, I

1997
02:18:54.680 --> 02:18:58.520
hope they they will or it's just
one person, right, I hope this

1998
02:18:58.600 --> 02:19:03.920
person will, Like I'm sure there's
a plan to just add more stuff in

1999
02:19:03.319 --> 02:19:09.000
like new like right, like of
course joke. Yeah, yeah, you

2000
02:19:09.079 --> 02:19:13.559
know it's gotta be poker, so
like we can add go Phish cards so

2001
02:19:13.760 --> 02:19:18.520
that would be fun. Yeah,
they did this with Uno. If I

2002
02:19:18.639 --> 02:19:20.600
was the Uno people, if I
was mister Uno, I would be on

2003
02:19:20.680 --> 02:19:24.319
the phone right now. Please,
mister you know is my father? Call

2004
02:19:24.440 --> 02:19:33.159
me? Darryl trying to think of
oh Dar Daryl. Next email is about

2005
02:19:33.200 --> 02:19:37.639
the Three DS and comes from David
from Roanoke, Virginia. Hello, Bombinos.

2006
02:19:39.000 --> 02:19:41.680
I was helping my sister move out
of my parents house and I found

2007
02:19:41.719 --> 02:19:45.879
my year one three DS that I
let her borrow almost ten years ago.

2008
02:19:46.479 --> 02:19:50.600
The only games I have on it
are Mario Kart seven, the fourth Smash

2009
02:19:50.680 --> 02:19:54.760
Bros. Game, and some other
weird games like Projects Project x Z one

2010
02:19:54.920 --> 02:19:58.879
and Code of Princess. Since the
three DS store is down, my options

2011
02:19:58.920 --> 02:20:01.440
are to buy physical me What are
some games that are worth the cost?

2012
02:20:01.840 --> 02:20:07.000
Parentheses just emulated on my PC?
What's the point of keeping this three DS?

2013
02:20:07.399 --> 02:20:09.079
Love what you do? Wish I
could do it? David from Roanoke,

2014
02:20:09.200 --> 02:20:13.040
Virginia. Hack it hack that three
DS dot Guide three DS dot Guide

2015
02:20:13.879 --> 02:20:16.959
even I hacked a three DS.
It's very easy and you'll just get all

2016
02:20:18.000 --> 02:20:20.040
the games. And three DS games
are going to be so much more satisfying

2017
02:20:20.399 --> 02:20:26.040
on your three DST with the three
D slider than doing some emulator on your

2018
02:20:26.079 --> 02:20:31.399
views computer. And let's let's let's
be clear. It's so easy. Especially

2019
02:20:31.559 --> 02:20:33.920
once you have it set up,
you're like, well, now I got

2020
02:20:33.000 --> 02:20:35.799
to go track down the games.
No, you don't. There's a thing

2021
02:20:35.879 --> 02:20:39.959
called the h shop that gets installed
when you do the hack, and it's

2022
02:20:41.200 --> 02:20:46.239
just an e shop, but ilegal. It's great, it's awesome, and

2023
02:20:46.360 --> 02:20:50.239
you just you just go to the
store, this filthy, dirty pirate store

2024
02:20:50.280 --> 02:20:52.959
and get all the games that way. It's not like Nintendo is sell them

2025
02:20:52.959 --> 02:20:54.520
to you if you want to buy
them, So just go get the Age

2026
02:20:54.559 --> 02:20:56.760
shop, have that on your three
DS, and then whenever you like,

2027
02:20:56.840 --> 02:21:00.399
someone talks about a game like I
want to play that, oh, I'll

2028
02:21:00.440 --> 02:21:01.920
just turn on my three DS and
go find it and download it and not

2029
02:21:03.040 --> 02:21:05.120
have to do any extra work.
It's fantastic. So yeah, just make

2030
02:21:05.159 --> 02:21:09.079
that happen. I'm disappointed. I
thought when you said h Shop, my

2031
02:21:09.200 --> 02:21:11.680
eyes lit up because I thought it
was something else. Yeah, I mean,

2032
02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:15.159
listen, that's that's your steam though. Yeah, all right, right,

2033
02:21:16.399 --> 02:21:20.559
lots of good games on three ds. Link Between World's Legend of Zelda

2034
02:21:20.600 --> 02:21:24.719
game is probably the best one you
can get on there. Firemon Awakening is

2035
02:21:24.760 --> 02:21:30.840
still my favorite fire embum. Both
of the Kirby games, Triple Bucks and

2036
02:21:31.159 --> 02:21:35.079
Planet Those are really good. Tons
of fun. Yeah. I actually talked

2037
02:21:35.079 --> 02:21:41.479
about Bravely Default Bravely Second earlier.
If you like j RPGs, gosh,

2038
02:21:41.520 --> 02:21:46.200
yeah, just uh, tons and
tons of good stuff that you get on

2039
02:21:46.239 --> 02:21:50.319
there. Later releases Warrior Wear Gold
and Rhythm Heaven Mega Mix. Well,

2040
02:21:52.319 --> 02:21:54.280
this wasn't too late, but those
were Those are actually really good. I

2041
02:21:54.360 --> 02:21:58.040
think that's the jors Mask and Cockernet
Time three D are the best way to

2042
02:21:58.079 --> 02:22:01.959
play those N sixty for Zoda games. Still to this day, kid Icarus

2043
02:22:03.120 --> 02:22:07.920
Uprising is something of a cult hit
now. The three D remix of like

2044
02:22:09.000 --> 02:22:11.799
older eight bit and sixteen Big games. Streets Age is really good, Outrun

2045
02:22:11.920 --> 02:22:16.360
is incredible. Excite Bikes actually pretty
cool. I'm got a bad version of

2046
02:22:16.440 --> 02:22:24.559
Snake Eater even. Something that I
noticed this morning after doing the Pokemon direct

2047
02:22:26.239 --> 02:22:28.879
talking to my partner, and my
partner and I are about to celebrate our

2048
02:22:28.920 --> 02:22:35.040
eight year anniversary, so really it's
two years because it's February twenty ninth Leap

2049
02:22:35.120 --> 02:22:43.639
Day. But you know, she's
been around me for eight ish years now.

2050
02:22:45.239 --> 02:22:48.639
She knows what I do for a
living, right, she she knows

2051
02:22:48.959 --> 02:22:52.600
what the video games are. I
tell her what this is. She has

2052
02:22:52.680 --> 02:22:58.840
a Nintendo switch that I borrow because
mine broke, and I was telling her

2053
02:22:58.879 --> 02:23:01.239
it's like, yeah, there's there's
gonna be a new Pokemon game. You

2054
02:23:01.319 --> 02:23:03.760
might be into it later. It's
like the one that you didn't like,

2055
02:23:05.360 --> 02:23:07.280
And she was like, oh,
what are they putting it out on the

2056
02:23:07.360 --> 02:23:13.440
DS. I'm like, what wow, not even to change of stuff,

2057
02:23:13.719 --> 02:23:18.319
not even the three DS you go
DS? Yeah, oh yeah that rules.

2058
02:23:18.479 --> 02:23:22.879
Oh that's incredible. That's like,
is that like dance Dad? Who's

2059
02:23:22.920 --> 02:23:28.280
confused? Why they don't keep making
games for the WEI? Yes? So

2060
02:23:28.520 --> 02:23:31.920
you guys like on the outs now, like what's different? Room? We

2061
02:23:33.000 --> 02:23:35.760
we just moved, you know,
so we we gotta we gotta hang tough.

2062
02:23:35.040 --> 02:23:39.639
If you explained it like she would
like yeah, of course, Like,

2063
02:23:39.120 --> 02:23:43.079
yeah, I was just wrong because
like Dan's dad is like, no,

2064
02:23:43.239 --> 02:23:46.159
I'm pretty sure you're wrong, Dan, But we was very popular.

2065
02:23:46.239 --> 02:23:48.959
We're still making games for that.
Oh how dare we compare anyone to dance

2066
02:23:50.120 --> 02:23:52.639
Dad? Yeah, that's what I'm
saying. There is no comparison. I

2067
02:23:54.000 --> 02:24:00.200
I just looked at him, like, you you have a switch. It's

2068
02:24:00.200 --> 02:24:03.239
the last time you thought about a
d S. When have we said the

2069
02:24:03.360 --> 02:24:09.159
word Nintendo DS in this household?
I found I found a d S I

2070
02:24:09.600 --> 02:24:15.680
at my parents place a couple of
years ago. Nice thing? Is she

2071
02:24:15.959 --> 02:24:20.319
thinking about the DS light or like
the d S? Fat? Oh I

2072
02:24:20.399 --> 02:24:24.159
think about a light? That's what
fat? Yeah, No one's thinking about

2073
02:24:24.200 --> 02:24:26.799
that. That was a really ugly
piece machine. I think it was bad.

2074
02:24:26.959 --> 02:24:30.239
I hate I hated looking at it. Like today, I probably would

2075
02:24:30.239 --> 02:24:33.079
appreciate it more. Yeah, but
it's not one that's like, oh it's

2076
02:24:33.319 --> 02:24:35.719
like keat sheet or key shy do
you say that whatever? Where it's I

2077
02:24:35.719 --> 02:24:39.959
always like, yeah, kitchen,
thank you. I have like an affinity

2078
02:24:39.000 --> 02:24:43.159
towards like no. I think I
think still pretty ugly. Yeah, it's

2079
02:24:43.200 --> 02:24:46.680
like someone blew up a little lego
piece, you know, like that little

2080
02:24:46.760 --> 02:24:50.840
corner piece is fucking what are we
doing? And I do really want to

2081
02:24:50.840 --> 02:24:54.399
play a Link between Worlds again.
It's been I haven't played since that first

2082
02:24:54.440 --> 02:24:56.760
time, and it is oh really, however, you crossed your arms as

2083
02:24:56.799 --> 02:25:01.879
you were saying that this is trusting. You gotta just protect yourself. The

2084
02:25:01.000 --> 02:25:05.000
forums are very like timidating, so
this is my power stance. It was

2085
02:25:05.360 --> 02:25:09.879
I was playing Mario Maker this morning
through some of those levels, and uh,

2086
02:25:09.920 --> 02:25:13.600
something really stupid happened. And then
of course, like everyone's like,

2087
02:25:13.680 --> 02:25:15.920
Dance calling you right now, Dance
trying to get in the call, and

2088
02:25:15.920 --> 02:25:18.680
I'm like I let him in and
he just starts laughing. In the first

2089
02:25:18.760 --> 02:25:22.399
like two minutes, is him just
laughing at me? So I gotta say,

2090
02:25:22.479 --> 02:25:24.920
like, you should really limit your
time with that. It seems like

2091
02:25:24.959 --> 02:25:28.520
a mental health issue or like it
is. Honestly, I feel better after

2092
02:25:28.600 --> 02:25:31.680
that than after the ten hours of
Bollattro I played over the weekend where I

2093
02:25:31.760 --> 02:25:33.040
was wow, yeah, well it
was just like again because like I'm like,

2094
02:25:33.120 --> 02:25:37.799
I am like putting off responsibilities to
play boloatro and that always feels.

2095
02:25:37.959 --> 02:25:41.200
Well, you didn't agree with me, but I think there's something like about

2096
02:25:41.239 --> 02:25:46.479
feeling guilty about playing bilottro because it
has casino aesthetics to it. No,

2097
02:25:46.680 --> 02:25:48.959
I know, I think you're onto
something for sure, Yes, but I

2098
02:25:48.040 --> 02:25:50.879
just knew that it's like it goes
beyond that for me where it's like no,

2099
02:25:52.000 --> 02:25:54.200
it was because I like didn't do
the dishes. That's why I was

2100
02:25:54.239 --> 02:25:58.319
feeling bad. Yeah, but dishes
are fine where they are in the scene

2101
02:26:00.040 --> 02:26:03.280
with you my very good point.
Who can argue with that? Oh you're

2102
02:26:03.319 --> 02:26:07.920
gonna make your bet? Why I'm
gonna go back in the bed And me

2103
02:26:07.000 --> 02:26:11.239
started getting this kick about making her
bed. I'm like, we don't do

2104
02:26:11.360 --> 02:26:15.239
that in this house. I I
his face, Huh, she's a huge

2105
02:26:15.319 --> 02:26:18.360
Jordan Peterson stand. Yeah, I
don't know all of a sudden, like

2106
02:26:18.479 --> 02:26:22.639
in the last six months, making
the bed has become like a thing in

2107
02:26:22.719 --> 02:26:26.319
my house and I don't I don't
know what to do about it. Yeah,

2108
02:26:26.360 --> 02:26:28.520
it's weird. I never I never
really saw the point, right because

2109
02:26:28.520 --> 02:26:31.000
you, like you said, we're
gonna mess it up here again by the

2110
02:26:31.120 --> 02:26:35.000
end of the night. But I
mean it does look nice when you walk

2111
02:26:35.040 --> 02:26:37.200
in the room, So I get
is that what it is? It's just

2112
02:26:37.280 --> 02:26:39.719
for like that pop. Like,
I get that a little bit. There

2113
02:26:39.760 --> 02:26:43.719
are so many other things I want
to clean or like tidy up first then

2114
02:26:43.920 --> 02:26:46.120
exactly the bet. I guess it's
easy. I don't know. My mom

2115
02:26:46.159 --> 02:26:48.680
would try to like make me feel
bad like I had to make the bed

2116
02:26:48.719 --> 02:26:50.760
because you wouldn't. I was like, I didn't ask you to do that.

2117
02:26:52.280 --> 02:26:56.239
I can going on there, right, you know? Can I ask

2118
02:26:56.280 --> 02:27:03.000
you all gen something? Yeah?
Of course it's a white people questions have

2119
02:27:03.120 --> 02:27:07.840
come to a god with your questions
really good, let us let us unpack,

2120
02:27:09.159 --> 02:27:13.040
let us unpack our culture for you. Uh. Have y'all ever vacuumed

2121
02:27:13.120 --> 02:27:18.000
your mattress? I think I did
you. I think you mentioned this recently

2122
02:27:18.040 --> 02:27:20.159
and then I did a little bit
and it was. I was getting kind

2123
02:27:20.200 --> 02:27:24.920
of scared of how how much stuff
was coming out one of those roller like

2124
02:27:24.040 --> 02:27:30.920
sticky things that you used to get
like roller. Yeah, no, y'all,

2125
02:27:31.319 --> 02:27:33.079
y'all next time you change your sheets. No, no, no,

2126
02:27:33.319 --> 02:27:37.479
I don't want to know. Oh
you need You'll be a better person after

2127
02:27:37.559 --> 02:27:39.680
this. No, No, what's
gonna happen? Is it gonna like turn

2128
02:27:39.799 --> 02:27:46.399
black and you're gonna mattress just getting
like sixty pounds of weight over? It's

2129
02:27:46.440 --> 02:27:52.959
like something inane used to like seep
through and trickle down and sixty pounds.

2130
02:27:54.520 --> 02:27:58.559
I don't know what recimply priced.
You can just get new ones. Yeah,

2131
02:27:58.799 --> 02:28:03.200
I don't. I've never heard of
anyone vacuuming their naked mattress. That

2132
02:28:03.360 --> 02:28:09.040
just sounds yo, I mean it
sounds logical. I'm just terrified of the

2133
02:28:09.079 --> 02:28:11.959
results. I think, how much
would someone to pay you after you vacuum

2134
02:28:11.959 --> 02:28:15.920
the mattress to get a like a
little like a teaspoon of it in your

2135
02:28:15.959 --> 02:28:20.040
mouth? Why would you do like
how much? Like? Why is your

2136
02:28:20.200 --> 02:28:24.079
brain? I'm operating like much?
What the fuck would you do it for

2137
02:28:24.479 --> 02:28:28.440
five hundred dollars? No? And
also I don't I don't want to.

2138
02:28:28.520 --> 02:28:31.319
I don't want to see this through. I don't want to see this through.

2139
02:28:31.879 --> 02:28:37.440
It just seems so fucking demented.
What are we doing? Don't don't

2140
02:28:37.440 --> 02:28:39.000
say no because you think a better
offers coming. Seven hundred and fifty dollars

2141
02:28:39.120 --> 02:28:46.600
Jeff for a spoonful of your mattress
dust. No that's not enough. Well,

2142
02:28:46.600 --> 02:28:48.719
you don't have to swallow. You've
got to get a big mouthful of

2143
02:28:48.799 --> 02:28:52.360
the cool oh cool, thanks for
your permission to spit, Mike Manati,

2144
02:28:52.799 --> 02:28:58.200
I would probably still say no,
Sorry, Bud. Yeah, I have

2145
02:28:58.319 --> 02:29:01.159
a number in mind, and you're
nowhere near it. So yeah, I

2146
02:29:01.200 --> 02:29:03.600
do you think I'm five figures?
How much money? Twelve hundred dollars?

2147
02:29:03.719 --> 02:29:07.799
Jan, My partner is the cleanest
person I've ever met, so yeah,

2148
02:29:07.959 --> 02:29:16.799
Oh dude, for twelve hundred dollars, Yeah, that is that is so

2149
02:29:16.000 --> 02:29:22.360
much sicker than me getting a mister
slate tattip, Like it's not even on

2150
02:29:22.440 --> 02:29:28.360
the same radar. Like, dude, think about all the times in your

2151
02:29:28.440 --> 02:29:31.959
sleep you may have passed gas.
Oh my god, you were just espally

2152
02:29:33.000 --> 02:29:35.760
just could be dead skin. Probably
that you're putting in your mouth cool cool

2153
02:29:35.959 --> 02:29:43.000
particles, articles, particles that's getting
lit I feel like bug ship particles,

2154
02:29:43.079 --> 02:29:50.600
probably pet dander. Yeah, just
like stuff like sweat. Yeah, yeah,

2155
02:29:50.680 --> 02:29:56.360
I just again like sweat. This
is this is just this is just

2156
02:29:56.440 --> 02:30:03.319
the thing I just cannot jagular with. All right. I just can't think

2157
02:30:03.360 --> 02:30:09.520
you're doing something wrong there, chief
Uh too far? Okay, we talked

2158
02:30:09.559 --> 02:30:13.799
about Mariomaker. That next emails about
Mario we'll pivot into whatever this is Hello,

2159
02:30:13.959 --> 02:30:18.680
Jeff and Jeff Adjason persons. Last
Friday, Dan was watching a level

2160
02:30:18.719 --> 02:30:22.000
in Mario Maker that he made himself
nine years ago. He then went,

2161
02:30:22.440 --> 02:30:26.760
wait, what the fuck is that? Why did I do that? That's

2162
02:30:26.799 --> 02:30:33.399
so stupid. My question is if
that quote was instead said by God?

2163
02:30:33.079 --> 02:30:39.639
What did he see on earth to
make him make such a comment. This

2164
02:30:39.799 --> 02:30:43.799
is such a good question. By
the way, Jeff from Quebec like you're

2165
02:30:43.959 --> 02:30:46.440
I like you. I think this
is a good question. I like you

2166
02:30:46.600 --> 02:30:52.920
love Yeah. He saw the film
adaptation of Cats. Where are the buttholes?

2167
02:30:52.760 --> 02:30:56.920
Where's the butthole cut? I thought, I deliberately put buttholes on those

2168
02:30:58.040 --> 02:31:05.079
cats. It's got too far trying
to guy buttholes. God saw a net

2169
02:31:05.479 --> 02:31:09.120
and was like, yeah, was
that? What was that? We got

2170
02:31:09.479 --> 02:31:11.959
a movie so in that even he
wouldn't be able to handle it. Yeah,

2171
02:31:11.159 --> 02:31:16.360
I think so, ad father son
in the Holy Spirit. I need

2172
02:31:16.440 --> 02:31:22.959
to see this moment where Dan was
upset. Again, I didn't remember any

2173
02:31:22.040 --> 02:31:26.159
of it ten years ago, this
incredible amount of time, like here for

2174
02:31:26.239 --> 02:31:30.799
a normal percent to be difficult.
Let alan Dan, who I had to

2175
02:31:30.879 --> 02:31:35.159
remind like twenty times the difference between
Blaze the Cat and Amy Rose the Hedgehog

2176
02:31:35.239 --> 02:31:39.360
while he was playing Sonic six.
Yeah, it wasn't gonna happen. So

2177
02:31:39.680 --> 02:31:41.440
so what was it like? Why
was he up? Was he just like

2178
02:31:43.000 --> 02:31:46.159
there was a better way to do
it? Or he just stupid? I

2179
02:31:46.239 --> 02:31:52.920
think he was very convoluted. The
actual solution and path to beat the level

2180
02:31:52.680 --> 02:31:58.479
that Grub had spent maybe like an
hour hour and a half going in a

2181
02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:05.639
specific direction. Yeah, that is
not the actual solution. Oh that's just

2182
02:32:05.959 --> 02:32:09.920
needlessly that's the entire level. Yes, that's cool, exactly what Dan makes

2183
02:32:11.360 --> 02:32:13.840
a piece of ship. Okay,
cool, cool, cool. So it's

2184
02:32:13.840 --> 02:32:20.520
all about finding the critical path,
that's right. It's it's always trial and

2185
02:32:20.719 --> 02:32:22.399
error. I mean, come on, if you're designing levels through that,

2186
02:32:22.719 --> 02:32:26.879
I mean you're just my my favorite
part of that upf which I suggest everyone

2187
02:32:28.000 --> 02:32:33.159
check out. Is when Patrick,
Dan and I are checking the successful run

2188
02:32:35.360 --> 02:32:39.479
after Patrick had been playing that level
for who knows how long eight hours they

2189
02:32:39.520 --> 02:32:46.479
said, maybe longer eight hours or
so, and then one of us saying

2190
02:32:46.959 --> 02:32:48.559
I think it might have been me
saying like, were you inspired by half

2191
02:32:48.639 --> 02:32:54.120
life to do this? And then
Grubb just being flabbergasted and breaking down as

2192
02:32:54.159 --> 02:33:00.719
a person. What could you possibly
mean? Like, I'm thinking about it.

2193
02:33:00.840 --> 02:33:03.000
I've been thinking about it, Jan, and I'm like, what,

2194
02:33:03.399 --> 02:33:07.319
how does that even translate to this
game. I want to tell you,

2195
02:33:07.719 --> 02:33:11.399
I really do that. I'll figure
it out. I want the moment of

2196
02:33:11.840 --> 02:33:16.959
figuring these things out. It's like
Dan seeing a roar shack blob and being

2197
02:33:18.120 --> 02:33:20.799
like, there's only one thing to
see there, and you should all see

2198
02:33:20.799 --> 02:33:24.000
the same thing I see, and
now do my Marrio Maker level. Yeah.

2199
02:33:24.120 --> 02:33:26.120
Like you said trial and air,
but with Dan, it's like trials

2200
02:33:26.200 --> 02:33:31.120
and tribulations in air, like he
is a tribulation upon this earth. No,

2201
02:33:31.440 --> 02:33:35.639
I did say this great trouble,
great great suffering. Okay, I

2202
02:33:35.760 --> 02:33:39.799
said this earlier in the chat when
you were playing Mariomaker this morning, But

2203
02:33:41.079 --> 02:33:45.799
it is exactly like Assassin's creed.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

2204
02:33:46.559 --> 02:33:48.879
Jeez, that's that's Dan's level.
Design a baby. Now, I'm nown

2205
02:33:50.079 --> 02:33:52.639
like I started with one of the
doable levels that they made on the Giant

2206
02:33:52.680 --> 02:33:56.200
Bomb streams with the chat, and
even that's like, I mean, like

2207
02:33:56.239 --> 02:34:00.959
I'm figuring it out, but it's
still pretty difficult. So my god,

2208
02:34:01.280 --> 02:34:03.159
one of these other levels where I
have no idea and no where, don't

2209
02:34:03.159 --> 02:34:07.440
even really know where to begin,
that's gonna be really rough. I'm gonna

2210
02:34:07.440 --> 02:34:09.799
have to detective it. I'm gonna
have to like slowly, piece by piece,

2211
02:34:09.840 --> 02:34:13.120
figure out every single little thing.
Are we going to get to go

2212
02:34:13.239 --> 02:34:18.280
backstage at like wrestling? Though?
At least I coffee you said that what

2213
02:34:18.440 --> 02:34:20.959
we're gonna get? Are we gonna
get to go backstage at wrestling? At

2214
02:34:20.040 --> 02:34:24.040
least like Patrick did? No,
I don't. I mean, it sounds

2215
02:34:24.079 --> 02:34:26.680
like he's just gonna send Biggie out
to kill me, So I don't know

2216
02:34:28.280 --> 02:34:31.040
the Yeah, you could be there
why he kills me? Sure, man,

2217
02:34:31.200 --> 02:34:35.479
you could support him or me whoever
you feel to support, to support

2218
02:34:35.479 --> 02:34:39.520
in the moment. All right,
now, you're being funny. Next email

2219
02:34:41.200 --> 02:34:46.440
is from Paul. They write in
about pinball. Oh High Bombers John wrote

2220
02:34:46.479 --> 02:34:50.479
in last week about how to learn
to play pinball. I wanted to add

2221
02:34:50.479 --> 02:34:56.239
my own two cents and say that
I invested in all the Pinball FX tables

2222
02:34:56.559 --> 02:34:58.760
as they went on sale, and
I find that their recreations of real life

2223
02:34:58.760 --> 02:35:03.879
table are a good way to practice. Obviously, yeah, nothing comes close

2224
02:35:03.920 --> 02:35:07.079
to the real deal, but they
have some instructions on how to play all

2225
02:35:07.159 --> 02:35:09.840
the games in an easy to follow, step by step manner. It helped

2226
02:35:09.920 --> 02:35:15.239
me go from merely flipping the flippers
to targeting specific lanes and objectives. I

2227
02:35:15.360 --> 02:35:18.440
highly recommend it. Plus, the
tables are cheap ball. Yeah, for

2228
02:35:18.559 --> 02:35:22.440
classic games, that's not a bad
idea at all. You know, you're

2229
02:35:22.440 --> 02:35:24.520
just not gonna get anything in like
the last ten years or so. If

2230
02:35:24.520 --> 02:35:28.840
you want to play modern ones,
my uh my bar that has pinball machines

2231
02:35:28.840 --> 02:35:33.440
that got an Indiana Jones machine in
it was like with the first four movies.

2232
02:35:33.520 --> 02:35:35.440
It was pretty fun though. The
multi ball was neat because it literally

2233
02:35:35.520 --> 02:35:39.040
tipped over an actual arc of the
Covenant and like all the pinballs dropped from

2234
02:35:39.079 --> 02:35:41.520
it. That was a lot of
fun. That one's pretty old too,

2235
02:35:41.840 --> 02:35:46.319
yeah, but probably was like when
Can of Crystal Skull was relatively knewish.

2236
02:35:46.360 --> 02:35:50.479
I'm guessing yeah, you did that, so yeah, yeah, right,

2237
02:35:50.479 --> 02:35:52.680
now that's good. That's a good
game. Good game. Yeah. But

2238
02:35:52.719 --> 02:35:54.600
I also have a Monster's Pinball Machine. I just think it's funny that there's

2239
02:35:54.920 --> 02:36:00.319
a Monster's Pinball machine. That's the
one with the underplayfield too, right,

2240
02:36:00.399 --> 02:36:03.239
there's like a see through part,
right, Yeah, yeah, I don't

2241
02:36:03.239 --> 02:36:05.840
think. I don't think people are
really too hot on that game, but

2242
02:36:07.479 --> 02:36:09.760
I enjoyed the times i've i've played
it. I just like the Monsters,

2243
02:36:09.840 --> 02:36:15.559
you know, Eddie Sure, Eddie
Munster, Yeah, you've got that laugh.

2244
02:36:16.639 --> 02:36:18.559
That's the guy. I think I
was always too much of an Adam's

2245
02:36:18.600 --> 02:36:22.719
Family loyalist. I think I take
the Munsters over the Adams Family any day.

2246
02:36:22.799 --> 02:36:26.000
I got to be honest, I'm
sorry that the worst. Sorry,

2247
02:36:28.520 --> 02:36:31.719
Like it's a bad take, but
it's also a very Mike Manatti like is

2248
02:36:31.760 --> 02:36:35.000
it where you're coming from? Like, yeah, like, what could you

2249
02:36:35.280 --> 02:36:41.840
possibly be basing that on? It's
the It's to Adams Family movies in the

2250
02:36:41.920 --> 02:36:46.840
nineties are treasures, and I realized
they're not the same. It's like to

2251
02:36:46.000 --> 02:36:50.319
be the Monsters are the origin of
Dragula. So if it's based on them,

2252
02:36:50.600 --> 02:36:56.959
then I'm all aboard. So that's
what regular is a huge? Is

2253
02:36:58.040 --> 02:37:03.159
that what's happening? Not really there's
a so yeah, so like make your

2254
02:37:03.239 --> 02:37:07.000
case, you fool. I think
that there's more heartwarming moments in the Monsters.

2255
02:37:09.040 --> 02:37:11.760
I think he likes cozy thing.
Yeah, I think that. I'm

2256
02:37:11.840 --> 02:37:16.799
Family is a little one note,
like, I get it like old sitcoms,

2257
02:37:16.799 --> 02:37:18.799
and I think Munsters is more like
an actual old sitcom. So if

2258
02:37:20.120 --> 02:37:22.920
so, you're you're you're talking just
about like the old black and white sickens.

2259
02:37:22.000 --> 02:37:24.399
Yeah, I'm not. Yeah that's
what I'm thinking. I mean,

2260
02:37:24.479 --> 02:37:28.239
look in the movies. Yeah,
that's fine too, But I don't know.

2261
02:37:28.360 --> 02:37:33.239
I just Eddie Munster is nice and
he's always giving heartwarming speeches. Like

2262
02:37:33.879 --> 02:37:37.200
there's that clip, there's that viral
clip where the daughter or something was like

2263
02:37:37.239 --> 02:37:41.959
people were mean and Eddie Munster explains
why racism is bad or something. I'm

2264
02:37:43.000 --> 02:37:45.559
like, that's nice, Eddie bun. Now you're saying that we like that

2265
02:37:45.559 --> 02:37:48.559
Adams family we like racism. Well
cool, Look I'm not saying it,

2266
02:37:50.200 --> 02:37:58.319
but family monster, who's Eddie monster
kid? Right? I just like I'm

2267
02:37:58.360 --> 02:38:03.440
perfectly ok with with like, uh, you know, giving you the old

2268
02:38:03.959 --> 02:38:07.639
sixties sitcoms. Yeah, we're talking
about the sitcoms. I think I probably

2269
02:38:07.639 --> 02:38:09.200
would have more fun watching the Monsters. Yeah, like sure, but like

2270
02:38:09.479 --> 02:38:15.319
anyone, uh you know, they
made that like relevant and walking around in

2271
02:38:15.399 --> 02:38:18.600
twenty twenty four is not like Musters
movie like last year that's supposed to be

2272
02:38:18.840 --> 02:38:22.920
terrible, right right? Was it? Was it like animated on purpose?

2273
02:38:22.120 --> 02:38:28.440
No, it's it's live action and
it's supposed to be awful. Uh,

2274
02:38:28.239 --> 02:38:35.200
I kind of maybe need to see
it. Ed Michael R. O'Leary says,

2275
02:38:35.239 --> 02:38:39.280
it's garishly live action and I definitely
need to see that. Okay,

2276
02:38:39.479 --> 02:38:41.120
cool? Yeah, Hey Jeff,
what's going on with Ridge Racer? Do

2277
02:38:41.200 --> 02:38:45.760
you uncover anything about the future of
that series? No, it's too busy

2278
02:38:45.799 --> 02:38:50.360
watching old episodes of Monsters. That's
okay. Yeah, you get all y'all

2279
02:38:50.000 --> 02:38:56.719
The Monsters movies on Netflix easy to
find. Sure, I'll TV and see

2280
02:38:56.719 --> 02:39:00.520
what happens. My kids are unless
Christopher Lloyd is playing Fast in it,

2281
02:39:01.000 --> 02:39:07.000
I don't give a ship. Why
would you exactly The Monsters exactly exactly.

2282
02:39:07.159 --> 02:39:13.280
Adam Family movies are so good,
they're so good. They are true phenomenal.

2283
02:39:13.760 --> 02:39:16.079
Even the second one, which has
no right to be good, was

2284
02:39:16.159 --> 02:39:20.239
excellent. Y'all. I need to
get this off my chest because I don't

2285
02:39:20.280 --> 02:39:22.799
know where else I'm gonna get the
chance to say at this le and I

2286
02:39:24.000 --> 02:39:28.000
know that I like most of everything, or try to find them your consumer

2287
02:39:28.159 --> 02:39:33.040
jam, we know c J.
You know consumer yo, the Live Action

2288
02:39:33.680 --> 02:39:43.559
Avatar, Last Airbender. It's not
as bad as ever the Internet, y'all.

2289
02:39:43.440 --> 02:39:50.200
Everything needs a defender. This is
one I'll defend because y'all need the

2290
02:39:50.280 --> 02:39:56.159
fucking get over your fucking life in
assuming that a television show is going to

2291
02:39:56.200 --> 02:40:00.719
fix you, all right, I
like that. I do like that take.

2292
02:40:00.879 --> 02:40:03.879
I like that, Okay, cooking
Earth Go Earth, Bend and fucking

2293
02:40:05.000 --> 02:40:09.920
touch some grass. People fucking saying
that the m Night's Shamalan movie is better

2294
02:40:11.000 --> 02:40:16.520
than this are fucking broken inside in
more ways than anything is ever Any piece

2295
02:40:16.559 --> 02:40:20.959
of media is gonna fix you,
dog. I did uh, I did

2296
02:40:20.040 --> 02:40:24.760
get We did a mount rushmore JRPGs, and it was like one of the

2297
02:40:24.799 --> 02:40:28.239
first times where I got kind of
frustrated with the fandom getting like coming back

2298
02:40:28.280 --> 02:40:30.639
at us about that one, because
they're like every single one. I'm like,

2299
02:40:30.719 --> 02:40:33.799
these aren't the best JRPGs. And
no matter how many times they explain

2300
02:40:33.879 --> 02:40:37.360
that it's not necessarily the criteria,
they just couldn't get their mind around them,

2301
02:40:37.360 --> 02:40:39.600
Like how do you not know what
Mount Rushmore is? And it's like

2302
02:40:39.719 --> 02:40:41.959
no, They're just all they consume
is anime. They don't think about anything

2303
02:40:43.040 --> 02:40:46.399
else. You guys need to just
like expread your wings a little bit,

2304
02:40:46.479 --> 02:40:50.040
Please go touch some grass Earth threat
And here's the thing, y'all. Like,

2305
02:40:50.360 --> 02:40:54.079
I admit, there's some creative liberties
that I don't fucking agree with.

2306
02:40:54.319 --> 02:40:58.360
I don't like all of the casting
costumes are okay, cgi could be better,

2307
02:41:00.520 --> 02:41:05.120
absolutely atrocious, But the parts that
they did nail in the casting fucking

2308
02:41:05.360 --> 02:41:09.200
nailed all right. And also yo
yo yo, yo yo, come close,

2309
02:41:09.239 --> 02:41:13.120
babies, come close. This is
the first time, I one of

2310
02:41:13.159 --> 02:41:16.399
the first times I've gone to watch
anything that's primarily Asian. So I'm gonna

2311
02:41:16.440 --> 02:41:20.120
ask that the Council of Whites just
let this keep happening, let this one

2312
02:41:20.200 --> 02:41:24.360
slide, and let's get a season
two. Have a blessing, yeah on

2313
02:41:24.479 --> 02:41:28.280
behalf of all. Also, also, the fucking cartoon is still going to

2314
02:41:28.360 --> 02:41:33.360
fucking be there. Yeah, got
it raised. The only last Airbender media

2315
02:41:33.360 --> 02:41:39.879
I ever consumed was the m Night
Shamalan movie. I don't have an opinion

2316
02:41:39.920 --> 02:41:43.879
in this. I don't have a
say that movie is a stain on humanity.

2317
02:41:43.239 --> 02:41:48.120
Wait? Can I start watching that
show with the girls? They are

2318
02:41:48.200 --> 02:41:52.079
five and seven the cartoon? Yeah, they could watch it now, Okay,

2319
02:41:52.319 --> 02:41:54.719
yeah, you think they would appreciate
you? They would they would like

2320
02:41:54.799 --> 02:41:58.120
it or would it be they would
one hundred percent like it, And I

2321
02:41:58.200 --> 02:42:01.879
think it'd be something that they'd want
they eventually revisit and be like, oh

2322
02:42:01.040 --> 02:42:05.760
wow, this is about that.
Dan wants me to show them twenty four.

2323
02:42:05.879 --> 02:42:07.760
Ada's already in the room half the
time when I was watching twenty four.

2324
02:42:07.840 --> 02:42:11.719
So, I mean, anyone can
watch four. It's the most sacred

2325
02:42:11.840 --> 02:42:15.399
bullshit ever, Like you can just
it's it's easy sacra Is that really what?

2326
02:42:16.120 --> 02:42:18.440
I just think it well, not
sacerate, it's just like it's so

2327
02:42:18.479 --> 02:42:26.159
low steaks and uh like I thought
that like there's nukes involved. Yeah that's

2328
02:42:26.120 --> 02:42:31.000
for Jeff Bacalo. No, it's
it's just it's so unseerious that you can't

2329
02:42:31.040 --> 02:42:35.360
believe anything that's happening in that fuck. That's fair catastrophe of a television program.

2330
02:42:35.440 --> 02:42:43.959
Speaking of white people, News John
Waters. Do you guys know who

2331
02:42:43.040 --> 02:42:48.040
John Waters is? Yeah, of
course, the number one white the first

2332
02:42:48.120 --> 02:42:52.959
white person. Uh. He's making
u his first movie in twenty years with

2333
02:42:52.159 --> 02:42:58.280
Aubrey Plaza. WHOA, Okay,
that's fantastic. Are they gonna kill a

2334
02:42:58.360 --> 02:43:00.639
chicken in this one? Are they
gonna eat dog shit at the end of

2335
02:43:00.639 --> 02:43:05.639
this one too? Is phenomenal news
for anyone who likes freaky deeky of the

2336
02:43:05.799 --> 02:43:09.440
cinema. Oh, John Waters,
you can have it. Make Audi Plaza

2337
02:43:09.760 --> 02:43:13.280
have a spoonful of the vacuum dust
from a mattress at the end of the

2338
02:43:13.360 --> 02:43:18.920
movie. All right, I was
gonna read another email, but after thinking

2339
02:43:18.959 --> 02:43:28.280
of a spoonful of my bed,
I can't reading. We got a bunch

2340
02:43:28.319 --> 02:43:33.799
of stuff popping off, as always
on Johnny bomb dot com. Games Mornings

2341
02:43:33.840 --> 02:43:37.799
for the rest of the week,
Red Grub. Yeah, Gamess Mornings for

2342
02:43:37.840 --> 02:43:39.079
the rest of the week. That's
right. Uh, I'm gonna have one

2343
02:43:39.120 --> 02:43:43.000
tomorrow morning, and it'll be good
and fun and informative. Even I'm gonna

2344
02:43:43.000 --> 02:43:46.760
make this one informative. There we
go, There we go. Uh,

2345
02:43:46.360 --> 02:43:54.479
perhaps maybe the finale of Blake Clubs. Oh god, that's tomorrow. Mortal

2346
02:43:54.559 --> 02:43:58.600
Kombat metrologies like McCamy. I misspoke
earlier. I said the number one white.

2347
02:43:58.600 --> 02:44:03.799
The number one white is on g
of course. God, Jeff,

2348
02:44:03.799 --> 02:44:07.239
what do you think do you think? I you think I just go back

2349
02:44:07.280 --> 02:44:11.319
to that last level? You think
I tried to get while if I were

2350
02:44:11.399 --> 02:44:13.479
you, I would butt my head
against the safe file I have. And

2351
02:44:13.639 --> 02:44:16.920
I think because of that, you're
probably better off going back to Bridge and

2352
02:44:18.000 --> 02:44:20.799
just being responsible. Young man.
Going back to Bridge is so miserable.

2353
02:44:22.000 --> 02:44:26.120
I know. Well, okay,
here's my here's my real advice. Go

2354
02:44:26.280 --> 02:44:28.559
back to Bridge. You at the
beginning of the stream. If it goes

2355
02:44:28.680 --> 02:44:31.680
bad, give up right away.
But there's a chance that you're gonna have

2356
02:44:31.719 --> 02:44:33.559
that thing where I took a break. I came back and now this is

2357
02:44:33.639 --> 02:44:37.760
easy for some reason, so I
didn't realize you were You got yourself into

2358
02:44:37.760 --> 02:44:43.040
a bad spot there. Yeah,
because like your safe out keeps so many

2359
02:44:43.120 --> 02:44:46.360
lives and continues in IIMs you have, so my safe all right now is

2360
02:44:46.520 --> 02:44:50.479
no lives and no continue So like
I get one shot at the last level

2361
02:44:50.600 --> 02:44:52.959
with no checkpoints, and you know, the last level was very difficult,

2362
02:44:54.200 --> 02:44:58.120
So it's frustrating. But that last
that level four, it also very frustrating.

2363
02:44:58.200 --> 02:45:03.559
It just getting asked it once was
kind of a challenge, so going

2364
02:45:03.920 --> 02:45:07.280
doing that again just seems miserable.
It makes it feel like I didn't actually

2365
02:45:07.319 --> 02:45:11.680
make any progress even though I did
so, I don't know, we'll see

2366
02:45:13.239 --> 02:45:16.040
I wish, I wish you nothing
about the best mic. I could be

2367
02:45:16.120 --> 02:45:18.760
done with this game tomorrow if I
can beat it. That's I just really

2368
02:45:18.799 --> 02:45:22.319
want to get a tan record chat. I just yeah, you know what

2369
02:45:22.719 --> 02:45:26.440
I'm gonna Dan's up next, right, he's gonna do this. Can I

2370
02:45:26.520 --> 02:45:28.639
find the costume and send him the
game back of our Yeah? I I

2371
02:45:28.840 --> 02:45:31.639
need to, I can, I
can? Is there something I can do

2372
02:45:31.799 --> 02:45:35.719
to like make it worse for him? Like I feel like I haven't pushed

2373
02:45:35.799 --> 02:45:37.319
my put my thumb on the scales
at all here. Well we could think

2374
02:45:37.360 --> 02:45:41.120
of something. Man, we can
always like calling Alex too if we need

2375
02:45:41.200 --> 02:45:43.600
to, like get some recommendations.
I just want to, you know,

2376
02:45:43.719 --> 02:45:46.520
I sometimes you just got to see
someone sweat a little more, you know,

2377
02:45:46.799 --> 02:45:48.159
he's not Yeah, oh he's played
one game. Me and I could

2378
02:45:48.159 --> 02:45:52.040
both play three. Like he gets
away with too much shit. He gets

2379
02:45:52.040 --> 02:45:54.559
away with a lot. Maybe you
should have to write a review when he's

2380
02:45:54.600 --> 02:45:58.120
done about SUPERMANSI should be to its
metacritic. Well, I'm not a psycho,

2381
02:45:58.239 --> 02:46:07.280
Mike Patrick write a book. Yeah, we gotta. Let's everyone have

2382
02:46:07.360 --> 02:46:11.239
a think on this U as long
as it involves him playing. Yeah,

2383
02:46:11.360 --> 02:46:16.280
Superman sixty four, I'm not changing
that. Yeah, let's let's figure it

2384
02:46:16.360 --> 02:46:20.440
out together. I have a couple
ideas in my back Pocke great love it.

2385
02:46:22.000 --> 02:46:26.760
Some of them are more physical than
uh you think. We also got

2386
02:46:26.920 --> 02:46:30.799
an episode of Voicemail dumb Truck this
week and no BCR this week because we're

2387
02:46:30.840 --> 02:46:33.239
just going to do a fat upf
Yeah. We played Final Fantasy for quite

2388
02:46:33.239 --> 02:46:37.239
some time, for quite some time. I believe Tam and uh Lucy are

2389
02:46:37.239 --> 02:46:46.959
gonna be hopping in and co piloting
with Grub Final Tam Lucy, let's regrub.

2390
02:46:46.840 --> 02:46:52.319
Yeah, there is there we go, and I'm probably gonna play some

2391
02:46:52.360 --> 02:46:54.520
Mars on Thursday. You know,
I'm gonna try to just beat it.

2392
02:46:54.840 --> 02:46:58.959
Yeah you probably can't. You can
do it. There's a lot of people

2393
02:47:00.239 --> 02:47:01.879
watching who might even be there,
who know what to do next to is

2394
02:47:03.159 --> 02:47:05.200
perfect, And that's fine. I'm
not worried about spoilers, and that gemes

2395
02:47:05.319 --> 02:47:09.000
very good about Like, yeah,
maybe some things are frustrating, but every

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single screen is like a checkpoint.
There's infinite lies, and there's checkpoints even

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within those screens. So death is
not too much of a setback. There

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we go, not much setback.
Death is not a setback. You can't

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trust the sorcerer sometimes. You can't
trust the sorcerer sometimes, and you can

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trust me that this podcast has come
to a close. We will see you

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next week for another episode of the
Giant BombCast. It'll be eight thirty next

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week. Holy smokes love a good
number. And I love you for listening.

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I appreciate you for listening. So
does Jeff. So does Jeff,

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so does Earl. And we'll see
you next week for another episode. Oh

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the Giant Bombcab. It's gonna be
March next episode. Shut up down the

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month of Jeff. We should do
a March madness. I don't know of

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what of brain disease alride