WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:30.679 Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, February thirteenth, twenty twenty four. Welcome to 2 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:35.640 the Giant BombCast, Episode eight one hundred and twenty seven. I'm your host 3 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:41.240 this week, and I am also powered by NZXT. Jim Shoa writing the 4 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:48.159 Lightning of news and in other stuff that rhymes with news shoes. Jeff Grubb. 5 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:52.119 I've never been electrocuted by lightning. I have been electrocuted in multiple times 6 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:58.000 by a garage door. The most electric, the most electrifying man in all 7 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:06.280 of games entertainment, Dan Ryker. If you smell la la la, that's 8 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:07.599 all I got. Really, I don't don't really have a nickname or anything. 9 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:11.920 I just want to It's not like rolling a tongue. You just say 10 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.519 la la la a lot. It's not really that. It's not as impressive 11 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:17.480 when you like break it down into sure. Yeah, it's just based like 12 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:21.000 la la a lot into a mic. Yeah. The most musical man on 13 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:25.560 this website and on this podcast. He's singing la la la, la la 14 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:30.760 la constantly while he's visualizing apples and theorizing whether or not Dan got struck by 15 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:36.040 lightning. Jeff Becklar, that's all correct. Hello friends, how goes it. 16 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.519 How are we doing on this Tuesday? Lovely Tuesday? Yo, Yo, 17 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:45.000 everyone listening right now. It's February thirteenth. If you haven't made plans 18 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:49.159 or done stuff for Valentine's Day, if you have a significant other, keep 19 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.519 listening to this podcast and go do those things right now, leave work, 20 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:59.840 but keeps who knows. Yeah, I get a PC for your significant other. 21 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:01.760 That come like a couple of weeks later. I did get something off 22 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:07.159 the TikTok shop. Apparently like they're gonna I got something for my wife, 23 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.759 thank you, and my two kids, and apparently they're gonna open and there's 24 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:15.800 like a little cake inside, but a bunch of like paper butterflies. Those 25 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:20.879 are legit, Okay, so I think, yes, Jane, you might 26 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.400 know better than me, so so Dan, how they are? It's God, 27 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:30.599 they're like rubber banded, so you twist them right and then like you 28 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:31.919 hold them in place, the box will hold them in place, and once 29 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:36.759 you open it, it'll release that pressure so like it'll just keep spinning and 30 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.759 spin away you search for If you want to get a bunch of those, 31 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:46.240 God, I will send it to you, and I like fun. It'll 32 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:50.759 be like an event and I'm like, Okay, that's that's Valentine's Day covered 33 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.919 for me. That's awesome. Whenever it's uh, Mike Manatti's turn for Blake 34 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:59.520 Club again, we need to somehow pack the box with those butterflies just to 35 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:06.319 scare him. Oh that'd be cute. Yeah, definitely he's talk about him. 36 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.240 Yeah, very modest levels or just zero on that guy. Yeah, 37 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:14.240 yeah, his ego is a is a complete zero, just like yeah, 38 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:16.680 absolutely know he's the Adam Driver of Giant Bomby. We'll never watch or listen 39 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:22.120 to himself in anything. Yeah, you know after a net. Uh, 40 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:24.000 after y'all watched a NET, I think so I would say that he is 41 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:28.800 the Adam Driver. I think at that movie every day. Yeah really yeah, 42 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.080 every day. Yea, yeah, I'm a good bother. I didn't 43 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:37.240 know Adam Driver is like that. I didn't know he doesn't he promot like 44 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:40.400 that. He was on that Terry Gross show on n p R and they 45 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.840 like played a clip of him. It's like, yeah, thank you, 46 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.520 fresh Air. It's like not even a video clip, it's just like an 47 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.319 audio clip and he has to take off his headphones and like wait until it's 48 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.039 done before you can put him back on because he just cannot stand it. 49 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:57.159 Do you do you think he he thinks he's a good actor though, if 50 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:01.560 he can't watch, imagine, I imagine by this point he's he's convinced that 51 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.400 helps. You know, people, he's a desirable actor. Let's get one. 52 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:06.479 Let's get it out of a driver on the dump truck. You know, 53 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:10.960 oh for sure that he's played games. How old is he? He's 54 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.439 around our age. Yeah, he's forty years old. He's like my age. 55 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.600 Yeah. Yeah, he was in the Marines. He was definitely in 56 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:24.600 the military of some sort. Yeah, they let you like bring game advances 57 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.519 or anything. Isn't there a game boy in the Nintendo store in New York 58 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.040 that was in a desert storm and they're yeah, still it's melted and still 59 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:35.360 works. They took it, they took it down, but they did have 60 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:39.079 that for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah apparently. 61 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:43.199 Okay, Uh, the super Bowl was this past weekend. I don't know 62 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.480 if you have any feelings about it. I'm still devastrating and broken inside. 63 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.639 Sorry, Bud's all right, I'm in Kansas City, but I won't rub 64 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:54.160 it in. So it's okay, Dan, I completely understand it's not like 65 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.399 the Niners have been there multiple times in the past decade and uh, you 66 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.360 know, just not capture the gold. I don't think we're ever going to 67 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.160 finish your story. I'm sorry, Kyle Shanahan. Yeah, I feel bad 68 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:08.920 about that. Jane. To get to get to the final, the sup 69 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:15.079 the Final super Bolt Top and just to lose. You know, I missed 70 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.920 that story. Patrick Mahomes pull your leg down from the ladder and then just 71 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.639 climb over you and get the belt. You know, it's weird. I 72 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:27.079 was watching the Super Bowl and the people I was there with were like, 73 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:31.959 oh at halftime after Usher, everyone was like, Oh, She's just gonna 74 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.319 win this game, like easily, And I was like, what do you 75 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:36.920 want? Why do you know that? Because Patrick, that's what they do. 76 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.879 They were down by they lose and then win, which is cool. 77 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:46.759 I guess it's just if the game's not over, Patrick Mahomes is gonna win. 78 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.560 That's just how incredible. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah. He does 79 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:54.439 sound like Kenny Powers too. Someone pointed that out to me. Yeah, 80 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:59.560 Kenny Powers and Kermit the Frog. Yeah, insane, absolutely insane how much 81 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:01.959 he sounds like Kenny Power. And someone actually did it that that video of 82 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:08.040 like they had a Kenny Powers uh like clip playing and they like somehow like 83 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.800 matched it up so it looked like Patrick Mahomes was talking and I was like, 84 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.279 that's just what he's saying. And then they showed that it was actually 85 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:18.720 Kenny Powers, Like, oh my god, they sound exactly alike. Do 86 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:23.480 you guys have a favorite commercial? I mean it sucked. I've realized that, 87 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:25.680 Like I watched the Super Bowl every year, but like, when did 88 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:29.959 it turn into every commercial just being like, here's eight celebrities and they're doing 89 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:34.759 something weird. Well, it wasn't Dad sadury, Like there were like clever 90 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.560 ideas and it wasn't all filled with like here's Jason Momoa, here's you know. 91 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:42.000 It was definitely in the last two years it's been every commercial is a 92 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:46.160 celebrity thing. I will say the Michael Sarah one, Oh yeah, pretty 93 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.279 good. That Eric Warheim Eric Wareheim director directed that. So it's like, 94 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:55.680 Okay, Eric Wareham directing a super Bowl commercial. That's incredible. You know. 95 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:00.000 I don't know the commercials are more entertaining than the game for sure. 96 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.480 From my position to I think, like I just think there's more value there 97 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:10.879 yo some some drama that got started within this household. Was you know the 98 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:15.519 half Bowl or the halftime performance by Usher Great? I love Usher Er Baby. 99 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:17.399 Yeah. As soon as that man busted out the skates, I'm like, 100 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:21.800 look at this guy. That was awesome. That was very exciting. 101 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:27.680 That was so cool. My partner lost her ship as soon as Alicia Keys 102 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.279 made the surprise run in. And then you know, Alicia Keys has been 103 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:35.439 married for an extended period of time to rapper producer Swiss Beats. I think 104 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:41.839 they have children together. And then Urscha Raymond gets a little a little too 105 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.040 close for around there and then like the caddle and then like you know, 106 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.079 both like my partner and I were like, they're enjoying this too much. 107 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:55.600 They've been transported back to two thousand and four where they did this song together. 108 00:07:56.439 --> 00:08:01.079 And then, man, Sweet Beats is like crushing us soda can somewhere 109 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.639 upset Swiss Speeds from the NBA Street soundtrack, of course, exactly, of 110 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.319 course, of course they both seemed like they were enjoying themselves, right, 111 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:13.680 That doesn't seem to be the issue for Swiss Beats apparently. I mean, 112 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:20.360 well, I mean I'll say that Usher seems like a sexual force of nature, 113 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:22.720 like you kind of just you gotta put people on on stage with them. 114 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:28.160 It's just gonna happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because my partner 115 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.600 I went to Vegas and we saw his residency and that whole show was basically 116 00:08:31.679 --> 00:08:39.000 just a strip club performance. And then like God blessed the older elderly woman 117 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.759 behind me. But as soon as like Usher like ripped his shirt off and 118 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:46.240 was like body rolling, she was like, oh my lord, Usher Raymond, 119 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:52.480 your mother is in attendance tonight, literal pearl clutching. It was great. 120 00:08:52.919 --> 00:09:00.360 I did pop very hard when Ludacris yea, they were to do the 121 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:03.240 montage thing where they do like thirty seconds of each song, and I thought 122 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.879 they were gonna do yeah before Ludacros came in, but they had him and 123 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.320 Little John, so that was good. It was really good. Yeah, 124 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.000 a little good too. He ramped up in a real satisfying way, I 125 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:16.879 thought. Ye post Malone of course, saying the national anthem I believe with 126 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.039 the guitar with a guitar. Yeah yeah, I feel like I had to 127 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:26.120 explain him to people. Part Okay, what's the TLDR for post Malone? 128 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.720 How would you do that? I just said he's a gamer. He likes 129 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.559 wrestling, and I was like, he's just a gamer with face tattoos. 130 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.519 He's pretty talented, leave malone. Is he a SoundCloud guy? Is he 131 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:43.480 one of these guys with I assume anyone that is musically popular today that has 132 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.240 face tattoos first got started on SoundCloud. I'm sure he did. Yeah. 133 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:52.279 His early internet presence that I'm aware of is that he was a Minecraft YouTuber 134 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.639 for a while. Damn Okay, Yeah, oh yeah, it was like 135 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:05.600 did basically basically like just like you know, like he did Xbox Controller mind. 136 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.399 Yeah. Hey, I saw Wonka over the weekend and it's the best 137 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:15.600 movie of twenty twenty three. We all wanka on it. Wonka is phenomenal. 138 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:22.639 Okay, several times I cannot believe the task at hand that was laid 139 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:28.559 out in front of a film's aspirations to attempt to tackle Willy Wonka, and 140 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:35.639 this fucking movie stuck the landing in such an unbelievably incredible way. Hats off 141 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:41.440 to everyone and anyone indirectly and directly related to that film. Well done. 142 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.559 It is sucking great. It's a Paul King joint. You trust the dude 143 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.360 that has made Paddington one and two to make my life now, I trust 144 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:54.200 this person. Wonka was spectacular, the music and it is actually it's pretty 145 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.159 decent as well. Dude, everything about it. You're just sort of like, 146 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.000 how did how did they fucking do so good? You're just you know, 147 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.679 you're just like man, you think like anything, anyone who tries to 148 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:09.559 do Wonka now is is sort of dead on arrival. But no, Hugh 149 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.879 Grant. Hugh Grant's performance of that movie fucking fantastic as well. Yeah, 150 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:20.679 it's great, everything's great, right, yes, yeah, yeah, Keeth 151 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.879 and Michael, Oh my god, he was hilarious, like everything is perfect. 152 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.120 Was that Olivia Coleman in that movie? Yes? Oh god, well, 153 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.840 I mean you know coalmeister coal miner, she's great. I love her. 154 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:35.879 You know it's Do you think you would be more excited about Avatar three 155 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.840 if it was directed by the Paddington two guy. I think that's to come 156 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.519 around on it. I'll tell you that. What if all the Navi started 157 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:46.240 wearing like red hats, like like red bucket hats and they were all played 158 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:52.799 by Hugh Grant, Maybe look what if they they What if instead of wanting 159 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.600 to connect with a, they wanted to connect with marmalade. Yeah, I 160 00:11:56.039 --> 00:12:03.360 mean that's a that's a better ambition. It was made up nerd ship. 161 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:09.320 Yeah, exactly. These guys are eating chocolate that's making them fly. Okay, 162 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:15.399 we're not just like tail fucking all right? Was there t fucking too? 163 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.399 I don't think there was? Was there? No? Yeah, I 164 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.399 was all in one. Yeah, was applied because they had like fifty kids. 165 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.399 But yeah, I mean, you know what happened, but it's not 166 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:28.039 on screen. That's right, it's not on screen. Yeah. I also 167 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.879 saw the Iron Claw. Yeah, back, I didn't need to know that 168 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.919 story, but I didn't like it. No, I didn't say that. 169 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.480 I said I didn't read it. I said I did not need to know 170 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.240 that story. This story is a goddamn nightmare. You don't think there's a 171 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.000 place to tell stories of tragedies and movies? I just didn't. I just 172 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.919 didn't want that. I didn't want to know this story. I do not 173 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:58.080 the worst story they left a whole brother suicide even cooler, even cooler. 174 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.600 I mean, look, I guess was like, I'm not saying this story 175 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.360 should be buried, and none of us should know about it. I'm just 176 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:09.120 saying I did not want to sit down watch a movie about the most fucked 177 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.679 up, terribly cursed family in the history of sports. I guess it didn't 178 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:15.279 surprise me as much as because, like, I knew what to expect going 179 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:16.200 in, But if you go in, I did. What did you know 180 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.720 going in about that? Zach Effron looked like he man, wait, you 181 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.440 didn't know it was like a tragic story. No, I mean I assume 182 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.960 he had hit me over the like I mean I assumed, you know, 183 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.759 the dad in the beginning who's just like his family's cursed. I'm like, 184 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.600 oh, cool, Well that's that's foreboding. Like you know, I'd like, 185 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:43.960 that's like starting that like United ninety three movie and be like, oh 186 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:52.559 cool Airplane movie that okay, into analogy a song of silence and expecting a 187 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:54.320 musical and it's just like, here's how you hurted all these people. It's 188 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:58.960 like, oh my god, sure we're starting Titanic and being like, look, 189 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:03.000 can't wait to see this thing. No, I think, yeah, 190 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:07.960 this is worse than all of those things. Yeah. Bad, yeah bad. 191 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.320 The version of good Player is also just bad. Bad. Oh that 192 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:15.799 was the biggest tragedy of the entire film. That person should be arrested. 193 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:20.000 Okay, you did the best. I mean, look, it wasn't a 194 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.320 good impression, but hey, you got hired to do a role. He's 195 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.360 he wasn't the right guy for it. A lot of mistakes for me, 196 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:30.559 A lot of mistakes for me, don't Yeah, I don't know what to 197 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.480 say. Like I we watched it. We had to watch this in like 198 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.840 three sittings, just how deeply uncomfortable it was. I kept looking over Stacey 199 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:41.639 and I'm just like I can't believe this is this also is happening now, 200 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:45.480 Like like what is actually what a what a feel good set that must have 201 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:50.320 been? What an awesome shoot this all must have been for everyone involved? 202 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.559 My god, not good. And then and then on top of that, 203 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.440 I told you, I'm trying having to explain to her that like, no, 204 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:01.720 it's all fake, like there's not even like no, everything is arranged, 205 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:05.200 everything is pre arranged. She kept trying to find little hints in the 206 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.240 movie that it was somehow still real. They they do that sometimes in like 207 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:11.600 wrestling movies and depends on TV where that's the movie. Yeah, it's like 208 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.720 no, they're just they're working. It's the movie. They're trying to make 209 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.759 movie magic. They're like double kfa in there, because when you're acting as 210 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.399 a wrestler, who's in the ring, that's a double brother. Yeah, 211 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.279 I mean that guy Frond was pretty good. I'll get everybody is good. 212 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:30.519 I love zachar Yeah, except the Rick Flair guy. But yeah, fuck 213 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.960 man, that's that was dark. How to watch Wanka cleanse the palate? 214 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.639 Sure? I spent the Super Bowl being called the notorious b HG by my 215 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.519 father. He said that over and over and over again because now follow the 216 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:48.080 logic here the fall righter's logic. O, wait, just just clarify the 217 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.759 notorious b HG. That's correct because of the logic. Early on the logic, 218 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:56.240 he kept putting his mountain dew major melon on this thing on the couch 219 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.720 that like like goes in when you were climbed, and so it was like 220 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.840 clearly going to spill on my carpet, and the mountain dew was and so 221 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:04.919 I was just nicely saying, oh hey, please, can you can you 222 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.960 put it on the coaster on the thing here, and he goes, ooh 223 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.480 me, fancy pinch per carpet. I didn't want to spin out my carpet. 224 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.960 I remember when you used to eat cheese dogs out of a shoe box, 225 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.000 and now you're fancy mans. You're mister Better Homes and Gardens Notorious BHG 226 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:25.080 here. And so for like four hours he's calling me the notorious BHG because 227 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:29.240 I asked him to not spill mountain dew on my carpet. I've talked a 228 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:33.639 lot of shit about Paul reichert Okay, I'm walking it all back. Oh, 229 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:37.799 in god forbid, I made a cocktail and oh, he's like, 230 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.360 oh, mister cocktail, mister cock drink a real man beer. I got 231 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:42.480 to get my little pregnancy strip in this, and I was like, what 232 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.799 are you talking about? Pregnancy strip? It's like, oh, the stupid 233 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:49.679 thing with all the lines on. I was like the measuring cup. So 234 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.240 yeah, that was a weekend full of getting shit for making a cocktail. 235 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.279 Oh man, what did you make more about cheese dogs out of a shoe 236 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:59.679 box? What? What was that? I want to know what cocktail he 237 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.039 made? Oh? I I got one called the Exam that I like to 238 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.079 make. It's it's a shamboord, it's a Grand Marnier. It's some vodka 239 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:10.400 and it's uh yeah, a little splash Fraanngelico on there. That's a good 240 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.000 one. I'm getting into cocktail stuff. It's fun and you know what, 241 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.640 God damn it. It is a nice thing to do. And oh, 242 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:18.519 against everything, it goes against everything. Ball raes, Oh, just drink 243 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:21.119 a real man bear and shut up, you know, just drink, just 244 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:23.279 drink, of course, just drink a butt. But yeah, I mean, 245 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.000 how do you have time for this? When he was busy telling actors 246 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.839 what their job is? That was really did you did you, Jane or 247 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.119 Backlard? Did you happen to see this? Uh? I heard about it? 248 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.720 You told I think you told us yesterday? Yeah, he genuinely. 249 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.440 We were watching this like weird Broadway performance on lettering because I wanted to see 250 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:42.640 his reaction on stream. And he's like, what do these people put on 251 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:45.559 their WUT two forums? What do they put in their tax forums? And 252 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.000 I was like, probably actor and Alex Foniolo had been in the chat like 253 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.759 ten minutes earlier, and he's like, well, they're not actors. I 254 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:56.119 was like, wait, you don't think Broadway performers or actors? No, 255 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.839 they're Badway performers. They're like singing guys, right, but you don't think 256 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.440 that's technically acting. It's like, well, no, they're not being filmed. 257 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.359 You have to be filmed to be an actor. Okay, so you're 258 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:10.920 saying acting didn't exist before movie cameras. He's like, yeah, yeah, 259 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.920 So I fucking voicemailed or not voicemailed. I speaker phone called Boniello this is 260 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:21.359 on Instagram and had them talk it out, and Boniello rightfully said it was 261 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.079 a fucking crazy thing to say, and then eventually hung up on him so 262 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:26.079 that I can't hang up with my father. Turns out I just have to 263 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:30.000 live with my entire life. Sure you can't, but yeah, no he 264 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.920 And that's the thing is people in the chat were saying, like, oh, 265 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:34.720 you realize how much of him you summon, like when you're on podcasts 266 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.839 and stuff like that. I'm like, God, damn it, you're probably 267 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:40.400 right. I probably am, because, like I know, whatever reaction gets 268 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:42.839 out of me when he's being super Paul record, I'm probably tapping into that 269 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.079 when I'm like trying to get a rise out of people and stuff. But 270 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:52.000 he's shooting he actually doesn't think Broadway performers are actors. That's fucking insane, 271 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:57.799 Like holy shit. Well, you know again, every time you do open 272 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:03.039 up your mouth on a podcast, you do, you do need to also 273 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.880 remember the feeling that you have. I know, I know what you do 274 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.240 with your father. Decade plus my life is trying to excize all the Paul 275 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:15.119 record from my veins, and I think I just learning these lessons saying that 276 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:21.279 the you know, the feeling is sometimes your conversation Paul and have it like 277 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:23.960 just do your arguments back at you. I think that would get me since 278 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.319 in terms of being like, oh you have the court Mario from Paul Riker 279 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.960 would be like a central crisis. Yes, you would probably explode a little 280 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:36.319 bit. It would be dangerous. All of this sounds like several side quests 281 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:41.799 that you can embark on in like a dragon infinite. Well, here's the 282 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:48.559 game music. I forget that island all right. I feel like Paul would 283 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.759 enjoy his time on Dan Doco Island. No, he was talking about going 284 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:56.799 to islands before and he fucking hates it. Okay, yeah, he actually 285 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.559 hates it. I just know what his reasons are. You know, you've 286 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:04.799 been spending more time on with like a dragon infinite wealth. Have you been 287 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:07.519 enjoying it? Where are you at right now? Yeah, I'm at a 288 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:15.000 point where you take over as Cure you back in Japan, and it's like, 289 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.839 now you're like running a whole different crew, separate from the Kasuga Ichuban 290 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.519 Kasuga clan or you know crew, and it's I'm like, oh my god, 291 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:26.759 now I'm like this whole other game I'm playing over here now. And 292 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:29.519 it does the thing of like, oh, it's it's keeping things interesting, 293 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.359 and I'm finding myself like, yeah, okay, the objective's over there, 294 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:36.319 but I do kind of want to clear out the map a little bit. 295 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:38.359 There's all these interesting icons. It's going to tell me stuff about these characters, 296 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:42.000 and they're gonna have conversations, and they're relatively easy to find and get 297 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:45.480 to. And you get there and it's like you just you could kind of 298 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.480 button through it and read it really quick, and then it like expands your 299 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:52.039 friendship Bingo and I'm like really enjoying filling out those cards. I want to 300 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.720 start doing that in real life, like have a friendship Bingo cards with you 301 00:20:55.759 --> 00:21:02.279 guys. Do that. We should definitely do that. And then and then 302 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:07.440 it's like there's all these like kick the bucket list stuff that Kurriu was doing, 303 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.160 and it's like, I'm because it's like clearly like they're trying to like 304 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:12.960 wrap up history in some way. It seems like they were like preparing to 305 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:15.200 move on for him. I can't really tell someone who doesn't played a lot, 306 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:19.079 but there's like a huge history this character has in the series, and 307 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:23.680 it's like all these moments of him going around this town that has been part 308 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:26.880 of the game franchise from the beginning, and him remembering all these moments, 309 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.000 and it's like I did not experience almost any of these. I've missed out 310 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.440 on almost all that stuff. And yet it's like, man, it's just 311 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.599 nice to know that this game has so much reverence for its history and for 312 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.200 the fans that love this character, and it makes me like the character more 313 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:45.799 because I know that there's all this fondness from the people playing the game and 314 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:49.640 from the people making the game. It is it's it's like it's something kind 315 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:55.359 of something kind of special, even though it's like not really necessarily influencing my 316 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:59.359 own history there because again I don't have that overall. The game just continue 317 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:03.000 continues to be fun the you know when I as I do those like friendship 318 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:06.640 bingo list, of course, that increases my social links with characters and on 319 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:08.599 my squad, and that means we can do even more in combat and the 320 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:15.000 combat becomes even better. Unlocked a new ability for cureou in combat where it 321 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:18.279 just becomes the old games again in the middle of a turn based combat fight, 322 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:22.680 and that completely rules school Man. That's awesome. Yes, oh that 323 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.119 is a different fighting system completely. Yes, it's really really great. So 324 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:30.440 I'm like, I'm at a point where, hey, I'm having so much 325 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:33.759 fun with this game. I'm enjoying taking my time, and I do start 326 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.200 to feel some anxiety about all these other things that are coming out that I 327 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.200 want to get to. Yeah, so I'm like, okay, time to 328 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:42.680 get back on the you know, just bullet train through these missions. And 329 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:45.119 then when I do that, I'm also having a ton of fun. So 330 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.519 it's just it's a game that really is fitting me with me really well. 331 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:52.960 A lot of that does come down to it nailing the humor, nailing the 332 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:56.559 tone, having a lot of irreverence for what kind of game it is, 333 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.319 just like, hey, yeah, this is a an RPG and and it's 334 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.720 an RBG that has the entire history and understands what those were and is very 335 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.880 sort of tongue in cheek about it. And I really appreciate that as someone 336 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:11.000 who's like watched many of those games from a distance, not really been able 337 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:14.480 to get into many of them, but understands like what they are this game, 338 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:17.680 understanding what they are, deconstructing them, having fun with that. I 339 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:19.400 can get completely get on board with that. And I have, Yeah, 340 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:22.400 I love the reminiscing stuff back in Japan. It is awesome and it makes 341 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:26.599 me happy for like long time Yahkaza fans because you know, I'm like you 342 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.359 grub, you know, I've dabbled with the only one I beat was Zero. 343 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:30.720 I've dabbled with the other one. But like you know, I'm getting 344 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.200 like maybe fifteen percent of these reminiscing references and stuff. But I think it's 345 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:37.960 so cool because like it reminds me of like when I was playing through Middle 346 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:40.240 Year Solid four and it was kind of a similar thing where it's like a 347 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:42.680 snake's old and this is maybe his last, you know, hurrah, this 348 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:45.920 is the you know, and then when you go back to Shadow Moses at 349 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:48.640 one point and I was like, oh man, this is such a just 350 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:51.839 like catnip for like a long time Meddle Year, solid fan. And in 351 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:53.880 the way that game also like brought in all these old characters and was very 352 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:57.400 you know, referential towards the series past, like and I remember how much 353 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:00.839 I love that as a Medal Year fan, Like, I'm sure yahka is 354 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.880 the fans are just like, oh this is this is so fun. Yeah. 355 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.920 From the BCR episode we did on Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, Lexi 356 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:14.160 Imron and Jesse Vittelli were were sharing that it was a It felt a little 357 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:17.039 bit weird at first to bust carry you out and it kind of felt like, 358 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:18.279 all right, well we got to bring curry you out. So because 359 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:25.480 Kirius popular with everyone, right, but by the end of Infinite Wealth, 360 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:26.799 uh. I don't want to put words in any of their mouths, but 361 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:32.240 it did feel like the consensus was this was a better and more proper passing 362 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:37.359 of the torch of the series from kure You to Ichibon, and I feel 363 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:40.960 like I didn't quite get that in the original like a Dragon, but here 364 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:47.400 it's they are definitely setting Ichiban up to take on the mantle of like the 365 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:51.960 protagonist moving forward for like a Dragon or whatever we're going to call the franchise 366 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:55.160 in a couple of years. Yeah, but Jesus Christ, the writing of 367 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:57.599 the game, even even the main quest, where I thought like it would 368 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:00.359 just drag on a little bit too much much, you know, they keep 369 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:04.359 it interesting and everything pays off. It's not like it's a bunch of loose 370 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:07.920 threads that they forget about. It's like, no, everything sort of builds 371 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:11.880 to something and and they take it seriously but not too seriously most of the 372 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:14.920 time. And when they do, it's usually well earned. But it's like, 373 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:17.119 you know, for me, it's like, yeah, I'm I'm going 374 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:19.880 from these story moments to story moment, and I'm sometimes I'm half engaged and 375 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:22.799 sometimes I'm fully engaged. And then I get back to the combat and I'm 376 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:27.559 in the job system and one of the characters is just a dominatrix now who's 377 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:32.039 like what kind a special move where she like just steps on your junket electrocutes 378 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:37.079 and it's like, this is just a phenomenal video game. Yeah, this 379 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:41.359 is just incredible that they're just doing it. And she's like she's like well, 380 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:42.960 knock you down and like Spaky on the button, it does all kinds 381 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:47.400 of damage. It's great. It's what a cool thing, speak of everything 382 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:49.279 paying off. It's the funniest thing in the world in me that Dondoco Island. 383 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:53.720 The reward for like spending seven hours catching bugs and like building porno stores 384 00:25:55.039 --> 00:26:00.680 is that they give you a golden eye. Laser is a fucking combat everyone. 385 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:06.079 It cuts the space and shows a satellite shooting a laser down and killing 386 00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:08.480 a PRIs And it's not explained even a little bit, like why would you 387 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:11.400 get that because of this? It's like, no, you of course you 388 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:18.200 got that because you island. Yeah, it's of course us. It's it's 389 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:23.440 very poor timing for me personally to to try and continue to uh progress forward 390 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:30.640 in Persona three Reload, which is a very serious story, and some of 391 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.680 the you know I got, I think I have to concede that this is 392 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.079 like a remake remaster of the original game where they didn't have just too many 393 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.240 things. But some of the social links and Persona three I can't fucking stand 394 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.599 them. I think you guys may have seen this circling around the internet by 395 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:48.480 now, but one of these social links, and PERSONA three reload is you 396 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:52.599 have to really hype up your classmate because he wants to start a relationship with 397 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.440 a teacher, and it's like, yeah, man, I get yeah, 398 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.160 that'd be cool. Everyone seems to hate this too. Everyone seems to like 399 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.000 everyone I see online that talks about at least in my social circles. I'm 400 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:04.960 sure there's probably freaks online, but most people would be like, I hate 401 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:08.480 that I have to do this to maximize my game time in here. And 402 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:11.039 you know, again, you don't have to maximize that social link, but 403 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:15.960 it's just an aspect of that game where yea, so we do have to 404 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:22.640 personas of that specific arcana. You would just get more bonuses if you max 405 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.079 that social ink out. So it's a little bit of a bummer hoping PERSONA 406 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.960 six is not asking me to romanticize my teachers. But I think that's why 407 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:34.599 I just enjoy about like a dragon infinite wealth so much. Is like, 408 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:38.440 yes, there are the super serious moments, but then everything else is so 409 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:41.960 stupid, and they're aware that it's stupid and not taking itself too seriously. 410 00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:48.480 I was a baby when this came out, but was the expectation of Shenmu 411 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:55.799 supposed to be like anything like how Yakuza has been. Shen MoU wasn't as 412 00:27:55.920 --> 00:28:00.359 a humorous It wasn't going for humor. It was going just this been no 413 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.920 sale. It was it is kind of funny going back to but I think 414 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.759 mostly in like unintentional ways. It uh, it was pretty dry and serious. 415 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.720 I would say Yakuza is more like kind of that Metal Year thing of 416 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.839 mixing the like super serious with like this is a bad shit silly video game, 417 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.400 you know, right. Shimu was definitely them like feeling it out, 418 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.799 like do you guys want to open drawers? Yes? Is that? Like 419 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.039 said? Is this fun? I think, well, no, definitely not. 420 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:29.319 I love Shinmu. I was fascinated by it just because it did have 421 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:30.799 those gimmicks that you didn't see back then. You had the day night cycle, 422 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.720 you had the real time element, like happened to go back to your 423 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:36.359 house by a certain time. The fact that you could go through drawers and 424 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:38.799 go into all these places and go into shops like that wasn't something you really 425 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:42.319 saw back then. And I was fascinated by that, And I think fondly 426 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.880 on shin Mu. But I think objectively, I look at what like the 427 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:48.240 ACAS series has done, and it's like, does everything Shinmu did, but 428 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.880 like a billion times better and it adds a bunch of stuff that Shinmu wasn't 429 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:56.079 even trying to do. You know. Okay, yep, okay, grab 430 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.799 your on the train to try and finish Infinite Wealth. Yeah, I mean, 431 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.079 especially like I'm like mentioned that like my anxiety about like, well, 432 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:04.680 what if I can't get through this. I really am enjoying it. And 433 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.880 then like I said that to Mike, Mike's like, no, finish shit, 434 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.279 Like I think, like and like Lexi's a huge fan, people are 435 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:12.599 like rooting for me to beat this game, and I'm like, you know 436 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.440 what I want to I want to get through it, so I'm gonna try. 437 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:19.720 But boy, like there's you know a bullet I started playing Bilotro earlier 438 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:22.400 today, Jen and They're like I could see that just taking my over my 439 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:26.440 entire life, and of Fantasy is out later this month, and that demo 440 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:30.759 was really, really, really good. So it's like, God, there 441 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.440 is a lot of stuff that could derail me. But like again, I 442 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.000 go back to the good news with games like this is every time I pick 443 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:38.759 up my Steam deck to play video game, even if it's like, oh 444 00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:41.079 what am I gonna play? And I turn it on and it just wakes 445 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:44.759 from sleep and I'm right back into like a dragon because I just never turned 446 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:48.079 the game off. It makes it very easy to keep that momentum going forward. 447 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.000 So I'm hoping that I can. I can see it through. Uh, 448 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.880 something I'd like to see through after I also wade through the mess of 449 00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:57.960 games coming out. Jeff Beckler, You've been taking a peek at this Ultros. 450 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:03.240 This is a a goofy looking game. Oh, this is the wettest, 451 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:07.480 gupiest gelatinous most like it's are you playing on the same deck o led 452 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.119 Grub I played? I did play it on the team deck when I had 453 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.079 the preview building. I don't have this version. I haven't asked for a 454 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.839 code yet. Those colors are just extremely vivid on there, like it's a 455 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:22.160 really deck. It looks really good. This is definitely like an Aahuasca trip, 456 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:29.519 uh sort of machine els game. It's like, uh, there's an 457 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:34.000 artist I think they did a cover of like a Mastodon album a couple of 458 00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:38.960 years ago, and like it's exactly it looks like Spencer's Gifts Black light posters. 459 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:42.119 It looks like what you think. Peyote probably feels like, like, 460 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.839 yeah, it's got a lot cool. I one of the ways I actually 461 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:51.880 did play it was Peote and in the the VR headset the Quest three a 462 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.039 stream on a big screen in front of me Amal and it was like a 463 00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:59.799 moment and I was having a Colorado night. It was like it was doing 464 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:02.920 that to me. Yeah, I'd need to sit down for something like that. 465 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:10.960 I can't decide if I like the atmosphere of this game better or the 466 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:15.200 gameplay itself, because I do think the atmosphere and the sort of like stylistic 467 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:19.640 choices of this thing are really something to behold, like truly one of the 468 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.720 most unique looking things you'll ever see. And I will say the same thing 469 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:27.440 about the other game I'm going to talk about too. What're you gonna say, 470 00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:32.000 jen question, is Ultra more of like a metroid Vaney or is it 471 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:36.960 like Roguelike? Okay, it's a metro van. Yeah, so go ahead, 472 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:38.079 dan oh No, I was just gonna say, I played like thirty 473 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:41.640 minutes and like, I do love the look of it, but it's like 474 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.759 there's so much going on on screen that's sometimes it's so dense it's kind of 475 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.640 hard to tell sometimes like discerning interactive elements or enemies from the background, you 476 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:53.519 know exactly. And that's the thing that's working against this game and making me 477 00:31:55.000 --> 00:32:00.880 like sort of it's just it's what's sort of like giving me this like push 478 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:06.400 and pull with this game, right, because the foreground and the background overlap 479 00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.359 in a way that is a bit jarring and confusing, and you can't and 480 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:15.200 what basically what you do is you get through, you acquire a weapon, 481 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.559 and then you start to kill these alien enemies, and out of these enemies 482 00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.960 comes these organs, and you got to eat these organs. These organs. 483 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.839 Eating an organ fills up like one of four sort of like health meters and 484 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:31.920 those meters, right, these four categories that you raise as you eat these 485 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:37.480 organs decide how you can upgrade your skill set. So you're basically and you 486 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:43.240 can do that at anytime, and you're constantly sort of eating these organs. 487 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:45.519 They fill up your health as well, but they also fill up these meters 488 00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:52.119 and you get access to like a cool dashes, not a double jump, 489 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.680 but you do get a double jump at some point because it is a Metrovenea, 490 00:32:54.759 --> 00:33:01.160 but you get certain sort of traversial per if that makes sense, and 491 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:05.359 uh, yeah, that's how the that that's sort of the loop of the 492 00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:07.880 game. The problem, like we said with Dan, is like you are 493 00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:14.000 really confused sometimes of like where you are on screen, and there's a couple 494 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:19.440 uh platforming things that I just don't feel uh sort of stick to landing. 495 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.759 They just don't feel right. There's there's a bit feel different. It does 496 00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:25.240 feel different. I'm wondering if I dislike it or if I just like need 497 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:29.720 to get used to it exactly. Like I'm not turned off by anything in 498 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:35.039 this game. Also because I think the the stylistic uh presentation of it just 499 00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:38.279 is powerful enough and unique enough to kind of like make up for some of 500 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:43.680 the things where you're like that instead of like the well like the Prince of 501 00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:46.359 Persia lost Crown Bar. What's like clearly that's just wanting to feel awesome all 502 00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:50.240 the time, right, And I think some of the presentation in that game 503 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:52.680 suffered maybe because of it, or maybe they just didn't care as much. 504 00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:54.680 And here it's like, well they win the other directions slightly, and that 505 00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:59.640 doesn't mean that the game feels bad I just don't. It feels different to 506 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:04.880 me. Every room you enter, the background is so bizarre and strange, 507 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:15.000 and there's so much like goop and wetness and slime and like membrane everywhere. 508 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:19.599 Uh, It's wild and I'm playing it mostly for that. And I also 509 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:23.960 think they do some really interesting like filtering from a sort of like a visual 510 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:29.079 point of view. I really dig it. I really dig the uniqueness of 511 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:35.599 this presentation. I think, you know, I have gotten into a couple 512 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:38.719 moments already where I'm just like, oh, fuck with do I have to 513 00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:43.039 like backtrack and go and try and just like get through this little little moment 514 00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:46.760 here is where am I missing something there? And I do think it does 515 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:52.039 play with the dimensionality frustrations of it where that leads into some of the front 516 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.519 some of the sort of like unknown and kind of like trapping you in a 517 00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:59.719 maybe in an unintended way. But I do think it is really good. 518 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.719 I haven't played it on my Steam deck yet, which I will now because 519 00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:06.920 this is the game for that, right, especially like you said the old 520 00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.400 ed, I mean this, this game pops. It is gorgeous. It 521 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:16.320 is absolutely phenomenally visualized. So yeah, I'm pretty into it. I you 522 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:21.599 know, maybe there's I'm about maybe like two hours in three hours in maybe 523 00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.199 there's something that I'm gonna come across that really changes the game. But so 524 00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:29.519 far I'm digging it. Hell yeah, hell yeah. Something that I have 525 00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:32.000 been digging and now I think Jeff Grubb is also digging, and it seems 526 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:36.760 the internet is also digging. I'm gonna take credit for that. Is Bulatro, 527 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:39.360 it is. It is thanks to you, Grub. It's it's really 528 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:43.159 popping off. It's yeah, a lot of people or I think it's one 529 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.119 of the most wish listed games out of that Steam next Fest. Yeah, 530 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:50.679 it's really good. I started playing it, and once you realize it's like, 531 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.960 man, okay, I have these cards here and if I just save 532 00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:00.480 them, I got three disc cards left. Basically, you know, Jan 533 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:04.159 explained it, but it's it's a poker deck building game where you get all 534 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.280 kinds of modifiers that change up how things work. You can add extra like 535 00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:10.360 you know, deck cards to your deck. So it's like, oh, 536 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:14.159 I have actually have five kings in this in this deck, and I actually 537 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:15.440 upgraded one of them so they are a goal. It's a gold card. 538 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:17.760 So if I spend it. If I make a hand out of that, 539 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.320 it's gonna be worth even more. It's that and you're trying to make poker 540 00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:27.440 hands. Uh, but like just the the structure of Okay, you have 541 00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.599 so many hands to get so many points, and you have so many discards, 542 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:34.760 and it's like, okay, some risk a reward here, I've got. 543 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.480 You know, I got a straight shot through the middle fIF I just 544 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:40.519 get that one card. I'm gonna discard these and I have three discards. 545 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:44.199 I'm just gonna play the math and hope I get it. And you know 546 00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:46.760 what, In fact, I have a tarot card that will turn three of 547 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:51.559 these cards. It's from whatever suit they are now to hearts, and that 548 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:52.960 fourth one is a heart. So now there's a chance it's going to be 549 00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:55.880 a straight flush. So I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna go for 550 00:36:55.960 --> 00:37:00.360 it. And when it hits and the like that last discard and you're like, 551 00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:01.639 if it doesn't hit, now I'm going to loose this random my run 552 00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:05.639 is going to be over. It's like the Russia dope I mean that you're 553 00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:09.880 looking for from this game. It is a sweet, sweet game and it 554 00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:14.400 is the yeah, go ahead, Dana is the ultimate carrot on the stick 555 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:19.880 where it is like the math clicks in such a good satisfying way, and 556 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.280 like Greb is saying, like, you know, you you're playing with a 557 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.840 chance to an extent because you start with fifty two cards and that's just like 558 00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.199 your normal deck of cards. But as you progress through, you're adjusting those 559 00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:32.760 cards of like, all right, you know what, now I want to 560 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:37.960 turn like these three heart cards into spades because I'm just going to go for 561 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:42.239 spades and when my jokers gives me a bonus if they're spades as well. 562 00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:45.400 So yes, So at the core, it sounds like it is playing with 563 00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:47.239 like you know, two through ace, you know, the pair two, 564 00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:51.480 pair three of a kind of like the actual poker concept. It's not throwing 565 00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:54.960 in, it's throwing in modifiers on the existing poker hands and cards, but 566 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:59.440 it's not that's what I've experienced. Here's a twenty card or something like that, 567 00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.480 right, No, yeah, So it's like I had an option with 568 00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:06.519 one of the tarot cards where it's like, okay, I bought this the 569 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:08.320 pack and it's like you have to pick one of these five and you have 570 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:13.480 to use it immediately. And the options were get a bonus, and it 571 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:15.039 gave me a variety of hands on each one of these cards. So one 572 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:16.880 of the cards would have been like, Okay, you're gonna get bonus every 573 00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:20.400 time you get a full house, and this one's a bonus every time you 574 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.239 get three of a kind, and this is a bonus every time you get 575 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:23.360 a straight, and one of them was like you get a bonus every time 576 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:25.840 you get a pair. I'm like, okay, that one. I'm gonna 577 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:29.239 go with that one because just mathematically, I'm gonna get the most of those, 578 00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:30.800 and it's gonna put me in a situation where I know I'm gonna be 579 00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:35.320 able to take advantage of that bonus as frequently as possible. And of course, 580 00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:37.440 right after that, I have a straight, and it's like, man, 581 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:38.119 it would have been nice to have that. But then I got a 582 00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:40.800 lot of pairs and that's all I could play, and it was enough to 583 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.199 get me just over the blind, which is the goal that you're trying to 584 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:46.880 get to them. They call them blinds here, So it's like you got 585 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:51.840 to get thirty two hundred points and that's the blind and so and every hand 586 00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:54.199 is worth so much, and you get multiplayers and all that stuff is working 587 00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:57.079 together, and you're like, man, I'm right there. I just have 588 00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.280 to actually get a couple of big hands or if I get a consistent amount 589 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:05.039 of points all throughout and I'm getting a decent amount of multipliers by using my 590 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.760 cards wisely, it's all gonna work out. And it's like when you when 591 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:12.800 you hit, it feels really good, and then when you miss, it's 592 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.519 time to go again. Let's go on another one right now. I can't 593 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:17.239 wait to get back in there. Uh. And Dan, one of the 594 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:22.239 best joker cards are like these modifier cards. You have up to five of 595 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:27.719 them. Is say you're trying your hardest to get a straight, Well there's 596 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.480 a joker uh, several joker modifiers where it's like, all right, you 597 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.440 know what, you can skip a number to complete your straight. So if 598 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:37.840 you have like five, six, seven, eight, nine, and but 599 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:39.519 you don't have the nine, but you have a ten card, you can 600 00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:44.000 complete that straight. And that argument next time I have a poker night, 601 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:46.599 Yeah, trying to work these rules into actual poker. That's I'll be cool 602 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:50.679 with that. But but then the other like insane part is you combine that 603 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:54.760 joker with another one that says you only need four cards to complete a straight 604 00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:58.880 or a flush. Oh, it's it gonna be like five, six, 605 00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:01.480 eight nine and you've got a Yeah, but if you're if you're skipping one 606 00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:05.920 five six eight, I'm gonna download this right now my Steam Deck. That 607 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.280 sounds like a good Steam Deck game. It is like an insane time waster 608 00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:13.400 and like it's well, actually one of several games this year that has like 609 00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:15.800 caused me to time travel where I'm looking at the clock, I'm like, 610 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:17.800 yeah, oh no, I've stayed up too late. You know, this 611 00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:21.960 sounds like this sounds like a game like I've got Rawn for three hours and 612 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:25.320 then I'm playing this. That sounded really for that. The tutorial is is 613 00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:30.119 pretty fast. It's done by one of the Joker cards calls himself Jimbo. 614 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:34.159 I think are all the Joker cards named a variation on Jim because I saw 615 00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:37.880 another one that was like Jim Joker and it was like signing cursive. It 616 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:40.000 was either way. I'm a big fan of that guy. He's got he's 617 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.679 got inscription energy like the cards there. Yeah, he's like kind of talking 618 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:46.039 to you, and it seems like there's maybe more going on, but I 619 00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:49.880 can't tell yet. I don't know. It's it's really well. The presentation 620 00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:53.440 is fantastic. It also requires sixty sixty two megabyte download. Yeah. Yeah, 621 00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:58.079 honestly, honestly, it looks like an HD game Boy Color game. 622 00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:00.199 I think it's the best way I can explain it. And that's that's praise 623 00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:05.639 there. Yeah, saying sounds incredible. Yeah, I cannot wait to play 624 00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:09.880 this huge, I love. I just think it's so insane that this game 625 00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:17.480 comes out at the height of Jan's poker not perfect like lined up the hammer 626 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:21.360 in all the like hands and everything too, Like that's gonna be good for 627 00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:28.280 that. Yeah, right for that. Yeah, I've not really gotten into 628 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:30.639 this just yet, but I I know what's gonna happen. Like I know 629 00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:37.280 that there is some video poker brain part of me that I've snuffed out. 630 00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:43.400 What this Yeah, this reminds me sometimes the look not only of like a 631 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:46.360 nice g B A game, but like of a shitty video poker video poker 632 00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:50.599 game that's a very very old school video. Yeah, that's the first thing. 633 00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:53.440 Can when we're all in person next time, can we do like, 634 00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:59.320 let's let's go to deck consider on the table and ye talks about this. 635 00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:04.320 I would love to. I would love to present it in the way that 636 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.880 the World Series of Poker does, with like the card cams and everything I 637 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:10.360 could set. I feel like I could set that up. Do we have 638 00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:13.840 why don't we do it? Like there's the online stuff. We could just 639 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:16.800 do here and we could like informally you know, you know, into a 640 00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:22.559 pot or whatever and play for for real. We can use tams Endo scopy 641 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:27.719 camera for the card cam, right, yeah, we could just like you 642 00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.679 know, set a delay so that we can't so that Dan can't cheat. 643 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:32.960 And then that's true. I do that. I am a man of honor. 644 00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:37.280 I would not if actual money was on the line. There's no chance 645 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:40.039 in the hell I would cheat. That that's beyond the pale of course. 646 00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:45.199 And also go ahead, Dan, oh, I was gonna say, speaking 647 00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:50.440 of cheating, uh, At my first poker night over my place on Friday, 648 00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:52.639 it's the poker table. The spot it had to go in the basement 649 00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:57.800 is like all mirrors on the ceiling just in that spot. So it has 650 00:42:57.800 --> 00:42:59.519 to be a house rule where it's like, all right, if you're looking 651 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:01.280 straight up, people are gonna yell at you because what the are you trying 652 00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:06.320 to do. You know, you heard it. Mirrors on the ceiling. 653 00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:12.400 You heard that they were here when I moved in, here, when I 654 00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:14.519 here, when I bought the plays. Don't know why. I don't know 655 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:19.400 how. A lot of mirrors, a lot of mirrors. But Jeff, 656 00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.239 you've yeah, you've checked out. You're you've been checking out another game that 657 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:25.519 I've been morbidly curious about, and I need to check it out. But 658 00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:30.440 I have no fucking time. You've been thinking Harold Halibut. Yeah, I've 659 00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:36.920 been thinking about Harold Halibut for like three years. You have, because I 660 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:43.440 think it reminded me of that Charlie Kaufman puppet movie. Sure, Amalise, 661 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:47.320 I think it was called wait no, wait, Charlie Coffin The Not Human 662 00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:53.039 Nature, right, yeah, Tim Robbins, oh, adaptation, Yeah he 663 00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:57.599 did adaptation ye cage and yeah, yeah, no, Melisa, that's what 664 00:43:57.599 --> 00:44:01.880 it was called. I heard of that one. It's like it's a stop 665 00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:07.280 motion movie. That's like really, it's really strange. It's it's I think 666 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.480 it's worth watching. I don't think it's like one of Apparently, his new 667 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:15.039 animated movie is very good. O'Ryan and the Dark. It's taken over Netflix, 668 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:19.480 Right, yeah, he wrote that. I think I like, yeah, 669 00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:24.639 he's awesome. So I think this game is pretty much like the closest 670 00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:31.239 thing we're gonna get to a a wes andersony kind of like storytelling experience. 671 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:35.679 I mean again, I've only played it for like ninety minutes, but I 672 00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:40.239 have gotten the narrative dump that's sort of front loaded at the top there. 673 00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:45.800 How does it play? So it's kind of like, uh, it's it's 674 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:51.159 basically like a controller point and click kind of thing. You're moving around, 675 00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:54.119 but you're just sort of like going to items and like doing like The Walking 676 00:44:54.159 --> 00:45:02.320 Dead like a Telltale game a little a little bit. It's about this underwater 677 00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:12.360 like sort of city slash spaceship that is made up of like generations of a 678 00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:17.880 society that left Earth and had to settle on some sort of like watery planet. 679 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:23.159 And the way they explain like how they got there was like the most 680 00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:28.440 like I said, Wes Anderson, you know, narrative kind of thing. 681 00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:34.159 Really like it. It felt so good and for me that is the thing 682 00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.159 that's keeping me going. I don't think the gameplay here is really gonna be 683 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:44.320 what shines because I think it is the narrative, you know, task objective 684 00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:47.599 based sort of thing that you're you're trying to figure out. You play this 685 00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:53.920 this sort of like lab assistant kind of lackey person, and you seem like 686 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:59.159 you're very forgetful and you're just sort of like a bum on this spaceship thing, 687 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:04.280 and and your your task with completing a set of objectives, and you 688 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.400 just sort of are going around the ship in the early parts of this demo 689 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.199 and meeting people and understanding what's going on. Uh, And there's like this 690 00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:15.239 whole sort of like world down there that's and you travel around through these like 691 00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:20.400 water tubes to get the different portions of the of the ship. It's really 692 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:24.800 interesting. Now. The thing that I cannot wrap my head around is like 693 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:34.719 how unique this game looks. It looks like stop motion Puppets. Yeah, 694 00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:38.800 it looks like Team America. Yeah, I mean that's that was live action 695 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:42.760 Puppets. But yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. This has some 696 00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:46.880 look to it that I just don't understand how they were able to make happen. 697 00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:52.360 And it's fascinating. It's absolutely fascinating. It's very like diorama E in 698 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:57.400 the same way as like a fantastic mister Fox, or or there's just some 699 00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:02.960 there's a certain look to it that is true phenomenal, and it is able 700 00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:12.159 to convey this like really adorable and sort of twee you know set piecing that 701 00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.199 you walk through and every environment is you know, they play with like depth 702 00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:23.239 of field, and like everything just looks so cozy and interesting and very specifically 703 00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:28.199 like thought out. It's very cool. It's very very cool. I want 704 00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:30.519 to make a diorama now, Yeah, they're fun. You never did that 705 00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:35.320 in school, only the shoebox stuff. We only ever did it once, 706 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:38.679 and then my teacher saw how bad everyone's dioramas were. I think she decided 707 00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:44.480 never again. The whole the whole movie takes place, the whole game takes 708 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:47.679 place inside of a shoebox. Is basically the story here. Uh. And 709 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:51.840 so you know they are setting up this kind of like mystery, right, 710 00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:57.199 you're sort of like why why this planet? You know, there's like this 711 00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:02.360 sort of closed circuit like network TV that that sends out announcements and it's all 712 00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:07.760 very like bespoke and hand painted, and everything just looks so fucking cool. 713 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:14.880 I love this because it's just so fresh and it's just so unique and yeah, 714 00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:17.079 you know, I think it's a pretty strong demo from what I've played 715 00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:20.760 so far, and we'll kind of see where it goes. I don't, 716 00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:22.079 I don't. I think it is this year, right, It's definitely this 717 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:27.760 year. Yes, it says twenty twenty four on Steam and that's all it 718 00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:30.840 says. I say. I think I think it is a little rough around 719 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.320 the edges, just like glitchiness wise. I think there's a couple of things 720 00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:38.800 that have to get sanded out, smoothed out and whatnot. But very intriguing, 721 00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:46.360 very interesting, and I think I'm getting wrapped up in the mystery it 722 00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:50.559 is it is attempting to present here. Yeah. Yeah. Trailer on Steam 723 00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.559 says early twenty twenty four, so yeah, cool soon it's it's real, 724 00:48:53.639 --> 00:49:00.800 it's real cool. I think it's fine. Oh sorry, I was going 725 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:06.639 through the mute button. It does, You're right, the Charlie Coffman animated 726 00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:07.920 film. It does remind me a lot of that reminds me actually a lot 727 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:13.280 of when Will Smith, not that Will Smith. I was doing the Foo 728 00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:16.719 Show. Yeah, the VR capture stuff that he tried to like they were 729 00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:20.840 like trying to pitch to like Adult Swim for like animated shows. A lot 730 00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.480 of the animation like looks so smooth and like life like that. There's something 731 00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:27.039 like that going on as well. I don't know. It's really cool the 732 00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:31.480 first time you get the controls handed over to you and you're seeing like Harold 733 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:36.920 move your sources, like, I can't believe this is how this is gonna 734 00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:40.039 play. Yeah, maintaining the look that it that it was doing in the 735 00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:44.639 cut scenes in the movies leading up to that. It's like a hyperreality. 736 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.760 It's it's yeah, big wow factor for sure. It's a hefty download as 737 00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:53.360 well. It's a beefy one sixty gigs something like that. Damn close. 738 00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:58.519 Yeah right, it's a big fish. It's a big big fish. Well, 739 00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:02.199 gentleman, Unless anyone has any other games to talk about here, I 740 00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:05.760 think it's time to get to the game of the week. The game of 741 00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:10.760 the week is Hell Divers too. Holy shit. Yeah. I don't have 742 00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:15.320 music for the game of the week, but there's a little bit of the 743 00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:20.719 email there. Yeah, oh man, beautiful, there we go. I'll 744 00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:24.119 get that sound sound effect outloaded. Holy smokes, y'all. I mean I 745 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:28.000 liked Hell Divers one decent enough. When we checked it out, I was 746 00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:30.039 like, oh, this is fun, this has ideas cool. Yeah, 747 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:36.400 and then we played this Holy shit, Holy smokes, it is one of 748 00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:38.800 the mostly hell divers. What's that? It is still mostly hell divers? 749 00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:40.679 Like that, I think it's still mostly hell hell divers one. A lot 750 00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:44.599 of the change is just like now that you're down in it, like the 751 00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:50.039 visual effects and the volumetric fog and stuff and the lights of the explosions like 752 00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:52.559 happening inside that fog really goes an extra mile to make you feel like you 753 00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.760 are in it. Always. I think about the things I love about two, 754 00:50:57.079 --> 00:50:59.760 and I didn't really play one, so I'm curious how much it matches 755 00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:01.599 those feelings. But like when we call in, like I love when we 756 00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:06.920 go to an outpost or something and like all four of us are throwing orbs, 757 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.239 orbital strike beacons and napalm, carpet bomb bullshit and everything, and then 758 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:14.079 you just wait for that moment where we when a hell bombs. You just 759 00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:16.320 see this giant fucking explosion in the sky. Like, I'm sure it looks 760 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:20.320 cool top down, but there is something about being in it and seeing the 761 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:23.880 cape fly up in the wind, and yeah, God Greby, you said 762 00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:28.840 it best. Yeah, exactly. It feels legitimately dangerous because hell divers won. 763 00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:30.760 You can kind of like, oh, shoot, you threw this beacon 764 00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:35.920 over there, I can avoid it here, or you can easily scope out 765 00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:37.519 where enemies are coming from. But here, because like we're so in the 766 00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:40.840 thick of it and we're so focused of like, all right, let's focus 767 00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:45.679 down on get this lane of enemies coming in. We're gonna protect this sector, 768 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:50.119 and oh shit, there's an obscene amount of bugs behind us. It's 769 00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.719 it's really because it is like anything is happening at any moment, and it's 770 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.760 like you are firing down the line of bugs, and you do see your 771 00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:00.519 teammates throwing down. There are little strike so you're trying to keep that in 772 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:05.320 mind. And then you start to get overwhelmed and you turn around and there's 773 00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:07.519 a bug there, and you shoot and you run on an AMMO and so 774 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:09.239 you're screwed. And then you're like, I'm gonna switch weapons, and then 775 00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:13.280 you kind of look at the right and then a giant bug is charging you 776 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.119 and you can't there's no way you're gonna be able to kill it. So 777 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:17.000 all you do is dive out of the way, and then you're landing laying 778 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:22.079 on your back and you're shooting John Wu style because you switch to your other 779 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:23.880 weapon. And then your friends are like, okay, you just run, 780 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:30.000 We got you covered. All like that moment to moment, like hey, 781 00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:34.159 you are in it and you're just trying to survive. And at every corner, 782 00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:37.119 no matter where you turn, something else is bad is probably gonna happen. 783 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:38.679 And then you're probably gonna make a mistake, like you are gonna throw 784 00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:43.800 down your carpet bomb and you don't really get much say and like the angle 785 00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:45.800 of attack or whatever. It's just like, no, you throw it over 786 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:47.599 there, just destroy stuff over there. And I say, okay, we're 787 00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:50.639 rolling the dice a little bit, but like, what choice do we have. 788 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:53.199 We're getting overrun. It's a really good idea and they nail it at 789 00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:57.599 every Every choice is the right choice in terms of make it feel dangerous, 790 00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:00.960 make it feel like the just the decisions are your own. Okay, we 791 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.280 feel completely responsible for everything that happens in the game. That's the really cool 792 00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:06.719 part of it. Yeah, it feels really dangerous because at any point somebody 793 00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:09.239 from the chat can join in and team kill you, sure, exactly. 794 00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:15.320 I I assumed that Christian killed you because you, like Susie joined you killed 795 00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.360 him because he didn't ge permission to join, of course, and the I'm 796 00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:21.159 like, okay, well he got his revenge there, and like, no, 797 00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:22.679 but no, it turns out that was just the spaceship killing you both. 798 00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:30.480 Sound well, look then conclusive based on the videos. But I like 799 00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:34.199 the freedom to just do kind of do whatever once you drop into a mission 800 00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:37.880 of like, all right, here's like a small, openish world. Uh, 801 00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:42.519 let's try and maximize our time here. And yesterday and that one mission 802 00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:44.800 I was able to play with, y'all. I thought we had so much 803 00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:47.119 time. I thought thirty minutes is gonna take forever. And then Dan looks 804 00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:50.800 at the clock. I'm like, oh, we only have fifteen minutes left, 805 00:53:50.840 --> 00:53:52.679 y'all. And we got to go from like all the way north to 806 00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:57.199 all the way south. Yeah, you guys were fiddle fucking around back there, 807 00:53:57.239 --> 00:53:59.559 trying to find something like I'm going off solo. I know this is 808 00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:01.119 dangerous, but I got to go north and flip the switch over here We're 809 00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:04.800 all gonna die. But I think it's really smart the way they do the 810 00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:07.840 time stuff, because it's like we learned yesterday that when the timer runs out, 811 00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:10.679 it's not a failure. It's just like okay, basically all your support, 812 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:15.559 like you can't call in orbital strikes or anything or anything. Any drops 813 00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:19.320 any reinforcements, including your people, so if you die, it's like, 814 00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:21.840 well, okay, the safety that's gone at that point. Like, I 815 00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:23.079 think that's a really smart way to do it, right. It just increases 816 00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:25.440 the drama, which is like, kind of what this game is doing at 817 00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:30.239 every turn is what's a decision that can make everything feel like what the things 818 00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:35.119 you're deciding matter and they're going to have an impact on how the game plays 819 00:54:35.159 --> 00:54:37.840 out. And it's like that's just another good choice that the game makes about 820 00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.360 making sure that like, no, we're not going to give you some weird 821 00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:44.960 game over screen that's silly. You know, you're there and you're just on 822 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:47.559 your own and if you die then then it is actually over. But I 823 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:52.719 don't know. Owning every decision that you make as a player and having consequences 824 00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:57.119 you have to deal with makes this game stand out in such a strong way 825 00:54:57.159 --> 00:55:00.519 from almost every other game on the market right now, where they are afraid 826 00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:02.599 to just be like, hey, yeah, you made that decision. We're 827 00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:05.960 gonna punish you for it. It's like no, no, no, okay, 828 00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:07.599 no, there's some safety, Like there's guardrails here. We're gonna keep 829 00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:09.880 you on the straight and narrow. We're gonna take care of you. And 830 00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:13.159 this gives like, wouldn't it be fun if we didn't? Yeah? What 831 00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:15.239 if it rules? What if you threw that mind dispenser in the middle of 832 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:19.159 the place where you have to take these prisoners onto a ship safely? Say 833 00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:21.719 well, fuck you, you threw it. Deal with that? Yeah, 834 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:25.079 okay, I guess, and then we'll drop another one. Yes, And 835 00:55:25.159 --> 00:55:30.000 for as many opportunities as there is to grief your team members, I feel 836 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:35.840 like, because everything is so dangerous, you do just wind up working together 837 00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:38.519 inadvertently, uh, whether or not you kind of want to like push each 838 00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:42.960 other's buns or not? Right, right, it's like unspoken rules like pop 839 00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:45.599 up really fast and that that's like becoming a thing in the community, Like 840 00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:47.639 people are like, you know, if if you drop down supplies, everyone 841 00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:51.239 just takes one box of supplies, because it's way better if everyone just has 842 00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:52.920 at least a little bit of Ammo rather than you have all the ammos. 843 00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:55.559 It's like, yeah, of course it lends itself to really good co op 844 00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:59.239 because it's like there are real stakes and you actually do have to work together. 845 00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:00.039 So it's like, I mean, look at when we played you know, 846 00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:02.599 four Swords Adventures, a game where there's not really a lot of steakes, 847 00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:06.880 and like, so that lends itself for like certain players will just fuck 848 00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:09.079 around and control their friends and things like that. Yeah, monoon, damn 849 00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:13.559 it. This one. It's like there is an objective and like everyone really 850 00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:15.320 needs to work together and help each other out, and so like, yeah, 851 00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:17.719 I do find that, like the four of us have played multiple co 852 00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:20.719 op games, and this is the one where I think we're the most like 853 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:22.599 on it and helping each other, you know. Yep, yeah, definite. 854 00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:27.599 And it's still like, you know, we all have different ideas about 855 00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:30.119 like what is a good idea at any one time, And that means like 856 00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:34.239 sometimes I am going to like drop the carpet bomb like right outside where we're 857 00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:36.280 at, and it's gonna be a little dangerous, a little hairy, but 858 00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:37.679 it's like, hey, it kills more enemies that kills us. That's a 859 00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:42.840 victory. We're trying to survive. I love those moments, like yesterday when 860 00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:45.599 they had the hell bombs next to the buildings we had to explode and so 861 00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:46.840 like one of us, Like I think, there were sometimes grub where it's 862 00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:50.199 like, you know, you punched in the thing to like activate the hell 863 00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:52.760 bomb and like I'm just in there like looking for samples and stuff, and 864 00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:53.400 I heard someone say you act. I was like, wait, what do 865 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:55.480 you activated the bomb? And it was like that mad dash to get the 866 00:56:55.480 --> 00:56:59.639 fuck out of there, and there was there's one of the clips in there 867 00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:02.119 is you like I'm trying to find my samples that I dropped, and I 868 00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:06.639 was like just had my finger hovering over the last button for like a minute 869 00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:09.800 straight, like counting down, like I'm gonna do it then, and that 870 00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:13.599 that's also very fun. And it's like I'm not gonna leave a hell bomb 871 00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:15.079 there. We didn't need that one anymore. We already blew up the objective 872 00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:20.280 there, so it was a second unnecessary hell bomb. I'm not gonna help 873 00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:22.760 bomb there. It's there, it's gotta get blown up. So yeah, 874 00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:27.960 I was It's fun. I've also enjoyed some of the happy accidents, Like 875 00:57:28.280 --> 00:57:30.039 I think in that same mission, I dropped a hell bomb and like the 876 00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:36.400 angle of the terminal was weird whenever I accessed it because I couldn't see it 877 00:57:36.519 --> 00:57:39.400 on my screen, so I had to have Grub look at the directions and 878 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:44.159 spell it out from squinting at the really tidy arrows. Like I'm like, 879 00:57:44.519 --> 00:57:45.880 okay, this is like an eye test, and we got it. I 880 00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:50.920 was worried how they how they would translate the stratagems to third person, and 881 00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:53.760 it's completely like no problem at all. I love it. Yeah, in 882 00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:58.400 in ways, I feel like games have taken the pinging system from Apex. 883 00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:02.800 I hope. I don't know how any is gonna uh include stratagem stratagems, 884 00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:08.039 but like I want them to now ye, I mean just dialing things in 885 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:14.079 making it feel like there's some analogue aspects to this world. All that stuff 886 00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:15.360 makes games like this feel so much better. Yeah, I think you'll be 887 00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:19.239 getting swarmed, like I'll have you know, all being near death, a 888 00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:22.119 bunch of shit chasing me and stuff I need to find. I need to 889 00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:24.159 fucking inject myself in the neck with this thing, but also to you just 890 00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:28.119 died and like a bombing and so I'm trying to like hold ol one and 891 00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:30.239 like I'm trying to get away from all these things and typing up up, 892 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:32.519 down, left, up. It's like they're like and they're like enemies, 893 00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:36.400 like fifteen feet away. You're like, I have just enough time if I 894 00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:38.679 get this dialed in perfectly. It was like, just put it on the 895 00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:40.880 hot key, just put it on the deep end and hit left and and 896 00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:44.280 we'll make it easy for you. And the games like, no, it 897 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:46.800 is more fun if it's not easy. If it's just a little bit annoying 898 00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:50.920 somehow, that makes it better. And they're one hundred percent right, and 899 00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:54.760 I people have been craving this kind of action, this kind of just slightly 900 00:58:55.880 --> 00:59:01.480 challenging obstacle between you and like accomplishing something because the game is really really hitting 901 00:59:01.719 --> 00:59:05.599 very hard right now, one hundred and fifty thousand concurrents and stuff like that. 902 00:59:05.639 --> 00:59:08.559 On Steam alone, it is very popular. I've seen I was on 903 00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:13.239 TikTok last night, every other video that was live with someone playing this game. 904 00:59:13.360 --> 00:59:15.840 It's so very very popular right now. One of the great things though, 905 00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:21.400 when you do get revived, when your teammate gets you, you have 906 00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:25.920 like a little bit of wiggle room to like land a little bit slightly to 907 00:59:25.960 --> 00:59:29.920 the left or right of where they set down the beacon, and you can 908 00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:31.920 get an enemy down like that, you could destroy a building. Oh it's 909 00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:36.960 so good. I was playing with Mike and his brothers last night and we 910 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:38.400 got up to a building that was gonna have a bunch of enemies and we 911 00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:40.840 saw them all, so like, okay, just let's wait. We all 912 00:59:40.960 --> 00:59:44.880 want to throw our stuff. Let's just get in a line and throw our 913 00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:47.599 stuff. And so one of the brothers like got their thing out and threw 914 00:59:47.639 --> 00:59:52.480 something down, and then we were all holding like various orbital strikes or a 915 00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:58.519 carpet bombing things. And the one brother like accidentally dropped the thing on top 916 00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:01.679 of himself and it killed or not to Mike over didn't kill Mike, but 917 01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:06.559 in the action of Mike getting knocked down, he dropped his orbital strike, 918 01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:09.719 which came down and hit and killed everyone else, killed killing me. Mike 919 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:14.119 is still alive still, but I was holding my carpet bomb, so I 920 01:00:14.159 --> 01:00:15.920 dropped that, and Mike's like, oh, I'm still alive. And then 921 01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:17.280 he stands up and looks and he just sees the red pylon. He's like, 922 01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:21.679 oh, great, eagle strike and he just fucking dies. It's it 923 01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:24.480 was like this chain reaction and it's only possible in a game like this. 924 01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:29.639 It's like everything you decide to do is gonna have a consequence. If you're 925 01:00:29.639 --> 01:00:31.760 holding something and you die, you're gonna drop it. What does that mean? 926 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:36.440 Sometimes it's like your gun, and sometimes it's gonna call down an orbital 927 01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:38.119 strike because the dudes up there in the ship have no idea, they can't 928 01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:40.960 tell what's happening. All they see is a big red beam and that means 929 01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:45.800 fire you all your guns on that spot. So yeah, just love it. 930 01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:50.760 Yeah, it's it's we're six weeks, We're not even six weeks end 931 01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:54.519 of the year, and there are so many game nuts that I want I'm 932 01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:58.559 noting to, Like, Hey, don't fucking forget about this and this and 933 01:00:58.599 --> 01:01:01.039 this and this and this. It's nuts. Yeah. I thought last year 934 01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:04.960 was a packed year, but Jesus Christ, like there's a lot of stuff 935 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:09.559 on this like spoon already. Yeah, and like there was an obscene amount 936 01:01:09.559 --> 01:01:14.039 of games I missed from Steam Next Fest that I've heard, like the best 937 01:01:14.119 --> 01:01:17.800 buzz around what was that game? Lucy was checking out that, Like you're 938 01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:22.519 a sniper or something. I forget what was going I can't remember. She 939 01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:24.559 did mention it and I was gonna check it out, but let me yeah, 940 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:30.320 check my steam. Yeah, Hell Divers too. We're probably going to 941 01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:34.320 try and weasel our way to play more of it on this website. But 942 01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:39.320 yes, absolutely, I don't call it weaseling perfect behavior. Yeah, you 943 01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:43.079 know, it's like it's a packed week. It's a packed schedule. We 944 01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:46.320 got to cover some other stuff, but like Hell Divers do is pretty dang 945 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:52.920 fun. I'm glad that the Children of the Sun is the Children of the 946 01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:54.519 Sun. Okay, Yes, and a lot of people have been talking about 947 01:01:54.559 --> 01:02:00.280 that. God these were okay anyway, well that is hell Divers too, 948 01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:05.000 and that is the first segment of this podcast. G Suicide Squad's okay, 949 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.920 that's all I want to say. There we go. It's all right here. 950 01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:12.400 We may or may not play it on this Thursday before the dump Truck. 951 01:02:13.159 --> 01:02:15.480 Yeah, look out on the be on the website. We'll see what 952 01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:19.119 we're gonna do. Baileyot asked like, oh, is there any room for 953 01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:22.480 me to be on any GB stuff this week? I'm playing through Suicide Squad 954 01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:23.360 and I just need a break. I'm like, yeah, yeah, okay, 955 01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:30.400 just come by Thursday. One Teller, No One suicide Squad. I've 956 01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:36.199 already I've already called Harley Quinn. All right. Anyway, we will be 957 01:02:36.280 --> 01:02:45.440 back with the news after a quick breaking break. This is with the new 958 01:02:46.639 --> 01:02:55.360 Jeff Crum Okay, okay, all right, got some news here for you. 959 01:02:55.559 --> 01:02:58.679 I wrote it down even so I can just read it to you. 960 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:01.239 Starting with sounds, we know the first two Xbox games that will be coming 961 01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:07.400 to at least PS five reports. A reports suggest Hi Fi Rush and Pentiment 962 01:03:07.639 --> 01:03:12.119 will be the first Xbox games testined for non Xbox platforms. See if these 963 01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:16.039 may see if theeves may get released wider in a more wide way later in 964 01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:22.039 the year. Those are the two that we expect maybe to show up as 965 01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:27.679 part of this Xbox Podcast Business Update event that's happening on Thursday, that got 966 01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:30.880 announced last week as an event. Earlier this week they clarified it's going to 967 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:35.199 be a podcast. A lot of people are like, podcast, that's that's 968 01:03:35.239 --> 01:03:37.719 weird. Why is this either not a press release or like a video presentation 969 01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:42.119 or a YouTube presentation. Obviously it will be a video podcast as well. 970 01:03:44.079 --> 01:03:45.400 Yeah, what do you think I mean, I'm not too weirded by this, 971 01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:47.079 but a lot of people were, what do you think back, I'm 972 01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:52.039 not weirded out by it. I do think with podcasting comes a little bit 973 01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:57.360 of flexibility with your messaging. And I do think it is malleable, right, 974 01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:00.440 It's malleable enough where you can be like, it's not what I meant 975 01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:05.760 you know this was, you know, like and I just think it is 976 01:04:05.840 --> 01:04:15.000 a way more intangible uh uh you know press uh press release medium, right. 977 01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:17.440 I think it's that That's that's what I think it could be. You 978 01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:21.519 know, someone asking the questions, like the host of the podcast and Phil 979 01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:26.800 Spencer's on there and Sarah Bond and Matt Booty whoever's actually going to be on 980 01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:30.400 this podcast, and the host can frame the questions in such a way that 981 01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:35.760 it speaks to those concerns without getting into like the every little detail that people 982 01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:40.159 are worried about on the slippery slope arguments. But I think I think you're 983 01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:45.519 right. And who knows where they got the idea for such a casual presentational 984 01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:49.559 matter. I mean, who knows where they came up with the notion of 985 01:04:49.639 --> 01:04:53.960 like what if we just like sat down and had some like real friendly face 986 01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:57.480 interview us about all this, probably the four h four podcast. I think, 987 01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:01.760 oh, you fucking shit, he was no, No, he wasn't, 988 01:05:01.840 --> 01:05:06.679 So no, fuck you twice, Jeff Greg twice. Listen. There's 989 01:05:06.719 --> 01:05:11.199 a lot of other games that have been mentioned in terms of, hey, 990 01:05:11.440 --> 01:05:15.119 these might also come to PlayStation five or at least under consideration. That includes 991 01:05:15.159 --> 01:05:18.639 Indiana Jones in the Great Circle. That one is a little strange though, 992 01:05:18.679 --> 01:05:24.360 because when it was announced, that was before the Xbox acquisition or around the 993 01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:27.480 time, and it was like confusing about like, oh, this deal had 994 01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:31.400 happened long before because that was acquired by Microsoft, so maybe like PlayStation was 995 01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:35.000 already baked into that understanding. It seems like that was the case. And 996 01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:41.280 then later Microsoft created an exclusivity window and that, and so maybe this isn't 997 01:05:41.320 --> 01:05:45.199 in that same exact conversation. However, Gears of Wars one that I've heard 998 01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:49.800 repeatedly now that they at least being considered, And I think that one actually 999 01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:53.440 makes quite a bit of sense when you like sit down and think about it. 1000 01:05:53.639 --> 01:05:55.840 Yeah, it's like a big name. It's like second only to Halo 1001 01:05:55.960 --> 01:05:59.679 in terms of like the games you associate with Xbox. But Gears of War 1002 01:05:59.760 --> 01:06:02.960 is not been around. We haven't had one since Gears five. It's pretty 1003 01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:08.000 old at this point. They are they put Gears aside to work on some 1004 01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:11.440 other games that I believe they have since canceled, and now they're going back 1005 01:06:11.480 --> 01:06:14.679 to work on Gears six and that is going to take quite a bit of 1006 01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:17.280 time. So in the meantime, one way you can keep Gears relevant is, 1007 01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:20.760 hey, let's put out a Gears collection, a Gears trilogy on PlayStation. 1008 01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:25.480 You kind of can't even really do that on Xbox because those games are 1009 01:06:25.480 --> 01:06:29.000 already playable with backward compatibility and just about the best state that you could ask 1010 01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:32.360 for. So one way to keep it relevant is put it out on PlayStation. 1011 01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:35.800 Now people might be weirded out by that. Maybe they're still not going 1012 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:40.320 to actually end up going through with that, because this is just under consideration. 1013 01:06:42.719 --> 01:06:45.599 The other side of this is, Okay, people have been worried, 1014 01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:48.639 Okay, what about Xbox hardware down the line, If games like Gears of 1015 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:53.840 War in Indiana Jones are available on PlayStation, even if it's like an exclusivity 1016 01:06:53.840 --> 01:06:58.159 window, people might want to stop buying Xboxes. And so we'll Microsoft stop 1017 01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:01.400 making Xbox hardware seems like it could be a death spiral. Well, Microsoft 1018 01:07:01.519 --> 01:07:04.960 said at the very least that they are committed to still making hardware. In 1019 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:09.440 a town hall with employees at Microsoft last week, they're like, hey, 1020 01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:13.800 this is the reporting is a bit extreme. We're considering some games going to 1021 01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:16.679 other platforms. But this does not in any way signify that we are deprecating 1022 01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:20.440 our investments in hardware. They're going to keep doing that. And an interesting 1023 01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:24.079 aspect of this is that Phil Spencer in the last week or two has been 1024 01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:27.199 liking a lot of tweets if this is something you think you can read into 1025 01:07:27.559 --> 01:07:32.280 about handheld Xbox devices seems to be and there's been some rumors that Microsoft is 1026 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:36.199 going to release one of those in the next several years. That's pretty believable. 1027 01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:39.719 Do you think that we hear anything about that. Do you think we 1028 01:07:39.800 --> 01:07:43.639 come out of this podcast and there with them saying and we are looking into 1029 01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:45.119 doing something with that, or we promise to have some news about that in 1030 01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:47.840 the next couple of years. Here's what they do. They're going to fade 1031 01:07:47.880 --> 01:07:51.519 in from like whatever graphic they have of the podcast from the wide shot, 1032 01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:57.719 and as they fade in, Phil Spencer will put a device down, face 1033 01:07:57.840 --> 01:08:00.599 down on the table, and then they'll start the podcast, and the whole 1034 01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:04.280 time is what Phil put down, what's Phill doing over there? What's the 1035 01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:09.559 thing in his hands? That's what it will be. I think I think 1036 01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:13.679 you mind not be too far off. I thought that. Yeah. I 1037 01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:16.159 think the thing he might show off though, will be a device that already 1038 01:08:16.239 --> 01:08:19.000 exists, and when he holds it up, it'll be a version of Windows 1039 01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:23.279 eleven that doesn't fucking suck for one of these devices. I think it'll be 1040 01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:28.079 a handheld version of Windows eleven, can we tell? I mean, honestly, 1041 01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:30.680 if it just looks like it makes sense on a hand handout device, 1042 01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:33.520 it'll look very different and much better than when what Windows eleven is like on 1043 01:08:33.560 --> 01:08:39.239 an Asis rock ally at the moment. Yeah, so this all happens on 1044 01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:43.600 Thursday, this this podcast. We will get some answers. We'll see from 1045 01:08:43.640 --> 01:08:46.159 there. But uh, Microsoft's gonna have to kind of get to a point 1046 01:08:46.159 --> 01:08:49.760 where instead of releasing a podcast, maybe they start releasing some video games that 1047 01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:56.439 people really are into. What damn, what kind of microphones do you think 1048 01:08:56.439 --> 01:08:59.600 they're gonna use? Are they gonna have like Mike Arms or are they just 1049 01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:04.720 gonna have of like stick mics or I think it's just gonna be one of 1050 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:08.720 your ones. I think it's just gonna I don't think it's gonna be a 1051 01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:13.279 video podcast. I think it's just gonna be a podcast. I don't know, 1052 01:09:13.359 --> 01:09:19.159 like you wouldn't call it a podcast. I think these days podcast like 1053 01:09:19.479 --> 01:09:25.720 because of like Pat mcavie's shows a podcast and that's a video program, and 1054 01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:29.239 uh, a lot of podcasts arets just on YouTube like us, and that 1055 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:32.359 like a lot of people absorb them that way. So I think the understanding 1056 01:09:32.359 --> 01:09:35.119 these days you say podcasts, that could just as easily mean that there's a 1057 01:09:35.199 --> 01:09:42.439 video presentation, sure from the new Ghostbusters movie. Does anybody listen? Is 1058 01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:48.119 so an official Xbox Nice it'll just be him. Does anyone listen to the 1059 01:09:48.159 --> 01:09:51.239 official Xbox podcast? Is that that's the thing? I mean, I'm sure 1060 01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:55.640 people in the world do. Yeah, But and I think that actually is 1061 01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:58.279 a video podcast too. Oh all right, well then we have our answer. 1062 01:09:59.279 --> 01:10:01.760 Yeah, that's that's pretty sure, that is. And Michael Michael O'Leary 1063 01:10:01.800 --> 01:10:03.920 in chat says, yes, it is a video podcast, So there you 1064 01:10:03.960 --> 01:10:11.000 go. Sony is reportedly canceling Rise of ronin launch in South Korea. The 1065 01:10:11.000 --> 01:10:15.039 game's been pulled from Korea's PlayStation store, promotional promotional videos removed from the PlayStation 1066 01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:19.159 YouTube channel as well. Sony didn't provide a reason for the cancelation, but 1067 01:10:19.159 --> 01:10:25.880 it's believed to be connected to comments by game director Fumuhiku Yo Yasuda about controversial 1068 01:10:26.079 --> 01:10:30.720 historical figure showing Yoshuda Yoshida's inclusion in games spark criticism and due to his evolvement 1069 01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:36.000 in Japan's occupation of Korea. Yoshida is a figure who is basically he's like 1070 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:45.000 an early Japanese nationalist who like fought against the the shogunate, the the when 1071 01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:46.039 the samurai took over. He's like, we should go back to being an 1072 01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:50.159 empire and then maybe be more modern like a lot of other countries. That's 1073 01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:54.600 how he's remembered in Japan, and people like really think of him fondly in 1074 01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:57.800 Japan because of that, uh, and then people in South Korea are like, 1075 01:10:58.079 --> 01:11:00.880 yeah, but it is like you should expand into South Korea and take 1076 01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:02.680 us over, and like was a big reason that we got occupied by you, 1077 01:11:02.760 --> 01:11:08.279 and we fucking hate that guy. So it's a controversial figure figure to 1078 01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:10.760 say the least. So yeah, they're going to probably not release the game 1079 01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:14.840 in South Korea. That game, you guys have any interest in? This? 1080 01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:16.079 Rise of Ronan? Do you guys even remember it when I say it, 1081 01:11:16.119 --> 01:11:19.920 because we did see it in that state of play? The bird suit, 1082 01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:24.600 right, yes, that's right. That's a that actually is the thing 1083 01:11:24.640 --> 01:11:27.520 that probably sticks out the most about it, is like the samurai guy that 1084 01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:30.600 can fly in a bird suit that's like made of straw. Right yeah, 1085 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:36.640 uh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I like Samurais I like 1086 01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:43.000 JRD suits? Sure, let's go. A video game developer that worked on 1087 01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:45.880 Mortals of Avium said it was a truly awful idea to make a video game 1088 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:51.199 like a Mortals of Avium. UH developers criticized the release of Immortals of Avim, 1089 01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:55.680 citing that it was a truly awful idea. The game released on PS 1090 01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:59.920 five, Xbox Series X, and SMPC with reasonable review scores but pro porous. 1091 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:03.560 Ascendate Studios laid off nearly half its staff a month after release, and 1092 01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:09.880 the CEO attributed it to poor sales during a crowded release window. A former 1093 01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:14.680 employee claims the game cost around one hundred and twenty five million dollars to develop, 1094 01:12:15.119 --> 01:12:17.600 with eighty five million dollars in development costs and forty million dollars from EA 1095 01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:23.840 from marketing and distribution. They described the game as overscoped and bloated with a 1096 01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:28.880 repetitive campaign. Another developer to Sndate Studios limits poor sales despite positive reviews and 1097 01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:34.239 absence of common player a grievances like micro transactions and lengthy gameplay. Basically, 1098 01:12:34.279 --> 01:12:39.600 this came out of reporting from Wreck of Valentine over at IGN where she talked 1099 01:12:39.640 --> 01:12:43.039 about forty developers about Hey, what's happening in gaming right now? Why all 1100 01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:45.119 the layoffs, why some closures? Why is it seem so gloomy out there? 1101 01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:49.199 And there was a lot of different reasons. The biggest reason still seems 1102 01:12:49.239 --> 01:12:54.079 to be over hiring coming through the pandemic, but a lot of people spotted 1103 01:12:54.079 --> 01:12:57.279 a lot of other things happening, and they pointed out that games like Immortals 1104 01:12:57.279 --> 01:13:00.640 Aavium can still happen, and by happen it means they release. They are 1105 01:13:00.960 --> 01:13:04.600 big projects, projects that like when you start making it like maybe this can 1106 01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:09.119 work, and then they go out and they just fall completely flat and it's 1107 01:13:09.159 --> 01:13:12.920 like a big risk that just blows up in EA's face and in the studio's 1108 01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:15.199 face and they have to lay off a bunch of people. You know. 1109 01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:18.199 I think I would argue, hey, Mortals of Avium, you should make 1110 01:13:18.239 --> 01:13:23.359 a game that's more interesting that can like command attention, do something that like, 1111 01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:25.680 oh, people can't ignore. Maybe go on and get an IP. 1112 01:13:26.039 --> 01:13:28.479 But then you see, like, hey, Suicide Squad did all that, 1113 01:13:28.960 --> 01:13:31.600 and people feel the exact same way about that game. So there's not a 1114 01:13:31.640 --> 01:13:35.359 lot of like obvious answers that are just gonna work other than you make a 1115 01:13:35.359 --> 01:13:39.760 game that people can't ignore because it's so good. I suppose this game people 1116 01:13:39.800 --> 01:13:43.079 don't hate it, but that maybe people just felt like it was an easy 1117 01:13:43.119 --> 01:13:46.079 one to skip in a very busy time of the year. Did any of 1118 01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:49.319 you ever play Immortals of Avium Because I never touched it. I looked at 1119 01:13:49.319 --> 01:13:53.039 it for like ten seconds. I think I just like a video. Yeah, 1120 01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:56.479 yeah, I just saw that and that was about it. I think 1121 01:13:57.560 --> 01:14:00.680 it's remarkably unremarkable. Yeah, and that's just struble. I mean, like 1122 01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:03.840 the the like spell casting stuff and everything. It's like pretty snappy and it 1123 01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:08.399 looks pretty sharp, but the tone and the story are pretty off putting. 1124 01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:13.439 I would say this the developers from the studio who had previously worked there, 1125 01:14:13.479 --> 01:14:15.359 they've been laid off. They said, it's it was actually just a bad 1126 01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:20.199 idea to make a single player first person shooter that is a big Triple A 1127 01:14:20.279 --> 01:14:24.399 game these days. That was just a straight up bad idea and you shouldn't 1128 01:14:24.439 --> 01:14:27.159 do that anymore. Do you guys agree with that? Or do you guys 1129 01:14:27.159 --> 01:14:30.000 think that at the very least we could tell it's very risky. But can 1130 01:14:30.119 --> 01:14:33.680 a game like that still work today and make its money back and make a 1131 01:14:33.720 --> 01:14:38.840 splash if it's not like called Doom for example, And if it's not tied 1132 01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:41.760 to an IP, perhaps it's not tied to something well yeah, I mean 1133 01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:44.000 even if it is tied to an IP, like, is that what you 1134 01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:45.760 need to do to survive? I don't know, what do you think? 1135 01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:47.880 Do you count that like with the you know, there was that three sixty 1136 01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:51.520 era, like post BioShock, where you got all those like singularities and fracture 1137 01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:56.119 and all those different type of games like single player focus kind of like a 1138 01:14:56.159 --> 01:15:00.520 gimmick of power of some sort, like Immortal sad Are you're talking that type 1139 01:15:00.520 --> 01:15:03.560 of game. I mean sure, I mean yeah, those didn't really work 1140 01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:06.000 either though, right, No, yeah, like if it was BioShock, 1141 01:15:06.039 --> 01:15:09.079 it worked for that was BioShock, you know, that was the exception. 1142 01:15:11.159 --> 01:15:13.640 Those gives probably didn't cost one hundred and twenty five million dollars to make, 1143 01:15:13.680 --> 01:15:16.079 though. I think that's the difference is like it's getting way more expensive to 1144 01:15:16.079 --> 01:15:21.199 make one of those. I mean it is a wildly large marketing budget too, 1145 01:15:21.479 --> 01:15:27.039 which marketing budgets are these days, totally, But I don't know, 1146 01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:31.479 I do, yeah, I think the effectiveness of those things are like always 1147 01:15:31.600 --> 01:15:39.760 right up in the air and exactly. Yeah, I you know, I 1148 01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:44.920 hate to relate that. I think it's a tough thing to relate to BioShock. 1149 01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:49.039 I think obviously Boschak has like a a certain kind of like story that 1150 01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:53.920 a lot of things can't really compete with. And when you think about that, 1151 01:15:54.079 --> 01:15:59.720 the story part of you know, this one, it's it's it's sort 1152 01:15:59.760 --> 01:16:02.640 of forgettable and uninteresting in a lot of ways. Right, So right, 1153 01:16:03.800 --> 01:16:06.600 And I don't know, I think, Greb you said it again. I 1154 01:16:06.600 --> 01:16:11.359 think it's risky more than anything, because, right, these types of games 1155 01:16:11.359 --> 01:16:15.720 are so expensive to start with. If it HITSI can hit. But the 1156 01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:20.399 much likelier scenario is it's gonna miss. And when you miss these days with 1157 01:16:20.439 --> 01:16:25.880 a game like this, it seems to miss very, very hard. It's 1158 01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:29.159 like there is no in the middle. It just is either going to be 1159 01:16:29.159 --> 01:16:30.359 a really big thing that a lot of people are talking about and it takes 1160 01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:33.279 off on social media and word of mouth and a lot of people end up 1161 01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:36.600 buying it right away and it has some long legs and sells for a long 1162 01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:40.520 time. We see that happen over and over with a handful of games, 1163 01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:44.680 and then we also see pretty frequently the opposite happen. A game like Immortals 1164 01:16:44.760 --> 01:16:49.199 Vavian comes along and it misses and it just disappears basically immediately, and no 1165 01:16:49.239 --> 01:16:51.800 one wants to even talk about it. So, you know, maybe the 1166 01:16:51.840 --> 01:16:55.920 same thing something similar may be happening with Suicide Squad, but we'll see, 1167 01:16:55.960 --> 01:16:59.239 and maybe they could turn it around keep people interested in that. But that 1168 01:16:59.279 --> 01:17:00.800 game had like half the sales of Gotham Knights. I think they said, 1169 01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:04.680 so, yeah, oh no, it had to have the sales of Guardians 1170 01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:12.039 of the Galaxy, that's what. Yeah. I don't know if even tying 1171 01:17:12.079 --> 01:17:16.239 yourself to an ip is like a guaranteed success because of Suicide Squad. Even 1172 01:17:16.279 --> 01:17:20.600 Avatar, which is like a decent game and you know, shouts out to 1173 01:17:21.279 --> 01:17:26.840 our Avatar heads out out here, but it didn't blow up the world. 1174 01:17:27.119 --> 01:17:30.319 And then you have other like Triple A or I guess seemingly double a first 1175 01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:33.560 person shooter games like Atomic Heart, where there was like a lot of buzz 1176 01:17:33.720 --> 01:17:35.640 leading up to it and then it came out and then it's like, all 1177 01:17:35.720 --> 01:17:40.760 right, cool, that's okay, Like I don't remember a lot of buzz 1178 01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:45.000 after we got over Jeff Beckler making relations with that fridge. God, he 1179 01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:54.680 did fuck that fridge, didn't. Ok That's but like I see the first 1180 01:17:54.680 --> 01:17:58.000 person games, I see blowing up more so, or like the the indie 1181 01:17:58.000 --> 01:18:01.800 ones, like what is that in the horror game where you're like walking around 1182 01:18:01.840 --> 01:18:08.920 a subway or whatever, like, uh fuck, it was like a three 1183 01:18:09.039 --> 01:18:15.800 sixty right launch. No, this was an end condemned. No no no, 1184 01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:17.960 no, the exit eight, the exit eight. This was like a 1185 01:18:18.479 --> 01:18:23.119 gable last year. Well, I mean, I think that's the reality of 1186 01:18:23.119 --> 01:18:29.319 what's actually happening, is that people aren't deciding to look to other places, 1187 01:18:29.319 --> 01:18:32.079 other than these reliable third party publishers that have been around forever. It's like, 1188 01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:34.079 well, if they play on a game, maybe it'll be interesting, 1189 01:18:34.319 --> 01:18:38.039 and like, actually, it's going to be way more interesting if it's a 1190 01:18:38.159 --> 01:18:42.920 smaller team taking risks because they can actually whether they can afford to or not. 1191 01:18:43.239 --> 01:18:45.520 Those teams just seem to like feel like, oh, we could take 1192 01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:46.920 risks, because what does it matter. We're already making a risk by making 1193 01:18:46.920 --> 01:18:50.720 a video game in the first place. And when it comes to these bigger 1194 01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:56.439 studios, they like are like, the risk is either a new IP and 1195 01:18:56.479 --> 01:18:59.079 that requires a whole ton of investment and a ton of time to get people 1196 01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:00.720 to care about it, or they did spend a lot of money to acquire 1197 01:19:00.720 --> 01:19:04.439 an IP and then you hope that that is actually that's actually going to pay 1198 01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:06.920 off, and so then they don't even consider risks. And a lot of 1199 01:19:06.920 --> 01:19:11.560 other like gameplay mechanics and things like that, and the and the indie side 1200 01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:13.560 of things, it's like, well, these games keep getting better and bigger 1201 01:19:13.840 --> 01:19:16.600 and are starting to replace these games that were coming from big third party publishers, 1202 01:19:17.000 --> 01:19:19.079 and people are starting to pay attention to that, and that's just going 1203 01:19:19.159 --> 01:19:21.760 to keep happening more and more, and these bigger publishers are going to have 1204 01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:26.960 a harder and harder time kind of justifying why we've been waiting for their games 1205 01:19:26.960 --> 01:19:30.920 when there's a million other games we could be paying attention to. Sorry earlier, 1206 01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:35.600 Sorry to go off track here. Earlier reference something you referenced earlier. 1207 01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:39.640 I thought you were making a joke about the four h four podcast because I 1208 01:19:39.640 --> 01:19:42.520 thought that was the thing Backlar used to be on, and then I referenced 1209 01:19:42.560 --> 01:19:44.079 that. I was like, wait, let me google. Was that the 1210 01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:47.479 name of the Backlar? What was your seene that gimmick? Backlar? What 1211 01:19:47.520 --> 01:19:49.920 the fuck are we talking about? Now? I realized I looked it up, 1212 01:19:49.960 --> 01:19:53.600 and I think I didn't understand the reference and the joke I was making, 1213 01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:56.359 So I wanted to correct myself. What was your You did a podcast 1214 01:19:56.399 --> 01:20:00.279 for like ninety years foreign in in internet years. Yeah, I guess that's 1215 01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:02.720 right. It was called the four or four Show. Yeah, Oh wait, 1216 01:20:02.800 --> 01:20:06.119 was that what you were referencing earlier? Yes? Wait, I just 1217 01:20:06.159 --> 01:20:09.880 googled it and I see the four or four media podcast and it was something 1218 01:20:09.920 --> 01:20:11.840 else. I was like, oh, I hope, I didn't think I 1219 01:20:11.880 --> 01:20:15.680 was joking about something that trademark oyals lawyers on that ship. Yeah, so 1220 01:20:15.760 --> 01:20:18.159 it looks like this is a big thing. They got the four or four 1221 01:20:18.239 --> 01:20:20.720 media podcast. This is not your thing. This is a vice thing. 1222 01:20:20.760 --> 01:20:26.479 This is people that quit vice. Oh shit, oh god, orbital strike. 1223 01:20:26.680 --> 01:20:28.239 Oh no, I was gonna say, I thought that was the back 1224 01:20:28.279 --> 01:20:30.279 lark thing. Okay, that is not We got it. We were correct 1225 01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:32.840 all along. Dan, Okay, get on it. You guys got it. 1226 01:20:32.920 --> 01:20:34.760 You guys got it. Okay, cool, good, all right, 1227 01:20:34.800 --> 01:20:39.640 all right. Got some rumors about the switch to have been popping up kind 1228 01:20:39.640 --> 01:20:43.279 of NonStop. This is from last week. Switch to will probably be backward 1229 01:20:43.279 --> 01:20:46.319 compatible. A reliable leak or suggests Nintendo switch to we'll have backwards compatibility with 1230 01:20:46.359 --> 01:20:51.199 og switch games both physical and digital. Nintendo's rumored to be working on a 1231 01:20:51.239 --> 01:20:57.319 successor of the switch blah blah blah. The rumor came from Universo Nintendo by 1232 01:20:57.399 --> 01:21:00.920 way, or came from pH Brazil by way Universal Nintendo. Both seem to 1233 01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:04.760 have a pretty decent track record of this. And then we saw nath the 1234 01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:09.319 Hate, who has also a very good track record of Nintendo rumors, back 1235 01:21:09.359 --> 01:21:12.600 this up. He went on reset Era and said that the dev kits have 1236 01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:15.640 backward compatibility, and this is something that is now going around pretty widely that 1237 01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:19.279 hey, this thing's going to actually have backward compatibility. If you're listening to 1238 01:21:19.319 --> 01:21:24.119 that and you're like, duh, everything needs backward compatibility these days, I'm 1239 01:21:24.119 --> 01:21:27.840 one hundred percent with you. But Nintendo is switching up the kind of chip 1240 01:21:27.840 --> 01:21:30.800 that they're using that the Nvidia chip is going to be a whole new generation. 1241 01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:33.199 There is no guarantee that the switch games would have worked. This is 1242 01:21:33.279 --> 01:21:40.000 this required effort from probably both Nvidia and Nintendo at the same time. Though 1243 01:21:40.119 --> 01:21:43.199 they needed to just do that because of course you need to have backward compatibility, 1244 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:45.479 right. I mean, I never assume that anything is going to be 1245 01:21:45.479 --> 01:21:47.119 that simple or just work the way it should with Nintendo. As much as 1246 01:21:47.159 --> 01:21:50.239 I love Nintendo stuff, It's like, Okay, I bought a billion virtual 1247 01:21:50.239 --> 01:21:54.239 console games on the Wii, and then to play them on the Wiu, 1248 01:21:54.359 --> 01:21:57.399 I had to pay an extra dollar fifty to get the like WU game pad 1249 01:21:57.479 --> 01:22:00.359 version, and then none of that carried over to the switch. I'm certainly 1250 01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:02.520 not going to just assume it's gonna work, because like it's never just worked 1251 01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:06.039 or just been simple in the past with Nintendo's so hearing them might actually be 1252 01:22:06.039 --> 01:22:11.039 backwards compatible this time is definitely good news, right, and you combine that 1253 01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:15.039 with this actually probably was pretty challenging. This probably was pretty hard to pull 1254 01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:19.039 off. But Nvidia likely developed a compatibility layer similar to what happens when you 1255 01:22:19.119 --> 01:22:25.680 run up Windows games on the Steam Deck through the Proton layer. Something similar 1256 01:22:25.760 --> 01:22:29.960 is probably happening here. But Nvidia has very good software engineers, good hardware 1257 01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:32.520 engineers. They probably came up with a solution for Nintendo so they can implement 1258 01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:36.720 it here. But that just that the difficulty of that, combined with Nintendo's 1259 01:22:36.760 --> 01:22:41.720 history, there was reason to really be skeptical about backward compatibility. With the 1260 01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:45.159 switch to sounds like this should work. What do you guys think it actually 1261 01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:47.279 ends up looking like? Though? Do you think it's going to be just 1262 01:22:47.359 --> 01:22:51.199 full backward compatibility for every game and they won't run any better because there is 1263 01:22:51.239 --> 01:22:55.800 some rumors that some of the games are actually seeing performance enhancements. I don't 1264 01:22:55.840 --> 01:22:59.880 think it's gonna run any better. You're probably right, but I mean I 1265 01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:03.880 think you get the the basic benefits of just like things that have to happen, 1266 01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:05.760 right, like well, yeah, if it's out putting at four K, 1267 01:23:06.239 --> 01:23:11.439 like, yeah, sure it'll stuff. Yeah. Outside of that, 1268 01:23:11.479 --> 01:23:15.000 I wouldn't be surprised if there's no tangible benefit or things like are there some 1269 01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:18.920 games on switch that will run slightly better, like Doc Versus undocked? Like 1270 01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:23.159 I wonder if this will kind of like you know, even that playing field. 1271 01:23:23.600 --> 01:23:27.880 Yeah, it's and there's been a lot of people who have upclocked the 1272 01:23:27.960 --> 01:23:31.119 CPU and GPU inside the switch and have made games just run better that way 1273 01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:35.720 by hacking their their switches. Maybe Nintendo would be more willing to tap into 1274 01:23:35.800 --> 01:23:42.560 that with new hardware. Well, we'll see what's up clock. I don't 1275 01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:44.800 know what's up clock with you, man, Oh my god, Jan, 1276 01:23:47.239 --> 01:23:50.359 let's see here. Oh yeah. There's also rumors that the switch to could 1277 01:23:50.359 --> 01:23:56.079 get revealed in March. That's like going around from some reliable leakers as well. 1278 01:23:56.399 --> 01:24:03.000 Mario Day, Hey, that's a really good pull. And one of 1279 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:06.520 the things that might like lean into this is the rumor direct that might still 1280 01:24:06.560 --> 01:24:10.800 be happening this week. Who knows, Microsoft's got that thing could like derail 1281 01:24:10.840 --> 01:24:14.479 things. That's that there's not a zero percent chance of that happens, but 1282 01:24:14.880 --> 01:24:16.880 it's probably probably could still happen Thursday. The rumor is that's going to be 1283 01:24:16.920 --> 01:24:20.960 a partner direct, which means no first party announcements at that direct, which 1284 01:24:21.000 --> 01:24:25.880 means that they won't really have any Like they're not gonna have Metro Prime four 1285 01:24:25.920 --> 01:24:30.359 probably for this first half of this year. So why not at that point 1286 01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:33.000 go into March start talking about the new hardware. You can launch that six 1287 01:24:33.039 --> 01:24:38.359 months later in the beginning of the holiday season and just go from there. 1288 01:24:38.760 --> 01:24:44.079 God, if it's Mario Day March tenth and we get announcement, well the 1289 01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:49.079 March tenth week, still they might do something with that. Yeah, two 1290 01:24:49.159 --> 01:24:55.319 for that all the all the conventional thinking and wisdom, right, is like 1291 01:24:55.399 --> 01:24:59.239 another Odyssey, right, or just the ball the next mainline one. Like, 1292 01:24:59.279 --> 01:25:00.279 I don't think it's gonna be Odyssey two with its point because like the 1293 01:25:00.279 --> 01:25:02.199 one time they didn't, okay, the one time they did, like a 1294 01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:06.079 straight up like Galaxy two. Galaxy two was like very quickly after it. 1295 01:25:06.079 --> 01:25:09.479 It was like two years after Galaxy At this point, I think it's gonna 1296 01:25:09.479 --> 01:25:11.720 be the next step in like the mainline series. It's gonna be Super Mario 1297 01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:15.640 blank something else anyone now. And that Mario team did a Bowser's fury. 1298 01:25:15.680 --> 01:25:19.520 But since Odysseas that they've already been like messing around with other stuff. Yes, 1299 01:25:19.680 --> 01:25:23.680 seems like they're going off in another direction. Although I always got the 1300 01:25:23.680 --> 01:25:26.600 sense that they were gonna do Mario Odyssey, like maybe DLC, and then 1301 01:25:26.760 --> 01:25:30.159 they turned that into a sequel. We'll see, but it probably is going 1302 01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:33.159 to be a whole new game at this point. Cool uh. GJA six 1303 01:25:33.239 --> 01:25:36.159 meanwhile, may not come out until much later in twenty twenty five. We 1304 01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:40.319 know that the game is scheduled for twenty twenty five, after that launched or 1305 01:25:40.359 --> 01:25:43.920 that revealed trailer said hey, twenty twenty five, that's the year it's coming 1306 01:25:43.960 --> 01:25:47.479 out. But up until recently, the assumption was that would mean early twenty 1307 01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:50.920 twenty five, because Take two said they were going to make about eight billion 1308 01:25:50.960 --> 01:25:55.520 dollars in revenue, which is way more than they were they've ever made before. 1309 01:25:55.920 --> 01:26:00.479 Next year, they did in the most recent earnings report were advised that 1310 01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:03.159 down by about a billion dollars to seven billion dollars, and you know what, 1311 01:26:03.199 --> 01:26:06.800 would probably make about a billion dollars in its first couple of weeks GTA 1312 01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:11.640 six. So the assumption now is the game has moved into later in twenty 1313 01:26:11.680 --> 01:26:15.359 twenty five, which is not too shocking, right, A big game like 1314 01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:17.920 this getting delayed these days is par for the course. No, not at 1315 01:26:17.960 --> 01:26:24.119 all. I can't say that a care Also, though he's pushed into twenty 1316 01:26:24.199 --> 01:26:29.600 six. Absolutely it's a big game on of course. Uh. Helldiver's Students 1317 01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:33.479 Helldiver's two Studio is promising to make good. Sony's largest PC game launch has 1318 01:26:33.479 --> 01:26:38.479 faced log in issues in reward tracking problems. It's also faced those on PS 1319 01:26:38.520 --> 01:26:43.680 five despite positive player reception. They had a recent patch that aimed at addressing 1320 01:26:43.760 --> 01:26:45.520 log in issues, but they had to roll that back because it caused performance 1321 01:26:45.600 --> 01:26:49.119 issues. So what they're gonna do is a compensation has been promised for loss 1322 01:26:49.159 --> 01:26:55.279 rewards via increased reward events to mitigate progression setbacks. So basically they're gonna have 1323 01:26:55.319 --> 01:26:59.000 like a double XP event to make up for it and maybe let that last 1324 01:26:59.039 --> 01:27:01.640 for a little while. I will say, progression in that game pretty slow, 1325 01:27:02.399 --> 01:27:05.119 pretty slow. That makes I feel like they want you to spend some 1326 01:27:05.159 --> 01:27:09.119 money some of that currency, because even like like the green currency, the 1327 01:27:09.159 --> 01:27:11.359 samples like those take a while to get. I haven't been able to buy 1328 01:27:11.399 --> 01:27:14.800 any of those actual things yet. But then there's two other types of currency 1329 01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:16.479 I haven't even seen yet that are listed, and I'm like, I don't 1330 01:27:16.479 --> 01:27:19.039 even know how the fuck you get that? Is it like super samples? 1331 01:27:19.039 --> 01:27:23.680 We started collecting some, so the super stuff is like also the paid currency, 1332 01:27:23.680 --> 01:27:25.680 and you can find that out in the field. So that's the stuff, 1333 01:27:25.720 --> 01:27:28.359 right, like the rotating item shot. But there's like a purple and 1334 01:27:28.399 --> 01:27:31.000 like an orange currency that I have not even seen yet. Have you guys 1335 01:27:31.479 --> 01:27:36.399 upgraded your ship at all? I've got fifty, like you need sixty to 1336 01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:40.520 upgrade that. So that's about where I'm at. Yeah, yeah, it's 1337 01:27:40.600 --> 01:27:44.119 it's it's slow going, but hey, a double XP event, I'll take 1338 01:27:44.159 --> 01:27:48.479 advantage of that. The game is very popular, though it has really caught 1339 01:27:48.520 --> 01:27:54.439 on. It is by far Sony's most popular PC release. Prom The got 1340 01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:58.039 A War launch on PC had about eighty thousand concurrent players. This had one 1341 01:27:58.119 --> 01:28:01.640 hundred and fifty thousand concurrent players at its peace So gad it does seem to 1342 01:28:01.640 --> 01:28:06.039 have cross play, but I downloaded it on PC. Uh and progression cross 1343 01:28:06.079 --> 01:28:09.359 progression. Bummer, Yeah, it is a bummer. Yeah, I was 1344 01:28:09.359 --> 01:28:12.079 wondering you were you were thinking about switching to PC. But you were going 1345 01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:16.000 to do now? Yeah, does this count as one of like PlayStation's games 1346 01:28:16.039 --> 01:28:19.960 as a service games that they've been talking about in their lineup? A lot 1347 01:28:19.960 --> 01:28:23.520 of people are assuming it has hit two hundred dozen concurrent. Ham out of 1348 01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:27.159 Texas says, real quick, thank you, Hammond. I think a lot 1349 01:28:27.199 --> 01:28:30.960 of people assume it's it is one of those. It probably is, But 1350 01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:35.880 I wonder if if they think it's like not exactly because it's not from a 1351 01:28:35.920 --> 01:28:40.199 studio that they necessarily own. I don't think they own Arrowhead, even though 1352 01:28:40.199 --> 01:28:42.399 they published this game. This is a first party game. It definitely was 1353 01:28:42.439 --> 01:28:45.279 one hundred percent of first party game. But I think they might not necessarily 1354 01:28:45.319 --> 01:28:49.079 consider it part of that does in games that they're working on. Maybe I 1355 01:28:49.159 --> 01:28:53.039 actually I would. I'd be interested to see what they say if you were 1356 01:28:53.039 --> 01:28:58.720 to ask them that Ubisoft CEO is defending Skull and Bones full tyst tag and 1357 01:28:59.039 --> 01:29:02.520 calls it a quad true a game. Skull and Bones yousop. Some multiplayer 1358 01:29:02.560 --> 01:29:08.640 pirate naval battleship title faces player doubts due to delays and production reboots. Despite 1359 01:29:08.640 --> 01:29:12.439 concerns, the game launches in a week with eight an eighty pound or eighty 1360 01:29:12.479 --> 01:29:15.239 euro excuse me, price tag. I think it's seventy dollars and a game 1361 01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:18.760 as a service format. The free beata has been available, people have been 1362 01:29:18.760 --> 01:29:24.760 trying it, and because of these concerns, Ubisoft CEO Yeves Gimmol came out 1363 01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:27.960 to defend the game, saying players will see that Skull and Bones is a 1364 01:29:28.000 --> 01:29:30.600 complete game. It's a really big game, and we think people will see 1365 01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:35.159 we'll really see how vast and complete it is. It's a really complete triple. 1366 01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:40.079 And then he stops and says quadruple a game that will deliver it in 1367 01:29:40.119 --> 01:29:42.800 the long run. And I can't help but think of that John Lovett's like 1368 01:29:42.960 --> 01:29:46.640 pathological liar character because I'm forty years old. That's the ticket. It's a 1369 01:29:46.640 --> 01:29:51.439 triple, No quadruple. Ay, Yeah, that's it. I mean yeah, 1370 01:29:51.720 --> 01:29:58.239 the extra A is the is it's that joke. It's the spinal dab 1371 01:29:58.399 --> 01:30:00.920 joke. This this one's on four a's, then those up to eleven. 1372 01:30:01.159 --> 01:30:03.720 It's also the more a's you add, the more it's a. It's like 1373 01:30:03.760 --> 01:30:09.119 a scream for the amount of time that goes into making these games. Yeah, 1374 01:30:09.840 --> 01:30:12.920 this is an insane thing to say. It's just like a really wild 1375 01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:15.520 bank. I don't think it's going to convince many people that it actually is 1376 01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:20.159 worth seventy dollars, but we'll see. Maybe this game is also secretly kind 1377 01:30:20.159 --> 01:30:25.000 of okay, like Suicide Squad. I have not actually played Skull and Bones 1378 01:30:25.079 --> 01:30:29.479 yet, So I did an E three twenty seventeen. Oh god shit, 1379 01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:32.239 that's right or eighteen? Yeah? Was that the behind closed doors one? 1380 01:30:32.600 --> 01:30:36.399 I think so? Yeah. It definitely was in a hot room. You 1381 01:30:36.439 --> 01:30:40.279 remember that I tried to get you. Remember you should write a book of 1382 01:30:40.319 --> 01:30:45.079 the temperature of rooms you've been in. Dude. E three is just one 1383 01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:48.600 big hot room, right, I mean what like every once while you get 1384 01:30:48.600 --> 01:30:53.560 in an air conditioned room and then you fall asleep because it's way too comfortable. 1385 01:30:53.640 --> 01:30:59.760 So that's who but those are very infrequent. I feel like it was. 1386 01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:02.159 That's why everyone would always get sick too. I feel like because you 1387 01:31:02.239 --> 01:31:05.800 just put people in these small rooms and they would like Jerry rig this like 1388 01:31:06.479 --> 01:31:12.399 you know mcgui ver esque h VAC situation that like who knows how that was 1389 01:31:12.439 --> 01:31:16.119 moving air around? The boy quade is not a nude term. I remember 1390 01:31:16.199 --> 01:31:21.199 Visceral used to say that they I was in Canada checking out Army of Two 1391 01:31:21.359 --> 01:31:25.880 Devil's Cartel for game and former Yeah, and all the Visceral people were big 1392 01:31:25.960 --> 01:31:30.199 on calling it a quad A game, and uh the yeah, Visceral as 1393 01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:32.479 a studio always said that to the point where Dead Space three, if you 1394 01:31:32.560 --> 01:31:34.800 go in, like there's like a gift shop in one of the ships or 1395 01:31:34.840 --> 01:31:38.479 something, and their shirts that say Quad A on them, so they, 1396 01:31:38.600 --> 01:31:43.279 uh, yeah, playing to a perfect arcists the first quad A game. 1397 01:31:43.319 --> 01:31:45.560 It's like nope, nope. Visceral had been saying that term Army of Two, 1398 01:31:45.560 --> 01:31:50.119 the Devil's Cartel is the first quad A game. Too big, too 1399 01:31:50.119 --> 01:31:57.079 big. Sega reported sluggish holiday sales. Sega's Q three fiscal year twenty twenty 1400 01:31:57.079 --> 01:32:01.399 four financial results revealed sluggish sales for premium titles, including Sonic Superstars. They 1401 01:32:01.439 --> 01:32:05.960 did a notice of a revision of operating results forecast and basically they're just like 1402 01:32:06.319 --> 01:32:12.000 Sonic Superstars, Endless Dungeon, Total War, Pharaoh, I think like a 1403 01:32:12.079 --> 01:32:15.159 Dragon guid In, the man who had a name and forgot it, and 1404 01:32:15.199 --> 01:32:18.720 a couple of others. Yeah, and I think called Love. Uh, 1405 01:32:18.800 --> 01:32:23.159 They're like these none of these really sold like we were hoping throughout the holiday 1406 01:32:23.159 --> 01:32:26.560 season. Sonic Superstars is one they seem to call out specifically as having some 1407 01:32:26.920 --> 01:32:29.800 trouble selling. I would argue they should have made it a better get a 1408 01:32:29.800 --> 01:32:31.680 better video game. It kind of stinks. It's not that they at one 1409 01:32:31.720 --> 01:32:35.000 point had a good direction for two D Sonic that people were paying into. 1410 01:32:35.319 --> 01:32:39.560 Yeah, and it like they was like a really appealed to those Sonic maniacs 1411 01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:43.079 out there. Yeah. Yeah, and they all and everyone universally loved it. 1412 01:32:43.079 --> 01:32:45.000 And they just made another one of those that would have been a good 1413 01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:47.079 idea with that had a good ulternate history. Yeah, clearly that was never 1414 01:32:47.560 --> 01:32:54.119 on the table. They're probably doing a lot better Sega Oh, Slash Atlas 1415 01:32:54.199 --> 01:32:58.479 just released Persona three Reload and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. Both of those 1416 01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:01.359 games we know are doing very well. I think we got confirmation that both 1417 01:33:01.399 --> 01:33:05.760 have sold over a million copies each, so they're doing pretty good in this 1418 01:33:05.800 --> 01:33:09.319 first quarter. I think a lot of people were just like, I'm gonna 1419 01:33:09.319 --> 01:33:11.800 wait for those games. I really want to play, and you should have 1420 01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:15.640 made a better Sonic game. Finally, Disney, Not finally, there's one 1421 01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:19.359 more after this that Jan added Disney invests one point five billion dollars in Epic 1422 01:33:19.399 --> 01:33:25.520 Games and announced some major Fortnite partnership. Basically, Disney now has an equity 1423 01:33:25.520 --> 01:33:28.640 stake worth one point five billion dollars in Epic. Tim Sweeney still the majority 1424 01:33:28.680 --> 01:33:30.239 owner of that company, so it's not like this is a new ownership over 1425 01:33:30.239 --> 01:33:34.199 there. As part of this deal, though, Epic has promised back to 1426 01:33:34.279 --> 01:33:39.159 Disney that they are going to make them a connected, persistent universe that is 1427 01:33:39.159 --> 01:33:43.000 based on all of Disney's properties, not just where you can play games based 1428 01:33:43.000 --> 01:33:46.039 on Lila, Lelo and Stitch or whatever, but also where you can like 1429 01:33:46.359 --> 01:33:53.039 consume content and watch things and shop. It's a metaverse, is what they're 1430 01:33:53.079 --> 01:33:57.239 saying. Bob Iger was quoted as saying, when I saw gen Z and 1431 01:33:57.319 --> 01:34:00.399 jen Alpha and millennials, the amount of time they were spending in terms of 1432 01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:03.319 total media screen time on video games, it was stunning, equal to what 1433 01:34:03.319 --> 01:34:06.760 they spent on TVs and movies. The conclusion I reached, we have to 1434 01:34:06.800 --> 01:34:12.760 be there, So just a real brain genius over there. Katzenberg was he 1435 01:34:12.800 --> 01:34:15.600 the quibbi guy who's like, could the idea of this? When I noticed 1436 01:34:15.640 --> 01:34:18.359 all these kids are on their phones a lot way like videos. This is 1437 01:34:18.439 --> 01:34:25.199 quib level here, it is Quibbi level. Oh my god. Bob Iger 1438 01:34:25.239 --> 01:34:27.920 also said that this thing is probably a couple of years away. Uh, 1439 01:34:27.960 --> 01:34:31.680 so we'll see what it ends up looking like over time. I don't know. 1440 01:34:31.760 --> 01:34:34.760 I think it could be cool. I could also see this thing fizzling 1441 01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:40.279 out very quickly, just based on like these other Fortnite games that we've seen 1442 01:34:40.319 --> 01:34:44.680 recently, where there was some excitement around them, and now at the very 1443 01:34:44.760 --> 01:34:46.119 least. I know people like that Lego game, but no one really talks 1444 01:34:46.159 --> 01:34:53.479 about the rocket racing or the ro the rock band one so epic putting their 1445 01:34:53.479 --> 01:34:56.239 best efforts into this. This doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to turn into 1446 01:34:56.239 --> 01:35:00.239 a major thing, but it does make some sense for Disney. I just 1447 01:35:00.520 --> 01:35:02.760 also, I think I prefer Disney was like, what if we just kept 1448 01:35:02.760 --> 01:35:05.680 making, you know, big, real bespoke video games instead of having to 1449 01:35:05.720 --> 01:35:11.680 have our own online internet video gaming hub. Any interest from you? Jan 1450 01:35:11.880 --> 01:35:17.039 are resident Disney adult? Not really? Not really at all? What's comforting 1451 01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:20.560 to hear? Yeah? I mean like I like Disney, but I like 1452 01:35:21.359 --> 01:35:26.359 the different parts of Disney that are being presented here. Like I don't see 1453 01:35:26.399 --> 01:35:32.479 Sora joining Goofy or Donald in a Fortnite world. You know, I also 1454 01:35:32.520 --> 01:35:35.439 prefer the parks, And I guess you were talking about this last week on 1455 01:35:35.479 --> 01:35:39.319 game mess But I guess you could do like a one for one recreation of 1456 01:35:39.720 --> 01:35:44.760 Disneyland, Disney World, some of the other parks across the world and throw 1457 01:35:44.800 --> 01:35:49.279 yourself into that and then shoot people. I guess. I don't know if 1458 01:35:49.279 --> 01:35:56.520 that's stuff like that paintballs, I don't know. I have my hand on 1459 01:35:56.600 --> 01:35:59.640 the mouse ready to kick Manadi out if you jump. Thank you. Yeah, 1460 01:35:59.840 --> 01:36:02.800 right, your diligences is much appreciation, just gonna destroy things for Sean. 1461 01:36:02.960 --> 01:36:09.640 Just keep that in mind. Yeah, I don't really see an interest 1462 01:36:09.720 --> 01:36:14.800 in it because I don't currently have the need to pull my friends into a 1463 01:36:14.880 --> 01:36:18.319 virtual social hub to converse and talk and just like hang out. That's what 1464 01:36:18.479 --> 01:36:24.960 like discorder, just hanging out in person is four. But I can kind 1465 01:36:25.000 --> 01:36:28.000 of see a world where there's Disney freaks out there that are into this. 1466 01:36:29.239 --> 01:36:33.199 Yeah. I always think of these big companies, and a company like Disney 1467 01:36:33.239 --> 01:36:39.359 feels like it should have the capacity to sort of direct traffic and say you 1468 01:36:39.439 --> 01:36:43.039 care about all these things, come over here and play in our thing that 1469 01:36:43.079 --> 01:36:45.000 we're setting up for you, and then it's like, well, the reality 1470 01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:47.920 is you're gonna have a lot better luck if you just went and made a 1471 01:36:47.920 --> 01:36:50.520 Disney thing inside of roadblocks where the kids already are. Now a lot of 1472 01:36:50.560 --> 01:36:55.079 kids are already playing Fortnite, But this is not talking about like, oh, 1473 01:36:55.079 --> 01:36:57.880 we're gonna have a Disney event event inside Fortnite. They've done that and 1474 01:36:57.880 --> 01:37:00.479 that's worked a bunch of times, and that's already been very six for them. 1475 01:37:00.479 --> 01:37:02.680 This is going to be something separate, Disney's own thing that is attached 1476 01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:06.039 to Fortnite in many ways, but it doesn't necessarily mean it will have the 1477 01:37:06.079 --> 01:37:12.640 same foot traffic that Fortnite has. Sure, So I just it reminds me 1478 01:37:12.720 --> 01:37:15.359 of like a Club Penguin or something that will be You could be popular for 1479 01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:18.000 a little bit and then one day it's just going to go away and disappear, 1480 01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:21.279 and probably not that long after it hits the market, it'll probably be 1481 01:37:21.319 --> 01:37:25.279 like five years later the thing could get shut down because no one's using it 1482 01:37:25.319 --> 01:37:28.880 anymore. So, hey, I get why they feel they need to do 1483 01:37:28.920 --> 01:37:33.720 this, But Disney's efforts and video games have been have come in waves before 1484 01:37:33.800 --> 01:37:36.600 and they always seem to fizzle out. I expect this one probably to be 1485 01:37:36.600 --> 01:37:43.079 pretty similar. You know. Ah, we're saying this, and I completely 1486 01:37:43.119 --> 01:37:46.680 agree and I feel the same way. But Disney also chose Fortnite to be 1487 01:37:46.760 --> 01:37:54.600 the method of revealing that somehow Palpatine returned for their big numbered Star Wars movies. 1488 01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:58.439 Yes, it is, so, I don't know. They're weird over 1489 01:37:58.479 --> 01:38:00.560 there, huh. They make weird decisions, a lot of weird decisions, 1490 01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:05.119 absolutely all right. And then finally there's a headline here. I'll read it. 1491 01:38:05.520 --> 01:38:10.960 San Francisco will host Pokemon World Championship for the first time since twenty sixteen. 1492 01:38:12.079 --> 01:38:15.039 Jan You're gonna be okay, no, no, no. I have 1493 01:38:15.119 --> 01:38:18.840 to get back in the gym now, oh okay, I have to be. 1494 01:38:19.279 --> 01:38:26.840 I have to somehow relearn get into competitive Pokemon, and then within the 1495 01:38:26.840 --> 01:38:30.840 time span of the next Pokemon World Championships, I need to hit the circuits, 1496 01:38:31.079 --> 01:38:32.640 y'all. You'll be fine. No no, no, no, no, 1497 01:38:32.640 --> 01:38:36.800 no no no. I need to legitimately to compete in worlds, need 1498 01:38:36.840 --> 01:38:43.439 to compete in small tournaments and absolutely smoke the competition. I got faith in 1499 01:38:43.479 --> 01:38:46.239 you. Now. The good news is we do have someone who plays a 1500 01:38:46.239 --> 01:38:50.479 lot of competitive in game Pokemon. His name's Turbo Sean, and he could 1501 01:38:50.880 --> 01:38:55.079 he would probably be willing to like partner up with you on this and make 1502 01:38:55.119 --> 01:38:57.920 it happen. So here's what we have to do. I have to call 1503 01:38:58.039 --> 01:39:02.239 upon the like an event your style of Pokemon like training courses. I have 1504 01:39:02.279 --> 01:39:05.279 to get. I have to get Turbo Sean. I have to get Jake 1505 01:39:05.399 --> 01:39:09.920 Decker from the game spot Homies, and then I have to get Cali. 1506 01:39:10.119 --> 01:39:14.279 I have to get Cali to help guide me and land the plane. And 1507 01:39:14.399 --> 01:39:16.319 like, all right, don't go with Shawn's advice of putting nothing but low 1508 01:39:16.319 --> 01:39:18.760 Pnei's on the team. Okay, cool, Yeah that was that was a 1509 01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:25.079 weird, freaky thing that he likes. I need get I can't I can't 1510 01:39:25.119 --> 01:39:29.399 buy into worlds. I can't use the games journalism to be like, well, 1511 01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:30.960 I think you should put me on the bracket or whatever. Wait, 1512 01:39:31.199 --> 01:39:34.279 Filth Theobald works at Pokemon Company, and he uh, he wrote a top 1513 01:39:34.319 --> 01:39:38.479 tend list for us this year, So there you go. I need I 1514 01:39:38.520 --> 01:39:41.479 need to wheezing my way in. I need to take I need to somehow 1515 01:39:41.520 --> 01:39:45.560 take like a big name down. This could me like a karate kid thing. 1516 01:39:45.840 --> 01:39:48.039 The Giant bomb Jim has to open back up. I thought I was 1517 01:39:48.119 --> 01:39:53.479 out and they pulled me back in. I just be neat for some reason. 1518 01:39:53.560 --> 01:39:55.560 Just keep thinking of the dodgeball scene where the guys like, if you 1519 01:39:55.600 --> 01:39:57.439 could dodge a wrench, you could dodge a ball. And now I just 1520 01:39:57.479 --> 01:40:00.000 want to throw a wrench at ya. Let's get ripped torn on Team Giant. 1521 01:40:00.159 --> 01:40:06.840 Let's get he's not dead, he's probably super dead. Yeah. I 1522 01:40:09.359 --> 01:40:12.119 need to get championship points. I forget how many you need to get to 1523 01:40:12.159 --> 01:40:16.880 get into the bracket to actually compete. Fuck this pains to be inside. 1524 01:40:16.920 --> 01:40:21.439 I might need to travel next year, guys, just so I can compete 1525 01:40:21.479 --> 01:40:27.720 in my hometown. God, all right, Uh that does it for the 1526 01:40:27.760 --> 01:40:29.920 news. Jan This show's back over to you, buddy, as long as 1527 01:40:29.960 --> 01:40:31.479 you can handle it. I can't. I can't. I need to. 1528 01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:36.039 This is how we get. Oh no, you gotta start drinking raw eggs, 1529 01:40:36.119 --> 01:40:40.159 like seven or eight raw eggs and have a big cup. Why back 1530 01:40:40.520 --> 01:40:43.680 would you ever drink raw eggs? Like? Is there like any situation like 1531 01:40:43.680 --> 01:40:48.720 can we like dare you would you do it? Or what I guess I 1532 01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:51.560 would do? It for like a good amount of money. But oh, 1533 01:40:51.640 --> 01:40:57.279 isn't it But isn't it? Like is it dangerous? I mean, technically 1534 01:40:57.720 --> 01:41:00.800 it's a little dangerous. Actually, it turns out Okay, I heard this. 1535 01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:02.399 This could be wrong, so feel free to correct me. I heard 1536 01:41:02.439 --> 01:41:05.479 that, like the actually the eggshell has more salmonilla on it than the actual 1537 01:41:05.520 --> 01:41:09.359 egg itself inside, So you should wash your hands if your handle eggs, 1538 01:41:09.399 --> 01:41:14.239 no matter what. But the actual egg content inside it doesn't usually contain too 1539 01:41:14.319 --> 01:41:18.119 much salmonilla. But hey, I would still probably be careful drinking raw eggs. 1540 01:41:18.319 --> 01:41:21.520 Yeah, I like, I really like eggs, but mostly when they're 1541 01:41:21.520 --> 01:41:26.840 cooked. What if I really like rocky, well, then well then you 1542 01:41:26.840 --> 01:41:30.239 should be drinking it every every morning. You have to do this. Yeah, 1543 01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:33.119 he looked really cool doing this. I don't think it looks cool at 1544 01:41:33.119 --> 01:41:42.479 all. Drinking a glass of slime is not awesome. I mean, that's 1545 01:41:42.840 --> 01:41:45.119 the coolest of anyone's ever looked drinking slime, though, So top to your 1546 01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:49.960 clime drinker. I mean, I guess that doesn't say much. Yeah, 1547 01:41:50.039 --> 01:41:54.640 I'm not like completely adverse to it. I also think, like, uh, 1548 01:41:54.720 --> 01:41:58.920 you know, it's a lot of cholesterol and Okay, that's cholesterol. 1549 01:41:59.000 --> 01:42:00.319 That's what I say whenever some says something that has cholesterol in that, I 1550 01:42:00.319 --> 01:42:05.359 don't know what I mean. Got your HDLs? Yeah? Sure, yeah. 1551 01:42:05.600 --> 01:42:11.399 Do you drink glisser right the right, that's where they get. That's 1552 01:42:11.399 --> 01:42:16.079 where they yet on the for the road to Pokemon Worlds. Do we do 1553 01:42:16.159 --> 01:42:19.840 we frame this journey for me that I have to do now, I have 1554 01:42:19.920 --> 01:42:24.079 to do this. I have to get rid of every other possible side hobby 1555 01:42:24.119 --> 01:42:28.600 now because of this. Do we go for a rocky story where like Sean 1556 01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:30.680 could be like a Mickey Or do we go for like a karate Kid type 1557 01:42:30.680 --> 01:42:35.439 of thing where Rickey was famously old. Yeah, Sean's old, he was 1558 01:42:35.560 --> 01:42:40.560 getting young. We could always afford a little old person make up though, 1559 01:42:42.279 --> 01:42:45.680 like Pepper and his hair. Yeah, all of a sudden he's eighty. 1560 01:42:45.840 --> 01:42:47.680 Yeah. Or do we go for like a karate Kid type of deal where 1561 01:42:47.720 --> 01:42:51.720 he's mister again, another old person. Can you do a one arm push 1562 01:42:51.760 --> 01:42:57.800 up? Yeah? Okay, Rocky. Then what's the difference between Mickey and 1563 01:42:57.800 --> 01:43:00.279 and mister Miyagi in your head? Jam, what's the different fair One's Asian? 1564 01:43:01.079 --> 01:43:05.520 Yeah, they're very different. One one is like Hispanic I think so. 1565 01:43:05.760 --> 01:43:11.920 Yeah, Okay, it's neither of those. Still they and they train 1566 01:43:12.119 --> 01:43:15.560 very differently, do they not. Micky is way angrier. Mickey yells all 1567 01:43:15.600 --> 01:43:20.159 the time like drunk man. Right, yeah, very chill. What we 1568 01:43:20.199 --> 01:43:24.239 do, mister Mackie is just sad. I have to complete the poker arc 1569 01:43:24.479 --> 01:43:28.640 where I either lose an obscene amount of money, uh playing poker by developed 1570 01:43:28.640 --> 01:43:31.399 the skills of not showing any tells in poker, right, and like I 1571 01:43:31.399 --> 01:43:35.520 get a cool, cool cool head on my shoulders where we defeat everyone in 1572 01:43:35.520 --> 01:43:40.760 Pokemon because they think I'm playing I'm going against the rules, all right, 1573 01:43:41.920 --> 01:43:45.920 I'm doing nothing but bluffs perfectly. This this should be is you abandoned this 1574 01:43:46.000 --> 01:43:49.119 halfway through and we just go to the World Series of Poker instead. Like, 1575 01:43:49.359 --> 01:43:54.479 I love that me too. What if they combined Poker and Pokemon? 1576 01:43:54.560 --> 01:44:00.319 Would you just why would you say that to me? Why? That's great? 1577 01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:11.039 It's it's Pokermont there, Yeah, the structure of of of this greater 1578 01:44:11.159 --> 01:44:15.560 company. Why me as your employee, Why would you wish upon me like 1579 01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:20.399 that? They gave pokmon ideas they gave him. Yeah yeah, like let 1580 01:44:20.520 --> 01:44:26.119 Pokemon loosen a casino. Oh, god, and then I will try to 1581 01:44:26.159 --> 01:44:30.680 catch them all as a problem. Yeah, well hold them, hold them 1582 01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:32.079 all, Becker. I got mad at you again during the Super Bowl. 1583 01:44:33.039 --> 01:44:35.960 Why because they kept showing pictures of the sphere and I'm like that, look 1584 01:44:35.960 --> 01:44:42.039 how cool that thing is? How damn how dare he not think this is 1585 01:44:42.079 --> 01:44:46.640 amazing? There was such a good Onion post where they were like I forget 1586 01:44:46.680 --> 01:44:49.720 that. Oh I think they were like in honor of Super Bowls, the 1587 01:44:49.800 --> 01:44:59.039 sphere like posted like CT damaged brains or something, because really good. I 1588 01:44:59.119 --> 01:45:02.399 feel like the developing a CT. But thinking about Poker and Pokemon and then 1589 01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:08.760 just combine them together. Oh my god, oh god, I have to 1590 01:45:08.760 --> 01:45:11.640 start and now finish the story. All right. I just think it would 1591 01:45:11.640 --> 01:45:15.439 be really cool to like combine those two games. I think, like during 1592 01:45:15.479 --> 01:45:19.119 Pokemon on cards would be awesome. Well, I mean they have Pokemon cards, 1593 01:45:19.239 --> 01:45:24.000 so oh no, we can't get into that. Because if I don't 1594 01:45:24.039 --> 01:45:28.680 make it into competitive VGC two v two Pokemon, I could always default and 1595 01:45:28.720 --> 01:45:31.920 go back to the cards. I thought the cards. That's not a kind. 1596 01:45:32.960 --> 01:45:38.239 You didn't kick the cards. I think the cards were with you all 1597 01:45:38.239 --> 01:45:41.279 along. Yeah, now you take the boy out of the cards. You 1598 01:45:41.319 --> 01:45:45.439 can't take the cards out of the boy Worlds. And we have a posse 1599 01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:50.239 Sean as my cut man, and then we have garborg Jan right behind me 1600 01:45:50.279 --> 01:45:54.239 as my heightman. Can it be your uncle, Polly. I'll just give 1601 01:45:54.279 --> 01:45:57.399 you access to like a meat freezer for you to play in. Please you 1602 01:45:57.960 --> 01:46:02.279 awkward during Thanksgiving? But yeah, yeah, let's do that. Let's do 1603 01:46:02.319 --> 01:46:08.079 that, proud man. All right, let's go take a break so I 1604 01:46:08.079 --> 01:46:15.279 can go about my life decisions. Then we'll read emails. Okay, okay. 1605 01:46:15.359 --> 01:46:19.760 Thanks to the homie Caam, we've identified that all I gotta do is 1606 01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:28.399 win a regional tournament and I'm automatically invited to enter into Worlds. Alternatively, 1607 01:46:28.640 --> 01:46:31.880 I have to get six hundred championship points, which is a lot. Are 1608 01:46:31.920 --> 01:46:35.720 the regional ones that are in like Wyoming, and there's like two idiot kids 1609 01:46:35.720 --> 01:46:39.880 in there, and you can just kick their ass. That's why I'm saying, 1610 01:46:40.000 --> 01:46:45.680 man, what about Fargo. I've seen the gamers in Fargo based off 1611 01:46:45.680 --> 01:46:49.039 of there's a lot. Yeah, stay out of there, stay clear. 1612 01:46:49.439 --> 01:46:54.640 Oh god, we got we got them. It's like it's like Glee all 1613 01:46:54.680 --> 01:46:59.199 over again. We got to make it to regionals, shouts out to my 1614 01:46:59.319 --> 01:47:01.399 glee heads out there. No, that's a problematic show when you look at 1615 01:47:01.399 --> 01:47:08.640 it. Yeah. Yeah. Also worth noting, almost every regional championship this 1616 01:47:08.720 --> 01:47:12.119 year has been the largest pokemon. Okay, great, great, Okay, 1617 01:47:12.159 --> 01:47:20.439 that's cool. Emails I believe in you, Jan emails, Bombast. They 1618 01:47:20.479 --> 01:47:27.119 were called gleeks, not gleeheads. They were called gleeks. Oh that's like 1619 01:47:27.199 --> 01:47:29.840 the thing you could do with your mouth, like spitting out a little water. 1620 01:47:30.039 --> 01:47:31.640 Maybe you can. I never could. I could. I could never 1621 01:47:31.680 --> 01:47:34.560 do it reliably. I'd only do it by accident. I can do it. 1622 01:47:35.119 --> 01:47:40.000 I don't like the word gleaks anyway, so it's it's a rough word. 1623 01:47:40.760 --> 01:47:44.359 Bombcassage on bomb dot com is the email address to send your emails too. 1624 01:47:44.680 --> 01:47:46.399 I read virtually everything that comes in. Thank you for the coupons, 1625 01:47:46.479 --> 01:47:49.800 No, thank you for the weird mailing magazines that we've been subscribed to. 1626 01:47:49.960 --> 01:47:56.159 Now, don't subscribe us from those weirdos. Also, the funny thing is, 1627 01:47:56.319 --> 01:48:00.720 I don't a lot of them say hey, chef, and I don't 1628 01:48:00.720 --> 01:48:03.800 know if they're talking about Jeff Curseman or Jeff Backlar or Jeff Crupp. At 1629 01:48:03.840 --> 01:48:09.840 a point or its just like a Jeff. Yeah, the nebulous Jeff, 1630 01:48:10.520 --> 01:48:13.720 the nebulous Jeff. When we don't talk about the nebulous Jeff. No, 1631 01:48:13.960 --> 01:48:16.199 we can too much for our brains to handle. None of us have rites, 1632 01:48:17.159 --> 01:48:23.920 object, Yeah exactly. First email comes from Phil. Phil writes in 1633 01:48:24.359 --> 01:48:29.199 Morning Bombers, looking for some advice on finding easier short games, since I'm 1634 01:48:29.199 --> 01:48:32.239 finding it harder and harder to find time to play games these days. I'm 1635 01:48:32.239 --> 01:48:35.399 about to turn thirty eight, have two kids, one who hates sleep, 1636 01:48:35.760 --> 01:48:40.479 and about to have a third, so I'm looking for some something nice and 1637 01:48:40.600 --> 01:48:44.720 easy to enjoy while i'm home after the new edition arrives. Thanks, guys, 1638 01:48:44.960 --> 01:48:47.239 really appreciate all the hours of entertainment I get from the show. Cheers 1639 01:48:47.319 --> 01:48:50.760 Phil. Thanks, So A short hike is the one that comes to mind 1640 01:48:50.760 --> 01:48:54.439 first. You if you haven't played that, you should. It really is 1641 01:48:54.479 --> 01:48:57.600 like forty five minutes, but you can have a lot of fun just exploring 1642 01:48:57.640 --> 01:49:00.600 it and it feels really it's like a satisfying like Arc forty five minutes. 1643 01:49:00.960 --> 01:49:03.399 A lot of people recommend a Little Gator game. I've only played that a 1644 01:49:03.439 --> 01:49:06.359 little bit, but I guess it's pretty similar. Yeah, yeah, another 1645 01:49:06.359 --> 01:49:09.399 one. I'm looking at how long to beat dot com right now? If 1646 01:49:09.439 --> 01:49:12.840 you want main story five hours main plus sides, it's only seven and a 1647 01:49:12.880 --> 01:49:17.960 half. It's Mortal Kombat Mythologies sub zero for the PlayStation in one. Yeah, 1648 01:49:18.000 --> 01:49:20.840 that's a breezy, a breezy one a quick way. Yeah yeah, 1649 01:49:20.920 --> 01:49:26.119 yeah, yeah, you're not gonna you're not gonna get frustrated with that at 1650 01:49:26.119 --> 01:49:29.520 all. Also, you don't have to paint yourself like kwan Chi if you 1651 01:49:29.600 --> 01:49:31.039 played at home. Yeah, but it's more fun if you just wanted to 1652 01:49:31.199 --> 01:49:34.000 really bad. Yeah right, yeah, this point, he really does. 1653 01:49:35.079 --> 01:49:40.800 I don't know, game like Blattro coming out, I feel like would be 1654 01:49:40.800 --> 01:49:45.000 good in those short bursts, something like Slay the Spire even Yeah, pick 1655 01:49:45.039 --> 01:49:48.520 up a hobby game. Yeah, Vambire Survivors is excellent for that. Oh 1656 01:49:48.680 --> 01:49:53.760 yeah right, totally Hades if you've missed Hades. One of Mary Kisher is 1657 01:49:53.800 --> 01:49:56.560 just telling me about that I really want to start is a go mecha ball 1658 01:49:56.760 --> 01:50:00.520 that sounds extremely I have it download. I checked that out for like a 1659 01:50:00.520 --> 01:50:04.479 good two hours. It's pretty decent. Uh. It kind of has like 1660 01:50:04.520 --> 01:50:10.680 the fast paced nature of Haightes, but you're in a ball, all right. 1661 01:50:10.800 --> 01:50:13.960 Knowing about beating games, just just play them until you're until you're done, 1662 01:50:14.000 --> 01:50:15.319 and then move on to something else. It's fine, You're good man. 1663 01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:18.920 If you have Steam, you know that Steam refund policy is pretty generous. 1664 01:50:19.000 --> 01:50:24.039 If you've only played like one two hours, you know, try the 1665 01:50:24.119 --> 01:50:27.000 three kids thing, mistake, they outnumber you. Now you're screwed. Man, 1666 01:50:27.920 --> 01:50:32.119 would you said that you would? I would die if I had a 1667 01:50:32.119 --> 01:50:35.319 third kid. I would literally melt in front of you guys. You guys 1668 01:50:35.359 --> 01:50:40.000 don't see me disintegrate on this podcast. What is the multiplier? Because I 1669 01:50:40.000 --> 01:50:43.239 have heard that two is someone harder than one. So if like if two 1670 01:50:43.359 --> 01:50:45.880 times multiplier would be like when you have the second kid, it was just 1671 01:50:45.880 --> 01:50:47.520 twice as hard because it's twice as many kids. Is it like a two 1672 01:50:47.520 --> 01:50:49.479 point five? Is it a three? Like? What would you say? 1673 01:50:49.640 --> 01:50:53.319 Like? I think it's like if you go to from two to three, 1674 01:50:53.640 --> 01:50:56.760 My guess is it's like, wait, what do you do from one to 1675 01:50:56.800 --> 01:50:59.159 two? What would you say? One at you? It's like two and 1676 01:50:59.159 --> 01:51:01.560 a half times cause it's like, dude, like you were already tired and 1677 01:51:01.600 --> 01:51:05.279 now you're dead. It's not like the twins on the old, like the 1678 01:51:05.279 --> 01:51:09.039 first kid is I suppose, but if it's like two three years older, 1679 01:51:09.079 --> 01:51:10.680 it's like, well, I still got to deal with this thing trying to 1680 01:51:10.720 --> 01:51:15.199 kill itself constantly. So for me it was especially rough because I worked from 1681 01:51:15.199 --> 01:51:17.560 home. Steph went to work, and I watched the kids and got them 1682 01:51:17.560 --> 01:51:20.680 to where they were going every day for like five years. Yeah, so 1683 01:51:20.720 --> 01:51:24.960 you did that. It really did. Like just like just I think I 1684 01:51:25.000 --> 01:51:28.159 have brain damage from it back. I think I really knew. So I 1685 01:51:28.199 --> 01:51:30.680 remember I was in the hospital room with my mom when they broke the news. 1686 01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:32.520 It was just me and my mom in the hospital when they said like, 1687 01:51:32.520 --> 01:51:35.119 oh, hey, it's twins that you're having. And I remember thinking, 1688 01:51:35.119 --> 01:51:38.560 I'm just like dumb kids, just like wow, that's awesome. You 1689 01:51:38.600 --> 01:51:41.439 got two, you got double. I thought it was just just positive and 1690 01:51:41.439 --> 01:51:45.640 I heard yeah, Like she like went to go break the news to her 1691 01:51:45.680 --> 01:51:48.319 husband at the time and him he was standing on a ladder at work and 1692 01:51:48.319 --> 01:51:50.960 she's like, hey, We're having twins and be like oh. Like it 1693 01:51:51.000 --> 01:51:54.319 was like it wasn't bad news, but you could tell it was just like 1694 01:51:54.439 --> 01:51:57.840 washing over for like, oh my, too much good news it is. 1695 01:51:59.159 --> 01:52:05.439 And Champagne bottle you know. Uh huh. Next email comes in from end 1696 01:52:05.520 --> 01:52:10.159 communication. I don't believe they wrote their actual name. That catch Me If 1697 01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:13.760 You Dan feature is great. Ps y'all are great too. In communication. 1698 01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:17.720 I am extremely jealous If You Dan. It was so fun, so fun 1699 01:52:17.760 --> 01:52:20.399 I had. It was twenty four hours and it was so much fun. 1700 01:52:20.439 --> 01:52:25.439 I would do that again anywhere. Just landing and trying to find your fun 1701 01:52:25.920 --> 01:52:28.560 is a great, great thing to do, and I want to do it 1702 01:52:28.600 --> 01:52:33.640 again. And I want to like have like a fixer waiting for you unbeknownst 1703 01:52:33.680 --> 01:52:36.319 to you and just tew you go there and have someone's like, Okay, 1704 01:52:36.520 --> 01:52:39.640 this is this person's going to get you to all the places, all the 1705 01:52:39.640 --> 01:52:42.279 things that you didn't know were happening so you didn't have tickets for now. 1706 01:52:42.439 --> 01:52:45.479 They already got it. You're already fun. I like that. Yeah, 1707 01:52:45.560 --> 01:52:47.880 yeah, I like I'll just keep doing it. The twist I started thinking 1708 01:52:47.920 --> 01:52:54.640 of halfway through yesterday is the part of Catch Me If You Can that we 1709 01:52:54.640 --> 01:52:57.319 didn't really lean into. Is that Leo is like a con man, right, 1710 01:52:57.439 --> 01:52:59.880 oh? The crimes? Yeah, crime is a crime, man. 1711 01:53:00.119 --> 01:53:03.119 I don't want to get tied up with anything on accident or whatever or on 1712 01:53:03.479 --> 01:53:10.159 Apparently that isn't that Frank Abigail story, like not real off person Frank Duke's. 1713 01:53:10.479 --> 01:53:13.119 It was just all it was just not like he wasn't even it's like 1714 01:53:13.199 --> 01:53:15.840 all great stories completely made up. No, that's not true. I saw 1715 01:53:15.880 --> 01:53:21.439 the Old Claw. What do you mean there was? I thought there was 1716 01:53:21.439 --> 01:53:26.960 something about, uh, the sort of like sensational Yeah, yeah, it's 1717 01:53:27.039 --> 01:53:31.159 it's sensationalized. You. Yeah. I like the idea the movie of doing 1718 01:53:31.760 --> 01:53:36.199 a lie. Catch me if you Dan Colin the con Man. We send 1719 01:53:36.279 --> 01:53:40.279 Dan to a city, but part of his time in that city is he's 1720 01:53:40.279 --> 01:53:45.119 attending a convention. He knows nothing about. You're describing a hitman. Jin 1721 01:53:46.439 --> 01:53:49.239 like you gotta you know what, sometimes you just gotta like keep that to 1722 01:53:49.279 --> 01:53:55.159 yourself and tell us offline. So you're going to like a pizza making convention, 1723 01:53:55.279 --> 01:54:00.000 I have to be a pizza I'm not doing No, you're the con 1724 01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:05.960 man. We're calling you the con man. You go around to different cons 1725 01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:09.119 Oh, so I'm not trying to pretend to be like no, no, 1726 01:54:09.119 --> 01:54:13.840 no, you're icy, but you are trying to assimilate in a weird way, 1727 01:54:14.079 --> 01:54:17.560 like you go to you know, I don't know the vacuum convention and 1728 01:54:17.600 --> 01:54:20.960 you like pretend to know your way around a vacuum or something like that. 1729 01:54:21.439 --> 01:54:24.840 I would like that. I feel like that, Like how too with John 1730 01:54:24.880 --> 01:54:27.680 Wilson's show, or he would just want to like a referee dinner or a 1731 01:54:27.760 --> 01:54:32.720 vacuum convention. Yeah, this is very different. First, I'm the third 1732 01:54:32.720 --> 01:54:35.560 person version of that. Yeah, you're you're in it, you're starring in 1733 01:54:35.640 --> 01:54:40.640 it. You know we're following you around. We're not just editing, you 1734 01:54:40.640 --> 01:54:45.560 know, in infinite hours of footage an anime convention once that was that was 1735 01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:49.800 someone Yeah, yeah, yeah, idea that was going on there. Just 1736 01:54:49.840 --> 01:54:54.680 imagine, like I don't know, we send Dan to like a music convention 1737 01:54:54.840 --> 01:54:58.319 where there's like, oh, here's all these effect pedals for your electric carp 1738 01:54:58.720 --> 01:55:00.520 you want to try it out, dude, and then Dan is trying to 1739 01:55:00.520 --> 01:55:04.079 play the harp for the first time in front of these experts. I'd give 1740 01:55:04.119 --> 01:55:11.760 it a shot. Great, Like oh god, sorry, I'm not sorry. 1741 01:55:12.439 --> 01:55:17.119 John from Greece writes in about some switch to cues High Bomb Crew. 1742 01:55:17.239 --> 01:55:20.840 First off, love the show. I'd have thought that I didn't see anyone 1743 01:55:20.840 --> 01:55:26.159 else talk about if I'm not mistaken. A bunch of switched physical copies didn't 1744 01:55:26.159 --> 01:55:30.119 have the entire game in the cart to cut costs and you had to download 1745 01:55:30.119 --> 01:55:33.199 it. A potential switch to will have better graphics and this will need even 1746 01:55:33.199 --> 01:55:39.000 bigger game files. So my question is do they charge more money for physical 1747 01:55:39.039 --> 01:55:43.680 games? Do they make all physical games require downloads? Do they change the 1748 01:55:43.680 --> 01:55:48.039 cartridge format and potentially Mickey model with or without the switch one port something else? 1749 01:55:48.159 --> 01:55:53.359 Entirely Thanks for your insight, John from Grease. I looked into this 1750 01:55:53.560 --> 01:55:56.800 and my memory is going to be pretty bad on it. But my understanding 1751 01:55:56.960 --> 01:56:03.600 was that there is a new flash storage technol that is capable of much larger 1752 01:56:03.640 --> 01:56:08.880 sizes. Whether or not Nintendo's able to use that in conjunction with having is 1753 01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:13.560 which one games be supported is up to be debated. Maybe they're more expensive 1754 01:56:13.600 --> 01:56:16.039 so that's why they wouldn't use them anyhow. The big problem is, like 1755 01:56:16.279 --> 01:56:20.920 the thirty two gigabyte cards are the biggest that they sell right now. They 1756 01:56:20.960 --> 01:56:25.560 do have a sixty four gigabyte card. They do have one. Sean. 1757 01:56:25.600 --> 01:56:27.760 This is a point in contention between me and him because he says that they 1758 01:56:27.760 --> 01:56:30.199 don't exist. In a jeopardy question once. They just haven't used them in 1759 01:56:30.239 --> 01:56:33.960 any of the games yet because it is prohibitively expensive. So any game that's 1760 01:56:33.960 --> 01:56:41.520 bigger on thirty two gigabytes has required a download. Honestly, the most likely 1761 01:56:41.560 --> 01:56:45.479 thing to happen here is they just keep basically doing that and requiring downloads. 1762 01:56:45.640 --> 01:56:48.600 I think they're going to be very like okay with kind of ushering people over 1763 01:56:48.680 --> 01:56:53.079 to digital only, and that'll be kind of part of that. I think, 1764 01:56:55.439 --> 01:57:00.720 how much are switch cards now for new games? Seventy? Yeah, 1765 01:57:01.000 --> 01:57:04.840 well seldom with seventy. Everything else is sixty. Okay, that was it. 1766 01:57:05.439 --> 01:57:09.399 The games will definitely be seventy on the switch to and that'll be that 1767 01:57:09.439 --> 01:57:15.520 could maybe help with a sixty four kickabyte card drop card. Next email comes 1768 01:57:15.560 --> 01:57:19.039 from Richard in the UK, not a state the United Kingdom. Thank you 1769 01:57:19.079 --> 01:57:25.000 for clarifying. I didn't know what state began with a U. I thought 1770 01:57:25.000 --> 01:57:28.520 i'd check out Bolattro after your recommendation last week, and now I can't stop 1771 01:57:28.560 --> 01:57:30.399 playing it. I played six hours of this demo in one night, and 1772 01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:33.840 now I feel like I have to buy multiple copies to justify it. Please 1773 01:57:33.880 --> 01:57:38.920 stop with the recommendations. You are making me poor. Love it, smooches 1774 01:57:39.159 --> 01:57:45.199 Richard from the UK, sent sent from proton Mail for iOS. Okay, 1775 01:57:45.399 --> 01:57:47.840 all right, I guess we just we're just gonna stop talking about things we 1776 01:57:48.199 --> 01:57:53.239 games we really really like. Uh yeah, I mean I think that's a 1777 01:57:53.279 --> 01:57:57.920 good problem, right, These are good problems. Embrace your good problems. 1778 01:57:58.000 --> 01:58:00.960 Yeah, because, let me tell you something, most of life bad problems, 1779 01:58:02.439 --> 01:58:06.960 right apparently bad? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I think. But 1780 01:58:08.039 --> 01:58:11.760 I do enjoy the phrase good problem. Yeah, Like I whenever someone starts 1781 01:58:11.760 --> 01:58:15.319 off and says this is a good problem, and I'm like, yeah, 1782 01:58:15.399 --> 01:58:17.279 that's soften the blow. That's what I wanted to hear. It's a good 1783 01:58:17.319 --> 01:58:20.760 problem. And Richard, my friend, you only have to buy the one 1784 01:58:20.880 --> 01:58:25.039 copy, you know, and you you you. I guess you could gift 1785 01:58:25.079 --> 01:58:27.880 out copies if you want, but you just got to buy the one. 1786 01:58:28.399 --> 01:58:30.640 And hey, maybe you don't even have to buy the full game. Maybe 1787 01:58:30.680 --> 01:58:35.399 you're done, maybe you've been bolot rode out after who knows how much more 1788 01:58:35.439 --> 01:58:39.600 time you spent with it. But yeah, I recommend everyone to check it 1789 01:58:39.600 --> 01:58:42.920 out. I hate check That dam was probably gonna stop working today, So 1790 01:58:43.359 --> 01:58:45.520 I hate Jef Grubb for taking it in our fantasy Critic League. Yeah, 1791 01:58:45.560 --> 01:58:50.319 I got it for a dollar. I also got that Banisher's game, which 1792 01:58:50.399 --> 01:58:53.920 got like an eighty three or eighty four, and I got that for five 1793 01:58:53.960 --> 01:58:58.920 dollars, So I feel pretty good about that. All right, But another 1794 01:58:59.000 --> 01:59:01.640 email about checking out short games, you know, let's read it anyway. 1795 01:59:02.399 --> 01:59:06.000 Hey, guys, I've been struggling with finding time to play games like I 1796 01:59:06.119 --> 01:59:10.960 used to, partially because life has become busier and also partially because I get 1797 01:59:11.000 --> 01:59:14.439 tired quicker now. I was wondering how you guys decide which games to play, 1798 01:59:14.600 --> 01:59:16.960 and also how much time you put into them to decide whether you want 1799 01:59:17.000 --> 01:59:23.039 to continue them or not. It's not a conscious thing for me. I 1800 01:59:23.119 --> 01:59:27.640 just I just am like playing a game and suddenly one day I stopped. 1801 01:59:27.760 --> 01:59:31.119 You. Yeah, I just like when you're actually know Yeah, it's when 1802 01:59:31.159 --> 01:59:35.039 you're full, you know, that's all. Yep. Usually it's like up 1803 01:59:35.079 --> 01:59:38.279 the point where it's like, oh I get what this is, and then 1804 01:59:38.319 --> 01:59:42.640 not much long after that, I'm done for most games. Yeah, I 1805 01:59:42.960 --> 01:59:45.439 say, if you're like, you have a bunch of options in front of 1806 01:59:45.439 --> 01:59:48.239 you, just go with whichever your heart tells you. I feel like right 1807 01:59:48.279 --> 01:59:51.840 now, in twenty twenty four. If you pick one of these big games 1808 01:59:51.840 --> 01:59:55.560 that have come out, there's a lot on the spoon. You're not gonna 1809 01:59:55.560 --> 01:59:59.760 be You're not gonna be having a bad time, Like I still gotta circle 1810 01:59:59.760 --> 02:00:01.399 back. Can finish Prince of Persia? Did y all finish Prince of Persia? 1811 02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:04.079 Oh yeah, yeah? Oh yeah? Game of the year so far 1812 02:00:04.119 --> 02:00:11.479 from me? Still Jesus ahe Christ? Okay, last email the show comes 1813 02:00:11.520 --> 02:00:15.760 from Christian, not a Argentinian Christian. Hello, bomb basting bomb, Hello, 1814 02:00:15.840 --> 02:00:20.319 bombastic bomb of Deiers. On the last BombCast episode, the group posited 1815 02:00:20.319 --> 02:00:25.880 the idea of marveling at what kind of objects might decorate the house of the 1816 02:00:25.920 --> 02:00:30.159 oh tour Hideo Kajima. That brings me to the to this question for you, 1817 02:00:30.199 --> 02:00:33.279 folks, I'm gonna list off some strange, random objects. Please assign 1818 02:00:33.359 --> 02:00:38.760 them to the various BombCast hosts, co hosts and riff raff I mostly mean 1819 02:00:38.840 --> 02:00:43.000 Mike Manatti that frequent the show. Feel free to suggest some or skip over 1820 02:00:43.039 --> 02:00:46.560 the boring ones. And now they've listed a bunch of different objects. So 1821 02:00:46.600 --> 02:00:53.039 the goal is we'll list an object who that object belonged to as a decoration 1822 02:00:53.119 --> 02:00:56.680 of their house. Got it? First one, objects of power, if 1823 02:00:56.680 --> 02:01:00.880 you will, sure a shadow box of non disc size seventeen tennis shoes. 1824 02:01:01.399 --> 02:01:08.279 Backler, what no, why seventeen shadow box? Do you know what a 1825 02:01:08.279 --> 02:01:12.119 shadow boxes? How are these fitting in a shadow box? It's a big 1826 02:01:12.159 --> 02:01:19.680 box? Okay? Asked that answered fair enough? An empty urn knocked on 1827 02:01:19.760 --> 02:01:25.439 its size? That yeah, jeez? Why? Yeah? I think it's 1828 02:01:25.439 --> 02:01:31.359 Monognon. He's the one who's got like earn energy. He's got energy. 1829 02:01:33.039 --> 02:01:36.279 Maybe it's just like code Grandma has maybe able to think of that. Sure, 1830 02:01:36.720 --> 02:01:41.359 Oh, okay, is it is? Is he preparing it for himself 1831 02:01:41.640 --> 02:01:44.920 or yeah? He's just like that's he's like that. He looks at it 1832 02:01:44.920 --> 02:01:48.640 once a day and he goes, that's the destination. That's where this journey 1833 02:01:48.760 --> 02:01:55.479 ends. That's where this journey ends, right there? Uh? A pristine 1834 02:01:55.680 --> 02:02:01.439 birdcage, Dan Reichert, was that me, yells bird? I just feel 1835 02:02:01.439 --> 02:02:08.119 like you're someone who would use squaw Okay, like I like birds that, 1836 02:02:08.159 --> 02:02:12.439 I like all animals. I just feel like the way I'm understanding your your 1837 02:02:12.479 --> 02:02:15.439 new home to be, I just feel like there's just going to be a 1838 02:02:15.520 --> 02:02:17.800 room with a pristine bird cage in one of them. A Lah a resident 1839 02:02:17.880 --> 02:02:20.920 evil room, and I would try to teach her how to talk and do 1840 02:02:20.960 --> 02:02:28.399 funny things. Yeah so this track. Yeah, a signed copy of The 1841 02:02:28.399 --> 02:02:30.800 Hobbit, but the back cover is torn off, Lucy, Lucy. Well, 1842 02:02:30.840 --> 02:02:33.479 if the back covers torn off, I don't I think she would be 1843 02:02:33.720 --> 02:02:36.880 she ripped it out of someone else's hands. Okay, that makes sense. 1844 02:02:36.920 --> 02:02:42.840 Then tell a story. A replica of the Christmas Story lamp, but instead 1845 02:02:42.840 --> 02:02:45.600 of fishnets, it is one of those egir stockings with a silhouette of a 1846 02:02:45.680 --> 02:02:56.880 cat on them. Oh sean Ye. A number one Uncle mug with a 1847 02:02:56.920 --> 02:03:00.479 broken handle. That's Mike. You know he is an uncle, right, 1848 02:03:00.920 --> 02:03:04.520 Yes, I mean yeah, I think probably most of us are. Maybe 1849 02:03:04.600 --> 02:03:11.640 yeah, but yeah, number one Uncle Mike. A chandelier fixture that is 1850 02:03:11.640 --> 02:03:18.319 truly terrifying to perceive Maclar Halloween lamp or something exactly. Yeah, yeah, 1851 02:03:19.039 --> 02:03:26.680 leaves it up for Christmas. A life size wax statue of Johnny Depp. 1852 02:03:27.000 --> 02:03:30.159 But it looks like it was left on the porch for about two hours too 1853 02:03:30.239 --> 02:03:36.000 long when it got delivered grub. Yeah, you're right, Yah, yeah, 1854 02:03:36.079 --> 02:03:42.199 you got me. It's not even like a specific Johnny Depp from a 1855 02:03:42.239 --> 02:03:45.520 movie. It's just a Johnny Depp, just generic Johnny Depp, like if 1856 02:03:45.520 --> 02:03:50.199 you did commercial Strike prescription drugs. Yeah, a movie poster to a movie 1857 02:03:50.319 --> 02:03:56.359 no one has ever heard of. Damn Tam Tam. Yeah. I like 1858 02:03:56.399 --> 02:04:00.920 that. Sure, one of those little toys where it's like a bed of 1859 02:04:00.000 --> 02:04:04.760 nails, but it leaves an impression of whatever is pushed into it. Who 1860 02:04:04.840 --> 02:04:13.600 just brought that up? I think I love these. I've caught me so 1861 02:04:13.680 --> 02:04:16.359 it's you, So it's I probably have one in the house now that my 1862 02:04:16.399 --> 02:04:20.079 face has been chumped into a million times. Yeah. Uh. And then 1863 02:04:20.119 --> 02:04:27.800 the last one here, lightsaber is made out of silverware Nicki. Yeah, 1864 02:04:28.199 --> 02:04:30.720 okay, I don't I don't know if Nicki is a Star Wars person at 1865 02:04:30.760 --> 02:04:32.800 all. No. Yeah, but made out of silverware though. Sure that's 1866 02:04:32.840 --> 02:04:36.640 weird, ni Nicky, says silver person. Ah, of course, of 1867 02:04:36.640 --> 02:04:40.479 course. Thank you for your time, even if you don't read this on 1868 02:04:40.560 --> 02:04:45.199 air. I appreciate you reading these weird house decoration ideas. Kindly. Christian 1869 02:04:45.359 --> 02:04:48.640 sounds like Christian from Minati's Perfect City Orlando. I have no idea how to 1870 02:04:48.640 --> 02:04:53.399 spell his last name, and I don't care to look it up. Important 1871 02:04:54.199 --> 02:04:59.039 send from my iPhone from Hotel and Christian. Thank you and thank you everyone 1872 02:04:59.079 --> 02:05:02.079 for emailing into the show once again. Bomb cast A Giant Bomb dot com 1873 02:05:02.119 --> 02:05:05.199 is the email addressed to send your emails too. And I read all of 1874 02:05:05.239 --> 02:05:09.560 them. I read all of them. I pour them out sometimes I print 1875 02:05:09.600 --> 02:05:12.159 them out. And if you want to send like a special shout out to 1876 02:05:12.199 --> 02:05:16.079 the crew or whoever else, I always forward them to the pertinent parties. 1877 02:05:16.640 --> 02:05:20.880 Shouts out to you at home for listening to the Giant BombCast. That's all 1878 02:05:20.920 --> 02:05:24.800 we need to shout out. And hey, you know, tomorrow's Valentine's Day. 1879 02:05:24.880 --> 02:05:28.079 If you ain't got a Valentine's we'll be your Valentines. Go get us 1880 02:05:28.119 --> 02:05:32.000 flowers. Oh okay, not going to screw it up. I'm gonna screw 1881 02:05:32.039 --> 02:05:36.119 it up again. I know it doesn't have to be this way. No, 1882 02:05:39.960 --> 02:05:45.479 there's been figure it out these noises. Maybe get a cameo from Brian 1883 02:05:45.520 --> 02:05:50.000 Cox or something those area. That's too much money. The price has gone 1884 02:05:50.079 --> 02:05:55.359 up, I think because of club new interest. But what do we got 1885 02:05:55.479 --> 02:05:59.159 going on for the rest of the week, gentlemen, We have games mornings 1886 02:05:59.159 --> 02:06:05.680 popping off when day Thursday and Friday tomorrow another episode installment of Light Club. 1887 02:06:08.399 --> 02:06:15.319 What is it Mortal Kombat, Mortal Mike, Mitch Kwanchie Yes, yes, 1888 02:06:15.920 --> 02:06:20.920 and also, uh, I've got I'll be a lot more help for Mitch 1889 02:06:21.239 --> 02:06:26.319 this time. I've got I've got the official Prima Guide, I think, 1890 02:06:26.399 --> 02:06:30.319 just the premus secrets of the game. So I'm alsoly smokes, well, 1891 02:06:30.359 --> 02:06:33.359 we're secrets of the game? Is cheating? No, that's not cheating. 1892 02:06:33.600 --> 02:06:36.279 We're going to finish it tomorrow. Then, Yeah, I want to get 1893 02:06:36.319 --> 02:06:42.439 this frame. There's like an eight by ten of Kuwanchi here. If you 1894 02:06:42.600 --> 02:06:45.359 somehow scan that, Dan, can you send that to me because I just 1895 02:06:45.399 --> 02:06:47.520 want to put Mike's face on it. Yeah, of course, sure. 1896 02:06:47.560 --> 02:06:54.000 Fantastic, fantastic voicemail dumb truck popping off on Thursdays. Jeff, is there 1897 02:06:54.000 --> 02:06:57.560 a Jeff j just coming out this week? There most certainly is Jan. 1898 02:06:57.880 --> 02:07:02.119 Thank you for asking. Friends. If you are unaware of Diamond is Unbreakable, 1899 02:07:02.239 --> 02:07:06.920 let me tell you something. The train actually goes off the rails. 1900 02:07:08.920 --> 02:07:13.439 We're only on episode three of this season and it is phenomenal, so make 1901 02:07:13.479 --> 02:07:17.600 sure you tune in, subscribe it, listen to it. It seemingly seems 1902 02:07:17.640 --> 02:07:21.239 like we will have a classic PF. We'll bring a grab bag of games 1903 02:07:21.520 --> 02:07:26.800 this week, bunch of stuff, a variety show of sorts, BCR this 1904 02:07:26.880 --> 02:07:30.159 week. Forgot to schedule who's on the show, and forgot to schedule a 1905 02:07:30.239 --> 02:07:33.880 topic. But we'll go and do that at least by tomorrow. As we 1906 02:07:34.000 --> 02:07:41.239 said yesterday on the GB plays during Hell Divers too exciting, exciting plans planned 1907 02:07:41.439 --> 02:07:44.279 for Packs East. We will be headed there. We hope to see you 1908 02:07:44.319 --> 02:07:47.800 there, hope to shake some hands, kiss babies. My offer is still 1909 02:07:47.840 --> 02:07:50.079 open to kiss you on the mouth, but you have to claim it. 1910 02:07:50.920 --> 02:07:55.560 As Dan is shaking his head, no, and I think that's just yeah, 1911 02:07:56.479 --> 02:08:00.199 don't do that with Dan. It's gandaic. Yeah, it's God. 1912 02:08:00.199 --> 02:08:03.800 Why is that God? You walked into that? Dan? Why did I 1913 02:08:03.880 --> 02:08:07.800 think this hole and just continue to Y're like, I think I'll move into 1914 02:08:07.800 --> 02:08:13.079 this hole? Yeah. Oh this is like a little comfortable. There's cards 1915 02:08:13.119 --> 02:08:16.079 here, oh man, good internet. Oh there's like a slot to keep 1916 02:08:16.079 --> 02:08:20.079 putting my money in. It doesn't really do anything. I just lose the 1917 02:08:20.119 --> 02:08:24.800 money anyway. I've been janned, he's been chef. He's been chef, 1918 02:08:24.960 --> 02:08:28.000 he's been Dan, and you have been wonderful if you've got to know what 1919 02:08:28.079 --> 02:08:31.199 to give flowers to tomorrow, go and give them to yourself. You deserve 1920 02:08:31.279 --> 02:08:35.239 your flowers. Stop waiting for somebody to give you flowers. Go buy yourself, 1921 02:08:35.479 --> 02:08:37.840 even if it's just a pocket of dandelions or whatever. We'll see you 1922 02:08:37.840 --> 02:09:01.359 next week for another episode of the Giant BombCast. Love you, s.