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Hey, everybody, and it is
June twenty seven, twenty twenty three.

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Welcome to the Giant Bomb Cast,
Episode seven hundred and ninety five, powered

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by n z xteen. Too much
echo on that still too wait wait,

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wait, too much echo? This
is too much power, too much power.

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I am your host as always,
jan Oh Showa joining me co captain

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of the ship. You know what, guys, you know what? Hold

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on. I start watching season two
of The Bear and it is yet again

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infected my mind. Uh. We
we got handling all the sauces. He's

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on the broader duty. He's uh, he's he's king Sue himself. He's

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all three sus chefs. Jeff grab, thank you, chef. I'm very

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happy to be here. I uh, in my house and that couch right

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behind me there was Mike Manati and
dan Rygritt and I've been trying to get

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the fart smell out of it ever
since. You know what I mean by

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that, I mean the fart smell. Yeah, burn it. That's a

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good idea that we got him handling
front of house, schmoozing with all the

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guests, pouring the glasses of wine. Jeff Baccalar, Hello, Hello,

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Hello, I've not started the Bear
season two, but I'm halfway through Dave

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season three. That show fucking rules. Let me just say that show fucking

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rules. You seem like a real
Dave guy. I know someone that data.

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I don't know I'm Dicky. I
seemed like a little Dickey guy.

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I mean, I'm not like Dickey
guy. Yeah, I'm not a big

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fan of his music, but I
like his show. You're like, you

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look like you look like you're like
little Dickie. Yeah. I trying to

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say. You know, people always
saying, baccalar, you're like a little

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Dickey guy. People can't stop saying
that. I guess it's true about my

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love for a little Dickie. Uh. And last but not least, we

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got him staging in the restaurant this
week. Michael him, thanks for having

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me, Thank you for for being
here, Thank you for your your presence

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is a present. As as they
say, Oh, what's happening, boys,

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what's popping off? What's going on? I was gone for like a

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couple of days. I I did
something this week and then I just want

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to get out of the way.
I'll do it, please get it out

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of the way. I saw the
I think I saw like the best movie

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ever made. Okay, okay,
can we all guess? Can we all

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guess? All right? And you
should be able to. Is it a

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moot? Is it a in theaters? Certainly? Is jan Is it anime?

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You can make the argument? Whoa? Oh? Okay? What's an

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animated film that came out recently?
The animated BlackBerry pe Baddy and Sherman.

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Yeah, BlackBerry? Was it BlackBerry? Are you big BlackBerry guy? I'm

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a big Jay Barrichell BlackBerry guy.
Wait it no, but I do see

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that the new Psychopaths movie is in
theaters right. I don't know what that

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is? Oh? The j Law
movie? Yes, with friend of a

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friend of the show. What's his
name? I forget that? Du oh

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he's not a friend of the show. Then he's a friend of a friend

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of the show. Wait are we
talking about No Hard Feelings Hotel, Pennsylvania.

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That's the movie? Uh? That
Jay Laws in? Yes? Yes?

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Is that the movie? That is
the greatest movie you've ever seen?

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Spider Spider Man? Is it Spider
Man? Of course it's spider you know,

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come on, it could have been
the Flash. I didn't want to

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say the literal literal with everything They're
like it could have been an animate I

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mean you guys, like, I
don't think I was actually prepared for just

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how shockingly amazing that movie is.
Seen it yet don't no spoilers talk,

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No, of course not. And
I don't even think you can't you can

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spoil it. I think, like
I just don't get it. I think

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it's also I think it's what is
it across the Spider Verse, that's across

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these the Spider Verse. I think
it like knocks on the door of like

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how much the human mind can,
like except in one sitting from for mostly

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a visual point of view, like
it is. So it's like it's like

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man brain overload was is is theoretically
one hundred percent and this this is floating

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around like ninety nine point five.
I feel like for most of the film,

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damn not only is it the best
animated film I've ever seen, without

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a doubt, not even fucking close, it might be one of the best

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movies I've ever seen, Like most
of the best movies are animated, So

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that makes sense. Straight up,
I didn't know Giermo del Toro is here

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fighting for animation cheese they were,
Yeah, I mean, like you know,

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I just, I have not had
a movie going experience like this in

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like a decade, like it is. It left me like paralyzed, like

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I could not move. It was
I was I was sweating when I got

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up. That's cool. It was
happy for you? Yeah, like thank

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you. I I wasn't high.
U was the popcorn good? Or No?

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I just brought like a bunch of
high shoes and had a pocket.

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I can't do what's that? What's
that? I'm gonna snitch? Don't snitch

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because outside food drink dude. Yeah, it's so insane, like how they

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make you walk through the candy shop
like to get to the theater that it's

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anyway, Yeah, that movie's remarkable, like absolutely floored. I cannot believe

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how good this movie was. When
do I go to see movie? I

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just I would love to go see
it. We should have seen it while

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we were at Summer Game Fest.
Do y'all got movie theaters in Ohio or

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not? Well, we have like
a public houses where like they sometimes show

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movies. Sometimes they have a you
know, a church revivals and uh oh

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yeah, yeah, okay exactly.
So you never see rocky horror pictures show?

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Yes, exactly, damn so I
would love to do like a spoiler

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cast at some point. Yeah,
let's see it like the talk. Yeah,

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I'll go, I'll go watch it
tomorrow. Okay, thank you,

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I need yeah while it's fresh.
What's up, Michael? Does does it

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leave you itching for Beyond the Spider
Verse? Like by the end of it,

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you're like, damn, I really
wish there Beyond the Spider Verse was

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like a year away or something,
or supposedly a year away, but who

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knows when that's actually gonna come around
various factors. So I so I is

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that a spoiler in itself? I
feel like that is one of the h

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That's right, it is now known
that that's a two parter, right,

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Yeah, I'll just say this.
Uh well, I'm not gonna give anything

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away. Like I said, it's
one of the best movies ever seen,

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all right, So like the context
of knowing there's another I think indirectly answers

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that, right. Like it,
Uh, I just have to see it,

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like I have to see it set. I want to see it seven

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more times. It's very long.
It's very long, but it was just

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enough before I was like, all
right, what are we doing here?

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It's time to go. Uh my
god, I don't know. It's amazing

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that we can do this faith in
humanity, faith in humanity. After seeing

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this, which they might make another
one of these. They's made a lot

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of money. They're going, well
they are. But yeah, I gotta

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say shit, Yeah, I haven't
seen across the Spider Verse yet. But

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Jake Johnson fantastic. Peter Parker,
Oh yeah, yeah Parker, Peter B.

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Parker. Yes, yes, Hailey
Steinfeld. What's up girl? They

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to her right there, what's up? Hey? Hey, Hey, we're

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big fans, big big fans,
big fants. Big fans love Spider Man

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like I guess a little dickling Dickerson, and I guess I love Spider Man

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like I kind of forgot. Like, yeah, should be doing Craven Spoiler

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cast as a two biggest craveheads.
Yeah, god, that's ah. That

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is a That is the most trailer
I've ever seen of it. I don't

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think I've watched that trailer. Yeah, I might just do that in silence,

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real quick, craving the Hunter.
Let just deal with this real quick.

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Deal with that. Ye, just
deal with that, Just deal with

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that. Take some time off.
Look at those fucking abs. What the

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fuck? He that guy Aaron Taylor
Johnson. Right, Yeah, he stripped

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craving. The hunters got abs.
So Sony's Sony's able to do it because

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it's like Spider Man adjacent is that
it's a Spider Man Universe character. Wholl

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that's violent. Rub is silently watch
mister and mister fucking still your girl?

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Uh yeah, anyone else I want
to want to talk about some random jazz

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anything off the top of their head. I because I have something before we

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get into game talk. What is
it? Yeah? You got yo,

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yo yo, this weekend went to
happen. No, I didn't gamble.

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I think this is this is the
new flavor of the month here. I

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know that we're in between June and
July, so this is the new one.

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I think. I like wine,
yo, whoa wine? Moms say

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all right, yeah, I know. So that's the thing. That's the

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whole thing. I was hesitant about
going this weekend. My partner and I

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were like, let's have like a
mini vacation that's super close. Let's go

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to let's go to nap us.
It turns out a lot of wineries are

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dog friendly, so that was even
better. And then I was like,

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yo, like to every wine tasting
we'd go to like yo yo yo,

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like how much would this affect out
for someone that doesn't have gout? And

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then they want they want to be
tasting notes or not doctors? What do

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they tell you? And then they
said, don't worry about it as long

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as you don't have it. And
I'm like, okay, all right,

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all right, as long as you
don't have what about you know, like,

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then you're good. And I was
like, well what if, like

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my specific genetic makeup is more prone
to gout? And they were like,

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don't need any like park today,
and I was like, all right,

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I won't need park today. I
got swindled into buying bottles. Y'all boy,

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you got bottles? They hook it
up? Would you get? I

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got like an old reasoning I don't
even like white wine's very sweet. It's

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it's like the fruit punch of wines. And then I got at, yeah,

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you're right, sorry. I got
a port which which had some brandy

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in it. It was delicious.
And then I got some cab. You

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know, I got a cab,
good old cabs. Let's go hey,

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hey, jan, yes, had
you never had wine before? It sounds

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like that my bo i My favorite
wine is the two dollars two buck chuck

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from TJ's from Trader Shows, because
you know, I don't know, it

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was good. Yeah, but after
this good wine, Earl Stevens also makes

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a great mango Scotto shouts out to
E forty. Uh. I also,

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I think during the Extra Life someone
no, it was Rory Rory, I

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asked him to bring wine and he
bought a big box of wine and then

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I think Moists Tavaris shouts out to
Moists him and I finished that box of

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wine. Yeah, yeah, And
I thought, this is a good box.

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This is great. I should maybe
explore wine or whatever. Yo fucking

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box of Franzio five bucks from seven
to eleven. Every person that we talked

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about wine too. We talked about
this with this old gentleman that I guess

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ran the winery. He was really
nice, very knowledgeable, and it was

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like, yeah, you know,
like Noah, but I just got a

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brilliant Mediterranean climate. But I'm I'm
growing. I mean, that's a good

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Dgolas cages then maybe good. It
was a good voice. Jan I gotta

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says a good voice. Whatever that
is. I got some olives over there

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and that that's just for the bees. We just got some lavender for the

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bees. Son, come come up
with me and look at the lavender.

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And then for good five minutes I
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field of lavendery. He played sick. I'm like, I'm looking at him

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like, okay, cool, I
thought there was something different about you when

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we first started talking. Today it's
like, this is a man that has

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stood in the field with an old
man appreciating lavender. So I can tell

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you're changed person. So now my
new million dollar idea is to somehow swindle

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someone into helping me or letting me
buy property. Not that I even am

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close to ever doing that myself.
That's why I need to swindle someone and

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then we will open up the most
lit winery, you know, because I

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see I see people trying to go
to these and on their bachelor at weekends

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and like their little days with the
girls or days with the boys and going

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to a winery, and it's like, oh, cool, we gotta be

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brim and proper. No, I
want debauchery up in Napa Valley. Wine

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drunk at arena, s let's go
fermented foam falling from the sky, exactly.

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Square Enix help me. Let's let's
have foam stars launching at the giant

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Bomb of wine castle. Let's do
it. I did yesterday say to Mike

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we should get into like we should
have our own brand of alcohol, because

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like that's how everyone really gets rich. It's like creating their own alcohol brand

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and then selling it. I feel
like alcohol brands is what you do after

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you get rich. Well yeah,
but like they get like soup. Let's

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say you get super rich though,
like George Cooling like sold his tequila brand

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for like a billion dollars some egos. Yeah, that's what all these famous

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people are doing that. And I
think we are Internet famous enough that we

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could probably could do a giant bomb
like run of a bunch of different alcohols

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and then sell that. Would you
want to do? What kind of liquor

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would you want to do? I
think? I mean, I think game.

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I'm trying to think what's the gamer
alcohol? Like, like, what's

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the most gamer alcohol? Is it? Like? Is it a wine cooler

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spiked mountain dews? Which would already
exist? Actually, so I don't know

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that's what they So maybe we could
do like some some like White Claw Jason

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stuff do a Seltzer. I think
I like a Seltzer idea because it's not

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like pornographically gross, you know what
I mean, like all that other like

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a lot of sugar, you know, like I want to keep it classy.

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In some capacity, we sell artists
and cutty bangs. Wait, I've

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heard of cutty bangs? What cutty
bangs? Freshman? It's it's the mixed

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drink that is just like the little
travel sized ones in a giant zip block.

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Oh, they sell them at the
Blue store. Yea blue store and

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the Yellow store. I prefer the
Yellow store. The yellow stores where it's

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at Okay, Yeah, the Blue
store is right across from the kind of

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funny studio. So if you're ever
trying to get lit with a Greg,

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well, now, maybe I shouldn't
divulge any information what's happenings had Well,

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no things that I've done in and
around that area, because yo, those

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bags fuck you up because they come
with all kinds of bullshits, like fruit

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punch, three different types of rum, and then it comes with like ice

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and shit, so you mix it
all yourself and it's like, yeah,

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it's it's a build your own cocktail
sort of joint, which is like I've

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never seen any other liquor store,
but that's what the Blue Store is known

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for here in Daily City. Baby, I think Tommy Dingo's got it right,

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Like a giant bomb seltzer that is
somehow inexplicably seven percent ABV but only

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eighty galleries. I don't think that's
physically possible. I don't know if that's

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like I'm not interested in making beer
because like it's just I don't want to

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just to clear too. Yeah,
you don't show kind of thing. It's

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an impacted industry to like craft beer
industry is it's it's it's already over and

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like what's interesting about that is like
you just now would probably be the worst

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possible time to get into that landscape, right, I don't know, white

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why what's other than like the fact
that there's so many craft Yeah, that's

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why it's just oversaturated. Yeah,
and what is it? I'm sorry,

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go ahead, no, I want
to hear. I'm not more intrigued about

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what you I was just gonna say, like what I never had a wine

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cooler. Wine cooler was something like
when I was a kid, I remember

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hearing just like a seltzer. Yeah, it's like carbonated white wine. I

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think, Yeah, I don't,
I don't know. It definitely wasn't seltzer

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first, but it's probably the most
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was with juice was oh, I
don't know what was it. Sprits were

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all sprits. Yeah, sprits is
a Bay Area of joint. I don't.

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I don't think it's a Bay Area
joint. But I've had apperall sprits

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from Bay Area natives who've told me
about it. Yes, that's what you're

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right. Whoever said carbonated elutgen says
he's scared of how much he needs wine.

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Wen it's sort of like just wine
and popcorn. Yeah, VAMPI amongst

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yourselves. I need to see who
who the hell's doorbelling? I'll be right

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back, man. I don't I
was never a wine cooler person. I

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feel like when I was, I
feel like when I was in middle school

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and high school, like that was
the thing people wanted to drink. Yeah,

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right where they were like part of
that lineage of like it was it

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was wine coolers and then it was
smearknow, No, I'm sorry, it

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was m Yes, this is what
I come back to spare enough ice,

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and then now we have white claw
and that should become a big thing.

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Like you know, they were totally
about to be one of these, like

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either it was the wine core and
the wine clus was replaced by Zema,

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and ze was replaced by samerranav Ice. Now it's like we have fifty of

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these. Like if you were to
silhouette the evolution of man, like how

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they do that, Like that would
be it, you know what I mean,

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Like it would be like which one
is standing up to strain us?

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Probably maybe like a vodka martini,
you know, something like that. It's

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crazy, Mike, I think you
said this earlier. I think you said

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buzz balls. We should do buzz
bombs. Oh, buzz bombs, buzz

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balls. I mentioned balls itself when
we were talking about energy drinks. Balls.

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Yeah, of course I love balls, little dicky balls, little Dickyan

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balls. I like drinking. I
like that. Obviously. I had an

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incident a couple of weeks ago where
I did drink too much. I'm not

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proud of it. It happens to
me like one once or twice a year.

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Last time, if you all remember, was Thanksgiving Eve, right.

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I don't know if you remember I
was a piece of shit. I used

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to be Okay, I see the
thing with me is I like that joke.

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But I used to be a ship
and then occasionally I'll become a piece

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of shit and I just, you
know, I don't know. It's it's

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rough, man. I hangover is
like, oh, just the absolute worst.

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And I don't feel hungover after being
stoned. I just don't. And

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I used to sleep in a little
bit when I'm in the night before.

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If I'm a party terrible, yeah, five five milligrams. I'm I'm reaching

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fucking escape velocity out here. Man, I wake up, I wake up

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with like my eyes are redder than
the devil's dick. Man, I can't.

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I can't really like just very go
too hard on many over here.

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I like it. I like,
yo, fucking I had twenty one the

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first time. I you know,
this is always the first time. When

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you have two many edibles, you
don't really realize how much it is.

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Time travel. Yeah, yo,
Me and the homies were like swimming on

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our carpets. We think, like, manually control your heartbeats. It's like,

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oh, I shouldn't be able to
do it. Michael shouldn't be doing

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that. That's the thing too,
when if I if I have ten milligrams,

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like, not only am I to
approach escape velocity, but also I

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can feel everything inside my body.
So I start to trip out because I

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have a mechanical heart valve and I
could hear it and I can feel it,

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and I could feel the blood flow
through my veins, and that is

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the last thing I do not want
to feel. That. Yeah, you

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gotta just hold on there, maybe
knock yourself out or something. I don't

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know. Yeah, yeah, well
you can always rely on zema or whatever.

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The fun exactly that's why you You
just like down some giant bomb wine

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and then that'll like even everything out, you know, and popcorn and popcorn

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God Ques question about your winery?
Yes, yes, did they happen to

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play music at your winery? You
know, I was thinking about this and

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I was like kind of tense the
whole time. Every winery we walked into

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him, like anyone plays Yeah,
that's total. Yeah, no no one,

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No one blessed the reins, no
one, thank good. All right,

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good for you. It wasn't a
loop, It wasn't year. Have

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you been afraid to go back to
a winery ever since? That happened.

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Oh yeah, I've sworn off them
forever. Sure. Yeah, I pitched

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this during our meeting today. And
it's not gonna happen. But Game of

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the Year in a winery. Uh
huh uh. I think I could make

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it happen. One time we covered
we covered the Assassin's Creed wines when they

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came around a couple of years ago. Oh yeah, you're wearing game wines.

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Let's do it. Yeah, so
you can have it themed if you

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want to do a Game of the
Year with with some with some wine,

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like video game wine. Give me
a second. God, it can't be

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that hard to make our own wine, right, I mean, or at

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least distribute our own wines. Some
tomatoes in a bathtub and just wait from

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tomatoes, okay, tomatoes, excuse
me. I mean there's there's cherry wine,

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right, Is cherry wine actually like
with cherries or I don't know.

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Yeah, yeah, definitely, you
can definitely make You can make wine with

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any fruit, all of it for
ments, I promise you. Well,

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but if you do it with an
apple, that's that's a cider, right

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like sure? Yeah? Probably?
Yeah, Holy shit. Apparently there is

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a white cloth surge, which is
eight percent. I've had white sugar.

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That shit is ass. All right, I'll break in there. That's that's

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the new giant bomb wine cooler.
Let's go all right, all right,

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I guess we should talk about games
before we talk about actual games. I

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have on this list here a bunch
of bullshit on the Acis rog ally.

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Oh yeah, sure, if you
want to get that out of the way.

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So I got one of these.
Oh it's a it's the Acis Rogli,

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which is kind of like the steam
Deck. Competitor As has been making

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PC parts for a long time.
They do different versions of video cardstops,

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a laptops, other boards, and
all kinds of shit like that, so

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they they made their own steam Deck
and it's basically a laptop with a controller

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attached to it, so it runs
Windows, and it functions exactly like Windows

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because that's what's installed on instead of
like a proprietary operating system like steam Deck

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has with steam Os, and it
has a lot of advantages and disadvantages in

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doing that. I've been enjoying my
time with this thing, like holy shit,

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dog like I'm because the thing is, since it runs Windows, it

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can use any PC service on it. So in addition to Steam, I

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also have I've been playing a lot
of Diopolo four on it because it has

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battle I can do Battlenet on it. Game Pass is probably the biggest thing

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for me. I score through game
Pass. I'm looking all this shit,

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like, you know, I could
play any of this on here because it's

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basically a Windows laptop. So it's
been pretty sick. The only thing is

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that sometimes it takes like four tries
for it to just boot up up updating

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something, and then I'll just shut
down and you boot it up again.

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It's like, okay, now installing
update. Then it shuts down, then

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press the power button again. It's
like, okay, your updates are now

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installed. Now you can log into
your Windows account or whatever. So and

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it does that a lot. It
also doesn't have a very good sleep state

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because it's because it is Windows.
You can put it, you could tell

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it to sleep, but it's not
the same as like just tapping the power

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button on a switch or a Steam
back to where it like still runs in

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the background. And sometimes it just
like turns on by itself. Like you

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ever you ever put your PC to
sleep and it just turns on. Yeah,

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like walk out of the room and
like you did a heavy step in

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the mouse move to micro millimeter and
it's like, oh, you wanted to

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turn back on. It's like no, I'm always on an endless journey to

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like figuring out how to make like
the least sleep awake prone like PC imaginable,

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and it's always like turn off the
power, like allow power to powered

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USB device is to wake up the
machine. There's like eleven like that.

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That's what I really wonder about.
Then Michael's like Windows is okay, but

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it's not meant for a handheld gaming
piece like this piece, like this is

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it cumbersome ever to navigate a little
bit? Like the touch screen is good

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and accurate, but because it's such
a small screen, you're trying to like

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tap on really small icons. So
navigating a thing isn't that great. I

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mean, it's a gaming device at
the end of the day, so it's

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if the game is running. I
don't really give a shit exactly any of

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the other function stuff as long as
I can install stuff and it like runs

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of the games well, which it
does, and I'm cool with that.

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And it's like for the power that
you get, it's it's significantly more powerful

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than the Steam Deck, and for
seven it's the seven hundred bucks, so

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it's not that far off from the
highest Steam Deck that is available, which

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is six fifty. You get the
same amount of storage. The screen,

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oh my god, the screen is
miles ahead of the steam Deck screen that

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much. Tie resolution is ten ADP, but it's a it's an IPS panel

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because it's not just a straight LCD, so colors are better. At least

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that's that's what I think. Like
the and plus being higher resolution games just

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look better. But I'm sure I'm
gonna mess around with a little bit more.

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I'm trying to like cover something on
it. There's like tweaks I can

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do with with the power settings and
things like that, messing around with the

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bios. I still want to do
that. But everything I've talked about so

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far as just like out of the
box, and I think that's one of

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the advantages that the Steam Deck has
over this is that the out of box

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experience, if you don't want to
yeah, oh yeah, one thousand percent,

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it's like running a Nintendo Switch basically
with steam Os on there. It's

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like, look at my library,
install that thing. It'll take care of

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everything else. So I think the
power scaling on the steam Deck is better

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too, Like the steam Deck just
understands how to distribute its power so you

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get better battery life out of it. And the fact that the internals on

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the steam Deck aren't as power hungry
as the frog. Ally I think you

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do, you do get better battery
life out of it. And if you

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are more portably minded, Like I'm
at home fucking around, so I'm just

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you know, by my on my
bed, I have a USB plug right

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there, so I don't necessarily need
to worry about portable battery life until I

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go on like a flight or something. It's not terrible, Like I coul

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apply play Diablo four for maybe an
hour and a half at like tene'd p

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medium settings running fine on like performance
mode. Yeah, so that you can

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toggle different modes. There's there's a
there's a back end, a proprietary back

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back end that lets you mess around
with like power settings monitoring that stuff.

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Seem like it's reliable and solid.
Yeah, it's it's pretty decent. It's

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it's just a button, like you
press one of the side buttons up over

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here, and then it like pulls
off like half the screen. It says

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like gives you like all your different
runways. You can change the change of

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settings on the thing, so it
works well. But and there's like a

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turbo mode so if you want to
basically like overclock the internals, I'll just

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get as much power from it as
possible. Yeah, yeah, it's it's

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pretty wild. It's like a pretty
strong laptop, so it's it has its

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advantages and disadvantages. The thing I
overlooked though, is like having a trackpad

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on it. Since this is a
Windows device, it's like the steam Deck.

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The track pad is convenient, especially
when you go to desktop mode on

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the steam Deck. Yeah, this
one, this thing desperately needs a trackpad

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for navigating some of the things.
Like if it had it, I think

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that would be one of the that
would put it. That will be one

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of the things that could put it
over the edge of having a steam Deck.

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That That's where I'm at with this
him is where I am very happy

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with my steam Deck. I would
love to have more power. I'd love

404
00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:47.000
to have better battery life. I'm
okay with like a ten EIGHTP screen.

405
00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:48.920
I would honestly with the rack alife
I had one, I would just play

406
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.400
everything at seven twenty P anhow because
I'm not going to see the difference on

407
00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:57.759
a small screen. But I think
that the steam Deck being so uniform and

408
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:03.200
being so popular and having all these
extra features and inputs has made it very

409
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:06.920
easy for like the stuff like EMU
Deck. Now I know EMU Deck is

410
00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:08.599
like there's a version of it for
Windows that can run on the rag Ally,

411
00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.880
but I think the support is long
term is going to be more robust

412
00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.880
on the steam Deck, and like
having stuff where I'm like, I'm in

413
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.920
an emulator and I have these quick
menus that that's someone else programmed that just

414
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.599
worked on these touch pads. That's
really nice. And having the back paddles

415
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.920
just be preprogrammed for three DS games
so if I press this one button,

416
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:29.680
I can cycle through the different screens
so I could just play. And it's

417
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:32.240
like that's all the emulator stuff and
people are doing that work for me.

418
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:33.880
So I'm like, I'm still pretty
happy with the steam Deck. It's just

419
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.039
like that extra power is a bit
enticing. So I don't know, I'm

420
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.039
kind of on the fence with the
rag Ally. Yeah, there's like I

421
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.359
said that, there's seemed like there's
something's much much better. Rag Alley does

422
00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.480
something is much much better. So
I wish they could like merge the two

423
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:52.720
and make the perfect PC handheld system. But yeah, the ergonomics on the

424
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.480
steam Deck I think are better.
Also, it feels like you're actually holding

425
00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:00.720
a controller. It's a little bit
heavier, it's bulkier. The actual experience

426
00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:04.559
of playing handheld with the steam Deck
is like I have big ass hands dog

427
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.759
like the thing about the rock Allies, it doesn't necessarily have. It has

428
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:14.440
some level of like the curvature.
Yeah, yeah, but it's it's I

429
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:17.839
mean it's fine. It's it's better
than the Nintendo Switch. But again,

430
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:22.920
the switch is like super much smaller, lighter. This one's heavier than the

431
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.000
switch. But like, ergonomically it's
not bad. But holding the steam decks

432
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.079
like, oh shit, I got
like a beefist thing. Oh, actually

433
00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:33.119
have my steam Deck right here,
so yeah, like like the BFS handles,

434
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.000
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, so it just feels much better

435
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:40.640
than But anyway, I've been listening
around with that thing. Does the fan

436
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.880
get on that it doesn't get too
loud? I mean I think that I

437
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.599
think that and the Steam Deck are
comparable when it's when you have it on

438
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:49.680
like turbo mode. It's just you
know, fans spinning up like like any

439
00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:56.599
other laptop or handheld device. So
so I was very close to being a

440
00:30:56.599 --> 00:30:59.160
total freak and just going out and
buying one of these. When it came

441
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:00.920
out a couple of weeks ago,
I was like, I was like,

442
00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:04.279
Oh, it's that is that my
local? That's fine, Like it's already

443
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:10.599
there. I could just go and
like walk out the door and spend seven

444
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:12.640
Yeah, I mean that is like
I'm just skiving. We're all doing the

445
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:15.640
jan voice when we do that,
right, Like that is like okay,

446
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:22.279
cool? Uh. And I was
reading a lot about it, and I

447
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:27.119
feel like the thing that I saw
a lot was like this weird inconsistency that's

448
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:33.920
happening after these updates, which in
themselves sound like they're in consistent and and

449
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:40.799
shoddy. Like you do you have
any tangible, uh takeaways from that overall

450
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:45.480
like experience, Like uh, like
I said, I've heard things like are

451
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:48.240
much different after an update performance wise, battery wise, Like I know you

452
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:52.920
touched on a little bit, but
anything more you want to add, I

453
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.519
mean not really, I mean kind
of it is what it is, but

454
00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:01.559
yeah, the in terms of like
getting games running. I think you run

455
00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:07.240
into some situations where I have to
boot up a game multiple times for two

456
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:08.480
like for Diabolo, for for example, I don't know if this is a

457
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:13.079
battle Neet thing, but I would
like double tap it and would be like

458
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.680
launching, and then it'd be like
okay, it's it's done launching, but

459
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.039
it didn't launch, and it's like
okay, double click again, it's like

460
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.200
okay, and then go back through
battle Neet logging in, and then it

461
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.160
would crash on like on boot up, and then the third time kind of

462
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:29.079
like powering up the damn thing.
The third time it's like all right,

463
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:32.160
everything's good. So there there's I
mean, I don't think there's any explicit

464
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:38.160
compatibility compatibility issues with some of the
games or all most of the games that

465
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:43.640
I'm playing, But I think as
steam Deck evolves and gets more like gets

466
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:47.039
more like steam Deck approved games on
it, I think that'll there's a ton

467
00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:51.119
of games. Even even if games
aren't rated to be compatible with steam Deck,

468
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.480
they'll most of them will still boot
up, like the Trails Cold Steel

469
00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:58.000
series I've been playing on steam Deck, and I don't think any of them

470
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:02.599
past two are like they're they're not
supported, but I've played been playing them

471
00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:06.480
on Steam Deck, so it's like, and you know, I think we've

472
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:08.680
talked about this before where it's not
like the game will run, but if

473
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:12.480
something happens steams, just like,
oh, there's nothing we can do about

474
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.119
it because we didn't we're not technically
supporting it, but sure going to fine.

475
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.200
But I have other than like the
boot up problems. I haven't really

476
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:27.759
had any performance issues or like compatibility
issues. But it seems it seems better

477
00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:30.160
baked than even I was expecting.
I think I low low expectations for this

478
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:34.200
thing. Yeah, it seems better
baked than than what I was expecting,

479
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:37.680
but it also still seems like there's
some places where I can get a little

480
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.759
bit more refined. But overall,
pretty good first start for for a company

481
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:45.079
like Asus to kind of come out
and do something like this. I think

482
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.079
that it was going to be hard
for a lot of these companies to compete

483
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:51.559
with with Valve, who was going
to have a pretty big like they were

484
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:53.559
going to take some losses on the
hardware because they're like, you know what,

485
00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:55.920
we were going to sell games on
Steam. That's where we'll make it

486
00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.920
up and so for them to come
out with something that's only seven hundred,

487
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:02.480
has a ton of storage, is
a great screen, and overall like well

488
00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:07.000
thought out software, that's pretty impressive. So I'm happy with that. You

489
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.079
know, I feel this would make
a killing in the cost co market of

490
00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:15.039
like, uh, like families,
just because like they have so many gaming

491
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:21.519
desktops and laptops in your costc section
and their little electronics pile. But you

492
00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:25.880
know, you see like your casual
mom dad on or your casual casual gamer,

493
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.920
casual wine mom. You know,
your casual wine moms. Uh,

494
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.199
you know, after they pass by
that they should say what's up to me?

495
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:37.000
But they'll see that and be like, oh cool, this can play

496
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.639
like PC games. My kid has
been wanting to play PC games. Yeah,

497
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:45.280
I've heard of PC Yeah cool.
Uh all right, all right,

498
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:51.960
thank you Michael for the update on
the Asis rog ally ass Asus ask us.

499
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.840
No one knows ask us ask us. Nobody knows, even the people

500
00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.280
that work there. It's like you
be able to you know, you know,

501
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:04.400
well, let's talk about actual games
now. I think I finally have

502
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:16.280
this. Oh they look at it. Video games. We don't have a

503
00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:21.159
lot listed here, but if you
feel compelled to talk about more things.

504
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:29.320
We'll talk about more things because I've
been playing Soulvars. Solvers Soulvars. This

505
00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:34.760
was part of the Steam Next Fest, one of the million demos that were

506
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:37.679
available. This is not one of
the adult games, So you can play

507
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:40.920
this completely, fine, don't don't
know anything about that. Yes, I

508
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:46.199
don't know anything about that either.
Soulvars is a turn based game that is

509
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:51.960
incredibly up my alley. It's all
pixel style art. It's a very very

510
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:58.320
linear role playing tactics not tactics,
turn based game. But the combat in

511
00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:06.119
it is part particularly striking. They
advertise it as a card based combat system,

512
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:08.800
where it kind of doesn't feel like
that. It kind of feels like

513
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:15.159
a combination of somewhat of a card
based game and like your Mega Man Battle

514
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:21.239
Network style of combat, where you
have like a rolodex of five different abilities

515
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:23.599
and some of them are duplicates of
each other. So say you'll have like

516
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:28.960
punch, kick, shield, and
sword, and from there there will have

517
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.440
different modifications like this one has haste
on it, so you will go first,

518
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:36.000
or this one the attack power will
go up. But the interesting thing

519
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:40.360
here is that they will just plainly
tell you which of these abilities will is

520
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:47.320
effective against whatever monster you're fighting,
So like this warm looking thing, punching

521
00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:52.920
it does more damage than kicking it. And if you hit or expose a

522
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:57.880
weakness or stun an enemy, then
you'll get two action points. And as

523
00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:02.400
you keep going and like taking an
advantage of weaknesses and stunts, you'll get

524
00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:07.199
up to five different action points which
you can spend. You can also use

525
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:14.360
your mana equivalent to force a specific
attack to pop up in your next turn.

526
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:17.599
And the game gets rolling really really
fast within like the first hour,

527
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.400
because you initially start with just one
party member, but then thirty minutes in

528
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:27.360
you almost have a full squad because
you have three different people. And then

529
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:31.119
these three different characters they play off
each other really well because if you wind

530
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:37.639
up stunning or exposing a weakness with
one character and you put them first,

531
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:44.360
every subsequent attack will have like a
little bit of a multiplication bonus of taking

532
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:47.159
advantage of the weakness, even if
it hits for neutral. The action pops

533
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:53.480
off really really quick. It's super
duper linear. You're not really traveling around

534
00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:58.159
a dungeon. It's kind of like
just different squares, and then sometimes there's

535
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:01.719
something to interact with at these different
floors of a dungeon. But I've been

536
00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:06.280
enjoying it a lot. It's really
really flashy. The combat, despite it

537
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:10.599
being turn based, moves really fast
and it kind of combat reminds me.

538
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:15.480
God, it reminds me of something
I played recently. But it's like a

539
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:20.920
PS it's PS one inspired. Oh
god, it's like trying to figure it

540
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.800
out. Yeah, I'm watching and
watching some some clips right here. I

541
00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:28.360
mean, it's it doesn't it doesn't
look like it plays like a Valkyrie profile.

542
00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:32.079
But no, yes, no,
yes, yes, yes, it

543
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:36.280
is very close to Valkyrie profile.
That's that's the game I was thinking of.

544
00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:40.320
Thank you Michael, pulling that from
my head. Uh. Pixel looks

545
00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:45.320
great, though animation looks sick too. Yeah, it's a I think it's

546
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:49.159
a very small team, but Soulvars. It's it's really good. I don't

547
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:53.480
have quite uh an idea of how
long it is, but from the out

548
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:58.039
two hours I played, I was
really captivated by the action. It seems

549
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:02.159
like you'll get up to a party
of four eventually and then yeah, even

550
00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:07.119
I don't want to say matches,
but the different enemy encounters or bosses never

551
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:09.920
felt like it was a slog,
you know, because sometimes that'll happen in

552
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:14.679
a JRPG or something inspired by a
JRPG, where it's like, all right,

553
00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:20.039
cool, this battles pop popping off
and I can't you can't skip through

554
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.440
it, but like this just takes
forever here. The battles are just zooming

555
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:27.559
constantly. Oh and the other neat
thing, and which is why I mentioned

556
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:32.000
battle Network, is if you pick
pick a specific sequence of abilities, it'll

557
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:37.719
trigger a different type of ability.
So one of your dudes, if you

558
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:40.960
have him pick like kick and his
rock spell, he'll do like a earth

559
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:45.519
kick that does a bunch of damage
and it looks like a sick bicycle kick.

560
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:50.320
There's also canceling in the game,
so like you'll shield up one turn

561
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.840
and then you'll you'll cancel out of
it the next if you want to.

562
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:58.360
I don't quite know what that does
just yet. The game is very systems

563
00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:00.360
heavy. There's like an obscene amount
of them. It just throws you in.

564
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:06.639
Yeah, but I kind of dig
it, and because it seems fairly

565
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:10.079
linear, I'm all for it.
I might just give me the experience,

566
00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:14.360
just put me in the line and
go, Yeah, you know what legend

567
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:19.239
of Lagaya. That's the other JRPG
had reminded me of with the combo system,

568
00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:22.119
and it's it's it's cool because they'll
do the persona thing where it's like,

569
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:24.920
you know, you'll bash on an
enemy and then your party members members

570
00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:29.079
will be like yo, get them
and then and they'll just be yelling at

571
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.079
each other. There's no voice acting, but it's just all text boxes,

572
00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.199
good soul bars. That looks that
looks sick. Man. Yea. I

573
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.000
have a question for you, Jan
please. So you like Systems right?

574
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:44.599
Oh? You know I love Systems. Baby? How much have you played

575
00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:49.559
of Octopath Traveler Too? Okay?
Okay, so I hated the first one.

576
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:53.960
Dog I was I thought the first
one was. Okay, m Octopat

577
00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:58.880
Traveler too, boy, listen if
you know me, I know you.

578
00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:01.920
Finally is sixteen and Octopad Traveler Too. I still don't know which one is

579
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.880
My current Game of the years Wait
wait wait, Octo two came out this

580
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:12.840
year. That was like in February. I think, shit, that's weird.

581
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:16.519
Shit. When Game of the Year
comes around, here a game spot,

582
00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:20.239
you know, damn well, I'm
gonna be fighting to get that shit

583
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.519
in the top ten. I need
you to do the same for y'all.

584
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:25.960
Man, you're gonna put this on
me, dude, you can put this

585
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:30.440
on me, all right, Okay, give me a down the open like

586
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:31.960
this. No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine, it's

587
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:38.000
fine. Give me the four bullet
points here, dog, cool ass dude

588
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:44.039
who takes down capitalism. I love
that ship. Customizable party members and the

589
00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:49.000
best turn based the best turn based
battlesism ever created. Beautiful music, beautiful

590
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.519
HD, two D pixel art.
That's it. You know what I'm saying,

591
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:55.239
How are you gonna how are you
not gonna lead with best turn based

592
00:41:55.280 --> 00:42:00.159
action? Oh? The lead?
It is legitimate, I think. Wait,

593
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:05.840
honestly, I'm not over exaggerating.
It is the best turn based combat

594
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:09.800
system ever created. What does it
do differently? Because I've completely missed the

595
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:15.119
boat on Octopath, Dude, I
think the encounters are better, and the

596
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:20.119
flexibility that you get with the different
characters are better. And it's it's small

597
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:22.239
additions and just like the you know, the quick nature of you know,

598
00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:25.440
you can boost that thing to two
times battle speed. That's the way to

599
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:31.280
go. Sick animations again, figuring
out which turn I'm gonna boost this character

600
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:35.880
to four times so they use their
full ability. But I'm gonna break these

601
00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.920
enemies on this turn, so I
could line this upright with the buffs that

602
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:43.119
I get. If I do that, I might die from the next hit

603
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:45.440
from the boss. So it's a
risk that I have to take. It's

604
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:49.400
that shit is beautiful, man.
No, don't think I played a little

605
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:53.760
bit up. But it seems okay, there you go, co sign right

606
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:57.800
there, there we go. I'll
convince Grub. I'll convince Grub and then

607
00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:00.840
we'll go. We'll double down and
then some how Optopath will be number two

608
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:06.880
this year my Poms Game of the
Year list. We're doing Eurovision voting again.

609
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:09.079
Then maybe I couldn't juice it that
way, Yeah, juice it.

610
00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:14.480
God. We'll get to the game
of the week. But playing a good

611
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:17.599
turn based game where you can kind
of chill but kind of like just click

612
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:23.800
at it. Sporadically, it was
nice on my hands because the last couple

613
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:27.639
of games I've been playing has been
messed up from my hands. But before

614
00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:30.960
we get to the game of the
week, we have a Kurt Indovina's Toxic

615
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:37.480
Crusader. That's right, I've been
I played a little bit of that.

616
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:42.039
That's one of another Steam next Us
demo. It's it's another one of these

617
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:45.559
beat them Up renaissance games where the
beat them Up is It's back and it's

618
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:50.760
better than ever. And this one
looks a lot like a teenage mutant Ninja

619
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:54.639
Turtles Shredders Revenge. It basically has
the same exact art style, same kind

620
00:43:54.639 --> 00:44:00.159
of you know, beat them up
systems of going in there and punch and

621
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:02.239
the enemies are going to be a
little bit difficult and you know the time,

622
00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:07.000
like timing your attacks so that you
can get some hits in before they

623
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:08.679
hit you, and they have like
an invincibility frames, so they're gonna hit

624
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:13.199
you no matter what. It's.
It's one of those, but it's based

625
00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:17.519
on The Toxic Crusader, which is
the old Trauma film series with the guy

626
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:22.039
that's a Crusader who's been toxified,
and it's got all the characters from that

627
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:23.719
universe. But it's, uh,
it plays pretty well and I'm like,

628
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:27.840
man, beat them ups. I
just wish more things would do this.

629
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:31.599
And I'm kind of like very excited
about if something like The Toxic Crusader can

630
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:34.760
get a beat him Up, we
should be able to get beat them up

631
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.079
for all kinds. There should be
a fast X beat them up. There

632
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:39.880
should be all kinds of stuff.
Yeah, yeah, like the Office beat

633
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:45.360
him up. Yeah. I want
yeah, exactly, I want Nintendo to

634
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:47.679
be like, let's make a Warrior
and wall Luigi beat him up, like

635
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:51.760
they should like a double dragon with
that. Yeah, with those two characters.

636
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:54.679
It's but right now we're getting with
Toxic Crusader, and again it's it

637
00:44:55.000 --> 00:45:00.119
plays very like it's just instantly fun, you're having a good time. It's

638
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:01.199
gonna be very deep, but it's
the kind of thing you'll be able to

639
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:05.440
hand the control to anyone, to
anyone and have a good time pretty quickly.

640
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:08.360
And yeah, I think that they've
found this right balance for beat them

641
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:13.679
ups where they are a little bit
more complicated than they were in the nineties

642
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:16.679
and the early two thousands, but
they're not They didn't suddenly change it.

643
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:21.639
So it's like, well, there's
deep RPG systems and you're gonna have to

644
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:24.280
like learn all these complicated button inputs
to do moves. It's like, no,

645
00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:28.639
it's still just a simple arcade game, but they have a few more

646
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:30.920
hooks in there to make you feel
like you can keep playing and whether or

647
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:35.079
not that's gonna transfer over to the
final product here, I don't know,

648
00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:37.400
but it seems like they're trying to
set it up to be pretty similar to

649
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.960
what's happened with Streets of Rage four
and Teenage Muntant in Turtles Streater's Revenge,

650
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:44.400
where it's like, Okay, we're
gonna give you a reason to play the

651
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:47.039
game over and over again, unlock
new characters, unlock alternative costumes, and

652
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:52.880
then maybe have a rogue light mode
where you could just go in there and

653
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:54.719
unlock cool powers to your character on
this run, and you go as long

654
00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:59.159
as you can. This game is
totally set up to take advantage of all

655
00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:00.840
that stuff, and it's it's pretty
cool. I'm pretty happy with it.

656
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:05.400
So it's great, fantastic. Well, because I think he has a meeting

657
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:10.400
fairly soon, I think it's time
we get into the ok I didn't.

658
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:15.719
I don't know why it did that. Okay, it's pretty good. Game

659
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:22.239
of the Week, Final Fantasy sixteen. Damn shit, Michael. You reviewed

660
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:28.679
this for game Spot and I believe
you gave it a nine lovely reviews.

661
00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:32.440
That's not just me gassing your gassing
you up. Oh you guys, let's

662
00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:39.280
try and not do spoilers, but
can you spoilerable? Like, yeah,

663
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:45.039
this there was a plot stuff.
Okay, I'm just gonna my first Final

664
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:50.199
Fantasy game. Okay, this is
the first Final Fantasy first one. What

665
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:52.639
a way to get in there.
Huh Yeah, I'm getting in there,

666
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.960
Sorr. I remember my first time, man, it was beautiful. Yeah.

667
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:01.960
I was five years old when I
played Final Fantasy four. That was

668
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:06.360
nineteen nine. Yeah, back in
like the early nineties. So I've had

669
00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:09.719
a long history with Final Fantasy,
and man, I think, okay,

670
00:47:09.719 --> 00:47:14.800
so well, one I would say, like it feels like every major story

671
00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:19.199
beat is a massive spoiler because the
state of the world changes, the state

672
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:24.519
of like different characters attitudes, and
they're like there's things changed constantly in that

673
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:29.920
that game's world at every turn.
So it's it's hard to dance around that

674
00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:32.480
stuff. So to be you gotta
be you gotta be careful with how you

675
00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:36.559
talk about this game, for sure. But I've had a long history of

676
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:42.280
Final Fantasy, and I think going
into sixteen, as like in my previews,

677
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:45.800
the various videos that I did before
the game came out, and the

678
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:51.440
two we had two preview events that
I covered. I was cautiously optimistic that

679
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:55.639
I kind of I saw the vision
and I was interested in what they were

680
00:47:55.679 --> 00:48:00.039
trying to do with this entry,
but I wasn't sure if it was for

681
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:00.800
me. And I know there's been
a lot of debates like, oh,

682
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:04.480
is this a Final Fantasy? Is
this a Final Fantasy? And now I

683
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:08.159
wasn't. I wasn't really concerned with
that conversation, but I was does this

684
00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:12.480
game have the things that I look
for in a final Fantasy? Is kind

685
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.800
of what my concern was, And
like, you know, it's Creative Business

686
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:19.400
Unit three, so you know,
as a as a you know, Final

687
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.239
Fantasy fourteen. I've said many times
on this podcast that it is my favorite

688
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:28.960
game of all time, specifically specifically
Shadow Bringers, and obviously ed Walker is

689
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:31.320
incredible as well. But I was
like, I want to see them kind

690
00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:35.440
of branch out do something different from
the MMO. Let's see what they got,

691
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:37.239
and this is what they this is
what they came out with, And

692
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:42.760
so I was cautiously optimistic going into
sixteen, but they fucking did it.

693
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:45.920
Like if you had any concerns whether
or not this was a Final Fantasy game,

694
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:52.280
boy, let me tell you this
game is sometimes this game is the

695
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:54.760
most final fantasy. That's what I'm
saying. That's why I don't understand any

696
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:59.000
of this, like scuttle butt online
say whether or not this is like a

697
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:00.920
final fantasy. Yeah, I do
get it though, because well, so,

698
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:06.039
first off, I know a lot
of folks have like in the stuff

699
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:07.840
that they've seen to Game of Thrones. I'd never watch Game of Thrones,

700
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:10.719
so I don't have that reference point. It's exactly like Game of Thrones and

701
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:14.840
it's not a problem. Yeah,
okay, well then I'll, like I

702
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:16.159
take people's words for it, of
course, Like there's a lot of people

703
00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:19.760
I trust in this industry who have
said as much, and I'm like,

704
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.559
okay, cool, Like I you
know, I believe you, but I

705
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:25.239
just don't. So I'll going into
this. I don't have that reference point.

706
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:29.039
So I'm just like playing, oh
medieval fantasy. Bad shit happens.

707
00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:31.159
It's much more, much, much
more violent than anything you've seen. Like

708
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:36.239
I played you know, Type zero, and that game opens up pretty brutally,

709
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:38.360
but that does not even come close
to the ship that you see in

710
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:44.400
sixteen in the first couple of hours, because holy shit. But yeah,

711
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:47.039
sixteen got me, like I have
a lot of it's it's weird because like

712
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:51.840
I do talk a lot about like
the nitpicks that I have and some of

713
00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:53.679
the some of the issues that I
have with it. But at its best

714
00:49:53.760 --> 00:50:00.480
moments, like at its peak,
sixteen is some of the wildest that I've

715
00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:04.239
ever seen in a video game,
let alone, like a final Fantasy while

716
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:07.119
the shit I've ever seen in a
video game, and it's not just doing

717
00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:09.960
like wild shit for the sake of
doing it. It has meaning in the

718
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:15.440
context of the story in that world. So it's good at melding the like

719
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:21.039
the technically impressive stuff, the like
the blowing away with like special effects and

720
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:25.639
fancy cinematics, but it's trying to
also tell the story through those things,

721
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:30.519
as you know many games, cinematic
games do. But the way it does

722
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:35.119
it is that it merging the action
with what who these characters are, what

723
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.280
they're going through, why they're doing
their things. So it has purpose.

724
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:42.880
It feels like those big, bombastic
moments have purpose, and I love that

725
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:46.559
about it, and I grew the
characters really grew on me because at first

726
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:50.960
I was like, I don't know
if I'm into these archetypes or whatever.

727
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:52.760
I'm sure they're cool. And then
by the end of that thing, I

728
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:57.199
was like, yo, I don't
think I've ever cared about white people this

729
00:50:57.280 --> 00:51:05.199
much before. Holy it. I
well, at least the game gives you

730
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:10.159
lots of color people do to be
like excited about people people of colored though

731
00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:15.239
in there. Okay, that's another
conversation that I'm willing to have if we

732
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:21.239
have time. It's I'll just say
I've played. I played about seventy eight

733
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:24.760
nine hours. I'm getting up there
and it's like, I'm enjoying it.

734
00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:29.000
But it is like strange as you
start getting into other parts of the world

735
00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:32.840
where it's like, man, there
definitely should be non white people here somewhere,

736
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.599
Like just looking at architecture, a
a dude from the suburbs did not

737
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:40.480
make that place, Like, there's
no way, So where are all the

738
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:44.679
people that actually made this? Yeah, it's it's a little strange, Yes,

739
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.360
it's there's there's a region called dal
Mechia, which is the So here's

740
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.719
the thing. The first time you
step foot in that desert area, you

741
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:58.880
hear stars and obviously music influenced by
West Asia, South Asia, so and

742
00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:02.840
then they all have curved swords and
like the attire is vaguely in reference to

743
00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.880
some of some of that from that
region. And then so half the people

744
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:10.400
there, I roughly like half the
people there's like, oh, you can

745
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.239
herd passes like a South Asian Western
Asian person, I guess, and then

746
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:21.360
the other half is like burnt ass
white dudes, and there's like a So

747
00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:24.920
here's the problem is, is like
there's a themetic inconsistency. Like if you're

748
00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:30.639
going to evoke that culture, that's
fine. And so this team has done

749
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:34.199
it really really well too. I've
seen them do it in fourteen, Like

750
00:52:34.599 --> 00:52:37.800
if you've played it, then you
know about if you play fourteen and Walker,

751
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:42.239
you know about Favnir Rods at Han, which are directly drawing influence from

752
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:47.000
South Asian culture and representing it that
that culture extremely well, reflecting it in

753
00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:51.360
that world in many many ways through
the music, the way the people speak,

754
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:54.119
the architecture, the way that whole
region is designed, and some of

755
00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:59.000
the cultural norms that are embedded in
that Loren story. So I know that

756
00:52:59.079 --> 00:53:02.719
they can do it. They just
didn't necessarily do it here for sixteen,

757
00:53:02.760 --> 00:53:07.400
which is unfortunate, really weird choice, this odd choice for some of the

758
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:09.119
stuff. I feel like this could
have been like a five or a ten

759
00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:15.719
for me if they didn't make those
odd decisions like like one of like you

760
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:17.760
mentioned, Michael, Oh sure,
yeah, yeah, I mean like it's

761
00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:22.800
so I will say that it doesn't
necessarily hurt the overall like what the game

762
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:25.480
is trying to accomplish. It's just
one of those things where I'm looking at

763
00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:30.199
it like this is funny. Yeah, it's kind of fun. This is

764
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:36.159
I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm happy to be here.

765
00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:38.119
But yeah, it seems a little
off here. But yeah, there's

766
00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:42.280
and there's there's there's many, many, many things to dig into in this

767
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:45.480
game because it is because that's just
like a really small part of the whole

768
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:51.920
experience. Because this game does do
so many wild things in a fairly a

769
00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:54.760
relatively short amount of time. Like
this isn't a fifty sixty well, I

770
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:58.719
mean I spent fifty five hours playing
it, because it did all the side

771
00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:01.199
content too, but the as far
as main story goes, you can't do

772
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:05.360
it in like thirty thirty five hours. Good to know. It's a long

773
00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:09.119
time, right, but it's a
long time for like an RPG. Yeah,

774
00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:14.400
that's like chump change. Yeah,
yeah, okay, but but this

775
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:16.679
is yeah, well I was gonna
sit back, lark, this is your

776
00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:22.800
first foray, not even like the
Final Fantasy seven remake. I'm sorry what

777
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:30.039
Final Fantasy seven remakes? I hear, I heard you? What about Dirge

778
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:34.039
of Cerberus? Huh what about that? A? Yeah? That one?

779
00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:39.199
I I yeah, I I I
think I maybe got myself too excited going

780
00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:44.320
into what I've played so far,
Like I don't know, I don't know.

781
00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:47.280
I've only played like three hours,
so I don't it's this is not

782
00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:52.639
a thing that I'm thinking about a
lot. I like the over the top

783
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:58.039
part that I didn't know really what
they expect. Like when I say I've

784
00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:02.880
never played a Final Fantasy game,
I don't even like understand the very basic

785
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:07.519
tenants of like what the entire experience
is. I realized that's changed a lot

786
00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:10.199
over the years, right, Like
it's sort of all over the place,

787
00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:15.760
but got people and you shoot magic
Adam big Buffalo. I don't know.

788
00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:19.599
I think I just have to I
think I need to do. I think

789
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:22.679
we need to double my playtime here
and then we'll go from there. But

790
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:25.559
uh, the way you're describing thirty
plus hours. I'm sort of like,

791
00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:30.039
uh, I mean, it's it's
it's like a it's like a garvar rag

792
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:34.880
and Rock. It's similarly paced.
I would, I guess if that's a

793
00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:38.320
helpful reference point, it is,
yeah, yeah, and it's it's fairly

794
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:40.960
linear. I'm surprised by how linear
this game was. I mean, there's

795
00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:45.119
there's open hub areas for the different
regions that you go to or side quest

796
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:50.480
pop up and you can get in
like optional bosses, which are which I

797
00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:53.280
found really really fun. But pretty
much this game says, he go here,

798
00:55:53.960 --> 00:55:59.159
do this thing. Here's a story
moment, here's a dungeon, something's

799
00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:00.880
gonna happen in the world. Then
you go here and do that again.

800
00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:06.840
So it's it's the pacing is I
still find the pacing a little bit or

801
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:09.159
it has it has it like it's
a roller coaster in a way where it's

802
00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:13.199
like, you know, this huge
thing happened and it is just like the

803
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:16.440
most incredible storytelling pacing. Like they
still slow things down, like in terms

804
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:21.119
of how much they're like introducing new
things and give you time to stew with

805
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:23.599
the characters a little bit, but
it's not like they're giving you a ton

806
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:27.119
of other things to do. There
is the side quest, but the side

807
00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:30.880
content is not some most of them
I've done are not like, Okay,

808
00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:32.159
here's like a half an hour story
thing that you're gonna do. It's like,

809
00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:35.880
oh, here's a little distraction for
a couple of minutes, So like

810
00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:37.599
that doesn't really work to break up
the pacing too much. So it's like

811
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:40.440
it all does have to happen on
the story side, right, Yes,

812
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:45.480
And I think that that's it's it
works well for what they're going for,

813
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:50.320
is what I'll say. But yeah, the there's man, there's when it

814
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:54.280
comes to story stuff like of course
I'm not going to the county count the

815
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:59.000
cry count's at seven. Bro.
Yeah, I'm a big baby if anyone

816
00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:01.679
knows me, like, I'm fuck
y'all. I'm sensitive. Yeah, I

817
00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:05.079
mean too. I get it.
I cried during Spider Man. I get

818
00:57:05.119 --> 00:57:08.400
it. I cried during episode seven
of The Bear. Yeah. Oh see,

819
00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:15.679
hey, listen up here, don't
don't be ashamed to cry. Yeah.

820
00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:17.119
Yeah, there's there's a lot of
moments that it was. It was

821
00:57:17.159 --> 00:57:20.760
different types of types of cries,
you know what I'm saying. There's some

822
00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:24.880
that are is like overwhelming height that
I couldn't believe this thing was happening in

823
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:29.679
this video game. I can't believe
this character was doing this. Just overwhelmed

824
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:32.639
by that by those moments, and
they're like emotional moments where like, oh

825
00:57:32.719 --> 00:57:37.639
my god, this character is doing
this thing. I'm so sad that this

826
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:43.239
thing is happening, or I'm so
happy or like. The thing I will

827
00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:46.800
say about Clive as the main character
is that he's a very gruff guy at

828
00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:51.960
first, and I think like Ben
Starr does an incredible job of embodying that

829
00:57:52.159 --> 00:57:57.000
character because when you finally like Clive
is a character who goes through a lot

830
00:57:57.079 --> 00:58:00.840
of shit in his life, has
like no reason to be happy about like

831
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:05.480
after what he like from the things
that he goes through. So the moments

832
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:09.199
that he does break out of his
shell are meaningful and they're powerful and very

833
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:15.440
impactful, especially with the way they're
delivered in the specific situations. So when

834
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:16.840
he ever, he cracks a smile, makes a joke, when he finally

835
00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:22.280
feels like he can, he's comfortable
enough to express himself in those ways,

836
00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:24.800
like in those small ways throughout the
story, there are not many of them.

837
00:58:24.840 --> 00:58:29.320
He doesn't turn into like fucking decku
or like a shown in protagonist or

838
00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:34.800
anything. But the moments he does
break out that as it's like, oh

839
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:37.519
my god, that's my guy.
It feels earned in a way too.

840
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:40.480
Like that that makes sense with where
you are with the story beats. I

841
00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:44.760
think I got to the first part
where it's like, oh Clive can smile.

842
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:49.079
Yeah, yeah, and I'm like, oh, finally, Oh it's

843
00:58:49.199 --> 00:58:52.559
high he's he's buddying around with everybody
at the hideaway, like, Oh,

844
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:57.480
that's cool to see. Shouts out
to Ben's star though, like across the

845
00:58:57.519 --> 00:59:00.800
board, Yeah, I really like
his performance. It's very good. That's

846
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:05.079
what and that's what it is for
me is uh, I'm enjoying the characters.

847
00:59:05.159 --> 00:59:07.559
I'm enjoying the performances. Uh.
And I'm enjoying the combat. And

848
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:10.960
that's it's. It's if you come
to this game and if that stuff works

849
00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:14.519
for you, I think you're gonna
have a very good time with this game.

850
00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:15.639
It's gonna be one of your favorites
of the year. Yeah. If

851
00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:20.760
one of those misses though for you, there's not. There isn't a lot

852
00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:23.000
of else going on, and I'm
fine with that. I'm not. I

853
00:59:23.079 --> 00:59:27.119
didn't really have any expectations about this
game. I'm not like some big final

854
00:59:27.159 --> 00:59:30.079
fantasy guy. I like six never
beat it, but I enjoyed what I

855
00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:34.480
played of it, played some twelve
things like that. It's like there's always

856
00:59:34.519 --> 00:59:36.960
a series that I always thought that'd
be cool to be into and then never

857
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:38.800
got into it. So kind of
coming in here with no expectations, I'm

858
00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:42.079
like, this is. Yeah,
it is trying to be a lot like

859
00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:44.400
God of War, and it is
trying to be a lot like Game of

860
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:47.480
Thrones. But once I'm like actually
in here with these characters and they're setting

861
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:51.559
up their plates and they're you know, they're the tensions that they have between

862
00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:54.079
one another, and their their goals
that they're going for, it's all.

863
00:59:54.079 --> 00:59:57.679
It's it's easy to understand, and
I'm connecting with a lot of it.

864
00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.519
So yeah, I'm pretty easy mark
for some those things, like Clive just

865
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:04.599
being ah, He's like, oh, this is John Snow from Game of

866
01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:06.760
Thrones, and I'm like, God, I like a I like a bastard.

867
01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:09.679
I like a character that's like gotta
come up from the bottom and actually

868
01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:14.199
make something happen. So all that
is working for me and I'm enjoying it.

869
01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:16.639
Yeah, we haven't talked too much
about the combat yet, and a

870
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:23.559
combat in this absolutely it's such a
fucking banger, dude. Yeah. It

871
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:28.559
hits in a way where like I
just could never really click with God of

872
01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:32.480
War twenty eighteen and or Ragnarok.
And I think it's more so because this

873
01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:37.440
is closer to a Devil May Cry. It was about to say, car

874
01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:44.960
car Uh devil may car May.
I don't know, not like a Devil

875
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:47.159
may Cry style of combat. And
like you know, they will have their

876
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:52.039
little star ratings of when you trigger
off an ability like oh, you launched

877
01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:53.559
or you did a magic thing.
And I'm just waiting, like I just

878
01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:59.000
wish there was a style combo meter
because I was there is what Yeah,

879
01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:05.519
it's an arcade mode. It's a
separate mode, dick okay, because like,

880
01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:07.039
yo, like I'm looking at it, I'm like dog, I would

881
01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:10.639
have gone to like triple essent style
by this point. Uh. And it

882
01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:16.159
it hits for me very very early. As soon as you get access to

883
01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:22.119
Torgol, which isn't a spoiler.
Uh, Turgo's your wolf that you fight

884
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:28.159
with occasionally. Yo. I was
making the dumb move of using the Phoenix

885
01:01:28.199 --> 01:01:32.039
shift, which is the circle ability
to just close the gap, and then

886
01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:36.119
I jump up whenever I'd use Turgo's
launch ability, and I was like,

887
01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:38.599
oh, sometimes I'm not getting them. So then I figured, yo,

888
01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:42.800
okay, you launch them up in
the air and then I'll hit circle to

889
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:46.159
get to them there, and then
just uh the air juggles in a Final

890
01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:52.440
Fantasy gap was so fucking good.
I was really disappointed that they didn't carry

891
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.320
over the ATB system from Final Fantasy
seven remake, but now I don't care

892
01:01:55.400 --> 01:02:00.400
about that system because this one is
just so good. And then the ability

893
01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:05.679
to shift your different uh I guess
styles of combat and be able to trigger

894
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:08.840
those abilities off, and like the
UI is not cluttered in such a way

895
01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:15.519
where I'm having trouble keeping up and
keeping track of everything. I also like

896
01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:22.639
how they handle the I Guess accessibility
modes by making them accessories. And the

897
01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:27.239
one that I've kept on the whole
time I've been playing is the countermeter or

898
01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:31.800
like the dodge meter of like the
ring of something timely dodges or something ring

899
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:37.920
of timely dodges, where you know
you'll if you get a perfect dodge,

900
01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:42.440
then you'll be able to like warp
behind them and get an attack off.

901
01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:45.840
Sometimes, because there's a lot of
stuff going up on screen, especially when

902
01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:47.199
you get to the boss battles,
it can be a little bit hard to

903
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:52.000
see where an enemy is projecting that
they're going to attack or when. But

904
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.199
then with the ring of Timely Dodges, you'll you'll just slow down everything and

905
01:02:57.280 --> 01:03:01.400
give you a giant R one indicator
of when to get out of the way.

906
01:03:01.519 --> 01:03:05.280
And it's great. I'm having a
fantastic time. And sometimes I'm like,

907
01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:07.159
oh, maybe I don't need this, And there's other parts of it

908
01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:13.360
where, you know, sometimes I'm
accidentally using all of my potions and other

909
01:03:13.480 --> 01:03:17.440
consumables because I thought I had Torgo
selected. Oh yeah, uh so you

910
01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:21.199
know, it's sometimes I'm just gonna
put on a ring that just Torgo Goes

911
01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:25.559
does whatever the fuck he wants in
there at the very least. Yea,

912
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:31.840
so those things are cool. I'm
just really really enjoying, like everything about

913
01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:37.159
the combat now knowing there's an arcade
thing and that there's apparently leaderboards boys,

914
01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:39.599
ye boy's gonna get messed up real
quick. Yeah, I'm excited. I

915
01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:43.920
want to hear what you think later
on later on down the game because I

916
01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:47.039
actually thought the game started pretty slow
in terms of combat stuff, like,

917
01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:53.280
yeah, so the first preview I
did gave you like a bunch of shit

918
01:03:53.679 --> 01:03:59.719
like this is what this game is
at its full extent, and you actually

919
01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:02.039
don't get all those powers. You
don't get a full set of icon powers

920
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:06.880
until about maybe fifteen ish hours into
the game, so it builds up slow,

921
01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:10.599
but you can at least take that
time to understand the game. So

922
01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:14.119
by the time you get all those
powers, you kind of you learn the

923
01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:16.559
basics. You've mastered the basics,
so now you would have all these toys

924
01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:20.119
to play with, and when you
finally start to figure out how you can

925
01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:24.159
string things together because you know you
can. You can air a juggle and

926
01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:27.480
then you can cancel into a ground
pound and things like that, and then

927
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:30.760
you have that charge up attack with
Titan, and then it's all these different

928
01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:35.159
ways that you can customize your attack
rotation. It feels like if you play

929
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:39.679
MMO, like attack rotations or just
like how you have to play a certain

930
01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:44.079
class or ability. But the flexibility
that you get in sixteen is phenomenal,

931
01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:47.920
and the fact that it is wrapped
in a stylish action game is really really

932
01:04:48.519 --> 01:04:50.519
like it makes this shit a hell
of fun. It's so much fun.

933
01:04:50.840 --> 01:04:56.400
And even though the like the late
game abilities that you get are they start

934
01:04:56.480 --> 01:05:01.800
to branch into different styles of the
game entirely. So like the first couple

935
01:05:01.840 --> 01:05:05.000
you get is like, oh,
okay, I have these different powers that

936
01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:10.280
can set off. Then like later
abilities where you have you can send like

937
01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:14.840
do damage over time and then when
you execute your damage over time ability while

938
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:16.480
they're mid air, it'll keep juggling
them in mid air, so you can

939
01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:20.039
keep those enemies going there. Yes, And then there's also other abilities where

940
01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:23.639
if you activate something and dodge,
it builds up a meter and then you

941
01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:27.760
can shoot like these fucking missiles from
the sky and like they oh, and

942
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:32.440
there's like there's a there's like an
anime swordsman ability where you charge it up

943
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:36.800
and then you do like a thousand
slashes on a on a group of enemies

944
01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:41.239
and you take them all down in
one swipe and it has this special animation

945
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:45.000
with Clive and it's God, there's
so much good bullshit later on in the

946
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:48.719
game. So the thing is like, I hope folks stick with it,

947
01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:54.960
because the like even just bet the
best story stuff, the best gameplay stuff

948
01:05:55.119 --> 01:06:00.320
is in that back half of the
game, I feel, so it's it's

949
01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:03.519
hell fun to play in this.
Man, if I can find the time

950
01:06:03.880 --> 01:06:09.760
to do it. After completing this, I'd love to revisit this with like

951
01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:12.639
a new game plus. Yeah,
the new game Plus. I'm on the

952
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:15.039
new game plus right now. And
they raise the enemy levels so you go

953
01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:18.960
back through the story dungeons, but
they retool the encounters so it's not just

954
01:06:19.039 --> 01:06:24.159
the same enemies at a higher level. They throw in extra, extra enemies,

955
01:06:24.199 --> 01:06:27.440
stronger enemies. So it remixes that
stuff and makes gives you kind of

956
01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:30.519
gives you a reason who wants to
go back because you get all your abilities,

957
01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:33.320
you have all your equipment once you
start a new game plus, and

958
01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:36.639
I started playing a little bit more
of it, and the fact that I

959
01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:41.000
had all these abilities going back through
all the old dungeons, I'm doing some

960
01:06:41.079 --> 01:06:44.960
wild shit, man, Like I'm
doing something, and I get to like,

961
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:46.960
it's another excuse to experiment with some
of the late games stuff, because

962
01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:50.280
I think I feel like some of
the best stuff is just gets introduced a

963
01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:54.119
little too late in the game.
Okay, So now that I'm like,

964
01:06:54.280 --> 01:06:57.079
now that I have like a full
understanding of those late game abilities and then

965
01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:01.360
incorporating them and these different encounters.
Boy, god damn, this ship is

966
01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:05.239
sick. I love it a lot. The other thing that you mentioned in

967
01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:09.360
your review, Michael, and I
thought this was going to be a problem,

968
01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:15.280
but I really enjoyed the boss battles
here because they wind up just being

969
01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:21.360
a really high budget Oscer's Wrath.
Yo. Yeah, So I mentioned uscers

970
01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:26.760
Wrath in my review because the sois
the Icon versus Icon battles, which they've

971
01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:30.079
made kind of a big deal about, and during previews, Yeah, I

972
01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:33.079
got hands on with them and like
the early ones and like, Okay,

973
01:07:33.159 --> 01:07:35.480
I see what y'all are trying to
do. Y'all are trying to like flex

974
01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:40.599
the power of the PS five and
have these big, huge explosive moments to

975
01:07:40.840 --> 01:07:45.039
like be impressive. But I didn't
really like they weren't that fun to play.

976
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:47.320
So I was like, yeah,
after if you here and there,

977
01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:49.719
I don't That's been my experience so
far. I think they look cool,

978
01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:53.320
but they're not that fun to play
so far. Yeah, yeah, And

979
01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:56.760
so I felt the same way until
you get too about the halfway point of

980
01:07:56.800 --> 01:07:59.760
this game and on or a little
bit Earlier than that, there's one icon

981
01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:03.159
fight where it kind of changes the
way the whole thing plays and they give

982
01:08:03.159 --> 01:08:08.840
you new abilities to give you different
boss mechanics, and it is fucking wild.

983
01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:12.280
It is so much fun. And
so the oscers Wrath call out is

984
01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:15.679
for the quick time events. There's
a lot of qts in these icon versus

985
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.520
Icon battles, and like, I
enjoy a good QTE. I don't mind

986
01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:23.760
them at all, especially if they're
indicative of what's happening on screen. It's

987
01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:27.079
just like some excuse to like press
a button prompt or whatever. Sometimes they

988
01:08:27.119 --> 01:08:30.399
feel like that in the early ones, but later on you really feel like

989
01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:32.880
you're mashing square and it's like,
you know, I'm trying to punch through

990
01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:38.199
this fucking rock right now, and
I'm doing it by mashing the square button

991
01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:42.640
on my fucking controller. Holy shit. And so the way Clive just like

992
01:08:43.039 --> 01:08:46.960
is grunting and screaming, and just
like the way the screen kind of the

993
01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:51.479
way the screen like shifts around as
you make it further into the QTE,

994
01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:56.439
it feels like they played Oscerer's Wrath
and said, yeah, let's do that.

995
01:08:56.560 --> 01:08:59.079
Let's put that shit in our game. If you ever play that game.

996
01:08:59.119 --> 01:09:03.199
It's almost all qts, but it
is over the top ridiculous. It's

997
01:09:03.279 --> 01:09:08.079
just such a huge spectacle that you
don't even like there's no other way to

998
01:09:08.159 --> 01:09:11.399
do it other than having a QT
where you mash buttons. So it's perfectly

999
01:09:11.479 --> 01:09:15.520
fine and Final Fantasy sixteen. I
did not expect that to be part of

1000
01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:19.600
a Final Fantasy game. And they
do it so well to capture the moment,

1001
01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:25.159
to get you in to feel like
you are clive busting through this fucking

1002
01:09:25.479 --> 01:09:29.319
huge ass monster or enemy or just
like power levels type shit. If you

1003
01:09:29.359 --> 01:09:30.760
ever watch dragon ball Z, y'o, this is like fucking what if we

1004
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:33.920
put dragon ball Z in Game of
Thrones. That's the kind of ship that

1005
01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:36.239
you get out of this. Yeah, the other anime thing. And this

1006
01:09:36.399 --> 01:09:40.079
is probably because I watch I'm watching
it right now, but it's like,

1007
01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:44.359
oh, yeah, y'all, motherfucker's
y'all watch Attack on Tyan recently? Two

1008
01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:47.680
didn't you? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, definitely there's I didn't Someone else

1009
01:09:47.720 --> 01:09:51.680
had referenced Attack on Tian also as
a as a good reference point for some

1010
01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:56.399
of those huge moments, but yeah, man, I think some of the

1011
01:09:57.000 --> 01:10:00.840
so those are the icon versus Icon
battles. Some of the boss battles that

1012
01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:04.960
you take on as Clive are also
really well designed too, because it feels

1013
01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:10.239
like they took a lot of the
design principles from Final Fantasy fourteen and then

1014
01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:13.239
put them into an action game.
So for me, I'm playing this and

1015
01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:15.600
I'm like, yo, I've seen
these boss mechanics before. I do Savage

1016
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:18.720
Raids in fourteen, so I see
a lot of like that. The way

1017
01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:21.479
the AOEs work, the different attack
patterns. I'm like, oh shit,

1018
01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:26.119
I saw that in like the last
Raid series. I saw that in like

1019
01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:30.680
the Heavens Word Rai Raid mechanics.
So it's really cool to see how those

1020
01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:34.000
things have crossed over and it just
makes like I just enjoying the hell out

1021
01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:39.319
of those out of those moments.
But yeah, it's gameplay wise, there's

1022
01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:42.560
a lot so they can improve and
build upon, but the foundation that they

1023
01:10:42.640 --> 01:10:45.479
set with this is fantastic. Yeah. Do you think we get a Final

1024
01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:49.279
Fantasy sixteen two and three kind of
like they've gotten with all these other ones

1025
01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:53.680
recently? I hope, man,
because they didn't. They didn't really do

1026
01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:57.039
that with fifteen, right, No, there, they had the episodes,

1027
01:10:57.560 --> 01:11:01.520
right, but part of the episodes
for fifteen felt like part of them felt

1028
01:11:01.560 --> 01:11:06.079
like patchwork for what was missing from
the base game to begin with, but

1029
01:11:06.199 --> 01:11:10.479
like the episodes for the different characters, so they're like the kind of like

1030
01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:14.000
a DLC, but they didn't feel
like any like sequels in that regard,

1031
01:11:14.039 --> 01:11:16.199
because I mean, if you know
the story of fifteen, you know it

1032
01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:19.439
goes in a certain direction, so
you can't really do those sorts of things.

1033
01:11:19.479 --> 01:11:23.439
But it feels, yeah, it
would be a shame if they didn't

1034
01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:26.439
use this foundation again in some form. So you have like three pronged approach

1035
01:11:26.479 --> 01:11:30.800
for Final Fantasy at this point,
it's like fourteen the best MMO. You

1036
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:33.479
have seven remake, which is the
fusion between the old and what's new with

1037
01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:38.880
the ATB systems, such a smart
fusion between term based mechanics and action RPG.

1038
01:11:39.479 --> 01:11:42.359
Then you have sixteen, which is
another branch that is like said,

1039
01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:45.560
fuck being an RPG. We're doing
stylish action and like it's still an action

1040
01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:48.640
RPG, but I mean at the
end of the day, you're really playing

1041
01:11:48.680 --> 01:11:53.319
this much like a Devil May Cry. So it's it's an exciting prospect to

1042
01:11:53.399 --> 01:11:57.760
have like these three different approaches that
all feel true to the Final Fantasy ethos.

1043
01:11:58.560 --> 01:12:02.159
There's crystals in this and choke it's
a final Fantasy game. Yeah yeah,

1044
01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:05.840
but it could have just called this
Devil Make Clive, Devil make Clive.

1045
01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:09.119
Hey, that was one of the
that was the one of the subheads

1046
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:14.680
my preview. But but yeah,
I think, I mean, yes,

1047
01:12:14.760 --> 01:12:16.760
so like last words about it that
I touch on this in my review,

1048
01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:21.600
but it's kind of three things to
like, I think people should know going

1049
01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:27.399
into this game that it's also very
much about slavery and magic users being being

1050
01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:31.479
used as slaves in that world.
And they touch on the dialogue and the

1051
01:12:31.600 --> 01:12:35.239
some of the story sequences really hit
the nail on the head in terms of

1052
01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:40.800
them understanding the concepts that they're working
with. And then there are times when

1053
01:12:41.119 --> 01:12:43.720
they try a little too hard.
I'm like, all right, I get

1054
01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:46.079
it, y'all. Are y'all are
really trying to y'all are really going for

1055
01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:48.800
it. But you can you can
take your foot off the gas a little

1056
01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:50.920
bit. I get it. You're
doing it. You're doing a lot.

1057
01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:55.680
Sometimes they're just doing a lot,
And there are times that really undermines some

1058
01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:59.039
of those themes that I mean,
I don't have to get into now.

1059
01:12:59.199 --> 01:13:01.520
But I think people who play this
game, I would want them to have

1060
01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:04.840
like a critical lens when it comes
to those sorts of things. It's part

1061
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:08.640
and parcels to the story in the
world that they're trying to like build and

1062
01:13:08.760 --> 01:13:14.439
tell, and I think that they
overall it does. It works, but

1063
01:13:14.520 --> 01:13:18.279
there's certain pockets of this game where
it doesn't. Really I wish they just

1064
01:13:18.520 --> 01:13:21.960
were a little bit more tidy with
Howard they were telling that story a little

1065
01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:28.119
bit smarter in some regards, but
overall it works. Another story theme I

1066
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:31.720
think people should really pay attention to
is what it says about environmentalism, and

1067
01:13:32.239 --> 01:13:36.119
seven dives into that stuff as well, So it's not foreign for a Final

1068
01:13:36.199 --> 01:13:42.720
Fantasy game to have environmentalism and climate
change as a core theme sixteen as well,

1069
01:13:43.319 --> 01:13:46.119
and I think that they do it
in a very smart way that is

1070
01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:51.720
consistent throughout the story. So I
think that's really interesting. I touched on

1071
01:13:51.800 --> 01:13:56.479
that a little bit, and I
think the theme of brotherhood is the last

1072
01:13:56.479 --> 01:14:00.520
thing I'll mention. Not many games
really get me when it comes to like

1073
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:04.000
family stuff. I love my family. I've said before, like I love

1074
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:09.039
my family, my brother, I
love my secret family. A. You

1075
01:14:09.079 --> 01:14:13.600
know, I hit their cash app. It's all good, baby, Like

1076
01:14:13.800 --> 01:14:17.439
the conversion rate from US dollars to
Filipino pesos was working. You know.

1077
01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:23.439
It's it's yeah, happened. We're
fine. We're fine. But the tale

1078
01:14:23.439 --> 01:14:28.399
of brotherhood, like siblings don't,
doesn't necessarily resonate with me, like I

1079
01:14:28.520 --> 01:14:30.680
love my brother, he's cool.
We're all a little bit years apart,

1080
01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:36.159
so we've kind of had different lives
phases of our life. So it's a

1081
01:14:36.399 --> 01:14:42.520
it's it's different for me. But
in this in sixteen is probably the only

1082
01:14:42.680 --> 01:14:48.199
story that I've experienced where the sibling
relationship really fucking hit me and hit me

1083
01:14:48.439 --> 01:14:54.880
deep, and it is beautiful and
it's like sad, it's it's it's sad

1084
01:14:54.920 --> 01:14:57.640
and it's beautiful. It's it's all
these different things. It has ranged when

1085
01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:00.479
it comes to that particular theme,
and it really of it for that,

1086
01:15:00.800 --> 01:15:02.960
and I mean, you see it
in the early hours. It makes it

1087
01:15:03.079 --> 01:15:09.520
very clear that you know, Clive
and Joshua, their relationship in there there,

1088
01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:13.520
how tightly they are, how tightly
bound they are by their circumstance,

1089
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:15.520
and how the world just tries to
tear them apart, but they really are

1090
01:15:15.640 --> 01:15:19.079
committed to protecting one another, and
you see that in the early hours,

1091
01:15:19.520 --> 01:15:24.960
and the way that drives Clive is
very very powerful, and I love it

1092
01:15:25.039 --> 01:15:28.279
for that. And that is probably
one, if I had to point to

1093
01:15:28.359 --> 01:15:30.760
one thing that's going to be the
most memorable about it out of the twenty

1094
01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:38.720
things that are almost like unforgettable in
this game, brotherhood is just it's beautiful.

1095
01:15:39.760 --> 01:15:42.039
You know what I'm saying. There
we go, There we go,

1096
01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:47.520
bros. Before I'm not gonna say
hoes, whoa dude? Yeah, relax,

1097
01:15:48.239 --> 01:15:51.119
come on, I'm not gonna lie. The way you talk about this

1098
01:15:51.239 --> 01:15:58.079
game, Michael has really made me
rose before Chocobos thank you chat has saved

1099
01:15:58.159 --> 01:16:00.960
me think twice about the sort of
where I'm at with it, I don't

1100
01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:03.560
know, I think, uh,
I love hearing you talk about it.

1101
01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:10.359
So I'm gonna I'm gonna really,
I'm gonna really give it another effort.

1102
01:16:10.439 --> 01:16:14.039
Here, I'm gonna do it.
I mean, get get past get to

1103
01:16:14.239 --> 01:16:17.399
get your first next power or your
next an and then try so see how

1104
01:16:17.399 --> 01:16:20.199
the combat change is up, because
I think it really opened up for me

1105
01:16:20.279 --> 01:16:25.399
at that point. Okay, that's
where I gotta go. Well, Final

1106
01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:29.079
Fantasy sixteen is the game of the
week. Maybe, or you know,

1107
01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:31.159
if it isn't too great to try
and finish, maybe we'll line up a

1108
01:16:31.239 --> 01:16:36.319
spoiler a cast and you know,
we'll round up some homies talk about Clive's

1109
01:16:36.319 --> 01:16:41.439
adventures and Targle's adventures. Yo,
best dog, it's gonna be Targle.

1110
01:16:41.479 --> 01:16:45.199
I'm sorry, that's easy. Very
good boy, very very good boy.

1111
01:16:45.119 --> 01:16:48.760
I don't often feel compelled to like
buy like a game plushy, but like

1112
01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:55.680
Targo plushy, it's realist. It's
really it's oh my god, it's right

1113
01:16:55.720 --> 01:16:58.439
there. I do have a real
dog, but like that Torigle plushy.

1114
01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:02.800
Oh my god. Well, that
is it for the first segment of the

1115
01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:06.960
show. Will be right back after
a quick break to talk about video game

1116
01:17:08.079 --> 01:17:15.680
news. Blah blah. I will
have to dip out. I have breaking

1117
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:18.960
news at the top of the second
segment of the show. Folks, hit

1118
01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:30.119
the news music me. No,
I'm not stoned. That's that's like,

1119
01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:35.039
you know, the news thing like
the wire, the wires, oh grubs,

1120
01:17:35.199 --> 01:17:44.199
urban up h is happening. Shout
out out to Argentina. That's not

1121
01:17:44.319 --> 01:17:49.199
the breaking news, break news,
because I specifically told y'all not to wild

1122
01:17:49.279 --> 01:17:54.159
out in the Google duck. I
now have to actually tell y'all not to

1123
01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:58.199
wild out because the shout outs are
too long. It's too long. Right

1124
01:17:58.279 --> 01:18:01.119
now, we're not mad, We're
just disappointed, all right. I mean,

1125
01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:05.039
I'm gonna stop, Jim, I'm
gonna I'm gonna stop. Okay,

1126
01:18:05.319 --> 01:18:10.600
it will stop. The it will
stop halfway through the news segment. All

1127
01:18:10.680 --> 01:18:17.199
right. Look, look, you
you made your bed. I did,

1128
01:18:18.119 --> 01:18:23.119
and now you gotta lay in it. This is timing from mister postcard.

1129
01:18:23.319 --> 01:18:29.000
I mean, yeah, exactly,
believe me. I know from experience.

1130
01:18:29.760 --> 01:18:32.439
There were so do you know how
many postcards? I like, Look,

1131
01:18:32.600 --> 01:18:35.600
I don't want anyone to get the
idea that I didn't fucking read every last

1132
01:18:35.680 --> 01:18:43.239
one of those postcards. I absolutely
did, but didn't read every postcard.

1133
01:18:43.279 --> 01:18:46.000
Would say, yeah, right,
no, I really did. I actually

1134
01:18:46.119 --> 01:18:49.960
even brought like a few home with
me because it got out of hand like

1135
01:18:50.119 --> 01:18:54.600
that. But I just want to
say, also, Jen, you made

1136
01:18:54.640 --> 01:18:59.399
your damn BEDA would you expect even
by saying when the cut off time is

1137
01:18:59.439 --> 01:19:03.920
gonna be? You? Wait,
someone just selected all of them For folks

1138
01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:09.279
that aren't aware, we've had a
running Google doc as we do the Live

1139
01:19:09.359 --> 01:19:15.000
Bomb cast, which I've put the
shout outs in given given that power to

1140
01:19:15.079 --> 01:19:15.720
you, and I, you know, I think I might have to take

1141
01:19:15.760 --> 01:19:19.239
that power away, think that power
away. You just have to, like

1142
01:19:19.439 --> 01:19:24.239
at a random time close it off, like that's just what you gotta do.

1143
01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:28.520
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, all right, I'm gonna stop

1144
01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:33.600
acknowledging the doc because the kids are
docking. Guys, the kid would you

1145
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:39.560
expect would you expect the docking to
happen? Jeff Grub Please tell me about

1146
01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:42.880
video game news. Yeah, no
problem, I whole I wrote down some

1147
01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:45.600
news here. I'm gonna read it
to you. Now. There's a lot

1148
01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:47.880
of fun stuff happened over the last
week or so, starting with the May

1149
01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:54.960
twenty twenty three CIRCNA report. It
doesn't say, it doesn't have the same

1150
01:19:55.039 --> 01:19:59.279
ring to it. The May twenty
twenty three MPD report Ledger is All the

1151
01:19:59.319 --> 01:20:02.680
Tears The Kingdom was number one on
the list. Then it was a lot

1152
01:20:02.720 --> 01:20:05.560
of familiar faces after that, Hogwarts, Legacy, Star Wars, Jedi Survivor,

1153
01:20:05.640 --> 01:20:10.079
Dead Island two. Total spending was
up twelve percent and made to four

1154
01:20:10.159 --> 01:20:13.720
billion dollars. That was largely due
to a strong debut for Tiers of the

1155
01:20:13.800 --> 01:20:18.079
Kingdom. Software sales overall, we're
up nine percent to three point six billion.

1156
01:20:18.399 --> 01:20:21.800
Hardware had a huge jump though,
up fifty six percent to three hundred

1157
01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:27.000
and thirty eight million dollars. Yes, that's pretty good for hardware. A

1158
01:20:27.079 --> 01:20:30.720
lot of that came from the Switch. This is the highest video game hardware

1159
01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:33.439
spend for a May month since the
four hundred and twenty seven million reached in

1160
01:20:33.560 --> 01:20:39.600
May two thousand and eight, so
best May in fifteen years for hardware sales.

1161
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:43.640
Nintendo Switch was the top selling console. It was the second best May

1162
01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:47.000
ever for the Switch, behind only
May of twenty twenty. That's also impressive

1163
01:20:47.039 --> 01:20:49.479
because that system is at the end
of its life, you know, the

1164
01:20:49.680 --> 01:20:54.279
sales are slipping. It turns out
Tiers of the Kingdom can sell a lot

1165
01:20:54.399 --> 01:20:58.359
of hardware. Speaking of Tiers of
the Kingdom specifically, it is instantly the

1166
01:20:58.479 --> 01:21:01.520
number two best selling game of the
year, but that only includes its physical

1167
01:21:01.640 --> 01:21:06.439
sales. Digital sales including that work, so yes, so if you include

1168
01:21:06.520 --> 01:21:10.239
digital sales, almost certainly the number
one best selling game of the year.

1169
01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:15.439
So it's just a massive, massive
game. Huh what Okay, I guess

1170
01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:17.880
that's just how these reports are they
don't include the digital right, so they

1171
01:21:17.920 --> 01:21:21.800
do include digital for most things.
They don't include a digital for any Nintendo

1172
01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:26.000
game, and pretty much any digital
sales from any sort of thing that is

1173
01:21:26.119 --> 01:21:29.520
on the e shops. So some
things will be like it'll have digital sales

1174
01:21:29.560 --> 01:21:32.880
from Xbox and PlayStation, but not
Nintendo son. They don't try to interpretate

1175
01:21:32.920 --> 01:21:35.359
it or anything like that. They're
not going to guess. They're like,

1176
01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:39.439
we're just not going to include those
sales and explain that those sales aren't here.

1177
01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:45.359
So yeah, but almost assuredly they
make up for what you do,

1178
01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:49.840
like this probably about fifty fifty PA
say happen. Yeah, yes, it's

1179
01:21:50.159 --> 01:21:54.720
probably twice the amount of sales.
Yeah, you know, Nintendo is a

1180
01:21:54.800 --> 01:22:00.920
tough one. Digital sales can be
tough one. You say, maybe they

1181
01:22:00.960 --> 01:22:02.920
could be they could be temperamental.
They could be a little temperamental with that

1182
01:22:02.960 --> 01:22:09.640
stuff. It's a tough one to
gauge specifically where it's like you have a

1183
01:22:09.720 --> 01:22:13.119
lot of EA games. So they'll
they'll they'll just straight up tell tell investors

1184
01:22:13.239 --> 01:22:15.399
during their meetings like like, oh, sixty seventy eighty percent of our stuff

1185
01:22:15.439 --> 01:22:19.279
is digital. Nintendo games are like
different for each one, Depending on what

1186
01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:23.159
it is, Zelda is probably going
to be in that fifty to sixty percent

1187
01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:28.520
range, maybe fifty five percent.
Kind of wow. So a lot of

1188
01:22:29.079 --> 01:22:31.359
a lot of digital sales on accounted
for their massive success for that game,

1189
01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:36.760
though, uh and not too surprising. I guess I wonder best second,

1190
01:22:36.800 --> 01:22:41.520
best may ever for switch hardware sales. A lot of people still buying new

1191
01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:45.840
switches, do you guys think gets
Is that just a blip because Zelda is

1192
01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:47.520
here and things will kind of go
back to being calm for the switch after

1193
01:22:47.560 --> 01:22:50.800
this, or it's it's all Zelda. It's all Zelda. It's the Zelda

1194
01:22:50.880 --> 01:22:56.399
bump, right, maybe a Mario
movie bump, you know, like sure

1195
01:22:56.800 --> 01:23:00.920
Mario movie plus Zelda equals this.
Yeah, I'd probably primed the pump for

1196
01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:02.840
people a little bit at the Mario
movie and then the Zelda is like what

1197
01:23:02.920 --> 01:23:05.199
pushed him over? Pushed him over
the hump a little bit? Yeah,

1198
01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:10.239
I could see that. I you
know, we got the director. You

1199
01:23:10.279 --> 01:23:13.239
know, that happened after the BombCast
last week. So we'll talk about what

1200
01:23:13.359 --> 01:23:15.520
was in there here at the before
we're done with the news. Just a

1201
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:19.800
tiny bit, but that stuff in
there probably continue sales a little bit for

1202
01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:23.560
the switch, but really it's all
about Tears of the Kingdom. I think

1203
01:23:23.560 --> 01:23:26.760
you're right, Like, from here
on out, they might have a they'll

1204
01:23:26.800 --> 01:23:29.600
get another bump obviously with the Super
Mario Brothers Wonder. I think a lot

1205
01:23:29.600 --> 01:23:31.279
of people are gonna be very excited
about that, especially after the Mario movie.

1206
01:23:31.800 --> 01:23:36.000
But this was most likely the last
hurrah for the system in a lot

1207
01:23:36.039 --> 01:23:44.319
of ways, just like the idea
of buying a switch for Wonder. I

1208
01:23:44.439 --> 01:23:46.479
just it's like, it's you know
what I mean, It's like, yeah,

1209
01:23:46.560 --> 01:23:48.560
but that's us I think so.
I mean, I think you got

1210
01:23:48.680 --> 01:23:54.039
to keep in mind that two D
Mario very popular. You're right, I'm

1211
01:23:54.079 --> 01:23:58.239
not. I'm not denying the popularity
of a two D Mario game for sure.

1212
01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:04.079
I just think like it really almost
feels I don't know. I look,

1213
01:24:04.119 --> 01:24:05.880
I get it, you don't have
a switch, you need to switch,

1214
01:24:05.920 --> 01:24:08.439
you want to play that game,
and then all of a sudden,

1215
01:24:08.439 --> 01:24:11.640
it's like, oh, you also
have like seven years of back catalog of

1216
01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:15.880
fantastic software. I don't know,
I don't know. Yeah, it's you

1217
01:24:15.960 --> 01:24:20.720
hear where I'm coming from, right, I just think it's just you know

1218
01:24:20.920 --> 01:24:25.920
that game is probably going to sell
like twenty million copies. It's like it's

1219
01:24:25.960 --> 01:24:29.600
going to be insane. It's going
like if Super Mario Party or Mario Party

1220
01:24:29.680 --> 01:24:32.880
Superstars whatever, which over one of
those is like fifteen million copies, and

1221
01:24:32.880 --> 01:24:35.439
it's like, man, we're definitely
going to see this game just be on

1222
01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:40.159
massive success as well. It's probably
not gonna sell as well as Tears of

1223
01:24:40.159 --> 01:24:42.760
the Kingdom though, so freak you
out that. It's like, how did

1224
01:24:42.840 --> 01:24:45.520
this company ever do bad? At
one point, like, right, how

1225
01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:48.239
did this company up? How did
they fuck up with like a wee you

1226
01:24:48.720 --> 01:24:53.840
or even you know, like they
have like money printing machines basically, yeah,

1227
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:57.600
and they just the way they run
things sometimes it's like how do you

1228
01:24:57.680 --> 01:25:00.479
guys, why do you think this
was okay to make the system this way?

1229
01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:02.520
Yeah? But you know, I
don't bet against them ever, and

1230
01:25:03.079 --> 01:25:09.319
like, uh, you know,
man, I guess there's always gonna be

1231
01:25:09.359 --> 01:25:13.079
a bump along the road. But
my gosh, like the streak, the

1232
01:25:13.279 --> 01:25:18.239
tear, the absolute crush fest that
this company has been on, it's it's

1233
01:25:18.319 --> 01:25:21.560
mind blowing. Yeah, It's it's
like the Pixar track record, right,

1234
01:25:23.279 --> 01:25:26.680
Yes, I heard I heard Elementals
dog shit? Is that Pixar? That's

1235
01:25:26.720 --> 01:25:30.960
Pixar. I heard the actual dog
shit you heard? Wait? Well,

1236
01:25:30.039 --> 01:25:33.000
because so, so they did the
thing where they went to CANS and they

1237
01:25:33.039 --> 01:25:35.680
were like, oh, let's let's
bring a Pixar movie to Cans. And

1238
01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:41.680
then they did that with Indiana Jones. And then because the specific audience headed

1239
01:25:41.680 --> 01:25:45.000
to a Cans film festival is going
to pooh pooh on like a big blockbuster

1240
01:25:45.079 --> 01:25:49.439
style movie, that's what happened.
Oh. I don't know if that's where

1241
01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:56.840
the negativity is is stemming from,
but perhaps Ah, but yeah, Jesus

1242
01:25:56.920 --> 01:26:00.520
Christ, the switch is how old
now? Getting that? So it came

1243
01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:04.039
out in twenty seventeen, we are
in twenty twenty three. It's going to

1244
01:26:04.119 --> 01:26:09.800
be going into its seventh year here
pretty soon. Basically yea, yeah,

1245
01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:12.720
it's it's up there. I mean
that. Listen, console life cycles are

1246
01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:15.560
longer. That is uh, that's
pretty that's how they work these days.

1247
01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:19.239
But still, the idea that this
thing is selling this well, this far

1248
01:26:19.319 --> 01:26:24.039
into the generation is nuts. And
it's different. It's different because it's the

1249
01:26:24.119 --> 01:26:29.079
thing you're like holding in your hand
and you're just like under hardware. When

1250
01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:32.600
it came out, Yes, exactly. Not a lot of other stuff happening

1251
01:26:32.760 --> 01:26:35.960
in May in terms of big new
releases. It is worth pointing out that,

1252
01:26:36.199 --> 01:26:40.560
let's see the legend is all The
Breath of the Wild jumped up to

1253
01:26:40.680 --> 01:26:43.880
number thirteen on the sales chart,
so a lot of people are like,

1254
01:26:44.279 --> 01:26:46.159
I'm getting the switch for Cheers of
the Kingdom. I see what happened in

1255
01:26:46.479 --> 01:26:50.079
the Wild. Yeah, I wish
I could do less in the same game.

1256
01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:59.760
Uh wrong, I like challenge accepted? How is Mario Kart still in

1257
01:26:59.840 --> 01:27:04.079
the top ten? And then it
rose, my sweet baby, jan don't

1258
01:27:04.600 --> 01:27:10.880
ask. It's just for questions to
you can't you can't you don't want to

1259
01:27:10.960 --> 01:27:13.960
know the answer. Don't ask these
kinds of questions. There's so many Mario

1260
01:27:14.119 --> 01:27:17.000
Kart eight copies out in the world. There's just so many verses there.

1261
01:27:17.560 --> 01:27:21.640
Somebody's sales of that game. That's
just it outsold. Yeah, like the

1262
01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:26.199
Receival four and far Christ six and
Elden Ring and mind Craft all these things,

1263
01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:28.760
and it's like, yes, that's
just physical and all those other ones

1264
01:27:28.840 --> 01:27:33.039
do include digital. I got a
question, do you think Super Mario Brothers

1265
01:27:33.319 --> 01:27:36.720
wonder do you think it's going to
be seventy or it's like forty No,

1266
01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:41.199
Dave announced already that's going to be
a sixty dollars game. Oh okay,

1267
01:27:41.439 --> 01:27:45.479
okay, so yeah right, I'm
not listen Metroid dread game I love,

1268
01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:48.079
but they charged sixty dollars for that. There was no universe on this,

1269
01:27:48.520 --> 01:27:51.960
in this entire galaxy where they were
going to be like and fifty dollars for

1270
01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:56.479
Super Mario Brothers. Wonder it was
always going to be seventy. I thought

1271
01:27:56.600 --> 01:28:00.840
was maybe on the table for like
Metroid Prime four. Maybe it still is,

1272
01:28:00.680 --> 01:28:03.359
but I don't think they're ready to
do that with anything that's not like

1273
01:28:03.600 --> 01:28:08.439
their top, top tier, biggest
budget game, and that's Tears of the

1274
01:28:08.520 --> 01:28:13.960
Kingdom right now. Jesus yep,
all right, let's let's move along here.

1275
01:28:14.279 --> 01:28:16.079
Perfect Dark is still two to three
years away. This comes from an

1276
01:28:16.119 --> 01:28:19.880
IGN report that smoke to a number
of developers who are familiar with the progress

1277
01:28:19.920 --> 01:28:25.279
of Perfect Dark. It is having
issues, but there's no one singular problem.

1278
01:28:25.640 --> 01:28:30.319
There's no scandal. It is just
a list of common sling stumbling blocks

1279
01:28:30.399 --> 01:28:32.199
for that you know that happened to
all modern games. It's just like this

1280
01:28:32.319 --> 01:28:35.359
one is not escaping those, it's
it's hitting every one of those, just

1281
01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:40.239
like a lot of games are in
many ways, Perfect Dark is still in

1282
01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:43.680
the earliest stages of its creation,
is what There's what a lot of people

1283
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:45.239
are saying. It's like, yeah, they've made some progress in some areas,

1284
01:28:45.279 --> 01:28:46.840
but in a lot of ways,
it's like, no, we are

1285
01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:50.960
just getting this thing off the ground. One of the problems was building up

1286
01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:56.520
the team. The Initiative, which
was Xbox's new homegrown studio they announced in

1287
01:28:56.520 --> 01:28:59.640
twenty eight team. When they had
all those acquisitions, the Initiatives like and

1288
01:28:59.720 --> 01:29:02.239
we're starting a new one in Santa
Monica. I think it's like the big

1289
01:29:02.319 --> 01:29:08.119
hub there in California. They started
there, and they struggled to build up

1290
01:29:08.159 --> 01:29:11.359
the team, and so the idea
was, well, we'll bring in support

1291
01:29:11.439 --> 01:29:14.800
studios to like really help with the
grunt work here, to actually take the

1292
01:29:14.920 --> 01:29:17.840
ideas from the Initiative and make something
happen there. They brought in Certain Affinity,

1293
01:29:18.359 --> 01:29:21.119
which is a team that has worked
on Halo and Call of Duty.

1294
01:29:21.239 --> 01:29:27.960
They're a very popular support studio.
They're currently making a Battle Royale kind of

1295
01:29:28.000 --> 01:29:31.840
mode for Halo. They're doing some
other things. That relationship apparently was pretty

1296
01:29:31.880 --> 01:29:35.000
fraught and there was a lot of
fallout there where it's like this is not

1297
01:29:35.159 --> 01:29:40.640
working. Some people from the Initiative
left and those jobs didn't get filled,

1298
01:29:40.920 --> 01:29:43.439
and so it seemed like things were
falling apart. And that is when Darryl

1299
01:29:43.479 --> 01:29:46.199
Gallagher, who is someone who used
to work at Crystal Dynamics now oversees the

1300
01:29:46.279 --> 01:29:51.279
Initiative is overseeing perfect Dark suggested to
the brass at Microsoft, hey what if

1301
01:29:51.279 --> 01:29:56.039
we got Crystal Dynamics to come in
and help and they were able to make

1302
01:29:56.119 --> 01:29:59.720
that deal happen. And that was
not like a perfect thing either, but

1303
01:30:00.039 --> 01:30:03.239
has definitely smoothed out the development process
and now things seem to be going pretty

1304
01:30:03.279 --> 01:30:10.479
well. Crystal Dynamics is now basically
the like the headlining developer on this game.

1305
01:30:10.720 --> 01:30:14.680
The Initiatives obviously is still involved,
but Crystal Dynamics is kind of covering

1306
01:30:14.840 --> 01:30:17.199
everything else. But now it's like
the game is coming along. But now

1307
01:30:17.439 --> 01:30:23.000
two three years before we really before
it's realistic to expect this game to release.

1308
01:30:23.479 --> 01:30:27.319
I would put it right now,
late twenty twenty six, maybe in

1309
01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:31.239
the twenty twenty seven before we actually
cool Boy Away. You know, we

1310
01:30:31.319 --> 01:30:34.520
had we had we had Matt Booty
on the couch you next to Phil and

1311
01:30:34.640 --> 01:30:39.279
he just straight upset. He's like, games are taking five, six,

1312
01:30:39.359 --> 01:30:43.680
seven years to develop, and that's
just what's happening here. Perfect Dark was

1313
01:30:44.119 --> 01:30:46.920
first announced, Yes, Perfect Dark
teaser Thank you Marino was at the Game

1314
01:30:46.960 --> 01:30:54.560
Awards in twenty twenty. So I
mean this, I think it's fine for

1315
01:30:54.640 --> 01:30:58.279
the most part that games take five
to six years. Obviously, there's so

1316
01:30:58.560 --> 01:31:00.880
much wrong with that in terms of
people working on one project for that long.

1317
01:31:01.239 --> 01:31:05.720
That's got to lead to more burnout. Uh yes, absolutely, But

1318
01:31:05.800 --> 01:31:09.840
it's like overall, like these games
are getting bigger, so they need more

1319
01:31:09.920 --> 01:31:13.279
time. Maybe it's better if they, like if you just go in with

1320
01:31:13.359 --> 01:31:15.479
an expectation that they are going to
take longer. Maybe that gives a little

1321
01:31:15.479 --> 01:31:18.920
bit more relief than people working on
it. I have no idea, but

1322
01:31:19.119 --> 01:31:25.119
announcing these games when it's twenty twenty
and it's barely anything and the game's not

1323
01:31:25.119 --> 01:31:29.439
gonna come out until twenty twenty six
or twenty twenty seven, that is bananas

1324
01:31:29.600 --> 01:31:31.199
and clearly like I think Microsoft's got
to try to get away from that.

1325
01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:33.680
But yeah, I don't know,
can you guys I got it? Like,

1326
01:31:33.840 --> 01:31:36.359
do you guys have any excitement for
a game like this where it's like

1327
01:31:36.439 --> 01:31:41.079
it's in the early stages of development
and there's nothing really to even be excited

1328
01:31:41.119 --> 01:31:44.680
about yet. No. No,
like straight up no, and like it's

1329
01:31:44.720 --> 01:31:49.239
just really it's unreasonable to be excited, like just straight just from a strictly

1330
01:31:49.359 --> 01:31:56.239
like you know, mental health point
of view. It's uh, it's kind

1331
01:31:56.239 --> 01:32:00.399
of how I felt about Fable.
You know. It's like I don't care

1332
01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:01.439
about Perfect Dark right now, and
I guess a lot of people do,

1333
01:32:02.079 --> 01:32:06.159
which is like, as of right
now in the developmental cycle, I don't

1334
01:32:06.239 --> 01:32:11.279
find a specific reason to be excited. You can't. You can't. I

1335
01:32:11.319 --> 01:32:14.279
wish you didn't even know about it
till it was much closer. Yeah,

1336
01:32:14.439 --> 01:32:17.399
I'm right there with you, guys. And I mean I think that like

1337
01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:23.720
that Fable trailer that we got this
year was pretty good, and it's an

1338
01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:26.760
engine and stuff like that, and
it's it's showing like a it felt more

1339
01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:29.560
like a proof of concept than anything
else. But like it's a concept that

1340
01:32:29.600 --> 01:32:32.399
I think is it seems pretty cool. But even that can only go so

1341
01:32:32.560 --> 01:32:35.119
far because I'm like, I need
to know what it feels like to be

1342
01:32:35.239 --> 01:32:40.640
playing it with a controller myself.
And that trailer didn't do much of anything

1343
01:32:40.760 --> 01:32:43.680
for that, at least as far
as I could tell. Maybe some of

1344
01:32:43.760 --> 01:32:45.399
the developer wants to sit down bere
like, well, here's what's happening there,

1345
01:32:45.479 --> 01:32:47.279
but they didn't. They didn't do
that. They just had a trailer

1346
01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:51.720
with some cinematics and then a few
elements of gameplay. But yeah, no

1347
01:32:51.880 --> 01:32:55.159
hud and no idea, no sense
of what it was like to actually have

1348
01:32:55.199 --> 01:32:59.479
your hands with the controller. So
it's like that is what they're doing Fable

1349
01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:01.239
and Fable also seems like it's not
gonna be around or not gonna come out

1350
01:33:01.319 --> 01:33:04.840
until like twenty twenty five. That's
it's still a few years off. So

1351
01:33:05.039 --> 01:33:08.680
yeah, I don't know. Perfect
Dark. When do we actually hear about

1352
01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:13.039
that game next Maybe it's next year. But overall, I'm with you guys

1353
01:33:13.079 --> 01:33:16.000
where it's like, just hold off
and show us the game when it's actually

1354
01:33:16.199 --> 01:33:20.600
much much close backlark ahead. The
fact that my kid is going to be

1355
01:33:20.840 --> 01:33:25.319
of age to play this game when
it comes out, like he will be

1356
01:33:25.640 --> 01:33:28.600
like, it'll be it'll be a
reasonable thing for him to play this game.

1357
01:33:29.600 --> 01:33:32.279
Yeah I like that. Yeah,
I don't like that. Actually,

1358
01:33:32.560 --> 01:33:38.720
Dizzy now, I'm dizzy. They
gotta stop showing or teasing games at the

1359
01:33:38.840 --> 01:33:43.640
Game Awards or what all these other
shows before they're actually everyone And like,

1360
01:33:43.800 --> 01:33:45.640
you know, I get it.
Do you want to build up a hype

1361
01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:48.479
cycle but then it ultimately winds up
hurting a game? I think, Yeah,

1362
01:33:48.520 --> 01:33:55.399
they are glorified logo reveals. Okay, like that's what it is.

1363
01:33:55.560 --> 01:33:59.800
It's so insane because I mean I
wish I wish someone did, like the

1364
01:34:00.119 --> 01:34:04.039
real is a lot of work,
but the homework of like charting out you

1365
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:09.079
know, make me a spread spreadsheet. I'm a I'm a spreadsheet perv.

1366
01:34:09.199 --> 01:34:12.800
I want to see one that,
like I want to understand like the percentages

1367
01:34:12.840 --> 01:34:15.520
of like a game ever seeing the
light of day. I bet you would

1368
01:34:15.560 --> 01:34:18.680
be like shockingly low as well or
lower than you would expect, you know,

1369
01:34:18.840 --> 01:34:24.159
like that Judas game, right,
Like look, I don't what you

1370
01:34:24.199 --> 01:34:27.159
don't remember who it was from?
It was the It's like, is it

1371
01:34:27.239 --> 01:34:32.239
not not Ken Lavine? But it's
like it's like the oh irrational pedigree people?

1372
01:34:32.640 --> 01:34:35.000
Right, yes, yes, right, okay, yes, sure and

1373
01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:38.960
I know sure now yes, Like
I'm it's that you know, when something

1374
01:34:39.039 --> 01:34:41.920
like that happens, I freak out. It is Ken Leavine. Okay,

1375
01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:45.520
good, that's right, because the
team is still working on bio and I

1376
01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:47.960
guess I guess there was gameplay there, so like that's a bad example,

1377
01:34:48.119 --> 01:34:53.520
but you know, just stuff that
like you it connects whatever it is,

1378
01:34:53.760 --> 01:34:57.520
and then you're just like, cool, I was I guess incepted? Is

1379
01:34:57.600 --> 01:35:00.159
that what it is? Like you're
just sort of incepted for like a memory

1380
01:35:00.239 --> 01:35:04.159
point back in the sort of you
know, corners of your mind, and

1381
01:35:04.199 --> 01:35:06.279
then all of a sudden, you
know, four years later, you're like,

1382
01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:10.479
that game's not the same thing.
It looks like this now and it's

1383
01:35:10.479 --> 01:35:14.159
still called that. But just I
don't think that's that speaks to like the

1384
01:35:14.239 --> 01:35:17.000
realities of development where it's sure,
we know and that's okay, yeah,

1385
01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:19.760
many of these games, yeah,
but it's like I think, but it's

1386
01:35:19.800 --> 01:35:24.119
puts more pressure on these depths because
it's, uh, we know that these

1387
01:35:24.159 --> 01:35:28.680
games get rebooted internally several times.
At least, it's pretty common. Maybe

1388
01:35:28.720 --> 01:35:31.000
not every game. Maybe some games
are just this perfect thing that that you

1389
01:35:31.039 --> 01:35:33.239
know, they sketched out from the
beginning, and that's what we end up

1390
01:35:33.239 --> 01:35:38.039
playing. I think what's much more
likely what's what's what's much more common is,

1391
01:35:38.600 --> 01:35:40.479
yeah, we said we're gonna work
on this game, it got the

1392
01:35:40.520 --> 01:35:43.680
green light, and as we're working
on it, we figure out what's gonna

1393
01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:46.920
work, what's not, and maybe
enough is not working that we are fundamentally

1394
01:35:47.039 --> 01:35:50.960
changing what this game is. And
if you start talking about a game so

1395
01:35:51.119 --> 01:35:55.439
early, it's like, are we
beholden to some of these ideas? And

1396
01:35:55.520 --> 01:35:58.880
it's I hope that these developers don't
feel that way, but it's it's more

1397
01:35:58.960 --> 01:36:01.199
likely when you start talking about them
pretty early, like Ever a Wild or

1398
01:36:01.720 --> 01:36:04.640
Beyond Good and Evil two. Yeah, Like those games are likely when they

1399
01:36:04.680 --> 01:36:09.199
come out not gonna look anything like
looks as promised, and they shouldn't because

1400
01:36:09.199 --> 01:36:12.279
it just make something that's actually possible
to attain. Yeah. I think that's

1401
01:36:12.319 --> 01:36:15.359
partially why I have a weird stink
around Starfield, is that it got announced

1402
01:36:15.560 --> 01:36:20.760
so so so early, and it
was just the logo, and you've got

1403
01:36:20.880 --> 01:36:24.840
like the sense of like, this
is what's weird about all these announcements,

1404
01:36:24.920 --> 01:36:28.560
Like there's always this ulterior motive of
course, like with Perfect darkts, like

1405
01:36:28.640 --> 01:36:31.840
we gotta sell xboxes, we gotta
give people promises so they get the hardware,

1406
01:36:31.880 --> 01:36:34.359
we'll get them in and then these
games will come eventually, but then

1407
01:36:34.439 --> 01:36:38.119
they'll just be happy with the hardware
and say, okay, we can we

1408
01:36:38.159 --> 01:36:41.319
can kind of see through that.
And then with Starfield, it's like,

1409
01:36:41.720 --> 01:36:44.720
we're talking about Fault seventy six and
we're not sure about that. People are

1410
01:36:44.720 --> 01:36:45.960
going to think this is a different
direction and we're not going to deliver this

1411
01:36:46.000 --> 01:36:50.000
stuff we've done before. So let's
promise we're gonna Starfield and Older Scroll six,

1412
01:36:50.640 --> 01:36:55.000
and then they'll be okay with fall
Out seventy six. And it's like,

1413
01:36:55.199 --> 01:36:57.800
we can also kind of see through
that, because at that time I

1414
01:36:57.960 --> 01:37:02.000
was like, yeah, the Older
Scroll six five years from then to this

1415
01:37:02.199 --> 01:37:06.199
day, Elder School six is still
five years away, and we know realistically

1416
01:37:06.239 --> 01:37:10.960
it's actually probably much further than that. They are these weird kind of like

1417
01:37:11.119 --> 01:37:16.640
almost like ambiguous upfronts, you know, yeah, where they just it.

1418
01:37:16.840 --> 01:37:21.079
You're right, the ulterior motives should
not be discounted because that is obviously a

1419
01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:27.000
big thing that's at play here too. Octo and the Chat mentions that announcing

1420
01:37:27.039 --> 01:37:30.159
a game is part of hiring practices. Yeah, it's something that's happened recently.

1421
01:37:31.239 --> 01:37:33.279
There was just a game that did
that and I can't remember what it

1422
01:37:33.439 --> 01:37:35.720
was, but yeah, go ahead. It just it just seems so odd.

1423
01:37:36.399 --> 01:37:39.840
But I guess, like, you
know, you want to attract people

1424
01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:43.680
that want to be excited to work
on a specific game or specific project.

1425
01:37:44.399 --> 01:37:49.000
But I don't know, like the
film industry like has very vague postings about

1426
01:37:49.039 --> 01:37:56.520
stuff, but again completely different industry, and like, you're devoting a scene

1427
01:37:56.520 --> 01:38:01.000
amount of time of your life to
make Senior develops are really hard to come

1428
01:38:01.079 --> 01:38:03.880
by, so you got to get
them excited about stuff. So yeah,

1429
01:38:04.199 --> 01:38:08.000
Project Dragon from io Interactive, something
we'll talk about in the news here in

1430
01:38:08.000 --> 01:38:11.079
a little bit. That was one
that they just announced earlier this year.

1431
01:38:11.920 --> 01:38:15.560
And the announcement was basically, this
thing exists, come work on it and

1432
01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:16.720
actually make it into something. It's
like, oh, they're just trying to

1433
01:38:16.760 --> 01:38:20.479
hire people, and that we've seen
that happen five six, seven times for

1434
01:38:20.560 --> 01:38:25.159
the other big, high profile games
from from big developers in the last year,

1435
01:38:25.520 --> 01:38:28.760
and that was clearly coming down to
it is hard to find talent.

1436
01:38:28.840 --> 01:38:30.000
We got to do everything it takes
to find them. And if we have

1437
01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:34.039
to just say what our game is, so be it. All right,

1438
01:38:34.520 --> 01:38:38.479
Let's keep moving along here, and
Nintendo is keeping the same account system for

1439
01:38:38.520 --> 01:38:42.279
its next console. Kind of go
over to details here. You don't need

1440
01:38:42.319 --> 01:38:45.439
to drop your current Nintendo account when
the Switch two arrives, if that's what

1441
01:38:45.600 --> 01:38:49.560
actually it's called. Nintendo President Shootintaro
fur Akawa told investors that the company plans

1442
01:38:49.600 --> 01:38:55.760
to maintain account continuity across devices going
forward. Nintendo says it has two hundred

1443
01:38:55.760 --> 01:38:59.119
and ninety million Nintendo accounts across mobile
and console, and it doesn't want to

1444
01:38:59.159 --> 01:39:02.760
restart that from scratch. This is
also good news, though potentially for backward

1445
01:39:02.800 --> 01:39:06.880
compatibility, because the idea is the
account you have on your switch is going

1446
01:39:06.920 --> 01:39:11.800
to carry over to the next system, as should all your purchases, as

1447
01:39:11.840 --> 01:39:16.279
should your subscription Nintendo Switch Online and
the expansion pack and all that stuff.

1448
01:39:16.920 --> 01:39:20.439
Well, the thing I'm paying for
is continuing over, and the thing and

1449
01:39:20.439 --> 01:39:25.079
all this stuff I've previously paid for
is continuing over. I should be able

1450
01:39:25.119 --> 01:39:29.560
to play those things. I think
that's clearly what Nintendo's going for, And

1451
01:39:29.640 --> 01:39:32.439
this is the right move because people
like you know, Phil Spitzer said explicitly

1452
01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:36.600
that one of the reasons he feels
like they're so far behind a PlayStation is

1453
01:39:38.000 --> 01:39:41.560
PlayStation one, the generation when so
many people got their accounts, bought a

1454
01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:43.960
bunch of digital games, and now
they're just going to stick with them.

1455
01:39:44.560 --> 01:39:48.199
And Nintendo recognizes this as weird as
Nintendo is. Nintendo recognizes that as well,

1456
01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:51.000
and it's not going to give it
up. So this isn't too surprising.

1457
01:39:51.079 --> 01:39:56.199
And it's almost like, actually it's
a little surprising just because Nintendo recognizing

1458
01:39:56.239 --> 01:39:59.000
this and actually being like, we
need to do something here where we keep

1459
01:39:59.039 --> 01:40:01.680
that continuity. It's almost a little
bit strange for them, right, Yes,

1460
01:40:02.039 --> 01:40:06.119
yeah, and completely I was expecting
to have to make a whole separate

1461
01:40:06.119 --> 01:40:11.239
account for the next system, whatever
it is. Yes, it's like that

1462
01:40:11.319 --> 01:40:14.159
would not be They do that every
time, right for the most part.

1463
01:40:14.479 --> 01:40:18.800
And it's even when they have a
continuous account outside of their systems. The

1464
01:40:18.880 --> 01:40:20.760
systems are like, well, you
know the three D s, it's a

1465
01:40:21.000 --> 01:40:26.520
it's tied to your your your actual
console, and so that's so weird.

1466
01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:28.800
Why would you do it that way. It's like, because it's Nintendo,

1467
01:40:28.840 --> 01:40:32.600
they didn't think about it beyond this
console. Uh so them actually figuring out

1468
01:40:32.640 --> 01:40:36.239
a process to make it tied to
your accounts and actually delivering on that that's

1469
01:40:36.680 --> 01:40:41.680
some good news. It's shot in
the dark. Here. Whatever next system

1470
01:40:41.720 --> 01:40:45.359
they're making, you have to plug
your switch into it. So you're gonna

1471
01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:48.359
like, you're gonna it's gonna duct
tape the two together and that's how you

1472
01:40:48.399 --> 01:40:53.159
can play switch games. Ye wait, you like them. So you're saying,

1473
01:40:54.680 --> 01:40:57.560
there's gonna be some sort of like
docking. There's gonna be a lock

1474
01:40:57.680 --> 01:41:00.199
on technology. It's gonna be you
gotta plug it into Sonic and knuckles and

1475
01:41:00.199 --> 01:41:03.039
then Nat plugs into the switch too. Yep. So there's gonna be like

1476
01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:10.319
some sort of human centipede situation.
Oh yeah, m oh yeah, Like

1477
01:41:10.399 --> 01:41:12.880
you're gonna have to, like,
beautiful thing, put your switch in the

1478
01:41:13.000 --> 01:41:16.039
dock, flip that around, and
then put that in to whatever new thing

1479
01:41:16.239 --> 01:41:23.439
they're they're doing. So would be
from just from a strictly like morbid humor

1480
01:41:23.640 --> 01:41:28.159
point of view, to see them
totally fumble like a switch to allah we

1481
01:41:28.399 --> 01:41:31.039
you would be like, I don't
know, I don't want to see it.

1482
01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:34.319
I don't want to see it happen. I am not wishing that on

1483
01:41:34.439 --> 01:41:38.720
anyone that we all lose in that
situation, But just from a strictly sort

1484
01:41:38.760 --> 01:41:43.479
of like shot and freud kind of
thing, like my god, still really

1485
01:41:43.560 --> 01:41:45.079
sit back and be like, let's
see what this company could do if it

1486
01:41:45.119 --> 01:41:49.439
wants to get on It's it's bullshit
again, It's Nintendo. It totally good.

1487
01:41:50.399 --> 01:41:55.119
It's like, it's always so strange. So yeah, I'd be sick

1488
01:41:55.560 --> 01:42:00.199
because, you know, deep down, the idea of them releasing a allow

1489
01:42:00.239 --> 01:42:03.319
up to the Switch that is just
the switch again but more powerful feels like

1490
01:42:03.399 --> 01:42:10.439
something Nintendo would be against. I
think that was probably more Iwata's Nintendo Shuntaro

1491
01:42:10.520 --> 01:42:14.359
fur Kawa is pretty conservative. I
bet that's exactly what's gonna end up doing.

1492
01:42:14.439 --> 01:42:15.840
But hey, this is Nintendo.
That could always prove me wrong and

1493
01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:21.920
just completely bone it up. All
right, let's get to this Sonic Team

1494
01:42:23.000 --> 01:42:27.720
story. Sonic Boss teases possible Knights
and Burning Rangers game. In a conversation

1495
01:42:27.800 --> 01:42:33.359
with VGC, Sonic Boss Takashi Iyazuka
smoke about classic Sonic Team games Knights and

1496
01:42:33.439 --> 01:42:36.960
Burning Rangers. He explained, I
can't say yes to anything right now.

1497
01:42:38.119 --> 01:42:40.920
These days, I'm the creative officer
for Sonic, the head child, so

1498
01:42:41.000 --> 01:42:44.199
I'm totally focused on that side of
the business, so I can't really speak

1499
01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:46.359
for anyone else, but Sonic Team
in Japan has been ramping up and hiring

1500
01:42:46.479 --> 01:42:49.920
lots of people. Recently, they
have more people than ever, So there

1501
01:42:50.000 --> 01:42:55.560
may be some future where you'll be
hearing about these kinds of titles. I

1502
01:42:55.920 --> 01:42:59.840
would like a world in which the
Sonic Team could sort of spread its wings

1503
01:43:00.000 --> 01:43:02.359
again and do something that is not
just Sonic over and over. Yeah,

1504
01:43:02.600 --> 01:43:06.359
I don't you know what the fuck
is this about? About fucking Burning Rangers.

1505
01:43:09.000 --> 01:43:17.159
We just leave the door openers through
the banished cameras Burning Rangers. I

1506
01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:24.720
swear to God if you charge me
for this, listen, listen, listen.

1507
01:43:25.279 --> 01:43:28.880
I thought we dead bolted that door. He turned his camera on.

1508
01:43:28.960 --> 01:43:31.760
It's it's it's he's he's he's hunkered
down. Oh man, I got his

1509
01:43:31.880 --> 01:43:38.239
camera turn Oh if you say the
words burning Rangers, I have all rights.

1510
01:43:38.600 --> 01:43:43.000
Uh No, judge would convict me
of bursting in here and doing whatever

1511
01:43:43.119 --> 01:43:46.920
I want. Explain yourself, what
why are you justified? It was because

1512
01:43:46.960 --> 01:43:50.479
Burning Rangers has the best song in
any video game. So it's just the

1513
01:43:50.600 --> 01:43:54.199
music that's it. The music.
Yeah, I never played Burning Rangers,

1514
01:43:54.279 --> 01:43:59.079
but that song was in Samba Day
Amigo. And you could go online on

1515
01:43:59.159 --> 01:44:03.119
your Dreamcast, download it to your
VMU and then play it and sampade amigo

1516
01:44:03.600 --> 01:44:06.800
and it's just like the best.
It's better than all the Sonic songs,

1517
01:44:06.840 --> 01:44:14.640
even the Brading Rangers theme. Incredible. It's insane that we have worked ourselves

1518
01:44:14.720 --> 01:44:19.720
into a situation where there's just like
a Mike Manati bat phone that like rings

1519
01:44:20.079 --> 01:44:24.640
that we don't know we had made
ring and he just like kind of shows

1520
01:44:24.760 --> 01:44:27.800
Burning Ranger sensation and he's like,
I gotta go, I gotta be somewhere,

1521
01:44:27.840 --> 01:44:30.520
and he just a cool concept.
Though it's just sci fi firefighters.

1522
01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:35.600
Nobody knows what Burning Rangers is.
I saw this headline and I thought we

1523
01:44:35.640 --> 01:44:41.920
were talking about power Rangers, and
I got excited. Powers. But damn,

1524
01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:45.079
what if power Rangers were one in
space? I know sometimes they are,

1525
01:44:45.279 --> 01:44:48.119
but these ones are in space and
they're firefighters. There's gotta be a

1526
01:44:48.199 --> 01:44:51.199
firefighter power Ranger too. I feel, well, there's a season where they're

1527
01:44:51.199 --> 01:44:58.600
all so Mike, would you be
upset if someone in chat described you as

1528
01:44:58.640 --> 01:45:02.039
the Cramer of Giant b who just
bursts randomly through the door. I would

1529
01:45:02.079 --> 01:45:08.520
love that for myself, definitely.
Okay. Michael Richards called the George.

1530
01:45:08.720 --> 01:45:15.479
So this is like, stand that
better. I can't leave if you guys

1531
01:45:15.560 --> 01:45:17.439
want too, though I just wanted
to come and scream about Burning Rangers.

1532
01:45:17.760 --> 01:45:21.159
I'm just gonna keep reading the news. Keeping can hang out if you want

1533
01:45:21.199 --> 01:45:26.800
to. Yeah, totally, Burning
Rangers is okay. It's an okay game.

1534
01:45:27.000 --> 01:45:30.439
It's a really cool concept though.
I agree it's that and and I

1535
01:45:30.479 --> 01:45:33.000
would like them to do more with
that. Also, they could just make

1536
01:45:33.039 --> 01:45:35.399
it look like a Saga Saturn game, and that would be cool too,

1537
01:45:35.399 --> 01:45:39.920
because Saga Saturn was actually pretty dope. I want to be excited about Knights,

1538
01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:42.600
but they tried bringing it back on
the Wii and it's sucked. So

1539
01:45:43.119 --> 01:45:45.800
because Nights isn't a very good game, well, I definitely liked Knights more

1540
01:45:45.840 --> 01:45:48.359
than it deserve. I think it's
a good game. But like, yeah,

1541
01:45:48.399 --> 01:45:51.039
I don't know, I don't know. Why don't bother bringing Knights back

1542
01:45:51.159 --> 01:45:56.239
whatever? Burning Rangers, though,
there's some like there's some juice to squeeze

1543
01:45:56.279 --> 01:45:59.399
there for I agree, and it's
just it's just neat. It's a cool

1544
01:45:59.439 --> 01:46:02.279
concept, sure, Like bring back
the music whatever. I don't know that

1545
01:46:02.439 --> 01:46:06.319
song. So now I'm excited to
go listen to it because listen to the

1546
01:46:06.399 --> 01:46:12.239
EU it has the best sax solo
ever, I think ever. And uh

1547
01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:15.680
yeah, and listen to the English
version. I actually like the English version

1548
01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:19.399
even more. The guy just really
goes for it. It's fantastic, all

1549
01:46:19.479 --> 01:46:24.079
right. Moving along, BioWare confirms
that Star Wars the Older Public is moving

1550
01:46:24.119 --> 01:46:27.720
on to a new studio. EA
will remain Star Wars the Old Republic's publisher.

1551
01:46:27.800 --> 01:46:30.279
This is This is from BioWare.
By the way, development of the

1552
01:46:30.319 --> 01:46:33.920
game will move to our partner and
friends at Broadsword, a boutique studio with

1553
01:46:34.079 --> 01:46:39.600
expertise in managing online games. Both
the Broadsword Studio and the Star Wars the

1554
01:46:39.640 --> 01:46:44.279
Old Republic team members will be joining
forces and working tirelessly to support every player

1555
01:46:44.399 --> 01:46:47.520
every day, ensuring that these worlds
and their communities continue to thrive and grow.

1556
01:46:48.319 --> 01:46:54.359
Their founder and president Rob didn't even
has direct experience with swotor, having

1557
01:46:54.439 --> 01:46:58.039
helped lead the team during the development
and launch of the game during his time

1558
01:46:58.159 --> 01:47:00.439
at EA. This is something we
heard about ig and had a report on

1559
01:47:00.479 --> 01:47:05.000
this. Now they're confirming it by
where officially moving on from slow toward that

1560
01:47:05.880 --> 01:47:10.000
that games would more than a decade
old. I think it's probably about twelve

1561
01:47:10.079 --> 01:47:12.680
years old. I remember, was
that one of those first Pecks East we

1562
01:47:12.720 --> 01:47:15.880
went to in Boston. That was
like twenty eleven or twenty twelve, twelve

1563
01:47:15.960 --> 01:47:19.239
years Yeah, So this is the
kind of thing where what happens to a

1564
01:47:19.319 --> 01:47:27.119
game like this when it's too successful
to full like completely fold. But it's

1565
01:47:27.199 --> 01:47:30.079
not like something that's not the future
of buyowere either. This seems like a

1566
01:47:30.199 --> 01:47:34.520
fine end of life thing to do
here, right, Yeah, this company's

1567
01:47:34.560 --> 01:47:40.479
like this is like MMO retirement home. Yeah, exactly. There's other games

1568
01:47:40.520 --> 01:47:43.920
that do this sort of thing.
You know, after a while, you

1569
01:47:43.960 --> 01:47:47.039
don't really completely closed it off.
You still have you know, thousands of

1570
01:47:47.119 --> 01:47:51.680
people who are giving you like money
every month or whatever, so it's worth

1571
01:47:51.800 --> 01:47:57.920
keeping it on the line. But
are you gonna still devote your entire Buyoware

1572
01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:02.119
Austin Studio to this when you have
things like your draggon Age and that new

1573
01:48:03.079 --> 01:48:06.640
mass effect coming out. No,
So I don't think this is a shock

1574
01:48:06.720 --> 01:48:11.840
to anybody, and that that is
an MMO that is so sort of story

1575
01:48:11.920 --> 01:48:15.279
content and rich that yeah, adding
content too, it's fine, But it's

1576
01:48:15.319 --> 01:48:18.000
a game that you can't just go
to and play through the story, which

1577
01:48:18.039 --> 01:48:21.399
is kind of rare for an MMOs. Just kind of keeping it supported is

1578
01:48:21.479 --> 01:48:28.239
almost good enough. Yeah, and
it's BioWare Austin is definitely on the rise

1579
01:48:28.359 --> 01:48:31.880
within BioWare of like a team that
is has a lot of belief in it,

1580
01:48:31.960 --> 01:48:34.640
a lot, a lot of leadership
at BioWare. Now it comes from

1581
01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:39.399
BioWare Austin, So I would imagine
they're like, man, we if we

1582
01:48:39.520 --> 01:48:42.720
had more access to their time and
resources, we could do this and that.

1583
01:48:43.199 --> 01:48:45.840
And it's like, well, now
they can actually tap into that stuff

1584
01:48:45.840 --> 01:48:47.720
without taking away from smoke toward because
smoke towards being taken away from them,

1585
01:48:47.800 --> 01:48:51.079
and I think that's the right move. All right. Now, we got

1586
01:48:51.119 --> 01:48:56.560
a bunch of headlines from the FTC
versus Microsoft battle. You see, let's

1587
01:48:56.640 --> 01:49:00.000
go, it's been there's a lot
of fun juice from the one. Uh

1588
01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:03.840
let's see, let's see. Let's
start here. Phil Spincer swore under oath

1589
01:49:04.199 --> 01:49:09.640
that he's gonna keep Call of Duty
on PlayStation and this this was a fun

1590
01:49:09.760 --> 01:49:13.560
moment because, uh, the FTC
lawyer was just like, hey, like,

1591
01:49:13.680 --> 01:49:15.279
are you gonna keep doing this?
And Phil Spencer's like yes, And

1592
01:49:15.319 --> 01:49:17.880
then the judge is like hold up. You know you're under oath, right,

1593
01:49:18.000 --> 01:49:21.920
Like, are you actually going to
do this? And and Phil Spencer's

1594
01:49:21.960 --> 01:49:25.439
like, I'll hold up my hand. I'll swear on whatever book. This

1595
01:49:25.560 --> 01:49:28.359
is my testimony. We are.
I'm gonna do everything it takes to keep

1596
01:49:28.600 --> 01:49:31.600
Call of Duty on PlayStation. Just
like Spencer's like, I'm agnostic. You

1597
01:49:31.680 --> 01:49:36.439
think any of this bullshit? Yeah
something to me. Yeah, I'll swear

1598
01:49:36.520 --> 01:49:40.880
on an Emerald Agassi cookbook. I
don't give a ship. Cost of wars

1599
01:49:40.880 --> 01:49:44.960
are just a social construct anyway.
So the exactly said as well, uh

1600
01:49:45.199 --> 01:49:48.239
so, but the judge stopping him
to like actually clarify that point makes it

1601
01:49:48.319 --> 01:49:51.279
clear that this is something that the
judge thinks is a key matter here.

1602
01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:55.920
If is if he can be trusted
when he says that, says that and

1603
01:49:56.399 --> 01:50:00.119
by swearing under oath, if he
were to go back on that, he

1604
01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:02.560
would get in a lot of trouble, like that is perjury. You just

1605
01:50:02.720 --> 01:50:06.560
can't do that. He would be
under legal threat and that would be very

1606
01:50:06.600 --> 01:50:10.119
bad for him. So, yes, he has to be telling the truth

1607
01:50:10.199 --> 01:50:12.840
there. I think that is going
to be one of the things that might

1608
01:50:12.960 --> 01:50:15.039
move the judge. But there's a
lot of other stuff happening here. We're

1609
01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:18.600
not going to go over like all
of the back and forth because it's ongoing.

1610
01:50:18.680 --> 01:50:21.960
It's they're literally happen. It's happening
today. If we're like tried to

1611
01:50:23.000 --> 01:50:26.399
give analysis about like where these things
stand in terms of what the FTEC and

1612
01:50:26.439 --> 01:50:29.119
the judge is going to do,
it could change in the next day,

1613
01:50:29.239 --> 01:50:31.640
So keep up with Game Next Mornings
for that stuff. There are other headlines

1614
01:50:31.720 --> 01:50:36.119
though, For example, Hitman Studios
in the works. Fantasy RPG is probably

1615
01:50:36.279 --> 01:50:41.840
an Xbox exclusive. This comes from
documents uncovered as part of the battle between

1616
01:50:42.279 --> 01:50:46.800
between Microsoft and the FTC regarding the
former's acquisition of Activision and Xbox Game Studios

1617
01:50:46.840 --> 01:50:51.479
is listed as the publisher of Io
Interactives so called Project Dragon in some of

1618
01:50:51.520 --> 01:50:56.680
those documents. Io confirmed in February
that it's making this. This is like

1619
01:50:56.760 --> 01:51:00.479
the first we've heard about it since
then, But this is how the context

1620
01:51:00.520 --> 01:51:03.560
I always heard about it in is
like Microsoft was working with Isole Interactive on

1621
01:51:03.720 --> 01:51:06.520
this project, and now it sounds
like, yes, it's definitely going to

1622
01:51:06.600 --> 01:51:12.640
be an exclusive. It's one of
those it's pretty far away. This one

1623
01:51:12.760 --> 01:51:15.920
might not come out to like twenty
twenty eight. Is it also fables?

1624
01:51:16.960 --> 01:51:20.560
That's every studio of Microsoft is now
just making fables. That's the problem with

1625
01:51:20.600 --> 01:51:25.399
Perfect King Journey too. We had
to get a connects back out, get

1626
01:51:25.439 --> 01:51:27.800
the connects back out. Yeah,
not even the new connect the first the

1627
01:51:27.840 --> 01:51:31.279
first gym, first one. Yeah, they'll make a dongle for you next

1628
01:51:31.399 --> 01:51:35.560
up. Pete Hines was mad about
the Activision acquisition at Microsoft, or at

1629
01:51:35.600 --> 01:51:39.640
least that's how his email reads.
I'm just gonna start reading some of the

1630
01:51:39.680 --> 01:51:44.079
lines from his email. I'm confused, is the is this called duty policy?

1631
01:51:44.159 --> 01:51:47.359
Not the opposite of what we were
just asked parentheses told to do with

1632
01:51:47.479 --> 01:51:50.520
our own titles. What's the difference? And he's speaking there about how there

1633
01:51:50.600 --> 01:51:54.880
was a blog post from Phil Spencer
and Nextbox saying we're gonna let call of

1634
01:51:54.960 --> 01:51:58.520
duty come out to everything, and
then your Pete Hines read that's like,

1635
01:51:58.600 --> 01:52:00.840
what the hell, why don't we
get to do that? He went on

1636
01:52:00.960 --> 01:52:05.880
to say, basically he spoke to
Phil Spencer about that exactly specifically in an

1637
01:52:05.920 --> 01:52:10.399
email. He's like, what's going
on here? They then had a call,

1638
01:52:10.479 --> 01:52:13.159
so we don't know what Phil Spencer
said in response to that, but

1639
01:52:13.680 --> 01:52:18.399
Pete Hines was definitely annoyed. That's
juicy man, that like man Hines.

1640
01:52:19.199 --> 01:52:23.079
Hines did go on the stand and
was sort of asked about these things,

1641
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:28.159
and he was much more diplomatic,
and he was it seemed like, to

1642
01:52:28.279 --> 01:52:32.279
say repeatedly, yeah, like it's
annoying to like have different things, but

1643
01:52:33.079 --> 01:52:36.479
only shipping games on Xbox is a
huge boon for a lot of reasons.

1644
01:52:36.560 --> 01:52:40.359
We really like that. It's a
good thing for these games. For example,

1645
01:52:40.439 --> 01:52:44.199
Starfield wouldn't be coming out this holiday
if we also had to be queueing

1646
01:52:44.319 --> 01:52:47.720
it for PlayStation as well. It's
like, yes, are you saying that

1647
01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:56.760
Pete regrets that email in Hines sight? Okay, actually, now I'm okay

1648
01:52:56.800 --> 01:53:04.600
with you billing us. Don't don't
able him to take it back. That's

1649
01:53:04.640 --> 01:53:12.760
good. That's good for me.
Good for me, so good getting that

1650
01:53:12.840 --> 01:53:17.840
one out there. That's his GMAIL
address it Pete. Yes, okay.

1651
01:53:18.159 --> 01:53:24.199
You know, I was a little
embarrassed to admit this, but I was

1652
01:53:24.439 --> 01:53:28.520
very confused the whole time because this
whole time everyone's been saying Pete Hines.

1653
01:53:29.079 --> 01:53:31.239
I thought we were all talking about
Pete Holmes, the comedian. I'm like,

1654
01:53:31.479 --> 01:53:33.880
what does he have to do?
With any of this. The crash,

1655
01:53:34.159 --> 01:53:42.600
guys, the crash very upset about, very wholesome, non has wholesome

1656
01:53:42.640 --> 01:53:53.960
takes. I'm tired, all right, fires, I get fired next next

1657
01:53:54.039 --> 01:53:59.760
many headline please. Xbox Studios boss
suggested this strategy to spend Sony out of

1658
01:54:00.000 --> 01:54:03.800
business, something he probably should not
have put in writing and another email at

1659
01:54:03.840 --> 01:54:09.720
Services part of the FTC's trial against
Microsoft Xbox Game Studio boss Matt Booty might

1660
01:54:09.840 --> 01:54:13.520
have given up the game. He
wrote, we being Microsoft, are in

1661
01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:16.880
a very unique position to go spend
Sony out of business. If we think

1662
01:54:16.920 --> 01:54:20.239
that video game content matters in ten
years, we might look back at say,

1663
01:54:20.640 --> 01:54:24.520
totally would have been worth it to
lose two billion or three billion in

1664
01:54:24.560 --> 01:54:28.720
twenty twenty to avoid a situation where
ten Cent, Google, Amazon, or

1665
01:54:28.800 --> 01:54:32.039
even Sony have become the Disney of
games and own most of the valuable content.

1666
01:54:32.520 --> 01:54:36.520
So the context there is is that
he was just like really worried about

1667
01:54:36.560 --> 01:54:40.399
what was happening in the video streaming
space where it's like it's going to be

1668
01:54:40.439 --> 01:54:43.520
hard to compete with Disney because they
have all of the IP. So maybe

1669
01:54:43.560 --> 01:54:46.359
we should be the one that goes
out and gets all the IP Microsoft did

1670
01:54:46.479 --> 01:54:51.520
clarify that this email was written like
two and a half years before the Activision

1671
01:54:51.560 --> 01:54:57.439
acquisition. Still, though doesn't read
your honor, mister Booty did not know

1672
01:54:58.039 --> 01:55:01.279
what a monopoly was. He didn't
he didn't know that. You couldn't do

1673
01:55:01.399 --> 01:55:04.279
that. Now we kind of ship. We can't. We can't stop him.

1674
01:55:05.560 --> 01:55:10.720
Not as good as hindsight now,
but Booty, like there is some

1675
01:55:10.920 --> 01:55:13.960
sort of booty a lot of money
thing you could do. Like everyone's name

1676
01:55:14.039 --> 01:55:19.119
seems to be you know, rely, yes exactly, They're play yeah,

1677
01:55:19.119 --> 01:55:24.560
because Booty sounds like an ass Phil
Spender. There you go. Would these

1678
01:55:24.680 --> 01:55:30.279
be Spencer's gifts? God, damn
it. We we're the best. Okay,

1679
01:55:30.479 --> 01:55:33.399
I really need to show he can't
do shit to me. Where's our

1680
01:55:33.439 --> 01:55:40.439
Webby? You're the best? Uh? Finally, Xbox is previously considered buying

1681
01:55:40.560 --> 01:55:44.600
Sega and Bungee, because of course
they did, because I told you all

1682
01:55:44.600 --> 01:55:48.359
they were doing that. And then
like this is false and everyone's like,

1683
01:55:48.439 --> 01:55:51.920
oh, Jeff grob and making stuff
up again, and then if they're getting

1684
01:55:53.000 --> 01:55:57.720
black and white, and right there
in the documents it says say they were

1685
01:55:57.720 --> 01:56:01.000
gonna acquire take your victory lap.
They didn't do that. Yes. Internal

1686
01:56:01.039 --> 01:56:05.479
documents as part of the FTC versus
Microsoft hearings revealed that Xbox began building a

1687
01:56:05.520 --> 01:56:10.600
strategy to acquire Sega and or Bungee
so well, it was like there's whole

1688
01:56:10.600 --> 01:56:14.359
list of developers they were actually looking
at. Xbox pushed for Sega because it

1689
01:56:14.439 --> 01:56:18.439
believed it would have a positive impact
on game Pass subscriptions. Microsoft also said

1690
01:56:18.479 --> 01:56:24.800
that the value of an Sega's library, but maybe these persona games maybe I

1691
01:56:24.880 --> 01:56:29.560
don't know, Yeah, coun we
just have Atlas instead. Then when it

1692
01:56:29.640 --> 01:56:31.800
comes to Bungee, they said that
the value of that would be will include

1693
01:56:31.880 --> 01:56:38.199
securing valuable IP Destiny and its community, and integration of its dev's and dev

1694
01:56:38.279 --> 01:56:42.680
and live ops infrastructure into Xbox Game
Studio, which is definitely all the reasons

1695
01:56:42.760 --> 01:56:46.720
that Sony ended up actually making that
acquisition. Other potential acquisition targets included Io,

1696
01:56:46.880 --> 01:56:53.199
Interactive, Zinga, Niantic, Thunderful, Super Giant Games, and Playwrecks.

1697
01:56:53.239 --> 01:56:55.840
Playwrecks is the only one I don't
recognize there. But Thunderful is like

1698
01:56:55.920 --> 01:57:00.680
the Steam the steam Bots games,
what is that? The Steam World dig

1699
01:57:00.840 --> 01:57:06.319
and yes, Giant Games too obviously
like yeah that like a lot of these

1700
01:57:06.359 --> 01:57:10.880
are like, oh, yes,
somebody's makes sense. Yes, Niantic and

1701
01:57:11.239 --> 01:57:15.920
Zinga Mobile Giants and things like that. But I would happened if Microsoft owned

1702
01:57:16.039 --> 01:57:20.000
Niantic, whose biggest game is a
Pokemon game. Well, I mean that

1703
01:57:20.319 --> 01:57:24.319
you know that they're contracted out to
do that. I think Nintendo would probably

1704
01:57:24.359 --> 01:57:28.359
mostly fine with them continuing in that
because Microsoft Nintendo seemed to have a pretty

1705
01:57:28.520 --> 01:57:30.880
amicable relationship, right Is that the
right use of that word? But yeah,

1706
01:57:30.880 --> 01:57:34.000
I think so, yeah, yeah, I interactive is one that I

1707
01:57:34.079 --> 01:57:39.079
always heard, was it like in
the talks a bunch of times alongside Bungee.

1708
01:57:39.399 --> 01:57:42.039
But it's like a lot of these
things, like these companies are talking

1709
01:57:42.039 --> 01:57:45.000
about these things all the time.
So none of that is is too shocking.

1710
01:57:45.319 --> 01:57:48.039
Uh this like I said this,
Uh, the court case is ongoing

1711
01:57:48.079 --> 01:57:55.840
today, it'll be they're doing closing
arguments on Thursday, so we'll see what's

1712
01:57:55.840 --> 01:57:59.640
going to happen here. The likeliest
scenario, according to experts, not me,

1713
01:58:00.039 --> 01:58:01.960
according to other people who actually know
what they're talking about, is that

1714
01:58:02.079 --> 01:58:06.119
this injunction that the FTC is going
after, it's probably not going to get

1715
01:58:06.159 --> 01:58:10.960
it granted by the judge. They're
probably going to fail the burden approof to

1716
01:58:11.039 --> 01:58:15.640
get the injunction to like push out
the date for when they have to come

1717
01:58:15.680 --> 01:58:20.319
to decision like way out there.
So the deal will probably close and then

1718
01:58:20.399 --> 01:58:25.680
the FTC will continue with its a
lawsuit in August and then operate from a

1719
01:58:25.760 --> 01:58:30.399
world where actually Microsoft does fully own
Activision now, so and you know a

1720
01:58:30.479 --> 01:58:32.239
TC can still regulate at that point, but it's going to be a different

1721
01:58:32.239 --> 01:58:38.039
world. But once you do that
like retroactive regulation, what does that Even

1722
01:58:38.720 --> 01:58:43.239
so the FTC's mandate does not It
doesn't like as far as they're concerned,

1723
01:58:43.279 --> 01:58:45.239
it doesn't matter if the deal is
before it closes. After it closes,

1724
01:58:45.319 --> 01:58:50.760
the FTC still has full legal obligation
and right to regulate the market and make

1725
01:58:50.760 --> 01:58:54.920
sure that it's a competitive place.
It might be make it a little bit

1726
01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:58.159
more difficult to peel these things apart. But the FTC in the past has

1727
01:58:58.439 --> 01:59:02.399
recommended like breaking up uh, you
know, the telecom companies like Bell,

1728
01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:05.399
and it's like, well, we're
instead of having this massive conglomerate Bell,

1729
01:59:05.600 --> 01:59:10.279
We're going to break you up into
regional companies that all sort of compete against

1730
01:59:10.279 --> 01:59:12.960
one another. Imagine has to be
harder though, like to just you know,

1731
01:59:13.319 --> 01:59:15.760
compared to stopping the sale. Now
the sales happen and now yet to

1732
01:59:15.840 --> 01:59:20.720
like find out how you're splitting this
up, and it's definitely more They would

1733
01:59:20.720 --> 01:59:25.960
definitely prefer to get this injunction,
but when you know, who knows,

1734
01:59:26.319 --> 01:59:29.319
We really don't know what's going to
go. Experts though, seem to think

1735
01:59:29.359 --> 01:59:31.319
it's going to be tough for FTC
to get this injunction, especially with their

1736
01:59:31.399 --> 01:59:38.239
argument kind of really hinging on this
foreclosure strategy for call of duty, something

1737
01:59:38.359 --> 01:59:41.880
that under oath now Phil Spencer said
he's not going to do. They have

1738
01:59:42.000 --> 01:59:45.359
all these agreements, uh, and
it's like and also a lot of that

1739
01:59:45.479 --> 01:59:49.920
relies on considering Nintendo not to be
a part of the console market, and

1740
01:59:49.960 --> 01:59:54.800
it's like none of that stuff sounds
right to us and the judge so far

1741
01:59:54.920 --> 01:59:58.640
in her questioning and when she stops
stuff and when she gets frustrated, it

1742
01:59:58.720 --> 02:00:00.359
seems like she's also not by into
a lot of it. But we're trying

1743
02:00:00.399 --> 02:00:04.239
to read someone else's mind. Who
knows. We're going to see probably pretty

1744
02:00:04.319 --> 02:00:06.920
quickly though, because it's still the
weirdest thing to me, is this like

1745
02:00:09.039 --> 02:00:15.000
idea that anybody should take seriously that
Microsoft is it competing with Nintendo? Yeah,

1746
02:00:15.680 --> 02:00:18.680
I mean it's the console market,
that's the only games. Yeah,

1747
02:00:18.800 --> 02:00:24.359
video game console market is just like
that is actually actually the definable market here,

1748
02:00:25.199 --> 02:00:27.840
and that's super important to an FTC
case. For people are wondering,

1749
02:00:27.960 --> 02:00:30.560
like why we're harping on this.
That's they have spent a lot of time

1750
02:00:31.039 --> 02:00:35.680
trying to say that Sony and Microsoft
are not competing with the Nintendo because that

1751
02:00:35.840 --> 02:00:40.720
makes the numbers that FTC is putting
forth when it's like, oh, Microsoft

1752
02:00:40.760 --> 02:00:43.640
will be this much far ahead of
Sony in these areas if this deal goes

1753
02:00:43.760 --> 02:00:46.039
through, that's actually what this whole
thing, that's the case. Wouldn't that

1754
02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:50.079
mean Nintendo's competing with nobody and they're
the ones with monopoly? Yeah, Mike,

1755
02:00:50.319 --> 02:00:54.520
Yeah, that's what it would mean. You sue them, let them,

1756
02:00:55.000 --> 02:00:58.039
let's do it, let's do it. Yeah Yeah, how about that?

1757
02:00:59.119 --> 02:01:01.199
Wow, Wow, you you're out
of order. Yeah take that.

1758
02:01:01.239 --> 02:01:03.800
I say, I played Phoenix,
right, I could do these mic drop

1759
02:01:03.880 --> 02:01:09.640
moments. Everybody's gonna have their Phoenix
right shocked. Jeff, Now, what

1760
02:01:09.760 --> 02:01:12.359
do you guys, do you like
throw your papers in the air if you're

1761
02:01:12.439 --> 02:01:14.800
like a clown. You would like
blow up a balloon note pop in your

1762
02:01:14.800 --> 02:01:16.119
face and all your clown makeup would
come off. One of those things.

1763
02:01:16.159 --> 02:01:19.279
I'd spell hot coffee on myself or
something. Oh yeah, there's a guy

1764
02:01:19.279 --> 02:01:23.359
who does that. Did you ever
play Phoenix? Right? Three jan there's

1765
02:01:23.399 --> 02:01:25.920
a guy who loves coffee and they
talk. No, I never got the

1766
02:01:25.960 --> 02:01:30.279
three like a dot. Yeah,
you need to play three then very coffee

1767
02:01:30.319 --> 02:01:34.720
heavy. There's no there's no time
to play any old games. Like I

1768
02:01:34.800 --> 02:01:36.600
know, I want to play old
games all the time, and I'm like,

1769
02:01:36.720 --> 02:01:40.960
man, I feel bad when I
do it now. Rough right,

1770
02:01:41.479 --> 02:01:45.439
there was a direct after our BombCast
last week. I'm just gonna read the

1771
02:01:45.479 --> 02:01:48.000
big games that matter to me.
Super Mario RPG, Super Mario Brothers,

1772
02:01:48.079 --> 02:01:54.239
Wonder Warrior, Wear Move It,
Princess Peach Game, Luigi's Matching Dark Moon

1773
02:01:54.960 --> 02:02:00.039
Port that's actually coming to the Switch, Kenny's Big Breakaway, and Penny's Big

1774
02:02:00.079 --> 02:02:03.359
Backaways. A lot of these other
ones people are gonna recognize. Penny's Big

1775
02:02:03.359 --> 02:02:08.600
Breakaway is a new three D platformer
from the Sonic Menia team, and it

1776
02:02:08.640 --> 02:02:12.680
looks very good ready on a platforms. I think that one's kind of thing.

1777
02:02:13.760 --> 02:02:15.479
Yes, yeah, it was a
good direct Uh. You know,

1778
02:02:15.960 --> 02:02:19.119
we're about a week out, so
we've talked about this a bunch for people

1779
02:02:19.119 --> 02:02:21.239
who would just listen to the BombCast. I guess I'll ask each of you

1780
02:02:23.479 --> 02:02:26.840
Super Mario RPG. Have you played
it before? Are and if you have,

1781
02:02:27.039 --> 02:02:29.640
are you excited? If you haven't, are you excited? Mike?

1782
02:02:29.960 --> 02:02:32.439
Oh? Sorry? Yes, I
have played it before. I've played it

1783
02:02:32.560 --> 02:02:36.399
like back when it came out.
It was the first RPG ever beat It's

1784
02:02:36.640 --> 02:02:40.720
like, you know, maybe fall
in love with that dramon forever. One

1785
02:02:40.760 --> 02:02:43.840
of my favorite games, one of
my most favorite, like childhood games.

1786
02:02:43.880 --> 02:02:45.520
But I have played it since then
and it still holds up. I am

1787
02:02:45.560 --> 02:02:49.479
incredibly excited for the remake, as
anybody who saw the live react will know.

1788
02:02:49.760 --> 02:02:53.640
I freaked out. Yes, I'm
going to play the hell out of

1789
02:02:53.720 --> 02:02:58.399
this about you, Jam, I
remember playing it with my uncle because I

1790
02:02:58.439 --> 02:03:00.600
didn't have a Super Nintendo and liking
a lot of what I played of it.

1791
02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:06.039
I'm happy to revisit it. And
and Bacalar was the Super Mario RPG?

1792
02:03:06.199 --> 02:03:11.159
Was that one for you ever?
I've never played that game. I

1793
02:03:11.279 --> 02:03:15.279
forgot it existed. When you saw
to the trailer, was did it Did

1794
02:03:15.319 --> 02:03:18.199
it look strange to you? Does
it look like kind of like funky?

1795
02:03:18.239 --> 02:03:23.680
Because they are definitely going for a
Yeah, we've updated all of the the

1796
02:03:23.840 --> 02:03:26.920
assets, but we're not going to
change any of the animation. It's still

1797
02:03:26.920 --> 02:03:29.640
gonna look exactly like that game.
And I love that. I think that's

1798
02:03:29.680 --> 02:03:33.319
fantastic. But it's definitely coming from
a place of nostalgia for me. Yeah,

1799
02:03:33.359 --> 02:03:35.600
I think that's the problem is.
I mean, I knew of its

1800
02:03:35.680 --> 02:03:43.359
existence. I think that game came
out and I just sort of had blinders

1801
02:03:43.439 --> 02:03:46.479
to it. I think, like, who knows how old comes down to.

1802
02:03:46.840 --> 02:03:49.479
It came out like the PlayStation was
out and stuff like that. Earlier,

1803
02:03:49.479 --> 02:04:00.079
you're talking four something like that.
Maybe, all right, what I'm

1804
02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:05.359
fourteen and ninety six, so I'm
probably maybe, Yeah, I'm probably definitely.

1805
02:04:05.399 --> 02:04:09.439
I think you're right. I think
I see the word the letters RPG,

1806
02:04:09.560 --> 02:04:13.199
and I'm just like, what's that? Fuck that A lot of the

1807
02:04:13.640 --> 02:04:15.319
fantasy stuff. Okay, Yeah,
I guess you're right. I guess you're

1808
02:04:15.399 --> 02:04:18.800
right. Playing cool guy games on
PlayStation like tomb Raider. Now I'm playing

1809
02:04:18.920 --> 02:04:24.720
Jet Moto for man Man Mountain dew
ads in it. That's cool. Certainly

1810
02:04:24.800 --> 02:04:28.119
did that sold me? I think, uh so, I don't have the

1811
02:04:28.199 --> 02:04:32.680
context of nostalgia to like appreciate the
reimagining of it, which I'm really regretful

1812
02:04:32.680 --> 02:04:36.039
about. So that would be another
fun way to play with. Yeah,

1813
02:04:36.039 --> 02:04:39.640
I think, Oh, we're I'm
all over it. I'm all yeah.

1814
02:04:39.680 --> 02:04:42.520
Don't you play like the paper Mario
games with your son or something? Yeah,

1815
02:04:42.520 --> 02:04:46.359
we've we we finished that from King's
Way better, so this will be

1816
02:04:46.399 --> 02:04:48.960
great. Yeah. Yeah, I'm
stoked. Oh We're gonna love it,

1817
02:04:49.159 --> 02:04:53.479
very excited. Money's gonna love it. Yeah, yes, de Money's gonna

1818
02:04:53.479 --> 02:04:55.479
be all over that. Okay,
So then the other question and then we

1819
02:04:55.520 --> 02:04:59.039
can wrap up the news. Uh, just yes or no? Super Mario

1820
02:04:59.159 --> 02:05:01.880
Brothers. Wonder is it a core
Mario game based on what you know?

1821
02:05:02.319 --> 02:05:08.840
Yes? Obviously yes, yeah,
only to a complete psycho path. What

1822
02:05:09.159 --> 02:05:13.279
is it? Of course he is, He's not even out and he's like,

1823
02:05:13.520 --> 02:05:16.960
it's not it's not why it's start
of a news like this is a

1824
02:05:17.000 --> 02:05:21.800
three series Now, I don't know
why. What is it that's justification for

1825
02:05:23.239 --> 02:05:27.479
his mind? Is that like the
lineage went from Mario World to sixty four

1826
02:05:27.640 --> 02:05:30.039
and now it can't ever go back
to two d's. It doesn't consider wait,

1827
02:05:30.119 --> 02:05:32.520
the portable games, are any of
the new Mario Brothers games to be

1828
02:05:32.680 --> 02:05:35.960
core? Weird? All these fucking
rules that he's made up that are exclusive

1829
02:05:36.039 --> 02:05:41.600
only to his mind. Nobody cares
he's wrong, mostly pregious. One still

1830
02:05:41.760 --> 02:05:44.520
is that he doesn't think Super Mario
three D World is a core game.

1831
02:05:44.720 --> 02:05:47.239
He's right about that, now,
I'm kidd kidding. Ok this is this

1832
02:05:47.359 --> 02:05:51.720
is me being a little silly goose
here. Yeah, Mario Maker, No,

1833
02:05:53.159 --> 02:05:59.159
that one's very like I don't think
so personally on that one. And

1834
02:05:59.239 --> 02:06:02.279
I'm sure huge Mario Maker fans,
and I'm like, for me, yeah,

1835
02:06:02.399 --> 02:06:06.239
it's a platformer with Mario and so
yeah, I guess that's core,

1836
02:06:06.359 --> 02:06:10.239
but it's weird. It's if it's
a little weird. I'm like, you

1837
02:06:10.279 --> 02:06:13.239
know what, I'm not. I'm
not here. That's not specialized line in

1838
02:06:13.279 --> 02:06:15.640
the sand for me. Okay,
I don't want to stir up anything.

1839
02:06:15.640 --> 02:06:19.039
I was just curious. I understand
the reasoning why you would bring and use

1840
02:06:19.239 --> 02:06:23.920
the Maker as an example, right, Like, there's a lucid argument to

1841
02:06:24.000 --> 02:06:27.880
be made there, but that's it, you know. The most the same

1842
02:06:27.960 --> 02:06:32.279
thing that that Dan believes with this
stuff is that Yoshi's Island is a core

1843
02:06:32.399 --> 02:06:36.399
Mario, but Wonder is not.
And I was like, you play,

1844
02:06:36.920 --> 02:06:42.479
you play its Mario in Wonder and
in Yoshi's Island you barely He's a power

1845
02:06:42.560 --> 02:06:45.239
up like it's like completely, it's
insane. So he's luggage. It's a

1846
02:06:45.319 --> 02:06:51.680
crime. It's an actual crime.
This is Yoshi's Islands. Islands great,

1847
02:06:51.760 --> 02:06:55.359
yeah, yeah, from the best
games. But come on, folks,

1848
02:06:55.439 --> 02:06:59.279
this is exactly why don't get two
bets out of shape of over Dan Reicher

1849
02:06:59.720 --> 02:07:02.319
say, which Mario games are part
of the mainline cannon, and don't get

1850
02:07:02.560 --> 02:07:06.880
bent out of shape over star ratings
over wrestling matches. That's right, exactly

1851
02:07:08.479 --> 02:07:12.319
if Mario Wonder was in the Tokyo
Dome. Though. I can't wait to

1852
02:07:12.319 --> 02:07:15.800
see if Meltzer gives Osprey versus Omega
like nine stars or was It's gonna be

1853
02:07:15.880 --> 02:07:18.720
something stupid. I can't We were
at cheesecake Factory when we first had this

1854
02:07:18.760 --> 02:07:21.039
conversation in dance like I hadn't thought
about it. I'm like, oh my

1855
02:07:21.079 --> 02:07:26.760
god, I regret asking you.
But he turns to me halfway through his

1856
02:07:26.880 --> 02:07:30.079
like rant and he's like, I'm
I'm for shoot right now. You know

1857
02:07:30.239 --> 02:07:31.399
this, Like this is like sometimes
I like play it up, but I

1858
02:07:31.520 --> 02:07:34.520
mean this. I'm like, Dan, I do know you're being for shoot

1859
02:07:34.640 --> 02:07:38.399
right now. And that's what hurts
most of all. I think I could

1860
02:07:38.439 --> 02:07:41.600
talk him out of the ridiculous three
D world thing, because that is just

1861
02:07:41.800 --> 02:07:45.560
lunacy danced better than that. He's
not. He's not he's not He's not

1862
02:07:45.800 --> 02:07:48.119
much better than it. But I
think he's better than that. I think

1863
02:07:48.159 --> 02:07:53.079
I can help walk him through,
Like I think he's finally been taught why

1864
02:07:53.159 --> 02:07:58.199
he can't breathe in space like one
over, so it can't happen. So

1865
02:07:58.479 --> 02:08:01.720
I'm operating him here. I'm operating
from a similar position, Mike. I

1866
02:08:01.840 --> 02:08:07.159
think you're onto something. I think
there's a lot of like things that exist

1867
02:08:07.279 --> 02:08:11.880
in his mind because he doesn't know
about them right the same reason like oh,

1868
02:08:11.920 --> 02:08:15.600
I can't breathe in space turns out
well in the same way that he

1869
02:08:15.680 --> 02:08:20.000
could be educated about space being a
vacuum, he could be educated about Mario

1870
02:08:20.479 --> 02:08:24.239
games and where they belong in Even
the core problem like with the thing with

1871
02:08:24.359 --> 02:08:28.960
space was I think he just thought
that Aaron space were the same thing because

1872
02:08:28.000 --> 02:08:35.800
they look the same, because there's
nothing. He's like someone who was born

1873
02:08:35.880 --> 02:08:39.399
one hundred years ago, who like
couldn't understand a cell phone. Just witchcraft.

1874
02:08:39.479 --> 02:08:43.199
Yeah, he would be big into
all the witchcraft explanations. Could that

1875
02:08:43.279 --> 02:08:45.720
be a lot simpler? Like,
oh, would just do that? Okay,

1876
02:08:46.039 --> 02:08:48.520
you know, I was thinking.
I don't know why I was thinking

1877
02:08:48.560 --> 02:08:50.399
this over the weekend. No,
okay, Okay, it's because I was

1878
02:08:50.439 --> 02:08:56.039
watching The Bear and I know that
Carmi in the Bear is like me and

1879
02:08:56.159 --> 02:09:03.039
is a denim freak. I feel
like there is a world where Dan Reichert

1880
02:09:03.960 --> 02:09:09.239
would understand and buy into expensive denim
and like eighty dollars white T shirts.

1881
02:09:09.479 --> 02:09:13.079
I feel like there's a world where
that could happen. Yeah, I can

1882
02:09:13.199 --> 02:09:16.399
see it, like where he just
like gets super serious about the look that

1883
02:09:16.520 --> 02:09:20.560
he has. Yeah, no,
Michael, you could come in. Michael,

1884
02:09:20.560 --> 02:09:22.279
you could come in. It's fine, come in, we'll figure it

1885
02:09:22.319 --> 02:09:26.000
out. Come in. You can
come back. No, no, no,

1886
02:09:26.199 --> 02:09:28.640
if you can, all both of
y'all can stay it. It's fine.

1887
02:09:28.000 --> 02:09:31.920
Yeah, we got it. We'll
make room and we're about to head

1888
02:09:31.960 --> 02:09:35.319
to a break. I know how
to get him, which Hey, I'm

1889
02:09:35.359 --> 02:09:39.479
done with the news. Jan this
show's back to you now. Jesus H.

1890
02:09:39.640 --> 02:09:41.720
Christ. I opened up the dock
for just a second, and there's

1891
02:09:41.760 --> 02:09:46.520
even more stuff in it. Let's
go. We've got to stop shoutouts.

1892
02:09:46.560 --> 02:09:48.159
I'm sorry, I'm putting my foot. Oh my god, it's like five

1893
02:09:48.239 --> 02:09:54.680
pages were Oh Mike, it's yours
is expired? My face next to cock.

1894
02:09:56.319 --> 02:09:58.239
Yeah, we're all right, we're
gonna fade the black. We're gonna

1895
02:09:58.239 --> 02:10:01.800
take quick break, and we'll be
back with maybe one email and then five

1896
02:10:01.840 --> 02:10:13.439
pages of shoutouts and maybe another Michael
Jeff baccalar, who's your Michael? Who's

1897
02:10:13.479 --> 02:10:16.399
my Michael? I mean my Michael. Don't know my Michael's here? Grubs,

1898
02:10:16.439 --> 02:10:20.800
Michael's here? Who's where's your Michael
at? This? Is that John

1899
02:10:20.840 --> 02:10:26.279
Travolta's Michael from the movie Michael?
I could be that's a very specific Michael.

1900
02:10:26.359 --> 02:10:31.560
Oh, wow, you're I didn't
realize you were here. Wow.

1901
02:10:31.760 --> 02:10:39.960
I didn't realize that this Michael was
back on the market. I'm here to

1902
02:10:39.039 --> 02:10:41.239
come here to stir trouble. Man, my bad. I can you know

1903
02:10:41.279 --> 02:10:43.359
what I'm saying, y'all can figure
the shit out on your own. You

1904
02:10:43.479 --> 02:10:48.079
know, has enough Michael for everybody. Don't worry, is there though,

1905
02:10:48.079 --> 02:10:50.079
because everyone should have a Michael.
I don't really have a Michael I have.

1906
02:10:50.520 --> 02:10:54.039
Oh no, if I have a
good friend Mike, but I only

1907
02:10:54.079 --> 02:10:56.159
call him by his last name.
But I do have a Michael. I

1908
02:10:56.239 --> 02:10:58.800
have a lot of people call Mean. That happens with all Michael's. A

1909
02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:03.000
lot of people call Meman, not
many of us. Yeah, every most

1910
02:11:03.119 --> 02:11:05.720
Michaels I know, I call by
their last name, and same thing with

1911
02:11:05.840 --> 02:11:09.359
every Matt I know. I called
at the last name of people. Do

1912
02:11:09.479 --> 02:11:11.479
have all the Jeff's here, Like
I'm the one person who calls Grubb Jeff

1913
02:11:11.560 --> 02:11:15.920
by default, which is like I
ought to stop myself when Bacclard's here too,

1914
02:11:16.000 --> 02:11:18.840
from doing that, and so I
called Jeff Grub. I call him

1915
02:11:18.840 --> 02:11:22.479
Grub, And it sounds weird to
me to do that. Never ever,

1916
02:11:22.880 --> 02:11:26.880
ever turn your name into into like
a pun to make fun of you,

1917
02:11:28.079 --> 02:11:37.199
like Manadi manaughty boy, Manadi America. My younger brother's AOL screen name was

1918
02:11:37.399 --> 02:11:41.439
Manati too, Hotti. Some people
surface that up in a way, but

1919
02:11:41.840 --> 02:11:46.720
I also think it's funny though Manati
is a good last name. Yeah,

1920
02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:50.119
it's a fun last name to say. I wasn't a huge fan when I

1921
02:11:50.199 --> 02:11:52.640
was younger, people calling me that
it seemed weird, but now it's like

1922
02:11:52.720 --> 02:11:54.920
whatever, I get it. There's
a lot of mics. I love my

1923
02:11:56.039 --> 02:11:58.039
last name, very happy, but
I feel like Ochoa. You can't.

1924
02:11:58.199 --> 02:12:05.039
You can't call some one Achoa right, like in the same way like if

1925
02:12:05.079 --> 02:12:11.720
you hockey team, they'd call you
Ochi. Anyone your auntie isould be like,

1926
02:12:13.760 --> 02:12:16.279
oh, all the fucking time.
We don't need to. We don't

1927
02:12:16.319 --> 02:12:20.560
need to. Yeah, sorry,
I'm stirring up. I'm starring up bad

1928
02:12:20.600 --> 02:12:26.680
memories. Obviously here man broke its
back, so Gangham style could fucking run

1929
02:12:26.920 --> 02:12:30.520
and take over the world. Anyway, let's talk about some emails. I

1930
02:12:30.640 --> 02:12:39.800
guess I guess these want to give
everyone show emails email addresses. BombCast a

1931
02:12:39.880 --> 02:12:46.039
giant bomb dot com dude to the
nature of uh the next week, the

1932
02:12:46.159 --> 02:12:48.960
upcoming week, We're just gonna read
two emails and maybe next week will be

1933
02:12:50.039 --> 02:12:54.520
an email heavy show. The BombCast
will fall under fourth of July, which

1934
02:12:54.600 --> 02:12:58.079
is a holiday here in the States. No live BombCast, but we're gonna

1935
02:12:58.079 --> 02:13:05.159
try and pre record that bad boy
to send your emails in first email comes

1936
02:13:05.680 --> 02:13:09.640
from Ash from Lutton, Luton,
Grub, if you could do me the

1937
02:13:09.680 --> 02:13:13.119
honors of reading this one. Yeah, absolutely, let's see, says Hey

1938
02:13:13.159 --> 02:13:16.960
Bombers, new listener and first time
emailer. I was listening to an episode

1939
02:13:18.000 --> 02:13:22.399
of Voicemail Dump Truck and Grub said
how he loved plantain. I have a

1940
02:13:22.600 --> 02:13:28.119
rather large problem with pronunciation of plantaine. If you were to say that in

1941
02:13:28.319 --> 02:13:31.600
my Caribbean house, you would not
be getting fed. It's pronounced planton.

1942
02:13:33.399 --> 02:13:35.680
Take a look at other words that
you spell similarly. Repeat after me,

1943
02:13:37.199 --> 02:13:43.520
mountain, fountain, plantonlant that is
all. Keep up the good work,

1944
02:13:43.920 --> 02:13:50.359
Ash from Luton, up the hatters. Yeah, yeah, but a different

1945
02:13:50.359 --> 02:13:56.399
places maintain. Listen, Listen,
listen. No one is denying that we

1946
02:13:56.560 --> 02:14:03.079
are seeing it the wrong way,
using but using but using other English,

1947
02:14:03.000 --> 02:14:09.079
the world's dumbest language. Okay,
to prove a point like isn't exactly effective.

1948
02:14:09.119 --> 02:14:13.720
I understand what you're trying to do
with the with the continuity there,

1949
02:14:13.800 --> 02:14:18.079
but like people who speak English as
their first language don't know because English is

1950
02:14:18.199 --> 02:14:22.439
fucking stupid. I want to say
in chat, a lot of people very

1951
02:14:22.560 --> 02:14:26.760
upset with you. They want to
keep saying plantain. I definitely dool said

1952
02:14:26.800 --> 02:14:30.560
that. In my head, it's
always gonna be plantains. But when I

1953
02:14:30.840 --> 02:14:33.720
was eating fried plantains in Jamaica,
I feel I do feel like I remember

1954
02:14:33.800 --> 02:14:37.239
being like, oh, plantains,
and I do think I gotta look from

1955
02:14:37.720 --> 02:14:43.399
one of one of the laborers there. So maybe when I'm in the Caribbean.

1956
02:14:45.439 --> 02:14:46.840
That's what I don't want to say
the help Mike, I don't want

1957
02:14:46.840 --> 02:14:52.199
to like they were they were servers. They were just they were workers.

1958
02:14:52.319 --> 02:14:58.159
I guess workers in the world you
want. I don't know this episode question

1959
02:14:58.520 --> 02:15:03.600
question. I didn't want to say
wild ship. So it's planting and Button

1960
02:15:03.760 --> 02:15:13.159
is the guy from SpongeBob SquarePants or
as Plankton's got a real time back in

1961
02:15:13.239 --> 02:15:20.079
the Red But Toston is right,
which is basically like fried plantings. Ye

1962
02:15:20.840 --> 02:15:24.520
don't say I have to if that's
how you can, it's how they say

1963
02:15:24.600 --> 02:15:30.600
it there. But I mean someone
who works as someone as someone who pronounces

1964
02:15:30.720 --> 02:15:35.479
all words the way we all agree
on. Okay, Yeah, I'm uniquely

1965
02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:43.359
qualified. Yeah, plantains are so
good. They're so good. Oh yo,

1966
02:15:43.520 --> 02:15:46.439
you if you ever had thrown jo
Jan, we gotta we gotta,

1967
02:15:46.640 --> 02:15:50.960
we gotta give if he's gonna be
an uncle, if he's gonna be an

1968
02:15:50.000 --> 02:15:56.439
honorary grubbin back of our honorary uncles. You know Manati too, al right

1969
02:15:58.439 --> 02:16:03.640
Italians? Oh yeah, yeah yeah. If I'm an honorary Italian, so

1970
02:16:03.920 --> 02:16:09.119
is Mike Manati. Everybody does.
Italians aren't white. We're fine, as

1971
02:16:09.199 --> 02:16:13.920
Jesse tell you would say, y'all
are off. Wait, yeah, well

1972
02:16:15.000 --> 02:16:20.159
except me. I know I'm incredibly
white. I want the plantain planting wars

1973
02:16:20.239 --> 02:16:22.720
to continue. So if you are
from the Caribbean, I want you to

1974
02:16:24.000 --> 02:16:26.319
write in or maybe call into the
voicemail dump truck and give us your take

1975
02:16:26.399 --> 02:16:31.479
on this, because I want to
hear it. All right, Jeff Backlar,

1976
02:16:31.520 --> 02:16:33.159
if you could please do me the
honors of reading the next email,

1977
02:16:35.440 --> 02:16:41.559
I most certainly can. I need
Jerve to help on this one. We've

1978
02:16:41.639 --> 02:16:46.559
got a work do coming up Wednesday
at a pinball arcade. And here's the

1979
02:16:46.680 --> 02:16:50.680
lineup. I haven't played much pinball
before. Would you have any recommendations for

1980
02:16:50.000 --> 02:16:54.559
their tables? It's from Johan.
Thank you, Johan. I am not

1981
02:16:54.760 --> 02:16:56.840
cooking. I can read the lineup
or you if you would like. Oh

1982
02:16:56.959 --> 02:17:01.000
I got it? Oh my lord? All right, looking at roughly,

1983
02:17:01.079 --> 02:17:05.280
there's a lot we're looking at.
What is this three seven, We're looking

1984
02:17:05.319 --> 02:17:11.280
at twenty wow, twenty two three
games. Okay, a lot of stuff

1985
02:17:11.319 --> 02:17:13.479
here, a lot of some rarities
here, a lot of new stuff,

1986
02:17:13.559 --> 02:17:20.120
mostly new stuff. I think you
should absolutely make a time to play Rick

1987
02:17:20.200 --> 02:17:24.680
and Morty, which is a game
that is not in a lot of places.

1988
02:17:24.920 --> 02:17:28.959
It's rare to find it. It's
by an indie pinball maker called Spooky

1989
02:17:30.040 --> 02:17:33.600
Pinball. I've never played it.
I've never seen it in the wild.

1990
02:17:35.159 --> 02:17:37.840
We have it at like the one
place here. Do you really pinball?

1991
02:17:37.840 --> 02:17:41.719
I played Rick and Morty Pinball.
Yeah, it's pretty pretty fun, do

1992
02:17:41.840 --> 02:17:43.799
you well? Sorry, I say, because I saw the one next to

1993
02:17:43.840 --> 02:17:46.719
it, But yeah, I thought
it was really fun. Although I see

1994
02:17:46.719 --> 02:17:50.680
in this list now that Medieval Madness
is there, which is my favorite.

1995
02:17:50.040 --> 02:17:52.920
Sure, that's like a stone called
classic. Yeah, so they have people

1996
02:17:54.000 --> 02:17:58.040
know they do have classics. They
have termin here too, many regard as

1997
02:17:58.079 --> 02:18:03.319
a classic. Yes, Twilight Zone, of course, Adam's Family. This

1998
02:18:03.520 --> 02:18:07.120
is one of the better collection lineups
I think I've I've seen in a really

1999
02:18:07.200 --> 02:18:13.079
long time. I would I would
play Godzilla, which is like a modern

2000
02:18:13.159 --> 02:18:16.840
classic. I mean look, I
don't know how long you're gonna be there.

2001
02:18:16.440 --> 02:18:20.000
I think there's more here that you
want to play than you don't want

2002
02:18:20.040 --> 02:18:24.440
to play. There's really there is. This is a shockingly good list,

2003
02:18:24.600 --> 02:18:35.200
even like like, I think the
weakest one here is maybe Ye Yes of

2004
02:18:35.239 --> 02:18:39.520
the Rings one is not the best
Lord of the Rings one, I think

2005
02:18:39.639 --> 02:18:41.319
is one that Jersey Jack made.
I think that was the Hobbit one.

2006
02:18:43.440 --> 02:18:46.079
But this, this one, I
feel like, is not super super well

2007
02:18:46.159 --> 02:18:50.280
regarded as as is Ghostbusters. I
think a lot of people have problems with

2008
02:18:50.360 --> 02:18:58.639
Ghostbusters. I just walked by the
Mandalorian. I had that in the I

2009
02:18:58.719 --> 02:19:03.360
had in the house for like six
months, and I learned to dislike it.

2010
02:19:03.879 --> 02:19:07.079
I'm not a big fan of the
Mandalorian. Now a backguard's gotta come

2011
02:19:07.120 --> 02:19:11.959
hang out with me in a boardman
Ohio. I'll show him the Rick and

2012
02:19:11.040 --> 02:19:15.120
Morty pinball. I would love it. I would love to get my hands

2013
02:19:15.159 --> 02:19:18.040
on that fish tails. Is that
what you're excited about? That is another

2014
02:19:18.120 --> 02:19:22.079
class. Maybe the Madness is the
one I really like because I didn't know

2015
02:19:22.319 --> 02:19:24.840
the thing, and they had it
at the same place. I was just

2016
02:19:24.959 --> 02:19:28.959
playing it and I did the bit
where you like you knocked down the drawbridge

2017
02:19:28.959 --> 02:19:31.440
and you go into the castle,
and the castle turrets are like bumping into

2018
02:19:31.479 --> 02:19:35.360
each other. And I found out
later that apparently, for like the random

2019
02:19:35.479 --> 02:19:39.559
voice Cliffs, they just got like
Second City Comedians at the time. So

2020
02:19:39.719 --> 02:19:45.280
it's Tina Feye doing like a lot
of like simples and medieval madness and stuff

2021
02:19:45.319 --> 02:19:48.200
like that. That's funny, that's
very cool. The only thing they're kind

2022
02:19:48.200 --> 02:19:52.600
of missing from like the Mount Rushmore
of pinball, and that Mount Rushmore pinball

2023
02:19:52.639 --> 02:19:58.159
is probably like twelve games instead of
four. But I think like Theater of

2024
02:19:58.239 --> 02:20:03.479
Magic not being here is a little
weird. But man, everything else is

2025
02:20:03.680 --> 02:20:07.600
pretty sick. I'm I like high
speed a lot. I'm you know,

2026
02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:11.639
that's a that's really do the pinball
freaks they like those two like projection ones

2027
02:20:11.719 --> 02:20:18.600
the episode one and the Mars like
that, wait, what the what now?

2028
02:20:18.680 --> 02:20:22.879
The person that star Wars EPSO one
pinball machine were like, you like

2029
02:20:22.920 --> 02:20:26.000
are almost shooting into like a hologram
screen in the back? Oh yeah,

2030
02:20:26.040 --> 02:20:28.280
yeah, I don't. I don't
know, that's a good question. I

2031
02:20:28.360 --> 02:20:31.760
feel like most pinball weirdos, I
guess, you know, I'm I'm indifferent,

2032
02:20:31.799 --> 02:20:35.879
but I think most pinball purves are
like not super big fans of that.

2033
02:20:37.799 --> 02:20:41.319
And then there was like that alien
like non ip one, the attack

2034
02:20:41.399 --> 02:20:45.280
from Mars, the second attack from
Mars. Yeah, the original attack from

2035
02:20:45.319 --> 02:20:48.040
Mars is also regarded in the Mount
Rushmore for sure. But yeah, this

2036
02:20:48.120 --> 02:20:50.639
is an unbelievable lineup. I hope
you have enough time to play everything.

2037
02:20:50.760 --> 02:20:54.840
They've even got guns and roses here
by Jersey Jack, which is sick.

2038
02:20:54.719 --> 02:21:00.440
I mean, damn this this might
be the place. Where is this in

2039
02:21:00.479 --> 02:21:03.879
New Zealand? Yeah, you are
looks like it's a New Zealand. This

2040
02:21:03.079 --> 02:21:07.520
is the place in New zeal I
would imagine this is like the place.

2041
02:21:07.360 --> 02:21:11.760
Uh good for you. There you
go. It's very nice. And that

2042
02:21:11.879 --> 02:21:15.959
does it for emails. We got
a lot of lovely emails that we will

2043
02:21:16.920 --> 02:21:20.239
go over on the prerecorded show.
Still plenty of time to get your emails

2044
02:21:20.399 --> 02:21:26.479
sent out. Email address is bomb
cast a giant bomb dot com. I'll

2045
02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:28.200
check the spam folder even if you
want to get a little susio with it.

2046
02:21:33.280 --> 02:21:37.959
Listen, listen, listen, listen
everybody. Yes, I want people

2047
02:21:39.159 --> 02:21:43.600
who are listening, if they have
a TikTok account to follow us on TikTok.

2048
02:21:43.879 --> 02:21:46.840
Hey, I know that sounds I
know that sounds like he was going

2049
02:21:46.920 --> 02:21:50.719
to be the first shout out.
Honestly, I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm

2050
02:21:50.719 --> 02:21:54.280
sorry. I just want to get
this in front of the shout outs because

2051
02:21:54.639 --> 02:22:01.520
that's gonna be eleven. You're gonna
lose some some information and actual Turboshaan's doing

2052
02:22:01.639 --> 02:22:07.239
unbelievable work. Big shout out to
Sean. His last video, I'm gonna

2053
02:22:07.280 --> 02:22:09.920
say it, his last view has
got two point five million views on TikTok.

2054
02:22:13.000 --> 02:22:16.360
Sean, if all, if each
one of those of you sent us

2055
02:22:16.440 --> 02:22:26.040
one dollar, now I'm kidding money, it's very it's very much the TikTok

2056
02:22:26.079 --> 02:22:28.799
business model. But no, thank
you, Jean. Please check out our

2057
02:22:28.840 --> 02:22:31.360
TikTok if you don't already know about
it, or if you don't know about

2058
02:22:31.399 --> 02:22:35.680
TikTok, which is probably right for
some of you. So yeah, that's

2059
02:22:35.680 --> 02:22:39.239
all. No, let's mess up
the algorithm. Let's get all these old

2060
02:22:39.360 --> 02:22:43.559
heads into TikTok so then we can
just have weirder TikTok's. Let's do it.

2061
02:22:43.840 --> 02:22:48.360
Show my feet on TikTok totally.
Someone asked, it's the real giant

2062
02:22:48.399 --> 02:22:54.159
bombs our TikTok handle the real real
Ghostbusters. That's how early we were on

2063
02:22:54.280 --> 02:23:00.840
the platform. Lazy on top of
the latest trends. Yeah to the TikTok

2064
02:23:00.840 --> 02:23:03.600
account, Ben and I made.
I think it was like giant bomb free

2065
02:23:03.680 --> 02:23:11.479
v bucks. Uh, that was
just a kid. Look at this guy.

2066
02:23:11.799 --> 02:23:15.440
Yeah, we tried to get it
from him. I think we DMed

2067
02:23:15.520 --> 02:23:20.000
him and then did he say no? He just didn't respond. You you

2068
02:23:20.120 --> 02:23:26.520
battled youtuberstokers. I'll take I'll do
it. Yeah, let's do it,

2069
02:23:26.520 --> 02:23:30.280
at least for something. At least. Just wait, Just wait till we

2070
02:23:30.319 --> 02:23:33.319
start dancing. Just wait till we
start dancing. I just thinking maybe I

2071
02:23:33.319 --> 02:23:35.879
should be recording myself and send it
to Sean and just see what happens.

2072
02:23:35.840 --> 02:23:39.840
Uh. Hey, there's a lot
of video of Mike macnaughty dancing, even

2073
02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:43.600
just during the at night shows.
I saw an upsetting gift that I don't

2074
02:23:43.600 --> 02:23:48.920
want to talk about. Oh all
right, let's get to the shadows.

2075
02:23:48.959 --> 02:23:54.600
God, damn it. Perhaps perhaps
it's your backside special shot. Damn,

2076
02:23:54.639 --> 02:24:01.479
you should your whole ass off it
to me, said, I don't know.

2077
02:24:01.520 --> 02:24:03.920
I've deleted it for my brain.
I don't know where it is.

2078
02:24:05.440 --> 02:24:09.799
First again, special shout outs to
Turbo Shan one hundred and fifty podcast points

2079
02:24:09.840 --> 02:24:13.479
to you big dog. All right, let's fucking get to the shout outs.

2080
02:24:13.760 --> 02:24:16.399
During the first break, I lamented
to Grub with that I was really

2081
02:24:16.479 --> 02:24:18.399
upset, and this is you know. I've made my own bed and I'm

2082
02:24:18.440 --> 02:24:20.479
gonna go lay in it, and
I'm gonna go roll around in it.

2083
02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:24.559
I'm gonna roll around change your scenario. You could change your life now,

2084
02:24:24.760 --> 02:24:28.319
Jen, if you need to attack
me in jin, I could pick up

2085
02:24:28.360 --> 02:24:31.559
some of these ports. I might. I might going wild in the shot

2086
02:24:31.600 --> 02:24:33.319
outs. Just making up for last
week, ripped to Jan about five pages

2087
02:24:33.319 --> 02:24:37.840
of shoutouts. Taking edible at work, boy, taking edible right before being

2088
02:24:37.879 --> 02:24:39.559
on voicemail, Dump truck for a
fun time? Make it mile Hime?

2089
02:24:39.680 --> 02:24:43.920
Is this anything prawn cocktail? What
sits? See image below? Mega means

2090
02:24:45.000 --> 02:24:48.719
these crunch cheese, take toe,
cheese and onion all the Spanish butts,

2091
02:24:48.680 --> 02:24:52.600
Kenny by God, Omega, Kenny
Omega feeding, Mike Manadia Banana, weirdly

2092
02:24:52.719 --> 02:24:56.440
spelling flavor with a you, Jemmy
Buffetts, Margaritaville, Bubba Gum Shrimp Company,

2093
02:24:56.520 --> 02:25:03.680
Cheesecake Factory, Cheese Cake refinery,
cheese cake refractory period its clause,

2094
02:25:03.959 --> 02:25:09.360
did Digimon loose to Pokemon like sonic
clauses? Mario Transformers Versus Thunderbirds, Mega

2095
02:25:09.399 --> 02:25:11.600
Mix Extreme, Jim Ryan passing up
the courthouse in order to be scann into

2096
02:25:11.680 --> 02:25:18.239
the Kajima Machine, The curse possibility
of Jim Ryan Jim Ryan as porn.

2097
02:25:18.440 --> 02:25:22.239
Brian Danielson's Fractured The Console Wars are
a social construct, but the wounded and

2098
02:25:22.360 --> 02:25:26.959
victim IT leaves in its wake are
very real. The people currently fighting in

2099
02:25:26.000 --> 02:25:31.360
public park outside my window is Super
Mario Brothers Wonder, a core Mario game.

2100
02:25:31.520 --> 02:25:35.639
The Conoli Wars are a social cake
struct. All this and Uritas here

2101
02:25:35.680 --> 02:25:41.639
to Kermit Crime, Red Blue,
Yellow, Green, Nova Twins and the

2102
02:25:41.680 --> 02:25:45.200
Big Moon at Glastow twenty twenty three. This is still the pre show,

2103
02:25:45.440 --> 02:25:48.760
and this is how many shoutouts have
been written. Silence jan Or Jeff Grabbed

2104
02:25:48.840 --> 02:25:54.639
Chips and kso the common bomb in
Roman Goblin. Michael Him for the Iomnium

2105
02:25:54.120 --> 02:25:58.879
file recommendations, Michael Him, But
Michael he may saw is still pretty good

2106
02:25:58.920 --> 02:26:01.959
too. Thanks for the catch thumbs
up Emoji. The Giant Bomb cast Sid's

2107
02:26:01.079 --> 02:26:05.799
buttery smooth voice everyone a Final Fantasy
sixteen Twitter want to get their backs blown

2108
02:26:05.879 --> 02:26:11.479
up by sitting Jesus capcom versus SNK
on the Dreamcast. CBS two is still

2109
02:26:11.520 --> 02:26:16.920
better, though, Jan playing Final
Fantasy UH fourteen, si Ochoa's and the

2110
02:26:18.079 --> 02:26:22.239
Seventh Dawn Venture Bros. Movie Soon
Hype. Also Metal Metal, Metal,

2111
02:26:22.399 --> 02:26:30.000
Metal, Metalocalypse movie Hype. Eating
it Up like Groceries out shouts tom through

2112
02:26:30.079 --> 02:26:33.920
Tim three thumb thumb tacks, Little
Dicky Backler on when It co wote Oo

2113
02:26:35.079 --> 02:26:39.280
Woo Spider Verse. No spoilers except
on a GB spoiler cast. What's in

2114
02:26:39.319 --> 02:26:43.920
the Bag, Max, tell me, I tell me when I'm telling lies.

2115
02:26:43.000 --> 02:26:48.040
Gotta crave the Craven Colonel John Matrix
two Buck Chuck from TJ's The Old

2116
02:26:48.120 --> 02:26:50.600
Wine Guy getting ten am wine drunk
at packs. Oh that sounds great,

2117
02:26:52.079 --> 02:26:56.440
Clive the Devil's Dick, Tommy Tellarrico, No No, No. Shout out

2118
02:26:56.479 --> 02:27:03.920
to Tommy Tellarrico and the Lip Broken
and the Oh Okay, Tommy Telarrico and

2119
02:27:03.959 --> 02:27:09.280
the Limporino Bandidos, Hello Rat.
Shout out to Stone Colt's favorite game side

2120
02:27:09.280 --> 02:27:15.239
Pockets see below. Band Bowen Commando
is an excellent movie. Harrison Ford film

2121
02:27:15.319 --> 02:27:18.719
since the twenty first century are unnecessary. Get off my plane is Warrior landy

2122
02:27:18.799 --> 02:27:24.520
Core Warrio game, Blessing the reins
at a winery, Edibles, the upcoming

2123
02:27:24.600 --> 02:27:30.799
dozens of steam dep deck ripoffs,
Aura Auramudmuda. I watched Chernobyl last week

2124
02:27:30.879 --> 02:27:35.200
for the first time. That shits
fucked up. Yeah, discovering a fantastic,

2125
02:27:35.239 --> 02:27:37.120
authentic Mexican restaurant within walking distance from
my place. Yes, give me

2126
02:27:37.159 --> 02:27:41.079
all the bush burritos. Afternoon fun
with my Bishi boys, Link and Clive.

2127
02:27:43.680 --> 02:27:46.319
Fifty five burghers, fifty five fries, fifty five occas, fifty five

2128
02:27:46.319 --> 02:27:48.879
pies, fifty five tacos, one
hundred taps, hundred feats, one hundred

2129
02:27:48.879 --> 02:27:50.719
tenders, hundred meatballs, hundred coffees, fifty five wings, fifty five shakes,

2130
02:27:50.760 --> 02:27:52.879
fifty five pancakes, fifty five posts, fifty five five ferres, one

2131
02:27:52.920 --> 02:27:58.159
hundred fifty five tatters. That's awesome, what taters precious? We're still fucking

2132
02:27:58.239 --> 02:28:01.680
going shin common writer, We're dhide
next month, change my mind. Fifty

2133
02:28:01.760 --> 02:28:05.399
six burgers, Arms and Rangers,
Sisters squad Go Mission Impossible two is a

2134
02:28:05.520 --> 02:28:09.959
terrible movie. They're right, you
know, Carrot top is that the one

2135
02:28:09.000 --> 02:28:13.120
with Kimera virus. Yeah, no
jokes. The movie is horrendous, but

2136
02:28:13.200 --> 02:28:18.000
the doves though that ship's keyno also
DMC five would not exist without m KI

2137
02:28:18.840 --> 02:28:22.079
hey knows, fuck you. Maybe
we should let Jan rest now some mercy.

2138
02:28:22.360 --> 02:28:26.440
He brought this one on himself.
Anti shoutouts to Jan for not reading

2139
02:28:26.479 --> 02:28:30.680
the Voicemail Dump Truck shout out section. Also, the Voicemail Dump Truck doc

2140
02:28:30.760 --> 02:28:35.319
is still unlock seven out seven Exit
blue double. The shoutouts show this episode

2141
02:28:35.399 --> 02:28:39.680
to make up for last week.
No Lucky Lucky Luckylicky on my Blicky Oi

2142
02:28:39.440 --> 02:28:46.360
h Rider kick feeling your emotions while
enjoying media Ben Starr, enjoy your gaming

2143
02:28:46.520 --> 02:28:50.399
air juggles and final Fantasy game Change
my Mind fifty six burgers. Jan is

2144
02:28:50.440 --> 02:28:54.479
a QTE match a to continue shouts
to the people who didn't know the opposite

2145
02:28:54.520 --> 02:29:01.360
of inn is hitting is deep.
Clive's drive Clive and let die. I

2146
02:29:01.440 --> 02:29:05.239
don't want to Clive without you,
Clive Wire, mound do Clive Wire,

2147
02:29:05.159 --> 02:29:09.520
who wants to Clive forever? Guilty
year? Clive, you are the only

2148
02:29:09.600 --> 02:29:13.159
one that gets me. You all
have to stop now, stop now,

2149
02:29:13.280 --> 02:29:16.840
can't stop won't stop grub No chance
Jan reads this far five dollars says he

2150
02:29:16.920 --> 02:29:20.239
doesn't pay up. I'll take that
bet. He absolutely will read this.

2151
02:29:20.319 --> 02:29:24.000
Swar. I love steam docking,
Google docking, Google docking. Don't go

2152
02:29:24.239 --> 02:29:31.280
Google docking, do Google choking,
upper decking doc shaming. Jan gave us

2153
02:29:31.280 --> 02:29:33.040
an inch, and we took five
hundred miles and we would take five hundred

2154
02:29:33.120 --> 02:29:37.399
more just just to be the chat
who walks a thousand miles to add shoutouts

2155
02:29:37.440 --> 02:29:41.360
to your doc. We love you
Jan, Miles tales Prower, we love

2156
02:29:41.440 --> 02:29:48.920
you Jan, Mika Hakeenan Kiema,
right, Conan Finn Finn Okay, yeah,

2157
02:29:48.000 --> 02:29:52.520
okay, finish, say all right, seriously, we gotta stop Jan

2158
02:29:52.760 --> 02:29:56.319
or Jan's gonna take our toys away
docking toys kisses on the cheek, which

2159
02:29:56.399 --> 02:29:58.079
cheeks? Hey Google, turn all
the lights on, Hey siree, Text

2160
02:29:58.200 --> 02:30:03.120
Dad, it's announced can Con the
Canned Fart Festival. The film cast per

2161
02:30:03.159 --> 02:30:09.879
Daniel Stupid Sexy said, opening the
doc for one the end that oh my

2162
02:30:11.000 --> 02:30:13.200
god, my eyes was a journey. My eyes a journey. All right,

2163
02:30:13.319 --> 02:30:16.200
did you highlight I just tuned into
the dock? Did you highlight this?

2164
02:30:16.399 --> 02:30:20.440
In all red like this, like
what happened? I did? So

2165
02:30:20.520 --> 02:30:22.440
it's easier to read because I could
just see the picture of Mike. Easy

2166
02:30:22.520 --> 02:30:26.559
to read, Okay, I will
because it's just a picture of Mike Manatty

2167
02:30:26.760 --> 02:30:31.559
on every single page of this document. Good got some cock, man,

2168
02:30:31.719 --> 02:30:35.719
Yeah, just get a cock right
over your shoulder. That's right, that's

2169
02:30:37.239 --> 02:30:41.239
Michael Hi. Thank you, Mike
Manati, thank you, Jeff Grubb,

2170
02:30:41.319 --> 02:30:43.760
thank you, Jeff Backlar, thank
you. Thank you. Give us at

2171
02:30:43.799 --> 02:30:46.040
home, whether you're watching live or
you're listening to the archive or you're an

2172
02:30:46.040 --> 02:30:50.639
audio listener only, thank you.
What do we got popping off? For

2173
02:30:50.680 --> 02:30:54.559
the rest of this week? We'll
have an a E W Quick Look live

2174
02:30:54.760 --> 02:31:01.200
tomorrow over aw Fight Forever, Voicemail, dump Truck, my good friend Matt

2175
02:31:01.239 --> 02:31:05.159
Shipman this week. I think it
is going to be a usual grab bag

2176
02:31:05.799 --> 02:31:09.440
of a UPF this week as well. I'll get the played forward archive.

2177
02:31:09.520 --> 02:31:13.120
Op. I'm sorry, that's that's
still. That's right. That's on the

2178
02:31:13.200 --> 02:31:16.719
top of my list now. Uh
and some other videos will be popping off.

2179
02:31:16.879 --> 02:31:20.520
Anyone who want to plug anything,
anyone want to promote something. I

2180
02:31:20.639 --> 02:31:26.799
contributed to my first ever honest trailer
of the street Fighter sixth one that went

2181
02:31:26.879 --> 02:31:31.879
up on Fandom's a nice channel to
Yes, Yes, a writing credit on

2182
02:31:31.959 --> 02:31:35.520
that. I'm very pleased. Yeah, Michael cool, go check out my

2183
02:31:35.719 --> 02:31:43.120
final Fantasy sixteen review. You know
the vibes, that's right, and you

2184
02:31:43.200 --> 02:31:48.280
know the vibes. And we'll pass
and have some more vibes next week a

2185
02:31:48.360 --> 02:31:50.079
pre record one. So yeah,
just make sure to send your emails to

2186
02:31:50.239 --> 02:31:54.559
BombCast at giant bomb dot com.
I've been Chan, he's been Chef,

2187
02:31:54.719 --> 02:31:58.239
he's been Chef, he's been Michael, and he's been Michael as well.

2188
02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:01.680
And we'll catch you next week for
another episode. Oh, the Giant Bob

2189
02:32:01.760 --> 02:32:18.559
Cast again. Special shout outs Turbo
Sean. I had the insane idea to

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just do the shout outs during this
song, but there's this song is not

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long enough, so fast you gotta
bust out the extended hour cut by everyone