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Hey, everyone, Welcome to Games
About After Dark, episode two hundred and

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thirty one. I'm your host is
a week and John leag Zacke joined by

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Kay Tecker. Hello, I've got
the squeaky chair and Michael IM what to

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do? Baby? It's a motherfucking
boy. I do not have the sinky

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chair. I don't have the squeaky
chair, So I am good this week.

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Still got no ass cheeks though,
so my booty probably gonna hurt by

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the end of this podcast. Yeah, same, okay, damn, maybe

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we can move and order you a
special get me a BBL. If I

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could expect a BBL, that'd be
crazy. Let's go a BBL. What

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Brazilian butt lift in plants for your
booty cheeks? Oh okay? I like

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no, lie, the the the
larger conversation about bbls, and like the

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wider social acceptance of a BBL.
I have seriously considered it, like the

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ad that aren't they like surprisingly dangerous? Like yes, Like aren't they like

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more dangerous than you'd think they'd be? Yes, Like yeah, yeah,

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I've heard horror stories about it because
I mean you you mess around, like

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around that area like you're back in
your tailbone and like if something goes off

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there, it sucks up a whole
bunch of other ship. But like the

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operations themselves, because you a lot
of people get them done in uh,

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I'm blowing up their spot right now, but people get go It's it's like

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the same thing where people go to
Turkey to get their hair. The hairt

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an cheaper, yeah, and they're
like there there's a legit industry for it,

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like they've stumbled upon this phenomenon that
they can hang their hats on.

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Like people come here specific for as
uh. Bbls and the Dominican Republic are

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kind of the same thing. People
people go to DR to get bbls and

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like, you know, it's it's
like anything else. There are people who

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can do it really well, and
then they are like cheaper options that run

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the risk. So it's like anything
else, you know what I'm saying.

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Pro tip there, if you want
to hit up Dr get a BBR I

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might do that. I've been meeting
to go to Dr moys Is. Hit

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me up, We'll get a BBL
and all expensive ex I don't know what

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the government it's a tax benefit.
I don't know. I'm on camera all

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the time. You got you should
just do it and then submit, like

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your your receipt what's it called your
uh what the receipt of work to like

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just a bunch of different Yeah,
like what's it called, god damn statement

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of work? I guess Yeah,
that's not the word I'm thinking of,

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but yes, statement of Yeah,
just like tamble approve it. Yeah,

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yeah, just built a bunch of
different places. It's okay on it game

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spot after BBLS, let's go a
Yeah, it's another week in video games.

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Yeah, it's another week on this
earth. It's a bitch of an

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earth. Yeah. I don't know
if you did. You guys want to

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talk about kind of the big thing
that happened this week, which was the

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shutting down of uh digital media legend
Roosteroster Teeth. Man, that happened.

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That's crazy. That was wild.
Yeah, I mean I I like grew

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up watching Rooster Teeth like a lot, like especially like I think I came

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in around like season four of like
Red Versus Blue and was like, dude,

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this is like what it's like that
Halo Halo two. Halo two it

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a Halo two And I was like, yo, like it's like a movie,

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but it's in a video game.
That's crazy, and like not only

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was I like a big fan of
it, but like it inspired me to

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be like, yo, I could
do that, I could make my mon

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I mean just real shit with some
friends in high school. I plan I

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did the same. Uh but you
know, like yeah, I mean,

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like you know, they had that
and then they kind of like grew out

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from there until like im Media Empire. You know, they had the podcast

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and they don't all the skits and
the Achievement Hunter and all that stuff,

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Like they kind of pioneered let's plays. Yeah, I feel like they don't

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get enough credit for that, but
like they like they didn't like invent the

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concept, but like they they were
kind of like they're the kind of perfected

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it and perfected it. Yeah,
and uh Ruby shu yeah Ruby Ruby as

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well. Uh you know, I
was really into those first couple of seasons.

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Fell off after that, but yeah, man, I haven't been in

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a Rooster Teeth in a long time, just because like it's like content changes,

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people leave, Like the things you're
into aren't aren't there anymore, and

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that's okay, It's it's just different. And plus, once you start doing

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that kind of job as well,
it's like the it feels like, now

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I'm familiar with this lot, how
this, how these things get made,

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and actually doing this stuff. So
one hundred percent the entertainment that I consume

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now it doesn't necessarily have to do
because I'm involved with when you're involved with

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that kind of stuff, just you
know, I'm just I'm not going to

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spend my free time engaging with that
kind of stuff anymore. So it's like

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not necessarily anyone's faults, it's just
you kind of grow out of it totally.

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Still you still have like that reverence
in that Oh yeah, yeah,

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I mean that that is especially that's
like my exact relationship with Giant Bomb.

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I can tell you the exact moment
I stopped actively watching Giant Bomb. This

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is the second I got a chop
at game Spot because of like, dude,

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I do this ship nine to five, yeah, sometimes more. I

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used to sten to podcasts all the
day every time, and then I started

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a game Spot and I was like, I'm hearing about all this ship before

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I listened to the podcast, so
I'm not really getting getting my news from

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it. But yeah, but you
know, yeah, they've been they've been

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tracking a long but I mean they
they've been they've changed hands a few times,

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kind of got bought out and stuff. I didn't even realize they were

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owned by w B. Yeah,
they got they got owned by w B

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because I think Discovery got them originally. Yeah, and then like when that

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merger happened and yeah, WB announced
there shutting them down. Was it like

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shut down effective immediately or are they
still clear? Uh? It kind of

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it wasn't fully clear about that.
It sounds like they're maybe trying to still

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pitch around like the podcast network to
some people because because it's they said they

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tried to sell them but they like
no one was buying and then, which

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is like crazy, right, You're
like damn Okay. They said they're still

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trying to do some of the podcast
stuff, and I think it's something they

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are about like properties, like oh, someone going to try and buy Ruby

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and like keep that going like who
knows. But yeah, it seems it

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seems like it's got over. You
know, there's I know, I don't

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know anyone personally there, but I
know like policing Tam like knew some people

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there and yeah, yeah, I
was just a lot of like I feel

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like Colfredo's I would consider off right
old friend. I know Blizz Bear who's

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was there joined a little over a
year ago. I watched his streams because

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I thought he's like super entertaining.
Then when when he got a joined Rooster

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Teeth, I was like, Yo, that's that's a big that's a big

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deal. I met him at Pax
East last year actually, and I was

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like, Yo, congrats on the
success. It's really dope to see you

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with RT. Like, there's a
lot still a lot of people I recognize,

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we're still with rooster Teeth. And
so to see like a new generation,

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like like Black Crystal, I really
like her too. It's like seeing

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new generation collide with some of the
older folks there like Jack Batillo, And

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I was like, okay, cool, Like they're they have a new generation.

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Things are still going along. It's
they can bring people, they can

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bring new energy, they can bring
new ideas, and that's just how these

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kinds of things evolve, right absolutely. Yeah. And then from that,

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it's it always feels like from the
outside looking in, uh, they they

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seem successful because they're putting out good
stuff still. They still have a lot

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of audience engagement and things like that. But you know, when you're owned

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by a media company. There they
look at different things, especially Warner Bros.

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Oh yeah, it is like their
definition of their definition of success is

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very different from what like an online
media company, digital media company exactly success.

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So yeah, that's similar, I
mean on a much smaller scale.

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But the same same thing with fan
Byte happened. Where fan Byte is owned

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by ten Cent and fan Byte was
growing, it wasn't at the place it

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needed to be. But that's never
how these things work. They never oh,

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next year, we were making mad
money. Like no, that's not

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how that shit works. But for
Tencent, who's a publisher of you know

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how many games making millions upon billions, they look at something like fan bite

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and like yeah, and then so
it's like, well, let's on a

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spreadsheet. I guess we'll shut this
down. And that's kind of its long

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story short. That is kind of
what happened with fan Byte. So yeah,

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I have my fan bite. It
seems to be happening acrossing with the

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Rooster Teeth a lot of places.
I do think it's like it's really hard

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when you bank so much on like
personality based content to like keep that going

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after a lot of the original people
have moved on changed hands like hundred So

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I love seeing Like I hate to
say it, I selling an old name,

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but like the younger generation come up
and do this, it's like it

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doesn't always get that same response and
it can be tough to kind of build

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that, which which sad to see, you know. Yeah, I mean

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that's just that's just how these things
go. But like I also like I

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didn't really I mean, I just
followed the Red Versus Blue for I think

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until Halo three when I was a
kid, and like I honestly did not

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know there was more to Rooster Teeth
until much later. Dude, Oh,

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because I just watched Red vers books. I thought it was like, there's

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really nothing like that, but I
thought there were skits were like hell yeah,

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similar live action stuff. I was
like, dude, this shit's hilarious.

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Like oh, I wanted to work
there so bad, and that was

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like definitely like one of the places. Oh ya, I like work there,

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like specifically because they did a lot
of like live action and video stuff.

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I'm like I could, like I
know how to hold camera like put

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me in. Yeah, it's just
it's sad to see these, uh these

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I don't know brands, but like
just these these companies that are these yeah,

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I guess I'll say brands that you
kind of grow up sometimes engaging with

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or just like being in the in
the orbit of yeah, right, because

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like clabbing with kind of funny on
a bunch of stuff across paths with a

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lot of rooster teeth people, and
they all seem really cool when when you

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interact with them, when I'm on
a kind of funny content with them whatever,

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they seem like really really cool people
and like influential too. It's just

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like you said, with less plays
like they you might not know it outright,

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but in the early days they were
influential. Yeah, So yeah,

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it's act to see. I will. I mean, there's there's still a

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lot of great personalities there, but
there's so much and I'm sure they'll find

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success in other capacities. But I
think what folks might not realize is how

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much of that how much of that
work is done behind the scenes by people

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you never see on camera. Yes, and those are the people who probably

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are going to struggle more when it
comes to finding new work in this space.

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That that is uh I was talking
about literally talking about that here later

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it's like, you know, because
people are even being like, oh,

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like the podcast might still go on, but like someone was saying, like,

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hey, like a lot of the
people behind the scenes of the podcast

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are saying they got fired or got
let go or you know, like it's

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just like, yeah, you don't
you don't realize how many people actually like

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are involved in a production. And
I mean this podcast alone, what thirty

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people work on this? Yeah they
don't. Everyone behind us making sure we're

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doing our things. Yeah, a
lot of mouths hold the camera like right,

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they're perfect, thank you. Yeah, actual, no, no,

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we're a little things are a little
different out here. We just turn off,

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flip a button and we do shit. Yeah, we're a lot more

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of a skeleton crew out here.
But yeah, it's productions are way more

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involved than people I always assume they
are. Yeah, even if it's just

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like two or three other people who
help with production, two or three other

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people that like don't know what to
do and like you said, don't have

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that like social clout to just be
like oh, yeah, you know,

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it's harder to leverage. Yeah,
you can't leverage it that way, like

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yeah, so damn uh Yeah,
pouring out for rooster teeth Man twenty one

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years. It's a long time.
Uh well, all right, let's get

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off the depressing news. I guess
yeah, some some video games. Michael,

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you have been playing the hot video
game of the week. Ooh,

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the hottest video game of Now when
you say one of the hottest, yo,

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when you say hot, oh my
god, what are we talking about

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it? Listen? He's thinking of
two things. I'm thinking of many things.

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Oh my girl, Yana, Oh
my god, the way she's animated

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when she's never okay, anyways,
Unicorn overlord, I can. I talked

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about it for a preview. I
did the preview for game Spot. I

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did not review this game, but
I have been playing it and the reviewing

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bar goes up so I can talk
about it in full. I haven't finished

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the game because that game was very
long. It's very intense. But man,

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there's this is vanilla ware. So
you no, it's got baddies,

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Oh my god, No matter what
your taste is, if it's got you

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covered. I have the I have
the art book for I got sent the

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art book corn and has all the
character art. The pages stick together for

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now. They don't see about it
later. Dog the character designs in this

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game are crazy. I talk about
it in my preview, but now I

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got to see so much more of
the cast, and it's these are some

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they got. They got like big
buff ladies holding axes who are seven feet

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tall. Yeah, got hot witches
and burly men with big armor. And

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then y'all thought twigs and angel twigs, and y'all thought Ballis Gate three was

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horny. Let me tell you,
let me tell you about it. You

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know, corn Overlord. Uh well, the character designs are horned, horned

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up, but you can't you can't
get domed up. And from what I've

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seen, I have seen Balder's Gate
three though, oh boy, as she's

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crazy. But Unicorn Overlord is a
very very good game. It's been getting

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a lot of praise across the board, and I tend to agree with a

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lot of the reviews out there.
It's a very thoughtful strategy tactics RPG game.

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As I've talked about before, it's
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half auto battler. So if you
know what ogre battle is from back

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in the day, it is very
much that. And it's been a very

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long time since there's been an Ogre
battle style game. And what I mean

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by that is that you have squads
and you fill them with individual units.

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In this game, you could have
up to six in a single unit,

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and then you send them off to
battle and the depending on how you construct

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your uh, your that that unit. Whether it's like I have a white

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mage in the back to heal my
fighters in the front, and I have

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a tank in the front who will
soak damage, and then you can set

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up their skills to activate under circuit
certain circumstances within that battle. So you

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send them off to fight and then
it all just goes So it all plays

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out in sequence. You don't even
touch it. You don't touch any button.

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You just I set up my my
squat to work this way. Let's

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see if they can they could take
on this other enemy. So it's they

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take turns based on like a bunch
of stats, they do damage, they

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target certain enemy types based on how
you set them up. So there's so

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much planning. This game is all
about planning how you use your units.

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So it's not like it's not like
a fire emblem or an XCOM where you

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have a grid base. How do
you plan them? Like is it like

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okay, this this unit I want
to kind of be like focusing on this

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area or is it position based?
Is it like like here's the moves they

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can use? Like I guess I'm
I never played Ogre back, so I

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don't really know, Like, see
what does that entail? What is like

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setting up your your crew entail?
Yeah, so when you go into battle,

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you can think of it as like
an RTS where Okay, we have

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an enemies over on this area and
then my starting base is here. So

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before you even start, you need
to assign assign individuals into a squad.

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So in the menus, you basically
choose like, Okay, I'm going to

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build a unit around this cavalry guy
who can move faster on the battlefield,

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and so I'm going to have him
in the back. So you have like

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a grit so you have a unit
of six front line and a back line,

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and then you can choose which individuals
you put on it within that party

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and how you position them so then
they are like one, they're one entity

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on the battlefield and then you command
them to like move there. So that's

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where the real time strategy part comes
into play, where you like command them

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to move to but then like the
actual battles. Yes, once they clash

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with the unit, then the game
pauses and says, okay, we're going

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to go into battle a confirm to
like do this that, and then that's

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when those two units engage. It
goes into like a different cut scene,

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and then that's when it all all
the logic based stuff plays out. So

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that's when you actually have combat.
So yeah, that's that's how they mix

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them. So and you have different
objectives such as take this uh this,

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take this hill, or capture this
base whatever, or just eliminate all the

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different units. There are limitations in
terms of like how you how much,

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how many units you can put on
the field, which ones you can use,

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But that's part of the fun is
just digging really deep into the menus

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and the systems. It's a very
menu heavy game, so you need to

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be into that kind of stuff.
But yeah, it's a I'm I'm enjoying

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it because it's a very it's a
it's a nice change of pace. In

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my preview, i called it like
a fresh take on strategy RPGs, which

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is which I agree with because I
wrote it. But but it's really weird

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to call it that. I feel
that I feel that way. But it's

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really weird to call that because it's
here is a basis of something that came

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out in the nineties that was never
touched on again in any like significant capacity

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since then. So in a way
we're doing something new by reaching way back

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to something so old. Yeah that
probably not many people have even played or

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realized or thought about. So it's
yeah. Mechanically, gameplay wise, it

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is a ton of fun. It
is. It's takes a lot of effort,

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it is. You have to be
in the mood for this sort of

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thing. I'll say, just because
it takes so much mental energy. It's

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on Switch. I'm playing on Switch. Yeah, I'm playing Field good Switch.

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It's a very good switch game.
Yeah, it runs, runs really

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well. Low times aren't crazy,
but it's definitely something I can easily pick

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up and play rather than sit at
my PS five in my living room.

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Yeah. I don't want I don't
want Blessed to walk in and be like,

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oh, you got a whole squad
of which is with their titties out.

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I mean hell yeah, Like is
that tactically the best option? I

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don't know. She could duplicate herself
and then you cast two magic spells.

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You know what I'm saying. Dudes
will walk into my living room and be

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like, hell yeah, by dudes, I mean blessed and or me.

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So yeah, it's it's it's really
fun. The story wise, it's fairly

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straightforward, kind of fantasy stuff,
kind of touching on elements that you see

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in fire Emblem games as not as
poppy or I mean some of the older

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firearms are fucking dark. But I
mean since three Houses, they feel like

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and with engage, I feel like
Fireblom has taken a little bit more of

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a more of a colorful take on
even though like bad shit happens in those

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games, more colorful take on the
fantasy genre. But this one is very

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much like I Am taking back my
kingdom from your bitch ass darker and hornier,

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darker, hornier. Yeah, is
there any like because we're talking about

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Firembloom before, is there? I
mean, like I don't know, like

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when you're not battling, is there
like a social element to it? Like

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are you talking to your party members
improving relationships? Whatever? Yeah? There

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are there are like key characters because
you gotta have like multiple other units who

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are nameless I guess. But there's
like core characters within your unit who are

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characters who there's no perma death either, but these are like core characters who

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are involved in the story, and
you have bond conversations, so there's still

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so the same as support conversations in
other firearm games. This game has it

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too, so you get a little
bit more backstory some of them. Some

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of them are kind of interesting,
and sometimes they feel like I feel like

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this information would have been nice to
have in the main story about this character.

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Some of them are kind of whatever. Conversations like cool. Well,

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I at least I upgraded my bond
rank with this person because it all revolves

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around a main character. He's supposedly
taking back his kingdom and he has a

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bunch of friends now. So there
are a little bit of the social element

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too that plays into the rest of
the game, which is cool to see.

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I mean, I feel like I
mentioned this in my Rebirth review too.

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It's it almost feels like an expectation
for RPGs to have a social element

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now and you see it permeated.
It's nothing new, of course, firem

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has been doing it for a long
time, but now it almost feels like

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if an RPG doesn't have those things. It's kind of missing something. Obviously.

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Yakuza has been doing it since uh
since six. Really, Song of

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Life kind of had some of that
stuff. Oh yeah, like the people

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at the bar, at the bar, yeah, and the plan creator stuff

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kind of yeah, yeah, sort
of yeah, yeah, that's a good

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point. And then like a Dragon
obviously it's an RPG zero kind of had

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that where you'd like, talk to
the host this is module. Yeah,

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of course, you like building up
your relationship. Yeah, yeah, they

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they've always kind of been so yeah, it's kind of just permeated these styles

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of games, and it's yeah,
I love that shit. I love that

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shit too, yeaheah, it's it's
so great. Yeah, it's dope.

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Yeah. The story stuff is,
it's fine. I don't feel like it's

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not necessarily a motivating factor. I'm
not like, it's not like in seven

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Rebirth, where I'm yeah, I'm
gonna fucking fight shin Ra and I'm gonna

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I need to chase sef Roth or
whatever. Very different game of course,

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but here it's like, no,
I guess I'll take back my kingdom.

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Who knows, I'll get there eventually, but I got these these witches with

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me. I got my hot witches
with me. We'll do whatever you want.

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Yeah, and my big axe mommy
and man. Yeah, it's art

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styles great. Music is music is
great too. Oh my god. Some

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some great battle themes in that in
that game. So yeah, there's a

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there's a bunch of like management stuff
too that you can get deeper into to

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build out your units and have all
these different perks and grow your party in

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different ways. Because there's an overworld
that you navigate in towns you can build

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relationships with as well. There's so
much side activities in the overworld too.

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I kind of like how they integrate
the overworld into the actual battles of the

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game. So you're not just like
in a menu like Okay, I'm going

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to engage in the next battle and
they'll take me somewhere or whatever. You

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actually walk over to these differ places
and the battles happen on that map too,

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So it seems like there's a there's
a seamlessness in how the game flows.

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But yeah, Unicorn Overlord, I'm
not done with it. I don't

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know when I'll be done with it, but it's pretty long. Yeah,

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it's very long time. I'm probably
like thirty ish hours in now the man,

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I'm gonna bookmark it, but like
right now, like the last thing,

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I needs another. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of I'm good.

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Like I'm like four hours in Rebirth
and I'm like, I want to keep

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playing this, but at the same
time, I want to play like a

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four hour game. Yeah. Yeah, Well, Unicorn Overload is not for

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you right now. I guess people
have been saying, like fifty hours ish

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with that game, which is a
hefty investment, but so far, I

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feel like it's it's been worth it. I'm not necessarily surprised after my preview.

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My preview is pretty glowing. And
then now having played the full game,

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like I was right fine, especially
once you got like the characters later

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on in the game. You know
what I'm saying, I got my favorites

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in my I got a lot of
favorite it's in my my units that you

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know what I'm saying. Crazy,
Look up any Vanilla Ware art, look

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up any of their games except for
Thirteen Sentinals, Dragon's Crown Boy. Just

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don't do that. Maybe maybe don't
do it on the work Wi Fi.

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You don't work or do it or
do it gives a fun? Yeah,

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Unicorn Overlord that is available on Xbox, PlayStation and Switch, not PC.

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Vanilla Ware doesn't put their games on
PC. I didn't realize that. Oh,

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that's kind of or most of them, I guess, but this is

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because gods. Yeah, that's probably
why they're like, we can't we can't

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give that. I don't know what
to act, right, I kind of

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I kind of want to play the
game with a keyboard and mouse though,

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because it's like a strategy game where
you're controllings an overworld, like play it

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on your Xbox pluging a there you
go. Have you ever done that?

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Have you pluged in a mask on
a console? I don't think I.

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I did it once to like see
if it worked, and it was like

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A called the game. I was
like, yep, I'm playing Call Duty

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on my console on a controller or
like mouskyboard. I'm like, that's weird.

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Why would I do this though,
Like it was like it's like I'm

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yeah. I was like, I
guess that's cool. I'm like, yeah,

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weird, kind of weird though,
Yeah, I know, but yeah,

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it's the game of the week,
I would say a month, maybe

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game of the year. Maybe Dragon's
Dogma too. Man, that comes out

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this month. Right at the end
too, preview and Bargo just went up

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as well. It did. You
should go check out Kurt Indivina's preview on

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the game, both on GameSpot dot
com as well as YouTube channel put out

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an excellent preview. I also was
there too, so I did play it

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a little. Oh really, I
could talk about it. I had never

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played Dragon's Dogma, so I didn't
not know what the fuck I was doing,

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because Dogma seems like that seems like
Jean lukore it does it? I

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think it is having played it,
because I've had multiple people tell me like,

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oh, you've never played and Sogball, like this seems like this is

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something to be new, and I
definitely was into it. But also I

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was just like, it's a weird
game to preview because it is not like

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most games. I guess. It
feels dense with like systems, and I

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was just like, yeah, I
don't know even the control schemes like very

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different from traditional sort of action adventure
RPG games to the point where like because

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I previewed it months and months ago, like the first preview they did,

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and I had played the originally in
a little bit and then I went to

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this and I was like, oh
my god, these control like I need

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to take time to wrap my head
around these controls. And when you only

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got like forty five minutes, it's
like by the time I was done,

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I was like, Okay, I
understand what I'm doing and now I'm done.

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Well, even like just the way
they came, this frame feels like

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it's really trying to like Immercy in
its world where so like in the the

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when you play like two sections of
a demo in like different parts of the

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map, and the first one is
in this like small town, it's very

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much like you show up and you
got your part, you got your ponds,

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and like every five seconds like someone's
coming at to you being like,

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yo, I need help with this, I need help with that. Like

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it felt very like D and D
Party kind of where you're like the party

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rolls up and everyone's just like,
hey, help me with this, find

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my kid or you know, get
this stone, and I'm like, oh,

406
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okay, okay. But it's kind
of cool because the game, so

407
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:25.000
like the quest I picked was like, okay, like this kid went missing,

408
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.279
you gotta go find him, but
the game does not tell you where

409
00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:30.200
the kid it's not like, hey, here they are, go follow the

410
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.799
checkpoint and get them. Like you
have to walk around town and talk to

411
00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.680
people, and oh you have to
talk to people. Have to talk to

412
00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:40.759
people, and they're just like,
oh yeah, that kid they were they

413
00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:42.799
were messing around in that field over
there with the flowers, and you're like,

414
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.039
what flowers you like? Go and
talk to other people and they're like,

415
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:48.440
oh yeah, the flowers at night
they glow blue, so it's easy

416
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.599
to see. So you're like,
oh okay, So you wait till night

417
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:53.640
and then you follow this like trail
of flowers that leaves you like through this

418
00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:57.440
cliff, and then you're like,
oh okay. And then so it's like

419
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:00.720
it it felt really good where it's
like, oh, I'm like naturally like

420
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:08.279
picking up detective kind of. I
know Kurt loves dragons dograa yeah, And

421
00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:11.319
so I liked that aspect a lot, Like it felt cool. It's like

422
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.640
okay, and and I don't know, I felt like i'd really like prepare

423
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:21.519
my party for like this journey we're
going on because the game technically as fast

424
00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:23.720
travel, but it's like a consumable
and it doesn't really work the way you'd

425
00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:26.200
think like fast travel would work.
So it is a lot of like when

426
00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:30.079
you're gonna go out, you're you're
kind of making like a we're going out

427
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.599
on a quest, making a very
deliberate decision, deliberate decision. And it

428
00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:37.759
was cool where like you know,
uh went on this like path to find

429
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:42.480
this kid and ended up like fighting
this like ghost banshee and and then like

430
00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:48.559
I fought a troll, which was
super funny because the troll like, uh,

431
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:51.440
I got like ninety percent of his
health down, the troll just picked

432
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.880
my ass up and threw me off
a cliff and I had to like walk

433
00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.839
all the way back up. And
when I walked up, the trolls just

434
00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:00.079
dead and all my ponds were like
standing around it, and I was like,

435
00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:04.640
good job. Hey. Oh Also, best thing in that game is,

436
00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.920
uh, when you win combat,
if you're near a pond, you

437
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.559
and your pond will give each other
a high five. And I was like,

438
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.200
yeah, oh we did that.
Oh it was cool. I like,

439
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.240
I like the ponds, even if
they do kind of like they kind

440
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:19.519
of repeat a lot of the same
lines over and over. I heard him,

441
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.440
I heard them a lot. I
was like, uh huh, yeah,

442
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.799
okay, tell me more. But
it was cool. It's like,

443
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:27.440
you know, like I felt like, ah, I'm like going on this

444
00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:30.720
quest like find this kid, and
it felt like there was constantly like stuff

445
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:33.880
around in the world to like do
and like interact with that felt meaningful.

446
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:38.440
And then save the kid. And
then the game's like all right, walk

447
00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:41.680
all the way back with the kid, and I was like, oh,

448
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:42.720
okay, let's do it. And
then like I had to like escort him

449
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:47.519
back and it was it was neat, it was fun. I do not

450
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.920
understand half of those game systems at
all, like how ponds work. I

451
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.440
didn't really get it, having not
really played it, not having a chance

452
00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.599
to. I imagine from what Kurt
described, it seems like it's very similar

453
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:03.920
to the first one, although the
the pawns do seem to kind of also

454
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:10.480
fill a role for certain things.
So like there are quests where like if

455
00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:15.119
you have a pond that is of
a certain like type, they'll like help

456
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:15.880
you out. So like there's one
quest where they're like, oh, we

457
00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:18.759
need to go find this certain object. It'd be really cool if we knew

458
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:25.039
someone who was like a like a
scoundrel because they know like that that scene

459
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:26.920
and so like if you had a
pond with that, they'd be like,

460
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.480
hey, I know about that,
and I can lead you there, and

461
00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:33.359
so like you like you can change
out your ponds to kind of like not

462
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.000
just help in battle, but also
help in terms of like what kind of

463
00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.880
like quest you're doing and stuff,
which seems neat, but yeah, I

464
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.319
mean it was. It was mostly
just kind of me running around getting gett

465
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.440
into grips with like how the game
felt. I think it looks beautiful.

466
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.000
Yeah, it's a gorgeous looking game. And I did really like the combat

467
00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:56.640
what I did, Like each weapon
felt very distinct and satisfying. It looks

468
00:30:56.680 --> 00:31:00.480
like a chunky game, very chunky. You fight like a griffin or like,

469
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.480
oh, I sure did. I
was fighting like a giant rock monster

470
00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.519
and then like dude, I was
fighting that thing for like twenty minutes and

471
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:10.960
I'm just like I almost got him, and then this fucking griffin just comes

472
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.480
out of nowhere and just starts fighting
me too, and I was like,

473
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:17.440
what the fuck? Come on?
Yeah, they're texting each other like yeah,

474
00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:19.240
throw hands at this, like I
need you to come through there in

475
00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:23.559
twenty send dudes. I When I
did my review, it ended with a

476
00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:27.039
Griffin fight, and it was so
much fun because you're just like all this

477
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:32.160
thing stabbing it was flying around,
crashes to the ground, and your ponds

478
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:37.359
are like shooting arrows while you're yeah, whipped around. It's the first class

479
00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:41.319
I got a messed with was you
get this spear and there's this one move

480
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:45.079
where you like you kind of like
uh almost like not teleport, but like

481
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.440
uh kind of like push yourself like
up in the air and then you can

482
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:51.519
do like a slam attack. So
I would like push up in the air

483
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:53.160
and then just like time it right
and slam down and like right on their

484
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:56.920
head and then you like land right
on them and then you just stab at

485
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.160
them and you feel so badass when
you like pull that shit on off,

486
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:04.519
And I'm like, oh, this
is cool. So that's what's up.

487
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.640
Yeah, I dug it quite a
bit. I am excited. Did you

488
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.599
venture a night at night at all? Because that was one thing in the

489
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:16.079
original that was kind of unique was
that the monsters are much scary at night,

490
00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:17.839
and you can't see a night unless
you've got a torch, So it's

491
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:22.079
yeah, yeah, and without fast
travel, it makes traveling at night very

492
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:23.880
dangerous. But sometimes you just end
up. No, totally. Yeah,

493
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:29.359
I had to go at night to
find the boy, and yeah, I

494
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.720
ran into like a weird ghost thing
that like what wasn't there during the daytime,

495
00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:34.799
and it was cool. I was
like whoa, Like, yeah,

496
00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.559
this felt unique and different. So
I'm excited for that game. As I

497
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:43.480
kind of mentioned earlier, big as
RPG, that's probably gonna be you know,

498
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.279
fifty ten hours. Yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah, maybe maybe like

499
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:51.279
a brisk eighty hour. So there's
a part of me that's just like,

500
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:54.799
I don't know if I want to
start that, like right when it comes

501
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:59.960
out, unless I'm covering it for
work, but who knows. But yeah,

502
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.480
but like I'm just like, man, it's not I mean good,

503
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:06.119
but I meaning a little too good
right now? Yeah. Yeah, you

504
00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:08.880
can't eat Prime rib every night every
night. You get a little sick of

505
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:12.279
it. Yeah, it's just too
head, it's too heavy. Yes,

506
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:25.319
it's heavy. A man, that's
all you gotta be playing Balatro. I

507
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:29.160
do need to I need to give
that another try. Is that Is that

508
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.720
your game? This week? No, I've been playing so I finished Final

509
00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:37.160
Fantasy remake and intermission. Hell yeah, I had played remake before, Like

510
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.160
I talked about last week. I'd
never played Intermission, which was good.

511
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:45.200
You fee is a lot of fun. Are you pro or anti youthe?

512
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:50.400
I haven't decided. Combat wise,
I really liked fighting as you like you

513
00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:53.640
can kind of mix the close range
in long range and Rebirth as well.

514
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:59.799
That was amazing in terms of like
because I remember I tried playing Intermission,

515
00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:00.839
and I think I got to the
first cut scene, one of the first

516
00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:06.519
cut scenes where she's like flipping around
Materia and like jumping the camera and like

517
00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:07.440
doing all this stuff, and I
was like, this is too much.

518
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:13.880
Right now, she's the anime,
but I haven't gotten to her in Rebirth

519
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:17.000
yet. Okay, and Rebirth I
just hit like the first open world.

520
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:20.719
Yeah, you got a little bit
to go. I'm sure. I'm sure

521
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:24.360
I've got a long way to go, because I I've I was really enjoying

522
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:29.400
the first part of Rebirth, uh
like when you get all the sephar Off

523
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:34.039
backstory and and oh yeah Nibelheim and
stuff like that. And then I liked

524
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:39.360
being in Calm, especially doing Queen's
Blood. So now I'm just like I

525
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:43.800
did all my Queen's Blood battles and
I'm like, so I got play through

526
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:51.679
this open world area and then I
do more Queen's Blood Queen No, I,

527
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.400
I am enjoying it. The first
thing I noticed, though, going

528
00:34:53.519 --> 00:35:00.760
right from remake to intermission to rebirth
is the combat feels like like just like

529
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:04.480
ten percent tighter, Like it's just
like, yeah it all. It feels

530
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:06.679
like it clicks just a little bit
better. I don't know what they did.

531
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:08.480
I can't put my finger on like
why exactly it feels that way.

532
00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:12.679
But just right when I picked it
up and did that first battle as Cloud,

533
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.360
I was like, ooh, they
they like it kind of looped up.

534
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:22.960
Yeah exactly, Yeah, I up
Cloud, give the people what they

535
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.760
want. But yeah, I've been
enjoying it. I have a lot of

536
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.599
questions about the story and where it's
going. Uh, and I'm a little

537
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:35.280
worried about, like some some of
what the answers might be, just given

538
00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:37.559
how people responded to the ending.
I don't know anything about well I know

539
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:42.159
about the ending because I know what
happened, what happens in the original,

540
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.119
I guess, but like I don't
know the details. So I'm curious to

541
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.840
see where it goes. Yeah,
take combat combat that games. Yeah,

542
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.000
I'm not going to take my Definitely
take your time. I think that's the

543
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:53.239
game. It's gonna take my time. I'm not going to try to do

544
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.239
everything, but like I'm gonna try
to do all of the things that interest

545
00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.239
me. So I'm gonna do all
the Queen's Blood. I really like that

546
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:02.679
first open world area, the grasslands
or whatever, so like I'm having fun

547
00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.519
exploring that definitely. I think you
mentioned it when you first started playing it,

548
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.559
but you were like you felt like
this was the first Final Fantasy game

549
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:15.840
that like nailed open worlds, because
they've always been kind of like trying to

550
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:19.800
do that, and they kind of
make half steps there, like sixteen was

551
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.519
kind of getting there but not quite
and like the big open areas felt kind

552
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:28.599
of empty, but this feels a
lot more engaging to run around in general,

553
00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:30.159
because I was thinking about il Stignger
was with my brother, where like

554
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:36.599
every Final Fantasy Final Fantasy like had
like a pretty like established formula for like

555
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:38.519
a long time, like within each
things like you could point out, like

556
00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:43.039
you know, the Steps games all
kind of had like a formula, and

557
00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:45.679
the PS one games a lot of
formula, and even like ten kind of

558
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.159
fits in that. After like ten, like twelve onward. Like each Final

559
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:54.480
Fantasy has been like pretty radically different, and it's like subject and style of

560
00:36:54.519 --> 00:37:01.239
just like gameplay. I think Rebirth
is the the first one I've played where

561
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:05.800
I was like, this is it. This is the formula. Yeah,

562
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:08.559
got it you like you got it
down. I'm not saying you gotta do

563
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:14.480
it forever. Maybe give me one
more like this? Absolutely, that's that

564
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:17.800
isn't a seven like like a seventeen, because like I'm thinking, like I'm

565
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:22.800
like, dude, like a seventeen
New Story, but like this level of

566
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:28.320
like party interaction, the variety of
towns you can explore, Like, that's

567
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:30.760
that's what I'm most excited for.
It is to go to all these towns.

568
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:32.679
Because Calm I thought, was just
yeah, it was gorgeous, and

569
00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:37.280
I was like, this is like
I really liked mid guar in one and

570
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:44.280
one and remake, but that the
my favorite thing about RPGs is shown out

571
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:45.599
to a new town. Yeah,
and I was like, all right,

572
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:49.280
what do they have for sale here? And you hit up all the shops

573
00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:52.039
totally, And that's something that that
like sixteen didn't like quite do right in

574
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:54.920
my opinion for me, Like it
didn't it like it has some of those,

575
00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:57.719
but I was like, nah,
like none of them, none of

576
00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:00.639
them hit the way. It doesn't
rebirth, so like I'm really just like

577
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:05.079
oh, Square, like don't don't
throw it all away and start over again,

578
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:07.960
like you towns, like just just
give me, give me this formula

579
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.760
one more time with a different game. Even the combat, like oh,

580
00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:14.199
it's so good, Like I think
it was a it was like a I

581
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:19.159
think this deal seeing an article on
Pace where Final Fantasy it's about Final Fantasy

582
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.760
has always been about towns and dudes
and like fuck, yeah, dude,

583
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:27.239
yeah, come on, have you
played Strange your Paradise due fucking rock and

584
00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:30.440
Town's fucking rock too. Yeah,
yeah, I just I really like,

585
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:35.760
Yeah, com is great. It's
a great set up for the rest of

586
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:37.960
the game. It is where it's
like, hey, there's there. There

587
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:42.639
feels like there's community at these places, and uh, it's just enough for

588
00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:44.280
me to be like, oh,
yeah, I do want to explore this

589
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:46.519
region. I do want to do
the side quest on the community notice board,

590
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:50.960
and it's like dumb ship, like
go find this thing for me or

591
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:57.159
find my my Queen's blood card that
I lost. I'm excited to meet more

592
00:38:57.239 --> 00:39:01.519
Queen's Blood players, because all the
queens are all are weird crazy. There's

593
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:07.840
something about Queen's Blood that just makes
it go insane. Yeah, I'm sure

594
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.639
you've seen so many good ones,
but like in Calm That there's just all

595
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:14.760
those boxes piled up and I'm like, I'm gonna knock that ship down,

596
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:16.719
and then she's like why have you
done this? And you have to play

597
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:21.039
me and I'm like, yeah,
the chocobo guy who loses it runs the

598
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:23.519
like his lines in particular, there
is something he said where he just like

599
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:29.320
it's like, calm down and take
that ship. Seriously. Yeah, it's

600
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:34.639
great. Yeah, there's a in
June on there's one player who Queen's Blood

601
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:37.800
player that you who says like,
thank you for defeeding me. Now spread

602
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:40.519
the joy of gaming because they call
it, we call it game. I'm

603
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:45.920
like, yo, that's why everyone's
a fucking freaking all gamers. Yeah,

604
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:52.119
there's uh, I mean, yeah, there's some real good ones. I

605
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:53.559
want to spoil it. Yeah,
I'll talk about another one definitely. Yeah.

606
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:58.480
It's like Queens Blood is like one
of the best mini games and any

607
00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:02.280
video it's it's like it's it's up
there with Gwent for sure, but I

608
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:07.880
think the the way that they package
it, I guess with all these different

609
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:13.400
interesting characters, makes I think more
memorable, because like I just remember Gwent.

610
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:15.440
I don't remember the people I played. I just remember Gwen. I'm

611
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:22.079
gonna remember the people like the game
because because telling you like in the Witch

612
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:25.440
are like you go up to like
the saddest, poorous looking person with a

613
00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:30.280
bowl cut around his head, who's
like my daughter just got taken by a

614
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:34.599
ghost, and there's like an option
to play Gwent, and then it's like

615
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:39.000
gwent up for a round of Gwent
and then darn darn music's good too.

616
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:46.960
I love Gwent and I love so
dumb so good. You're not even at

617
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:52.519
the point in Queen's Blood were like
it evolves. Yeah, I'm guessing they

618
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:55.039
add a fifth, they add all
total of five rows. No no,

619
00:40:54.920 --> 00:41:00.000
no no. I thought the cards
make it look like the rose ever changed,

620
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:05.599
but like the way cards behave change
and it completely changed, like the

621
00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:08.639
Queen's Blood turns into something else.
It's like you can play it in a

622
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:13.960
different way. It's like awesome,
But I do like that the way it

623
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:17.679
ramps up gradually is such a good
way of teaching you how the rules,

624
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:22.079
how you can bend the rules,
or just like the extent to which the

625
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:27.440
rules give room for so many creative
ideas. It's so satisfying. Like taking

626
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.719
the board from someone and they just
like, can't play anything. Yeah,

627
00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:35.840
keep passing. I'm just gonna keep
throwing cards down. Yeah, I know

628
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:39.039
you do this because I do too. But you've already like clinched victory,

629
00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:42.360
you already won, but they're still
open space. And I was like,

630
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:47.360
yeah, bam, bam. There
is some on Twitter that's like, if

631
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:52.280
you aren't still putting cards down to
see how high the score is after you've

632
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.480
are you even really playing queens?
But I already won by forty But what

633
00:41:55.480 --> 00:42:00.119
if I won by sixty O.
That shit's so satisfied, especially when when

634
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:04.639
it's when it's an opponent who's beat
me six times to retry six times,

635
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.039
it's like that's happened to me,
at least for one of them, where

636
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:08.920
I just kept losing and I was
like, I just can't figure this out.

637
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:12.880
And then it collects and it's like, oh, Okay, there's something

638
00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:15.159
I'm not doing here that I should
be doing. The thing about the grid

639
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.440
is because they have cards that show
like what it does in a five.

640
00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:22.039
That's if like you put on the
top row, it could still affect the

641
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:27.039
two bottom rows below it. So
it's like it just shows you what it's

642
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:29.679
capable of doing no matter where you
put it. Okay, yeah, basically,

643
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:32.599
yeah exactly. Anyway, Yeah,
I'm probably after today, after work

644
00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:36.440
today, I'm gonna go back and
play more Final Fantasy, just for the

645
00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:39.119
Queen. They gotta do a stand
alone. They really sure they will.

646
00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:45.000
I feel like the response like,
there's got there's got to be at some

647
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:50.679
point they struck gold. Yeah mm
hmm, and then they'll do it.

648
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:52.559
They'll do what happened with Gwent with
the release of standalone and then realize that

649
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:57.360
it doesn't quite work in PvP and
then change all the rules. And it's

650
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:02.000
true. I hope it works out
because because you play against NPCs, there

651
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.840
are ways in which you kind of
exploit the systems. That feels good,

652
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.840
but I can imagine in a PvP
setting there are balances that need to happen

653
00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:13.239
that you just don't care, You
just don't need to account for. Also,

654
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:15.840
like some of them, sometimes they're
they're really smart and other times is

655
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:20.320
like now you should have taken that
thing, like you're dumb, Like some

656
00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.840
of the NPCs are a little stumb
I would actually prefer I think I would

657
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:28.719
be more into a standalone Queen's Blood
where it is just against NPCs and they

658
00:43:28.760 --> 00:43:36.519
just sure it's like a ag.
That's what Throne Breakers, Like, Thronebreaker

659
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.599
really leans into the like challenge stuff
that Queens Blood has, where it's like

660
00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:45.599
you're given a specific scenario and it's
like here's your cards, how can you

661
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:47.119
figure it out? It almost what
you have. It almost becomes more of

662
00:43:47.159 --> 00:43:52.880
a puzzle game likes are are at
least from what I remember, feeling more

663
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:55.079
classic Went. But then like you'll
be walking down a path and boulders will

664
00:43:55.119 --> 00:43:59.119
be falling, and then it'll go
to a Gwent yeah battle and you'll have

665
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:02.079
to like defeat the boulders with a
certain set of cards. You know,

666
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:06.320
like the Pokemon trading card game on
the game Boy where it was like the

667
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.440
formula of Pokemon, but you were
just playing the Pokemon card game. Just

668
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:12.880
give me that. Yeah, I
want to just like from town to town

669
00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.760
and just and but I'm only challenging, and there's got there's got to dudes,

670
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.719
and there's got to be towns to
Queen's Blood. That's the perfect setup

671
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:22.239
for a card game too. It's
like, go to a town and play

672
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:28.679
dudes in a card game, yeah, and move on. When you do

673
00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:30.960
that in real life, it's usually
dudes. Yeah, I go, I

674
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:36.400
go play MTG at the bar.
They could add a story too, like

675
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:38.440
like some yudioh ship, you know, just like yeah, I mean,

676
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:45.920
but they go further with that and
make it a whole Oh. Absolutely,

677
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:51.079
they were cooking. They were.
I also want to shout out my homie

678
00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:55.559
Jesse Vitelli, who did a full
interview with Yeah, just about that,

679
00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:59.719
just about Queen's Blood. It's like
a deep dive on the development of Queen's

680
00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:04.320
Blood with some interview quotes. I
think there's there's a he included a photo

681
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:07.400
that he got from Squennings from like
the physical build, because when they were

682
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:13.199
making Queen's Blood, they had like
a physical setup to really like the printed

683
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.880
it, Yeah, to really hone
in on the idea and really see how

684
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.880
it works in motion. So that's
kind of the process of creating Queen's Blood

685
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:22.800
was. And also because they just
really wanted to do it apparently. Yeah,

686
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.880
they just had a lot of fun. Yeah, just guys being dudes

687
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:30.880
and fu I wanna make this card
game. But yeah, yeah super If

688
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:34.760
you're into queens Blood, definitely check
that out. That's on Kataku. I

689
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:38.480
think so yeah, definitely maybe maybe
sell that, Maybe maybe may can sell

690
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:43.559
that. The there are calculations,
especially once you get deeper into it,

691
00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:46.440
there are calculations that I want to
do. Really. That was where it's

692
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:49.880
like it seemed like a great idea, and then I finally played Gwent and

693
00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:54.880
I was like, oh, I'm
bad at maths. Yeah, there's some

694
00:45:55.639 --> 00:46:00.079
a lot of Yeah, you'll you'll
see like when you get I Advanced cards,

695
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.960
It's there's some crazy shit there.
Yeah, that game completely changes.

696
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:07.440
It's wild man good. That's cool. It's good to hear though that it's

697
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:10.880
clicking with more people. Yeah,
I think everyone even Yeah, it seems

698
00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:15.360
like everyone loves it. I watched
back my preview of Rebirth and I was

699
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:17.119
like, I kind of like Queen's
Blood. It's pretty cool, but I

700
00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:22.840
don't think it's any I don't think
it's Triple try yeh. When I finished

701
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:28.159
Rebirth, I'm like, Triple Try
Out got nothing on Queen bro looks like

702
00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:30.480
you don't agree with your pastself.
This time it's time. You know what,

703
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:35.079
Maybe I was wrong, dude,
yo, I was gave Queen's Blood

704
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:38.239
a second chance. I was wrong
about Queen's blood. Dog, that's content

705
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:42.159
right there. Come on, yeah
I was wrong about Queen's Blood. We'll

706
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:45.119
making a video and the thumba will
just be looking really sad, like,

707
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:47.920
yeah, dog, I can make
a good thumbnail face. Yeah, yeah,

708
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:52.199
so it's true. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Card games man.

709
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:54.719
I know we talked about Blatro last
week, but yeah, I've played

710
00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:59.599
a whole lot more. But it's
the game. I come home and I'm

711
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:01.519
like, okay, when we have
a couple a couple of hours before I

712
00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:04.800
go sleep, but I'm not sleepy. What am I gonna do? Play

713
00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:07.039
Blatro on that It's four am,
and I'm like, fuck, I hate

714
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:12.199
it so much, but I clear
those decks. It's definitely like I'll do

715
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:15.519
really well, and then I'll try
like a follow up run and it just

716
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:19.440
won't. The dopamine hits just not
the same, and then I have to

717
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:22.280
like push myself to like pick it
up and play against So the reason I

718
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:23.840
haven't played in a while, or
I haven't played a lot recently, is

719
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:27.960
because I just had a great run
and it's like that's it. Yeah,

720
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:30.519
It's like I know I'm gonna have
to there's like a bunch of trial in

721
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:34.000
air before I'm gonna get a good
run because I'm just gonna get chit luck

722
00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:37.079
for a bit and then it'll pop
off and then I'll half the time of

723
00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:40.480
my life and then it's just like
gambling. It's just like gambling. I'm

724
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:44.800
not like gambling at all. Please. Yeah, back on the storefront,

725
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:47.039
I know that's crazy. I haven't
been following the developments of that, but

726
00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:51.360
I know that that happened. That
is why I don't know this what happened.

727
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:55.159
It got taken off of a bunch
of storefronts because I forget who specifically,

728
00:47:55.239 --> 00:48:01.320
but basically, like some organization was
like this promotes gambling and it needs

729
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:06.039
like the rating needs to be changed
and that's bizarre, and it's like there's

730
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:09.400
no real money involved in this.
I think it's just because like it it

731
00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:13.559
starts, it starts off of poker, you know, Like so I think

732
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:15.920
they were like gambling because yeah,
to me, I mean like I think,

733
00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:20.280
you know, like many live service
I don't know, they don't they

734
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:24.239
don't really do loot boxes anymore,
but that was like a much more uh

735
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:31.000
evil form of game, I guess, because it's like your money, lots

736
00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:35.159
of money for stupid digital items and
some are cool, but still it's like,

737
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:38.360
yeah, yeah, well this is
like yeah, it's real, Like,

738
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:44.400
ah, y'all were pointing the right
direction on this one. Yeah,

739
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:47.760
yeah, I've been I've been clearing
a lot more of the decks in Bolotro

740
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:52.400
since then. But you're You're totally
right, Jake. Where it's it's so

741
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:54.880
much trial and error because what you
realize is when you get when you actually

742
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:59.639
clear a deck and when you finish
a run, what you realize is that

743
00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.159
you backed into a very specific way
of playing, and if you can't get

744
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:06.880
those early cards to work, you're
not going to get deep in your run.

745
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:12.039
Because the way, the way,
the the the antish scale in terms

746
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:14.880
of like how many chips you need
to get to pass to the next round,

747
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:20.039
it's it scales up in such dramatic
fashion that like, if you're just

748
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:23.559
not built for this round, there's
there's literally no way you can pass it.

749
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.039
If you haven't like expected too,
then this is what I do now

750
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.079
for every deck it's like, well, if I don't get these jokers,

751
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:34.880
certain set of jokers the first two
rounds, I'm cooked. I'm just going

752
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.159
to back out. Oh okay.
So, like I've been doing runs with

753
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:40.519
threes of a kind, build around
that, or I can build around flushes,

754
00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:45.320
you can build about around anything,
and it's super satisfying when it all

755
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:50.880
comes together and you're just getting millions
of points. Yeah, but that happens

756
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:54.079
like maybe one out of every five
attempts. So interesting. Yeah, but

757
00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:58.880
uh, it's but don't get me
wrong, Like I think it's a it's

758
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:02.440
an incredible idea, and I think
it's executed extremely well. And that's just

759
00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:07.000
kind of the nature of gambling.
Not a gambling game, but like card

760
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.400
games, card games, and yeah, plus a Rogue Light too, right.

761
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:12.880
Yeah, it's partly because, like
I mean, that was one of

762
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:15.000
my things with Dead Cells, Like
the reason I stopped playing Dead Cells.

763
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.480
As much as I love that game, it was just it got to the

764
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:21.320
point where it was like, if
I don't get these specific things, this

765
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:23.079
run is going to suck and I
don't want to play, you know,

766
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:27.920
And you see that a lot in
Rogue Lights, and I think, like

767
00:50:28.199 --> 00:50:31.280
it's just I don't know, Like
it's just an issue that I personally have

768
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:35.519
with many of them, which is
why, like I end up falling off

769
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:38.400
of so many. But I do
think one thing Billatro has going for it

770
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:40.559
is it's not really skill based.
I mean it is skill based, but

771
00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:44.480
it's not like reflex skill based.
It's like, at least for me,

772
00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:47.800
like it's very easy to go back
to and play again. Well like dead

773
00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:52.679
Cells, like my muscle memory that
is gone. Yeah, yeah, man,

774
00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:57.719
I like that game a lot.
I'm probably gonna still keep playing.

775
00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:01.760
I've been I'm almost clear at all
the decks. I've put like twenty five

776
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:07.159
thirty hours into the damn. I
know. I look back on it.

777
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.559
It's it's one of those games you
just like keep coming back to. Little

778
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:13.360
Yeah. I looked at my plates, I'm like, how how long I've

779
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:15.079
been playing this game? Granted some
of that it's been just idling and go

780
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:17.480
to the kitchen, leave it on
or whatever. I came back and I'm

781
00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:21.719
like my steams hours, my Steam
hours are at like twenty eight. I'm

782
00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:22.800
like, oh, you're not even
playing. Are you playing on Steam deck

783
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:25.159
or you No, I'm playing on
my desktop. So I just like I

784
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.760
just zone out. I check my
emails, like, okay, I'm done

785
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.840
responding to emails for the day.
Open ballattro Fuck it's four am. So

786
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.280
yeah, it's yeah, it's crazy, but hopefully people can buy it at

787
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:40.679
some point. Its long like fifteen
bucks or some shit. Yeah, And

788
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:44.840
like as a kid who played a
lot of poker and like, man,

789
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:47.039
it's it's it's kind of like it's
kind of like the Drill video we just

790
00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:51.079
did all that shit. It's like
reflexes. I know how to I know

791
00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:53.159
how to play poker and shit,
it's just crazy. I feel like I'm

792
00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:58.639
reliving my childhood day in and day
out now. So yeah, speaking of

793
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:04.599
reliving my childhood, I've been playing
uh Star Wars Dark Forces D. It's

794
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:09.360
a very it's really good. Yeah. I I remember having a copy of

795
00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:13.599
Dark Forces as a kid, uh
and not getting very far because that game

796
00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:22.000
is like difficult and kind of obtuse
in spots. I definitely, Uh,

797
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:25.280
It's it's cool replaying it now because
I think in some ways, I'm like

798
00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:30.320
I just like understand that game better, so like I was able to kind

799
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:35.159
of get further than I definitely did
as a kid. But I've I'm out

800
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:37.320
halfway and I'm starting to hit a
wall where I'm just like, oh,

801
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.519
some of these levels are getting like
what what the fuck am I supposed to

802
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:45.920
go? Definitely like that old school
style of level design when it comes to

803
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:49.880
shooters. Yeah, the pro tip
is used the map. Like you hit

804
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:52.800
tab and you can just pull up
like the little like virtual map to see

805
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:54.079
where you are. It's not the
best map ever, but it's like,

806
00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:58.760
Okay, I have a sense of
like where to go, but yeah,

807
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:01.199
like there is there's one level I
where for the most part, I was

808
00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:04.840
able to play it all without a
guide and I felt really good about it.

809
00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:07.280
And then that level I was like
where the fuck am I going?

810
00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:12.800
And then like turns out you needed
to like move an elevator down onto a

811
00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:15.920
different floor and then go through like
event so then get on top of the

812
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:19.480
elevators you can move forward and you
have to have like two elevators. I

813
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:22.480
was like I would have fucking never
figured that out. Uh, But like

814
00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:28.280
it's cool because like that game is
super important in sort of like the the

815
00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:35.159
history of first person shooters because like
We're Doom was more like kind of abstract

816
00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:39.039
labyrinthine in its design, this game
was like really making an effort to be

817
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:43.519
like this is a real place that
you're going, and it's super cool and

818
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:45.960
you play it now and you can
still like feel that. But the consequence

819
00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:50.239
of it is because like that was
they were kind of the first ones doing

820
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:54.480
that. You're like, uh,
maybe it's more realistic, but do I

821
00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:58.360
know where the fuck I'm going?
Like you know, you're you're kind of

822
00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:04.320
they're sacrificing some of the like ease
of like player movement. I guess I

823
00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:06.320
don't know, Like it's just like, yeah, if it feels like you're

824
00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:08.639
hitting up more walls sometimes where you're
just like I think like games eventually,

825
00:54:08.840 --> 00:54:13.400
especially in first person level based games, they evolved in a way where there's

826
00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:16.000
a lot more visual cues that kind
of guide you to like where you're supposed

827
00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:19.480
to be going. Yeah, they
didn't have yellow paint back in the day.

828
00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:22.559
Yeah, exactly. You ain't no
yellow paint in Dark Forces. So

829
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:25.280
if you're mad about it, go
play that game. Yeah, but it's

830
00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:30.239
cool, and like the the remaster
like looks really good. Yeah, it

831
00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:32.800
looks real clean. You can even
switch it back to like the old graphics

832
00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:36.760
too, which is super cool.
If you prefer that, which I think

833
00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:39.679
I've been playing with the remaster,
there's a part of me that still thinks

834
00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:43.800
like there's more like cohesiveness to the
old graphics in some ways. I just

835
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:45.519
kind of feel that about old games
in general. But like it it looks

836
00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:51.320
really great. The only thing is
I don't like the default audio choice you

837
00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:55.840
can pick between, like I think
it's like general MIDI and then there's another

838
00:54:55.920 --> 00:55:04.519
option of general MIDI and the the
default one. Uh is like it doesn't

839
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:08.039
sound right. It's just like there's
a lot of like drums on the menu,

840
00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:10.280
Like on the menu there's like all
these drums and it's but it's just

841
00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:14.440
like bah bah bah bah bah bah, and like it doesn't sound like a

842
00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:16.519
beat or anything. I just it
just sounds like noise. And I was

843
00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:20.880
like, oh, like, well
this sounds awful, Like what is going

844
00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:22.840
on? And then I just switched
to the other one and it's like more

845
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.639
like kind of low res but it
like sounded more like actual music, and

846
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.360
I was like, weird, Okay, I'm gonna go this. I think

847
00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:34.960
I was like watching the Digital Foundery
video and I think they had a similar

848
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.320
complaint where they said, like like
the audio timing was off or something,

849
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:42.599
because to be fair, like that
is an incredibly difficult thing to get right

850
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:45.800
with a remaster because audio back on
PC games is all based on just like

851
00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:52.679
they were usually like sync to like
your computer is like clock and oh shit,

852
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:55.920
yeah, a lot of like sound
was SYNCD to like the computer's like

853
00:55:57.000 --> 00:56:00.880
internal clock or you know, things
like your sound car. So like getting

854
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:06.559
audio timing right on a like where
you like emulated over is like very difficult

855
00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:08.039
on a lot of games. So
I think they were saying that is kind

856
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:12.360
of what happened, where like maybe
the timing wasn't right, that's why it

857
00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:15.480
didn't sound correct to me. So
I would maybe suggest trying the other audio

858
00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:17.719
setting if you play it and just
see, like if you prefer that one.

859
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:22.719
But yeah, I mean like the
like the blaster sound effects were like

860
00:56:23.320 --> 00:56:27.960
super nostalgic. You just fucking like
shooting up all the Stormtroopers. I was

861
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:32.119
like, yeah, man, remember
when Star Wars was cool playing this all

862
00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:37.960
the time, like Kyle Qatar,
Kyle Qatar guitar, it's cool. They

863
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:44.679
also like redid all of the old
CG cut scenes, like they remade them

864
00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:47.280
really yeah, and it like looks
they look great. They didn't like just

865
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:51.079
like remaster the old ones or no
no, no, no no, they

866
00:56:51.239 --> 00:56:55.719
like recreated them. But so they
look like really but they but they recreated

867
00:56:55.719 --> 00:57:00.679
them just still look kind of in
that like old like an old thing,

868
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:07.440
but they just really and they look
fantastic. Man, it's like super cool.

869
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:09.800
Like I was like, oh that
that's like the level of a detail

870
00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:13.199
that you're just like. Man,
ah, like I die. Man,

871
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:16.519
they're different. Yeah, they really
are. Man, their their remakes and

872
00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:21.599
remasters are. They're quick to remaster
last year. I thought it was excellent.

873
00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:25.159
Obviously system Shock right, system Shock
last year, they're working on the

874
00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:30.119
they're supposed to be this year they're
doing a not a full remake, but

875
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:34.400
they're doing a remaster of system Shock
two. Wait, what how do I

876
00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:37.760
not know about this? I'm surprised
you don't know about it because you're system

877
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:40.960
system Shock too. Talk. System
Shock two is like change that and de

878
00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:51.159
Sector is fucking formative for me.
That's crazy. You played Sect you before

879
00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:55.320
they should do. I will,
I will, I will bust the no

880
00:57:55.440 --> 00:57:59.679
I don't like to say that on
the podcast. I will have the biggest

881
00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:02.559
smile on my face. I'll bust
the biggest smile. You'll bust the biggest

882
00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:07.119
smile. Uh yeah, before before
I was, before Persona, there was

883
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.800
dance X. That's that's how I
was, how much I was into that,

884
00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:15.519
Sernies the right there. Yeah,
the character growth development, Yeah,

885
00:58:15.559 --> 00:58:17.559
it was a pretty long time.
I played the original dance X in two

886
00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:22.519
thousand and three, and it wasn't
until I played Persona five and twenty seventeen

887
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:24.639
when I had, like that that
new paradigm shift in my life, for

888
00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:28.800
this is now my whole personality.
I'm glad I got to witness that.

889
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:35.679
You literally lived with me when we
when I went through that shit. Yeah.

890
00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:37.800
Yeah. They put out a trailer
for last year and it just said

891
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:40.320
coming soon. So I'm hoping it
comes out this year. Man coming soon,

892
00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:45.719
me too. Baby will absolutely play
that. Uh you think they'll fix

893
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:50.480
the co Op? There's co Op
is shocked. Do you don't know that?

894
00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:54.639
Is that a moducause? I don't
think that was build on? Hold

895
00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:57.480
on, let me let me make
sure I'm getting my facts right. But

896
00:58:57.800 --> 00:59:00.440
there is either a mod or like
an unfit just like co Op. Yeah,

897
00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:06.039
yea, that like is kind of
bad. Oh Yeah, I played

898
00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:10.400
the Days x multiplayer. That ship
was bad but they okay, yeah,

899
00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:17.119
so yes, system Shock two had
a co op mode that was made nine.

900
00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:24.239
Uh apparently it's bad. Damn.
I can't how how bad is it?

901
00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:30.199
Really? It's just like JANKI the
title of a video. Yeah,

902
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:35.079
it comes out system Shock that'd be
cool, but that'd be cool. Yeah,

903
00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:37.360
but you can't run it off GameSpy
anymore. No, it's true.

904
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:42.079
I can't do that. All of
only nineties kids remember games. I remember

905
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.239
GameSpy? Yeah, you do,
that's how Yeah, that's how I played

906
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:51.320
all the Battlefield games. Yeah,
Medal of Honor, alight manle Front Stars,

907
00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:55.639
the remaster, the not remaster were
just put out a Yeah, I

908
00:59:55.679 --> 01:00:00.880
guess it's kind of aport important comes
out next week, right, I'm really

909
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:04.159
excited to play. Yeah, I'm
gonna be honest, like, I'm just

910
01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:07.199
like, oh, I just got
to like sixty four player battles. I'm

911
01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:10.800
just like, I remember Land parties
with Battlefront because they had the AI bots.

912
01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:14.280
Yeah, so you just fill it
out. Yeah, we used to

913
01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:17.719
do Land parties that Halo two.
Oh yeah yeah coo, now man.

914
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:21.840
Games used to be just be cool. What happened? Games used to be

915
01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:25.800
cool? You know what, They're
still cool, damn. But yeah,

916
01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:30.320
this is this certain vibe of those
old games that I love that it's still

917
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:35.559
being kept alive me too by folks
like code. I've been wanting to replay,

918
01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:39.280
but I don't know how to do
it. Is Splinter Cells co op.

919
01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:43.800
Oh, I don't think you can
play that online anymore with unless you

920
01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:47.239
which which one up? So Chaos
Theories, yeah, oh I never played

921
01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:52.639
Koies series is the best one I
thought, just because it was like very

922
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:58.079
slow and like they they like really
used all the co op actions in terms

923
01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:00.960
of like the levels where it'd be
like it's like okay, you could go

924
01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:04.800
through the front door, or you
could like partner push your team made up

925
01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:08.320
and like you'd slowly raise him up
to The animations look so good at least

926
01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:12.800
I remember them looking so good too, Like that sounds fun. Class arms

927
01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:15.559
and throw the other person up,
very deliberate animations, and like all the

928
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:20.400
missions for co op and Chaos Theory
were specifically made for co ops, so

929
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:22.920
they're not just like retooled versions of
the single player ones. Like here's a

930
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:27.000
specific sequence, it doesn't really have
a story behind it, but it's like,

931
01:01:27.079 --> 01:01:30.199
oh, this is genuinely different content
from the original game, So if

932
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:32.679
you didn't play co op, you're
missing out on like a pretty big chunk

933
01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:37.239
of the game. And Sam Fisher
like has has lines in it too,

934
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:39.880
like he's he's part of it,
but but you're playing as like his uh

935
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:44.840
his like trainees or that's fun,
it's cool. I did. I did

936
01:01:44.960 --> 01:01:47.119
like a little a little garage lamp
party with my homie like years back,

937
01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:51.760
Like you know what if we just
did splinter Cell Chaos theory co op just

938
01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:54.360
run through it in one night and
a bunch of that sounds amazing. It

939
01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:57.960
was so fun. One of my
favorite things they did in that co op

940
01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:00.280
mode was so they in kastory,
you had this thing on your pistol.

941
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:05.039
It was like a little like EMP
thing that you could point at cameras and

942
01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:07.559
turn off and they would say stationed
off for like I don't know, ten

943
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:12.000
seconds or whatever, but in co
op it only stayed off as long as

944
01:02:12.039 --> 01:02:15.119
it's yes. So it was very
much like okay, I got the camera,

945
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:17.239
you go, and then your buddy
would come through and then they'd like

946
01:02:17.320 --> 01:02:20.239
look up and get it, like
all right, you're clear, You're clear

947
01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:22.519
through. It's not just like,
oh, these are two people playing this

948
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:29.000
level. It's like you have to
figure out. Yeah, so cool,

949
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:34.760
Come on, video games used to
be good man the garage part. Figure

950
01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:37.119
out because like that game is backwards
compatible on Xbox and I'm like, if

951
01:02:37.159 --> 01:02:43.719
I just like land Networks too.
Once you do that, you can do

952
01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:47.000
split screen. Split screen was in
it, and split screen worked decently,

953
01:02:47.159 --> 01:02:51.840
but like, I don't know,
I feel like I'm too old to like

954
01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:54.320
play split screen these Yeah, I
feel like a fucking child like split screen,

955
01:02:54.440 --> 01:02:58.880
right if I play games split screen, like I need to be playing

956
01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:02.199
with like my niece or I need
fifteen years old some ship. And I'm

957
01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:07.440
not really paying attention. I'm just
like, yeah, oh yeah, Pandora

958
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:12.480
Tomorrow had a co op mode to
right, I did it? I think

959
01:03:12.559 --> 01:03:16.119
it did. I don't that maybe
it did because I only played split screen

960
01:03:16.239 --> 01:03:19.719
for a while because I didn't have
ice speed in it, so it may

961
01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:22.159
have just been online. Because I
remember Spiver's Mercenaries. I was just line

962
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:28.519
ye and I didn't get to really
play that until like the third one and

963
01:03:28.719 --> 01:03:34.039
yeah cho they Spiver's mers was fun
too. That shit was so so unbalanced.

964
01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:37.119
It is so so dumb, but
like also at the same time,

965
01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:38.360
but I was like that was kind
of like the magic of like those old

966
01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:42.960
like older games like can be so
broken in some ways, but that's just

967
01:03:43.480 --> 01:03:45.880
unraveling how broken in the ways in
which you can break the game yourself is

968
01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:50.559
like that's just inherent to those experiences. But like the idea that they were

969
01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:53.400
like, all right, we need
the merks earned first person, the spies

970
01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:58.320
spies, and you can just like
hang on pipes and just break their necks.

971
01:03:59.519 --> 01:04:01.159
You can just like fuk with people
to like the way those games are,

972
01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:03.679
Bill, you just funk around with
people. I got idea. I

973
01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:06.760
got it. Well, here we
have og xboxes, and I know we

974
01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:11.760
have copies. We have mad OGX. We also have we have copies of

975
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.480
these splinter cell games. We just
do we just hook them up next to

976
01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:17.280
each other. We get a little
land station, going, oh, I've

977
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:20.159
got a lot of empty desks out
there. We can do before before you

978
01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:24.519
got to make a big move,
put the ships to use, get those

979
01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:29.519
HD microvers for those old xboxes.
Hell yeah, oh that'd be good.

980
01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:33.760
Maybe we'll go do that right now, right now, which means we're done

981
01:04:33.760 --> 01:04:36.880
with this podcast. Yeah for the
week. Thanks for tuning in. Everyone

982
01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:44.000
appreciate y'all as always, whether you're
listen live over on Twitch to twitch dot

983
01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:48.639
tv slash Game Spot every Thursday at
three pm Pacific time, or if you're

984
01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:54.440
listening, we also appreciate that.
Michael Jake, Yes, thank you for

985
01:04:54.559 --> 01:04:59.039
joining me. Where can the lovely
folks find you? Oh? You could

986
01:04:59.079 --> 01:05:01.559
find me and all them up bullshit
at Michael P. Higham on Twitter and

987
01:05:02.039 --> 01:05:08.039
at high Am Michael on Instagram.
But this week you are listening to this

988
01:05:08.119 --> 01:05:12.599
this week paid. I just had
the GameSpot YouTube page because I collaborated with

989
01:05:13.079 --> 01:05:17.119
Jean Luke and Richard Lee to do
an expert react. I am an expert

990
01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:20.000
expert. We don't don't tell them
what the expert. Yeah, yeah,

991
01:05:20.360 --> 01:05:24.079
that's a surprise. You can't.
You gotta make them click. Yeah yeah,

992
01:05:24.119 --> 01:05:28.159
yeah, you can't know. But
I actually have. I have guest

993
01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:30.760
starred as the expert in an exit. It's not anime, titties, believe

994
01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:36.760
it or not. Yeah, depends
on how you look. At many they

995
01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:42.360
covered up TIFA in the June On
mini game and the woke Mine virus.

996
01:05:42.880 --> 01:05:46.960
It's taken over no but uh but
yeah it is Final Fantasy seven rebirth related.

997
01:05:47.079 --> 01:05:51.280
It isn't spoiler free as well.
Definitely check that out. It is

998
01:05:51.360 --> 01:05:55.400
something that is very near and dear
to my heart, and I'm so happy

999
01:05:55.480 --> 01:05:59.400
that I'm It is crazy to me
that I was able to reach back so

1000
01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:03.519
far are into my childhood to actually
use this. Eighteen years later, some

1001
01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:08.360
ship I did and like high school
became a video where I got paid for

1002
01:06:08.519 --> 01:06:12.159
it too. Motherfucker's got some money
to over sent over to me, so

1003
01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:15.480
that was nice. But I'm really
I'm really hyped up for this. This

1004
01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:17.280
is really dope today. Yeah,
it was. I had a ton of

1005
01:06:17.360 --> 01:06:20.480
fun, like just filming that with
you and just like hearing you talk about

1006
01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:23.280
it, like I was just like, oh, man, Like I'm like,

1007
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:26.239
I'm learning so much about it on
some old man shit, yeah,

1008
01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:28.960
like back in my day, and
I'm just sitting there being like, oh,

1009
01:06:29.039 --> 01:06:30.119
I'm like, I'm like I'm learning
all the deep lore. Yeah.

1010
01:06:30.119 --> 01:06:33.280
And then you watch back the footage
of like what the fuck is this talking

1011
01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:38.039
about? And I totally get it. I totally get it. I know

1012
01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:40.159
that I'm turning into that kind of
person, but you know what, I'm

1013
01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:44.119
gonna embrace it. Yeah, you
just better embrace it, but yeah,

1014
01:06:44.119 --> 01:06:47.000
it's cool. It's cool. Quite
a bit of work, so peep that.

1015
01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:50.760
Yeah, yeah, I hope check
that out a whole. It should

1016
01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:55.679
go up this weekend unless for some
reason somewhere this happens. But it shouldn't.

1017
01:06:55.679 --> 01:06:59.199
It should have been fine. So
yeah, check out that, Jake,

1018
01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:02.039
do you want to plug anything?
Uh? Last week I put out

1019
01:07:02.039 --> 01:07:05.559
a lot of videos. Well,
I guess I put out too. I

1020
01:07:05.599 --> 01:07:11.079
put out a Pokemon The Complicated Business
of Pokemon video. I'm very proud of

1021
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:15.679
the video. If you're curious as
to why Scarlet and Violet where like they

1022
01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:19.880
were, definitely give that video a
watch. A lot of research went into

1023
01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:23.960
that and a lot of effort.
And then I also took a look at

1024
01:07:24.039 --> 01:07:28.679
a game called Expeditions, a mud
running game I think, or a mud

1025
01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:30.920
running a mud runner game, a
mud runner game. I talked about it

1026
01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:33.760
last week on the podcast. If
people kind of I'm sure I already know

1027
01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:36.239
my thoughts at this point. But
if you want a more condensed version of

1028
01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:40.079
that, the game is out now. So if it sounds like and it's

1029
01:07:40.079 --> 01:07:45.920
an ultra wide, yeah, then
my video is an ultra That was like

1030
01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:47.559
my biggest motivation to do the video
to be honest, because I was like,

1031
01:07:47.760 --> 01:07:53.679
this would look sick. There was
even a comment that was like respect

1032
01:07:54.800 --> 01:08:01.599
for doing it an ultra will Yeah, Dutch Runners game ye exactly. Yeah.

1033
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:06.239
That's it for me. I'm working
on others. I'm playing another game

1034
01:08:06.320 --> 01:08:10.519
and I think we're gonna have a
preview up soon on it. But that's

1035
01:08:10.559 --> 01:08:13.119
all I'll say. Cool, cool, yeah, and yeah for me,

1036
01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:16.119
go check out Michael's video. That's
what I've been working on a lot of

1037
01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:19.439
works for that. Great to see
it. But thank you all for listening

1038
01:08:19.720 --> 01:08:25.760
and we will see you all next
time. Peace. Bye.