Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, January thirtieth, twenty twenty four. Holy smokes,
my month is done. I have been sitting around here not doing squat.
The month of January is almost over. Welcome to the Giant BombCast.
Scout, thank you for welcoming everybody in and possibly making all the other dogs
listening to this freak out. Welcome to the Giant BombCast powered by NZXT,
Episode eight hundred and twenty five. I'm your host. Jan Oshoa joining me
as always is not Jeff Grub, So he's not joining me today. He's
out on assignment. We wish him the best. We hope that he's okay
dealing with the frozen tundra that we have sent him to. But here,
as always the arbiter of all things football, we can't get him to stop
talking about football. Whether it is the Green Bay Packers, the Philadelphia Eagles,
the LA Chargers, Jeff Bakolar, or the Miami Heat that's a basketball
team, the Orlando tragedy, whoever it is, it doesn't matter. I
just want everyone to know that jan Ochoa is a football criminal for what he
is attempting to do on today's show. Jeff Grubb as you all know,
is a diehard Detroit Lions fan who the forty nine ers embarrassed over the weekend
after they came back down a substantial amount and then wound up winning the game.
And Jen Ochoa has the audacity to rock a pretty cool like forty nine
ers top is pretty cool, thank you, but at the same time does
not allow Jeff Grubb to be present to defend himself at all, and he's
doing all this behind his back, and I just want everyone to know about
these football crimes now. At the same time, everyone, I'm very happy
that Taylor Swift is in the Super Bowl. Finally there is a reason for
anyone to watch the Super Bowl. This is really what football needs, is
more attention, and I could not be happier for everyone involved in this sport
known Taylor Swift officionado, he's changing his beat completely from covering games to covering
how Taylor Swift is adjacently affecting the game's industry. Dan Reiker, I should
find my old Chiefs starter jacket. I feel like that would be appropriate on
this podcast. Got sick that look nice? Dan had a Chief ste Kak
and I had a Packers starter jacket, So I grew up watching the Chiefs.
I've actually watched a couple of football games this year with them going into
the Super Bowl. I know it's Chiefs forty nine ers. I don't know
a whole bunch about this year, but hey, it's all the same colors.
He knows what's gonna happen. Ye just where red and you'll be covered.
Yes, yes, a team will win. Yep, no, I'll
watch the Super Bowl. Ill root with the Chiefs. So I haven't kept
up as much in the last decade or so, but grew up a Chiefs
fan, so I know who I'm rooting for. We should play NFL Street
on this website. I would love that any time, any time, any
street game outside of soccer. Like, you know, we don't understand how
that is. No FIFA street rules. It's way better. Yes, I
try to play it because I was like, I'm not a sports guy in
general, but the street games are great. Even though I don't like soccer.
Maybe i'd like Fever Street. It was very confusing in joining us.
Everyone give her a round of applause, because I'm not quite sure she actually
knows how to clap. Making her return to Gibob programming coming in at number
thirty Bailey Myers, Okay, these are the loudest claps we can muster.
You know, Bailey, I think I've known you, what now, for
like a year and a half and some change. I don't think I've ever
seen you clap until today. In many ways, we've known each other our
whole lives. Wow, I'm not a clapping kind of goal. I don't
know. It hurts my sensitive little hands because I've never worked a real job
in my life. I was gonna ask my initial pre show questions were,
have any of you or any of us ever worked in a grocery store stock
room? Dan? I believe you have right. My entire family before me
did, but I was the one who escaped it because the store went out
of business in nineteen ninety four. It comes from a long lineage of stock
room My entire family is farmers and grocery people, and I know nothing about
either of them. So you don't that could about you the groceryman. You
come from a long line of groceryman's. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Warkers
Market, Hell yeah. I didn't do I didn't do like a stock room
stuff, but I did work at like a pharmacy. For a couple of
years, I worked at a liquor store. We had a stock room and
a freezer and stuff there, and that's that's a Jason right yeah, consh.
You know, God, I loved when I worked at a food place.
I loved just sitting in the walking freezer. He was great. It
was very zen. That was my mood. Like every time when I was
a supervisor at AMC, whenever there was a big rush. I remember,
like the weekend Toy Story two came out and it was playing in all four
of our huge theaters and so it was NonStop. We had to make these
kids packs that were like you know, it was like you had to do
like six different things or it's like a drink, popcorn, snacks and all
that. And I hated it. So whenever Toy Story two rushes were coming
in, I was the only one who had the key to the storage room
because I was a supervisor. So I would just go sit on the frozen
hot dogs and I would just steal for topias and sour patch kids and eat
them until the rush was over. Hell yeah, hell yeah. When at
that place I was talking about just now, I used to I was one
of the prep cooks, So I would be slicing a deli meat for forever.
I would hide snack meats on the side and put them in the fridge
in a specific place because when I go hide, because I want to take
an extra five ten minutes, I would be snacking on sliced turkey and salama
me in my little compartment. Your go to cold cut brand. Well,
here in the Bay Area where dominated by Boor's Head. That's true. So
it's okay, it's okay, it's all right. I like to get the
guy at the deli countered to work at the deli counter at the grocery store.
So it brings me a sense of nostalgia, like remember the time your
sister worked at a deli at a grocery store. You get some turkey,
girl. I love like when they when you're like, they're like, oh,
how do you want it? Slice? And you're like, oh,
not too not too thick, and then they like do a slice and just
like hand it to you and they're like, here have a piece of meat
dangling off my fingers in the store. Crazy, it's normal. Crazy style.
Crazy style is something they put a real stink on it. If I
want crazy style. Jan Your description of a walk in cold storage just reminds
me of like a lot of nineties movies set locations. I feel like like
that was the place to like have a scene in your in your film,
like, oh this world the kids are are sharing their misery and commiserating and
whatnot. Right, So, uh, it was mostly just me hiding.
And then I got caught hiding in the walk and fridge Scout is going crazy
right now. So I started out as a cold cut thing. We all
know that. Yes, yeah, I been an issue for a while.
So I started hiding where we threw all the bread away at the end of
the day. Uh. And then I befriended a local vagrant that would that
knew that we would throw the bread away, so he would just take the
bread. So I just started bagging the bread for him. Yeah. Yeah,
and then and then I got in trouble for that as well. Yeah,
because capitalism is a nightmare and throwing away food is morally reprehensible when so
many people are starving, and yet they continue to do it. So like
whatever its dumpsters, you should know better, dosters needs to jam. It
was very considered of me, I know, tossing twenty five bag heads away
because no one wanted to buy them. It's all my fault. If the
dumpster is hungry, it starts to molt and you do not want to see
it. Do that. I did. I did start taking the bread home
at the end of the day, some of the bread home and just giving
them off as gifts. You wrap them ira fucking stuff that stuff like,
hey, here's two pounds of Sara. Though, Grandma, I know that
you can't have this, but here's the thought. I looked at Jimmy John's,
like on the main bar street in college, they would sell their day
olds like footlongs for like or begets for fifty cents and so, and they'd
be opened super late. So like, after you're out drinking all night,
you wander into Jimmy Johns's, Pay fifty cents, get a big ass spaghett
go home, throw a bunch of cheese on it. You're good to go
for fifty cents. There was a donut store by where I went to college
that would have like a doughnut bucket that was just full of all the day
olds that they would sell for five dollars to whoever was just lucky enough to
get there when they had the bucket out. And one time I was lucky
enough to get the bucket. It was so many donuts. I was in
donuts for a week. I was eating week old donuts and I was like,
I don't even care. This is great. It was not great.
It was it was a bad time, frankly for my body, my fide.
What was the strat there, Bailey, Did you reheat any of the
donuts or just out of the bucket? No? I feel like good.
I feel like maybe I would freeze those those nuts. Yeah, but then
they're like harder to eat because they're cold. Well, of course I start.
I started freezing bagels because everyone told me, oh, you should freeze
your bagels afterwards. And here's what you do. I'll tell you right now,
here's what you do. So as I has a bagel, Mayer,
I will tell you, honestly, who who is better qualified? Like you
get your frozen bagel, you put it in a toaster oven or regular oven.
Uh. I would maybe put on the top of it a thin layer
of tinfoil, but either way, bake it two hundred degrees for about fifteen
to twenty minutes, and you have the freshest closest thing to a freshest bagel
out of the store as you can possibly get. It's super easy. Don't
even think twice. That's how it's the cream cheese on my bagels. But
show us another option. No, well, obviously you wouldn't put You wouldn't
put cream cheese on a frozen bagel and then insert it into a toaster.
That would be like a psychopath move. You would just you know, you
cut that open and then the steam rises out of it and you're just like,
wow, is it me? Or is this a freshly baked oven bagel?
That sounds like a lot of work. Jeff Beckeler just like it seems
like a lot of work to one hundred percent. Spider Man two, we're
talking about video games. Now. I'm gonna go see to this dog.
I'll be right back. What's going on over there? Yo? Let me
tell everyone something about the journey that my son has been on with the video
game, Marvel's Spider Man two. We finished the campaign back in twenty twenty
three last year, and we enjoyed it a great deal, front to back,
really engaging. We did stop playing it. If you recall, this
is kindon, but we did stop playing once Craven stabbed the scientist in the
neck with the syringe. That was a little too much for Dib. He
was like, oh, you know what, I'm gonna have nightmares about this,
like fur wearing freak. I don't want to be stabbed by him in
my dreams. So let's take a couple of breaks, a couple of weeks,
not in the neck, bud not in the neck, and like violently
jabbed with some sort of green liquid solution. Really sure you always know how
to make sense of these problems he has, I d yeah, it's great.
So I there's a lot of things I need to tell Hanson with you
local now I we'll get to that later. Also, so yeah, he
was. He swore off Spider Man two for a while, and then one
day he came to me and he like, mustard up the courage and he's
just like, Dad, let's let's get back into it. And it was
off and we just like mainline, the main story, and we really knocked
it out. We finished that and then I don't know what it was,
but he, you know, he's he liked watching me play. He didn't
like playing himself Spider Man two is also very hard, like it's a difficult
game. The boss battles, especially deeper into the into the game, are
tough, like I kind of found like Venom was maybe the easiest of all
of them, Like the ones up until then were really hard, like that
Lizard one's tough. Like it it's difficult, right, So I would every
now and then hand it to him and he and he'd die and you'd get
real upset and p he didn't like uh Spider Man like rag dolling the way
he dies and that it's kind of upsetting. He does. He does died
dramatically and just like he just flops around and everybody Spider Man's a showman,
you know, yeah, you know, he's just he's such a young child.
Anyway, So we finished the game, we see we roll credits and
I don't know what it was, but he's like, let's go back and
just like do everything. And I'm like, you know what, why don't
you just like start playing this game? And I don't know what. It
was. A light bulb lit in his mind, and this dude went from
sixty seven percent completion of Spider Man two to one hundred. My man did
every last mission. He did all the side story stuff with like the Flame
people he did and this, and he's awesome at it. He's so good.
He figured out, like you know, I taught him a lot of
like the Spider Sense dodging stuff and how and basically like the left and right
you know, specials and whatnot. And once that all clicked, this he's
doing fancy tricks with his you know, web sling in. He's like going,
He's like, check this out. He's like, he's like, yo,
check it out, Dad. I got the Spider Man Noir suit.
It's like the weird frame rate from the movie, so it looks really dope.
And also watch this. I'm telling you, this guy went nuts on
this game. I couldn't believe it. I could not believe how quickly he
picked it all up and just kicked ass all the way through. I got
a question for you, back, Lark. Does DIB have his own PlayStation
account on the PS five so he I think he does like undermine, Okay,
because I'm saying, you know, if trophies are still a hot commodity,
you get this kid start mining for these trophies. Yeah. Yeah,
We've been talking about that because he he did. He started to go through
the trophies I had, and he's like, you got a couple of platinums
that that's pretty cool. No one in my school has platinums. That's sick.
So I don't I don't know. I'm gonna have to like call one
of our people and be like, yo, can we like trance, Like
how do we how do we make this right? By dip? How do
how do we get him? How do we get him right? I don't
know. I don't know how that's gonna work. Dan, you used to
tell me about things you could do with like sharing accounts. Have you got
any primary Well that's more ifidy you have like multiple systems and you're trying to
like access games. Yeah, we yeah, we have stuff like that.
I need like a whole run down with that. Anyway, Long story short
is Dylan one spider Man, and uh, it's it's amazing to see like
when he found that last microbot, when he found that last spider bot,
to like finish that whole storyline, this kid was running around the house.
It was it was so sick. What what a what a moment? What
a moment. I'm surprised. I always assumed he was going down to like
a jock route. I didn't know how to use a computer, Like it
seemed like that was the path he was going down, like, you know,
not to did you say that? Man, he's just a hockey kid.
You know, I feared he'd be kind of like just like a meadhead
sports guy and didn't know how to use any technology. You know, he's
just not a bright kid. That's what I'm saying. What you're saying.
I feel like the cool thing about Dylan is that he is well rounded and
he hangs out with jocks and the nerds and just kind of Dylan. Yeah,
this is my first time learning. Yeah, it's you know, that's
the beauty of him. Larst Jib is why he's a well rounded individual and
it gets along with the people all walks at extreme you know, I get
it. You have to. You have to say amazing things. I understand.
Look, there there is a gift floating out there of him checking someone
in a hockey game. That's what I'm talking about. That's yeah. But
at the same time, he like went over to see if he was okay.
You know, he's like, hey, man, hock hockey is hard.
Like I gotta I gotta make sure you're right. The duality of DIB
we love it. Yeah, so I get it. You're you're already jealous
the things this kid is accomplished at the age of eight. I understand now,
I have to see that knowledge and stuff. I'm fine. You know.
That's like someone who absolutely has skills and knowledge that makes sense exactly.
That's what people have him say, Yes, thanks you. The thing about
you, Dan is a lot of people are like that. Dan has knowledge.
That's the main stuff. That's that's the main thing. That's the gimmick
exactly. The gimmick is that he knows stuff. If you haven't been paying
attention for thirty years stuff, actually no, keep it. Yeah, yeah's
been giving it out for free. What are you talking about exactly? Anyway,
that's that's the Spider Man arc. I don't know what we're gonna do
next. I'm gonna maybe show him Suicide Squad and have him like, well,
no, I mean, not to spoil a news story, but you
can just complete that game one hundred percent by downloading it. Apparently, a
game that I quickly checked out amidst being sandwiched by two gigantic RPGs is Go
Mecha Ball Go, And I think, I think, I think this might
be a sleeper one y'all, because this is a twin stick shooter, a
roguelike. You know what was missing from Hades besides guns? I mean,
I guess it did have a gun transforming into a ball and just like kind
of sonic spin dashing and platforming around. This has like a neat look to
it. And I know that I have been used comparing a lot of things
to two thousands Nickelodeon Edgy style lately, like it reminds me a lot of
Talk the Power of Juju. This continues to remind me of Talk the Power
of Juju, but with like robots and stuff. It's a neat little I
only play like maybe like one or two hours of it. Maybe we'll do
a GB plays this week if there's time, But it's it's doing a lot
of neat things where I think Haiti's really nailed the roguelike element really well because
of the speed of playing through it, and I think with some other roguelikes,
each run just takes too long to get going. But Go Mecha Ball
Go. Highly recommend it if you have game pass. It is currently on
game Pass, but forget that. It's not the world I want to live
in. The world I want to live in is the world of Pandora.
I want to worship the tree, the Tree of Life. Awa and Maley,
I understand that you've been going there with Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Yes.
In fact, in just thirty minutes, the honest game trailer for it,
featuring all of my thoughts, is going to be dropping. Give us
a preview. We give a little pre view about I saw the script.
I saw parts of the script, but you know they did send you one
specific part of the script. That's true, because when I was writing to
back check it, you had a fact with the true I felt like my
brain was melting. I'm a navigator. Come on. Yes, here's the
thing is, I don't dislike the Avatar movies. I respect what they're doing.
I love their earnestness, and I think they look really nice. And
I think a lot of the performances in it are really good and perhaps underrated
due to the everything else about it. And I remember at least two thirds
of Way of Water before I got bored and started just hanging out at the
bar at the movie theater. It's it's fine. It's a it's a fine
series of movies if that's what you're into. I don't know if it necessarily
works as a far Cry game personally. Okay, okay, I think there
were a lot of the thing is in video games. I don't know if
you guys know this, there's like sort of an accepted visual language where you're
like, ah, I don't know where to go, but some stuff in
this scene is like really bright, and so probably I'm supposed to be paying
attention to that. And in Avatar, that's the whole scene. Everything's really
bright because they make it look just like the movie and it's so pretty until
you have to go on another fucking fetch quest and you don't know where you're
going because everything is like look at me, and I'm like, I don't
want to look at you. I want to look at where the thing is
that I'm trying to find to get the stupid tribe to like me so we
can defeat the sky people. Does it do the like map vombit thing,
like can you go to the map and is that clearly like labeled or anything,
or the map is it borders on useless? I would say I was
spoiled by the map in Balder's Gate three, I was so good at just
like where I was going. Because I would go to the map, I'd
be like, Okay, this map is like firmly oriented in one place,
and I follow my compass and I go, okay, I need to go
south. The map in avatar spaces, I don't know which ways up.
It's fine, We're in space. It's all right, Bailey. You Also,
the hut does not track the main objective. You can put a marker
on the map and it'll track that. It will not tell you where you're
supposed to go for the main objective. You have to use your special spidery
senses in order to like tune into nature or whatever. And the way you
know where you're supposed to go is the main objective shows up as like a
little blue dot and you have to find it. Is it trying to do
like a breath the wild thing? Is it like intentional it's like, oh,
you're going to find your own way? Or is it just bad in
that way? I think they do want to encourage exploration, but not like
in an intentional and well thought out breath of the wild way in like a
bad way. Oh okay, yeah, it's basically far cry primal and but
oh oh okay, that's a game in a minute. Nice. Do you
think when we refer to things being like the recent Zelda games, are we
all going to default to Breath the Wild when we compare it, because like
Tears the Kingdom does the same stuff. But are we all just gonna say
Breath the Wild because it was the first one. I feel like my instinct
is to say Breath the Wild even though this doesn't matter. I'll say,
I'll say talk key sometimes taky top key, like Tears of the Kingdom top
because you then explain what you meant to three people. No, no,
no, it's going to play it. Here's the thing, though I've explained
it once, I've already incepted it into Yell's brains. It's gonna happen.
Now. How do you acronym? I just say breadth of the wild.
You don't say I was pretty good? Actually bought one more than it sounds
like like two weird children who are like identical twins that you go to school
with, or something you think like whatever happened to botwe and you look it
up and they're both in jail for different reasons. They're like twin children that
you would meet in a Zelda village, but one yes, there we go.
Yeah, Yeah, I think they're interchangeable, Dan. I think that's
the answer, is that people will assume mostly the same thing. They're very
similar games. Are they not the best? Ability? You know, there's
there's one that has a disgustingly horrendous and heinous thing that you can do to
a mountain. Okay, that's it. The other one LIKELID, What do
you think it feels like for Link when he ascends is going through the void.
It it's really good. It feels like good for the mountain. It's
like if you like put jello through a meat grinder, Like that's what I
feel like it is. I can't. Do you think he's the same like
when he comes out the other side, or do you think it's sort of
like a prestige situation or like type of deal. Yeah, his molecular makeup
is like broken down and then reassembled. I just I don't know. It's
very upsetting. It's maybe it's more like Mike TV. I can't the real
Link is dead in a vat and that's just like link number eight hundred and
seven. Yeah, yeah, exactly, they just throw away his bones.
They should have done a thing where like one out of one hundred thousand times
there's this freaky thing where it's like, you know the playto that you'd make
the spaghetti out of. Yeah, yeah, just like freakisly like once every
once in a while he just comes out like those strings and it's like,
oh God, show yes that time it kills you. Sorry, that's one
of the sanity effects Tears of the Kingdom. But even if that did happen,
would you, guys at any point like do that though, Like have
you ever just wanted to be like go upstairs but not really put any effort
into it? Yeah, yes, I feel like I do it every time,
even if there was a one in one hundred thousand chances it would spaghettify
me. Yeah, I look at all the time, so yeah, I
feel I would start at the head, so it'd be your brain first,
so I think you wouldn't really feel anything, so I would instant death.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I thought you doing what she loved, not going
upstairs the normal way. Yep. Turning into human spaghetti is something that it
would expect actually from like a dragon infinite wealth. Dan, You've you've been
painstakingly preparing for what we're doing on UPF this week. Yeah, we're doing
Dundoko Dare Dan, how would you describe Dundoko Dare to the folks at home?
Okay, for those that saw High Real Hustle, it kind of started
with an idea of like, oh I bet I could do something like that
and Yakiza, and then yesterday I played a ton of it specifically with this
in mind, like, Okay, what are these missions and things like that
that I can put down? And I think it's going. I think it's
even more finally tuned for this type of thing than Breath the Wild was.
I have so many stupid missions I'm going to make you and Grub do against
each other, just races. And I don't even want to tell you parts
of the format because I think that there are ways that this differs from High
Real Hustle that you're gonna like, there's bonuses, there's a game breaker mechanic
I've come up with here. I've got some bullshit penalties and things like that,
looking at if there's ways for you guys to steal points from each other.
So basically, you and Jeff Grapp are gonna have ninety minutes against each
other in Infinite Wealth. You're both going to have your game feeds up at
the same time, and I will explain the rules and missions to you when
we go live on Friday, and you will have ninety minutes to do as
much shit as possible. And that's all I want to say about it,
because I want to preserve a lot. I don't want you to know.
I don't want to grow to know. I don't want the audience to know
until we're live. You just you need to have ten thousand dollars in the
game. That's it, and have done to Oko Island Unlock, have some
things in Hawaiian Lock that I've told you about, and then I'm going to
let you loose. How have you been digging like a dragon Infinite Wealth?
Other than making a game show out of it. It's fantastic. It's,
without a doubt, my favorite Yakasa game. It is I think I think
I'm with you Dan, Yeah, yeah, it's it's the new setting helps
a lot because that was the thing. Like as I and dabbled with the
series leading up to it, it was like it was always good, but
I think constantly going back to that same area and everything. I don't know,
it never felt like I never used the word like lazy or anything like
that, but it felt kind of like, say me after a while after
I've done that in numerous different games, and that same area this I think
the new setting, I think all the side stuff. I think Don Doko
Island, it's it's so fresh, and like I like Itchy Mind as a
character more like the tone of the game better. I think he's just so
likable. And then like this Don Doko stuff. I swear I've spent like
seven or eight hours just doing that. I think I'm like near the end
of it right now, like I'm getting like the very last stuff. But
it's basically like if this was a standalone game for like fifteen twenty bucks,
I would absolutely get this. Yeah, Greg was asking that when we did
the GV plays last week, and initially where I was at when we were
doing that stream, I don't think I could have justified like fifteen twenty dollars
for a specific Dundoko Island spin off, But after putting in more time into
it and how much more gets fleshed out, especially as you unlock more parts
of the island. Yes, Dan, it feels it feels like a crime
that this, in some parts is a better animal crossing game than parts of
animal crossing. Well, animal crossing, I feel like, you know,
I love animal crossing, but like i've you know, in terms of like
buildings and variety, it's like, Okay, I got this thing. Okay,
here's the museum. Here's these like five buildings in my town. Here,
I'm like making districts on this island. I'm like, okay, here's
like kind of the restaurant and like a office district. Here's kind of like
the pachinko parlor, and and you know what's it called the club the cabaret
club and stuff like that. Like I'm like, okay, up here on
by the lighthouses where I put the really fancy house and all the like you
know, the prestige guests get to stay there and everything like it is.
It is really fleshed out. It's not tied to the time mechanic that animal
crossing is, which I think is a great gimmick for animal crossing. But
I also like the fact that, like I can sit down and watch a
three hour raw and be playing you know, Dundak Island the entire time.
And it's not like, oh, I did the six things I need to
do today, I'll wait till tomorrow. Yeah, it's it's a fantastic side
thing. I know. The Yakuza series is known for like really big,
kind of fleshed out like saying mini games is almost like giving a disservice to
it. But you know what I mean, like side activities, and this,
this is the first one to me that it's felt like this is just
a pull on game inside here. I learned last week that our dear friend
young Elmo Jesse Vittelli was the first person in the world to get a five
star Dundoko Island. Yeah yeah, yeah, you know the type of person
we know Jesse to be a good throwing arm of that guy kind of requirement.
Yes, yes, we get five stars on Dudoko Island. Okay,
cool y yeah yeah yeah yeah Bailey backlar any interest in like a dragon infinite
wealth at all the more that? Yeah? Okay, yeah, finish your
thought? Yeah sure o huh well okay, I will go the other direction
and wait, doesn't like something so unusual weird? Look, you know everyone's
allowed to not like or like you think. You think this is what I
choose. You think like I want to go around mister grumpy saying fuck you
and you're ugly to everything on earth. It's really not for two months and
you guys change every single bit that you do. You really can't go home
again. I have listen, people are like you. You know you like
hockey and your son. I like so much stuff. I like so much
stuff like props, love keyboards. I probably have more hobbies than anyone.
You know. I don't talk about all of them, but I do.
Okay, as a pilot's license going, say, why how's the pilot's license
going? Now you're thinking of that's the man with some hobbies right there.
I'm just saying, like, there are so many things I like. It
just so happens when it comes to like, I don't know. Maybe it's
just like I'm very opinionated about like games, music and movies. Right,
I'm not. I'm aware there's I have a pretty high bar, perhaps unrealistic
at times. I understand that, and I do get upset pretty easily about
things that I think are stupid. Right, And I really let you know
when I think something stupid. I probably talk more about the things I don't
like than the things I do like, which is probably why there is this
you know inverse if that makes sense, right. Although when I do like
a game, right, I go off like I really tell you about it,
right, Like alan Wig two was like a big deal for me.
Guys, I like stuff. There's stuff you're not the people saying you don't
like stuff you're not. I am, oh, yeah, is for sure.
I like, you know, I just don't really like a lot of
bad stuff. Listen, uh like a dragon like infinite wealth. I just
feel like is a thing that's probably on the bubble for me that I just
I don't know. Someone was telling me last week like yo, you know
maybe like maybe I heard a second hand from him where it's like yo,
like hey, twenty hours and you're like set and I'm just like what what?
Well, you know, I'm sorry, I'm I. I have too
many things going on for that. I just cannot do that. I got
a cue. I like that that is a thing you do. No,
I totally do for like, okay, cool, But that's the thing is
like I feel like I've applied that to other games where it's like people say,
like, oh, once you get past this five hour boring intro of
this Assassin's Creed game, and it's really good. And I've done that argument
where I'm like, well, I'm not going to wait five hours for this
thing to get good. I've got other things I could be doing. I've
used that exact same argument before. I don't know exactly what it is about
Infinite Wealth though, to where it's like, I mean, they're right.
I mean, it is a slow start. It doesn't really open up until
like chapter four, which is maybe a good eight hours in or something like
that. Yeah, Dan, where are you at now? And like,
what's the game clock looking at I'm in like twenty seven hours now, I
think twenty seven, twenty eight something like that. And it does extremely open
up at a certain point, like somewhere between like chapters four and six is
where it's like really lets you loose on the island and everything. But yeah,
I don't know what it was. I think it was just the tone
and the writing and the characters of the game that like kind of kept me
going where other games would not, because like I don't give a shit about
like Assassin's Creed characters. I don't like the tone of those games or anything,
whereas with this, I was just finding myself. It's like really amused
and endeared to these characters, and I was like, yeah, okay,
I'll sit through this stuff, Whereas I think in a lot of other games
I would have bounced off pretty hard. Yeah, Beckler, all that being
said about like a Dragon Infinite Wealth being a gigantic, huge time sink where
you have to dedicate four weeks of your life to get to chapter four,
I do think you would like the story at least. I think you'd really
dig ichibun as like a lovable goofball. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Yeah, And I also think that there's I also think there's like something that
overrides the frustration of like having to play that for a while, because it
is part of like the conversation away that I want to be in on the
joke, you know, I don't know Is this a game? Right?
Is this a game? Yeah? Maybe I could just use the TLDR.
Is this a game, like you think people are going to talk about in
three months? I think this is on the Spoon Yeah, at the Spoon
game. It will definitely be my top ten, you were like a hard
no, definitely not interested in playing it. Five seconds ago? No hard,
no, you were what are you? Stop gaslighting us? I just
I don't think those words came out of my mouth. I still don't,
to be clear, at this point, I don't have any any intention of
playing You sure to play it back later. I don't have any intention of
playing it, But you know, I don't know. It's just it's just
too hard. It's just too hard. Yeah, you know. It's like
it's like I feel this way about the same way I feel about sitting in
traffic. I just can't. I just can't deal with that. I can't
fucking do that. Okay, Okay, Well I got the perfect game for
you, and that game is another gigantic RPG Persona three reload. Uh,
backler, you're gonna dig everything about this you wanna do? You want to
be maybe two hours into a game and we're still in the initial prologue before
they let you lease. It sounds not like the thing I want to do.
What about? What about they still run you through the morning, afternoon,
evening, and then late late night cycles. Uh, for to get
through the story, just to get through the story, to teach you the
cycle before you actually start playing the game. Are you gonna be into that?
Please? Please know? Okay, okay, what about this? Though?
This is the actual most metal fucking thing in the world, And for
anyone that is familiar with Persona three, there's there's some questionable imagery going on
that maybe uh to take a content warning very seriously, uh for for anyone,
but to summon your persona Jeff Backlar as a fan of the Persona series,
right, Jeff? Uh, instead of ripping your face off or ripping
off a mask, you know what you do? You fucking take a Spirit
revolver gun and shoot your head with it to summon your persona. How fucking
metal is that? That's pretty much? Are these like? Are they stands?
That's pretty odd? There stands, Jeff, There stands is Persona JoJo's
it's the most Jojo thing. As someone that doesn't actually know shit about it,
well, I feel like I've heard that before. You probably heard that
from someone just said. You've probably heard that fact of Persona is based on
Jojo? What well did you guys know this? I don't know any anime.
I've never seen any anime against being a cant personas were inspired by Stands.
Yes, I don't need to play it. I know what it is
already. Jan I actually think the Pope said one piece is okay, okay,
okay, one piece is cool. Of the Pope's sick sick thanks John.
Is that the one we're on right now? I don't know anyway.
Persona three reload it's a remake remaster of the original Persona three, and that
is one of the Persona games I'm not actually super familiar with. I jumped
on the series with Persona four and then kept right along with the whole thing
since then. But Persona three it's been a little bit difficult to actually play
a good version of the game because it was only out I believe, on
the PSP, or like the most comparable version was out on the PSP,
So everything here is completely new to me, and I kind of welcomed that
experience. A lot of people have been telling me that Persona three is like,
low key the best game so far in like the modern Persona series,
not looking at Persona one or two, But this game is gorgeous, y'all.
Like they've taken whatever engine they used for Persona five Royal and put all
of Persona three into it. I'm still very early into the game, and
by very early, I mean ten hours, and it still feels very early
because, par for the course in a Persona game, you were doing the
normal things of building your party, diving deep into someone's psyche and broken internal
state to try and fix them. But social links abound, mini games abound.
I don't know what else to say about Persona three because if you've played
any of them in the past, you kind of know what you're getting into.
And I don't have a lot of pre existing knowledge of Persona three as
the base game, but I do I do understand that the fucking music is
a banger in this game, and it has no right because it's doing the
thing where it's doing like a eurobeat kind of This is if this brings me
back where Luminous was like the big puzzle game and like in terms of like
music and vibes, like, oh, this game is just that huh.
So we're just kind of oh five and we're just kind of like bouncing and
like, all right, now the dude's gonna start rapping. Not particularly well,
but I'm into it. Yeah, It's still it's really weird to say
early in terms of like being ten hours into a game. We're probably going
to talk about it more this week on BCR, but I dig at a
bunch is it is hitting all the classic Persona checkboxes for me in terms of
like angsty youth rebelling against like the greater populace in society. I do know
that one of the biggest changes in Persona three Reload versus Persona three I believe
fez fs is there's no playable female protagonist versus the PSP version where you had
that option, So here you just stuck with the main dude. Yeah.
I don't know what else say about it. It's got fucking style, It's
got all the jazz and stuff that you'd like from a Persona game. I
think it's a very faithful remake remaster of the original game, but it is
a total it's complete tonal whiplash going into Persona three Reload versus Infinite Wealth,
where Infinite Wealth is like a bunch of dudes being dudes and uh, just
being friends and being dumb together, and then like, oh shit, we're
talking about the concept of time and how we got to just deal with our
one trip around the sun. Dan I also thought that was the saying right.
I also thought that was a saying right. It sounds right, doesn't
it. Yeah, you only get one trip around the sun. But that's
not how that works. No, you get tons, Yeah you get like
eighty in theory you get more than that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
but it feels like as saying that you only get one trip around the sun.
I swear that I must have also heard someone recently missay it is it
really? I don't think it's meant to be like cosmically accurate. I think
it. I think the saying is is more like dubious. No, I
think we're saying wrong. Is the thing? I think? Yeah, around
the sun? And I think, yeah, at least are miss it's misusing
it as you only get one trip around the Sun. The thing that people
don't know about planet Earth is it takes exactly the length of time to go
around the Sun as one human life span, And all the scientists got it
wrong. And that's something that we all need to acknowledge and work and a
past because we only have one trip around the Sun, you see, so
we're running out of time. Even that seems like a lot like going all
the way around the sun. Like, I know it's happening every year,
but like that's fucking crazy and kind of horrifying to think about that. We're
just flying around that far. That's why winter last lasts for thirty years,
right right? Yes? Oh yeah, I mean it's not like we spent
a whole episode of Back to School on it, did we? Yeah,
we talked about space. We just did a strap space episode. Yes we
did. Oh okay, Oh man, I edited those and I forgot that
too. Remember that, Jane, You really got to be the buddy to
back me up on these things. I remember all the other episodes really well,
all right, I Dan was underwater in one. There's been Franklin on
a kite. There's oh was a telescope one? The space one probably sounds
event right, Yeah, okay, that makes it about the telescope. Yeah,
yes, exactly. You now own a thing. No, I had
to sell it when I moved the tree line. Can I can't see the
space from my deck here. There's too many trees. That makes sense.
There's no sky where you move. It's all trees. It's all trees.
Anyway, Folks look forward to a more concise and deeper discussion on Persona three
reload when I convinced a bunch of chuckleheads to talk about that with me this
Friday instead of slaying the concept of time, Bailey, you have been checking
out Sligh the Princess. Yeah, I wanted to. I was really focusing
on indie games this January. We've changed on his game trailers to just do
two a month instead of four months, so I've had a lot more free
time to check out games that I wouldn't otherwise have a chance to play.
Lay the Princess is really cool. It's weird. Yes, I had to
stop playing it because of how visceral some of the drawing Scott because I get
squeezed from blood. It's it's very it's it's not good if you're squeamish around
blood. There was a part where a character decapitates themselves and it's very there's
a lot of I don't even think it's the art that really got me.
It was the noises they chose to. Yeah, like one of the early
one of the early bits is the Prince. You can come across as the
Princess saw as her arm off and they go all in on the sound department
there. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, it's it's rad the way that like
your choices shape the entire story, and like it's not you know, there
isn't like intense gameplay for real gamers. It's a poorror visual novel, but
god, it's cool plus fully voice acted, and like the art style is
so interesting, and I just really love what they're doing, Like they just
they did something that I feel is like very unique and special. He went,
like a good little horror story. Speaking about horror stories, You've been
embarking on a new Nancy Drew game. Yeah, it's new to me.
It's actually thirteen years old, but I started it yesterday. News. Yeah,
news, so I assume, yeah, there's a new one coming out,
but I didn't know this one existed, so it feels new. It's
thirteen years old. It's called The Captive Curse. A lot of Nancy Drew
games are about her forgetting about going on. She has like plans with her
boyfriend Ned that she forgets about and travels abroad and this happens like three times
in a row. And this is the game where he finally yells at her
about it. It's great and he forgives her in like ten minutes. I'm
like, ned grow a backbone. It's wonderful. She goes to German.
Any none of the accents sound legit. They're all really bad. There's like
a Frankenstein situation, like people are being terrorized by a Frankenstein monster and she's
gotta and the way to fix it is Nancy's gotta solve some puzzles. I
I don't know if it's wrong, Jane, what's wrong does Nancy Drew deal
in the paranormal? Is the paranormal real in Nancy Drew's universe? The thing
is is it isn't, but she encounters it enough times that like she like
goes in like, well, ghosts aren't real, and then by the end
she's like, maybe a ghosts so real, Like you can still get killed
by the ghost even if at the end of the game the game is like,
oh that was a carbon monoxidely, like you can still die from ghost.
Is there ever any like combat like with ghosts or anything in those games?
They're okay? There is not the ghost in in the Nancy Drew game
that takes place in Paris, which I'm blanking on the name of it ends
with her doing a kung fu fight. Oh nice, and you control it
or you just watching it. You control it. You have to hit,
you have to hit and block the right spots. That's the one time there's
combat in a Nancy Drew game. Mostly she's just using her wits to not
be killed in increasingly gruesome fashion. Oh dear, does it die sound like
the sight the Princess thing? Or is it just like imply that she dies?
It's uh. Sometimes sometimes it gets a little bit sometimes like a rock
will land on her and then it will like cut to black and a text
will be like, the good news is you don't have to worry about school
next year. The bad news is because you're flat like a pancake. It's
like if you die in like a Goosebumps Choose You're Own Adventure, they're always
like a little like snarky about it, and then they're like, you have
made a fatal error, Like, yeah, I guess I shouldn't have stood
under that rock. You're right, man, I have to look on eBay
for some Choose your Own adventure. Goose Danger by Design was the one in
France. Oh okay you you yeah, like just to read Goosebumps kid,
I like I had I'd take like the first like seventy of that initial run,
the first handful from the Choose your Own Adventure stuff. Yeah, I
don't remember. It was a favorite. I remember, Yeah, that's a
great one. I don't remember Choose your Own Adventure? Do like crossing over
with Goosebumps? Yeah, yeah, they tried it. Yeah. You know,
people don't talk enough about the texture Goosebumps font on the book that is
that was delightful, like on the fond Yeah that was yeah. Yeah.
No one talks enough about feeling up library books, like, no one talks
enough about that. I agreed that that kind of mildewy. Oh yeah.
I always felt weird about the books that had like the extra plastic book sleeve
jacket on top of it. I'm like, oh shit, this is breaking.
Am I going to get in trouble of this breaks? It turns out?
Now? Did you have to do that? Don't care? In school
where you had to like you would get your textbooks and you had to get
like the weird like not cardboard, but it was like, yeah, just
shot the cup. Yeah, like what was the cover? Yeah yeah yeah,
to protect it, Dan, I mean, they're going to get dinged
up. And stuff like what is the school trying to sell them back at
the end of the year, Like, I don't they're trying to minimize the
dinged up inness. Do you know how much money our public school system has?
Ten dollars total for the century. I went to call and we had
to get the covers for that too, So yeah, so you know God's
got a budget too. It's also the fact that you know people kids will
write on books. They'll write on the covers of book. Make them off
for me, like, hey, don't fucking do this, or we're going
to charge your parents. It's way easy. Look they did the math.
It's way easier to require people to just put a booksock like the kid.
It's not like a fucking lock. They're able to take that off if they
wanted to. If they really wanted to write on a book, they find
a way, right. I just don't know what we're arguing about anymore.
Why we were putting those fucking covers on books to protect the book. Moving
on, Okay, I don't think those book paper book covers can protect them
from the sea. Because Bailey, we're going to continue going on and everything
you've listed here, I've been two months. I've been playing so many things.
Yeah. I was actually the first honest game trailer of the year,
was supposed to be Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, and then I became high key
obsessed with Dave the Diver at the end of last year, like in the
last few days of it, and then I was like, I'm playing this
anyway, I might as well just start with this one, and so I
did. I made the video game. I was addicted to be my work,
and then I wrote a script about it and that cured me of my
addiction. But I do want to finish it. I'm like a chapter from
the end. Now, tea. It takes too long. I'm gonna put
my foot down about that. It takes too long to pour the to pour
the fucking tea. I always I hire someone who's capable of doing it for
me because I don't want to do it. It feels good, like when
you hire a bunch of bartenders and you're just kind of watching them like run
around and do all this, like all right, yeah, you're doing a
great job. Yeah. I liked getting to that point in Dave the Diver
because then I was like, man, my man, Dave has been through
some shit by this point. Yeah, sharks and stuff during the day,
let him rest at night. Yeah, he is doing like a shark genocide
out there. He's killing every shark he encounters. And he's like, I'm
just a silly guy. My god, man, have you ever heard of
conservationism? It's crazy out there. There are not that many sharks in the
world. You shouldn't be so willy nilly about spearing them. That's my around
with like electric harpoons and sniper ripers and stuff like you do have a very
intense day job. He's like poisoning every fish he encounters and like leaving trails
of poison in the ocean, which is fine. I guess. It's like
in the last James Bond movie when they blew up the poison island in the
middle of the ocean and they're like, this doesn't have rippling ramifications for ecosystem.
We're good, Are I pay Daniel Craig or whatever? You can't die
poison stuff down there? Yeah? Yeah, I think about it now,
and then I think I got a little bit too excited about like doing chain
lightning on fish. I love doing the chain lining on fish is the thing,
but also Dave's right there. He shouldn't be electrocuting fish. That's science
next to it. Yeah, pretty heavy arsenal for what he's doing, like
getting fish for a sushi restaurant. Yes, uh, he takes. He
takes supplying this restaurant with fish very seriously. Global warming is bad. If
my boss is Boncho, I would take my job really seriously too. You
know, he's Show's boss, it's his restaurant, and he gets Show.
He gets catfished into managing it is the guy. I'd be intimidated by it,
for sure. Boncho can only serve what I bring him. I'm the
boss. It's gonna kill me if I don't bring enough. But it looked
really cool in a nicely done and cut scene that game did. It was
unexpected unexpectedly much longer than I thought it'd be. Damn little too long.
Kind overstays the welcome a little bit, Like I love that game, but
it does oversay the welcome a bit. Yeah. I like the initial loop
that you fall into, but then they kept introducing more and more things.
It was around the time that you're like doing the quest for the seahorse Land
or whatever, and I'm like, Okay, all right, I think I
see where this is going. He's going to keep going on. So did
you at any point did you get to the point where you encounter the giant
zombie mermaid. I don't know I got that far out. I guess not.
No, there's a certain point when they introduced zombies in the undersea world
and you can't kill them, they'll just eat you. And then there's like
a giant one you have to escape from that is genuinely scary, and I'm
like, why are we doing this? Two thirds of the way through the
game. What are you doing? What are you doing? Dave? I
was It kind of felt like every time I had a grasp of the game
that sort of introduced a fun new concept mm hmm that it was pretty into.
I was like, Oh, I keep mixing it up. That's cool.
Honestly, I would have started it a lot sooner if someone I just
told me there was a restaurant management component. No one felt the need to
mention that. As soon as I got there, I felt betrayed by everyone
who knows me. You didn't bother telling me about the restaurant management component.
So it was the most fun part do the the undersea stuff so I can
get to the restaurant stuff. Yeah, yes, exactly, because I don't
want the restaurant to go out to business exactly. Yeah. I mean I
keep a running list of how to betray my my close friends and peers.
That's what you're known for. Jan. Let's see look what gets back.
All are excited. Jan is like the Randy Orton Jan y Orton of Giant
Bomb. Ye, we're all getting I understand that. I understand what you
mean. Look at you back, Look look at the growth. Look at
the growth, Bailey. One day you'll understand. Uh, folks, I
never understand anything. For me. So far, I can relate. We've
gone to the Let me see if this doesn't break my go excel Art.
Game of the Week second eight, Dan, You and I were part of
the participants in the Scrub League last week during the UPFFE and I you went
like nine to oh mm hmm. And I took a bunch of losses and
I was willing to accept that. And I think I took that over the
weekend and played too much tech and eid. Dan, I don't think there's
too much I found that with that game. I'll pick it up and be
like oh, I've got, you know, twenty minutes here I could play
and then like I get wrapped up some story mode thing or it's like,
oh okay, I got to clear this area and the Avatar quest thing or
something, and I just want to keep going. It is even if you're
just like, you know, maning one character, like I'm almost always playing
as Asusana and I'm just never like I've dabbled with others. But it's just
like it is really rewarding to just learn more and more about like oh,
I didn't realize about you know, that combo or this kick or whatever.
Like it just seems so so deep and it's a game that knows how good
it is. There's just a confidence in the presentation of that game that I
love, and as a single player fighting game fan, someone who never wants
to go online and get super competitive Ebo style or whatever, the fact that
it has so much single player content, like not just the like Beef story
mode and the Avatar Quest mode, but also every character has their like five
fight ladder with their own ending, so like there is anytime I put it
up, I don't even know where I'm going to go. It's like I
know I'm going to find something fun to do across all these different modes.
I think a great evolution of fighting games in the past couple of years is
the training modes have been exponentially better game after game, and second eight specifically
just has it, for whatever reason, for me, a more approachable and
digestible one. I wound up really really liking, Uh, what's the what's
the Leopard's King? King? Yeah, just like, oh shit, this
dude is sick as fuck. Do you know who did the MO cap for
him in the first second? The first second, I believe it's the person
it was like the early ones. No, Minora Suzuki. Holy shit,
that makes them even cooler. Did all the mo cap for King Bailey.
You'll know Minora Suzuki. He's the cool murdered death grandpa that chops you until
your chest bleeds. Oh yeah that's good. Yeah, yeah he's And I've
you know, despite thinking I've learned a bunch through training and then doing like
Dan, like you said, the individual character story bits. Yeah, I'm
still absolutely garbage when I go online, but I'm having fun. Like I'll
get around in on someone and think like, Okay, cool, cool,
cool cool. I think I understand why people like fighting games because I am,
as they say, downloading the the information against the opponent. Now,
what does that mean? That you learn like their their habits and like what
they will generally tend to do. It's the way like a ghost spider,
like, I go, yeah, I will like learn your I did not
try to. I was hoping it did the like dry guitar thing like fortso
where it's like it'll take the way you play and like make it show up
in your friends games. So I went into that ghost training mode as Azusaina,
and I made a point to only do that annoying side flipp thing over
and over in the hopes that it would pop up in my friends games and
just backlip them into oblivion and annoy the shit out of them. But I
don't think that's how it works. I don't think it shows up in other
people's games. Well that's a bummer. So it just happened against me when
I fought my own ghost basically, so I just fucked with myself. I
guess, uh, but did you fucking nailed it? This game has like
a uh interesting confidence to it that's like I don't think I even felt that
in last year's Mortal Kombat. Like I feel like Mortal Kombat just like came
and I was like, yeah, we're a good one of these. We're
resetting the story. Uh Street Fir six. I didn't really get to check
out too much, but like Tech and Age just coming in, It's like,
we know, you fuckers like us, what's good, We're here,
We're a great fucking game. Harada is sick of shit. I mean everything
from the the reveal trailer to that like really fun like Brian Cox thing they
did, Like every it seems like everyone working on this game, from marketing
to like the fighting system is just like, yeah, we know, we're
like doing the best workout there. Like it is. You know, I'm
not enough of a fighting game fan to say whether it's you know, it's
better than the Street Fighter or six or anything like that, because I didn't
get to play a lot of six. I was moving when that came out.
I'm sure it's incredible. I've heard it's great, But for me,
I don't know. I'm so much more drawn to like the tech and world
and those characters in that tone and goddamnit, Phism like right up there with
the best best, not just you know, teching games, so just fighting
games I've ever played. It's nice to see you like something, Dan,
Yeah, yeah, common Yeah it feels good. Yeah, it feels good.
Thank you, yes back. I think I'm going to say that maybe
you know, GB had like the was pulling the phantom threads here because the
story mode for the individual characters has gone back to being super dumb and fun.
Okay, so now I'm on board. I mean now I'm back on
board. You look like I played Street Fighter, I played Mortal Kombat.
I'm just you know, fighting like I kind of just a wave of goodbye
to fighting. I just don't find joy in like the gameplay as much as
I used to. But I will absolutely when we can, when enough time
has passed. Like I would love to do a whole download of like all
the stories. I want to see you know, who's on a rocket shift
into the lots of the sun and volcano people and like all this stuff.
That shit is so unhinged and insane. I can't wait. Jane, did
he beat because he his story? No? No, I've been going for
all the I haven't done any of the Mishima family yet. I've just been
going for the weirdos nice good one. Steve Foxes is weird that one?
Yet? Yeah? God, yeah, Backler, I think I think you
might like this. Like I I tried turning on like the more approachable control
system for a little bit and was having a decent time. Uh do you
think you think DIB has any interest at all in fighting games? Do you
think they got they got a little baby mode? No? No, no,
something more approachable for people. So I thought like, oh, maybe
DIB would like like dipping his toes and that and then maybe so Dib was
absolutely enchanted by uh street Fighter six, Like I think he didn't get he
didn't see MK one for reasons that are understandable. Uh oh, I ever
want except for Dan, but yeah, like one hundred percent. He was
just like, what is this amazing thing? What is this genre of gaming?
I've never seen? Like, what are these people doing to each other?
And I think tech and is like just as sort of PG, you
know, thirteen rated as as Street Fighter is, right, Like, it's
not like gory right now, I never children in the volcanoes, but it's
not bloody. You know, he'll laugh at that. That's that's perfectly fine.
That'll pass through the film. Yeah, it's just like a man with
a tiger head, Like fine, shoot tiger head. It's like it's a
it's gimmicked. It's like a loutant No, that's that's no, he's not
a tiger now. I believe him to be a tiger person. It's funnier
if you think that way. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Like what if
we're not having fun? What are we doing? No? Uh yeah,
I for that reason, I would maybe introduce him to that. It's so
insane. I think like maybe some of the cut scenes are probably inappropriate,
but like all in all, okay, from like yesterday year, I remember
there's like people getting blown up and maybe that's upsetting, but but yeah,
I'm excited to see it. I think like he you know, he played
street I was playing on PC, so he played at a Bongeni was sort
of just like, oh, I'm just button mashing but having fun. And
it's very stylistic and there's a lot of things that eye candy wise, did
you really like get in touch with and if this is easier accessibility wise,
like yeah, maybe maybe maybe we'll do this. Maybe there will be a
sleeperhead of twenty four. Who knows it is one of those games where,
like, I can't imagine anyone looking at it and not being blown away by
just how it looks. Like someone that's never seen a video game before,
or a passing interest or whatever, like just walking through has to be like,
holy shit, look at that, Like it just looks incredible visually.
Yeah, barely any interest at all in becoming the King of the arn Fist.
My major problem isn't bad at fighting games. And I've tried so hard
to be good at fighting games. I went so far as to work at
a fighting game company for a year. I tried my best, the best,
some of the best fighting game players out there tried to teach me how
to play fighting games, and my fingies won't do it. So I really
I support people who have fun with them. I had a great time with
the single player mode and Street Fighter six because I didn't have to use my
skills against any real person. But if it's like a real fighting game that
real people are really playing, I don't think I'm going to be able to
to throw my hat in the ring there. I mean, I don't ever
play against real people. The only time I did it was that one stream
we did and I've just been doing single player stuff and it's fun as well.
I simply, I simply hate being bad at something so relentlessly it gets
frustrating after a while. I did get that a bed. Every day I've
tried. I've tried so hard. I did really like Street Fighter six,
I did, but I was not good at it the second I like,
I think we were at like it was I think Summer Games Fest, and
like we were. We had it in the other room with like fight sticks
and stuff, and Kurt was like, no, no, no, I'm
not that great either. It'll be fine. Kicked my ass like so many
different times, and I was like, I think I'm actually really bad at
this game. I don't think I have a I don't think I have a
shot here. I think I should just sort of throw in the towel with
regards to fighting games and focus on stuff that brings me more joy in victory,
like piloting big blue people to connect with the world. And yeah,
you can find things right into the side of a mountain. If you're not
paying attention, they get hurt fall damaged. Oh they should add nav to
tech and eight huh no, no, nine feet tall. That would be
crazy they have. There's extremely outlandish techn characters. Maybe they are alive alive
in there or some spartan Yeah, an v costume in a nave nov who
cares doesn't matter. A costume in Call of Duty would be so funny though.
Actually though, the character customization in Tech and eight absolutely insane. Some
reations. Yeah, oh that's good, very silly. Yeah. I was
confused as to why, Like when Mike rolled up and he he had his
character dressed up as Ashley from Ari four, I was like, that's a
weird choice for DLC. Is too early for DLC. And then it was
like, oh I made this. I'm like, oh, okay, all
right, And then some people have just been making some Wow, I'm sure
he made that. Hey a Namco. They put John Cena in Mortal Kombat.
John Cena would fit really well in Teken. Yeah. They put John
Cena and Barbie for christ Johnson and everything. Yeah, I'm fine with that.
He's a good egg, right, Yeah, weird one really like him.
You like to be a peacemaker. Yeah, he didn't just put it
in that he was the star of it. Is that John Cena run for
president? He would win. He would definitely win. No, I think
at this point we should just stop letting actors be president. I think,
you know, we tried it a couple of times. It's a hot essay.
It went on this podcast in particular, But like, what if he
didn't run as an actor, he ran universally beloved, he ran as a
wrestler. Now there's a thoughts. See, that's what Reagan should have done.
I can't imagine there's anything problematic about wrestlers. No, anything problematic is
the world of wrestling. No, but that's his storyline. I'm on this
kick lately because I also think Taylor should run for president, but I think
like she would win to I know, I just think, like, uh,
that's John Cena's story, right, Like John Cena made it out of
w W normal, you know, like I mean Rock kind of like paved
the way for two guys are normal, and I'll try the movie thing and
it worked for two guys three Batista three, thank you, Thank you?
Patisa is normal to all right, there's a mount Rush Moore of normal w
W people. Three people. We just need one more Nickley normal Bully by
that those standards normal necessarily normal in the ways we need him normal voice actor
Iba, who is a japan news wrestler before it before getting into the anime
voice acting game. Oh she should count, she's great her in there.
Yeah yeah, let's throw her in back. Mick Pulley wears Christmas and Santa
stuff like three hundred and sixty five days a year. I think that was
qualifies from like just straight up Christmas attire in like may did I even flinch?
I mean, it's not like there's way worse. There's way worse with
ex wrestlers, but I'm an average guy. I fucking love it. Look
again, we have to understand the source. We have to consider the source,
right, yes, yes, yes, yes, normal. Uh.
The last thing I'll say about Teck and eight is that there are an obscene
amount of characters in this, Like Bailey, if you ever wanted to just
like go down the line and just like go through every individual fighter's story,
even though it's just like about five fights per character, right Dan, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, for the character things, Yeah, yeah, I
think you could have like eight thirty two characters. Jesus, you could have
a decent time just doing that and seeing the fun shenanigans that pop off from
that, and hey, maybe soon we'll have some more Ticket eight on the
website. Maybe we'll throw it down on a Thursday with the community, and
perhaps maybe eventually we will rank all of those endings. That's gonna be a
long stream, Jesus. This is just one game, yeah, against all
the other ones, and try to remember them people of the old sheet.
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, let's do that. Let's do that.
Yeah, folks, we'll be back with the news. I'm gonna go
switch hats and put on my news hat right after a quick freaky break.
I'm I'm terrified of the news. I'm terrified of the news. I don't
know how to do it. Anytime Jeff Grubb is out, I'm filled with
so much anxiety because I don't know how to do the news. So I
just try and copy what I see him do in this word doc. Every
week, I'll take a headline and then I'll take three or four bullet points
and do that. We're gonna get through the news, folks. I do
think Tom Brokaw started every segment exactly like this, so you're off to a
great start, yea, and broke out like Grub also orders door dash sheets,
you know from the gas stations, so every time. So get that
in. I gu you know, Tom could have been like going knots on
on Big Max in backstage. You don't know that is he dead Tom Broke,
I don't know. I bet he's old, right, let me see,
No, he's not dead. Thinking of like Peter Jim Peter Jennings.
I don't know how to spell Brokaw eighty brocaus alive baby. I only know
like these like famous news guys mostly from like whoever in person of them on
SNL. So I just remember like day in a car, but Gerald Ford
died today, Like that's the only like Tom Broker I know. Oh my
god, that one is like former prisident Gerald Ford are talked by waves bits
by the propeller of a plane. Yeah, I did. That's someone that
doesn't know who Tom Brokaw is. I know the name, but like I
I'm just gonna nod politely, nod my head. And it sounds like both
of you are doing very good imitations, just like uh other impressions I've heard
of him, oh from like the spy Box games. But was he doing
he was doing Tom Brokaw right, I believe so, Yeah, Dana Cary
doing Tom broke. I think so because he was going on vacation and he
wanted to get a bunch of stuff in the can and they're just getting everything
in the can. Uh, God fucking awesome. This this is news.
But anytime I meet someone new in this building, they asked like, oh,
what do you do if you don't know? Blah blah blah blah.
I'm like, bro compressions. I don't know who is though I'm live.
We know that let's get Tom Broka on the show, should we No,
I don't know. I think he'd dump trucks go too. You don't need
to know anything about anything to be on a dump truck. Yeah, I
love it to speak. Uh, you know, he can join the illustrious
the guest list that we've had on the dump truck like Jared. Yes,
all right. First news story, big news story, also a bummer.
Oh what I was saying? I introduced myself now because of dibb as a
bad YouTuber to people. They and I just don't continue on talking about it
anyway. A big news story that broke last week is Microsoft is cutting nineteen
hundred staff jobs across Xbox, Bethesda, in activision, Blizzard, Grub and
I talked at length about this last week on Game mess Mornings. Phil Spencer's
quoted as saying this was a painful decision, and in a quote obtained from
IGN, Phil Spencer continued that Microsoft will be offering giving full support to those
who are impacted during this transition, including severance benefits informed by local employment laws.
Specifically if you are a citizen of California, those laws are a little
bit more generous for the employee guys. I don't know what to say about
this. I hate that this is one of several news stories of folks getting
laid off from their jobs and just having no general control over any of it
happening, and a lot of them being blindsided. I know the day that
it was happening, Jason Schreyer was tweeting that several Microsoft employees were reaching out
to him and his DMS asking like, Hey, do you know if I
got laid off? Oh shit? And you know, this is already a
tumultuous industry both sides of the fence, right, and to be in that
position where you know a lot of these people may have had to uproot their
lives, move to specific locations for their jobs, et cetera, and are
now caught in a part an unfamiliar part of the country or the world where
they are now suddenly jobless and now hunting for jobs in a very, very
busy market because of all of the other layoffs across not only the video game
industry, but the tech industry as well. Alongside this, Mike Ibarra,
president of Blizzard, has the part of the company you did not get laid
off. He chose to leave on his own accord, and in turn,
because of the layoffs cross Microsoft, Blizzard's survival game that they've been working on
for about two to three years has also been scrapped. Bailey, I'm sorry
that we have you on the podcast. Whenever we talk about massive layoffs and
everything, my opinion is the same every time, So it really does make
it make it a lot easy for me. I don't have to come up
with a fresh one each each time. I just have to keep saying,
like h capitalism is a cancer on society, and it's the it's the little
guy who keeps getting hurt while the corporate big wigs sit in their offices doing
fine, never taking pay cuts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
How sad they are to have done that as someone that doesn't know a
lot about game dev or economics as a whole. And my bank account will
tell you that both stories. Actually, I don't understand how a company becomes
a three trillion dollar company, and I can't, off the top of my
head tell you how many zeros that is because I can't fathom that number of
trillion a lot. Well, you do that is by stealing labor from your
employees, actually, Jan dam, But yeah, how do you do that
and close a sixty nine was it billion or million dollar deal to acquire billion
it's billion billion? Well, that makes it even worse that you can't perhaps
cover nineteen roughly nineteen hundred salaries for the people to actually make the games for
you. But the wild thing is, I believe romy was a tweeting about
this on Twitter that we've already gone over half of the total layoffs from twenty
twenty three. I believe in twenty twenty three it was looking at stories today,
we approximately got close to, if not past, nine thousand folks unfortunately
getting laid off and losing their jobs in the gaming industry specifically, And now
we're around five thousand, with more studios by the day, by the week.
Uh, laying off employees. Yeah, it's it's really fucking miserable no
matter which way you slice it. I'm kind of at the point. Well
I am at the point now. And obviously, like I'm always the first
to blame you know, our you know, our version of capitalism run amok.
Right, of course, I also want to I want to understand.
I want someone to start really like doing the math and and you know,
giving or at least trying to like understand like what exactly else is going on
here. I forget where we were talking. Maybe it was last week's show,
because every show now is going to be about uh, you know,
tech companies and publishers laying people off, right, Like that's it's just gonna
seems like that's what it's gonna be like indefinitely. But I do want to
understand, like like some sort of other economic explanation for like what is actually
happening. Because we talked about how like unemployment in the country is that is
that historic lows? Right? And oh I think someone was asking like why
does this not make bigger help? I think I was asking that last week?
Yeah, right, and my And one of the things that I posited
was like, oh, maybe it's because like you know, it's uh,
we we do have historical low unemployment rates outside of course of our very damaged
section of the labor force. Approaching this particular sector, it seems like fucking
insane, right, So I don't know, I just want some I want
someone trustworthy to do the to do the math and like come up with a
thesis, come up with something like what do you like, what is it?
I know it's not going to fix it. I think I just want
to know what is it? And I and I would imagine it's a combination
of many different things, you know. I don't know if this is like
again all theory, right, Like is this some sort of correction from an
overhiring from COVID? Is it just plain old you know, the bullshit that
we always talk about with you know, doing more with less and endless unrealistic
growth expectations and revenue goals and whatnot, Like like what are we doing?
And because again, we can't go on like this, this is not okay,
And you know, organizing helps, but it doesn't fix it. No,
they or had a surge of power during the pandemic, especially in this
particular sector. Corporate greed is a critical part of this. They also really
want to put workers back in their place and let them know that they don't
have the power. Actually, they can lose their livelihoods at any given moment
for any reason, regardless of how good they did or how many great games
they made. They merge all the companies together and then fire thousands of people
because of redundancies, when in fact they are just buying and gutting the competition,
displacing fourteen thousand total people back into the industry, ensuring that no one
new can ever possibly break in, and removing a lot of the diversity that
we've seen come into the industry because a lot of the people that got laid
off for some of the newer people. And unfortunately that means you're seeing women
of color and people of color, women, etc. You know, not
the traditional not to make it about identity, but like this is an unfortunate
side effect of when you lay off people who are new to the industry.
A lot of people who are new to the industry are people who have benefited
from recent DEI initiatives, and so you're seeing a huge step backwards in what's
in the workforce, and it's depressing as fuck. It's just devastating to witness.
Like my entire timeline on Twitter is just people being like, I don't
know to do now? These are my skills. No one is hiring because
everyone is getting laid off and it's awful. It's just it's miserable. It's
depressing, and there's nothing we can do about it because the corporations are never
going to stop being greedy and the government is not going to come in with
new like anti trust laws in order to put a stop to this. It's
it's it's fucked up, and it's bullshit and it makes me mad. The
other part that's especially maddening is the I don't know, yeah, and I
will say all informed, maybe dumb ass parts of the internet that are celebrating
some of these layoffs. I know we saw some of that with people celebrating
people getting laid off from desks or bungee because of just not liking how destiny
is going. It's like, oh, well, let's get some new blood
in there. I remember seeing the uh is that real? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, it's a quote Wow, look at you back to
quote Austin Walker. I definitely saw one of the worst takes in the world
that made me want to go the fuck to sleep. Uh, and someone
saying, man, fuck all this diversity. Shoot, we should get white
dudes making video games again. That's when games were the best. Now,
I'm like, what you're kidding me? Dog? You know you fucking that
may come for the stuff you hate, but it will also come for the
stuff you love. Layoffs do not give a fuck about what it is you
care about, regardless of if you are a bigot or a normal person.
It will touch everything you love and it will ruin gaming. Already ruined gaming,
except if you're at the top. And then yeah, those people,
Yeah, it pays a sweet little corner office you release the statement of how
you're so sad to have to do. Uh. I'm gonna skip this next
story in Unfortunately, continue with the theme of today of more layoffs, with
the new DA s X game seemingly being canceled because of Idos Montreal laying off
ninety seven people from their workforce. Last game that Idos Montreal released, I
believe those Guardians of the Galaxy, which is a fantastic game that people should
check out and I'm gonna say this, this is partially due to the fact
that Embracer, who bought IDAs Montreal, is restructuring. And I think early
in the pandemic, Bailey, you talked about this about like hiring an obscene
amount of people. IDAs was acquiring virtually anybody that was willing to be bought,
and now is throwing all of those lovely games into the fucking trash.
I hope for TAM's sake that Legacy of Cain can remain unscathed, and that
maybe maybe will buy not even Legacy of Kine is safe. Maybe will buy
it. Can we buy Backlar I'm sure if it's for sale, Damn,
he said it. He said it. We can buy Legacy, Okay,
and let's do it. But what does what does this mean for Embracer if
they're if they suddenly invested so much in an obscene amount of money into gaming
and acquiring all these studios only to uh cancel project after project and in this
restructuring process have laid off an obscene amount of people as well. I mean,
I don't really give a fuck about Embracer, but I think, you
know, I try and just like search for a silver lining with you know
people talented people, right, uh, needing work and you know it.
It's not gonna help. It's not gonna solve problems for every single person.
But I think, you know, some of the positive stuff that comes uh
occasionally is you get you get people sort of coming together and uh, you
know, building something independent and we get like a new studio out of it
that maybe can high and kind of like come out of that on the other
side. Again, it's not going to fix it, but it definitely is
positive. Right, So I don't know, there's no good answer, man.
I'm just continually confused by embracer as a whole entity because did they not
buy all of The Lord of the Rings last year? I don't know,
Like they bought the Lord of the Rings, like the rights to the Lord
of the Rings folks, uh watching listening live? Uh, not not all
of it, but a good chunk of it. Okay, Yes, So
like they only I don't I don't even understand what they mean they bought.
They didn't buy Sam. Sam is pretty good at like he sing out the
parts that they sell. So you wind up watching that mediocre Amazon series and
they can't talk about anything that was in the Silmarillion and it's funny, weird.
They can just imply that things happened, but they're like, but don't
check, we can't, don't ask us, We're not allowed. This is
the sider Man font all over again. Okay, they just bought Ghimli.
It looks like oh, okay, hold on, as well as intellectual property
writes to video games based off of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit
intellectual properties by acquiring Middle Earth enterprises. All right, okay, Jesus Christ.
Maybe we shouldn't let people with hell of money buy just blindly buy things.
I'm just gonna say that. I know it's a bold and brave take.
Maybe people in groups with a lot of money, they we should look
at them with a little bit more scrutiny, and maybe we don't. We
get off my back for buying an expensive coffee grinder, all right, government
fucking layoff. All right, I don't care if I have to pay import
prices, I'll do it. I'll do it in much much lighter news.
Uh, get your party streamers out, Bailey. Don't clap, please don't
clap. I almost did. I saw the hands coming together. We had
to stop you reportedly and rumored the switch to will have an eight inch l
c D screen LCD l c D and if after seeing the o ED switch
and the fandom office and being very very tempted to take it, yeah,
I was like, I stole it. But yeah, go ahead, okay,
okay, good one of us. It's right here, it's right here.
I was like, oh shit, this looks great, and then having
to do like the mental math and then doing the physical math of like I
shouldn't buy an oh, let's switch right now, but I'm thinking about it.
I understand where you're attended here. I understand is I'm bummed out size,
like the screen, the eight inches at the same No, no,
it's bigger, bigger, It's supposed to be bigger. So the o ED
is seven inches like diagonal h and the original switch is six point two.
So this will technically be the biggest handheld coming from Nintendo. Screen wise,
I mean, obviously old would be better, but the thing that I choose
between the old screen and like significantly significantly improved performance and graphics, I'm going
to take the ladder. Oh of course. Yeah, And you know they're
going to do the thing where they do the Olid in like two years or
something like that. And yeah, right, I'm going to buy that ten
inch that ten inch Olid switch is well too big? Is that? Yes?
That might be good? Too big? Yeah, what's that? I
don't think you can go bigger than like nine? What's like an iPad?
Like a traditional iPad? Now? Is the traditional one is ten point two?
Okay? No? Like, well the pros are, aren't the pros
like eleven point nine or there? For the standards? Yeah, I think
mine's ten point two. I can't imagine ten on a switch. Yeah,
yeah, it's a bummer. I mean, obviously Olid is way way better.
But but I also think, like, uh, you know, olead
is is drastic when you are comparing, right, like, yeah, this
is it's going to be fine. We're all gonna it's gonna be fine.
Everything's going to be great. It'll uh, it'll never change in price for
fifteen years and it'll be awesome. Okay, So speaking about price, this
person quoted in the VGC story here who you cannot tell me is not another
alias of Mike Manatti, doctor Circinto. Yeah he's worried about yeah, yeah,
mis nice to meet you. Oh okay, that's mister manati to you,
so doctort mythologies. Wow, so the apple does fall far from the
tree situation. The apple doesn't fall at all. They didn't plant the apple
tree there, right, They chopped all those down and made sure they never
propagated. Mikey Apples has never had an apple. The Doctor Circinto, CEO
of Tokyo based game industry consultancy Canton Games, claims that the console released at
four hundred dollars, which isn't like absolutely wild, Like I'm assuming like if
it's going to be I have a little bit more horsepower underneath, right,
yeah, Like what is a what's the base Steam Deck going at right now?
Five? Well? I mean there's still are you talking about the the
older ones than not O Lead? I guess like when the original three LC
models launched it was like five No, but they're still selling one of the
original LCD, it's like nine or something. They're selling the two fifty six
gigabyte LCD for four hundred, yeah, and then the five twelve O lead
starts at five point fifty? Do we have the switch to will be more
powerful than the first Steam Deck? Now, there's no way you don't think
so, I don't know, I don't think so, I mean, you're
probably probably right, I could see. Yeah, Like I'm just saying that
that's like a gut check though I'm sorry, a knee jerk sort of thing,
but like I don't know, I'm looking at No one in chat really
thinks, but I like, dude, you it comes out and it is
a clearly hardware speaking an inferior system. But that's okay, it doesn't matter,
right, Like, yeah, I mean I've always said that the Nintendo
stopped trying to keep up with the Joneses in terms of horsepower and the GameCube
generation that was the last time where it was comparable. Or GameCube even looked
a little better in PS two in a lot of cases, but I thought
it did too. Yeah, I feel like Xbox was seen as like the
strongest, but then ever since then, it's been the gimmick for better and
for worse, you know, for the Wei or it's all like crazy,
but it was not powerful at all, the we U kind of gimmick that
didn't work, still not powerful, the Switch not powerful, but had a
gimmick that super duper worked. So yeah, they stopped trying to keep up,
you know, And that's it's it's worked, you know, yeah,
I mean it keeps their costs lower. Like the win win win win.
Is the switch to or super switch whatever they were going to call it the
new switch. You do you think there's going to be another dumb gimmick or
not dumb gimmick stick with the switch gimmick. Yeah, if they want to
do some other horseshit thing where they say, oh, it's HD rumble too,
or like you know, there's what's the gimmick that makes sense and is
important like that, Oh you can take this on the go, And then
there's the HD rumbles and the joycon grips and all these other like weird other
Nintendo things the way they like three DS had it like a million different like
ar and things that don't really matter as much as like, you know,
two screens. So just as long as it is portable and is a switch
the way the switch was, they can add whatever. That's fine, but
that's not gonna be the hook. I don't think. Yeah, I think
it's gonna have all the same core functionality with like a handful of quality of
life improvements and and I agree with Dan, like it might have like one
or two dumb ass things. That's just like, all right, it can
it can can tell me my blood oxygen level six, Like, uh,
I don't care. That works great. So I proposed it was either last
week or two weeks ago that it should have an accompanying watch with it,
because I wanted to be a vitality er. I want Yeah, I like
that Bring Back Street Pass, So that's what I was. That was not
the worst. Yeah, that was not the way I love Street. You
go like, yeah, three or something, and then you have like eight
billion puzzle pieces at the end of the day. That's why I want to
That's why I just started throwing shakas up to people in real life, like
what's up, brother? Oh yeah, He's like, oh hang this app
Yes. Yeah. We go from the most convoluted friend system ever with frind
codes and stuff, and then Nintendo just goes straight to just thelth one.
Uh. But I think I don't think it's gonna have detachable joy cons this
time around. You don't think so. I don't think so, because I
feel like Nintendo themselves stopped like leaning into that with a lot of their first
party titles. I think they still do. I think like didn't like Mario
Wonder you could do like you know, the Mario Party games, like some
of them, like you have to like that warrior word just came out where
you have to use both joy cons, you know. Okay, okay,
Mario Party, Mario Party superstars really utilize it, And honestly, it's kind
of nice. Like when I travel with a switch, I know, I
just you know, the two were already attached, and I just bring two
other joy cons, but I know I want to play some poor player Mario
Party with my sisters, So I don't know. I think people use them
enough to keep doing that, Like we probably all have pro controllers and stuff.
But I think a lot of people do use the joy cons for of
course, it only makes sense they make them for us. Yes, absolutely
no one else. You need to be verified and the old cool way to
be verified to buy them. I think I was thinking that mostly because,
oh, hello, jumped on my other cat. Did your catches eat a
parrot? What just happened? Okay, Goose was sleeping and Noodle jumped onto
his body, and Goose was upset about that is what happened. I'd also
be upset a cat jumped on me. It's hit me his butt right here.
There we go. If audio listeners were looking at a cat butt,
I think I was thinking that mostly of them ditching the joy Cons because of
uh, trying to avoid another debacle of joy Con drift. And I've been
looking at all the other I don't want to say copycats, but competition,
like the steam Deck, the asist Roger just being a one thing, brick
type of delio, unlike the Lenovo Legion Go, which is God there,
Jeff Keeley must have a warehouse full of those. Still. Huh yeah,
I would think so I was so massive one thing I would like them to
figure out. And I don't know what the answer to this is is find
a way to label the face buttons in a way that like, I know,
the reason it doesn't work, you know, because it turns, you
know, so like hmm, up isn't up when you turn it. I
hate when a lot of times you're playing games with people that don't play a
lot of games, and I'm explaining how to do something in a Switch game
and I'm like, hit up and up the up face button and They're like,
what do you do? Up face Button's like, well, okay,
stick up And then the top button. It's the one, you know,
the one on the front. It's like, yeah, you need to label
that use letters or something. There was an Xbox controller where the dep head
was rotatable. Yeah, yeah, remember I remember that it would uh yeah,
it was like a late three sixty controller and yeah, rot it was
like changing between like you know, I guess like uh, you know,
having like a northeast directional right, and then just the standard like four way.
Well you could take it out and you could put the like kind of
eight way thing and they're the ones kind of no, this was just one
that this was just one that turned. I don't think it was an elite.
I think it was like it was just like an evolved version of like
the three sixty controller. I think, to what end I kind of remember.
I think it was just going back between like having more depth around the
outline of the deep head piece and then like when you rotated it in another
ninety degrees, it like it like it just sort of like I don't know,
it's just like pushed. It became more flush. There wasn't the deepac
because yeah, the base three sixty deep pad was really lacking and it did
get better, right, Yeah, someone just said in chat it was called
the transforming depad, So maybe they figure out a way to do that and
then like all of a sudden, all the buttons line up. Because you're
totally right like that that's a huge pain in the ass when normies come over.
Yeah, yeah, what was what was like the proper use of that,
Like what game warranted having to turn the D pad. It wasn't that,
it was preference. No, it's while you hold the joy conds by
themselves. So if we're playing for he's asking about the Xbox the Xbox one
said, Yea, I think it was just preference. I think you were
just like like for me, I love I like when my dpad has like
very h identifiable up, down, left, right, I kind of function
and played the ne E S and we judge every dpad off the n E
SD pad, right, Hey you said it, and I me, But
yeah, that's that's that's the thing. I bet so. I've been using
a dpad in a couple of games now, and let me tell you'all,
it fucking hurts my hands. Just give me a stick any day. Just
give me a stick. Yeah. Someone was saying, like, go use
the deep pad for Teken eight and I used it and I was like,
this hurts my hands. I can't do this, and oh, I have
to dpad for TEK and I have to dpad for Tony Hawk. Like it
feels weird to do the thing. If I started playing it with the dpad,
I will never be able to break that in my head. Okay,
actually, deep pad I go back for in Tony Hawk because it feels it
feels wrong, It feels taboo to do it with an analytic like like two
D Mario. Yes, I'm not playing stick way, No, you have
to be a lunatic crazy Okay, so we're not that old. I think
like there is a certain sort of psychosis is required to use a joystick for
for certain platforms. I always feel like, what are you're playing with fire?
There s three D platform it's great for that. Yes, yes,
yes, no, I need a three D Oh well, yeah, of
course, of course I need a three DS analog disc to move stuff around.
I need the PSP Vita nubs. Actually, oh god, I didn't
mind them as much. Was garbage. The beta one got a little better,
but that original one was the worst, terrible. The new three D
s XL one, remember that nub that two games used. Yeah, that's
he was talking about it. Yeah, the codem steam in Major's Mask one.
Yeah yeah, yeah. It felt like a good nub. But when
I would feel it up and target, I'm gonna stop talking. Now Apple's
now allowing game streaming apps. This is them switching their stance on a position
that they've held for quite a long time. This is part of the reason
why x Cloud or now Xbox game Pass was not allowed. This was partially
in part because Apple was blocking the service because no, you need to rate
every single game that comes on here, even though you're streaming the game,
you need to rate every single one. So it's all right. But now
they've switched that position and they are now allowing games. In a recent statement,
they're allowing new options for how Apple can deliver experiences users. So now
developers can submit a single app with a capability to stream games offered in their
catalog. Well, this just seems so wild because every time on any app,
whether it's Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, et cetera, I will always
see an app or an advertisement for a fake game or for a fake app.
And I know y'all talked about this on the very online show. But
I don't understand how Apple can keep getting away or people can keep getting away
back or releasing fake apps, fake games on the service and this all just
trash. Yeah, man, I mean, look, this is our dark
future. What do you want me to tell you? I don't know,
just like point at where a light could be. Perhaps it's a vague direction.
Yeah, I mean I think you know, like the reason this I
don't know. I used to think like everything Apple did after the epic stuff
was just in the service of preventing further litigation for something else that they kind
of felt the hourglass was running dry with. So that's what I always assume
indefinitely that Apple is doing when it does things like this, is like,
oh, they figured something out and they want to avoid litigation, so this
is in service of that. Let me tell you, I completely welcome this
because steam Deck. You know, I'm playing in bed. I've dropped it
on my face maybe like five six times, so you no, it happened
because like you know, well, especially when you're you're trying to play like
Persona three late at night or like a Dragon, and you're in the stretch
of like all right, here's all these cutscenes, we got to try and
digest them, and then like I'll nod off and like onto my face.
I don't wear my glasses and bed thankful, I'll take them off. I've
I've had to stop gaming and wearing my CPAP machine because of that reason,
because it'll just push the the hose into my face more. All right,
So just to be clear, you prioritize gaming over the machine that makes you
breathe. Yeah, yeah, I really just I just wanted to check on
that you're good. Keep going, Bail's life. You know my priorities.
But what I have done is I started streaming the game some games from my
PC to like the Steam app on my phone and using like a like what
is it a backbone on my phone to decent success, you know, Yakuza
since it's turn based, or like a Dragon since it's turn based. Completely
fine, PERSONA three, Completely fine doing it that way. I'll still drop
my phone on my face though, but it hurts less than a Steam deck.
God, Dan, when I when we when we picked up that o
led Steam deck at Valve and I felt how light it was. I was
like, oh my god, I need this because this won't hurt as much
if I drop it on different trying to fracture and a break. Yeah,
yeah, like my origo bone, I can't. I can't rock an eye
patch as well as other people. I don't think. I don't think I've
tried. All right here, Brian Janielsen, does that work? Dan?
I love it. I love I'm quite attached to Jandy Orton now I'm just
during the break. J oh hey, my last names? Oh yeah,
I never mind. I want to say that anyway. Uh, last two
stories here. We've got a state of play this week. He stay to
play. Pop it off tomorrow Wednesday, January thirty, first, two pm
Pacific. Whatever that is for every other time zone. Uh. Supposedly forty
minutes long and will significantly feature Rise of the Ronan and wait, everyone,
wait, everyone's favorite upcoming game, Stellar Blade. Y'all remember that one?
Come again? Come again? Did you make up that game name? Jen?
No, Stellar Blade? It's one in there to see if we could
guess which one was fun, I'm not I would have oh toom Ninja.
Okay, yeah yeah, Rise of the Ronan. This is like the second
row looking one that we all all were like, oh that's cool. Oh
interesting Okay, Stellar Blade I learned this from Gene Park shouts out to Gene.
Stellar Blade's main protagonist is based on big time Korean model Shinn Jay Yun.
I'll let you all google that on your own time, and I was
just pleasantly surprised by that. Also, well, we'll see no googling.
What I am doing is attempting to don't you no, no, don't you
dare no? Shut up? What the fantasy critic? I need you to
be How do you know him? On? There? I see, I
see like the the windows in your glasses back? Are you need you to
be present for this podcast? You get off our Fantasy League? All right?
What you need to know, what you need to know is that someone
after this uh state of play I'm willing to bet, is going to go
after this thing. Who's it going to be? Is what I want to
know. Who is going to succumb to the marketing? Oh, I mean
you're it's either going to be me or shot. It's gonna be shot.
This is what it's Okay, we don't bid that much, but rumors are
abound for the state of play. Sony is saying that there's gonna be several
new titles for the PS five and PSVR two that are slated for a twenty
twenty four release. You think we're finally going to get an astrobot? Perhaps,
keep dreaming. I would love that. That would be excellent, Dan,
when's the last time you fired up the PSVR two when we made that
video before it came out. No way, what's it been doing. It's
in a box in my storage room. I have not even considered bringing it
out once. Yeah, why would you? Why would you? Why would
you? But you're not interested in the Mountain. No, No, I'm
not either, but I would for astrobot if there does. Yes, yes,
yeah, I'm curious before remake and VR, but not really pull it
out of storage? Interesting? Like are you gonna play that whole goddamn game
in VR? Like? What are we doing? Oh? I should make
my dad that he's playing through resonue before again. I should make him play
remakeing VR when he comes up next week. Okay, now, all of
a sudden, I'm on make a note to make him do that. Okay.
He remind Dan to remind his himself to play make Paul play through r
E four dancing and Chats one hundredercent correct, like the fact that they didn't
just re release Astrobot on ps VR two, like can like can you rescue
mission? Yeah? Likes compatible, it's not right, that's one of the
decisions about it. Yeah smart, Yeah, Yeah, they they make they
make good choices there, but rumors are abound. Uh. This credit to
xbox eras Nick Baker, as well as prolific leaker Bill Bill kuhn. Oh.
Something I've common with prolific leaker our thinking death stranding too may pop up
at the end of the state of play. I'd be into that, would
you. Yeah. Yeah, I took a massive turn on death stranding.
I thought it was when I don't want to say the worst things, just
the most baffling things to come out pretty baffling. And then the director's cut
came out, Ye back are And then I was like, all right,
I get it? Do I really? I think I think I would maybe
entertain playing the director's cut. And now it's perfect because I like churches now
and that game starts with the churches songs. Yeahry. Back in the old
days, there were no use. That's how it worked. That's why sometimes
subway sometimes in Manhattan, like an old subway sign that says the way the
way. Now that hurts my mouth. I thought you were talking about the
food chain, and I was like, how long have they been around?
That's like the U thing seems much older. I was also thinking the subway
sandwich sandwiches about the subway. New York has shoot subways, right, that
shop shoot as subway. We still need to get that foot long show and
foot long cookie, Dan, we need Friday that for you long cookie and
how exactly what it sounds like? Yeah, I saw a commercial during Roll
last night and they are exactly what are we talking about? Girth? Three
inch? I would say three inches a girth? What it's cylindric? It's
it's it's flat. It's not cylindrical. I wouldn't. It's not like a
cookie dough. It's not a Yeah, it's not a cookie tube. It's
maybe like two two key caps wide distance. Well, now you're speaking my
language. I can't understand. Okay, all right, what is New York
to Miami and keycaps back? Oh? You know this off the top of
your head. Ye. Hey, we're only so many key caps around the
sun. Just gonna make that. But it was Wow, I'm looking at
this cookie cookie abomination, and I can't say I approve this. You know
what, There's only one situation where I would eat this, and that's at
like a super Bowl party. Like that's the only, uh environment that I
could indulge in this. It comes with a safety tray when you buy it,
though, backlar So, like the cookies break, does it have like
a like a helpline written on it or something like? What makes it so
safe? Like you've purchased a foot long cookie? And if you finish it,
here's a number you should call. You're beyond You're beyond help if you've
gone that far to buy a twelve Wait you guys, you guys, am
I looking at this correctly? Are some of them like savory instead of sweet?
Like that's just the sandwiches? Back Lart, you're just looking at the
sandwiches? No, wait one of them? Wait? Are these all cookie
bases? I'm gonna look at a press release because you're confusing. I hate
that I'm on the same page of a subway press release. And listen.
Oh no, that's a pretzel. That's a pretzel that you're looking at.
I want that one when we do foot long Friday. I got DIBs on
the pretzel. Wait, because one of them is like peanuts, And I'm
sorry. All this white drizzle shit is just it's very off putting. Always.
It's just like I know the tricks that they use when they take these
photos, and it is upset. Let me just say, where are you
seeing white? Oh? Okay, all right, okay, I see what
you're think. I'm taking some sort of like liberty here. I mean,
come on, it's pretty explicit. I don't know what they're doing here.
I can't get done with potato chips on cookies. But is it? So
we're looking at it. We're looking at like Brownie I'm sorry for for audio
listeners. We are looking at four examples of whatever this abomination is. Look
and they alternate between what appears to be like brownie cookies that are like a
foot wide and like you put it, three key caps wide, three games
long, and then there's like a cookie base but with like I'm assuming that's
peanut, butter, pickles, bacon, and potato chips, so it's like
with like very thin white dressing. These all these all have names and I'll
share them after Backlars. Okay. Then there's one that's just like cookies and
sprinkles and icing, which I think icing is a charitable description for what this
white shit looks like. And then there's like another this is probably my favorite.
This is another brownie based cookie with pretzels, peanut butter cups I think
just straight up peanut butter, and then maybe uh Reese's pieces. And then
the bottom one appears to be some sort of like it's a it's a chocolate
chip cookie with white and black chocolate chips. I want to say those are
like corn nuts or no, you're right correct there, and they're also like
peppered with some sort of like spice. It could be hell are Yeah,
you're nailing this just from visuals alone. That's really surprissed, Detective ye this
moment, I'm having my back. And then I want to say, also
mixed in is like maybe a barbecue sauce there too, because they're fucking animal
close. You're really close. Yeah, but some sense, But I think
that I actually do think the one, the one with the core nuts on
it sounds really interesting to me. But Jen, you do it, like
you you you break the news to him. So the image that Backlar has
been describing, uh Subway has updated their cover photo apparently and named these cookie
creations. The first one is the Subway Cookie Club, so it's just their
regular cookies put on top of the Brownie foot long cookie. The second one
is the Great Pickle, would features peanut butter pickles and potato chips savory bacon
crumbles as well, like like, are you not reading this from the press
release? That's the Great Pickle. The most unique cookie on the menu showcases
the signature flavor. It's star ingredient, just like the Great Garlic Number eights
up. This sweet and savory cookie layers both peanut butter and marshmallow crem on
top. So it's a fluffer nutter cookie topped with potato chips, savory bacon
crumbles, and Subways brand new deal pickles. I'll eat it. I don't
care. I don't care about the one human life I have. Let's go.
Are we looking at different Subway press release? They have released infinite press
releases about this all right? Anyway? The last two U the one with
the pretzels backlar is called the Monster, and then the last one with corn
actually has corn. It is the MEXICALI what's the what's the red stuff Bill,
you have the press release, Okay, mullet, Yeah, MEXICALI starts
with a vanilla sugar cookie bass smothered in dulcet leche and then topped with and
corn nuts, drizzled with white chocolate sauce, and finished with ground coffee to
heen and espresso chips. Team Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I would
also fuck with that. Yes, I'm more interested in the savory ones than
the swo ones. I know A cookies tastes like, let's let's get weird.
This picture is fucked up. That was not the new last news story
of the day, folks, but hey, Subway, if you want to
give us a bunch of foot long cookies, you know my number. The
last new story of the day. To celebrate the sixty year anniversary Celeste,
a couple of the devs have made input on itch Celeste sixty four. Oh
I almost clapped again, Bailey, No classic. Sorry, I'm so sorry,
Sean. This is a neat little thing. I checked out a little
bit of it, but it is like a Nintendo sixty four platform or inspired
version remake of the first couple levels from Celeste and Yo. Reminder that one
we're old as shit now if this is it's been six years since The Less
came out, and two it's a good game, great game, go check
it out. Game, good game. How how fully you said this is
a free thing? Is this supposed to be just like a very quick,
little like tech demo thing or is there like a beginning and end? And
they made this in a short amount of time and I think it was just
to commemorate the anniverse or okay, which was a couple levels. So I
don't know if they have any intent on making a big thang out of it.
Oh. Actually, the last news story here is that Rock Study pulled
Suicide Squad an hour into early access after players had their games auto completed,
which okay, so that okay, I know we kind of like buried the
lead here, but like, does that mean you like boot the game up
and it's like you hit start and then you see the credits and it's like
achievement unlocked? Like what happened? I didn't dig that much deeper in because
it still baffles me that this game is coming out this week. I still
don't think it actually is. Yeah, I saw a friend of the site,
Jesse Norris, Uh play a little bit of it, and it looked
like a game I've heard it's one of those. Yeah, yeah, I'll
boot it up if I ever like get my hands on it, Like,
yeah, we have to boot it up. I try it, I'll try
it. I feel like I asked for a Cody code. Can I be
Badie code? No, we have no Batman's bad I think in this you
got to kill him. I want to be Batman. You could be some
O Joe in this one. No, isn't this one? The commercial?
Wait? Isn't there is in the cartoon? Is doing okay? All right?
All right? But I love how much work Joe is getting in games
lately or games adjacent things between, like twists, and I know he's loving
it. Keep doing that. This mojo is excellent. Keep giving him work.
The dude loves games. Uh yeah, in front of the site to
Mojo. Yeah. Oh, put Ben's Starr and Samoa Joe in something together
that work really well. Yes, I'm sure Ben Star would be fine getting
soup lexed or like in a Cookina clutch. Oh Jesus, Yes, I
think he'd be a good sport about it. If we're ever all in the
same city. We'll all go to Buffalo wol Wings together. How does that
sound? That was? Let me tell you if we if we could just
you know, swerve back into into our lane. Here a little bit on
the notion of rock Steady games. Oh okay, I just wanted to go
back all the way into the cookies. Well, buddy, I feel like
when you said, you're like, I want to be Batman, right,
Like, yeah, I'm I'm ready to be Batman again. I feel like
the last one was twenty fifteen, right, is that true night? Yeah,
that would have been about twenty fifteen. Yeah, so let's go.
I'm ready, Like, I don't know, I don't know what. I
don't want to pass judgment on Suicide Squad. I don't want to. But
also I want to play Batman. I want to be Batman again, and
I'm ready for like something else with that guy. Are you looking for something
similar to like the Arkham series or no? I want an evolution. I
want something. I mean, I like those games are very good, and
I just don't know how much juice is left to squeeze out of that,
right, you know, just just bring just let's do something. I think
that's a great character to play as I don't you know, I don't care
what we got to do, but like, I just think we're kind of
there, Like, I don't know it. Maybe perhaps too many of those
came out and too much of a compressed timeline, which is why we all
sort of grew a bit tired of it. I understand that that's what happens.
But now six what is it eight years removed from the last one,
and uh, I'm gonna good and that itch again and another like Asylum style
one a little more condensed, not open the world, you know, more
kind of Metroidvania than g t A. I want that. Yep. Yeah,
Okay, if we're doing Asylum, I could do that again. I
could do that. Yeah. If we play through Suicide Squad, I call
Harley Quinn. I'm just saying, as as the Harley of the team.
You know, you're the only one with the doctor. Yeah. I don't
want to be any of those people. Okay, you have to be anyone.
I have such bad news for you about how video games work. Back,
are you gonna have to be Captain Boomerang? Who the fuck is that
gonna be? Captain Boomerang? Captain Boomerang, you can see Suicide Squad or
the Suicide Squad. New you're familiar with the works of Captain Boomerang, I
know, I know shocking. I guess I'll be the shark person. No,
oh, well do you want to be because I'm not playing because some
in this one you want to be? Dead Shot is a dead shot that's
in this one dead shot? Oh? I know who dead shot is?
Is that Will Smith? Anyway, Dan, I thought we could all go
to a Buffalo Wild Wings when we all go out to packs East, But
the closest one to the convention center is permanently closed. That's now we're gonna
there will be plenty of places to go in in Boston. No, specifically
a Buffalo Wild Wings. I was the guy I don't have to go.
It was not the travel like the McDonald's in Japan. Okay, like we
don't have to do that. I still have my captain's jersey from the Buffalo
Wild Wings in Seattle, from when I stayed there an entire weekend and they
gave me the remote to the TV and a manager of jersey and in name
tag they made me a custom name tag. I want to go back.
God the nearest Buffalo wild Wings. It looks like, oh, it's only
half an hour by car if we want to do that. It's kind of
a higher Buffalo wild But even I think that's a bit of a bike.
I've been to Buffalo. I'm sorry, but you were all insane. It's
good. There's nothing because they have good. It's good. It's not you're
like, in a couple of years, you're gonna you're gonna shovel that place
in the same category as you shovel like TGI Fridays. Correct, that doesn't
mean it's bad, it's it's fucking tri Also, love a good I love
a little Fridays. I mean Fridays is probably the best out of all of
those. I put Red Robin on a higher tier than a TGI Fridays.
I think they are competitors with each other and therefore you can't But Red Robin
has bottomless steak fries and will fuck you up. I think that's the fun
seasoning salted when exist. I just like when diners exist, going to one
of those you know, worky jerky place. Not everyone has a billion really
good diners surrounding them, you know, yeah, I know, serve their
purpose. These these places are good. We're made of a fine taste.
But yeah, can we we should rank? Like what are they? What
are those? What are these restaurants called? Like Chipotle like that type of
thing. Oh, but but Friday is this episode. I would call them
mid tier chain restaurants. Yeah, chain, like these are Olive Garden,
these are like those places. But wreckers. Yeah, speaking of trashed here
mid range restaurants. I uh. We have my mom's seventieth over the weekend
and we're like, oh, what do you want to do? And she's
like, oh, I want a big ass lobster dinner. So my brother,
as the seafood connossour that he is, arranged a wildly delicious lobster dinner,
the freshest lopster I've had in a very long time. Yeah. All
the asses on the lobster were enormous. It was crazy, the dut was
on these lobsters. But I did something I brought introduced a little bit of
a wild card that I think you'll be on board, h Dan record.
We went out and got red Lobster biscuit mix. Oh yo. I was
blown away, Like I haven't been to red lobster in probably fifteen years.
But the but whenever I would go as a as a small child, I
would eat six or seven of those biscuits. That's so salt, it's all.
It's not even that it's fine when you're young. It's probably like twenty
seven hundred calories or something inhumane. But like, holy shit, you make
a really good out of those biscuits. Those hits are legit and they and
now that you can just like add water and throw them in an oven.
Really Yeah, but I feel like I've only had Red Lobster once, and
I do remember the biscuits being very good. Are they are sidething else?
I consider myself a fancy lad when it comes to eating, But I still
feel like Red Lobster's out of my price range. Some reason, I expectation
in my head. You live in San Francisco. What are you talking about?
One taco is like eighteen dollars. Now, that's not a lie mentioned
the chat. Don't act surprise. But I love Red Lobster. I'm not
surprised. But let me tell you. Do they sell vegetables there? I
feel like they don't. No, no, no, there's no there's like
broccoli and potatoes. You have to think about it. Yeah, No,
for sure. I went on to TGI Friday's under the promotions tab and apparently
they've said effet to happy hour because it's happy every hour, nice all day,
every day. Four dollars cocktails. I don't know how to say that.
That means none of the hours are a happy hour. They know that,
right, it's just a sad time. Yeah, you need to add
on top of that, that's an actual deal. Yeah, four dollars cocktails.
Wow, someone that doesn't drink a lot lately, I kind of just
want to go for the vibes for four dollars will get me in the door.
That's pretty intriguing. I looked in my wall the other day's like,
oh hey, I got four singles here, let's go. I could have
went CGI Fridays and got not quite a buzz, but like a drink.
Perhaps. All right, that does it. About the news, I'm gonna
switch hats, put on my email's hat and uh, Jeff grab please come
back. I don't want to do the news by myself ever again. Oh
god, it's just fucking emails. That's what we're doing now. I know
how to do these. I read all of them. I cherish all of
them. No, matter what your message is. And also, folks,
don't don't worry about the emails. If you say something and like you feel
bad about it afterwards, don't worry. Just goes over my head. Don't
trip, chocolate chip. It's all good. Okay, you're implying there's some
sort of email regret thing going on. Well, you know, like people
have strong opinions and you know, like voicing concerns and commentary. I'm like,
you all are entitled to your commentary and concerns. Don't feel bad about
that. To doubt yourself and feel regret is not necessary, not necessarily something
I'd like to discourage in the gaming community. I think it's a good instinct.
Well mostly it's like, hey, if you if you're gonna, if
you're gonna take the time to eat right in, don't feel bad about it
right in whatever you got. I completely welcome all emails, whatever they may
be. Oh, jam, maybe you know I don't feel as exactly the
way you do, but similar spot would anyone like coupon for jolly Be that
someone signed us up for huh, there's one around. I'm anti cupa.
I never seen jelly Be. The other day I was really just craving some
chicken and spaghetti. That's you know, that's what my people have offered to
the world. Chicken and spaghetti. Spaghetti. You come with hot dogs.
God that I don't know what to think anymore. I'm just thinking of Jolly
be and what I what I what I need in my life for lunch.
I'll send you a coupon. I'm thinking about shrimp shrimp rings. I don't
know why shrimp rings, ring, shrimp rings, shrink ring of shrimp?
Is it a ring of shrimp, a ring for shrimp, a ring by
shrimp, just like seventy five shrimp in a circular pattern, flanked, all
flanking a gigantic cocktail target. This is because I brought a cocktail shrimp.
It's too much shrimp, y'all. I don't know what she was thinking,
Like, I'm looking at the container every time I open up the fridge,
and I'm like, what are we going to do with all the shrimp?
Oh? Did your partner by like a party's worth of shrimp? Or you
weren't here for that? Yeah, I was. Yeah, she just went
into Costco to buy contacts, and then she came out with contacts and a
bunch of cocktail shrimp. I respect that so much, though, like impulse
buying a platter of cocktail shrimp is a very good bit. Actually, what's
the was it? Is it impulse buying or like purpose buying? Because she
looked at me and she already was like, I know what you're gonna say.
It's because you didn't go with inside with me that I bought the cocktail
shrimp. You would have said no, And I was like, yeah,
I would have said no, But here we are with a bunch of shrimp.
But the funny thing about shrimp is I feel like I'm a bit I
have like Reiker brain when it comes to shrimp because I'm just like, I
don't know if shrimp are bad for me. I'm just eating seventy eight of
them, and I don't know, Like when they look like color, they
have a lot of fat in them, like what what are here's the right
brand about shrimp? They taste fine. I like them in popcorn form,
but I always am confused when I eat the confused and scared when I do
eat them, because I know it's just like sometimes they have this like tail
that you eat it and you just die, and I don't know when you
no, no, billy, bring it up, don't just keep walking,
just keep walking. I nip over this person. Every once in a while,
I'll be at a place and I'll get like a nice pasta dish or
something, and it'll have shrimp in it or something, and it's just like,
how do you Somebody needs to tell me, like, oh, we
took all the tails off. You can eat these, and then sometimes you
have to like take the thing out. But I don't understand the science of
like when is enough tail gone? So we cut off like the tiniest portion
of the head that's as far from the tail as possible. And I know
I'm just wasting a bunch of good meat. But it's just well you shouldn't
have to worry about this correction. Food should be easier than this. No,
I'm kind of with you, like I have seen tailed shrimp and just
for everyone on the show, just for it, so I could speak to
everyone like usually people remove this detail. Okay, that's just the thing people
usually do, which is fine. But have whatever you want to do is
fine though, But yes, I'm with you, Dan, like I've had
pasta dishes with a shrimp tail intact and I'm like, what the fuck?
Yeah, why that dealing with us in the kitchen? Why am I doing?
Like? I shouldn't have to worry about this. I don't know food.
You do you work at a restaurant, well, a pasta dish should
absolutely have the tails removed. Okay, because nobody you want the tails?
Why would you ever want that? I think in like kebab form sometimes day
on there you want to just eat the thing you want to do work first,
No, look like Tempora style, they're in there always this always.
This goes back to my dream of at some point we all just realize at
steakhouses, if you order a flat mignon and you have, you order a
stake at a restaurant, fucking cut it in the back before you bring it
out. Put it in like a waffle maker situation where it's all blazed,
bring it out, ready to eat. Not here's food. Now, do
a bunch of bullshit work before you can eat it. Oh you're complaining about
cutting up a full let correct, No, dancy, you're just wrong.
You're justly wrong. I want to eat because I don't want to like thirty
times, do a bunch of this ship Okay, exactly it'll you keep the
meat together, all the juice juice spray can or something. And if you
hire servant to cut your food for you, dad to chew my food.
I wish someone would come over and chew my food and just regurgitate it my
salad, because baby, I'm not I'm not unreasonable. I own food.
Then we are like at some point the conversation always hits like the Dan paradox,
where like you're like you're on board and you're like, yeah, well
I do shrimp have tails when they're severed? To me, that's ridiculous,
And then you just go off in a direction. You're like, you know
what, all food should be pre cut when you're there to relax and have
a delicious you know, you're not there to do a bunch of busy work.
You sound like a fucking child. You if you went to a nice
restaurant and somebody said like, hey, do all this math work, you
know, before you eat your steak? Would you do that? Like if
you math after a tip? There is a restaurant. You know, you
make fun of Dylan a lot, but you sure should have a lot in
common with him. Real okay cutting himself, Yeah, even even Minati is
looking at you like this person is beneath me. I mean, come on,
from a culinary dinner going experience, you got it all. Do you
enjoy the act of cutting food? Yeah, cutting into a real nice steak,
checking out the temperature, being like more than eating, you do what
you eat the eyes of it. You by cutting it, you are customizing
the stake. You were deciding how much of a bite you win. Restaurant
and they say like, oh, we got great food inside, but you
got to mow the lawn first. What No, you're right, that's the
same thing and your point is really valid. Thank you. You talked you
have to clean the dishes too, and do exactly see sounds silly, doesn't
it? Same concept at neutral Okay, jan in here because we all know
who's lucid and who's delusional. Steve from Kingston the right thing either, the
right thing either, they write into the show BombCast. Gime bomb dot com
is email interests to send your emails to just send anything. How were you
feeling? Whatever you want? Maybe stop signing us up for magazines please,
hi bomb crew. In summer, I'm heading to New York for a holiday
with my wife. My wife and six year old son. It's my first
time in America and I wanted to ask you guys if there's anything you recommend
doing in New York. Something video game related would be cool. We have
a Nintendo store on our agenda. Also, any museums you recommend or things
to go and see that are not so well known to turists. Keep up
the good work. Steve from Kings Upon Whole, England. Video game wise,
Nintendo Sore is definitely the number one thing there. I've got some cat
action going back here with love. Oh god, it looks like it.
I mean there's barcades and stuff, but like I feel like barcades are not
uncommon these days. Museum. Oh yeah, that's in Queens right, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Like I love
that. I was gonna say, just ride the train back and forth forever,
but they got trains in England. Go to the train museum. The
met is fantastic. Yes, I used to go there pretty free, like
live by there and yeah, like the Googs I went to go. Yeah
that was good. What else? Rent a car and drive on the right
side of the road. No, do not rent the car city and drive
around on the right side of the road. Even do that? Could you?
Like, I almost can't even believe you can do that. They're coming
from England and they got experience what we have. If you're up for having
a very bummer afternoon, the nine eleven Museum is actually very well done.
I would say, yeah, that's worth checking out. Uh tem a museum
right after keep that vibe going thirty. I don't know if you're a TV
nerd or anything, I've been, the thirty Rock is interesting historically if you're
an old like you know, late Night an SNL fan. What else?
Obviously pizza, commedy sellers like the comedy seller a lot get Chinese food in
New York. It is better than what you have in England. I promise
you this. It's going to be very different from what you have in England
as well. Yeah, I don't know, so it's like such an impossible
thing to I would I would look, I would steer clear of Time Square.
I know that's a cliche by now, where it's like, oh I
have to see it, just sure, sure, sar, Come on,
do you think someone's going to New York from another country they don't want to
at least see times Square. I get that it sucks. It does,
but if you live I'm not saying don't go. I'm not saying I'm not
saying don't go. I'm just saying, don't carve out three hours for it,
you know. I but like, you have to understand why somebody would
want to take that. It's like saying like, oh, yeah, come
to San Francisco. I don't look at the Golden Gay Bridge. You know.
It's like, of course, but is the Golden Gate Bridge the third
circle of Hell? No? Times Square does suck. It does exactly like
I'm not. You know, maybe maybe you see a show. Maybe I
would see a Broadway show. I think that's a great thing. Yeah,
if you can swing that, right, if you could swing that, and
then you'll basically be close enough to Times Square to just sort of swing by
and be harassed by someone in an Almo costume, and then you'll be like,
oh, cool America. Yeah, I mean it's I think it's tough.
I think I think you should not be scared to ask people for directions.
I think you should take the subway if you're comfortable with it. I
think you should explore and walk. I mean the best thing about New York
is that it's an incredibly walkable city. So I think take advantage of that.
The highlight highlines, if you want to walk around highlands fantastic. Yeah,
yeah, I think yeah. I just think, like, uh,
it doesn't hurt to maybe ask friends who you who have from where. I
think it's tough also to tell people like what to do based off like not
knowing the type of people they are. You know what I mean. Family,
yea, by some hot nuts, Get those nuts. Get those nuts
and a bagel. Just eat bagels, three meals a day. You'll be
fine. Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's enough to satisfy a six year
old, right, just give them a bagel. It's it. I loved
those Hulal trucks with like the red sauce and the white sauce and stuff,
and like I never really saw those anywhere else, Like that's a very New
York thing to me, Like I love those. Yeah, go to a
food stand, yeah yeah, get some get some street meat. It's always
a good time. You're you're If you get sick afterwards, you'll be stronger
from it. Part of the experience. I think it's worth visiting, Like
all the little villages too, Like every place that has a name, you
know, whether it's Hell's Kitchen or the village. I think get a little,
get a little taste of each section of the city. I think people
really put everything in perspective. Go play Spider Man. If there's something that
really floats your boat there, go visit it in real life. Yeah,
if you like any movies set in New York, visit some notable set pieces.
You know, you'd see the fountain where they almost killed John Wick.
Anyway, next email comes from Greg from Portland. Hayti Lely Hobombrino's strand is
the Dutch word for beach. Coincidence, cheers duders for Portland. Strand is
the Dutch word for beach. I'm assuming they're talking about death stranding. Yeah,
well, the rumored name for Death Stranding two is something beach. It
was a Princess beach. I don't think it was Princess Beach beach in yeah,
back, you know they say that in the game, right, they
say Mario and Princess Beach and Destrandy. You're aware of that, right,
okay, okay, yeah, of course, of course, it's not the
beach that makes you old. It's just a beach not I really was trying
to think of a way to say the beach that makes you old. I
should have just said it. You're right, everybody, it's a it's a
beach strand game is really how that's like the full way you talk about it.
I mean, doesn't every beach make you old the longer you stay there?
Like if you do everything, I think everything, everything you do,
that's just that's just the slow marsh of time. Baby just brings you around
the sun a little bit faster. God, we should just put that on
a shirt somehow. What's your brother's no way to do it? No possible
way. They took the printing press away from us. Uh all right.
Next email comes from Kenyon from Texas here, and they're writing in response to
an emailer from last week. Hey bomb cast me again. Just finish the
last episode and realize me and the guy that messed up his arm are basically
asked the same basically asked the same question LMAO. To clarify, I'm asking
about PC games. Hope his arm gets better. If not, he should
get a PC at Balder's Gate. Three cheers Kenyan from Texas. Uh,
this person the original emailer they're writing about was asking about good one arm or
one handed games to play while their arm is healing from tendon surgery. But
they don't have a PC. Get that PlayStation one controller for RPGs. That
right, Yeah, just for that, Yeah you could do uh yeah.
I had also recommended we bowling, but then the concern was that they're going
to injure their other arm. Mmmm with fantastic fantastic uh. Next email comes
from Doug from Harrisonburg, Virginia. I'm gonna assume that's what VA is.
I don't know the states. Yeah, Virginia is that they're right? What
else would it be? Vegas? No, it's it's it's VA means a
Virginia. You got it, baby, There we go, There we go.
I know the states. I remembered all of them from uh MS Desimoni's
second grade class, Las Vegas. Hell about BombCast friends. I'm catching up
on the BombCast and Jeff Beckler mentioned adding the cast of Cheers as skins in
Call of Duty multiplayer. I'm an older gamer. I forgot that, and
I request that the BombCast uses its influence to empower to get alf and or
mister Belvidere as Skins in Call of Duty. If you attempt a tea bag
with mister Belvidere, you will you will day because of the one time mister
Belvidere sat on his balls while shooting the show. Thanks Doug from Harrisonburg,
Virginia. That's such a weird thing that everyone knows or something right about.
Mister bel Belvidere do that once and it haunted them for ever. Yeah,
it's like the Marilyn Manson rib thing. It's just like one of these string
Yeah, right, Like you're like, what, no, obviously Alf in
Call of Duty? Is the movie good? I mean I would take for
alf. Oh yeah yeah, but Bailey's right, like the hip box on
ALF is gonna be rough, like like four feet tall. Yeah, don't
they have groot? And that's good? That was good. Grenade out like
like, let me stay Frosty. Can we get a take? I just
stop laughing all that. I do feel like stave Frosty. You know what
I say, Stay Frosty. So many classic sitcom characters that would you greet
in Call of Duty? Friend Dresher, can we get a nanny? Call
of al Borland? A Camo flannel? He's I don't. I don't think
his his voice over his soundbites would be as exciting as friends, though he
would have very exciting sound bites, like the nanny in Call of Duty is
really doing it for me in the theater of my mind here? Yeah,
you know, apparently they've added or are adding the Walking Dead characters to Call
of Duty? Does this interest you, Jeff, it doesn't. I'm sorry,
it just doesn't. They're gonna risk me less interested in Call of d
which to me didn't feel possible. It's fun to put things that don't belong
in Call of Duty, like burdenery. Yeah, exactly, like put motherfucking
snuffle of Ficus in Call of Duty. Adults can't see him, Yeah,
he's Big Brud's imaginary friend. I don't think I knew that he was imaginary,
and I got a lot of ship to fail. He's real, inas
much as any of the Sesame Street characters are sure saying in the canon of
the show, is say, Bird's imaginary friend? What do you? No
one can see him? They're all real? Are the adults can't? The
adults cannot see snuffle off? I guess yeah, because he's a Big Bird's
imaginary friend. He's a giant like elephant, if I'm not mistaken. They
pivoted on that later because they thought optically it was bad to tell kids that
adults won't believe them if they tell them stuff. Oh Jesus, okay,
initially he was Big Bird's imaginary friend. Yeah, okay, all right,
I'm glad they walked that back. Oh so, yes, I think that's
what's fun about call of duty, Like Shredder is in call of duty,
and as it insane as it sounds like, it's just funny. It's just
funny. Like even Spawn, who's like just a violent person, being in
call of duty feels ridiculous. Obviously, Nicki Minaj is like a total farce,
right, Like what is happening? Oh my god? I heard about
that they should capitalize on the food and get Megan in there too. I
heard about that through I don't I buy twenty How I gotta put my I
gotta put my money on the side. I believe it exactly. This is
how wrapper beefs should be settled. Now, just buying call duty? Who
sells them? But yeah, put alf in call duty. I guess we
buy six to be tall, like I would buy a Tony Yeo skin in
twenty twenty four. Sure, just so we can Rea, Just so I
can yell at someone like Ayo fifty. If you know what all the like
Snake Oil and n FT people said about, like, oh, you'll be
able to buy the skin, you can use it in Minecraft and Call of
Duty. If that actually worked that way, can you imagine if you got
Tony Yao, Oh my, you could be him and Mario Kart. Hell
yeah, I'm Tony Yeo in uh in top key and Batwa, I'd get
Lloyd Bank like wow, oh man, all right. Last email of the
show comes from Giuseppe in Las Vegas, and Giuseppe is always fun name from
from where last Vegas? There we go, Thank you, thank you,
hiall. I started playing the New Prince of Persia Parenthesis, a great game,
and I've been using the bird companion charm that came with the Deluxe edition.
The screech that the bird makes every three seconds for seemingly no reason,
Oh god, is the most annoying sound in a video game I've ever experienced.
Do you all have a particular sound from a game that seared into your
memory at this point for being so annoying? Have a great week Giuseppe in
Las Vegas. I mean, I think the famous one is Navvy in Ockerineum
Time listen that. Oh yeah. It's like the thing for me is like
I do have like like audio issue use If there is a loud, repeating
noise, it drives me to a rage that makes me unable to play the
game, and so like I can't do the like Dionysus dash in Hades because
it makes that like unrelenting sound and you can't get it to stop. So
even if it's good, I'll never fucking use it because it's awful. But
the major one that I can think of is definitely in Grim Fandango when you're
in the undersea area and Glottis is like doing his bullshit. I don't know,
there's so many scenes where Glottis is just repeatedly making noise, terrible noises
with his mouth over and over and over again. That made me hate that
big orange buffoon and want him dead. Uh. Certain car sounds in some
games, like games that like we're driving isn't the main mechanic, but you
jump in a car sometimes like the engine is just like a repeated loop of
like five seconds, or just oh, I think that's a U problem.
Yeah, I should get that car checked out. You had to check that
out. Jesseppe has an update from their email. Hey'all. I wanted
to provide a quick update on this. It turns out that my bird companion
was bugged and was literally making the I found treasure noise on a constant loop.
That must be because I was thinking, like I had that turned on
the whole game too, and I was like, I don't really remember that
being an issue. I remember being annoyed by the birds. Oh, I
don't remember the bird being useful at all when I was playing. Yeah,
it's it's it's not implemented super well, I think. I, you know,
command to Conquer if you were low on silos and silos needed silos needed,
Like it was just because it's like as boring thing to build in that
games, Like, I don't want to build fucking silos. Shut up.
Yeah. Any game that like does some sort of siren or like repeating like
red warning on health is like so historically yeah, yeah, oh my god,
that is. Oh, I guess the music sting and the sound effects.
When Sonic was running out of breath Underwater, there was like some sort
of setting on games. Like I actually do think it's kind of an accessibility
thing to not be able to turn off repetitive sounds or whatever. Like,
I think more games to consider offering that as an option. Not that Nintendo
will ever let you adjust the sound in any customizable way on any of their
games anyway, but I do think it kind of does boil down to an
accessibility issue, and well, gaming companies should consider that. You know,
we we say that about Nintendo, but they did let you turn off the
voice of the Flower in Mario Brothers. Wonder or I did it immediately?
Flowers? No, I hate the flower Flowers, but he's a nice guy.
I hope the flower goes to Hell and suffers tremendously. Well, let's
not say something we can wow jesus, folks, that is That is it
for the giant BombCast Bailey. We don't do shouts shouts outs any more because
they were killing me. They were literally giving me so much pain that people
just be too elaborate. I will say that people have continued doing the shouts
out shoutouts, and then one of them is a shrimp in popcorn form.
You know, that's just fun to think about. It's Bill what Jen?
Yes, your shout outs lasted way less than my postcards. If you if
you want to go, we can keep going. Like I'm just saying,
how long did postcards last? Dan? What do you think? Oh?
A year? God, it felt like a decade. It did feel like
a decade. Actually. Also, sorry, I can't believe we got through
that who last email without the baby for me? She's island crying. Oh
oh sure, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what.
Here's here's the here's what we'll do Backlar. We'll do shout out shout outs
in the form of postcards. If you send your postcards that Backlar, he'll
read the shout out. Yeah yeah you can read that. Can I walk
this back office twenty eight East twenty eighth Street. Yeah, it's all fooves
now, so don't worry. The first floor is cheez. I mean we
can know. Hey, kisses on the cheek never went anywhere. I started
offering kisses on the mouth, but no one ever wants to accept them or
claim them, you know, so whatever, kiss on the mouth are tough
everyone. Most people enjoy a peck on the cheek and you know that's fine.
But yeah, on the mouth is aggressive. If you need a hand
on the shoulder and me saying you got this, champ, I'll do that.
We'll do that. Maybe we'll do that at backs East Bailey. Where
can folks find you on the Internet. I am Bailey Myers on the platform
formerly known as Twitter, and Bailey and Versus Predator on Twitch and Instagram.
Stream every day, so you can check me out on Twitch. There.
You can also watch my great works on our on a game trailer channel,
just like the Avatar Frontiers of Pandora one that came out about two hours ago.
Fan Fantastic updates. No Gay Mess Mornings for the rest of this week
because Jeff Greb is still out on assignment, but Blake Club will be popping
off tomorrow. There's no stopping Mike mcquest. Now, look, I just
cannot, I cannot begin. He's listening. Don't flatter him too much.
I'm not. This is not about Mike. Thank you for putting on the
makeup, as all say with Mike, but like, keep it up.
The shit that I witnessed last week with him jumping off the side of that
level and just everyone knew exactly what was gonna happen, and motherfucker still just
did it. And I just cannot stress to you how much fun I think
this series is. It is so awesome, so check that. It's really
wonderful and I am I'm really glad Mike wanted to take his turn this time
and play this game. Yeah, literally asked for this and he's getting it
and we're all better for it. Is he still wearing the bottle, that
guy, even though that was included, like he asked me. He messaged
me like, what's this bottle for it? And I was like, what
the fuck are you talking about? And it was just it came as part
of the like forty two piece set of like medieval bullshit paladin gear or whatever
from him. It's on every paladins their bottle. I just love that he's
like voluntarily like walking over the coals on this and I just think it's awesome.
Why know, And I think he knows that people like he is so
good at playing these games and the costumes and everything that I think it's really
cool that he was like, Okay, I'll permanent host this thing. You
know. It's like that, yeah, we started like a revolving door thing,
but like you know, yeah, Mike taking up the Mantle and saying
I got this guy. Yeah, he's like forever indefinitely. Yeah. I
mean he erased yours and Grubbs name on the Google calendar that we had and
he just put Mikey every day. I know, Mikey forever, Mike you
wanted it, so thank you for selfless. Yeah. Yeah, that's the
type of guy Mikey apples is. We'll also be talking over the state of
play tomorrow as well. A voicemail dump truck popping off this Thursday, and
was there something else going on there? Oh that's right, Oh that's Friday,
Thursday. I don't think so for Thursday, No, I say dump
truck And which state of play is Wednesday? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
okay, maybe some Shenanigans Shenanigans will pop off on Thursday, who knows.
But yes, as Dan just said, the docodare popping off in the upf
slot. Very exciting. It is looking like we have it at twelve thirty
Eastern because I think we have some heart outs. So twelve thirty yes Eastern,
we will be going live and they will have ninety minutes to complete their
tasks. Should we just call it Dan doco? M good kind of a
slam dunk, you know, I call him Doco, call it Don Docodare,
and then realize that only a few of the missions are set on Don
Doco islands, So oh that's fine. Yeah yeah, yeah he double dare.
You're not always taking the dare or the physical challenge. And then the
final Yeah yeah yeah, I love the physical channel. God, I always
go for the physical. It wouldn't be that hard to find that flag in
that nose, Like everyone took way too long to find that. Yeah,
they were just were working it. We just didn't want to get dirty some
people, you know, you want you got to be ready. Yeah,
yeah, yes, of course. Jane get helmet. I got a silver
one. Is that all right? Sure? Yeah? Yeah uh. And
then another episode of BCR later this week, where we will be talking about
Persona three reload uh in depth. But folks, that is it for the
Giant BombCast. I have been Jan, he has been Jeff, he has
been Dan, she has been Bailey. There's two cats running around, there's
dogs everywhere, people are fixing floors. But we'll see you next week for
another episode of the Giant Boer shouts out to you that that's the shout outs
there, there you go, shout outs to football and cookies. Baby,
oh my god. The giant broadcast is brought to you by shrimp tails three
inches of girth. What