1 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:30,879 Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, January. It's not January first, you 2 00:00:31,079 --> 00:00:36,159 idiot. January ninth, twenty twenty four. I am your host back from 3 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,359 the dead. I've risen again. It is my fucking month. Jannahawa, 4 00:00:40,679 --> 00:00:45,359 host of the Giant BombCast absolutely eight hundred and twenty two powered by NZXT, 5 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:52,439 joining me co captain of the ship the Artisan of Sandwiches and Our Hearts. 6 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:56,719 Jeff Grebb that's right. I did not have a sandwich for breakfast this morning. 7 00:00:56,719 --> 00:01:00,600 I had hallepenos for breakfast. I did it. I hope that's okay 8 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,359 with you. Jeff Baklar, Wait, just like wraw in the bowl, 9 00:01:03,519 --> 00:01:08,480 just sort of yeah, yeah, well not with chopsticks. That's not a 10 00:01:08,519 --> 00:01:14,200 bad idea. That's some proof there. But okay, I know how to 11 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,480 use chopsticks. I could show you. We got our spiciest pepper in the 12 00:01:17,519 --> 00:01:22,439 house. Jeff Beckler, that's right. I'm a medium to high spice pepper. 13 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,719 And uh, I don't know what I register on what is it the 14 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:32,040 skulvill Scoville? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm in the low thirties on 15 00:01:32,079 --> 00:01:34,400 that scale. What's the max of the Skullvilles? Like, how high does 16 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:38,599 it go. I don't know. I only think I think it goes infinite, 17 00:01:38,879 --> 00:01:42,400 like theoretically, because the whole idea is like how much water it takes 18 00:01:42,439 --> 00:01:47,799 to displace the spiciness of the pepper. So it's like how many I don't 19 00:01:47,799 --> 00:01:49,959 know, drops of water. I honestly don't know what the unit is, 20 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,000 but but yeah, it's like how much water it takes to make it so 21 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:57,760 you can't taste the pepper anymore. Basically, we have our own infinite supply 22 00:01:59,799 --> 00:02:04,239 of wealth and happiness and friendship. Joining us on the podcast today, Jean 23 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,680 Super Eye Patch, Wolf in the House. Guys, thank you so much 24 00:02:07,719 --> 00:02:10,560 dragging me here. It's a real honor. And specifically, I just want 25 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:17,400 to thank Jeff Backler for changing his mind. I don't know if you remember 26 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,520 this, Jeff, but when me and you were kind of like, we 27 00:02:21,599 --> 00:02:24,560 got together and we're talking about, you know that what eventually became Jeff Jeff's 28 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:29,080 Bizarre Adventure, and we're kind of like finalizing the deal and everything, and 29 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,080 you said to me, so, is there anything else you want to enter 30 00:02:32,159 --> 00:02:38,400 this? And I was like, and I said that it could be cool 31 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,360 to maybe guest on the BombCast sometime. And I remember you were sitting in 32 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,319 a dark room and I took a drag. You took a drag of your 33 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:51,400 cigarette. You're smoking a cigarette, and you said, it'll be a cold 34 00:02:51,479 --> 00:02:54,400 day in hell before I ever let you on the BombCast. That sounds right. 35 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:00,400 Yeah. And over the years then it's been two years then, and 36 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:04,759 Jeff would kind of send me like reminders that I couldn't be on the BombCast. 37 00:03:04,759 --> 00:03:08,759 There was one time he sent me a message saying, like, we're 38 00:03:08,759 --> 00:03:14,280 down a man for the podcast today. Can you think of anyone? And 39 00:03:14,479 --> 00:03:16,840 I said, I said, oh, I could be on it, Jeff, 40 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:23,879 and he just wrote back, yeah, me neither. You got to 41 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,680 keep him in check. Are you're right? You're right to do this? 42 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,520 This sad morning. This morning, I woke up to a message and it 43 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:37,599 just said Europe kid, people can change. People can change change the hardest 44 00:03:37,599 --> 00:03:42,199 thing to do. So learned. He's very cold right now, so maybe 45 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:45,479 in the held actually is frozen. So yeah, that's why John, your 46 00:03:45,479 --> 00:03:49,319 hair has become silver. It's because of you've acclimated yourself to the cold. 47 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:53,360 Yeah, it's cold in Ireland. Let me tell you my boiler broke down 48 00:03:53,439 --> 00:03:59,599 last night. But you know what, it's fine because we're here and we're 49 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:01,840 probably gonna talk about video games at some point. I don't know. I 50 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,319 don't know. I'm a lot on my mind. You don't have to, 51 00:04:04,479 --> 00:04:06,759 we don't have to. Let me tell you, all right, folks, 52 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:12,159 I caught COVID over the New Year's break, right, why, I'm not. 53 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,040 I don't want to say it's exactly why because it might give my location 54 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,680 to WORF. Anyway, you do that, you shouldn't have done that. 55 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:23,279 Yo. I go to my doctor before before right after the holiday break for 56 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:26,360 like a quick checkup. I haven't checked myself out in quite a while, 57 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,879 and I go, yo, I'm playing getting the flu shot I could get. 58 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:30,399 I should get the booster too, right. She looks me in the 59 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:33,399 face, It looks me up and down and goes, I don't know if 60 00:04:33,439 --> 00:04:38,240 you need the booster, and then lo and behold. A couple of days 61 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,639 later, your boy catches it. But anyway, I thought, oh cool, 62 00:04:41,879 --> 00:04:45,480 my partner's gonna My partner's gonna take care of me because she's also off 63 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,439 because she's a teacher. You should pay teachers more. And then she's like, 64 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,040 hey, uh, to protect myself, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna 65 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:57,800 go to Lake Tahoe with a dog. That's the move. That's the move. 66 00:04:58,319 --> 00:05:01,000 But you know what, jan in the Bay Area Here in San Francisco, 67 00:05:01,079 --> 00:05:03,639 we often go to Lake Tahoe to see the snow. There was no 68 00:05:03,759 --> 00:05:10,680 snow, and you know what that was karmic justice? Yeah, yeah, 69 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,360 yeah, everyone real happy with American Healthcare telling us not to get booster shots. 70 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:20,319 Maybe. I look, there's no way to know if a booster shot 71 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:26,600 would have who knows. Apparently it's poopoo water in the Bay Area specifically that's 72 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:29,759 boosting the COVID rates. I'm not a doctor. I'm not a scientist, 73 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:33,079 so don't quote me. No that that sounds exactly right. I'm both of 74 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:38,240 those professions. And yeah, I'm gonna have to have a word with your 75 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,040 primary care physician there. You could just like walk into a gas station and 76 00:05:42,079 --> 00:05:44,480 get a booster these days, so you should have done that instead. That's 77 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,480 sick. I got them both at once. I mean, I mean I 78 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:53,000 was like I was down and out for thirty six hours, but like I 79 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,519 felt better after that. So you know, I got mine. I got 80 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,879 and I think it's helped me. I think everyone else got sick of my 81 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:03,000 family because they didn't get it, and I didn't take them with me, 82 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:09,560 because whoa, that's peculiar that you were just like every man for himself and 83 00:06:09,639 --> 00:06:15,360 the grub, right final, they learned some personal responsibility. I happen to 84 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:20,439 be at the disease son. I just happened to be at the CBS getting 85 00:06:20,439 --> 00:06:23,920 like picking something up. They're like, do you want this? I'm like, 86 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,040 oh, okay, yeah, sure. So I just kind of walked 87 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,720 in the room and they works, no, who knows what actually what it 88 00:06:30,759 --> 00:06:33,160 was? Now that gentleman in the drench coat, Yeah, I got the 89 00:06:33,199 --> 00:06:36,759 tracker. Yeah five f now, yeah, they offer it like at the 90 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,759 checkout line. Now, like you don't even need to like sit down and 91 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,600 have like a nurse stab you. You just like get it as your credit 92 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,279 cards being verified. Oh sick. You know, it's pretty sick. You 93 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,240 just put out your arm and you're good to go. The other thing. 94 00:06:51,199 --> 00:06:53,560 Oh no, go ahead, no no, no, no, no, 95 00:06:53,399 --> 00:06:56,399 no, you're you're a guest john. Yeah, you always win. Last 96 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:59,319 time I was at a doctor, I was there for a different thing, 97 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:00,720 and right the end of the appointment, he kind of took out the needle 98 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:05,079 and he was like, do you do you want one of these party and 99 00:07:05,199 --> 00:07:09,519 I was like COVID shot and he was like yeah, and I was like 100 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:16,040 sure, just yeah. Interesting guy. So it's it's been a minute. 101 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:18,439 It's been a minute, right since I've been to the doctor. And you 102 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:23,639 know how normally, at least here in the States, a nurse will do 103 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:26,600 like the quick pre check up and then kind of run you through the things. 104 00:07:27,199 --> 00:07:30,600 So at the end of my pre checkup, the nurse looks at me 105 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,079 and goes like, all right, cool, there's a rope, go ahead 106 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,079 and get naked. Change. The doctor's gonna check out your penis. And 107 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:41,040 I'm like, what what? I just I just came. I just came 108 00:07:41,079 --> 00:07:46,720 in to check my hands. What's going on? What? Oh? That's 109 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,720 funny, how you I just came. They want to see how your penis 110 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,839 hurt? Your fingers apparently, they're like, oh, we want to see 111 00:07:53,839 --> 00:07:57,519 the culprit. I was very confused and very shy, and then I'm like, 112 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,959 all right, cool, I'm gonna go change. All right, it's 113 00:08:01,079 --> 00:08:05,240 very cold. Were you at a eurologist? I mean, my regular decular 114 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:11,839 doctoricular regular ardicular, regular, particular doctor. And then you know the whole 115 00:08:11,879 --> 00:08:15,399 time goes by. I'm in the robe, I'm cold, and I'm half 116 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,240 naked. I'm waiting for the doctor to check the parts. And then uh, 117 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:22,879 you know, we go on with the checkup. She does the whole 118 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,680 like a blood pressure, heart right thing. I asked my questions, and 119 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,399 the whole time like I'm talking and she's talking. I'm waiting of like, 120 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,639 all right, when when are we going to naturally segue to check out the 121 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,559 downstairs? When is this gonna happen? You promised me a dick inspection. 122 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,840 I'm waiting And then I told her like, oh, yeah, you know, 123 00:08:39,879 --> 00:08:43,440 my knee has been hurting. And then she like she lifts the gown 124 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:48,799 up ever so slightly squeezes my knee, and he goes, that's probably because 125 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:56,000 you're overweight. All right, bye, wait a minute. Everything that she 126 00:08:56,159 --> 00:09:01,480 leaves, nothing was checked. I feel like they've fucking punked me. Yeah, 127 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:05,559 they negged you. They made Erle's that's like a move they do on 128 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:07,519 a slow day where they're like, oh, let's put the let's do the 129 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,320 old phantom dick check up on this guy. It's like it's like hits miss. 130 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,320 Like there's a hat with a bunch of different things they got to do 131 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:16,919 to each of the patients and the like they just pulled out, all right, 132 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,080 Tom, you're gonna check his dick, tell me he's overweight. All 133 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,440 right, go in there, figure out how you're gonna do it. I 134 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,120 think I think it's crazy, like because I think they experienced this stuff every 135 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:31,600 day. They don't realize how concerning it is when they're super nonchalant about this 136 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,159 stuff. Remember I was at a party before. I was just at a 137 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:39,600 like just at a fun birthday party, having great time, and I passed 138 00:09:39,639 --> 00:09:41,559 out. Wasn't super drunk. I was drinking, but I wasn't super drunk. 139 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,519 I just was standing there talking to my friend and next thing boom, 140 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,240 and like I woke up and I was like, what the foot? And 141 00:09:48,279 --> 00:09:50,080 so I ended up going to the doctor about it, and like I was 142 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,320 really freaked out because this has never happened to me before. And the doctor 143 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,519 had like a teaching assistant in with them, you know that kind of way. 144 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,159 Oh certain, yeah, And I tell him this whole story and I'm 145 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,720 like, yeah, I don't know what's happening. This is like it didn't 146 00:10:05,759 --> 00:10:07,279 end up being anything. I don't know what's happening. This is like never 147 00:10:07,639 --> 00:10:11,679 happened to me before. And I'm just like just a bit like should I 148 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,120 be sleeping? Like is this a weird concussion thing? And then he's kind 149 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,360 of saying all this, and then he then he looks at me, and 150 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,919 then he looks at her, his assistant, and he goes, oh, 151 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:30,080 this is mad John. Tell her what you do for a living. I 152 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:37,320 make YouTube videos. And she was like, oh, no way, Well 153 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:43,039 there's the problem right there. Oh that's why he passed out. Oh okay, 154 00:10:45,279 --> 00:10:50,000 I mean yeah, Backlar and grub. I need to tell you all 155 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:56,039 this. I told Emmy how Dylan has has called us bad YouTubers, and 156 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:00,840 now she's just taken to telling all of her peers ends and students. Got 157 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,440 to correct the virus is spreading. I see. You gotta correct them, 158 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,120 tell them that we're mid twitch streamers. We're not even bad YouTubers. Are 159 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:15,720 we mid twitch streamers? That's that's charitable. I don't know. I don't 160 00:11:15,799 --> 00:11:18,159 let me tell you. It's kind of there might be a certain hidden advantage 161 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:22,120 there, because the moment someone calls you a good YouTuber anywhere on the internet, 162 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,679 oh yeah, that will bring out the wasps. Nest of people being 163 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,080 like, well, actually that the watch to the to the takedown video. 164 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,840 Yeah, yep, yep, exactly. I see what it's done to you, 165 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:39,480 John, So I take that a lot of salt there. That's yeah, 166 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,279 well, gentlemen, I guess we should eventually, at some point today 167 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:56,240 talk about video games. Oh yeah, okay, I have in this document 168 00:11:56,279 --> 00:12:01,039 in front of me that Jeff Grubb, you're a man that likes driving. 169 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,559 I understand. Yeah, you like hopping in the truck. I enjoy it 170 00:12:05,639 --> 00:12:09,720 at the virtual truck even and going for a drive. It says here that 171 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:15,679 you've been going on a Pacific drive. Yeah. I got the preview build 172 00:12:15,759 --> 00:12:18,360 for this game and I've put in some time with it. We'll be playing 173 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:22,399 it on the site tomorrow, so that'll be like the real go at it. 174 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,080 But I kind of dipped into it a little bit this morning and yesterday, 175 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:33,799 and like the early takeaway is I really like the structure of you are 176 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,759 going to be in charge of controlling everything in this car, and it's a 177 00:12:37,799 --> 00:12:39,759 lot of these things are mapped to the dpad, but if you want to 178 00:12:39,799 --> 00:12:43,320 aim at the at the windshield wiper button, you could do that. If 179 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,840 you want to engage the key to actually turn it on. You can look 180 00:12:46,879 --> 00:12:48,519 at that and do that, and I like kind of feeling like, Okay, 181 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:54,320 this is I'm full in control of everything that's happening here, and that's 182 00:12:54,480 --> 00:13:03,480 cool because everything else, like in the world, Uh, sureb your your 183 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:07,000 audio it's dead. It's not working. Your audio by himself. He doesn't 184 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:11,919 know. He doesn't know to rip open right behind me, and I could 185 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,200 see it in the side view mirror and it's like getting closer. I'm like, 186 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,440 okay, I gotta turn on the car, put it and put it 187 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,360 ship shift in the gear and then try to drive away, get around these 188 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:24,919 trees. And it creates these really tense moments for when you're actually chef. 189 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,200 Do you know you did a break again? It did? We We can't 190 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:33,480 we you came back and we started hearing you. Okay. I honestly, 191 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,360 I think Goxa's really broken for me. So I don't know what to do 192 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:39,480 because I think it's going to keep doing this. But you could hear us 193 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:43,159 now right, Yes, I can hear you now, okay, because you 194 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,279 went on for about like fifteen seconds where you were just sort of in your 195 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:50,399 own world and I want you to just repeat everything you just said. I'm 196 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:56,440 afraid it's oh yeah, yep, yep, yep, it's it's no no 197 00:13:56,519 --> 00:14:01,679 bueno, okay, saying good by. I felt like there was a lot 198 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:07,039 of enthusiasm in like the facial movements yet into it though, he feels positively 199 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,840 about this game. Maybe you're accidentally breaking the embargo and that's what happened. 200 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,120 Yeah, and they got us, they got us in the wires. I'm 201 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,320 gonna I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna reinstall GOXA. I hope for the 202 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,399 best. Okay, god speak, all right, I'll see you guys in 203 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,360 a second. Okay, right, all right, Sorry Sean, uh for 204 00:14:26,759 --> 00:14:30,960 making this a little difficult, don't you. Anyway, Ever since we improved 205 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:35,039 the audio quality of this podcast, it's been nothing but an absolute comedy of 206 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:41,720 errors, all landing in the lap of one turbo Sean. So we salute 207 00:14:41,759 --> 00:14:46,519 you, We salute you, sir. As I am fixing the layout and 208 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,240 some of the audio stuff here. Sean, have you been playing anything, 209 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:56,039 Well, yes, I have. John Christmas and like the kind of holiday 210 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,600 region, gearly region, and it was definitely like I was very busy for 211 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:03,879 a lot of the year and it was me catching up on a bunch of 212 00:15:03,879 --> 00:15:09,639 stuff from last year, and I gotta say one thing that just like took 213 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,600 over my life for a couple of days that I was not expecting lives of 214 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,360 p either. Oh yeah, yeah, I played like eight hours of it. 215 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,960 Man. I think I had, you know, the impression everyone did 216 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:28,039 that game where it's like you guys, you guys really like Bloodborne, huh 217 00:15:28,159 --> 00:15:33,799 yeah, and like it's a really really well made game. But I think 218 00:15:33,799 --> 00:15:39,759 what's kind of interesting about it is like they have really taken a lot of 219 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,440 Bloodborne and smashed it together with a lot of Sekiro in a way that I 220 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:50,399 think is really rad. That you're gonna say illegal, but yeah, I 221 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,080 also think it's illegal. Like I'm a big fan of this game, but 222 00:15:54,159 --> 00:16:00,559 the people who created it should be in jail. But it's it's really it's 223 00:16:00,639 --> 00:16:04,399 it's just it's really really cool, and I think it's interesting, like the 224 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:10,480 little innovations they have put on it to kind of I guess, shift it 225 00:16:10,519 --> 00:16:14,320 like a little bit away from like the philosophies of those games and making it 226 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:15,919 its own thing. Like one thing I realized is when you block a hit 227 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:22,519 in this you get like you get you take like regainable damage so that you 228 00:16:22,559 --> 00:16:25,120 block a bunch of hits and then it's like, Okay, if I get 229 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,639 aggressive, I can get that health back and it creates this really nice like 230 00:16:27,759 --> 00:16:30,879 kind of I guess sort of push and pull. But I think my one 231 00:16:30,879 --> 00:16:36,279 of my favorite mechanics in the longest time, And like it's such a simple 232 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,360 thing. You know, when you get down to your last s just flask 233 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:45,960 or whatever the s just equivalent is in this game, and it recharges dependent 234 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,759 on how much damage you do. So I have had like so many knife 235 00:16:49,879 --> 00:16:53,960 Edge boss fights where it's like, okay, I have a full health bar, 236 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:59,080 I have no health refills, but if I do enough damage, I'll 237 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,519 get it back. And it really I feel like it turns a lot of 238 00:17:02,519 --> 00:17:07,839 the fights from this feeling of repeating patterns being it like repeating a set number 239 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:12,599 of patterns waiting until this HB bar hits zero to an actual kind of fight 240 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,839 in a weird way where like you're really struggling and you're barely scraping through, 241 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:26,319 and it's fantastic. I think the whole puppet thing goes so much harder than 242 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:32,480 I ever expected it to, Like I am simply delighted by every new boss 243 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,240 battle, every new cut scene. I'm like, oh, look at this 244 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:41,039 weird fucking puppet. What's this thing gonna do? And it's just been really 245 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:44,960 great. And it's interesting seeing like the different, like the different approach to 246 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:47,880 story, because you know, with any Soul's game, it's very the story 247 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:49,880 is very much like something you find in like the cracks of the game, 248 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,759 but in this there's full on cut scenes. You're you're you're playing as a 249 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:00,519 character who has relationships with other characters like Pinocchio in this is a canonical character 250 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:07,799 and I've been really really enjoying that part of it. Like I wasn't like 251 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:14,279 I had a boss fight where things didn't end decisively, and now in one 252 00:18:14,319 --> 00:18:18,559 boss has even Deebta against me, and it's just it's it's great. I 253 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,400 do think when you're playing it first, it does feel a little strange, 254 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,000 and I put that down to it doesn't quite have like the from Soft polish. 255 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,960 You know, it's like from Soft have been doing this kind of game 256 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,839 for I don't know how many years now, and so when you hit heavy 257 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:41,480 attack, you feel every frame of that animation and it feels so good to 258 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,400 just like like cleave into an enemy, Liza P. I don't think it 259 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,519 feels quite as good. The parry especially feels a bit weird, like you 260 00:18:49,599 --> 00:18:53,440 have to kind of time it a little before the actual hit. Sure, 261 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,079 but I think if you can wade through the first two or three eras, 262 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,039 this is a this is a delicious souls Like, this is such a cool 263 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:03,839 game, and I've really really been having a blast of it. I was. 264 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:11,200 I was super into it because I much I really dug the style of 265 00:19:11,279 --> 00:19:15,440 Bloodborne, and I think that matches this in a way that just kind of 266 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,680 like talks and I just like when things are fucking weird and creepy and the 267 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,680 puppet stuff you put at the top there, Like for me, that was 268 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,160 the biggest draw of like, oh, I want to see every enemy design. 269 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:32,680 I want to see like all the weirdo, you know, Marionette horrific 270 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,920 creations that are coming out of this game. And that's kind of one of 271 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:41,039 the reasons I kept going on and got through that first barrier of like, 272 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:47,079 Okay, now that I'm somewhat experiencing from games, I have to sort of 273 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,240 get through. You have to like break through that first wall where you sort 274 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,799 of teach yourself like the rules, the unspoken rules of this game. And 275 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,480 once I did that, I was like, oh, I'm I'm progressing, 276 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,039 and I'm and I'm really enjoying my time with it. Yeah. I was 277 00:20:00,039 --> 00:20:07,960 a little bit disappointed when because I really dug the bloodborne influence and the puppet 278 00:20:07,079 --> 00:20:11,200 stuff, and then I was disappointed when it kind of dipped away from that 279 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,400 for a second. But I'm glad that they leaned all the way back into 280 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:18,319 weird, creepy puppet stuff. What other stuff does it dive into, Like 281 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:22,519 like how far away does it get? It goes? It takes a detour 282 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:30,079 into like cult zombie adjacent infected stuff, but that winds up paying off the 283 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,000 further you get into the game, along with the messed up puppet stuff. 284 00:20:33,519 --> 00:20:36,559 Yeah, it's like there's a lot of you know, you're fighting out a 285 00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:40,440 lot of like marionettes and stuff like that, and then they introduce a second 286 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:45,839 type of me which is like extremely organic as opposed to the mechanical. But 287 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,599 I do kind of feel you, John, because like I felt like, 288 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,440 for the section of that that I've experienced, I did feel like, oh, 289 00:20:53,799 --> 00:20:57,920 now I'm kind of playing more of a frum soft vibe, where like 290 00:20:59,039 --> 00:21:02,920 just the jerky movements of the marionettes, which like the animation on them is 291 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:10,839 just incredible, Like it's so so good that really it gives it a feel 292 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:15,920 that is so much more unique than just like a bloodborn knockoff, you know. 293 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:21,720 Yeah, And I really like the utilization of the arms or like what 294 00:21:21,799 --> 00:21:26,599 would be like the sacro row left arm gadget. I wound up really really 295 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:33,440 using the fire against everything after a while, and like that just wounded being 296 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,839 a way to like slowly tick up damage on virtually everything because it worked really 297 00:21:37,839 --> 00:21:42,559 well against those organic enemies you mentioned, but also just because the damage is 298 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:47,720 incremental over time, even on the marionette stuff, it just wanted up being 299 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:52,440 super duper effective despite really wanting to be cool with a grappling arm, John, 300 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,200 have you finished it yet? I have not. I have only just 301 00:21:56,319 --> 00:22:02,519 hit the King of Pulpits O that bastard. Okay, And Jeff, when 302 00:22:02,519 --> 00:22:06,799 you were saying like about you know you wanted to see whatever weird puppet thing 303 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,119 was coming next, I saw the King of Puppets and I was like, 304 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:15,519 God, damn, that is a design like that rules I'm assuming it's Jeff 305 00:22:15,559 --> 00:22:21,920 Dunham. Yeah, yeah, it's final form. It's got to be Jeff 306 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:26,319 Dunham, I would assume. Yeah, it's actually just Jim Henson in there. 307 00:22:26,519 --> 00:22:30,799 Oh okay, just how dare you speak his name in the same sentence. 308 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,000 I'm comparing him as a King of Puppets instead of Jeff. Okay, 309 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,799 good, we're all in agreement. You think there's someone out there that that 310 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,480 thinks that Jeff Dunham is like superior to Jim Henson without a doubt. I 311 00:22:45,519 --> 00:22:51,319 don't even need to think about it. Okay, fantastic, fantastic. That's 312 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:56,160 that's the circus planet we all occupy. Oh my god, god, Now 313 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,720 I'm just thinking of all those comedy specials. Oh man, you are Jesus 314 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:07,640 Christ the comedy special. I'm just thinking that I would love the next livees 315 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,680 of p Game to be about muppets. Oh my god, my god, 316 00:23:12,519 --> 00:23:17,920 give me like a really difficult muppet souls like and I feel like we're in 317 00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:21,960 I don't think I could bring myself to like kill any of the muppets. 318 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,039 No, I don't think it's killing. I think it's just sort of like, 319 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:30,599 you know, uh, removing them from their their hand operators from their 320 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,240 mortal coil. Oh, okay, okay, and then they're just sort of 321 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:40,279 like, you know, I think Sesame Street has been a thousand years ago 322 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,519 and a great infection has spray it rights itself. Yeah, I mean, 323 00:23:44,559 --> 00:23:47,640 come on, if they did fucking Pinocchio, they can do Sesame Street, 324 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,319 right John. I know the game is going to get difficult, like any 325 00:23:51,319 --> 00:23:53,599 Soul's game, but I implore you, I implore you, if you decide 326 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,799 to ever bounce off of Lives of p please check out the after credits, 327 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,880 uh stinger, because as someone that I feel also enjoys the kind of Pinocchio 328 00:24:06,039 --> 00:24:11,599 Brothers grim old fairy tale bullshit, it delivers on that so hard. I 329 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,440 would say, like, I'm all in on this game. I don't think 330 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,039 I can drop it right now, beautiful, Like I've beaten all the Soul 331 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,880 games, so I have heard that the difficulties spikes something fierce. All right, 332 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,000 I'm okay with it. If you've gone to the King of Puppets, 333 00:24:27,039 --> 00:24:32,880 I think you can completely handle it then, because the the Little priest Man 334 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:40,759 before that is a little bit of a toughye, the Little Priestman, the 335 00:24:40,799 --> 00:24:45,599 Little Priestman, is it the clown dude. I might be getting the order 336 00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:48,240 mixed up in my head, but Little priest Man is my favorite Mumford in 337 00:24:48,319 --> 00:24:55,799 some song, I'm good. Yeah, let's let's let's let's release like a 338 00:24:55,839 --> 00:25:02,400 stomp and clap, hoot and holler and album. Huh oh man. Yeah. 339 00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:07,680 I used to call myself like the brown Mumford and Sons member. Anyway, 340 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:14,799 going from Puppets and all that ilk to something else that terrifies me because 341 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:22,519 puppets low key scare me. Is claymation, something absolutely terrifying is And I've 342 00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:27,039 I've been very vocal about this about my strong disdain for Wallace and Grommitt because 343 00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:33,799 how about immersion therapy. Jeff Grubb, I've been playing Jeff Grub and Company. 344 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:37,039 I've been playing Wallace and Grommitt in the Grand Getaway on the Meta Quest 345 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:40,480 three. What if you know? If you like? Because it is like 346 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,160 a visceral reaction, right, why do you do this to yourself? Yeah? 347 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:47,640 Like what's wrong with you? You know? We could look in the 348 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,799 mirror and ask ourselves that question all day and we wouldn't get anywhere. Huh 349 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:56,559 that's right. Uh. Let me tell you I think I am slowly understanding 350 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:03,839 the appeal of Watson grunt and that it's okay, I like this dog. 351 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,079 This dog is charming Wallace, he has lots put up with the jen He 352 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,799 does have a lot to put up with. Uh. Wallace, on the 353 00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:15,880 other hand, is uh, I don't like this man. Don't like this 354 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,440 man at all. I get it. I there's something just deeply unsettling about 355 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,559 the you know, maybe more like his eye cavities, right, like that's 356 00:26:22,599 --> 00:26:26,319 his mouth, it's his mouth, you know, it's like it's too wide 357 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,359 on the sides. And then I see too much of like these teeth in 358 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,759 the back, his back teeth then you normally do you know? Sure? 359 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:40,599 I think there's an element about him where he is a bringer of kind of 360 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,279 chaos and misery, but he is completely unaware of it. He's oblivious to 361 00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:47,440 it. Yes, And I find that kind of horrifying. I mean, 362 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,200 it represents the British Empire, does it not. I mean they weren't oblivious, 363 00:26:51,279 --> 00:26:56,839 I guess. And then so right, that's that's the whole stick. 364 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:04,680 Yeah, he's the whole thing. Is dan Rykert are Wallace a little bit? 365 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,880 And I think I think Don Reichert is Wallace and the world is his 366 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,359 Grama. Wow, that's right there, it is. That's almost too much 367 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:18,359 to bear. But I've been playing the VR game uh and it's a fun 368 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,480 little neat uh A title. You're just solving puzzles, you're helping well else 369 00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:27,799 and Grama go on a little vacation and it's doing the regular VR stuff of 370 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,240 like oh you can go grab this and put it over there, but it 371 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:37,960 does a lot of neat stuff with the controllers, specifically where instead of just 372 00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:40,759 pointing to a location to teleport there, because it does that a lot, 373 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,680 raise your hands up to your VR advisor and pretend like they're binoculars and then 374 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:51,559 you can find the specific place to teleport over to. And I think the 375 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:56,160 claimation aspect of it, or the stop motion aspect of it, lends itself 376 00:27:56,319 --> 00:28:03,519 really well to VR, surprisingly because I think strong aesthetics and strong art styles 377 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,720 work incredibly well in VR rather than trying to be like a photorealistic adventure. 378 00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:14,440 Right yeah, sure, yeah. And here it's great because, like you 379 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,160 know, you start the game and you're one of Wallace's contraptions and your arms 380 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,200 are just like a little robot spindly arms with springs, so it makes sense 381 00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:26,079 as to why you can stretch them out and stuff, and then you eventually 382 00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:30,000 are like take over as Gramet and you're looking for a bunch of crackers for 383 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:36,960 a good five minutes, and I don't know, I wind up really digging 384 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,680 it despite being absolutely repulsed by claymation in its entirety, but being immersed into 385 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:47,680 the world. Maybe immersion therapy does work. They also have like a neat 386 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,400 little side mode that does the pass through that a lot of mediquest games are 387 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,839 starting to do, where they'll scan the room and then oh man, here's 388 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,680 like a bunch of toasters popping out of your actual walls and door frames, 389 00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:07,880 and then you're just shooting jam at a bunch of pieces of toast. Yeah. 390 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,920 I want to play this game really badly. Do I have to buy 391 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,480 a meta quest? Just can I? I can't play it on anything else. 392 00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:17,799 It's a meta quest title. I think somebody it probably on the two 393 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,519 Do you have Do you have any meda quest? No? No, I 394 00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:23,839 don't. They're not just you know, it wasn't an accusation. He's just 395 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,960 he's just asking. Yeah, I know, I know, you're right, 396 00:29:27,039 --> 00:29:30,759 Jeff. I'm sorry with that. So if you're about to say, they 397 00:29:30,759 --> 00:29:33,559 don't just hand him out, they literally just handed one to me and jam, 398 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,559 that's literally what happened. You got it? You got a person? 399 00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:41,279 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we can get you a person claymation, things 400 00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:45,759 that don't require it's really charming, though, it's it's really charming, And 401 00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:49,640 like the whole time I was booting it up, I was like, I'm 402 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:55,160 gonna hate this, I'm gonna hate everything about this, but I am sorry 403 00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:00,160 to understand the charm of Wallace and Grammat And maybe they should adapt more uh 404 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:06,079 children shows two VR, because I feel like that be maybe more. Aren't 405 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,799 kids not supposed to wear VR headsets and melts their fragile little brains. That's 406 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,759 that's just them covering their ass. That's just that. Does that mean though 407 00:30:12,799 --> 00:30:18,119 there has to be some truth to that? No? There doesn't, No, 408 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:22,319 No, there doesn't. For lawyers to say yours, there's doesn't have 409 00:30:22,359 --> 00:30:26,640 to be sad to it. I look, I embrace your skepticism fullheartedly, 410 00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:33,279 right of course, Like what so what is going on? Like if there's 411 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,039 enough of a reason for them to want to, they just don't. They 412 00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:41,359 don't know what's gonna happen. So they're like, well, if we don't 413 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,160 know, we can't say it's safe because then we'll get sued. That's what 414 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,400 the lawyers say. And the lawyers are right because who like, who knows 415 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:48,920 what will happen, but uh, you're gonna be fine. It's just like 416 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,920 the you know, the whole scare about screen time, and now all the 417 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,720 recent research is like screen time doesn't have any real negative effect on kids, 418 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,160 no more than anything else. It's just we didn't know. Some people kind 419 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,160 of make a make up. They're like, let's be extra cautious about it, 420 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,200 especially if you're a big, multi billion dollar company. I think that's 421 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,880 too. I think that's two different things. But but I understand where you're 422 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:15,519 coming from, you know, I think there has been enough, uh research 423 00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:22,759 in terms of like the specific specificity of screen time. I was always under 424 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:25,359 the impression and especially when it first came out, when I was like, 425 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,319 I remember who did I meet with was back had seen it where someone was 426 00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:32,160 just like, hey, just make sure your sixteen year old or playing this, 427 00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:36,279 and I'm like, it's just it's just I don't know. That resonated 428 00:31:36,279 --> 00:31:37,759 with me in a way where I'm like, oh, this could kill a 429 00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:44,640 kid. I couldn't anything. Yeah, of course, And obviously I'm not 430 00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:48,799 like the pearl clutching parent who's like, I think, oh my sweet Johnny. 431 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,119 The question three is going to be for like one of the better ones 432 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,680 because it's just the trackings so good and it's not gonna end. That's the 433 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,240 The screen is really nice on the eyes, Like I don't I don't get 434 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,640 too strained using this jan I don't know about you, but I've used it 435 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,279 for some pretty long stretches, even like right before bed, and I take 436 00:32:05,319 --> 00:32:07,680 it off and it's I don't feel like I've been staring at an LCD screen 437 00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:10,400 two inches away from my face for the last two hours. I'm just like, 438 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,880 oh, okay, no, I'm good. I can go right to 439 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,279 sleep. So it feels like the comfort level in the terms of the optics, 440 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:20,319 is the best it's ever been, which is why most of my concerns 441 00:32:20,319 --> 00:32:24,319 around that have completely gone away. I think the most disoriented I've felt after 442 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:30,000 the session with the Medaquest three is actually playing a game rather than like using 443 00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:37,599 it as like another monitor or like watching a movie through it. Let me 444 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:43,079 tell you, watching like a Wes Anderson Joint on that Bad Boy who it 445 00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:46,119 feels like you're going places. Also, So we've talked about the Big Picture 446 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:52,160 app specifically, right, yeah, and there are public rooms you can enter 447 00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:55,079 in the Big Picture mode when you go through, like the little social tab. 448 00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:58,599 You can host your own stuff, watch a movie with friends, et 449 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:05,000 cetera, et cetera. Are some questionable rooms that people are hosting on the 450 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:10,880 Big Picture app. Well, you know last time I almost wandered into a 451 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:15,599 an adult film room. Uh sure. This time, as I was scanning 452 00:33:15,599 --> 00:33:21,680 through movies or rooms just for poops and giggles, there was a lot of 453 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:30,119 Christianity only or Christianity theory rooms. That's the only player survive. Wait, 454 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:35,480 what do you how do they enforce what Christianity only? Like, what's the 455 00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:37,559 what's the door check? Oh? Right, like am I allowed in there? 456 00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:42,759 Well? Yeah, if it's if it's evangelical American, they'll just do 457 00:33:42,799 --> 00:33:45,400 that thing from Family Guy where they check out what you are like that's only 458 00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:49,279 right? Yeah, I think it's It will probably be more of a call 459 00:33:49,319 --> 00:33:52,000 and response thing, so they'll be like and with your spirit and then they'll 460 00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:55,839 wait for your response. Okay, you might you gotta get booted, buddy. 461 00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,400 And that's basically the password. You spend a lot of time in VR, 462 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,440 John, or no at all. So I have never really tried it 463 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,119 because I have a thing where like, if I play a first person shooter 464 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:13,920 that's too fast, I will I will feel motion sick and so I just 465 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,079 feel like VR is basically this thing waiting to beat the shit out of me. 466 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:21,519 Yeah you know what I mean. You knock me out for a good 467 00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:25,599 two and a half years. That's right. I've literally not gone back. 468 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,800 It's half apathy and ate and laziness, sure, and the other is going 469 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,320 to be the thing that gets you back. It's going to get me back 470 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,440 on the horse. I'm telling you. I just watched this trailer. I 471 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:44,360 think this looks really really cool. I yeah, it knocked me, and 472 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,840 like again I was. I was down and out for ninety minutes. I 473 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,679 had to sit, lay down and just sort of stare into nothingness. I 474 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,880 needed like a deprivation chamber until I could finally, you know, walk around 475 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,360 my house again. But I hear you, John. I used to think 476 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,800 like, oh, I'm I'm above motion sickness. No, I'm just a 477 00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:07,800 I'm just a weak human I'm just a weak human man. No. I 478 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,920 did a stream of that Doom Mud, the one that was really popular a 479 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,280 couple of months ago, my home down lod or something. Yeah, And 480 00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:16,880 over the course of that stream you can literally see me meltz and just, 481 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,079 guys, I don't I don't feel so good. Thank you for the subscription 482 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:28,000 Party House eighty four, and just barfed offscreen, right, I mean like 483 00:35:28,599 --> 00:35:31,079 close close? Yeah? What was the what was the game that recently got 484 00:35:31,079 --> 00:35:37,639 me sick for the Lethal company? Copyright is what it was? I don't 485 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:39,480 know, I don't combination of factors it always is. Yeah, I can't. 486 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,840 I've never been able to pin it down. Another one was Umarogie Generations. 487 00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:49,639 Oh interesting, Yeah, that made like I played like ten minutes of 488 00:35:49,679 --> 00:35:52,519 that and I felt so sick. And then like a couple of days later, 489 00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:54,519 the guy who made the game, gut in contact, was like, 490 00:35:54,559 --> 00:35:58,199 would you like a free copy? And I had to be like, I'm 491 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,639 sorry, buddy, I'm I'm too much of a week baby to play your 492 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:07,960 game. I wonder is it like the lack of like a cursor or like 493 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:14,039 a crosshair. People told me it's head bob. They told me it's like 494 00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:19,760 and Lethal Companies, not VR, It's like a regular FPS like I don't 495 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,800 know, I don't know what it is. I did feel it. I 496 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,679 felt it also when we played that Ana Crusius game. M Oh but that 497 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,360 but I didn't trying to kill you. He wasn't the first time forever. 498 00:36:31,519 --> 00:36:36,519 You know, there was there's something there that, but it wasn't as dramatic 499 00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:40,760 where like Lethal Company. It took fifteen minutes and I was just ready to 500 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,280 go. Meanwhile, we played the finals for how many hours and I was 501 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,440 just like this is perfectly fine and okay. So I don't know, so 502 00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:52,679 weird Yep, I don't think it's It's like it's gonna be the crosshair at 503 00:36:52,679 --> 00:36:58,880 the head Bob for sure. For sure that the first time I'm doing his 504 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,239 turn in the head Bob done because I'll die. Yeah, I thought about 505 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,639 this, Johnny. It's not funny. It's an affliction. No no, 506 00:37:04,519 --> 00:37:07,400 no, no no no no no no no. I was I'm only laughing 507 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,159 because I was thinking in my shoot life, man, I'd love to turn 508 00:37:10,199 --> 00:37:14,320 off head Bob. Huh. As I was like walking down a hallway and 509 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,320 kind of zoning out, I'm like, you tell me you can change your 510 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,519 gate and like completely remove the head bob because apparently head bobbing while you actually 511 00:37:21,559 --> 00:37:24,119 walk in her life is a sign of inefficiency in your gate. So I'm 512 00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:28,840 looking about saying right now, Jeff Grubb, you can have walked inefficiently with 513 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,760 them. I do too. I'm like yeah, So I'm like, okay, 514 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,280 I'm gonna try to walk straight forward without having my head move up and 515 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,519 down. And then you start to feel insane and then you just follow. 516 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,920 Unless your head is a steady cam, you are failing at walking. I 517 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:44,719 have a fun saunter, all right, I'm filled with pep in each step. 518 00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:50,960 Do love your saunter. But speaking about getting motion sickness, as Guard's 519 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,760 Wrath two has been giving me a lot of motion sickness after playing it. 520 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:59,000 Uh this has been like the talk of the town with the Mediquest three. 521 00:37:59,159 --> 00:38:04,960 I've seen a bunch of advertisements talking about uh this, I believe and also 522 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,840 gave this a ten out of ten? Is that correct? Right? What 523 00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:09,239 that is correct? Ten out of ten? Is that the first VR game 524 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:14,760 to get a ten out of ten? Alex got it? Alex got it? 525 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,480 Yeah. Yeah. But Asgard's Wrath two, I haven't checked out the 526 00:38:17,519 --> 00:38:22,599 first one. But let me tell you, they they just made another God 527 00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:27,360 of War and it's not God of War. This feels like lies of p 528 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:32,639 levels of illegal where yo. This I'm just I'm just kind of crados. 529 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,719 I'm just kind of Is this a God of War where you like murder your 530 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,880 kid or you take care of it? Which? Which which variant where you're 531 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:45,760 just murdering the the gods type? Yeah, it's all the Norse gods. 532 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,079 You have an ax you can throw, you just whip it back in your 533 00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:52,119 hand. It's it is exactly God of War and got war rat. It's 534 00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:57,679 kind of cool. Look, it's it's pretty neat. And I got stuck 535 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,800 in the first five minutes. Not dude of the game at all, but 536 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,800 because of my hands being the way that they are right now, and I 537 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:10,719 couldn't use the the grip function on the Mediquest controllers to ride on my Giant 538 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,360 Raven. So I had to ask my partner, Hey, can you just 539 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,960 walk up to me, but like, don't move me in VR right now, 540 00:39:17,039 --> 00:39:21,960 otherwise I think I might throw up. Just press this small trigger button 541 00:39:22,199 --> 00:39:25,559 so I can ride a bird and then I just hear her just deeply sighed 542 00:39:25,599 --> 00:39:29,400 and go like, all right, all right, here you go. And 543 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,199 then for the next two minutes, I'm riding a raven through the history of 544 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:37,159 Asgard's Wrath one and I'm having the time of my life. Yeah, it's 545 00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:43,320 cool, sounds cool. It It does the thing where it gives you a 546 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,760 bunch of different options and how to control your character. You're moving with your 547 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:50,039 left stick, you're looking around with a right and you can either change to 548 00:39:50,199 --> 00:39:55,519 like the free look around or the kind of stuttering snap snap movement. I 549 00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:59,840 don't know if there is a way to do like the teleporting movement versus the 550 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,679 actually just walking through the thing, But I feel like this game is very 551 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,159 brave in the fact that it gives you that free movement, but is also 552 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:12,880 giving you a lot of options to move around your environment in terms of like, 553 00:40:13,039 --> 00:40:15,960 all right, you're gonna be vaulting over this thing. There's gonna be 554 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,599 a lot of wall running here, you know what, We're gonna introduce some 555 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:23,800 platforming now, right, And it actually handles it really well enough. And 556 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:30,800 the ability to the conceit of being, hey, you're just inhabiting this person's 557 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,280 body as like a pseudo demigod. You can and you do have the ability 558 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,360 to just drop your stuff and just pull it from your belt whenever you want 559 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:43,440 just throw the ax. It lends to the combat really well, and it's 560 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,320 doing the thing where it's like, okay, cool, here's a bunch of 561 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:51,760 small mini arenas, move to room to room. But because I think again 562 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,840 of the distinct art style, I think I'm having a better time with it 563 00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:00,719 than I think I would if it was trying to go for like all the 564 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,440 way into God of War. Here it's kind of like, yeah, I 565 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,840 don't know why this came to my head, but imagine if God of War 566 00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:15,559 meshed with talk the power of Juju. Hell yeah, incredible and like that 567 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:22,719 kind of like very high saturation art style that that feels like it's it's it's 568 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,800 aimed towards that that the top power of juju heads out there. Wow, 569 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,159 I did not I did not know I was going to think tucked and power 570 00:41:29,199 --> 00:41:31,400 of Juju today. You know, twenty twenty four, we're starting the euro 571 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,400 of right, right, this is what we can do for you, John, 572 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,599 Thank you, Jeff. I've only played maybe about like an hour and 573 00:41:38,679 --> 00:41:43,360 a half into it. I'm aiming to play more, but it was just 574 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:49,880 the portion of getting used to the snap turning that was making me feel a 575 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,480 little little sick. But all the actual platforming aspects of like wall running and 576 00:41:53,519 --> 00:41:59,760 like jumping over stuff like that didn't give me the headache. It was the 577 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,119 snapping around. So I might change the controller to be like free look around 578 00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:07,679 with like the right stick instead. Yeah, normally people find the snap movement 579 00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:14,400 to be less queasiness inducing, so I'll be interested to hear how you find 580 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,400 that. I'll say one trick to eliminate as much of that as possible is 581 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:22,440 when you have the option steer with your head, because then your body's like, 582 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,039 oh, okay, I'm down with this. I can handle this. 583 00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:28,119 If you are going to move forward, and instead of snapping over to the 584 00:42:28,159 --> 00:42:30,679 right, just kind of look to the right and let it start moving you 585 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,880 in that direction. That that can eliminate a lot of those problems. But 586 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,800 yeah, I've been I've been really surprised you about like the wall running, 587 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,159 especially where it's like, okay, I'm gonna just the game's going to make 588 00:42:40,159 --> 00:42:44,400 me run across this wall while I'm standing still. This is not going to 589 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,239 work and it has never been a problem so far, So kind of kind 590 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,719 of For one, it's like, okay, cool that that works. And 591 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,559 too, I was like, oh, now that now we got like a 592 00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:53,559 game here. Now we got a game, like a game that's going to 593 00:42:53,639 --> 00:42:57,960 be like doing some real stuff in it platform and all these cool things. 594 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,800 And the combat's obviously cool because it has the first person you're actually throwing the 595 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:05,519 axe combat that's neat, But I was hoping it wouldn't just be a bunch 596 00:43:05,559 --> 00:43:07,400 of small arenas that I sit in and then I moved to the next arena 597 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,199 and do that same thing again. It's like, no, they can have 598 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,599 some variety in there because they're trying all these things that are actually functional. 599 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,840 So you start to see how people really are getting into this game. I 600 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,400 don't know if I'm like falling in love with it ten out of ten, 601 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,960 but it's definitely impressive for what it is. I think, really what this 602 00:43:25,079 --> 00:43:29,119 is doing for me is convincing me it's time to go back to Alex and 603 00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:32,920 really really actually play Half Life Alex. Yes, that's the one game that 604 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:39,719 I have a little regret over never completing. I was also on board and 605 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:45,519 then you said something about aiming with your head and like that that brings me 606 00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:47,760 a great deal of strugg just like I just mean, like not like aiming, 607 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:52,440 like where you're gonna throwing walking just like I want to walk over there, 608 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,679 so I'm gonna look over there and then I'm gonna press forward and then 609 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:59,440 yeh, that's what I'm saying. Yes, yeah, yeah, the actual 610 00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:02,719 aiming of like throwing the axe. It feels very very generous in terms of 611 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:10,519 the and of course, all right, I might have to request christ John. 612 00:44:10,559 --> 00:44:15,480 I'm sorry that I'm used to it, Like there's been so many great 613 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,360 episodes of Jeff Jeff's that he's just ruined. Honestly. It's what I do. 614 00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:22,719 The the Steam link stuff where you can play wirelessly that I'm like, 615 00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,320 okay, yeah, I'm gonna use the Quest three to play Alex and it 616 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:30,559 just works so well that like, okay, yeah, I have the valve 617 00:44:30,599 --> 00:44:34,199 index set up and everything, like I'm just gonna use the Quest three instead. 618 00:44:34,199 --> 00:44:37,000 For some reason, that convenience that will just push it over the top. 619 00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:37,840 I'm like, I'm ready to go back. Yeah, I guess I 620 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:44,079 just throw my vibe out right, likew what is just going to throw into 621 00:44:44,079 --> 00:44:47,880 the garbage? I get it. Jeff like to me often the difference between 622 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:52,599 like playing a game I kind of like versus dropping it is how convenience will 623 00:44:52,599 --> 00:44:55,360 it be to reach out to you know what I mean? Like if I 624 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,440 have to set up a console to play a game, I might buy that 625 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,159 game, it might be many months before I touch it, But if you 626 00:45:02,159 --> 00:45:06,000 can just download it onto some things, And I think that's like that is 627 00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:10,199 a challenge with VIR. It's like it kind of needs to get more convenience 628 00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:15,679 before it's ever gonna hit like any kind of mainstream saturation point. The messed 629 00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:21,400 up thing that I saw in the app store on Metaquest three last night was 630 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:28,280 ex cloud support, And let me tell you, holy smokes, that shit 631 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,480 works, and it works really well. I mean, all things consider if 632 00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:37,400 you have a decent Internet connection. But wow, am I just waiting waiting 633 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,559 to have it be socially acceptable to just be wearing a Quest three at all 634 00:45:39,599 --> 00:45:43,440 times? I know, Hey, well we got the new story today. 635 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,599 You can just get a vision pro that's going to be socially acceptable because is 636 00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:49,360 it? Yeah, you spent three that's a five hundred dollars on it. 637 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,000 People aren't allowed to make fun of rich people, so I think you're allowed 638 00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:54,280 to throw rocks at those people's face. I'm not saying you should, but 639 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:58,440 I think you might. Shouldn't think that's gonna happen. Everyone gets one rock. 640 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,800 You got to decide who you're going to throw it. That's right, 641 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,920 it must be tumbled, it must be a tumbled rock. But you get 642 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,159 one. You can't collect rocks from your friends and throw a bunch of rocks. 643 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:13,239 Only one person per rock. Jeff grub you tried to talk about Pacific 644 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,039 Drive at the very beginning of the show. Let's let's let's let's hear about 645 00:46:16,039 --> 00:46:20,280 Pacific Drive again, hopefully. Yeah, I have funding this, Sean. 646 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,039 Yeah, I I've played a little bit. I kind of like dipped into 647 00:46:24,079 --> 00:46:28,000 to kind of get started and get my my my feet underneath me in the 648 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,119 game. We're gonna really play it for real tomorrow on the site as like 649 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:36,000 a like a preview capacity sort of thing a GB plays. But the things 650 00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:40,159 I'm liking so far is skew morphism. Is that the word where it's like, 651 00:46:40,199 --> 00:46:45,760 you know, they try to digitize a real world analog act and they 652 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:46,199 do a lot of that in this game, where it's like, Okay, 653 00:46:46,199 --> 00:46:50,559 you can actually look at the key in the ignission to start the car and 654 00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:53,480 that feels cool, and then you can look at the stick shift to put 655 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:58,920 it into gears to start to start driving. Uh. And that it serves 656 00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,679 one function of I enjoy that. I like being in the world where it's 657 00:47:00,679 --> 00:47:05,280 so immersed that it's like, no, I can actually do these things manually 658 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,079 myself. But then it also lends a sort of heightened tension when you get 659 00:47:09,119 --> 00:47:13,960 into the situations where like, Okay, I am getting chased down by this 660 00:47:14,599 --> 00:47:20,079 amorphous, nebulous teleportation cloud that also hurts me. That is seems to be 661 00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:22,199 the main driving force of moving you around this world. It's gonna it's a 662 00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,840 rogue light. That's the structure. This thing is constantly closing and on you. 663 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:29,440 That's the threat. There are other threats, but that's the main one. 664 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:30,320 But it's kind of thing where it's like, Okay, I'm trying to 665 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,719 drive away from this thing. It's in my side view mirror. I could 666 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:36,719 see it. Oh God, the car's not turned on. I got to 667 00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,119 turn on the ignition. I got to move it into gear. And the 668 00:47:38,119 --> 00:47:40,719 whole time you can still look over and see that threat coming up behind you, 669 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:45,199 and then you just kind of start driving, and it really creates these 670 00:47:45,519 --> 00:47:51,360 neat moments where you really feel the scariness of this thing coming to get you. 671 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,519 In terms of like the play structure, it's like, I'm still kind 672 00:47:54,519 --> 00:47:59,920 of like feeling out what the loop is going to be. It's every rogue 673 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:05,920 can be very different. I just I'm curious to see how they make the 674 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:07,280 car feel different from run to run. I think that's going to be the 675 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,079 real key to whether or not this game works for me or not. It's 676 00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:14,360 like, Okay, the car can get wild powers, and in one run 677 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:15,559 it's like, I don't know, it was like jumping or hopping. I 678 00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:20,199 really have no idea what to expect, but I get the sense that they've 679 00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,000 really thought about the way the car is going to feel like a character. 680 00:48:22,039 --> 00:48:27,039 Because the driving is very much, very forgiving. It's very easy to move 681 00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:30,719 it around the world, and then you know, occasionally then it'll still feel 682 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:32,400 like a car when you like really pick up speed, that momentum really carries 683 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,400 you for and you're, oh my god, I'm like ran into that tree 684 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,559 without expecting it. So it's like, Okay, they're setting the pieces up 685 00:48:37,599 --> 00:48:40,679 for me. It's really just going to come down to how that loop works, 686 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,519 and I expect we'll be able to get a couple of those in tomorrow, 687 00:48:44,559 --> 00:48:46,679 so we'll I'll have more to say next week, for sure. I 688 00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:52,639 do like the ability to take a banged up junkie ass car and just drive 689 00:48:52,679 --> 00:48:55,119 it up a hill that it shouldn't go up, and then you know, 690 00:48:55,480 --> 00:49:00,840 through sheer, pure will and belief, it goes up that hill. And 691 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,000 it's it's got a great like look and style with like the Pacific Northwest, 692 00:49:04,039 --> 00:49:07,039 and that means, of course it's raining, so you can turn on your 693 00:49:07,039 --> 00:49:09,000 windshield wipers and that also is something you could do manually, or it's it's 694 00:49:09,039 --> 00:49:13,679 map to the dpad as well. Uh and and just kind of driving around 695 00:49:13,679 --> 00:49:19,440 in this spooky exclusions zone in h by Olympia Mount Olympia in Washington. Uh, 696 00:49:19,679 --> 00:49:22,360 It's it's really neat. I'm digging everything that's laying out in front of 697 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:28,440 me. So far cool. I've been looking at this uh and and definitely 698 00:49:28,519 --> 00:49:30,920 keeping it on my radar. I'd love to try out this preview. I 699 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:35,199 will do that at some point hopefully this week. Yep. Sounds good. 700 00:49:35,519 --> 00:49:39,400 Jeff Greb. You also put here cobalt core. Yeah, this is one 701 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:43,519 that Dan talked about last week, and he described it as like FTL and 702 00:49:43,639 --> 00:49:46,360 Into the Breach and it is all those things some of my favorite things you 703 00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:51,679 could tell me about that a game is similar to h It even look looks 704 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,159 in terms of not just it's it's visuals, but in terms of like its 705 00:49:54,199 --> 00:50:00,360 font choices looks very into the breach in FTL, which I think the they 706 00:50:00,599 --> 00:50:02,920 did that consciously to speak to that audience and say, hey, we are 707 00:50:04,039 --> 00:50:07,679 making the game for you, and I think it does a really admirable job 708 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:13,800 of establishing its own identity while also still being kind of one of those So 709 00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:15,880 you're going from node to node, you are like just like an FTL, 710 00:50:16,079 --> 00:50:19,320 like saying, Okay, now I'm gonna try to get over to this pathway 711 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,559 because I want to get to that thing. Hopefully I can buy an upgrade 712 00:50:22,599 --> 00:50:24,800 there and that can carry me in through the end of this run. The 713 00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,760 actual moment to moment gameplay, Dan described it, But it's like, you 714 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,079 know, it's it's a it's a ship battle, but in the same way, 715 00:50:30,119 --> 00:50:36,400 Into the Breach is like an abstraction of Kaiju and mech battling. This 716 00:50:36,519 --> 00:50:38,480 is an abstraction of ship to ship combat. You're just kind of moving. 717 00:50:38,519 --> 00:50:43,039 You're sliding back and forth left and right, and you're playing a series of 718 00:50:43,079 --> 00:50:46,440 cards that you're getting hand to hand, and you are trying to just play 719 00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,880 those cards the best you can to take the least amount of damage and do 720 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,440 the most amount of damage. That means you, you know, powering up 721 00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,840 your shields or moving your ship in such a way playing the by you know, 722 00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,559 playing the luck of the cards. So that's like, Okay, I'm 723 00:50:58,559 --> 00:51:00,239 gonna move over to like two spaces to the left, do an attack, 724 00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,880 and then hop one space back to the right. That's what this car does. 725 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:06,079 I'm gonna lay that down. And now that I've done that, I 726 00:51:06,119 --> 00:51:07,960 did you know that a little bit of damage to that other ship, But 727 00:51:08,039 --> 00:51:12,599 now the line of damage it was going to do, because like into the 728 00:51:12,599 --> 00:51:15,639 breach you can see what these ships are going to do beforehand is lined up 729 00:51:15,639 --> 00:51:17,039 with the part of my ship where I put like a little gap where it's 730 00:51:17,079 --> 00:51:21,079 just scaffolding. So it's going to go right right between the parts of my 731 00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:25,119 ship where it could do damage. And you feel really smart in instance is 732 00:51:25,199 --> 00:51:28,880 like that feeling smart, right, And that's the best part of endo. 733 00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:30,679 The breach is like, oh my god, I thought about it. I 734 00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:31,880 thought about it. I thought about it, and there was a way for 735 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:37,519 me to do damage and not take any damage and making you feel smart every 736 00:51:37,519 --> 00:51:39,079 turn when you finally discover that when you're like looking at it for like ten 737 00:51:39,119 --> 00:51:43,519 minutes, is really cool. So it's got that going for it. I 738 00:51:43,519 --> 00:51:45,079 don't know if I love it as much as Into the Breach or FTL, 739 00:51:45,199 --> 00:51:49,199 but it's definitely like playing in that space well enough that it deserves to be 740 00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:52,559 mentioned alongside those games. I can't tell. One of the things that I 741 00:51:52,559 --> 00:51:57,800 loved about FTL was like the you know, you're playing it and you just 742 00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,599 get all these weird scenarios and stories they'll come out of it, like you 743 00:52:01,679 --> 00:52:07,840 dying of oxygen alone with your weird space dog right at the end. Yes, 744 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,880 how is there much of that in this game where it's kind of like, 745 00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:16,360 you know, I guess, kind of like weird emergent stories. I 746 00:52:17,079 --> 00:52:22,679 don't know how emergent it is, but they definitely have these characters that Dan 747 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,800 left out that they're furries. So it's a furry game, which I love. 748 00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:30,360 Give me furry games. That's fine with me, and I don't I 749 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:37,800 actually don't know how much Dan knows. We can research that one day, 750 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:42,920 but they definitely are trying to like have like an overarching story, like in 751 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,800 one of the runs, I met a future version of myself that of course 752 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:50,320 had an eyepatch and had all this battle damage, and they were the evil 753 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,960 version of myself. I think they're going more for like the Hades style of 754 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:58,519 storytelling than these necessarily like hey, the emergent FTL style, although there's definitely 755 00:52:58,559 --> 00:53:00,679 emergent moments, but it's going to be like, oh, I was in 756 00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:05,079 this battle and I did this thing and that was cool. It's going to 757 00:53:05,119 --> 00:53:09,519 be along those lines. You mentioned the furry aspect to this game always, 758 00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:15,920 and I think maybe maybe you and Dan might like Fuga Melodies of Steel where 759 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,679 it's nothing but furries. And then if you do really poorly and need something 760 00:53:20,679 --> 00:53:22,920 to save yourself, you put one of the furry children put in the spirit 761 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:27,159 canon. Yeah, just stick them in the oven. Yeah, and then 762 00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,079 you know they'll they'll die, but oh yeah, you'll pass the mission. 763 00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:38,639 It's great, sure, all right, exactly, don't don't take your furry 764 00:53:38,639 --> 00:53:43,000 friends and sacrifice them. And I don't mean your pets, I mean your 765 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,519 friends that are into furries. Yeah, don't kill your pets, kill your 766 00:53:45,519 --> 00:53:52,400 furry friends. Okay, any no game of the week this week, But 767 00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,760 has anyone else been playing anything they'd like to chat about a little shitty chat 768 00:53:55,800 --> 00:54:00,880 about been helping out the kid play games a bunch, Like she's been playing 769 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,679 a ton of Mario, ton of Astro, and so it's like a lot 770 00:54:02,679 --> 00:54:06,119 of my day is like, hey, I need help with this us okay, 771 00:54:06,159 --> 00:54:07,320 And then I end up playing like a half hour of these games still, 772 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,599 and I like that cause I want to be playing these games anyhow. 773 00:54:10,599 --> 00:54:15,320 I think about them a lot, Mario and Astro and Spider Man, and 774 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,599 so it's like having like a reason to hop in. It's almost like gaming 775 00:54:17,679 --> 00:54:21,280 TikTok, where it's like, instead of like sitting down to watch a show, 776 00:54:21,599 --> 00:54:23,079 I'll watch, you know, ten minutes of TikTok videos. It's like, 777 00:54:23,079 --> 00:54:25,119 oh, I'm gonna play you know, ten to thirty minutes of this 778 00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:29,480 video game, like in the middle of it suddenly, and there's something about 779 00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,320 that. I wish there was almost like a warrior where for actual video games, 780 00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:36,840 like a service that just takes little segments of games and hands them to 781 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,199 you unless you play them in little chunks. There's something there that'd be cool. 782 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:45,519 I've been playing too much of the Finals. No, there's never too 783 00:54:45,559 --> 00:54:49,320 much. I mean, I just feel real iggy about the AI voice stuff 784 00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,159 every time i've boot it up. But then I have so much fun. 785 00:54:52,599 --> 00:54:54,880 I have so much fun playing the Finals, and I won't stand for the 786 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:59,760 slander that the Internet is trying to put out that the Light class is useless. 787 00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,599 Oh is that a conversation that's attempting to be made. It's a conversation 788 00:55:02,679 --> 00:55:07,519 that's being that's attempting to get through. But I'm not having it. Let 789 00:55:07,519 --> 00:55:13,159 me tell you all zippity duda through a fucking window, unlock the vault, 790 00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,840 grab the vault, and run all the way across the map for the team 791 00:55:16,159 --> 00:55:20,880 and and start cashing out. Let me tell you it's great. Also, 792 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,800 the heavy class, if if you've only touched the finals ever so slightly, 793 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,800 the Heavy class almost has like a body slam ability, the q ability where 794 00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:37,119 you're running through and you kool aid man through the walls. If you jump 795 00:55:37,199 --> 00:55:43,559 up and then activate it, you destroyed down ah. And there's a lot 796 00:55:43,559 --> 00:55:45,639 of there's a lot of good synergy there of like, hey, maybe you 797 00:55:45,679 --> 00:55:51,679 were the medium class. You throw at a jump pad to uh give your 798 00:55:51,679 --> 00:55:54,800 whole team some verticality. You're heavy, will jump on the pad and then 799 00:55:54,920 --> 00:56:00,280 slam down on the team trying to cash out. It's absolutely fantastic because if 800 00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:01,760 he gets up really high and does it, does he like begin to have 801 00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:07,000 friction with the atmosphere and catch on fire? No, No, that's coming 802 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:15,639 in a patch probably that's season two. I really love this game. I 803 00:56:15,679 --> 00:56:20,719 go back and forth with controlling it on a controller and then mouse and keyboard, 804 00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,599 and I really want to. I think I have to like put in 805 00:56:22,679 --> 00:56:27,960 a little bit of work to get it to play exactly how I wanted to 806 00:56:28,079 --> 00:56:31,519 with with mouse and keyboard. I'm just not there yet. I think there's 807 00:56:31,559 --> 00:56:37,559 a couple of things on controller that handcuff you a little too much where you 808 00:56:37,599 --> 00:56:40,880 could like really make it work for you with the right kind of layout and 809 00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:45,800 binding on keyboards. So so we're of just like flipping between those two things. 810 00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:50,559 But yeah, I really really dig this game. Are you guys solo 811 00:56:50,679 --> 00:56:52,199 killing me? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't. I 812 00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,360 don't have friends. Yeah, I mean either, That's why I asked I 813 00:56:55,400 --> 00:57:00,000 only play games with people when it's work hours. Yeah, I gotta get 814 00:57:00,079 --> 00:57:05,679 be being paid of course. Yeah. I tried to play with my normy, 815 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:12,719 idiot asshole friends and they were like they dug it. They but like 816 00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,199 they just they just can't commit to anything, like everything's too new for them. 817 00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:21,599 There's such whiny little bitches. I hate them. But yeah, maybe 818 00:57:21,639 --> 00:57:23,119 like one or two of them will stick around because you only need two of 819 00:57:23,119 --> 00:57:28,360 them, so hopefully they'll they'll want to play more. But yeah, that's 820 00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,079 the update. I'm here. I'm putting this out into the universe here, 821 00:57:31,239 --> 00:57:36,920 and I don't know if you can group up with and do a custom game 822 00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:40,800 just yet, but imagine so yeah, imagine down the line three three v 823 00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:45,840 three v three v three and that super cash out mode forget what it's called. 824 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:52,000 Yeah, us giant bomb three representatives, maybe against three representatives from kind 825 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,400 of funny. What's another group of three people? Oh maybe the next Slander 826 00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:59,559 Crew one more group of three, I don't know. Maybe we go against 827 00:58:00,119 --> 00:58:02,519 map. Yeah, God, just think about the bedlam. I just think 828 00:58:02,519 --> 00:58:07,239 about how much we would destroy all of those things, So we would fucking 829 00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:10,760 annihilate all of them. I do believe we would stunt on those hose. 830 00:58:12,039 --> 00:58:15,480 Yes, that's right. Yeah, what said? Oh g a mey. 831 00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,639 We're in the finals, so I just want to one more note. Oh, 832 00:58:17,679 --> 00:58:22,280 I just wanted to emphatically say how much I love stunting on those hose. 833 00:58:23,679 --> 00:58:28,199 Let's make John's always saying that I do always say that. That's true. 834 00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,119 Yeah, they'll probably have custom games here pretty soon. I bet, 835 00:58:31,159 --> 00:58:37,119 so we can check in then and make that happen. I would have been 836 00:58:37,119 --> 00:58:39,320 playing more games this week, except for we have a review game, Prince 837 00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:44,119 of Persia. The embargo for that is Thursday, so we can't talk about 838 00:58:44,119 --> 00:58:46,360 it on this episode. I've been playing a lot of it. We are 839 00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,639 going to talk about it on BombCast Revengeance on Friday. We're going to make 840 00:58:50,639 --> 00:58:53,119 that a review episode for that, so that'll be our first segment. A 841 00:58:53,159 --> 00:58:54,840 lot of people, a lot of us have been playing. I think a 842 00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:58,800 lot of us will be in there talking about it. So look forward to 843 00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,760 that. You're playing it? No, oh wait? Did I fuck? 844 00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:07,519 Did I not send you the thing? Oh god? Also, if you've 845 00:59:07,599 --> 00:59:10,079 enjoyed a little bit of the VR, talk this UPF. We're gonna do 846 00:59:10,239 --> 00:59:16,039 like a little UPF virtual reality grab bag of stuff. Yep, dumbass VR 847 00:59:16,119 --> 00:59:20,199 bullshit or whatever we called it. Yes, I have a meta quest. 848 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,639 Three Grub does Dan, and so does Nikki. So tune in for some 849 00:59:23,639 --> 00:59:29,079 shenanigans. If you're watching live see you matrayed. You a meta quest for 850 00:59:29,119 --> 00:59:34,639 a Prince of Barshako after Friday. After Friday, Uh, folks, We're 851 00:59:34,639 --> 00:59:38,119 gonna take a quick bricky break and we will be back with the news after 852 00:59:38,679 --> 00:59:45,159 this. Just kidding. There are more games to talk about. Those games 853 00:59:45,159 --> 00:59:50,440 are going to be talked about, and we're going to discuss them with John 854 00:59:50,559 --> 00:59:55,559 super Ie Patchable. Okay, So I'm playing a game called in Stars and 855 00:59:55,639 --> 01:00:00,480 Time and you heard of this. I saw you playing a little of it 856 01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:05,599 on your Twitch stream, I believe, which might have been someone else. 857 01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,840 Okay, you weren't streaming this one, Okay, different. Wow, there 858 01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:12,760 are a lot of there are a lot of wolves. Look the same to 859 01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,760 me. Okay, that's fair, that's fair. Okay. So this is 860 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:20,199 like, this is an interesting game. So the whole idea behind it is 861 01:00:20,239 --> 01:00:27,840 like it's kind of like the last ten hours of an RPG. So when 862 01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:30,679 you start, your characters have all already met, they've all formed their little 863 01:00:30,679 --> 01:00:36,880 party, and they're all basically in the town before the final dungeon, and 864 01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:40,280 they've all like established their little relationship and established there. They're making references to 865 01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:45,320 all this stuff that's happened in the past, and I kind of have to 866 01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:50,639 spoil a little bit about it to just convey the basic premise, but it's 867 01:00:50,639 --> 01:00:55,719 all pretty early game stuff. It's basically like you getting to the final boss 868 01:00:55,760 --> 01:01:02,400 with these characters and getting your shit, and then time starts to loop, 869 01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:07,599 so it's like the final day of an ORPG and your time looping over and 870 01:01:07,639 --> 01:01:13,559 over and trying to figure out how to beat it. And there's a lot 871 01:01:13,599 --> 01:01:17,719 of cool stuff about this game. I really love the art style. The 872 01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:27,159 art style is like somewhere between like a studio trigger guy Nacks thing and steamboat 873 01:01:27,199 --> 01:01:32,360 Willie. It's it's just got this really beautiful and like it's all it's all 874 01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:36,599 like this is a small team. It's not like there's there's very little animation 875 01:01:36,719 --> 01:01:40,159 or anything, but like the character portraits are just they're just gorgeous, like 876 01:01:40,199 --> 01:01:45,079 they're so so lovely, and you're kind of like, you know, going 877 01:01:45,119 --> 01:01:47,800 through it and you're engaging in these turn based battles, and it's got this 878 01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:52,599 kind of like the elements in it aren't like fire or ice or anything. 879 01:01:52,639 --> 01:01:57,719 It's rock paper scissors, and you have to look at enemies and discern what 880 01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:00,880 type they are based on their hand position, and it gets kind of tricky 881 01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:06,480 and kind of fun with that in some weird ways. And it's a very 882 01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:10,440 cute game, you know, like it's got some real I don't want to 883 01:02:10,519 --> 01:02:17,119 invoke Undertail, okay if you're someone out look, and just to be clear, 884 01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:22,920 I am an unapologetic Undertail lover. One of my favorite games ever, 885 01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:28,159 but it's definitely I just don't want to be reductive when describing this game, 886 01:02:28,159 --> 01:02:31,800 but it's definitely like swiming in those waters, you know. And the way 887 01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:36,719 the time looping mechanics kind of play into it is that like say, you'll 888 01:02:36,719 --> 01:02:39,119 be walking down a hole and next thing, a boulder crushes you and kills 889 01:02:39,119 --> 01:02:45,000 you. You automatically loop every time you die, and you get to choose 890 01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:47,159 which points in time you go back to, and it's like it gets kind 891 01:02:47,159 --> 01:02:51,559 of interesting with that, especially in terms of like, fuck, what do 892 01:02:51,639 --> 01:02:57,840 I do differently now to beat this boss. I think it's a cool game, 893 01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:00,960 but I also find it's kind of one of those game where sometimes I 894 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:06,840 think I find myself wanting to enjoy it more than I'm actually enjoying it. 895 01:03:07,119 --> 01:03:10,880 Oh you know that kind of way where there's like a lot aesthetically and in 896 01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:16,400 concept. I really love about it, But I think for me, two 897 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:23,840 of its big problems are the time looping. It sort of feels quite clunky 898 01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:29,719 to me in that you're not actually making decisions about what to do differently, 899 01:03:29,719 --> 01:03:31,039 at least not at the stage where I'm at, and I'm about like five 900 01:03:31,119 --> 01:03:37,159 or six hours in at this point, and it's more like you're not really 901 01:03:37,239 --> 01:03:42,000 making any like mechanical or gameplay choices. It's just you are moving forward in 902 01:03:42,039 --> 01:03:44,719 the story, and the story just happens to be going backwards, you know, 903 01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:46,679 that kind of way, which I was a little disappointed by. But 904 01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:52,400 then as well, what it results in is a lot of very repetitive sections. 905 01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:55,199 So like you'll go to a floor in the dungeon, and there's certain 906 01:03:55,199 --> 01:03:59,920 things you can do to alleviate it, but you will find yourself having to 907 01:04:00,159 --> 01:04:03,079 find the same keys on this floor, having to fight the same boss battles. 908 01:04:03,119 --> 01:04:10,360 Ye, And it's like, oh this, like the the battles are 909 01:04:10,679 --> 01:04:13,920 they're they're kind of fun and like they're kind of interesting, but I'm not 910 01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:17,360 sure they really have the depth to support that repetition. And then on top 911 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:23,960 of that as well, the writing is cute and the characters are great. 912 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,280 The characters are why you are playing this game. You play like like just 913 01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:31,960 like a bunch of little dudes, and they're really fun and they're really cute. 914 01:04:32,199 --> 01:04:36,280 But I think the team who made this is obviously like very passionate about 915 01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:42,280 them. But I think sometimes that manifests in like the dialogue just going on 916 01:04:42,639 --> 01:04:45,199 and on and on. Sure, and sometimes it'll be like, oh, 917 01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:50,400 I'll click on this suit of armor and then you get a very long exchange 918 01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:54,800 between your characters, some of which are great, Like the game has got 919 01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:58,000 a few laughs out of me, like it's it's it's definitely done that. 920 01:04:58,079 --> 01:05:01,559 But then sometimes you're kind of like, I really just want to progress this 921 01:05:01,719 --> 01:05:08,079 and this is taking a long time. You know, huh, that's uh, 922 01:05:08,119 --> 01:05:12,039 it's interesting. It seems like a really tremendous overall sort of effort with 923 01:05:12,599 --> 01:05:15,920 a couple things that maybe need to be refined with which is what you broughab 924 01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:17,800 you know, you sometimes just get with like a small team right where it's 925 01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,760 like, yeah, for sure, and like I would like I'm going to 926 01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:25,360 keep going with this game, and like I might turn around on it dramatically. 927 01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,480 I might be like, oh my god, they have totally justified everything 928 01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:32,639 they've done. They've paid the stuff so well. But it's also like, 929 01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:38,039 outside of my own opinion, I can tell that this is a game people 930 01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:41,960 really really give a shit about, and so like, if the positive parts 931 01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:46,320 I've highlighted sound like they're your thing, I would really encourage you to go 932 01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,519 try this game because it does have a lot of cool shit going for it 933 01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:56,079 and I really want to be run over by it, and there's still room 934 01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:59,719 for that to happen. So yeah, it's it's cool. It's I have 935 01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:02,840 my problems with it. It's it's a cool game. It's got an overwhelmingly 936 01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:09,639 positive on Steam. Uh yeah, and like and just like huge, like 937 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,079 it seems to have like a very very passionate fan community. There's so much 938 01:06:14,119 --> 01:06:17,239 like fan art of all the characters already, and it's it's it's it's cool. 939 01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,320 Like it's there's a there's a lot to like about it, and like 940 01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:27,599 I yeah, again, I wouldn't take my criticisms of it at face if 941 01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:30,360 it sounds like this might be kind of your thing. I'm a sucker for 942 01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:33,079 anything in black and white, So I think I might check this out. 943 01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:41,719 Oh No, I think I get real kind of chickory kind of energy from 944 01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:45,559 it, Like it has that bounciness to it, you know. So I 945 01:06:45,559 --> 01:06:48,679 think I think you could. You might dig it. Jen speaking about like 946 01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:53,920 kind of forcing yourself to really like a game, or wanting to like it 947 01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:56,960 more than you actually do, That's kind of how I felt last year about 948 01:06:57,039 --> 01:07:01,440 Void Strangers. It's like small Soca Bond style puzzle game. So I have 949 01:07:01,559 --> 01:07:04,639 also been playing Void Stranger. Oh hell yeah? Is that the other game 950 01:07:04,639 --> 01:07:08,360 we're going to talk about? No, no, it's not, but we 951 01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:16,119 can talk about it because that is a weird game. Yeah. It makes 952 01:07:16,159 --> 01:07:20,599 me feel stupid in not that I can't figure out the puzzles, because I 953 01:07:20,599 --> 01:07:25,679 can if I bang my head against them enough. Eventually I can just tell 954 01:07:25,719 --> 01:07:30,639 there's bigger shit going on at that game, and I can't quite get in 955 01:07:30,719 --> 01:07:34,039 there, you know what I mean? Oh yeah, oh yeah, all 956 01:07:34,079 --> 01:07:40,480 the time. Anytime I'll progress to like I guess a floor completed or a 957 01:07:40,599 --> 01:07:45,159 chapter completed where you get the save point I keep thinking of, like, 958 01:07:45,599 --> 01:07:48,079 all right, I should just take the break like it wants me to, 959 01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:55,159 so I can see the other stuff going on underneath the hood. But sometimes 960 01:07:55,159 --> 01:07:57,880 I'll skip it and I'll think, oh, shit, well, there's probably 961 01:07:58,199 --> 01:08:02,159 a huge story beat that I just mist because like, there's it's weird, 962 01:08:02,239 --> 01:08:09,519 it's really weird. It's saying it's weird and really weird isn't enough to convey 963 01:08:09,679 --> 01:08:15,680 the fun things going on outside of the Soca bond style puzzle game. Yeah, 964 01:08:16,159 --> 01:08:20,760 and it's It's one of those games it's difficult to talk about because some 965 01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:26,840 of the spoilers in it are so mechanical and like, I've recently figured out 966 01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:32,800 I can do the craziest fucking thing. And have you gotten to the end 967 01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:38,359 of that game or no? We'll say, Okay, I have and it 968 01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:43,680 was worth it. It was great. But even then I have reached an 969 01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:48,520 ending and I can tell there is way more weird shit going on here, 970 01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:53,840 and I'm kind of like, I'm kind of looking at the game and I'm 971 01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:58,319 like, what what do you want from me? I can only move a 972 01:08:58,399 --> 01:09:04,359 block back and forth, so many times this does look really oh and different 973 01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:11,159 when one of the best soundtracks of last year in such an incredible soundtrack. 974 01:09:12,199 --> 01:09:15,720 The other game I wanted to mention real quick was just I've been going back 975 01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:21,359 in time and playing a little I believe Valkyrie profile for the PlayStation one, 976 01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:27,159 and I have not played like a huge amount of it, but I was 977 01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:30,399 absolutely blown away by the production values of that thing. If people don't know, 978 01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:34,199 it's like a very very two D looking game, has this really unique 979 01:09:34,199 --> 01:09:41,239 combat system that I think was like the main inspiration behind Invincible, the Yes 980 01:09:42,399 --> 01:09:48,720 Schoolgirls Guys or pg's game, and just like I saw some gifts gifts of 981 01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:53,600 it, and I was like, what the fuck. I have never seen 982 01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:59,279 anything that looks like this, and it's like it is the most opulent JORPG 983 01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:03,399 coming from like that just golden era of JRPGs. Thank you, thank you? 984 01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,479 All right, all right, video says yeah, no, I know 985 01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:12,199 I want them want to hear that in there. Yeah, And it's just 986 01:10:13,199 --> 01:10:15,560 it's been a treat and I cannot wait. I cannot wait to spend more 987 01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,319 time with it. And I would just encourage people like, if you've never 988 01:10:18,359 --> 01:10:21,479 heard of this game, but you like PS one r P j RPGs, 989 01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:25,560 I just look up some screenshots or some gifts of this thing, because it 990 01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:30,920 is absolutely stunning, Like it's so gorgeous. It's one of those PlayStation games 991 01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,640 where like you don't have to worry about it looking like a PlayStation game, 992 01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:39,319 right, yeah, because it's all sprites. Yeah, it's one of those 993 01:10:39,319 --> 01:10:41,920 PlayStation games. It looks like a Saturn game. Yeah, where you're like, 994 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,920 oh, it's just gonna be like hell. Specific compliments Jeff Grope and 995 01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:49,239 I really appreciate it. It's true. Yeah, they're like, yeah, 996 01:10:49,239 --> 01:10:51,600 it's like, oh yeah, we could still do two D on the PlayStation 997 01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:56,239 and actually super good, Like why why aren't we doing this right? Yeah, 998 01:10:56,319 --> 01:11:00,960 you know, this is it's important to call that out. It looks 999 01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:03,439 like it does remind someone who had never played Valkyrie profile. For me, 1000 01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:06,520 the touch stow would be a Golden Sun, but this is like goes way 1001 01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:11,000 harder than even Golden Sun does. So yeah, golden good looking game, 1002 01:11:11,119 --> 01:11:14,000 Yes it does. It's got a real vibe to it, real style, 1003 01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:18,239 especially in those like those panning camera shots around the sprites and the sprites like 1004 01:11:18,239 --> 01:11:21,199 a just depending on where the camera is, and it's something like a little 1005 01:11:21,239 --> 01:11:26,359 bit ugly about it, but in a really fascinating way. Yeah, it's 1006 01:11:26,399 --> 01:11:30,359 a game where like you can nearly feel them break what. Yeah, sprite 1007 01:11:30,359 --> 01:11:32,960 Works sp is like sprite Works are meant to be, And it's just it's 1008 01:11:33,039 --> 01:11:36,079 really interesting. Has a lot of interesting like gameplay stuff as well. Has 1009 01:11:36,079 --> 01:11:41,640 this kind of story where you are basically this valkyrie descended from Heaven because there's 1010 01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:45,119 like a war up in Heaven and so you're trying to fix all the problems 1011 01:11:45,159 --> 01:11:47,239 down on Earth and your crew all these different people. But then you have 1012 01:11:47,359 --> 01:11:51,159 to send those warriors up to Heaven. But when you do, you can 1013 01:11:51,239 --> 01:11:55,720 no longer use them on Earth. It's fucking it's bizarre, but it's it's 1014 01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:58,079 cool, and I haven't played a whole lot of it, but I'm looking 1015 01:11:58,079 --> 01:12:00,479 forward to playing more. Apparently there's a version of Is there a version of 1016 01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:05,319 this game on mobile too? Oh? Probably, I believe it. This 1017 01:12:05,359 --> 01:12:11,640 one on plate the PlayStation store that is regularly goes on sale. Cool god 1018 01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:16,680 PS one such a such a fun haven of j RPG's that and the Nintendo 1019 01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:19,319 DS. Oh my god, a bunch of weird good ship on that. 1020 01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:30,479 But that's not news to anyone, but this is news for everyone. Quick 1021 01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:33,319 question. I don't know if this is coffee or wine in this mug? 1022 01:12:35,359 --> 01:12:41,000 But one one way to find out, Yeah, you have to sip smelling. 1023 01:12:41,359 --> 01:12:45,439 It smells like it smells like an alkipev you got wine? Yo? 1024 01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,520 I hey, I just moved. I don't have glasses of wine. Like 1025 01:12:49,239 --> 01:12:53,800 pouring out ball jars filled with nails and being like, I guess this will 1026 01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:59,880 do. Yeah? Yeah, coffee ferment, you think it probably just go 1027 01:13:00,239 --> 01:13:02,359 stale. Yeah, there's a lot of acid in there. Maybe it wouldn't. 1028 01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:04,279 Maybe it would kill a lot of the bacteria, so would have a 1029 01:13:04,279 --> 01:13:08,600 hard time fermenting. That's what. Don't don't let your coffee ferment. If 1030 01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:11,560 that starts happening, just throw it out, chan you can. Coffee can 1031 01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:16,399 mold, I think, oh everything can mold. Yeah, before before any 1032 01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:20,279 of the good fermentation, it molds and then it's just like garbage. Oh 1033 01:13:20,319 --> 01:13:24,159 my god, I don't want to I know where about the gumps in the 1034 01:13:24,199 --> 01:13:29,239 news. So it's just the man, all right. So I really like 1035 01:13:29,279 --> 01:13:35,760 cottage cheese. It's no secret. Is that harding? You're talking something about 1036 01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:42,520 something going moldy, And you know, when a break happens, things get 1037 01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:45,000 left in the back of the fridge, and of course you know, before 1038 01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:48,960 you know it, you got a tub of cottage cheese that's getting ideas of 1039 01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:56,720 its own and trying to get, you know, escape, negotiate exactly. 1040 01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:00,319 It's like the lobster. It's like the lobster tail in the fridge on the 1041 01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:05,560 on the bebop. This was so deeply upsetting that like I went and grabbed 1042 01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:16,159 a mask because I like accidentally opened the lid and just demons escaped like a 1043 01:14:16,279 --> 01:14:20,119 la Ghostbusters where you're just like, oh, they're in the atmosphere now all 1044 01:14:20,119 --> 01:14:25,439 we're in for it, you know that kind of thing. Woof it was. 1045 01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:29,039 It was from like Thanksgiving or something, which is not that long ago, 1046 01:14:29,159 --> 01:14:33,239 but still cheese time. Yeah, it's like inception, right, Like 1047 01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:39,039 for a minute of normal food time is six years in cottage cheese time. 1048 01:14:39,279 --> 01:14:42,119 It's like a kind of cheese is already like listen, we fucked up some 1049 01:14:42,199 --> 01:14:45,760 milk, all right, and then on the edge you got a couple of 1050 01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:48,600 days, all right, enjoy it. Yeah, times running out, hot 1051 01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:54,279 shot, eat up all right news. The first one here I don't have 1052 01:14:54,319 --> 01:14:56,840 written down because it just happened while we're doing the show, but uh, 1053 01:14:57,159 --> 01:15:01,279 hey, jan that that Pokemon with guns game Power World. What Pokemon with 1054 01:15:01,319 --> 01:15:04,119 guns? What if Pokemon had a fucking gun? Well, guess what we'll 1055 01:15:04,119 --> 01:15:09,760 find out what that means on January nineteenth, how Power World comes out. 1056 01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:13,279 I think this is also the one that had like cows on conveyor belt? 1057 01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:17,960 Is my month? I guess January, everybody, it's Jane's time. Uh 1058 01:15:18,279 --> 01:15:21,560 this uh this game, We'll check it out. I mean, because honestly, 1059 01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:27,000 I remember the trailer for this being so buck wild that even when I 1060 01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:30,439 saw the Pokemon with guns, I'm like, I still like, don't know 1061 01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:32,520 what's going to happen in this game, So we'll figure it out. First. 1062 01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:41,000 I am seeing a yellow Totoro with a mini gun, and were I 1063 01:15:41,119 --> 01:15:45,239 them? I think we got a bit of a Liza Peace situation here where 1064 01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:50,319 they're going to go to jail for this is that is just Totoro And it's 1065 01:15:50,359 --> 01:15:54,000 only a case of when, well, yeah, I didn't go to the 1066 01:15:54,039 --> 01:15:58,560 bail you to get them out. Really you'll you'll be a partner in crime. 1067 01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:00,920 Listen, they didn't go to jail for NTSC World, They're sure should 1068 01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:10,119 not going over jail for Power for this lead jokes are fifty hurts. Oh 1069 01:16:10,159 --> 01:16:16,079 my god, Wow, that was good. Yeah. Oh wait right real 1070 01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:20,359 quick though. The last game I've been playing, and I'm not happy about 1071 01:16:20,399 --> 01:16:24,239 this. You have to play music? Okay, okay, what do we 1072 01:16:24,279 --> 01:16:30,840 got? I read downloaded Pokemon and then to play the DLC. No fuck 1073 01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:34,359 that. I'm not interested in that ship at all. Uh, just just 1074 01:16:34,359 --> 01:16:40,479 just to play competitive Pokemon, okay. Okay. You know, I don't 1075 01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:43,119 know why you go to these meetings if you're just gonna relapse. Okay, 1076 01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:47,439 what we're doing? Yo? Okay, I just need I just thought of 1077 01:16:47,479 --> 01:16:51,119 the stupidest fucking team in the world that isn't on the meta, and I 1078 01:16:51,479 --> 01:16:56,640 just need a really fast Dodrio anyway, Jeff Grebb, go on, John, 1079 01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:58,920 I'm sorry. I'm sorry to drag you into what. Could you just 1080 01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:01,359 give us a twenty second? What's the current Pokemon meta? Okay, so 1081 01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:06,520 the current Pokemon meta just use all the legendaries, is basically it because of 1082 01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:12,000 the current rule set. But if you want to be dumb and stupid like 1083 01:17:12,079 --> 01:17:18,039 me, you go get the weird little Freaks. Actually don't, but you 1084 01:17:18,079 --> 01:17:23,399 get the weird little Freaks and the gen one freaks. So the thing is, 1085 01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:26,680 Dodrio is a very fast bird. And can set a lot of oh 1086 01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:30,199 we all know that can set a lot of speed based stuff. So you 1087 01:17:30,239 --> 01:17:32,920 get that bad boy going, and then everyone's like, what the fuck why 1088 01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:39,119 do you have that out? Uh? Your tailwind? You get a fuck 1089 01:17:39,159 --> 01:17:44,279 what is it called? It's the item that you basically, John, what 1090 01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:47,279 you got to do. You got to pull out Gen one strategies on all 1091 01:17:47,279 --> 01:17:51,039 these hoes that are thinking like, oh, just use my gold dango and 1092 01:17:51,079 --> 01:17:57,720 then my iron hands to do this and follow me and Orlander's theory and form 1093 01:17:57,920 --> 01:18:01,159 fuck that shit. Get your old weird three headed bird. Have it set 1094 01:18:01,199 --> 01:18:04,560 tail? When have it have a focus ash and you struggle against these ho's. 1095 01:18:05,159 --> 01:18:11,199 Hell yeah, a gold dingo ate my baby. Sorry, I couldn't 1096 01:18:11,199 --> 01:18:13,560 get that on my head. I could not get that out of my head. 1097 01:18:14,119 --> 01:18:16,079 All right, I'm gonna get us back on track here and far far 1098 01:18:16,119 --> 01:18:20,119 away from Pokemon at least for now. Xbox and bethes the Developer Direct event 1099 01:18:20,159 --> 01:18:25,680 has been confirmed for January eighteenth. Xbox and Pthesta will host this Developer Direct 1100 01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:28,640 on that day. They've confirmed some of the games that will be there, 1101 01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:33,840 including Indiana Jones from Machine Games Avowed are a History Untold, which is a 1102 01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:38,760 let's see Oxide Games, the studio founded by veterans of the strategy genre and 1103 01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:43,920 the creators behind classic strategy games including Civilization five, as the unveil new exclusive 1104 01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:47,800 gameplay and share more details about their historical grand strategy game. There we go, 1105 01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:53,520 That's what I was looking for. And then Sinuous Saga Hellblay two nich 1106 01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:56,600 Theory is gonna give us some updates there. I expect we'll get a date 1107 01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:59,840 for that. That sounds that sounds like a little bit overdue in fact, 1108 01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:05,159 So that's interesting. This is where they basically last year Shadow dropped High Fi 1109 01:19:05,239 --> 01:19:09,279 Rush. Oh that's right, so they and they kind of did a similar 1110 01:19:09,319 --> 01:19:12,159 thing like hey we got Pire's what's what you can expect, so don't expect 1111 01:19:12,199 --> 01:19:15,199 anything more. And then they Shadow dropped High Fi Rush. So anything less 1112 01:19:15,239 --> 01:19:19,520 than another Shadow Drop game of that caliber is going to be a disappointment for 1113 01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:25,399 me. Absolutely, Yeah, I would expect maybe probably be disappointed. I 1114 01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:29,319 don't know, I haven't heard anything, but it just seems like I think 1115 01:19:29,319 --> 01:19:30,399 they were like High Fi Rush was a good experiment. I don't know if 1116 01:19:30,399 --> 01:19:33,159 they're going to do that again that soon with another game, but hey, 1117 01:19:33,159 --> 01:19:39,479 they might for avowed you cowards, make that game done, just finish out. 1118 01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:43,199 This is the first one of these events that were getting from one of 1119 01:19:43,199 --> 01:19:45,479 these companies in twenty twenty four. It is the one I was I heard 1120 01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:49,000 was coming up the fastest. But you can always count on an Inintendo direct 1121 01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:53,920 in February. It's almost certainly going to happen in February again. And then 1122 01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:57,199 that leads a question about state of play. There is a state of play 1123 01:19:57,199 --> 01:19:59,960 coming, There's a state of play coming when exactly, I'm not sure, 1124 01:20:00,199 --> 01:20:04,399 but I would expect it in the next few weeks. It's the state of 1125 01:20:04,399 --> 01:20:09,520 plays are always weird, man. You always get the sensus like, oh, 1126 01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:12,960 these are just contractual obligations. They just told a company, hey, 1127 01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:15,920 we would give you free marketing, so they have to feel need that they 1128 01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:19,640 have to do it. So they could always be very disappointing and and hurt 1129 01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:23,319 you. But is there a specific kind of hurt you're worried about, jan 1130 01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:27,319 just a general hurt? Okay, the general hurt then yes, that's very 1131 01:20:27,359 --> 01:20:29,880 likely. But yes, like that just never goes away. Yeah, yeah, 1132 01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:32,079 you gotta win a love with nuts. That's what's what the painkillers are 1133 01:20:32,079 --> 01:20:35,640 for. Donka Basis has hell Divers too. That's yes, we'll probably get 1134 01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:39,720 updates on that, dates on something like that. And then they got to 1135 01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:41,920 set up the rest of their year. They probably have some surprises. A 1136 01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:44,359 State of Play would be a great place to show that stuff off. So 1137 01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:47,600 yeah, state of Play relatively soon, direct relatively soon, and then this 1138 01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:53,960 next week on the eighteenth, Cool next Up. Xbox is going to release 1139 01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,960 an acclaimed game on other platforms, or so, it's claimed by Nathan Haytover 1140 01:20:58,039 --> 01:21:00,119 on his podcast. He said in a claim game that when it came out, 1141 01:21:00,199 --> 01:21:03,560 was in Game of the Year talk. He didn't specify a lot of 1142 01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:09,600 a Speculation has pointed toward High Fi Rush potentially coming to the Switch, maybe 1143 01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:14,880 the PlayStation. Uh I this one I can't confirm, but that sounds reasonable 1144 01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:15,800 to me. What do you guys think? Would you guys play High Fight 1145 01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:20,239 Rush again on Switch? Sure? Like that game of one? No, 1146 01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:26,159 I would not play it again. No, I guess you were playing it 1147 01:21:26,199 --> 01:21:30,439 for the first time and the switch was an option? Certainly certain you a 1148 01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:32,119 High Fire Rush hater? Jeff, No, No, is that what you? 1149 01:21:32,199 --> 01:21:36,000 Extreme? Hates music? He hates us? It is? Yeah, 1150 01:21:36,119 --> 01:21:41,760 No, I enjoy music. And I enjoy High Fire Rush exclusively. I 1151 01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:46,840 think I just don't need to play that game again. I think it may 1152 01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:50,520 be outstayed. It's it's sort of like one trick pony, welcome with me 1153 01:21:51,359 --> 01:21:57,800 and no that's not that's not me. Wow, it's not what we're doing 1154 01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:00,159 here, friends, We're we're speaking highly of that game. I just, 1155 01:22:00,319 --> 01:22:03,640 you know, like I, but I do think it is crazy that no 1156 01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:06,600 one else can play that so happy to see it on other platforms. You 1157 01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:10,239 didn't like this playing to the beat, so now you just want to beat 1158 01:22:10,279 --> 01:22:14,880 down the game, you know. Not that I like to side with Jeff 1159 01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:19,239 too often here, but am I will say that a certain part of High 1160 01:22:19,239 --> 01:22:24,760 Fi Rush to me felt like Puocy the dog from the Simpsons. But what 1161 01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:32,520 Ironically it's unfair I have been I have been bound from several podcasts and twitch 1162 01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:35,800 streams for voicing my opinions on High Fi. I could see. I get 1163 01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:39,720 that this is no different, so it was great to be here now. 1164 01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:42,560 But I do want to thank you all for having me. So that's why 1165 01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:45,279 you asked if I was hating on it, so you could like weasele your 1166 01:22:45,319 --> 01:22:48,560 way in and just sort of like you knock them up. Like we're both 1167 01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:51,199 very vocal about just not liking the game. Isn't that right? Jeff? 1168 01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:58,520 Your words, not mine? Friend? I really enjoyed it. I was 1169 01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:01,279 not head over heels for it. I like the game a lot. I 1170 01:23:01,319 --> 01:23:03,760 like the characters even more though. That's the thing. That's that's why that 1171 01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:08,840 opinion is so offensive to me. I like the Black Keys, yes, 1172 01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:13,720 and the Black Keys are great. Wasn't was Northeast one weird really weird band 1173 01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:18,199 in it? Uh? Wasn't it? Like? What's it? It was 1174 01:23:18,239 --> 01:23:24,159 like a was it the yodeling band? No? Nine inch Downs, no 1175 01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:30,800 Zwanswan? Yeah? Okay, yeah remember Zwan? I don't isn't that like 1176 01:23:30,119 --> 01:23:34,279 I remember the Black Keys? Let me think of are they the ones that 1177 01:23:34,359 --> 01:23:36,600 did the covers of all the songs that were like really close or that. 1178 01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:41,600 I don't know, I don't know. It's possible anyway, anyway, Yeah, 1179 01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:46,039 this is this is probably going other platforms. We'll see, I'll say. 1180 01:23:46,079 --> 01:23:48,720 And here's the next story. See if Thieves could be released for PlayStation 1181 01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:53,199 and switch. I talked about this a game this morning yesterday. This is 1182 01:23:53,199 --> 01:23:56,399 the one I heard was going to be going to other platforms. Uh. 1183 01:23:56,439 --> 01:23:59,600 And right after I talked about this, Steven Tatilla posted the report of his 1184 01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,319 own saying the exact same thing. Basically he's heard for PlayStation and I'll just 1185 01:24:02,319 --> 01:24:05,960 say I heard they were considering it, considering putting it out on other platforms, 1186 01:24:06,039 --> 01:24:10,000 and they looked at both PlayStation and switch. Who knows what will actually 1187 01:24:10,039 --> 01:24:14,119 happen or if it will happen. Does the way I've heard it is it 1188 01:24:14,199 --> 01:24:16,319 probably is happening. And for a live service game, it makes a lot 1189 01:24:16,359 --> 01:24:18,720 of sense. You want as many people playing those things as possible. So 1190 01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:24,119 CF Thieves had a long run on PC and Xbox, why not put it 1191 01:24:24,119 --> 01:24:28,000 on on PlayStation, give a whole new audience a chance to reinvigorate that game. 1192 01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,039 They've invested a lot in it. Why not trying to keep it going. 1193 01:24:30,159 --> 01:24:33,760 So we'll see c if Thieves is one I like, but I have 1194 01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:38,560 not checked back in on quite some time. So I like that Monkey Island 1195 01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,279 stuff. Yeah, that was fun, that's right. That is the last 1196 01:24:41,279 --> 01:24:45,920 time I played that. That was neat. In Vidia is slightly resetting its 1197 01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:49,520 GPU pricing. This is some CEES news, and and Nvidia is introducing the 1198 01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:56,359 RTX forty series Super GPUs that starts with the forty eighty Super at one thousand 1199 01:24:56,399 --> 01:25:00,279 dollars, which is going to replace the RTX forty eighty. It's got about 1200 01:25:00,279 --> 01:25:02,159 a performance a bump of about one to five percent. Really though, this 1201 01:25:02,279 --> 01:25:05,760 is about, hey, that thing is no longer twelve hundred dollars, it's 1202 01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:10,319 one thousand dollars. It's then being like, hey, we recognize we got 1203 01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:13,960 way too big for our breaches with this. We pushed it too far. 1204 01:25:14,239 --> 01:25:17,239 We're gonna scale it back a little bit. They still have taken a lot 1205 01:25:17,279 --> 01:25:21,119 of profits with their GPUs over the last several years, where it's like cards 1206 01:25:21,159 --> 01:25:26,680 like this would have been five hundred dollars a few generations ago. So it's 1207 01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:29,760 still like, you know, twice as expensive as what they used to be 1208 01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:31,800 going for may maybe six hundred dollars, six hundred, seven hundred, but 1209 01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:35,479 yeah, so they're still charging one thousand dollars for it, but that is 1210 01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:39,960 much better than what it was. There's also the forty seventy TI Super, 1211 01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:43,560 so it's a TI and a Super and that's gonna be eight hundred dollars, 1212 01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:46,720 just like the forty seventy Ti was. But they should have a significant improvement, 1213 01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:50,479 and then the forty seventy Super will be six hundred dollars same as the 1214 01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:55,000 forty seventy and that's also gonna that's gonna have a fifteen percent performance bump. 1215 01:25:55,199 --> 01:26:00,239 I feel like, are you thinking this grub that seems like them the sort 1216 01:26:00,279 --> 01:26:05,680 of like budget conscious, biggest bang for your buck kind of purchase. Yeah, 1217 01:26:06,279 --> 01:26:12,119 series A forty seventy Super, it's gonna get you pretty close to like 1218 01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:18,159 thirty eighty TI levels. That's pretty good for six hundred dollars. It's got 1219 01:26:18,239 --> 01:26:21,359 again, like six hundred dollars never would have been the budget card a few 1220 01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:25,119 Yeah, I know a few generations go, so it's really hard to say 1221 01:26:25,119 --> 01:26:29,159 that, but people are willing to spend this money on it. I think 1222 01:26:29,159 --> 01:26:33,359 what like the hardware enthusiast scene got so out of hand the last few years, 1223 01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,039 and they got like, they got the audience so horny for these cards, 1224 01:26:36,039 --> 01:26:39,800 even though there's not a lot to be horny about that. I think 1225 01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:44,000 these companies just realize we can mark these things up and now everyone has to 1226 01:26:44,039 --> 01:26:46,960 kind of continue paying the price. They are going to keep the forty seventy 1227 01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:50,960 TI non Super around. They're going to oh I'm sorry. No, they're 1228 01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:55,920 facing that one out and they're keeping the forty seventy Vanilla, but they're gonna 1229 01:26:55,960 --> 01:27:00,520 drop the price down to five point fifty. So yeah, there no price 1230 01:27:00,640 --> 01:27:03,199 change on the ninety. No. I think the ninety is just a thing 1231 01:27:03,199 --> 01:27:05,760 of its own, its own beast, and they're not a million dollars, 1232 01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:09,560 just going to be what it is. So yeah, yeah, Listen, 1233 01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:12,560 if I were to get one of these cards, if I was ready to 1234 01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:15,199 upgrade, I probably would go for the forty seventy t I Super eight eight 1235 01:27:15,279 --> 01:27:19,319 hundred dollars. That seems like a pretty good space to be in. That's 1236 01:27:19,359 --> 01:27:24,319 going to be better than a thirty ninety, which was fifteen hundred dollars when 1237 01:27:24,319 --> 01:27:27,880 it came out, So when you look at it through that lens, that's 1238 01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:31,640 pretty good. But hopefully what this means is when we get the real the 1239 01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:35,119 fifty series, we're kind of still in this price range and it doesn't go 1240 01:27:35,199 --> 01:27:39,119 up up much from here. That would be the ideal scenario, and I 1241 01:27:39,119 --> 01:27:43,880 think that's what they're setting up a little bit, all right. The MSI 1242 01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:47,039 Claw another CS announcement. This is basically a competitor to the Steam Deck. 1243 01:27:47,079 --> 01:27:51,039 The a sus Rock Ally, except for it's going to use an Intel component, 1244 01:27:51,079 --> 01:27:55,279 and now we've got to confirm that it's Intel. It will have it. 1245 01:27:55,279 --> 01:27:59,960 It will start at six seven hundred dollars with an Intel Core Ultra five. 1246 01:28:00,399 --> 01:28:03,119 There will be more expensive model that uses the Intel Core Ultra seven of 1247 01:28:03,399 --> 01:28:06,720 sixteen gigabytes, a ram A seven inch screen, ten ADP one hundred and 1248 01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:10,600 twenty hertz, the things that you are probably used to if you have an 1249 01:28:10,600 --> 01:28:14,239 Ally or even a Steam deck o let at this point. But yeah, 1250 01:28:14,239 --> 01:28:15,920 it's gonna be really interesting to see how Intel competes in this space. This 1251 01:28:17,479 --> 01:28:20,680 handheld computer has a much bigger battery than the Ally, which you could say, 1252 01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:24,199 hey, that'd be great. The Ally only lasts like forty five minutes. 1253 01:28:24,319 --> 01:28:27,520 Anything will be better than that. The big question with this is going 1254 01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:31,119 to be how efficient is that Intel part? Because the AMD parts have been 1255 01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:36,000 beating Intel in terms of efficiency pound for pound for quite some time. Is 1256 01:28:36,039 --> 01:28:39,479 Intel going to be able to come in and match that and then get some 1257 01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:43,479 more battery life? Hopefully? But I'm gonna be curious to see for myself. 1258 01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:45,720 I mean, I saw this leak out a couple of days ago, 1259 01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:51,920 and ever since you showed me that Lesion go in LA I just could not 1260 01:28:53,119 --> 01:28:56,880 stop laughing. I was just sort of like, what is this, you 1261 01:28:56,880 --> 01:29:02,560 know, nuclear suitcase that you're dragging around with you? And everything I see 1262 01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:05,439 now is like, well, you can't. I don't want anything as bad 1263 01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:10,159 as that, right, I don't want anything as horrifying as that. And 1264 01:29:11,079 --> 01:29:14,720 I don't know, I think just again, I'm totally judging books by their 1265 01:29:14,720 --> 01:29:18,760 cover here, but I'm very interested in this one. Yeah, I mean, 1266 01:29:19,039 --> 01:29:25,199 I think it's going to be very similar in terms of like ergonomics profiling 1267 01:29:25,319 --> 01:29:29,000 to a Ally. I think it's probably have a similar weight, a similar 1268 01:29:29,039 --> 01:29:30,600 feel, and that's fine. I think that's a fine The Ally's a fine 1269 01:29:30,600 --> 01:29:33,680 device for that stuff. I hate windows, but this is going to have 1270 01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:38,359 windows as well. Just yeah, I'm at the very least, it is 1271 01:29:38,439 --> 01:29:42,000 very good that Intel is kind of rushing into the space to keep competition high 1272 01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:46,000 and kind of have them hopefully leapfrog one another. Intel needs to be in 1273 01:29:46,039 --> 01:29:50,039 the space because they have dominated gaming laptops for years and years, and that 1274 01:29:50,119 --> 01:29:57,159 feels like it is going to slowly erode in favor of these handheld gaming computers 1275 01:29:57,159 --> 01:30:00,920 that people are favoring at the moment. Obviously it's still a niche audience, 1276 01:30:00,239 --> 01:30:02,920 but it's just going to keep growing, and Intel's going to need to be 1277 01:30:02,920 --> 01:30:05,199 in that space if they want to have any chance of continuing to sell as 1278 01:30:05,199 --> 01:30:09,279 many CPUs as they have been in the past. Really would love I know 1279 01:30:09,279 --> 01:30:12,239 the numbers are going to be small, but I really would love to get 1280 01:30:12,319 --> 01:30:16,920 data on sales for all these computers. I think the MSI Claw is not 1281 01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:19,800 gonna do well. You know why. It's too many events on that bad 1282 01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:26,000 boy, too many points of entry for cheeto crumbs and dorito dust. Mm 1283 01:30:26,079 --> 01:30:30,239 hmmm, it's uh yeah, the designs on these are are still kind of 1284 01:30:30,880 --> 01:30:33,920 figuring that stuff out. I don't know, but we'll see. I will 1285 01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:36,600 be very interest. I'm gonna talk to MSI. Hopefully we will get one 1286 01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:40,560 so we could do some stuff with it. If not, I might just 1287 01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:43,359 pick one up because it'd be nice to have all of them so we can 1288 01:30:43,359 --> 01:30:46,159 do some comparisons in the future. But yeah, I'm interested in this thing. 1289 01:30:46,279 --> 01:30:51,760 I imagine a near future, Jeff Greb where you have a tool belt 1290 01:30:51,960 --> 01:30:57,640 and all this tool belt hell is not any tools, but just different handheld 1291 01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:01,880 computers. It would already be like capacity and I'm getting that I oneo slide, 1292 01:31:02,239 --> 01:31:05,359 the one that has to slide out keyboard underneath. I'm so excited about 1293 01:31:05,359 --> 01:31:12,680 that because sidekick, Yes, you get it. Yeah, we gotta go 1294 01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:15,000 back, man, we gotta go back to the sidekick, all right. 1295 01:31:15,119 --> 01:31:20,520 Sony and Honda demo a dual sense dual sense control mechanism for a car. 1296 01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:26,079 So basically, drive a one of the Honda's electric vehicles with a dual sense. 1297 01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:30,960 Uh. Yeah, this is just a tech demo. They're probably not 1298 01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:34,119 gonna ship with this. I don't think. I don't know something about that's 1299 01:31:34,119 --> 01:31:39,800 crazy, but I suppose it might be pretty good for like accessibility, accessibility, 1300 01:31:39,920 --> 01:31:42,960 Yeah, that's like, yeah, that's really neat for that totally. 1301 01:31:43,640 --> 01:31:47,760 I don't think, Yeah, you're not going to see this inside as a 1302 01:31:47,840 --> 01:31:50,960 version for cars, right, like right, And even though like the one 1303 01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:54,159 that yeah, I think cam in Texasys they said it was a work and 1304 01:31:54,199 --> 01:31:57,119 not a shoot. Yet you knew it was a working out of shoot because 1305 01:31:57,119 --> 01:32:00,399 the guy was standing on stage and there was no one inside the vehicle and 1306 01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:02,279 he pretended to be driving it onto the stage. And I'm just like they 1307 01:32:02,279 --> 01:32:05,760 would never legally let them do that the venue would not let them do that. 1308 01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:10,560 There's no way that that's Is this another CS thing? Is it is? 1309 01:32:10,760 --> 01:32:14,760 Yes, Sony's keynote? Missing out this year? Guys am, I'm 1310 01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:17,880 really missing out this. I'm so sorry, bakalar. I. Honestly I 1311 01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:24,520 couldn't even sleep last night because of the Foe movel was so overwhelming. You 1312 01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:29,960 guys, my god, couldn't you send yourself to CES in a fridge? 1313 01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:31,640 What do you mean? No? Just like guys, I'm gonna go to 1314 01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:35,119 CS. Oh sure, I guess I could have just like you know, 1315 01:32:35,840 --> 01:32:41,960 gone and booked it and went. But no, on principle never again. 1316 01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:45,880 I'm trying to never go to Las Vegas ever again, let alone CES. 1317 01:32:46,159 --> 01:32:48,640 But what if the Game of the Year was in Vegas? Huh? You 1318 01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:51,800 just guaranteed we're gonna be back there soon. But I guess there are exceptions 1319 01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:57,199 to every rule. But I will fight, kicking and screaming in a way 1320 01:32:57,279 --> 01:33:03,199 I have never put my foot down before. Las Vegas is a nightmare city. 1321 01:33:03,239 --> 01:33:08,319 It's like cheap though compared to like La. Everything you're saying is exactly 1322 01:33:08,439 --> 01:33:12,720 cheap. Everything you're saying is exactly how I feel about La and five years 1323 01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:15,279 ago, I said I'm never going back to that hill city, and I've 1324 01:33:15,279 --> 01:33:19,079 been back four times. Yep, Okay, back hear me out here. 1325 01:33:19,239 --> 01:33:25,800 Imagine we all buy tickets to whatever show, but we all watch it inside 1326 01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:32,119 the sphere. Yeah, rent the sphere. No, I've the sphere does 1327 01:33:32,159 --> 01:33:36,560 not impress me. Okay, I don't know that inside back of That's it. 1328 01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:41,319 I've heard enough. I just don't need to go there. Where's this 1329 01:33:41,479 --> 01:33:45,399 idea that Vegas is somehow cheap? What are you talking about? It's of 1330 01:33:45,399 --> 01:33:46,439 course it's cheap. Hope. They're like because they want to get like if 1331 01:33:46,439 --> 01:33:48,680 you're going there to like get a hotel, they want you to get a 1332 01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:51,079 hotel so you lose all your money gambling. So all the hotel rooms are 1333 01:33:51,119 --> 01:33:57,560 like pretty affordable. Flights into the city, yes, they subsidized flights in, 1334 01:33:57,680 --> 01:34:00,560 and hotel rooms are are relatively reasonable. And then the worst thing else 1335 01:34:01,119 --> 01:34:05,600 the restaurants, because like you just avoid like the I suppose Michelin Star restaurants 1336 01:34:05,600 --> 01:34:10,039 and go to like a White Lotus or whatever, that Thai restaurant that's like 1337 01:34:10,079 --> 01:34:12,960 off the strip and it's got some of the best time food you've ever had. 1338 01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:16,439 But it's affordable. I've spent many months of my life in Las Vegas. 1339 01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:19,359 I'm not proud of it. I mean, look, it's thankfully it's 1340 01:34:19,399 --> 01:34:24,439 never been on my own dime. So that lotus of siam, thank you, 1341 01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:27,760 Izzy, thank you is isy. That's right. Uh so yeah, 1342 01:34:28,199 --> 01:34:32,520 again, let's avoid Las Vegas. Uh La is is tougher to avoid because 1343 01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:39,520 it's slightly more important than Las Vegas. Sure, okay on the scale. 1344 01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:42,199 Uh all right. Just Seanna says I haven't been there in ten years, 1345 01:34:42,239 --> 01:34:44,760 it's let me be how old as emmy. I've been there in six years, 1346 01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:47,199 So that's what it is. The last time I was there was CS 1347 01:34:47,359 --> 01:34:51,119 twenty twenty where everyone was like getting sick. It was weird. Everyone was 1348 01:34:51,119 --> 01:34:57,239 getting aim just like, what's going on? That's going on? I can't 1349 01:34:57,279 --> 01:34:59,880 remember that C yes where they were like because I was like listening to NPR, 1350 01:35:00,039 --> 01:35:00,800 so it was like, man, shit's going down in China, and 1351 01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:02,680 I'm like I think I can do see yes, And then you guys all 1352 01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:05,279 went, I'm like, okay, well have fun with that. Yeah. 1353 01:35:05,359 --> 01:35:10,199 I mean I've managed to dodge bullets coming out of that show. But it 1354 01:35:10,319 --> 01:35:15,560 was definitely you know, hindsight's a little obviously twenty twenty there, but you 1355 01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:19,720 could tell something was going on the last couple of stories here. Yes, 1356 01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:25,239 Xbox confirms that it will banned players who upload sex clips from Balder's Gate three. 1357 01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:27,960 They're just like, hey, yeah, it's in the game, but 1358 01:35:28,079 --> 01:35:30,960 why am I even there? Yeah, exactly, But what's the point of 1359 01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:33,720 this server? I pay for Xbox Live. God damn it, Well I 1360 01:35:33,760 --> 01:35:39,119 will. My art will not be censored. It's it's it's in the game. 1361 01:35:39,159 --> 01:35:43,399 You could play it. But sex it's just gonna make these companies uncomfortable. 1362 01:35:44,119 --> 01:35:45,720 As Manati points out, you could probably still upload a clip if you 1363 01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:51,760 mowing down civilians in No Russian from Modern Warfare two or whatever it was. 1364 01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:56,640 But yeah, that will not get you flagged. If this does. They've 1365 01:35:56,680 --> 01:35:59,720 confirmed, like, this is not some automated system. Every single one of 1366 01:35:59,720 --> 01:36:03,159 these that has gotten people banned has been reviewed by a human being. And 1367 01:36:03,279 --> 01:36:08,439 they think that they're being excessive or or they flouting the rules. Do they 1368 01:36:08,479 --> 01:36:13,319 just not like the choice of the yeah person Likewise, yeah, they're like, 1369 01:36:13,399 --> 01:36:15,159 no, no, Carlac, we only deal with shadow hard over here. 1370 01:36:15,199 --> 01:36:18,560 That's probably what that is. You can't maybe maybe it's the fact that 1371 01:36:18,600 --> 01:36:23,039 you can fuck a bear, yeah, or that they're not fucking the bear. 1372 01:36:23,239 --> 01:36:27,479 The fucking the bear probably be interesting if Yeah, Okay, I feel 1373 01:36:27,520 --> 01:36:30,920 like we're learning a lot about the the Xbox team here. Yeah, the 1374 01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:35,560 predilections of the State of Washington team over there, Christians only. Yes, 1375 01:36:35,760 --> 01:36:41,680 it's all it's all a circle, baby, I'm telling you. Unity is 1376 01:36:41,840 --> 01:36:46,000 planning an additional eighteen hundred workers to be cut from their jobs. That's twenty 1377 01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:53,079 five percent of its workforce. Jeez, that is just massive. This is 1378 01:36:53,119 --> 01:36:57,560 part of their continued Hey, everything else that we tried fucking sucked. We're 1379 01:36:57,600 --> 01:37:00,279 just gonna go back to just doing the engine and we're really bad at this, 1380 01:37:00,439 --> 01:37:03,640 but you guys have to get fired instead. I believe that's the official 1381 01:37:03,720 --> 01:37:09,119 name of the new strategy that they have going there. This is the company's 1382 01:37:09,119 --> 01:37:12,359 fourth round of layoffs. They've done some pretty big ones before. I think 1383 01:37:12,359 --> 01:37:16,920 the last biggest one was around ten percent of its workforce at that time. 1384 01:37:17,399 --> 01:37:21,920 So, yes, they are still reeling and you thrat, hey, well, 1385 01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:26,239 is anyone going to take responsibility for this? Remember that John Richtello is 1386 01:37:26,279 --> 01:37:30,039 on his way out, and he did exactly what the board of directors wanted 1387 01:37:30,119 --> 01:37:34,199 him to do and got them a bunch of mergers and acquisitions and got them 1388 01:37:34,239 --> 01:37:36,640 made them a lot of money, and that's all they care about. So 1389 01:37:38,239 --> 01:37:41,680 Unity feels like it is just dying that slow death in front of us, 1390 01:37:42,319 --> 01:37:45,159 and it will be. I'll be very surprised if it's a going concern in 1391 01:37:45,159 --> 01:37:49,199 the way that anyone's using to make games in five to ten years. But 1392 01:37:49,279 --> 01:37:55,479 we'll see. Finally, Apple's thirty five hundred dollars Vision Pro headset launches in 1393 01:37:55,520 --> 01:37:57,359 the US arm SORR. There's one more story off this. We'll get to 1394 01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:00,760 that. The pro headset is launching in February. They could from that. 1395 01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:04,119 It'll have two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage, it features a three 1396 01:38:04,199 --> 01:38:09,760 D user interface. We started seeing commercials for it on TV, which is 1397 01:38:09,800 --> 01:38:12,880 wild because it seems like it's just it's thirty five hundred dollars. It's meant 1398 01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:16,039 for developers. But I suppose they've done marketing campaigns for things that have been 1399 01:38:16,159 --> 01:38:20,000 very expensive before and it's Apple, so it's kind of just that's how they 1400 01:38:20,079 --> 01:38:24,439 view themselves. Any chance any of you guys are gonna pick this up? 1401 01:38:24,479 --> 01:38:30,279 This is all about like, hey, controlling an Apple OS experience out in 1402 01:38:30,359 --> 01:38:31,880 the world in front of you. I don't know, I don't know how 1403 01:38:31,920 --> 01:38:36,760 appealing that is to you, guys. No, not at all. Nope. 1404 01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:43,840 I mean, I like, it's thirty five hundred dollars. This isn't 1405 01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:51,119 like a you know, impulse buy different the vast majority of people except for 1406 01:38:51,199 --> 01:38:58,560 John's, but I think, like, what what that was? Like a 1407 01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:01,159 an throw under the bus. That's That's what I'm gonna do, Jeff. 1408 01:39:01,159 --> 01:39:04,640 I'm gonna spend thirty five hundred dollars on a headset, put it on for 1409 01:39:04,680 --> 01:39:08,079 five minutes, and be like, well that makes me sick, and then 1410 01:39:08,199 --> 01:39:11,800 just toss it in the garbage. Because this is because I avoid this because 1411 01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:15,680 I sometimes invoice Jeff late and I forget and he has taken that as John 1412 01:39:15,720 --> 01:39:20,800 has infinite money. Oh yeah, that's how I understand math to work and 1413 01:39:21,359 --> 01:39:27,960 uh, you know, yeah, thirty five I would rather go on like 1414 01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:31,279 a pretty nice vacation for that. What if you could go anywhere in the 1415 01:39:32,079 --> 01:39:39,039 known universe in aal f oh right, yeah, and have it without getting 1416 01:39:39,039 --> 01:39:42,960 on a plane, without getting on a plane, but have it possibly make 1417 01:39:43,039 --> 01:39:45,439 me intensely nauseous. Oh it will make you sick. Yeah, Wallace, 1418 01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:48,720 your grant will be with you though, so yes, yeah, all right, 1419 01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:54,239 now you're talking about language. It's it's just crazy. Uh, it's 1420 01:39:54,319 --> 01:40:00,640 crazy. And I feel like there's just no good way to rationalize making with 1421 01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:03,239 the people who do pony up this kind of money for this thing. There 1422 01:40:03,279 --> 01:40:08,520 is just a war coming between us and the people who buy this. And 1423 01:40:08,560 --> 01:40:12,560 I'm sorry if you're in that side of the camp. We don't like you. 1424 01:40:12,920 --> 01:40:15,920 We think you're stupid, and we hate you. Has pro in the 1425 01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:20,000 name. So eventually let's have a vision headset and that'll be affordable. This 1426 01:40:20,119 --> 01:40:24,960 is just for the pros, the professionals. This is the most pro ass 1427 01:40:25,119 --> 01:40:28,199 product ever, let me tell you. But Apple, if you want to 1428 01:40:28,239 --> 01:40:30,319 send one, I'll take it. There you go. Uh yeah, we'll 1429 01:40:30,359 --> 01:40:32,760 check. We'll check it out if you send us one. Are they even 1430 01:40:32,840 --> 01:40:36,000 doing that? Like, are they even setting I mean I'm assuming they're sending 1431 01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:41,039 out review models like the people they work with regularly, like they're trusted. 1432 01:40:41,279 --> 01:40:45,399 No for sure, but like I'm NKBHD will get one and like you know, 1433 01:40:45,479 --> 01:40:48,279 all these guys but like no buy Yeah, it's just wild to me. 1434 01:40:48,399 --> 01:40:53,840 Like I wonder, I just wonder, oh man, back at seeing 1435 01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:56,479 it, but like they would have like a very big product thing, it 1436 01:40:56,560 --> 01:41:00,920 was always this fucking little, like you know, territory, little pissing match 1437 01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:03,039 and everyone being like, well I should be the one to fucking look at 1438 01:41:03,079 --> 01:41:06,159 this thing, and it's just like, oh God, I can't imagine we 1439 01:41:06,159 --> 01:41:12,000 had thirty five goggle. I will. I'll read the reviews for this, 1440 01:41:12,119 --> 01:41:15,000 I'll watch the videos, and that'll be fine for me. I'm happy with 1441 01:41:15,039 --> 01:41:18,319 my Meda Quest three that's got passed through. I'll be fine with too. 1442 01:41:18,399 --> 01:41:23,279 I haven't even gotten it yet, and I'm much happier with that. Finally, 1443 01:41:23,359 --> 01:41:27,079 sag After signs deal with voiceover studio for AI use in video games. 1444 01:41:27,199 --> 01:41:29,560 I don't have the details here. Who put this here? I put it 1445 01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:32,159 here because I just I saw it, so I don't know. You want 1446 01:41:32,159 --> 01:41:34,880 to read it, like, let's read it together, Yeah, let's read 1447 01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:40,960 it together. Sag After signed a deal on Tuesday. This is all from 1448 01:41:41,079 --> 01:41:45,039 Variety on a deal on Tuesday with an AI voiceover studio that sets terms for 1449 01:41:45,119 --> 01:41:48,680 the use of artificial intelligence video games. The Union announced to deal with Replica 1450 01:41:48,720 --> 01:41:53,640 Studios on Tuesday at cs damn you see us? Is there any news you 1451 01:41:53,680 --> 01:42:00,880 will not break? The union's executive director said that terms include informed consent for 1452 01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:05,960 the use of AI to create digital voice replicas, as well as requirements for 1453 01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:11,840 the safe storage of digital assets. At a press conference, Crabtree Ireland, 1454 01:42:12,319 --> 01:42:15,000 what is that? John? Oh? Well, Jeff, like all businesses 1455 01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:20,479 in Ireland, I have an encyclopedic knowledge of what this is now each other. 1456 01:42:20,840 --> 01:42:25,680 Yeah, look, there's like there's four people. It's me, it's 1457 01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:30,319 a dwyre, it's maybe someone else and this guy Duncan Crabtree Ireland. Who's 1458 01:42:30,399 --> 01:42:34,680 the union representative? It's us three, and then there's a president and that's 1459 01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:41,880 it. Uh, mister Crabtree Dash Ireland said these are the kind of terms 1460 01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:45,960 that producers can agree to without disrupting their ability to make content. This is 1461 01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:49,279 an evolutionary step forward. AI technolo technology is not something we can block, 1462 01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:54,199 it's not something we can stop. That's not a tactic or a strategy that's 1463 01:42:54,239 --> 01:42:57,560 ever worked for labor in the past. Well, this sounds very anti labor 1464 01:42:58,199 --> 01:43:01,960 as being a labor representative anyway. Uh, yeah, that's that's the story 1465 01:43:01,840 --> 01:43:10,479 they've Yeah, I'm sure that guy run in my union. Well we tried, 1466 01:43:10,600 --> 01:43:15,239 but you it was hard. I wonder if he's like I, because 1467 01:43:15,279 --> 01:43:18,560 the idea with like AI in filmmaking right now is if the writers want to 1468 01:43:18,640 --> 01:43:20,680 use it, they can use it, but the studios can't use it to 1469 01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:24,359 replace writers. It's like, oh yeah, that sounds sir, that sounds 1470 01:43:24,359 --> 01:43:26,600 strong with me. I mean, the writers shouldn't use it's going to give 1471 01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:30,359 you some shitty work, but they want to do some shortcuts whatever. It's 1472 01:43:30,399 --> 01:43:33,640 important to note here that like this is just announcing I believe a deal with 1473 01:43:33,720 --> 01:43:40,800 a single voiceover studio, right, so this is this Replica studio that is 1474 01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:45,520 launching that has launched an AI platform back in twenty nineteen. So they Variety 1475 01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:50,920 is reporting that seg after after A signed a deal with this specific voiceover studio 1476 01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:56,159 for AI use in video games. All right, we'll see it. We'll 1477 01:43:56,199 --> 01:44:00,640 see if that spreads to any other studios or industry wide. Fair enough, 1478 01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:03,199 all right, that does it for the news. My favorite CES memory is 1479 01:44:03,239 --> 01:44:09,920 listening to uh the the Beast cast and back while you were complaining about being 1480 01:44:09,920 --> 01:44:12,880 really dry in Las Vegas and people told you just like fell up the bath 1481 01:44:13,279 --> 01:44:16,000 and that would humidify the room and You're like, that doesn't happen, And 1482 01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:18,199 I'm like, what the fuck is this guy? Evaporation? Is it real? 1483 01:44:18,279 --> 01:44:24,720 Now? Back alt is but it's like, oh god, I remember 1484 01:44:24,720 --> 01:44:27,800 that it didn't work. It didn't work in a way that like a humidifier 1485 01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:30,359 next to your bed would work. Yeah, I imagine in Las Vegas it 1486 01:44:30,399 --> 01:44:33,640 probably wouldn't work. But like whenever I leave the bath full after like the 1487 01:44:33,720 --> 01:44:38,439 kid's bath in my house, like the whole upstairs feels like it is a 1488 01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:44,039 jungle a song. But Las Vegas is dry enough. They probably actually fucking 1489 01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:48,479 desert. Okay, it is a desert that they PLoP restaurants on top of, 1490 01:44:48,960 --> 01:44:54,960 so air humidity has no shot. We didn't talk about Brian Cox. 1491 01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:58,760 Yeah, I don't want to say about this. Well, okay, explain 1492 01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:03,039 like he just went over history of Tecan, specifically the history of the Mashimas. 1493 01:45:03,680 --> 01:45:09,079 So Brian Cox say, so, what the hell is a devil? 1494 01:45:09,159 --> 01:45:15,239 Jeene? I always wanted to hear that this is pretty great because I have 1495 01:45:15,319 --> 01:45:19,199 a loose understanding of the Tecan, uh you know, sort of cannon because 1496 01:45:19,199 --> 01:45:24,000 of a ranking thing we did a couple of years back. It's like the 1497 01:45:24,039 --> 01:45:27,319 last year. No no, no, no, no, no, you 1498 01:45:27,399 --> 01:45:30,159 can't be. It can't be. Can't be. Uh So, I'm very 1499 01:45:30,159 --> 01:45:34,119 excited to hear Brian Cox do this talk about like the perfect person for it, 1500 01:45:34,279 --> 01:45:38,039 right yeah. The I've watched it a little bit of it here, 1501 01:45:38,319 --> 01:45:43,000 and the whole trailer has a real air of like, Okay, Brian, 1502 01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:46,319 we're just gonna do one more take and him turning around and being like the 1503 01:45:46,359 --> 01:45:51,439 fuck we are? Hell yeah, I want the I want the outtakes of 1504 01:45:51,479 --> 01:45:55,560 this. I want it to be exactly like the Orson Wells talking about the 1505 01:45:55,600 --> 01:45:58,960 wine or whatever the fuck that was. Oh hell yeah, this is so 1506 01:45:59,079 --> 01:46:04,000 awesome. It's it's choice. Yeah, I mean it's that's the way it 1507 01:46:04,039 --> 01:46:08,319 goes. A lot of times someone watched a TV show and they like, 1508 01:46:08,640 --> 01:46:11,039 we should get them to talk about our game. We should get that. 1509 01:46:11,079 --> 01:46:14,439 It's like Coachm's whole career right now, is I watched that TV show. 1510 01:46:14,439 --> 01:46:15,479 I'm gonna go get that guy. He should be in my game. It's 1511 01:46:15,520 --> 01:46:23,720 been his career right yeah. Now begins my quest. Jeff Grubb h to 1512 01:46:23,720 --> 01:46:29,520 to increase the we need to start collecting people like like Kojima, right Oh 1513 01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:34,479 yeah, yeah, We'll start with John. We're starting with Yes, we'll 1514 01:46:34,520 --> 01:46:39,079 scan everybody that comes to the GB at night from now on exactly. We're 1515 01:46:39,119 --> 01:46:43,960 going to get Rachel Zegler on a Giant Bomb show in the near future. 1516 01:46:44,199 --> 01:46:47,039 You are like sick and this is like one of the few messages you were 1517 01:46:47,079 --> 01:46:50,880 able to send. Is I want to get Rachel Zegler on Giant Bomb. 1518 01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:55,680 I'm like, this guy's fucked up. Yes, I was, I am, 1519 01:46:55,960 --> 01:47:00,199 and it's gonna happen. And we're gonna get Jason madd Zucus as well. 1520 01:47:00,319 --> 01:47:02,920 Hell yeah, I would love that. You know who else we're gonna 1521 01:47:02,920 --> 01:47:09,239 get? Uh, I don't know who's Who's Eddie Kingston, Eddie Eddie Kingston. 1522 01:47:09,239 --> 01:47:13,079 He could probably get Eddie Kist. You know I would let him shoot, 1523 01:47:13,119 --> 01:47:15,680 punch me and beat me up. Oh yeah, for sure, because 1524 01:47:15,760 --> 01:47:19,760 I hope I would gain his respect afterwards. You guys, you guys watch 1525 01:47:20,399 --> 01:47:26,159 Wrestle Kingdom Middle watch. I saw that, I saw the person that popped 1526 01:47:26,199 --> 01:47:29,359 up, and I was kind of very excited for the said person pop up. 1527 01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:33,960 Mmm, okay, okay, I'm sorry, Joe, I'm sorry John, 1528 01:47:34,079 --> 01:47:40,560 I'll be better better. Uh what okay? Should I check out that 1529 01:47:40,720 --> 01:47:47,239 oct A Danielson match. Yeah, it's not. It's still not the dream 1530 01:47:47,319 --> 01:47:50,439 much I want those two to have, but it's better than their last match. 1531 01:47:51,039 --> 01:47:57,439 Okay, I am exercising incredible will to just leave it at that. 1532 01:47:58,159 --> 01:48:01,640 But I since we since we have here, John, you know what, 1533 01:48:01,640 --> 01:48:05,000 we'll take a break and then we'll talk about some wrestling. Okay, all 1534 01:48:05,079 --> 01:48:09,159 right, all right, we'll see you with some wrestling, some emails, 1535 01:48:09,199 --> 01:48:15,680 and some some some other fun stuff after this break. All right, wrestling 1536 01:48:15,720 --> 01:48:17,279 talk. We're gonna make this real quick, John, who's gonna the Royal 1537 01:48:17,359 --> 01:48:26,520 Rumble? Not l A. Knight? Y? Well, he's in like 1538 01:48:26,520 --> 01:48:30,359 the fatal four way for uh for the title against Roman, right, so 1539 01:48:30,399 --> 01:48:35,840 it's probably not gonna happen there. I hmm. I think l A. 1540 01:48:35,960 --> 01:48:45,079 Knight is a tremendous upper mid carter and no further, damn, I think 1541 01:48:45,199 --> 01:48:49,279 I think it's gonna be Dwayne. No, I can't, it can't be. 1542 01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:55,439 But see, I can't. I can't see them doing I can't see 1543 01:48:55,479 --> 01:49:00,279 them doing Cody versus Roman again. You don't think they're gonna finish the story? 1544 01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:02,359 I think they will. I don't think this is going to be the 1545 01:49:02,479 --> 01:49:06,600 WrestleMania it happens. Yeah, it doesn't seem like it right now. Yeah, 1546 01:49:06,680 --> 01:49:10,359 man, and then see him punk is going to be set. So 1547 01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:13,359 yeah, I think I think it. I think it's rock and Roman. 1548 01:49:13,479 --> 01:49:15,680 Honestly not saying that's what I want, but I think that's what's most likely. 1549 01:49:16,199 --> 01:49:20,600 Okay, okay, grub grub, We're rumble is my favorite event of 1550 01:49:20,640 --> 01:49:24,840 the year. Who do you think is winning? Oh? As soon as 1551 01:49:24,880 --> 01:49:28,359 I saw it in chat from Happy Drama, Our Truth It's time again. 1552 01:49:28,520 --> 01:49:31,199 Did you guys see the thing he did un raw last night? I've seen 1553 01:49:31,239 --> 01:49:34,880 it. It was one of the best things I've ever seen. It's love 1554 01:49:34,960 --> 01:49:40,600 him. He is incredible. It's so good. It's about him joining the 1555 01:49:40,680 --> 01:49:43,960 Judgment Day and it starts with him telling the story of how when he was 1556 01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:46,520 a newborn baby and the doctor held him in his arms, he looked in 1557 01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:55,000 the doctor's eyes and said, I want to join the Judgment Day. He's 1558 01:49:55,039 --> 01:49:59,000 great. Back l Art. You would love Our Truth. Our Truth is 1559 01:49:59,039 --> 01:50:03,560 the best I think I would I you guys have just ruined it for me. 1560 01:50:04,399 --> 01:50:08,840 We ruined it. I don't know. I can't put my finger on 1561 01:50:08,920 --> 01:50:14,840 it. But something happened where I'm unable to even attempt to try to enjoy 1562 01:50:15,239 --> 01:50:19,800 wrestling with. I think it was Dan. I think it was John. 1563 01:50:19,800 --> 01:50:24,960 I think I think he just like he. He just comes in as this 1564 01:50:25,119 --> 01:50:30,520 like know it all wrestling guy and like describe to me a worse person than 1565 01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:33,479 a know it all wrestling guy. I don't, I don't know. I 1566 01:50:33,479 --> 01:50:38,079 don't know. I can't, I can't put my finger on it. There 1567 01:50:38,199 --> 01:50:44,640 was you guys. There was a time where I was like what Manati is 1568 01:50:44,720 --> 01:50:49,279 to Disney. I wasn't that, but I was certainly approaching it with E. 1569 01:50:49,399 --> 01:50:54,640 C. W and Jeff. When we've watched when we've watched all of 1570 01:50:54,800 --> 01:50:59,399 NIME, we're gonna start on wrestling. Okay, Look, you're one of 1571 01:50:59,399 --> 01:51:03,760 the few p people I will go on that journey with. So yeah, 1572 01:51:04,239 --> 01:51:15,159 well look forward to that. Is there a wrestling anime's many many face? 1573 01:51:16,039 --> 01:51:23,319 All right, let's stop to kill me in his arm? Okay? And 1574 01:51:23,399 --> 01:51:30,479 I looked him in the eyes, not totally. One day we'll be in 1575 01:51:30,600 --> 01:51:36,439 judgment day. That's pretty funny. It just keeps going from there and every 1576 01:51:36,479 --> 01:51:42,960 bit littens so hard. Oh god, that's great. And it's a photoshop 1577 01:51:43,000 --> 01:51:45,359 of the entire Judgment Day as babies with Our Truth in the background. Baby 1578 01:51:45,399 --> 01:51:49,640 our Truth. It's really really good. Uh, you gotta protect Baby our 1579 01:51:49,720 --> 01:52:03,000 Truth. But by all measures emails, Emil, someone tried to stump me 1580 01:52:03,079 --> 01:52:09,279 with ECW trivia, Nil, says Jeff. What did e c W stand 1581 01:52:09,319 --> 01:52:15,079 for before Extreme Championship Wrestling. I believe it was Eastern Oh, I think 1582 01:52:15,159 --> 01:52:18,199 because it was like all like Philly based. I think that's what I think. 1583 01:52:18,279 --> 01:52:23,479 Yes, score one for the good guys. Sing ding ding ding ding 1584 01:52:23,520 --> 01:52:27,760 ding ding ding ding ding BombCast Giant Bomb is the email address to send your 1585 01:52:27,760 --> 01:52:32,239 emails too. You can virtually send emails about any and everything. Uh. 1586 01:52:32,359 --> 01:52:38,920 I recently had to unsubscribe us from an NBA listing for whatever reason we're part 1587 01:52:38,920 --> 01:52:44,000 of. I didn't care to know about the Grizzlies anyway. First email comes 1588 01:52:44,039 --> 01:52:50,399 from Tyler in Sioux Falls. See you false Sue Falls, Sue, Sue. 1589 01:52:50,800 --> 01:52:55,159 I don't know how to read Sue. I was gonna say San Diego. 1590 01:52:55,199 --> 01:53:00,399 That's probably not right as the SD There you go, South Dakota, 1591 01:53:00,479 --> 01:53:03,359 right, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. All right? Anyway, Yeah, 1592 01:53:03,399 --> 01:53:08,119 Hey Bombers been a listener for well over a decade at this point, and 1593 01:53:08,159 --> 01:53:11,840 I just had an experience that I had to share as I scream into the 1594 01:53:11,880 --> 01:53:15,279 sky with frustration. It's my favorite activity. My best friend's birthday is coming 1595 01:53:15,319 --> 01:53:18,960 up this week, so I thought i'd buy him my second best game of 1596 01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:24,199 the year, Alan Wake two parentheses versus like a Dragon Guy Den. Because 1597 01:53:24,199 --> 01:53:27,119 I'm one of those weirdos, I go to the Epics store and pull up 1598 01:53:27,159 --> 01:53:30,159 a game to which it says in library with no option to buy as a 1599 01:53:30,159 --> 01:53:33,359 gift. This can't be right, I say to myself, but after a 1600 01:53:33,439 --> 01:53:38,439 quick Google search, it apparently is. So I go to green Man Gaming, 1601 01:53:38,640 --> 01:53:41,920 register an account, purchase it, and forward the email to my buddy, 1602 01:53:42,279 --> 01:53:45,680 only for it did not work. I request the refund and move on 1603 01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:49,239 to my next avenue. After another Google search the Humble store after reactivating my 1604 01:53:49,279 --> 01:53:53,560 account, I finally was able to purchase this gift from my friend, but 1605 01:53:53,640 --> 01:53:57,880 now after great cost to my sanity and stress. So my question to you, 1606 01:53:57,960 --> 01:54:00,760 find folk is why, after five years of Epic having a storefront, 1607 01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:04,279 do they not have the option of gifting a game to a friend. Why 1608 01:54:04,279 --> 01:54:09,159 do I have to slog through dog shit just to give a game I didn't 1609 01:54:09,199 --> 01:54:11,880 have a problem with the Epic Store before tonight. But I have to say, 1610 01:54:11,960 --> 01:54:14,760 hey, fuck you, Epic Store. Maybe it's some more games, 1611 01:54:14,760 --> 01:54:17,279 if you had the super user experience, if you made the user experience better. 1612 01:54:17,439 --> 01:54:23,039 From Tyler and Seu Falls San Diego, Tyler, it's because the Epic 1613 01:54:23,079 --> 01:54:27,720 Game Store is not a money making venture. Simply put, it is not. 1614 01:54:27,880 --> 01:54:30,720 It is left in it has been left in disrepair. H it is 1615 01:54:30,880 --> 01:54:38,880 it is. It represents a shell of functionality. Uh and it you know, 1616 01:54:38,960 --> 01:54:41,439 I'm sure grub you can add on to this, but like that's not 1617 01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:45,239 what they have not decided to make that the priority. It could be. 1618 01:54:46,079 --> 01:54:48,720 Yeah, I mean it's it's pretty much that simple, right, Like they 1619 01:54:49,359 --> 01:54:51,760 invest in things that they think are going to move the needle, so they 1620 01:54:51,800 --> 01:54:56,479 keep giving you free games, and even that doesn't move the needle all that 1621 01:54:56,600 --> 01:55:00,920 much. So how much return on investment are they really going to get from 1622 01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:04,640 enabling you to purchase games for your friends something that maybe one percent of people 1623 01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:09,880 actually engage in. It's that's not a good reason not to do it. 1624 01:55:10,239 --> 01:55:13,279 But that is just the reality of the Epic Store. It was a bad 1625 01:55:13,319 --> 01:55:15,760 idea from the beginning. It was always going to end up here for Epic. 1626 01:55:16,439 --> 01:55:19,399 They if they were going to try to disrupt the market, they should 1627 01:55:19,399 --> 01:55:21,640 have actually tried to do it with something that would have been disruptive instead of 1628 01:55:21,640 --> 01:55:27,279 just trying to make an alternative that is the exact same but worse. Hey 1629 01:55:27,279 --> 01:55:30,199 shot at them for publishing Alan Wake two. That was a cool idea. 1630 01:55:30,319 --> 01:55:32,680 Do more of that, do more stuff like that, and you got something. 1631 01:55:32,760 --> 01:55:35,720 Their epic. The Epic store was just never going to be anything. 1632 01:55:36,600 --> 01:55:42,319 Was it Epic that bought the mall to Yes? Okay, so they spent 1633 01:55:42,359 --> 01:55:46,039 like a nine hundred million dollars on like a derelict mall or something that was 1634 01:55:46,039 --> 01:55:49,600 for like offices, right, corporate that's their new offices. Yeah, okay, 1635 01:55:49,800 --> 01:55:53,119 So they couldn't figure out how to open a store, so they just 1636 01:55:53,159 --> 01:55:57,439 bought a bunch of stores. That's right exactly. This hot dog and a 1637 01:55:57,439 --> 01:56:02,000 stick is going to teach us about gifting, oh Man, Orange Julius all 1638 01:56:02,119 --> 01:56:09,199 right. Next by watching where like strip malls and corporate suburban offices are going 1639 01:56:09,239 --> 01:56:15,560 to be the next big US crash. Yeah, yes, strip malls up 1640 01:56:15,600 --> 01:56:18,840 and slowly crashing for a long long time. Yeah, that thing, it's 1641 01:56:19,079 --> 01:56:21,960 where you're at. But in a lot of places. Yeah, strip malls, 1642 01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:28,680 traditional malls definitely, but like now all commercial real estate because everyone's locked 1643 01:56:28,720 --> 01:56:32,319 into their old contracts. So even though COVID happened, like everyone's started to 1644 01:56:32,359 --> 01:56:35,079 keep paying their their their bills. But as soon as those contracts are up, 1645 01:56:35,159 --> 01:56:40,319 it's all gonna dip hard. But like think about in I don't know 1646 01:56:40,600 --> 01:56:44,640 what it's like where you live, John, but in America, in suburban 1647 01:56:44,640 --> 01:56:50,800 America, there are like these ten story free standing buildings in suburbia that are 1648 01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:57,560 like corporate offices that are all like empty by the tens of thousands now, 1649 01:56:57,600 --> 01:57:01,520 and they're just sort of sitting there with Yeah, so you can setting for 1650 01:57:01,560 --> 01:57:06,039 a film or something. I don't know what you can do. Maybe they 1651 01:57:06,079 --> 01:57:11,800 all become Tony Hawk levels. I have no idea. Oh okay, you 1652 01:57:11,960 --> 01:57:15,760 squeeze the remaining bit of because they can't turn it into housing. What they're 1653 01:57:15,760 --> 01:57:21,600 gonna do is they're just gonna make it into like that VR little mall experience 1654 01:57:21,640 --> 01:57:26,119 where you just go in and run around it with a VR helmet. I'm 1655 01:57:26,159 --> 01:57:30,119 surprised they haven't become like warehouses, like you can only have so many spirit 1656 01:57:30,159 --> 01:57:35,079 Halloween stores. That's true too, right, you go down the priority LA 1657 01:57:35,600 --> 01:57:40,000 found a limit yet jan So you don't know that, you know, like 1658 01:57:40,159 --> 01:57:45,319 do something with them because they are everywhere, and they're hidden in plain side 1659 01:57:45,359 --> 01:57:47,920 too. They've become such fixtures of the landscape that you don't even realize you're 1660 01:57:47,920 --> 01:57:53,399 looking at them. I went to one of my derelict malls during the holiday 1661 01:57:53,399 --> 01:57:59,159 break before I came down with the VID, and this specific mall was supposed 1662 01:57:59,199 --> 01:58:04,880 to get acquired by like med tech shit. And what's gonna happen to all 1663 01:58:04,880 --> 01:58:09,039 the gigantic Christmas trees they used to go in malls. It's gonna happen to 1664 01:58:09,079 --> 01:58:13,000 those? They still just keep them around? I mean, why not? 1665 01:58:13,279 --> 01:58:15,119 Aren't they cut down every year? Isn't that what what you guys do? 1666 01:58:15,119 --> 01:58:18,640 Don't you like cut down the tree every year? It was those ones, 1667 01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:24,720 those huge ones, right, most of them have to be rock. But 1668 01:58:24,760 --> 01:58:29,239 that's out really Oh yeah, yeah, that's real. Ship. I suppose 1669 01:58:29,279 --> 01:58:31,000 a lot of those probably are real. Huh yeah, yeah, they gotta 1670 01:58:31,000 --> 01:58:36,159 all be real. Who's making a company of story Tree? Well, part 1671 01:58:36,199 --> 01:58:39,439 part of me I thought like that would make more sense. But now, 1672 01:58:39,520 --> 01:58:41,479 yeah, when you say it like that back, are you right? Huh, 1673 01:58:41,560 --> 01:58:44,479 I guess it does have to be real. M hmm, okay, 1674 01:58:44,560 --> 01:58:47,720 yeah, now I feel foolish, all right. Next email comes from d 1675 01:58:48,279 --> 01:58:53,560 Hello. The sword on the title screen of the ne e S Zelda is 1676 01:58:53,600 --> 01:58:58,159 some rapier looking sword. On the famicom cover of it, it appears below 1677 01:58:58,199 --> 01:59:00,760 the title text and the art bull Oh. The title link is drawn with 1678 01:59:00,800 --> 01:59:06,920 his normal basic sword. The master sword didn't appear until what is LTTP Link 1679 01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:11,720 to the past. Link to the past. So what gives is this Zelda 1680 01:59:11,800 --> 01:59:16,560 sword? Sounds like Nintendo needs to get their fucking shit together. Yeah, 1681 01:59:17,000 --> 01:59:19,760 I thought this. I thought this whole lore was supposed to make sense and 1682 01:59:19,880 --> 01:59:23,439 go from game to game. It was all planned from the very beginning. 1683 01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:29,520 Is that right? That's the Master Sword. I was not technically in the 1684 01:59:29,560 --> 01:59:31,159 Legend of Zelda, because there's a story that looks a lot like the Master 1685 01:59:31,199 --> 01:59:34,079 Sword in there. I guess you power up your sword, but I don't 1686 01:59:34,119 --> 01:59:38,079 know. None of that sounds right to me, but I don't remember. 1687 01:59:38,199 --> 01:59:40,520 I just I don't want to pay attention to the story when I'm playing that 1688 01:59:40,560 --> 01:59:45,520 game. I've actually gone through a big Legend of Zelda like concept our rabbit 1689 01:59:45,560 --> 01:59:51,119 hole recently at all different concept. Man, it is real, like, 1690 01:59:51,279 --> 01:59:57,199 especially for something Linkednked to the Past. It is mind blowing to see what 1691 01:59:57,680 --> 02:00:02,479 they wanted that world to be versus the compromises of it actually existing on a 1692 02:00:02,560 --> 02:00:05,760 like you know, Super Nintendo two hundred and fifty six grid pixel grid, 1693 02:00:06,279 --> 02:00:10,399 and it is just like, I'm like, I love Heading to the Past 1694 02:00:10,399 --> 02:00:15,720 looks, but it is crazy to see just how expansive and like epic they 1695 02:00:15,760 --> 02:00:19,680 wanted it to be. It's it's so cool. I love that stuff and 1696 02:00:20,000 --> 02:00:25,680 I have no answer for this. Man. Yeah, let's just say yes, 1697 02:00:25,720 --> 02:00:29,359 that's Zelda's sword. Yes, yes, Yeah, Princess Peach as Yeah, 1698 02:00:29,439 --> 02:00:33,199 Rapier in that new Princess Peach Showtime and they're gonna fight. They're both 1699 02:00:33,399 --> 02:00:38,960 yes, show Time. Yes, she keeps that thang on her. A 1700 02:00:40,079 --> 02:00:45,039 next email comes from Troy to your BombCast. Longtime caller, first time listener. 1701 02:00:45,439 --> 02:00:47,560 My question is mainly for Dan, but anyone can help. I have 1702 02:00:47,640 --> 02:00:51,399 never played a Castlevania game and was looking for where to start the series. 1703 02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:55,720 Oh geez. Also, I wanted to see what would be the best way 1704 02:00:55,760 --> 02:01:00,279 to play this Castlevania game emulate by original hardware, by a collection on new 1705 02:01:00,359 --> 02:01:05,159 hardware. I have a Switch Series X, analog pocket and PC. Also, 1706 02:01:05,359 --> 02:01:09,600 we need to chancel Jan for thinking quark side up is the proper way 1707 02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:15,000 to use a coaster. Best regards, Troy. Did you say chancel Jan? 1708 02:01:15,479 --> 02:01:17,840 Yeah? Yeah, okay, so that's what we said. What happens 1709 02:01:18,000 --> 02:01:20,640 when we want to cancel Jam, we jancel him. You know what, 1710 02:01:20,720 --> 02:01:25,479 Troy, there can't be a wrong side to a coaster. It's all cork. 1711 02:01:25,680 --> 02:01:30,479 What about that you've done that? You're holding a Trivet and that's that's 1712 02:01:30,520 --> 02:01:36,079 also a comically sized coaster. No money. That looks like the communion wafer. 1713 02:01:36,560 --> 02:01:40,880 Yeah, it looks like Look look at all the beverages ACTU coast up. 1714 02:01:41,000 --> 02:01:43,680 That's called a tray. That's called the trace. For one more, 1715 02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:47,920 if you're got laser disc size for audio listeners, you have a tray in 1716 02:01:47,960 --> 02:01:51,960 your hand, not a single coaster. Come on, there's a part of 1717 02:01:53,039 --> 02:01:56,000 me that really wants to move on to the next email and never return to 1718 02:01:56,039 --> 02:02:00,640 the Castlevania I I don't know, Try the first one, then try Super 1719 02:02:00,680 --> 02:02:03,840 Castlevania, and then if those don't register, go to Sympathy of the Night 1720 02:02:03,880 --> 02:02:06,479 and yeah, you can emulate all those. You'll be just fine. Go 1721 02:02:06,520 --> 02:02:12,560 play the game boy. I would personally say the start with there's a Caslvani 1722 02:02:12,600 --> 02:02:16,640 collection and it's Rondeau of Blood and Symphony of the Night Night, and just 1723 02:02:16,760 --> 02:02:19,840 download that, play Rondeau of Blood, and then when that gets too hard, 1724 02:02:19,920 --> 02:02:27,079 go play Symphony of the Night. That's a good plan. Mmmmmmmmm okay, 1725 02:02:27,199 --> 02:02:31,199 all right. Next and last email of the show. A lot of 1726 02:02:31,239 --> 02:02:36,159 spam in the inbucks so far. Sorry, that's that's my phone. It's 1727 02:02:36,159 --> 02:02:40,680 okay, I use I use this as a burner email address as well. 1728 02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:47,600 Good but uh Chris from McComb, Michigan, twenty four mile represent Detroit. 1729 02:02:47,640 --> 02:02:51,720 What go blue, Let's fucking go Sorry, I'm from mcomb that what happened 1730 02:02:51,800 --> 02:02:55,960 is something important with Michigan sports happened over the weekend. Yeah. Yeah, 1731 02:02:55,960 --> 02:03:00,279 they won the national championship last night. Yeah, congratulations. First national championship 1732 02:03:00,279 --> 02:03:02,279 in like twenty six years. In the last one they had to share with 1733 02:03:02,319 --> 02:03:06,039 Nebraska, the fucking dirty corn Huskers, which sounds like a slur. That's 1734 02:03:06,039 --> 02:03:13,000 what they call themselves. Yeah, I'm from Macomb's I went to to Sweitzer 1735 02:03:13,119 --> 02:03:17,119 Elementary School and Mallow Junior High. Chris so shout outs to you, Michigan. 1736 02:03:17,640 --> 02:03:20,600 I wish they could explain to you how little of what you just said 1737 02:03:20,640 --> 02:03:26,079 makes sense to a non American. Of course, to John Bottom, I 1738 02:03:26,079 --> 02:03:28,439 don't even make sense to many people. Yeah, I'm not that far behind 1739 02:03:28,479 --> 02:03:30,279 you, John, I only got about like I said, I'm from twenty 1740 02:03:30,279 --> 02:03:34,000 four mile road. Does not like that sounds like nonsense? Right? Yeah? 1741 02:03:34,039 --> 02:03:38,880 I mean which part like? How? Yeah? I don't know, 1742 02:03:38,960 --> 02:03:43,800 is that like eight mile? It's exactly like you to get it, it's 1743 02:03:43,840 --> 02:03:47,239 probably sixteen more right? Exactly? Is a grid? Every mile road is 1744 02:03:47,239 --> 02:03:51,199 a mile apart? That's right? So yes, eight mile twenty four mile? 1745 02:03:51,399 --> 02:03:59,720 Yep? Would you say McComb is Mahome? No? Absolutely not? 1746 02:04:00,119 --> 02:04:02,920 Okay, all right, Well anyway, Chris writes in hey guys, after 1747 02:04:03,039 --> 02:04:08,920 listening to many discussions here on the BombCast about the Analog Pocket, I decided 1748 02:04:08,920 --> 02:04:12,439 to pull the trigger and finally purchase one. I'm most excited to get the 1749 02:04:12,520 --> 02:04:15,640 chance to go back and try out many of the game Boy and game Boy 1750 02:04:15,640 --> 02:04:17,600 Advance games I never played as a kid. I was wondering, what are 1751 02:04:17,640 --> 02:04:21,319 some games you recommend I should check out. Thanks for all the great content, 1752 02:04:21,640 --> 02:04:26,279 Chris macombe, Michigan, well, I'll say the one I always say, 1753 02:04:26,479 --> 02:04:31,840 getting game Boy Color Warlocked. It's like a real time strategy game, 1754 02:04:31,880 --> 02:04:34,359 but somehow it works on the game Boy Color and you get to play so 1755 02:04:35,159 --> 02:04:39,800 various. Yeah, and it's got like different like colored wizards. So there's 1756 02:04:39,840 --> 02:04:42,880 the Brown Wizard and he like controls chickens and shit, just like kind of 1757 02:04:42,880 --> 02:04:44,640 like Lord of the Rings where it's like, oh, well, you get 1758 02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:47,279 up to the White Wizard and he's like super powerful. It sounds racist, 1759 02:04:47,279 --> 02:04:51,319 but it's not. It's just different row, different colored robes. Felcond time 1760 02:04:51,359 --> 02:04:59,479 saying this in two segments. And yeah, yes, I love Rake Steppin. 1761 02:04:59,600 --> 02:05:03,600 Number one thing to do on this show. I will never stop singing 1762 02:05:03,600 --> 02:05:08,439 the praises of Golden Sun. If you want to drive all the way into 1763 02:05:08,720 --> 02:05:14,920 a fantastic RPG, check out Golden Son. There's also controversial take here the 1764 02:05:14,960 --> 02:05:20,039 better Final Fantasy Tactics games. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Advance Too are available 1765 02:05:20,039 --> 02:05:25,840 as well. Hell yeah, Stuntman, I made you play that in a 1766 02:05:26,079 --> 02:05:30,039 uber. You know what. Oh, Stuntman's all right on that screen is 1767 02:05:30,159 --> 02:05:33,560 really crizingly cool on a game Boy Advance, that version of stunt Man I 1768 02:05:33,640 --> 02:05:39,680 like it a lot. I would say that original Phoenix Rite trilogy on game 1769 02:05:39,680 --> 02:05:45,239 Boy Advance sure stellar, and I I much prefer the pixel look to the 1770 02:05:45,239 --> 02:05:46,239 modern look. I think. I think it looks way better, has way 1771 02:05:46,239 --> 02:05:53,640 more impact. The Treasure Games, Gunstar Hero Good Star Heroes is great, 1772 02:05:53,680 --> 02:05:57,039 and the Astro Boy game is also great. Well. Most of all, 1773 02:05:57,479 --> 02:06:01,760 Mother three my second favorite game all of all time and just one of the 1774 02:06:02,680 --> 02:06:09,800 kind of just perfect video games, is just absolutely amazing and I think everyone 1775 02:06:09,840 --> 02:06:15,039 should play that. And the Analytic pocket used to install the game Boy Advanced 1776 02:06:15,079 --> 02:06:17,359 Cores and then you can get that translated ROM and play it on there perfectly. 1777 02:06:17,439 --> 02:06:20,600 Yeah, it's a great translation. It's really good. Yeah. What 1778 02:06:20,720 --> 02:06:25,439 was the big update? I saw a couple of headlines about it. They 1779 02:06:25,560 --> 02:06:29,239 just said that it's the thirtieth anniversary and they will have things to announce, 1780 02:06:29,279 --> 02:06:33,920 which almost certainly means merchandise and not anything else. But that's not a firmware 1781 02:06:34,000 --> 02:06:36,399 up that I was promised the firmware up. Oh I thought you talking about 1782 02:06:36,439 --> 02:06:41,079 mother the firmware update. Yeah, yeah, they did some God I meant 1783 02:06:41,079 --> 02:06:44,279 to dive into this. I can't remember the exact details of it though. 1784 02:06:44,920 --> 02:06:46,840 Oh. Oh yeah, that's right. For all those cores that you could 1785 02:06:46,880 --> 02:06:51,560 install, you can now apply the screen effects that the game that the analog 1786 02:06:51,640 --> 02:06:55,520 Pocket came with that works when you put in a cartridge cool and now works 1787 02:06:55,520 --> 02:06:59,680 on all those cores. And they added another one that makes the screen look 1788 02:06:59,680 --> 02:07:04,119 exactly like a Sony Trinatron CRT oh, which is uh, you know, 1789 02:07:04,199 --> 02:07:10,039 in scientific parlance, shiit hot. It looks really good. I'm very excited 1790 02:07:10,079 --> 02:07:12,000 to mess around with that. Thank you for reminding me about that. I'm 1791 02:07:12,000 --> 02:07:15,159 gonna dive into that tonight. Sure, sure, I'm here for god. 1792 02:07:15,439 --> 02:07:19,119 Yeah, oh man, And now like everyone can get one because they do 1793 02:07:19,279 --> 02:07:23,680 drop so frequently. Now, like that's right. Yes, yes, I 1794 02:07:23,720 --> 02:07:29,560 didn't have to buy Alex's off of him, but god, you can go 1795 02:07:29,720 --> 02:07:32,760 and play all the Pokemon games and all the ROM hacks too, like a 1796 02:07:32,840 --> 02:07:39,119 really good rom hack of Emerald. Oh is there a good video out there 1797 02:07:39,159 --> 02:07:42,319 that's just like, because I have all the I think I have all the 1798 02:07:42,760 --> 02:07:45,840 what I need to do, I just want someone to like guide me through 1799 02:07:45,920 --> 02:07:51,079 a pocket ownership. Oh sure, surely. Of course. Of course game 1800 02:07:51,119 --> 02:07:54,680 core does has a couple of good videos on it. If you are like 1801 02:07:54,720 --> 02:07:56,880 trying to get the most out of it. Is that what you're asking? 1802 02:07:57,359 --> 02:08:00,800 Yeah, like, I think I have everything I need. But you know, 1803 02:08:00,880 --> 02:08:03,079 Oh, there's an NHL ninety four with twenty twenty four rosters. Ramak 1804 02:08:03,159 --> 02:08:05,239 Watt, of course there is. Yeah, they do one every year. 1805 02:08:05,319 --> 02:08:09,079 Oh that's cute. That's fucking cool. That's fun. Do that for technobol 1806 02:08:09,159 --> 02:08:13,119 and the football roster too. Yeah, it's great. Okay, things are 1807 02:08:13,119 --> 02:08:18,600 looking up. There's a no, I don't think that's possible anyway. That 1808 02:08:18,039 --> 02:08:24,640 does it for emails begrudgingly. We're gonna get to we're gonna get to the 1809 02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:28,720 shoutouts. You could have just not done it and no one would have said 1810 02:08:28,720 --> 02:08:30,840 anything. You'd be like, I got sick and I don't do that anymore. 1811 02:08:30,920 --> 02:08:33,800 Yeah, I didn't do it last week and like no one noticed. 1812 02:08:33,119 --> 02:08:35,800 It's all right. It's okay. If this one, we're gonna keep it 1813 02:08:35,840 --> 02:08:39,920 twenty five. Maybe we'll keep it to ten. We're gonna have people fight. 1814 02:08:39,039 --> 02:08:43,680 But shouts out to Jef Grubb forgetting me this job so he could have 1815 02:08:43,760 --> 02:08:48,039 one more way to make my life difficult. Love Sean shouts out to gavidon 1816 02:08:48,199 --> 02:08:50,760 the two dimension. Two dimensional and most adorable. Kaiju shouts out to Jan 1817 02:08:50,840 --> 02:08:54,520 for being annoyed by Doctor Handler's jokes, and he went out and found the 1818 02:08:54,560 --> 02:08:58,479 real doctor Richard Handler. Okay, uh, Jana, Jeffy b Allen Wake 1819 02:08:58,560 --> 02:09:03,720 is coming to Dead by Daylight January thirtieth. Yeah, I saw that's weird. 1820 02:09:05,239 --> 02:09:09,640 Okay, Uh Link's link sword question? Is it maybe the magical sword 1821 02:09:09,680 --> 02:09:13,039 found in the graveyard? Master using it? And you can have this the 1822 02:09:13,039 --> 02:09:18,079 weird old man who gives link swords. Well, excuse me, master sword. 1823 02:09:18,720 --> 02:09:22,399 Uh, we are not flinching finish the story, Cody, you think 1824 02:09:22,439 --> 02:09:28,800 you're so pretty, shouts out once again to Tanuki. Tanuki the dog and 1825 02:09:30,079 --> 02:09:33,199 that is also a raccoon. Hey, nos, fuck you sticking out your 1826 02:09:33,359 --> 02:09:37,840 gap for Macca the Rizzler. You are so Jan, Jan, you're so 1827 02:09:37,000 --> 02:09:41,239 grub text. I just want to be your minati. What what the fuck 1828 02:09:41,279 --> 02:09:45,640 does any of that mean? A God, you're so old back, You're 1829 02:09:45,680 --> 02:09:48,520 honestly, John, I'm lost, I'm lost, I'm lost. Thank you, 1830 02:09:48,800 --> 02:09:50,199 I stand with you, John. Got Wait wait, do you guys 1831 02:09:50,279 --> 02:09:54,000 know what a GIAT is? No? G y A T T Nope, 1832 02:09:54,239 --> 02:09:58,520 so a fancy hotel. So when Jam walks in the room, he's wearing 1833 02:09:58,560 --> 02:10:05,279 his tight pants and you want to go yacht. Damn the giachtas you just 1834 02:10:05,279 --> 02:10:07,800 say giat. Now he's like, oh, he's got a giacht. I've 1835 02:10:07,800 --> 02:10:09,319 seen it in a bunch of common sections and I never knew what it was. 1836 02:10:09,640 --> 02:10:13,439 Now you do all right now? Finding out that has been the highlight 1837 02:10:13,479 --> 02:10:18,079 of my days over. I got to do the same thing with my family 1838 02:10:18,199 --> 02:10:22,199 when I went there for Christmas. The kids. One of the kids said 1839 02:10:22,279 --> 02:10:24,920 yacht and his mom was like, what is that? I'm like, you 1840 02:10:24,960 --> 02:10:28,560 were like, well, you know when John walks into a room with no 1841 02:10:28,880 --> 02:10:35,319 listen, listen, Okay, no one should have a different reaction than what 1842 02:10:35,399 --> 02:10:39,760 I just had. If anyone that has a lesser reaction, they're just out 1843 02:10:39,840 --> 02:10:43,039 of touch, right of course. Yeah, thank you, Jeff, though 1844 02:10:43,159 --> 02:10:46,079 was magic. I'm here for you, shouts out too in a way, 1845 02:10:46,159 --> 02:10:48,880 aren't we all just Metroidvanias shouts out the grubs top ten Game of the Year 1846 02:10:48,920 --> 02:10:52,000 list. Checked out some really cool games that I wouldn't have played otherwise, 1847 02:10:52,439 --> 02:10:56,880 shouts out Mike, finally being able to openly promote his only fans you can 1848 02:10:56,880 --> 02:11:07,399 find them at Dreamboat. Willie shouts out to pretty good though Darrow Season two 1849 02:11:07,479 --> 02:11:11,039 confirmed. Shouts out to Kein Kuman and Weakly Jump, anime that is totally 1850 02:11:11,039 --> 02:11:15,880 about wrestling. Also shouts out to Grubs Internet search History checked out some really 1851 02:11:15,960 --> 02:11:20,000 nice websites. He would have about that otherwise. Shouts out to Gasolina by 1852 02:11:20,079 --> 02:11:24,439 Daddy Yankee. Also Jan bring back the giant bomb gym. There's never been 1853 02:11:24,439 --> 02:11:28,319 a better time to battle Pokemon. Uh not shouts out to this one. 1854 02:11:28,920 --> 02:11:31,039 Shouts out to Joe Koy for being a sore loser and no one laughing at 1855 02:11:31,039 --> 02:11:35,800 his jokes while hosting the Golden Globes. Yuck, yo yo, Filipinos have 1856 02:11:35,920 --> 02:11:41,439 been set back thirty years of media. Now I have to leave Michael Climb 1857 02:11:41,479 --> 02:11:46,159 and I'm ready to climb the ladder and make ourselves famous. Kid. But 1858 02:11:46,319 --> 02:11:50,199 no, fucking Joe Koy had to ruin the shit for us. Did he 1859 02:11:50,279 --> 02:11:54,000 really shit the bed? He's shit the bed hard and then rolled around it 1860 02:11:54,000 --> 02:11:58,560 in doubled down? Who accused him of being funny? Before this was there? 1861 02:12:00,600 --> 02:12:03,960 Was there? Do people like him? I don't know, people liked 1862 02:12:03,039 --> 02:12:07,000 him, and then we us as a community were like, hurry, maybe 1863 02:12:07,000 --> 02:12:11,640 it's not cool that you're making fun of your mom's accent and it seems kind 1864 02:12:11,640 --> 02:12:15,039 of mean spirited, and he was like, fuck you, guys, I'm 1865 02:12:15,039 --> 02:12:18,359 gonna double down. I know, Scout. He's like, that's my whole 1866 02:12:18,399 --> 02:12:24,920 thing. I know, Scout. Skinship doesn't always mean kinship anyway. That 1867 02:12:26,520 --> 02:12:30,640 dogs are so wise. I got that dog in me. Uh shouts out 1868 02:12:30,680 --> 02:12:33,119 to how much anime does Beckler need to see before he's ready to watch the 1869 02:12:33,159 --> 02:12:41,880 first Berserk anime? John? You you your mouth opened wide cloth? Jeff. 1870 02:12:41,920 --> 02:12:48,000 I have back and forth it in my mind about Berserk for a while. 1871 02:12:48,279 --> 02:12:54,720 It would lead us down some pots that I am not sure we're ready 1872 02:12:54,760 --> 02:12:56,840 for it yet. That's fair. I mean, I trust your judgment. 1873 02:12:56,880 --> 02:13:03,079 You've been my curator this this all this time. So I'm gonna I've never 1874 02:13:03,119 --> 02:13:05,920 seen Berserk. If you guys watch it, I will listen and watch along. 1875 02:13:05,159 --> 02:13:09,239 That'll be nice. I think Lucy has said it's one of her favorite 1876 02:13:09,279 --> 02:13:13,520 things. Yes, it is my favorite story of all time ever. Oh 1877 02:13:13,560 --> 02:13:18,720 wow, oh okay, all right, and shouts out to meeps, gimmicks 1878 02:13:18,760 --> 02:13:22,279 and viewers like you smiling face emoji, your boy Bacon Jan's drip is he 1879 02:13:22,359 --> 02:13:30,000 cosplaying someone? It shouts out to White Wizards. Is that all right? 1880 02:13:31,159 --> 02:13:35,439 Said? I said, John, you do look fantastic. I've been admiring 1881 02:13:35,479 --> 02:13:41,039 the outfit the entire podcast. It looks so comfy. Sorry, I don't 1882 02:13:41,079 --> 02:13:45,399 know fashion, but you look nice. And when someone is like are you 1883 02:13:45,479 --> 02:13:48,479 cosplaying something, that's when you know that you are. You are cooking and 1884 02:13:48,520 --> 02:13:52,359 you're doing a good job. Thank you, sir, Thank you sir, 1885 02:13:52,680 --> 02:13:56,640 and John, thank you for joining us today on the Giant BombCast. Want 1886 02:13:58,039 --> 02:14:01,760 chitty chat about anything? Plug anything you want? My pleasure, guys. 1887 02:14:01,800 --> 02:14:05,640 This this was a blast, Like genuinely, it's such a good times. 1888 02:14:05,079 --> 02:14:09,960 In terms of plug in, well, I do co host the and I'm 1889 02:14:09,960 --> 02:14:15,239 sorry to our competition the greatest anime podcast of all time with one Jeff Backlar 1890 02:14:15,479 --> 02:14:18,560 over here, with one at Lucy James and with one to more Who'ssein And 1891 02:14:18,560 --> 02:14:20,760 you can find that and Giant Bomber any where you can get podcasts. I 1892 02:14:20,800 --> 02:14:26,439 would recommend it personally. And to plug another thing, I recently started a 1893 02:14:26,520 --> 02:14:33,399 podcast with my good friend Wooly Versus and it's called Versus Wolves and that has 1894 02:14:33,520 --> 02:14:37,479 just been a delight And yeah, check it out. It's a we call 1895 02:14:37,560 --> 02:14:41,399 it the world the Universe's most powerful book club. It's not about books. 1896 02:14:43,319 --> 02:14:46,560 Damn. Aren't we all a book though? Wow, that's what I've been 1897 02:14:46,600 --> 02:14:54,479 saying, man, John, Where where is your knowledge on animorphs? I 1898 02:14:54,600 --> 02:15:00,600 read myself. I think two animorph books back in the day, m and 1899 02:15:01,279 --> 02:15:05,079 within the last year I have watched a full nineteen minute and a morph'slour video. 1900 02:15:05,399 --> 02:15:09,800 Beautiful, beautiful. Okay. I'm not saying that you should do anything 1901 02:15:09,800 --> 02:15:13,960 with it, but I feel like it should just be in the brain right 1902 02:15:13,960 --> 02:15:16,720 now, circular. Believe it or not, John, you are not even 1903 02:15:16,880 --> 02:15:22,840 among the first five people to have asked me about that. That means I'm 1904 02:15:22,840 --> 02:15:26,560 like around seven or something. Hell yeah, all right, all right, 1905 02:15:26,560 --> 02:15:28,479 what else do we got going on for the rest of this week? We 1906 02:15:28,600 --> 02:15:31,600 got a lot of stuff going on. Grubbing back. Yeah, let's see 1907 02:15:31,600 --> 02:15:35,239 tomorrow Blake Club. Blake Club will happen. And here's what we're doing. 1908 02:15:35,760 --> 02:15:41,560 If we can get it working, we are promising to beat the game tomorrow. 1909 02:15:41,760 --> 02:15:46,039 Wow. So we're just gonna play until it's done. The tricky part 1910 02:15:46,079 --> 02:15:48,960 there is I got the new Xbox three sixty. I have not tested the 1911 02:15:50,000 --> 02:15:52,399 disc yet. Mike insist on me testing the disc beforehand. I feel like 1912 02:15:52,439 --> 02:15:56,039 that's content. We're definitely going to make content out of me moving the save 1913 02:15:56,119 --> 02:15:58,960 from the ex of the old Xbox to the new one. So we'll see 1914 02:16:00,039 --> 02:16:01,760 if that works, and if I have to start it over, we'll see. 1915 02:16:01,960 --> 02:16:07,000 Do you think that's possible? Like it wouldn't work. Anything's possible, 1916 02:16:07,680 --> 02:16:09,159 but no, I think it's gonna work. I expect that to work. 1917 02:16:09,159 --> 02:16:13,960 It's the kind of like everything is content, Grob. It's kind of very 1918 02:16:15,119 --> 02:16:18,079 like we're going to use every part of the buffalo kind of thing that's right 1919 02:16:18,000 --> 02:16:22,079 for it. I'm a huge Devar fan. I learned it from James Cameron. 1920 02:16:22,119 --> 02:16:24,399 He taught me about treating the world with respectable well he's who, he's 1921 02:16:24,399 --> 02:16:26,720 who came up with that, and it was his idea. Exactly Yeah, 1922 02:16:26,760 --> 02:16:31,039 that's yeah, exactly right. Uh. And then earlier in the day we'll 1923 02:16:31,039 --> 02:16:33,639 be doing that GB plays a Pacific Drive and then even before that game this 1924 02:16:33,760 --> 02:16:39,120 morning, so tune in for all that. In my feverish state when I 1925 02:16:39,159 --> 02:16:41,159 when I had the VID and I was yelling at my partner through the door 1926 02:16:41,280 --> 02:16:46,360 frame, so she kept a respectable safe distance away. She told me that 1927 02:16:46,399 --> 02:16:50,559 I was rambling on for a good twenty minutes about how I'll never be in 1928 02:16:50,600 --> 02:16:58,360 touch with Awa and an avatar thing. Of course, it's the avatar thing. 1929 02:16:58,479 --> 02:17:01,959 Jeff. Well, their god or something. Jeff, you don't see 1930 02:17:03,000 --> 02:17:05,319 me. I see you, but you don't see me. It's like their 1931 02:17:05,360 --> 02:17:11,319 tree god or something. Whatever. Also listens. Yeah, that was I'm 1932 02:17:11,399 --> 02:17:16,040 uncomfortable. Now I'm racist against the nave. There you have it. Oh 1933 02:17:16,920 --> 02:17:24,600 wow, who speaking of Jeff Jeff's bizarre adventure. Uh. Later this week, 1934 02:17:24,639 --> 02:17:31,239 we are recording the finale to the Cowboy Bebop arc that we've been working 1935 02:17:31,239 --> 02:17:33,920 on for. I don't what is it like most of last year, right 1936 02:17:33,280 --> 02:17:37,920 John? I think so yeah, yeah, something like that. Uh. 1937 02:17:37,040 --> 02:17:41,479 That's gonna be exciting. And we're doing a special, uh sort of recording 1938 02:17:41,520 --> 02:17:45,200 schedule just for that episode. So that's gonna be a lot of fun. 1939 02:17:45,239 --> 02:17:48,200 And we've blocked out a great deal of time to knock that out. So 1940 02:17:48,239 --> 02:17:52,479 I'm excited. And yeah, we'll have voicemail, dumb truck, we'll have 1941 02:17:52,719 --> 02:17:56,879 a we'll play Prince of Persia on this website this week. Uh, and 1942 02:17:56,959 --> 02:18:01,360 then like I said, BombCast Revenge on Friday, we will review that game, 1943 02:18:01,680 --> 02:18:05,200 and then we're gonna do a fantasy draft fantasy critic. So we're going 1944 02:18:05,280 --> 02:18:09,360 to be getting the staff together as many people as possible. We're gonna draft 1945 02:18:09,399 --> 02:18:11,440 some games and compete against each other in our knowledge of what we think is 1946 02:18:11,440 --> 02:18:15,200 going to be a good video game the previous game of Skill. Instead of 1947 02:18:15,239 --> 02:18:18,760 getting a trophy or a championship title, we should just get a golden spoon. 1948 02:18:18,639 --> 02:18:20,360 Oh that's a that's a good one. I like that. And then 1949 02:18:22,040 --> 02:18:26,319 we need suggestions for the punishment for whoever comes in last place, So throw 1950 02:18:26,319 --> 02:18:31,319 them out there, everybody cool. I'm sorry, I just read something in 1951 02:18:31,399 --> 02:18:35,600 the chat. I'm not a racist, but does na vi all looks the 1952 02:18:35,639 --> 02:18:39,040 same to me? Okay, there you go, anyway, say it. 1953 02:18:39,639 --> 02:18:43,239 I didn't want to read the username. It just as Jeff Backler Jeff, 1954 02:18:46,440 --> 02:18:52,719 this is coming from one j Backlar. Jerff Bacar is cool sixty nine. 1955 02:18:54,319 --> 02:18:58,680 Anyway. That has been another episode of the Giant Bomb Cast. I thank 1956 02:18:58,719 --> 02:19:01,360 you for joining us. I've been Jay and he's been Jeff. He's been 1957 02:19:01,399 --> 02:19:05,079 Jeff, he's been super eyepatch Wolf, and we will see you for another 1958 02:19:05,120 --> 02:19:24,559 episode next week. Come on. The Giant BombCast is brought to you by 1959 02:19:24,639 --> 02:19:26,760 not stopping your recording yet because we're going to do an end clap and end 1960 02:19:26,760 --> 02:19:28,159 Deep I love you,