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Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday,
January. It's not January first, you

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idiot. January ninth, twenty twenty
four. I am your host back from

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the dead. I've risen again.
It is my fucking month. Jannahawa,

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host of the Giant BombCast absolutely eight
hundred and twenty two powered by NZXT,

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joining me co captain of the ship
the Artisan of Sandwiches and Our Hearts.

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Jeff Grebb that's right. I did
not have a sandwich for breakfast this morning.

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I had hallepenos for breakfast. I
did it. I hope that's okay

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with you. Jeff Baklar, Wait, just like wraw in the bowl,

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just sort of yeah, yeah,
well not with chopsticks. That's not a

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bad idea. That's some proof there. But okay, I know how to

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use chopsticks. I could show you. We got our spiciest pepper in the

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house. Jeff Beckler, that's right. I'm a medium to high spice pepper.

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And uh, I don't know what
I register on what is it the

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skulvill Scoville? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I'm in the low thirties on

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that scale. What's the max of
the Skullvilles? Like, how high does

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it go. I don't know.
I only think I think it goes infinite,

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like theoretically, because the whole idea
is like how much water it takes

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to displace the spiciness of the pepper. So it's like how many I don't

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know, drops of water. I
honestly don't know what the unit is,

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but but yeah, it's like how
much water it takes to make it so

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you can't taste the pepper anymore.
Basically, we have our own infinite supply

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of wealth and happiness and friendship.
Joining us on the podcast today, Jean

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Super Eye Patch, Wolf in the
House. Guys, thank you so much

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dragging me here. It's a real
honor. And specifically, I just want

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to thank Jeff Backler for changing his
mind. I don't know if you remember

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this, Jeff, but when me
and you were kind of like, we

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got together and we're talking about,
you know that what eventually became Jeff Jeff's

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Bizarre Adventure, and we're kind of
like finalizing the deal and everything, and

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you said to me, so,
is there anything else you want to enter

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this? And I was like,
and I said that it could be cool

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to maybe guest on the BombCast sometime. And I remember you were sitting in

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a dark room and I took a
drag. You took a drag of your

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cigarette. You're smoking a cigarette,
and you said, it'll be a cold

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day in hell before I ever let
you on the BombCast. That sounds right.

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Yeah. And over the years then
it's been two years then, and

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Jeff would kind of send me like
reminders that I couldn't be on the BombCast.

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There was one time he sent me
a message saying, like, we're

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down a man for the podcast today. Can you think of anyone? And

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I said, I said, oh, I could be on it, Jeff,

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and he just wrote back, yeah, me neither. You got to

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keep him in check. Are you're
right? You're right to do this?

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This sad morning. This morning,
I woke up to a message and it

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just said Europe kid, people can
change. People can change change the hardest

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thing to do. So learned.
He's very cold right now, so maybe

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in the held actually is frozen.
So yeah, that's why John, your

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hair has become silver. It's because
of you've acclimated yourself to the cold.

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Yeah, it's cold in Ireland.
Let me tell you my boiler broke down

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last night. But you know what, it's fine because we're here and we're

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probably gonna talk about video games at
some point. I don't know. I

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don't know. I'm a lot on
my mind. You don't have to,

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we don't have to. Let me
tell you, all right, folks,

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I caught COVID over the New Year's
break, right, why, I'm not.

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I don't want to say it's exactly
why because it might give my location

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to WORF. Anyway, you do
that, you shouldn't have done that.

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Yo. I go to my doctor
before before right after the holiday break for

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like a quick checkup. I haven't
checked myself out in quite a while,

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and I go, yo, I'm
playing getting the flu shot I could get.

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I should get the booster too,
right. She looks me in the

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face, It looks me up and
down and goes, I don't know if

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you need the booster, and then
lo and behold. A couple of days

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later, your boy catches it.
But anyway, I thought, oh cool,

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my partner's gonna My partner's gonna take
care of me because she's also off

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because she's a teacher. You should
pay teachers more. And then she's like,

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hey, uh, to protect myself, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna

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go to Lake Tahoe with a dog. That's the move. That's the move.

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But you know what, jan in
the Bay Area Here in San Francisco,

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we often go to Lake Tahoe to
see the snow. There was no

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snow, and you know what that
was karmic justice? Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, everyone real happy with American
Healthcare telling us not to get booster shots.

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Maybe. I look, there's no
way to know if a booster shot

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would have who knows. Apparently it's
poopoo water in the Bay Area specifically that's

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boosting the COVID rates. I'm not
a doctor. I'm not a scientist,

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so don't quote me. No that
that sounds exactly right. I'm both of

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those professions. And yeah, I'm
gonna have to have a word with your

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primary care physician there. You could
just like walk into a gas station and

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get a booster these days, so
you should have done that instead. That's

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sick. I got them both at
once. I mean, I mean I

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was like I was down and out
for thirty six hours, but like I

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felt better after that. So you
know, I got mine. I got

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and I think it's helped me.
I think everyone else got sick of my

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family because they didn't get it,
and I didn't take them with me,

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because whoa, that's peculiar that you
were just like every man for himself and

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the grub, right final, they
learned some personal responsibility. I happen to

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be at the disease son. I
just happened to be at the CBS getting

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like picking something up. They're like, do you want this? I'm like,

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oh, okay, yeah, sure. So I just kind of walked

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in the room and they works,
no, who knows what actually what it

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was? Now that gentleman in the
drench coat, Yeah, I got the

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tracker. Yeah five f now,
yeah, they offer it like at the

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checkout line. Now, like you
don't even need to like sit down and

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have like a nurse stab you.
You just like get it as your credit

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cards being verified. Oh sick.
You know, it's pretty sick. You

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just put out your arm and you're
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Oh no, go ahead, no
no, no, no, no,

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no, you're you're a guest john. Yeah, you always win. Last

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time I was at a doctor,
I was there for a different thing,

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and right the end of the appointment, he kind of took out the needle

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and he was like, do you
do you want one of these party and

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I was like COVID shot and he
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sure, just yeah. Interesting guy. So it's it's been a minute.

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It's been a minute, right since
I've been to the doctor. And you

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know how normally, at least here
in the States, a nurse will do

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like the quick pre check up and
then kind of run you through the things.

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So at the end of my pre
checkup, the nurse looks at me

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and goes like, all right,
cool, there's a rope, go ahead

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and get naked. Change. The
doctor's gonna check out your penis. And

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I'm like, what what? I
just I just came. I just came

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in to check my hands. What's
going on? What? Oh? That's

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funny, how you I just came. They want to see how your penis

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hurt? Your fingers apparently, they're
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the culprit. I was very confused
and very shy, and then I'm like,

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all right, cool, I'm gonna
go change. All right, it's

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very cold. Were you at a
eurologist? I mean, my regular decular

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doctoricular regular ardicular, regular, particular
doctor. And then you know the whole

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time goes by. I'm in the
robe, I'm cold, and I'm half

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naked. I'm waiting for the doctor
to check the parts. And then uh,

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you know, we go on with
the checkup. She does the whole

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like a blood pressure, heart right
thing. I asked my questions, and

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the whole time like I'm talking and
she's talking. I'm waiting of like,

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all right, when when are we
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downstairs? When is this gonna happen? You promised me a dick inspection.

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I'm waiting And then I told her
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my knee has been hurting. And
then she like she lifts the gown

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up ever so slightly squeezes my knee, and he goes, that's probably because

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you're overweight. All right, bye, wait a minute. Everything that she

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leaves, nothing was checked. I
feel like they've fucking punked me. Yeah,

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they negged you. They made Erle's
that's like a move they do on

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a slow day where they're like,
oh, let's put the let's do the

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old phantom dick check up on this
guy. It's like it's like hits miss.

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Like there's a hat with a bunch
of different things they got to do

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to each of the patients and the
like they just pulled out, all right,

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Tom, you're gonna check his dick, tell me he's overweight. All

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right, go in there, figure
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think I think it's crazy, like
because I think they experienced this stuff every

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day. They don't realize how concerning
it is when they're super nonchalant about this

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stuff. Remember I was at a
party before. I was just at a

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like just at a fun birthday party, having great time, and I passed

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out. Wasn't super drunk. I
was drinking, but I wasn't super drunk.

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I just was standing there talking to
my friend and next thing boom,

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and like I woke up and I
was like, what the foot? And

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so I ended up going to the
doctor about it, and like I was

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really freaked out because this has never
happened to me before. And the doctor

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had like a teaching assistant in with
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Oh certain, yeah, And I
tell him this whole story and I'm

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like, yeah, I don't know
what's happening. This is like it didn't

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end up being anything. I don't
know what's happening. This is like never

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happened to me before. And I'm
just like just a bit like should I

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be sleeping? Like is this a
weird concussion thing? And then he's kind

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of saying all this, and then
he then he looks at me, and

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then he looks at her, his
assistant, and he goes, oh,

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this is mad John. Tell her
what you do for a living. I

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make YouTube videos. And she was
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there's the problem right there. Oh
that's why he passed out. Oh okay,

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I mean yeah, Backlar and grub. I need to tell you all

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this. I told Emmy how Dylan
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now she's just taken to telling all
of her peers ends and students. Got

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to correct the virus is spreading.
I see. You gotta correct them,

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tell them that we're mid twitch streamers. We're not even bad YouTubers. Are

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we mid twitch streamers? That's that's
charitable. I don't know. I don't

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let me tell you. It's kind
of there might be a certain hidden advantage

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there, because the moment someone calls
you a good YouTuber anywhere on the internet,

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oh yeah, that will bring out
the wasps. Nest of people being

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like, well, actually that the
watch to the to the takedown video.

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Yeah, yep, yep, exactly. I see what it's done to you,

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John, So I take that a
lot of salt there. That's yeah,

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well, gentlemen, I guess we
should eventually, at some point today

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talk about video games. Oh yeah, okay, I have in this document

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in front of me that Jeff Grubb, you're a man that likes driving.

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I understand. Yeah, you like
hopping in the truck. I enjoy it

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at the virtual truck even and going
for a drive. It says here that

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you've been going on a Pacific drive. Yeah. I got the preview build

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for this game and I've put in
some time with it. We'll be playing

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it on the site tomorrow, so
that'll be like the real go at it.

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But I kind of dipped into it
a little bit this morning and yesterday,

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and like the early takeaway is I
really like the structure of you are

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going to be in charge of controlling
everything in this car, and it's a

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lot of these things are mapped to
the dpad, but if you want to

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aim at the at the windshield wiper
button, you could do that. If

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you want to engage the key to
actually turn it on. You can look

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at that and do that, and
I like kind of feeling like, Okay,

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this is I'm full in control of
everything that's happening here, and that's

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cool because everything else, like in
the world, Uh, sureb your your

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audio it's dead. It's not working. Your audio by himself. He doesn't

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know. He doesn't know to rip
open right behind me, and I could

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see it in the side view mirror
and it's like getting closer. I'm like,

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okay, I gotta turn on the
car, put it and put it

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ship shift in the gear and then
try to drive away, get around these

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trees. And it creates these really
tense moments for when you're actually chef.

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Do you know you did a break
again? It did? We We can't

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we you came back and we started
hearing you. Okay. I honestly,

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I think Goxa's really broken for me. So I don't know what to do

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because I think it's going to keep
doing this. But you could hear us

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now right, Yes, I can
hear you now, okay, because you

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went on for about like fifteen seconds
where you were just sort of in your

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own world and I want you to
just repeat everything you just said. I'm

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afraid it's oh yeah, yep,
yep, yep, it's it's no no

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bueno, okay, saying good by. I felt like there was a lot

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of enthusiasm in like the facial movements
yet into it though, he feels positively

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about this game. Maybe you're accidentally
breaking the embargo and that's what happened.

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Yeah, and they got us,
they got us in the wires. I'm

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gonna I'm gonna have to. I'm
gonna reinstall GOXA. I hope for the

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best. Okay, god speak,
all right, I'll see you guys in

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a second. Okay, right,
all right, Sorry Sean, uh for

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making this a little difficult, don't
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the audio quality of this podcast,
it's been nothing but an absolute comedy of

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errors, all landing in the lap
of one turbo Sean. So we salute

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you, We salute you, sir. As I am fixing the layout and

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some of the audio stuff here.
Sean, have you been playing anything,

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Well, yes, I have.
John Christmas and like the kind of holiday

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region, gearly region, and it
was definitely like I was very busy for

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a lot of the year and it
was me catching up on a bunch of

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stuff from last year, and I
gotta say one thing that just like took

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over my life for a couple of
days that I was not expecting lives of

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p either. Oh yeah, yeah, I played like eight hours of it.

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Man. I think I had,
you know, the impression everyone did

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that game where it's like you guys, you guys really like Bloodborne, huh

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yeah, and like it's a really
really well made game. But I think

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what's kind of interesting about it is
like they have really taken a lot of

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Bloodborne and smashed it together with a
lot of Sekiro in a way that I

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think is really rad. That you're
gonna say illegal, but yeah, I

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also think it's illegal. Like I'm
a big fan of this game, but

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the people who created it should be
in jail. But it's it's really it's

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it's just it's really really cool,
and I think it's interesting, like the

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little innovations they have put on it
to kind of I guess, shift it

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like a little bit away from like
the philosophies of those games and making it

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its own thing. Like one thing
I realized is when you block a hit

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in this you get like you get
you take like regainable damage so that you

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block a bunch of hits and then
it's like, Okay, if I get

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aggressive, I can get that health
back and it creates this really nice like

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kind of I guess sort of push
and pull. But I think my one

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of my favorite mechanics in the longest
time, And like it's such a simple

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thing. You know, when you
get down to your last s just flask

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or whatever the s just equivalent is
in this game, and it recharges dependent

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on how much damage you do.
So I have had like so many knife

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Edge boss fights where it's like,
okay, I have a full health bar,

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I have no health refills, but
if I do enough damage, I'll

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get it back. And it really
I feel like it turns a lot of

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the fights from this feeling of repeating
patterns being it like repeating a set number

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of patterns waiting until this HB bar
hits zero to an actual kind of fight

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in a weird way where like you're
really struggling and you're barely scraping through,

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and it's fantastic. I think the
whole puppet thing goes so much harder than

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I ever expected it to, Like
I am simply delighted by every new boss

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battle, every new cut scene.
I'm like, oh, look at this

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weird fucking puppet. What's this thing
gonna do? And it's just been really

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great. And it's interesting seeing like
the different, like the different approach to

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story, because you know, with
any Soul's game, it's very the story

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is very much like something you find
in like the cracks of the game,

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but in this there's full on cut
scenes. You're you're you're playing as a

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character who has relationships with other characters
like Pinocchio in this is a canonical character

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and I've been really really enjoying that
part of it. Like I wasn't like

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I had a boss fight where things
didn't end decisively, and now in one

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boss has even Deebta against me,
and it's just it's it's great. I

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do think when you're playing it first, it does feel a little strange,

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and I put that down to it
doesn't quite have like the from Soft polish.

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You know, it's like from Soft
have been doing this kind of game

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for I don't know how many years
now, and so when you hit heavy

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attack, you feel every frame of
that animation and it feels so good to

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just like like cleave into an enemy, Liza P. I don't think it

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feels quite as good. The parry
especially feels a bit weird, like you

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have to kind of time it a
little before the actual hit. Sure,

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but I think if you can wade
through the first two or three eras,

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this is a this is a delicious
souls Like, this is such a cool

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game, and I've really really been
having a blast of it. I was.

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I was super into it because I
much I really dug the style of

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Bloodborne, and I think that matches
this in a way that just kind of

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like talks and I just like when
things are fucking weird and creepy and the

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puppet stuff you put at the top
there, Like for me, that was

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the biggest draw of like, oh, I want to see every enemy design.

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I want to see like all the
weirdo, you know, Marionette horrific

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creations that are coming out of this
game. And that's kind of one of

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the reasons I kept going on and
got through that first barrier of like,

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Okay, now that I'm somewhat experiencing
from games, I have to sort of

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get through. You have to like
break through that first wall where you sort

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of teach yourself like the rules,
the unspoken rules of this game. And

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once I did that, I was
like, oh, I'm I'm progressing,

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and I'm and I'm really enjoying my
time with it. Yeah. I was

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a little bit disappointed when because I
really dug the bloodborne influence and the puppet

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stuff, and then I was disappointed
when it kind of dipped away from that

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for a second. But I'm glad
that they leaned all the way back into

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weird, creepy puppet stuff. What
other stuff does it dive into, Like

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like how far away does it get? It goes? It takes a detour

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into like cult zombie adjacent infected stuff, but that winds up paying off the

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further you get into the game,
along with the messed up puppet stuff.

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of you know, you're fighting out a

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lot of like marionettes and stuff like
that, and then they introduce a second

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type of me which is like extremely
organic as opposed to the mechanical. But

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I do kind of feel you,
John, because like I felt like,

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for the section of that that I've
experienced, I did feel like, oh,

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now I'm kind of playing more of
a frum soft vibe, where like

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just the jerky movements of the marionettes, which like the animation on them is

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just incredible, Like it's so so
good that really it gives it a feel

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that is so much more unique than
just like a bloodborn knockoff, you know.

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Yeah, And I really like the
utilization of the arms or like what

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would be like the sacro row left
arm gadget. I wound up really really

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using the fire against everything after a
while, and like that just wounded being

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a way to like slowly tick up
damage on virtually everything because it worked really

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well against those organic enemies you mentioned, but also just because the damage is

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incremental over time, even on the
marionette stuff, it just wanted up being

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super duper effective despite really wanting to
be cool with a grappling arm, John,

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have you finished it yet? I
have not. I have only just

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hit the King of Pulpits O that
bastard. Okay, And Jeff, when

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you were saying like about you know
you wanted to see whatever weird puppet thing

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was coming next, I saw the
King of Puppets and I was like,

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God, damn, that is a
design like that rules I'm assuming it's Jeff

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Dunham. Yeah, yeah, it's
final form. It's got to be Jeff

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Dunham, I would assume. Yeah, it's actually just Jim Henson in there.

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Oh okay, just how dare you
speak his name in the same sentence.

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I'm comparing him as a King of
Puppets instead of Jeff. Okay,

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good, we're all in agreement.
You think there's someone out there that that

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thinks that Jeff Dunham is like superior
to Jim Henson without a doubt. I

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don't even need to think about it. Okay, fantastic, fantastic. That's

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that's the circus planet we all occupy. Oh my god, god, Now

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I'm just thinking of all those comedy
specials. Oh man, you are Jesus

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Christ the comedy special. I'm just
thinking that I would love the next livees

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of p Game to be about muppets. Oh my god, my god,

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give me like a really difficult muppet
souls like and I feel like we're in

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I don't think I could bring myself
to like kill any of the muppets.

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No, I don't think it's killing. I think it's just sort of like,

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you know, uh, removing them
from their their hand operators from their

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mortal coil. Oh, okay,
okay, and then they're just sort of

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like, you know, I think
Sesame Street has been a thousand years ago

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and a great infection has spray it
rights itself. Yeah, I mean,

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come on, if they did fucking
Pinocchio, they can do Sesame Street,

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right John. I know the game
is going to get difficult, like any

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Soul's game, but I implore you, I implore you, if you decide

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to ever bounce off of Lives of
p please check out the after credits,

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uh stinger, because as someone that
I feel also enjoys the kind of Pinocchio

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Brothers grim old fairy tale bullshit,
it delivers on that so hard. I

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would say, like, I'm all
in on this game. I don't think

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I can drop it right now,
beautiful, Like I've beaten all the Soul

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games, so I have heard that
the difficulties spikes something fierce. All right,

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I'm okay with it. If you've
gone to the King of Puppets,

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I think you can completely handle it
then, because the the Little priest Man

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before that is a little bit of
a toughye, the Little Priestman, the

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Little Priestman, is it the clown
dude. I might be getting the order

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mixed up in my head, but
Little priest Man is my favorite Mumford in

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some song, I'm good. Yeah, let's let's let's let's release like a

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stomp and clap, hoot and holler
and album. Huh oh man. Yeah.

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I used to call myself like the
brown Mumford and Sons member. Anyway,

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going from Puppets and all that ilk
to something else that terrifies me because

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puppets low key scare me. Is
claymation, something absolutely terrifying is And I've

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I've been very vocal about this about
my strong disdain for Wallace and Grommitt because

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how about immersion therapy. Jeff Grubb, I've been playing Jeff Grub and Company.

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I've been playing Wallace and Grommitt in
the Grand Getaway on the Meta Quest

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three. What if you know?
If you like? Because it is like

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a visceral reaction, right, why
do you do this to yourself? Yeah?

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Like what's wrong with you? You
know? We could look in the

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mirror and ask ourselves that question all
day and we wouldn't get anywhere. Huh

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that's right. Uh. Let me
tell you I think I am slowly understanding

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the appeal of Watson grunt and that
it's okay, I like this dog.

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This dog is charming Wallace, he
has lots put up with the jen He

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does have a lot to put up
with. Uh. Wallace, on the

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other hand, is uh, I
don't like this man. Don't like this

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man at all. I get it. I there's something just deeply unsettling about

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the you know, maybe more like
his eye cavities, right, like that's

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his mouth, it's his mouth,
you know, it's like it's too wide

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on the sides. And then I
see too much of like these teeth in

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the back, his back teeth then
you normally do you know? Sure?

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I think there's an element about him
where he is a bringer of kind of

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chaos and misery, but he is
completely unaware of it. He's oblivious to

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it. Yes, And I find
that kind of horrifying. I mean,

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it represents the British Empire, does
it not. I mean they weren't oblivious,

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I guess. And then so right, that's that's the whole stick.

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Yeah, he's the whole thing.
Is dan Rykert are Wallace a little bit?

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And I think I think Don Reichert
is Wallace and the world is his

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Grama. Wow, that's right there, it is. That's almost too much

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to bear. But I've been playing
the VR game uh and it's a fun

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little neat uh A title. You're
just solving puzzles, you're helping well else

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and Grama go on a little vacation
and it's doing the regular VR stuff of

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like oh you can go grab this
and put it over there, but it

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does a lot of neat stuff with
the controllers, specifically where instead of just

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pointing to a location to teleport there, because it does that a lot,

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raise your hands up to your VR
advisor and pretend like they're binoculars and then

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you can find the specific place to
teleport over to. And I think the

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claimation aspect of it, or the
stop motion aspect of it, lends itself

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really well to VR, surprisingly because
I think strong aesthetics and strong art styles

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work incredibly well in VR rather than
trying to be like a photorealistic adventure.

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Right yeah, sure, yeah.
And here it's great because, like you

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know, you start the game and
you're one of Wallace's contraptions and your arms

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are just like a little robot spindly
arms with springs, so it makes sense

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as to why you can stretch them
out and stuff, and then you eventually

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are like take over as Gramet and
you're looking for a bunch of crackers for

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a good five minutes, and I
don't know, I wind up really digging

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it despite being absolutely repulsed by claymation
in its entirety, but being immersed into

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the world. Maybe immersion therapy does
work. They also have like a neat

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little side mode that does the pass
through that a lot of mediquest games are

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starting to do, where they'll scan
the room and then oh man, here's

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like a bunch of toasters popping out
of your actual walls and door frames,

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and then you're just shooting jam at
a bunch of pieces of toast. Yeah.

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I want to play this game really
badly. Do I have to buy

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a meta quest? Just can I? I can't play it on anything else.

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It's a meta quest title. I
think somebody it probably on the two

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Do you have Do you have any
meda quest? No? No, I

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don't. They're not just you know, it wasn't an accusation. He's just

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he's just asking. Yeah, I
know, I know, you're right,

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Jeff. I'm sorry with that.
So if you're about to say, they

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don't just hand him out, they
literally just handed one to me and jam,

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that's literally what happened. You got
it? You got a person?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, we
can get you a person claymation, things

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that don't require it's really charming,
though, it's it's really charming, And

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like the whole time I was booting
it up, I was like, I'm

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gonna hate this, I'm gonna hate
everything about this, but I am sorry

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to understand the charm of Wallace and
Grammat And maybe they should adapt more uh

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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

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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

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02:19:05.120 --> 02:19:24.559
episode next week. Come on.
The Giant BombCast is brought to you by

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02:19:24.639 --> 02:19:26.760
not stopping your recording yet because we're
going to do an end clap and end

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Deep I love you,