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Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, October
third, twenty twenty three. Welcome to

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the Giant Bomb Cast. It's Tuesday. Tuesdays are for emotional breakdowns that have

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eventually lead to breakthroughs on God's favorite
podcast with the most handsome men in games

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media. I'm your host today,
jan Ochoa joining me co captain of the

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ship as always, Jeff Grub I'm
obsessed with a TikTok. I saw Chad

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Smith playing thirty Seconds to Mars.
He's the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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It is like watching a drummer sleep
with another drummer's wife. Is insane.

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How much he crushes that song.
I'm obsessed with. It's the only

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thing I know the story about that. Jeff Backlar also here in the show.

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Please tell me so drum Eo is
a drum eo video, right,

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Yes, Drummy is like a drum
enthusiast channel. And they basically played,

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uh, that song, whatever the
fucking song, the one song everyone knows

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from thirty Seconds to Mars Jared song, I think yeah, And they gave

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him the track without the drum stem, and Chad Smith heard it without He

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just heard like the guitar, bass, and vocals, and then they were

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like, Okay, Chad Smith,
you sexy man, you play drums to

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this song. And he just like
it's just it's in a way like it's

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insane. It's actually also hilarious,
just because he's such a character. And

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he was just like, am I
doing it good? And they're all like,

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you're a fucking god, sir.
But it's like if I was the

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drummer, which I guess is a
Jared Leto's brother in the band, I

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would feel like so embarrassed. I'd
be like, oh my, oh you

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know why. It's like it's like
losing to Connor McDavid and yeah, you've

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been thrown by a god. So
who guess h And last, but certainly

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never leased, Mike Manotti, please
explain Connor McDavid to me. You never

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lead with venom. I don't know
who that person is. Is that what

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you're just talking about? Yeah,
he's what do you think it is?

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Yeah? What do you come on? That name just says that person does

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one thing. That's choie peppers.
You're talking about a second, Mike,

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we're talking about being present and in
the moment, listening to each other.

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I wasn't really. I was really
proud of myself for doing the venom things,

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so that I was thinking about my
delivery and I was thinking about because

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then I thought another thing I thought
might be funny to lead with. But

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then, like you know, I
was gonna just go I'm like naught and

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I believe in God. But then
it was a while ago that we talked

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about God. That would have that
would have been Here's what bothers me,

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Mike. We give you tons of
warning, tons of prep time about you're

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gonna show. Okay, okay,
you could have done all this research.

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You're coming in here act like I
don't know who Connor mcgave it is.

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Maybe he's an MMA guy. Oh
that is all the Connors have to fight

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in MMA, right, that's a
rule of these days. Yeah, Connor

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hockey. So but yeah, he's
the best hockey player alive. Is he?

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Is he a goon or hens the
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Yes, sir, he's definitely.
He didn't shooting him mop up.

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He's a nice boy. He's a
nice boy and he cannot stop being amazing

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at hockey. Does he believe in
God? He is? I don't think

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himself. Yeah, goody good.
One of us is God? Does God

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believe in himself? I don't know
what if God was one of us,

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you know, just like one of
us on the trainer. It's my goal

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for someone to have an emotional breakthrough
today, whether that's on the show or

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just today. That is doesnt even
mean the four of us here collected.

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That's like whoever is listening live right
now. I want this to be a

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very wholesome episode. No no C
words. I mean, if it comes

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out, I did it, alright, alright, wow, okay, hey,

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hey, before we talk about video
games. How's everyone doing, Mike,

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Jeff, Jeff better now? I
mean I spent most of a weekend

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recovering from That's right, folks,
the vaccine man. You were right.

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You should have gotten that. Fauci
hunted you down and jabbed him, jabbed

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you himself, held me down with
leather straps, opened up my eyelids.

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Jurassic Park, Loss World. He's
hanging off the side of a jeep with

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a netgun, just hunting you down. Held open my eyelids like clockwork.

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Orange. I don't know why,
because it was just a They want you

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to see it. They know that
that's real. We're gonna hurt you force

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me to stare because it's the placebo
effect is the only thing that works,

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right, that says so yeah,
you gotta see it go in to actually

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feel something. Listen. I was
on the dump truck later that day and

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I spoke about it. This fucking
thing destroyed me. And what's bothering me

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is like, I don't know what's
happening. Why am I feel like I'm

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the only one who's having violently ill
reactions? Does it mean you have a

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good immune system? Because it's like, dude, if we could put on

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serious educated back on our first second, this means it's working. But now

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that we're back to the truth,
yeah, there's being smart and there's telling

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the truth all right, now that
we're being no like, this is my

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first fiser one. I've been a
madurna boy, durn mommy, get it

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right, sorry, durn the mommy, And now I'm a fiser father,

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get boy five, that's right.
Because I was too busy shivering my teeth

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all out of my skull. I
am not joking. I wasn't at least,

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so I got it early in the
morning on Thursday, and by the

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time I went to bed Thursday night, I was like like going crazy.

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I woke up still fucked up.
I had maybe four hours of sleep Thursday

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night. I wrote in a couple
of times. Right on Friday, I

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was just like I'm fucked up.
I'm fucked up. It wasn't until Saturday

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around noon where I was like back
to normal and then but I was still

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like wildly tired. I tried to
play hockey on Sunday. I played in

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the game on Sunday and got the
shit kicked out of me, Like I

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just just beat you up, dude. I like collided with the dude and

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just stayed on the ice and just
stared at the ice for like a eleven

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seconds, where I was just like
I shouldn't be here right now. Kind

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of thing. This virus, this
vaccine day after me. I definitely need

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to get that because I'm gonna be
that cruise in about a month. Oh

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boy, oh my crone's medicine.
Humory is basically just an autoimmune depressing right,

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So like my musicism is already like
weaker, So I gotta get that.

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I gotta get the flu shot too. I know you don't believe in

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these things. Backlar I hope you
don't just be too much. I don't

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believe them, right, it's just
one thing, and it's both the flu

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shot and this isn't a margarite.
You know you can't just fucking mix that

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up in a van. I got
my doctor. Dad said to get them

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on separate my own science over here
and give separate days. I did my

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own research and got both of them
at the city. No wonder you felt

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like ship. Well, the flu
shot never bothered me. I'd always got

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gotten it and never bothered. You
know, back you got, you got

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knocked down, but you get up
again. You are Yeah, yeah,

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you're never gonna keep them down.
See, I had no songs. Oh

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all right, okay, they're offering
another would say they were offering another vaccine.

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But I did not choose for like
the fancy upgrade. I did not

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want a boutique. They were genuinely
trying to sell me on something on my

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way out, like it's a vaccines. I mean, no, I think

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there's a new designer hepatitis vacs out
is a designer brand, isn't it?

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Or am I wrong? Am I
misspoken? Is it endorsed by an AI?

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Tom Hanks rules Gucci, Like,
does Gucci make vaccines? Now?

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AI, do you see that thing
circulating that? Uh, there's a new

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flavor of coke designed by AI jen. Come on, it's a family show.

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What are we doing? What?
I can't believe Coca Cola would sell

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out like this. I don't understand
it. I don't want AI to inform

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that is the AI already going to
give us? Is that what this is

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probably do? It's like yoh,
the AI audits, Oh, how nice

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designed to do flavor? I would
be competent enough to like poison something though,

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because it's like whenever I try to
use AI these first I was impressed

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by the tech, and these days, every time I try to use it,

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I'm like, this is shit,
this is garbage, and I think

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it's very unimpressive. It's now it's
like like very unimpressive and so yeah,

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like Coca that that's gotta be like
Cokel's like, yeah, we just threw

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some shit in there, and the
AI did something and then we actually made

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it taste good. Although I drink
right, Like what does that mean?

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Like A I make a flavor of
coke and it goes cherry and you're like,

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okay, nice, Try we already
cherry all right, like vanilla the

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headline on Coca Cola's blog site or
they're their media center here at Coca Cola

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Creations imagines year three thousand with new
futuristic flavor and AI powered experience. Shout

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outs to whoever is in that AI
space that fucking got Coca Cola to buy

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in on your stupid pitch. Yeah, you're like, oh, you guys

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can't miss on on this. This
is the future and it's somewhat I guess

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you're some money. Oh that metaverse
money has to go somewhere else now.

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I feel like if it's the year
three thousand and we're all still drinking soda,

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I feel like it would taste it
would it would just come as cubes,

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like little liquid cubes. Yeah.
Thousand years yeah, yeah, thousand.

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I mean a thousand years ago from
now. It was like medieval times.

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They were drinking. Show out of
time to think that, like Coca

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Cola as a brand will still be
a thing. I mean, we'll still

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be around. You know. It's
no we're all gonna get electric. We're

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all gonna collectively get electrocuted at one
one game of the year and then like

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our our spirits will live forever in
the computers. Like Backguard though, because

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he got the booster's gonna kill him. Oh yeah, time's running out for

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this old boy. Yeah, we're
all gonna get millennium falcons. Like a

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joke about the oh Man. Let's
just keep bringing him solo every single week.

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Huh. Way more contentious topic than
the backs for sure. Like Solo,

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I thought it was okay, I
have no problem. I don't even

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have a problem with them giving him
his name that thing whatever. I did

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take a bunch about inane I can't
ok alright, well, so that brings

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me to it's idiot. I want
to go cry during episode eight again?

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God yeah, I will absolutely.
I went to Disneyland, That's why.

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That's that's the real reason, Dan, everybody's really tired of hearing about you

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going on on about Disney. Come
on, I know I'm gonna go from

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Nope, new material. So thank
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that was that I was stressing out, Mike. I could barely walk because

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I brought the worst shoes and then
I we had already walked like amateur forty

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k steps that damn, Like this
is too much? Why are we still

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doing this. Uh anyway, anyway, but I needed to take that picture

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five percent two percent left on my
phone, Mike, I mean a picture

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of Judge Doom from Who Frame Roger
Rabbit? Who's there this year? It's

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very good? Sorry, go on, wait, that's Disney. Yeah,

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it's Disney. Yeah. They have
a Judge Doom character and he's like recreates

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the bit where he takes that cartoon
shoe shoe, but he murders it.

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Yeah yeah, wait the portion of
who Framed Roger rab they chose to recreate

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things never been scarred by. Yeah. I just I just don't think like

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that's the thing we need to be
celebrating, like the murder of an innocent

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cartoon character. Watch all the time, and this cost I'm sorry, think

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we're proud of. I just can't
get behind Christopher Lloyd pushing that poor defenseless

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shoe into the ooze like that.
It sounds Unamerican to me. You're saying

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right now, yeah, he's judged
during executioner because tunes don't have rights.

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I wonder what they're trying to talk
about. I'm not gonna let my kids

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see that scene till he's thirty,
Okay, it's very disturbing, it's very

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informed me. That stays with me. Oh yeah, well that's what I

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do because that's the scene that's scarred
everybody's good. I just want to shout

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shout out. I believe the name
is Garrett, shouts out to Bow,

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shouts out to the homie I saw
eating a Ronto rap in Galaxy's Edge.

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What's up for saying? What's up? But anyway, good time, good

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times were had. But yo,
yo, yo yo. As we know,

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I I'm also a disney adult,
almost almost to the level that Mike

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is not almost there. I've yet
to attain those heights, but let me

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tell you I had two. I'm
really just thinking about one very bad experience

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at Disneyland, folks, And that's
not that's not anything on the park itself

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or whatever happens, it happens.
It's exclusively on John Drake, who bullied

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you. I'm sure, yes,
yes, I don't know why I thought

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i'd see John Drake there, and
I'm just assuming he lives there. Now

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it's like, oh, hey,
Jan takes Coke. But yo, okay,

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I'm all about accessibility, folks.
You know, uh, we we

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need more ramps everywhere in the world
in a lot of structures. Is there

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a butt coming, Yes, there
is eight eight compliant for your But there

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are some folks that go on mobility
scooters that you fucking need to take some

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sort of certific Haitian or hand your
fucking license over Backlar was going to be

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on board with this, Yes,
okay, all right, okay, So

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so we we went, my partner
and I we went specifically for the Oogie

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Bookie bash, right, and there's
a lot of tight lines for like the

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little trick or treating that you do
in the park. There was an older

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woman that definitely, definitely did not
know how to fucking use her mobility scooter

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because my partner and I went in, like we went, joined the queue

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for everything, and then this person
didn't almost did not know how to stop

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and almost hit my partner. Okay, I'm fair. Aren't they called rascal

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scooters? Maybe that's like a feature
where they're like, oh, they're just

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gonna act up, such rascals.
I had never wanted to tip one of

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these over until that day. You
can. They're easy to do, not

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that I would know. Okay,
okay, hold hold on, the hold

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on, there's a there's another part
of this. So all right, it

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turns out the rest of her party, uh what was in front of us.

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So we're like, all right,
go ahead, go ahead of us,

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it's cool. Whatever. And then
you know, like, okay,

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it's it's these two ladies and mobility
scooters. That's cute. They're here on

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Halloween whatever. And then they're two
piece of shit. Like family members are

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like, oh, thanks for thanks
for letting us know you were in line,

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and then like, you know,
it's cool, save save space and

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lines whatever, join the cute whatever. It's cool. But then these two

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ladies completely leave their two older relatives
that are ill equipped to ride these scooters

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behind, and like there's so much
space and gaps in the line. And

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then all right, it's cool.
It's chill, like these these old ladies,

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I'm trying to just look look the
other way. It doesn't sound very

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chill. I'm trying to look the
other way. And then you know it's

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it's a trick or treating line,
right, So they're dropping one two pieces

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of candy in each bag. There's
a bunch of people, there's a bunch

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of kids having a great time,
but these old ladies keep accosting every single

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cast member dropping candy in their bags, saying like, well, I need

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more candy in my bag. Oh
no, right now, that was that

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was Bacalar is like tossing something in
his hand, fidgeting right now for audio

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listeners. But anyway, I thought
you were against murder backlar, And then

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I was thinking, you know,
my partner and I were trying to think,

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like it's it's chill, it's cool, we're here, it's fine.

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Just we're only going to be in
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and then we'll zip off somewhere else. And then you know, there's a

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there's a couple of tight, tight
turns, a little couple switchbacks to keep

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the queue contained. One of the
women, the women, the woman that

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almost hit my partner, goes over
one of the line dividers, uh like

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the little pylons and loses control of
her scooter no at like a certain speed,

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yes, yes, considerable speed,
considerable speed, and her two piece

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of shit relatives that are able bodied
people just out of the way, concern

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for themselves, not even trying to
stop who may who may very well be

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their elderly mother, elderly aunt,
elderly family member, and this old lady

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is going straight into a little child. No, no, no, And

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then thank god. You know,
like my partner and I were like looking

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at the other way when this happened, so like I would have tried to

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stop or despite having a lot of
negative interactions with this lady. Then this

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father, god bless his heart,
was having a little lightsaber duel with his

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kid. He buys and this isn't
one of like the cheaper lightsabers, you

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know, and Galaxy, Yes,
in Galaxy's Edge, you can buy a

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really really nice lightsaber. What's gonna
happen to the lighter? The father and

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for concern for this woman, throws
his lightsaber down. The lady runs it

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over, smashes over the tube part, and the father slams on the brakes,

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turns off the scooter. And then
you know what, instead of saying

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thank you, this woman got mad
at this guy. Why this woman got

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mad at this guy now putting his
hands on her. I can't anymore.

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I'm afraid I need to leave.
I cannot hear this. Yeah, yeah,

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oh my god, keep in mind. Okay, so real quick,

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one last detail back, lard,
and then I'll give you your time on

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the podium. So keep in mind, right, all right, everyone,

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everyone behind us, everyone that's witnessed
this is like, oh, thank god,

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like oh, shouts out to this
dag. Yeah, we didn't witness

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a kid die. Thank god,
we didn't witness like a terrible thing.

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Keep in mind, you know,
there's there's a different part of this queue

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that has not seen this event happen, and it's still the rest of the

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this trick or treat line is proceeding. I see these two women that are

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associated with these two women in the
mobility scooters continuing down the queue trick or

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treating, doing their thing, just
like we're not part of this. Like

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I don't know her other than that
I had a great time. All right,

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How did you like what I was
gonna show? Popcorn buckets? Now

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backl do you want to talk about
something else? If you're looking for justice

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in this situation, I want to
like lower your expectations. There was none.

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No, yeah, no no.
I didn't bring this up when I

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got back because it just wasn't comfortable
with it. But now that we've broken

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through that this is God's favorite podcast, we could talk about it. Right,

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do you have to like, how
do you get one of these things

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do you have to can Can anyone
get it? Anyone? I think,

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yeah, yeah, anyone could buy
It's like a sea pat machine. I

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think anyone could buy it. If
you want to get a prescription, it's

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a lot cheaper. I just know
for a fact. I know for a

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fact that I witnessed a gaggle of
people on the scooters that absolutely were tourists

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in the sense that they did not
need the scooters, because I saw them

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get up and walk around and do
it, and like they were young and

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very able, and they made me
think turn into Walter, like I know

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what, dude, this dude can
walk. It's basically that Walter so check

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moment. Guys more certain of anything
in my life. That is it.

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And I know there's like other things
where you're like, well baby, they

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could only sure, but like,
no, not for people all afflicted with

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the same youthful energy that all coincidentally
were on. I just know they definitely

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believe that. There are people who
are like, here's so Disney Hack,

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you're gonna have to walk forty thousand
steps. What if you just got one

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of those scooters instead? We have
and we have fuck you money, Let's

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just get them and the thing that
that sucks. And I'm not advocating that,

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like shame on these people, or
I don't believe anyone on a mobility

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scooter. It's just the folks that
abuse it, ruining for folks that actually

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need it. You know, ability
scooter doesn't mean you can be an asshole,

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like yeah, yeah that too,
that too. Yeah. They were

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driving these things like the first time
you've ever been in a golf cart?

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Do you know what I mean?
The first time you want to drive a

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golf tragic human. This thing's kind
of fucking red, you know, Like

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is that energy? I should got
three beers and drive it some more.

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Yeah, let's go. I don't
know, I don't know. It was

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like a thrill ride for them.
I just could not get behind it anyway.

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I just needed to say that now
that we're in a safe space of

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talking about it yet. Yeah,
of course, of course. Additionally,

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there was another thing that bothered me, but I'll say that for another day.

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Yes, okay, so way behind
me is sorry for audio listeners.

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There's a zero from Nightmare Before Christmas. It lights up in the dark.

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It's great, Jan Actually, could
you bring it over to the camera,

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Come here, come here. Yeah, I want to see some Wait,

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is it like glow in the dark? Ord actually has LEDs let's see the

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dark? Oh my goodness, look
what he's got. He's got the strap

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on it too. There go.
Oh look it's got a dog from from

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Nightmare for Christmas. That's sick.
And then it opens up for popcorn you

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can put you Oh, you can
put a popcorn in the butt that there

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little little treasures and you want to
put your treasures in there? And then

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it lights up and I want it? You got it? Wow, not

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not this one. I'll get you
a different don't worry. It's so good

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sick. I love that, very
neat, very neat. How did you

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wait for that one? How long
did you wait? Uh? We didn't.

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That's a thing. I saw someone
rolling rolling up a big bunch of

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boxes. I'm like, that's the
one you saw somebody else? An accessibility?

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You're like that again again. I
am all for accessibility, except for

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the assholes? Are you I am? He's scared Canister? Yes, yes,

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Mike, all right, all right, this is nying. This one.

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Scout is gonna just freak the hell
out, all right. If you've

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watched Monsters, inc. This is
one of the scared containers. It's a

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little sipper right. Oh, it's
so good. It's really neat. It's

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great. But I hear Scout pattering
now she's freaking out. I love that.

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This is the dumb thing that I
was looking for desperately when Mike Grubb,

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Dan and I went, oh,
you got it. This is stupid.

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Okay, listeners, he's Mickey.
It's like a giant Mickey glove attached

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to a pick. Best right now, So check my thing. Here's where

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I get off Twitter. Here's it
was a functional basket. Sure, Oh

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my god, this is where I
jump off. You had me until that,

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even even I'm like, I don't
know if I could do that.

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You had a choice of like a
fruit roll up apple slices or carrots as

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as a snack. It was great. Sorry out all right, okay,

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all right, last last thing for
Disney show and tell Okay, so this

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is the thing that has been offered
at the parks for Mike pretty much since

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forever. Right, I'll show you
in a second. But because of TikTok

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it kind of blew up even more
so. But at Disneyland, and I

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believe Disney World as well, you
can at Main Street. You can get

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silhouettes made of pretty much whatever you
want. Oh that's so we got scout,

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my partner and myself on this guy. I like that a lot.

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Do you get that that little cubby
on Main Street there that goes off to

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the right. You know, that
street was supposed to extend to a whole

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land Edison Square that never got built. Okay, we're supposed to be it

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was gonna be like so like Main
Street is sort of like nineteen like like

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early nineteen hundreds as a square would
have continued a little bit more like age

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electricity kind of stuff. There would
have been a show like, you know,

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basically a Hall of Presidents, but
with like inventors from that era kind

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of a thing. Okay, sounds
neat, sounds neat. That's real cool,

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jan Uh. I appreciate that.
The fact that you didn't have to

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wait for a while for the zero
thing. Oh big win. Oh okay,

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what one last thing, and we'll
finally talk about video games. I

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swear I'm only letting the Disney talk
stretch because we can't talk about a lot

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of games this week because of embargoes
and and all that stuff. So I

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forgot. In Disneyland, at least, there's a whole ticket and reservation system,

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two separate things where just because you
buy a ticket doesn't mean you get

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entry into the park because there are
certain blockout dates where the park is expecting

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high volume of people. They block
out people to have an annual pass depending

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on the tier that you're buying.
Sometimes there's an event at the park,

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so they're anticipating even more people.
And uh, I forgot that. I

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absolutely forgot that. So night before
I was thinking, like, oh,

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I'll just buy the tickets now instead
of when we get to the park,

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I see it's blocked out. Oh
yeah. And then you know, I'm

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I'm all on my like I'm gonna
be a better person these days, type

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of type of kick. So I
choose to be transparent and I straight up

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tell my partner, hey, we
may not be able to get in the

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park on Saturday. Cause causes a
little bit of a tiff obviously, so

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I should have preplanned, but knowing
me, I don't. I'm still working

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on myself. You know, I
wear a car heart and Dicky's because I'm

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working on myself. Wait, everyone, I hope people did not sleep on

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that line, Jens Jazz got these
gemsy like sneaks in and I don't know

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if everyone hears it. That's what
I heard that, and I love it.

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But then, you know, the
whole time, I'm thinking like I've

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I've put got a bunch of good
juju into the universe. My partner is

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a teacher teaching the youth. There's
some good juju floating around, and I

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generally don't worry about stuff. Sometimes
I'm Kevin Durant. I just trust the

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process. Yeah. So Saturday rolls
around, still looking online, still still

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completely blocked out, completely blocked out. We go to the box office at

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Rope Drop. Rope Drop is when
they open the park for everyone to enter

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in. But we get there,
it's seven, seven o'clock at the park.

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Am thinking like, oh, maybe
the box office is open. Maybe

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we could split up, tell them
a sob story, tell them the truth

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about how I'm a piece of shit. Uh, my name is Jano Choe,

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not Plano cho Come on, Bravo, you gotta write that down.

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I gotta write it's not impressed,
which I always appreciate. I'm gonna run

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over and uh and then like the
gentleman at the box office. Before we

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even step into the box office,
he says like, sorry, man,

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you're out of luck. You just
gotta go. And then I'm like,

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oh no, no, no,
no, no, no no no.

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I don't believe this. Never give
up, never surrender. And then I'm

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telling my partner it's like, hey, you know, like we could say

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this, we could go to Goofy's
kitchen. We could have like a nice

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breakfast or whatever. Don't worry,
I still got plans. She has a

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little bit of frowning face going on, understandably, so right know, you

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know, she dressed up and everything. You know, it's like, it's

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it's all right, it's okay,
Mike. I thought about texting you this

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as as soon as this was happening. Oh no, don't do that.

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And then you know, I was
the gears were turning in my head.

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I'm like, all right, I
have like I'm I'm like negative zalist celebrity

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on the internet. Maybe I have
some options here. And then I thought,

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you know what, No, I'm
not gonna try and desperately hit up

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John Drake. He's he's taking care
of a child, diet Coke. So

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I was like, you know what, screw this I'm just gonna open the

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app. I opened the app and
then low and behold, oh my god,

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there were reservations at tickets available then
and there. And I checked it

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a minute before nothing. The second
I checked it again, boom bottom.

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I checked on my partner's phone a
minute like literally while I was entering in

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my credit card information. Nothing.
Man, there we go. Just just

405
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,640
just joined me. Just hit hit
your wagon to me, y'all. This

406
00:31:03,759 --> 00:31:07,720
was this was literally them saying,
like the park is sold out today,

407
00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:12,160
yes, like we're expecting Max's volume
at the park. We can't let anyone

408
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:18,960
else in except that dumbass over there, lovely partner that has a heart of

409
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,400
gold. And then we got in. Well please right away, please.

410
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:29,279
And then I was gonna say,
these stories between Baccalar and u Jan is

411
00:31:29,319 --> 00:31:33,400
why I'm for my little break here. I'm going to the woods alone where

412
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,559
there are no other people. Literally, it's a treehouse, that's what we're

413
00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:38,359
doing. They have a treehouse in
Disneyland. They're working on it. Okay,

414
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:42,480
now listen, oh di, con
go to treehouses in Disney World for

415
00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:52,559
a while. Excuse me, Okay, this is the big one. You

416
00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:56,200
were just talking to somebody who got
maxed. Then there he goes, all

417
00:31:56,319 --> 00:32:01,480
right? Anyone else have any other
things about Disneyland, some parks or I

418
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,480
always do, but I'll spare everyone. I'll be there soon myself in about

419
00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:09,640
him on Disney World, but I'll
have Disney escapades of my own. Exciting,

420
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:15,480
very very exciting, just like it
is it oops, just like Jeff

421
00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:20,160
Grubb has been riding a bike that
is exciting. Excited by sixty four.

422
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,200
That's pretty good. New hot games, new hot games. Yeah, Like

423
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,000
listen where we are playing a ton
of stuff right now we can't talk about

424
00:32:29,079 --> 00:32:31,200
literally through the games. We can
talk about tomorrow. I don't know.

425
00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:35,440
We'll find some place to maybe put
some of this content, but definitely on

426
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,480
the bodcast next week. We'll have
a lot of stuff to talk about.

427
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:40,599
But Excite by sixty four got added
to Nintendo Switch Online a little bit ago

428
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,319
and I started playing. I'm I'm
pretty happy with it these The n sixty

429
00:32:44,319 --> 00:32:50,200
four emulator on Switch is actually improved
a lot. It's some of the effects

430
00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:52,559
are actually better than a lot of
the emulators I've used in the past to

431
00:32:52,599 --> 00:32:57,319
play Site by sixty four. So
it's like, oh, like the checkerboard

432
00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:00,160
effect when you get first place on
a level like that shows up properly,

433
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,200
and that doesn't always work. It's
like those layering effects often get broken.

434
00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:07,799
But really it's just it's such a
good game and if anyone's been interested in

435
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,000
it, and like you started up
and like, I don't really get this,

436
00:33:10,079 --> 00:33:13,839
so you gotta you have to play
the tutorial. It is very technical,

437
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,240
but it's real. It's like technical
but very rewarding once you get the

438
00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:22,599
feel of it of really leaning in
hard to these turns and doing the power

439
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,839
slide, and you're gonna have to
like lean off the power slide a little

440
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:28,799
bit earlier than you think because your
momentum is going to carry your tail in

441
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,519
around and you gotta try to line
it up. And that's a like that

442
00:33:31,559 --> 00:33:36,039
feels very like high skill level stuff. And so once you start like dialing

443
00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:39,039
that in every turn, is this
really rewarding thing. And it's got this

444
00:33:39,119 --> 00:33:44,000
it's got this boot system where you're
going up a ramp and you can hold

445
00:33:44,039 --> 00:33:45,440
the boost up the ramp and that'll
help a little bit, but if you

446
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,400
time the boost at the very top
of the ramp, the back wheel will

447
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,359
hit hit the ramp and it'll you'll
go much further, and then you kind

448
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,599
of then it's excite, like if
you hold back in the air, you'll

449
00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:58,119
stay in the air longer. If
you press down or press forward, you'll

450
00:33:58,119 --> 00:34:00,000
go down faster. And it's like
and you want to land on the on

451
00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:02,640
the ground with both wheels at the
same time. That can maintain all your

452
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,239
momentum. So there's all these tiny
little things that make the game, every

453
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,840
moment of the game feel like,
Okay, if I can optimize this,

454
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,719
I'm gonna be played better and better. And then it's just still kind of

455
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,679
this this crazy cacophony of stuff where
every turn there's a couple other riders there

456
00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:20,000
and if you hit their back wheel
with your front wheel, you're gonna bite

457
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,679
it. But if you hit them
with your back wheel, they're gonna bite

458
00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:24,400
it and you get your full boost
meter reset so you can just boost through

459
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,920
the next thing. It's it's such
a good game. I really really wish

460
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,679
it would come back, and it
has to be interested in like looking like

461
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:37,480
there's a new MTV or motorcross game
or something that came out recently. I'm

462
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,800
like, I wonder if any of
these try to get anywhere close to this,

463
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,639
or are they are much more arcady
or if they're sim in a different

464
00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,039
direction, and like I see them, they have pretty bad reviews on Steam,

465
00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:47,079
so I'm like, I think I'm
just gonna be happy stick with the

466
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:51,800
Site by sixty four for me.
But yeah, I was there was a

467
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:58,039
PS two motocross game game that felt
like an SSX game that I absolutely loved.

468
00:34:58,599 --> 00:35:01,639
Is there like a Tony of dirt
bikes? Yeah? I wonder,

469
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,519
Yeah, I don't know, that's
the thing I was. I was like

470
00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:09,039
wondering that like Sitebikes exty four very
much the skate of dirt bikes, that's

471
00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:15,000
definitely what it's going for. I
think that these more recent motorcross games probably

472
00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:16,480
are trying to be a little bit
more like Tony Hawk. That seems like

473
00:35:16,559 --> 00:35:20,000
the safe thing to do, although
maybe the audience is like, no,

474
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,000
we buy these games all the time
because we like live and breathe dirt bikes

475
00:35:22,039 --> 00:35:25,519
and we want the sim stuff.
So I honestly have no idea, but

476
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,480
but yeah, I would be interested
in checking that out. It's weird with

477
00:35:29,519 --> 00:35:31,400
these extreme sports games where it's like
I can flip back and forth between what

478
00:35:31,519 --> 00:35:36,840
kind of like because for skating skateboarding, I definitely prefer Tony Hawk over skate,

479
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,199
but for snowboarding it's it's it's ten
eighty over SSX, which is like

480
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,199
the reverse ten eighties, much more
like skate And for a site bike,

481
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,559
it's you know, give me the
one that it's trying to be a little

482
00:35:45,559 --> 00:35:47,920
bit more SIMI even trials to an
extent, I feel like, yeah,

483
00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:52,559
what happened to dirt bikes? They
were everywhere trials. They kept doing trials

484
00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:55,079
over and over again, and they
didn't they didn't really have an idea of

485
00:35:55,159 --> 00:36:00,480
like what the new idea would be. It was, hey, we're gonna

486
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,280
have your shoot a gun, and
I'm like, okay. That was for

487
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,760
a while, Yeah, that was
the one I was looking for too,

488
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,079
because it was that food blood Dragon
one didn't like it. You know what,

489
00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:13,760
there's it's it's fine for what it's
trying to be. It's just not

490
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,000
very much a trial game. And
Trials is like such a specific like motocross

491
00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:22,719
platforming game that has a very certain
fan base that they're very demanding about what

492
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:23,760
they want. They want the tracks
to be fun, and they want the

493
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:29,039
platform and to be very very difficult. Who did you play as in a

494
00:36:29,199 --> 00:36:31,920
site by sixty four you a jumping
Jim Rivers. Guy. Jumping Jim Rivers

495
00:36:32,199 --> 00:36:38,360
is mid in my opinion, much
more Vicky Steele because Vicky Steele can really

496
00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:42,840
She's got a bigger window for hitting
the turbo at the at the top of

497
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,960
the ramp, and that makes the
game much easier. And she's also still

498
00:36:45,039 --> 00:36:50,239
very good at cornering, which is
important. So up Rivers it's okay.

499
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,199
But as soon as they went with
the Vicky Vixon Steel, I was doing

500
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:58,440
much better. I just like the
way the announcer screams Jim Rivers name Jim

501
00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:02,159
Rivers. Very is the second place, Yeah, it's it's it's very enthusiastic

502
00:37:02,199 --> 00:37:07,400
about Jim Rivers. We need more, like, we need more just random

503
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:12,119
announcers yelling shit in games. That's
I thought most power. I think that's

504
00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:15,480
why Smash does so well. It
is just because when you select a character,

505
00:37:15,599 --> 00:37:19,199
it's like Carby Yeah, then like
some of them, he like says

506
00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:23,920
it kind of weird, and I
was like, mister damon watching like halfway

507
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:28,840
through saying game and watch like that's
mister dat. It's a little pause there.

508
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,639
He's like he's so excited. He's
like, mister, it's just am

509
00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:37,719
I reading this correctly. It's really
good. I do like all the characters

510
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:42,000
from these ninten of sixty four extreme
sports games. Jim Rivers like big Boy

511
00:37:42,119 --> 00:37:45,400
Bobby Malone, I think it's his
name or something, and there's so yeah,

512
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,920
there's always a fat guy. There's
a fat guy on a wave race

513
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000
too, and they always have like
the fastest top speed or whatever. I'm

514
00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:54,079
like, that doesn't make sense,
but I'm fine with the like represent Okay,

515
00:37:54,159 --> 00:37:58,000
somehow we need to work in talking
about Kevin James. So I can

516
00:37:58,119 --> 00:38:02,039
use Kevin James as a thumbnail and
then Kevin James and then the title is

517
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,920
now the title is like there's always
a fat guy. Okay. I'm upset

518
00:38:08,039 --> 00:38:10,679
because, like, con put my
face on that Kevin James meme and it

519
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,480
just a picture of this looks like
a picture of me. It's completely seatless.

520
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:22,719
It's remarkable. Travis Rawna, y'all
remember that name. Yeah, he

521
00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:28,199
was like, I associated uh not
be a max uh dirt bikes and stuff

522
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,400
with him. Yeah, that's a
name. That's a Tony Hawk, a

523
00:38:30,679 --> 00:38:35,199
dirt biker. That's a dirt biker. Another than one person who doesn't know

524
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,480
this. Dude, what's the name
of the character from the original Excite Bike?

525
00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:45,800
Do you guys know that mister Bike? That's very close its Biker.

526
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:52,199
I was almost there. I was
getting there. Come on. Created by

527
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,159
Shagero Miamoto. By the way,
that's another gem. That's another gem.

528
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:01,199
Uh speaking about another gem and another
older game that I played. I play

529
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:07,119
this on the plane Hadies. I
don't have anything new to say about Hadies.

530
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:08,159
Have you played it before? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, played it

531
00:39:08,199 --> 00:39:13,760
before, got got good times in
it and everything. It's just been years

532
00:39:14,159 --> 00:39:15,760
since. I've to go back too. But it's like, man, there's

533
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,159
so much of the play right now
and I can't even entertain that. And

534
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:30,039
there's another one coming real soon,
right great steam Deck game switch. I

535
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:31,599
didn't want to bring the steam deck
because it's a little it's a little big,

536
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:37,639
you know, especially the case that
it comes with. It's pretty I've

537
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:38,920
used that case. It's gonna be
it's gonna take up a lot of space,

538
00:39:39,079 --> 00:39:43,480
and you know, I needed to
keep space for all of these Sure,

539
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,079
all the stuff from this day.
Got it back. It looks like

540
00:39:45,119 --> 00:39:50,119
it worked out. We got it
back. Fit in your picnic Basket,

541
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,840
though the switch would not fitted by
Picnic Basket. Okay, but hey,

542
00:39:55,519 --> 00:40:00,760
Hadies is one of those rare games
similar to like a rare for me,

543
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:05,639
uh, similar to a Tony Hawk
maybe dead Cells to an extent where like

544
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,880
the muscle memory instantly kicks in.
Oh yeah sure, and hey, Hades

545
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:15,519
is still fucking amazing, y'alls,
and then I still so much I will

546
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:21,920
still always roll with that stupid shield
shield boy love that build's rule. There's

547
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,039
not a bad weapon in the game. There's yeah, like there's not even

548
00:40:23,079 --> 00:40:27,559
really a bad build in terms of
like every build can be fun once you

549
00:40:27,639 --> 00:40:30,360
learn how to like do it just
a little bit. Yeah, some of

550
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,559
them are more effective than the others
others, but that's like that's the roll

551
00:40:32,599 --> 00:40:36,159
of the dice of of a Rogue
Light game, where it's like some builds

552
00:40:36,199 --> 00:40:37,960
are going to be just monsters and
some of are gonna be duds. The

553
00:40:38,079 --> 00:40:43,280
magic of Hades is every build is
fun, whether you are getting far or

554
00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:46,400
not. That's what separates Hades from
other Rogue Light games. Yes, I'm

555
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,519
talking about Returnal. Returnal is like
one where it's like, hey, that

556
00:40:49,639 --> 00:40:52,840
game is very fun when you get
the right build otherwise it's like it's very

557
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:58,840
routine. So yeah, Hades just
an example of early access really working for

558
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,360
that game, where they just find
and refined it. They found the stuff

559
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,400
that worked, and they did more
of that, and they found the stuff

560
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,639
that didn't work and they just get
rid of it. It's God, It's

561
00:41:05,639 --> 00:41:08,480
a good game. And spoilers,
I guess for Hades, but like the

562
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:13,400
gun you get, I never really
vibed with. But then I decided,

563
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,280
like, you know, I'm just
gonna try this out, try this out

564
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:19,719
for a couple of runs. Man, the the combos that you can get

565
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,679
on that just shooting that off several
times and they just zipping around. Absolutely

566
00:41:22,679 --> 00:41:25,800
amazing. Hades, great game.
Can I tell you what, Hades?

567
00:41:27,039 --> 00:41:30,519
Why Haities makes me sad these days? Why is that because you can't experience

568
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:35,159
titan Fall three? Is what it
is. Titan Fall three was the content

569
00:41:35,199 --> 00:41:37,840
they were going to put in Apex
Legends that was going to be titled titan

570
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,440
Fall three. Basically, they're like, what if we made it more like

571
00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:45,119
Hades, where you have these core
set of moves and then you could unlock

572
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:46,920
new stuff to do on top of
those moves. You're still doing the same

573
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:52,119
like inputs, but now they do
new things like dash into bullets and then

574
00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:53,519
the bullets get knocked back at the
enemies, like as something that happened on

575
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:58,719
Hadies a lot. That sounds fucking
incredible. Please give me that, Please

576
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,079
give me that, And Nope,
they're just not gonna make it. So

577
00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:02,760
I get very sad when I think
about Hades now. Well, speaking about

578
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:07,760
bullets, Mike Manati, you've been
playing Counter Strike two, Yeah, just

579
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:12,159
a bit of it. It's so
going back to Countrie is so weird for

580
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,920
me because that is a game I
played a lot of in like nineteen ninety

581
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,960
nine, and it's just so weird
to be like, I sure changed a

582
00:42:21,039 --> 00:42:25,159
lot since then, and this video
game is just still there and you go

583
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:30,519
in there and it's it definitely looks
better. There's some nice UI improvements and

584
00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:32,360
things like that. Way easier to
get into games. But you know,

585
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,960
when you started up, they make
you play a bunch of levels and you're

586
00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:37,920
on what dustard, Dust two,
whichever one. It's like, man,

587
00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:45,400
it's this map, like I but
don't you think I personally think that map

588
00:42:45,679 --> 00:42:49,440
is like the perfect map. I
know it is. That's why we still

589
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,440
play on it. That's what I
want to add, Like it is Counterstrike

590
00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:55,880
the closest, closest the game has
ever gotten to just being a sport.

591
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,280
Uh well, I guess since I
guess maybe Rocket League, since the league

592
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:01,480
is gonna be the same thing forever. The counter Strike has like this,

593
00:43:02,079 --> 00:43:06,800
like it's the same map, the
same mechanics, and some stuff has changed

594
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,039
very slightly here and there, just
like rules changed slightly in football or soccer

595
00:43:09,119 --> 00:43:14,960
or whatever Doda also occupies. But
like counter Strikes has been around even longer

596
00:43:15,039 --> 00:43:19,320
than Doda, so it's just so
too, like even bigger recepts than counterfl

597
00:43:20,199 --> 00:43:23,519
You can add characters of Dota or
whatever they do, or make balanced patches

598
00:43:23,679 --> 00:43:28,880
like here you have the guns.
All the guns shoot people, you know,

599
00:43:29,159 --> 00:43:31,360
something so crazy as like hey this
character can some I'm gonna ghost ship,

600
00:43:31,519 --> 00:43:36,599
you know, nothing like that.
But you know, it was still

601
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,159
fun. It was almost having more
fun than Tutorio because then you get back

602
00:43:39,199 --> 00:43:42,920
into it, it's like, man, this is just like Counterstrike where I

603
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,679
turn a corner and then I'm just
dead and I have to amuse myself by

604
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:50,960
flying around the map while I kind
of wait to see what happens and also,

605
00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:53,760
like the one thing that has to
changed too much is counter Strike chat.

606
00:43:54,119 --> 00:43:59,679
Like it's just people being weird.
People like like there's this weird thing

607
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,639
like, oh the person had there
was one person left on our team.

608
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,039
As it gets five, they're like, oh, killed them all. We're

609
00:44:05,079 --> 00:44:07,320
gonna vote to kick you. I
was like, oh, they're joking.

610
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:09,800
No, They're like ha ha,
yeah he we're gonna kick him now.

611
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:14,800
I guess, Oh, that's when
you guys think it's funny. Yeah,

612
00:44:15,199 --> 00:44:22,840
people in that counterstrike culture, it's
certainly and stuck in something. Apparently it's

613
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:28,519
a thing I don't kick. It's
like it's like this whole it's self contained,

614
00:44:28,599 --> 00:44:30,559
right, because the people who play
Counterstrike, that's that's what they's what

615
00:44:30,599 --> 00:44:36,199
they do. A comic capsule.
Yeah, and that game. I mean,

616
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,679
I still think that game is really
good. I played it a bunch,

617
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:43,400
and you know, it was funny
because I was I was very excited

618
00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:45,880
to get going. I hadn't played
in a couple of years, and I

619
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,559
was like, all right, it's
all coming back to me. And I

620
00:44:49,039 --> 00:44:53,400
got like a ten year coin badge
on my name because I was like,

621
00:44:53,519 --> 00:44:58,039
oh, I've been playing this game
for a very long time that's upsetting and

622
00:44:58,159 --> 00:45:01,679
cool at the same time. And
uh, I'm just like Dead Last they

623
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:10,119
only dude with a ten year coin
is just like absolutely getting destruct people.

624
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:15,199
Yeah, it's like one hundred percent
Like I'm getting back there having not played

625
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,480
that game in a long time,
but I've I enjoyed it. I played

626
00:45:17,519 --> 00:45:21,360
it for like two hours last week
and it was it was a good time.

627
00:45:21,559 --> 00:45:24,760
Like, I think there's certain cool
things about that game that are just

628
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,000
never gonna like they're just not gonna
come back in any other shooter, right,

629
00:45:29,079 --> 00:45:31,719
Like you're very rarely you're going to
see anything where like there's no ads

630
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:36,119
or like, uh, you know, stuff like that. I just think

631
00:45:36,119 --> 00:45:40,800
it has its own very specific brand. Oh the all the regular things you

632
00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:45,480
can eat us down, like you
know, a scope. Sure, yeah,

633
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,840
I mean this was I mean this
original game was based was built off

634
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:52,320
of Half Life one, so this
pre Call of Duty everything ads, right,

635
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:57,320
Yeah, it's it's very much stuck
in the Yeah. Yeah, it's

636
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,920
very much stuck in a certain time. And I think that's what you know,

637
00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:05,760
keep and look. I remember in
college playing CS one six like for

638
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,800
literally ten hours in straight like my
I met my roommate happened to be this

639
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:14,559
like CS freak and we got along
really well. And that's all we did.

640
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,280
That's all we did for an entire
year of college is play that game.

641
00:46:17,679 --> 00:46:22,920
So I'm very I look very fondly
at it, you know, and

642
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:29,079
I just think it's great that I
think what it did then, right,

643
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:37,079
it was clearly this lasting cultural impact. I mean, like the fact that

644
00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:39,400
it is still like is it how
many people are still playing this game?

645
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:47,000
Fucking insane? Right? Yeah,
that's really popular. So it's probably like

646
00:46:47,199 --> 00:46:50,639
I mean, could be like two
million people a day or actually playing it.

647
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,039
Yeah, boy. So like I'm
there's a part of me that like

648
00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:57,280
maybe the nostalgia and the sort of
like feeling of being a part of that

649
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:01,239
is is you know, ways more
than the game itself. Right, But

650
00:47:02,599 --> 00:47:07,199
I do want to maybe like play
that, start playing that to to on

651
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,719
Acadiens where I get a little better, get back to where I used to

652
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:15,760
be close to that. You know, you brought up something interesting about thinking

653
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,400
of of CS like a like a
sport and that like, you know,

654
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,400
the basics fundamentals are all there,
but I'm interested to see where like it's

655
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:28,320
probably been documented, I'm sure,
but like where there's been new like advances

656
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,880
in terms of like no, yo, you gotta like keep crouching here,

657
00:47:31,039 --> 00:47:34,280
or you gotta keep me jumping here, like still coming up, just like

658
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,760
it happens. So yeah, when
you play it, people like even though

659
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,719
like, well this is where you
throw smoke grenades right right right, yeah,

660
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:45,039
but like the people coming from like
other aspects of gaming to like just

661
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,920
realize because you know, when you're
you're too in your own lane with a

662
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:52,280
specific game, you generally don't like
try and innovate or whatever, you don't

663
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:59,360
accidentally innovate versus someone coming in that's
used to i don't know, playing Warcraft

664
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:04,639
three another modern game, and just
seeing where they come from with it.

665
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,920
I mean, I mean, I
think this stuff does kind of still happen

666
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:14,280
in the protein, which is obviously
huge for counter Strike Massive, and it's

667
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,159
going to be the skill level always
goes up somehow, it always improves.

668
00:48:17,159 --> 00:48:19,920
They're like, hey, this,
we didn't think this was possible. And

669
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,000
then some kid comes along and it's
like no, I'm actually pretty good at

670
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,360
that and starts using it regularly in
competition. But it's uh, I mean

671
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:29,119
that just goes back to it,
Yeah, being very much like a sport

672
00:48:29,199 --> 00:48:31,880
where they kind of don't want the
fundamentals to change. Obviously, they don't

673
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:37,039
want the fundamentals to change because it's
about the player expression instead. And yeah,

674
00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:38,960
there's there's something to be said for
that, obviously. I think it's

675
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:44,519
going to be interesting to see if
if counter Strike two is some sort of

676
00:48:44,599 --> 00:48:46,719
I don't mean, I don't think
Counterstrike neither word vitalization. I suppose.

677
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,679
I don't know how it's doing compared
to Valeriant. Obviously counter Strikes is doing

678
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,199
just fine. It's Valeriant, like
getting bigger, faster or something like that.

679
00:48:53,559 --> 00:49:00,079
I don't know. I feel like
I have friends that hover around D

680
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:04,519
games, but the only game they
talk about is Valeriant, And yeah,

681
00:49:04,639 --> 00:49:07,559
it is just the world I'm unfamiliar
with. What kind of Strike doesn't have

682
00:49:07,639 --> 00:49:12,639
why foods? So that's gonna you
know, they're I don't. I've not

683
00:49:13,119 --> 00:49:15,920
I've not spent time in Valeriant,
but I do get the vibe of like

684
00:49:15,079 --> 00:49:19,719
that sort of cementing its place for
like a you know, a younger generation's

685
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,280
counter Strike away. It's like a
nice impty to play. It's nice in

686
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:28,280
between because you know, it is
very counterstrike like a really really fast time

687
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,159
to kill you gotta be pretty tactical, but you do still have like some

688
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:34,360
character powers and you know, you
have characters, right, it's a bit

689
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:38,199
more perhaps visually interesting. I get
that, but yeah, counterstick from me,

690
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,559
Like, I don't think I'm gonna
likely die back in and really get

691
00:49:40,599 --> 00:49:45,400
into Counterstrick again. But it's fun
playing it and like, oh my gosh,

692
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,360
I'm back in my brother's room because
that's where the NPC was, and

693
00:49:47,679 --> 00:49:52,440
Digimon is on because I'm always watching
that on Saturday morning while I play counter

694
00:49:52,599 --> 00:49:54,599
Strike. You know, it really
really was a partition. Yeah, there

695
00:49:54,599 --> 00:49:59,480
you go, and it knows I
love, Like, you know, obviously

696
00:49:59,639 --> 00:50:05,840
once six was like very people were
customizing stuff or this was the main This

697
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,000
was like the original base version game
that most people played was one point six.

698
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,440
Yeah, uh, and I don't
know, like, you know,

699
00:50:12,599 --> 00:50:16,920
I remember the Path to one six
where like servers were getting customizable and people

700
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:22,000
would like upload all their own custom
sounds and stuff like that, and I

701
00:50:22,159 --> 00:50:28,559
just, you know, you just
remember being like the most tuned, refined

702
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,039
sort of version of the game.
And I feel like, what's interesting with

703
00:50:32,519 --> 00:50:37,239
uh that franchise as a whole is
like it's the one that really kind of

704
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:42,599
taught me like how to play in
FPS you competitively and like just basic strategy

705
00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:45,079
that has stayed with me for all
these years, right of you know,

706
00:50:45,199 --> 00:50:47,480
like a lot of like duck to
shoe kind of stuff and just the things

707
00:50:47,559 --> 00:50:53,920
that not having done a keyboard keyboard
and mouse, like you know, FPS,

708
00:50:54,119 --> 00:50:57,719
like a competitive game like that.
I've done Call Duty a bunch,

709
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,440
but like the fact that the muscle
memory that just comes back after all those

710
00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:05,360
years of like crouching and you know, I'm a big f to reload guy

711
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,719
in that game and just you know, just stuff like that where I was

712
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,679
just like, oh, I'm back
and it I don't know, it made

713
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,960
me feel young and that's really all
I'm after. Yeah, oh gosh.

714
00:51:15,039 --> 00:51:17,519
That was just so much of my
early like playing games online at all things

715
00:51:17,639 --> 00:51:22,639
was those half Life mods because first
of Steam Fortres Classic and then everyone moved

716
00:51:22,679 --> 00:51:25,800
a counterstrike. They defeat had a
little shine there for I don't know,

717
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:30,079
I don't know what day of Defeat
is up to these days, but all

718
00:51:30,119 --> 00:51:35,519
that stuff was exciting. Wow,
what is what is old is new again?

719
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:40,039
Just like we're being reborn, like
we've been hibernating in a cocoon because

720
00:51:40,079 --> 00:51:45,639
I've been playing cocoon shots at the
turbo our own Turbo sean, let a

721
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:49,599
quick look. We looked at this
game. Uh that quick looks now on

722
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:54,119
the website and on YouTube's. I
played this during Summer Gamefest. It is

723
00:51:54,760 --> 00:52:00,760
a puzzle game, which I would
like to call. It's very bug punk.

724
00:52:02,079 --> 00:52:07,079
Sure, a lot of a lot
of goopiness, not less goopiness than

725
00:52:07,079 --> 00:52:09,360
you would get from Limbo or Inside. I think this is probably going to

726
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:14,519
be one of the more approachable games. You're not referencing the Sega Saturn game

727
00:52:14,639 --> 00:52:16,800
bug, are you? No?
Not actual bugs, actual bugs, but

728
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:24,239
not like shit, not too much
bug, just bug adjacent bug informed.

729
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:30,679
Hey, hey bug coded. Perhaps
it's bug coded for sure? Yes,

730
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:35,679
bug bug me my friends, that's
like an expletive for us, is just

731
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:39,360
screaming bug. We'd like to yell
bug at each other because there's a then

732
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:44,519
Cleveland Indians game where there were too
many bugs and the picture couldn't pitch all

733
00:52:44,559 --> 00:52:46,639
the team. So the bugs are
on our side, so we started screaming

734
00:52:47,079 --> 00:52:52,760
bug. It's just a word history
there, like this whole sentence you we're

735
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,000
doing this whole thing. You know, it's very difficult for me to just

736
00:52:55,119 --> 00:53:00,639
not be picture my friends screaming bug
in my face, the get up to

737
00:53:00,679 --> 00:53:06,960
my face, go bug again,
and then I laught. That reminds me

738
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:10,199
one time I was at Disneyland,
Mike and I was about to ride Radiator

739
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:14,800
Springs, but then they which is
a car's ride for folks that don't know,

740
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:17,239
and then they had to shut down
the ride because there was a swarm

741
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:23,320
of bees on the track. And
then like everyone went dead quiet because we

742
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:28,480
were all up. Everyone was upset
about having the ride canceled. That my

743
00:53:28,559 --> 00:53:32,880
cousin I we just hear like and
like in the distance you can see a

744
00:53:34,039 --> 00:53:37,119
shoot swarm of bees. I was
like, you know what, I'll ride

745
00:53:37,159 --> 00:53:40,880
it. Put me on. I
want to ride through a swarm of bees.

746
00:53:42,599 --> 00:53:45,079
But Cocoon. It's a it's a
neat puzzle game. It's very linear.

747
00:53:45,559 --> 00:53:51,960
Some of the puzzles are a little
bit more challenging than others because it's

748
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:55,360
it's all context in terms of the
world. Like there's one very very early

749
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:59,880
in the game that I got stuck
on during the demo at Summer Game Fest,

750
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:04,079
where there are at these four five
little markers and they make a different

751
00:54:04,159 --> 00:54:07,880
sound as you like walk past them, and I thought like, oh,

752
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,440
maybe you have to hit them in
like lowest note to highest note, or

753
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:15,159
they had like these different uh markings
on them, so I thought like,

754
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:19,559
oh, maybe it's like we go
from whichever has like the most corners to

755
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,920
the least corners or whatever. And
then I was just stuck there for forever.

756
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:27,000
And then I walk over a little
bit to the left, and it

757
00:54:27,079 --> 00:54:31,519
turns out there was this weird fleshy
tube thing that you had to pull its

758
00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:40,519
ball and then it would rise.
And then if not a fleshy tube thing

759
00:54:40,639 --> 00:54:50,480
with a ball, you mean,
dick heard what we heard genital coded but

760
00:54:52,079 --> 00:54:58,559
cod yes, yes, yes,
But then like there were markings on the

761
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:06,440
flesh tube that denoted the sequence you
were supposed to activate the icons. But

762
00:55:06,599 --> 00:55:12,840
the mechanic that is really really neat
about this game though, is you start

763
00:55:13,039 --> 00:55:17,559
in one world and one puzzle world, one biome, and then you eventually

764
00:55:17,679 --> 00:55:22,840
when you complete that biome, you
pop out and you physically use that world

765
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:28,960
as like a puzzle piece or like
a key to activate other devices. But

766
00:55:29,119 --> 00:55:36,159
sometimes you will take that hub world
into your actual hub and then take that

767
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:40,800
world into another world to activate icons
there, and then you will eventually have

768
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:45,400
to jump into that first world within
the second world. It's really great.

769
00:55:47,199 --> 00:55:52,519
It has some of the most amazing
sound design in a game, and for

770
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:58,519
being like a little bug man,
it really amps up the sense of scale

771
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:05,559
really really well. A bugman,
A bugman, bug This game looks good,

772
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,800
it's reviews, and it's resetting.
Because how the hell I gotta play

773
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:14,360
this too, I know, pile
it onto the list. Listen, wasn't

774
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:20,280
this the the vaginal one? Weren't
we screaming vaginals? Yes, we screamed

775
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,800
that at most games, but yeah, yeah, it's just like Mike's friends

776
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:30,960
were yelling bug? Were you?
My friends seemed very wholesome now compared cod

777
00:56:31,679 --> 00:56:38,840
Okay, listen, Yes, the
game starts with you popping out of vagina.

778
00:56:39,159 --> 00:56:45,719
Yes, what is what the player
like? The thead play dead pedigree.

779
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:52,119
People just all about that wet like
skin, moist. What were the

780
00:56:52,320 --> 00:57:00,360
other words I'm missing? Hoopyo,
drippy, discus grubb voice? Does it?

781
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,159
Moist? Is such a visceral word? You say moist and I'm like

782
00:57:04,199 --> 00:57:07,000
I get it. Oh yeah,
the moist thing again? What was that

783
00:57:07,199 --> 00:57:10,960
vagina hand thing? You and Lucy
made me do it. It's like that

784
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,800
he hadn't done the vagina hand thing. Have you done it? What do

785
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:24,360
you mean? It's don't get don't
get Anna. You don't know. You

786
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:31,239
don't know what you're looking at until
you're like thirteen. She knows, she

787
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:35,559
knows I'm doing that thing. Right, you do that thing and like,

788
00:57:36,079 --> 00:57:38,960
oh man, there's nothing better than
the first time you realize what you're looking

789
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:44,199
at. Mike. Look a month
ago, Yeah, I almost I was

790
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,280
passed out. I couldn't believe how
it looks like I do that with right

791
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:52,719
now. And he's just like fun
and weird, you know, nothing,

792
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:54,880
nothing to call home. That's like
one of those tubes from Cocoon. Weird.

793
00:57:55,039 --> 00:58:00,880
Yeah, that's a penis. That's
a penis. That wouldn't be if

794
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:05,880
that's somehow made a dick. Uh. You know, actually there's there there's

795
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,199
a way you can do it where
like you slide one of your fingers right

796
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,800
and then you do a little how
you you know, kind of like a

797
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,880
dick. It looks at leg of
a giant when you do it. It

798
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:22,599
certainly does. Michael certainly pointing that
out last thing I'll say about Cocoon out

799
00:58:22,639 --> 00:58:24,599
of you know, you mentioned play
Dead back are but like I do you

800
00:58:24,719 --> 00:58:30,480
think this may be the most the
more palatable out of those other games?

801
00:58:30,159 --> 00:58:34,679
I'm sorry, are they not palatable? I mean other people might find them

802
00:58:34,719 --> 00:58:42,960
too gross or are not real relax
with that number two. Wait, I

803
00:58:43,039 --> 00:58:45,480
didn't know that do people. I
mean, I guess like the end of

804
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:52,239
in Inside is a little personal limbo
that folks don't vibe with. I guess

805
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,960
with like the Spiders, Spiders horror
and you know our our protagonists losing a

806
00:58:57,039 --> 00:59:00,239
limb or two. He's a little
black and white, you know, stick

807
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,440
figure, what's the problem. But
I get the child. They deserve that.

808
00:59:04,039 --> 00:59:06,480
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's
got what it is coming to them.

809
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,320
Uh. You know we were talking
about the hand vagina and staring into

810
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:15,199
the void, just like Mike Manatty. You've been steering into void of the

811
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:20,400
sea and space. We'll see if
stars. Yeah, I am right at

812
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,480
the end here. I'm about I
got to like kind of the end period.

813
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:25,320
And then there's there's basically a bunch
of psychquests you can do to get

814
00:59:25,719 --> 00:59:29,840
every party member's ultimate weapon. I
did all of those, so all I

815
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:35,639
have to do now is the final
dungeon and boss. I adore this game.

816
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:39,920
This is really everything that I wanted
from this kind of classic JRPG,

817
00:59:40,639 --> 00:59:47,039
and a lot of that is actually
pacing, like the ratio of doing story

818
00:59:47,159 --> 00:59:52,440
stuff and then having the combat and
the puzzles. A lot of games get

819
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:54,119
that wrong, especially when it's like
more of an indie team doing that kind

820
00:59:54,159 --> 00:59:59,159
of a thing. They get really
excited about their lore. They maybe like

821
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,440
overthink puzzle a bit too much,
so it feels like you're doing like that

822
01:00:01,679 --> 01:00:07,280
more than you're actually fighting things.
This handles that very well, where you're

823
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:08,400
like in a town for a little
bit, you talk a little bit,

824
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:13,159
then you're going to probably do some
big dungeon, get into a lot of

825
01:00:13,239 --> 01:00:16,320
good fights, fight some great bosses, fantastic bosses, and the combat system

826
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:21,480
carries things too. Where what's great
is like you have the whole combat system

827
01:00:21,519 --> 01:00:25,199
from the beginning, and it really
is the most important things is the way

828
01:00:25,239 --> 01:00:30,239
that you can use certain attacks to
cancel enemy special moves. So it's like,

829
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:31,639
oh, I'm gonna do my big
thing. It's gonna hurt everybody,

830
01:00:31,719 --> 01:00:35,920
and they have a sword and like
a moon above them, so it's like,

831
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:37,320
okay, if I hit them with
a sword attack and a moon attack.

832
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,519
I can cancel that. There's just
a lot of ways to play around

833
01:00:40,519 --> 01:00:44,679
with that and to kind of work
around that and to be clever with that.

834
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:46,880
But the other thing is, since
whenever you attack you get empty back,

835
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:51,280
you're really encouraged to actually use all
of your special abilities. It's not

836
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,679
just a man a matter of oh
I don't know a man, I don't

837
01:00:53,719 --> 01:00:59,000
have enough ethers or whatever. So
just the fact that I am using my

838
01:00:59,159 --> 01:01:00,599
moon oring a lot, and that's
the one we get to bounce it back

839
01:01:00,639 --> 01:01:04,239
to people, and it keeps getting
faster, and you could do it for

840
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,920
a long time and I've gotten real
fucking good at that. Moving to Ring,

841
01:01:07,159 --> 01:01:09,440
it feels that's my main damage ability. Mike is great at Hot Potato.

842
01:01:10,199 --> 01:01:14,480
It's so good. It's so good
so and it's just gorgeous. It's

843
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:20,840
maybe the best looking pixel game ever, just absolutely insane pixel arts. Uh

844
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,719
yeah, I think Bailey and I
are mad at you. I think Bailey,

845
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:27,280
you know if you're talking, I'm
upset with you. I'm getting baileyed

846
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:31,360
on the weekends now where like home
girls calling me out, whoa what the

847
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:37,599
why am I cashing a strays on
vacation. Uh, what was the issue

848
01:01:37,639 --> 01:01:40,159
I'm excited was this? Oh no, I just don't like Sea of Stars,

849
01:01:40,639 --> 01:01:45,320
right, Okay, and then Mike's
wrong. Then Mike is resonating with

850
01:01:45,719 --> 01:01:49,079
it, and I think Bailey has
been streaming it it well here to be

851
01:01:49,119 --> 01:01:52,840
clear, Janz a lout and that
like Sea Stars, I just I'm like

852
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:54,440
struggling with what game to go to
next. I'm like looking at what's coming

853
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,440
in October. There's a lot of
stuff. Obviously, I'm playing the games

854
01:01:57,480 --> 01:01:59,880
that we can't talk about yet.
Sorry about everybody will talk about it soon.

855
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:01,920
But like I have the backlog,
there's Lies of p and Sea of

856
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:05,559
Stars and now a handful of other
things. I'm gonna go back to Boulderskate

857
01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:07,360
three shoul. I just go to
Sea off Stars and I'll settle this and

858
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:10,440
I'll be the determining factor or yeah, but only if you agree with me.

859
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,519
That's scary, because you know there's
a chance. I don't know that

860
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:19,559
it's weird because I have a hunt. Sometimes I'm like, I think Jeff

861
01:02:19,559 --> 01:02:21,880
will like this, and I don't
see why you wouldn't, Jeff, But

862
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,599
every once in a while you could
be particular about things like small things particular.

863
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:28,920
It's a very good Yes, I
could be very particular about it,

864
01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:30,840
so it's hard to predict, but
yes, those could be there could be

865
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:35,320
anomalies out there. I'm I'm very
excited. The way you talk about this

866
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:37,280
game, it makes it sound very
good, so I'm very good. Don't

867
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:40,639
give us some time into it and
like even though like the combat system kind

868
01:02:40,639 --> 01:02:45,519
of is what it is. The
entire game, you're constantly getting It's not

869
01:02:45,679 --> 01:02:47,840
so much that you're getting a lot
of new stuff, but that you are

870
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:52,800
getting new characters and they get new
abilities, these new combo moves to kind

871
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:54,880
of Crown Sugar style Comma moves,
which is always fun. But just the

872
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:59,559
bust themselves, the enemies, there's
so many different one of those and there

873
01:02:59,559 --> 01:03:01,519
are a lot of bosses, so
that is kind of what keeps changing,

874
01:03:01,599 --> 01:03:06,719
It keeps making things interesting. Yeah, absolutely, door absolutely love it.

875
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,880
Maybe I was in a bad headspace
or it came out at a bad time

876
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:14,199
when I was checking it out.
How far did you get? It was

877
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:19,039
like four hours in like what's his
face? Rejoins your party and everything.

878
01:03:19,599 --> 01:03:27,400
Gail not Gail Garl Garl Garls Night
Baby, the one time on one moment

879
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:30,199
where the pacing is a little I
don't I don't know if it's off or

880
01:03:30,199 --> 01:03:31,400
it's just hates the beginning of the
game. So we have to kind of

881
01:03:31,519 --> 01:03:36,760
like be story heavy for a bit
because you play it and it starts like

882
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,880
in media Arrests, get those do
a bunch of like a few battles.

883
01:03:40,119 --> 01:03:44,239
I know. I learned that in
follow uh. And then but then it's

884
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:45,719
like, okay, now we're gonna
flash back and their kids and we're gonna

885
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:49,280
like really tell you how they got
there, and that is like the story

886
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,559
dump. And that's but that's the
one time it does that, Okay,

887
01:03:52,639 --> 01:03:54,000
And you know, I like to
listen character, So I was I was

888
01:03:54,039 --> 01:03:58,760
fine with that in it is still
gorgeous. So I was vibing if you're

889
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:00,880
able to kind of just vibe with
that intro get kind of a little bit

890
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:04,519
past that. Yeah, Greb,
if you're gonna go and check that out

891
01:04:04,639 --> 01:04:10,679
over the other titles, I think
I would just give yourself more patients than

892
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,840
I probably did. Yeah, I
think that's so I'm gonna like, I'm

893
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:16,440
gonna try to get through these first
several hours before I really like try to

894
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,679
settle on an opinion of it.
It's kind of my plan because I mean,

895
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:21,440
first of all, it's pretty beefy, but and I could play.

896
01:04:21,519 --> 01:04:26,079
But it's also going to fit really
well with playing on the y the steam

897
01:04:26,119 --> 01:04:29,719
deck or whatever. So it's beefy, but but also like you, like

898
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:31,039
you know, I'm doing a lot
of side quests. I'm going to the

899
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:35,280
dungeon. I'm twenty five hours in, and it's something that's reasonable. It's

900
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:39,639
very reasonable, and that's what that's
the other thing. It's capturing from that

901
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:43,559
sixteenth bit era, back when JRPG
is actually worth twenty thirty hours long,

902
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,280
which is still probably the actual length
that most of these games should be.

903
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:50,000
Yes, no, I agree with
these things. Good. Yeah, I

904
01:04:50,119 --> 01:04:53,079
agree with you, Mike. I
thought about the Roman Empire. By the

905
01:04:53,119 --> 01:05:00,880
way, when you sent man a
game that a game that Mike grub and

906
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:05,840
I alongside Dan played last Friday on
UPF was Whispers in the West is a

907
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:12,280
cooperative mystery solving game, and I
am still upset that we kind of didn't

908
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:16,360
solve that last puzzle. Probably it's
something there we really missed something. It

909
01:05:16,519 --> 01:05:20,800
was like, it was pretty easy
to work myself into a shoot a little

910
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:24,079
bit where I'm like I get fixated. I'm like a couple of pieces of

911
01:05:24,119 --> 01:05:26,440
information. It's like, well that's
true. These other things just can't be

912
01:05:26,519 --> 01:05:28,920
true, right, So then we
I think we got too clever for it,

913
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,039
and yeah, yeah, I think
there was a big part of it.

914
01:05:32,199 --> 01:05:34,360
And its like we like, I
think we had to communicate even more

915
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:36,599
than we were like we were.
We were saying a lot and I think

916
01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:40,519
we had to get very specific about
all the stuff that we were discussing,

917
01:05:40,679 --> 01:05:43,880
and we got really caught up on
like we like misunderstood like oh, there's

918
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,480
two sets of like foot prints,
right, and then we thought we met,

919
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:49,079
We thought I met there was four
impressions. I was like, no,

920
01:05:49,239 --> 01:05:51,480
there's just two. Like, well, that makes it very clear because

921
01:05:51,519 --> 01:05:54,679
we were stuck on that for a
while. We who broke into bake Well

922
01:05:54,719 --> 01:05:57,960
that was kind of obvious and yes, right, like hindsight, it's completely

923
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,199
obviously it's like, oh those are
that's one set with two different imprints.

924
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,320
Yes, so but that that look
at it, that's that was one thing.

925
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:05,800
It was the what was the other
guys? Well, there was this

926
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:12,079
whole thing with the priest and the
priest's daughter. Yeah, and I don't

927
01:06:12,079 --> 01:06:15,239
know those were red hering. Those
were But then there was also like a

928
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,719
mystery box at the end, like
oh, you didn't discover the other secret

929
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:21,199
mystery, right, sure, but
maybe that was that, but it wasn't

930
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:24,960
uncovered like the truth of like what
really happened there. But in terms of

931
01:06:25,039 --> 01:06:27,320
like the core stuff that we were
trying to solve, like that we were

932
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,920
tasked with solving that. People didn't
see the upf what this is is like

933
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,760
a four player co op wild West
puzzle adventure games. So we're all walking

934
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:39,000
around trying to figure out a mystery
in this wild West town, and we

935
01:06:39,159 --> 01:06:43,039
talked to people to collect information,
and then we all have individual our characters.

936
01:06:43,079 --> 01:06:46,280
There's four characters. They have individual
abilities that might get you something that

937
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:50,079
the other characters can't get. Like
Jan had the the forensic kit, right,

938
01:06:50,199 --> 01:06:53,760
so you could actually look at the
at the footprints and stuff. And

939
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:57,119
then Dan had a gun. Yeah, and I had a lock pick,

940
01:06:57,199 --> 01:06:59,719
and there were like the one door
that was locked. The lady never left

941
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:00,760
it so I can never use it. So I'm like, yeah, okay,

942
01:07:01,079 --> 01:07:04,639
yeah, that was weird. I
really like that. I did,

943
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:08,119
I really do. I liked it
a lot as well. I think maybe

944
01:07:08,199 --> 01:07:13,119
that's why I'm particularly frustrated, because
I feel like we were playing it correctly

945
01:07:13,239 --> 01:07:15,960
within the rules. And another thing
we should mention is like, as you

946
01:07:16,119 --> 01:07:20,679
talk to characters, you can ask
those characters about other characters in the world.

947
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:25,440
And the neat thing is evidence you
find as well, right, And

948
01:07:25,559 --> 01:07:30,920
the neat thing is if someone say, if Mike goes and unlocks a character

949
01:07:30,039 --> 01:07:34,800
to talk to, I who I
myself can talk to the existing person I'm

950
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:40,639
talking to about the person Mike just
discovered. So the cooperative nature besides like

951
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:44,760
coming together at the end of each
day to figure out the specific task or

952
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:47,800
goal is like, okay, like
we're all spread, we all split up

953
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:53,599
to find different pieces of evidence,
different key characters and everything. And hey,

954
01:07:53,639 --> 01:07:56,480
I think it's a good Cowboy game. I guess yeah. I had

955
01:07:56,519 --> 01:08:00,000
a good time with it. Uh
last game I have here on the list.

956
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:03,559
I feel like it is the thing
that is going to haunt us this

957
01:08:03,719 --> 01:08:08,360
year. Oh, going to be
the thing that haunt us Mike, You've

958
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:13,519
been putting in time apparently in Balder's
Gate three. Yeah, Well, I'm

959
01:08:13,559 --> 01:08:15,520
just I kind of had some other
things done. And even though there's these

960
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:20,079
other games coming out, I made
a decision like, look, I've done

961
01:08:20,159 --> 01:08:24,800
with Starfield and some of these other
things, I need to play through boulders

962
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:27,239
Gate three. I think it's going
to be very important for Game of the

963
01:08:27,319 --> 01:08:30,000
Year stuff. I really liked it
when I started it, but then just

964
01:08:30,079 --> 01:08:32,439
got to strike my things. So
I'm making like this this effort I want

965
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:35,319
to say to at least get back
into it. There's always weird when you

966
01:08:35,359 --> 01:08:38,960
stopped playing a game for like a
month to get back into it. But

967
01:08:39,039 --> 01:08:42,079
once I did, it was just
pretty easy for me to be like,

968
01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:45,640
Oh, this is the game I
want to be playing. Actually it has

969
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,920
some of the most just like time
is fast forwarding while I'm playing this game.

970
01:08:49,039 --> 01:08:53,920
I really did spend just most of
my weekend playing Bolter's Gate three out

971
01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:56,880
of my time yesterday after work,
I guess I have to worry. I'll

972
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,239
do some other things and then you
know, after work, I'll maybe go

973
01:08:59,279 --> 01:09:00,680
out and get some grow trees or
something. Then I was just by the

974
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:02,640
time I was done playing it was
one I was like, oh, I

975
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:06,359
guess I better eat something. And
the go to bed that wasn't planned really

976
01:09:06,399 --> 01:09:12,319
well. It's so dense and that's
that's kind of like what I'm figuring out

977
01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:15,479
when I'm I'm trying to figure out
what about Starfield didn't really resonate with me.

978
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:19,199
I like that density and these kind
of RPGs where everywhere I go there

979
01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:24,880
is something not only just like maybe
interesting, but definitely interesting, like in

980
01:09:25,039 --> 01:09:28,800
my face interesting, like a narrator
is gonna pop up and tell me why

981
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:31,800
it's interesting. The three people with
me are gonna talk about while it's interesting

982
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:36,720
and maybe offered to have sex with
me. So yeah, there was at

983
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:40,479
one point, like I like I
finished this big question and then there was

984
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:44,600
a party at my camp. Everyone
at that party wanted to get it on

985
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:47,760
with me, everybody across the board, and if they didn't, they still

986
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,239
talked about why they would. I'd
just like say hi, They're like,

987
01:09:50,359 --> 01:09:53,600
yeah, you don't. You didn't
agree with me enough, so we're not

988
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,199
gonna have sex tonight. Just to
be clear. I was like, okay,

989
01:09:57,119 --> 01:10:01,039
well, I have a nice time. I'm going to play this right

990
01:10:01,079 --> 01:10:05,079
now. By guys. Man,
there's banging in this What about like like

991
01:10:05,359 --> 01:10:10,279
kissing. Oh, there's a little
sweet like kissing, but like also some

992
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:15,000
banging. Mostly it's just raw fucking
that's what it's about. And like the

993
01:10:15,399 --> 01:10:18,039
combat was like a little tough for
me at first because I don't have a

994
01:10:18,119 --> 01:10:21,760
lot of just pure D and D
experience. But I'm really getting my grip

995
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:25,279
on that. You know, what
I love is hand trips. You love

996
01:10:25,359 --> 01:10:27,720
can trips. I do love can
trips. It took me a lot to

997
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,840
learn that cantrips are just spells that
don't have charge slots. But that's what

998
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:34,319
those are abilities. I thought those
were the sharp things you step on me

999
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:39,520
too. I don't know why they're
called cantrips, to be clear, non

1000
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:47,079
invitation to tell me why, everybody, but I love leveling up in this

1001
01:10:47,199 --> 01:10:51,119
game because you actually don't level up
much, like I just got level five,

1002
01:10:51,239 --> 01:10:54,880
I think, and I'm twenty five
hours in. That's Harry D and

1003
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:58,119
D. The D and D.
Most d D campaigns top out of twelve,

1004
01:10:58,119 --> 01:11:00,439
even though you can go up to
twenty, because after like thirteen to

1005
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,039
twenty, it's like, oh,
you're God of the universe. That's what

1006
01:11:02,239 --> 01:11:08,600
spells are. Each level up is
so impactful, Like leveling up feels so

1007
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:12,600
good because you get a ton of
stuff. You get so much stronger each

1008
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,880
time you level up. It really
is like glorious to level up in this

1009
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:19,800
game. It feels so good again, like not to like compare boards get

1010
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:25,039
through to other games constantly, but
yeah, but like it. There's like

1011
01:11:25,079 --> 01:11:27,880
a lot of games you level up
and it's like, okay, yeah,

1012
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:32,560
nothing change, nothing, nothing changed
anything. It's an empty level. I

1013
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:35,439
feel like even see if stars actually
extend you with the level up. I

1014
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:39,520
like it there too, Like again, I'm going to the end game level

1015
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,640
twenty. That's pretty good. Actually, I don't think I need to be

1016
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:46,079
level eighty because I played a game
for fifteen hours. Actually, I'm with

1017
01:11:46,239 --> 01:11:48,840
you. I'm with you, Mike. We should get rid of levels in

1018
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:53,359
video games. Well no, I
like levels, like no, no,

1019
01:11:54,239 --> 01:11:57,640
I love levels. I'm a little
CHAIRPG boy, but there's too many levels.

1020
01:11:57,880 --> 01:11:59,880
Give me a bun just so I
can get that little taste, you

1021
01:12:00,079 --> 01:12:03,119
know, little taste to level up, little levels. Level inflation, like

1022
01:12:03,199 --> 01:12:08,840
the inflation of levels mean something,
and I don't have these empty levels.

1023
01:12:09,039 --> 01:12:11,880
Play a ton of this. I
just got to Act two, so oh

1024
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:15,359
yeah that's Act one. Yeah,
it's super beefy. The end of Act

1025
01:12:15,399 --> 01:12:17,920
one really fun. There's this whole
thing with this forge you can discover and

1026
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:21,800
you're discovering molds for the forge the
whole time, and then you're like,

1027
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:25,760
you can find some mythral veins,
so you go off the beaten path and

1028
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,560
you can make some cool equipment.
It's like this really neat boss there,

1029
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:32,279
and it's like, man, this
is just all like optional stuff I don't

1030
01:12:32,359 --> 01:12:35,960
have to do, but it feels
incredible. I get it, Like the

1031
01:12:36,239 --> 01:12:41,159
hype is real. I completely understand
why this is the game for a lot

1032
01:12:41,239 --> 01:12:44,800
of people. Mike, I want
to play this before the end of the

1033
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:45,760
year. I got like, I
I got my trip coming up. I

1034
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,399
will be taking some stuff with me
to play games, because that's part of

1035
01:12:48,399 --> 01:12:50,880
it's just like relaxing kind of doing
it. What I want to get,

1036
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:54,680
Like, I want to start again
in this game because my save right now

1037
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:58,600
has a block lessner blocks. Why
would you want to restart that? I

1038
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:00,359
think my Friends is fun, but
your Friends is fine. But if you

1039
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:03,680
really like expect to play through this
game, you gotta go it right.

1040
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,880
And really it's store fun golfers.
But what I'm looking forward you to like

1041
01:13:08,279 --> 01:13:13,640
pointers, pointers give me. It's
something that that shouldn't and it's a privilege

1042
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:17,039
that we get play started on stream
and make chat help you, because that's

1043
01:13:17,079 --> 01:13:20,199
what I think. I was like, I don't really understand how magic works

1044
01:13:20,239 --> 01:13:23,479
in these games, and then they
explained it to me. I was like,

1045
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:28,359
okay, thank you that this all
makes a good bit more sense.

1046
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,399
Don't be afraid of the long rest
like each because you know when you use

1047
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:34,560
up level slots, they're gone until
you do a long rest. You need

1048
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:39,600
to spend resources. I was like, should I be like maximizing this?

1049
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:43,159
Should I be trying to get through
some battles without that? Pretty much?

1050
01:13:43,279 --> 01:13:45,720
No, whenever you get into a
big battle, just go do a long

1051
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,439
rest, get all your spokes's back. You're gonna get enough resources. That's

1052
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:53,279
not going to be that big of
a problem. It's you can hold quite

1053
01:13:53,319 --> 01:13:56,640
a lot. So don't be too
afraid of picking up maybe not like those

1054
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,720
stupidest junk like don't pick up a
spoon, but anytime you see a sword,

1055
01:14:00,239 --> 01:14:01,640
pick it up and go sell it
somewhere. Because you can hold,

1056
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:04,680
especially amongst the four people, you
can hold quite a bit. You can

1057
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:10,199
get a lot of gold. You'll
be buying plenty of magical items. And

1058
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,600
I guess the other thing like as
exciting as all the spells and stuff are,

1059
01:14:14,039 --> 01:14:15,960
it's definitely worth having at least one. Sometimes I wonder if I should

1060
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:19,399
have two just straight up bruisers,
just people that can go in and smash

1061
01:14:19,439 --> 01:14:24,159
people with a sword. That really
is where a lot of my damage it's

1062
01:14:24,199 --> 01:14:26,560
coming from. I don't know if
that's if I'm correct in that, but

1063
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:30,319
that's what it seems like to me. Do you have a Bard? I

1064
01:14:30,399 --> 01:14:33,279
do have a Bard, actually,
because I rolled a cleric and like,

1065
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:38,800
one of the first people you meet
is shadow Heart, and she's hot and

1066
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:41,319
I wanted her in my party,
but she was also barred. I was

1067
01:14:41,319 --> 01:14:45,399
like, but you can reroll even
the other characters, So I made her

1068
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:46,960
a Bard instead. So I was
like, okay, this makes sense.

1069
01:14:48,399 --> 01:14:50,960
Yeah, so I have her,
I have the Wizard Gale, and then

1070
01:14:51,039 --> 01:14:56,680
I have Carlac the Devil Mommy,
who's a barbarian, I think, but

1071
01:14:56,800 --> 01:14:59,920
you know, just smash her.
Isn't she racist? What kind of songs

1072
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,039
this in a small town or whatever? Like? Oh, shadow Heart?

1073
01:15:03,159 --> 01:15:06,479
Yeah, well she's Look, look
I'm gonna fix her. She's got some

1074
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:13,319
issues the wrong crowd. It never
works out. That's okay, because I'm

1075
01:15:13,359 --> 01:15:15,439
also with Carla I'm you know,
I'm really Oh you're playing in the field,

1076
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:17,840
is what you're doing exactly, And
they're okay with that. They even

1077
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:20,399
Carla even says like, I see
that you're with shadow Heart. That's fine,

1078
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:27,359
just save a little for me,
sure, think Carla, God,

1079
01:15:27,399 --> 01:15:31,119
you're such a player. I know. Oh no, this is it's fun.

1080
01:15:31,239 --> 01:15:39,640
It's gonna it's gonna unearthed, scumbag
jan I think. Oh anyway,

1081
01:15:40,119 --> 01:15:43,439
uh grub. There's a bunch of
games coming out, as we've said,

1082
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:47,560
yeah, October, in October specifically, it's kind of stacked with them.

1083
01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:51,279
Yes, you know, I'm gonna
put this so I already did already,

1084
01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:56,439
like Carlack, Yeah, there it
is. Uh. Lamp Player League just

1085
01:15:56,479 --> 01:16:00,359
came out. This is that like
Indiana Jones looking strategy tie game. I

1086
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:04,319
kind of wild check that out.
But apparently it's like so so buggy,

1087
01:16:04,359 --> 01:16:08,520
at least on Xbox. I know
people played it and they're like my Xbox

1088
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:12,640
crash like forty times playing it,
and Jesse mentioned he played it for thirty

1089
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,880
hours. Ten hours of that was
progress because that's how much time he lost.

1090
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:20,119
Maybe skip over Lamp Lighters League for
now until it gets a few improvements.

1091
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:25,079
Dis Guy seven is out. I've
never tried the dis Guy at games.

1092
01:16:25,119 --> 01:16:28,279
I like tactics games, so I'm
like, maybe I should try check

1093
01:16:28,279 --> 01:16:30,199
it out, but I've never really
should a chance. You really just like

1094
01:16:30,319 --> 01:16:33,039
be like this Guy is seven.
That's my first one. I feel like

1095
01:16:33,319 --> 01:16:39,560
the story matters feels weird. I
think I would probably be fine, but

1096
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:42,399
I know why people feel that way, Like, definitely, we should become

1097
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:48,600
John the Arc people instead remember those
that'll be our thing. We'll be John

1098
01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:53,800
the Ark Boys Assassins screen mirage is
out in two days. That is so

1099
01:16:54,079 --> 01:16:58,119
crazy. That's messed up. They
shouldn't Why why they do that. Front

1100
01:16:58,159 --> 01:17:00,359
Mission to remake is also out in
two days. War Group two is out

1101
01:17:00,399 --> 01:17:04,279
in two days. All the all
the Front Mission people that I've heard from

1102
01:17:04,319 --> 01:17:08,239
say basically wait for Front Mission three. That's when the series gets pretty good.

1103
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:11,199
I don't think we have to worry
about Front Mission two. Don't worry

1104
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:14,319
War Groove two. I liked War
Group one a little bit, I didn't

1105
01:17:14,359 --> 01:17:16,000
love it. I bet they figured
out a lot of the stuff with War

1106
01:17:16,079 --> 01:17:19,840
Groove two. I remember like moving
the guys across the map every single mission,

1107
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:21,520
where it's like, okay, now, we killed everyone over here.

1108
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:24,760
Now we gotta go all the way
over here and take four turns to do

1109
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,720
it. I bet they figured that
stuff out this that that usually is what

1110
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:30,720
happens with these tactics games. Shout
outs to war Groove two from my fantasy

1111
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:34,880
Metacritical League because it got me some
points. Thank you did. Really,

1112
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:39,960
Oh reviews are how are people?
How are people liking it? Yeah?

1113
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:43,439
I think it's like an eighty six
Metacritic or something like. That's really good.

1114
01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,840
Obviously I have it opened here.
War Groove eight four eighty four,

1115
01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:53,479
So yeah, land Lighter League looks
really good. That's about really good.

1116
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:57,920
But rud really like it. But
sixty three yeah, and that all the

1117
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:03,560
bus it's already I guess, yeah, bug I do like that. Mike

1118
01:18:04,119 --> 01:18:09,199
use that it's good. Oh sixty
three for Xbox, seventy six for PC.

1119
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:12,119
That means okay, but it's just
a fun word to say. It's

1120
01:18:12,119 --> 01:18:15,600
a funny word. That's a funny
word. You know, it's another funny

1121
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:19,399
word. And then we'll get back
for October games. No it is,

1122
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:28,920
but okay, okay, sure,
no, okay, it's good of a

1123
01:18:29,079 --> 01:18:32,239
vulgar gross word. Well, it
depends in the context. Yeah all right,

1124
01:18:32,279 --> 01:18:38,159
Grob, what like detect the Pikachu
returns? October six San, Any

1125
01:18:38,239 --> 01:18:43,479
chance any play this three days?
Why? I know? Are you?

1126
01:18:44,039 --> 01:18:46,760
Are you that interested in it?
Yes? I love mysteries and pie Kachu?

1127
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,720
Okay perfect? I love those six
too, And yet I could not

1128
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:53,880
care less. I don't know why, really, Jem, maybe we should

1129
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:56,199
play this on stream. I would
like to like see like the beginning of

1130
01:18:56,279 --> 01:18:59,359
this game. This is gonna be
rich coming from the Disney Adult but I

1131
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:00,520
like, look at I'm like,
oh, that's a game for babies.

1132
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:08,000
Oh my god, I know it's
toxic. It's toxic. I know the

1133
01:19:08,079 --> 01:19:11,399
cheese pizza video games that we're trying
to get the cheese pizza. Where's the

1134
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:15,319
pepperoni? Where's the fucking pepperoni in
this game? Where is the spicy kick?

1135
01:19:16,199 --> 01:19:21,479
Forts of Motorsports October tenth. Total
Total War Pharaohs coming October eleventh.

1136
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:24,840
Another game I got in my Fantasy
Critic league. I need that to do

1137
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:27,399
well if I have a shot of
first place. I'm skipping a lot of

1138
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:30,279
these. By the way, up, honk I Star Rails coming to PlayStation

1139
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:33,960
on October eleventh. What a way
to celebrate my birthday. Yeah, the

1140
01:19:34,079 --> 01:19:36,399
arch control you on switch actually got
delayed. So no, what is it

1141
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:39,800
saying to have the word hawk in
a game like that? I'm just gonna

1142
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:45,880
say, honkers. What about The
Fallen thirteen Lords of the followed by the

1143
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:48,159
Way, a sequel to a game
called Lords of the Fallen. It's just

1144
01:19:48,239 --> 01:19:53,199
a crazy thing to do. Uh, SpongeBob SquarePants. The Cosmic Shake is

1145
01:19:53,239 --> 01:19:56,279
October sixteen, it's been out.
Does that come in a new platform?

1146
01:19:56,359 --> 01:19:59,800
Okay, yeah, new platform?
Thank you it they kind of come and

1147
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,279
oh I can't get track of those
ones. Yeah. Then we get the

1148
01:20:02,319 --> 01:20:09,880
Sonic Superstars October seventeenth. That Hellboy
game on October eighteenth. Cavern of Dreams

1149
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:13,199
is this in sixty four looking platformer
game. It looks great And I'm not

1150
01:20:13,279 --> 01:20:16,279
gonna ask a code for this because
that comes October nineteenth. Seventh Guest VR

1151
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:20,359
is October nineteenth. Let's see.
He and I thought. I thought nope.

1152
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:24,800
I watched my brother play Eleventh Hour, a sequel Seventh Guests, and

1153
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:26,760
I was like, well, this
is the scariest thing in the war.

1154
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:32,520
Now it's nothing. Gargoyles Remastered is
October nineteenth. Oh, John Drake will

1155
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:39,800
will remaster Gargoyles, but not Quack
himself will do it. Yes, Yes,

1156
01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:45,520
Hot Wheels Unleashed two Turbo Charged this
is October nineteenth. Then Spider Man

1157
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:48,439
two October twentieth, Super Mario Brothers
Wonder the same day. Oh that's insane.

1158
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:53,000
That days insane. What are you
doing? That's great day? Middle

1159
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:58,039
Gear Solid Master Collection Volume one four
days later on October twenty four. Ghost

1160
01:20:58,119 --> 01:21:01,079
Runner two is October twenty six,
Alan Goest Runner two, You gotta get

1161
01:21:01,119 --> 01:21:04,399
out of there. Runner two is
a day later, October twenty seven.

1162
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:06,720
Runner two, You gotta get out
of there? What are you doing?

1163
01:21:08,079 --> 01:21:12,079
Yeah? For your own safety.
A Sports UFC is October twenty seventh.

1164
01:21:12,159 --> 01:21:15,560
Toussant that climbing game that I really
enjoyed the Yeah, that was Halloween Day.

1165
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:24,560
That's coming. That is that's a
crazy busy months And that's just October.

1166
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:27,560
That's nothing that's come out so far. There will be more stuff in

1167
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:30,199
November, but October very very can't
be as bad, right, No way,

1168
01:21:30,319 --> 01:21:33,640
No, it's because it's there's like
RBG and a call of duty,

1169
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:36,399
right, like yeah, there's I
think there's more stuff now there's more,

1170
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:41,359
but like I damage a city.
Skylines two is October twenty fourth. Did

1171
01:21:41,399 --> 01:21:43,039
I say that? I don't know? Get out of there, say,

1172
01:21:43,079 --> 01:21:45,399
Skyline two, what are you doing? Get out of this, Get out

1173
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:47,319
of there. Come on December.
It will be fine. City Skylines two,

1174
01:21:47,439 --> 01:21:51,800
go to December. You will do
great December. But these schemes,

1175
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:58,319
yes, swimming in the deep ends
there, rowing in the deep. Yeah,

1176
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:08,399
exactly that thanks Adel. October it
all right. The problem is I

1177
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,279
didn't play it. I haven't played
I have no time to play it.

1178
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:18,079
Uh, holy smokes, please stop. Holy smokes. Said I didn't know

1179
01:22:18,239 --> 01:22:24,720
music. See I got music that
I'm seeing. Amount of games we can't

1180
01:22:25,039 --> 01:22:27,800
and dont these nuts. I don't
even know what that means. I don't

1181
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:32,159
know one does, but it's provocative. Uh it's great, bug bug,

1182
01:22:33,119 --> 01:22:36,239
I need I need another cup of
Joe. I'm gonna go make it,

1183
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:43,159
and then we'll go talk about video
game news right after this quick freaking break.

1184
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:46,119
It's gonna be all good things.
I'm sure I'm talking. Oh no,

1185
01:22:47,079 --> 01:22:50,880
all right, we'll see you soon. This show is brought to you

1186
01:22:51,119 --> 01:22:55,720
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1187
01:22:55,760 --> 01:23:00,560
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1188
01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:03,159
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1189
01:23:03,199 --> 01:23:08,960
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giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and
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1201
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handsome, handsome podcasts on the Internet. Before we get to the news,

1202
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:03,399
Jeff Grubb, I just want to
I just want to list one more grievance

1203
01:24:03,439 --> 01:24:09,760
with Disneyland. Please, it's more
coffee everywhere. Come on, that's it.

1204
01:24:10,159 --> 01:24:12,680
That's all I want. Yeah,
if you're if you're not gonna allow

1205
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:15,720
us to do the hard drugs,
make the legal drugs more readily available.

1206
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:18,560
Like there's that cartoon of like Donald
Duck, like shaking and holding the cup

1207
01:24:18,600 --> 01:24:21,680
of coffee. Just give me that
in Tunetown. Now, that's a good

1208
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:26,000
cartoon. Like you have to have
the Starbucks or can you go to one

1209
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:30,199
of the other coffee stands to get
your fix? I'm Jan, Yeah,

1210
01:24:30,319 --> 01:24:31,600
Please don't insult Jan in front of
me like that, Mike Manati. I

1211
01:24:31,760 --> 01:24:35,279
was about to bring my own packets
of Instant into the park and just have

1212
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:39,680
your third wave Instant coffee. You
mean, yes, my third wave ins

1213
01:24:40,039 --> 01:24:43,760
coffee. You have a brand of
Instant that you're okay with? Oh,

1214
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:47,279
that's the big thing. More third
Wave is all about Instant these days.

1215
01:24:47,319 --> 01:24:50,840
This is why I know Jeff Grubb
listens to me when I speak, because

1216
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:59,159
this is such a third way stupid
sentence to say from you. I know

1217
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:06,800
Jeff doesn't retain anything. I tell
them, who are you a third wave?

1218
01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:13,760
Okay, I'll bring I'll bring some
sampies over. It is instant coffee

1219
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:17,079
usually more like grainy than the non
instant. You just have to like stir

1220
01:25:17,199 --> 01:25:20,920
it better, is the problem.
Also, it generally will have a little

1221
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:27,359
bit more caffeine than your regular pour
over coffee. You. Yeah, it

1222
01:25:27,439 --> 01:25:31,560
doesn't bother me. It's choice,
y'all. But yeah, I don't know.

1223
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:34,560
Just have like a little coffee fountain
for all the adults. It is

1224
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:41,960
still being based dan that just because
instant. That doesn't need to change,

1225
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:48,840
all right. Jeff grab News,
Jeff grab News, This is the News

1226
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:56,199
with Jeff Kraf. All right,
everybody, I'm gonna need everybody. I'm

1227
01:25:56,199 --> 01:25:59,840
buckling. It is not a good
week for news. A lot of bum

1228
01:26:00,319 --> 01:26:03,359
stories that we are going to talk
about here. You're gonna notice a theme

1229
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:08,520
here pretty quickly. Fuckle up,
So fuckle up. Let's start with a

1230
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:12,600
little bit of breaking news. Twitch
has made another round of layoffs. I

1231
01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:15,000
picked this one from Games Industry Dots
where which is actually most of the wording's

1232
01:26:15,039 --> 01:26:17,520
going to come from them, so
credit to them. Twitch has laid off

1233
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:21,039
employees for the second time this year. Today's cuts were reported by Today off

1234
01:26:21,159 --> 01:26:26,880
streams Zach Bousey, who said the
cuts were significantly smaller than the March round,

1235
01:26:27,079 --> 01:26:30,439
which included more than four hundred people. A source familiar with the situation

1236
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:34,479
told games Industry dot is that today's
layoffs were limited to the Customer Experience organization,

1237
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:39,560
as the company shifts to rely more
on outsourcing vendors to fulfill those roles.

1238
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,920
The March cuts came as part of
plans from from a parent company,

1239
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:45,760
Amazon to reduce payroll by nine thousand
employees. Obviously, this is still a

1240
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:50,399
part a kind of of that overall
effort. These are the I don't know

1241
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:54,000
when I read something like this,
this is a company trying to cut costs.

1242
01:26:54,199 --> 01:26:56,520
And that's why, you know,
I think a lot of these stories

1243
01:26:56,520 --> 01:26:59,159
we're gonna talk about, you're gonna
hear QA is where they're cutting, and

1244
01:26:59,239 --> 01:27:04,159
you're gonna hear some like customer service
and customer Experience. These are relatively easy

1245
01:27:04,239 --> 01:27:06,680
cuts to make if you're a company
looking to save a bunch of money by

1246
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:11,840
getting rid of payroll, and then
there are services out there where you can

1247
01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:15,119
outsource it. And so these companies
ruthless as they are are doing exactly that

1248
01:27:15,319 --> 01:27:18,359
why they continue to feeling the need
to cut cost. There's a lot of

1249
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:24,880
uncertainty out there still, but mostly
it's just poor decisions by management, and

1250
01:27:25,039 --> 01:27:27,800
it's it's hitting the people who actually
do the work as always, that's going

1251
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,359
to be the thing that's happening with
all these stories. For sure, I

1252
01:27:30,439 --> 01:27:34,760
feel like a lot of the uncertainty
is also just caused pipes of folks at

1253
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:41,119
the top. Yes, I mean
there's more examples of that in certain situations

1254
01:27:41,159 --> 01:27:46,680
than others, But like I mean, across the board, who really should

1255
01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:50,359
be blamed for the financial situation of
a company or not having a vision about

1256
01:27:50,399 --> 01:27:54,319
what to do in the future,
which is another common thing across all these

1257
01:27:54,359 --> 01:27:59,000
companies. That's the people at the
top, and we don't hear ever about

1258
01:27:59,079 --> 01:28:03,119
them taking cuts. I suppose that
they would argue that a lot of their

1259
01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:08,159
income comes from the value of the
stock, so if they are doing a

1260
01:28:08,199 --> 01:28:10,920
good job, the market will determine
that, and if they're not doing a

1261
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:13,159
good job, the stock will go
down and they do get a pay cut.

1262
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:15,520
It's like, no, you're still
getting that salary. There's still a

1263
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:18,479
lot of stuff where you are definitely
getting paid. There are infinite amount of

1264
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:26,720
ways to manipulate that as well manipulating
that exactly like let's let's be realistic.

1265
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:31,880
Yep, yep, absolutely, it's
uh it regardless of like the machinations of

1266
01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:35,880
it, the appearance of it is
people at the bottom getting hurt, people

1267
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:41,159
the top getting away scott free and
continuing to be in charge. So I

1268
01:28:41,159 --> 01:28:44,079
guess not at all these companies,
and these companies are seeing executives leave.

1269
01:28:44,199 --> 01:28:47,960
We'll talk about a lot of that, not necessarily related to that, though

1270
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:53,800
seemingly Jim Ryan is leaving PlayStation,
Jim Ryan is stepping down. It's sorry,

1271
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:56,840
y yeah, thank you. I
appreciate that. Okay, Okay,

1272
01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:59,960
Jeff, let the tears are.
I said we'd have an emotional breakdown today.

1273
01:29:00,079 --> 01:29:02,079
This is I just I don't know
what I'm in space. Uh.

1274
01:29:02,399 --> 01:29:08,600
The Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO is leaving
in March twenty twenty four. Hioke to

1275
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:13,279
Toki, who is basically everything at
the C suite level of Sony, is

1276
01:29:13,319 --> 01:29:16,680
going to take over as the interim
CEO in UH in March. For now,

1277
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:21,239
though he is immediately taking over as
Chairman of Sony after Interactive Entertainment,

1278
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:27,600
basically to help guide the guide this
this role transition into a new person that

1279
01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:30,000
will take over at some point in
the future. Ryan said that he didn't

1280
01:29:30,079 --> 01:29:34,399
like working in North America and living
in Europe. That's his sighted reads for

1281
01:29:34,479 --> 01:29:38,920
no longer being there. Not a
ton of reason to doubt that he's always

1282
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:41,479
been a big europe first guy.
A weird thing to say, but that's

1283
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:45,479
true. He loves Europe and uh
and and so he Yeah, I kind

1284
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:47,840
of buy him on that. But
if I try to, like look at

1285
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:50,920
anything else that's happened here, you
know, the next story is going to

1286
01:29:50,960 --> 01:29:55,680
be they're they're cutting jobs at some
of these studios. Even I wonder if

1287
01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:59,960
PlayStation is at a point where he's
done everything he can without having to get

1288
01:30:00,079 --> 01:30:03,920
to the like the hard decisions of
oh well, let's just spend less money

1289
01:30:04,119 --> 01:30:06,640
and let's see what that looks like. So far he has done like,

1290
01:30:08,239 --> 01:30:13,840
let let us get very aggressive about
raising prices, let's get let's get money

1291
01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:15,520
wherever we can. He's done a
lot of those, made a lot of

1292
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:19,279
those decisions, and for PlayStation,
very very healthy. But it's inside of

1293
01:30:19,319 --> 01:30:25,119
Sony Corporation that overall is not as
healthy, not nearly as healthy. And

1294
01:30:25,479 --> 01:30:29,399
PlayStation is the shining jewel there,
so PlayStation couldn't leave any nickel or dime

1295
01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:32,640
on accounted for. They had to
go after everything. Now it feels like,

1296
01:30:34,239 --> 01:30:36,239
you know, the wind is blowing
in a direction of a lot of

1297
01:30:36,279 --> 01:30:39,319
these companies being like, okay,
we've done a lot of that stuff.

1298
01:30:39,359 --> 01:30:42,680
Now it's time to cut jobs.
And I wonder, and this is me

1299
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:45,680
speculating, I wonder if Jim Ryan's
like, I don't want that to be

1300
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:49,720
my legacy. I watched the PlayStation
five. I you know, built PlayStation.

1301
01:30:49,760 --> 01:30:55,680
You're up into a strong juggernaut,
and now I'm getting out while the

1302
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:58,079
getting's good. I don't know,
do you guys buy that? What do

1303
01:30:58,119 --> 01:31:00,640
you guys think? Yeah? No, the execs are always looking for kind

1304
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:05,800
of a high point to leave on
Reggie Nintendo after the Switch launched, Bob

1305
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:10,920
Iger left Disney the first time after
his launch of Disney Plus and the Fox

1306
01:31:11,119 --> 01:31:13,680
deal went through, It's like,
all right, now victory great, right,

1307
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:15,800
nothing bad can ever happen again.
So, yeah, if you're looking

1308
01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:18,960
for a time to leave where almost
it seems like there's going to have to

1309
01:31:19,039 --> 01:31:23,680
be a little down period at some
point, almost a course correct. And

1310
01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:28,359
it seems like I could very easily
be coming. If you know one of

1311
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:32,159
your top studios is having layoffs of
its own and it's life service game,

1312
01:31:32,159 --> 01:31:35,439
maybe isn't going to work out.
Maybe that whole live service plan that you

1313
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:40,239
had seems a little rocky. Now, with the state of life service games

1314
01:31:40,239 --> 01:31:43,039
we've seen the last couple of months, this is probably the time to get

1315
01:31:43,079 --> 01:31:45,199
out, and I think we'll have
an opportunity to talk about like the live

1316
01:31:45,239 --> 01:31:48,520
service stuff across the board for all
these things here in a moment. What

1317
01:31:48,640 --> 01:31:54,000
Mike's referring to Naughty Dog is cutting
contract workers. Naughty Dog laid off at

1318
01:31:54,039 --> 01:31:58,520
least twenty five contract workers, mostly
in the QA department. No severance was

1319
01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:01,359
offered to these employees. And we'll
call them employees. They did not call

1320
01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:05,600
him employees. The multiplayers spinoff of
The Last of Us is also reportedly on

1321
01:32:05,760 --> 01:32:10,439
ice. It's not canceled, but
on ice. And I'll say, for

1322
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:14,000
a long time now, I've heard
that, like people would go look at

1323
01:32:14,039 --> 01:32:15,800
the game and they'd be like,
hey, Naughty Dog, it seems like

1324
01:32:15,880 --> 01:32:18,840
you're doing things your own way,
and that's going to be big and expensive

1325
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:23,920
and dangerous and risky with a live
service game, and Naughty dog just either

1326
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:29,239
didn't care or could not process that
that feedback and do anything actionable with it.

1327
01:32:29,439 --> 01:32:30,520
So this game has been in a
tough position for a long time.

1328
01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:33,039
Obviously, now we've heard the bunch. You went there and looked at it

1329
01:32:33,039 --> 01:32:35,399
and be like, you can't you
can't do We can't release this game as

1330
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:39,520
is. We got to do something
here, and that led to a game

1331
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:44,079
being put on ice. That's an
example of, hey, we are chasing

1332
01:32:44,159 --> 01:32:45,319
a trend. We're gonna put a
lot of money and effort into that,

1333
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:48,560
and it's and it's not even not
going to work out. It's not even

1334
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,600
gonna get the opportunity to work out, it seems like. And that is

1335
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:56,159
where I think a lot of the
uncertainty comes from. These companies have chased

1336
01:32:56,399 --> 01:33:00,680
trend after trend after trend, and
the only trend that really ever effectively worked

1337
01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:03,800
was free to play. It was
let's make games free to play because people

1338
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:06,600
like playing games and they hate spending
money. That's the one that's worked.

1339
01:33:06,640 --> 01:33:10,600
And now that is saturated, and
so they're looking for these other new things

1340
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:13,640
and they don't want to miss out
on the boat, and those boats people

1341
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,159
don't actually care about live service or
anything like that, Like, yeah,

1342
01:33:16,319 --> 01:33:19,279
some people, they definitely get into
those games, but no one's like I

1343
01:33:19,359 --> 01:33:23,359
can't wait to play the next live
service game. People are like I can't

1344
01:33:23,359 --> 01:33:26,159
wait to not pay money for the
next game I'm gonna play. That obviously

1345
01:33:26,319 --> 01:33:30,800
was effective, but I don't think
that there's any obvious trend now out there

1346
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:34,079
that has been untapped. And all
these companies are looking around and like borrowing

1347
01:33:34,119 --> 01:33:40,159
money is really expensive because of interest
rates. We I'm sure the industry overall

1348
01:33:40,199 --> 01:33:44,720
is pretty healthy, but we're not
necessarily sure that like growth is a sure

1349
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:47,279
thing. Like the next generation of
gamers they're playing roadblocks and they're playing all

1350
01:33:47,279 --> 01:33:48,920
these other things. Are we going
to be able to win them over to

1351
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:53,840
consoles? Even there's a lot of
question marks out I've been hearing nothing but

1352
01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:57,600
infinite growth. What are you talking
about? Yeah, And it's that's exactly

1353
01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:00,880
where like I think for all these
companies, they're looking around being like,

1354
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:04,079
we don't know how to actually put
up even come up with a plan right

1355
01:34:04,119 --> 01:34:09,079
now to convince investors that we know
how to accomplish that. That's and that's

1356
01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:12,520
the scary thing here, that's where
they're at. I think a lot of

1357
01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:15,680
these companies we're gonna also gonna keep
talking about have had successful games obviously PlayStation

1358
01:34:15,960 --> 01:34:20,600
very just unmitigated success. It is
just there is no caveat there to that

1359
01:34:20,760 --> 01:34:26,760
statement. Everything they've done is worked, and yet they're still not sure about

1360
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:29,399
the future, and that that's kind
of that's a strange place to be in.

1361
01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:32,640
I mean, this is the first
kind of cracking the armor for Naughty

1362
01:34:32,680 --> 01:34:36,359
Dog. It feels like since they've
been on the kind of uncharted way that's

1363
01:34:36,359 --> 01:34:40,720
starting forever, I guess it's kind
of mean. It's interesting to see it

1364
01:34:40,880 --> 01:34:44,800
comes even for them. Yeah,
and it's again I think they would be

1365
01:34:44,920 --> 01:34:48,159
like, well, it's it's just
the quay people. Yeah, well fuck

1366
01:34:48,239 --> 01:34:51,199
that. Fuck that. Yeah.
I think that. I think that we

1367
01:34:53,239 --> 01:34:57,319
these distinctions between like skill roles or
the people doing grunt work. It's like,

1368
01:34:57,439 --> 01:35:00,439
no, that this is the people
come to Naughty Dog fee they're part

1369
01:35:00,439 --> 01:35:03,199
of a team and QA is important
and now you're gonna probably start outsourcing that

1370
01:35:03,600 --> 01:35:11,560
something. Obviously you're doing that because
because you are more worried about future uncertainty

1371
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:14,600
than you are about this level of
quality that you've committed yourself for a very

1372
01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:16,279
long time. And it seems like
one of those things is going to pay,

1373
01:35:16,279 --> 01:35:18,479
and the thing that's gonna pay is
maybe the quality. Well, and

1374
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:21,800
it wasn't I assume that these are
all, you know, QA people who

1375
01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:27,399
are meant to work on the live
service game, and then because of people

1376
01:35:27,560 --> 01:35:30,119
in charge of making sure the live
service game would work or even release,

1377
01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:33,520
they messed up. So who's gonna
pay the price? Now? It's going

1378
01:35:33,560 --> 01:35:35,840
to be that people who are supposed
to do the QA for the game.

1379
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:41,840
Let's see, let's just uh,
actually, let's come back to this next

1380
01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:45,800
to the old public story Jim.
So let's skip down to h let's see

1381
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,439
actually, Creative Assembly Okay, let's
do that one real quick. Creative Assembly

1382
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:53,319
is canceling Hyenas and cutting jobs.
A Creative Assembly is confirmed that it will

1383
01:35:53,359 --> 01:35:58,000
be making redundancies following the cancelation of
Hyenas, which was their live service game

1384
01:35:58,079 --> 01:36:01,880
that they were making underneath Sega Creative
Assembly as a Sega studio. Sega announced

1385
01:36:01,880 --> 01:36:04,520
on Thursday that it was canceling the
multiplayer shooter, which was going to be

1386
01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:09,520
maybe an extraction kind of game.
People who've played it didn't seem too high

1387
01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:14,520
on it. Creative Assembly has begun
a redundancy redundancy consultation process in some areas

1388
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:17,760
of its UK operations, meaning it
was looking to cut jobs. Creative Assembly,

1389
01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:21,520
while will prioritize supporting its people at
every step, it says that the

1390
01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:25,760
cancelation of the game means that they
this is a major project that was getting

1391
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:28,920
funding and now probably they don't that
funding. It's not coming from anywhere.

1392
01:36:29,399 --> 01:36:33,279
This is maybe the most prime example
of you had a studio Creative Assembly that

1393
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:40,439
carried Sega on its back for a
decade straight with great PC releases, and

1394
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:44,119
now they were in operating in a
world where in order to get funding under

1395
01:36:44,119 --> 01:36:45,800
a publisher like Sega to be like, hey, we want to start a

1396
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:48,560
new project, Well, you know, can you make it a live service

1397
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:50,279
game? So like, fuck,
all right, I guess we'll go figure

1398
01:36:50,279 --> 01:36:54,279
out we're gonna make a live service
game extraction shooters. Well that will that

1399
01:36:54,399 --> 01:36:56,760
pitch get green light? Green light? I guess we could try that.

1400
01:36:56,920 --> 01:37:00,920
They tried, and then at Sega, like every other publish right now has

1401
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:04,840
sort of lost their taste for making
these big live service pushes, and Creative

1402
01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:09,880
Assembly has to pay that price.
A studio again that just was hitting home

1403
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:14,840
run after Home Run on PC for
Sega, completely unfair situation, and that's

1404
01:37:15,119 --> 01:37:17,840
this is happening everywhere and gaming right
now. Yeah, while Sega was doing

1405
01:37:17,960 --> 01:37:24,880
things like Sonic Oh six right,
create Assembly that was actually making hits on

1406
01:37:25,039 --> 01:37:29,439
PC this market, Sega really had
no idea about. Uh. Yeah,

1407
01:37:29,800 --> 01:37:32,720
they helped carry that company pretty quietly, but they hoped carry Sega. I

1408
01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:35,119
don't even know if there would be
a Sega if it wasn't for I don't

1409
01:37:35,159 --> 01:37:40,760
know, Creative Assembly. Yeah,
I was like, yeah, that turns

1410
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:43,079
out like, hey, Sega on
PC, that's a real thing, and

1411
01:37:43,119 --> 01:37:45,279
it's okay, what fuck all are
they? Are they doing anywhere else?

1412
01:37:45,439 --> 01:37:50,520
Nothing? So yeah, this is
that's an especially frustrating one. Uh But

1413
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:55,000
at the same time, like I'm
not suggesting, well, see through hyenas

1414
01:37:55,119 --> 01:37:58,760
make that work. Clearly that's not
an option either. These live service games

1415
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:04,239
were a bad idea in many cases. Were any of these things ever going

1416
01:38:04,279 --> 01:38:06,640
to turn into Fortnite? I think
all of us know, No, of

1417
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:13,079
course not right. Yeah, Yeah, Creative Assembly is putting out that Total

1418
01:38:13,159 --> 01:38:15,479
War Faraoh here pretty soon hopefully does
well for him, and they can probably

1419
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,880
be great. I'm sure the game's
gonna be good. You know, I'm

1420
01:38:17,880 --> 01:38:21,359
ready for because of the Metacritic league, but I mean I picked it because

1421
01:38:21,840 --> 01:38:27,039
those games people always there was a
pattern already established. You know, it's

1422
01:38:27,079 --> 01:38:30,279
fine, everyone makes a great city
for Total War. Absolutely, there we

1423
01:38:30,359 --> 01:38:34,319
go. All right, let's let's
do these other layoff stories. Epic is

1424
01:38:34,399 --> 01:38:39,760
laying off nearly nine hundred people Epic
Games, sixteen percent of its workforce,

1425
01:38:40,279 --> 01:38:44,279
it announced earlier this week. Two
thirds of the layoffs we're in teams outside

1426
01:38:44,319 --> 01:38:47,039
of core development, music market marketplace, Bandcape can't band came, excuse me?

1427
01:38:47,359 --> 01:38:53,000
And we's web services firms super awesome
have been divested from in terms of

1428
01:38:53,039 --> 01:38:55,880
Epics investment in them. They're like
getting they're selling them off to other people

1429
01:38:56,000 --> 01:39:00,520
or just spending them off on their
own. Uh, Media Tonic who made

1430
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:04,960
Fall guys, they got hit with
layoffs pretty significant. Yes, yeah,

1431
01:39:05,479 --> 01:39:09,159
that game is just again you would
look at it be like that is a

1432
01:39:09,199 --> 01:39:12,880
success. That is what you want
from that level live service games. It

1433
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:15,199
doesn't have to be the biggest thing, but is it the most popular it's

1434
01:39:15,239 --> 01:39:18,119
ever been and all of time at
this very moment. No, well shit,

1435
01:39:18,840 --> 01:39:23,680
yes, we got up and people's
lives and so what was Was it

1436
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:27,720
making money? Probably? But we
lost money doing the metaverse. We lost

1437
01:39:27,800 --> 01:39:33,119
money with all this other ship lost
money fighting Steam, we lost money fighting

1438
01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:38,000
in Google. And they lost money
because they spend all this time doing like

1439
01:39:38,119 --> 01:39:40,960
the Creator stuff in Fortnite, and
then they're now they're whining. Well,

1440
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:44,399
the people who use the Creator stuff
aren't spending as much money as the people

1441
01:39:44,439 --> 01:39:46,199
who just played. Even when they
do Fortnite, even when they do the

1442
01:39:46,199 --> 01:39:50,039
apparently the profit margins are way lower
than they were when they sold something in

1443
01:39:50,279 --> 01:39:55,479
Fortnite proper. It's like, it's
all this for what do you talk about?

1444
01:39:55,479 --> 01:39:58,640
It's so fucking insane. It doesn't
make any goddamn sense and anyone who

1445
01:39:58,680 --> 01:40:02,800
tries to defend it is full of
shit. Okay, yeah, no,

1446
01:40:03,079 --> 01:40:09,079
people will defend it. The people
who stand to benefit from the gross reduction

1447
01:40:09,159 --> 01:40:12,680
of staffing, like, they will
defend it right in the name. I've

1448
01:40:12,720 --> 01:40:15,960
had weirdos on Twitter defending it so
anymore cool? Yes? What? What?

1449
01:40:15,199 --> 01:40:19,600
What? Rocket fucking scientists talking to
you? They verified or verified?

1450
01:40:19,920 --> 01:40:30,239
Probably? Yeah, verified twice.
Okay, it's just like you. I

1451
01:40:30,640 --> 01:40:34,359
do not understand how we can walk
walk walk around this planet and be like

1452
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:39,960
epic is the most successful developer ever, Like, like, they have a

1453
01:40:40,039 --> 01:40:44,640
game that prints money, handled the
lottery, they won the lottery. Remember

1454
01:40:45,319 --> 01:40:50,479
remember what Fortnite was, Yeah exactly, it was right, Yeah, it

1455
01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:55,640
was run Yeah exactly, Like I
didn't work. We'll just copy that pub

1456
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:59,119
G thing. Oh we have the
biggest game ever. Now great, what

1457
01:40:59,199 --> 01:41:01,560
do we do now? Fuck if
I no, let's just throw money everywhere?

1458
01:41:01,680 --> 01:41:04,479
Well no, that's I think that's
exactly the thing. Their success was

1459
01:41:04,520 --> 01:41:09,119
an unoriginal idea. They turned Fortnite
into PUBG and they had the engine,

1460
01:41:09,159 --> 01:41:11,800
so they can make it very very, a very good version of that.

1461
01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:14,720
I'm not taking that away from it. But then they're like, well,

1462
01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:17,439
we have all this money, let's
do what we do best original ideas.

1463
01:41:17,680 --> 01:41:20,680
And they're like, all right,
let's go make a store like Valve.

1464
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:27,000
Oh shit, that's not working.
Let's take our games, or let's anger

1465
01:41:27,079 --> 01:41:29,840
Apple and Google so much that we're
not even allowed to have our games on

1466
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:33,000
mobile. So we're losing out on
all those that money for years and years

1467
01:41:33,079 --> 01:41:36,880
and years. And why because Tim
Sweeney has a bug up. It's his

1468
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:42,640
ass about this shit. Everyone else
has to deal with inconveniences in their life.

1469
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:45,279
Everyone else has to deal with.
You go to the store and that

1470
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:47,279
costs more to for me to pay
for it than it is for them to

1471
01:41:47,359 --> 01:41:50,840
produce. That's not fair. That's
a tax. It's not a fucking tax,

1472
01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:55,199
Tim Sweeney. It's a fee.
Everyone in life pays it. Why

1473
01:41:55,239 --> 01:41:58,479
are you the only weirdo who was
like, oh, this is an affront

1474
01:41:58,479 --> 01:42:00,479
to me, and I'm gonna go
out there and fight it and put up

1475
01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:04,840
goddamn cartoons. You're bad at this
cart doesn't merch. It's one thing if

1476
01:42:04,840 --> 01:42:09,039
you did just have infinite money,
but you clearly don't, because as soon

1477
01:42:09,079 --> 01:42:11,760
as you stop making as much money
you want it, you start laying people

1478
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:16,319
off. This motherfucker like doubled his
wealth in the last five years or something

1479
01:42:16,399 --> 01:42:23,279
insane like that. Right, I
don't understand how the whims of a psychopath

1480
01:42:23,920 --> 01:42:30,199
are then falling upon a thousand people
who work for this company. It drives

1481
01:42:30,239 --> 01:42:32,760
me fucking crazy and statement, yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry, just

1482
01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:38,119
saying like, I just I don't
understand how anyone can fucking stand there and

1483
01:42:38,199 --> 01:42:43,600
be like, the system is working. It's not fucking working. Doesn't work.

1484
01:42:43,760 --> 01:42:47,119
Is designed to fuck you over right, So just organize it. Works,

1485
01:42:47,359 --> 01:42:53,079
organizing works. Look around this this
year for labor. Look around it

1486
01:42:53,239 --> 01:42:57,159
works. It takes way too long. It takes way fucking too long,

1487
01:42:57,560 --> 01:43:02,920
but it obviously fucking works. Yeah, and Tim Swee's statement, I find

1488
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:05,680
this infuriating as well. For a
while now, we've been spending way more

1489
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:10,880
money than we earn investing in the
evolution of Epic and growing Fortnite as a

1490
01:43:10,960 --> 01:43:15,479
metaverse inspired ecosystem for creators. Long
I had long been optimistic that we could

1491
01:43:15,520 --> 01:43:18,760
power through this transition without layoffs,
but in retrospect, I see this was

1492
01:43:18,840 --> 01:43:24,079
unrealistic. While Fortnite is starting to
grow again, the growth is driven primarily

1493
01:43:24,159 --> 01:43:28,399
by creator content with significant revenue sharing, and this is a lower margin business

1494
01:43:28,439 --> 01:43:31,560
than we had had when Fortnite Battle
Royal took off and began funding our expansion.

1495
01:43:31,880 --> 01:43:34,960
Success with the creator ecosystem is a
great achievement, but it means a

1496
01:43:35,039 --> 01:43:40,319
major structural change to our economics.
Epic folks around the world have been making

1497
01:43:40,399 --> 01:43:44,239
ongoing efforts to reduce costs, including
moving to net zero hiring, which means

1498
01:43:44,359 --> 01:43:47,319
they have hire someone they have to
fire someone else, and cutting operating spend

1499
01:43:47,439 --> 01:43:51,600
on things like like marketing and events, but we still ended up far short

1500
01:43:51,640 --> 01:43:57,439
of our financial sustainability. We concluded
that layoffs are the only way and that

1501
01:43:57,640 --> 01:44:02,520
doing them now and on this scale
will stay our finances. Bullshit. Yeah,

1502
01:44:02,600 --> 01:44:04,439
it's it's a bunch, it's a
bunch of it's a load of horse

1503
01:44:04,479 --> 01:44:06,920
shit, is what it is.
It's uh. We we can look at

1504
01:44:06,960 --> 01:44:10,680
it from the outside, and no, this was not the only option.

1505
01:44:10,880 --> 01:44:15,079
The option was to be a sane
person from the beginning and and look at

1506
01:44:15,119 --> 01:44:18,359
what you have and build a sustainable
business for the people who made that possible

1507
01:44:18,399 --> 01:44:23,920
in the first place, which were
the employees, and not chase down every

1508
01:44:24,079 --> 01:44:27,680
single little thing that annoys Tim Sweeney. This is the worst example out of

1509
01:44:27,680 --> 01:44:30,199
all these companies, and it's just
so plainly obvious what happened here. You

1510
01:44:30,279 --> 01:44:34,760
know. The thing that that sucks
is the general gaming public probably won't won't

1511
01:44:34,800 --> 01:44:41,000
won't realize this, but like,
this is really soured enjoyment of a game

1512
01:44:41,079 --> 01:44:45,279
like Fortnite completely for me. Like
I don't feel good at all coming back

1513
01:44:45,319 --> 01:44:48,760
to it in a good chunk of
time. Uh. And I feel part

1514
01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:54,640
of the problem because I didn't cancel
it stupid Fortnite subscription for months and it

1515
01:44:54,760 --> 01:44:58,960
just feels it just feels terrible.
Tim Sweeney watched subscription. Yeah you know

1516
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:02,560
what, you I know you fucked
up when somehow Roadblocks is looking like the

1517
01:45:02,680 --> 01:45:06,319
lesser of two eas at that moment. Okay, that's how you know you'd

1518
01:45:06,319 --> 01:45:11,359
done fucked up, Tim Sweeney.
Watch out for any big air ducks above

1519
01:45:11,439 --> 01:45:14,600
you, homie, watch out,
stay in the fucking treaty, Tim Sweeney.

1520
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:21,840
Uh, yeah, this is what
happens from here for for Epic,

1521
01:45:21,920 --> 01:45:25,760
they probably they're gonna just keep making
a lot of money. They probably will

1522
01:45:26,079 --> 01:45:29,399
higher up again and then do lay
us again in the future. I really

1523
01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:34,159
don't expect the leadership of that company
to change their direction. But the idea

1524
01:45:34,399 --> 01:45:41,119
that you can make all of those
obvious mistakes and just baffling mistakes and then

1525
01:45:41,199 --> 01:45:44,239
go out there and say the only
way to deal with it is to fire

1526
01:45:44,319 --> 01:45:48,119
other people and not take responsibility yourself
up by taking to cut yourself some sort

1527
01:45:48,159 --> 01:45:54,039
of just any sort of gesture anything, anything, even a small not even

1528
01:45:54,079 --> 01:45:58,000
a small cut, not even the
pretense, not any for him. And

1529
01:45:58,079 --> 01:46:00,560
it's like we probably, like,
listen, if you still cut all those

1530
01:46:00,600 --> 01:46:02,600
jobs and you do some little gesture, yeah, we're still gonna we're still

1531
01:46:02,600 --> 01:46:08,079
gonna kind of criticize you. Absolutely, but something, something would be better

1532
01:46:08,119 --> 01:46:12,000
than those, Hey, Tim,
maybe maybe maybe take a pay cut,

1533
01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:17,520
maybe take Yeah, absolutely, it's
fucking let's just put the fucking games back

1534
01:46:17,600 --> 01:46:23,159
on iOS and Google hand me a
lot of money that probably pay for all

1535
01:46:23,239 --> 01:46:27,159
this. It would absolutely pay for
it. We're talking about Tim you literally

1536
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:32,239
literally his employees bailing him out by
sacrificing their their jobs. That's the bailout.

1537
01:46:32,399 --> 01:46:35,840
Everyone gets bailed out unless you are
at the bottom. You don't get

1538
01:46:35,880 --> 01:46:40,600
bailed out. You get fucked in
the face. Yep. Not even the

1539
01:46:40,680 --> 01:46:45,680
quick kind, not even the three, not even like bailer skate three.

1540
01:46:47,199 --> 01:46:49,520
All right, let's see here which
one of these stories I skipped? It

1541
01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:53,119
was at the Nights the Old Republic
one. Uh at well, actually no

1542
01:46:53,159 --> 01:46:58,000
one. Let's hit this other playoff
story. Team seventeen is cutting jobs.

1543
01:46:58,319 --> 01:47:01,560
Team seventeen is planning to lay off
around fifty employees. The layoffs will affect

1544
01:47:01,560 --> 01:47:05,399
the company's QA department. Michael Pattinson
is set to step down a CEO of

1545
01:47:05,439 --> 01:47:10,399
Team seventeen's publishing arm. Debbie Bestwick, the CEO of Team seventeen group,

1546
01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:13,880
is also planning to step down.
This is the latest in a stream of

1547
01:47:13,920 --> 01:47:17,159
mass laofs taking place across the games
industry this year. This is also one

1548
01:47:17,159 --> 01:47:20,479
where it's like the team seventeen is
the people that made Worms. They've tried

1549
01:47:20,600 --> 01:47:24,760
to shift into this publishing business and
they've had a lot of successful games that

1550
01:47:24,840 --> 01:47:28,760
have done very well, but they
seemed to and this is stuff they've talked

1551
01:47:28,760 --> 01:47:31,600
about, I think, into financials, struggled to dial in where on the

1552
01:47:31,680 --> 01:47:34,520
spectrum they're supposed to be. Are
they supposed to be a kind of tiny,

1553
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:38,520
scrappy publisher. Are they should they
be growing into a big publisher,

1554
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:43,960
And that uncertainty led to a situation
where they kind of spread themselves too thin.

1555
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:47,479
And this publisher kind of even with
the successes they've had, like back

1556
01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:50,359
to uncertainty in one game can kind
of go bad. And now here they

1557
01:47:50,399 --> 01:47:56,920
are. But unlike Epic or any
of these other companies, really CEOs stepping

1558
01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:00,279
down is something taking from some sort
of some form of responsibility. It's not

1559
01:48:00,399 --> 01:48:03,319
going to make up for people losing
their jobs, but it is some form

1560
01:48:03,359 --> 01:48:09,279
of responsibility. Uh. Okay,
let's see here. Let's let's hit this

1561
01:48:09,399 --> 01:48:15,239
one Epic game store boss is leaving. Sergey Galonkan, Epic Games director of

1562
01:48:15,279 --> 01:48:17,640
publishing strategy, is leaving the company. It is unclear if his departure is

1563
01:48:17,680 --> 01:48:23,239
directly related to widespread j job cuts
at Epic. Golancan said he was not

1564
01:48:23,399 --> 01:48:26,640
a good fit for where Epic is
headed as a company. Glancan is the

1565
01:48:26,680 --> 01:48:30,000
creator of steam Spy. He joined
Epic in twenty sixteen. Galoncan's experience from

1566
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:34,079
steam Spy we're used to help develop
Epic's Steam competitor, the Epic Game Store.

1567
01:48:34,119 --> 01:48:38,640
Steam Spy is a sort of database
that has a lot of information and

1568
01:48:38,720 --> 01:48:42,600
analytics about how steams and Steam sales
work, like the actual selling of games

1569
01:48:42,640 --> 01:48:45,960
on Steam, how that stuff works. Golancan was tapped as like, hey,

1570
01:48:45,279 --> 01:48:49,520
take that experience and make Epic Game
Store a thing, make it work,

1571
01:48:50,079 --> 01:48:54,640
and make it kill Steam, which
was always going to be impossible.

1572
01:48:54,960 --> 01:49:00,239
But I think the underlying thing here
is they have identified that as as the

1573
01:49:00,640 --> 01:49:03,119
Epic Game Store and trying to beat
Steam at its own game as tilting at

1574
01:49:03,119 --> 01:49:05,880
Windmill Mills, and they're no longer
going to try it. And Gluncan's like,

1575
01:49:05,920 --> 01:49:09,760
well, that's my expertise, my
area of expertise, So I think

1576
01:49:09,800 --> 01:49:11,960
I'm gonna dip. That's how I
read it. I don't know, do

1577
01:49:12,640 --> 01:49:14,560
you guys. I mean, I've
gotten this since for a while now,

1578
01:49:14,600 --> 01:49:16,000
Epic Game Store was pulling back on
a lot of things. They were doing

1579
01:49:16,159 --> 01:49:20,159
fewer of those exclusives that are paying
to keep games off Steam. They still

1580
01:49:20,199 --> 01:49:23,960
happen here and there, but most
of the time it's something like allen Wick

1581
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:26,560
two, which is a game they
published and their idea is a publisher,

1582
01:49:26,600 --> 01:49:30,119
which isn't what they were doing before, which was a finished game going to

1583
01:49:30,159 --> 01:49:31,720
the publisher of that game, paying
the money to keep it off Steam.

1584
01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:34,239
They've done a lot less of that, which I think signified that they are

1585
01:49:34,279 --> 01:49:36,920
pulling back from Epic Game Store.
Do you guys get the same sense?

1586
01:49:39,199 --> 01:49:45,600
It definitely feels like they've been slowing
down a considerable amount versus how how much

1587
01:49:45,640 --> 01:49:50,239
they were trying to build up even
earlier this year in terms of exclusives and

1588
01:49:50,319 --> 01:49:55,199
even just marketing that. Yep,
I've been around too long though. If

1589
01:49:55,239 --> 01:49:58,319
it's not if it hasn't become a
thing now, it's just never going to

1590
01:49:58,399 --> 01:50:00,319
become a thing. I don't know
how much longer At Big Game store can

1591
01:50:01,159 --> 01:50:04,479
really last. You know, it
might exists as a for like a show

1592
01:50:04,520 --> 01:50:08,439
of itself that's almost more of a
launcher than anything else. If they store

1593
01:50:08,920 --> 01:50:12,399
aspect to it kind of like what
it originally was, right, it goes

1594
01:50:12,479 --> 01:50:15,439
basically just a Fortnite launcher. I
could see it going back to that,

1595
01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:16,800
and I could see them going back
to Steam. I mean we're in a

1596
01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:20,479
world where overwatches on Steam, right, even Battleneck games are showing up one

1597
01:50:20,560 --> 01:50:26,159
Steam. Yeah. I mean do
you say, even even in a vacuum,

1598
01:50:26,439 --> 01:50:30,439
that that software is not good,
Like, you know, even where

1599
01:50:30,560 --> 01:50:33,039
in a world war Steam does not
exist, that is still bad. It's

1600
01:50:33,119 --> 01:50:38,119
so it's cumbersome, It's it's crazy, It's it's just crazy. Library doesn't

1601
01:50:38,119 --> 01:50:43,359
load one out of every two times. Yeah, it's very strange. Selfishly,

1602
01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:46,119
I'm worried about my library, but
you know, like, uh,

1603
01:50:46,840 --> 01:50:51,760
it's it just doesn't doesn't seem like
it's had any kind of TLC in a

1604
01:50:53,039 --> 01:50:57,399
very long time. So yeah,
Kingdom Hearts is still fucking stuck on there.

1605
01:50:57,560 --> 01:51:00,600
Like one of the Kingdom parts on
my Steam come once just got off

1606
01:51:00,640 --> 01:51:04,920
there. Third grievance with Disneyland.
I didn't the line for I did not

1607
01:51:05,279 --> 01:51:10,800
see Kingdom Hearts Mickey or Goose.
Oh no, so sorry, I thought

1608
01:51:10,800 --> 01:51:13,439
you complaining about the line. Okay, Dan, I would have waited in

1609
01:51:13,520 --> 01:51:15,560
line. I'm fine with it.
Yeah, I would have waited in that

1610
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:19,000
line. Oh yeah, so I
mentioned Assassins Cream Mirage is going to be

1611
01:51:19,079 --> 01:51:21,880
exclusive the Epic Game Store, I
supposed to being on Steam. They did

1612
01:51:23,039 --> 01:51:26,560
change their way that they do that
recently, where instead of getting the big

1613
01:51:26,640 --> 01:51:29,840
upfront payment, sounds like they're not
going to do that anymore. Instead,

1614
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:33,439
what they're gonna do is if you
put your game on Epic Game Store exclusively,

1615
01:51:33,720 --> 01:51:39,279
meaning again Paint not being on Steam
for six months, you get one

1616
01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:42,840
percent of the revenue from those sales, and then after that it shifts to

1617
01:51:43,279 --> 01:51:46,680
from after that six months, it
shifts to eighty two eighty two eighteen or

1618
01:51:46,920 --> 01:51:49,600
eighty eight twelve, that's what it
was, So eighty eight percent of the

1619
01:51:49,680 --> 01:51:54,119
revenue goes to the developer of the
publisher. So I think some of these

1620
01:51:54,119 --> 01:51:57,640
studios are going to keep taking advantage
of that. But it's not the Hey

1621
01:51:57,720 --> 01:52:00,039
a big payday up front, where
in some cases they these developers were getting

1622
01:52:00,079 --> 01:52:03,000
millions of dollars just to put their
stuff on Epic Game Store. So get

1623
01:52:03,279 --> 01:52:10,640
slowing down, all right, Let's
let's see what it was. Oh yeah,

1624
01:52:10,880 --> 01:52:14,319
backing up to Star Wars Knights of
the Old Republic here, Sony has

1625
01:52:14,439 --> 01:52:18,520
hidden trailers for Star Wars Knights of
the Old Republic remake. References to the

1626
01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:23,600
Star Wars Next to the Old Republic
remake have been taken offline by some of

1627
01:52:23,720 --> 01:52:28,159
PlayStation's primary social media accounts. The
game was announced as a Timed PS five

1628
01:52:28,520 --> 01:52:31,359
Council exclusive in twenty twenty one.
The tweet announcing the game has been deleted

1629
01:52:31,520 --> 01:52:35,640
and the titles revealed trailer has been
made private. This has caused speculation that

1630
01:52:35,720 --> 01:52:40,920
the game could be canceled. Embracer
group, Aspires parent company has been restructuring

1631
01:52:40,960 --> 01:52:44,159
and canceling projects. Aspiring not even
working on this anymore. It's now Safer

1632
01:52:44,239 --> 01:52:46,960
Interactive that's still under Embracer, though
Star Wars Next the Old Republic remake has

1633
01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:50,920
reportedly been beset with problems, definitely
stuff we've heard before. The Lars Wing

1634
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:54,880
of First, the CEO of Embracer, has refused to comment on the comment

1635
01:52:54,960 --> 01:53:00,600
on the game's status, and I
think Steven Stillo was asking only about this

1636
01:53:00,760 --> 01:53:03,720
and they said basically everything except for
it's still in the works. They were

1637
01:53:03,800 --> 01:53:06,640
like, hey, go ask Embracer
about about the state of the game.

1638
01:53:06,880 --> 01:53:12,119
So I haven't thought this games coming
out for a long time. I'm more

1639
01:53:12,239 --> 01:53:15,840
certain than ever based on what's happening
here. Yeah, it's a barber because

1640
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:17,439
just watch you know, I saw
that reveal tro again or just a screen

1641
01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:21,800
cap from it, and just seeing
that like redone Darth Reven, I'm like,

1642
01:53:21,960 --> 01:53:26,520
yeah, that Darth Revend rules that
would have been neat. The good

1643
01:53:26,600 --> 01:53:30,279
news is that Nights to the Old
Republic still a very good game. I

1644
01:53:30,479 --> 01:53:34,159
guess, you know, unless you're
like really having adversion to just slightly older

1645
01:53:34,279 --> 01:53:38,199
games. Slightly. I guess at
this point this game is like twenty something

1646
01:53:38,279 --> 01:53:42,000
years old, but I think it
still holds up really well. I played

1647
01:53:42,079 --> 01:53:44,439
through it again when it came to
Switch. Didn't even mean too. I

1648
01:53:44,479 --> 01:53:46,479
thought it was gonna see what it
looked like. Is that the best version

1649
01:53:46,560 --> 01:53:49,640
to play right now? I mean, I'm sure if you've got like PC

1650
01:53:49,800 --> 01:53:53,079
version, and you know, I
see it some mods that can help with

1651
01:53:53,119 --> 01:53:55,800
some things there there, But I
mean it's perfectly fine on Switch. Though

1652
01:53:55,840 --> 01:53:58,520
perfectly fine. Switch played really.
I had a couple of crashes, and

1653
01:53:58,560 --> 01:54:00,680
that was when it first came out. Maybe that won't be a problem.

1654
01:54:00,840 --> 01:54:02,479
But I thought it was very easy
to play on Switch because I mean this

1655
01:54:02,600 --> 01:54:05,479
was original Xbox, right, This
isn't one of those ones where you really

1656
01:54:05,760 --> 01:54:10,840
had to be well obviously play it
on PC. This was made for consoles,

1657
01:54:10,920 --> 01:54:15,000
so I thought it was pretty comfortable
and pretty handy to play on switch.

1658
01:54:15,239 --> 01:54:17,399
Yeah, despite being a Star Wars
mark, I missed the boat on

1659
01:54:17,720 --> 01:54:23,239
Cotur. H serious, think of
it? Do you know? Do you

1660
01:54:23,319 --> 01:54:27,039
know the twists and the turn?
I think I do, but like I

1661
01:54:27,119 --> 01:54:30,880
don't know how it happens. You
would still right, Yes, it's so

1662
01:54:31,159 --> 01:54:34,439
especially like it's funny because like a
lot of stuff that's seen maybe a little

1663
01:54:34,479 --> 01:54:39,520
outdated, and Cotur was just how
kind of naked the dice rolls are in

1664
01:54:39,640 --> 01:54:43,239
it, which maybe felt weird to
people who are more used to mass effects,

1665
01:54:43,520 --> 01:54:45,680
not boaters. Gap brought the dice
rolls back, babies. It is

1666
01:54:46,079 --> 01:54:49,319
literally just D and D rules.
It's it's DND three point five rules set

1667
01:54:50,439 --> 01:54:53,479
that like they just licensed that to
use it in the game. So,

1668
01:54:54,359 --> 01:54:58,479
uh, yeah, there's that stuff
is a bit cumbersome sometimes, but I

1669
01:54:58,560 --> 01:55:00,439
don't think in any way that's not
fun. I think it's fun through and

1670
01:55:00,520 --> 01:55:03,479
through. I have a great time. Someone make a clever show name so

1671
01:55:03,600 --> 01:55:09,600
I have an excuse to play it. Nights of Nights, a show of

1672
01:55:09,800 --> 01:55:15,199
the Old Republic, Nights Up Public, Well, the Workshop. This don't

1673
01:55:15,199 --> 01:55:20,319
worry Joe Tour is pretty good.
Actually, I'm I'm done with the bad

1674
01:55:20,359 --> 01:55:23,560
news. You guys ready for some
good news? Please? Yeah? I

1675
01:55:23,600 --> 01:55:28,800
don't believe. Oh I see what
blockchain business sin is launching next month,

1676
01:55:28,880 --> 01:55:32,319
Jeff Backlar. What's not to believe? Okay, I want to go home.

1677
01:55:33,039 --> 01:55:38,760
Legacy is a business simulation game based
on blockchain technology. Players own pieces

1678
01:55:38,800 --> 01:55:42,399
of land in Legacy deed keys that
correspond to the rarity of their land.

1679
01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:45,960
Players can buy land an NFT Marketplace, open Sea, a thing that will

1680
01:55:45,960 --> 01:55:48,319
still be a going concern them years. I'm sure Legacy was announced at late

1681
01:55:48,399 --> 01:55:51,479
twenty twenty one, when the NFT
and blockchain craze was at its peak.

1682
01:55:51,760 --> 01:55:57,760
The cryptocurrency market has seen since a
huge since since seen a huge crash.

1683
01:55:58,439 --> 01:56:01,840
Legacy is created by Molin New Studio
twenty two cans previous games, Wold Goddess

1684
01:56:01,960 --> 01:56:05,640
curiosity tapping game and name twenty two
cans, so I could think of his

1685
01:56:05,800 --> 01:56:13,079
twenty two bare asses, just up
some of them. Flatulate is like a

1686
01:56:13,199 --> 01:56:15,479
top tier word for butts. Yeah, it's like a really good word for

1687
01:56:15,560 --> 01:56:26,000
butts. Just as he's he's really
lost it finally has he not been online

1688
01:56:26,079 --> 01:56:30,439
in the last couple of years.
This is elder abuse, right, someone's

1689
01:56:30,479 --> 01:56:32,359
just like you, like popping out
there and they're doing this in his game.

1690
01:56:34,960 --> 01:56:38,239
He was afraid to show his face
for a while because he had that

1691
01:56:38,319 --> 01:56:42,720
weird like click on blocks game and
like the winner of that was supposed to

1692
01:56:43,039 --> 01:56:45,319
he was supposed to get a scandal
with the whole point of that was,

1693
01:56:45,399 --> 01:56:49,119
hey, click the last back and
you win a life changing prize, and

1694
01:56:49,640 --> 01:56:54,119
the guy won. He was supposed
to get profits from his next God games,

1695
01:56:54,199 --> 01:56:55,880
right, he was. It was
gonna help design it or whatever.

1696
01:56:56,119 --> 01:57:00,439
Like idea just didn't really pan out
at all. Oh goddess, that's that

1697
01:57:00,520 --> 01:57:03,560
One's the one that got like kick
started a couple of times where I can't

1698
01:57:03,760 --> 01:57:06,199
Yeah, I got it was supposed
to be like his like New Populist because

1699
01:57:06,199 --> 01:57:11,159
he did Populus and it was just
a fucking disaster. So and so come

1700
01:57:11,199 --> 01:57:14,239
back to lay low for a while. You think like, Okay, you've

1701
01:57:14,279 --> 01:57:16,159
been humbled, You're gonna come back
and just like make a new fable,

1702
01:57:16,279 --> 01:57:19,720
make a new black or wait wait
wait whatever, No, it's this shit

1703
01:57:20,039 --> 01:57:26,199
what I will say, listen whatever
whatever with this. But if Dennis Diak

1704
01:57:26,239 --> 01:57:28,760
wants will come back and make a
Web three game, I would do that.

1705
01:57:28,800 --> 01:57:30,920
I wouldn't. Oh my god,
let's go. Dennis Diek was so

1706
01:57:31,079 --> 01:57:33,920
toxic that he did just do the
thing where he's like, hey, I

1707
01:57:34,039 --> 01:57:38,439
just want to kick starter a spiritual
successor to Eternal Darkness. You're all like

1708
01:57:38,520 --> 01:57:41,359
that, and the Internet was like, no, no, thank you,

1709
01:57:41,560 --> 01:57:45,840
you suck. Don't like you get
it man, Because he always he would

1710
01:57:45,840 --> 01:57:48,800
always get in fights like neo gaff
and shit, he was oh good,

1711
01:57:48,920 --> 01:57:55,600
yeah, he was just yeah,
the definition of petty yep, all right,

1712
01:57:55,720 --> 01:57:59,279
finally uh or no. Two more
stories. Your switch will continue to

1713
01:57:59,319 --> 01:58:01,600
get support next year. Nintendo will
continue to support the switch until the end

1714
01:58:01,640 --> 01:58:04,800
of the current fiscal year ending March
twenty twenty four. Then the switch will

1715
01:58:04,800 --> 01:58:08,640
continue to see new software in the
next fiscal year as well. According to

1716
01:58:09,119 --> 01:58:13,760
President Shintaro for Okawa, Nintendo has
dispatched the Switch to development Kast, the

1717
01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:17,239
key partners, according to sources,
with a launch plan for the second half

1718
01:58:17,279 --> 01:58:21,680
of twenty twenty four. They're gonna
probably follow something pretty similar to what happened

1719
01:58:23,119 --> 01:58:26,359
with the three DS, which continue
to get games after the Switch launched.

1720
01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:30,920
But this is this is the President
Nintendo saying this. I'm a little bit

1721
01:58:30,199 --> 01:58:32,720
skeptical of them, Like, oh
yeah, we're gonna have a ton of

1722
01:58:32,800 --> 01:58:35,920
games after the Switch two comes out, because they got burned pretty bad by

1723
01:58:35,960 --> 01:58:40,399
doing that with the three DS.
Yeah, like what that that remake of

1724
01:58:40,520 --> 01:58:45,720
Bowser's Inside Store and three DS is
like Destroyed Maria Mario Game Ever, Destroyed

1725
01:58:45,880 --> 01:58:48,760
Alpha Dream, and like a bunch
of some of the other stuff that two

1726
01:58:48,840 --> 01:58:54,119
D Pickman game no one played.
There was a remake of Our Port of

1727
01:58:54,279 --> 01:58:58,399
Ladies Mansion one on three DS.
I think most people forget exists again.

1728
01:58:58,680 --> 01:59:01,199
They're doing ab whigs mentioned again.
So we do know games are coming out

1729
01:59:01,239 --> 01:59:04,600
next year. Princess Speech, Showtime, Luigi's Mansion, two HD Paper,

1730
01:59:04,640 --> 01:59:09,600
Mario of the Thousand Year Door all
due out in twenty twenty four. After

1731
01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:13,640
that, I don't think they need
to put out much more than that.

1732
01:59:14,119 --> 01:59:17,000
Will you guys be upset if software
support dies off for the switch the day

1733
01:59:17,079 --> 01:59:19,399
this Switch two comes out, because
I would not be no, no,

1734
01:59:19,760 --> 01:59:27,640
no, I'd understand. Yep.
It had twenty of games and more good

1735
01:59:27,680 --> 01:59:30,079
games maybe any console. Ever,
it's fine, we get let's fine,

1736
01:59:30,119 --> 01:59:34,039
move on. Yeah, I agree. Uh. Finally, Balder's Gate three

1737
01:59:34,079 --> 01:59:40,000
Studio shaves the cat. Balder's Gate
three Hot Fixed eight addresses several crashes and

1738
01:59:40,039 --> 01:59:44,279
issues, including party members transferring every
important item to the player upon dismissal.

1739
01:59:44,840 --> 01:59:48,640
Most importantly, though his majesty,
the cat has been shaved again after players

1740
01:59:48,680 --> 01:59:51,960
complained about the change in his appearance
in a previous patch. So apparently this

1741
01:59:53,079 --> 01:59:56,279
cat was always supposed to have fur, but the fur didn't fade with the

1742
01:59:56,319 --> 02:00:00,520
original game, and then get their
evil cat used to that. I thought,

1743
02:00:00,880 --> 02:00:03,720
oh my god, I love this
bald cat. And then they fixed

1744
02:00:03,760 --> 02:00:11,000
it fixed. I don't know the
ball. Oh yeah, I mean,

1745
02:00:11,359 --> 02:00:15,159
to be fair, I did write
it that way. That's fair. We're

1746
02:00:15,199 --> 02:00:18,600
all thinking it okay, all right, Mike's too wholesome. Dan Rykert was

1747
02:00:18,640 --> 02:00:21,760
definitely thinking, you know, I
think i've seen any pubic hair yet,

1748
02:00:21,880 --> 02:00:28,319
because you could just you could just
take them. You could just do you

1749
02:00:28,399 --> 02:00:32,279
see this? Are you kidding me
up? But uh, because you could

1750
02:00:32,319 --> 02:00:35,000
just take their clothes off in their
character manage, you can see everything.

1751
02:00:36,079 --> 02:00:40,279
Yeah, I don't think I know
any pubic hair. They're all very everyone's

1752
02:00:40,359 --> 02:00:44,920
very smooth in those games. Good
for them, all right, that does

1753
02:00:45,479 --> 02:00:47,399
Jan please take the show back?
You did this, Jim, don't look

1754
02:00:47,439 --> 02:00:50,640
at me. I'm not I'm not
blaming you, Mike. It's just how

1755
02:00:50,720 --> 02:00:55,239
Grubb wrote it. And I thought
that's interesting that this is a new story.

1756
02:00:55,359 --> 02:01:00,439
But I guess everything else is so
dour. We didn't talk about care.

1757
02:01:00,800 --> 02:01:02,359
I don't. I don't even know
what to make of this comment from

1758
02:01:02,439 --> 02:01:08,319
Chad, which ship says Mike is
going to heaven. I mean these are

1759
02:01:08,359 --> 02:01:11,600
so pure, like out of the
four of us. Yeah, and then's

1760
02:01:11,720 --> 02:01:15,760
like, you know, makes sense
definitely. And then back Lar and I

1761
02:01:15,039 --> 02:01:18,199
were like holding on to each other
here to do what for you guys,

1762
02:01:18,479 --> 02:01:23,640
like you know, yeah, yeah, put in a I've been after like

1763
02:01:23,720 --> 02:01:26,920
ten thousand years or something. God's
gonna melt out of bed and he'll take

1764
02:01:26,960 --> 02:01:30,800
it. So sure, Yeah,
like internal damnation, like that's a bit

1765
02:01:30,960 --> 02:01:34,800
much on. You guys are going
to hell? Simply because you are unaware.

1766
02:01:34,920 --> 02:01:40,359
Jews don't believe in hell. Okay, shit, how convenient. How

1767
02:01:40,560 --> 02:01:45,439
convenient is that there was a funny
Hard Drive story and it was literally gonna

1768
02:01:45,439 --> 02:01:47,159
bring this up. I've been waiting
to do it, but yeah, great,

1769
02:01:47,600 --> 02:01:55,479
Hadi's unreal Hadies. Diversity is unrealistic
because there aren't enough white people.

1770
02:01:55,640 --> 02:01:58,920
And it's hell. I didn't say
it. I didn't say it. I

1771
02:01:59,560 --> 02:02:02,279
love that one really got me.
I like literally laughed out loud whenever.

1772
02:02:02,479 --> 02:02:06,119
I love that. God fucking damn
it. Folks were gonna take a quick

1773
02:02:06,119 --> 02:02:09,840
bricky break, go read something that
will make you laugh. I don't know

1774
02:02:10,720 --> 02:02:18,359
anything like a fun Sunday comic.
Yeah, people still like Covin Hobbs,

1775
02:02:18,399 --> 02:02:21,720
right, people know that. People
are people still discovering Kevin Hogs. People

1776
02:02:21,720 --> 02:02:28,359
are just people apparently rediscovered the far
side like two years ago. Yeah,

1777
02:02:28,640 --> 02:02:32,680
Snoopy real big right now. Snoopy
stock on the rise, y'all go investing

1778
02:02:32,800 --> 02:02:40,239
some Snoopys. We're in our Peanuts
era, Peanuts first Peanuts, Peanuts,

1779
02:02:42,039 --> 02:02:53,960
and we're back with emails. These
are the emails. I am very tempted

1780
02:02:55,479 --> 02:02:59,359
to add more sounds to this podcast. Feel like I feel like we're a

1781
02:02:59,479 --> 02:03:01,960
very sound on board light show.
Yeah we can. I think we need

1782
02:03:02,000 --> 02:03:08,079
to just introduce him slowly but steadily, or all at once, all at

1783
02:03:08,119 --> 02:03:10,960
once, well maybe not played all
at once, but I get your meanings.

1784
02:03:11,079 --> 02:03:15,560
Like I keep seeing that Arcade button
configuration thing, which is Hella buttons.

1785
02:03:15,680 --> 02:03:18,520
It's just like a MIDI controller,
and I just want to like just

1786
02:03:18,680 --> 02:03:24,079
slam them with with stuff like let's
freaking go. Yeah, you know,

1787
02:03:24,680 --> 02:03:30,000
sounds from uh, from our friends
across the internet and everything, maybe like

1788
02:03:30,159 --> 02:03:34,079
Jeff, like a dodgeball sound hitting
something. God, it's so good.

1789
02:03:34,159 --> 02:03:39,359
I wish I should have just had
that playing the whole time. Favorite you

1790
02:03:39,439 --> 02:03:41,359
know my favorite Jeff. Oh yeah, I got it right here, I

1791
02:03:41,359 --> 02:03:43,800
got it right here. For young, we look for the I just look

1792
02:03:43,840 --> 02:03:49,800
for the picture. It's Donald for
real. Not a lot of Donald Ducks

1793
02:03:49,840 --> 02:03:55,399
at the Disneyland for some reason,
but not very scary, right. There

1794
02:03:55,520 --> 02:04:00,640
was like that one where he's in
the devil costume like that. Well,

1795
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:02,800
yeah, there's that, and there's
well there's the famous trick or Treat cartoon

1796
02:04:02,920 --> 02:04:06,840
where his nephews come to his house
and he does not get him candy or

1797
02:04:06,920 --> 02:04:11,800
something. So then the nephews had
to get a witch to torture Donald Duck

1798
02:04:11,840 --> 02:04:16,199
for a while. He's a genuine
psycho, like just like flip flopping on

1799
02:04:16,359 --> 02:04:19,840
literally everything, Like no one could
get a clean read on Donald. He's

1800
02:04:19,880 --> 02:04:24,880
like super nice one minute, a
total fucking asshole to his nephews the next,

1801
02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:27,199
like, what's happening? You know? I think Donald Duck is the

1802
02:04:27,279 --> 02:04:31,720
perfect distillation of everyone here, a
giant bob. Yeah. Whole thing is

1803
02:04:31,760 --> 02:04:34,560
that Donald Duck's whole thing is that
he can dish it out, but he

1804
02:04:34,640 --> 02:04:41,880
can't take it. And I identify
it with I think we can all find

1805
02:04:42,039 --> 02:04:45,359
a little Donald Duck in ourselves.
Mike, Mike sound a little bit of

1806
02:04:45,359 --> 02:04:48,359
a losing streak with some of our
stuff, our games over the game Mess,

1807
02:04:48,520 --> 02:04:53,439
and he reacted, I'll say strongly. When I tried to do a

1808
02:04:53,479 --> 02:04:57,760
little research for one of our games, looking to a game where like we

1809
02:04:57,840 --> 02:05:00,760
predict metacric scores, and Dep's like, OK, well, as we do

1810
02:05:00,920 --> 02:05:02,880
this, I'm going to go on
mac dot com and like look up the

1811
02:05:02,960 --> 02:05:06,520
scores for similar games. I was
like, no, just guess that's the

1812
02:05:06,680 --> 02:05:10,199
game. Yeah. Us, By
the way, the rules were, we

1813
02:05:10,279 --> 02:05:13,520
could look up stuff you said it
should be, and at the time I

1814
02:05:13,680 --> 02:05:17,600
try to talk you out of it, and you're like, all right.

1815
02:05:17,720 --> 02:05:30,640
First email comes from UH, comes
from Debugman and sane from Texas. Uh

1816
02:05:30,840 --> 02:05:34,640
Jeff Backlar needs to settle a keyboard
argument. As the resident keyboard pers does

1817
02:05:34,720 --> 02:05:40,439
the sound of the switches impact the
feel of the switches or not? I

1818
02:05:40,600 --> 02:05:45,039
insist that yes it does. As
an aside, I'm building my wife.

1819
02:05:45,800 --> 02:05:50,000
Thank you, Thank you. There's
a call in response a keyboard with zeal

1820
02:05:50,119 --> 02:05:58,680
clickies seventy five g bottom mount tacticals, UH switches bottom ount a taller perse

1821
02:05:58,760 --> 02:06:03,159
switch on sale around one hundred dollars. Sarah key ceramic key caps roughly one

1822
02:06:03,359 --> 02:06:11,000
fifty and low profile seventy five percent
board roughly one sixty for Christmas. Did

1823
02:06:11,079 --> 02:06:15,000
I do good? This is our
first mechanical keyboard. Thanks for agreeing with

1824
02:06:15,119 --> 02:06:20,479
me. Debugman in San Antonio,
Texas bug Bug Jeff Backlar. Did you

1825
02:06:20,600 --> 02:06:24,399
understand any of that? Yeah?
I understood all of it, except for

1826
02:06:24,479 --> 02:06:29,640
the fact that, like my friend, you are building what sounds like some

1827
02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:33,079
sort of machine gun keyboard. Like
this thing is going to sound like so

1828
02:06:33,319 --> 02:06:40,159
clickies are there are deliberately clicky switches
right, so like they literally have like

1829
02:06:40,239 --> 02:06:44,840
a part on the switch that plastic
like flicks off and it like makes a

1830
02:06:45,560 --> 02:06:53,199
it's that cretessential like click click click
noise. Not to mention ceramic key caps.

1831
02:06:53,399 --> 02:06:56,479
Okay, so instead of plastics are
gonna be ceramic. Those are heavy

1832
02:06:56,600 --> 02:07:00,119
boys. Those are real chunky boys. I don't even know what that's going

1833
02:07:00,199 --> 02:07:02,119
to sound like. It just sounds
like a typewriter. It's gonna it's just

1834
02:07:02,199 --> 02:07:08,159
gonna be so wild. I'm actually
I'm actually sort of pervertedly curious about what

1835
02:07:08,239 --> 02:07:11,359
it will sound like. If you
want to send me a sound test,

1836
02:07:11,399 --> 02:07:14,720
I'd love to hear me am and
then a low profile seventy five percent board,

1837
02:07:14,760 --> 02:07:19,319
which means the caps, the caps
and the switches they sit above the

1838
02:07:19,560 --> 02:07:23,439
mold of the case of the board, so they don't like go into it,

1839
02:07:23,520 --> 02:07:25,039
do you know what I mean?
Like they just sort of like sit

1840
02:07:25,119 --> 02:07:28,680
above it. They sit on top
of it, so nothing is getting muted,

1841
02:07:29,000 --> 02:07:32,680
nothing is getting muffled. I'm wildly
curious to hear what this sounds like.

1842
02:07:32,720 --> 02:07:36,960
I missed that clickingness. I like
that clicking sound like. Obviously I

1843
02:07:38,079 --> 02:07:40,399
kind of get rid of it when
I started streaming and stuff. That was

1844
02:07:40,479 --> 02:07:45,159
the IBM keyboard that had like the
really is the IBM M keyboard when I

1845
02:07:45,239 --> 02:07:47,520
had, Yeah, the one I
had in high school that I used,

1846
02:07:47,560 --> 02:07:50,640
and it was like this keyboards sounds
great. I want I always want my

1847
02:07:50,680 --> 02:07:54,960
keyboards, and I would like go
get mechanical keyboards, hoping it would sound

1848
02:07:55,000 --> 02:07:57,000
like that, and they don't.
They don't. I'm part of the hobby.

1849
02:07:57,039 --> 02:07:59,880
I do have blinders on about it, like all the Vine model stuff.

1850
02:08:00,000 --> 02:08:01,920
Okay, Model him is the one. Yes, I have heard of

1851
02:08:03,000 --> 02:08:09,920
that, Yes, yes, Metroid
Model M. We we've like I've I've

1852
02:08:09,000 --> 02:08:11,159
never Yeah, that's like I said, the one part of the hobby.

1853
02:08:11,159 --> 02:08:16,199
I have a little bit of blinders
on with legacy stuff. But I think

1854
02:08:16,239 --> 02:08:20,439
you know, with the first question
being about this, does the sound of

1855
02:08:20,520 --> 02:08:26,279
the switches impact? Right? So
that's same in fact, right, but

1856
02:08:26,399 --> 02:08:31,079
like it's a it's a bit of
a paradoxical question. And if you're gonna

1857
02:08:31,079 --> 02:08:35,279
get real serious about this in the
way that I selfishly want to know,

1858
02:08:35,439 --> 02:08:37,920
Jans just walked away, so we
can't even go ahead anyhow, So let's

1859
02:08:37,960 --> 02:08:41,760
do it. So, like I'm
sort of on the fence about this because

1860
02:08:43,359 --> 02:08:48,680
the feel of the switch, right, Like if you put on sound proof

1861
02:08:48,760 --> 02:08:54,079
headphones, you wouldn't impact the field. The sound is a different characteristic,

1862
02:08:54,359 --> 02:08:58,279
like that's the whole Like, oh, no, one's in the woods to

1863
02:08:58,319 --> 02:09:01,000
hear of sound as it exists,
Like wouldn't because the sound has to be

1864
02:09:01,039 --> 02:09:05,479
interpreted absolutely, right, So I
kind of think like you have to leave

1865
02:09:05,600 --> 02:09:09,359
this and and instead of answering the
question, you have to accept that they

1866
02:09:09,399 --> 02:09:16,920
are two different things, which help
you sort of like unearth another dimension of

1867
02:09:16,079 --> 02:09:22,000
customization in your keyboard. Oh okay, here's how I view it. Taste

1868
02:09:22,039 --> 02:09:24,960
and smell are different things when you're
eating, doesn't matter, they're the same

1869
02:09:26,039 --> 02:09:30,199
thing when you're actually eating that I
so I agree with you. But that's

1870
02:09:30,239 --> 02:09:33,279
because they are. They are like
biologically related. But I think, but

1871
02:09:33,359 --> 02:09:37,199
I think when our brain interprets sound, when it had when you do something

1872
02:09:37,279 --> 02:09:41,479
has a feel to it, sure
it combines them in the same exact way.

1873
02:09:41,479 --> 02:09:43,079
I mean. That's why this is
how the haptics in the dual sense

1874
02:09:43,119 --> 02:09:46,680
works, right. The haptics are
so impressive because they actually improve the sound

1875
02:09:46,760 --> 02:09:52,880
of speaker quality. So they combine
every haptic feedback with a sound so you

1876
02:09:54,159 --> 02:09:56,359
you your mind like automatically like that. No, that definitely feels like walking

1877
02:09:56,359 --> 02:10:00,760
across gravel because it's making a little
gravel noise with those movements, and it

1878
02:10:00,840 --> 02:10:03,439
all becomes the same thing in your
brain in the end. Sure, I

1879
02:10:03,600 --> 02:10:09,319
think it's completely fair to propose that
these things are like forever intertwined and you

1880
02:10:09,399 --> 02:10:13,079
cannot really separate them. But I
do think you can. You can.

1881
02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:20,079
You can tune those knobs right independently
of one another, which is my favorite

1882
02:10:20,119 --> 02:10:22,960
part of the hobby. Like,
I obviously case design and stuff like that

1883
02:10:22,119 --> 02:10:24,960
is great, but like I love
the fact that like I can put really,

1884
02:10:26,479 --> 02:10:31,000
you know, thocky like thirty switches
into one keyboard and then like use

1885
02:10:31,039 --> 02:10:35,079
a different plate to have it sound
wildly different than what it sounds like with

1886
02:10:35,159 --> 02:10:37,880
another plate. So yeah, I
mean I don't think I don't think you

1887
02:10:39,000 --> 02:10:41,960
need to like settle that argument.
I think you just got to keep talking

1888
02:10:43,039 --> 02:10:46,800
about it, you know. Yeah, there's a reason people say it just

1889
02:10:46,880 --> 02:10:48,680
a tree fall in the woods?
Does it make us sound We still talk

1890
02:10:48,720 --> 02:10:52,439
about that because it's yeah, it
is at a certain point in academic exercise.

1891
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:56,560
On the other hand, ceramic key
caps I simply cannot get on board

1892
02:10:56,600 --> 02:11:01,039
with I've never I've never like used
them, so again, I'm just speaking

1893
02:11:01,159 --> 02:11:03,000
from a complete switch. I feel
like they would crack, but I guess

1894
02:11:05,479 --> 02:11:09,439
they got to be so heavy like
and to me that would also impact the

1895
02:11:09,119 --> 02:11:13,920
like the weight the spring weight of
the switches right, because every switch inside

1896
02:11:13,479 --> 02:11:18,960
has a coiled spring, and the
actuation force right, which is like the

1897
02:11:18,039 --> 02:11:22,720
force it takes to put your to
press the switch to engage the switch,

1898
02:11:22,960 --> 02:11:26,359
like you're using such a heavier keycap
that that's impacted as well, So I

1899
02:11:26,520 --> 02:11:31,840
wonder, Yeah, I don't.
I've again no experience with actually using that,

1900
02:11:31,000 --> 02:11:35,000
but man, that sounds wild to
me. Click zeals switches, in

1901
02:11:35,079 --> 02:11:39,359
my opinion, are also overpriced,
so do with that what you will.

1902
02:11:39,960 --> 02:11:48,720
Next email comes from Arthur and they
write in about controller pain or controller joint

1903
02:11:48,760 --> 02:11:52,960
pain. I have a question for
the older or I like to say,

1904
02:11:52,239 --> 02:11:56,880
seasoned members of the team. I'm
approaching forty and I simply cannot play video

1905
02:11:56,960 --> 02:12:01,239
games like I used to. Start
to hurt and I'm getting some knuckles swelling,

1906
02:12:01,359 --> 02:12:05,760
specifically with my PlayStation five and Switch
pro controllers. Are there any third

1907
02:12:05,800 --> 02:12:11,359
party controllers They're a bit easier on
the joints, I've haptic feedback disabled on

1908
02:12:11,399 --> 02:12:13,600
the PlayStation five, but I'm still
not able to game for more than thirty

1909
02:12:13,640 --> 02:12:18,319
minutes without discomfort. Thank you,
love the show, sincerely, Arthur.

1910
02:12:20,039 --> 02:12:22,199
Don't be afraid of aspirin as well. I'll say, first of all,

1911
02:12:22,600 --> 02:12:24,880
uh, feel free to take some
aspirin before you're in the game and let

1912
02:12:24,920 --> 02:12:28,159
it kick in about that thirty minute
mark, and you'll probably be definitely be

1913
02:12:28,159 --> 02:12:31,840
a little bit better if you're already
doing that. I don't know. Ergonomics

1914
02:12:31,880 --> 02:12:35,800
and gaming is a big thing for
me because I'm someone who's pretty uncomfortable sitting

1915
02:12:35,880 --> 02:12:37,880
down. That's just kind of the
way my body is. So there's reasons

1916
02:12:37,880 --> 02:12:41,960
for that, but I mean that's
the effective parts. I'm pretty uncomfortable sitting

1917
02:12:41,960 --> 02:12:45,159
down a lot of times, so
I gotta like really think about how I'm

1918
02:12:45,199 --> 02:12:48,760
going to get into a chair.
And flat ass, isn't it. It's

1919
02:12:48,760 --> 02:12:56,680
because it's because I got a flat
back, that's right, exactly gicked up

1920
02:12:56,720 --> 02:13:00,960
bitches. So yeah, I got
to really think about But I've not found

1921
02:13:00,960 --> 02:13:03,960
a lot of great solutions because most
controllers are pretty much exactly the same.

1922
02:13:03,079 --> 02:13:09,479
Yeah, something something that I think
a lot of gamers overlook is stretching your

1923
02:13:09,560 --> 02:13:11,920
god dangn hands. Yeah, you've
got to do that. You gotta get

1924
02:13:11,960 --> 02:13:15,840
in the habit of that, just
like you know, just just doing one

1925
02:13:15,880 --> 02:13:18,399
of these, put a rubber band
on your fingertips and just like pull some

1926
02:13:18,520 --> 02:13:22,720
out and everything. Get a stress
ball. Squeeze that. Yeah, I

1927
02:13:24,239 --> 02:13:26,279
finally getting to me a bit.
I have this little bean bag that I

1928
02:13:26,359 --> 02:13:30,720
rest my wrist on when I'm using
my mouth. I have one of those

1929
02:13:30,800 --> 02:13:33,720
like uh cast, I don't know
what you call it. I sleep with

1930
02:13:33,760 --> 02:13:35,680
it though, because it just keeps
my wrist elevating. Oh sure, wrist

1931
02:13:35,760 --> 02:13:39,960
just hurts anymore if I sleep on
it the wrong way. My buddy has

1932
02:13:39,000 --> 02:13:45,479
like really bad like risk progress.
So like he like he likes taking like

1933
02:13:45,720 --> 02:13:48,640
almost a whole year off just even
playing video games. It's it's so bad

1934
02:13:48,720 --> 02:13:52,520
him. One thing he did do
was like he got he got an apid

1935
02:13:52,680 --> 02:13:56,520
due just because you could take the
battery out and have it just be charged.

1936
02:13:56,800 --> 02:14:01,439
Because he he needed the lightest control
or possible for him, so something

1937
02:14:01,520 --> 02:14:03,760
that didn't have like a battery pack
in it or even the you know,

1938
02:14:03,960 --> 02:14:09,199
vibrations stuff whatever. He was just
only caring about the weight that was the

1939
02:14:09,239 --> 02:14:11,760
only thing that mattered to him.
I benefit we talked to your doctor as

1940
02:14:11,840 --> 02:14:16,479
well, Like that's I'm promise you
they've heard it before. Yeah, don't

1941
02:14:16,560 --> 02:14:20,560
don't feel weird asking a doctor about
stuff to help you gain. And if

1942
02:14:20,560 --> 02:14:24,119
you don't get the answer that you
kind are hoping forward, that's like this

1943
02:14:24,199 --> 02:14:26,279
is actually helpful, find a different
doctor. Because that's my experience a lot

1944
02:14:26,319 --> 02:14:28,760
with a lot of doctors where I'll
mention, hey, this thing's bothering me

1945
02:14:28,800 --> 02:14:31,840
to be like that's a cool story, bro. Oh just tell them it's

1946
02:14:31,880 --> 02:14:35,760
for whacking off. Yeah, then
they'll really if you tell it's for your

1947
02:14:35,800 --> 02:14:39,520
dick, they'll definitely have some their
hands like they're listening. It's where the

1948
02:14:39,560 --> 02:14:48,039
money's in your money. It's all
of a sudden like ram got one money.

1949
02:14:50,640 --> 02:14:54,239
Also, hey gets if you're on
a keyboard all day or at an

1950
02:14:54,279 --> 02:14:58,000
office job, get like a freaking
wrist rest or whatever helps out. Yeah,

1951
02:14:58,119 --> 02:15:01,800
that's why I don't need it for
the left fist yet. I don't

1952
02:15:01,800 --> 02:15:03,800
know why. Maybe at some point
it probably you just get a big boy

1953
02:15:03,840 --> 02:15:05,640
when it's the jerking off, like
it goes back to it every time.

1954
02:15:05,800 --> 02:15:09,520
But also if you find a controller
that has just worked for you in the

1955
02:15:09,560 --> 02:15:13,760
past, Just use that. Like
Yes, I have had the similar issues

1956
02:15:13,880 --> 02:15:18,680
using the dual sense for extended periods
of time. So if you have found

1957
02:15:18,720 --> 02:15:22,800
a control that really fits like a
glove, just keep using that, and

1958
02:15:22,920 --> 02:15:26,439
their means to for them to for
you to keep using them. Speaking of

1959
02:15:26,520 --> 02:15:30,560
controllers, I have that the Starfield
controler, and it's like my go to

1960
02:15:30,720 --> 02:15:33,680
control, and I love the way
it looks. I feel a little awkward

1961
02:15:33,800 --> 02:15:39,640
us the announce that's I kind of
don't like start few controller. Even though

1962
02:15:39,680 --> 02:15:43,880
the game is not good, it's
still a good controller. Yeah, it's

1963
02:15:43,880 --> 02:15:48,720
true. I mean, listen,
nothing wrong with the aesthetic design of Starfield.

1964
02:15:48,840 --> 02:15:50,279
I think it's awesome. I think
it's the part of the game.

1965
02:15:50,640 --> 02:15:56,439
Yeah for sure. Uh. Next
email, as we're talking about general life

1966
02:15:56,479 --> 02:16:01,319
advice comes from it, and write
down the emailer, just write in thanks.

1967
02:16:01,760 --> 02:16:05,479
This dumb truck was therapeutic this week. Speaking about the last most recent

1968
02:16:05,600 --> 02:16:07,720
dumb truck. Honest, I appreciate
it. I'm gonna buy a hat.

1969
02:16:07,880 --> 02:16:11,359
Please make new hats. Well,
yeah, we're gonna get We're gonna have

1970
02:16:11,479 --> 02:16:16,920
new stuff. We're gonna we're trying. We just talked about life, you

1971
02:16:18,039 --> 02:16:20,720
know, I asked about why I
don't remember a single thing it was.

1972
02:16:20,920 --> 02:16:26,199
It was wildly undervoiced, like we
had I think we only got through like

1973
02:16:26,359 --> 02:16:31,840
five voicemails. And then we talked
about salt licks as well. That was

1974
02:16:31,880 --> 02:16:33,719
the one where I had a voicemail
and then there was a voicemail about me.

1975
02:16:33,799 --> 02:16:37,600
So I liked it and yours didn't
sound like you. It was a

1976
02:16:37,639 --> 02:16:41,840
really good show. I was really
sleepy. Yeah, it's it's a lot

1977
02:16:41,840 --> 02:16:43,760
of fun. We will have new
hats and we're gonna we're getting a lot

1978
02:16:43,799 --> 02:16:50,840
of we are trying to get a
good amount of stuff for this quarter.

1979
02:16:52,239 --> 02:16:58,440
Is a quarter happy with saying right
now? Yeah, I kept throwing crazy

1980
02:16:58,520 --> 02:17:01,440
ideas of Becklar when you mentioned new
merch and we'll see, we'll see if

1981
02:17:01,440 --> 02:17:05,000
anything can happen that, Like yeah, I mean, thankfully, we're very

1982
02:17:05,079 --> 02:17:09,360
fortunate we have someone helping out with
that now and that's really dope, so

1983
02:17:09,239 --> 02:17:15,719
hopefully that comes to fruition. But
yeah, it's tough. It's not it's

1984
02:17:15,719 --> 02:17:18,280
not an easy it's not an easy
thing. You know. The merch game

1985
02:17:18,399 --> 02:17:22,360
not easy game, not not easy, Like, hey, why do my

1986
02:17:22,440 --> 02:17:26,319
t shirts my graphic teas keep falling
apart, which one's hours. No,

1987
02:17:26,559 --> 02:17:31,520
all of my graphic tas kind of
no matter what. So here here's I

1988
02:17:31,680 --> 02:17:35,040
consider myself a T shirt. Please
just tell me, yes, treat me

1989
02:17:35,120 --> 02:17:37,760
like a baby, because they just
keep messing up. I getting I'm getting

1990
02:17:37,760 --> 02:17:41,040
pretty frustrated. So you're talking about
like the cloth quality or the graphic quality.

1991
02:17:41,040 --> 02:17:45,360
So the graphic begins chipping away.
So because you're because you're putting them

1992
02:17:45,399 --> 02:17:48,520
in the dryer. Is it that
simple? I just can't dry them that

1993
02:17:48,120 --> 02:17:52,680
Like any graphic T shirt you really
like, do not dry it? Okay,

1994
02:17:54,000 --> 02:17:56,239
I figured that was it. You're
supposed to dry hang them like,

1995
02:17:56,319 --> 02:17:58,360
I'm like, if you will answer, and I was, yeah, if

1996
02:17:58,399 --> 02:18:03,479
you do, or drying the fifties, I'm not gonna hang my clothes if

1997
02:18:03,559 --> 02:18:07,280
you if you want to. I
mean, I feel like I get a

1998
02:18:07,360 --> 02:18:11,799
lot of shirts now that say like, hey, you're probably better off not

1999
02:18:11,079 --> 02:18:16,479
even drying this thing. So yeah, I shot a chat saying cold wash

2000
02:18:16,600 --> 02:18:20,239
inside out that I have been doing. It doesn't seem like it's making much

2001
02:18:20,239 --> 02:18:31,600
of a difference. It's the dry
Yeah, what I do if I'm in

2002
02:18:31,639 --> 02:18:33,200
a pinch, right, because if
you air dry your shirts. They don't

2003
02:18:33,200 --> 02:18:35,719
know. Sometimes they get a little
wrinkly or whatever it is. You just

2004
02:18:35,840 --> 02:18:39,399
put them in like a fluffer mode
where it's not super hot at all.

2005
02:18:39,600 --> 02:18:48,200
Right, it's just sort of like, but yeah, it's if it doesn't

2006
02:18:48,239 --> 02:18:52,520
have a do the lowest heat possible, because that's what's happening, like the

2007
02:18:52,680 --> 02:18:56,040
heat damages the print. Right,
I think I figured that's probably what was

2008
02:18:56,079 --> 02:19:01,719
happening. Now it's like, but
I'm I don't like wherever the fuck you

2009
02:19:01,760 --> 02:19:03,879
hang up your I have a lot
of graphic T shirts and I do my

2010
02:19:03,520 --> 02:19:09,360
those all I own all the Fauldy
boys, right, do it outside and

2011
02:19:09,440 --> 02:19:16,799
them gonna approach you and tell you
about the bomb. I do think it's

2012
02:19:16,000 --> 02:19:22,079
pretty good. Reference like that A
lot got it Like inside out. Inside

2013
02:19:22,120 --> 02:19:26,239
out is also like a big first
step. I think if you know,

2014
02:19:26,360 --> 02:19:28,479
yes, I started doing that,
that's yeah, definitely important too. But

2015
02:19:28,799 --> 02:19:31,959
I feel like I just throw everything
in there that I throw over the you

2016
02:19:31,959 --> 02:19:37,680
don't care about your stuff, that's
fine, that's mostly fine. I guess

2017
02:19:37,879 --> 02:19:43,399
cares. You know. A couple
like really like once that were clearly bootlegs,

2018
02:19:43,440 --> 02:19:45,600
so they were low quality, but
other ones were like no, this

2019
02:19:45,680 --> 02:19:48,200
shouldn't be chipping away, and I
would really like these to last. I

2020
02:19:48,239 --> 02:19:50,360
got a lot of graphic feats that
have lasted for a long time. I

2021
02:19:50,479 --> 02:19:54,440
think they used to just make the
shirts better, used to be let I

2022
02:19:54,559 --> 02:19:56,520
guess probably they used to be printed
with lead back in the shirts. I'm

2023
02:19:56,520 --> 02:20:00,440
a grown man. I could take
lead, you know, a little bit

2024
02:20:00,479 --> 02:20:03,440
of lead. Never I'm not gonna
finish, never hurt. Yeah, I'm

2025
02:20:03,200 --> 02:20:07,959
d I mean so, but yeah, like that's that's that's my advice on

2026
02:20:07,000 --> 02:20:09,440
the shirt front. Thank you.
I appreciate that you got a bit of

2027
02:20:09,639 --> 02:20:13,760
lead. Spices up the bed,
the spice of life. Some say,

2028
02:20:13,959 --> 02:20:18,600
right, all right, yeah,
okay here sure sure speaking a gun into

2029
02:20:18,639 --> 02:20:22,440
the bed, Mike, that's what
that sounds like. I know, we're

2030
02:20:22,440 --> 02:20:26,159
a bunch of he's lifting up his
eyebrows everybody, or a bunch of goofballs.

2031
02:20:26,200 --> 02:20:28,120
Well we can have a fun serious
episode every now and then, or

2032
02:20:28,200 --> 02:20:31,280
pulltions of it. Yeah, we
get it real, get down to brass

2033
02:20:31,360 --> 02:20:35,120
tacks. What that specifically, what
that phrases meant? I don't fucking know.

2034
02:20:35,440 --> 02:20:39,000
Are we talking about like push pin
ta type of tacks? It has

2035
02:20:39,040 --> 02:20:43,000
to be right, I don't know, or like a tax. They were

2036
02:20:43,040 --> 02:20:46,000
definitely made of brass for a while. And you know what, just like

2037
02:20:46,040 --> 02:20:48,559
Mike Manatti, don't don't tell me. I don't want to know. I

2038
02:20:48,559 --> 02:20:52,600
don't want to all of us,
not on my own. I tweeted something

2039
02:20:52,639 --> 02:20:56,079
about how people slept on Gravity Rush
and I had to make sure when I

2040
02:20:56,120 --> 02:21:01,239
tweeted it not you, person who
played gravity. I don't worry. You

2041
02:21:01,360 --> 02:21:07,159
don't have to tell me. It's
okay. Uh. Last email of the

2042
02:21:07,280 --> 02:21:20,239
show comes from Yawe Bungaku. Shut
up, Mike, thank you for skipping

2043
02:21:20,319 --> 02:21:24,360
over the Yawi part. All right. Dodgeball tips high bomb cast. I'm

2044
02:21:24,399 --> 02:21:28,479
not sure if Jan was serious about
receiving dodgeball tips, but if he was,

2045
02:21:28,719 --> 02:21:33,000
I can help with this. I've
played dodgeball for about eight years and

2046
02:21:33,680 --> 02:21:37,360
more dedicated to that children's sport than
any other. Here are a few pointers.

2047
02:21:37,799 --> 02:21:43,879
One aim low. Worst case scenario
is getting caught, because it leads

2048
02:21:43,920 --> 02:21:46,040
to a two persons swing in their
favor. You want to aim for the

2049
02:21:46,200 --> 02:21:52,600
ankles to minimize the chance of being
caught. Number two suggestion like that throw

2050
02:21:52,760 --> 02:21:56,159
together. Find a way to identify
your target. Eg. Number two meeting

2051
02:21:56,200 --> 02:22:00,760
the person second from the left,
and then throw at least two balls at

2052
02:22:00,799 --> 02:22:03,079
them. It's so much harder to
catch or dodge when there are a ton

2053
02:22:03,159 --> 02:22:07,639
of balls coming at you. That's
just life. Appreciate you providing the context

2054
02:22:07,719 --> 02:22:13,319
there that makes sense. Number three
bread basket. Put your arms out in

2055
02:22:13,479 --> 02:22:18,360
front of you like a bread basket
when you're getting ready to catch. It

2056
02:22:18,520 --> 02:22:22,479
makes it easier for the ball to
bounce out, for the ball to bounce

2057
02:22:22,520 --> 02:22:24,559
out of your grip. It's easier
than catching with your hands, and you're

2058
02:22:24,639 --> 02:22:28,840
less likely to hurt one of your
fingers. Yeah, catch with your body

2059
02:22:28,920 --> 02:22:33,280
for sure. Number five. There
we go. Number four, wear volleyball

2060
02:22:33,440 --> 02:22:37,280
knee pads. Then you can dive
and slide and do all all of the

2061
02:22:37,440 --> 02:22:43,639
ridiculous dramatic things that are demanded by
such a ridiculous dramatic sport. Those are

2062
02:22:43,680 --> 02:22:46,760
some basic tips to get you started. I won't drown you in anything advanced,

2063
02:22:46,920 --> 02:22:50,920
but I hope you guys actually try
it. It's shockingly good exercise and

2064
02:22:52,079 --> 02:22:56,079
not so shockingly extremely fun. Dutifully
would have a great time with. Yeah.

2065
02:22:56,360 --> 02:23:00,840
Yeah, like the kneepads, I
think that's I think that's smart.

2066
02:23:01,040 --> 02:23:03,959
Yeah, But if I get hurt, Yeah, we're gonna get hurt.

2067
02:23:03,000 --> 02:23:07,319
Yeah, we would boo, We're
all gonna get hurt. We're all boo

2068
02:23:07,399 --> 02:23:11,879
boo. What do you mean you're
not gonna make Yeah, yeah, you

2069
02:23:11,959 --> 02:23:16,159
get what if he needs hip surgery
after one round, that would be the

2070
02:23:16,399 --> 02:23:22,440
most pathetic headline ever written. In
this email, he said the children's sport

2071
02:23:22,559 --> 02:23:26,200
of dodgeball. Can I say that, in my opinion, all sports are

2072
02:23:26,280 --> 02:23:33,280
children's sports, All sports can be
children's children. Listen. I just think

2073
02:23:33,319 --> 02:23:37,360
there's nothing wrong with something being for
children. But like baseball is a kid's

2074
02:23:37,440 --> 02:23:39,520
game that adults play. That's boxing, is it? Boxing is not a

2075
02:23:39,639 --> 02:23:43,200
children's sport? Okay, that's I
do like. Okay, you're right,

2076
02:23:43,239 --> 02:23:48,520
combat sports very good point that that
was. I didn't think golf's not a

2077
02:23:48,639 --> 02:23:52,239
children's sports. Into a hole,
if you break it down to its component

2078
02:23:52,280 --> 02:23:56,399
parts, hitting a ball into a
hole is for children, mini mini golf.

2079
02:23:58,159 --> 02:24:01,479
Yeah, I mean, that's how
thing. That's the honor for adult

2080
02:24:01,559 --> 02:24:07,600
bodies. But I think the fundamental, like what you're doing is like play,

2081
02:24:07,000 --> 02:24:09,000
and I don't think it's great.
Play is great. I love play

2082
02:24:09,040 --> 02:24:13,280
obviously, Yeah, but you know
you're just too fucking old for it because

2083
02:24:13,319 --> 02:24:16,959
you're not. I'm not saying that
I put I eat cheese pizza, Mike.

2084
02:24:16,120 --> 02:24:20,520
It's four kids. It's just you
know, for kids all the time.

2085
02:24:20,520 --> 02:24:24,000
I think everyone's right here, Yeah, everyone's right. No one's wrong.

2086
02:24:24,280 --> 02:24:28,520
We should just make a Dodgeball Giant
Bomb team shirt and then it's right.

2087
02:24:28,559 --> 02:24:35,559
We should just band kids from zoos
already. Alright, alright, that's

2088
02:24:37,360 --> 02:24:41,280
that's all of the emails. Uh. This week, once again, you

2089
02:24:41,360 --> 02:24:46,639
can send your emails to BombCast at
giant bomb dot com. I love and

2090
02:24:46,760 --> 02:24:50,319
appreciate every single email. Got a
bunch of weird ones, but that's cool.

2091
02:24:52,120 --> 02:24:58,120
Uh. All right, Now we've
gotten to the shout outs, capping

2092
02:24:58,200 --> 02:25:03,159
out of twenty five shots at two, Jann, you look amazing, so

2093
02:25:03,319 --> 02:25:07,159
youthful and hot shots out to Jeff
Gersman and his new baby and to Titan

2094
02:25:07,200 --> 02:25:11,360
Fall two, Giant Bomb Clan,
The jant To Menace, Attack of the

2095
02:25:11,399 --> 02:25:13,760
Jans, Jan, Venge of the
Sith, A New Hope show up.

2096
02:25:13,799 --> 02:25:18,040
Oh that's good, The Jampire strikes
Back, Return of the Jani, the

2097
02:25:18,079 --> 02:25:20,159
Foce Awake, Jan's the Last Jan
I, The Rise of Jan Walker.

2098
02:25:20,399 --> 02:25:24,719
Some of these sucking I wrote them. Panda Choo Choo Gang y'all. Try

2099
02:25:24,760 --> 02:25:26,520
the strawberry and cream, Doctor Pepper, pretty tasty. I'm trying to help

2100
02:25:26,520 --> 02:25:31,840
you get into sponsorship. The raided
R super Star Adam Copeland is all elite

2101
02:25:31,879 --> 02:25:39,360
baby, the l edge and Edge, and that's terrible. I'm here to

2102
02:25:39,440 --> 02:25:43,360
defend honorable trophy perverts like myself from
the evil Jeff Grubb. Most of us

2103
02:25:43,440 --> 02:25:48,399
aren't that terrible and want to earn
our dumb little JPEGs in peace, Michael

2104
02:25:48,440 --> 02:25:52,479
him, Let's go, how's your
bird game? Jan yo yo? I

2105
02:25:52,920 --> 02:25:58,000
heavily considered bringing Wingspan to Disneyland for
my partner and I could play it afterwards,

2106
02:25:58,040 --> 02:26:03,399
but I didn't because that's that heavy
ox y'all it is every child in

2107
02:26:03,159 --> 02:26:07,479
every child should watch The Never Ending
Story. It's a whimsical PG movie where

2108
02:26:07,520 --> 02:26:13,239
a treys pet and best friend are
tacks. The horse dies of sadness and

2109
02:26:13,360 --> 02:26:16,319
quicksand in the month. Yeah that's
part of it too. Yeah, Happy

2110
02:26:16,440 --> 02:26:20,559
first anniversary to the Witch for Mercury. It can fly, it can dance,

2111
02:26:20,639 --> 02:26:24,159
Aerial Love to Disney Talk More Popcorn
Buckets, nineties Disney podcast, Let's

2112
02:26:24,200 --> 02:26:28,280
Go. This is not a trill
or is it? Truth's Alert? Truths

2113
02:26:28,319 --> 02:26:31,000
Alert brock Purty. It's better than
Patrick Mahomes. Truth Alert, truth Ler.

2114
02:26:31,239 --> 02:26:37,520
Let's go foreign old Baby Bang Bang
nine or Gang Brave in the Royal

2115
02:26:37,639 --> 02:26:41,879
Sentai are sent to a strange new
world. This weekend witnessed the advent of

2116
02:26:43,680 --> 02:26:50,159
z you didn't Sentai in a dinosaur
encounter King ogre keyogre here their roar grub

2117
02:26:50,280 --> 02:26:52,040
twenty four check. It's been a
while, it's been a while. I

2118
02:26:52,120 --> 02:26:56,360
actually am off the twenty four train
currently because I'm doing some other stuff during

2119
02:26:56,399 --> 02:27:01,440
my workouts. But I'll get watch
in there watching it gets who it gets.

2120
02:27:01,479 --> 02:27:03,920
We were working pretty hard. Pump
an iron, if you know what

2121
02:27:03,000 --> 02:27:09,200
I mean. Love Boat check j
K Lill nevermind, Mitch has been goballing

2122
02:27:09,280 --> 02:27:11,440
us from months. Damn it.
I'm gonna watch love Butot eventually. Look,

2123
02:27:11,440 --> 02:27:16,920
there's so many videos. I ever
told, there's so many video Okay,

2124
02:27:16,600 --> 02:27:22,959
bug bug hype, hype, hype, it's all games, all month.

2125
02:27:22,079 --> 02:27:31,239
Hype. Don't cry because it Jim
Boats smile because it ryan very good.

2126
02:27:31,840 --> 02:27:35,879
Jan show up more like jan O. Choke on these nuts. Oh,

2127
02:27:35,959 --> 02:27:41,680
come on, Scout check please,
Uh she's around worry I'll find her

2128
02:27:41,840 --> 02:27:48,399
later. It's October third, three
do you know where your giant twelve foot

2129
02:27:48,639 --> 02:27:52,879
tall home depot decorative lawn skeleton is? You know, there's a new one.

2130
02:27:54,239 --> 02:27:58,959
There's a new one on the block
and it's four hundred dollars and it's

2131
02:27:58,040 --> 02:28:03,559
basically just like the bust of a
skeleton. Okay, that looks like it's

2132
02:28:03,639 --> 02:28:09,760
coming out of the ground. And
then there's other pieces that are like mini

2133
02:28:09,879 --> 02:28:13,079
version of that. Yes, like
that thing is wild weird. We're thinking

2134
02:28:13,079 --> 02:28:16,079
about getting Jack Skellington because the kids
are really into that's like totally reasonable.

2135
02:28:16,360 --> 02:28:22,040
Yeah, what eye Carlac, I
can make up four in shart hashtag we

2136
02:28:22,120 --> 02:28:26,840
can fix her. Hey nos,
fuck you. Shouts out to GB's aging

2137
02:28:26,879 --> 02:28:30,959
millennials. To grubs gazebo, We
get you, grub, hang your shirts

2138
02:28:31,079 --> 02:28:37,440
under the gazebo. Small easy to
install some sort of hanging apparatus, saying

2139
02:28:39,280 --> 02:28:45,799
this space intentionally left blank. Sean, Thanks for Sean, Thanks thanks super

2140
02:28:45,840 --> 02:28:48,600
Mario. Odyssey is a bad game. McDowell, uh finger pointing up emoji,

2141
02:28:48,760 --> 02:28:52,079
fuck you, beef hammer love Sean, and then once again, much

2142
02:28:52,159 --> 02:28:56,280
love to Michael him My boys going
through some stuff. If we could just

2143
02:28:56,360 --> 02:28:58,680
send some love is what they're very
much appreciated. We love you, buddy,

2144
02:29:00,440 --> 02:29:03,200
We'll get through this. We love
you. And that has been it

2145
02:29:03,200 --> 02:29:07,760
for this episode of the Giant Bomb
Cast. A lot of plugs to do,

2146
02:29:09,000 --> 02:29:11,799
y'all. There's a new Honest game
trailers out for Starfield that Bailey wrote.

2147
02:29:11,920 --> 02:29:16,120
She sent me a joker. I
sent some jokes for that one.

2148
02:29:16,239 --> 02:29:20,399
Where wait, where are you getting
all the invites for the jokes? I've

2149
02:29:20,639 --> 02:29:24,159
It's just like a cool discord.
Amos. No, she only asks funny

2150
02:29:24,239 --> 02:29:30,120
people. Got it? Got it? No, said I get it?

2151
02:29:30,959 --> 02:29:39,479
Question, question asked, a real
answer, question asked and answered respectfully.

2152
02:29:39,959 --> 02:29:41,760
Nothing you have to talk about.
It's fine, it's fun. Says it

2153
02:29:41,799 --> 02:29:48,120
on Twitter. She has it on
Twitter. Jeff will remember this. Look,

2154
02:29:48,440 --> 02:30:00,799
you're already approved by easily on approved
it bug bug, Hey you new

2155
02:30:00,840 --> 02:30:05,360
episode of nineties Disney about Journey into
your Imagination when they took the best ride

2156
02:30:05,360 --> 02:30:09,000
to turn into the worst ride.
And also, don't forget I'm the managing

2157
02:30:09,079 --> 02:30:13,440
editor at game Speak. I got
week gaysbeat everybody. Yeah, absolutely.

2158
02:30:15,239 --> 02:30:18,639
I was on an episode of game
Spot after dark last week, hung out

2159
02:30:18,680 --> 02:30:22,239
with Tim and Lucy. We talked
a lot about Wingspan, talked about Liza

2160
02:30:22,319 --> 02:30:26,520
p speaking about game Spot after dark. The crew over there did a spoiler

2161
02:30:26,600 --> 02:30:31,079
cast for Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven.
Check out The Homegirl Emma on Reality Check

2162
02:30:31,840 --> 02:30:37,879
check out Tam and Lucy on spot
On, and other various game spot stuff.

2163
02:30:37,239 --> 02:30:39,959
What else we got going on this
week? Boys, I missed yesterday?

2164
02:30:41,040 --> 02:30:45,840
What's popping out? There's a new
Jeff Jeff's coming out tomorrow as we

2165
02:30:45,959 --> 02:30:50,200
continue to watch the best anime ever
made, or at least top twenty no

2166
02:30:50,440 --> 02:30:54,079
so I'm sure how it works,
but there's a new one coming out tomorrow.

2167
02:30:54,600 --> 02:31:01,040
We're doing a Titan Fall Thursday Night
throwdown on Thursday Day. We're doing

2168
02:31:01,479 --> 02:31:05,799
some Counterstrike two stuff tomorrow on Wednesday. That's also community things. So get

2169
02:31:05,879 --> 02:31:09,479
counter Strike two installed so we could
play against people who started the game.

2170
02:31:09,520 --> 02:31:13,079
Makes you like play some matches against
bots or it's one match, but one

2171
02:31:13,159 --> 02:31:18,000
match is like to ten wins,
so you gotta get that's it's late.

2172
02:31:18,079 --> 02:31:20,319
It's a little bit yep. Oh
god, alright, Well, Game Mess

2173
02:31:20,360 --> 02:31:24,000
Mornings all through the rest of this
week as while everybody maybe Friday, so

2174
02:31:24,079 --> 02:31:26,760
maybe, but probably I'm gonna say, don't do it, Jeff. I

2175
02:31:26,840 --> 02:31:28,879
know the chan's gonna say don't do
it, So we'll see what happens when

2176
02:31:28,879 --> 02:31:31,719
we get to Friday. You know
what, Jeff winds up doing it when

2177
02:31:31,719 --> 02:31:33,520
I say don't do it, So
I'm gonna say do it, Jeff.

2178
02:31:33,600 --> 02:31:37,680
Go alright, man, that does
kind of work. Man, I gonna

2179
02:31:37,680 --> 02:31:41,280
feel like I shouldn't do it.
Uh, Thursday night, that throwdown is

2180
02:31:41,319 --> 02:31:46,000
happening during the day. Correct,
it's happening before the drum dump truck.

2181
02:31:46,120 --> 02:31:48,799
Correct, before the dump truck.
That's right, it's night somebody somewhere for

2182
02:31:48,879 --> 02:31:52,840
sure, time somewhere. That's right. We're doing TF two again on T

2183
02:31:52,040 --> 02:31:58,600
n T happing folks. Well,
folks, that about wraps up for this

2184
02:31:58,280 --> 02:32:01,200
week's have a of the giant bomb
cast. You know, I think sometimes

2185
02:32:01,879 --> 02:32:05,440
maybe we should do two of these. You know what what would that be?

2186
02:32:05,559 --> 02:32:09,399
Like? What if we did two
second a second bomb cast? And

2187
02:32:09,479 --> 02:32:13,239
what if we did a second bomb
cast like a B sides? What's what

2188
02:32:13,360 --> 02:32:15,319
did that be like? You know, who does Mike have to be on

2189
02:32:15,399 --> 02:32:22,000
it? Fuck? No, just
a B side, not a daily type

2190
02:32:22,040 --> 02:32:26,000
of bomb cast, but maybe like
one like later in the week. Perhaps,

2191
02:32:26,159 --> 02:32:30,120
Yeah, that's episode No, No, you said it. The boner

2192
02:32:30,200 --> 02:32:37,920
episode it's the SmackDown to the bomb
cast. Straw understood that, okay,

2193
02:32:39,120 --> 02:32:41,879
okay, you know because like the
dump truck, there's the hard rule that

2194
02:32:43,000 --> 02:32:46,959
back of our points to the sign
when we enter in no videos slaps the

2195
02:32:46,040 --> 02:32:50,159
sign. Slaps the sign, gaze
proudly at it. You know, maybe

2196
02:32:50,680 --> 02:32:56,360
maybe two bombcasts a week. We'll
see what too many fucking embargoes on Wednesdays,

2197
02:32:56,680 --> 02:32:58,319
that's what it is. Yeah,
someone make a poll. I want

2198
02:32:58,319 --> 02:33:03,360
to see where they petitis for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll

2199
02:33:03,360 --> 02:33:09,440
see, We'll see. We could
call it the beast cast. We have

2200
02:33:09,520 --> 02:33:13,319
a few East Coasters again, hey, you know we also if we're if

2201
02:33:13,360 --> 02:33:18,000
we're throwing in Bailey, we're throwing
an emo, throwing a Nikki on top

2202
02:33:18,040 --> 02:33:22,000
of Tam Tam Lucy and I.
That's that's like a West Coast team almost,

2203
02:33:22,719 --> 02:33:26,959
all right? You have so many
friends now, remember when like it

2204
02:33:26,120 --> 02:33:30,280
was just you would have three people
BombCast and everybody act like it was the

2205
02:33:30,399 --> 02:33:33,040
end of the world. Look at
you now, see, folks, things

2206
02:33:33,120 --> 02:33:37,760
can approve. Just gotta trust the
process. Trust the process. You too

2207
02:33:37,840 --> 02:33:41,440
could have a rock Party led football
team, that's right, baby, Like

2208
02:33:41,639 --> 02:33:46,559
last drafted QB. How good is
that gonna be? Turns out the street.

2209
02:33:46,719 --> 02:33:48,600
Chance Jan, that the Lions and
the and the forty nine ers meet

2210
02:33:48,639 --> 02:33:52,000
in the playoffs. So if that
happens, I'm gonna come visit. We're

2211
02:33:52,000 --> 02:33:58,120
gonna go Yo, BCB baby BCP. We'll see you for another episode of

2212
02:33:58,280 --> 02:34:00,920
the Giant BombCast. I've been Jan, he's been Jeff. He's also been

2213
02:34:01,000 --> 02:34:03,680
Jeff, and he's been Mike.
And you have been looking great today.

2214
02:34:03,920 --> 02:34:07,879
Whatever you're doing, it's working.
We'll see you next week for another episode

2215
02:34:07,920 --> 02:34:31,120
of the Giant Bomb Test. All
right, let's trying to lift the docks.

2216
02:34:31,120 --> 02:34:35,399
She didn't want to be lifting a
mid cast