WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:30.760 Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, October third, twenty twenty three. Welcome to 2 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:36.079 the Giant Bomb Cast. It's Tuesday. Tuesdays are for emotional breakdowns that have 3 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:42.679 eventually lead to breakthroughs on God's favorite podcast with the most handsome men in games 4 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:47.719 media. I'm your host today, jan Ochoa joining me co captain of the 5 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:52.799 ship as always, Jeff Grub I'm obsessed with a TikTok. I saw Chad 6 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.320 Smith playing thirty Seconds to Mars. He's the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers. 7 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:00.799 It is like watching a drummer sleep with another drummer's wife. Is insane. 8 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.719 How much he crushes that song. I'm obsessed with. It's the only 9 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.760 thing I know the story about that. Jeff Backlar also here in the show. 10 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.760 Please tell me so drum Eo is a drum eo video, right, 11 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:17.480 Yes, Drummy is like a drum enthusiast channel. And they basically played, 12 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.760 uh, that song, whatever the fucking song, the one song everyone knows 13 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:26.000 from thirty Seconds to Mars Jared song, I think yeah, And they gave 14 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:32.000 him the track without the drum stem, and Chad Smith heard it without He 15 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:36.319 just heard like the guitar, bass, and vocals, and then they were 16 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.799 like, Okay, Chad Smith, you sexy man, you play drums to 17 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:45.120 this song. And he just like it's just it's in a way like it's 18 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.599 insane. It's actually also hilarious, just because he's such a character. And 19 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.079 he was just like, am I doing it good? And they're all like, 20 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.120 you're a fucking god, sir. But it's like if I was the 21 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.079 drummer, which I guess is a Jared Leto's brother in the band, I 22 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:01.799 would feel like so embarrassed. I'd be like, oh my, oh you 23 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:07.799 know why. It's like it's like losing to Connor McDavid and yeah, you've 24 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:12.639 been thrown by a god. So who guess h And last, but certainly 25 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:16.759 never leased, Mike Manotti, please explain Connor McDavid to me. You never 26 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:23.680 lead with venom. I don't know who that person is. Is that what 27 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:27.360 you're just talking about? Yeah, he's what do you think it is? 28 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.560 Yeah? What do you come on? That name just says that person does 29 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.759 one thing. That's choie peppers. You're talking about a second, Mike, 30 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.199 we're talking about being present and in the moment, listening to each other. 31 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.960 I wasn't really. I was really proud of myself for doing the venom things, 32 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:46.800 so that I was thinking about my delivery and I was thinking about because 33 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.800 then I thought another thing I thought might be funny to lead with. But 34 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:53.840 then, like you know, I was gonna just go I'm like naught and 35 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:57.240 I believe in God. But then it was a while ago that we talked 36 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.039 about God. That would have that would have been Here's what bothers me, 37 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:06.400 Mike. We give you tons of warning, tons of prep time about you're 38 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:10.039 gonna show. Okay, okay, you could have done all this research. 39 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.680 You're coming in here act like I don't know who Connor mcgave it is. 40 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:19.960 Maybe he's an MMA guy. Oh that is all the Connors have to fight 41 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.240 in MMA, right, that's a rule of these days. Yeah, Connor 42 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.919 hockey. So but yeah, he's the best hockey player alive. Is he? 43 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:31.120 Is he a goon or hens the furthest thing in the world from you, 44 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.400 Yes, sir, he's definitely. He didn't shooting him mop up. 45 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:38.639 He's a nice boy. He's a nice boy and he cannot stop being amazing 46 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.919 at hockey. Does he believe in God? He is? I don't think 47 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:46.520 himself. Yeah, goody good. One of us is God? Does God 48 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.240 believe in himself? I don't know what if God was one of us, 49 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.599 you know, just like one of us on the trainer. It's my goal 50 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:58.080 for someone to have an emotional breakthrough today, whether that's on the show or 51 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.879 just today. That is doesnt even mean the four of us here collected. 52 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:04.439 That's like whoever is listening live right now. I want this to be a 53 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:09.680 very wholesome episode. No no C words. I mean, if it comes 54 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:18.920 out, I did it, alright, alright, wow, okay, hey, 55 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:21.639 hey, before we talk about video games. How's everyone doing, Mike, 56 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:29.000 Jeff, Jeff better now? I mean I spent most of a weekend 57 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:35.759 recovering from That's right, folks, the vaccine man. You were right. 58 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:40.759 You should have gotten that. Fauci hunted you down and jabbed him, jabbed 59 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:45.319 you himself, held me down with leather straps, opened up my eyelids. 60 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:47.360 Jurassic Park, Loss World. He's hanging off the side of a jeep with 61 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:57.800 a netgun, just hunting you down. Held open my eyelids like clockwork. 62 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:00.680 Orange. I don't know why, because it was just a They want you 63 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.199 to see it. They know that that's real. We're gonna hurt you force 64 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.639 me to stare because it's the placebo effect is the only thing that works, 65 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.160 right, that says so yeah, you gotta see it go in to actually 66 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:15.519 feel something. Listen. I was on the dump truck later that day and 67 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:21.279 I spoke about it. This fucking thing destroyed me. And what's bothering me 68 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:27.120 is like, I don't know what's happening. Why am I feel like I'm 69 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:31.399 the only one who's having violently ill reactions? Does it mean you have a 70 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:35.079 good immune system? Because it's like, dude, if we could put on 71 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:40.680 serious educated back on our first second, this means it's working. But now 72 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:46.279 that we're back to the truth, yeah, there's being smart and there's telling 73 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.480 the truth all right, now that we're being no like, this is my 74 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:54.639 first fiser one. I've been a madurna boy, durn mommy, get it 75 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:58.079 right, sorry, durn the mommy, And now I'm a fiser father, 76 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:11.079 get boy five, that's right. Because I was too busy shivering my teeth 77 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.879 all out of my skull. I am not joking. I wasn't at least, 78 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.240 so I got it early in the morning on Thursday, and by the 79 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:27.240 time I went to bed Thursday night, I was like like going crazy. 80 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.759 I woke up still fucked up. I had maybe four hours of sleep Thursday 81 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.839 night. I wrote in a couple of times. Right on Friday, I 82 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:38.720 was just like I'm fucked up. I'm fucked up. It wasn't until Saturday 83 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:44.040 around noon where I was like back to normal and then but I was still 84 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:46.120 like wildly tired. I tried to play hockey on Sunday. I played in 85 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:50.120 the game on Sunday and got the shit kicked out of me, Like I 86 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:55.519 just just beat you up, dude. I like collided with the dude and 87 00:06:55.639 --> 00:07:00.199 just stayed on the ice and just stared at the ice for like a eleven 88 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.879 seconds, where I was just like I shouldn't be here right now. Kind 89 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:10.720 of thing. This virus, this vaccine day after me. I definitely need 90 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.839 to get that because I'm gonna be that cruise in about a month. Oh 91 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:20.160 boy, oh my crone's medicine. Humory is basically just an autoimmune depressing right, 92 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:24.319 So like my musicism is already like weaker, So I gotta get that. 93 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:26.959 I gotta get the flu shot too. I know you don't believe in 94 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.879 these things. Backlar I hope you don't just be too much. I don't 95 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.519 believe them, right, it's just one thing, and it's both the flu 96 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:36.680 shot and this isn't a margarite. You know you can't just fucking mix that 97 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:41.759 up in a van. I got my doctor. Dad said to get them 98 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:46.680 on separate my own science over here and give separate days. I did my 99 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:51.279 own research and got both of them at the city. No wonder you felt 100 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:56.560 like ship. Well, the flu shot never bothered me. I'd always got 101 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:59.399 gotten it and never bothered. You know, back you got, you got 102 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:03.399 knocked down, but you get up again. You are Yeah, yeah, 103 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.279 you're never gonna keep them down. See, I had no songs. Oh 104 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:13.759 all right, okay, they're offering another would say they were offering another vaccine. 105 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.439 But I did not choose for like the fancy upgrade. I did not 106 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:24.240 want a boutique. They were genuinely trying to sell me on something on my 107 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:31.399 way out, like it's a vaccines. I mean, no, I think 108 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:39.279 there's a new designer hepatitis vacs out is a designer brand, isn't it? 109 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.200 Or am I wrong? Am I misspoken? Is it endorsed by an AI? 110 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:46.360 Tom Hanks rules Gucci, Like, does Gucci make vaccines? Now? 111 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.200 AI, do you see that thing circulating that? Uh, there's a new 112 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.720 flavor of coke designed by AI jen. Come on, it's a family show. 113 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:01.840 What are we doing? What? I can't believe Coca Cola would sell 114 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:07.080 out like this. I don't understand it. I don't want AI to inform 115 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.159 that is the AI already going to give us? Is that what this is 116 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.679 probably do? It's like yoh, the AI audits, Oh, how nice 117 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.960 designed to do flavor? I would be competent enough to like poison something though, 118 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.000 because it's like whenever I try to use AI these first I was impressed 119 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.159 by the tech, and these days, every time I try to use it, 120 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.799 I'm like, this is shit, this is garbage, and I think 121 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:35.600 it's very unimpressive. It's now it's like like very unimpressive and so yeah, 122 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:37.919 like Coca that that's gotta be like Cokel's like, yeah, we just threw 123 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.519 some shit in there, and the AI did something and then we actually made 124 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:45.440 it taste good. Although I drink right, Like what does that mean? 125 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.960 Like A I make a flavor of coke and it goes cherry and you're like, 126 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:56.679 okay, nice, Try we already cherry all right, like vanilla the 127 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:01.679 headline on Coca Cola's blog site or they're their media center here at Coca Cola 128 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:11.320 Creations imagines year three thousand with new futuristic flavor and AI powered experience. Shout 129 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.159 outs to whoever is in that AI space that fucking got Coca Cola to buy 130 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.759 in on your stupid pitch. Yeah, you're like, oh, you guys 131 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.159 can't miss on on this. This is the future and it's somewhat I guess 132 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.960 you're some money. Oh that metaverse money has to go somewhere else now. 133 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.919 I feel like if it's the year three thousand and we're all still drinking soda, 134 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:31.919 I feel like it would taste it would it would just come as cubes, 135 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.759 like little liquid cubes. Yeah. Thousand years yeah, yeah, thousand. 136 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.559 I mean a thousand years ago from now. It was like medieval times. 137 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:48.120 They were drinking. Show out of time to think that, like Coca 138 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.000 Cola as a brand will still be a thing. I mean, we'll still 139 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.720 be around. You know. It's no we're all gonna get electric. We're 140 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:01.480 all gonna collectively get electrocuted at one one game of the year and then like 141 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.960 our our spirits will live forever in the computers. Like Backguard though, because 142 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.000 he got the booster's gonna kill him. Oh yeah, time's running out for 143 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.000 this old boy. Yeah, we're all gonna get millennium falcons. Like a 144 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:16.600 joke about the oh Man. Let's just keep bringing him solo every single week. 145 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:22.440 Huh. Way more contentious topic than the backs for sure. Like Solo, 146 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:26.120 I thought it was okay, I have no problem. I don't even 147 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.320 have a problem with them giving him his name that thing whatever. I did 148 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:35.440 take a bunch about inane I can't ok alright, well, so that brings 149 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:48.399 me to it's idiot. I want to go cry during episode eight again? 150 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:54.519 God yeah, I will absolutely. I went to Disneyland, That's why. 151 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.320 That's that's the real reason, Dan, everybody's really tired of hearing about you 152 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.320 going on on about Disney. Come on, I know I'm gonna go from 153 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:07.519 Nope, new material. So thank you for my picture. Of course, 154 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.519 that was that I was stressing out, Mike. I could barely walk because 155 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:18.279 I brought the worst shoes and then I we had already walked like amateur forty 156 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.399 k steps that damn, Like this is too much? Why are we still 157 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:24.840 doing this. Uh anyway, anyway, but I needed to take that picture 158 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.919 five percent two percent left on my phone, Mike, I mean a picture 159 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.960 of Judge Doom from Who Frame Roger Rabbit? Who's there this year? It's 160 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.799 very good? Sorry, go on, wait, that's Disney. Yeah, 161 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.559 it's Disney. Yeah. They have a Judge Doom character and he's like recreates 162 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:45.159 the bit where he takes that cartoon shoe shoe, but he murders it. 163 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:50.039 Yeah yeah, wait the portion of who Framed Roger rab they chose to recreate 164 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.320 things never been scarred by. Yeah. I just I just don't think like 165 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:01.039 that's the thing we need to be celebrating, like the murder of an innocent 166 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:05.600 cartoon character. Watch all the time, and this cost I'm sorry, think 167 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:13.799 we're proud of. I just can't get behind Christopher Lloyd pushing that poor defenseless 168 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:18.200 shoe into the ooze like that. It sounds Unamerican to me. You're saying 169 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:20.519 right now, yeah, he's judged during executioner because tunes don't have rights. 170 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:24.840 I wonder what they're trying to talk about. I'm not gonna let my kids 171 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.639 see that scene till he's thirty, Okay, it's very disturbing, it's very 172 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.159 informed me. That stays with me. Oh yeah, well that's what I 173 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.879 do because that's the scene that's scarred everybody's good. I just want to shout 174 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.039 shout out. I believe the name is Garrett, shouts out to Bow, 175 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:45.600 shouts out to the homie I saw eating a Ronto rap in Galaxy's Edge. 176 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.799 What's up for saying? What's up? But anyway, good time, good 177 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.159 times were had. But yo, yo, yo yo. As we know, 178 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.360 I I'm also a disney adult, almost almost to the level that Mike 179 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.279 is not almost there. I've yet to attain those heights, but let me 180 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:09.159 tell you I had two. I'm really just thinking about one very bad experience 181 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:15.120 at Disneyland, folks, And that's not that's not anything on the park itself 182 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.240 or whatever happens, it happens. It's exclusively on John Drake, who bullied 183 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:22.519 you. I'm sure, yes, yes, I don't know why I thought 184 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.240 i'd see John Drake there, and I'm just assuming he lives there. Now 185 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:33.080 it's like, oh, hey, Jan takes Coke. But yo, okay, 186 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.639 I'm all about accessibility, folks. You know, uh, we we 187 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.559 need more ramps everywhere in the world in a lot of structures. Is there 188 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:50.960 a butt coming, Yes, there is eight eight compliant for your But there 189 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:58.919 are some folks that go on mobility scooters that you fucking need to take some 190 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:03.440 sort of certific Haitian or hand your fucking license over Backlar was going to be 191 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.120 on board with this, Yes, okay, all right, okay, So 192 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.200 so we we went, my partner and I we went specifically for the Oogie 193 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.120 Bookie bash, right, and there's a lot of tight lines for like the 194 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:18.960 little trick or treating that you do in the park. There was an older 195 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:26.519 woman that definitely, definitely did not know how to fucking use her mobility scooter 196 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:31.799 because my partner and I went in, like we went, joined the queue 197 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.200 for everything, and then this person didn't almost did not know how to stop 198 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:37.720 and almost hit my partner. Okay, I'm fair. Aren't they called rascal 199 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:39.960 scooters? Maybe that's like a feature where they're like, oh, they're just 200 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.080 gonna act up, such rascals. I had never wanted to tip one of 201 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.639 these over until that day. You can. They're easy to do, not 202 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.080 that I would know. Okay, okay, hold hold on, the hold 203 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:54.159 on, there's a there's another part of this. So all right, it 204 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.120 turns out the rest of her party, uh what was in front of us. 205 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:00.799 So we're like, all right, go ahead, go ahead of us, 206 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:03.639 it's cool. Whatever. And then you know, like, okay, 207 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.480 it's it's these two ladies and mobility scooters. That's cute. They're here on 208 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:11.399 Halloween whatever. And then they're two piece of shit. Like family members are 209 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.279 like, oh, thanks for thanks for letting us know you were in line, 210 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:15.600 and then like, you know, it's cool, save save space and 211 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.240 lines whatever, join the cute whatever. It's cool. But then these two 212 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:25.919 ladies completely leave their two older relatives that are ill equipped to ride these scooters 213 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.039 behind, and like there's so much space and gaps in the line. And 214 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.440 then all right, it's cool. It's chill, like these these old ladies, 215 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.120 I'm trying to just look look the other way. It doesn't sound very 216 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:40.159 chill. I'm trying to look the other way. And then you know it's 217 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.279 it's a trick or treating line, right, So they're dropping one two pieces 218 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:45.279 of candy in each bag. There's a bunch of people, there's a bunch 219 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:51.320 of kids having a great time, but these old ladies keep accosting every single 220 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.879 cast member dropping candy in their bags, saying like, well, I need 221 00:16:53.960 --> 00:17:02.840 more candy in my bag. Oh no, right now, that was that 222 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:07.519 was Bacalar is like tossing something in his hand, fidgeting right now for audio 223 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:11.079 listeners. But anyway, I thought you were against murder backlar, And then 224 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:14.240 I was thinking, you know, my partner and I were trying to think, 225 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:15.680 like it's it's chill, it's cool, we're here, it's fine. 226 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.440 Just we're only going to be in line with these people for a little bit 227 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.680 and then we'll zip off somewhere else. And then you know, there's a 228 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.680 there's a couple of tight, tight turns, a little couple switchbacks to keep 229 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.400 the queue contained. One of the women, the women, the woman that 230 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:37.240 almost hit my partner, goes over one of the line dividers, uh like 231 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:47.240 the little pylons and loses control of her scooter no at like a certain speed, 232 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:53.680 yes, yes, considerable speed, considerable speed, and her two piece 233 00:17:53.720 --> 00:18:02.640 of shit relatives that are able bodied people just out of the way, concern 234 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:07.920 for themselves, not even trying to stop who may who may very well be 235 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:14.720 their elderly mother, elderly aunt, elderly family member, and this old lady 236 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.400 is going straight into a little child. No, no, no, And 237 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:22.880 then thank god. You know, like my partner and I were like looking 238 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.160 at the other way when this happened, so like I would have tried to 239 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:30.599 stop or despite having a lot of negative interactions with this lady. Then this 240 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.880 father, god bless his heart, was having a little lightsaber duel with his 241 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:38.519 kid. He buys and this isn't one of like the cheaper lightsabers, you 242 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:42.799 know, and Galaxy, Yes, in Galaxy's Edge, you can buy a 243 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:51.319 really really nice lightsaber. What's gonna happen to the lighter? The father and 244 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:56.880 for concern for this woman, throws his lightsaber down. The lady runs it 245 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:04.000 over, smashes over the tube part, and the father slams on the brakes, 246 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.559 turns off the scooter. And then you know what, instead of saying 247 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:12.599 thank you, this woman got mad at this guy. Why this woman got 248 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:19.240 mad at this guy now putting his hands on her. I can't anymore. 249 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:32.400 I'm afraid I need to leave. I cannot hear this. Yeah, yeah, 250 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:36.000 oh my god, keep in mind. Okay, so real quick, 251 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.279 one last detail back, lard, and then I'll give you your time on 252 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:42.119 the podium. So keep in mind, right, all right, everyone, 253 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.279 everyone behind us, everyone that's witnessed this is like, oh, thank god, 254 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.960 like oh, shouts out to this dag. Yeah, we didn't witness 255 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.880 a kid die. Thank god, we didn't witness like a terrible thing. 256 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:56.119 Keep in mind, you know, there's there's a different part of this queue 257 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.920 that has not seen this event happen, and it's still the rest of the 258 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:06.519 this trick or treat line is proceeding. I see these two women that are 259 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:14.000 associated with these two women in the mobility scooters continuing down the queue trick or 260 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:18.559 treating, doing their thing, just like we're not part of this. Like 261 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.319 I don't know her other than that I had a great time. All right, 262 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:27.640 How did you like what I was gonna show? Popcorn buckets? Now 263 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:32.039 backl do you want to talk about something else? If you're looking for justice 264 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:36.279 in this situation, I want to like lower your expectations. There was none. 265 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:41.000 No, yeah, no no. I didn't bring this up when I 266 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:45.000 got back because it just wasn't comfortable with it. But now that we've broken 267 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:49.519 through that this is God's favorite podcast, we could talk about it. Right, 268 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.559 do you have to like, how do you get one of these things 269 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:59.119 do you have to can Can anyone get it? Anyone? I think, 270 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:00.680 yeah, yeah, anyone could buy It's like a sea pat machine. I 271 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.680 think anyone could buy it. If you want to get a prescription, it's 272 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:08.200 a lot cheaper. I just know for a fact. I know for a 273 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:15.960 fact that I witnessed a gaggle of people on the scooters that absolutely were tourists 274 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:19.480 in the sense that they did not need the scooters, because I saw them 275 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:22.880 get up and walk around and do it, and like they were young and 276 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:26.359 very able, and they made me think turn into Walter, like I know 277 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.079 what, dude, this dude can walk. It's basically that Walter so check 278 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:36.480 moment. Guys more certain of anything in my life. That is it. 279 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:38.279 And I know there's like other things where you're like, well baby, they 280 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:44.240 could only sure, but like, no, not for people all afflicted with 281 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:49.799 the same youthful energy that all coincidentally were on. I just know they definitely 282 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:53.839 believe that. There are people who are like, here's so Disney Hack, 283 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:56.400 you're gonna have to walk forty thousand steps. What if you just got one 284 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:59.799 of those scooters instead? We have and we have fuck you money, Let's 285 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:03.279 just get them and the thing that that sucks. And I'm not advocating that, 286 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:06.480 like shame on these people, or I don't believe anyone on a mobility 287 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:11.559 scooter. It's just the folks that abuse it, ruining for folks that actually 288 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.039 need it. You know, ability scooter doesn't mean you can be an asshole, 289 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:18.039 like yeah, yeah that too, that too. Yeah. They were 290 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:22.000 driving these things like the first time you've ever been in a golf cart? 291 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:23.119 Do you know what I mean? The first time you want to drive a 292 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:27.359 golf tragic human. This thing's kind of fucking red, you know, Like 293 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:33.519 is that energy? I should got three beers and drive it some more. 294 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.319 Yeah, let's go. I don't know, I don't know. It was 295 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:41.319 like a thrill ride for them. I just could not get behind it anyway. 296 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:44.119 I just needed to say that now that we're in a safe space of 297 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:48.240 talking about it yet. Yeah, of course, of course. Additionally, 298 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:51.519 there was another thing that bothered me, but I'll say that for another day. 299 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:59.480 Yes, okay, so way behind me is sorry for audio listeners. 300 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:06.039 There's a zero from Nightmare Before Christmas. It lights up in the dark. 301 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:07.920 It's great, Jan Actually, could you bring it over to the camera, 302 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:11.680 Come here, come here. Yeah, I want to see some Wait, 303 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:15.640 is it like glow in the dark? Ord actually has LEDs let's see the 304 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.079 dark? Oh my goodness, look what he's got. He's got the strap 305 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:25.000 on it too. There go. Oh look it's got a dog from from 306 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:29.440 Nightmare for Christmas. That's sick. And then it opens up for popcorn you 307 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:32.480 can put you Oh, you can put a popcorn in the butt that there 308 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.240 little little treasures and you want to put your treasures in there? And then 309 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:40.400 it lights up and I want it? You got it? Wow, not 310 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:45.599 not this one. I'll get you a different don't worry. It's so good 311 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:49.440 sick. I love that, very neat, very neat. How did you 312 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.799 wait for that one? How long did you wait? Uh? We didn't. 313 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:59.400 That's a thing. I saw someone rolling rolling up a big bunch of 314 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:03.759 boxes. I'm like, that's the one you saw somebody else? An accessibility? 315 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:14.400 You're like that again again. I am all for accessibility, except for 316 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:18.920 the assholes? Are you I am? He's scared Canister? Yes, yes, 317 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:22.119 Mike, all right, all right, this is nying. This one. 318 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:25.640 Scout is gonna just freak the hell out, all right. If you've 319 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:29.759 watched Monsters, inc. This is one of the scared containers. It's a 320 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:37.200 little sipper right. Oh, it's so good. It's really neat. It's 321 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:45.279 great. But I hear Scout pattering now she's freaking out. I love that. 322 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:48.920 This is the dumb thing that I was looking for desperately when Mike Grubb, 323 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:53.599 Dan and I went, oh, you got it. This is stupid. 324 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:02.720 Okay, listeners, he's Mickey. It's like a giant Mickey glove attached 325 00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:07.960 to a pick. Best right now, So check my thing. Here's where 326 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:14.440 I get off Twitter. Here's it was a functional basket. Sure, Oh 327 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.839 my god, this is where I jump off. You had me until that, 328 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:21.759 even even I'm like, I don't know if I could do that. 329 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:29.279 You had a choice of like a fruit roll up apple slices or carrots as 330 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:33.599 as a snack. It was great. Sorry out all right, okay, 331 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:38.079 all right, last last thing for Disney show and tell Okay, so this 332 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:42.440 is the thing that has been offered at the parks for Mike pretty much since 333 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:48.960 forever. Right, I'll show you in a second. But because of TikTok 334 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.000 it kind of blew up even more so. But at Disneyland, and I 335 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:55.599 believe Disney World as well, you can at Main Street. You can get 336 00:25:55.640 --> 00:26:02.400 silhouettes made of pretty much whatever you want. Oh that's so we got scout, 337 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:07.160 my partner and myself on this guy. I like that a lot. 338 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:10.359 Do you get that that little cubby on Main Street there that goes off to 339 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:12.119 the right. You know, that street was supposed to extend to a whole 340 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:17.240 land Edison Square that never got built. Okay, we're supposed to be it 341 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:21.440 was gonna be like so like Main Street is sort of like nineteen like like 342 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:26.480 early nineteen hundreds as a square would have continued a little bit more like age 343 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:30.359 electricity kind of stuff. There would have been a show like, you know, 344 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:34.319 basically a Hall of Presidents, but with like inventors from that era kind 345 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:38.960 of a thing. Okay, sounds neat, sounds neat. That's real cool, 346 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:44.240 jan Uh. I appreciate that. The fact that you didn't have to 347 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:48.079 wait for a while for the zero thing. Oh big win. Oh okay, 348 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:51.839 what one last thing, and we'll finally talk about video games. I 349 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:56.119 swear I'm only letting the Disney talk stretch because we can't talk about a lot 350 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:02.240 of games this week because of embargoes and and all that stuff. So I 351 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:08.319 forgot. In Disneyland, at least, there's a whole ticket and reservation system, 352 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:14.680 two separate things where just because you buy a ticket doesn't mean you get 353 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:18.319 entry into the park because there are certain blockout dates where the park is expecting 354 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.720 high volume of people. They block out people to have an annual pass depending 355 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.720 on the tier that you're buying. Sometimes there's an event at the park, 356 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:33.640 so they're anticipating even more people. And uh, I forgot that. I 357 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:38.039 absolutely forgot that. So night before I was thinking, like, oh, 358 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:41.079 I'll just buy the tickets now instead of when we get to the park, 359 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:45.880 I see it's blocked out. Oh yeah. And then you know, I'm 360 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.039 I'm all on my like I'm gonna be a better person these days, type 361 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:53.240 of type of kick. So I choose to be transparent and I straight up 362 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:56.599 tell my partner, hey, we may not be able to get in the 363 00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:02.240 park on Saturday. Cause causes a little bit of a tiff obviously, so 364 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:07.920 I should have preplanned, but knowing me, I don't. I'm still working 365 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.920 on myself. You know, I wear a car heart and Dicky's because I'm 366 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:18.319 working on myself. Wait, everyone, I hope people did not sleep on 367 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:22.400 that line, Jens Jazz got these gemsy like sneaks in and I don't know 368 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:27.599 if everyone hears it. That's what I heard that, and I love it. 369 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.200 But then, you know, the whole time, I'm thinking like I've 370 00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:36.160 I've put got a bunch of good juju into the universe. My partner is 371 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:40.160 a teacher teaching the youth. There's some good juju floating around, and I 372 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:45.160 generally don't worry about stuff. Sometimes I'm Kevin Durant. I just trust the 373 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:51.720 process. Yeah. So Saturday rolls around, still looking online, still still 374 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:55.759 completely blocked out, completely blocked out. We go to the box office at 375 00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:57.599 Rope Drop. Rope Drop is when they open the park for everyone to enter 376 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:02.920 in. But we get there, it's seven, seven o'clock at the park. 377 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:06.599 Am thinking like, oh, maybe the box office is open. Maybe 378 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:08.400 we could split up, tell them a sob story, tell them the truth 379 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:12.799 about how I'm a piece of shit. Uh, my name is Jano Choe, 380 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:18.519 not Plano cho Come on, Bravo, you gotta write that down. 381 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.200 I gotta write it's not impressed, which I always appreciate. I'm gonna run 382 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:30.279 over and uh and then like the gentleman at the box office. Before we 383 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:32.960 even step into the box office, he says like, sorry, man, 384 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:37.119 you're out of luck. You just gotta go. And then I'm like, 385 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:38.720 oh no, no, no, no, no, no no no. 386 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.480 I don't believe this. Never give up, never surrender. And then I'm 387 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:45.400 telling my partner it's like, hey, you know, like we could say 388 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:47.720 this, we could go to Goofy's kitchen. We could have like a nice 389 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.599 breakfast or whatever. Don't worry, I still got plans. She has a 390 00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:56.440 little bit of frowning face going on, understandably, so right know, you 391 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:03.200 know, she dressed up and everything. You know, it's like, it's 392 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.119 it's all right, it's okay, Mike. I thought about texting you this 393 00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:08.039 as as soon as this was happening. Oh no, don't do that. 394 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.279 And then you know, I was the gears were turning in my head. 395 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:18.359 I'm like, all right, I have like I'm I'm like negative zalist celebrity 396 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:21.920 on the internet. Maybe I have some options here. And then I thought, 397 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:25.279 you know what, No, I'm not gonna try and desperately hit up 398 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:30.799 John Drake. He's he's taking care of a child, diet Coke. So 399 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.240 I was like, you know what, screw this I'm just gonna open the 400 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:38.200 app. I opened the app and then low and behold, oh my god, 401 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:44.000 there were reservations at tickets available then and there. And I checked it 402 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:48.640 a minute before nothing. The second I checked it again, boom bottom. 403 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:53.160 I checked on my partner's phone a minute like literally while I was entering in 404 00:30:53.160 --> 00:31:00.200 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 by Better Help, Homies. 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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