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Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November
fourteenth, twenty twenty three. Welcome to

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the Giant BombCast powered by n z
XT. I am your host, Jan

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Choa. Welcome to God's favorite podcast
today. Don't forget to either start defrost.

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Maybe it's too early to defrost your
turkeys, but maybe order the turkey,

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maybe completely ditch the turkey and go
Hamlet just go ham. Let's go

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Ham with the holidays. Joining me
co captain of the ship Ham enthusiast and

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aficionado Jeff Grebb. I'm gonna do
a turkey on Thanksgiving. Also have some

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ham of some sort. But listen, I unlike some I don't have any

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metals. So I do have these
probiotics though, and so I'm feeling pretty

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good here. This is the metal
of the body right here. I am

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the I am a walking gold medal. I don't need anything else. He's

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pro probiotics, pro ham, pro
turkey, pro whatever you gotta have for

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your protein on the holidays. Jeff
Beckler, Hey, that's all correct.

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Those are all correct things you said
about me. Uh, the person who's

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preparing my Thanksgiving, that's right,
it's my Thanksgiving texted my wife. My

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wife and I and was like,
I should you not? She goes,

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how do you feel about turkey?
And I was just like, is this

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about Thanksgiving? And then she followed
up with like, I'm thinking of pulling

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an audible. How do you feel
about brisket for this? And I was

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like, fire it up because turkey
is overrated poultry. Okay, let's go

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with the brisket, boys and girls. He's making it. He's making a

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face. Maybe it's because his neck
hurts from carrying so much God dang gold

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around his neck. Make a triumphant
return to giant bomb. We have Trivia

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cruise ship, Olympic medal winning person
captain. Now I'm the keg y.

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Hey hi, look, of course
briskets better than turkey, but come onsivy

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have turkey. I don't care what
it tastes like. I gotta do I

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do? Who wants to waste the
meal? Don't waste the meal? Even

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overrated. Everyone knows what turkey is. It's like chicken. Of course,

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of course turkey is whatever. That's
why you smother it in gravy. Then

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it's amazing you smother everything in gravy
or anything in gravy. It's it's our

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culture. I mean, it's not
very good culture, but its culture.

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But we're even birds are above turkey
asip from chicken, which of course is

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and maybe a cornish hen. Maybe
I don't want to peasant. I don't

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want to know. I don't want
no quail duck. Look, we all

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like we're big boys and tried duck
and pretended like we liked it. But

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come on, prepared by certain Asian
fusion restaurants other than that, Mike,

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uh, the the phrase I don't
want no pheasant is very funny to me

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for some reason. I'm glad you
liked that. So you know I've had

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an Ostrich burger before. Oh how
sorry? It was all right, it

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felt I don't know if I'm using
this word properly. Gamey, here's some

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here's some Disney trivia for you and
the killiman Jar Safaris and Animal Kingdom.

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When they point out Ostrich eggs to
you on the right, yes a fake

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Hey, no, no, no, Mike, they're Disney reel. Well,

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I mean there are real ostriches around
there, so you could be mistaken

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for thinking that they're real. But
those are not real eggs. The tour

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guide refused to say they were fake. He only wanted to say Disney reel.

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And I said, wow, man, this must suck to be Oh,

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you were the guy who asked my
kid, and the truth it was

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my kid, and this stranger lied
to his goddamn face. Hey. When

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I was cleaning up and we were
liquidating for a certain show that I used

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to work on, I found in
a refrigerator, buried in the back,

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uh, encased in styrofoam in Ostrich
egg Oh that's like that Cowboy Bebop episode.

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It's exactly like that Cowboy keep Up
episode. And then I felt very

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conflicted of whether or not to keep
it cold or just immediately throw it onto

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the ground, the ground. And
then when I went to the dump,

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my my compatriot, my my friend
may have threw it on the ground.

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Oh oh an old like they are
like big, right, the Ostrich eggs.

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Yeah, I don't have a lot
of experience with Ostrich eggs. You've

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seen Willy Wonka like ye, like
the big honkin things. I think like

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an goose eggs actually okay egg but
big. It's hard to imagine. Uh.

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Yeah, listen, you gotta throw
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had one of those, that's the
kind of thing that you guys ever see

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that YouTube channel Man News. It's
the kind of thing to be on Man

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News and the guy finds a bunch
of like ostrich eggs, He's like,

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oh man, you know he's gonna
throw it to the ground. Then he

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does, and then everyone cheers.
There's something about a very large egg that

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I find deeply upsetting, similar to
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Like, have you ever seen a
fucking big ass sunflower? Yeah?

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Like they are fucking horrifying. They're
like meaty and weird and they look alive.

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There's something about an actual gigantic sunflower
where I'm just like, right,

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that's not right. That feels like
we did some like Ninja turtles oohz shit

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exactly. I was gonna bring up
a turtle secret of the Ooze where they

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have a sunflower and pretend that it's
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Yeah. Yeah, Well it's being
about oohs and secrets. I've been

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oozing because we've been holding on to
some secrets. Gentlemen. We've seen some

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losing. Mike's been cruising, I've
been doing and I'm specific I'm drunk on

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this show. This show because we
have some super secret special announcements that are

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no longer going to be secrets as
soon as we announce them, and we

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have been spinning plates for what feels
like weeks in the background here a giant

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bomb. We don't have to talk
about the actual process, but stuff is

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happening, and uh, stuff is
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the first, well not the first
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But Jeff Grubb, would you like
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special events happening? Yeah? Yeah, So, like Jane said, we'll

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have stuff happening all through that week
of the Game Awards, and so look

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out for podcast that week. But
on Wednesday, December sixth, the night

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before the Game Awards, we will
have GB at Night live in Los Angeles.

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Back in the studio. We're gonna
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just like it at Summer Game Fest. It's pretty good crew that we're putting

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together. Still got some more people
that are that are confirming, but a

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lot of cool names are gonna come
hang out with us. A lot of

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friends. Most of the I think
everyone from the team's gonna be there,

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unlike it's Summer game Fest, so
that's gonna be really exciting. Uh so

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yeah, look out for that.
That'll start at five pm Pacific time,

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so eight pm Eastern Wednesday, December
sixth, Come hang out with us.

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We're gonna treat it kind of like
a little bit like a game Game of

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the Year pre show, but also
just kind of wrapping up the year in

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general, talking to cool people about
cool things. So don't miss it.

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That's gonna be It's gonna be a
big night. Come hang out with us.

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I cannot wait. Yes, yes, And you know, like we

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just mentioned Tea's there's gonna be a
lot of stuff popping off and one of

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the big things that we've been working
real, real hard. And when did

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I say we, I mean Jeff
Backlar. Yeah, mostly Jeff back Mostly

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Jeff Backlar has been working mighty mighty
hard to make sure this happens. Because

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let me just change that December ninth, Saturday of that week, Jeff Baklar,

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we will be putting on Giant Bomb
Game of the Year, live in

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person, ticketed event. Can you
believe it? I really can't neither,

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can I. It's almost like if
we dream too hard, it won't happen.

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But it will happen, folks.
December ninth, we are going to

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be doing the final day of deliberations
in front of a live audience. We

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will crown the top ten and we
will crown the Game of the Year live.

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December ninth, We're doing a special
matinee time. We're going to be

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doing this at twelve pm Pacific time
at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles.

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We are going to be selling tickets
to this live event very soon, ye

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look out for until soon. Yes, uh. And we have even allowed

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Mike Manatti to be on the poster
ladies and gentlemen and be there right there.

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He got the medals, he got
the best title because he got the

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with Yeah. Yeah, if you
look at the top of all the names

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of who's gonna be there, it's
just with Mike Manatti, and everyone knows

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that's the greatest honor. Yeah.
I'm just finding out about this. Although

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we said, and he didn't understand
what the hell we were talking about.

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Yo, Mike, CA's the with
and I'm like, I have the width?

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Is this a bad thing? You
heard what you wanted to hear?

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No, it's your first with everyone, it's his first with which is very

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exciting, and from my last with
Genie. You're free. Uh, this

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is uh, this has been a
very many months in the making. We're

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very excited about this. To have
a live in person event like this,

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wow, really really cool shit.
We are trying to do everything we can

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to make this as special as it
as it possibly can be. Speaking about

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special, we will have special guests
Grayson Right, Bailey Myers, Blessing,

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Audio Yea Junior and more. More
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hoping to get more exactly. It
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around. Uh. You know,
it really was a lot of work to

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put this together. Blackla really has
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It's been a lot of back and
forth. We're gonna, like you said,

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we're gonna try and make this as
special as possible, but we're also

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let's treat this as like a test
run. If this goes well, we

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will be able to do more of
these in the future. So if this

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is like you, Hey, we've
been looking for a way to support John

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Bam, come hang out with us
on this night, and that will really

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go a long way, So just
so excited to make this happen. And

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again thanks to Backler for so much
work, putting so much work into this,

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it's been awesome. Yes, of
course, I'm sorry, Mike.

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Yeah, that was your turn to
talk. What's up, budh The wisness

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is so cute. Thank you?
Yeah, you wouldn't. You're welcome.

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No, we're excited that you're going
to be there, of course, Buddy.

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We gotta thank jerem Artists extraordinary.
Remember, our community makes a lot

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of our merch, makes a lot
of our graphic design. The speed in

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which this human being works is truly
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in need of some amazing art.
We we got to thank our booking company,

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Real Good Touring for putting this together. Our we we hit some incredible

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snags along the way and they've been
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in a really impressive way. So
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Yeah, this is great. We're
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some special stuff for people who are
at the show live. We will give

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you ticketing information the second we can. It will be pretty limited in quantity.

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The amount of tickets that we can
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the heads up for that. But
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We wanted to get the word out
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all the details when we have them. But you know what you need.

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You need to know that the date
is December ninth. The time twelve pm

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sharp. You get there as early
as you want, but eleven thirty our

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doors and uh yeah, more information
to come. Yes, yes, I

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put this in our little dock here, but I will personally gear Jan t

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that we will stream it no matter
what any av person says to me.

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Wow, because because there's been many
road speed bumps on that road, many

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speed bumps, and I'm tackling it
like I tackle life and just going pedal

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to the metal flooring it just go
straight through the maze. Baby. We

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could beat the train, is what
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That's that's what we always says.
It's got to jump on it, and

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then you jump on favor. The
problem in Spider Man two is that Peter

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shouldn't have stopped the train. He
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the river. Exactly. It's just
a boy. I'm just a man and

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you'll get more up beats like that
during the Game of the Year discussion because

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we've got a lot of great topics
and a lot of great y categories and

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stuff like that. So yeah,
yeah, it happened. A lot of

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It's gonna be great, great,
great, great, great fun times.

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If you're in the Los Angeles area
southern California, we'd love to see you.

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I'll give everyone No, I'm not
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hug. I'm gonna give everyone mouth
kiss. I used to kiss everyone on

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the cheek. How do you think
I feel? Polite and thoughtful head nod

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where I just look at you and
like proud of you. That means a

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lot to me, proud to you. That's right. Just start bumping butts

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as a greeting because like those,
there's like a lot of padding there,

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you know, there's not a lot
of like actual flesh contact. I think

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just a nice friendly button bump that
won't catch on. Mike, I like

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where your head's on. Hey,
December seventh, the Game of Wars.

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December ninth is the giant on THINGA
say, Mike, what's on December eighth?

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What's on Deber eightes birthday. We
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go. Yeah, Okay, I'm
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of the time. We have one
more special announcement, and I didn't clear

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this with everyone. The announcement is
Mike is going to tell us about his

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vacation. Yeah, what a surprise. Yay, I'm kidding. I want

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to hear it. I want to
hear Mike, like you were gone for

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quite a while, you were on
the cruise, was gone for it,

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well, like I was only on
a cruise for three days and then it

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was kind of a normal Disney World
trip after that. But the cruise was

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definitely the highway, like the most
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Disney a lot. It's always the
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And I've never been on a cruise
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Disney cruise, like, wow,
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So it was fun night one.
A bit of a hiccup. Turns

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out those ships move and you can
you can get pretty sick if you're not

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ready for that. Everyone on a
Disney cruise get sick at some point.

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Wait, did you get you get
you got sick. My understandings, those

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cruise ships are like solid, so
rock solid that it's impossible for that,

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and I feel a move though for
sure. That's what I thought, Jeff

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going into this swist is what I
told myself. It was. This is

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a big ship. It was pretty
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it was especially bad weather or windy, or like, oh, because

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it's a three day cruise, they
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to Nassau or our first port of
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It was it was rocking. Uh. Now you know, doctor Dad

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did bring some pills that eventually snapped
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while there I was like, oh, no, this is just gonna be

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my whole three days. This isn't
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box or something? I don't understand. Why why are you miming like you

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were showing the sway? I wasn't
in a It was ruby, but uh

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I felt bad at first, like
because like I was with my dad and

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my step mom. We go to
dinner. My step mom like left immediately.

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I tried to like keep my dad
company because he was fine. He

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didn't care. Then my food came. I was like, all right.

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We had a waiter who had really
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like, oh, just call me, just call me four aces ha ha

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ha. And I'm like sitting there
green four races, like sees this and

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he's like, haha, I guess
goofy must be steering the ship. I

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was like, not now for it. You think that was hilarious and amazing,

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Like this sounds like a nightmare.
Normally I'd be all about this four

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races, but right now, please
sinking everything I have, so not just

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make a mess on your table?
How can hid me about? How can

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you then tweet about that? How
can you have the sickness? Who I

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was scared at the time. I
didn't want every woe to take Oh,

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Mike sick on his cruise the whole
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me a pill on a patch.
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docked at Nassaut anyway, so after
that I was, yeah, we were

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there's a Bahama cruise. So I
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the belt because it seemed more fun
on there, and I actually had a

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few people tell me don't go to
nass out They'll rob you. I don't

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know, that's just some kind of
white person fear that got sprints of me.

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But I was like, yeah,
well they have a water slide on

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the boat. So water slide get
robbed? Right? What is this?

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What does this tropical eyelid country have
for me that isn't on this Disney boat?

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So yeah, I just stayed on
the boat and there was Yeah,

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the water slide, it's like a
ride. You go on a ramp.

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They have like videos of Mickey and
then the water slide goes down and up

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because of the jets. Yeah,
waterslides can go up? Now what we

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But okay, you're being you have
to be more specific, like where along

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the line does it go up?
Like after you go down, so you're

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on like a raft down Oh tumble
wumba tech got it. But yeah,

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then you go, oh okay,
So it's like a water coaster they call

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it. But it wasn't like all
that intense or anything. Lot, you

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know, even though you associate Disney
stuff with kids, A lot of adult

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stuff like seven eight bars one was
the Star water swan, uh said,

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a lot of wife swapping. You
just adult stuff. I just assume that's

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what that means. You're like,
hey, man, I did karaoke the

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one night, and then the next
day we were at like Disney's Island.

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I felt safe there. I walked, was talking about Jesus Christy was walking

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around Disney's Island, and people just
me to come up and mug you.

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I want that that's gonna happen.
I was just walking around the isle of

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people be like, hey, karaoke
bike Like, yep, that's me.

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I get carry carrying around a sick
bag and eleven seasick patches on his mike.

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Were you wearing sunglasses the whole time? I feel like you should have

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been. No, I'm not a
sun Look at my ask how dark they

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are. I don't need sunglasses.
I've never worned. I hate sunglasses.

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I'm sure you know it's all the
light. That's not what sunglasses do there.

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It's true. I don't stop doing
this. Keep talking to you,

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like, don't ever stop doing this. I don't wait, don't wait,

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don't I got to get a photoshop
open, give me a second. I'm

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already ahead of you, buddy.
I never classes. They always like basically

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make everything look dark. But it's
like them, I'm fine the vibe,

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Mike. I feel like you would
mess the vibe of something free. But

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I can't, like, you know, torture myself like that. The world

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is full of color. It's the
world is a carousel of color, right,

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like so they say in Disney.
So I had to look at it

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all. I want to go home. Mike is He's a Jimmy Buffett fan,

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and I think that explains most things
about him. Jeff told me Jimmy

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Buffett died during Summer game Fest.
Yeah, I'm the person that broke the

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news to Mike that Jimmy Buffett died. I'm always no matter why you guys

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did shots. Yeah tequila, yes
exactly. I'm also the person that told

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him that Coke zero was ending.
So I was there for the two worst

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moments of his life. It turns
out they just changed the formulas slightly,

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so it was okay. Yeah,
but hey, in the moment, you

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were very dev I gotta get myself
some Minati problems. Man, it seems

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like it seems like it's easy living
Bass. It's bad. It's bad.

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Lots of good food on the boat
we went to like the one nicer restaurant

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called Payo Plo and it was a
steakhouse and it was incredible that the people

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were saying the chicken tenders on the
ship, like the tend's situation is real

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good. I'm like, they're tendis
How good can they be? Oh,

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they're good tends. You can get
just all the tend's you want. They

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won't stop you. They had three
different barbecue sauces for your tend's. Wait

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wait wait, wait, three different
barbecue sauces. Yeah. I didn't know

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there were that many. It's just
just yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed.

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I'm glad you ate that food and
enjoyed it. Oh, I ate my

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tendy's. It was yeah, it
was good. Yeah, that was good.

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You know a lot of time in
Disney World, I did the new

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Majana walk through things. Oh it
was fun. Yeah. There's like water

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everywhere and you get to like pretend
like your majana, Like there's one where

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like the waters. It's it's like
a jet of water going up. I'm

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gonna keep doing this motion and uh, it matches where your hand is like

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magic. So you put your hand
here, the water comes up to there,

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you put it there. The water
comes up to there, lots of

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just fun little stuff like that.
It was cute. It was pretty at

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night. But yeah, it was
a it was a lot of stuff going

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on. It was it was long. It was a long time to be

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away, even in Disney World.
At that last day, I was pretty

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beat up, right, And that
is I love my Disney vacations. It

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is always this weird thing where I
get home and I'm like, I'm exhausted

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from my vacation. You the Monday
or Sunday night, You're hey, you

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want me on gmm, like you
were ready to go as soon as you

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got back. What were you like, Man, I'm kind of miss getting

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it back into the swing of things. They definitely missed it. Yeah,

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I mean, so, you know, doing all the stuff with you guys,

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my stuff at games beat, Uh, I mean I was listening to

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as much stuff as I could.
By the way, the switches the best

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console ever. I just wanted to
Yeah. It was kind of like,

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man, I should have wait until
Mike was here out, but uh yeah,

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you guys AW did a lot of
great stuff though, and it was

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always good because at night I would
still like to try to listen to a

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little something or a couple of times. Even in lines. I didn't wait

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too many lines because I'm so good
at the lightning ling stuff. The longest

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line I waited in was ninety minutes
to get that picture with Scrooge McDuck and

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Donald Duck together at the Christmas party. Yeah, oh, they don't know

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they're not normally together back of lark. Oh I didn't realize that. Okay,

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fair enough, I take that back. It made me take a picture

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with Minnie and Daisy afterwards. I
felt a little awkward about that. They

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made you well, it's like like
the line you grab their shoulders or what.

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I think. I just kind of
stood there and let them flank me

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and I you know, it's like
I think I tried to make a joke

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and it was probably awkward, like
ha ha, yeah, thanks girls.

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I don't know what is this?
What am I doing here? I think

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it's weird too. I don't want
to do this. I said I was

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never going to go back to Disney, but I feel like now we're all

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gonna be SoCal. That's true,
but I do. I think I just

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need to go with Mike, like
I want to go. It's a good

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time. Yeah, I need to
be there with you. Man, it

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was he was. He was like
he's very considered because he like he I

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think at that point, like the
joy for him is like having you experienced

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joy. So it's like, yeah, I got to see all this stuff

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really quickly. I'm like, oh, this is a great time. So

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yeah, it's good, it's exciting. Let's just cancel the live show and

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go to Disney. Yeah, Disney
on my birthday. It's that always sounds

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great. But it's actually a lot
harder to get to Disneyland from downtown LA

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than you think it is. It's
a long ride. It's a long ride.

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I remember there, but I remember
when Grubb Dan and I jumped onto

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the shuttle. It was like a
solid hour to get there. Jeezyah,

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it is from from where we were
in Los Angeles. Well, you know,

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speaking about uh thirsty costumed characters that
was there, that was a stretch.

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Sorry, I had I had pluge
Eminem's in my mouth. Let me

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just finish fudge. Eminem's was now
like the Brownie ones in the purple bag.

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Mm hmm. Yeah, stop doing
that with you, all right,

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bullsh please? Are we okay with
that? You? Oh my god,

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Mike. That's just horrifying. Mike
is doing the thing where he's like clockwork

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oranging himself. Yeah, I'm gonna
tell you my clockwork orange story. Night.

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Good keep that one. I can't
remember if you're the one who thought

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it was a porno or not.
That's me. Well, I mean I've

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been playing Thirsty Suitors. Okay,
thank you ja parts if it do feel

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like an adult film Thirsty Suitters.
I check this out during Summer game Fest

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and it is finally now out.
It is very akin to a Southeast Asian

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perspective of Scott Pilgrim adjacent story where
you were going back to your hometown,

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you gotta take care of some family
jazz, and while you're in your hometown

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you encounter all of your exes and
it is just as awkward as you would

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expect it to be, except they
gamify in countering your ex'es. One of

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the mechanics in this it isn't like
a primary major mechanic in the game,

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but there is skateboarding in it,
and it feels okay enough, it feels

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Tony Hawk adjacent enough. But the
neat thing that they've added to this that

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is not critical to any of The
major major stuff that you do in this

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game is like up grinding or grinding
a rail above you, and I am

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all for that. I think skateboard
games should do that, whether it's Tony

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Hawk pulling out a fun little hook
from his pocket or just doing like holding

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it above them and just like holding
on to that for dear life as you're

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going by. Because I am all
for up grinding. That's the new official

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name. The X game's council has
has told me, I'm I'm clear to

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announce that today an talk to Bob
Chad Muska, Yeah White even Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, Kelly Slater.
Oh it's alsothing signed by Kelly Slater.

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I was at a Ron John gift
shop and I thought about his his his

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weird GameCube PlayStation two game, Travis
Pastrana. I know he doesn't really grind

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on rails, but he allowed that. The first game I thought of when

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you said this was Assassin's Creed Revelations
because they were running out of ideas.

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So the whole thing there was the
hook blade. There's like that be where

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he's like that guy's explaining it to
it is like it's got two parts,

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the hook in the blade. They
photoshop that that Nick cage like, oh

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yeah, face on it, but
it's a very grab go ahead. I

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was just gonna say, I didn't
this game has grinding. I didn't realize

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that that's what kind of game it
is. Well, you know, you

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encounter your axes, so there may
be some grinding going. Okay, oh

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this game skateboarding mechanic is not like
a big thing. It's just one of

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these small, like little things they've
added to it. Your encounters with your

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exes turn into like turn based RPG
combat where it is it's not just like

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attacking and defending casting a spell.
The story and your encounter is being told

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throughout it. So occasionally when you
get to the second phase of this boss

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battle with your ex it's really just
you kind of uncovering some trauma that had

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happened between you guys, where it's
like, hey, so did you did

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you cheat on me and you didn't
tell me about it? Is that what

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happened here? Or why did you
leave me? Type of thing type of

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stuff going on, And it's an
entertaining way to talk to and encounter previous

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lovers in your life. I wish
that no one has to ever do it.

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Because that in the game, it's
fun real life incredibly awkward, but

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it's doing a lot of neat stuff. And I forget the main character's name,

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but yes, Thirsty has the whole
slew of differing styles and types of

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exes. So you know, folks
that are are males, females, male

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presenting, female present and it's neat
because you're you're all just trying to solve

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your personal issues at the end.
And I feel like it handles closing the

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book on previous relationships in a positive
way versus making everyone completely like evil enemies

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antagonists versus like, Okay, we
can actually grow past this, but I

405
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.240
will beat the shit out of you
first. Yeah. Is the strength of

406
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:30.319
this game, the characters, the
story, the and when you say the

407
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:36.519
combat is like or the combat like
encountering your excess, it creates a turn

408
00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:41.119
based combat sort of scenario. Is
that like Undertail? I've never played Undertail.

409
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.640
I think I locked myself into having
to play it for Extra Life one

410
00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:52.160
year and I have yet to return
or deliver on that. No gender Tail,

411
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.400
it's right there. Yeah, that's
it. But Thirsty suitors, Yeah,

412
00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:59.960
when once you encounter them, it
turns into a turn based combat game

413
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.000
where it does, it can start
to feel a little bit repetitive as you

414
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.359
go through the encounter because you're just
trying to wheel down a lifebar or charge

415
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:12.640
up a specific power. But as
you go through the boss battle style encounter,

416
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.480
some different mechanics pop up, where
like a turn based type of thing

417
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:23.000
where you have to hit paper Mario
style hit a certain command to be more

418
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:30.960
effective, or have someone slip on
like wet ground or whatever. But yeah,

419
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.039
it's mostly the story and the characterization
that is pulling me through the game

420
00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:38.200
so far. The mechanics stuff,
it's there, it's neat. I feel

421
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:44.119
like it's mostly there just to diversify
combat. I'm not super deep in about

422
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:48.720
like two hours in, but I'm
all about up grinding. Yeah, of

423
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:51.960
course, this is what we've always
known about you, jan Is, You're

424
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:56.400
the upgrinder. Yeah, we grind
up and we punched down exactly. That's

425
00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:59.519
what we do here a giant bomb, jan If. I have a list

426
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:03.000
of Get the Game Awards stuff got
announced and there was a bunch of indie

427
00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:04.279
games that got nominated, and I'm
like, oh, I don't actually think

428
00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:07.359
I played India these because I haven't
really played David Diver. I played a

429
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.799
little bit of it. I haven't
played Dredge, I haven't played Venba.

430
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.319
There's like a whole list of Indiana, the Little Sea of Stars, right

431
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:17.599
I played a Little Sea of Stars
and I kind of want to play more

432
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:19.799
of it. But it's like,
that's my point here is if I have

433
00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:22.319
this list of games that I'm trying
to catch up on this year, do

434
00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.559
you think this ranks high on that
list of I should try this now or

435
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.359
is this kind of thing like when
I have time maybe later. I'd hate

436
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:34.720
for this to get lost amongst like
the storm of everything, especially with bigger,

437
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:38.319
high profile indie titles. And we
don't have to get into it right

438
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:42.039
now about what qualifies and what doesn't
qualify as an indie game, because that's

439
00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:48.200
the hot topic right now. But
you know, I will say that I

440
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:56.680
think the story and the characterization of
everyone in Thirsty Suitors is substantial enough to

441
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.480
check it out before Game of the
Year season ends. Okay, But that

442
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:06.319
being said, I do think it
could occupy occupy a good spot in that

443
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:10.079
like holiday period of like post Game
of the Year, post New Year or

444
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:15.319
pre New Year's where like we have
like a stretch of time to really sink

445
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.519
your teeth into a game, you
know, like I feel like Ven but

446
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.799
is going to wind up in that
spot for me where I don't have the

447
00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:26.519
time right now to just fully dive
all the way deep into it. Because

448
00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:29.680
there's an obscene amount of indie games
that came out, y'all, Like we

449
00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:33.000
talk about all the triple A,
double A B game style stuff. This

450
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:36.880
has been another great year for indies, and I think, unfortunately, because

451
00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.720
of the high volume of all the
bigger stuff, it's getting forgotten about.

452
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.480
Yeah, Port Cocoon, that's a
that's a real good game, right,

453
00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:48.039
like that could have been nominated for
Game of the Year last year. That's

454
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:51.200
the one where I'm like, I
actually might prioritize that. For one,

455
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:55.720
I know it's relatively three hours exactly, it's shorter, and people say it's

456
00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:59.799
a grubby game. It's a grubby
game, yes, because yeah, thank

457
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:01.559
you, Yes, that's that.
Those are my people, So yeah,

458
00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:06.240
I'll be I think that's the one
I'm prioritizing. I did Humanity last week,

459
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:09.319
really really liked Humanity. So I'm
gonna try to keep some of these

460
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:13.839
games in my rotation when I'm also
catching up on like Boulder Skate and stuff.

461
00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:16.920
Yeah, if anyone has like smaller
titles that they want to like recommend

462
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:21.960
to the crew to check out before
we get to Game of the Year,

463
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:24.000
I'd be more than happy to check
some of that out, maybe like in

464
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:28.799
a grab bag style thing. Like
one of the titles I think, like,

465
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.680
he's not gonna get any love except
for from me is Fuga two,

466
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.160
you know, just loading those furry
children into the soul cannon and everything.

467
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:44.359
God, and that's not even an
indie game. That's like a fun JRPG

468
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.680
with cats. Hey, fire Alum
Engage came out this year. Sure dead

469
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:55.039
yeah dad, yeah, uh grub
January. I'm gonna ask you is that

470
00:32:55.160 --> 00:33:01.400
worth circling back to listen? I
like it a lot it Did you finish

471
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:07.559
three houses? Finished it like three
times? Okay? When it comes to

472
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:10.079
three houses for you, what was
it like? Oh man, I just

473
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.880
love spending time with these characters.
That was that was a big motivating factor.

474
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:16.599
Yeah, don't go back to this
one. Yeah. The characters sucking

475
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:21.640
this one. The combat is better, Like the combat is the best the

476
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:25.000
fire Fireman has ever been. It
is, right, so good characters.

477
00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.400
Yeah, it's and and it's they
suck so much that it makes it easy

478
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:36.319
to lose momentum with some of the
best turn based tactical gameplay you've ever experienced,

479
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:39.839
which is really frustrating because I really
liked that game. Yeah, when

480
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:45.000
they announced Engage, I was really
hyped about it because I think three Houses

481
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:49.480
ranked I think it's one of my
favorite games that release in the past decade.

482
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:54.400
But a lot of that is tied
to the Superior House, the Deer,

483
00:33:55.039 --> 00:34:00.440
the Yellow House, de Baby.
All right, well, you know,

484
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.200
speaking about up grinding, you upgrind
by holding your skateboard with your hands,

485
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.360
and Jeff Grubb, you've been playing
a game called Hans. Yes,

486
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:15.480
so I opened up. That's a
hell of a transition I've been. I

487
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:17.880
opened up my extra life stream with
this game Hans, which is the other

488
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.960
watermelon game that's out right now.
Oh yes, this is a only up

489
00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:27.559
like where you play as a watermelon. So it's oblong. I talked about

490
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.760
this a little bit somewhere, but
either way, I played some more of

491
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:32.719
it, and I like these games. I like the idea of just a

492
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:37.480
bunch of assets from a store thrown
into a game to make an obstacle course,

493
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:43.159
and the sort of spin on that
here is because you are playing as

494
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:46.440
a watermelon, it is oblong and
it is misshapen, so some of the

495
00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:50.000
roles you do will kind of throw
you off the path a little bit.

496
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:52.960
I had played a little bit of
this before during the stream, I played

497
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:55.960
enough to like starting to get the
flow of things, and it's they don't

498
00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:59.880
they don't even really have controller support, so I was playing mouse and keyboard.

499
00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:04.119
But after like you know, thirty
minutes playing it, I was really

500
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:06.960
getting the hang up of the feel
of like how this watermelon is going to

501
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:09.480
behave And then there's something about like
okay, I yeah, I fell down,

502
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:13.079
but now I could do all these
obstacles that were a challenge for me

503
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:17.960
before relatively quickly, and having that
difficulty curve get conquered so quickly and feeling

504
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.039
like you're making progress is really nice. The problem is that, and this

505
00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:24.360
is the problem with these games in
general, you look up and you see

506
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:29.320
just how much further you have to
go, and it's so intimidating that when

507
00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:31.159
you do fall after like ten minutes
and you're like, well that's ten minutes,

508
00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:35.400
and I know, like, realistically, i'ma have to climb for at

509
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:38.159
least an hour and a half probably
longer to actually get to the top of

510
00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:40.639
this, and boy, when I
fall from that, that's going to be

511
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.719
even more frustrating. Now, I
think that's what makes it a good game

512
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.840
for streaming, And you know,
it's got some fun elements of you can

513
00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:52.440
get costumes for your watermelon and your
costume and the costumes are always just like

514
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:53.880
just off the path, so it's
like, oh, I could take a

515
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.559
risk of goe to go get this
costume, but that's going to increase my

516
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.079
chances of falling and then my watermelons
and be dressed up like you know,

517
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:04.559
grout show Marx is that his name, the guy with the bushy and they

518
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:09.480
in the nose? Yeah, seventy
sam h And that's that's fun. But

519
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:14.800
in general, I just like that
it's it's a pretty competent one of these.

520
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:16.880
It's not falling apart at the seams
like some of the ones have been.

521
00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:20.920
And when you fall from a great
height and the watermelon hits the ground,

522
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:28.599
the game yells Hans, does it
smash? Though? No? What

523
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:34.000
are we? What are we doing? I'm gonna I've been falling from like

524
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.119
you know, five six seven stories. Maybe it does if you get high

525
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:42.519
enough, but from where I was
on four feet, it's it would it

526
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:46.679
would explode. Rolling off video,
I will, I will crush a watermelon

527
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:51.920
with these god dang thighs right here. Oh, actually that's I feel like

528
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:54.159
that's very hard, but I'd love
to see you attempt it. Nevertheless,

529
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:58.800
I'm going to be doing until Game
of the Year. Then, yeah,

530
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:05.360
we know we're doing during intermission?
Is is is the watermelon name? Hans?

531
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.920
Is that? Oh? This is
an excellent question. I don't know.

532
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:12.199
I didn't know that. When I
fall from a great height, the

533
00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:20.840
game just goes in like a voice
with gravitas and says, Hans, I

534
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:24.119
guess it. Wait, I guess
Hans is an immortal being, birth from

535
00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:29.360
a bizarre twist of science and left
behind when humanity embarked for the stars.

536
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:31.039
Well there you go. So of
course it doesn't smash. It's immortal.

537
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:36.840
Hans isn't just a refreshing summer snack. He's a melon with dreams, ambitions,

538
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:42.159
and a bounce that defies his juicy
constitution. Okay, Backlar is also

539
00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:45.480
reading my bio. It turns out, yeah, oh wait, this is

540
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:51.480
John's not Hans Jan Sorry, sorry, I can't stop thinking about Frozen because

541
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:53.480
there were so many Frozen things that
I did on the Disney trip, and

542
00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:59.159
Hans is the name of of Anna's
boyfriend. Yeah, like I did.

543
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.039
I did a froz and dinner on
the boat, and then there was a

544
00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:07.199
Frozen fireworks show before Christmas, and
there was a Frozen sing along that was

545
00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:09.360
like way better than had any right
to be. So I kind of got

546
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:13.519
I kind of got Refrozen coded.
It's all I can think about. I've

547
00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:15.840
been listening to a Frozen two soundtrack. It's a problem. I feel like,

548
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.679
not everything that pops up in your
head, like about Disney needs to

549
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:27.840
likes f after mouth. You know, maybe that was a good I contributed.

550
00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:35.119
Maybe well, I'm all for this
saga of Mike getting back into Frozen

551
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:37.920
because hey, turns out Frozen,
yes did pretty good music. Uh speak

552
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:43.320
about saga, Mike Manati Alan wake
too. You have finally gotten the chance

553
00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.639
to dip into it. Yeah,
I like, I didn't want to start

554
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.360
it before that was on the trip
because I knew I was gonna be yeah

555
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:52.800
it was, it'd be weird,
right, But last night I did finally

556
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:57.679
get to start it, and there's
a downside to that because it is a

557
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.480
little weird, Like it's already one
Game of the Year award, so many

558
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:02.840
people are like, it did,
yes, this game of the Year.

559
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:07.440
Yeah, the Golden Joysticks. Oh
I thought Boulderskate won that. Am I

560
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.760
just making ship up? Now?
Ship some awards? I'm sure at that.

561
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.519
But yeah, okay, I think
you're right. Actually, maybe I'm

562
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:15.760
making shit up. Okay, but
yeah, you know, everyone's going on

563
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:21.400
about how amazing the game is,
so it's like a little awkward. One

564
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:25.679
critics choice, so choice, thank
you, Okay, that's that was my

565
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:30.840
thing. Cool, but so like
you do immediately kind of get it a

566
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.239
bit. There's a lot interesting going
on. I only got to play for

567
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.960
a few hours. I just got
past the Night Night Show thing with Alan

568
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.440
Wake, so I barely just started
playing as him. There's like this,

569
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:45.039
I have this fear immediately that like, oh no, I'm gonna be the

570
00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:52.599
asshole who likes one more because uh
because like everybody, like everybody drags on

571
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.679
like one for like the fighting gets
repetitive. You just keep shooting things with

572
00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.800
your flashlight and at least as far
and I'm like I had some more things

573
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:05.239
to shoot with my flash, so
that could change pretty quickly. I don't

574
00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:07.599
know. And Jeff said this before, and I'm a little bit at that

575
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:10.559
point too, where I am kind
of waiting for the amazing things to happen.

576
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:15.119
So far, everything has been done
really well, very competently, with

577
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:19.920
a lot of like flare just like
a lot of good presentation. But it

578
00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:22.320
has been a lot of walking and
talking and even the Mind Palace, which

579
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:28.480
is a really gussied up version of
just kind of a walk and talk or

580
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:30.440
just kind of relaying information. That
is what it is. It's not that

581
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:37.360
much of a game that you're doing
in there necessarily, So I definitely am

582
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:40.480
into it and I want to play
more. I'm not like, I'm not

583
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:43.519
trying to be like, oh,
I'm not feeling it. I'm feeling it.

584
00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:46.280
I'm excited there to play more.
Mike, Uh, do me a

585
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:52.400
flavor and at least get to chapter
four of Alan Wakes's campaign. Yeah.

586
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:54.239
Really, so I'm at the same
point, Mike, And we'll be playing

587
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:59.920
on the website tomorrow when you get
a chance to choose between playing Saga's Alan

588
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:04.599
and everyone's saying at least play Allen
until you get to the part and you'll

589
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:07.840
know it when you get there.
That's what I like. I like I

590
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:13.079
see another dick, Hey, how
many will you see? We can only

591
00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:17.360
consider ourselves so blessed if we do
mm hmm. Yeah. The problem,

592
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:21.679
not the problem with Allan Wake two
is that, like, I don't want

593
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:24.239
to overseell it for some folks,
and like I know some of the language

594
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:29.639
around it, folks saying it's a
turnout of turn five out of five here

595
00:41:29.679 --> 00:41:31.679
saying it was their new favorite game, ever after they already said that about

596
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:39.360
Tears of the Kingdom early. Yeah, I feel like I definitely said that

597
00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:44.159
too, so i'll, you know, tackle that grenade there. Yeah,

598
00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:46.079
that's right, win ship. I
did say it was the Jesus of video

599
00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:52.400
games. I'm right where Mike's at
with with the Ellen Wait two. Still,

600
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:54.880
by the way, I like,
I'm glad that I'm playing with you

601
00:41:54.960 --> 00:42:00.679
guys, because your guys is all
at like seeing things from the from parts

602
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:05.280
before that you've already played and going, oh, it's making me think like,

603
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.599
Okay, I'm glad I'm paying attention. I'm glad I'm doing I'm glad

604
00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.480
I'm spending time with this because I
bet a lot of these things are going

605
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.000
to pay off. They just haven't
yet for me. Now again, I'm

606
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:16.559
into it. I think I'm just
in the building up. I'm like putting

607
00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:20.039
money in the bank, and at
a certain point this game is going to

608
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:22.159
cash it all out, I think, and I'm excited for it. I

609
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.039
can't wait to see what that looks
like. Yeah, so I am right

610
00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:30.599
on the precipice of completing this game. I know for a fact that I'm

611
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:35.199
like one, maybe one and a
half chapters away from completing it. But

612
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:39.559
I have this weird paralysis that I
used to have with games a long long

613
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:44.920
time ago, where I just don't
want it to end yet. And I

614
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:49.079
know that hey, a a type
of new game plus is coming out in

615
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:53.920
the future. But I need to
finish this game if I'm gonna should say

616
00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:57.440
that this is my favorite game of
the year. Yes, yes, we

617
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.280
are going to require that of you, I think. Yes. I also

618
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:05.800
don't want any grief from any special
guests about me not completing games going to

619
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:09.000
destroy you. I changed my bod. I want you to say that your

620
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:12.360
favorite game of the year is that
gave you didn't beat, because I want

621
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:17.519
to see what gona throw a chair
at my head, I'd allow it,

622
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.960
but yeah, because of your gusto, Mic, I've decided I'm gonna go

623
00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:30.760
check out Resident Evil for Remake Game
of the Year nominee Resident Evil for Remakengratulations,

624
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:32.639
Mike, congratulations. Everybody was told
me it wasn't gonna happen. I

625
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:37.000
believe that, which made that victory
victory, Like I made the fucking game

626
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:45.800
victory on the cruise. It's right, it's happening. Count looks like they

627
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:52.119
do. Huh, looks like they
uh yeah, Reside and I don't want

628
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:55.880
to Like that's the other thing I'm
trying not to just compare only two to

629
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.079
like the Resident Evil games, like
recently because I also play resideval to remake

630
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:06.960
for the first time last month and
also very good. But yeah, well

631
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:08.679
honestly, even playing on the Way
Too is incredible how much you could see

632
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:14.239
it taking from those games remakes,
and like, of course, definitely do

633
00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:16.840
that. Yep, that's a great
idea. Like the weapons selection thing is

634
00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:20.079
straight out of there, and I'm
like, yeah, that's what it should

635
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.360
be. That's right. Uh.
Speaking about Residue, Belo a remake grub.

636
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.840
You just threw this onto the dock. Now, yeah, I guess

637
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:30.360
I decided I want to talk about
it. I got back into it.

638
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.480
I've mostly been playing on the Steam
deck. Oh, led it is very

639
00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:37.840
good on there. It looks really
nice. The the HDR really does pop

640
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:42.760
and boy it it just looks nice. But yeah, it turns out that

641
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.920
game is one of the best games
of the year. It is very good.

642
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:49.000
The shooting is just very fun.
Uh, it goes. It has

643
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:52.199
such a good pace to it,
like you're, yeah, you're doing You're

644
00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:54.599
doing like stuff that might be stressful
for because it's like so intense, but

645
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:58.679
you know, the game is going
to probably change up and probably change up

646
00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:02.199
pretty dramatically here in the next fifteen
to thirty minutes. It's always going to

647
00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:06.760
be introducing something new, and sometimes
it's it's going to be very very different.

648
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:08.000
Like I did get to the minecart
scene last night. Yeah, and

649
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:12.639
it's like, oh, this is
it's so silly and fun and what it's

650
00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:16.039
like this little delight in the middle
of this game that is so different from

651
00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:19.840
everything else, and yet it leans
into what the game is best at,

652
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:23.920
the shooting and the interactions with the
enemy characters, and like, you know,

653
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:29.000
sometimes they they're holding the little sticks
of dynamite and you shoot them make

654
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:32.079
them explode. But just like popping
off headshots, bang bang bang on these

655
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.239
moving carts is so satisfying. I
don't know. I got to the part

656
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:40.559
where I really dealt with Ramon Salazar, and I remember people saying how they

657
00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:45.360
thought this game removes some of the
fun of the original game, because the

658
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:50.440
original Maroon is more like, he's
more like silly and I'm more of a

659
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:53.440
goober and he is, and I
miss his tricorn hat or whatever it is.

660
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:59.039
But it's fine, it's fine,
it's complete, it's fine. There

661
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:01.440
are so many other character who are
you get a big glow up in this

662
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:07.679
game because of that, like like
Ashley and other people. So you know,

663
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.360
well, that's the great thing about
these remakes again, and you know

664
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:14.679
they are different games than the originals, and those originals are still there,

665
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:16.960
but yeah, in this version you
have these differences and sometimes maybe you're not

666
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.840
going to like the differences. That's
what's great about them is that you do

667
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:24.239
have these two bespoke experiences now.
But yeah, that was what I think.

668
00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:27.880
That is like the number one thing
I could say about the game.

669
00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:30.599
Whyl it's so much. I don't
know if I ever played a better paced

670
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:34.480
video game. Ye. That pacing
is just incredible. I think I remember

671
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:37.679
thinking about that about the original Residual
for and I think it's better here.

672
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:43.760
It is just really will I mean, I can't put it down at night.

673
00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:45.360
That's the big thing for me,
that that it's almost always a sign

674
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:49.719
of really good pacing, because I, you know, I do need something

675
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:52.960
different about every twelve to thirty minutes. It's like in that range, I

676
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:55.760
can feel myself getting a little bit
nancy, and you know it's not just

677
00:46:55.840 --> 00:47:00.360
oh, it's going to be different. The the individual levels themselves have a

678
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.559
good bill to them. You're moving, you're working towards something. You Usually

679
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:06.239
they put you in a space where
you see the thing that you're going to

680
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:08.079
be interacting with, and now it's
like, okay, now let's set up,

681
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:12.480
give you a bunch of things to
interact with that, and we're gonna

682
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:15.599
put some challenges in your way,
you know, along that path. But

683
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:17.760
overall it's about dealing with this big
problem. And I really like that.

684
00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:22.559
It's just a really confidently made and
well directed video game. I think that's

685
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:24.559
why I like Allen Wig two so
much because it does remind me so much

686
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:30.320
of like evolving off the back of
Ari four. I think, I really

687
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:35.039
think that you highlighted that I don't
really talk about with Ari four is like

688
00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:43.920
there's something so satisfying about the sort
of like controlled maze of every level where

689
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:50.159
you kind of like it's just this
amazing kind of like oh and you're back

690
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:53.199
here, and we just stick the
landing of like your path and it design

691
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:57.679
it's just incredible. Yeah, and
it's just really lost. You can go

692
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.800
on tangents, but you're always it's
the game always takes you back to either

693
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:05.559
where you need to be or somewhere
interesting. Yeah. The real estate like

694
00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:09.880
management of all that is like so
smart and really fun, and I think

695
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:15.440
it's even and it is able to
like convey a bit of its own sort

696
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:19.480
of like storytelling just through that right
where you're like the place you thought you

697
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:22.679
couldn't even like touch, you graze
upon, and then you're just like back

698
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:25.239
and that that stuff's really really awesome
to see when it when it lands,

699
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:30.599
you know, yes, definitely,
and I do. I playing these games

700
00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.440
side by side Resnuele four and Alan
Wait two again see the parallels, they're

701
00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:38.159
going for slightly different things. Obviously
Resilble four is more much more actiony,

702
00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:44.000
but but yeah, overall you can
you can debitaly see the threads, and

703
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:49.320
it is interesting that another studios are
kind of getting on that tip of like,

704
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.519
hey, these are some of the
most beloved games. We can kind

705
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:54.360
of just take what we want to
do do it in that style and it's

706
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:58.360
a pretty good template and can be
applied to something like Alan Wake and they're

707
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.320
one hundred percent correct about that.
Yeah, I think, like you said,

708
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:05.519
our Force is like this action game
right, like it just straight up

709
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:10.480
is uh. I think I think
allen Wick is like surprisingly competent when it

710
00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:15.599
comes to the action stuff where you
sort of don't always expect it. And

711
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.360
uh, yeah, I do think
they are much more like than they are.

712
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:25.280
Not definitely. I've been playing trying
to throw some time into a game

713
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:30.599
that is radically different than anything we've
discussed so far. I've been playing Slay

714
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:35.480
the Princess. Yeah, I've been
curious about this one. What got you

715
00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:39.239
just started up? Jan I saw
some positive buzz circulating around Slay the Princess.

716
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:44.960
This is definitely not my style of
game, and I say that,

717
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.320
but I did play something like Dopey
Doky Lurture Club a couple of years ago.

718
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.880
This is what genre is. This
is a story game, like a

719
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:57.639
narrative style of game, a novel. Yes, yes, yes, it's

720
00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:04.440
a visual novel style game where you
wound up Groundhog daying yourself in a quest

721
00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:10.119
to slay the princess, perhaps maybe
not slay the princess, perhaps befriending the

722
00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:15.079
princess. I'm not personally the biggest
fan of the art style. It's all

723
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:20.719
hand drawn. The characters look a
little funky for my taste. But the

724
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:23.400
whole thing is voice acted, which
is nice. So you can just set

725
00:50:23.519 --> 00:50:29.360
the text advance to auto, just
listen along as you're playing through. And

726
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:34.719
I say groundhog Dang because it is
a loop after a while, once you

727
00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:39.599
get through the initial opening sequence,
and then you have to take into account

728
00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:45.320
the different choices being made and the
different variations as you go through. They

729
00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:50.119
are framing this as like a horror
visual novel, and I wouldn't say that

730
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:55.519
I've been scared at certain parts,
maybe more so like unnerved. Be warned.

731
00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:00.519
The game can get a little graphic
at time, and not like graphic

732
00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:06.159
and like a hello princess graphic and
I like, oh, stop, princess,

733
00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:07.960
stop, don't do that. Do
you see en trails? Do you

734
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:16.320
see anybody's entrails? We see several
trails. Oh Jesus, and that can

735
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:21.639
get unpleasant. I can tell that
I like the game though, despite not

736
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:24.519
being a fan of the art style, because I'm sitting there at my computer

737
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:29.400
occasionally hitting F twelve because that's like, oh that was a good line.

738
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:34.039
Wow, that was a great line
screenshot. Oh cool. I'm gonna remember

739
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.800
this forever. I'm going to pass
this quote to someone not related to games

740
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:43.480
and they'll think I'm hella smart.
Is the thing here, like you said

741
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:46.679
Groundhog's dating, It is the thing
like, Oh, you play through it

742
00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:50.000
and then you're like, well now
I want to see it again in a

743
00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:54.159
different way. Or is it a
continuous play through and one play through has

744
00:51:54.159 --> 00:51:58.159
an effect on the next. It
is a continuous play through where you are

745
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:04.639
building upon the information that you were
learning each time. There's a narrator,

746
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.960
the Princess character, but then there
are also different several voices going on within

747
00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:13.679
your head that kind of split off
into to the different aspects of you as

748
00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:19.440
a character. I don't want to
spoil too much. It does seem like

749
00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:22.840
it is a lengthier game than what
most visual novels would be because there are

750
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:28.000
so many choices in different outcomes.
I thought I was making good progress and

751
00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:30.679
like the three to four hours I
was in, but it turns out I

752
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:36.760
may be nowhere near the end of
the game. It's if you're looking for

753
00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:40.800
a palette cleanser, a spooky pallette
cleanser amongst all the action games popping off

754
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:45.360
this year, I think I can
rightfully recommend Slay the Princess. It may

755
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:47.599
not be for everyone, though,
because the style of visual novel game it

756
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:52.800
is is very dark in the subject
matter, and like I mentioned, it

757
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:58.800
does get very graphic where there's multiple
times where I had to look away because

758
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:05.480
I was so squeamish around the blood. We hate it's it's black and white

759
00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:07.840
with the pencil drawing, And I
get what you mean about not loving the

760
00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:12.320
art style necessarily. Does it like
does the blood like have color? Does

761
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:15.079
it like have like pops of color
anywhere? Is it all just like the

762
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:19.000
pencil black and white kind of gray
scale stuff. The game is primarily black

763
00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:23.159
and white pencil style. However,
the blood is like a vibrant pop of

764
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:28.360
red. Oh wow, okay,
yeah, every everything you know. The

765
00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:31.000
subject matter of the game, like
the storytelling, I think is done really

766
00:53:31.079 --> 00:53:37.199
well and it handles a lot of, you know, existential crises of what

767
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:40.880
is worth it and being okay with
your place in life, yet continuing to

768
00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:45.239
push on and push forward. But
I don't need to question my place in

769
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:49.400
the universe too many times this year. I'm ready doing that with several games

770
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:53.760
already. Sure, yes, do
you think I would like it? Here's

771
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:58.719
the thing. I have a hard
time recommending it because it is a lot

772
00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:01.320
of reading, and it is a
lot of paying attention to specific story beats,

773
00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:09.239
like I think definitely, Like maybe
if we were to stream this from

774
00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:13.599
the beginning right and then we do
decisions by committee, that could be fun.

775
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:15.719
Oh I would have an I'm doing
that. Yeah, But there are

776
00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:22.360
aspects it is a lot of like
listening or reading, and if that is

777
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:24.880
not your cup of tea folks at
home, then Slay the Princess may not

778
00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:29.320
be for you. But if you're
looking for another good visual novel style game,

779
00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:35.719
I can recommend Slay the Princess.
I guess thirteen Sentinels Ages Rim was

780
00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:39.800
visual novel adjacent, but there were
gameplay elements to that, like the turn

781
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:44.639
based stuff. But Slay the Princess
is purely like, all right, let's

782
00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:50.239
read and let's decide what we're gonna
do. Cool. I got it on

783
00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:52.599
Steam. I might. I still
might try it, but I doubt.

784
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:54.239
I doubt it's gonna be my thing, But everyone's talking it up so much.

785
00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:57.280
I might just check in on it. Yeah, I think you could.

786
00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:00.360
Honestly, like, once you get
into the loop of the loop,

787
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:07.519
you can just skip to the specific
decisions you want to make. And hey,

788
00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:12.800
if you read faster than you can
then the game is performing the voiceover,

789
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.360
then by all means you can skip
passed through a lot very quickly.

790
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:21.400
Okay, there is voiceover though,
huh yes, voiceover for virtually everything except

791
00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:25.760
some of the subtexts that is,
like hard descriptions or like your own decisions

792
00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:30.760
will not be voiced. But everything
else is and it's done really, really

793
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:37.000
well as well. If this was
I don't think this is out on I

794
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.760
don't think Slay the Princess is out
on anything else other than Steam. But

795
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:46.039
I definitely would recommend playing this in
a mobile format. Speaking about mobile formats

796
00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:49.559
Mike Minatti, this isn't the game
of the week, but this might be

797
00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:52.840
peripheral of the week. Well,
maybe I did get a PlayStation portal.

798
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:55.719
I don't have a whole time to
say about it, because I you know,

799
00:55:55.800 --> 00:55:59.840
I had just got back from my
trips. I haven't really been able

800
00:55:59.880 --> 00:56:04.960
to put this thing through its paces
yet, but I have some first impressions.

801
00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:07.519
I want, you know, I
know it looks goofy, right,

802
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:10.119
Oh, it certainly, do ye
think. I think it's really comfortable.

803
00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:15.559
It looks comfortable. Yeah, it
feels great, like it feels probably better

804
00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:19.639
to hold than like a steam deck
or a rock or maybe honestly even like

805
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:22.760
a base switch to me, just
having those handles there. I mean,

806
00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:25.639
I like the dual sense a lot, and this is basically just a dual

807
00:56:25.719 --> 00:56:30.079
sense. I think the analog sticks
are actually a little bit smaller than a

808
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:36.920
base dual sense, but still feels
pretty good there. I haven't been able

809
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:40.719
to try too many games on it. I was messing around with Astro Playroom.

810
00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:45.079
Yeah, it's cool to just see
your game on the screen here and

811
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:49.760
it works. I'm kind of My
big hope is that this is gonna help

812
00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:53.199
me finish Ful Fantasy sixteen because I
do so much on my gaming in bed

813
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:58.119
and very little of it in my
living room. So hopefully I can take

814
00:56:58.159 --> 00:57:00.079
this thing to bed and do a
kind of an hour you that on here,

815
00:57:04.199 --> 00:57:08.320
Princess play that portal. Yeah,
see, I'm like a little worried,

816
00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:12.880
like how what's gonna work? Because
even my little test with Astro there

817
00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.880
was like artifacting here and there.
It's not much and clearly can play it,

818
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:20.280
but I always I always have that
issue with streaming, where as soon

819
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:23.159
as things get slightly unoptimal, I'm
like, well, why am I playing

820
00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:27.199
it like this? I should just
not play it like this? Why right?

821
00:57:27.639 --> 00:57:31.360
It? Like this thing is so
nice looking and expensive looking and hefty.

822
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:35.079
It is kind of a bummer.
That's like, oh this it is

823
00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:37.599
just streaming off my PlayStation, Like
I wish there was something in here,

824
00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:43.039
even if they just like put in
like I don't know, fifty PlayStation one,

825
00:57:43.239 --> 00:57:46.840
PlayStation two games, something that was
just natively on so I knew if

826
00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:51.679
I'm carrying this thing around, I
have access to something without connecting to my

827
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:55.719
PlayStation that would help, or even
the cloud streaming stuff like the normal cloud.

828
00:57:55.760 --> 00:57:59.559
Does it feel fragile at all,
Mike, like, how does the

829
00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:04.199
build you feel? It feels sturdy? Like again, the thing itself,

830
00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:08.679
I think feels great. The screen
even looks nice, right, it's definitely

831
00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:13.440
it is a black ass black mirror, man, Like, that is a

832
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:17.559
good thing. You guys are all
right? Look at that? So yeah,

833
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:22.880
I so initialpressions are The device itself, I think is pretty nice.

834
00:58:22.920 --> 00:58:28.800
I think it's sturdy. I think
it's good build. Not exactly sure how

835
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:32.159
functional it is or how what's gonna
work for my purposes yet I will report

836
00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:37.840
back. How much is this thing? Again? It's two hundred, I

837
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:42.559
think so, Yes, two hundred
dollars, okay if yeah, in my

838
00:58:42.679 --> 00:58:45.480
head I thought it was three hundred. I'm like our character so far this

839
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:47.760
this is a stupid purtress. But
then when I heard two hundred, just

840
00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:52.719
now, yeah, three hundred would
have been crazy nuts, it would have

841
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:57.400
been it would have been like sort
of normal for like a consumer electronics come

842
00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:00.159
be like Sony. But I think
that they're pretty They're wise enough now at

843
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:02.519
this point to not go down that
route. Two hundred dollars completely a fair

844
00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:08.760
well close to fair for this er. Yes, yes, I could justify

845
00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:12.800
it. Basically people are being chatter
like, hey, why doesn't have Bluetooth?

846
00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:15.119
Most consoles don't have Bluetooth. Only
the switch has Bluetooth. Really,

847
00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:20.039
I don't think the Xbox doesn't have
Bluetooth steam Deck. The Steam steam Deck

848
00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:24.920
does have Bluetooth, and it uses
apt X, which is the low latency

849
00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:30.280
Bluetooth for connection here. But yeah, it's just there's too much latency with

850
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:35.280
most Bluetooth Codex to actually support that. Doesn't it feel like a little feature

851
00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.360
light though, Like I'm thinking about
it now, just like why why?

852
00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:44.480
Yeah? I mean, I listen. I think the question is going to

853
00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:47.519
continue to be for this who is
this? Four? But the fact the

854
00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:51.760
matter is, I keep saying me. So I'm fine, I got an

855
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:53.559
answer. I'm good. I'm gonna
get it. Uh, it's everyone else's

856
00:59:53.559 --> 00:59:55.719
problem if they need if they don't
have a reason to buy it, maybe

857
00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:59.000
it's not problem at all. Just
don't buy it, Mike, is there

858
00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:00.719
an SD cart slo at all on
it? Like? Can you load up

859
01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:06.000
anything? What would you need that
for? I don't know, Like maybe

860
01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:09.159
you're watching the movie. Of course
they're like, oh did we put in

861
01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:13.760
the hack port? Well, I
means I think that USB port. You're

862
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:15.559
still gonna be able to get in
there, get up in that business.

863
01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:27.360
Yeah, well, must be very
disappointed thinking about That's right, he's fucking

864
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:34.199
it about house. I finally got
my hands on the analog pocket. Me

865
01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:37.000
too, Me too, Bud.
Let me tell you, does that smell

866
01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:42.320
like a Tony Award or anything like
that? Smells like two Tony Awards?

867
01:00:42.599 --> 01:00:47.760
Hello, weird. I don't know
what to do with mine. It smells

868
01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:53.079
like it sounds like someone recorded like
a song dedicated to Mike Manatti near this.

869
01:00:55.480 --> 01:01:00.079
Sorry, now I get it.
Sorry. I bought the analog this

870
01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:02.880
analog pocket off of a friend of
the site, Alex Bunyellow. Thanks Alex

871
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:08.480
Grub. That is a good black
mirror effect too. Damn he's out up

872
01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:12.960
for a second. That thing is
so good, Grub. I blame you

873
01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:15.960
for me wanting to do this,
because in the back of an Uber Brod

874
01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:21.559
just hands me his analog pocket and
out of all the games, I'm playing

875
01:01:21.719 --> 01:01:25.159
stunt Man for the Game Boy Advance, it's such a good game actually,

876
01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:30.960
And then like it's all their faults. The screen quality on this is absolutely

877
01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:37.400
astounding. It's literally ten x the
Game Boy Advance screen so that they could

878
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:42.199
just perfectly upscale it ten X.
It's great. I got one too.

879
01:01:42.239 --> 01:01:47.000
I got the Orange Limited Edition transmission. Yeah, yeah, this is mine,

880
01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:52.400
not yours. Manani did you did
you have you installed all the the

881
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:54.199
cores the f PGA course? Yeah, I think I did it right,

882
01:01:54.360 --> 01:02:00.239
like Dan hooked it up. Thanks
shout out to Dan Reikert. He's on

883
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:06.440
Twitch. And I feel like,
I'm I'm happy with what I have here.

884
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:09.639
Uh. And again it was him
and and Bonniello. We were having

885
01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:13.719
lunch one time and bonnie and They're
like playing it at lunch. I'm like,

886
01:02:13.719 --> 01:02:15.920
what do you It's kind of rude, you guys are playing Pocket.

887
01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:19.440
But anyway, I like grabbed one. I was like, oh wow,

888
01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:21.760
I need one. And it took
me like eight months to get it.

889
01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:28.280
And I feel like I understand exactly
what's going on here. I just this

890
01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:30.599
is one of the things where I'm
like, I'm more happy to have it

891
01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:32.480
and I don't want to be playing
it more. I want to be playing

892
01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:36.719
it more. Like what do I
do play video games? Play it more?

893
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:38.760
Is that? Yeah? Probably?
Some used game stores and game some

894
01:02:38.920 --> 01:02:45.480
game Boy game Boy Color games are
often pretty cheap just go get some do

895
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:52.440
crimes rather do crimes? Put the
cars in. Yeah, yeah, you're

896
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:55.639
looking for holes everywhere. Yeah,
I got the game Gear adapter. Even

897
01:02:55.880 --> 01:03:01.519
get stuff there. Oh there's a
game Gear adapter Turbot Duo I think or

898
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:05.000
whatever it was. What was their
portable thing called not Turbo Duo, but

899
01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:12.199
talk about rocket Turbo Express. I
can finally check out the pictures on this

900
01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:17.760
game Boy cam. Awesome capsle that's
my only game facts guide ever. I

901
01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:22.800
wrote a game Boy Color fact was
a child, and I gotta get I

902
01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:23.920
gotta get a game Boy Color because
I have the docs. So I could

903
01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:27.920
use that as a webcam. That'd
be fun. Oh my god. Yeah

904
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:31.039
I can use this as a camera. Oh yeah, somebody did that at

905
01:03:31.320 --> 01:03:36.840
remember somebody at the game Boy camera
at Uh oh yeah Pax Pats. That

906
01:03:36.960 --> 01:03:40.599
was fun. Yeah. Uh wait, I think the game Boy camera was

907
01:03:40.679 --> 01:03:45.559
made by game Freak. Yes,
yes, yes, it was as a

908
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:50.960
wild uh huh yeah. Game Freak
has done a lot of stuff outside of

909
01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:57.440
just this is way too dark.
This is not good. Okay, there

910
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:01.519
we go. Oh wow beautiful.
Uh well that's it. Oh. Also,

911
01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:04.719
you know I'd been remiss if I
didn't shout this out now, but

912
01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:11.079
shots out to Zombie Pie. Shots
out to Turbo Sean for doing a fantastic

913
01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:16.320
job and helping organize all the bullshit
for Extra Life, Extra Life not being

914
01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:19.280
bullshit. It's one of my favorite
things we do throughout the year. But

915
01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:27.199
we were able to raise in weekend
one thirteen thousand dollars. Not a small

916
01:04:27.239 --> 01:04:30.159
feed by any means. Thank you
Grub for kicking off the day doing some

917
01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:32.960
titan Fall two and I was like, oh man, maybe I should just

918
01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:36.920
play titan Fall two the whole time. It's real good. And then I

919
01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:40.880
played. I played six hours of
video games and it flew by and it

920
01:04:41.039 --> 01:04:44.199
goes to titan Fall two. How
was that last hour? Did that fly

921
01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:48.159
by? No? God, Okay, no, we get it. You

922
01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:51.320
get it. You guys don't like
Red Dead Redemption two through it. Literally

923
01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:55.920
it's just not a good game.
It's just not a Mike Mike. You

924
01:04:56.039 --> 01:04:59.000
and I we get along. We
get it. Okay, I should have

925
01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:02.159
made it better. It's my my
big thing. So it's so easy to

926
01:05:02.360 --> 01:05:06.519
just yeah, it's easy to play. Also, Special shouts out to John

927
01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:13.719
Luke, Jake Decker, Dave Amadi, tam To more Hussein, and Matthew

928
01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:17.079
Rory for swinging by the SF office. We did Extra Life for a couple

929
01:05:17.199 --> 01:05:27.320
hours altogether physically Rory and Rory and
his company donated a whopping thousand dollars to

930
01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:31.440
the cause for the children and everything. And I made the stupid decision,

931
01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:34.400
just like Jeff Grubb did, of
like, hey, let's mark a lofty

932
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:38.880
goal of doing this, and then
we'll probably not get to that, and

933
01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:43.920
then someone will immediately get to that, where I made the stupid decision of

934
01:05:44.039 --> 01:05:45.199
like, well, you know,
if we get to seven thousand dollars,

935
01:05:45.360 --> 01:05:51.960
I'll go play through The Quiet Man
and j Quiet Jan you deserved it.

936
01:05:53.039 --> 01:05:56.119
And I made my bed and then
I lied in it, and then I

937
01:05:56.840 --> 01:06:00.239
witnessed the brilliance of the Quiet Man. And let me tell tell you,

938
01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:05.440
I think Alan Wake Too is related
to the Quiet Man. Oh yeah,

939
01:06:05.480 --> 01:06:09.280
it's all part of the same universe. I think it's part of the remedy

940
01:06:09.840 --> 01:06:12.400
the universe. I just hate it
if you go too long without playing the

941
01:06:12.480 --> 01:06:15.800
Quiet Man. Yeah, it like
just gets antsy. And so we got

942
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:17.559
to force things to happen against we
has to play it. Let me tell

943
01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:23.119
you, I thought I had completed
this game already where we could have just

944
01:06:23.239 --> 01:06:27.960
done all of the audio, because
I feel like we've seen the original campaign

945
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:31.199
on the Quiet version, the Quiet
version, the version too much on this

946
01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:36.320
website. But it turns out when
I think I beat the game, I

947
01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:42.199
may have done it on Brad Shoemaker's
account. Oh where save there? Or

948
01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:46.400
maybe Matt Rory's Steam account, because
when I got home and I was like,

949
01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:49.000
all right, let's go to my
library and download the Quiet Man,

950
01:06:49.599 --> 01:06:54.079
Uh, it was not there.
I had to buy it again. Are

951
01:06:54.079 --> 01:06:58.800
there any Quiet Man mods? There
shouldn't be? Makes it really loud?

952
01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:04.760
Yeah? I knew that was coming
there. So shout shouts out to Turbo

953
01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:09.800
Sean, Zombie Pie, everyone that
helped out if you donated or even tuned

954
01:07:09.840 --> 01:07:14.360
in for Extra Life Weekend Part one. Also, folks, I know it's

955
01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:17.360
it's financially very hard times across the
board for everyone. So if you find

956
01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:21.480
yourself non a position to donate,
don't feel bad at all. Just hanging

957
01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:26.800
out, sharing the stream with friends, posting about the stream that can help

958
01:07:26.880 --> 01:07:30.199
out because someone that may be in
a position to donate can go ahead and

959
01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:34.760
do that. Jeff Grubb, Mike
Manatti. This weekend, Extra Life continues

960
01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:41.239
because y'all are heading to Dan Reicherd's
house. Yeah, I'll be on a

961
01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:45.800
plane Friday evening. Mike will be
on some Nickelodeon roller coaster bullshit in Minneapolis,

962
01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:51.679
Mall of America and Carry the Coaster. Yeah careful, these are actual

963
01:07:51.880 --> 01:07:57.000
thrill rides. Yeah, I probably
will not be going doing that. No,

964
01:07:57.159 --> 01:08:00.800
no, but yeah, we're gonna
be at Dan Rye's house in his

965
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:04.079
basement where he's been troubleshooting for like
two weeks straight and we're trying to get

966
01:08:04.079 --> 01:08:06.119
everything working. But he's done a
good job of getting everything set up.

967
01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:11.159
We're gonna be there playing games on
Saturday, starting at what was it like,

968
01:08:11.440 --> 01:08:14.760
twelve New I think it's we're starting
New Eastern New Eastern and going at

969
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:16.520
least until eight pm. I think
maybe seven pm, and then we might

970
01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:21.479
start. But but yes, definitely
noon to seven. And it's not just

971
01:08:21.720 --> 01:08:26.880
you three because we have another special
guest. Nothing bad can happen. The

972
01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:31.279
wind Bag is also joining y'all.
In person. Wind Bag is a Yes,

973
01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:34.880
he is going to be at Dan
Records hot and I cannot wait to

974
01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:39.319
see what real person the wind Bag
is like. Oh my god, I

975
01:08:39.359 --> 01:08:43.039
can't imagine it's exciting. It's going
to be a pleasant time. Yeah,

976
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:46.239
the wind bag is not bringing green
screen. Folks, do not do not

977
01:08:46.279 --> 01:08:50.319
wish that on the wind bag.
You guys see won't be there. Guy's

978
01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:57.880
gonna be see his legs. No
way I heard save him. I didn't

979
01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:01.039
get to watch that to dance save
him. Well, I mean we loaded

980
01:09:01.079 --> 01:09:04.600
the deck. I think Dan did
save him. Yeah, okay, good

981
01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:09.199
good. I was worried about that, all right, folks. That does

982
01:09:09.239 --> 01:09:12.680
it for the first segment of the
show. A lot of stuff happening,

983
01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:15.399
a lot of games, still a
lot of games. I'm still playing like

984
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:18.039
a bunch of stuff too like,
and there's still more games to play.

985
01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:23.920
Still taking RECs, folks. If
any indie titles you think may have got

986
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:28.239
swept underneath the rug during Game of
the Year Game Awards season, send them

987
01:09:28.279 --> 01:09:30.239
my way. I want to know. I want to know what else we

988
01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:32.960
should check out, folks. That
does it for the first segment. Let's

989
01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:40.680
go take a quick breaking break and
we'll be back with the news. The

990
01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:46.199
games keep coming, just like the
news keeps coming. Nothing is slowing down.

991
01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:53.079
Ever, We're we're sliding downhill.
We hit beat a crouch on a

992
01:09:53.159 --> 01:09:58.600
slope and we're still sliding, Jeff
grub news and it don't stop coming.

993
01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:01.800
As I had to say that to
finish what you said. Yeah, okay,

994
01:10:02.119 --> 01:10:05.640
so the news it does feel like
it's maybe slowing down a little bit,

995
01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:10.760
but there's plenty to talk about.
Still popped off like crazy. While

996
01:10:10.800 --> 01:10:15.119
I was on vacation, I noticed
exactly so yes that week you were out,

997
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:18.039
it was non stop, the huge
headlines, and does seem like people

998
01:10:18.079 --> 01:10:21.439
are maybe taking a break. I
wonder if at a certain point a lot

999
01:10:21.479 --> 01:10:25.520
of these companies might start wrapping things
up for the year in terms of big

1000
01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:29.319
announcements. But Nintendo is gonna have
one last thing here. In fact,

1001
01:10:29.359 --> 01:10:33.159
they already did this morning. Nintendo
Indie World Showcase happened. Not a lot

1002
01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:35.880
to like, you know, not
a lot of headline grabbing stuff there.

1003
01:10:35.960 --> 01:10:40.760
No soilk song, No no silk
song really is the headline. No silk

1004
01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:43.560
song, A lot of the stuff
that you've been waiting for in terms of

1005
01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:45.720
like, oh, indie games is
gonna ask no UFO fifty things like that.

1006
01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:50.000
It was a standard Indie World showcase
where they gave us updates and showed

1007
01:10:50.039 --> 01:10:55.720
off some new, interesting looking indie
games. Shante Risky Revolution and the Outer

1008
01:10:55.840 --> 01:11:01.239
Wilds, which had been previously announced
Switched re emerged here Theologist audition Archaeologist,

1009
01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:05.399
the Archaeologist audition, uh, and
then trying to see if there's anything else

1010
01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:09.159
that stood out. I wasn't able
to watch most of this because we started

1011
01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:12.560
the bomb cast, but when I
looked over, I did think core Keeper

1012
01:11:12.640 --> 01:11:17.319
looked pretty cool by Kamara, looked
good to the game right that the was

1013
01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:21.920
the star named eos first person storytelling
puzzle adventure, had a cool style.

1014
01:11:23.920 --> 01:11:27.319
But yeah, overall, just Nintendo
giving an update on its indies, and

1015
01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:30.039
indies do very well on the Switch, so I'm glad it's still popping off.

1016
01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:33.720
The Chante game is neat because this
is the one that was supposed to

1017
01:11:33.800 --> 01:11:39.319
be the first sequel to the original
Game Boy Color game Chante Advanced, and

1018
01:11:39.479 --> 01:11:42.960
they just couldn't find a publisher for
it back then. They announced it early

1019
01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:45.479
in the year that they are just
stilling to finally make that game. And

1020
01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:48.079
that's what this is so really cool
to see that backpack here, it looks

1021
01:11:48.119 --> 01:11:55.079
neat. That's like Grower. Yeah, yeah, it's like a combination of

1022
01:11:55.279 --> 01:12:00.520
that moving game, but with the
dungeon crawling RPG stuff that's neat, is

1023
01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:02.720
it? Does they have deck building? Or is this? It has backpack

1024
01:12:02.880 --> 01:12:08.920
organization? Yes? Stuff? Oh
like that. You organize your backpack much

1025
01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:11.840
like you would in like a Resident
Evil game. It's like a grid style

1026
01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:16.079
and then from there you choose your
weapons and that informs your style of combat.

1027
01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:18.920
So like if you only got a
backpack full of bats, you can

1028
01:12:19.000 --> 01:12:23.479
only swing away at folks, sure, and then you're screwed if you come

1029
01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:27.560
up with someone with a knife.
Of course. All right. The Game

1030
01:12:27.600 --> 01:12:31.359
Award nominees were also announced. We'
I'm not gonna go over all the categories.

1031
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:35.279
I got some here. Game of
the Year is. The six nominees

1032
01:12:35.279 --> 01:12:39.560
are Allen Wake two, Balder S
K three, Marvel Spider Man two,

1033
01:12:39.640 --> 01:12:41.960
Super Mario Brothers, Wondering the Legend
is all the Tiers of the Kingdom,

1034
01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:44.840
and there's one other. I can't
remember what it is. Oh, that's

1035
01:12:44.920 --> 01:12:48.119
right reside before remake. There you
go, we did it. Yeah,

1036
01:12:48.119 --> 01:12:51.079
go ahead. It's interesting because I
think it was always going to be those

1037
01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:56.560
other five and basically the one question
mark was what's that six to one going

1038
01:12:56.680 --> 01:13:00.239
to be? What's going to slot
in there? I mean I know you're

1039
01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:01.680
getting a lot of this is the
Bresley Evil four guy, Mike, I'd

1040
01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:05.720
rather Armored Course six be in there
than Recivil four whatever that seems right?

1041
01:13:05.800 --> 01:13:10.000
Yeah, I think Forest, if
your game didn't get in, I think

1042
01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:12.199
it's gonna be real easy for a
lot of people like which one is my

1043
01:13:12.479 --> 01:13:15.840
enemy now? And they're gonna pick
on Resne before your game should have been

1044
01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:19.760
better than what I'm gonna say.
But you know, congrats, Mike,

1045
01:13:19.960 --> 01:13:26.199
I know you worked really hard on
this game. Uh well, look,

1046
01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:30.920
it's not gonna win. It's this
is probably between all only two, borts

1047
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:33.279
Gate three and Tiers of the Kingdom. That's probably the competition. I mean,

1048
01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:36.960
you guys want to you guys want
to say answers real quick out of

1049
01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:41.079
these six specifically yes, out of
these six yes, Just you don't have

1050
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:44.319
to explain it. Just what is
your pick? Mike, I think Bortskate

1051
01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:46.800
three wins. I mean, like, is that your children? What's your

1052
01:13:46.880 --> 01:13:48.960
choice? Oh? Oh sorry,
I thought were saying who we think is

1053
01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:51.920
gonna win? Oh resdue Forest my
game there? Yeah, okay, uh

1054
01:13:53.560 --> 01:14:00.720
uh and then backlar h Allen Wake
two, jan Alan Wake two, and

1055
01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.000
then I am the legends, all
the tiers of the Kingdom. But these

1056
01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:06.880
things could still change. We'll see. Look, if I was sleeping since

1057
01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:11.359
October twenty sixth, they would have
been Zelda. Also. I just needed

1058
01:14:11.399 --> 01:14:15.119
to know that. You know,
I would have said that too, But

1059
01:14:15.239 --> 01:14:19.159
then I just I keep finding myself
going back every other day to Spider Man

1060
01:14:19.239 --> 01:14:24.720
two. Yeah, Spider Man two
is a very good It's a shame that

1061
01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:29.159
it's gonna get pretty glossed over here
because it was habits with all these insomniac

1062
01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:30.239
games. Yeah, I mean,
this is an insane list. These are

1063
01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:34.920
all incredible games. You're right,
it is truly an insane list, that

1064
01:14:35.760 --> 01:14:38.640
kind of I mean, if you
show me this at the beginning of the

1065
01:14:38.680 --> 01:14:41.479
year, I'd be like, fuck, all right, you know, I

1066
01:14:41.560 --> 01:14:44.279
guess I know some games are missing, but it's hard to even say they

1067
01:14:44.359 --> 01:14:46.159
got snubbed, Like of course I
would like to see Armored Course six and

1068
01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:49.520
Pickment four on there. And some
people are upset that, like foun Fantasy

1069
01:14:50.039 --> 01:14:55.880
sixteen or street Fighter six or Starfield
didn't get on there. But it's just

1070
01:14:55.960 --> 01:14:59.119
been that kind of year. It's
been No one's saying starving, it's not

1071
01:14:59.119 --> 01:15:04.039
people are saying star but you're allowed
to say anything. If you can say

1072
01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:09.800
whatever you want, that's im.
I'm gonna show my whole ass here.

1073
01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:17.359
But I am happy and sad that
Hogwarts Legacy did not get nominated. Happy

1074
01:15:17.560 --> 01:15:23.960
in any category because JK. Rowling. Of course, sad for the actual

1075
01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:27.680
developers that worked really hard on that
game. Yeah, I'm sure if they

1076
01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:30.760
felt a little salty about that,
I wouldn't blame them too much. They

1077
01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:33.199
kind of got caught up in something. And now I haven't played the game

1078
01:15:33.199 --> 01:15:36.119
at all. Is do I think
that game is possibly better than any of

1079
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:39.880
these Games of the Year games.
I would be pretty surprised by that.

1080
01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:43.920
No, But like I mean,
I have no idea like it would have

1081
01:15:44.039 --> 01:15:46.760
played in Best Narrative. I don't
know that like adaptation would that count?

1082
01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:50.880
No adaptations are TV shows? Oh
okay, Yeah, I was confused about

1083
01:15:50.880 --> 01:15:54.840
that. I voted. I voted
like things getting turned into video games,

1084
01:15:54.880 --> 01:15:57.520
and apparently it was the other way. Yeah. They explained it in that

1085
01:15:57.640 --> 01:16:00.600
text where if you read it,
but I know I didn't I read anything.

1086
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:03.479
Let's see Best Game direction, Alan
Wick two, Balder's Gate three,

1087
01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:08.279
Marvel Spider Man two, Super Mario
Brothers, Wonder and the Legends, all

1088
01:16:08.319 --> 01:16:12.239
the Tears to the Kingdom you can
tell. So it's everything except for resid

1089
01:16:12.279 --> 01:16:14.439
Evil four. Right, well there's
only five in this one. Well,

1090
01:16:14.439 --> 01:16:15.479
as soon as that happened, I
was like, well, game, there's

1091
01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:18.800
gonna be those five plus one.
Yep, I was like, what's it

1092
01:16:18.840 --> 01:16:21.119
going to be? I said at
the time, not Resident Evil four.

1093
01:16:21.239 --> 01:16:25.960
So I don't know. Best narrative
Alan make two, Balder's Kate three,

1094
01:16:26.479 --> 01:16:30.039
Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, Phantom Liberty, Final Fantasy sixteen, and Marvel spider

1095
01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:34.720
Man two. Quick question, So
best narrative that means best story basically,

1096
01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:39.800
yeah, the best storytelling. Story
writing. Storytelling is how I would form.

1097
01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:43.119
It's just like the whole thing,
and that's that's probably going to be

1098
01:16:43.640 --> 01:16:47.079
on the way two bouldersk three,
Maybe Cyberpunk as a dark horse there probably

1099
01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:54.079
I get it. But Tears of
the Kingdom fucking slammed with its storytelling.

1100
01:16:54.199 --> 01:16:56.800
I'd get it. There's not a
lot of narrative, but boy it's so

1101
01:16:56.920 --> 01:17:00.039
emotional. But hey, it wasn't
gonna make this list. No, not

1102
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:03.239
really, I don't know of those
for best story. You guys going down

1103
01:17:03.319 --> 01:17:08.600
like two, Becca Lar and yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, you

1104
01:17:08.680 --> 01:17:11.560
know, I feel like a lot
of people are going to sleep on the

1105
01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:15.239
story of Final Fantasy sixteen. Oh. I thought you were gonna say Spider

1106
01:17:15.359 --> 01:17:19.520
Man. Oh, I did fall
asleep during the storytelling Final Fantasy sixteen,

1107
01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:24.840
just to be clear, but no, I think the storytelling in Spider Man

1108
01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:29.560
two is actually pretty good. I
think I think it's I think it's surprisingly

1109
01:17:29.640 --> 01:17:32.840
good. Yea, that's solid.
I just I just doesn't do I don't

1110
01:17:32.840 --> 01:17:35.479
know. It was very predictable at
a certain point. I guess maybe I

1111
01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:39.960
don't really hold that against it so
much. But yeah, balders Kate three,

1112
01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:42.520
I'm getting into that enough that I'm
like, ah, the storytelling there

1113
01:17:42.600 --> 01:17:45.960
is really good. I could see
Boulderskate three winning that. I think it's

1114
01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:49.600
gonna go to balders Kate three.
Yeah, I think there's a strong chance

1115
01:17:49.640 --> 01:17:53.399
for that. And then art direction, let's let's do it for this one

1116
01:17:53.640 --> 01:17:57.239
allan Wait two, High Fi Rush, Liza p Super Mario Brothers, Wonder

1117
01:17:57.239 --> 01:18:00.520
and the Legend of Zelda Tears of
the Kingdom. I flip flop between Wonder

1118
01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:08.680
and Tears of the Kingdom. Actual
ahead, I was gonna. I think

1119
01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:12.880
Wonder, Uh, I mean for
me personally, probably takes. I think

1120
01:18:12.920 --> 01:18:15.760
I actually am voting for Wonder.
I think if I just choose one,

1121
01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:18.800
come on, this is where we
can give High five Rush Award and it'll

1122
01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:25.239
win for best very specifically music,
beat, fighting, game audio design.

1123
01:18:25.399 --> 01:18:29.560
Like yeah, yeah, for sure. But just the way that that game

1124
01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:35.840
transitioned between like the actual animated segments
was incredible. I just love the way,

1125
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:40.239
and I know, like definitely deserves
to be nominated. Without it nominated,

1126
01:18:40.279 --> 01:18:43.640
I'd be happy for one. I
think it's surprising that lies off P

1127
01:18:43.840 --> 01:18:47.039
got nominated, and I know that
bomb Rush Cyberfunk is just aping the jet

1128
01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:54.760
grind radio aesthetic, but surprise blood
Borns. So yeah, so I'm I'm

1129
01:18:54.800 --> 01:18:58.079
surprised at lies of P made it. But something like bombers Cyberfunk Funk,

1130
01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:04.279
I don't think very many people played
bomb Rush cyberfunfortunately probably Yes, it's a

1131
01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:08.479
certain point. It's the popularity contest, it really is. I bet if

1132
01:19:08.520 --> 01:19:13.199
you did like a cross section,
like an algorithm of like multiplying a game's

1133
01:19:13.680 --> 01:19:16.119
sales with its Metacritics score, you
would be able to answer the question to

1134
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:21.640
all these categories pretty safely. Let's
oh, then best performance Ben Star,

1135
01:19:21.920 --> 01:19:27.680
Cameron Montahan, Idris Elba, Melanie
Libbard who is an Allen Way two,

1136
01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:32.119
Neil Newban who's in balder Skate three, and Uri Larryhal Yes story and yes,

1137
01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:38.119
and then Uri Loenthal who is Spider
Man. Yeah, I mean Ben

1138
01:19:38.199 --> 01:19:44.720
Starr Star for Yeah Internet gem Ben
Starr sweet little boy. Yeah, guys,

1139
01:19:44.760 --> 01:19:46.279
a little bit obsessed with the cheesecake
Factory. He won't let us go

1140
01:19:46.319 --> 01:19:49.840
in, he won't stop talking about. It's embarrassing at a certain point,

1141
01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:54.279
but whatever, He's cool otherwise other
than that. Yeah, whether or not

1142
01:19:54.439 --> 01:20:00.359
you like Final Fantasy sixteen or you
detest the story, Ben Star is giving

1143
01:20:00.439 --> 01:20:05.000
it his all throughout the whole absolutely, uh all right. Dragons Dogma two

1144
01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:10.760
has been raided, suggesting their release
isn't far off. Dragons Dogma two has

1145
01:20:10.760 --> 01:20:14.279
been raided in Saudi Arabia. Capcom
has not announced the release date, but

1146
01:20:14.319 --> 01:20:18.119
the game is fairly far along.
Capcom did recently say that an undisclosed title

1147
01:20:18.119 --> 01:20:23.720
will be released by March twenty twenty
four. Most people assumed this was Monster

1148
01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:27.640
Hunter, which is due. Uh, but this game's rated, and usually

1149
01:20:27.640 --> 01:20:30.199
when these things these ratings happen.
We get the games within about six to

1150
01:20:30.359 --> 01:20:34.960
ten weeks in that range. Uh, that's shocking. Yeah, but this

1151
01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:41.079
game's been disclosed. Yeah they announced
this a while. Yeah, yeah,

1152
01:20:41.079 --> 01:20:43.479
disclosed in what way? Like,
yeah, of course it was announced,

1153
01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:46.680
but coming I mean you think it? Does that make it make sense that's

1154
01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:53.840
coming out in like the before March
Yeah, man sings fests. I mean,

1155
01:20:53.880 --> 01:20:57.079
I wouldn't be shocked if we had
a real coming out party trailer thing

1156
01:20:57.119 --> 01:20:59.640
for this game at the Game Awards
or something like that. Right with the

1157
01:20:59.720 --> 01:21:04.159
release state. I can totally see
that happening. Accept the award for Game

1158
01:21:04.199 --> 01:21:08.640
of the Year, they're going to
bring up their friends and then Dragon's Dogma

1159
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:13.439
two come up here, buddy,
you do this too. I can't wait

1160
01:21:13.520 --> 01:21:15.279
for that. I can't wait for
that Game of the Year, like like

1161
01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:19.560
Orchestra overture they're going to do by
the way with songs. Oh yeah,

1162
01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:25.000
they're going to play bullet in the
Blade from Flute Man needs to return.

1163
01:21:26.760 --> 01:21:30.800
That was the first person they booked. After this, be there immediately.

1164
01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:35.199
He's gonna present for Game of the
Year. We need to get the Flute

1165
01:21:35.239 --> 01:21:41.159
Man on the couch. Okay,
we'll get him. Let me see,

1166
01:21:43.720 --> 01:21:45.720
we'll see. I think it's if
this game is coming out before March.

1167
01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:48.439
I think, Mike, you're exactly
right. Game of the Game of the

1168
01:21:48.760 --> 01:21:53.960
Game of Year Awards and then a
date and a big reveal and they say,

1169
01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:56.560
hey, show up in like a
week and we'll have a big like

1170
01:21:56.680 --> 01:21:58.840
showcase of all the stuff. They've
already done one of those, But I

1171
01:21:58.840 --> 01:22:00.560
don't think they had a date at
that point clearly. So yeah, we

1172
01:22:00.600 --> 01:22:04.039
should hear about this very soon.
If this is the case. Lariyan is

1173
01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:08.920
teasing that Bouldersgate three, Xbox and
physical release news will drop this week.

1174
01:22:09.039 --> 01:22:13.159
Larryan's Studio Studios is tease plans to
announce an Xbox Series X and S release

1175
01:22:13.239 --> 01:22:15.960
date for Bolder Skate three and a
physical edition of the game. The game

1176
01:22:16.039 --> 01:22:19.479
got nominated for eight prizes at the
Game Awards. As part of like a

1177
01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:24.640
message about that and saying thanks to
fans, they also said Xbox fans and

1178
01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:28.520
fans of physical media should watch this
space for a formal announcement. It's going

1179
01:22:28.600 --> 01:22:30.840
to be a busy week. And
that was just yesterday, I believe when

1180
01:22:30.840 --> 01:22:33.840
they when they sent that out to
fans. So Hey. Yeah, they

1181
01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:36.920
keep saying that that Xbox version is
going to launch before the end of this

1182
01:22:38.039 --> 01:22:41.840
year. They haven't said exactly when. They did have this interesting tidbit about

1183
01:22:41.840 --> 01:22:45.920
how they've been optimizing for the Xbox
Series X or Xbox Series S and in

1184
01:22:46.079 --> 01:22:50.239
doing that they discovered some serious optimizations
that will make the game run better everywhere,

1185
01:22:50.640 --> 01:22:53.720
So a lot of benefits coming from
that. But yeah, so it

1186
01:22:53.720 --> 01:22:55.600
seems like that game is going to
make it up for the end of the

1187
01:22:55.640 --> 01:22:58.880
year on Xbox, So good luck
to those fans. It's so wild that

1188
01:23:00.159 --> 01:23:04.039
Yablo four I have completely forgot about
and has not occupied any space in my

1189
01:23:04.199 --> 01:23:08.399
brain. Yeah, like ninety two
on Metacritic, and just not even in

1190
01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:11.359
the conversation, not even like people
aren't even talking about the getting snubbed.

1191
01:23:11.640 --> 01:23:15.479
Yeah, like, I feel more
people are talking about Armor Core six not

1192
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:18.880
getting nominated for a lot of these
categories we just talked about. But like,

1193
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:24.359
yep, man, that's a better
game. Yeah, yeah, I

1194
01:23:24.479 --> 01:23:28.199
like. But it was pretty easy
to kind of move on forget about the

1195
01:23:28.199 --> 01:23:31.000
other four when I was done with
it. Okay, yeah, all right,

1196
01:23:31.319 --> 01:23:34.520
I gotta I gotta include Balder's Gate
three in the Sprint to the end

1197
01:23:34.520 --> 01:23:38.880
of the year. Yeah, we
could do that. We could do that.

1198
01:23:39.319 --> 01:23:41.479
Look that thing we do where we
play the game next to each other

1199
01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:44.920
and just like force each other to
keep playing because I'm starting to make some

1200
01:23:45.079 --> 01:23:47.039
progress, but I also keep playing
resume before and so that's on the problem.

1201
01:23:47.199 --> 01:23:49.479
You got your priorities. That's fine, yes, of course, of

1202
01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:53.760
course, of course, real game
of the Year. Sure h. Bandy

1203
01:23:53.840 --> 01:23:58.800
Namco Is revealed it's Nintendo partner studio
Banda Namco Is officially announced Studio two and

1204
01:23:58.920 --> 01:24:01.720
Studio s. It's internal studio and
I guess the studio too, and Studio

1205
01:24:01.760 --> 01:24:05.199
Test. That's an ampersand I think
they're one thing. It's an internal studio

1206
01:24:05.239 --> 01:24:09.800
that works with Nintendo on commission projects. The team has worked on a number

1207
01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:13.520
of Nintendo titles, including Super Smash
Brothers, Mario Kart, and Arms.

1208
01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:17.000
But previously it was like this not
Cloak and Dagger, but this shrouded thing

1209
01:24:17.039 --> 01:24:19.800
that they like, oh we don't
have like a Nintendo studio. Now it's

1210
01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:24.039
like just straight up, this is
our name, studio that works with Nintendo

1211
01:24:24.159 --> 01:24:27.239
on things. The team consists of
one hundred and fifty two employees, thirty

1212
01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:30.479
two percent of which are new graduates. The team is currently working on a

1213
01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:34.439
three D action game project commissioned by
Nintendo. Band On Namco has a history

1214
01:24:34.479 --> 01:24:39.640
of working with Nintendo, going back
to Donkey Konga and Star Fox Assault,

1215
01:24:39.920 --> 01:24:43.880
the Mario Kart arcade games. Did
they do the f Zero arcade game?

1216
01:24:44.039 --> 01:24:47.039
Someone Sega? That was Sega?
Thank you? New Pokemon Snap and Pockin

1217
01:24:47.119 --> 01:24:49.319
Tournament. I'm gonna say Pockin.
I have no idea if that's right.

1218
01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:55.840
So, yeah, this is like
them solidifying this going forward. Nintendo has

1219
01:24:55.920 --> 01:25:02.199
talked about wanting to release games more
frequently and uh kind of making these partnerships

1220
01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:05.560
more robust over the long term.
It is one of the ways they're going

1221
01:25:05.640 --> 01:25:09.680
to get there. They're going to
open more studios internally, probably, but

1222
01:25:09.960 --> 01:25:12.920
having banda namcob be like, no, we are one going to just have

1223
01:25:13.000 --> 01:25:16.359
the studio dedicated to what you need
means probably more Nintendo games going forward.

1224
01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:19.119
And band Namco has done a pretty
good job when they work in Nintendo in

1225
01:25:19.159 --> 01:25:23.119
the past, So I'm pretty excited
about this. Yeah. I really liked

1226
01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:30.439
Pokin Poken. Poken was a poken
like techin right, Yeah, Pokemon Yeah

1227
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:33.520
whatever, Yeah, you can use
a chandelier ghost chandelier Pokemon a fight.

1228
01:25:34.199 --> 01:25:38.119
Doesn't that sound cool? We all
that sounds very cool. Thank you.

1229
01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:42.399
I should man him and get good
at this game. Uh. Mass Effect

1230
01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:45.520
five got an in seven day tas
on November seventh, but don't expect the

1231
01:25:45.600 --> 01:25:50.199
game anytime soon. The next Massfect
game may not see released until twenty twenty

1232
01:25:50.279 --> 01:25:55.520
nine or later. That comes from
Jeff Grubb on game as Mornings where we

1233
01:25:55.600 --> 01:26:00.640
talk about this news. Did you
say twenty twenty nine? I believe you,

1234
01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:03.640
Jeff, But twenty twenty now,
why could they announce this then it

1235
01:26:04.279 --> 01:26:08.399
could come in like it's like by
twenty twenty eight, Like let's be fair.

1236
01:26:08.479 --> 01:26:12.079
Oh thank you for being so charitable
with jumping up in the timeframe.

1237
01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:15.439
What the they were talking about years
from sci fi movies? Jeff Grubb?

1238
01:26:15.720 --> 01:26:18.319
I know, yeah, Hey,
so they probably shouldn't do this teaser.

1239
01:26:18.439 --> 01:26:24.199
I don't get it. This teaser
was they did this just to have something

1240
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:27.319
for the fans, but they know
internally this game is still far off.

1241
01:26:27.760 --> 01:26:31.479
They are finishing up Dragon Age Dreadwolf, which will probably release next year.

1242
01:26:32.319 --> 01:26:35.319
Almost certainly will release next year,
but it could slip. It could but

1243
01:26:35.720 --> 01:26:39.439
probably is coming out in twenty twenty
four. It's a game that they originally

1244
01:26:39.479 --> 01:26:44.199
tried to get out this year,
and that game when not necessarily when it

1245
01:26:44.279 --> 01:26:46.319
was announced, but like from it's
like similar kind of teaser it got I

1246
01:26:46.359 --> 01:26:50.000
think at the Game Awards in twenty
eighteen to now I'm being told that that

1247
01:26:50.159 --> 01:26:54.359
from this teaser on the end the
end seven day teaser to when this game

1248
01:26:54.399 --> 01:26:57.000
comes out, it's going to be
a similar timeline. People point out,

1249
01:26:57.039 --> 01:27:00.520
Oh, but but Dragon Age was
rebooting all these other things, and it's

1250
01:27:00.600 --> 01:27:04.119
like that, Yeah, I mean
that didn't derail things in some unexpected way,

1251
01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:08.920
that it was all kind of built
into the normal development stuff that those

1252
01:27:09.000 --> 01:27:11.880
kinds of reboots happened all the time
at that point in the development. And

1253
01:27:12.640 --> 01:27:18.039
I think that they expect a similar
timeline for Mass Effect. So twenty twenty

1254
01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:21.479
nine is I just would not get
at your hopes up for coming any time

1255
01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:25.119
before that. If people want to, like say twenty twenty seven, knock

1256
01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:28.920
your socks off, but there's no
reason to expect it by then. I'm

1257
01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:30.520
going to be in space by the
time this game comes back. Yeah right,

1258
01:27:30.880 --> 01:27:33.640
No, you want to hear some
fuck Mike Kit'll be in high school

1259
01:27:33.680 --> 01:27:38.119
by the time this pot's fucked up? Stop isn't that fucked upop? I

1260
01:27:38.239 --> 01:27:43.119
hate that Aaron Rodgers might play football
again before this team comes out. At

1261
01:27:43.159 --> 01:27:45.199
least this gives us all time to
play mass Effect in dramatasins. This is

1262
01:27:45.239 --> 01:27:50.439
a direct sequel, right right,
So they did the two key pieces of

1263
01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:54.800
information outside of the trailer, which
was just a cool looking lady in a

1264
01:27:54.840 --> 01:27:59.000
cool outfit walking down the hallway and
that's it. There was text associated with

1265
01:27:59.039 --> 01:28:01.079
these little clips that they were putting
together. One of them said epsilon,

1266
01:28:01.119 --> 01:28:04.319
which is the fifth letter of the
Greek alphabet, so obviously mass effect five

1267
01:28:04.439 --> 01:28:11.079
andrama to be in four. There
was also Andromeda distress signal was another line

1268
01:28:11.600 --> 01:28:15.439
which confirms that they are going to
bring in the mass Effect and drama story

1269
01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:18.600
together with the Massive Act trilogy story
into one, which is fine, probably

1270
01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:21.800
the right thing to do. I
think it makes sense because you can,

1271
01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:26.720
like you could save things by making
the next thing better, right, you

1272
01:28:26.800 --> 01:28:30.760
can ye rectify what is it called
not retcon? Thank you? You can

1273
01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:36.399
retcon and make people feel better about
Andromeda. If this is a respectful of

1274
01:28:36.439 --> 01:28:41.279
the original trilogy antics that stuff and
does something interesting with it, but we'll

1275
01:28:41.319 --> 01:28:44.600
see. It's a long time between
now and then, and Dreadwolf will have

1276
01:28:44.720 --> 01:28:47.560
to probably do pretty decently to keep
things on and even kill for them.

1277
01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:51.920
Yeah. Oh, and I mean
that's not guaranteed buyowers last two games were

1278
01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:57.720
Anthem and Mass Effect and Traumeda.
Right, Like yes, the last two

1279
01:28:57.840 --> 01:29:00.279
were Missus, So who knows now
to like quell? I know, like,

1280
01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:04.159
man, those BioWare fans are real
and they get heated about this stuff.

1281
01:29:04.800 --> 01:29:09.479
I'll just reiterate what I keep hearing. Dragon Age Dreadwolf is in a

1282
01:29:09.520 --> 01:29:15.039
good place. They feel pretty good
about that game. So if I'm not

1283
01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:16.399
saying it's gonna be Game of the
year material necessarily, I don't know.

1284
01:29:16.720 --> 01:29:19.840
But internally they are feeling pretty good
about it, even though like Dragon Age

1285
01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:25.079
Inquisition right did win Game of the
Year, that kind of defaulted the game

1286
01:29:25.079 --> 01:29:29.680
of the year right because he has
a soft year. But but yeah,

1287
01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:32.119
sounds like they're pretty happy with it, even though they keep delaying it.

1288
01:29:32.199 --> 01:29:35.439
Internally, they haven't announced like a
release date, so it's not a real

1289
01:29:35.520 --> 01:29:39.760
delay. It's just kind of the
target keeps moving a little bit. But

1290
01:29:39.840 --> 01:29:43.319
that's a normal part of the development
cycle and they're feeling pretty good about it,

1291
01:29:43.439 --> 01:29:45.279
so hey, I think it's worth
getting your hopes up a little bit.

1292
01:29:45.520 --> 01:29:48.920
I know that we go ahead,
and Mike, I was gonna say

1293
01:29:48.960 --> 01:29:53.479
two thoughts. One, I kind
of want to play and Drama. I

1294
01:29:53.600 --> 01:29:57.880
never touched a second of that game. He's doing an and Drama playthrough kind

1295
01:29:57.920 --> 01:30:00.000
of tickles my fancy for some reason. Let me put this out there.

1296
01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:03.079
Let me interrupt you real quick.
I know that we have a playthrough of

1297
01:30:03.399 --> 01:30:10.359
mass Effect one through three, piloted
by one Alex Navarro accompanied by Vinnie Caravella.

1298
01:30:11.560 --> 01:30:15.319
The naming here is two perfect gents, mass Effect, Jan Drameda.

1299
01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:23.880
I know I have also never played
Andramaa. Mike, Mike, do you

1300
01:30:23.960 --> 01:30:27.640
know the drama about naming that feature? You're you aware of this feature where

1301
01:30:27.680 --> 01:30:30.119
Alex played Mass Effect. There's drama, no, no, so what what

1302
01:30:30.279 --> 01:30:34.560
What was the name of it?
It was mass Alex mass Alex. So

1303
01:30:34.880 --> 01:30:40.760
how would you feel if instead they
called it Alexi Quest? All right,

1304
01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:45.439
I remember that that's a terrible name. Okay, everyone prefers Alexi Quest.

1305
01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:49.520
Yeah, it's about Alexi Quest,
yes, because yeah, but it's but

1306
01:30:49.760 --> 01:30:53.680
but they went in Mass Alex because
they wouldn't have the name of the game

1307
01:30:53.800 --> 01:30:59.760
somewhat in there. Yeah, I
think that's probably bestre pro Mike fantastic.

1308
01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:04.359
No, No, I still think
they chose wrong background with you Alexas.

1309
01:31:05.720 --> 01:31:10.760
When I saw it written out,
it looked better than just hearing alex Ques.

1310
01:31:12.680 --> 01:31:15.640
But that's not the name. But
I love Galaxy Quest, but that's

1311
01:31:15.680 --> 01:31:18.720
not what an Alexy Quest could really
be about. Anything like oh right,

1312
01:31:18.840 --> 01:31:23.159
oh my gosh, Like this guy's
a drummer in this game. It's hey,

1313
01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:34.800
it's empirically the better choice Jan Dromeda
and Dramenati Jan Dramenadi m until it

1314
01:31:34.840 --> 01:31:40.880
doesn't mean anything. My god,
this is like a special side season of

1315
01:31:41.359 --> 01:31:45.279
Holiday season of Blake Club. Mike
and I have to be in spacesuits the

1316
01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:50.840
whole time. It Why do I
put the universe? My second thought was

1317
01:31:53.000 --> 01:31:56.560
too many games have days, too
many gay friends have days, and it's

1318
01:31:56.640 --> 01:32:00.680
ridiculous if you feel pressure to like
tease video games that are coming out almost

1319
01:32:01.039 --> 01:32:04.399
like the twenty thirties, it's a
problem. But what would be the funniest

1320
01:32:04.439 --> 01:32:08.000
gay rich I used to have a
day? We need to make a day

1321
01:32:08.079 --> 01:32:12.399
for like the Quiet Man or something
I don't deserve really into it. I

1322
01:32:12.439 --> 01:32:20.479
don't no one observes Mass Effect Day. You can emails to Jeff Jeff back

1323
01:32:24.199 --> 01:32:31.279
so wrong. No serious person I
think celebrated Mass Effect Day. All right,

1324
01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:35.960
Mike, there is no funnier day
possible than Last of Us Day?

1325
01:32:36.119 --> 01:32:42.960
I'm sorry? Is that why people
are playing through Last of Us all of

1326
01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:45.720
a sudden? Is it really a
day? It was was a few weeks

1327
01:32:45.760 --> 01:32:48.520
ago, I think, right,
I mean yeah, they I think they

1328
01:32:48.560 --> 01:32:51.199
had to say we have no announcements
because they can't, you know, their

1329
01:32:51.439 --> 01:32:57.359
multiplayer games in limbo. But yeah, there's a day that Limbo Day is

1330
01:32:57.479 --> 01:33:02.600
very depressing. Yeah Wednesday, right, it's every Wednesday. Uh, Limbo

1331
01:33:02.680 --> 01:33:05.840
Day deserves a day more than the
Last of Us. Who can celebrate the

1332
01:33:05.920 --> 01:33:10.600
events of the Last of Us were
like, oh, let's holiday if this

1333
01:33:11.239 --> 01:33:14.199
they took, it's literally just the
day. And like the story where like

1334
01:33:14.359 --> 01:33:17.039
the zombie up break at right where
the world ends? What are you doing?

1335
01:33:18.840 --> 01:33:23.520
Do you all get like really dirty
and sweaty and like kill each other?

1336
01:33:23.960 --> 01:33:27.399
Like what do you like? We're
the real monsters. You just give

1337
01:33:27.760 --> 01:33:32.560
you just give a playful bite to
your friends like yeah, uh, lego

1338
01:33:32.680 --> 01:33:39.359
two k goal artwork has reported that
was that was like bars for a second

1339
01:33:41.119 --> 01:33:45.439
Lego two K Goal. Uh that
so sound cool? You can that's my

1340
01:33:45.600 --> 01:33:48.399
that's my producer tag. You're gonna
hear that in the beginning all my songs.

1341
01:33:48.439 --> 01:33:54.520
Now. Uh. This is Lego
two K's Goal soccer game that's been

1342
01:33:54.600 --> 01:33:58.760
rumored for a while. Artwork leaked
via the number one place for weeks,

1343
01:33:58.800 --> 01:34:01.920
the PlayStation store. The game is
being developed by Sumo Digital. It is

1344
01:34:02.039 --> 01:34:06.159
a soccer slash football game, your
Pa Football. It's coming to PS five

1345
01:34:06.279 --> 01:34:10.560
Xbox Series X and SPS four,
Xbox one, Switch and PC. It

1346
01:34:10.640 --> 01:34:14.960
did get rated way back in June
from South Korea. I think they keep

1347
01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:17.399
like they haven't even like officially announced
it, so it's weird, how like,

1348
01:34:17.439 --> 01:34:19.880
okay, is this thing coming out? It feels like it could just

1349
01:34:19.880 --> 01:34:23.760
get announced it and drop really quickly. But this is part of two k's

1350
01:34:23.800 --> 01:34:30.960
efforts to take their really strong sports
development a side of things and expand it

1351
01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:34.159
into more into games that are more
family friendly. They did that with Lego

1352
01:34:34.239 --> 01:34:38.600
two K Drive and now they're trying
to apply it to soccer. I think

1353
01:34:38.760 --> 01:34:41.560
I'm more excited about this one than
I was about two K Drive two K

1354
01:34:41.720 --> 01:34:44.880
Drive. I like the idea and
then I played. It's like I'm just

1355
01:34:44.880 --> 01:34:47.800
gonna be with Mario Kart. But
hey, a friendly, like family friendly

1356
01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:50.640
soccer game like those always work.
Now are you gonna be able to compete

1357
01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:53.920
with Rocket League? I think you
got to be different than Rocket League.

1358
01:34:53.920 --> 01:34:57.000
Just kind of try to be more
like actual soccer with little lego characters,

1359
01:34:57.039 --> 01:35:00.720
and that could work. Rocket League
made soccer better, that's right? Oh

1360
01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:06.239
yeah, well okay, yeah,
is going to be in Rocket League?

1361
01:35:08.319 --> 01:35:14.920
Actually? What took so long?
Jesus queens? He looks great in there

1362
01:35:14.960 --> 01:35:16.520
too, like he's got these fully
animated with the face and everything. It's

1363
01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:19.119
it's like, man, I want
to play Rocket League again, just for

1364
01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:21.840
I don't even like cars? What
the hell? Why do I like?

1365
01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:28.920
It's the highway? When's that happening? When are they already happened? Have

1366
01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:31.520
already happened? We got to get
on that. Man did still rocks Rocke

1367
01:35:31.600 --> 01:35:36.159
League all the time, Like it's
amazing how like he bounces off literally everything

1368
01:35:36.199 --> 01:35:39.960
else in his entire life, but
he's always just like, man, I

1369
01:35:40.039 --> 01:35:47.800
gotta dip back right into you.
It is what So okay, I'm intrigued

1370
01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:51.840
by this, but I guess it
does just upset me where it's like they

1371
01:35:53.039 --> 01:35:59.600
even took the name goal where that
erases all in any room for the possibility

1372
01:36:00.479 --> 01:36:04.279
anything. I know, I'm going
to do this to yourself, man,

1373
01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:08.119
I know, it's like, what
is the good analogy where like the guy

1374
01:36:08.159 --> 01:36:11.279
who just like keeps thinking his dog
is gonna come home one day. Yeah,

1375
01:36:11.399 --> 01:36:14.479
and that's really what it is.
It's just not hockey. He's gone

1376
01:36:14.520 --> 01:36:15.920
to the farm up state, buddy, It's that's where it lives now.

1377
01:36:16.039 --> 01:36:23.560
Literally, Yeah, I'm not upset. Look, we all know European football

1378
01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:27.760
soccer is the distant cousin of hockey, and they are cosmically connected in all

1379
01:36:27.800 --> 01:36:30.840
the best ways. So this will
be fine. This will be fine,

1380
01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:33.159
and I'm excited about it. But
like, come on, the idea of

1381
01:36:33.279 --> 01:36:36.800
like lego hockey, little lego hockey
players doesn't excite anybody, Like, come

1382
01:36:36.840 --> 01:36:45.960
on, come on, listen,
I want ice hockey arcade games to come

1383
01:36:46.039 --> 01:36:49.000
back. I don't know if I
need to be lego, but listen,

1384
01:36:49.039 --> 01:36:51.319
if they did a lego hockey game, I'm sure it'd be fun, just

1385
01:36:51.840 --> 01:36:56.399
like that old Konami one with the
little guy the regular guy in the Fat

1386
01:36:56.439 --> 01:36:59.399
Guy that was that's the best.
Yeah. I mean I've been playing a

1387
01:36:59.439 --> 01:37:03.000
lot of like the NBA Jam equivalent
of hockey that came out from midway back

1388
01:37:03.039 --> 01:37:06.720
in the day and hockey. Yeah, game's fucking awesome. Is that the

1389
01:37:06.720 --> 01:37:11.399
one you're playing? Yeah, okay, that's got like blitzy, right,

1390
01:37:11.399 --> 01:37:13.720
it's kind of in a polizzy and
there's like, you know, you can

1391
01:37:13.800 --> 01:37:15.800
like light the net on fire in
the way you do NBA Jam with your

1392
01:37:15.840 --> 01:37:18.520
boom shack lacas. How are you
playing that? What are you playing that

1393
01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:25.840
on? Uh? I bought a
cabinet, I know, am I And

1394
01:37:26.000 --> 01:37:30.079
you know I'm doing it the the
good old fashioned way. Okay, Well,

1395
01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:31.279
I'm just saying like, that's kind
of thing we can get going on

1396
01:37:31.359 --> 01:37:33.960
the first second, we can have
a little tournament. No, I mean,

1397
01:37:34.039 --> 01:37:38.359
yeah, I'm running it on a
PC. I'll get it set up.

1398
01:37:38.359 --> 01:37:42.039
You don't worry. You probably need
to do the nuts and bolts there,

1399
01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:44.479
but I would love to do some
sort of tournament thing. That'd be

1400
01:37:44.520 --> 01:37:46.800
sick. Yeah. That's a great
game. Great game. Finally, and

1401
01:37:46.960 --> 01:37:49.039
I know you guys have been chopping
in the bit to talk about this one.

1402
01:37:49.199 --> 01:37:54.079
Rock Steady is launching a Suicide Squad
kill the Justice League video series.

1403
01:37:54.119 --> 01:37:58.600
This week, rock Steady will launch
a video series for this game. The

1404
01:37:58.640 --> 01:38:02.720
first episode of Suicide Squad Insider will
unpack the story and gameplay of the game.

1405
01:38:03.199 --> 01:38:05.039
Uh. This is a game that
was supposed to come out this year

1406
01:38:05.159 --> 01:38:09.119
got delayed after its reveal. They
said they were going to change some things.

1407
01:38:09.119 --> 01:38:12.800
They weren't going to change the fundamental
live services stuff about it. Uh,

1408
01:38:12.920 --> 01:38:16.239
but they're gonna make some changes and
improvements. Where you guys at with

1409
01:38:16.319 --> 01:38:19.680
Suicide Squad because I'm just at a
point where I there's no way I'm gonna

1410
01:38:19.680 --> 01:38:25.479
care about it until I play it
myself. That's where I'm at. It's

1411
01:38:25.520 --> 01:38:28.199
incredible. I guess yeah, I
guess it's time to start marketing this again.

1412
01:38:28.319 --> 01:38:30.880
It kind of just felt like it
almost felt like we were rid of

1413
01:38:30.920 --> 01:38:34.359
it for some reason. This screens
though, that like we have all this

1414
01:38:34.520 --> 01:38:36.960
marketing budget in this quarter, we
just just just put it out, just

1415
01:38:38.239 --> 01:38:40.399
put it out. Yep, we
got we had a little bit of a

1416
01:38:40.439 --> 01:38:43.960
relapse here with Suicide Squad and then
come back. One thing we're gonna see

1417
01:38:44.039 --> 01:38:46.159
in this gameplay. Look, I
bet one thing that they like change or

1418
01:38:46.199 --> 01:38:51.000
were able to fix where those kind
of stupid, very blatant like Purple Weekend,

1419
01:38:51.439 --> 01:38:56.760
they doubled down. The whole thing
is purple. Now, yeah,

1420
01:38:57.479 --> 01:39:00.239
it's not kind of like that.
I wonder if they eased all off the

1421
01:39:00.319 --> 01:39:03.279
kind of stupid like looter shooters stuff
to it, like what the plus five

1422
01:39:03.439 --> 01:39:08.560
to batmanituned enemies, right, I
they probably changed the language around that stuff

1423
01:39:08.600 --> 01:39:12.039
to like, let's let's actually make
it meaningful, guys, Hades is right

1424
01:39:12.119 --> 01:39:15.359
there. And if like Hades has
been out for long enough time now,

1425
01:39:15.399 --> 01:39:18.600
if you're putting out a game that
has like any sort of of progression system

1426
01:39:18.840 --> 01:39:23.199
based on like your tax and you'd
kind of you don't do it like Hades

1427
01:39:23.239 --> 01:39:26.239
at a certain point, that's just
a neglect. You are doing things wrong.

1428
01:39:26.399 --> 01:39:29.279
They did it right, copy what
they did in Triple A Games.

1429
01:39:29.319 --> 01:39:32.920
We haven't seen that yet, so
yeah, we'll see. Uh, this

1430
01:39:33.079 --> 01:39:38.680
game's coming out. The original release
date was something like, uh, yeah

1431
01:39:38.760 --> 01:39:42.520
May about twenty twenty. No I
got announced in twenty twenty, and then

1432
01:39:42.560 --> 01:39:45.239
it was Spring twenty twenty or twenty
twenty three, then May, and now

1433
01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:49.479
it's finally got to release date of
February second twenty twenty four, very likely

1434
01:39:49.560 --> 01:39:55.640
to actually make that one. We'll
see. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting,

1435
01:39:55.760 --> 01:40:00.239
right, because I wonder where it's
gonna go, because is it to

1436
01:40:00.319 --> 01:40:01.720
be like, oh, it turns
out it's just bad. Is it gonna

1437
01:40:01.760 --> 01:40:04.960
be like it's fine, or is
it going to get that you know,

1438
01:40:05.119 --> 01:40:10.119
golden like wow, actually it's good, like Guardian got. I bet it's

1439
01:40:10.239 --> 01:40:14.359
fun to play. I bet it's
actually fun to play. I hazard to

1440
01:40:14.439 --> 01:40:18.359
think that, though, because would
they have made this much of or tried

1441
01:40:18.399 --> 01:40:21.359
to make this much of a correction
at this point of like if it is

1442
01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:26.880
fun to play, well, so
that's that's the reporting. Is this correction?

1443
01:40:27.079 --> 01:40:31.479
Isn't that drastic? Apparently it's it
is because it was a six month

1444
01:40:31.520 --> 01:40:35.159
delay, and so they were never
going to go in and change what really

1445
01:40:35.199 --> 01:40:39.840
how it plays, or even the
stuff like people really complaining about, which

1446
01:40:39.960 --> 01:40:42.720
was, well, I don't want
a live service Superhero game. Just give

1447
01:40:42.760 --> 01:40:45.640
me another Batman game from the company
that made awesome Batman games. And they're

1448
01:40:45.720 --> 01:40:48.640
not really going in that direction at
all. It's still gonna be the game

1449
01:40:48.680 --> 01:40:53.840
it was. They're just trying to
make it better. So and I've always

1450
01:40:53.880 --> 01:40:57.439
heard that the people who played this
game think it's fun. What if it's

1451
01:40:57.479 --> 01:41:01.000
a reverse suicide squad, because when
that move originally came out, it trailered

1452
01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:06.920
very very well. But the actual
movie poopy, the original trailer for this

1453
01:41:08.600 --> 01:41:13.039
and presentation poopy. This game could
be good. I hope she'll be game

1454
01:41:13.079 --> 01:41:15.960
good. It'll be interesting to see
how they present it again, because they

1455
01:41:15.079 --> 01:41:19.079
definitely had to, you know,
so much of what happened with the delay

1456
01:41:19.239 --> 01:41:24.039
was a result of that one big
reveal they had on like the PlayStation Partners

1457
01:41:24.039 --> 01:41:28.960
Showcase whatever that was. It was
a disaster, right, so the approach

1458
01:41:29.000 --> 01:41:32.479
has got to be different. And
I just the whole concept of this game

1459
01:41:32.560 --> 01:41:39.119
though, of these four villains having
to kill the Justice League and Flash is

1460
01:41:39.159 --> 01:41:42.359
going to be weird, and Superman's
gonna be evil? Isn't that novel?

1461
01:41:42.439 --> 01:41:45.319
And say, no, it isn't
anymore. You guys have done this a

1462
01:41:45.399 --> 01:41:48.720
million times. I'm over it,
and I think that superhero fatigue could hurt

1463
01:41:48.760 --> 01:41:51.920
this a little bit. But can
I can I get on my comic high

1464
01:41:51.960 --> 01:41:57.880
Horse real quick? Yeah? Yo
yo yo? I hate so Marvel right

1465
01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:01.760
they have too many universes, right, yes, but in the comics there's

1466
01:42:01.760 --> 01:42:08.800
always been our the mainline Earth and
the Ultimates franchise, and Ultimates is I

1467
01:42:08.880 --> 01:42:14.159
believe where Miles Moreus first got introduced. They're they're rebooting and doing a whole

1468
01:42:14.239 --> 01:42:17.800
new Ultimates universe, and it's so
exciting. It's like, ok what was

1469
01:42:17.840 --> 01:42:20.239
the original Ultimates? Like when did
that get started? With that? Like

1470
01:42:20.279 --> 01:42:24.960
a very nineties Ultimate X Men was
the first one and it was late nineties,

1471
01:42:25.000 --> 01:42:27.560
I believe, Okay, And then
I'd Spider Man. Ultimate Spider Man

1472
01:42:27.640 --> 01:42:30.239
is the one I remember, and
that like felt very late nineties Internet.

1473
01:42:30.239 --> 01:42:33.800
It might have been like two thousand, early two thousands, early two thousands,

1474
01:42:33.840 --> 01:42:41.279
Okay. So the thing that's exciting
me right is they're kind of fludging

1475
01:42:41.399 --> 01:42:47.439
with the origins of heroes for once, where Evil Red Richards, who goes

1476
01:42:47.479 --> 01:42:51.600
by the Creator, gets kicked out
of our Earth, he's like, fuck

1477
01:42:51.680 --> 01:42:55.960
y'all, then I'll just go make
a new one over here. And then

1478
01:42:56.119 --> 01:43:00.920
he is slowly interfering with the origin
stories of how some of the superheroes get

1479
01:43:00.960 --> 01:43:03.199
their powers. So, for instance, he kills he he killed, he

1480
01:43:03.239 --> 01:43:06.920
doesn't kill. He captures the Spider
that originally bites Peter Parker when he's a

1481
01:43:06.920 --> 01:43:12.600
little teenager of the lab and then
saves it for later. Cool. It's

1482
01:43:12.680 --> 01:43:15.840
neat stuff yeat stuff the maker,
sorry the maker? Yeah, why is

1483
01:43:15.880 --> 01:43:23.119
read Richard's evil? He's too smart? Yeah, person anti intellectualism again,

1484
01:43:23.920 --> 01:43:27.800
it's a plague. Hey, that
does it for the news? Jan the

1485
01:43:27.880 --> 01:43:30.560
show is once again yours here it
is. It's in my hands. It's

1486
01:43:30.720 --> 01:43:34.640
cute. I want to burp it, but I'm gonna put in the fridge

1487
01:43:34.640 --> 01:43:38.439
because it's a little too hot.
Yeah. That's what I do with all

1488
01:43:38.520 --> 01:43:42.880
my babies too. Hey, I'm
not a father, but I'll still raise

1489
01:43:42.920 --> 01:43:45.840
it. Did you play one on
a podcast? Marvel Universe? Earth?

1490
01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:49.760
Is six sixty six? A thing? Six sixty six. That's probably six

1491
01:43:53.000 --> 01:43:56.359
definitely a thing that's that's us.
Yeah, six six six just gotta be

1492
01:43:56.399 --> 01:43:58.960
like an evil one. Yeah right, yeah, yeah, that's cool.

1493
01:43:59.359 --> 01:44:04.560
Yeah, there's six years is cool? Right back. I'm such a mark

1494
01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:09.439
for Satan. Yeah. Do you
like that number of the bet song by

1495
01:44:09.479 --> 01:44:13.479
Her Maiden? I do? Yeah? Hell yeah, man's celebrate all the

1496
01:44:13.600 --> 01:44:16.199
Devils. I worry. Uh.
I wore a shirt for that album one

1497
01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:20.600
time in the mall, and a
lady harassed me for Satanic. Hell yeah,

1498
01:44:21.079 --> 01:44:26.880
uncomfortable. Good good, very good. Well we're gonna go hard that

1499
01:44:26.960 --> 01:44:30.640
you were a Disney altar boy basically
just like I just tried to outpace her

1500
01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:33.319
because just kept following me until I
left them all because I just made me

1501
01:44:33.359 --> 01:44:38.239
and my brother really uncomfortable. Again, she was she was chasing you,

1502
01:44:38.600 --> 01:44:40.920
just kind of following us. She
just kept going, that's disgusting. And

1503
01:44:42.319 --> 01:44:45.039
I was like, why is this
lady like jeering me wherever? I I

1504
01:44:45.159 --> 01:44:48.600
was like a teenager. I was
really confused. You should have realized she

1505
01:44:48.640 --> 01:44:51.960
didn't like the iron made a number
of the B shirt. Yeah, you

1506
01:44:53.000 --> 01:44:57.159
should have like done some like like
a vampire like scare at her. Cool.

1507
01:44:57.239 --> 01:45:00.600
Yeah, I should have been like, just stop stop, you're making

1508
01:45:00.640 --> 01:45:05.439
Satan angry. He's channeling me.
Yeah. Well we're gonna go take a

1509
01:45:05.520 --> 01:45:11.720
quick break and channel our own dark
lords, and we'll be back with the

1510
01:45:11.840 --> 01:45:18.880
Darkest Lord emails. And we're back
with emails. Bombcasts a giant bomb dot

1511
01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:25.159
com is the email address to send
your emails to. I love and appreciate

1512
01:45:25.720 --> 01:45:28.439
all of the emails that you send. I read all of them. I

1513
01:45:28.520 --> 01:45:30.800
read all of them. Sometimes they'll
copy and paste the nice ones if they're

1514
01:45:30.800 --> 01:45:35.680
addressed specifically to a person, and
then I print them all out and then

1515
01:45:35.720 --> 01:45:40.279
I cut them up, and then
I make a little confetti and then I

1516
01:45:40.560 --> 01:45:45.159
roll around in your emails. So
there you go, folks. First email

1517
01:45:45.760 --> 01:45:51.039
comes from Ken. It's about auto
saves. What are bomb throwers? Hello?

1518
01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:56.279
So I have heard that people are
having a bit of trouble with how

1519
01:45:56.399 --> 01:46:00.119
often Alan wake two saves, and
that made me consider the state of auto

1520
01:46:00.199 --> 01:46:03.960
saves in general. I bet there
is some game, maybe a handful of

1521
01:46:04.000 --> 01:46:08.760
games even that have done this.
But is it too much to ask when

1522
01:46:08.840 --> 01:46:12.800
a game is auto saving a sound
place to signify the save is taking place.

1523
01:46:13.399 --> 01:46:15.600
As someone whose first game was Pole
Position, I've witnessed a lot of

1524
01:46:15.720 --> 01:46:19.319
changes in how a game is saved. I think that the auto save era

1525
01:46:19.479 --> 01:46:24.159
has been the hardest for me because
the auto save icons are easy to ignore,

1526
01:46:24.239 --> 01:46:27.319
and I tend to manually save if
given the option. So, anyway,

1527
01:46:27.600 --> 01:46:30.520
do you think auto saves need a
sound a sound event associated with them?

1528
01:46:30.680 --> 01:46:33.560
Maybe a ding or the sound of
pen on paper, maybe even a

1529
01:46:33.680 --> 01:46:41.760
little jingle. Ken from somewhere in
Queens, New York. I definitely also

1530
01:46:42.039 --> 01:46:45.000
don't notice the auto safe thing unless
I'm like really looking for it, Like

1531
01:46:45.079 --> 01:46:48.439
I know I want to quit some
looking for that icon. I think an

1532
01:46:48.560 --> 01:46:51.640
option for a sound would be good. I wouldn't want that by default,

1533
01:46:51.640 --> 01:46:55.600
though that could be a little yeah
acting, I think I don't want to

1534
01:46:55.640 --> 01:46:58.600
hear that. I mean, you
should just let me save whenever I want,

1535
01:46:58.920 --> 01:47:01.239
uh, Like only so I wish
there was a manual save. I

1536
01:47:01.479 --> 01:47:04.319
get what they're doing. I wish
I was like kind of what the resivol

1537
01:47:04.359 --> 01:47:10.000
games do where the whole you can't
manually save when you want to think it's

1538
01:47:10.079 --> 01:47:13.000
kind of a hard mode thing,
right, but on normal mode you can,

1539
01:47:13.319 --> 01:47:15.600
you know, you get save wherever
you want. Who cares? Yeah,

1540
01:47:15.680 --> 01:47:20.000
I don't trust the automo save even
when I do see the thing.

1541
01:47:20.479 --> 01:47:23.640
It's like, well, I mean, where are you gonna put me?

1542
01:47:23.840 --> 01:47:26.560
Like where where am I at?
Am I gonna be like right where I'm

1543
01:47:26.600 --> 01:47:30.800
standing so I can orientate myself as
soon as we get started, or are

1544
01:47:30.800 --> 01:47:33.680
you gonna put me back at some
you know checkpoint that I'm not really sure

1545
01:47:33.720 --> 01:47:38.039
about? And so yeah, I
usually wish I had a manual save.

1546
01:47:38.079 --> 01:47:40.720
And if I do, I do
that and save on exit I do that.

1547
01:47:42.159 --> 01:47:45.920
But as at a certain point.
As long as a game says how

1548
01:47:45.000 --> 01:47:49.800
long it's been since the last time
it's saved, I'm good At this point

1549
01:47:49.920 --> 01:47:54.720
with games. I am at peace. As long as it says you saved

1550
01:47:54.920 --> 01:47:57.800
two seconds ago, I'm like,
okay, shutting you off. We're good,

1551
01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:00.479
and then I go about my day. It's almost like we should have

1552
01:48:00.600 --> 01:48:04.960
some sort of like unifying like agreement, you know, in the same way

1553
01:48:05.000 --> 01:48:11.279
that all cars require backup cameras.
Now, well maybe just maybe we all

1554
01:48:11.359 --> 01:48:15.239
agree that. Like I don't want
to get too greedy, hear, but

1555
01:48:15.439 --> 01:48:18.000
like a total playtimer, like if
you could just do that for me,

1556
01:48:18.199 --> 01:48:21.399
would just be like a real quality
of life sort of thing. Yeah,

1557
01:48:21.600 --> 01:48:27.039
uh and yeah, like the you
know, just to know how long you've

1558
01:48:28.680 --> 01:48:30.800
it's been since you played. I
think that is like or the time of

1559
01:48:30.920 --> 01:48:35.600
save, right, Like give me
that and that's it and then anything else

1560
01:48:35.640 --> 01:48:39.680
you can do your own thing,
but let me just standardize that. Yeah,

1561
01:48:39.720 --> 01:48:41.880
are you guys feeling about I don't
know, I don't I don't know

1562
01:48:41.960 --> 01:48:45.239
how often you play your xboxes?
Jan, I know you're not using an

1563
01:48:45.399 --> 01:48:49.479
Xbox, but the what's it called
quick resume? Thank you? Yeah?

1564
01:48:49.600 --> 01:48:53.520
How are you guys? Feeling about
that these days. Whenever I whenever I

1565
01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:55.720
do start up an Xbox A game, even if it's like from oh,

1566
01:48:55.720 --> 01:48:58.920
I haven't played this in weeks and
it picks right back up from where I

1567
01:48:59.000 --> 01:49:01.319
left off using quickers, I'm still
really impressed by it, and I just

1568
01:49:01.840 --> 01:49:05.399
it does just break just often enough
that's like, oh, I'm still not

1569
01:49:05.520 --> 01:49:10.960
expecting it to work. It's not
totally flawless, right, So it's because

1570
01:49:11.000 --> 01:49:16.039
of that, uh, and the
reasons why it loses are unclear, right,

1571
01:49:16.119 --> 01:49:19.720
So I get it with online games
for sure, Right, that makes

1572
01:49:19.760 --> 01:49:24.520
sense. But I agree, like
I've definitely gone back to it thinking like,

1573
01:49:25.000 --> 01:49:28.199
oh, FC twenty four is just
going to be like right where we

1574
01:49:28.319 --> 01:49:31.680
left it, and then no,
it's not. It needs to reboot or

1575
01:49:31.720 --> 01:49:34.960
something. So I it's it's a
little too wishy wash it to be like

1576
01:49:35.079 --> 01:49:41.039
a feature that I think is you
can't really exactly. I think I've been

1577
01:49:41.079 --> 01:49:44.680
spoiled by the switch, like just
putting that bad boy to sleep. The

1578
01:49:44.720 --> 01:49:47.800
only time it's boned me is the
end of Tears of the Kingdom. But

1579
01:49:47.920 --> 01:49:56.319
that's but that's because of the boning, boning, holler at me. But

1580
01:49:56.439 --> 01:50:00.039
that's because I was using my partner
switch and I just needed to reaff de

1581
01:50:00.199 --> 01:50:02.640
keates to the internet. But when
I was rocking my own switch, it

1582
01:50:02.720 --> 01:50:09.000
was completely fine. I don't think
i'd like a dang for auto saves.

1583
01:50:09.079 --> 01:50:11.920
I don't think i'd like a little
sound motif at all. Well, somebody

1584
01:50:11.960 --> 01:50:14.359
said, like for alt, like
if it was like a little typewriter noise,

1585
01:50:14.399 --> 01:50:16.159
maybe that'd be fine. Like if
this is something really in universe,

1586
01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:19.119
maybe I'd allow it. But I
don't know. It could still be distracting.

1587
01:50:19.399 --> 01:50:25.680
Yeah, uh, all right.
Next email here comes from Terrell.

1588
01:50:26.600 --> 01:50:30.880
They write in Hi everyone, but
the news of Sony delaying games and focusing

1589
01:50:30.000 --> 01:50:34.159
on live service games, I have
a question. Can PlayStation actually afford the

1590
01:50:34.159 --> 01:50:38.960
big single player games that it is
known for, not only in financial terms,

1591
01:50:39.079 --> 01:50:43.199
but also in regards to a long
term business strategy. They seem to

1592
01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:46.600
be a similar situation that Activision was
with Call of Duty, where a single

1593
01:50:46.640 --> 01:50:51.359
player off your game could cause a
lot of issues. This PlayStation now find

1594
01:50:51.399 --> 01:50:56.920
itself in a similar situation where the
big single player games are no longer sustainable.

1595
01:50:57.279 --> 01:51:04.039
Torell some from my iPhone dah kind
of they can mostly afford it because

1596
01:51:04.199 --> 01:51:08.800
most of their big games succeed.
They're very good at making those, and

1597
01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:13.199
they have the expectations built in that
they know that they're going to sell to

1598
01:51:13.239 --> 01:51:15.760
a certain audience, and that audience
seems to be growing, especially with the

1599
01:51:15.800 --> 01:51:20.359
Spider Man games. It's not like
always growing. I think they haven't updated,

1600
01:51:20.399 --> 01:51:23.560
like the sales on the Last of
US Part two compared to the Last

1601
01:51:23.560 --> 01:51:26.039
of US Part one, Like they
had a number early on of like eight

1602
01:51:26.119 --> 01:51:29.239
million sold in a week or something
like that, and then we didn't hear

1603
01:51:29.279 --> 01:51:30.760
much. I think the estimates are
like, hey, it's around ten to

1604
01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:34.279
twelve million. It's no Luigi's Mantern
three, as we always say, but

1605
01:51:34.439 --> 01:51:40.880
that's my barometer, right exactly.
These games are very, very expensive,

1606
01:51:41.520 --> 01:51:45.079
and the thing I always hear is, yeah, they're not as profitable as

1607
01:51:45.119 --> 01:51:47.359
you would think because they are so
expensive, and it's not just how much

1608
01:51:47.359 --> 01:51:51.399
they cost to make. They also
spend a lot of marketing. But Sony's

1609
01:51:51.399 --> 01:51:57.520
also not super worried about it.
It is an accepted strategy of this is

1610
01:51:57.640 --> 01:52:00.520
our calling card, this is what
makes a standout, and so we're going

1611
01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:05.880
to keep doing it. But all
of the concerns that this emailer lays out

1612
01:52:06.000 --> 01:52:11.359
of oh, how if one game
goes bad, That stuff does exist,

1613
01:52:11.479 --> 01:52:15.000
which is why Sony is looking at
live service games. It was going to

1614
01:52:15.039 --> 01:52:17.800
be the alternative strategy. It still
is right now according to them, going

1615
01:52:17.840 --> 01:52:20.720
to be their alternative strategy. I
don't know how much we believe that,

1616
01:52:20.880 --> 01:52:25.000
how much gamers believe that, how
much investors believe that, but that is

1617
01:52:25.319 --> 01:52:29.600
currently what they're saying, and they
need that because, yes, if the

1618
01:52:29.720 --> 01:52:31.600
Last of US Part three comes out
and for some reason as a bust,

1619
01:52:31.880 --> 01:52:38.359
that would be really hurtful to Sony's
bottom line. It wouldn't completely knock them

1620
01:52:38.399 --> 01:52:40.960
down the way it would have with
some of these other publishers. And the

1621
01:52:41.000 --> 01:52:43.239
big reasons for that is, like, Sony's got a lot of momentum with

1622
01:52:43.319 --> 01:52:46.920
its console sales, and really,
PlayStation network is such a strong backbone at

1623
01:52:46.960 --> 01:52:50.960
this point where it's the subscribers for
that millions of those subscribers like forty million

1624
01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:55.600
or something like that, and people
spend a lot of money on micro transactions

1625
01:52:55.600 --> 01:52:59.520
still in third party games on the
PlayStation and that is a steady, steady

1626
01:52:59.560 --> 01:53:03.159
revenue. So Sony's going to be
like this, It's got the sturdy backbone.

1627
01:53:03.600 --> 01:53:08.920
Its issues are just with it can't
identify where to grow, whereas like

1628
01:53:09.319 --> 01:53:11.600
all these other publishers are like,
we don't know where to grow. And

1629
01:53:11.760 --> 01:53:14.359
also, if one of these games
go bad, we're going to be fucking

1630
01:53:14.439 --> 01:53:16.720
boned, and Sony's just not in
that position, that's all. Do you

1631
01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:21.399
think that Sony may learn the wrong
lessons from the success of Spider Man two?

1632
01:53:21.720 --> 01:53:27.199
And yes, they're fine doing these
big blockbuster single parad games, but

1633
01:53:27.279 --> 01:53:30.760
do you think they start to go
IP heavy. So that is a lesson

1634
01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:34.399
that's been learned by everyone across the
industry over the last couple of years,

1635
01:53:34.680 --> 01:53:42.079
and so Sony's definitely going to be
doing more of that. But I think

1636
01:53:42.119 --> 01:53:44.640
that's why again they go back to
the live service like that, will do

1637
01:53:44.720 --> 01:53:47.399
our original IP over in live service. We'll take our existing ip that are

1638
01:53:47.439 --> 01:53:50.800
doing very strong, and we'll keep
making more of those, and then we'll

1639
01:53:50.840 --> 01:53:55.279
have if we want to make a
new big blockbuster game, we probably will

1640
01:53:55.319 --> 01:53:59.600
work in a Superhero Game space,
a Marvel space or something along those lines,

1641
01:54:00.199 --> 01:54:02.560
because that makes more sense these days
than trying to get a new IP

1642
01:54:02.680 --> 01:54:05.640
off the ground and be the biggest
thing in the world. That's really difficult.

1643
01:54:05.840 --> 01:54:09.640
On top of making a game,
which is also really difficult. So

1644
01:54:10.319 --> 01:54:13.199
yes, Sony's learning that lesson,
and it might I think in the long

1645
01:54:13.279 --> 01:54:15.479
run it probably I think you're probably
right, Jan, it probably will be

1646
01:54:15.560 --> 01:54:17.720
the wrong lesson because it's like you
still got to try to make new IP

1647
01:54:17.840 --> 01:54:21.359
because that's investing in your future in
a way that renting IP just isn't.

1648
01:54:23.119 --> 01:54:28.079
But they're definitely going along with the
trend right now, and EA renting IP

1649
01:54:28.239 --> 01:54:31.479
all over the place. You know, even it'll be soft Yes, you'd

1650
01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:34.479
be softy Avatar, Yes, and
then even like two K with like the

1651
01:54:34.600 --> 01:54:39.560
these Lego games, but hey,
we want to expand into making more games

1652
01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:41.520
or families. What are we gonna
do, Well, we're gonna work with

1653
01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:45.159
Lego and all these different things.
So it's just that that is the trend

1654
01:54:45.199 --> 01:54:49.159
in the industry overall right now.
Like I can see a world where PlayStation

1655
01:54:49.520 --> 01:54:55.800
is making a Dune game. Yeah, I mean if and I think if

1656
01:54:56.600 --> 01:54:59.720
as those ips continue to grow,
if they if they do better and better

1657
01:54:59.720 --> 01:55:02.039
from move movie to movie, there
will be a line of these big companies

1658
01:55:02.079 --> 01:55:08.520
waiting to work with them. Yes. Absolutely, It's like this factory line

1659
01:55:08.680 --> 01:55:13.600
of do you have something successful as
a comic book or a novel or something

1660
01:55:13.680 --> 01:55:15.960
like that well might get turned into
a movie or a TV show, and

1661
01:55:15.039 --> 01:55:18.760
that like Netflix and Amazon, they
are still fighting over those properties. As

1662
01:55:18.840 --> 01:55:21.439
much as like they've been in precarious
positions over the last couple of years,

1663
01:55:21.680 --> 01:55:26.560
they still really want to be the
companies that grab those and then those can

1664
01:55:26.680 --> 01:55:29.239
be the next things to get turned
into video games, and then the video

1665
01:55:29.279 --> 01:55:31.279
games can get turned back into TV
shows and it's all just kind of feeding

1666
01:55:31.319 --> 01:55:33.920
into one another. And that's what
they want to do because a lot of

1667
01:55:33.960 --> 01:55:38.720
these executives see it working somewhere else
and they that makes them think it is

1668
01:55:38.760 --> 01:55:42.079
a much it's less risky than if
they were to start their own thing.

1669
01:55:43.640 --> 01:55:48.319
Another question for the room here,
it feels like, why doesn't a big

1670
01:55:48.439 --> 01:55:53.439
publisher, and when I say big
publisher, I mean Sony or Microsoft or

1671
01:55:53.520 --> 01:56:00.319
Nintendo in this case, why don't
they take in IP like let's say Despicable

1672
01:56:00.439 --> 01:56:05.159
Me or Shrek and make a good
license game. What if there was like

1673
01:56:05.199 --> 01:56:12.479
a first party Shrek gave. I'm
I'm just speaking myself of just desires out

1674
01:56:12.520 --> 01:56:15.479
into the universe, right, Well, the t I don't made him Taro

1675
01:56:15.600 --> 01:56:17.520
games for a while there, remember
that was right, it was game freak.

1676
01:56:17.600 --> 01:56:20.199
Actually, yeah, yeah, I
think it's what Jeff's saying. I

1677
01:56:20.199 --> 01:56:25.279
think especially Nintendo is like, well, we'll just invest in our own iph

1678
01:56:25.399 --> 01:56:28.920
obviously. I think Microsoft and Sonny
feel that a bit like Sony. You

1679
01:56:29.000 --> 01:56:32.159
know, a Spider Man that is
Sony related, still right, they don't

1680
01:56:32.199 --> 01:56:36.560
have to go over to a universal
or an illumination and like try to wrangle

1681
01:56:36.640 --> 01:56:40.319
together some kind of deal to do
that, but they do have to regular

1682
01:56:40.399 --> 01:56:43.920
deal separate from their movie deal for
Spider Man for video games, like Marvel

1683
01:56:44.279 --> 01:56:46.279
still owns the video game rights,
so they have to make a deal there,

1684
01:56:46.520 --> 01:56:50.359
but it still feeds into their the
synergy there of them making the movies,

1685
01:56:50.479 --> 01:56:53.840
so it makes all the sense in
the world for them to do it.

1686
01:56:54.000 --> 01:57:01.720
Yes, I think for Family IP
it is likely that the perception is

1687
01:57:02.399 --> 01:57:05.319
you don't need to put as much
work into those to get a return on

1688
01:57:05.439 --> 01:57:09.920
your investment, And if you were
to put a two hundred million dollar budget

1689
01:57:09.960 --> 01:57:13.319
into a Shrek game, you're not
going to get them investment back on that.

1690
01:57:13.399 --> 01:57:15.920
At least I think that's what they
believe. They're wrong, of course,

1691
01:57:15.000 --> 01:57:18.760
we know that, yes, but
that's what they believe it will outperform

1692
01:57:18.880 --> 01:57:21.960
Luigi's Mansion three yes, or if
anything could, it would be the two

1693
01:57:23.000 --> 01:57:28.199
hundred million dollars Shrek game. Yeah, that's absolutely it if the margins are

1694
01:57:28.399 --> 01:57:32.399
what they are with putting out actual
dog shit. Yeah. I think it's

1695
01:57:32.399 --> 01:57:36.399
just everyone's afraid of making family games
to go up against Nintendo. It's really

1696
01:57:36.439 --> 01:57:40.920
hard and Nintendo does not spend two
hundred million dollars on their games, so

1697
01:57:41.239 --> 01:57:46.039
you are just taking a real risk
for no proven return. A sack Boys

1698
01:57:46.079 --> 01:57:50.600
big adventure, I do. No. I got that on the Steam Deck

1699
01:57:50.600 --> 01:57:54.199
and the kids like it sto.
Yeah that was that was That was okay,

1700
01:57:54.960 --> 01:57:58.399
But I don't think it sold.
No nobody played it. Nobody played

1701
01:57:58.439 --> 01:58:00.359
it. I mean even Ratchet Clay
didn't sell as well some of these other

1702
01:58:00.560 --> 01:58:03.279
games for sure, which is a
shame because that's like the best game on

1703
01:58:03.359 --> 01:58:06.359
the place. You should it's the
best game. Well, I mean I

1704
01:58:06.359 --> 01:58:10.560
think it's the best rection in Clank
game probably, but probably that or a

1705
01:58:10.600 --> 01:58:16.800
cracking time. Next email comes from
Alex and Bendigo, Australia. Alex writes

1706
01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:21.119
in as soon as Jan described what
a code Grandma was on episode ninety one

1707
01:58:21.159 --> 01:58:24.800
of the dump truck. Oh geez, I loved that. I loved that

1708
01:58:24.880 --> 01:58:27.039
I was listening to in Disney and
I was like, oh, I hope

1709
01:58:27.119 --> 01:58:30.199
Jan explains whether Grandma is. They
are not ready for it. They are

1710
01:58:30.319 --> 01:58:34.359
not ready for I got it,
I gotcha. I imagine various crew members

1711
01:58:34.520 --> 01:58:40.880
wandering around Disney covertly dropping piles of
Mike's ashes from their pant legs, like

1712
01:58:41.000 --> 01:58:44.640
the prisoners did in the film The
Great Escape. Oh yeah, do what

1713
01:58:44.760 --> 01:58:48.319
you will with this information, Alex
and Bendigo Australia. Mike, just remind

1714
01:58:48.359 --> 01:58:51.159
me again, I have a pretty
good idea of what this is, but

1715
01:58:51.319 --> 01:58:56.239
just for our listeners who weren't listening, and for myself completely remember the details.

1716
01:58:56.880 --> 01:59:00.560
It is co Grandma is when a
person who works at Disney see someone

1717
01:59:00.640 --> 01:59:05.439
trying to spill ashes of a loved
one Programma. Yeah, you caught somebody

1718
01:59:05.520 --> 01:59:10.159
trying to spread ashes anywhere in the
park. And it's just incredible that there's

1719
01:59:10.199 --> 01:59:14.600
a code for that specific because it
must happen fifteen times a day. Apparently,

1720
01:59:14.840 --> 01:59:17.600
yes, I hope it happens fifteen
times a day. Is maybe let's

1721
01:59:17.640 --> 01:59:21.199
take uh, let's let's take the
members of Giant bombs. So that's Jeff,

1722
01:59:21.359 --> 01:59:26.239
Jeff, Me, Dan, tam
Lucy, six people to spread your

1723
01:59:26.239 --> 01:59:30.640
ashes across Disney. Let's go to
Disneyland first. Where do you want the

1724
01:59:30.760 --> 01:59:39.119
six parts of Mike Manatti's ashes to
be nice? Right? Yeah? Definitely

1725
01:59:39.159 --> 01:59:44.640
at the corn Dog Stand, which
that's one again, the main street Okay,

1726
01:59:44.800 --> 01:59:48.159
got it? Yeah, like you
were being an idiot. Yeah,

1727
01:59:48.600 --> 01:59:54.199
you dumb ass. Okay, stupid
saying stupid things. I thought you were

1728
01:59:54.399 --> 01:59:59.039
just there back alar in the Indiana
Jones ride where you go behind the head

1729
01:59:59.039 --> 02:00:01.680
of Mara and there's all those skulls
in that text ghosts. Lots of ashes

1730
02:00:01.800 --> 02:00:12.479
there, maybe too, maybe extra
Mikey right, okay, you know what,

1731
02:00:12.560 --> 02:00:15.439
Yeah, we'll send Turbo, Shawn
and Nikki to spread like a little

1732
02:00:15.439 --> 02:00:17.800
bit more juice over there. Yea, the back the backside of water and

1733
02:00:17.880 --> 02:00:23.359
Jungle Cruise. Okay, uh,
it's spot Spot, the mint Jewel of

1734
02:00:23.479 --> 02:00:28.800
bar where I get my Bennet's.
Yeah, the big that that that's gotta

1735
02:00:28.840 --> 02:00:32.840
be one of them, for sure. I like it should be somewhere in

1736
02:00:32.880 --> 02:00:40.520
Tomorrowland. But nothing's really big Spender
Mountain Mountain is kind of scary for me

1737
02:00:40.520 --> 02:00:44.039
anymore. Big thunder Mountain, Big
thunder Mountain. Where you see the goats.

1738
02:00:44.159 --> 02:00:46.039
There's a goat there, and I
always before you go down the second

1739
02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:49.359
hill and I go goat. Okay, Yeah, and everyone on the t

1740
02:00:50.000 --> 02:00:53.840
because they're like, Mikey did it. He did his line a lot of

1741
02:00:53.960 --> 02:00:58.039
ashes. Just throw it right at
that fucking goats face. Yeah, someone

1742
02:00:58.079 --> 02:01:02.000
in Chad. You don't want to
figure to be your Disneyland. But by

1743
02:01:02.119 --> 02:01:08.239
the way, big figment development's happening
right now, Huge figment developments. Disney's

1744
02:01:08.239 --> 02:01:12.840
been teasy something. He's been hours
and I don't know what he's talking about.

1745
02:01:13.000 --> 02:01:16.279
A huge developments. Tell us,
Mike, tell us about this dusty

1746
02:01:16.479 --> 02:01:23.199
ass spiral does He's been like sharing
a lot of pictures of like figment with

1747
02:01:23.279 --> 02:01:27.359
like his idea book, and he's
been going to imagineering I think because of

1748
02:01:27.479 --> 02:01:30.359
us. Yeah, they're going to
announce an update to that rye finally.

1749
02:01:30.000 --> 02:01:34.079
Yeah, they're gonna put him out
of his misery. Big How many more

1750
02:01:34.119 --> 02:01:39.359
Disneyland spots? So one more?
One one more? Just inside the steam

1751
02:01:39.399 --> 02:01:43.039
stack of the Mark troin riverboats,
you might need like somewhat taller. It's

1752
02:01:43.039 --> 02:01:46.119
pretty high up there, just boiling
water. Coming out of it. Drop

1753
02:01:46.239 --> 02:01:50.399
it great. Yeah. Yeah,
So you're putting your ashes in the steam

1754
02:01:50.439 --> 02:01:55.359
stacks so that it's evenly dispersed along
the river. Is that what will be

1755
02:01:55.479 --> 02:01:59.800
like in there forever? Because ashes
have memory, but like a lot of

1756
02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:09.520
it will gets you know, hearing
the dumbest ship you've ever heard. I

1757
02:02:09.600 --> 02:02:14.039
got I fell down a YouTube rabbit
hole about a month ago with people doing

1758
02:02:14.199 --> 02:02:20.520
like urban exploration at Disney urbs.
Yeah, urbs, our splash, Disney

1759
02:02:20.720 --> 02:02:27.399
Underscore, urbex underscore figment. That's
wild. That's some wild ship. I

1760
02:02:27.680 --> 02:02:33.239
I. It's not behavior you want
to encourage, but urban explanation or urban

1761
02:02:33.279 --> 02:02:36.399
exploration is this where you go in
place instead have been shut down or what?

1762
02:02:36.800 --> 02:02:41.760
It's just people trespassing. It's like
fancy trespassing is really what that means?

1763
02:02:41.840 --> 02:02:44.560
I mean in Disney World, the
big one is they used to have

1764
02:02:44.760 --> 02:02:47.279
this island on one of the lakes, which was basically like a little zoo.

1765
02:02:47.720 --> 02:02:51.279
It's like some bad zoo with some
birds and stuff. It's been shut

1766
02:02:51.359 --> 02:02:57.079
down forever, but people will like
swim to it and crocodile invested water,

1767
02:02:57.119 --> 02:02:59.960
so will swim to and it's kind
of hang out there for like day,

1768
02:03:00.239 --> 02:03:02.600
and a lot of the architecture is
still there. It's really interesting. It's

1769
02:03:02.600 --> 02:03:06.920
all just overgrown and weird but very
dangerous. Like you're talking about birds.

1770
02:03:06.960 --> 02:03:10.600
Reminds me of when I was playing
Mortal Combat yesterday and there was a bird

1771
02:03:10.600 --> 02:03:12.560
in the game and I said pterodactyl. And you're like, Jeff, why

1772
02:03:12.560 --> 02:03:17.159
would there be a pterodactyl? But
you're right, like to be this frustrated

1773
02:03:17.199 --> 02:03:21.199
with me, But Jess saw something
in the sky. You're like, I

1774
02:03:21.319 --> 02:03:28.800
bet that's a pterodactyl, the only
the only thing that flies. They're really

1775
02:03:28.840 --> 02:03:31.399
god the better parts of those things
are like the stuff that's hidden in plain

1776
02:03:31.560 --> 02:03:34.760
sight. Right, It's like,
yeah, that island is like creepy and

1777
02:03:34.880 --> 02:03:40.000
weird and it's like overgrown. But
the other like little nooks and crannies of

1778
02:03:40.039 --> 02:03:44.640
Disney that are like just adjacent to
an active thing. But these guys like

1779
02:03:44.800 --> 02:03:47.199
go in you know the way and
in the Figment Ride, like there's a

1780
02:03:47.279 --> 02:03:51.039
second floor that used to have the
kind of interactive playground element and now it's

1781
02:03:51.199 --> 02:03:55.600
just like a lounge for the vacation
club people. And for a while a

1782
02:03:55.680 --> 02:03:58.840
lot of that old like playground stuff
was still up there. People would steak

1783
02:03:58.880 --> 02:04:01.560
over there and it was weird,
I think, real scandalous Disney porn.

1784
02:04:01.800 --> 02:04:04.840
Let's said, there was the whole
thing with Buzzy where somebody stole Buzzy.

1785
02:04:04.960 --> 02:04:09.439
If you know, you know,
big deal, big deal when they stole

1786
02:04:09.520 --> 02:04:14.800
Buzzy. Well, figment. We
all have our assignments. We're all gonna

1787
02:04:14.840 --> 02:04:17.479
choose where we're gonna go spread Mikey's
ashes when the time comes, not the

1788
02:04:17.520 --> 02:04:20.079
Haunted mansion. Dude, come on, come on, let's play it out.

1789
02:04:21.079 --> 02:04:26.199
What am I enormy? I mean, come on, we're already,

1790
02:04:27.000 --> 02:04:30.880
hey, place back of large,
We're already spreading his ashes evenly, six

1791
02:04:31.000 --> 02:04:35.640
ways fagerous because it looks my ashes
are going to look a lot like powdered

1792
02:04:35.680 --> 02:04:40.880
sugar. Okay, well, Dan
is not going to do that one day.

1793
02:04:42.600 --> 02:04:48.039
Make make Dan with my Asha mcdad
eat Mike NAUGHTI do it? Do

1794
02:04:48.239 --> 02:04:53.600
it? I don't know? Okay, all right, next to you,

1795
02:04:53.640 --> 02:04:59.960
maybe next Joe from New Jersey.
Hey, folks. On the last episod

1796
02:05:00.640 --> 02:05:04.159
Backlar was arguing that you were falling
into the trap by calling every game lean

1797
02:05:04.600 --> 02:05:11.760
and juicy. As a counterpoint,
what are the fattiest and driest games you've

1798
02:05:11.800 --> 02:05:16.840
ever played, and can either of
those things quality be a quality rather than

1799
02:05:16.880 --> 02:05:20.920
a downside. I don't know what
I'm meaning like this now. I would

1800
02:05:21.000 --> 02:05:26.680
argue that Assassin's Creed is very fatty, but sometimes about to say fahalla,

1801
02:05:27.199 --> 02:05:31.439
wow. Yeah, good one driest
forts and Motorsport, and I think it

1802
02:05:31.600 --> 02:05:38.000
was a benefit to a certain extent. It's just grand to Verso seven's dryness

1803
02:05:38.079 --> 02:05:40.439
was maybe a little bit better where
it's like, yeah, we're just hanging

1804
02:05:40.479 --> 02:05:43.760
out talking about talking about cars and
it's nice, isn't it. And that's

1805
02:05:43.800 --> 02:05:45.760
like maybe a little bit even more
pleasant. Yeah, I think that I

1806
02:05:45.840 --> 02:05:49.319
get what Fortza is doing. I
think I could use just a bit of

1807
02:05:49.520 --> 02:05:55.359
juice. Yep, they continue,
but sometimes you're in the right mood,

1808
02:05:55.600 --> 02:05:58.319
it's exactly what you're looking for.
As for dry, I think of games

1809
02:05:58.359 --> 02:06:01.479
with deliberate friction. Amnies The Bunker
was a really good game that came out

1810
02:06:01.520 --> 02:06:04.920
this year and was completely ignored,
But I definitely wouldn't call any of the

1811
02:06:04.960 --> 02:06:11.880
gameplay mechanics juicy. Thanks great drove
from New Jersey. That's another fatty game.

1812
02:06:12.039 --> 02:06:15.000
Maybe maybe PUPG is the dry game
then, where I was like,

1813
02:06:15.239 --> 02:06:18.680
I wanted to call that one juicy
because it's juicy for me, but actually

1814
02:06:18.720 --> 02:06:21.760
what it's doing is like the good
kind of dry of The mechanics are just

1815
02:06:21.920 --> 02:06:27.479
rigid in what they are, and
they and they work in unexpected ways,

1816
02:06:27.640 --> 02:06:30.920
but but they are, Yes,
they're rigid. So I don't know,

1817
02:06:30.039 --> 02:06:34.399
I think that could work for that. I think the newest Super Smash Brothers

1818
02:06:34.479 --> 02:06:40.479
game, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate,
I think it's pretty fatty. I understand

1819
02:06:40.520 --> 02:06:44.159
the fan service of wanting to throw
everyone in, but maybe we don't need

1820
02:06:44.239 --> 02:06:49.000
everyone. Oh well, you're wrong
there. I just actually played like five

1821
02:06:49.039 --> 02:06:55.720
hours of Smash with some friends.
Sunday games so very good, very five

1822
02:06:55.760 --> 02:07:00.840
different kinds of lives. Yeah you
do Sunday nights. I spent it almost

1823
02:07:00.960 --> 02:07:05.560
all night underneath my sink trying to
fix a leak in my Yeah it was

1824
02:07:05.800 --> 02:07:09.000
plumbing. I was plumbing. Yeah, I wasn't doing that. That was

1825
02:07:09.039 --> 02:07:15.039
handing fun drinking. Hmm, what
like fatty is like? Is it too

1826
02:07:15.119 --> 02:07:18.800
many things to do? I mean
almost any mms played like World Wars,

1827
02:07:19.239 --> 02:07:23.640
Big Fatty. It's got a problem. Somebody should talk to it. Real

1828
02:07:23.760 --> 02:07:26.079
fat game over there. Yeah,
Well, I think Fatty is just like,

1829
02:07:26.800 --> 02:07:30.119
oh, they just didn't stop adding
things. Yeah, things excessive.

1830
02:07:30.159 --> 02:07:31.720
It's not just that it's a big
game, but it's like, oh,

1831
02:07:31.760 --> 02:07:34.239
they're gonna charge you ten dollars for
a horse. Also, come on,

1832
02:07:34.399 --> 02:07:38.159
guys, you have a problem,
Like, uh, do you really need

1833
02:07:38.239 --> 02:07:42.000
a side of fries? You already
got the fries appetizer that kind of thing.

1834
02:07:42.319 --> 02:07:45.399
Yeah, got it, got it, got it? Okay, Uh

1835
02:07:45.279 --> 02:07:50.159
that's right, fart ass chat.
The Persona game can be a little fatty

1836
02:07:50.199 --> 02:07:54.960
at times. Juicy and fatty.
Yeah, that's juicy and fatty where shim

1837
02:07:55.039 --> 02:08:00.159
mcgarmy Tedsi fatty and dry. Yeah. Yeah, I really wanted to like

1838
02:08:00.760 --> 02:08:05.159
one I did to Jan I like
lasted like a few hours. I was

1839
02:08:05.199 --> 02:08:07.880
like, it was also like too
difficult where it didn't need to be.

1840
02:08:09.720 --> 02:08:13.399
Those games are always definitely a bit
harder. Uh. I tried to play

1841
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:16.399
Strange Journey the DS one, and
I'm usually pretty good even I was like,

1842
02:08:16.479 --> 02:08:20.800
this is like running the enemies already
with a bunch of instakil mechanics,

1843
02:08:20.920 --> 02:08:26.159
and I just I can't, I
can't. I think Final Fantasy seven remake

1844
02:08:26.680 --> 02:08:33.960
is lean and juicy at the same
time. Whoa, that's a very Juicy

1845
02:08:33.039 --> 02:08:45.960
Game Special Barrett Father. Okay,
easy boys, remind me show you guys

1846
02:08:46.000 --> 02:08:50.680
the screenshot of when Ada showed up
and she was I had had her modeled.

1847
02:08:50.760 --> 02:08:56.560
Did you guys hear this? Explain
yourself, Jeff. I, So,

1848
02:08:56.840 --> 02:08:58.560
as I was getting residuable for I'm
like, okay, i'll play that,

1849
02:08:58.680 --> 02:09:01.439
but like to encourage me to do
so, I'll go download some mods

1850
02:09:01.640 --> 02:09:05.199
and I threw some stuff in there
and I didn't use end up using mini,

1851
02:09:05.520 --> 02:09:09.079
but I, uh, I forgot
that I did really anything until Ada

1852
02:09:09.199 --> 02:09:16.800
finally showed up and the proportions were
more, and I completely forgot I had

1853
02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:18.399
done this, and I was just
like, holy shit, oh my god,

1854
02:09:18.439 --> 02:09:22.279
what is this game? And then
I realized it was my sins that

1855
02:09:22.399 --> 02:09:26.720
made it happen. But yeah,
it was shocking. What I love when

1856
02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:30.680
I'm playing a game. And then
I uttered to myself, whether out loud

1857
02:09:30.800 --> 02:09:35.760
or quietly underneath my breath, damn
shawty what that dang DoD Damn Yeah,

1858
02:09:37.800 --> 02:09:43.159
have a batty though maybe always been
a battie. Really definitely Ari four just

1859
02:09:43.239 --> 02:09:48.960
a game of batties all right.
To end, the emails got a little

1860
02:09:48.039 --> 02:09:54.359
quiz. I got a little quiz
let's do it a little quiz about anime.

1861
02:09:54.800 --> 02:09:58.520
Well, sorry to break it,
do you shit shit? Josh?

1862
02:09:58.720 --> 02:10:03.159
Some of these were for anime.
I didn't. I can't win medals at

1863
02:10:03.319 --> 02:10:09.199
Josh has a quiz about anime?
Oh fuck yeah, I'm anime expert.

1864
02:10:09.279 --> 02:10:13.039
Jeff Backlar ready for this? Well, well you get name dropped in this

1865
02:10:13.199 --> 02:10:16.359
email. Hey guys, been listening
for about a year now and thought i'd

1866
02:10:16.399 --> 02:10:20.720
send in a quiz since you seem
to enjoy them. Hey, Josh,

1867
02:10:20.800 --> 02:10:22.800
thanks for listening for a year.
Buddy, Yeah, thanks man, I

1868
02:10:22.800 --> 02:10:26.439
appreciate it all podcast points. If
you're a newer listener to the Giant BombCast,

1869
02:10:26.720 --> 02:10:31.800
I will kiss you in the mouth
is now. It's about when I

1870
02:10:31.880 --> 02:10:37.199
started showing up here everybuddy. Since
Jeff Backlar is now an anime, I

1871
02:10:37.239 --> 02:10:39.000
thought you were trying to get me
to kiss you on the mouth. Is

1872
02:10:39.000 --> 02:10:39.479
what you were saying? Is that
not what he was trying to do?

1873
02:10:39.760 --> 02:10:48.279
I thought that just a few weeks. That's upsetting that kay, No,

1874
02:10:48.520 --> 02:11:01.600
stop, Okay, that ain't right. That boy right. Since Jeff Bakalar

1875
02:11:01.760 --> 02:11:03.840
is now an anime expert, I
thought i'd make an anime theme it,

1876
02:11:03.960 --> 02:11:09.239
make it anime themed anime has no
shortage of strange sounding titles, partially because

1877
02:11:09.600 --> 02:11:13.000
of them being translated, but also
because there's just a lot of weird anime

1878
02:11:13.119 --> 02:11:16.479
out there. I made a quiz
where we have to spot the fake anime

1879
02:11:16.640 --> 02:11:20.800
name anime title from a list of
three. Not sure if you'll pick this

1880
02:11:20.960 --> 02:11:24.680
quiz, but I'd be happy if
you do. Include the answers and an

1881
02:11:24.720 --> 02:11:26.800
image attached to the email. Aniway, Thank you. Hope you enjoy this

1882
02:11:26.920 --> 02:11:33.159
quiz. Spot the fake anime name? Question one. The three options are

1883
02:11:33.079 --> 02:11:39.000
do you love your mom and her
two hit multi target attacks, Children of

1884
02:11:39.039 --> 02:11:45.880
the Whales, or Reborn as the
villain of my favorite video game? Which

1885
02:11:45.960 --> 02:11:50.680
one is the fake name? Better? Flipping a coin? Well, so

1886
02:11:50.800 --> 02:11:54.359
do you guys feel like that the
red herring here is Children of the Whales

1887
02:11:54.560 --> 02:11:56.960
and that the other two like?
Okay, so you think the bottom of

1888
02:11:58.000 --> 02:12:01.159
one Whales is definitely real? I
think yeah, Like I think the bottom

1889
02:12:01.239 --> 02:12:03.880
one is is uh is fake?
Well, okay, so I'm coming around

1890
02:12:03.920 --> 02:12:07.079
to you, Becklar, I agree. I think the bottom one is fake.

1891
02:12:07.399 --> 02:12:09.920
Reborn as the villain of my favorite
video game is my answer. I

1892
02:12:09.000 --> 02:12:13.399
think that's real. I don't know
there's a lot that's like they love those

1893
02:12:13.880 --> 02:12:16.000
children of the whale. Sounds too
normy, but maybe it sounds that.

1894
02:12:16.159 --> 02:12:20.840
I think it's too it's too normy
to be fake. But number one is

1895
02:12:20.920 --> 02:12:26.039
like so ridiculous. I know I'm
supposed to. That's what it's real.

1896
02:12:26.239 --> 02:12:30.079
That's what I think it is,
even like three steps beyond that where I

1897
02:12:30.159 --> 02:12:33.079
actually I don't. I really don't
think it's real. I think that your

1898
02:12:33.199 --> 02:12:37.760
mom's too about a multi target attacks
is not real? Okay, the answer

1899
02:12:39.000 --> 02:12:43.840
is Reborn is the villain of my
favorite video game. It's all right,

1900
02:12:43.920 --> 02:12:46.079
Mike, you got it. You
always got to go more extreme. If

1901
02:12:46.079 --> 02:12:48.560
it's anime, what is that even
about? Was that show? But it's

1902
02:12:48.600 --> 02:12:52.399
about loving your mom and or to
hit mult targets? Is that a he

1903
02:12:52.600 --> 02:12:58.439
t No, Mike, it's not. It's a yowie wow. No,

1904
02:12:58.600 --> 02:13:01.399
it wouldn't be. It's a mom
I saw y she does she love you

1905
02:13:01.439 --> 02:13:07.319
anymore because of the yowiness? I
don't know, Look at me, Okay.

1906
02:13:07.880 --> 02:13:16.680
Anime expert taps the sign, taps
the sign exactly. I'll get this

1907
02:13:16.800 --> 02:13:20.920
one wrong, though. Or your
medals, I'm just not wearing them.

1908
02:13:20.000 --> 02:13:26.159
You can't see them. Okay,
question two. The three options are my

1909
02:13:26.319 --> 02:13:33.119
chaotic gamer love life that's about me, real girl that's about me. Rascal

1910
02:13:33.239 --> 02:13:35.520
does not dream of bunny Girl sendpie. I think I see that one.

1911
02:13:37.880 --> 02:13:41.640
Bunny Girl is real. I think, yeah, I think the first one's

1912
02:13:41.720 --> 02:13:45.960
fake. Only if you believe bunny
girl Spie is real? Is she real?

1913
02:13:46.479 --> 02:13:48.319
Another gamer one? Is the is
the fake one again? Man?

1914
02:13:50.399 --> 02:13:52.960
Yeah, that's why I'm not gonna
go with it. I wouldn't be surprised

1915
02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:54.800
if it's right, though, So
I'm gonna go with a real girl.

1916
02:13:54.119 --> 02:14:01.039
But I'm gonna listen to the anime
expert not as one. Love life is

1917
02:14:01.079 --> 02:14:05.279
not real, and y'all are correct, My chaotic gamer love life is not

1918
02:14:05.560 --> 02:14:13.880
real? A question numbers for two. Let's see question number three after school

1919
02:14:15.000 --> 02:14:20.840
bakery? How heavy are the dumbbells
you lift? With a question mark?

1920
02:14:20.319 --> 02:14:26.239
And finally, Wonder Egg Priority the
hard one. This is very hard.

1921
02:14:26.319 --> 02:14:33.680
My gut tells me number two here. Yeah, but I do love questions

1922
02:14:33.800 --> 02:14:39.199
as names. Wonder Egg Priority,
that's pretty silly, Wonder Egg Priority.

1923
02:14:39.319 --> 02:14:43.399
I just need to see the logo
of that thing, even if it's fake.

1924
02:14:43.079 --> 02:14:48.479
After school Bakery almost certainly a very
delightful, pleasant, low key show.

1925
02:14:50.159 --> 02:14:52.920
I'm gonna go with after school bakery. I don't know, but I

1926
02:14:52.039 --> 02:14:54.520
think just something about it is throwing
me off. So I'm going after school

1927
02:14:54.520 --> 02:15:01.119
bakery as being the one that isn't
real. The one that is not real

1928
02:15:01.199 --> 02:15:05.319
is after school bakery. Nice.
I just wanted it to be real,

1929
02:15:05.479 --> 02:15:09.720
damnit. Sure I get that.
I feel like the fun isn't after school

1930
02:15:09.760 --> 02:15:16.119
bakery. After all right, it's
where the us that even mean the kids

1931
02:15:16.159 --> 02:15:18.600
get under the bleacher. It's what
we call my mini van after high school.

1932
02:15:18.640 --> 02:15:24.680
Yeah, you watch your stolen TV. Yes, exactly the other crimes.

1933
02:15:26.039 --> 02:15:28.239
I didn't even know about jeff stolen
TV story. By the way,

1934
02:15:28.359 --> 02:15:35.880
that's floors not fucked up. I
agree, it changed things for me if

1935
02:15:35.880 --> 02:15:39.479
I'm being sure, of course,
Yeah, I'm kidding. Oh, I

1936
02:15:39.600 --> 02:15:46.920
might start watching How heavy are the
dumbbells? You lived? Yeah? Yeah,

1937
02:15:50.079 --> 02:15:52.600
I hide nothing, I hide nothing, all right? Oh they're that

1938
02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:58.319
heavy? Okay? Oh the dumbbells
are? Who those dumb bells? Got?

1939
02:15:58.439 --> 02:16:05.520
It? Ques? Just a muscle
Mommy show. This looks all right?

1940
02:16:05.720 --> 02:16:09.319
Question number four. The options are
world end colon? What do you

1941
02:16:09.520 --> 02:16:13.720
do at the end of the world? Question Mark are you busy? Question

1942
02:16:13.840 --> 02:16:18.279
mark? Will you save us?
Question Mark? Two? My childhood bully

1943
02:16:18.479 --> 02:16:22.199
is now my roommate? Three?
Why the hell are you here? Teacher?

1944
02:16:24.880 --> 02:16:28.439
How was capitalized? I think that
the teacher is a devil or something.

1945
02:16:30.960 --> 02:16:33.120
I think the first one is fake. It's a bit much, isn't

1946
02:16:33.159 --> 02:16:37.879
it. Yeah. I'm never gonna
go with the one that is too much.

1947
02:16:37.559 --> 02:16:41.319
I'm sticking with those always being real. I'm going with the bully.

1948
02:16:41.360 --> 02:16:45.559
Why I think the bully is fake. I'm gonna go with why the hell

1949
02:16:45.600 --> 02:16:50.559
are you here? Teacher? The
answer is, my childhood bully is now

1950
02:16:50.600 --> 02:16:56.959
my roommate. You did it,
Mike? All right? We got why

1951
02:16:58.079 --> 02:17:03.399
am I here? We got three
more? Question five? Can you learn

1952
02:17:03.479 --> 02:17:07.559
to love a zombie? Two?
Our love has always been ten centimeters apart?

1953
02:17:11.799 --> 02:17:16.680
Asteroid in love? God, asteroid
love sounds like a muppet chill segment.

1954
02:17:16.879 --> 02:17:20.719
Yeah, I'm going with our love
has always been ten centimeters apart.

1955
02:17:20.840 --> 02:17:24.159
I think the by throwing in the
metric system in there, it's meant to

1956
02:17:24.239 --> 02:17:28.840
throw us all, throw us Americans
off. So I think it's our love

1957
02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:35.440
has always been ten centimeters apart.
I will continue this thirty three chance exercise

1958
02:17:35.520 --> 02:17:39.840
that we are doing, and I'll
say asteroid in love. All right,

1959
02:17:39.920 --> 02:17:43.360
I'll go to the zombie one.
I don't think the zombie one is the

1960
02:17:43.760 --> 02:17:48.719
answer is Mike, you got it
right? Can you learn to love a

1961
02:17:48.840 --> 02:17:54.159
zombie? Wow? Capital Z for
the zombie things? You can't love them?

1962
02:17:54.440 --> 02:17:58.280
Take that. Cranberry's all right,
it's okay not love them because they

1963
02:17:58.319 --> 02:18:05.840
don't got a soul. Question number
six, The options are the Garden of

1964
02:18:05.959 --> 02:18:13.479
Words, the Day I became a
God, the Garden of Eternity. Oh

1965
02:18:13.639 --> 02:18:16.799
Jesus, I think it's the day
I became a God. I think the

1966
02:18:16.040 --> 02:18:20.799
I think this is some trickster,
my old like middle school multiple choice things.

1967
02:18:20.840 --> 02:18:24.000
Tell me if two are alike,
then one of those is probably the

1968
02:18:24.120 --> 02:18:28.760
answer. I'm gonna a garden of
eternity. That's too generic. Yeah,

1969
02:18:28.799 --> 02:18:33.040
I'm going Garden of eternity as well. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

1970
02:18:33.120 --> 02:18:37.079
ding. Garden of eternity is the
answer. All right. I think I

1971
02:18:37.159 --> 02:18:41.840
need a fifth medal for anime expert. Yeah, we're gonna take back Lars

1972
02:18:41.879 --> 02:18:43.799
sign and give it to you.
God, damn it, I took me

1973
02:18:43.879 --> 02:18:50.399
all nay. Question number seven the
final final question Here, gents, the

1974
02:18:50.520 --> 02:18:56.639
options are. I can't understand what
my husband is saying. My STEMPI won't

1975
02:18:56.639 --> 02:19:03.000
take a hint, high score girl. The gamer ones have always been rough.

1976
02:19:03.920 --> 02:19:07.520
I'm going with my SIMPI won't take
a hit. Same, I'm going

1977
02:19:07.639 --> 02:19:15.959
high score girl. The answer is
for the fake anime, my SIMPI won't

1978
02:19:16.000 --> 02:19:22.120
take a hint. Well, we
all got like that, right they they

1979
02:19:22.120 --> 02:19:26.559
use it differently than it's actually the
common usage, right usually. I don't

1980
02:19:26.600 --> 02:19:28.920
know. Maybe they kept calling me, people kept calling me then person of

1981
02:19:28.959 --> 02:19:31.040
four as well. I know.
Well, I mean, you know,

1982
02:19:31.440 --> 02:19:35.319
if the shoe, if the shoe
fits right? All right, folks.

1983
02:19:35.399 --> 02:19:39.399
That does it for the emails real
quick. I'm just looking at this dot

1984
02:19:39.520 --> 02:19:43.239
com. I see your boulders Gate
email. I'm gonna read it, okay,

1985
02:19:43.559 --> 02:19:46.239
yes, yes, I meant to
just copy that to you directly.

1986
02:19:46.920 --> 02:19:50.879
Everything good, all right? Speaking
of random shoutouts, when I won my

1987
02:19:52.000 --> 02:19:56.200
first trivia on the boat, somebody
did come up to me my Zey cruise

1988
02:19:56.239 --> 02:19:58.840
and say that they were a fan
of the bumpcast. Was very sweet,

1989
02:20:00.120 --> 02:20:03.440
so surprised I forgot to ask for
their name, So I'm sorry, but

1990
02:20:03.639 --> 02:20:07.760
thank you so much for saying hi. I think the name is Mickey Mouse.

1991
02:20:07.799 --> 02:20:15.559
I think right, Mickey mouse Mouse, it was Maximilian goof and then

1992
02:20:15.600 --> 02:20:20.040
he was like, please lot more. Dad mentioned me again. Yeah,

1993
02:20:20.079 --> 02:20:24.040
sure, where's rocks an though?
Rocks? All right? All right,

1994
02:20:24.120 --> 02:20:28.200
we have gotten to the part of
the show with the shout outs. Google

1995
02:20:28.239 --> 02:20:33.600
doc is still floating around the purest
social media uh in existence is just a

1996
02:20:33.680 --> 02:20:39.000
Google doc that I pass around weekly. And we have Giant Bomb Live and

1997
02:20:39.680 --> 02:20:41.879
La Live. Bet your girl is
going to be there live. Shout out

1998
02:20:41.879 --> 02:20:46.959
to Jerffer working on it less than
three h three. Why do they call

1999
02:20:46.040 --> 02:20:50.719
it oven when you of it?
The Cold Food of Out? Hot eat

2000
02:20:50.840 --> 02:20:54.040
the food? All right? I
hope you're okay. We never wrote that

2001
02:20:56.440 --> 02:21:01.600
in The Cold Food of Out,
that's what it says. All right,

2002
02:21:01.760 --> 02:21:05.719
Hey, I'm not having trouble reading
this time. All right? No an

2003
02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:09.040
egg sandwich salad? Okay? Hey
nose? Fuck you, hey nose?

2004
02:21:09.120 --> 02:21:13.440
Maybe what's the nose thing? It's
a dan thing? I think, Oh

2005
02:21:13.520 --> 02:21:16.159
okay, sorry, heyos, Maybe
get new friends who won't abuse you.

2006
02:21:16.399 --> 02:21:22.479
Spreading Mike Manatti's ashes at Disneyland,
slash World shots out to Cassette Beasts better

2007
02:21:22.559 --> 02:21:26.760
than every Pokemon game ever made my
light gast my keep Gait, my boss

2008
02:21:28.120 --> 02:21:33.319
girl, my Rekert Dan, eat
good chili, avoid Cincinnati Banana Slama.

2009
02:21:33.520 --> 02:21:37.399
Shout out to y'all stoked on everything
you've done to keep the bomb chicken.

2010
02:21:37.719 --> 02:21:41.639
Also bring back the C word in
little text here. I see the new

2011
02:21:41.760 --> 02:21:46.079
GB Disco mods and all the other
GB mods. Yeah, shots out all

2012
02:21:46.079 --> 02:21:50.079
the mods. When Mike holds his
eyes open, he looks like fizz Gig

2013
02:21:50.120 --> 02:21:58.000
from the Dark Crystal. Oh my
god, Janet is no. Oh Mike,

2014
02:21:58.120 --> 02:22:01.120
you are a demon. Stop with
a hung it makes it worse.

2015
02:22:01.920 --> 02:22:07.239
Y'all looking stunning today. I'm moisturized. I can't believe TAM's last name is

2016
02:22:07.239 --> 02:22:09.000
spelled wrong in the Game of the
Year poster. Just getting Shouts out to

2017
02:22:09.079 --> 02:22:15.799
Backlar for almost having a heart attack. Photoshop exists. It's fine, but

2018
02:22:15.959 --> 02:22:20.200
no, it's correct. Face love
bo check not the show. Did Mike

2019
02:22:20.319 --> 02:22:24.360
use the wallet condom on the cruise? I told you I took a picture

2020
02:22:24.559 --> 02:22:33.799
with Minnie and Daisy, okay,
super equivalent of a furry on avanyath.

2021
02:22:33.959 --> 02:22:39.959
I didn't start this, I just
middled it. Oh yeah, the video

2022
02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:48.520
game is all the sounds spit roasted
by Daisy and aheadas doesn't even make sense.

2023
02:22:48.760 --> 02:22:54.319
Video game is all the same extreme
rusty voice. Shut up, John,

2024
02:22:54.760 --> 02:22:58.399
good job, Buddy, shouts out
to Travis and Taylor. Their love

2025
02:22:58.520 --> 02:23:03.639
is real. Mom Wife Jane loves
Mom's dead Parkore video. I say of

2026
02:23:03.680 --> 02:23:07.879
the Quiet Man's connection to the Remedy
verse buying Nosebleed tickets to aw Full Gear

2027
02:23:07.920 --> 02:23:11.799
in LA twenty four check, I'm
getting back into it soon. I've decided

2028
02:23:11.840 --> 02:23:16.959
it's gonna be my workout show again. Also Columbros, check we I watched

2029
02:23:18.040 --> 02:23:20.200
episode four last night. Jeff was
going to watch it too. We're going

2030
02:23:20.280 --> 02:23:24.719
to record that on Thursday. That's
right. Also, love Boat check a

2031
02:23:24.879 --> 02:23:28.479
piece of shit. I'm sorry.
I'll try to watch Love Buddets some point.

2032
02:23:28.760 --> 02:23:31.799
Well, I know what boats are
like, and apparently I discovered love

2033
02:23:31.879 --> 02:23:37.159
on it too, and so I'll
be ready to go parasocially bringing Disney cookies

2034
02:23:37.239 --> 02:23:41.399
to the GB crew in La Let's
go. I'll bring that popcorn bucket for

2035
02:23:41.440 --> 02:23:43.760
you too, Jane's so that's why
you're coming, Mike. You're gonna taste

2036
02:23:43.799 --> 02:23:50.719
out all the food first. Make
sure you don't die, please, dah.

2037
02:23:50.680 --> 02:23:54.280
Folks. We announced at the top
of the show we're doing GB at

2038
02:23:54.520 --> 02:24:01.399
Night during the Game Awards Wednesday,
December ninth. Nice, Gun, I

2039
02:24:01.399 --> 02:24:09.600
got turned upside down? Yeah?
Is that right? Yes, ninb Yeah,

2040
02:24:09.639 --> 02:24:11.479
that's how I'm keeping the couch is
back. We're gonna have a lot

2041
02:24:11.520 --> 02:24:16.040
of lovely guests. I've seen the
doc that Grub is painstakingly putting together.

2042
02:24:16.120 --> 02:24:18.200
The GB at Night is the sixth, the the live show is the ninth.

2043
02:24:18.399 --> 02:24:20.879
That's all right. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, dates are

2044
02:24:22.000 --> 02:24:28.440
stupid. December sixth is when we'll
be doing GB at Night for the Game

2045
02:24:28.520 --> 02:24:31.200
Awards. Also, you can see
the poster here that we have on the

2046
02:24:31.319 --> 02:24:35.920
side. Giant Bomb Game of the
Year Live December ninth, twelve pm Pacific.

2047
02:24:37.479 --> 02:24:41.639
We will be having a live event
at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles.

2048
02:24:41.399 --> 02:24:45.719
We will also be streaming this live. I don't care what anyone tries

2049
02:24:45.760 --> 02:24:50.120
to tell me. If I have
to, I'll hold my micup or I'll

2050
02:24:50.159 --> 02:24:52.600
hold my phone up all the time. That's what we're gonna do. Oh,

2051
02:24:54.120 --> 02:24:58.159
it's funny how we time that sixth
and the ninth. Nice. Nice,

2052
02:24:58.120 --> 02:25:01.959
but rest assured. Ever, we
will also still be having our regular

2053
02:25:01.000 --> 02:25:05.239
Game of the Year deliberations. The
Giant Bomb Game of the Year Live is

2054
02:25:05.319 --> 02:25:09.639
just going to be the grand finale
of that where we will be crowning the

2055
02:25:09.719 --> 02:25:13.559
top twenty, then the top ten, then the top Game of the year.

2056
02:25:13.040 --> 02:25:16.719
Hey, also gonna I'm gonna bring
it back less. There will be

2057
02:25:16.799 --> 02:25:20.040
Game of the Year list on this
website. We're gonna be getting them from

2058
02:25:20.079 --> 02:25:24.479
our friends new and old alike and
throughout the holidays. At some point we'll

2059
02:25:24.479 --> 02:25:26.799
get them posted on the site.
And for that stuff, I'm having people

2060
02:25:26.840 --> 02:25:31.319
help me, but I'll get these
things edited and collected and look out for

2061
02:25:31.399 --> 02:25:33.000
that. I'm actually really looking forward
to that. So Game of the Year

2062
02:25:33.040 --> 02:25:37.000
list will be back in twenty twenty
three. Yes, yes, God,

2063
02:25:37.719 --> 02:25:41.399
I gotta put my thoughts to paper. Now, what else is going on

2064
02:25:41.600 --> 02:25:43.959
this week? Boys? We got
a lot, We always got a lot.

2065
02:25:45.000 --> 02:25:46.760
Why do we do this? Uh? Yeah, we're just saying this.

2066
02:25:48.280 --> 02:25:52.799
Let's see here tomorrow light Club,
so look out for that. We

2067
02:25:52.959 --> 02:25:58.680
are getting back into Ride to Grub
Jeff Tribution. I think I'm also playing

2068
02:25:58.680 --> 02:26:05.559
Allen two tomorrow for a bit after
a games mornings and then on Thursday we

2069
02:26:05.680 --> 02:26:11.200
will have Voicemail Dump Truck. We
will have upf on Thursday, and then

2070
02:26:11.280 --> 02:26:16.319
on Thursday. We're doing unprofessional Fridays
on a Thursday with Mario Kart. I

2071
02:26:16.399 --> 02:26:20.840
believe right? Is that three Modern
Wark for three? And then Mario Kart

2072
02:26:20.079 --> 02:26:24.600
is Thursday Night throw Down on a
Friday, And yes, we'll be playing

2073
02:26:24.639 --> 02:26:28.079
Mario Karton kind of doing the the
new tracks in a tournament. So get

2074
02:26:28.120 --> 02:26:31.559
Mario Kart downloaded and come hang out
with us and play, and we will

2075
02:26:31.600 --> 02:26:35.399
be on Friday. Yes, we
will also have a game of Mornings throughout

2076
02:26:35.399 --> 02:26:41.040
the rest of the week and bcr
BombCast for Vengeance on Friday. Gosh,

2077
02:26:41.200 --> 02:26:45.959
what a jam packed week. Mike, happy to have you back, Bud.

2078
02:26:46.600 --> 02:26:48.799
Hey, yeah, thanks, it's
good to be back. Everybody,

2079
02:26:48.879 --> 02:26:52.959
Miss Joell. Hell yeah, we
got tons of stuff popping off. Also

2080
02:26:52.360 --> 02:26:58.639
also also to cap off what is
already a packed week, once again announcing

2081
02:27:00.079 --> 02:27:05.120
Extra Life Part two. This weekend, we got Minati, Grub and the

2082
02:27:05.159 --> 02:27:09.399
Windbag heading over to Dan's place.
Beckler, what are you playing? Pinball?

2083
02:27:09.719 --> 02:27:13.360
Oh? That's right? Oh fuck
Sunday, I believe one pi.

2084
02:27:13.479 --> 02:27:20.639
It's a tough act to follow.
It's so tough I almost forgot. Yes,

2085
02:27:20.840 --> 02:27:26.440
I was playing food Fighters the pinball
machine experience. Yes, they gave

2086
02:27:26.520 --> 02:27:31.319
the food fighters, their own pimball
machine. I'm gonna get DCMA clap so

2087
02:27:31.559 --> 02:27:39.319
fast your head will spin. That's
gonna be on Sunday the nineteenth, one

2088
02:27:39.440 --> 02:27:43.559
pm Eastern is where I'm targeting a
star. Time there. Beautiful, beautiful,

2089
02:27:43.719 --> 02:27:46.479
beautiful, And hey, the year's
not over. We can always spend

2090
02:27:46.559 --> 02:27:52.319
some stuff up back for extra life
as needed. I know that Tam had

2091
02:27:52.319 --> 02:27:56.200
an appetite to do some more things
when more of the West Coast folks were

2092
02:27:56.360 --> 02:27:58.360
available. And hey, you know
what, should we just say? We're

2093
02:27:58.360 --> 02:28:01.959
probably gonna talk over the game awards
for those that aren't going, Oh we

2094
02:28:03.040 --> 02:28:07.000
are right, that's we are.
We're gonna be doing that. Lots of

2095
02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:09.440
fun stuff popping off while we're all
together in me and Jam, I'll be

2096
02:28:09.479 --> 02:28:13.600
doing real work where all these people
are gallivanting with celebrities and Jeff Keeley at

2097
02:28:13.600 --> 02:28:18.040
the kids me. I'm sitting next
to Vulcary. Look at my business hat.

2098
02:28:18.239 --> 02:28:24.959
I'm Jeff Beckola. Look at me. I'm it was Pokey Maine.

2099
02:28:26.200 --> 02:28:33.559
Okay, not Valkyrie that Okay,
we'll poke Maine. Here's the funny thing.

2100
02:28:35.079 --> 02:28:39.719
I'm not gonna wear a hat,
wear two hats. Gonna wear you're

2101
02:28:39.719 --> 02:28:45.040
gonna wear a headband. I'm gonna
wear a hair band is what I'm gonna

2102
02:28:45.079 --> 02:28:48.680
wear. No, I decided,
uh no hat. This year we took

2103
02:28:50.200 --> 02:28:52.639
you know, the Scaredess. That's
the real ship right there. The testing

2104
02:28:54.079 --> 02:28:58.000
did not go well last year.
Audiences were upset. So we're gonna have

2105
02:28:58.000 --> 02:29:03.559
to turn this round. My army's
hat. Steph took it and put it

2106
02:29:03.600 --> 02:29:05.639
somewhere and she says she put it
somewhere safe and if I find it,

2107
02:29:05.719 --> 02:29:07.799
I can have it back. Because
she keeps finding on the floor and I'm

2108
02:29:07.840 --> 02:29:11.159
like, look, it's not the
kids do it and she's like no,

2109
02:29:11.440 --> 02:29:15.399
so I think it's with her hats, but I haven't looked. It's precious.

2110
02:29:15.479 --> 02:29:16.280
It should be taken Oh yeah,
it should be taken care of.

2111
02:29:18.719 --> 02:29:20.000
This just crossed my mind. This
has nothing to do with anything, but

2112
02:29:20.079 --> 02:29:24.799
I just want to dance. Let's
go dance, just dance. We can

2113
02:29:24.920 --> 02:29:26.680
dance even you could do it,
dance while we're out in Los Angeles.

2114
02:29:26.920 --> 02:29:28.879
Yeah, that's why I'm saying,
let's all take it like a K pop

2115
02:29:30.000 --> 02:29:33.799
dance class. Oh sure, yeah, let's do it all right. Talks

2116
02:29:33.959 --> 02:29:35.840
that we totally have time for that, we have time for all these things.

2117
02:29:35.920 --> 02:29:39.200
We should squeeze in a Disneyland trip
while we're at it. Yeah,

2118
02:29:41.239 --> 02:29:43.959
all right, folks, I've been
Jan he's been Jeff, he's been Jeff,

2119
02:29:43.120 --> 02:29:48.559
he's been Mike, and you have
been looking great today. Just remember

2120
02:29:48.639 --> 02:29:52.399
to wash your hands. Just just
do that for me, do that for

2121
02:29:52.479 --> 02:29:56.159
your good old boy. And also
we'll see you next week for another episode

2122
02:29:56.360 --> 02:30:13.600
of the Giant BombCast. I love
you double xp Hey, uh you know

2123
02:30:13.879 --> 02:30:16.040
for shoot here while you're listening to
the Giant BombCast, I don't know,

2124
02:30:16.360 --> 02:30:22.680
go subscribe on whatever you're listening it
to leave a review, all type of

2125
02:30:22.719 --> 02:30:26.280
stuff. Tell your friends, Yeah, make a mixtape CD. I would

2126
02:30:26.319 --> 02:30:30.559
have pulled myself over. I think
the Giant BombCast has been fucking banging this

2127
02:30:30.680 --> 02:30:35.200
whole year. Great, Yeah,
you're cute. I'll kiss you in the

2128
02:30:35.280 --> 02:30:39.280
mouth. Oh God, like like
this. Oh okay, okay, now

2129
02:30:39.319 --> 02:30:41.719
we're famous black all right, right
right,