Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, March nineteenth, twenty twenty four. Welcome to
the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and thirty two, powered by NZXT.
I am your host this week, jan Ochoa, hiding my shame under this
bright orange beanie because you know, I got a haircut. I got a
haircut to prepare for Pax East this week and joining me my haircut brethren,
Jeff Grubb. I'm still I'm still on the cusp of deciding one way or
the other about the haircut. Could still do the airport haircut. I don't
think I'm gonna get in there before that point though, So it'll either be
airport haircut or nothing. That's That's where I'm at. That's uh, that
is your life motto. That is on the Grub family crest. Actually,
yes, it'll be on my gravestone. Uh. Speaking about gravestones. We
got him killing records left and right. It's speed Runner here, putting people
in the fucking dirt. Mike Manatti, you can't trust the sorcerers sometimes.
Yeah, my hair situation is easy. I'm just gonna have to get the
thing and trim off this. You know, it's funny. I do this
little tuft on my forehead that'll grow out, which is literally exactly the Charlie
Brown thing if I let it go. I've never been seeing that. You
do a good job taking care of taking care of that, Mike, I've
never even noticed that, right, like you know, the male pounder bonus
like went back, but just like this little bit right here wants to hang
on. Charlie Brown Island. Charlie Brown Island, Yep, I know,
and joining us just says, oh my guy, she's impressed. Yeah,
that's why. That's why I said, that's amazing joining us this week.
She's excited and happy for her compatriots, her work companions, to leave for
packs East while she holds down the fort in sunny California. I got to
hear Cut a couple of weeks ago, and now I'm fucking commented. I
said something that's pretty sure. I said, So I didn't notice. Well,
I mean, Mike, you know, we we know you hate women.
Hey, now, why god, I know we can't do that Women's
Day that was last week. We're fine, now, you know, respect
extream, you don't respect women on the equadox, what do you? Yeah?
Right, Leo's they're Witches. Yeah, fantastic, fantastic. How's everyone
doing? Uh, grub, I saw that you saw Dune like PM June
talking about Dune. It started at like eleven ten pm actually, when all
the commercials were done and everything. But I did not even like begin to
fall asleep. I was good because that movie is very good, very entertaining.
I like how they use religion to manipulate people. That's fun. That's
a good story. They should do that more often. I don't wonder why
that only happens in movies. Yeah, yeah, perhaps, But did you
like it? Did a live up to the hype that people have been Yes,
I'm like I go back and forth, like internally, I don't bother
other people with these thoughts because they're inside thoughts. So let's put it on
a podcast. I'm not sure how much I care about lore all the time,
and it's like, oh, I care about law when it's good,
like when it's actually super well thought out, and so Dune is that it's
very much that. It's like where every sort of decision made by these characters
has a reason why behind it that is born out of like the reason that
this culture is this way, and that like permeating getting through to like all
of the action sequences, all of the decisions characters are making. It was
really I don't know. It kept a story like moving forward in a really
fun way, and it's just awesome to look at because it's a Denny movie.
Danny knows how to make him. I really like Denny a lot,
but I just I don't like Cecario at all. I don't know what it
is. I'm not involved in that. You're right, I did not.
I'm like, I wanna go back to it. I didn't dig Cecario either,
so maybe I was missing something. I think it's a problem with me.
Denny just quietly shut off the podcast. Ye're in his French Canadian.
I well, he saw that you were, you know, his one of
his best friends, Bailey Myers, is on the pot. And then it
was like, oh, these two fuckers are here. Also, you heard
that. You guys say you say it like that because you don't know how
to pronounce his last name. But I say Denny like that because we're best
friends. So yeah, sure, I say that because it reminds me of
the character from the Room. That's actually why I say that. So what
kind of drugs are you taking? Edny? What kind of drugs that you
take? I just like to watch you as well. I just like to
watch I was showering. My one glass thing fell on the other glass thing.
There's two glass things in that shower, so there's a there's a what
do you mean? Glass thing? A jar, a cup, sex toys?
No glass in there? Well, because like I have the one and
it's like where I put some like miscellaneous nick knacks and it's on a high
show. Then on the is like my good enough miscellaneous knick knacks is not
good enough? That are sexual? All right? No, I know,
I know that was a joke. What are you talking about? Like I'm
a razor and like extra plates and cube tips? What do you just?
Bathroom? What do you think? Why glass? Because that's what I had.
I had a class container and okay, in retrospect it should not have
been glass. Yeah. You ever get to a public swimming pool and they're
like, we actually don't want you to have glass by our water that we
are in, And you didn't like apply that principle to your little own swimming
pool that you have in your house in bathroom you may swimming. Yeah,
it made such a noise. It's just incredible. It was like a direct
hit the one glass thing on the only other glass thing, just shatter,
picking up glass everywhere. Just a little bit got on my foot. I
clean that. Now. Are you worried that? Because one of the famous
things about glass is uh, you could see through it just like okay,
well things about the broom and like was like really going at it making sure
there's an secret glass on the floor. Stilled. I'm gonna That's what I'm
worried about, the secret glass. So what happened exactly like one of your
glass items decided to take a nose dive just on its own and hit your
other glass item and it shattered into a million pieces. Yeah, they both
shattered. So like the one on the top was probably pushed too far to
the edge and also relatable too high up, and I was I was like
sick and delirious yesterday, so I probably like I got my thermometer out of
there, so that must be when like that's also in there, thermometer in
the shower well in case the glass because you want to go a little bit
of mercury poisoning just shelf. Now it's just an old timey cartoon thermometer your
temperature and make sure you're not getting too heated every time you wash your tufted.
Yeah, I was very stupid. When I first took my temperature was
a feeling. It was right after I shower. I was like, Wow,
look how high my body'd be. Like I thought, I like,
wait a second, maybe the shower made it. Huts. I googled it.
It's like that. Yeah, that's a thing, so I had to
wait. Yeah, that reminds me, like, you know, growing up,
you'd see so many cartoons and movies of like people coming up with ways
to fake their sickness and like I'm gonna make my hands plam me, or
like I'm gonna like find a way to heat up the thermometer when my parents
take my tempt or exactly. And then one one morning I went to my
mom faking sickness. This is maybe the first grade. I'm like, oh,
Mom, I'm sick, thinking she's going to take my temperature. I
prepared all this stuff. She was like, all right, stay home.
She trusted you, and you betrayed her trust. I know it's not it
was a I do clearly you still think about it. Yeah, the Catholic
guilt kicks in. That's the one, you know, long lasting thing from
private school education. Baby, did you ever forge your parents' signature on like
a permission slip or anything like that. I did not a permission slip.
But we used to have these things called conduct referrals, which were like,
if you get in trouble, if you get in trouble. But I only
got in trouble because I let my friend cheat off of my homework. Oh
that's the most to get in trouble. Prom king shit right there. I
was a cool guy. I was tough. The copying homework. Who cares?
You're like copy test answers maybe, but come on, copying homework.
You're only in trouble because he didn't, like how did they even know?
Is it because he missed the same act ones you did? No? Actively
doing it in class? He was actively doing it in your name. No,
no, no, he actually almost did do that once. It was
like morning prep period or whatever. And then like we were just sitting there
and he asked me for my homework. He was he's my best friend,
so I just gave it to him. And then like the vice principals rolling
around saying like, oh, what's up, children, Hey, how's it
going, And then she sees him blatantly copying everything right plainly in front of
her my office. Yeah yeah, oh that's what the vice principal is always
the problem. You're the cop. Yeah right, yeah, the vice principal.
Boner and Doug exactly, Yeah, yeah, did you did you?
Did you guys get in trouble in school? Ever? I got trouble one
time because I was a freshman and it was a Halloween, and as a
freshman high school student, I was brave enough to wear a Star Trek costume
for Halloween, and uh, I was just I don't know. I was
talking to somebody about Halloween and was late to my last class and got detention.
That was it. It's not very exciting. Oh that's left I get
any trouble. I was so pathetic that like, as I got through the
tension, everybody and like the class was shocked and like tried to stop.
I can't give the attention to Bike, He's so quiet and child the time.
It was like giving the toution to a puppy, the real American badass
Mike Manati. It was what time I got in trouble in high school,
Jeff, I fucking brought a can't say faked Oh okay, yeah it was.
I was like one of those air soft ones, but uh, I
forgot it was in there because of the ADHD. And then I got in
a fight. Someone ripped my backpack and it fell out and they told on
me, and then I got suspended for ninety days because it was not long
after ties. Yes, they called it, and you were a gamer two
right, that's what it was really about. It was gamer oppression, Uh
for sure. No. I had like several Saturday schools in a row because
of like being late to school like weeks some weeks and weeks of having Saturday
school. So yeah, and that's just like one of the times I got
in trouble. I got in trouble a lot, kid. I did a
lot of bullshit in school, but I never got caught. What are you
gonna do about it? You know? Wow? Were you smoking in the
girls room? There was a history class where the teacher would go around and
check that we we just had to take notes for each of the chapter of
the book because you didn't like to teach it all. And I quickly figured
out I could just show him the same notes if I just like changed the
data top so I didn't do homework for an entire year. Incredible. Yeah,
And then like also one time got in trouble with a friend of mine
because he was sitting in front of me in a different history class and we
wanted to talk shit about someone who was sitting near us, but we didn't
want any of her to find out because we didn't want hurt her feelings.
We were just mad at her. So we were like writing English for netically
in Hebrew because we both knew how to do that, and then we got
in trouble for writing and symbols gribberish. Yeah. I was like, oh,
thanks God, thank god we took that precaution. We knew we were
not smooth enough to pull this off. Forever lovely lovely. Well, well
we'll go from playing innocent childhood games to adult video games. Oh yay,
controversial here. I want to get new SEG music. I want to get
new SEG music. Yeah, I am like almost dead set, though,
I'm just gonna try and be justify. Who could stop you? Exactly exactly?
I put the license Todini by Dua Lipa because that's song rocks I listened
to it all the time. Well, one thing I like about podcast is
it goes out on RSS feed, which is like there's no laws there.
So I listened to one podcast where like their YouTuber, she has like a
custom song, but then on for the pot for the RSS version, they
just use electric avenue like where they're gone through and I'm like, oh yeah,
like don't there's no like detecting copyright on RSS feeds, so we should
just do that. Jan Okay, purpose there we go. Oh God,
I like Dua Lipa. I think all of her songs sound the same,
but anytime they come on, I'm having a good time. Though her songs
don't all sound the same, they do make you have a good time.
Houdini is special because it's one of those things where she's like the hottest woman
who's ever lived, and even she can't say the lord Whodini's sexy? And
I think it's funny every time that's true. It makes me laugh and it
makes me dance, and that's all I ever look for. Uh, just
like sand the sand Land demo makes Jeff do, makes you last, makes
you want to dance real quick. You said adult video games and I did
on steamle yes, last night see my cousin playing She Will Punish Them,
And I'm like, what is that? And I look, I'm like,
oh, oh, that's just a horny game. That's just a lady going
around going around spanking people. Basically, all right, well, more power
to you on the nose. It's all off, okay, yeah, I
guess. Yeah, it's on sale right now with the springs. This is
way holier than I was even expecting. Also, I have fun with that
everybody, but the logo there's like Papyrus them, she Will shall I even
be googling this. Well, they're just Steam. Well listen, I'm not
trying to get you in trouble Yoh yeah, I think I think he plays
what's that like the Devilish Lady occupy and he plays a soccubus. I think
it's like an action game. They made nothing for this font huh. No,
In fact, I think they got paid to use it. Actually,
yeah, Sandland, that's uh all right, that's got a demo out now
and your lipstick, yes, you can customers a lot actually, And this
is the one that's based on the a Curatory Yama manga. I believe,
and I think they're like going pretty hard on Sandland. Now, of course,
you know, rest in peace to Akira Toriyama. This this game is
kind of strange but neat. I think the best part about it is all
of the Akira Toriyama art and the whole world just feeling like you're living in
one of his worlds. But you play as this like little sand demon guy.
He's got some friends. And the demo shows you a section of the
game where you're able to wander around this open part of the desert, and
you have three different vehicles. One is a big tank with a lot of
heavy weaponry, another one is like a motorcycle, and a third one is
a mech, and they seem to serve different functions of like getting you around
faster, being like relatively survivable, or like with the mech, it's like
if you're in closer, there's a lot of people you got to fight.
This thing can can do pretty pretty decent at that, but it's very slow
if you're trying to actually traverse the desert, so you're supposed to swap between
these things. I just the demo didn't show me a lot about like what
you're going to be doing in this game. At least I'm assuming there's more
more to it, because what it is is you go out in the world
and you fight random encounters and maybe you're finding a cave that might have some
stuff in it. I get the idea that there's gonna be some crafting.
Didn't mess around with any of that in the demos so far. It was
really just kind of going to these enclaves fighting either like human humanoid enemies or
fighting giant desert creatures, or just like random dinosaurs running nut or whatever,
like in a curatory Ama manga. But it at the very least it looks
really pretty. The action does work to the point where it's like I am
enjoying myself when I'm doing that. I'm just like, in this demo,
was confused about what should be pulling me through, like what is my motivation
here, and that the lack of that kind of made it feel like I'm
okay for now. You know. I played this thing for forty five minutes
and was like, ah, I'm I don't I would need to know more
about what this game actually is beyond this to care about it once the game
actually comes out, So little disappointed by it, but also I'm hoping that,
you know, the final version has a lot more to it. Yeah,
that sounds a lot like the demo that I checked out at last year's
Summer Game Fest. I wouldn't be surprised if it's kind of based on what
you played there. Yeah, sure, Yeah, And in that demo,
I think the highlight for that was being in the vehicles controlling stuff, because
it did feel at least in this early stage, and you know, it's
a demo, so things felt very slight in terms of like direction of like,
Okay, I guess I'm just gonna head to that village now on my
map because that's what I'm being told to do. But the vehicle stuff and
the vehicle design really really neat. I feel like a Curratriama has a knack
for designing really cool retro futuristic bubbly vehicles. Yeah, of half domes on
everything, half domes like little vehicles too, so like the people are kind
of like bursting out of them as they're riding and riding in them. That
happens here as well. It's all that stuff is definitely the highlight I enjoyed.
I enjoyed that aspect of it. I think also getting to customize your
like your vehicles and adding like different weaponry on there. They kind of show
that off early in the demo, like, hey, we've given you some
stuff. Change up the guns if you want, and that stuff changes up
the cosmetic look of the vehicle as well. So you put a big gun
on there, and now you have this huge barrel hanging off the tank that
looks absurd, but in the best way possible. So that stuff is neat.
I just I just don't know what else there is to it. Yeah,
I wonder if if you can wind up just sticking with one of those
vehicles or they're going to kind of like force you into situations where you have
to switch between a motorcycle, a mac or like the tank. Yeah you
could. I think you can have your favorite and use it most of the
time. The motorcycle, so each thing has like a variety of weapons on
it. So the motorcycle has machine guns that always fire forward, which is
a little troublesome because the way the vehicle controls is you are pressing forward to
go forward on the analog stick. You're not like holding down right trigger for
gas or something like that, And then that makes it a little bit awkward
to then like maneuver left and right. It's not the worst. You can
also like toggle on gas and like have it just go forward by itself and
then adjust it. That helps a little bit. But like maneuvering the motorcycle,
so the enemies are right in front of you, well, that's the
fast vehicle. So once I have that, I shoot them a little bit,
and then I'm already flying past them. So I was like, Okay,
I'm gonna get off the motorcycle, get back on the ground, throw
out the capsule. It's like all the vehicles are in capsules. Kiritoriyama again
that stuff. I like, you throw it on the capsule for the tank
or the mech, hop in those, and then you're back in the action
pretty quickly. I didn't find a way to like hot swap in battle where
it was like, oh, okay, I'm in the motorcycle. Can I
just quickly shift into the mech. It's like, no, you have to
get off, throw it down the capsule, then get in there, at
least as far as I could tell, which is cumbersome as well. But
I also think it makes it feel like you're living in the world and this
is the way the world functions, and like you have to have these capsules
and throw them down. I also like that if you hop out of a
vehicle and you run away, you don't really have to come back to the
but it's not going to be waiting for you there. It just zaps back
into your capsules, and then when you come back to the world, you
just throw them back down and hop back into them. I think it's like
got a lot of good energy to it. It's got a good look.
Yeah, and that's why I was curious about it. That's why I gave
the demo a chance. And I think that this demo feels very cordoned off.
It feels very much like just we just want to get you into the
action so you can see what that feels like. And so my assumption is
there probably is more to it. They just didn't know how to present it
in this in this demo, so they didn't do that. And yeah,
that's my hope at least at this point. Yeah, because I imagine like
trying to do a vertical slice of something that may be an open world game
is incredibly challenging. Also, man, I really love the look of everything
in San land. I just yeah, I hope the game plays enough to
kind of like push me over to enjoying playing the game. I've also been
launched just I did watch like fifteen episodes of Dragon ball z Kai over the
weekend with the kid. So we're in in a curatory. I'm a mood
right now. And see the new movie. I know not yet, but
I intend to. I intend to. Everyone seems to love it an absolute
blast. Which movie was it? I don't remember, Yeah, oh yeah,
because you know, you know why that's a good movie. It's because
it's Gohan and his father. I've also been playing a demo Jeff Grubb and
Company. I've been playing the pepper Grinder demo. Let me tell y'all,
I love hammers and games. Something I love more than games and big hammers
big drills. Love a big drill. Uh here, what you're doing is
you're a little character and you got a drill and jump hop and bop around.
Uh. Use the one of the triggers to fire up the drill.
Get that going, and you can use that as a melee weapon of sorts.
Hollow Penny And the neat part about the game is you know they'll you'll
see some destructible parts of the environment that are rocks, get some gems through
there. But where the game starts to really fudge around with a platforming element
is as soon as you take your drill to sand, it kind of suddenly
starts to propel you forward in whatever direction you're pointing the drill. So you
take the left analog stick and you're just controlling a movement around. But as
soon as you pop out of the surface of the sand, you start free
willing that bitch and you do, like a dolphin or a killer whale pop
out of it. That gives you a little bit of momentum. And in
the early stages here they're you know, a lot of it's teaching you the
mechanics, but you can quickly see how complicated the game is going to get,
because early on they have you dive down into the sand, make an
arc, hit an enemy to get a little bit more momentum to hit another
patch of sand right above you, and from there do a quick pivot to
get uh, propel yourself to the right side of the stage to get to
a higher ledge. It's really neat and I'm really excited. I think this
is one of my favorite genres of like two D platformers of just like weird
movement mobile abilities to like get you through something. And I'm gonna tell you
all the hot take here. I think I'm tired of grappling hooks. Wow
you're over it? Huh Okay, yeah, yeah, I felt brave.
I felt brave telling you all this. All right, this is a suicide
squad that finally did it to you. No, I actually like the grappling
hook in that game. Okay, it was like, what's hardly grappling onto
a little robot? All right? But I'm interested to see where the game
is gonna go and how complicated it's gonna get, because I think after playing
a little bit more of Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, I think my
favorite parts of that game are like the challenging puzzle platforming segments rather than some
of the combat. And I'm not saying comets bat or anything. It's great
in that game, some of the best, but like the that team really
really nailed some of those like corned off, tight timing platforming segments that I
think pepper Grinder is going to be able to do really really well as well.
And yeah, just big drills fucking rock. It's great. Yeah,
I have this demo. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet
though, but I'm a huge fan of Drill Dozer. Drill Dozer was awesome
on Game Boy Advance, and it's this is clearly inspired by that, and
everyone seems to who everyone's played it seems to really like it. And you're
right, I think just looking at it, you could tell they are going
to take this motion, this look, emotion mechanic and just throw you in
a bunch of different scenarios where, if you are able to, you could
string them together in such a way that you're basically never stopping doing cool momentum
addition tricks until the end of a level. And I love that idea.
But I mean, since like Tony Hawks, stringing together combos to feel cool
has been like one of my main so like in a game, this seems
like it's gonna nail that. So yeah, I'm excited about this. This
definitely feels like there will be several levels where if you can get the timing
right, you will never touch the ground other than like the beginning and the
ending segment. I love that, and I'm curious to see how they're gonna
handle boss encounters, because so far all the enemies you come across are just
like little dudes or like a little robusts that go off in one hit,
or one of the early enemies you come across are like these very thick,
lady bug like bugs where you're you can only hit them on the underside of
them because the top side is shielded. I don't know why I thought this
was going to be a like a strict puzzle game. I think I was
thinking more of mister Driller and yo, oh sure, mister Driller. That
guy looks so sick. Got a look, you know, Mister Driller is
supposed to be like the son or grandson of the character from the classic Namco
are games that I'm definitely not blinking on right now, the one with the
drill and that's wait, dig Doug dig Doug, Yes, Tick Doug,
thank you, Dick Doug. Yeah, he's related to the Dick Doug guy.
Okay, well basically the same games, Janney really close. Oh man,
imagine how messed up that dude being soul caliber? Huh dig dig Dug
guy or mister Driller, both of them? Does does dig Doug guy have
a name. Uh, he must be must be mister Driller the first I
guess tyz O Horri originally known as dig Doug. He should be a big
dog but spelled Doug. He's known as dig Doug, the Dick Doug lore.
The family tree, we got to chart it out. Uh, this
is like third time in two weeks we've talked about family trees. We got
to do something with family trees. Tiz O Horry, originally known as dig
Doug, is the main protagonist of the Dig Doug series and one of the
major characters in the Mister Driller series, being the founder of the Star Trigone
team as well as a member of the United Galaxy Space Force. Yeah,
there's a family here. We got to look at space for What are we
talking about the ugs? What do you mean? Is he dig dugging in
like space? I think he's dig dugging in space, Homie, Yeah,
tea dig dog? Is he involved? A gradius two? Like? What
are we talking about that? If we learn nothing from James Cameron's it's easier
to send drillers into space than spend spacers into drills. So Michael James Cameron
of Directors Well, going from space and uh, the Ground to the Sea,
Bailey. You have been playing Dredge. Yeah, finally I finally started
playing Dredge. My Twitch community made me do it yesterday and I was like,
oh, yeah, it's a fishing game. I like fishing, So
there we go. Although there is demo hour right now from Steam Nextfest normal
fishing that looks really good that I'm like very excited for. That has sort
of a spooky diss to it that Dredge has to it that I wasn't expecting
because I, you know, just always now it feels like Saxist is always
on. There's just like a lot of cool stuff came out, and I'm
really looking forward to normal fishing from that one. But also I've been playing
Dredge and I was so used to Dave the Diver and just being like,
ah, fishing is pleasant and chill, and now it isn't anymore. It's
not you're not gathering these things for your charming little sushi restaurant. You're just
trying not to get eaten by an enormous anglerfish or whatever. The fuck.
Oh my god, it's so stressful. Alan Wick two prepared me for this.
Actually, it's very it's very Eldritch horror. Uh, and it's very
British in it. I didn't know why Lucy liked it so much. She
felt, yeah, but yes, oh it's so fun. It's so fun.
They're like, oh, yeah, go out on the water, but
don't stay out at night for reasons we won't tell you. And then you
find out and you're like, oh, no, understood. I need to
upgrade my engines. Oh my god, it's great. I've only played a
little of it so far because I've mostly just been playing Bulatro and yeah scullm
Bones. But uh, but it's been really liking it. It's been great.
If you haven't picked up Dredge yet, like, you should pick up
Dredge. It's good. Yeah I did. I put it off and then
I got to the point where it's like, I'm not gonna have time for
this for game of the year. And then you get past the game of
the year, it's like, well, I don't have to play old games
anymore. It's time for new games. I think I should go back to
Dredge though. Yeah. My January was just devoted to all the indie games
that I like missed that I've been meeting to play, like I finally got
around to Slay the Princess and Chance of Sinar and like all these other ones
that I really enjoyed. That, of course I enjoyed because I love puzzle
games and I love visual novels, and I love weird shit like that,
and like, this is just another thing that's like a weird shit thing that
I should have started ages ago and just didn't because I think in January,
at the end of December and early January, it just got completely consumed by
David Diver. I was just obsessed with that gameplay loop. And now I've
got Bilatro in that slot in my heart. So I really want to play
like a fishing game seriously again. And I'm all for fishing matchups. They
haven't they just haven't really matched them up with something that speaks to me.
And now hear me out on this, please please no, maybe maybe maybe
we give Big the Cat like a standalone game, because look, I know
it's Janki's look at your one, but three D platformer meets fishing game.
There's something there. Oh yeah, yeah, I still I still, like,
in my heart want a fishing RPG like to come back in a big
way. Sure, but listen, I'll take that kind of mashup to platform
and big. The cat deserves its own game. You're right. So in
that newest Mario Golf, I didn't quite enjoy it. But the parts I
did enjoy is how the scramble when you're playing a multiplayer like running into where
your ball landed to continue going on. That's fun. To to the whole
the tea I don't know, golf, Yeah, to the lie, to
the lie sure, to the golf hole lies. Yeah. And I could
see that working well in a fishing game of sorts of like, all right,
you catch a fish here, you gotta dash all the way over to
the other side of the fishing fishing Mario fishing, let's do that, get
some cheap cheeps. That's actually good. They should do that, shocking we
haven't, Yeah, dougs cut the check. Uh well, Bailey, let's
stick to the seven seas here, because I don't know if you want to
talk about it length at all. I don't think any of us have played
this yet. What I'm going to be doing for the rest of the day,
so sculling bones of the week. It's so fu Nobody even wants to
talk about this game. It's not with Suicide Squad where people wanted to dunk
on it. Everybody's just kind of like, that's unfortunate. That's enough,
sick family member. Yeah, it's just uh, it's a game. I
ask a quadruple It's a quadruple, our first quadruple A title, Like,
how could I how could I not write it honest game trailer about it?
But God, I always forget. I've got to play the game first in
order to do that, and I always set myself up for misery as a
result. And I'm just like, I'm just trying to put one on the
on the schedule for me. But ever since we moved to every other week,
I've like got to prioritize the bad games. So I'm like, great,
this is just my life now. It's just bad game after bad game.
The last one I did was Suicide Squad. That games. That game's
good, though. Do you want to do? You want to do?
You want to try and play? Because Steam denied my refund request, so
kind of I'm kind of locked in now, Bailey, what do you do
in that game? I don't know what you do? Nothing? All right,
let's go. You're just a pirate and you're just on the ocean and
there's so many other pirates. Well that you just said right, there was
a hiku. It was beautiful. It's just sometimes you try to blow up
a building, sometimes the building blows you up first. You can have a
lemur on your boat. That's cool. If your boat gets blown up,
it's kind of existentially devastating because of the lemur. But then the lemur comes
back. Okay, you're fine, but it's like a little bit on fire
and you're like, okay, if I receipt, there's there's resurrecting lemurs.
There's terrorism. Okay, this sounds sounds like a good game. I don't
know. Yeah, there's like a quest you can do, like the pirate
like guy mercenary guy sends you off on little missions and you go and do
them and then you come back like do you like me yet? And he's
like are you living? Liller? Liller, I can't even do it,
Liveredstard was what I was trying to say. But this game has killed me.
It's killed me hard. Yeah, Jam was making the life out of
you. Just talking about Jam was like, do you want to be on
the bomb? Customer? I was like anything to avoid focusing on skull and
bones for a couple of hours. It's anything. It's incredible that they they
had the right idea, like people like Assassin's Creed for Black Flag, we
should just do more of that, like yeah, you should make a spin
off open world pirate game. And then they're like, yeah, but it's
gotta be a multiplayer, always online, live service thing, and then that
cost them like five extra years of development because they couldn't figure it out.
I mean, it just comes out of bombs. The big problem was apparently
that they were like, this is going to be primarily about sailing the ships,
and there's not going to be like the running around Assassin's Creed part of
it. And then they would ever tend me to talk about it. Everybody
be like, oh, I can't wait to play this thing that's exactly like
Black Flag, and you'd be like, oh boy. And so they went
back and like make it more like an Assassin's creen, make it more like
Assassin's screen, and that cost them also a bunch more years. So just
real smart stuff over there, no combat, just ship combat. You can
get you can get got by a shark pretty early in, which is so
fair you're in the shark's house. That's on you, right, You shouldn't
be there. You shouldn't be there. Uh yeah. The thing that's cool
about pirates is that there were just so many of them and they were all
operating at exactly the same time and running into each other. That's when mean
pirates cool, not any other element of their lifestyle or persona rum. Yeah,
bra gra, I mean literally already have an online live service pirate game
that is good. That's a pretty small market for how many of these we
can support. Yeah, yeah, you just it really has to be so
much better than this if you're gonna pull this ship off, and it just
isn't. It just isn't. It's all right? Yep. I feel like
I'm actively making Bailey more sad by. No. Oh, we're not gonna
talk about Bilatro played it without me, you know, I can't even talk
about it on my stupid little show. We're not. We're gonna talk about
a different casino game before we talk about Bilotro. And that other casino game
is a game that Jeff Grub has a played on me. Oh and I
thought I thought at this point Jeff Grub and I are friends. He worked
very well together. He would never try and hurt me. And then this
fucker tweets me and says, hey, we gotta we got to investigate this
new thing and it is called Bingle Bingle, and it is a It is
another casino roguelike game, but instead of poker or blackjack. Perhaps you are
spinning that. Oh I didn't invest the game. I just went to I
went to the Steam page and it starts playing the video and the sound of
the ball going around the thing is immediately setting off like every dopamine receptor in
my brain. I'm gonna I'm downloading this immediately. Is that an early access?
It is a similar format where you know you have a chip value you're
supposed to match, just like in Bilattro or Sortain other roguelikes, and you
are betting on a proper roulette wheel. And that's how it starts. Right,
You're like, Okay, I'm gonna bet on red, I'm gonna bet
on black. If I'm feeling a little spicy, maybe I'll pick a specific
number and then you can increase your bets. Am. How they make it
a roguelike is that you only have five tokens. Five tokens for a spin
each time to meet your designated chip value. They also have Boston Counters where
it gets a little nasty and spicy and a little freaky deky, y'all is.
After each round you get to visit a shop and in that shop you
can either upgrade your ball, and maybe upgrading your ball is like, all
right, well, I'm going to target a set of five of the pockets,
and then my ball will always go in one of those five pockets.
So you can clearly bet on red if you're aiming for that range or a
specific number. But say it like, you know what those pockets, the
numbers, the slots you fall into. Uh, maybe I'm going to buy
just like five red pieces and just stick them all together, so my whole
roulette wheel is half red. Okay? Oh man, Oh I thought Mike,
and I was going to say something. He's just confident, Okay,
just excusing that cough button effectively, so effectively that you thought I had something
to say. Continue, Jane, you're killing it. Thank you. So
you can upgrade your balls, and then from there, with each ball you
can upgrade that to uh increase the chip value that it's earning. So say
you have a ball that targets a certain range of pockets, you bet heavy
on red, and then it's you've upgraded that ball in such a way that
it gets like times or yeah, times ten each time it's suc Fley lands
on a proper bet, so you are winning around in one spin. At
first, I thought it felt pretty bare bones, but as you start getting
through, like the tutorial stages and like the early bits of it, you
are unlocking more and more different things to affect your wheel and your spinning in.
Like Grub said that trailer hooks you in really well because it gets the
clickty clackity of the ball hitting the wheel. I'm looking at to saying that
it really is just Bilacho but roulette, and yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, there's also a Majong roguelike casino, making it not that I will
play Bengal Bengal. It looks incredible, but I am very interested in any
any game that has some aspect of skill to it, and Roulette simply doesn't.
So it's never been my game in casinos, although the concept of upgrading
your balls is very funny to me, so yeah, upgrade. I highlighted
that it's the name for the podcast Real Slam Duck on that one. Yeah,
Bailey, would you ever be interested in perhaps do you know how to
play Majong? I? Okay, I learned how to play it from the
Mulan PC game that came out right around the time Mulan did, and I
haven't played it since, but my mom is getting very good at it in
her retirement community. So I imagine shaking okay, fantastic. Yeah. I
try to learn ma ins fan Fantasy fourteen and it did not take I was
I was going to say, maybe it's time to resurrect an old giant bomb
feature, one near and dear to my heart called Mahjong Mornings where we learn
how to play Majong. I would have learned to play Majong. That sounds
great. I guarantee you that the one in the PC game for that I
played when I was eight years old was not authentic. So let's go.
There is a gotcha style Majong with uh hot anime, people of every variety,
and man, they have fun animals in it. This is god.
I so a bad outcome in Majong, if I recall correctly, is called
ron r o n You never you never want to meet Ron exactly and Ben
Pack, I miss you so much. We we wanted to call it this
is the Ron on our successful Majong Majong Conquest. Half of half of that
feature was us just looking at the Olive Garden menu for a while, though,
So I don't know if we should still do that forever. They got
breadsticks? Yeah, yeah, all right, Bailey, I see you playing
this on Twitch virtually every single day. I played drug yesterday. I wanted
on the record. Okay, well we also played this last We played this
last week on UPF without Bailey. When you say we make it, make
sure not, Bailey. I was busy talking to my new best friend,
so I couldn't join anyway. It's fine, it's cool. He stole one
of my jokes, and I found out immediately because everyone came to my stream
to tattle to me about it. Immediately attributed it to you. I immediately,
to be fair, he gave credit. I'm like, I'm sure he
fucking did. So it still got its hooks in you, Baily. Yeah,
I just did it. I just did the golds. I finished the
gold steak on the the black and red checker deck. Yeah, and now
I'm trying to get through the challenge runs and I'm trying to just unlock every
joker. Yeah, I think I've decided to start doing that too. I
So I after that UPF I was like, oh yeah, Like I thought
I was playing this a lot, and then seen like how much more Mike
and Dan had unlocked. I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna keep playing.
And I got I probably got like six wins over the weekend when I was
playing, and that was like, you know, triple the number of wins
I had before that. So starting, I got through basically all the basic
decks because there are certain points like no, you need to do harder difficulties,
harder stakes to unlock some of these decks. So I've gotten to win
with all of the deck before that point, and now I'm starting. I
just started moving up to the next stakes. So whatever's after White, I
can't remember what it is, but I think I got pretty close to win
there. But I don't think I have a win on any of those more
difficult stakes yet, but uh, it is it. Yeah, It's it's
wild to see. Like at a certain point, I'm like, ah,
this a lot of this is like luck, and I'm like, no,
I just wasn't optimizing my choices. And now it's like every run is pretty
close or a win. So that's that's been nice to see, like,
oh, there's a huge change in how I'm playing. Yeah, it's it's
it's so good once you because I actually had like kind of a hard time
connecting with it at first because I was still trying to play like as poker,
And once my brain sort of understood that it's more roguelike than it is
poker, I immediately took off on it. And I found that once you
feed the Orange Steak, you unlock the erratic deck, which makes it a
lot easier to do like specific like unlocking joker runs because you'll start a deck
that has just like nine queens in it to begin with, and it's just
randomized every time, and it's so cool. The plasma deck is killer.
You have to do math on that one, which is crazy, but it
looks so sick. How does plasma deck work? Plasma deck takes an average
of your chips and your multiplier and it averages them every time. I just
unlocked that one, so I didn't really understand what that meant, and now
I'm scared. It's a little bit math, but like you know how when
one of your hands is bigger than the blind that you're going for, it
does like the fire thing. Have you guys ever experienced that on the I
don't know with you guys on the plasma deck. On the plasma deck,
the fire is like white and purply like plasma color. Like it's very frigetting
and it's so cool. Yeah, I've definitely still been enjoying Bilacho a good
amount. I am might beginning to see the end of the tunnel for me,
Like I just unlocked that plasma deck. Once I at least beat one
of the decks, which will of course be the checker deck with like all
the like different colored stacks, and then like right, and yeah, it's
kind of the It's it's definitely like the best deck for all of that bullshit,
because you know, you can at least probably make a flesh build.
But once I get everything on that and I unlock all the other decks and
get one win with every deck, I'll probably be good at that point.
But we'll see. I'm just scared for when this comes out on mobile.
I was just gonna say, like I just got that that email with the
confirmation from the developer that that was happening, I was like, well,
there goes my entire life. All right, great, right now? The
only thing saving me is that it lives in my PlayStation. You just have
to develop in a version to like all mobile gaming like I do, and
you'll be simply can't do that. I still play Slay the Spire every single
day before I go to bed. I thought that was on sale. I
never actually played Slay This really good. It's really good, Bailey. Did
you ever check out I think it's called Monster Train. People you recommending it
to me, and I want to, but I am so afraid of another
rogue like card like game. I only have so much room in my life.
You know I've already I'm already, I've already got two addictions. I'm
juggling. It's hard. I I think I wound up fondly remembering Monster Train
more than Slay the Spire because I was gonna ask should I play one or
the other because I've heard good things about both. I'd probably suggest for you
grub Slay the Spire just because it's more straightforward, and then, like Monster
Training, you eventually wind up having to juggle like three different lanes. Oh
you know can ok, Yeah, there are tiers of your train, so
like a bottom level, mid level, top level, just like Mike Minatti
is juggling these fools juggling records left and right, number nine, number seven,
number six on the charts, Like I do, I do want to
hear more about your continued time in Mortal Kombat mythologies sub zero. It's it's
fun now because it is actually feeling like speed running, right, Like at
first, just to get on the board, I just had to beat the
game in one sitting and like try to do that better. But then slowly
you like I'm watching all these other speed runs. The number one record holder,
Segot's been helping a lot. He has to verify my runs and on
YouTube he actually like leaves these comments with like detailed notes and tips for me,
which is very nice. And that's so much Sigott. Right. So
like my last run that I submitted, I felt really good to me that
was number six in the world, and uh, with some optimization and just
pulls himself off better and a bit more confidence. There's still some levels where
I'm like, wait, what's what's next, or things that you're not necessarily
immediately thinking of like menu time, right, Like, oh, I'm I'm
too slow in menus because I don't know exactly where the key is. I
have to be able to understand how the game works and know what's slot that
key's going to be in before I even go in there, so I can
access it it immediately. But you know, there is something about this game
is so much bullshit? Right? Is it's so satisfying to out bullshit the
bullshit? Right? If you look at me, look at me, I'm
the captain. Now, you're the sub zero. Now? Yes, yeah,
I'm the sub zero. I'm the Sorcerer now, Mike, was it
at all cathartic to see Dan just firing up the second? Is that the
first level? Second level? It's the first level one? Oh my god?
Yeah? Was it cathartic to see him get squished and then immediately just
turn off the game? Well? I felt a little bad because he's been
actually hanging out in my streams. I've been doing this a lot. He's
been very supportive and it's fun having him there. And I think he like,
you know, he liked when we competed in Astro and Neon White's like,
oh, maybe I'll compete with with bitching this. But like the only
reason I'm able to do this, and the reason why so many people don't
do that, is that to be able to speed on the game, you
have to just play the game first. And that's the ridiculously hard part.
That was me struggling on Blake Club just getting a base idea of how this
game controls or works. Just so much of the memo hours on the second
level, right like six to eight hours, right, yeah, something like
that. And it's great that I can beat that level in five minutes now,
it feels good, but man, at that time, but yeah,
Dan like got in there and at first he's like, well this, yeah,
this just plays like a World Kombat game, and then just immediately got
smashed to death like ten times in a row and like almost had a panic
attack and had to turn the game. It's a good video game. It's
something he did check out the water World game for Super Nintendo that never came
out in the US because he's thinking about speed running that. I'm trying to
encourage him because one game does look that bad. Two incredible soundtrack. Three
it's a water World video game. Man on the board on that game.
I'll get on the board on that game. There's one recorded speed run for
it, right, Oh okay, you could all be there. We could
just culminate it with giant bum Yeah we should do that. Actually we should
squat on like a record somewhere of like, yeah, why said all these
fucos here? All right? Last segment of the first segment of the show.
I'm curious about going around the horn here. We're like halfway through March,
a little bit more than halfway through March, and we've had a flood
a very very good to amazing games, and I wanted to go around the
horn and get everyone's top three of the year so far. Not in any
order. If you don't want to order it, but if you do,
like Mike Manatti does, you can order it. I'll go first. My
top three is in no order, Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, that game,
fucking Fox. I love finding the chocobo stops because I love petting their little
heads. I need a plush of that Bilatro and like a dragon infinite wealth.
Mike Manatti, please, Yeah, I think mine in order number three.
Blatro just definitely one of the more fun roguelikes I've ever played. I
loved the whole poker thing. Number two Brits of Persia, The Lost Crown,
one of the best metro vanas ever, incredible combat, incredible platform.
But number one File Fantasy seven Rebirth just one of the most fun big grapeyg
experiences that we have ever seen. Jeff Grubb. Yeah, it's a kind
of a mixture between you two. It would probably be number three, Bolatro
number two, God, that's tough. Probably number two would be Like a
Dragon Infinite Wealth, and number one would be Prince of Persia, The Lost
Crown. Oh, Bailey Myers Lato is my number one. I'm just saying
that right now, just getting it out of the way. Sure. And
then games I played this year that were good. Games I played this year
that were I've played so many bad games. I'm trying to think of the
good ones. I have started Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, and I'm really
enjoying it. So I'm just gonna throw that on the list right just by
process elimination. There are so few games I played that were that are worthy
of the top three. And then this one's for me, The Share in
the Wanderer, The Mystery Dungeon of certain Oh sure, Yeah, right,
I saw you getting super hyped about this. I love Sharing The Wanderer.
I Sharon and I go way back, played it on my PSP. You
know whole thing now, it's I've always liked been curious about Sharing the Wanderer.
What makes it so good? Why do you like it so much?
It is it's got a really I think it's just got a really addicting gameplay
loop. But the fact is it's got like some classic roguelike mechanics mixed in
with just a really interesting world that they've developed, really cute graphics. Uh,
I just there's something, there's something about it's got a certain to say
quah, I don't know, it's just a very successful roguelike to me and
anything like that. You're it's gonna be hard to like say out loud and
really explain like, oh yeah, this really hits that that like monkey brain
that lives in me, that like needs the numbers to go up and the
everything, but that it's it hits the same part of my brain that Blager
does. To be perfectly honest, like, it's just it's very really I'd
be really curious for you to check out, and I think you might enjoy
it. It can get spooky or a little bit creepy sometimes, but I
think you might like Pacific Drive. Specific Drive Okay, yeah, game set
in like the PNW. You kind of get quartered off in a specific zone
and you're just fixing your car. It's very process heavy. Okay. I've
done a lot of driving in the PNW and it was spooky in real life
too, So I can't I go. Man, I felt bad. I
don't even have tech in eight or how I know on my list exactly.
That's why I was gonna ask honorable mentions for me. It would be held
out of eight. The one point oh release of God but not Temple Run.
That's the Phantom Abyss. Phantom Abyss is released in one point oh in
January, and it's like, I love that game in early access and I've
played a little bit since it went one point oh. But it's like,
man, even that isn't getting into the top five already for the year,
and I love that game. So it's just gonna be an incredible year.
I think it's gonna be a blood bath. I I was thinking like,
oh, we're finally in a quiet period, but Dragon's Dokma two is coming
out later this week. Yeah, I do think it is actually gonna get
kind of quiet after that for a bit though, like knock on wood.
Nah, but man, it has to eventually. Did anyone put any time
into a loan and Alone in the Dark, which I think reviews just came
out this morning. No, it's it's mostly they're mostly pretty bad. I
had a code and I haven't touched it, so I'm gonna play it and
I'll try to talk about it for next week. Everybody see if I have
some opinion on it. It was just on the game Spot release schedule,
and I'm like remembering games like ink Luminati. I wanted to check that out,
although they spell it ink Ula Nati here. They really butchered that name.
Pocket Card Jockey, I got that. I haven't touched that. Penny's
Big Breakaway. I'm like three worlds into that. I want to keep playing
it. So, I mean, there's been a ton of stuff, and
uh, yeah, I think I think I think you're probably right Mike about
the rest of the year. But even still, there's a ton I want
to catch up on. Yeah, hell, divers is probably on the top
of that list to catch up on. Yeah, mostly we'll just make more
time just to play it here. Like, I haven't had a bad experience
like playing with raindos, but I think i've I would have more fun playing
with friends, yep for sure. Yeah, Oh real quick, before we
go to break. I did check out the five v five mode in the
finals. Let me tell y'all it is. I don't I went from really
liking that game last year three v three v three adding two more people to
that squad. No one does their fucking tasks anymore. No one fucking does
their job because they think someone else will do it instead, And I'm like,
are you fucking going to be just right? Anyway? That's it.
I think we should jump into the finals. I don't know if they have
released the private lobbies yet, because if that is the case, we should
do that on a Thursday, throw it down. I think I think they
did. Someone mentioned to me that that was happening in an update, So
yeah, we should make that happen. That'd be great. Oh Jesus Christ,
I just see in the chat elden Ring DLC's coming out. What the
fuck right? Right? Yeah? We and we really really really should do
the elder Ring multiplayer with all the mods, so it's like seamless and stuff
leading into that, So I would I think that would be a great thing
to do on the site. Yeah, and I still want to I still
want to check out k Tour eventually because yeah, I bet, I bet
we'll be able to slot that in the summer somewhere. Yeah, maybe y'all
should get take a take a break from the Blights and have a d light
instead. There you go, Oh, that'd be fun the Light Club.
Because I am not subjecting myself to a bad game. It sounds like Bailey
has to subject herself to herself to bad game, so that's her job.
Folks, were just gonna descend into the abyss and think about Skull and Bones
some more, and then we'll come back and talk about the news. I
actually have breaking news, Jeff grab breaking news I forgot to talk about in
the top segment. Here. Here's like the news beatbe beeps new merchant the
star. Folks at home, go to store dot Giantbond dot com. You
can get a signed Game of the Year live poster. If you missed the
in person event. You can see that right there, a lovely poster designed
by Jerrem Lovely Time had Lovely flashbacks of Wow, what a whirlwind of how
long were we in LA for a week? Yeah? You memories made Korean
barbecue eaton. Yes, great, great time as well as we signed all
those those posters and then they kicked us out of the restaurants we were just
supposed to be in there. That was a good time that we weren't happy.
I'm not convinced that Dan actually asked someone. I think he just walked
out of the room and then walked back unless I believed him. As well
as the signed poster, we also have two new mugs in the store,
one with the dizzy eyeball new Giant Bomb logo there on a lovely mug as
well as another new Giant Bomb at Night mug. And then on top of
that, prepare for the holidays, early lovelies, because we have a dumper
bomb ornament. This was supposed to come out last year during the holidays,
but were like, screw it, spit out now the voicemail dump truck Bomb
delivering hot dumps to your local area codes. Go check that out store dot
Giant Bomb dot com, and forget your joggers. Joggers with every order you
have joggers with every order. You gotta order them. They're flying off the
shelves, so I'm literally wearing mine right now. They're really great, aren't
they. Yeah. I still haven't gotten my own store code to work,
so I'm I'm sitting here like a brokey and gee, I do store stuff
now, Jean. I'll see if I can get your code. I'll talk
to the people and make it a fantastic shouts out to Margaret up. Oh
here it is coming. Oh h deef CRUs, All aboard the news train,
everybody. Uh yeah, I got a bunch of headlines here for you.
Let's start with PS five Pro is probably coming this year, and we
have some leaked specs. Uh. Basically this started. Insider Gaming got a
rundown of the leak specs for the PS five Pro, and then a bunch
of people are like, yeah, this is on the PlayStation dev net,
like for developers to go look at. It's just sitting there, which which
is strange because I guess today Tom Henderson from Inside Gaming was like, they're
investigating who leaked this, Like, Sony, it was you, you did
this. We're all trying to fire the guard who did this. They're all
trying to find the Jim Ryan that did this. The big thing here is
the CPU is going to be the same. The GPU is getting a pretty
big increase. If you just look at the Terra flops numbers, it's like,
oh, it's three times as powerful. That's not really how it works.
It's going to be about forty five percent more powerful, So you know
you're gonna be able to get more frames per second in all these games that
already work on PlayStation five, you know, if they get an update to
take advantage of the Pro, which most of them probably will. The kind
of marquee feature here for the PS five Pro is AI upscaling, similar to
how Nvidia has d DLSS, Sony's gonna have something called I think it's PSSR
PlayStation PlayStation Spectral super Resolution. Basically, it's just going to recreate the image
so you can run it at a low resolution, but it looks like a
higher resolution, something we're pretty used to these days. That's the like the
big change here, so that Sony can get even more performance out of this
PS five Pro. I'm still wondering how they're gonna market this thing. How
are they going to communicate these features and get people excited about it. The
thing with the PS four pro, it was very easy. A lot of
people were buying four KTVs. A lot more people had four KTVs in like
twenty sixteen than had them in twenty thirteen. So when Sony's like this PS
four here, will take advantage of that four KTV you bought for the Super
Bowl or whatever. That was easy marketing, easy thing to get out there
and get people like moving to buy these things. They won't have that this
time. Unless I don't know, do you guys care about AI super resolution?
I mean, it might be a hard thing to sell. You put
that in the box. I think it helps that the pro is already a
thing now right. People already remember the Placation four pro. So you say
a place of I PRO, people just get like, oh, this is
the mid gen refresh generally, I mean, the thing that'll get me on
board with it. And it's the reason why I'm interested in a mid gen
refresh. When going into this generation, I thought I wouldn't be. I
thought you wouldn't need one. But we, like you know, we are
at a point like Dragon's Dogma two, it's coming out and on Plasation five
it's just gonna be thirty frames per second with no performance mode option, right,
And I know, I don't know how you put this on the box,
but like your games will probably always have a sixty FPS option. Now
that's what I need. I need to be able to play a console game
at sixty fps in some way or another, And it's the reason why I
might get suckered into this. Yeah, I mean, Dragged Dogma two might
be an outlier. I mean, I guess we'll talk about it more we're
allowed to talk about it, but yeah, you're right, like we're at
a point where developers are going back to their old ways of Hey, we're
going to take advantage of visual fidelity. So if we want to keep sixty
frames per second, you're gonna have to buy new hardware. And they know
that there's a lot of us out there that really care about that high frame
rate, and so they'll be able to lean into that a bit. It
will also have improved ray tracing. That was something that was a marquee feature
for GPUs on PC quite some time ago. It became something that they mentioned
for PS five and Xbox Series X and even s, and though none of
those systems really run ray tracing, all that. Well, that stuff is
very the damaging to performance, and so it's kind of rarely ever used,
and when it is, it's like just for shadows or something like that,
or maybe at the occasional reflection. I suppose this means when we do get
ray tracing games, it'll run better. I don't think improved ray tracing and
PS five pro though, means we get a lot more console games with like
full ray tracing options because they're still going to have to support the PS five
out of the gate. So there'll be a handful of games maybe that do
take advantage of it, but I'm not expecting this to be some huge change
to the way games are made or how they actually use this technology. And
again, do you guys care about ray tracing? This is something you've had
a chance to decide whether or not you care about it. I mean,
at this point, do you even notice it other than that Minecraft demo?
No? Yeah, right, yeah, God, the Minecraft thing was actually
still maybe the most impressive thing. Think I turned it on on Mos Morales
once I was like, that's neat that, but like you know, and
I stop and I'm literally on a building and I'm like really paying a touch
a reflection. Sure, I'm not like really swinging around and actually playing the
game. You know, it doesn't really matter. There was a portal one
right as well. That was neat. Yeah, there's a portal ratracing lotch
Yeah. See, I'm sure at some point like this stuff will become way
more standard. That's going to be great, but at the price it comes
right now. You know, like Ifsomniac does do things like they're the one
people who are able to have a sixty fps ratracing mode somehow, and in
that case, yeah, I'll turn on and that's pretty neat, but just
sees that we're pretty far away from that kind of thing being standard. Yep.
It's uh, you know, we're not getting like a solid sixty frames
per second at four K with ray tracing on anytime soon, even with the
most powerful GPUs on PC. So when they have to make games with both
rasterized lighting and ray trace lighting, well they they're going to keep doing both,
and so the rasterized lighting is going to look look amazing because a lot
of great artists have gotten very good at that over years and years and years.
And at the same time, it's just you know, you once you
see that frame rate drop when you go to the ray tracing, you're just
gonna be like, I don't it's not that much improved. For developers,
ray tracing is great because they could just flip a switch and see what the
lighting does and move things in real time and just set up the scene and
it just works, and that's really beneficial. But they still also have to
make the rest rise scenes at the same time, so ray tracing is going
to take a long time to sort of get through this transition period. And
then you know, other things here, like there's going to be more memory,
bandwidth, more memory, and that's gonna be beneficial to a lot of
games, things like that. But at the end of the day, this
is going to be a PS five pro It is the Midgeen refresh, something
that we're used to at this point, something I think a lot of people
will upgrade to. I don't think it'll be the standard for a lot of
people because I expect this probably to be more expensive than the current PS five
at five hundred dollars. It is probably going to be six hundred dollars,
is what I would guess right now. I was here at ninety nine US
dollars five hundred ninety nine US dollars. You're going to get a second job
for this one. That's six hundred long churros from Subway. I'll pass.
You can buy six hundred CHROs with that money, and I have so,
Bailey says she's gonna pass. How about you, fellows, If they release
a news Ridge racer with it, I will definitely get it. Jeff,
do you think that's happening? I think, listen, if there was a
time to come out with a new Ridge racer, to like launch with a
new PlayStation device, it's now, like now it's the time. How about
you, Jen, I've been thinking lately, Oh, it'd be nice to
not have to move my PS five from the office here to the living room
back and forth whenever I want to play a game. Yeah, I don't
know if it's six hundred dollars worth of that inconvenience, you know, And
that's such a specific circumstance, because like, how how many people are going
to need like an office PS five versus a living room? PS fine,
just me here on my ivory pedestal, you know. Well, I mean,
if you were like trading in your PS five, you get a PS
five Pro for probably a pretty decent price. You probably down like two fifty
maybe three hundred dollars three hundred US. Jeff Grubb, you're right when you
put in those terms. That's horrifying. I can't imagine before. Yeah,
uh yeah, so we'll see. I think the thing we'll we'll do fine.
The thing I'm most worried about, though, is that the new Astrobat
game that I hear is coming out this year is for this thing. I'm
starting to like worry that that's why that that's lined up for this year,
because astro games always come out with new hardware like they're they're tech showcases.
I don't know. Please tell me I'm wrong, Please tell me they're making
a real astro game. You're completely right, Grub shit too. They gotta
be doing something. Yeah, something could be just a tech demo, just
like all the other Astro games that go along with this, and it's for
the PS five Pro, And I wanted to be a full, real sixty
dollars game. Well what kind of how how much tech is there to show
off? Like, yeah, look, I know the game runs better,
it has to just be a full game now, Okay, I want to
believe they didn't do one for PiZZ Ver two. So maybe you're fine,
Grub, maybe you're fine. Yeah, well we saw how much they cared
about PSVR two. You know what, let's just show to that real quick.
Then we'll love back around. Speaking of PSVR two, it ain't doing
so hot. Sony has reportedly halted production of PlayStation VR two due to a
surplus of unsold units, just one year after it's launch in February of twenty
twenty three. The reporting here goes, Bloomberg looked into it and they're like,
they are kind of pausing production on these things as a whole. And
it seems like, oh, you know, the people that provide components for
PSVR two are no longer getting orders from Sony to make new PSVR two.
And the reasoning is there's a lot of piz Verse two's sitting on the shelves
and no one's buying them. Now that it's not too surprising because Sony's not
supporting it with a ton of new games. It's very expensive people are focusing
on, like, hey, you know five hundred fifty do our people are
focusing on churros instead. Uh, if it's the common thing, economists are
all talking about it, the turo based economy. Sure, yeah, the
Turo index, And so it's hard to give it to people to like,
you know, to fork over that money instead when they're spending on tros instead,
especially when they're are no video games for the thing that are coming out
and get people excited. So I'm not too surprised by this, but I'm
like wondering, like, is Sony abandoning it fully because it kind of feels
like that, because what the alternative here will be, like, well,
lower the price, makes some deals for some of these games. Finally actually
get Half Life Alex on there. But they're not pulling these levers that they
could be pulling. And to me, that says it's because they don't care.
They are moving, they're thinking beyond the PSVR two already. Does that
sound right to y'all? I think they go ahead, Mike, go ahead,
Jen, h No, I'm nice offing still you go? Jen?
Okay? Shit, I think they should have pulled the lever before it even
came out and decided not to release it, because it just feels like,
yeah, bullip in PS five Timeline yep, Yeah, I just don't understand
why you know, if you're going to do this, like, I can't
believe they did it so half heartedly with PSVR two, How do you not
figure out some kind of backwards compatibility at the very least, at least make
an upgrade version of Astrobot Rescue Mission like the one PSVR game you had that
people were like, Yeah, this is the best VR game ever. You
don't leverage that in any ways. You don't go out of your way to
make some kind of deal with Valve to get Half Life Alex on there.
It's not like they would be that adverse to it. They've released plenty of
Valve games on consoles before. They seem to be pretty happy to port stuff.
You have to make that one happen or I don't know, you understand
what you're trying to do. I on game mess yesterday grub the poll was
do you have a PSVR two? And one of the comments I noticed was
yes, and RI four is the best VR experience I've ever played. I
thought, yeah, people really like those residuable games would be yes. That
sounds terrifying though, Yeah, Receival seven is one. I would always hear
Mark from eight to four play talk about and I'm like, you're a sociopath.
I could never do that. That's that's the scariest thing I could possibly
imagine. Yeah, but hearing that someone saying it's the best VR game I've
ever played, they I'm so confused. What well, like, you know,
Beatsaber is standing in place. It is very fun, but like playing
a full full game where you're just popping bopping around, it's mildly enticing.
Maybe I'll just try and steal the piz Vertu from the game spot office.
Yeah, do that missing? Yeah, I would watch you play Recuable for
in VR. I would like to see that. All right, Jam,
We're bounce back up to this story. Steam Families expands game sharing on Steam.
Valves introduced Steam Families, a comprehensive platform aimed at enhancing game sharing,
monitoring, monitoring children's activities, and facilitating purchases on Steam. This new feature
amalgamates and replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, offering a streamlined
experience for users. Available in beta, Steam Families enables users to create family
groups, which I think includes a total of six people, manage them across
multiple devices, and implement parental controls to regulate gaming and purchasing activities. Many
of these features existed sort of separate from one another on Steam before. Now
they're bringing them all together in one place. And the big thing for me
is now, when you share your family library of games with someone else in
the family sharing model, when you go to start up a game, it's
not going to kick off someone else who's playing a different game. If you
try to play the same game, that won't work. But now if I'm
playing Bolattro and someone else wants to play Residuaval for we could both do that
from my library. At the same time, I'm personally excited about this because
my kids are gaming more and more frequently, and sometimes I'll have games and
I'm like, yeah, but I'm playing a review game on Steam kind of
constantly this weekend. And so when you want to try to play Hotel Transylvania
on the Steam deck over there, it's not going to work. I'm sorry
about that, and they don't understand that. But now now it will.
And I have that second Steam deck because I got the old litter and that's
the one I use. So I'm gonna set that up for the kids and
have that ready to go. And now they'll be able to play all my
games and I don't have to buy them a second time. They could just
have their accounts on my family account. This is I'm actually super excited about
this, and I hope it's a trend that like Nintendo follows with the switch
going forward, because that would be helpful there as well. But this is
my circumstances. I don't know if anyone else is caring about family sharing,
but hey, family can include friends, you know, found family is a
family, so people are going to take advantage of this in a lot of
ways. So salute be familiar exactly. Yes, you could share games with
Vin Diesels. What I was trying to say, Some coronas they believe that
at the end of the Fast in the Furious ride in Universal, they don't
just have a stand selling coronas. I don't believe that. Yeah, missed
opportunity in state park revenue history. Sorry to change the subject. Yeah,
I don't know. I'll probably try to wrote my brothers into this. Sure
felt could get on board with this. I feel like we could. We
could do this. Also, at the end of the Jurassic Park ride at
Universal, there's Island New Bar, which is great yes, yeah, that's
where you can you get that. They have a special I PA made just
for them over there. God I could now apparently that's it all right.
New Xbox Deaf kit appears in South Korea. A new Xbox development kit has
received certification in South Korea, suggesting ongoing advancements in Microsoft's gaming strategy. Uh,
we don't know what this is in terms of like what is new here,
but people have identified this. It is a new dev kit, it's
got a new like designation number, all this other stuff. But in terms
of like, oh is this for actual new hardware? What is this?
What is does this unlock for developers? It's unclear right now. There is
ongoing rumors that Microsoft is developing both a handheld and well it's not a rumor.
They confirm they're making an next gen Xbox that's going to be the most
powerful leap ever from one generation to the next. And then they said they
would have hardware news this holiday one way or the other. And of course
we know from the FTC weeks that Microsoft was working on a revision of the
Xbox series X that would have been have more storage, no disk drive,
was going to be cylindrical instead of rectangular. So they're working on a bunch
of stuff constantly, but what does this actually accomplish? Like, no one
knows exactly, so mysterious, And the timing does line up with GDC,
so Microsoft could be talking to a bunch of developers about, Hey, this
thing is out there, now, let us know if you want one,
and maybe this holiday we get some sort of update. I just don't know
why they would need a whole new defcate if it's just an Xbox Serix X
with more storage. It does just that maybe there's more going on here.
Yeah, you have to wonder how much they're already losing the play station.
Just how much more ground are you willing to give up to them if they're
going to do a full on mid generation refresh like that. Right Again,
that part of me is like, well, maybe it is smart to just
kind of could see the generation a bit and maybe be first with the quote
unquote next generation and come out with something that's going to be even more significantly
powerful than a place to five pro and in the meantime you can have cute
things like a portable. Yeah, but I don't know if they are willing
to be that patient about it. You wouldn't need a whole new dev kit
if you're just making a portable device to like ape this generation, right,
well, if you probably would if a new new DevKit for a portable that
is going to have like some differences in terms of how things work because it's
not going to have the exact same GPU, they'd probably shrink it down to
be similar. They could do similar architecture, but I think they would want
to have a bespoke deb kit that takes advantage of what that hardware is.
I uh, I just don't. I don't think that. But for the
record, I don't think this is that this is too soon for a hand
or a quick tangent. I was walking around Target the other day and I
was very confused when I popped by the video game Ale because just out and
about from far away, it looked like they just had a bunch of Xbox
three sixties just hanging out there. I'm like, what the fuck has happened
here? Time travel? What happens? Yeah? I thought I did for
a second, and I was ready to like abuse this time loop, but
then I on further inspection, it's a Lego Xbox three sixty kit. Oh
sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't know they did that.
And I wait, he made the trigger Xbox three sixty out of Legos.
Yeah, I don't know if it's a functional shoot Xbox. I don't think
that even get to make a Halo three case. Oh yeah, one hundred
and fifty bucks, which for Lego not bad. Yeah, it's always like
seven cents per brick, right, that's usually like seven to eight cents per
brick. Oh even Mega Blocks right now, Why it's so cheap? It's
so cheap at home? I think it's always been with Mega Blocks, man.
Yeah, I don't know why. Immediately, I'm not interested anymore.
I'm a bad person. It's not the brand I care about. I was
always so upset in my youth that uh, Star Trek was with Mega Blocks
as they never let that good and all the Star Wars Legos are amazing.
But I think I look at you a bad persons. I think Lego is
better than Mega Blocks, right, yeah. So it's like Rose Art and
Crayola. Yeah, I mean Rose Art. The formula is just straight up
worse than Crayola. What were you going to do? It was two waxy
you could get a good line. It didn't matter that you got more crayons.
Those crayons were garbage. Yeah, it was quantity for quality. That
was what they prioritize. They just get if you could draw even a little
bit, they'd give you those garbage art kids with absolutely nothing useful in them.
You get like fifty every birthday. They even though they added four more
shades of brown than Crayola, none of them were still my skin complexion.
Wow, fucked up. SNK fully reveals Fatal Fury City of the Wolves with
twenty twenty five release confirmed. This is something that they talked about previously,
but now we actually get to look and see what this game is and they
confirmed it's actually coming out. It is the new fighting game. It looks
really really cool. It looks pretty similar to S and K's recent fighters,
like King of Fighters, but I think there's you know, like that means
like the comic book elements, the sort of street fighter like streaks of animation
that happen. But I think it looks fantastic and I'm like, oh yeah,
Fatal Fury like that, the fact that this is back and they're making
a real deal, like what looks like top tier fighting game based on Fatal
Fur again. We are officially back with fighting games. Fighting games are back.
We've done it, everybody, we made it. I'm so happy we're
here. I'm very excited for for this one. I played Garu, which
was the last main fatal Theory Yeah, yeah, camera quite a while ago.
It's a very good game. So very excited that we are getting this.
I think it looks like a ton of fun. I still don't love
the way the MODERESTA game S and K games look with like it's just three
D models and they're trying to stylize it a bit more here is more,
but man, if there's like one of these fighting companies that maybe should just
be using pixel arts. Still, I kind of wish it was S and
K because you know, like it it just doesn't look as good as a
Street Fighter six or even an ARC System Work game. Of course, those
are maybe Arga and Pete with and it doesn't matter that much. The game
looks like a ton of fun. I'm very excited. Am I ever going
to get another Bloody Roar game? No? I probably not, but at
this point it's like, it's uh nuts. I mean, you could get
something very much inspired by it, because I feel like it feels like we're
in the the high tide for fighting games where all these big companies are making
so bringing back a lot of their franchises and doing stuff with that. And
then I think we will get to the point where it's like and then all
the indies dep developers inspired by this wave will start looking around and being like,
well, I wish they would make this, And I think some fam
will make something inspired by Bloody War. Uh. Yeah, you know,
we so need to see a bit more of that three D game revival,
which I hope is happening with Teking eight success. Uh. You know,
if when we see Virtual Fighter come back, that's gonna be a good sign
there. And what does see Dead or Alive come back? And you know,
very few others before we get back to Bloody Roar but maybe sorry,
I'm just doing a pull for Sean real quick. There we go like a
dragon Infinite Wealth's sales surprise its studio. Why am I insane? Why did
I do this time? It's just with what Sean said, I'm just doing
his bidding here. Masa Yoshi Yoka Yama. Capcom three is an ugly game.
I think people, I don't think this is as hard to take.
As Sean thinks it is. It's fine that we disagree on this, but
his position is that I am crazy for thinking that marvsus Cockcom three is not
a particularly pretty game. I don't like the look of it either. Don't
worry, Mike, thank you, Thank you very much, friend, and
chat as well, Mike. If it well sold really well, and it's
surprising the developer, They're like, I think they it's growing from game to
game, but I think this one really popped off much more quickly than they
were expecting. And now they're like, oh, wow, okay, this
is working. The strategy of doubling down on these new characters, giving a
full sendoff to cure you that is something people really really want to see and
it's paying off. So ye, it defied their expectations, I imagine.
And I don't think this is some you know, I'm not really out there
walking on the edge here. They're probably going to keep making like a Dragon
games. They've done it for the song. They're not going to abandon it
now. Yeah. Absolutely, they should remake more of them. They should
do a bunch. I bet having these games on game Pass so so many
more people got into this series eight Ton, there was just a lot more
excitement, it seemed like, going into this one, even with like weird
things like there were a couple remakes and spin offs leading into this one that
didn't the way it got a whole lot of excitement, but people still kind
of understood the difference of importance with this mainline entry and they got very excited
for even you know, when things were pretty crowded, there were a lot
of January February releases happening, and this one still was able to stand out
pretty well. I want them to time travel on the next one. I
want I want cure you to like just pop up in a different era and
just be very I feel like Saints Row three Saints Roe four with the next
one, get real weird, real weird. Yeah, future past, past,
definitely the past. I like that Nancy Drew game where she's just inexpectable
in the forties. That makes sense, thirties something like that. It'd be
like that, no explanation. He doesn't even have to time travel like in
the game, he's just in a different era. Oh yeah, we can
get care of you. Go back to nineteen thirties New York, like that
episode of Star Trek. Yeah. Yeah, and then when he doesn't look
for for Hitler to kill him before it takes power, It's like, why
what are you doing? Why aren't you killing Hitler? I'm going to tell
him that, like Hitler has to live something. Yeah, it's right,
it's very important to JK rely Yeah, okay, so that like a Dragon
Infuit Wealth It's trailer debuted at Summer Game Fest last year. That trailer was
really good. People are like, like, what is going on here?
If you've never been into that series before, that was like, it was
very enticing. I think people are like, I am going to check this
out. I'm going to remember it the naked guy in Hawaii. I'm not
going to forget about that. So when that game comes around and people are
like, here's the naked guy in Hawaii game and glad, people are like,
yeah, I've heard my friends talking about like a before. I'm gonna
check this out. Yeah. I think the other trailer that they released after
that one where it's it just features uh don Doco Island was also very effective
of like, yes, what is this game? Is this animal crossing?
And there's a wall trailer and like feature overview for one of the mini games
and Dragon if in in weal uh US game spending could be down ten percent
this year. My market research firm Sircana forecast a potential ten percent decline in
US consumer spending on games for the year twenty twenty four. Analyst and friend
of the site, Matt Piscatella indicates significant uncertainty in the market due to factors
like delayed hardware releases, lack of established blockbusters from Sony, and unpredictability in
game development. And we kind of understand many of these factors here. The
delayed hardware the Switch to was by all accounts, supposed to launch this year.
Now it's not coming out until next year. There is also so Posoni
confirming no sequels to establish Triple A video Games for this entire fiscal year through
the end of March. Those factors, and then you wigh against like,
Okay, last year, had Zelda had Harry Potter games, they'd sold very
very well, and there are games selling very very well this year, but
it is stuff like Hell Divers two and Pow World, which could cost about
half the price of what Harry Potter cost, or Zelda A Tiers of the
Kingdom. So less money has coming in even though people are just as interested
in buying video games, so the comparisons are going to be pretty tough.
And by the end of the year, Matt says it, it's like it
could be a down around two percent, but the worst case scenario could be
down as much as ten percent for this year, and that is what many
of these big publishers are worried about. So that's why we've seen many of
them freak out and kind of over overcorrect in a lot of ways. Yeah,
I'm glad that we're panicking and cutting staff so that we will continue to
have problems releasing enough games in the future. So that's great, right,
And that's one of the reasons that year's down is because there's gonna be fewer
games, right, So it's like making fewer games. How is that the
answer here? But kind of weird cycle. I don't think they understand how
it works, and it's like, it's like that it is how it works
here, because what we're talking about is the spending is going to be down
because the games that are selling cost less. If people were excited about a
seventy dollars game, they would be buying that. People are still just as
excited about video games as they were a couple of years ago for the for
the most part, and these companies are just not putting out stuff to really
capitalize on that, so they're missing an opportunity and because of that, the
comparison's going to be down year to year. But it's not like there's some
rushing out of the industry of millions of players that were spending money on games
and now they have a new hobby distracting them from that. That's not what's
happening here. Yeah, Like I see so many normy friends talking about hell
Divers too and posting about hell Divers too, yet no one even in like
you know, uh these games, media, games, journalism, journalism circles
is talking anything about Skull and Bones that's right now? Well, like yeah,
but it's like it's like good games do well turns out? Huh,
Like yeah, I guess Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones aren't doing great the
shocker. Yeah. Yeah, it's so weird too. It's just the takeaway
is never like we should work harder to make good, interesting games. It's
always just people aren't buying games anymore. I guess. No, it's not
even like working harder, it's just like better decisions being made at the top,
Like why did we make a live service suicide Squad game? Yeah?
Shareholders love live service games, Mike Manaughty, don't you know that? Cool?
Oh, let's appease the shareholders. Yeah, especially when the strongest parts
of any of those Arkham games was when you hop online with your buddies and
you forget about Yeah, Batman and the story of Batman where we drop in
Robin. Embracer confirms two hundred and forty seven million dollars sale of Saber assets
and withdraws from Russia. That's an Embracer is now no longer has any business
in Russia. Embracer Group is finalized the sale of Saber Interactive, encompassing studios
like three D Realms and Slipkcate Ironworks. These are studios that were underneath of
Saber Interactive, which is a publisher and a developer. Beacon Interactive provided the
two hundred and forty seven million dollars to make this purchase. This move allows
Embracer to cease operations in Russia while enhancing cash flow. By that they mean
actually just spending less money on the people making their games. Beacon Interactive,
led by Saber Interactive co founder Matthew Karch, plans to exercise an option to
acquire four A Games and Zen Studios that's the Metro and that pinball developer,
but respectively, potentially increasing the deal's value to five hundred million dollars total.
So so yeah, uh, the Embracer bought Saber for five hundred million dollars
and basically they're just buying themselves back out because Embracer's a nightmare. It's a
mess. And uh, Saber is gonna have a series of games that are
probably gonna do pretty decent expeditions. A mud Runner game is doing very well.
They're gonna they're gonna have Space Marine two and these games that are that,
yeah, they can make them a lot of money. But a park
game that looks sick exactly. Yeah, the one that's inspired by Alien Isolation.
These are a lot of things that's like, oh, these could do
a million copies pretty easily. Some of them could pop off to be even
bigger, bigger successes, especially if they like catch on you know, on
the TikTok trends and on Twitch and stuff like that. But under Embracer that
would not have made a dent in their debt here as an independent studio a
slash publisher once again, Uh, Saber can actually maybe get some wins and
start like focusing on expanding their business in a responsible and meaningful way and not
just blindly acquiring everything around you the way Embracer had. So good news for
Saber Interactive, a publisher that I really respect. Where's this going with Embracer
is It's just like Race is gonna and Brace is gonna keep it, keep
losing things, and so there just isn't an Embracer anymore? Is there gonna
be some small shell shriveled in the corner that we call Embracer that has a
few studios under it. Like what's the end game? You think they've laundered
enough money? They laundered enough money? Yeah, if they have, then
maybe they'll start shrinking things down even more. Uh Yeah, So I think
things like the deal with Microsoft to help work on the Initiatives game, which
was Perfect Dark, right, Uh, work to work on Perfect Dark.
Like they'll keep that deal and then they'll have them work on some other stuff.
The like tomb Raider deal, which involves movies in television and a game
with Amazon that probably they probably see stuff like that through. I think everything
else that doesn't have a rock solid, big money deal like that is on
the table to get cut or sold off, Like they're going to sell off
the Borderland studio here prove priests. I can never remember the name of them.
What's the name of the Borderline Gearbox? Why am I? Yeah?
Thank you, thank you? Gearbox. They're gonna sell remember, Yeah,
of course they are. And it's like, well, you know, they're
not gonna keep Gearbox around. Everything must be on the table, and I
think everything is. I think they'll they'll sell off everything they can, and
then I think they'll probably close a few more things that they can't sell off
because they just it's really miserable over there. They really have no idea what
they're doing. They're gonna hold onto Lord of the Rings. I never I
don't quite understand that. But they own the Lord of the Rigs. Somehow
they acquired everything. No, they acquired everything except for the publishing rights.
That's the Yeah, they don't have the publishing rights for the books, I
think, but beyond that they own everything else. So they go through they
own the Tom they own the copyright. Yeah, they own everything owned Tom
Bobadon. You want to make a movie, TV show, you have to
go through them now. Basically, man, that's so weird. That's on
fire. Oh the Lord of the Rings. I never think about it,
but you're right, that is so weird. It's so weird, so odd.
I know, I know a company that probably would love to buy some
theme park rights to that stuff. So maybe they should make that Lord of
the Rings from public domain because it came out in like or the I mean,
the Hobbit was the twenties. I think Lord of the Rings pretty closes.
Okay, so Hobbit's pretty close. Then is the Hobbit going to enter
the public I guess I never thought about it. We're going to make it.
They're gonna make a creepy pasta frodo where his colors are inverted and his
head turns around real quick. Mike Manaughti, Bailey Myers, how do you
feel about Winnie the Pooh? Love them think he's great, Love that freak,
thank you's great. Love that he doesn't wear pants? What a pervert
into it? Thank you? Yeah, they're they're going to turn that Winnie
the Poop Gifts store in Credit Country in Disneyland to be versus the Frog theme
because of the Splash Mountain overlay. But they are saving the Winnie the Pooh
candy section, which is important to me. I love when the Poo's Great
Adventure is the best of Disney's direct to video output in the nineties. Check
out Pooh's Great Adventure on Disney Plus. Should say it. It rules,
It's so good, great songs. It's like the one way the Poop movie
that kind of like has like an actual plot and maybe steaks. Oh,
it's good. That one's great. It's somehow even better than a Laddin King
of Thieves, even though a yeah, very good thieves king. Yeah this
is his dad. They're talking about Welcome to the forty Thieves, the one.
Maybe I'll last to fly early before SGF so I can sneak in a
Disney trip. I was gonna look I now, but like there's like you
guys like before summer game fests. Anybody want to go to Disneyland with Yeah,
kind of like much Minati, we haven't been to Disneyland. I forget
these other chuts, Like, let's go to Disneyland together. Mike Manatti.
Yeah, but I see them too, Jane. I think if we go
we can get fandom to pay for it. Like listen, we have that
sway. You know what I need to do. I gotta find somebody you
can get me into Club thirty three. I gotta make that. That's a
big one on the Bucke list. You gotta make that happen. Michael Manati,
Yeah, I've been to Club thirty Come true. Jan, you make
my dreams come true. You got when you ship part of Jan makes difference.
Last story here, this is the last star we're doing. Riven remake
launches in twenty twenty four for PC and VR. Oh uh. Scion has
announced the launch of the Riven the Sequel to miss which is the official name
Riven the Sequel to Miss a remake for PC basically like PC like flat screens
two D and they're also gonna do it for virtual reality something. I think
they did do that with Missed, right, Yeah, twenty twenty Science did
the same sect thing with Missed. That remake was very well received one airstand
for one thing, you know, these games were kind of points and move
kind of things, even before we were doing that in VR. The remake
recreates the world in actual like three D space. You can actually just walk
around and stuff instead. Uh yeah, I'm excited. I Riven is the
game that I have not played that I think about the most side. I
always I like that name. For one thing. That box art was always
very striking. There was like this big balbous orb. It kind of looked
like one of those eggs from Alien but more more circular. How much missed
Lord? Do you know a good amount? Because my order brother was very
much into me. Could you recount any of it in a way that makes
it sound truly unhinged? Because whenever someone tries to explain it to me,
I think it sounds unhinged. Yeah, there's a guy who makes books and
the books contain worlds, and he has two sons and they kind of want
to like get in on this world stuff. So but that's still good.
So he my god, I'm like, yeah, So they're trapped in the
bucks and you go to the island and then the old guys like you find
the suns that are like, I'm not evil, you should let me out
of the books, and like maybe you shouldn't do that. All right,
Well, there you go. Everybody. Oh final headlines. Sonic and Angerbirds
are crossing over in five mobile games starting this week. I think, why
were you going over that? I don't know. This is the crossover event
of the century. Ideologize not a big mobile game news this week. Yeah,
I just mobile as well. There you go. Yeah, I'm sure
Angry Birds are still making money, but like enough Sega from buying them though,
I mean Sega bought Rovio, so yeah, how much money could they
really be making they're not making? Yo. Imagine if Red the Angry Bird
pops up in Sonic three, Oh my god, it would be so messed
up. And the tails Zegger It's like I'm his friend that flies. Uh
yeah. Sonic dash Wall players can collect exclusive Red and Chuck character cards while
dashing through levels. Angry Birds to the Tower of Fortune offers eight new Sonic
Friends hats, fully upgradeable to increase flock power. You guys, want to
increase your flock power with Sonic, always do that on Merlin Silver the Hedgehog
increases my flock power so hard. Angry Birds Friends Sonic assists players and taking
down bad bad Piggies in a special tournament. Come on, man, Sonic
is any friends with one in the new movie. Not the bad Piggies though,
come on, oh my god, Bailey, My god, Daily Jesus,
that was incredible. Wow. Strike fucking Psyclo, my diet coke and
I'm sharp now. I'm ready for the podcast. Everybody, jan the show
is back to you. Please save us. I will not stand for any
James Marsden slander. He is on. He's on a renaissance of his career.
I've been watching a lot of James Marsden as mars denissance. Uh.
He's really good on Jury Duty. I liked him in season one in The
West World. Great joke, Bailey character like that. Try that in a
small town song. Though. I'm sorry. He's so good and enchanted,
and I love Jerry Duty. I'm a big James Marriston fan. He's very
good and enchanted. I'm still on the fence about his portrayal of Cyclops,
but that's the whole whole of those movies. That's not his fault. It's
not his fault. All right, We're gonna go take quick, pricky break
and we will be back with yours emails. Play the music me emails.
Emails is what a great way to communities emails. It's very efficient if you
know, we I don't need to instantanely message someone and ask about stuff in
instantaneously instantaneously, we knew what you meant, Jane, don't worry about it.
Look, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to stop this show to point it
out. But yes, you said that I flyboords on purpose all the time,
just latting little breadcrumbs trying to get people to notice me more. BombCast
giant bomb dot com is the email addressed send your emails to. I love
all the emails that you send. I started to unsubscribe from a lot of
the mailing lists that you keep signing our podcast up for. Every time you
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I know you should keep doing that. I know. Don't don't don't
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another email list, please. I can only stand so many and coupon offers
for Skyline Chili. Well, oh yeah, we were on a horoscope mailing
list for a while, but I had to unsubscribe us from that because it
started talking about crystals. Oh mans, crystals. Crystal News is the most
important. Do we still get the ones for Blaze TV? What's Glenn Beck
up to? No? I unsubscribed us from that, but we I was
looking back and we did get invited to what's it called? There was a
Tom Brady movie that came out last year, eighty for Brady. We got
invited to eighty for Brady. Prere Jan what this is what happened? This
is what happens? Yeah, I thought about bringing it up to the crew.
I'm like, oh no, what's gonna want her to do? This
would have done that, This would have been met Gronk. This would have
been my ticket into Hollywood. Imagine I invade Hollywood and become a Dalist actor
because of my involvement in eighty for Brady. Could have been there. I
just want to be in one lifetime movie. Let me do that, guys
anyway. First email comes from Luke from Hamilton, Ontario. Subject reads The
Prindle and other Brainworms. Greetings Bombinos. Ever since I heard Jan casually referencing
the Prindle shouts out to mister Mosby on the pod a couple of weeks ago,
it's had me wondering what other one off jokes, need, TV show,
movie, other piece of media not wrestling, immediately entered your lexicon and
got stuck there permanently, much to the confusion of ninety eight percent of the
rest of the world. Thanks for all the great content that keeps me vaguely
saying at work. Luke from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, sent from Mister
Bones's Wild Ride. I did make a snipe joke the other day, which
I know is a thing, but I'm mostly thinking about the episode of Cheers
when I was bringing that one up to Dan and his bird app For me,
this is like, like everything is Seinfeld, Like Seinfeld has so many
of these, like close talker and man hands uh and things like that.
There's a ton one at a time. Yeah, I'll still I'll use close
talker and things like that in like regular conversation, but those are I think
I've like actually infiltrated the lexicon, the public a lexicon to the plant where
everyone gets those I do from, you know, speaking of mister Moseby and
how I met your mother. Whenever someone says something like, oh is it
a different mister Moseby? What is it? What was that one? Then?
Sweet Life of Zach and Cody. How could you forget? How could
you not watch Zach Cody jel for that one? Okay, what about on
deck? Weirdly life on deck? So I'm just record, I'm reckoning with
my age here, mister Moseby, mister Ted Moseby. Uh in how I
met your mother would be like the general whenever someone use the word general before
something. So whenever I hear that now, I also do like the salute,
just in my brain, not like actually physically, because that'd be deeply
embarrassing, but I do physically want to do it every time I hear someone
say something like that. Yeah, I watched Parks and rec a lot my
friends and they had that treat yourself thing. We say, treat yourself a
lot. One day we actually had to treat yourself day, and like,
I think that same week we had another treat yourself day. It was just
like an excuse for us to eat whenever we would it. And our other
friend I had to be like, guys, you've been you've been treating yourself
too much, like a special day where you donate any fruits and vegetables.
Okay, all right, look at that, I'm drinking a diet green tea,
citrus. There's probably fruit juice in this fruit involved, fruit involved pictures
of fruits. Your favorite fruit, citric acid. That's my favorite vibe.
Can I be my favorite fruit? To sack out? It's great in Margarita's.
Sure there we go. Yeah. Going off of Parks and w REC,
I started copying all of Tom Haverford's like little extra words like I instead
of saying chicken parm, I go chicky chicky parm parm. It's pretty dead.
Yeah, like food rates, yes, Tom Haverford Energy. And then
I think I started doing that too much in my day to day that I
will occasionally infect Jeff Backlar's lexicon and then it'll annoy the crap out of DIB
and it's like, Dad, just say the word. I also think about
in Parks and Rec when the Adam Scott character is like was laid off,
so he spends his time making stop Bullshit filmed, and he like shows it
to bed and he's like, the words are what a depressed person to make
this? Yeah, But me and my friend say that a lot to chill.
We're chilling our personal projects. I don't know. I feel like I
feel like just because I did a full rewatch of The Nanny recently. Now
all a lot of the time will go like meanwhile, like that, like
I can't stop doing it, and no one knows I'm referencing that show because
they say meanwhile all the time, and but they do. They say all
the time, and once you notice it, you can't stop noticing it.
If you play an any drinking game, you drink anytime to say meanwhile,
you'll die Like it's great. It's like because there are there are some from
these shows that if I heard, I think I would slap the person,
like if somebody came up to me I was trying to do how I Met
your Mother, like it's gonna be wait for it, Oh my god,
I think I would just actually smack him across with leave. I would just
die and leave, Like no, absolutely not. I I may have been
that person in a different life back in we were Actually an obvious one that
we referenced earlier in this episode is from I Think you should leave the we're
all trying to find the guy who did this. Oh there, that's just
language. That's I'm so universal now, it's crazy, like there's sipsons once
to write like just the other day I just went on. I could see
man, he either started cracking up the systems. Simpsons references are a whole
other one. Yeah. Yeah, I threw a boo earns at someone the
other day. I went to a wine bar last night, and then I
was just thinking to myself as I was sipping, what all right? I
live San Francisco, damn it? Oh my god, what's a wide bar?
And then I was just thinking to myself, I love wine. I'm
scared about much I need wine. It's just so good. Yeah, slop
them up, guys, please, no sloppy. What are we gonna do?
What people can't change? And yeah, you know, there's so many
good ones. There's so many good ones. Yeah. I always say I
used to be a piece of ship, and I'm afraid with the mullet,
I will just go back to being a piece of shit. Oh I can't
wait. I'm so excited here. Oh I'll do I'll do a lot of
tim and Eric, I'll do. That's just like constantly going off my brain
like you blew it. And I want to meet that dad. Whenever someone
brings up dads that's playing in my head. Yeah, yeah, I used
to say I used to say for your health a lot. Oh sure,
yeah, calling people step peppers, stepdads or pep PEPs and step peppers.
Yeah, folks at home, I'd be interested to hear and see what we
have put into your lexicon other than shooting work and other bullshit or bug uh.
That was a good one, earl anyway, next email comes from Alex
and Bend Togo, Australia. Hey, bombers. Recently before I go to
bed, I've been drinking this A glass of warm water with half a teaspoon
of cinnamon, quarter teaspoon of peprika, a few cracks of black pepper,
and a drizzle of honey. It tastes fine. In case you're curious,
it's to increase your metabolism. I think this sounds like bullshit, but I
haven't changed my eating habits and I do feel more hungry since doing this.
Is this working or do I have a tapeworm? You have anything that sounds
like hokey bullshit but might actually work? Alex and Bendego, Australia, stop
health advice. Please hold holding down the bee button while you're trying to catch
a pokeyt Yeah, blowing the cartridge right, Yeah, that's absolutely bullshit.
To this day, I'm holding down that bee button whenever that ball is rolling
around there. Yeah, I almost definitely have hokey stuff that I've just even
zoomed out on in a while and have not re examined and be like,
oh, yeah, that's definitely bullshit. But I can't think of anything off
the top of my head. I own a Neopets tarot card deck and a
Diablow tarot card deck. Oh, you give us tarot readings, but what's
what's what's the Neopets version of the tower. But the thing is the books.
The Neopets one is like way more in detail than the Diabolo one.
Unfortunately, the Neopets one is downstairs. But they always have like art on
the cards that's like really detailed, like Neopets, and especially if it's a
bad card. The Neopet is like in distress. There's one where they're carving
pentagrams into the giant omelet, like what are we doing here? And then
the book, like the first paragraph is always like a description of what the
art is, Like you didn't notice, It's like, no, I see
it, Can you tell me what my future is? I actually have kind
of fallen on depending on tarot cards as gifts because Barnes and Noble has a
whole section of them, and they's like they's thing to everything. So it's
always just kind of a fun like, all right, well this person I
got a friend who liked Fallout. I was like, there's a Fallout tarot
card deck. Okay, I'll get them that, right, so why not?
That's that's huge diagram for like girls that were into neopets in that would
be into tarot card readings. It's like a perfect circle. I think almost
all my yeah, almost all my girlfriends are into tarot cards. I'm sorry,
it's true. These I purchased neither of these. This was from the
Diabolo for launch event that uh that guy who did that Za performed at and
it was great because Lilith shows up and she's like on wires and she's so
hot and she's talking about how she's gonna teach us salvation and knowledge and whatever,
and then some random guy who does not sound like a video game voice
actor stands up and is like, not if I can stop you, and
she's like and what's your name? And I'm like the main character in Diabolo
doesn't have a name. Who could it be? And he pulls his head
down at some guy I'm supposed to recognize and he goes Z and then the
beat drops. Best party I've ever been to. Wow, Wow, we're
not gonna get that. At Packs East, No Deck, they were like,
do you want this? I was like, of course I want that.
What would be if you could have a Tarot deck themed on anything?
Right now? What would it? It's just a pack of cards. I
think I would want a Digimontero deck. I think that's pretty good. Yeah
right, pretty fucked up. I've watched a funny TikTok. I'm going to
send this to Mike Manaughdi it's about Digimon Okay, I'm up at Tarot deck
would actually also be American gladiators. Yeah, oh yeah, wrestling, let's
do that. Sure yeah, sure, it's awkward to get to some of
those like I was going to say something and that would have made me upset.
Let's put under Taker on there. That's fine. Yeah, yeah,
there you go, Bailey, What did I draw four of swords? Sick?
What does that mean? Minor arcona ship rest recovery careful consideration. You
face a twist quandary you're exhausted from thinking about it, and not one whit
closer to a solution. Frustration is making it more difficult. Stop puzzling at
it and calm your thoughts, letting them rest on something pleasant, and perhaps
the solution will present itself. Bailey, It's about buying my crocks, isn't
it? Which was to get me? That's right? Is it the stitch
crocks? Is it the I'm not gonna be able to find the stitch crocks
and a store, not this. I just want basic bitch crocs. I
don't need the stitch crocks, Bailey. That was too real and I don't
like how real that was, all right. That's the major problem with Taro
is it's totally made up and bullshit. And then sometimes you'll get a reading
where you're like, oh fuck, oh no, the universe sees me yep,
yep. And I didn't like how I was just read like a book.
He's about to make you his stitch. Oh my god. Can we
just move on please? From Loveland Rights and Hello Bombs. Have you all
ever thought about drafting video games onto a fantasy team for random subjects, like
a snake draft where four people each draft launch games across consoles for a dream
launch lineup. I hear this format from other podcasts score and is charming as
funny as Giant Bomb Crew, and I think you could have a lot of
fun stealing picks away from each other. Plus, since his personal teams,
if someone wants to do something wacky, no one can stop them anyway.
Love the Friday Revengetions topic format. Love you all, Mike from Loveland.
Yeah, we should do that, Mike, Can I do it again?
I always beat you pretty back, exceparately one or two times. So Jeff
and I do this on our personal podcast where we'll pick like a console generation
and we'll try to draft the best game lineup, and I'd always lose because
I'm cursed with knowledge of what the actual good games are and not just like
the most brand name normy popular one. So Jeff always wins. Yeah,
I said, I know the good games too. I just I know how
the simple man thinks. So like I kill the z just draft Smash Brothers
Brawl, even though I'm like, no, that game had tripping. I
hate it like a bunch of people were bunch of people are like ten when
Brawl came out, So to them. It was the most support thing in
the world that in Battlefront two. Yeah, we should do that. Sure,
Yeah, it's fun and we could do like, you don't have to
just do console generations. You could just do like genres and stuff like that,
So that'd be fun. We can mix that. If you've already given
them Mount Rushmore, you're just you're just games. I stole mount Rushmore from
other sports podcasts, so that one they could definitely have. But you're right,
listen, maybe we can put the train on it. Yeah. I
will occasionally listen to The Rewatchables and my favorite segment on the Rewatchables is apex
Mountain of just seeing what is the peak of something? I'd love to throw
that into Let's steal that. Let's steal that, Like what was that like
in a franchise? What is the best one? Right? Like yeah,
well okay, okay, that's one right now, we'll quick give you some
final fam the peak nine nine. It's fourteen fourteen. It's just so different.
It's always weird. Like I know, people get mad when people do
list and they leave out eleven to fourteen, but I kind of get it.
It's just like such a like fourteen is my second fair video game.
Ever, if you're talking about what's peak final Fantasy, it's not I'm gonna
say it's ten. I could see ten. I just miss like the I
just miss like having a world map in ten, right, it is like
more linear and all that stuff. Yes, forgetting that ten two starts with
a banger pop song, I'm just does Oh my god, just I know
you're dress fear coded. All right, Bailey, It's fine, but it's
not ten two. As someone who's like only moderately into some Final Fantasy games,
I would still say fourteen the way that it has taken over that fandom.
Sure, it seems like it's peak final Fantasy, okay, and like
you know Apex Mountain being like this is when it was like the peak of
popularity and like popular culture non gamers. Well then well then the answer is
just seven If it's about that, obviously, I feel like ten reached like
T was. Also ten is the next like most mainstream popular one. I
agree, but I think seven still edges out there. I needed on the
record that I was eleven years old when ten two came out, so that
might have been right. That makes sense, we knew, But I'm glad
you can confirm that. I just want everyone to know, like the pop
song was really what did it for me? I was also eleven then ellieah
Ja. I like the interpretation of peak meaning like, no, what is
your interpretation of what the peak of the series means? I think it's more
like, you know, instead of Mount Rushmore, we could have done like
WWE games, where was the peak And like you could argue, is it
SmackDown versus Raw the one that you brought up, Mike, or is it
yes? Is it six? Do you go to here comes the Pain?
Do you do any of the earlier w W specific titles, because it's not
No Mercy. No Mercy is not the Apex mountain there, you know what,
We're just gonna steal the rewatchables, all right, So now I think
it's no Mercy because everything after that has been trying to capture that again and
tot to me that's means And there was a built up to Num Mercy we
did have, like WrestleMania two thousand first and like I think I think Revenge
was before that, so like it is kind of a build up to that
being the ultimate hockey game in a lot of ways, with unless you're counting
def Champ watch out Bill Simmons were coming for you. Okay. The Rewatchables
categories are no, don't tell me. I'm ready to take down that.
I'm gonna take down all of the ringer I'll do it. Uh, they're
fine, they're fine, great people that work there. There's no beef.
Most rewatchable scene, so this is specifically from the Rewatchables podcast, right,
most rewatchable scene, best quote, what age the best? What age the
worst? The the waiters heat checked performance? This is my favorite one.
Uh, the over acting award casting, what ifs? Half assed internet research,
unanswerable questions? Could this be remade as a ten episode Netflix series?
Apex Mount and who won the movie? We could do this for a game
one the movie. Yeah, like we should like write down a out these
categories and kind of keep them in our hopper here, especially for BCR.
Yeah. Yeah, there's there's some good stuff, all right. Next email
is about candy combinations. This comes from Jeremy from Montreal Hey Bombers. Recently,
Dan mentioned that when he was young, he would lie to his sisters
that he couldn't share his skills because they were his medicine well as a person
with type one diabetes. I actually use candy as my medicine and because of
this, have a great fondness for candy and sweet things during various hypo camic
low blood sugar states throughout Michael, Oh, okay, I missed the g
there. I've tried all sorts of combinations of candies and sweet foods. I
used to make icing sandwiches two slices of wonderbread Petty Crocker vanilla icing in between.
That's a step away from Australian fairy bread. So like why not?
Most recent discovery was combining gummy Skittles with peppermint Life Savers. Somehow this enhances
the flavor of the skittles while also giving them a more natural, flesh fresh
flavor. Highly recommend. What are some good or bad candy combinations you guys
have tried. I'll give them a go now. I'm just I'm immediately thinking
of parks and rec again. He's like, I put a skittle in between
two starburs. You know what I call it. It's like a skittle sandwatch.
He's like, oh, that's way better. I called it Andy's mouseur
prat. It's like the flavor of the Skittles really compliments the similar flavor from
the Star Wars Chris. Chris Pratt was so good in Parks of Red anything
again after that? Uh huh, Yeah, I get. I get Chris
Pratt hate to an extent, but he was on fire on Parks and I
it's listen, it's candy to me. I will mix together Snickers and a
honey Crisp apple because it tastes just like a candy apple. I'm not doing
this to hurt you, Mike. I really legit, love it. It
tastes so good, taste like a cosmic crisp apple. Yeah, yeah,
they're not as good. All right, we can litigate this list. I
know my apples, that's all right. Yeah, get that ship out of
here. This isn't a candy wreck, but it's kind of like a sweet
wreck. And this comes from an old email we got maybe two years ago.
This was like at the cusp of when we were reaching peak glizzy saturation.
But some of it offered a dessert glazzy situation where you take a hot
dog bun, slather that bad boy in some peb and then throw a banana
on it. Yeah, peanut butter and banana sandwich right there. That sounds
tasty. I find it all upsetting. I don't have much of a sweet
tooth, but it's all very upsetting. I don't know, yah, do
you all put like anything in your popcorn buckets? My one niece likes to
put in her her like Eminem's in there, and she gets very excited about
it, and I think that's like really huge, like chicks it all up.
I like to keep my popcorn and candy separate, but like because I
want to, I want to like know when to expect it and if I'm
in the movie, like I'm not like actively so, but like I will
like eat a raisinet and then like a couple things of popcorn. But it's
just when I make my popcorn, it's really aggressively salty and buttery. So
I love popcorns. That should be Yeah, I need popcorn. I got
I got a large at the at the Dune two the other night and brought
it home because Steph was like, please bring home popcorn, and I did.
And then I kind of like I was working the next day and I
went upstairs like I'm gonna go grab a handful of popcorn that sounds nice,
and the kids had just wrecked it and it was like mostly still fall.
They just ate the entire thing in one sitting. Basically, when I used
to work at the Filipino Channel, we our office was right next to a
movie theater, and a lot of the aunties and uncles, the older folks
that work there at the Filipino Channel would go to the movie theater ask the
usher to be like, I just want to go inside and buy some popcorn?
Can I just do that? And they'd come back after lunch with like
a large popcorn and then shouts out to Uncle Ronnie. Uncle Ronnie not my
actual uncle, would always come to my desk like I'm like neck deep in
editing stuff and he'd like shovel it around my face, like come on,
John, I know you want some popcorn to I'd be like, Ronnie,
not right now, it's like pop corn cresh god, okay, okay yeah,
And then one day he just gave me the whole bucket, so like
I'm in an editing suite and just like now it's been all about popcorn buckets
ever since. It's Uncle Ronnie's fault. Uncle Ronnie is also a magical human
being. That like one day asked me to come to his desk and like,
Jen, I got the secret to show you only U huh. I'm
not making fun of the Filipino accent. I just want to make that clear.
I just want to properly represent a lot it terrible. Yeah, not
after that last time, Trile. The English accent is on point though,
So it's you're not making fun of anything. That's fine. So good that
you get away with it because you know uncle Ronnie keeping my uh. Some
background to his character is that he's a seventy year old it guy that has
worked at the Filipino channel since the dawn of the Internet, it seems.
But anyway, he pulls me over to his desk, takes his key to
unlock his bottom drawings like, John, are you read deeper this? Huh?
Okay okay. He puts a Pelican case onto his desk and then he
like undoes the combos like I don't look, don't look at the combo it's
my pin number also uh and then he opens the case and it felt like
a uh, what's what's the Tarantino movie pulp fiction? Pul fiction moment?
Yes, because this fucker literally had lights installed into this into this pelican case.
Oh that can you guys guess what was in this small pelican case?
Popcorn? We have more popcorns? What I want to say? These were
five hundred dollars top of the line fidget spinners. What the fuck? Hell?
Yes, a fidget spinner worth a whole cube of war. Yes,
May it's probably made out of a cube of ore disk. That'd be a
great fidget spinner. And he had six of them, and then he was
like I got this custom made huh, John, Like wow, six way
six individual fidget spinners that are individually worth five hundred dollars five hundred increasingly degrees
man, And then like he he takes one off, He takes one out,
he spins it, puts it on his desk and like, John,
this one stops spinning. Ever, Huh, it's perpetual. And Mike,
you doubted it. I it's a perpetual motion machine. But you have your
face, nab Mike Manati, you'd be worth more than five hundred. And
then I was like, Ronnie, I gotta go take care or something.
I got a meeting. It's like, hey, I'll spin it at the
start and you come back. You come back after the meeting. He spins
it, I go to this meeting last maybe like an hour and a half,
come back, and then he smiles. He's looking down the hallway as
walking back to his office or his desk, is like, it's still going,
John, It's still okay. Never mind, it's worth five hundred dollars.
You weren't wading. I believe him. You don't tru think guys shocking.
I think the guy who's trying to hawk custom mage Figeon spinners might be
a bit of a car sell them to you. J I think so he
was just showing Jany's precious selection monster. Yeah. God, so hateful Mike.
I remember, I don't think but fitter kid not spid for ninety minutes
you were there. I have one right here. Let's a good spin on
my fifty cents? Yeah yeah, and where's my time? God is I'm
gonna I'm gonna wait till I get a four. Now, We're gonna be
here all day and I'm never gonna have to play Skull and Bones again.
I mean, you're welcome. I don't know why Uncle Ronnie itto Facebook thinking
i'd find it all right. Last email of the show comes from your friend,
sent from my iPhone. Okay, gang, we have to put a
cap on it once and for all. What is the Mount Rushmore of Mount
Rushmore's your friend sent from my iPhone. Mount Rushmore point guards in the NBA.
That's number one. I was gonna say Mount Rushmore, that weird Confederate
Mount Rushmore that I think is the thing, the Mount Rushmore dug oh yeah,
and then just regular Mount Rushmore. Okay, I said mount regular one.
There's the one. There's a cotterate one. I thought that's what you
meant, is there are pilotings about Rushmore's. That's just a marse face.
Yeah, there is a Mount Rushmore in pilot wings. Oh my god,
that's right. Okay, yeah, that's pretty good. And do you like
really this takes really sorry to slow down here, we're reaching the minute mark
right now, it's got a little life left. You would shell out the
big bucks for the good sees. Yeah, that's science. You've proven that
the five hundred dollars one will do nothing because you didn't spend that one.
Okay, it's done. It was a minute. It tests seconds. I
heart. I find it hard to believe that there are different materials that could
make it last exponentially longer than that. Get me in contact with this man.
I was just trying to think of, Like, would Uncle Ron be,
Could I convince him to pop onto the voicemail dump truck? I would
love that And show off his fidget spinners anyway, Show show me your fidget
spinners, your six five hundred dollars fidget spinner. He might have acquired more,
who knows, hope, So yeah, yeah, yeah, those things
have really been appreciating value. Maybe there's a very I got a bid full
of beatie babies that could trade for them. Maybe there's a niche community out
there that is still like driving up the value. Who knows, maybe collectors
out there. But that does it for emails this week, send your emails
to BombCast a giant bomb dot com. It's gonna be a short week here
a giant bomb. We got an episode of Games Morning's popping off tomorrow and
another episode of Super Dan sixty four The Dan of Steel. On this current
season of Blake Club Grubbing, Mike get to lounge and bick Back being bull
on sip on tiki drinks while Dan struggles to fly through rings and the void
that He is currently in with wheel shaped fidget spinner that was especially made by
fifty people at Mitsubishi. Over the course of six months, a Guinness World
record was set for the longest duration spinning a fidget spinner. On one hand,
the accomplishment a team effort by employees at minhahab uh. The record setting
time was you guys want to guess, Mike, what's your guess? Ten
minutes? Okay, Jan, what do you think? Thirty minutes? Bailey?
How many minutes? Um? Seventeen seconds? I don't think it was
impressive, it's just a record. Uh. The record setting time was twenty
four minutes forty six seconds, and that's use Jan. Okay, Yeah,
you're right there. Jam was closest. Yes, correct, yes, Uncle
Ron or whatever is well, shit, I see Jan's meeting was yeah,
said it was like an hour. And maybe he didn't call it the Guinness
people. Yeah you didn't call it against off the books record? Yeah,
Tommy Tyler good Dan record? All right, what else is popping off this
week? We'll be at packs East. Look forward to Dan. Well,
some of us will be at packs East. Got a panel popping off at
Friday. Dan Dokoder Live at eight thirty pm Eastern Albatross Theater, Albatross Room.
Who Knows. We'll be streamed live on Twitch dot tv, slash Packs
two and then voicemail Dump Truck live on Saturday This Saturday, seven pm Eastern.
We'll be taking if you see us on the show floor. We're soliciting
voicemails in the form of videos if you find us. If you see us,
stop us, leave a voicemail in person. Bailey Myers, what do
you got popping off this week? Planks calling Bones but also streaming like normal,
So you can just come watch me stream on my channel for you having
to play Skull and Bones while I'm at Packs, feel free to DM me
with Winny Gilt you need to send me. I'll accept it all. I
can't believe we're going to be having delicious and I'm gonna have to play more
goddamn fucking Skull and Bones. I promise to never play it on stream.
Come watch. I'll give you the keys to the Giant Bomb account if you
just want to stream Skull and Bones there. Actually I would do that,
Mike. Any anything you got going on outside of hanging out with us hooligans,
Yeah, I have been streaming a lot on my Twitch channel Tolkoto doing
Mortal Kombat runs. Gotta do some other things here soon. Jeff and I
have the last of the Ten Dogs happening tonight Tuesday night. That's a nine
pm Eastern on the Jeff Grubb Game mess YouTube channel. We will not be
doing game mess asides for Thursday show because we will be traveling to Boston.
Yeah, bike Club though, don't miss, don't miss Super Dance sixty four.
It has been incredible, fantastic. I just confirmed that I bought tickets
for the fucking episode one Phantom Menace coming back to theaters because I'm a sicko
and I need to see it again. I need to relive it. And
now that's Pottery's Yeah. I am nostalgic for when it was in theaters.
I don't like that movie all that much, but it was it was a
lot of fun. When that it was so much fun. Exactly, it
was a pizza Pizza Hut KFC at Taco Bell had the Taca promotion. I
went right to the Taco Bell right afterwards, and I remember some guy saw
me dressed up in my robes while he's like, well, what did you
think, and I was like, I loved it the bat it was so
He's like, yeah, see the critics don't know what they're talking about.
I think about that a lot. I told I told that man a lie.
It was your favorite character in episode one? Mine was Watto Boss Nass.
That's why that's favorite character. If I say any of boss that's his
lines. Uh. He just starts laughing. Yeah, they're not booth think
that they so smart. You're not allowed to do that. Said about the
Filipino you can't do it. The deft Triangle thinks they're so smart, so
big. Yeah, my favorite character is Fuel of Debates. Yes, that's
my fault. Every character in episode one is racis just an incredible racial stereotype
every two minutes. Yeah, just insane. Yeah, I don't know.
I like the Droids a lot, I guess. And then and then they're
named like Newt gun Ray after Newt Gingridge and Rob I'm like, man,
you're cooking. George Lucas. George Lucas was on one and I appreciate all
of it. On one, he was braving away that like seven eight nine
was never brave enough to do It's like, no, definitely, Yeah.
The prequels had ideas. The prequels had ideas, and hey, you know
it's one up spawning an obscene amount. Yes, Mike finished the thought too
many ideas, they're bad, Unfortunately, some of the ideas were bad,
some are good, and then all of the writing and acting was bad.
Yes. Uh God, Hayden Christiansen. I'm glad that he is getting his
due and then he's he's doing better these days. You know, hey,
anybody watch that acal like trailer? No, no, poaster bothers me?
Can I just complain really quickly? The poster bothers me? Sure? The
lightsaber with the blood smear lightsaber burn too hot for that. It instantly cauterizes
wounds. Where's the blood coming from? Where is it coming from? It's
woke now podcast. I've been Janny, he's been Jeff, he's been Mike,
and she's been Bailey. And you have been doing some squats, buddy,
it's showing off. We'll see you next week for another episode of the
Giant Bomb Cast. Until then, call your friends, go go hug them.
Continue to add more whimsy into your life. Dammit, if last week
you didn't stand on top of a desk and proclaim how much you love candy
corn. I suggest you go under a tree and think about the fondest memory
you've ever had with candy corn or cotton candy. Con Candy, What a
whimsical food. It disappears as soon as it enters your mouth. Is No,
I'm not candy right now, for I would be paid by con candy.
Because you boys got debt, We'll see you next week. You sub
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