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ship. He's smelling of various fragrances such as tire fires clean and what else
do we got on the dock at Jeff Grubb Listen, every smell you could
think of was happening in my basement anytime I'm live on the internet because of
Dan Reicherd. It's a whole thing. But yeah, I'm ready to talk
about mommies and animals. There we go, leading expert in the field about
all things about animals. Jeff Beckler. Hey, I'm an animal. I'm
listening. I'm just I'm just I'm just listening to some of the sounds going
on in my house right now, and I feel like I need to address
them. I'm not sure if there is an animal loose in my home,
but something's happening in my home. Yeah, this is not a work,
just having a child like it could be an animal, could be it could
be your kid, or it could be like someone making ice cream. Yes,
you're exactly right. And also my wife used the Ninja creamy and it
sounded like my children's screaming for like an hour straight, but it was just
the Ninja creamy. There's two elderly people who live with me as well,
so it's Oh, I forgot about that. Oh I haven't shown I've not
forgotten about that. Last, but not least our own Ninja Creamy Turbo the
ever love. You know what that means? Yeah, you know, you
know. Yeah, I'm bringing the mommies today. I guess we got animals.
We got mommies. We have animals who are mommies. It's a show.
You drink the most milk out of all of us, so you're not
wrong. My bloodstream is just cream at this point. There we go.
Do we think that people should burn this episode onto a CD and hand it
to their mother for Mother's Day? Oh? One there's no chance that things
are already gonna get nasty midway through that segment or anything like that. Love
to hear it. I gotta go download romantic music. Then, back when
I worked at the coffee shop, we would we would get like pretty big
lines, and like one of our duties was to like call out to the
line and be like, Yo, what's up? Thanks everyone for waiting.
And I think I shouted out the moms too much that I got talking to
on Mother's Day. I was like, shouts out to the moms in line,
and a shouts out to the single moms in line. And then you
went, you just went one too far. You know you're on the line
there, you teetered over and then then yeah, I didn't realize that,
Like there was someone from corporate in line checking out the store, and then
they talked to my manager. My manager had to talk to me about like,
hey, maybe stop singling out the single mothers. Yeah, that may
have been your problem. But I tried turning it around. I'm like,
do we not appreciate the struggle that single mothers have? Right? I'm so
glad you fought thenesday, Jeff Becklar is taking care of who knows what business
business. Yeah, he's standing on business. As the children say, how
God on God, give me a io cringe, give io cringe. I
saw another one that I wasn't quite familiar with. Uh there, I don't
even I don't. I'm I'm gonna do my research, my anthropological research before
I bring it back to the table. Okay, someone was They were saying,
like, oh yo, Luxy, where is that? Like, that's
totally a lux. I'm like, islx right or luxurious or I don't know
if they were treating lux like or Luxy like a person not Lex. Can
we just say something is Lex if it's cool like you know Lex wins you
know, yeah, not not not our own Lex Ludie, uh, but
Lux. And I was like, is this a person I don't know?
Uh? Also I still do the tango of like in TikTok specifically, sometimes
when you open up the comment bar, it'll have like a blue suggested search
thing and I'll click it not really realizing sometimes it's a little something, a
little scandalous. Yeah, those things are often like, hey, we'll explain
what's happening in this TikTok, and then the explainer is here's a bunch of
people's butts. Yeah. So when my partner will like grab my phone for
like innocent purposes and look at TikTok, I'm like, it's I'm just researching.
Sometimes finn Boys just shows up in your personalized trending feed for no educational
reasons. You didn't do anything. What's the big deal? Is everyone freaking
out? Yah? Is this like that time where you accidentally watched Jesus Christ
where you accidentally wandered into a certain room on your medicalest three? Is this
like that? Yes? Yes, it's exactly like that. I totally understand
how curiosity killed the cat and in my case, walked in on people having
a time on the internet. I wonder, I just don't want that to
show up in my history, but I'm they give you the options to delete
stuff from your history. The problem is everything that I like, any public
username I have is just my name now. So it's like someone's gonna catch
me in one of these rooms and I'm just like curious, and they're gonna
be like, well, I saw saw jan in the mommy room on my
medical that's her. Probably got be hella incognito when you're online, dude,
Yeah, how's everyone doing. We said it's at the beginning upf it's been
a week. It's a bit of a week. It has been a week.
I am ready for the week to end. They should call it that.
In fact, Uh yeah, it was just a lot of bad news,
weird news. There's good games at least to talk about and stuff,
so yeah, into that, but mostly I'm just like run down from all
this and I want to like sit down in a bean bag and not move
for like an hour straight. Yeah, I've uh, I think if I
got time this weekend, my my try and actually hit the disc golf links.
Oh yeah, yeah, Like I was telling you, I found a
Rundown course and I was kind of bummed out, so I didn't even try
it. I'm gonna like, see that was the closest one to my house,
so I'm just gonna like go to the one that's better rated on like
disc golf maps dot com or whatever the hell I was using. Yeah,
Sean, you you know this. We we mess up the English language on
a consistence. I am well aware of this. Jam it. I realized
I had this moment the other day when I realized that blatro is actually pronounced
Bollatrow and I thought about it. I'm like, well, why would I
Why is everyone saying oh right? Because Jan and Grub are the people I've
heard pronounced this game's name out loud, and you started this whole thing in
the industry. That's why everyone was calling it blatro instead of the actual word.
It's just a word, guys, exactly, It's just a word.
Is it a clipboard or is it a clip bird? Well, we get
to decide are we going to chappoll or going to Chipotle? You know?
Uh. Another thing I've started saying and to infuriate people, is instead of
saying Popeyes, the popular fried chicken chain, I'll says that's one. I
don't like it. I don't like that. I find that one. There's
appropriation in there somewhere. I don't know where, I know I know,
but it's fine. I'll walk this line. I'll walk this line until I
get canceled. I'm vamping mostly because I hope back Lar is okay. I
think he would have anything. You know what. I haven't had a chance
to talk to you guys about this yet. I am huge into Frisbee golfing.
It's very Yeah, you know what, should have known. Just look
at you should have known. I'm a disc golf kind of guy. In
high school. It was, you know, starting to like really take off
back then, and so me and my friends were, are you scratch your
headwell lighter? I just yem sorry, I was trying to light a candle.
And then I'm just you have so much product in your hair. I'm
very it's all natural. It's just standing up today, OKAYU No frisbee golfing,
disc golfing, whatever you want to call it. It's very fun.
That's just how me and my friends would get a little exercise in the summer.
We'd just grab drivers. We would just use those and just like walk
out there to the course, just toss them around for a little while.
It was a lot of fun, nicky, says Dolph. And that's what
I'm calling it from now on, Dolph. Okay, yeah, well you
know, Dolph, Yeah yeah, why not? Would you just you said
you just packed a couple of drivers and just just the one. Yeah.
Yeah. Some of my friends would bring a putter as well, but usually
it's all you need is the driver. You gotta find one that plays to
your throwing style. Like I can only throw I'm right handed, and the
way I throw a frisbee or disc, I can only throw it with a
curve. So you need to like find a disc that like plays into that.
You either need to go extra wide or you need to get one that
like has less curve so it like mitigates that and all the ratings you guys
were talking about the numbers and stuff when you go to buy one we're talking
about on the bomb cast. That's what's all about. You gotta find the
one that plays into you. Also, you know, maybe the find different
throwing saw. You know, you throw it underhand, and sometimes that's how
you like one of the courses. We sometimes go to a lot of trees
on the right hand side. Obviously I can't curve into that, so you
throw it underhand and it reverse curves around the tree. Whoa, it's kind
of like yo yo's. Once you figure out the tricks and everything, it's
fun. Well, now you're speaking my language exactly. Yeah, oh man,
I was gonna say, like, yeah, I think I'm also an
orthodox thrower. But but I think I did it. Did it once.
I did the like a little underhand like but you type of toss. That's
tricky, dude. This is the type of sound that makes in my head,
God, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta go disc golfing.
I don't know if there's a there would not be a close course in LA
for sure. Really, yeah, but we could just set one up.
We can just build our own. That's what Scot do. I think you
actually can you they have like pop up because all it is is, you
know, you just need like basically a pole and a hoop at the end
of the day. Yeah, you can actually just like set those up and
think he says, there is one, So there we go. Okay.
I was going to say, like, I'll just how I've solved a lot
of problems lately, is I will just slack Emma. Yeah, me too,
just like oh you you've already thought of this before I've even thought or
be like well, oh honey, okay talk to this person then and okay,
thank you. Yeah. It's nice when when when I first started working
with the crew, and uh, y'all said, what do we do before?
Sean, that's now the feeling I have with Emma, like what we
do before? Emma? Yeah, Yeah, it's like, oh God,
when we're left to our own devices. Just stuff happens. It's just you
know, game since going off again. Oh boy, oh boy. I
thought I thought he didn't realize that we were still alive, so I thought
it was safe. But I'm wrong. I'm wrong. He's one big chilling
in the big comfy chair, says Nah, I'm here, becha dead?
Yeah, I assume at this point, I'm looking at Slack. I don't
see anything. I don't have my phone on me. You know, let's
just talk about games here set. But first, actually, I'm just noticed,
because I do have this camera set up, my hair is starting to
curl a lot in the back. It's all. It is really popping off
back there. I didn't realize that it used to. Yeah, I know,
but it's like I didn't realize it was that long again. I mean,
it's it's going off. It's like a broccoli back there. Oh boy,
yeah, yeah, it is like a little bit broccoli. Why is
it the camera focused on the game set? I don't know, Dan,
you're out, You're right, you know what I apologize to you? He's
yeah, I think that warrants like a bad scent. Yeah, sure,
why not? What's the difference At this point you're gonna get that cut before
sgefre. I think I'm gonna get the sides trimmed down, Yeah, for
sure, and they'll probably clean up the top. Okay, okay, Well
let's talk about video. A bunch of indie games came out all on the
same day or within days each other this week, within a week. Ye
yes, if you tuned in earlier today for upf grub and I checked out
two of them. We won't talk about Animal Well just Jeff Backlout Resurrects from
the Dead. Yeah. Everyone added five mana to the pool please, and
then we'll we'll have enough to raise the d But the last game we checked
out today was Crow Country. It is a isometric survival horror game very much
evoking PS One vibes with its art style and everything we do. We checked
out for like thirty or so minutes, and in that early time I was
enjoying it to an extent. I think my only drawback with that type of
game, and Greb, you nailed it when we're playing it is that it
seems like the type of game that will go by exponentially so much faster once
you figure out the loop of like or the order of the puzzles. Yeah,
and I don't, as you know, very early in the game,
and it's kind of throwing a lot at you that I wish there was maybe
a clipbird of sorts or a journal of like, Okay, I got to
get this key, I gotta get that key, I gotta get this key
and head over here, and that we did check it out very briefly,
So maybe some type of tracking system that you unlock further in. I think
people are like, well, just take notes yourself. But I think what
you're saying, what you were saying, what I would be saying if I
were you playing that game. It's like, I don't know always what is
important. I'm not going to write down everything because in that the notes become
useless to me. And I'm not a note taker anyhow, But if I
were, I'd be like, Okay, I guess I'll write down this thing.
And here's a whole letter. Is this just world building or do I
need the details from this? So should I be doing shorthand like recreation of
this letter down here in my notes and say, uh, I kind of
want the game to be like, no, this is important. Have that
now. I haven't played the game. I get the sense Jen like had
we kept like brute forcing some of this stuff. Eventually, it's like we're
gonna learn what matters and and learn how the language of the game to be
able to take in all that information in a more efficient way. But the
way that it looks and the way that it's going for that PS one survival
horror vibe, I think they really got most of that. I think I
do. The characters don't necessarily like look what I think of when I think
of those kinds of games, it is that is a little bit off,
But everything else is perfect. And I don't think the characters are bad looking.
They're still charming in their own way. It's just not what I was
expecting from this kind of game, and all I think they nailed it.
The visuals are definitely going for a different type of PS one game, Like
me and Mike were talking about with you last night, it's very much f
F seven is one. Yes, yes, yeah, definitely yeah. Specifically
not even necessarily the character models themselves, you know, they cal that,
But like a lot of the pre rendered so rendered, like the flags,
I was noticed that like that popped off to be so much like a pre
render final chandasy background. It was wild. Yeah, and so it just
sort of in real time with three D graphics. It's going for that sort
of rounded sometimes almost like bulbous. How everything is like slightly characters, yeah,
duplow blocks, not like the mini the minifigs. But yeah, yeah,
I think they really nail the design that they're going for there. It's
a different kind of a take on the PS one Survival Horror because we have
so many that are just resident evil. It's it's really cool to see when
that goes for a slightly different style. I really like that. Yep.
Yeah, Greb, you mentioned before we start playing at the ad campaign looks
like an old video game ad and I want that between and yeah, oh
man, this just hits a certain way. Yep. And I'm very much
in that mood right now, Like I'm going back, Like one of the
things I did this week was install Windows ninety eight, and I'm looking at
old video game magazines and a lot of it that's just like, oh,
video game industry feels kind of messed up in a lot of ways right now.
So I'm going to go to my happy place a little bit. And
I really appreciate games that are coming out right now that are doing that same
thing that also feels a good retreat into a space that feels safe and cut
off from all of the nonsense that's happening everywhere else. And so when they're
able to capture that and they know they're going for it, and then they
have that fun little ad that plays into that, it's like, Okay,
this is just hitting all the notes for me. What do you think would
be like the next trend? Because I feel like, you know, people
that grew up with a PS one have been emulating that art style. Now
for a while, we've kind of gone a little bit of like the polygonal,
super chunky and sixty four style as well. Oh yeah, are we
eventually going to transition to like what what is a PS two? I think
we get I think we get some stuff that like tries to go for Dreamcast.
I think we've had a few things like that. You're right, You're
right. Once we sort of get to like PS two GameCube, Xbox,
that's like proto HD at a certain point, and it's hard to tell the
difference. I think a lot of that is vibe and music. There is
a certain like a set of audio that a lot of games used, and
like you can kind of pull that those things off, and you know,
I don't think it'd be impossible. I think a strong art director would be
able to make that happen. It's a little bit more difficult than Hey that
the game definitely looks like a PS one game. Yeah. I think when
we talk about why does Nintendo not put GameCube on virtual console NS whatever they
want to call it, I think that's the reason is because that era of
gaming is the beginning of modern gaming, So it makes more sense to remaster
even something from the floor by three era because it kind of just looks like
what we have nowadays, just lower fidelity, whereas something even just the previous
generation, even something as powerful as the N sixty four, looks radically different
than just one generation up. So I think that's like the dividing line is
about two thousand there. Yeah. I would have really enjoyed getting to because
my experience with the Pokemon game Gale of Dark, this is pretty much just
going over to my friend's house and watching him play because I didn't have a
GameCube. Yeah, you're right, Sean, I think translating that they'd either
have to do a lot more work, or it just wouldn't look as impressive
if they just did an HD remaster. But crow Country, the only thing
that feels off for me personally is the shooting. I wish you didn't there
was only like an X access to point at versus like having in control going
up and down with the shooting as well. But that's a very minor thing.
I think. Also, I just tend to panic when you're kind of
locked in shooting versus being able to move a bit. Yeah, that's you
know, that's deliberate part of the genre, but I know what you mean.
Yes, Or if there was just like an auto aim in that direction,
like you had in a silent hill or resident evil right where you're kind
of just locked into that spot and as long as you're kind of facing it
and the enemy's in the same plane as you and you can bop them.
Yeah, sort of a suit all lock on. Yeah. Yeah, another
thing that I've been playing way too much of. I don't know if y'all
have had the opportunity to also dip into is haities two of course, yep,
and I definitely fell into the Oh the one more time, one more
turn, one more turn of a thing where I was like, Okay,
will I spend a lot of time with this right now? There's a lot
of stuff I want to be playing, and I'm not. There's no hurt,
there's no rush here. Even though this is something I was very much
looking forward to, I'm not putting in it like, oh, I got
to play all this right now. And then I you know, I did
my second play session with it and I couldn't put it down. So it
is the it is the game I want to be playing the most right now.
Even then I'm like, oh, I'll mix some time for so a
lot of these other indie games that are coming out, but Boy Hades too
just is spectacular. Yeah, each and you know, we talked about this
on the BombCast earlier this week with Nikki, but like, it's really nailing
the loop very well because introducing I was a little bit annoyed first when they
start, when when I saw that you had to like kind of juggle the
different resources that you're collecting on run from run to run, but having to
manage Okay, well, I don't want to bring the pickaxe out because I
have it. I have plenty of silver, I have plenty of the other
materials you uh unlock, Let's go use like the spirit thing so we can
unlock more of our our cast or the uh how many tarot cards you can
use? It spices that up. Uh. I don't know if I like
the sprint. The sprint is new in this right, just so it's okay.
So I don't think the sprint is necessarily new, but the dash is
different, and so the dash into sprint probably feels different. I thought you
could sprint in the last one. I think so, but the the the
dash is definitely different. I think the dash was much more back to back
to back in the last game, and in this game it's a dash and
then you get a little shadow behind your character and then once that shadow zoops
back into her, you can dash again. Yeah, And and like Nicky
says, you could sprint last but it just didn't do anything. And now
they have definitely boons that are like, hey, if you're sprinting, you
can destroy any sort of projectile send it you and that will hurt whoever sent
the projectile at you. So it's like being it's being incorporated into the combat
loop, so you're much more aware of it. The dodge is or the
the dash is something you're gonna have to get used to. I think once
they explained to me that shadow mechanic of you visually in an auto and the
audio is happening as well. Of okay, everything is back to normal.
Now now you can dash again. I'm like getting into the rhythm of that.
But before that, it was like, oh man, I'm in the
shit. Let me dash out, Let me dash out of this. Why
can't I dash? I'm getting hurt. This sucks. It's like like,
in that moment, it felt pretty bad. But now that I'm getting used
to it, I think I like it. But I do wonder if this
is something they're going to dial in a little bit in early access if enough
people are complaining. I really enjoy the folks. That's super giant because I
don't want to spoil anything. I saw our good old buddy Christian from Argentina
tweeting very curious screenshots about eighties two, and then I'm like, what the
hell is this? And let me just say, you might in your little
town area, your little hub area, you unlock a certain thing to spend
time with your companions in just some one on one time, and it's a
little bit like, oh, this game is not finished yet, but these
parts seem finished, so it's curious as to what the priorities were over there.
So as so, I'm someone who isn't big on early access games for
no and no, no, in any particular reason other than I see your
piece. See this is why I can't say anything this man in my life,
just because I don't replay single player games. It's just the way my
brain works. I just almost never go back to games. Even my favorite
games in the world I probably played less than ten times each. So for
me, I was thinking I'll just wait for one point. Oh, but
then Mike, who also is the same way, He's like, yeah,
I just you know, I want to play whatever the one point I was
whenever they call the finished game for no particular reason, he said, it
seems pretty feature complete, at least to him. So I guess my question
to you guys is what, obviously, without spoilers, what is missing at
this point? Like why is it early access? There's a couple of bits
where certain character portraits just don't exist yet, and I think that is where
the game feels slightly incomplete, And for me personally, I could just attribute
this to luck of the draw, but it seems like the boone variety at
least where I'm at with a game isn't super diversified just yet. But for
the most part, it feels like a whole ass game. And then like
it'll throw me into bits that It'll throw me into bits where I've been in
the same repetitive loop where I feel like, oh, I know what to
expect here, and then I'll throw like a wrench those gears of like,
oh you can do that. So, like, is the story like it
doesn't have an rason? You know, it feels like to me, it
feels like the only time I've ever seen one. This is going to be
a bad example because the movie's bad, but that X Men origins Wolverine,
that work print that leaked where it's like everyone downloaded that version of It's like
and it's like, this is the movie, but some of the special effects
are incomplete or something like that. So you got the story and everything was
there, just occasionally in this game you might see something like oh this is
placeholder or something. Okay, So they're basically treating almost like a beta for
a single player game. Yes, a little bit, I think, you
know, I think the reason they would go with early access is that,
like they want the feedback and they want that explicitly to be the reason that
they're doing this. So that's why I say they're doing it again, and
I think they're going to add a lot more. I think there will be
more story tacked on. But the way that it's being presented, the way
it feels like it's working, like that's almost like a DLC like New Chapter
or something like that in a lot of ways. Okay, gotcha. I
probably will end up checking it out alongside all the other indies I have to
play now over next week. Uh, thank god, Jeff Beckler is here.
Jeff Becker, I've returned. I'm sorry, that's very odd for a
podcast, but I have returned. Everything's fine, Everything's okay, Yeah,
everything's fine. Now. I appreciate the concern. I see your message.
I didn't have my phone. It's just look, there's certain things I'm just
not gonna be able to tell anybody. Okay, yeah, yeah, everything's
cool. Every everything is mostly fine. Okay, what's up? Would you
talk about what we're gonna talk about? Animal? Well, you want to
talk about animal? Who? All right, Yeah, there's a lot I
want to talk about, I guess with Animal I. First off, I
think I think that game is very good. I think it's a lot of
fun. I think the way I've been describing the people as sort of like
what if you had, you know, a low fi Metroidvania, but like
with the sensibility of like a Tunic, where you sort of where the game
most certainly is aware that it's a game and it's just sort of having a
little bit of fun with its own self awareness. I think is when does
that does that start popping off later in the game, like not like I'm
a couple hours in. I don't think it's as over the top and heavy
handed as Tunic, where like Tunic would look you in the eye and like
wink, like here's a page of a video game manual talking like that.
I think it's it's much more subtle here and you know, look like I
think I just think it's like I like the take of it where it's doing
you know, it's it's it's not completely breaking any kind of like mold.
But I do like the sort of modular puzzle afocation Metroidvania that it's doing,
where it sort of gives you you know, the the sort of like present
presentation is like, okay, you know, you're you're you're gated in certain
areas, but also this room you're in, it's like its own little puzzle
right here, right and and it's like this very rectangular uh uh you know,
framing puzzle and you don't have to go anywhere else to do it,
and it's gonna be right here, and you got to figure that out.
And I think maybe it's my like endless desire to feel in control. I
don't know what that is or whatever it is, but you know, I
mean like that's a thing. You know, I gotta feel like I'm in
control and uh yeah, and and and it does that for me. You
know. I think it gets away with like a lot of clever uh visuals
too, right. It has those like deliberate scan lines, and I think
there's some really neat uh sort of effects that pop off in the game that
I I I'm appreciating from the sort of like Neon Hayes presentation of of of
the whole thing. Also outside of this game, which I have not finished,
but I play a lot every day. I've been playing on my Steam
deck of all places, that's great there, and Did has also gotten very
much into it too. He feels the vibes. He's into it. He's
been saying, like, Tuesday, Buddy, Tuesday, is that a thing?
What is that? Tuesday? Special play special? Special team special?
What is Tuesday tuesda? That's fucking sketch? The twitch streamer and he streams
a lot of Madden and he's like, he's awesome. He's like the best
in the history of the world. Tell hey, tell him, I said,
special Team Special play special Players. All right, I will. I
don't, but he doesn't watch this guy. It doesn't matter. It's it's
it's viral, Okay, cool, awesome, awesome, Tuesday, your this
is your week sketch. So so yeah, like he's into it, he
gets it. And this is what I found to be really fascinating to me.
Did picked up the controller and was like, oh, yeah, okay,
oh you have a fire how many fire crackers you have? Yeah?
Oh what's oh sick? Okay, And this game speaks Yeah, it's just
easy, right, you just pick it up and you're like, I get
it. I'm into it. I also think if we could zoom out just
a little bit and I could put on my big boy hat. I think
this game is going to kind of like bring with it a kind of don't.
I don't want to like inject too much importance into this because it is
just one independent game. Sounds like it's a Jeff Backler important game of the
year. It's most certainly important more because of I think what it like represents.
I think there's a lot of I think this is going to be the
game that a lot of people sort of like pin the ownership of, Like,
yeah, remember when they stopped making fifty million dollar games and Animal l
came out. I think like the I think the sort of like publisher disruption
thing that everyone is sort of like trying to figure out how to square in
retrospect will be sort of like the emotion and the energy of that pendulum change.
I think it's going to get right where it's like, you know,
Ballatro or Balatrow is that house, says Sean, I don't know, Platro
Bollatrow. And then Power World and this and a handful of other things that
are coming out this year that are just crushing and uh and they're picking up
a lot of attention and they don't seem like they cost the world to make.
It's like, if these games can keep doing that, it's not just
some legalliance. It really can change things. Yeah, And like I said,
I think it's already changed. I think there's already money. I think
like the people who are like sort of looking where to invest and where to
be smart with their spending have like you know, I think this is already
built into the market, if that makes sense, right, Yeah, in
a little bit. I mean I think it's kind of the trouble with this
has always been like, oh, hit driven business. It's so hard to
pick which are going to be hit exactly. But you know it's a low
when it's the lower stakes, right, I think it's an easier pill to
swallow. And I think that's what maybe something like an animal l brings with
it. Now. Look, I don't like I feel like a lot of
the conversation right now is like this game's reviewing really well and everyone seems to
really like it. I don't know what the sales are, like, I
don't know, and I don't think we have that idea. I think it
was number one on Steam, Okay, so like but what is like,
but what does that translate to? That's very good. That's just a lot.
It's a lot of cash, is what that means. Okay, very
like you have to make more money than the steam Deck, which is usually
number one. Uh and it's and I don't think it's number one at the
moment, but it was. You know, the steam Deck is you know,
four hundred dollars a pop, and there's those things are selling very well
and this thing is not four hundred dollars. So yeah, it was doing
very well. And people are pointing out it's in the PlayStation plus tiers and
if you know a PlayStation paid for that, you know those rights, that's
money in the bank right there. Well that's a estiment to Donkey publishing and
that's right. So yeah, I think that's dope. I think it's very
encouraging. I think, you know, I think everyone's taking notice in the
right way and hopefully that leads to a more favorable environment for everyone who is
a creative and sort of like you know, stands the benefit from this.
Yeah. I don't think it like changes the calculus of like, oh,
the Indiepocalypse and there's ten thousand indie games. Sure, but it does show
that there is clearly a pathway if you have good taste, and you could
spot the good games, and you can kind of get out of its way
and make all the right choices of make it sure. You're promoting the game
a little bit, but you're giving people time to review it. You're talking
to the right people, bringing it to a lot of shows. It had
a lot of demos of a lot of different shows. They just made all
the right choices with this thing, and this at least shows that can payoff.
Maybe won't every time, but did this time. And that's great.
Yeah. And you know, let's not forget right like good game good.
Yeah, you know, like if that's always going to be a thing too,
let's not forget good game good. And that's that's more than half the
battle. Yeah, it's It's got fifteen hundred reviews on Steam, which is
pretty good. I mean, for comparison, Haites two has got twenty thousand
already reviews. But that thing is a rocket ship. So it's also a
sequel to like a well known game, exactly for sure. It is a
completely different case. It's in Animal Yeah. Animal will also just released yesterday.
Yep, that's right. So, and and then Hades was earlier in
the weeks mondays or over the weekend and animal well might blow up being in
the conversation with all these other endis over the weekend. And yep, it's
overwhelmingly positive too. So that's why are it's fun. It's really good.
Like I you know, I think I think it's a it's a it's a
it's a fresh enough take on an established thing that there's something there's there's a
comfort food in there too a little bit, and there's just the right amount
of creep factor as well. Yeah, those those animals are weird and weird.
Yeah, I'm like, I kind of hate them, but I like
the way that I hate them. I am. I am enjoying it bacular,
but I am also waiting for that wow moment still. I'm like,
I'm definitely like I get it with Like, I started doing this puzzle that
was multi rooms and they like everything was affecting one another and I was like,
oh, it's taking me up here so I can do this and that
will take me back there. And I did that on stream and that was
that was clicking into place. But Okay, this is cool. I'm definitely
enjoying myself. I am like like still wondering, like, man, why
do people love this that much? That hasn't happened yet. But I think
I'm still pretty early. Like I I did the bubbles that put me inside
the mouth of those little guys that hang on the wall. That's the puzzle
I just did. So I'm I'm pretty early still right, he did all
the yo yo stuff. I just got the yoyo and that like started doing
the first major puzzles with the yo yo. Yeah, I mean I think
like it's to me, it's like that's the sort of like step up experience.
It definitely feels like it's like ramping up at this point. Yeah,
so you know, I think that's what it is. I also don't think
it's going to like I don't think it's going to have a moment that everyone
is just sort of like what it was it was inside that the eyeball this
whole time, like that kind of thing. But yeah, I think for
I think a lot of it is just the sort of the moment that you
are in inside of it, right, and that's good enough and that's fun.
Yeah, And there is not as much of that because I think like
it's one thing to make the vibe and It's one thing to sort of like
have a lot of the but like to get everything clicking right and all those
planets and starts to line up like that, I think is the achievement for
sure. You know, there was a lot of criticism when it was originally
announced that Donkey was going to get into video game publishing, and having a
massive audience online doesn't always translate to customers per se, Right, Like,
I've seen the stories multiple times of like an influencer and TikTok Instagram wherever else
will have like five, ten, twenty million subscribersoers, whatever, and when
they released in a clothing line, no one will show up, right,
none of those people are there. Do you think it is slightly different because
of the gaming audience is kind of more invested in the activity of gaming versus
something like I don't know someone that is just like a normal influencer. However
fucked up that sounds, well, I don't, I mean, I don't
think that this. I don't think the relationship that Donkey has with you know,
the game is uh is like sort of you know, a victim to
any sort of like inauthentic kind of you know, sort of thing like I
think that's the biggest part, is like he's letting in the game speak for
itself in all exactly exactly, And that's what I do think a lot of
these people the investment is looking for, is that authenticity, right, So
like I I, you know, you have a lot of people who seem
to be trying to break into it through brute force, being like, hey,
I've got the following, I've got the pull, I've got the influence,
and I like video games, right, And it's like, no,
that's not I don't that's not enough. I think you also have to have
like the sort of like understanding and the kind of relationship. And I think
that I think that's what separates at all. Like, look, the next
Donkey, the next Big Mode game. Maybe it doesn't work right, you
know, I don't know, but like good games are good, right exactly,
But good games are good. And if this is the first, you
know step, like, why would you not have faith in the next one?
Yeah? And it's it's I never really had like that reaction to the
Dunkey announcement of Big Mode. I was like, yeah, that makes sense.
It like what is publishing need someone that can like kind of does understand
games and can get attention, and Donkey can definitely do that and we'll see
it. It definitely worked out that way totally. It makes sense. It
just makes sense. A game that I briefly checked out, and it's one
of those games that I don't want to talk too much about is Indica.
Lucy James mentioned this earlier this week on Game This Mornings. I'll just say
it is kind of apparently it's a very short game, but it is like
a psychological or walking simulator, where my life, what do you what's so
scary about you walking around? What's happening? A legend? Yes, you
play and there's there's a bunch of content warnings. Uh. It's funny because
I see all of the Catholics flocking to this game and the stoners because they
think it's a weed strain. Yes if it man, I myself, I
watched someone else play it, and it is trippy. Is almost stuff that
happened Yeah, yeah, very early in and you know, had some like
light tense thriller moments, having gone to the insane bits that I've seen even
from the screenshots of the game. But very excited to keep checking it out,
especially because Lucy said that it's it's one of her top games of the
year so far, and like this is a is a really stacked year.
You know, well she went to Catholic school, right, Yeah. It's
like, oh man, Birds of a Feather, huh. Like to give
you the an idea for the kind of wild stuff that happens in this game
within the first like ten minutes or songing. In one of the cut scenes,
the main character is like wigging out and she looks over and it sees
like a tiny human being like crawling out of someone's mouth and like hopping out
and onto someone else. Is just weird. It is psychoedamic what you're saying.
Sure, I say, it feels you finished on. I was thinking,
like, uh, Doctor Strange, the new one, like a lot
of that, A lot of that, Uh was that Sam Raimi? Yes,
yeah, yeah, a lot of that type of like psychological horror thriller
type stuff. It reminds me of the dude the director Ari Astor, the
guy behind Hereditary and the new the joe Quin Phoenix movie. Yeah, what
is it like bo bo is afraid? Yeah yeah, stuff like that.
It's like who hurt you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's like,
why did your brain come up with this? What's happening here? Yeah?
And why are we funding this? Right? Sure? Sure, no,
I'm kidding. I like weird shit. I'm the first to line up for
that. So this is the game for you? Then? Yeah, I
think I have to play this another game that I have on my radar because
it's been picking up a lot of positive buzz. He's one thousand x resist.
Yes. I have no idea what this game is about, but a
friend of the site, Natalie Flores, was writing about this, and my
ears are peaked. I'm interested. I've known. Yeah, they said it's
like one of the greatest games they've ever played, and yeah, yeah,
this is one I feel like we've seen in a sizzle reel somewhere. So
it was like on my radar, and because when I saw people tweeting about
I'm like, I've seen this, I know this game, this, this
is the game I want to check out. When it was out and you
look at Steam, you look at the screenshots, it is very anime,
very sci fi futuristic stuff. All things are on my alley and I don't
even know what the game is. It's one of those games where the way
people are talking about it. I'm just gonna dive in this weekend and not
knowing anything. Like you look at the Steam reviews and people are even saying
like, I don't really want to say anything. I just want to say
this game is a masterpiece, and like you need to check it out.
Well, it's like, all right, all right, I'll do it.
Anything else anyone has been playing before we let Jeff Beckler go, I,
you know, didn't add much to what way off here because I've just been
so busy with our stuff. I haven't had much time to play stuff.
A lot of fighting games because I got tournament at the end of the month,
Combo Bricker. I'll be there if you're there, say hi. So
I'm a lot of teching ad, a lot of Street Fighter and some older
stuff I'm getting back into, like Killer Instinct. But otherwise my secret project.
I like to bring secret projects to the table, especially maybe people caught
onto this, but when I'm playing embargo games, I can't talk about them.
I like to bring on my secret projects to the table. Over the
past weekend, I got a lot of CRT shaders going on retro games,
and I had the same the project like a year ago, and I love
this. Was so glad you're doing this, because especially I didn't have the
lgo led TV that you have. It's going to look so good on there,
Sean. Yeah do Yeah. I knew going in because when I was
working my crappy retail job several years ago, I made sure to save up
scrimp and save for an entire year for two things. The big comfy chair
people see back there, big ol' lg oled TV, so I could do
stuff like this, so you know, the perfect black levels, and then
you've got HDR going. I can have basically a CRT blown up to fifty
five inches. It is wild. Yeah. I tried out a variety of
shaders. I found what I really like in a shader preset pack. I
load into retro arc and it the I was saying to Grubb yar day.
The test for me of if you have a good CRT filter shade or whatever
is in SONCD a Hedgehog, specifically SONK one. They have a waterfall that
is dithered, so you know, like every other line roughly is nothing.
It's like transparent. And so if that appears to be a transparent layer,
it looks like water flowing over the background. You know, you have a
good shade a on your hands. Found when it does that and I set
that, load up a bunch of other retro games, and it looks wild.
I'm so helly set up yeah, because now you're tweaked. I use
that initially, but then I'm trying to think of which, well, I
it's cybers something. It's like a username, uh cyber post mic. Once
you get it, once you have like like fully going show do some like
actual photos with your phone up against the the l g TV and then done,
and then share which one it actually is? Oh yeah, I will
it's yeah again it's cyber something of the composite one. So people, it's
not it's not in retro arch automatically you need to add you just you just
download some uh crt Royale base is. But all these customized ones that people
do you need to just download basically a preset file. It's very easy.
Once you have retro arc going, you just like pull me a folder that
way. When you go in retro arc, you just like select that one
from the shader option, loads it up, and it just does everything for
you. It's very good. One of the coolest things about it is like
you can like set have a fake bezel and it'll do reflections off the bezels.
Yeah, that's a mega bezel. I'm not. I'm not. I'm
not a huge fan of that because I in my nice dark room and just
CRT effect and it just looks like I have a giant CRT in my room.
Right. But for me that was like, oh, this is the
dumb nostalgia. Yah, it does like reflections on the bezel and everything.
I can see why you'd like it. The reason you want like a big
four K TV is because what it actually does. The share does is it
simulates the RGB of each individual pixel. Because you have so many a work
with and a retro game is only two forty P so all those individual pixels
two forty p canvas, your four K TV can simulate the red, the
green, and the blue of each one and then filter tho. Yeah,
it's cool. That's how you get CRT effects without you know, necessarily buying
your retro tink FOURK that you try to get your boss to expense for you.
Yeah. Yeah, let's not talk about that. Yeah, that's that
process. Sounds like this plugin that I downloaded for da Vinci resolve to emulate
film grain. So it's like pretty much just kind of like stacking the image
on top of itself and like a couple of the stacks, just like let's
just fuck it up. Yeah, I know, I know epos Vox loves
doing stuff like that and all of this stuff, and so that's how I
learned about some of this too. And yeah, just I know people love
their raw pixels, but when you see a properly shaded, filtered CRT effect,
you immediately say, oh, this is what this artist supposed to look
like. This is what they were going for back in the day. So
it makes a huge difference. It makes a huge difference. Yeah, so
it's better. It's messing just the right way. It makes it look better
because it's the intended look by the doves. It would be like adding a
smooth filter to impression his paintings. It's not the exact same thing, but
it's the same kind of idea. You have, like a like a tutorial
for all this stuff. Yeah, there's plenty of stuff out there, Sean,
you look it up. Yeah, there's like YouTube stuff that I definitely
felt followed in the past. Yeah, you search for on YouTube for like
retro arc CRT shads and people are playing tutorials of Riot different ones and show
you sat up. Oh cool, Dan's winning this poll about does he need
a retro tink four K expense the one option? I mean the poll that
like matters anywhere? No, it doesn't. Uh, he doesn't even know
how to make a poll. How do you think that all of a sudden,
Yeah, all of a sudden he knows how to do something that was
me made this, I uh did and I finished the uh the TV part
of the n E S console. Lego cool. And I gotta say that
thing's fucking unbelievable. Yeah, it's really neat, the fucking engineering that went
into that. I know, it's just a bunch of little pieces, right,
and it's you know, it's just it's so so good. Like I
showed my my dad because he's here, like that was the first time he
I feel like it was the first time he been impressed in like twenty years.
Oh that's just like he's like, what we know where you get it?
Forcery? You know, He's like, what is this they're doing?
Lego's doing this now? Are impressive? Ages? Yeah? Yeah, like
for sure, But it's just what a what a what an unbelievable thing that
is? Yeah? Yeah, so now we got the NYS console itself next,
and well we'll blast our way through that. Thank you for that update,
dark Echo. Oh hell yeah, let's go collecting belts left and right.
Mister, you get a you got a gas break dip out of here,
don't you. I do. Everyone have a great weekend. Thank you
for humoring that you're dealing with today. Yeah, okay, yeah, likewise,
take it easy everybody. Bye bye, Levey you s bye. Oh
oops, now people can see what was behind Jeff. Uh. Do you
just need a quick bricky break before we get to the hot topic of the
week or you get to keep a small one? All right, let's fad
the black real quick. We'll see you right after this hot topic on BombCast
Revengeance Moms. We were really I had this thorowly idea earlier in the week
and then I thought, I can only think of cooking Mama as an actual
Yeah, you're a coward at Janet Show. Oh don't worry, we know
because I was just thinking of Shoot moms, I am too, dude.
We got well, I mean, we got both on the screen right now.
We have moms. We got mommies. Jan I am offended that you
promised me moms and you want to weasel your way on this. No,
I say, nay, sir, I will have my mommy episode episode all
right. Thank god we didn't have like a like Lucy Bailey. Bailey would
be so down for this, don't you. She appreciates mom I mean on
Women's Day of course, of course respectfully, because like I, I,
Greb and I were talking this morning, was like, oh, maybe we
do an animal draft of like that a lot. We're gonna do that eventually.
We should do that, because you know we could and the animals and
animal well crash bandicoot and dinas for animals. This Pikachu count. That's what
I want to know, our Pokemon animals. I feel like you can only
do if you're gonna pick a Pokemon in an animal draft, you can only
pick one Pokemon, Like how oh yeah, so adamant Mike is as he
just says, no, of course he has a strong opinion about this because
like you should only be able to like if you pick Pikachu, you can't
also pick like another Pokemon in your in your roster Okay, yeah, that's
that's yeah, basically what we do for one Pokemon. Yeah, one one
Pokemon rule. But than Sean uh ever, ever, the Eager Beaver yeah
has has set up a little presentation for us today. That's right. So
my question to you all, I have a variety of suggestions. I I
utilize my powers of the giant bomb Twitter account, I ask people. I
got some many friends of the site to help us out a little bit with
this. We got all kinds of moms for everyone to appreciate today because moms
are great. We got Mother's Day coming up or the weekend. That's why
we're doing this. We're not just horny for no reason, nor do with
anything never. No, My question to you all is, uh, what's
the format we're doing here? You want to do like a top five?
Do you want to just pick the one the mom like? Because I you
know, we we've been doing a lot of wares. I'm not sure that
it's per se. Don't want to draft moms. Something about drafting moms and
like and like putting a top like moms to do a top five seems tawdry.
But something about like good work tear ranking them doesn't feel bad for some
reason. But so so let's tell the mom how good she is. Yeah,
given arbitrary rating to the mom. Three men saying, hey, we
really like this one. But let's just not like mom queen, right,
like prom queen, Like, let's just just mom queen. We're not saying
that anyone else is like like bad or anything. We're just saying, no,
you're this year's number one mom, top mom. Okay, mom of
the year, Mom of the year. Yeah, I like mom queen because
then, uh, you know that mom would pull a mean girls and just
break up the tr and give it to her fellow moms. Exactly. That's
the good what the good mom is gonna do? Yes, yes, or,
in the case of the mom we have on screen here, probably divide
amongst the daughters. Yes, well, yeah, that's that's generosity, you
know you I my mom used to eat the bad parts of food, or
not the bad parts of food, but like, uh yeah, like,
oh, I don't want this piece of chicken anymore because I ate all the
skin. Mom it okay, uh we have on the screen here, lady,
d yes, we do. I want to ask you guys, first,
do you have any suggestions throughout the right away that you thought of ahead
time when we were like mulling this over or anything. For Telly's mother from
Goonies two, well, I think gaming Goodies Too is a video game.
It's not a movie. There is no Goonies to movie. God you kids.
Yeah, I wouldn't know that because I'm not ancient. Your dinosaur.
Also, it's a joke. Yeah, yeah, we're not doing for Telly's
mom. Uh well, you know cooking mama. There's Bayonetta. There's certain
characters in Catherine that can be mom adjacent, defending on how you play that
game. Yes, the nurse in one in Persona four? Is it Persona
four or is it five? Oh yeah yeah, like like the evil nurse.
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's not evil to me. Buddy, she
bad you though, I can fix her. Okay, okay, yeah,
I'll defer to you. Sean and your mom mom Pertisse cool. Well,
obviously the first one I had on my mind was Lady Dimitrisque from Resident Evil
eight. I think she's a modern mom, that good mother or to her
children, also a mommy as we as the Internet has reminded us going down
the line. Here some suggestions that people have brought to us. I think
I am mind lined up here. First, I have, first of all,
your mom from the Pokemon sit. Yeah, that first person, first
person you talk to and you like head out on your way for most journeys
and everything, you know. I also I do I like her representation as
a mother of like, no, you need to go out there and do
your thing. I understand that, but I do still love you and I
carry you. I'm here, like I'm here for you when if you want
to come home and like just talk, I'm here, trust you. She
she is a Pokemon center in her back pocket, you know. And hey,
in some games, she even saves your money for you because she knows
that you are bad at that exactly. I like that my real mom.
Yeah, it's really warm, I think so. I definitely think she's up
there. It's yeah, it's a it's a presence that you feel and you're
not annoyed with, you know, she's not overbearing. Next, we have
Lusimine, also from the Pokemon series, specifically Pokemon's Son and Moon. Now
Lucimine is the mom to two of the protagonists's story who aren't You Sun and
Moon actually has a solid story. Maybe now goes black and white. But
I really enjoyed this. There's a lot going on there. It was really
cool to have a Pokemon game that was about the family relationships and maybe even
abusive relationships sometimes that can heal over time. And I think Lucimine is just
a really cool character. And you know, she turns into this at the
end of the game, and that's doing a lot for me. All right,
Yeah yeah audio listeners. She falls victim to alien goop and things happen.
Yeah, her hair goes from blonde to burnett, so now you know
she's evil brenette rainbow colored goops like that. Okay, fair enough. Last
one here from Pokemon. That's not a Pokemon at all. That's Elena Fisher
from the Uncharted series. Where did I put the other mom from Pokemon?
Are you okay? Can I guess what the mom you were going to bring
up? Uh? Do you know what it is? We'll say it.
We'll say it. But Elena Fisher from Uncharted. Uh, if you've played
Uncharted for you know becomes a mom eventually. Yep. Yeah, I think
we talk about that now. Yeah, and she like she does a good
job, like you know, this is before I think they have the kid,
but like having the night in where they're making dinner and playing like Crash
Bandicoot and stuff. Again like make it, make it a house that like
feels warm and safe and like it's a fun place to be. And then
you get that sense like when you do jump forward spoiler warning for and Charge
four you should have played already a bastards jumping forward to like when the kid
is is older, you get the sense, just like looking around the house
really quickly that that has been the the status quo ever sets just like these
parents making a really nice home for this kid. Yeah. I like the
way that game ended, in what was happening there, And frankly, I
think that's why I'm okay on Charge for maybe being it for a while.
Oh definite that way. Yeah, okay, so we actually do have Pokemon
next if this works correctly, kengis gone all right, Yeah that's great.
Yeah, Top Top, definitely Top. She's always looking out for her baby.
And you know what, you know what Mega kingis Khan is I know,
Jeff doesn't. The baby comes out of the power. Ah dang,
that's all they do for Mega Kanusky. It's cool though, because they can
double up attacks now that the baby's out the pouch. Yeah, iconic mom,
I think definitely. Also, you know, Kengis Khan, normal type
mom, just showing that motherhood. Uh, you don't need to be extra
fancy. You can just be a normal mom and that's enough. How is
this the first time I'm hearing the name Kengis Khan as in like kangaroo Genghis
Khan. Yes, that's incredible. How is how are you Pokemons fans not
talking about that constantly? Because there's because every name is a pun. I
know, it's never so good. I know a lot of them are.
See whenever you and Mike like stumble over this stuff, I'm like, yeah,
it's just a pun. It's just the English words or some other stuff.
Man, Mike apparently never realized that Phoenix moment. Grub grub here,
Sean and I could probably bounce off maybe like two or three Pokemon. But
like, what if I told you there is a Pokemon that is a sand
castle or a pile of sand called pallow sand. They're so good at it.
They are like a pile of pig is just a pile of swine.
Ah, it's very good. What about this? What about this there's a
chandelier ghost Pokemon called Chandelure. Oh yeah, I love it all. I
love it. Okay, top to yourself. Did you know this one though,
grub that it's called squirrel because he has like a squirrel like tail.
Yeah, I did put that together, So a squirrel yeah, but and
then he scores scorts water yea, yeah, yeah, there's layers to it.
Yeah, that's I do. Always like appreciate that they are these companies.
Well, Nintendo when they help out with the Pokemon company with the translation,
always feel like they have to have the triple entendra. Sometimes they challenge
themselves. They're very good at what they do. Sometimes it doesn't always hit,
but they're very Yeah. Just don't look up the Japanese name for umbrion
over, look up the Japanese name from I know that one. Moving on,
we have some suggestions that I got off of Twitter. First off,
pretty obvious one. Mother brain did not think of this one. Now.
Not a great mother, not a good mother. Yeah, see, kind
of abusive relationship with anyone who might call her mom right exactly. Not nurturing.
But if you're not gonna be a mother with with nurturing, be one
with fear and she definitely has that going for her. So yeah. And
also from the Metroid series. You know, I didn't include this because it's
a loose connection, but Samus is kind of a mom because the baby Yeah,
yes, totally imprinted honors. He kind of counts there. Next we
have the mom from Night in the Woods. I'm sorry if this character is
a name, I haven't played the game. I didn't know I played it,
don't remember. Okay. Also the mom from Yeah, which I've heard
very good things about, Jane. I believe you played this, right,
Yeah, this This almost cracked my top ten lists last year. This is
a very emotional game, emotionally driven game, and I think they recently are
there in the process of releasing a little cookbook based off of the in the
game, right right, yeah, yeah, very sweet game. Yeah,
all about your relationship with your mom and like how do you play as a
mom at first, and then the perspective shifts to the sun pictured here.
Okay, Yeah, And it's just like the general the tale as old as
time of like children up growing their parents and then the parents getting upset about
that, and then y'all eventually finding each other through circumstances at the end.
All right, Uh, Vanilla the Rabbit Jeff Grubb's favorite character series. Of
course, Yeah, I did not. Oh, I guess she kind of
looks mommy in this I see. I mean she's literally Creamed the Rabbit's mom.
Okay, you know, all right, I just when I when I
look at these characters, I just assumed that was also Cream the Rabbit.
I didn't realize separate characters. I didn't know their Cream the Rabbit had a
mom. Yeah, what game is this from? She from? Uh,
she's just you know, she pops up there in the ether. Yeah,
she's like she's I think she actually may have originated from the anime from SoC
X, but then they added her into like SoC Advance because Cream's in there,
and yeah, she's she's popped up Cream the Rabbit. Everyone. Yeah,
yeah, Cream the Rabbit and Vanilla the Rabbit her mom. Sehn did
not stutter. He stood on business. That's on God for real. Uh.
We have Kazumi from the Tacking series is Kasia Mishimos. She is a
badass because she hired a Kuma to go and kill Hey Hachi, that's pretty
sick. That's so sick. That's how they got Kuma into the series.
It's pretty cool. Yeah right. Also, as Marina points out, she
wields a tiger, which is pretty bad. Okay, that's she brandishes one
is what we're saying. Okay, she will she will put the sick the
tiger on you in battle. That brings a whole new definition to the term
tiger mom. We have Sonya Blade from the Mortal Kombat series here. You
know, we're not going to talk about me some of the portrayals necessarily,
but she is the mom. She is mom to the best Mortal Kombat character
in Cassie Cage. Yes, wait what worth point one? Cassi Cage is
great? You're right? Yeah? Who are you were going to say sub
zero like a basic Yeah, yes, you got me. I know you,
I know. We have Celene from Returnal, who is a mom.
It doesn't come up often in the story, but you know there's stuff related
to that in there, so we know she's a mom. Uh, Bayonetta.
If you played Baonetta three, you know that she is a mom.
Eventually, won't say more on that because I do still want people to play
his game, but yeah, I will play it. I own that game.
For some reason. I just never really played it. I definitely think
if you were to ask someone about their Mount Rushmore of moms, Baonetta would
be like on that mountain if you said Mount Rushmore of Mommy's for sure.
Yeah, bare minimom. She's a mommy. I know that. I think
some people may not be aware that she has become a mom because they may
not played Banet three because there is she was with that game. But you
know, if you were if you were a video game character and you could
choose anyone to be your mom, I think Bayonetta would be up there.
Yep. Then we have Jesse from Honeypop. Someone suggested this on behalf of
one Mike Manatti his favorite. We all there you go. I hope you're
happy. Yeah, we can move on to the next one. We have
the boss from the Middle Gear Solid series, biological mom to revolver oslot as
I recall and also a mother figure throughout the series to variety people. Uh
as well as Ava aka Big Mama, who is the mom of what Solid
and Liquid I got to replay the Metal Gear games. Yeah, I need
when you were talking about doing that, and I know that. We have
a feature where Dan guided Drew through it. What if we just did it
all again? What if we just played what if we just didn't metal grubs
solid because he hasn't played all his games. Metal grub Solid fits. Yeah,
is like timeless. We love to get you fingerless gloves and like a
headband. Definitely tiktoks with that like Joyed a Vision song plays over it or
whatever. Yeah, that's good stuff. I'll uh yeah, I like that
metal gear Janlin, We'll do that metal grub Jandlin. There we go.
I'll pick up smoking yeah, hell yeah, you string me as the Copperson
who has at least smoked once in his life Joan. Yeah, yeah,
we don't need we can, I believe. Next, we have a couple
of suggestions from friends of the site. Once Steve Kim said, Nessa's mom,
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, who is just apparently called mom?
I learned today we never got a name. Yeah, kind similar to the
Pokemon mom, kind of just always looking out for you and everything. She
looks very pleasant, Mike Minati said, Princess Pete specifically in Super Mario Sunshine
where she says I'm your mama, Like she wouldn't remember that happening to Bowser,
junior. That portrayal of her in that game is so fucking weird.
Real she has never had a thought before? Is how they write that character
in that game. It's bizarre. It's it always made me feel weird.
Yeah, I didn't like it as a kid. Say it gave me the
ick, yeah for real. And then we had a few suggestions of Foul
Fantasy characters. We have I Fauna Aris biological mom, and Elmira her adoptive
mom. All right, but both good moms in their own ways, you
know, like it's important that we represent all the different kinds of moms out
there. I think these are two very good representations. Yes, shouts out
to adoptive moms. Yep. We have, of course, my favorite Foul
Fantasy mom, the immaculately named Claudia Strife. I loves that one. Oh
yeah, for real. That's a good gift. That's a good gift.
I know. Look, I know what I'm doing here, jan And then
following that up is, you know, things start to get a little nasty
up in here. And keeping on the f F seven theme one, John
Carson said, Genova, and what's going on there? Did you you've played
the original f F seven, right, not really. He's also seen the
scene in Rebirth in the Stream that we did with Tam for four hours.
Okay, well that's a long time. I'm sure I forgot what happened in
the middle. I don't know, not even the middle in the middle two
hours early yeah. Yeah. Uh. John also mentioned Professor Soda from Pokemon
Scarlet, specifically, she is one of the main characters moms and also one
may argue a mommy, yeah, I like the cave lady. Look is
that what? That's what's going on here? They do future and past stuff,
and so if you play Violet and you have the dad, he's a
future dude. If you play Scarlet, you have a Sada who is a
cave woman. I should probably talk to someone about that. Why is that
doing anything for me? Well? You probably Flintstones was very informative. Okay,
sure, that's what it is. You also hang out with Mike Manatti,
who thinks about the Flintstones constantly. One Alex Aiken said Sarah Carrigan,
queen of the Brood Mothers, And here we can see on the cover of
the fantastic novel by one Jeff Grubb. Oh, congrats, Jeff I'm sorry,
Yeah he's not here. Oh okay. Eric Van Allen suggested cooking Mama
fav Oh yeah, classic. I've never you know how our homies at game
Spot do expert reacts. It's primarily the firearms guy. I want to do
a spoof on that. And I guess I could pitch this to them,
and I could pitch it and then just to prove it of like maybe we
get a chef and reacting to the techniques and Cooking Mama to see if it's
sim Oh, there are so many games could do that with. Yeah,
I like that. Jan tmtmtm tmtmt Uh one Jesse Vittelli said from Hades,
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I believe you said, and I quote mother
and mommy yes vote yeah for sure both. Uh. Someone suggested link's grandma.
Who Hey, she's a mom to someone exactly. You gotta be a
mom to be a grandma. Yeah, this, like my mom is quickly
approaching this. I love it. This is my favorite. Like trope of
a mom is just like a little old and Britain. It reminds me of
the grandma from Unravel, where it's like she's character at the very beginning there
and then you're like taking her a little string. That's who You're like trying
to link her back to her children. Like, yeah, that's cool,
okay uh. And then I nominated a democracy, the mother of all that
is good in the galaxy. Yeah, to the motherland of Super Earth,
of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no arguments here,
buddy, exactly. And now we did have a couple mommy suggestions. You
guys are wrestling people. Who is this? That's mommy, that's mommy.
Yes, that's Raya Ripley. Who is mommy? I see, uh huh.
I'll just take your word from from Jan's dear audio listeners, the expression
on Jan's face when I brought this picture up. She'd say everything. And
then last one here one. Eric Van Allen is back to nominate Yesola from
Final Fantasy fourteen, who, as he points out in from the manga,
Yesla is secretly called mommy among her students. Well you did it, you
really did it. Here we are here, we are. I forget most
of the moms, so I'm gonna struggle to remember which ones name one hundred
women. Jeff Gruff, I'm busy that day. I can't all right,
who's mamma? Here. Who's I like Pokemon Mom. I also like Pokemon
on mom. I also like Keangus gone, but Kengis Gone is like jen
one mom. But I do appreciate the discovery that Jeff Grubb and Mike Minatti
had today. Forget what it was, Yes, Kazumian Tiger, Oh you
know what? That was my other front runner. Actually I like that a
lot. That's good. Kind of just wants to beat up her family,
you know, you know what when when you're in the ring, you know,
crowning the king of the Iron fist. That's very respectable. I do
like the idea of like the giant bom Twitter kind of just saying three men
have decided that Keanngis Khan is the is the mom of the year. That's
pretty good. See now, now, Jeff, are you thinking about the
goofs or the prestige and we need to remove the Goose prestige? I'm always
thinking about both, Jane, you know me, Yeah, that's right,
that's right. Prestige is just nothing but goose. I do like that.
But but Sean, I'm I don't remember ever seeing this character in Teken,
So when she you just do a combo, she brings out a tiger,
it's well he moves. Yeah, I believe it's a once per round thing.
Or maybe I'm mixing up in our character. I'm not a huge second
guy, but yeah, grub. Imagine you were watching a UFC fight and
then someone brings out a tiger for one move. I like, I mean
Brandia tiger and uh and hiring assassin a kuma. Yeah, let's do it?
Is that it is that our front runner? I think I think that's
that's our mom because I mean I think it's a Pokemon mom kngus con or
Kazumi. Yeah. Yeah, that Game of the Year where it's like the
two runners. That's top three bars. It is okaygory okay, Sean,
do you want to you want to do the honors in crowning the mommies of
the year, Mom of the Year. The Moms of the Year are in
I guess no particular order, tied for a second and third Pokemon your Mom,
as well as also from Pokemon Kangas Khan a fantastic pun and then it
seems like we are crowning for a mom a year, the Tiger mommy herself,
Cosmi, Oh my god, does an uppercut and the tiger comes out
come is part of the uppercut. That's amazing. How why is this the
first time I'm hearing of this? This is amazing. We as a society
should stop doing things we already we already peaked with tiger mom right, and
it really makes Sgott look like a bitch because he's like tiger flame and it's
just fire or whatever. Yeah, what a loser? What a loser gets
some tiger wind uppercut in your move set? Yeah, dank, you pull
that up real quick. He can people see the tiger upper. Okay,
weld on, let me just do a window cap. Uh, let's do
this and then well I just grumble away. Yeah, grumbling into like the
best thing you can do when you have to things in obs. It makes
things to go faster. I find Yeah, it's a grumbled it's a grumbled
based piece of software. It is save this image. It's a web peeking
obs just fine. Oh okay, well, if it's a gift, well
let's find out. Let's find out together. Why why not? All right
and just bring in this image here? It is great for audio listeners.
So guy did have a tiger and street Fighter five well then he should be
someone's mother too. Uh and this image is not okay, okay, let
me just do it with window catch boy, don't worry. Don't worry.
I'll cut this out of the audio versus no, no, no, keep
it in. Yeah. This is when someone is listening to a podcast and
they're like, oh crap, like I gotta go do something real quick.
This is this is your bathroom break. This is this is peak I got.
I got my Tetras shirts from seven to eleven. I'm very happy about
that. They look expect the one shirted speedway. Yes, seven eleven is
speedway. Apparently I think seven eleven bought speedway. So yes, a couple
of them say speed seven eleven, such speedway. There, I'll get that.
Look that. Wow. And you know what, we don't we don't
know about this tiger. I mean maybe we do. This tiger could also
be a mom. That's right, Yeah, good thinking, because it could
be the tiger's mom could be a mom's a tiger. Wow, layers layers
are we you know what? We don't need to relitigate this because I was
gonna pause it is she a bad mom because gin doesn't seem super cool?
But what if the kids vibes are bad? Yeah, I mean the kids
vibes are pretty bad. They could be pretty rantid all right, Yeah she
knew, Hey Hatch, he was a bad dude and hired the biggest badass
in fighting games to take him out. Very true, very true, real
quick. Happy Other's Day to everybody who celebrates. And if you don't,
I answer, the mother stuff is sensitive. Hey, take some time to
yourself this weekend. Don't even think about this, get away from it all.
And thank you so much for listening. We appreciate it. Treat yourself
to flowers, treat yourself to chocolate. Absolutely, you really did you really?
Did you really do? Uh? And hey, I think that about
Sean. Thank you so much, big dog for putting together this presentation of
moms. I deeply appreciate it. And thank you folks at home for listening
to pombcast Revengeance. If you've been watching live tuning in the whole day,
Hey, thanks a lot. Thanks for hanging uh not anything else happening this
week, because it's goddamn Friday. We're gonna get out of here, we're
gonna clock out and just just relax. And I suggest you do the same.
If you missed yesterday, we had a wonderful episode of Voicemail Dump Truck
with our friends Evil U No and Adam Cole. The chugs that Adam Cole
guy, huh what a nice jet? Seems nice? Sweet both of us
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episode of the Giant Podcast. It's just such different qualities of camera down They're
just like it's extra jarring. Tiger Mom is oo oh, Tiger Mom man