Speaker 1: Right. Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, April fifteenth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and eighty six.
Speaker 1: I'm your host jan Oh Shoa somehow figured out how
Speaker 1: to do my taxes last minute. Happy tax Day to
Speaker 1: those who celebrate, and if you followed for an extension'll
Speaker 1: see you in October. Joining us as always co captain
Speaker 1: of the ship. And he's handling all the books today.
Speaker 2: Jeff Crey. I've downloaded turbo texts and I don't know
Speaker 2: what any of this shit is.
Speaker 1: Uh, Dan Record, I'm gonna ask you if I have
Speaker 1: a file for tips or whatever for any of those
Speaker 1: venmos that people sent me.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 3: That's probably like a friends and family type situation. And
Speaker 3: maybe don't ask me. Because I got a letter yesterday.
Speaker 3: I think I might be getting audited.
Speaker 1: Speaking about auditing, we got the bad Boy Games Media
Speaker 1: and game Financing, mister Minatti.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'd be so scared if I was getting on,
Speaker 2: But that's because you're you. Dan's gonna come out with
Speaker 2: more money. Like when he's done getting on, let.
Speaker 3: Me call clarify because I don't think it's a problem,
Speaker 3: and you tell me if you think this is a problem.
Speaker 3: So my taxes are very complicated because there are a
Speaker 3: bunch of stuff going on, and one of them is
Speaker 3: fire Escape and we have the LLC that's in Delaware,
Speaker 3: and so I got a letter from Delaware yesterday being like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're kind of holding on to your thing until we're
Speaker 3: just kind of looking at some stuff. I'm what does
Speaker 3: that mean? So I got a hold of the ladies
Speaker 3: do my taxes, and they're a company that's like a
Speaker 3: tax firm tax and the Yeah, they've done a great
Speaker 3: job with it, and I just I give them the forms.
Speaker 3: So like when I get the ten ninety nine from
Speaker 3: my fire Escape, I give it to them. They file
Speaker 3: all the stuff I pay them, and so like should
Speaker 3: all be there's no weirdness going on there, And they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's not really an audit. They're just reviewing it. But like,
Speaker 3: let us know if you hear anything else from that, it's.
Speaker 2: You know, if it's Delaware. Did you get a letter
Speaker 2: from the I R S Or from the state of Delaware.
Speaker 1: I think it was the state of Delaware.
Speaker 2: You're fine, Delaware thing.
Speaker 3: I'm not like doing weird write offs or anything.
Speaker 4: It's like I've been nervous just because like when I
Speaker 4: do my taxes right now, I'm doing the laziest way possible,
Speaker 4: where taxually nine has this thing right basically just upload
Speaker 4: a bunch of documents and I fill out a couple
Speaker 4: of forms and then they just they do it. And
Speaker 4: I don't think it's the most efficient way, but it's
Speaker 4: sure is the easiest.
Speaker 2: Uh So I like doing that.
Speaker 4: But it's also like I don't know if I really
Speaker 4: have anybody in my corner over there, it's gonna come
Speaker 4: and help me out too much if I suddenly get audited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I my I kind of have a tax person
Speaker 1: and he called me this Sunday and he's an old, old,
Speaker 1: old Filipino man. That is the most remugeny person i world.
Speaker 2: I wanted to do my taxes.
Speaker 1: Just give me twenty thirty years, greb uh. And he
Speaker 1: just calls me and he goes, I know you haven't
Speaker 1: filed for of your taxes yet, Dracula.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to do a Filipino accent, so I
Speaker 5: think I did a no SA.
Speaker 2: File your taxes.
Speaker 4: I am just picturing the Filipino version of like that
Speaker 4: old guy with the cigar who calls Homer about like
Speaker 4: his stock and the power put.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty much him and I. I he told me,
Speaker 1: just drop up your envelope your W twos in the
Speaker 1: male books, and then I did, and then he like
Speaker 1: he stumbles out of there like that he was expecting
Speaker 1: me and waiting for me the whole day. And then
Speaker 1: I go like, hey, thanks for doing this, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: I'll see you next year. And he does this every
Speaker 1: single year, and I tell him. I try and be
Speaker 1: jovial a joke with him, Hey, like i'll see you
Speaker 1: next year, thanks for doing my taxes, and he just
Speaker 1: always goes if I live that long, I like it,
Speaker 1: like that energy, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, all the things of him, like predicting you coming.
Speaker 2: He does sound like Gary Oldman in uh Stove Stroke
Speaker 2: Broker Stoker. I always puss up the brand part and
Speaker 2: then the stroker comes out and I'm like, no, it's
Speaker 2: Stoker brand Stroker to come out, not bad. No, you
Speaker 2: never want that. You want to keep that hidden away.
Speaker 2: But it sounds like Gary Oldman in that movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good movie. I don't know if you've
Speaker 3: seen it recently. It's like weird in a super fun way,
Speaker 3: because it's like.
Speaker 2: In that weird period where where they're like, uh, special effects,
Speaker 2: like you could go in any direction, but they're like,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna do it cheap on a like on
Speaker 2: a stage, and it has this ethereal awesome matte paintings.
Speaker 1: And stuff like really fucking cool stuff. It's awesome. He
Speaker 1: his den area that I've been in a couple of times.
Speaker 1: It's the most confusing before no no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: my tax guy. Okay, I haven't been a Draculas in
Speaker 1: a minute. I don't know what he's up to, because
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we need to enter someone's domain. You
Speaker 1: you can kind of tell what they're into sometimes where
Speaker 1: they lean politically and kind.
Speaker 2: Of walking to dance house and know what he's all about.
Speaker 2: That seems far fetched certain rooms because like, okay, he'll
Speaker 2: have he has like a lot.
Speaker 1: Of American flags everywhere, and I understand, like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know you're proud to be an American you immigrated here.
Speaker 1: I get that. Uh. And then like he'll have some
Speaker 1: like uh he has like a framed Giants jersey that's
Speaker 1: signed by like the World Series team, and then he
Speaker 1: has a picture of Obama and then he has like
Speaker 1: uh you know, maybe some uh firearms displayed and then
Speaker 1: like a stuffed head somewhere. I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 1: where you go, man, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, yeah, I can't tell you all about my
Speaker 4: worry today.
Speaker 1: Yeah please.
Speaker 2: I was at the Zoo this past weekend. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I didn't mean to laugh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, no, it was my series. Aren't you
Speaker 2: at the zoo every day you're there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I got, I got.
Speaker 4: I did get one Gorilla's joke from my brother when
Speaker 4: I was standing by that exhibit, and that was great.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But they had a like a silent auction. It was
Speaker 2: like a form auction.
Speaker 4: This had all these items and you just like write
Speaker 4: your name on like the next bit and you put
Speaker 4: your contact information. I was at first I saw this
Speaker 4: Lord of the Rings thing. It was like a photo
Speaker 4: of Gallam Zoo Bam and Frodo.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like most of it was like Pittsburgh Sports parapher Newly.
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, Pittsburgh, No, absolutely not. They're from
Speaker 2: the Shire.
Speaker 1: Subdivision or something. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, oh, well, okay, I'll put my name
Speaker 4: on this thing. So like I was like the new
Speaker 4: highest bidder for this sign thing of uh, you know,
Speaker 4: Elijah Wood.
Speaker 2: And and Rudy what's his face? I was like what,
Speaker 2: But then like I didn't even notice they have one.
Speaker 4: It's like a cloth screenshot of Mike Tyson's punch out
Speaker 4: signed by Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I got to put my name
Speaker 2: on this.
Speaker 4: And then like only after I like put eight the paper,
Speaker 4: I'm like, we'll be nice to win one of those.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to win both of
Speaker 2: them because they are kind of expensive.
Speaker 4: So now I'm like looking at my email all day
Speaker 4: seeing if I get emailed by the Zoo to tell
Speaker 4: me if I have to like go and pay them
Speaker 4: a bunch of money for a signed to do dads.
Speaker 1: Did you win? Wait?
Speaker 3: So you don't know, but.
Speaker 4: I was winning bids and they weren't getting like a
Speaker 4: ton of bids, and it was basically one day with
Speaker 4: the auction. So it's one of these things where it's
Speaker 4: like if I win, that's kind of cool. I think
Speaker 4: ideally I would just win one of them. That would
Speaker 4: make me happy if I want to.
Speaker 2: That's too much winning. I'm tired of winning. If I
Speaker 2: won zero, then it's like, well, this is bullshit while
Speaker 2: I am I not a winner? So is it Mario
Speaker 2: referee going tko and Mike Tyson flexing his arm? Is it?
Speaker 2: What does it look like?
Speaker 3: I took a picture he signed a million of these things?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm like, I'm looking on seven five seven
Speaker 2: sports Collectibles and it's got this thing right here and
Speaker 2: it's two nine on this website.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's exactly what it is. This is Mike Tyson
Speaker 4: is waying for your challenge on the bottom. I think so, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: My bit I think was around there. I'll say that
Speaker 4: it's like I was getting some deal on it or anything.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's like I feel like that's the thing, Like
Speaker 4: the prices weren't so so cheap that it's like, well,
Speaker 4: I'm getting a deal here. I could just go and
Speaker 4: buy this thing on this site. This looks a little
Speaker 4: different than mine, jefft basically okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they all kind of look like that, and I'm
Speaker 3: slightly different. Yeah, did you get a teleprompter?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Why would you ask? That's a
Speaker 2: very weird question.
Speaker 3: The unbroken eye contact and also that slight haze that
Speaker 3: happens when it's the cameras looking through a screen with
Speaker 3: stuff on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, yeah, I think I need to like turn
Speaker 2: down the brightness on it because it's creating out full screen.
Speaker 3: Did and so you get any any of the borders
Speaker 3: or anything the white stuff, it will cause that haze.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I noticed the eye contacts like, oh, I
Speaker 3: think you gotta telegraph.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jean Luke said it to me, actually shout outs
Speaker 2: to them. It was I'm like, oh, yeah, that'll be
Speaker 2: good for like the social stuff when I'm doing game
Speaker 2: breaking news. So yeah, I got you all on a
Speaker 2: little box over there. Hi, fellas, Hi, get me out
Speaker 2: of here. That's what it looks like if you're like
Speaker 2: a little camera prison.
Speaker 1: Uh camera prison.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Before we get into games, I was helping my partner
Speaker 1: out with like a school event and then somehow, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they had a Bay Area legend perform a
Speaker 1: song event. No, not not Rakishi, no for my fellow
Speaker 1: bedestrians out there. For whatever reason, the the o tour
Speaker 1: behind the song I got grapes Nump n Ump Filipino. Dude.
Speaker 1: It's actually a banger of a track. Y'all should go
Speaker 1: listen to it. Uh was backstage and I was talking
Speaker 1: to him and like I was just telling him like
Speaker 1: yo nump, thank you for like representation, thank you for
Speaker 1: like representing the bay. And then he he he like
Speaker 1: DAPs me up and then he just goes yoh, yadaa mean,
Speaker 1: and then I just yelled back at him, yadaa mean.
Speaker 5: We were just stuck there for like a solid minute
Speaker 5: and a half, just like redapping each other up and
Speaker 5: yelling yatata mean at each other, and it was I
Speaker 5: just felt like we were like charging something up.
Speaker 1: We were about to do like a fusion dance or something.
Speaker 2: Like rubbing a balloon on your hair, like you're really
Speaker 2: just exchanging energy. Sure exactly.
Speaker 1: Oh it's just so good. And I feel like Nick
Speaker 1: before GB at Night, before every segment grub. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna do that and I'm not gonna count you down anymore,
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I don't need that. I need I need to
Speaker 2: be a mean exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep We're gonna I'm gonna go down the
Speaker 1: line of guests on the couch. I'm gonna dap them up,
Speaker 1: like I can't wait to dap up Jason Schreyer and
Speaker 1: go yat at a mean and then we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: going and it's gonna escalate, and then it's gonna get
Speaker 1: to you grub and then after the last yat ata mean,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go up right, But.
Speaker 3: I want that couch to be Jason Schreier and Jacob Fattu.
Speaker 2: Spencer.
Speaker 1: You imagine we go to a gaming event and like
Speaker 1: we're taking a demo, Jason Schreyer walks into the room
Speaker 1: and then he just looks at you. You got three minutes.
Speaker 1: He just brings out the three minute warning again.
Speaker 3: But Jacob, anyway, we got Drew Scalen on a couch
Speaker 3: with Samoa Joe.
Speaker 1: Everything died? No, uh uh us? Chat?
Speaker 3: Hello, chat, I Hi, we can vamp, we can vamp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think the stream died.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can still hear everything died. Let's see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was an exaggeration.
Speaker 1: Oh good, here here us We're still here.
Speaker 3: Now, okay, the chat's here. I'm gonna say a number,
Speaker 3: all right, uh ten ten ten, ten, all right, so
Speaker 3: chat if I see tens, I know you can actually
Speaker 3: see us, but there's a delay, so we'll see now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, all right, tens.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, all right, Well this is awkwards. We're waiting.
Speaker 4: We were we were waiting for the transition to games.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the hell I can vamp about
Speaker 4: right now. You want to hear more about the zoo? Yeah,
Speaker 4: what was your favorite animal? There was a sea otter
Speaker 4: who you know how they do sometimes do cart wills
Speaker 4: in the I was.
Speaker 2: Gonna interrupted be like that's so boring, but now I'm
Speaker 2: actually shootings.
Speaker 4: Was eating his own ass like he was just going
Speaker 4: to town on a place of spaghetti or something like,
Speaker 4: and he was doing he was like eating it. And
Speaker 4: then everyone saw he do the cartwheel on the water
Speaker 4: because he's just like looks like a tire and.
Speaker 2: He's just munching. He's just mudgeing.
Speaker 4: And like me and all the kids, all the thoughts
Speaker 4: are just staring at this this sea hotter just.
Speaker 2: Eating his ass like a man on a miss ship.
Speaker 2: I couldn't stop. Look, he just kept calling. I was like,
Speaker 2: I think you got it, buddy. He's like, no, this
Speaker 2: is more to do. There's more to eat in there,
Speaker 2: just calling. I took I was like, I guess I
Speaker 2: got to take a videos. I took a video.
Speaker 5: Share.
Speaker 2: I'll send you guys the video, please.
Speaker 4: I need just eating his ass in the water and
Speaker 4: doing flips and kidding.
Speaker 1: I was like a good time.
Speaker 2: I'm still I'm still a little hung up on like
Speaker 2: a plate of spaghetti without utensil. Was just burying his
Speaker 2: face in there like there, oh sa.
Speaker 3: It was something from chat chat says Mike is weirder
Speaker 3: than Dan.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm just reporting back.
Speaker 2: I'm just the man on the seat. He's just reporting
Speaker 2: the facts, all right. I would have also been like, hum,
Speaker 2: that's quite a while now. My cat eats his butt
Speaker 2: all the time. But it was it like that's work.
Speaker 2: I could tell that he's doing this for work. He
Speaker 2: doesn't really want to be doing it.
Speaker 4: Cute cat, Hey, jack cat, that's boss.
Speaker 2: Boss is a good name. That's boss.
Speaker 3: He's got his job to funk for two years and
Speaker 3: now he's getting neutered and retiring at my house.
Speaker 1: Uh my dog my Dogsler broke Sorry for that games,
Speaker 1: let's talk about him.
Speaker 3: Godler sound great?
Speaker 1: I updated the other what Jesus Christ ship that happens
Speaker 1: when I leave for a second. What Mike was talking
Speaker 1: about all of it?
Speaker 2: Oh good?
Speaker 1: I felt like I was trapped in a glass camera
Speaker 1: box Yester, just please stop him all right, speaking about
Speaker 1: eating ass, I.
Speaker 3: Oh, you got that room of blueprints?
Speaker 1: Yes, let me tell you there were a different set
Speaker 1: of prints in that room before we hit to Blue
Speaker 1: Prince Talk. I just wanted to say that I've been
Speaker 1: playing a lot of a board game called Settlers of Catan.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's good.
Speaker 2: Played in a while, but I like that game quite
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 1: I have nothing new to say about Settlers of Tan
Speaker 1: except I.
Speaker 2: Felt in there. I'm sorry watching the video of the otter. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: And that was like after watching this guy for three
Speaker 4: men and I said he was doing flips and stuff.
Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry, chan.
Speaker 1: No, I just felled out a rabbit hole, a very
Speaker 1: different hole than Mike is talking about. Of people planning
Speaker 1: and doing speed and like competitive catan, and it is
Speaker 1: absolutely bad shit because like people have gigantic breakdowns of like,
Speaker 1: all right, if you ever have like the planes next
Speaker 1: to a mountain, no matter what the dice roll is,
Speaker 1: you want to position here and like your first settlement
Speaker 1: or whatever, that's just a dummy settlement. You're using block
Speaker 1: off people.
Speaker 2: It's been game theory optimized, like poker or whatever.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Like there was someone talking about like you
Speaker 1: have to be very bullish with one of your settlements,
Speaker 1: and like you just never you just build the road.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter if you're going for longest road.
Speaker 1: You're just trying to get people off. And like just
Speaker 1: the the gusto that some of these A Tanner's are
Speaker 1: talking about and how they're talking about it, it just
Speaker 1: makes me think, I don't actually want to play anything
Speaker 1: with you. It seems too serious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just like messing around when I'm playing games
Speaker 3: for fun, especially the tabletop games.
Speaker 2: That's like, I mean, I get everyone's got their scene,
Speaker 2: but that's definitely like a space I would only ever
Speaker 2: want to be like, I am playing this with friends
Speaker 2: and or family for a night and then I probably
Speaker 2: will never think about it again. That's I know. Some
Speaker 2: people it's like their whole thing though, so you know,
Speaker 2: no shade to them.
Speaker 1: Do you.
Speaker 3: Do you two ever ever play Carcasson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's around the same time as I was playing Katon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the XPLA.
Speaker 3: That's how I got introduced to Sure I got I
Speaker 3: got an email today about a game coming out that
Speaker 3: just I'm very very intrigued by this. Apparently it's Tetris
Speaker 3: meets carcassone. H this game is a drop it drop Duchy,
Speaker 3: drop Ducci. I'm just looking at It's got a cool
Speaker 3: art style, and it's uh, this is suddenly on my radar.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's just like a deck builder Tetris Carson game.
Speaker 1: And that sounds real good to me.
Speaker 2: That sounds interesting for sure. I would like that.
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking about decks. Later today, Jake Decker and I
Speaker 1: and maybe some other folks will be uh participating and
Speaker 1: opening some some good old magic the Gathering packs, oh dear.
Speaker 1: And then yes, the fine folks at Wizards of the
Speaker 1: Coast sent over some darker dragon Storm booster boxes and
Speaker 1: a Commander deck. You know, we we uh hung out
Speaker 1: a little bit with a kind of funny gang last week.
Speaker 1: I feel like I might just barge in there in
Speaker 1: just like play, just set up a tabletop mat of
Speaker 1: a deck, Matt and just just play with snow bike,
Speaker 1: mic and blessing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just attack them with magic yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: To their spot. Oh yeah, I could just roll downhill.
Speaker 2: Okay, glad he did that packspanel just like god some
Speaker 2: summer ste Oh my god, I don't think I've recovered.
Speaker 1: I think that's what what did it for me? Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably that I haven't gotten the chance to play too
Speaker 1: many other things, but I did play a bunch of
Speaker 1: blue prints, And as I understand it, and I've heard
Speaker 1: from y'all, I think you guys like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let let's talk about this real quick. The backlash
Speaker 2: is surprising to you guys at all.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of confused by it. What's the deal? What
Speaker 3: are people mad about?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know it's got it's like mixed on
Speaker 2: Steam or whatever, or like, are mostly good, It's in
Speaker 2: that range. My thing is when people are talking about
Speaker 2: their complaints, I get it, but at a certain point,
Speaker 2: we're just talking about a completely different game, like your
Speaker 2: experience four or five hours in, it's so removed from
Speaker 2: what I have done in that game that like, I
Speaker 2: appreciate that if you were saying it's not for you
Speaker 2: after that amount of time, but like, we just can't
Speaker 2: have a real constructive conversation about the games because I like,
Speaker 2: it's a completely it's turned into a different game like
Speaker 2: two or three times for me at this point, but.
Speaker 4: It's so weird to me, Like, like I get that,
Speaker 4: and yeah, it gets more complicated, it gets better, but
Speaker 4: I also thought the game was very good almost immediately. Also,
Speaker 4: I mean this is always bound to happen to some
Speaker 4: suctent because it's still more of a niche genre, right,
Speaker 4: So a lot of people are gonna play almost any
Speaker 4: game that gets like A ninety or above and then
Speaker 4: find out, well, I don't like this.
Speaker 2: Genre or things like that.
Speaker 4: That's definitely happening, right, And you know, it's like it's
Speaker 4: always a little weird, and I don't want. I know,
Speaker 4: the most obnoxious thing ever is to tell somebody you
Speaker 4: just don't get it.
Speaker 2: So I won't. I'll try not to.
Speaker 4: But there are like some of them plates I hear
Speaker 4: are surprised me, Like a lot of people complain about
Speaker 4: the RNG, and I'm like, that's not really, that's not
Speaker 4: really what the game's about. I know it is, but
Speaker 4: I don't know. I never felt bad about the RNG
Speaker 4: and the.
Speaker 2: And then for me, like I always I mean, like
Speaker 2: going back to your thing like where it's like grinding
Speaker 2: in an RPG, where it's like that's playing the game like.
Speaker 3: Here, like I No No Run was for not you
Speaker 3: know as I played through that game.
Speaker 1: Is it basically people.
Speaker 3: That are like doing the Sewan thing? Of playing that
Speaker 3: a little bit and being.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, like the like there's the sean camp of
Speaker 2: people are like, oh, puzzle games are not my genre,
Speaker 2: and those I'm like, oh, this game is not for you.
Speaker 2: That's it's just that step up and then yes, yes,
Speaker 2: And then there's the other side of I love puzzle games,
Speaker 2: the Witness, all these other things missed. I love the stuff,
Speaker 2: but the RNG, I hate it. And you know that's
Speaker 2: not been my experience. It's kind of where I'm at
Speaker 2: with that. I'm like, the RNG has made me more
Speaker 2: engaged because each run I have a base foundational gameplay
Speaker 2: mechanic to get better at, to understand more, to deploy
Speaker 2: knowledge in. And I can have a run that I
Speaker 2: can try to shape, you know, in this direction, and
Speaker 2: then if things start going sideways, I try to roll
Speaker 2: with the punches and I love that in the game
Speaker 2: or it's it ends and then I go again, and
Speaker 2: now I've got even more aformation.
Speaker 4: There's no punishment for having run die right, So yeah,
Speaker 4: but I guess, you know, some people just have roadblocks
Speaker 4: and some people have roebucks about a lot of things.
Speaker 4: You know, every game, right, it's like this, there's still
Speaker 4: people when you bring up Breath for the Wild will
Speaker 4: complain about weapon degradation or something like that, right, and
Speaker 4: certain point to be like, well, that's still one of
Speaker 4: the best games of all time, even though some people
Speaker 4: don't like it. And the internet this way, right, whenever
Speaker 4: people don't like something, you're they're the ones that you
Speaker 4: you hear from.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that their opinions aren't.
Speaker 4: Valid or anything like that, but yeah, I'm it's a
Speaker 4: little surprising. Maybe part of it is because you know,
Speaker 4: way I got rizzed up a lot by us, and
Speaker 4: to be clear, because we absolutely love it and we
Speaker 4: think it's one of the best games in the kind
Speaker 4: of really, I'm kind of like, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 4: force myself to stop because there's other things I really
Speaker 4: should be playing, and I rode credits a while ago,
Speaker 4: but I still just love pulling on all these different strings.
Speaker 4: There's all these different puzzles, like entire new mechanics. I
Speaker 4: am still somehow discovered just discovered.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah I haven't. I haven't seen in the room.
Speaker 1: You know. That's what I love about this game versus
Speaker 1: other games, is that I have heard y'all ad nauseum
Speaker 1: at this point talk about this game, and there's still
Speaker 1: a gigantic chunks where like I have no fucking clue.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like, I've been playing for I don't know.
Speaker 2: I can look at my Steam counter, but it's a
Speaker 2: lot that's gonna be way off. I left it on
Speaker 2: all night last night because I had to solve a
Speaker 2: puzzle in roommate and I didn't want to stop. But
Speaker 2: I've been playing for very long, and there's still so
Speaker 2: much like at this point, it's not like I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I got credits and I understand twenty percent. At this point,
Speaker 2: it's like I understand most of it, but there are
Speaker 2: massive chunks that I still have not even engaged with
Speaker 2: or fully have even comprehended. I'm like getting to piece
Speaker 2: together the lore, and like I got to another place
Speaker 2: in like a room, you know, not even in the house,
Speaker 2: that just kind of unlocked so much more information about
Speaker 2: who some of these characters are. And I'm like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I guess I should have let that one
Speaker 2: thing that said don't get too political. I should have
Speaker 2: read into that more. There's more going on here.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, I gosh, I basically just read a short
Speaker 4: story the other day and it was like very good.
Speaker 4: It was like a well written short story and I
Speaker 4: was really interested in it. And I know it ties
Speaker 4: into the game world somehow. I know it's probably about
Speaker 4: a location that I haven't been to yet. I think
Speaker 4: some of that is correcting itself, Jeff, Like, you know,
Speaker 4: it's Steam. It's a very positive now right right, there
Speaker 4: was growing. I think there's something a little bit there
Speaker 4: because there were a flot of people who are like,
Speaker 4: I guess we're all gonna check this out, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I'm gonna be for everyone.
Speaker 1: For me, I enjoy the run based nature. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: just because I enjoyed roguelikes at this point because of
Speaker 1: I've gained this genre. Yeah yeah, yeah, But like it
Speaker 1: has me hooked in a way with Blueprints in such
Speaker 1: a way that I, uh, in a different way where
Speaker 1: I bounced off of Lorali and the Laser Eyes and
Speaker 1: that like I really enjoy the setting of Lorali. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed all of the puzzles there. Uh, And like
Speaker 1: you know, there is learning that is happening that you
Speaker 1: were bringing with you throughout the house. But with Blueprints
Speaker 1: in that house, it's just like a different set of skills,
Speaker 1: and when I hit a roadblock, I can just go
Speaker 1: do something else entirely and still feel like I am
Speaker 1: making tangible rights. Yep.
Speaker 3: I think I've been telling myself last couple of days
Speaker 3: that I'm probably done with it, but then I do
Speaker 3: find myself keep going back because like I feel like
Speaker 3: I've done like all, like I saw credits a long
Speaker 3: time ago, and I can at least see what these
Speaker 3: other puzzles are going to be, and it is definitely
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, well I could go all the way
Speaker 3: in here, and I have taken a lot of notes
Speaker 3: and stuff, but I think it would give it maybe
Speaker 3: dozens more hours for me to fully understand all this stuff.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's a stretch, but like you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: some of the post game stuff, you know, sigils and
Speaker 3: things like that and lower stuff. So I am kind
Speaker 3: of flirting with the like, Okay, I do I throw
Speaker 3: in the towel here and be comfortable with it. I
Speaker 3: think I might be, because again I got fifty sixty
Speaker 3: hours out of this game, and that's one of my
Speaker 3: favorite games.
Speaker 4: Or you could kind of like do the thing where
Speaker 4: it's like, well, maybe at this point now start looking
Speaker 4: some stuff up, right, some stuff.
Speaker 3: Like I did that with the gallery puzzle because I
Speaker 3: looked at all four of those things. That was a lot,
Speaker 3: you know, that was what the fuck is this? And
Speaker 3: so talking about?
Speaker 2: So that's yeah, so yeah, maybe I'll do that.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just like yeah.
Speaker 1: Because I do want to.
Speaker 2: I think in our discord, I think maybe we can
Speaker 2: just have an agreement, maybe talk like more openly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because there was a part of the billiard puzzle
Speaker 4: that I just couldn't figure out. I even like got
Speaker 4: to a room that I think was trying to help
Speaker 4: me figure out more, and I still was like, I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 3: I was just like, ja, I have felt actually pretty
Speaker 3: smart with the billiard and stuff with the dark board thing,
Speaker 3: because everyone's complaining about it, and they're complaining about the
Speaker 3: point where it's like, oh, no, there's a square, and
Speaker 3: it was like, oh, I'm weird things past that and
Speaker 3: I'm flying through it.
Speaker 2: Still worry about how you think you're scared of the square.
Speaker 2: You don't even.
Speaker 3: Wait till the squigglies and the dots and.
Speaker 1: The square got me.
Speaker 4: Now, now, a couple of complaints that I've seen that
Speaker 4: I do agree with it is wild that you can't
Speaker 4: suspend a run get its way through.
Speaker 2: That's that's a bit of a pain. And the wrench item.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys had troubles with this,
Speaker 4: but I got this wrench and I didn't really understand
Speaker 4: what it did, and I think I accidentally made it
Speaker 4: so a useful room is now very rare and I
Speaker 4: will almost never see it again. It might be a
Speaker 4: nestle room. I don't even remember which one for me,
Speaker 4: but I mean other people are having that problem and
Speaker 4: you can't reset it easily. So I just think the
Speaker 4: wrench wasn't explained, or maybe I'm dumb because I didn't
Speaker 4: understand what it did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't understand the wrench the first time I
Speaker 2: got it either. I think it's because you the way
Speaker 2: you interface with using the wrench is different than the
Speaker 2: way you use a lot of other items, so it
Speaker 2: like it activates when you enter a mechanical room.
Speaker 3: Basically, be careful when you get the wrench, everybody, Because
Speaker 3: I didn't get the wrench until like over fifty hours
Speaker 3: I saw wrench.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got it like one time, very late in
Speaker 4: but I think I immediately used it poorly because I
Speaker 4: didn't understand what it was.
Speaker 2: Have you been to the conservatory in the corners of
Speaker 2: the house.
Speaker 1: Like conservatory, it's a green room. It helps a ton.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I have been in there, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so hopefully it show back up in there and you
Speaker 2: can reset things a little bit right right right right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: No, I just can't wait to get to game of
Speaker 1: the year's season and learn that all of us are
Speaker 1: still playing this game or checking in like or so
Speaker 1: a week or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But boy, I was like, I am thinking about that
Speaker 4: because if we if we do the debate there again,
Speaker 4: it's like, man, well, like we really like it.
Speaker 2: Sean is a charac Tamp didn't like it, so it's
Speaker 2: just like it is.
Speaker 4: I guess I am a little surprised that as divisive
Speaker 4: as it is, well, the people who like it seem
Speaker 4: to really really like it, and other people kind of
Speaker 4: don't get.
Speaker 2: It or it really is just different games. Like I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't get it, said I didn't mean. I didn't
Speaker 2: mean it like that. I said. I wasn't gonna say
Speaker 2: they don't get it, they don't like it. You know,
Speaker 2: when you like you watch a movie and then you
Speaker 2: go on line to read the criticism and it's like,
Speaker 2: these people just watch something different than I did. The
Speaker 2: thing they saw is just win in their brain in
Speaker 2: a different way than it went in my brain. That
Speaker 2: that's what's what happened. What's happening here for me? Still,
Speaker 2: I'm like looking at a lot of the Steam reviews
Speaker 2: and it's like, Okay, well this person's got five hours.
Speaker 1: That is just a whole.
Speaker 2: Other experience than everything I've done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so there's a like so Jamie h went to
Speaker 4: do four and check it said, the one good plain
Speaker 4: I see is that the RG can break your flow state,
Speaker 4: like you know what you have to do, but the
Speaker 4: rooms you need just aren't showing up. I think so
Speaker 4: like that that goes back to what I'm saying is, Look,
Speaker 4: you have a goal and you're working towards it, but
Speaker 4: it's not necessarily the end all be all at all times,
Speaker 4: you shouldn't feel bad that you don't immediately hit that
Speaker 4: specific goal that you're working on, because I promise you
Speaker 4: there are one hundred of things happening around you and
Speaker 4: maybe you don't even think you're absorbing useful information, but
Speaker 4: just by playing the game.
Speaker 1: You are, Ye, that's right.
Speaker 3: We'll realize until you find something hours later and you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I've seen that.
Speaker 2: And the best way to spark that continues to be
Speaker 2: if you see a room you haven't been in before,
Speaker 2: go into it, ye kind of no matter what you're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you might, maybe you'll get credits really fast if you
Speaker 2: get like some god run really early on. That matters
Speaker 2: less than kind of understanding these first early ways to
Speaker 2: open up the rest of the game, and that's done
Speaker 2: by going into rooms you haven't been in before. I
Speaker 2: do plan to continue playing for the next little while.
Speaker 2: I have four red letters of eight trying to get
Speaker 2: the rest of those. I am I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm gonna like, there's more stuff happening beyond the credits,
Speaker 2: like you know, the sigil stuff. Dan, I'm I've gotten
Speaker 2: two of those, but there's a lot more than that,
Speaker 2: and so I'm like, well, that's a lot of work
Speaker 2: to kind of figure out what's going on there, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep pressing up against that, and that's sort
Speaker 2: of my big goal right now. And then as I
Speaker 2: do that, there's all kinds of smaller Stuff'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I forgot about this thing that I ignored twenty five
Speaker 2: hours ago because I couldn't figure it out. Let's take
Speaker 2: a crack at that again. And that's like happened like
Speaker 2: one of the first early puzzles that we all, like
Speaker 2: the beyond the getting to the Room forty six, that
Speaker 2: we all kind of stubbled on, and I think everyone's
Speaker 2: going to kind of do it this way because the
Speaker 2: game kind of eventually just tells you to do this
Speaker 2: one meta puzzle. I had that sitting in my notes
Speaker 2: for forever, and then finally I just saw something in
Speaker 2: another room that was like, oh, are they being cheeky
Speaker 2: with like the way that they're writing this out. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go back to that room and look around and
Speaker 2: that's like, oh okay, I found the things that I
Speaker 2: was supposed to be doing, like using his information to
Speaker 2: open a safe, and say, oh my god, that felt
Speaker 2: really good. That just finally had that click into place
Speaker 2: after so long.
Speaker 3: That is when I did look up recently, and that's
Speaker 3: the one with the larger puzzle with that we made
Speaker 3: a graph for and yeah, okay, oh.
Speaker 2: Right, I still don't think I figured that one out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, like part of it too, is
Speaker 4: I just like the vibes of this game. I love
Speaker 4: the way this bench looks. I just happy to do
Speaker 4: a run and kind of chill and vibe and go
Speaker 4: through the rooms. It's not a lot of times I'm
Speaker 4: not even necessarily think like, this is the puzzle I'm
Speaker 4: working on. I just kind of go through and see
Speaker 4: what I in lock, see what I find. Maybe I
Speaker 4: get a lot of money in this run and I
Speaker 4: can unlock something that way, or maybe I'll finally get
Speaker 4: to an item that I haven't had in a while.
Speaker 2: I could try some new things with that that I
Speaker 2: have some ideas on. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's kind of I just kind of go in there
Speaker 4: and vibe sometimes because I think the game is gorgeous
Speaker 4: and moody and atmospheric as all get ye.
Speaker 2: I just like having a plan and like try and
Speaker 2: execute on that plan and then it doesn't go right.
Speaker 2: And like I said, rolling with the punches is a
Speaker 2: major part of any Rogue Light and really any game,
Speaker 2: but any Rogue Late especially. It's like, Okay, the game
Speaker 2: is giving me this, what can I do with this?
Speaker 2: And say, oh, yeah, that reminds me. There's this one
Speaker 2: room I've been trying to get or this combination of
Speaker 2: rooms and oh yeah, I passed up the observatory and
Speaker 2: I didn't activate that one thing because I'll make red
Speaker 2: rooms happen more frequently. But now I actually do need
Speaker 2: a red room, and that will help me with this
Speaker 2: other room. So let me go back and do that.
Speaker 2: See if I can open up a few more, maybe
Speaker 2: I'll get lucky. They'll be close together. Like it's there's
Speaker 2: so many avenues for coming up with ideas while you're
Speaker 2: doing a run, after you get past the first initial
Speaker 2: setup of what the game is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fun because like at the top of my document,
Speaker 3: I have like you know, probably over a dozen like
Speaker 3: you know, threads that I'm trying to follow. And then
Speaker 3: so I'll start a run and I'll go to the
Speaker 3: outside and I'll see what three rooms are on the
Speaker 3: outside thing, and it's like, okay, well, if there's a
Speaker 3: it's a tomb day or it's a classroom day, then
Speaker 3: that'll focus me towards like, Okay, I know I've got
Speaker 3: a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Specifically for those days. So that's what this day is
Speaker 1: all about.
Speaker 3: It's trying to do the classroom stuff or if it's
Speaker 3: something that doesn't really help me, know, I just go
Speaker 3: to the tool shed or something. It's like, all right,
Speaker 3: well I've got this list of a dozen things here,
Speaker 3: and let's just see like, oh, that room popped up. Okay,
Speaker 3: so let's narrow it into that and like you find
Speaker 3: your focus for the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a decision tree kind of thing. Yeah, totally, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 4: go ahead. I'm sorry because I just I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: I saw this in chat see some other people. It's like, oh,
Speaker 4: the people really like this game are being annoying and obnoxious,
Speaker 4: and I mean, gosh, I'm not trying.
Speaker 2: To be but yeah, it's just genuine.
Speaker 4: It's just I just really really like this game, and
Speaker 4: you know, it's stupid, and sometimes there is just that
Speaker 4: natural kind of like bummed out when you hear somebody
Speaker 4: says they don't like the thing that you like.
Speaker 2: Side of it a little bit bummer to like, not
Speaker 2: like something that people are profuse about. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 2: being apologized it comes off that way. I'm not not
Speaker 2: trying to, uh, but yeah, I just really like the
Speaker 2: game a bunch, and I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: are also trying it on game Pass and PlayStation Plus
Speaker 2: and things like that. Anyways, Uh, I think that's part
Speaker 2: of it too.
Speaker 4: Maybe a lot of people are trying this game who
Speaker 4: maybe even did know better that this might not be
Speaker 4: for them, right. But yeah, but I've been there when
Speaker 4: like something super super popular and I played and I
Speaker 4: don't get it.
Speaker 2: It's a bad feeling.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's well, it seems like this was probably good
Speaker 3: and I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it happens.
Speaker 1: Uh speak grub, you were talking about rolling with the punches.
Speaker 1: Let's keep the ball rolling here, Mike Manatti, Oh you've
Speaker 1: been playing dommas.
Speaker 2: Say, yeah, you know, it's neat.
Speaker 4: I played a lot of video games, and it's rare
Speaker 4: for me to have blind spots anymore, let alone really
Speaker 4: big ones. And somehow I just never really played Katamari
Speaker 4: Domas was.
Speaker 2: I was so excited for this game. I don't even know.
Speaker 2: It must have been must have been hyping up in
Speaker 2: e GM or something.
Speaker 3: Were And it was twenty dollars, which like that was
Speaker 3: back when like every game was fifty DOLLARSS Like I like.
Speaker 2: Bought a PS two for it, like that's what I had.
Speaker 2: I am getting it. I need to play this weird game.
Speaker 2: It looks awesome.
Speaker 1: I know that for game Fly, just so I could
Speaker 1: get this.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, yeah, you know, and I knew all
Speaker 4: that discourse, Like I was very much like on all
Speaker 4: the websites and the magazines at that point. And I
Speaker 4: don't know why I just dare really get to it
Speaker 4: or didn't care that much.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I was in some weird space.
Speaker 4: Where like I was like, oh, this stuff is too quirky,
Speaker 4: which is I don't know, a stupid thing to think.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I just never got into Kadamari. So finally
Speaker 4: I picked up re Roll, which is the sort of
Speaker 4: remaster of the first one. I just played through that
Speaker 4: on my stream. It's like, boy, I get it immediately.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, how would you not? Like right, I don't
Speaker 1: think I would trust someone who played Katamara mask. He's like,
Speaker 1: I don't get.
Speaker 4: It right, Like even like I knew it was going
Speaker 4: to be quirky and silly, but it was still quirkier
Speaker 4: and sillier than I was expecting in all the best ways.
Speaker 4: The ridiculous opening seems the funny dialogue from the King
Speaker 4: of All Cause, but then I know that guy is
Speaker 4: a goofby no, he's a popular character, and I'm like, yeah, guy.
Speaker 2: This guy right here, I like this big guy with
Speaker 2: the chin. He's great. He's a weirdo.
Speaker 4: But yeah, just rolling around feels good, just that gameplay loop,
Speaker 4: starting small, getting bigger to the point where you know,
Speaker 4: it's like it's one of the best feelings in the
Speaker 4: game ever when you get to that last level and
Speaker 4: you're just basically rolling up everything. You start rolling up
Speaker 4: the islands that you're on this side the tornadoes, like
Speaker 4: just like in like that one part you started in
Speaker 4: that seemed big. Is now this tiny speck in your
Speaker 4: Katamari And the music, oh, the music music, yeah.
Speaker 2: Plays on a loop in my head all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so actually, oh go ahead daan Oh yeah, girl.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, like I remember back in the day,
Speaker 3: like I don't know if you were also intrigued by
Speaker 3: like whenever there was like Incredible Crisis or mister Mosquito
Speaker 3: just you know, very kind of wacky, very Japanese humor,
Speaker 3: like that was extremely up my alley.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's why I like, from the very first moment
Speaker 3: I like read a preview of Katamari and be like, oh,
Speaker 3: the King of all Cosmos, like basically gets drunk and
Speaker 3: breaks all the stars and you've got to roll stuff around.
Speaker 3: Like it's just like, this sounds amazing. Every screenshot looks
Speaker 3: so weird and funny, and it delivered.
Speaker 2: And then some it was like also like the first
Speaker 2: one that was like not but like an early one
Speaker 2: that was readily available, Like there were a lot of
Speaker 2: the games like that that like had this promise of
Speaker 2: weird Japanese stuff, which was always just like, man, this
Speaker 2: just looks so much fun to me. That's why I'm
Speaker 2: interested in it. But it's gonna be hard to track
Speaker 2: some of these games down, and I'm like I don't
Speaker 2: I don't have the heart to like try to go
Speaker 2: figure that out or whatever. And this one, like, no,
Speaker 2: they're just going to release this game. I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to my game store. I'm going to
Speaker 2: pre order it or whatever I have to do and
Speaker 2: make it all happen. And it was just so nice
Speaker 2: to like have it served up and and have it
Speaker 2: treated like it wasn't some weird of Japanese who's Japanese
Speaker 2: per thing. It's like, no, this is a cool game,
Speaker 2: and we're just gonna release it cause it's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I liked it so much that I did just
Speaker 4: start playing the sequel we left Katamari, which also was
Speaker 4: a remaster.
Speaker 2: Is that in the same package or it's.
Speaker 4: A separate purchase. They're both thirty dollars normally you know
Speaker 4: you can find places, but uh, yeah, and I know
Speaker 4: a lot of people like this one more. And immediately
Speaker 4: it felt smoother, like the controls were a bit tighter.
Speaker 4: It's still very silly. The aesthetics are fantastic, still great music,
Speaker 4: the objectives are a.
Speaker 2: Little bit more gimmicky. A lot of the time. I
Speaker 2: kind of wish her more levels.
Speaker 4: Dammar Jarra is there, Damn is there, and like I
Speaker 4: heard that he's kind of problem at it and now,
Speaker 4: but yeah, like you know, it's a bit more like, hey,
Speaker 4: you gotta roll a bunch of fireflies to help this
Speaker 4: person read and study at night. I'm like, okay, it's nice.
Speaker 4: Can I have more levels where it's just make a
Speaker 4: big Katamari in six minutes or something like that. It's
Speaker 4: a there's also some draw this and stuff in this one,
Speaker 4: which is weird for a remaster, specifically the things you
Speaker 4: need to roll up, but otherwise it's also just still
Speaker 4: very very very good. I'm not sure if I'm going
Speaker 4: to ultimately like it more than the first one, which
Speaker 4: I guess is maybe a mild hot take.
Speaker 2: I think most people like we love Katamari more. We'll
Speaker 2: see how I feel. Want I love the first one,
Speaker 2: but it's a great series, it turns out, y'all.
Speaker 1: Ever, check out Wattam Wattam.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna play at it like a Pax or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's the same guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same dude. Yeah, I'm looking at screenshots of it
Speaker 1: now and I kind of I desire this level of weirdness,
Speaker 1: level of whimsy. I need it in my life.
Speaker 2: Is this Is this the Nobe Nobe boy guy as well?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wait, is he gonna if you got the game coming out?
Speaker 3: The two of t things? Okay, I'm curious about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just seeing him share some like timeline
Speaker 1: stuff or whatever. I don't know specifically if it was
Speaker 1: for the game or just for some assets. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I need this directly inside of me right now. I
Speaker 1: need to t pose with the boys. Uh. And I'm
Speaker 1: and I don't really have the appetite to play Katamari
Speaker 1: right now, but maybe some Wattam if I have no
Speaker 1: idea what that game is.
Speaker 3: It is, there's something that was a little disappointing about it,
Speaker 3: because I remember the look and like the vibe of
Speaker 3: it was awesome, right.
Speaker 2: It was immaculate on that side.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think the game itself, I forget the
Speaker 3: gameplay was just a let down.
Speaker 2: Did did girl ever reach Pluto in Nobi Nobi Boy?
Speaker 1: Like, did you play in Nobi Nobi Boy? No?
Speaker 2: I guess I have to check that one out too.
Speaker 2: That's another one. Just I must have had something against
Speaker 2: quirky Japanese kings for a while then. I don't know why. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're super racist. Wow, I was like playing the wai
Speaker 2: Fu games. I think I was playing out Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I was definitely playing a lot of PC
Speaker 2: games at that time. I don't know sure, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: So this here, Mars was reached on March or May
Speaker 2: twenty third, two thousand and nine, then Jupiter on November twentieth,
Speaker 2: and then let's see, Pluto was reached on November twenty third,
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, so ten years ago. Wow, Okay, Apparently she's
Speaker 2: supposed to loop back towards the Sun now, So I
Speaker 2: don't know if she's going to reach the sun ever,
Speaker 2: check back, no idea what you're talking about? Stretches, Like
Speaker 2: you play this boy and you make girls stretch, and
Speaker 2: she's and everyone worked together, I guess to make girls stretch.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a cat dog situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm starting no Blue Buzzard, No three eyes Frogs
Speaker 4: with the feline canine, little cat talk, cat dog, cat dog.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm on the road and.
Speaker 4: All through town all kind of chrismin and cat dog down. God,
Speaker 4: got to try to get along, gotta what together. I
Speaker 4: got to sing this song.
Speaker 2: He's got a good blue grass voice though.
Speaker 1: That's the thing speaking about two beings attashed at the hip.
Speaker 1: Dan Riker, you beat Split Fiction, Yes.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: Finally.
Speaker 3: I did a couple of sessions that game when it
Speaker 3: first came out with Bonk, and it's like, she's so
Speaker 3: not the like action platformer play. She's very much you know,
Speaker 3: deep narrative RPGs, systems, road lights RPGs, and so I
Speaker 3: think she was kind of like, all right, well i'll
Speaker 3: play let's co op game. You know, we'll play, And
Speaker 3: like I could tell she wasn't like super into it,
Speaker 3: just not her type.
Speaker 1: Of game, and so I asked her last week, like, hey, you.
Speaker 3: Kind of going on this weekend, maybe you know, play
Speaker 3: some split fiction. And I just saw her like and
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, wait, no, I know you don't
Speaker 3: want to let me. I'll just see if Kayla wants to,
Speaker 3: and then we'll just finish it with her. And so
Speaker 3: I think she felt relieved to have the split fiction
Speaker 3: burden off of her. And Kayla and I just streamed
Speaker 3: two nights in a row, six hours each night and
Speaker 3: played it.
Speaker 1: And game's very, very good. It we've talked.
Speaker 3: About it that lath I don't need to explain why
Speaker 3: it's so good, but like the ending in particular, I
Speaker 3: don't know how many of you.
Speaker 2: I just heard that the end is very good.
Speaker 3: I heard it's just on a technical level, like I mean,
Speaker 3: it's basically you'd expect, you know, spoilers here, but like
Speaker 3: you know, fantasy and sci fi and so it's intertwining
Speaker 3: them in a way that is like even like the
Speaker 3: split screen itself is kind of like you can kind
Speaker 3: of adjust it and cool live. You know, the level
Speaker 3: is turning from fantasy, so I could be pushing a
Speaker 3: block in the sci fi thing and it's like some
Speaker 3: you know, cyber laser box or something, but on Kyla
Speaker 3: screen in the fantasy world, it is a mushroom and
Speaker 3: it can be bouncy on her side. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm looking at mine in hers and trying to figure
Speaker 3: out like it's the same, Like, yeah, there's a wireframe,
Speaker 3: it'd be the same level, but with all this different
Speaker 3: like fantasy and sci fi stuff, and it just seamlessly
Speaker 3: goes between the two. There's parts where you're going down
Speaker 3: slides and like there are spikes on one side and
Speaker 3: you have to slide to the other. Genre. Basically, it's
Speaker 3: just it's some wild shit it's doing. I've never seen
Speaker 3: a video game do anything quite like. It's very hard
Speaker 3: to describe if you just watch anything in the last
Speaker 3: chapter of splip fiction, it's fucking crazy that games really good.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it is a certain type of game.
Speaker 3: Like I kept thinking of the phrase empty calories, but
Speaker 3: that feels too more negative than I mean for it
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: But it's just there's a phrase on a movie podcast
Speaker 2: in which where they call it a good sit or
Speaker 2: an easy sit, like where it's just a movie. It's like,
Speaker 2: you don't have to like get down deep. You can
Speaker 2: honestly set your popcorn and it's gonna be an easy,
Speaker 2: breezy sit that that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like that where it's like it's almost like
Speaker 3: an amusement park ride or a roller coaster where it's like,
Speaker 3: I think it is a better game by not having
Speaker 3: like collectibles and things to slow the pacing. You know,
Speaker 3: it's just go, go go. Now it's this part. Now,
Speaker 3: it's this part. But I don't think there's gonna be
Speaker 3: a lot of variation in like how you play it.
Speaker 3: But it's not. It's not an immersive sim it's not
Speaker 3: like that's not what it's going for. So like this
Speaker 3: isn't a slight on it. It's just like I think
Speaker 3: we would all have a similar reaction to the part
Speaker 3: where oh, the hot dog part and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So now it's this this scene, this part where we
Speaker 3: all have the same experience in the variation would be
Speaker 3: in like who you're playing with and your memories of
Speaker 3: playing with them and stuff, But the game experience itself
Speaker 3: is going to be very similar person to person, I
Speaker 3: would say, but not a knock atoll. It is a
Speaker 3: fantastic and we did the friend pass thing that where's
Speaker 3: It's just such an easy sell, like, you know, because
Speaker 3: like Kayla had never played any of the you know,
Speaker 3: Hazel like games before, and so you know, if I
Speaker 3: was expecting her to pay seventy dollars for it, I'd
Speaker 3: have to kind of seller on it. But I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: it's a here, just download this free friends past thing
Speaker 3: and you'll get to play with me.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a no brainer, you know. Awesome. Speaking
Speaker 1: about co op games, four of us teamed up to
Speaker 1: absolutely kick the crap the kind of Funny by playing
Speaker 1: Monaco two. We played this against kind of Funny. It's
Speaker 1: not a competitive game in that sense, but the four
Speaker 1: of us teamed up do some heists against kind of Funny,
Speaker 1: and y'all despite them playing a lot of that game,
Speaker 1: we we we stole that day.
Speaker 4: Well, we definitely had a like a deathball strategy where
Speaker 4: we just all stayed together and brute force their way through.
Speaker 2: For a while.
Speaker 4: I would say we were barely playing the game as
Speaker 4: intended until the final level where we had to and
Speaker 4: then it was like, oh, this is how this game
Speaker 4: is actually supposed to work. We're like using our special
Speaker 4: abilities and unlocking doors and turning off triggers, and.
Speaker 3: You just gotta have Jan on your squad and have
Speaker 3: him to beat the fuck out of everything.
Speaker 1: That's all you got to do, Mike. If they didn't
Speaker 1: intend on us implementing the death ball strategy, they have,
Speaker 1: let me select the character that just punches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're definitely the death and the death ball, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah, they're supposed to just ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ball is life. I checked it out after the
Speaker 1: stream and I was doing a little bit of the
Speaker 1: single player stuff, and it is definitely does that work.
Speaker 1: It's a definitely a very different game. Those checkpoints that
Speaker 1: you get to, those are opportunities to switch characters. So
Speaker 1: you know the base for I guess one has a
Speaker 1: dodge roll, one is a healer, one has a drone,
Speaker 1: and I forget what the other one does. But say,
Speaker 1: you know you need to in the first part or
Speaker 1: first chunk of the level, you need someone that can
Speaker 1: distract someone, oh the dog lady sorry, And you get
Speaker 1: through there, But then there's like a bunch of like
Speaker 1: laser puzzles to get through, and then the easiest way
Speaker 1: to get through those is just to switch characters to
Speaker 1: the lady that can dodge roll, get behind to the
Speaker 1: terminal to deactivate it. And it is an incredibly different
Speaker 1: game than when you were playing with all four of
Speaker 1: us like haphazardly, like just not even haphazardly. It is
Speaker 1: all planned actually hest building. It's interesting the part where
Speaker 1: I wonder if the depth does get there, not depth,
Speaker 1: but when we do have to rely on stealth more.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there are going to be portions in
Speaker 1: Monaco two later in the game where maybe we do
Speaker 1: actually have to split off and like help each other
Speaker 1: kind of like get through a sequence versus most of
Speaker 1: the time we're pretty close together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got that was my what I gathered from
Speaker 2: what we played, where it was like we were kind
Speaker 2: of going through the early stuff and that first level
Speaker 2: where we did have to kind of like use our
Speaker 2: powers the way that it was intended, I think was
Speaker 2: kind of an indicator of where the game was going.
Speaker 2: And it's like now it's just going to get more
Speaker 2: complicated from there, and we're gonna have to do even
Speaker 2: more of that and kind of be in separate parts
Speaker 2: and like talking to one another and setting like each other.
Speaker 2: I'll be like, Okay, I've done this, now you do
Speaker 2: your powers there, so we can open a door over here.
Speaker 2: That seemed to be the natural progression that we were
Speaker 2: just getting into as that stream was coming to an end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would like to see maybe potentially circling back
Speaker 1: to that in a non competitive environment, because I don't
Speaker 1: want to funny feel bad.
Speaker 2: I love Monica one, so I'm glad we spent some
Speaker 2: time with that at all.
Speaker 3: I'm still waiting on the Venmo from Miller with the
Speaker 3: sponsored money on that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, Yeah, he was even there. He ducked us.
Speaker 4: He's doing a comedy show in Chicago or something.
Speaker 2: You know, how much I like Portello's How much do
Speaker 2: you like Portellos's the same ship as always? Hahaha? PC games,
Speaker 2: Am I right? You have to start an execute the shirts.
Speaker 2: Spider Man.
Speaker 1: Sounds like we're trying to start a war right now
Speaker 1: and Ribs a decade ago, and exactly that was the
Speaker 1: first shot, you know, so long ago. We're gonna keep
Speaker 1: this war running. And then, Jeff Grubb, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to defer to you because you have been playing war side.
Speaker 2: Yes, the war side. In the long history of video
Speaker 2: games to have war in the name, it's up there
Speaker 2: with war Face maybe only second to that. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is an Advanced Wars game in everything except for the name.
Speaker 2: It looks like Advance Wars for a game Boy Advance.
Speaker 2: It plays a lot like those games. And there have
Speaker 2: been a lot of these now and this one is
Speaker 2: war Groove. Yes, this is the one that maybe is
Speaker 2: going the most. Hey, this is just Advance Wars. It
Speaker 2: looks that way. Wow, look at this. It does have
Speaker 2: it's own like you know, quirks and even like units
Speaker 2: like for example, an early unit you get is a
Speaker 2: basically a bulldozer and this can push enemies like back
Speaker 2: a few blocks. So if they're in a tank and
Speaker 2: you push them into a river, well they can't go
Speaker 2: in a river, so they'll just die instantly. Or you
Speaker 2: can push them into a mountain or a building and
Speaker 2: they'll just die instantly. And so that's that's fun. It's
Speaker 2: a lot like Into the Breach. That is what that
Speaker 2: reminded me of. I love I'm Into the Breach is
Speaker 2: maybe my favorite Tactics game now. Yeah. So I think
Speaker 2: the issue with this one might be, based on what
Speaker 2: I'm seeing from some of the other reviews, is there's
Speaker 2: limited content. Content is pretty like light but also I
Speaker 2: get the sense that, like, yeah, they got everything right
Speaker 2: about the way it looks, except for the character portraits
Speaker 2: are very ugly. I think I don't like looking at them.
Speaker 2: Realistic ish, you know, you know what it is. It's
Speaker 2: halfway between Advanced Wars and Day of Ruin, the very
Speaker 2: like grim Dark one that day, which you know, I
Speaker 2: think has been reassessed and people are mostly okay with
Speaker 2: Ruin these days, but this is like somewhere in between,
Speaker 2: so it just comes out kind of boring. But the
Speaker 2: issue for me, I think is going to be a
Speaker 2: lot of these games. You know, they don't get the
Speaker 2: math right. So like when you go into a battle,
Speaker 2: you feel like, all right, I should have I should
Speaker 2: be making like probabilistic decisions about like is this going
Speaker 2: to be best if I attack first? I should be
Speaker 2: able to like skirt out of this, maybe retreat a
Speaker 2: little bit, have some reinforcements come back up, And all
Speaker 2: that depends on like how much damage you're doing and
Speaker 2: how much damage you're taking. All that has to be
Speaker 2: balanced pretty carefully, and I think this game does get
Speaker 2: that side of things mostly right. I have not had
Speaker 2: any issues there yet, but I think the like it
Speaker 2: becomes less interesting because I think the AI is just
Speaker 2: like and usually I'm not so ine who minds this,
Speaker 2: but in the game like this, I want it to
Speaker 2: feel like less like a strategy game for an advance worse,
Speaker 2: more like a puzzle game. And if the enemy is
Speaker 2: always just sort of making new units and running straight ahead,
Speaker 2: it's not going to feel very interesting. And that's been
Speaker 2: my experience so far. Maybe that's just early, but I'm
Speaker 2: hoping that that changes up because if it kind of
Speaker 2: stays that way, I'll maybe have some issues long term.
Speaker 2: Now for me, if like you're looking for a really
Speaker 2: good and one one of these, I think they're called
Speaker 2: Tiny Tank and it's the second one or tiny Metal
Speaker 2: excuse me, that's what it is, Tiny Metal. The second
Speaker 2: one was very good. I got everything right. I like
Speaker 2: that one a ton and this one. You know, they
Speaker 2: was in early access for a while and now this
Speaker 2: is the full release and apparently it's missing some features
Speaker 2: that people had an early access and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So it's just kind of a weird launch and there's
Speaker 2: like a lot of backlash from the people from the
Speaker 2: kickstarters and all the things like that, but it's giving
Speaker 2: a pretty good first impression. I just I'm always looking
Speaker 2: for an advanced Worts game. I love this a lot.
Speaker 2: I love that genre as a lot. This one's just
Speaker 2: kind of missing in a few spots.
Speaker 1: What is it about some of these other advanced war
Speaker 1: inspired games where it just doesn't have the juice that
Speaker 1: you are.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't love War Groove, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I think it's like a big part of
Speaker 2: it could be that Fire Emblem, which is a very
Speaker 2: similar kind of game, has evolved so much since the
Speaker 2: Game Boy Advance era that it's like there's so much
Speaker 2: more going on in this genre now that the people
Speaker 2: that love Advance Wars and not one of them, when
Speaker 2: they want to go back to just just Advance Wars,
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, you've got to make sure then the stuff,
Speaker 2: the basic stuff you are doing, has to be perfect,
Speaker 2: has to be so good, and I think they get
Speaker 2: distracted by their own like, well, here's what we're going
Speaker 2: to do. Set our stuff apart, and that's never quite
Speaker 2: as good as like what Fire Emblem is doing. That'd
Speaker 2: be my guess.
Speaker 3: I don't know copyright law, but I wonder, like how
Speaker 3: close do you have to be to something to be
Speaker 3: legally actionable, because like looking at everything about the actual
Speaker 3: map in the battle screens and stuff like not the portraits,
Speaker 3: but everything else is just Advance Wars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that they would prop I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: Nintendo could sue whoever it wants to sue, right, and
Speaker 2: they have real, very good lawyers, So people would probably
Speaker 2: like we should just settle. But I think in this
Speaker 2: case it's like you can't like copyright an art style. Uh,
Speaker 2: And I think that that's probably what they would argue.
Speaker 2: A lot of those units look very similar, but are
Speaker 2: they distinct enough. I think they'd probably be able to
Speaker 2: make the argument that they are. So Yeah, it's but
Speaker 2: it is blatant, and I don't I don't mind it whatever.
Speaker 2: I know, and I'm glad it looks like that game.
Speaker 2: I like the way it looks better than the Advanced
Speaker 2: Wars remasters that we got. Yeah, smooth everything out. Yeah Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it was one of y'all that said it
Speaker 1: just inspired you to pick up the original Advance for Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wound up doing the same last thing on the
Speaker 1: list here. I don't know if someone misspelled this hall
Speaker 1: peg idol heg idol.
Speaker 3: It's an idol Pegel. Oh it's uh, it's exactly what
Speaker 3: it sounds like.
Speaker 1: It's it's pegel. It looks exactly like pegel.
Speaker 3: But you're like buying stuff with the goal, Like you
Speaker 3: hit the gold pegs, you make money, and then you
Speaker 3: can use that to unlock new balls, like oh, the
Speaker 3: bomb ball, the super bouncy ball, the rock ball, and
Speaker 3: then you can choose which one you're shooting your gun.
Speaker 3: But then you also said a bunch of auto drop stuff,
Speaker 3: and you're buying stuff to like, Okay, I've got the
Speaker 3: rock balls auto dropping every point six seconds, and so
Speaker 3: there's just this constant shower of balls, and you can
Speaker 3: also shoot your own balls, and you're just constantly getting
Speaker 3: gold and upgrading your balls, and uh, it's it's just
Speaker 3: a good time. It's just there's no way you're not
Speaker 3: gonna download this.
Speaker 2: I haven't installed it yet, though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm seeing so many numbers go up and I
Speaker 1: need say it's one of those and it's just very
Speaker 1: good at that.
Speaker 4: Yes, So yeah, Jane, you weren't here lastly, but I
Speaker 4: played Nubby's Number Adventure after you recommended it.
Speaker 1: That was great.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, all right, gang, That about does it for
Speaker 1: video game chatter. We're gonna be back with some news
Speaker 1: right after this, quick Bringer bread. There's is a news
Speaker 1: where Jeff Graub, there is a news Jeff Grub Darhn
Speaker 1: is too scared to hit the music. But so I'm
Speaker 1: gone seeing two un for Crub Crub proudy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the sampler thing maybe is a little funky still
Speaker 2: in Coxler, if that's what you were trying to do.
Speaker 2: All right, I got some news here. Let's start by
Speaker 2: staring you directly in the eyes, because that's where I
Speaker 2: put the news.
Speaker 1: I don't like this.
Speaker 2: Look right at me. Elder Scrolls for Oblivion, Well, what's
Speaker 2: going on my throat?
Speaker 3: Hang on those AI eyes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll just do that instead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one eyes. Sorry, I saw the thing.
Speaker 2: Elder Scrolls for Oblivion Remastered screens and details have leaked.
Speaker 2: Leaked information suggest and Elder Scrolls for Oblivion Remastered is
Speaker 2: in development by Bethesda and Virtuos. The remaster, reportedly releasing
Speaker 2: for PC and Xbox Series X and S and PlayStation five,
Speaker 2: will include visual and mechanical overhauls, such as improved combat mechanics.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah, We've talked about it before. Someone was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I keep hearing these rumors. I'm just gonna go check
Speaker 2: Virtuous's website. And then they inspected an element and saw
Speaker 2: that they were used word press, and I think they
Speaker 2: just started like looking for different folders that would be
Speaker 2: starting the word press, and they found one that was
Speaker 2: labeled Elder Scrolls for Oblivion Remastered. They found a bunch
Speaker 2: of screenshots, a bunch of comparison shots, and now those
Speaker 2: are out there, and you know this is happening. We've
Speaker 2: known for a long time that this that this is happening.
Speaker 2: And like I said on yesterday's Game Breaking News, it's
Speaker 2: gonna shadow drop next week. It's it's coming next week.
Speaker 2: I keep being told to shadow drop. Still weirds me out.
Speaker 2: I'm like with everyone like, that's a weird way way
Speaker 2: to handle a big game like this, but that's what
Speaker 2: I keep hearing. But next week we should have the
Speaker 2: information about this, so it's more real than ever. Did
Speaker 2: you guys get a chance to look at it? Cause
Speaker 2: I think it looks pretty good. Although people are pointing
Speaker 2: out these screenshots in like the original game, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of green, lushness to it. And maybe it's a
Speaker 2: little bit more brown. I'm hoping that that's just these
Speaker 2: these screenshots and the green is more prominent in the
Speaker 2: full game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a comparison here where it's like, it
Speaker 4: looks like the one is taken during Springer. Are the
Speaker 4: other ones like the beginning of Winter. Everything's yeah yellowed.
Speaker 4: It's weird because it's you don't see the piss filter
Speaker 4: added more intensely to three sixty games usually turn it off. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I mean maybe it was never a pretty game.
Speaker 3: I liked the rolling hills and all that stuff. Sure cool,
Speaker 3: the characters.
Speaker 1: Not as much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, Yeah, the characters are definitely the problem.
Speaker 4: These character models look better. They look a little, i
Speaker 4: don't know, a smidge generic Unreal Engine five. I suppose
Speaker 4: we really wanted to get super critical, but.
Speaker 2: I know they look fine. Ah. I'm excited for this.
Speaker 2: I obliving's great. Haven't played in a long time.
Speaker 4: That's a big game to remake, right, that is a
Speaker 4: pretty big undertaking. There's just a lot of content there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, the idea that we could be playing this
Speaker 4: in like a week, that's a pretty wild.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna do it again. I really I
Speaker 3: never played more Win back in the day, but you know,
Speaker 3: the hype in the early three sixty like this like
Speaker 3: the first big post launch game, and I went in.
Speaker 1: I absolutely loved it. Did everything I.
Speaker 3: Do in that game, and I think it's probably my
Speaker 3: favorite PROTHESTA game. I think, Yeah, it's up there, I
Speaker 3: play it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never checked it out, so I'm really curious
Speaker 1: to finally check it. Check this one.
Speaker 2: Out, Jam Jam Jam.
Speaker 1: I tried.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Valiant, I am. Yeah, I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: it as well. I love Oblivion. Where are you all
Speaker 2: at with? Uh? You know, we don't have Sean Hero,
Speaker 2: who I consider the arbiter of telling me is it
Speaker 2: a remake or a remaster. They're labeling it as a
Speaker 2: remaster here, but all the visuals look remade in a
Speaker 2: lot of ways, and that's what we've heard. It's being
Speaker 2: remade in Unreal at least the visuals. There's been back
Speaker 2: and forth about what's happening with the gameplay, but at
Speaker 2: least visually, it looks like, you know, one of those
Speaker 2: standard remakes, not a residentvial to remake.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a remastered, you could.
Speaker 3: It could be a remastered, Yeah, it could be a
Speaker 3: definitive edition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it could be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that line has burned so much, like the like
Speaker 4: Vetro Primary Master. That's the thing I would have absolutely
Speaker 4: have called a remake. To me, if you're replacing most
Speaker 4: of the game assets, that's kind of a remake. But
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, there's we've had so many of these
Speaker 4: really expansive remakes where it's basically a new game that
Speaker 4: that word feels a little bit weird now. So I
Speaker 4: am kind of at a point now where it's like,
Speaker 4: when you're in the middle like this, you can call
Speaker 4: what you want. There are still things that are definitely
Speaker 4: remasters and things that are definitely re remakes.
Speaker 2: And we have this new gray area. We need it.
Speaker 2: We almost need a new name for it or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know what Sean says here where it's like
Speaker 3: if they made new visuals, it's a remake. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think that's a remaster. Would be just like oh, an
Speaker 3: HD re release or something like.
Speaker 2: That what Nightdivee does.
Speaker 4: Most of the times those are remasters, right right, So
Speaker 4: System Shock which they remay was that thumb Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 4: generally that's how it goes.
Speaker 2: Uh so, yeah, we get more information, I guess next
Speaker 2: week and then we're playing it. That's yeah, I'm sticking
Speaker 2: to that. That seems That's why I've heard that repeatedly now,
Speaker 2: so feeling good about that. In the meantime. How much
Speaker 2: is the horse Armour going to be?
Speaker 4: I mean, they're gonna include it for free, but I
Speaker 4: like that people are expecting there to still be a reference. Actually,
Speaker 4: I kind of hope you get to pay the original price.
Speaker 1: Horse just made it really expensive. Someone will buy it.
Speaker 2: The game is free, but the horse Armour's five thousand
Speaker 2: dollars like that, let's go status symbol.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, what a what a simpler time when we
Speaker 1: were all mad about paying for horse Armor. Huh. It
Speaker 1: was freeze social media.
Speaker 3: I guess it was like early Facebook days. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it still was everywhere on the gaming internet.
Speaker 2: Oh people, Yeah, I mean it was. It seems so
Speaker 2: innocent now podcast at that point jesus.
Speaker 3: I don't know, looking back, it's kind of like, well,
Speaker 3: I guess their fears were founded.
Speaker 2: Yours was the thing at that must be forms and
Speaker 2: the blog post on one up and whatever. Okay, uh,
Speaker 2: do we know I assume shivering oles as part of this.
Speaker 2: But then like, you know, there are things like Breath
Speaker 2: of the Wild, Switch To Edition does not come with
Speaker 2: that expansion past stuff. Very that's very Nintendo.
Speaker 4: I think it'd be wild if they wanted to like
Speaker 4: release shivering oles later and made us pay for it.
Speaker 2: Although Persona three did it, it's like, yeah, game still
Speaker 2: can't do that sort of stuff. Yeah, well, I think, guy,
Speaker 2: you know, the way that they are coming out with
Speaker 2: this thing, and if it is just going to be
Speaker 2: a shadow drop, I imagine it's just gonna have everything
Speaker 2: all in one and they're not gonna be like, let's,
Speaker 2: you know, drag this out for months and have DLC
Speaker 2: later or something like that. But we'll see, all right.
Speaker 2: Sony increased the price of the PlayStation five. Sony has
Speaker 2: increased the price of the PS five Digital Edition in
Speaker 2: Europe to four hundred to five hundred euro. Basically, they
Speaker 2: raced it about fifty EU ro. I think it was
Speaker 2: four to fifty before this. They raised it about ten
Speaker 2: percent in the UK as well. In New Zealand and
Speaker 2: Australia the system also went up ten percent. But they
Speaker 2: also increase the price of the standard edition that comes
Speaker 2: with the disk drive included, and then they lowered the
Speaker 2: price of the dis drive everywhere in all these territories,
Speaker 2: so this seems to be And they said it's due
Speaker 2: to inflation, and that's like you know, lagging inflation, the
Speaker 2: inflation that has already happened, although I think they are
Speaker 2: also trying to price this with the idea that more
Speaker 2: inflation could still happen. And then they said due to
Speaker 2: destabilized exchange rates. Basically, you know, the end was way down,
Speaker 2: the dollar was way up, a bunch of other currencies
Speaker 2: were up high compared to the end. That's gonna go,
Speaker 2: that's gonna you know, fluctuate a lot. It's fluctuating a
Speaker 2: ton right now because of the tariff situation that's made
Speaker 2: it especially volatile volatile. So I think Sony's are like,
Speaker 2: we got to, you know, move right now. But of
Speaker 2: course this is also really just a good excuse to
Speaker 2: raise the price for an expensive thing to make right
Speaker 2: as they're about to sell a ton more of them
Speaker 2: because GTA six is coming out, so you know, they're
Speaker 2: taking the excuses they can take, and this thing is
Speaker 2: going to sell a ton more because GT six A
Speaker 2: lot of people been waiting on the sideline for that game,
Speaker 2: and that game's not on PS five or PS four
Speaker 2: and Xbox One.
Speaker 4: No, that's like, yeah, I get, I get the GTA
Speaker 4: six thing, but this console is five years old, and
Speaker 4: I know that we're upsettingly not on the era where
Speaker 4: the prices ever go down these things, And that alone
Speaker 4: is weird the idea that they would go up. I mean,
Speaker 4: and I'm almost afraid to say this because if you'll
Speaker 4: get mad, how good has the PS five.
Speaker 2: Been right now? You want to charge this much for
Speaker 2: it in these territories. It's just kind of wild to me. Yep,
Speaker 2: it's it feels unearned for sure, Like, but I think
Speaker 2: that's the big thing here. That's why people, uh you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's people are reacting to it because it's
Speaker 2: a price increase for something that has traditionally gone down
Speaker 2: in price, a console. But also it's like, no one
Speaker 2: has felt great about this generation on consoles across the board.
Speaker 2: It's been okay in some respects. Maybe we're a little
Speaker 2: harsh on it. But then they come back and like, well,
Speaker 2: give us more money for the PS five going forward,
Speaker 2: and it's like, you know, we talk about, you know, God,
Speaker 2: they want to get to switched twos into as many
Speaker 2: people's hands as possible so people can buy the software
Speaker 2: that's where the money's really made. And then these companies
Speaker 2: don't act that way and we're not in charge as
Speaker 2: much for the hardware as we possibly can, and then
Speaker 2: you know, we'll just sell software. I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think they just don't see consoles as a growth space.
Speaker 2: And I think that's not like a hot take. I
Speaker 2: think probably kind of admitted as well, But it's like
Speaker 2: this death spiral 're like, well, consoles aren't going to gross.
Speaker 2: You got to squeeze what we can from people. Well,
Speaker 2: then that market's going to shrink every time you race
Speaker 2: prices are refused to ever drop prices or whatever make
Speaker 2: these things more easily accessible. So I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: just this consoles are in this weird space right now,
Speaker 2: especially these super traditional ones like the Xboxes in the PlayStation.
Speaker 2: I mean, we see what's happening with Xbox, and it
Speaker 2: has not been some boon for PlayStation to have Xbox
Speaker 2: not bow out of the console race, but definitely death
Speaker 2: stocks on it. Yeah. Yeah, no price increasing in the
Speaker 2: United States, But are we expecting one? Because I am maybe.
Speaker 2: I mean, you you bring this up.
Speaker 4: How people in the US get more angry than other territories.
Speaker 4: Sometimes there's a pretty a pretty big fuss about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are treated with kid gloves for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it's like, if you're doing these our places like
Speaker 4: feasibly and economically, it seems like we would be due
Speaker 4: for one too. But then there is something about it
Speaker 4: always being you a moreria when we talk about the US,
Speaker 4: Jeff and again, I'm just like, how could you charge.
Speaker 2: More for a Space PlayStation five? The thing is five
Speaker 2: years old. It's not that good. Well, we'll see they
Speaker 2: you know that I might have that might have. The
Speaker 2: next story be about tariffs. I can't remember. No, that's
Speaker 2: coming up soon. But yeah, the tariffs are just they're
Speaker 2: still here something. It's got exceptions, not consoles. We'll get
Speaker 2: into all that here soon. Marathon details Bungees Marathon will
Speaker 2: launch on September twenty third on PCPs five and Xbox
Speaker 2: Series X and S with full cross play and cross
Speaker 2: save support. It will not be free to play, but
Speaker 2: they did not give pricing details. The first close alpha
Speaker 2: test will begin in April. I guess later this month.
Speaker 2: Is that O Case Marathon is a PvP ve game,
Speaker 2: which we say that a lot. There's always the chances
Speaker 2: people listening that have no idea what that even means.
Speaker 2: They play a lot of single player games, or maybe
Speaker 2: they do play multiplayer games on their console. This is
Speaker 2: a term that definitely comes from more the PC side
Speaker 2: of things.
Speaker 1: Playing extraction shooter.
Speaker 2: It's an extraction shooter. Titan Fall does have PVPVE elements
Speaker 2: where it has drones in there for your ship, and
Speaker 2: that's those like ads, right, this is you. There are
Speaker 2: multiple teams competing in an environment to uh, it's an
Speaker 2: exo primal exactly. Now everyone understands I should have just
Speaker 2: said that, yeah, and and these I think it's six
Speaker 2: teams of three people, and it's only teams of three.
Speaker 2: If you want to play by yourself, you can, but
Speaker 2: you just have to set the auto fil to off,
Speaker 2: so you're at a disadvantage. There's no like single player,
Speaker 2: like oh, my team of one against other teams of one.
Speaker 2: But these six teams are all going trying to get
Speaker 2: stuff and extract loot from the game. But there are
Speaker 2: other teams trying to do the same thing, and when
Speaker 2: they run into each other, it might be who you
Speaker 2: to ignore one another or might behoove you to to
Speaker 2: fight one another try to get their loot so you
Speaker 2: have even more when you leave the game.
Speaker 1: It's risk reward.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so there's multiple sides to It's not just
Speaker 2: straight up team deathmatch this. You know, extraction is the
Speaker 2: genre that they're going for. People seem very unsure because
Speaker 2: I think most people watching this are Bungee fans first,
Speaker 2: and then Destiny fans, and then I think they're staying
Speaker 2: to themselves. Well, I've never played an extraction shooter, or
Speaker 2: if I have, it was maybe a little bit. This
Speaker 2: is not what necessarily what I'm coming here for. Do
Speaker 2: you think that's going to hold this game back? Or
Speaker 2: do you think the shooting in a game like Marathon
Speaker 2: can be so good that people will just get on
Speaker 2: board with it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to invoke the name, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people are. It's reminding me of Concord.
Speaker 2: All right, but Concord's problems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the price was part of it, but it's just
Speaker 4: it was a game that drummed up zero excitement whatsoever.
Speaker 4: You think that would at least this, Yeah, this would
Speaker 4: at least do something with one the Bungee name. I
Speaker 4: think aesthetically the game is interesting, for sure.
Speaker 1: I like whatever they're going for. Uh, it just feels
Speaker 1: like X games vomit, which is good is positive.
Speaker 4: Right, and it's all very like computer techie if that
Speaker 4: makes I don't even know you explain it. But it's
Speaker 4: a very specific kind of sci fi that isn't necessarily
Speaker 4: the go to when you imagine video games in sci fi.
Speaker 4: So I like the way that it looks. I have
Speaker 4: just not really played an extracted shooter. I'm only tried
Speaker 4: out because I know I generally, genuinely generally like the
Speaker 4: way that Bungee games feel shooting wise, they make the
Speaker 4: best shooting even Destiny to When I would play it,
Speaker 4: I just liked going around and any things. It always
Speaker 4: felt good. So I if that's there, you think that
Speaker 4: would account for something. But but what people are just
Speaker 4: so skeptical right now of Bungee. I think a lot
Speaker 4: of people aren't happy with the way they kind of
Speaker 4: let Destiny to fizzle out there. Everyone's really skeptical Sony
Speaker 4: right now and their whole live service plans and paying
Speaker 4: for a game like this. In general, live service games
Speaker 4: all over the place, I have been having a hard
Speaker 4: time catching on that you do get your hell divers
Speaker 4: too happening, and that could happen again.
Speaker 2: You think the Bungee name would help Stough, but maybe
Speaker 2: that name doesn't mean as much as I think it
Speaker 2: does anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I I'm curious, like, is there
Speaker 1: still a big audience for something like Hunt Showdown? Is
Speaker 1: that still doing big numbers?
Speaker 2: Uh? You know on Steam it's it's on the top
Speaker 2: one hundred, but it's in the bottom fifty. Is when
Speaker 2: I was looking at this the other day and then
Speaker 2: trying to find some other extractor shooters. I think Tarkoff
Speaker 2: might be much bigger than that. And I think Tarkoff
Speaker 2: is its own has its own launcher. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: about that, but it was not in the top. I
Speaker 2: think it's pretty popular still.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this genre as a whole, though it
Speaker 2: is like definitely had false starts with trying to reach
Speaker 2: the mainstream. Warzone had an extraction shooter in it right
Speaker 2: for a little bit. I never touched that. I know
Speaker 2: some people did try it. Maybe it wasn't very good,
Speaker 2: but I thought some people did like it. But it
Speaker 2: just they're not doing it anymore. Whatever, And it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: so is extraction shooter shooter is that genre do for
Speaker 2: its Fortnite where something will come over and like introduce
Speaker 2: it to the mainstream and everyone will be like, oh,
Speaker 2: now this makes sense to me, and it's fun and
Speaker 2: it's it's accessible. Maybe, but I don't think there's any
Speaker 2: reason to assume that's like a guarantee. I know, there's
Speaker 2: no reason to assume that the mass audiences be like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I want to like do this compound interest
Speaker 2: game where I go in one round, I win, and
Speaker 2: that makes me more efficient and better in the next round,
Speaker 2: and I just that just keeps building on top of it.
Speaker 2: That seems like a very hardcore thing as opposed to Fortnite,
Speaker 2: where it's like just be the last person standing, like
Speaker 2: the easiest concept in the world to understand. So I
Speaker 2: don't know if they match one to one and that again,
Speaker 2: that's not to say, bunch, you can't overcome all of that,
Speaker 2: because I think what we learned from Destiny is making
Speaker 2: a live service, you know, sort of get together and
Speaker 2: do some runs with your buddy's game. Like a lot
Speaker 2: of people tried to make a Destiny of their own,
Speaker 2: and Destiny worked because it had the best shooting like
Speaker 2: it just was the best feeling game. So that's why
Speaker 2: it really actually worked in the end, even after Bungee
Speaker 2: screwed up a million other things about the game, they
Speaker 2: could always hang their hat on that. So maybe the
Speaker 2: same thing happens with Marathon. We'll see. Nintendo has been
Speaker 2: warned to expect one hundred and forty five percent tariffs
Speaker 2: on Nintendo switch To. A major supplier has warned Nintendo
Speaker 2: and Apple that video game consoles could face that one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty five percent tariff on Chinese goods entering
Speaker 2: the United States. The tariff has led to concerns that
Speaker 2: Nintendo may increase the price of the switch To, which
Speaker 2: was previously announced at four hundred fifty dollars. Most switch
Speaker 2: To consoles are actually made in China, only a small
Speaker 2: proportion are made in Vietnam. Now all of those are
Speaker 2: being shipped to the United States right now from Vietnam,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't sound like it'll be nearly enough to
Speaker 2: meet demand. And you know they were always going to struggle,
Speaker 2: but this seems like way further away from even that.
Speaker 2: And you know this is I should like speak once
Speaker 2: again to lie to. We're going to get manufacturing back
Speaker 2: in the United States. They decided to go to Vietnam
Speaker 2: back in twenty nineteen, like, hey, we're going to start
Speaker 2: shipping or make manufacturing switches in that country as well,
Speaker 2: so we could be diversified. It's five six years later
Speaker 2: and they still only have a small percentage of their
Speaker 2: switch to is being manufactured in Vietnam. And there were
Speaker 2: exemptions to the tariffs. That was the good news is, hey,
Speaker 2: if you want a smartphone, we understand that's expensive and
Speaker 2: people don't want to pay three thousand dollars for a smartphone,
Speaker 2: which is like some of the numbers that were being
Speaker 2: thrown around, like that's how much they would have to
Speaker 2: cost with these tariffs. And they got an exemption, and
Speaker 2: a lot of other electronics did. Consoles explicitly have not
Speaker 2: been exempted. So they are going to have to pay
Speaker 2: this one hundred and forty five percent tarif if they
Speaker 2: come from China, it'll still be ten percent if it's
Speaker 2: from Vietnam, which is still not great. That's actually still
Speaker 2: quite a big hit to Nintendo's bottom line and could
Speaker 2: cause them to raise the price. But we are as
Speaker 2: far away as ever from like a situation where these
Speaker 2: companies feel like they can understand what the tax situation
Speaker 2: is going to be for importing stuff into the United States.
Speaker 4: Right And I think this is why we haven't heard, Hey,
Speaker 4: when are pre orders coming back for the switch to
Speaker 4: in North America.
Speaker 2: I think they're still trying to figure things out.
Speaker 4: I bet they are probably trying to work on that
Speaker 4: exemption thing, Jeff, I bet that they might have people
Speaker 4: talking to the government.
Speaker 2: They definitely do yes, and Trump loves that people are
Speaker 2: coming and kissing his ass. He said that out loud.
Speaker 2: Dude just loves corruption. There is a little update. This
Speaker 2: is from Jordan Miller over if VGC. Someone put this
Speaker 2: in chat a little bit ago. Nintendo Switch to pre
Speaker 2: orders will reportedly start next week in Canada. Nintendo Switch
Speaker 2: two pre orders will reportedly begin next week. According to
Speaker 2: Bill Bill Kuhn, who has a history of posting retail
Speaker 2: listing information ahead of official announcements, Canadian retailers are preparing
Speaker 2: to begin pre orders for Nintendo's next system. Pre Orders
Speaker 2: in Canada for the Nintendo Switch to will reportedly begin
Speaker 2: on April twenty third, So a lot of reportedly. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's they're covering their butt rightfully, so we Bill Billcnon
Speaker 2: usually knows what they're talking about, and that stuff's got
Speaker 2: to pick up again here pretty soon. And there are
Speaker 2: no tariffs on ship and stuff from China to Canada.
Speaker 2: So maybe they were just like, let's get our pipeline
Speaker 2: set up so none of that stuff accidentally goes through
Speaker 2: the United States. It all just goes directly to Canada.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this is this is you know, small movement,
Speaker 2: and there's no guarantee that they actually follow through with
Speaker 2: this as far as the United States is concerned. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we haven't heard anything because they really don't know what's
Speaker 2: going to happen next. It still is a complete mess.
Speaker 1: Fly to Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Let's do an all day stream where we drive to
Speaker 3: Canada and we try to get switched to stream.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bootlegging, I'm a.
Speaker 3: Full stream from a car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do a race where y'all drive to Canada.
Speaker 1: Nikki and I will meet up in Socol and we'll
Speaker 1: drive Oh, Mexico. Okay. I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: Smuggler's grub.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: I don't love the situation we're in because every new
Speaker 1: tariff update I see it's either he's walking it back
Speaker 1: or it's not here, or it's gone up by one
Speaker 1: hundred more percent the fun.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean that's the thing, Like, what is he
Speaker 2: going to say tomorrow? Right?
Speaker 1: And do you do you think Nintendo has the power
Speaker 1: to put Trump in Nintendo jail? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's probably not going to get a switch to
Speaker 2: it early, I would say, probably not code, yeah exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just check his email for sure, and then you know
Speaker 2: late that day though, not early. Yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's gonna say something stupid next. It's gonna it's not
Speaker 2: gonna make anything better. That's why these companies really are
Speaker 2: just kind of in this holding pattern because they kind
Speaker 2: of can't even plan because if they start planning for okay,
Speaker 2: let's say that these are all the hurdles, let's figure
Speaker 2: out ways around these hurdles, the hurdles could just shift
Speaker 2: or get bigger, and then all of the planning they're
Speaker 2: doing to solve the problem as it currently exists is
Speaker 2: worthless and obsolete. And that's you know what is really
Speaker 2: handcuffing them. It's the uncertainty if they just knew, okay,
Speaker 2: for sure, it's gonna be one hundred and forty five
Speaker 2: percent tariffs. That's terrible. It's going to cost price. It's
Speaker 2: going to cause their costs to go up, likely our
Speaker 2: prices to go up. But they could at least begin
Speaker 2: to come up with a plan to minimize the pain
Speaker 2: as much as possible. But they can't even begin that
Speaker 2: part of the planning because of how things are changing
Speaker 2: so frequently. Star Wars Zero Company, or a z comm
Speaker 2: as I think we're calling it, is the name for
Speaker 2: bit Reactor and Respawns new tactics game. Respawn Entertainment and
Speaker 2: bit Reactor have announced Star Wars Zero Company, a single
Speaker 2: player turn based tactics games game coming to PC, PS five,
Speaker 2: Xbox Series X and S. The first look will be
Speaker 2: at Star Wars celebration on April ninth. I think that
Speaker 2: this happened, but like they didn't show much publicly this is.
Speaker 2: It will have key art suggesting diverse playable classes like
Speaker 2: Jedi Droids and Mandalorians and a bunch more. They showed
Speaker 2: off the key art and it looks pretty pretty cool,
Speaker 2: and then you know people are saying this is from
Speaker 2: the Xcom team. I think we've known that former Xcom
Speaker 2: developers partner with Respawn and they start a bit Reactor
Speaker 2: to specifically make games like this, So it's going to
Speaker 2: play a lot like Xcom but was Star Wars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm on board. I like Xcom a whole bunch, and I.
Speaker 1: Like Star Wars. Oh yes, let me just have a
Speaker 1: team of like droids battling rub I just want ewoks,
Speaker 1: a whole squad of you watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want I want every possibility there for sure
Speaker 2: that we're all looking to overwatch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the phantom mentic guys that roll.
Speaker 2: In, Yeah, yeah, I like do you like those?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I bet this game is going to be really good.
Speaker 4: I wonder how it'll do because you know, Marvel Midnight
Speaker 4: Suns seems like it really underperformed the best Cards people hate. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's Cards. But then there's also just the Star Wars factor.
Speaker 2: Star Wars not exactly at a high point. Hot Lost
Speaker 2: came out.
Speaker 4: I know, the reviews were mildly middling. The people did
Speaker 4: not seem to care about that one at all.
Speaker 2: It's just it's like Star Wars has never really recovered
Speaker 2: from that episode nine moment. It had no yeah, we're
Speaker 2: us and ors fans, We're doing all right. Eight more
Speaker 2: days or something like that. But that's not going to
Speaker 2: move the you know, outside of that. Hey, by the way,
Speaker 2: x Com two is like ninety percent off on Steam.
Speaker 2: I never actually played it, so all that hike, I know,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: So one of my one of my favorite features on
Speaker 1: this website. Good old exquisite core. Uh. And then just
Speaker 1: the pure demonstration in front of everyone of Reiker luck
Speaker 1: only the odds. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's one thing from Star Wars too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2: Assassa's Creed Shadows is now twenty twenty five's second biggest
Speaker 2: game of the year so far. Assas's Creed Shadows has
Speaker 2: been a commercial success for ubi Soft, becoming the best
Speaker 2: selling video game in the US for its first three
Speaker 2: weeks and reaching one million players across all platforms in
Speaker 2: a single day. Basically. Mattis cautel Over at Sirkana noted
Speaker 2: that it had been the best selling game in the
Speaker 2: US for the last three weeks. That's pretty good. Again.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's expecting this to be the answer
Speaker 2: to all of Ubisoft's problems, but the game is doing
Speaker 2: what anyone should have realistically expected in the best case scenario, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 4: That doesn't necessarily mean that's what Ubisoft is hoping for, right,
Speaker 4: so I want to still want to hear from them
Speaker 4: in their next earnings that they're happy about or if
Speaker 4: it's still like, oh, not quite as much as we
Speaker 4: are hoping. We're still doing shitty.
Speaker 2: But you know, people seem happy with this, Jeff, seems
Speaker 2: like it's doing wow. Hopefully it's enough. Yep, it's a
Speaker 2: good game that's selling well. I think, what else? What
Speaker 2: more can you ask for? And then Mafia the Old
Speaker 2: Country release date revealed on Steam. This seems to have
Speaker 2: been an accidental league. Mafia the Old Country will be
Speaker 2: released on August eighth, twenty twenty five, according to a
Speaker 2: Steam blog post. This is not an official confirmation. That
Speaker 2: date could of course change. The game was initially teased
Speaker 2: in August at Game's Calm Opening Night Live and received
Speaker 2: a full trailer in December twenty twenty four at the
Speaker 2: Game Awards. Now this is a Take two game along
Speaker 2: with Borderlands four, I feel like there is there is
Speaker 2: there one other thing. And then GTA six, Gta six,
Speaker 2: if that's still coming out this year in your Take two,
Speaker 2: all your other games have to come out before that? Right?
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah, I think it, Like,
Speaker 2: especially like a Mafia game. I feel like that's got
Speaker 2: to come out a few months before GTA six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's gotta be some space there.
Speaker 3: They're you know, not similar games really, but the same
Speaker 3: general genre, open world crime stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Does uh like what's yours's latest feeling on the release
Speaker 2: date for GTA six, Mike, I'm feeling pretty confident it's
Speaker 2: gonna come out this year now, just the way things
Speaker 2: are going, And I counterpicked it in Fantasy Critics, so
Speaker 2: I don't love saying that, but it definitely feels that way.
Speaker 1: Do you think my trod Prime's going out this year?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know it's like weird, how like little we
Speaker 4: still have seed of GTA six, but that parts, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's just what they're work.
Speaker 2: They're gonna do it almost.
Speaker 4: It's weird the idea that it could seem too big
Speaker 4: to not come out and that certain point you can't
Speaker 4: just throw more resources at something. But there's no indication
Speaker 4: yet that that's not gonna happen, so I'm still just
Speaker 4: gonna assume it is.
Speaker 2: All right. I think that does it for the headlines
Speaker 2: I have here. I am going to hand this show
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go check if the maintenance person, oh thank you, No,
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Speaker 1: most people savored fruit. Sorry, Mike is the humble Scout.
Speaker 1: I swear to God is the humble banana. Here are
Speaker 1: some fact some trivia facts about them. They're technically a
Speaker 1: berry like watermelons and cucumbers. Banana bunches grow upside down
Speaker 1: from the from what most people think. Oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that bananas are very slightly radioactive. The potassium isotope
Speaker 1: makes it radioactive. You'd have to at least eat ten
Speaker 1: million in one sitting to die of radiation poisoning.
Speaker 3: Sounds like content.
Speaker 4: Watch Dan die from eating ten million. I think something
Speaker 4: else will kill you before the radiation.
Speaker 1: At that point, well, they're good for you. Brazil Nuts
Speaker 1: are more radioactive. They can set off radiation detectors and
Speaker 1: nuclear power plants. Bananas don't grow on trees, but technically
Speaker 1: grow on herbs. Okay, what I don't know? Banana trees
Speaker 1: are more related to than trees.
Speaker 2: Oh, I like ginger.
Speaker 1: Banana plants will walk about forty centimeters in their lifetime,
Speaker 1: like ads, don't. They don't actually walk obviously it's complicated,
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Speaker 1: potential deforestation may be required. Thank you all for all
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Speaker 2: Simon sasketchewan Ay Simon from Saskatchewan shot out, thank you. Okay,
Speaker 2: what do you guys think that the record is for
Speaker 2: eating bananas in one sitting?
Speaker 1: Three?
Speaker 2: Like forty hundred? Best? The way's eating one hundred bananas
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty. I mean, like when I look
Speaker 2: it up, people are like saying, like it's like thirty. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe that's more than thirty much, Say, Dan, this is
Speaker 2: just so content, Dan, I want to thirty bananas. Also,
Speaker 2: this is a bad joke, but the first comment on
Speaker 2: this is gay. Come on. But anyway, Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: that would be fun to try to break. I feel
Speaker 2: like I could probably also do more than thirty.
Speaker 3: I couldn't do it like speed wise, but I mean
Speaker 3: I would just you know, it'd be a marathon, not
Speaker 3: a sprint.
Speaker 1: Listen, I did the Triple nine challenge last year, and
Speaker 1: I don't think i've been the same since. I think
Speaker 1: my competitive eating days are long long behind me. Bright. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, didn't you eat bananas and drink sprite? Didn't?
Speaker 1: Daniel Dwyer did and we I think we threw up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta like eat a banana or is it
Speaker 3: two bananas and a new chug like a twenty ounce
Speaker 3: of sprite? And we did that in my backyard, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I think we threw.
Speaker 2: Up, right, Yeah, but okay, I take everything back.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I take everything back. Dan, you and I
Speaker 1: were gonna try and beat the world record for most
Speaker 1: bananas in one sitting. And what are we gonna call it?
Speaker 1: Dan banana bajanza exactly? Yeah, okay, all right, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: I knew as soon as I like began what I
Speaker 2: was saying, it would end here, So go ahead and
Speaker 2: lodge your complaints. I can't dissuade him, so don't worry
Speaker 2: about that. But like, it's just like you with the.
Speaker 4: Bathtub field of mac and cheese. It's like you just
Speaker 4: think about like, well, I like mac and cheese. You
Speaker 4: don't think about like spatial volume, and your stomach is
Speaker 4: only so big and there's only so many places in
Speaker 4: your body for food to go.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing, Like a banana is the mushiest food.
Speaker 3: Like if there was a finite like jar, you could like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: four bananas might fit in that jar, but if you
Speaker 3: mush it all down, you could probably get a hundred
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 2: Now. It is like mostly fiber, which, like your body
Speaker 2: likes to take its time digesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fiber, does it make you super poop or poop less?
Speaker 2: It helps you. It's very good for helping your your
Speaker 2: your tummy get good at pooping. Yeah, so's h crown.
Speaker 1: It's not great for me. Yeah, it's bad for my
Speaker 1: m just like all for it.
Speaker 3: I feel like the radiation, like bananas being slightly radioactive.
Speaker 3: I think I would be more comfortable eating radioactive stuff
Speaker 3: than things with bacteria.
Speaker 2: Like it's weird. It's basically a faulting.
Speaker 3: I would eat a pluton before a spoonful of ambas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you eat baccia all the time. So whatever, everything's
Speaker 4: got bacteria.
Speaker 2: And even like McDonald's food, which takes forever to decompose
Speaker 2: because it doesn't have bacteria naturally in it, it's got
Speaker 2: some I don't what you so, why do you stick
Speaker 2: your head?
Speaker 4: Why are you're just like oh, I can't think about
Speaker 4: Just think about it and accept it and be happier
Speaker 4: and eat more food.
Speaker 3: I eat plenty of food. I just don't eat bacteria.
Speaker 2: You do all right, we can't.
Speaker 1: We can't keep doing. Travis and Fargo wrote in a
Speaker 1: bunch of questions. This is the Travis question of the
Speaker 1: week that I picked. Do you have any odd specific
Speaker 1: tertiary hopes for the switch to aka the swatooch. I
Speaker 1: hope the shop works for your hands emoji Travison Fargo.
Speaker 2: I mean like street pass equivalent, like.
Speaker 3: Oh I love that. Yeah, some sort of weird mevers
Speaker 3: type thing would be great.
Speaker 2: Something like when when we all of us have our
Speaker 2: switch to s in the same room at a PAX
Speaker 2: or Summer game fest, something cool happens and beyond just like,
Speaker 2: oh now we can all play Mario Kart in the
Speaker 2: same room. Sure that's a table stakes. I want just
Speaker 2: something Nintendo fun weird to happen as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, I really want themes back. I think they're fun.
Speaker 4: Like I there's no reason why my U I can't
Speaker 4: look Metroid. That would just make me so much here.
Speaker 3: And they could even tie it to the fucking platinum
Speaker 3: points or whatever, like you know, because they make those
Speaker 3: easy enough to get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll do that. I'll pay you real money for it.
Speaker 2: I don't whatever, Just give me.
Speaker 1: That Al right. Next email comes from not a Stoner
Speaker 1: and they write in about a Jeff versus Jeff. For
Speaker 1: the purposes of this email, I will just be pronouncing
Speaker 1: the name as gu Off. Sure, Hello, BombCast. There are geoffs,
Speaker 1: and there are jeffs or Geoff's, Jeff's gone wrong or
Speaker 1: Jeff's dumbed down geoffs. If you put a Jeff into
Speaker 1: a Jeff improvement machine, would a maxed out Jeff become
Speaker 1: a geoff? Or did geoffs evolve into Jeff's which is
Speaker 1: better regards not a stoner Jeff is better?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well all the chiefs know this, but
Speaker 2: we don't have to agree, like this is something that's innate.
Speaker 2: We understand this. There is a maximum Jeff. He works well.
Speaker 2: He's a character on the Mega sixty four sketch I
Speaker 2: always always makes me laugh. But yeah, we're all trying
Speaker 2: to achieve maximum Jeff at all times. Geoffs cannot attain
Speaker 2: maximum Jeff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeff Bridges, Jeff Daniels, you don't have geoffs.
Speaker 2: Now there's Jeffrey Draft. He's g EO. But we're okay
Speaker 2: with him, but we don't accept him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think of Jeff Keeley as a I just
Speaker 1: think of him as Keeley at this point, he's transcended
Speaker 1: the Jeff yeah label.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not held down by it. Sure, yes, transcended
Speaker 2: to strong word you goobers.
Speaker 1: Okay, well then he's not a goober? Then what about that?
Speaker 1: We can all agree? Yeah, absolutely agree? Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, breaking.
Speaker 2: News, breaking news. All right, let's take a look here.
Speaker 2: Actually I didn't read this whole thing, so let me
Speaker 2: see what's going on here, all right. From Bill Belkoon
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky for the USA. Through some US retailers,
Speaker 2: I found conflicting data for pre ordered start date of
Speaker 2: Nintendo switched to hardware for switch to consoles April twenty
Speaker 2: first or April thirtieth, depending on retailer. For accessories like
Speaker 2: switch to pro controller April thirtieth. How many days are
Speaker 2: in April.
Speaker 4: Thirty Yeah, it's not many days before the thing comes out.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean yeah, that's it's so little bit
Speaker 2: over a month. But also, like that April thirtieth date
Speaker 2: feels like a placeholder to me, Like that feels like
Speaker 2: someone's like, let's just go the last day of the month.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But like that Mario Kart, things happening on Thursday, right,
Speaker 4: are we really going to do that?
Speaker 2: And like during a stream be like and you could
Speaker 2: pre order this thing? We don't know. Yeah, I hope
Speaker 2: they might though, right, because it again the uncertainty is
Speaker 2: so bad. But when I said that this wasn't much
Speaker 2: time to the consoles come out, I forgot about me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I could tell I don't want to call you out,
Speaker 2: so I was letting it go.
Speaker 4: But I could tell what was wanted there may like
Speaker 4: doesn't exist for me because that's just the month I'm
Speaker 4: going to Disney World basically, So that's all that month
Speaker 4: is for me.
Speaker 2: Man, Sorry, I just like thought about going to Disney.
Speaker 2: I'm just happy for you, but I want to go
Speaker 2: so bad. Okay, I have an annimal passes yere.
Speaker 4: Anytime you want to go to Disney, would any of
Speaker 4: you just let me know and I'll go there. I
Speaker 4: can be a guess a deal on a hotel maybe
Speaker 4: not Disney, but another place here by.
Speaker 2: It's nicely let me know.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, mikey uh yeah, you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: we should we should have a team building field trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah there is mind, Yeah, there we go, all right.
Speaker 1: Next email is about Lognet controllers and oddities. Hey bomb crew,
Speaker 1: longtime listener, first time emailer. While listening to one of
Speaker 1: the GV shows, I was instantly activated by the mention
Speaker 1: of the log neet in sixty four controllers. I work
Speaker 1: it support for so ni fi solutions, which used to
Speaker 1: be lognet talking about collecting kiosk and promo materials, and
Speaker 1: while in not in in room gaming isn't really a
Speaker 1: thing anymore. Most guests just cast their own apps or
Speaker 1: bring full consoles like PS five's, there's still some weird
Speaker 1: legacy tech lurking around. A few years back, I was
Speaker 1: at our office helping with network stuff and got volunteered
Speaker 1: as a six to one, two hundred and fifty pounds
Speaker 1: midwesterner helped set up Cubic. While digging through cold storage,
Speaker 1: I found a dusty corner full of retro gaming relics,
Speaker 1: third party sny s's, the and N sixty four controllers,
Speaker 1: old E three style posters, swag, other third party accessories.
Speaker 1: It felt like Bastion stumbling into the bookstore the never
Speaker 1: ending story. At one point we had custom Wii consoles
Speaker 1: installed in select Marriott hotels, basically stock Whee's with about
Speaker 1: sixty games, most first mostly first party Nintendo pre loaded.
Speaker 1: They were free to use, but only one worked if
Speaker 1: the room was checked in. The units were mounted in
Speaker 1: huge white lock boxes with beefy fans and PC style
Speaker 1: power supplies to keep them from melting. See attached picks.
Speaker 1: I'll send you all the picks as a thank you
Speaker 1: for helping out. I was gifted one Oh Wow Wow
Speaker 1: steel boxed with a new we mote, Mario Kart, Wi
Speaker 1: wheel and we fit board. I was able to bypass
Speaker 1: the check in requirement with a tech manual, but the
Speaker 1: untile does not save, so guests could play Twilight Princess
Speaker 1: all day, but you turned it off or change games.
Speaker 3: Last game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a quirky piece of history, and while modding it,
Speaker 1: it is tempting. The lock box didn't come with a key,
Speaker 1: so now I just have a chunky, half functional we
Speaker 1: taking up shelf space. But it looks cool. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Two questions for y'all, what's the weirdest or most obscure
Speaker 1: gaming curio you've picked up from events or vendors over
Speaker 1: the years. Two? When was when has just existing in
Speaker 1: your physical form paid off? Not just Paul Guy gets
Speaker 1: asked to reach the top shelf, but like someone needs
Speaker 1: a large human to haul cubicles and get rewarded with
Speaker 1: rare hardware. Thanks for all the awesome content. Keep being weird,
Speaker 1: got it? I mean Ryan from South Dakota and that
Speaker 1: sounds sounds so cool. Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just having it look cool is most of
Speaker 2: the benefit of that. So yeah, just keep that thing
Speaker 2: as it is.
Speaker 1: I don't have anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like I'm trying to think of like, well,
Speaker 2: there's definitely been times where like being in the right
Speaker 2: place at the right time, I guess, but nothing that
Speaker 2: has popped to mind. Yeah, and I don't think I'm
Speaker 2: a good answer to the other one yet. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean I have an Orange game Cube,
Speaker 2: and like that's just from Japan.
Speaker 4: It's not that crazy special or anything like that, but
Speaker 4: I am very happy to have it.
Speaker 1: So they're like aside from just rare games.
Speaker 2: But I don't have like, you know.
Speaker 4: This was the weird game Boy advance made for Costco
Speaker 4: employees or something like that, Right, Dan, you have that something.
Speaker 4: I mean, you have a bout Jangles xbox that you
Speaker 4: have about Jngles Xbox.
Speaker 3: I do have the Taco Bell Xbox one X. They
Speaker 3: sent me it makes the taco Bell.
Speaker 2: Did you win that.
Speaker 1: They sent it to me?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I got a debug PS two.
Speaker 3: I've got you know, the jungle green and gold and
Speaker 3: sixty four's like some of the cool like variants, but
Speaker 3: you know, not like there were definitely things that I
Speaker 3: saw like the Nintendo Museum. Whar I was like, what
Speaker 3: is this like taz colored in sixty four like orange
Speaker 3: and black, and it's like, oh, it's like one specific
Speaker 3: thing that was only in Japan.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have a lot of like I have all of
Speaker 3: the hardware, but like not a lot of weird variants
Speaker 3: for the most part.
Speaker 1: You know, as far as one physicality kind of working out,
Speaker 1: there was one E three where there was like a
Speaker 1: cable routing problem and Jason a striker Vinny Caravella tall
Speaker 1: beefy men. They couldn't fit underneath like the little crevice
Speaker 1: we had made, and both of them tried reaching for it,
Speaker 1: they couldn't get it. And then I show you not
Speaker 1: both of them hands on hips. How are we going
Speaker 1: to fix this problem? They both of them turn around,
Speaker 1: look at me, all right, short stuff get in there.
Speaker 1: I just scurried in like baby Yoda in that one
Speaker 1: Mando episode and just connected the cables. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, now, there's some people doing something with power tools
Speaker 3: outside of my b what peckers? No, I think it's
Speaker 3: humans with tap power tools.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's what peckers of power tools.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Now, okay, Flowers, I think I could hear something, but
Speaker 2: it's very faint.
Speaker 1: Okay. Next email fits in since Mike was playing KADAMRII
Speaker 1: Domici over the weekend. Howdy, you all now have a
Speaker 1: Katamari to roll around in a real life location, collect
Speaker 1: everything and grow as large as possible. You start with
Speaker 1: a one foot diameter Cottamari ball and have thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: Where do you go? Considerations. You're immortal and unfazed the risks,
Speaker 1: so whether oxygen, fall, damage, terrain, et cetera don't matter.
Speaker 1: You're basically the prince, so you can just keep rolling
Speaker 1: no matter your physique or what you roll up sharp hot,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Do you in mind your objective to scale
Speaker 1: so it's like Walmart costco are off limits. Feel free
Speaker 1: to use actual levels as an inspiration. There's no winner.
Speaker 1: This is just for fun and a pleasant time. Parentheses
Speaker 1: for you cheers money sh I think Lego likes good.
Speaker 3: I was thinking, like a baseball stadium and you go around,
Speaker 3: you get all of the chairs, just.
Speaker 2: Because if you start at one foot, you're not gonna
Speaker 2: be able to get chairs right away. So baseballs and
Speaker 2: bats and things like that. Soccer stas be pretty good too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's like it's like I love the loves where
Speaker 4: the progression feels great. If like starting off with like
Speaker 4: tiny everyday objects, then like there's that moment where some
Speaker 4: of you're getting small animals. Then there's that moment where
Speaker 4: you get people, and that's a big step. Then you're
Speaker 4: getting trees and you're getting buildings like cars.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so like theme parks not good. I don't
Speaker 2: want to I like the theme parks.
Speaker 1: I don't want to roll them up.
Speaker 2: I can't put it back together, right. I think the
Speaker 2: basically the spirit of the rules was don't worry. Everyone's
Speaker 2: gonna be fine. Yeah, I don't worry about killing them.
Speaker 2: And I just would go Legoland, get all the small
Speaker 2: Lego's good, the Lego like the bigger stuff they make
Speaker 2: with Legos, and then out to the parking lot and
Speaker 2: start getting the cars.
Speaker 4: I think Jeff one with Legoland. I gotta be honest,
Speaker 4: I wish I could come up with something better.
Speaker 2: But that's great.
Speaker 1: The Denver Airport, sure, yeah, oh you can get the
Speaker 1: Legos and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 3: You did them all of America. Leg are there too.
Speaker 2: There you go. America's pretty good roofs, though the roof
Speaker 2: is gonna become a problem.
Speaker 1: Roller coasters and yeah, I forget. How did Katamari domice
Speaker 1: behave with like liquids? You just rolled through them, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can just.
Speaker 2: Go under water.
Speaker 4: There's a certain point where like you can collect whirlpools
Speaker 4: and things like that that they just go in the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there was. There was. There was a level
Speaker 2: one we love Katamari where you actually are like rolling
Speaker 2: a snowman. So you have some snowchos. Oh, it's a
Speaker 2: good level.
Speaker 1: Roll down Mount Everest.
Speaker 4: It's great because like the King of All causes sort
Speaker 4: of lamenting the fact that like rolling snowman is more
Speaker 4: fun than Katamarid.
Speaker 2: What a good character. I remember anyone? The phone one?
Speaker 4: Maybe I don't have a I don't have an Apple
Speaker 4: KDE subscription right now. I don't necessarily want to pay
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 1: Sure, I remember this Around this time last year, Dan
Speaker 1: Rekert and I asking Jade Cargill if she would cost
Speaker 1: play as the King of Cosmos the situation she could do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from Kevin from Tennessee Scout. I swear
Speaker 1: I got is I got a feeling by the Black
Speaker 1: Eyed Peas the worst popular song of all time. Before
Speaker 1: you answer, let me remind you of the lyric fill
Speaker 1: up my cup, Drake mazel Tov. I'm look at her dancing,
Speaker 1: move it, move it, just take it off. Let's paint
Speaker 1: the town paint. Then we'll shut it down, throne, Let's
Speaker 1: burn the roof. I can't think of a single other
Speaker 1: popular song that makes me want to kick through a
Speaker 1: speaker as much. Love, Kevin from Tennessee, sent from my
Speaker 1: Apple Cellulovi. That chorus hits kind of I don't know.
Speaker 1: When I hear that, I'm like, yeah, I do have
Speaker 1: a feeling.
Speaker 3: They are just tremendously obnoxious, aren't they?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Trace is the word I think of when I think
Speaker 1: of the Black Eyed Peace. I have to like them
Speaker 1: because like one of them is Filipino. The whole skin
Speaker 1: skinship kinship argue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean a lot of the lyrics of these
Speaker 4: sort of party rock songs from this era is incredibly
Speaker 4: vapid and nonsense.
Speaker 2: You're never gonna get me with lyrics, right, Oh, the
Speaker 2: lyrics are bad. I'm like, well, I'm not listening to
Speaker 2: them anyhow. Does it sound nice when I hear it
Speaker 2: on the radio? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I really don't like because as someone who loves Warren
Speaker 3: Zyvonne and Leonard Skinnard, I get very mad at that
Speaker 3: kid rock song that takes two things I love and
Speaker 3: mashes them into a kid rock thing.
Speaker 1: Lots of yes, he does, but I hate that song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's depitly worst when someone in the chap mentioned
Speaker 2: Mambo number five.
Speaker 1: That's a bad one. That's a banger too, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do we do?
Speaker 2: Like a lot of these songs that the one a
Speaker 2: little bit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, how much money do I have to give
Speaker 1: you twenty dollars enough to do a cover of Mambo
Speaker 1: number five?
Speaker 2: But you said, actually already on the hook he has
Speaker 2: to learn informer by Snow Yeah. Yeah, have you heard
Speaker 2: it was one hundred and fifty? Yes, it was.
Speaker 4: Doctor All teared me was like, Mike will learn to karaoke?
Speaker 4: The song with the highest donation. I didn't ask either,
Speaker 4: and it's never been waiting on me a little bit.
Speaker 2: But hey, he's got it, made a lot of money.
Speaker 4: That's it's already one of that song. Let's yeah, I
Speaker 4: better start listening to in the cars and can get ready.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for you to look at boom boom down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that song called again? In former and former?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It was everywhere back then.
Speaker 2: I'll get on that. Once he learns that, then we
Speaker 2: could start talking about paying him to another song.
Speaker 1: He move into his odb era. I can't wait for that.
Speaker 1: Gosh okay. Last email of the show once again. The
Speaker 1: email address is BombCast giant bomb dot com. Thank you
Speaker 1: for writing in any and everything. Last email comes from
Speaker 1: Rich and Rich Rights. I did the adult thing and
Speaker 1: rented a powerwasher. Powerwash simulator is kind of bs because
Speaker 1: that's not fun at all. It's like playing the slowest,
Speaker 1: most boring hockey practice where you're sweeping water back and
Speaker 1: forth to clean a small area of driveway for two hours.
Speaker 1: Those games lie hard. Also, Mike reminds me of dom
Speaker 1: Delius from the end of Cannonball Run Movies when Burt
Speaker 1: Reynolds is making him crack up. Have a good week,
Speaker 1: rich ps. What do furries and grub have in common?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Uh, furries and grub my thing. I
Speaker 2: think they're both not sex things.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: They both love hot dogs, hot dog cute tracted dogs.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: Dan, who's the hottest?
Speaker 1: Nope?
Speaker 2: Weirdly was also Batman. That's the thing here, that's so
Speaker 2: Batman Dan.
Speaker 1: Have I ever explained to you the human sized dog
Speaker 1: man that becomes a power Ranger? No, it's a human
Speaker 1: sized dog man that becomes a power anger sized dog man.
Speaker 1: Because is this a shoot? Yes? Well, I mean shoot
Speaker 1: within the show on the Power Ranger show. Yes. I
Speaker 1: believe his name was like a Newbius Krueger or something.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Do you guys remember the Kids WB show where all
Speaker 4: the world leaders had dogs and they were all part
Speaker 4: of a secret like crime fighting team and they when
Speaker 4: it's like humanoid suits and crime together. Remembered it wasn't
Speaker 4: one of the first Kids w B shows. It was
Speaker 4: like in that second wave, but god, it was a
Speaker 4: weird show.
Speaker 2: For some reason, just that description reminds me of the
Speaker 2: Burger King Kids Club. It's kind of has a similar energy.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm doing like pro Stars were? Was it Gretzky,
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson lived in lockers and fought Kroner.
Speaker 2: I think we're two weeks in a row mentioning pro
Speaker 2: Stars Now, I love pro Stars man.
Speaker 4: Nobody even knows what show him talking. I mean road Rovers.
Speaker 4: It was called road Rovers. I'm like, is that it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Even sound right? I even a good name? That is
Speaker 2: it road Rovers? What was it called road Rovers?
Speaker 1: Was Rover?
Speaker 2: Dog? Name is now? Yeah? But why wrote whatever?
Speaker 1: But yeah?
Speaker 4: Like it's like the one was like the Russian dude's dog.
Speaker 4: One was the President's dog?
Speaker 1: Go all that stuff?
Speaker 2: Was it gorbachefe? It was more of a Gorba chef
Speaker 2: than a Putin situation at the.
Speaker 3: Time checkers like Nixon's dog.
Speaker 4: But this is so because to me, like I watched
Speaker 4: the show. That show apparently had one season in thirteen episodes.
Speaker 4: I probably saw all of them. Okay, that did not
Speaker 4: take off, got you? It was the president United States,
Speaker 4: the British Prime Minister, the Chancellor of Germany, the Swiss
Speaker 4: president that's probably where the hot dog came from, and
Speaker 4: the president of Russia.
Speaker 2: It was all of their dogs.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. I feel all the more richer for having this information.
Speaker 2: And watch this on your stream, Mike, I want to
Speaker 2: watch it. You'll watch some road rovers everybody.
Speaker 1: Dan. I put in our discord a photo of Doggy Krueger,
Speaker 1: a new vas Krueger. Oh, this is a cool guy.
Speaker 1: I like this guy. Yeah, right, all right, that's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, hell yeah. All right, folks. That about does
Speaker 1: it for emails this week. What do we got going
Speaker 1: on the rest of the week. Game breaking news Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, correct,
Speaker 1: mister g that's right.
Speaker 2: We'll have game breaking news. I'm looking you right me
Speaker 2: ie when I say it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't like this. We're also gonna have Blake
Speaker 1: Club tomorrow, voicemail dump Truck on Thursday, as well as
Speaker 1: a upf this Friday right after game spot after dark Gang.
Speaker 1: The the power block is is uh where we're doing
Speaker 1: some things. We're we're rejiggering, We're shaking the box. God,
Speaker 1: I can't take grub looking at me right now. It's weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not like any reading me or something.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have a little bonus after Blake Club tomorrow, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we're gonna have a bonus after Blake Club,
Speaker 1: the little discussion that Dan and I just finagled a
Speaker 1: hotel conference room to get into, along with some additional
Speaker 1: extra b roll of mine and Dan's time, our little
Speaker 1: Bajanza Badanza in New York going up on the site
Speaker 1: tomorrow right after Blake Club. We're gonna just watch it
Speaker 1: along together, going up on the site and the YouTube
Speaker 1: and the Power Block Gang, anything else look for it
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 2: Did we mention that talk over to the Mario Kurt
Speaker 2: the morning, Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yes, Thursday morning, it'll
Speaker 2: be early for Jans, so we'll get up on the
Speaker 2: East Coast and the Eastern time zones and Central time
Speaker 2: zone if you're unlucky, and get up early and watch
Speaker 2: that for everybody. So that will happen. We'll talk over
Speaker 2: the whole thing. We'll see you then for that.
Speaker 1: In about an hour and a half, we're close to
Speaker 1: an hour after the BombCast wraps, we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: an extended break, and I believe Jake Decker, myself and
Speaker 1: maybe some others calling in will be unboxing some magic
Speaker 1: the gathering packs. So stay tuned everybody until then, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hit this button. Hope nothing breaks. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I've been jaed. He's been grubbed, he's been Mike, he's.
Speaker 2: Been Dan Reker.
Speaker 1: This has been the Giant Podcast. We'll see you next
Speaker 1: week for another episode. Good Bye,